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Bailout scrapes through House DISY leader says deal is a one-way street, Greens call it ‘biggest defeat in 8,000-year history’

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ARLIAMENT last night ratified the island’s EU bailout amid warnings that tougher times lie ahead for Cypriots, already suffering from the effects of a deep recession.

With a thin majority of just two votes, lawmakers approved terms accompanying €10 billion in aid from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

In a show of hands, 29 MPs – DISY, DIKO, and EVROKO – the three parties in the government approved the motion, with 27 – AKEL, EDEK, Greens and two others – voting against.

Government officials had warned the island would fall into chaotic default, unable to pay salaries or pensions, as early as next month without emergency funding.

“Unfortunately the (bailout) is a one-way street for us. It will avert disorderly default and gives, albeit with many hurdles, some prospect of getting us out of the storm,” said DISY chief Averof Neophytou.

The bailout debate took place as a few hundred people demonstrated outside parliament against the memorandum, under the watchful eye of a strong police force in riot gear.

One group brought along

a fake gallows, which they said was for lawmakers.

They were mostly supporters of AKEL – who had applied for a bailout in the first place – and members of former foreign minister Giorgos Lillikas’ citizens’ alliance.

Initially the protesters were in one group but it did not take long for disagreements to arise, prompting the Lillikas crowd to move to the other end of the street that passes outside parliament.

The government welcomed the ratification of the bailout – already approved by other EU parliaments – as it called for unity.

“It would have been an oxymoron for European parliaments to approve a €10 billion loan to Cyprus only for it to be rejected by the parliament of a country with empty coffers without having a realistic alternative plan” government spokesman Christos Stylianides said in a statement.

The administration, Stylianides said, will now focus on implementing the bailout programme and “we want to have the entire political leadership – those who approved the deal and those who rejected it – on our side, because Cyprus salvation is above everything else.”

AKEL reiterated its proposal for a coordinated

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As deputies met, people protested outside the House yesterday (Christos Theodorides)

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Dutch King Willem-Alexander succeeds Queen Beatrix

By Gilbert Kreijger and Thomas Escritt WILLEM-Alexander became the first king of the Netherlands since 1890 yesterday, ascending a throne largely stripped of political power but still invested with enormous symbolic significance for the Dutch people.

Blinking back tears, former Queen Beatrix stepped out onto the balcony of the Royal Palace and presented her son to crowds of orange-clad wellwishers who had gathered in Dam Square from early yesterday.

“Some moments ago I abdicated from

the throne. I am happy and thankful to present to you your new king,” said Beatrix, 75, who retired after 33 years in the role, following in the tradition of her mother and grandmother. She now takes the title princess.

An estimated 25,000 people massed in the square - many dressed in the colour of the House of Orange or wearing orange wigs, hats, feather boas and pretend crowns - cheered as the abdication and automatic succession were broadcast live.

Wearing a sober purple dress, Beatrix signed the abdication document in front of the Dutch cabinet, Willem-

Alexander, 46, and his wife Maxima, a former investment banker from Argentina.

The new queen wore a pale rose-coloured dress with a shimmery skirt and enormous bow on the left shoulder by Belgian designer Edouard Vermeulen of fashion house Natan.

The investiture ceremonies have provided a welcome excuse to celebrate at a time when plummeting house prices, rising unemployment and slumping consumer confidence have pushed the country into recession.

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ON THIS DAY MAY 1 1851

35 years ago, Monday May 1, 1978

The Great Exhibition, the huge display “...of the Works and Industry of All Nations”, opens at the Crystal Palace in London.

President Kyprianou yesterday complained to the Austrian Foreign Ministry about what he called the hostile attitude of the Austrian Rapporteur of the Cyprus report to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The assembly approved the Karasek report, which said it was primarily up to the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities to settle their differences.

1963 James Whittaker becomes the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest.

45 years ago, Wednesday May 1, 1968 1961

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Fidel Castro proclaims that Cuba is a Socialist nation and bans elections.

1994 Formula one driver Ayrton Senna is killed whilst competing in the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola in Italy.

1997 A landslide victory for the Labour Party in the British General election brings an end to the Conservative Party’s 18 years in power.

George Rallis, who held several ministerial posts in former Greek governments, urged today that King Constantine should be recalled as a step towards bringing the country back to normality. Rallis said that after his return the King could form a transitional government on a broad basis in which all political trends could be represented except the communists.

55 years ago, Thursday May 1, 1958 In two years time there will be a 100-bed, all Turkish staffed hospital, rendering treatment in all branches of medicine, operating in Nicosia. This forecast was made yesterday in an interview with a Cyprus Mail reported given by Dr. Ziyad Hakki, who is one of 20 doctors and number of prominent Turkish citizens who are behind the project.

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Home Christofias hanging on to presidential limo Easter TWO MONTHS after leaving office, former President Demetris Christofias is holding on to one of the presidential limos, the government has confirmed.

The story was brought to light by right-leaning daily Alithia. According to the paper, when Christofias stepped down in February he kept the beefed-up Mercedes, which happened to be presidential car number one.

The Mercedes had been purchased by the state ahead of Pope Benedict’s

visit to the island in June 2010.

In the meantime, President Anastasiades had to make do with presidential car number two. Alithia reported that until recently the Presidential Palace had let the matter slide and had not made any noises for the limo’s return.

But it became an issue when Anastasiades’ limo broke down and needed servicing – forcing the President to make use of the second back-up car, a limo purchased by the presidency during the term of the late Tassos

Papadopoulos. Apparently this car, too, has mechanical problems.

The paper claimed also that Christofias was sounded out but had refused to return the Mercedes.

On Monday, the Presidential Palace released a statement denying that Christofias was refusing to hand back the limo. Instead, it explained, Christofias was hanging on to the limo until such time as his own car – which he has ordered – is delivered to him.

Although the Palace handled the

matter with tact, at the same time it’s entirely plausible that Alithia, which is pro-DISY, may have been tasked with stirring the waters.

According to local media, on leaving office Christofias had kept the Mercedes apparently for security reasons. The ex-President had voiced fears over his own safety and that of his family. In addition to the presidential limo, a total of 15 guards – paid for by the state - have been assigned to the former head of state.

Clean bill of health from ‘dirty money’ watchdogs Finance minister says Moneyval audit shows the island has been compliant

By Elias Hazou CYPRUS has been given a clean bill of health in terms of its compliance with international anti-money-laundering rules, officials have said.

Two separate audits into the island’s Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) framework have been completed and their key preliminary findings forwarded to international creditors, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said. The findings will not be published. But Georgiades said the results were positive: “The situation for Cyprus is far better than what perhaps many abroad wished to portray,” the minister said.

“The investigations that have taken place do not corroborate what various quarters were accusing us of,” he added. He did not elaborate.

But Georgiades said that any remaining shortcomings, any ‘loopholes’ in the local AML system would be closed shut

so that the subject of compliance is settled once and for all.

It has now been shown that allegations of money laundering against Cyprus were “a “staged affair, achieved through hyperbole,” he said.

Two parallel audits were conducted, one by Deloitte Financial Advisory, the other

by Moneyval of the Council of Europe.

Under the agreed procedure, their findings will be communicated to the troika of international lenders – European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. The troika then reports to the Eurogroup on the level of implementation of preventive measures by financial institutions.

An independent audit of Cyprus’ implementation of AML measures was set as a precondition for any international bailout. Cyprus initially resisted the idea, arguing it had already been cleared in a prior assessment by Moneyval. The government later

backed down and agreed to a fresh review, one by Moneyval and a parallel one by a private auditor. Any recommendations for improvements in the two audits must be acted upon by Cypriot authorities before the first tranche of aid is disbursed.

Deloitte’s audit focused on the effective implementation of Customer Due Diligence measures by a sample of major Cypriot banks with regards to deposits and loans. All credit institutions in Cyprus with a threshold of over €2 billion in total deposits by the end of 2012 were included in the exercise.

Allegations of Russian money laundering were doing the rounds in the foreign- mostly German- press in the run-up to the Eurogroup decision last month which agreed a €10bn bailout for Cyprus.

The EU’s AML directives are based on the 40+9 recommendations made by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental body es-

Finance Minister Harris Georgiades: good news tablished in 1989 to set standards and promote effective implementation of AML and counter-terrorism financing measures.

The previous Moneyval review of Cyprus in September 2011 found the island to be compliant to some degree with all 40+9 recommendations. And the Basel AML Index has assigned Cyprus a

lower money-laundering risk than the eurozone average and lower than EU countries like Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and the Netherlands.

Now, the latest findings will no doubt validate the suspicions of many here who maintain the money-laundering accusations were but a pretext to turn the screws on the debt-ridden country.

food checks in full swing

By Maria Gregoriou THE HEALTH and veterinary services have begun their annual inspection of retail food prior to Easter.

The food checks are performed to make sure that products are suitable for consumption and that the point of sale fulfills health safety requirements.

“We started checks in supermarkets, bakeries, cake shops and groceries. Our aim is to check all seasonal products for the Easter period,” Christos Christou, acting director of the health services said.

Health inspectors are told to inspect cleanliness where food is sold, and as many shops may be working with less staff in an attempt to cut expenses, they may not have enough people to properly clean the area.

Inspectors are also checking if the temperatures of fridges and freezes are at the proper levels as shop owners may also be cutting back on electricity usage, which could affect perishable goods.

“Checks will continue throughout the week until Saturday. Until now we have not noticed any serious problems and we hope that this continues. We have only come across minor problems to do with the labelling of products, which either did not display the expiry date or the ingredients. These products were withdrawn from the shelves and will be recalled when they have the proper labelling. Some products that were out of date have also been removed,” Christou said.

He said checks on meat and cheese for flaounes began on April 25 and will run until May 10. “Slaughterhouses are working day and night to meet the demand for meat during the Easter period.

“That is why the veterinary services check all meat, stamps meat suitable for consumption and destroys meat that is not,” George Kyriakidis, head of the veterinary services said. The veterinary services also visit butcher shops and supermarkets to inspect the meat.

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Home Economists: bailout gives us a roadmap

By Poly Pantelides CURRENT discussions on whether Cyprus should exit the eurozone are misplaced, and one proposal in particular is ‘dangerous’ in that it confuses the arguments and uses suspect data, economists said yesterday.

The proposal is based on a shaky methodology or plain wrong facts, said the group of 23 economists who felt they needed to set the record straight.

The anonymous proposal entitled: ‘Estimating the impact of the troika’s solution on Cyprus: assessments and a superior alternative scenario’ had been given to the President and legislators through a think tank. It urged MPs to vote down the bailout deal yesterday, claiming that negotiating a eurozone exit was a better alternative.

But economists say the proposal would jeopardise the economic and political stability of the island, and its data was plain wrong, said one, Marios Zachariades.

In addition to other dubious methodology, major claims were not substantiated, Zachariades said. The document claims without explanation for example, “the troika plan will cause a cumulative economic contraction of almost 50 per cent in three years, along with unemployment rates close to 40 per cent.”

And it claims that Cyprus can get external funding by issuing bonds backed by natural gas and real estate. But Cyprus tried to get Russian aid in March and was told by finance minister Anton Siluanov that Russian investors were not interested in Cypriot gas. In fact Cyprus does not yet have confirmation that natural gas reserves are commercially viable.

There are however examples of respected thinkers arguing in favour of a Cypexit. One

mentioned yesterday at the economists’ news conference was that of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who believes Cyprus should leave the euro and let its own currency fall so that the economy’s rebuilding could be accelerated. Krugman told the Cyprus Mail previously that Cyprus needed a tourist boom and a rapid growth of other exports.

But the Cyprus-based economists said yesterday that the island couldn’t benefit from a devalued currency because it was not an export economy so would not have the competitive advantage of selling relatively cheaper goods abroad.

Wages would have to fall by a disproportionate amount to cover for the increase price in imports, they said. Additionally, imports of basic goods such as fuel and medicines would have to be reduced.

Limiting inflation would require austerity measures that might be harsher than the ones agreed in the memorandum, the economists warned, adding that defaulting on debt owed to EU and other partners (such as Russia) would politically isolate tiny Cyprus and may have implications over natural gas exploitation prospects. “Our options are limited,” said economist Yiannis Tirkides.

For Alex Apostolides, Cyprus committed to the euro when it accepted emergency liquidity assistance via the European Central Bank to support Laiki (Popular) Bank. Instead of being forced to discuss Cypexit, economists should focus on the real issues at hand such as unemployment and actions moving Cyprus onwards and forwards, he said.

“Alternative proposals are nebulous. The memorandum gives us a roadmap, but the alternative is shrouded in uncertainty. We needed to do the painful restructuring anyway,” said Sofronis Clerides.

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Angry protesters shouted slogans and carried anti-bailout placards outside the House

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Bailout is ‘another form of colonialism’ Hundreds protest as parliament debates Cyprus deal

By Poly Pantelides AS PARLIAMENT met to ratify the terms of Cyprus’ bailout a crowd of people protested, saying it was the harbinger of unfair austerity.

“We know where this policy will take us. It will damage labour relations and will annihilate the meaning of democracy,” said 43-year-old Nicos Trimikliniotis, who is part of an anti-austerity and antiprivatisations platform.

Just behind him, a man with a megaphone chanted slogans against the troika of lenders, just as others did representing diverse

groups – from members of former ruling party AKEL, fringe groups further to the left, Giorgos Lillikas’ Citizen’s Alliance and protesters belonging to far-right groups. People held Greek and Cypriot flags chanting “troika out of Cyprus,” “Cyprus will not become a protectorate,” or “People, wake up, stand up they are drinking your blood”.

“If people do not show their resistance there will be more memorandums,” Trimikliniotis said.

He added that no bailout has been sanctioned by the people and Cypriots were being forced into a corner.

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has been the victim of blackmail does not mean that they will in their turn blackmail society. They cannot pass the responsibility over to the people of Cyprus,” he said.

“We believe the MoU simply entails another kind of colonialism,” said Angelica, a 23-year lawyer. “The MoU will create unemployment, wretchedness, and literally wreck homes.” For Angelica, Cyprus’ problems are shared across all the small countries – including Greece, Spain and Portugal – who are being held captive by EU policy. “The problem is capitalism. They are sucking us dry”.

In a different corner of a protest, people waving Greek flags also protested.

“As the youth, we want a future in Cyprus and not to be forced to emigrate,” said Antonis Kazamias, a 26-year-old student. “We disagree with the MoU and its policy.”

Beyond the police barricade separating protesters from Parliament, lawmakers gave lengthy speeches

on the MoU. DIKO chief and coalition partner Marios Garoyian urged lawmakers to ratify the measures.

“If there were any other realistic option, then surely we would take it. Unfortunately, we have no other option,” he said.

EDEK chief and House President Yiannakis Omirou said they could not in good conscience sanction the measures and called for negotiating for a better MoU. The Greens’ Giorgos Perdikis said “Parliament’s ‘yes’ would be the people’s greatest defeat in thousands of years of history. The democratically elected representatives will accept – gun to head – an agreement of enslavement, leading to financial, social and moral wretchedness.”

Independent MP Zacharias Koulias told his colleagues they were wrong to vote through the bailout, because they would be surrendering the country’s sovereignty.

BoC appoints new chairman BANK OF Cyprus yesterday announced that the transitional Board of Directors in its first meeting elected Sophoclis Michaelides and Erol Riza as Chairman and Vice-Chairman, respectively.

On Friday the Central Bank of Cyprus appointed the interim board that will oversee the restructuring of the BoC, the island’s biggest lender.

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Bailout scrapes through House AKEL insisted that an exit from the eurozone could offer prospects for growth in the future as island faces two more years of misery (continued from front page) exit from the eurozone and a referendum.

“We think that it destroys the banking sector, to a large extent it destroys the Cypriot economy, and it leads to a vicious circle that will continuously breed new needs and demands for fresh harsh measures,” AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou said.

He said the bailout deal had not been signed earlier – by former president Demetris Christofias – because people outside Cyprus did not want that to happen.

Kyprianou said the German finance ministry, in response to a question from the country’s MPs regarding the delay, had said that it had not been signed because Germany did not adopt the preliminary agreement between Cyprus and international lenders.

“We know leaving the euro is an equally painful option, but reinstating a national currency could offer prospects for growth in the future,” Kyprianou said. Cyprus is bracing for at least two more years of economic misery and record unemployment as terms on the bailout start to bite.

Attempts to agree a deal triggered financial chaos last month when parliament rejected a plan to make both insured and uninsured depositors pay a levy to fund the recapitalisation of banks heavily exposed to debt-crippled Greece.

It was followed by a two-week bank closure.

The fallback option was to wind down one of the banks, Laiki, and impose losses that could reach 60 per cent on uninsured deposits - over €100,000 – in the Bank of Cyprus.

Deputies raise their hands during the voting process at parliament yesterday The leader of government partners DIKO said his party’s vote was for the salvation of the country and its people.

“It is not a vote of sub-

House also approves ‘interim’ IPT law PARLIAMENT yesterday approved a controversial immovable property tax (IPT) seen as necessary for the country to receive the first tranche of a much-needed bailout.

The government had submitted the bill as a stopgap measure to satisfy bailout conditions.

It had acknowledged that the IPT was not perfect, pledging to amend it by the end of June to make it fairer.

This did not stop main opposition AKEL from criticising the administration, focusing

mainly on the fact that it made no provisions for a tax-free ceiling. “It is a provocation and we reject it,” AKEL MP Stavros Evagorou said, adding that the government was even taxing people living in hovels.

Government coalition DIKO MP Angelos Votsis stressed that ways must be found to exempt people’s first residence.

DISY’s Prodromos Prodromou struck a note of caution however, saying that a lot of first residences were actually worth a lot of money.

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mission to unacceptable conditions and extortionate demands,” Marios Garoyian said. “It is primarily a vote of confidence in the ability of this people, its

strength and resistance, its adaptability and endless resourcefulness.” The Green party considered the ratification of the deal “by far the biggest defeat

(Christos Theodorides) in our 8,000-year history.

Its democratically elected representatives have a gun to their head to agree to a deal of enslavement,” MP Giorgos Perdikis said.

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Why did the Cypriot banks keep on buying Greek bonds?

By Michele Kambas, Stephen Grey and Stelios Orphanides NE DAY last October, a memory stick containing special software for deleting data was placed into a desktop computer at Bank of Cyprus (BoC). Within minutes, 28,000 files were erased, according to investigators who had wanted to copy the data for an official report into the collapse of the Cypriot banking system.

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The deleted files included emails sent and received in a crucial period in late 2009 and early 2010 when Bank of Cyprus spent billions of euros buying Greek bonds - at a time when international banks were cutting exposure to the heavily indebted Athens government.

Those Greek bonds lost most of their value in last year’s EUsanctioned bailout, playing a key role in plunging Cyprus into an economic maelstrom.

When banks turned to Cyprus’ own cash-strapped government for help in plugging holes in their balance sheets, Nicosia too needed an international rescue.

Now people who have lost money and face years of grim austerity, want to know who decided to plough their savings into the doomed public accounts of their bigger neighbour, and why. But answers are proving elusive, not helped by the mysterious wiping of data at BoC. There has been public speculation about backroom diplomatic deals or misplaced solidarity with Cypriots’ fellow Greek-speakers.

But executives at the failed banks argue that Greek bonds seemed a good investment at the time - though that view is at odds with that of many bankers elsewhere in Europe, who were doing all they could to limit their own exposures to Greece.

The confidential report, prepared for the Cypriot central bank by global consultants Alvarez and Marsal, found that Bank of Cyprus had been willing, from 2009 onwards, to invest in risky, high-yielding Greek debt in a bid to offset an erosion of its balance sheet from rising non-performing loans.

The report, which Reuters has seen, alleges that bank executives may not have revealed details of bond purchases to board directors, avoided showing losses on the bonds, and may later have delayed external investigation of the bond purchases.

In December 2009, managers told media and their own board that most of the bank’s Greek bondholdings had been sold - but the bank did not then disclose that it had almost immediately bought more.

BoC has declined to comment on the report. Petros Clerides, the attorney-general to whom a copy of the report was delivered, also declined any comment.

Much attention in the crisis has hitherto focused on allegations of poor management at Cyprus’ other big lender, Laiki Bank, formerly Marfin Popular. But the Alvarez and Marsal report, whose broad findings emerged earlier this month, raises questions, too, about the former management of BoC. The report noted “a culture whereby senior management decisions were not challenged”.

Michael Olympios, who heads an investors’ association, Pasexa, that has complained of mismanagement, said: “There was clear corporate governance failure here, and a lack of disclosure to shareholders.”

More broadly, he added: “If one wants to summarise the mess in our banking system, Lord Acton sums it up; power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Many in Cyprus, including hundreds of Russians who placed their faith in its once booming offshore banking products, feel they have been unfairly treated; bank depositors in Greece suffered no losses when that country was bailed out.

“They should have bought from different governments rather than just Greece,” said Demetris Syllouris, who heads Parliament’s ethics committee which is looking into the affair. “This caused 80 per cent of the problem we are in.”

Aside from the wisdom of its investment strategy, it is the communication of this strategy to investors that is in question.

On December 10, 2009, Yiannis Kypri, a general manager at BoC, told a Cypriot website, Stockwatch, that the bank had “minimal exposure to Greek sovereign debt” af-

According to some bank executives it seemed like a good idea at the time

Things have not been helped by the mysterious wiping of computer data at the Bank of Cyprus ter reducing its holdings from €1.8 billion to €0.1 billion.

The same day, according to the investigators’ report, Andreas Eliades, then BoC’s group chief executive officer, instructed his treasury department to begin new purchases of such bonds. With these new instructions, that

day the bank bought debt worth €150 million, and a total of €400 million by the end of 2009, according to the consultants.

There is, the report says, “no evidence” the public comment about “minimal exposure” to Greece was ever “retracted or subsequently corrected by

any of the bank’s executives”.

