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‘Assad needs to go’ says Ashton Syria top focus as EU foreign ministers meet in Cyprus By Stefanos Evripidou

People Meeting independent presidential candidate Makaria Andri Stylianou

Culture The bloggers of Cyprus find a voice on the web

Whatson Screening of plays by the National Theatre take place in Limassol

Competition Win a weekend for two at the Moniatis hotel in Limassol

S CAR bombs ripped through Damascus yesterday, a few nautical miles west of Syria, across the Mediterranean Sea, EU foreign ministers gathered in Paphos to discuss the growing humanitarian crisis and ways to boost aid to Syrian civilians. Speaking to reporters before the informal ministers’ meeting at the Aphrodite Hills resort, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the EU continues to be “extremely worried and concerned for the (Syrian) people who are suffering so much”. The two-day informal meeting ends today with Syria topping an agenda, which also includes discussions on Iran and the longer-term EU policy objectives on global water supply and providing education to victims of trauma. Ashton said she is working closely with the new UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, Koﬁ Annan’s replacement

following his resignation, as well as with Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi. The European Commission yesterday announced another €50 million in humanitarian aid to civilians, which Ashton said would also go towards supporting neighbouring countries who have taken in a large number of fleeing Syrians, such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. The EU was working with the Arab League, neighbouring countries and the Syrian opposition to ensure “there is a process in place for beyond, for the Syria that we hope to see come into being very soon”, she said. She urged the opposition “to come together and find a way to represent all the people of Syria”, so minority groups in Syria do not get left out of the process, but instead feel confident that they are going to have stability, prosperity and a say in the country’s future. The foreign policy chief said the EU was working with the Syrian opposition to unite them and reach a TURN TO PAGE 5

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (right) with Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Marcoullis speaking to the press at Aphrodite Hills in Paphos yesterday

‘Hope’ artist spared incarceration in Obama poster image fraud THE artist who created the “Hope” portrait of Barack Obama that became emblematic of the president’s triumphant 2008 campaign was sentenced to community service yesterday after admitting he had lied about which image he used. Los Angeles-based street artist Shepard Fairey, 42, became a celebrity for creating the red, white and blue image of Obama silhouetted above the word “Hope” on a poster. Fairey pleaded guilty to one misdemeanour count of criminal contempt in February for doc-

toring and destroying evidence once he realised the photograph of Obama he used for the poster belonged to the Associated Press. “I’d like to apologise for violating the court’s trust, which was the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Fairey said at his sentencing hearing in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors had sought some prison time for Fairey, who faced up to six months in prison on the charge. Fairey was ordered to serve 300 hours of community service, the details of which were

not immediately decided. Although lawyers at yesterday’s hearing sparred for nearly an hour over what sentence Fairey should receive, the word “Obama” was not uttered a single time. The conclusion of the case coincided with Obama accepting his Democratic Party’s nomination on Thursday night to run for re-election in November. The AP said in a statement yesterday that it was “glad this matter is ﬁnally behind us”.

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Health minister will step down next month to run his election campaign By Poly Pantelides STAVROS Malas yesterday officially announced his candidacy for President of the Republic in next February’s elections. Malas who is health minister with the current AKEL government was given the party’s final seal of approval in late July, when he secured 92.3 per cent of the vote during an extraordinary congress. He is due to step down as minister on October 15. Malas yesterday addressed a room filled with AKEL brass with a banner bearing his campaign slogan: New Face. New Plan. New Era. “Looking to the future and not the past, I acknowledge that our country’s problems are many and varied,” Malas said. He said that although he was backed by AKEL he nonetheless classed himself as an independent candidate. “Being supported by AKEL neither contradicts, corrodes, undermines or annuls my candidacy’s independence. Anyone who says this insults me and people who have previously been this party’s victorious choices” Malas said. He was referring to George Vassiliou who was elected in 1988 as an AKEL-backed independent candidate. The AKEL government under the party’s former leader Demetris Christofias, has been blamed for taking down a healthy economy with a surplus and favour-

able borrowing costs, which now finds itself shut out of international markets on the verge of an EU bailout. Christofias has blamed the global debt crisis and the exposure to Greek debt which has hit the banks, but places no responsibility on the government. He has also had to deal with the aftermath of a munitions’ explosion at a naval base last summer which killed 13 and crippled the island’s main station, again without taking any responsibility. Malas yesterday said he would tidy up the state’s finances through development but not austerity, a line similar to that espoused by AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou on Thursday. Malas pledged to nject money into research, innovation and youth, and make the best use of the island’s natural gas prospects. But “the welfare state is a conquest and must be preserved,” he said. He also said he would continue striving for a fair solution to the deadlocked Cyprus problem. Ending his speech, Malas received a standing ovation while the event concluded with the dramatic song from Vangelis’ Conquest of Paradise, as he kissed ministers and politicians and made his way around the room, chatting to people. But he might not be getting the vote of Archbishop Chrysostomos II who said yesterday that most politicians were only interested in the chair.

Malas insists he’s standing as an independent

CY to receive first tranche of aid Teen accident By Jacqueline Agathocleous STATE carrier Cyprus Airways (CY) yesterday announced the company would be getting the €15 million recently approved by parliament, after persistent reports that it would go bankrupt if the funds weren’t released soon. “Cyprus Airways announces that, after the Board of Directors reached an understanding with the Finance Ministry, the amount of €15 million – which is the ﬁrst instalment of the funds approved by parliament to increase its share capital – is at the airline’s disposal whenever it needs it,” said CY. “This amount will be given in accordance with the terms of the relevant law.” Last month, a new CY board was appointed as part of conditions set by lawmakers to increase the airline’s share capital.

In July, parliament approved the €31 million share capital increase, saying the €15 million would be given once the new board was appointed and the rest once the board came up with a reliable restructuring plan for the ailing airline, with the help of foreign experts. The airline yesterday denied reports that it was going bust, saying the public should “rest assured that everything was running smoothly”. Alithia newspaper yesterday claimed the airline’s board made a proposal to CY unions for staff to work for two thirds of every month and be off for the other third, unpaid. However, Andreas Pierides, the head of one of CY’s biggest unions, CYNIKA, yesterday said this was just a thought that was tabled by CY chairman Stavros Stavrou and nothing more. “Last Wednesday we had

our ﬁrst meeting with the head of the board to exchange views,” Pierides told the Cyprus Mail yesterday. “During these talks, he expressed a thought to see how some expenses can be cut, so we can prepare a new plan. This obviously got passed on and became distorted.” He said the unions’ main aim was to ensure the 250 employees who needed to be made redundant were compensated. The government and airline are currently both refusing to take on the fund. “All our efforts until the end of this month will be centred on deciding how the compensation will be paid,” said Pierides. He said the employees’ departure alone would save the company around €1.2 million a year. Pierides added that the new restructuring plan was expected to be ready at some point in November. (see editorial page 11)

victim dies

ANDREAS Loizou, a 17year-old who was injured in a trafﬁc accident last week, died on Thursday night. He was being treated at the intensive care unit at Nicosia general hospital. The accident took place in Limassol when a female driver along the Mouttayiakas main road tried to overtake two mopeds. In doing so she ended up in the opposite lane, driving towards an oncoming vehicle, driven by a 21-year-old man. In an effort to avoid her he swerved and then as he tried to get back into his own lane he ended up colliding with one of the mopeds, ridden by Loizou and another 17-year-old. According to police the 21year-old was drink driving. Police have still not found the woman, who abandoned the scene of the accident.

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Home CYPRUS TODAY ‘No immediate electricity hike’ THE HEAD of the Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA), Giorgos Shiammas, yesterday said there weren’t any immediate plans to increase electricity charges. After handing CERA’s 2011 annual report over to President Demetris Christoﬁas, Shiammas said any price alterations would be down to international oil price increases. “Regarding electricity prices, there is no intention or plan to increase tariffs,” said Shiammas. “Any ﬂuctuations are due to the price of fuel. In the past two months, there has been a reduction in the cost of the EAC’s (electricity authority) fuel, which was transferred to consumers.” Shiammas said the government implemented – or was in the process of implementing – decisions to create a liquefaction unit for the natural gas, the creation of a state-owned hydrocarbons company and a national treasury to handle revenue from hydrocarbons. Shiammas said the report “covers all the activities of last year that are related to managing the purchase of energy, electricity and natural gas”. It also includes CERA’s actions to deal with the energy crisis in 2011 – apart from constant hikes due to international oil price rises, a massive explosion at the Mari naval base blew up the island’s main power station, leading to even more surcharges for consumers. The 5.75 per cent surcharge will apply until May 2013.

Factory owner’s threat to shoot protesters By Jacqueline Agathocleous THE OWNER of a factory in the Nicosia village Pera Chorio Nisou yesterday threatened to shoot MPs and anyone else who turned up to a protest later this month to have it closed down. The community council, as well as concerned residents, announced plans to demonstrate on September 19 against delays in ousting two factories from the area, after a court ruled they were leaking dangerous emissions. Residents are concerned about the increased numbers of cancer cases that have been reported in the area, which was what prompted the House Environ-

ment Committee to to look into the matter. But as plans were announced to protest delays in closing the factories down, things became heated, with the owner outright threatening to shoot anyone who came near his factory on the day. Speaking after the meeting, Green Party MP Giorgos Perdikis said he was shaken by the threats. “I think this murder threat by the factory owner... takes us back centuries,” he said. Investigations showed that the two factories were violating a number of laws and regulations, leaking toxic waste and other emissions dangerous to people’s health and the environment. The committee yesterday heard that even though orders were given by the relevant authorities to apply for a court

‘We want in on gas’ Church to mortgage land ‘just like other Cypriots do’

Petrol station to be checked for fuel leak

By Jacqueline Agathocleous

LARNACA authorities will go ahead and check the tanks of a petrol station neighbouring the area where a fuel leak was spotted last week, following an intervention by the House Environment Committee yesterday. The petrol station in question was the last remaining to be checked out of seven in the area, due to a legal dispute between its owner and oil company Lukoil. Committee Chairman Adamos Adamou said, “Even though all the area’s petrol stations were checked and the investigation will be completed in the next few days, in one of the stations, it was not possible to do so due to this legal dispute”. He added that the origin of the leak, which was spotted during works on Larnaca’s sewerage system near the town centre ten days ago, had not yet been found, leading to reasonable suspicions that the spill has come from the station in question. “We have managed through today’s meeting to secure authorisation by the company that is in dispute with the petrol station owner to allow Larnaca Municipality to check the tanks, to see if the leak has come from there,” said Adamou.

Russian loan still being discussed A RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry spokesman has said that it will take time for the finance ministries of Russia and Cyprus to conclude discussions on the €5 billion loan request made to the Russian Federation. Responding to a question from the press on Thursday, Alexander Lukashevich confirmed that at the end of June the Republic of Cyprus officially approached the Russian Federation with a request to extend a five billion euro loan which the Russian Finance Ministry is examining “in accordance with the established procedure”. He said the necessary technical consultations on the possibility of granting a second interstate loan to Cyprus are taking place between the two finance ministries. “This work, of course, will take time and is not concluded yet,” he said.

order to close them down, saying they shouldn’t be operating in a residential area, the procedure hasn’t gone any further. “But we can’t have a factory owner - just because he feels his interests are being affected – to threaten protesters, MPs and local authorities with murder from within the parliament,” said Perdikis. He called for a powerful police presence during the protest, which he said would still go ahead, adding that the Pera Chorio Nisou community council also planned to ﬁle an ofﬁcial complaint to the police. “This was a sad moment for the Cypriot parliament, which I have been a part of for 11 years and have never come across anything like this before,” said Perdikis.

Archbishop Chrysostomos: plans afoot to diversify

ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos II yesterday announced plans to mortgage church assets in order to have a hand in exploitation of natural gas reserves that were found in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Speaking to the state broadcaster, he said the church was determined to become involved in all aspects of the matter – from the drilling to the liquefaction. In fact, the Archbishop revealed that the church was in the process of securing a share in one of the companies currently bidding for the EEZ’s blocks. “We are in contact with certain companies so we can participate as well,” said the Archbishop. “The church is ready, I already have a document in front of me, we are examining it and very soon we too will ask for a share in the drilling, the supply of natural gas and even the (liquefaction) terminals.” He said the church wasn’t acting any differently to other Cypriots, who mortgaged their homes or plots to get a loan. “The church will be doing something similar, it will mortgage some land and get a loan, so it can join these ef-

forts,” said Chrysostomos. He said the church was in talks with one of the international companies interested in one of Cyprus’s blocks. “Many applications have been made from international companies; in one of these, we are participating too,” said Chrysostomos. But he added that it all depended on whether the company was chosen by the government or not. He wouldn’t announce the name of the company. “As the licensing hasn’t yet been given, it is an application, I don’t want to say much for the time being. But once it is ratified and the company knows it will get a plot, we will say more.” Meanwhile, Commerce Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis yesterday met all parties to inform them on developments in the government’s plans relating to natural gas. Natural gas is of the highest national significance and should be kept out of political conflicts, Sylikiotis said after the meeting. Opposition parties expressed some reservations, especially over the government’s effort to bring natural gas to the island as an interim solution while proceedings are underway to make use of its own reserves.

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Home BRITAIN HOPES GAS FIND CAN HEAL CYPRUS SPLIT SAYS FOREIGN SECRETARY HAGUE

‘It should help with solution’ Hague says Britain has supported Cyprus’ rights to develop its resources BRITAIN SAID yesterday it hoped the discovery of valuable gas fields around Cyprus would eventually help unite the island’s ethnically-divided communities after decades of diplomacy had failed to clinch a peace deal. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the prospect of sharing the resources could persuade politicians to end the bitter dispute. Up to now, the natural gas discoveries in the past year have had the opposite effect. Turkey sent warships to the region when the Greek Cypriot side started drilling. “We have supported the rights of Cyprus to develop resources but I hope that doing so can somehow be an incentive for the settlement of the problem, rather than a disincentive,” Hague told reporters in Nicosia.. “It should be something that helps with a settlement ... It should be regarded in that way by all involved,” he said after a meeting with President Demetris Christofias at the presidential palace. Hague said Britain was ready to help deadlocked reunification talks. “We hope of course that faster progress

will be made in the future,” he said. Earlier in the day, Hague met with DISY leader and presidential candidate Nicos Anastasiades at the British High Commissioner’s residence in Nicosia. Speaking to reporters, Anastasiades said he discussed with the British minister the need for a more active EU presence in the Cyprus peace talks, to make clear whether the positions of the Turkish Cypriot and Turkish side at the negotiating table are compatible with the EU body of laws known as the acquis. Asked if the two discussed the British bases, Anastasiades said he told Hague the British should be “particularly cautious in their policies, because there is a heightened sensitivity on the part of Greek Cypriots as a result of policies followed in the UN Security Council that are considered hostile”. The DISY leader said Hague assured him that Britain tries to be as neutral as possible and will try in every way to help so that any dialogue between the sides in Cyprus resumes under the best possible conditions.

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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION IN MEMORY OF ISMINI LIASIDOU, MAGICIAN MR CADABRA, , GAMES, FACE PAINTING, CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP, MANICURE, HAIRDRESSER ETC.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks to reporters on his way into the meeting yesterday

Heavy security with a touch of pizzazz By Bejay Browne THE INFORMAL meeting of the EU foreign ministers got underway in Paphos yesterday amid tight security but I managed to get in without a pass or ID badge. I gained entry by tagging on to the back of a convoy of an arriving minister, which was ﬂanked by marked Cyprus police cars as well as unmarked police cars and security cars. After passing a number of checkpoints manned by uniformed police a couple of whom I had to turn on the charm for, I quickly managed to lose myself in the gaggle of press, made up of both print and broadcast journalists - to await the arrival of a parade of various ministers and their aides. Like the Oscars, each had their ‘moment’ on the red carpet before being greeted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Erato Kozakou Marcoullis, on behalf of the Cyprus EU Presidency, and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, who is chairing the Foreign Affairs Council. The style of arrival had a deﬁnite touch of Hollywood about it, with well-groomed ministers and aides arriving to walk the red carpet, some choosing to stop and talk to the waiting press, others opting to only smile and walk to

The media was kept firmly in its place the opposite building where the meeting was being held. The bulbs flashed, the cameras rolled and a landmark event was established in Cyprus’ rotating EU presidency. Suited and booted, the security forces, complete with mirrored sunglasses, shored up the plethora of uniformed Cyprus police and blackclad special forces officers of MMAD, kepinig a watchful eye on the proceedings - not allowing opportunist photographers get too close to visiting ministers and refusing to permit cameramen to smoke

in the press stand. I managed to dodge them by looking as if I belonged there, pulling out my mobile and pretending to talk when they looked my way. The constant arrival of luxurious shiny vehicles with ministers encased inside, with police and security forces in front and behind, kept the press in a state of heightened suspense. Who would be next to step out into the beating lunchtime sunshine and onto the immaculate red carpet surrounded by yet another group of security guards?

British foreign secretary William Hague’s presence got the press clamouring. He answered a number of questions, with more being met by his retreating back. He entered the building to the right of the press stand to be greeted by smiles and handshakes from Marcoullis. Marcoullis pointed out prior to the meeting: “This is the very essence of the tradition and the character of the Gymnich meetings, a chance for the Ministers of Foreign Affairs to meet in an environment that fosters open and in depth discussion on issues related to the EU’s foreign policy. She noted: “I believe that the natural and quiet retreat by the sea of Paphos, creates the ideal environment, which I hope will be an inspiration to my colleagues in engaging in profound and hard work, particularly with regards the worrisome developments in Syria, which due to the constant deterioration of the situation will evidently be our main concern this weekend”. As the meeting got underway, I had to ﬁgure out a way to leave as journalists were going through the same number of checks on the way out. I took a deep breath, jumped in the car, headed for the gate and waved to the guard pretending to be a guest at the resort saying: Thanks so much…I’ve had a lovely stay here’.

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If you wear or have worn the coveted Parachute wings then be aware that there is an Airborne Forces Association in Cyprus which meets on a regular basis throughout the year. The aim of the Association is: To foster the spirit of comradeship and to further the friendship established in Airborne Forces. All past and present members of Airborne Forces of all nationalities are welcome to join. The next occasion we meet is on Arnhem Day which will be celebrated on the Episkopi Base at the EpiskopiCommunity Church at 11:15 hrs on Sun 23 Sep 2012. Lunch will be available afterwards. If you are interested then please contact 25336225 or 25717009/99400329 for further information

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Assad needs to go says Ashton Cypriot FM Marcoullis calls situation in Syria ‘tragic’ (continued from front page) “position that is inclusive of all people in Syria”. Regarding the EU’s objectives, Ashton said the ﬁghting needs to stop, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “needs to understand that he must go”, a transitional process must follow and “the UN needs to stand behind its Special Representative in achieving that”. “Any weapon used against the people of Syria by those who pretend to be the government of Syria is outrageous and we need to be very clear that we want to see this violence stop and the understanding has to be reached that they cannot stay there,” she added. Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Marcoullis, who is cohosting the informal meeting, described the situation in Syria as “tragic”. “The crisis, unfortunately, is continuing and getting worse, with the loss of more than 25,000 people, mainly civilians, the displacement of one million people within Syria and more than 250,000 in neighbouring countries,” she said. Speaking from the Paphos resort, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Syrian crisis was currently the most “pressing, serious and urgent problem” for EU ministers. “Humanitarian needs are rising rapidly,” he said, noting that the UK was the second largest humanitarian donor to the Syrian people. “We need additional contri-

butions to the humanitarian effort urgently. I want to put the case to my colleagues that other EU nations need to do more,” said Hague. Asked about the nature of assistance given to the Syrian opposition, Hague stressed that EU countries can only provide non-lethal aid to Syrian opposition groups because of an EU arms embargo that renders the supply of any weapons illegal. “At the moment we have a European Union arms embargo on Syria, it’s not possible or legal for any EU nation to send weapons to anybody in Syria and therefore our chosen route, and it’s the same route of France and the United States, is to give non-lethal assistance and we’re doing that,” he told reporters. The British foreign secretary also highlighted the need to “increase the pressure on Iran”, intensify sanctions and add further to EU sanctions in force, which are already having a serious impact on Iran. “It’s vital this issue is confronted and dealt with but far better to do so in a peaceful way through sanctions and negotiations,” he said. Two other broader issues on the agenda in Paphos are water and education, “issues that are so important for our relationships in the world,” said Ashton. The aim is to discuss how the EU can help to support the provision of water across the world and provide education and support for children who have gone through

The EU foreign ministers meeting at the conference hall at Aphrodite Hills in Paphos yesterday trauma caused by disaster or conﬂict. “We know (education) has a dramatic impact on their capacity to survive trauma and to ensure they have stable lives in the future,” said Ashton. Marcoullis said: “We will discuss ways to introduce education issues in the EU external policy, a matter that concerns in particular countries that have been affected by war and calamities or are in the process of reforms, such as the countries of the Arab Spring”. On the issue of water, Marcoullis warned that the vital source “may become the cause for clashes but also an incentive for cooperation” as it is “inextricably connected with food safety”, a priority of the Cyprus EU presidency. According to UN studies, by 2025, 30 nations will probably suffer from drought, 18 of which will be in the Middle East and North Africa, said the Cypriot minister. “It is obvious that water management issues have direct repercussions on regional and international relations,”

Job Opportunity A high ranking official of an overseas organization in Nicosia seeks to hire a Cook for full-time employment. Duties include procuring food and drinks whenever necessary, proposing varied menus, and preparing high-quality food for various events and parties, as well as family meals. Candidates must be graduates of a recognized culinary school, and have a minimum of 5 years experience as a cook in continental (French, Italian, American, etc.) cuisine. They must (1) be fluent in English, have excellent interpersonal skills, and be willing to work a flexible schedule including late evenings and weekends; (2) be able to prove authorization to work in the Republic of Cyprus; (3) possess a local valid driver's license. As part of the selection process, candidates will be asked to prepare a sample meal. The Application package must include the following: A current resume and recent letters of reference from previous employers; Sample menus for the following: A working breakfast for 4 persons, a lunch for 2-3 persons, a sit down dinner for 12 persons, and a buffet dinner for 25 persons. Applications should be mailed to: Vacancy for Cook, P.O. Box 24536, 1385 Nicosia, or e-mailed to vacanciesnicosia@state.gov to arrive no later than September 21, 2012.

