Costa del Sol 24 - 30 January 2013 Issue 1438

ISSUE NO. 1438

24 - 30 JANUARY 2013

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Death walk cash plea A DEATH-TRAP walkway which has gained worldwide notoriety on YouTube has been pinpointed as a crucial tourism hotspot for the area.

The 100-metre high Caminito del Rey walkway clinging to the side of the El Chorro gorge features in several homemade videos posted on the internet site.

They show daring climbers braving the perilous path, at times walking on narrow iron beams with Turn to page 4

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Job losses SEVEN Mijas Racetrack staff have been made redundant and the four horse races scheduled for next month have been cancelled, Mijas Town Hall has announced.

Power moan EXTREME: Some climbers risk life and limb passing through one of the most dangerous stages of El Caminito del Rey mountain walkway.

COIN Town Hall is filing a complaint against energy supply company Endesa after power cuts of up to four hours across 80 per cent of the town last Saturday.

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THIRTEEN beds in the intensive care unit had to be used for non-critical cases after Malaga University Hospital’s A&E was overwhelmed by patients.

Photo show MALAGA CITY: Heavy rain caused chaos.

RESIDENTS of Malaga Province will be on their guard this weekend with the forecast for more heavy rains from Sunday. Flash floods in

recent days caused extensive damage, in the capital city. mainly

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MORE than 3,100 requests for compensation were received by the Insurance Compensation Consortium for damage caused by flooding in Malaga last year.

So far, the consortium, which is dependent upon the Ministry of Economy, has paid out €9 million of the €16 million worth of damage caused in September and November.

The bill was initially estimated to be more than €30 million.

Most requests for compensation were

for damage caused on November 17 in Malaga City. Of the 1,743 claims from that day 72 per cent have been paid a total of €3.13 million.

While most of the claims were for damaged homes, vehicles, shops, offices and industrial facilities were also included.

Meanwhile, the damage caused throughout the province in September will mean the consortium will have to pay out more than €10 million, mainly to Antequera, Villanueva del Trabuco, Alora, Ronda and Villanueva del Rosario.

A COLLECTION of 120 pictures by press photographer Cesar Lucas can be seen at Benalmadena Exhibition Centre from tomorrow (Friday) until March 31.

Tax discount MANILVA residents on the municipal register can now apply for a town hall discount on the IBI property tax.

For more information, call 952 893 548.

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A voice for the people THE Spanish Ombudsman, Soledad Becerril, says she will speak up for home-owners affected by last summer’s fires on the Costa del Sol. She wants the Junta de Andalucia and the Environment Ministry to speed up red tape so owners can rebuild their homes.

Stolen cable GUARDIA CIVIL found 4,000 metres of copper cable at Alhaurin de la Torre’s Platero II urbanisation, half of what was stolen from the streetlight network days earlier.

Easter art AN art exhibition on the topic of the Easter religious festivities and brotherhoods can be visited until March 24 at Malaga’s Revello de Toro Museum.

Man shot near nursery A KALASHNIKOV-WIELDING assassin killed a man with a burst of gunfire just metres away from a kindergarten.

The 56-year-old man was shot dead near the Atalaya Park Hotel in Estepona at 9.30am on Monday as parents were still dropping off their children.

He was shot in the head and back, Local Police reported.

Bullet holes were also found in

the Mercedes-Benz car he was driving which was in the middle of the road when paramedics found the body following a call from a witness.

Several nearby trees were in flames, and the man’s wife, who had run out of the house after hearing the shots, was in a state of shock.

Parents of children at the nearby nursery reportedly heard the shots,

though no children were hurt.

The victim has been identified as David A, a French citizen of Moroccan origin who worked at the Milady Palace nightclub in Marbella.

Initial investigations led police to the victim’s home, just metres away, where the perpetrators of the crime had reportedly been watching him.

The police will examine CCTV footage from the villa’s security system.

Holiday thoughts as Felipe faces royal work birthday Photos by Casa Real©

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Losing out THE price for a kilo of oranges varies by 750 per cent from the amount paid to farmers to the price paid in the supermarket.

Growers lose up to €0.07 per kilo of oranges produced and don’t even cover production costs.

Tree down ONE of the oldest ficus (rubber) trees at La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens in Malaga was blown down by the wind. The tree was estimated to be almost 170 years old and damaged several others when it fell.

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T will be a working birthday this year for Prince Felipe, Spain’s heir to the throne.

For next Wednesday - his 45th birthday - he is due to inaugurate the International Tourism Fair in Madrid (FITUR), accompanied by his wife Princess Letizia.

But perhaps the thoughts of the popular royal can turn to holidays given his working birthday surrounds.

The current Prince of Asturias, after studying in Spain up to the age of 16, Prince Felipe completed his secondary studies in Canada before returning home to attend the Zaragoza Military Academy, the Marin Naval School and the San Javier Flight Academy.

From 1988 to 1993 he

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Rajoy is who the future of Cataluña needs to be negotiated with.’

Pere Navarro, First Secretary of the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC), in an interview on a regional radio channel.

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Sticking point TWO vehicles got stuck on the Llano de la Cruz Bridge and in the Olivar de las Monjas tunnel in Ronda because they were too large.

Firefighters had to remove them.

Pet police MALAGA Local Police Nature Protection Group (Grupona) retrieved 204 animals in 2012, which were taken to the Recovery Centre for Protected Species.

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Baby spotted A BENNET’S WALLABY has been born at the Parque del Oeste in Malaga, a local daily reports.

The baby, approximately five months old, has been seen in its mother’s pouch and appears to be in good health.

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A working birthday for Felipe, seen (top left) as a boy and with his children (top right).

studied Law at a university in Madrid, and then completed a Masters Degree in International Relations in America in 1995.

A keen sportsman, Prince Felipe carried the Spanish flag at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games, as well as being on the national sailing team. Prince Felipe married divorced journalist Letizia Ortiz in Madrid in May 2004 and they now have two daughters, born in 2005 and 2007. As a family they live in the Prince’s Pavilion in the grounds of the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid.

When baptised - with the full name of Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbon y Grecia - General Franco was among those present.

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million foreign tourists visited Spain in 2012, 2.7 per cent more than in 2011, according to the Frontur Tourism Border Movement Survey published by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism.

ON Saturday, the Teodoro Reding Historical-Cultural Association will commemorate the 203rd Anniversary of Malaga’s stand against Napoleon’s soldiers. The event will start at 5pm in Avenida Lope de Vega, in the Teatinos area.

Bars checked THE number of bar and restaurant terraces set up in Malaga City outside local regulations has fallen from 62 per cent to 10 per cent since checks began last May.

Spots taken ALL 150 spots to sell secondhand goods at the Secondhand market in the Cortijo de Torres fairground from March have been taken, according to the council.

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AN off-duty police officer, 38, saved the life of a woman, 52, who fainted and fell onto the train tracks at the Marques de Vadillo station in Madrid.

He jumped on to the tracks and pulled her out of the path of the oncoming train.

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€1.49m plan to attract tourists MALAGA is teaming up with other Andalucian capitals and Madrid in a €1.49 million tourism plan.

The cities are planning 160 promotional activities in 30 countries worldwide.

Malaga Tourism Board is targeting longdistance markets such as the United States, Japan, Russia, Brazil and India, as well as European countries.

The Costa del Sol capital will be promoted to tourists who want to stay at least one week, looking for a whole Andalucian experience.

That is why Malaga City Hall has agreed to team up with Granada, Sevilla and Cordoba to offer a joint tourism plan.

Malaga will be presented to potential tourists as “the gateway to Andalucia, thanks to the airport and the cruise ship terminal,” Andalucia Tourism Managing Director Javier Hernandez said. The city will also take advantage of the high-speed railway connections with Madrid to attract more visitors.

Besides participation in the main tourism international trade shows in Madrid, New York, Berlin and London, the plan also includes a relaunch of website ‘malagaturismo.com.’ An online programme called ‘Enganchate a Malaga’ (Get hooked on Malaga) will feature promotional videos and newsletters.

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16 year sentence for child molester AN Internet child molester who operated from Malaga and Barcelona between 2009 and 2010 has been sentenced to 16 years and nine months in jail.

The man, aged 45, used different email accounts and tried to trick six under-13 girls into showing him their underwear and genitalia using a webcam. He was successful in two

Cash plea for walkway

cases, the girls being aged nine and 11.

According to the sentence by the Provincial Court of Madrid, he pretended to be a child singing star in order to gain their confidence.

He was also sentenced to pay €2,000 to each of the girls’ families as compensation for moral damage.

From front page nothing but fresh air between them and a 100 metre fall.

Known for its extreme danger, four people have died at Caminito del Rey in the past four years trying to climb the gorge, even though it had been closed to the public since 2000.

Now Andalucian Board of Tourism councillor Rafael CAMINITO DEL REY: An extremely dangerous trail.

Rodriguez is asking the Malaga provincial govern- carry out urgent renovation dangerous trail in the ment to cooperate with his of the crumbling attraction, world’ and ‘the Walkway of department. He wants to tagged by many as ‘the most Death’.

Joint fire A MARIHUANA plantation was uncovered by firemen inside a flat in Mijas. They were called by neighbours who had spotted clouds of smoke coming from the building. Twenty people had to be evacuated from the block.

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Historic bridge repairs WORK has begun on Ronda’s best-known monument, the Puente Nuevo.

One of its walls was damaged when a vehicle crashed into it, and will have to be taken down and replaced.

The crash was so severe that one of the balconies of the bridge which is used as a viewpoint has had to be closed.

However, the structure has not been damaged.

The work, which was inspected by municipal technicians, had to be authorised by the Junta de Andalucia Culture Department based on their reports and will cost some €7,000.

PUENTE NUEVO: One of the walls has been damaged.

It is somewhat complex as

Mayor proposes 7% cut THE Mayor of Marbella, Angeles Muñoz, has proposed salary cuts of 7 per cent until 2015 to avoid dismissals.

The proposal will be discussed at the following plenary meeting and then negotiated with the other parties in the local council as well as unions. It also includes the suspension of all bonuses for the next three years. Since 2006, the number of staff has been reduced from 3,455 to 3,133.

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there is nothing to one side of the wall making it difficult to manage the huge stones of which it is made.

It should be completed within 10 days, weather permitting.

While the stones are not in place, one lane will be closed to traffic.

The mayor, Mari Paz Fernandez, has requested a survey to determine the general condition of the bridge.

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Foreign residents triple in 10 years

Volunteer found dead AN 82-year-old man who went missing on his way home has been found dead.

Richard Sturman was last seen when he left the Cudeca Hospice in Benalmadena where he worked as a volunteer at 1pm on Tuesday last week (January 15).

Normally he would catch the Torremolinos bus and from the McDonald’s stop, walk to his apartment close to Plaza Costa del Sol. Police report that he died of natural causes.

TRAVEL FAST: International visitors taking the AVE train from Malaga station.

High-speed trains on a low budget THE Renfe High-Speed Train (AVE) is taking a leaf out of budget airlines’ books.

Tickets will be available with Ryanair style discounts of up to 70 per cent if bought well in advance.

Minister of Public Works Ana Pastor explained that this will be possible thanks to a new system, similar to the one used by airlines, which will allow bookings to be made further in advance.

She said that the tickets will have a set

price which can then be modified depending on the demand for a certain train and when the purchase is made. The aim, she said, is for people who have never travelled by train, especially youths, to be able to use the service and make it as profitable as possible.

“The AVE is currently the most efficient and competitive method of transport,” the minister added, “as well as being on time and covering long distances.”

THE increase in ‘Invaded’ towns foreigners registered in Malaga City, Marbella and Malaga Province over Mijas are the three main the last decade has municipalities with the largest number of been spectacular, foreigners, INE figures reported. The latter nearly tripling their has a 41.7 per cent share of foreigners in a numbers. population of more than 80,000. However, While in 2002 the largest share in the province is found in the small town of Benahavis, where official statistics the 3,715 foreigners account for recorded a total of 62 per cent of the 104,128 foreigners on population. the municipal register (padron) thus becoming residents and include those not on the not tourists - this figure padron.

EU nationals count for shot up to 292,257 in 2012. This is the latest two thirds of the foreign population record population in the published by the province, British expats National Statistics being the main foreign Institute (INE). contingent with more Foreigners made up than 75,500 registered.

7.8 per cent of the Other main European overall population in communities include - in Malaga Province in approximate numbers 2002. By last year that 17,300 Germans, 15,400 figure had grown to a Romanians, 12,300 17.8 per cent share. Italians and 7,900 And these figures do not Ukrainians.

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Top marks for airport helpers A TOTAL of 101,174 passengers with reduced mobility were helped last year at Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport.

And the vast majority of those asked were very happy with the service.

The average mark given by passengers with reduced mobility for the help provided was 4.7 out of five.

disability, age or any other cause of disability that requires Since the service for special passengers with reduced attention mobility was first offered at and the Malaga Airport in July 2008, nearly adaptation half a million people (483,770) of the have been assisted. service.”

HELP GIVEN: Services for the In general, disabled were rated 4.7 of 5. the service is provided at all Spanish the passenger at an with hand luggage and airports. Operatives collect assistance point to help sort out the check-in procedures.

The person is escorted through the security checkpoints - usually in a wheelchair - and to the guilty in the case linked to the three-and-a-half years and a €2.6 boarding area.

Malaya corruption scandal. million fine for money laundering.

There are 19 assistance The Fraud Office is also asking the The Public Prosecutor’s Office points scattered around judge to jail former Marbella Mayor reported that both Pantoja and Malaga Airport. They can Julian Muñoz, Pantoja’s ex-boyfriend. Zaldivar “were perfectly aware of the be found both inside and He faces seven-and-a-half years in illicit origin of the funds and goods outside the flight terminals, prison and €7.4 million in fines for that were given by Muñoz.” in the car parks, at The case has been on the front money laundering and bribery. And boarding areas and in the his ex-wife, Maite Zaldivar, faces pages of newspapers and TV shows. check-in areas.

They rated Malaga’s airport services higher than the previous year, sources at the Costa del Sol Airport managers (Aena) and the Ministry of Public Works reported.

According to them, a passenger with reduced mobility is “any person whose mobility when using transport is reduced due to any physical or intellectual

Star singer waiting for judge’s decision THE JUDGE is deliberating on the fate of Spanish singing star Isabel Pantoja.

All evidence and testimony has been heard in a money laundering case that has captured the imagination of the Spanish public.

She faces three-and-a half-years in jail and a €3.7 million fine if found

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The first ‘tourist car park’ in Spain VISITORS to Antequera can now park IN the tourist information office. The town hall has opened what it has called ‘Spain’s first tourist information car park’.

The 5,000 square metre Plaza Castilla car park, has been surrounded by large pictures and information panels giving a quick guide to the town’s attractions.

Additionally, an onsite exhibition room features the town’s main monuments and tourist spots.

The idea is that tourists can get the information they need as soon as they arrive in the historic town.

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Madrid TODAY: CLEAR Fri - 9 -1 Cl Sat - 11 -1 Cl Sun - 10 4 Sh

MAX 17C, MIN 9C Mon - 16 9 Cl Tues - 16 9 Cl Wed - 17 9 Cl

TODAY: CLEAR, Fri - 14 5 C Sat - 18 8 Cl Sun - 17 8 C

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TODAY: CLEAR, Fri - 15 3 Cl Sat - 15 3 Cl Sun - 16 3 Cl

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Mallorca MAX 13C, MIN 6C Mon - 16 9 Sh Tues - 16 11 Cl Wed - 16 11 Cl

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Benidorm TODAY: CLOUD, Fri - 18 7 C Sat - 19 7 Cl Sun - 18 10 Sh

MAX 9C, MIN 2C Mon - 11 4 Sh Tues - 11 6 Cl Wed - 12 4 Cl

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NATURAL LUNG: The surface to be recovered is equivalent to 25 football fields, Mijas town hall reported.

Mountain being brought to life MORE than 10,000 trees will be planted in what Mijas town hall has tagged as ‘the town’s largest reforestation ever’.

An investment of nearly €49,000 has made it possible to start bringing the 25hectares Los Borbotes natural park back to life.

The area in the Sierra de Mijas mountains was burnt by blazes in 1992.

Now an area equivalent to 25 football

fields will be replanted. First steps have already been taken, including the removal of foreign species considered by experts as invasive. Special machinery was used to prepare the land for the plantation of native trees and seeds.

