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Woman drowns A 62-YEAR-OLD Russian woman drowned in the waters off Moncayo Beach in Guardamar del Segura.

Laying sand AROUND 300 tonnes of sand will be laid on various beaches in Torrevieja over the coming weeks.

Auctioning cars HOISTING FLAGS: Joining Mancebo were the new lifeguard service members and Local Police officers.

Orihuela’s beaches awarded 5 ‘Q’ flags ‘Q’ FOR quality flags were hoisted on five beaches in Orihuela.

This puts Orihuela as the municipality which received the most flags in the Valencia Region.

“It shows the quality of our beaches, which is thanks to the work carried out by the town hall,” said Tourism and Beach Councillor Pedro Mancebo.

The beaches to receive this

award were Punta Prima, Cala de la Estaca, Cala Capitan, Playa de la Glea and Mil Palmeras.

At the hoising of the flags, the new security and lifeguard service was presented.

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THANKS to the auctioning off of abandoned cars in Orihuela, the town hall has added more than €6,000 to its coffers.

Saving energy ELCHE Town Hall hopes to save 80 per cent on its electricity bills over the next 10 years and reduce CO2 emissions.

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Expat-Extra 29 A chat with Rai Woods.

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Murcia region third lowest for pensions

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regions had lower average pensions than Murcia with €704.31 and €696.14 respectively.

The Andalucia Region had the fourth lowest pension with €757.31, followed by the Balearics and Valencia with €758.39 and €762.17 respectively.

Seven Spanish regions, plus Ceuta,

exceeded the average Spanish pension with Pais Vasco, Asturias and THE Murcia Region had the third Madrid topping the list with lowest average pension in June with €1,024.74, €984.78 and €981.51 €730.50. respectively.

This is €99.07 below the Spanish The number of pensions in the Social Security system’s average of Murcia Region rose to 228,880 in €829.57.

June, which is 1.1 per cent more than Only Extremadura and Galicia the same month last year.

Pensions are divided into categories and each category receives a different amount.

In the whole of Spain there were 8,902,683 pensions, which is 1.2 per cent more than June 2011.

Of these 5,314,791 were for retirees, 2,320,351 for widows, 944,794 for people with permanent disabilities, 284,522 for orphans and 38,325 for families in special circumstances.

In Spain, €7.3billion was paid out for pensions in June.

This is 4.3 per cent more CELEBRATING: Andres Mendez Lopez holding the commemorative plaque. than the same month last year, according to data from the Social Security and Employment Ministry.

AN Orihuela resident who turned 100 was visited by the mayor.

Of this €5 million Mayor Monserrate Guillen congratulated Andres Mendez Lopez at his corresponds to payment to home where he was celebrating with family and friends. The mayor retirees, which is 4.8 per also gave the centenarian a commemorative plaque. cent more than June 2011.

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Summer arrivals NEARLY 20 Sahrawi children are set to arrive on Monday to pass the summer with families in Elche and Santa Pola.

Anybody interested in participating in this scheme should call 629 614 530.

Sports lesson MORE than 50 children in Novelda participated in a sports programme designed to help them learn English.

More officers FIFTEEN officers have now been incorporated into Orihuela’s police force to cover the necessary services for at least the next six months.

Pools open THREE municipal pools in Pilar de la Horadada opened for the summer season.

Entrance is €2 for children aged three to 13 and €3 for adults.

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Half of pharmacies are without medicine HALF the pharmacies in the Valencia Region have been left without basic medication.

This is due to the €480 million debt still owed to the pharmacies, meaning they can no longer afford to buy more medicine. They are owed money for medicine they give out free to people who come in with prescriptions given by social security doctors.

The pharmacies then claim the money back from the regional government each month. However, the money has not been paid back for the months of February, March, April and May. If this ‘spiral’ of non-payment continues, “80 per cent of pharmacies will have problems with medicine stocks,” said president of the college of pharmacists, Maria Teresa Guardiola.

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SUMMER VISITOR: Eva (right) with Marbella’s famous Orange Square in the background

FORTY unemployed people have completed a training course on how to open a business, organised by San Vicente del Raspeig Development Agency.

Dealer convicted A MAN was sentenced to four and a half years for selling cocaine from his bar in Benidorm. He was arrested in October 2010 after more than 10g of the drug was found hidden in the men’s bathroom.

Foreign travellers NEARLY four in 10 of the 597,847 travellers staying at hotels in the Valencia Region in May were foreigners, according to the National Statistics Institute.

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ESPERATE HOUSEWIVES actress Eva Longoria is set to visit Southern Spain this summer... for the third year running.

Eva will be in Marbella, Costa del Sol, to attend the Global Gift Gala on August 19.

The gala and the Dynamic Walk-A-Thon through Marbella on the same weekend will benefit the Eva Longoria Foundation and the Cesare Scariolo Foundation, which unite to bring care, relief and research to child cancer sufferers.

In addition, they join to empower women and

themselves, families and communities through education and entrepreneurship.

Individual tickets for the Global Gift Gala dinner with entertainment at the Gran Melia Resort Don Pepe - which will include a charity auction and a tribute to Antonio Banderas, the 2012 Global Gift Excellence Award recipient - are €950.

The VIP Platinum Table is priced at €20,000.

Born in 1975, Eva confessed during a TV interview she was the ‘ugly duckling’ of her family and rejected at modelling schools because of her small stature.

Teen injured after climbing pylon Falling revenue A TEENAGER was seriously injured after climbing an electricity pylon. The 17-year-old from Mutxamel received an electric discharge of 20,000 volts from the pylon in Sant Joan d’Alacant. The electric shock nearly killed the Moroccan teen who was admitted to Alicante General Hospital with third degree burns on various parts of his body. The teen also suffered multiple wounds after falling nearly 12m after he was electrocuted. The incident occurred shortly after the youth reportedly parted company with friends he had been walking with on the road by the cemetery around 10.30pm.

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Classifying teeth ALICANTE University has classified between 50,000 and 60,000 human teeth models that will serve as a database for anthropological studies of the species and population diversity past and present.

Man drowns A 77-YEAR-OLD man drowned in the waters off San Juan Beach in Alicante despite lifeguards performing CPR. The victim was on holiday and lived in Madrid.

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“They are now talking about putting a financial payment plan into action, but until I see something being done I do not believe a word they say,” said Guardiola.

Pharmacies have already gone on two strikes in protest against the lack of payment of the debt. Now with the summer months here and the influx of tourists to the area, the lack of available medication could cause serious problems.

THE water level in Valencia’s reservoirs decreased by 1.23 per cent since last week bringing levels down to 63.07 per cent, which is less than the average over the past 10 years of 64.06 per cent. This time last year the reservoirs were 78.81 per cent full.

THANKS to turning off street lights in certain parts of San Vicente del Raspeig, the town hall has saved €115,000 in the first half of the year.

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MADRID residents speak English and are ready for the tourists’

Esperanza Aguirre, President of the Madrid Region, when talking to US businessmen who are deciding whether to locate ‘Eurovegas’ in Barcelona or in Madrid.

THE average revenue per hotel room in Alicante City fell by 15.1 per cent in the first quarter of the year, while in other cities throughout Spain it increased by up to five per cent according to Exceltur.

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ELECTRIC bills will rise by four per cent from July 1 if the government does not change its part in the final calculation. This will affect some 20 million consumers and would be the second price rise so far this year.

AROUND 120kg of ‘illegal’ fireworks were seized from various establishments in Alicante City; 60kg from a paper shop in Alipark, 35kg from Carolinas supermarket and 25kg from various mobile units in Avenida Alfonso de Sabio.

Ninth arrest A WOMAN has become the ninth person to be arrested in connection with a burglary at a property in Alcoleja (Alicante) in which a 90-year-old woman died.

Violent death THE mayor of San Vicente del Raspeig, Luisa Pastor, expressed her “repulsion and condemnation” at the death of a 40year-old resident due to domestic violence.

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SURGEONS at the Pedro Cavadas Hospital in Madrid have successfully implanted both feet of a 10-yearold boy who was injured in a traffic accident earlier this month. They are hopeful that he will be able to walk again within six months.

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Gang of five standing trial for three violent burglaries A GANG of five burglars go on trial today (Thursday) at the Provincial Court in Elche.

They are accused of assaulting the owners of three Elche properties in March.

The prosecutor is asking for a 20-year

prison sentence for violent burglary, holding a person against their will and causing injury.

All five of the accused are of Moroccan nationality, living in Spain illegally.

The first burglary took place on Friday

CREATORS: The students from the workshop which created the new walking route.

New walking route inaugurated A NEW walking route through the Sierra Oriolana from San Miguel to San Anton was inaugurated.

The circular route was created by students of the workshop ‘Mirador de Orihuela’. “This is something for all of Orihuela

and we hope that residents will enjoy it and maintain it in good condition,� said Employment Councillor Juan Ignacio Lopez-Bas. The San Anton look-out was also remodelled by the students to offer tables to eat at and trees to offer shade.

March 25 in Daimes when they allegedly forced open the back door of a property and entered, all carrying a knife.

They tied the married couple inside to the bed and stole as many valuable items as they could find, including a van.

About an hour-and-a-half after they left, the woman managed to free herself from the bonds and call the police.

Four days later the same gang burgled a property in Maitino, according to the prosecutor.

The owner of the property had opened the door after hearing dogs barking and was attacked by the accused, hitting, kicking, beating him with bars, spraying his face and threatening to kill him until they gained access to the property.

They were distracted when his wife appeared and he managed to escape and lock himself in a room.

In this case, the gang ran off in case he had managed to alert the authorities.

That same day the gang allegedly targeted the third property, this time in Derramador.

The owner came out of the house after hearing a noise and was attacked by the men who hit her hard until they got inside the property where they also attacked her husband.

They tied them up and stole various items of value.

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Isle of Rain WET weather took its toll on revellers attending the Isle of Wight festival. Hundreds were stranded on the island as ferries suspended services.

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Russian man on trial for stabbing taxi driver A RUSSIAN man faces a five-yearand-11-month prison sentence if found guilty of attempted murder and robbery.

He allegedly stabbed a taxi driver six times in August 2009.

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The accused got into the taxi in Benidorm and asked to be taken to Murcia for €150. After stopping at a gas station in El Chorrico in Molino de Segura he allegedly put a knife to the driver’s neck, drawing blood.

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When the driver realised his passenger had a knife in his hand, he ran out of the car calling for help while being pursued by his passenger.

The accused reportedly caught up with the driver and stabbed him twice in the back, once in the shoulder blade and his side.

Turning to defend himself the driver was then stabbed twice in the chest.

A third person arrived and managed to pull the passenger off the driver.

The passenger then got into the taxi and drove off.

He was arrested the next day in Callosa de Segura at the Vega Baja San Bartolome Hospital in Orihuela. The stolen taxi Fontcalent plant in Alicante. was also recovered.

The victim’s injuries could have been fatal if he had not received surgery.

The prosecutor has than if taken to Crevillent’s Arbonasa asked the accused be given plant. This petition comes after the a restraining order, not be reversal of a ruling stopping Alicante allowed to contact the town hall from receiving rubbish from other areas to increase their income. victim for nine years and pay €1,800 compensation.

Rubbish costs reduced ORIHUELA has asked Alicante Provincial Government to divert 60,000 tonnes of rubbish to the Fontcalent waste plant in Alicante. The town hall has offered to pay €37 per tonne, a saving of €4 per tonne

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21 on fraud charges TWENTY-ONE people have been arrested, believed to be members of an organised crime group dedicated to Social Security fraud.

They were detained in Murcia, Alicante, Benidorm and Hellin, in Albacete.

These individuals allegedly formed various fictitious companies which gave work contracts in exchange for payments of €150 a month.

The ‘employees’ believed they would then be eligible for unemployment or maternity benefits.

However, these companies never paid the Social Security and the ‘employees’ never carried AN estimated 10,000 out any work for them, it people filled up Paseo was found.

Juan Aparicio in The companies shut Torrevieja to watch the down the second that the fireworks display on ‘employees’ presented the Saturday for San Juan. fake documents to the However, a glitch in authorities to claim benefits. the main circuits, They also reportedly reportedly meant that charged €3,000 for the display had to be residence permits. cancelled. It is possible The detainees are of that a ‘replacement’ Spanish, Moroccan, Castle of Fireworks may Paraguayan, Columbian and be presented in the Romanian nationality upcoming Cultural between the ages of 25 and program.

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Stuck in car for two days AN elderly woman was stuck for two days in her car after crashing in the Black Forest.

On the hop A FUGITIVE kangaroo is still on the run in Saxony after being reported loose in a woman’s backyard.

Police managed to corner it but couldn’t catch the animal.

TV 1-0 Sex MORE than half of German women would go without sex for a year rather than turn off the TV for that long.

Norway deal GREEN energy sources will be linked to Norwegian plants via a new sea cable from Germany, due for completion by 2018.

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Summer sales: Prices slashed

WHILE most communities in Spain launch their summer sales on Sunday, shops in Madrid and Valencia have already started slashing prices.

Vivid ‘Rebajas’ signs have already crowded retailers’ shop fronts, competing to cut their prices by 20, 50 and up to 70 per cent.

In spite of the economic uncertainty, the National Confederation of Commerce forecast a 2 to 3 per cent sales increase on last year, while Acotex, the Textiles Trade Association, placed the summer sales

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FLASHBACK: Last year’s sales.

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results figures at €35 billion, in line with last year. “The economic situation of our country, with a steady fall in consumption since 2006, has made the consumer wait for more and more cuts before making their purchases,” said Acotex President Borja Oria.

Spanish brands including Zara, Blanco, Sfera, Desigual, and Bimba & Lola are expanding their summer sales to their online stores, trending the Pre-Rebajas special discounts for VIP customers, whom they communicate with via email and social networking, promising a queue-free and exclusive shopping experience.

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SCANDINAVIAN PRESS Stories making headlines in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Breivik judged to be insane NORWAY – Prosecutors have decided to consider Anders Breivik, the man responsible for last year’s attacks, to be criminally insane.

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NORWAY – The Progress Party has demanded that asylum seekers in Norway live and dress like Norwegians to be considered for permanent residency.

‘Hu’ and cry DENMARK - Critics in Copenhagen accused the government of bending their freespeech rules to ensure that Chinese premier Hu Jintao’s visit was not disturbed.

Historic Tio Pepe sign is left out in the cold A TIO PEPE neon advertisement watched over Madrid’s central square, Puerta del Sol, from 1936 until last year.

The sherry bottle, topped with a Cordovan hat, wearing a short torero jacket and brandishing a guitar, was fixed to the top floor of the Hotel Paris during all these years. It was the one remaining neon sign in Sol. But the building whose address is Puerta del Sol 1, belongs to a Mexican property group and has now been leased to Apple Retail Store. The sign was removed during renovation work and Tio Pepe owners Gonzalez Byass assumed it would return.

They began to suspect the worst last November when they saw it was absent from mock-ups and plans of the revamped building.

Gonzalez Byass challenged the plans. No-one appeared to have opposed or investigated the sign’s exclusion, the wine company complained in a letter to Madrid’s planning department.

“It is logical to assume that

NEON ADVERTISEMENT: Tio Pepe sign has been in place since 1936.

Apple Retail Store SL intend to dispense with the Tio Pepe neon sign,” it continued, before suggesting that restoration “should be obliged to include the historic Tio Pepe sign.”

The objection was dismissed and plans excluding Tio Pepe were approved on May 30. No legal obligation or regulation made it necessary to pronounce on the possible installation of a neon sign, said the planning

department.

It has emerged that the building’s owners did not want to renew the Tio Pepe contract but there have been offers of other sites in Sol offering a new home to the emblematic advertisement.

There is also a Facebook page, urging Apple to reconsider.

And at least there is some consolation for Gonzalez Byass: no neon apple is visible on the approved Apple Retail Store plans.

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Guilty verdict for British mum BRITON Lianne Smith was found guilty in Girona (Tarragona) of murdering her two children in Lloret de Mar in 2010.

The nine-member jury unanimously accepted the Public Prosecutor’s argument that Smith was conscious of what she was doing when she suffocated her daughter aged five and son of 11 months.

The jury recognised that Smith was seriously disturbed when she killed her children, fearing that she was about to lose their custody.

It rejected defence claims that this impaired her judgement and self-control.

The Prosecution recommended a 17 year prison term for each killing while the defence called for two 30 month terms.

Sentencing will be carried out later, but Smith intends to appeal, her lawyer Jenifer Lahoz Labos announced.

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Immigrants caught AT least 16 of the 25 illegal immigrants who escaped from an enclosure at the Immigration Detention Centre (CIE) in Sangonera la Verde (Murcia) Saturday have been caught.

The search is still on for the rest of the fugitives, although they pose no danger to society, according to police Chief Pedro Vidal Espinosa.

“They are not dangerous criminals nor have they committed any crimes in Spain, they are simply people who have arrived in a boat without documentation,” said Vidal.

The immigrants managed to escape

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Visa deal will ease travel RUSSIA and the US are finally reaching a visa deal to ease travel between the two countries.

Illegal cop At least 16 of the 25 immigrants who escaped were rounded up.

Saturday at around 7.40pm when officers opened the enclosure so they could use the bathroom before the Eurocup football match between Spain and France.

Normally, the immigrants would come out in groups of five, but on this occasion when the officer opened the door, they stopped the officer from closing the door and started to push while another distracted a second officer.

In this way a number of immigrants accumulated at the door, meaning it could not close.

They reportedly attacked the officers with hose pipes and extinguishers.