Kypri told Reuters he could say little while an official inquiry continues, but he was quoted by the investigators saying he had been unaware of the plan to return to buying Greek bonds.

Andreas Eliades, who was chief executive until July 2012, told Reuters Kypri’s statement to Stockwatch referred only to a temporary sell-off in response to short-term market fluctuation.

Another member of senior management at the time, Nicolas Karydas, gave investigators and Reuters the same explanation. On December 11, the day after the bank resumed purchases of Greek bonds, Karydas told the bank’s board that most of its Greek bonds had been sold. But, the Alvarez and Marsal investigators, add: “The board was not informed that the repurchase of Greek government bonds had commenced the prior day, after the divesture.”

Karydas, group general manager of risk management and markets, who left the bank at the end of August last year, rejected any suggestion the board was unaware of the investment strategy or that he misled the board. He said in an email response to Reuters “all the executives” agreed to a policy that included possible Greek bond purchases at a meeting in November 2009.

“The ... suggestions ... were also approved by the board of directors in their December 11 meeting,” Karydas said.

“It seemed to be a consensus view that Greece would overcome the crisis.”

By April 2010, the bank had expanded its holding of Greek government bonds to €2.4 billion, a third more than the amount Kypri had told Stockwatch had been sold four months before. The investigators said this went beyond the bank’s own approved 2-billion-euro limit but was approved retrospectively in May 2010.

Eliades, the former group CEO, said that Greek bonds were still well rated at the time and in demand internationally: “We cannot judge, with today’s circumstances, actions which took place at a different time when Greek bonds had very high demand,” he said. “Everyone was buying into Greek bonds.”

By comparison, however, data from “stress tests” carried out by EU authorities concerned about the health

of their banks, showed that at the end of 2010, most of the 10 biggest banks on the continent, many times larger than the Cypriot lenders, held nothing like as much Greek debt as did BoC and Laiki.

They had €2.2 billion and €3.3 billion respectively, outstripped among top 10 banks only by French giants BNP Paribas and Societe Generale.

The same EU data showed that Britain’s Barclays had only €192 million and Lloyds none at all.

As investors’ fears over the solvency of Greece grew, the value of the Greek bonds fell.

BoC made changes to the way it accounted for the bond holdings, according to the Alvarez and Marsal report, with the result that the growing potential losses were not spelled out to investors.

In April 2010, it moved about €1.6 billion of Greek bonds from its trading account to its “held to maturity” book. This meant the bank did not have to mark down the value of the bonds.

The accounting move was made on the grounds that Greece would redeem the bonds. The report authors said: “The justification provided does not appear to be strong.”

Eliades told Reuters: “Nobody could possibly expect that a European country, in the euro, could possibly default.”

Last year, however, the EU and IMF bailout terms relieved Greece of the need to repay up to 80 per cent on its bonds, leaving the BoC with losses of €1.8 billion.

The bank declined to respond to an allegation made in the report that data that could have been relevant to understanding why it bought so much Greek debt may have been deleted.

That data, the authors say, was wiped from the computer of Christakis Patsalides, an executive involved in buying bonds, using special software on Oct. 18 last year. When investigators examined it, there was a 15-month gap in emails in 2009-2010.

There is no suggestion Patsalides himself deleted them.

He told investigators that he was unaware of any missing data, according to the report. Patsalides declined comment to Reuters but told investigators for the report that had thought the bank’s ceiling for its Greek bond holdings had been set at “too high a limit”.

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Leaders to meet for dinner on Neuroscientist to represent the island at the final in the UK in June May 29

By Maria Gregoriou

THE LEADERS of the two communities are almost certain to meet on May 29 for dinner, UN Special Envoy Alexander Downer said yesterday.

Downer was speaking after a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades following his visits to Athens and Ankara to lay the groundwork for the resumption of Cyprus talks.

He said he had briefed the President on his contacts, which he called “pretty constructive”.

“I feel the atmosphere was good, they obviously understand the economic situation in Cyprus, but both of these countries seem to be very committed to seeing a solution negotiated in Cyprus. We had a good discussion about that and I have been able to pass on a lot of observations from these visits to President Anastasiades,” said Downer.

Asked about arrangements for a meeting between the two leaders, Downer said: “It’s almost certain it is going to be on the 29th of May. They will have a dinner and we will host a dinner and it will be at the house of the UN Chief of Mission”.

Downer said the dinner would be an opportunity for Anastasiades to get together with Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu.

“They will be in a social setting, so this won’t be a negotiating session. We will gradually take things forward here. But as I said last week everyone has to understand the huge challenges that more broadly Greek Cypriots have to face at the moment,” Downer added.

Negotiations are not likely to get under way until the Autumn, however, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said.

LOCAL neuroscientist Nikos Konstantinou, 34, was named the national winner of the FameLab competition on Sunday and will represent Cyprus at the International Final at the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK in June.

FameLab Cyprus is a national talent competition to find the best new talent in science communication and it is based on the successful FameLab UK model. FameLab Cyprus began in 2011 when it received first place in the international final and second place in 2012.

Konstantinou presentation was built on centuries of magic tricks and more recent psychological phenomena to demonstrate the limits of human perception. He also presented how our subjective reality of the world can greatly differ from the reality of the person sitting next to us, depending on what each person pays attention to.

“My presentation was based on change blindness and inattentional blindness. Change blindness shows that we are blind to a change in the environment when all our attention is occupied. This is because we have a limited capacity for attention. Inattentional blindness is the lack of ability to recognise when something appears or disappears from your field of view when your attention is occupied.

This is an elegant form of attention control and magicians have been using these techniques for centuries to trick people,” Konstantinou said.

Konstantinou expressed his enthusiasm about FameLab and explained that this competition gives scientists the opportunity to showcase their work and receive feedback from the public. “The government gives no funding for scientific experiments in Cyprus

Orthodox services in English for Holy Week FOR SEVERAL years Father Joseph Coleman has been serving Greek Orthodox Liturgy (Mass) in English in Nicosia.

Having been located at (the old) St. Nikolaos Church in Lakatamia, he is now and for the past year at St. Panteleimonos Church in Makedonitisa, where in the underground chapel of All Saints of Cyprus, he serves an English-speaking faithful.

“The members of our Community are from at least 12 different countries. They range from North America (Canada, USA), Europe (Russia, UK, Spain, Latvia, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus), Asia (Iran/Persia, Pakistan, China), and Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Guinea, Sudan, Sierra Leone),” said Father Joseph.

“This Mission was started with the goal of serving the repatriated (English Speaking Orthodox Christians) from abroad, but grew into much more. We have people of all kinds that have become Greek Orthodox and use English as their common language.” “Some of our members are married to Cypriots, some are just foreigners that have converted to the Holy Orthodox Faith.”

Father Joseph himself is a convert from Anglicism.

He will be holding Holy Week services in English tonight at 7pm, tomorrow morning – Holy Thursday - at 8:30am and in the evening at 7pm. On Good Friday services will be at 4pm and at 7:30pm for the Lamentations or Epitaphios.

Also, late Saturday night 11:45pm until 2am the Service of Holy Pascha will take place.

Nikos Konstantinou, 34, was declared the national winner for 2013 and researchers do not get paid. This is why FameLab is very important. It reaches parts of the public which otherwise may not have been interested in science. If people start enjoying science and start requesting to see more then maybe the government will consider giving more than 0.25 per cent of the average GDP a year on science,” Konstantinou said.

Konstantinou received his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London in 2011. He is currently a postdoctoral research

scientist at the Centre for Applied Neuroscience at the University of Cyprus. He designs behavioural experiments combined with neuro-imaging techniques to investigate how different types of working memory interact with attention to effect our subjective perception of the world, using healthy populations and patients.

Second and third place were awarded to biologist Lucia Protopapa and physicist Alexandra Michael. This year’s finalists had chosen a mind-expanding selection of

topics to bring under the microscope – from ‘the road to Divided Attention’, through to ‘Roller Coasters and your body’.

The three finalists received a cash award. The winner received €2,000 plus the opportunity to represent Cyprus in the Science Festival, the second runner-up received €1,000 and the third runner-up received €500.

The three-minute presentations were judged according to FameLab’s golden rule of the 3C’s, which are, Content, Clarity and Charisma. The jury

team consisted of Dr Vassilios Tsakalos, Director General, Research Promotion Foundation, Dr Nicos Peristianis, Executive Dean, University of Nicosia, Lina Zeniou Papa, Actress/Director & owner of a theatre school for children and Dr Despo Fatta Kasinou, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus.

The FameLab winners from all participating countries will compete in June at the International Final at the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK. FameLab Cyprus is organised by the British Council Cyprus and the European Office of Cyprus and co-organised by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation. In order to take part in the competition you must be a Cypriot citizen and be 18 years-old and above. Sponsors of the competition are the University of Nicosia, the University of Cyprus and Top Kinisis Travel.

Media sponsors are the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation and Politis newspaper.

The competition is supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

FameLab is an initiative of the Cheltenham Festivals started in 2005 in partnership with NESTA and has grown into the world’s leading science communication competition. A partnership with the British Council since 2007 has seen the competition go global with more than 5,000 young scientists and engineers participating in over 23 different countries. NASA has license to deliver the competition in the USA. For more information about the British Council go to www. britishcouncil.org To learn more about FameLab Cyprus go to http:// www.famelabcyprus.com

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‘Tymoshenko jailing an abuse of rights’ UKRAINE’S jailing of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was a politically motivated violation of her rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

A Ukrainian government official stormed out of the court after the decision in a case that has strained the former Soviet state’s ties with Europe and the United States.

Tymoshenko, an architect of Ukraine’s 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution, was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 after being convicted of exceeding her powers as premier while negotiating a gas contract with Russia.

She says her jailing was intended to keep her out of politics and that her rights were violated. The court found unanimously that her detention in August 2011 was arbitrary. It is unclear if a decision by the European court would be legally binding in Ukraine.

Serhiy Vlasenko, Ms Tymoshenko’s law-

yer, said the court found “the prosecution of Mrs Tymoshenko in Ukraine had nothing to do with the law, had nothing to do with democratic standards, had nothing to do with a criminal prosecution.”

In Kiev the government representative with the European Court of Human Rights said it needed time to study the ruling but suggested the government might appeal.

Tymoshenko and her allies - including Vlasenko, who was expelled from parliament - claimed that her jailing was masterminded by President Viktor Yanukovych, who is afraid of the country’s top opposition leader and is intent on keeping her locked in jail, out of politics and out of last year’s parliamentary elections and out of the 2015 presidential election.

Yanukovych has said it was a legal matter he could not interfere with. Over the weekend, a presidential commission said it would not consider a pardon for Ms Tymoshenko while other legal cases against

her are continuing - including some that could take years to resolve.

The dilemma faced by the West is whether to bring Ukraine closer into its fold, despite Tymoshenko’s case, or risk seeing the country move toward Russia.

Vlasenko called for Tymoshenko to be freed immediately, saying that was the only way to restore her rights.

“She is under the 24-hour-a-day, sevendays-a-week, 365-days-a-year, psychological pressure,” he said.

If the decision is upheld on appeal, Tymoshenko’s legal team could petition Ukraine’s Supreme Court to annul the conviction and seven-year sentence on the grounds that it was issued by the same judge who ordered her arrested.

In Kiev, a handful of Tymoshenko supporters in a tent camp set up in the centre of the Ukrainian capital outside the courthouse where she was convicted, reacted with joy, but said they did not believe the government would release her.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011

Letta wins Senate’s blessing

Dutch King Willem-Alexander succeeds his mother Beatrix

NEW Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a final confidence vote in his broad coalition government yesterday before setting off on a European tour to push his agenda of growth rather than austerity to revive the recession-hit economy.

Even before departure, Letta came under pressure from the partners in his right-left government to re-negotiate Rome’s commitment to keeping its budget within European Union rules. It was an early indication of the difficult juggling act he faces at the head of an uneasy coalition.

Letta, who was sworn in on Sunday, easily won a confidence vote in the Senate after a similar victory in the lower house on Monday.

He immediately set off for Berlin to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel, the champion of Europe’s increasingly unpopular tight budget policies.

Today, Letta travels to Paris where he is likely to find an ally in French President Francois Hollande, who is also pushing for a switch of emphasis towards growth rather than austerity. Letta will also go to Brussels, where he plans talks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

The 46-year-old Letta took the helm of an economy, the eurozone’s third biggest, in the midst of a severe crisis, with unemployment at 20year highs and the recession, already matching the longest since WWII, seen dragging on all year.

In a sign of the intense pressure he will face, four-times Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi threatened to pull his centre-right People of Freedom party out of the coalition if it does not abolish an unpopular housing tax.

Berlusconi, who is not in cabinet but is playing a decisive role behind the scenes, added that the government must re-negotiate EU deficit commitments, echoing similar comments made earlier by two of Letta’s own ministers.

But Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, a former European commissioner, responded that Italy cannot alter its targets.

Royals are popular, but roles mainly symbolic (continued from front page) April 30, or Queen’s Day, has always been an occasion for partying, and Amsterdam has been awash with orange for days. Houses were covered in bunting and flags and shop windows were stuffed with orange cakes, sweets, clothes and flowers.

Many people took Monday off work and started celebrating in earnest from Monday evening. Nearly a million people were expected to join the street party with dancing to bands and DJs, helping create a carnival atmosphere.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte said at the weekend the celebrations would lift the mood of the nation and might even have a positive economic impact.

The government has promised to keep the cost of the pageantry down - the ceremonies will cost about 12 million euros, excluding the bill for the extensive security measures.

Like their counterparts in Britain and Sweden, the Dutch royals are broadly popular; 78 per cent of Dutch are in favour of the

Former queen Beatrix now takes the title of princess

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands takes the oath next to his wife Queen Maxima during his inauguration ceremony yesterday at Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam (AFP) monarchy up from 74 per cent a year ago, according to an Ipsos poll.

And like many other royals, they have had their fair share of embarrassing marital, political and financial scandals.

Willem-Alexander’s marriage to Maxima in 2002 was controversial because Maxima’s father, Jorge Zorreguieta, served in Argentina’s

military dictatorship more than 30 years ago.

Maxima quickly endeared herself to the Dutch, however - a poll showed she is now as popular as Beatrix, and even more popular than her husband.

The couple are expected to bring a less formal touch to the monarchy. WillemAlexander is a water management specialist, a useful

expertise in a country where much of the land is below sea level, and Maxima campaigns for the poor to have better access to financial services.

The throne was stripped of its political influence by an act of parliament last year, and the monarch no longer appoints the mediator who conducts exploratory talks when forming government

coalitions.

Britain’s Prince Charles and Japan’s Crown Princess Masako, who is making her first foreign trip since falling ill a decade ago, were among 2,000 visitors at the official investiture ceremony in the 600-year-old Nieuwe Kerk, or New Church, yesterday afternoon.

There, the king swore an oath to uphold the Dutch constitution before lawmakers.

The Dutch monarch is never crowned, since, in the absence of a state church, there is no cleric available to carry out the coronation.

But there is a crown, which sat on a table next to him throughout the ceremony, along with other regalia that constitute the crown jewels.

Russian nightclub owner is convicted for inferno that killed 156

People remember the Lame Horse nightclub fire

AN owner of a Russian nightclub where a fire killed 156 people was convicted of negligence yesterday, along with seven others including the organiser of a pyrotechnics show that caused the blaze.

State prosecutors are seeking jail sentences of up to 10 years over the December 2009 fire at the Lame Horse nightclub in the city of Perm, 1,150 km (720 miles) east of Moscow.

The guilty verdicts came three days after a fire at a psychiatric hospital near Moscow killed 38 people, renew-

ing concerns about safety standards in Russia. Sentences will be delivered on a later date.

Club co-owner Anatoly Zak, the regional fire safety inspector and the head of the company responsible for the fireworks display were all convicted. A former co-owner of the club, Konstantin Mykhrin, was extradited to Russia from Spain and was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison last May. The fire was caused by sparks setting fire to wicker coverings on the walls

and ceiling during a party. Many of the victims choked and others were crushed as they tried to get out.

Victims’ relatives in the courtroom groaned when the judge said Zak deserved leniency because he was a father and that he had alerted authorities to the fire and helped rescue efforts, Interfax news agency said.

Fires killed more than 12,000 people in Russia in 2011, compared to about 3,000 in the United States, with a population more than twice the size.

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Six admit EDL rally terror plot SIX Islamic extremists have admitted planning a bloody attack on a far-right rally in a plot that failed only by chance despite one of them being under surveillance.

At London’s Woolwich Crown Court yesterday, Jewel Uddin, Omar Mohammed Khan, Mohammed Hasseen, Anzal Hussain, Mohammed Saud and Zohaib Ahmed admitted preparing an act of terrorism between May 1 and July 4 last year.

The murderous plan targeting the English Defence League (EDL) fell apart because the gathering in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, finished earlier than expected.

Police and security services had no intelligence about the planned attack on June 30 last year, although one of the would-be killers was under surveillance in relation to another terrorist plan.

Another of the group, Zohaib Ahmed, was also on bail for possession of terrorist documents at the time of the plot.

All of the men except Hasseen travelled to the rally armed with two shotguns, swords, knives, a nail bomb containing 458 pieces of shrapnel, and a partially assembled pipe bomb, ready to cause mass injuries and deaths.

The nail bomb was an 18inch (46cm) long rocket which had been stuffed with shrapnel and was to be powered by explosives taken from at least two large fireworks.

Police estimated there could have been up to 750 EDL marchers at the Dewsbury event, but also dozens of officers and innocent passers-by.

The fanatics’ plan failed by chance, because they arrived at 4pm when the rally had dispersed by 2pm.

The planned attack was only uncovered because a traffic officer stopped Uddin and Khan on the M1 as they travelled back to their home town, Birmingham.

He made checks on their Renault Laguna, which came up as being uninsured, and so the car was impounded.

It was only two days later that staff at the pound near Sheffield looked at the contents of the Renault and found the gang’s arsenal.

BRITAIN TODAY Miliband shrugs off approval gap

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling visits Pentonville Prison, ahead of announcing the outcome of a review into prison perks

Perks clampdown in jails bans edgy films

By Jamie Grierson PRISONERS are to be banned from watching violent and sexually explicit films as part of a clampdown on perks behind bars.

Certificate 18-rated movies, which include Saw, Hostel and Reservoir Dogs, will no longer be screened at jails in England and Wales under changes to the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme.

The changes, announced by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, will also see subscription channels removed from private prisons, and inmates will have to earn the right to wear their own clothes.

The IEP scheme allows prisoners to work up specific levels of privileges through good behaviour and, in turn, lose the perks if they fail to meet acceptable standards.

Following a review of the scheme, prisoners will have to earn privileges by working and taking part in education, not through the avoidance of bad behaviour.

Movies rated 18 no longer to be screened in prisons Grayling said: “It is not right that some prisoners appear to be spending hours languishing in their cells and watching daytime television while the rest of the country goes out to work.

“For too long, there has been an expectation that privileges are an automatic right, given simply as a reward for staying out of trouble. This cannot continue.”

Other major changes include a new privileges level - entry for all prisoners in their first two weeks of sentence where perks, including access to private cash, will be restricted.

At the end of the entry level period, prisoners who do not co-operate with the regime will drop to basic level, those who do will progress to standard.

All male prisoners will be required to wear prison uniform while on entry level, the

MoJ said.

Prison regimes are also to change so inmates work a longer day and will not be allowed to watch television when they should be working.

A national list of activities and items available for each perks level, from which governors may choose what is appropriate for their prison, will be drawn up.

Grayling added: “Prisoners need to earn privileges, not simply through the avoidance of bad behaviour but also by working, taking part in education or accepting the opportunities to rehabilitate themselves.

“We have reviewed the scheme fully, and I believe it is now something the public can have confidence in.

“Only by tackling bad behaviour and taking part in education or work programmes

as well as addressing any alcohol or drug issues can we cut reoffending.”

The scheme will be implemented over the next six months, the MoJ said.

Responding to the changes, Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said they are “unlikely to get prisoners out of bed and into work or training”.

She said: “There have been numerous inspectorate reports published recently which have found prisons struggling to offer any purposeful activity within their walls. As their budgets continue to be squeezed, this problem will only get worse.

“It is bizarre then to introduce new layers of red tape which will only add to the cost of prison and demands on staff time.”

She added: “It is also astounding that the Justice Secretary spends his time policing what prisoners watch on DVD to the point that Scary Movie 2 or series three of The Inbetweeners will be banned.”

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband has said Britain is suffering a living standards “crisis” as he shrugged off comparisons between his approval ratings and those of David Cameron and Tony Blair.

Miliband insisted he was going to “go out and do it my own way”, including admitting where Labour had “got it wrong” in the past.

“We have a living standards crisis in this country and we have got to tackle it ... the Tories think a few millionaires at the top will create the wealth in this country and get our economy going,” he told ITV’s Daybreak. “We think we need a recovery made by the many, that is why we have got to support the living standards of ordinary families.”

Asked about his approval ratings two years before a General Election in comparison to those enjoyed by David Cameron and Tony Blair, Miliband said: “I am not going to get into these comparisons. I am going to go out and do it my own way. We are coming off the back of a difficult General Election defeat in 2010”.

‘Cut Heathrow airlines charges’ LONDON’S Heathrow Airport must cut the fees it charges airlines to reduce the substantial market power it has built up, the industry’s regulator said yesterday, in a move which could lead to lower air fares for travellers.

The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority said Heathrow, the world’s third busiest airport in terms of passenger numbers, should cut take off and landing charges by inflation minus 1.3 per cent between 2014 and 2019.

Controlled by Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial, Heathrow’s 2012 profits rose 12 per cent to £1.3 billion ($1.96 billion) in February, largely driven by an increase in the fees it charges airlines.

