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‘Selfish, ignorant and dangerous’ Europe heaps scorn on David Cameron’s pledge for referendum

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RITAIN’S European partners heaped scorn on David Cameron yesterday saying his demand for radical reform of the EU and an “in-out” referendum on UK membership showed a selfish and ignorant attitude.

France went so far as to call the British Prime Minister’s bluff, saying it was free to leave. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he had told a recent meeting with British businessmen: “If Britain wants to leave Europe we will roll out the red carpet for you.” That was a riposte to Cameron who last year used the same phrase to welcome wealthy French tax exiles to Britain.

EU politicians turned to culinary and sporting metaphors to vent frustration at the prime minister’s promise to renegotiate Britain’s already semi-detached membership of the EU and put it to a popular vote if he wins re-election in 2015.

“Cherry-picking is not an option,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said.

Two French cabinet ministers accused Cameron of treating Europe like an “a la carte” menu from which Britain thought it could pick and choose.

Peter Mandelson, a former EU trade commissioner and veteran British Labour government minister, called it a “schizophrenic” speech and said Europe would not

respond positively to being treated as a “cafeteria service where you bring your own tray and leave with what you want”. Fabius said it was as if Britain had joined a football club and then suddenly said “let’s play rugby”.

Martin Schulz, the head of the European Parliament which with the European Commission was the butt of Cameron’s criticism of “sclerotic” EU decision-making, was just plain angry.

Britain was pointing the finger but was “overwhelmingly to blame for all the delays in Europe”, said Schulz. “He just wants change in the single interest of Britain and that’s not fair.”

In Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative sympathies for Cameron’s party are overshadowed by anger at their exit from the centre-right EU bloc and veto of her fiscal pact, the view is that the UK premier has painted himself into a corner.

German politicians face eurosceptic pressures of their own but say Cameron pays too much attention to a loud minority who play up what he called disillusionment “at an all-time high”.

“Cameron is using EU membership as a tactical tool for domestic politics,” said Manuel Sarrazin of the German Greens. Even if opinion to Britain was warmer, it is far from clear how it could initiate and successfully pilot a treaty negotiation, EU officials said.

Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian prime minister and now

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A man removes the Debenham’s sign from one of the chain’s department stores yesterday

(Christos Theodorides)

Debenhams advertises closing down sale on Makarios Avenue ABOVE a huge banner advertising an 80 per cent ‘closing down’ sale starting tomorrow, workers yesterday took down the Debenhams sign outside the shop located mid-way down Makarios Avenue.

Others carried inside clothes that had arrived in vans, and removed the make-up and perfume products from the store. Makarios Avenue is no longer the magnet for shoppers it once was, with stores closing their doors or holding closing down sales. Debenhams has two shops on the once-busy avenue, which are within walking distance of each other. The chain’s flagship store is at the top of the same Avenue.

In December last year, Debenhams denied rumours they were shutting down the shop, even though the main sign was removed.

A representative for the Shacolas Group, which owns Debenhams said that an announcement was due today but refused to comment further.

Workers outside the shop were equally cagey yesterday.

One told reporters the shop was being turned into an outlet for bargains for a month and would reopen after that.

Howewer the removal of the sign would seem to indicate the shop was shutting down for good after the closing down sale.

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Indian schoolchildren perform a dance during the final full dress rehearsal for the Indian Republic Day parade in New Delhi yesterday. India will celebrate the 64th Republic Day on January 26 with a large military parade (AFP)

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ON THIS DAY JANUARY 24 1848

28 years ago, Thursday January 24, 1985

The California Gold Rush kicks off when James Marshall, a construction worker, discovers a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill, California.

A safe stolen from the Omonia sports club in Nicosia said to contain £4,000 in cash and some documents, was found empty half way between the villages of Kachati and Mari.

There was no clue as to what became of the contents.

Four youths, two of them National Guardsmen, have been remanded in police custody for eight days in connection with the case.

1924 After the death of Lenin, St Petersburg is renamed Leningrad.

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WHAT THE MAIL SAID

In England, director Alfred Hitchcock’s first film, The Pleasure Garden, is released.

1935 The first canned beer is sold by the Krueger Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia.

1972 Local farmers discover Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant who, unaware that World War II was over, had been hiding in the jungles of Guam for 28 years.

38 years ago, Friday January 24, 1975 Displaced Greek Cypriots who are still held captive by the Turks in the Dome Hotel in Kyrenia have addressed a letter of protest to the international Red Cross committee charging that undertakings given for them to be allowed to return to their homes in the Kyrenia area have still not been honoured. Instead Turkish Cypriots have been allowed to occupy their homes.

58 years ago, Monday January 24, 1955 The concern of the Larnaca town and district at the fate of its port was dramatically pictured by the mayor who said that unless port developments are quickly carried out the town of Larnaca will become a cemetery, a town of the past.

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A new vision for forests of Cyprus

Yesterday saw the changing of the guard at the youth parliament as House President Yiannakis Omirou welcomed the new ‘deputies’ who have replaced their outgoing peers after a two-year stint.

“I hope this organisation improves with each generation,” said outgoing Youth Parliament president

Marcos Karasamanis. Karasamanis threw down the gauntlet to the new ‘MPs’, “It’s your turn now to not only do the best you can to protect and represent the youth of today, but to also develop and strengthen the foundations of the Youth Parliament.”

(Christos Theodorides)

Smoking ban is being expanded Electronic cigs to be targeted as health risk as ‘enclosed space’ to be redefined

By Peter Stevenson THOSE looking to quit smoking by switching to electronic cigarettes are due to be disappointed as the ministry of health is pushing through a bill to have them included in the cigarette ban.

Another bill targets regular cigarettes by expanding the definition of ‘enclosed public space’ to include areas with a roof and surrounded by one or more walls, regardless of the material used for the roof or the walls or whether the structure is permanent or temporary. Many establishments have spent money on creating suitable spaces to cater for smokers outside that include permanent and temporary shelter.

Although the ministry is still awaiting results of an investigative committee to see exactly how harmful electronic cigarettes might be, it has decided to take the advice of the World Health Organisation in considering electronic cigarettes as a health hazard.

STRICT “At the ministry we prefer to be strict with the regulations on electronic cigarettes despite not having an exact indication of how harmful they may be,” acting director for Public Health Services, Christos Christou told the Mail. “These cigarettes are obviously not as harmful as normal tobacco cigarettes but those who smoke them are still inhaling nicotine which can be very dangerous,” he added.

The Labour Inspection Department had previously warned the public to beware of using the electronic cigarette as their toxic

liquid nicotine could pose serious health and environmental risks. An official at the department, Tasoula Kyprianidou Leontidou, said the products didn’t always carry the necessary health warnings, making the public oblivious to the exact levels of toxicity.

The European Union has now classified the electronic cigarette as a pharmaceutical product which will mean companies producing it will now be forced to print necessary warnings on their products.

Under the new law electronic cigarette packets will also have to carry warning labels such as: “This product may seriously harm your health and may cause addiction” for products containing nicotine and “This product may seriously harm your health” for products without nicotine. Other warnings will include: “Protect children, don’t make them breathe your smoke” and “Smoking is extremely addictive, do not start”.

“The ministry’s goal is to pass the bills before parliament closes over the summer,” Christou said.

The two new laws will essentially mean that smoking any kind of cigarette at clubs, bars, restaurants and cafes will be illegal.

Some establishments still do not uphold the smoking ban with police unable to perform daily checks.

The new law also bans smoking in open areas of public and private schools, public and private hospitals, event halls for children and play-places. If during a check by police, the smoking ban is not upheld then it is the owner of the establishment who will be fined unless there is sufficient reason to believe that all necessary measures were taken to prevent anyone from smoking on the premises.

THE Cabinet decided yesterday to adopt a new forestry policy after a meeting, chaired by President Demetris Christofias at the Presidential Palace.

The first Forest Policy in modern history was adopted in 1950, reaffirmed in 1960 after the independence of Cyprus and was in effect until 2002 when the outgoing policy was implemented.

The revision and replacement of the policy from 2002 was deemed necessary in order to meet new needs and demands of society in relation to forests and the need for alignment with European and international forest policy, the cabinet said.

According to a statement by government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou, the new Forest Policy is based on the principles of sustainability, the unified management of the forest ecosystem and the inclusion of all relevant parties in decision making.

“The new vision for the forests of Cyprus is the preservation, protection, expansion, improvement and sustainable management of forest resources and green areas in general,

using modern methods and practices,” Stefanou said.

“Taking into account the multiple functions of forest ecosystems, the needs and expectations of society and international trends, forests and greenery must be maintained in the best possible condition to ensure balanced maximum economic, environmental and social benefits for present and future policies,” he added.

The new policy has set out 13 main objectives including the conservation of forests and woodlands, the protection of forests, the improvement and expansion of forests and green areas and the protection of biodiversity, the landscape and cultural heritage.

It also aims to strengthen forest recreation and tourism, to improve the quality of life for residents in mountain areas, to aid in the production of timber and other forest products and the continued construction and improvement of the infrastructure.

It will also aim to strengthen the protective role of forests and their role in addressing desertification while also educating visitors about the forest.

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All set for next month’s presidential elections

By Stefanos Evripidou THE SCENE has been set for the February 17 presidential elections, with 11 presidential hopefuls, over half a million voters and 1,099 polling stations inland and 40 abroad.

The main contenders are DIKO-backed DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades, AKELbacked Stavros Malas and EDEK-backed Giorgos Lillikas.

If no candidate secures over 50 per cent on February 17, a run-off election will be held on February 24.

According to the Interior Ministry’s Chief Returning Officer Andreas Assiotis, by 7pm on election day, the country will

LASOK talks tax evasion SELF-PROCLAIMED defender of citizens’ rights and presidential candidate Lakis Ioannou yesterday proposed measures to combat tax evasion, including checking the property assets of all state officials, highly paid civil servants, lawyers, doctors, architects and big business owners.

The head of the Citizen’s Rights Bureau of the Popular Socialist Movement (LASOK) listed the three measures at a press conference in Larnaca yesterday.

Ioannou, who is one of 11 presidential candidates, called for a check on all assets of state officials, highly paid civil servants, lawyers, doctors, architects and big business owners.

He also proposed acquiring lists of Cypriot depositors in Switzerland and all those who benefited from the tax amnesty during the Tassos Papadopoulos administration.

“The Cyprus Republic, based on European Parliament legislation, has the right to impose taxes of 40 per cent not 5 per cent, as it did for undeclared deposits in secret accounts.

In this way, around €3 billion could be injected into state coffers, making Cyprus’ debt sustainable,” he said.

Ioannou has accused the authorities and media of “silencing” alternative voices. He worked in London at citizen advice bureaus and has a legal background.

know whether it needs to hold a second round of elections or not. The final results will be known at around 8.30pm.

Polling stations will open at 7am and close at 6pm, an hour later than usual, and with a one-hour break at noon.

A total of 545,180 people are eligible to vote in February’s elections, including 604 Turkish Cypriots.

The Nicosia district, with 212,882 voters, will have 417 polling stations in operation.

Limassol’s 149,571 voters will vote in 313 polling stations while Larnaca’s 183 stations will cater for its 90,748 voters. In Paphos, 132 stations will be set up for the 47,782 voters and in Famagusta 54 stations for 29,770 voters.

Forty polling stations will also be operating around the world, with arrangements

made to accommodate voters in Athens, Volos, Heraclion, Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Komotini, Larissa, Patra, Rethymno, Rhodes, London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Brussels, Manama, New York, Doha, Paris, Prague, Riyadh and Sofia.

A total of 14,427 Cypriots who work and reside abroad will be voting in the upcoming elections.

According to the Interior Ministry, the budget for February’s elections is €8 million. The ballot paper will be white and 575,000 ballot papers will be printed.

The candidates will appear in alphabetical order, based on the party supporting them, or the name of the coalition of parties, or the last name of independent candidates.

Votes will be counted at the polling stations after they close. Two thousand unemployed graduates will be employed for the elections. Polling stations staffed by four persons will have two civil servants and two unemployed graduates, and those staffed by three persons will have two civil servants and one unemployed graduate.

Those staffed by two persons will have only civil servants.

In the second round of the last elections in February 2008, AKEL’s Demetris Christofias won 53.37 per cent of the votes compared to DISY’s Ioannis Kasoulides who received 46.63 per cent of the vote.

Candidates for election must be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus and over 35 years of age.

Vassiliou: we’ve lost our edge Former president calls for speedier response for firms

By George Psyllides CYPRUS has lost its edge as a financial service centre, former president George Vassiliou said yesterday, as he urged authorities to put measures in place so that the island could regain its lead.

Vassiliou said it was important for Cyprus to speed up procedures and fully automate departments dealing with companies. “Cyprus remains one of the biggest and most important centres for companies with international activities, but it no longer has the leading role it used to,” Vassiliou said.

Cyprus’ financial sector makes up between 9.0 and 10 per cent of the country’s GDP. The island is facing tough competition from other EU countries, which have simplified and automated their procedures and were in po-

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sition to serve these companies swiftly and effectively, he added.

“The importance of taking measures immediately is huge,” Vassiliou said.

These were the conclusions of a study – undertaken by Vassiliou in March last year – which canvassed around 40 per cent of the island’s law offices and 30 per cent of accountants, auditors and tax advisers.

Vassiliou said it was completed in June, but he thought it was not a suitable time to publish it, considering that Cyprus had sought financial assistance and was negotiating with international lenders.

One of the first steps was to set up a one-stop shop, under the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA), which should be given specific administrative powers so that it could coordinate various government departments like the companies’ registration office, and the inland revenue department (IRD).

Vassiliou said company registrar procedures remained time-consuming despite some positive changes.

The time it took to apply the software at the companies’ registration office has rendered it already dated,

George Vassiliou says not enough being done to aid investment the former president said.

He said the time needed to register a company must be reduced significantly with CIPA’s help – a six-month time frame must be set to fully automate procedures, taking into consideration the systems put in place by the UK and Malta.

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must set up a section that could immediately respond to CIPA’s requirements, Vassiliou said. CIPA’s service must operate without interruption between 8am and 6pm, he added.

Full automation must also be implemented at the IRD, which should also set up an international tax affairs section that could provide CIPA with the necessary support.

Personnel from the VAT service, social insurance,

(Christos Theodorides)

and the department dealing with residence permits must also be appointed to help CIPA with its one-stop shop, Vassiliou said.

Cyprus must also pass legislation to modernise its framework and reinforce the role of the securities and exchange commission, he said.

The finance ministry must also have its own service dealing with international companies, Vassilou said.

Warning over use of Tymbou TYMBOU (Ercan) airport in the north is not internationally recognised leaving it unknown whether it fulfills the necessary provisions of international regulations and safety standards, the Flight Safety Foundation SE Europe-Middle East–Cyprus has said.

The Foundation warned against use of the airport by an increasing number of Greek Cypriots, and stated that passengers may be at serious risk since the airport is not supervised by any responsible international body like the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and EUROCONTROL. The Foundation said it was questionable whether those who use the airport have any insurance coverage in case of an accident, as no international insurance company would cover it.

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Cyprus will counter ‘dirty money’ claims Parties to launch an information campaign abroad

By George Psyllides CYPRUS is going on the counter-attack over money laundering allegations with political parties embarking on a campaign abroad to convince people that such claims were unfounded.

The decision, taken by parliament yesterday, is for party representatives to seek meetings with parties they are affiliated with in other countries.

Parliament will also look into organising a mission to countries, like Germany, where most of the allegations have come from. The task will be to explain the situation and the measures, which are in place to prevent money laundering.

German lawmakers, who would have to approve a bailout for Cyprus, have voiced strong concerns about a rescue for Cyprus because of its reputation as a popular tax haven for wealthy Russians.

Similar statements have been made by German government officials.

In November, Germany’s Der Spiegel had cited a German intelligence agency report as saying “Russian oligarchs, business people and mafiosi” would benefit most from any bailout and that Cyprus was a “gateway for money laundering in the EU.” Cyprus has denied the allegations, saying it was doing more to fight money laundering than other eurozone countries.

In an op-ed published by the Financial Times on Tuesday, Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades said Cyprus had tightened its anti money laundering laws since joining the EU in 2004 and currently has more measures in place than other eurozone nations.

“Transparency and exchange of data are in line with

The political parties met yesterday to discuss strategies OECD requirements, and we feature on its “white list”.

Moneyval – Council of Europe experts – has rated Cyprus’ measures to prevent money laundering as being of a high standard, outranking several eurozone nations,” Demetriades said.

The governor said the island had one of Europe’s most competitive corporate tax regimes but there was a difference between tax havens and low-tax jurisdictions like Ireland, Luxembourg and Cyprus.

“The former often have zero-tax, lax company registration processes and avoid signing double-tax treaties that would require an exchange of information between tax authorities. None of these characterises Cyprus,” the FT article said. And Cyprus’ services were not only used

by Russians.

“For example, of the 80 or so shipping-related companies based mainly in Limassol, 36 are German and only three

are Russian,” Demetriades said. Meanwhile, the government yesterday called for an end to the war waged against Cyprus regarding transparency.

Asked if the government was prepared to accept a European inspection – an idea floated recently – government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said Cyprus had never refused any checks or reviews from authorised organisations from the EU, or elsewhere.

In a report about Cyprus, the Nomura financial services group suggested German politicians would likely back down in two to four months following “concessions in terms of financial/Anti Money Laundering regulations and, perhaps, some clever political manoeuvring from Chancellor (Angela) Merkel, who will likely want to avoid a new round of contagion in the periphery during her electoral campaign.”

The recent idea of send-

‘Highest government debt increase’ CYPRUS has recorded the highest annual increase in government debt to GDP ratio among the countries of the European Union, according to data released yesterday by the statistical office of the European Union Eurostat.

Compared with the third quarter of 2011, at the end of the third quarter of 2012, the highest increases in the ratio were recorded in Cyprus (+17.5 pp), Ireland (+13.4 pp) and Spain (+10.7 pp), and the largest decreases in Greece (-11.1 pp), Hungary (-4.8 pp) and Latvia (-3.6 pp).

The public debt of Cyprus increased by 1.3 percentage points of GDP in the third quarter of 2012 compared with the second quarter of the same year, while in Greece the increase was around 3.4 pp.

The figures show that at the end of the third quarter of 2012 the public debt of Cyprus was €15.042 billion, or 84.0 per cent of GDP. In the

second quarter the debt was €14.823 billion or 82.8 per cent of GDP. At the end of the third quarter of 2012, the government debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA17) stood at 90.0 per cent, compared with 89.9 per cent at the end of the second quarter of 2012.

In the EU27 the ratio was 85.1 per cent ,compared with 85.0 per cent.

The highest ratios of government debt to GDP at the end of the third quarter of 2012 were recorded in Greece(152.6 per cent), Italy (127.3 per cent), Portugal (120.3 per cent) and Ireland (117.0 per cent), and the lowest in Estonia (9.6 per cent), Bulgaria (18.7 per cent) and Luxembourg (20.9 per cent).

Compared with the third quarter of 2011, the government debt to GDP ratio rose in both the euro area (from 86.8 per cent to 90.0 per cent) and the EU27 (from 81.5 per cent to 85.1 per cent).

(Christos Theodorides) ing additional inspectors to Cyprus (supported by Germany, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands) for money laundering issues is an example of a gesture that could help overcome the concerns that have been raised so far.

Any option that dramatically impairs the Cypriot economy through excessive financial regulation and potentially new forms of taxation, however, could permanently impair the capacity of Cyprus to ever repay back its official loans to the IMF, Russia and the ESM, Nomura said.

Marfin challenges Cyprus over Popular Bank stake cut GREEK investment group Marfin (MIG) launched legal action against Cyprus yesterday for diluting its stake in Cyprus Popular Bank through nationalisation.

Popular, Cyprus’ secondlargest lender, was nationalised in mid-2012 after its capital base was severely hit by a writedown in Greek government debt, to which it was heavily exposed.

The 9.5 per cent stake of MIG, which invested €824 million in Popular in 2006, was diluted to less than 1.5 per cent.

“MIG has been grossly wronged by Cyprus. We are seeking to protect our investment,” MIG Chairman Andreas Vgenopoulos said after the group served a notice of dispute on the Cyprus government.

“Not doing so would be a breach of faith towards MIG shareholders,” he said.

MIG will give Nicosia up to six months to restore private ownership in the bank.

If this fails, it will seek compensation via an international arbitration tribunal for its entire investment plus incurred losses.

MIG has said it expects other private investors in Popular to join its legal action. It has put its Hilton Hotel holding in Nicosia up for sale and wants to withdraw completely from Cyprus, Vgenopoulos said.

Vgenopoulos said Cyprus Popular’s management, which was elected by its shareholders, was arbitrarily and illegally replaced by a government-appointed management team, which led to subsequent losses at the bank.

He said Cypriot authorities rejected a request by the previous management to keep the bank in private hands and raise at least 51 per cent of Popular’s recapitalisation needs from

Andreas Vgenopoulos private investors. Instead, he said, the Cypriot government used a law which provides that if the state contributes even one euro, it can appoint the majority of the bank’s board.

“They secured the nationalisation of the bank without the state pumping in money in the end but just a bond, and they think that this way our investment disappeared,” Vgenopoulos said.

The Cyprus government spokesman declined to comment. Cyprus now owns an estimated 84 per cent of Popular Bank. Its attempts to save the country’s banks forced it to seek financial aid from EU partners and the IMF to recapitalise them and put its economy back on a stable footing.

The bailout is estimated at around 17 billion euros, equal to the entire output of the Cypriot economy.

Cyprus applied for financial aid last June but some euro zone states like Germany are uneasy about bailing out a country they say lacks financial transparency.

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Construction workers to strike over job security

By Poly Pantelides WORKERS in the construction industry – one of the sectors most badly hit from recession – are due to strike today and tomorrow islandwide because employers are not taking any action to protect their jobs, unions SEK, PEO and DEOK have said.

“The strike will take place because for three years now, employees are being fired, are forced to join the queues at unemployment offices… and are being replaced with cheap labour,” the unions said in a joint announcement read out during a news conference yesterday.

The unions said there were some 10,000 workers

EU workers not part of collective bargaining, meaning employers take on cheap labour hailing from the EU who “are unorganised” and are not part of collective agreements that tend to guarantee better benefits for employees.

However, PEO’s Michalis Papanicolaou said that in 2008, shortly before the construction and real estate sectors started shrinking after unsustainable growth, “there may have been even more [EU workers]”.

Some 46,000 people are employed in the sector, roughly the same number of people as in 2008, the

unions said yesterday.

Numbers have remained stable because projects have shifted to more labour-intensive ones rather than say roadworks that require fewer workers, Papanicolaou said.

And the unions conceded that in 2008, the labour ministry stopped issuing work permits to thirdcountry nationals who were seeking employment in the construction sector, effectively guaranteeing more jobs for Cypriots and other EU workers.

But SEK’s Yiannakis Io-

annou said the unions have been pushing for stricter control on the industry and have proposed the creation of a committee to regulate the sector in all districts, issuing licences to prospective employees.

“We do not have the right to impose barriers on EU workers, but we have the right to support policies formed on correct criteria,” Ioannou said.

Some 1,506 construction workers were registered as unemployed in December last year, from a total of 41,625 of registered job-

less. The unions said yesterday that at least 6,000 construction workers have no job.

Unemployment is expected to reach 13.8 per cent this year and peak at 14.2 per cent in 2014 before dropping a year later.