One of the escapees also tried to open the women’s enclosure, but officers managed to stop that.

After viewing the video surveillance footage the incident was deemed to have been ‘premeditated and planned’.

The CIE is not a prison; it is simply a centre for foreigners who are waiting to be returned to their country of origin.

Currently there are 107 people at the CIE who are

brought there from all over Spain, from Madrid downwards, after the closure of the centre in Malaga.

Only 23 of the people at the centre arrived into the Murcia Region, the rest are from other regions.

Of the 84 others, 70 are from the Almeria Province.

The CIE has the capacity to hold 137 people ‘comfortably’, including men, women and families.

The maximum period anyone can stay at the CIE by law is 60 days.

A POLICEMAN is being investigated over driving drunk and slamming into an ambulance, critically injuring a paramedic.

Unfortunate POLICE arrested a man who stole a luxury SUV after its driver left it open while saving a drowning woman.

High-earner A COMPUTER hacker was arrested for creating a system of networked computers used to steal more than €4 million from people’s banks accounts.

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‘Predator’ arrested

Presenting cheque A CHEQUE for €250 was presented to HELP MMM when they went to see the Campoverde Players at the New Asturias restaurant in Punta Prima for an evening of ‘Titters and Tapas’.

Versatile dance THE Torrevieja municipal dance schools will be performing ‘Versatile Dance’, a show covering many different styles including Oriental, Flamenco and Rock ‘n’ roll, in the Virgen del Carmen tomorrow (Friday), 9pm.

Hitting girlfriend TWO men were arrested for allegedly insulting, threatening and hitting their girlfriends in Murcia.

One was a 46-year-old Spaniard whose 45year-old girlfriend claimed the abuse had been going on for years. The other was a 26-year-old Romanian whose 32-year-old Spanish girlfriend said he hit her on her legs and head.

Helping children A SPECIALIST doctor at Torrevieja Hospital, Carlos Miere, is reportedly participating in a charity programme to provide help to children in Kenya.

Summer school SEVEN HUNDRED students are participating in this year’s summer school in Orihuela.

FAVOURITE ‘CHECK-IN’ PLACES: Sports venues and shopping areas are top of the list.

Facebook fans like to check out the check-ins FACEBOOK fans have been ‘checking-in’ since summer 2010, telling friends where they are.

Favourite places tend to be ordinary tourist attractions, sports venues and shopping areas.

Most frequent check-in spots in 25 cities worldwide are seven sports stadiums, including – surprise, surprise – Barça’s Camp Nou – and six public parks, avenues and plazas.

There are two amusement parks, two concert arenas and two shopping centres.

Shopping centres and malls are the most popular check-in places in 19 of the 25 cities.

Hard Rock Cafes in Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Delhi each accumulate a record number of check-ins but in Norway the honour goes to TGI Friday.

Climate plays an important part:

One-time councillor caught with hashish A FORMER Ceuta councillor was arrested after police found 690 kilos of hashish in a van he was driving.

He was detained as he prepared to embark on the Algeciras ferry. Police went straight to the vehicle and located blocks of the drug, hidden in different parts of the vehicle. They were acting on a tip-off, sources later explained.

He was totally innocent and had no idea that there were drugs in the van, claimed the ex-councillor. He had merely borrowed it to do some removals, he insisted.

He remained in custody after failing to give convincing answers regarding the identity of the person who had lent him the van. He later went before a judge, who ordered his remand.

The confiscated hashish was not grown in Morocco but was imported from Pakistan. This is the first time that hashish of this type has been detected in Ceuta and suggests a new entry route, according to the El Faro de Ceuta newspaper.

The investigation is ongoing, police sources said, and further arrests are likely.

Cuts hit translation service INTERPRETERS will no longer be on hand at police stations for non-Spanish speakers making enquiries or lodging formal complaints.

Where possible police should translate themselves, said a recent circular from the General Police Directorate (DGP). The department is also working on an ‘alternative’ to translation for denuncias, it

announced. Coming at the start of the summer season when many foreign tourists need to report robberies or other incidents, the move arrived at a bad time, police sources claimed.

Translators will still be available if someone who does not speak Spanish is under arrest and during police investigations, the circular stressed.

the warmer the climate, the more exterior check-ins. In contrast six out of Moscow’s 10 most popular sites are bars and clubs.

Most check-ins are connected to shopping, food and sport and in Paris more people go to the Champs Elysees than the Eiffel Tower and in New York, the Natural Museum is more popular than the Metropolitan Museum.

With Facebook users, that is.

THE Guardia Civil arrested a 34-year-old man who allegedly attacked three women in a Madrid park.

Between February and May he confronted his victims in a wooded area of Parque de los Alcornoques in the Tres Cantos suburb.

Although he was heavily built two women escaped after a struggle and the third managed to bite him.

Police kept watch, eventually arresting an individual answering to the women’s description.

He wore the same tracksuit they described and failed to explain why he was loitering in the park.

Further investigation revealed that although he had a stable job and lived with his wife and family in Toledo he also lived a double life, preying on women.

He was remanded without bail.

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The cost of tying the ‘civil’ knot

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THE rates for civil marriages vary from place to place.

Depending on the municipality, it can range from being free to up to €160.

This means that while many couples would like to marry in their town or village, they go to other places to reduce costs in these times of financial difficulty.

San Joan d’Alacant is one of the places where couples can marry for free, and the service is available throughout the week.

Other town halls often have restricted times during which weddings can take place.

In San Vicente del Raspeig it costs €55 to marry after 1pm on Fridays and €120 on Saturdays.

Busot charges €100 to marry on Thursdays and Fridays between 12pm and 2pm, while outside of hot temperatures. this time slot it costs €160.

El Campello offers a This hot and dry whole menu of price weather has put the options. emergency centre CCE On Mondays, Thursdays on pre-emergency alert and Fridays until 1pm it for the risk of forest costs €80, after 1pm and fires in Alicante on Saturday mornings it Province and inland increases to €100, Valencia Province.

Saturdays after 1pm and CCE will be in contact with all the affected Sundays it increases to town halls and €150. emergency services to Some municipalities, like inform them of the preMutxamel, offer the option emergency situation. of marrying in a park, for a surcharge.

Temperatures set to soar A MASS of hot and dry air is set to drive up temperatures to 36ºC in Alicante Province on Sunday.

However, this is two degrees less than the average temperature of 38ºC throughout Spain, according to weather agency Aemet.

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San Juan leaves 30 injured and piles of rubbish THE morning after San Juan festivities on beaches in Alicante, cleaning trucks collected tonnes of rubbish right next to beach-goers.

On San Juan Beach, hundreds of tourists and residents had to move their umbrellas and towels to make way for rubbish collection service Inusa, which cleared up 800 tonnes.

Meanwhile, 20 people aged 14-29 were attended for cuts to their hands and feet and burns to their legs, arms and hands, which they obtained during the San Juan Festivities, which includes the tradition of leaping over a bonfire.

None of those injured needed to be taken to a health centre.

Two other people were treated for their injuries after falling from a tree in Plaza de Calvo Sotelo.

From Canalejas Park and Paseo Gomis, 10 people aged 17-33 had to be taken to hospital to be treated for minor injuries earned in various fights.

The service for fire prevention was called to extinguish three fires by San Fernando Castle, a fire at the base of a tree in Plaza de Juan Pablo II and a rubbish container.

This is out of the hundreds of thousands of people who flocked to Alicante City on Saturday night to join in the San Juan festivities.

In the area between Postiguet and Canalejas Park it is estimated that 75,000 people gathered.

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PRESTIGIOUS COMPETITION: Vivian O’Toole of Direkt Optiks, Lyn Greenland, Chris Evans, Dave Greenland, Clive English.

El Cid Bowls Club 2012 tournament LAST week El Cid Bowls Club held their most prestigious tournament of the year, the three day E1000.

This rinks competition was well supported by teams from other clubs in the region and some from further south.

Despite intense heat there was some excellent bowling in the group stages. The final match saw Clive English and Christine Evans of Javea Green Bowls Club, and,

David and Lyn Greenland of Greenlands Bowls Club take the first prize of €1,000 sponsored by Direkt Optik in Moraira. The runners up from the home team of El Cid Bowls Club were, Derek and Anita Randall, and Adrian Lambert and Paul Trunchion, who collected the second prize of €500 sponsored by Lloyds Bank International in Denia. Premier Homes in Jalon sponsored the third and fourth prizes.

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4.00pm - midnight 7:00pm BBC News at Six The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather.

7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm Match of the Day Live 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

11:35pm Question Time

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6:00am Speaking Sport 6:30am Children at Work 7:00am The Pingu Show 7:10am Pinky Dinky Doo 7:25am Timmy Time 7:35am Chuggington 7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am Roar 8:30am The League of Super Evil 8:45am Frankenstein's Cat 8:55am Newsround 9:00am Dick 'N' Dom Go Wild 9:30am Nina and the Neurons: In the Lab 9:45am Big and Small 9:55am Dipdap 10:00am Tinga Tinga Tales 10:10am Little Charley Bear 10:20am Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 10:30am Bob the Builder: Ready, Steady, Build! 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:55am Woolly and Tig 11:00am Driver Dan's Story Train 11:10am Waybuloo 11:30am In the Night Garden 12:00pm The Daily Politics 12:30pm Wimbledon 2012

4:45am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:30am ITV Morning News The latest national and international news. 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world. Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. 1:30pm Loose Women Michelle Mone join the loose ladies Ruth Langsford and Janet Street-Porter for some lunchtime chat. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm May the Best House Win Hexham homeowners compete for a cash prize.

4:25pm Deadly Art 4:40pm Prank Patrol Down Under 5:05pm Me and My Monsters 5:30pm Young Dracula 6:00pm A Tribute to Bomber Command 6:50pm Wimbledon 2012 9:00pm Today at Wimbledon 10:00pm The Men Who Made Us Fat 11:00pm Mock the Week 11:30pm Newsnight

4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal Compilation featuring some of the best moments from the series.

5:00pm A Touch of Frost 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh.

7:00pm London Tonight 7:30pm ITV News and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

Followed by a national weather forecast.

8:00pm Emmerdale Lisa discovers the true extent of the nightmare Zak has left her to face.

9:00pm Tonight 9:30pm You've Been Framed!

10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather The latest headlines from around the world.

11:35pm Euro 2012 Highlights

Wimbledon 2012 6:50pm BBC2

12:35am This Week 1:20am Holiday Weatherview 1:25am Panorama 1:55am Antiques Roadshow 2:55am Crime and Punishment 3:40am Great British Menu 4:10am Countryfile 5:10am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Doctor Who 8:45pm Doctor Who Confidential 9:00pm Coming Here Soon 10:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 10:30pm Live at the Electric 11:00pm Little Britain 11:30pm Dead Boss 12:00am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:30am Russell Howard's Good News 2:00am Live at the Electric 2:30am Dead Boss 3:00am Cherry Healey: How to Get a Life 3:55am Little Britain

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5:10am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Crimewatch Roadshow 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Real Rescues 12:45pm Cash in the Attic Series looking at whether household junk could be worth a small fortune. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One The latest national and international news stories from the BBC News team, followed by weather. 2:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Wimbledon 2012 Sue Barker introduces further live action from day four of the Championships at Wimbledon.

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12:20am A Tribute to Bomber Command 1:10am The Culture Show 1:40am BBC News 4:55am Who Needs Sport? This documentary investigates the wider impact of sport and exercise. 5:25am Seeking Refuge 5:50am In My Shoes Child led documentary exploring the exciting and busy port of Rotterdam.

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

8:30pm Top of the Pops: 1977 9:00pm Wonders of the Solar System 10:00pm Dead Poets Society 12:05am Shakespeare Uncovered 1:05am London on Film: The East End 1:35am Rude Britannia 2:35am Top of the Pops: 1977 3:10am Wonders of the Solar System 4:10am The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide

12:35am Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India 1:30am Jackpot247 3:30am Tonight 3:55am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 5:35am The Jeremy Kyle Show

5:10am Deal or No Deal 6:05am Countdown 6:50am Kenwood Glamour Puds 7:10am Para Shorts 2 7:15am The Hoobs 7:40am The Hoobs 8:05am Freshly Squeezed 8:35am According to Jim 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond. 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Undercover Boss Canada 11:00am Location, Location, Location 12:00pm You Deserve This House 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Jamie's 30 Minute Meals 1:35pm Liz Johnson 'Night Swimmer' 1:40pm How to Cook Like Heston 2:05pm Shadow of a Doubt

Channel 5 7:00am Thomas and Friends 7:10am The Wotwots! 7:20am City of Friends 7:35am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Castle Farm 8:00am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Make Way for Noddy 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:10am Peppa Pig 9:20am Peppa Pig 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Olivia 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Extreme Fishing with Robson Green 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm Monkey Life 3:50pm Chinese Food in Minutes

Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 1:05pm

4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me Five cooks go fork to fork in a brand new episode of the popular competitive dining show.

7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Country House Rescue 10:00pm The House the 50s Built 11:00pm 24 Hours in A and E 12:05am Gordon Behind Bars Gordon Ramsay thinks it's time Britain's prisoners paid their way.

1:05am Random Acts 1:10am The Secret Millionaire At 24 Andrew Feldman is the youngest ever secret millionaire. 2:10am Our Man in... Ibiza 3:05am Dispatches Channel 4 Dispatches lifts the lid on the funeral industry. 3:35am Time Team 4:30am Ancient Egyptians 5:25am Deal or No Deal

4:00pm Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister Drama about a woman who loses her husband to a tornado.

6:00pm 5 News at 5 National and international news.

6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm Big Body Squad 9:00pm Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Wars Competitive cooking show with Marco Pierre White.

10:00pm Extraordinary People 11:00pm Big Brother Catch up on the latest events inside the Big Brother house.

12:00am Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel.

4:55am The Great Artists 5:20am Wildlife SOS 5:45am Wildlife SOS

Satellite channels SKY1 5:35am Real Filth Fighters 6:05am Don't Forget the Lyrics 7:00am Mission Implausible 8:00am Futurama 8:10am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am Stargate SG-1 11:00am Best of Oops TV 12:00pm Airline 1:00pm Emergency Abroad 2:00pm Dog the Bounty Hunter 3:00pm Stargate Atlantis 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm The Middle 7:30pm Futurama 8:00pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Futurama 9:30pm The Simpsons 10:00pm An Idiot Abroad 11:00pm A League of Their Own 12:00am Cop Squad 1:00am Road Wars 2:00am Gangster Wives 2:55am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:55am So You Think You're Safe? 4:45am Medical Emergency 5:10am Real Filth Fighters

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 6:00am Silver Streak 8:00am Macgruber 9:40am Soul Men 11:25am He Said, She Said 1:25pm The Dilemma 3:25pm Ramona and Beezus 5:15pm Stuck on You 7:15pm Take Me Home Tonight 9:00pm The Dilemma 11:00pm Stuck on You

1:00am Macgruber 2:40am Take Me Home Tonight 4:20am Family Jewels

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:45am Shadowlands 8:00am Shrink 9:50am A Warrior's Heart 11:40am The Top Ten Show 2012 12:00pm A Valentine's Date 1:35pm The King's Speech 3:40pm How Do You Know 5:45pm Schindler's List 9:00pm The King's Speech 11:00pm How Do You Know 1:05am Country Strong 3:10am Cocktail 5:00am Secretariat

SKY MOVIES ACTION

TCM 7:55am Gunsmoke 9:00am Rawhide 10:05am Bridge to the Sun 12:10pm Imitation General 1:45pm Gunsmoke 2:50pm Rawhide 4:00pm Gunsight Ridge 5:40pm The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse 8:40pm Bells of Coronado 10:00pm Hell on Wheels 11:00pm Deadwood 12:05am Road to Perdition 2:15am My Cousin Rachel

5:10am D2: The Mighty Ducks 7:00am The Longest Day 10:00am Sanctum 11:55am The Amazing Spiderman: Premiere Special 12:25pm The Matrix Revolutions 2:35pm Fast Five 4:50pm Bunraku 7:00pm Predators 9:00pm Tomorrow, When the War Began 11:00pm Fast Five 1:15am Predators 3:05am Reign of Fire 4:50am Anaconda 2: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

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Stat of week Spanish hotels registered 24.7 million overnight stays in May , 0.4 per cent more than the same month last year.

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Expat life in Spain is not among costliest THE cost of living for most workers on expatriate contracts in Europe has fallen.

Nowhere in Spain features in the world’s 50 most expensive cities.

Tokyo in Japan is the world’s most expensive city for expatriates, while Karachi in Pakistan is the cheapest, less than onethird as expensive.

Luanda, Angola, was the second most expensive, followed by Osaka, Moscow, and Geneva, with Singapore and Zurich sharing sixth place.

Most European cities have dropped in the 2012 rankings, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting’s Cost of Living Survey, despite widespread increases in VAT charges and some marked price increases in the first half of last year, which featured in the findings just released.

Even so, the cost of living in many European cities dropped mainly due to the unstable economic situation which led to the depreciation of most local currencies against the US dollar. European cities also in the top 50 were Bern FAIR PRICE: Restoy gave firm assurance.

(14), Oslo (18), Copenhagen (21), London (25), Paris (37), Milan (38) Rome (42), Stockholm (46) and Vienna (48).

The survey covered 214 global cities and measured the comparative cost of more than 200 items in each location, including transport, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment. Housing was also included and was often the biggest expense for expatriates, playing an important part in determining where cities ranked.

Nathalie ConstantinMétral, Principal at Mercer, commented: “Deploying expatriate employees is an important aspect of multinational companies’ business strategy, including expansion.

