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YPRUS and international lenders reached a draft bailout deal in the early hours of this morning, which was yet to be approved by the Eurogroup.

Details of the deal were sketchy but involved heavy levies on both of Cyprus’ biggest banks. Other banks appeared to have been spared.

And no charges will be incurred against any Cypriot bank account with less than 100,000 euros in them, EU officials said.

Reuters reported that the deal involves setting up a “good bank” and a “bad bank” and will mean that Popular Bank of Cyprus, known as Laiki, will effectively be shut down.

Deposits below 100,000 euros in Laiki will be transferred to Bank of Cyprus. Deposits above 100,000 euros, which under EU law are not insured, will be frozen and will be used to resolve debt.

It remains unclear how large the writedown on those funds will be.

Some reports suggested it might be as high as 40 per cent.

“It should be fairly easy for finance ministers to agree to this,” an EU official told Reuters. “We have been in close contact with all relevant euro zone countries during this negotiation process and there is broad agreement.”

The plan is likely to mean very heavy losses for uninsured deposits in Laiki, which has suffered since writing

down the value of its holdings of Greek government bonds last year.

Around 35 billion euros is held in Cypriot accounts with more than 100,000 euros in them, but it is not clear how much of that total is held in Laiki bank.

If sufficient funds can be found in Laiki to pay off debt and restructure the Cypriot banking sector, uninsured depositors in Bank of Cyprus may not incur any losses, although that remains to be seen.

One of the officials said shareholders and bondholders in Bank of Cyprus would be part of the “bail-in”, with those investors receiving equity in the bank in exchange.

The draft proposal was agreed by President Nicos Anastasiades in negotiation with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. The plan was presented to eurozone finance ministers for discussion, a short time later.

Cyprus acting President Yiannakis Omirou confirmed in Nicosia that an initial agreement had been reached in Brussels.

According to Cyprus News Agency (CNA) sources close to the government, the agreement foresees a 30 per cent “haircut” on Bank of Cyprus deposits over 100,000 euros. But crucially there would be no restructuring of the Bank of Cyprus

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IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble sharing a joke before the start of the protracted and tense meeting in Brussels to decide the financial future of Cyprus

Biggest banks set further limits on ATM withdrawals

By Poly Pantelides TRYING to avert a further ATM run on Cyprus’ banks, daily withdrawal limits were further limited yesterday across the two biggest banks.

The Bank of Cyprus said on its website that the maximum withdrawal amount had dropped to €120 while the Popular Bank limited daily cash withdrawals to €100 daily from 1pm yesterday.

Previously on Thursday, Popular set a daily limit of €260 on ATM withdraw-

als to cope with high demands as customers queued to withdraw funds after rumours that the bank was closing down.

A Popular Bank spokesman, who was not named, told Reuters the daily limit would remain in place until the bank reopens as scheduled on Tuesday, or until confirmation of continued emergency funding from the European Central Bank (ECB).

It is still unclear what will happen if and when the banks reopen although a legal framework was set on Friday by parliament placing capital controls

to avoid further destabilisation of its banking sector.

The finance ministry is expected to issue an announcement clarifying what the restrictions will be and setting any further measures deemed necessary for reasons of public order and safety.

Bank customers have no idea what to expect if banks do open tomorrow.

Nigel Christodoulou, a 53-year-old married father of three said he did not know whether he would be able to

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HOUSE prices in Britain recorded their strongest monthly jump in three years in March partly as a knock on effect of the crisis in Cyprus, UK property analyst Hometrack said yesterday.

The 0.3 per cent rise was driven by a boost to London house prices, with concerns over the crisis in Cyprus and the eurozone likely to send more cash flowing into the English capital in the coming months, the study said.

The national increase in house prices this month marks the highest growth seen since March 2010. Prices soared by 0.7 per cent month-on-month in London,

showing the strongest uplift since February 2010.

Three-fifths of London postcodes saw prices increase in March and London properties now spend just under five weeks on the market before they are snapped up - the shortest average time period seen since October 2007.

London has enjoyed strong demand from wealthy overseas buyers who see the capital as a “safe haven” from the troubles of the eurozone.

Richard Donnell, director of research at Hometrack, said that the latest crisis in Cyprus “will only serve to further boost the flow of international funds into the capital”.

House prices in London have risen by 0.7 per cent this month

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REPORTS in the British press yesterday suggested the UK government was working on a plan to airlift penniless expats back from Cyprus.

According to the Daily Mail, senior Whitehall sources said that if the situation spiralled out of control, British citizens who wanted to go back the UK would be offered airline tickets, and if necessary be given transport to the airports by British troops on the island.

The paper said the officials refused to discuss details of the contingency plan for expats, but ‘a well-placed source’ told them: “We are confident we will not need to put this plan into action. But clearly, we have to be ready to help British citizens in all circumstances, wherever they are in the world.’

The paper said there had been detailed talks between Downing Street, the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office on the plan to airlift Britons.

“This is something we have been looking at for a considerable period of time,” one insider told the newspaper. ‘We have been aware for many months that there was a possibility of something like this happening in Cyprus and we have taken the appropriate and prudent measures to prepare for it.

‘If British people cannot get their own money and want to come home, we have

to help.’

The Daily Mail said the secret airlift plan included arranging extra commercial flights and paying for airline tickets for Britons who wish to return home but who could not get hold of cash or use their credit cards to pay for them. It is not known whether they will be expected to repay the Government when they reach the UK, it added.

“The detailed plans even cover the possibility that British subjects won’t be able to get to the airport if they cannot pay for transport or petrol for their cars.

It is thought the British Army will lay on transport,” said the newspaper.

Last week several thousand expats with Cypriot bank accounts had had their pension payments frozen to protect them against a possible haircut on deposits.

And, on Tuesday, Britain said it had sent one million euros in cash to Cyprus aboard a military plane for its troops on the island in case cash machines and debit cards stop working.

“An RAF flight left for Cyprus this afternoon with €1m on board as a contingency measure to provide military personnel and their families with emergency loans in the event that cash machines and debit cards stop working completely,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

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Most Dutch voters think Cyprus should leave eurozone MOST DUTCH think Cyprus should leave the eurozone even though the cost of a bail out for the country would be tiny compared to the rescue for Greece, a poll published yesterday said.

More than half those surveyed, or 56 per cent, thought Cyprus should leave, according to a survey by pollster Maurice de Hond.

The results of the poll were published as Dutch finance minister and chair of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem prepared to meet other eurozone finance ministers to discuss a bail-out in Brussels.

The poll also showed that a majority of supporters of Dijsselbloem’s social democratic Labour party think Cyprus should be helped to avoid going bankrupt.

The question on Cyprus was part of a broader opinion poll on political parties in the Netherlands, where the governing centre-right Liberal party and the social democratic Labour party won a total of 79 seats between them in elections in September last year.

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A TENSE DAY IN QUOTES “We haven’t got much further in the last week. The numbers have not changed, if anything they have worsened. I hope we will achieve a result today. But that, of course, depends on the people in Cyprus having a somewhat realistic view of the situation,” German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble

Anastasiades upped ante by ordering a stop to Greek bank transfer (Continued from front page) and it would not be forced to absorb the 9 billion euro burden of emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) of Laiki. This idea, a red line for Anastiasides, had been abandoned the sources said. However, the details remained unclear.

Anastasiades had at one stage threatened to resign last night during tense and protracted negotiations with international lenders.

If a bailout deal is not done and dusted by midnight tonight, the economy faces total collapse as emergency liquidity assistance from the European Central Bank (ECB) will be cut off.

Although Anastasiades travelled to Brussels on a private jet sent by the European Commission early yesterday morning, the day-long talks with the EU, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the ECB were fraught with tension. On top of that, Anastasiades had to talk back and forth with the presidential palace in Nicosia where political party leaders were holed up awaiting regular briefings from the president.

At one point during the meeting, he reportedly told international lenders during a heated exchange that their proposal to saddle the Bank of Cyprus with some €9 billion in emergency liquidity assistance owed by the Popular Bank to the European Central Bank, effectively meant the lender’s closure in six months.

“I table one proposal, you don’t accept it; I table another, same thing. What else do you

“To all those who say that we are strangling an entire people ... Cyprus is a casino economy that was on the brink of bankruptcy,” French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici (below) “We cannot rule anything out. There is no clear direction,” Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter “Unfortunately, the events of recent days have led to a situation where there are no longer any optimal solutions available. Today, there are only hard choices left,” EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn “Do you want to force me to quit? If this is what you want, then just tell me so,” President Nicos Anastasiades speaking to international lenders in Brussels “Cypriot banks have for years been taking the kinds of risks that are not allowed in France. Nobody wants Cyprus to leave the euro. The first people to suffer would be Cypriot citizens,” Bank of France governor Christian Noyer to French newspaper Le Journal Du Dimanche

President Anastasiades arrives for talks in Brussels yesterday (AFP) want me to do? Do you want to force me to resign? If that’s what you want, let me know,” Anastasiades was quoted as telling international lenders.

“He offered to resign,” a source later told Reuters, describing the meeting, which included IMF Chief Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, European

Council President Herman Van Rompuy and other top officials, as tense.

A decision had already been taken to resolve the island’s second biggest lender, Laiki, while Nicosia had earlier offered to accept a 20 per cent levy on deposits of over €100,000 in BoC and 4.0 per cent in other banks.

Other reports said the EU was considering a haircut of Cyprus’ debt, similar to what happened in Greece, which the Europeans said had been a one-off.

The government spokesman said earlier the president and his team had a “very difficult task to accomplish to save the Cypriot economy and avert a disorderly default”.

“The government that has just left office (in February) is definitely to blame. The finance ministers are to blame. The Central Bank turned everything upside down. The managers and bank executives should be put on trial because they turned everything p y y and people p p topsy-turvy have become destitute, all of a sudden n without forewarning,” Archbishop Chrysostomos

Further withdrawal limits at ATMs of two biggest banks (Continued from front page) meet his financial obligations because he gets paid in his UK account and transfers money to his Cyprus account every month to go towards paying bills.

He is in the rather unusual position therefore of actually needing to bring money in to Cyprus.

“Will I be able to carry on as normal, transferring money to go towards my standing

orders?” he asked.

“Will standing orders even work? What about online transactions?”

Others were not sure if they will be allowed to transfer money from their Cypriot banks to accounts of their children, studying abroad. Some families have bypassed that problem by cash transfers via the post office, and with UK universities shut for English Easter that problem is pushed back for now.

The law gives sweeping powers to the finance ministry of the Central Bank governor to restrict cash withdrawals, ban or restrict interbank or same bank transactions, and restrict movement of capital, payments and transfers. It also allows for restricted use of credit, debit or prepaid cards, banning premature termination of time deposits and compulsory reprogramming of maturing time deposits.

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Archbishop: those who are to blame should be put on trial

By Poly Pantelides

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THOSE responsible for the sorry state of the economy should be put on trial, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said yesterday.

As a major stakeholder in Hellenic Bank, the majority stake of which belongs to the Church of Cyprus, Chrysostomos said he was planning to sue. He was speaking after a Sunday service in Nicosia.

“I’m not going to leave anyone out,” he said adding this included former finance ministers, Central Bank brass and bankers and other former government officials.

“The government that has just left office (in February) is definitely to blame. The finance ministers are to blame. The Central Bank turned everything upside down. The managers and bank executives should be put on trial because they turned everything topsy-turvy and people have become destitute, all of a sudden without forewarning,” the Archbishop said.

“It is not vengeance,” the Primate said but punishing the wrongdoers

Archbishop: not after vengeance so that the rest “may be afraid”.

In January, former president Demetris Christofias had lumped the Archbishop in with the group of businessmen and bankers he held responsible for the financial crisis on the island.

The Archbishop said that Cyprus now had no one else to rely on except its own people. He did say however that the Cypriot people had become used to living too comfortably, and should learn to live on tighter budgets.

The Archbishop, who offered the

Church’s wealth in its entirety to the solidarity fund set up by the government, also said: “The euro cannot last. I’m not saying that it will crumble tomorrow, but with the brains that they have in Brussels, it is certain that it will not last in the long term, and the best is to think about how to escape it. It’s not easy, but we should devote to this [quitting the euro] as much time as was spent on entering the eurozone.”

He also said he would invite the heads of Russian companies to the Archbishopric for a working lunch this coming Thursday in order to encourage them to stay in Cyprus.

He would remind them of how their initial deposits in Cyprus have grown over the years through the favourable terms that have always characterised the island’s financial sector, and which now lies in tatters.

Although he said the Church would help where it could, the Primate also added, “If the (bailout) terms are going to bring bankruptcy, let us leave them behind and let us become bankrupt.”

Fatigue and fear as history is rewritten Mixed response as island’s fate decided

By Poly Pantelides OVER THE last week most Cypriots have watched the dramatic events unfold with morbid fascination, aware that their lives were about to change in ways not seen since the Turkish invasion.

Yesterday as the denouement approached and the island’s fate was being brutally thrashed out in Brussels, the public response was a combination of fear, anger and plain fatigue.

“Do you understand what’s going on? Cyprus is destroyed,” a 55-year-old Cyp-

riot woman living in London said. “I’ve been crying for days now.”

“It’s all horrible. I keep watching the news. I am depressed,” 56-year-old Margarita Xenofontous said.

“No one knows what they are doing, with no exceptions,” said Christina Theophilou, a 33-year-old mother of two who is pregnant with her third.

Referring to the eurozone’s finance ministers meeting yesterday, she said that she prayed the divine light would help them “do the right thing”. Christina is not religious, but like many others,

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the uncertainty is bearing down on her.

“I haven’t felt so uncertain about the future since I was 13 and Cyprus was invaded,” 53-year-old nursery teacher Dora Giorgali told Reuters yesterday. Giorgali lost her job two years ago when the school she worked at closed down.

“I have two children studying abroad and I tell them not to return to Cyprus. Imagine a mother saying that,” Giorgali said. “I think a solution will be found tonight but it won’t be in the best interest of our country.”

In Nicosia’s Ledra St yesterday, coffee shops, restaurants and many shops were open for business as usual. And, also as usual for a Sunday, the street was packed. There was still the woman who sells local produce on the busy pedestrian street, the pop

A cash only sign on a shop in Nicosia’s busy Ledra St yesterday corn stand, and there were as ever - families with small children buying ice cream.

But a sign on a mobile phone store also said, “Cash only – until the financial situation is resolved.” And across town, around 200 bank workers demonstrated outside the presidential palace chanting “Troika out of Cyprus!” and “Cyprus is not for sale!”

Many yesterday sipping coffee and chatting in the busy coffee shops said they had had enough of the news.

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“unreliable” news coverage and were “trying to forget”, although one of them admitted they were not doing a very good job of completely avoiding the subject matter.

A family of four said they had laid down a new rule from Friday: “no more news”.

They decided as a family to tune in today and find out the aftermath of the bailout talks. “They tell us one thing, and then another,” Marios said, sitting next to his two sons.

“Tell me anything you want, but don’t talk about the monetary crisis,” 57-year-old architect, Giorgos Fialis said

in a down town coffee shop.

“That’s why we are here,” he said. “We are discussing people, the theatre, anything else except (the crisis),” he said. His friend, 48-year-old Glafcos Theophylactou, a graphic designer and teacher, said that there are still “many beautiful things in life”.