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Home Cow farmers call for milk price hike

Police can film people without their consent By Poly Pantelides POLICE may film or take photographs or people without consent under conditions to be specified by the Attorney-general, justice minister Loucas Louca said yesterday. “Following a meeting with the commissioner for the protection of personal data, the Attorney-general, the police chief and I, it was decided that the police may video-record people under certain circumstances,” Louca said. He said he was referring to police video-recording without the public’s consent adding they were waiting for further instruction for the office of the Attorney-general. Petros Clerides would not yesterday comment on the legal reasons behind his opinion. The meeting was called following reports the force was filming sheep and goat farmers at their protest outside the presidential palace, which turned violent, on August 23. The personal data commissioner said filming or taking photographs in anticipation of trouble was illegal but the police chief disagreed, saying the practice is common in the EU. Ombudswoman Eliza Savvidou yesterday published a

report on the police’s conduct outside the presidential palace during the sheep and goat farmers protest. “As a response to some protesters’ actions, the police used violence with bats, and injured at least one protester on the head,” Savvidou said. But the right to peaceful gatherings is guaranteed by the constitution and is even more important during a time of social and economic upheaval “such as we’re having now,” Savvidou said. Using the police to control protests should be a last resort, and when involved the force should facilitate peaceful gatherings, Savvidou said. “The police ought to protect people participating in such gatherings,” Savvidou said citing European Court of Human Rights decisions. “Isolated incidents of violence or violent behaviour from isolated individuals are not sufficient to consider a gathering as violent,” she said. Savvidou said police officers should be identifiable during gatherings and avoid filming or photographing participants without consent because it could be a way of keeping tabs on the public. She said her report also pertained to a police decision to charge the head of a potato

The farmers’ demonstration that brought the ﬁlming issue to the fore farmers’ organisation in late August for offences of being a public nuisance and violating trafﬁc laws, allegedly committed during a separate planned protest. The justice minister later announced the charges were

being dropped. He said that both he and the police chief thought it was unnecessary to push the matter to court and said the investigating ofﬁcers were only carrying out their duty in investigating perceived crimes. The police had

previously said the protest went on longer than planned. Louca had not yet read the Ombudswoman’s report and the police spokesman, Andreas Angelides, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Farmers: we’ll take cut if officials do the same New plan afoot to release sheep and goats in mountain areas By Jacqueline Agathocleous SHEEP and goat farmers said yesterday the only way they would accept a cut in their subsidy was if President Demetris Christoﬁas, his ministers, and MPs took the same cut to their respective incomes. Head of the Paphos Livestock Farmers Association, Evagoras Chrysanthou, speaking after a meeting yesterday with DISY leader and presidential candidate Nicos Anastasiades, said the farmers were willing to compromise. “Of course we would accept a 25 per cent cut without protest, because we understand the economic situation the state is in,” he said. “But only provided there are similar pay cuts for MPs, the President and the ministers too, not just farmers.” In the meantime, given that this de-

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mand is highly unlikely to be met, the farmers plan to continue their protests to receive 100 per cent of their state subsidy, which has been slashed in half. This is also the last year they will be entitled to any state subsidy. Until now the farmers have staged several protests in pursuit of their demand but have been unsuccessful. Several threats to let loose their animals on the highway and elsewhere have not materialised. However Chrysanthou said yesterday they were willing to follow through on the threat on Monday by releasing the animals in the mountain areas. He said the sheep and goat farmers will gather their animals outside the Ahelia lodge in the Limassol district. “Some of the animals will be left at the Ahelia governmental lodge and the rest will be taken to mountain areas, so as not to create problems for driv-

ers,” said Chrysanthou. Chrysanthou said all political party leaders had so said they believe the farmers’ demands to be justiﬁable. Farmers last month took to the streets to protest a recent cabinet decision taking their state subsidy from over €12 million to under €6 million. The protests turned violent, with farmers and police clashing. A subsequent meeting with the agriculture minister, where they were promised alternative measures such as subsidised electricity and water bills, also left them with a sour taste. Chysanthou yesterday saying said those measures were welcome, but not enough to solve the serious problems in the farming sector. He said the farmers were also thinking of taking legal action against the state for not paying the original amount – especially considering that

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last January, they were assured by the agriculture ministry they would be receiving the full €12.8 million by the following March. DISY deputy Georgios Tasou said his party supported the farmers, who he said have had a tough time recently, seeking what was rightfully theirs. Meanwhile, the Green Party said while it felt the farmers’ demands were reasonable, it didn’t feel the same about the methods they used to protest. The farmers were heavily criticised for bringing sheep and goats on the protest and letting them loose in the melee. The party said the farmers should be paid in full as soon as possible. “But on the other hand, we condemn threats to abandon animals,” it added. “Farmers must realise that using animals in protests constitutes animal abuse and it is banned by Cypriot as well as European legislation.”

CATTLE farmers yesterday called for an increase in the price of milk, citing higher production costs and more expensive animal feed. “The price should have gone up a month ago,” said Nicos Papakyriakou, manager of the Pancyprian Cattle Farmers’ Organisation (POA). He was referring to a recent increase in the price of animal feed and increased production, believing that the extra cost should be transferred onto the price of milk. Papakyriakou said the farmers have started to increase production to make up for the current shortage being experienced on the retail market, which was caused by an order to farmers to deliver 65 tonnes a day to the Pittas dairy. This has left less milk to distribute to the rest of the market, and farmers said earlier this week, the problem could go on into October. Papakyriakou said an increase in production has begun and will increase further by the end of September, which would help make up the shortfall. The reason production cannot increase further beforehand is because in general there is less milk available during the summer months as heat has huge adverse effects on a dairy cow’s metabolism by increasing her body maintenance requirements. Therefore as soon as the weather begins to cool down more milk can be produced. Referring to the increase in price Papakyriakou said: “The increase has to happen…..how are we going to make money otherwise.” Papakyriakou was referring to that fact that the price of animal feed has risen recently. Meanwhile chairman of the organisation Savvas Evangelou believes that something should be done about the Cyprus Grain Commission’s alleged cheating of producers. He also let loose a torrent of criticism at the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) questioning why they had not done anything about the Grain Commission, calling the CPC “the gangrene of farmers.”

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By Alessandra Prentice BRITAIN’S Prince Harry has returned to Afghanistan to fly attack helicopters on the frontline just two weeks after he was photographed frolicking naked in Las Vegas. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said yesterday that Queen Elizabeth’s grandson would serve a four-month tour, based out of Camp Bastion in Helmand Province - one of the most volatile regions in the country where Britain has been fighting alongside the United States against the local Taliban since 2001. “Working alongside his colleagues in the squadron, he will be in a difficult and demanding job,” said Lieutenant Colonel Tom de la Rue in a statement. The prince, known in the military as Captain Wales, first served in Afghanistan in 2008 as an on-ground air controller, but his tour was cut short after foreign media broke a news blackout requested to protect him while on the front line. The MoD said the danger was less severe in helicopters. “Captain Wales’ deployment has been long planned and the threat to him and others around him thoroughly assessed,” the ministry said. The 27-year-old, who is regularly in the headlines due to his penchant for partying, has spoken out about his desire to return to active service. “I would love to go back, I really would,” he told ABC’s Good Morning America TV programme in 2010. “At the end of the day you train for war, it’s as simple as that. If we could be at

Heathrow expansion decision put on hold A DECISION on whether Britain will expand airport capacity around London will be taken by the next government, the country’s new transport secretary said yesterday, meaning a decision is unlikely before 2015. A commission chaired by former Financial Services Authority head Howard Davies to analyse ways to expand airport capacity in southeast England will report in the summer of 2015 after releasing an interim report next year, Patrick McLoughlin wrote in his ﬁrst ministerial statement as transport secretary. Several options are being considered to increase the southeast of England’s strained airport capacity: a third runway at London’s Heathrow airport, a second at Stansted north-east of London or a new airport in the estuary of the river Thames. “This is a very difﬁcult debate, but the reality is that since the 1960s Britain has failed to keep pace with our international competitors in addressing long term aviation capacity and connectivity needs,” wrote McLoughlin.

Security giant to explain Olympics debacle By Neil Maidment EMBATTLED security ﬁrm G4S will be forced to relive its embarrassing London Olympics stafﬁng failure on Tuesday when its boss returns for a second showdown with British lawmakers demanding to know how the debacle was allowed to happen. Group Chief Executive Nick Buckles and colleague David Taylor-Smith, who is the group’s UK and Africa CEO, will be pressed for further explanation of the recruitment failure which has hit its shares and raised questions about its prospects on future deals. “Everyone now accepts that G4S let the country down before the Olympics began. We need to ascertain the reasons why this happened and who else was responsible for

the pre-Olympics shambles,” Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee and a Member of Parliament for the opposition Labour party, told Reuters yesterday. The world’s largest security ﬁrm, which in Britain runs services for airports, prisons, immigration and the police, admitted just 16 days before the Games began that it could not supply a promised 10,400 venue guards. It eventually raised 7,800 at peak times, leaving the military to make up the shortfall. The failure embarrassed the government, one of G4S’s core clients which accounts for more than half of its £1.8 billion British revenue. More than 20 per cent of its pipeline of potential UK work also stems from that market. Those numbers mean the UK public sector is one of

the biggest global clients for the group, whose revenue for 2012 is forecast at just over £8 billion according to a Reuters poll of 21 analysts. G4S has said it expects to take a £50 million loss over the contract failure, but the potential for a longer-lasting reputational blow goes even beyond the UK market. Buckles’ return to Parliament also comes at a time when his tenure as chief executive hangs on the soonexpected result of an internal management review into the failure. The board’s decision could be swayed by whether the group wins any of nine imminent British prison deals, that will indicate the government’s appetite to work with G4S at a time when its Olympic woes have put its plans for increased private sector involvement under scrutiny.

Oil and gas tax breaks announced Prince Harry, aka Captain Wales, gestures in front of an Apache helicopter at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan peace then fantastic, but if we’re at war then you want to be with your brothers in arms.” Prince Harry is the ﬁrst member of the Royal Family to see active combat since his uncle Prince Andrew fought in the Falklands war. Thousands of fellow soldiers as well as members of the public posted naked photos

of themselves on Facebook to show their support for the prince after naked pictures of him with a young woman in Las Vegas made news around the world in August. Prince Charles, Harry’s father and heir-to-the-throne, is “immensely proud” of his son’s return to the front line, his spokesman said.

BRITAIN will offer new tax breaks to encourage investment in older oil and gas ﬁelds in the North Sea as the government, under pressure to stimulate growth, moves to revive a key part of the economy which has long been a driver of its prosperity. Finance minister George Osborne said yesterday that income from some mature oil ﬁelds would be shielded from a supplementary tax charge on producers to encourage them to maximise the amount of oil they pump out of the ground.

A dramatic fall in Britain’s oil and gas production shaved at least half a percentage point off the country’s economic growth in 2011, a major difference for an economy that is stagnating as businesses struggle with the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression. “Finally, the government is waking up to the fact that an 18 per cent year-on-year reduction in North Sea production needs to be addressed and is back-pedalling against the recent 12 per cent tax hike,” Numis analyst Sanjeev Bahl said.

MEMORIAL SERVICE Tomorrow Sunday September 9th 2012 a 40 day memorial service will be held at Agia Sofia’s Church Strovolos in memory of our beloved wife and mother

REGINAS KOULOUMPRIS We invite all who honour her memory to attend. Husband: Michalakis Kouloumpris Son: Konstantinos Kouloumpris

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Police probe financial motive in Alps murder By Johnny Cotton POLICE investigating a gruesome family murder in the French Alps are looking at several theories, including that the British man shot dead in his car with his wife and another woman was involved in a financial feud with his brother. As forensics experts performed autopsies on the four victims, who include a local cyclist who was passing at the time of the attack, a team of French investigators landed in Britain. A state prosecutor confirmed the people killed in the car were a couple from Britain - on a camping holiday in the Annecy region with their two daughters - and an older woman. The girls, aged seven and four, survived and are under police protection in hospital after the shootings on a remote forest road near the village of Chevaline on Wednesday. Prosecutor Eric Maillaud identified the dead car driver

as Saad al-Hilli, an Iraqi-born Briton. He said Hilli’s fouryear-old daughter - who hid for eight hours with the bodies in the car, too scared to move - had conﬁrmed she had been with her parents and sister when the attack took place.

TIP-OFF “She said, ‘It’s my father’, she gave his ﬁrst name, ‘It’s my mother’, she gave her ﬁrst name, ‘It’s my sister’,” Maillaud told a news conference in the town of Annecy, near Chevaline. The older girl was badly beaten in the attack. Maillaud cautioned that a tip-off to British authorities that Hilli and his brother were involved in a money dispute was “an interesting line of investigation, but one among many”. “Just because there is a dispute between two brothers doesn’t make him the No. 1 suspect,” said Maillaud, adding: “No lead, no information is considered far-fetched.” He said the brother had not been formally questioned, but had sought out British

authorities after learning that Hilli may have been killed in France, and added he understood the brother had denied any dispute with Hilli. Maillaud said investigators had gleaned little from their “moving” chat yesterday with the four-year-old girl, who is in a psychiatric hospital in the city of Grenoble, accompanied by a nurse and British embassy staff. He said authorities were searching for family members to whom she could be entrusted. Police hope Hilli’s sevenyear-old daughter, who was in an artiﬁcial coma in a Grenoble hospital awaiting a second operation for serious skull fractures, will be able to eventually provide more information. “We have someone, or some people, who clearly wanted to kill and who had no fear about taking lives,” Maillaud said, adding that each victim had been shot at least three times, and at least once in the head. The family’s relationship to the older woman killed in the car, who had a Swedish passport, has not yet been established.

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NATO’s chief accused Azerbaijan of undermining peace efforts with its neighbour Armenia by pardoning a soldier who had murdered an Armenian and warned the countries yesterday they must not return to war. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was “deeply concerned” about Azerbaijan’s decision to clear Ramil Safarov and its impact on the Caucasus Mountain countries’ still simmering dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. “There must be no return to conﬂict between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Rasmussen told students during a visit to a diplomatic academy in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku. “There is no military solution” to the dispute, he added.

Envoys expelled French gendarmes block access to a road to La Combe d’Ire in Chevaline, south-eastern France yesterday

Bombardment, blasts rock the Syrian capital SYRIAN forces bombarded a crowded Palestinian refugee district in Damascus yesterday, killing at least 10 people according to residents, while other parts of the city were rocked by apparent rebel bomb attacks. The main focus of the ﬁghting is now in the economic centre, Aleppo, but rebels ﬁghting to topple President Bashar al-Assad continue to attack government forces and buildings in the capital. Five security personnel were killed and several others were wounded in a “terrorist” blast caused by explosives attached to a motorcycle in the Rukn al-Din district of Damascus, state television said. A car bomb also exploded between the Information Ministry and the main Damascus courthouse, it said, giving no details of any casualties. In the south of the capital, rockets rained down on Yarmouk, a densely populated Palestinian refugee camp. A woman living nearby counted

at least 11 strikes. Video uploaded by activists showed clouds of grey smoke curling into the air. “At least 10 people have been killed and 15 wounded since they resumed shelling,” the woman said by telephone, asking not to be named for her own safety. “There are several burned corpses and limbs, so no one is sure of the total death toll.” Residents across the city said they had been hearing heavy blasts and sporadic gunﬁre since early yesterday morning. “I can count at least 10 columns of smoke coming from the southern neighbourhoods around the camp,” said activist Samir al-Shami, speaking on Skype. He said tanks and troops had been brought in to conduct raids on some southern neighborhoods. Assad’s forces are trying to re-establish full control in Damascus as they battle anti-government forces in Aleppo, Syria’s economic hub, and pockets of rebellion across the country.

CANADA has closed its embassy in Iran and will expel all Iranian diplomats in Canada within ﬁve days, Foreign Minister John Baird said yesterday, denouncing Tehran as the biggest threat to global security. “Diplomatic relations between Canada and Iran have been suspended,” Baird said. He cited Iran’s nuclear programme, its hostility toward Israel and Iranian military assistance to the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, which is locked in civil war with rebels. He also said Iran was a state sponsor of terrorism.

Hantavirus toll increase Yosemite National Park has doubled the scope of its hantavirus warning to some 22,000 visitors who may have been exposed to the deadly mouse-borne disease as the number of conﬁrmed cases grew to eight and a third death was reported. US ofﬁcials have said up to 10,000 park visitors were thought to be at risk of contracting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

US to designate Haqqani network as terrorist group THE United States will designate the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, accused of highproﬁle attacks in Afghanistan, as a terrorist organisation, the US State Department said yesterday, in a move that would trigger sanctions against the group and turns up the heat on Pakistan’s government. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a report to Congress yesterday in Brunei stating that the network met the criteria to be designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), the department said. A US ofﬁcial said the formal designation would be made in the coming days. The Haqqanis, a Pashtun tribe with strong-

holds in south-eastern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan, have been blamed for an attack on the US embassy in Kabul and other high-proﬁle assaults in Afghanistan. The United States accuses Pakistan’s intelligence agency of supporting the Haqqani network and using it as a proxy in Afghanistan to gain leverage against the growing inﬂuence of its arch-rival India in the country. Pakistan denies the allegations. Formal designation as an FTO would increase pressure on the Pakistani government, but any actual effects beyond that were unclear since most of the Haqqani leaders have already been blacklisted individually.

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Democratic convention Girl arrested for defaming Islam glow hit by jobs figures is granted bail Romney likens it to ‘hangover’ after party By Matt Spetalnick and John Whitesides A BLEAK monthly US jobs report poured cold water on President Barack Obama’s hopes for a post-convention bounce yesterday, putting him on the defensive as he entered the ﬁnal two-month sprint to the November 6 election. Just hours after basking in the glow of his supporters’ adulation on Thursday night at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, Obama was hit by a stark reminder of the challenge he faces convincing voters to give him a second term despite stubbornly high unemployment on his watch. Jobs growth slowed more than expected in August, with nonfarm payrolls increasing only 96,000, the Labour Department said. While the jobless rate dropped to 8.1 per cent from 8.3 per cent, it was bad news for the economy because the decline was largely due to more Americans giving up the search for work. The grim report was likely to dim the convention afterglow for Obama, who in an impassioned speech accepting his party’s nomination had appealed to Americans for more time and patience to ﬁnish his economic agenda. His Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, seized on the latest jobs data to slam Obama’s handling of the economy, voters’ top concern. “If last night was the party, this morning is the hango-

China quakes kill dozens TWO shallow 5.6 magnitude earthquakes hit mountainous southwestern China yesterday, killing at least 64 people and forcing tens of thousands of people from damaged buildings, state media said. The quakes struck near the border of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, the ﬁrst one at 11.19am (0319 GMT) and the second one about 45 minutes later, the US Geological Survey said. About 700 people were injured and 20,000 homes damaged in the remote mountainous region about 350 km (210 miles) from the Yunnan provincial capital Kunming, the ofﬁcial Xinhua news agency said. State media reported that Premier Wen Jiabao would travel to the area, as he has often done when disasters strike Chinese regions.

Obama had appealed to Americans for more time to ﬁnish his economic agenda (AFP) ver,” Romney said in a statement. “It is clear that President Obama just hasn’t lived up to his promises and his policies haven’t worked. We aren’t better off than we were four years ago.” White House economist Alan Krueger chose to accentuate the positive: the private sector has now generated jobs for 30 straight months. And he made the point that Congress had failed to pass key elements of Obama’s jobs plan, which has been blocked by Republicans who control the House of Representatives. Obama’s nationally-televised acceptance speech capped two weeks of backto-back nominating conventions for Obama and Romney. The address opened the last phase of a White House

battle that polls show is essentially deadlocked amid deep voter concerns about the economy, which Obama argued he had put on the road to recovery even though growth remained lackluster. Obama offered a steadyas-you-go message that outlined priorities like creating 1 million new manufacturing jobs but provided few details on how to achieve them. He thrilled the crowd when he ended with a preacher-like crescendo. Pundits’ reviews were not as glowing as for an address to the convention by former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday. Both candidates were hitting the campaign trail on the morning of the release of the August labour market report, a crucial economic indicator that both camps were watching in a campaign

dominated by the debate over job creation. The latest jobs data could give a boost to Romney, the former head of a private equity firm who has made his business experience the centrepiece of his campaign. He argues he is uniquely qualified to create job growth and says Obama is not up to the job. Obama, who entered office during the darkest days of the 2007-2009 recession, has brought unemployment down from a peak of 10 per cent in his first year but has been unable to crack the 8 per cent barrier - a fact that Romney’s camp has stressed. “This is not even close to what a recovery looks like,” Paul Ryan, Romney’s vice presidential running mate, told CNBC.