“But with volatile markets and stunted economic growth in many parts of the world, a keen eye on cost efficiency is essential, including on expatriate remuneration packages.

“When compared to New York, our benchmark city, most European cities have witnessed a decline in the cost of living.”

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CAPITAL LIFE: Madrid offers much, including a good life for expat workers on foreign contracts.

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Booted away CONTROVERSIAL plans to sell sneakers featuring a slave-like chain and prison shackles have been halted by Adidas.

Unlucky 13 THE Spanish Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita has fallen below the European average for the first time in 10 years. It is now 13th amongst EU states.

Down to earth EASYJET is considering ceasing using Madrid Barajas Airport as an operations base from this winter due to rising airport taxes, though the British carrier says it will maintain flights within Spain, including the capital, but operating from bases in other parts of Europe.

€2m for bank stress test ROLAND BERGER and Oliver Wyman called in to stress-test Spain’s banks charged €2 million.

This was a fair price for an audit of this size carried out at such short notice, explained Fernando Restoy, assistant governor at the Bank of Spain.

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Who can and cannot use foreign-plated vehicles

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Can you shed light on this subject? I have been buying your book You & the Law in Spain for years and it says a vehicle with a foreign registration plate may be used on Spanish roads for up to six months in a calendar year with no formalities.

Has this situation changed? An article in one of the local papers states that the Guardia Civil and tax authorities are taking action over foreign vehicles and that any in Spain for more than 30 days can be affected.

Is it six months or 30 days?

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The short You and the answer is that the difference is Law in Spain between tourists

By David Searl and official residents.

A tourist who visits Spain can use his foreign registered car in Spain for six months in a calendar year. In fact, the car itself can stay in Spain during the whole year, as long as its owner does not drive it on a Spanish road for more than six months. The six months need not be continuous. That is, the owner can use it during a summer in Spain for, say, three months, and again for visits during the rest of the year.

Meanwhile, a resident has 30 days.

Someone taking up Spanish residency and bringing a foreign-plated vehicle has only 30 days in which to dispose of it or to import it into Spain and apply for Spanish registration. He cannot continue to own the vehicle on foreign plates, any more than a Spaniard can.

Yes, the traffic police are cracking down.

If you are a genuine tourist, be sure to obtain some documentation, such as tickets from the airline or the ferry. If you have registered as an EU citizen residing in Spain, be warned that you cannot legally keep your UK registered car in Spain.

That confusion has already been cleared up in my book.

David will respond to queries but reserves the right to select letters which will be of interest to the greatest number of readers.

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Grooms think less... brides more MEN’S expectations of what they will spend on their wedding have reduced from £7,790 (€9,700) to £7,060 (€8,792) and women’s soared from £5,600 (€6,973) to £8,380 (€10,435) over the past five years.

£££ TWENTY-EIGHT per cent of adults can recall buying something other than food made or designed in the UK, a poll by Ipsos Mori has found.

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WATER companies could soon be allowed to lower prices for households with unpaid bills, but this will mean prices may rise for others.

£££ AROUND 320 people face job losses after aero electrics company Cobham announced that 10 planes will be converted to air-to-air

refuelling jets in Spain rather than at the facility in Bournemouth.

£££ CASTLEBECK is up for sale in a move which could lead to substantial losses for Irish horse racing tycoons John Magnier and JP McManus who back the care home company.

£££ WHILE 17 per cent of manufacturers reported order books were above normal in June, 28 per cent said they were below normal.

As poor in Greece fight on keep a watch on Germany THE STORY of a 56-year-old Greek civil servant who had spent the best part of his career working in the Finance Ministry was recently featured in a newspaper.

Now, although he still has a job, his salary has been almost halved while the monthly bills he has to face have more than doubled.

“There are times,” he says, “when I can’t afford to buy food, forcing me to queue at a soup kitchen for a couple of chunks of bread and a bowl of thin broth.”

The man is not alone in Athens and other Greek cities. The Brussels-demanded austerity measures and ‘restructuring’ have more or less destroyed the economy.

Unemployment has risen to 22.6 per cent, and many people who, until a year or two ago lived in their own (mortgaged) homes, are now on the streets. Deprivation and desperation rule the nation, with very little hope for the future.

Greece’s recent second attempt at finding a stable government awarded the Conservative ‘New Democracy’ a fragile win over the far-left Syriza Party, with both fighting their campaigns on a programme of ‘renegotiating’ the strict bail-out terms set by the European Union (EU), the European Cental Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Angela Merkel, however, interfering in the elections before the Greek people had even got to the polls, announced that ‘renegotiation’ was out of the question, in the hope, one suspects, of terrorising the people of another sovereign state into compliance with her - and of course Germany’s - own views.

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World leaders have asked - nay, pleaded with - Merkel and Wolfgang Schauble, her finance minister, to look again at the Eurobonds’ proposal she so roundly rejected in the past, but to no avail.

One can’t help but sympathise to some extent with her government’s view that such bonds would be tantamount to giving ‘profligate’ eurozone states free access to Germany’s ‘cedit card’ in order to pay off their debts.

As a kind of sop, new proposals, ‘Bonds Lite’ as some financial correspondents have taken to calling them, have been tabled with the grudging approval of Merkel. The suggestion is that all eurozone countries should join in a ‘Redemption Pact’ (based loosely on a post-revolution American idea of 1790) which would require all states

to pledge a goodly proportion of their gold and currency reserves to a ‘sinking fund’ which would be used: (a) to help manage the sovereign debts of ailing economies, (b) to bind them irrevocably to the eurozone (this is not talked about so openly).

Such thoughts have not been greeted with unbridled joy since, according to some financial correspondents, the plan is to relieve the ECB of its duty as ‘fire-fighter’.

Germany has only two votes in the ECB, but under the ‘Redemption Pact’ would have the tacit power to enforce fiscal discipline.

Italy has already said such a proposal should be ‘treated with care’, with one high-ranking official complaining that even as things stand now in the EU, everything done at a European level appears to be designed to further Germany’s interests.

No one is suggesting a Germanic plan to take control of the EU, but things sometimes have a way of occurring by default.

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Funding for lending plan In his speech, King said: “Today’s exceptional circumstances create a case for a temporary bank funding scheme to bridge to calmer times.”

The funding costs for banks have risen with the Eurozone crisis, making it harder to access credit, but this new

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www.euroweeklynews.com THE Bank of England and Chancellor of the Exchequer recently announced measures to kick-start the economy.

The objective is to protect UK banks against an escalating Eurozone crisis, pump cash into the financial system and boost lending to businesses and households.

Bank of England (BoE) governor Mervyn King and Chancellor George Osborne both spoke at the Lord Mayor’s banquet on 14th June, and pledged to take ‘coordinated action’ to protect the economy.

UK banks have been finding it increasingly difficult to raise funding through international markets, making it hard for businesses and households to get credit.

The BoE and Treasury are now working on ways to lend directly to banks. The full package is expected to be ready in a few weeks. It will provide emergency protection for banks while underpinning lending and reducing the cost of loans for businesses and property owners.

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moving money from bank balance sheets into the real economy.

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believes that creditworthy businesses will find the lower rates made available attractive.

“We want to send a very clear signal to businesses that finance is available at a price they can afford,” he added.

‘funding for lending plan’ will now provide funding to banks for several years, at lower rates than available on the open market. Rates will be based on their performance in lending to the UK’s non-financial sector.

Banks will be able to swap the loans they have made to businesses and individuals with the central bank, and must then use the funds to provide new loans to their customers, at affordable rates.

The scheme could provide a £80bn boost to loans and is expected to start within weeks.

The central bank will hold the swapped assets for up to four years.

In a BBC radio interview the following day, Treasury Minister Mark Hoban said they estimated that if lending increased by 5%, this would be the equivalent of £80bn. The amount will depend on the take-up and the Treasury

Liquidity plan In his speech King also said that he wanted to make it clear that the BoE will “provide banks with whatever liquidity they require.”

To this end, the Bank will immediately activate an as yet unused facility, the Extended Collateral Term Repo Facility, to provide banks with emergency cash if needed. Liquidity will be offered in tranches, with a minimum of £5bn a month.

This means that at least £5bn a month should be injected into the financial system.

It is believed that around £60bn could be released if necessary.

This scheme will help protect banks from the impact of the Eurozone crisis, as they would not have to rely on international markets to raise funds. It provides a liquidity safety net for UK banks, which would be particularly useful if

they suffer rating downgrades and so find it harder to raise funds.

Releasing cash reserves The Bank of England is changing the remit of the new Financial Policy Committee so that it will now have to focus on growth as well as financial stability. This could reduce pressure on banks to build up capital reserves, something which contributed to their reduced lending.

On 17th June The Sunday Times reported that King ‘quietly gave permission’ for banks to release their capital reserves - even though it was the BoE which had instructed banks to build them up. Since banks will need to keep less on deposit, they will have more funds to lend to businesses and individuals.

This could release another £150bn available for loans, taking the total stimulus package up towards £300bn.

This “could lead to a huge move in the financial markets” as banks could potentially use some of the cash to buy corporate bonds and other financial instruments, helping boost the financial system by

Quantitative easing The BoE governor gave his strongest hint yet that the Bank may expand its quantitative easing programme. He said that “the case for a further monetary easing is growing,” and that the measures to improve conditions for the banking sector can complement any further easing in monetary policy.

Critics argue that the government and Bank of England have reacted too late, but late is better than never.

Any boost for UK businesses should be good news for the economy, consumers and investors.

Across the Atlantic it is believed that the US Federal Reserve Bank is also preparing to inject more stimulus into its economy.

For advice on an investment strategy designed around your objectives and circumstances, speak to an experienced wealth manager like Blevins Franks.

To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com

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LONDON - FTSE 100 C H A N G E ( P ) % C H G. -5.40 -2.13

NET VOLUME 1,459,992

Admiral Group

1,148.00

-10.00

-0.86

100,127

Aggreko

2,042.00

-13.00

-0.63

192,634

946.00

-17.50

-1.82

687,409

Anglo American

2,015.00

-50.50

-2.44

1,484,910

Antofagasta

AMEC

CU RR EN CI ES

C LOSING P RICES J UNE 25

C O M PA N Y PRICE(P) Aberdeen Asset Manag. 248.70

0.80268

1.24581 Units per €

United States $..................................................... 1.24942 Japan Yen ¥.......................................................... 99.5149 Switzerland Francs............................................... 1.58854 Denmark Kroner ................................................... 7.43349 Norway Kroner...................................................... 7.49339

1,030.00

-16.00

-1.53

1,080,129

ARM Holdings

503.50

-2.50

-0.49

1,045,796

Ashmore Group

337.20

-2.60

-0.77

330,716

C O M PA N Y

PRICE(P)

Assoc. British Foods

1,232.00

-2.00

-0.16

307,920

B. American Tobacco

3,202.50

-1.50

AstraZeneca

2,755.50

-16.00

-0.58

1,010,983

British Land Co

496.50

British Sky Broadcasting BT Group Bunzl Burberry Group

C O M PA N Y Centrica Compass Group

PRICE(P) CHANGE 308.10 1.00

% C H G. 0.33

VOLUME 3,112,499

650.50

-0.50

-0.08

1,519,338

CRH

1,079.00

-19.00

-1.73

1,148,756

Croda International

2,138.00

-34.00

-1.57

384,074

Diageo

1,596.50

2.50

0.16

1,586,044

Eurasian Natural Res

400.80

-13.50

-3.26

1,019,127

EVRAZ

255.40

-12.80

-4.77

1,158,316

NET VOLUME

Experian

909.50

-2.00

-0.22

1,068,716

-0.05

1,014,868

Fresnillo

1,421.75

3.75

0.26

747,160

-4.00

-0.80

1,211,713

G4S

276.10

-0.30

-0.11

1,175,576

658.00

-7.50

-1.13

1,466,048

GKN

176.00

-3.40

-1.90

2,574,445

203.10

-1.90

-0.93

9,355,715

GlaxoSmithKline

1,475.50

-1.00

-0.07

6,013,551

1,022.00

-13.00

-1.26

637,875

Glencore International

306.00

-6.65

-2.13

8,255,896

1,332.00

-7.00

-0.52

507,848

Hammerson

422.70

-4.40

-1.03

791,260

C H A N G E ( P ) % C H G.

Aviva

263.29

-11.31

-4.12

5,714,119

Babcock International

855.50

-10.00

-1.16

495,624

BAE SYSTEMS

281.90

-4.60

-1.61

2,485,094

Barclays

194.55

-6.15

-3.06

17,663,295

BG Group

1,206.05

-11.45

-0.94

2,599,375

Capita

645.50

-4.00

-0.62

454,235

Hargreaves Lansdown

509.50

8.50

1.70

283,968

BHP Billiton

1,729.00

-41.00

-2.32

3,488,319

Capital Shopping C.

315.30

-2.80

-0.88

390,806

HSBC Holdings

556.99

-5.31

-0.94

12,912,538

403.00

-4.25

-1.04

10,378,396

2,162.00

-12.00

-0.55

450,320

ICAP

361.00

-11.00

-2.96

1,214,914

IMI

BP

Carnival

DOW JONES

NASDAQ

C LOSING P RICES J UNE 25

C LOSING P RICES J UNE 25

C O M PA N Y MMM 3M Co AA Alcoa Inc

PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE VOLUME 86.15

-0.68

-0.78%

30,925

8.43

-0.19

-2.20%

236,857

AXP American Express Co

56.46

-0.33

-0.58%

32,952

T AT&T Inc

34.95

-0.22

-0.63%

483,244

BAC Bank of America Corp

7.67

-0.27

-3.40%

2,345,117

BA Boeing Co

71.86

-0.10

-0.14%

54,708

CAT Caterpillar Inc

82.82

-2.14

-2.52%

108,006

CVX Chevron Corp

98.50

-1.94

-1.93%

102,002

CSCO Cisco Systems Inc

16.92

-0.21

-1.23%

346,309

DD E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co

49.55

-0.41

-0.82%

63,535

XOM Exxon Mobil Corp

79.92

-2.19

-2.67%

621,347

GE General Electric Co

19.55

-0.26

-1.31%

1,046,676

HPQ Hewlett-Packard Co

20.24

-0.13

-0.65%

220,741

HD Home Depot Inc

51.54

-0.48

-0.92%

144,570

INTC Intel Corp

26.49

-0.45

-1.65%

459,684

IBM International Business Machines 193.00

-0.69

-0.36%

35,606

JNJ Johnson & Johnson

66.50

-0.13

-0.20%

244,429

JPM JPMorgan Chase and Co

35.09

-0.90

-2.50%

775,924

KFT Kraft Foods Inc

38.58

-0.27

-0.70%

39,559

MCD McDonald's Corp

88.00

-0.35

-0.40%

47,620

MRK Merck & Co Inc

39.98

-0.20

-0.50%

263,266

MSFT Microsoft Corp

30.14

-0.56

-1.82%

5,081,272

PFE Pfizer Inc

22.37

-0.35

-1.56%

526,785

PG Procter & Gamble Co

59.77

-0.06

-0.10%

145,019

KO The Coca-Cola Co

74.50

-0.44

-0.59%

TRV Travelers Companies Inc

62.55

-0.80

-1.26%

52,254 22,480

UTX United Technologies Corp

74.17

-1.03

-1.37%

27,628

VZ Verizon Communications Inc

43.52

-0.43

-0.98%

114,152

WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc

67.80

+0.50

+0.74%

142,000

DIS Walt Disney Co

46.86

-0.61

-1.29%

86,287

C O M PA N Y

PRICE

CHANGE NET / %

$4.78 $11.56 $2.95 $3.55 $3.42 $2.10 $4.76 $3.36 $2.24 $3.08 $27.64 $3.67 $8.87 $6.05

0.81 / +20.65% 1.66 / +16.77% 0.29 / +10.90% 0.26 / +7.90% 0.24 / +7.55% 0.12 / +6.06% 0.27 / +6.01% 0.19 / +5.99% 0.12 / +5.66% 0.16 / +5.48% 1.42 / +5.42% 0.17 / +4.86% 0.37 / +4.35% 0.24 / +4.13%

Most Declined GeoEye, Inc. Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Zions Bancorporation Shire plc Impax Laboratories, Inc. Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. Immersion Corporation ModusLink Global Solutions, Inc Education Management Corporation Capital Bank Corporation Mercantile Bank Corporation Aware, Inc. Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Hudson Global, Inc.

-20.50

-2.42

415,604

-5.00

-0.21

685,092

InterContinental

1,521.00

-2.00

-0.13

595,130

154.50

-1.60

-1.02

3,703,463

417.22

-0.08

-0.02

3,380,495

2,558.00

-23.00

-0.89

48,582 4,435,135

Intl Cons Airlines Group

Most Advanced Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. J. Alexander's Corporation UniTek Global Services, Inc. Amyris, Inc. MGP Ingredients, Inc. Alaska Communications Systems G., Inc. PowerSecure International, Inc Kandi Technolgies, Corp.

MannKind Corporation School Specialty, Inc. Quest Software, Inc. Echelon Corporation Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Leap Wireless International, Inc.