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Top anti-death lawyer to defend Boston suspect A LEADING anti-death penalty lawyer who has managed to get life sentences for several high-profile criminals has joined the defence team representing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

A judge has approved the appointment of death penalty expert Judy Clarke to defend 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who is accused of killing three people and injuring more than 260 during the April 15 marathon. But judge Marianne Bowler denied a request from Tsarnaev’s public defender, Miriam Conrad, to appoint a second death penalty lawyer - David Bruck, a professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Clarke’s clients have included the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski; Susan Smith, a woman who drowned her two children; Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph; and most recently Jared Loughner, who shot former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head. All received life sentences instead of the death penalty.

She has rarely spoken publicly about her work. However, at a speech last week at a

legal conference she talked about how she had been “sucked into the black hole, the vortex” of death penalty cases 18 years ago when she represented Smith.

“I got a dose of understanding human behaviour, and I learned what the death penalty does to us,” she said. “I don’t think it’s a secret that I oppose the death penalty.”

In other developments in the Boston case, FBI agents visited the home of the inlaws of the suspect’s brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and carried away several bags.

The brother was killed in a gun battle with police.

And president Barack Obama and Russian president Vladimir Putin discussed terrorism coordination in the wake of the marathon bombings. Obama expressed his “appreciation” for Russia’s close cooperation after the attack.

The suspected bombers are Russian natives who moved to the Boston area.

Russian authorities told US officials before the bombings they had concerns about the family, but only revealed details of wiretapped conversations since the attack.

Thai bomb squad members inspect the wreckage of a motorcycle following a roadside bomb blast targeting a patroling police pick-up truck triggered by suspected separatist militants in the Ra-ngea district of Thailand’s

restive southern province of Narathiwat yesterday. More than 5,500 people have been killed in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south since 2004, with shadowy insurgent groups blamed for near-daily bombings and shootings

Bangladeshis give up hope of more survivors

By Ruma Paul and Serajul Quadir

High-profile: death penalty expert Judy Clarke (pictured) will defend 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Musharraf life ban A PAKISTANI court yesterday imposed a lifetime ban on former President Pervez Musharraf from contesting elections, derailing his efforts to regain influence by winning a seat in parliament.

It was the first time a court in Pakistan had declared a citizen ineligible from contesting elections for life.

The former army chief returned last month after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest a May 11 general election, but election officers disqualified him because of court cases pending against him.

The High Court in the northwestern city of Peshawar rejected Musharraf’s appeal against the disqualification. Court Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan imposed the lifetime ban on running for election or becoming a member of the parliament.

“The former dictator had ordered senior judges and their families be put under house arrest and twice abrogated the country’s constitution,” Khan said when reading out the order.

Instead of triggering a hoped-for groundswell of popular support, Musharraf’s return has backfired. He became the first former army chief to be arrested in Pakistan when police took him into custody at their headquarters last Friday.

On April 20, a court remanded the former president in custody for two weeks, a deadline set to expire on May 4, as judges pushed ahead with plans to put Musharraf on trial for a crackdown on the judiciary during his time in office.

Yesterday, an anti-terrorism court in the garrison city of Rawalpindi put Musharraf on a 14-day judicial remand for charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination.

The new deadline of May 14 means Musharraf will be in detention on election day.

RESCUE officials in Bangladesh said yesterday they had given up hope of finding more survivors from a garment factory complex that collapsed killing hundreds, as the government came under pressure to do more to enforce building safety standards.

At least 390 people have been confirmed dead in what is just the latest incident to raise serious questions about worker safety and low wages in the poor South Asian country that relies on garments for 80 per cent of its exports.

Representatives of major international garment buyers - some facing sharp criticism in their home markets for doing too little to safeguard the mostly female workers making their clothes - met industry representatives on Monday and agreed to form a joint panel to put together a

Teargas, rubber bullets fired to disperse angry protesters new safety plan.

With no hope left of finding further survivors, heavy machinery has been brought in to clear the mass of concrete and debris from the site in the commercial suburb of Savar, about 30 km (20 miles) from the capital Dhaka.

But the operation remained agonisingly slow for the dozens of relatives still awaiting news of missing loved ones six days after the illegally constructed Rana Plaza building came crashing down as about 3,000 people worked inside.

“What’s the use of using heavy equipment if they cannot find the dead bodies?” asked a grief-stricken father who, like many others, has been waiting on the streets near the site hoping for in-

formation about his son, who worked in a garment factory.

As anger continued over the country’s worst industrial accident, the owner of the collapsed building was brought before a court in Dhaka on Monday, where lawyers and protesters chanted “hang him, hang him”.

About 20 people were injured yesterday as police fired teargas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse protesters in Savar calling for the death penalty for the owners of the building and factories.

Two Western retailers supplied by factories at Rana Plaza, Britain’s Primark and Canada’s Loblaw, have promised to compensate families of garment workers killed while making their clothes.

About 2,500 people have been rescued from the ruins of the building, which housed several factories on the upper floors, but hundreds remain unaccounted for.

Officials in Bangladesh have said the eight-storey complex had been built on swampy ground without the correct permits, and more than 3,000 workers - most of them young women - entered the building in the morning on Wednesday last week, despite warnings that it was structurally unsafe.

A bank and shops in the building closed after a jolt was felt and cracks were noticed on some pillars last Tuesday.

This Monday, representatives of about 45 companies including Gap Inc, H&M, Inditex, JC Penny , Marks & Spencer, Nike Inc, Primark, Tesco, Wal-Mart and Li & Fung met officials from the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association to discuss safety.

Dissident’s brother says home attacked nightly with dead poultry, bottles SECURITY personnel in eastern China are carrying out a nightly harassment campaign against the brother of blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the two said yesterday, throwing rocks, bottles and dead poultry at his house for 12 nights in a row.

The attacks on the village home of Chen Guangfu continued early yester-

day, he said. Two cars parked outside his house in Shandong province, shining their headlights through the windows and again security personnel threw rocks and beer bottles at the house and into the yard, he said.

“This is a country of hoodlums, not a country of law,” Chen Guangcheng said of China from New York, where he

is studying law at New York University.

“If you have principles, if you do what is right, why are you afraid of people?” he said. “Why do these kinds of things in the middle of the night? What kind of person does this? Only thieves and the narrow-minded, spreading unchecked. But that’s how the Communist Party is now.”

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World WORLD TODAY Ministry surrounded GUNMEN in pick-up trucks surrounded Libya’s justice ministry yesterday to step up demands for former aides to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi to be barred from senior government posts, Reuters witnesses said.

Tension between the government and armed militias has been rising since authorities began a campaign to dislodge the gunmen from strongholds in the capital Tripoli to help curb lawlessness afflicting the oil-producing state since Gaddafi’s demise.

Militiamen first ringed the foreign ministry on Sunday and have targeted other state buildings to push for a law to be passed to ban former aides to Gaddafi, who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, from government service.

The unrest prompted the General National Congress to postpone its next sitting, scheduled for yesterday, to Sunday.

A spokesman said this would give lawmakers time to consider legislation that protesters are calling for.

Israel visit ISRAELI President Shimon Peres invited Pope Francis yesterday to visit Israel, at his first meeting with the new pontiff who has appealed for peace in the Middle East.

The pope accepted the invitation “with willingness and joy,” a Vatican spokesman said, but there was no indication when a trip would be made.

“I am expecting you in Jerusalem, not just me but the whole country of Israel,” Peres told the pope in the presence of reporters after 30 minutes of private talks in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace.

Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, made an appeal for peace between Israelis and Palestinians in his Easter address last month.

Deadly Damascus attack, a day after attempt on PM Interior minister slams bomb strike as a ‘bankrupt response’ to gains against rebels

By Oliver Holmes A BOMB killed 13 people in central Damascus yesterday, state television said, a day after Prime Minister Wael al-Halki survived an attack on his convoy in the Syrian capital.

State-run Suriya television said 70 people were wounded, several critically.

The British-based Syrian Observatory reported nine dead civilians and three security personnel but said the toll was likely to rise.

Pro-government Al-Ikhbariya television showed firefighters running through thick smoke after the blast in Marjeh Square.

Two bodies could be seen on the ground.

The target of the attack was not immediately clear.

Footage showed the former Interior Ministry building near the site of the blast on one of the capital’s main roads.

Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar said the bombing was a “bankrupt response” to recent gains by the Syrian army against rebels in the areas surrounding the city centre.

Shaar, who was wounded by a car bomb blast in December, said that the United States, the West and Israel were directing the group that carried out the bombing.

Monday’s attack on the prime minister’s convoy killed six people in what has become a common tactic by rebels.

Egypt’s Mursi calls a halt to privatisations EGYPT will keep all stateowned firms in public hands, President Mohamed Mursi said in a speech yesterday, calling a halt to a flawed privatisation programme that failed to kick-start the country’s economy.

“There will not be any more selling of the public sector again. That is over,” Mursi said in a speech to metal industry workers in a Cairo suburb during celebrations ahead of Labour Day. Egypt’s economy has slowed rapidly since the popular uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, and it is struggling to secure the external funding it needs to revive growth at a time of renewed social unrest.

The country has neither undertaken nor planned any major privatisations since 2008, and courts have scrapped several sales that took place before then.

In May 2011, a court annulled a 2006 deal to sell

President Mohamed Mursi Egypt’s historic Omar Effendi department store chain to a Saudi investor after critics argued it was sold too cheaply. That ruling followed others scrapping transactions in which the state was found to have sold land at below market prices.

In June 2008, Egypt cancelled the auction of stateowned Banque du Caire, saying the bids it received from foreign banks did not meet the reserve price.

Israel launches air strike on Gaza ISRAEL yesterday launched its first targeted attack on a militant in Gaza since a war in November, killing a Palestinian jihadist in an air strike that put further strain on a five-monthold ceasefire.

There was also bloodshed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where for the first time since 2011, a Palestinian killed a Jewish settler. Israeli soldiers shot and wounded the attacker after he stabbed the man at a busy intersection.

Both incidents held the potential of wider confrontation - along the Gaza frontier, where factions linked to al Qaeda have been carrying out intermittent rocket attacks, and in the West Bank, where clashes between stone-throwing Palestinians and the Israeli military intensified in recent months.

Israel said the Palestinian killed in the air strike, Haitham Al-Meshal, 29, was a jihadi who was an expert in making rockets. It accused him of involvement in a rocket attack from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula against Israel’s Red Sea resort of Eilat on April 17, which had caused no injuries or damage.

“I had said we would not sit by quietly and let this pass ... we will not accept a drizzle of fire from Gaza or from Sinai,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the strike.

Islamist militants in Gaza have fired sporadically at Israel in the past weeks despite an Egyptian-brokered truce that ended an eightday conflict in November in which rockets hit Israeli cities and Israeli warplanes struck Palestinian territory.

A resident of Damascus, who lives one mile (1.6 km) from the blast site, said the explosion shook the doors of her house.

“It must be huge for me to hear it like that. Casualties must be horrific because it is a super busy square at this time of day,” she said over Skype.

Rebels have increased their attacks on Damascus, which include mortar fire from the contested suburbs, in a civil war that has cost more than 70,000 lives according to United Nations estimates.

A bomb in July killed four of President Bashar al-Assad’s aides, including his brother-in-law Assef Shawkat and the defence minister.

Syrian Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar (right) visits the site of the bomb blast in the Marjeh district of Damascus yesterday (AFP)

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Business BP profits lifted above forecast BP PLC profits beat analyst expectations by almost $1 billion in the first quarter, helped by two new oilfields and a strong performance from its trading division.

The UK oil company - still fighting multi-billion-dollar lawsuits over its Gulf of Mexico oil spill of three years ago turned in underlying replacement cost net profit of $4.22 billion for the quarter.

That was down from $4.65 billion a year ago mainly due to asset sales, but it beat analysts’ forecasts of around $3.27 billion and the company’s shares climbed 2.3 per cent to 467.5 pence in early Tuesday trade, their highest since late January.

“It’s a very good number.

They beat consensus materially. The way I look at it I strip out what I think are nonrecurring things like trading gains, positive consolidation,” said Societe Generale analyst Irene Himona. “Even if you strip all that out you find that the adjusted profit in Q1 was still about 7 per cent ahead of consensus, so clearly a strong operational performance that’s very encouraging.”

BP has been flagging for some time that its new production might deliver better profitability. The quarter included a full three months of production from its Skarv field in the North Sea and from its PSVM facility in Angola, which both started producing at the end of last year.

Lower unplanned downtime in the refining part of the business and lower costs also contributed to the earnings surprise. Trading of oil and gas is not separated out in BP’s figures, with oil trading buried in a refining and marketing result that was twice as strong as a year ago, and gas trading hidden within the upstream oil and gas production section which was down slightly.

Eurozone inflation fall and record jobless augur rate cut Debt crisis sees 19m unemployed in March

By Robin Emmott and Annika Breidthardt INFLATION in the eurozone has fallen to a three-year low and unemployment has hit a new record, cementing expectations of an interest rate cut by the European Central Bank later this week.

With the bloc’s economy mired in recession, inflation tumbled to 1.2 per cent in April, the lowest level since February 2010 and the biggest monthly drop in more than four years, the European Union’s statistics office Eurostat said yesterday.

That put the annual rate of increase in the cost of living well below the ECB’s target of close to, but below 2 per cent, raising pressure on the central bank to act to aid growth.

Eurozone unemployment meanwhile reached a record 12.1 per cent of the working population in March.

EU leaders are already trying to shift away from the budget cuts that have dominated the response to the debt crisis since 2009, and the data will raise the spectre of deflation as companies slash prices to entice shoppers.

But the European Commission, which polices countries’ debts and deficits, defended its insistence on sustainable public accounts that many economists blame for deepening the two-year recession, saying it had “no austerity dogma”.

“That is a caricature, our

An anti-austerity protest outside the Finance Ministry in Athens in October 2012. Eurozone unemployment reached 12.1 per cent of the working population in March approach is a balanced one,” said Commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen.

Cutting interest rates to a new record low of 0.5 per cent would show investors the ECB is concerned about the poor state of the bloc’s economy, but the Frankfurt-based bank faces a difficult balancing act accommodating a more resilient Germany.

German consumers were more upbeat going into May

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ing yet again and signs of a longer recession, it would be a confidence boost.”

According to a Reuters poll last week, a narrow majority of economists expect a 25 basis point cut tomorrow at the ECB’s meeting in Bratislava.

The ECB expects the eurozone’s economy to start recovering in the second half of the year, but recent data has cast doubts on that fore-

Lloyds first-quarter profit jumps

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than at any point in the past 5-1/2 years and data showed the unemployment rate in April nearing post-reunification lows, a sign that consumers may be positioned to help drive a recovery.

“It’s a close call, but we expect a rate cut this week,” said Sarah Hewin, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank.

“With inflation weaker than expected, unemployment ris-

cast, especially with the German economy struggling to rebound strongly from its fourth-quarter contraction.

“The news that the eurozone will remain in recession again this year is clearly curbing economic optimism in Germany as well,” said Rolf Buerkl of GfK market research group that published the May consumer climate data.

But a modest ECB rate cut is unlikely to be a gamechanger because borrowing costs are already low, and in southern Europe banks are reluctant to lend to indebted households and to companies struggling to sell their goods.

Spain’s economy shrank for the seventh straight quarter in the first three months of the year, figures showed yesterday, suggesting its recession will stretch into 2014.

French consumer spending the driver of its economy - fell in the first quarter having declined for the first time in two decades last year.

Italy’s new Prime Minister Enrico Letta added his voice on Monday to calls for a change to the EU’s focus on austerity and more pursuit of economic growth and jobs.

Some economists and politicians say austerity creates a damaging cycle where governments cut back, companies lay off staff, Europeans buy less and young people have little hope of finding employment.

About 19.2 million people are now out of work in the bloc, the highest level since the eurozone’s inception in 1999 and also since Eurostat began monitoring the countries in 1995.

But there is also division on just how far to soften the targets, and while the Commission will give Spain, France and others more time to reach its deficit goals, Berlin and the ECB want to see countries put accounts on a better footing.

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Shares in Lloyds gained as much as 6.9 per cent and hit a high of 57.2 pence, after the bank said underlying profit had trebled to £1.48 billion

LLOYDS Banking Group’s first-quarter profit jumped and the bank upped its cost savings target, sending shares to a near two-year high and close to the price at which the state could break even if it sold its stake.

Shares in Lloyds, 39 per cent-owned by the British taxpayer, gained as much as 6.9 per cent and hit a high of 57.2 pence, after it said underlying profit trebled to £1.48 billion ($2.3 billion), on improved margins, lower costs, and falling losses on bad loans.

Chief Executive Antonio Horta-Osorio said Lloyds had made substantial progress during the quarter but he was focused on improving its performance and had not held talks with the government or UK Financial Investments (UKFI), which manages Britain’s stake, about a share sale.

“It’s management’s job to operationally prepare the bank as well as possible in order for shareholders to decide about privatization. It is ultimately up to UKFI and the Treasury to decide on that and we have not been holding discussions with them in that regard,” he said.

A spokesman for Britain’s finance ministry told Reuters yesterday that no date had been set for the sale of shares. “We haven’t put a timetable on anything and we won’t at this stage. We want Lloyds to continue to make the progress it’s making, becoming a strong and sustainable bank,” he said.

The government considers a sale at 61 pence

would enable it to break even after it pumped £20.5 billion into the bank to keep it afloat during the 2008 financial crisis.

Industry and political sources have told Reuters the government is keen to start selling off shares in the bank ahead of the 2015 general election, a move seen as more realistic for the government than selling down its 81 per cent shareholding in Royal Bank of Scotland.

An important step towards an eventual share sale could be a resumption of dividend payments. However, finance director George Culmer said Lloyds still had “hurdles” to overcome before that would be possible.

Lloyds’ capital strength has come under scrutiny after the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee said last month that UK banks needed about £25 billion of extra capital. Analysts had said that meant Lloyds might need to raise cash.

Lloyds said it was waiting for Britain’s financial market regulator to decide what action might be required of banks after the FPC’s estimates, but was confident in its capital position.

Its core capital was 12.5 per cent at the end of March and should be 9 per cent at the end of this year, based on the full impact of new Basel III capital rules. That should rise above 10 percent by the end of 2014, it said.

Britain’s biggest retail bank said its core loan book had returned to growth earlier than expected.

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Opinion

Merely drafting laws against corruption will change very little IF PRESIDENT Anastasiades’ government manages to implement 20 per cent of the measures aimed at drastically improving and modernising the state sector’s services, eliminating corruption and making all state and elected officials accountable, then he should consider it a major success.

In effect, Anastasiades wants to re-build the Cyprus state sector almost from scratch, clean up public life and impose controls on politicians and state officials who for decades were able to get away with almost anything. It is a very ambitious plan that, we fear, has a very small chance of being implemented because it would meet with opposition from all quarters.

For instance would deputies pass a bill that would prevent them serving more than three consecutive terms? Would they vote for a bill that lifts their immunity, which they have been happily abusing in order to get out of paying traffic fines and God knows what else? It is difficult to see how the president would persuade selfserving deputies to abolish the privileges they have been enjoying.

Even more difficult would be eradicating the corrupt practices in the state sector, which have been cultivated for 60 years and have become a way of life, actively supported by the political parties who have built their support base on clientelism.

Once the political parties lose the power to get supporters promoted or appointed in the state sector and cannot help their people secure state contracts, how would they attract voters?

The entire political system is built on nepotism and favours and we find it hard to believe the political parties would stand by while the government demolishes it.

But who will sit on the committees, the president proposed, that will decide appointments and promotions in the state and semi-governmental sectors, if not the people from the political parties.

More than 10 years ago, the Clerides government prepared a law, approved by all the parties, making nepotism a criminal offence.

Nobody has been prosecuted, even though, according to the politicians, nepotism is rampant in the public sector. Having laws safeguarding transparency and meritocracy is well and good, but what is the likelihood of these being implemented, in a system in which most things are covered up or end up as a never-ending legal dispute?

Drafting laws against corrupt and irregular practices will change very little. The mentality of people in positions of authority also needs to change as they would be expected to enforce the laws and that is the real challenge facing the government.

If it does not have the people committed to enforcing the new laws and reporting violations the measures announced on Monday will be nothing more than a meaningless theoretical exercise.

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Cypriots really hate being told what to do I

N ITS issue a month ago (March 30-April 5 2013) when the Economist magazine extensively covered the political and economic aspects of the situation in Cyprus in the wake of the harsh treatment and bitter medicine applied by the Eurogroup a few days earlier, I, as a former senior ambassador of Cyprus to key posts, felt impelled to write its editor a letter , which was eventually published on April 13, 2013 subject to extensive editing.

In its current issue (April 27-May 3, 2013), the Economist returns – ‘there you go again’ President Reagan famously remarked - with a main editorial titled ‘Cyprus, divided they fall’, on the political aspects, and a long grim article on the economic outlook titled ‘Through a glass, darkly’. This time I shall not write again to the magazine’s editor but put down some thoughts for publication elsewhere.

The Economist starts by stating that: ‘Cyprus, it is said, never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity’.

This, incidentally, is a paraphrase without attribution of Abba Eban’s well known quotation: ‘The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity’.

It so happens that an op-ed published by the New York Times on April 2, 2013,and repeated in the International Herald Tribune on April 3, 2013,began in exactly the same way. A case of great minds thinking alike or a coincidence and, if so, too much of a coincidence?

The question is what is the opportunity for Cyprus at the

Comment Andrew Jacovides present juncture?

It is axiomatic that Turkey holds the key to a Cyprus settlement. Is there a commitment, or at least an indication, that Turkey has moved away from its anachronistic insistence on the continued presence of Turkish troops and right of forcible military intervention, or on the withdrawal of the hundreds of thousands of illegal mainland settlers - other than a limited number who can stay under the provisions of international humanitarian law, or on its making financial contribution for compensation for the enormous damage caused by its 1974 illegal invasion and occupation as prescribed by the international law of State Responsibility - Chorzow Factory case and the precedent of the UN Compensation Commission as could easily be afforded by its much vaunted economic power as of late, or on its demonstrating some reasonableness on territory in the evolution of the Republic of Cyprus as a federal bicommunal federation, as prescribed by the relevant UN Resolutions?