Theophylactou tried to watch the news yesterday but gave up after five minutes. Better to wait until something is finalised, the two friends said.

But how can they keep away now? Isn’t Cyprus’ history being rewritten?

“Without us,” Fialis said.

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Troika pushed to land Bank of Cyprus with Laiki’s debt ‘The choice the troika has given us is bankruptcy now or in a month’s time’

By George Christou THE GENERAL view in Nicosia, after Thursday’s decision to restructure Laiki Bank, was that the road had opened for an agreement with the troika.

The legislature would approve the legal framework for the restructuring of the banks and the transactions’ controls on Friday night and the negotiations would then focus on how the remainder of Cyprus’ €5.8 billion contribution to the bailout could be raised.

There was another piece of ‘good’ news on Friday.

The governments of Greece and Cyprus had reached an agreement over the transfer of the operations of Laiki and Bank of Cyprus in Greece to a Greek bank - Bank of Piraeus.

The Anastasiades government had complied with the orders of the EU which had set the reduction of the Cyprus banking sector as one of the conditions for a bailout.

Greece’s government would pay €1 billion and Cyprus’ government €500 million for the re-capitalisation requirements of the Greece operations of the two banks.

One close associate of President Anastasiades was in buoyant mood on Saturday morning, saying that there would “almost certainly be a deal with the troika today, even if the Bank of Cyprus has to bail in depositors to the tune of 20 per cent”.

But the troika’s representatives had different ideas when they met Finance Minister Michalis Sarris and representatives of the Central Bank on Saturday morning.

The government’s proposed haircut of between 20 and 25 per cent of the banks’ uninsured depositors was not satisfactory.

The troika had decided to change the rules of the game offering the government two options for the Bank of Cyprus, in the form of an ultimatum. It could be restructured (euphemism for controlled bankruptcy) like Laiki, or it could bail-in uninsured deposits by a percentage to be agreed, take over Laiki’s ‘good bank’ operations and undertake Laiki’s €9 billion debt to the European Central Bank’s Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA).

The assets of the Laiki ‘good bank’ have been estimated by the troika to be €7 billion.

“If we take on an additional, several billion debt we would need to be restructured in a month from now, because the numbers just don’t add up,” said a Bank of Cyprus executive, unable to hide his incredulity. “The choice the troika has given us is bankruptcy now or in a month’s time.”

He said the only way the bank might have a tiny chance of surviving with such a prohibitive debt, would be if we returned to capital flow restrictions of the 1980s when there were tight controls and ceilings on money transfers out of the country.

The government dug in its heels refusing to make this choice, aware that the restructuring of the island’s biggest bank would have devastating consequences for businesses, many of which would go under, if they lose their trading capital and are unable to borrow money from a contracting bank.

It is also a matter of rationality. Why should the Bank of Cyprus be lumbered with a crushing €9 billion debt, in exchange for taking over Laiki’s

‘The ECB wants to limit its exposure which is why it is eager to impose the debt on the Bank of Cyprus’ ‘good bank’ operations? Logically, it should have had the option of not taking over the ‘good bank’ and avoiding the debt.

It could have carried out a haircut of uninsured deposits and opened for business as usual on Tuesday.

The troika refused to discuss this, its overriding concern being the €9 billion owed to ELA by the Central Bank of Cyprus which passed on the money to Laiki, over the last 10 months. Liquidity assistance is given to the national Central Bank which releases it to the commercial bank which, in turn, provides collateral for the funding.

In the case of Laiki, the Central Bank of Cyprus accepted as collateral, among other

things, the €1.8 billion worth of shares issued by the government last May which were considered junk by the European Central Bank (ECB).

“This is now a political issue,” said a banking source.

“There are fears at the ECB that Cyprus would leave the euro and not repay the €9 billion owed to ELA,” the source said. “The ECB wants to protect itself and limit its exposure which is why it is eager to impose the debt on the Bank of Cyprus.”

By passing on the debt to the Bank of Cyprus, the Cyprus Central Bank could secure more sound collateral than it already has, but this would almost certainly reduce the ability of the former to draw liquidity from ELA. This is why the troika offered as an alternative the restructuring of the bank, the ‘good bank’ operations of which would not require ELA and thus the issue of the ECB’s exposure would be better managed.

The ECB has for some time been criticised for the ease with which it was offering liquidity to national central banks, for suspect collateral.

Some of its critics had gone as far as accusing it of engaging in monetary financing.

Being stuck with an exposure of €9 billion in Cyprus, would not affect the eurozone but it would leave the ECB open to more criticism.

And there would be questions as to why it allowed the Central Bank of Cyprus to carry on funding an insolvent bank?

This may explain why the ECB turned the screw on Cyprus last Thursday, taking the unprecedented step of issuing a public announcement that said the “Governing Council of the ECB decided to maintain the current level of ELA (requested by the Central Bank of Cyprus) until Monday, 25 March 2013.” It added that ELA “could only be considered if an EU/IMF programme is in place that would ensure the solvency of the concerned banks.”

It was the first time the ECB had made such an announcement public. It led to the decision for the restructuring of Laiki and put the government under pressure to agree to whatever the troika would demand with regard to the Bank of Cyprus, which would not last the day if it reopened for business on Tuesday, without the ability to draw liquidity from the Central Bank.

The Bank of Cyprus was presented with two impossible options on Saturday

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Turkey and Israel change the gas game What are the implications for Cyprus after Tel Aviv’s apology over deaths?

By Stefanos Evripidou THE US-brokered Israeli apology to Turkey has opened the door to the resumption of close relations between the two former allies and raised the prospect of energy collaboration in the eastern Mediterranean, raising questions as to the potential impact on Cyprus’ own gas plans.

Last Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed Israel’s apology to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan “for any mistakes that might have led to the loss of life or injury” during the raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, which tried to reach Gaza in 2010, resulting in the death of nine Turkish activists.

The next day, Erdogan said Israel’s apology highlighted Turkey’s growing regional clout.

“We are entering a new period in both Turkey and the region,” said Erdogan, who plans to visit the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, next month.

“We are at the beginning of a process of elevating Turkey to a position so that it will again have a say, initiative and power, as it did in the past,” he said.

Netanyahu, in a post on his Facebook page on Saturday, said deteriorating circumstances in Syria were a main factor behind his decision to resolve the crisis with Turkey.

According to Reuters, a source close to Netanyahu said the new chapter in Turkish-Israeli relations could be very important for the future not just regarding what happens in Syria but also developments in Iran.

Apart from removing Turkish objections to Israeli participation in NATO exercises, the prospect of reconciliation has also “removed a big obstacle to collaboration over the development of strategic energy

resources in the eastern Mediterranean”, reported the Financial Times (FT) yesterday.

The London-based paper noted that improved ties between Turkey and Israel could also affect Cyprus should greater energy cooperation result in Nicosia getting sidelined.

A Turkish official told FT that reconciliation also made a possible gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey a “much more viable” idea.

According to FT, Noble Energy and Delek Energy, who are the main investors in Israel’s large offshore natural gas fields- as well as partners in Cyprus’ Block 12- have in recent weeks “sounded out possible customers in energy-hungry Turkey”.

The paper noted that until now, the private sector was eager to proceed with a possible pipeline between Israel and Turkey but that the political rift between the two governments did not allow progress to be made.

FIRST STEP With the first step in reconciliation taken, will further collaboration in the hydrocarbons sector leave Cyprus with fewer choices as to where and how to export its own gas?

Israeli deputy ambassador to Cyprus Shani Cooper said yesterday: “The normalisation of relations between Turkey and Israel was an important bilateral step but it will not affect any multilateral, trilateral or bilateral relations between Israel and other countries. Israel will maintain its close relations with Cyprus, and continue strengthening them as we have done the last few years.”

Matthew Bryza, a former US ambassador to Azerbaijan, was quoted by FT saying that without Israel to provide economies of scale, “in the short term the Cypriots lose their ability to do

a pipeline or an LNG (liquefied natural gas) option”, adding that in the longer run a Cypriot pipeline to Turkey would make most commercial sense.

However, speaking to the Cyprus Mail, an industry insider argued that a pipeline from Cyprus to Turkey was not so obviously beneficial, even if the financial savings appeared attractive at first glance.

“You’ve got a 25-year project. Are you comfortable having Turkey being your best friend for that length of time? With LNG, you can change your customers, do whatever you want. With a pipeline to Turkey, you only can sell to Europe, and the pipeline to Europe is too far,” he said.

The source argued that LNG was the best option for Cyprus: “The key is to find enough gas to make it commercial. And if you can add gas from the nearby Israeli gas field Leviathan, even better.”

A Cypriot diplomatic source told the Cyprus Mail that reports suggest Turkey is seriously considering a pipeline between Israel and Ceyhan.

“This could very well be a game-changer. There is much more (to the apology) than meets the eye,” he said.

“It is naive not to think that they will put everything in one basket in the future: the Cyprus problem, hydrocarbons, Erdogan’s water pipeline project. All of this will come to a head,” he said, adding, “With Cyprus’ gas reserves, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but let’s hope it’s not a train.”

Regarding a pipeline between Israel and Turkey, another diplomatic source reminded that Israel has yet to even take a decision on whether it will allow the export of natural gas. The latest opinion of an advisory committee of the Israeli government is that if gas should

The Mavi Marmara on which nine Turkish activists were killed during an Israeli raid be exported, it will have to go through Israel first.

The industry source argued that it was too early to tell whether a Turkey-Israel pipeline was even feasible both politically and physically.

One has to take into consideration the route that any pipeline would take. Will it pass through Lebanese and Syrian waters or go around them by cutting through Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?

LNG PLANT “We’re talking about going up against horrendous engineering challenges. And it’s not just about building it, but maintaining it. It’s doable but it won’t be cheap,” said the source.

Should Israel and Turkey decide to go ahead with the pipeline, the industry source argued this would not affect Cyprus’ decision to build an LNG plant initially with one train to accept gas via pipeline from Noble’s Block 12 A-structure, which has an estimated 7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

The thinking behind the ‘stand alone’ project is to get gas from the Aphrodite field in Block 12 to the LNG plant earmarked for construction at Vassilikos by 2019.

“This is an aggressive, challenging but achievable target,” said the source.

Should more gas be found in other parts of Block 12, or in the blocks recently acquired by French, Italian and South Korean companies, Total, ENI and KOGAS, then more trains will be built at the LNG plant to take in more gas. The current thinking is that Cyprus’ EEZ has

Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan said Israel’s apology highlighted Turkey’s growing regional clout plenty of potential for more hydrocarbon discoveries.

The source argued that a pipeline from Block 12 to Vassilikos and the operation of an LNG plant are not dependant on the inclusion of Israeli gas from the nearby Leviathan gas fields. In any case, should Israel agree to export its gas, it would have to build its own pipeline to Vassilikos as the depth of water in the region does not allow a big enough pipeline to be built to cover the needs of both Aphrodite and Leviathan fields.

Asked whether the current economic crisis in Cyprus could affect energy development, the source said only if the government should take its foot off the pedal, though at the moment, it “seems

willing to proceed expeditiously”.

He added: “The whole project could provide very robust and meaningful amounts of money that would be coming into the country.”

Regarding press reports that Russia could participate in the financing of an LNG plant, the source said Russia would then have a say over the tariff charged to gas companies using the plant.

“If the Russians want to make a killing they will have very high fees, making LNG very costly, and as a result, Cyprus won’t make a big profit. If they’re reasonable, it could work. But you don’t want someone not totally trustworthy having their hand around your throat.”

Rare blood type plea for woman injured in shooting

By Poly Pantelides A PLEA for donations of the rare blood type O negative blood has been posted on the internet and via mobile text messages for the 36-year-old mother of two who was seriously injured in a shooting incident on Saturday.

Katy Charalambous, who is in Nicosia general hospital, was one of four people injured in two shooting incidents in Kofinou. A 54-year-old man was also killed.

Limassol district court issued an eight-day remand yesterday for a 34-year-old man suspected of the shootings.

Police are guarding the suspect in Limassol hospital after

he crashed his car on Saturday afternoon after the shootings in the Aradippou-Avdellerou road where he was arrested in connection with the shootings.

The 34-year-old is suspected of attacking and killing a 54year-old man and injuring his 27-year-old son, Giorgos, on Saturday morning at a Turkish Cypriot house in Kofinou that the father and son were working on at the time of the attack.

The shootings – with a Kalashnikov assault rifle – were reportedly over a dispute over the property that the 34-yearold had been lobbying the guardian of Turkish Cypriot properties to hand over to him but was given to Giorgos instead.

Turkish Cypriot properties in government-controlled areas

fall under the jurisdiction of this organisation that is part of the interior ministry. After the first shootings, the 34-yearold then allegedly went over to a supermarket belonging to a family who were given a piece of government land that he was also reportedly claiming.

There, he shot two of the owners, two men aged 47 and 36, as well as at a 36-year-old woman who was shopping at the time. Another one of the owners, a 56-year-old man, managed to get the gun off of him before the 34-year-old escaped in his car.

The three people shot at the supermarket are very seriously injured, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said yesterday.

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Rapprochement will not help Gaza

US President Obama (L) brokered a fence-mending apology by Israeli PM Netanyahu (C) on Friday (AFP)

Warning stirs fears in Egypt opposition EGYPTIAN President Mohamed Mursi threatened yesterday to take unspecified steps to “protect this nation” after violent demonstrations against his Muslim Brotherhood, using vague but severe language that the opposition said heralded a crackdown.

In remarks following clashes outside the Brotherhood’s Cairo headquarters on Friday, Mursi warned that “necessary measures” would be taken against any politicians shown to be involved in what he described as violence and rioting.

“If I am forced to do what is required to protect this nation, then I will do it. And I fear that I might be on the verge of doing it,” Mursi said in a statement. He did not elaborate.

Mursi has faced increasing anger since the Brotherhood propelled him to power in a June election, and several spates of protest have turned into violent riots.

Mursi’s opponents accuse him and the Brotherhood of seeking to dominate the post-Hosni Mubarak era and resorting to undemocratic police powers two years after autocrat Mubarak was brought down by popular protests.

The brotherhood accuses its secularist opponents of stirring trouble to seize power they could not win at the ballot box, and says the relentless civil unrest is wrecking efforts to salvage an economy driven to its knees by uncertainty.

“They are very scary comments,” said Khaled Dawoud, a spokesman for the National Salvation Front (NSF), an alliance of nonIslamist parties formed late last year to oppose Mursi.

“I can see language that is heading towards taking some suppressive measures,” he added.

Dozens of people were hurt on Friday when several thousand supporters and opponents of the Brotherhood fought near the Islamist group’s headquarters.

ISRAEL did not commit to ending its Gaza blockade as part of reconciliation with Turkey and could clamp down even harder on the Palestinian enclave if security is threatened, Israeli officials said yesterday.

After a US-brokered fence-mending announcement on Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Israel had met his demands to apologise for killing nine Turks aboard a Gaza-bound activist ship in 2010, pay compensation to those bereaved or hurt and lift the blockade by allowing in more consumer goods.

That fell well short, however, of an end to the blockade - which Erdogan had routinely insisted on during the almost three-year-old rift as a condition for rapprochement.

Although Israel has relaxed curbs on overland civilian imports to impoverished Gaza, it signalled that the naval cordon, imposed during a 2008-2009 offensive, would remain.