When the reforestation is done – which the town hall expects to be by the end of next month – the tree density will have risen to 435 trees per hectare.

A MAN accused of attempted murder after he allegedly threw his partner off the third floor of their family home, goes on trial tomorrow (Friday.)

The incident happened in Calahonda, Mijas Costa, in 2011. The victim survived but was left with severe elbow and rib fractures.

It is alleged PJWM had a court restraining order against him at the time.

Now the prosecutor is asking for a seven year jail sentence plus €22,000 compensation.

Film festival entries open ANYONE wishing to put a film into the Marbella International Film Festival can do so now.

Submissions can be made by visiting www.marbella filmfestival.com free of charge. It is due to take place from October 2.

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Immigration centre to close for good A POLICE establishment which was the scene of a sexual abuse case, the Internment Centre for Foreigners (CIE) in Malaga, has now been officially closed.

The place had been used since 1990 as a temporary unit for illegal immigrants waiting to be deported.

Last July, Central Government Deputy in Malaga Jorge Hernandez announced that the centre was closing, as “both the staff and those institutionalised there had to put up with shameful conditions.”

Now it has been definitively closed and will not reopen.

The CIE had been surrounded by criticism over several years from various human rights organisations.

The darkest episode in the centre’s history happened in 2006 when, according to a Public Prosecutor’s Office report, five National Police officers - including the Head of Security - allegedly sexually abused immigrants in exchange for food and drinks, perfume, tobacco or to be allowed to make phone calls to their families.

The officers’ trial is scheduled for October and they are each facing up to 10 years in prison.

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‘Top tourism’ bid for Malaga City THE Andalucian Government has said it wants to promote Malaga City as ‘a top tourism destination’.

Local and regional political authorities met in Malaga, in order to share their plans and proposals for developing the tourism industry in the Costa del Sol’s capital.

Tourism associations and member firms of a panel which oversees tourism

promotion for the city (the Foro de Turismo de Malaga Ciudad) also took part in the meeting.

“Demands by the businessmen are mainly focused on private and public players working together to optimise results,” Andalucian Tourism and Commerce Councillor Rafael Rodriguez said after the meeting.

Abandoned cars an eyesore

RUSTY: Old motorbike.

UP to 168 abandoned vehicles were removed by Local Police from Fuengirola streets and sent to a scrapyard last year.

They included cars, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles and a camper van.

“The vehicles’ owners should take care of the necessary paperwork, which is basically going to the Traffic Office (Trafico)

to de-register it,” Citizen Safety Councillor Rodrigo Romero said.

Many scrapyards will pick up vehicles and provide the paperwork free of charge.

“Although people are becoming aware of this, sometimes they don’t and the vehicles end up looking dirty and rusty, which is not the image we want for our town,” said Romero.

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Online and over the airwaves ENGLISH-speaking radio station Bay FM is now live on 96.5 FM, serving listeners in Estepona and the surrounding area.

It also broadcasts online via its website: www.thebayfm.com.

Previously transmitting to the Campo de Gibraltar and San Roque areas, “the relaunch will bring a different type of radio station to the area, playing the music to make you feel good,” Bay FM owner Mike Martin said.

“It will be a local station for Englishspeaking residents, with local news and comment.” The station is also reachable on a smartphone via the TuneIn application.

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Skiing conditions improve in the Sierra Nevada Thanks to several new snowfalls and lower temperatures keeping the snow in good condition, the Sierra Nevada has been able to open 15 more runs.

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At the time of going to print there is 150cm depth at the top and 50cm down in the village further light snowfalls are also expected.

The most recently opened slopes are: Carnero (Laguna); Visera, Radiotelescopio, Piornos, Cantera, Fuente del Tesoro, Neveros - Tubo del Enebro (Loma de Dílar); Panorámica, Tubo del Veleta, Descenso Damas (Veleta), Tubo de Borreguiles, Variantes Morillas and La Playa (Borreguiles).

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THE Melia La Quinta Hotel, between Marbella and Benahavis, will open seven months a year under an agreement between owners and trade unions.

Although Comisiones Obreras union representatives asked for nine months during negotiations, they accepted the proposal by Grupo Pascual.

Staff will also be paid compensation of 35 days wages, instead of the 20 days initially proposed. This will apply to all workers, whether they decide to sign the new contracts or not.

Earlier negotiations had become tense as all 33 hotel workers were on the verge of being fired.

Top marks for local Benalmadena hotel TRAVEL website TripAdvisor.com picked out 16 hotels in Malaga province in its 2013 Traveller’s Choice Hotels Awards, Spain.

The five-star Vincci Seleccion Aleysa hotel in Benalmadena was named as the ‘Top Luxury Hotel’ in Spain, also ranking first in the Top 25 in this category at a European level.

The annual Traveller’s Choice awards are given following the score and reviews of the webpage’s users to more than 650,000 hotels worldwide.

Awards are given in several categories including ‘Top Hotels’, ‘Small Hotels’, ‘Bargain’, ‘B&Bs and Inns’.

In Spain, 122 hotels have been

TOP CHOICE: Five-star Vincci Seleccion Aleysa named first in Spain’s hotels ranking. given awards, out of which 16 are located in Malaga province.

Andalucia, Catalonia, the Balearics and the Canaries were the regions

with the largest number of awards.

“Guests’ compliments are the best acknowledgement a hotel could get,” said managing director Sara Gonzalez.

Change of age for consent to sex DOWNING STREET officials have suggested lowering the age of consent to 14 and a relaxation of laws against public nudity.

Frisky fall A COUPLE who fell over a 12-foot stone wall while in the throes of passion sparked a major emergency rescue operation in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Lotto rise

PEOPLE caught throwing snowballs at strangers, vehicles or houses could be arrested for anti-social behaviour in Durham.

LOTTO tickets are to increase from £1 (€1.20) to £2 (€2.40) for a line of numbers. However, the prize for matching three numbers will rise from £10 (€12.05) to £25 (€30.10).

Hungry cat A KITTEN in Sheffield, who

Dog death ALAN, the in-house dog of Tatler magazine, was killed after getting stuck in the revolving door to the publication’s offices in London.

1st painting THE FIRST official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge has been met with divided opinion.

The painting was done by artist Paul Emsley.

THE company that was granted Marbella’s La Bajadilla Port project has been given yet another three-month deadline for paying two fees of €750,000 each.

Firm Nasser Abdullah & Sons – owned by Malaga CF football club owner Sheikh Al-Thani – and public company Puerto Deportivo de Marbella have been notified by the Andalucian Public Ports Agency (APPA) that they must pay the annual fees for years 2012 and 2013, before April 21.

The joint company is also required to fulfil several conditions, including paying the expenses of companies that currently provide private security, management and ship control at La Bajadilla.

It is also required to provide an administrative and technical framework for the port’s enlargement project.

Should these requirements not be fulfilled, the company may lose the contract.

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Flood victims still waiting for promised public aid A LOBBY of residents in Alora, Cartama and Pizarra has been created to ask for promised public aid after September’s floods to be paid as soon as possible.

Four months on grants from the Central Government have still not being given to floods victims in the Guadalhorce area. The government’s deputy office in Malaga

reported that they understand the victims’ desperation, but that damage reports provided by each of those affected are still being examined.

Gales keep firemen busy FIREMEN were called to 26 different wind and storm related incidents in Malaga province last weekend.

Fallen trees were the problem in nine cases in the towns of Manilva, Cartama, Antequera, Archidona, Rincon de la Victoria and Ronda. In the latter, two street lampposts also fell due to the strong winds.

Firemen also helped those involved in a car accident in EstacionBobadilla. The winds also tore away the metal roof of a house in Cuevas Bajas and damaged a home in Ronda. In both cases, owners were helped by firemen. As if that was not bad enough, bin fires had to be extinguished in Maro, Alameda and Alhaurin de la Torre.

LIFE-SAVERS: Firemen in one of their rescue actions.

The aid announced last November by the Central Government included €8,000 in compensation for agricultural, industrial or trading goods, up to €2,580 for personal belongings and 50 per cent of the cost for homes.

“I have lost up to €30,000 as I cannot collect my lemon crops,” Francisco Sanchez from Pizarra said.

“The fields are my daughters’ and my daily support.”

During the September 28 floods two people died and around 300 people had to be evacuated due to torrential rain. The 112 emergency service number in Andalucia registered 260 incidents in the Malaga Province in one day.

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Family’s €103,000 payment THE Andalucian Health Service has been ordered to pay €103,390 to the relatives of a woman who died in 1996.

The woman, 67, was admitted to the Emergency Room at the Civil Hospital in Malaga after being hit by a vehicle. Doctors did not take into account that she was already taking an anticoagulant medicine which increased the risk of internal bleeding.

She was released from hospital but had to return just hours later when her condition worsened and was sent to the Carlos Haya Hospital in Malaga. She later died due to internal bleeding.

The Andalucian Supreme Court of Justice has ruled in favour of the family thanks to the appeal presented by the Patients’ Ombudsman against a previous sentence from a Sevilla court.

1,600 Spanish apply for au pair job in London MORE THAN 1,600 Spanish applied for an au pair’s job in England when it was advertised online.

Proof that more young people among the high unemployment ranks

in Spain are now seeking work abroad was clear when mother-of-two Rosie Murry-West sought family help.

“Out of an avalanche of more than 2,000 applications wanting to work as

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a family au pair, 80 per cent were from Spanish job seekers,” said the London-based mother of two.

“And many were really overly qualified,” she added.

Beatrice Lomez, formerly of Nerja who has been working in Britain as a waitress for eight months, said that to increase her hopes of finding work long term in Spain, “I knew I needed better English, and the best way was to work in London.

“I should really mix with more British, but when I have free time I go around with Spanish girls I share a flat with,” said the 24-yearold.

While a decade ago many Spanish who took jobs in the UK did so just as summer work, now many view moves abroad more long-term.

Ana Licarzo has been in Brighton for just over a year. She now works in a travel agency, although originally joined a family as an au pair. She misses future matadors.

Jacobo Florido, who is family “and the better in charge of tourism and Spanish weather,” but bullfighting in the accepts she may need to province, participated in work in England “for some giving the capes to the years as I can’t see things students, who range improving much in the near from the age of 15 to future, and I am still only 23.”

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Government help in eviction cases OFFICES giving information, advice and protection to those at risk of home eviction will be available to 21 more municipalities in Malaga province.

Town halls of inland townships inlcuding Archidona, Ojen, Ardales and Villanueva de Tapia – among others – have become members of the ‘Programme for home protection against evictions’, supported by the Andalucian government.

This office has been available in Malaga city since last October, attending to more than 200 people from all around the province in only three months.

They have filed 152 reports against evictions, out of which 40 per cent had positive results for property owners.

More information: 951 038 356.

TWENTY THREE students in the art of bullfighting have been given a helping hand by the council.

They have been given 14 new red capes, which will help them carve out a future as the country’s

Religion teacher faces jail A RELIGION teacher is finally facing jail for abusing children years after parents first complained.

He is accused of continuous sexual offences against eight children between 2003 and 2011.

And it is the parents themselves who have brought the prosecution years after they first alerted the school.

The parents from the Colegio Publico Virgen del Camino de Rubia de Valdeorras, Ourense, Galicia, complained to the Education Ministry, whose inspectors had him suspended from duty.

Now prosecutors, who are handling the case for the parents, are demanding a 19 year jail sentence and fines of between €2,000 and €4,000 for each child he allegedly abused.

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Business as usual despite strike IT was business as usual at hospitals and health centres as just 3.74 per cent of doctors backed the first day of a series of strikes.

While the Medical Union said a third of the doctors who can freely exercise their right to strike have backed it, the Andalucian Health Delegation reported only 85 doctors out of a total of 2,274 on the morning shift joining the protest.

Activity was reported to be almost normal at the Carlos Haya Hospital in Malaga, while the University Hospital had to postpone 10 operations as three operating theatres were closed along with seven doctor’s offices.

The Health Delegation said the strike was backed by just two doctors in the Malaga district and none in the Guadalhorce Valley area.

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response to the Junta de Andalucia increasing a working day to 37.5 hours for no extra pay. The Junta argues that these measures have been “imposed” by central government.

Staff at health centres and hospitals throughout Andalucia will take it in turns to go on strike in a series of one day protests until June 4.

Doctors at Carlos Haya, Malaga University Hospital and the Malaga-Guadalhorce Valley District are called to strike again on March 6 and April 24.

The regional hospitals and health centres in the Antequera, Ronda and Axarquia areas will be on strike on February 5, March 20 and May 9; and the Costa del Sol health centres, Costa del Sol Hospital and the Chare in Benalmadena on February 19, April 10 and May 23.

€1.5m street works THE first works for pedestrianising Avenida Miguel Cano, one of Marbella’s main streets, started earlier this week.

The €1.5 million works will involve renovating the pavement, benches and fences, flowerbeds

and the sewage system, the City Hall reported.

At the same time natural gas pipes will be laid and work to improve the electrical supply carried out. “This has been long demanded by residents,” Mayor Angeles Muñoz said.

Early Picasso works to be exhibited

PRIOR CUBISM: ‘Old Fisherman’ is one of Picasso’s early works on exhibition.

THE Museo Picasso Malaga museum in Malaga city will be exhibiting a new temporary collection from February 25 to June 9.

‘Picasso of Malaga. Earliest Works’ is an evocative look at the Malaga-born artist’s earliest years, the museum said. Fifty five of Picasso’s works are accompanied by 65 pieces from other artists and a large amount of documentary material.

Visitors will get to see the family environment, cultural atmosphere and urban surroundings of the city where Pablo Picasso was born.

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Ups and downs of the Metro MALAGA Mayor Francisco de la Torre has stressed that the Metro should run underground throughout the city centre.

He declined the Andalucian Government’s proposal to build this stretch of the line overground and their guarantee of the project’s technical and economical viability.

De la Torre announced that he will try to negotiate with Andalucian Government President Jose Antonio Griñan.

“If the Andalucian Council of Public Works has said they have a budget of €200 million to build the Metro course overground from the Guadalmedina station to El Palo area, obviously they could use it for building the underground stretch to La Malagueta beach for a lot less money,” he said.

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Taxi drivers split over who can operate at the airport TAXI DRIVERS in Malaga Province are divided over who has the right to pick up passengers at the city’s airport.

While Malaga City drivers claim it has traditionally been an area exclusively

reserved for them, drivers from other towns defend their rights given by law.

Marbella City Hall was the latest one to support its local taxi drivers, asking the Central Government’s Deputy Office in

Curtain up for Malaga Theatre Festival THE 30th Malaga Theatre Festival (Festival de Teatro de Malaga) has already started at Malaga’s Cervantes and Echegaray theatres.

The festival will be running until February 10.

Among the forthcoming plays, tomorrow (Friday) will see the premiere of John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ at the Cervantes theatre from 9pm. It will also be performed on Saturday at 8pm, with tickets costing €20.

A different programme is scheduled for the Echegaray theatre.

More information: www.teatro cervantes.com CLASSIC DRAMA: ‘La loba’ tells the story of Hubbards during the American Civil War.

Malaga to guarantee their safety when working at the airport, Malaga Port and the Maria Zambrano railway station.

“It is absolutely unthinkable that our taxi drivers cannot pick up or drop off passengers. Tourism is crucial for this city,” Mayor Angeles Muñoz said.

Other town halls in the province, including Torrox and Nerja in the Axarquia area, have also supported their local drivers’ rights, reporting the situation to higher authorities.

Malaga City taxi drivers held a demonstration in December against an Andalucian law which allows any taxi cab previously booked to operate at the airport or port.

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Underground bins to remain closed WINTER SWIMMING: The next stage will be held in Antequera on February 9.

Making a splash RONDA hosted the first leg of Malaga province’s Seventh Winter Swimmers Circuit on Saturday.

A total of 147 swimmers from all around the province including Nerja, Benalmadéna and Vélez-Málaga, competed in different age groups and disciplines.

SEVENTY per cent of underground recycling bins in Benalmadena remain closed six months after

Sports stars spotted TWO major sports stars have been spotted on the Costa del Sol. Retired Dutch footballer Ruud Van Nistelrooy was seen enjoying dinner in La Sala Restaurant in Puerto Banus, posing for photographs with other diners and members of staff.

two accidents in which one man died and another was injured.

The first accident occurred in

Avenida de Las Naciones on August 22, when one of the ‘islands’ collapsed on a corporation worker who lost three fingers from his right hand.