If so, an opportunity would

exist and should not be missed.

A Cyprus settlement with Turkey’s constructive input, which is sine qua non, would not only remove a major obstacle to Turkey’s accession to the EU, it would also be a practical application of Mr Davutoglu’s ‘zero problem with neighbours’ policy.

It would also open the way to friendship and cooperation in the region in terms of tourism, finance, trade and also water and energy projects on the basis, not of domination and Pax Ottomana, but of neighbourly cooperation in conditions of equality as prescribed by the UN Charter.

All this could be achieved by the exercise of some statesmanship by the present Turkish leadership, analogous to that of Mr Gorbachev which made possible German reunification in 1990.

But, if the opportunity exists because of the dire situation Cyprus finds itself in as a result of the brutal treatment of its banks and its economy by the Eurogroup - and I am afraid that this is what the authors of these kind of editorials have in mind - this would not only be unfair but also counterproductive for, as the Economist’s editorial rightly stresses: “Cypriots hate being told what to do’. I am convinced that the

‘Pushing a Cyprus solution due to the current economic crisis would be counterproductive’

newly elected President Nicos Anastasiades, has much goodwill and can demonstrate leadership if a real opportunity emerges.

However, it is clear that the immediate priority is getting out of the economic mess that the grave mistakes of others - in Cyprus, in Greece and in Brussels - have caused and, consequently, the horizon for meaningful efforts has to be several months down the road. While both the President and his articulate Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, back in 2004 supported the Annan Plan, it is quite clear that under its own terms, that plan, having been overwhelmingly rejected in a free vote, is null and void.

It would be unreasonable and unrealistic to expect the present Government to agree to anything incompatible with the views of the vast majority of the people who elected them. There is much more that unites Greek and Turkish Cypriots than the differences that at present divide them. The ample hydrocarbons that would belong to all Cypriots in the context of a settlement could be an important incentive for the Turkish Cypriots towards such a settlement.

Given good will by all concerned, a workable compromise settlement can be reached within the UN parameters and the EU principles. In this sense the present opportunity need not be missed, despite the disappointments of the past.

Andrew Jacovides is former Ambassador of Cyprus to the US, UN and Germany, and former Permanent Secretary, MFA and UNCC

LETTER to the Editor It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool...

Former President Christofias has only exposed himself to more ridicule by announcing that he intends to take legal action against CYBC and, possibly, Nicos Anastasiades over their calling him “ignoramus” and “moron”.

Although there should indeed be more civility in politics, insulting a politician is not a criminal action. It is a matter of free speech. We do not live in an authoritarian democracy like Turkey, where Prime Minister Erdogan has sued a cartoonist for reportedly depicting him as a cat that is tangled up in yarn.

We do not live in Putin’s Russia where young women who mock the Church’s brownnosing of Putin end up being sent to a Siberian labour camp. We live in a country that, like the rest of the West, is supposed to celebrate people’s right to say whatever they think even if it is stupid or insulting.

It should be noted that any of the insults directed at Christofias is nothing compared to what President Obama has endured from when he burst onto the American political scene in 2004. He has not only been called the ‘n’ word, but he has also been called a “communist”, a “fas-

cist”, a “terrorist”, a “closet Islamic fundamentalist” and God knows what else by the Republican Party’s right wing.

Former vice presidential candidate and possible 2016 Republican nominee Sarah Palin reportedly mocked his non-reckless foreign policy by questioning his masculinity.

His universal health care plan has been condemned as a sinister “death panel” borrowed from Hitler. As if that wasn’t bad enough, his daughters have not only been labeled “dumb” by a right wing talk show host, someone said that while Palin is the descendant of Adam and Eve, Michelle was the descendant of gorillas.

Mike Huckabee, who has his own show on Fox, once made allusions to Obama’s Kenyan father and his having lived in Indonesia, that unlike most American young men, the President grew up amidst “Mau Mau” and “madrassas”. These insults are still tame compared to the ones that end with wishes that something [touch wood] violent happens to the President.

Yet Obama isn’t running around suing anybody because he understands that it is a waste of time and that society has bigger things to deal with. Furthermore,

Hillary never sued any Republicans who claimed the source of her marital difficulties and her ambition is because she is secretly a lesbian and Bill never sued the right wing talk show host who labeled their daughter Chelsea “the White House dog”.

Aside from the pathetic lack of maturity and inability to handle the heat in the political kitchen referenced by Truman, Christofias demands of compensation between 100,000 and 500,000 euros and a trial is an insult to the Cypriot people.

He has done more than anyone else to destroy people’s livelihoods through his indecisiveness and dogmatism and he expects the taxpayer to pay for a trial and award him taxpayer’s money [as well as Anastasiades money] for wounding his pride? Cypriots are practically lining up in soup kitchens for heaven’s sake. This is a selfish attempt to profit from one’s own destruction of the country.

As Abraham Lincoln said, “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt”.

Timothy Spyrou, Limassol

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Australia’s Got Talent switches spices: Scary out, Ginger comes in

By Thuy Ong GERI Halliwell, known as Ginger Spice when she was part of the Spice Girls, has replaced former bandmate Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, as a judge on Australia’s Got Talent, broadcaster Channel Nine said yesterday.’’

The switch comes after Australia’s Supreme Court blocked Brown’s appearance on the show, ruling she had

breached her contract with the rival Seven Network when she attempted to defect to Nine. The court barred Brown from working for any other network until January 2014.

Nine bought the rights to Australia’s Got Talent late last year after the programme was dropped by Seven.

“I think shows like this are brilliant and I love the opportunity they give to normal everyday people,” Halliwell said in a statement.

The Got Talent format, where con-

testants show off a variety of skills from singing to dog handling, airs in more than 50 territories globally.

Halliwell will join Australian singer Timomatic, British comedienne Dawn French and controversial Australian radio host Kyle Sandilands on the judging panel for the show’s seventh season.

The Spice Girls, a British pop girl group, were in their heyday in the 1990s, topping charts globally with ‘Wannabe’.

Geri Halliwell has replaced former bandmate Melanie Brown

Hollywood hoping for summer box office gold

‘Ugly stuff’ in Jackson wrongful death trial

Familiar faces return to the big screen

By Alex Dobuzinskis AN attorney for the concert promotion company AEG Live warned jurors they would see a very different view of the charismatic Michael Jackson as the company seeks to prove it was not liable for the pop star’s death.

Marvin Putnam, making his opening statement in what is expected to be an emotional wrongful death trial, said AEG officials had no idea that Jackson was taking the surgical anesthetic that led to his death.

He said the three-month civil case would bring to light “some ugly stuff” about the singer’s private behaviour.

“The public Michael Jackson was very different from the private Michael Jackson,” Putnam said. “He erected a wall between himself and his family. Even his family wasn’t sure what was going on at the house. He kept those who might have been able help him at a distance.”

By Zorianna Kit ROBERT Downey Jr. is donning his Iron Man suit one more time, Captain Kirk is back on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, and the Hangover crew are headed for another bout of mayhem and bad decisions.

A summer of familiar faces will be on offer at the Hollywood box office, with an astounding 17 sequels between May 1 and the US Labor Day weekend on September 2.

With the four-month summer movie season generating some 40 percent of the annual North American box office, and a 5 percent slump in summer ticket sales in 2012, the pressure is on to churn out hits.

Seven of the top 10 grossing films for the whole of 2012 were sequels. In 2011, it was nine. With 17 in contention this summer alone, Hollywood studios are relying on a proven fan base to help the slew of high-profile franchises hit their mark.

“You have blockbuster after blockbuster week after week,” Exhibitor Relations Co’s senior box office analyst Jeff Bock told Reuters. “It’s like planes coming in at an airport landing strip, one after another.”

If all goes well, 2013 might be the biggest domestic summer box office on record, topping $4.5 billion, Bock said.

Last year’s summer take was just $4.29 billion, down from the record $4.4 billion for 2011.

“Summer for the studios is like Christmas for retailers,” Entertainment Weekly senior writer Anthony Breznican

NO-ONE KNEW

The month of May alone will see two massive sequels in Star Trek Into Darkness and Iron Man 3 told Reuters. “It’s when studios make the lion’s share of sales for the year. It’s where they place their biggest bets and hope to make the most return.”

The month of May alone will see four sequels - Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hangover 3 and Fast & Furious 6.

“Those are characters or franchises audiences have loved for so long,” said Fandango’s chief correspondent, Dave Karger. “Viewers know what they’re in for with these movies.”

Zachary Quinto, who reprises his role as Spock in Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness, noted that it has been four years since movie audiences have seen the characters from the beloved sci-fi series.

“There’s more action, more destinations, more set pieces

and the stakes are higher,” Quinto told Reuters of the film. “We’re up against an adversary that requires us to splinter off and divide in order to conquer.”

Elsewhere, films based on superheroes such as Man of Steel and The Wolverine, and franchise continuations of action films like Red 2 and Universal’s Kick-Ass 2, all look sound - on paper.

But even superheroes sometimes mess up. Although 2006’s Superman Returns grossed $200 million domestically, Breznican said, it had “no love” from fans, and was largely seen as a flop for Warner Bros.

June’s Superman offering Man of Steel has a whole new cast including Henry Cavill in the title role and filmmaker Christopher Nolan, who successfully rebooted the Batman franchise, as a producer.

“The stakes have never been higher,” said Bock. He noted that if Man of Steel proves as successful as the two Batman movies in the Dark Knight franchise - which have together made more than $2 billion worldwide at the box office - it could lead to a reboot of other DC comic book heroes.

With all the sequels and reboots, original action films hoping to kick-start a new franchise face a disadvantage.

Among the risk-takers are filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and actor Will Smith with the apocalyptic After Earth, Guillermo Del Toro with his robot-versus-aliens action film Pacific Rim, and cult filmmaker Neill Blomkamp with his futuristic Elysium, in August.

Family films are also big, with 20th Century Fox’s Epic

in which singer Beyonce takes a voice part, Pixar’s Monsters University, Despicable Me 2, Turbo with Ryan Reynolds as a racing snail, and Smurfs 2, among others.

Comedies featuring big stars are also making a splash. Adam Sandler is back for Grown Ups 2, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn reteam on the Google-set comedy The Internship, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy appear in The Heat, and Jennifer Aniston headlines We’re the Millers.

Disney hopes that the Pirates of the Caribbean trifecta of Johnny Depp, filmmaker Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer can recreate that same magic when the team reassembles for Western The Lone Ranger - despite a budget that ballooned to a reported $250 million.

He said Jackson had been using the powerful anesthetic propofol for years to help him sleep “and almost no one knew.”

“AEG, like everyone else, was an outsider,” Putnam said. “They had no idea. It was going on behind locked doors.”

The singer’s mother, Katherine, is suing privately held AEG Live, promoters of a never-realised series of comeback concerts by Jackson, for negligence in hiring Dr. Conrad Murray as his personal physician.

Murray, convicted in 2011 for the involuntary manslaughter of Jackson with a propofol overdose, was caring for the singer as he rehearsed in Los Angeles for a series of 50 This is It shows in London in 2009.

Brian Panish, representing Jackson’s family, said AEG Live ignored red flags when it hired Murray and should have been aware that the singer had addiction problems years before he agreed to perform the concerts.

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Education

schools report Highgate competition spurs fresh writing talent

By Tracy Phillips

LIST OF WINNING ENTRIES

HIGHGATE would like to thank all those who entered this year’s creative writing competition.

The competition was open to schoolchildren in Cyprus, from Year 1 to Year 9, and there were some very imaginative entries, particularly from the younger children.

As usual, there were winners from a number of different schools. The title for the primary aged group was, ‘Splash,’ while the older pupils were asked to, ‘Imagine a world without technology!’

Each entry was marked by three different judges, before the panel got together to pore over the best ones from each age group and make their final choices.

The panel of judges included teachers, and two children’s authors, Jonathan Ayre and Valerie Mavratsas. The overall award for Promising Young Writer went to a Year 4 student, Ben Williams. A big congratulations to all the winners.

MOST PROMISING YOUNG WRITER Ben Williams - The Fish Bowl Splash Dear Diary Last week something crazy happened. I was swimming in my bowl when my owner’s crazy cat was chasing a mouse. Then the mouse darted under the cupboard my bowl is perched on. The cat pounced and landed face first into the cupboard.

My bowl wobbled and smashed into tiny pieces.

I was left on the floor very still, very wet and very, very cold. My owner came

around the corner on her phone and saw me. She dropped her phone and scooped me up into her hand. She thought I was dead so she flushed me down the loo. I swirled and twirled and ended up in the sea.

I saw some food, swam to catch it but would you believe it, it was my owner’s rod. She reeled me in and put me in a new bowl.

So here I am, safe and sound until the next time my owner’s crazy cat chases a mouse again!

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Year 6 Year 7

Year 8 Year 9

Markos Azzas

Highgate Private School

1st

Alexandros Schizas

Grammar Junior School

2nd

Ameer Azzi

Highgate Private School

1st

Marianna Folias

Highgate Private School

1st

Eleni Kyriacou

Highgate Private School

1st

Suzannah Galea

American International School

2nd

Ben Williams

Highgate Private School

1st

Jack Givhan

Foley’s School

2nd

Savvas Azzas

Highgate Private School

1st

Haralambos Azzas

Highgate Private School

2nd

Adam Saleh

Foley’s School

Commended

Basel Abbara

Foley’s school

1st

Maxim An

Silverline Private School

2nd

Callisto Musyck

American International School

1st

Abdallah Saleh

Foley’s School

2nd

Anastasia Erotokritou Foley’s School

Commended

Samantha Galea

American International School

1st

Diana Comen

Foley’s School

2nd

Haya Zeinalabidin

Silverline Private School

1st

Maddy Mudd

Foley’s School

2nd

child privately.

The findings suggest that the rise in overseas students is partly down to increasing numbers of youngsters from Russia, China and Nigeria joining UK independent schools.

It reveals that the number of Russian pupils has risen by more than a quarter (27.4 per cent) in the past year, while the numbers of Chinese pupils are up 5.4 per cent and Nigerian students up 16.3 per cent.

Overall, there are now 25,805 non-British students with parents living overseas at UK fee-paying schools, up from 25,441 in 2012.

The figures are all based on pupil numbers for the 1,204 schools that took part in the census in 2012 and 2013.

The data also shows that average school fees have risen by 3.9 per cent, with parents now paying around £4,765 per term - this equates to around £14,295 a year.

Average UK private school fees have risen by 3.9 per cent

GCSE English will contain less coursework in the future under new proposals to overhaul the qualification, it has been announced.

From next summer, teenagers’ speaking and listening skills, which are assessed by teachers, will no longer count towards their final English grade, the UK exams regulator Ofqual said.

Under the plans, published

by Ofqual for consultation, from 2014, final GCSE English grades will be based on written exams and so-called “controlled assessments” in reading and writing.

“Controlled assessment” is coursework completed in the classroom under strict supervision, and marked by teachers.

Students will still be assessed on their speaking and listening abilities, but these results will be reported separately and shown as an endorsement on GCSE certificates.

The current GCSE English qualification is made up of 60 per cent controlled assessment and 40 per cent written exam.

Pupils find new way to beat aircraft noise

British private schools boost numbers with foreign pupils Heathrow U.K. private schools are relying on overseas pupils to boost their numbers as the proportion of British students stalls, new figures suggest.

The numbers of foreign youngsters attending feepaying schools rose by 1.4 per cent between 2012 and 2013 - around 365 extra children - according to the latest census by the Independent Schools Council (ISC).

But at the same time, the numbers of British students or those resident in the UK, fell by around 0.4 per cent, down around 1,893 children.

Overall, the proportion of all pupils at ISC member schools who took part in the census in 2012 and 2013 has dropped by 0.3 per cent in the past 12 months.

The census, which looks at the make-up of ISC member schools, also reveals that parents are now paying more than £14,000 a year on average to educate their

Plan to cut English GCSE coursework

airplanes pose sound problem

By Dasha Afanasieva PUPILS at a London school so close to Heathrow airport that it sometimes seems descending planes might land in the playground have found a novel way to fight the roar of jet engines.

Hounslow Heath infants’ school has erected four igloo-like adobe domes in its grounds, of a type normally used in earthquakes and emergency zones, to muffle the noise.

The playground is directly under the flight path of Heathrow’s southern runway and outside play for the children is interrupted every two minutes or so by landing aircraft passing over their heads.

“When children were playing outside, they had nowhere to go - they were subjected to that noise,” said school principal Kathryn Harper-Quinn.

The domes, an invention of Iranian architect Nader Khalili, were originally meant for lunar settlements and were first employed in a refugee crisis after the 1990-91 Gulf war, but they work just fine for kids in west London too.

The playground of Hounslow Heath infants’ school is directly under the flight path of Heathrow’s southern runway with landing aircraft passing every two minutes “For play time it’s fantastic that they have somewhere to withdraw - even the ones that are too young to articulate that they’re feeling concerned about the noise,” HarperQuinn said.

The domes have no doors so are an open space but with

a “strong psychological and physical barrier” against the noise, she told Reuters.

She estimates that when outside, teachers are inaudible to pupils for 25 seconds in every 90 because of the jets.

“You can still hear the planes in the huts but you can also

hear your own voice,” she said.

The school teaches 520 infants aged between three and seven and its experiment with the domes has prompted others in the area to consider following suit. Planes pass just 180 metres (600 ft) over the area and their engines emit a noise level of 87 decibels.

Sound tests inside the domes showed a noise reduction of over 17 decibels and a considerable reduction in the duration of the noise, according to the website of Small Earth which makes the structures.

The domes, which have also been installed in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal, are made out of bags of coiled earth tubes in an igloo-shape.

The technology avoids using expensive construction materials and the cost of transporting them.

“I can carry a three-bedroomed house on my back,” said Julian Faulkner, chief executive of Small Earth. “A couple of rolls of barbed wire and a roll of tubing and you’re there!”

Soil dug from the construction site is compressed into tubular bags which are laid one on top of the other to form walls. Barbed wire is placed between the layers to hold the bags together. The bags are laid in a circle with a decreasing diameter of the rows towards the top.

Aircraft noise is a thorny political issue in Britain as the government of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron ponders where and how to expand airport capacity.

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Lifestyle

EAU SO EXC Scent lab: Lyn Harris in her Notting Hill perfume atelier

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hrough the wrought-iron gates at their portals came the smells of coach leather and of the powder in the pages’ wigs…

It was here as well that Grenouille first smelled perfume in the literal sense of the word… the more complex, more costly scents of tincture of musk mixed with oils of neroli and tuberose, jonquil, jasmine or cinnamon, that floated behind the carriages like rich ribbons on the evening breeze…’

Thus wrote the German author Patrick Süskind in Perfume, his dark novel exploring the true nature of fragrance in 18th-century Parisian society.

It was a time when bespoke fragrances were the preserve of the wildly wealthy. In the 1700s, in the laboratories of the grand perfume houses of Paris, a single fragrance for a discerning client could take up to a year to refine. But the rise in the use of synthetic ingredients and mass production meant an end to such laborious processes and the start of the great democratisation of scent.

However, custom blends are enjoying a renaissance.

“In the last century the fragrance market was obsessed with immediacy and customers craving a product instantly,” explains Shaylegh Foyle, head perfumer at Floris London. “But people have started recognising that the way scent performs on the skin is a personal thing. Fragrance is an emotional trigger. We have smells that we have positive connections to and negative associations with. The process of bespoke eliminates the negative elements.”

Lyn Harris, founder of the British perfumery Miller Harris, says that the trend for bespoke has a direct connection to the gloomy economy: “The Western world has changed so much over the past ten years and has been in shock.

Yet I was amazed at how many people I had coming to me, in this very depressed era, wanting to invest in quality things that give them individuality.”

A bespoke creation at a reputable perfume house costs anything from €4,675 to more than €17,500. Once the per-

fumer and client have found a winning formula, it is kept on file and can be reordered at retail price. To ensure that a formula is never lost, perfumers go to extreme lengths.

Ben Gorham, the founder of Byredo, locks all his clients’ formulae in a safe: “Just in case I die and they need to reorder.”

At Illuminum, the English fragrance house established in 2011, which produced the White Gardenia Petals scent that the Duchess of Cambridge wore on her wedding day, they haul in the lawyers to sign over the copyright and original formula of the bespoke scent to a client as a safeguard against unauthorised reproduction. After a series of consultations at its Dover Street boutique, the finished scent can take anything from ten weeks to a year to complete, depending on the quirks and tastes of the customer.

Bart Powlak, Illuminum’s head fragrance advisor, says you can’t speed up the process: “People think that creating a bespoke fragrance is a case of putting a few oils

together and adding some alcohol. It is far more complex.

Each fragrance is a piece of art rather than a blended, scented liquid.”

Prized or rare ingredients, such as Florentine iris or Chinese agarwood oil, can also lengthen the process (and bump up the final price). Bespoke perfumery is still very much a rarefied and expensive practice, but personally designed quality scents are increasingly reaching a wider market.

At the more affordable end is French perfume brand Le Labo. Customers visiting its boutique can have one of the brand’s 12 fragrances made up and hand-poured into a bottle on-site. This ‘madeto-order’ perfume service, which costs €95, means that the essential oil concentrates in the perfume remain separate from the alcohol right up to the moment of purchase, ensuring the highest level of purity.

Even commercial heavyweights are getting in on the act. Chanel’s Les Exclusifs range is a 14-strong collection of fragrances concocted

by one of the world’s leading noses, Jacques Polge.

Launched in 2007, the concept behind the range was to give complete creative licence to Polge to produce original scents that represented the brand. Bottles retail from €130 and the limited distribution of the scents (only through Chanel’s boutiques) increases the sense of exclusivity. Christian Dior has followed with its La Collection Privée, as has Tom Ford with his Private Blend range. So if you can’t afford a €17,500 personalised scent, you can always make do with a bottle of Tom Ford’s Santal Blush.