“We have nothing against the Pales-

tinian people. The maritime blockade derives from security considerations only, as terrorist groups can smuggle huge amounts of weaponry by sea,” defence official Amos Gilad told Israel’s Army Radio.

Another official told Reuters that Hamas, the Islamist faction that governs Gaza, was still trying to bring in arms, and that this made “the blockade as necessary as always”.

An investigation commissioned by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2011 faulted Israeli marines’ deadly force against activists who clashed with them aboard the Mavi Marmara, but deemed the blockade legal. Ankara rejected the latter finding.

Yaakov Amidror, Israel’s national security adviser, said that policy on Gaza would depend on the conduct of its factions. The sides fought an eight-day war in November.

On Thursday, Islamist militants in Gaza fired rockets into Israel during a

visit by US President Barack Obama, causing no casualties. Israel responded by closing a commercial crossing with Gaza and reducing Palestinian access to fishing waters.

“If there is quiet, the processes easing the lives of Gazan residents will continue. And if there is Katyusha (rocket) fire, then these moves will be slowed and even stopped and, if necessary, even reversed,” Amidror told Army Radio.

“We do not intend to give up on our right to respond to what happens in Gaza because of the agreement with the Turks.”

On Friday, during Obama’s visit to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed “Israel’s apology to the Turkish people for any mistakes that might have led to the loss of life or injury”.

Israel hopes that mending relations with Turkey, that were already frayed before the Mavi Marmara protest incident brought them to an all-time low, will help it deal with spillover from civil war in Syria and other regional interests.

Alkhatib, moderate face of Syrian uprising quits Resignation comes ahead of Arab League meet

The resignation of Alkhatib was seen as having been to some degree caused by Qatar

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis THE head of Syria’s main opposition group resigned yesterday, weakening the moderate wing of the twoyear revolt against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule and complicating Western efforts to back the rebels.

The resignation of Moaz Alkhatib, a former imam of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus who had offered Assad a negotiated exit, could make the West more cautious in supporting the revolt.

Alkhatib is seen as a moderate bulwark against the rising influence of al-Qaeda linked jihadist forces.

Syrian opposition leaders are due to attend an Arab League summit this week, Qatar said earlier yesterday, looking for more support for their armed uprising.

Michael Stephens, researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in Doha, said Alkhatib’s resignation throws a spanner into the summit.

“The premise of the summit is to determine whether the opposition has a legitimate right to sit with Arab states,”

Stephens said. “While Khatib may have blamed the EU summit, it is well known that the Arab League is meeting today, and his resignation will have a serious effect on the process.”

Alkhatib was picked to head the Western and Gulf-backed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposi-

tion Forces, which was formed in Qatar in November.

His resignation is seen as having been to some degree caused by Qatar, the main backer of his political foes in the coalition, and the country spearheading Arab support for the revolt as its geopolitical ramifications deepen.

The conflict pits Syria’s

Sunni Muslim majority against Assad’s Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam that has controlled the country for almost five decades, deepening the Sunni-Shi’ite divide in the Middle East and raising tension between Gulf states and Iran.

Asked to comment on Alkhatib’s resignation, Qatari

Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said in Doha: “We are very sorry for this, and I hope he reviews his resignation.”

Alkhatib quit after the coalition berated him for offering Assad a deal and after the group went ahead, despite his objections, with steps to form a provisional government that would have further diminished his authority.

“I had promised the great Syrian people and promised God that I would resign if matters reached some red lines,” Alkhatib said on his Facebook page, without explaining exactly what had prompted his resignation.

“Now I am fulfilling my promise and announcing my resignation from the National Coalition in order to be able to work with freedom that cannot be available within the official institutions,” he said.

A spokesman for Alkhatib confirmed his resignation, which US Secretary John Kerry said did not come as a surprise.

“With respect to Moaz Alkhatib, I am personally sorry to see him go because I like him on a personal level and because I have appreciated his leadership but the notion that he might resign has frankly been expressed by him on many different occasions in many different places and it is not a surprise,” Kerry said on a trip to Baghdad.

A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said Alkhatib had “served the Syrian people well under the most difficult circumstances.”

Top American diplomat Kerry asks Iraq to stop weapons to Syria

Iraq visit: US Secretary of State John Kerry

U.S. SECRETARY of State John Kerry pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri alMaliki yesterday to stop Iranian flights over Iraq from carrying arms to Syria during a visit to the Iraqi capital.

Kerry also urged Iraq’s Sunni Muslim, Shi’ite and ethnic Kurdish factions to commit to the political process as the country’s precarious intercommunal balance comes under growing strain from the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

A US official said earlier on condition of anonymity that Washington believes

flights and overland transfers from Iran to Syria via Iraq take place nearly every day, helping President Bashar al-Assad crush a two-year-old revolt against his rule.

Kerry said he had “a very spirited discussion” with Maliki about the issue and he made clear US unhappiness about the suspected arms transfers on Iranian flights through Iraqi airspace.

“Anything that supports President Assad is problematic,” Kerry told reporters. “I made it very clear to the prime minister that the overflights from Iran

... are in fact helping to sustain President Assad and his regime.”

Kerry’s visit had not been previously announced to the public.

Speaking before the meeting, the US official said Iraq had inspected only two flights since last July and that Kerry would argue Iraq did not deserve a role in talks about neighbouring Syria’s future unless it tried to stop the suspected arms flow.

Iraqi officials denied allowing weapons to be flown from Iran to Syria through Iraqi airspace.

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World WORLD TODAY Musharraf back in Pakistan PAKISTAN’S former President, Pervez Musharraf, returned home yesterday after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest elections despite the possibility of arrest and death threats from the Taliban.

Musharraf hopes to regain influence so that his party can win seats in the general election scheduled for May 11, when he will face fierce competition, including from the man he ousted in a military takeover.

“People said I would not come. Where are those people now? People were trying to scare me. I only fear Allah, no one else,” Musharraf said at Karachi’s airport, as more than 1,000 supporters cheered.

The former army general, who seized power in a 1999 coup, resigned in 2008 when his allies lost a vote and a new government threatened him with impeachment. He left the South Asian nation a year later.

Bozize flees REBELS in Central African Republic seized control of the riverside capital Bangui after fierce fighting yesterday, forcing President Francois Bozize to flee and raising fears of instability in the mineralrich heart of Africa.

At least nine South African soldiers were killed trying to prevent the rebels taking Bangui, a Reuters witness said, dealing a blow to Pretoria’s attempt to stabilise the chaotic Central African nation and assert its influence in the region.

The Seleka rebel coalition resumed hostilities this week in the former French colony and quickly swept south towards Bangui with the aim of toppling Bozize, whom it accused of breaking a January peace deal to integrate its fighters into the army.

Gun control bid NEW York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a massive new television ad campaign that will push senators in key states to back gun control efforts.

The $12-million (£8-million) Mayors Against Illegal Guns advertising blitz was announced on Saturday and will press for comprehensive background checks.

Bloomberg is one of the most prominent gun control proponents in the US, and the launch comes just days after Senate Democrats touted stronger background checks while acknowledging insufficient support to ban assaultstyle weapons.

Francis cites folk wisdom at first Palm Sunday mass His new-look papacy further emphasised in unscripted quips on wealth

By Philip Pullella THE new pope began Holy Week yesterday with a sermon invoking the folk wisdom of his grandmother, further emphasising a new-look papacy that aims to be closer to the people.

Leading his first major service since his election, Pope Francis addressed a vast crowd gathered for Palm Sunday with simple language, urging them to shun corruption and greed and reach out to “the humble, the poor, the forgotten”.

Departing from his prepared text and referring to wealth, he said: “You can’t take it with you, my grandmother used to say”.

Since his election on March 13, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has broken with the more esoteric and, some would say, ostentatious style of his predecessor Benedict, saying he wants to move the Church closer to the poor and suffering.

“Let us look around: how many wounds are inflicted upon humanity by evil! Wars, violence, economic conflicts that hit the weakest, greed for money, power, corruption, divisions, crimes against human life and against creation,” he said.

Francis has decided to hold Holy Thursday service this week in a juvenile jail on Rome’s outskirts rather than

Simplicity favoured: since his election on March 13, Pope Francis has broken with the more ostentatious style of his predecessor, Benedict XVI in the Vatican or in a Rome Basilica, where it has been held by all his predecessors in living memory.

He has also invited simple workers, such as the Vatican gardeners and street cleaners, to attend his morning

Masses in the Vatican hotel where is still living ahead of moving into the papal apartments in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace.

The service before some 250,000 people waving palm and olive branches in St. Pe-

ter’s Square gave the new pope another opportunity to stress that he wants a Catholic Church that has been riven by scandal to be more austere and just.

Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ entry into Je-

rusalem five days before he died. At the end of the service, Francis was driven around the square several times in an open jeep so he could be seen by more people in the huge throng, which overflowed and stretched for blocks down to the River Tiber.

The Church today, he said, like Jesus 2,000 years ago, wanted to transmit a message of hope, “especially in the hearts of the simple, the humble, the poor, the forgotten, those who do not matter in the eyes of the world”.

After blessing palm and olive branches - both symbols of peace - Francis, wearing red and white vestments, walked to the altar on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica to conduct the outdoor Mass.

He again urged defence of the environment, speaking of “our personal sins: our failures in love and respect towards God, towards our neighbour and towards the whole of creation”.

Francis confirmed that he will go to Rio de Janeiro at the end of the July to take part in the Church’s World Day of Youth, a gathering of Catholic young people that takes place in a different city every two years.

The new pope has inherited a Church riven by problems that include sexual abuse scandals in many countries and allegations of corruption in the central Vatican bureaucracy.

Oligarch death speculation wrong THERE is currently no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, police said yesterday.

The 67-year-old businessman was found dead at his Berkshire home on Saturday by a bodyguard, and specialist officers in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear substances examined the property yesterday before giving the all clear.

Detective Chief Inspector Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: “It would be wrong to speculate on the cause of death until the post mortem has been carried out.

We do not have any evidence at this stage to suggest third party involvement.”

Berezovsky, who last year lost a multibillion-pound High Court battle with Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, was reportedly found dead in his bathroom after taking his own life.

On leaving the property, the paramedic who declared him dead at the scene had their radiation detector triggered, prompting the CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) experts to examine Berezovsky’s country pile, police said.

But yesterday morning they confirmed the home at Titness Park, Mill Lane, Ascot, was safe to work in.

The paramedic’s detector, a personal electronic dosimeter (PED), is a health and safety device used routinely by emergency services.

“An employee” of Berezovsky, believed to be the bodyguard, had called for the ambulance shortly after 3pm on Saturday after forcing open a bathroom door and finding the oligarch dead on the floor.

The employee had not seen Berezovsky since 10.30pm on Friday night and had become concerned for his welfare, according to police.

Scenes of crime officers are currently carrying out a full forensic examination of the scene and earlier yesterday a forensic investigation unit vehicle could be seen passing through police cordons around Berezovsky’s estate.

Det Ch Insp Brown continued to describe the death as “unexplained”.

“We are at the early stages of the investigation and we are retaining an open mind as we progress,” he said.

Speculation: Berezovsky was reportedly found dead in his bathroom on Saturday after taking his own life

Opponents of gay marriage march in Paris ahead of vote HUNDREDS of thousands of people poured onto the streets of central Paris yesterday to protest against President Francois Hollande’s plan to legalise gay marriage and adoption by June.

Television footage showed some scuffles breaking out, with security forces firing tear gas on pink-clad marchers waving flags and chant-

ing slogans against Hollande. In France, anti-gay protesters often wear pink.

Official police estimates put the turnout at around 300,000.

It was the second such protest this year after a similar march in January highlighted eroding public support for the bill that had forced deputies to put off a plan to allow

lesbian couples access to artificial insemination.

President Hollande has pledged to push through the law with his Socialists’ parliamentary majority and has angered opponents by trying to avoid public debate on the reform, which Justice Minister Christine Taubira described as a “change of civilisation”.

The French Senate is due to examine the bill in April.

Opponents of gay marriage and adoption, including most faith leaders in France, have argued that the reform would create psychological and social problems for children, which they believe should trump the desire for equal rights for gay adults.

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Opinion

Our inept Central Bank governor should resign

Cyprus: what are the Russians playing at?

Comment Felix Salmon

REGARDLESS of what was decided at last night’s Eurogroup, on his return to Cyprus President Anastasiades should give serious consideration to removing the governor of the Central Bank, Panicos Demetriades from position. He may be an independent state official who has another four years of his contract to run, but a man who has caused such large scale harm to the country, either by accident or design, cannot remain in a post he has proved emphatically unfit for, for another four years.

Of course, it is not his fault that the previous president chose to appoint as governor a novice academic with limited understanding and no practical knowledge of the workings of the banking system, at a time when the banking sector was going through the most difficult period in its history. Laiki Bank was insolvent and the Bank of Cyprus was struggling to meet the capital requirements set by the EU for the end of June 2012, after the haircut of the Greek government debt. But even if the apprentice governor had theoretical knowledge of how the banking system worked, it was not evident in the way he went about the job.

In his first months in the job, he did little else than publicly criticise the banks, legitimising the government’s propaganda that all the economy’s problems were caused by the banks. He did his best to undermine public confidence in the banking sector, constantly talking about the need for re-structuring and downsizing. At the beginning of July, without an in-depth study being undertaken, the Central Bank leaked to a paper that the banks would need €10 billion for their recapitalisation needs. Demetriades saw himself as the punisher/destroyer of the banks rather than the man who would bring stability and confidence to the sector.

If the banks had such big problems, why did the governor not stop Laiki Bank drawing more and more liquidity assistance, allowing it to take in excess of €9 billion? Why did he not arrange for it to be restructured? Did he think we would not have to pay back the money, a big part of which was being sent to Greece for the obligations of Laiki’s subsidiary? It was criminally negligent for a governor who knew Laiki was insolvent and spoke of the need for its restructuring to keep giving it billions in aid.

His refusal to sit on the steering committee and have a say on the assumptions that Pimco would use to estimate the banks’ financial assistance was indicative of the man’s dereliction of duty, or perhaps an indirect admission that he would be out of his depth, unable to make a case against the knowledgeable technocrats of the troika. The results of this ineptitude or indifference are there for all to see.

The banking sector is in ruins and while the bankers have a big responsibility for this, the governor calculatingly made a bad situation much worse. This is why he must be relieved of his duties as soon as possible.

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AUL Murphy of the Financial Times, watching Cypriot finance Minister Michalis Sarris returning empty-handed from Moscow, says that “Medvedev and co could not have played a worse hand during this crisis — and it’s not immediately clear why”. His point was that the most likely outcome — he calls it “popping the red pill” — was that big depositors at Laiki Bank (read: rich Russians) were likely to lose big. Since that would make Russia very unhappy, why did Russia appear to be doing nothing to prevent it?

I don’t pretend to understand Russian politics, but this move seems to me to be a classic highrisk, high-aggression play; think of Medvedev as a geopolitical hedge-fund manager or poker player, and it begins to make a bit more sense.

Firstly, it’s worth noting that Russia actually appeared to be moving backwards on the amount of help to extend to Cyprus. When the bailout plan was first announced, it included Russia extending its existing €2.5 billion loan to the country by five years, as well as reducing that loan’s interest rate. Last week Russia refused to agree even to that.