Just a week later, in Avenida de Gandhi, another man got trapped in one of the islands, which crushed his pelvis and killed him due to internal bleeding. The 53-yearold was carrying out maintenance work at the time and he died at Malaga University FOOTWORK: Van Nistelrooy (right) has scored 60 goals.

Hospital.

In August, the ‘ecological islands’ as The ex-Manchester eatery El Rincon de La they are known, were United footballer also took Sala in San Pedro has closed as a part in the Three Kings hosted former England precautionary measure parade through Marbella footballer Trevor Francis, while they were who was spotted out with earlier this month. checked, but to date, Meanwhile, sister family.

70 per cent of the 80 containers in the town have not been revised.

The Councillor in charge, Juan Olea, reported that three and to Malaga Port. Tarragona – so a independent That is expected to grow diversion towards companies would by 7.3 per cent this year, Madrid would not be inspect the rubbish the Andalucian Govern- needed anymore. containers and issue ment reported.

From Catalonia, the reports on the It also highlighted that train route would mechanism which up to 825,000 cruise connect to France and opens and closes ship passengers are thus the European Union them. “Until all three expected to arrive at the railway network. have issued their Port by 2016.

For trading purposes, reports” he said, “the The importance of the freight trains coming town hall will not ‘Corredor Mediterraneo’ from the EU would get authorise their reproject lies in two more easily to Malaga opening.” He said the factors. and other Spanish ports, company in charge of For train passengers, as the ‘Corredor collecting rubbish has it would enable them to Mediterraneo’ project been asked to place take a direct train from also involves adapting containers above Malaga to main cities on the railway tracks and ground in the affected the Mediterranean coast other technical areas for the use of – including Almeria, specifications to EU local residents.

Murcia, Valencia and standards.

High-speed train demand THE ‘Corredor Mediterraneo’ high-speed train route, currently planned to go from France to Murcia along the Mediterranean coast, should reach Malaga too.

That is the demand of Andalucian Economy Councillor Antonio Avila, is making to central government.

He based his demands on the idea that Malaga Port is strategically important for business and tourism.

Last year, up to 5.15 million tons of traded goods were carried from

Patron saint day celebrations LOCALS and visitors attended the Fourth Gastronomy Day in Alhaurin de la Torre to mark the town’s patron saint day.

The celebration for St Sebastian was held at Plaza de España by

local association El Blason del Biberon, with the support of the Council of Festivals and Tourism.

Gastronomy Day was divided in two stages. The first saw the cooking contest, where more than

60 people prepared recipes for a €100 first prize. Then the attendants were served the dishes.

Children played on inflatable parks while adults and youngsters saw a live music concert.

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Around the world attraction MIJAS, saw a rise in Asian, Scandinavian and French holidaymakers in 2012.

According to the tourist office in Virgen de la Peña square they made up half of the town’s tourist trade.

The rest are Spanish, British and German. Even so, the total figure of people who visited the tourist office fell. But town hall spokesman Mario Bravo isn’t worried.

“Thanks to the Internet, people bring information with them. I think it’s great they find out about the region before they come.”

He also thinks 2013 will be an even better year. “I expect to see more Chinese tourists now their country’s government has become less strict and more visas are granted. Hopefully more Japanese will also come, like in the 80’s.”

Stepfather held for alleged child abuse A MAN has been arrested in Lleida, Cataluña, accused of raping his stepdaughter and two other underage girls.

National Police report that the alleged attacker, of South American origin, has lived in Spain for many years. He is accused of sexually

READY: A town hall operative changing the sign of Calle Bermeja.

Signed up SEVERAL streets in Marbella’s old town are getting their signs replaced by new ceramic ones. The City Hall wants to ‘keep a harmony’ in this area for tourist reasons.

abusing his stepdaughter since she was 12, when they were still living in his country of origin, until she was 15, when they were living in Palma de Mallorca.

The girl was allegedly forced to have sex with him, and he used physical violence if she refused, as well as threatening reprisals against her younger brother and mother if she told anyone what had happened.

The National Police Family Attention Service in Palma de Mallorca discovered what had happened after the accused separated from the girl’s mother, who later decided to report him.

Investigating officers were able to identify the other two minors involved, friends of the victim, who were also sexually abused by the accused. He had threatened to publish intimate videos of them if they did not submit to his demands.

He has been remanded in custody.

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A musical treat gives cash boost VIOLINIST Thomas Timm and pianist Cordelia Höfer gave a recital on Wednesday at the Malaga council auditorium. Played were classics by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert.

Tickets were €10 each and all takings were given to the David Sbündler Association, which funds scholarship programmes for up and coming professional musicians.

Advice centre AGE CARE Association is opening a new advice centre at Dona Lola in Calahonda, Mijas Costa.

Coffee mornings take place every Tuesday from 11am.

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Murder conviction overturned A MAN jailed for 15 years for the murder of his exgirlfriend has been declared innocent by the High Court.

In confirming an earlier appeal against his conviction the court ruled it could not be proven that he had murdered Mari Cielo Cañavate, in Hellin (Albacete) in October 2007.

The judge, Antonio del Moral, said despite FRG having a ‘cold attitude’ or that evidence he gave was contradicted, there was not enough proof against him for a safe conviction.

FRG was released from prison in Albacete last March. At the time he said: “I have always had confidence in my lawyer, justice and God. The time spent in prison has been very difficult for me and my family. I have always believed in justice and I knew this was going to happen.”

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Record plans WORLD record breaker Alan Priddy was in Gibraltar to see how preparations are progressing for the record attempt for the fastest powerboat to circumnavigate the globe.

Best wishes THE Ministers for Sport and for Equality and Social Services, sent their best wishes to the Gibraltar Special Olympics Team who will be participating at the World Winter Games in South Korea this month.

New licence PLAZA SANTO CRISTO may be a typical street in Marbella Old Town, but never believe Spain in winter is just about seemingly empty surrounds, white-

washed town houses and blue skies. Here, almost all the colours of the rainbow, and many more, provided EWN photographer Ruth Jones with a picturesque shot

with a multi-coloured sporty Vespa scooter a focal point with brightly coloured washing and potted plants adding further to make it all as pretty as a picture.

GIBRALTAR’S new photo-card driving licence regulation came into effect this week. It will be issued to new drivers after January 19 in the new format.

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Political shake up by Party X left-wing policies.

A NEW political group The party says it aims ‘Party X’ has been created to put an end to with a view to shaking up cutbacks and create a the governing system.

State of wellbeing, with The party says it aims the slogan “the first to give “power back to the thing to do to get people” and has one out of a well is goal: democracy. to stop However, who is digging.” behind this new The plan is group is a mystery. that laws All that is known is which directly there are nearly 100 affect people people forming the should be voted party which has been for directly by officially registered with the Interior the citizens.

Ministry.

There are plans Their promotional to create laws videos use direct publicly, using the language and slogans internet and post similar to those seen offices, town halls from the proposals of and other public the 15M and 25S antibuildings. government Everyone can NEW PARTY: But who are they? movements in Spain last take part and there year. There is no clear ideology as the would be no spokespeople or political movements criticised both right and reps.

Carromero back to work as usual ANGEL CARROMERO, the leader of the New Generations branch of the conservative Partido Popular, is back at work following a few days in prison.

Carromero was sentenced in Cuba to four years in prison after a road traffic accident in which two opponents of the regime were killed.

The agreement between Spain and Cuba allowed his extradition, even though he had only spent 13 days in prison and he has now returned to his position as technical advisor to councillor Begoña Larrainzar in the district of Moratalaz, in Madrid, earning €50,500 gross per year.

“This is an enormous abuse” said Luis Miguel Lopez Reillo, secretary general of the General Workers’ Union (UGT), and explained that it is impossible to touch this amount because it is a position of confidence approved by a party which is in absolute majority.

‘In practice the position is practically non-existent and is little more than a post box for the citizens’ explained the secretary of the UGT. Without doubt what annoys the groups most is the fact that Carromero has returned to work as if nothing had happened.

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Alleged tax scam uncovered THE Tax Department has reported 23 businesses in Barcelona and Girona dedicated to importing Chinese goods for a €64 million tax fraud.

The companies, which import Chinese goods for wholesale, allegedly failed to declare the sum in VAT (IVA) returns between 2007 and 2011 and neglected to pay their Company Tax. Forty-three people are implicated, the majority of whom are of Chinese origin, and a private Customs Officer.

The wholesale businesses are mostly situated in the Barcelona area and had allegedly created a complex network to hide the true value of imports to customs.

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Four robbers hold toddler at knifepoint in Chinese shop A TODDLER was held at knifepoint by robbers before being rescued by his stickwielding father.

Four men wearing hats and scarves entered a Chinese bazaar in Malaga city at 11pm when the owner’s wife was behind the counter and her four-year-old son was playing by her side.

One of them grabbed the boy and threatened him with a knife while demanding the money from the till, while the other threatened the woman with a truncheon. The shopowner grabbed a stick and ran out to protect his family, causing the intruders to flee the scene.

Police are searching for the perpetrators. It was the second robbery in a Malaga Chinese bazaar in 24 hours.

A 43-year-old Chinese man who runs a shop in Calle Marmoles was left in intensive care at Carlos Haya Hospital in an induced coma after being stabbed.

According to witnesses he had accused a group of youths of stealing a bag of crisps costing €0.30. An argument began during which one of the youths took out a knife and stabbed the man in the neck.

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Sunglasses seized TWO Chinese nationals operating from a warehouse in Malaga’s Guadalhorce industrial area were held by the Guardia Civil accused of counterfeiting.

More than 1,200 fake RayBan sunglasses, as well as

A MEMBER of the Italian mafia, Vittorio Maglione, 47, was arrested in Mijas.

Maglione, who goes under the alias ‘Naso Stuor’ and is a member of the FerraraCacciapuoti clan, was located by Guardia Civil in a high-class restaurant in Mijas.

Due to his dangerous and violent character, the officers decided that it was best to let him leave the restaurant before attempting to arrest him.

When he was

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Knife chase A MAN aged 47 was held by National Police in Marbella after chasing another with a knife, with the alleged intention of attacking him in a dispute over a stolen mobile phone.

Man held A 40-YEAR-OLD man sought by the Argentinean authorities in a counterfeiting case, for which he faces six years in jail, was held by police in Malaga.

No fire ITALIAN: Vittorio Maglione was one of Italy’s most wanted. detained, he allegedly produced false ID. The investigation began last year when Guardia Civil learned the man,

similar products and clothing from other popular brands, were seized during the raid.

Investigations had begun after one of the suspects was held at Malaga Airport, coming from China.

Around 6,000 metallic Ray-Ban logo pins were found in his luggage.

Officers contacted the aforementioned company, so they could file a police complaint.

Payback four months later A MAN aged 34 has been sentenced to six years in prison for raping a woman in the toilet of a Benalmadena disco.

one of Italy’s most wanted, could be living on the Costa del Sol. He fled Italy after being sentenced to 15 years in prison for

He had blocked the door and threatened his victim, aged 18, with a broken glass before assaulting her.

Although she reported it to the National Police the same night, it was not until four months later that she spotted her attacker again. Police arrested him at a polling station where he was working.

Arcade hall raid THREE were held by the National Police in Torremolinos for allegedly making deaththreats against the owner of an arcade hall. Police seized a loaded 6.35mm pocket pistol from the suspects.

international drug smuggling, the clan’s main activity.

He will be put before the National Court for an extradition hearing.

When the officers arrived at the arcade hall, they found the owner hiding in the toilet being harassed by those arrested, police sources reported. The alleged victim had already reported previous threats by the same people.

Scratch trial A MEMBER of the Andalucian Workers Union (SAT) is on trial in Marbella for allegedly scratching a National Police van with a key during the general strike in March last year.

The prosecution is asking for fines of €377 for the damage and €500 for insulting the police.

Drug network broken up by police A DRUG network that was allegedly trying to smuggle 93 kilos of cocaine into Spain has been broken up

by National Police. Five people in Galicia and two in

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Malaga were arrested as alleged members of the gang.

The drug was supposed to come to Spain from Bolivia via Chile through

Algeciras Port (Cadiz).

Chilean customs seized the cocaine which was hidden inside blocks of marble, before it was shipped to Algeciras.

Thanks to co-operation between the Spanish and Chilean authorities, the investigations led to the arrest of the alleged gang members.

TWO youths, both 17, were caught by Local Police setting fire to a motorbike in Malaga.

Thanks to the rapid action of the police, the motorbike was not seriously damaged.

Two arrests TWO people were arrested after they were caught carrying more than 21 kilos of hashish in their vehicle.

They also had €2,000 in cash and seven mobile phones, Malaga Guardia Civil claim.

Crops theft TEN tonnes of olives were stolen from three properties in Malaga province in just two days, the Young Farmers’ Association reports.

It is demanding that police increase surveillance in rural areas.

‘Nilo’ scam THE Malaga Anticorruption Prosecutor is asking for three years in prison for three people accused in the ‘Nilo’ lottery scam. There were 168 accused, most of them Nigerians.

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Violent burglers escape FOUR armed raiders handcuffed an antiques dealer and his wife while robbing their home.

They threatened three members of the same family in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Cadiz, with guns and later gagged them while they stole items from the house.

According to police sources the robbery took place when the man and his wife and a third member of the family entered the house.

The four men, who had been waiting in the garage, then forced their way into the house. Once inside, they immobilised the family and ransacked the house, taking €3,000 in cash, jewellery and other valuable objects, and then escaped in the family’s car.

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MOUNTING UP: Electricity costs getting higher.

Up to 10 per cent more for electricity

ELECTRICITY has gone up by 3 per cent at the start of 2013, but users will be paying between 6 and 10 per cent more on their bills.

The need to put up prices is due to the €1.95 billion deficit which the Ministry of Industry reported recently, and which it aims to reduce to zero.

From now on, clients will be able to

contract a wattage which fits the needs of their home and will be provided at an average, pre-agreed price.

Bills will be based on the consumer’s use of electricity, and if they use more than average, they will be made to pay 10 per cent extra. This will affect consumers with low tension power of between three and 10 kilowatts.

A BURGLAR got more than he bargained for when he broke into a city councillor’s home.

Burly politician Fernando Molina, a martial arts expert, captured the would-be thief and held him for nearly an hour until police arrived.

The PP (conservative) councillor in Merida, Extremadura, was woken at 4 am by noises as the burglar entered his house. He went downstairs and suddenly found himself confronting a stranger.

In the darkness Molina at first thought it was a joke and that the thief would turn out to be a friend. However, an ensuing scuffle quickly got rid of that idea.

The councillor, described as a large and strong man, dragged the thief to the porch in order to take him as far away as possible from his family.

His wife, alerted by the noise, followed the instructions of Molina to take their 17-yearold daughter, hide in the car and call the Guardia Civil. Molina held the thief for 51 minutes before Local Police arrived.

“I’m not a hero, nor a brave man. I think anyone would have reacted in the same way if the life of those they most love is in danger,” said the councillor.

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Political party leader in tow row

A POLITICAL row has broken out after a local policeman went to the Guardia Civil to complain about his boss. He claims that he was told to forget the paperwork after he towed away the

car of a local political party official because it had no insurance.

The car, belonging to Rafael Ceballos, Secretary of the Partido Andalucista (PA), was

Online use of violence on rise ALMOST 20 per cent of youths between 12 and 18 admit that they have used the internet to threaten friends or acquaintances.

Twenty-seven per cent used the internet to insult their friends and acquaintances using a false identity.

This was revealed in the Adolescents and Social Media report carried out by the Spanish Confederation of Educational Centre and supported by the European Commission.

It shows that the use of violent language has increased on social networks, as a reflection of a society in which 55 per cent of youths justify the use of violence as a

means of defending their rights.

Twenty-five per cent would work for a company which issued violent content and 24 per cent would teach their children to use violence if necessary.

The study was carried out with 7,000 youths at 50 schools in Spain and Italy. One in four would be interested in using firearms and 12 per cent would sign a petition to legalise them, 56 per cent would sign a manifesto against violence and 30 per cent consider there should be laws to limit

INTERNET: Most parents violent content in the media.

Forty-two per cent of youths spend more than three hours on their social network profile and 72.5 per cent have at least one profile, although only 14 per cent have a blog or upload videos.

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one of six vehicles the policeman had towed away in Los Barrios, Cadiz. But while paperwork for the other five proceeded as normal, he was called to a meeting with his boss over the sixth.