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A CHRISTIAN girl arrested in Pakistan for defaming Islam was granted bail yesterday, a judge said, days after police detained a Muslim cleric on suspicion of planting evidence to frame her in a case that caused an international outcry. Rimsha Masih, believed to be 14, may be in danger if she is set free and stays in Pakistan. Her arrest last month angered religious and secular groups worldwide, but protests in Pakistan attracted only a handful of supporters. In Muslim Pakistan, the mere allegation of causing offence to Islam can mean death. Those accused under an anti-blasphemy law are sometimes lynched by the public even if they are found innocent by the courts. The girl would be reunited with her family at a location that was being kept secret for security reasons, said Robinson Asghar, an aide to Minister for National Harmony Paul Bhatti. There were no plans to send Masih abroad, Bhatti said. “I am really satisﬁed and happy,” he said. “I believe justice has prevailed.” Masih was accused by Muslim neighbours of burning Islamic religious texts and arrested, but police recently said a cleric had been taken into custody after witnesses reported he had torn pages from a Koran and planted them in Masih’s bag beside burned papers. In Masih’s impoverished village on the edge of Islamabad, some said they were disappointed that she had not been sentenced. “This is wrong. She burned the Koran,” said resident Ijaz Sarwar near the local mosque. Nearby, Saddam Hussein,

Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, one of Masih’s lawyers, leaves court yesterday 18, expressed sympathies for the cleric accused of framing Masih. “If she is freed, the maulvi (cleric) should be freed as well,” he said. There were conﬂicting accounts of how much bail would have to be paid, but Masih’s lawyer said it was about the equivalent of $10,000. Activists and human rights groups say vague terminology has led to the anti-blasphemy law’s misuse, and that it dangerously discriminates against tiny minority groups. Human Rights Watch welcomed Masih’s release and urged authorities to consider reforming the law. “This child should not have been behind bars at all. All charges against her should be dropped,” the international rights group said in a statement. “Pakistan’s criminal justice system should instead concentrate on holding her accuser accountable for inciting violence against the child and members of the local Christian community.” More than a million people globally have signed a petition started by Masih’s father for her release.

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Business Sharp slow down in US jobs growth By Lucia Mutikani US jobs growth slowed sharply in August, setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to pump additional money into the sluggish economy next week and dealing a blow to President Obama as he seeks re-election in November. Nonfarm payrolls increased only 96,000 last month, the labour department said yesterday. While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 per cent from 8.3 per cent in July that was because so many Americans gave up the hunt for work. The survey of households from which the jobless rate is derived showed a drop in employment. The lacklustre report keeps the pressure on Obama ahead of the November vote in which the health of the economy looms large. “This weak employment report, in jobs, wages, hours worked and participation is probably the last piece the Fed needs before launching another round of quantitative easing next week,” said Joseph Trevisani, chief market strategist at Worldwide Markets in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. US stock index futures pared their gains on the report, while Treasury debt prices turned positive. The dollar extended its losses versus the euro. Economists polled by Reuters had expected payrolls to rise 125,000 last month, but some had pushed their forecasts higher after upbeat data on Thursday. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke last week said the labour market’s stagnation was a “grave concern”, a comment that raised expectations for a further easing of monetary policy as soon as the central bank’s meeting on Wednesday and Thursday.

Trader Glencore raises offer for Xstrata TRADER Glencore has raised its offer for miner Xstrata in a dramatic 11thhour effort to rescue one of the sector’s largest ever deals from collapse after opposition from rival shareholder Qatar. Glencore’s Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg, helped by a late intervention from former British prime minister Tony Blair, lived up to his reputation as an unpredictable dealmaker, with overnight talks with Qatar and dawn telephone calls yesterday that put the now $36 billion deal back on the table, sources familiar with the deal said. Glencore, which has a 34

per cent stake in Xstrata already, is proposing an offer of 3.05 new shares for every Xstrata share it does not already own, up from 2.8, a statement issued by Xstrata said. Qatar demanded a ratio of 3.25 in June, but in recent days sources involved in the deal had said the Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fund could settle for a compromise. The new proposal, however, would place Glasenberg as chief executive of the combined group instead of Xstrata boss Mick Davis, who would have taken the role under the original deal. Davis’ role, if any, in the future company is unclear, and the change could signal

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an end to the South Africanborn manager’s career at Xstrata after a transformational decade at the helm. Looking tense and tired at Xstrata’s shareholder meeting, Davis declined to comment on his plans. A statement issued by Xstrata also said Glencore

night, has not yet commented on the deal. The revised offer pleased top-10 shareholder Standard Life and found wary support among other of Xstrata’s institutional shareholders. “We are supportive of the improved terms and the changes to the executive governance arrangements,” said David Cumming, head of equities at Standard Life Investments. “The deal will, we believe, enhance the growth prospects of the combined group and consequently, as shareholders both of Xstrata and Glencore, we are pleased with the proposed outcome.”

ECB to supervise eurozone banks by January 2014 Officials confident Germany can be won over By Padraic Halpin

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could consider changing the offer’s structure, from a complex arrangement that requires 75 per cent approval without Glencore, to a straightforward takeover requiring a simple majority. “We’ve always thought that there was a reasonably good chance that Glencore would bump the offer modestly, and we believe that Qatar will probably accept this 3.05,” said Brewin Dolphin analyst Nik Stanojevic. A source familiar with the deal said there were “constructive talks” ongoing, and Qatar was supportive of the offer. Qatar, which had not held talks with Glencore for two months before Thursday

Hollande pledge on tax reforms and cuts FRENCH President Francois Hollande insisted yesterday he would press ahead with spending cuts and promised tax reforms next year, amid reports his Socialist government was watering down flagship measures such as a 75 per cent tax on the rich. Elected in May on a pledge to curb unemployment and tax the rich, Hollande said a stagnant economy made it crucial for France to stick to a target of cutting the deficit to 3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) next year or else risk losing investors’ trust. Hollande said that by holding state spending steady in nominal terms next year - excluding debt servicing and pension payments - his government would save €10 billion in inflationadjusted terms. However, that would go just one-third of the way towards the more than €30 billion in savings which Hollande said are needed to hit next year’s deficit target - the first milestone toward his goal of balancing France’s budget by the end of his five-year mandate. With the government refusing to cut staffing levels, the bulk of the adjustment will have to come from tax rises, economists warn. “This will be the biggest effort in 30 years,” Hollande said at a ceremony to swear in a new magistrate to the state auditor’s office. “Bold decisions are being taken on public spending. Audacious tax reforms will be proposed. Changes are planned in the organisation and the activities of government.”

THE EUROPEAN Central Bank will have full supervisory power over all eurozone banks from January 1, 2014, according to a draft European Commission proposal published by Italy’s Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper yesterday. “The ECB should be able to exercise supervisory tasks in relation to all banks,” officials write in the draft, a copy of which was posted on the internet. “Safety and soundness of large banks is essential to ensure the stability of the financial system. However, recent experience shows that smaller banks can also pose a threat to financial stability.” The Commission is firm in believing that the ECB should have oversight of all 6,000 eurozone banks as it looks to build a ‘banking union’ across the region, the first step towards deeper fiscal and economic integration. But Germany has said it believes the ECB should only have oversight of the largest, systemically important banks, concerned that having too much responsibility will dilute its monitoring powers.

Germany is also concerned that its Landesbanken regional banks could fall under the ECB’s watch. The draft said the ECB would start the process of overseeing eurozone banks from January 1, 2013, with a year long phase-in. “The phasing-in process should be completed within one year from the entry into force of this regulation at the latest,” the document said. “The ECB shall assume in full the tasks conferred on it by this regulation on Jan. 1 2014 at the latest.” ECB President Mario Draghi announced on Thursday the bank was ready to buy unlimited amounts of bonds of up to three-year maturities of countries that requested a European bailout and fulﬁlled strict conditions. The head of Ireland’s Central Bank said yesterday the bond buying programme will win over Germany’s Bundesbank and other doubters by operating in a disciplined way, and it will beneﬁt Ireland greatly. “Anybody who had any doubts that the ECB was prepared to bring the tools needed ... any doubts must

be removed now,” Patrick Honohan, the bailout recipient’s representative on the ECB board and head of Ireland’s central bank, said yesterday. The scheme had “downsides and upsides,” Honohan told reporters, but more up than down. The Bundesbank reiterated its opposition to the programme while Germany’s conservative newspapers yesterday accused Draghi of writing a “blank cheque” to troubled eurozone states that could put the entire currency at risk. Honohan said the Bundesbank would eventually embrace the programme. “I think they will... I think that critics will gradually realise that it is being operated in a business-like and disciplined way and that it has all the positives of the programme without all the potential negatives that they see.” Draghi said the ECB would only help countries that met strict policy conditions, with the eurozone’s rescue fund also buying their bonds, and preferably with the IMF involved in designing and monitoring the programme.

Little headway over Greece’s structural reforms By Dina Kyriakidou GREECE hopes a major state sell-off this autumn will persuade international inspectors arriving yesterday to keep the country’s aid lifeline open despite scant progress on reforms promised in return for the cash. The so-called troika of the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and European Central Bank will assess Greece’s progress towards targets set under its bailout before deciding next month whether to pay out a €31 billion loan. The two-month-old conservative-led coalition government is cobbling together more budget cuts for 2013-14 to convince the

inspectors, and rushed to announce a raft of successes this week, including progress on netting tax evaders. But Greek government officials concede they have made little headway with structural reforms agreed under the €130 billion bailout, and which are vital to turning the economy around, and say at least one selloff is needed to turn the tide. “We have fallen behind and time has been lost, partly because of the repeat election,” a senior government official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. “We hope to have a quick win this autumn, a major privatisation to send a message abroad and shift sentiment,” he said, hinting it might be state betting firm OPAP.

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It’s the economy, stupid Unreasonable union demands have nearly bankrupted CY THE BOARD of cash-strapped Cyprus Airways has suggested cutting staff’s working hours by one third for the next three months in order to save money. The measure is estimated to save the company close to €5 million and allow it to survive until it receives the €31 million from the taxpayer in the form of an increase of its share capital. The airline’s unions rejected the proposal even though press reports suggested they could eventually accept it in order to avert the company’s closure. Speaking on a radio show yesterday morning Antonis Neophytou, a spokesman for the biggest union CYNIKA, said that the €5 million could have been saved if the company made the pay cuts the unions had agreed to and implemented the early retirement scheme for 250 employees. In theory, he was correct, but to implement the early retirement scheme the company would need €17 million which it does not have. Where would a company in dire financial straits find such a huge amount of money to fund the redundancy scheme? If it borrowed the money, any savings it made from the redundancies would have to go on the repayment of the loan, so the scheme would not ease its cash-flow in any way. Union bosses just assume that the taxpayer would pick up the bill for the unacceptably high compensation packages approved by the generous labour minister. Yet the fact is a company that is struggling to avoid bankruptcy cannot afford to offer ultra-generous early retirement incentives. The pay-off calculations were modelled on the compensation, unjustifiably given to Eurocypria workers when it closed down, as a way of keeping them quiet. There is a very simple answer for Cyprus Airways, which could follow the example set by all private companies – make the 250 staff redundant, and pay the notice the staff are entitled to by law. This is what any company struggling to stay afloat would have done, but because the airline is state-owned staff cannot be made redundant; they have to take ‘early retirement’ so they can squeeze a fat compensation from the taxpayer. Not a single politician would dare raise this point, for fear of the personal political cost. It is this fear of challenging the unreasonable demands of unions over the years that put Cyprus Airways on the verge of bankruptcy and it is this fear that Could eventually lead to its closure. Unless the airline’s unions, which have shown an unprecedented sense of responsibility recently, finally accept that the company cannot afford an early retirement scheme and agree to redundancies.

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HERE was never going to be a big debate on US foreign policy at the Democratic National Convention. It will be whatever Barack Obama says it should be, and besides, the delegates in Charlotte weren’t interested. It’s the economy, stupid, and two months before the election nobody wants to get sidetracked into discussing a peripheral issue like American foreign policy. The only people who really care about that at the moment are foreigners and the US military – and even they are not following the election with bated breath, because few of them believe that a change of president could fundamentally change the way the US relates to the rest of the world. Although the Republicans do their best to paint Obama as a wild-eyed radical who is dismantling America’s defences, he has actually been painfully orthodox in his foreign policy. He loves Israel to bits, he did not shut down the Afghan war (or Guantanamo), he uses drones to kill US enemies (and sometimes, anybody else who is nearby), and he tamely signs off on a $700 billion defence budget. How can Mitt Romney top that? He could say he loves Israel even more. In fact, he does say that, promising to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But that is purely gesture politics, since almost no other countries do, and in practice Obama gives Israel almost everything it

Comment Gwynne Dyer wants already. He could pledge to spend even more on “defence” than Obama, but the United States is already pouring 4.7 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product down that rathole. Obama has planned cuts over the next several years that would bring it down to about 4 per cent – and Romney has promised not to let it fall below 4 per cent. Not a huge difference there. Romney does his best to disguise that fact by declaring that he would reverse certain of Obama’s decisions. US ground forces, for example, would remain at their current level under a Romney administration, rather than being reduced by 100,000 people. But changing only that and nothing else would put $25 billion a year back onto the defence budget. How do you do that without raising taxes? The Republican candidate faces a constraint none of his recent predecessors had: a party that really cares about the deﬁcit. In the past three decades, it has been Republican presidents who ran up the bills – Ronald Reagan never balanced a budget, and the Bush-Cheney team declared that “deﬁcits don’t matter” – while the subsequent Democratic administrations tried to

curb out-of-control spending. Romney doesn’t have that option: the Tea Party wing of his party actually means what it says about both taxes and deficits. So what’s left for him? Well, he could promise to kill even more of America’s enemies than Obama, but he can’t get around the fact that it’s Obama who nailed Osama bin Laden, and Obama who is playing fast and loose with international law by using drones to carry out remote-control assassinations of hostile foreigners. So Romney says very little about foreign policy because there is little he can say. The closest he has come to specific policy changes was an “action plan” he laid out during the Republican primaries last year, to be accomplished within a hundred days of taking office. It was an entirely credible promise, because none of it really involves a policy change at all. He promised to “re-assure traditional allies that America will fulfill its global commitments.” A couple of phone calls, and that’s done. He declared that he would move more military forces to the Gulf “to send a message to Iran,” but he didn’t threaten to attack Iran, or endorse an Israeli attack on Iran. And he can always move them back again if he gets bored. He said he would appoint a Middle East czar to oversee US support for the evolving Arab transitions. That’s one more

government job, but Romney has even less idea than Obama about where he wants those transitions to end up. Besides, the United States has almost no leverage on this issue. He will review the Obama administration’s planned withdrawal from Afghanistan. Not necessarily change it; just review it. He will also review Obama’s global missile defence strategy. He might like to change that – Republicans have loved the concept ever since Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” dreams – but he hasn’t got the kind of money he would need for a more ambitious policy. He will increase the government’s focus on cybersecurity. Ho-hum. He will raise the rate of US Navy shipbuilding. So far as budget constraints permit, which is not very far at all. And he will launch an economic opportunity initiative in Latin America. As long as it doesn’t cost much money. It’s not surprising that the rest of the world doesn’t care much about the US election. Most foreigners, on both the right and the left, are more comfortable with Obama than Romney, but US foreign policy will stay the same whoever wins. They might not like all of it, but they’re used to it. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Bearing gifts to foreign lands...taking the Extra Virgin home THERE’S a saying in the Peloponnese about their precious Kalamatan olive oil that roughly translates: eat it the ﬁrst year, wash with it the second and put it in your car the third. Much of our 100 litres gathered last year from our ten trees was sitting under the sink in the house in Koroni. It needed to be transported back to the UK before this year’s harvest. An anticipated bumper crop, for the trees are laden. ‘No problem, we’ll put it in plastic containers in an empty suitcase’, my husband said. It was my fault, always conscious of my grandmother’s if you take care of the penny parsimony, I’d scrimped a few euros by buying the cheapest containers at the local supermarket. There was pleasure in decanting the viscous green extra vir-

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gin oil from its 25-litre cans. It ran across our hands like emerald syrup. We knew to leave enough space at the top of the canisters for expansion in the hold. We packed them tightly with glossy black aubergines from Yianni’s dad’s allotment, aware that under the scrutiny of airport cameras our fruits of the ﬁelds might look alarmingly like petrol cans and grenades. The new motorway across Greece promises Kalamata to Athens in two hours, but for now it takes three and a half

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to the airport. As we pulled the suitcase safely from the hire car we began to notice the leak. It started slowly, then a torrent until we were standing in the hot heat of the afternoon in our own golden pond. There is never much to say except, ‘Ooops’. But this was Greece, no-one shouted at us, no-one minded as we raided the loos for paper towels and everyone had understanding for the need to bear gifts to foreign lands. We quickly donated the leaking container to a man in the car hire and headed with the others to check-in. We knew we would have to abandon them. But we were wrong. For in this often infuriating country the one wonderful saving attribute is (if it can be done, it will be done). I can’t imagine how BA check in at Heathrow would have dealt

with us but it would probably have involved a detention centre. In Athens, however, there was no problem. They knew a man; they gave him a call; he arrived with a box; and, with the exchange of a few euros, our oil was safely contained and loaded in the hold and our suitcase carefully washed by the cleaner in the toilet. This morning I decanted the oil into clear glass bottles. They sit like rows of nectar, and like Greeks all over the world we will proudly pass them to friends and family – the ﬂavours of our own Mediterranean garden, unique to our hillside by the sea. But unlike Greeks, we will not boast to all that ours is the best, we will simply secretly thank BA staff and keep that obvious knowledge to ourselves...

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25 years ago Thursday September 8, 1987

Nazi Germany’s siege of Leningrad begins with the encirclement of the Soviet city.

Palestinian guerilla leader Yasser Arafat is ready to enter direct peace talks with Israel in what would be a radical policy change, Israeli parliament member Charlie Biton said yesterday. Arafat earlier asked Biton to relay a secret massage to the Israeli government outlining three conditions which would enable the country to enter direct peace talks with the PLO.

1974 US President Gerald Ford grants former President Richard Nixon a full pardon for his alleged part in the Watergate Affair.

1986 Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt when left-wing opponents ambush his motorcade.

1998 In Northern Ireland, The Real IRA announces a ceaseﬁre, although it is thought that they continued to carry out illegal activities even after the declaration.

2000 As the fuel prices increase protests take place across Britain, with lorries driving slowly on motorways and petrol reﬁneries being blocked.

35 years ago Saturday September 8, 1977 A £10 banknote will be in circulation as from Monday week, for the ﬁrst time since the Republic was set up. The Central Bank said that it was expected the new note would greatly assist cash transactions between the public and the banks.

45 years ago Sunday September 8, 1967 Turkey will agree to the union of Cyprus with Greece on condition it is given two British bases on the island and ten per cent of the island’s territory, informed Turkish sources said today. The sources said it was understood Greece was prepared to offer the two bases at Dhekelia and Episkopi with a total area of 99 square miles.

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Showbiz Cowell lashes out over X Factor TV showdown AN ANGRY Simon Cowell has hit back at NBC for a late decision to pit singing contest “The Voice” in direct competition with his revamped “The X Factor” season premiere next week, calling it a meanspirited spoiling tactic. NBC fired a new round in the ratings war in the crowded TV talent show market by announcing it would air a third night of “The Voice” next Wednesday - the very night “X Factor” returns to Fox with new judges Britney Spears and Demi Lovato. “It is a spoiling tactic. They (NBC) don’t want people to see this first episode. I think it is mean spirited and I hope and I pray it backfires on them because this is one of the best shows we have ever made,” Cowell told reporters on a telephone conference call. “I am pissed off about it, because I think there’s a kind of gentleman’s agreement (not to go head to head). But we have to rely that the viewers will make

the right selection,” the sharp-tongued British TV entrepreneur said. “The Voice,” with celebrity musician judges Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, has been one of the shining lights in struggling NBC’s schedule since it made its debut in the spring of 2011. The network will now air the contest twice a year, starting with a two night premiere scheduled for September 10 and 11. With just four days to go before the start of the new TV season, NBC said “The Voice” will also extend to Wednesday next week. After a disappointing ﬁrst season last year that ended with creator Cowell ﬁring two judges and the show’s host, “The X Factor” returns on September 12 and 13th. Reality singing show fans will now have to choose which show to watch on September 12. In another curious juxtaposition, Cowell’s “America’s Got Talent” hit summer show on NBC will broadcast its

two-night ﬁnale next week directly opposite “X Factor.” “I think there is a lot of interest in our show because of Britney and Demi, so we will see what happens, but I have learned, don’t make any predictions,” Cowell said. The two shows already pit one-time Disney child stars Aguilera and Spears against each other. “Britney’s not going to appreciate the fact that Christina - who has been a bit of a rival - isn’t allowing Britney to have a night of her own,” Cowell told celebrity website TMZ. “She’s going to be devastated because she has put her heart and soul into this.” Comcast Corp-owned NBC has been at the bottom in overall viewership for several years among the four leading US networks. But it rose to third in the 18-49 age group most prized by advertisers in the 2011-12 TV season, largely on the back of “The Voice,” “Sunday Night Football” and its broadcast of the 2012 Super Bowl.

