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‘Higher charges are the problem’ Health minister shows little sympathy for private sector

By Jacqueline Agathocleous and Poly Pantelides

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EALTH Minister Stavros Malas yesterday told pharmacies and private clinics they only had themselves and their high prices to blame if they were going out of business.

Both private health sectors have been complaining all week of their dire situation as 80 per cent of people are now using state services for treatment and medicines.

Marcos Agathangelou the head of the association of private hospitals said yesterday: “Private clinics do not accept the fact that patients who are not entitled to free healthcare are being treated in state hospitals at non-representative fees.” He called on state hospitals to base their treatment charges on real costs because the survival of private clinics was at stake because of competition from the state.

The head of the Pharmaceutical Association, Nicos Nouris, said the increase in the number of people seeking treatment from public hospitals and pharmacies was causing a large number of private chemists to close down. Figures quoted put the number at some 35 per cent.

Nouris said the average number of daily prescriptions being issued by state hospitals was now 483,

compared to only 7.8 per day per private hospital.

He said if one considered that state hospitals handed out over 138,000 packets of drugs a day, compared to 4,600 in total in the private sector, “I think the problem is clear for all to see”.

Nouris called on the state to speed up the creation of the National Health Scheme, due for implementation in 2016.

But Malas said the NHS could not solve all of the problems in the health sector.

“It certainly will not be able to support the charges that are being imposed today,” he said. “But if we all consent and understand that we need to be more objective when it comes to our prices and more consensual, then I am certain that we will be able to implement the NHS,” he added.

Malas said he was “ready to discuss” the state’s new drug pricing policy and profit margins with the pharmacy owners. He said these margins were very high, compared to other EU countries.

On the private clinics, Malas said there were too many private hospitals charging too much for their services, and that an NHS could not support them all in any case.

He said that the state has recently had to pay the

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The space shuttle Endeavour leaves Kennedy Space Centre in Florida for the last time yesterday. Endeavour, attached to a NASA modified 747 aircraft, lifts off in what was the final ferry flight in the space shuttle programme era, and will end up at the California Science Centre museum where it will be put on display

Was Jesus married? Ancient papyrus fragment fuels debate A PREVIOUSLY unknown scrap of ancient papyrus written in ancient Egyptian Coptic includes the words ‘Jesus said to them, my wife,’ – a discovery likely to renew a fierce debate in the Christian world over whether Jesus was married.

The existence of the fourth-century fragment – not much bigger than a business card – was revealed at a conference in Rome this week by Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to

support that claim,” King said in a statement released by Harvard.

“This new gospel doesn’t prove that Jesus was married, but it tells us that the whole question only came up as part of vociferous debates about sexuality and marriage.”

Despite the Catholic Church’s insistence that Jesus was not married, the idea resurfaces on a regular basis, notably with the 2003 publication of Dan Brown’s best-seller The Da Vinci Code, which angered many Christians because it was based on the idea that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children.

King said the fragment, unveiled at the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married.

Roger Bagnall, director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York, said he believed the fragment, which King has called ‘The Gospel of Jesus’ wife,’ was authentic.

The fragment is owned by an anonymous private collector who contacted King to help translate and analyse it, and is thought to have been discovered in Egypt or perhaps Syria.

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RESIDENTS of the Nicosia municipality of Aglandjia yesterday took to the streets reclaiming the roads with bikes and wheelchairs as part of the European mobility week.

The busy Kyrenia Avenue was blocked with bikes between 9.30am and 11.30am letting schoolchildren roam.

The campaign aims to raise awareness of mobility problems faced by residents going about their daily business.

Cars taking up pavements and bike lanes, for example, hamper movement for cyclists, pedestrians and people in wheelchairs.

Yesterday’s event was geared towards schoolchildren.

The main mobility week event in Nicosia takes place on Saturday at a pedestrianised Makarios Avenue between 9am and 2pm. A bike tour is scheduled to start at 10am and will visit the greater Nicosia municipalities. There will also be a quiz competition with a bike as prize, and children’s activities.

Larnaca will be offering events throughout the week including free daytime bus rides, an evening bike tour and a treasure hunt. There will also be a walking tour around the Paphos centre tomorrow.

Events have been launched throughout the European Union and cities can choose to compete in organising the most innovative campaigns linked to the annual theme.

Last year’s theme was on alternative mobility with the award going to Italy’s Bologna for organising a car free weekend instead of going for just one day. Larnaca was a

Wheelchairs, bikes and prams send a message to motorists runner-up for demonstrating “its long-term commitment to road space reallocation by transforming one of the roads in the central business district into a pedestrian street,” the European Commission said.

Larnaca also created bicycle parking spaces and set up a “bicycle bank” to help people with maintaining and reusing bikes.

The European Commission said that an increasingly large number of cities choose to participate in Mobility Week with 2268 towns around the world taking part in 2011.

European towns and cities can sign up to the European Mobility Week Charter and publish their programmes on www.mobilityweek.eu “Moving towards a sustainable and efficient transport system will help enhance mobility and at the same time reduce pollution and improve the quality of life for citizens.

So, let’s start moving!” said Janez Potocnik, the European environment commissioner.

This year’s theme is “Moving in the right direction,” focusing on urban mobility.

(Christos Theodorides)

Schoolchildren get organised for the event

Isaac suspect reportedly No results yet from Turkish arrested in Kyrgyzstan drilling in the island’s north A TURKISH man wanted in connection with the beating to death of Greek Cypriot protester Tassos Isaac in 1996 was arrested in Kyrgyzstan, Turkish Cypriot media reported yesterday.

Erhan Arikli was on INTERPOL’s wanted list. Isaac, 24, was beaten to death on August 11 1996 during a demonstration at the buffer zone village of Dherynia in the Famagusta district.

Arikli was reportedly arrested at Kyrgyzstan’s main airport where he was travelling on a diplomatic ‘TRNC’ passport.

Isaac was killed while trying to help out a protester who was trapped in barbed wire.

Footage of Isaac taking a beating with clubs, being kicked and punched by several people made international news.

Commercial counsellor at the Turkish embassy in Kyrgyzstan, Behzat Erten, was quoted as saying: “Turks living [in Kyrgyzstan] are saddened to see Arikli’s arrest in a brotherly and friendly country, following a demand from the Greek Cypriots”.

On August 14, Solomos Solomou was shot and killed during a demonstration following Isaac’s funeral. They were cousins.

TURKISH exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the breakaway north of the island has reached a depth of 4.0 kilometres but has not yielded any results, it emerged yesterday.

Last April, Turkey started exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the occupied village of Singrasi, Famagusta, a move seen as a response to the licensing of companies to carry out offshore exploration by the Republic.

Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said a second drilling would be carried out in the north.

This would be a complementary one, Yildiz said, according to Turkish media, adding that later they would start exploration at sea.

Cyprus has an estimated offshore gas prospect of 7.0 trillion cubic feet (tcf) in block 12 of its EEZ, a concession held by US-based oil company Noble Energy.

Turkey demands that Cyprus cease hydrocarbon explorations pending reunification talks and has previously said it would take measures to protect its interests as well as secure those of the Turkish Cypriots.

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Home CYPRUS TODAY New flights CYPRUS Airways (CY) is launching a number of new routes within Greece starting this winter.

Starting on October 28, there will be twice-daily flights between Athens and Heraklion, one from Athens to Rhodes and back; one a day between Heraklion and Thessalonica and another between Rhodes and Thessalonica three times a week.

Furthermore, daily flights between Athens and Thessalonica will increase from two to three; and from Heraklion to Rhodes and back from three flights to four.

Russian candidate CHIEF Returning Officer Demetris Demetriou yesterday confirmed that a Russian businessman with Cypriot citizenship had shown an interest in running for president.

“Yes, an interest has been shown, but we can’t release any details as the application for candidacy has not yet been made officially,” Demetriou said.

He said the businessman’s lawyer contacted his department to enquire about how to apply.

Only Cypriot citizens over 35 years of age can stand in the presidential elections.

No identity AN UNIDENTIFIED man was found dead on a street in Pallouriotissa on Tuesday. State pathologist Eleni Antoniou said he died of a heart attack.

The man is described as aged between 50 and 60, with greyish-blonde hair and a medium build.

He was wearing a shortsleeved t-shirt with thin black stripes and denim shorts.

Anyone who could help identify him should contact Omorfita police station on 22 802800 or call the Citizen’s Line on 1460.

Young people and artists draw graffiti on boards at an event at Larnaca airport yesterday to mark European Day of Cooperation

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Malas: high prices are the problem in private health (continued from front page) private sector €3 million in the space of three months for outsourced treatment for 175 patients. The state refers healthcare beneficiaries to the private sector for specialised treatment which the government pays for, Malas said. “But state support is not the solution to the viability problems private clinics are facing,” Malas said.

“If we are all reasonable in terms of what we charge, then I’m sure we can implement an NHS,” he said. According to previous studies, private healthcare in Cyprus is 2.5 times higher than the EU average.

And when it comes to medicines, a report two months

Medical Association calls for public servants on high salaries to no longer be subsidised ago revealed that Cyprus had the second most expensive pharmaceuticals in Europe, and the second highest ratio of pharmacies to customers in the EU. There are currently 468 private pharmacies islandwide, serving only 20-25 per cent of the public, which creates a distortion in the market as they each try to maintain profit margins of over 30 per cent.

Nouris described the current situation as “tragic”.

“A large number of private pharmacies are having trou-

ble surviving, as the majority of patients are now applying for treatment at the public hospitals,” he said.

He said a study carried out for his association showed how bad things had gotten.

“If we compare the results (of the study), which we got today, with data from the health ministry, the average number of daily prescriptions in a state hospital has reached 483 while in the private hospitals it is 7.8,” said Nouris.

He called on the state to “keep this profession alive”.

Meanwhile, the Cyprus Medical Association yesterday called for public servants to start paying up for healthcare.

Civil servants are entitled to the lowest-cost healthcare from the state even though many of them are on high incomes.

Even though the state plans to means-test healthcare charges, they will still be exempt.

“Let’s abolish the highly paid beneficiaries whoever they may be,” said medical association chief Andreas

Demetriou. He said the system allowed some people to earn €200,000 a year and still get MRI scans for free.

Demetriou said that the state system should just tend to those less well off, who should not be forced to wait longer than necessary for necessary treatment because the system was flooded with entitled people.

Asked to comment on this aspect, Malas, who will step down as minister next month to run his presidential campaign, said free healthcare was part of public servants’ rights.

However he did say that the situation was being discussed vis-a-vis the NHS. (see editorial page 12)

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Home CYPRUS TODAY Three injured in village brawl involving some 50 people THREE men were yesterday treated for superficial pellet wounds as a result of a massive brawl that took place in the Nicosia village Peristerona late on Tuesday.

According to a police spokesman yesterday, the force received calls from Peristerona residents at a little before 11pm on Tuesday, saying a brawl – involving around 50 people – was taking place.

The police were told that stones were thrown and shots fired during the fracas. By the time officers showed up however the crowd had dispersed.

At around 2.30am yesterday, police were notified by Nicosia general hospital’s A&E unit that a man was being treated for injuries from gun pellets.

Just over an hour later, two more men went to a Nicosia police station, also suffering from superficial injuries from pellets.

The two told police they were shot during a fight in a Nicosia village, which they said was duie to “personal differences”.

Police yesterday said they believed the three injuries were all connected to the Peristerona fight. As of last night, no arrests were made.

Fireman caught moonlighting as a drywall specialist could be fired A PAPHOS fireman was suspended and arrested after he was caught moonlighting as a drywaller.

It was not the first time the same man was caught doing a second job, which is prohibited for public servants.

The fireman was discovered on Tuesday after he turned up to collect payment from a dry walling client and started to cause a fuss, even undoing some of the work he had done. The home owners called the police. Reports stated he caused around €500 worth of damage.

“Second jobs are forbidden when they are (firemen) are off (duty),” said Fire Services spokeswoman Liza Kemidji who said “justice would now take its course” and the man would go to court.

There will be both a criminal and disciplinary case.

When he was found out on a previous occasion, the fireman got off by saying it was his wife’s job and he was only helping.

“I think this time round he’ll be leaving the Fire Services,” said Kemidji.

Man in critical condition after crash A 22-YEAR-OLD Larnaca man was in critical condition yesterday after the car he was driving crashed into a street light.

Police said the man had been speeding down Artemidos Avenue, headed in the direction of the airport, when at some point, at around 12.30am, he lost control of his vehicle, slamming into a pole before hitting two other cars that were parked nearby.

Such was the force of the crash that the fire service had to be scrambled to the scene to free the 22-yearold from the mangled wreckage.

Larnaca police spokesman Christos Andreou said the man was wearing his seatbelt.

“However, after examining the scene it seems that the cause of the accident and the youth’s serious injury was excessive speed,” Andreou said.

The 22-year-old was being treated in Larnaca hospital’s intensive care unit.

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Back to drawing board for ‘disclosure of assets’

By George Psyllides PARLIAMENT would have to amend the constitution to make it mandatory for state officials to file a statement of their assets and the source of those assets, it emerged yesterday.

The matter was discussed by the House Legal Affairs Committee – behind closed doors – following a Supreme Court decision that a law mandating disclosure of the source of state officials’ assets was unconstitutional.

Committee chairman, DISY MP Ionas Nicolaou, said parliament tried twice to enforce the law, but the Supreme Court plenum judged that it was in conflict with Article 15 of the constitu-

tion, which protects a person’s privacy.

According to the article, every person has the right to respect for their private and family life and “there shall be no interference with the exercise of this right except such as in accordance with the law and is necessary only in the interests of the security of the Republic or the constitutional order or the public safety or the public order or the public health or the public morals or for the protection of the rights and liberties guaranteed by this Constitution to any person.”

From the discussion, Nicolaou said, it transpired that the safest way was to amend the article.

He said some MPs would discuss the matter in their respective parlia-

mentary groups having in mind that amending the constitution must be done in exceptional cases. Nicolaou added that his party was all for allowing society to scrutinise politicians, state officials – independent and otherwise.

AKEL MP Aristos Damianou said his party would look into the matter. “We find that there is decay and corruption at various levels of Cypriot society and there is a need for the effective regulation of the matter, Damianou said.

“There is a need to improve the legal framework but primarily there is a need to improve social conscience, including MPs and all those who participate in decision-making or who manage public monies,” Damianou said.

Bank staff will reject ‘unrealistic proposals’ Rumours still abound that Popular could lay off 600

By George Psyllides BANK employee union ETYK yesterday warned that it was not prepared to accept “unrealistic” proposals amid rumours that troubled lender Popular was looking to cut 600 jobs in Cyprus as part of its effort to restructure.

Popular was forced to ask for €1.8 billion in state assistance after taking heavy losses from its exposure to Greek debt and being unable to raise the necessary regulatory capital through private funds.

Following its nationalisation, Popular is undergoing a transitional adjustment period with a restructuring plan aiming to transform the group’s efficiency, restore profitability, further strengthen its capital base and enhance its prospects.

ETYK said Popular Bank employees have contributed 34 per cent so far and despite this the union is prepared to discuss small and reasonable cutbacks.

“But our organisation is not prepared to accept unrealistic and out of place positions and will fight – and it is capable – of defending the colleagues’ interests,” ETYK said in a circular.

Calls for the dismissal of 600 employees in Cyprus “are wrong and frivolous and of course they will not be accepted for one reason alone,” ETYK said.

“Such an action would lead the so-far profitable course of Popular Bank Cyprus into decline and losses.”

Earlier this month, Popular said all countries it operated in were profitable with the exception of Greece.

‘VARIOUS CIRCLES’ According to ETYK, Popular Cyprus posted over €55 million in profit for the first half of the year – the group incurred a €1.3 billion loss – and it would be a devastating mistake to try and amputate a profitable part just for the sake of impressions.

Without naming them, ETYK said “various circles and (Popular) bank officials” are trying to undermine the workers’ morale instead of dealing with how to develop the lender’s operations.

Following strong protests, the bank has withdrawn the ‘plan’ and has pledged not to table any new plan without ETYK’s agreement, the union said.

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Jobless rate to reach 11.5 pct in 2013 Economy is expected to contract by up to 1.0 pct due to lack of measures

By George Psyllides THE government expects already record-high unemployment to rise to 11.5 per cent in 2013 and the economy to contract by up to 1.0 per cent, a report said yesterday, citing the 2013 budget draft.

Until now, the government had expected the economy to grow by 0.5 per cent in 2013.

But according to daily Politis, which cited a memo that accompanied the budget, the economy is expected to contract between 0.5 per cent and 1.0 per cent next year as the structural problems remained “and did not allow a reversal of the negative course.”

MEASURES “Taking measures is the only option to correct the imbalances, restore macroeconomic stability and recover the markets’ confidence in the Cypriot economy,” Politis said.

The government is processing its own austerity package to counter what are considered tough proposals, tabled by the island’s lenders.

Draft recommendations from the troika of lenders, leaked on September 12, showed they demanded privatisations, pension reforms and a 15 per cent cut to the state payroll.

Cabinet members had a first read of the state budget on September 17, with consultations set to continue on September 22.

Spending cuts were expected to feature heavily, broadly reflecting talks with the ECB, the IMF and the European Commission on a bailout, the size of which has not been determined.

But the administration is trying hard to avoid cutting 13th salaries and imposing horizontal cuts on salaries and pensions.

Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said on Tuesday night that they were looking to introduce staggered, income-based cuts on both salaries and pensions.

“The troika suggests an amount that needs to be cut from the payroll; how you achieve this, either through the 13th salary or cuts in payroll, horizontally or incrementally, is our matter and we are considering the fairest way,” he told state television.

He confirmed that there was a scenario calling for cuts between 5.0 per cent and 12 per cent depending on the pay-scale.

The same went for pensions.

Reports also said the ministry was looking to cut some 27 per cent or around €30 million in the form of allowances paid to civil servants for various reasons.

From left: van Rompuy, Christofias, Schulz and Barroso after their meeting yesterday

Investment for growth and jobs is discussed THE PRESIDENT of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, the President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy and the President of the rotating Council Presidency, President Demetris Christofias yesterday underlined the need for the future European budget to translate the EU’s overall objectives into concrete investment for growth and jobs.

Reports from Brussels said the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework (2014-2020) should make a significant contribution to the resolution of the economic crisis. Ahead of the European Council on November 22 and 23, “the four Presidents reconfirmed their joint commitment to mobilise all efforts needed to reach an overall agreement supported by all institutions by the end of this year,” said a statement following a working lunch at the Commission.

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Residents protest ‘toxic factory’ Villagers insist there has been an increased number of cancer cases in the area

By Poly Pantelides RESIDENTS of the Nicosia village Pera Chorio Nisou yesterday protested over two chemical plants in their village, which they say constitute a health hazard.

The residents are worried about a perceived rise in cancer cases in the area, which has prompted parliament’s environment committee to get involved.

Members of the committee were yesterday at the protest, which went ahead without incident despite a threat earlier this month by one of the factory owners who said he would shoot MPs and anyone else present at the protest if it went ahead.

Bearing banners saying: “Do not take away our right to be healthy” and “No to emissions of dangerous and toxic chemicals” protesters peacefully asked that the factories be

shut down or moved elsewhere.

Representatives from both plants yesterday expressed their regret over cancer incidents, but said they were not responsible for them. One of the factories said that none of their employees had cancer.

The Green Party’s Giorgos Perdikis who is a member of the House environment committee had said an instruction to take legal proceedings forcing the factories to move to a non-residential area was delayed because of a communication breakdown between different government departments and legal services.

The environment committee had heard investigations reported violations of laws and regulations, leaking toxic waste and other emissions dangerous to public health and the environment.

But one of the factories yesterday said there was

Dozens of residents gathered yesterday to demonstrate in the area no evidence linking cancer incidents to the plant’s activities. Residents are not convinced however and have threatened to continue protests and go in

the factories themselves to shut them down by force, if necessary.