Lyn Harris, 43 Founder of Miller Harris Hidden beneath the Miller Harris boutique in Notting Hill is Lyn Harris’ perfume atelier. With its dove-grey armchairs and wall-to-wall glass shelves stacked with brown vials, it’s reminiscent of a Victorian apothecary. “When perfumers were practising 150 years ago, the ready-towear fragrances were out front and there was a little

What’s your fa scent: pistach macaroons, w your pet Labr walk in the ra a little imagin lot of money, one of the wo perfumers cre Dipal Acharya the noses crea bespoke fragr

atelier at the back for the bespoke clients,” says Harris. Bespoke perfumery has always been part of the Miller Harris DNA, even before the Notting Hill boutique opened in 2000: “Everyone at Grasse [the French Institute of Perfumery, where Harris

Bespoke perfumery a rarefied and exp but personally d scents are increas wider m trained] thought I was crazy because who would want to create a fragrance for an individual? How do you fulfil an individual? It’s a minefield.”

Harris’ low-key, high-quality approach has proved a winning formula, earning her a loyal customer base – “75 per cent of bespoke clients come back,” she tells me - and ce-

dnesday, May 1, 2013

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Fragrance lady: Linda Pilkington

New scentsation: Ben Gorham

dient you’ve used?

Milk. Warm and cold milk differ enormously in scent.

This particular client wanted warm milk, which is slightly sweeter and very comforting at the heart of a fragrance. byredo.com

Linda Pilkington, 42

lebrity fans include Michelle Obama and Helena Bonham Carter.

What’s the most complicated perfume you’ve put together?

A bespoke fragrance for Jane Birkin. She had always been showered with gifts by

y is still very much pensive practice, designed quality singly reaching a market Serge Gainsbourg but had never found a fragrance she loved to wear. The skill came from fusing random ideas - the smell of her father’s library, the fragrance from oak trees in her garden - in an intriguing way. It really was her life in a bottle.

What’s the strangest request you’ve ever had?

Animalic notes seem to be something that people are drawn to, like the smell of a horse. That’s as far as I’d like to let people go, though.

What’s the weirdest ingredient you’ve used?

Riz absolute [made from rice] for an interesting fragrance based around sake. millerharris.com

Ben Gorham, 35 Founder of Byredo Parfums A former pro-basketball player, who then trained as an artist, Ben Gorham is not your average perfumer. Yet despite his lack of formal training and the fact that he doesn’t wear scent himself, the nose behind the Swedish brand Byredo has enjoyed huge success since he created it in 2006, after a chance encounter with perfumer Pierre Wulff at a dinner party: “I was intrigued by the creative possibilities of scent - how it could invoke memories or become a person’s signature. I became obsessed.” Ditching paint for perfume, Gorham began to experiment with scent compositions based on

childhood memories, often limiting himself to three or four natural ingredients. The brand quickly amassed a cult following: “By limiting the rials and number of raw materials ing, we using generic branding, e in our showed a confidence e scent product and let the speak for itself.”

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Founder of Ormonde Jayne “I once had a Russian man who asked me to scent his family home, all 11 bedrooms, with fragrances, room sprays, candles, soaps, body washes, the whole shebang,” says Linda Pilkington, founder of the Bond Str Street perfumery Ormo Ormonde Jayne.

The bran brand was born out of a home-run candle-mak candle-making busi-

ness in 2002. But Pilkington’s fragrances have since been established as a favourite of the elite. Her first client was Chanel and today the brand can be found in the bathrooms of Mandarin Oriental hotels. Customers range from Qatari princesses to Savile Row gents and she takes on no more than two or three private clients per year.

What’s the most complicated perfume you’ve put together?

One using the Tiare flower, a Tahitian gardenia. The flowers need to be specially grown in the South Pacific.

The oil is extracted and sent to America to be cleaned and filtered. Next it is sent to France for quality control, then they forward it to

the Ormonde Jayne studio 12 months later. It is still like that and I have to think a year in advance for this particular client.

What’s the strangest request you’ve ever had?

An Italian client (a cross between Nancy Dell’Olio and Amy Winehouse) requested a perfume that would make her husband love her again, desire her and render him into an uncontrollably passionate lover. It was a tall order.

What’s the weirdest ingredient you’ve used?

Hemlock is what Ormonde Jayne is famous for. When our clients tell us they love cedarwood and sandalwood, we offer them hemlock. It was Socrates’ chosen poison. ormondejayne.com

Making scents: Michael Bodenham concocting a fragrance for Floris in his Mayfair lab in the 1930s

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What’s on

films

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

NICOSIA The Host (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm.

Iron Man 3 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45pm (in 3D) and 5 and 10.30pm (in 2D); K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 7.45pm (in 3D) and 5 and 10.30pm (in 2D), weekends (and May 1) also at 11.30am and 2pm (in 2D) Olympus Has Fallen (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends (and May 1) also at 11.30am and 3pm

1) also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.15pm Oblivion (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45pm Silver Linings Playbook (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

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

Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends (and May 1) also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm

LIMASSOL The Host (12) Rio 2 at 7.45 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

Zero Dark Thirty (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.10pm

Iron Man 3 (12) Rio 1 (in 2D) at 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5pm; Rio 3 (in 3D) at 7.45pm; KCineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45pm (in 3D) and 5 and 10.30pm (in 2D)

Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in

Olympus Has Fallen (18) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.15pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30,

Iron Man 3

Broken City (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.10pm.

Times are subject to change, so check first with cinemas before you The Croods (K) head out K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English) at 5.30 and 7.50pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at K-Cineplex: 7777-8383 5.30pm, weekends (and May 1) also at 11.20am, 1.20pm Rio Limassol: 25-871410 and 3.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English) Rio Paphos: 26-207000 at 5.30pm, weekends (and May

Telephone no:

Iron Man 3 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45pm (in 3D) and 5 and 10.30pm (in 2D)

7.45 and 10.10pm Broken City (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.10pm The Croods (K) Rio 2 (in 3D, in Greek), weekends only at 5.15pm; Rio 4 (in 2D, in Greek) at 7.45pm; Rio 4 (in 2D, in English) at 10pm, weekends also at 5.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm; KCineplex (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30pm Oblivion (12) Rio 3 at 10.10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm Silver Linings Playbook (12) Rio 6 at 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

Olympus Has Fallen (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm Broken City (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.10pm The Croods (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English) at 5.30 and 7.50pm Oblivion (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45pm Silver Linings Playbook (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.45 and 10.15pm

Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm

Zero Dark Thirty (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.10pm

Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 5.20pm

Zarafa (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm

LARNACA

PAPHOS

The Host (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm

The Host (12) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.50pm

Iron Man 3 (12) Rio 1 (in 3D) at 7.30 and 9.50pm, weekends also at 2.30 and 5pm; Rio 4 (in 2D) at 7.30pm, weekends also at 2.30 and 5pm Olympus Has Fallen (18) Rio 7 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 5pm Broken City (15) Rio 2 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 5.15pm The Croods (K) Rio 6 (in 3D, in Greek) at 7.30pm, weekends also at 3.15 and 5.15pm; Rio 6 (in 3D, in English) at 9.45pm; Rio 7 (in 3D, in English), weekends only at 3pm Oblivion (12) Rio 4 at 9.50pm Silver Linings Playbook (12) Rio 3 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 5.15pm G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) Rio 2 at 9.45pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm

listings Today Music Active Member Popular Greek hip-hop group perform live. May 1. Savino Live, 1 Watkins Street, Larnaca. 10.30pm. €10. Tel: 24-620861/99-860304

Other Events The Living in Paphos Expo A free weekly show with local businesses, exhibitors, market stalls, car boot, charities and attractions for all- with daytime and evening live shows. May 1 and every Wednesday thereafter. La Fontaine, on the Tombs of the Kings road, between Pentaras Tavern and St. George Hotel, Paphos. 2pm. Free. Tel: 99-008577. livinginpaphos@gmail. com. http://www.facebook.com/ livingin.paphos.1 May Day Market Full entertainments programme, arts & crafts, home made goods, children’s toys etc, & children’s Corner. May 1. Aphrodite Hills, Village square, shop courtyards, restaurant seating area, adventure playground and green area, Paphos.

11am- 4pm. Tel: 26-828045 Reggae Spring Gathering Party in the park with reggae and dub music, flea market and more. May 1.

Eirinis Garden (Municipal Garden),

Nicosia. Midday-midnight. Free. Tel: 99-583947 Easter Egg Hunt & Games Easter fun and games for children aged 3-12. May 1. Herb Garden, Pano Akourdhalia, Paphos. 10am. €6 per child (with discounts for siblings). Tel: call 99-993412/99006012 bookings essential

Coming Up Other Events Cypriot Easter Cookery Workshop Gastronomy Cyprus hosts workshop, learn hands-on how to prepare Kleftico, Pastitsio, Koupepkia and Boureki, culminating in a lunch. May 4. Orexi in Droushia, Paphos. 9am and is an all day event. €45. Tel: 99-987672 or e-mail: janiceruffle@ gmail.com. www.orexicyprus.com

Music Hot Nuts Rock’n’Roll the Chas & Dave way.

May 5. Pine Bay Club Pissouri.

Lunch 1.30pm, showtime 3.30pm. €20 inc. lunch. Reservations - Tel: 97-788574/99-832538. www. andrewoliver9.co.uk Gus & Bonso Popular Athens-based DJ duo play live in Cyprus. May 5. Ammos Beach Bar, Makenzy Beach, Larnaca. 11pm.

Tel: 24-828844

Ongoing Theatre Kai Mi Heirotera Theatro Lexi presents a comedy by Giorgos Tsiakkas which satirizes Europe and Cyprus today. Until May 1. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue, Nicosia. On Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15.

In Greek. Tel: 22-878688 Gone With the Jobless A comedy performance by Marinos Hatzivasiliou who, together with other actors from the popular TV programme Patates, present a hilarious show with humour and laughter. Until May 5. Diachroniki Music Stage, 2 Yianni Koromia Street, Kaimakli, Nicosia.

Every Sunday at 9pm. €15. In Greek.

Tel: 99-783455 A Steady Rain The theatre group D-tale presents a two-character melodrama by Keith Huff. Until May 16. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area, Nicosia. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm. €12/15.

Tel: 99-535625 The Dispute The Main Stage of THOC presents tragic comedy by Pierre de Marivaux. Until May 17. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6pm.

In Greek. €12/10. Tel: 77-772717

Playing Doctor Theatro Skala presents the contemporary American comedy by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Until May 26. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street, Larnaca. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 24-652800 Egg Salad A new children’s play, in a new theatre presented by Aiora. Until May 26.

Aiora Theatre, 4 Trion Ierarchon Street (Carrefour Volos Street), Limassol.

Every Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 11am & 4pm. Adults €7/Children €5.

In Greek. Tel: 99-668843 Gethsemane A play about British public life by David Hare. Until May 31. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia.

On specific days at 8.30pm and on Sundays at 6pm. In Greek. €12/6. Tel: 77-772717/22-864300 Centuries away from Alaska Dionysos Theatre presents play by Akis Dimou, directed by Tonia Misiali.

Until June 2. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99621845/22-818999 Sovrakaless Play based on the book by Terrence McNally and the film The Full Monty.

Until June 9. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area, Nicosia. On Specific days at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 70-000612

Exhibition Sutile Solo exhibition of appliqués by Susan Vargas. Until May 2. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia.

Monday-Friday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12 .45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Random Walk Solo art exhibition by Dimitra Bista. Until May 4. 50-1 Gallery, 49 Ellados Street, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm & 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 12 midday-4pm. Email: info@50-1gallery.com A Fleur de Peau Group exhibition. Until May 4. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670 Alessandra Desole Solo painting exhibition. Until May 5.

Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030 Foundations and Remains An exhibition by controversial British artist/taxidermist Polly Morgan. Until May 5. The Office Gallery 32 Kleanthis Christophides Street, Old Nicosia. Tel: 99-848495. www.theofficegallery.com Rusted Evidence Solo art exhibition by Toula Liasi. Until May 11. Melina Merkouri Hall, Athina Avenue Nicosia. Opens daily: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm (closed May-3-6 for Easter holidays)

Free Range Unicorns: Two Dimensional Possibilities Photography and video installations.

Until May 17. Paphos Municipality Gallery, 7 Gladstonos Street.

Monday-Friday: 9am-3pm. Saturday: 9am-1pm. Tel: 26-930653 Water Stories Solo painting exhibition by Ero Farmaka. Until May 20. Kypriaki Gallery Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca.

Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4.30 pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm and 4pm- 7pm. Tel: 24-621109 Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis scrutinising the current turbulence experienced globally, from both a political and a poetic stance. Until July 21. Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am-4pm.

Tel: 22-797400. info@nimac.org.cy. www.nimac.org.cy The project includes a second contemporary art exhibition curated

by Re Aphrodite team. The exhibition deals with the unwritten feminine histories of Cyprus and their private and public structure. Until July 21.

Ethological Museum – The House of Hagjigeorgakis Kornesios, 20, Patriarxou Grigoriou. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8.30am-3.30pm. Wednesday: 8.30am-5pm. Saturday: 9.30am-3 .30pm. Tel: 22-305316

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Guaba have got a Nervo Guaba Beach Bar, the club recently ranked 15th in the category Best Club in World for 2013 by DJ Mag, is back this Monday for its opening fiesta.

When the sun is shining, beach clubs are the ideal place to sit back and relax just feet away from the sand, with refreshments on tap. Forget Cypriot coffee culture and the haughty clones packed like sardines in the latest shiny, characterless ‘it’ bars, waiting to see and be seen; Guaba has its own philosophy and does things differently.

Since its relocation a couple of years back, the beach bar has been flying against the mainstream bar culture of Cyprus to provide the region with a hedonistic easy-going beach party powered by the best DJs in the biz. Each year its popularity grows and its more adventurous approach to production has made it stand out from the rest. Here crowds can expect anything from CO2 bazookas and pyrotechnic flares to theatre dance performances while getting funky. What’s more, it has free entry on Mondays, which you don’t often find in other clubs.

The Guaba team is busy preparing for a magical opening. This will be the beginning of a five month whirlwind of summer madness in the world of Guaba. Here it’s all about positive vibes, openness and letting your hair down, a time to forget what’s happening in the ‘real world’ of economic doom and gloom and just enjoy the unique ride.

Music starts bright and early at 10 am sharp with DJ Monday, easing the day in with some laid-back reggae tunes. Grab a drink and chill out beachside with some good company. Mr. Styles will then take over and get you in the mood for the feisty Guaba Clown, followed by super talented DJ Producers duo Albert Harvey and Kevin Ramos, a.k.a Glowinthedark, who both y and interest can grew up in the Netherlands. Their musical style d as elecbest be described tronic pop, with all kind of influences from around the globe.

If all that doesn’t get you ood then in the partying mood ning act is Nervo the headlining arty sure to get the party going. As far as DJ’s are concerned, there are only a n handful of women who have garnered global success in the male dominated profession. One of the hottest electronic acts

Coming Up Exhibition out there right now isn’t some scruffy looking dude. It’s actually two incredibly beautiful twin sisters from Australia. Say hello to Miriam and Olivia Nervo.

After a stint in modelling, the blonde bombshells made a name for themselves writing hits for chart-topping international artists such as Ke$ha, David Guetta, Kelly Rowland, and the Pussycat Dolls. They have built up a big profile in the US, having opened up for Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj on the Femme Fatale tour, plus DJ dates at big Electronic Dance Music festivals such as Electric Daisy, Lollapalooza and now Guaba.

These girls are quite a big deal in the dance world, so it’s time a to become acquainted with chart-t their chart-topping house f Guaba on and head for Monday.

Open Fiesta Guaba Opening beac party of the new First beach summ season with summer Nervo Nervo, Mr. Styles and Glow Glowinthedark. May 6.

Gua Guaba Beach Bar, Amathou ous Avenue, Agios Ty Tychonas, Limassol.

110am-9pm. Free. Tel: 996-682865

By Ledha Socratous Dynamic duos on the decks: From left, Dutch-based pair Glowinthedark and (right) Australian bombshells Nervo

Looking Ahead Other Events A ‘box-set’ experience The Goethe-Institut in Nicosia is offering fans of world cinema a chance to enjoy the ultimate ‘box set’ experience on the big screen with Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s epic, Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Though frequently rated as one of the greatest films ever made, Fassbinder’s vast adaptation of the novel by Alfred Doblin has rarely been available to view in its entirety – even if you did have 15-anda-half hours to spare. From next Wednesday the Institut will present the new, fully remastered 35mm print version to local audiences.

They will show all 14 episodes of this film every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm in the hall.

Admission is free and the film will be screened in its original German

language with Greek subtitles.

There is no deeper or more atmospheric evocation of the German Weimar era than Berlin Alexanderplatz. With more than 100 actors and 3000 extras, plus a budget of 13 million Deutsch marks, this film was the most ambitious, biggest and most expensive project devised by German Public Television up to that time. Adapted from Al-

fred Döblin’s novel, it was perhaps the definitive work of Fassbinder’s brief but intensely productive career.

It explores the character of the anti-hero Franz Biberkopf as, newly released from prison for murdering his lover, he struggles towards rehabilitation in Berlin’s seedy underworld. Fassbinder not only adapted Döblin’s complex

narrative for the screen but also composed an original two-hour epilogue in which Biberkopf travels through a turbulent dreamscape emerging from his and Germany’s experiences.

Produced for German television in 1980, the film was released theatrically in New York in 1983 to extraordinary acclaim. In 2007, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Fassbinder’s death, the episodes were all digitally remastered and since then presented to enthusiastic audiences worldwide.

Prepare for a thoroughly absorbing, extraordinarily ambitious journey through between-the-wars German history – a unique portrait of a man and a country both damaged by conflict and drawn to decadence.

Berlin – Alexanderplatz Remastered Screening of 14-episode mini-series by Rainer Warner Fassbinder. May 8 until June 6.

Hall of the Goethe-Institut Cyprus in Nicosia.

Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm. In German with Greek subtitles. Free.

Tel: 22-674606

Letters for Cyprus: This is an invitation for you The deadline for the open call exhibition ‘A Letter to Cyprus’ has been extended to Tuesday, May 7.

Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art in Paphos is calling on all artists to participate in ‘A Letter to Cyprus’, an exhibition of letters written by artists and addressed to Cyprus.

In the days of mobiles, email, text, status updates and tweets dominate our communication, making letter writing seem hopelessly outdated. But it’s an art worth bringing back, and not because of some misplaced sense of nostalgia. The writing and reception of letters will always offer an experience that modern technology cannot touch.

The concept for the upcoming exhibition is to examine the possibilities of a letter as an art form, while at the same time raising awareness of Cyprus as a country, culture, or imaginative place/ figure/idea. The interpretation of Cyprus is open to the artists.

The exhibition will take place this month for two weeks (May 18 – June 1), at the gallery space of Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art. There will be no selection process and all the letters that satisfy eligibility and sent by regular mail to the gallery will be displayed during the exhibition.

If the letter is for sale, please mention the price. In case of the sales, the gallery will take 30 per cent commission. Those of you who wish to have your letter returned are required to contact the gallery directly via e-mail before sending the letter.

Eligible works should be no larger than A3 size. There is no limitation as to the materials used but three dimensional works are not accepted unless they can be folded and/or flattened.

There is no restriction as to whether the letter includes text or not and no limitation of the language used.

When you send in your letter, please include your name, address, e-mail and website (if you have one), in a separate form together with the letter.

Call for participation - A Letter to Cyprus An exhibition of letters written by artists to Cyprus. Deadline May 7. Please send the letter to: A Letter to Cyprus exhibition, Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art, Solonos 10, Paphos 8010, Cyprus. Tel: 99-311225. email: chiaki@c-kamikawa.com. www.ckamikawa.com

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Television CYBC 1 07.40 09.40

Manos Loizos Concert Stous Afaneis Tou Mohthou May Day celebrations.

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Ta Engata Tis Gis Greek FILM: I Megali Thisia

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I Doxa Tou Stavrou Tois Theos Megas Gnosta Xoklisia Kai Mones Tis Pafou Documentary exploring some of the famous monasteries and convents of Paphos.

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Greek FILM: To Sfalma News Kaftes Piperies Enas Parallilos Kosmos Yia Mia Stagona Nero Local documentary, travelling to Ethiopia. looking at 48 volunteers of Action Aid Hellas.

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News Vimata Stin Ammo

Jesus Of Nazareth Franco Zeffirelli’s award-winning drama chronicling the life of Christ, starring Robert Powell and Olivia Hussey. 1974. Part 2 of 4.

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News Repeats

Chernobyl

FILM: A Class Apart

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Classical Masterpieces: Beethoven Repeats

Me Agapi Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (rpt) Max Adventures Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Gamos Me Ta Ola Tou (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) Ta Dilimmata (rpt) Krifa Monopatia (rpt) Yia Tin Agapi Sou (rpt) With News at 18.00.

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Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Moses The Lawgiver

MEGA 06.00 07.00 08.00 08.10 09.00 10.00

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News The Passion The Bible Mini-series featuring dramatic accounts of the stories of the Bible.

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News Sports News Mov - Roz (rpt) To Kleidi Tou Paradeisou (rpt) To Paihnid1 Tis Signomis (rpt) News (rpt) Deal (rpt)

Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Church Service News Klemmena Oneira Oi Vasiliades FILM: Les Miserables A reformed criminal tries to lead a respectable life, but it is only a matter of time before his lawless past catches up with him. Period drama, with Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush.

Biblical drama, part 3 of 6.

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Retire News (rpt) Max Adventures Tom & Jerry Tales Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more.

Hosted by Giorgos Liagas and Faye Skorda.

Biblical drama, part 3 of 6.