UK boy band big winner at the MTV video awards Baby-faced group One Direction win three awards By Jill Serjeant BRITISH boy band One Direction were the big winners at the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday night, edging out Rihanna and taking home three prizes to crown their arrival on the US pop scene just six months ago. The five baby-faced guys, contestants on the British version of TV singing contest “The X Factor,” beat Justin Bieber and Rihanna for best pop video, and fellow all-boy British outfit The Wanted as best new artists. They also won the mostshareworthy video award which was voted on by fans - for their debut hit single “What Makes You Beautiful” and later performed their latest release “One Thing” to hordes of screaming girls at the two-hour Los Angeles ceremony. “To win one Moonman is amazing, to win two is incredible,” said Harry Styles, as the band collected the silver VMA trophy for best new artists. “Thank you so much! We have grown up watching this show and to collect one of these straight away is incredible,” said a jubilant Niall Horan. One Direction, which is managed by British TV entrepreneur Simon Cowell, made history in March when it became the first UK group to see its first album, “Up All Night,” debut at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. Rihanna, who went into the VMA’s sharing a leading five nominations with Canadian rapper Drake, came away with just one award. But it was the most coveted award of the night - video of the year - and the Barbadosborn superstar won it for her

Harry Styles of One Direction reacts after the band won best pop video for “What Makes You Beautiful” dizzying visual romp in hit single “We Found Love.” “I love you guys! This is awesome,” Rihanna told her fans as she collected the Moonman trophy and showed off a new pixie hair cut. In a hip-hop-heavy show, rapper Nicki Minaj won best female video for “Starships,” while Chris Brown won two awards - best male video and best choreography for “Turn Up the Music.” Drake also came away with just one win, for his hip-hop video “HYFR,” which celebrates his Jewish heritage. “I want to dedicate this award to any kid who has had a long walk home,” Drake said. The VMA’s have become known as one of the more unpredictable and controversial award shows, but Thursday’s ceremony had none of the jaw-dropping moments - like the steamy 2003 Madonna/ Britney Spears kiss - that have marked previous years. This year, US Olympic gymnastics champion Gabby Ross, 16, back-ﬂipped and

leapt across the stage while Alicia Keys sang her new single “Girl On Fire.” Ross and her four fellow team-mates also introduced Keys. Punk rocker Billie Joe Armstrong seemed fully recovered from a weekend dehydration episode that forced Green Day to cancel a performance in Italy, and he was mobbed on Thursday while singing after inviting fans to come up on stage. Lil Wayne gave the ﬁrst televised performance of his new single “No Worries,” and Frank Ocean, who made headlines in July by coming out as a rare gay hip-hop artist, performed an emotional version of “Thinkin Bout You.” Calvin Harris was the winner of the VMA’s ﬁrst award in the increasingly popular electronic dance music category for “Feel So Close.” Country-pop crossover singer Taylor Swift closed the show with her best-selling single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and other performers included Pink, Minaj, and Rihanna.

Following is a list of the main winners: Video of the Year - Rihanna, featuring Calvin Harris, “We Found Love” New Artist - One Direction Pop video - One Direction “What Makes You Beautiful” Rock video - Coldplay “Paradise” Hip-hop video - Drake, featuring Lil Wayne, “HYFR” Female video - Nicki Minaj “Starships” Male video - Chris Brown “Turn Up the Music” Electronic Dance Music video - Calvin Harris “Feel So Close” Share-worthy video - One Direction “What Makes You Beautiful” Video with a message - Demi Lovato “Skyscraper” Choreography - Chris Brown “Turn Up The Music” Editing - Beyonce “Countdown” Visual effects - Skrillex “First of the Year”

Kristen Stewart steals limelight as Toronto film fest opens THE TORONTO film festival opened on Thursday night with action movie “Looper” starring Joseph GordonLevitt, but it was “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart who attracted the biggest buzz on the red carpet at the starstudded festival scattered with Oscar hopefuls. Anticipation was high for one of the world’s premier film festivals that coming off Venice helps mark the beginning of Hollywood’s awards season. Filmmakers see it as crucial launching pad and Toronto has previously propelled such films as “The King’s Speech” to go on to success at the Academy Awards. Ben Affleck, Selena Gomez, Halle Berry, Tom Hanks and rapper-turned reggae wannabe Snoop Dogg, now known as Snoop Lion, are all among a lineup of top stars due to appear. But it was Kristen Stewart who wowed the red carpet Thursday, signing autographs to streams of cheering fans in her first media appearance since issuing an unusual public apology for cheating on long-term boyfriend and “Twilight” costar Robert Pattinson with British film director Rupert Sanders. Without directly referring to the scandal, Stewart, 22, told Reuters she was thankful “to know that everyone is here” and the support she described as “amazing” before she walked into the premiere of “On The Road” based on Jack Kerouac’s seminal book of the postwar Beat Generation. At a nearby theatre, “Looper,” a futuristic action blockbuster featuring Gordon Levitt and Bruce Willis about an assassin haunted by his time-traveling future self, officially kicked off the 11-day festival that will screen more than 280 films. It was the first US-China co-production to open the festival, but is not one of the films being keenly watched by Oscar observers. It was chosen as the opening film due to its perceived broad entertainment appeal in a slot once mostly reserved for Canadian productions or filmmakers. By last night the festival had turned towards some of the more anticipated films already gaining Oscar buzz, including Ben Affleck’s “Argo,” based on the story of how the CIA smuggled six Americans under the cover of a Hollywood production during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Also competing for critics and audience attention will be Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master,” David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Cloud Atlas”, an adaptation of the best-selling novel directed by Tom Tykwer and “Matrix” co-directors Andy and Lana Wachowski and starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.

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New Nokia Windows handset disappoints Investors say Lumia, key to Nokia future, lacks ‘wow’ factor By Sinead Carew and Tarmo Virki NOKIA’S new Lumia smartphones drew a thumbs-down from investors looking for transformational handsets to rescue the struggling Finnish company, sending the ﬁrm’s shares tumbling 13 per cent. Nokia and partner Microsoft Corp showcased the Lumia 920 phone on Wednesday in what may be their last major shot at reclaiming market share lost to Apple Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Google Inc. Microsoft and Nokia hope the device - sporting bright colours from red to yellow, a bigger screen, and technology that reduces blur and shakiness in pictures and video - will become a potent weapon in an escalating global war to dominate the mobile industry. But investors said it lacked “wow” and some analysts said Nokia’s reticence about prices or carrier partners also did not help. Nokia shares traded in Helsinki began sliding midway through the New York launch and ended down 13 per cent at 1.99 euros, their biggest single-day loss since June. The stock had gained 67 per cent since mid-July as anticipation built ahead of Lumia’s unveiling. Its US-listed stock closed down 16 per cent at $2.38. Many of the industry analysts who saw the phone up close in New York deemed it a solid device with a few differentiating features. But it did not push the envelope as Nokia CEO Stephen Elop had promised. “The challenge is that the world is working on the fourth, ﬁfth and sixth editions of their devices, while Nokia is still trying to move from chapter 1,” said RBC

Humans not the only species that are partial to apps HUMANS aren’t the only species on the planet with a penchant for electronic gadgets. Zookeepers across the United States and Canada are discovering that apes also get excited about apps. As part of a programme called Apps for Apes, 12 zoos across the two countries have been incorporating iPads into the enrichment time allotted for orangutans, the giant furry red primates native to Indonesia and Malaysia. “We’re ﬁnding that, similar to people, they like touching the tablet, watching short videos of David Attenborough for instance, and looking at other animals and orangutans,” said Richard Zimmerman, founding director of Orangutan Outreach, the New York Citybased non-proﬁt that runs the programme. Twice weekly, orangutans are provided with access to the tablets. The animals spend from 15 minutes to a half hour using different apps depending on their attention span. Apps geared towards children that stimulate activities such as painting, music and memory games are among the most popular apps with the apes. At the Toronto Zoo, zoo-

keeper Matthew Berridge uses apps such as Doodle Buddy for drawing, Montessori Counting Board and Activity Memo Pocket, a memory game, in addition to playing YouTube videos for the apes. “It’s a lot like when we’re showing children pop-up books,” said Zimmerman, adding the orangutans are among the most intelligent primates, with the intelligence level of a young child. Zookeepers are also investigating how communication apps, such as those for the autistic, can help the animals to express themselves better, according to Zimmerman. “Let’s say an orangutan has a toothache. He or she would be able to then tap on the iPad on a picture of a tooth and communicate it that way,” he said. One very intelligent, but armless, orangutan at the Centre for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida is so intent on using the device she uses her feet to navigate through the touchscreens. “When you see the enjoyment and focus on their faces it’s special, especially for orangutans who are in an enclosure all day and you’re providing enrichment for them,” said Zimmerman.

Nokia’s reticence about prices or carrier partners for the Lumia, did not help analyst Mark Sue. “People were looking for something that would dazzle. Most investors will view it as evolutionary, not revolutionary. Nokia has made some good progress, but investors were looking for quantum leaps. We didn’t get that.” The Lumia was the ﬁrst in a ﬂurry of planned mobile-device launches expected ahead of the holiday shopping season. Google’s Motorola Mobility also showed off three new smartphones based on Android software on Wednesday. Verizon Wireless the top US mobile provider committed to sell all three of the Motorola phones. Amazon.com Inc was set to unwrap its new Kindle Fire

tablets on Thursday and Apple is expected to unveil the latest version of its seminal iPhone on September 12. The Lumia runs on the latest Windows Phone operating system, which Microsoft hopes will rival Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android to become a third mobile platform. Nokia announced no partnerships with wireless service providers, leading some analysts to worry this was a sign of weak carrier support. The Finnish handset maker said it would announce pricing and roll-out dates for the new Lumia later on a country-by-country basis. “It is impossible to assess this launch without price and roll-out info. This is

disappointing,” said Bengt Nordstrom, CEO of telecommunications consultancy Northstream. For Microsoft, successful Lumia sales could convince more handset makers and carriers to support Windows Phone 8, which promises faster performance and a customisable start screen. Samsung last week became the ﬁrst to announce a smartphone running that software, which it said it would begin selling as early as next month. If the new phones do not appeal to consumers, it could spell the end for money-losing Nokia and deal a serious blow to Microsoft in its attempts to regain its footing in the market.

Keeping apes app-y: orangutans enjoy some time with an iPad

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Amazon takes on Apple with larger, cheaper Kindle Fires AMAZON.com Inc unveiled larger Kindle Fire tablets on Thursday, challenging Apple Inc’s dominant iPad with lower prices and a trove of digital content that Amazon hopes will win it a bigger share of the booming tablet market. The world’s largest Internet retailer lifted the lid on devices with price tags ranging from $159 to $599. The new tablets come with ads known as “special offers” that appear when screens are locked and in the corner of the home screen, helping Amazon keep prices low. Last year, Amazon debuted a 7-inch tablet at roughly half the price of the $499 iPad. In just 10 months, it became the No. 2 tablet in the US, after the iPad. Amazon’s expanding line-up also intensiﬁes a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp, who this year entered their own competitors in the booming tablet arena. The latest aggressive pricing move, and Amazon’s variety of gadgets, furthers its goal of getting Kindle tablets into the hands of as many buyers of its online content - from games and books

Amazon’s expanding tablet lineup intensiﬁes battles with Apple, Google Inc and Microsoft Corp to video - as possible. Apple, by contrast, makes much of its proﬁt from hardware sales. It sells a single-sized iPad often touted as best-in-breed, at costs ranging from $399 to $829, depending on storage

capacity, screen resolution and wireless connectivity. Amazon, which began as an Internet bookstore, will begin shipping on November 20 an 8.9-inch version with a high-deﬁnition screen, that works off either Wi-Fi or fourth-generation wireless broadband, known as 4G. The costliest version, at $599 for 64 gigabytes of storage, undercuts the top-ofthe-line $829 iPad. “Their ﬁrst Kindle Fire tablet was a device that said ‘See, we can tie all this together,” but it wasn’t a strong enough device,” said Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey. “Now they’ve really come ready to show their device line-up is going to be as good as their service line-up. They’re tying those two things together, and at a price that is very, very hard to compete with.” The premium Kindle Fire HD has a 1920-by-1200 resolution screen, lagging Apple’s so-called “retina” display. At 8.9 inches, it is also slightly smaller than the iPad’s screen. The cheapest 7-inch WiFi-only Fire goes for $159. Apple’s lowest iPad price tag is $499.

Scotch tape was the brainchild of Richard G Drew

Scotch tape developed In 1930, Scotch tape was developed by Richard G. Drew at 3M, St. Paul Minnesota. Originally, 3M only made sandpaper, and during testing Drew observed at a local auto bodyshop that auto painters had difﬁculty making clean dividing lines on two-colour paint jobs. After two years of effort in the company’s labs, he invented masking tape (1925), a tan paper tape with a light, pressure sensitive adhesive backing. Five years later, he invented Scotch Brand Cellulose Tape, the ﬁrst waterproof, see-through, pressure-sensitive tape.

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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

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

NICOSIA Total Recall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Campaign (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Bel Ami (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Expendables 2 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 77778383 Summer Open-Air Marathon (tonight: Brother Bear) Konstantia Open-Air Cinema, Wednesday to Sunday at 9pm. Tel: 22-348203

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

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

Bel Ami (N/A) Rio 3 at 8.20pm, weekends at 4.30 and 8.30pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

LIMASSOL

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 4 (in 2D, in English) at 4.45pm (weekends only), 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm; Rio 2 (in 3D, in Greek) at 4.45pm (weekends only), 6.30 and 8.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Total Recall (12) Rio 3 at 6.15 and 10.20pm, weekends at 6.20 and 10.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Campaign (12) Rio 1 at 4.45pm (weekends only), 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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

The Expendables 2 (15) Rio 2 at 10.20pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Raven (15) Rio 6 at 5.30pm (weekends only) and 7.45pm. Tel: 25871410 Ted (15) Rio 5 at 8.20 and 10.20pm. Tel: 25-871410 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 Greek) at 4.30pm (weekends only) and 6.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383

LARNACA Total Recall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Campaign (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm. Tel: 77778383 Bel Ami (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS Total Recall (12) Rio 1 at 6, 8.10 and 10.20pm, weekends at 4, 6.10, 8.20 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Campaign (12) Rio 6 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.20 and 10.20pm. Tel: 26-207000 Bel Ami (N/A) Rio 3 at 8 and 10pm, weekends at 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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 5 (in 2D, in English) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Expendables 2 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Expendables 2 (15) Rio 4 at 6, 8.10 and 10.20pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Raven (15) Rio 2 at 4pm (weekends only) 6 and 8pm. Tel: 26-207000

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 77778383

Ted (15) Rio 3, weekdays at 6pm, weekends at 4.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Campaign

listings Today Exhibition Méditerranée Works by artists from Cyprus and the Mediterranean, who through their work explore the spirit of the closed sea of cultures. Opens September 8 until September 30. Lanitis Foundation, Carob Mill, old Limassol. Daily 9am-1pm and 3pm-8pm. Saturday and Sunday 3pm-8pm. Tel: 25342123

Music Stathis Drogosis - Waterblack Joining forces on stage for a pop/ rock concert. September 8. Rialto Theatre, Heroes Square, Limassol. 8.30pm. €10/15. Tel: 25-343903 Afro Banana Republic Party International and local DJs meet live bands for an exciting line up of funk, soul, swing, afro and electronic beats. September 8. Arxiepiskopou Makariou III at the Piccadilly Restaurant in the old road towards Ayious Trimithias, Nicosia district. Starts 8pm until 8am. €10. www. afrobananarepublic.com

Theatre Pericles A piece by William Shakespeare staged by the National Theatre of Greece as part of the Kypria International Festival. September 8. Makarios III Amphitheatre, Strovolos, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €10/15. Tel: 22208400. www.kypria.org.cy Homecoming A contemporary theatrical adaptation of the Atreides myth as interpreted by poet Yannis Ritsos and director Yannis Iordanidis. September 8. Cultural Centre of the University of Cyprus, Axiothes Mansion, Nicosia. 8.30pm. In Greek. €10/15. Tel: 22894531-2

Stationary and School Items Bazaar Get the kids ready for school with a 25 per cent discount off marked prices. September 8. Soloneon Book Centre, Nicosia. 8.30am-6pm. Tel: 22-666799 Charcoal Project Interactive happening by Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots and other international artists using charcoal and tables as the main material. Exhibition of works and screenings of the video documentary Charcoal Project. Opens September 8, until September 16. House of Arts and Letters, 41 Athinas Street, Paphos. Working hours: 9-12pm. Tel: 26-818560

Tomorrow

Other Events Sixth Cyprus-Russia Gala An evening of music and entertainment, and a unique opportunity to appreciate the spirit of Russia and the hospitality of Cyprus. September 8. Presidential Palace Gardens, Nicosia. 7pm. €150 per person. All proceeds will be donated to the Radiomarathon Foundation for Children with Special Needs. Tel: 22-867400. pressoffice@presidency.gov.cy. www.tickethour.com.cy

Music Fourth International Contemporary Music Festival Pharos Foundation presents a showcase of contemporary ‘classics’, as well as over 20 world premieres by composers. Includes a young composer Workshop. September 9-29. Olive Grove, Delikipos and Shoe Factory, Nicosia. €10/15. Tel: 22-663871/70-009304. www. pharosartsfoundation.org www.pharostickets.org

Monday

Fusion at its Finest Crowne Plaza Limassol & La Maison Du Vin present authentic Italian with a twist and a wine pairing that will blow your mind accompanied by live music on the violin. September 10. La Brezza, Crowne Plaza, 2 Promachon Eleftherias Str., Agios Athanasios, Limassol. 8.30pm. Reservations: 25-851515 or marketing@cplimassol.com

Exhibition

Ongoing

Kostas Hadjis Charity concert with famous Greek singer. September 9. Ancient Theatre of Curium, Limassol. 9pm. €30. In support the Cyprus Association for People with Autism. Tel: 99725575/96-356357. Online tickets at www.soldout-tickets.com.cy

Old Nicosia Revealed Photography exhibition. Opens September 10, until September 19. Ermou 300, in the old town. Open 9am-5pm

Other Events Documentary Photography Seminars Masterclass & Workshop by Forest Troop in collaboration with ARTos Foundation instructed by awardwinning photojournalist Maro Kouri. October 5-14. Application Deadline: September 10. ARTos Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Avenue, Nicosia. All participants will receive a certificate and a documentary photography kit including the topics developed during the seminar. Workshop €200/ masterclass €350. Tel: 22-445455. info@ artosfoundation.org.