The environment committee’s chairman, AKEL’s Adamos Adamou, had said

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that the factories could be moved away from the residential area if they were compensated.

No lawmaker yesterday specified where the factories could

relocate and whether they would be funded to do so.

Pera Horio Nisou is about 15 kilometres out of Nicosia and has about 1,600 residents.

British MEP’s comments ‘a provocation’ A STATEMENT by British MEP Geoffrey Van Orden, reportedly claiming among other things that there were many in the EU who didn’t want Cyprus to join the bloc until its national problem was resolved, yesterday riled fellow Cypriot colleague Sophoclis Sophocleous.

According to Sophocleous, the British MEP said there was no point in Greek Cypriots giving their one-sided description of the Cyprus problem and that they were fools to think the majority of the EU supported them against the so-called threat of Turkey. Van Orden also apparently claimed

there were many in the EU who felt Cyprus shouldn’t have been allowed to join.

Sophocleous called the comments “provocative, brazen, unacceptable and unhistorical”.

The EDEK MEP said Van Orden attempted to apportion equal responsibility to the two sides for the Cyprus problem, even though Turkey had been occupying the island for almost 40 years.

Sophocleous said the Republic joined the EU in the hope that it would be joined by Turkish Cypriots, in the event that a solution was found.

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Britain Two Sun reporters and police officer held in corruption probe A BRITISH police officer and two journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun tabloid newspaper were arrested on suspicion of corruption yesterday as part of investigations into illegal payments and phonehacking that have sparked more than 80 arrests.

Those arrested have included Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief, Andy Coulson, and Rebekah Brooks, the former head of News International, the British newspaper arm of billionaire Murdoch’s News Corp media empire.

Facing a public backlash over the allegations, including the hacking of the phones of crime victims by journalists, Murdoch closed one of his tabloid newspapers, the News of the World, in July 2011.

MISCONDUCT Yesterday, a 39-year-old officer with Wiltshire police in southwest England was arrested at his home on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, a statement by police said.

A 51-year-old journalist was held in the city of Bristol and another one, aged 32, was picked up in London, both on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office, it said.

The two journalists work for The Sun, a News International spokeswoman said.

Police said the arrests stemmed from information provided by News Corp’s internal Management Standards Committee, which was set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, which erupted last year.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “Today’s arrests are the result of information provided to police by News Corporation’s management standards committee. “They relate to suspected payments to a public official and suspected disclosure of confidential information by a police officer and are not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately.”

The arrests bring the number of people arrested in Operation Elveden, the investigation into alleged corrupt payments to public officials, to 50.

Along with the main probe into allegations of phonehacking by journalists, there is a corruption investigation and a separate inquiry into illegal breaches of privacy including computer hacking.

‘It was an act of pure evil’

Women lay flowers close to where police constables Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, were killed by one of Britain’s most wanted fugitives

Britain left reeling by murder of two unarmed policewomen GREATER Manchester Police fell silent yesterday to remember two of their officers who were killed in a grenade and gun attack.

Pcs Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32, died on Tuesday after they were called to investigate what appeared to be a routine burglary report.

Fellow officers and civilian staff at GMP held a minute’s silence at 11am in memory of the pair.

Thousands of tributes have poured in for the women, and Pc Hughes’ family said she had died doing “the job she loved”.

Soon after the two po-

licewomen died, one of the country’s most wanted men, Dale Cregan, 29, gave himself up to police.

Cregan had been questioned and bailed in connection with the murder of Mark Short, 23, who was shot dead in a Manchester pub in May. Short’s father, David Short, 46, who had branded his son’s killer “a coward”, was murdered in a gun and grenade attack at his home in August.

Cregan was wanted for questioning over both killings. In a statement, Pc Hughes’ family said: “When she left the house this morn-

Giant snails seized A GROUP of 36 giant snails has been seized from a passenger’s luggage at an airport.

Border Force officers at Glasgow Airport found the living giant African land snails when a man arrived from Amsterdam earlier this month.

They discovered the snails, which are around 15cm-long on average, when checking the luggage of the Nigerian man who said they were to be used as food.

Officers seized the snails because live animals require an import licence which the man did not have. They were passed on to a rescue organisation and the passenger was warned about the restrictions on bringing the creatures into the UK. The snails, not native to the UK, have shells the size of a small human fist. While they are unlikely to survive a British winter, they could pass on diseases to the indigenous snail population if released into the wild.

Murdo MacMillan, of the Border Force in Scotland, said: “The vigilance of our officers at Glasgow Airport has stopped these snails from entering Scotland, and possibly posing a risk to our native plants and wildlife.

“I would warn travellers not to attempt to bring live animals into the UK without a permit, or to bring in any products of animal origin which may contain pests or diseases.”

ing she was going to the job she loved.

“Nicola always wanted to make a difference and, in doing so, she made such a big difference to everyone she knew. She cared about everyone and especially her colleagues.

“Nicola was only 23 years old and had the whole of her life in front of her. We cannot

express how we feel today except to say we have always been exceedingly proud of Nicola and always will be.

She knew she was loved by us all and we shall all miss her dreadfully.”

Chairman of the Greater Manchester Police Federation Ian Hanson called the killings “the slaughter of the innocents”, while Prime

Minister David Cameron said the killings were an “absolutely despicable act of pure evil”.

Eyewitnesses said a hail of bullets was fired and then a grenade was used during the attack, shortly before 11am.

One of the officers died at the scene. The second was critically injured and died later.

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Obama fires back at Romney’s outburst Rivals spar as race for the White House heats up US President Barack Obama declared that the occupant of the White House must “work for everyone, not just for some”, jabbing back at Republican rival Mitt Romney’s jarring statement that as a candidate, he does not worry about the 47% of the country that pays no income taxes.

Romney neither disavowed nor apologised for his remarks, which included an observation that nearly half of the country believe they are victims and entitled to a range of government support.

Instead, Romney cast his comment as evidence of a fundamental difference with Obama over the economy, adding the US government should not “take from some to give to the others”.

The sluggish economy and lingering high unemployment are by far the overriding issues of the election, and Romney’s case for the presidency is based on his claim that his success as a businessman has

left him the skills needed to create jobs in a nation where unemployment is 8.1%.

Obama and the Democrats have tried to counter by depicting the president’s challenger as a multi-millionaire who has some of his wealth invested in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere overseas, and is out of touch with the needs of middle class Americans.

As the rivals sparred with seven weeks remaining in a close race for the White House, two Republican Senate candidates publicly disavowed Romney’s remarks, caught on videotape at a fundraiser.

Republican officials openly debated the impact that a series of controversies would have on the party’s prospects of winning the presidency.

Romney’s running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, said the Republican presidential nominee was “obviously inarticulate” in trying to make his point.

Ryan told KRNV-TV in Reno,

Nevada: “The point we’re trying to make here is, under the Obama economy, government dependency is up and economic stagnation is up.”

Top Republicans in Congress declined through aides to offer their reaction to Romney’s remarks - just as they generally refrained from commenting a week ago when he issued a statement that inaccurately accused the Obama administration of giving comfort to demonstrators after they breached the US Embassy in Cairo.

While the Romney campaign has been promoting its fundraising prowess for months, it acknowledged that it had borrowed 20 million US dollars before the Republican national convention to boost its cash flow as it waited to begin tapping its general election funds.

Under law, that money would not be available until Romney was officially nominated.

The Romney campaign con-

firmed that it took out the loan in August, using its general election accounts as collateral.

The most recent controversy in a campaign filled with them was ignited by the emergence of a videotape, made last May, in which Romney told donors at a fundraiser that 47% of Americans pay no income taxes.

They “believe the government has a responsibility to care for them ... believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that’s an entitlement”.

He said: “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

In a next-day interview on Fox, the network of choice for conservatives, Romney said he did not intend to write off any part of a deeply divided electorate, including seniors who are among those who often pay no taxes.

Under fire: Republican candidate Mitt Romney said that he does not worry about the 47% of the United States that pays no income taxes

Official: Syrian rebels seize crossing on Turkish border

By Kadir Celikcan SYRIAN rebels seized their third border crossing with Turkey yesterday, a Turkish official said, after fierce overnight battles with government troops that sent bullets flying into Syria’s northern neighbour.

Reuters television footage showed a rebel tearing down the Syrian flag on top of what appeared to be a customs building at the Tel Abyad frontier gate.

“I can confirm that the gate has fallen. It is under the complete control of the rebels,” a Turkish official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

Minutes earlier sporadic gunfire had echoed around the area and black smoke had risen from parts of the building.

Rebels could be seen celebrating on top of the customs building, with one firing his gun into the air.

There was no sign of any government troops at the crossing.

The clashes, which started late on Tuesday, were the first time insurgents fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had tried to seize a border zone in Syria’s al-Raqqa province, most of which has remained solidly proAssad.

Rebels hold two other crossings on the northern border with Turkey. A third will strengthen their control in the north and put more pressure on Assad’s

A damaged Syrian tank, belonging to forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, after clashes with the Free Syrian Army army as the two sides battle for control of Syria’s largest city Aleppo, not far away.

The governor’s office in the small town of Akcakale, on the Turkish side of the border post, ordered all schools in the town and the neighbouring villages to close for the day and banned all agricultural work in the area.

“A heavy hail of bullets is landing here. We are scared.

We had to stay in another house last night. We don’t know what to do,” a man in his 40s told CNN Turk television hours before the post was seized.

“Teachers, everyone, has left the school next to us, they have fled the area,” he said, standing only metres from the border fence.

Some 300 Syrians fled across to the area around Akcakale to escape the

fighting, the Turkish official said. Twenty-five rebels wounded during the clashes were also receiving medical treatment in Turkey.

Syrian jets bombed the Syrian town of Abu Kamal near the Iraqi border yesterday, Iraqi security officials and the mayor of the Iraqi frontier town of alQaim said. The towns are metres away from each other on the banks of the River Euphrates.

A Turkish woman and her daughter were wounded on Tuesday night by stray bullets, and an official said other bullets had smashed windows in several houses in Turkey along the border.

Ankara has yet to give a reaction to the fighting along its frontier but a similar incident earlier this year prompted a sharp rebuke.

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Cartoons fuel furore French magazine ridicules prophet Mohammad

By Jack Kimball

By Nicholas Vinocur A FRENCH magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad yesterday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a film depiction of him as a lecherous fool.

The drawings in satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a crisis that has seen the storming of U.S. and other Western embassies, the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

Riot police were deployed to protect the magazine’s Paris offices after it hit the news stands with a cover showing an Orthodox Jew

Colombian drug lord captured in Venezuela

A man displays controversial magazine Charlie Hebdo pushing the turbaned figure of Mohammad in a wheelchair.

On the inside pages, several caricatures of the Prophet showed him naked.

One, entitled “Mohammad: a star is born”, depicted a bearded figure crouching over to display his buttocks and genitals.

The French government, which had urged the weekly not to print the cartoons, said it was temporarily shutting down premises including embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday,

when protests sometimes break out after Muslim prayers.

Arab League SecretaryGeneral Nabil Elaraby called the drawings provocative and outrageous but said those who were offended by them should “use peaceful means to express their firm rejection”.

Tunisia’s governing Islamist party, Ennahda, condemned the cartoons as an act of “aggression” against Mohammad. It urged Muslims, in responding to it, to avoid falling into a trap

designed by “suspicious parties to derail the Arab Spring and turn it into a conflict with the West”.

In Lebanon, Salafist cleric Sheikh Nabil Rahim said the incident would raise tensions that were already dangerously high.

“We will try to keep things managed and peaceful, but these things easily get out of hand. I fear there could be more targeting of foreigners, and this is why I wish they would not persist with these provocations,” he said.

ONE of Colombia’s most wanted drug traffickers was captured in neighbouring Venezuela with the help of Caracas as well as British and US intelligence agencies, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.

Authorities in Colombia, one of the world’s top cocaine producers, had been closing in on Daniel Barrera (below) - known as ‘Crazy Barrera’ - in recent weeks, arresting 36 members of his gang and seizing five tonnes of the drug and 21 aircraft.

“Crazy Barrera has been perhaps the most wanted kingpin in recent times,” Santos said. “He has dedicated 20 years to doing bad things to Colombia and the world, all types of crime, perverse alliances with paramilitaries, with the FARC (rebel group).”

In a televised speech, Colombia’s president said Barrera was captured in the Venezuelan city of San Cristobal, about 15 miles from the Colombian border.

Santos said the operation was directed from Washington by a Colombian police general.

The government says Barrera’s smuggling ring was capable of sending 10 tonnes of cocaine a month to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, the most powerful organised crime gang in the Americas.

He had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States and $2.7 million from the Colombian government.

Santos thanked US and British intelligence agencies as well as Venezuela President Hugo Chavez’s government for their help.

Chavez’s government summoned reporters to a news conference yesterday but also issued a brief statement hailing the operation as further proof of Venezuela’s “indomitable will” in the fight against drug trafficking.

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Business Lloyds European shares edge higher, Spain in focus draws down £1b from UK lending scheme

By Atul Prakash

BRITAIN'S biggest retail bank Lloyds said yesterday it had become the first bank to access money under the government's Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme, initially drawing down 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) from the Bank of England.

Britain launched the scheme in June as part of efforts to lift the economy out of recession, making 80 billion pounds of cheap funding available to banks provided it is loaned to households and businesses.

Previous schemes to spur lending since the financial crisis have failed to give a clear boost to the economy but Britain is hoping the FLS will be different as it ties banks' access to the scheme directly to whether they raise lending.

Lloyds, which is 40-per cent owned by the UK taxpayer, said it would lend the money in a matter of weeks through discounted lending to small and medium-sized companies and homebuyers and Chief Executive Antonio Horta-Osorio said the 1 billion pound draw down was "just the start". The bank leant 6.6 billion pounds to small businesses in the first half of 2012.

It said it has increased lending to small businesses by 4 per cent over the past year, during a time when lending across the industry has shrunk by 4 per cent.

Lloyds said last week that it would use the scheme to offer British firms a 1 per cent reduction in the interest rate for new business loans and that the discount would apply to the full length of the term on loans of 1,000 pounds or more.

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EUROPEAN shares edged higher yesterday after Japan's central banks followed others in easing policy to support an economic recovery, though Spain's reluctance to seek a bailout kept a lid on gains.

The growth-linked automobile sector was the top gainer, rising 1 per cent after the Bank of Japan boosted its asset purchase programme to help an economy that faces weakening exports. Other major gainers were defensive stocks, indicating caution among investors. The healthcare, food and beverages and retail sectors rose

0.5 to 0.7 per cent. Eurozone banks fell 1 per cent on concerns about Spain, with Societe Generale down 2.2 per cent. Spain is under pressure to request aid and trigger a European Central Bank bond-buying programme to help it bring down a soaring public deficit and high debt.

“The stock market will get the next big (boost) if Spain asks for a bailout.

The longer they delay it, the worse it will become and the immediate QE (central bank asset buying) effect will vanish,” Giuseppe-Guido Amato, strategist at Lang & Schwarz in Frankfurt, said.

“I am still cautious. Investors need to be selective and look for big companies that have steady cash flow, at-

tractive dividends and products that consumers will continue to buy.”

He cited British American Tobacco, Novo Nordisk and Nestle.

The technical picture was also clouded. Charts showed the eurozone's blue chip Euro STOXX 50 index, which traded down 0.1 per cent at 2,551.08 points, faced strong resistance near its 2012 highs.

“A sustained breakout above 2,611 would be required to look for new projected (technical) targets of 2,679 and 2,743,” Dmytro Bondar, technical analyst at RBS, said. The index would probably find support near 2,480-2,500 in the near term.

At 1123 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index was up 0.2 per cent at 1,113.63

points after falling 0.4 per cent on Tuesday. The index, which climbed to a 14-month high on Friday on the US Federal Reserve's stimulus programme, is up more than 11 per cent so far this year. Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a note it expected Europe to remain in a recession through 2013 and that, on a 12-month investment horizon, its preferred stocks included Lloyds, Societe Generale and investment banks that could exhibit earnings per share growth.

Among individual movers, Dutch brewer Heineken NV rose 6.3 per cent after taking a major step towards winning control of the Tiger beer brand and an Asian brewing network after a Thai rival accepted a takeover deal.

BoE sees a chance for more stimulus Short-term inflation pressures likely to squeeze consumers

By David Milliken and Olesya Dmitracova MORE Bank of England asset purchases to boost Britain's weak economy are likely, even in the face of a worse short-term inflation outlook, a number of central bank officials said in policy minutes published yesterday.

The central bank said shortterm inflation pressures were likely to squeeze consumers' disposable income, and that a global slowdown and eurozone tensions were hurting business confidence in an economy that entered recession late last year.

The BoE is midway through a four-month programme of 50 billion pounds ($81.27 billion) of asset purchases that it started in July, and for all but one of the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, it was a “straightforward”decision to carry on with it unchanged.

“Some of these members felt that additional stimulus was more likely than not to be needed in due course, while others saw the risks to infla-

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The Bank of England is mid-way through a four-month programme tion in the medium term as being more balanced around the target," the minutes of the MPC's Sept. 5-6 meeting said.

One policymaker argued that there was a “good case" to step up asset purchases now, rather than wait, but in the end all nine officials voted to keep interest rates at a record-low 0.5 per cent and the asset purchase total at 375 billion pounds.

Economists said the minutes left intact their view that the central bank was likely to authorise another 50 billion pounds of government bond purchases in November, which would take total purchases to 425 billion pounds.

“I think there is still a dovish bias there," said Ross Walker, an economist at Royal Bank

of Scotland. “It's not a done deal, but I would put about a 65 per cent probability on a November decision (for more QE)." There was little market reaction to the minutes.

British inflation has been above the BoE's 2 per cent target since December 2009, and is now at 2.5 per cent.

A recent rise in oil prices, and the threat of higher food and utility bills to come, mean that inflation is likely to fall more slowly in the short-term than the BoE forecast in August, the minutes said.

However, the BoE targets inflation over the medium term, and here the impact of a short-term rise in oil prices is more muted, said RBS's Walker, as it pushes down consumer demand. The BoE said it was concerned about

the impact of rising employment at a time of weak economic output, as this caused lower productivity, potentially pushing up prices in the future.

Two BoE policymakers – Ben Broadbent and chief economist Spencer Dale – opposed July's restart to the quantitative easing programme. Instead they have argued that the BoE's Funding for Lending Scheme, which offers banks cheap finance if they lend to businesses and households, is a better approach as it may help unblock some of the supply constraints in Britain's economy. Here the evidence is mixed. The BoE said there were some encouraging signs that banks were lowering interest rates.

Air France-KLM world air transport leader once again THE DOW Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), the main international index evaluating companies on their performance in terms of sustainable development, has again ranked Air France-KLM air transport leader in 2012, for the 8th year running.

The group is also leader of the broader “Transport and Leisure”sector for the fourth year running. This distinction ranks the 19 most responsible companies in the world, each in their own sector of activity.

“This recognition of our commitment rewards the efforts of everyone in the group worldwide.

“To continue to ensure our mission of connecting people in a sustainable way, we must assume our responsibilities and reconcile economic performance, environmental respect and social progress.” said Alexandre de Juniac, Chairman and CEO of Air France.

“The number one position of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Index proves that KLM and Air France are still sector leaders on sustainability. Already for the eighth time in a row. You may understand that I am very proud of this position. It’s positive that others in our branch are also developing themselves in the field of sustainability. This makes it even more challenging to keep the nr.1 position”, added Peter Hartman, CEO of KLM. Air France-KLM says it has been committed for many years to reducing its environmental impact, developing a responsible social policy and contributing to the development of territories where its aircraft take off and land every day. In 2011, the group operated the first commercial flights using sustainable biofuel, developed eco-design and the recycling of products served on board and supported numerous humanitarian programmes.