More generally, Russia took an absolutist stance with respect to Cyprus. ‘No, we won’t restructure the money you owe us. No, we won’t buy a bank off you.

No, we aren’t interested in your natural-gas reserves’. And underlying it all, of course, an unspoken — and all the more powerful for being unspoken — physical threat to any Cypriot who caused powerful Russians to lose billions of euros.

Why did Russia act this way towards Cyprus? The obvious answer is that Russia knows exactly who’s sitting around this poker table: it’s not Cyprus that they’re playing, it’s the

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso (L) and Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) after their fruitless talks on Cyprus on Friday. Russia doesn’t want what’s best for Cyprus, or for the EU: Russia wants what’s best for Russia EU. If Russia were to enter into good-faith negotiations with Cyprus, that would help the EU, by reducing the amount of EU support that the island nation needed. Moreover, any deal that Russia made with Cyprus could be vetoed by Germany, or the Eurogroup, or the ECB, or even possibly the IMF. Russia is too big and too important to try to do deals which could be forcibly unraveled on a German finance minister’s whim.

And while we have a pretty good idea what the Russian prime minister said to Sarris in Moscow, we have a much less clear idea of what other Russians were saying to Cypriot lawmakers in Nicosia. The Cypriot capital was reportedly full of mysterious Russians last week,

and would not be a stretch to suggest they could have nobbled the vote in parliament.

Which brings me to the blue pill, as described by Murphy: Cyprus was left with a binary choice: become a gimp state for Russian gangsta finance, or turn fully towards Europe, close down much of its shady banking sector and rebuild its economy on something more sustainable.

As Paul Krugman says, Cyprus is very attached to its shady banking sector. And what exactly does Murphy have in mind when he talks about an economy based “on something more sustainable”? Natural gas? Well, given Cypriot national ties, it’s easy to see which company has pole position in terms of getting that mandate: Gazprom.

It’s also easy to imagine that Putin’s Russia views its relations with the EU as something of a zero-sum game. Russia also has a more than 150-year obsession with acquiring influence, if not outright control, over warmwater ports in Southern Europe.

The loss of Cyprus from the EU to Russia would be a clear loss to the EU and a clear win for Russia.

Russia doesn’t want what’s best for Cyprus, or for the EU: Russia wants what’s best for Russia. And the way it’s acting reminds me of nothing so much as a classic Wall Street bear raid, designed to drive down the price of something you want to be able to pick up very, very cheap.

Felix Salmon is a Reuters contributor

LETTERS to the Editor Failure to advise and failure to respond We feel your pain My degree was in Chemical Engineering and so my interest in economics, social philosophy and in deriving a viable and sustainable ideology for mankind has been an extra curricula activity.

About 10 years ago a eureka moment gave me the solution to how education should be managed, and this largely completed a comprehensive ideology which I have given the name Rationalism.

I am now more confident than ever that the ideology holds the key to a fulfilling and sustainable future for mankind.

The bursting of the dot com and property bubbles has been no surprise. I understand that these merely delayed the day of reckoning and the so called financial crisis is just a symptom that obscures the real problem facing the west – huge trade deficits which in turn because of poor economic management have led to years of huge government budget deficits.

In essence the west has been taking it easy while Chinese workers have been doing the work. So what has the Cyprus economy been based on?

Holidays for Europeans who should have been producing more and importing less? A retirement destination for those whose savings can no longer

sustain them? A stationary aircraft carrier for rent? Does that need to change, can it change?

These are the important medium term issues but what to do immediately?

Browsing the web I found Jan Strupczewski item for Reuters ‘Does size matter? Cypriot bank sector problem went overlooked’ stating one of the conditions for the bailout, that Cyprus more than halves the size of its banking sector by 2018 to match the EU average of around 3.5 times GDP. Is this appropriate? What multiple of GDP is necessary to sustain the retired population, how much other money will that group be transferring in? Is it not important whose money is banked and whether they intend to spend it in or withdraw it from Cyprus? These and many more questions need to be answered but it seems too late.

The European Commission’s economists failed to advise early enough and the Cypriot government’s failed to respond. Perhaps it’s best to do what’s necessary to get the cash machines and credit cards working, then address the real issue medium term, now that you know what it is!

Nick Salter, UK www.rational.org.uk

Dear Cypriots. Since 2008 our country (Ireland) has felt the full result of allowing foreign corporate bankers run our economy.

Our society is being destroyed.

Indirect taxes have quadrupled.

For your own sakes believe in your selves, tell the IMF and ECB to jump in a lake. Start new banks and leave the euro. The choice is between self reliance and succumbing to fascism.

Mussolini described fascism as the merger of state and corporate powers. That’s what is happening in the eurozone.

Best of luck to our Cypriot cousins. I hope you avoid the scenario in Ireland where debt chains through politicians have transferred to our children. It’s not your debt. Leave it with the banks and start again.

Jim Flynn, Ireland

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Quaid, soon-to-be ex together

The actress’ party plans have now been scrapped

DENNIS Quaid and his soon to be ex-wife are back together.

The G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra actor - who filed for divorce from his wife of eight years Kimberly Buffington-Quaid in November just six weeks after she announced their legal separation and recently bought a new $3.1 million home for her and their five-year-old twins Thomas and Zoe - has reportedly decided to give their marriage another try despite the fact they both already signed their divorce papers.

According to gossip website TMZ.com, the couple recently reunited but it is too late for them to halt their divorce.

The paperwork is currently in the possession of a judge and there is no way of removing it from the courts system so the judgment will become final. It is not known if the couple plans to remarry.

Former real estate agent Kimberly originally filed for divorce last March because she said the marriage had “become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.”

She later asked for their divorce to be put on

Lohan will spend her birthday in rehab

Arnie’s muscle man mentor Joe Weider dies, aged 93

LINDSAY Lohan is “p***ed” she has to celebrate her birthday in rehab.

The Liz & Dick actress has been ordered to spend 90 days in an in-patient facility as part of a plea deal agreed this week relating to charges over a car accident last July and must begin treatment before May 2, meaning she will still be there when she turns 27 on July 2.

A source close to the troubled starlet told gossip website TMZ.com that she isn’t upset about going to rehab where she will reportedly be treated for alcohol and prescription drug addictions but is “p***ed” about missing the opportunity to celebrate her birthday in style with her family and friends.

The actress, who narrowly escaped jail time by accepting the last minute deal to enter rehab, was planning to throw a big party in New York City but has now scrapped her plans.

Lindsay has been to rehab five times since 2007, and spent her 21st birthday there.

Friends close to the actress, who is rumoured to be dating City of the Sun musician Avi Snow, hope that this will be the last time she needs to seek treatment.

However, insiders previously admitted they are unsure how well the course of treatment will go, as the actress still doesn’t think she has a problem and only agreed to go to rehab to avoid jail.

Fitness guru was key to “Austrian oak’s” fame

hold in April 2012 to give them time to work on their marriage but then filed for a formal separation in October.

A source connected with the couple revealed the reason for the renewed split was that “Kimberly is fed up with Dennis’ cheating and wants out of the marriage. He’s not a good husband”.

The 58-year-old actor recently purchased a property, which is located in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles beside Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Bill Cosby’s homes, and the title is held in both Dennis and Kimberly’s names, but under the terms of their divorce settlement she and their children have exclusive occupancy of the house until they turn 18.

The agreement also conditionally allows Kimberly to stay longer if necessary.

The actor - who was previously married to actresses Meg Ryan and P.J. Soles - requested joint physical and legal custody of the twins and offered to pay spousal support in his divorce papers.

Dennis Quaid and wife of eight years Kimberly Buffington-Quaid are said to have reconciled

By Dan Whitcomb JOE Weider, the self-made fitness and bodybuilding guru who built a magazine empire that included more than a dozen popular publications such as Muscle and Fitness, Shape and Men’s Fitness, died on Saturday at the age of 93.

Weider, also known for starting the Mr Olympia bodybuilding contest in the 1960s and mentoring a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, passed away from heart failure at a Los Angeles area hospital, his long-time publicist Charlotte Parker said.

“Joe Weider was a titan in the fitness industry and one of the kindest men I have ever met,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement posted on his official website.

“He leaves behind a fantastic legacy of a fitter world,” the film star and former governor of California said. “Very few people can claim to have influenced as many lives as Joe did through his magazines, his supplements, his training equipment and his big-hearted personality.”

Born in a tough neighbour-

Titans: Weider (L) met Schwarzenegger (R) at a bodybuilding contest in Europe and persuaded him to come to the US hood of Montreal in 1920, Weider began lifting weights as a teenager to stand up to bullies and older boys before competing in his first bodybuilding contest at the age of 17, according to a biography provided by Parker.

He started his first magazine, Your Physique, in the early 1940s and with his younger brother Ben rented Montreal’s Monument National Theatre to host the first Mr

Canada contest during that same decade. The two brothers also founded the International Federation of Bodybuilders and in 1965 Weider created the Mr Olympia competition, the sport’s premiere bodybuilding contest.

Weider met Schwarzenegger at a bodybuilding contest in Europe and convinced him to move from his native Austria to the United States to seek wider recognition.

Schwarzenegger, then nicknamed the “Austrian Oak”, first gained fame by winning a string of Mr Olympia titles in the early 1970s before going on to a successful career in such films as The Terminator and Total Recall.

He was elected governor of California in 2003 and served two terms before retiring from politics.

“Joe didn’t just inspire my earliest dreams; he made

them come true the day he invited me to move to America to pursue my bodybuilding career,” Schwarzenegger, who visited Weider in the hospital before his death, said in the statement.

“I will never forget his generosity. One of Joe’s greatest qualities is that he wasn’t just generous with his money; he freely gave of his time and expertise and became a father figure for me,” he said.

Kristen Stewart, One Direction win twice at kids awards

Slime light: Stewart (R) seen at the Kids Choice Awards

GREEN slime spewed furiously at the Kids Choice Awards on Saturday, where Twilight Saga star Kristen Stewart and British boy band One Direction won two awards apiece.

Stewart, 22, escaped the slime but plunged her hands into the green goo, saying she “felt like I have finally found my kindergartner self,” as she accepted trophies for movie actress and favourite female butt kicker.

Organisers said more than 350 million votes were cast online in more than 20 categories, spanning film, television, books, music and sport for

the stunt-filled annual award show on youth channel Nickelodeon.

Hosted by Transformers actor Josh Duhamel, who is married to singer Fergie, the show in Los Angeles featured performances by Pitbull and Christina Aguilera, as well as Ke$ha.

Johnny Depp and Katy Perry accepted orange blimp-shaped trophies for favourite female singer and movie actor respectively and both stars had words of wisdom for the audience of kids and young teens.

“This is such a cool award ... stay safe, stay in school, don’t do drugs,”

Perry told them. Depp said he was “truly honoured and humbled. Thank you for what you are, which is the future.”

Selena Gomez, 20, the ex-girlfriend of pop star Justin Bieber, took the female TV actress award for her Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place, even though the show came to an end more than a year ago.

Bieber, who is on tour in Europe, was voted favourite male singer and was among several stars who did not make it to accept their award in person.

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Robert is concerned that news of his recent heart attack will reach the media, while Kitty confides in Nora after struggling to keep her illness a secret.

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

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Thriller, starring Mark Dacascos. 2002.

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By Preston Wilder

Full Metal Jacket (Plus TV, 21.00) First there’s Private Gomer Pyle, overweight and sadly inept, bullied and dehumanised in the US Marine training programme till he finally snaps. Then there’s Private Joker in Vietnam, covering the war as a correspondent for ‘Stars & Stripes’. Then there’s an account of a single mission - a sniper hidden in a derelict building - and the theme from The Mickey Mouse Club to finish off. No-one knew what to make of Stanley Kubrick’s elliptical Vietnam movie, so they accused it of being unconvincing; everyone knew it had been filmed mostly in England - Dorset standing in for ’Nam - and besides Platoon had come out the year before, taking realism to new heights, so middle-aged

Kubrick seemed out of touch. It’s still hard to know what to make of it, but its reputation has soared in the 26 years since - mostly because its chilly, fragmented style now seems appropriate for this nightmarish war, and indeed war in general. All together now: “I don’t know, but I’ve been told...” Made in 1987.

Haywire (Novacinema1, 22.00) Gina Carano fights like a girl - but a girl who’s also a top Muay Thai kickboxer and MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) champion. “You shouldn’t think of her as being a woman. That would be a mistake,” notes baddie Ewan McGregor in this cool, supple action thriller.

She’s a secret agent doing black-ops work for the US

Haywire

government, double-crossed and left for dead by her own people - but she’s also the only unknown in a cast full of stars (not just McGregor but also Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas and Channing Tatum), the only woman in a cast full of men, and the only real fighter in a cast full of pampered Hollywood actors pretending to fight. That’s why the fight scenes have a real charge, because Carano is authentic - and because the rest of the film is so sleek and elegant, with a near-ambient score that sounds like something playing in the background in a cappuccino bar. Bottom line? In the battle of femaleempowerment action flicks, Haywire kicks The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s ass. Ooh, catfight! Made in 2012.

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HEN Ireland’s Katie Taylor was taking hits and striking blows for boxing’s Olympic debut in an east London ring last year, John Hardy did not want to look.

To this leading neuroscientist and molecular biologist, a boxing bout is little more than a session of mutual brain injury. He was horrified to see women boxing at Olympic level for the first time at the London 2012 Games.

“We shouldn’t get our fun out of watching people inflict brain damage on each other,” said Hardy, who is chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease at University

College London’s Institute of Neurology. “To me as a neuroscientist it’s almost surreal.”

Hardy, whose research work focuses on Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, said having women in an Olympic boxing ring was “a terrible thing” - not because he thinks women should not compete alongside men in sport, but because women boxing simply meant more people inflicting more damage on more brains.

That, in turn, was highly likely to mean more people suffering the devastating, incurable symptoms of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Advances in modern neuroscience mean scientists know

more than ever about chronic brain damage and the longterm trauma that can result from frequent knocks to the head.

“You get tiny lesions along the blood vessels where they have torn the nerve cells around them. This damages those nerve cells, and those cells start to develop the tangles that you see in Alzheimer’s disease,” Hardy said.

“And what we now understand is that this process spreads.”

Partly due to this new understanding, now is a time of intense sensitivity about and scrutiny of brain damage in sport - particularly among North America’s National

A football helmet’s health warning sticker

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Football League (NFL) players.

Former San Diego Chargers player Junior Seau committed suicide last year after what some believe were years of depression stemming from multiple concussions he suffered as a player.

Last week, the NFL and General Electric Co announced a $60-million effort with leading neurologists to speed up research on brain injury to improve diagnosis and treatment amid growing concern about sports-related concussion.

A study published last year found that even minor repeated head blows during sports such as hockey and American football may damage the learning ability of sports men and women after just one season.

The brain debate has even reached the White House, where President Barack Obama suggested in January that changes be made to NFL rules to reduce the level of violent impact.

In soccer too, concerns are

growing about the damage players might be doing to their brains when they head the ball.

A small study of female soccer players published last month found evidence of mental impairment caused by repeatedly bouncing a football off the head. The US researchers who conducted that study said the effects suggested headers caused “mild traumatic brain injury of the frontal lobes”.

When it comes to boxing, health experts and scientists - and even some competitors themselves - have been worried about brains for decades.