Head of Police Juan Antonio Muñoz Rodríguez allegedly told the officer: “I have a political commitment with one of the six cars you towed for not having insurance,” adding, according to the policeman, “he doesn’t earn much so remove the complaint.”

The Head of Police also said, according to a Guardia Civil report: “Don’t worry I’ll handle everything and I’ll make the file disappear.”

And now the complainant is worried that he could face reprisals for his actions.

The opposition PSOE Socialist party has asked the mayor, Jorge Romero, for an explanation.

“It’s unacceptable to give special treatment to someone just because they belong to the Partido don’t know what goes on.

Andalucista. The mayor should say something youths who spend a lot of about this.” time online carry out But a PA statement hit activities with their back, claiming the friends, and while 67 per policeman’s accusation was cent say their parents “false and it provides control how their studies incorrect information. For are going and what they example, the local politician do in their free time, only did pay the fees to remove 42 per cent of parents his vehicle from the car control what their children pound and for the tow do online. truck.”

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Pardon for death crash driver A MAN sentenced to three years and three months in prison for the death of three youths in a traffic accident in Granada in 2008 has been pardoned.

The Spanish Cabinet Meeting has granted a partial acquittal to the man who was travelling at more than 120kph on a road where the limit was 40kph. He was accompanied by three friends and lost control of the vehicle on a bend, crashing into a parked rubbish truck. The three passengers died and he was seriously injured.

He has now been sentenced to two years in prison, 15 days of community work and a fine of €2 per day for a year as long as he does not commit a criminal act in the next four years.

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Animals get a News from our editions Food forum priestly blessing Tighter control

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Self congrats

CREVILLENTE’S Culture Department has highlighted the success of the wide range of events and concerts the town hosted last year to benefit local residents.

A NEW Gastronomic Association has been created in Crevillente to promote local food and increase trade in the town’s restaurants.

SO-CALLED ‘health tourism’ has fallen following the introduction of more stringent procedures to prevent abuse of the public health system by foreigners not entitled to treatment.

Nose for crime ROJALES POLICE have addressed 100 students about the dangers of social networking and cyber bullying. The talk coincided with a demonstration by their drugs sniffer dog.

Cold peak ELCHE GENERAL HOSPITAL has witnessed a ‘peak’ in the admittance of patients suffering from the sudden drop in temperature.

ALMERIA

Man jailed A MAN who threatened to shoot his exgirlfriend from Nijar has been jailed for six months. He is also banned from coming within 500 metres of her for four years.

Best exhibits THE exhibition hall in Berja’s Plaza San Pedro is housing a collection of artworks

by Miguel Salmeron, named ‘best local artist ever’ by the Centro Virgiliano, until March 1.

Arty assistance LOCAL artist Isabel Oller is selling her sculptures for charity at the Palacio Provincial in Albox, until February 8.

Proceeds will be given to El Saliente association for the disabled.

Silver screen BLACK AND WHITE modern films will be shown at Huercal-Overa’s municipal theatre starting tonight (Thursday) at 9.30pm with ‘The White Ribbon’. Tickets cost €2.

Wrong plot FORMER Mayor of Antas, Ana Garcia and

HUNDREDS of pet owners in Almeria took their animals to be blessed by the local priest.

The annual religious tradition marks San Anton Day, Spain’s patron saint of domestic animals.

Before Father Tomas Cano blessed dogs, cats and other animals with holy water, the pets were proudly paraded by their owners through Almeria’s

Old Town’s Plaza de Pavia.

The parade was livened up by the San Indalecio de La Cañada Musical Orchestra.

Typical sweets known as ‘rabicos’ were also served.

San Anton Day is not just a religious tradition, but a gesture of care by the owners to their pets and a way for neighbours to catch up and share pet stories and tips.

three ex-councillors are facing one year in prison each for allegedly giving permission for an urbanisation to be built on un-zoned land.

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Health revenue THE regional government has charged ‘health tourists’ €2.3 million since last year’s changes in the law. Most money was collected in the holiday season, particularly on the Costa Blanca.

Language offer VILLAJOYOSA COUNCIL is to offer ninemonth courses in Chinese and Russian for pupils aged between eight and 35.

Classes are due to begin in February and will cost €30 a month.

Look East MARKETING experts are urging the region’s shoe manufacturers to concentrate on selling to Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Existing distribution and sales set-ups in these countries are under-used, they said.

Power down IBERDROLA has spent €438,000 on removing the old transformer from Denia’s Plaza del Consell. It will be replaced by two underground transformers near the original site.

BLESSED DOGS: A priest annoints pets during the traditional celebrations for San Anton Day.

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Velez credit

CAMPELLO and Benidorm have the most expensive secondhand homes in the Valencian Community. The least expensive are in Elda, Almoradi and Alcoy, which are also amongst the cheapest in Spain.

CONSERVATIVE (PP) Mayor Francisco Delgado has put the wheels in motion to acquire a loan of €4 million to finance approved projects including a pedestrian area in Torre del Mar.

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Artists tribute

Hikers found

FROM today (Thursday) Velez Malaga will pay homage to 17 deceased artists born locally whose work formed part of the town’s art history in the 20th century, with an exhibition at the San Francisco Hall.

THREE hikers were rescued by the Guardia Civil near Bunyola after they got lost in the woods at midnight. They were found thanks to the WhatsApp application on one of the hiker’s phones.

Mystery stabbing

Red mist

A 37-YEAR-OLD man has been admitted to Axarquia’s regional hospital with stab wounds to his right thigh. It is not clear if he was attacked or if the wounds were self-inflicted.

A MAN aged 23 was held by Palma Police as he kicked and smashed parked cars in Sa Vileta area. He claimed to be enraged after breaking up with his girlfriend.

Council facelift

Blow hard

AN estimated €70,000 has been set aside to reform Iznate Town Hall. Socialist Party (PSOE) Mayor Gregorio Campos said the works are being financed by the council.

WINDS blew at speeds of up to 130kph in Mallorca’s Alfabia Mountains, the maximum recorded in the Balearics last Tuesday, the 112 Emergency Service reported.

Hunter shot

Ride on

A 34-YEAR-OLD huntsman was accidentally wounded while participating in an authorised hunt in Salares when a bullet ricocheted and hit him in the shoulder.

THE urban cycle lanes network in Palma is to be enlarged by up to five kilometres thanks to a €2.1 million grant by the EU, the Mobility Council said.

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Stat of week Petrol and diesel sales have fallen 6.5 per cent in Spain since the start of the recession.

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Looking great for less Cosmetics companies offer better value products COSMETIC companies are having to adapt to demands for value make-up as ladies want to look their best for less.

With the idea of ‘spending little to look better’, companies like Essence, Kiko and E.l.f. have

made sure that buying make-up will not empty a woman’s purse.

As the financial crisis continues to bite, many women are keeping a close control over every euro, but that does not mean they want to stop looking good.

Crisis forces baby delays EIGHTY per cent of Spanish couples delay becoming parents due to the financial crisis.

Nowadays, the main reason for putting on hold parenthood is a couple’s financial and work situation, whereas a few years ago people mainly waited to find the ideal partner.

However, the case remains that the biggest factor for those thinking of becoming parents is having a stable relationship.

This was revealed in a study carried out by Clearblue on ‘Couple’s decisions yesterday and today’.

Doctor Victoria Verdu, an expert on fertility with the Spanish Gynaecology and Obstetrics organisation, says the financial crisis also affects how many children couples have.

The survey was carried out online amongst couples over 25, and also shows that the decision to have children is normally taken by both prospective parents.

The decision is usually taken after the couple has been living together for at least four years. It shows that men in general do not take part in buying items for the baby, booking a nursery or finding a babysitter.

And supermarkets in Spain including Carrefour and Mercadona have brought out their own ranges of quality products at affordable prices to take advantage of the growing trend.

Exports of works of art are soaring EXPORTS of art abroad have risen 13 per cent in Spain the past year due to the financial crisis.

Since 2010, they have increased by 25 per cent.

Coins, paintings, furniture and sculptures are the most sold items, according to Carlos Gonzalez-Baradiaran, the secretary for the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Assets Classification Committee, which issues export permits.

The ministry has to decide if works between 50 and 100 years old and valued at more than €15,000 for engravings, €50,000 for sculptures and €150,000 for paintings, can be sent abroad.

Chinese turn to café culture THE Chinese are being heavily tipped as the next big property buyers in Spain.

If this is the case, then local coffee outlets might be in for a mini-boom as well, with leading retailers announcing massive expansion plans across China and a new generation of coffee culture-loving consumers.

The market for cafés in China has never been better, with the boom in the nation’s cafe culture highlighted

by new research showing the number of coffee shops in China doubling in five years to 31,783 at the end of 2012. Previously the country was identified as a nation offering just a huge teahouse sector.

Statistics in China also show that while 69 per cent of café clients choose coffee to drink, fruit juice is the second choice (39 per cent), following by iced coffee (33), tea (23) and chocolate drinks (19).

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Q: IN 2002 we bought a house off-plan on an urbanisation near Mazarron. The house was finished and we received the keys in 2005. We moved to Spain in 2007 to live here. Now we have been told that our house, along with 28 others, is illegal because the developers did not have a proper building licence. We have no title deed, only our contracts You and the with the developer and our Law in Spain payment receipts.

By David Searl We are all still on the builder’s supply for electricity and water, and have been since 2005. The council tell us that they will legalise the 28 houses once the developer has submitted a new plan for the estate. After five years of worry all I want to do now is to pack up and go home.

Of course, I can’t sell the property at a decent price. I will never get back what I have spent on improvements like a swimming pool and solar water heater. I would be happy just to get my original money back, about €100,000. Is there some way I could do this?

I asked the estate agency for a valuation after we get our official title deed, the escritura. They said they would ask €79,000, the same price as one they already have for sale, which is the same type as ours but without a pool or even a garden.

J S, Mazarron (Murcia) A: There are thousands of owners of Spanish property who are in the same situation or worse. You at least have the prospect of becoming legal in the foreseeable future.

Even so, in today’s depressed real estate market, you are not likely to get the price you want for your property.

My own advice is for you to go back to your own original plan, which is to live in the Spanish sunshine. It seems that your basic problems are being sorted out and we can expect that things will improve at some point in the future and your property will become more valuable than it is today.

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

You can also consult David through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola. ask@lawtaxspain.com or call 952 667 090.

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Online shoppers hit high street sales RETAILERS hoping for a Christmas sales’ boost have been left disappointed as shoppers switched to online stores.

Sales fell in December by 0.3 per cent compared to November. More than 10 per cent of all purchases in December, worth £830 million (€990 million), were made over the internet, 15.5 per cent higher than the same month in 2011.

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over a £700 million (€835 million) fraud has said banks deserved some of the blame.

Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Scotland lent fake property tycoon Achilleas Kallakis, 44, the money between 2003 and 2008. He was

jailed for seven years and codefendant Alexander Williams, 44, for five years.

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RETAILER Game is considering a bid for part of failed entertainment chain HMV. The company has approached administrators Deloitte asking about buying up to 45 HMV shops after the 92-year-old business hit the wall.

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EU flogging a dead horse as eurozone misery is inflicted THE day after Manuel Barroso announced that ‘the existential threat to the euro had been overcome’, the monthly report from Eurostat showed eurozone’s unemployment levels soaring to figures that can only be described as disastrous.

Maybe not, perhaps, for the EU barons, but certainly for the millions of unfortunates suffering as a direct result of the commission’s demanded austerity.

The jobless percentage of the Spanish active population has climbed to 26.6 per cent overall and 56.5 per cent for the youth of the country, lying second only to Greece in this macabre sprint towards oblivion. Portugal, Ireland and Slovakia have all achieved record levels, and taking the eurozone as a whole, the percentage is a frightening 11.8 per cent.

Of course, these are merely numbers – cyphers – as far as the EU fat cats with their inflated salaries and expense accounts are concerned, but one might be forgiven for wondering how long Barroso, for example, would survive unscathed, if he decided to embark on a ‘presidential walkabout’ unescorted!

The problem is the widening gap between the more affluent economies of the eurozone north, like Germany, Austria, Holland and Finland, and the south, represented

by Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal and, as an offshoot, Ireland.

This gap was, from the beginning, forecast by many financial correspondents who asked: ”How can such widely differing economies and cultures be expected to work and

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FAT CATS: EU barons unaffected while millions suffer. live together?” It was clear to many that a ‘one-size-fits-all’ single currency could not work, but as always, the politicians insisted they knew what was best for ‘the children’ who should be seen but not heard. Mario Draghi has done his best, overriding Berlin’s ingrained suspicion of anything carrying the aroma of ‘mutualisation’, and engineering a write-down of Greece’s unsustainable mountain of debt, hoping that this would be enough to lift that economy back into balance. However, the managers of international finance houses – not to mention the credit agencies – beg to differ.

The unremitting fault in the single currency lies, as Peter Oborne says in his beautifully argued article in The Telegraph, in the fact that it was born of an ‘idea’ which, under the

creed of ‘idealism’ means it is immutable and therefore must be correct. That is the very opposite of the Anglo-Saxon way of thinking, which holds ‘empiricism’ as the mainspring. As Oborne explains, the empiricist, having burned his hand in a flame, will resolve not to repeat the exercise, whilst idealists are much less likely to renounce a course of conduct, not even when reality gets in the way.

An Anglo-Saxon, upon designing the single currency and witnessing its faults, would have given up on it long ago. But the Continentals hold to the thought that the ‘idea’ itself must be made to work.

A noble sentiment, perhaps, but one that has inflicted, and will continue to inflict, abject and hopeless poverty and misery upon millions of eurozone citizens.

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A New Era In Tax Reporting The Isle of Man has agreed to automatically exchange tax information with the UK. Jersey and Guernsey want to make this a global initiative. The US is forcing financial centres to automatically report on American clients. Spanish residents need to get ready to report their overseas assets to the Spanish government.

We are entering another new era in local and international efforts against tax evasion and fiscal fraud. Sharing and reporting information will play a major role. There have been major developments in international tax planning over the last decade. There are still more to come. Many expatriates are affected, and it is important to keep up to date with all the changes to ensure your tax planning is fully compliant and as effective as it legitimately can be.

If you hold savings and investments outside Spain, for peace of mind ask an experienced tax and wealth management advisory company like Blevins Franks to look over your assets and how they are structured. Not only can they advise you regarding reporting requirements, they can advise you how to structure your assets to minimise tax and maximise income.

Spain’s new reporting law By 30th April 2013 (31st March in future years), Spain residents need to

by Bill Blevins, Financia l Correspondent, Blevins Franks

report their overseas assets to the authorities. This includes bank accounts, shares, bonds, funds, life assurances, property etc, including those held in trust, where you are the owner, beneficiary or authorised signatory, and where the assets in each class amount to €50,000 or more.

When anyone is found to have not declared an asset, the penalties will be punitive and the authorities will be able to go back indefinitely to review unpaid tax. Given the amount of exchange of information between countries these days, attempting to hide assets is very risky.

The new US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) FATCA aims to ensure that the US tax authorities, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), obtains information on

financial accounts held by US taxpayers anywhere in the world. Foreign Financial Institutions have to report their American clients’ affairs to the IRS. In other words, the US is attempting to force financial centres to automatically exchange tax information on US clients.

The incentive for them to do so is pretty high. If they fail to comply, their revenues from US sources will suffer a 30% withholding tax.

Isle of Man’s new agreement with UK The Isle of Man announced in December that it will enter into an automatic tax information sharing agreement with the UK, similar to the agreement it intends to sign with the US to comply with FATCA. Once in place, it will give HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) access to more information about potentially taxable money held in the Isle of Man. HM Treasury Secretary David Gauke commented: “for years people said this couldn’t be done”. The government is now pressuring Jersey and Guernsey and the British Virgin and Cayman Islands to accept similar agreements.

I would expect other countries to later expect similar agreements with

offshore centres. This is why attempting to hide assets from local tax authorities is so risky – one day, somehow, they will come to light.

Isle of Man Chief Minister, Allan Bell explained that its agreement with the UK will serve to demonstrate the island’s superior level of regulation and improve growth prospects for the local economy.

“The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is a game changer in relation to transparency and the automatic exchange of information agenda”, he said. “It will be used as the lever and model by many countries for equivalent information to be provided to them.”

He continued: “Such is its reach and effect, FATCA may even overtake the proposed changes in the EU savings directive. This government considers, therefore, that automatic exchange of tax information in something like the volume and form required by the USA under FATCA will become part of the international standard. It is clear that the next two years will see massive changes in the way in which nations co-operate in the field of international taxation issues.”