The DJSI is a benchmark in extra-financial ratings. It selects each year the 19 leading companies from among 2,500 international companies, following an analysis process by the Swiss group SAM (Sustainable Asset Management Indexes GmbH).

The Air France-KLM group has been part of the DJSI since 2005 and is also integrated in the non-financial indexes ASPI, Ethibel Sustainabilty Index (ESI) and FTSE4Good.

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It’s no bad thing if some pharmacies have to close THIRTY-FIVE per cent of pharmacies would be forced to close next year as a result of their dramatic reduction in customers, according to a survey carried out for the Association of Pharmacists. Private pharmacies now serve only 20 per cent of the population, with more and more people using the state pharmacies at which they pay next to nothing for medicine.

Only recently, the health ministry took a decision making another 18,000 people eligible to free healthcare, which also meant free drugs.

The survey, which the Association sent to Brussels, found that the pharmacy at the Nicosia General Hospital handled, on average, 483 prescriptions per day compared to 7.8 by a private pharmacy, which is hardly surprising considering at the former drugs are given free or for a nominal charge while the latter charges market prices. Nor is it surprising that in time of recession, with incomes falling, more people would try to get prescription drugs from the state’s pharmacies.

The SOS sounded by the head of Pharmacists Association in a report in Wednesday’s Phileleftheros was not prompted exclusively by the fall in business. The Association is concerned that in its drive to lower the price of medicine the health ministry is considering lowering the profit margin, guaranteed, by law, on all medicine sold by private pharmacies. The margin is just above 30 per cent, with pharmacies, making even more than the importer/distributor.

It is no wonder there is a pharmacy on every street corner - in proportion to the population we probably have the highest number of pharmacies in the world. And this is because pharmacies are guaranteed by law a profit margin in excess of 30 per cent. If this margin is cut to 15 per cent, perhaps 35 per cent of pharmacies would close down, but the people not eligible to free medicine would benefit from cheaper drugs. Would this be such a bad thing? Why should people have to pay premium prices for medicine to keep in business a much bigger number of pharmacies than is needed by our society?

As a way of helping its members survive, the Association has proposed, in the event that lower profit margins were approved, a ‘prescription fee’ for every drug sold by a private pharmacy. If the government agrees to this proposal, the benefit of lower prices for consumers would be reduced, if not eliminated.

The profit margins should be lowered even if it means the closure of some pharmacies. Hundreds of shops, selling all kinds of products, have closed down because of the recession, without their owners seeking state help. Why should pharmacies, which have been benefiting from big profit margins for decades, be protected?

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Why Britain must try to reverse economic course I

T IS the mark of science and perhaps rational thought more generally to operate with a falsifiable understanding of how the world operates. And so it is fair to ask of the economists a fundamental question: What could happen going forward that would cause you to substantially revise your views of how the economy operates and to acknowledge that the model you had been using was substantially flawed?

As a vigorous advocate of fiscal expansion as an appropriate response to a major economic slump in an economy with zero or near-zero interest rates, I have for the last several years suggested that if the British economy - with its major attempts at fiscal consolidation were to enjoy a rapid recovery, it would force me to substantially revise my views about fiscal policy and the workings of the macroeconomy more generally.

Unfortunately for the British economy, nothing in the record of the last several years compels me to revise my views.

British economic growth post-crisis has lagged substantially behind US growth, and the gap is growing. British GDP has not yet returned to its precrisis level and is more than 10 per cent below what would have been predicted on the basis of the pre-crisis trend.

The cumulative output loss from this British downturn in its first five years exceeds even that experienced during the Depression of the 1930s. And forecasts continue to be revised downward, with a decade or more of Japan-style stagnation now emerging as a real possibility on the current course.

Whenever policy is failing to achieve its objectives, as in Britain today with respect to economic growth, there is a debate as to whether the right response is doubling down perseverance and intensification of the existing path - or recognition of error or changed circumstances and a change in course. In Britain today such a debate rages with respect to the aggressive fiscal consolidation that the government has made the centrepiece of its economic strategy. Until and unless there is a substantial reversal of course with respect to near-term fiscal consolidation, Britain’s short- and long-run economic performance is like-

Analysis

Lawrence Summers

ly to deteriorate. An effective policy approach to Britain’s economic problems must start with the recognition that the principal factor holding back the British economy over both the short- and medium-term is the lack of demand. It is certainly true that Britain faces important structural issues, ranging from difficulties in promoting innovation to deficiencies in the system of worker training.

But it is apparent from the relatively low level of vacancies, the reluctance of workers to leave jobs, the pervasiveness across industries and occupations of increased unemployment and the testimony of firms regarding the formation of their investment plans that it is lack of demand that is holding the economy back from producing as much as it could.

Keynes writing during the Depression compared Britain’s economic problems to a “magneto” problem, referring to the fact that a car might have many infirmities, but if its electrical system did not work, the car would not go, and if it were fixed, the car would go even with other problems. So it is today.

Moreover, to an extent that is greatly underappreciated in the policy debate, short-run increases in demand and output would have medium- to long-term benefits as the economy reaps the benefits of what economists call hysteresis effects.

A stronger economy means more capital investment and fewer cutbacks to corporate R&D; it means fewer people lose their connection to good jobs and get addicted to living without work; it means that more young people get first jobs that put them on ladders to success; and it means more businesses choose leaders oriented to expansion rather than cost-cutting. The most important structural program for raising Britain’s potential output in the future is raising its actual output today.

The objection to this view comes in many forms, but it is in

ON THIS DAY SEPTEMBER 20 1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held.

1967 The Queen launches the new Cunard cruise liner, the Queen Elizabeth 2, at a ceremony on the Clydebank.

British economic growth post-crisis has lagged behind US essence that “reversing course on fiscal expansion now would undermine credibility, backfire with respect to growth by risking a spike in capital costs, and risk catastrophe down the road as debts became unsustainable.”

This line of argument is profoundly flawed.

First, the behaviour of financial markets suggests that it is economic weakness rather than profligacy that is the main source of concern about credit problems down the road.

Why else would the tendency be for the costs of buying credit insurance on the UK to rise overall as interest rates fall? In similar vein, a strong tendency has emerged in both the UK and US for interest rates to rise and fall together with stock prices, implying that it is evolving optimism and pessimism about the future, not changing views about fiscal policy, driving market fluctuations.

Second, the reality is that the primary determinant of fiscal health in both the US and UK over the medium term will be the rate of growth the economy achieves. An extra percentage point of growth maintained for five years would reduce Britain’s debt-to-GDP ratio by close to 10 percentage points,

whereas austerity policies that slowed growth could even backfire in the narrow sense of raising debt-to-GDP ratios and turning the unsustainability of debt into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A change in the pace of fiscal consolidation is necessary for Britain to have a chance to avoid a lost decade of economic performance.

It is, to be sure, not sufficient.

Rather than starving public investment today, now is the time to add to confidence by making plans for structural reforms to contain the growth of public consumption spending over time.

It is also time to take overdue measures to promote exports and, after years of appropriately low investment, to restart housing investment. But at a time when demand is needed for growth and the private sector is hanging back, the first priority must be for the public sector to stop exacerbating the contraction.

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard and former US Treasury Secretary.

He speaks and consults widely on economic and financial issues

WHAT THE MAIL SAID 25 years ago Sunday September 20, 1987 Iraq turned down a Japanese plea yesterday to end attacks on Gulf shipping and also sent its planes on their first raid close to Tehran in months. Shipping sources in the area confirmed a hit on the Cypriot super-tanker Actina as Iraqi leaders told Japan’s Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari that attacks on Iranian tankers were to defend Baghdad’s rights.

1970

35 years ago Tuesday September 20, 1977

The Russian space probe, Luna 16, is the first to land on the Moon and collects rock samples to bring back to Earth.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Caglayangil will refer to the Cyprus question when he addresses the UN General Assembly on October 3. Caglayangil said this in a statement before his departure during the weekend for New York to attend the General Assembly session which opens later this week.

1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.

2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a “war on terror”.

45 years ago Wednesday September 20, 1967 Secretary-general U Thant expressed regret today that no significant progress had been made towards a solution of the Cyprus problem. In the absence of a settlement, he told the General Assembly, withdrawal of the UN Peacekeeping Force would lead to renewed hostilities and a consequent threat to peace and security in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Showbiz Streisand, Minnelli, Franklin sing for Marvin Hamlisch THREE of America’s leading stage performers - Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and Aretha Franklin - paid tribute to Marvin Hamlisch on Tuesday night, honouring the late composer for his contributions to Broadway and movies, as well as their personal lives.

The invitation-only tribute for the composer of numerous hit records, movies and musicals such as “A Chorus Line” was held at the New York’s Juilliard School for the Arts where Hamlisch studied as a boy after three years earlier displaying at the age of 4 a gift for mimicking music. Hamlisch

Gaga: weed has changed my whole life

LADY Gaga praised marijuana as she lit up on stage in Amsterdam. The 26-yearold singer told her fans she had cut down on drinking alcohol because she prefers smoking the drug and revealed it had been hugely beneficial to her music.

According to The Sun newspaper, she said: “I want you to know it has totally changed my life and I’ve really cut down on drinking. It has been a totally spiritual experience for me with my music.

“It’s like saying everybody needs to take a breath and it’s going to be OK.” She also joked she was going to talk to US President Barack Obama in a bid to make marijuana legal in America.

The eccentric singer recently had a tattoo inked onto her newly-shaved head in front of a live audience as part of the launch for her new perfume Fame.

Gaga had an image of a cherub wearing a crown etched into the back of her head at New York’s Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and tattooist Mark Mahoney said the design is a nod to her Italian roots.

Mark - who was helped by his assistant Wes Brown explained: “It’s kind of a Renaissance era cherub, a nod to her Italian heritage.”

The singer - whose real name is Stefani Germanotta - put on a number of live art installation features during the evening to launch the scent, which included the singer arriving at the venue inside a replica of her perfume bottle, inside which she was asleep on a bed.

died after a brief illness in Los Angeles on August 6 at the age of 68, causing an outpouring of grief from well-known entertainers and fans and prompting Streisand, Hamlisch’s friend for the past 45 years, to organise the tribute.

Streisand performed The Way We Were - one of Hamlisch’s best known songs and one of Streisand’s biggest hits - in the tribute’s finale. She also recalled how they first met in 1963 when Hamlisch was the rehearsal pianist for Streisand’s movie Funny Girl, who would also on occasion fetch the cast coffee.

“Because I didn’t drink coffee, he

was assigned to get me a chocolate doughnut,” Streisand told the laughing audience filled with friends, family and stars including Michael Douglas, Sarah Jessica Parker and lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman. “But instead of just one, he always brought me two and so our love affair began.”

Streisand told how she forged a friendship with the New York-born composer based on a shared passion for “music, film and food,” and “without explaining why or how, we understood each others anxieties,” while joking about their shared Jewish heritage. They ended up with a long history

of working together, including Hamlisch’s turn as musical director and arranger of Streisand’s 1994 U.S. concert tour as well as writing the score for Streisand’s 1996 film, The Mirror Has Two Faces. Hamlisch had called Streisand the best voice there is.

Earlier Liza Minnelli, who performed If You Really Knew Me from Hamlisch’s Tony-nominated 1979 musical, They’re Playing Our Song, said she met the composer, “when I was 14 and a half, and he was 15 and three-quarters,” and soon became best friends: “He was one of my few constants that I had in my life.”

Robbie Williams becomes a father

Oscar, you’ve got mail: electronic voting 2013

Industry watchers said the move to electronic voting could be difficult for some academy members

It will be the first time in Academy’s 85-year history VOTING FOR the Oscars is going electronic for the first time in a move that will speed up the process and could give a boost to younger, edgier movies.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that a new online voting system will be used for the first time in its 85-year history for the Oscars that will be handed out in February 2013.

In a transition process, the academy’s 6,000 members also will be able to use traditional paper ballots to nominate and select the best actors, films, directors, screen writers and other winners of 2012.

In the past, Oscar ballots have been mailed around the world to Academy members - directors, actors, screen-

writers, producers and other leading film industry figures - and the results have been tabulated by hand by the PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm.

Industry watchers said the move to electronic voting could be difficult for some academy members, who have a reputation for being older and more conservative by nature. “People love to conjure up the academy as being made up of 90-year-old geezers who’ve never opened an email before and think the Internet is a passing fad,” said Tom O’Neil of awards website Goldderby.com.

“It could end up having a profound effect if there is a drop off on the older voters who are frustrated by the new system and pass on voting,

Lohan arrested in hit and run ACTRESS Lindsay Lohan was arrested yesterday for leaving the scene of an accident after she struck a pedestrian on her way into a hotel in lower Manhattan, police said.

Lohan’s latest brush with the law started shortly before 2:30 am (0630 GMT) when she drove her Porsche into an alley. Lohan’s vehicle clipped a 34-year-old man, police said without elaborating. She got out of the car and entered the Dream Hotel. Lohan, 26, was arrested when she left the hotel a short time later, charged with a misdemeanor and released.

The man, who said his knee was injured, was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital, police said.

leaving the younger voters to pick more hip choices,” O’Neil said.

The academy said on Tuesday it was introducing online voting after extensive consultations with its members.

Members also will be able to get help casting their ballots at electronic stations set up at academy-affiliated properties in London, New York and Los Angeles and through a 24-hour telephone help line.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg said he believed that part of the academy’s rationale also was to consolidate the movie awards season, which begins in November and ends in February with the Oscars ceremony.

“They’re not thrilled that the awards campaigns have grown to be so big and expen-

sive that it actually does sway voters,” Feinberg said.

“So many awards shows happen before the Oscars.

Because the season is so long, there is a sense that it takes away some of the luster from the Oscars.”

The academy announced it has moved its Oscar nominations date to January 10 - five days earlier than previously scheduled - in order to give the public and its members more time to see the nominated movies before the annual ceremony in Hollywood.

Tuesday’s online voting announcement followed the Academy giving the go-ahead last year to make copies of films vying for the Oscars available to members through online streaming, rather than on traditional DVDs.

BRITISH pop star Robbie Williams has become a father for the first time, announcing the arrival of a baby girl - Theodora Rose, “affectionately known as Teddy”.

The 38-year-old singer said his daughter was born on Tuesday, weighing 7 pounds 4 ounces.

“Baby, mummy and daddy are all rockin...” Williams said in a message on his website late on Tuesday.

“Thank you for your best wishes.”

The girl was born in London, British media reported.

Williams announced in March that he and his wife Ayda Field were expecting their first child. Williams married the actress at his Beverly Hills home in 2010.

Williams forged a successful solo career after leaving British boy band Take That in 1995, and signed one of the world’s biggest music deals with EMI in 2002.

He has sold over 60 million albums as a solo artist, rejoining the boy band in 2010.

Williams is the fourth member of Take That to become a father after Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald.

Williams has said he would prefer his child to grow up in the UK instead of Los Angeles, where the couple currently live.

He described children educated in LA schools as having “a massive sense of entitlement” and that they are “dull and dumb”.

“I don’t want to educate our baby in LA because I would much prefer her to have English sensibilities.

“I want the baby to have an English passport. We’re still figuring out exactly whereabouts the baby is going to be brought up.

“I had a conversation with the wife last night about where we’re going to end up but we still don’t know.”

Singer and actor Jonathan Wilkes, who is a long-standing friend of Williams, said: “Right bed time !!! Got a big day Tommrow I’m meeting a new little lady !! X”.

The couple also received congratulations from DJ Chris Moyles and children’s food guru Annabel Karmel, who tweeted: “Congratulations @robbiewilliams and Ayda. Welcome to the world baby Theodora Rose.”

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Showbiz

Mad Men, the 1960s-era advertising show on AMC beloved by critics, is hoping to score a fifth consecutive best drama series win from 17 Emmy nominations

Drama in store for big Emmy night Mad Men in tight race for 5th best drama win

Homeland has received gushing reviews for its mix of cliffhangers, moral complexity and post-9/11 suspicion

By Jill Serjeant

Empire on HBO, Game of Thrones, and Showtime newcomer Homeland round out the best drama series choices for the 15,000 voters of the Television Academy.

Claire Danes, who plays a bipolar CIA agent in Homeland tracking down a returning US Iraq war hero who has been turned by Muslim extremists, is seen as a sure bet for taking home the best drama actress Emmy on Sunday.

Homeland, with nine nominations and gushing reviews for its mix of cliffhangers, moral complexity and post9/11 suspicion, and Downton Abbey have "the most buzz for any shows that I can recall," Gold said.

The contest for best comedy actress on TV is also too close to call, according to TV pundits.

"It was a fantastic year for comediennes. Julia LouisDreyfus is in the race with hot new HBO series Veep that happens to be about the vice-presidential race in the middle of a presidential election. How perfect is that?" said O'Neil. "And Lena Dunham (Girls HBO) is this year's Tina Fey. She does it all - writing, directing, acting, producing."

O'Neil said Fey, creator and star of 30 Rock, also had her best chance in recent years to win. But New Girl star Zooey Deschanel on Fox,

A NIGHT of upsets could be on the menu at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, with the countesses and kitchen maids of Britain's Downton Abbey bidding to end the reign of television's Mad Men, while post-9/11 psychological thriller Homeland lurks close by.

With a tight race for the best drama series top prize and a great year for comedy actresses, the television industry's biggest night could pack as much drama this year as the plot twists and turns dreamed up by TV writers on screen.

"What makes this year's Emmys filled with such anticipation is that there are no easy predictions and that makes the show exciting," said Todd Gold, executive editor of Xfinity TV. "There was a period in the 1990s when the Emmys seemed so predictable. This is a year that really reflects the strength and depth of TV across the board," Gold told Reuters.

The Primetime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live from Los Angeles on Sunday on ABC television, and hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel.

Mad Men, the 1960s-era advertising show on AMC

Downton Abbey, the upstairs-downstairs period drama set in an aristocratic English house, is nipping at Mad Men's heels with 16 nods beloved by critics, is hoping to score a fifth consecutive best drama series win from 17 Emmy nominations.

But Downton Abbey, the upstairs-downstairs period drama set in an aristocratic English house, is nipping at its heels with 16 nods in one of PBS' best years at the Emmys.

British imports often do well at US award shows.

"Hollywood, like the rest of America, has a secret inferiority complex about all

things British. Downton Abbey did much better in the nominations than anyone thought. It could really do this," said Tom O'Neil of awards website Goldderby. com.

Mad Men emerged emptyhanded from last weekend's Creative Arts portion of the Emmys - which honors costumes, hair styling and other mainly technical categories - in what O'Neil said "may be an early omen of what's to come."

Although success at the Creative Arts - where HBO's medieval fantasy Game of Thrones was the big winner - does not necessarily indicate glory at the Primetime Awards, "the usually unflappable (Mad Men lead character) Don Draper might be sweating under his crisp white collar right now," O'Neil added.

Dark drug drama Breaking Bad, in its fifth and final season on AMC, 1930s-era gangster show Boardwalk

could clinch an Emmy on her first try.

In the best comedy series, ABC's reigning champion, Modern Family, appears to have little serious competition, and its stars are also expected to take home some of the supporting acting Emmys.

But there may be a chink in Jon Stewart's stronghold in the variety series slot with his satirical The Daily Show.

"I think Jimmy Kimmel is going to put a stop to the nine-year juggernaut of The Daily Show this year," said O'Neil. "I think Jon Stewart has met his match. Jimmy is also hosting the Emmys, and this could be his night of nights."

In other key races, Bryan Cranston is favoured to win a fourth Emmy as best actor in a dramatic series for his role as a chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin in Breaking Bad, while History Channel's Hatfields & McCoys, with 16 nominations, is a strong contender for best miniseries.