The Irish former featherweight world champion Barry McGuigan, perhaps fearful of what damage might already have been done, said in 1988: “Boxing damages your brain; don’t let anyone tell you any different”.

Around the same time, fellow lightweight fighter Terry Marsh, who was later diagnosed with epilepsy, said: “I don’t need the British Medi-

cal Association to tell me getting hit on the head can’t do me any good.”

As far back as 1928, the American pathologist Harrison Stanford Martland wrote a paper entitled ‘Punch drunk’ in which he showed that prize

American heavywe boxing idol Muha struggling with a st hands even before h of his fight fighters were suffering from brain injury caused by the rupture of blood vessels.

The ‘punch drunk’ condition, known more formally as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) or as its variants, dementia pugilistica or boxer’s dementia, is a neuro-

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degenerative disease that can affect boxers and others who suffer knocks to the head.

It can cause depression, aggression, impulsivity and memory loss and has been linked to suicide.

“A lot of boxers, and indeed

ight champion and ammad Ali began utter and trembling he came to the end ting career American footballers too, have a period in their 30s and 40s where they are depressed, they drink, they show explosive tempers, and have basically pretty messed up lives,” said Hardy.

It is not hard to find examples of boxers whose brains

have begun to fail them.

American heavyweight champion and boxing idol Muhammad Ali began struggling with a stutter and trembling hands even before he came to the end of his fighting career. His subsequent decline with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s syndrome has been painful for fans to witness.

Mike Tyson, a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, was convicted and imprisoned for rape, had multiple marriages and break ups, was declared bankrupt and was eventually diagnosed with the brain condition bipolar disorder.

British former heavyweight world champion Frank Bruno was diagnosed with the same condition while his compatriot Michael Watson needed six brain operations and suffered lasting damage after being knocked down in a 1991 bout.

Hardy argues that there is a tendency to think of these problematic lives as par for the course for boxers - who

were more likely than nonboxers to come from disadvantaged backgrounds and mix in unstable circles.

“But the truth is they have bad judgement because of the injuries to their brain,” he said. In the language of brain science this was called “loss of executive control”, he explained, “and this in itself is part of the disease process”.

“It’s not inherent in their personalities as boxers, it’s damage to the frontal cortex.

They are already experiencing brain injury.”

In an article posted on the World Boxing Association’s (WBA) website, Calvin Inalsingh, head of the association’s medical advisory committee, admits that “boxing is the only sport in which the objective is to render blows to the head and body of the opponent so as to cause the opponent to be incapacitated”.

It is this, according to Hardy, that means when it comes to arguing for a ban on sports that cause brain injury, boxing is in a class of its own.

In other sports, such as American football, soccer or rugby, where the objective is to score touchdowns or goals or tries, and where head injury may be a by-product of that aim, authorities can and do change the rules or adjust the advice on protective clothing to make the game safer.

“But the whole point of boxing is to inflict brain dam-

age,” said Hardy. “That’s why I think it’s really a hopeless case in terms of a sport.”

He has little doubt that in time, as medical knowledge expands, boxing will be banned, although he accepts there may be many more years of argument between brain scientists and sports authorities first.

“In science we have become very good at identifying causes and mechanisms of disease but unfortunately we understand things for a long time before we get better at solving them.”

People with Alzheimer’s and their families march on the World Day against Alzheimer’s

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

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

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22 Girl partially suntanned (4) 23 Unruffled about modern style music (8)

18 The man to make the grade (5) 19 Carried part into Ted’s domain (5)

Answers to crossword 2346

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Man about town; 7 Scissors; 8 Sock; 9 Song; 11 Derelict; 12 At will; 14 Notion; 16 Agonised; 19 Ashe; 21 Snag; 22 Twilight; 23 Lose one’s grip. Down – 1 Moses; 2 Assegai; 3 Ovoid; 4 Test run; 5 Ousel; 6 Neckcloth; 10 Octagonal; 13 Lesotho; 15 Tearing; 17 Negus; 18 Drive; 20 Eat up.

QUICK: Across – 1 Brother-in-law; 7 Scorched; 8 Tune; 9 Anti; 11 Roughage; 12 Agreed; 14 Titian; 16 Stop over; 19 Lass; 21 Flip; 22 Oblivion; 23 Bird’s-eye view. Down – 1 Basra; 2 Termite; 3 Ether; 4 In doubt; 5 Latch; 6 Wineglass; 10 Nightclub; 13 Devious; 15 Tel Aviv; 17 Piper; 18 Relay; 20 Sinew.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

A delicious link between the Sun and Venus, both in Aries, can add so much sunshine to your mood and to the vibe that you give out to others. Or will it? Because someone may seem to go out of their way to put a dampener on proceedings. The trick is to work out who this might be and what their issues and agenda are. Jealousy may be a factor.

Don’t let today’s passage of the Moon across Saturn overly affect your confidence and sense of self. Because at least for a time, you might feel a tad less self assured.

But with another superb and progress influence in play, as long as you continue to believe in yourself, you can cultivate some brilliant possibilities, especially linked to travel.

Part of you may be up for a very jolly and sociable time, yet an inner voice may hold you back. This may drop a seed of doubt into your thinking, especially about your love life.

Is there a past situation or scenario which is still playing out at the bottom of your psyche far more powerfully than you thought? If so, it may be time to cleanse yourself of this.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

You may realise that you do after all hold strong feelings for that person from your past. And yet equally, the thought might seem oppressive, especially if you have worked hard to move on, perhaps even with someone new. So today can throw up some bitter sweet moments.

Equally, you may decide enough’s enough with a current tie that’s ailing.

You have an eye for detail, but when you home in on things, it is very important that you take in the whole picture, not one small segment. Today is a point in case. Something very valuable may appear. This could be a piece of information, a new person, or even a dusty old item. If so pause, and see what you can learn. It may be plenty.

Beautifying your home, decorating or improving your garden can all be features at this time. If you have been busy doing these things already, you may invite friends or family around to show them the progress that you have made.

Yet don’t expect one friend to be glowing with their assessment. In fact, they could seem quite off with you.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Does a friend share your generosity of spirit? There may be a moment today when your natural exuberance seems crushed by someone with a tendency to be a nitpicker. Yet if you can get behind this, you might find yourself feeling very grateful for the friendship you share with someone else. You may even strike up a bond that goes deeper.

This can be an excellent day for relationships, but I am going to qualify this, because you can’t expect this with every person and in every situation. The reason is that Saturn is going to assert itself on the Moon, and the change for positive exchanges will come from those with similar values.

Someone that doesn’t could profoundly disappoint you.

You might find yourself silkily explaining your take on something today, and one person could be absolutely rapt with what you have to say. However, if you are trying to woo a customer, gain credibility with your bank or impress a potential employer, don’t try too hard to charm, as they may seem strangely put off by this. The key is to be natural.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You might have to brace yourself today, especially at work.

If you are a Cancer who prefers not to engage in confrontations, you might be perfectly pleasant to someone and yet in return they can seem very sour. Try to shrug this off.

It may be that the added attention that is coming your way is hard for them to take. Sparkle on!

There may be someone you are trying to give the benefit of the doubt to, and if so, it may take more effort than the simple thought “oh, they’re not so bad after all”. Instead, be conscious that it is how you are and your attitudes that will affect this scenario as much as a change of mindset.

And you can’t expect everyone to conform to your high standards.

You might find yourself counting your blessings today, working out what you have that is valuable in your life - and I don’t mean materially. Yet equally, if you do decide that a treat or two is in order, the location of Saturn suggests that if you splash out with gay abandon, you might get a very strong reaction with a case of buyer’s remorse.

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Nicosia - tel: 22 818583 fax: 22 676385

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

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FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554.

***************************** WANTED: Experienced Dog Groomer - Full/Part time hours For wellestablished business in Limassol. For more info please contact: 96578094

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***************************** PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTERY CLEANING, also carpets, rugs and mattresses. Special offers now available. FREE STAIN GUARD FOR LIMITED TIME For a quote call Rickys Cleaning Services on 99131044 (all areas) info@ rcs-cyprus.net / www.rcs-cyprus. net

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PRIVATE TUITION experienced, UKqualified teacher offers full-time or part-time private home tuition in Maths, English, the Sciences, I.C.T., Geography, History, Business Studies and Economics, from KS3 to iGCSE, AS and A2 levels. 9 years experience in Cyprus; references available. Telephone 99318796 – Paphos

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MISCELLANEOUS WANTED: COUPLES OF EU CITIZENS LIVING IN CYPRUS We are currently conducting research as regards European families living in Cyprus. If both you and your spouse come from the same or a different country of the EU (except Cyprus and Greece, e.g. both from Germany, or Germany and France), if you have children over 6, and if you are interested in taking part in some research financed by the University of Cyprus please contact us 96530033. Participants will complete a questionnaire and participate in a face-to-face interview.

They will also receive a symbolic amount of money.

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PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH PAINTER AND DECORATOR City and Guilds Advanced 46 years experience of interior and external finishes. Quality work, reliable, estimates and advice freely given. Tala based Phone Terry 96407703

***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD. We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems.

We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com

***************************** SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fit air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol

**************************** DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled floors and surfaces.

Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 All areas

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - CYPRUS Is drink costing you more than just money? AA could be the answer.

***************************** FOR SALE: Electric Cooker, Bosch 4 ceramic hotplates and oven, used 1 1/2 year, €350 Washing Machine LG 7 kg, silent, used 1 1/2 year €200 Big Electric heater, Matestar, used 8-10 times €25 For further information contact phone 9918 2310

************************** OFFICE FURNITURE FOR SALE with 50% discount, price per unit: 1. ECO Desk 160x80x71 – 8 units/ €96.

2. Extention 120x60x71 – 6 units/ €76.

3. Small under-desk Cabinet with 3 pullout drawers – 7 units/ €99.

4. ECO Low cabinet with 2 low doors - 8 units /€107.

Tel: 25 200 600, 99 316 582

************************** FOR SALE – PAPHOS CATERING EQUIPMENT 1. Industrial freezer – CORECO Height 200cm, width 68cm, depth 58cm 2.

Electrolux Freezer, model EUC3109X, width-595mm, height-1800mm, depth623mm, freezing capacity-24kg/24hours, energy class A

3. CONVOTHERM OVEN modelOBG 6.10Combi Oven-Steamer with Gas Steam Generator Extra: Stand with stainless steel shelving, extractor fan, water supply system and gas installation connections, PLUS CHAFING TRAYS & THERMO BOXES, ALL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AT REDUCED PRICES. PLEASE CALL : 99622678

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FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES

Meeting at the following locations/ days. Call to speak to an AA member.

Larnaca Tuesday (Polish spk) 96616589 Thursday 24645523 / 99259264 Limassol Tuesday / Wednesday / Friday / Saturday 25368265 / 99559322 Nicosia 99013596

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Paphos Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday 99916331 / 99399240 Details of meetings are available on www.aa-europe.net

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PERSONAL ***************************** GERMAN MAN, 50 searching a nice Mobil:00491736590562

LOST HUSKY – PAPHOS Answers to the name of Chico went missing on Monday the 4th of February around the International School area chipped Paphiakos Animal Welfare have advised that many large dogs have been taken from the Mesogi/ Anarvagos/Ttremithousa areas.

Please call 99622678 if you have seen him

years, women.

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HONEY is a 3 month old pincher/ terrier mix. She is very small sized and very sweet and playful. Honey is looking for a loving family to be hers forever! She will remain small sized so she is ideal for a family with an apartment! For adoptions call 99 520 511 Monday-Friday between hours 10-2 or email ndsadoptions@gmail.com

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***************************** WANTED: Toyota RAV or Nissan Quasquai built 2007 or younger in a very good condition only.

Nonsmoker car, accident free and with full service history is a must. Tel: 99906823 or 26813975. Email: info@terramarna. com

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FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA FOR RENT a spacious two bedroom apartment, near Hilton and Central Bank. Living/dining room, sitting room, large veranda, kitchen, c/h, s/h, covered parking. Title deeds.

Tel. 99519370.

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***************************** FOR SALE plot of land with sea view.

In Chlorakas area. Very quiet and private location. Title deed. Tel. 99519370.

**************************** LIMASSOL 1) GREAT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY PLOT OF LAND FOR SALE 1,789 sq.m, IN THE AREA OF AGIA ZONI BUILDING FACTOR 140% WITH TITLE DEED. The land is located at a central point in the city, very close to various amenities and has excellent accessibility. Tel: 96885030 owner 2) RESIDENTIAL LAND FOR SALE GREAT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY The plot of land is located in the area of Foinikaria Total area 5,686 with a 20% Building Factor Tel: 96885030 owner

**************************** PAFOS 1) PLOTS OF LAND FOR SALE ANAVARGOS AREA GREAT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY The plots can be sold as a single unit or individually. From 626 sq.m up to 776 sq.m with building factor 60% and title deeds. Mountain and sea view with nice villas developing around the area. Tel: 96885030 owner 2) COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE IN KATO PAFOS 96sq.m The shop is within the ‘’Limnaria Complex’’ and faces the main road Melina Mercouri Avenue It’s in good condition with suspended ceiling, recessed lighting, VRV AC, fitted carpet, motorised shutters, CCTV and more. Tel: 96885030 owner

2 bedr. lux. flat, Ayioi Omoloyites, wooden floors €800, 3 bedr.

Acropolis c/h a/c wooden floors €650, Mak/ssa 3 bedr., modern, open plan €1000 f/f €1200, Nicosia 3 bedr., f/f, luxury €1000 f/f, Latsia 2 bedr., pool €430, Strovolos f/f house 4 bedr €1300, Mak/ ssa ground floor house detached €850 Photos www.markidesestates.com Markides 22- 378898 / 99464764 Reg.No. 487 E 16

***************************** LUXURIOUS APARTMENT FOR RENT - A luxurious one floor apartment situated in central Nicosia in an area of exceptional Beauty at 3 Museum Street, is available to let.

It has been recently renovated and consists of four bedrooms, two bathrooms, big dining and sitting rooms, kitchen and a huge veranda. Approximate covered area 250 sqm. Tel: 99622370.

TO LET 1 bedroom upper floor house, large veranda near restaurant Periyiali in Acropolis 5 Aeantos Street €300 call 99680208 NEW LUXURIOUS spacious (130m²), 2 bedrs flat, 2 balconies, 2 WC, indep. CH, solar system, A/C, granite floors, shutters, Italian kitchen and appliances, storeroom, covered parking in small quiet building (4 flats) in Ay. Dhometios 1.5km form Alfa-Mega Engomi. €590 p.m.

Same building very large ONE bedr flat (75m²) with similar amenities €480 p.m. TEL:99 544141

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SUZUKI VITARA Saloon 1.6 benzini, dark green from 2002, mileage: 135.500 km. MOT till 2015. Road Tax paid all 2013. €2.200. Call 99182310.