Channel Islands Jersey and Guernsey have held exploratory talks with the UK

authorities but have so far said they will not implement anything yet.

They are not against this automatic exchange of information as such, but rather want the UK to “promote the adoption of automatic exchange of information worldwide to ensure that a level playing field is achieved for all finance centres”.In a joint statement, the islands said they share a common commitment with the UK to combat tax evasion and participate in international efforts to combat fiscal crime.For clarification on the latest local and international tax regulation developments and advice on the most effective legitimate tax mitigation arrangements for you, speak to an advisory firm like Blevins Franks which keeps fully up to date and has decades of experience advising expatriates in Spain.

The tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change.

Tax information has been summarised; an individual should take personalised advice.

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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Dia is now in top 100 of retailers LOW-COST supermarket chain Dia now ranks in the commercial world alongside Mercadona, El Corte Ingles and Inditex.

They are all amongst the 100 top retailers, according to statistics released by Deloitte.

Valencian chain Mercadona continues to lead in the ranking amongst similar stores, although it slipped two points to 44th place.

At 47th position is textile giant Inditex, which has risen two places and is eight places in front of its rival H&M (who are at 55), whilst El Corte Ingles is placed at 54 after falling seven places.

Dia appears in the ranking for the first time following its split from Carrefour and is currently at number 73.

Eroski lost positions this year and fell from 98th to 119th place.

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IZ Airbus lift EUROPEAN aircraft manufacturer Airbus is set to take on another 3,000 employees worldwide in 2013, including 400 in Spain. The company predicts further growth in 2013.

Boss lost ON THE RISE: The use of Visa debit cards.

Debit not credit say shoppers THE financial crisis has changed the way in which the Spanish control their spending.

The use of Visa debit cards increased by 4.9 per cent in 2012, to €32.3 billion, to the detriment of credit cards and businesses.

Transactions increased by 3.5 per cent to €1.6 billion, although the average amounts spent fell by 2.75 per cent to €48 per operation. This

shows that cards are used to pay smaller amounts.

Even so, Spain remains a strategic marketplace for Visa, mainly because in Spain people continue to pay with cash more frequently than in other European countries.

There are plans to increase the use of the cards to pay on the internet, as last year it rose by 16.4

per cent to €3.9 billion, which is just 5 per cent of the total spent on Visa cards in Spain. Visa is making the launch of its new Digital Wallet (V.me) a priority for 2013.

It also intends to increase the use of payment using mobile phones.

The company hopes that within four years to have increased the use of this method to 70 per cent of establishments in Spain.

SHAREHOLDERS learnt of the sudden resignation of Canadian Tom Albanese after five years’ reign as the chief executive of Rio Tinto, and 20 years with the company.

Slow grow LAST year China suffered its worst 12 months of economic growth since 1999. But a strong final quarter has led to hopes that this year will be better.

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Be clever about Smartphone use and save more than just cents NOWADAYS a lot of people own a Smartphone. But despite the device’s ego-boasting title, are we actually using our Smartphones smartly?

Rather than just snapping and sharing photos or trawling the internet, remember that there are many tricks to cutting down on mobile costs, too.

One smart way to use your Smartphone is to sign up to cost-saving apps including WhatsApp and Viber, so as to cut down on the price of individual text messages or phone calls.

As a ‘guiri’ living in Spain, I used to rack up a hefty bill for international texts and calls, but now, as many of my family and friends abroad also have Smartphones, we speak and message, free, over various mobile applications.

My monthly phone bill has more than halved.

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Also with more competition on the market, it’s wise to try and not get tied into a strict contract.

There are many providers now offering excellent deals without making you sign on the dotted line to remain a customer for a minimum of two years.

Being able to change provider at will is always a smart move.

STAY SMART: Use your mobile phone to cut costs and monitor spending.

Just yesterday I downloaded a free daily budget application for my Smartphone (iXpenselt

Lite). In the past I had to check my online banking to see my balance, but now with this new app it’s available at the touch of a button.

The app allows you to record your monthly earnings and deduct the usual costs like mortgage, bills and standing orders.

What you’re left with is the balance and every time you have a coffee or buy an item, you record it on the app and it keeps tabs on how much is left to spend in the month. It really makes such a difference to see where your money is going and how much is left.

The app also provides great visual graphics to show you where you are spending most your money.

Take control of your spending by being smart with your Smartphone.

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Job losses THE Spanish division of Vodafone plans to initiate voluntary redundancy programmes that will affect around 1,000 employees, almost 25 per cent of the 4,300 people the company employs in Spain.

Sorry sales ONLY 8 per cent of Mallorca retailers have sold more at the start of the sales this year than in 2012. Twenty-four per cent have sold similar amounts to last year, while 68 per cent say sales have fallen.

Phone woes THIS year Vodafone has received more consumer complaints than any other phone company, according to consumer group FACUA. Thirty-three per cent of users claim to have suffered fraud and other problems.

Tax evaders ITALIAN IT expert and former HBSC employee Herve Daniel Falcini has promised the names of 700 Spanish tax evaders who will be investigated by the AntiCorruption Prosecutor.

Loss-making Above: Current Android logo. Right: The original ‘Dandroid’ design.

THE cute Android logo is based on drafts by Google engineer Dan Morril, which have very little resemblance to the design finally chosen.

Morril designed four colourful robots in 2007, he recounts, when Google first decided to

launch its Smartphones.

The originals were called ‘Dandroids’ by the team and were used within the company until professional artist Irina Blok was called in and created the well-known green ‘bugdroid’ which is used today.

SIXTY per cent of Spanish businesses are losing money, according to an estimate by the president of the Spanish Confederation of Employers Organisation. Joan Rosell added that companies in Spain are ‘hyper-regulated’ and need to cut expenses to survive.

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LETTERS LEAPY HEALTH & BEAUTY

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Out and about, but is something wrong?

I DO love it when Daddy visits.

After meeting him in Malaga Airport private terminal just one short week ago, we headed straight for the Marbella Club Hotel.

While Daddy was in need of a quick shower I immediately ensured I had the opportunity to

As I see it...

Ana Jefferson-Smith takes an irreverent look at life as a “rich child” singleton expat in Spain scout which of the rooms in his suite I would occupy throughout his stay.

At times I feel guilty about how hard Daddy works, and he always has the phone glued to his ear, or

seems in deep thought. Even so, he still agreed to my suggestion of a snack lunch in Puerto Banus, with our driver enjoying the fact that Daddy’s entrance pass allowed him to park in the port itself, neatly among some of the Bentleys and Ferraris.

Strolling through the port, lunch

MADDOCKS’ VIEW ON LIFE

COMMENT Top-spin lob SPAIN’S political class is now atrociously unpopular and the government knows it. Vice-president Soraya Saenz de Santamaria is cooking up a strategy to counteract its dismal popularity ratings and restore citizens’ faith in politicians. Or, to use a four-letter word: spin. The plan will backfire because only a recovered and healthy economy can restore the public’s faith in politicians which is entirely based on their own well-being and not propaganda.

Biding his time THE Financial Times recently interviewed Mariano Rajoy who admitted that as a Galician he is reputed to put off decision-making and prefers to ‘wait and see’.

This is not true, he told his interviewer, and perhaps he is right. It would be more precise to say that his policy is one of ‘see, wait and see’. Rajoy sees what he can do and Spain waits to see what happens.

Fried egg fans also love sex FRIED EGG fans have a high sex drive, while omelette eaters are self disciplined, according to researchers in the UK, who have also found boiled egg consumers are disorganised, scrambled egg aficionados are guarded, and poached egg eaters are outgoing. *** A BOX of human heads has been found at Chicago Airport by bewildered US officials.

The specimens were en route to a crematorium

JUST FANCY THAT... from a research team in the Italian capital Rome. *** A TWITTER feud between the Estonian president and a New York Times columnist over the European nation’s austerity measures is to be turned into an opera.. *** MORE THAN 400 dried dog penises, testicles and other internal

organs have been confiscated in Taiwan, in a raid on an illegal slaughterhouse. *** A FORMER American teacher, with a fear of children, has sued the school district where she worked claiming teenage pupils caused her blood pressure to soar, forcing her early retirement. *** PRE-SCHOOL children

aged three to five in Normandy, France, were left to watch a porn film by their teacher, instead of an intended cartoon. *** A CAT – separated from owners while on holiday in Florida, USA – has returned home, after walking 190 miles. *** A 13-YEAR-OLD Italian boy stole his father’s Mercedes and drove 800 kilometres to Poland in an attempt to reach his birth family. ***

was put on hold as we entered Louis Vuitton, Versace, Alexander McQueen, and Jimmy Choo - and exited from each with a bag.

Clearly a case of no expense spared for Daddy’s princess!

But when we finally grabbed a sandwich - with the weather more like spring - I noticed most shoppers around were sales bargain-hunters.

I just do not see the point in sales.

If you want something bad enough, buy it, or fool someone into thinking they want to treat you to it.

The latter is my preferred choice much of the time.

Thankfully, all the shops on my Daddy’s spending spree don’t believe in sales either, so all my carriers dutifully carried by the driver were fashionably patterned.

Shopping and lunch were later followed by dinner and as Daddy wanted to see the apartment which he pays the rent for - we called by, and I added to the treat by ordering a sushi dinner just for the two of us.

It can be a little difficult sourcing fresh sushi in the winter, but luckily I know a local delicatessen which brought around the desired dishes especially for us.

The next day - after a night of slumber in five-star hotel surrounds, but breakfast alone while Daddy was making phone calls from his room - it was off to the local car dealership.

He agreed last year that I could have a new car when he next visited... how lucky was that?

But among our jovial bonding, I fear something is wrong.

Daddy just doesn’t seem his normal cheery self, and doesn’t want to open up to me.

I’ll have to dig a little deeper.

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Helping expatriates to sample Spanish life

NO WORRIES: Katia Westerdahl has gone from newbie to councillor.

Facts and figures

HAVING arrived in Spain at the age of 15, speaking very little Spanish, Finland-born Katia Westerdahl is now a genuine example of integration.

The Councillor of Foreign Residents in the Andalucian town of Fuengirola has come to understand and embrace Spanish society.

“It felt like I was in a new world when I first came here in 1984,” Katia said. “I soon realised we foreigners lived in a parallel world to locals. “We went to different pubs, we had our closed circle of friends… but I wanted to integrate.”

Katia then became the director of Finnish language newspaper SE and Olé magazine, which she has

Fuengirola has 30,265 registered foreign residents. The foreign population in the town can double at any time during peak season. Last year the town’s foreign residents department helped 3,557 people in nearly 7,000 consultations. More than 2,000 were British.

The council provides information and advice to residents and tourists on a wide range of topics, from opening a business A weekly focus aimed at keeping expatriate readers to getting a driving licence. “Declaring properties, assets informed on various aspects of and bank accounts outside Spain has been the hottest Life in Spain topic recently,” Katia said, “as well as the changes in how to get the Certificate of

By Raul Candela Residence.” director with her position as councillor in a Spanish town hall. “I know how difficult it can get for been running for 11 years. “I influence was international residents to approach wanted to bring the Finnish by getting into politics,” she the Spanish authorities, but we community closer to the Spanish explained. Since the 2011 local work hard to sort it out and make it lifestyle through information. But I elections, Katia has combined her easier,” she said. realised the only way to have role as newspaper and magazine Katia admits that a common

Life in Spain

A chance to chill out at thermal spa CHILLING OUT at a thermal water health spa is even more relaxing if the government is paying part of the expenses.

Pensioners, of whatever nationality, who are registered with Spanish Social Security can apply for one of 206,000 places on offer in the government’s subsidised 2013 Thermal Waters Programme.

During the off-peak season the Institute of the Elderly and Social Services (Imserso) makes available holiday plans for pensioners.

For the Thermal Waters Programme, Imserso will pay an average

THAT’S LIFE: Pensioners can apply now for a subsidised autumn-winter treatment. €157 for each place.

The final price to be paid by the pensioner ranges from €240 to €480.

The type of thermal treatment available depends on the spa and the month. There are two lengths of stay available: 12 days or 10

days. The holidays, designed for people who need thermal spa treatment due to breathing, rheumatic and other medical conditions, include full board, thermal treatment with medical check-ups and group travel insurance.

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Applicants can apply to up to four resorts from a choice of 100 nationwide. These include: - Andalucia: San Nicolas (Almeria), Chiclana (Cadiz), Alhama, Graena, Lanjaron and Alicun de las Torres (Granada), San Andres (Jaen) - Comunidad Valenciana: Benassal, Montanejos and Villavieja (Castellon), Verche, Chulilla, Hervideros de Cofrentes and Fuentepodrida (Valencia) - Murcia: Archena, Leana, Sensol Hotel-Spa I went to Torremolinos Town Hall (Malaga) and applied for the ‘padron’. After three visits I was eventually given a sheet of paper and charged €3. I have no idea what benefits I can claim, nor do I have a card to prove I am entitled. Could you please

Who is eligible and who is not for Thermal Waters?

- Pensioners, either retired or because of invalidity - Widows aged over 60 with a pension - Must not be suffering any serious mental condition or contagious disease - Must be able to take care of themselves - Should specify what treatment is needed - Must be on the Spanish Social Security system Applicants can be escorted by a companion who does not need to be a pensioner and will get the same rebate.

Transportation is only included in some cases.

Places are allocated on a points system.

The more points totted up the better a person’s chance of getting a place.

Pensioners meeting the following conditions will get more points and have priority: • People with breathing or rheumatic problems • The smaller the pension the bigger the chance of a place • Older people get more points

tell me how I go about this? The sheet of paper you were given – called ‘volante de empadronamiento’ – is the document that proves you are entitled to benefits. According to Torremolinos Council of Tourism, these include discounts on the IBI property tax, as well as on the waste collection tax and water

• Unsuccessful applicants from previous programmes • People with a valid Large Family ID (Libro de Familia Numerosa).

Those interested have until May 16 to apply for a vacancy, to be used from September to December.

Applicants will be charged €40 which will be returned if a place is not given.

Those chosen will be notified by mid-August.

More information: www.imserso.es

practice among some foreigners in Spain is to complain about the local laws and procedures. In Katia’s opinion: “It is not a matter of coming here to change how things are done, but to understand it.”

Talking about this sort of dissatisfaction among some of the international community - some of whom are questioning the quality of life in Spain nowadays Katia explains it her own way: “It is like marriage.

When you have a crisis, you have to remember why you fell in love with Spain in the first place. You still have the sunny weather and the beach, the warmth and openness of the people.

“There is a lot of misinformation about Spain in the European media. We do get up on Mondays to get to work, you know. We even work harder and longer hours than in other European countries. The Nordic media say their countries are paying Spain’s bailout, but it is just not true, Spanish citizens cannot be blamed.”

And her advice to those wondering whether they dare stay in Spain? “I simply say, no worries!”

Speaking my language “Language is still the main barrier to understanding between foreign residents and Spanish society. We encourage those living here to at least learn the basics. Using a simple ‘por favor’ (please) more often can open many doors,” Katia said. Fuengirola Town Hall offers Spanish Language Courses for Foreigners. Duration of the course is four-and-a-half months. There are five groups available with 25 places each. Fees are €58 for those on the municipal register (padron), or €80 for those not. Applications should be submitted between February 1-15 at the Casa de la Cultura centre in Avenida Juan Gomez. More information: cultura@fuengirola.org

supply bill. Discounts given depend on how long you have been registered. In order to know exactly what you are entitled to and how to proceed, it is advisable to call Torremolinos Foreigners’ Department: 952 37 95 12. They speak English and help international residents with this sort of paperwork.

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Horsing around with beef is a real surprise As statistics showed horse meat is being consumed increasingly by families in Spain, many were shocked to learn of traces in ‘beefburgers’ sold locally and in the UK. Lisa Steward reports.

FOR Frank El Malagueño, from Altea on the Costa Blanca, it would be quite a surprise if he found himself eating horse meat instead of pure beef.

A butcher by profession, “I have no objection to Colin Lilley from San eating horse meat but Fulgencio, Costa Blanca when shoppers think they South, was shocked by the are buying beef, that’s what report that horse meat had they should get,” he said. been found in British Blaming manufacturers for beefburgers “as they don’t mis-leading the public, he use horse meat in the UK. plans to continue to check However, I know a lot of the labels on food products. butchers who just use But Alan Walters was anything in burgers but I not surprised to learn that wouldn’t eat anything I horse meat has been found have not prepared myself.” in beefburgers. “They put His wife Valerie agreed. anything in burgers and “We don’t eat processed sausages, but in the food or ready meals end horse meat is and this is why, better than there is so artificial flavours much rubbish and chemicals,” in them,” she said the resibelieved. dent of Dolores, For Paul in Alicante.