The construction industry continues shrinking with cement sales falling, given a lower demand for concrete.

The property bubble burst in 2009, following four years that that saw prices triple.

The unions were due to meet with labour minister Sotiroulla Charalambous yesterday afternoon as the cement makers warned that a strike might be a death blow to the struggling industry.

Presidency came in under budget says Mavroyiannis as he hands over report

Deputy Minister for European Affairs Andreas Mavroyiannis at the House yesterday

A TOTAL of €16 million was left unspent from the approved budget of Cyprus’ presidency of the EU council that ended on the last day of 2012, Deputy Minister for European Affairs Andreas Mavroyiannis said yesterday.

A total €62.7 million was earmarked for the presidency budget, according to the report.

About €28 million spent on the Filoxenia conference centre, allowing for a budget of €34.7 million towards running the presidency itself. In the end, €18.7 million sufficed once the Filoxenia centre was up and running, for what Mavroyiannis said was a successful presidency that adhered to the principles of hospitality.

Mavroyiannis, who handed over his EU presidency report to President Demetris Christofias yesterday, said that most of the savings came from reducing the secretariat’s expenses by €12 million.

He added that sincere efforts went towards limiting expenses, citing as an example the fact that Cyprus had spent nothing on public relations.

Mavroyiannis’ term as deputy minister for European Affairs expires at the end of the month.

Within the six-month period, over 1,500 meetings were chaired and organised by the Cyprus EU Presidency in Brussels and elsewhere abroad, including approximately 30 European Council meetings, 63 at ambassador level and over 1,400 at technocratic level.

While discussing and negotiating important EU issues, approximately 19,000 delegates spent about 26,300 nights in total in hotels all around Cyprus.

One of the fathers of modern Cypriot theatre, dies at 94 PHIVOS Moussoulides, former diplomat, and co-founder of the Lyriko theatre in 1942, and of the first professional theatre group in Cyprus, died on Wednesday aged 94.

Moussoulides was married for 70 years. He leaves behind three sons, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

In addition to being well known for the founding of the Lyriko with compatriots poet Costas Montis, who died in 2004 at the age of 90, and composter Achilles Limbourides, Moussoulides also served at various times as the Greek Consul to Ireland, and the Cypriot Consul to Ireland.

In 1954 he moved to Ireland with his family. There he founded the Irish Hellenic Society to ensure that Greeks, Cypriots and Irish people benefited from an opportunity to meet and exchange cultures.

In the 1960s he served as Greek Consul to Ireland during which time he founded the Greek Orthodox Church

in Ireland. In the 1970s he served as the Cypriot Consul to Ireland and when Pope John Paul II visited Dublin, Moussoulides and the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain were granted an audience.

When Moussoulides returned to Cyprus in the 1980s, he founded the Cyprus Irish Society.

In an interview with the Cyprus Mail in 2002, he spoke extensively about his role in the birth of modern Cypriot theatre and the opening of the Lyriko in a converted garage on Aristotle Street where they presented musical comedy and playful satire to hundreds of delighted Cypriots.

Moussoulides, Montis and Limbourides had to single-handedly write the show, train performers and secure a venue – all with the required permission from the colonial government at a time when the British government strictly regulated public gatherings.

Moussoulides admitted that he told

officials the shows would focus on religious themes, even going so far as to dress one of the actors up as a bishop to wait in the car outside while he made his proposal.

The group also initially struggled to find qualified actors and in the early shows, a lot of the women’s roles were played by men with moustaches until acting became a more acceptable occupation for women.

Their first show, Soupa Moupes played 46 times, which was then considered an unprecedented theatrical success. Demand was so great that the group had to hire police officers to keep order as people pushed through the doors to see the show.

Moussoulides, who was married to his wife Hera for 70 years, died peacefully surrounded by his family in Lefkosia, his three sons, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

The funeral will take place at the Costantinos and Eleni cemetery in Nicosia today at 11am.

CYPRUS TODAY Loan sharking POLICE arrested a 68-year-old man in Larnaca yesterday on suspicion of loan sharking.

The man was brought in after a 37-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman both complained to police that they had been victims of his.

According to reports, the 37-year-old Larnaca resident took various post-dated cheques to the man between 2004 and December 2012 who would then exchange the cheques for cash, minus his 10 per cent commission.

The 56-year-old, also a resident of Larnaca reported to police that in January 2012 she borrowed €3,000 from the man who charged her a monthly 10 per cent interest rate.

Drugs remand POLICE arrested a 24year-old man on Tuesday and he was remanded by the courts for five days yesterday in order for police to investigate a case of illegally growing, possessing and using of drugs.

Members of Limassol’s drug squad raided the 24-year-old man’s house after they obtained a search warrant and found ten cannabis plants, between 3 and 10 centimetres tall, growing in a plastic case.

Police also found a plastic shredder which had traces of cannabis on it and an electric scale used for precise measurements.

Car arson POLICE in the village of Mammari received a report yesterday at 3.15am that a car had been torched.

Members of the police and fire service arrived on the scene to discover that the car, estimated to be worth around €1,500 had been destroyed by the fire.

The lady who owns the car is currently abroad but it was being driven by her mother. Initial police investigations indicate arson.

Stolen car

Phivos Moussoulides

A CAR worth around €8,000 was stolen on Tuesday as it was parked outside a kiosk in the village of Pera Chorio Nisou, police said.

The car, a Seat Ibiza, was left running by the owner as he entered the kiosk with the keys in the ignition. According to reports, there was €3,500 in cash and a €470 open cheque in the car when it was stolen.

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Home Ayia Napa mayor buried

Health ministry is failing us, say disabled If measures not taken soon, they plan to stage protests

By Stefanos Evripidou THE HEALTH Ministry is failing in its duty to offer the high level of medical care needed for people with spinal cord injuries who face health complications throughout their lives, said a paraplegics’ representative yesterday.

Head of the paraplegics association, Demetris Lambrianides, called on the health ministry to take measures to ensure the 230-odd people suffering from spinal injuries in Cyprus have access to better health care.

If measures are not taken soon, the association will organise protests at the Nicosia general hospital, where the country’s only paraplegic ward, offering 20 beds, is housed, he said.

The paraplegic ward is used for the rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injuries and for providing medical care when complications arise in their wellbeing.

BED SHORTAGE According to Lambrianides, there are two main issues facing paraplegic and tetraplegic patients.

“First, there is a general shortage of beds at the hospital, so the hospital management gave permission to other wards to send people to the paraplegic ward when they don’t have enough beds.

“This brings a lot of people into the paraplegic ward who have nothing to do with the ward, which in turn has an impact on resources, and undermines the quality of service offered, since there are only so many doctors and nurses. It effects the rehabilitation of spinal cord patients,” he said.

The second problem, argued Lambrianides, is the fact that the specialised ward only has two doctors who go home after their day shift. At night, there is no doctor on call, either at the hospital or elsewhere.

“The result is that when the hospital has to deal with paraplegics with a serious medical condition, doctors put them in other wards because there is no doctor on duty at night in the paraple-

gic ward, only nurses. But other wards are not specialised in spinal cord injuries and cannot support serious cases.

“There needs to be another doctor on call either at hospital or at home so these serious cases can stay overnight in the paraplegic ward,” said Lambrianides.

The paraplegic representative said this latter issue was discussed last year with the hospital and the health ministry, where the hospital director agreed to solve the problem.

“Nothing’s happened since then,” he said.

The association head further argued that people suffering from spinal cord injuries have numerous health problems and continuous complications throughout their lives, making it very important to have access to continuous high quality medical care.

Paraplegics will spend between three and six months in the paraplegic ward after first suffering a spinal injury.

After that, they will return at least once a year for reexamination though “medical complications which happen relatively frequently, especially urological and respiratory problems and pressure sores, mean visits, and overnight stays, are more common”, said Lambrianides.

“If we see that hospital management doesn’t take measures to ensure only people with spinal injuries are submitted to the paraplegic ward we will organise a protest at the hospital,” he said.

This issue and the issue of finding a doctor on call for nights will be discussed with Health Minister Androula Agrotou in a meeting on January 29.

The health ministry buys the services of a UK-based paraplegic expert who comes to Cyprus twice a year for two weeks at a time.

He works at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire which hosts the National Spinal Injuries Centre – one of the largest specialist spinal units in the world – which has reportedly contributed greatly to the development of the Paralympic Games.

All of Ayia Napa mourned death of popular mayor Antonis Tsokkos

Man mugged and robbed of €10,000 by two attackers A 36-YEAR-OLD man was mugged on Tuesday at around 5.40pm in Nicosia, police said.

According to reports, the man, an employee of a private company in Limassol which was in the business of buying and selling gold, was walking to his car when an unknown man approached him and asked him if he wanted to buy any perfumes.

The victim was then attacked from behind and passed out.

A second man had come up behind him and attacked him with what police believe to have been a rope.

After coming to his senses the 36-year-old discovered that the assailants had taken a bag he was holding which contained €10,000.

He described the man who approached him as being of normal build, between 1.65 and 1.70 metres tall, around 30-35 years old and wearing a red T-shirt and jeans.

According to the police he could not give an adequate description of the second man because he had attacked from behind.

Nicosia CID is investigating the incident.

There have been several incidents recently of jewellery shop owners being robbed either in their shops or even being hijacked on the road as was the case in one incident in Larnaca late last year.

THE FUNERAL of the late Ayia Napa mayor Antonis Tsokkos took place yesterday at the Panayia Church in Ayia Napa in the presence of municipality and government officials including President Demetris Christofias.

Tsokkos, 59, died unexpectedly on Monday from a heart attack, shocking the community and those who knew him.

The church was filled with mourners yesterday.

Acting Ayia Napa mayor Vassos Xydias said yesterday that Tsokkos had been an altruistic man who set a high bar for everyone, and acted with the people’s best interests at heart.

“We are all shaken by the unexpected news of the premature and sudden death of the Ayia Napa mayor,” said Dherynia mayor Andros Karayiannis.

“We didn’t want to believe it at first, we hoped that this man whom we loved for his simplicity and spontaneity would not fall,” Karayiannis said.

Tsokkos beat the incumbent Varvara Pericleous in the 2006 municipal elections and was re-elected in 2011, receiving 77.72 per cent of all valid votes.

An election for a new mayor is set to take place within 45 days of Tsokkos’ death.

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Russia holds out olive branch to US but chides West RUSSIA held out an olive branch to the United States yesterday by calling for an improvement in ties, but chided Washington over “odious” human rights legislation and denounced Western policy on Syria.

Setting out Russia’s policy agenda for 2013 at an annual news conference, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made clear that improving relations with Washington was part of Moscow’s vision for strengthening its influence on the world stage.

“On issues where we have disagreements, we can look for ways to prevent these problems making the whole atmosphere worse and stopping us cooperating,” he said, reiterating a hope that US President Barack Obama would accept an invitation for a summit with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this year.

However, he signalled no change in Russia’s stance on Syria, where Moscow is President Bashar al-Assad’s main protector.

Criticising the West on several fronts, he also made clear Russia would be resolute in its defence of national interests.

“Russian-US relations are going through far from the best of times,” said Lavrov, a 62-year-old veteran diplomat who has won a reputation as a tough negotiator since becoming foreign minister in 2004.

He described US legislation enacted last month to punish Russians suspected of human rights abuses as odious, and criticised a US judge’s recent ruling in a dispute over a col-

lection of Jewish writings held in Russia.

But he made clear he wanted to draw a line under the dispute over the Magnitsky Act, to which Russia responded by approving similar legislation against US citizens and banning Americans from adopting Russian orphans.

He underlined the need for “stable, mutually beneficial cooperation”, particularly in investment and trade.

Obama has not responded to Russia’s invitation to meet Putin in Moscow and diplomats say he is likely to agree to hold a full summit only if he thinks progress can be made there.

Ties between the two former Cold war enemies improved after Obama sought a “reset” in relations four years ago, but have worsened again since then, particularly as Putin implemented what the United States saw as a crackdown on opponents.

Washington and Moscow, which are both nuclear powers, also differ over the development of a missile defence system on Russia’s doorstep in eastern Europe and over the conflict in Syria.

Moscow has blocked three UN Security Council resolutions intended to force Assad out of power or press him to end the bloodshed, and shows no sign of changing its position.

Lavrov said Moscow was talking to all sides in the conflict and making a genuine effort to end it, but implied its Western partners were less committed to finding a solution.

Physiotherapist Vanessa Buhlmann places electrodes on the head of patient Jean-Francois Vernetti during a presentation of a brain-machine interface by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology of Lausanne yesterday

in Sion. Over 100 patients suffering from severe motor impairments voluntarily participated in the development of a brain-machine interface programme, aimed at improving their mobility and social interaction (AFP)

Selfish, ignorant and dangerous, says EU Merkel says prepared to talk with Britain on the issues

Russian FM Lavrov made clear that improving relations with Washington was part of Moscow’s vision

Bosnia census delayed BOSNIA’S first census since its 1992-95 war was postponed yesterday until October after regional governments failed to agree on how to conduct it.

Something as routine as counting citizens is very sensitive in Bosnia, where ethnic and religious divides were at the heart of wars in the 1990s when some 100,000 people were killed and 2 million displaced during the collapse of Yugoslavia.

Bosnia’s regions are linked by a weak central government dogged by sensitive issues around ethnicity, religion and language - with development and reforms often hostage to ethnic politicking and conflicting visions of the nation’s future.

Bosnia’s Muslims are campaigning to make sure members of their ethnic group declare themselves as such in the census, fearing otherwise the results will cement the effects of wartime ethnic cleansing, diminishing the so-called Bosniaks’ influence.

The government cited among the reasons for the delay: data exchange between regional agencies, revision of questionaires, training of field staff and registering addresses.

(continued from front page) leader of the liberals in the European Parliament, said the British premier was “playing with fire” by trying to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership and put it to the vote.

“His speech was full of inconsistencies, displaying a degree of ignorance about how the EU works,” said Verhofstadt.

Verhofstadt and others said there could be “no question” of granting Britain wholesale opt-outs from common European rules and regulations, saying this risked precipitating an unravelling of the EU and its internal market The alarm is not confined to Europe. Britain has also been warned by the White House and a host of business leaders it would lose global influence if it left the EU. “In the larger context of history, Europe is an enormous success and a Europe with Britain in it is much more

powerful and important than without it,” said Joseph Nye, a former US defence department official and professor at Harvard.

President Barack Obama “very much wants Britain to remain in the EU”, Nye told a panel at the Davos World Economic Forum.

But the response to Cameron’s long-awaited speech was not uniformly negative.

Finland’s Europe minister, Alex Stubb, said he did not think Cameron wanted to quit the EU. “He wants to get this discussion done and clarify Britain’s position in the EU once and for all. In that sense I do respect his line,” he said.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, whose government was the only one other than Britain’s not to sign the EU’s fiscal pact, told a news conference: “We share the view with the United Kingdom that Eu-

rope should be more flexible, more open, should strive more for confidence among its citizens. “We have no interest in Britain’s departure from the EU, on the contrary, we have interest in a European future for the United Kingdom.”

Cameron gave some EU leaders advance warning of the content of his speech and some, even if they did not like what they heard, agreed with the premier that it was high time for an honest debate about reform.

Dutch premier Mark Rutte, who shares Cameron’s concerns but does not want an opt-out, called it a “strong speech” with good reform ideas. Talk of tragedy might not sway Cameron, who began his speech by saying Britain’s approach to Europe was “more practical than emotional”. But EU diplomats said that on a rational level too his analysis was flawed and contradictory.

“Basically it boiled down to: ‘Let’s re-elect me, let’s then change our ties with Europe, and then let’s have a referendum on something that’s not defined yet’,” said one EU diplomat.

Jolyon Howorth, a British scholar of European politics, said it might be better if Britain left as the EU would then be free to work towards its vision of a federal Europe, “unhampered by the brake-man on the caboose”.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the EU and Britain must be prepared to make compromises.

“We are prepared to talk about British wishes but we must always bear in mind that other countries have different wishes and we must find a fair compromise. We will talk intensively with Britain about its individual ideas but that has some time over the months ahead.”

Large number of Belgian trainee teachers lacking in general knowledge A LARGE number of Belgium’s future secondary school teachers struggle with basic concepts of geography, politics and history, a study published yesterday has shown.

Among final year teaching students involved in the study, one in three could not identify the United States on a map and almost half did not know where the Pacific Ocean was.

Shown a picture of Mao Zedong,

two in three could not recognise the Chinese Communist leader, with the most common response being that it was the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

Researchers at the Limburg Catholic University College tested 1,000 students in eight teacher training colleges in Belgium’s Flemish region.

The test, which asked 114 multiple choice questions, was carried out be-

cause students often showed gaps in their general knowledge, the researchers conducting the test said.

“Nobody is completely taken aback by the results,” Erik De Winter of the Limburg Catholic University College said.

When asked which political ideology stood for the redistribution of wealth, higher taxes and state involvement only one in two answered socialism.

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Britain Speech sparks furious row in Westminster

‘It’s time to have your say’ Disillusionment with EU at all-time high, PM says

By Andrew Osborn and Peter Griffiths PRIME Minister David Cameron yesterday promised to give Britons a referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave if he wins an election in 2015, placing a question mark over Britain’s membership for years.

Cameron ended months of speculation by announcing in a speech the plan for a vote sometime between 2015 and the end of 2017, shrugging off warnings that this could imperil Britain’s economic prospects and alienate its biggest trading partner.

He said the island nation, which joined the EU’s precursor European Economic Community 40 years ago, did not want to retreat from the world, but public disillusionment with the EU was at “an all-time high”.

“It is time for the British people to have their say. It is time for us to settle this question about Britain and Europe,” Cameron said. His Conservative party will campaign for the 2015 election promising to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership.

“When we have negotiated that new settlement, we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in or out choice to stay in the European Union on these new terms; or come out altogether.

It will be an in-out referendum.”

The speech firmly ties Cameron to an issue that was the bane of a generation of Conservative leaders. In the past, he has avoided partisan fights over Europe, the undoing of the last two Conservative prime ministers, John Major and Margaret Thatcher.

Britain would seek to claw back powers from Brussels, he said, a proposal that will be difficult to sell to other European countries. London will do an “audit” to determine which powers Brussels has that should be delegated to member states.

Sterling fell to its lowest in nearly five months against the dollar yesterday as Cameron was speaking.

Cameron has been pushed into taking such a strong position in part by the rise of the UK Independence Party, which favours complete withdrawal from the EU and has climbed to third in opinion polls, mainly at the expense

David Cameron delivers his speech in central London, yesterday of the Conservatives. “All he’s trying to do is to kick the can down the road and to try and get UKIP off his back,” said UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

Eurosceptics in Cameron’s party were thrilled by the speech. Conservative lawmaker Peter Bone called it “a terrific victory” that would unify 98 per cent of the party.

“He’s the first prime minister to say he wants to bring back powers from Brussels,” Bone told Reuters. “It’s pretty powerful stuff”. Whether Cameron will ever hold the referendum remains as uncertain as the Conservatives’ chances of winning the next election in 2015.

They trail the opposition Labour party in opinion polls, and the coalition government is grappling with a stagnating economy as it pushes through public spending cuts to re-

duce Britain’s large budget deficit.

Cameron said he would prefer Britain, the world’s sixth biggest economy, to remain inside the 27-nation EU. As long as he secured the reforms he wants, he would campaign for Britain to stay inside the EU “with all my heart and soul”.

But he also made clear he believed the EU must be radically reformed. It was riskier to maintain the status quo than to change, he said. “The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy,” he said.

The eurozone debt crisis was forcing the bloc to change, and Britain would fight to make sure new rules were fair to countries that didn’t use the common currency, he said.

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Britain is the largest of the 10 EU members that do not use the euro.

Democratic consent for the EU in Britain was now “wafer thin”, he said, reflecting the results of opinion polls that show a slim majority would vote to leave the bloc.

“Some people say that to point this out is irresponsible, creates uncertainty for business and puts a question mark over Britain’s place in the European Union,” said Cameron.

“But the question mark is already there: ignoring it won’t make it go away. I want to be the prime minister who confronts and gets the right answer for Britain on these kind of issues,” he said.

It is nearly 40 years since British voters last had a say in a referendum on Britain’s EU membership when 67 per cent opted to stay inside.

Business warns EU gamble could strangle economy

By Kate Holton LEADING British business figures warned Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday that his plan for an in-out referendum on the European Union membership was a risky gamble that could damage the economy and throttle foreign investment.

Speaking after Cameron’s call for a vote by 2017, business leaders in London and at the World Economic Forum in Davos said Britain’s $2.5 trillion economy would face uncertainty now that its future position in the 27 country-bloc was in question.

“Having a referendum sometime between 2015 and 2018 creates more uncertainty and we don’t need that,” Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of the

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world’s largest advertising group WPP , said in Davos. “If I’m looking at it from the point of WPP, it is not good news,” he said, of the group that employs 162,000 people across 110 countries. “This is a political decision. This is not an economic decision. You added another reason why people will postpone investment decisions.”

Investors and CEO’s worry that Cameron could fail to secure a new settlement with the European Union, and that whether he does or not, he is tied to a referendum that could see voters demand an EU exit that would wreak havoc on trade ties.

“It’s an extremely high risk strategy,” said Phillip Souta, director of Business for New Europe (BNE), a group formed by companies to make the case for Britain to staying in the EU. “If you have a full in-out referendum in 2017 then

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it is impossible to ignore the uncertainty. “You can’t have your cake and eat it. You can’t have this full in-out referendum without risking potentially quite severe damage to the British economy and people losing their jobs if investment decisions aren’t made in our favour.” In an attempt to counter rising antiEuropean sentiment in Britain, leading business figures from Sorrell to Virgin Group’s Richard Branson have started to speak out about the ramifications of Britain slipping out of the EU. “I am deeply disturbed,” Peter Sutherland, a former chairman of BP, WTO director general and European Commissioner for Ireland, told Reuters.

“It’s an appalling speech in my view... Seeking a new settlement for Britain is bound to create a great deal of uncertainty, which is not good for business. It will take years to negotiate, if there is one at all.”

DAVID Cameron’s promise of an in/out referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union sparked a furious political row in Westminster yesterday.

Liberal Democrats said it was not in the national interest, and Labour accused him of “running scared” of the UK Independence Party (Ukip) and his own backbenchers.

The speech threatened to drive a wedge through the heart of the coalition government, with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warning that a renegotiation of Britain’s position in Europe was “not in the national interest” and would lead to years of uncertainty for business.

At Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, Labour leader Ed Miliband said that his party “do not want an in/out referendum”.

And he demanded to know whether Cameron would vote Yes in a referendum if he failed to achieve his negotiating goals.

“He is going to put Britain through years of uncertainty and take a huge gamble with our economy,” Miliband told MPs. “He has been driven to it not by the national interest, he has been dragged to it by his party... He is running scared of UKIP and has given in to his party and he can’t deliver for Britain.”

Cameron told MPs that Miliband had failed to produce a clear policy on Europe: “We want a renegotiation and then a referendum. What does he want? Or doesn’t he know?”

Cameron was cheered loudly by Tory backbenchers as he arrived for Prime Minister’s Questions. But Miliband told MPs: “The reason the people behind him are cheering is not because they want to vote Yes in an in/out referendum, it’s because they want to vote No.” UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the speech meant that “the genie is out of the bottle” on Europe. “No longer can the case for British withdrawal be confined to the margins,” said Mr Farage.

