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Gas licences given to four companies Bonuses could provide state with more than $200m before work starts By Elias Hazou

OUR licences for gas exploration in offshore blocks were announced by the government last night as part of the second licensing round launched in February. The blocks for which the licenses have been awarded are: 2, 3, 9 and 11. They are all contiguous blocks, lying north and north-east of Block 12, where US firm Noble Energy has a concession to drill. For blocks 2 and 3, licenses were awarded to a consortium consisting of ENI from Italy and KOGAS from South Korea; the license for Block 9 went to a consortium consisting of Total E&P Activities Petrolieres (operator), NOVATEC Overseas Exploration & Production GMbH and GPB Global Resources BV from Russia; and the Block 11 license went to Total E&P Activities Petrolieres. Commerce Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis said the reason why the government decided to give the green light to these four blocks was the potential for economies of scale due to the fact the blocks are contiguous and in close proximity to Block 12, where significant reserves of natural gas (between 5 and 8 trillion cubic feet) have been found. Sylikiotis said evaluation of the bids submitted for the remaining blocks (except for blocks 1, 4 and 13, for which no bids were made) would continue – meaning another batch of licenses could be awarded in the future. In total, 15 bids from five companies and 10 from joint ventures were submitted in the second licensing round.

The minister said negotiations with the companies and consortia leading to possible exploration contracts would begin soon and should be completed within a few months. Among other things, the contract will determine when exploratory drilling would commence, said Sylikiotis. In the ﬁrst licensing round, where only one bid was received, initial negotiations with Noble Energy lasted eight months. The US company was then given two years in which to start exploratory drilling. This time round, however, due to competition over the blocks but also Cyprus’ acquired know-how, it should not take that long, Sylikiotis said. Assuming negotiations with the selected companies are successful, the companies would next sign signature bonuses sometime in early 2013. In a signature bonus, a payment is made up front to the host country for the right to develop a block commercially before work begins. Paying a signature bonus for a licence does not necessarily imply future revenues for the company from oil production in the same licence. Sylikiotis said the proceeds to the state under the model production-sharing contract would be about 70 per cent, after recoverable expenses. Immediate income would come in the form of the signature bonuses. Asked whether the government stood to make some €200 million from the signature bonuses on the four blocks awarded yesterday, Sylikiotis said that was a

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POLICE yesterday arrested three men in relation to drug use and trafficking, only to lose sight of one of them while searching his house in Nicosia. Officers with the drugs squad YKAN were “monitoring” in the early hours of yesterday an apartment in Nicosia where two men, 19 and 25, with arrest warrants to their name were to be found. The men were wanted in relation to car arson and theft, and conspiracies to commit a felony committed this year in Nicosia. Eventually police broke into the apartment where another man, aged 26, was also spotted, because “the tenants refused to open the door despite repeated pleas by the police officers”. The 26-year-old had an illegal knuckle duster and a dangerous spray can on him and was arrested for carrying assault weapons, police said. The 19-year-old was hiding in a room, and assaulted a police officer and got “his ear hurt while trying to avoid arrest,” police said. In the house itself, police found a grinder with cannabis traces and half a gram of cannabis. After all three were taken to YKAN offices in Nicosia, police officers then escorted the 26-year-old to his home because a search warrant for the premises was still pending. In the garden, “two aggressive dogs were barking and the 26-year-old told police he would calm them down,” police said. “He ran towards the house’s fencing where he managed to escape in an unknown direction,” police said. Authorities yesterday were looking for the 26-year-old.

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THE Cyprus Medical Association (CMA) has decided to end its probe against a paediatrician accused three years ago of administering placebo vaccines to teenagers. “The decision was mainly based on the fact that unfortunately, the unexpected death of the disciplinary council’s member doctor, Dr Simos Ellinas, resulted in the medical council’s composition being altered, which based on current legislation, makes it obligatory for the case’s trial to start from the beginning again,” the CMA said. “Taking into account these new facts in this difﬁcult, sensational and time-consuming case, the medical board concluded – after se-

rious discussion and intense consultations – on the decision to not start an entirely new procedure from the beginning by a new disciplinary council, as the law provides, unless new evidence and new facts arise.” The paediatrician in question, who has not been suspended as the investigation never wrapped, was accused of administering vaccines containing water to teenagers, which were meant to beat a new ﬂu back in November 2009. The CMA said it was looking into anonymous complaints. The Health Ministry had previously announced that the new ﬂu vaccines would be provided to children over 15 by state doctors only. The prospect of using state health services alarmed

a number of parents who rushed to private doctors for the vaccination. In the case of the paediatrician in question, however, suspicion was raised as children who had received the vaccine then contracted the new flu virus. Private doctors were charging up to €400 for the vaccine. “To convict someone it needs to be proved beyond any reasonable doubt and with evidence that he is guilty,” said Vasos Economou, head of the association’s ethics committee, yesterday. “We were advised by eminent doctors that we would find it very difficult to support the case and if it reached the Supreme Court, we would spend many thousands of euros on compensation for the accused, if we could not substantiate a case against him,”

he added. Back when the case came to light, CMA head Dr Andreas Demetriou – who yesterday refused to comment any further, other than relaying the association’s official announcement – said some anonymous complaints had been made to the association, though not in writing. And yesterday, Economou urged the public to file any complaints against doctors in writing. “Even though there are complaints by members of the public against doctors on a daily basis, and some of them are very serious, they are not made in writing, which makes it very difficult to prepare cases, but also to ensure there is transparency in the medical world and citizens are being protected,” said Economou.

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The illegal shooting of a rare, beautiful and strictly protected Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) this autumn highlighted the plight of Akhna dam, an important wetland that is currently plagued by poachers and illegal bird trappers using shot-guns, mist nets and limesticks. BirdLife Cyprus is calling for urgent anti-poaching action to change the Famagusta area wetland from a poachers’ “playground” to the sanctuary for

breeding waders and migrating birds that it should be by law. Bird watchers have reported an unusually large number of ospreys passing through Akhna dam during September and October. However even this magniﬁcent bird species did not escape the attention of the poachers and one was found shot dead this month. Despite the protection status the dam has, there is a serious problem with poaching and illegal bird trapping in

the area. The incident of the shot Osprey is not an isolated one but on the contrary, poaching in the Akhna dam has become extensive, Birdlife said. “Furthermore illegal bird trapping with non-selective methods such as mist nets and limesticks has been widespread this autumn, both at Akhna Dam and more widely, contributing to large scale killing of birds, many of them threatened. This equates to an ecological disaster,” it added.

Deputies call for plan on drugs and alcohol THE House education committee yesterday discussed a report showing that Cyprus’ teenagers drink more, with binge drinking marking a noticeable difference. Forty-four per cent of teenagers aged between 15 and 16 in Cyprus regularly binge drink or have ﬁve or more drinks on one occassion, while the majority – 70 per cent – consumed alcohol at least once in 30 days, according to the 2011 report on Substance use among Students, ESPAD. The report was released in late May, said the head of the centre for education on drugs and treatment of drug

addiction (KENTHEA), Kyriacos Veressies. School students from 36 European countries were asked to anonymously fill in a questionnaire, targeting students born in 1995. The 2011 study was the fifth that was done, with the first going back to 1995. A total of 23 per cent of Cyprus school students said they had smoked a cigarette within a month of being asked. And eight per cent said they were lifetime users of inhalants “in order to get high”, eleven per cent said they were lifetime users of tranquilisers got without

prescription and another seven per cent said they were lifetime users of drugs other than cannabis, including cocaine, crack, ecstasy, and others. Cannabis users amounted to seven per cent as well. Between 2007 and 2011, the proportion of school students saying they used drugs of any kind increased. Although Cyprus’ ﬁgures fall below the average on every count, deputies called for an action plan on addictive substances. Veressies said that an overhaul in perspectives was necessary. Most funds in Cyprus go

towards suppression, with Cyprus spending a disportionately high amount on legally handling issues that arise when users are caught by the system, he said. Veressies said that the state needed to create an action plan, including all relevant departments and bodies, and to target school students as early as possible. “Instead of prevention and treatment, we insist on jailing people,” Veressies said. But “this is a demand and supply issue,” he added. “We must reduce or destroy demand.” “Then suppliers will have no job,” Veressies said.

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By Elias Hazou FINANCIAL regulatory authorities said yesterday it’s up to commercial banks to work out how to compensate thousands of investors claiming to have been misled into buying high-risk bank securities. It recently transpired that the island’s two largest lenders - in need of a bailout - collectively accumulated over one billion in securities but stopped paying interest on them after making significant losses in the wake of a Greek sovereign debt write-down. According to a leaked Central Bank probe, it appears the two lenders – Popular and Bank of Cyprus – tended to stress to investors the benefits of the securities (with a yield of 7.5 per cent) and downplayed, or altogether omitted to mention, the risks. “Irrespective of the [Central Bank] probe, we believe that, if the banks are to regain their credibility, they themselves must provide a solution after an assessment of their financial results,” said Demetra Kalogirou, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She said securities worth some €700 million were purchased by non-institutional investors – individuals and companies. As a result of the Greek haircut, the two banks have been forced to ask for state assistance; this in turn has forced the cash-strapped government to turn to international lenders, the troika. The troika advocates that the banks should offer the affected investors shares in exchange for the convertible securities, before a bailout amount for the banks can be agreed. The investors, however, propose converting their nowdud securities into five-year bonds with a 5.0 per cent interest rate and the option to retrieve 20 per cent each year.

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Minister said hopeful Troika officials will be on the island next week By Michele Kambas THE government may struggle to pay public sector salaries in December unless a bailout deal is clinched by mid-November, an ofﬁcial document quoted Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly as saying. Shiarly expressed the hope yesterday that international lenders would be on the island early next week to ﬁnalise the conditions for the island’s bailout. And the minutes quoted Shiarly as saying Cyprus might be “butchered” if international lenders dealt with

the country in isolation from other eurozone states that need financial aid. Meeting December’s payroll commitments was contingent on the goodwill of bankers, the minister said according to the minutes of a meeting with parties in parliament. Shiarly said that if a deal were agreed, Cyprus could get a first instalment of aid by December 24. Asked if Cyprus would manage until December, he said: “if needs be. We will have difficulties, but nothing can be absolute. I can’t make predictions from now, because no banker would undertake

a commitment on ﬁnancing, even when times were good. I’m just saying it’s manageable.” Cyprus sought ﬁnancial aid from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in June but the government has still not concluded a bailout deal with lenders despite repeatedly emphasising that it must be done before the November 12 Eurogroup meeting. “We are ready,” Shiarly said yesterday after a meeting at the presidential palace. He said it was up to the troika to decide when they would come “but I hope… that we will see them early next week.

I believe we are in position to clear many of the pending issues.” After November 12, it will take the parliaments of individual eurozone nations about six weeks to sanction the Cyprus memorandum. A deal should have been in place by October 20 to put the issue on the agenda of the Eurogroup meeting, Shiarly told the lawmakers, according to the minutes. But Cyprus in fact only signalled it was ready to delve deep into a ﬁnal round of talks last week, after preparing what it said were its own “counter-proposals” to an austerity package prepared

by the troika in July. At the parliamentary hearing, one lawmaker said Cyprus’ aid needs should be discussed at the same time as those of Spain and Greece because, if isolated, “Germany and Finland will tear us to pieces”. Responding to this at the time, Shiarly said: “Yes. That is precisely their approach. Our case is indeed difﬁcult, because some have very negative positions concerning Cyprus... I’m inclined to believe that if we go on our own, naturally they will butcher us.” The island’s debt to GDP ratio is already hovering at about 83 per cent.

Malas releases finance info Popular bank staff vote for measures against cuts AKEL-backed presidential hopeful Stavros Malas yesterday released information on his personal finances and assets. According to the information made public by his election staff, Malas has €15,471 in bank accounts, while the loans he has taken out amount to €449,561. He owns immovable property in Anthoupolis/Archangelos, Kambos, Pigenia and Kato Panayia, of a total value of €46,130 (in 1980 prices). Malas promised also that if and when he takes office in March, and before the Cabinet is sworn in, he would disclose the personal finances of the ministers in his government. The 45-year-old stepped down as Health Minister earlier this month shortly after announcing that he would be running for president. Rival candidate Yiorgos Lillikas’ staff yesterday confirmed he would be disclosing his personal finances some time in the next few days, adding that Lillikas would “go one better” than Malas by releasing more detailed information, “not just standalone numbers that can’t be checked.”

THE VAST majority of Popular Bank employees yesterday voted in favour of bank employee union ETYK taking measures to prevent proposed salary reductions, including strikes. Last Friday, it emerged that the Popular Bank will cut salaries by up to 17 per cent and signiﬁcantly reduce or scrap various allowances as part of its effort to restructure following its nationalisation earlier this year. The measures were drafted without the agreement of ETYK as the two sides failed to come up with a common proposal. Popular’s non-executive chairman Andreas Philippou said yesterday the new measures will save the lender around €16 million annually. However, 821 of the 2,400 Popular employees convened yesterday to discuss the cuts.

In a secret ballot, 98.2 per cent (805 employees) of those present voted in favour of authorising the ETYK board to take measures to change or improve the bank’s “unilateral decision”. Union members called on the board, if deemed necessary, to inform the government, parliament, central bank governor and parties of its positions, and as a last resort to achieve its goals, take all appropriate measures, not excluding a strike. The bank employees also called on the central bank to speed up its investigations of local banks and punish those responsible where mismanagement is determined or the unjustiﬁable writing off of loans. The union also called on those senior bank ofﬁcials who earned bonuses of more than €10,000 to return them.

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MORE THAN half a million people will be entitled to vote at over 1,200 polling stations in Cyprus and abroad in the next presidential elections on February 17. Interior Minister Eleni Mavrou chaired a meeting with political party representatives yesterday to review preparations underway for the elections. Mavrou said 533,565 voters have registered to vote so far, noting that the registration deadline is January 2. The ministry has sent letters to over 22,000 people who are now eligible to vote due to their age in an effort to prompt young people to register, she said, adding that the response so far has been quite encouraging.

Free internet PARLIAMENT wants to provide free internet throughout Cyprus, giving it a technological edge while enhancing its tourism product. The House Commerce Committee yesterday asked the University of Cyprus and the Office of the Commissioner of Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation to conduct a study on the costs and benefits of providing free internet throughout Cyprus. Committee chairman Lefteris Christoforou highlighted that the internet in Cyprus is expensive for those who wish to have access to it, while internet speeds are low. “That is why we have tabled a proposal to consider the possibility of Cyprus becoming a free internet zone,” he said, adding that the resulting benefits would likely outweigh the costs.

Drugs parcel AROUND 500g of a crystallised narcotic substance were found in a package that arrived from Budapest, Hungary on Monday. The package, which was opened by Larnaca’s drug squad, was addressed to a Hungarian Central Prison inmate, who is reportedly serving time for drug-related convictions. The inmate was yesterday being questioned by police, while the Hungarian authorities were notiﬁed.

Grenade attack UNKNOWN persons threw a hand grenade in the early hours of yesterday at the K Cineplex building in Nicosia injuring a security guard and damaging a building and a car, police said. Two individuals on a motorbike were spotted throwing a grenade at 2.50am, authorities said. A 47-year-old security guard was slightly injured and a car parked nearby and belonging to a 28-year-old was damaged, police said.

Party representatives welcomed a ministry proposal to employ two unemployed graduates at each polling station on election day, said Mavrou. This is the ﬁrst time polling stations will operate abroad for presidential elections. The minister noted that a minimum of 50 voters must apply for a polling station to operate abroad. At present, there are ﬁve presidential candidates, opposition DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades, AKELbacked former health minister Stavros Malas, EDEK-backed former foreign minister Giorgos Lillikas, and independents Makaria Andri Stylianou and Solon Gregoriou.

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‘No promises’ given to convict Tip-off to police unlikely to procure favours By George Psyllides NO promises were given to a convict who tipped authorities off about an alleged plot to assassinate the attorneygeneral and the central prison governor, Justice Minister Loucas Louca said yesterday. Police have detained three suspects in connection with the case – a convict thought to be the mastermind, a former contract soldier, the alleged triggerman, and a lottery ticket seller. According to police, the plan was to ambush Attorney-general Petros Clerides on the route between his home and work and use a disposable anti-tank weapon or LAW to assassinate him. Louca yesterday conﬁrmed that prison governor Giorgos Tryfonides was also a target.

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The alleged mastermind of the plot claimed in court on Monday that the whole scheme had been hatched by the island’s most notorious convict, Antonis Prokopiou Kitas, currently doing life for the murder and rape of two women. The suspect said Kitas’ objective was to win Clerides’ favour and secure his release from prison by warning the police and taking credit for saving the attorney-general. The justice minister said while no promises were given he defended the practice of getting information from criminals. “Information is collected from everywhere, prisons, the underworld – where are you going to get the information from? The Church? The main source is the underworld,” Louca told state radio. The minister said police must evaluate all information and act accordingly although most of the time it was unreliable. “No promise had been given,” he said. Prison governor Giorgos Tryfonides said Kitas gave

him the information first, which was then passed on to the police. But the governor also blasted the delay in equipping the prison with equipment that jams mobile phones, which authorities believe were used in this and other plots. “We have been talking about this system for the past three-and-a-half years but the process is stalled due to bureaucratic procedures,” Tryfonides said. The governor said the tender had been cancelled and even if a new one was invited it would still take another couple of years – never mind the state’s cash flow problems. Tryfonides said searches were carried out daily but phones still found their way into the facility through various routes, with wardens also allegedly involved in the trafficking. “They are the ones we want to catch and kick out of the service but unfortunately no one is talking. We have suspicions but no proof,” he said. See comment page 11

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THE government has prepared a bill to reform immovable property taxation that will fetch it an additional €29 million per year, it emerged yesterday. The bill, already submitted to parliament, lowers the tax-free value of immovable property from €120,000 to €40,000. Property tax in Cyprus is currently calculated on 1980s values and it would take at least three years for a new evaluation to be carried out. The ﬁnance ministry said this was a “paradox and an anachronism” for an EU member-state, leading to huge losses in revenues and inequalities between property owners. It is necessary and urgent for the land registry to be ordered to schedule and carry out a general evaluation of properties, the ministry said in the note that accompanied the bill. But it was also necessary and urgent to adopt a scenario that will raise revenues without big delay, the ministry added. This is separate from the property tax levied by municipalities. The bill lowers the tax-

free threshold to €40,000 – 1980 value – with anything above that amount taxed between 3.0 per thousand and 12 per thousand. The ministry expects the change to fetch an additional €29 million. Total revenues from property tax this year are estimated to be around €27.7 million, the ministry said. According to land registry data cited by the ﬁnance ministry, between 1980 and 2010, the value of land plots in Cyprus rose between 14 and 27 times depending on the area, with Famagusta having the highest and Limassol the lowest. Plots in Nicosia rose 24-fold during those three decades while those in Larnaca and Paphos rose 18 times their 1980 value. Flat prices rose sevenfold in Famagusta, eight times in Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos, and nine times in Nicosia. House values in Famagusta increased 10-fold between 1980 and 2010, followed by Larnaca, nine, Nicosia, eight, and Limassol and Paphos with seven.