Dominy on “However, it would holiday in make me think twice Benalmádena on about buying them,” he Frank. the Costa del Sol, added. when he returns Meanwhile, Felisa home to LoughCortes from Benidorm on borough in the UK, he says: the Costa Blanca has often “I’m going to toss out all eaten horse meat and has the burgers I have,” adding no qualms about doing so. that when shopping “But I have never eaten a nowadays: “You really bought hamburger and do never know what you’re not intend to start now as it getting and this is the is anyone’s guess what proof.” goes into them,” she said.

Businessman Graham For Costa del Sol resident Clark, owner of the Café Jane Leary of Benal- Porky Pies in Benalmádena, mádena, news about the said that until now: “Frozen horse meat in beefburgers beef patties have been the brought the comment: only thing we buy out,” but “Well, they eat it in other following the revelations places, don’t they?” of horse meat in While she does not buy a beefburgers he has lot of frozen food, she decided to start making added that in France his own using meat from a “during the Second World local butcher’s, the same War we ate it and it never place he gets the rest of did us any harm.” his meat products from.

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The paper chase in Spain is a huge turn-off WHEN will Spain enter the 21st century?

A neighbour trying for three years to arrange for her finca to be linked to the main power supply now available in her area has been asked to provide original papers for the 200-year-old property!

When she pointed out to the power company that she did not have them - hardly surprisingly and tried instead to supply all papers to hand, including ownership for the last nine years, and land deeds, she was told these were not sufficient.

The paper chase that living in Spain involves cannot even be blamed on the 20th century Franco days, for it is more akin to 18th or 19th century life.

Sadly, the authorities however only seek paperwork when they want to be awkward.

Proof is found when they automatically dip into bank accounts to take monies owed... without providing any documentation to the account holder, or follow-up receipt!

N Hilton, Velez-Malaga (Malaga)

Free Willy I VISITED the Museo Alborania Aula del Mar at Malaga marina. It has left me with an unforgettable image of a lone turtle swimming in an under-sized glass container. A beautiful creature entrapped in terrible conditions.

Part of the display highlights the plight of marine life endangered by our everyday rubbish. It shows how turtles in particular suffer in many ways. But the centre spoils this message by keeping its various species in sub-standard conditions, particularly the turtle (I have named him Willy). So through your readership, can we have a campaign to free Willy the turtle, I suggest he is given to the Fuengirola zoo (Bioparc) which has an excellent aquarium section.

John Bain, La Cala de Mijas (Malaga)

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IT was a beautiful, but chilly, late December day when I visited Antequera with my family. I took this photo from the castle walls. We had the place to ourselves, but if you go wrap up well against the icy winds!

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know excessive drinking bar games go on in Magaluf and Arenal in Mallorca. But that does not mean we should put up with the abuse of our amenities, the police, ambulance crews, bar staff, residents and other holidaymakers by drunks.

The prostitutes, robbers and illegal street traders also need to be stopped.

These problems are dragging down the name of Mallorca. It needs constructive action by all parties concerned But don’t let us look back in 10 years’ time and say we should have acted sooner.

B Birch, Magaluf (Mallorca)

Clear the air HAS anybody else commented on the air pollution that is now almost daily hanging over the Almanzora Valley (Almeria)?

As I drive towards the valley from the Oria direction, there is a blanket ‘fog’ visible from a distance. It stretches from Arboleas to Olula.

This was not present when we moved here in 1996, and it has got steadily worse. For a while it was just in the summer, but now it is here all year. Some days it is possible to see a plume of, I assume, marble dust, coming from the top of the ‘Reverte’ processing plant on Albox Industrial Estate, but that is not the only culprit.

Vehicle pollution must be high on the list. The only things that clear it temporarily are good rains and high winds, but once these stop, it is soon back. We came to Spain for good weather and good air. What happened to the latter?

Harvey Gooch, Albox (Almeria)

Opening times IF I was a shop owner I would know most people are at work from 9am till 1pm. It would be better opening from 1pm because people are on a break.

If bars and restaurants closed between 1pm and 3pm I’m sure the Spanish would have something to say.

Things need to change to help Spain get back on its feet.

Paul Smith (By email)

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Golden geese MIJAS COUNCIL has decided to implement a 1999 law that all electric and telephone wires must be placed underground.

The electric cables belong to Endesa, and the telephone wires belong to Telefonica. These private companies should be responsible for the cost of this work.

Why are the residents of the urbanisations being penalised again? Residents pay to maintain the roads and they pay for lighting the streets on their urbanisation. They pay the same IBI and rubbish fees as residents in the towns and villages but receive no services in return. They pay for gardeners to keep the urbanisations neat and tidy, while in towns and villages this is carried out by employees of the council.

Are the residents on urbanisations the geese that lay the golden eggs?

A Hard-Up Resident., Mijas Costa (Malaga)

Rum dispute BACARDI is a rum from Puerto Rico, not Cuba as your article (Issue 1435) implies. You can find the Bacardi rum factory in Puerto Rico.

The Tainos were the Indian population of Puerto Rico and not from Cuba. Tainos are to Puerto Rico as Aztecs are to Mexico and Incas to Peru.

Byron Padilla Marbella (Malaga)

Editor’s note: The Bacardi distillery in Puerto Rico is the biggest rum factory in the world. But the Bacardi family founded the brand in Santiago, Cuba in 1862. Taino tribes were most common in Puerto Rico, but were also found in Cuba and the Bahamas.

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String ’em up, but prove guilt before condemning up and castrated.

Unfortunately, the law can’t be brought to bear on one of the vilest of all. With overwhelming evidence against him it would appear Jimmy Savile was guilty of at least some of the atrocities he has been accused of and is hopefully burning up in some hell pit or other. As for the rest, let’s not be too hasty to condemn them before EAPY EE their guilt is proven. We SAYS IT are still OTHERS THINK IT hopefully a little more civilised than that.

As far as I and my fellow JIMMY SAVILE: Accused of musicians were concerned, I sexual abuse. merely observed that with the abundance of young girls who appeared, but believe me in our offered up their favours in those case it was never obvious. far-off days I suppose there was To actually be accused of me always the possibility that some and my band knowingly abusing were younger than they children is something I consider

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extremely offensive and deem that the writer of this letter deliver up a sincere apology in his next, always assuming he can actually write non-vitriolic correspondence.

The almost out of control ranting in the letter tells me he probably can’t. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Well, I’m scribbling this from the sunny climes of Tenerife (I know, I know, somebody has to do it!).

I don’t actually really want to be this far from family and loved ones but unfortunately with Mallorca closed for the winter and mouths to feed, I simply have no choice. Ah well, poor old me. It’s only for three months, anyway. Er... pass the sun tan lotion, would you?

Don’tcha just hate me!

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

Stomach churning LEAPY’S piece (Issue 1436) stating that hasbeen entertainers should not be challenged about past behaviour because it will stop them earning money is too serious to be laughed away.

Hundreds of adults have reported being abused and sexually manipulated when they were underage.

That’s children to you, Mr Lee. This is not a witch-hunt. It’s an investigation to uncover those who have damaged young lives. Leapy’s notion that poor showbiz types are being persecuted by public servants jealous of past opportunities is stomach churning.

PM (by email) Editor’s note: For legal reasons this letter has been edited.

LETTERS TO LEAPY

S most of my regulars are aware I don’t make a habit of replying directly to most of the correspondence I receive.

Not that I don’t appreciate your letters; of course I do, it’s merely a matter of space and time. This week I’m making one of my rare exceptions.

To be accused of being a paedophile sympathiser, and indeed virtually called one, does to my mind merit a bit in my somewhat limited scribble section.

This letter is to me a glaring example of how the views of a writer can be twisted and misconstrued.

In the first place, my ‘witchhunt’ piece didn’t condone artistes who may have been involved in abusive acts towards children, merely the heavily publicised accusations that they may have been.

Hopefully the law in the UK still maintains that a person is innocent until proven guilty.

My whole point was that careers were being ruined and livelihoods threatened merely on the basis of accusations.

Believe me, when and if these people are found to be guilty, I would like to see them all strung

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3:30am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 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 Doctors 3:15pm Father Brown Drama series based on the novels of GK Chesterton.

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5:55am 3, 2, 1, Go! Without mathematics, sport just wouldn't exist. 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am The Sheriffs are Coming 8:50am Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 9:20am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 10:05am MasterChef: The Professionals 11:05am Robbed, Raided, Reunited 11:35am HARDtalk Interviews with newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. 12:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news, plus top interviews and analysis. 12:30pm BBC World News The latest international news from the BBC. 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm World Indoor Bowls Championships

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Perfection Nick Knowles hosts the general knowledge quiz show.

5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 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 The latest news, sport and weather from London.

8:00pm The One Show If it's got Britain talking then it will get talked about on The One Show.

8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Waterloo Road 10:00pm Silent Witness Drama series about a team of forensic pathologists.

11:00pm BBC News at Ten The latest national and international news, with reports from BBC correspondents worldwide.

11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Question Time

12:35am This Week A political review of the week presented by Andrew Neil, with Michael Portillo and guests. 1:20am Presumed Innocent 3:25am Skiing Weatherview 3:30am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride Another brave bride leaves the most important day of her life in the hands of the man she loves.

10:00pm Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands Series about life on the wards for newly-qualified doctors moves to Liverpool.

11:00pm Way to Go 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:10am American Dad! 1:30am Way to Go 2:00am Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 3:00am Life After War: Haunted by Helmand 3:55am Pramface 4:25am Way to Go

BBC2

11:00pm Mock the Week...Again 6:15pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Heir Hunters 9:00pm The Great Comic Relief Bake Off 10:00pm The Genius of Invention 11:00pm Mock the Week...Again 11:30pm Newsnight

Channel 4

Channel 5

4:00am Midway 6:10am ITV Nightscreen Textbased information service. 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 1:30pm Loose Women More lunchtime chat and fun with the girls and their guests. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather James Mates with the latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal

5:15am Deal or No Deal 6:10am Countdown 6:55am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard 7:05am Sali Mali 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:05am Will and Grace 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm A Place in the Sun 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:30pm Food Unwrapped 2:00pm Guns of Fort Petticoat George Marshall's western action-romance offers a unique feminine twist. 3:40pm Countdown

5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge 6:10am Wildlife SOS 7:00am Thomas and Friends 7:10am Igam Ogam 7:20am Fireman Sam 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm The Mentalist

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show Former EastEnders star and TV presenter Nadia Sawalha joins Alan today.

5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh.

7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather Mark Austin and Mary Nightingale with the latest headlines from around the world.

8:00pm Emmerdale Rachel publicly confronts Jai when his jealousy gets out of hand.

8:30pm Tonight Loyalty may be regarded as an admirable quality - but how is it affecting people's finances?

9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm Nursing the Nation 10:00pm Inside Death Row with Trevor Mcdonald 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham with the latest headlines from around the world.

11:35pm The Jonathan Ross Show

4:30pm Face the Clock 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 4thought.tv 9:00pm Location, Location, Location 10:00pm The Restoration Man 11:00pm Rude Tube

4:15pm Her Fatal Flaw 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 Great Northern Cookbook 9:00pm Building the Ice Hotel 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother Brian Dowling hosts all the drama and excitement from the Celebrity Big Brother house.

11:00pm Fighters' Wives: The World of MMA Documentary about cage-fighters' wives and girlfriends.

CH4

1:05pm Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

Jamie Oliver 12:20am Tankies: Tank Heroes of World War II 1:20am World Indoor Bowls Highlights 2:20am The Culture Show 2:50am Panorama 3:20am Queen Victoria's Children 4:55am Bringing Books to Life 5:55am Once upon a Time

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 9:00pm She-Wolves: England's Early Queens 10:00pm Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork 11:00pm Lost Kingdoms of South America 12:00am Time Shift 1:00am Tales of Winter: The Art of Snow and Ice 2:30am Top of the Pops 3:00am Glen Campbell 4:00am Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork

12:05am Random Acts Channel 4's nightly shortform arts strand. Animated invaders take over Mars.

12:10am The Undateables Amateur poet Kate is 29 years old and an incurable romantic. 1:10am What Happens in Kavos... 2:05am MotherTruckers Just two per cent of the UK's lorry drivers are female.

3:00am Dispatches 3:30am Time Team 4:25am The Churchills 5:20am Deal or No Deal

12:45am The Golden Rules of TV Comedian Robert Webb reveals more of TV's best kept secrets. 1:10am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Tonight 4:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:20am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am House Doctor 5:20am House Doctor Home improvement series.

5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge Michaela Strachan and colleagues undertake a range of wildlife-related dares in exotic locations.

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am UK Border Force 10:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm UK Border Force 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Arrow 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00am A League of Their Own 1:00am Brit Cops - Law and Disorder 2:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:55am Road Wars 3:45am Road

Wars 4:35am Crash Test Dummies 5:00am Stargate SG-1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:20am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton 7:00am Something Borrowed 9:05am Hall Pass 11:05am The Avengers Special 11:35am Crazy, Stupid, Love 1:45pm Jack and Jill 3:20pm Wild Hogs 5:10pm Swinging with the Finkels 6:50pm Crazy, Stupid, Love 9:00pm Jack and Jill 10:35pm Hall Pass

Nominations 2013 Special 7:00am Beautiful Wave 8:45am Oscar Nominations 2013 Special 9:05am The Tempest 11:05am The Butcher's Wife 12:55pm The Top Ten Show 2013 1:15pm Water for Elephants 3:20pm The Hours 5:20pm The Conspirator 7:30pm The Art of Getting by 9:00pm Water for Elephants 11:00pm The Hours 1:00am I Don't Know How She Does it 2:40am Boys Don't Cry 4:45am Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows Special 5:05am The Tempest

12:25am Django Unchained Special 12:55am No Strings Attached 2:50am White Men Can't Jump 5:00am House Arrest

SKY MOVIES ACTION

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

5:00am American Ninja 2: The Confrontation 6:30am Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Special 7:00am Street Kings 2: Motor City 8:45am Sanctum 10:45am

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I.Q.

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Oscar

Tomorrow, When the War Began 12:45pm Fantastic Four 2:40pm Twister 4:40pm Your Highness 6:30pm Black Hawk Down 9:00pm Fantastic Four 11:00pm A Man Apart 1:00am Species 3:00am Species II 4:45am American Ninja 3: Bloodhunt

TCM 6:00am 3 Godfathers 7:55am The High Chaparral 10:00am The Searchers 12:15pm Man From Del Rio 1:50pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm The Indian Fighter 5:40pm A Thunder of Drums 7:30pm The Pride and the Passion 10:00pm The Specialist 12:05am Barquero 2:10am The Specialist 4:00am Barquero

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BBC2

3:30am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Cowboy Trap 1:15pm Bargain Hunt Tim Wonnacott takes the bargain hunters to Newark. 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 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Father Brown

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Perfection 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 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 The latest news, sport and weather from London.

8:00pm The One Show If it's got Britain talking then it will get talked about on The One Show.

8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Room 101 10:00pm Silent Witness 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show

BBC1

BBC3 8:00pm Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes Robert Webb tucks into a delicious taster of Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes, celebrating the hippest, sexiest, quirkiest and campest dance crazes of the last forty years.

8:15pm Doctor Who 9:00pm Gavin and Stacey 9:30pm Gavin and Stacey 10:00pm World's Craziest Fools 10:30pm Pramface 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 1:00am Family Guy 1:25am Family Guy 1:45am Pramface 2:15am Way to Go 2:45am World's Craziest Fools 3:15am Russell Howard's Good News 3:45am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents

Channel 4

Channel 5

5:55am Once upon a Time 6:35am Seeking Refuge 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer 8:00am The Sheriffs are Coming 8:45am Cowboy Trap Clive Holland has help and advice for homeowners who have fallen victim to cowboy builders. 9:15am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 10:00am Antiques Roadshow 11:00am Question Time David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from Weymouth. 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm World Indoor Bowls Championships

5:20am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 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 1:30pm Loose Women More lunchtime chat and fun with the girls and their guests. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather Nina Hossain with the latest headlines from around the world. 3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal Windsor is the location today and it's pistols at dawn for Michael Hogben.