Other Events Limassol Wine Festival Live music and dancing, traditional Cypriot food and an opportunity to sample different local wines from large and small wineries. Until September 9. Limassol Municipal Gardens, 28th October Avenue. €4/6. Tel: 25344402/25-344952/25- 745919 Flying Away Art Music and Dance Festival 150 local artists including 70 art stalls where artists will exhibit their work, 14 local DJ’s performing their art on the decks, two music bands, live performances, activities, conceptual theatrical installations and much more. September 7-9. Orfeas Stadium, Nicosia. 6pm. €5. Tel: 96-670494

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

Theatre Otello – Paphos Aphrodite Festival Opera performed by the Slovak National Theatre Opera. September 7-9. Medieval Paphos Castle. 8pm. simultaneous translation in Greek and English via subtitles. €35/80. Tel: 26-822218/80-008005

Exhibitions The Area is Sacred Solo art exhibition by Panagiotis Mina. Until September 13. 50-1 Gallery, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am-1pm. Tel: 99-522977 Summer Breeze Group mixed media exhibition. Until September 15. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. Monday- Friday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-30000/150 Silia Philippou Solo painting exhibition. Until September 18. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286

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Get Involved Other Events Let’s talk about sex ON SEPTEMBER 19, the Journalists House in Nicosia will host a free conference that is open to the public entitled Sexuality Education in Cyprus and Europe, organised by the Cyprus Family Planning Association. Due to cultural, religious and socioeconomic reasons, the development of sexuality education in Cyprus and some parts of Europe is still unbalanced. Many countries lack policy direction in comprehensive sexuality education. The public’s needs and rights in sexuality education, particularly those of marginalised youth, females, vulnerable groups and minorities, are not fully recognised or adequately emphasised. Challenges to fundamental social values and family structure have created numerous controversial issues worthy of our reﬂection. Furthermore, the age of young people engaging in sexual activity, their increasingly open attitude towards sexual relationships, and rising numbers of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, all pose challenges to our efforts in sexuality education and advocacy. Divided into two sections, the conference embraces the themes of Sexuality Education - Current Situation and Sexuality Education - Challenges and Opinions. This conference gathers presentations on the theories and practices of sexuality education from various regions, and facilitates exchange and exploration on the future direction of sexuality education. The aim of the conference is to enrich experiences and enable interested neighbours and peers to develop sexuality education in all communities. The conference will be addressed by Nicos Tornaritis, President of the Parliamentary Committee of Educational Affairs and there will be a simultaneous translation from English to Greek. Please note that those interested in attending must submit their application by Monday. Participation is free. Sexuality Education in Cyprus and Europe Conference with talks from experts home and abroad under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of EU. September 19. Journalist House, Nicosia. 8.30am-1.30pm. With simultaneous translation from English to Greek. Please submit your application by September 10. Participation is free. For more information: 22-751093 – info@cfpa.org.cy. www. cyfamplan.org

Coming Up Theatre Better the devil you know TEEMING with weird and wonderful characters from a radio show sex therapist, a narcoleptic, closet cross-dresser and evilminded prodigal son, Rubber Ear’s upcoming production The Devil Wears Primark has the perfect ingredients for a hit comedy. Founder of Rubber Ear Productions, Kathleen Ruddy, who hails from Scotland, has been writing and performing comedy productions for ﬁlm, television and theatre for the past 15 years. Her ﬁrst play Glasgow Hard Tickets was launched at The Gilded

Inspirations from the Med THE International Sea Festival Nautilus continues through to its third month, showcasing events inspired by the marine world. From ﬁne art to photography, cinema, workshops and interactive events, lectures, conferences and even book presentations, Nautilus 2012 hosts a wide range of activities and events at the Evagoras Lanitis Centre in Limassol and in various public spaces of the city. Organised by the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, in collaboration with the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture and the Limassol Municipality and falling within the framework of cultural activities during the Cyprus Presidency, the International Sea Festival began in July with outdoor photography exhibitions in the area surrounding the city’s ancient castle and today the festival carries on with its ode to the sea with a modern art exhibition entitled Méditerranée. Opening today and running until September 29, the exhibition will present works by artists from Cyprus and the region of the Mediterranean. Through their work, the artists explore the spirit of the ‘closed sea of cultures’, a description the Mediterranean Sea has earned due to its rich history. The Mediterranean has long been one of the great cultural and trading centres of the world, a historic meeting point for ideas and inspiration; it is the seedbed from which much of today’s culture and civilisation developed. A cradle of Christianity, which was founded on its eastern shores and the foundation for some of the great empires of ancient times – the Persian, the Greek and the Roman – control of these waters has played a vital part in virtually every European conﬂict since. Today, as a result of this political and religious diversity, the peoples of the Mediterranean have a variety of faiths and speak approximately 50 different languages. Furthermore, the Mediterranean is a closed sea, bordered by 21 countries and joined to the Atlantic Ocean only by a narrow strait at Gibraltar, only eight miles wide. Over the centuries the natural and man-made wonders of the Mediterranean Balloon Theatre as part of The Edinburgh Festival. The play sold out all performances and received a Scotsman Fringe First and a BT award for innovation in theatre and outstanding new production. The Scotswoman penned, directed and starred in the popular play Sex, Chips and Ouzo, based around her experiences in Cyprus, which played to sell out audiences in Cyprus last year. Following up on this success, the writer’s new play The Devil Wears Primark is due to tour islandwide, from Pomos to Paralimni, kicking off next week at the Crown Resorts Amphitheatre in Coral Bay. The plot for the new play centres on Athenoulla Georgiou, a formidable matriarch (played by Ruddy), who, along with her family is very dysfunctional. She is at

Nineteen artists are taking part in Mediterranée including Nikos Kouroussis above

have inspired countless poets, writers and artists. Bearing this all in mind, does the landscape unfolding across this place of myth continue to fascinate artists? This is the question that the exhibition will seek to address. Nineteen artists from different countries of the Mediterranean will come together to present their creations, all of which probe the mental aspect of this ‘enclosed sea of civilisations’. When you take a good look at what’s on display, viewers will discover that these artists, who belong to a different generations, often adopt an archeologist’s perspective in order to propose narratives that are concerned not with the topography of the Mediterranean alone, but with its symbolic mantle, its divergent layers of meaning. In the exact same manner of the great modernist artists that travelled round it and sang its praises, the contemporary artists see in the Mediterranean – in its cities, islands and coasts – an inscrutable metaphor, a grand narrative to be interpreted and deconstructed. The exhibition borrows its title from the

the heart of this unhinged family, dishing out dodgy sex therapy advice, not only to her radio listeners but also to unwitting members of her family. A controlling wife and mother, this formidable woman is about to be awarded an MBE for her questionable radio sex therapy show, for services to the UK entertainment industry. As with all of Ruddy’s previous award-winning plays, expect the dialogue to bristle with inventiveness and sharp humour, the action is unpredictable and the plot twists and turns in a maze of surprises. A total of nine shows are scheduled to take place beginning next Thursday. Rubber Ear have added Ayia Thekla Amphitheatre, in Paralimni and Akrotiri SSVC (Cinema) to their venues on the 2012 tour. Akrotiri SSVC (Cinema) is the only performance of

famous movie Méditerranée (1963) by Jean-Daniel Pollet, considered something of a legend in French New Wave cinema. Méditerranée is a centerpiece of his career. Its rhythmic collage of images – a girl on a gurney, a fisherman, Greek ruins, a Sicilian garden – is accompanied by an abstract commentary and only the sombre lyricism of the score holds the film’s elements together in an experience that is ultimately mesmerising. In keeping with the style of Pollet’s film, works in the exhibition Méditerannée are treated as if they were words or signs, which seen as a whole offer viewers the possibility to articulate their own private poetry. Méditerranée Works by artists from Cyprus and the Mediterranean, who through their work explore the spirit of the closed sea of cultures. Opens September 8 until September 30. Lanitis Foundation, Carob Mill, old Limassol. Daily 9am-1pm and 3pm-8pm. Saturday and Sunday 3pm-8pm. Tel: 25-342123 By Ledha Socratous island, back in 2003, is once again featured in the tour line-up. For all outdoor amphitheatres it’s advised that audiences bring cushions for comfort and suitable clothing in accordance with predicted evening temperatures at the time.

the tour that will be indoors and, though you may be missing the open air, you’ll be enjoying the air-conditioning. The audience will have comfy cinema seats too. In addition Paradise Place, the ﬁrst ever venue that Rubber Ear Productions performed in on the

The Devil Wears Primark A comedy by Rubber Ear Productions. 8pm. €15/20. Tel: Tel 77-777785/99069074/99-908434. www.rubberear. wordpress.com September 13-14. Crown Resorts Amphitheatre, Coral Bay September 15: Tala Amphitheatre Sunday September 16: Pissouri Amphitheatre September 18: Akrotiri SSVC (Cinema) September 19: Paradise Place, Pomos September 21: Ayia Thekla Amphitheatre, Paralimni September 22: Curium Amphitheatre September 22: Paphos Ancient Odeon Amphitheatre

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He’s a dizzyingly prolific American musician, producer, innovator and entrepreneur; she’s a Geordie girl with a dream, who became a perfectly preened pop product. Together they are set on storming the charts. Annabel Rivkin meets unlikely best friends Will.i.am and Cheryl

HERYL Cole is now known as Cheryl. She gave up her ﬁrst surname, Tweedy, when she married the footballer Ashley Cole in 2006. Then he was allegedly unfaithful, and then there was some boomeranging back and forth,

ams? And so, for her third album, A Million Lights, she’s just Cheryl, thanks very much. I suspect her manager Will.i.am had a ﬂickering, busy old hand in this branding, because that’s what he does, essentially. He spins and rinses and brands. And

battling a stammer until the verbal flood-gates fly open and all of a sudden he’s on a manifesto-centric roll, holding forth, twitchy, lyrical, cheeky. It’s overstimulating stuff. Contrarily, one of the first things apparent in Cheryl is that she is difficult to

With James Blunt in 2006

Where there’s a Will t with rings coming off ﬁngers and newer, bigger rings that seemed to bellow ‘FORGIVE ME’ back on ﬁngers, and then he was allegedly unfaithful again and then that was that, because CherylTweedy-Cole-Cheryl may be a bad picker but she is nobody’s fool. So, of course, it makes sense that you may not, aged 29, relish the prospect of lugging someone else’s surname around with you for the rest of your life. But Tweedy was never going to re-stick. I mean, who is Victoria Ad-

she, wisely, listens. “He’s a genius,” she says. “He has a genius mind. Just to listen to him…” It’s a compelling partnership, this selfproclaimed Queen of Chavs and the slightly space-age Black Eyed Peas frontman, solo artist, super-producer, actor, designer and technoguru from the LA ghetto. It seems clear from the start that one of the reasons they rub along so well is because he talks and she listens. And, my word, does he talk. He is monosyllabic, dry, locked-in and seems to be

overstimulate. She is, these days, calm and powerful. She radiates resolve. We are on a shoot in St John’s Wood on a balmy Saturday morning. Cheryl pitches up punctually in a Phillip Lim top, tight jeans and soaring Burberry heels. She is quiet, obliging, self-contained and, as we all know, absurdly pretty. Even Rihanna recently declared the Geordie girl “the most beautiful woman I have ever seen”. Because Cheryl is so serene, the entire crew are super-tranquil. Not so when Will slides in two hours late,

puncturing the zen with his studded Louboutin slippers, off-kilter energy and wonky humour. Suddenly everything is a bit weird and overexcited; suddenly everyone is a bit gaspy and ﬁzzy. Everyone, that is, except our Cheryl. The pair met four years ago when, in her ﬁrst musical expedition outside Girls Aloud, she featured on his solo single Heartbreaker. Everyone assumed that if they weren’t in love, then he, at least, was. “Of course that’s the natural thing people go to,” she says. “Heaven forbid you should

have any other kind of relationship with someone from the opposite sex.” And then, faintly scandalised: “I was still married then, too.” Ashley may be the faithless kind; his ex-wife is not. “I had always thought Will was quirky and out there and just ridiculously talented, and he is all those things. He’s amazing and we just clicked straight away.” Will - who has produced for U2, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj - took her seriously as a musical force. He persuaded her to go solo.

Commercial and delightful though she clearly is, it is perhaps challenging to identify the trigger for his extreme enthusiasm and commitment. I don’t think it’s as simple as a bloody great crush. He’s too odd for that. So what inspired him, in an early studio session with Cheryl, to compare her lyrical delivery to that of Michael Jackson? “Her personality,” he says baldly. “Charming, approachable, adorable, sweet, broken, fragile, strong.” Fine, I can believe all of those things - but, for once, Will, answer the damn

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Meet the prince: Cheryl and Will.i.am meet Prince Charles on separate occasions

of battery pack. He rarely sleeps, getting about three hours a night, and punctuates his days with ten-minute dozes. And the thing about time zones is that there is always someone, somewhere who is awake, so he can have a thought in the middle of the night, Google the hell out of it and then hit the phones, going, “Dude, check this out…” So in London he called his manager and said, “You know that money that I got from The Voice? I’m going to give it away.” He had already put $1 million into his Peapod Foundation and mortgage-relief programme in the States. A couple of days later it occurred to him to bring the idea of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education for kids to the Prince’s Trust, his theory being that “If one Mark Zuckerberg comes from Brixton, then Brixton is changed forever. If one Jack Dorsey comes from East London, then East London is changed forever.” Which explains why, the morning after the Jubilee ﬂotilla, Will found himself sitting opposite Prince Charles, ﬂeshing things out. “He had just found out about his father [Prince Philip had been hospitalised with a bladder infection], so it was heavy. He spoke very passionately about inner cities and philanthropy, and I got into the car afterwards and I thought:

turn them into jackets and glasses, and I could make a base cloth out of their aluminium to make bicycles and chairs and computers and phones?” Big-picture branding, that’s his schtick. He’s a curious sort of scientiﬁc-creative (he’s also Intel’s director of creative innovation), veering from inspiring to absurd - but then no one gets it right every time. It occurs to me that intimacy with a man like this would be - if indeed it were at all possible - most peculiar. He’s been accused of being both gay and asexual, and will only conﬁrm that he is straight and “not lonely”.

Will.i.am carrying the torch

She comes from a generation where clichés – “I was just a girl with a dream” - are de rigueur and serve a valuable purpose in that they just bore you off the scent I imagine him sitting across from a woman and them sending Ghostbuster-style streams of protons into the air, the beams meeting in the middle and… wow. But romance for Will, he says, “is just deep. Then I like… [huge pause] then I get deep. Like, almost spiritual. Like spir-

purpose in that they just bore you off the scent. But she isn’t boring. She has good timing and proper backbone and excellent judgement, but she is virtually unquoteable because her answers are so ridiculously vanilla. They didn’t used to be. At the beginning of her career, as

Dixon but then cheated on her with Popstars: The Rivals contestant Javine Hylton, with whom he later had a child] claimed he’d had a relationship with me. It was completely false. I’ve had enough of other people’s shit and it’s time to have my own say. I was always happy to keep my mouth shut, but it’s like when a bully slaps someone and slaps someone and ﬁnally I’ve had enough. That story just tipped us over the edge. I’m going to put it in my own words.” She has yet to comment on the recent rumours about a new romance with an American backing dancer called Tre Holloway. Before the book can be put together there is a tour of the UK and Ireland (her ﬁrst) as well as a mystery end-of-year extravaganza to celebrate Girls Aloud’s tenth anniversary. Beyond that, Cheryl has no plans. Her marriage to Ashley was a long-term plan, and when something like that goes so wrong, and so

there’s a why aye man question. “So, what is music?” he asks instead. “Music is channelling, collaboration, rinsing. Music is harmonious, it’s tolerant, it’s compromise. Music is about going through shit. And thinking about shit. Shit is the shit. Shit is the only thing that is f***ing nasty but that can grow grass. Shit is f***ing dope.” His mother is also dope, the house we are shooting the pictures in is dope, my dress is dope, Prince Charles is dope. Because Will has recently come over all Anglophile. He spent much of this year

in London recording The Voice, the talent show featuring Jessie J and Tom Jones that went up against Britain’s Got Talent. He stays in a hotel near Hyde Park - with a net worth estimated to be hovering around the £50 million mark, he has bought houses for his entire family yet prefers to live in hotels, rarely staying anywhere for more than seven days at a time - and in a small room at that: “I like to be cosy. I need a place to recharge.” I envisage him lying down and plugging himself into some kind

‘That guy is something else’ - because he had just found out about his father but he still kept the meeting. That guy is awesome.” A few weeks later Will was charging around Taunton with the Olympic ﬂame, a deal brokered not by Prince Charles but by Coca-Cola, a huge Olympics sponsor, with whom Will is partnering on Ekocycle, his bid to help large corporations go wastefree. “I’m like, ‘What if I can take their by-products and make new products? What if I can take their bottles and

itual and science. The marriage of the two. For me, love is like… that’s why it’s hard. I like talking about deep shit. Just lying in bed, snugglewuggles, conversation. I like to communicate, conversate, dive into freakin’ theories.” Sounds exhausting. Touching, too, though. But as much as Will riffs and rolls and chatters, Cheryl just doesn’t. She’s a master of the courteous stonewall. She comes from a generation where clichés – “I was just a girl with a dream” - are de rigueur and serve a valuable

a girl from the mean streets of Newcastle, with a drug-addict ex-boyfriend and her own 2003 conviction for assault, she was happy to turn the air blue. She is now embarking on an autobiography, which may prove more revelatory than anything thus far because she will have complete control. “The amount of shit I’ve had to read and endure and cry about and deal with,” she says, “has become very frustrating. And then there was a point earlier this year when a guy called MC Harvey [who was married to Aleesha

publicly, a catastrophic loss of faith can ensue. “Family life is more important than a career for me,” she says. “You never know where life is going to take you.” And we’re back in cliché land. Will has Cheryl in a clinch. She nicks his hat and sticks it on, Sally Bowles-style. He grabs a camera from the ﬂoor and pretends to snap her, like in the Blow Up poster. We’re watching two incredibly different, vaguely lonely animals at play. And from where I’m sitting, it looks like a mutually satisfying situation.

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GRACIE was found on the streets about to die but is now healthy and happy and looking for a loving home. Gracie is a small Cyprus Terrier, about 1.5 years old, and has been neutered and vaccinated. Gracie is very friendly, well behaved, good with dogs, cats and children and loves to run and play. She is desperate to please and learns fast. Gracie is in a temporary foster home who cannot keep her. Please can you give this dog the home and affection she deserves. Telephone : 99853125 if you would like to meet her ****************************

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FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND ONE ACRE (3 donums) land for sale Arakapas area Limassol district, with title deeds. Sloping ground with stream and 8 foot waterfall at lower boundary. Naturally growing trees. €40.000 sandymathie@hotmail.com or 99416918 FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large ﬂat screen TV’s + projector, ﬁts 120 people comfortably, incredible opportunity for ready business! Please call: 99493579 FOR SALE factory with showroom, 1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel. 99849195.

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FLATS/HOUSES RENT studio Strovolos 280, Ag. Andreas 295, 1 bdrm Ag. Andreas 450, Makarios Av. 490, Ag. Antonios 380 2 bdrm Lykavito furnished 600 Acropolis new 650, Ag. Omologites 500, Engomi near universities 540 Strovolos furnished 650 3 bdrm central 700, Kennedy 650, US Embassy independent house gardens 850. POSPORIDES ESTATES REG. 338 99474839 99646822 **************************** FOR RENT 3-bedroom luxury apartment over 200 sq.m. Very spacious living area extending to a large veranda overlooking the green of the river area. Bathrooms all marble (one en-suite), modern kitchen. Fully air-conditioned, with underfloor heating, garage for 2 cars and large store. Situated in the exclusive gated development of J&P Glastonos, one of the oldest classy residential areas of Nicosia. Call 99630320 ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building, new, very spacious, fully furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi, close to The European University (Cyprus College) and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €495/m. Please call 99695382 TO LET 3 bdrm flat Kaimakli area near Frederic. Tel. 99606665. ***************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of 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 sit-

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA ACROPOLIS LUXURY FLAT; three bedrooms, master with ensuite; bathroom; laundry room; fully fitted kitchen; large sitting/ dining room; everyday room; two large verandas; guest WC; c/h-a/c, broadband internet/ TV/satellite connections, covered parking. Furnished/unfurnished (€1,200/1,000 monthly) 22312255, 99557457 FOR RENT luxurious furnished office next to “City Plaza” Nicosia ready for business. Tel: 99697243 SPACIOUS 2 bdrs 2 baths fully furnished kitchen fully equipped dishwasher AC cold/hot large terasse 4rth floor great location Kennedy av. 1 block from Central Bank €600 monthly charges and hot water included. 99459267 VILLA LATSIA 900 sq.m. build in 6 donum inside pool lrg garden, Strovolos villa pool 330 sq.m. underfloor heating patio €2500 Latsia 5 bedr.pool f/f €2500, Acropolis modern flat 180 sq.m. €1100, 3 bedr., Mak/ssa modern flat wooden floors €1200 Upper house Archangelos f/f modern €1000 Costas Markides 22378898 / 99 464764, Reg. No. 487, E16 3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358.

TO LET NICOSIA ting 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).

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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 supermaket. 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, 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/

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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 separate entrance. The house has big sitting and dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, internal elevator, central heating, full a/c, big yard with tiles, covered kiosk and trees, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end opposite Cineplex – Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos in the website). 12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bed-

rooms 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).

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 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 €3700 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website).

ered 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, covered 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, 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). 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, 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).

14. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely modern furnished with big sitting and dining areas with bar, central heating, full a/c, big fitted kitchen with TV room, office space, patio area with bbq, covered parking, 3wc, solid parquet floor in bedrooms and granite in the sitting areas, near the MEGA TV station – Archangelos €1300 (H3AR0002-R), (photos in the website). 15. 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

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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, cov-

13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with nice view, 100sq.m, big sitting & dining area, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, big covered verandah, 2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c, electric shutters in the bedrooms, covered parking and storage room on the 11th ﬂoor of a small building with 6 ﬂats only 200 meters for Akropolis park and opposite a small 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 par-

For information call 99781943 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. 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

THE DEVONSHIRE RESTAURANT IN PAPHOS WILL RE-OPEN ON THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER, WILL RESUME IT’S REGULAR MENU, OPEN FOR SUNDAY ROAST LUNCH AND DINNER, FOR BOOKINGS CALL 96870774

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quet 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, 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 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 (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 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 FOR RENT 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: 99639714 FOR RENT new small furnished studio, in Katraki Building, 100 metres from the sea and Debenhams Olympia. Price: €290 (included common expenses and water bill. Tel. 99406415 Andreas. OFFICE FOR RENT opposite sea with amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre. com/listing-LIM-0103

LARNACA FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new

TO LET LARNACA 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 FOR RENT PHINIKOUDES PROMENADE, one bdrm apartment on the 4th floor, f/f, a/c, in the most exlusive area on the sea front of the city centre. A panoramic view of the Marina and the sea. Situated right on the sea. Makes life a holiday all year round. For long term rent only €380. Tel. 99222197, 99541828. 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 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 lo-

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cation 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. KSLlettings.com updated daily. LANDLORDS ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY FOR FREE AND GET WORLD WIDE ADVERTISING – NO TENANT NO FEE ! *****************************

ances. 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 Peyia: 2bed F/F town house, A/C, Nilesat, Communal Pool, 375 Euro p/m REF: JAP2T221 Tombs Of The Kings: Ground Floor F/F Apartment 1 Bedroom, A/C, BBQ area, Centrally located 300 Euros per month REF: JAP1A220 Peyia: 1 Bed F/F Apartment 1st Floor, Comm Pool, Gym, Underground Parking. 325 Euros per month REF: JAP1A219 Emba: 3 Bedroom U/F House, A/C, White Goods Communal Pool 500 Euros per month REF: JAP3V053 Peyia: 1 Bed Traditional Stonehouse, furnished, Ideal for single person, village location close to shops and amenities 250 Euro p/m Ref:JAP1H214 Kato Paphos: 2 Bedroom F/F 2nd floor apartment, A/C, Large Communal Pool. 360 Euros per month inc water & refuse. REF:JAP2A212 Kissonerga: 2 Bed 1st floor apartment, f/f, A/c, Large Kitchen, Comm Pool, Undercover parking, 375 Euros, Ref: JAP2A217 Peyia: 2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, ground floor apartment, F/F Com pool, under cover parking, gym, shutters, A/c 375 Euros per month. REF: JAP2A126 We urgently require properties in all areas for waiting clients. Property management only 25 Euros per month. John Alice Properties TEL: 00357 99984681 WEB: www.johnalice-properties.com ****************************** PAPHOS RENTAL

EMBA – 3 bed villa – u/f, a/c, 1 bedroom downstairs, 3x en-suite bathrooms, private pool, garden, storage, quiet location and close to all amenities – 650 euros UNIVERSAL – 1 bed apartment - f/f, a/c, wall heaters, communal pool – available for 6 or 12 month rentals -270 euros MESOYI - 3 bed detached house – u/f, spacious family home, garden, storage, quiet location – 450 euros MESOYI – 4 bed detached house – u/f, a/c, large living area, utilty room, swimming pool, roof garden, very quiet location with views – 750 euros FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL - 9977 4314 OR 9962 1875 ****************************** BRAND NEW APARTMENT block in the centre of Paphos (near Papantoniou supermarket) with fantastic views offers to rent, 2 bedroom apartment spanning the entire 3rd floor, unfurnished with a/con, and office for rent spanning the entire first floor, 130 sqm, both are offered at very reasonable rents, please call: Vasilis 99553624 PROPERTY RENTALS From 250 Euros per month. Villas and apartments available. Also wanted for waiting clients. www. johnalice-properties.com johnalicecy@gmail.com Tel: 00357 99984681 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in the heart of Kato Paphos, the property is situated in a quiet, private complex, next to archeological site overlooking the light house, very reasonable rent, tel : 99411933 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 1. Geroskipou €350 modern ground floor 2 bedroom apartment. Situated in a quiet complex with lovely communal pool. Enclosed pretty patio area & underground parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture, including leather sofa’s and plasma tv. Would suit mature couple. Pets allowed. 2. Chloraka €425 modern 3 bedroom townhouse, master with ensuite. Ground floor guest wc. Fully furnished with modern fur-

niture. Enclosed garden with decking offering sea views. Undercover parking. Pets allowed. Complex with large communal pool & playground. 3. Tomb of the kings €450 modern 2 bedroom apartment on first floor with lift. Modern ensuite shower room & family bathroom. Fully furnished with modern furniture. Balcony with sea views. Situated on a good complex with lovely communal pool. Close to bus routes and shops. 4. 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. 5. Peyia €750 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite tv. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. A spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. Off street parking. 6. 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. Beauti-

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.

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 appli-

act PANTO AUDITIONS It’s panto time again! Auditions for act’s Christmas pantomime, “Cinderella’’ will be held at St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Hall, Byron Avenue, Nicosia on Saturday afternoon, 15 September at 2pm for children (8-12 years) and 3.30pm for adults (13+ years). Performances at Russian Cultural Centre on 1/2/7/8/9 December. Members and nonmembers welcome both on and off stage. Call 99 457882 or 99 609543 for further details.

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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

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.

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.

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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

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.

Contact Anne 25632446 99269016

For more information please call 99218866

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ful landscaped garden with private pool. Undercover parking on drive. Available unfurnished. Wonderful property. 7. 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! 8. Mesogi €1250 stunning detached 4 bedroom 5 bathroom villa. One bedroom & ensuite on ground floor. Spacious kitchen with separate utility room. Available unfurnished though includes gas central heating plus real fireplace in living area. Enclosed garden & private pool. Gated entrance with undercover parking. Situated on a private road. TEL: 97790883 OFFICE: 26271858 VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MANY MORE PROPERTIES www.mrrent-paphos.net Email: info@mrrent-paphos. net ****************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!! 1. MESA CHORIO – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious

development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen. 2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. €475.00 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. €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 fitted kitchen with breakfast area. Separate utility /2nd kitchen. Ground floor office/bedroom 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. €4000.00 a month 4. MESA CHORIO – 2 Bed, 2. bath fully furnished apartment in good location close to ISOP. Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom. Off street park-

ing & comm. Pool. Minutes into Paphos. €425. Or close offers 5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural setting the property enjoys privacy with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area, spacious fitted kitchen. Guest WC. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite. Stairs to 2 further double bedroom with ensuite. Breakfast area with hob & fridge and seating space. Doors out to large covered verandah with panoramic views. Full A/C, C/H, garage, over-flow tiled pool, SKY dish. Villa has substantial insulation to walls and floors. Large gardens. €750.00 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 per month. 7. TALA - 5 bed, 3.5 bath large fully furnished villa. Very large property with open plan living area. Fitted kitchen, storage cupboard, guest WC. 2 bedrooms, bathroom on this level with small seating area. Ideal for dual living. Stairs up to 3 double bedroom, en-suite & family bathroom. Heated swimming pool, A/C, C/H. Electric gates and garden areas. Parking for several cars.€1500.00 per month or offers. 8. 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 fit-

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CRYPTIC 2180

Across

PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

1 Boy took in inventory of collector (11)

the toolshed? (7)

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.

EASY

MEDIUM

HARD

equate track (5)

15 Obtains alternative defence (7) 16 Talk of nothing, say, but a large French countryhouse (7) 18 Scout leader on inad-

MEDIUM

20 Weak-looking Wendy started the game (5) 22 Encourage some protégées (3)

3 Lager order, one thirsty

Answers to crossword 2179

drinkers have (5) 4 Edward, a 1950s adolescent (3) 5 Left ale spilt on the sheet (7) 6 Rugby union? (5) 7 Somersaulting repeatedly (4,3,4) 8 Expression showing disbelief, fellow from Amsterdam might say? (2,1,8) 12 Not a heavy illumination (5)

CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Bottleneck; 7 Incomer; 8 Rapid; 10 Cannot; 12 Facile; 13 Model; 14 Rack; 16 Mess; 17 Ceded; 19 Amazon; 20 Rustic; 23 Tip up; 24 Radiate; 25 Antecedent. Down – 1 Bacon; 2 Tomtom; 3 Lyre; 4 Normal; 5 Captive; 6 Discordant; 9 Deep secret; 11 Token; 12 Fewer; 15 Crampon; 17 Couple; 18 Dundee; 21 Trait; 22 Free. QUICK: Across – 1 Jeopardise; 7 Eddying; 8 Aback; 10 Siding; 12 Attend; 13 Thigh; 14 Iona; 16 Myna; 17 Islet; 19 Nicest; 20 Ease up; 23 Rishi; 24 Moisten; 25 Machine-gun. Down – 1 Jaded; 2 Orient; 3 Alga; 4 Dearth; 5 Slavery; 6 Leg-spinner; 9 Kidnapping; 11 Ghost; 12 Agree; 15 Nicosia; 17 Isaiah; 18 Taming; 21 Eaten; 22 Amen.

Rating EASY

2 What the drudge noticed in

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Down

Rating HARD

a serviceman! (5) 10 Indian city in illdeﬁned plan (7) 11 Square boy (7) 13 Medal arranged, having been injured in war perhaps (5) 14 Absence of water initially at the present time (3) 15 Go into part with an obstinate person (5) 16 Lower percentage (3) 17 Desert island? (5) 19 To the West Way by the canal (7) 21 Eating off the land (7) 23 Ena is travelling to an Italian city (5) 24 Magniﬁcent royalty payment? (8,3)

Rating MEDIUM

9 Some civic arrangement for

QUICK Down

1 Saying sorry (11) 9 Tending to ﬂow (5) 10 Musical conductor (7) 11 Pendant (7) 13 Lawful (5) 14 Evergreen climber (3) 15 Settled (5) 16 Covered ﬂan (3) 17 Ruin (5) 19 Piece of embroidery (7) 21 Inclining the head (7) 23 Elude (5) 24 Deposit (4,7)

2 Very nervous (7) 3 Staunch (5) 4 Glue (3) 5 Put on one side (7) 6 Of birth (5) 7 Waving (11) 8 Unfeeling (4-7) 12 Large US state (5) 15 Novel (7) 16 Knight-errant (7) 18 Type of recorder (5) 20 Lady’s title (5) 22 Indian district (3)

HOROSCOPE

Across

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Venus is set to bring a lot of magic to your world in the next four weeks and it may even do so this weekend. However it does tangle with Neptune, which suggests your imagination can be rather vivid, and you might think the worst aboud a relationship or a love prospect. Try not to. Understand that a few anxieties can creep into the back of your mind.

You can draw even more goodness your way now, and if you are single more than one person can emerge as a potential suitor/beau during the next four weeks. Settled? You may still be a little unsure of what signals you are receiving in your love life, they may be mixed. However, a throwaway comment, can bite deeper than you may care to admit.

Venus will accentuate the truth seeker in you, at least as far as relationships are concerned. And with the Moon passing over your ruler, this weekend you may ﬁnd yourself enjoying some fascinating conversations. However, if a tie is struggling, with Neptune potent in your emotions sector, it would be easy to look at others situations, and see yours as worse.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Your love of life’s little luxuries continues to be to the fore. In fact, if you already have a sweet tooth, you may find Moorish calorific laden foods, even more of a draw. Equally you may find it hard not to spoil an offspring, or to say no to any material demands they may make. If you have a love of home furnishings something lush can tempt you here too.

With the Sun in Virgo still squaring Jupiter, if you meet anyone new, you might want to temper how you handle this, with an awareness that they might not perceive you as you’d like to be perceived. If you see them again, you might ﬁnd yourself having to go through the process of recasting who you are. To deal with this, don’t try too hard.

Don’t feel obligated to help anyone close and especially not ﬁnancially, or even practically. Someone can very skilfully drop a guilt trip on you, but resist this. With the Sun and Jupiter still in conﬂict it would be all too easy to try fall into the trap of trying to please everybody, but not yourself. Lay some solid boundaries down and know when to say no.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Someone in your family or close to you may be much less persuaded by an idea you have or your current enthusiasms. However, with Venus now giving your utterances even greater silkiness, the best way to deal with any opposition is not to cajole but to discuss, in an even-handed way. This way any resistance can more easily melt away.

After what has been a dramatic week of planetary activity, you may be pleased to enjoy some escapism and as the Moon surfs the bubbly energies of Jupiter, this can be the perfect trigger to head off for a weekend away, or to engage in your most loved hobbies and interests. A group trip can be particularly enjoyable, especially with workmates.

With Venus now getting a toe hold in your relationship sector, there is a lot for you to feel hopeful about in the next month. Yet this weekend, you probably need to stay grounded if there is someone rather fanciable on your radar. If there is, don’t put them on a pedestal, nor spoil them too much. Yet, if you are caught up in the moment...

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You might not suddenly win the jackpot - yet some form of tangible improvement in fortunes often coincides with Venus’s transit into the 2nd Solar House, which has just occurred for you. Then again this alteration can bring about a greater appreciation of intimacy. If a current partner seems switched off, it can however seem more hurtful than usual.

There could be a temptation to show off to your friends. Even if you are someone who doesn’t usually push yourself to the fore, you may decide to splash out on something glam, but this may create some jealously - even if this is not what you intend. Then again, you may be the ﬁrst to offer to buy a round of drinks on a night out. If so, your star will soar!

Accepting the way we ﬁnd people, is probably one of the hardest things in life. It’s not that we consciously want to change anyone, but this can be a subtle process. It can of course work both ways, and there could be a bit of this going on this weekend, for you. Then again you may need to see someone for who they really are, not what you want them to be.

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06.45 News (rpt) 08.00 I Plateia (rpt) Two episodes of local drama series. 09.00 Code Europe (rpt) 10.00 Concert 11.30 Paraskinio (rpt) 12.00 FILM: A Breath Of Scandal A Pittsburgh mining engineer keeps an Austrian princess from the Prussian prince her father favours. Romantic comedy, starring Sophia Loren. 1960. 13.30 Panagia I Kanakaria 14.00 News 14.40 Mouseio Ieras Monis Kykkou 15.20 My Cypriot Kitchen (rpt) An introduction to Cyprus and the country’s food. 15.45 Kypouremata (rpt) Gardening show, hosted by Andreas Barboutsis.

08.00 Kids’ TV 14.30 60 Minute Makeover (rpt) DIY challenge, in which a team of designers have just one hour to transform a home. 15.15 FILM: Father Goose A hard-drinking wartime lookout is posted on a South Sea island and ends up playing host to a prim schoolmistress and her pupils. Comedy drama, starring Cary Grant. 1965. 17.15 Girismata (rpt) Greek travel show. 18.00 Megalab Antartica Follows the adventures and exploits of several scientists attempting to unravel those secrets by conducting experiments and research under some incredibly harsh conditions. 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 Paralympics Women’s 200m Ind. Medley, Men’s 200m Freestyle, Men’s 50m Backstroke and Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay. 21.00 Track & Field Men’s 200m - Final, Women’s 400m - Final and Men’s 400m - Final. 23.45 Summary Of The Day 00.45 Repeats 01.00 Euronews

06.00 Lifting (rpt) 06.50 Proini Enimerosi (rpt) 07.20 Max Adventures 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Then (rpt) 08.10 Dr Roulis (rpt) 09.00 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 10.20 Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) 12.00 Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) 12.50 Kos Kai Ka Pels (rpt) 13.40 Galileo 14.30 Dis Madiam (rpt) 15.20 To Pio Glyko Mou Psema (rpt) 16.50 Deligianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) With News at 18.00. 18.50 Oneiropagida (rpt) 19.30 Ergazomeni Gynaika (rpt) 19.30 Me To Dexi (rpt) 20.20 News 21.20 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.00 FILM: Cradle 2 The Grave An undercover agent teams up with a jewel thief whose daughter has been kidnapped to reclaim a cache of rare black diamonds. Action thriller, starring Jet Li, DMX and Mark Dacascos. 2003. 23.20 News 23.30 Sports News 01.20 Top Chef Repeat of Greek cookery show. 02.30 Tolmires Istories (rpt) 03.20 News 04.10 Oikogeneia Karambela (rpt) 05.00 7 Zoes (rpt)

06.00 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 07.00 Yia Banaki (rpt) 10.00 An Thimitheis To Oneiro Mou (rpt) 11.00 Glykes Alhimies (rpt) 12.00 Mpoukia kai Sychorio (rpt) 13.00 Oi Kipouroi Tou Mega 13.50 Baba Min Treheis (rpt) 14.40 Savvatogennimenes (rpt) 15.30 An Ipirhes Tha Se Horiza (rpt) 16.10 Kati Trehei Me Tous Dipla (rpt) 16.30 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.30 Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt) With News at 18.20. 19.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) 20.20 News 21.05 Pername Kala 23.30 Safe Sex (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 The Tudors The tumultuous early years of the reign of King Henry VIII, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. 01.00 Breaking Bad Informed he has terminal cancer, an underachieving chemistry genius turned high school teacher uses his expertise to secretly provide for his family by producing the world’s highest quality crystal meth.

08.00 Zoi Podilato (rpt) 09.00 Pink Panther Show 10.00 Kids’ TV 11.20 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) Latin American telenovela. 12.00 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 13.15 Chart Show 16.00 Oi Atromitoi (rpt) 16.40 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 17.40 Tha Se Do Sto Ploio (rpt) With News at 18.00. 18.30 Baywatch Glossy surfside drama with the Malibu lifeguards. 19.20 Pame Paketo (rpt) Greek talk-show. 20.15 News 21.20 Tha Se Do Sto Ploio (rpt) 22.20 FILM: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Rival professional con-men make a wager to decide which of them has the right to work the French Riviera. comedy, starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin. 1988. 00.00 News 00.05 24 (rpt) Ground-breaking real-time drama series, starring Kiefer Sutherland. 00.40 The 4400 (rpt) FBI agents are assigned to investigate the sudden reappearance of 4,400 people who mysteriously vanished at some point during the previous 50 years. 01.10 Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) 04.00 Eleni (rpt)

16.30 Peri Kyprou 16.40 Stin Akri Tou Paradisou (rpt) Two episodes of local period drama, based on true events. 18.00 News 18.15 Stin Akri Tou Paradisou (rpt) Two more episodes from the ﬁrst season. 19.15 Paizoume Kypriaka (rpt) Two episodes of local game show about the Cypriot dialect. 20.00 News / Weather / Financial Report 21.30 Savvato Ki Apovrado (rpt) 23.30 News 23.45 Stin Akri Tou Paradisou (rpt) 02.00 Repeats

02.00 Meli Gala (rpt) 04.00 Casa Di Macaroni (rpt) 04.30 Richter Music (rpt) 05.00 O Ios Tou Patera (rpt) 05.40 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt)

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Repeats Star News (rpt) Kids’ TV Exelixeis Sti Showbiz (rpt) Ta Kopelia Local comedy series. LTV Sports News (rpt) Star News Kostakis Ki Yioi Local comedy series. Mila (rpt) Greek talk-show. Fotis - Maria Live (rpt) Entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, health, fashion, lifestyle issues and more. Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

19.45 Star News 21.00 Greek FILM: Megalos Paramithas Comedy. 22.30 Supernatural (rpt) Fourth season. ‘On the Head of a Pin’. After someone ﬁnds Lucifer’s sword and uses it to kill angels, Castiel and Uriel capture Alastair and ask Dean to use the torturing skills he learned in Hell to extract information from him so they can stop the murders. 23.30 LTV Sports News 00.20 Star News 02.00 Repeats

CAPITAL 08.00 Kids’ TV 10.50 Telemarketing 12.50 Greek FILM: Anastenazoun Oi Penies 14.40 Mila Mou Prasina 14.55 Beyond The Break Four young women pursue their dreams of becoming professional surfers. 15.55 True Women With News at 18.30. 19.15 News 20.05 Remington Steele 80s detective drama, starring Pierce Brosnan. 21.00 FILM: Lovewrecked A teenage girl saves a rock star from drowning and convinces him that they’re stranded together on a desert island. Romantic comedy, starring Amanda Bynes. 2006. 22.40 FILM: Jagged Edge Thriller. 1985. See Pick Of The Day. 00.40 FILM: Running Scared A low-level Maﬁa member is asked to dispose of a gun used in a shoot-out - but before he can do so the weapon is stolen. Gritty thriller, starring Paul Walker. 2006. 02.35 FILM: Total Recall A construction worker discovers his memory has been erased. A trail of evidence leads him to a colony on Mars where he hopes to piece together the mystery of his former life. Sci-ﬁ, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. 1990.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 HARDtalk 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 One Planet 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Witness 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 Global Business 04:01 BBC News 04:06 Your World: Southern Tracks 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 One Planet 04:50 More Or Less 05:01 BBC News 05:06 World Briefing 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 In The Balance 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Top Of The Pops 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Top Of The Pops 07:01 BBC News 07:06 World Briefing 07:20 Sports News 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Fifth Floor 08:01 BBC News 08:06 The World Today Weekend: The World Today 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 The World Today Weekend: The World Today 09:01 BBC News 09:06 The Forum 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 The Forum 09:50 More Or Less 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Top Of The Pops 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Top Of The Pops 11:01 BBC News 11:06 From Our Own Correspondent 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 In The Balance 12:01 BBC

News 12:06 World Briefing 12:20 Sports News 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 One Planet 12:50 Witness 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 Global Business 14:01 BBC News 14:06 Your World: Southern Tracks 14:30 BBC News Summary 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 World Briefing 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 The Fifth Floor 17:01 BBC News 17:06 Sportsworld 18:01 BBC News 18:06 Sportsworld 19:01 BBC News 19:06 Sportsworld 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Briefing 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 In The Balance 21:01 BBC News 21:06 The Documentary: Just Add Cash but could inflation actually be good for you? Max Flint investigates.” 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Discovery 21:50 Witness 22:01 BBC News 22:06 World Briefing 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 Global Business 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

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Television PICK OF THE DAY Fearless (LTV, 21.00) Are we ready for 90s nostalgia? I’m sure it would’ve happened already, if there were more obvious markers on which to hang that nostalgia. Surfaces have changed very little in the past two decades, at least in America (Kurt Andersen wrote a good article about this in Vanity Fair, if you want to do a Google); there are changes, obviously - mobile phones being the most obvious addition - but the 90s didn’t have the big hair and ridiculous fashions of the 80s. Nonetheless, 90s nostalgia is only a matter of time. Already, 90s films are starting to be remade - like Total Recall, which opens today at the multiplex (i.e. the remake) and also shows tonight on Capital TV (i.e. the original) though Capital, bafflingly, stick it on at 2.30 in the morning. Where’s the sense in that? Fortunately LTV do better with Fearless, one of the many 90s films (others being The Fisher King, American Heart and The Big Lebowski) for which Jeff Bridges should’ve won an Oscar but wasn’t even nominated. Bridges is the trump card in this often-excellent drama, though nothing in the film lives up to its opening moments with our dazed-looking hero walking out of a tall cornfield with a baby in his arms and a young boy by his side. He and the kids (who are not his own kids) have survived an air

crash - a scene that should not be watched by anyone with a fear of flying - the site around them filled with debris and signs of devastation. Jeff is lucky to be alive, but in fact he feels more than lucky; he feels reborn, rejuvenated, fearless. He’s a superman, afraid of nothing. The rest of the film - sensitively directed by Australian director Peter Weir, who made Dead Poets Society - describes the aftermath of the crash, both for Jeff and the other survivors. They’re stalked by a money-grubbing lawyer, comforted by a counsellor, take part in a group-therapy session where they re-live their memories of the plane going down. One woman (Rosie Perez) is racked by guilt, because she survived but her baby didn’t - and meanwhile Jeff finds his old life inadequate, much to the chagrin of wife Isabella Rossellini. He defies Death, convinced that nothing can kill him: he walks across a street full of speeding cars, balances on a high ledge, pushes his car to the limit. He eats strawberries, though he used to be allergic to strawberries. Alas, the film goes a bit wrong, lapsing into histrionics and Big Speeches - but it’s still a good film, with intelligent dialogue and a strong spiritual streak. More than just 90s nostalgia. Made in 1993.