828.00

Imperial Tobacco Group 2,415.00

$13.93 $13.97 $2.72 $81.04 $20.78 $5.25 $6.47 $3.10 $6.24 $2.20 $16.24 $5.98 $2.76 $3.46

4.40 / -23.99% 3.04 / -17.87% 0.43 / -13.65% 10.32 / -11.30% 2.07 / -9.06% 0.48 / -8.38% 0.54 / -7.70% 0.24 / -7.19% 0.41 / -6.17% 0.14 / -5.98% 0.98 / -5.69% 0.35 / -5.53% 0.16 / -5.48% 0.20 / -5.46%

International Power Intertek Group ITV

73.60

-1.55

-2.06

2,174.00

-36.00

-1.63

230,032

Kazakhmys

676.00

-26.00

-3.70

1,014,320

Kingfisher

281.00

-0.30

-0.11

1,778,047

Land Securities Group

729.00

-3.50

-0.48

663,332

Legal & General Group

120.60

-0.90

-0.74

5,256,392

Johnson Matthey

Lloyds Banking Group

30.42

-0.97

-3.09

76,281,723

Marks & Spencer

323.60

-3.20

-0.98

1,816,496

Meggitt

369.80

-1.00

-0.27

475,325

Morrison (Wm)

265.90

-2.50

-0.93

10,046,365

National Grid Next Old Mutual

660.50

2.00

0.30

3,350,474

3,180.00

3.00

0.09

171,222

153.70

-1.00

-0.65

3,134,532

Pearson

1,200.00

-3.00

-0.25

733,578

Petrofac

1,368.00

-3.00

-0.22

717,648

Polymetal International

923.50

10.00

1.09

274,467

Prudential

715.50

-13.00

-1.78

1,354,394

Randgold Resources

5,670.00

-20.00

-0.35

176,832

Reckitt Benckiser

3,399.00

-33.00

-0.96

882,061

486.10

-1.90

-0.39

1,018,139 1,289,854

Reed Elsevier Resolution

196.80

-3.20

-1.60

REXAM

403.90

-1.60

-0.39

546,569

2,895.50

-86.50

-2.90

3,069,758

Rio Tinto Rolls-Royce Holdings

850.50

8.00

0.95

1,231,174

Royal Bank of Scotland

237.30

-5.90

-2.43

4,779,878

2,155.12

-18.38

-0.85

1,930,089

104.70

-1.00

-0.95

3,782,438

2,461.50

-42.50

-1.70

1,421,790

266.70

-1.20

-0.45

1,697,656 1,774,127

Royal Dutch Shell RSA Insurance Group SABMiller Sage Group Sainsbury (J) Schroders Serco Group

294.30

0.70

0.24

1,301.00

-11.00

-0.84

247,830

539.50

-4.00

-0.74

248,632

Severn Trent

1,614.65

8.65

0.54

551,292

Shire

1,734.00

-232.00

-11.80

5,620,021

Smith & Nephew

615.50

-4.50

-0.73

750,864

Smiths Group

1,009.00

-8.00

-0.79

198,360

SSE

1,371.00

-5.00

-0.36

1,111,115

Standard Chartered

1,354.00

-32.00

-2.31

1,644,338

Standard Life

223.82

-2.68

-1.18

1,839,657

Tate & Lyle

638.50

2.00

0.31

614,737 6,101,396

Tesco

308.90

-2.70

-0.87

Tullow Oil

1,410.00

-21.00

-1.47

964,723

Unilever

2,068.00

-25.00

-1.19

1,084,716 772,004

United Utilities Group

646.50

0.50

0.08

Vedanta Resources

886.84

-16.66

-1.84

629,596

Vodafone Group

177.55

-0.05

-0.03

30,525,866

Weir Group

1,451.00

-9.00

-0.62

384,285

Whitbread

1,995.00

-2.00

-0.10

332,902

Wolseley

2,245.00

-7.00

-0.31

236,577

WPP

747.50

-15.50

-2.03

2,101,163

Xstrata

793.50

-23.00

-2.82

3,404,868

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THE Employment Ministry will scoop up €350 million this year, thanks to laws introduced last July.

The former government brought in measures aimed at discouraging early retirement.

These moves affect businesses and firms that make profits but lay off workers with redundancy pay-offs or, for those aged 50 or more, early retirement packages.

Under the new regulations, employers whose businesses are not losing money must now cover unemployment pay and social security for the latter.

There is also an additional levy covering future subsidies for employees unable to find work because of their age.

Last year, 10,900 employees aged 50 or more were made redundant or took early retirement.

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How to keep love sweet when it comes to all money matters LOVE is in the air at the moment. All my friends are suddenly getting engaged. It’s all very exciting. Everyone loves a goodold-knees-up!

But on the other side of the coin, what will it mean for their individual finances?

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work out financial matters together could be romantic suicide.

In order to have a prosperous life together, remember there are some smart moves to consider before stepping down the aisle.

With money often a cause of marital turbulence, to join resources together peacefully it’s vital for couples to THE average price of a Spanish hotel room so far this year is €64.50, a 0.7 understand each other’s approach to per cent drop on the figure for last year. Bookings have also dropped 1.4 money.

Often money disagreements are not per cent this year, according to the National Institute of Statistics. really about finances but more about what

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funds represent to each party including security, control, self-esteem or love.

The secret to peace in the money camp is to remember that neither party is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.

Often people want to change how their partner handles money and bring them around to their way or thinking. But we can’t. The best idea is to be open in conversations about money and then set ground rules that work for both.

While it is usual to know about a partner’s romantic past, what about their financial past?

Has that been discussed?

Imagine when planning to buy a house together that suddenly one party says mortgage payments could be difficult because they have massive credit-card debt. This could cause problems.

Be informed about your partner’s financial history, to be able to plan ahead.

Joining lives together is fabulous, but don’t ever take on a partner’s debt. Share all new living costs, but leave debt in their hands. There is no point in both parties being black-marked by bad credit.

If all is at a loss and personal finances cannot be worked out together, then seek professional help. A finance advisor can definitely help keep your love sweet.

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Orange ring up â&#x201A;Ź300m plan ORANGE plans to invest â&#x201A;Ź300 million on upgrading its fibreoptic internet network in Spain over the next four years.

This is â&#x20AC;&#x153;proof that the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investment in Spain is solid,â&#x20AC;? a representative for the mobile phone and internet operator in Spain said.

Orange hopes its fibre-optic CAJA MADRID preference shareholders could recoup 80 per cent of their original investment.

Some clients of Bankia - in which Caja Madrid has the controlling interest following a 2010 merger - received phone calls advising that they will be able to recover at least some of their money.

The exact number of clients with Caja Madrid preference shares has not been revealed but is estimated at 90,000.

Clients accepting the offer will lose 20 per cent although there is an alternative for those unwilling to accept the shortfall.

Eighty per cent of their initial investment can instead be placed in a four-year, fixed term account paid at 5 per cent.

internet connection, which will compete with Telefonica, will reach 1.5 million homes and businesses in the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main cities.

Meanwhile, mobile telephony in Spain suffered its hardest blow yet in April with almost 378,890 lines being cancelled.

The worst affected companies

Caja Madrid investors get a new offer, but...

By the end of the obligatory four years, they will again have 100 per cent of the money they invested but will have said goodbye to any potential income over that time.

Having been nationalised - it was bailed out by the Spanish government in May - Bankia must now wait for the go-ahead

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were Vodafone (367,327 cancellations) and Movistar (189,037), according to the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT). This is the third month running since February in which the number of cancellations has risen, with more than 643,830 lines having been cancelled.

Pay-as-you-go lines have been from Brussels. It will also need the worst the approval of the CNMV, affected, with a Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equivalent to the drop of 297,984 National Securities Market lines.

Commission. Bankia does not At the same envisage problems once - if - it time, 337,158 obtains EU permission. lines changed It remains to be seen whether their operator, Brussels considers a 20 per cent a level not reduction on the investment is previously noted sufficient or too generous. since May 2009.

Caja Madrid preference shares Cancellations were earning 7 per cent until a for Movistar few months ago, when the bank alone amounted advised that it would have to to 1,628,204 cease paying interest. over the past Shortly before the offer was nine months. announced, shares were trading Orange and at 47 per cent of their value, Yoigo gained suggesting the final conditions 17,760 and for the swap could be more 1,490 lines stringent. respectively in April.

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The dark side?

WITH 10 million copies and a movie contract sold, erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey has generated poor reviews and controversy over its writing style.

Fat record A POLISH restaurant set a Guinness World Record for the biggest lasagne made in honour of the Italian football team competing in Euro 2012.

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Cheers to cider! But not to lager, beer and wine WHILE the economic doom and gloom may be enough to drive many people to drink, in reality many households in Spain and throughout Europe now have less to spend on alcohol.

But in the UK, where the recession has resulted in rather flat sales for many alcohol sectors, new research reveals that one sector - cider sales - has put fizz into the consumer marketplace.

And with salesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; demand soaring 24 per cent since 2006, this market sector is ripe for further development.

Cider has in fact become the equal of lager in the UK, with its steep salesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; growth over the last five years being the direct opposite of lagerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equally dramatic salesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decline.

While in 2002 research by Mintel - a leading global

supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence - showed that 42 per cent of British people drank cider, this has now grown to 47 per cent. Ciderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success is also in stark contrast to beer and wine, the most adversely affected in losing actual drinkers. Beer has seen the greatest salesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; drop, losing ÂŁ2.2 billion (â&#x201A;Ź2.72bn) in revenue between 2006-2011, mainly due to the huge number of pubs closing. Meanwhile, the proportion of UK wine drinkers fell from 66 per cent in 2007 to 58 per cent last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cider has been particularly successful at attracting young drinkers from the ailing lager category, as well as from alcopops and wine,â&#x20AC;? said Mintelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senior Drinks Analyst Jonny Forsyth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has been due to a combination of impressive innovation and marketing nous. Also cider has had a price advantage over many drinks due to a lower tax borne by many, and constant innovation.â&#x20AC;?

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From royalty plus celebs to wars and sunny Spain Having filmed royalty, celebrities and wars, Rai Woods is now an inventor and radio presenter in Spain. Nicole Hallett reports.

Presenter? Yes, with TKO Gold Radio in Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca.

What did you want to be age 10?

A doctor. I started studying medicine, but it was not as interesting as I thought and I got work as a go-for on film sets including Far from the Madding Crowd and Dr Doolitle.

You later became a cameraman: Yes, incuding for celebrity interviews with British TV broadcaster Eamonn Holmes, singer Bruce Springsteen and business magnate Sir Richard Branson. I also filmed the Isle of Man TT races sitting backwards on a motor cycle holding a camera; filmed the British royal family and covered news events in Northern Ireland, Germany, France, Canada and Lebanon.

Scariest moment?

When a petrol bomb landed four feet from me and burst into flames in Newry, Northern Ireland, and when I had a gun stuck into my side and told not to film in Ireland.

Invented?

The Eco-Sounder which tells boats how deep the water is and an overheating engine alarm for boats. Most recently a timer switch that turns off the boat engine should the captain become incapacitated for more than two minutes.

You sailed from Northern Ireland along the canals to the Mediterranean?

In the oldest ex-Royal National Lifeboat (1901) leaving in September 2002, arriving in April 2003, with a six-week stopover in Paris, and delays due to frozen canals.

Weather outlook for next 7 days NEXT SEVEN DAYS

COSTA BLANCA

Alicante TODAY: SUNNY, Fri - 31 23 S Sat - 31 23 S Sun - 31 22 S

DENIA

MAX 30C, MIN 23C Mon - 29 22 S Tues - 28 22 S Wed - 28 22 S

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JAVEA

JAVEA CALPE ALTEA

CALPE ALTEA

Almeria TODAY: SUNNY Fri - 27 21 S Sat - 27 22 S Sun - 26 21 S

BENIDORM

MAX 26C, MIN 21C Mon - 27 21 S Tues - 26 21 S Wed - 26 21 S

BENIDORM ALICANTE ALICANTE

Barcelona TODAY: SUNNY Fri - 28 23 S Sat - 27 23 S Sun - 27 22 S

MAX 28C MIN 23C Mon - 26 22 S Tues - 26 22 S Wed - 27 22 S

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Benidorm TODAY: SUNNY, Fri - 32 23 S Sat - 31 23 S Sun - 31 22 S

MAX 32C, MIN 23C Mon - 29 22 S Tues - 29 22 S Wed - 30 22 S

ORIHUELA ORIHUELA

Madrid TODAY: SUNNY Fri - 34 19 S Sat - 32 18 S Sun - 32 17 S

MAX 37C, MIN 22C Mon - 33 17 S Tues - 34 17 S Wed - 34 17 S

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Vital Statistics • Born: Newcastle on Tyne, UK • Status: Single • In Spain: Eight years • Best thing about Spain: Weather • Worst thing : Corruption and people’s lack of spatial awareness • Always in fridge: Fresh milk and quality cheeses.

• Currently reading: Psychological thriller

EWN COMMENT The verb, not the noun SPAIN is to reduce foreign aid to undeveloped countries by half, which will come as a blow to recipients undeniably in need of it. But it is not easy to love one’s neighbour as thyself when there is little money around.

And potential disaster could be mitigated if poorer countries were

not encouraged to buy fish but instead urged to acquire the nets needed to catch it.

Putting up a fight MARIANO RAJOY could stand on his head and it would not be what the markets and ratings agencies want. Spain could get rich overnight and it would not please them. This is less enmity towards Spain than a desire to sink the euro. And although anything can happen and often does, and still can, one interesting fact emerges: so far, the euro has been stronger than its attackers.

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I HAVE recently read Letters in EWN about the way many tourists dress - or more accurately undress when out and about during the summer.

All too often visitors think it is acceptable to shop in bikini bottoms, men troop around topless; in fact, in general dressed more for the beach than for the streets and shops.

At least my concerns are not merely shared by some fellow Letters writers, but also some businesses, for on Monday I was in Mercadona in La Cala de Mijas when three young men - I think from Scandinavia - walked in without shirts.

Immediately an assistant issued them with pristine white T-shirts to wear, and giggled when my wife observed that perhaps some of the female shoppers (in skimpy swimwear) should also be issued with shorts!

But if any Mercadona official is reading this, while the store gets five points for the T-shirts, they lose five points for a missed added public relations trick, for the shirts would surely be better if carrying the slogan: Issued by Mercadona, the supermarket that likes tourists to shop covered-up We all know it pays to advertise.

J N, El Faro (Malaga)

Little cheer FURTHER to the article on Alicante Town Hall planning to combat the problem of the ‘botellon’ with more taxes and charging those that attend the mass street drinking sessions with the cleaning bill (Issue 1404).

Six out of 10 youths aged 12-18 drink regularly, it was reported in the Spanish Press.

The other side of the coin is the USA, where strict enforcement of the 21-year-old drinking age is applied.

The Alcohol Beverage Commission normally closes a bar or disco caught serving underage people for three days for the first offence.

This hurts the owner’s wallet more than any fine would.

Unlike Spain, alcohol is not sold in supermarkets, only through authorised liquor or package stores, where absolute positive confirmation of the buyer’s ID or legal age is required.

Also, it is strictly forbidden to possess or carry in public any open container of alcohol regardless of age.

Richard McBride, Benidorm (Alicante)

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WINDY TOWN: The turbines in Taberno.

A vista of 14 wind turbines WITH 14 turbines visible from the balcony of our home in Taberno and more going up, plus many others out of our sight, it looks like it is going to be a very big wind farm.

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Trains vs planes IT is wonderful that the high-speed train between Malaga and Valencia is finally up and running (Issue 1407).

The €106.70 per way price is also quite reasonable, especially in high season when flights can often be more expensive.

Perhaps there will be some airlines that offer cheaper travel and people say that the four-hour journey time is longer than the one-and-a-half-hours it takes flying, but if you add in the time spent either end at the airport there really is not much difference.

By flying you end up standing in a lot of queues and around baggage reclaim and sitting in uncomfortable airport lounges.

On a train you can get comfortable right away and settle in for a scenic journey.

Jane Locke, Benidorm (Alicante)

Kerbs delight MY wife and I spent a lovely week in Puerto Pollensa last month and might return in September.

I am disabled and had to use a mobility scooter while there. After my first visit in the last four years, I was

delighted to see dropped kerbs in the town.

However, I think the addition of a ferry link to Alcudia across the bay or around the headland would be good, as would be putting numbers and destinations on the buses which serve the resort.

Malcolm and Maureen Turner, Liverpool (UK)

Looky alert I HOPE that Benalmadena Town Hall does something about the ‘lookylooky’ men in the port as requested by residents and business owners (Costa del Sol, Issue 1407).

They say they ‘carry out constant surveillance’, but whatever they are doing is not working.

I have heard many tourists complaining about them and saying they would not come back because of them.

Jack Baker, Benalmadena (Malaga)

Ruined holiday I WOULD like to warn holidaymakers in Coin of a gang of pickpockets and cut-purse operators in the central commercial centre.

My wife had her purse taken from her closed and zipped handbag whilst shopping there.

She had only been in the complex a few minutes but it was long enough for the thieves to strike.

Unfortunately, there are very few security cameras and a distinct lack of security personnel, so the police had little to go on.

So be aware of your fellow shoppers and keep your valuables under close

28 June - 4 July 2012 Costa Blanca South guard, or you will have a ruined holiday like us.

Roger and Karen Hulett, Wales (UK)

Praiseworthy cause I AM an avid reader of EWN and compliment you for the fine team of contributing journalists writing up storms on all matters of interest, importance, news updates, helpful advice, etc.

Being heavily involved in a number of charities, I follow charity articles.

In particular I wish to note the recent praiseworthy two facing halfpage spreads on the annual fundraiser ‘Max Clifford Celebrity Golf Challenge and Butterfly Ball’, written by Nicole Hallett.

This extremely precious humanitarian endeavour, always financially successful, clearly implies the huge foreign population making Costa del Sol home have become a loving, caring extended family who with no hesitation help raise funds for those in need.