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Brothers & Sisters (rpt) Fourth season. ‘Time After Time’. Part two of two. The Walkers discover that Nora has been hiding information from them about Dennis York for the past 25 years. Kevin struggles to come to terms with the consequences of uncovering a dark secret, and Justin asks Rebecca an important question.

Third season of local period drama, based on true events.

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A working class single mother appeals to send her son to the best state school in her area. When the headmaster of a local private school hears of her campaign, he offers her son a place at his school, betting that he can turn the boy’s life around.

Drama, starring Jessie Wallace. 2007.

Local live cookery show.

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Documentary exploring the aftermath of the nuclear disaster that struck the city in 1986.

Drama.

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Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) News In English News In Turkish Gandhi In a three-part series, journalist Mishal Husain traces the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. Part 1 of 3.

Drama.

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News Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)

SIGMA 06.10 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.15 18.00 18.05 18.40

Anna Paola (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Latin American telenovela.

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Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

Hosted by well-known chef Dina Nikolaou.

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Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News UEFA Champions League

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Kalitera En Ginetai Akti Oneiron (rpt) Kouzina Me Apopsi Sto Mati Tou Kiklona Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kalitera En Ginetai Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron News Sto Mati Tou Kiklona News Sports News O Anthropos Tis Thalassas (rpt) FILM: Sarah, Plain And Tall A teacher travels to Kansas to accept a widowed farmer’s request for someone to help raise his two children. Period drama, starring Glenn Close.

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FILM: Frozen River A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet. Drama, starring Melissa Leo. 2008.

FILM: Hero Of Rome After his expulsion from Rome, the tyrannical Tarquinius enlists the aid of the Etruscan army to regain the city. Historical drama, starring Gordon Scott. and Gabriella Pallotta.

1964. Part 1 of 2.

FILM: Esther Rags-to-riches tale of a humble Jewish woman who rises through society to become the Queen of Persia.

Biblical drama, starring Louise Lombard. 1999.

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FILM: The Bridges Of Madisson County A photographer and a lonely housewife embark on a brief but passionate affair while her husband and children are away from home.

Romantic drama, with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. 1995.

News Dekati Entoli (rpt) FILM: Jeremiah A Hebrew prophet angers King Nebuchadnezzar during the siege of Jerusalem. Biblical drama, starring Patrick Dempsey. 1998.

Kids’ TV Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: A Man For All Seasons Historical drama, starring Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave and Sir John Gielgud. 1988.

See Pick Of The Day.

Live coverage of semifinal first leg between Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

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Star News Thema Gevseis Greek cookery show.

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Local comedy series.

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Repeats Exelixeis Sti Showbiz I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt)

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FILM: Blue Car A teenager cares for her troubled sister while her mother is busy working, and vents her feelings through poetry.

Drama, starring Agnes Bruckner. 2002.

We Bought a Zoo (Novacinema4, 21.00)

01:10 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 01:40 As Time Goes By 02:10 The Weakest Link 02:55 EastEnders 03:25 Doctors 03:55 Lark Rise To Candleford 04:45 Rev. 05:15 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 05:45 My Family 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Fimbles 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Fimbles 09:30 My Family 10:00 Rev. 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Silk 13:05 Lark Rise To Candleford 13:55 My Family 14:25 Monarch Of The Glen 15:15 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 Silk 18:20 Lark Rise To Candleford 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:15 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 After You’ve Gone 22:00 Silk 22:50 One Foot In The Grave 23:25 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:10 Spooks

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Mega World 08:40 Extreme Engineering 09:30 Mekong: Soul Of A River 10:15 The Reinventors 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 Storm Surfers 13:05 Storm Surfers 13:50 Cafe

Racer 14:15 Cafe Racer 14:35 Secret Mediterranean 15:25 Mekong: Soul Of A River 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Inside West Coast Customs 17:50 Chasing Classic Cars 18:15 Chasing Classic Cars 18:40 The Aviators 19:05 The Aviators 19:30 Secret Mediterranean 20:20 The Reinventors 20:45 The Reinventors 21:10 Mekong: Soul Of A River 22:00 Inside West Coast Customs 22:50 Chasing Classic Cars 23:15 Chasing Classic Cars 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 The Reinventors 00:55 The Reinventors 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Inside West Coast Customs 02:50 Chasing Classic Cars 03:15 Chasing Classic Cars 03:40 The Aviators 04:05 The Aviators 04:30 Mekong: Soul Of A River 05:20 Secret Mediterranean 06:10 The Reinventors 06:35 The Reinventors

09:30 Motorsports: The Grid 09:45 Car Racing: World Series By Renault Spain 10:15 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom

05:30 How I Met Your Mother 06:15 Criminal Minds 07:00 The Glades 07:45 The Simpsons 08:10 Bob’s Burgers 08:35 Rules Of Engage-

ment 09:25 How I Met Your Mother 10:15 Criminal Minds 11:00 The Glades 11:45 The Simpsons 12:10 Bob’s Burgers 12:35 Rules Of Engagement 13:25 How I Met Your Mother 14:15 Elementary 15:00 The Glades 15:45 The Simpsons 16:10 Bob’s Burgers 16:35 Rules Of Engagement 17:25 How I Met Your Mother 18:15 Criminal Minds 19:00 The Glades 19:50 The Simpsons 20:15 Bob’s Burgers 20:40 Rules Of Engagement 21:30 Elementary 22:15 Homeland 23:15 Criminal Minds 00:00 White Collar 00:45 Elementary 01:30 The League 01:55 Traffic Light 02:20 Criminal Minds 03:05 The Glades 03:50 The Simpsons 04:15 Bob’s Burgers 04:40 Lost

Liga World 21:30 Inside Line 22:00 Barclays Premier League 201213 00:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 2

07:30 Felicity: An American Girl Adventure 09:00 Action Zone 09:30 Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’hoole 11:15 48 Hrs 13:00 Kisses 14:20 Invisible Sign, An 16:00 All The King’s Men 18:15 Cairo Time 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 King’s Speech, The 23:00 Red State 00:45 Mystic River 03:00 Action Zone 03:30 Trouble With Dee Dee, The 05:00 Penthouse, The 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:15 2 Broke Girls 08:00 Big Bang Theory 08:30 Southland 09:15 C.S.I. Miami 10:00 Friends 10:25 PriVIleged 11:10 Top Boy 12:05 Luck 13:00 Gossip Girl 13:45 2 Broke Girls 14:35 Southland 15:20 C.S.I. Miami 16:05 Friends 16:30 Pan Am 17:20 Necessary Roughness 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 2 Broke Girls 20:30 Two And A Half Men 1:00 Ncis: Los Angeles 22:30 Closer 23:15 Fringe 00:05 Hearts In Atlantis 01:50 Burlesque 03:50 Friends 04:15 Pan Am 05:00 Necessary Roughness 05:45 Necessary Roughness 06:30 Gossip Girl

07:00 Kids TV 17:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 21:00 La

08:00 All The President’s Men

10:30 Sea Gypsies, The 12:30 Roxanne 14:30 Fast Freddie, The Widow & Me 16:00 Messenger, The 18:00 Hideaways, The 19:50 Mirror Has Two Faces, The 22:00 There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane 00:05 Daring! Tv 03:45 Alaska 05:40 Homeless: The Motel Kids Of Orange County 06:45 Kings Of Mykonos

05:15 Chalet Girl 06:55 Shallow Hal 08:50 Fast Five 11:00 Hollywood 1 On 1 11:35 Intouchables 13:30 Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 15:00 Sweet Home Alabama 16:50 Cine News 17:10 Flicka 3: Best Friends 18:45 Action Zone 19:20 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 22:00 The Artist 23:50 O Annivas Pro Ton Pilon 01:35 Wanderlust 03:15 Cine News 03:35 A Gang Story

06:25 Take Shelter 08:25 My Super Ex-Girlfriend 10:05 The Muppets 11:50 The End Of The Affair 13:35 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules 17:20 Films & Stars 17:50 Anonymous 20:05 The Illusionist 22:00 Safe House 00:00 Transporter 2 01:30 Contraband 03:20 Glory

05:00 Love To Kill 08:50 Cine News 09:35 The Woman In Black 11:10 The Caine Mutiny 13:15 Cine News 13:45 Gran Torino 15:45 Encounter With Danger 17:15 Heaven 18:55 Five Minarets In New York 21:00 Crimson Tide 23:00 The Ghost Of Harrenhal 00:05 Person Of Interest Ii 00:50 Transit 02:20 Hide And Seek 04:00 Born On The Fourth Of July

05:00 What’s Your Number?

06:45 Poker Face 08:25 Les Emotifs Anonymes 09:45 Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The Word 11:15 Pay It Forward 13:20 The Vow 15:05 Hugo 17:15 Beginners 19:05 Bounce 21:00 We Bought A Zoo 23:10 Win Win 01:00 Water For Elephants 03:00 Margaret

17:30 MLB: Chicago White Sox At Texas Rangers 18:00 PRE GAME(E) 18:20 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: APOLLON VS ENP (E) 20:20 POST GAME (E) 20:45 STIGMIOTIPA KYPRIAKOU PODOSFEROU 21:00 NHL: Playoffs Time & Date Tentative 23:00 101 Cars You Must Drive The Bird Is The Word

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A Man for All Seasons (Plus TV, 18.35) It’s May Day, a day devoted to the working man (and woman) - so let’s celebrate with a double bill of films about royalty! Admittedly, King Henry VIII comes off badly in this famous piece - a play (by Robert Bolt) about Sir Thomas More, the Chancellor of England, a man of principle who refuses to endorse the king’s plan to divorce his first wife and marry Anne Boleyn, and pays dearly for his integrity. The play became an Oscar-winning film in the 60s - and Charlton Heston, a Serious Actor trapped by his reputation for muscular roles in bloated epics, re-made it for TV in this late-80s version, both directing and starring as More.

The dialogue is straight from the play, the dramatic structure impeccable, the cast includes names like Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud. The only reason why some might dismiss it is Heston himself, a squarejawed hunk of beef - and infamous gun nut - who may seem too monolithic for such a complex role; and of course you’ve got the rabid Reds who refuse to weep for aristocrats’ problems on May Day. A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work, and so on. Made in 1988.

The King’s Speech (LTV, 21.00) Colin Firth is our hero, tormented by a terrible stammer - which is problematic because Colin is a Royal (Prince Bertie, later to become King George VI) and

a stammer is embarrassing when you have to make public speeches and put on a good show for the subjects. He visits unorthodox speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) - and the result is more or less a foregone conclusion, but it hits all kinds of hot 21st-century buttons along the way: our insistence that adult problems have their roots in childhood traumas, our obsession with everyone being equal (Logue insists on calling the Prince by his first name), our modern love of therapy culture, and of course the fervent, post-Diana interest in the Royal Family.

The ending tugs at the tear-ducts (with a massive assist from Beethoven) - but has the King learned to be himself, or just a better actor? Discuss! Made in 2011.

The King’s Speech

06:00 Only Hits 8:00 MTV GreekLips 9:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 12:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 16:30 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 17:30 MTV Pranked 18:00 S7S Lockdown Top10 18:30 Only Hits 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Movies & Stars 21:00 MTV Awkward 21:30 MTV Awkward 22:00 MTV Awkward 22:30 MTV Awkward 23:00 MTV Underemployed 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits

06.00 Raintree County 08.45 The Comedians 11.15 Bronco Billy 13.10 White Heat 15.00 Billy The Kid 16.40 Guns For San Sebastian 18.35 Anchors Aweigh 21.00 Get Carter 23.00 McCabe And Mrs. Miller 01.00 Get Carter 02.55 McCabe And Mrs. Miller 04.55 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Richard Gere 05.25 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Edward Norton

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1 Go with a twitch and get an ulcer! (6) 4 Greek poetess found father back in another shop (6) 7 One’s turn to read out, it was inferred (8) 8 Town near Manchester with lots to offer (4) 9 Silver currently produced? (12) 13 Gloomy maids, about 50 (6) 14 We hail frantically for a short time (6) 15 Area of interest to all? (6,6) 18 Prime minister’s residence (4) 19 Large number of garden vessels (8) 20 Say nothing in prison (4,2) 21 Gave what was due to help young dog out (4,2)

1 Gently press for expulsions (5) 2 Please leave pound for the vegetable (5) 3 Against new lot giving voice (9) 4 So many on the grass (3) 5 Nut goes to pieces as I chop it (9) 6 Cad accepted meal ticket before girl stopped short of Lake District mountain (9) 10 Item of middle gear in Biblical times (9) 11 Tom’s representative inside has some cheese (9) 12 Children under school age form the cast (9) 16 Turnover stupendously included (5) 17 Become parched and forget what to say (3,2) 19 Policeman coming from Morocco perhaps (3)

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Answers to crossword 2378

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CRYPTIC: Across – 3 Dodge City; 7 Manor; 8 Abhorrent; 9 Nohow; 10 Nibble; 13 Tailrace; 15 Suspense; 17 Gadget; 20 Spend; 21 Restraint; 22 Resew; 23 Mandatory. Down – 1 Emanating; 2 Enchained; 3 Drawer; 4 Goodness; 5 Carob; 6 Tonal; 11 Beanfeast; 12 Eiderdown; 14 Abstract; 16 Pastry; 18 Areca; 19 Gated.

QUICK: Across – 3 Liquorice; 7 Noisy; 8 Carbuncle; 9 Cutie; 10 Coping; 13 Landmark; 15 Itemised; 17 Eggnog; 20 Gorki; 21 Cavorting; 22 Excel; 23 Enkindled. Down – 1 Inoculate; 2 Listening; 3 Lyceum; 4 Unbuckle; 5 Run up; 6 Colon; 11 Innsbruck; 12 Goldfield; 14 Alighted; 16 Mugged; 18 Grain; 19 Naomi.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Mercury has one final day in your sign, before it moves on.

Try to be proactive around any project which helps you to express your individuality or flair. There is a good chance if you have invested the right application and dedication over the last three weeks, your efforts could soon see an improvement in your financial situation or morale.

This can be a month of genuine advancement for you. If you are wanting to snaffle your ideal role in life, paid or voluntary, or receive more recognition, your charisma and confidence will reach a new high which can help enable this. The trick is now putting in the unstinting effort to reach your goals. Some on the job training may be offered.

Not a good day to splurge on treats, or to give in to someone’s demands to be spoilt. In fact, you have entered a time when grappling with all of life’s sensibilities will take on greater importance. This can see you needing to strip down your life and simplify it. Look to make everything work as smoothly and seamlessly as possible.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Even though you had a fine cluster of planets in your sign recently, talk and thought Mercury has actually been stuck in quite a secluded area, which may have seen you suspicious of others motives, and at times seen you wanting to draw back into your own inner world. Now you can truly emerge. Plans which have stumbled can fire into life.

You have probably done quite a lot of delving, research and investigation in recent weeks, but now all this can translate itself into much greater action and adventure.

Don’t expect the same routines to hold the same appeal, even for a sign like yours who appreciates detail and structure, breaking out in even a small way can be therapeutic.

Using your personality to its fullest extent is going to be very important this month. Don’t hide your talents away, look to engage people and let them know what a class act you are. The Sun is forging a very transformative angle to Pluto, so all sorts of major alterations are possible, both on the outside of your life, and at a deeper, inner level.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You may find yourself in an unusually contemplative mood as the month begins, but it won’t last all of May. The 10th can be a seminal moment, this is when Venus will join your sign giving you a more outgoing frame of mind. Until then, you may find that your garden or solitary pursuits can take on greater appeal. Enjoy this special phase.

Someone may have made a pledge to you recently, now you can weigh up whether it will ever come to anything meaningful. This is because a more discriminating side of your nature will start to shine through, one which won’t necessarily take things at face value. Also, whilst your inclination may be to not rock the boat, something can urge you to do so.

Aquarius is of course an Air element sign, and this means the realms of ideas often come very easily to you. Emotions are not always so easy to deal with, but this can be a time of great change in your outlook and your desires, especially around where you live, how you live there and who with. Old emotional baggage can also move.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

This month can start off in a really up and sociable way. Yet the Moon does briefly square Mercury, so just keep a little bit of a check on your exuberance. Soon enough, you can find yourself feeling very upbeat, and parties, invites and gatherings can all be the source of great pleasure. Advice given or received, could prove especially significant.

As much as there have been both combative and pleasurable exchanges in the last ten days, it is your feelings around one particular relationship that could dominate your thinking as May kicks-off. The great news is that if you have been waiting for some kind of response, it can now come. Equally, finally you may decide to reach out.

Expect the pace of life to ratchet up quite considerably this month. Mercury is set to join your zone of everyday communications, and all sorts of concepts can fascinate you.

You may also find it harder to sit still for long. This can see you more physically active or jumping from place to place.

Lots of short trips can also be a feature of May.

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bedrooms, balcony with seaviews. Bathroom.Downstairs toilet. Free internet. Digi box.

For prices email. josephina180149@yahoo.com Tel 99935294 **************************** FOR RENT fully furnished 1 bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel 99202543

**************************** 1. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 3 bedroom detached unfurnished property set on a fantastic development in the village of Tersefanou. Available for immediate occupation.

Ref. TLL973. Tel 24815926

LIMASSOL TO LET Hebrew homes, by Limassol twin towers, Kosher or Free, 3 monthly let. Call 035799036312. ***************************** TO LET Large 4 bedroom unfurnished house in the village of Asomatos nr Akrotiri Limassol.

Fully A/C & Heating (storage heaters). 5 wc’s, large kitchen/ diner, lounge and sitting room.

Large loft with own shower/wc (suitable for office/playroom/ gym). Carport - prominent position in cul-de-sac - lots of parking. €850 pcm (negotiable). Available from April 2013.

Tel. 99831431 TRADITIONAL VILLAGE STONE HOUSE IN APESHIA. Very quiet village, 20mins from Limassol. Road to heritage school/Troodos. 2 bedrooms, office available top floor with veranda great view of mountains. Small courtyard with trees. Electric solar water. A/Ctoilet in main bedroom. Semi/ full furnished. Fitted kitchen with electrical appliances, fireplace. Toilet/shower. €550pm negotiable. Tel 96891800.

GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year.

Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms.

Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576

LARNACA ***************************** TO LET Impressive three bedroom first floor apartment, Pyla, 2klms beach.Quiet area. Large lounge, balcony, seperate kitchen, modcons, furnished. Flyscreens, ceiling fans, aircon. Three double

1 BEDROOM flat in Ermou Square area Larnaca - 2 bedroom flat in Phaneromenis area Larnaca. Call 96693375

2. Superior Real Estate Larnaca. 2 bedroom fully furnished apartment, nr the Metro/American Academy Larnaca. Ref. TLL1654 Please call to arrange a viewing Tel. 24815926

UK House Offered in Exchange for Apartment or House in Cyprus A 100 sq. m. four bedroom Semi Detached house in the East Midlands, with a market value of £120,000, is offered in exchange for a 2 bedroom (minimum) apartment or house anywhere in Cyprus.

My house has been recently renovated at a cost of over £25,000 and is situated within less than three miles from Clumber Park.

If interested, please email Natalia at nzah50@hotmail.com for a detailed description of my property and please include the internal size in square metres and photos of what you are offering in exchange.

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Advertiser TO LET LARNACA 3. www.superiorrealestatelarnaca.com – LARGE RANGE OF RENTAL PROPERTIES. From studio apartments to 5 bedroom villa’s for rent, all properties have detailed descriptions, professional photographs. Interactive Virtual/ Video Tours. Please visit our website. www.superiorrealestatelarnaca.com 4. www.superiorrealestatelarnaca.com - License No. 419. LANDLORDS AVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY WITH US FOR FREE. Tel. 24815926 Email. info@superiorrealestatelarnaca.com ****************************

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TO LET PAPHOS Fitted Kitchen, A/C, U/F 350 Euros or F/F 400 Euros TREMITHOUSA- Superb Detached 3 Bedroom Villa with Large Pool, F/F to a very High Standard, Mater En-Suite, Family Bathroom with Jacuzzi, Beautifully Fitted Kitchen, Utility, Separate Shower room, Spectacular Mountain and Sea views, Quite Cul-De-Sac location 700 Euros KISSONERGA- Beautiful Detached U/F 3 Bedroomed Villa, Large Pool,2 Bedrooms Upstairs Master En-suite, Family Bathroom, modern Fitted Kitchen, Downstairs Bedroom with En-suite Shower room, Low maintenance Garden, Large Terraces and Separate Storage Room 600 Euros TREMITHOUSA- Purpose Built Ground and First Floor 1 and 2 Bedroom Apartments U/F and F/F, A/C, Parking From Only 150 Euros

TO LET PAPHOS 600/700 MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** 1. Sea Caves Paphos, luxury 3 bed unfurnished villa with private pool on a big plot. One bed downstairs, kitchen white goods include dish washer.

Spacious bedrooms, dressing room, balconies, separate outdoor storeroom, enclosed garden. €1000 2. Secret Valley, 3 bed un/furnished villa with private pool on a big plot. Spacious living space, good sized bedrooms.

Pool and garden maintenance included in rent. Lovely sea and country side views. €700 3. Peyia, Beautiful 3 bed un/fur-

TO LET PAPHOS nished villa with amazing sea views. Private pool, lovely garden, double bedrooms, master en suite. €500 4. Koili, brand new 4 bed unfurnished villa. Finished to a very high quality in a very quiet location. Italian kitchen, fire place, under floor heating, shutters, fly screens, pool, one bed downstairs. €850 PAPHOS TO RENT Tel: 99389198.

For listings and many other properties please visit our web www.paphotorent.com and give us a call. ***************************** PEYIA, luxury villa, 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fully or part furnished, private pool, quiet location, paved garden

TO LET PAPHOS area, sea and mountain views.

Sky satellite, €550 ono, please call: 99771532 – no agents FOR RENT a selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi, Kato Paphos & Kissonerga Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at our website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. UNIVERSAL AREA €350 a real bargain, price reduced. spacious 2 bedroom townhouse situated in a great central location, not on a complex, with enclosed garden & outdoor jacuzzi hot tub.