Preston Wilder

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War of the Buttons (Novacinema1, 19.10) The French really love War of the Buttons; it’s got cute kids and a portrait of long-ago village life, both things the French ﬁ nd irresistible - though it still seemed excessive when two versions of the classic French novel came out within a week of each other (it was also ﬁ lmed in the 60s, and there’s also an Irish version from the mid-90s). This is the more light-hearted version - the other one was set in WW2, and added a sub-plot about a Jewish girl trying to hide from the Nazis - telling the tale of two children’s gangs from rival villages starting a vendetta that escalates into violence; the book’s been updated slightly, with a tomboyish girl included in the boys’ gangs, but it mostly looks back fondly to a time when kids played outside and even formed (benign) gangs, as opposed to staying home with their computers. French audiences were bemused to see two versions coming out at the same time, but didn’t really mind; after all, they love War of the Buttons. Made in 2011.

Reﬂections in a Golden Eye (LTV3, 20.00) Brando’s Queer, Liz is a Bitch - a reductive way of describing this hothouse drama (based on a Carson McCullers novel) but not totally inaccurate since Marlon Brando, a major at a military base in the Deep South, is a latent homosexual obsessed with a young soldier while Elizabeth Taylor (as his infantile wife) keeps making fun of his failings and at one point horsewhips him in public. Then there’s the wife next door, who’s cut off her nipples with garden shears (!) and is consoled by her campy Filipino houseboy. Not as weird as it sounds, but very baroque and entertaining. Made in 1967.

Jagged Edge (Capital TV, 22.40) How old is this thriller? Well, let’s just say one of the plot twists has to do with ... a typewriter! I can say no more, except to conﬁ rm that we all loved it back in the 80s (though I haven’t seen it since). Glenn Close is a lawyer, defending Jeff Bridges (it’s a good night for Jeff Bridges fans, what with this and our Pick of the Day) who’s been charged with the brutal murder of his rich wife; Jeff is innocent, of course - right? - but proving it is another matter, made even trickier when Glenn falls in love with her slippery client. Peter Coyote is the prosecutor, warning our heroine not to trust Jeff, but Coyote played the government agent who went after E.T. so we clearly can’t believe a word he says. Right? Could be slightly dated, given how outlandish Hollywood twists have become in the 27 years since (no, Jeff doesn’t turn out to be a ﬁgment of Glenn’s imagination), but I’m sure it’s still very solid. Made in 1985.

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07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Rides 08:15 Fifth Gear 09:10 Mega Builders 10:05 Top Tens 10:55 Unchained Reaction 14:30 Extreme Engineering 15:25 Deconstruction 16:20 Mega Builders 17:15 How It’s Made 17:45 How Stuff’s Made 18:10 Extreme Explosions 19:05 Battle Machine Bros 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Brew Masters 22:00 Unchained Reaction 23:00 Life On A Wire 00:00 Surviving The Cut 01:00 Moments Of Terror 01:55 Unchained Reaction 02:50 Life On A Wire 03:50 Surviving The Cut 04:50 How It’s Made 05:15 Brew Masters 06:05 Unchained Reaction

09:30 Football: U-20 Women’s World Cup Japan 11:30 Football: 2014 World Cup Qualiﬁers Brazil 12:15 Football 13:15 Football: U-20 Women’s World Cup Japan 15:30 Football: 2014 World Cup Qualiﬁers Brazil 16:15 Football 17:15 Cycling: Tour Of Spain 18:45 Tennis: Us Open New York 02:45 Tennis: Us Open New York

05:30 Family Guy 08:00 Detroit 1-8-7 10:15 Family Guy 10:40 Neighbors From Hell 11:05 Bob’s Burgers 11:30 How I Met Your Mother 15:40 White Collar 19:30 Breakout Kings 21:00 Touch 22:30 Episodes 23:00 Call Me Fitz 23:30 American Horror Story 00:25 The Walking Dead 01:10 Criminal Minds 03:25 How I Met Your Mother

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Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 14:00 Pawn Stars 16:00 Ancient Aliens 19:00 Storage Wars 2 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 21:00 American Pickers 22:00 Ancient Aliens 23:45 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 00:45 Storage Wars 2 01:45 Pawn Stars 02:15 Cajun Pawn Stars 02:45 American Pickers 03:45 Mounted In Alaska 04:15 Ancient Aliens 06:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East

07:30 Molly: An American Girl 09:00 With Honors 10:45 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 13:30 What A Girl Wants 15:20 Greenberg 17:15 Action Zone 17:50 P.S. I Love You 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Fearless 23:15 A Nightmare On Elm Street 01:00 Hustler TV 02:35 Righteous Kill 04:20 Veronica Guerin 06:00 Hollywood Buzz 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Looney Tunes Show 07:50 Loonatics Unleashed 08:15 Wonder Pets 08:40 Dora The Explorer 09:05 Ni Hao, KaiLan 09:30 Spongebob Squarepants 09:55 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:20 Fanboy & Chum Chum 10:45 X’s 11:10 Mighty B! 11:35 My Life As A Teenage Robot 12:00 Hey Arnold! 12:25 Icarly 13:15 Legion Of Super Heroes 13:40 Batman: The Brave And The Bold 14:05 2010 World’s Strongest Man 14:35 Strike Force - Mixed Martial Arts 14:55 2012 Formula 1 16:15 Momentum: What Drives You 17:00 2012 Indy Car Series 19:30 La LIGA Review 201213 20:30 PBA Us Open 21:30 Planet Speed 22:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 00:00 Barclays Premier League Review 01:00 Nascar Sprint Cup Series 04:00 Planet Speed 04:30 Strike Force - Mixed Martial Arts 05:00 Dog Show 06:30 Momentum: What Drives You

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07:45 The Goodbye Girl 09:45 Yakuza 12:00 The Bachelor 14:00 Outbreak 16:15 Cash 18:15 Mafia! 20:00 Reflections In A Golden Eye 22:00 The Hangover Part 00:05 Daring! TV 04:00 An Insignificant Harvey 05:30 Avatar

07:00 Ancient X Files 08:00 Dog Whisperer 10:00 Titanic: Case Closed 12:00 Is It Real? 13:00 Templars: The Last Stand 14:00 Ancient X Files 18:00 George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview

Fast Five (Novacinema2, 14.35) 19:00 Giuliani: Commanding 9-11 20:00 9/11: Voices From The Air 21:00 9/11 - The Fireman’s Story 22:00 The Woman Who Wasn’t There 23:00 Wicked Tuna 00:00 Build Your Own Dam Bomb 02:00 9/11: Voices From The Air 03:00 9/11 - The Fireman’s Story 04:00 The Woman Who Wasn’t There 05:00 Wicked Tuna 06:00 George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview

06:05 Julia’s Eyes 08:05 Robots 09:35 Beginners 11:20 Cine News 11:50 Win Win 13:40 Cars 2 15:30 How I Met Your Mother Garbage Island 16:00 Cine News 16:45 Shanghai 18:35 Cine News 19:10 War Of The Buttons 21:00 N.C.I.S. Engaged - Part 1 00:00 Loufa Kai Parallagi: Seirines Sti Steria 01:55 Cine News 02:25 Death Race 2 04:05 Holy Smoke

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05:50 Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 08:05 Miral 10:00 Cine News 11:00 Green Card 12:50 The Birdcage 14:55 The Age Of Innocence 17:20 Love And Other Drugs 19:20 The Story Of Us 21:00 Ramona And Beezus 00:25 Made In Dagenham 02:20 Haevnen 04:20 The Grace Ca

01:30 Pass Time 02:00 Car Warriors ‘79 Cadillac 03:00 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Highlights Atlanta Motor Speedway 04:00 PGA Tour: BMW Championship d. 2 07:00 Big Break Dominican epublic - No “I” In Team 08:00 Big Break Dominican epublic Birds of a Feather Flock Together 09:00 Golf Central International SDD 09:30 Academy 10:00 LPGA Tour: Kingsmill Championship d. 2 SDD 12:00 Big Ten Women’s Volleyball Stanford at Penn State 14:00 European Tour: KLM Open d. 3 LIVE 18:00 MLB Player Poll 18:30 CFOX College Football Preview Show 19:00 PGA Tour: BMW Championship d. 3 LIVE 25:00 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Highlights Atlanta Motor Speedway 2:00 Mobil 1 2:30 CNebraska v UCLA LIVE 6:00 Inside the PGA Tour

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 09:00 Planet Food 10:00 Food Tripper 11:00 Culinary Asia 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 4real 13:30 Cruise Today 14:00 Globe Trekker 15:00 The Skinny Dip 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 18:00 Nomad’s Land 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Flavours Of Peru 20:30 Flavours Of Colombia 21:00 Planet Food 22:00 Departures 00:00 Julian And Camilla’s World Odyssey 01:00 Flavours Of Colombia 01:30 Flavours Of Peru 02:00 Planet Food 03:00 The Skinny Dip 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Flavours Of Colombia 05:30 Flavours Of Peru 06:00 Planet Food

06:00 Manpower 07:40 The Shoes of the Fisherman 10:10 Raintree County 13:00 That Midnight Kiss 14:40 Jailhouse Rock 16:15 Saratoga 17:50 Soylent Green 19:25 Crazy in Love 21:00 The Year of Living Dangerously 23:05 Wife vs: Secretary 00:30 Hunger, The 02:05 A Life Of Her Own 03:50 Northwest Passage

Saturday, September 8, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Sport Solitary Sarah Storey out on her own

MCLAREN’S Lewis Hamilton shut out the swirl of paddock speculation about his Formula One future and focused on lapping fastest in practice for the Italian Grand Prix yesterday. The 27-year-old led a team one-two at the top of the timesheets with a best lap of one minute 25.290 seconds, while Jenson Button, winner in Belgium last weekend, was 0.038 slower. Hamilton has been the main talking point of the weekend with the rumour mill suggesting he could switch to Mercedes in place of Michael Schumacher. Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, the championship leader, was third, but the Spaniard slowed on track in the afternoon and cruised back to the pitlane with an apparent gearbox problem. He had also slowed and parked up in the morning session led by former Ferrari favourite Schumacher, who showed he still had plenty of pace in his Mercedes, haivng lapped the fastest circuit on the calendar in 1:25.422. He was slowed in the afternoon with problems with the DRS rear wing system. Button, runner-up at Monza for the past three seasons, was also second fastest in the morning session. Alonso, who has a 24-point advantage over Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel after 12 of the 20 races, was fourth in the morning. Williams driver Pastor Maldonado, who has a 10-place penalty for tomorrow’s race, also stopped on track. Belgian Jerome D’Ambrosio, who raced for tail-enders Virgin (Marussia) last year, was 15th and 12th fastest respectively on his first day in the Lotus as stand-in for banned Frenchman Romain Grosjean - suspended for causing a pile-up at the start in Spa. Ma Qing Hua tested for HRT as the first Chinese driver to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix weekend, replacing Indian Narain Karthikeyan for the first session. He was slowest of all with a time

SARAH Storey believes the discipline of training alone helped her to join Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson as Great Britain’s most successful female Paralympian. The 34-year-old from Manchester on Thursday claimed her fourth gold medal of the London 2012 Paralympics and her 11th in all, equal with former wheelchair racer Grey-Thompson. David Roberts also has 11 golds, while another swimmer, Mike Kenny, won 16 gold medals from 1976 to 1988, with some of his wins coming in a 25-metre pool. Storey, who was born with a partly-formed left hand, relishes what she described as “suicide solo missions”, after a successful end to the women’s C4-5 road race on Thursday, when she attacked two kilometres into the 64km event. She said: “I love training really hard. I’m a bit of a sadist really. My team-mates call me a bit of a motorbike. I quite like training on my own. I always have done. “I guess following the black line in the swimming pool’s given me that. “I’m just having so much fun and I hope that can continue until someone takes the reins and makes it faster.”

IN BRIEF

Hamilton fastest in practice at Monza

Britain’s Jonnie Peacock (L) crosses the line ﬁrst to win ahead of South Africa’s Arnu Fourie (2L) and US athlete Richard Brown (R) in the men’s 100m T44 ﬁnal

Pistorius makes way for new star Peacock By Guy Aspin BRITISH teenager Jonnie Peacock sealed his status as the fastest amputee in the world by upstaging Oscar Pistorius in the biggest race of the Paralympics Thursday night. The 19-year-old from Cambridge showed no regard for reputations as he stormed away from the ﬁeld to win in 10.90 seconds, a new Paralympic record. Despite being the T44 world record holder, Peacock came into the Games inexperienced on the big stage, but he proved he can more than handle the occasion. Only American Richard Browne could get close to the Briton, claiming silver in 11.03secs.

GB teen seals his status as fastest amputee in the world Pistorius, the defending champion, was never in contention, ﬁnishing fourth behind fellow South African and room-mate Arnu Fourie, but was quick to embrace Peacock at the ﬁnish. Peacock said: “I haven’t been nervous. I was doing my strides in warm-up and I was ready. I felt on form, I knew I had it in me. “I am a little bit (disappointed I didn’t go faster). The form I’ve been in in the last few weeks it is a bit of a shame. But to come out on this stage it really was a mental battle more than

anything else.” Pistorius added: “I think what the people who were out there tonight we able to witness was one of the greatest performances in 100m. This is the beginning of a phenomenal career for Jonnie Peacock. “To see a performance and to be beaten by an athlete like that makes me extremely happy.” Peacock’s win came minutes after a third gold for British team-mate David Weir, who was roared to glory by the capacity crowd in the T54 800m. Weir will now go for a fourth gold in the marathon tomor-

European Tour’s Hong Kong Korea bringing ‘gangnam Open still without a sponsor style’ to Formula One THE Hong Kong Open has been forced to ask the government to help plug a financial hole after organisers failed to find a title sponsor for the $2.75 million event won last year by world number one Rory McIlroy. Yesterday, local media reported the 54-year-old event, co-sanctioned by the European and Asian Tours, failed to find a replacement for UBS and would need government assistance to put on the November 15-18 tournament. “We will be approaching the Mega Events Fund (MEF) in the next two weeks for funding,” Hong Kong Golf Association chief executive Iain Valentine was quoted as saying by Friday’s South China Morning Post.

INFECTIOUS K-Pop smash “Gangnam Style” thrust South Korean entertainment culture into the international spotlight and organisers of the country’s F1 grand prix hope to harness that success for their race in October. Singer Psy’s music video has gone viral since mid-July and his horse-riding dance has been parodied and copied by fans around the world, including at Major League Baseball games in the United States. Organisers of the Korean Grand Prix have named Psy as a promotional ambassador for the race in Yeongam, South Jeolla Province and the chubby singer said he hoped to raise the sport’s proﬁle.

row, having already taken the 1500m and 5,000m crowns. Russian Evgenii Shvetcov claimed his third gold medal of London 2012, adding the T36 800m crown to his 100m and 400m titles, while Great Britain’s Hannah Cockroft claimed her second gold by winning the T34 200m. Chinese triple jumper Li Duan won the crowd’s hearts and a silver medal with his Full Monty-style antics. The 34-year-old, competing in the F11 classes for athletes who are effectively completely blind, lined up on the runaway still wearing his training trousers before whipping them off just before he started his run-up. Champion Denis Gulin of Russia took gold, with a jump of 12.91m. Li’s longest jump was 12.75m.

Storey had started out as a Paralympic swimmer, then changed to cycling

Struggling IPL Hyderabad franchise up for grabs THE cash-strapped Hyderabad franchise of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has invited bids for its Twenty20 team in what is perceived as yet another sign of the league’s diminishing sheen. Deccan Chronicle Holdings, the owners of Deccan Chargers, issued a tender notice on Thursday putting the team up for sale after getting the nod of the Indian cricket board (BCCI). “Of course, they have the go-ahead from the BCCI,” Ratnakar Shetty, the board’s chief administrative ofﬁcer, said yesterday. The new franchisee owner will be announced on September 13.

CYPRUS MAIL Saturday, September 8, 2012

Sport

Singh returns for India in New Zealand T20 clash

Singh has been out of action since November 2011 after being diagnosed with a rare germ-cell cancer

YUVRAJ Singh will make his emotional return to the India team following treatment for cancer in today’s ﬁrst Twenty20 match against New Zealand in Visakhapatnam. The big-hitting left-hander has been out of cricket since November of last year after being diagnosed with mediastinal seminoma, a rare germ-cell cancer. He underwent chemotherapy in the United States, with his bald head serving as a reminder of the treatment, and his recall for the two-match series came as a surprise with Yuvraj not having played a single match at domestic level since. But he had earmarked the shortest format as the ideal arena in which to return to action - and has also been named in his country’s squad for this month’s ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka. He told reporters in India earlier this week: “I don’t know how I will play - whether I will make one run or 20

runs, take catches, take wickets. “All I know is that to get on the ﬁeld is a huge achievement for me. “Whenever I climbed four steps I used to get breathless. When I was like this I felt it is not going to be possible. It was tough but I worked very hard. I feel very proud of myself.

‘EMOTIONS’ “I am thankful to my family, friends and the people of India for showering so much love on me. I will go on the ﬁeld with all these emotions.” Harbhajan Singh, also recalled to the India squad along with fellow spinner Piyush Chawla and seamer Lakshmipathy Balaji, paid tribute to the returning Yuvraj. He told reporters: “Now this is what we call a comeback. “There can’t be a bigger inspiration in cricket than Yuvi. It is a privilege to be back in the dressing room with him.”

There will certainly be no favours for Yuvraj on his return, though, and he will face a bowling attack which Black Caps paceman Tim Southee believes is looking strong ahead of the tournament, which starts on September 18. All-rounder Daniel Vettori has come out of limited-overs retirement for the occasion to join Ronnie Hira at the forefront of a strong spin attack, while Southee - who took a career-best seven for 64 in the second Test in Bangalore and Adam Milne offer genuine pace and Jacob Oram excelled in the Sri Lankan Premier League. Southee told stuff.co.nz: “Milney’s shown he’s got that extra yard of pace and that great variation too. “We’ve got the experience of Dan and Ronnie Hira, who’s proven to be one of the better bowlers in domestic T20 for the last couple of years. “It’s a great mix between exciting young talent and some old wise heads with plenty of experience on their side.”

Wallabies to adopt attacking mindset - Genia

Gethin Jenkins setback for Wales

Australia side ‘have just got to be harder’ on themselves ahead of Springboks clash AUSTRALIA captain Will Genia says his team will look to take an attacking mindset into today’s clash with South Africa in Perth. The Wallabies have lost their first two matches of the Rugby Championship to the All Blacks, 22-0 and 27-19. And although Genia described their efforts so far as “not good enough”, he said the players had reacted to their poor start by lifting standards in training. “We’ve just got to be harder on ourselves as a group and demand more of each other, particularly in game, so we can get those things right,” Genia said. “Making the same errors over and over again is not good enough, particularly in the last couple of weeks we’ve played. “We’ve addressed that in team meetings, but more so in the way we’ve gone about our work in training and preparing for the game.” The Wallabies will be without hooker Stephen Moore, who injured his hamstring in Thursday’s training run, and first-choice openside flanker David Pocock. Tatafu Polota-Nau will replace Moore, while Michael Hooper takes the number seven jersey. “You’ve got blokes coming in who can definitely do as good a job as those who are missing,” Genia said. “You get work rate from those guys and you get impact. “We’ve got 22 fit blokes who will do the job and

that’s all you can ask for.” Pressure has mounted on coach Robbie Deans with speculation a loss today might end his stint as Australia coach. The Wallabies have beaten the Springboks in their past four encounters, but the South Africans have enjoyed success in Perth where they receive signiﬁcant crowd support. Deans said Australia’s favouritism would count for nothing. “We’re not aware of that, we’re not conscious of that, we’re just concentrating on what we need to,” he said.