Jack Nusbaum, by email

Bias shock I WAS quite shocked to read the article about the organisers of the Moors and Christians Festival banning women from taking part in the jousting display (Almeria, Issue 1407).

This smacks of sexual discrimination.

In previous years women were allowed, so why all of a sudden are they banned?

Yes, during that time, it would have been men who jousted, but if the women dress up in men’s clothing, why not?

If authenticity was the issue, surely there could have been two parts to the display.

First the men followed by women and children in a later display.

L H, Mojacar (Almeria)

Sex strike WITH all the strikes in Spain I would like to propose another.

In protest of human slavery, men who use prostitutes should go on strike.

If there is no demand, then this barbaric act against humanity cannot happen.

This idea came to me after reading the article ‘Prostitution tops with the Chinese’ (Issue 1407).

These gangs lure Chinese women with the promise of well-paid jobs in Spain. However, they are made to pay €20,000 for ‘travel expenses’ and have to work as prostitutes to pay off their ‘debts’.

Daniella Lawson, Benidorm (Alicante)

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT simply to get her embarrassing vocal gymnastics away from the courts as soon as possible.

At first all these soundeffects were just about acceptable, almost a turnon in some orgasmic respects. Now they are a total pain and I believe if the authorities donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do something to deter the habit it could well ruin the whole game.

What is needed is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gruntometerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. As soon as the vocal renderings reach a certain number of decibels, the offender should be deducted a point.

When the players begin to realise their nonsensical noises could lose them a

JOY TO WATCH: Martina Hingis. game, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon quieten down.

In their defence, the players say it allows them to get more power into the shots. Oddly, as a friend pointed out, many would think it would reduce power

by acting as a form of release valve, thereby losing suppressed energy.

What is even worse is itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contagious. Down at our local club the kids are all practising their individual grunts; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost like a

status symbol! For heavenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake, give us all a break and leave the orgasmic vocals back in the bedroom where they belong.

I see Labour admitted this week that they got their immigration numerical anticipations wrong. They now say they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anticipate the vast amounts of immigrants that would want to come to the UK. Why didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they? I did!

To this old pop-singing hack, it was obvious vast numbers would seize the opportunity to cash in and reside in one of the most civilized and generous countries in the world.

In the light of this, when you consider my limited credentials and compare them with those of the people who run our lives, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say we should all be afraid. Very afraid.

Keep the faith.

Love Leapy Leapylee2002@gtmail.com

Poor show WHAT a great article regarding â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Lacklustre concert at the Diamond Jubileeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Issue 1406).

My wife and I watched it and got embarrassed when the old timers came on stage.

Where were the young stars, the Olympic team, the Welsh Choir?

Dennis Whittaker, by email

Good job

I USUALLY agree with Leapy and his forthright views but not in the case of the article on the Diamond Jubilee.

The concert was to celebrate popular music, singers and entertainers during the six decades of the Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign.

All the performers captured the spirit of the occasion with success, as was evident from the applause and enthusiasm of the crowd.

K Alexander, Nerja (Malaga)

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LETTERS TO LEAPY

MARTINA NAVRATILOVA and Martina Hingis, two of the greatest female tennis players of all time, recently played each other in a televised exhibition match.

Even with their advancing years and deteriorating skills, they were a joy to watch. And not only were they thoroughly entertaining visually, they were also wonderfully refreshing to listen to. There was not a grunt between them!

I have always loved tennis, particularly Wimbledon, but with the banshee screaming and Neanderthal grunting that now accompanies many matches, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll not be able to enjoy much of the action.

Sharapova, a truly great and beautiful champion, should be particularly looked forward to.

Unfortunately, she is the worst offender of all. I find myself willing her to lose,

PAUL COWAN

Keep the grunts in the bedroom and away from the tennis court

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Russians miss ‘red tape’ era A

S I scurry from administrative office to office, it occurs to me that the Russians now flocking to Spain are not doing so for bargain basement priced properties. They are nostalgic, bless them.

They miss the good old Soviet Union bureaucracy where everyone had a job guaranteed by the state. The jobs might be useless, paper-shuffling job creation exercises, but at least they were jobs.

In principle, I can live with politicians buying jobs and votes. I would just prefer to see this vast army of pen-pushing, paper-filing bored clerks putting their talents to better use. Washing windows comes to mind.

At a guess I would say 50 per cent of bureaucracy in Spain today could be

Images of Spain

By Mike Walsh www.michaelwalsh.es done on the internet; most of the rest by one person, not three.

To join in or not WHENEVER I travel in Europe, I delight in the local customs. This time last year Ligua Ligua was celebrated in the Baltic States.

Midsummer’s Night is the night when

few sleep; it is a bigger event than Christmas.

Communities and families gather, often at homesteads to spend the night dancing.

What attracts me to Spain’s culture is its noisiness and vitality.

When I expressed a desire to join a little tomato throwing I was wisely told, leave it to the youngsters, those things hurt.

Now Pamplona City Hall is issuing ‘Don’t Do It’ warnings in English for those young tourists attracted to ‘fuenting’.

This is the practice of hurling oneself off the top of the Navarreria Fountain (think first-floor window) into the arms of youths braver than I am; the aim is to catch the hurtling bodies.

Occasionally the aim isn’t quite good enough.

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RITISH seamen, cynically, but in friendly fashion, describe themselves not as the crew members but as the Board of Trade Compulsory Companions.

That said the bad eggs thrown together by circumstance were few and far between. From sailing a ship’s crew, strangers to each other a day earlier, became firm friends.

I imagine much the same can be said of the other services. People, especially men, often found themselves in the unlikeliest company and had to make the best of things. It is a great way of forming one’s world-view. Togetherness isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

It is interesting how attitudes changed in such a short period of time. Those of a certain age will identify the humour of there being so many children in a bed that when one turned they all turned. For a child to have his or her own bed in the 1950s was practically undreamed of.

Although it didn’t happen often, it wasn’t a big deal to kip down with a mate if circumstances left one no choice. Those who watched the movie Boats, Trains and Planes starring Tom Hanks will have been in tucks as it

Mike Walsh vwww.michaelwalsh.es Mike Walsh. Based the Costa Blanca, international journalist, author and professional writer: ex-business assessment executive Guild of Master Craftsmen. European correspondent Boston Revolutionary Radio.

occurred to him and his hapless travelling companion that their sharing a motel bed was a matter of little choice.

I will never forget the expression on my teenage sons’ faces when I suggested they share a hotel bed when motoring through Europe. Both looked at me like I was something they had scraped off the bottom of their shoes.

The only compulsory companions we are likely to share company with these days are travellers sitting next to us on a plane. I was facing a seven-hour flight to Washington DC on

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English as she is not spoke

By Linda Hall ONLY 27 per cent of young Spaniards speak English compared with the European average of 42 per cent.

Despite this, 90 per cent of secondary school pupils said

Only 27 per cent of young Spaniards speak English.

that knowing a language is ‘very useful’ and 98 per cent felt it was important for their children’s future, a European Commission (EC) study found.

In both Sweden and Malta, 82 per cent of pupils speak a foreign language. In contrast, only 9 per cent can do so in the UK, where French is the principal option, or 14 per cent in France, where pupils learn English.

But researchers in 14 EU countries also revealed that while 25 per cent of adolescents are ‘competent’ in a second foreign language, this rises to 28 per cent in Spain.

Fourteen per cent of non-Spanish pupils failed to reach ‘basic user’ level in English, investigators found, rising to 20 per cent for an additional foreign language.

In contrast, 22 per cent and 11 per cent of Spanish pupils reached ‘basic user’ level in their first and second foreign languages respectively.

“Spain needs to improve its results in English, particularly regarding oral comprehension,” the report stated.

Meanwhile, the internet is helping pupils to improve reading and comprehension in foreign languages, according to the EC report.

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How to separate some of those rasher reports from the porkies!

THERE have been reports in the Press recently trying to debunk

commonly held views about which foods are bad for us. Trying to

debunk views, for instance, that salt in your diet causes high blood pressure.

Carbohydrates and red meat are bad.

Dairy products are fattening and unhealthy.

Fresh is always better than frozen. Brown bread is better than white.

And everyone needs tons of protein.

The trouble with these reports, though, is that they can mean both, all or nothing to all people.

Breaking Views NORA JOHNSON A writer, Nora has lived on the Costa del Sol for five years and is the author of two psychological suspense thrillers.

We are all individuals and what works for some doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work for others.

What we need to remember above all, however, is that the diet industry is a multi-billion pound one that constantly needs to reinvent itself in order to keep us handing over our dosh.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what is behind the majority of these â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;reportsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. What faddy diets do is sell lots of books to desperate people and fill up magazine/newspaper space.

Common sense doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the snake-oil brigade any money and so it generally isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t encouraged. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not

rocket science to know how to eat healthily.

The only thing we really need to bear in mind is that people do vary, and that some people have an intolerance or allergy to certain foods. Some feel ill if they consume carrots or bananas; others, avocados or watermelon.

Odd, but true.

And there we have it, definitive proof of what to do and what not to do.

But, wait!

Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;reportsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; like those plastered everywhere all the time, contradicting each other and offering basically zero science?

How many articles on food analysis do we

need?

The problem is that the myths and facts are often all mixed up. Each author, physician or study gives a view that collides with anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so that one personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s myth is anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facts.

Basically, almost all food is OK in moderation and moderate exercise is good for us; just as my old granny used to say.

Nothing is new, it seems. Oh, how could we all be so naĂŻve?

So, excuse me while I shoot off to the gym for my regular 90-minute session.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no myth; 15 minutes of cardio, 15 minutes of weights, and 60 minutes of talking myself into it!

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MUSIC REVOLUTION: Children today seem to tune into mediocre sounds, not cutting-edge and dangerous.

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ELL, the children have gone, the corridors are bare and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to prepare for some serious rest and recuperation.

The last few weeks have been unbearably hot (no airconditioning and 21 sweaty bodies crammed into a small classroom); grumpiness has ruled the day (mine and the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) and learning has been slow. We have painted, printed and participated in productions galore (my favourite being the one that involved reception children dressed as aliens).

We have written stories, reports, explanations, instructions and poems.

Numbers have been crunched, sequenced and partitioned. Maps have been read, songs murdered and Romans reincarnated in assemblies.

A school year is many and varied but runs smoothly or not so smoothly along the same pathways determined by a small group of ministers sequestered in an office somewhere in London.

Time moves inexorably from Nativity to Harvest Festival; from Easter bonnets to sports day. The curriculum the same year after year; Ancient Egypt in Year 4, the Romans or castles in Year 3 and revision for SATs in Year 6, year after year after year.

So what makes teaching such an interesting and often surprising profession?

I hear you ask (or is that the shrill voice in my head again?). The children, of course, no two are ever the same even though characteristics exist which make most children identifiable and familiar enough to exert similar strategies for behaviour management, year after year, which is just as well, because a class full of children who do not respond to stickers would be a disaster (have you read Lord of the Flies?

Seriously, most groups of children are only ever a hairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breadth away from that scenario).

Anyway, needless to say, the summer holidays are very welcome and I relish the time I will be able to spend writing, reading and painting, not to mention all the joys of the beach, pool and tapas bars.

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Suzanne Manners Suzanne has a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths and an MA in Writing from Lancaster University. She is currently teaching in Alicante and writing a book for teenagers (which doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a vampire as its central character).

I may moan about my job, but at least I have one and ultimately the children make it all worthwhile and the long summer holidays donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt, either.

As an aside; yesterday I played some old YouTube videos of The Clash to my class.

It was amusing to watch as these young children screwed up their faces and clasped their hands over their ears in the very same way my mother and father did the first time they heard â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rock the Kasbahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

I ignored the cries of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Play Cheryl Cole, Missâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Put Justin Beiber on, Missâ&#x20AC;? and chuckled to myself as I thought about the circularity of life and the creeping mediocrity of present-day music.

Then I chastised myself for that thought, remembering my motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story of her own motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shock when she first heard â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Jumpinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jack Flashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and no doubt her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shock on hearing Frank Sinatra sing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My Wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as he flashed his ole blue eyes into the camera.

However, what is disturbing is that young people find The Clash difficult to listen to yet happily tune into Cheryl Cole (no offence but not exactly cutting-edge and dangerous).

So where is the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;turn that racket offâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; music for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teenage rebellion?

Thankfully, my son loves The Clash, The Stones, The Ruts and Nirvana and has never expressed a desire to upload anything by Justin Beiber; small mercies, eh?

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Just as one-shoulder dresses are popular, this style has delved into the swimwear fashion range.

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5:20am Dream Lives for Sale 6:10am Liza and Huey's Pet Nation 7:00am Mission Implausible 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am Stargate Atlantis 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Best of Oops TV 1:00pm Glee 2:00pm Glee 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

5:45am Project: Alf 7:25am Our Family Wedding 9:15am Death Becomes Her 11:05am Captain America 35mm Special 11:25am Just Married 1:10pm Made in Dagenham 3:10pm Our Family Wedding

4:00pm Stargate Atlantis 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm The Middle 7:30pm Futurama 8:00pm The Simpsons 9:00pm A League of Their Own 9:30pm Spy 10:00pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm Spartacus: Blood and Sand 12:15am Strike Back Project Dawn 1:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:15am Teenage Wives 3:05am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:55am Airline 4:25am Emergency Animal Rescue 5:15am Next Door Nightmares

4:55pm The Amazing Spiderman: Premiere Special 5:25pm Hall Pass 7:15pm Just Married 9:00pm Made in Dagenham 11:00pm Hall Pass 12:50am Wild Cherry 2:20am Big Fat Important Movie 3:50am I Want Candy 5:30am Death Becomes Her

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 4:50am Mercy 6:25am Chasing 3000 8:05am Legendary 9:55am Solitary Man

1:00am Hereafter 3:15am Frankie and Johnny 5:20am The Lost Valentine

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:05am Flight of the Intruder 6:05am The Mighty Ducks 7:55am Superman 10:20am Ironclad 12:25pm Braveheart 3:25pm Spider-Man 5:30pm Superman 7:55pm Skyline 9:30pm The Amazing Spiderman: Premiere Special 10:00pm Spider-Man 12:05am Braveheart 3:05am Skyline 4:45am The Warrior's Way

TCM 6:00am Off Set 6:20am Peyton Place 9:05am The Gangster 10:40am Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 11:55am Branded 1:45pm Gunsmoke 2:50pm Rawhide 11:30am Mean Girls 1:15pm The Blind Side 3:30pm Casino Jack

SMA Scottie Thompson & Eric Balfour

Cloud 7:10pm Like Dandelion Dust 9:00pm Mean Girls 10:45pm The Blind Side

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5:25pm The Death and Life of Charlie St.

4:00pm Son of a Gunfighter 5:40pm Twelve O'clock High 8:10pm A Thunder of Drums 10:00pm Super Troopers 12:00am Taps 2:20am Bad Company 3:50am Teleshopping

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Can dogs and cats be friends?

DEAR Connie,

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OUR 13-year-old German Shepherd named Zodiac loves posing in front of a camera, therefore it was easy for me to bring his attention to the red ball in the righthand corner.

Gerry and Mary Cannon, Manilva (Malaga) Submit fun pet pictures to petoftheweek@euroweeklynews.com, in as high a resolution as possible.

Please include name of the pet, your full name, where you live and if relevant a couple of lines to explain the circumstances of the photo.

Due to space restrictions not all submissions will be used.

Five years ago a kitten (six or seven months old) took up residence in my garage, eating the food I put out for the abandoned cats.

At that time I had a German Shepherd and eventually they slept together all the time. The dog died last year and I thought the cat was very lonely.

Even after all this time I cannot pick her up nor will she sit on my lap, but I can stroke her.

Two weeks ago I came across an abandoned dog and in need of a vet as she had just given birth.

She is now recovering in my house but my cat only comes in to eat and will not even stay in the garden.

I did manage to get her to approach the dog and they sniffed noses.

However, the cat reverted back to her ‘normal’ behaviour immediately.

The dog has shown no aggression and she has little chance of being adopted.

Connie’s Pets Corner For 24-HOUR VETS visit costablanca24hvets.euroweeklynews.com

If you have any questions, please write to me at connie-pets@euro weeklynews.com I’ll be happy to help.

Any advice would be welcome.

Many Thanks, Sandra Hello Sandra ,

In my opinion you will never be able to force your cat to do anything.

She is a nice cat and it is far better to leave her alone. Dogs and cats need their own space especially those that have not been socialised early in the event they need to escape from a situation.

My advice is to keep your dog and leave them to be distant ‘friends’.

You sound like a lovely caring person, but please do not bring any more dogs or cats home!

Best wishes, Connie

Pets at work reduce owner’s stress BRINGING ones dog to work can make one feel better, all day long.

Dog owners who brought their pets to work had stress lower at the

beginning of the day and throughout the day than workers who did not bring their dogs to work or have pets, according to a new study by Virginia Commonwealthy University.

Stress levels increased steadily and nearly doubled by the end of the day in owners who did not bring their dogs to work.

However, not everyone is a dog lover, so having pets there can cause some issues.

“People did find that sometimes the dogs were

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READY FOR WORK: Bringing ones dog to the office can reduce owner’s stress levels. destructive. They were noisy. People did find that sometimes the dogs were not as clean as they would like them,” said Dr Randolph Barker.

“Fifty per cent of those people who brought their dogs to work felt that their dogs increased their productivity.”

The study was published in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management.