The show about a legendary feud between two families in 19th century Kentucky and West Virginia was a surprise hit with audiences in May "and reminded critics that American TV viewers are still enraptured by a good Western," said Gold.

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What’s on

films

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

NICOSIA Safe (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Step Up 4 (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Total Recall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Campaign (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Bel Ami (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 3D) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm;

Bel Ami

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

K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in English, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 77778383 The Expendables 2 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.15pm.

Tel: 7777-8383

LIMASSOL Safe (15) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.15, 8 and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Step Up 4 (N/A) Rio 2 at 8.30 and 10.20pm.

Rio 3, weekends only at 4.30 and 6.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Total Recall (12) Rio 3 at 7.45pm, weekends at 8.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Campaign (12) Rio 5 at 7.45pm (weekends at 8pm) and 10pm. Tel: 25-

871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Bel Ami (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8.05pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Greek), weekends only at 4.30 and 6.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS

LARNACA

Step Up 4 (N/A) Rio 1 at 4pm (weekends only), 6, 8 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

Safe (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 2 (in Greek, in 3D) at 5pm (weekends only) and 6.45pm; Rio 4 (in English, in 2D) at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends at 4.45, 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Expendables 2 (15) Rio 3 at 10pm, weekends at 10.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Step Up 4 (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Total Recall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Campaign (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm. Tel: 77778383 Bel Ami (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Ted (15) Rio 6 at 5.30pm (weekends only) and 7.45pm. Tel: 25871410 The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 6 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 3D) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Expendables 2 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Safe (15) Rio 5 at 4pm (weekends only), 6, 8 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Total Recall (12) Rio 6 at 6, 8.20 and 10.30pm, weekends at 4, 6.10, 8.20 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Campaign (12) Rio 3 at 6, 8 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Bel Ami (12) Rio 2 at 4pm (weekends only), 6 and 8pm. Tel: 26-207000 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 7 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm; Rio 4 (in 2D, in English) at 4pm (weekends only) and 6pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Expendables 2 (15) Rio 4 at 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 2 at 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

listings Today Exhibition Spring – Autumn Solo art exhibition by Miro Skapoulli.

Opens September 20, 7.30pm until October 3. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm.

Tel: 22-760286 Common Reflections-Trans-generational Group exhibition and interactive workshops, portraying alternative viewpoints on social placed behaviour patterns across different age groups. Opens September 20, 8.30pm until October 4. ARTos Foundation, 64 Ayion Omoloyiton Avenue, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am–1pm & 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am–1pm.

Tel: 99-807798/97-611269

Theatre What Parliament Will You Deliver?

Comedy featuring a cast of wellknow Greek actors. September 20-21. Municipal Gardens Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €15/23. In Greek.

Tel: 25-588694

Other Events

Australias, Limassol. Open daily: 12midday-8pm. Tel: 25-660081

Support Group Event Cancer Patients Support Group night.

September 20. Pizza Express, Kato Paphos. 7pm. €22 per ticket- includes full buffet, local drinks, suitable for vegetarians. Tel: 99-797533 e-mail suepete@cytanet.com.cy.

Glyn Hughes Solo art exhibition. Opens September 21, 7.30pm until September 28.

Art Space Kat’ Oikon, 47 Perikleous Street, old Nicosia. Open daily except Sunday: 5pm-8pm. Tel: 96-510261

Freedom of Birth Documentary screening. September 20. Amphitheatre UNESCO, University of Nicosia. In English. 5.30pm.

Free. Tel: 99-365414

Tomorrow

inSITE Site-specific exhibition whereby seven artists engage in a dialogue with the surrounding space and its history through a series of mediums. Opens September 21, 5pm until September 30. Entrance of the Nea Paphos Archaeological Site. Open 8am-6pm.

Tel: 99-402636/99-517568

Exhibition

Music

Objet Petit A Group exhibition. Opens September 21, 8.30pm until October 12. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670

Glykeria and Giorgos Lianos Two popular Greek singers join forces and perform live. September 21. Ayios Tychonas Tourist Area Parking Place, Limassol. 9pm. Tel: 25-323567

A Series of Paradox Episodes, Episode 1: The Local Search Three artists explore themes of construction methods and materials in relation to the art making process.

Opening Friday September 21, 7pm until September 30. Konteiner, 6

Theatre The Devil Wears Primark A comedy by Rubber Ear Productions. September 21. Agia Thekla, Paralimni. 8pm. €20. Tel: 99-069074/99-908434 www.rubberear.wordpress.com

Dance

Exhibition

Open House Festival A showcase of choreographers and dance groups from the international dance scene. September 21, 23 & 25. Rialto Theatre, Limassol.

8.30pm. €7/10. For three performances €15/25. Tel: 77-777798/77777745. www.dancehouselemesos. com. www.rialto.com.cy

Iosif Hadjikyriakos Solo painting exhibition inspired by the art of Lefkara. Until September 20. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou St, Larnaca. Tel: 24-621109. www.gallerykypriakigonia.com.cy

Ongoing Other Events Septemberfest - Nicosia Beer Fun Festival The festival includes a rich variety of beers, food stalls and various music performances. September 18-23. Costantza Moat, Nicosia.

7pm. €5 (including 1 drink). Tel: 22485420/22-889600

Theatre After the Rehearsal Theatro Ena opens new season with play by Ingmar Bergman. Until November 4. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Friday to Sunday at 8.30pm. €12/15. In Greek. Tel: 22348203

Divine Inspiration A painting exhibition and a documentary by Mary Plant and Evanthia Kouma. Until September 24. Skali Aglantzias, 15 Agiou Georgiou, Nicosia. 6pm-9.30pm. Tel: 22-462233 Summer 2012 Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Until September 30.

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

Tuesday-Friday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25378733. www.morfi.org Nicosia: Topographies of Memory: From Ermou Street to the Buffer Zone Exhibition by Anita Bakshi reconstructing Ermou marketplace – using maps that were created from memories and narratives provided by shopkeepers who once worked or lived in the area. Until September 30. Home for Cooperation, 28 Markou Drakou, opposite Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia. Open MondaySunday: 10am-6pm. Tel: +90 542 8506681/22-445740. www.home4cooperation.info/www.ahdr.info

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

Méditerranée Works by artists from Cyprus and the Mediterranean, who through their work explore the spirit of the closed sea of cultures. Until September 30. Lanitis Foundation, Carob Mill, old Limassol. Daily 9am-1pm and 3pm-8pm. Saturday and Sunday 3pm-8pm. Tel: 25-342123 Our Lady of Nicosia Exhibition about the church of Phaneromeni and its relics. Until September 30. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 96-90 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. Tel: 80-000800 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. MondayFriday: 8am-2pm. Wednesday: 3pm-6pm. Sunday: 6pm-8pm. Tel: 24-524002 Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis. Until December 30. Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis, Nicosia. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am-4pm. Tel: 22-797400. info@nimac. org.cy. www.nimac.org.cy

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Clean up your act!

When was the last time you did something towards helping the environment?

The impact we have on our planet continues to affect our natural systems as well as our quality of life. One of the biggest problems we face is waste management.

Almost every activity we perform individually and as a society produces some form of waste.

According to a conservative estimate, humanity generates some one billion tons of garbage every year. A mere 11 per cent of the amount is processed. The rest is taken to special-purpose ground or thrown out to spontaneous waste deposits, such as beaches, city parks or suburban woods.

Environmental education has helped us realise the need to preserve natural wealth. But just knowing and talking about it doesn’t help, one’s actions need to speak louder than words.

If you are fed up with seeing the environment strewn with rubbish, now is the perfect time to do something about it by joining the world clean-up campaign Let’s Do It! The civic movement Let’s Do It! sprang into existence in Estonia in 2008, when 10,000 tons of garbage in the republic was removed in just five hours. In one day 50,000 volunteers worked together to solve a problem that their government believed would cost millions of dollars and thousands of work hours.

But it didn’t stop there – since 2008 the bold one-dayone-country cleanup model has been a success in multiple countries around the world. Today community cleanup days co-ordinated by local organisers have been held in 16 countries with the help of over 2.7 million volunteers. Since the Estonian idea kept getting more and more global attention, it was decided to cook up an ambitious plan for a world-wide cleanup.

World Cleanup 2012 is the first global endeavour of the Let’s Do It! movement. It will bring together active people and organisations from 100 countries that will be leading one major cleanup day in their respective country. Over 70 countries have already given word that they will be participating and Cyprus will be one of them.

The big clean-up day is scheduled for next Saturday and the emphasis of this day, is to clean up important ecosystems such as beach, forest areas, mountain areas and other polluted natural spots. But more than that, it aims to raise awareness, educate and improve the attitude of Cypriot citizens towards waste recycling and environmental protection.

The campaign objectives include creating the first digital registry and national map with locations of as many illegal dumpsites as possible around the island.

Those interested in taking part should register either on the website or by calling Let’s Do It Cyprus! Following

your registration you can choose a waste spot near you or be allocated l t ill be b trained t i d beforeb f one. V Volunteers will hand to collect the recyclables and non recyclables separately. Everything will then be taken to a central point and the recycling companies will pick the waste up from there.

Prior to clean-up day next week, Cycling for Life Cyprus, together with Let’s Do It Cyprus! are organising an innovative two wheel event aiming to support and promote Let’s Do It Cyprus! The event dubbed Let’s Bike It! aspires to be the biggest cycling event in Cyprus that will offer the possibility to join from wherever you are based in Cyprus this Saturday.

Let’s Bike It! aims to bring together cyclists of all ages who share the same passion: cycling and the environment. All the events will start at 9am at established meeting points from the Nicosia Municipality and Limassol Castle to Paphos Castle.

Cyclists of all ages are welcome to take part wherever they are in Cyprus and organisers are calling on all to actively participate this Saturday in a grand effort to help protect the island’s environment and natural resources.

Let’s Do It Cyprus!

An islandwide clean-up calling upon volunteers in attempt an to protect the environment. September 29.. Tel: 70-001117. letsdoitcyprus@gmail.com. www.letsdoitcyprus.org Let’s Bike It! An event that aspires to be the biggest cycling event in Cyprus that will offer the possibility to join anywhere you are, which aims to support and promote the largest environmental protection and social involvement project – Let’s Do It Cyprus.

September 22. All the events will start at 9am at established meeting points: Nicosia: starting point: Nicosia Municipality.

Limassol: starting point Limassol Castle.Paphos: starting point Paphos Castle. Tel: 99-254577. Let’s Bike It! Facebook

By Ledha Socratous

NIGHTLIFE Embrace the art of a modern player playing an age-old instrument If you’re looking for something a little different for your nightlife jaunt, the University of Cyprus’ annual Cultural Festival set in the newly renovated, Axiothea Mansion in old Nicosia continues its agenda this week, with a lute concert.

It’s not often that one has the opportunity to attend a lute concert, but this instrument is the great, great grandfather of many of the string instruments with which we are all so familiar. In the Renaissance era, the lute was the most popular instrument in the Western world. It became the symbol of the magic and power of music.

When one thinks of a lute the traditional clichés of Robin Hood serenading Maid Marion with a lute or kings and queens gorging on medieval banquet, while listening to some light entertainment often come to mind.

It would be fair to say that apart from maybe the odd Renaissance fair, the lute makes relatively few public appearances these days and when it does grace a concert stage, it’s generally in the service of centuries-old repertoire.

And yet, there are modern-day composers and performers who remain engaged by the instrument’s trademark sound. Keeping up with the latest in 21stcentury lute music may sound like a contradiction, but after two hundred years of neglect, the future of the lute once again looks bright.

One of the lute’s champions is virtuoso player from Rhodes, Antonis Simixis. After graduating from the Greek Conservatory with honours in both lute and lyre, followed by studies in classical guitar under the prominent soloist Stelios Golkaris, Simixis began his career as an artist play-

been incorporated into his playing, which reveal and expand the melodic range of the lute.

After performances in many festivals across Greece and abroad (Sweden, Spain, Canada), Simixis is coming to Cyprus for the first time to perform at the Axiothea Mansion and to present a musical journey of the lute into unexpected musical realms. The public can expect to hear compositions that include Johann Sebastian Bach, Francisco Tarrega, Isaac Albeniz, Astor Piazzola, Chick Corea and others, as well as traditional songs and original compositions.

ing traditional music.

His perseverance in mastering the art of the lute and his interest to explore the full potential of this instrument, however,

inevitably led him to experiment with other genres such as Indian music, flamenco, jazz, and of course, classical music. Elements of all these music genres have

The Art of the Lute Antonis Simixis presents a musical journey with tunes from the lute. September 22.

Cultural Centre of the University of Cyprus, Manor House on Axiotheas Street. Old Nicosia. 8.30pm. €5/10. Tel: 22-894531/22894532

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

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Reportage Afghans seek

shelter in

The skyscrapers of Dubai

Karzai too will be moving on in 2014

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OT LONG ago, Mohammed Daoud was making good money hiring out halls for wedding parties thrown by a new class of Afghan war entrepreneurs.

Today, he is using some of the profits to buy a $160,000 apartment nestled amid the skyscrapers and shopping malls of Dubai.

Daoud sees his 27th-floor bolt-hole as both a canny investment and the ultimate insurance policy against the darkest scenarios he can envisage for his homeland when the bulk of foreign forces leave.

“Nobody knows what’s going to happen after 2014,” he said in Kabul. “If something happens with the security situation here, I can take my family.

We feel safe in Dubai.”

Wealthy Afghans have sharply increased the pace of investment in property in the Gulf Emirate, motivated by a mix of hard-headed commercial calculations and more nebulous security fears sparked by the drawdown.

Afghan buyers spent 220 million dirhams ($60.7 million) on property in Dubai in the first six months of this year, a 27 per cent increase compared with the same period in 2011, according to Dubai government data. Some are spending up to 20 million dirhams on shopping sprees for multiple villas, while many buy million-dollar homes in cash, dealers say.

The growth outpaced a 21 per cent rise in total property transactions in Dubai by both local and foreign investors in the same period. The interest was driven in part by a steep decline in prices in the Emirate’s once white-hot property market.

The figures will make troubling reading for Western allies struggling to convince an uneasy Afghan population the transition will not be a prelude to international abandon-

ment or an escalation in fighting with the Taliban.

Haji Obaidullah Sader Khail, chairman of the Afghan-Dubai Business Council, said the true scale of Afghan investment could be four times higher than the data suggests because many transactions may not have been registered.

“I know people who have bought 15 to 20 villas,” he said.

According to the official figures, the number of properties Afghans bought in Dubai jumped to 114 in the first half of this year compared to 76 in the same period in 2011.

Reports from real estate agents that Afghans routinely buy luxury homes in cash will do little to ease concerns that some of the billions of dollars the United States and its allies spend to bankroll the government and security forces is seeping abroad.

Afghanistan’s central bank says that Afghans carried $4.5 billion in cash from Kabul airport last year in declared currency exports, double the amount in 2010. The bank estimates that the total amount of cash leaving Afghanistan each year could be as much as $8 billion - almost twice the size of last year’s budget.

The exodus of money is even larger than the $6.37 billion in net official development assistance Afghanistan received in 2010 - 45 per cent of gross domestic product - making it one of the world’s most aiddependent countries.

The central bank imposed new rules limiting the amount of cash an individual can take out of the country to $20,000 in March, but officials say cash is finding alternative paths, such as the poorly-supervised airport in Kandahar in the south.

“People are still taking physical cash from Afghanistan,” deputy central bank governor Khan Afzal Hadawal said. “We are working on a mechanism

Dream homes - the Palm Jumeirah has proved popular with wealthy Afghans

Hand-over - US (background) and Afghan soldiers attend a ceremony handing over the Bagram prison to Afghan authorities on the outskirts of Kabul earlier this month to ensure the money is channelled through the banking sector.”

While much of the outflow may represent the proceeds of regional currency trading or licit commerce in a cashbased economy, Afghan and Western officials believe a share is derived from government corruption, the theft of aid or heroin trafficking.

“With the US pulling out of Afghanistan a feeling of insecurity is setting in,” said Parvees Gafur, chief executive of Dubai-based Propsquare Real Estate. “They want to invest before it’s too late.”

The legacy of the West’s adventure in Afghanistan will not depend solely on the fight against the Taliban; if growth stalls it may be harder for the state to consolidate its authority as most foreign troops return home.

The flood of cash leaving Kabul airport in boxes and suitcases has stoked fears that entrenched graft and persistent capital flight will make it harder to put a booming but

fragile war economy on a more sustainable path.

A US government audit report last year found it was almost impossible to track where much of the billions of dollars spent on security and development projects in the last decade had gone given the country’s weak financial tracking system and poor bank oversight. Afghanistan ranks near the bottom of Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Afghanistan’s power elite has long cherished second, third or fourth homes in Dubai as footholds in a land of designer boutiques and safe neighbourhoods less than a three-hour flight from the more unpredictable streets of Kabul.

Since the United States ousted the Taliban in 2001, lucrative and often badlysupervised contracting opportunities offered by NATO forces or civilian agencies have spawned a new breed of oligarchs who boast ostentatious addresses. With inter-

Afghan purchases of Duba capital flight underlining fe report Praveen Menon national forces scaling back, growth is sure to slow.

“Spending from the US and international community is going to decrease,” said Ajmal Saifi, chief executive of Prestige Real Estate in Dubai, part of an Afghan family-run conglomerate that includes construction and retail interests in Afghanistan.

Uncertainty about who will replace President Hamid Karzai, due to step down in 2014, has compounded investor anxieties in a patronage-driven economy where fortunes are won or lost as the political landscape shifts.

Under pressure from aid donors, Karzai has ordered ministries to take steps to fight corruption and told the Supreme Court to accelerate investigations into longstanding graft cases.

Although few believe his call will have much impact, the

announcements have caused jitters among Afghan plutocrats.

Western countries have pledged durable support to the Afghan government, keen to allay fears of a replay of the

Afghanistan’s pow cherished second, th in Dubai as footholds boutiques and safe slow-motion collapse and civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal in 1989.

But Afghan investors are wary of risking their savings to build factories or farm projects that could help reduce Af-

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Moving in - CEO of Prestige Real Estate, Ajmal Saifi, an Afghani businessman, at the Dubai Marina

i property up sharply, with ears ahead of 2014 pullout n and Matthew Green ghanistan’s chronic dependence on foreign aid while the country is in flux.

“The traders are like birds, always looking for greener and more suitable places. But now they are flying from Afghani-

wer elite has long hird or fourth homes in a land of designer e neighbourhoods stan,” said Khan Jan Alokozai, one of Afghanistan’s most prominent traders and ViceChairman of the country’s chamber of commerce.

“They all fear that if the government starts to crack down

on corruption, they will lose all they have earned. So it’s a good time to take out as much as they can,” he said.

Buyers jetting in from Kabul are mainly purchasing property worth between three million dirhams ($816,800) and four million dirhams ($1.09 million), according to Gafur, the dealer.

Some have found their dream home in the Palm Jumeirah, a frond-shaped development of luxury seafront villas whose vista of passing yachts cuts a stark contrast with the panorama of tawny hills encircling Kabul.

Others have sought an abode in up-market developments with names like Emirates Living and Business Bay and in the needle-shaped Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.

In spite of the sums involved, Afghans often prefer to pay

cash to avoid the higher fees and greater scrutiny required to move money through the banking system, dealers say.

“They are always on cash buys,” said Said Quaid Abbas, managing partner at Mideast Properties, a Dubai-based real estate firm, which counts some Afghans among its clientele. “They don’t deal through banks.”

Security concerns have motivated many Afghan househunters to buy in Dubai, but some are primarily looking for bargains.

Dubai real estate prices slumped by more than 60 per cent from their peak in 2008 after the global economic crisis triggered a collapse in the Emirate’s property market.

Prices have started to recover. The total value of real estate transactions in Dubai topped 63 billion dirhams ($17.2 billion) in the first half of 2012, a 21 per cent increase over the same period in the previous year, according to the data.