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Home Authorities knew ‘an event’ at Mari was only a matter of time By Elias Hazou AUTHORITIES knew “an event” at Mari naval base was only a matter of time, a witness testiﬁed yesterday in the ongoing trial. Themistocles Kyriacou, of the Labour Inspection Department, told the court of an on- site inspection of the 98 munitions containers that took place on July 6, 2011, ﬁve days before the massive blast which left 13 people dead and scores injured. Kyriacou, who was among the in-

spection party, said the check was called after one of the containers was found to have swollen and to have shifted by 30 centimetres from its original position due to an explosion of the munitions inside. “It was an event warning us that another event, of similar or greater magnitude, would follow,” he said, adding: “No one could have predicted when this might happen, a week, a month…” Subsequent to the inspection, the witness said, four measures were decided: the immediate removal

of the swollen container and an inspection of its contents; the spraying of the entire cargo with sea water; clearing the brush in a radius of 50m around the cargo; and the gradual removal of the entire cargo and its storage in warehouses of the National Guard. These measures, he said, would be implemented pending a go-ahead from the Defence Minister. The inspection party merely proposed what should be done, but had no authority to take action, or to order the evacuation of the naval base,

Kyriacou said. Under cross-examination, Kyriacou said the Labour Inspection Department did not order the shutdown of a neighbouring power plant (Vasilikos) as “we believed that, provided these measures were implemented, the power plant would not be at risk.” In previous sessions, the court heard that the report warning of a possible explosion at the naval base did not reach then Defence Minister Costas Papacostas in time. The defendants in the trial are

former foreign minister Marcos Kyprianou, former Defence Minister Costas Papacostas, former national guard deputy chief Savvas Argyrou, former ﬁre service chief Andreas Nicolaou; deputy ﬁre chief Charalambos Charalambous; and former disaster response squad (EMAK) commander Andreas Loizides. They are accused of causing death by want of precaution, and homicide by gross negligence in relation to the 13 deaths; the details of each indictment vary.

Grid slowly getting back to size Devastating effects of July 2011 Mari blast dominate the EAC’s annual report By Jacqueline Agathocleous THE devastating effects of the Evangelos Florakis naval base blast in Mari – which killed 13 people and blew up the island’s main power station in Vasilikos – dominated the Electricity Authority of Cyprus’ (EAC) 2011 report, made public yesterday. Presenting the semi-government organisation’s ﬁnancial data, EAC chairman Haris Thrassou – who yesterday also announced his resignation – said the authority was still trying to make up for the effects of the Mari blast. “The ability to generate 798MW of the total installed capacity of 1,520MW was lost,” Thrassou explained. “Given that the catastrophe occurred during the summer period of peak demand, when expected maximum demand was 1,150MW, it was obvious the available load of 722MW would be inadequate.” He said some 60 per cent of generation capacity was lost and from the most productive units. “The project to restore the Vasilikos Power Station to full operation is truly a huge one,” he said. “The relevant processes began at once. The project is continuing according to schedule. During 2011, the station was cleaned up,

buildings were secured and work began on making them ﬁt for use. At the same time, of course, work started on repairing the electro-mechanical equipment.” He said the number of tenders published indicated the size of the project. “Around 300 separate tenders have been published, evaluated and awarded,” said Thrassou. So far, unit 5 has been brought into complete operation, with a total capacity of 220MW. The ﬁrst of unit 4’s gas turbines was put into operation yesterday – with a capacity of 75MW – while its second turbine is due to operate in roughly a fortnight. Unit 4 is expected to be in full operation, generating 220MW, by the end of November. “At the beginning of 2013 Unit 3, with a total capacity of 130MW is due to operate, followed in June 2013 by Unit 2 and Unit 1, each with a capacity of 130MW,” Thrassou said. He said this success was due to excellent cooperation between the EAC’s board, management and staff, but also with the commerce ministry, the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) and the Transmission System Operator, together with whom an Energy Crisis Management Team was set up to deal with all the relevant issues every day on a 24-hour basis.

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A surcharge on electricity bills to help cover costs at Vasilikos will remain in place until May 2013 Thrassou said the EAC submitted claims for compensation from its insurance companies to cover the Vasilikos repair costs, which accepted responsibility. “On the day of the explosion, Unit 5 was under construction and insured by the project contractor,” said Thrassou. “The Authority had drawn up a separate contract with the contractor’s insurance company for the value of the installations that were handed over on July 1 for temporary operations, a sum of €125.6 million with excess of €250,000.” The remaining installations were covered by an insurance policy with another company for the sum of €662.7 million, representing the cost of replacement and a deductible amount of €800,000. Consumers will be paying the 5.75 per cent surcharge for Vasilikos – which was recently reduced from 6.96 per

cent – until May 2013. According to Thrassou, total billed sales of electricity in 2011 amounted 4.59 million MWh, a reduction of 3.9 per cent compared to 2010. He said the fall in sales was mainly due to the Mari blast – not just because it knocked out its main power station, but also because the tragedy was followed by energy-saving measures by consumers. “In 2011 the EAC’s fuel costs increased by 23 per cent over the 2010 ﬁgure,” Thrassou continued. “Of the EAC’s total costs of €841.6 million, €540.4 million, or 64.2 per cent, represented fuel costs. Salaries and employer’s contributions came to €115.9 million, compared to €121.2 million in 2010, a decrease of 4.37 per cent. Of the total costs of €841.6 million for 2011, €17.2 million represented the cost of temporary generation units and €24.5 million the price of electricity purchased from

the occupied areas.” EAC’s operating profit fell by 24.6 per cent, from €112.1 million to €84.5 million. “This amount is the accounting profit, the calculation of which includes, beyond revenues and costs, capital contributions and amortisation,” Thrassou explained. He said the amount of €84.5 million represented a very low return and was not sufficient to fulfil the EAC’s goals. “The rate of return of the capital base in 2011 fell to 5.1 per cent from 6.5 per cent in 2010, much lower than that obtained by the CERA methodology of around 7.2 per cent,” said Thrassou. Net operating profit after amortisation of €58 million was €142.5 million, he added. “After the payment of financing costs, tax and changes to the working capital, available cash deposits amounted to €96.3 million.” For the funding of capital

expenditure of €214.6 million, the entire amount of €96.3 million was used, with capital contributions of €33 million and an increase of net borrowing to €85.3 million. In 2011, the EAC’s longterm loans amounted to €452 million and net bank overdrafts to €172 million. The total amount of €624 million was €85 million more than the 2010 ﬁgure. In 2011, work was completed on the Lakatamia, New Paphos, Amathus, Vasilikos South and Xeropotamos transmission substations as well as on the Psevdas and Alexigros transmission substations which were established to connect the Ayia Anna and Alexigros wind parks respectively to the EAC’s transmission system. In 2011, 59 kilometres of new 132kV overhead power lines were brought into use together with 80 kilometres of new 132kV underground cables.

Chairman’s resignation no surprise

Computer stolen

EAC chairman Harris Thrassou yesterday announced he was resigning from his post. Thrassou said he handed his resignation to President Demetris Christoﬁas in a meeting on Monday, during which the authority’s 2011 report was handed over. He said the president accepted his resignation, but asked Thrassou to remain in his post until his replacement was arranged. “When I accepted this position, the President of the Republic and the cabinet knew my term was for three years,” Thrassou explained. “But then, due to events that followed (Mari), I was asked to stay on for a little while longer, which I did. “My close associates knew of my intentions and this is not a surprise to them.”

A COMPUTER and software worth €30,000 were stolen from an EAC station in Pyla, it was announced yesterday. According to police, the theft was reported by an EAC ofﬁcial, who said it must have taken place at some point between May and October. Police spokesman Andreas Angelides yesterday said the computer contained software worth €30,000, which could only be used by the EAC and nowhere else.

Leaving: Harris Thrassou

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Superstorm Sandy

30 dead as East Coast US hit by gigantic storm Bad weather interrupts presidential election campaigning for a second day By Dhanya Skariachan and Martinne Geller MILLIONS of people were left reeling in the aftermath of the massive storm Sandy yesterday as New York City and a wide swath of the eastern United States struggled with epic flooding and extensive power outages. The death toll climbed to at least 30. Sandy, which crashed ashore with hurricane-force winds on Monday near the New Jersey gambling resort of Atlantic City as the biggest storm to hit the country in generations, swamped parts of New York’s subway system and Manhattan’s Wall Street district, closing financial markets for a second day. Businesses and homes along the New Jersey shore were wrecked and communities were submerged under floodwater across a large area. More than eight million homes and businesses in several states were without electricity as Sandy’s fierce winds took down power lines. Some cities like Washington and Boston that felt some of the effects were spared widespread devastation and appeared ready to return to nearly normal conditions by today. But other places like New York City and large parts of New Jersey were hit especially hard and likely will require at least several days to get back on their feet. “The devastation is unthinkable,” New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said after seeing aerial pictures of the New Jersey shore. A large blaze destroyed more than 50 homes in the

New York City borough of Queens as flooding hampered fire fighting efforts. Neighbourhoods along the East and Hudson rivers in Manhattan were underwater, as were low-lying streets in Battery Park near Ground Zero, where the World Trade Centre once stood. As the weakened but still sprawling storm system continued its destructive trek inland, more than one million people in a dozen states along its path were still under orders to evacuate. The storm interrupted the US presidential campaign just a week before the November 6 election. Seeking to show he was staying on top of a storm situation that affected a densely populated region, the White House said Obama plans to tour damaged areas of New Jersey today accompanied by Christie. The New Jersey governor, who has been a strong supporter of Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney, praised Obama and the federal government’s response to the storm. Obama issued federal emergency decrees for New York and New Jersey, declaring that “major disasters” existed in both states. One disaster-forecasting company predicted economic losses could ultimately reach $20 billion, only half insured. All along the East Coast, residents and business owners found destruction. “There are boats in the street five blocks from the ocean,” said evacuee Peter Sandomeno, one of the owners of the Broadway Court Motel in Point Pleasant Beach, New

Jersey. “That’s the worst storm I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been there for 11 years.” As residents and business owners began a massive cleanup effort and faced a long and costly recovery, large parts of the region remained without power, and transportation in the New York metropolitan area was at a standstill. “This storm is not yet over,” Obama told reporters at the Red Cross as he warned of the dangers of continued flooding, downed power lines and high winds. Obama, possibly mindful that disgruntled storm victims could mean problems for his re-election bid, vowed to push hard for power to be restored. The death toll continued to rise, with reports of at least 30 people killed, at least 10 of them in New York City alone. The storm weakened as it ploughed slowly west across southern Pennsylvania, its remnants situated between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with maximum winds down to 72 kph. As Sandy converged with a cold weather system, blizzard warnings were in effect for West Virginia, western Maryland, eastern Tennessee, eastern Kentucky and western North Carolina. Obama and Romney put campaigning on hold for a second day. But the campaign truce was likely to be short-lived, as Romney planned to hit the trail again in Florida today. Obama appeared likely to resume campaigning on Thursday for a final five-day sprint to Election Day. Superstorm breaks records CENTRE

Unprecedented challenge for NY subway THE giant storm Sandy wreaked havoc on the New York City subway system, ﬂooding tunnels, garages and rail yards and threatening to paralyse the nation’s largest masstransit system for days. “The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night,” Joseph Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, said in a statement early yesterday. He later said that water was “literally up to the ceiling” at one downtown station. All seven subway tunnels running under the East River from Manhattan to Queens and Brooklyn took in water, and any resulting saltwater damage to the system’s electrical components will have to be cleaned - in some cases off-site - before the system can be restored, MTA spokeswoman Deirdre Parker said yesterday. At dawn, emergency crews were assessing the damage to tunnels and elevated tracks. Restoring the system is likely to be a gradual process, Parker said. “It’s really hard to say which areas will come back ﬁrst,” she said, adding it will likely be a combination of limited subway and bus service. “It will come back

gradually.” It could be four to ﬁve days before subway service resumes, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a news conference yesterday. As for buses, the city was hoping to resume limited service yesterday and full service by today, he said. About 5.3 million people use the city’s subway system on weekdays. The system, which runs around the clock, comprises 21 subway routes linked by 468 stations, and stretches across 660 miles (1,062 km) of track. The MTA’s Metro North Railroad lost power on its suburban Hudson and New Haven lines, while there was ﬂooding in an East River tunnel used by the Long Island Rail Road, the agency said. New Jersey’s PATH commuter train service, which connects New Jersey with New York City, will likely remain suspended for at least a week to 10 days, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said. New York City closed down subway, bus and commuter train systems on Sunday night - a full day before Sandy, one of the biggest storms to ever hit the United States, made landfall on Monday night in neighboring New Jersey.

A ﬂooded Brooklyn Battery park tunnel

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World

Dagestan religious leader killed

‘No explosives found on Polish plane wreck’

GUNMEN shot dead a Muslim religious leader in Russia’s Dagestan region yesterday in an attack likely to worsen a spiral of militant violence that threatens Moscow’s hold on the restive North Caucasus. Karimulla Ibragimov was at least the fifth Muslim leader killed this year in Dagestan following a rise in tension between moderate and more radical Muslims in the southern Russian republic. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on Ibragimov in the town of Derbent at around 6.30am (0230 GMT), Russia’s Investigative Committee said. Ibragimov had served as an imam at a mosque frequented by radical Muslims. “All three died on the spot from the gunshot wounds,” the committee, a government agency that handles criminal investigations, said. Russian news agencies said the gunmen escaped in a car. Dagestan is at the centre of an insurgency for an Islamic state in the North Caucasus, more than a decade after Russia troops ousted a rebel government in neighbouring Chechnya.

Poland denies govt. jet bore traces of TNT, nitroglycerine By Chris Borowski POLISH prosecutors denied a newspaper report that investigators found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the government jet that crashed in Russia two years ago, killing Poland’s then president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Rzeczpospolita daily said yesterday that Polish investigators who examined the remains of the plane in Russia found signs of TNT and nitroglycerine on the wings and in the cabin, including on 30 seats. The report strengthened accusations by rightists groups that investigators ignored evi-

The 2010 crash killed Poland’s then president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others dence of outside involvement and prompted opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of Lech, to call for the government to resign. But Polish military prosecutors said they were sticking to their ﬁnding that the crash was not an assassina-

tion and no explosives were found on the remains of the government Tu-154 that crashed during its approach to a small airport near the Russian city of Smolensk on April 10, 2010. “It is not true that investigators found traces of TNT or nitroglycerine,” said Colonel Ireneusz Szelag from the military prosecutors’ ofﬁce. “Evidence and opinions collected so far have in no way provided support to the belief that the crash was a result of actions by third parties, that is to say an assassination,” he told a news conference. Russian investigators had blamed the Polish crew for trying to land in heavy fog, while their Polish counterparts also said the airport

(EPA)

controllers should not have allowed the plane to attempt an approach. Moscow and Warsaw have faced renewed criticism over their handling of the Smolensk investigation after Polish prosecutors admitted last month that families of two of the victims received and buried the wrong remains. Yesterday, Szelag said two more bodies were misidentiﬁed and lawyers for families of other victims feared more remains may need to be exhumed. Before the denial by prosecutors, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said the newspaper report was proof that his twin brother and the other passengers of the presidential plane were murdered.

Canadian mum admits to having killed her kids A CANADIAN woman, living in the UK, who suffered post-natal depression and admitted killing her two young children, said the day her children died was “a day I will be eternally sorry for”. Felicia Boots, 35, pleaded guilty yesterday to the manslaughter of 10-week-old Mason and his 14-monthold sister Lily on May 9. Boots’s lawyer, Kate Bex, read a statement on her behalf outside court today. In it, Boots said: “The ninth of May 2012 is a day I will be eternally sorry for. “It should never have happened and it troubles me more deeply than anyone will ever know. A part of me will always be missing. But I am a good mum and I never meant this to happen.” She admitted killing her children, entering a plea on the grounds of diminished responsibility which was accepted by the prosecution at the Old Bailey. Murder charges were dropped. Boots, who trained as a hairdresser, was ordered to be detained at a psychiatric hospital. She was unable to appear at two previous hearings.

Boots had been suffering from post-natal depression She had been previously detained at a psychiatric unit and the prosecution’s decision followed consideration of doctors’ reports. Boots and her investment banker husband Jeff moved to the UK in the last few years from Canada. He found the children dead when he arrived home at the couple’s house in Wandsworth. Boots began crying when she was asked to stand to enter pleas on the two murder charges. Her voice shook as she replied: “Not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter because of diminished responsibility.”

WORLD TODAY Allies snub PM reforms appeal THE Greek prime minister’s appeal for a united front to push through more austerity fell on deaf ears yesterday, with one ally promising to vote against reforms and another scolding him for prematurely saying talks had ended. A ﬂurry of contradictory statements from the three parties in Greece’s ruling coalition highlighted the chaos ahead of a crucial vote on austerity measures, which is turning into the government’s biggest test since taking power in June. Near-bankrupt Greece needs to push through spending cuts and tax measures worth 13.5 billion euros as well as a raft of reforms to appease EU and IMF lenders and secure bailout money needed to avoid running out of cash next month. But a deal has been held up by the small Democratic Left party’s refusal to back labour reforms, which has tempted other lawmakers to defect and leaves the government facing an unpredictable vote in parliament next week.

Germany speech fee row escalates CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel’s designated challenger in next year’s federal election angrily rejected accusations on Tuesday that he sold out to bankers with lucrative speaking engagements and neglected his duties as a member of parliament by moonlighting. Former Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, who will lead the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) into the 2013 election, told a national TV audience he had earned 1.25 million euros for 89 speeches since 2009 but said he donated some money to charity. The extra income, which might not even raise an eyebrow in countries such as the US, has stirred a sharp debate in Germany, where the average 7,300 euros net per speech Steinbrueck earned is three times most workers’ monthly pay.

Miners fired on SOUTH African police ﬁred rubber bullets and teargas yesterday at striking Amplats miners who were protesting against a union-brokered deal to end a six-week wildcat walkout at the top platinum producer. As they moved into a shanty town near the mines, police also deployed water cannons and stun grenades a gainst groups of protesters armed with wooden sticks and stones.

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World

‘Strike on Iran would be good for the Arabs’

Syrian air force on the offensive after failed truce Air force general assassinated in Damascus By Khaled Yacoub Oweis SYRIAN warplanes bombed rebel targets with renewed intensity yesterday after the end of a widely ignored fourday truce between President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and insurgents. State TV said “terrorists” had assassinated an air force general, Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi, in a Damascus suburb, the latest of several rebel attacks on senior ofﬁcials. In July, a bomb killed four of Assad’s aides, including his brother-in-law Assef Shawkat and the defence minister. Air strikes hit eastern suburbs of Damascus, outlying areas in the central city of Homs, and the northern rebel-held town of Maarat al-Numan on the Damascus-Aleppo high-

way, activists said. Rebels have been attacking army bases in al-Hamdaniya and Wadi al-Deif, on the outskirts of Maarat al-Numan. Some activists said 28 civilians had been killed in Maarat al-Numan and released video footage of men retrieving a toddler’s body from a ﬂattened building. The men cursed Assad as they dragged the dead girl, wearing a colourful overall, from the debris. The footage could not be independently veriﬁed. The military has shelled and bombed Maarat al-Numan, 300 km (190 miles) north of Damascus, since rebels took it last month. “The rebels have evacuated their positions inside Maarat al-Numaan since the air raids began. They are mostly on the frontline south of the town,” activist Mohammed

Kanaan said. Maarat al-Numan and other Sunni towns in northwestern Idlib province are mostly hostile to Assad’s ruling system, dominated by his minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam. Two rebels were killed and 10 wounded in an air strike on al-Mubarkiyeh, 6 km (4 miles) south of Homs, where rebels have besieged a compound guarding a tank maintenance facility. Opposition sources said the facility had been used to shell Sunni villages near the Lebanese border. The army also ﬁred mortar bombs into the Damascus district of Hammouria, killing at least eight people, activists said. One video showed a young girl in Hammouria with a large shrapnel wound in her forehead sitting dazed while a doctor said: “Don’t worry

Members of the Free Syrian Army run to avoid a sniper in Haram town, Idlib Governorate yesterday (AFP) dear, we’ll ﬁx it for you.” Syria’s military, stretched thin by the struggle to keep control, has increasingly used air power against opposition areas, including those in the main cities of Damascus and Aleppo. Insurgents lack effective anti-aircraft weapons. UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said he

will pursue his peace efforts despite the failure of his appeal for a pause in ﬁghting for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. But it is unclear how he can ﬁnd any compromise acceptable to Assad, who seems determined to keep power whatever the cost, and mostly Sunni Muslim rebels equally intent on toppling him.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought yesterday to convince Arab states that an Israeli military strike on Iran would beneﬁt them, removing a potential threat and easing tensions across the Middle East. Netanyahu has made a number of veiled threats to attack Iran’s nuclear programme and has appealed to the United States and the United Nations to set a limit for Tehran on its further development. In an interview published yesterday with French magazine Paris Match, Netanyahu said such a strike would not worsen regional tensions, as many critics have warned. “Five minutes after, contrary to what the sceptics say, I think a feeling of relief would spread across the region,” he said. “Iran is not popular in the Arab world, far from it, and some governments in the region, as well as their citizens, have understood that a nuclear armed Iran would be dangerous for them, not just for Israel,” he said.