5:20am Deal or No Deal 6:15am Countdown 7:00am Quick Bakes with Eric Lanlard 7:05am Sali Mali Why can't Sali Mali get her chimney unblocked? 7:35am The Hoobs 8:05am Will and Grace 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm A Place in the Sun 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:30pm Food Unwrapped 2:00pm The Spoilers 3:40pm Countdown

7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami

6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Heir Hunters 9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 10:00pm Italy Unpacked 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines with Emily Maitlis.

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham with the latest headlines from around the world.

8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street A disbelieving Tyrone learns of Kirsty's accusations. Lewis encourages Gail to stand her ground.

9:00pm Wild Britain with Ray Mears 9:30pm Coronation Street Tina and Tommy try their best to help Tyrone. Owen gives Tim a warning.

10:00pm Great Night Out 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham with the latest headlines from around the world.

11:35pm Coogan's Bluff Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan, a tough Arizona cop, travels to New York to collect a wanted man.

4:30pm Face the Clock Rory Bremner challenges six contestants to answer questions against The Clock.

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 When Mercedes takes matters into her own hands, she puts herself in grave danger.

8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm First Time Farmers 10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats 10:30pm The Last Leg The award-winning gang show The Last Leg returns live to Friday nights with a joyful, offbeat take on the week, that aims to celebrate all that is best about Britain.

11:00pm Paddy's TV Guide Paddy McGuinness hosts a brand new six-part comedy show.

11:50pm Alan Carr Live: Spexy Beast

4:05pm Let Me Call You Sweetheart Mystery drama in which a lawyer reinvestigates a ten-year-old murder case. After spotting a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the victim, she begins to have doubts about the case, wondering whether the man she prosecuted for the crime is in fact innocent.

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

6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away As Sid recovers in hospital, he, Lisa and Indi presume Neil to be the perpetrator.

7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm Benidorm ER 9:00pm Ice Road Truckers Documentary series examining the lucrative, but highly dangerous job of driving trucks on the notorious ice highway. Hugh and Rick haul the biggest load ever on the Canadian ice roads. Meanwhile, Alex fights a massive oil leak, and two newcomers head up the highway.

10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother

12:00am The Review Show 12:50am Treacle Jr. British drama.

2:10am World Indoor Bowls Highlights 3:10am Question Time

1:20am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Carry on Matron 5:30am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

12:55am The New Normal 1:25am 2 Broke Girls 1:50am Random Acts 1:55am Happy Endings 2:15am Don't Trust the B---- In Apartment 23 2:40am Bob's Burgers 3:00am Glory Daze 3:40am Smallville Drama series following the teenage years of the future Superman, Clark Kent. 4:25am St. Elsewhere 5:10am Deal or No Deal

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 4:55am Motorsport Mundial The latest motor racing action from around the world.

5:20am House Doctor 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge Michaela Strachan and colleagues undertake a range of wildlife-related dares in exotic locations.

12:25am She's Out of My League Romantic comedy.

2:00am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:05am BBC News

12:25am She’s Out of My League

ITV

Jay Baruchel Alice Eve

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm BBC Proms 10:30pm Imagine...

Arts series.

11:45pm Arena Three young men who emerged in the 1950s - Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dave Brubeck - not only captured the public's imagination, but in their own unique way determined the evolution of jazz as we know it today.

1:15am 1959: The Year that Changed Jazz 2:15am Omnibus 3:15am Imagine...

Arts series.

4:30am Top of the Pops David 'Kid' Jensen introduces the weekly pop chart programme featuring performances from the Rich Kids, Althea and Donna, Gordon Giltrap, Terry Wogan, Yellow Dog, Gallagher and Lyle, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Baccara, Wings and Legs and Co.

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am UK Border Force 10:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm UK Border Force 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm John Bishop's Only Joking 10:00pm Stella 11:00pm A League of Their Own 12:00am Spartacus: Vengeance 1:15am Spartacus: Vengeance

2:30am Brit Cops - Law and Disorder 3:20am NCIS: Los Angeles 4:10am Road Wars

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:00am House Arrest 7:00am Snow Dogs 8:40am The Big Year 10:20am Love and Other Drugs 12:15pm A Thousand Words 1:50pm Prom 3:35pm Arthur 5:30pm The Big Year 7:15pm The Hangover Part II 9:00pm A Thousand Words 10:35pm Arthur 12:30am The Hangover Part II 2:15am Jackass 3.5 3:55am The Avengers Special

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:05am The Tempest 7:00am Cupid, Inc 8:30am You May Not Kiss the

Bride 10:15am Like Crazy 11:55am Love, Wedding, Marriage 1:35pm Romeo and Juliet 3:40pm Rabbit Hole 5:20pm Country Strong 7:20pm Like Crazy 9:00pm War Horse 11:30pm Romeo and Juliet 1:35am Captain Corelli's Mandolin 3:50am Losing Control 5:30am Cupid, Inc

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:45am American Ninja 3: Bloodhunt 6:30am Django Unchained Special 7:00am The Avengers Special 7:30am Priest 9:10am Batman Forever 11:20am Batman and Robin 1:30pm Collateral Damage 3:30pm The Top Ten Show 2013 3:45pm Killer Elite 5:45pm Batman Forever 7:50pm Batman and Robin

10:00pm Collateral Damage 11:55pm Killer Elite 1:55am The Top Ten Show 2013 2:10am The Delta Force 4:20am Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection

TCM 10:20am A Thunder of Drums 12:10pm The Indian Fighter 1:50pm The High Chaparral 2:55pm The High Chaparral 4:00pm Ride, Vaquero!

5:45pm Son of a Gunfighter 7:30pm Wichita 9:00pm The Man From Utah 10:00pm Band of Brothers 11:10pm Band of Brothers 12:20am Tequila Sunrise 2:30am Betrayal 4:05am Tequila Sunrise

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BBC2

2:05am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen 12:30pm The Good Cook 1:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed

by Weather. 1:05pm Regional News All the latest local news. 1:10pm Weather The latest weather information. 1:15pm Football Focus A look ahead to this weekends football action with interviews, expert opinions and highlights.

2:00pm Grand Slam 2012 2:30pm Athletics Coverage of all the latest action from the world of Athletics.

4.00pm - midnight 5:30pm Final Score 6:15pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

6:25pm Regional News All the latest local news.

6:28pm Weather The latest weather information.

6:30pm Animal Antics 7:00pm Richard Hammond's Secret Service 7:45pm Britain's Brightest 9:00pm The National Lottery: In It to Win It 9:50pm Casualty 10:40pm Mrs. Brown's Boys Everyone in the Brown family has a date for Valentine's Day except Agnes.

11:10pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

11:28pm Weather The latest weather information.

11:30pm Meet the Parents Ben Stiller teams up with Robert De Niro for this smash hit comedy of embarrassment.

1:15am Shoot to Kill 3:00am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 3:05am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

ITV

8:00pm Merlin 8:45pm Doctor Who Science fiction series about the adventures of an alien time-traveller, known as The Doctor.

9:35pm Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 11:45pm Family Guy Subversive animated comedy about American family life.

12:07am Family Guy Subversive animated comedy about American family life.

12:30am American Dad! 12:52am American Dad! 1:15am Way to Go 1:45am Pramface Sitcom about two teenagers trying, and often failing, to come to terms with impending parenthood.

2:15am World's Craziest Fools Mr T takes a look at some of the craziest clips from around the world.

2:45am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 3:45am Being Human

Channel 5

7:00am The Black Rider 8:05am Mouse That Roared 9:25am Tennis Coverage of the latest tennis action. 12:30pm Map Man 1:00pm Indian Food Made Easy 1:30pm EastEnders Omnibus A round-up of the week's events from Albert Square. 3:25pm Bowls Coverage of the latest bowls fixture.

5:30am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 7:00am CITV 10:25am ITV News 10:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:20pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 12:25pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:10pm The FA Cup Round 4: Crystal Palace or Stoke City v Manchester City.

5:10am Deal or No Deal 6:05am Countdown 6:50am Quick Bakes with Eric Lanlard 7:10am The Hoobs The Hoobs are here to look at the Peep planet. 7:35am The Hoobs The Hoobs are nowhere near the sea. 8:00am Beach Volleyball 9:00am The Morning Line 10:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:00am Frasier 11:30am Frasier 12:00pm Undercover Boss Australia 1:00pm The Big Bang Theory 1:30pm The Big Bang Theory

5:30pm Natural World Special Jaguars Born Free.

6:30pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving.

7:00pm The Great Comic Relief Bake Off 8:00pm The Great Comic Relief Bake Off 9:00pm Dad's Army More military mayhem with Mainwaring and co.

9:30pm Natural World Award winning nature documentary series.

10:30pm Howard Goodall's Story of Music 11:30pm QI XL Panel-based quiz where it is more important to be interesting than right.

4:00pm Dinner Date Dating show with a twist.

5:00pm The Nation's Favourite ABBA Song 6:30pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

6:45pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

7:00pm You've Been Framed! Top 100 Holidays 8:00pm Splash!

9:30pm Take Me Out 10:45pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:45pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news.

1:55pm The Simpsons 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 5:30pm Come Dine with Me 6:05pm Come CH4 Dine with Me 6:40pm Come 7:40pm - Mrs. Doubtfire.

Dine with Me Daniel Hillard Has a Problem. His 7:05pm marriage is falling apart but he can't Channel 4 News stand to stop seeing his kids. The soIncludes sport lution? He will dress up as Highland and weather. help Mrs Doubtfire.

7:35pm 4thought.tv 7:40pm Mrs. Doubtfire Daniel Hillard Has a Problem.

10:00pm World Without End Robin Williams 11:00pm The Hurt Locker

BBC2

12:15am Hard Rain

BBC4 8:00pm Lost Land of the Volcano Documentary series combining remarkable wildlife discoveries with high action adventure.

9:00pm Treasures of Ancient Rome 10:00pm Borgen Danish drama series about the fight for political power and the personal sacrifices and consequences this has for those involved on and behind the political stage. Internal strife among the coalition partners continues as the right wing submits a bill that will lower the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 12 years. Several Labour Party members support the proposal, leaving Birgitte in the minority in parliament.

11:00pm Borgen 12:00am the Old Grey Whistle Test 70's Gold.

1:30am Top of the Pops 1978 2:00am Who Knows Where the Time Goes 3:00am Fairport Convention Concert 2012 4:00am Treasures of Ancient Rome

12:00am The FA Cup Round 4 Highlights. 1:30am The Store 3:30am In Plain Sight Drama about a U.S. Marshal attached to the highly secretive Federal Witness Protection Program. 4:15am ITV Nightscreen

9:45am Rupert Bear 10:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:10am Toby's Travelling Circus 10:25am Roary the Racing Car 10:40am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers: Samurai 11:35am Batman: The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:10pm At Risk 3:55pm Everything She Ever Wanted

7:15pm 5 News Weekend 7:20pm Impact 10:45pm The Matrix

Morgan Freeman Christian Slater

12:15am Hard Rain 1:45am Bowls Coverage of the latest bowls fixture.

BBC3

Channel 4

1:40am Cyrus John C Reilly, Marisa Tomei and Jonah Hill star in this Tony and Ridley Scottproduced romantic comedy-drama from directors Jay and Mark Duplass. John hasn't coped with his divorce at all well, so it's with gratitude that he accepts an invitation from his former spouse to a swanky LA party, where she thinks his love life might get the kick-start it needs. 3:15am Hollyoaks Omnibus 5:20am Smallville

1:30am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel.

5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am The Great Artists 5:50am County Secrets Series that throws a spotlight on some of the UK's most scenic counties.

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 8:00am Futurama 8:30am Futurama 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm Got to Dance 1:30pm Got to Dance 2:00pm Got to Dance 2:30pm Got to Dance 3:00pm Got to Dance 3:30pm Chris and Wes: Lets Do This 4:00pm Chris and Wes: Lets Do This 4:30pm Chris and Wes: Lets Do This 5:00pm Chris and Wes: Lets Do This 5:30pm Futurama 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons

8:30pm John Bishop's Only Joking 9:00pm David Attenborough's Kingdom of Plants 10:00pm Stella 11:00pm Turbulence

12:05am American Pie 1:45am Eddie Murphy: Raw 3:20am How Do You Know 5:20am Good Burger

12:55am Street Crime UK 1:25am A League of Their Own 2:25am NCIS: Los Angeles 3:25am Road Wars 3:55am Life of PI Special

11:05am What's Your Number?

1:00pm Life as We Know it 3:00pm That Thing You Do!

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 6:30am Rio Special 7:00am American Pie 8:50am Little Fockers 10:40am School of Rock 12:30pm Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2:05pm The Sitter 3:30pm Shanghai Noon 5:25pm Little Fockers 7:05pm School of Rock 9:00pm The Sitter 10:30pm Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

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4:50pm Albatross 6:25pm Lincoln: Sky Movies Special 6:55pm Jane Eyre 9:00pm What's Your Number?

11:00pm Life as We Know it 1:00am Girl, Interrupted 3:15am Take Me Home

SKY MOVIES ACTION 6:20am Batman 8:10am Spy Kids 9:40am Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 11:25am Batman

Begins 1:50pm Rush Hour 3:35pm The Recruit 5:35pm Batman Begins 8:00pm Daylight 10:00pm First Blood 11:40pm Rambo: First Blood Part II 1:20am Rambo III 3:05am The One

TCM 6:55am Wichita 8:25am The High Chaparral 9:25am The High Chaparral 10:30am Son of a Gunfighter 12:15pm Ride, Vaquero! 1:55pm Houseboat 4:00pm An Affair to Remember 6:15pm Union Station 7:45pm The Big Lift 10:00pm The Fugitive 12:30am Stir of Echoes 2:25am The Wicked Lady 4:10am Stir of Echoes

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3:05am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am The Big Questions A series of moral, ethical and religious debates on topical issues.

12:00pm Sunday Politics Andrew Neil presents the latest political news, interviews and debate. 1:25pm Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside.

2:25pm Call the Midwife 3:25pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

4.00pm - midnight 4:25pm Chatsworth 5:25pm Songs of Praise 6:00pm Africa Cape.

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

7:20pm Regional News All the latest local news.

7:25pm Weather 7:30pm Blandings 8:00pm Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside.

9:00pm Call the Midwife 10:00pm Ripper Street 11:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

11:15pm Regional News 11:20pm Weather 11:25pm Prisoner Number A26188: Henia Bryer

8:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:00pm Cool Runnings 10:30pm World's Craziest Fools Mr T takes a look at some of the craziest clips from around the world.

11:00pm Crazy for Party Drugs 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy Subversive animated comedy about American family life.

12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! 1:30am Pramface Sitcom about two teenagers trying, and often failing, to come to terms with impending parenthood.

2:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 3:00am Crazy for Party Drugs 4:00am Being Human

Channel 4

Channel 5

7:00am Preview 8:00am Life in a Cottage Garden 8:30am A to Z of TV Gardening 9:15am Tennis Coverage of the latest tennis action.

1:00pm Coast A journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today. 2:00pm Cowboy 3:30pm Bowls Coverage of the latest bowls fixture.

4:15am ITV Nightscreen 7:00am CITV 10:25am House Guest in the Sun 11:20am 60 Minute Makeover The team has just one hour to transform a home with a design makeover. 12:20pm May the Best House Win 1:20pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 1:30pm Dickinson's Real Deal Why let your antiques collect dust in the attic when you can sell them? 2:30pm Rosemary and Thyme Lighthearted drama series about a pair of gardening enthusiasts turned amateur sleuths. 3:30pm Murder, She Wrote

6:25am Countdown 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Will and Grace 8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Frasier 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:00pm The Big Bang Theory 1:30pm The Big Bang Theory 2:00pm The Simpsons 2:30pm The Simpsons 3:00pm Annie

8:25am Animal Antics 8:35am Make Way for Noddy 8:50am City of Friends 9:00am Little Princess 9:15am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 9:30am Angelina Ballerina 9:45am Rupert Bear 10:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:15am Toby's Travelling Circus 10:30am Roary the Racing Car 10:45am Jelly Jamm 11:00am Power Rangers Samurai 11:35am Batman - The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Monkey Life 12:40pm Once Upon a Time 1:40pm Teen Wolf 3:30pm See Spot Run

6:15pm Ski Sunday Coverage of winter sports events.

7:00pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving.