Foreign investors bought 22 billion dirhams of the total, buying 12,875 properties.

Indians, Pakistanis and Britons were the top three investors in Dubai real estate, followed by Iranians, Russians and Saudis. The government only ranks the top ten most active buyers by nationality and Afghans do not figure on that list.

Middle Eastern investors seeking a haven from the turmoil of the Arab Spring are also snapping up houses, estate agents say.

In Afghanistan, a sharp slow-

Heroin trafficking may have produced some of the money being spent in Dubai

down in the property market has encouraged investment in Dubai.

Haji Shir Shah Ahmadzai, managing director of a real estate company in Kabul, said property prices in Afghanistan had fallen by about 35 to 50 per cent in the past year.

“The only people who are selling properties are people who need money fast,” he said.

The propensity of rich Afghans to acquire assets in Dubai fell under the spotlight after a run at Kabul Bank, the country’s biggest private lender, in 2010.

Dubai villas account for about $160 million of some

$900 million in assets auditors are trying to recover from the collapsed bank, which extended unsecured loans to a roster of well-connected individuals, according to a former senior Afghan official.

In June, the Afghan government told the International Monetary Fund that it had managed to retrieve properties in Dubai worth an estimated $44 million.

Afghans’ faith in their financial system has yet to recover from the Kabul Bank scandal.

It is a measure of the lack of confidence in the Afghani that some 70 per cent of deposits in Afghan banks are held in

dollars, according to central bank officials.

Not everyone is gloomy. “We can’t expect some John, or Matt, or others to build our country... we have to do it and lead ourselves,” said Ajmal Saifi, whose family business continues to invest in Afghanistan.

In Kabul, Daoud’s labourers toil at the concrete skeleton of a new hall he is building in the belief that the top tier of Afghan society still has many more wedding parties ahead.

He rests a little easier in the knowledge that there are at least six flights a day to his second home in Dubai.

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TO LET NICOSIA 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).

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

4. 3 bedr ground floor semi detached house, 170sq.m, central heating, 3 a/c, 2wc, big kitchen with cooker, oven, big front veranda, small yard, in a very quiet neighbourhood near Areteion hospital and Alpha Mega su-

TO LET NICOSIA permaket. Available end of September - Dasoupoli €650 (H3DAS0007-R), (photos in the 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 which can be used as a bedroom/office, detached house, central heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, small garden and patio with bbq area, covered parking, near Apollonion hospital. – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos in the website) 7. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 330sq.m, central heating, full ac, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting room and all expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, lighting fixtures, 2 bedrs with en suite shower and wc, main bathroom with jacuzzi,3rd bedroom with only shower ,swimming pool with wooden deck around, covered patio with nice covered bbq area, opposite a green area in a very quiet area – Strovolos €2600 (H4ST10040-R), (photos in the website).

8. 4 bedr luxury detached house + 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,

TO LET NICOSIA 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 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 new luxury finished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc, fully expensive furnished with 3 LCD televisions, kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area,2 covered parking’s, alarm system, pressure system, Strovolos €2700 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website).

11. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3 plots of land. Separate maid’s room outside the house, big basement with playroom, office and guest room with sepa-

TO LET NICOSIA rate entrance. The house has big sitting and dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, internal elevator, central heating, full a/c, big yard with tiles, covered kiosk and trees, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end opposite Cineplex – Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos in the website).

12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bedrooms with shower and wc and can be used as guest room,4 wc, solid parquet floor all the house, separate family room with fire place, big sitting room, separate dining room, big kitchen with breakfast area, big outside patio with tiles and bbq area,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighbourhood close to CYBC station. Can be rented furnished or not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000 (H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on 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. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely modern furnished with big sitting and dining areas with bar, central heating, full a/c, big fitted kitchen with TV room, office space, patio area with bbq, covered parking, 3wc, solid parquet floor in bedrooms and granite in

TO LET NICOSIA the sitting areas, near the MEGA TV station – Archangelos €1300 (H3AR0002-R), (photos in the website).

15. 3 bedr luxury semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet floor, fire place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, in a very quiet neighbourhood in the area near Falcon school – Strovolos €1500 (H3STI012-R), (photos in the website).

16. 5 huge bedrooms luxury detached house(2 bedrooms downstairs+3 upstairs) all of them en suite with bathrooms, separate maid’s room, big sitting areas and big separate dining room, big kitchen, central heating, full a/c, extra sitting room upstairs, big swimming pool with cover, big covered patio around the pool and bbq area, covered parking, in a very quiet area near Alpha Mega supermarket. Price negotiable - ENGOMI €4000 (H5ENG0002-R), (photos in the website).

17. 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).

18. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, small

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA yard, bbq area, FULLY FURNISHED, off Costantinoupoleos street near French Ambassador residence – Strovolos €900 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website).

19. 4 bedr + 2 separate rooms with showers and wc (120sq.m) detached house with big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining area and family room with fire place, very big swimming pool with bbq area, covered patio, garden with grass, central heating in 4 zones, full a/c, 6wc, 5 covered parking’s, pressure system, opposite Apoel training field. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE END OF AUGUST – Archangellos €4000 (H4AR0007-R), (photos in the website).

20. 4 bedrs luxury detached villa built in 5 plots of land, 600sq., central Heating, full a/c, very big garden with grass, big swimming pool 5 x 13, bar with bbq area, office space, TV room with fire place, marble floor, all the bedrooms en suite shower/ bathroom, separate self contained apartment for the maid, 2 covered parking in a nice area with easy access to the Limassol road. Can be rented also partially furnished – Latsia €5000(H4LAT0007-R), (photos in the website).

21. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi -

TO LET NICOSIA €3700 (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 22422225/96-422225/96422226, 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. 2 bedr luxury apartment, 3 a/c for hot and cold, covered veranda, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking on a small building 200 METRES from Akropolis Park. Price includes common expenses – Dasoupolis €650 (A2DAS0027-R), (photos in the website).

3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room, separate kitchen with electrical appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2 a/c, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, on a small quiet building in a quiet neighbourhood – Agios Dometios €450 (A1ADO0004-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr luxury PENTHOUSE apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, office space, very big veranda 100sq.m with nice view and bbq area with bar, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 bathrooms, 2 storage rooms, cov-

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

6. 2 bedr Brand new luxury finished apartment on a small modern building with storage heaters, full Daikin air conditions, electrical appliances in the kitchen, top quality double glazed windows with electrical shutters, 1 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 wc, big sitting and dining room, Very big covered veranda, pressure system, covered parking, big storage room, near Acropolis park – Dasoupolis €670 (A2DAS0028-R), (photos in the website).

7. 2 bedr brand new luxury finished apartment on a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed, electrical shutters in the bedrooms, pressure system, water serculation system, solar, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near the centre and near traffic lights of Honda showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R) 8. 1 bedr, fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, ice view off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop – Nicosia Centre €460 (A1NIC0006-R), (photos in the website).

9. 3 bedr new luxury penthouse apartment on the last floor of a 3 storey building, CH ind, full a/c, pressure system, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds in the living room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m, big veranda with view,

TO LET NICOSIA covered parking, 200m opposite Akropolis park. Acropolis €850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos on the website).

10. 2 bedr new( 5 years old) luxury ground floor apartment,85 sq.m, storage heaters, full ac, fully modern expensive furnished and equipped ,expensive silver appliances in the kitchen with dishwasher, small garden and big yard in a quiet neighborhood behind Burger King. MINIMUM CONTRACT 2 YEARS – ENGOMI €650 (A2ENG0002-R), (photos in the website).

TO LET NICOSIA 11. 2 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment in a small modern building with electrical floor heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda, covered parking and storage room, off Kennedy avenue in a quiet area – ACROPOLIS €800 (A2ACS0030-R), (photos in the website).

12. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms,

TO LET NICOSIA 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).

13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with nice view, 100sq.m, big sitting & dining area, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, big covered verandah, 2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c, electric shutters in the bedrooms,

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA covered parking and storage room on the 11th floor of a small building with 6 flats only 200 meters for Akropolis park and opposite a small neighbourhood park – Dasoupolis €550 (A2DAS0001-R), (photos in the website).

14. New 2 bedr luxury apartment, 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).

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

16. 2 bedr luxury modern penthouse apartment 125sq.m +40sq.m veranda with very nice view and bbq area, solid parquet floor all the flat, fully modern furnished and equipped central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas, covered parking in a very quiet neighborhood in a dead end, off Athalassa Avenue near English School behind Stephanis Electronics – Strovolos €770 (A2ST10010-R), (photos in the website).

17. 3 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, electrical appliances in the kitchen,

TO LET NICOSIA off Makarios avenue near the centre – NICOSIA Centre €820 (A3NIC0025-R), (photos in the website).

18. 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).

19. 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).

20. 3 bedr luxury spacious ground floor apartment with separate entrance, big verandas and garden, big sitting and dining room, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, very big master bedroom, electrical appliances in the kitchen, aluminum shutters on windows, parquet laminate floor all the flat, covered parking, storage room, in a very

ACT’s summer production of The Rivals will now be performed on 26/28/29 September in the grounds of St Paul’s Cathedral, Byron Avenue, Nicosia. Performances start at 7.30pm prompt. Tickets are €15 - pls book early as seats are limited. Tel: 96 504284 or 99 924363 for ticket reservations. Don’t forget your coolbox for your picnic under the stars Or why not take advantage of the Get Fresh sandwiches and wraps which will be on sale during the interval along with wine, beer, soft drinks and coffee.

U SEFUL PHONE NUMBERS POLICE DIVISION HQ

HOSPITALS ........ 1400

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

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

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

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22-304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826

TO LET NICOSIA quiet neighborhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €800 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website).

21. 2 bedr new luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds on all windows, covered veranda, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, storage room, on a small building in a quiet neighbourhood next to a playground, near Central offices of Cyta and Laiki Head quarters – Dasoupolis €600 (A2DAS0018-R), (photos in the website).

22. 4 bedr new luxury finished apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin airconditions for hot and cold in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2 covered parking, in a small modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood – Nicosia Centre €1400 (A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the website).

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

24. New luxury 2 bedr apartment, open plan kitchen, 3 a/c for hot and cold, blinds on all the windows, nicely expensive full furnished with real leather sofas, double bed, big dining table, LCD 32”, satellite dish with receiver, internet, very big bedrooms with big and many wardrobes, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet area near BMH – Aglantzia €590

CORAL BAY THREE BEDROOM HOUSE To let furnished or unfurnished with panoramic view to sea and mountain a st0nes throw from coral beach, rent 600 euros monthly, negotiable tel 99431415 (available first November) Mob: 99604658.

TO LET NICOSIA (A2AGZ0001-R), (photos in the website).

25. 2 bedr new luxury finished and FURNISHED ground floor apartment, 80sq.m +120sq.m veranda and garden, separate floor heating, full a/c, 2wc, aluminum shutters outside the windows, pressure system, fully expensively fitted with electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered parking and big storage room, off Athallassa Avenue near English School in a small modern building – Strovolos €800 (A2ST10023-R), (photos in the website).

26. 3 bedr luxury spacious fully renovated apartment with separate central heating, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 3 wc, parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining areas with fire place, big covered veranda, covered parking, blinds, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking, on a small 2 storey building, walking distance to the centre – Lykavitos €1000 (A3LYK0009-R), (photos in the website).

27. 3 big bedrs +office space luxury penthouse floor apartment, renovated, central heating independent, full a/c, 230sq.m, double glazed windows,3wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solar heater, pressure system, SKY satellite dish, big sitting and dining areas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with cooker and oven and breakfast area, very nice view of the old city,40sq.m private roof garden area ,covered parking on a small building in the centre of Nicosia near the Museum and the old Hospital. Available middle 15th of SEPTEMBER –Nicosia Centre €1200 (A4NIC0005-R), (photos in the website) 28. 3 bedr new luxury finished PENTHOUSE apartment 150sq.m internal areas+120sq. verandas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, big semi separate kitchen with electrical appliances, home cine ma with big screen, LCD tv, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood near CYTA, Laiki + Hellenik

Available for immediate

RENT Luxury furnished 4 bedroom house 210 sq m at Ayias Phylas, Limassol.

Telephone 99307499, 99832085.

TO LET ON THE BEACH STUDIO FLAT WITH SUPERB SEA VIEW Newly renovated, fully air-conditioned one bedroom flat, comprising open-plan living room, fully equipped kitchen, bathroom and veranda with direct sea view on the beach next to the Larnaca fishing harbour. Covered parking in gated garage. Long-term rental, furnished €650 or unfurnished €575/month.

Call 99441499, 99431873

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

Friends for Life Limassol Hospice Care Appeal requires new Friends and Volunteers to help operate their Charity Shops in both Limassol and Larnaca.

Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401

This is to help our large volunteer group to expand in the near future.

Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267

Our aim is to open a Third Shop in the Limassol area due to popular demand.

Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information)

Please do not forget when clearing your wardrobes and cupboards to remember us.

Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

Shop hours Mon-Sat. 9.30 -12.30 Contact Anne 25632446 99269016

TO LET NICOSIA bank headquarters and French school. CAN BE RENTED ALSO expensive furnished for higher rent – Dasoupolis €1200 (A3DAS0019-R), (photos in the website).

For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com

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

LIMASSOL APARTMENT FOR RENT – LIMASSOL, deluxe 2 bedroom fully-furnished, 100 sq.m., brand new, 3rd floor, beach front Apartment at EDEN BEACH APARTMENTS, 28th October Street, Limassol, near Municipal Garden, with parking, store-room, swimming-pool, gym and unobstructed sea view. Tel. 99 639714.

GROUND FLOOR 3 bedroom house, fully furnished, 2 bathrooms, renovated, electrical equipment, fitted kitchen, laundry small room, a/c, rolex windows, big veranda, good price, Apostolos Andreas-Haraki, 99497576, 99-886775, 99-924444.

TO LET LIMASSOL bed with central heating, air conditioning units, pressurised water, white appliances large veranda, small garden and garage in quiet location. Limassol Petrou & Pavlou area €750. For information tel: 99581313. ***************************** FOR SALE/RENT 2-years-old corner house in Episkopi, 4 bedrooms, fire-place, full A/C, granite, fly screens, utility room, decorated stone wall in house, garden 182sqm. Sale €310.000 negotiable-€1.000 rent negotiable. Call 99580356 ***************************** FOR RENT in Limassol furnished studio with small veranda, air conditioning (hot/cold), in the tourist area, opposite the sea, in “Lordos Beach Garden”, 2nd floor. Rent €250 per month. For infomration tel. 25378504.

FOR RENT 3 bedroom ground floor house near Agios Nectarios Church Limassol. 2 w/c, 1 bathroom, a/c in all bedrooms. Big veranda & garden. In good condition. Call George 99187480.

GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 ***************************** OFFICE FOR RENT opposite sea with amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre. com/listing-LIM-0103

GROUND FLOOR HOUSE – 3

OFFICE/WAREHOUSE FOR RENT 735m² of office space and 1200m² warehousing available for long term rent on Yianni Kranidioti Avenue very close to Carlsberg Brewery.

Easy access to Nicosia-Limassol highway (only 200 metres).

Loading bays for warehouses and parking space for more than 40 cars. Hidden fuel tank plus car mechanics station.

For more information please call 99218866

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Advertiser TO LET LARNACA LARNACA ***************************** TWO BEDROOM FULLY FURNISHED, modern furniture, sea front flat, uninterrupted views, in complex with large grass gardens, communal pool, tennis court, underground parking, electric gate. 40’’LCD TV, satellite. Rent €1000 per month incl. water & common use. Negotiable for over 12m. Contact Garo on 99657055. ***************************** SPACIOUS two bedroom apartment (one en-suite) on Euro Lodge building Drousia Larnaca. It has a/c and c/h (under floor). Separate kitchen with oven and hob. Covered parking and storage room. Call Despina 99310015 ***************************** LARNACA FLATS TO LET Fully furnished, spacious 2 bedrooms in central Larnaca. Near Saint Lazaros Church, 4 minutes walk to Phinicoudes sea front. Small block 2 years old (6 apts) From €400 - to €500. Tel. 99388901 ***************************** FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 ***************************** PROTEA APTS LARNACA Residential and holiday apts for rent monthly or weekly Larnaca – Dhekelia road, close to Golden

TO LET LARNACA

TO LET LARNACA Bay Hotel 1 & 2 bedroom apts, furnished and with low rent with swimming pool, 2 minutes walking distance from the beach, with a new pedestrian crossing in front of the building. Contact us on 99672466, 99404522, and 99078590 ***************************** LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT: Fully-furnished spacious 2-bedroom first floor flat in central location near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, en-suite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 ***************************** FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca.

Price €370. Tel: 99202543 ***************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished ground floor 2 bedroom apartment, overlooking pool.

Beautifully furnished throughout. 350 Euros per calendar month. Larnaca District. Quote TLL884. Tel. (00357) 24815104 2. K.S.L LETTINGS – Properties Required for waiting Long Term Tenants. We desperately require 2/3 & 4 bedroom villa’s with private swimming pools for waiting tenants in the Larnaca District.

Please call us for a free valuation. Tel.(00357) 24815104 3. K.S.L LETTINGS – largest range of properties. Over 200 rental properties in the Larnaca district at the most competitive rates! Flexible contracts available. Tel. (00357) 24815104 4. www.KSLlettings.com – Villa For Rent Fully furnished 3 bedroom Villa with a good-sized rear garden & Communal pool, located in the village of Oroklini.

Call for further information quoting Ref. TLL1189. Tel. (00357) 24815104 CALL 24 815 104 TO ENQUIRE OR ARRANGE A VIEWING – NO OBLIGATION OR FEES. View our full range of over 200 properties by visiting www.

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PAPHOS FOR RENT IN PAPHOS 3 bedroom / 3 bathroom house , large kitchen, living room , central heating , a/cs , verandas, garden , covered parking. Phone 99412936 ***************************** TOMB OF THE KINGS - Studio Apt, F/F, A/C, Balcony, Communal pool, Parking, Quiet location, Modern building - 250 Euros TREMITHOUSA - Spacious 2 bed Corner Townhouse + office U/F, large private rear garden with fruit trees, BBQ, Parking 350 Euros TREMITHOUSA - 2 bed Ground Floor Apt, newly decorated, quiet location, patio, garden, parking - 250 Euros

TO LET PAPHOS

TO LET PAPHOS

***************************** FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION 1. KATHIKAS AREA €450 a modern 2 bedroom, stone walled villa with sea views, large swimming pool and 650 sq metres garden. On a quiet cul de sac, available unfurnished or furnished. Solar panels and pressurised water system. A great villa in a fabulous village. Will accept pets.

2. TREMITHOUSA €275 situated in a quiet cul de sac, this furnished modern 3 bedroom detached house with small garden is available, a/c throughout and satellite broadband. Offering fantastic views of the sea.

3. TREMITHOUSA €250 luxury 2 bedroom maisonette. Fully furnished with modern furniture and satellite broadband. Modern furniture with new appliances. & A/c throughout. Good sea views. Located in a fabulous village. A must to see!

4. CENTRAL PAPHOS €250 modern 1 bedroom top floor apartment, opposite bowling, master with walk-in wardrobe.

Fully furnished with all appliances. Lift to all floors. This complex offers a lovely communal pool area and security barrier entrance. Close to amenities, a great central location.