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Business Hitachi buys UK nuclear project

Apple’s software, retail chiefs exit

HITACHI yesterday won a bid to take over a company building up to six nuclear power plants in Britain, reviving hopes for investment in the UK’s ageing energy infrastructure but leaving doubts they will come online in time. Hitachi said it expected to have the first 1,300 megawatt (MW) nuclear power plant in the UK operational by the mid-2020s. “This is a decades-long, multi-billion-pound vote of confidence in the UK that will contribute vital new infrastructure to power our economy,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement. The British government said that Horizon would eventually include up to six nuclear power plants, which would be able to provide 14 million homes with electricity for 60 years. Hitachi is taking over the project from German utilities E.ON and RWE for 696 million pounds ($1.1 billion) and said it was already in discussions to find another company to operate the plants after they are built. Analysts said the Japanese company could struggle to build the facilities in time to fill a looming power supply gap in Britain. “The deal is certainly a positive development for UK electricity supplies given the concerns in the wake of RWE and E.ON pulling out, (but) if you are looking at a three-to-fouryear turnaround in the approvals process, that will inevitably fuel concerns over the UK’s supply-demand balance in the latter part of this decade,” Craig Lowrey, consultant at UX Energy Services, said.

APPLE Inc CEO Tim Cook has pushed out the powerful head of the company’s mobile software products group, sources said, in a major management shakeup that also claimed the recently hired chief of the retail stores division. Scott Forstall, a long-time lieutenant of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, was asked to leave following years of friction with other top executives and his recent refusal to take responsibility for the mishandling of the Apple’s much-criticised mapping software, people familiar with the situation said. Sources said Forstall refused to sign a public apology after Apple’s mapping product, which displaced the popular Google Maps on the iPhone and the iPad in September, contained embarrassing errors and drew fierce criticism. Instead, Cook signed the letter last month. Forstall will leave the company next year, Apple said in a statement. He did not respond to emails seeking comment. The executive changes are the biggest at Apple in more than a decade, and mark the first major move by Cook to shape his own management team since Jobs’ death a year ago. John Browett, who was hired as the company’s retail chief just seven months ago after serving as CEO of UK electronics retailer Dixon’s, will also leave Apple. His efforts to improve profits at the stores had alienated employees and sources close to Apple said Cook had concluded he was simply the wrong person for the job. “These changes show that Tim Cook is stamping his authority on the business,” added Ben Wood, analyst with CCS Insight, said. “Perhaps disappointed with the Maps issues, Forstall became the scapegoat.”

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Employees walk past a logo of the Swiss banking giant UBS in Zurich. UBS announced yesterday nearly 10,000 job cuts worldwide, saying that the costs of restructuring its hard-hit investment bank had pushed it deep into loss

in the third quarter. The costs switched the Swiss bank’s third-quarter results into a 2.2-billion Swiss franc net loss compared to the 1.0 billion net proﬁt it had reported during the July-September period last year (AFP)

EU’s latest budget compromise shunned By Charlie Dunmore and Jan Strupczewski A COMPROMISE proposal on the European Union’s longterm budget, cutting more than 50 billion euros ($64.5 billion) from the original blueprint, ran into a crossﬁre of criticism yesterday from governments on both sides of the spending debate. The plan by the EU’s Cypriot presidency, sent to capitals late on Monday, recommended the deepest cuts to infrastructure spending in the poorest member states to reduce the total bill, with a less drastic reduction in farm subsidies. The document will form the basis of negotiations to seek a deal on the seven-year budget for 2014-2020 in time for what promises to be a marathon summit of EU leaders on November 22-23. But it angered both richer Western states keen to minimise their contributions as they struggle to reduce national debt in the shadow of

Cypriot proposal seeks to trim €1-trillion budget plan the eurozone crisis, and Eastern newcomers who rely heavily on EU funds for their future economic development. “In times of austerity, the EU budget must not grow. We need to cut three or four times as much as in this proposal to stabilise member states’ contributions,” said Swedish Minister for EU Affairs Birgitta Ohls son. Stockholm is a net contributor. “No deal will be possible on the basis of cuts of only 50 billion euro,” she added. Sweden, Germany and Britain have demanded cuts of 100-200 billion euros to the European Commission’s proposed 1-trillion-euro total, slightly more than 1 per cent of the 27-nation bloc’s gross domestic product. By contrast national government spending accounts for between 40 and 56 per cent of

member states’ GDP. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he had warned Britain, which seeks the deepest cut in spending, that if there was no deal, the current EU budget would remain in force provisionally with two percent added each year for inflation. “We will try to persuade the British that a compromise would be cheaper for the UK,” Tusk told reporters in Warsaw. “We will be looking for smart compromises. Here in Poland we will need to see what is beneficial for us and acceptable to others.” Cyprus, which holds the bloc’s rotating six-month presidency, said the cuts outlined so far were just a start and deeper reductions would be needed to reach a final deal. “Further reductions will re-

quire even bigger trade-offs and the need to prioritise between policies and programmes,” it said. As part of its proposal, Cyprus trimmed a further 58 billion euros of spending in areas such as nuclear fusion research and crisis response that the Commission had kept off the main budget. The compromise cuts the EU’s seven-year regional development budget by about 12.5 billion euros compared with the Commission’s original plan. By contrast, spending on agricultural subsidies, of which France, Italy and Germany are the biggest beneﬁciaries, would only fall by about 5 billion euros under the compromise. Direct payments to farmers would total more than 277 billion euros over seven years. About three-quarters of the current budget is spent on farm subsidies (40 per cent) and airports, motorways, bridges, rail tracks and other infrastructure projects (35 per cent).

Forced out: Apple’s Forstall has been asked to leave

US companies hustle to reopen after Sandy’s devastation HURRICANE Sandy may have devastated the East Coast on Monday, but the water-logged wheels of commerce keep turning, storm damage or not. As cities from New York down to Washington began to dig out from the historic destruction brought by Sandy, companies scrambled yesterday to as-

sess their facilities with an eye toward reopening as soon as possible. With the holiday season quickly approaching and tourists unlikely to be dissuaded from shopping, retailers in particular were hurrying yesterday to get back to business. Luxury department store Saks Inc

said it would reopen yesterday three of the stores that it had had to close because of Sandy, including stores in greater Washington and Philadelphia. The retailer’s ﬂagship on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, which generates about 20 per cent of company sales, along with ﬁve other stores in New

Jersey and Connecticut, were set to reopen today, a spokeswoman said. Similarly, Wal-Mart Stores Inc had 267 stores closed as of late Monday night due to the storm. But by yesterday morning, that was down to 168, with plans in progress to reopen some stores on generator power.

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Opinion

Very difficult to take the case of planned AG murder seriously IT IS VERY difficult to take the case of the planned murder of the AttorneyGeneral entirely seriously. Everything fell into place so easily it was almost as if the whole thing had been stage-managed and rehearsed in advance. The police had been tipped off about the plot by a convicted murderer - Antonis Prokopiou Kitas, a.k.a. Al Capone – who is serving life and had on several occasions in the past caused embarrassment to the force. The whole case was based on the testimony of an unreliable, attentionseeking criminal turned police informer who, a few months ago, wrote to the Attorney-General Petros Clerides requesting to be released. In his letter, he cited the help he had given to police, with investigations into crimes, including the double murder in Paphos. Clerides turned down the request, but Kitas did not hold a grudge, tipping off the police about the plot to murder the AG, some 10 days before it was scheduled to take place. Three men were remanded in custody for eight days in connection with the investigations, one of whom was convict Andreas Onoufriou, serving 18 years after being found guilty of placing a bomb under the car of a Limassol judge; the explosion caused injuries to the judge and his daughter. Onoufriou was due for release next year. A lottery ticket seller that allegedly delivered the murder weapon (an antitank missile launcher) to a middle man co-operating with police, and a former National Guard sergeant who, allegedly, was to carry out the attack, were also remanded. During the remand hearing, Onoufriou claimed that Kitas had set up the whole thing as payback, because he had tipped off the police of the lifer’s plan to kidnap president Christofias’ grandson. It is very difficult not to treat the whole case as some farce, thought up by prisoners who have nothing better to do all day. Clerides did not appear to take the plot very seriously, telling journalists on Monday that he did not feel at all insecure and had no intention to ask for additional police protection. Justice minister Loucas Louca yesterday said that police received an abundance of tip-offs from prisoners every week and only a tiny fraction of this information was reliable. It could well be that the tip-off about the planned murder of the AG did not belong to the tiny fraction of reliable information the minister was talking about. The police could occasionally be fooled when following leads given to them by convicted criminals.

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Putin targets denied any truly safe haven Comment George Phillips

VEN when living in the UK those who have fallen foul of President Vladimir Putin do not feel completely safe, as the former president and owner of the Bank of Moscow Andrey Borodin has suggested. In the last issue of The Sunday Times, it was reported that Borodin feared he may be the “target of the Russian security services in Britain”. The billionaire banker claimed he “had been the target of a surveillance operation at his new home near Henley-onThames”. He had gone to the police after a car being driven by his personal assistant was involved in high speed chase on the M4 motorway in August, The Sunday Times reported. The police had told Borodin that the car involved in the chase had false number plates, which raised his suspicions. “It might have been someone from the Russian security service, it might have been criminals,” Borodin was quoted as saying by the paper. Thames Valley police said the M4 carchase was under investigation. The banker is applying for political asylum to the UK after ﬂeeing from Russia last year. Borodin was forced to sell his stake in the Bank of Moscow for $750 million, an amount, he claimed, was half the real value. He ﬂed to the UK, shortly afterwards, on learning Russian authorities would arrest him over an alleged fraud regarding big loans given by his bank. An arrest warrant was issued against him in May 2011. Borodin says that the charges were fabricated by the Putin government, which often went after its critics. The banker admitted he had angered the regime by accusing Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of corruption; Medvedev is a close ally of Putin. Six years ago, the KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered with radioactive poison in London, where he was

Billionaire banker Andrey Borodin was forced to sell his stake in the Bank of Moscow for $750 million, an amount, he claimed, was half the real value living as a political exile. According to The Sunday Times, “it is an open secret in Whitehall that the Kremlin ordered the assassination as revenge for Litvinenko’s outspoken attacks on Putin”. Last March, Russian businessman German Gorbuntsov, who had applied for political asylum for himself and his fam-

ily to the UK, was shot and seriously injured outside his London home. A series of allegations were made against Borodin, all of which he denies. He was accused of funding the punk music group Pussy Riot, the three members of which were sentenced to two years in prison for their anti-Putin protests.

‘I don’t support the (Russian) opposition, but I have supported the human rights organisations that are in Russia by giving them money’

ON THIS DAY OCTOBER 31 1517 German theologian and religious reformer Martin Luther publishes his Ninety-Five Theses, denouncing the sale of indulgences and thus sparking the Protestant Reformation. 1956 The Suez Crisis intensiﬁes when British and French aircraft attack and destroy the Egyptian air force. 1961 The embalmed body of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is removed from public display in Moscow and placed in a concealed tomb. 1968 Addressing the American nation on television, President Johnson announces a halt to American bombing in Vietnam and also discloses that all sides have agreed to start peace talks. 1984 Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, is killed by two assassins believed to be her own bodyguards.

Earlier this month, Russia’s state-controlled television station NTV broadcast a documentary alleging that Borodin had agreed to contribute $50 million to the opposition/protest movement in Russia. The TV investigation claimed that the money would go to Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, who was accused by the show of also receiving funding from an ally of Georgia’s president. The banker says he has given about $50,000 to human rights groups ﬁghting abuses by the Kremlin, dismissing all other allegations. Borodin told The Sunday Times: “I have never advocated or believed in the use of undemocratic or unlawful methods for pursuing political change. “I don’t support the opposition, but I have supported the human rights organisations that are in Russia by giving them money.”

WHAT THE MAIL SAID 25 years ago Saturday October 31, 1987 The Turkish-Cypriot ‘assembly’ urged Greek Cypriots yesterday to accept without delay proposals on the divided island set out by UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cueller. This was contained in a resolution passed unanimously by the 50-seat chamber ahead of an expected UN General Assembly debate on Cyprus in November.

35 years ago Monday October 31, 1977 President Spyros Kyprianou has reafﬁrmed Cyprus’ readiness for a compromise solution but rejected all suggestions for a partitionist arrangement. In a message to the International Conference of Solidarity with Cyprus which opened in Brussels yesterday, the President refers to the ﬂouting of UN resolutions by Turkey.

45 years ago Tuesday October 31, 1967 Russia today took a major stride forward in her space programme when two unnamed computer-controlled satellites linked up automatically in space. Linking up two spacecrafts already in Earth’s orbit is regarded as an essential manoeuvre which must be mastered before man can make any attempt to go to the moon. The Americans succeeded over a year ago in docking a space capsule with an Agena target rocket.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Showbiz

Ghosts scare off gore for Halloween movies

South Park takes aim at...Lance Armstrong?

‘Torture porn’ trend plays out

By Piya Sinha-Roy

By Piya Sinha-Roy AFTER almost a decade in which torture films dominated the box office, horror movies are returning to ghostly thrills with a new slew of lowbudget productions making big money for studios. The success of 2009’s Paranormal Activity - which was made for $15,000 and grossed more than $107 million at US box offices - has fueled a thirst in audiences and movie studios for things that go bump in the night. Halloween audiences previously gripped by the gory Saw franchise about a sadistic serial killer are flocking this season to see supernatural horrors, with Sinister and Paranormal Activity 4 providing otherworldly scares for the spooky festivities. The supernatural trend, with very little blood, started this year with The Woman in Black and The Apparition, and will spill into 2013 with upcoming horror films including Mama, Evil Dead, Carrie, and ghostly spoof Scary Movie 5, which will parody Paranormal Activity. “It’s a return to a more classic style of suspense,” Henry Joost, who co-directed the third and fourth Paranormal Activity films with Ariel Schulman, told Reuters. “When you’ve just been obliterated with gore, having it slammed in your face for a

Paranormal Activity 4, which follows the success of 2009’s Paranormal Activity - which grossed more than $107 million at US box ofﬁces - has fuelled a thirst in audiences and movie studios for things that go bump in the night decade, you respond by seeking the opposite.” Sinister, currently playing in US movie theatres for Halloween-loving audiences, features an author (Ethan Hawke) who discovers home videos of mysterious murders and soon ﬁnds himself pursued by an otherworldly presence. Director Scott Derrickson said audiences were drawn to bloodless supernatural horrors as a means to escape from news about wars and violent killings. “There’s something about the real-world pain and vio-

lence that has enveloped the American reality, that makes films like Saw not necessarily the catharsis that people are looking for,” Derrickson told Reuters in an interview. Saw, made for $1.2 million, grossed more than $55 million at the US box office in 2004 and spawned a franchise, leading a slew of films dubbed ‘torture porn’ for the excessive use of gratuitous violence. The trend produced the Hostel trilogy, 2006’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and 2008’s The Strangers.

But while the Saw franchise initially brought in big money for movie studios - the second and third films each grossed more than $80 million at the domestic box office - the profits slowed by 2009, when the franchise’s seventh and final film Saw 3D: The Final Chapter was made for $20 million and grossed only $45 million. “The torture porn stuff really played itself out, Saw and Hostel, they were just too much. People want to be engaged with the story and not just grossed beyond imagination,” Bradley Jacobs, film editor at Us Weekly, told

Reuters. In comparison, the Paranormal Activity franchise, which relies on suspense and strange phenomena, has revamped the genre with a more cost-effective model since most of the scares are off-screen and on deliberately grainy footage, minimising the need for costly special effects and action shots. “The profitability of making a film for less than $5 million and hedging the bet of the financiers and the studios with a possible giant upside becomes extremely attractive,” Derrickson said.

Skyfall breaks Bond’s Katie Holmes gets embarrassed UK box office record By Paul Casciato SKYFALL set the record for the biggest UK weekend box office takings of any James Bond film, its producers said this week. The 23rd official cinematic adventure of the suave, but brutal 007, earned 20.1 million pounds after opening last Friday at 587 cinemas across the United Kingdom and Ireland. “We are absolutely overwhelmed with the reaction to Skyfall this weekend,” producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement. “It is particularly thrilling as the UK is home to James Bond and it being the 50th anniversary year.”

SECRET SERVICE The film, which had its royal world premiere in London last week and opens in the United States on November 9, brings together Daniel Craig on his third outing on Her Majesty’s secret service with British director Sam Mendes making his franchise debut. The plot also puts veteran actress Judi Dench, 77, at the heart of the action as Bond’s boss M, and introduces Spanish Oscarwinner Javier Bardem as a flamboyant villain complete with dyed blond hair. Marking 50 years after the first Bond film Dr. No premiered in London in 1962, Skyfall has been hailed by the critics as a triumphant return to form after 2008’s tepidly received Quantum of Solace.

Diners wore T-shirts about the mother and daughter

KATIE Holmes had an embarrassing encounter with a diner wearing a ‘Free Katie’ T-shirt in a restaurant. The 33-year-old actress and her daughter Suri, six, sat down to enjoy a quiet dinner at Mr. Chow Tribeca, in New York City next to a group of Halloween revellers, who were wearing the comedy T-shirt and another shirt which read ‘Save Suri’. The slogan emblazoned clothes are references to the campaign that was started when Katie was still married to Tom Cruise - who she divorced in July - urging her to leave the actor. Another member of the party was dressed as a young Tom from Top Gun, but when they spotted who was on the next table they covered up their Tshirts. A source told the New York Post: “When they sat down, they exchanged an awkward glance with Katie, but she kept her cool and didn’t say anything. The embarrassed Halloween crew quickly covered up the costumes before Suri got a chance to take a look.”

ANIMATED TV comedy satire South Park is taking aim at a disgraced icon who seems a lot like seven-time Tour de France winning cyclist Lance Armstrong. In a teaser clip released on Monday by Comedy Central, an episode titled ‘A Scause for Applause’ shows residents of the ﬁctional American town standing in line to get their yellow wristbands removed. While the teaser for the October 31 episode does not refer to Armstrong by name, Comedy Central said in a statement that it deals with “the recent news of drug use by a beloved icon” and “the world is left feeling lost and betrayed”. Armstrong, who was stripped of his cycling titles and banned for life earlier this month for doping, used yellow wristbands to promote his charity Livestrong. In the South Park episode, the news has left the town enraged and upset as chubby foul-mouthed Eric Cartman, one of the show’s four lead children, declares “I can’t believe we all got duped”. Hapless schoolboy Clyde Donovan yells “lying jerk” and school counsellor Mr Mackey sobs as his bracelet is removed, saying, “I don’t know what to believe in anymore”. Armstrong, 41, who became a hero after battling cancer to dominate the world of professional cycling, has always denied allegations of taking performance enhancing drugs. He was banned from the sport for life after 11 of his former team mates testiﬁed against him and the United States Anti-Doping Agency published a report which alleged he had been involved in the “most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen”. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are known for responding quickly to current affairs and taboo subjects for their raunchy comedy show, which has become a cult hit. They previously landed in hot water after showing late Australian wildlife expert Steve Irwin with a stingray barb in his chest less than two months after his sudden death from a stingray attack, and drawing the Muslim prophet Mohammed dressed in a bear costume in a 2006 episode.

Mr. Mackey has his yellow wristband removed on the cult show

CYPRUS MAIL Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Education

Workshop for history teachers

Tests for teachers

THE ASSOCIATION for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) is continuing its successful series of workshops for primary and secondary school teachers on November 9 in Deryneia. The workshops which started in April aim to provide a short and comprehensive overview of the AHDR’s supplementary educational materials, which have been developed over the last few years based on new and innovative approaches in history teaching. These workshops offer a unique pedagogical opportunity for all primary and secondary education teachers, and especially those teaching history, language and social sciences. Some 250 teachers have taken part in the training sessions so far. Teachers who have already attended the workshops have noted that the AHDR supplementary educational material promote and integrate critical thinking skills, while teachers are given the chance for a hands-on experience.