LAND FOR SALE MITSERO. 7 skalas. 10% build. South facing, unobstructed views. Access road, water, electricity. Fenced compound with 48sq.meter timber framed 2 bedroom unit, septic tank, grey water system, storage, workshop. €135,000 mobile 99594205 pumpitch@hotmail.com

FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT Ag. Andreas studio €290, Kennedy €300, 1bdrm Str/los €400, Makarios av. €500, 2 bdrm European University furnished top floor €600 Ag. Dometios ground floor + garden €450, Lycavitos furnished €530, Ag. Paylos rear house newly built €450, 3bdrm M/ssa ground floor €700, Archangelos detached with pool €1,200, 4bdrm Kosta Theodorou new house €1,100, Ag. Andreas g/f €900, Ag. Omologites colonial traditional house pool €2,500. 21 property Finder Ltd. 99474839, 99646822, A.M.627 A.A.108/E

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Ayia Napa Monday 97798043 HONDA 400 TWIN, blue, 1984 in very good condition, chrome exhausts, only 38.000 kms, road tax up to date, €900 o.n.o, please call : 99266282 Paphos area.

TOYOTA IQ 2009. Automatic 1ltre. White pearl, 33.000km.

Medium tinted windows, Zenon lights. Perfect condition only €8500.00. Call 99511737

************************** BLACK HONDA CBR1100XX SUPERBLACKBIRD registered new in June 2011 as new condition with 12000 km. Any inspection welcome. €6950.

Call Philip 99680747

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Larnaca - tel: 24 652243 fax: 24 659982

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FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS

SERVICES

Limassol - tel: 25 761117 fax: 25 761141

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PLOT FOR SALE IN KATO PLATRES in a pine tree area. It comes with title deeds, 1095 square feet.

Tel. 99881051.

**************************** DOG GROOMING BUSINESS FOR SALE Do you like animals? If you do you would love doing this. Well established client base for 7 years.

Willing to train if needs require.

Open to offers for a quick sale this includes training, equipment and transport. For more information please call: 96301768

LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3/4 of a plot, office space, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area, separate big kitchen with family room and all the electrical appliances, blinds and curtains on all windows, aluminium shutters, big garden with grass, 3 wc, covered parking, in a quiet area – Strovolos €1000 (H4ST10051-R), (photos in the website) 2. 3 bedr luxury terraced house, 210sq.m,central heating, full a/c,

classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 15 Employment Miscellaneous 15 Pets 15 Lessons 15 Health & Fitness -Personal 15 Services 15 For Sale Miscellaneous 15 For Sale Land/ Property Business 15 For Sale Motor vehicles 15 Properties Wanted -To Let Nicosia 15 To Let Limassol 17 To Let Larnaca 18 To Let Paphos 18 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -For Sale Nicosia 20 For Sale Limassol 20 For Sale Larnaca -For Sale Paphos 20 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras 20 For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads --

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

bedroom central heating air conditioning swimming pool fully furnished apartment per month per week south west north west street road power steering central locking short wheel base radio cassette electric windows

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

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor on stairs and bedrooms,4 wc,3 bathrooms, 2 en suite, big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3 covered parking spaces, roof garden access, in a quiet neighbourhood on Mon Parnas hill – Engomi €800 (photos in the website).

3. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office, 250sq.m, central heating independent, 4 a/c, big renovated kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fireplace, 1 bathroom, 2 shower, 3 wc, 2 covered parking, double glazed windows and shutters in bedrooms, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street IN the central part of Makedonitissa – €1100 (H3MAK0004-R) (photos on the website) 4. 3 bedr luxury semi-detached house with character, 200sq.m, central heating, full ac, sitting and dining room with fireplace, 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 neighbourhood. Available middle of January. Agios Andreas - €1200 H3AAD0001-R (photos on website).

5. 3 bedr luxury house, office space,

TO LET NICOSIA attic room, with central heating, full a/c, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 verandas, in a quiet area – Lakatamia €680 (H4LAK009-R), (photos in the website).

6. 3 bedr + attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with central heating, a/c, fireplace, modern kitchen open plan with expensive electrical appliances, blinds, garden with grass, over flow swimming pool, covered parking in a quiet area. – Makedonitissa €1600 (H4MAK0023-R), (photos on the website).

7. 4 bedr luxury detached house with big sitting and dining room with parquet floor, separate big kitchen with family room and all the electrical appliances, small garden with grass and bbq area,3wc, central heating, full a/c, covered parking, in a very quiet neighborhood – Archangelos €1200 (H4AR0017-R), (photos in the website).

8. 3 bedr +office space partially renovated detached ground floor house, 280sq.m, central heating with oil, full a/c, 3wc, separate tv room, big sitting and dining area, big verandas around the house, bbq area, covered parking, private yard near the parking.– Strovolos €1200 (H4ST10048-R), (photos in the website).

TO LET NICOSIA 9. New modern luxury very good quality finished semi detached house built in 3 levels. Upstairs 1st level 3 bedrs all en suite+ laundry room, 2nd level big attic room which can be used for office space or bedroom. Ground floor with 2 sitting areas ,dining area and breakfast area, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, central heating, full a/c units. Basement with kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher, microwave and 2 refrigerators, sitting room with fireplace, and 2 bedrooms with one bathroom. Outside private fenced garden with artificial grass, bbq area and covered veranda. The house has blinds and shutters on all windows, false ceiling with spot lights throughout house, pressure system, covered parking, satellite dish, central music and network system, storage room, very good double glazed windows.

Behind General flooring in the centre of Makedonitissa - €2000 (H4MAK0001-R), (photos on the website).

10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €700 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the 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, aluminium 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. 3 bedrs luxury 2 storey, FULLY RENOVATED LISTED HOUSE with high ceilings in the centre of Nicosia, 260sq.m, 2 small attic rooms, big sitting room up-

TO LET NICOSIA

TO LET NICOSIA

stairs, big sitting room and dining area downstairs, wooden floor, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, 2 bathrooms(one en suite),3wc,CH independent, A/C, big garden – Nicosia Centre €1400 (H4NIC0002-R), (photos in the website).

cooker and oven, 6wc, 2 covered parking, yard with tiles and SWIMMING POOL, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Platy Aglantzias €2500 (H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website)

13. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedrooms in the basement luxury detached house (all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which also has separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor throughout house, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big over flow, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar (bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker), mature garden around the house,2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H5PAG0002-R).

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

14. 4 bedr very big luxury semi detached 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 football stadium.CAN BE RENTED FURNISHED, PARTIALLY FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED - Makedonitissa €1500(H4MAK0032-R), (photos in the website) 15. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/ maid’s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted

***************************** 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 through, 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 neighbourhood – Agios Andreas- €1300 – A3AAD0005-R (photos on 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 headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website).

3. 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).

4. 2 bedr luxury ground floor apartment with central heating-inde-

TO LET NICOSIA pendent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite network, FULLY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered parking, double glazed windows, aluminium shutters, on Pericleous street near Klimataria traffic lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fireplace, covered parking and big over floor heated covered swimming pool on the ground floor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital – Engomi €1500 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos in the website) 6. 1 bedr new luxury apartment in a modern building(TSENTAS),with central heating ind, 2 a/c, cooker and oven, refrigerator and washing machine in the kitchen, parquet floor, NICELY FURNISHED big covered veranda, big sitting room off Kyriakou Matsi street, 1 km from the centre €460 (A1AOM0002-R), (photos in the website).

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1 bedr cozy luxury apartment,60sq.m,parquet floor, nicely furnished ,all fitted electrical appliances (cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge), roman blinds, provisions for home cinema, big covered verandah, storage heaters, 2 a/c ,covered parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital.

– Dasoupoli €470 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website)

8. 2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with separate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot– Agioi Omologites €500 (A2AOM0003-R) (photos in the website)

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 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 neighbourhood near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE end of March – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) .

10. New luxury finished 1 bedr penthouse apartment with big verandah with nice view, in a small modern building,55sq.m,storage heaters,2 a/c, blinds on the windows, expensive electrical appliances(cooker, oven, extractor, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer),covered parking and storage room, off Kalippoleos street opposite Dessange Day Spa near the University – Lykavitos €420 (A1LYK0002-R), (photos in the website).

11. 3 bedrs luxury penthouse one floor apartment in a small building with 3 apartments,250sq.m plus big covered verandas, fire place, solid parquet floor,2 bathrooms,3 wc, cooker, oven, fridge, washing

FOR RENT 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment in Larnaca near new hospital. €400 per month including service charge and refuse collection Call 99358916

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erence number: Rtl_447 also available modern detached 3 bedroom villa on this private road. Website reference number: RTL_572 3. KISSONERGA €650 stunning detached 3 bedroom villa situated in quiet residential area with sea & rural views. Private drive with car port. Enclosed low maintenance garden with sea water private pool.

Modern villa, master with ensuite plus downstairs guest wc. Beautifully furnished with good quality furnishing & fittings, including black out blinds, nilesat satelitte & pressurised water system. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: RTL_497 4. MESOGI €700 spacious 4 bedroom villa plus playroom or office including gas central heating. one bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. available unfurnished. enclosed low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy & views over countryside. situated in a quiet residential area. Website reference number: Rtl_618 5. LOWER CHLORAKA €750 spacious detached 3 bedroom villa offering stunning views of the sea.

Situated in a quiet residential street opposite orange groves. Gated entrance enclosed good sized low maintenance mature garden with fruit trees & private pool. Spa-

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Master bedroom with ensuite. Available fully furnished. Website reference number: RTL_550 6. KAMARES TALA €850 a stunning detached villa offering 4 bedrooms plus office in a quiet & private residential area with large parking bay for numerous cars and covered off street parking. Offering spacious living accommodation and breathtaking views of the sea. This property includes a lift to all 4 floors.

Lovely garden with spacious veranda & private pool. Available unfurnished. Website reference number: RTL_669 7. PEYIA €950 we are delighted to offer this ultra modern 4 bedroom villa with luxury furnishings & fittings.

Offering spacious accommodation with breathtaking sea views. Finished to a very high quality. Spacious living area with modern fitted kitchen & utility area. One bedroom on ground floor with ensuite & kitchenette. Guest wc. Private infinity pool & enclosed low maintenance garden. A must to see! website reference number: RTL_670 8. CHLORAKA €2,200 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq meters), beautifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens.

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***************************** MANDRIA PAFOS 2 bedroom furnished bungalow within walking distance of the village. Large bedrooms, kitchen, sitting room/dining area with fire place, large bathroom.

Outside gated area and fenced off, pets welcomed Ref: 1217 €450 AYIA MARINOUDA PAFOS 2 bedroom furnished bungalow in lovely

TO LET PAPHOS quiet complex with communal pool.

Property has fireplace, off street parking, nice stone features, character property. Ref: 1224 €500

ting/dining area, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, master en suite, private pool, covered parking. Ref: 1214 €550

MESOGI PAFOS 4 bedroom house offered furnished, near all amenities. Property has sitting,dining area, kitchen, storage, downstairs bedroom, guest wc. Upstairs 3 additional bedrooms, master en suite, family bathroom. Off street parking, back garden with lawn Ref 1211 €690

CORAL BAY PAFOS 3 bedroom Villa offered furnished or unfurnished in a lovely private and peaceful location. Property is cosy with a small kitchen, sitting room and dining area with a fire place, ac, guest wc, 3 bedrooms master en suite, family bathroom. Nice views Ref: 842 €750

SEA CAVES PAFOS modern bungalow offered furnished or unfurnished, 3 bedroom, master en suite shower, family bathroom, kitchen, sitting area, outside private pool, roof garden, outside shower-toilte, flyscreens nice location with sea views. Ref: 1213 €750

CHLORAKA PAFOS 2 and 1 bedroom apartments in a lovely modern complex offered furnished or unfurnished with fly screens, nice large kitchen, bathroom, communal pool, nice location. Ref 1219 from €300

MELANOS/CHLORAKA PAFOS Partfurnished, modern 4 bedroom villa, with private pool and amazing sea views. Has modern appliances, off-street covered parking in a nice quiet location. Pets welcome. Ref: 1206 €800 PEGEIA PAFOS 3 bedroom unfurnished villa with great sea and mountain views. Property has sit-

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS 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.

Euros 400.00 per month 2 FYTI 3 bed, 3 bath furnished villa in a very quiet location. The property offers stylish accommodation and has many luxury features.

Open plan living area with feature fireplace. Dining area. Large fully fitted L shaped kitchen with appliances and breakfast bar Doors out to rear garden and pool. Guest WC. Stairs up to 3 very spacious bedrooms. Master with ensuite.

Family bathroom and storage cupboard. Stairs up to roof garden with panoramic views. Outside there is a feature pergola, swimming pool and landscaped gardens. Euros 700.00 a month.

3. OLYMPUS ESTATE, NR TSADA – 3 bed, 2.5 bath furnished bungalow set on this prestigious estate. The house has central heating, A/C, fireplace, shutters & flyscreens. Spacious open plan living area with dining space.

Large “L” shaped kitchen. 3 double bedrooms all leading to pool and gardens. Master with en-suite.

Covered patio with sea and rural views, swimming pool and garden areas. Feature outside dining area. Breakfast area to the side of the property. Easy care gardens.

Pool with Roman steps. Parking for 3 cars. Bargain price!!! Euros 800.00 per month furnished, unfurnished by arrangement at lower cost.

4. TALA - 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with dining space.

TO LET PAPHOS Fully fitted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden. Storage room. Ground floor bedroom with adjacent shower. Stairs to two double bedrooms both en-suite, one with Jacuzzi tub. Small seating area with adjacent balcony.

Pool and off street parking. Landscaped gardens Euros 650.00 per month 5. AYIOS DEMITRIANOS (POLEMI) – 3 bed, 2 bath furnished villa (bungalow style) set in a private and quiet location. Open plan living area with fireplace. Fully fitted kitchen with quality appliances.

Utility room and storage. Master bedroom with adjacent shower.

Two more double bedrooms with family bathroom with Jacuzzi bath.

Garden areas, large terraces with outstanding views. Private pool 10x5, Covered parking. Euros 700.00 per month furnished, 650 unfurnished.

6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed, 2 bath fully furnished penthouse apartment. Living area with dining space. Doors out to massive balcony area overlooking the pool and gardens. Fitted kitchen.

2 double bedrooms, master bedroom has ensuite shower. Family bathroom. A/C, Comm pool and parking. Euros 450.00 a month or offers.

7. LOWER PEYIA - 3 bed, 2.5 bath unfurnished 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.

Euros 550.00 per month or close offers only.

8. CHLORAKAS – 2 bed 1 bath large furnished apartment in quiet area.

Spacious open plan living area with doors out to balcony. Good sized modern fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Small balcony off the kitchen.

Two double bedrooms. Family

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PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA ***************************** FOR SALE a very nice, large, two bedroom apartment near Hilton and Central Bank. Living, dining room, sitting room, large veranda.

Spacious kitchen, c/h, s/h, covered parking. Title deed. Tel. 99519370.

***************************** FOR SALE OFFICES, ground floor space, suitable for offices or any other business. Centrally located, off Arch. Makarios Avenue, in the Commercial Centre of Nicosia, near Hilton. Also mezzanine, basement, small kitchen, a/c, parking. Title deeds. Tel. 99519370.

***************************** STROVOLOS, Symi street, Tseriou new one bedroom apartment, 55 sqm, large sunny balcony, airconditioned, private parking, lift, title deeds, reduced price €95.000 (including VAT) (no offers) tel: 99266282 (no agents)

***************************** FOR SALE upper floor house 210 sq.m built on 301 sq. m land, Lapatsa area, Pereous 1a. 4 bedrooms with attic room (not finished), c/h ,4 a/c, aluminium doors& window, covered parking and storage room.