Call Val on 99166563 ****************************** PROPERTY TO RENT

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Tombs Of The Kings: ground floor f/f apartment, 1 bedroom, A/C, BBQ area, centrally located €280 per month REF: JAP1A220 Anavargos: 3 Bed F/F Townhouse, comm pool, undercover parking. Close to hospital, schools, post office. Ideal for Limassol commuter. €500 per month REF: JAP3T133 Emba: 3 Bedroom U/F house, A/C, white goods, communal pool €450 per month REF: JAP3V053 Peyia: 1 Bed traditional stonehouse, furnished, ideal for single person, village location close to shops and amenities €250 p/m Ref:JAP1H214 Tomb of the kings: 2 Bedroom f/f 1nd floor apartment, A/C, large communal pool. €500 per month. Close to all pubs, restaurants Macdonalds. On Royal Seacrest sought after position.

REF:JAPHR009 Kissonerga: 2 Bed 1st floor apartment, f/f, a/c, large kitchen, comm pool, undercover parking, €350, Ref: JAP2A217 Peyia: 2 Bedroom, 2 bathroom, ground floor apartment, f/f, com pool, under cover parking, gym, shutters, a/c €350 per month.

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS and apartments available. 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 ***************************** ONE BEDROOM fully furnished apartment for rent in Kissonerga.

Near Cynthiana Beach hotel and close proximity to Coral Bay. Overlooking the sea and 100 metres from beach. AC in bedroom.

Tel: 99-492521/ 99- 673276 ***************************** 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

TO LET PAPHOS 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 villas is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite TV. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. a spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. Off street parking.

4.KONIA €750 spacious 3 bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow (168 sq m) on plot size of 707 sq m. Situated in a quiet residential area offering enclosed easy maintenance garden with no pool. Separate kitchen, utility room, and master with ensuite. Off street parking for a number of cars. Available fully furnished or part/unfurnished.

5.MESOGI €800 fantastic modern 4 bedroom 3 bathroom detached villa. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor.

Storage room.

Beautifully finished to a high standard.

Quality modern kitchen with granite worktops & modern bathrooms. Gas central heating & real fireplace. Beautiful landscaped garden with private pool. Undercover parking on drive. Available unfurnished.

Wonderful property.

6.PEYIA €850 spacious detached 4 bedroom luxury villa, offering stunning sea views. Private pool enclosed garden, garage, basement for storage & separate utility room. Modern fitted kitchen with Miele kitchen appliances & granite work tops.

Private drive. Available unfurnished or part furnished. Fantastic property!

1. 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.

7.TALA €900 a charming detached 4 bedroom villa with character situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area with stunning sea views. Spacious living rooms with central heating. Separate kitchen & dining room. Good-sized garden offering private pool and stone built barbeque area. Undercover parking.

2. TALA €650 modern 3 bedroom detached villa with garage. Situated in a small quiet cul de sac.

Includes underfloor heating plus real fire.

Master with ensuite.

Separate utility room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants & private pool offering stunning sea views. Available unfurnished.

8.SEA CAVES €1500 a substantial 4 bedroom villa set in landscaped grounds of 1111 sq meters. Separate ground floor annex. Private drive to garage with automatic door. Outdoor area consists of large private pool, undercover stone built bar area and dining area. a must to see!

3.PEYIA €750 price includes

Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858

WIN A TRIP FOR 2 TO SOUTH AFRICA IN AID OF PAPHOS HOSPICE Organised by SACY NEWS The SACY NEWS was launched early 2012, and has within a short period, become a popular and well-liked publication among the South African community, and other expatriates living on the island of Cyprus. With the support of the South African Consulate, the SACY NEWS has become a prime media source for all South African Cypriots living in Cyprus.

“We wanted to create a ‘voice’ for all South Africans in Cyprus. The South African community has increased in number, and it was only a matter of time before we had our own community paper,” says Paul Charalambous, editor of the SACY NEWS. The high-quality publication is produced on a bi-monthly basis and is distributed all over the island, free of charge.

TO LET PAPHOS visit our website for many more properties www.mrrentpaphos.net email: info@mrrent-paphos.net **************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHO 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 and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates.

Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. Euros 450.00 a month. 2 bed apartment same complex Euros 425.00 a month.

2. GEROSKIPOU 2 bed 1.5 bath furnished duplex apartment in quiet location with outstanding sea views. Open plan living area and dining area. Fully fitted kitchen with appliances .

Guest WC. 2 double bedrooms.

Family bathroom. Balcony & covered parking. Comm pool.

Rent includes free internet.Euros 430.00 a month.

3. SEA CAVES – 5/6 bed fully furnished luxury villa with no immediate neighbours. Open plan formal living area with dining area for 12. Separate family room. Outstanding fit-

TO LET PAPHOS ted kitchen with breakfast area.

Separate utility /2nd kitchen.

Ground floor office/bedroom 6. Shower-room with sauna.

4 double bedrooms, master with en-suite and large dressing room with safes. Family bathroom. Garage, parking & gardens. Separate 1 bed suite plus maids quarters. Swimming pool with massive outside BBQ/ kitchen. A/C, C/H and fireplace in family room. An outstanding luxury home with many internal features. Very quiet area. Euros 4000.00 a month 4. LOWER PEYIA – 3 bed 3bath unfurnished villa. Quiet location.

Open plan living area,dining space. Fully fitted kitchen inc D/W. Utility room. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite shower.

Stairs to 2 double bedrooms both with en-suite. Balconies and roof garden. Private pool and gardens. Off street parking. Euros 650.00 a month OVNO 5. LOWER PEYIA – Spacious 2 bed 1.5 bath furnished townhouse. Open plan living area.

Fitted kitchen. Guest WC. Stairs to 2 double bedrooms with family bathroom. Communal pool and parking. Pretty complex and sensibly priced. Euros 400.00 per month.

6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area,comm. Pool and parking.

Euros 375.00 a month or offers.

1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at 250 euros per month.

7. CORAL BAY - 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa situated very near to the centre and within easy walking of beaches and restaurants. Open plan living

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On September 10th, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation Act Hinchinbrook Shipping Company (“Company”) with registration number C-113093 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company.

1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date.

2. The deadline for submitting claims is 11th April 2013 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized.

5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: September 10th, 2012 Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board.

The SACY NEWS’ presence as a media sponsor for almost all South African events has spread extensively throughout the island. In recognition of the strong and supportive South African community, the SACY NEWS will be organising the South African New Year’s Eve Ball at the ‘Fifth Floor Restaurant’ in Paphos. This event will become an annual affair on the SACY NEWS calendar. “Everyone is welcome,” says Paul. “We want to revive the traditional South African Greek events we were accustomed to in South Africa.”

The SACY NEWS will be organising competitions on a regular basis to support the many charities on the island. After months of planning, and the support from many sponsors in Cyprus and South Africa, the SACY NEWS recently launched the ‘Win a trip for 2 to South Africa Competition’ in aid of the Paphos Hospice.

This unique prize package, which includes two return tickets to Johannesburg with Etihad Airways and Century Travel, will be complimented by seven nights at the 5-Star Peermont D’oreale Grande at Emperors Palace Hotel, Casino and Convention Resort. The prize includes an additional two nights at Sandton’s premier Michelangelo Hotel, and a further two nights at the Thabana Safari Lodge for an exceptional full board safari experience.

SAFARIS 4 U – A leading group tour operator based in Johannesburg, will provide unique tours to top attractions in Johannesburg, during the course of your stay.

Tickets are on sale from all Paphos Hospice Charity Shops, participating outlets (island wide) and private individuals for the price of € 3 per ticket. The winner will be announced at the South African New Year’s Eve Ball on the 31st December 2012.

For more information on this unique eleven nights prize package to South Africa, contact the SACY NEWS on 96 343 687. You can also visit their page on Facebook.

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On May 21st, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation ActDogonLtd (“Company”) with registration number C-37274 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company.

1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date.

2. The deadline for submitting claims is 23rd November 2012 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized.

5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: March 22nd, 2012.

Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board

TO LET PAPHOS 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 verandas. Central location.Euros 750.00 per month or close offers.

8. POLEMI – 4 bed 2.5 bath massive unfurnished apartment with own entrance in large landscaped gardens. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space.

Huge fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Guest WC with storage area.4 double bedrooms.

Master with en-suite bathroom.

Family bathroom. Pretty landscaped gardens, shared pool and off street parking. Quiet rural property.. Euros 550.00 per month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES AND VILLAS PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol. com

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

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

LIMASSOL ***************************** FOR SALE Phinikaria: 8’ to L/ssol: a) 3 bedroomed house with swimming pool. Corner plot 500 sq.m. €250,000= Monagroulli: 6’ to L/ssol beach hotels. New 5 bedroom two storey villa. Plot 1000 sq. m. €350,000= Eptagonia: 18’ to L/ssol . a) 4 bedroom new bungalow. Plot 873 sq. m. €350,000= b) Cosy renovated stone built 3 bedroom village house.

FOR SALE LIMASSOL €180,000= Theomaria e-mail: theomaria@ cytanet.com.cy Tel:25372917, 99681422, 99624272, www. theomaria.com ****************************

SALE LIMASSOL 2 bed flat on beach road; light, airy with balcony. New flooring, a/c units, lift 2nd floor, windows 3 sides, own car space. TITLE DEEDS. €115,000.

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

LARNACA ARADIPPOU, Larnaca Magnificient Villa fully furnished reduced by thousands to €280,000.

3 - 4 bedrooms, lounge (marble floors), dining/sitting, utility, kitchen, ensuite, bathroom.

Many extras. Walk in condition e-mail: weetotie@cytanet.com. cy or phone 97851329 PERVOLIA 4 Bed house for sale with Full Title Deeds. 160m covered on a 285m plot. Private swimming pool, aircon, flyscreens, carport. Built 2007, 5 min walk to Pervolia square, 3 min drive to Faros beach. €220,000, 99051706

PAPHOS KISSONERGA – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale on quiet edge of village, near all facilities shops etc, 2 bath, a/c, fly screens, fans, 6 mins from the beach, title deeds, €115.000 o.n.o tel: 26 950923/ 99987694 STUDIO FOR SALE / long term rental, Tomb of the Kings area, close to Phuket restaurant , fully furnished, a/c, communal pool, 5 minutes walk to the beach & title deeds, €40.000 / 200 per month, tel : 96492502.

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

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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.

PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE URGENTLY NEEDS PASTA TO HELP FEED THE DOGS AND SOFT FOOD FOR ALL THE CATS. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE CLINIC. PLEASE SPONSOR AN ANIMAL OR BECOME A MEMBER TO ENSURE PAPHIAKOS CAN CONTINUE WITH THEIR NECESSARY WORK. Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008 THE DONKEYS AT PAPHIAKOS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HELP YOU GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED CAROBS. PLEASE DELIVER TO THE CLINIC AND GIVE THE DONKEYS A SPECIAL TREAT! FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 September 15th Paphiakos Stall at Episkopi Fete.

September 15th Sights & Sounds of the 60s & 70s Live Music & Dancing Trimithousa Community Hall at 8pm €5 tickets from Ollies Bar Trimithousa Pre Show Suppers at Ollies ring 96354182 September 27th Legends of Rock Pissouri Ampitheatre €10 tickets from Pissouri Pools, Markos Internet Café & all Paphiakos Charity Shops Tel 99905624/99955431 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

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Television CYBC 2

CYBC 1 06.45 08.15 11.00 11.15

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News (rpt) Kali Sas Mera Peri Kyprou Chef Ston Aera (rpt) Cooking show offering viewers quick, simple and economical recipes.

Apo Mera Se Mera FILM: Arrivederci, Baby!

A dastardly man murders his various wives to collect their inheritance money. Comedy, starring Tony Curtis and Rosanna Schiaffino. 1966.

Peri Kyprou Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running weekly show on Cyprus television.

News Candid Camera Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events.

Kati Psinetai (rpt) Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.

Paizoume Kypriaka (rpt) Local game show about the Cypriot dialect.

News / Weather / Financial Report Patates 8 Local satirical show.

Ego Ki Esi (rpt) Local comedy series.

Proektaseis News Repeats

ANTENNA

07.00 NRG Music Channel 08.00 Kids’ TV Shown till 12.30, then repeated till mid-afternoon.

16.45 Euromaxx Magazine show, presenting cultural news, architecture, restaurants, fashion, music, museums, wineries and more.

17.10 60 Minute Makeover (rpt) DIY challenge, in which a team of designers have just one hour to transform a home.

18.00 Biz/Emeis 18.50 News In English 19.00 News In Turkish 19.10 Futuris Latest news about the leading scientific and technological research projects in Europe.

19.30 Europa League Pre-game analysis.

20.00 Europa League Live coverage of AEL vs. Borussia Mönchengladbach.

22.00 Europa League Post-game analysis.

22.30 Motor Sports 23.00 Kati Psinetai (rpt) 00.00 Europa League Higlights from tonight’s matches.

00.30 News 00.45 Repeats

06.30 07.00 07.30 08.20 09.10 10.20 10.50 11.30 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 16.20 17.10 18.00 18.10 18.50 19.30 19.30

Proino Enimerosi Sofia Orthi (rpt) Soy Tu Duena (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ekeines Ki Ego (rpt) Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) Tin Patisa (rpt) FTHIS News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Eva Luna News Santa Yiolanta (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Tin Patisa (rpt) Eva Luna

20.20 News 21.20 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 23.00 House (rpt) Second season.

‘Sex Kills’. A man in urgent need of a heart transplant is rejected by the committee on the grounds he is too old, but House attempts to find a way round the problem.

23.45 News 00.00 Ekeines Ki Ego (rpt) 00.50 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi (rpt) 01.40 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.30 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.20 News 04.10 Epithimies (rpt)

MEGA

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06.10 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 06.50 Batso Agapi Mou (rpt) 07.30 Inspector Gadget 08.00 Nea Mera 10.00 Proino Mou (rpt) 12.00 Enimerosi Tora 14.00 Sto Para Pente (rpt) 15.00 Eheis Meson Local investigative show looking at alleged abuses of power, often reported by viewers.

05.40 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Protoselido 08.20 Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 09.00 Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) 09.50 Vasiliki (rpt) 10.20 Oi Takkoi (rpt) 11.10 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 12.00 Mesimeri Kai Kati 14.20 Baywatch (rpt) 15.10 Pame Paketo (rpt) 16.00 Magazino With News at 18.00.

18.30 Tropico 19.20 The Del Monte Heirs 20.10 News 21.20 Tha Se Do Sto Ploio 22.10 To Kokkino Domatio 23.10 The 4400 Third season of sci-fi drama series.

‘Audrey Parker’s Come and Gone’.

Following her own murder, Audrey Parker uses her new ability of astral projection in an effort to lead Tom and Diana to her killer.

Shawn decides to use his healing powers against the government’s wishes, and Ben and Maia make a return to Seattle.

00.00 News 00.05 Sex and the City Repeat of the second season.

00.30 G4 (rpt) 01.30 Mono Mia Fora (rpt)

07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti - Best Of 09.15 Fotos - Maria Live Best Of 10.30 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz (rpt) 11.00 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

11.50 Kostakis Ki Yioi (rpt) Local comedy series.

12.30 Star News 13.00 Mesimeriani Meleti Showbiz news and gossip show hosted by Eleonora Meleti.

15.30 Kids’ TV 17.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 17.50 Fotis - Maria Live Entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, health, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.

19.30 Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

20.45 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 21.20 FILM: The Last Boy Scout Action, starring Bruce Willis. 1991.

See Film Picks.

23.00 LTV Sports News 00.30 Diet Please 01.00 Star News 02.00 Repeats

16.00 Yia Sena 17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes 18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti Greek game show.

19.20 Sto Para Pente (rpt) 20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) 22.20 Piso Sto Spiti (rpt) Greek series about a recession-hit family desperately trying not to lose their house.

23.20 Daddy Cool (rpt) Greek comedy series.

00.00 News 00.10 Community Drama, following students from a study group at a local community college.

00.30 The Big C After being diagnosed with melanoma, a woman tries to juggle the demands of her life.

01.00 Yia Sena (rpt) 02.15 Enimerosi Tora (rpt) 04.00 Proino Mou (rpt))

02.30 Tiflomiga (rpt) 03.30 Magazino (rpt) 04.30 Tropico (rpt)

CAPITAL 06.45 08.15 08.45 09.15 10.10 11.00

12.30 13.20 14.50

16.20 17.25 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

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Kids’ TV Magikos Kosmos Pit Pony (rpt) Hill Side Radio Active Greek FILM: Palikarakia Tis Pantreias Milagros Kids’ TV FILM: The Maid An American employee at a Paris bank falls for its female president and takes a second job as her maid just to be near her.

Romantic comedy, with Martin Sheen.

1991.

Sabrina, To Koritsi tis Agapis O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Melrose Place With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Murder At The Presidio A military detective resorts to unconventional methods in the search for the killer of a sergeant’s wife at a US army base.

Thriller, with Lou Diamond Phillips.

2005.

FILM: Kiss Of Death A jailbird agrees to help the police as a means of exacting revenge on violent hoodlums who betrayed him.

Thriller remake, starring David Caruso. 1995.

FILM: Tough Luck Thriller, starring Armand Assante.

2003.

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Television PICK OF THE DAY

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Anonymous (Novacinema1, 22.00) “Let me offer you a different story, a darker story...” says the prologue - and it’s also an excellent story, a real ripping yarn. The only catch is that it seems to be false, shameless propaganda for a spurious, ridiculous Cause. Unless of course it’s absolutely true. We can’t know for sure, because none of us were around in the late 16th century, the time when a certain William Shakespeare was penning the plays that still thrill audiences today - but was Shakespeare really Shakespeare? Or did someone else write the plays anonymously? The ‘Shakespeare authorship question’ has been around for centuries, mostly because - to quote Wikipedia - “his humble origins and obscure life seemed incompatible with his poetic eminence and his reputation for genius”. Various names have been bandied about as the ‘real’ Shakespeare, and Anonymous posits the so-called “Oxfordian” theory - viz. that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the true author, and the well-known chap from Stratford-on-Avon was just a facade.

You can watch Anonymous first, then go online and read the debate between “Oxfordians” and Shakespeare scholars, or you can do it the other way round - but I recommend seeing the film first, because it’s highly entertaining. Edward (Rhys Ifans) longs to write, but is caught in a bind. He lives

in a time and place where such things are impossible for aristos (“In my world, one does not write plays!”) and is also trapped by William Cecil, his puritanical father-in-law who’s also Queen Elizabeth’s most trusted adviser. Political intrigues and other circumstances conspire to keep Edward anonymous, while Will Shakespeare - a tacky, illiterate actor - reaps the rewards of celebrity.

If things were really as portrayed in Anonymous, its story would be a real eye-opener. Unfortunately, it seems they weren’t. Elizabeth I wasn’t the flighty, promiscuous monarch shown here. Elizabethan England wasn’t a police state. William Cecil didn’t really have the motives ascribed to him.

Most damningly of all, Edward de Vere died in 1604, before Shakespeare’s last 10 plays were written.

“Oxfordians” riposte that only three plays were actually published after that date (they were all published en masse in 1623) and the whole thing’s just a big conspiracy anyway. Bottom line? A film worth watching and discussing, but it does seem like traditional scholars have the better arguments. Note the director is Roland Emmerich, best known for blockbusters (e.g. Independence Day) which have one thing in common: they’re good fun, but collapse if you try to think about them. Made in 2011.

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

SATELLITE N.C.I.S. The Missionary Position 22:00 Anonymous 00:15 Courageous 04:05 Drive

Syriana (LTV3, 19.45) The title is ironic, with Syria sinking ever further into civil war - but in fact it was always ironic, echoing America’s quixotic desire to turn the Middle East into something resembling a quiet all-American state (like, say, Indiana). Audiences found this fi ne political thriller too complicated but still admired George Clooney (who won an Oscar) as a CIA agent assigned to kill a progressive Arab sheikh, and Matt Damon as the economic adviser to said sheikh. Lots of murky intrigue, mutual back-scratching, Islamist bombers and good performances. Recommended. Made in 2005.