By Alison Kershaw

WELL-RECEIVED “I would like to thank the trainers for the opportunities being given to us during the seminar. I consider the educational material very useful and important in the implementation of modern teaching techniques in history lesson,” said one secondary school teacher in Limassol AHDR educational director Alev Tugberk states that “the workshops have been received well, and teachers have found the books and the seminars particularly interesting. Up until now, we carried out workshops in Nicosia, Famagusta, Limassol, and Larnaca.” The next in the series of workshops for teachers will be held on Friday, November 9, 16.00-19.00, at the lecture hall of Deryneia Municipal Library (26, Ammohostos Avenue). The training will speciﬁcally focus on the use of the AHDR’s supplementary educational materials in the classroom focusing on the following key areas: learning to investigate the history of Cyprus through artefacts; the Ottoman period in Cyprus, learning to explore change, continuity and diversity; introducing oral history, when people’s stories become history; and thinking historically about missing persons Participation is free. Deadline for registrations is the November 3. For further enquiries, please contact email: ahdr.mide@gmail.com or telephone:+357 22445740 +90542850681 or fax: 35722660061

Tougher numeracy and language tests for trainee teachers in UK

OULD-BE teachers in Britain will have to complete English essays and answer questions on maths topics including algebra before they can start training, it has been announced. Ministers have unveiled details of plans to overhaul tests taken by prospective teachers, saying they want to raise the status of the profession. Under the proposals, from next September, anyone who wants to train as a teacher will have to complete revamped tests in English and maths. A paper on verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning is also due to be introduced in the next few years. Calculators will not be allowed and the pass marks for both the English and maths tests will be raised again, the Department for Education (DfE) said. The plans have been recommended by a review group of headteachers and education experts, which was set up in March. The government said at the time they wanted to toughen up the tests taken by trainee teachers due to concerns that many took several attempts to pass. The current tests, in literacy and numeracy, are taken towards the end of teacher training, with the latest ﬁgures showing that 98 per cent of people pass. From this autumn, trainees have been limited to two re-sits for each paper and the pass mark has been raised for the ﬁrst time. It is to be raised again over the next three years, with candidates eventually needing to score the equivalent of a grade B at GCSE to pass, the DfE said. The new maths test is likely to include questions on topics such as algebra and graphs, while the English paper will ask candidates to answer open-ended questions, with marks for

spelling, punctuation and grammar. Official figures show that rising numbers of trainee teachers are passing the tests on the first attempt. In 2010/11, 30,624 people passed the literacy test on the first go, compared to 29,266 the year before. Some 1,903 people took three or more attempts, down from 2,483 in 2009/10. Some 29,531 candidates passed the numeracy test at the first attempt, up from 29,287 in 2009/10. A total of 3,329 took three or more goes, up slightly from 3,313 in 2009/10. Education Secretary Michael Gove said: “These changes will mean that parents can be confident that we have the best teachers coming into our classrooms.” Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said: “All teachers need strong literacy skills and also a good grasp of mathematics. It is however surprising that Michael Gove is showing such interest in the entry requirements for teacher training courses, while at the same time advocating that schools should be free to employ unqualified teachers.”

In 2010/11, 30,624 people passed the literacy test on their ﬁrst go

SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR TEACHERS’ TESTS Current numeracy test (Calculator allowed) An ICT teacher compares the cost of building a paper-based ICT portfolio with the cost of using commercial e-portfolio software. The number of pupils on the course is 125. On average each paper-based portfolio includes 75 printed pages. Costs are: printing - 2.5p per page; ring binder - 75p. The total cost of the e-portfolio software is £250.00 per year. How much money would the school save by using the e-portfo-

lio software? Give your answer to the nearest pound. (Answer: £78)

Current literacy paper (Spell the missing word in the sentence, heard through headphones) Nadine was _________ that she had passed her geography examination. (Answer: relieved)

Proposed maths paper (No calculator allowed) The cost, £C, of advertising in a

newspaper is worked out using the formula: C = 0.4n + 0.75 where n is the number of words in the advertisement. a) The cost of an advertisement is £11.55. How many words are in the advertisement? (Answer: 27 words) b) If I have only £9.00, how many words can I afford? (Answer: 20 words)

Proposed English paper Continuous prose question: “Every teacher is a teacher of English. Discuss.”

Teenage truth behind the Eton swagger Comment Sam Leith YOU wouldn’t automatically think, would you, that what Britain’s 46-year-old prime minister was doing at 16 would be a central issue in the nation’s political life? I mean, clearly, if he’d been murdering prostitutes, selling arms to Iraq or distributing leaﬂets on behalf of the National Front, it might come up … but learning French in a silly suit? Yet that is what seems to be the case. Every time any issue involving class comes up - under which heading Britain can group everything from Chancellor George Osborne’s rail tickets to the entire tax system - the word “Eton” thumps the prime minister over the head and the cartoonist’s pen embarks on tailcoat and (though Etonians don’t wear them) top hat. It’s not just that David Cameron went to a public

school that does the damage - so, after all, did Tony Blair. It’s because that particular public school, Eton - among whose alumni are a number of prime ministers, as well as such rotten eggs as JM Barrie’s Captain Hook - remains a two-syllable shorthand for every idea the British have about entrenched privilege, unexamined entitlement and the dead hand of the English class system. Those penguin suits are an unimprovable visual image of it - and toxic in terms of political branding. The prime minister and his cabinet have, you could say, an Eton Disorder. This is a condition that manifests in more than one way. It is a psychological problem - presenting symptoms that can range from clannishness or grotesque overconﬁdence to a squirming desire to disavow one’s own background. But it is also a social disease: sustained and shaped by a whole culture of perception. The one plays off the other. I speak with sympathy. I too suffered an Eton education and the disorder is with me still. Anyone at or just emerging from school is nervous of the

Old boy: David Cameron big world, especially those aspects of the big world - girls, for instance, or people from less privileged backgrounds - with which they are least familiar. They want to be liked. They know that whatever its advantages, the fact is that where they go to school is deeply weird. From the age of 13 they have been going about in public dressed as Victorian undertakers. At 18, they can identify the future perfect of “traho” but have never seen a live woman with her top off. They know that among many adults, let alone other teenagers, the very name of their school is enough to see them contemptuously dismissed as

a posh twat. Of course they’re bloody insecure. My contemporaries went one of two ways, by and large. The assimilationist route was the one I took. You didn’t seek the company of fellow alumni, or if you did you did not do so ostentatiously. You didn’t reminisce about the hil-aaarious time the First Eight fell in the water during the Procession of Boats on the Fourth of June, reasoning that to do so would make people think you were an arse. You decided to go about behaving like what you imagined a normal person to be. That led to a lot of risible mockney accents and a good deal of half-baked anarchosyndicalism, sure, but with a bit of luck by the time people clocked you for an Etonian they’d see you, rather than the “braying toff” of stereotype. I remember with real pride, near the beginning of my second term at university, greeting an “out” OE on the street and my companion exclaiming: “No! You’re one of them?” The second route is the isolationist one. This suggests, to me, the greater insecurity. Anticipating that people will

hate you just for where your parents sent you to school, you get your retaliation in ﬁrst. You circle the wagons, settle into the comforting stereotype and seek safety in your own kind. You don’t like us? Screw you: we’ll be everything you say we are. Which, of course, becomes a self-fulﬁlling prophecy: teenagers, after all, aren’t the best social strategists. Behind all that sad, tired, boorish Bullingdon Club bluster - behind every toga party and white-tie rout, every sprayed bottle of Bolly and every jibe about “plebs” - you see silly boys, faced with the challenge of fronting up to a wider world than the one they have known, bottling it. Mr Cameron doesn’t smash up restaurants these days. Does he feel more comfortable among those with a similar background? I dare say he does. Do he and his closest colleagues live in a post-Eton bubble - speaking from, for and in defence of the privileges of their own kind? That’s harder to say. But more and more reporters and voters believe he does - and that’s the real Eton Disorder he needs to work on curing.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

What’s on

films

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

NICOSIA Looper (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Paranormal Activity 4 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Killer Joe (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8.05 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 8.05 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) (in French, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.25pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Savages (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.35 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Watch (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.35, 8 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Brave (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.35pm and 3.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.35pm and 3.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

LIMASSOL Looper (15) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Paranormal Activity 4 (15) Rio 2 at 8.15 and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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

Killer Joe (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8.05 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Savages (18) Rio 6 at 7.45pm and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) (in French, with Greek subtitles) Rio 3 at 6.15, 8.20 and 10.25pm, weekends at 6.25, 8.30 and 10.35pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Watch (15) Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends at 8.10 and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 ParaNorman (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 3pm. Tel: 25-871410 The Cold Light of Day (12) Rio 5 at 7.45pm (weekends at 8.15pm) and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 6.30pm, weekends also at 3pm and 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Brave (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 4.40pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D), weekends only at 3, 4.45 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekends only at 3pm, 4.45pm and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410

LARNACA Looper (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Paranormal Activity 4 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.15pm. Tel: 77778383 Killer Joe (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8.05 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) (in French, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.10pm. Tel: 77778383

Savages (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.35 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Watch (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.35, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Brave (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Le Havre (in French, with Greek subtitles) Larnaca Municipal Theatre, Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Film Society. Tel: 99-658831, www.lfcinema.org

PAPHOS Looper (15) Rio 7 at 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Paranormal Activity 4 (15) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 9.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Killer Joe (18) Rio 5 at 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) (in French, with Greek subtitles) Rio 6 at 5.50, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends at 3.50, 6, 8.10 and 10.20pm. Tel: 26-207000 Savages (18) Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends at 7.30 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Watch (15) Rio 3 at 6, 8 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 God Loves Caviar (K) (in Greek, English and Russian) Rio 5 at 7.45pm. Tel: 26207000 ParaNorman (12) Rio 7 at 6pm, weekends at 4 and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Cold Light of Day (12) Rio 2 at 6 and 7.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) Rio 5 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends at 4 and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Magic Mike (18) Rio 2 at 9.45pm. Tel: 26207000 Brave (K) Rio 1 (in Greek) at 5.45pm, weekends also at 4pm. Tel: 26-207000

listings Today Exhibition Topo-analysis Solo art exhibition by Eleni Panayidou. Opens October 31, until November 17. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-754009. www.argogallery.org

Halloween Rock ‘N’ Roll Party Chris King as Elvis Presley, Andrew Oliver as Elton John presents their special themed stage show and dance. Come in fancy dress - best costumes win prizes. Raffle in aid of GOAL. October 31. Faros Restaurant, Latchi Harbour. Dinner 8.30pm, showtime 9.30pm. €20 including dinner. Tel: 99-832538/26-321304

Dance IntuNition A new dance creation by .pelma. October 31. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €12/10. Tel: 77-777745

Other Events Finbarr’s Halloween Party Music with Kiss FM, Buy 2 get 1 free. First and second prizes for best costumes. October 31. Finbarr’s, 52B Makarios Ave, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Tel: 22-376625

20th Century Music Concert with Cyprus Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kypros Marcou and soloist Marios Nicolaou (percussion). November 1. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 22-463144/77-777745

Theatre

Tomorrow

Music 20th Century Music Concert with Cyprus Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kypros Marcou and soloist Marios Nicolaou (percussion). October 31. Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 22-463144/22-313010

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Exhibition Does Europe exist? An exhibition that poses the question, among others, in how far Europe as an entity exists within her geographical space. Opens November 1, 7pm until November 15. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Avenue, Nicosia. Monday-Saturday* 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. *On Saturday November 10 the exhibition will only be open 10am-1pm. Tel: 22445455. info@artosfoundation.org www.artosfoundation.org The White Goddess Solo painting exhibition by Stass Parashos. Opens November 1, 7.30pm until November 17. Apocalypse Gallery 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-766655

Shakespeare in an Hour Pirasmos Productions presents theatrical comedy. November 1-December 23. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Thursday to Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910

Ongoing Theatre After the Rehearsal Theatro Ena opens new season with play by Ingmar Bergman. Until November 4. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Friday to Sunday at 8.30pm. €12/15. In Greek. Tel: 22348203 Staircase ETHAL presents a British comedy with Kostas Vichas and Achilleas Grammatikopoulos. Until November 11 (on specific days). Technohoros ETHAL, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Limassol. 8.30pm and 6.30pm on Sundays. €15/10. In Greek

Same Time, Next Year Dionysos Theatre opens the new theatre season with play by Bernard Slade, directed by Nikos Charalambous. Until November 25. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. €20/15. Tel: 22-818999/99621845 The Grönholm Method The New Stage of THOC presents play by Catalan playwright Jordi Galcerán Ferrer. Until December 1. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Every Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-492900 Oscar The New Stage of THOC presents the play based on the work by FrenchBelgian dramatist Eric Emmanuel Schmitt. Until December 8. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Every two weeks Wednesday through Saturday. 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-492900 Samia Revival of ancient Greek comedy by Menander. Until December 9. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Every Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6pm. €12/6. In Greek. The performances on December 1 and 2 will be with Greek and English surtitles. Tel: 22-864300

11:16 Anemona Theatre presents a mystery by C. G. Wilson. Until December 23. Anemona Theatre, 7 Archagelou Street, Latsia, Nicosia. Every Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 8pm. In Greek. €10. Tel: 22-573031 The Magic Flute The Children’s Stage of Satiriko Theatre presents play adapted and directed by Thanasis Theologis. Until December 23. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Every Sunday at 10.30am. €10. In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609

Exhibitions Stelios Votsis Solo painting exhibition. Until October 31. Zacharias Gallery, 147 Irinis Street, Limassol. 9am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 25-358311 Pancyprian Mosaic Exhibition & International Exhibition of Posters of Mosaics Until October 31. Athienou Kallinikeio Municipal Museum, Athienou Kallinikeio Municipal Hall, 2 Archbishop Makarios III, Athienou. Monday-Friday: 8am-2pm. Wednesday: 3pm-6pm. Sunday: 6pm-8pm. Tel: 24-524002 Darkness or Light? Solo art exhibition by Froso Liapi. Until October 31. Art Space Kat’oikon, 47 Perikleous Street, Nicosia. Open daily: 6pm-8.15pm. Tel: 96-510261

Accelerating Science Photographic display of CERN’s flagship travelling exhibition about the origins of our universe. Until October 31. Entrance B108, Council-Senate Building Anastasios G. Leventis (Ground Floor) University of Cyprus. Tel: 22-800616/7 Spirito d’ Oltramare Solo painting exhibition by Pindaros Michaelides. Until November 1. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10.30pm12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Weaving on the Loom of Memories and the Threads of Recollection Solo Painting Exhibition by Maria Hadjitophi-Charitonidi. Until November 3. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street, Nicosia. Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983 Andreas Charalambous Solo painting exhibition. Until November 3. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday:11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109 Sotiris Sorogkas Solo art exhibition. Until November 5. Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tuesday-Friday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25378733. www.morfi.org

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On The Scene Exhibition An encounter with an artist MEETING artist Maro Neophytou, one is immediately struck by her warm and welcoming smile, which extends to her hospitality. With a pot of hot, percolated coffee and freshly baked ‘kolokotes’, we sit on the veranda which has the most spectacular view of Paphos, right down to the sparkling silvery blue waters of the Mediterranean. Neophytou is having a painting exhibition on Friday at Palia Elektriki in Paphos, which will be opened at 7.30pm by Mayor Savvas Vergas. Tall and slim with fiery red hair, Neophytou belies her age, which she attributes to the sea. “Every day I walk for an hour, and then swim – summer and winter. It’s only one minute in the winter that it’s tingly, and then it’s wonderful, invigorating and yet calming. One has to be calm to paint, with inner peace and tranquillity. When one is disturbed, it’s very difficult if not impossible to paint and be creative. For example for a long period after the death of my father, I was unable to paint.” Neophytou was inspired from a young age to paint – “my first memories of drawing and painting were from nursery school and hailing from an artistic family, it was somehow natural that I would follow.” She studied Fashion Design and Interior Decorating in Athens and on her return to Cyprus began a teaching career developing the artistic talent of thousands of high school students. It was only when she retired though that she could really focus on her painting more seriously. “Most of the time was dedicated to the family at that

Coming Up Other Events Gone, but not forgotten POETRY enthusiasts will ﬁnd plenty to whet their appetites at the presentation of Andrea Demetriou’s poetry collection The Mountains Couldn’t Walk Away. Poetry has the ability to move people in ways plain prose seldom does - with its combination of concise-

time (she has one son, eminent dermatologist Dr Yiannis Neophytou) and my teaching… but somehow even now,” she smiles “I am very busy.” “I’m most inspired by nature but sometimes also use my painting to send ‘messages’. For example, the 1974 invasion had a tremendous impact on me as it naturally did on so many others.” A refugee from Famagusta, she shares with me her tree painting which is very striking – the tree is blackened but surrounded by rich, warm colours signifying the burning with a bright moon. “It’s a painting about the desolation and destruction of ’74.” Neophytou’s paintings are all large and in oils. “I like having the luxury of time, which one doesn’t have with acrylics – and oils allow me to be particular and careful in my work. I’m a perfectionist in that each line, each stroke, each colour must be just as I see it in my mind. Sometimes I work from memory but most often, I make a little sketch or even pick up a twig, a branch or a beautifully coloured leaf to take home which I expand on in my paintings. I have large paintings because I want to highlight and give attention to that particular part of nature which has captured my attention.” Unlike many artists, Neophytou prefers to work in the evening and enjoys company when she paints. “I don’t like solitude when I work, and most often, I’m with my husband who is most supportive. In fact, he encouraged me to have this exhibition. It has been an enormous job to organise it, but I am looking forward to it and hope everyone will accept my open invitation and come.” Maro Neophytou Solo painting exhibition. Opens November 2, 7.30pm until November 4. Palia Elektriki, Vladimerou Herakleous, Paphos. Open: 10am1.30 pm and 4pm-8pm By Saskia Constantinou

ness and richly suggestive expression, it has no rival. Due to the success of its Australian launch back in 2010, The Mountains Couldn’t Walk Away is being presented to local audiences in Larnaca this Friday at the Stegi Grammaton & Texnon. Organised by the Municipality of Larnaca in collaboration with the Cyprus Research Centre (KY. KE.M.), the presentation will be celebrated under the auspices of Mayor of Larnaca Andreas N Louroutziatis. The book is in English and features a collection of poetry about nostalgia and its consequences for a world