A senior Labour source said the party’s position had not changed, and it would not do “anything that damages the economy”.

“We are against an in-out referendum because it causes huge uncertainty,” the source said. However, the source refused to rule out committing to a referendum in the next general election manifesto if the situation had changed.

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Thai editor jailed for insulting king

Somyot Prueksakasemsuk gestures as he arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok yesterday (AFP)

A FORMER Thai magazine editor was jailed for 10 years yesterday for insulting the royal family under the country’s draconian lese-majeste law, a sentence that drew condemnation from international rights groups and the European Union.

Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was found guilty of publishing articles defaming King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 2010 when he was editor of a magazine devoted to self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

The articles criticised the role of a fictional character meant to represent the king, public prosecutors said in a July 2011 report. Discussions about the role of the monarchy are forbidden.

“The accused is a journalist who had a duty to check the facts in these articles before publishing them. He knew the content defamed the monarchy but allowed their publication anyway,” a judge said in passing sentence.

The magazine, whose English title is Voice of Taksin, a play on words meaning “Voice of the Oppressed”, was shut down shortly before Somyot’s arrest, said Thida Thawornseth, a leader of the pro-Thaksin “red shirt” movement.

The European Union Delegation to Thailand said the verdict and sentence undermined the right to freedom of expression.

“At the same time, it affects Thailand’s image as a free and democratic society,” it said in a statement.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said the ruling was “more about Somyot’s strong support for amending the lese-majeste law than about any harm incurred by the monarchy”.

Rights groups say the lese-majeste law is used by Thailand’s powerful elite to silence political opponents, including supporters of pro-Thaksin groups.

“The lese-majeste law works against the long-term interests of the Thai mon-

archy,” said David Streckfuss, a Thailand-based independent scholar and lese-majeste expert. “To a society that is becoming ever more politically conscious, the holding and trying of defendants seems arbitrary, petty and a clear violation of human rights.”

Somyot, who was jailed for an additional year on an unrelated defamation conviction, was arrested on the lesemajeste charge while Oxford-educated, pro-establishment Abhisit Vejjajiva was prime minister.

Current Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin’s sister, promised to amend the law during her 2011 election campaign but has rowed back on that since coming to office, causing divisions among her supporters.

Websites accused of defaming the royal family are frequently shut down. The 85year-old king, who has been in hospital since 2009, is seen by many in Thailand as a unifying, semi-divine father figure.

Chief justice sacking decried

N. Korea to boost nuclear deterrent after UN rebuke

LEADING judges and jurists from around the world, many from developing countries, yesterday condemned the Sri Lankan government’s sacking of the country’s chief justice, arguing it violated international law.

The 44-strong group, all members of the Geneva Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (CIJL), called for the immediate reinstatement of Shirani Bandaranayake.

At the same time, the head of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), which works to promote the rule of law, said the move had set Sri Lanka on the path toward authoritarian rule.

The judges’ strictures were issued in a letter to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, the speaker of parliament Chamal Rajapaksa from the ICJ and the CIJL. It was the latest of a series of criticisms from independent organisations and United Nations officials in Geneva since President Rajapaksa last week dismissed Bandaranayake as chief justice and appointed one of his allies in her place.

“We are gravely concerned that the recent action to remove the chief justice have been taken in contravention of the (Sri Lankan) constitution, and international human rights law and standards, including the right to a fair hearing, and the rule of law,” the letter said.

Former attorney-general Mohan Peiris, whom Rajapaksa named as new chief justice, was widely known “for consistently blocking efforts to hold state officials accountable for gross human rights violations,” it said.

The parliamentary impeachment of Bandaranayake, on which the president based his decision to remove her, and her dismissal “disregarded international standards of judicial independence and minimum guarantees of due process and fair trial,” it added.

Pyongyang space agency to be blacklisted

By Louis Charbonneau THE U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned North Korea’s December rocket launch and expanded existing U.N. sanctions, and Pyongyang reacted with a vow to boost the North’s military and nuclear capabilities.

While the resolution approved by the 15-nation council on Tuesday does not impose new sanctions on Pyongyang, diplomats said Beijing’s support for it was a significant diplomatic blow to Pyongyang.

The resolution said the council “deplores the violations” by North Korea of its previous resolutions, which banned Pyongyang from conducting further ballistic missile and nuclear tests and from importing materials and technology for those programmes.

It also said the council “expresses its determination to take significant action in the event of a further DPRK (North Korean) launch or nuclear test”.

North Korea reacted quick-

US special envoy for North Korea policy Glyn Davies (C) speaks to the media as he arrives at Incheon international airport, west of Seoul, yesterday for talks on North Korea ly, saying it would hold no more talks on the de-nuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and would boost its military and nuclear capabilities.

“We will take measures to boost and strengthen our defensive military power including nuclear deterrence,”

its Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA. The United States’ special envoy on North Korea, arriving in Seoul yesterday to meet his South Korean counterparts, urged Pyongyang to back down from further provocative actions but left the

door open for dialogue.

“If they can ... begin to take concrete steps to indicate their interests in returning to diplomacy, they may find willing partners in that process,” Glyn Davies told reporters.

Six-party talks aimed at halting North Korea’s nucle-

ar programme have involved North Korea, the United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. They have been held intermittently since 2003 but have stalled since 2008.

Russia’s foreign minister said yesterday that North Korea should pay heed to the international community and adhere to limits on its missile and nuclear programmes.

South Korea says the North is technically ready for a third nuclear test, and satellite images show it is actively working on its nuclear site.

However, political analysts said they viewed a test as unlikely in the near-term.

“North Korea will likely take a sequenced strategy where the first stage response would be more militarily aggressive actions like another missile launch,” said Yang Moo-jin of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.

There are concerns that North Korea could stage a test using highly enriched uranium for the first time, which would give it a second path to a nuclear bomb and enable it to preserve its stocks of plutonium, which are believed to be sufficient for about 12 nuclear devices.

The UN resolution added six North Korean entities, including Pyongyang’s space agency, the Korean Committee for Space Technology, and the man heading it, Paek Chang-ho, to an existing UN blacklist.

China says Philippines’ UN request on seas complicates issue CHINA said yesterday that a request by the Philippines for a U.N. tribunal to intervene in its longstanding South China Sea territorial dispute with China would only complicate the issue, and denounced Manila’s “illegal occupation” of islands there.

Manila has asked the tribunal of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to order a halt to China’s activities that the Philippines says violates the Southeast Asian nation’s sovereignty.

China’s claims over islands, reefs and atolls in resource-rich waters off its

south coast and to the east of mainland Southeast Asia set it directly against Vietnam and the Philippines, while Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia also lay claim to parts.

Asked about the Philippines’ move, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said its southern neighbour was occupying some of China’s islands in the South China Sea. “China has consistently opposed the Philippines’ illegal occupation,” he told a daily news briefing.

China supports talks, but only on

a bilateral basis with the countries directly involved, as previously agreed on by China and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Hong added.

“We hope that the relevant country honours its promises, and ... does not take any action to complicate or expand the problem,” he said, without elaborating.

It was not clear how the tribunal could help. While all its decisions are binding on countries concerned, it has no power to enforce them.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei

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Narrow victory sees Netanyahu chastised in polls Bread-and-butter issues demand attention

By Alistair Lyon

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves after testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the September 11, 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC yesterday.

Clinton yesterday warned of rising militancy in the wake of the Arab Spring, in an emotional and at times heated testimony into the deadly Benghazi attack.

“Benghazi didn’t happen in a vacuum,” Clinton said at the start of the hearing into the mission assault. “The Arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region,” she told the Foreign Relations Committee called to review the attack, in which US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed (AFP)

Cairo nuke talks suggested IRAN has proposed Cairo as the venue for the next nuclear talks with world powers, its foreign minister said yesterday without indicating when the meeting, aimed at defusing a standoff with the West, would happen.

“When I was in Egypt ... it was suggested that the next meeting be held in Cairo,” Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the Iranian Students’ News Agency.

“This issue was welcomed by our dear friends in Egypt and Egypt will consult with the P5+1 (group of countries) for hosting this meeting.”

Holding the talks in Egypt could indicate warming ties between Cairo and Tehran, two of the Middle East’s most influential countries.

After decades of frozen relations with former President Hosni Mubarak, Iran has

courted his successor, the Islamist Mohamed Mursi, although opposing views on the Syrian civil war have prevented a rapid rapprochement.

Salehi visited Cairo for talks with Mursi on January 10.

There was no immediate comment from EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who represents world powers in dealings with Tehran.

The last talks between Iran and the P5+1 - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany - were held in Moscow in June, but failed to resolve the nuclear standoff that has led to crippling sanctions against Tehran which the West fears is seeking atomic weapons capability.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who won a new term in office this week, has said he would not let

that happen and has often suggested the Jewish state could use pre-emptive strikes against Iran if diplomacy fails.

Iran denies it is seeking nuclear weapons technology and says its atomic work is for peaceful, civilian purposes.

Both Iran and P5+1 - the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia - say they want to resume talks.

However, the two sides’ priorities diverge: the P5+1 wants to curb Iran’s work to potentially develop atomic weapons, while Iran wants sanctions scrapped and to have its “right” to enrich uranium formally recognised.

Western diplomats and Iranian media have said talks might take place next week, but that the venue had not been agreed.

BENJAMIN Netanyahu set about forging a new ruling coalition yesterday after Israeli voters fed up with state coddling of ultra-Orthodox Jews chastised him by propelling an upstart centrist party to prominence.

Tuesday’s vote crystallised demands for attention to bread-and-butter issues over the ambitions of religiously fired hardliners, and largely sidelined foreign policy issues such as Iran’s nuclear plans and Palestinian aspirations.

The right-wing prime minister claimed victory after his Likud party and its ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu ally took 31 of parliament’s 120 seats, according to a nearfinal tally.

That made it the biggest single bloc, despite losing 11 of its previous seats. Overall, right-wing factions emerged with roughly half the total.

Final results are expected today.

Making a virtue of necessity, a weakened Netanyahu has signalled a desire to broaden his coalition with centre-left parties that would lend it a more moderate gloss.

Such a shift could ease friction between him and US President Barack Obama, himself embarking this week on a new term in office and who wants to avert an Israeli attack on Iran and restart stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.

“The likelihood of a purely right-wing government has receded, along with the headaches that would cause for Obama,” said David Makovsky, an expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Netanyahu signalled a desire to broaden his coalition “So there’s a better chance for Netanyahu to find a ‘modus vivendi’ with the US.” Israeli media highlighted the electoral setback for Netanyahu and the surprise surge of the centrist Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, runner-up with 19 projected seats in a parliament likely to include about a dozen parties in all.

Yesh Atid and the centreleft Labour party, which came third with 15 seats, tapped into secular middleclass resentment that taxpayers must shoulder what they see as the burden of welfare-dependent ultraOrthodox Jews exempt from military conscription.

Netanyahu, who in two terms as premier has enjoyed backing from the growing religious minority, quickly made overtures to his opponents by saying he wanted to form as wide a coalition as possible, a process that is likely to take several weeks.

In an apparent bid to persuade Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid to join his cabinet, Netanyahu pledged his ad-

ministration would ensure “a more equal sharing of the burden” - a reference to generous privileges granted to the ultra-Orthodox 10 per cent.

Listing other priorities that he said he had agreed with his hardline ally and former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, he promised affordable housing and changes in the electoral system.

Lapid has focused his campaign on ending military draft exemptions for Jewish seminary students and drawing more of the ultraOrthodox, many of whom receive state stipends, into the workforce - steps supported by many secular Israelis.

“We awaken to a morning after the elections with a clear message from the public, which wants me to continue to lead the country,” Netanyahu told reporters summoned to his office.

A senior member of Yesh Atid said that ending exemption from military service was central to the party’s platform, as was reviving USbacked peace talks with the Palestinians.

“Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the coalition will need to bring these things,” Ofer Shelah told Army Radio.

Palestinians reacted warily to the outcome of the poll, voicing doubts it would produce a government more willing to compromise for peace, even if it included centrist parties.

An editorial in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds said such parties would provide a “cosmetic decoration” for a Netanyahu-led government that would mislead world public opinion without halting a drive to expand Jewish settlement on occupied land.

IDF troops kill Palestinian woman ISRAELI soldiers shot dead a 21-year-old Palestinian woman near the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday and wounded another local youth, Palestinian medics said.

Witnesses said Lubna Hanash and her companions were walking to al-Arroub College when men in Israeli military uniforms travelling in a civilian car shot at the group.

Asked about the incident, an Israeli army spokeswoman said Palestinians had thrown petrol bombs at soldiers, who then opened fire.

Earlier yesterday, Saleh al-Amareen, 16, died of his wounds in an Israeli hospital after being shot in the head during clash-

es with Israeli soldiers in a refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Friday.

Violence and deadly confrontations have become more frequent in the occupied West Bank since Israel announced plans late last year to expand settlements and the Palestinians won de-facto statehood recognition at the United Nations in November.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad issued a statement calling for “strong condemnation from the international community” of these shootings, and urged “immediate intervention to compel Israel to desist from these serious attacks on our people”.

Suicide bomber disguised as a mourner kills at least 22 at Iraqi Shi’ite mosque A SUICIDE bomber disguised as a mourner killed at least 22 people inside an Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim mosque yesterday when he set off his explosives in the middle of a crowded funeral.

The latest of four suicide attacks in a week came as Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki faces mounting pressure from mass Sunni protests that threaten to return Iraq to the scale of sectar-

ian violence that killed thousands in 2006-2007.

Dressed in a suit, the bomber mingled with mourners before detonating the blast at the Saif al Shuhada, Sword of the Martyrs,

mosque in Tuz Khurmato city at a ceremony for a Shi’ite ethnic Turkman, police and witnesses said.

“I was sitting in the seats at the back when all of sudden I heard

the sound of a huge explosion.

Thank God I was behind because people in front of me saved me with their bodies,” said Abbas Qadir Mohammed, 35, one of the wounded.

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Business Europe finance tax to net tens of billions FRANCE plans to implement a tax on financial transactions at the end of 2014 and believes the levy to be rolled out by 11 European countries will raise “tens of billions of euros” a year, its finance minister said.

The 27-member European Union has given the go-ahead to 11 countries pledging to impose a tax that was proposed 40 years ago by American economist James Tobin but never got off the ground internationally.

Paris will give itself a year or so to think about how the tax will work and aim to have a law in place by the end of 2014, Moscovici said in an interview on BFM TV. “It’ll take about two years, most probably,” Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said. “The calendar is deliberations in 2013 and implementation from the end of 2014 undoubtedly.

“I note in passing France already has a trading tax that generated an extremely small take of 246 million euros,” the minister said.

The new tax was inspired by a political drive to make the financial industry contribute more heavily after a financial crisis in 2007 sparked a global economic downturn. It is due to be rolled out with 10 other European countries, including Germany and Italy but not Britain.

Critics say such a tax can only work if it is imposed worldwide, or at least Europewide, and that its adoption in around 2015 risks pushing trading and jobs elsewhere.

“The total tax take could be several tens of billions of euros,” said Moscovici.

Moscovici said he was keen to see the proceeds go into the pan-European budget and a “significant share” of it used for international development aid. One EU official has said the levy could raise 35 billion euros.

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Banks ponder past sins at Davos meet But they remain at the bottom of the ‘Trust Barometer’

By Alexander Smith LEADERS of the world’s largest banks have gone some way to persuading investors that their industry’s neardeath experience is over, even though the public still don’t trust them.

However, a recent rebound in banking shares - which has pushed the Thomson Reuters Global Banks index up five per cent this year - possibly hides a crisis still threatening the existence of many in the sector as its leaders meet in Davos.

The Libor rigging scandal, rogue trading, mis-selling, the breaking of anti-money laundering rules and debate over staff bonuses have all ensured the banks remain in the dog house, four years after the financial crisis brought many to their knees.

Banks and financial service companies were once again at the bottom of the pile in the Edelman “Trust Barometer”, released this week in Davos where many bankers are attending the World Economic Forum. Although they scored slightly better in the survey of 26 countries than last year,

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only 50 per cent of respondents said they trust banks and financial institutions, against a 77 per cent score for technology companies.

Many are producing profits for sharaeholders again, but the rules of the game have changed and banks and their advisers recognise it will take years to rebuild public confidence. “Banks need to change their business models. Financial service providers need to be reminded that it’s all about service to clients and clients need to be put back at the core. Self-interest has to take a backseat,” Axel Weber, former Bundesbank chief and now Chairman of Swiss bank UBS, said yesterday.

With senior industry figures predicting that only a handful of major global banks will emerge stronger from the financial crisis, the outlook for those that do not is uncertain.

JPMorgan, HSBC and Bank of America Merrill Lynch are those most often mentioned among the winners, with smaller players suffering from higher capital requirements, a low interest rate environment and stiffer regulatory demands.

This has prompted action to

cut costs and focus on what bankers often describe as their “core competencies”. UBS, for instance, has cut 10,000 jobs and pulled back from areas such as fixed income trading.

Many banks have also staged wholesale retreats from certain businesses, such as commodity trading, or selective withdrawals from countries or regions.

Some, including JPMorgan Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, say the basic banking model is not broken and that the excesses of the pre-crisis period have been curtailed. “You want financial services, you just don’t want them to be leveraged or (to) blow up,” Dimon said during a panel discussion involving bankers, regulators and politicians.

Others at Davos say banks have largely put their shops in order and are now concentrating on trying to make money.

“Generating earnings in this environment is not that easy; we have gone from crisis mode to normal boring stuff about how will the business grow,” one senior banker told Reuters.

But others such as Weber think an overhaul is still re-

quired for the industry to reinvent itself. “Banks need to get a new strategy...at the same time we need to deal with the legacy. You need to separate from the past, that’s a necessary condition. We need to move forward in a different mode,” Weber said.

The mantra of putting customers first echoes around the corridors in the Swiss Alpine ski resort, but this is still drowned out by protests about the unintended consequences of regulations aimed at preventing another crisis.

“We should have better regulation, but not necessarily more. We will not achieve (economic) growth unless we have a proper financial industry that lends money that fuels growth,” said Andrey Kostin, Chairman and Chief Executive of Russia’s VTB Bank.

Analysts had expected a more muted start to 2013, but Europe’s banks have risen another 7.5 per cent in the year to date. Banks on the troubled “periphery” of the eurozone have enjoyed the biggest 2013 increases. But some in the industry say this may provide only temporary respite for the banks that are no longer able to compete on scale.

A RECORD number of people are in work after another fall in unemployment and a further dip in the numbers claiming jobseeker’s allowance, new figures showed yesterday.

Almost 30 million adults were in a job in the quarter to last November, up by more than half a million on the previous year. The figure, giving an employment rate of 71 per cent, is the highest since records began in 1971.

Unemployment fell by 37,000 in the latest quarter to just under 2.5 million, the lowest since spring 2011.

It was the 10th consecutive fall and was coupled with another cut in the number of people claiming jobseeker’s allowance, which was down by 12,100 last month to 1.56 million, the lowest since June 2011. The number of people classed as economically inactive, including those looking after a relative or who have given up looking for a job, fell by 13,000 to just over nine million.

Part-time employment fell by 23,000, but this was offset by a 113,000 increase in the numbers employed full-time in the three months to November. Data from the Office for National Statistics also showed a 26,000 increase in the number of women out of work for up to six months, to reach 571,000, which may reflect changes to the benefits system resulting in more single mothers looking for work.

The number of job vacancies in the economy increased by 10,000 to almost half a million at the end of last year, the highest number for four years. Other figures revealed that the number of self-employed workers has increased by 7,000 to 4.2 million, while unpaid family workers fell by 1,000 to 111,000.

Long-term unemployment has also fallen, down by 10,000 for those out of work for more than two years, to 434,000, and by 5,000 for people unemployed for at least a year, to 892,000.

But the number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work increased by 1,000 to 957,000, the first rise since last summer, although youth employment showed an increase of 12,000 as more students seek work. Meanwhile, average earnings increased by 1.5 per cent in the year to November, down by 0.3 per cent on the previous month.

Average total pay in Britain was £472 a week at the end of last year.

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FRENCH carmaker Renault (RENA.PA) said workers needed to make concessions on pay and conditions to safeguard the future of domestic plants.

Gerard Leclercq, Renault’s head of French operations, said yesterday that without a deal the company would be forced to take other action to cut costs.

“If there is no deal, it is impossible to leave things as they are,” Leclercq said in a BFM radio interview. “All options are open.

But, for the moment, there is no plan B.” Renault, which last week unveiled plans to cut 7,500 French jobs over four years, has denied union accusations it had threatened to close two plants during the closed-door talks. Unions were set to carry out a series of production stoppages at Re-

nault sites around the country on Wednesday in protest at the company’s demands.

On Tuesday, the carmaker offered commitments to build an additional 80,000 vehicles annually in France for Japanese alliance partner Nissan (7201.T) and German group Daimler (DAIGn.DE) in return for a labour deal.

The company, which is seeking a longer workweek and increased flexibility from workers, has previously offered to guarantee French plants as part of an accord, a negotiating stance denounced by some unions as “blackmail”.

The rising industrial tensions at Renault prompted the government, its biggest shareholder with a 15 per cent stake, to call upon both sides to negotiate in good faith on Tuesday.

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Little Englanders win big Dealing in theories and ignoring the facts on Cyprob THERE could not be an election campaign without a pointless debate about the form the solution of the Cyprus problem should take. During the 2008 election campaign the three main candidates all agreed that the settlement should be a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation (BBF), but the Tassos Papadopoulos camp insisted that it needed to have ‘the right content’, while Demetris Christofias insisted that it should feature a strong central government. Ioannis Kasoulides, to his credit, avoided getting into this childish game.

The BBF has begun featuring in the current campaign, but there are different takes on it now. Giorgos Lillikas, who as Papadopoulos’ campaign manager five years ago, supported it as long as it had the ‘right content’ now claims that content was irrelevant and those supporting BBF were essentially supporting partition. President Christofias has been zealously championing BBF in his frequent public speeches – so has the AKEL candidate Stavros Malas – warning that if we abandoned it, permanent partition would be certainty. If both supporting and opposing BBF would lead to partition we are faced with a serious intellectual puzzle.

The AKEL/Malas camp have decided to recruit the assistance of Archbishop Makarios, despite the fact that he passed away 35 years ago and what he may have thought is of no consequence today. Makarios’ remarks “are clearly in favour of a solution of two zones, bi-zonal,” said Malas spokesman Takis Hadjigeorgiou explaining that even if BBF was not mentioned by name in the High Level agreements of 1977, “common sense said that this was what it referred to.”

But there is not much common sense using the views of someone who has been dead for 35 years to support an argument.

What if Makarios supported BBF? The perennial problem is that politicians only deal in theories when talking about the Cyprus issue, always ignoring the facts.

The facts are that Christofias was negotiating a BBF for four years but got nowhere near an agreement, because despite the rhetoric he was not really committed to it.

And how realistic is Lillikas in claiming that by denouncing BBF and starting negotiations from scratch we would arrive at a fair and just settlement? Is there a chance in a million he would find anyone on the Turkish side to engage in negotiations on the basis he wants to set?

Nicos Anastasiades has avoided the issue, presumably so he would not alienate his DIKO allies who are more hard-line on the Cyprus issue, despite supporting BBF, but “with the right content.” Anastasiades will be obliged to give his views in the second televised debate, as it would focus on the Cyprus issue, but he could fudge the BBF issue in order to keep his allies happy.