Glory (Novacinema2, 19.50) “They joined for freedom. They fought for honour. They found glory,” declares the trailer as ‘Carmina Burana’ blares at full blast and assorted black men (including a youngish Denzel Washington) salute, march and otherwise behave in a soldierly fashion. The men’s skin colour is significant - because this is the tale of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the fi rst all-black regiment in American history, and Denzel won an Oscar as a truculent runaway slave though Matthew Broderick gives perhaps the best performance as the unit’s (white) CO, battling the prejudices of his fellow officers. A big hit, maybe because it spoke to both sides of America’s political divide: liberals liked the earnestness and antiracist message, conservatives appreciated the Civil War detail and red-blooded militarism - ending on a climax which seems to say that death in battle is indeed glorious, white and black corpses together in a kind of morbid solidarity. Perverse, but powerful. Made in 1989.

The Last Boy Scout (Plus TV, 21.20) Bruce Willis is the Last Boy Scout; his motto is ‘Be prepared’ - prepared for trouble and mayhem, that is - and he’s good at tying knots, or at least tying the villains into knots! Actually this is great fun, in a violent, politically incorrect, not-for-all-tastes kind of way, mixing three parts action movie with a dash of Raymond Chandler and a hefty side of sardonic comedy. Bruce is a washed-up, cynical private eye whose partner is killed after passing on a case - so he teams up with fl amboyant football player Damon Wayans to fi nd the culprit, uncovering a messy conspiracy that involves gambling, corruption and the assassination of a US Senator. The cast includes a young Halle Berry, plus Taylor Negron as the kind of slimy baddie who likes to crack jokes while killing people - but meets his match in Bruce, who gets some excellent quips. Directed by Tony Scott in 1991.

The Last Boy Scout (PlusTV, 21.20)

01:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 Casualty 02:45 Eastenders 61 03:15 Doctors 03:45 My Family 04:15 One Foot In The Grave 04:45 Ideal 05:15 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 05:45 Last Of The Summer Wine 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Teletubbies 07:25 Garth & Bev 07:35 Boogie Beebies 07:50 Balamory 08:10 Teletubbies 08:35 Garth & Bev 08:45 Buzz & Tell 08:50 Boogie Beebies 09:05 Balamory 09:25 Buzz & Tell 09:30 Little Human Planet 09:35 My Family 10:05 One Foot In The Grave 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 Eastenders 61 11:50 Doctors 12:20 Casualty 13:10 North & South (2004) 14:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 14:30 My Family 15:00 The Weakest Link 15:45 Eastenders 61 16:15 Doctors 16:45 Casualty 17:35 North & South (2004) 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 Eastenders 61 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Heart & Soul 21:00 Keeping Up Appearances 21:30 Ideal 22:00 Moses Jones 22:50 Blackadder 23:25 Fawlty Towers 23:55 Sport Relief 2012 - David Wallis’ Big Swim 00:55 Him & Her

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 Rides 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 Dirty Jobs 22:00 Sons Of Guns 23:00 Hellriders 00:00 Get Out Alive 01:00 American Guns 01:55 Dirty Jobs 02:50 Sons Of Guns 03:50 Hellriders 04:50 Get Out Alive 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Snooker: International Masters Shanghai 13:30 Car Racing: World Series

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05:30 Dinner Impossible 06:15 Family Guy 07:05 Lost 07:50 How I Met Your Mother 08:40 White Collar 09:25 Criminal Minds 10:10 Dinner Impossible 10:55 Family Guy 11:45 Lost 12:30 How I Met Your Mother 13:20 White Collar 14:05 Lost 14:50 Falling Skies 15:35 The Chicago Code 16:20 Dinner Impossible 17:05 Family Guy 17:55 Lost 18:40 How I Met Your Mother 19:30 White Collar 20:15 Criminal Minds 21:00 Falling Skies 21:45 Camelot 22:35 White Collar 23:20 Falling Skies 00:05 Camelot 00:55 Dinner Impossible 01:45 Family Guy 02:35 Lost 03:20 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 03:45 How I Met Your Mother 04:35 White Collar

06:25 All Good Things 08:10 After The Sunset 09:50 Just Go With It 11:50 Cine News 12:50 How To Murder Your Wife 14:50 Bright Star 16:55 Dead Poet’s Society 19:10 Hollywood 1on1 19:50 Glory 22:00 Women In Action The Bone Collector 00:05 Pushing Tin 02:15 Drive Angry 04:05 Cine News 04:50 Goodbye Lover

19:00 True Grit-2010 21:00 Return To Paradise 23:00 Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World 01:00 Les Filles Du Regiment

19:20 Middle Of Nowhere 22:45 The Story Of Us 00:25 Blue Valentine

Syriana (LTV3, 19.45)

07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 08:00 UFO Files 09:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 UFO Files 12:00 Swamp People 13:00 Top Shot 14:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 15:00 UFO Files 16:00 Swamp People 17:00 Top Shot 18:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 19:00 UFO Hunters 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Storage Wars 21:00 UFO Files 22:00 Ice Road Truckers 23:00 Ax Men 00:00 Pawn Stars 00:30 Storage Wars 01:00 UFO Files 02:00 Ice Road Truckers 03:00 Ax Men 04:00 UFO Hunters 05:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 06:00 UFO Files

07:30 Swing Kids 09:30 Paranormal Activity 11:15 Mystery, Alaska 13:15 Dragonslayer 15:10 Action Zone 16:00 Dan In Real Life 17:45 Brooklyn’s Finest 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Ghost Town 23:00 Redemption 00:45 Hustler TV 02:30 Ye Olde Times 04:30 Not With My Wife, You Don’t! 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 07:50 Tom & Jerry Show 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 Scooby-Doo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 Looney Tunes Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Shaggy & ScoobyDoo Get A Clue! I 15:45 Histeria! 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 19:00 Barclays Premier League Review 20:00 Planet Speed 20:30 La LIGA World 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 La LIGA Show 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 X-Games Los Angeles 01:00 LIGA Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 United States Of Tara 08:30 Shameless 09:30 Shameless 10:30 Trust Me 11:15 Alcatraz 12:45 Heartland 13:30 According To Jim 14:15 Shameless 16:05 Friends 16:30 Chuck 17:15 Mentalist 19:00 Heartland 19:45 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 20:30 Two And A Half Men 21:00 Luck 22:00 Harry’s Law 22:45 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 23:40 House Md 00:30 Overnight Delivery 02:10 Moment Of Truth 03:50 Friends 04:15 Chuck 05:00 Mentalist 06:30 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

07:45 Reflections In A Golden Eye 10:00 The Frisco Kid 12:00 Saint John Of Las Vegas 14:00 The Rite 16:00 Yakuza 18:00 The Spy Next Door 19:45 Syriana 22:00 The Crazies 00:05 Daring! TV 03:45 Dolores Claiborne 06:00 Evita

07:00 Africa’s Lost Eden 08:00 Animal Mega Moves 09:00 Known Universe 10:00 Apocalypse: The Rise Of Hitler 11:00 Man Hunt 12:00 Air Crash Investigation 13:00 Hippo Hell 14:00 Apocalypse: The Rise Of Hitler 15:00 Ancient X Files 16:00 Classified 17:00 Air Crash Investigation 18:00 Convoy: War For The Atlantic 19:00 Hard Time 20:00 The Witch Doctor Will See You Now 22:00 Alien Deep With Bob Ballard 23:00 Hitler’s Lost Battle Ship 00:00 The Witch Doctor Will See You Now 01:00 Alien Deep With Bob Ballard 02:00 Hard Time 03:00 The Witch Doctor Will See You Now 05:00 Alien Deep With Bob Ballard 06:00 Hitler’s Lost Battle Ship

05:40 Face/Off 08:00 Cine News 08:55 The Muppets 10:50 Spotlight On 11:25 Jumping The Broom 13:20 Mr. Popper’s Penguins 15:00 Love Stories The Edge Of Love 16:55 Cine News 17:10 The Client List 18:45 Mad On Novacinema 19:25 To Eteron Ymisi 21:00

01:30 Inside the PGA Tour 02:00 Web.com Tour Highlights Albertsons Boise Open Presented by Kraft 03:00 Champions Tour Highlights Pacific Links Hawaii Championship 04:00 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Highlights Iowa Speedway 05:00 MLB: Texas Rangers at Los Angeles Angels LIVE 08:00 Morning Drive 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Academy - Greg Norman: Full Swing 10:00 Academy - Greg Norman: Driver 10:30 The Golf Fix 11:00 Big Ten Women’s Volleyball Nebraska at Penn State SDD 13:00 The Moto: Inside the Outdoors Steel City National 13:30 The Moto: Inside the Outdoors Pala Raceway National 14:00 Sports Unlimited 15:00 NFL Replay 16:30 Inside the PGA Tour 17:00 PRE GAME(E) 17:45 CHAMPIONSHIP 201213: AEP VS NEA SALAMINA (E) 19:45 POST GAME (E) 20:30 PGA Tour: TOUR Championship By Coca-Cola d. 1 LIVE 25:00 Champions Tour Highlights Pacific Links Hawaii Championship

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 The Ethical Hedonist 09:00 Flavours Of Colombia 09:30 Flavours Of Mexico 10:00 Travel Oz 10:30 Angry Planet 11:00 Sophie Grigson In Thailand 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Nomad’s Land 14:00 4real 14:30 Rudy Maxa’s World 15:00 Culinary Asia 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 Sophie Grigson In Thailand 18:00 Travel Oz 18:30 Angry Planet 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Departures 21:00 Planet Sports 22:00 Intrepid Journeys 00:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 01:00 Departures 02:00 Planet Sports 03:00 Intrepid Journeys 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Travel Oz 05:30 Angry Planet 06:00 Sophie Grigson In Thailand

06:00 The Glass Bottom Boat 07:50 Kelly’s Heroes 10:20 Wife vs: Secretary 11:50 Guns For San Sebastian 13:40 Men Of Boys Town 15:30 Kim 17:20 Boom Town 19:15 Two Weeks In Another Town 21:00 The Asphalt Jungle 22:50 A Star Is Born 01:15 Heart of Darkness 03:20 Home From The Hill

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HOW TO PL AY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

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16 Entrust – to memory perhaps (6) 18 Pipe was put under water, we hear (4) 20 Growing source of fuel (4)

Rating EASY

QUICK: Across – 1 Test run; 5 Miser; 8 Workman; 9 Topknot; 10 Optical; 11 Dresden; 14 Misused; 16 Tenable; 18 Rolling; 19 Peatbog; 20 Payee; 21 Disused. Down – 1 Tasted; 2 Supplementary; 3 Rhondda; 4 Newton; 5 Merit; 6 Semiconscious; 7 Rankle; 12 Useless; 13 Stop up; 14 Merged; 15 Dogged; 17 Bible.

Rating HARD

CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Mustard; 5 Visor; 8 Success; 9 Trellis; 10 Earldom; 11 Not fair; 14 Hovered; 16 Liberty; 18 Banshee; 19 Chapter; 20 Dodgy; 21 Digital. Down – 1 Martin; 2 Sweep the board; 3 Amalgam; 4 Dosser; 5 Vicar; 6 Speed merchant; 7 Resume; 12 Evening; 13Placed; 14 Hybrid; 15 Diesel; 17 Ratty.

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1 Only one plant in the shrubby woodland? (4) 2 Small infant almost with nothing on, the monkey (6) 3 Learned sort of guess (8) 4 Many a bird on the chimney (4) 5 It has to have a point to be of use to a writer (6) 6 Promotion team relegated – that’s topsy-turvy (6,4) 9 Reckoning I am in the eastern depot (10)

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HOROSCOPE

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ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

You can be one of the most charismatic and go-getting members of the zodiac, but at times people may experience you as being a little brusque or of having a simplified view of situations. Of course, what they don’t realise is that you can be very sensitive too. But the stars ask you now, to pay special attention to your listening skills.

Venus is the attractor planet. This can be anything from admiring glances, to love and even loot. Currently located in the glam sign of Leo, and angling superbly to luck bringer Jupiter, there may be a hint of attraction between you and someone in your circle. Just who, can surprise, or even delight you. The day can also buzz with conversation.

The Moon passes into your sign today, and in turn angles well with Mercury. In fact, there is lots of positive energy heading your way Archer, and this can be promising creatively, socially or even in a romantic context. And you can play a leading role in any plans or arrangements that are made. Yet remain open to the fact that some may see things differently.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

We all make mistakes, and the best way to deal with any error is to take responsibility for it. But something could be sprung upon you today, which feels unfair, not least because you may have no inkling that there is any discontent swilling around your situation. An unpredictable colleague or relative is a clue of who this could be.

Compulsions can remain to the fore, and you probably know the type I mean. You see a really classy item of clothing or furniture, and it’s very easy to picture that being yours. But if you are tempted to splash on a whim, and especially for anything more expensive, consider if there are other costs due. Don’t overlook existing commitments.

If you’ve long wanted to find your ideal home, something could come completely out of the blue which can help you to achieve this. This could be a small windfall which can see you improve where you currently reside, or something more substantial. Finances generally look like they can take a turn for the better. Someone may even prove generous.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You might find it very hard to concentrate today, but the one thing I can almost guarantee, is the day is unlikely to turn out exactly as you expect. Some very buzzy energies are whizzing around, and these can give you an appetite for anything or anyone bright and fascinating, but the mundane can leave you cold. Gravitate towards intriguing situations.

Even though the Sun still has three days to complete its transit through the most thoughtful and sensitive part of your solar horoscope, there are some other, counter balancing, and quite delightfully outgoing influences bubbling away. And later today, as the Moon moves deeper into Sagittarius, your whole mindset can start to lighten and loosen up.

Some proverbial blue sky heads your way. This can be especially so around relationships, be these social or a more intimate possibility. Luck or fate can play a role here too.

Modern astrology is less to do with fortune than timing, but that doesn’t mean that a stroke of the good stuff can’t land in your lap. Your popularity, at least, is on the up.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Mercury and Uranus go head to head today, and this may mean that a sudden need to change your schedule or plans, at work or at home, can impact on the other. Yet even if this does happen, there may be something to be gained. Many of us fear or dislike change, but often once we have dealt with it, we can see how the fates have helped us.

Your very powerful co-ruler Pluto is travelling forwards after rewinding for over five months. During this time, the grinding square with Uranus may have led to a lot of nervous tension. Really, it’s all about learning to prioritise. Do too much, and instantly the stress levels rise. Also see that new ways of looking at or living your life, may need embracing.

You may be beginning to realise that one association, though on the face of it not the most glamorous or sparkling, has a core foundation, which brings you a great deal of security. From this security comes a platform from which you can pursue other areas of your life. You may even appreciate a job, a boss or even a new person more fully.

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Sport England happy with World T20 preparations

By David Clough ENGLAND continue to grow in confidence after a second successive ICC World Twenty20 warm-up win to put themselves in good heart for their first competitive match.

The defending champions will begin their campaign against Afghanistan today on the back of victories by nine runs against Australia and 15 runs over Pakistan yesterday.

They did not look set for a second win after mustering only 111 at the P Sara

Oval, thanks mostly to Luke Wright’s continued good form at number three.

England may encounter very different conditions too when they switch to the nearby Premadasa Stadium, where they will not be anticipating a surface so difficult to score runs on.

But they will still be encouraged to know their bowling unit can dig in and defend a small total if the situation demands.

England lost their last five wickets for five runs in eight balls as off-spinner Saeed Ajmal (four for 14) again wreaked havoc against them.

But ‘Nelson’ proved anything but a bad omen once young slow left-armer Danny Briggs (three for 15), and then Jade Dernbach (three for 14), got to work to restrict Pakistan to 96 for nine.

Briggs was following up a promising performance against Australia - spoiled by Michael Hussey’s three successive sixes in his final over - and spoke afterwards of his satisfaction with his performances so far on tour.

“It came out really nicely, which is pleasing and really good in our preparation,” said the 21-year-old Hampshire spinner, from the Isle of

Venus set to make Hopman Cup debut

IN BRIEF

VENUS Williams will make her Hopman Cup debut in Perth later this year, partnering John Isner to represent the United States in the mixed international tournament, organisers said yesterday.

Seven-time grand slam champion Williams will have a chance to match her sister Serena, who won the tournament in 2008 with Mardy Fish and five years earlier with James Blake.

“I’ve never been to Perth - I’ve never played the Hopman Cup, so for me it’s going to be a wonderful experience,” Williams said in a media release.

“I’ve watched it literally every year on TV so now I get to play, I’m very excited.”

World number 10 Isner won the title in 2011 with Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who stands at 5ft 6in (1.68 m)-tall to his 6ft 9in (2.06m). Williams is 6ft 1in (1.85m).

“My previous two partners have been very, very small,” said Isner.

“But Venus is a little bit taller so I’m not going to look like such a giant out there. She’s obviously one of the greatest players ever so I think our team has a good shot to do well.”

Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic have already been confirmed as the Serbia pairing for the event, which will take place from Dec. 29 to Jan. 5 at the new Perth Arena.

Wight.

“It’s good to go into a tournament with confidence, and I hope that can carry on.”

England’s total was obviously vulnerable, even on such an awkward pitch, but Stuart Broad’s team refused to give up.

“Some of the lads struggled towards the end - it was hard to manoeuvre the ball around,” Briggs said of England’s innings after they had chosen to bat first.

“But we knew we were always in the game, with any score on the board, and the way we bowled in the second half showed that.”

Luke Wright is in very good form with the bat

Raikkonen happy at Lotus, for now Finn still a contender after two years out

By Patrick Johnston

Kimi Raikkonen has finished his last 10 races in the points, his best scoring run since Ferrari in 2007/8

FORMULA ONE title chaser Kimi Raikkonen says he is happy at Lotus - for now even as speculation swirls around possible vacancies at the 2007 world champion’s previous teams Ferrari and McLaren.

The taciturn 32-year-old’s consistent displays in his comeback season after two years in rallying have lifted him to third in the standings with seven races remaining.

Raikkonen arrived in Singapore yesterday to pursue his long-shot title challenge on the city-state’s street circuit and try to close the 38 point gap on Ferrari’s championship leader Fernando Alonso.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, winner of two of the last three races, is just one point ahead of the Finn.

With talk of Hamilton mulling a move from McLaren to Mercedes dominating paddock gossip, and Alonso’s under-performing team mate Felipe Massa out of contract at the end of the year, Raikkonen’s future has come into focus.

“I have a good relationship with the team...people are pushing 100 percent and they are real racing people not so much politics, they want to do well in the races and that is a good starting point,” said the tired-looking Finn.

“I enjoy working with the people, very nice and I’m happy here but you never know what happens in the future but right now I’m happy with what’s going on,” he added.

Raikkonen enjoyed five solid years with McLaren from 2002 and twice finished runner up in the championship before he switched to Italian giants Ferrari where he collected his sole title and left at the end of 2009 to go rallying.

Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez said this month that Raikkonen was happy to stay at the former Renault outfit, who were embroiled in one of the sport’s biggest scandals after it emerged they had asked their driver Nelson Piquet junior to crash on purpose in Singapore in 2008 for tactical reasons.

Raikkonen also crashed under the floodlights on the narrow, twisty street circuit

that year but did set a race lap record that still holds.

The Finn, with six podium finishes this year, expected a tough race again on Sunday night.

“It is quite hot and humid here and of course a bit different with the evening race than normal, it is a challenging circuit but hopefully we can do well,” he said.

“It’s a street circuit so it always makes it a little bit more tricky when you try to get the best out, if you make a little mistake, there is a big chance to hit the wall, in a normal circuit you have some run off areas.”

Hamilton and Alonso have each won three races this year with Raikkonen yet to triumph since he began his comeback. However the Finn has finished his last 10 races in the points, his best scoring run since Ferrari in 2007/8.

“Winning is the easiest way to achieve the championship, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to win this year but we have been putting ourselves close to there, giving us a chance at least...we haven’t made any big mistakes,” the Finn said.