Dance with an open mind FOR THE fourth year in a row, Dance Gate Lefkosia has organised the No_Body festival of dance, movement and performing arts under the direction of Arianna Economou. The festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday at Pallas Theatre, featuring works by eight performers from various disciplines giving the festival its particular position on the island in terms of artistic direction. This festival offers a rather modest budget and therefore attracts young artists who are looking to begin their careers or small works. Its vague deﬁnition invites interdisciplinary performances that may include movement and dance but are not necessarily characterised as such. Initially, the festival organisers requested an involvement of collaborators from three different disciplines to enrich the process and compositional methods for dance. As rules for other festivals, such as the Annual Contemporary Dance Platform (organised by the Cultural Services of Ministry of Education) and the Summer Festival (organised by Nea Kinisi), have changed so that only applicants who have previously presented a minimum of two works within professional settings may be considered, new artists see No_Body as which was eclipsed by the Turkish invasion in Cyprus. It is illustrated with colour photographs taken by the author and has been published by La Trobe University. Demetriou was born in Morphou. Her family emigrated to Australia after the 1974 invasion. As a teenager in Melbourne she initiated Tsakpina Cafe’s cultural innovations. She was later employed as an information ofﬁcer by the Australian Department of Labour. Andrea studied literature, philosophy and music at Athens and La Trobe universities. In Athens, she has worked extensively in print media

an excellent choice to present their work. This year eight artists will present works at the festival. The ﬁrst evening will feature works by Diomides Koufteros, Athina Christodoulidou, Eleana Alexandrou and Machi Dimitriou Lindahl. On the second evening, the audience can see works by the Inter Action group, Harry Koushos, Mitos group and Achim Wieland. The versatile line up is indicative of the varied interests and aesthetics the festival is known for. Young artists, such as Elena Alexandrou and Harry Koushos are the ones to watch for emerging trends. Alexandrou is a well-known dance performer who has been involved in alternative works and will show work for the ﬁrst time. Koushos is a promising young choreographer, whose work at the Contemporary Dance Platform was chosen for the European Dance Festival and Aerowaves nights that took place last weekend. He will present his new work at the upcoming festival. Experienced choreographer, Machi DimitriouLindahl will also present her new work. The Mitos group, under the direction of Elena Agathocleous and Lukas Walewski, usually presents as well as radio (Third and Fourth Programmes). She currently divides her time between Athens and the island of Hydra. For Friday’s presentation, Australia’s High Commissioner in Cyprus, Trevor Peacock, philologist and author Chrysothemis Hatzipanagi and author-poet Nick Orphanides will introduce Demetriou and her work. Meanwhile, actor and executive director of the Cyprus Centre of International Theatre Institute, Neophytos Neophytou will recite some of the author’s poems. Her poems capture a lost period of innocence but more importantly

interesting, dramatic works within the alternative theatre aesthetics with a heavy dose of movement. Parallel events will accompany the festival tomorrow at Theatro Ena in Nicosia. Starting at 7pm, three lectures/video presentations will take place by Elena Agathocleous, Erica Charalambous and Arianna Economou; followed by a lecture concerning short dance ﬁlms by Nuria Font, a Spanish moderator. The festival provides a window into various modes of composition and visual presentations on stage. The quality of works, as with most festivals, is hard to predict therefore make sure you bring an open mind and imagination that will allow you to enjoy the experimental works within your personal interpretation. Fourth No_Body Festival A dance and performance arts festival with a sole aim the production of new works encouraging Cypriot artists to come together for the enrichment of the choreographic field in Cyprus. November 3-4. Pallas Theatre, old Nicosia. 8pm. €10. Tel: 70-007046/97-772264 Parallel Events Lectures, video presentations. November 1. Theatro Ena, Nicosia.7pm. Free By Dara Milovanovic they give a voice to the issue still unsolved and motivation to work towards uniting the divided island. Through her poetry she encourages everyone to never forget Cyprus’ traumatic history. The presentation will also include a musical performance by Demetriou. Poetry Book Presentation Presentation of Andrea Demetriou’s book: The Mountains Couldn’t Walk Away, with guest speakers, poetry readings and artistic programme. November 2. Stegi Grammaton & Tehnon, 4 Makariou & Kalogreon, Larnaca. 7.30pm. In English. Tel: 99-264736

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By David Sheppard and Scott DiSavino AT LEAST 8.1 million homes and businesses on the US East Coast were without power yesterday after Hurricane Sandy tore down power lines, ﬂooded networks and sparked an explosion at a Consolidated Edison substation on Manhattan’s East River. Almost a quarter of New York City homes were without power 13 hours after Sandy roared ashore with hurricane strength winds, felling trees and bringing a dangerous tidal surge that has paralysed the transport system in the United States’ biggest city. Power providers reported outages in every state from North Carolina to the Canadian border and as far inland as Ohio and Indiana. At 9am outages were approaching the total from Hurricane Irene last year, according to Reuters calculations based on ﬁgures provided by utilities. Outages caused by Hurricane Irene peaked around 8.4 million. The total outage caused by Sandy is likely higher as it does not include homes that have already been restored or the smallest power providers on the East Coast.

Power outage in Manhattan, New York

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EXPLOSION The figures represent homes and businesses, meaning the total number of people affected will be far higher. “This is the largest stormrelated outage in our history,” said John Miksad, Con Edison’s senior vice president for electric operations. An explosion at a substation on Manhattan’s East River on Monday night contributed to the power cuts, and could complicate efforts to restore power. Over 700,000 homes and businesses were without power in New York City and Westchester county, out of a total of three million Con Edison customers. Customers in the hardest hit areas could be without power for more than a week, utilities have warned. “We expect that some customers will be without power for as long as seven to 10 days,” said the state-owned Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), which has 84 per cent of its 1.1 million customers in New York without power. Back-up generators failed at New York University Hospital in Lower Manhattan on Monday night, forcing patients to be moved elsewhere for care. Con Edison workers were also trapped for three hours by rising flood waters inside a power substation before being rescued by firefighters using inflatable boats.

People view the area where a 2000-foot section of the “uptown” boardwalk was destroyed by ﬂooding from Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City, New Jersey (AFP)

Manhattan submerged: A ﬂeet of New York’s famous yellow tunnels and the ﬁnancial district

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Rising water, caused by Hurricane Sandy, rushes into a subterranean parking garage in the Financial District of New York (AFP)

UPERSTORM Sandy brought gusts of 90mph and a record surge of seawater in New York City. The hurricane made landfall at the southern tip of New Jersey at 8pm local time on Monday, before causing massive disruption across a wide area, said senior meteorologist Stephen Davenport, of MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association. A storm surge of 4.2m hit Manhattan in New York City, comfortably beating the previous record of 3.2m set in 1960 by Hurricane Donna. The highest wind gust was recorded as 144.84kmph on Long Island, New York. Newark International Airport in New Jersey experienced

winds of 125.5kmph. “Hitting at high tide, the strongest surge and the strongest winds all hit at the worst possible time,” said Jeffrey Tongue, a meteorologist for the weather service in Brookhaven, New York. “The extent of the wind is something else,” Davenport added. “It’s at least 1988 since tropical storm force winds have covered such a wide area of the USA.” The National Weather Service issued high wind warnings from Michigan to Florida and from Chicago to Maine. “That is a massive area of storm force winds” Davenport said. Up to 20cm of rain fell in some places, with New Jersey and Delaware the worst

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dy, largest storm ever seen gh some of country’s most orts Neil Lancefield hit. As much as 76cm of snow hit the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia. Meanwhile, low pressure records were set in Atlantic City in New Jersey, Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, and Wilmington in Delaware. Davenport said: “For a storm in that part of the USA it was pretty well unprecedented. “It is unknown in anyone’s lifetime, and probably greater than any storm that has been recorded in that part of the mid-Atlantic and the north west.” “It’s total devastation down there, there are boats in the street ﬁve blocks from the ocean,” said evacuee Peter Sandomeno, one of the owners of the Broadway Court Motel in Point Pleasant

Beach, New Jersey. “That’s the worst storm I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been there for 11 years.” The storm’s wind ﬁeld stretched from North Carolina north to the Canadian border and from West Virginia to a point in the Atlantic Ocean halfway to Bermuda, easily one of the largest ever seen, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters expect the storm to weaken as it moves north-eastwards. “Storms are at their strongest as they come ashore. There will be torrential rain in eastern parts of Ohio and in Pennsylvania, but it will start weakening. “It’s a gradual process but we are past the highest wind strength,” Davenport added.

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THIS is the moment the replica ship HMS Bounty sank yesterday after being battered by 18ft waves and ferocious gales. The ship, used in a number of Hollywood ﬁlms, went down off the North Carolina coast, claiming the life of crew member Claudene Christian, 42. Coastguard rescue teams were yesterday still searching for the captain of the ship, Robin Walbridge, 63, who was feared drowned. The remaining 14 crew members were airlifted to safety (below) after being ordered by their skipper to abandon ship. The 180ft, three-masted tall ship was built for the 1962 movie Mutiny On The Bounty and used in the recent Pirates Of The Caribbean series. The original Bounty, a British transport vessel, gained infamy for a mutiny in Tahiti in 1789.

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TO LET NICOSIA area, kitchen and WC, structured cabling, hot and cold aircon, 1800 euros pcm, tel. 99 895649 FOR RENT – three-bedroom flat in Lykavitos, Nicosia. Open plan fully-equipped kitchen and living area, two bathrooms, air conditioning and central heating. Big veranda. Near the town centre and University of Cyprus. Contact 99721911 / 99-454141 3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358. ***************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

TO LET NICOSIA 2. H3ST10010-R, 2 Bedroom plus office semi-detached house 180sq.m with central heating, fully a/c, covered parking in a quiet area off Tseriou avenue. Strovolos, €600 (photos in website). 3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi detached house 120 sq. m, a/c for hot and cold, small yard, FULLY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPOLIS €650 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website). 4. H3ST10012-R, 3 bedr luxury semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet floor, fire place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, SHARED SWIMMING POOL, in a very quiet neighborhood in the area near Falcon school. Strovolos € 1200, (photos in website). 5. 4 bedr new luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, central heating, full Ac, 260sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all the windows, 4wc, 2 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 covered parking, big garden with grass in a quiet neighbourhood in a dead end near French Ambassador house - Strovolos €1400 (H4ST10045-R), (photos in the website). 6. 3 bedr+big attic room with

TO LET NICOSIA shower and wc luxury new house, 210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 4wc, blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, small garden, covered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - STROVOLOS €1200 (H4ST10007-R), (photos in the website). 7. 3 bedr upstairs and one downstairs luxury detached house built in 2 plots of land with big garden and big over floor swimming pool 4 X 10, central heating, full a/c, 2 covered parking, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, double glazed windows(PVC), electric shutters on all windows, in a very quiet neighbourhood, in the centre of Latsia near Carrefour - LATSIA €2700 (H4LAT0010-R), (photos in the website). 8. 4 bedr luxury detached house + big separate maid’s room, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area, big separate family room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area, 4wc, parquet floor all the house, mature garden on the front and back of the house, 3 covered parking, in a quiet area - PARISSINOS €2300 (H4PA20006-R), (photos in the website). 9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which has also

TO LET NICOSIA separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor all the house, big sitting and dining room with fire place, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big overfloor, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar(bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker), mature garden around the house, 2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre- PLATY AGLANTZIAS €3500 (H5PAG0002-R), (photos in the website). 10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €900 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website). 11. 4 bedr luxury semi detached house with good size garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, central heating, a/c units, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking, FULLY FURNISHED AND EQUIPPED, in a quiet area in a dead end close to all amenities and schools. ANTHOUPOLIS €1300 (H4ANT0002-R), (photos in the website). 12. 2 bedr + attic room luxury house with central heating, full expensive air conditions Daikin, blinds, cooker and oven in the kitchen, in

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA a quiet area near Sampson farm - STROVOLOS €700 (H3ST10013-R), (photos in the website). 13. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office, 250sq.m, central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated, kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fire place, 1bathroom, 1 shower, 2wc, 2 covered parking, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website). 14. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC, 450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven, 6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website). 15. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built

TO LET NICOSIA in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3000 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225/96422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr furnished apartment, 140sq.m, near Cyprus Hilton, kitchen, bathroom and extra guests toilet, large sitting room, opposite a small park, recently renovated independent oil central heating, air conditions, solar heater, covered parking – Acropolis €630 (A3ACS0040-R), (photos in the website). 2. AINIC0006- R, 1 bedr., fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2AC for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, nice view, off Makarios avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop. Nicosia centre, € 450 (photos in website). 3. 2 bedrs luxury big apartment in a small building with 4 apartments only, very big bedrooms with parquet ﬂoor, 125sq.m, central heating independent, 3ac, Fully nicely

TO LET NICOSIA furnished separate kitchen, big sitting and dining area, 2wc, covered parking behind Hilton hotel off Kennedy and Makarios close to the centre.– NICOSIA CENTRE €600 (A2NIC0026-R), (photos in the website). 4. A1DAS0010-R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, big bathroom, big bedroom with shutters, covered veranda, storage heaters, 2a/c, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking in a quiet area in a small modern building near Acropolis Park. Dasoupolis €400 (photos in website). 5. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and granite floor, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, covered parking, intercom, on a small building with 6 flats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in Egomi – Agios Dometios €550 (A2ADO0013-R), (photos in the website). 6. 1 bedr new modern luxury apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, nicely modern furnished, 3rd floor, covered parking, 6 year old in a quiet neighborhood off Kantaras street. - STROVOLOS €400 (A1ST10009-R), (photos in the website). 7. New 2 bedr luxury apartment,

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90sq.m, storage heaters, 3 a/c, cooker and oven, covered verandah, 2 wc, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking and storage room of Kyriakou Matsi street near the centre – Agioi Omologites €650 (A2AOM0008-R), (photos in the website).

with Jacuzzi), 3wc, parking, near of Ag. Dometios police station, Coca Cola factory and close to Alpha Mega supermarket and University of Nicosia. Price includes common expenses. Agios Dometios, only €500 (photos in website).

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

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9. 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). 10. A2ADO0006-R, 2 bedr luxury upper flat, fully renovated, 120sq.m, fully furnished, AC for hot and cold, 2 bathrooms en suite in the bedrooms (one

12. A2LYK0006-R, 2 bedr penthouse apartment with big veranda 60sq.m, storage heaters, full a/c, 2 bathrooms(one en suite), big sitting room, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds, covered parking near Agios Antonios market CLOSE TO THE UNIVERSITY. Lykavitos €510 (photos in website). 13. A2ST10028- R, 2 bedr new luxury apartment on the 1st ﬂoor of a 2 storey building, with a/c for hot and cold, fully nicely modern furnished, big covered veranda, parking, in

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ARMOU â&#x20AC;&#x201C; large detached 4 bed villa â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 x ensuite â&#x20AC;&#x201C; u/f, a/c, ďŹ re place, private pool, large kitchen with extra utility room, private parking, sea and mountain views, quiet location. â&#x201A;Ź650. For more information call - 99774314 or 99621875 â&#x201A;Ź290 CHLORAKAS, Acropolis Heights 2-bed, Beautiful private / quiet location, with views of the valley and the sea, in a Cul-de-sac, 1-Floor, 9 years old, 90 sq. mts, Fully Furnished, W.C, open-Plan Lounge / Kitchen, Garden/ Front Car-port and rear yard and Doghouse. Call 99632388. UNIVERSAL AREA For Rent: Short Winter let. 3-6 Months Luxury 2 B/Room en suite Apt, f/f including 2 bathrooms, SKY TV, Ftv card, Nilesat TV, Wi-Fi Internet, Air Con, BBQ area, Com Pool, large patio, ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor. Located on a small complex in a quiet location Universal Area 15 Mins walk to Harbour. Rent 375 Euros (incl of Com charges) Mob: 99129750 email: ďŹ sh.10@live.co.uk CORAL BAY, 6 and 4 bedroom villas for rent, private villas with swimming pools, air â&#x20AC;&#x201C; conditioned throughout, furnished or unfurnished, sea views, special price /tel: 99565256 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; no agents A DELIGHTFUL AND SPACIOUS 2 bedroom apartment, F/F, top ďŹ&#x201A;oor, new, located at a peaceful location just 500 from St. George hotel in Choraka, with breathtaking sea views. A+ quality apt, With walking distance to amenities, part of a beautiful building with swimming pool, list and other amenities. Only â&#x201A;Ź350pm Other apts also available. Call

KATO PAPHOS- 1 bedroom Town-House, Newly ďŹ tted kitchen, Enclosed Rear Garden, Cloakroom, â&#x201A;Ź200 EMBA-Traditional Detached 3 bed room, F/F, very spacious property, large garden with a variety of fruit trees, fabulous kitchen, â&#x201A;Ź450 TREMITHOUSA- 2 Bedroom, Traditional Village Bungalow, Very Large Courtyard, Parking. â&#x201A;Ź280 FULLY FURNISHED PROPERTIES WANTED MORE PROPETIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** 1. 1 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex in a very quiet area, air condition throughout, spectacular sea and mountain views and communal pool, pets allowed Price: â&#x201A;Ź270 o.n.o 2. 2 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex in a very quiet area, 1 bathroom, air condition throughout, spectacular sea and mountain views and communal pool, close to all amenities, pets allowed Price: â&#x201A;Ź320 o.n.o 3. 2 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex, quiet area, 1 W/C downstairs, 1 bathroom, air condition throughout, communal pool, balcony, lovely sea and mountain views, close to all amenities, satellite dish, pets allowed, Price: â&#x201A;Ź370 o.n.o 4. 4 bedroom fully furnished detached Villa in Peyia in small complex, private swimming pool, BBQ area and small garden, 1 en-suite bathroom in master bedroom, downstairs bedroom and bathroom, air condition throughout, 2 balconies, very spacious rooms, with additional storage space, lovely sea and mountain views, close to all amenities, satellite dish, pets allowed. Price: â&#x201A;Ź750 o.n.o ALL THE ABOVE PROPERTIES ARE PRIVATELY OWNED PLEASE CALL: 99351008/99563020 ***************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY SERVICES LTD: PROVIDING AN EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS: PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR RENT LONG TERM RENTAL. PROPERTIES WANTED: FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WITH KEY HOLDING AND RENT COLLECTIONS OFFERED 1 Mandria: 3 bed unfurnished apartment on a quiet complex with communal pool, off

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Wish to inform their valued customers On Tuesday 13th November they will hold their not to be missed DĂŠjĂ vu afternoon from 2.30 until 4.30 at the Leontious Street Charity Shop Limassol between St Barnabas Church and Mitsubishi traffic lights. Come and purchase your Christmas and New Year Party Clothing plus Festive Decorations

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street allocated parking, white goods, blinds Ref: 969 Price 350 2 Konia: 3 bedroom unfurnished town house with communal pool in nice residential area, near to all local amenities: Ref: 1027 Price 500 3 Yeroskipou: 2 bed furnished Town house, downstairs wc, kitchen, dining/sitting room, upstairs 2 bedroom, family bathroom: Ref: 1169 Price 350 4 Mesogi: Luxury 4 bed unfurnished villa with large living areas, downstairs bedroom with en suite, 3 bedrooms upstairs, Fire place, Modern villa, residential area Private pool: fully fenced off: pets welcome Ref: 783 Price 750 5 Secret Valley: fully furnished, modern style, easy maintenance gardens, Private heated pool, quiet residential area, near golf area: Ref: 1186 Price 800 6 Kissonergra: 4 bedroom villa offered furnished, downstairs bedroom, 3 upstairs, en suite, family bathroom, closed garage, private pool, on its own very private no near by villas: Ref 0003 Price 900 7 Tala: 3 bedroom villa offered part furnished with private pool, stunning sea views, property is a family home, central heating, residential Ref: 988 Price 700 8 Coral Bay/Peyia: large luxury villa with central heating, large gardens, AC, off street parking, stunning views, quality ﬁttings and furniture’s: Ref: 1176 Price 3500 OFFICE: 120 MARKARIOS AVENUE, PAPHOS. OFFICE: 26600450 MOBILE: 97614070 many properties

available on WEB: www. flowron.com Email info@ flowron.com ***************************** LONG TERM RENTALS 1. CHLORAKAS 1 bed ground floor furnished apartment with central heating, communal pool and parking, sky TV. €350 pcm including all bills 2. KISSONERGA 2 bed town house, small garden, off street parking, close to bus and shops. NO POOL €350 pcm 3. SEA FRONT 200 sq-m plus detached villa, large plot, ample parking, cul-de-sac, stunning sea views, loads of room and storage. Must be viewed. €999 pcm open to offers. 4. PEYIA 2 bed 2 bathroom house, a/c, ceiling fans, fly screens, storage, satellite TV, private parking, swimming pool, From €390 pcm THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELECTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON enquiries@cypruspropertysolutions.com LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT. ***************************** PROPERTY RENTALS From 250 Euros per month. Villas and apartments available.

TO LET PAPHOS Also wanted for waiting clients. www.johnalice-properties.com johnalicecy@gmail. com Tel: 00357 99984681 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 ***************************** 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. UNIVERSAL AREA €450 spacious 3 bedroom first floor apartment, master with ensuite. Situated on small complex with no pool. Fully fur-

TO LET PAPHOS nished with modern furniture, fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher. Balcony leads to a large private roof terrace with shaded barbeque area offering views of the sea, storage & sunbathing deck. 2. SEA CAVES €500 we are delighted to offer this detached 2 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area offering sea views. Gated drive for off street parking. Fully enclosed good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy and shaded areas. Available unfurnished or part furnished. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. website reference number: RTL_482 3. KAMARES €625 we are delighted to offer this 2 bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow offering magnificent sea views. Lovely enclosed garden & private pool. Available unfurnished though includes central heating throughout plus modern gas fire for those winter months. Outdoor storage facilities, shaded patio area, fly screens & shutters. website reference number: RTL_386 4. PEYIA €700 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite TV. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor.