Fully furnished with good furniture. Private drive for off street parking. website reference number: RTL_664. Also available 1, 2 & 3 bedroom modern apartments, please see our website for further information.

URGENTLY WANTED – 3 Bedroom U/F Detached Villas

SPECIAL OFFER In Kokkinotrimithia, 15km from Nicosia in a good area, (in the centre, opposite Maragos bakery, 41/2 acres or 7 plot with 90% building factor.

2. CHLORAKA €600 a unique opportunity to rent a traditional stone village house in the village of chloraka. This beautiful property has been lovingly restored and offers

For more information please call 99673286, 99918830.

TO LET PAPHOS a spacious 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home with plenty of character. A rustic hideaway offering large pretty courtyard with fruit trees. Off street parking. Stunning real fire in living area & log burner in kitchen.

Available furnished with solar panels, pressurised water system & storage space. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_679 3. SECRET VALLEY €750 spacious modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a peaceful residential area. Offering large private pool with a low maintaince enclosed garden with sea views.

Off street parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture and includes gas central heating throughout. Modern fitted kitchen with granite worktops.

One bedroom on ground floor with bathroom. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Viewings highly recommended. website reference number: RTL_561 4. 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 accomodation and breathtaking views of the sea.

This property includes a lift to all 4 floors. Luxury modern fitted kitchen with appliances.

Lovely garden with spacious verandah & private pool. available unfurnished. website reference number: RTL_669

CHURCHES GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m.

Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700 HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA 10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL For more details ring Fred 24365152

International EVANGELICAL CHURCH (Reformed) Limassol 352 St. Andrew’s Street (1½ blocks from Starbucks/Fat Boy) Sunday worship 10:30am Wednesday Bible Discussion 7pm For info: 99384742 ALL ARE WELCOME

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM

Family oriented evangelical church Contemporary Christian Worship Sunday 10am (Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month) Sunday School (Juniors and Teens) Outreach and Evangelism Bible Studies

Tel. 99 293489, 99 279960 Email: immanuel.church.nicosia@gmail.com Website: www.immanuelchurchnicosia.org

ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 office@sainthelenas.com

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL The Orthodox Liturgy in English served fortnightly on Saturdays at 9.00 am. We also hold a Discussion Group every Thursday evening at 7.30 pm For information please call Fr. Christopher Klitou Mobile: 99957144 Fax: 25710318 You can email us at: klitoux@logos.cy.net or visit our website: www.christopherklitou.com

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives.

Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm.

International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome!

PROPHETIC CALL-OUT Grieved by preachers living in sin ? Pastors collaborating with idolaters?

Bored with just being a spectator?

In Prophecy there is no ‘us and them: Everyone contributes (1 Cor 14:26) 10am start 9/2/2013 God willing, Meet: Entrance Palaiopafos, Kouklia Instruments/shofars welcome

Open Door Baptist Church

St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome ALL SAINTS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (ENGLISH) Sunday Divine Liturgy 8-10am. Followed by Fellowship hour (coffee) Services are now being held at the underground Chapel of All Saints of Cyprus at St. Panteleimonos Church Makedonitissa Archangelos (Engomi) For more info please contact Fr. Joseph Coleman Tel. 99938924

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF AGIOS ARSENIOS, LIMASSOL (near Tsirion Stadium) The Orthodox Liturgy in English Saturday, 4 February at 8:30 am For information please contact: Father M. Spanou at 99 – 401365 (msspanou@googlemail.com)

9 Larnakos Street Katholiki Area Limassol Sundays: 9:45, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM Wednesdays: 7:30 PM 25 751193 or 99 758729 www.cbm-odbc.org

GRACE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH Invites you to COME AND EXPERIEBNCE THE LOVE OF GOD WITH US Int. Christian Business Fellowship Meeting Centre Sundays: 10.00am Sunday School 11.00 am Main Service (Dine with us centre services) Wednesdays: Prayer meeting 6pm Address: To Arsinois Str., 1010 Nicosia (Next to Western Union Office to KISA) Contact: 99988900 or 97667932. \VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist th 4 Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist 3rd Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala st rd 1 & 3 Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist 2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship St. Luke’s, Prodromi 1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship 2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st Sunday 6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness with Holy Eucharist 4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am Holy Eucharist from BPC Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486 Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy for directions to each church

DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11 Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St. Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Byron Avenue, Nicosia, 22 445221/22 677897

www.st-pauls-nicosia.com

Sunday 0930 : Holy Communion Sunday School in the hall 1800 : Evening Prayer Monday/Tuesday/Thursday 0830: Morning Prayer Wednesday 1030 : Holy Communion First Monday of each month 1930 : Guild of St Raphael Parish Office : Mon-Fri : 0900 – 1100 Saturday 1000-1200

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Advertiser 5. KAMARES TALA €900 a unique property combining modern and traditional. Situated in the sought after area of kamares on a large plot with mature gardens & stunning private pool, offering total privacy and breathtaking sea views. Separate annex with modern shower room & separate kitchen. Guest room offering bedroom & shower room at pool level. Large modern office. Main house offering 2 further bedrooms plus a number of sitting rooms.

Perfect for those who require something completely different from the norm. Available furnished or part furnished. website reference number: RTL_673 6. PEYIA €950 we are delighted to offer this ultra modern 4 bedroom villa with luxury furnishings & fittings. Offering spacious accomodation with breathtaking sea views.

Furnishings & fittings are of 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 maintenace garden. A must to see! website reference number: RTL_670 7. ST.GEORGE €1,100 a brand new stunning detached 3 bedroom villa with modern fitted kitchen & bathrooms. Beautifully finished with detail mosaic flooring. One bedroom on ground floor with bathroom.

Enclosed landscaped garden with kidney shaped private

TO LET PAPHOS pool. Situated in a quiet residential area. Available unfurnished though includes top brand kitchen appliances & blackout blinds. website reference number: RTL_678 8. CHLORAKA €1,800 substantial luxury 4 bedroom villa, spacious (350 sq meters), beautifully designed with unique detail. Conservatory with views of landscaped gardens. Large modern fitted kitchen, living room with working fireplace. Circular dining room with vaulted dome ceiling. Stunning private pool area. Aavailable unfurnished. website reference numer: RTL_579 Tel: 97790883 Tel: 99133422 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrentpaphos.net email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net ***************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS : Offering a full range of property services, the company you can TRUST.

ARMOU 2 bedroom townhouse situated in peaceful village, has great seaviews and communal pool. Property is walking distance to village square.

Downstairs consists of kitchen, sitting area and guest WC. Upstairs are 2 bedrooms, one ensuite shower and the other with ensuite bath. REF 1204 Amount €370 TIMI 4 bedroom large furnished house on outskirts of Timi Village in its own private grounds surrounded by fruit trees.

TO LET PAPHOS Very nice standard and lots of living space. Large quality kitchen. 3 large bedrooms upstairs, master with ensuite, family bathroom. Additional room used as office and upstairs loft. REF 1049 Amount €650 ARMOU 4 bedroom modern villa offered unfurnished. Woodburner and airconditioning throughout. Dowstairs is large living room, large kitchen, dining area and guest cloakroom.

Upstairs 4 bedrooms, Family bathroom. Private pool and great sea/mountain views.

REF 1001 Amount €900 SECRET VALLEY 4 bedroom large unfurnished villa in nice residential road. Private pool, gated, covered parking. Downstairs bedroom, sitting room, kitchen. Upstairs 3 bedrooms all with ensuite shower rooms. REF 1241 Amount €900 PEYIA 3 bedroom villa, unfurnished. Bedrooms all with fitted wardrobes and family bathroom. Airconditioning, flyscreens, fans and sat TV. Sitting/dining area, kitchen with white goods and guest cloakroom. Outside private pool with shaded offstreet parking and great mountain and seaviews. REF 1214 Amount €550 AY MARINOUDA 2 bedroom bungalow in a quiet residential area, furnished, fireplace.

Outside has offstreet parking and a communal pool. Nice cosy bungalow in a nice location with stone features. REF 1224 Amount €500

TO LET PAPHOS

FOR SALE NICOSIA

FOR SALE LARNACA

TALA 3 bedroom part-furnished modern villa with quality interior Italian kitchen, central heating, private pool and great seaviews in peaceful residential location. REF 988 Amount €750

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2 double bedrooms, fantastic sea views, big veranda, parking, exclusive location. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity for your own dream property.

Title deeds. Realistic offers invited after highly recommended viewing. Telephone 99890128. *****************************

SEA CAVES 5 bedroom modern, fully furnished luxury villa in centre of Sea Caves/Coral Bay property with central heating double garage and downstairs bedroom. Outside – large grounds with private pool and beautiful seaviews.

REF 9999b Amount €1,800 Please call for a free viewing on 26600450 – 97616070 many more properties including commercial lettings on our website at www.flowron. com – Your Vision is our Mission LANDLORDS FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU, WE WELCOME ALL PROPERTIES FROM STUDIOS VILLAS ***************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call: 99389426 ***************************** BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340 p.m. Tel 99403261

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PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA ***************************** FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL VILLA, Nicosia, Strovolos 550sqm build in two lots 1250sqm. 6 bds, 6 bath, under floor heating, A/C, basement, two car garage, beautiful landscape, well, pool, quiet area, great for families. Motivated seller.

Price reduced 1.500000.Call 99432074 mpapadmd@gmail. com **************************** 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. Price €310.000 pm call 22431095 99330632. *****************************

LARNACA ***************************** AMAZING SEASIDE WATERFRONT BEACH APARTMENT immaculate and unusually spacious open plan living,

PAPHOS ***************************** FOR SALE 2 bedroom maisonette with swimming pool, at Aphrodite Hills, Paphos. For info call 99-653146 ***************************** EXO-VRISI – 2 bed townhouse in quiet cul-de-sac. Panoramic sea views, car port, a/c, ceiling fans, tastefully furnished, plus all white goods, €105.000 o.n.o with title deeds Call : 26954147/ 99137828 *****************************

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.

INDOOR MARKET & CAR BOOT SALE FRIDAY – SATURDAY – SUNDAY FRI 8:00AM – 2:00PM

FRESH VILLAGE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES WATCH REPAIRS & JEWELLERY POTTED FLOWERS NEW & USED HANDBAGS & CLOTHES SECOND HAND BOOKS COMPUTERS & TELEPHONE ACCESSORIES SECOND HAND FURNITURE & ANTIQUES INDIAN TAKE AWAY HOME MADE FRESH CAKES & PIES

STALLHOLDERS & CAR-BOOTERS WELCOME ALL ENQUIRIES CALL: 96533839/99771532

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Sport Breaking a sports barrier, NBA’s Jason Collins comes out as gay

Sharapova shows off ‘Shugarpova’ candy

President Obama calls to express support

By Gennady Fyodorov

By Julian Linden

IN BRIEF

VETERAN basketball player Jason Collins announced yesterday that he was gay, smashing through one of the final frontiers in US sports with a frank personal statement and winning warm praise as a groundbreaker.

Collins, a 12-year player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), became the first active athlete from any of the four major U.S. men’s professional sports leagues to come out publicly as gay.

He was quickly enveloped in a wave of support from the White House to tennis player Martina Navratilova, a pioneer for gay athletes in sport.

Collins is not a well-known sports star but is now likely to become famous for his stance.

He revealed the secret he had harboured for years in a firstperson account published in Sports Illustrated, saying he had gradually become frustrated with having to keep silent on his sexuality.

“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center,” his essay began. “I’m black. And I’m gay.”

Collins said he had considered coming out years ago but it was the Boston Marathon bombings this month that convinced him not to wait any more for a perfect moment to come out.

“I wish I wasn’t the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, ‘I’m different.’ said Collins, who played last season with the Boston Celtics and then the Washington Wizards and is currently a free agent. “If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I’m raising my hand.”

Players, administrators and

Collins, a 12-year player in the NBA, became the first active athlete from any of the four major US men’s professional sports leagues to come out publicly as gay. He was quickly enveloped in a wave of support some politicians applauded him for taking a stance. Some hailed it as a landmark day in American civil rights, perhaps as important as when Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in baseball.

President Barack Obama, a big fan of the NBA who regularly plays pickup basketball with his friends, called Collins to express his support, a White House official said.

“I can certainly tell you that here at the White House we view that as another example of the progress that has been made and the evolution that has been taking place in this country, and commend him for his courage, and support him in his - in this effort and hope that his fans and his team support him going forward,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney.

Collins’ move came at a

time of shifting attitudes toward gay rights in the United States, where polls show public opinion is fast moving toward greater acceptance, although a core of social conservatives oppose such change.

REBELLION TO GOD Some in sports declined to join the chorus of voices in support of Collins. Sportswriter Chris Broussard, speaking on ESPN television, grouped homosexual acts with adultery and pre-marital sex, saying he believed this was “walking in open rebellion to God.” In the coming months, the Supreme Court will rule on whether to strike down parts of a federal law that defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman.

In 2011, the military repealed a ban on openly gay soldiers.

NBA commissioner David Stern said he was proud of Collins for taking a brave stance. “Jason has been a widely respected player and teammate throughout his career and we are proud he has assumed the leadership mantle on this very important issue,” Stern said.

In a country where it is no longer news for politicians and entertainers to be openly gay, there had been questions over the lack of an openly gay player in the big four men’s professional leagues: the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball.

Sports, which helped play a key role in changing public opinion on racial discrimina-

tion, had come to seem out of step with much of the rest of American society.

Collins, who has played with six different teams during his 12 years in the NBA, said he never had any grand plans to be the first openly gay player, but events off the basketball court persuaded him to come out.

Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA’s greatest players, was fined $100,000 in 2011 for a homophobic slur. He was among the first of dozens of active players who took to social media to applaud Collins.

“Proud of @jasoncollins34.

Don’t suffocate who u r because of the ignorance of others,” Bryant tweeted.

Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash tweeted: “The time has come. Maximum respect.”

Schumacher to get back in Pakistan leave Afridi out of F1 car for demo run Champions Trophy squad RETIRED seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher will drive his old Formula One car again next month in a demonstration run around the daunting Nuerburgring Nordschleife track, Mercedes said.

The German manufacturer said the 44-year-old’s drive in a 2011 car around the old 20km track, before the start of a 24-hour race on May 19, would be a ‘thank you’ to his fans for their years of support.

It will also be the first outing on the track, dubbed ‘The Green Hell’ by triple champion Jackie Stewart in the 1970s, by a modern works Mercedes ‘Silver Arrow’ Formula One car since Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio won there in 1954.

EXPERIENCED all rounder Shahid Afridi has been left out of the Pakistan squad for the ICC Champions Trophy that will be held in England while selectors have warned Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Malikthat they are running out of chances.

The 32-year-old, who has played 354 one-day internationals, was the only senior player overlooked for the tournament with chief selector Iqbal Qasim saying Afridi’s bowling had cost him his place in the squad.

Afridi failed to take a wicket in the recent one-day series against India and South Africa.

FRESH from claiming her 29th WTA singles title, Maria Sharapova made a one-day stop in Moscow to present her ‘Shugarpova’ candy brand to the Russian market.

The Florida-based Russian insisted that despite her multiple business ventures, her tennis career remains her main focus.

“Right now tennis is the most important for me,” the world number two told reporters at an upscale Moscow store, where a small pack of ‘Shugarpova’ sweets is sold for 175 roubles ($5.66).

Sharapova, who turned 26 this month, said she still planned to compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

“The London Olympics was a good experience for me. I got a chance to carry the Russian flag at the opening ceremony and winning a silver medal,” she said.

“But now I want more, I hope to get the gold in 2016.”

Sharapova retained her Stuttgart title by beating China’s Li Na in Sunday’s final on clay as she continued her preparations for next month’s French Open where she will defend her title.

Sweet tooth: world No.2 Maria Sharapova

Second trainer admits to using steroids on horses A SECOND Newmarket-based trainer has admitted to the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that he administered banned anabolic steroids to racehorses on the advice of his vets.

Last week Godolphin trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni had his licence revoked for eight years by the BHA for doping racehorses.

Gerard Butler said that medication known as Sungate, a treatment for injured joints which contains stanozolol, had been given to several horses at his stables in Newmarket, southern England - the headquarters of British flat racing.

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Sport Tokyo 2020 chief apologises for remarks on Muslims

Back-pedalling Wiggins aims for Giro-Tour double

By Antoni Slodkowski

No rider has won both Tours since 1998

By Sonia Oxley TEAM Sky could endure a bumpy ride at the Tour de France after champion Bradley Wiggins back-pedalled from previous comments and made it clear he sees himself as the man to lead their charge again.

The 33-year-old, who last year became the first Briton to win the Tour and also grabbed gold in the Olympic time trial, is seeking victory in May’s Giro d’Italia and if he is successful, he thinks he will be in ideal shape to lead the team in France instead of 2012 runner-up Chris Froome “That decision (on who will lead) will be made probably in the last three days before we get to the Tour,” Wiggins told Reuters in an interview this week.

“Whoever is in the best shape should really be leader, it’s too early to decide.

We’re both, as we have been for the last six months, going towards that same goal and someone will get the nod.”

His comments are at odds with those made earlier this year when he suggested Froome, runnerup to him last year, was likely to be the Team Sky leader at this year’s race.

On Sunday, Kenya-born British rider Froome underlined his own intentions by taking the Tour de Romandie, a stage race

won by Cadel Evans in 2011 and Wiggins in 2012 with both following up with victory in the Tour de France.

Wiggins has said the two men are not friends off the bike and there could be some lingering tension from last year’s race when Froome controversially put in an attack and sped past his team leader late in a key mountain stage, only to quickly pull back after a flurry of radio messages.

The Belgium-born rider said there was also the possibility of both men starting with equal status, with the team leader to be determined on the basis of their early race form.

Wiggins will only enhance his chances if he can win the Giro and says he is in better shape than he was during a golden 2012 and ready for a race he both hates and loves.

He believes he is perfectly poised to try to become the first rider since the late Italian Marco Pantani, in 1998, to win a Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year.

“Everything suggests I’m in better shape now than I was going into the Tour. It’s been a continuation of all the work we did last year,” he said.

“It’s a race I haven’t won before, haven’t really competed well in. I’ve done it quite a few times and it’s a race I’ve always promised I’d never go back to. So it’s a love-hate thing with it.

“Historically, a lot of the big tour riders have won that and I’d love to add my name to it and complete that with having won a Tour.”

While he managed podium finishes on both the Tour and the Vuelta (Tour of Spain), Wiggins got his best result on the Giro in 2010 when he took 40th place overall.

“Winning both is a goal. I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t think I could do that,” said Wiggins, speaking at a hotel in the Lancashire countryside near where he lives.

“When I set out I realised it was going to be a challenge but as we’ve got closer to this first one I’ve realised it’s more possible than ever really,” added the Briton, who will have five weeks between the finish of the Giro and start of the Tour.

An unassuming man despite his huge success and a knighthood, the only clue to Wiggins’s day job when he walks into the room is the man carrying the bike in front of him.

His achievements last year caused his profile to rocket but Wiggins has tried to remain focused on his training by avoiding too many media appearances.

“Celebrity doesn’t get in the way because I don’t do anything of it. From January 1, I’ve just been doing 100 per cent towards the bike really... I don’t do anything to amplify it, just race my bike,” he said.

Sir Bradley Wiggins made history by becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France last year

Norman wants golf blood tests

By Phil Casey

Vijay Singh admitted taking deer-antler spray as a supplement, saying he was unaware it contained a banned substance

FORMER world number one Greg Norman has described golf’s anti-doping procedures as ‘disgraceful’ and called for blood testing to be introduced by the game’s governing bodies.

“You only have to look at what happened to Vijay Singh just recently to know the drugs issue is there,” Norman told The Australian newspaper.

The Fijian told an American magazine in January that he had been taking deer-antler spray as a supplement, saying he was unaware it is believed to contain the hormone IGF-1, which is a banned substance. It can only be detected by blood tests.

“How deep it is (the problem), I have no idea because we only do urine analysis instead of blood testing,” Norman added. “If you really want to be serious about it

and find out about what’s really going on, we need to do blood testing. I think it’s disgraceful, to tell you the truth.

The golf associations have to get together and step it up.

“It’s a pin prick for a player and you find out what’s going on. If you’re the head of golf or any sport, if you’re the commissioner for a sport, it’s your responsibility to make sure your sport is clean. That should be your No.1 priority.

“Any sportsman or sportswoman who uses an outside agency to improve their skills is cheating. It sickens me.

They’re putting a black eye on their sport. If a sport gets itself clean, the corporate dollars will always be there because people will know it’s a sport they can trust. The rest will take care of itself.”

R&A chief executive Peter Dawson, speaking at a press conference ahead of this year’s Open Championship at Muirfield, said: “I can’t speak from the Tours’ position on this and

week-in, week-out of course it’s the Tours who are administering drug testing.

“As far as Olympic golf is concerned, when the players come under the International Golf Federation policy that will be a different story.

“We have a medical team working at the IGF now looking at golf’s testing regime and coming up with recommendations for what’s going to happen pre-Olympic games. So the issue of blood testing is up for consideration at the moment.”

Open Championship organisers meanwhile have reduced the number of exemptions into this year’s event after almost having too many players last year at Royal Lytham.

Four changes have been made to the qualifying criteria, with the most significant involving the Scottish Open and French Open leading up to the Open and the European International qualifier at Sunningdale.

TOKYO’S outspoken governor, Naoki Inose, who heads the city’s bid for the 2020 Olympics, apologised yesterday for ‘inappropriate’ comments he made about rival candidate Istanbul and Islamic countries.

The remarks, made in a recent New York Times interview, prompted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to investigate, while Turkey’s sports minister said they were ‘unfair and disheartening’ and ‘did not comply with the spirit of the values of the Olympic Movement’.