Steve Stricker wins 2012 Payne Stewart award

No new call ups for Australia Haye wants his British despite Cooper injury licence back for Klitschko

STEVE Stricker, a 12-time winner on the PGA Tour who is known for his gracious demeanour and good sportsmanship, was named the recipient of the 2012 Payne Stewart Award this week.

The honour is given annually to a player sharing Stewart’s respect for the traditions of the game and his commitment to uphold golf’s heritage of charitable support.

“For years, Steve Stricker has epitomised everything that the Payne Stewart Award represents,” Tour commissioner Tim Finchem told reporters at East Lake Golf Club ahead of this week’s Tour Championship.

AUSTRALIA coach Robbie Deans has opted not to replace Quade Cooper in his squad for the last two Tests of the Rugby Championship despite losing his first choice flyhalf to injury for the rest of the competition.

Cooper will miss the Tests in South Africa and Argentina after scans this week revealed he needed a further operation on the knee he had reconstructed after the World Cup last year.

Deans will instead trust in the versatility of his other backs with three members of the 28-man squad - Berrick Barnes, Kurtley Beale and Mike Harris - all familiar with the flyhalf position.

DAVID Haye is to apply for a British boxing licence as he bids to line up a bout with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.

Haye, who lost his WBA heavyweight title to Vitali’s younger brother Wladimir in Hamburg last year, fought fellow Briton Dereck Chisora in July under a licence provided by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation.

Chisora’s British licence was withdrawn after the pair’s infamous brawl in February.

Haye, now 31, was officially retired when he and Chisora fought in the press conference following the latter’s defeat by Vitali Klitschko.

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By Nemanja Bjedov

Double whammy: Lukas Podolski (left) and Gervinho scored within two minutes of each other as Arsenal fought back against Montpellier

Arsenal build momentum in France before trip to City

By Gregory Blachier ARSENAL’S 2-1 Champions League win at Montpellier on Tuesday was another sign the club is building real momentum this season, and it could not have come at a better time with Premier League champions Manchester City up next.

Pundits expected a struggling start to the season for the North London club after they lost top scorer Robin van Persie to Manchester United but Arsenal have hit really their stride in the last couple of weeks.

After a couple of disap-

Gunners: things are looking quite bright pointing goalless draws to open their campaign, Arsenal beat Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield, thrashed Southampton 6-1 at home and on Tuesday enjoyed a perfect start to their 15th consecutive Champions League campaign.

“We have had a decent start to the season and we have kept the run going, and that is important all round, for the whole season,” assistant coach Steve Bould told reporters in Montpellier.

“We have got great team spirit and I think that was evident. Everybody is digging in and things are looking okay.”

Arsenal displayed their familiar attacking flair in the first half at Montpellier, then focused successfully on their defensive efforts when the Ligue 1 champions, roared on by a passionate crowd, mounted a fightback.

The Gunners, who have conceded just two goals in five games so far this season, managed to preserve their

lead with authority, leaving Montpellier with only a couple of chances to equalise.

Midfielder Abou Diaby said the manner of their victory after going a goal down to an early penalty was a boost ahead of Sunday’s trip to Manchester.

“It is important to start the Champions League with a victory but it is also for everything that comes next,” he told reporters. “It gives us more confidence.”

City should, however, be a harder trip for Arsenal, who

failed to really get going in the Premier League title race last year and ended up 19 points behind the two Manchester clubs in third place.

“Of course Sunday is a tough test,” Bould said.

“We go in there with a bit of confidence, with everybody believing things are going okay. But it is a proper test and that is what we want to do.

“Hopefully we can come through the other side and say we have done okay again on Sunday. Everybody is fine, touch wood.

“Things are looking quite bright.”

Austerity bites at sorry Milan

By Brian Homewood

AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri saw his side again labour to a dismal goalless draw at home to Anderlecht

AC Milan gave supporters a cruel reminder of what they were missing when the San Siro’s giant screen showed Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva scoring for Paris St Germain during Tuesday’s Champions League ties.

Offloaded to help Milan try to balance the books, the pair helped their new club to cruise to a 4-1 win over Dynamo Kiev while their former team-mates were labouring to a dismal goalless draw at home to Anderlecht.

Coach Massimiliano Allegri, who also lost forward Antonio Cassano when Milan swapped him with Inter’s Giampaolo Pazzini, appeared to be clutching at straws as he tried to put a brave face on a shocking performance.

“In the first half we made a lot of mistakes technically and in the second half we had four goal-scoring chances,” he told

reporters.

“Of course you need goals to win games but we took a small step forward and I’m happy with what the players did.”

Allegri has tried to remain upbeat while seeing his squad disbanded throughout the summer, although his team’s formation did not help the situation.

The coach fielded Pazzini and Urby Emanuelson in attack with Kevin-Prince Boateng just behind them and Mathieu Flamini and Antonio Nocerino on the flanks.

With the other midfielder Nigel de Jong concentrating on a purely destructive role, the plan left a huge gap in the centre of Milan’s midfield.

Milan had huge problems playing the ball out of defence, passes went astray and the San Siro became ever more restless.

De Jong, heralded by chief executive Adriano Galliani as the missing link in the Milan team when he was signed

from Manchester City, did little more than pass the ball sideways against Anderlecht and in practice acted as a fifth defender.

In contrast, Anderlecht’s midfield were slick and passed the ball crisply, although they had trouble converting their neat approach work into scoring chances.

Galliani has repeated that Milan had no option other than to sell Ibrahimovic and Silva as the club could no longer afford their wages.

Earlier this week, he told French media that Ibrahimovic had wanted to stay at Milan and the Swede was no longer speaking to him.

“At the end of last season he came to me with his agent Mino Raiola and I assured him that he would stay. But the board had some discussions and he was sold,” said Galliani.

“Since he went to Paris, he hasn’t spoken to me anymore.

He is right though as I didn’t keep my word.”

CYPRUS champions AEL kick off their Europa League Group C campaign against Borussia Monchengladbach this evening at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia at 8pm.

While this is AEL’s first encounter with German opponents, Borussia faced Enosis Pezoporikou Amol, who would later merge with Pezoporikos Larnaca to form AEK, in the 1970/71 European Cup first round.

Enosis Pezoporikou Amol played the home leg in the German city of Augsburg and lost 6-0, before visiting Monchengladbach for the second leg where they lost 10-0 - which remains the biggest win in UEFA competition for Borussia.

Despite dismay following an unexpected 3-2 Bundesliga home defeat to Nurnberg, Borussia’s sporting director Max Eberl hopes his team can recover their form in Europe: “The Europa League is a different competition than the Bundesliga, so it is a very different game. In Cyprus, it will be relatively hot, not only because of the temperature, but also because of the fans,” he said.

“The Bundesliga is an important competition in Europe and we have a good team, but AEL have beaten Partizan Belgrade in the Champions League qualifiers and then failed narrowly against Anderlecht. No one should take them lightly.”

Omonia and Larkou part company OMONIA have announced that Neophytos Larkou has been released from his contract by mutual consent, with his assistant Sophocles Sophocleous and conditioning coach Alejandro Caceres shaping up to be the leading candidates to take over as a coaching partnership.

During 17 months spent at the helm of the Nicosia giants, Larkou captured two national cup titles and the Super Cup trophy after a convincing 5-3 win over defending league champions AEL in mid-August.

This season Larkou led Omonia in five games, recording two victories and three draws, but failure to advance in the Europa League, following a second qualifying round exit to Serbian outfit Red Star Belgrade, and last weekend’s 1-1 draw away at Ethnikos Achnas in the national championship were enough for Omonia’s board to seek termination with the 46year-old coach, stating the best interests of the club as the main reason behind the decision.

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‘Judge’ Mancini warns Hart over team criticism

By Iain Rogers

Man City reflect on heartbreaking defeat MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini has told goalkeeper Joe Hart to stop criticising the team, insisting he is the only “judge”.

City twice led Champions League rivals Real Madrid before slipping to a dramatic 3-2 defeat in the Bernabeu.

“You can’t go 2-1 up with five minutes to go and lose the game,” Hart was quoted

by BBC Sport as saying. “We can only blame ourselves.”

But Mancini responded: “I agree but I think Joe Hart should do his job. I can criticise the team not Joe Hart.”

The Italian added: “Joe Hart should stay as goalie. I am the judge, not Joe Hart.”

City had to withstand some intense pressure before substitute Edin Dzeko gave them the lead on 69 minutes.

Marcelo equalised for Real Madrid seven minutes later only for the Spanish side to fall behind again when Aleksandar Kolarov’s free-kick curled in after 85 minutes.

But Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo both found the net in the final three minutes to give the La Liga champions a thrilling victory.

“We dug deep, got a lead

twice and we lost it, so we can only blame ourselves,” Hart said. “It’s hard to come off the field after losing 3-2 and be positive. I’m really sorry.

“We’re not a team that should come here and pat ourselves on the back for doing well. We’re a team that gets results.”

Mancini added: “It is difficult not because we lost - we can lose against a side like Real Madrid - but because with four minutes to go it was 2-1.

“This is strange. I think we need to improve this situation.

“Sometimes we go too deep. We made some mistakes and I don’t want us to continue defending like this.

“In the first half, they played better than us but in the second half we played well and scored two goals.

“When you score two goals here and are 2-1, you should pay more attention.”

Mancini also believes his Premier League champions cannot use a lack of European experience as an excuse for the defeat.

“We can’t continue to talk about experience,” he said.

“We have good players who play for their international teams. They play a lot of

games.

“I think I am happy for our performance in the second half but I think we can improve and we should be disappointed that we lost.”

Despite this being only City’s second Champions League campaign, firstteam coach David Platt says they can take no comfort from having come so close to earning a positive result at the Bernabeu.

“We won the league last year and the cup the year before that, so we go into every football match wanting to get something out of it,” Platt said.

“Scoring two goals at the Bernabeu means very little because we’ve taken no points. We have to analyse and see where we can do better because we have to do better. We’re conceding too many.”

City were eliminated after the group stages last season and Mancini is determined to avoid a similar fate this time around.

“We have five games left in the group and it is important we beat Borussia Dortmund at home next,” said the Italian. “It will be difficult as they are a top team but this year we want to go through.”

Agony: City goalkeeper Joe Hart reacts after Cristiano Ronaldo’s last-gasp winner for Real Madrid at the Bernabeu

Real back on track after rousing night in Europe

By Iain Rogers

Goal machine: Cristiano Ronaldo’s winner was his 151st goal in 151 appearances for the Spanish giants

JOSE Mourinho got the response he wanted from his players and Cristiano Ronaldo is celebrating his goals again after Real Madrid’s rousing fightback to snatch a 3-2 Champions League win at home to Manchester City on Tuesday.

Needing a convincing performance in Europe after a dreadful start in La Liga, Real twice came from a goal down in the Group D opener at the Bernabeu before Ronaldo struck a 90th-minute winner to send the home fans into raptures and silence the boisterous City supporters high up in the giant arena.

The fight the Real players showed to turn the game around was in stark contrast to the limp displays that led to shock domestic defeats at Getafe and Sevilla.

The victory against the English champions has transformed a club on the verge of crisis into a team full of belief they can secure the 10th European title that has eluded

them since 2002.

Mourinho launched a series of stinging attack on his players after the La Liga setbacks but after wildly celebrating Ronaldo’s goal the Portuguese told reporters Real could scarcely have played better.

“In Seville (on Saturday) we had players who did not win a ball in 90 minutes,” he said.

“Today was the opposite.

The team was solid, compact, recovered balls and were committed to play aggressively.

“Real Madrid wants that historic tenth title and we will fight for it.”

Concern in the Spanish capital about Real’s early-season wobble was exacerbated by Ronaldo’s revelation at the start of this month that he was “sad” for professional reasons.

The Portugal forward’s bombshell prompted speculation he was seeking an improved contract and could even leave the club that made him the world’s most expensive player when they bought him from Manchester United for 94 million euros three years ago.

Ronaldo’s comments about his state of mind came after he refused to celebrate the two goals he netted in a 3-0 win at home to Granada.

Tuesday’s winner, his 39th Champions League strike and his 151st goal in 151 appearances for Real, prompted a typically flamboyant reaction and he was mobbed by jubilant team mates.

He was asked whether it had been important for him to connect with the Real fans again.

“To be honest, I haven’t thought about that at any time,” he told reporters.

“What happened in the past doesn’t matter. What matters is the present and the present is good. People are happy and pleased.”

Asked how he was feeling, he replied : “That doesn’t matter.”

Real’s next game is at city rivals Rayo Vallecano on Sunday, when they can begin the process of trying to close the eight-point gap to arch leaders Barcelona, who have won all four of their La Liga matches.

MALAGA’S Qatar-backed project has had its ups and downs but Tuesday’s thumping 3-0 win over Zenit St Petersburg in their Champions League group stage debut proved the players have not lost their focus, coach Manuel Pellegrini said.

Promising Spain under-21 midfielder Isco scored either side of a goal by the club’s new signing Javier Saviola as the La Liga side put the big-spending Russians to the sword at the Rosaleda and put themselves atop Group C. “The team is working well, with a lot of internal motivation to make a project that has stumbled at times work and this is the best way to do it,” Pellegrini told a news conference.

“The team put in a good performance against a great opponent who never gave up,” added the Chilean. “The team is very focused on what it is doing.”

Malaga qualified for Europe’s elite club competition for the first time after finishing fourth last season following some hefty investment by owner Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani, a member of the Qatar royal family.

Al-Thani appeared to scale back his ambitions for the Andalusian club this summer when they announced an ‘internal restructuring’, sold several of their best players and brought in some cheaper replacements.

The uncertainty off the pitch does not appear to have affected the performance of the team, second in La Liga after four matches, basking in the glory of Tuesday’s impressive debut in the Champions League group stage.

Argentine Saviola, who promised much early in his career but failed to live up to high expectations, was on the scoresheet for a second straight game after netting one and setting up a second in his first start for the club, a 3-1 La Liga win against Levante on Saturday.

Champions League Results Shakhtar Donetsk 2 Nordsjaelland 0 Chelsea Juventus

2 2

Lille BATE Borisov

1 3

Bayern Munich Valencia

2 1

Barcelona 3 Spartak Moscow 2 Celtic Benfica

0 0

Man United Galatasaray

1 0

Braga CFR Cluj

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Oscar’s limelight stolen by Juve fightback at the Bridge Italian champs expose holders’ defensive deficiencies as Blues blow two-goal lead Chelsea 2 Juventus 2

By Ben Rumsby

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HELSEA blew a twogoal lead as their defence of the Champions League got off to a breathless start against Juventus last night.

Oscar looked set to enjoy a dream European debut with a stunning first-half double but the Italian champions ruthlessly exposed the holders’ defensive deficiencies to snatch a draw at Stamford Bridge.

Arturo Vidal pulled a goal back before the break and, after Eden Hazard was denied what appeared a penalty, Fabio Quagliarella came off the bench to equalise and was a lick of paint from completing a sensational turnaround.

That would have been cruel on Chelsea but - as in their UEFA Super Cup thrashing

by Atletico Madrid - they left themselves exposed enough to make such an outcome possible.

It was all looking so good after 33 minutes of what Roberto Di Matteo yesterday dubbed “Mission: Impossible”.

His Midas touch in the competition was in evidence again after the shock selection of Oscar, who he admitted the club might not have convinced to join them had they not ended their agonising wait for Champions League glory.

Chelsea fans still pinching themselves at last season’s astonishing triumph were

Impact: Oscar (left) impressed on his Chelsea debut with two first-half goals, but the reigning champions were stunned

by Juve’s comeback, with Fabio Quagliarella coming off the bench to equalise late on given another glimpse of the European Cup before kick-off when members of the armed forces were handed the honour of parading it.

That proved a prelude to a combative first half-hour, which left David Luiz with a bloody nose and Vidal needing treatment on a knock.

The quality of football on show was not exactly what Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich had paid £80 million to see but there were glimpses of the drama to come.

Luiz was under just enough pressure to steer Frank Lampard’s corner straight at Gianluigi Buffon, while Fernando Torres wasted a great breakaway opportunity after robbing Andrea Pirlo, who is said not to have had a great start to the season by his high standards.

Torres, looking more lively than in his wretched performance at QPR on Saturday, also went close with a header but Juventus carved out the first clear chance when Andrea Barzagli’s crossfield ball

put Claudio Marchisio one on one with Petr Cech, who came flying out to smother.

Mirko Vucinic should have also done better than fire Vidal’s pass into the sidenetting when clean through in the 29th minute and he was made to pay dearly in the next four minutes.

Oscar, who had almost looked like he had been picked to shadow Pirlo, found himself in space 25 yards out and unleashed a drive that Gianluigi Buffon would surely have saved but

for a telling nick off Leonardo Bonucci.

If the first was lucky, the second was sublime, Oscar expertly controlling Ashley Cole’s pass with his back to goal before spinning and unleashing an unstoppable dipping curler into the top corner.

But Juve are not 42 games unbeaten in Serie A for nothing.

Marchisio almost broke through again and Vidal fired over before taking full advantage of slack defending

to drive a low left-foot shot into the bottom corner.

Hazard wasted another breakaway before half-time, after which Chelsea cranked up the pressure, with Branislav Ivanovic’s dipping shot just kept out by Buffon.

The goalkeeper also beat away Lampard’s driven freekick before the home side were denied a penalty when Hazard surged into the box and went down under a clumsy challenge from Barzagli.

Referee Pedro Proenca simply told Hazard to get up and he arguably made another mistake when booking Ramires for a perfectly clean tackle.

Vidal deservedly saw yellow for hauling back Oscar but Juve were suddenly on top, Chelsea resorting to the sort of counter-attacking tactics that served them so well last season.

Ramires was withdrawn for Ryan Bertrand before Oscar - who was stood on making a tackle - departed for Juan Mata.

Juventus responded by sending on Quagliarella for Sebastian Giovinco, who was actually looking a real threat.

And after Hazard and Mata almost combined to finish the contest - the latter blasting into the side-netting - the Juve substitute equalised.

It was another defensive horror show from Chelsea, Luiz hopelessly out of position as Quagliarella burst into an acre of space between John Terry and Ivanovic to steer Pirlo’s through-ball between Cech’s legs.

It was a nerve-jangling finish and Quagliarella was desperately unlucky not to complete an incredible turnaround when his left-foot curler clipped the crossbar.

Nervy Man United edge past Galatasaray Man United 1 Galatasaray 0

By Simon Stone

Michael Carrick’s first Champions League goal in three years gave a below-par United all three points

DARREN Fletcher returned from his careerthreatening bowel condition as Manchester United scrambled to an unconvincing Champions League win over Galatasaray at Old Trafford last night.

It was the Scot’s first appearance since November 22, although he had been battling against the

problem for eight months before that.

At one stage, Sir Alex Ferguson admitted he feared whether Fletcher would ever resume his career.

Fletcher’s arrival for Paul Scholes 11 minutes from time brought a deserved standing ovation, and was one of the few high points of a difficult evening for the hosts, who collected the victory but little else of note.

Michael Carrick’s first Champions League goal in three years after just seven minutes proved enough, with United missing yet another penalty, their third of

the season, through Nani.

Galatasaray were desperately unlucky, failing to get a clear penalty before United struck, hitting the woodwork twice before being denied by David de Gea’s excellent double save and then having another spot-kick claim waved away in stoppage time.

Such was the significance of Fletcher’s presence on the United bench that it even overshadowed Robin van Persie and Shinji Kagawa both being given their European debuts.

Both were involved in Carrick’s early opener.

Initially, Van Persie thread-

ed a pass through to the midfielder. It was Kagawa who got the main credit though, slipping a return pass beyond the visitors’ defence. Carrick stepped inside goalkeeper Fernando Musiera and even though the goalkeeper tripped him, the England man was able to steer the ball in.