TO LET PAPHOS a spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. off street parking. website reference number: RTL_401 5. TALA €725 modern 3 bedroom detached villa located in a peaceful residential area between Tala & Kamaras offering sea & mountain views. Separate kitchen with top brand appliances inc dishwasher. Includes central heating, ﬂyscreens & sky satellite. Private pool & enclosed garden with storage. Available unfurnished or furnished. website reference number: RTL_566 6. MANDRIA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Fully enclosed low maintenance garden offering private pool. Available unfurnished to include white goods, blackout blinds, curtains, ceiling fans & log burner for those winter months. Immaculate condition. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. Website reference number: RTL_633 offers considered. 7. KATO PAPHOS €800 large 4 bedroom detached villa situated in the sought after residential area of Limnaria. Walking distance to the beach and the many amenities of Kato Paphos. Spacious living accommodation offering an enclosed garden with c/pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture & solar panels. website reference number: RTL_442

TO LET PAPHOS 8. TSADA €2000 fantastic 4 bedroom 4 bathroom villa offering breathtaking sea & mountain views from every aspect. Spacious living areas with central heating and real fireplace. Covered verandas leading to private pool with Jacuzzi and large stone built bbq area. Separate storage rooms, utility room & garage. Available fully furnished or unfurnished. Offers considered. website reference number: RTL_639 Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www. mrrent-paphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos.net ***************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!! 1. MESA CHORIO – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen. 2 double, bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens

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and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. Euros 425.00 a month. 2 bed apartment same complex Euros 400.00 a month.

en. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom with corner bath. Landscaped gardens, swimming pool and covered parking. Realistically priced Euros 500.00 per month or close offers only

2 MESOGI 3 bed 3 bath furnished apartment in handy location close to the shopping areas. Large open plan living area and dining area.. Fully ﬁtted dining/kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. Utilty room. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Balcony & and parking. Euros 500.00 a month. Suit non-drivers!

6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, ﬁtted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area, comm. Pool and parking. Euros 375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at 250 euros per month.

3. TOMB OF THE KINGS – 3 bed fully furnished apartment in established block. Own entrance via stairway. Open plan living area. Dining kitchen. 3 bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, sat TV. Internet available. Large balcony area. Parking. Euros 350.00 per month 4. KISSONEGA - 3 bed 2 bath unfurnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area. Full itted kitchen. Small utility area. Conservatory room. Ground ﬂoor bed room with en-suite. Stairs to two double bedrooms and family bathroom. Pool and off street parking. Euros 600.00 per month 5. STROUMBI – 2 bed fully furnished stone bungalow set in quiet location. Open plan living area with working ﬁreplace. Spacious dining kitch-

7. CORAL BAY - 3 bed, 3.5 bath furnished/unfurnished villa situated very near to the centre and within easy walking of beaches and restaurants. Open plan living area with fully fitted kitchen. Doors out to garden and pool. Ground floor bedroom with ensuite. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 2 double bedroom both with en-suite and balcony areas. Private pool, gardens, BBQ area and covered verandahs. Central location.Euros 650.00 per month or close offers. 8. STROUMBI– 3 bed 2.5 bath large unfurnished villa in quiet village area. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Good sized fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Guest WC with storage area.3 double bedrooms. Master with en-suite bathroom. Family bathroom. Enclosed gardens, pool and off street parking. Realistically priced Euros 550.00 per

FOR SALE Semi-detached house in Archangelos area split level on a hill, no houses in front, 3 big bedrooms, 2 big bathrooms and TV room big lounge & dining area, fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store room, C/H, A/C, solar. For information call: 99496541

TO LET PAPHOS month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF A PA R T M E N T S / T O W N HOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol.com ***************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt ﬁreplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610.

PROPERTY FOR SALE LIMASSOL 2 BED FLAT on the beach 70sq m €375,000 – title deeds 99337415 COUNTRY VILLA 7 miles Limassol centre, 5 beds 4 baths + ofﬁce, €480.000-title deeds, rented for €13.000-p.a. 99672602 FOR SALE AGIOS TYCHONAS detached 2 bedroom house with deeds. Sea/mountain views. Retiled, replastered, rewired, replumbed. Fans. A/C. Handmade solid wood kitchen. Large lounge/dining area. 2 mins from highway. Email janmurr1@yahoo.co.uk for photos and info. Price €235, 000. BARGAIN PRICE DETACHED HOME FOR QUICK SALE with title deeds. Located on a quite cul de sac in Germasoyia within a short 2 minute drive to the beach and tourist area. 3 bedroom. 325sqm plot, 160sqm house. Price € 385.000 tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-lim-0337

FOR SALE LARNACA LARNACA DUPLEX PENTHOUSE OROKLINI, zen, 110 m2, 75 m2 private roof garden, 2 covered 25 m2 verandas, 3 bed, furnished and equipped, 2 bath, private covered parking, storage, shared pool, gym, sauna, Hassapis 2006. 225.000 €, 99073975.

NICOSIA HOUSE FOR SALE AT ARCHANGELOS AREA (Nicosia) WITH SEMI-DETACHED STUDIO FOR HOUSEKEEPER AND GARDEN 300 sq.m - with Title. 3 bedrooms (one big with dressing room and bathroom). Open big space Kitchen with Dining and Living Room. Two Bathrooms and one WC for Guests. Fully Air-conditioned, Central Heating €390.000 TEL 99668822/99680700 ***************************** NICOSIA, FLAT FOR SALE: 2 bdrm flat with title deeds, 110 sq.m., fully renovated, best central area, 800m from the European University, excellent view, €99.000. Tel. 99621914. ***************************** FOR SALE 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. Negotiable Call: 99 330 908 FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fireplace, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596.

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kitchen, bathroom, shower room, central heating, air con, private pool, landscaped gardens, lovely views. Call: 99342913 – no agents ***************************** 1. PAPHOS, FLATS FOR SALE OR RENT: Kissonerga, 3 bdrm ﬂat with title deeds, in a block of 4 ﬂats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sq.m closed area, c/h, a/c, covered parking, excelent view of sea and mountains, half registration fees titll 31.12.12 reduced to €135.000 or rent €450 per month. Tel. 99621914. ***************************** FOR SALE- PAPHOS

6. SECRET VALLEY- Splendid 3 Bedroom detached villa with master bedroom en-suite, enclosed gardens, private pool next to Secret Valley Golf Course and set in a quiet cul-de-sac. This beautiful villa comes furnished with high quality furnishings and a covered area of 154sq. mtrs. Set on a plot of 408sq. mtrs. Very reasonably priced at €370, 000.

1. REGINA GDNS- 2 Bedroom Townhouse set on a luxury complex with 3 communal pools, private parking, private driveway, rear patio, solar panels, TITLE DEEDS. Covered area 92sq. mtrs. Priced to sell at €115, 000. 2. FAROS BEACH- 2 Bedroom fully furnished apartment, situated 120m from a popular beach off Tombs of The Kings. Sea views, solar panels, private parking, spacious balcony, large family bathroom, TITLE DEEDS AVAILABLE. Priced to sell at €138, 000. 3. ATHENA GARDENS- Beautiful 2 Bedroom fully furnished ground ﬂoor apartment in Geroskipou with communal pools, gardens, large patio with roll down canvas sidings (low electricity bills). This property comes with many many extras and it is priced at 25% below value at €140, 000. Covered area 96sq. mtrs. 4. UNIVERSAL- 2 Bedroom end of terrace Townhouse, situated close to the new school and bus route, with front garden, rear patio area, and communal pool, this property comes fully furnished and is priced for a quick sale at €98, 000. TITLE DEEDS IMMINENT. 5. LIMNARIA GARDENS- 1 Bedroom fully furnished spacious top ﬂoor apartment with lounge leading to patio overlooking communal pools on a luxury complex. Shutters all round, heated pool with Jacuzzi, 200m from beach. Priced to sell at €135, 000.

7. LOWER PEGIA- 3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom detached villa with totally enclosed gardens, workshop and storage units. Master bedroom en-suite, downstairs bathroom, private 8mx4m pool, to be sold including quality furniture. Covered area 132sq. mtrs on a plot 378sq. mtrs. TITLE DEEDS. Priced to sell at €295, 000. 8. MARATHOUNDA- Superb 4 Bedroom detached villa with a covered area 310sq. mtrs on a beautiful plot of 928sq. mtrs. Set in an unspoilt area offering marvellous views. All bedrooms en-suite, large lounge with stone carved fire surround and wood burning fire, black granite work surfaces, traditional stone arches, private 8mx4m pool, outbuildings, garage. Many many extras. Price includes all furniture and white goods. TITLE DEEDS. Priced well below the market value at €475, 000. For further details please contact 99874804 or E-mail: rocpropertiescyp@gmail.com ***************************** FOR SALE special offer, €79, 000 first floor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941. *****************************

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

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CAR BOOT SALE SATURDAY 3 November 2012 1400 – 1700 in the Cathedral Car Park Car Spaces € 13 individual tables on request (€3 per table) Refreshments available Reservations and information: Agnete 99 823785 Sylvia: 22 466753/99 836405 (in aid of St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Funds) Having a clearout? Sell your unwanted items here!

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

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

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

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

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Advertiser FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods! NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!! PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600. FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 WORLD ANIMAL DAY. On Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be micro chipping pets for only €20 including all the paperwork. For further information telephone 26953496. To celebrate World Animal Day on Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be offering free spaying/neutering for all feral and unwanted animals as they do throughout the year. Contact 26953496 for further details. PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2 CHARITY HAIR CUT. On Thursday 4th October 09.30-17.30 without an appointment Andri at Atlantic Bay Hotel (2nd Floor) will be charging €5 for a haircut with all proceeds going to Paphiakos. Telephone Suzanne on 99151996 or Andri on 99604783. PAPHIAKOS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. Saturday November 24th 9am – 3pm at the Crazy Spoon Restaurant. For further details contact 99151996. Stalls, Santa’s Grotto, Donkey Rides, Pirate Pat and many more.

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06.20 Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) 07.20 Ach, Eleni (rpt) 08.00 Nea Mera 11.00 Proino Mou (rpt) 12.00 Enimerosi Tora 14.00 Sto Para Pente (rpt) 15.00 Eheis Meson 16.00 Yia Sena 18.00 News 18.10 Mousiko Kouti 19.10 Sto Para Pente (rpt) 20.20 News 21.20 Porta Kleidomeni Local drama series, a tale of guilty secrets and forbidden loves.

07.00 Protoselido 08.20 Eleni 10.00 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) 11.00 Aspra Balonia (rpt) 12.00 Mesimeri Kai Kati 14.20 Tropico 15.20 Magazino 18.00 News 18.05 Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama 18.15 News 18.30 The Del Monte Heirs 19.20 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites 20.20 News 21.20 Aspra Balonia 22.20 60 Lepta New season of local investigative show. 23.20 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Fourth season. ‘Homebodies’. Grissom and Warrick try to ascertain what happened to an old woman whose mummiﬁed body has been found locked in a closet. 00.20 News 00.25 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Fourth season. ‘Feeling the Heat’. An infant dies in a car during a heatwave, the victim of an apparently tragic accident. 01.20 Epistroﬁ (rpt) 02.30 Mono Mia Fora (rpt) 03.00 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

22.20 Enoha Mystika 23.20 Gossip Girl Third season. ‘The Unblairable Lightness of Being’.A pregnant Dorota insists she and Vanya must get married before her parents arrive from Poland, and asks Chuck and Blair to walk her down the aisle. Serena lies to Nate about meeting Carter Baizen and Rufus ﬁnds out that Lily has been deceiving him about her whereabouts. 00.15 News 00.20 My Boys A female sportswriter looks for romance within her maledominated world. 00.50 Series TBA 01.15 Yia Sena (rpt) 03.00 Enimerosi Tora (rpt) 04.30 Proino Mou (rpt)

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PLUS TV 06.45 Star News 07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti - Best Of 09.15 Fotis - Maria Live Best Of 10.30 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz (rpt) 11.00 I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) 11.50 Mila - Best Of (rpt) 12.30 Star News 13.00 Mesimeriani Meleti 15.30 Kids’ TV 17.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 17.50 Fotis - Maria Live 19.30 Mila Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life. 21.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 22.00 FILM: Battle In Seattle What starts as a peaceful protest escalates into a full scale riot when thousands of activists arrive in Seattle to protest the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference of 1999. Adventure, starring André Benjamin. 2007. 23.30 FILM: Help Me Help You A doctor discovers he has only six months to live and decides to make a list with names of friends who he wants to help out. Comedy, starring Sabrina Bryan and Ravi Godse. 2009. 01.00 LTV Sports News 02.20 Star News 03.00 Repeats

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Kids’ TV Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras 11.00 Kouzina Me Apopsi 11.30 Ygeia & Zoi 12.30 Milagros 13.20 15.05 15.55 16.40 17.30 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

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Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Melrose Place With News at 18.30. News Sports Time Epi Topou Mini-Series: Icon A tough ex-CIA agent tries to avert anarchy and stave off the rise of a sinister extremist, who plans to exploit Russia’s chaotic political climate. Action, starring Patrick Swayze. 2005. Part 2 of 2. FILM: Out Of Reach A former intelligence agent searching for a missing Polish girl discovers her orphanage is a cover for human trafﬁcking. Action thriller, starring Steven Seagal. 2004. FILM: Darkness Before Dawn A woman scarred by the memory of childhood abuse becomes increasingly dependent on drugs.Drama, starring Meredith Baxter. 1993.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 The Documentary: Just Add Cash but could inflation actually be good for you? Max Flint investigates.” 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Click 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 HARDtalk 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 Click 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 HARDtalk 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Click 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

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BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 Lip Locked With Anna Kiss 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast 09.00 Wez Thompson 10.00 Cyprus Morning 12.00 Total Ops Chris Pearson 15.00 Cyprus Afternoon 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 BFBS Rocks

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 Gareth John 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Marlow 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 4 20.30 Five Live Drive 21.00 Five Live Sport 00.30 Late Night Sport LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.0018.00 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

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Television PICK OF THE DAY My Soul to Take (LTV, 23.00) Seriously? Come on guys, make an effort: it’s Halloween! Yes, OK, I realise it’s a ‘foreign’ holiday, nothing to do with our fi ne Greek Cypriot ways and so forth - but if pay-TV can fi ll its schedules with saccharine rom-coms on Valentine’s Day, you’d think they’d be able to dig up some horror movies for the night of ghouls and witches. Maybe a horror marathon on Novacinema3, which after all is supposed to be a channel dedicated (partly) to horror? Instead it falls to Sigma to bridge the gap, the hyperactive Chrysanthos Tsouroullis kicking off a new season of 60 Lepta with a one-hour special on unemployment, the “modern nightmare” currently affl icting Cyprus: “the unfulfi lled dreams of young graduates, the dead-end lives of middle-aged employees who’ve lost their jobs,” muses Sigma sadly. Quite a horror show, I’m sure you’ll agree yet still not quite in the Halloween spirit. In fact, there’s almost nothing in the Halloween spirit on tonight’s TV schedules - forcing us to resort to the likes of My Soul to Take. This is a widely-hated fi lm with a decent pedigree, directed by Wes Craven of Scream fame, featuring a plot with some echoes of Freddy Krueger - a serial killer dying, and his soul being transferred into the souls of seven children who

were born prematurely that night. Fast-forward 16 years and the kids are now teenagers, celebrating their common birthday only to ﬁ nd that someone (or something) is killing them off one by one. Surely the slasher isn’t Bug (dreamylooking Max Thieriot) - or is he? Can it be he’s the son of that long-ago Ripper? Maybe, maybe not. I could tell you, but it doesn’t really matter. In fact, the plot is so tired and confusing that Craven more or less ignores it, instead throwing in some spectacularly daft bits and pieces. Bug terrifying his classmates by doing a show-and-tell while dressed up as a condor (yes, a condor) is especially demented - but let’s not forget Bug and his friend doing an impromptu variation of the mirror scene from Duck Soup (you’ll know it when you see it), or Bug’s sister ‘Fang’ as a kind of high-school dominatrix lording it over the others, or a God-bothering girl saying: “When things get too hot, just turn on the prayer-conditioning!”. The result is 80 per cent slasher-movie rubbish that doesn’t even make much sense, 20 per cent out-of-nowhere lunacy that makes you wonder what Mr. Craven is smoking. Mostly trick - but there’s treats in there as well. Happy Halloween! Made in 2010.

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

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Mother Night (LTV3, 20.00) Kurt Vonnegut’s idiosyncratic books don’t really make very good fi lms - but Nick Nolte is clearly a Vonnegut fan, having starred in both this and Breakfast of Champions. He’s Howard Campbell, a US-born Nazi who becomes notorious during WW2 for his radio broadcasts spouting odious anti-Semitic propaganda; after the war he’s captured, and fi nds himself awaiting trial - but Howard has a secret, viz. he was actually an American spy all along, though his mother country refuses to admit it. “Your role will remain classified,” he’s told by the US authorities - and a Nazi comrade has an even more worrying observation: “Even if you were a spy, you could never have served the enemy as well as you served us”. Do people ultimately turn into whoever they pretend to be? Stylish and worthwhile, if ultimately lacking that zany Vonnegut touch. Made in 1996.

Hamlet (CyBC2, 21.00) Here’s a brief synopsis of the plot: Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is upset because his uncle Claudius has married his mother and become King in his late father’s stead, at least till his father’s Ghost appears one night and ... oh all right, we all know the plot - but some may be surprised by this TV fi lming of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed stage production, both because it’s modern-dress and because the casting is bizarre, with Doctor Who as Hamlet and Jean-Luc Picard as Claudius. David Tennant and Patrick Stewart do indeed take those roles (Mr. Stewart also plays the Ghost, one of many imaginative changes) - though the fi lm is apparently quite low-key despite its fl amboyant innovations, playing for emotional intimacy with Hamlet depicted as a lost soul. Worth seeing, even if you know the plot. Part 1 of 2, second part tomorrow; made in 2009.

Love to Kill (Novacinema1, 22.00) Are Nova having money problems? Sorry to be blunt, but there’s just no other reason why something so obscure should be getting a prime-time slot on the ﬂ agship Nova1 channel - a straight-to-video thriller starring Blanchard Ryan, known (if at all) as one of the no-name cast in Open Water. She’s a venal femme fatale specialising in lonely rich men, whom she marries then bumps off a few months later - and her latest victim is an up-and-coming politician, at least till his loyal assistant starts to suspect something’s wrong with the boss’s new girlfriend. “The utterly routine nature of Love to Kill’s premise ensures there are few surprises throughout its mercifully brisk running time,” writes a site called ‘Reel Film Reviews’, which may be the most back-handed compliment of all time. Made in 2008.