“Islamic countries, the only thing they share in common is Allah and they are fighting with each other, and they have classes,” Inose, who was elected Tokyo governor last year, said in the interview.

“For the athletes, where will be the best place to be?

Well, compare the two countries where they have yet to build infrastructure, very sophisticated facilities,” he said.

Tokyo is competing with Istanbul and Madrid to hold the Olympics for a second time after becoming the first Asian city to host the multisport event in 1964. Istanbul is bidding for a fifth time after its previous campaigns were unsuccessful.

“I said that Islamic countries fight, it was an inappropriate remark and I want to correct it,” Inose told reporters at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building yesterday.

He accepted that the New York Times story was correct, adding that he would not seek a correction from the paper.

“I apologise. My remarks caused misunderstandings among people from Muslim countries, so I would like to unequivocally apologise.”

Inose’s remarks sparked concern in Tokyo that it might affect the Japanese capital’s bid for the Games as IOC rules ban candidates from making comments on fellow competitors.

Tokyo had yet to respond to an email from the authority enquiring about the meaning of the remarks, a spokesman for the bid said.

“If my remarks (on Istanbul) caused any misunderstanding I would like to apologise for them,” said Inose, adding that it was a ‘good experience’ and he now understood where the ‘lines are drawn’.

“I want to keep campaigning strictly in accordance with the IOC rules that one should not criticise other cities,” he said. “From now on I will campaign along these proper guidelines with respect to other cities’ bids so that such incidents don’t happen any more.”

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Sport Former Brazil coach Luxemburgo suspended ‘Someone came from behind, pushed and began kicking and punching me’ after brawl

Raging linesman handed life ban for assault on a player

By Gennady Fyodorov

By Rex Gowar

CHECHEN linesman Musa Kadyrov has been banned for life after assaulting a player in a Russian league football match.

The incident occurred at the end of Sunday’s reserve game in Grozny between Amkar Perm and local side Terek when a raging Kadyrov dropped his flag and ran on to the pitch, attacking startled Amkar defender Ilya Krichmar.

“The ref blew the final whistle and I started walking to our bench when suddenly someone came from behind, pushed me to the ground and began kicking and punching me,” the 18year-old player told reporters.

“Terek players then joined the attack. Someone grabbed me by the throat, another hit me...bloodying my face.

“Thank God, my team mates came to the rescue.

Special thanks to Vlasov from Terek. We had known each other from a youth academy in St Petersburg and he helped me escape.”

Local authorities took swift action.

“He has only worked on a regional level but we made a decision to ban him for life, therefore he won’t be able to officiate matches at any level,” Chechen football chief Lom-Ali Ibragimov was quoted as saying by local outlet R-Sport.

The Russian players’ union (RSFT) appealed to the Russian FA (RFU) to impose sanctions on Chechen club Terek.

GREMIO coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo has been suspended for six South American matches for his part in a brawl at the end of his team’s Libertadores Cup match away to Chile’s Huachipato 12 days ago.

The former Real Madrid and Brazil coach, alleged to have sparked the brawl, was also fined $25,000 by the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), which posted the sanctions on its website (www.conmebol.com).

The heaviest punishment went to Luxemburgo’s right hand man Emerson, who was banned for eight matches and fined $20,000.

Luxemburgo appeared to make fun of his Chilean opponents after the final whistle of the decisive Group Eight match at the CAP stadium in the southern Chilean city of Talcahuano which ended 1-1 with Gremio qualifying for the last 16.

TV replays showed Luxemburgo laughing at Huachipato coach Jorge Pellicier as he ran towards the tunnel, then falling over as Huachipato players appeared to attack him.

There was mayhem on the edge of the pitch and at the entrance to the tunnel as players, coaching staff and invading Huachipato fans became embroiled in a brawl with Chilean police frantically trying to put a stop to it.

“As I see it, this sanction was totally unjustified. It was a superficial analysis.

The provocation came from Huachipato,” Luxemburgo told a news conference in Porto Alegre, where Gremio are based.

“But if the CONMEBOL saw it that way, all we can do is regret it,” added Luxemburgo, as reported by Brazil’s Globo network (wwwglobo. com).

“I only escaped the confusion trying to get to the dressing room and laughing at what was happening. If I got six matches for that, it’s absurd.”

Luxemburgo will not be in charge when former champions Gremio, who finished second to fellow Brazilian side Fluminense in the group, meet Colombia’s Independiente Santa Fe in the first leg of their last-16 tie at home tonight.

There were bans and fines issued by the Asuncion-based CONMEBOL for other members of the coaching staff and players of both sides.

Gremio also had central defender Douglas suspended for five matches and fined $10,000.

Pellicier was suspended for one match and fined $1,000 and his team’s physical trainer Marcelo Rosemblat one match and $2,000.

Disgraceful scenes: Chechen linesman Musa Kadyrov (right) sparked a mass brawl when he attacked a startled player “We feel just banning Kadyrov is not enough. The RFU must take a much tougher stance on this because assaults on players have become an almost regular occurrence in Grozny,” RSFT general secretary Nikolai Grammatikov told Reuters.

“We think preventing Terek to host reserve matches in Grozny for a year should teach Chechen authorities a lesson, otherwise it is just going to get worse and worse.”

Sunday’s incident was the second violent attack on a player in a reserve game

in Grozny in the past 18 months.

Krasnodar striker Spartak Gogniyev suffered a broken nose and fractured ribs after being attacked by Terek officials at a reserve game in Grozny in November 2011.

Gogniyev was given a sixgame ban and fined $1,600 by the Russian FA for pushing the referee. The world players’ union FIFPro criticised the decision to punish the player.

Kadyrov said Krichmar had insulted him but the player denied the allegation.

“We weren’t happy with the officiating, words had been exchanged but I had never said anything personal about him or his mother,” he said. “I know how sensitive Chechen people are.”

Former FIFA referee Alexei Spirin, who was working as an assessor of Sunday’s match, was shocked by the episode.

“In all my refereeing career I have never seen anything like it. This guy should not be a referee,” Spirin said.

“He had no clue about rules, even worse, attacked a player. On a scale of one to

10, I’d give him a zero and I’m writing a special report.

He should not be allowed to officiate again.”

Krichmar was asked if he would attend the Russian Cup final in Grozny on June 1 if invited by Chechen officials.

“No, I would not go. I could still feel some hatred there after the (Chechen) war, although we had no problem with security in Grozny,” Krichmar said. “We always had bodyguards with machine guns around us.

The food was good as well, but...”

Lampard confident of securing Champions League place

By Matt McGeehan

Frank Lampard has scored 201 goals for Chelsea - only one behind Bobby Tambling’s all-time club record

FRANK Lampard is confident Chelsea will secure a return to the Champions League next season at the end of another turbulent campaign at Stamford Bridge.

The 34-year-old midfielder’s 201st Chelsea goal - a penalty which saw him move within one of the watching Bobby Tambling’s club goalscoring record - completed a 2-0 victory over Swansea on Sunday to take last season’s Champions League winners to third in the Barclays Premier League.

Lampard is out of contract at the end of the season and has five games remaining - six if Chelsea advance to the Europa League final by beating Basle tomorrow night - to surpass Tambling’s mark.

But the England international is focused on collective, rather than personal glory.

“What’s more important is for the club to qualify for next season’s Champions League, and we’ve also got a Europa League final to try to get to and win,” Lampard told Chelsea TV. “That’s why the Swansea win was crucial, and so is Manchester United next week.

“If we can keep our rhythm with the way we’re playing and stay positive, the big games that are coming we need to try and win.

“If we don’t it will go to the wire, but I believe we’ve got the strong-minded players to go and do it.”

Chelsea play Manchester United, Tottenham, Aston Villa and Everton in their remaining four league games and currently hold a one-point lead over fourthplaced Arsenal, having played a game fewer, and a three-point advantage over Spurs.

Lampard began the Swansea contest on the bench, but came on for dead-leg victim Ramires midway through the first half, set up Oscar’s opener and converted a penalty for his first goal in eight appearances.

As well as drawing him closer to Tambling’s tally, Lampard celebrated his 400th Chelsea appearance in the Premier League and 800th career appearance by becoming only the second player, alongside Andy Cole, to score against 38 different teams in the Premier League.

Lampard, who paid tribute to Tambling, was relieved to net the spot-kick after failing to score a penalty at Manchester City in February.

“I missed the last one against Manchester City, so you think about it a bit more, but I felt I’d score because of the momentum of coming on when the game started to change,” he said.

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Di Canio sorry for ‘unacceptable’ Sunderland rout

By Mike Collett

Benteke stars as Villa hit Black Cats for six

By Simon Stone PAOLO Di Canio apologised to Sunderland fans after his team suffered an ‘unacceptable’ 6-1 defeat at Aston Villa on Monday night.

Di Canio was fuming at the meek surrender of a team whose mini-revival came to a shuddering halt thanks to Christian Benteke’s hattrick.

The result leaves Sunderland, like Villa and Newcastle, five points clear of third-bottom Wigan. And Di Canio was not happy.

“We have to apologise to the supporters,” said Di Canio, whose side were suffering their biggest defeat since 2010.

“You can lose with a big gap but the way it happened was not acceptable.

“It is beautiful to be there with the fans when you win against Newcastle. But you also have to stand in front of them when you lose heavily.”

It looked like being a promising evening for Sunderland after Danny Rose levelled within two minutes of Ron Vlaar’s first-half piledriver.

But Matt Lowton’s break created the chance Andreas Weimann finished off just before the interval and once Benteke had destroyed the visitors, Gabriel Agbonlahor rubbed it in a minute from time to become Villa’s high-

est-ever Premier League goalscorer.

“There were two different teams on the field,” he said.

“Aston Villa had a ferocity.

They had desire and ambition, like it was the last chance of their lives.

“For us, after two wins in a row, our stomach was a bit full.

“When you eat a lot, you relax, you sleep.

“Now we have to work with blood in our eyes.”

To compound a terrible night, Sunderland also had Stephane Sessegnon dismissed for a second-half challenge on Yacouba Sylla.

A three-match ban would rule Sessegnon out for the remainder of the campaign, although Di Canio has confirmed the club will appeal.

“There was nothing in it,” he said.

“The leg was not straight.

He didn’t want to cause any damage to his opponent.

The referee fell in a trap. It wasn’t a nasty action.”

Di Canio also indicated he was not concerned at the abuse he received from the Villa fans, who have not forgotten his ‘going down’ gesture at them when he was Swindon boss earlier in the campaign.

“I don’t mind. It is not an issue for me,” he said.

“You can add another two thousand bad words to the millions that I received in my football career.”

For Villa boss Paul Lam-

bert, it was another night of praise for Benteke, who has now scored 22 goals this season.

“You can’t speak highly enough of him,” said Lambert.

“He keeps his feet on the ground and is hungry to have success as a footballer.

“He is a big lad and everyone can see his technique is fabulous.

“He played a lot games for Genk. He is Belgium’s main target player and they are going to qualify for the World Cup. “People forget he is 22. He has a big career in front of him as long as he keeps working hard.”

Despite Benteke’s heroics, Lambert passed man-ofthe-match honours to Lowton.

“Benteke was alright but Matt Lowton was the best player on the pitch by an absolute mile,” he said.

“I hope goal difference is not important but it could be.

“It brings everybody else back into it and pulls us away from Wigan.

“The situation is better than it was a few months ago.

“We have been in this position for most of the season but they have handled it brilliantly.

“They have got their heads down and kept going. They don’t look like a team that is down there.”

Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke (top) hit a hat-trick to leave Sunderland boss Paolo Di Canio fuming

Havelange quits, Blatter is cleared

By Brian Homewood

Joao Havelange, who served as FIFA president for 24 years, has been slammed by FIFA’s ethics committee

JOAO Havelange has quit as FIFA’s honorary president while Sepp Blatter has been cleared of misconduct in the ISL bribery case, a report by FIFA’s ethics committee said yesterday.

The report described the behaviour of Havelange as ‘morally and ethically reproachable’ in his dealings with ISL, FIFA’s former marketing partner which went bankrupt in 2001.

The report by HansJoachim Eckert, head of the ethics committee’s adjudicatory chamber, cleared FIFA president Blatter, who was secretary-general at the time, of any wrongdoing but added that his conduct had been ‘clumsy’.

It also said that former South America Football Confederation president and FIFA executive committee member Nicolas Leoz, who quit his posts last week, had taken “bribes” from ISL.

A Swiss prosecutor said in a legal document released last July that Havelange, FIFA president from 1974 to 1998, and former executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira, took multi-million bribes from ISL on World Cup deals in the 1990s.

Swiss member of parliament Roland Buechel said at the time that FIFA needed to further investigate the actions of Leoz in the case.

FIFA subsequently set up its own investigation.

“It is clear that Havelange and Teixeira, as football officials, should not have accepted any bribe money, and should have had to pay it back since the money was in connection with the exploitation of media rights,” Eckert’s report said.

“From money that passed through the ISMM/ISL Group, it is certain that not inconsiderable amounts were channelled to Havelange and to his son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira as well as to Nicolas Leoz, whereby there is no

indication that any form of service was given in return by them.

“These payments were apparently made via front companies in order to cover up the true recipient and are to be qualified as ‘commissions’, known today as ‘bribes’,” the report said.

It added: “There are... no indications whatsoever that President Blatter was responsible for a cash flow to Havelange, Teixeira or Leoz, or that that he himself received any payments from the ISL Group, even in the form of hidden kick back payments.

“President Blatter’s conduct could not be classified in any way as misconduct with regard to any ethics rules.

“The conduct of President Blatter may have been clumsy because there could be an internal need for clarification, but this does not lead to any criminal or ethical misconduct.”

Blatter said he noted the report ‘with satisfaction’.

THE English FA is searching for the living descendants of the founding fathers of football - the eight men who created the rules of the game and the world’s first football association 150 years ago.

Relatively little is known about some of the eight, who met at the Freemasons Tavern in London’s Covent Garden on October 26 1863 to codify the first 13 laws of the game which gave rise to the global spread of the sport.

The FA is searching both within Britain and internationally for their descendants with cultural historian Jane Clayton from the International Football Institute in Lancashire leading the hunt.

The eight men at that first meeting were Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831-1924), Charles William Alcock (1842-1907), Arthur Pember (1835-1886), Francis Maule Campbell (1843-1920), John Forster Alcock (1841-1910), Herbert Thomas Steward (1839-1915), George Twizell Wawn (1840-1914) and James Turner, whose dates of birth and death are not currently known.

Charles Alcock was the man who created the FA Cup, which began in the 1871-72 season and was based on an old knockout game he had played at Harrow School while Morley was the first secretary of the FA. Pember, a barrister, was the first president of the FA from 1863-67 before he emigrated to the United States in 1868 and worked as a journalist for the New York Times.

Living descendants that can be identified and located, will be sent an invitation to a special ceremony at Wembley in October where their ancestors will be honoured.

The original 1863 FA Minute Book, written in Morley’s hand, contains the first laws of football and such is its historical significance, it has been labelled among the most important books of all time.

Television presenter Melvyn Bragg included it alongside the Magna Carta, On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin and The First Folio

by Shakespeare as one of twelve books that changed the world.

England manager Roy Hodgson added: “We should all recognise not only the sporting contribution that these men have made but the impact that football has had in this country and around the world.

“Football is part of the fabric of our society and without the vision of these eight men 150 years ago, it may not have come to exist. It is only right that we honour the founding fathers of this nation’s favourite game.”

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‘The Rifle’ offers hope for Barcelona’s tough mission Bayern defend four-goal advantage at the Camp Nou

By Iain Rogers

I

F Barcelona require extra inspiration as they prepare their bid to overturn a 4-0 Champions League semi-final deficit at home to Bayern Munich tonight, they need look no further than La Liga rivals Deportivo La Coruna.

Depor pulled off one of the most sensational comebacks in Europe’s elite club competition back in the 2003-04 season when they thrashed AC Milan 4-0 in their quarter-final second leg in La Coruna to shock the reigning continental champions and progress to the last four 5-4 on aggregate.

Uruguayan forward Walter Pandiani scored the opening goal in the fifth minute at the Riazor on that memorable April night, when the Galician club stunned a Milan side featuring Paolo Maldini, Kaka and Andriy Shevchenko.

Now 37 and playing in the Spanish third tier for Majorca-based Atletico Baleares, Pandiani believes Barca will also need an early goal if they are to have any chance of reaching next month’s final at London’s Wembley sta-

Dejected: Barca’s players walk off the pitch after being hammered by Bayern Munich in their Champions League semifinal first leg at the Allianz Arena dium.

“Scoring so early in the match was key for the team to gain confidence,” Pandiani, whose goal-scoring prowess earned him the nickname “The Rifle”, said on UEFA’s website (www.uefa.com).

“If you don’t manage to score in the first half, as soon as possible, then you start to rush things,” he added.

“That early goal gave us the peace of mind to continue playing well.”

Barca’s chances of keep-

ing alive their bid for a third European crown in five years may appear remote, especially as they failed to score in Munich.

On the evidence of Saturday’s 2-2 La Liga draw at Athletic Bilbao, Barca’s hopes will again rest on the shoulders of their World Player of the Year Lionel Messi.

Messi, who is coming back from a hamstring strain, was initially rested in Bilbao and Barca found their cutting edge only when he replaced

midfielder Xavi on the hour before scoring once and setting up Alexis Sanchez.

He appeared short on fitness and was well shackled by the Bayern players in Munich last week and even the talismanic Argentine may not be able to rescue Barca’s Champions League campaign this time.

Only three clubs have overturned a four-goal first-leg deficit in UEFA competition and Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes was on the losing side

on one of those occasions.

He was in charge of the Borussia Moenchengladbach side that beat Real Madrid 5-1 at home in the 1985-86 UEFA Cup third round only to lose the return game 4-0.

“It was the worst moment of my career. I no longer wanted to be a football coach,” Heynckes said on UEFA.com. “It was worse than the death threats I received later in my career.”

Elimination for Barca would leave La Liga as their

only chance of silverware this season and, with an 11-point lead over current champions Real Madrid with five games left, they are close to a fourth title in five seasons.

However, a domestic league crown would be scant consolation for a team who have set a new standard for European clubs in recent seasons and won the Champions League in 2009 and 2011.

Heynckes has said he will not be instructing his team to play a cautious game on Wednesday despite a string of players risking suspension for the final with another booking.

“I will nominate my best possible team,” he said after Bayern, already installed as German champions, set a Bundesliga record of 84 for the most points in a season with a 1-0 victory over Freiburg on Saturday.

“My players will have to be disciplined and that means no gestures, no unnecessary fouls and no falling for any provocation. That will be decisive.”

Six players, including captain Philipp Lahm, central defender Dante and playmaker Bastian Schweinsteiger, will miss the final if they pick up another yellow card.

“I want the same attitude, commitment and tactical play as in the first leg,” said Heynckes, who will make way for former Barca coach Pep Guardiola at the end of the season.

“They are still the best team in the world. We know they have had great results and comebacks at home. Their pride has been wounded and they will try everything.”

‘Honoured’ Warburton to captain Lions, Robshaw a notable omission

By Mitch Phillips WALES flanker Sam Warburton will lead the British and Irish Lions on this year’s tour of Australia and England captain Chris Robshaw was among the notable omissions from the 37-man squad named yesterday.

“Warren gave me a call a week ago on Sunday so it’s been nine or 10 days since I found out,” Warburton (right) said at the squad announcement.

“It’s been the hardest secret I ever had to keep, but I kept it in. It’s unbelievable, it’s an accolade which very few people can achieve. To be able to do this is an honour.”

Robshaw failed to make the squad along with former

England flyhalf n Jonny Wilkinson ker and Ireland hooker Rory Best.

Scotland winger Sean Maitland, England prop Mako Vunipola and former England prop ere Matt Stevens were rise among the surprise inclusions along oker with England hooker Dylan Hartley.

Maitland has en-nd joyed a whirlwind fter seven months after uprooting from his and native New Zealand to join Glasgow.

Within a handfull of alled games he was called nd up to the Scotland ng squad and, having

t against scored a try Engla England on debut an played all five and m matches in the t tournament, he w the biggest was s surprise in the L Lions squad.

“I am over the mo moon and a bit spee speechless at the mom moment,” Maitland told S Sky Sports. “It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster for me.”

Stevens Stevens, 30, made his debu debut in 2004 and p pl lay ayed iin the 2007 played W orld C World Cup final but was giv given a two-year ban fro from rugby in 2009 for coca cocaine use.

He retu returned to action and mad made the 2011 World Cup squad but

ended his 44-test international career last year.

The powerful Vunipola, whose father Fe’ao captained Tonga and played in the 1995 and 1999 World Cups, has started only one of his nine England Tests but has proved to be a tremendous impact player.

Coach Warren Gatland said he finalised the squad only on Monday night.

“We assembled on Monday as a coaching team, the seventh meeting we have had,” he said. “It was a robust debate. There were some healthy discussions.

“The hardest thing about coaching is selection. Ideally you would like to take everyone. Some quality players have missed out. It has been tough, robust, but we feel we

have an incredibly talented squad with great depth.”

Six Nations champions Wales dominate the squad with 15 players. They are joined by 10 Englishmen, nine Irishmen and three Scotsmen.

Warburton, 24, will be the fourth Welshman to lead the Lions and the fifth-youngest captain.

“I’m always the ultimate optimist,” he said. “I go out there with intention to try and win every match.

“That’s never been done before - so that’s the challenge.

The players will be desperate to get out there and have a successful tour. No one has had a Test series win who is in the squad at the moment.”

The Lions have not won a series since beating South

Africa 16 years ago.

“It’s about going on tour and enjoying each other’s company, but ultimately this band needs to come back successfully,” defence coach Andy Farrell said.

“With 10 games, it’s going to build and build. The three Tests will be the ultimate challenge at the end. This is a dream for everyone stepping on that plane. They’ll all be super excited. This is a dream come true for them I’m sure.”