After all, it is probably no longer an option – not that this would stop the candidates talking about it.

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HE REAL problem is continental drift: Brussels, the capital of the European Union, is getting further and further away from England.

Or at least that is British Prime Minister David Cameron’s line.

Cameron made his long awaited speech promising a referendum on continued British membership in the European Union yesterday, and he placed the blame squarely on plate tectonics: “People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.”

The “frustrated” people in question are English, of course.

Hostility to the European Union is mainly an English thing, but that matters a lot in the United Kingdom, where 55 million of the kingdom’s 65 million people live in England.

The Scottish nationalists seeking separation from England in their own referendum take the opposite tack. They promise the Scottish electorate that leaving the UK would NOT mean leaving the European Union (although in fact Scotland would probably have to re-apply for membership). Scottish politicians have to promise to stay in the EU, because otherwise very few Scottish voters would say “yes” to independence. But England is different.

The “Little Englander” glories in the notion of England being unencumbered by foreign ties and commitments. It’s the kind of nationalism that Americans call “isolationism”, and the phrase is now used to describe strongly nationalist, even xenophobic people on the right of English politics. Those people, always present in significant numbers within Cameron’s Conservative Party, have now won the internal party debate.

Every Conservative leader has had to deal with these people.

They always managed to contain them in the past, because the European Union is Britain’s biggest trading partner, and it

Comment Gwynne Dyer is obviously in Britain’s interest to belong to the organisation that makes the rules for Europe’s “single market”. What has changed is that the long recession and relatively high immigration of recent years have increased the popularity of the extreme right in England.

That doesn’t mean that populist demagogues and neo-fascists are about to win power in the United Kingdom. Far from it: they’d be lucky to get 10 per cent of the vote. But it does mean that the Conservatives are losing their more right-wing supporters to the anti-EU, antiimmigration United Kingdom Independence Party.

UKIP could never win an election in Britain, but it could easily steal enough votes from the Conservatives to make them lose the next election. So there has been mounting panic in the Conservative Party, and not just among its instinctively anti-EU members.

Cameron’s promise of a referendum on EU membership is first and foremost an attempt to steal UKIP’s thunder and win back the defecting Conservative voters. He doesn’t really want to leave the EU, but he really does want to win the election that is due in 2015.

His reluctance to be the man who took Britain out of the EU was evident in the way he hedged around his referendum promise.

The referendum would not take place until after the next election, and only if the Conservative Party won enough seats in 2015 to form a government on its own. (Its current coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party, opposes the whole idea).

Cameron says he will spend the next two years renegotiating the terms of Britain’s EU membership to “repatriate” many powers from Brussels to London, and to make various changes in

How did an allegedly grown-up country talk itself into this position? the way the EU is run. Then, if he is satisfied with the outcome, he will support EU membership in the election and in the subsequent referendum, which will be held by 2017. But he had no satisfactory answer to the hard questions that followed his speech.

What if the 26 other EU members choose not to waste months in talks on changing Britain’s relationship with the EU? What if they do negotiate but refuse to tie themselves up in knots just to ease Cameron’s local political problems? Would he support continued EU membership in the promised referendum if he didn’t have a “new deal” to offer the voters. He simply wouldn’t answer those questions.

There is much that could be done to improve the accountability and efficiency of the European Union, but it is not helpful to open a negotiation with 26 other governments by standing at the exit door and threatening to leave if you do not get your

way. The time may well come when Cameron has to answer those questions, and he probably does not know himself which way he would jump.

So for the next four years, all those foreign companies that have been using the United Kingdom as a convenient, English-speaking centre to produce goods and services for the European market will be re-thinking their investment strategies. If the United Kingdom may leave the EU by 2017, is this really the right place to put their money?

It will probably be a long dry season for the British economy.

How did an allegedly grown-up country talk itself into this position? It’s an attitude that was summed up in an apocryphal English newspaper headline of the 1930s: “Fog in (the English) Channel; Continent Cut Off.” Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Cameron leading Britain into minefield on EU PRIME Minister David Cameron is leading Britain into a minefield in seeking to renegotiate its terms of membership of the European Union. His gamble could easily end in a bust. His strategy is bound to open a prolonged period of uncertainty in which events could put his preferred option – a looser version of full British membership – out of reach.

First, all Britain’s 26 partners must be willing to negotiate on Cameron’s agenda, which despite some expressions of goodwill is by no means a given. Eurozone states may prefer to press ahead with closer integration without reopening the EU treaties, or refuse to unravel past agreements.

Second, they would have to be confident in the prime minister’s ability to win a national vote and make an agreement stick over the long term to justify significant concessions. But many EU officials are not convinced Cameron’s Conservatives will win a 2015 general election. There is no incentive to give him more than polite sympathy until then.

Analysis Paul Taylor Third, EU partners would have to be able to win the consent of their own voters or parliaments for any special deal with Britain that could involve watering down European social and employment rights and giving London a lock on EU financial services legislation.

Many are worried that an a-lacarte Europe would lead other countries to demand opt-outs.

Finally, the whole process must proceed free from the kind of unpredictable clashes, political accidents or media scares that have dogged London’s ties with the EU for decades.

No rational gambler would bet on all those stars staying aligned. Despite Cameron’s declared intention of keeping Britain in Europe, you don’t have to be an astrologer to see how this could end in divorce. Britain has renegotiated its terms twice

since it joined the European Economic Community in 1973, yet it remains a reluctant, semidetached and often obstructive member.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson won some cosmetic trade concessions that were endorsed in a 1975 referendum on staying in. Margaret Thatcher secured a large, permanent annual rebate on London’s EU budget contribution in 1984, which remains a source of resentment for many partners to this day.

Despite obtaining opt-outs from Europe’s single currency and the Schengen zone of passport-free travel, the British public and Conservative politicians have turned ever more hostile to the EU, depicted in much of the British media as a malevolent, meddling foreign bureaucracy.

With the exception of a couple of short-lived honeymoons during the construction of the European single market in the mid-1980s and the launch of a European security and defence policy in the late 1990s, relations have always been fraught.

It is hard to recall that 15 years ago, Prime Minister Tony Blair was publicly proclaiming his intention to lead Britain into the euro as soon as economic conditions were right.

For most of the time, successive British governments have fought tooth-and-nail to thwart or slow moves towards “ever closer union”, the goal enshrined in EU treaties since 1957.

No wonder that despite their leaders’ public pledges of support for keeping Britain in, many European officials and diplomats privately wonder if the EU would not be more united and freer to advance if the British could be managed out.

There also remains the strong possibility that voters given the first choice in a generation to vote “no” to the European Union will choose to do so. Experience with referendums in France, the Netherlands and Ireland shows voters may cast a protest vote against an unpopular government, or simply express a general dislike of Europe, regardless of the question they are asked.

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Vegan pizza, smoked salmon Oscars at post-Oscars ball

Kunis stalker ordered to back off for 10 years

HOLLYWOOD’S elite will chow down on vegan pizza and kale salad in addition to the traditional smoked salmon Oscars at the annual Governor’s Ball after next month’s Academy Awards ceremony, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck announced.

Unveiling his menu for the year’s biggest movie party, Puck said chicken pot pie with shaved black truffles, mini Kobe burgers, Japanese baby peach salad, steamed red snapper with Thai spice, Tuna Nicoise and his signature gold-dusted mini-chocolate Oscars also would be served.

Some 1,500 guests are expected at the ball immediately after the February 24 Oscars ceremony, including nominees such as George

MILA Kunis’ stalker has been ordered to stay away from her for 10 years.

Stuart Lynn Dunn pleaded no contest to charges of harassing the Friends with Benefits actress in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday (22.01.13), and Judge George Lomeli also ordered him to complete six months of residential rehab and placed him on five years of felony probation.

Judge Lomeli also gave Dunn - who has been ordered to stay away from Mila’s agents, managers and assistants - credit for 528 days he spent in jail.

Dunn had been in custody since last May after he was arrested for showing up at Mila’s Beverly Hills gym three days in a row.

As he tried to approach her at the gym, Mila alerted authorities as he already had a restraining order, stemming from when he pleaded no contest to breaking into an at-thetime-unoccupied condo owned by the 27-year-old beauty.

Last June, LAPD Detective John Gregozek testified at a hearing to say Mila had stated to authorities that she was “in fear for her safety”.

Clooney, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain. Puck’s menu could be the first chance for many of the attendees to eat since breakfast, as nominees and presenters stave off food in order to squeeze in to fitted gowns and tuxedos for the televised red carpet arrivals and ceremony.

“Nobody eats lunch that day, so by nine o’clock, anybody who would be on a diet is no longer on that diet,” Puck said. With Oscar-nominated films ranging from dramas to comedies and musicals, guests at the ball - the Academy’s official celebration - will be dining on dishes just as varied.

“We have so many great nominated movies from Argo to Les Miserables to Silver Linings Playbook, Puck told

Reuters. “It’s a really great year for movies with lots of variety, so we are going to serve a variety of dishes.” Puck, who this year is marking his 19th year catering the ball, and chef Matt Bencivenga will serve over 50 dishes from hors d’ oeuvres and entrees that will be served on small plates throughout the evening.

Gastronomical items will include Chinese, French, Italian dishes and others from Puck’s many Los Angeles eateries.

The master chef told Reuters there will also be a strong focus this year on vegan dishes, including pizza, kale salad with grilled artichoke, and a beet salad with spiced walnut among others. “If they don’t find something to eat (among our dishes) then they are really finicky,” joked Puck.

Chef Wolfgang Puck takes a bite of a 24 Karat Chocolate Oscar dessert during the food and wine preview

Did she or didn’t she?

Lip-synching claims cause a stir for Beyonce Shakira gives after US birth to a boy inauguration

THE 35-YEAR-OLD Colombian singer and her 25-yearold footballer boyfriend Gerard Pique welcomed their son Milan Pique Mebarak into the world in Barcelona on Tuesday, according to People En Espanol magazine, Shortly before giving birth Shakira asked her fans to pray for her after she was admitted into the Teknon clinic, where she was scheduled to be induced. The ‘She Wolf’ singer - whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll - appealed to her fans via Twitter, writing: “I’d like to ask you all to accompany me in your prayers on this very important day of my life. Shak”.

She also posted the same content in Spanish and was immediately inundated with messages of support from her fans across the world, wishing her good luck.

A message on her official website said yesterday: “We are happy to announce the birth of Milan Pique Mebarak, son of Shakira Mebarak and Gerard Pique, born January 22 at 9:36pm. “The name Milan (pronounced MEE-lahn), means dear, loving and gracious in Slavic; in Ancient Roman, eager and laborious; and in Sanskrit,unification.

“Just like his father, baby Milan became a member of FC Barcelona at birth. The hospital confirmed that the couple’s first child weighed approximately 6lbs. 6 ounces, and that both mother and child are in excellent health.”

A source previously told Spanish newspaper La Razon that the couple scheduled the birth so that Gerard could be present during their baby’s arrival.

NEVER mind President Barack Obama’s inauguration address or what Michelle Obama was wearing at the ball.

Was Beyonce lip-synching the U.S. national anthem on Monday, or wasn’t she?

The Grammy-winning singer has remained silent amid a media storm over whether she was lip-synching, singing over her own pre-recorded track, or performing live when she delivered a flawless version of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ to hundreds of thousands of people in Washington and millions watching on television.

A spokeswoman for the US Marine band first told US news outlets on Tuesday that the ‘Single Ladies’ star “decided to go with the pre-recorded music at the last minute” and that, to the spokeswoman’s knowledge, she was not actually singing the anthem.

But the US Marine band later backtracked, saying in a statement: “Regarding Ms. Knowles-Carter’s vocal performance, no one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded.”

The statement said the band and Beyonce, whose surname is Knowles-Carter, had no chance to rehearse together before Monday’s inauguration “so it was determined that a live performance by the band was ill-advised for such a highprofile event.

“Each piece of music scheduled for performance in the inauguration is pre-recorded for use in case of freezing temperatures, equipment failure, or extenuating circumstances,”

Beauty at a snail’s pace

Katie Holmes: slime is good

Beyonce delivered a flawless version of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ in Washington the Marine Band added.

Beyonce, 31, was giving her first major public performance since giving birth to a baby with husband, rapper Jay-Z, in January 2012. On Sunday, she posted on Instagram photo of herself in a recording studio holding the sheet music for ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’

Her representatives did not return calls for comment. Kelly Clarkson and James Taylor, who also performed at the inauguration ceremony, both sang live, their publicists said.

Whatever Beyonce’s choices on Monday, she was not the first artist cause a stir on such occasions.

Classical musicians Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two

others played along to a prerecorded tape at Obama’s 2009 inauguration because the cold and wind on the Washington Mall raised the potential of broken strings and sharp notes.

Madonna lip-synched her way through her 2012 Super Bowl half-time performance last year, as did the late Whitney Houston in her 1991 Super Bowl rendition of the national anthem. Singing to pre-recorded tracks has become widespread in the pop music industry The lip-synching question made headlines around the world and “Beyonce” was among the top Facebook conversations on Monday, ac-

cording to the social networking site.

Fans were divided. “I enjoyed the performance and do not care whether it was lipsynched or not - it was a beautiful rendition, with some originality, of a song we have all heard so many times,” wrote LeeAnne24 on the Washington Post comment board.

Twitter user hiphop dancer Jen was disappointed.

“There’s honestly no reason for Beyonce to lip-sync... Especially the national anthem.

I may despise most of her music, but she has a voice.”

Beyonce is due to take the spotlight again next month - this time at the February 3 Super Bowl half-time show.

KATIE Holmes is improving her complexion with snail slime. The 34-year-old actress - who split from husband Tom Cruise last July - was reportedly recommended to use creams containing mucin, snail extract which is found in some South American and South Korean products, and is already impressed by the results.

A source said: “Last year was hard for Katie. She knows she’s got a lot of catching up to do in terms of her career and is trying anything she can to stay looking her best.

“A friend recommended she used snail gel and she’s really happy with how smooth her skin looks.”

Katie - whose Broadway play Dead Accounts was axed seven weeks early due to poor ticket sales - is making an effort to look her best in a bid to boost both her career and personal life.

The source added to LOOK magazine: “Katie’s going all out to look amazing for auditions to land a dream film role.

“She knows it’s time to relaunch herself completely.”

Since splitting from Tom, Katie has relocated to New York City, where she lives with the couple’s six-year-old daughter, Suri.

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BP Mediterranean offers financial aid to ‘Vagoni Agapis’ The best in Internet, TV from Nova NOW there is a tantalising new Internet and television combination in every corner of Cyprus.

Nova Cyprus, the island's first digital platform is providing Internet speeds of up to 10Mbps, without any geographical restrictions, along with more than 200 TV channels, at only €44.99 per month, together with free connection equipment.

The new service Nova Cyprus Satellite Broadband provides real broadband connection through an interactive experience that provides the equivalent of ADSL2 +, even in the most remote area of Cyprus.

With data download speeds of up to 10Mbps per download and 2Mbps upload, directly from satellite, the service gives users maximum speed and freedom.

The Internet speeds are now combined with the service Nova Cyprus Satellite TV, which offers television shows featuring many stars, with 3D viewing, as well as more and more channels in High Definition.

Subsrcibers can view up to 300 movie premieres a year and major Hollywood awards via Novacinema, which also offers the best from foreign channels and Fox Foxlife.

Meanwhile, there's also world class league football via Novasports channels from Greece, Portugal and Argentina, along with coverage of major international sporting events such as Euroleague Basketball.

KPMG chooses Powerstar for energy efficiency CONTINUING with the successful growth of its business across Europe, EMSc, manufacturer of the innovative Star® range of energy saving products, is pleased to announce the installation of the company’s market leading voltage optimisation solution, Powerstar, at the KPMG offices in Cyprus.

A world leader in the provision of Audit, Tax and Advisory services, KPMG was seeking ways to effectively reduce its impact on the environment by reducing electricity consumption and lowering its carbon footprint.

After conducting market research into energy saving companies and energy saving solutions, the management team, chose to install Powerstar.

FINANCIAL aid in the amount of €1,000 was recently offered by BP Eastern Mediterranean to the non-profit charitable association "Vagoni Agapis", thereby seeking to support the charity's mission, which is to strengthen its assistance and relief to those who need assistance from daily financial difficulties and adverse economic conditions.

The charitable organisation "Vagoni Agapis" helps countless families living below the poverty line and in destitution on the island, deprived of basic food items and clothing.

At the same time, the charity strengthens families, via the payment of rent and contribution to household bills, school fees for children and partial or full assistance to needy students, as well as offering financial support to

sick people in need of surgery or specialised treatment abroad.

The delivery of the cheque was carried out by the Head of Country & Director of BP Eastern Mediterranean Mr. Pambos Lambrou, and presented to the President of Vagoni Agapis, Ms. Annie Pattichi, at BP's company headquarters in Nicosia.

Mr Lambrou noted that: "the times we live in are very difficult.

"Every day dozens of our fellow citizens fall into a bad financial situation either through losing their jobs or in lacking basic food and clothing.

"Through worthwhile charities such as Vagoni Agapis, we try to stand by them, covering the basic necessities required for a human being to live with dignity."

ExxonMobil/ Esso Cyprus €9k donation THE amount of €9,000 was donated by ExxonMobil / Esso Cyprus as a contribution to the "Flight of Love" by Radiomarathon, strengthening this charitable relationship for yet another year.

The offering fell under the corporate social responsibility programmes implemented for years by ExxonMobil / Esso Cyprus, in recognition and support of the valuable work carried out by the annual Radiomarathon fundraiser, designed to bring joy and a smile to children with health problems.

ExxonMobil Cyprus Ltd. has over 55 years of presence in the Cyprus market.

It has a strong representation in the Retail and Industrial & Wholesale Fuels Georgia Georgiou was the winner of the Shiseido competi- sectors.

tion, which ran in the Sunday Mail during December. The €255 prize Shiseido set included the Future Solution LX Day cream 50ml, with a replica foam 15ml, replica softener 25ml and replica serum 5.6ml

For more information on ExxonMobil Cyprus, please contact varnavas.theodossiou@exxonmobil.com

EKO administers seminar to boost road, driving safety Company offers its service for 14th year running FOR the 14th consecutive year the company EKOGreek Petroleum administered the Road Safety Seminar, organised by the Traffic Department of Cyprus.

Taking into consideration the safety of all drivers, while respecting the principles of the Road Safety Charter of 2009, EKO is on the side of the Traffic Department, involved in public service and local government to actively assist in achieving the objectives of the seminar.

This year's Road Safety Seminar focused on motorcycle riders who are a particularly vulnerable category of drivers, often prone to traffic accidents.

This year's Road Safety Seminar focused in particular on motorcycle riders, who are especially vulnerable and most often prone to be traffic accident victims This group represents the largest number of young drivers, who, filled with the impulsiveness and youthful enthusiasm character-

istic of this age, often misjudge their acquired speeds and often, through lack of awareness of risks involved, unfortunately feature very

high on the list of road accident victims.

"It is unfair and a big shame every year that several of our young people are

killed, and others are condemned to live the rest of their lives in wheelchairs, because for a moment they broke the right rules of driving behaviour or suffered the consequences of any such breach," said Senior Manager Mr. Anthonis Semelidis in his speech, highlighting the importance of road safety issues.

"It is unfair that our young people should cut short their lives, when they could open their wings to enjoy life."

Thus, for yet another year through the prestigious panel of speakers from Cyprus and abroad, and with the open dialogue that followed the working groups by applying the exchange of views and ideas, the seminar set out specific objectives to be achieved for the year ahead.

These objectives cover all pillars of road safety, including those laid out in the Road Safety Charter (ie. to do with roads and vehicles), policing and surveillance, and finally training and sensitisation on issues of Road Safety.

Amathus Corporation Ltd earns IIP certification CERTIFICATION to the standard 'Investors In People' (IIP), is the latest international recognition for the newly-formed Amathus Corporation Ltd, which was created in 2012.

The distinction Investors In People is the only comprehensive quality standard that is recognised internationally in the field of Management Development and Human Resources.

In keeping with a tradition established since 1943, the Amathus Corporation Ltd is a multidimensional organisation that covers

a wide range of activities in transport, travel and tourism, aimed at "creating stable and lateral relationships by providing worldclass services with a local approach".

In hailing the IIP certification, Amathus Corporation Ltd Executive Director Christos Christou said Amathus has adopted the IIP standard in all segments including its subsidiary Amathus Travel Ltd, adding: “We believe our people are our strength. ... Our commitment is to continue to invest in our employees and ensure their continuous development for the benefit of our customers."

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German wa luxury bran A craftsman works on a watch at Lange & Soehne

Visitors look at a giant watch at the Lange & Soehne booth at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie exhibition in Geneva this week

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T THE age of 66, when many are already enjoying retirement, Walter Lange was setting out to prove great luxury watches do not have to be Swiss.

In a remote corner of what was East Germany, Lange aimed to rebuild a venerable watch making business whose history reads like a chronicle of 20th century Europe, with its wars, dislocation, Sovietera occupation and finally, unity and peace.

Now watchmakers in the small town of Glashuette again sit bent over work tables in whitewashed factory buildings, magnifying glasses strapped to their eyes, polishing three-quarter plates made of German silver and engraving balance cocks by hand.

“Back in the 1990s, when Lange & Soehne started making watches again, selling a German watch to a Swiss was like selling a fridge to an Eskimo,” said Zurich watch retailer Rene Beyer. “But that has changed.

At present, half of our Lange watches go to Swiss customers.”

Collectors value the brand’s characteristic old-style movements including a plate in the shape of a three-quarters full moon invented

by Ferdinand Lange in 1864 to add stability, and screwed gold sockets, known as ‘chatons’, that today only serve decorative purposes.

The dial design - featured in the modern Lange 1 wristwatch - has become a classic.

Walter Lange tells how the factory started by his great-grandfather in Saxony’s Ore Mountains was razed by bombs on the last day of World War Two.

“We had to dig the machines out of the rubble,” Lange, now 88, said.

Ferdinand Lange set up his watchmaking school and workshop in Glashuette in 1845 with a loan from the Saxon state to help the town’s impoverished population recover from the closure of the local ore mines.

Talented watchmakers, his sons followed in their father’s footsteps, gaining renown for their pocket watches and employing about 100 people during the firm’s heyday around 1900.

Watchmakers trained at the Lange school opened workshops in town.

Some manufactured their own watches and others supplied parts to Lange and its smaller peers.

“Most of the town’s 1,000 inhabitants worked in the watch industry around the turn of the century,”

said Reinhard Reichel, director of the local museum.

Although World War Two all but destroyed the firm’s operations, production restarted, only to suffer another blow when Soviet occupiers expropriated the firm in 1948.

“The little that was left after the war was taken away by the Soviets,” said Walter Lange, who now lives in Pforzheim in southwest Germany but still travels to Glashuette often.

“I myself helped packing machines into boxes to be shipped to Russia.

At Lange, we had to make sketches to teach the Russians how to make marine chronometers,” he said.

The young Walter fled to West Germany to escape work in a uranium mine and tried to refound the brand there, but his attempts failed and he gave up hope of ever again seeing a

A worker checks the housing of a Richard Lange Pour le Merite watch

Lange & Soehne now competes with Sw destroyed in the war, expropriated by Lange watch leave a factory.