Mother Night (LTV3, 20.00)

01:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 India With Sanjeev Bhaskar 02:45 EastEnders 03:15 Doctors 03:45 Rev. 04:15 Lark Rise To Candleford 05:05 Doctor Who Conﬁdential 05:15 Twenty Twelve 05:45 2 Point 4 Children 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 The Large Family 07:10 Gigglebiz 07:25 Teletubbies 07:50 Balamory 08:10 The Large Family 08:20 Gigglebiz 08:35 Teletubbies 09:00 Balamory 09:20 Little Robots 09:30 Spot’s Musical Adventures 09:35 One Foot In The Grave 10:05 2 Point 4 Children 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 EastEnders 11:50 Doctors 12:20 Ray Mears Goes Walkabout 13:10 Lark Rise To Candleford 14:00 Rev. 14:30 2 Point 4 Children 15:00 The Weakest Link 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 Ray Mears Goes Walkabout 17:35 Lark Rise To Candleford 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Casualty 21:00 My Family 21:30 Twenty Twelve 22:00 Mistresses 22:50 One Foot In The Grave 23:20 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:05 The Old Guys 00:35 Ideal

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Carfellas 14:05 Carfellas 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Dual Survival 22:00 Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon 23:00 Around The World In 80 Ways 00:00 An Idiot Abroad 01:00 The Real Hustle 01:55 Dual Survival 02:50 Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon 03:50 Around The World In 80 Ways 04:50 An Idiot Abroad 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Figure Skating: ISU Grand Prix Canada 10:30 Motorsports: GTA Road To Dubai 10:45 Car Racing: World Series Renault 11:30 Snooker: International Championship China 17:15 All Sports: Watts 19:00 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 - All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 19:30 Snooker: International Championship China 21:45 All Sports: Wednesday Selection 21:50 Equestrian: World Cup Finland 22:50 Equestrian Sports: Riders Club 22:55 Golf: U.S. P.G.A. Tour-The Cimb Asia Paciﬁc Classic 23:55 Golf: Golf Club 00:00 Sailing: Yacht Club 00:05 All Sports: Wednesday Selection 00:15 Olympic Games: Olympic Magazine 00:45 Snooker: International Championship China

05:30 How I Met Your Mother 06:15 Lie To Me 07:00 Criminal Minds 07:45 The Simpsons 08:10 The Cleveland Show 08:35 Rules Of Engagement 09:25 How I Met Your Mother 10:15 Lie To Me 11:00 Criminal Minds 11:45 The Simpsons 12:10 The Cleveland Show 12:35 Rules Of Engagement 13:25 How I Met Your Mother 14:15 Falling Skies 15:00 Criminal Minds 15:45 The Simpsons 16:10 The Cleveland Show 16:35 Rules Of Engagement 17:25 How I Met Your Mother 18:15 Lie To Me 19:00 Criminal Minds 19:50 The Simpsons 20:15 The Cleveland Show 20:40 Rules Of Engagement 21:30 Falling Skies 22:15 Home-

land 23:10 Lie To Me 00:00 The Finder 00:45 Falling Skies 01:30 How I Met Your Mother 02:20 Lie To Me 03:05 Criminal Minds 03:50 The Simpsons 04:15 The Cleveland Show 04:40 Terriers

07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 2 08:00 The Universe 5 09:00 Lock N’ Load 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 2 11:00 Ancient Aliens 2 12:00 Storage Wars 2 13:00 American Pickers 3 14:00 Lock N’ Load 15:00 The Universe 5 16:00 Storage Wars 2 17:00 American Pickers 3 18:00 Lock N’ Load 19:00 The Universe 5 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Storage Wars 2 21:00 Ancient Aliens 2 22:00 Swamp People 3 23:00 Top Shot 00:00 Pawn Stars 00:30 Storage Wars 2 01:00 Ancient Aliens 2 02:00 Swamp People 3 03:00 Top Shot 04:00 The Universe 5 05:00 Lock N’ Load 06:00 Ancient Aliens 2

07:30 Tequila Sunrise 09:30 Switch 11:30 St Trinian’s Ii: The Legend Of Fritton’s Gold 13:30 Inception 16:00 Kardia 17:30 8 Seconds 19:30 Videofashion 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 John Rambo 23:00 My Soul To Take 00:50 Hustler TV 02:20 Action Zone 02:50 Dark City 04:35 Kiss The Girls 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Tom & Jerry Kids 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 07:50 The Tom & Jerry Show 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky And The Brain 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 Scooby-Doo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 The Looney Tunes Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 The X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 The Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! 15:45 Histeria! 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 2012 Valencia Open 500 18:00 2012 Swiss Indoors Basel 19:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 21:00 La Liga World 21:30 Planet Speed 22:00 Barclays Premier League 201213 00:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 Big Bang Theory 08:30 Southland 09:15 C.S.I. New York 10:05 Two And A Half Men 10:30 Aliens In America 11:15 Luck 12:15 Harry’s Law 13:00 Hawaii Five-0 13:45 According To Jim 14:30 Southland 15:15 C.S.I. New York 16:05 Friends 16:30 Gossip Girl 17:15 Strike Back 19:00 Hawaii Five-0 19:45 According To Jim 20:30 How To Make It In America 21:00 Five Days 2 23:10 Boardwalk Empire 00:10 The Mentalist 01:00 Love In The Time Of Cholera 03:40 Friends 04:05 Gossip Girl 04:50 Strike Back 06:30 Hawaii Five-0

09:00 Letters From Iwo Jima 11:20 The Bridge To Nowhere 13:10 The Train Robbers 14:40 The Runaways 16:30 500 Days Of Summer 18:15 I Love You, Beth Cooper 20:00 Mother

Bridesmaids (Novacinema2, 18.00) Night 22:00 The Marine 2 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring! TV 03:50 Poor Boy’s Game 05:45 Sucker Punch

07:00 The Living Edens 08:00 Blowdown 09:00 Air Crash Investigation 10:00 Forbidden Tomb Of Genghis Khan 11:00 The Witch Doctor Will See You Now 12:00 Seconds From Disaster 13:00 The Fabric Of The Cosmos 14:00 Monster Fish 15:00 Street Heat 16:00 Classiﬁed 17:00 Norway Massacre: I Was There 18:00 Banged Up Abroad 19:00 Fish Warrior 20:00 Air Crash Investigation 21:00 Megafactories 22:00 Strippers: Cars For Cash 23:00 Air Crash Investigation 00:00 Megafactories 01:00 Strippers: Cars For Cash 02:00 Fish Warrior 03:00 Air Crash Investigation 04:00 Megafactories 05:00 Strippers: Cars For Cash 06:00 Air Crash Investigation

06:05 Gran Torino 08:00 Cine News 08:45 Jane Eyre 10:50 Hollywood 1on1 11:20 Source Code 12:55 How Do You Know 15:00 «Love Stories» The Cake Eaters 16:35 Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life 18:55 Spotlight On 19:35 Machine Gun Preacher 22:00 Love To Kill 23:40 Amnistia 01:10 Cine News 01:40 The Tomb 03:15 Let Me In

06:10 Fast Five 08:20 Larry Crowne 10:00 Cine News 10:50 Music Of The Heart 12:55 Cine News 13:40 Last Night 15:15 Cine News 15:45 A Better Life 17:25 Films & Stars 18:00 Bridesmaids 20:10 Alﬁe 2004 22:00 Hide And Seek 23:50 The Mechanic 01:25 London Boulevard 03:10 Cine News 03:45 The Transporter

21:00 Unstoppable - 2010 22:45 Person Of Interest - Judgement 23:35 Drive Angry 01:30 Partly Stormy X

19:00 Just Go With It 21:00 The Fighter 23:00 Morning Glory 00:50 Hello, Dolly!

01:30 PGA Tour Highlights CIMB Asia Paciﬁc Classic 02:30 Asian Tour Macau Open 03:00 NHL TBA Date and Time Tentative 05:30 NHL TBA Date and Time Tentative 08:00 Programming TBA 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Programming TBA 11:00 Web.com Tour WEB.COM Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch Final Rd. 13:00 Props 7 Best of Road Fools 13:30 Props 7 Super Slackers 14:00 Wrecked On Top of The Game 14:30 101 Cars You Must Drive A Bit of All Right 15:00 Champions Tour: AT&T Championship Final Rd. 17:00 Asian Tour Macau Open 17:30 NFL Replay 18:00 PRE GAME 18:45 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: APOLLON VS DOXA 20:45 POST GAME 21:30 HIGHLIGHTS (CYPRUS FOOTBALL) 19:00 NHL TBA Date and Time Tentative 21:30 NHL TBA Date and Time Tentative 00:00 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Highlights Martinsville Speedway

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Around Iceland On Inspiration 09:00 Inside Walt Disney Studios 10:00 4real 10:30 Angry Planet 11:00 Flavours Of Mexico 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 It’s A Woman’s World 14:00 Inside Luxury Travel 15:00 Essential 15:30 Bert The Conqueror 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 Flavours Of Mexico 18:00 4real 18:30 Angry Planet 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Off Limits 21:00 Globe Trekker Round The World Marathon 22:00 Julian And Camilla’s World Odyssey 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Off Limits 01:00 Globe Trekker Round The World Marathon 02:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 03:00 Julian And Camilla’s World Odyssey 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 4real 05:30 Angry Planet 06:00 Flavours Of Mexico

07:00 Pat And Mike 08:35 Manpower 10:15 Seven Women 11:40 Escape From Fort Bravo 13:20 Interrupted Melody 15:05 Last Time I Saw Paris, The 17:00 Strip, The 18:25 My Favorite Year 19:55 Ocean’s Eleven 22:00 Hunger, The 23:35 Poltergeist 01:30 Demon Seed 03:05 Color Purple, The 05:45 TCM Presents Under the Inﬂuence: Edward Norton 06:30 TCM Presents Under the Inﬂuence: Sydney Pollack

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CRYPTIC 2224

7 PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

15 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.

ment (7) 13 The German went on the river (7) 15 Dull ringing sound when it is becoming tangled (7)

MEDIUM

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17 In embassy no diocesan or church council (5) 18 Place money on the French coming up with the nut (5) 19 In the mire a tacky lasso (5)

Answers to crossword 2223 CRYPTIC: Across – 1 On the horizon; 7 Fraction; 8 Love; 9 Lass; 11 Town hall; 12 Grow up; 14 Yeasty; 16 Stagnant; 19 Rues; 21 Peke; 22 Embraced; 23 Make-up artist. Down – 1 Offal; 2 Hacksaw; 3 Hoist; 4 Runaway; 5 Zilch; 6 Novelette; 10 Airstream; 13 Plateau; 15 Abreast; 17 Greek; 18 Tibia; 20 Sadat. QUICK: Across – 1 Market leader; 7 Maltreat; 8 Tope; 9 Cosh; 11 Kerchief; 12 Pepper; 14 Dither; 16 Discount; 19 Aide; 21 Ogpu; 22 Campﬁre; 23 Penny-pincher. Down – 1 Mimic; 2 Ketchup; 3 Tweak; 4 Entered; 5 Ditch; 6 Reprehend; 10 Opening up; 13 Raunchy; 15 Trafﬁc; 17 Churn; 18 Tempi; 20 Emeer.

Rating EASY

2 It might be used by Spaniards to accentuate something (5) 3 A cat, love, or a dog (7) 4 Finish in the way without a girl (5) 5 Bemused Tracey about an hour with a sailor (7) 6 The said northerners slip (5) 7 Removed obstruction during the act (7) 12 Exist with Old Nick in tor-

11 12

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Rating HARD

1 Free boarder! (8) 6 Title that Gladys holds (4) 8 A small weight I put on Britain (6) 9 A couple endlessly damaging the dome (6) 10 The way is clear (5,6) 11 Beat a retreat with daughter when it had calmed down (6) 14 It is taken to counteract illfeeling (6) 16 Part of a van – or its driver? (11) 20 A meeting-place in the boulevard (6) 21 I want a new name for Formosa (6) 22 Ran away, having given food to about 50 (4) 23 Message about metal Reg’s forged (8)

Rating MEDIUM

Across

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1 Appreciative (8) 6 Hinder part (4) 8 Cancer or Capricorn (6) 9 Danish king (6) 10 Restored ownership (11) 11 Instep (anag.) (6) 14 In recent times (6) 16 Flowering plant (3-3,5) 20 Finishing (6) 21 Farm implement (6) 22 Beseech (4) 23 Symbolised (8)

2 Less common (5) 3 Cricket-ball movement (7) 4 Central point (5) 5 Milky (7) 6 Proclamation of marriage (5) 7 Fortification (7) 12 Associate (7) 13 Idea (7) 15 Skit (4-3) 17 Wild flower (5) 18 Appear unexpectedly (3,2) 19 Scoundrel (5)

HOROSCOPE

Across

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Better to be enthuasiastic to a fault than have no interest in life or people. But there could be one person who really is arousing your senses to a hard to handle level. Yet this needn’t be bad, more a case of management. For example, you could be so busy feeding off one another’s brilliance, the rest of your needs, and obligations, can pass you by.

Have you been thinking carefully about your family and emotional life this week? If the answer is yes, it really wouldn’t be a surprise. But even if this is likely to be an on-going process, today offers other, lighter possibilities to pursue. Get to it Leo, as a combination of your natural charisma, and enhanced word-skills can see you truly sparkle.

Mars in your sign continues in opposition with your ruler Jupiter. This combination can bring your larger than life qualities to the fore. In fact, it could make you feel almost invincible. However, if you ﬁnd yourself tempted to exaggerate your qualities, ask yourself if this is because there are some other insecurities bubbling beneath the surface.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

The Sun is still within the limiting grasp of Saturn, and this can make you think more pessimistically about your relationships, or is that more realistically? And it’s possible in the next few days that someone can surprise you with their attitude or take on something. The best way to proceed is to embrace the reality, not what you want to see.

With Venus going face to face with Uranus and Jupiter with Mars, you might want to invest some money in adding a wow factor to where you live. The surprise might be one of your own creations, for even if you are keen to conserve your spending, when the chips are down, you may decide to splash out on the very best that you can afford.

Someone may try to impress you with some kind of big gesture. They may even be hugely generous. Then again, it could be you who decides to treat those you love. If your home or emotional life has been less serene than you would like, this could attract you towards making a sudden move in the property market. But if you have a long term plan, don’t veer off.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

It’s true that your energy may have felt a bit pinched this week, and still today there’s probably more to be gained by focusing on what is really necessary. Yet your people to people interactions enter, potentially, a much more sparkly period. Expect to ﬁnd yourself having a dazzling conversation, as your personality power is turned to max.

Venus, your guiding light, is getting more established in your zodiac sign. This is going to have a profound impact on your ability to draw good things to you. And over the next few days, you can certainly cause a ripple. If however, a love relationship has become far too predictable, look for how you can add extra verve. If need be, be more direct.

You may have had some kind of success or breakthrough or improvement to your situation, but with this may have come more responsibilities on your shoulders. Today’s stars encourage you to be less bound by the down side of balancing all this, and push you towards embracing the most sociable and lively part of your personality. It could prove fun.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

A family member may be about to reveal something that could really impress you. This person may have had more of a daring past than you have appreciated. Then again, it may be a colleague who has tall tales to tell. If you have been feeling like you would like some changes at home, you might surprise yourself with the choice of decor that you plump for.

You may have experienced some kind of limitation this week, or realised that you can’t please all of the people, all of the time. You may also start to feel profoundly restless around one key involvement. If you are feeling uneasy, there could be a temptation to big yourself up, or try to spend your way out of your predicament. Be cautious about this.

This week may have felt like a case of no gain, without at least some form of pain. And the pain is in needing to extend yourself beyond the comfy boundaries of a lifestyle, and even way of thinking, that has now lost its true meaningfulness. This may mean absorbing new skills, training or assimilation. Or is someone tantalisingly tempting you?

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Sport FIA president visits Cyprus Jean Todt praises island’s motorsport heritage

IN BRIEF

JEAN Todt, President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) - the governing body for world motorsport, was in Cyprus this week for a short visit. Todt arrived on Sunday and on Monday held a series of meetings, after which he left for Cairo, continuing a Middle East tour which will end in Abu Dhabi with next Sunday’s Formula 1 GP. After meeting with senior members of the Cyprus Automobile Association (CAA) and Cyprus Olympic Committee (COC) Chairman Ouranios Ioannides on Monday, Todt took part in a press conference at the COC headquarters in Nicosia. Opening the conference, CAA President Antonis Michaelides said that motoring is “very much part of Cypriot DNA” and drew attention to the island’s successful history of motorsport. Michaelides spoke of the high esteem with which the “acclaimed” Cyprus Rally is held internationally and underlined the CAA’s important role in developing motorsport on the island and in matters of road safety. He spoke of the CAA’s ongoing involvement in making the roads of Cyprus safer for everyone and of the Association’s involvement in the government’s campaign for road safety that begins next month. Todt said that he was happy to be in Cyprus once again, having visited the island very brieﬂy three years ago. Originally a rally codriver himself, Todt was very complimentary regarding the island’s motorsport heritage stating that “Cyprus is a little country with less than a million people, but it

Jean Todt (centre) is best known for reviving Ferrari’s F1 fortunes during the Michael Schumacher glory years has a great tradition for rallying and for me Cyprus always had a high image and a strong background, so I am very proud of what Cyprus is doing and I am very sorry that I will not be able to attend the Cyprus Rally here at the weekend.” On the subject of local motorsport, Todt praised developments around karting in Cyprus and the talents of Cypriot drivers, particularly the success of GP3 driver Eftychios (Tio) Ellinas. When asked about the future of the Cyprus Rally within the WRC, Todt confirmed that this was something that had been discussed in his morning meeting with the CAA. He went on to say that that the structure of future WRC calendars will be reviewed over the next five years to ensure a more global scale and expressed his confidence that Cyprus “will be able to have a good position”. Todt was keen to stress the

importance of road safety, which he admitted is “a very big problem.” “We cannot accept to have 1.3 million people killed on the roads every year. 50 million people injured every year. In a country like yours you have more than 70 people dying on the roads – you have 1,500 injured. I must congratulate you for what you have achieved in recent years, on enforcing stricter rules on drink driving, on speeding, on making the use of seatbelts and helmets compulsory… but still there are too many fatalities in your country.

AN OPPORTUNITY “So I hope that my visit will be an opportunity to bring greater attention to the issue.” Todt went on to say that in his meeting with Ioannides, he asked for Cypriot champions from all sports and walks of life to be involved in

addressing the issue of road safety. Taking questions from the media, Todt gave answers about a number of issues, including the measures being taken towards ‘greener’ motorsport in the years to come. Asked about the possibility of a major motorsport event such as F1 being part of the Olympic Games in the future, Todt responded: ‘Motorsport does not plan to be in the IOC calendar. I feel it would be a very interesting step to have the FIA joining the Olympic family because we have the same values and there are many things we share in our agendas … but there is no plan or intention to have one of our categories being hosted during the Olympic Games.” When asked which aspect of his long and varied career had given him the most pleasure, Todt replied: “I enjoyed each and every part of my career.

Indian GP organisers upbeat Finn faces scan on thigh despite attendance dip injury as England begin tour A signiﬁcant dip in race-day attendances failed to stop Indian Grand Prix organisers basking in the glory of an otherwise successful second edition. The Buddh International Circuit on the outskirts of Delhi put behind the teething problems that plagued the inaugural race last year and put up a show without a major glitch. The drivers gave a thumbs-up to the track, teams hailed the clean paddock and the facilities sported a completed look that was not the case last year. None of these, however, could gloss over the dip in the numbers of fans, as 65,000 of them turned up for Sunday’s race down from last year’s 95,000.

STEVEN Finn is set to have a scan on a thigh injury after England suffered an injury scare on the first day of their opening tour match in India yesterday. The pace bowler pulled up chasing a ball to the boundary and immediately left the field during the three-day game against India A in Mumbai. Kevin Pietersen was playing his first game for England since making a brilliant 149 in the second Test against South Africa at Headingley in early August. He was a late addition to the touring party, having been dropped for sending “provocative” text messages to South Africa players.

Each part had moments, you know. Of course, when I was asked to become head of Scuderia Ferrari… well… if you love motorsport then that’s the ultimate goal you can achieve… particularly for Ferrari when it is a very weak position. But we managed to build a great team with some amazing success. “Then I became the CEO of Ferrari. After this chapter, I wanted another challenge and I felt that in this period of my life it was time to return all that I had got out of motorsport, and that’s why I decided to run for election as the President of the FIA.” World motorsport returns to Cyprus this weekend with the Cyprus Rally. Set to run from Friday to Sunday, the event will serve as both the season closer of the 2012 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), and the penultimate round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship.