FOR SALE NICOSIA Price €310.000 pm call 22431095 99330632.

LIMASSOL ***************************** SMART EASILY MAINTAINED BUNGALOW. Pano Kivides. 110 sq.m.

2 beds. Gas CH. Double glazing.

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Jacuzzi. Car port. Open view. Easy drive to Limassol. TITLE DEEDS 187500 Tel 99995906.

***************************** EXECUTIVE PENTHOUSE for sale in central Limassol (Glastonas Street area). Five minute walk to the beach.

4/5 bedrooms. Private rooftop walkin swimming pool with large terraces and conservatory. Total area: 800m2 (300m2 covered) €825,000 negotiable Tel: 99169485 Photos & more info: http://penthouse-forsalecyprus.blogspot.com/

rakas area, very quiet and private location. 4 en-suite bedrooms.

Spacious living - dinijng room, sitting room, kitchen with all electrical appliances, breakfast room, two fireplaces, built-in bookcases, eletrical shutters, a/c, swimming pool, garden, patio, garage, store room.

Option for second floor. Title deed.

Adjacent to above. Sold separately plot of land, with sea view. Title deed. Tel. 99519370.

***************************** 2 BEDROOM top floor apartment built in 2006, 75 sqm, large sunny balcony with sea views, 2 bathrooms (en-suite), communal pool, air conditioning. Small block of 9 apartments, located behind dar-

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mart store, near the debenhams roundabout, underground private parking, storage room and lift, reduced price: €98.000 (including VAT) with title deeds (no agents) please call: 99266282

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

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CAKES/SAVOURIES IF YOU CAN HELP PLEASE CONTACT: HELEN 99 447482 OR GEORGINA 99 673841 OR DROP OFF AT: KIVOTOS PET SHOP (COCA COLA TRAFFIC LIGHTS ) Or ANGEL PAWS PET SPA, 35 ARMENIAS STREET, STROVOLOS The deadline for dropping off will be Thursday 4th April. Except for Cakes or saviories which can be brought on the morning of the 7th April.

Thank you for your support – “together we make a difference”

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A new and very different place has opened its doors today to the bingo world, inviting people to come and try their luck. Aris Empire Bingo is impressively and luxuriously decorated and can host up to 1000 people providing all the comforts for a night of fun or relaxation.

Visitors can have fun, playing bingo, trying to win one of the big money prizes that are handed out each time. People can also choose from the large choice of food on the menu, which is reasonably priced. The meticulous work done by the owner is apparent at every corner, even in the kitchen which is HACCP certified, with everything designed by the CTO. Bingo has now taken-on a different character of being more enjoyable and of more quality for all those who love the game but have kept their distance as they could not find a place that expressed them. The spacious hall has good ventilation and Aris Empire Bingo has a large parking, making it easier for any visitors.

Opening hours is from 8pm till 2am Restaurant hours from 8pm Bingo starts at 9pm

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IN BRIEF Murray and Williams advance BRITISH world number three Andy Murray cruised to a straightforward victory over Bernard Tomic at the Sony Open but the Williams sisters had contrasting fortunes in Miami in the early hours of yesterday.

Top ranked Serena overcame a slow start to turn away Japan’s Ayumi Morita 6-3 6-3 in third round play, but Venus withdrew from the tournament due to a back injury.

Murray needed only 56 minutes to defeat sluggish Australian Tomic 6-3 6-1 in his second round match.

The 2009 Miami champion won 80 per cent of his first service points and broke Tomic twice in each set to improve to 2-0 all-time against the Australian.

Murray, runner-up to world number one Novak Djokovic last year, will face Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov in the third round today.

NZ tilt series-deciding test in their favour

By Greg Stutchbury ENGLAND wicketkeeper Matt Prior was doing his best to paint the cheery side of reality after New Zealand tilted the series-deciding third test in their favour following the third day’s play at Eden Park yesterday.

The hosts were 35 for three in their second innings at stumps, 274 runs ahead after they chose not to enforce the follow on when they had bowled England out for 204 early in the final session.

James Anderson and Stuart Broad then ripped the top of New Zealand’s batting order to give Alastair Cook’s side a sniff of an unlikely comeback.

First innings centurion Peter Fulton (14 not out) and Dean Brownlie (13 not out), however, blunted the England attack, steadied the innings then shut up shop for the final half hour as they realised starting again on Monday was far more important than scoring runs late on Sunday.

New Zealand will probably

need to bat at least a session and half, if not two, today to get as close as possible to 200 in their second innings and give England a total in excess of 400 to achieve an unlikely victory in about 120 overs.

The highest winning score achieved in a fourth innings at Eden Park is 348 for five

by West Indies in 1969.

No other side has scored more than 300 to win in Auckland and with the pitch now becoming a bit “up and down”, according to New Zealand’s Trent Boult, the hosts are favourites to achieve their first series win over England since 1999.

‘IT’S NOT OVER’ “There’s still a lot of cricket to play. I know it feels like the world is over but it’s not really,” Prior, who top scored with 73 in England’s innings, told reporters. “We’ve had a couple of bad days.

“We’re now in a position where we need a bit of luck and a lot of skill, but if we come in tomorrow morning and get early wickets, who knows, it could still be a

good day.

“We’ve got some very good cricketers who can put in some match-winning or match-saving performances.

“We’re going to have to bat a lot better but we can chase these runs. Guys just have to stick their hands up.

“The thing I love about this team is that we might do it the hard way but we fight.”

Anderson and Broad had looked like they were spoiling for a fight yesterday as they steamed in to reduce New Zealand to 8-3, but when Fulton and Brownlie quietly began to see off the onslaught, their nostrils become a little less flared and eyes a little less bulging and wide.

“I don’t think 30 for three was in the plan but I think to have a 280-run lead is a pretty good position to be in,” Boult, who took a career-best six for 68, told reporters.

“We just have to look towards tomorrow morning as the first hour being pretty important. We need to put a couple of good partnerships together and see where that gets us.

“I’m not sure on a figure but we will see how it unfolds.”

Kiradech wins in Malaysia New Zealand’s Neil Wagner celebrates the wicket of England’s Matt Prior for 73 runs during day three of the Test match played at Eden Park in Auckland yesterday

Hamilton feels for team-mate Rosberg

Embarrassed: Mercedes driver Hamilton said Rosberg should have been on the Malaysia GP podium yesterday

LEWIS Hamilton has admitted to feeling embarrassed at standing on the podium in yesterday’s Malaysian Grand Prix.

Unlike warring Red Bull duo Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, with the former blatantly disregarding team orders to hold station over the closing dozen laps, Nico Rosberg respected the call from boss Ross Brawn.

After a duel following the fourth and final pit stop, Mercedes pair Hamilton and Rosberg traded places for a couple of laps before the Briton edged ahead.

Hamilton’s pace, however, was not enough to keep him there as he was forced to save fuel, allowing Rosberg to again close and push for a pass. At one stage Rosberg took to the team radio and said: “I’m so much faster than Lewis. Let me get past him.”

Brawn, however, replied: “Negative Nico, negative. Lewis’ pace is what we are asking him to do.

“He can go a lot faster as well, so please be in control as well.”

A few laps later, with frustration growing, Rosberg repeated his request, but again Brawn told him to ease off.

Brawn said: “Nico, please drop back. There is a massive gap behind and nothing to gain in front. I want to bring these cars home.”

Rosberg ultimately acceded, but after being thanked for his actions by Brawn as he pulled into the pits, the German pointedly stated: “Remember this one.”

As for Hamilton, he was distinctly uncom-

fortable on the podium and had no qualms in expressing his feelings.

“If I’m honest it’s Nico that should be standing here,” said the 28-year-old.

“He deserves to be where I am. Obviously the team thought, with the position in the championship, it was logical to stay in the positions we were in.

“I have to offer big congratulations to Nico because he drove a much smarter and much more controlled race than I did.”

A team meeting followed the race in which the air was cleared as he added: “We had a big team talk and everyone was fantastic.

“The team did a great job, and Nico did an exceptional job, showing great maturity.

“It was a very unique and difficult position for me to be in as well, so I’m going to work hard to make sure we’re not in that again.

“It was difficult for me to stay ahead and not let him past, and it was difficult for him to stay behind.

“I wanted to let him past, but we have orders. I said to Ross that I should have let him past, but he said ‘Absolutely not. When I tell you this is what I want you to do, you have to stick by it’.

“But hats off to Nico, he did a fantastic job, and he was driver of the day for me.”

Although playing by the book, Rosberg was still clearly disgruntled at the situation as he said: “It was tough. I understand the team’s point of view, but ... I wanted to go for it, go for the Red Bulls, to see what we could do.”

THAILAND’S Kiradech Aphibarnrat overcame a two-hour storm delay, a thyroid problem and some jittery nerves to win the weather-truncated Malaysian Open by a stroke for his first European Tour title yesterday.

The Thai carded a thirdround two-under-par 70 for a 54-hole total of 13-under 203, a shot ahead of Italy’s Edoardo Molinari at the $2.75m million co-sanctioned Asian Tour event.

Denmark’s Anders Hansen finished third after a six-under-par 66, the joint best round of the day, with South African Charl Schwartzel and France’s Victor Dubuisson, a shot further back in fourth.

Froome leads Sky to triumph BRITON Chris Froome destroyed the field to win the final stage and the overall title at the Criterium International as Team Sky completed a dominant one-two yesterday.

The Tour de France runner-up attacked with 5.5 kilometres remaining on the climb to the Col de l’Ospedale, leaving team mate and then race leader Richie Porte trailing in his wake.

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FOOTBALL IN BRIEF Dutch will lack Sneijder in Romania encounter NETHERLANDS playmaker Wesley Sneijder will miss Tuesday’s World Cup Group D qualifier at home to Romania because of a groin injury.

Coach Louis van Gaal has replaced the Galatasaray midfielder in his squad with AZ Alkmaar’s Adam Maher, 19.

Sneijder, playing his first international since September, was forced off in the first half of Friday’s 3-0 victory over group rivals Estonia in Amsterdam.

Rafael van der Vaart, who went on in his place, opened the scoring in the 46th minute before Robin van Persie and Ruben Schaken sealed the win.

“I pulled my groin muscle. It won’t keep me sidelined for long but Tuesday’s game comes

Sneijder (R) suffered a groin injury on Friday as the Dutch took on Estonia too early,” Sneijder told reporters.

The Dutch are top with 15 points after winning all five matches. Romania, in third, and second-placed Hungary are five points adrift.

Keane to miss Austria clash IRELAND captain Robbie Keane has been ruled out of Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier at home to Austria after suffering a calf strain in the 0-0 draw against Sweden, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) said on Sunday.

Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Kevin Doyle, who last week expressed his disappointment at being dropped from Giovanni Trapattoni’s squad via text message and not by phone, has been added to the squad.

The FAI said in a statement that Trapattoni has spoken to Doyle and that he would link up with the squad for training today.

Jansen and Herrmann get Germany call-ups MIDFIELDERS Patrick Herrmann and Marcell Jansen have received late Germany call-ups for their World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan on Tuesday to compensate for injuries and suspensions, team manager Oliver Bierhoff said.

Germany, who beat Kazakhstan in Astana 3-0 on Friday, will be without suspended Bastian Schweinsteiger and injured Julian Draxler when the two sides meet again in Nuremberg.

Coach Joachim Loew had already seen several other players miss out through

injury including Toni Kroos, Mats Hummels and Miroslav Klose.

Forward Mario Gomez, who missed Friday’s game with a minor muscle injury, is still doubtful, as is central defender Benedikt Hoewedes, Bierhoff told reporters yesterday. Both trained alone yesterday.

“There is still a little question mark concerning them,” Bierhoff said.

Germany are top of 2014 World Cup qualifying Group C with 13 points from five games with Sweden second on eight from four matches.

Belgium hopeful for Kompany BELGIUM captain Vincent Kompany is fit again and should start the World Cup qualifier against Macedonia on Tuesday, Belgium coach Marc Wilmots said yesterday.

Wilmots said Kompany, who has been out for two months with a calf injury, had now trained for three days in a row without problems.

“If he is able to train well on Monday, he will start on Tuesday. I first want to see that he is 100 per cent. He is the captain and he’s ready,” Wilmots told a news conference.

Belgium beat Macedonia 2-0 in Skopje on Friday to stay top of Group A on goal difference from Croatia, but were unconvincing in victory.

Flashes of brilliance: Balotelli helped Italy battle back from 2-0 down against Brazil in Thursday’s friendly

Mario Balotelli blast has Italy dreaming in Malta

By Kevin Azzopardi ITALY head into Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier in Malta buoyed by a stirring comeback in a 2-2 draw with Brazil and the growing belief that Mario Balotelli is finally maturing into a world class international striker.

The 22-year-old, who has courted controversy on and off the field, netted a majestic strike in Thursday’s friendly in Geneva when his all-round play helped Italy battle back from 2-0 down.

He showed flashes of his brilliance at Euro 2012 with a brace in the semi-final win over Germany, but otherwise flattered to deceive and was nowhere when Spain steamrollered Cesare Prandelli’s men in the final.

Such erratic performances had been common for the Azzurri during unpredictable spells at Inter Milan and Manchester City, but now Balotelli looks settled and is first choice at boyhood heroes AC Milan. Prandelli hopes such stability will pay dividends.

“He has the potential to be

‘I’m happy he’s growing up as a player and as a man’ among the best five (players) in the world, but to do that he needs a lot of continuity, as he is having at the moment,” Prandelli told reporters.

Italy top World Cup qualifying Group B with 10 points from four matches, a point above Bulgaria who battered Malta 6-0 at home on Friday to leave the island nation bottom on no points.

Malta’s woes means Italy should have no trouble sealing victory, especially given the bond developing between Balotelli and Italy and Milan team mate Stephan El Shaarawy.

“I’m happy he’s growing up, as a player and as a man. We are together practically all the time, I see him a lot more mature,” said the 20-year-old with Egyptian heritage and a mohican.

El Shaarawy is likely to operate on the left of main striker Balotelli, just like he does for Milan.

Prandelli’s continued snub of Antonio Cassano despite the mercurial forward being a linchpin at Euro 2012 means the third component of his preferred three-man attack is a mystery with Emanuele Giaccherini starting in the hole against Brazil.

Alessio Cerci then came on for his debut and impressed on the right hand side of the attack and may now start.

Whoever plays, Prandelli is being ultra-cautious. “We’ll meet a more united, compact and organised team than Brazil even if they are not as technically strong. They have trained for months together like a club side,” he said.

Malta hope that facing the Azzurri in front of a sell-out crowd at the National Stadium will spur the players on.

“This will be a very difficult game for us but if we are fully focused and keep our tactical discipline, I believe we can gain a credita-

ble result,” captain Michael Mifsud, 31, said.

Forward Mifsud, the most capped player in the squad with 96 appearances, should retain his place but coach Pietro Ghedin, who held various posts with the Italian Football Federation before returning as Malta coach last year, could make changes.

Midfielders Gareth Sciberras, who missed the Bulgaria game with a minor groin injury, and Andrew Cohen are set to come in.

Malta gave a good account of themselves when they lost only 2-0 to Italy in Modena last September.