On regular visits to Glashuette from the 1970s, Lange saw how the town’s watch industry turned to mass production of cheap quartz watches, a trend that also plunged Swiss mechanical watches into crisis around the same time.

Only after the fall of the Berlin Wall did Lange dare to relaunch the brand and create the Lange 1 model, with the help of the late Guenter Bluemlein, then the head of Swiss watchmakers Jaeger-LeCoultre and IWC. “Lange built a perfectly identifiable style, with its outsize date and off-centre displays: the Saxon style,” said Gregory Pons, editor of watch website businessmontres.

Richemont acquired all three brands for 3.1 billion Swiss francs in 2000, leaving Walter Lange a 10 per cent stake in Lange & Soehne that he sold to them in 2003.

“Together they represented a wonderful collection of watchmaking skills and assets. Lange was and is positioned at the pinnacle of the business,” a spokesman for Richemont said.

The same year, rival Swatch Group took over Glashuetter Uhrenbetrieb, which succeeded the staterun enterprise that manufactured watches under the Communists, and returned its 150 staff to making high-end mechanical watches in the 90s under the brand name Glashuette Original.

Lange & Soehne’s history fascinates its customers.

“Lange built a perfectly its outsize date and of Saxon style,” said Gr watch website bu “I bought a Lange in Hamburg in 1998 when the brand was only known to insiders. At the time, people thought good watches had to be Swiss,” said a 53-year-old Swiss private banker, who mostly keeps his Lange in the safe and wears an

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“A friend told me about this East German brand being revived and I found that interesting,” he said.

The value of his watch has risen to about €22,000 from €18,000, he said.

Watch collector Hans Gut, a retired dentist, has already visited the Glashuette factory three times with retailer Beyer.

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y identifiable style, with ff-centre displays: the regory Pons, editor of usinessmontres. watches are German was not a plus to me, but I fell in love with them nevertheless, with the design and the unique history of the brand,” he said. “Seeing all the work that goes into these watches really convinced me.”

Lange makes only a few thousand gold and platinum watches a year that sell for €15,000-400,000, placing it at the top end of the price range alongside Richemont’s Vacheron Constantin, Swatch Group’s Breguet and family-owned Patek Philippe.

Richemont does not break down figures to brand level, but analysts estimate annual sales at €100 to €400 million.

A difficult period for the brand started in 2009, when the financial crisis squeezed watchmakers’ sales and earnings.

Glashuette mayor Markus Dressler confirmed local business tax revenue declined by 70-80 per cent in that year, a sign the town’s biggest taxpayer, Lange & Soehne, was not faring well. Tax revenue has recovered gradually, returning to pre-crisis levels only last year, he said.

Then-chief executive Fabian Krone quit in 2009 and was replaced by industry outsider Wilhelm Schmid, who had held positions in distribution and marketing at car maker BMW.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Chief Executive Jerome Lambert was appointed to oversee the brand’s recovery on top of his responsibilities for JaegerLeCoultre.

“Lambert, who is an excellent manager, has put the company back on track,” Pons said.

Management problems may have been resolved, but challenges remain. “The brand is struggling for a new identity. Its style has been imitated a lot so it has less impact now,” Pons said.

One new difficulty for Lange & Soehne these days is finding qualified workers in a region experiencing rural exodus and a collapse in birth rates in the years after Ger-

man reunification.

Four out of five former East German states saw a double digit decline in their populations between 1991 and 2008, against a positive trend in most western German regions.

Birth rates in the former German Democratic Republic slid to one child per woman in 1991 from 1.5 in 1990, according to official statistics, and stayed low in the early 1990s, meaning fewer young people are arriving on the job market these days.

“Germany is not a watchmaking country and it is not easy to bring Swiss watchmakers over here. So it is essential for us to train our own

apprentices,” CEO Schmid said.

Indeed, all the young watchmakers encountered at Lange’s workshops said they got their training in town. To secure the next generation, Lange will double the number of apprentices trained at its watchmaking school to 20 this year.

“It makes me sad to see that the young people have left Glashuette,” Walter Lange said. “Nobody wants to live here anymore because people have just become so demanding nowadays.

“But to craft complicated watches you need peace and quiet. To me, it is a great joy to see how the company and the town have thrived thanks to the watchmaking.”

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What’s on

films

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

NICOSIA Django Unchained (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7 and 10.05pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7 and 10.05pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8 and 10.05pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 8 and 10.05pm Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.05pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.10pm and 3.05pm Les Miserables (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7 and 10.05pm Hope Springs (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.50 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.50pm.

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

Jack Reacher (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

Telephone nos:

An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 7.55 and 10.15pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 10.15pm

K-Cineplex: 7777-8383 Rio Limassol: 25-871410 Rio Paphos: 26-207000

Wreck-It Ralph (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek)

at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11am, 1.10pm and 3.20pm Life of Pi (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.05pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3.05pm Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.15pm, weekends only at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.15pm, weekends only at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm Rise of the Guardians (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm Amour (in French, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, tonight at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy

LIMASSOL Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

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

Django Unchained (15) Rio 2 at 7.30pm; Rio 3 at 10pm.

Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7 and 10.05pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) Rio 3 at 7.45pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8 and 10.05pm Les Miserables (K) Rio 1 at 7.30 and 10.25pm, weekends also at 4.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7 and 10.05pm Hope Springs (12) Rio 6 at 8pm, weekends also at 4 and 6pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 7.50pm

Life of Pi (K) Rio 4 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.20pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30pm, weekends at 3.25pm Zarafa (K) Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends only at 2.45pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 4.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.15pm, weekends only at 3.25pm Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D) at 5.05pm, weekends only at 3.10pm

Jack Reacher (15) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

LARNACA

House at the End of the Street (15) Rio 4 at 10pm

Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8 and 10.05pm

Cloud Atlas (15) Rio 6 at 10pm

Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends at 3.30pm

An… (12) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 10.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 10.15pm Wreck-It Ralph (K) Rio 3 (in Greek) at 5.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.20pm

Django Unchained (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7 and 10.05pm

Wreck-It Ralph (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Les Miserables (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7 and 10.05pm, weekends at 3.30pm

Hope Springs (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.50 and 10.10pm Jack Reacher (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

weekends also at 3.30pm Les Miserables (K) Rio 5 at 7.30pm; Rio 3 at 9.45pm Hope Springs (12) Rio 2 at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm

An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 7.55 and 10.15pm

Jack Reacher (15) Rio 7 at 7.30pm; Rio 5 at 10.30pm

Life of Pi (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm, weekends at 3.05pm

House at the End of the Street (15) Rio 1 at 10.30pm

Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.15pm, weekends only at 3.25pm

An… (12) Rio 4 (in Greek) at 5.30, 7.30 and 9.45pm

Rise of the Guardians (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.25pm My Brother is an Only Child (in Italian, with Greek subtitles) House of Arts and Literature, Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society.

Tel: 99-658831, 99-462903. www.lfcinema.org

PAPHOS Django Unchained (15) Rio 2 at 7.30pm; Rio 7 at 9.45pm Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) Rio 6 at 7.30 and 9.45pm

Wreck-It Ralph (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm Life of Pi (K) Rio 3 at 5 and 7.30pm Zarafa (K) Rio 6 (in Greek), weekdays only at 6pm, weekends only at 3pm.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12) Rio 6, weekends only at 4.30pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 7 (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 5 (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends at 3.30pm

Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 1 (in Greek) at 5.30pm,

listings Today Music Fusion Music Pop meets opera meets show-tunes with Tina Chester: Soprano and Andrew Oliver: Piano. January 24.

Konia Old Kamaroudi Tavern. Concert 8pm. €10. Tickets & information - Tel: 99-832538. Meals available in restaurant. Reservations - Tel: 26-942044 Concerto for Viola: World Premiere Classic music concert organised by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra with soloist Diemut Poppen (viola).

Conductor: Gudni A. Emilsson. January 24. Larnaca Municipal Theatre.

8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 22-463144 Now or Never Skala Theatre presents a witty comedy by multi-award winning Russian author Valentin Krasnogorov. January 24. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €12/7. In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22421609

Other Events From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz Within the framework of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Moshe Haelion, a Jewish-Greek, will give

a lecture about the days he spent in Auschwitz, Poland. January 24.

The European University. 7.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-369507 Greenpeace, the Arctic and our Climate Film presentation and talk about climate change and the Arctic. January 24. Goethe-Institut Cyprus located in the buffer zone next to Ledra Palace Hotel, Nicosia. 7pm. Free.

In English. Tel: 22-674608 or www. goethe.de/cyprus Education in Cyprus in the 21st Century A policy dialogue discussion which will lead to the production of policy recommendations on education in Cyprus. January 24. Home for Cooperation, in Nicosia. 6.30pm-8.30pm.

The discussion will be held in Greek, Turkish and English and translation will be provided. Tel : 22-445740

Tomorrow Exhibition ...For Another Space and Another Time...

Solo art exhibition by Athina Antoniadou. Opens January 25, 7.30pm until February 9. During the exhibition, from February 1-9, there will be a series of lecturers and presenta-

tions. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22-754009. www. argogallery.org Tree of Life Group painting exhibition from the art group Elena Armosti. Opens January 25, 8pm until January 31.

Ayios Dometios Cultural Centre, 45 Kolokotroni Street (behind St George church). Monday-Friday: 3pm-7pm.

Saturday: 10am-5pm. Tel: 22772190/99-563864

Music Fusion Music Pop meets opera meets show-tunes with Tina Chester: Soprano and Andrew Oliver: Piano. January 25.

Souni Lenia’s Tavern. Concert 7pm, dinner 9pm. €16 inc. dinner. Reservations - Tel: 25-717117 Concerto for Viola: World Premiere Classic music concert organised by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra with soloist Diemut Poppen (viola).

Conductor: Gudni A. Emilsson. January 25. Markideion Theatre, Paphos.

8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 22-463144

Theatre Now or Never Skala Theatre presents a witty comedy by multi-award winning Russian

author Valentin Krasnogorov. January 25. Xenion High School, 55, 1st Apriliou Street, Paralimni. 8.30pm. €12/7. In Greek. Tel: 23-811080 Fat Men in Skirts Twisted, dark comedy by contemporary American playwright Nicky Silver. January 25. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €16/12. In Greek. Tel: 77-777745

Other Events Who needs the Higgs Boson?

The Cyprus Institute (CYI) annual Hubert Curien memorial lecture presented by two internationally renowned scientists, Prof. Edouard Brézin and Prof. Herwig Schopper.

January 25. Journalists’ House in Aglandjia, Nicosia. 6.30pm. In English. RSVP. Tel: 22-208753/22208600. www.cyi.ac.cy

Ongoing Music J.Kriste, Master of Disguise Seven-piece band plays songs from their new album, previous album and some covers. January 17 until January 31. Antonaki’s Music Hall, 17 Vasileiou Voulgaroktonou Street, Nicosia. Every Thursday at 9.30pm. €10. Tel: 99-566485

Theatre Death and the Maiden Satiriko Theatro presents play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. Until January 25. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros, Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Every Wednesday and Friday at 8.30pm. €15/10. In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609 The Elephant Man Theatro Ena presents a play by Bernard Pomerance, translated and directed by Andreas Christodoulides.

Until January 27. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203 Heights Three actors confront their personal conflicts among the spectators. Until January 29. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. €10 including a glass of wine. 10pm. In Greek. Tel: 2234 8203 or email theatroena@ cytanet.com.cy Social Security THOC presents satire on modern high society by Andrew Bergman. Until February 3. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm, Saturday at 6pm and 8.30pm. €12/6 . In Greek. Tel: 77772717/22-864300

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

The Whore from Ohio The central stage of ETHAL presents black comedy by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, directed by Panagiotis Larkou. Until February 5. Technohoros ETHAL, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Limassol. Every Tuesday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek Tel: 25-877827 Misery Stephen King’s psychological thriller staged by Satiriko Theatre. Every Friday and Saturday. Until February 13. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. Every Wednesday and Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609

Exhibition Mag Dossier #01 A celebration of contemporary magazine publishing featuring magazines from across the world. Until January 26. Phytorio – Visual Artists Association Municipal Garden of Nicosia, 2 Nehrou. Tuesday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22-681088 Nikolaos Voulgaredis Solo painting exhibition. Until January 26. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca.

Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday:11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109

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Don’t Forget Other Events Going to the Dogs This Saturday Straw Dogs Magazine is organising an event at the Municipal Library of Engomi, where crowds can get a final taste of its maiden issue.

The event will inlcude a speech be made by the editors of the magazine, Yiota Panayiotou and Yiannis Zelianaios and by the poet and translator, Constantinos Kokoloyiannis.

The multimedia magazine, Straw Dogs as it’s called, deals mainly with young local emerging artists by giving them a platform to present their own work and talk about what they face in the current climate and specifically how it affects the art scene. The magazine hopes to foster an artistic culture

away from egocentric and selfcentred artistic groups, to fill in the gap of a good-quality magazine of arts here on the island and furthermore to create an open network of people who are interested in artistic expression.

The first issue includes poetry, prose, photography, painting, graphic design, music and elements from Cyprus’ Archive.

Those interested in finding out more about the magazine, its identity and its distribution places, are invited to visit the Straw Dogs blog and Facebook page.

The elusive particle

Last Presentation of the Straw Dogs Magazine Issue # 1 Final presentation of its maiden issue.

The speech will be made by the editors of the magazine, Yiota Panayiotou and Yiannis Zelianaios and by the poet and translator, Constantinos Kokoloyiannis.

January 26. Municipal Library of Engomi 4 Leonidou Street, Makedonitissa, Engomi, Nicosia (first floor of the building of Makedonitissa’s Association of Residents). 4pm. Tel: 22-658891

NIGHTLIFE

The image that set the physics world on fire: a recorded event of what is believed to be evidence of the Higgs boson particle. Here we see a 3-D rendering of characteristics expected from the decay of Higgs boson to a pair of photons.

The time is now for The Age of Now at Antonakis Hall

Particle physics usually has a hard time competing with politics and celebrity gossip for headlines, but the topic of the Higgs boson has garnered some serious attention of late.

On July 4, 2012 scientists working at the world’s biggest atom collider near Geneva announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle - the long-sought Higgs boson. Why all the fuss?

New discoveries of elementary particles have been made from time to time without attracting interest, but this particle will confirm nearly five decades of particle physics theory and is potentially a building block of the universe, thus given the moniker the ‘God Particle’.

Tomorrow night at the the Journalists’ House in Aglandjia, the Cyprus Institute (CyI) is organising its annual Hubert Curien memorial lecture entitled “Who Needs the Higgs boson?” This topic will be presented by two internationally renowned scientists, Prof. Edouard Brézin, a theorist, former President of the French Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Herwig Schopper, an experimentalist, former Director General of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).

But what exactly is the Higgs boson? If you aren’t a physics professor or Sheldon from the American comedy series Big Bang Theory, maybe a brief explanation may suffice. School physics teaches that everything is made up of atoms, and inside atoms are electrons, protons and neutrons. They, in turn, are made of quarks and other subatomic particles. Scientists have long puzzled over how these minute building blocks of the universe acquire mass. Without mass, particles wouldn’t hold together and there would be no matter.

In 1964, the British physicist Peter Higgs wrote a landmark paper hypothesising why elementary particles have mass. He predicted the existence of a three-dimensional “field” that permeates space and drags on everything that trudges through it. Some particles have more trouble crossing the field than others, and this corresponds to them being heavier.

If the field — later dubbed the Higgs field — really exists, then Higgs said it must have a particle associated with it: the Higgs boson. The lecture will approach the ‘hunt’ for this elusive particle from two perspectives: theoretical and experimental.

If you’re tired of the same old club scene with its overpriced drinks, doormen with attitude, and DJs spinning mixes on turntables, and you’re looking for a more soulful and live nightlife experience, then head for Antonakis Music Hall in old Nicosia this evening.

Antonakis is a no-nonsense venue that puts a premium on quality live music and this weekend it’s hosting Cyprus’ finest J. Kriste, Master of Disguise. Some of you may know him as a member of Trio Tekke, others remember him as the lead singer of Snakecharmer, while others refer to him as Lefteris Moumtzis. However you know him, everybody will agree that he’s a talented musician who has helped develop the local music scene.

As part of last year’s Kypria International Festival, Louvana Records presented the new album by J. Kriste, Master of Disguise, The Age of Now. For tonight’s show, the band will play songs from their new

album The Age of Now, selections from the previous album Girls, Ghosts and Gods and some covers.

Crowds can expect to hear an imaginative use and combination of electronic, analogue, traditional and classical musical instruments, combined with unique vocal performances, all of which offer the listener a dreamy sonic experience.

Apparently this new work is an attempt to reflect on the inner turbulence of man against the complex backdrop of today’s society.

Those interested in attending tonight’s show but who can’t make it, should keep in mind that the band will have their final show at Antonakis Music Hall next Thursday.

J.Kriste, Master of Disguise Seven-piece band plays songs from their new album, previous album and some covers. January 17 until January 31. Antonaki’s Music Hall, 17 Vasileiou Voulgaroktonou Street, Nicosia. Every Thursday at 9.30pm. €10. Tel: 99-566485

Although radioactivity was discovered more than a century ago, its precise understanding went through a long series of experimental and theoretical puzzles which kept busy many of the greatest minds of the 20th century.

Brézin will give a brief survey of this history, ending with the Higgs mechanism, while Schopper will continue and explain the painstaking and long hunt for the Higgs particle.

Its significance for physics will be described from the point of view of a ‘pedestrian’, i.e. as an experimentalist. Prof. Schopper will discuss the consequences of this discovery for the understanding of the micro and macro cosmos and for the relations between science and society.

Theoretical physicist Brézin and physics professor Schopper have been promoting research in Cyprus via collaboration with the Cyprus Institute, which was launched in 2007 to promote research and education. Both men are members of the Cyprus Institute’s scientific advisory council, currently chaired by Schopper.

During his career, Shopper has served as director general of CERN, and has made a remarkable contribution to the advancement of science in areas such as nuclear and particle physics.

He has also received prestigious awards, prizes and honours for his work and accomplishments from Germany and other countries, while Professor Brézin has made profound contributions to statistical physics and field theory. In the last decade he has served tirelessly and with distinction as a scientific leader at the highest levels in France, promoting thoughtful, forwardlooking policies.

In December 2012, both scientists were awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Cyprus by President Demetris Christofias, for their contribution to science, technology and education in Cyprus and the wider region.

Who needs the Higgs Boson?

The Cyprus Institute (CYI) annual Hubert Curien memorial lecture presented by two internationally renowned scientists, Prof. Edouard Brézin and Prof. Herwig Schopper. January 25. Journalists’ House in Aglandjia, Nicosia. 6.30pm. In English. RSVP. Tel: 22-208753/22208600. www.cyi.ac.cy

By Ledha Socratous

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

Thursday, January 24, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

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Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.

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07.00 08.00

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Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC Local talk-show.

18.00 18.15

News Kaftes Piperies

18.45

Paizoume Kypriaka

Live cookery show.

Local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

19.20

18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

Moiraia Fengaria

News Patates 8 Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

22.00

Local Sketch (rpt) Nofurther details supplied.

22.30

Presidential Elections 2013

20.00 21.00 21.40

Increasingly topical studio discussions.

23.30 23.45

News Repeats

Kati Psinetai (rpt)

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Doctor Who (rpt)

09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 15.45

NRG Zone Motor Sports 2013 US Figure Skating Championships

16.40 17.30

Repeats

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Idiaitera Yia Klamata (rpt) Englimata (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Eleftheros Kai Oraios (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.30 19.30 20.15 21.15 22.10 23.00 00.00 00.05 00.20 01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

Couples freestyle.

23.00

05.30 06.20 06.50 07.00 07.50 08.40

The latest incarnation of the time-travelling adventures, following the exploits of the Doctor, aided by his trusty sidekick. Fifth season. ‘The Eleventh Hour’. With his TARDIS in ruins, the newly-regenerated Doctor with the help of Amy Pond must save the world in less than twenty minutes from galactic policemen known as the Atraxi.

Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

20.00 21.15

Euromaxx

Greek version of the show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals.

Apo Mera Se Mera Local cultrual show.

16.00

NRG Zone Kids’ TV

DW-TV’s magazine show, bringing you the latest on lifestyle and entertainment in Europe.

Current affairs show.

15.30

ANTENNA

Shown till 12.30, then repeated till midafternoon.

Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

12.00

CYBC 2

Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kalokairi Presidential Elections 2013 News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Yia Tin Anna (rpt) Erotas Kleftis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 06.15 07.00 10.00

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Nea Mera Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more.

Hosted by real life couple Giorgos Liagas & Fay Skorda.

12.45 14.00

Enimerosi Tora Irthe Ki Edese Greek comedy series.

15.00 16.00

Eheis Meson Yia Sena

18.00 18.20

News Master Chef

Local talk-show.

Greek reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

19.20 20.20 21.15

SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.00 11.10 12.00 14.20 15.00 16.00 18.15 18.20 19.00 19.30 20.20 21.15 23.20

First season.

‘Hellraisers and Heartbreakers’. Ed purchases an innovative security system from an old CIA contact, and immediately discovers that a hacker is wreaking havoc with his systems. Sam battles against disillusionment and Mary welcomes a comedian to the hotel.

Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) News Klemmena Oneira Greek drama series.

22.10

FILM: Gran Torino A disgruntled Korean War vet sets out to reform his neighbour, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal his prized possession: his 1972 Gran Torino. Drama, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood. 2008.

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News Fae Ti Sokolata Sou Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Siga Min To’ Xeres Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites News Pame Paketo Las Vegas

00.00 00.05 01.20 02.10 03.00 03.10

News Dekati Entoli (rpt) Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino More Repeats

PLUS TV 06.50 07.20 07.50 09.00 09.30 10.55

News Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

11.50 12.30 13.00 15.30 16.15 17.00

Classic Cartoons Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Classic Cartoons More Kid’s TV To Kleidi

CAPITAL 08.30 09.00 09.30 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.15 14.05 15.15 16.05 16.40 17.30 18.15

With News at 18.30.

Greek comedy series.

17.50 19.40

Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests. Hosted by Tatiana Stefanidou.

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News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: 50 First Dates A man falls for a girl and pulls out all the stops to romance her.

But his efforts are complicated when he discovers she has memory loss. Romantic comedy, starring Drew Barrymore. 2004.

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FILM: Mercenary For Justice A soldier for hire is forced by rogue CIA agents to break into a notorious African prison and free an arms dealer’s son.

Action thriller, starring Steven Seagal. 2006.

LTV Sports News Kostakis Ki Yioi Local comedy series.

01.10 03.00

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Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: The Invasion A psychiatrist finds the source of a mysterious, mind-altering epidemic turning humans into zombies and her son might have a solution.

Sci-fi thriller remake, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. 2007.

Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Epi Topou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue

00.35

FILM: Sahara Adventure, with Matthew McConaughey. 2005.