‘PAST IRRELEVANT’ “The past is genuinely totally irrelevant. It’s an important game for both teams. They’ll desperately want a result, so do we. “It’s a Test match, it’s never easy.” Deans also bristled at suggestions the team would have a point to prove after successive losses. “Every Test match you have a point to prove. They stand alone in terms of the calendar,” he said. “This date will never come round again, this Test match will never come round again. “The whistle goes, it’s 80 minutes full on and then it’s done.” Springbok captain Jean de Villiers insists his team are expecting a tough game despite Australia’s struggles. “They were up against a quality side in New Zealand,

the number one ranked team in the world, the World Cup winners, all of that,” he said. “(Australia) are a very skilled team. I think, as a backline player playing against them is difﬁcult. “They’ve got a lot skill running wise in attack and in defence. They’re always solid.” South Africa beat competition newcomers Argentina 27-6 in Cape Town in their opening match, but could only manage a 16-16 draw in their last start against the Pumas. Duane Vermeulen will debut for the Springboks as part of an inexperienced group of forwards. Rather than view their limited match-time as a negative, De Villiers believes it gives the players the chance to strengthen their claims for a permanent spot in the side. He added: “I read something yesterday where our pack, the starting eight, only has 112 caps. Last year John Smit had 111 and Victor Matﬁeld had 110. “It makes a big difference inexperience within the squad, but I think the guys that have come in have done really well and they’ve taken their opportunities. “Once you’ve got a new team and once you’re building as a team it’s an opportunity to put up your hand and stake your claim for a position in the team and stay there for a long time. “I think the guys have done that and hopefully we can show some more maturity tomorrow.”

The Wallabies have beaten the Springboks in their past four encounters, but the South Africans have enjoyed success in Perth where they enjoy major crowd support

WALES are set to be without Gethin Jenkins for their Test against Australia on December 1 after Toulon coach Bernard Laporte confirmed the club would not be releasing him. Laporte and Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal outlined the club’s policy on Thursday in a meeting with Wales caretaker coach Rob Howley and Lions boss Warren Gatland. Gatland was told Toulon will not allow Jenkins to join up with Lions for the start of next summer’s tour to Australia if they qualify for the Top 14 final on June 1. That stance leaves Jenkins in danger of missing out on a third Lions tour because Gatland wants his whole squad to be together in Hong Kong for their opening match against the Barbarians, also on June 1. The four-way conversation then turned to Wales and Toulon stated Jenkins would not be available to face the Wallabies in December because the match falls outside the official international window. “The chat was very friendly,” Laporte told L’Equipe. “We discussed the availability of Gethin Jenkins. We said again that we would not release him to leave with the Lions on May 27 if we are in the final. “He understood. I think he already knew when he came to the meeting. “We did not talk so much about the Lions. It was more about Gethin’s availability for the November and the Six Nations. “On December 1, the Welsh play a Test against Australia outside of the window and we told them that the position of principle was the same as for the Lions tour: ‘No’. “Toulon play Grenoble on the same day in the Top 14.”

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‘Kaka can still make contribution to Real’ REAL Madrid coach Jose Mourinho believes Kaka can still be a success with the club despite a troubled three years at the Bernabeu. Big things were expected of the Brazilian forward when he made the switch from AC Milan in 2009, but injuries and loss of form have left Kaka a peripheral player in the Madrid squad. He was linked with a return to Milan over the summer, a move which failed to materialise, while the arrival of Luka Modric from Tottenham has further reduced Kaka’s chances of winning a place in the side. Yet Mourinho insists the 30-year-old still has a part to play for the Primera Division champions and should not give up hope. “What has happened to Kaka has happened before to many great players,” the Portuguese told AS. “For one reason or another they have failed to continue their career at a new club when they could do fantastic things before moving.

Juve remain interested in Spain’s Llorente SPAIN forward Fernando Llorente remains on Juventus’ radar for the January transfer window. Juve chief executive Giuseppe Marotta was asked about the Athletic Bilbao striker in an interview with Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport, following comments from Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho recently that the 27-year-old, whose contract expires next summer, would be Turinbound early in the new year. Marotta said: “He (Mourinho) will have precise information, he is always well-informed... “Of course if (Llorente) remains on the market, he is a player of interest. And anyway, we’ll look at the January transfer window independently of him: there may be several openings.” Marotta expressed regret that his club had been unable to sign Robin van Persie, with the Holland striker opting to join Manchester United after announcing he would not sign a new deal with Arsenal. However, Marotta did not believe the deal could be justified financially and was pleased with Juve’s work in the summer window. “I have regrets about Van Persie, but it would have been a bad choice for a club like Juventus to pay almost 30million euros for a player who was almost out of contract,” he added. “We were able to hit the priority target of strengthening the group and raising the level of quality with the acquisition of players from the correct profile: good, young and with a reasonable salary. I refer in particular to (Kwadwo) Asamoah, (Mauricio) Isla and (Sebastian) Giovinco.” Marotta admitted his club would also be “obliged to show an interest” if highlyrated Torino and Italy defender Angelo Ogbonna came on the market.

“Players are not robots. Kaka came here with ﬁtness problems which troubled him throughout his ﬁrst season. “In his second year he had surgery and needed a few months off. When he returned, he did so bit by bit. “Last season there were times when he was very, very good. He made some important contributions, for example when (Angel) Di Maria was injured. “I said before the transfer window closed that Kaka was not a problem for Mourinho. He knows because I told him things are not easy in his situation, and he has accepted the challenge. “He is training well. When we consider how we should use him we will try and use him as best we can. “And I am convinced that when the time comes, Kaka will respond and help Madrid.” Meanwhile, Mourinho admits his love of club football means he himself is unlikely to take charge of a national team any time soon.

The Portuguese has been linked with several jobs at international level during his illustrious career, most recently England after Fabio Capello stepped aside. Mourinho has also hinted in the past that he would be willing to take on the challenge of managing his own country later in life. However, the former Chelsea boss admitted to AS he has no immediate plans to accept such a role. “We’ll see although it will be later rather than sooner, much later,” he said. “I am 49 and will be 50 when this season finishes, but I still think I’m at the beginning of my career. “A few years ago my wife said that some day I would stop, we would enjoy our children, our hobbies. But right now I’m a full-time coach. “Even now, after all my experiences, I still feel the same excitement, the same joy I felt on the first day I won and I feel the same anger, the same disappointment on the first day I lost.”

Kaka (L) has spent a troubled three years at the Bernabeu

Emerton urges fans to have some patience with Del Piero Midfielder against unrealistic expectations SYDNEY FC midfielder Brett Emerton has no doubt new team-mate Alessandro Del Piero will be a huge hit in the A-League, but has urged fans to be patient and not place unrealistic expectations on the Italian star. The former Juventus stalwart will arrive in Sydney late next week to begin his twoyear deal with the Sky Blues. It will give Del Piero just three weeks of training with his new side before the ALeague season-opener away to Wellington on October 6. While the 37-year-old played for almost two decades in Serie A, Emerton said the standard of the A-League means it’s difficult to thrive immediately. The Socceroos midfielder, who returned home to play with Sydney last season after more than a decade in Europe, admits the transition to the Australian game is difficult and the public should give Del Piero time to settle. “It doesn’t matter where you come from, playing your football in Europe is much different to playing here in Australia,” Emerton told reporters today. “It will take time to adapt. Hopefully it doesn’t, hopefully he hits the ground running. “But if he doesn’t obviously people need to understand that and give him a little bit of time to adapt to the league.” Asked what advice he would give the World Cupwinner about adjusting to the league, Emerton said: “Firstly, you can’t underestimate this league.

Del Piero, seen here in his old Juventus colours, faces the challenge of adapting his style to the Australian league “Not enough credit is given to the standard of the league here in Australia. It’s a lot better than people give it credit for. “You need to come here and if you’re not committed 100 per cent and go out there in each and every game and give your best then you’re going to get found out.

“The weather conditions can be testing as well. It’s hot, the pitches are quite hard and training on hard pitches day in, day out can take a toll on your body when it’s not used to it. “There’s a lot of things to adjust to, but he’s a seasoned professional and I’m sure he’ll be OK.”

Sky Blues skipper Terry McFlynn said he had already noticed an improvement in training since news of Del Piero’s signing became ofﬁcial and is conﬁdent they now have the depth in the squad to be challengers for the title. He also said he would have no problem relinquishing the captaincy if coach Ian Crook

‘... playing your football in Europe is much different to playing here in Australia’

opted to hand the arm-band to the Italian legend. “My main focus is on this football club being successful. Always has, always will be,” McFlynn said. “That’s (captaincy) the manager’s decision. “If he decides he wants Del Piero to lead this team then I’ll support the club, the manager, Del Piero 100 per cent.” Emerton has just begun full training with the ﬁrst team squad following off-season surgery and is expected to play at least 30 minutes in tomorrow’s friendly against Newcastle at Leichhardt Oval.

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Liverpool boss Rodgers says much learned

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Insists there is no rift with club’s owners By Carl Markham LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers insists there is no rift with the club’s owners but admits a lot has been learned from this summer’s transfer window. Criticism has been levelled at Fenway Sports Group following the failure to brin g in a replacement after striker Andy Carroll was loaned to West Ham. Rodgers admitted he would not have let the England international leave had he not been confident he could bring in a replacement, but a deal for Fulham’s Clint Dempsey fell through because FSG would not pay what they considered an inflated price. That led to suggestions the manager had been undermined by the owners but he stressed he understood the situation when he took over in June. “I’ve had long conversations with the owners,” he said. “I’ve got to say they have been very honest and very up front right from the off. “I came here first and foremost because of the owners. I felt a genuine

honesty in their approach to it and in how they wanted to go forward with the football club.” Rodgers, speaking at a forum with representatives of Liverpool fan sites and blogs, added: “Of course the window didn’t quite go to plan but going forward a great deal of learning has taken place.

‘SURGERY’ “Every manager always wants more players but, with the reality of where the club is at, there needed to be a little bit of surgery done on the squad. “Some of the wages here were absolutely astronomical in terms of value and worth. That needed to be looked at. “I knew there would be a wee bit of pain in the short term but hopefully for the longer-term gain. “We ﬁnished up where we were at and now we have got to move forward as a football club and really have the one-club mentality.” Rodgers admits he is likely to have to buy in January, although he knows it will be tough to bring in the right players at the right price.

But in the intervening period he will have to draw on the resources he has - even if it means dipping into the reserve squad. With so many players away on international duty the Northern Irishman has taken the opportunity to involve some of the club’s promising youngsters in training sessions. “I’ve tried to get around the youth team players, the reserve team players, and look at the level we have,” he told liverpoolfc.com. “First and foremost it’s a chance for me to see the players working and see their improvements and try to help and guide them. “They are trying to make steps up towards the ﬁrst team and this gives them an opportunity to learn, and not just from the coaches. “They come up here and train with Jamie Carragher, a guy who is in his 18th year as a professional. “It is great for young players at 18 or 19 to see a guy who has been doing this work nearly as long as they’ve been alive and showing the same enthusiasm and commitment to want to learn and improve.”

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Bats backs Lloris to succeed at Spurs Scotland’s Levein sorts out defensive issues FRANCE captain Hugo Lloris has what it takes to succeed at Tottenham, according to his former goalkeeping coach at Lyon. Lloris was signed ahead of the transfer deadline in an £8million deal. However, Les Bleus coach Didier Deschamps indicated Lloris’ position as France number one would be under consideration if the goalkeeper was not able to dislodge American veteran Brad Friedel between the posts at Spurs. That, though, should not prove an issue, according to Joel Bats. The Lyon coach told L’Equipe: “He is one of the best three goalkeepers in the world. Hugo could play against any player in any league. “Now, if he can help Tottenham to the next level, it could be a springboard towards a bigger club.” Lloris played down the issue when it was raised ahead of France’s World Cup qualifier against Finland tonight. He said: “I am a professional and I can put all this aside. “I am only and entirely focused on France. “I have played enough matches in the past to be able to manage this.” Tottenham, meanwhile, could yet allow some more of their fringe players out on loan once the “emergency window” opens for the npower Football League this weekend. Midfielder Jermaine Jenas’ proposed move to Sunderland fell through, so he could still yet depart if he is prepared to drop down a division for regular first-team football.

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SCOTLAND manager Craig Levein insists he is comfortable starting any player in his squad despite the defensive selection problems that hampered his initial preparations for today’s World Cup opener against Serbia. Already missing full-backs Steven Whittaker and Phil Bardsley to ankle injuries, Levein lost Danny Fox, Charlie Mulgrew and Russell Martin this week and is unlikely to have them fit for Tuesday’s visit of Macedonia. Centre-back Christophe Berra was also a doubt until his girlfriend gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday. Levein has this week called up Huddersfield left-back Paul Dixon, Bristol City full-back Richard Foster and MK Dons defender Gary MacKenzie, all of whom are uncapped. But he has no problems handing any of them a debut at Hampden today in Scotland’s first qualifying match. “What I don’t like is uncertainty,” Levein said. “We had a lot of that in the early part of the week, not just with the Christophe Berra situation with his girlfriend having the

Comfortable: Scotland manager Craig Levein baby. We had Russell Martin, Charlie Mulgrew and Danny Fox all unsure whether they were going to make it. “What we have got now is certainty and I’m happy. “Everyone in the squad is more than capable of starting if need be.” Dixon looks the likeliest to make his debut given the shortage of experienced options at left-back. “I was fortunate enough to work with him at Dundee United,” Levein said.

“He provides us with an attacking threat down that left side. “I know exactly what his strengths are and I know how to use him. That gives me a degree of comfort.” Levein will deploy his usual 4-5-1 formation with skipper Gary Caldwell a strong candidate to play in midﬁeld on his 50th appearance amid the absence of Scott Brown, Darren Fletcher and James McArthur. “What’s important to me is ... that the players feel comfortable in the system and they go on the pitch knowing exactly what their task is, because we have been doing the same sort of thing for a couple of years and reinforcing things as often as we can,” Levein said. Additionally, James Forrest returns from injury, following the 3-1 friendly win over Australia while Shaun Maloney was at the hub of much of Scotland’s attacking play in that game after replacing an injured James Morrison. Striker Jordan Rhodes scored on his ﬁrst start but Kenny Miller is back in the squad after being rested.

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Djoko storms past Del Potro in straight sets Second seed shows he is very much the man to beat at US Open By Eleanor Crooks

ovak Djokovic showed he is very much the man to beat at the US Open with a stunning display to defeat Juan Martin Del Potro in straight sets in the quarterfinals, which finished in the early hours yesterday. The 6-2 7-6 (7/3) 6-4 scoreline does not remotely tell the story of a match where 2009 champion Del Potro threw everything at last year’s winner only to see it come back with interest. Djokovic said: “Even though it was straight sets it was much closer than that. He’s a great player. I was lucky in the second set. “We played some incredible points. It’s always entertaining to play at night, so much fun. This is very special and I’m really happy to be in the semi-finals.” Djokovic will now play fourth seed David Ferrer this afternoon, after the latter beat Janko Tipsarevic Thursday night in a rematch of a last-four clash from 2007. Djokovic lost to Roger Federer in the final that year but, with the world number one knocked out by Tomas Berdych on Thursday, the second seed assumed the favourite’s mantle. So easy had the Serbian’s progress been until this point, it was difficult to tell how well he was playing. Djokovic had seemed out of sorts at Wimbledon and the Olympics, where Del Potro beat him to the bronze medal, but he showed on Arthur

So easy had the Serbian’s progress been until this point that, in his 6-2 7-6 (7/3) 6-4 victory over Del Potro, it was difﬁcult to tell how well he was playing Ashe Stadium he is back to the form that brought him three grand slam titles last season. The second set was undoubtedly the best of the tournament as Del Potro found his rhythm on his huge groundstrokes but still could

not break down Djokovic’s legendary defences. The second seed went an early break down but broke back when Del Potro served for the set and then created three set points in a titanic 12th game that lasted more than 17 minutes.

The Argentinian saved those but could not resist the sheer force of Djokovic in the tie-break, and a break at the start of the decider eventually proved the difference. Djokovic has now reached 10 straight grand slam semiﬁnals, and Del Potro admit-

ted the better man won. He said: “I had to win that second set. Nole (Djokovic) played really well in the most important moments. In the tie-break he was a little lucky on some points. But he deserved it, he played much better than me for the rest of the match. He was too much for me. “He played at a very high level for the whole three hours and I wish him the best.” If Djokovic and Del Potro were the main event, Ferrer and Tipsarevic served up a brilliant appetiser with five sets of captivating tennis. Ferrer was the clear favourite and won the first set reasonably easily, but Tipsarevic dug in and almost won. He clinched a second-set tie-break and then won five games in a row with spectacular attacking tennis to lead by two sets to one. Ferrer was hanging on and he found the breakthrough in the fourth to level up. Tipsarevic turned the tables at the start of the decider to lead once more but a heavy fall at the end of the sixth game seemed to affect him and Ferrer hit back. A tie-break was the only way to split them and it was the Spaniard who prevailed, dropping to the court and letting out a scream of delight as he came through 6-3 6-7 (5/7) 2-6 6-3 7-6 (7/4). Speaking on court afterwards, Ferrer said: “I don’t have words. I’m very happy. I ran a lot. It was a really tough match. Janko is an amazing player. He fought a lot and he deserved also to win today.”

Azarenka overcomes Sharapova to seal final berth WORLD number one Victoria Azarenka repeated her Australian Open triumph over Maria Sharapova to reach her first US Open final. The Melbourne victory, which gave Azarenka her first grand slam title, had been one-sided as the Belarusian lost only three games, but this was a titanic struggle between two of women’s tennis’ biggest fighters. Azarenka finally came out on top 3-6 6-2 6-4 after two hours and 42 minutes and was to meet either Serena Williams or French Open finalist Sara Errani thereafter. The 23-year-old said: “I was just trying to grab the first opportunity that I had. Maria is such a great player. I knew she would come out firing and she did. I tried to find my rhythm and just fight. I tried to give whatever it takes. I knew my opponent was going to play hard so I had to play harder. I gave it my all. I guess it worked. It’s my first final and I’m so excited.” In the Australian Open final, it had been Sharapova who had made the better start before Azarenka took control and won 12

of the last 13 games. The Russian again was the more solid in the early stages here, and this time she kept it going, turning a 3-0 lead into 5-1 and the opportunity to serve for the set. Sharapova looked like she would lose her advantage completely when Azarenka had two chances to reduce the deficit to 5-4, her opponent throwing in two double faults in the windy conditions. But the world number one could not take her opportunity and Sharapova clinched it with her first ace of the match. Azarenka’s superior movement had taken her opponent out of the game in Melbourne but here Sharapova was powering away winners and winning plenty of points with her serve. The third seed had survived real battles against Nadia Petrova and Marion Bartoli to make it to the last four, while Azarenka prevailed in a third set tie-break against defending champion Sam Stosur in the quarter-finals. Thereafter the Belarusian hooked a forehand well wide to be broken again at

the start of the second set, but from there things turned around. Sharapova dropped serve twice in succession, with Azarenka now giving her opponent a lot fewer free points, and the top seed was clearly extremely pumped up as she powered away a forehand to level things up. Sharapova was unbeaten in 12 three-set matches this year and Azarenka 11, and the shrieking and intensity increased as they traded blows. The ﬁrst two sets had been too error strewn to really captivate but the start of the decider was on another level, particularly in a lengthy third game where Sharapova eventually held serve. The third seed continued to cling on and the deciding set had been going for more than an hour when she served to stay in the match at 4-5. It was a game too far. Azarenka missed with a forehand down the line on her ﬁrst match point but a second one followed and this time Sharapova drilled a forehand long.

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Poor play consigns Cypriots to Albania loss Albania 3 Cyprus 1 By Nemanja Bjedov CYPRUS opened their 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Round Group E campaign with a 3-1 loss to Albania, at the Qemal Stafa Stadium yesterday evening in Tirana. After an eventless 35 minutes, the visitors paid the price for poor play, allowing the Albanians to take the lead from their first attempt on target. Jason Demetriou gave away a free-kick after a challenge on Armend Dallku some 20 metres out on the right side. Alban Meha picked out Armando Sadiku on the first post and the 21year-old FC Lugano striker made no mistake in beating helpless Antonis Giorgallidis. Just when everyone was expecting the half-time whistle, Dallku brought down French-born midfielder Vincent Laban, who made his debut for Cyprus last month in a friendly against Bulgaria, and the experienced Anorthosis vicecaptain levelled the score against the run of play. His inswing cross flew towards the heart of the penalty area and surprisingly curled in at the back post, past the stationary Samir Ujkani. With an hour gone, neither side appeared desperate to shift the momentum of the game, with Cyprus seemingly content to leave their pursuit of a winner till the last minute. For their part, Albanians were struggling to create any meaningful attack until the 84th minute, when the Cypriot substitute goalkeeper Christakis Mastrou misjudged a cross from the left flank and Edgar Cani restored his team’s lead with an easy header, which was his first contact with the ball, as he was introduced a couple of minutes earlier for Hamdi Salihi. Nikos Nioplias was forced to send on Mastrou during the half-time interval, as Giorgallidis was unable to continue the game due to a muscle injury. Three minutes later, it was already 3-1 for the Balkan nation. Another substitute, Erjon Bogdani, stunned Mastrou with a great long range-effort to set up the final score, as the Cypriot defence looked to be in complete disarray.