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6:00am 3, 2, 1 Go!: Key Stage 2 7:00am The Pingu Show 7:10am Pinky Dinky Doo 7:25am Timmy Time 7:35am Chuggington 7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am Roar 8:30am The League of Super Evil 8:37am LĂŠon 8:45am Frankenstein's Cat 8:55am Newsround 9:00am Dick 'n' Dom Go Wild! 9:30am Nina and the Neurons 9:45am Big and Small 10:00am Tinga Tinga Tales 10:10am Little Charley Bear 10:20am Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 10:30am Bob the Builder: Ready, Steady, Build! 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:50am Woolly and Tig 10:55am Driver Dan's Story Train 11:10am Waybuloo 11:30am In the Night Garden 12:00pm Rhs 12:30pm The Daily Politics 1:00pm Wimbledon 2012

5:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning The popular morning lifestyle magazine show with advice, chat and competitions. 12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning The popular morning lifestyle magazine show with advice, chat and competitions. 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 3:00pm May the Best House Win

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4:25pm Deadly Art 4:40pm Prank Patrol Down Under 5:05pm Me and My Monsters Children's comedy drama series about a family with monsters living in their basement.

5:30pm Who Let the Dogs Out? Wacky dog training talent show presented by Zak George and narrated by Rik Mayall.

6:00pm Newsround Topical news magazine for children.

6:10pm Copycats Two families battle it out in a range of hilarious games.

6:40pm Shaun the Sheep 6:50pm Wimbledon 2012 9:00pm Today at Wimbledon John Inverdale and guests bring the main action and stories from the All England Championships.

10:00pm Line of Duty 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm A Touch of Frost 6:00pm Tipping Point 7:00pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

8:00pm Emmerdale Popular long-running soap opera, set in a Yorkshire village.

9:00pm Love Your Garden 10:00pm Bomber Command 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Passenger 57

12:20am The Secret History of Our Streets 1:20am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

5:00am Eco Maths A new way of showing how maths is used in the real world to help create a sustainable future.

1:15am Jackpot247 3:45am Loose Women 4:35am ITV Nightscreen

1:05am Infamous Quirky New York writer Truman Capote heads to Kansas to interview a murderer, then falls for him. 3:05am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast.

3:10am The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate 4:10am A Picture of London 5:10am Great British Menu 5:40am BBC News

BBC3 6:00am Snog, Marry, Avoid?

8:00pm Doctor Who 8:45pm Doctor Who Confidential 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Coming Here Soon 11:00pm EastEnders 11:30pm Live at the Electric 12:00am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! 1:30am Coming Here Soon 2:30am Live at the Electric 3:00am Russell Howard's Good News 3:30am Can We Trust the Police?

4:25am Don't Tell the Bride 5:25am Kidnapped and Drugged for Family Honour

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Time to Remember 9:00pm Sea Fever Documentary about the home movie makers who captured the exploits of the maritime rescue services.

10:00pm Shakespeare Uncovered 11:00pm Rude Britannia 12:00am India's Hospital Train Lifeline Express.

1:00am Madness on Wheels: Rallying's Craziest Years 2:00am Spiral 2:55am Spiral 3:50am Shakespeare Uncovered

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5:25am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Crimewatch Roadshow 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 11:58am BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts.

12:00pm Real Rescues Documentary series which follows the dramatic day-to-day work of the emergency services. 12:45pm Doorstep crime 999 1:13pm BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt Game show in which two teams compete for the best bargains before they go up for auction. 2:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news.

2:45pm Wimbledon 2012 7:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:30pm Regional News All the latest local news.

8:00pm The One Show Magazine series featuring a mix of interviews, topical reports and features from around the UK. 8:30pm EastEnders Another visit to the residents of Albert Square, for a regular dose of drama, excitement and tears.

9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Turn Back Time The Family.

11:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

11:25pm Regional News All the latest local news.

11:30pm Weather The latest weather information.

11:35pm Imagine Investigative documentary series.

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5:45am Deal or No Deal 6:40am Kenwood Glamour Puds 7:10am Sali Mali 7:15am The Hoobs 7:40am The Hoobs 8:05am Freshly Squeezed 8:35am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Undercover Boss Canada 11:00am Four Rooms 12:00pm You Deserve This House 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Jamie's 30 Minute Meals 1:35pm River Cottage Bites 1:55pm Scaramouche

4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me Cocky Cockney Glen Wilkie serves up a menu he is convinced will be a winner.

7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm Sainsbury's London 2012 9:00pm Embarrassing Bodies 10:00pm Gordon Behind Bars 11:00pm True Stories After four decades, America's most notorious conman has been caught.

7:00pm The Simpsons

12:40am Random Acts 12:45am 8 Out of 10 Cats 1:30am 4thought.tv 1:35am Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's it 2:35am Toshiba Windsor Triathlon 3:30am KOTV Boxing Weekly 3:55am Sailing 4:20am FIVB World Beach Volleyball Tour 5:15am Mobil 1 The Grid 5:40am British F3

Channel 5 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Make Way for Noddy 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Igam Ogam 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Extreme Fishing with Robson Green 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm The Mentalist

4:15pm Tidal Wave: No Escape 6:00pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

6:30pm Neighbours Watching her world unravel proves too much for pregnant Sonya and she collapses.

7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads 9:00pm World's Toughest Prison 10:00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas.

11:00pm Big Brother Catch up on the latest events inside the Big Brother house.

12:00am Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Banged Up Abroad Series following cases of people who've found themselves banged up abroad. 1:55am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel.

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SKY MOVIES COMEDY

8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am Stargate Atlantis 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Best of Oops TV 1:00pm Glee 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

9:00am A Night at the Roxbury 10:30am Multiplicity 12:30pm Analyze That 2:10pm You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 3:50pm The Dilemma

4:00pm Stargate Atlantis 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm The Middle 7:30pm Futurama 8:00pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew 10:00pm Starlings 11:00pm Forrest Gump

5:45pm A Night at the Roxbury 7:15pm Ramona and Beezus 9:00pm Analyze That 10:40pm The Dilemma

4:45am The Warrior's Way 6:30am Super 8 35mm Special 7:00am The Chaperone 8:50am Tomorrow, When the War Began 10:35am Bad Girls 12:20pm Faster 2:00pm Superman 2

12:40am Harlem Nights 2:40am Multiplicity 4:40am Kung Fu Panda 2 Family Show Special 5:10am Ramona and Beezus

4:10pm Tron Legacy 6:20pm Sucker Punch 8:15pm Tomorrow, When the War Began 10:00pm Faster 11:45pm Sucker Punch

1:45am Road Wars 2:15am Transvestite Wives 3:05am Road Wars 3:55am It's Me or the Dog USA 4:45am Emergency Animal Rescue 5:35am Airline

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 10:10am Cocktail 12:00pm No Strings Attached 1:50pm Remember Me 3:45pm Blonde Ambition 5:25pm Date Night 7:00pm Country Strong 9:00pm No Strings Attached 11:00pm Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

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1:15am The Kids are All Right 3:05am Henry's Crime 4:55am The Top Ten Show 2012 5:10am Chasing 3000

SKY MOVIES ACTION

1:40am The Thing 3:35am Bunraku 5:45am The Chaperone

TCM 6:00am Twelve O'clock High 8:20am Gunsmoke 9:20am Rawhide 10:20am A Thunder of Drums 12:05pm Son of a Gunfighter 1:45pm Gunsmoke 2:50pm Rawhide 4:00pm Cast a Giant Shadow 6:40pm The Scarlet Claw 8:10pm Days of Heaven 10:00pm Body Heat 12:05am Magnum Force 2:20am Backfire 3:50am Teleshopping

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The Olympics are approaching so while you’re waiting, read the new topical crime novel 40 Days 40 Nights from local author Wendy Cartmell.

It was originally planned that Aldershot Garrison would host a Team GB Training Camp for the 2012 Olympic Games. This is the story of what might have happened if they had.

The second novel in the Sgt-

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) A recent holiday has set your mind racing. This being a romantic time means that you can get a little overexcited. Your romance may not be set to last but you should fully enjoy it nonetheless.

Relatives issue words of warning but they have only your best interests at heart.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Opposing opinions on a matter close to your heart see you hesitating. There is nothing wrong with asking for advice.

The chances are that you know someone who has already been through your situation. Donʼt let pride make you miss out on a solution.

Not everything in the garden is rosy but you are made of strong stuff. Your conviction that something is right helps you in discussions. Support given to a loved one may be misguided, especially if it is a huge financial gamble.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) This is a time to enjoy the present and look forward to the future. Donʼt forget, along the way, to congratulate yourself for all that you have achieved in the last year.

Sometimes you do not blow your own trumpet

Did you hear about the snail that walked into the bar?

He was kicked out.

A few months later he comes by once again and asks the bartender, “What was that for!?”

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Chayanne Born June 28, 1968, Elmer Figueroa Arce (stage name Chayanne) is a Puerto Rican Latin pop singer and actor. After not being selected for Menudo, he joined boy-band Los Chicos, and then over the last 28 years, he released 21 solo albums and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

He currently resides in Miami with his wife, former Miss Venezuela Marilisa Maronesse, and their two children.

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is needed. We all feel the need for appreciation.

and people appreciate you in a quiet way.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22)

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23)

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IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK:Keep an eye on practical issues without allowing your social life to slip. Should loved ones feel that they need your attention, sidetrack them.

Offloading a few commitments to others will work well for you.

Major Crane series ‘40 Days 40 Nights’ sees Crane battling with accidents, thefts, murders and terrorist plots. They all plague Sgt Major Crane who is not happy with his job of babysitting the athletes in Team GB as they prepare for the Olympics

between discreetly to make sure of progress.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20)

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20)

An appetite for something new means that you tread unknown ground. Itʼs an exciting time when you may find it easier to do things alone. This does not mean you have to feel alone as others can be told of your progress.

Increased activity in your love life means less time to really concentrate on business. Make sure that priority financial matters are dealt with. Not doing so will see you kicking yourself later on. A close relationship is going well. Thereʼs no reason to wonder why, the charm offensive is obviously working.

Trying to be everything to all people is tiring. No one knows this more than you. Give yourself a little time and space this week because it will make a great difference to your spirits.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21)

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19)

ARIES (March 21 - April 20)

Primarily, you are wanting to see some appreciation.

That is understandable given the efforts that you have made. Do not be annoyed, however, if it is a while coming yet. Others are not always as well tuned in as you. If necessary, use a go-

Part of being ʻyouʼ is your independent mind. Some may try to change that this week.

Why would someone want to make you more dependent on them? Could it be that they feel insecure? Giving reassurance may be all that

and Paralympics. He likens it to 40 days and 40 nights in a personal wilderness before he can get back to his real job of investigating; but it turns into 40 days and 40 nights of chaos. Will Crane be able to keep the athletes safe or will the terrorists win?

The Sgt-Major Crane novels Steps to Heaven and 40 Days 40 Nights available at Amazon.

Keeping an eye on your health is particularly important at the moment.

Because you have been active, it could be that you need to give yourself a bit of time.

Pampering and just plain relaxing are all going to stand you in good stead during the coming week.

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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Improvising within a new business situation may not give you the perfect answer to a problem. What it will do, however, is give you an insight into the way others live.

Until now, your approach to life may have been a little one-sided.

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Opening your mind to a new idea has convinced you that it is time for a change in direction. This is such a time, but not all changes will be permanent.

Give yourself a way out of any situation this week.

Using your tact and charm, it will require only a little application to please everyone.

HOW TO PLAY Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

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acne, cane, cran, earn, fane, fang, fern, gean, gran, narc, near, rang, anger, arena, caner, crane, franc, ganef, nacre, range, reran, arcane, garner, ranger, arrange, carnage, FRAGRANCE

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BRITISH TV SITCOMS

1. Which highly popular ITV series of the late 1950s was about a gang of peacetime soldiers in constant pursuit of easy money and ways of outwitting their fiery Sergeant-Major?

2. Which series that ran from 1962 to 1965 and from 1970 to 1974 centred around two rag and bone men who lived in Oil Drum Lane in Shepherd’s Bush?

3. Originally broadcast from 1965 to 1975, which Johnny Speight creation featured the characters Alf Garnett played by Warren Mitchell and his wife Else played by Dandy Nicholls?

4. Which popular English music hall and vaudeville entertainer sang the theme song to Dad’s Army (Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?)?

5. What was the name of the fictional prison that featured in the television comedy series Porridge, which ran from 1974 to 1977?

6. What was the name of the short-lived sequel to Porridge?

7. Which two actresses starred as sisters Sharon Theodopolopodos and Tracey Stubbs in the longrunning comedy series Birds of a Feather?

8. In Only Fools and Horses, which character’s ‘real’ name is Colin Bell?

9. In which series did public relations ‘expert’ Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone drive Edina’s sensible daughter Saffron up the wall with their self-absorbed, substance-abusing escapades?

10. In the 1970s’ sitcom Citizen Smith, what was the name of ‘South London’s premier Marxist revolutionary movement’, led by Wolfie Smith, played by Robert Lindsay?

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Crosswords CRYPTIC Across 1 Possibly anger a former American president (6) 4 Deputy at clock centre sounds hesitant (5) 8 Stop a container loading sulphur (5) 9 Comments about Antony and Twain (7) 10 Colour seen in Mogadishu evening sky (3) 11 Plant from good seed (5) 12 Powder easing sores in hospital cases (4) 13 Symbol of decreasing significance (5) 15 Something of great value found in Cherub Yacht Club (4) 17 Musical locks (4) 18 A new array of a Victorian flower (5) 20 Furthermore, alas, lost a ring (4) 21 Three dimensional little animal I see (5) 24 American intelligence alternately in China (3) 25 Cooked beef, sir? No itʼs a toy (7) 26 End reveals words of advice, as expected (5) 27 Cleaned out horrible stink (5) 28 True information about key parts of an insectʼs eye (6) Down 1 About as certain to restore confidence (8) 2 Grant given to a section of a hospital (5) 3 In German, the melody for a song (6) 4 Determines Iʼm in another list (6) 5 Fabulous bird returns to Fitzgerald with a parrot (7) 6 Pastimes held in the network (4)

ENGLISH - SPANISH The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

Across 1 Spades (tools) (5) 4 Papá (3) 6 Perro (3) 7 Round (of watchman) (5) 8 Air (4) 9 Grille (window) (4) 11 Gemelos (5) 12 Fuera (3) 13 Wave (in sea, lake)

Co d e B r e a ke r 7 Environmentally sensitive forerunner to supermarkets switches to fruit and veg (11) 14 Barmy fireworks (8) 16 Composer is in the middle of ʻDoorbell in Italyʼ (7) 18 Still taking in Open University bachelor? For sure! (3,3) 19 Shrub Bill spies around area (6) 22 A couple get ready to take the strain (5) 23 Small amphibians appear in loud music set (4)

QUICK Across 1/6 Paid killer (3,3) 3 Yellow alloy (5) 6 See 1 8 Sincere (7) 9 Likes very much (5) 10 Collect (5) 11 Admit (7) 12 Intensify (6) 14 Be owned by (6) 17 Stark (7) 19 Kid (5) 21 Giraffe-like animal (5) 22 Guiding (7) 23 Owed (3)

(3) 14 Escritorios (muebles) (5) Down 1 Stepfather (9) 2 Small lizard (9) 3 Seguro (convencido) (4) 4 Peligroso (9) 5 Diamonds (9) 10 Usado (no nuevo) (4)

24 Robes (5) 25 Consume (3) Down 1 Carrion-feeding carnivore (5) 2 Patio (7) 3 Sanctify (5) 4 Raid (6) 5 Quietness (7) 6 Motion picture (5) 7 Sum of money saved for the future (4,3) 12 Precious stone (7) 13 Nightfall (7) 15 Opening (7) 16 Bawl (6) 18 Divide (5) 19 Category (5) 20 Finger (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS: CRYPTIC - Across 1 Shadow, 4 Helped, 9 Academe, 10 Usurp, 11 Ebony, 12 Topside, 13 Hard pressed, 18 Leeches, 20 Urals, 22 Harry, 23 Migrate, 24 Add-ons, 25 Repeal.

Down: 1 Seamed, 2 Alamo, 3 One-eyed, 5 Equip, 6 Pauline, 7 Duplex, 8 Venturesome, 14 Averred, 15 Snuggle, 16 Althea, 17 As well, 19 Haydn, 21 Amaze.

QUICK - Across: 1 Site, 3 Sensible, 9 Release, 10 Bells, 11 Specs, 12 Permit, 14 Edible, 16 Uganda, 19 Closed, 21 Scare, 24 Queue, 25 Edifice, 26 Assorted, 27 Mess.

Down: 1 Stressed, 2 Tilde, 4 Exempt, 5 Sober, 6 Bullion, 7 Easy, 8 Damsel, 13 Careless, 15 Illness, 17 Gossip, 18 Adhere, 20 Swear, 22 Arise, 23 Aqua.

ENGLISH - SPANISH Across: 1 Lie, 3 Cubo, 5 Codo, 6 Also, 8 Olor, 11 Eat, 12 Sala, 15 Taza, 16 Loco, 17 Piso, 18 Sad.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Hexagram The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (DOZENS) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

Down: 1 Lado, 2 Echo, 3 Coasts, 4 Oso, 7 Sail, 9 Luna, 10 Regalo, 13 Años, 14 Acid, 15 Tap.

1. Unscramble the name of a popular television game show (four words): EL DORADO LANE 2. Unscramble the name of popular biscuits (two words):URGENT SIGN

Play on Words L O W ON

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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet.