Wiggins 2009 Tour result is upgraded AMID the wreckage of the Lance Armstrong scandal, BradleyWiggins has been awarded third place in the 2009 Tour de France. Wiggins, who won the 2012 Tour, placed a then British record-equalling fourth three years ago behind Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck and Armstrong. Now, after the UCI stripped Armstrong of all results from August 1, 1998, ratifying a ruling by the United States Anti-doping Agency, Wiggins is a two-time Tour podium rider. The UCI ruled last week Armstrong’s sequence of seven successive Tour wins would not be reallocated and results following any future disqualiﬁcations relating to 1998 to 2005 would not be reallocated, but those from his comeback years, in 2009 and 2010, will. A UCI spokesperson told Press Association Sport: “In 2009 the placing of Mr Armstrong will be reallocated. “Bradley Wiggins is the thirdplaced rider for the Tour de France, 2009.” Despite his stunning year of success, Wiggins has not been immune to the impact of the Armstrong affair and Team Sky suffered further losses this week. Steven de Jongh left his role as a sporting director after admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career. De Jongh became the third member of Team Sky staff to leave the Tour de Francewinning team after the zerotolerance approach to doping was restated in the wake of recent events.

Briton Bradley Wiggins won this year’s race

Djokovic to finish year as world number one NOVAK Djokovic will move above Roger Federer to number one in the world rankings next week and is guaranteed to retain the top spot until the end of the year, the ATP Tour said. The Serbian, who lost the top spot to Federer in July, will be the ﬁrst player to top the men’s singles rankings at the end of consecutive seasons since the Swiss did it four times from 2004 to 2007. Djokovic, 25, has won ﬁve tournaments this year including the Australian Open and Masters series titles in Miami,Canada and Shanghai - and pocketed more than $8 million in prize money.

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Sport

Uruguayan referee issues 17 red cards

Messi in line for fourth Player of the Year award

By Rex Gowar

Rooney is the only Englishman on shortlist By Mike Collett ARGENTINA and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is in line to become the ﬁrst man to win the World Player of the Year award for the fourth time in a row after the shortlist for FIFA’s Ballon d’Or was published this week. The 25-year-old, who took his career tally for club and country to 301 goals on Saturday, was among the 23 players named in the list which includes Real Madrid and Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, runnerup to Messi in last year’s vote. Andres Iniesta of Barcelona, named the Player of the Tournament after Spain retained their title at Euro 2012 is also included as is Radamel Falcao, who has been in brilliant scoring form all year for Colombia and Atletico Madrid, helping his club win the Europa League last season. Barca coach Tito Vilanova showered praise on Messi at a news conference. “I don’t think we’ll see a player like him again. Not only for the goals he scores but for the ability he has to read the game,” he said before hailing Iniesta. “He is the clear example of a player trained at the Masia (Barcelona youth academy) who reaches the top. He is another one of those players of a quality that Barca

will find it tough to produce again.” Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney is for the second year running the only Englishman to be included on the shortlist. Rooney has scored plenty of goals in 2012 but did not pick up any trophies with his club and played a limited role at the European Championships finals for England, who were eliminated at the quarter-final stage. The Red Devils were pipped to the Barclays Premier League title by local rivals Manchester City, who have three players on the list in Sergio Aguero, Mario Balotelli and Yaya Toure. Robin van Persie, who was the division’s highest scorer last term with Arsenal and joined Rooney at Old Trafford over the summer, is also included. Ten men are also named on the shortlist for Coach of the Year Award including Vicente del Bosque, who led Spain to the Euro 2012 title in Ukraine and Poland in July. Roberto Di Matteo, who took over at Chelsea two months before they won the Champions League in May, is also on the list but there is no place for Frenchman Herve Renard who led Zambia to an unlikely victory in the African Nations Cup in February. The shortlists will be whittled down to a final selec-

tion of three at the end of November with the winners announced at a globally televised gala ceremony in Zurich on January 7 next year. Players (in alphabetical order): Sergio Aguero (Argentina), Xabi Alonso (Spain), Mario Balotelli (Italy), Karim Benzema (France), Gianluigi Buffon(Italy), Sergio Busquets (Spain), Iker Casillas (Spain), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast),Radamel Falcao (Colombia), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden), Andres Iniesta (Spain), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Manuel Neuer (Germany), Neymar (Brazil), Mesut Ozil (Germany), Gerard Pique (Spain), Andrea Pirlo (Italy), Sergio Ramos (Spain), Wayne Rooney (England), Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast), Robin van Persie (Netherlands), Xavi (Spain). Coaches (in alphabetical order): Vicente del Bosque (Spain/ Spain national team), Roberto Di Matteo (Italy/Chelsea), Alex Ferguson (Scotland/Manchester United), Pep Guardiola (Spain/Barcelona former coach), Jupp Heynckes (Germany/Bayern Munich), Jurgen Klopp (Germany/Borussia Dortmund), Joachim Low (Germany/Germany national team), Roberto Mancini (Italy/Manchester City), Jose Mourinho (Portugal/Real Madrid), Cesare Prandelli (Italy/Italy national team).

Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi poses with his Golden Boot award on Monday after ﬁnishing as top scorer in Europe last season

PSG ‘desperate for silverware’

The big-spending Parisians want a trophy this season

LIGUE 1 heavyweights Paris St Germain and Marseille face off tonight in what is the standout tie of the last 16 in the Coupe de la Ligue. PSG are currently top of the league, three points ahead of third-placed Marseille who have a game in hand after their match with Lyon was postponed over the weekend due to high winds. OM are the current cup holders after their 1-0 extratime victory over Lyon in April, with Brandao’s goal sealing their third successive triumph in the competition. While Elie Baup’s side will be targeting their fourth cup on the trot, PSG are looking for their ﬁrst since 2008 with silverware very much on the agenda in the capital. France defender Mamadou Sahko told www.psg.fr: “This year we are really determined to win something, so the cup and the championship are in our sights.

“We are still dreaming of a title. So we will really play to win domestic cups. “We will give everything to go as far as possible.” While the teams are expected to be among the major challengers for the league, the 22-year-old does not believe the cup game will be any less demanding. “It will be a game with a lot of intensity. OM is a great team of key players, so I expect a good game. It is a Classico, there will be a lot of duels, we will have to be ready.” OM captain Steve Mandanda rued the postponement of the match at the Stade Velodrome but admitted there were beneﬁts, given they had more rest than their opponents. He said: “It’s frustrating, we would have preferred to play. We had prepared since Friday. “Now there is a match ahead on Wednesday. It was a day

of rest and we will be able to prepare in the best way possible.” While the match in the capital is the most enticing, second-placed Toulouse’s visit to 2011 league champions Lille is intriguing. Lille may only be 10th in Ligue 1, five points behind their visitors, but they demonstrated their spirit when they bounced back from their Champions League defeat against Bayern Munich to beat Valenciennes for whom victory would have propelled them into the top four. This followed a 1-1 draw with Bordeaux for Rudi Garcia’s team who reached the quarter-finals last season. Montpellier have shown little of the form which guided them to last year’s league title although they go into tonight’s match against Bordeaux on the back of their first home win of the season after beating Nice on Saturday.

A 3-3 draw between Wanderers and Juventud in the Uruguayan first division ended in chaos as the referee, who had already sent off one player, brandished 16 more red cards when fighting broke out after the final whistle. Tempers became frayed when Wanderers believed they should have been awarded a penalty for a foul on midfielder Gaston Rodriguez near the end of Sunday’s encounter in Montevideo, according to media reports. Punching and kicking ensued among the two teams after the final whistle and the referee, Leodan Gonzalez, red carded eight players from each team. As violence broke out on the pitch, the trouble spread to the stands at Parque Viera where a fan suffered a cut to the head after being hit by a stone. The total sent off was 17 after Wanderers had midfielder Diego de Souza dismissed at the end of the first half. During play, a team can have no more than four players sent off before the match is abandoned. Juventud president Yamandu Costa said the club’s board were looking at sanctioning the team’s players who took part in the fighting, Uruguayan daily El Pais reported yesterday. “Two very different things happened,” Costa was quoted as saying in El Pais. “One is how the match developed which, from a sporting point of view was very good with three goals for each side, and another, after the match was over, when an argument among players finished in a general free-for-all.” Wanderers vice-president Gaston Inda said: “Something got out of hand because during the match nothing had happened, but these are situations we can’t allow and we’re sorry for what happened.” Midfielder Maximiliano Rodriguez scored twice for home side Wanderers including a late equaliser. Wanderers have 12 points from nine matches and Juventud 10. Penarol lead the Apertura championship with 20 points.

A mass brawl broke out as the game ended in chaos

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Sport Unhappy Adebayor ‘has part to play’ at Spurs By Paul Hirst

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard saw his side take a 2-0 lead only to be pegged back to a 2-2 draw in Sunday’s Merseyside derby

Gerrard: Everton play like Stoke By Carl Markham LIVERPOOL captain Steven Gerrard emerged from another controversial Merseyside derby dismissing Everton as “similar to Stoke”. The midﬁelder claimed Brendan Rodgers’ side were the only ones who played football in the 2-2 draw at Goodison Park and praised his team-mates - which included three teenagers and ﬁve derby debutants - for standing up to their nearneighbours. And despite the Toffees being six points and seven places above them Gerrard insisted David Moyes’ side were not the superior team in the city. “I thought we were fantastic and stood up to a team that are very similar to Stoke,” said the 32-yearold. “Every single time they get

‘There was only one team that came to play’ the ball to the goalkeeper it comes in long. “Everton are effective because they have some big, physical lads in the team. “We had a young, small team out there who were men and stuck together. “There was only one team who came to play football and that was us. “Everton are not better than us.” Gerrard was full of praise for 17-year-old Raheem Sterling after coming through the taxing experience of his ﬁrst derby, which included Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard racing out of his goal in what looked like an attempt to get the youngster sent off for a second bookable offence. “Sterling was fantastic. He has been a revelation for us,” added the England

captain. “Seventeen years of age away in a derby against a big, physical long ball team I thought he was outstanding. “The way he stands up, wants the ball and doesn’t hide is a credit to him and he’s got some bottle. “That’s what you look for in young lads. You wonder whether they have the bottle to play away from home against tough teams and difﬁcult situations and he handled it superbly. “I don’t think the Everton players would have known much about Raheem before Sunday but they are going to be seeing an awful lot more of him in future. “He’s going to be playing in many, many Merseyside derbies and he’s going to have a major impact in

them.” Swansea manager Michael Laudrup meanwhile believes tonight’s Capital One Cup clash with Liverpool will be a special occasion, but not because it marks the first meeting with former boss Brendan Rodgers. The Northern Irishman left south Wales for Anfield in May, having guided Swansea to an impressive 11th place finish in their maiden Barclays Premier League campaign. Despite having led Swansea to the promised land of the top flight, Rodgers can expect a hostile reception from the travelling support at Anfield, particularly after also prising midfielder Joe Allen away from the Liberty Stadium. While the focus will be on Rodgers’ facing his former

club, Laudrup is unsurprisingly keen to divert attention elsewhere, not least because a win would send Swansea into previously unchartered territory. The Swans have never advanced further than the fourth round of the League Cup, and could reach the last-eight for the ﬁrst time in their 100-year history. When asked if facing Rodgers added an extra spice to the occasion, Laudrup said: “I want to win every game we play, not only the ones where we are against exmanagers. “I know there is something special when you see former players and coaches, but for me it is Swansea against Liverpool, not against Brendan Rodgers or Joe Allen. “It’s at Anﬁeld and it is a big game in a competition where if we win we can claim a place in the record books of Swansea City.”

Captain Kompany is not worried by Man City critics By Andy Hampson MANCHESTER City captain Vincent Kompany is adamant he has not been affected by the criticism which has come his way this season. Although they are just one point off top spot in the Barclays Premier League, City have been particularly disappointing in the Champions League and face a fight to qualify for the knockout stages after picking up just one point from three group games. That has led to some cutting analysis from outside the club, and Kompany, outstanding at the heart of City’s defence in the last campaign, has also found his form the subject of scrutiny. But the Belgian said: “Personally, I don’t ever get affected by it. “I just keep living the life and keep working really hard. If one day goes a little bit less than another, I know I have at least done my best. “By being patient and keeping doing what you have done to get success in the first place, you’ll get there again. It is a very difficult thing.

“People around the club get wild and excited but I stay very calm. “We’ll be here in a couple of weeks or months and maybe everyone will be praises and smiles. It is going to happen. Everything takes time.” Criticism of City intensiﬁed after last week’s loss to Ajax in Amsterdam left them needing a “miracle”, in the opinion of manager Roberto Mancini, to reach the next stage of Europe’s elite club competition. Mancini came under ﬁre for changing his formation too often during the game. Some reports claimed the City squad was heading for mutiny because the players do not like the changes Mancini has made this season, but Kompany, who helped the team beat Swansea 1-0 on Saturday, dismissed that as nonsense. The 26-year-old said: “That’s funny. I don’t like to get involved in this but sometimes I do. “I never have a problem with performances being down or up. People have the right to have opinions on performances, but the stories are based on things I cannot even relate to, and I am in this team. “That is just sensationalism, nothing more.”

The champions were yesterday rocked by the news that defender Micah Richards will be out for up to four months

STEFFEN Freund admits Emmanuel Adebayor is unhappy, but the Tottenham assistant manager insists the striker still has a key part to play for the club this season. Adebayor was a big hit on loan from Manchester City last season, but after signing a permanent deal at White Hart Lane in the summer he has failed to break back in to the starting XI this term thanks to the sharp form of Jermain Defoe. Adebayor has not started a game for the Londoners under Andre Villas-Boas and there have been reports that he is disappointed at playing second fiddle to Defoe, who has scored seven goals for club and country this season. Villas-Boas has cited back and hamstring injuries as part of the reason why Adebayor has not played as much this term, and he may miss out on tonight’s Capital One Cup clash at Norwich as he is struggling with a stomach bug. Freund insists the powerful hitman still has a big role to play for the team this year, however. “Adebayor is sick today. We will have a look tomorrow (to see if he is fit for Norwich),” Tottenham’s assistant head coach said. “If you’re not playing and you’re injured then of course you are not happy. “He’s really sick but hopefully he will be back in time. He is one of the best strikers in the Premier League. We are happy to have him back here. “We need every Tottenham Hotspur player. If Andre wants to rotate or change the position up front, it’s good to have every player fit.” Spurs head to Carrow Road after returning to winning ways with a 2-1 win at Southampton, where Gareth Bale was the architect of his former team’s downfall. Bale has challenged his team-mates to build on the momentum gained from Sunday’s win by picking up back-to-back victories against Norwich and Wigan. “We’re enjoying our football now and we’re on a good run so it is good times but we just need to keep our feet on the ground and move forward,” he said. Few faces remain at Southampton from Bale’s time there as, following his departure, they dropped down to third tier and at one point teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. However, back-to-back promotions saw the club end a seven-year exile from the top flight and the Welshman was delighted to face his former club at long last. “It was amazing to see them back in the Premier League,” Bale said.

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I thrive on being number one, says McIlroy By Alastair Himmer

The 23-year-old Northern Irishman says his game has reached new heights since he topped the world rankings

RORY McIlroy believes becoming golf’s world number one has lifted his game to new heights and that he will be hard to beat at next month’s Singapore Open. The 23-year-old Northern Irishman heads a quality ﬁeld at the $6 million tournament from November 8-11 that also includes American Phil Mickelson and three-time winner Adam Scott of Australia. World number 12 Louis Oosthuizen will also be among the contenders at the Sentosa Golf Club, but a conﬁdent McIlroy feels his A-game trumps that of his rivals. “The status (of being world number

one) adds pressure but it’s one that I thrive on,” McIlroy, who won his second major at this year’s US PGA Championship, said in a statement. “I know I can be hard to beat when I’m at my best, so I go into every tournament knowing that if I play well then I have a good chance of winning.” McIlroy ﬁnished runner-up at the BMW Masters in Shanghai at the weekend. “People expect me to play well, and I expect myself to play better,” he said. “To call myself a multiple major winner and world number one, it’s great. “I knew that I was good enough to achieve this at some stage,” added McIlroy, who helped Europe beat the United States in an astonishing Ryder Cup comeback win last month.

“I’m a bit surprised that it has happened already when I’m still 23. My target now is always to win my next tournament, win my next major, keep improving all areas of my game.” McIlroy underlined his status as the golf’s top player with a runaway eightstroke victory at the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island in August. He is also close to winning the European Tour’s Race to Dubai with a near one million euros lead and has the PGA Tour money title sewn up having banked more than $8 million. “I’m leading the Race to Dubai and it’s deﬁnitely my goal to ﬁnish there at the end of the season,” said McIlroy, bidding to emulate Luke Donald, who topped the Order of Merit on both sides of the Atlantic last season.

‘Chelsea disgust me’ Warnock says Blues are sore losers and are ‘trying to kill Clattenburg’ By Simon Johnson

EIL WARNOCK yesterday accused Chelsea of “trying to kill Mark Clattenburg” over their complaints to the Premier League that the referee insulted two of their players. Clattenburg is the subject of a Football Association investigation over allegations he racially abused John Obi Mikel, as well as calling Juan Mata a “Spanish t**t” during Chelsea’s 3-2 defeat against Manchester United on Sunday. The 37-year-old, whose career is now under threat, had already incensed Chelsea by showing a second yellow card to Fernando Torres for diving and allowing Javier Hernandez’s winning goal to stand when he was offside. This latest controversy came as Chelsea captain John Terry serves the second of his four-game ban from the FA for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand. Leeds boss Warnock, no stranger to controversy, was the Queens Park Rangers boss when Terry’s altercation with Ferdinand took place last year, but he believes Chelsea are just sore losers taking their frustrations out on Clattenburg. Warnock said: “You know my relationship with referees but I have got to say I am disgusted with what’s gone on. I’m on Mark Clattenburg’s side.

Storm brewing: Chelsea’s John Obi Mikel confronts Mark Clattenburg during Sunday’s controversial clash at Stamford Bridge. The referee has been accused of making racist remarks against Mikel and Juan Mata “We ask referees to manmanage and that’s what he does. I’m sure he might have said a few things but are you telling me if Chelsea had won that game that there would have been one iota of a complaint? “He’s not had the best of games but the Torres one was the one decision he got slightly wrong. I think he has made a mistake but they are trying to kill him and I don’t agree with that at all.” Cheksea’s players made

their complaint over Clattenburg’s behaviour after the ﬁnal whistle and it is believed chief executive Ron Gourlay, coach Roberto di Matteo and Mikel all went to confront him in his room. Neither Mikel nor Mata is understood to have heard the alleged insults themselves. There is a lot of speculation team-mates Ramires and David Luiz, whose understanding of English is not the best, were the ones to tip them off.

Midﬁelder Oriol Romeu revealed yesterday: “Neither Juan nor Fernando told me they heard it because from what I have understood they didn’t hear anything. It was someone else who heard it but not directly at them. “It was another player who heard it and that is what they told me. I didn’t hear anything as I left quickly to go home but after talking to Juan he told me there was some problem and he had to stay.”

Chelsea are adamant they did not take the decision to make a complaint lightly, especially having been on the receiving end of negative publicity over Terry for the past year. Anton’s brother Rio, who played in Sunday’s match, tweeted yesterday: “Will be interesting to see how this alleged ‘race’ or ‘insulting’ language episode pans out. Our game is under the microscope like never before.” The evidence of Clatten-

burg’s assistants for the game, Michael McDonough and Simon Long, as well as fourth official Michael Jones, will be crucial as they were all wearing microphones and earphones and would have been able to hear what each other said. The Metropolitan Police yesterday said that they have started an investigation into Clattenburg’s alleged comments after the Society of Black Lawyers made an official complaint. Warnock is not convinced about Chelsea’s allegations and feels the players should be in trouble if Clattenburg is cleared of any wrongdoing. He added: “Let’s wait and see when it all comes out. Hopefully, everything has been caught. I hope if it is proved wrong, that the players, whatever they alleged Mark to have said, get done as well.” Chelsea could be in a lot of trouble anyway because Clattenburg has filed an extraordinary incident report, along with his normal matchday one, over the confrontation that took place after the game. The club could also be potentially in the dock for the crowd trouble that started after Hernandez celebrated the winning goal in front of the Matthew Harding stand. Several objects were thrown and a steward was injured in the melee. The Metropolitan Police are also looking into the incident and Warnock fears fans are getting out of control. Warnock was stunned himself earlier this month when a Leeds fan attacked Sheffield Wednesday keeper Chris Kirkland during the Yorkshire derby.