The Woman in Black (Novacinema1, 20.10)

06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 3rd & Bird 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 The Roly Mo Show 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 3rd & Bird 08:25 Boogie Beebies 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 The Roly Mo Show 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 Buzz & Tell 09:35 My Family 10:05 One Foot In The Grave 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 EastEnders 11:50 Doctors 12:20 Casualty 13:10 Bleak House 14:10 My Family 14:40 The Weakest Link 15:25 EastEnders 15:55 Doctors 16:25 Casualty 17:15 Bleak House 18:15 The Weakest Link 19:00 EastEnders 19:30 Doctors 20:00 Coast 21:00 Keeping Up Appearances 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 Waking The Dead 22:50 Blackadder Goes Forth 23:20 Taking the Flak 23:50 Friday Night Dinner 00:15 Last Man Standing 01:05 The Weakest Link 01:50 EastEnders 02:20 Doctors 02:50 Keeping Up Appearances 03:20 Coast 04:20 Gavin & Stacey 04:50 Friday Night Dinner 05:15 Blackadder Goes Forth 05:45 Keeping Up Appear-

ances

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadli-

est Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Rides 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Extreme Fishing 22:00 River Monsters 23:00 Masters Of Survival 00:00 Trouble In Paradise 01:00 Surviving The Cut 01:55 Extreme Fishing 02:50 River Monsters 03:50 Masters Of Survival 04:50 Trouble In Paradise 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

04:30 Tennis: Australian Open, Melbourne 16:45 Football: African Cup Of Nations South Africa 19:00 Tennis: Game, Set And Mats 19:30

Football: African Cup Of Nations South Africa 22:00 Figure Skating: European Championship Croatia 23:00 Tennis: Australian Open, Melbourne 00:00 Poker: European Poker Tour 01:00 Tennis: Australian Open, Melbourne 02:00 Tennis: Game, Set And Mats

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Castle 07:10 Modern Fam-

ily 07:35 Last Man Standing 08:00 Body Of Proof 08:50 Masterchef 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Castle 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Last Man Standing 12:00 Scandal 12:50 Castle 13:40 Body Of Proof 14:30 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Last Man Standing 17:40 Body Of Proof 18:30 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Scandal 21:50 Castle 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Last Man Standing 23:30 Scandal 00:20 Castle 01:10 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Last Man Standing 03:35 Cougar Town 04:00 Body Of Proof 04:50 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover

21:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 22:00 American Restoration 23:00 Ancient Aliens 00:00 Pawn Stars 00:30 Storage Wars 01:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 02:00 American Restoration 03:00 Ancient Aliens 04:00 Mud Men 05:00 Pawn Stars 05:30 American Restoration 06:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East

07:30 Grace Is Gone 09:00 Watchmen 11:45 Il Ciclone 13:20 Hollywood Buzz 14:00 True Stories 15:30 Action Zone 16:00 Safe Passage 18:00 Fighter, The 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Grind House: Planet Terror 23:00 Zack And Miri Make A Porno 00:45 Hustler Tv 02:30 Brideshead Revisited 04:50

Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, The 06:30 Ltv Sports News 07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 08:00 Mud Men 09:00 Pawn Stars 09:30 American Restoration 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 12:00 Swamp People 13:00 Storage Wars 14:00 Pawn Stars 14:30 American Restoration 15:00 Mud Men 16:00 Swamp People 17:00 Storage Wars 18:00 Pawn Stars 18:30 American Restoration 19:00 Mud Men 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Storage Wars

07:00 Chowder I 07:25 Marvel-

ous Misadventures Of Flapjack, The 07:50 Tom & Jerry Show, The 08:15 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! I 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed I 09:05 Superman: The Animated Series Ii 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series Ii 09:55 Looney Tunes Show, The 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s, The 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00

Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 12:50 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B!, The 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 14:55 Icarly 15:20 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! I 15:45 Justice League Unlimited I 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes Ii 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 19:00 Barclays Premier League Review 20:00 2010 World’s Strongest Man 20:30 La Liga World 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 La Liga Show 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 Planet Speed 00:30 Best Premier League Games 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Copa Del Rey 2012-13

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 2 Broke Girls 08:30 Necessary Roughness 10:00 Friends 10:30

Gossip Girl 11:15 Ncis: Los Angeles 12:50 Supernatural 13:40 According To Jim 14:30 Necessary Roughness 16:05 2 Broke Girls 16:30 Chuck 17:15 Bones 19:00 Supernatural 19:45 Two And A Half Men 20:30 Friends 21:00 Closer, The 22:00 Harry’s Law 22:45 C.S.I. New York 23:30 Luck 00:45 Bound By Honor 03:50 2 Broke Girls 04:15 Chuck 05:00 Bones 06:30 Supernatural

06:40 Killer Elite 08:35 Cine News 09:25 Midnight Run 11:35 War Horse 14:00 The Muppets 15:45 Five Minarets In New York 17:45 Hollywood 1 On 1 18:20 The Vow 22:00 The Crimson Rivers 23:55 Never Let Me Go 01:45 Against All Odds 03:50 Cine News 04:45

Proof Of Life

08:00 Soccer Nanny 09:45 Underbelly Files - Infiltration 11:15 Veronica Guerin 13:00 Running With Scissors 15:00 Blindness 17:05 Heyday! 18:45 Chloe 20:30 Insignificant Harvey N 22:00 Crackie 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring! TV 03:40 Action Zone 04:05 Skyline 06:00 Chain Reac-

19:00 The Professionals 21:00 Scream 4 23:00 Magic City 00:00 C.S.I. 01:00 Adult Zone

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05:30 Along Came A Spider 07:15 Runaway Jury 09:25 The Grace Card 11:10 The Three Musketeers 13:05 Miral 15:00 Micki & Maude 17:00 Cine News 17:30 Made In Dagenham 19:30 Mad On Novacinema 20:10 The Woman In Black 22:00 Chicken With Plums 23:45 Young Adult 01:25 Cine News 02:10 A Dangerous Method 03:50 Hide And Seek

07:00 Adam’s Rib 08:40 Penelope 10:15 Mogambo 12:10 Beau Brummell 14:00 Bhowani Junction 15:50 Casablanca 17:30 Hot Millions 19:15 Grand Prix 22:00 Dark Of The Sun 23:40 Night Of The Iguana 01:40 Star Is Born 03:55 Somebody Up There Likes Me 05:45 Across The Wide Missouri

19:05 Morning Glory 21:00 The Client List 22:35 Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son 00:25 Home

By Preston Wilder

Planet Terror (LTV, 21.00) Welcome back, Planet Terror; it’s been a long time. I have a major soft spot for this shamefully enjoyable horror flick though it’s not for all tastes, as you might expect from a film about flesh-eating zombies - not to mention a film where a girl gets her leg cut off and replaced by a machine-gun (which she then uses to mow down zombies) and a film whose plot keywords at the Internet Movie Database include ‘Killed by Propeller’, ‘Ripped in Half’, ‘Shot to Death’ and ‘Cut Into Pieces’. It’s all in the playing, and though we don’t condone ultra-violence it must be said that the film is done with gusto - indeed, it’s great fun - with lots of one-liners and hard-boiled banter amid the lurid may-

hem. Rose McGowan is the girl with the machine-gun leg, so charismatic she also bewitched director Robert Rodriguez (or he bewitched her, who can say?), breaking up his marriage. Oh no! Originally shown as part of the Grindhouse double-bill, paired with Tarantino’s even better Death Proof. Made in 2007.

Chicken With Plums (Novacinema1, 22.00) It’s a mystery why this film is so chirpy when the story it tells is so sad. Mathieu Amalric is a famous musician, Maria de Medeiros (in a very thankless role) the nagging wife who loves him but has never been loved in return. She breaks his beloved violin during an argu-

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ment, so he decides to lie down and wait for death to take him; this takes about a week, during which we get flashbacks to his (mostly frustrating) life and lots of cartoonish, magical-realist tricks, from a broad slapstick glimpse of white-trash America to an animated riff on ‘Appointment in Samarra’. Some of it is imaginative, even funny - yet the underlying plot is so grim that the tricks feel like evasion techniques trying to sweeten the pill, and the guaranteed-tearjerker climax (featuring a girl called Irane who was always our hero’s great love, her memory haunting his exile) ends up feeling like just another trick. Tonally shaky and a bit misjudged; still among the more acclaimed foreign films of its year. In French. Made in 2011.

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

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1 Way to be going round walking in a leisurely manner (9) 2 Not still sitting (9) 3 Senior held girl, an icy performer! (6) 4 After mere disaster, perished, despite having been cured (8) 5 Boy, on arrival, has a sound device (5) 6 A detective accepts the last letter for an old Mexican (5) 11 Spend carefully or save (9) 12 Smartened various shopkeepers (9) 14 Not an attendant? (8) 16 Dunderhead ran round, ’e’d mended the socks (6) 18 Cut-price proposal? (5) 19 Visitor having ague still detained within (5)

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(6,3) 7 Consider this tank! (5) 8 Detest Moabite, an eccentric (9) 9 Should become tough (5) 10 This speech is not reported (6) 13 It was confused twice with real men of letters (8) 15 Became unhappy when dead-ends were removed (8) 17 Stare at only one of the glasses? (6) 20 Some more music from the twin (5) 21 Love-sickness? (9) 22 In addition I was held by the lady (5) 23 Fellow and model retired, sort of wasted away (9)

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Answers to crossword 2292

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Fast bowler; 8 Rum; 9 Stockpile; 10 Carnal; 11 Altar; 13 Pebbly; 15 Beckon; 17 Relic; 18 Parent; 21 No smoking; 22 Dew; 23 Streetlamp. Down – 1 Farm; 2 Somnambulist; 3 Basin; 4 Wholly; 5 Eskdale; 6 Mistaken idea; 7 Bearing; 12 Sparing; 14 Lockout; 16 Sprite; 19 Right; 20 Swap.

QUICK: Across – 1 Facilitate; 8 Win; 9 Refreshed; 10 Stodge; 11 Three; 13 Mouldy; 15 Leased; 17 Ritzy; 18 Reveal; 21 Constrain; 22 Two; 23 Orchestral. Down – 1 Fawn; 2 Constructing; 3 Lurid; 4 Toffee; 5 Trestle; 6 Chorus master; 7 Addenda; 12 Embrace; 14 Daystar; 16 Wreath; 19 Venus; 20 Fool.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

There seem to be many pluses about your career situation, so take advantage. However, be sure that the goals you’re aiming for are viable. It may be time to reflect on your priorities concerning all this. Close family and romantic ties may meet with some resistance. As the Moon aspects Pluto, power struggles or a control issue could be a factor.

Positive trends make this a great day for relationship matters, shopping with your sweetheart and sharing honest feelings. However, taking a risk without thinking about the consequences could cause a loss. Your social life is very active, and may continue this way for some time. Keep networking, as it can be excellent for romance and business.

Nervous tension, perhaps caused by a caustic spat, may get the day off to an edgy start. Do your best to avoid a dispute with a friend if you can. However, words of encouragement may give you something to be happy about.

News that you receive today could be the sort that makes you feel optimistic. Something can certainly be in the air!

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Concentrate on work and self-advancement today. Collaboration really works, especially if you connect with other professionals who are on the same wavelength. If you’re looking for a job, the current focus is excellent for finding something that suits your individual personality. Combine business with pleasure and something good may come of it.

It’s a good day to advance on the job front by taking up opportunities as they arise. The way things are looking, it helps to expect the unexpected. Be alert to situations that could become future money spinners. Let your intuition be your guide. Treat someone special for lunch and enjoy a heart-to-heart conversation. It may do you both good.

Be careful about frittering away resources through extravagant gestures. You may feel generous and keen to give a spur-of-the-moment gift, but make sure you won’t regret it later. As the Moon aspects Neptune in your communication zone, make sure you read emails carefully before sending them to avoid a potentially embarrassing incident.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Routine matters keep you busy, but you may feel that there’s not much on the horizon to keep you excited. If you’re feeling bored, you may be tempted to go on a shopping spree. The latest novel or movie may be your best bet, as they can keep you entertained nicely. For best results, step out of your comfort zone and explore new options.

Pursue career and business interests with confidence.

Practical interests such as finances may need some looking into today. Your creative skills could be used to start your own business, or could be a stepping stone to getting a new job. The Moon in Cancer clashes with Pluto, which suggests that career and family matters may need attention.

The current happy trend in relationships continues. Someone you know, or perhaps even a newcomer, may help you to feel really good about yourself. But even though you may feel flattered, try not to lose your ability to be logical when required. You seem to be in the mood to be bolder, but do try to research your options first of all Aquarius.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Watch what you say today; if you’re feeling edgy, it could cause problems, especially with loved ones. Peaceful pursuits bring fun and pleasure. Financial rewards may be possible if you play your cards right. It’s a good time to reorganise debt and sort out money issues. However, your partner may have some good news about their own financial situation.

It may be hard to put plans into action, at least not without determined effort to be very well-organised. Don’t leave anything to chance. You may have to go out of your way to get things sorted. It’s very possible that two heads may be better than one. By brainstorming, consulting and asking lots of questions, you can get ahead all the better.

Are you looking for a way to make money from home?

You may decide that doing so will ultimately give you more freedom as you can plan your schedule to suit yourself. It is a potential way forward for you. The current influence of Jupiter in Gemini is going to encourage you to be very creative. This isn’t the day to take a big gamble though.

Be careful.

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***************************** SWEET YORKSHIRE TERRIER, JESSIE, female, short grey fur, no collar, lost on 16/1 midday in Germasogeia, near Pizza Express. Family pet,chipped. REWARD. Please contact 99622782 ASAP with any information. ***************************** THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DOGS were thrown out in the cold, a young mother with her 7 puppies around 2 months old. Cross between terrier & German Spitz, medium size, we found them under a tree in the snow with no food or shelter, ready to die. If you are interested to adopt any of them please call 99398073 or 25333356. *****************************

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***************************** SMART GERMAN BUSINESSWOMAN, 43, living in Cyprus, seeks a nice, intelligent man for marriage. Pls write with picture to: salieris@ymail.com.

FOR SALE TOYOTA LAND CRUISER/PRADO white 1998, exceptional condition inside and out. Many extras. Any inspection welcome. €8850 ono.

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***************************** PRIME LAND IS AVAILABLE FOR LONG LEASE IN LIMASSOL. 40, 000 sq.m., zoning Ka7 (80% - 45% - 3 stories). Regular amphitheatrical shape overlooking Ladies Mile. Close to New Limassol Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway. Water supply, electricity and telephones are readily available. Suitable for immediate development. Ideal for various health facilities and resorts, holiday centres, commercial and shopping centres, entertainment enterprises etc. Information: Tel. 22 674338, 99621554

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PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA 3 BEDROOM FLAT with fireplace, huge veranda with extra room on it, in central Nicosia 5 min from Makariou 580 euro, 2 bedroom furnished flat in Ayios Andreas in very quiet neighbourhood close to American Embassy, 430 Euro. hadjidas@yahoo.com, 0049 17670769271, 99067198 ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building. Excellent condition, very spacious, furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi. Close to The European University, super markets and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent Euros 485/m. Please call 99695382 LUXURIOUS APARTMENT FOR RENT a luxurious one floor apartment situated in central Nicosia in a area of exceptional Beauty at 3 Museum Street, is available to let. It has been recently renovated and consists of 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, big dining and sitting rooms, kitchen and a huge veranda. Approximate covered area 250 sq m. Tel: 99622370.

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classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 22 Employment Miscellaneous 22 Pets 22 Lessons 22 Health & Fitness 22 Personal 22 Services 22 For Sale Miscellaneous 22 For Sale Land/ Property Business 22 For Sale Motor vehicles 22 Wanted -To Let Nicosia 22 To Let Limassol 25 To Let Larnaca 25 To Let Paphos 25 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -For Sale Nicosia 26 For Sale Limassol 26 For Sale Larnaca -For Sale Paphos 26 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras 26 For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads --

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CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, January 24, 2013

Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA Avenue. €480pm. Tel 99444336

***************************** FLATS/HOUSES for rent 1 bdrm in Aglantzia near the new university semi-furnished €430, 1 bdrm with furniture in Engomi €280, 1 bdrm in Akropoli near Philips college €450, 2 bdrm €550, Strovolos brand new 3 bdrm €650, Penthouse 3 bdrm roof-garden €850, detached house Aglantzia 2 bdrm big yard €450, detached house Pallouriotissa 3 bdrm €550.

STAVRINOS REAL ESTATE AGENCE A.M. 497 A A 166/E Tel: 99666703 email: yemo@cytanet.com.cy ***************************** STROVOLOS 4 bdrm., house, c/h, a/c from €1000 now €800, Mak/ ssa f/f house, pool, 4 bdrm., 4wc, 2 shower €1700, Kornos villa, pool, mature garden €4000 (2) penthouse luxury Acropolis 1 bdrm, f/f, centre €450. For info www.markidesestates.com Markides 22378898, 99464764, Reg. No. 487, E16 ***************************** FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT studio Acropolis €300, 1bdrm P/ ssa €450, Aglantzia €350, Str/ los €350, Acropolis €350 2bdrm Lycavito furnished €530, Acropolis €550, Ag. Dometios €500, 3bdrm Nikis av. €550 Str/los G/F €660, Tymbos independent €800, Ag. Omologites colonial listed building swimming pool maids room €2,500. PROPERTY FINDER LTD. 99474839 99646822 A.M.627 A.A.108/E ***************************** STUDIO flat in Pallouriotissa (next to McDonald) furnished €280. For info call 99606984. ***************************** TO LET spacious 2 bdrm apartment in a small building in Strovolos area near ARETAIEION hospital (dead-end) with independent pet-

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areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

rol heating, 3 a/c, water pressure system, satellite. Directly available. TEL.: 96275151 FLATS TO LET - Nicosia: A wide selection of furnished & unfurnished in all areas of Nicosia.

NIKARIA ESTATE LTD Theo Loizides 22761616 / 99660050 nikaria@cablenet.com.cy 2 BDRM flat (almost new, 4 years old) at Lycavitos with good area near University of Cyprus with fully equipment kitchen, a/c in all rooms. For info call 96530532.

****************************** MODERN 2 BDRM, first floor flat in attractive building in Anthoupolis, very quiet area between the Grammar School and the European University, also very convenient for Pascal and Highgate Schools and the University of Nicosia. Large front veranda, all appliances, modern fittings, light and bright. Furnished or unfurnished €550p.m. Call 99900177.

2 ROOMS €125 each, near McDonald’s Engomi only Philippine girls.

Call 99663927.

FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank.

3 W.C., fully air-conditioned extra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition. Information: Tel. 99621554 3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required).

Tel: 97773358. ****************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception

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3 bedrs luxury terraced house,210sq.m,central heating, full a/c, marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor the stairs and bedrooms,4 wc,3 bathrooms the 2 en suite ,big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen,3 covered parking, roof garden access, in a quiet neighbourhood on Mon Parnas hill – Engomi €800 (photos in the website).

3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi detached house 120 sq. m, a/c for

TO LET NICOSIA hot and cold, small yard, FULLY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPOLIS €600 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr luxury semi-detached house with character, 200sq.m, central heating, full ac, sitting and dining room with fire place, big kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher and refrigerator, nice mature garden with flowers, trees and small garden with grass, covered parking, 3wc, 2 bathrooms in a quiet neighborhood. Available middle of January. Agios Andreas - €1200 - H3AAD0001-R (photos in website).

5. 3 bedr luxury detached house, 200sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 3wc, blinds and curtains, open plan kitchen with cooker, oven and dishwasher, veranda with bbq, good size garden, covered

TO LET NICOSIA parking, storage room, alarm system, in a quiet area – Archangellos €1100 (photos in the website).

6. 3 bedr+big attic room with shower and wc luxury new house, 210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 4wc, blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, small garden, covered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - STROVOLOS €1100 (H4ST10007-R), (photos in the website).

7. 3 bedr detached ground floor house with separate maid’s room, with very big garden with grass(200sq.m) and covered patio with bbq and bar, central heating, full a/c, 180sq.m, FULLY FURNISHED or NOT, 2 covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood opposite Acropolis park - Acropolis - €1000 - H3ACS0004-R (photos in website).

8. 4 bedr very big luxury semi de-

TO LET NICOSIA tached house 350sq.m, with big separate basement 80sq.m with 2 rooms, sitting room, kitchen and bathroom. Consists of big sitting and dining areas upstairs, big kitchen with big family room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3 showers, 1 bathroom, central heating, full a/c, black out blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking and patio with bbq in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Makarios foorball stadium. Available END of February - Makedonitissa €1500.

9. 4 bedr new luxury detached house build in a big plot of land, central heating, full a/c, 2 bedrs with en suite shower, 4 wc, bathroom with jacuzzi, big open space sitting and dining areas, 330sq.m, big swimming pool 5x10, big garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, roller blinds and curtains on all the windows, electrical appliances in kitchen, covered park-

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ing, in a quiet neighbourhood off Tseriou avenue. AVAILABLE end of February –Strovolos €1800 (photos in the website).

old in a very quiet area 25 min from the centre – DEYTERA €2000 – H4DEF0001-R (photos in website).

10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €700 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website).

13. 3 bedr ground floor house with big separate 80sq,m room with shower and wc for multi use, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, 2 shower,1 bathroom, fully furnished, small garden, bbq area, parking, on a small building in a very quiet area near Agios Vasilios church. Strovolos - €900 - H4ST10028-R (photos in website).

11. 4 bedr new luxury finished detached house with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big kitchen with cooker oven, dishwasher and big family room, aluminum shutters in all the house, separate big sitting and dining room with parquet floor, 2 covered parking, alarm system, big covered patio, SWIMMING POOL, in a newly built area near Falcon school – Strovolos €2000 (photos in the website).

12. 4 bedr luxury detached house, 350sq.m,central heating, full ac, big garden with fruit trees, grass and swimming pool 6 X 12,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, 4 years

14. 4 bedr new luxury finished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with en suite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main bathroom with jacuzzi, 4w , fully expensive furnished with LCD televisions (all furniture and appliances cost 100,000 EURO), kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area,2 covered parkings, alarm system, pressure system, in a nice quiet neighbourhood Strovolos €2000 (photos in the website).

TO LET NICOSIA TO LET 3 bedroom house situated on a dead end street next to a small quiet park near Falcon School. Has an En-suite master room, large study room, central heating, a/c and fire place in the living room.

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TO LET NICOSIA 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 luxury finished spacious floor apartment with very big sitting and dining areas with family room with fire place, solid parquet floor all throught, central heating independent, full a/c, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, 4wc, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all windows, big covered veranda, covered parking, big storage room, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighborhood – Agios Andreas€ 1300 – A3AAD0005-R (photos in website).

2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, covered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank

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headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website).

off Kallipoleos street – Lykavitos €650 (photos in the website).

2 bedr penthouse apartment,100sq.m + 80sq.m veranda with flowers and bbq, big sitting and dining room with big 60” TV, storage heaters, full a/v, 2 wc, en suite bathroom/jacuzzi, roman blinds, cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine and refrigerator in the kitchen, covered parking, near Metro supermarket – Aglantzia €600 (photos in the website).

6. 2 bedr luxury finished apartment on a small building with 4 flats only, central heating with petrol independent, full a/c, 2 bedrooms with en suite bathroom/shower, separate guest wc, NICELY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighbourhood very close to Junior school and the park – Agioi Omologites €800 (photos in the website).

4. A1DAS0010-R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, big bathroom, big bedroom with shutters, covered veranda, storage heaters, 2a/c, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking in a quiet area in a small modern building near Acropolis Park. Dasoupolis €400 (photos in website).

5. 2 bedr new modern luxury finished apartment with parquet floor, central heating independent, 2 a/c, modern kitchen with all fitted expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood

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4 bedr luxury floor apartment,250sq.m, office, maid’s room, central heating ind, full hidden wall unit a/c,2 showers, 1 bathroom, 3wc, parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven, bbq on the veranda in the kitchen, big sitting area, roller blinds on all the windows, alarm system, big veranda on a small building off Athalasas avenue near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis - € 1100 - A4DAS0002-R (photos in website).