Probable teams: Malta: Andrew Hogg; Andrei Agius, Luke Dimech, Jonathan Caruana, Clayton Failla; Gareth Sciberras, Roderick Briffa, Edward Herrera, Andrew Cohen, Andre Schembri; Michael Mifsud Italy: Gianluigi Buffon; Christian Maggio, Leonardo Bonucci, Andrea Barzagli, Mattia De Sciglio; Daniele De Rossi, Andrea Pirlo, Riccardo Montolivo; Alessio Cerci, Mario Balotelli, Stephan El Sharaawy

Cazorla dismisses suggestions of Spanish side’s decline SPAIN midfielder Santi Cazorla has dismissed suggestions that the national side are in decline.

The current World Cup and European Championship holders find themselves second in World Cup qualifying Group I following consecutive draws against France and, on Friday, Finland.

Sergio Ramos scored to put Spain on their way in the second half in Gijon before Teemu Pukki scored a shock

equaliser with 11 minutes left.

The draw means Vicente Del Bosque’s side are two points behind leaders France, and with only one team guaranteed a spot for next year’s finals Tuesday’s game in Paris could be vital.

“Yes we made mistakes, we have dropped four points, but that happens in football,” Arsenal player Cazorla said, according to AS.

“Those dropped points must be added in France to regain first place.

“It makes no sense today to doubt this team. The team is hungry, wants to keep winning titles and you cannot talk about the end of a cycle.”

France’s only dropped points came in their 1-1 draw in Spain last October and they approach the Spain game off the back of a comfortable 3-1 win against Georgia.

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Scolari defends his record as Blues boss

Battling Cypriots frustrate Switzerland in a goalless draw

Brazil meet Russia today at Stamford Bridge

By Lakis Avramides

By Alex Lowe LUIS Felipe Scolari last night defended his record as Chelsea manager - and insisted he was not given enough time to make his mark at the club.

Scolari, now in his second spell as Brazil boss, returns to Stamford Bridge tonight when his side tackle Fabio Capello’s Russia in a friendly.

Chelsea were fourth in the Barclays Premier League and still in both the FA Cup and Champions League when Scolari was sacked in February 2009 after just seven months in the hot-seat.

“I believe my time at Chelsea was not as bad as people have been talking about,” Scolari said.

“The numbers show that, the games we won. I don’t think it was that bad.”

Asked whether he was given enough time, Scolari added: “I don’t think so, but it was a decision from the management.

“Everywhere I work I am just a member of staff and if somebody thinks I am not doing a good job, they can sack me.

“That happens everywhere.

I accept that. I did enjoy my time here at Chelsea and I was happy while I was here. It was one of the great experiences I have had in my life.”

Scolari was sacked by Russian owner Roman Abramovich so the club could “maintain a challenge for the trophies we are still competing for”.

Scolari could not answer whether he would have deliv-

In many ways, Chelsea are in a worse position now than when Brazil boss Scolari left, having become the first defending champions to be eliminated in the group stages of the Champions League ered those trophies.

But Chelsea’s Brazil defender David Luiz said Scolari is still held in high regard at the club - and suggested he could have a point to prove against Russia tomorrow.

“Mr Scolari is an excellent professional. He has been a coach in many clubs all over the world and also national teams,” Luiz said.

“I’m sure he is happy to come

back here because regardless of what happened here he has very good memories.

“He has got history here as well so I believe what he wants here is to put the cherry on the top of the cake by winning the game at the stadium where he was manager.

“When somebody doesn’t do well everybody outside always talks about the negatives not positives.

“What I have heard, having asked around, is Scolari had a great time, regardless of what happened.”

In many ways, Chelsea are in a worse position now than when Scolari left, having become the first defending champions to be eliminated in the group stages of the Champions League.

The club are 19 points behind Manchester United in the Barclays Premier League and it has been a winter of discontent at Stamford Bridge, with interim manager Rafael Benitez a hate figure with some supporters.

Luiz recognises it has been a challenging time but he is convinced Chelsea can rescue their season.

“I think we are not playing at the level expected from Chelsea and not doing so well this season but in any case I believe we are because we are still competing for three titles,” Luiz said.

“We can still win the Europa League, are still in the FA Cup and fighting for a better position in the table so I think we can still get there and this season can still be very good.”

Having won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002, Scolari opened his second spell as coach with a 2-1 to England and a 2-2 with Italy in Geneva last Thursday.

Russia had their World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland postponed in Belfast on Saturday , a decision which Capello fully understood even though it will harm his side’s chances.

“The weather was terrible.

It was impossible to play. The pitch was covered in snow and the parts without snow were very wet. The ball did not bounce,” Capello said.

“We will play when FIFA decide. Northern Ireland had two really important players suspended. For the next game, they will probably be OK. That is not an advantage for us.”

SWITZERLAND have missed the chance to take a commanding lead in World Cup qualifying Group E after being held to a 0-0 draw by battling Cyprus on Saturday.

After five games, Switzerland have a two-point advantage over Albania and Iceland, who both won on Friday, and while they will remain confident of earning a place in next year’s finals in Brazil the Swiss may yet regret their missed opportunities.

Cypriots, worried by the national banking crisis engulfing the country, stayed away from theGSP stadium in their droves and failed to see their team bank a rare World Cup point, which at least took them off the bottom of the table.

Switzerland enjoyed most possession and had more chances, but Cyprus could have punished them on several counter-attacks.

The best of those came when Dimitris Christofi’s fine shot was tipped wide by diving keeperYann Som-

mer in the 56th minute.

Switzerland’s influential Bayern Munich winger Xherdan Shaqiri went close seven minutes later, cutting in from the right and driving a low left-foot shot just wide.

Shaqiri created more danger in the 79th with a shot into the box that was deflected out to Valentin Stocker but he could only find the side netting.

With Michel Pont’s Swiss team pushing hard for a late winner, they left gaps at the back and Cyprus’s substitute midfielder Giorgos Efrem exploited that space with a great through ball to Christofi, but his attempted chip was off target.

Switzerland grew increasingly desperate and went close twice in the final minutes when Haris Seferovic forced a save from Antonis Georgallides and then substitute Erin Derdiyoklater screwed a shot wide from a promising position.

Cyprus have four points from five games and are one spot and one point above bottom team Slovenia.

Lost opportunities: Switzerland’s Gokhan Inler (top) jumps for the ball against Cyprus’ Georgios Efrem

McGregor desperate for Scotland win ‘Wind-up bids won’t faze Rooney’ SCOTLAND goalkeeper Allan McGregor has urged his team-mates to enjoy their World Cup qualifier against Serbia as the national team look to get out of their rut.

Scotland sit bottom of Group A with two points after letting slip a lead against Wales for the second time in their campaign on Friday night, as Gordon Strachan began his competitive reign with a 2-1 home defeat.

The games do not get any easier for Scotland with two trips to the Balkans coming up, firstly against Serbia in Novi Sad on Tuesday before facing Croatia in June.

McGregor insists spirits remain high despite going five matches without victory in their campaign and wants the players to

Scotland keeper McGregor insists spirits remain high relish rather than fear the encounter in Serbia.

Scotland looked extremely nervous in the opening quarter on Friday as Wales dominated possession but they settled down and built on Grant Hanley’s 45th-minute opener before Robert Snodgrass’s pen-

alty-box foul changed the game.

McGregor said: “Morale is fine, obviously it would be stupid for me to say we are not disappointed because all the boys are.

“We didn’t start the game well but I thought we finished the first half well and I thought at the start of the second half we were in control until the sendingoff.

“It’s just one of those things, the boys are fine.

“We just have to have it in our head to be ready.

“We need to go out and enjoy it because we looked for the first 20 minutes of the second half that we were enjoying it.

“Obviously the goal helped us and probably (Gareth) Bale going off helped us a wee bit, but we looked good.”

JOLEON Lescott is sure that Wayne Rooney will keep his cool in Montenegro as England look to claim top spot in Group H at the scene of perhaps the maddest moment of the striker’s international career.

Rooney was banned for the first two matches of Euro 2012 after kicking out at Montenegro midfielder Miodrag Dzudovic in their qualifier 17 months ago.

The petulant kick was the latest in a line of controversial issues that have dogged the 27year-old throughout his career.

That famous stamp on Ricardo Carvalho in the 2006 World Cup and a series of off-thefield problems have meant there have always been concerns over Rooney’s temperament, but, in fairness to the striker, he has kept out of trouble ever since his indiscretion in Montenegro capital in October 2011.

England manager Roy Hodgson is wary Montenegro will try to wind Rooney up in Tuesday night’s crunch qualifier, but Lescott is convinced the former Everton man will not lose his temper if they tease England’s star man about the kick.

“Wayne is older now. He is more experienced and mature,” the England defender said.

“We all are. I don’t think there will be a prob-

lem.

“We want to be disciplined and professional.

With the calibre of players in this squad, I don’t think it will be a problem.”

Lescott has undergone something of a roller-coaster week.

The Manchester City man has been kept out of Roberto Mancini’s starting XI for the majority of the season, giving Hodgson no option other than to initially leave the 30-yearold out of his squad, despite his impressive performances at Euro 2012.

But injuries to Michael Dawson, Phil Jagielka, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Cahill mean he will now be one of the first names on Hodgson’s team sheet come Tuesday night.

Lescott, who will be partnered by 22-yearold Chris Smalling, has only completed 10 Barclays Premier League games for Manchester City this term, with his most recent start at club level coming against npower Championship strugglers Barnsley in the FA Cup. Lescott barely had a tackle to make on Friday night as England strolled to an 8-0 win in San Marino, but he insists he is prepared to do combat with feared Serie A strikeforce Stevan Jovetic and Mirko Vucinic, who have scored 23 goals between them this season.

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Indians wrap up whitewash Australians fall as hosts secure six wicket win

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Clear friction: Sebastian Vettel (R) was involved in a controversial battle with Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber (L) in yesterday’s Malaysian Grand Prix

Vettel risks team-mate’s wrath to claim 27th win SEBASTIAN Vettel won the battle of the Red Bulls to claim the 27th victory of his Formula One career.

Vettel was involved in an exhilarating battle with team-mate Mark Webber late in the Malaysian Grand Prix that at one stage forced team principal Christian Horner on to the radio to admonish the triple world champion.

The German, however, ultimately held sway to take the chequered flag at the Sepang International Circuit by 4.2 seconds from Webber. Lewis Hamilton stepped on to the podium as he kept Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg at bay over the closing stages. Meanwhile, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso suffered a premature end in the opening cut and thrust.

It was during the first flurry of stops, during which Vettel lost the lead to Webber, when there was a howler from Hamilton as he drove into McLaren’s pit box by mistake, clearly forgetting he had changed teams. From there he was quickly waved through by his former team’s pit crew before finally changing tyres with his own team.

Come the third stop, a four-car battle had unfolded between the Red Bulls and Mercedes, but as has so often been the latter’s problem, they were unable to get one tyre to work over the other. Although having passed Vettel in the stops, Hamilton soon had to concede second to Vettel as he dropped back into the clutches of Rosberg.

Following the fourth stop, Vettel and Webber then slugged it out, forcing Horner to tell the former: “This is silly

Seb, come on.” But Vettel won the day, much to Webber’s clear frustration when the duo met in the cool down room post race.

Rosberg twice complained he was quicker than Hamilton. Ross Brawn, however, replied: “Negative Nico, negative. Lewis’ pace is what we are asking him to do.

He can go a lot faster as well, so please be in control as well. There is a massive gap behind and nothing to gain in front. I want to bring both cars home.” After being thanked by Brawn post race, Rosberg replied: “Remember this one.”

After the podium ceremony there was clear friction between Vettel and Webber, the latter of whom was far from happy. Vettel said: “I enjoyed the fight. If there is something to say we need to talk internally. But we both enjoyed it. I know I’m standing in the middle and probably enjoying it a bit more.”

Webber typically pulled no punches, saying: “In the end we got the right strategy, and it was about controlling the race, getting everything in the race right, but the team told me to turn the engine down.

But I want to race as well. Seb made his own decisions and he will have protection as usual and that’s the way it goes.”

As for Hamilton, given his situation, he felt guilty being on the podium. He said: “If I’m honest he (Rosberg) should be standing here, he’s a great team-mate and did a fantastic job. We brought the car home and I’m glad to get a result for them, but it’s not the best feeling being up here. Racing is racing, and I have to look forward.”

ndia wrapped up a series whitewash over Australia by securing a sixwicket win on day three of the fourth Test in Delhi.

Cheteshwar Pujara’s unbeaten 82 saw the hosts comfortably home with 158 for four after skittling their beleaguered opponents for 164 in their second innings.

Ravindra Jadeja took five for 58 to do most of the damage, with only tail-ender Peter Siddle offering any resistance with 50 - his first Test half-century - as Australia’s batsmen undid all the good work achieved on Saturday and first thing yesterday morning by Nathan Lyon.

The chase always looked well within India’s grasp and was achieved with room to spare, despite two more wickets for Lyon, who finished with nine for the match.

That was all after things had looked to be going Australia’s way at the start of the day as India added only six runs to their overnight total.

A brilliant spell of spin bowling from Lyon yesterday dragged Australia back into contention and the 25-yearold off-spinner did not take long to re-find his rhythm.

Resuming on 266 for eight having bowled out the tourists for 262 - the Indian tail had hardly settled before Lyon completed a careerbest haul of seven for 94 by snaring the final two wickets with the first two balls of his first full over.

He first drew Ishant Sharma into a shot with a good delivery from around the wicket that found the gap between bat and pad and hit leg stump, and then trapped Pragyan Ojha plumb lbw with one which straightened after pitching on middle.

The renewed hope Australia may have harboured heading into the second innings with only a 10-run deficit swiftly diminished soon after they went out to bat again, however.

Glenn Maxwell opened the batting in place of Ed Cowan, but perished in the fifth over. The Victorian outsideedged a good-length delivery from Jadeja on to his

Cheteshwar Pujara’s unbeaten 82 saw the hosts home with 158 for four on day three of the fourth Test in Delhi off stump and departed for eight.

Opening partner David Warner followed suit - also for eight - from the first ball of Jadeja’s next over, trapped plumb in front of his middle stump.

Phil Hughes (six) also succumbed to spin, coming forward to defend one from Ravichandran Ashwin and being undone by the turn.

Captain Shane Watson, leading the side in the absence of the injured Michael Clarke, contributed five before having his middle stump dislodged by Ojha, and the departure of Cowan (24) - batting at number three - lbw playing across the line to Jadeja next over left Australia reeling on 53 for five.

Steve Smith and Matthew Wade set about steadying the ship for the visitors and reached lunch on 89 for five.

Neither man managed to get to 20, though.

Smith was bowled between bat and pad by Jadeja, with Mitchell Johnson following for a duck with his very next ball.

Australia were now 94 for seven, but pace bowler Siddle proved an unlikely source of resistance.

Ojha did for Wade for 19 and Sharma for James Pattinson for 11, but Siddle battled his way to a 45-ball 50 before he was stumped by Mahendra Singh Dhoni as he came down the track to Ashwin.

Australia needed their attack to fire to have any chance of rescuing the situation and, although Maxwell bowled Murali Vijay for 11, Pujara and Virat Kohli brought India to the verge of victory.

Kohli fell lbw to Lyon for 41 and the spinner also trapped Sachin Tendulkar for one, but Pujara continued to add runs at the other end and, partnered by Dhoni, guided his side home.