In this week’s puzzle, 24 represents D and 7 represents J, so fill in D every time the figure 24 appears and J every time the figure 7 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares.

As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Abroad Asleep Awards Castle Colony Degree DOZENS(10) Duller Eighty Floats Handed Massed Meteor Prizes Reacts Rushed Sounds Swords Whiled

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Knight, 2 Reason, 3 Estate, 4 Awards, 5 Sharks, 6 Banged, 7 Reacts, 8 Grease, 9 Sanded, 10 Change, 11 Learnt, 12 States, 13 Nearer, 14 Hunted, 15 Grunts, 16 Barred, 17 Rested, 18 Rescue, 19 Wrench

FUNAGRAM SOLUTION 1.DEAL OR NO DEAL 2.GINGER NUTS

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C BAKERY is one of the newest additions to the Café scene in Quesada and is fast becoming one of the most popular.

Located just off the main street and opposite the tobacco shop, DC Bakery is a wonderful, little café, which opened in September 2011.

It offers all kinds of delectable delights from Lates, Cappuccinos, fresh brewed leaf tea to full lunches, hamburgers and their own mini-bakery, where chef Cathy prepares her cakes, baguettes and all kinds of freshly baked breads.

It’s truly scrumptious.

The soon to be husband and wife team, David and Cathy, are both from Belgium. By chance they met here in Spain, love blossomed and their latest venture together is the

DC Bakery in Quesada DC Bakery.

Ably helped by Ave and Gino, the team have developed the DC Bakery into a fabulous international meeting point in the centre of town.

The café is open from 7am until 7pm Monday to Friday.

On a Saturday they are open from 7am till 3pm and from 7pm till midnight with live entertainment from 9pm.

So what is the attraction and why is the DC Bakery such a popular little spot? In essence, much of this can be put down

to their friendly, personalised service, great food and variety of drinks.

For just €1.50, their coffee and croissant deal is a great way to start the day or up the ante a little and have their filling continental breakfast for just €3-€4.

Why not spoil yourself with a Tall Late, Cappuccino, Irish coffee, a cuppa from their selection of loose tea, served to you in an individual teapot, or one of their 10 Belgian beers!

If you are feeling peckish they have sandwiches, baguettes, fresh breads, Cathy’s very special Belgian meatballs, hamburgers, pasta, a kid’s menu and different Daily Specials.

Enjoy your coffee while surfing the internet with their free wi-fi; there’s a kid’s corner with games to keep them occupied, a large patio area and a friendly atmosphere, all making DC Bakery a café you must visit

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Now the summer nights are here, there is entertainment on the terrace or they will cater for your party. They offer a take out service on everything they make, so to reserve your daily bread or order your special occasion cake phone 965 067 873.

DC Bakery, Quesada’s place for freshly baked bread and pastries.

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5:40am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Crimewatch Roadshow 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 11:58am BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts. 12:00pm Real Rescues Documentary series which follows the dramatic day-to-day work of the emergency services.

12:45pm Doorstep crime 999 1:13pm BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt Game show in which two teams compete for the best bargains before they go up for auction. 2:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 2:45pm Wimbledon 2012

6:00am Let's Do Maths! 7:00am The Pingu Show 7:10am Pinky Dinky Doo 7:25am Timmy Time 7:35am Chuggington 7:50am Rastamouse 8:00am Roar 8:30am The League of Super Evil 8:37am Léon 8:45am Frankenstein's Cat 8:55am Newsround 9:00am Dick 'n' Dom Go Wild! 9:30am Nina and the Neurons 9:45am Big and Small 10:00am Tinga Tinga Tales 10:10am Little Charley Bear 10:20am Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 10:30am Bob the Builder: Ready, Steady, Build! 10:40am The Koala Brothers 10:50am Lunar Jim 11:00am Dipdap 11:05am Kerwhizz 11:30am Driver Dan's Story Train 11:40am Waybuloo 12:00pm In the Night Garden 12:30pm The Daily Politics 1:55pm Wimbledon 2012

4.00pm - midnight

4:25pm Deadly Art 4:40pm Prank Patrol Down Under 5:05pm Me and My Monsters 5:30pm HH: Gory Games 6:00pm Newsround 6:10pm Copycats 6:40pm Shaun the Sheep 6:50pm Wimbledon 2012 9:00pm Today at Wimbledon 10:00pm The Secret History of Our Streets 11:00pm The Culture Show 11:30pm Newsnight

7:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:30pm Regional News All the latest local news.

8:00pm The One Show Magazine series featuring a mix of interviews, topical reports and features from around the UK. 8:30pm DIY SOS 9:30pm EastEnders 10:00pm When I Get Older 11:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

11:25pm Regional News All the latest local news.

11:30pm Weather The latest weather information.

11:35pm National Lottery Midweek Draws Coverage from the Lottery HQ with the Thunderball, Dream Number and Lotto draws.

11:45pm Have I Got Old News for You Award-winning comedy quiz show in which celebrity contestants are grilled on the week's news.

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Channel 4

4:35am ITV Nightscreen 6:30am ITV Morning News 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning The popular morning lifestyle magazine show with advice, chat and competitions.

12:25pm ITV News 12:30pm This Morning The popular morning lifestyle magazine show with advice, chat and competitions. 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 3:00pm May the Best House Win

5:40am British F3 6:10am FIM Superbike World Championship 6:35am Ironman 2012 7:00am The Treacle People 7:10am Sali Mali 7:15am The Hoobs 7:40am The Hoobs 8:05am Freshly Squeezed 8:35am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Undercover Boss Canada 11:00am Four Rooms 12:00pm You Deserve This House 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Jamie's 30 Minute Meals 1:35pm Sainsbury's London 2012 1:40pm How to Cook Like Heston 2:10pm The Thirty-Nine Steps

CH4

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Everybody Loves Raymond Starring Ray Romano

4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm Sainsbury's London 2012 9:00pm River Cottage 10:00pm 24 Hours in A and E 11:00pm A Short History of Everything Else 11:30pm The Killing

4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm A Touch of Frost 6:00pm Tipping Point 7:00pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:30pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news.

11:35pm Magnum Force

Australia's version of the show in which children get the opportunity to pull pranks on their friends or relatives.

4:10pm The Lady Musketeer Starring Susie Amy

Channel 5 1:55am Super Casino 7:00am Thomas and Friends 7:10am The Wotwots! 7:20am City of Friends 7:35am Jelly Jamm 7:50am Peppa Pig 7:55am Castle Farm 8:00am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Make Way for Noddy 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Igam Ogam 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Extreme Fishing with Robson Green 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm The Mentalist

4:10pm The Lady Musketeer 6:00pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

6:30pm Neighbours Toadie and Sonya rush to the hospital after her collapse.

7:00pm Home and Away Alf encourages Lottie to set things straight with her mother.

7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm Police Interceptors Documentary series profiling the work of a highspeed police interception unit in Essex.

9:00pm World's Craziest Police Pursuits 10:00pm NCIS 11:00pm Big Brother

CH5 12:15am In the Electric Mist 2:05am Weatherview 2:10am Brick by Brick: Rebuilding Our Past 3:10am Arts Troubleshooter 4:10am Fake Britain Dominic Littlewood investigates scams across the U.K. 4:55am Great British Menu 5:25am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Doctor Who 8:45pm Doctor Who Confidential 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Cherry Healey: How to Get a Life 11:00pm EastEnders 11:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 12:00am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:30am Cherry Healey: How to Get a Life 2:30am Kidnapped and Drugged for Family Honour 3:30am Dead Boss 4:00am Snog, Marry, Avoid?

4:30am Don't Tell the Bride 5:30am Coming Here Soon

12:20am 7/7: One Day in London 1:50am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather. 5:00am Megabits 5:30am 3, 2, 1 Go!: Key Stage 3

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Time to Remembert 9:00pm Time Shift The Modern Age of the Coach.

10:00pm The Strange Case of the Law 11:00pm Garrow's Law 12:00am Borgen 1:00am Storyville 2:00am Time to Remember 2:30am Time Shift 3:30am The Strange Case of the Law

1:45am Jackpot247 4:00am Tango and Cash Two arch-rival Los Angeles cops reluctantly join forces when they are both framed by a drugs baron. Constantly at loggerheads over their differing styles of police work, they both end up in prison. Escape - and a truce - is their only option if they want to bring the real villain to justice.

SKY1 5:35am Airline 6:05am Don't Forget the Lyrics 7:00am Mission Implausible 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am Stargate Atlantis 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Best of Oops TV 1:00pm Glee 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Stargate Atlantis 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm The Middle 7:30pm Futurama 8:00pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Emergency with Angela Griffin 10:00pm Spy 10:30pm The Cafe 11:00pm Cop Squad

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12:00am Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Cricket England v Australia One Day International.

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12:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 1:00am Road Wars 2:00am Costa Del Street Crime 2:55am Polygamous Wives 3:50am It's Me or the Dog USA 4:45am Emergency Animal Rescue 5:35am Airline

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12:30am Random Acts 12:35am 2 Broke Girls 1:00am 4thought.tv 1:05am Spotlight 1:20am Nando's Gignics 1:35am Lovebox Festival 2012 2:00am Luke Bingham 2:10am Barclaycard Mercury Prize Sessions 2:25am Teenage Paparazzo 4:00am Southland 4:45am St. Elsewhere 5:30am Deal or No Deal

5:10am Ramona and Beezus 7:00am Soul Men 8:45am Calendar Girls 10:40am Knucklehead 12:25pm Transformers: Dark of the Moon Special 12:55pm Soul Men 2:40pm Just Go with it 4:40pm Tooth Fairy 6:30pm Super 8 35mm Special 7:00pm Calendar Girls 9:00pm Just Go with it 11:00pm Get Him to the Greek

12:55am Wild Target 2:40am Family Jewels 4:20am Get Him to the Greek

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:10am Chasing 3000 7:00am Intersection 8:45am Super 8 35mm Special 9:15am Legendary 11:10am The Joneses 12:55pm Love, Wedding, Marriage 2:35pm Sex and the City 2

6:55pm Burlesque 9:00pm Love, Wedding, Marriage 10:45pm Sex and the City 2 1:15am She's Out of My League 3:05am Flesh and Bone 5:15am Super 8 35mm Special 5:45am Listen to Your Heart

TCM 5:45am The Chaperone 7:35am The Longest Day 10:35am Small Soldiers 12:35pm Independence Day 3:00pm Captain America: The First Avenger

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5:10pm Thunderbirds 6:50pm Superman III 9:00pm Independence Day 11:30pm Captain America: The First Avenger 1:40am American Ninja 3:20am American Ninja 2: The Confrontation 4:50am American Ninja 3: Bloodhunt

TCM 6:00am Days of Heaven 7:35am Gunsmoke 8:35am Rawhide 9:40am Cast a Giant Shadow 12:20pm The Scarlet Claw 1:45pm Gunsmoke 2:50pm Rawhide 4:00pm Day of the Evil Gun 5:50pm I Died a Thousand Times 7:55pm Wild River 10:00pm True Lies 12:45am Enter the Dragon 2:35am Crime Wave 3:50am Teleshopping

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ITH a little effort, creativity and perseverance great gardens can be created in Spain.

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We suggest the following basic framework for a garden that matches a desire for an outdoor life as it is the main room of the house for most months of the year.

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The ingredients of an effective garden in Spain can be summarised as follows.

• Matches and enables an outdoor lifestyle for most of the year by, amongst other things, providing summer shade and sheltered winter sun. Only with these can a garden become the most used room of the house.

• An attractive and interesting network of terraces and paths.

Terraces of different sizes for different activities such as cooking and entertaining, sunbathing after a dip in the pool or a quiet winters read.

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• A number of interesting and contrasting mini gardens, patios or corners. The pool area treated as one of several mini gardens rather than the only feature of the garden.

• A variety of colour schemes painted with the many hues and textures of green foliage as well as the subtle or blazing colours of the flowers. With the generally benign climate an amazing range of flowering plants, fruit and vegetables can be grown provided the soil is first improved. But do be creative in how you group the flowering plants and integrate the growing of fruit and vegetables.

• The use of plants with interesting architectural shapes. Carefully sited groups of cordylines, cacti and aloes, or green or purple leaved aeoniums can be as effective as a bank of flowering shrubs.

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• Perfume throughout the year as one passes through the entrance gate and around the garden. Favourites include jasmines, roses, honeysuckles, galan de noche, san diego, frangipani, mock orange, citrus trees, freesias, lilies, passion flowers, sweet peas, geraniums, and naturally culinary and medicinal herbs.

• The growing of a variety of herbs for use in cooking as well as their natural aroma-therapeutic effects.

Herbs can be grouped in a herb garden or on a rockery or spread around the garden in mixed beds.

The traditional restful and at times inspiring sound of dripping water from a fountain, the running water of a waterfall into or between ponds or a creative mini water feature is made easy these days with solar pumps.

• The tasteful selection and placement of ornaments and groups of pots. Some of the later left empty and others planted up. Looking at the statues and ornaments stocked by many garden centres along the costas there are a wide range of tastes!

Inland stockists are often more conservative and traditional as their main clients are Spanish.

• The availability of cooking facilities that might range from a barbecue or paella dish and gas ring to a traditional brick oven, Spanish style outside kitchen or our favourite a solar cooker.

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In a compact system, where the tank and the panel are one unit, the tank must be placed higher than the collector. The water circulates naturally between the tank and the solar collector because of differences in water temperature. The system has a closed circuit filled with water and an anti-corrosive/anti-freeze solution.

Would a solar energy system replace my existing hot water system?

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•TORREVIEJA COSTA LIONS CLUB: Meet second Tuesday of month, 7.30pm at Cabo Severa Hotel, La Mata. 617 069 064 or davedanie@gmail.com.

•VELVETONES LADIES HARMONY CHORUS rehearse at El Paraiso Restaurant, Torrevieja, 2pm-4pm. Call 965 327 446.

•ROYAL BRITISH LEGION, Orihuela Costa and District meet at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras, third Thursday of month at 7pm.

Email helenlloyd1@gmail.com.

•LIONS CLUB Torrevieja Costa: 966 789 571 or davedanie@gmail.com.

•MABS Cancer Support Group meetings: sue@mabscancersupport.org.

FRIDAY • SHARE AND CARE GROUP: An informal get together for anyone affected by cancer at MABS Cancer Centre, San Javier at 11am. Call 693 795 247.

•CANTABILE SINGERS rehearse at Restaurant El Paraiso in Torrevieja, 2pm-5pm. 965 077 457 or jen-morton@hotmail.co.uk or www.cantiblesingers.es.

•CHESS CLUB Daya Vieja: 660 825 390.

•CYCLING GROUP Rojales: 966 716 442/653 433 933.

•CHOIR El Pinar de Campoverde: 966 763 446.

•MODEL BOAT BUILDING GROUP Los Alcazares: 968 170 870 or www.rcmarmenor sailinggroup.eu.

•PHILIP SCOTT LODGE No 10671 of RAOB now meet at a larger location; Bar Catorce in Benjofor from 7pm–9pm. Call 653 066 919.

Costa Blanca South’s best guide to local non-profit clubs, charities and societies Email whatson@euroweeklynews.com Fax 952 440 887 Post Euro Weekly News, Calle Moscatel 10, P-62, Poligono Industrial Arroyo de la Miel, 29631 Benalmadena, Malaga.

•ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY of St Peter and St Paul in Torrevieja offers services in six locations. www.c-of-e-torrevieja.com.

•BAKER FOUNDATION for Spiritual Awareness, Playa Flamenca: Sunday Service 11am; Clairvoyance Tuesdays 7.15pm; Healing Thursdays 10.30am12pm. 966 760 665.

•CHRISTIAN CHURCH English language meets at Alpha Centre, Los Nietos Viejos (Mar Menor) Sundays 10am: 968 133 724 www.losnietoschurch.es.

•CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH Pilar de la Horadada: Sunday service 11am; Thursday Bible Study and Prayer 5pm. 966 769 300/650 509 606

Churches or email: communitychurch@gmail.com.

•ROMAN CATHOLIC MASSES in Orihuela Costa: Call Don Joaquin Carlos on Fridays 5.30pm to 6.30pm.

•INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY Torrevieja: Sunday service and children’s church 11am; Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. 966 799 273/660 127 276.

•ST NICHOLAS ECUMENICAL CHURCH Camposol Sundays 10.30am: 968 138 952 or www. stnicholaschurchspain.com.

•ORIHUELA CHURCH SERVICES: Call 966 733 093.

•PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, Calle Canalejas 3, Pilar de la Horadada: Sun 11am; Thurs 5pm Bible study and Prayer.

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•MABS BOOKS SALE - weather permitting – The Arches Restaurant, Los Alcázares 10am-1pm.

• KNITTING CLUB Mazarron: 619 493 183.

SUNDAY •CYCLING GROUP Rojales: 966 716 442/653 433 933.

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•SAMARITANS Drop-in Café: Telephone 902 883 535.

•SEW ‘N’ SOs Sewing Group (MABS): mabsmurciane@gmail.com.

• 3 A M A R I N A B A I X A g e n e ra l m e e t i n g s e ve r y fo u r t h M o n d ay o f m o n t h a t C a s a d e l C u l t u ra i n A l fa z d e l P i a t 1 0 . 3 0 a m . www.u3amarinabaixa.com.

PilarChristian.CommunityChurch@gmail.com or call Reverend Eddie on 966 769 300 or 650 509 606.

•FREE REIKI by The Reiki Healing Association on the first and third Tuesday afternoons of each month. If not well, three free treatments given.

Call Age Concern 966 786 887.