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

9. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 flats only. Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, fully fitted kitchen with all the electrical appliances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neibourhood

TO LET NICOSIA near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE middle of February – Acropolis €850 (photos in the website).

10. 2 bedr luxury apartment with 3 a/c for hot and cold, big covered veranda, covered parking and storage room, NICELY FURNISHED, near Acropoli park behind Tseriotis showroom – ACROPOLIS - €450 – A2ACS0033-R (photos in website).

11. 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 neighbourhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €650 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website).

12. 2 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, big covered veranda, in a small 2 storey building in a quiet area behind Tymvos – MAKEDONITISSA - € 500 – A2MAK0008-R (photos in website).

13. 3 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor, big sitting and dining area, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, blinds, shutters in the bedrooms, big kitchen with all expensive electrical appliances, off Makarios avenue near the centre – Nicosia Centre- € 800 – A3NIC0025-R (photos in website).

14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq.m+30sq.m

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covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol,full wall a/c units, solid parquet floor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COVERED PARKING,storage room, near Pizza Hut in Strovolos €1100 (photos in the website).

15. 2 bedrs new luxury apartment, sitting room open plan with kitchen which includes cooker, oven, refrigerator and washing machine, 2 wc, central heating, full AC, blinds on the windows, very big covered verandas, covered parking and storage room in a dead end off Athalassas avenue near Laiki popular bank and Hellenic bank headquarters. - DASOUPOLI €500 (A2DAS0006-R), (photos in the website).

16. 3 bedr new luxury ground floor apartment, with separate big TV room or guest room, 225sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances and breakfast area, 4 bathrooms, 4 wc, 2 bedrs with en suite bathroom, floor heating independent, full a/c, blinds on all the windows, marble and parquet floor, big veranda with bbq, small garden, closed 2 covered parking with remote control, in a very quiet area very close to Junior school and 50 metres from the park. FULLY NICELY FURNISHED – Agioi Omologites €1200 (photos in the website).

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***************************** 2 BDRM ground floor semi-furnished in Larnaca, Dhekelia road opposite Marine club 30 metre from the beach €400. Stavrinos Real Estate R.B. 497 L/N 166/E Phone: 99666703 email yemo@ cytanet.com.cy FLAT IN CENTRAL LARNACA, Stasinou St, f/f, a/c, one bedroom, Off street car parking.

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TO LET LARNACA 400 euros. For more information call - 9977 4314 PEYIA, luxury villa, 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden area, sea and mountain views. Sky satellite, euro 650 ono, please call : 99771532 – no agents FOR LONG TERM RENT: 2 bedroom modern apartment, recently renovated-fully furnished, Chloraka- Melanos, quiet neighbourhood, communal pool, 2 covered parking space, security burglar bars throughout,2 balcony. Sea view, central to shops. Communal fees included. 380.00eur/ month. Call Maria 99 371 874 € 380 /MNTH UNIVERSAL AREA A 2-bed house, beautiful location, in cul-de-sac, 10 years old, 90 sq. mts, furnished. Open-plan lounge/kitchen, front car-port, garden, 2-floors, 2 W.CS/bath and part air-conditioned. Call 99632388.’

ONLY €225/MONTH! Two bedroom unfurnished, freshly renovated flat in Geroskipou. Spacious, plus many extras: large backyard for bbq/entertaining and new pergola, private covered parking, storage area, covered verandah, a/c, new curtains, quiet complex.

Close to Geroskipou square and short walk to beach. Probably best rental bargain on the market! Please call: 26-910322, 99347502.

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TO LET PAPHOS after Village location, Modern 2Bedroom Townhouse, F/F to a high standard, Lovely Communal Pool, set within a very small complex, Quiet Location, Uninterrupted, Sea views, parking, Early viewing highly recommended, 400 Euros PAPHOS - Very large 3 Bedroom Apt, Fully Furnished to a very high standard, Would suit 3 Professionals sharing, Within close proximity to Hospital and Court, Central Heating, 2 Bathrooms, Laundry, 350 Euros.

TALA - Luxurious 3/4 Bedroom Villas, F/F to a very high standard,2 bathrooms,2 en-suites, own swimming pools, landscaped Gardens with Spectacular Sea views, 700 Euros.

EMPA - Immaculate, Spacious 2 Bedroom, U/F, Corner House, Large kitchen, Patio, Quiet location, Must be seen, 300 Euros URGENTLY WANTED – Bungalows 2/3 Bedrooms MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922

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TO LET PAPHOS ground floor apartment, master with ensuite. Situated on small, peaceful complex with communal pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture including plasma TV & satellite. Allocated off street parking. Good-sized enclosed patio with barbeque. website reference number: RTL_645 2. PEYIA €450 brand new modern 2 bedroom townhouse situated on a quiet complex. Master with ensuite, family bathroom & downstairs guest wc. Fully furnished with modern furniture including fly screens & plasma TV. Enclosed rear garden. Private undercover parking & storage space. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. website reference number: RTL_658 3. ANARITA €500 modern de-

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS tached 3 bedroom villa, master with ensuite shower room, family bathroom & downstairs guest wc. Modern fitted kitchen with appliances if required. Enclosed garden with private pool. Available unfurnished. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. website reference number: RTL_659 4. KISSONERGA €550 modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated in a quiet residential area. Master bedroom with ensuite, separate kitchen, downstairs guest wc.

Enclosed garden offering private pool & off street parking. Available unfurnished though can include kitchen appliances. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion. website reference number: rtl_501 5. TALA €725 modern 3 bedroom detached villa located in a peaceful residential area between Tala & Kamaras offering sea & mountain views. Separate kitchen with top brand appliances inc dishwasher. Includes central heating, flyscreens & sky satellite. Private pool & enclosed garden with storage. Available unfurnished or furnished. website reference number: RTL_566 6. CHLORAKA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom 3 bathroom villa with ground floor bedroom & bathroom. Beautifully furnished with good quality modern furniture includes sky satellite, fly screens & feature fireplace with modern gas fire. Private pool offering views of the sea. Off street

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parking. Situated within walking distance of bus routes & shops. website reference number: RTL_611

1. Geroskipou A large 2 bed apartment with large balcony facing the sea, fully furnished, covered parking, a/c €345 pcm

7. MESOGI €800 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with ensuite, family bathroom & downstairs guest wc. Available unfurnished with gas central heating.

Enclosed garden with private pool offering sea views. Pets allowed at owners’ discretion.

2. Tala 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Stunning sea views, large balcony, well kept gardens, communal pool, and quiet area. €350 pcm

8. TALA €900 a charming detached 4 bedroom villa with character, situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area with breathtaking sea views. Spacious living rooms with central heating & real fireplace. Separate kitchen & dining room. Good-sized garden offering private pool and stonebuilt barbeque area. Undercover parking. Available fully furnished. website reference number: RTL_638 Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@mrrentpaphos.net

***************************** EMBA, 3 bedroom detached house, with attached separate one bedroom apartment, large garden, mountain and sea views, unfurnished, €600 p/m o.n.o – agents welcome, call : 99683379

3. Peyia Large 3 or 4 bed detached villas, secluded position, large private pool, a/c, and parking.

Unfurnished or furnished. Very nice, well worth seeing. €650pcm & €750pcm 4. Kato Paphos Furnished 1 bedroom apartment, a/c, private parking, well kept garden, communal swimming pool, large balcony with sea view. From €300 pcm REDUCED THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELECTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON info@unique-consultancy.eu LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.

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

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

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APHRODITE HILLS - Villa share at this amazing resort? Now available for discerning people, luxury double rooms, each with own en suite and heating unit and plus of large lounge/dining/kitchen area, external patios, gardens and swimming pool. Fully furnished and equipped €800pm plus share of running expenses, min period 6 months or yearly contract renewal. To enquire (or view from January 2013) ring 99178141. A chance not to be missed!

***************************** KILI – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom villa, with swimming pool and garden, unfurnished, gas central heating, large verandas, lovely mountain views, very quiet and tranquil area, €500 per month o.n.o. Call: 99479006 ***************************** PAPHOS / PEYIA VILLA, villa for rent in Peyia, 4 bedroom, 4 bathrooms, large sitting-dining area, fully airconditioned and heated, unfurnished, panoramic views, large parking, low rent contact: 99490953, 26815534 ***************************** FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia,

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***************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS: Offering a full range of property services, the company you can TRUST. EMBA 4 bed furnished villa in a lovely location of Emba. Very private grounds, completely on its own, closed garage, kitchen, downstairs bedroom, 3 upstairs, private pool, garden. Ref: Emba €850 ANARITA 3 bedroom villa nicely furnished in a great location, walking distance to the village square, Kitchen with all appliances, granite work tops, 3 upstairs bedrooms, master en suite shower, family bathroom, flyscreens, private pool, outside barabeque area with sink Ref: 855 €600 SECRET VALLEY 3 bed Bungalow furnished to a very modern standard, fully furnished, 3 bedrooms, en-suite in 2 of the bedrooms, private pool, easy maintenance gardens, nice valley views: Ref 1017 €800 CHLORAKA A large modern furnished Town House, furnished to a very high standard, downstairs bedroom, 3 upstairs, en suites, bathroom, private pool, decking, fanastic sea views Ref: 806 €850 TALA A modern part furnished 3 bed Villa with amazing views, private pool. This property has an elegant design, with quality interior fittings,Italian kitchen, 3 upstairs bedrooms with master en suite central heating, AC, private pool, flyscreens Ref: 988 €750 SECRET VALLEY 3 bed villa nicely furnished, 3 upstairs bedrooms, AC, easy manageble gardens, private pool, off street parking.

Ref 1035 €700 TSADA Large 5 bedroom villa furnished, top quality fixtures and furnitures, fire place, central heating, AC, downstairs bedroom, kitchen, utillity room, 4 bedrooms upstairs, large living areas, closed garage, private pool, peaceful location, near to the Tsada golf area. Ref: 955 €1400 CHLORAKA 3 bedroom ground house offered unfurnished, large rooms, fire place, AC, in residential area, nice location, walking distance to shops. Ref 1196 €350 Please call for a free viewing on Office 26600450 Mobile: 97614070 many more properties on our website at www. flowron.com - Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT, PLEASE CALL US!!!!!! ***************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with mod-

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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 ***************************** 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. €425.00 or near offer 2 EMBA 3 bed 2 bath unfurnished villa in handy location close to the shopping areas. Property also has separate 1 bed apartment on the lower level. Large open plan living area and dining area. Fully fitted dining/kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Separate 1 bed apartment on lower level. Perfect for dual living. Small garden & and parking. €550.00 a month.

3. GIOLOU – 5 bed unfurnished villa consisting of 3 bed, 2 bath main house (bungalow) with self contained 2 bed apartment with own entrance. Main house, open plan living area, beamed ceilings with feature fireplace. Dining space and kitchen. 3 bedrooms, master with en-suite and family bathroom. Covered balcony with sea and rural views, swimming pool and garden areas.

Lower level apartment reached via the main house or separate entrance. Large open plan living area, kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. €850.00 per month 4. TALA – 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with dining space. Fully fitted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden.

Storage room. Ground floor bed room with adjacent shower. Stairs to two double bedrooms both ensuite, one with Jacuzzi tub. Small seating area with adjacent balcony. Pool and off street parking.

Lnadscaped gardens €750.00 per month or close offers only 5. TRIMITHOUSA – 4 bed, 3.5 bath

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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. €375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at €250per month.

7. LOWER PEYIA – 3 bed, 2.5 bath part furnished villa situated in quiet cul du sac. Open plan living and dining area with doors out the to pool and garden.. Very large breakfast fitted kitchen.

Doors out to garden and pool.

Separate guest WC. Stairs to 3 double bedrooms. Master bedroom very large with en-suite shower. Family bathroom. Private pool, gardens, shutters. €550.00 per month or close offers only.

8. STROUMBI – 3 bed 2.5 bath large unfurnished villa in quiet village area. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Good sized fitted kitchen and breakfast area.

Guest WC with storage area.3 double bedrooms. Master with en-suite bathroom. Family bathroom. Enclosed gardens, pool and off street parking. Realistically priced €550.00 per month.

OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL. PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol.com

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

PROPERTY FOR SALE LIMASSOL FOR SALE €250,000 3 bedroom bungalow for sale in Agios Silas, Ysponas. Large plot with swimming pool and parking for 3/4 cars. Two shower rooms and two kitchens. Contact owner on 25391235 or 99103624

FLAT FOR SALE 1 bdrm at Peyia village with title deeds, fully furnished. €65.000. For information call 99526562.

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***************************** UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY IN LOFOS/ TALA, 2 three bedroom detached villas on large plot.

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Advertiser FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods!

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

PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 WORLD ANIMAL DAY. On Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be micro chipping pets for only €20 including all the paperwork. For further information telephone 26953496.

To celebrate World Animal Day on Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be offering free spaying/neutering for all feral and unwanted animals as they do throughout the year. Contact 26953496 for further details.

PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2 CHARITY HAIR CUT. On Thursday 4th October 09.30-17.30 without an appointment Andri at Atlantic Bay Hotel (2nd Floor) will be charging €5 for a haircut with all proceeds going to Paphiakos. Telephone Suzanne on 99151996 or Andri on 99604783.

PAPHIAKOS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. Saturday November 24th 9am – 3pm at the Crazy Spoon Restaurant. For further details contact 99151996. Stalls, Santa’s Grotto, Donkey Rides, Pirate Pat and many more.

SATURDAY SERVICES NICOSIA St Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Ave LIMASSOL ‘Meeting Point’, 193A Christodoulou H’pavlou, opp Molos Park on beach rd BIBLE STUDY FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN 10.00 am Nicosia • 10.30 am Limassol FAMILY WORSHIP SERVICE 11.30 am Nicosia • 11.45 am Limassol Pastor: Branislav Mirilov 96702349 Info: Nsia 96207014 • Lsol 99322614 www.adventist.org | www.hopetv.org

AYIA NAPA and DHERYNIA (Anglican Church in S.E Cyprus) Sunday Worship 9.30am Morning Prayer every Sunday morning at St Constantinos & Eleni Chapel, Dherynia (near Hospital in Dherynia) 11am at Scandinavian Church, off Nissi Avenue (opp Tassia Maris Hotel), Ayia Napa nd 6pm at St Constantinos & Eleni (2 week) Chaplain : Revd Simon Holloway M.A. Tel: 97 839349 www.angsecyp.org Visitors especially welcome

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Sport Australians salvage series levelling win over Sri Lanka

England’s Johnson facing three months out

Hughes returns to form with century

ENGLAND flanker Tom Johnson has been ruled out of the RBS 6 Nations championship with a knee ligament injury.

Head coach Stuart Lancaster announced at yesterday’s tournament launch that Johnson is facing three months on the sidelines.

Loosehead prop Alex Corbisiero will miss England’s first two fixtures, against Scotland and Ireland, after today undergoing a procedure to clean out his troublesome knee.

And England will also be without Freddie Burns for at least the Scotland game on February 2, with the Gloucester fly-half expected to be out for two to three weeks with knee ligament damage.

Lancaster added that it was “too early to tell” whether Manu Tuilagi will have recovered from an ankle injury in time for the tournament opener at Twickenham.

In more positive injury news, full-back Alex Goode has overcome a shoulder problem and will play for Saracens against Cardiff Blues in the LV= Cup this weekend.

Lancaster said: “Tom Johnson is probably facing a three-month recovery time.

For him it is a tough blow.

“Alex Corbisiero’s knee hasn’t settled down. It keeps swelling after small amounts of exercise.

“There is a loose body in there. He has gone in for a scope today to get that loose body taken out and hopefully that will settle down for him.

“We will get him rehabbed and back playing for London Irish. That will take him out of the first two games as a minimum.

“Freddie Burns has had a scan on his MCL. It is a grade two injury so not as bad as first feared but it will keep him out for two or three weeks. We will try to get him back as soon as we can.”

Worcester’s Matt Kvesic was called into the squad to replace Johnson after the Exeter flanker was injured in the Chiefs’ Heineken Cup defeat to Leinster.

By Stuart Condie

IN BRIEF

PHIL Hughes returned to form with a century before Xavier Doherty and Moises Henriques took three wickets each to lead Australia to a series-levelling 32-run win over Sri Lanka in the final one-day cricket international yesterday.

Hughes struck 138 not out at Bellerive Oval but Sri Lanka were on course to overhaul Australia’s 247-5 until Doherty exploited spin-friendly conditions to dismiss three of the tourists’ top four batsmen.

Pressure from Doherty reduced Sri Lanka from 50-0 at the 10-over mark to 85-4 from 25 and the tourists never fully recovered, stumbling to 215 all out and a 2-2 draw in the five-match series.

Australia still have batting concerns despite Hughes’ second ton of the series, with David Hussey’s 34 the next highest score, but the team showed spirit in the absence of injured captain Michael Clarke.

Australia’s recent woes, which included a disappointing 170 all out in Adelaide and a shambolic 74 all out in Brisbane, looked set to continue when the home side crawled to 62-2 from 20 overs.

Hughes, however, overcame a slow start to rediscover the fluency he showed earlier in the series with an unbeaten 154-ball innings, hitting out with particular flair after he reached his century.

“Give yourself time early and you can always catch

Hughes (R) overcame a slow start to rediscover the fluency he showed earlier in the series with an unbeaten 154-ball innings

up later,” Hughes said. “It was one of those innings today.

“I had found it quite tough but luckily enough I got a few away at the end. We had wickets in hand and that was always in the back of our mind.”

Signalling his team’s preference to chase a tar-

get rather than set one, Sri Lanka captain Mahele Jayawardene opted to bowl first and handed the ball to Tillakaratne Dilshan for the first over.

Dilshan did not get to bowl in Sunday’s fourth match in Sydney - where Sri Lanka were on top until rain forced an abandonment - but he

turned the new ball immediately.

He beat David Warner’s outside edge to bowl him for 10 and wicketkeeper Matthew Wade, pushed up the order to open, was trapped lbw by man-of-theseries Nuwan Kulasekara soon after.

Australia failed even to

equal their dismal series average of 71-4 at 20 overs but made the most of the wickets in hand.

Hughes had a let-off on 20 when an inside edge from Angelo Mathews rolled on to the foot of stumps but failed to dislodge the bails.

He gathered momentum from that point, adding 60 from 96 balls for the third wicket with captain George Bailey (17) and 98 from 102 with Hussey.

Hussey was run out by a direct hit from Thisara Perera after softly serving the ball back to the bowler but Glenn Maxwell and Henriques each scored at a run a ball to help Hughes keep the scoreboard ticking over.

Hughes now has two centuries from five one-day innings.

“It’s nice to get a chance in one-day cricket,” said man-of-the-match Hughes, who played 20 tests before making his 50-over bow. “It feels like it was a long time coming.”

Sri Lanka were rolling nicely with Jayawardene driving and stroking the ball with ease but the opener, in his final match as captain, holed out to Mitchell Starc off Doherty for 38.

That started a rot from 57-0 to 77-4. Dilshan was caught behind off Henriques for a pedestrian 48-ball 19 and Doherty got rid of Lahiru Thirimanne for one before bowling the dangerous Dinesh Chandimal (6).

Mathews and Jeevan Mendis raised hopes of an unlikely win with 74 off 53 balls after Sri Lanka had hit a nadir of 113-5 from 35 overs but Henriques bowled Mendis for 26 and Mathews holed out off Mitchell Johnson for 67 in the next over.

The last five wickets fell for 28 runs as Sri Lanka were bowled out with nine balls remaining. Henriques finished with career-best figures of 3-32, while Doherty returned 3-21.

The teams now return to Sydney for Saturday’s first Twenty20.

Dominant Durant lifts Thunder over Clippers

Pirelli unveil new range of tyres for 2013 F1 action

Raina makes most of letoff to lead India to victory

KEVIN Durant put on a second-half show to help Oklahoma City overwhelm the Los Angeles Clippers 109-97 on Tuesday in a possible dress rehearsal for this season’s Western Conference finals.

Durant caught fire with 24 of his game-high 32 points coming in the final two quarters, where the league’s leading scorer mixed three-point bombs with a forceful dunk to carry the NBA-leading Thunder (33-9) to a road victory.

“My shots were falling and my team mates were getting offensive rebounds and kicking it out for (three-pointers),” Durant told reporters.

“When we’re driving and kicking, we’re pretty good.”

PIRELLI yesterday unveiled a new range of tyres which they are convinced will improve the show in Formula One. Ahead of their third season in the sport, and with talks ongoing over a new deal, Pirelli say the changes introduced will result in at least two pit stops being required per car at every grand prix.

The Italian manufacturer have improved performance, with the tyres faster by up to half a second per lap and with the time gap between compounds widened to at least 0.5secs.

The result should be an increase in overtaking opportunities and enhanced race strategies.

INDIA clinched the one-day series against England with a game to spare yesterday as Steven Finn was denied a crucial wicket for breaking the stumps in his delivery stride.

Finn’s habit of colliding with the stumps has caused much debate among the game’s law-makers but it had a very practical consequence in the fourth ODI, with umpire Steve Davis calling dead ball when Suresh Raina was held at slip with India 178 for four.

At that point India were still 80 short of victory but Raina, 41 at the time, finished unbeaten on 89 to seal a five-wicket win in the 48th over.

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Australian Open Azarenka wears down Kuznetsova to make semis

Fed: I feel a bit lucky to have come through World number two sets up Murray clash

By Jon Fisher ROGER Federer dropped his first sets at this year’s Australian Open - but it did not stop him from muscling his way into a semi-final meeting with Andy Murray.

The Swiss was handed his first significant test of the tournament against JoWilfried Tsonga but came through 7-6 (7/4) 4-6 7-6 (7/4) 3-6 6-3.

He will now meet Murray, who continued his untroubled route through the draw with a straightforward win over Jeremy Chardy, in a repeat of last year’s Wimbledon and Olympic finals.

“It was tough the whole match. Any set could have gone either way,” Federer said.

“It was tough because you never know what Jo-Wilfried is going to come up with.

I feel a bit lucky to come through.”

As for playing Murray on Friday, the 31-year-old added: “I’ve got to recover a little but I’m going to be fine I’m young, I recover quick.

“I’m looking forward to the match. It’s going to be tough.

He had a great year last year, winning his first grand slam and Olympic gold.

“He is a great guy and a great player.”

Federer started in commanding fashion with a break in the opening game

but was then broken himself for the first time this year.

The world number two set up a chance to move 5-4 ahead with a wonderful high baseline drive in reply to a Tsonga smash but then wasted the break-point opportunity with a sloppy forehand.

Tsonga managed to keep it on serve but could do little in the tie-break as Federer upped his game to take it 7-4.

The second was also closely fought but it went the way of the seventh seed thanks to a solitary break in game seven.

A match which had yet to scale real heights was warming up and the third went to another breaker.

And it was Federer who again came through, a minibreak handing him two set points and he took the first after some wonderful scrambling defence forced his opponent to push a low backhand volley wide.

The 17-time major winner appeared to be going in for the kill when he claimed four break points early in the fourth but Tsonga held on, aided by some big serving and heavy groundstrokes.