•TORREVIEJA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68: Services Sunday 10.30am with Communion and children’s Sunday School plus Wednesday 6.30pm.

11am – 1pm. €2 donation for by MABS Cancer Support Group. Call 968 192 768.

•BENIMAR SOCIAL CLUB: 660 825 390.

•COMPUTER CLUB Torrevieja: 966 700 041 or www.torreviejacomputerclub.com.

•FORTUNA LADIES mabsmurciane@gmail.com.

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•SEEKERS LADIES CLUB Torrevieja: 966 784 033.

•MABS VOLUNTEERS MEETING, 11am at Las Claras in Los Alcazares. Call Bev on 693 362 823.

•HAH volunteers meeting at Bacchus Restaurant at the Oasis, Los Narejos, 11.30am (private room with disabled access). Call 648 735 540.

•ROUTE 66 BIKERS meet at Monty’s Bar in Urb Montebello, Torrevieja. http://www.wix.com/ davelathamspain/route-66-bikers!

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•TORREVIEJA RETIRED ACTIVITIES CLUB meet third Wed of month at the International Marina Club bar. Call Neil on 965 008 087.

•ARPO (Association of Retired Police Officers) Costa Blanca South meet second Wednesday of month at Sackos Bar, El Limonar, Torrevieja, at 10.30am. Contact Jim Wood, Secretary on 966 188 369 or email jameswood1226@hotmail.com.

•VEGA BAJA ASTRONOMY GROUP meet second Wednesday of month, 3.30pm-5.30pm at Lo Maribou Restaurant in Ciudad Quesada.

Contact 965 720 967 or deryjo@gmail.com.

•ART WORKSHOP at Cafe Golf, San Javier,

•SAILING ASSOCIATION MAR MENOR (SAMM), Los Alcázares meet second Wednesday of month at Las Claras Cultural Centre at 11am. john.down@sailingmarmenor.com and SHOESTRING Dinghy Sailing Group contact Oakley 965 352 445.

•STRICTLY SOCIAL friendship club 966 730 569.

•VELVETONES CHOIR is rehearsing at Windsor Bar, San Luis, Torrevieja, 10am-1pm, until further notice. Call 966 785 313.

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with Melissa Jayne Official UK Top 10 1. Maroon 5 – Payphone 2. Cheryl – Call My Name 3. Flo Rida – Whistle 4. Stooshe – Black Heart 5. Coldplay & Rihanna – Princess Of China 6. Rudimental – Feel The Love 7. Fun – We Are Young 8. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe 9. Usher – Scream 10. Paloma Faith – Picking Up The Pieces

Official Spanish Top 10 1. Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know 2. Cali & El Dandee – No Hay 2 Sin 3 3. Jennifer Lopez – Dance Again 4. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe 5. Jose De Rico – Rayos Del Sol 6. Paulina Rubio – Boys Will Be Boys 7. Loreen – Euphoria 8. Pablo Alborán – Te He Echado De Menos 9. Maroon 5 - Payphone 10. Cali & El Dandee – Yo Te Esperaré

Official UK Top 10 Downloads 1. Will.I.Am – Is This Love 2. Chris Brown – Don’t Wake Me Up 3. Maroon 5 – Payphone 4. Flo Rida – Whistle 5. Cheryl – Call My Name 6. Coldplay & Rihanna – Princess Of China 7. Fun – We Are Young 8. Rudimental – Feel The Love 9. Stooshe – Black Heart 10. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe

END OF THE ROAD: Westlife performed their last concert in Dublin.

Westlife’s final concert

IRISH boy band Westlife have reportedly played their last ever concert together as a band at Croke Park in Dublin.

The group, made up of Shane Filan, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Nicky Byrne, performed in front of a massive crowd of an estimated 80,000 fans in the Irish capital, performing all of their most popular hits and a few new covers. The performance lasted more than two

Record of the Week as chosen by Mark Rose: OWL CITY ft. Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time: This week’s single, chosen by our Breakfast Show presenter Mark Rose, is the latest single to be released from Adam Young, who is better known as Owl City, Justin Bieber’s protégée and girl of the moment Carly Rae Jepsen.

The track, which is to be taken from his new album The Midsummer Station, consists mainly of thumpy beats and quirky synths, and lyrically is about the fact they’re always having a good time. The single isn’t yet available to download digitally, and no official release date has been set.

Hot Gossip hours, and was also available to thousands of fans across the world live in cinemas. According to a source, Kian said to the crowd: “The idea

behind our last concert was to get out here, see our fans, sing our songs and celebrate the last 14 years.” Mark then added: “Our fans are what have made our dreams come true. You mean so much to us, you have never stopped supporting us. Thank you so much.”

UK newspaper The Sun also quoted lead singer Shane Filan as saying: “This is unbelievable. Tonight is the biggest, loudest and best crowd we’ve ever had.”

SyCo Countersues US One Direction MUSIC Mogul Simon Cowell and his record label SyCo are reportedly countersuing the American group One Direction for the rights to use the name in the States.

In April, we reported that US One Direction were suing SyCo for $1 million in damages and demanded that British band stop using their name; and now Cowell’s label Syco and Sony Music Entertainment have launched counterclaims that state the US group have “devised and perpetrated a scheme to exploit the goodwill” of the UK X Factor runners up.

However, the US group pointed out that their debut album The Light was released more than a year before UK One

MUSIC NEWS Direction even launched in the States. Despite their reasons, Syco and Sony Music Entertainment have continued with their counterclaim, suggesting that the British version would be more likely to miss out on revenue as their X Factor appearances have given them superstardom worldwide.

NASA works with Will.I.Am SUPER producer Will.I.Am has said he is “over the moon” (no pun intended) to be writing a song for NASA, which will be

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Speaking on his appearance on the Graham Norton Show, Will said: “There’s a rocket going to Mars, and when it lands, the signal it will send back will be the song.

It’s a project – my mission, which is to encourage kids to get involved in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. I want to inspire them to care about education.”

Will has also hit the headlines earlier this week when it was reported that the donated £500,000 from his fee from TV show The Voice to The Prince’s Trust to aid disadvantaged youngsters.

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Here are a few to consider: Ford Fiesta 1.4 Steel, 2003, 2 owners, 66,000kms, FSH, A/C, CD etc. Silver, €4,500. VW Golf Estate 1.9 TDi, 1 owner, 55,000kms, FSH, A/C, CD etc. Metallic Silver €7,950. Ford Fusion 1.4 2004, 5 door, 1 owner, 118,000kms, FSH, A/C, CD etc €4,750. Renault Megane Gran Scenic 7 seater 1.6 DCi, July 2011, 6 speed, 1 owner, 21,000kms, high spec “dynamique” model, alloys, climate, ½ leather, rain, light and parking sensors, Isofix, cruise control, Renault roof box and rails, Pearlescent Silver, showroom condition (cost over €25,000 new), 1 year’s manufacturer’s warranty, €18,950.

Renault Megane Scenic 1.6, 16 valve Autotriptronic, 2004,l 2 owners, 81,000kms, FSH, high spec “Privilege” model, alloys, cruise control, auto A/C, rain, light and reverse sensors, full leather, rear picnic tables, stunning condition €7,950. Over 80 vehicles in stock. www.fwreurocars.com 965 687 976 / 600 726 221 (99249)

Pergola Covers SAILS, carports etc. Tailor made durable canvas. POLYETHYLENE SAILS. Exhibiting Procomobel Market Guardamar Saturdays / Camposol anyday. 667 879 399 krugercanopies@in.com (98428)

GORGEOUS ENGLISH BLOND 45 years gives discreet massage, 1 hour or over night stay. 15 mins Alicante airport.Tel Karen: 662 049 021 (100826) ALICANTE MASSAGE FOR MEN. Qualified masseur in Alicante city, based 10 mins from airport, brings his services for men. Relaxing and sensitive massage, in discreet cabinet, different time sessions and rates, available from 10am to 11pm. Appointments at 649 761 607, more information at www.handsonyourskin.blogspot. com (101964) THE BLUE PILL - NOW EVEN BETTER. From €2, other products available. Don’t miss out.

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Ana 680 735 412 (98485) DO YOU want company? Do you want to make your sexual fantasies come true? 2 beautiful girls, Brazilian and oriental, 24 hrs, only home and hotel call-outs. 689 526 354 (98197) ELEGANT SLIM SEXY ESCORT LADY available, home/house visits. La Manga – Torrevieja Mazaron area. 693 357 526 (101904) THAI lady in Cabo Roig. For massage and lots of pleasure. 605 292 304 (98288) 18 year old Spanish girl, big natural breasts, beautiful body, excellent attention. Cabo Roig 637 052 300 (98287) ASHLEY - 29, English/mixed race Absolutely stunning, near Torrevieja Hospital, 665 883 576 (99040) ENGLISH lady, 42, provides various services for mature gentlemen. Torrevieja 681 362 442 (98290)

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ANIMALCOURIERS. A kind, caring door to door road service with Animalcouriers between the UK/France/Spain. Defra Authorised Type 2 Hauliers. Inspected licensed vehicle, 5 star accommodation for your pet’s comfort. animals@animalcouriers.com Telephone Spain – 635 155 962 / 656 894 477. UK 0044 (0) 1483 200 123 / 0044 (0) 7736 251 800 – web: www.animalcouriers.com (94351) ANIMALCOURIERS. Pet Air Travel with Monarch, Thompson, Thomas Cook and Jet2.com, both in and outbound, the alternative way to travel . Travel box loan scheme. animals@animalcouri ers.com Telephone Spain – 635 155 962 / 656 894 477. UK 0044 (0) 1483 200 123 / 0044 (0) 7736 251 800 – web: www.animal couriers.com Spain – UK – Oz – New Zealand – many destinations. Free quotations and advice. (94351) SMALL FRIENDLY BRITISH KENNELS individual runs, large exercise area. 25 mins Alicante airport. www.parkbark.co.uk 628 244 712 (101755) DEES KENNELS AND CATTERY, family run, with total commitment and individual attention, peace of mind guaranteed, ring for visit, 965 996 807 / 659 991 945 or email jan_watson@hotmail.co.uk (1003420) PET SITTING in my own home www.preciousperros.moonfruit.co m 630 129 478 (94974)

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Pet Transport EASYHORSE CARE RESCUE CENTRE. We aim to rescue HORSES. If you would like to DONATE please call 965 967 033 or sales@easyhorsecare.net www.easyhorsecare.net or call Sue 652 021 980 (95706) SPAMA GANDIA SHELTER. Dog and cat rescue registered charity, La Safor area. 500 animals awaiting re-homing. Shelter open 7 days a week 12noon - 2.00pm & 3.30pm - 7.00pm. (Spanish speaking staff) or phone Gail 962 896 118. Visit our website for directions. www.spama.org and view our new blog at www.spa ma-safor.blog.com.es PLEASE HELP US TO HELP THEM (95707) P.E.P.A. VOLUNTEERS & FOSTER HOMES URGENTLY NEEDED. By fostering an abandoned dog, or spending a few hours each week on our telephone helpline, you could help save the lives of many animals. Please call: 650 304 746.

For more information browse our website: www.pepaspain.com EURO WEEKLY NEWS CLASSIFAX AGENT (95708) GATAMI ORGANISATION, to help kittens and cats, looking for good homes, also spaying wild cats in the community. Kittens require adoption, fully vaccinated, dewormed, de-fleed. We also need volunteers to help Car boot sale in Polop on Sundays Tel Anna: 966 806 976 / 654 729 977 (95709)

VARIOUS properties, Torrevieja and surround, 2 beds from 300€ pcm, call Paul 966 785 891 / 659 647 616 miramarproperties@ya hoo.co.uk (101937)

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CANVASSERS required for Alicante airport. Native English speakers only. Good rates. Phone Simon 671 227 230 (99247)

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FANTASTIC Opportunity, 38,000 euros a year, expenses and contract for the right candidate. Visit www.companywatchers.com for full details. (96297)

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Catral/San Isidro. 3 bed villa, pool, garage, peaceful stunning mountain views. 966 285 544 (99036) 2/3 BED, 2 bath apartments San Miguel. Lift, communal roof top pool and solarium, video entry system. Available short/long term from €300 pcm. 966 723 437 / 636 615 716 (99020)

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Supercars and celebs line up SPAIN will feature in a 2,000 mile road trip scheduled in two months time.

Fifty supercars driven by a myriad of celebrities and prestige car owners will embark on the five-day Cannonball 2000 trip that will take them from London to Paris via Barcelona, Monte Carlo and Milan.

The event is in aid of the charity Dreams Come True.

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With entries ranging from the rare to the exotic, including a DeLorean DMC12 which film fans will recognise from the Back to the Future films, and a Lamborghini Gallardo LP570 Performante, the Cannonball 2000 is guaranteed to turn heads on its route across Europe.

Prestige British models including the Bentley Speed, Bentley GTC convertible and a number of Aston Martins, including a 1999 DB7 Vantage Volante (convertible) and several DB9 models, will join more traditional entries including a Range Rover Sport, Jaguar XK and a large number of BMWs and Porsche entries.

From the official formation grid start at the London Hilton Park Lane Hotel on September 5, the

event takes in dramatic scenery along a rewarding driving route complemented each evening by exclusive VIP experiences including a beach front party at the Hotel Arts in Barcelona, to Monaco’s famous casino and nightclub of the rich and famous, Jimmy’s, taking in the ambience of the F1 Grand Prix in Milan to the grand finale in Paris.

Celebrities already signed up as Cannonball participants are former twice world champion boxer Ricky Hatton, who will be driving his Bentley GT Speed, British soap stars Kelvin Fletcher and Ryan Thomas www.cannonball2000.com, or follow on Twitter @cannonball2000 and www.facebook.com/ cannonball2000rally.

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AECC Fun Day JULY 28, a family fun day event in San Fulgencio will take place to raise money for cancer charity AECC. A football match between a team from La Marina and a team from San Fulgencio Local Police is the main event, as well as a pool party at the outdoor pool, a bouncy castle, live music, giant paella and DJ. All proceeds will go the AECC. A charity golf day is also planned at El Plantio Golf, with prizes and a trophy. The cost is €50 for the round of golf including a buggy, with €10 of that going directly to AECC. If anyone is interested in joining the charity golf day, forming a team, or can help in anyway with the charity fun day and football match in July, please contact Sarah on 606 184 924 or email her at sbav@hotmail.co.uk.

€3,830 raised for Samaritans in Spain at charity golf event THE second annual Charity Golf event held at Las Colinas Golf and Country Club for the Samaritans in Spain was a complete sell out and ‘resounding success’.

A total of €3,830 was raised.

Main Sponsor John Williams of the Rental and Sales Centre Los Dolces was part of a team of 84 Golfers who teed off early morning in a shotgun start and although there were some serious competitors Las

Colinas Director of Golf Martin Eastgate, pulled out all the stops for the Charity Day providing each golfer with special bag badges, pitch markers, vouchers for two free drinks and a picnic bag as they made their way around the course.

Canal Print Rioja provided all the signs around the course and associated pre-day publicity making every sponsor known to the players and visitors alike.

The Dolly Dealers from the Hub Villamartin Plaza gave out drinks and prizes in return for a donation to the charity.

TOURNAMENT: Players in action.

Centurion 1st national rugby 7s

LAST weekend, Centurion rugby summer school held its first national rugby 7s tournament at Formentera del Segura Polideportivo, with new team Alcoy bringing 25 players together with San Javier, ITV Orihuela RFC, Centurion Baa Baas and Santa Pola Sharks as well as some UK based teams.

The Centurion Rugby Summer School is now in two weeks. For more information, call Garry on 692 767 242 or Ian Morrison the head coach on 634 367 295.

Eurogolf Society THE Eurogolf Society competition last week was the last Texas Scramble of the season, played at La Marquesa Golf & Country Club, Rojales.

The clear winners, with a score of 59.5, were the team of Pino Perito, Hedy Paehlig, Tom Corbett and Jan Shorley.

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Round the Island Charity Race The Sailing Association Mar Menor (SAMM) Charity race was held Sunday, raising more than €370 for Emaus.

The race took place from the CAR Sailing Centre at Los Narejos on the Mar Menor.

There were six boats taking part and the race started at 11.30am on a figure of eight course in a clockwise direction round Isla Perdiguera in the Mar Menor.

The next race will be on September 9 for the SAMM Autumn Series 2012.

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SECOND AND THIRD: The Miracle and Shoestring Tres.

Everyone is welcome to join in the next race in September, for more

information visit the website: www.sailingmarmenor.

com or email sammracing@yahoo.co. uk

Results on corrected times: Place First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth

Boat Catamaran Hamoor Miracle Shoestring Tres Dufour 24 Sailfish Sirocco Deltania Dos

Helm Mike Harding John Clarke Peter Cadwell Mike Waterfield Vernon O'Byrne Bob Cranston

Crew B.Harding,D.English,G.Wharrad,G.Lewis Doreen Squires Barry Young Tony Potter Rob Cheshire H.Cranston, G.Hamble, C.Wilkinson

SPAIN was once more gripped by Euro 2012 soccer fever last night (Wednesday) as the national side faced neighbours Portugal in a bid to reach Sunday's finals.

The game was scheduled for a 8.45pm kick-off, a couple of hours after EWN editions had gone to Press.

Meanwhile tonight (Thursday) Germany will battle it out against Italy in the other semi-final to decide the other side in Sunday’s final.

Last Saturday, after Spain had won their quarter final match against France 2 - 0 to reach the final four in the competition, celebrations went well into the night, backed by the San Juan Festival also on the same night.

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