The 2008 Melbourne runner-up was also having more joy on the Federer serve and he established a 4-2 lead when Federer pushed a routine forehand beyond the baseline.

The players then traded

breaks as nerves started to become a factor before Tsonga held firm to serve it out and take it to a deciding set.

Having been so close for so long, the fifth was slightly anti-climactic as Federer dominated.

He cruised into a 4-1 lead and wasted two chances to claim a double-break, Federer setting up the point only to miss the easy drive volley into the open court.

Tsonga held and then staved off four match points in his next service game but it was merely delaying the inevitable as Federer got the job done to go through in three hours and 34 minutes.

Murray is confident he will have little problem in stepping up his performance level for the clash with Federer, despite his low-key passage to the last four.

The Scot has barely broken sweat in advancing to his fourth successive Melbourne semi - although he turned in a much-improved display against big-hitting Chardy.

He accepts, though, that he will need to play better still against the Swiss with a place in Sunday’s final at stake.

“I think you have to trust yourself that when you are tested you’re going to play better tennis,” he said.

“You never know for sure but in the build-up to the tournament I played very well.”

The Swiss was handed his first significant test of the tournament against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga but came through 7-6 (7/4) 4-6 7-6 (7/4) 3-6 6-3

DEFENDING champion Victoria Azarenka won a firstset war of attrition before crushing Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5 6-1 to march into the semi-finals of the Australian Open yesterday.

The world number one was pushed to the wall by the 27year-old Russian, who played more like a two-time grand slam winner than her current world No. 75 ranking.

Azarenka established her dominance in the second set, however, to set up a semifinal against American teenager Sloane Stephens, who sent shockwaves through the tournament by upsetting Serena Williams.

“It would be silly to say I’m not excited, I’m not nervous,” said Azarenka. “I think the person who is never nervous is a really scary person.

I mean, is a robot really.

Everybody has emotions. It’s just a matter how well you can ... control them for you to feel good before you go on court or when you’re on the court.”

Kuznetsova and Francesca Schiavone played in the longest women’s grand slam singles match in 2011 at Melbourne Park, lasting four hours, 44 minutes, and the Russian appeared determined to drag Azarenka into another draining epic.

Former US and French Open champion Kuznetsova raced to a 4-1 lead, with her sliced serve to her opponent’s forehand proving a handful for the Belarusian.

But Azarenka levelled at 4-4, and captured the decisive break at 5-5 before sealing the first set when Kuznetsova missed a backhand. The 77-minute first set lasted 20 minutes longer than Azarenka’s entire match against Russian Elena Vesnina in the previous round, but she roared through the second in half an hour.

US teen Stephens thrills to down idol Williams

By Ian Ransom

Pretty cool: hailed as the future of American tennis, Stephens defeated Williams in three sets yesterday to set up a semi-final with defending champion Azarenka

AMERICAN teen Sloane Stephens went to bed on Tuesday wondering if she had the game to topple her idol Serena Williams in the Australian Open quarter-finals, but after beating the five-times Melbourne Park champion in three sets she said it wasn’t as hard as she thought.

After a tentative start, the 19-yearold went toe-to-toe with an injuryhampered Williams on Rod Laver Arena yesterday to claim a 3-6 7-5 6-4 win and set up a semi-final with defending champion Victoria Azarenka.

Hailed as the future of American tennis, Stephens said she needed time to convince herself she could send 31year-old Williams packing from the first grand slam of the year.

“Last night I was thinking about it and ... someone asked me like, ‘Do you think you can win?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I think so’, but I wasn’t too clear about it,” Stephens told reporters after pulling off the biggest upset of this year’s tournament.

“Then this morning when I got up, I was, ‘Look, dude, you can do this. Go out and play and do your best.’”

Stephens took heart after fighting

back from 2-0 down in the second set after losing her serve, and began going for broke against the 15-times grand slam champion.

“From then on I got aggressive, started coming to the net more, and just got a lot more comfortable,” she said.

“I just kind of played my game from there, I think.”

Stephens had to “chillax” as Williams took a lengthy medical time-out to deal with a back injury and watched as her opponent took out her frustrations by destroying a racket in the third set.

RELEASE OF ANGER The release of anger appeared to help Williams, who broke to lead 4-3 in the decider, but the Florida-born Stephens showed great poise to break back immediately and go on to seal the match when Williams netted a backhand.

Like a typical teenager, it was not long before Stephens was checking her phone to find more than 200 messages of congratulations. She also found the number of followers on her Twitter account had doubled.

“I had 17,000 (followers), now I have

35,000,” said Stephens, who is now A$500,000 richer for reaching the last four.

Among the Tweets was one from four-times grand slam champion Kim Clijsters: “Just woke up to great news!

Have been a fan of you for a couple years now! Well done girl! Stay cool en go all the way x.”

Stephens was concerned about how to respond to all her well-wishers, with worries about the phone bill.

“I’m still trying to figure that out because I thought it was free to receive text messages, but someone told me otherwise,” she said.

“So I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to do, because otherwise my phone bill is going to be crazy and my mom is going to be like, ‘Oh, my God, your phone bill’.

“She’s going to be like, ‘The money you were going to buy yourself something nice with, you’re going to pay your phone bill.’”

The realisation that she had dumped the greatest player of her generation out of the tournament sunk in while she was stretching after the match.

“I was like, ‘I’m in the semis of a grand slam’,” she said. “I was like, ‘Whoa’. It wasn’t as hard as I thought.

But it’s pretty cool.”

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Keeper Buffon signs new deal with Juve LONG-SERVING Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has signed a two-year contract extension with the Italian champions.

The 34-year-old, who joined Juve from Parma in 2001 for a fee of 55million euros, has made over 500 appearances in all competitions for the Bianconeri.

Towards the end of last year Buffon admitted he was considering the offer of a one-year extension with his Juve contract due to expire in June.

But it emerged yesterday that the offer had been increased by the club, and Buffon was delighted to extend his stay at the Juventus Stadium until June 2015.

He told juventus.com: “When I arrived at Juve my only concern was whether or not I could cut it at this level.

“I hope to play for as long as I’m able and I’m ready to give my all. We’d originally talked about a one-year renewal but Juve made the counteroffer of a two-year deal.”

LONG-SERVING Buffon has won Serie A five times with the Turin giants - despite the 2005 and 2006 titles being revoked as well as lifting the World Cup with Italy in 2006 and finishing as a Champions League runner-up to AC Milan in 2003.

When asked about his favourite save from an 18-year career, he joked: “The next one. I’m hoping I don’t have to make many.

“But the best I’ve made up to now was the one against Zidane in the

World Cup final.”

Club president Andrea Agnelli also paid tribute to Buffon while backing him to become only the second goalkeeper to win the coveted Ballon d’Or, before he retires.

“Buffon is tied to us for another two years, until June 2015,” Agnelli said. “He’s already among the best and greatest names in the history of Juventus.

“I like remembering the five titles he won on the pitch, and the World Cup, but what sets him apart is his honesty and his leadership.

“He hasn’t won a Ballon d’Or yet, only (Russian goalkeeper Lev) Yashin has done that, but I hope he will do so in the next two years.

“And no, I never worried about losing Gigi.”

Buffon has won Serie A five times with the Turin giants

Bundesliga clubs break €2b turnover mark

Mourinho concedes La Liga title no longer a possibility

GERMANY’S 18 Bundesliga clubs posted an eighth successive annual turnover record, topping two billion euros ($2.66 billion) for the 2011-12 season, up over seven per cent from the previous season, the German football league (DFL) said yesterday.

The top-division clubs posted a combined profit after tax of €55 million and a total turnover of €2.081 billion, up 7.2 per cent from €1.941 billion in the 2010-11 season, with 14 of the 18 clubs being profitable, the DFL said.

Only seven had posted a profit in the 2009-10 season while 12 were profitable in 2010-11.

The booming Bundesliga has now doubled its turnover in 10 years from one billion in 2001-02. Seconddivision clubs also set a turnover record with €384.5 million, up 7.4 per cent from the previous season.

“The Bundesliga is well equipped to deal with the challenges ahead,” DFL chief executive Christian Seifert told reporters.

“The foundations for this successful path are financial good sense as well as targeted investment in sporting efficiency and infrastructure.”

Financial records were not the only ones broken in the 2011-12 bumper season with the league remaining the most popular by average attendance in the world.

With 44,293 spectators on average per Bundesliga game - more than 2,000 more than the previous season - the German league is the world leader with the English Premier League which registers some 10,000 spectators fewer per game.

Spain’s La Liga has an average attendance of 28,000.

The Bundesliga’s solid financial and sporting image has attracted several big-name players in the past few seasons with Bayern Munich springing a surprise last week when announcing the signing of former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola for next season.

‘Real have to focus on other goals now’ REAL Madrid head coach Jose Mourinho has conceded defeat in the race for the Primera Division title while distancing himself from the manager’s role at Paris St Germain.

The Portuguese faces an uncertain future at the Bernabeu as Real struggle to close a 15-point gap on league leaders Barcelona, with reports in Spain suggesting Mourinho is also at odds with several club directors and members of his playing staff.

The 49-year-old has been linked with a summer return to England, where he managed Chelsea to two Premier League titles, or a potential move to ambitious French outfit PSG. An in-depth interview with Mourinho will be broadcast on French radio station RMC Sport this afternoon, but Spanish newspaper AS published several key points of discussion on their official website in advance.

Mourinho told RMC Sport: “The La Liga title is impossible now, there is too big a gap.

We have to focus on other goals like the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.

“It does no good to obsess over these things, obsession only makes things more complicated. Nothing will be easy.

“We need to stay calm and

The Portuguese faces an uncertain future as Real struggle to close a 15-point gap on league leaders Barcelona

make the most of every opportunity.”

PSG have struggled to dominate Ligue 1 this season despite heavy investment in the playing squad, with star names Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva and Ezequiel Lavezzi being drafted in by head coach Carlo Ancelotti and director of football Leonardo.

Mourinho believes the

capital club will prove to be a force to be reckoned with, both at home and abroad, but rejected suggestions he could replace Ancelotti in the summer.

“No, I don’t think I will coach PSG,” he added. “The success of PSG with Ancelotti and Leonardo means they have no need for another coach.

“I hope everything goes well for Carlo and PSG.

“Europe needs to have a city like Paris competing at the top level of football, and I think this project is going to work.”

The Portuguese was also eager to play down his reputation as a controversial figure having drawn unwanted attention to himself on several occasions.

One such incident resulted in a two-match ban as Mour-

inho appeared to jab thenBarcelona assistant coach Tito Vilanova in the eye at the end of a Spanish Super Cup game in August 2011.

He added: “People talk about controversies that don’t exist. Every day I hear about controversies concerning me but are unfounded.

“I am a football coach, I am just doing my job and trying to get good results.”

Malaga take Uruguay defender Diego Lugano away from Paris St Germain MALAGA have strengthened their squad by taking Uruguay defender and captain Diego Lugano on loan from Paris St Germain until the end of the season, the Spanish club said yesterday.

The 32-year-old, who arrived on the Costa del Sol on Tuesday, has passed his medical and trained with his new

team mates for the first time.

He is eligible to play for Malaga in the Champions League, but the club do not have an option to make the move permanent at the end of the season.

The centre-back played for Brazil’s Sao Paulo and Turkey’s Fenerbahce before moving to Paris in 2011 but after featuring in 12 Ligue 1 games last

season he has yet make a single appearance this term.

“The recent months have been tough for me in sporting terms because I have not been playing,” Lugano told a news conference.

“I have a new challenge now for the second half of the season, and this will also help me to give my all for the na-

tional team, which is a top priority for me.

“I am in good shape, I just lack match minutes. I recognise I am joining a team that is doing very well, that is already strong in defence, but I have come to do my bit, to get some playing time and I think it is the best move for me.”

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Villa will come out fighting, says defiant boss Lambert

Brooklyn Beckham has trial at Chelsea

Villans fall to Bradford in League Cup humiliation

DAVID Beckham’s eldest son Brooklyn has had a trial with Chelsea, Press Association Sport understands.

The 13-year-old trained at Chelsea’s Cobham training ground on Tuesday.

Former England captain Beckham is currently without a club after leaving Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of the Major League Soccer season and was pictured on Twitter at the Blues’ Surrey training base.

His attendance for the under-14 fixture at the home of the 2011-2012 Champions League winners will undoubtedly lead to speculation Brooklyn Beckham is in line to follow in his father’s footsteps to play football at the highest level.

Yet David Beckham and his wife Victoria, the Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer, would be reluctant to heap pressure on any of their four children.

The 37-year-old Londoner has enjoyed a successful career with Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy and AC Milan, while also accumulating 115 England caps, a record for an outfield player.

Beckham also played a prominent role in the delegation sent to Singapore which helped to secure the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games for London.

It is still to be determined whether, and where, David Beckham will continue his own footballing career.

An insider told the MailOnline: “Brooklyn is like any teenager with an ambition to be a footballer. He has just returned to England and wanted to see how he fared.

“Chelsea are one of the strongest academies in the country. The difference is that he is the son of the former England captain and this will draw attention.”

By Alan Baldwin ASTON Villa manager Paul Lambert has vowed to “come out fighting” after a humiliating League Cup semi-final defeat by fourth tier Bradford City plunged the Premier League club deeper into crisis.

Lambert said he was “gutted, hurt, disappointed,” after Villa’s best hope of a season-saving Wembley final was snuffed out by opponents whose most expensive player cost 7,500 pounds ($11,900) and was stacking supermarket shelves to earn extra cash not so long ago.

“You can either lie down or come out fighting and I will come out fighting,” said the Scot, whose side will play second-tier Millwall with some trepidation in the FA Cup fourth round on Friday.

Tuesday’s 4-3 aggregate defeat was a night of reckoning for Villa, whose main focus now will be on fighting their way out of a tough relegation battle with an inexperienced squad short of belief and leadership on the field.

The Birmingham-based side are 17th in the 20-strong table League, one point above the drop zone with resurgent Reading and perennial Premier League escapologists Wigan Athletic just below them on 19 points.

Lambert joined the 1982 European champions from Norwich City in June, with

Lambert had to witness his side crash out of the League Cup following a 4-3 aggregate defeat to Bradford on Tuesday night Villa’s American chairman Randy Lerner looking forward to a return to the sort of “compelling play” expected by fans.

That day is still a long way off.

Birmingham-based Villa splashed 7 million pounds ($11 million) on Belgium international forward Christian Benteke in a 20 million-pound spending spree but have otherwise put their faith in young players with embarrassing and traumatic results.

An 8-0 mauling by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge last month, their worst ever in the league, and a 5-0 drubbing by champions Manchester City were low points in a mixed season but the Bradford defeat may prove a defining moment.

The League Two club are 61 places below Villa and are the first from the fourth tier to reach a major English domestic cup final in 51 years.

Villa, whose fans had hoped Lambert would bring back

the good times after replacing the unloved Alex McLeish, beat Liverpool 3-1 at Anfield in December in a five-game unbeaten run that proved a false dawn.

They have won only four of their 23 league games, one less than Wigan. Only bottom side Queens Park Rangers have fewer victories.

“We will never have a better chance to get to a Cup final throughout our whole careers,” Lambert told reporters on Tuesday as Bradford

celebrated with some of the 6,500 visiting fans chanting “You’re getting sacked in the morning”.

“I can’t repeat what was said to the players in the dressing room and no manager would tell you that, but everyone is hurting. They might take 10 or 12 years to even get close again,” said Lambert.

“I know exactly how our fans are hurting because I am hurting exactly the same.

The crowd were right with us and we let them down.”

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Holtby cannot wait to join AVB at Spurs LEWIS Holtby wants to complete his move to Tottenham this month and has already undergone a medical at the club.

Spurs are confident of agreeing a deal to bring forward the midfielder’s summer move from Schalke by six months, even though the clubs remain some way apart on the valuation.

Holtby is believed to have passed a medical earlier in January, an appointment planned before Sandro sustained a serious knee injury in the 0-0 draw with Queens Park Rangers.

He had originally agreed to move to White Hart Lane at the beginning of July, when his contract at Schalke will have expired, but Tottenham head coach Andre Villas-Boas is pushing hard to have Holtby now as he seeks greater depth in midfield.

Yet while Holtby, 22, will not rock the boat with his current club, Standard Sport understands the Germany international would favour a switch to north London now, rather than waiting until the end of the campaign.

Holtby is thought to be growing frustrated by the current impasse and uncertainty about his future. Spurs have offered a little less than £1million for the player, who would have qualified to play for England via his father, while Schalke are holding out for about £1.6m.

Spurs had hoped to have Holtby in time for Sunday’s FA Cup fourth-round tie at Leeds and could still wrap up a deal before the trip to Elland Road. Schalke’s next fixture in the Bundesliga is at Augsburg on Saturday.

Holtby had a superb game in his club’s 5-4 win over Hannover last weekend as German football resumed after its winter break and looked revitalised after his form had dropped in the final weeks of 2012.

Should Holtby remain in Germany, he would be able to continue with his club’s Champions League campaign, where they play Galatasaray in the last 16, but his preference is an immediate transfer to the Premier League.

Villas-Boas wants his chairman Daniel Levy to add at least two players before the transfer window closes and had planned to watch Celtic’s win over Dundee United at Parkhead last night, where forward Gary Hooper and midfielder Victor Wanyama were the main attractions.

But Spurs’ latest financial results may urge greater caution. The club announced a loss of £4.3m for last season, with revenue falling by 12 per cent from the 2010-11 campaign, mainly because the team did not compete in the Champions League last term.

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League Cup Swansea Chelsea

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Cyprus Cup Alki 1 Anorthosis 2 (Anorthosis win 3-2 on aggregate) APOEL 1 AEL 3 (Aggregate 3-3, AEL win on away goals)

Spurs coach Villas-Boas is pushing hard to have Holtby (pictured) now as he seeks greater depth in midfield

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Lendl touch on display with Murray victory Slick win over Chardy propels Scot into semis

By Simon Cambers

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Location location: Torrey Pines is the scene of Woods’ last major win five years ago

‘Woods’ Torrey Pines record is phenomenal’ AFTER the shock of his missed cut in Abu Dhabi last Friday Tiger Woods returns to the scene of his last major win, five years ago, this week.

Torrey Pines near San Diego, the venue for the Farmers Insurance Open, is also where Woods has claimed six more of his 74 PGA Tour titles and before that six world junior titles between the ages of eight and 15.

When told that the 37-year-old world number two had an average of 68.6 in nearly 50 Tour rounds at the venue, defending champion Brandt Snedeker said: “That’s just phenomenal - I mean, that’s stupid.

“If you shoot even par on the South Course you’re doing great.

“Any time Tiger has a record I put an asterisk by it because it’s Tiger’s record. It’s not normal.”

Snedeker did not have to beat Woods last year. This is only his second time back since he won the 2008 US Open with two stress fractures in one leg and a knee so bad he underwent reconstructive surgery straight afterward and did not play for eight months.

“He’s so great for the game of golf,” said Ryder Cup team-mate and FedEx Cup winner Snedeker.

“We’re so fortunate to have him back and playing well. He adds a little bit more electricity to the tournament.

“There are certain guys when they walk into a room people gravitate towards them.

Greg Norman had that same magnetism, Phil (Mickelson) does and these guys really move the needle on the game of golf.”

Woods, whose early exit in the Middle

East was the result of a two-stroke penalty for a wrong drop in his second round, believes his game is good enough to close the gap on Jack Nicklaus’s 18-major record this season.

“Absolutely,” said the man who will next try to take his own tally to 15 in the US Masters at Augusta in April.

“I would have to say the majority of last year I hit it pretty good, but my putting and short game weren’t quite there.

“That finally came around, so towards the end of the season I was able to spend more time with my chipping and putting and that’s come around. Now I’ve got to marry up both of those two combos.”

As for this week, Woods added: “The course is on the quick side - it’s drier than we normally play it, so it will be a wonderful test.”

While he plays his first round on the South Course alongside Nick Watney and Rickie Fowler, over on the easier North lay-out Phil Mickelson tees off with Snedeker and Masters champion Bubba Watson.

Mickelson spoke out about the tax situation in California after finishing 37th at La Quinta on Sunday, but then said in a statement he should have kept his thoughts private.

“I moved out of here back in ‘96 for that reason,” said Woods, now a Florida resident.

Belgian Ryder Cup player Nicolas Colsaerts starts his new life as a PGA Tour member this week, a week later than English pair David Lynn and Ross Fisher. Lynn missed the cut at the Humana Challenge, but Fisher came back from an opening 74 to finish 56th thanks to a 65 and two 67s.”

s Andy Murray marched imperiously into the Australian Open semi-finals for the fourth consecutive year yesterday, his coach Ivan Lendl’s influence on the thirdseeded Scot could hardly have been clearer.

The US Open champion’s ultra-professional 6-4 6-1 6-2 victory over Jeremy Chardy took him through to his 12th grand slam semi-final as he ruthlessly exploited his opponent’s weaker backhand with a number of successful raids to the net.

Murray had carried out his game-plan to perfection and within a couple of hours of finishing his match, he was back out on court, practising under the lights to get a feel for the cooler conditions he will experience tomorrow.

Facing him for a spot in the final will be 17-times grand slam champion Roger Federer, but Murray’s attention to detail and desire to get straight back to work is classic Lendl.

“I played a couple of matches (in the warm-up event) in Brisbane in the evening, but it’s slightly different there, as well, because there’s a roof,” said Murray, who has reached the last four without dropping a set.

“And that’s why tonight (Wednesday), rather than going and watching (Federer v Tsonga), I’ll go out and hit some balls under the lights to be as best prepared as possible. And I’ll do the same tomorrow.”

At his news conference, Murray wore a T-shirt with the words “PREPARE, ATTACK, DESTROY” on the front, exactly what Lendl was famous for and exactly what Murray did against Chardy, a Frenchman appearing in his first grand slam quarter-final.

“I started the match pretty well, I thought,” said Murray, who raced to a 4-0 lead.

“Then when he got a break back in the first set, I became a bit tight. He’s a tough guy

Andy Murray will now face 17-times grand slam champion Roger Federer for a spot in the final to play against because of the nature of his game and his style.

“But I thought I did a pretty good job throughout the match. There were a couple of games I could have done a bit better on, but for the most part it was good.”

Chardy’s strength is his serve and his forehand but more often than not, Murray made sure he did not have enough time or space to use them to attack.

“I wanted to make sure that I kept the ball away from the middle of the court,” he said.

“Then I was able to hit to his backhand and come into the net sometimes.”

Murray won 17 of 20 points at the net, an excellent percentage, and also took a little pace of his average first serve to increase the emphasis on placement, varying his second serve well so that Chardy found it more difficult to attack.

“Andy had a response for everything,” his unseeded opponent told French reporters.

“He will be very hard to beat here.”

Having won his first grand slam title in New York last September, Murray is trying to become the first man in the

professional era to follow up his maiden grand slam by immediately winning another.

History may be against him but he admitted that winning the US Open had taken a lot of pressure off his shoulders.

“I feel probably a little bit calmer than usual,” he said.

“But I still have an understanding of how difficult it is to win these events. With the players that are still left in the tournament, it’s going to be a very tough, tough few days if I want to do that.”

Murray will go into the semifinals having played all of his matches in the day session but said he was not worried about having to adjust to the cooler, evening conditions or missing out on a showpiece night match until tomorrow.

“If I was whoever decides the schedule, I also would have put Federer against Tsonga on as the night match tonight because it’s the best match of the day,” he said.