7:30pm Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey 8:30pm Open All Hours 9:00pm Top Gear Motoring magazine programme that tests and reviews the latest models of cars on the market, as well as covering older 'classic' models and news in the motoring world.

10:00pm Wonders of Life 11:00pm Racing Legends

4:25pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

4:30pm The FA Cup Round 4: Oldham Athletic v Liverpool Fc. 7:05pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast.

7:15pm Dancing on Ice 8:45pm All Star Family Fortunes 9:30pm Dancing on Ice 10:00pm Mr Selfridge 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news.

11:20pm The FA Cup Round 4 Highlights.

5:25pm Deal or No Deal 6:25pm Time Team 7:25pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm Come Dine with Me 9:00pm The Hotel 10:00pm The Fighter

5:20pm The Princess Bride Funny fantasy yarn for all the family.

7:10pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

7:15pm Spider-Man 3 Superhero sequel.

10:00pm Person of Interest 11:00pm My Best Friend's Girl

12:20am Lv=Cup Highlights 1:15am Grimefighters 1:40am The Store 3:40am Monk Crime drama series about a private police consultant with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. 4:30am ITV Nightscreen

12:20am The Firm 3:05am Honeymoon Events over one night make a woman on her honeymoon question who her new husband really is. 3:40am St. Elsewhere 4:25am Smallville Drama series following the teenage years of the future Superman, Clark Kent. 5:05am Deal or No Deal

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Christian Bale & Mark Wahlberg

10:00pm - The Fighter

Ward grew up in the supremely tough workingclass neighbourhood of Lowell, Massachusetts, and, in the 90s, aimed for the classic escape from that environment - via boxing.

12:05am Room 101 12:45am Celebrity Apprentice USA 2:10am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:15am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

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ITV

12:00am Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop 1:00am Intermission Violent and darkly humorous crime caper set in Dublin. 2:40am Holby City

BBC4 8:00pm Of Ice and Men 9:00pm Holocaust - A Music Memorial Film From Auschwitz 10:30pm Mark Knopfler - A Life in Songs 11:30pm Love Like Poison 12:50am Arena Three young men who emerged in the 1950s - Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dave Brubeck - not only captured the public's imagination, but in their own unique way determined the evolution of jazz as we know it today.

2:20am 1959 - The Year That Changed Jazz 3:20am Omnibus 4:20am Concerto at the BBC Proms

12:55am Botched Up Bodies 1:55am Super Casino

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Best of Oops TV 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 9:00am Road Wars 11:00am World Wrestling 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm Futurama 1:30pm Futurama 2:30pm Futurama 3:00pm Chris and Wes: Lets Do This 4:00pm Chris and Wes: Lets Do This 5:00pm The Simpsons 7:00pm Got to Dance 8:00pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Glee 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00am Lincoln Special 12:30am Django Unchained 1:00am Street Crime UK 1:30am Road Wars 2:00am Ultimate Road Wars 3:00am Ultimate Road Wars 4:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 5:00am Don't Forget the Lyrics

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:20am Good Burger 7:00am Junior 9:00am Johnny English Reborn 10:55am Bridesmaids 1:05pm American Pie 2 3:05pm Shanghai Knights 5:05pm Junior 7:10pm Johnny English Reborn 9:00pm Bridesmaids 11:10pm What Women Want

5:00pm A Little Bit of Heaven 6:50pm Shakespeare in Love 9:00pm Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 11:15pm Moneyball 1:30am Beginners 3:20am A Little Bit of Heaven 5:10am Zero Dark Thirty Special 5:30am A Valentine's Date

SKY MOVIES ACTION

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

4:45am Kiss of the Dragon 6:30am Django Unchained Special 7:00am The Avengers Special 7:30am Flight of the Phoenix 9:30am Fantastic Four 11:30am Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol 1:45pm Broken Arrow 3:45pm Twister

5:00am That Thing You Do! 7:00am 33 Postcards 8:45am Stay Cool 10:25am Moneyball 12:45pm The Magic of Belle Isle 2:45pm Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

5:45pm Fantastic Four 7:45pm Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol 10:00pm Bloodsport 11:40pm Cyborg 009

1:20am American Pie 2 3:10am Wild Hogs 4:55am The Fighting Temptations

1:10am Death Warrant 2:45am Rapid Fire 4:25am The Perfect Weapon 5:55am Twister

TCM 6:00am TCM Shorts 6:15am A Place in the Sun 8:30am Houseboat 10:40am An Affair to Remember 1:00pm The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend 2:30pm Union Station 4:00pm Rio Conchos 6:10pm The Left-Handed Gun 8:10pm The Charge at Feather River 10:00pm Hell on Wheels 11:00pm Deadwood 11:55pm The Jacket 1:50am On Deadly Ground 3:30am The Jacket 5:15am Off Set

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2:15am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:58am BBC News and Weather 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Cowboy Trap 1:13pm BBC News and Weather 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 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Moving On

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

4:45pm Perfection General knowledge quiz show.

5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 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 8:30pm Inside Out 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm Miranda 10:30pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Have I Got Old News for You

8:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:00pm Junior Doctors 10:00pm Transsexual Teen, Beauty Queen 11:00pm World's Craziest Fools Mr T takes a look at some of the craziest clips from around the world.

11:30pm EastEnders Another visit to the residents of Albert Square, for a regular dose of drama, excitement and tears.

12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! Animated adventures of a CIA agent and his family.

1:07am American Dad! 1:30am World's Craziest Fools Mr T takes a look at some of the craziest clips from around the world.

2:00am Junior Doctors 2:55am Life After War: Haunted by Helmand 3:55am Junior Doctors

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Channel 5

7:00am Preview 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am The Sheriffs are Coming 8:50am Cowboy Trap 9:20am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 10:05am MasterChef 10:35am Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside. 11:35am Click 12:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm The One Show 2:30pm The Weakest Link 3:15pm Classic Mastermind 3:45pm Reel History of Britain

4:30am ITV Nightscreen 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 Dickinson's Real Deal

6:00am Countdown 6:45am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:05am Will and Grace 8:30am According to Jim 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm A Place in the Sun 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:30pm River Cottage Bites 1:40pm The Shepherd of the Hills 3:40pm Countdown

7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Essex Jungle 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami

4:15pm Rick Stein's Spain 5:15pm Life on Earth 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Welsh Railways Full Steam Ahead.

8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm MasterChef: The Professionals 10:00pm Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them 11:00pm Mock the Week...Again 11:30pm Newsnight

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm 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 Cornwall with Caroline Quentin 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Lewis 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Agenda

4:30pm Face the Clock Rory Bremner challenges six contestants to answer questions against The Clock.

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 As Tilly vows to expose the truth, Jen takes drastic measures to stop her.

8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm 4thought.tv Sexuality has become a major battle ground for the world religions.

9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm Wild Things 10:00pm Embarrassing Fat Bodies 11:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Deal or No Deal

4:15pm Tribute 6:00pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away As Leah grows more concerned about Jamie's behaviour, Brax asks Adam to have a word with his son.

7:30pm 5 News National and international news.

8:00pm The All New Gadget Show 9:00pm Police Interceptors Documentary series profiling the work of a highspeed police interception unit in Essex.

10:00pm Rory and Will - Champions of the World 11:00pm Assassins Action thriller about a top-class hit man whose retirement plans are scuppered when he is forced to confront a younger rival bent on assuming his No 1 status. Reluctantly drawn back into the world he wants to leave behind, he needs to muster all his strength and skill if he is to save his own life.

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12:05am Blandings 12:35am The Graham Norton Show 1:25am Celebrity Apprentice USA 2:45am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:50am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed

by Weather.

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ITV

12:20am Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways 1:20am Film 2013 1:50am Who Do You Think You Are? 5:00am How to Write 5:30am Writing for Walford

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm Art Deco Icons 9:30pm Britain on Film 10:00pm Lost Kingdoms of South America 11:00pm Storyville Series showcasing the best in international documentaries.

12:30am Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork 1:30am The Joy of (Train) Sets 2:30am Britain's Most Fragile Treasure 3:30am Britain on Film This Sceptered Isle.

4:00am Lost Kingdoms of South America

12:05am - Monk

12:05am Monk Crime drama series about a private police consultant with an obsessivecompulsive disorder. 1:00am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:55am The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45am ITV Nightscreen

12:05am Random Acts 12:10am One Born Every Minute 1:10am Random Acts 1:15am The Shooting Gallery 1:45am Supersize v Superskinny 2:40am Scandal 3:20am The Promise 5:20am Gone Fishing 5:35am Deal or No Deal

1:40am Pawn Stars 2:10am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel.

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Best of Oops TV 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am UK Border Force 10:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm UK Border Force 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Arrow 10:00pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm Spartacus: Vengeance 12:15am Spartacus: Vengeance 1:30am Road Wars 2:30am Road Wars 3:20am Brit Cops - Law and

Disorder 4:10am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate SG-1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 4:55am The Fighting Temptations 7:00am Take Me Home Tonight 8:50am The Cat in the Hat 10:25am 30 Minutes or Less 12:00pm Oscar Nominations 2013 Special 12:20pm Friends with Benefits 2:20pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 4:10pm Team America: World Police 6:00pm The Cat in the Hat 7:30pm 30 Minutes or Less 9:00pm Friends with Benefits 10:50pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 12:30am Team America: World Police 2:10am Stan Helsing 3:45am Take Me Home Tonight

5:25am Snow Dogs

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:30am A Valentine's Date 7:00am Beautiful Wave 8:40am The Terminal 10:50am Red Riding Hood 12:35pm Anonymous 2:50pm Coach Carter 5:10pm Country Strong 7:10pm The Adjustment Bureau 9:00pm Coach Carter 11:20pm Anonymous 1:35am Red Riding Hood 3:20am The Adjustment Bureau 5:10am That Thing You Do!

SKY MOVIES ACTION 5:55am Twister 7:55am Jaws 3 9:45am Basic 11:35am Battle: Los Angeles 1:35pm Spider-Man 2 3:45pm Escape From L.A.

5:30pm Colombiana 7:30pm Kingdom of Heaven 10:00pm Spider-Man 2 12:10am Escape From L.A. 1:55am Black Hawk Down 4:20am Paycheck

TCM 6:00am Michael Caine Off Set 6:25am The Beautiful Blonde 7:55am Rio Conchos 10:00am The Left-Handed Gun 12:00pm The Charge at Feather River 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Two Flags West 5:50pm Monte Walsh 7:45pm The Sins of Rachel Cade 10:00pm Office Space 11:45pm Moulin Rouge!

2:10am Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4:20am Office Space

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Y, how some great institutions in their heyday in the last century have already imploded - like Jimmy Savile - while others seem in freefall - like Marks & Spencer.

With the latest media revelation - the Report published by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC on the extent of sexual abuse by Savile - I now consider ‘Jimmy Savile’ my specialist subject were I ever to appear on Mastermind.

Some 214 crimes are believed to have been committed at hospitals, a hospice and on premises across 28 police force areas between 1955 and 2009.

All this by a man knighted in 1990 and who, in the same year, Pope John Paul II made a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great, the Roman Catholic Church’s highest honour.

And as for M&S, where to start with, this 129-year-old company whose crucial

The rise and fall of British institutions

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Christmas general merchandise sales (including clothes) were down almost 4 per cent, far worse than the 1.5 per cent NORA JOHNSON fall expected.

M&S just does not A Costa del Sol resident for a number of years, Nora is the author of psychological seem to know who suspense and crime thrillers. To its customers are. Or, comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to at least, who they www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/ want their customers nora-johnson to be (yummy mummies flocking to Zara and Topshop) are not to buy slightly boring, good who they actually are quality clothes. (pensioners).

Now I rarely set foot Like most people of a there. When I do, the certain age, I remember stores seem to be stuck in a M&S as a place I was taken time warp. Even in the to as a child by my mother updated ones, you expect

Breaking Views

IN FREEFALL: Just who are their customers?

Mr Rumbold to approach you at any moment with a tape measure, Mr Humphries to accost you with “I’m free!” or Mrs Slocombe to throw a hissy fit around the corner with Miss Brahms.

The flagship store at Marble Arch always seems like the Marie Celeste after the scrum of customers in Primark across the street.

The only thing I bought on a long ago visit was underwear. And I just don’t get all the fuss about their food, which I think is average and overpriced compared with Waitrose.

John Lewis is infinitely better and managed to modernise without losing

its traditional, English department store feel.

Maybe ‘M&S’ as my second specialist subject?

I’m ready for the general knowledge round now.

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Soul Stealer’ & ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89; £0.77) and iBookstore.

Profits to Cudeca.

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2:50am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:58am BBC News and Weather 12:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Cowboy Trap 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 Doctors Drama series set in a busy Midlands medical practice. 3:15pm Moving On Series of unique, contemporary dramas each featuring a different story.

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

4:45pm Perfection 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 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 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Death in Paradise Detective drama series.

11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News All the latest local news.

11:30pm Weather 11:35pm The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2013

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Channel 4

Channel 5

6:00am Bringing Books to Life 7:00am Preview 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am The Sheriffs are Coming 8:50am Cowboy Trap 9:20am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 10:05am MasterChef: The Professionals 11:05am Robbed, Raided and Reunited 11:35am HARDtalk Stephen Sackur talks to newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News The latest international news from the BBC World Newsroom. 1:00pm The Daily Politics Political show examining the latest news, views and moves in the world of politics. 2:00pm The One Show 2:30pm The Weakest Link 3:15pm Classic Mastermind 3:45pm Reel History of Britain

5:45am ITV Nightscreen 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 Dickinson's Real Deal

5:25am St. Elsewhere 6:10am Deal or No Deal 7:05am Sali Mali 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am According to Jim 8:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Frasier 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Canada 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:35pm Kirstie's Vintage Gems 1:45pm The Fighting Kentuckian 3:40pm Countdown

6:10am Wildlife SOS 7:00am Thomas and Friends 7:10am Igam Ogam 7:20am Fireman Sam 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:05am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:55am Mio Mao 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:30am Milkshake Monkey 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Essex Jungle 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami

4:15pm Rick Stein's Spain Cookery series presented by Rick Stein as he searches for the best classic Spanish dishes.

5:15pm Life on Earth 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow Antique experts travel the country to appraise people's wares.

7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Welsh Railways Full Steam Ahead.

8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm The Mary Berry Story 10:00pm Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways 11:00pm The Sarah Millican Television Programme 11:30pm Newsnight Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show Chat show that celebrates the very best of British.

5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 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 River Monsters 9:00pm Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Chris Tarrant presents a special celebrity couples edition of the game show.

10:00pm Great Houses with Julian Fellowes 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news.

11:35pm River Monsters

4:30pm Face the Clock 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 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Supersize v Superskinny 10:00pm The Undateables 11:00pm Utopia

4:15pm Disney Classic: Magician Mickey Mickey's professionalism as a stage magician is tested by a persistent heckler - Donald.

4:20pm Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss 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 Monkey Life Series about Dorset's Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre.

8:30pm Highland Emergency 9:00pm Benidorm ER 10:00pm Dallas Revival of the glossy American soap.

11:00pm Brain Hospital

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Extreme angler Jeremy Wade goes to extraordinary lengths in his mission to come face to race with real monsters of the river.

Jeremy Wade 12:25am Film 2013 12:55am 50 Dead Men Walking 2:45am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:50am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

BBC3 8:00pm Total Wipeout 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 11:00pm Pramface Sitcom about two teenagers trying, and often failing, to come to terms with impending parenthood.

11:30pm EastEnders Another visit to the residents of Albert Square, for a regular dose of drama, excitement and tears.

12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! 1:30am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 2:30am Pramface Sitcom about two teenagers trying, and often failing, to come to terms with impending parenthood.

3:00am Way to Go 3:30am World's Craziest Fools 4:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents

12:20am Wonders of Life 1:20am Wonderland Documentary. 2:20am Nature's Weirdest 5:00am 3, 2, 1 Go!: Key Stage 3

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 9:00pm Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures 10:00pm Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex 11:00pm Illuminations 12:00am Bob Servant Independent 12:30am Borgen Danish drama series about the fight for political power and the personal sacrifices and consequences this has for those involved on and behind the political stage.

1:30am Borgen 2:30am Colouring Light: Brian Clarke - An Artist Apart 3:30am Art Deco Icons 4:00am Jonathan Meades: Estuary

1:05am Jackpot247 4:00am Loose Women 4:45am ITV Nightscreen

12:10am 8 Out of 10 Cats 1:00am Random Acts 1:05am Pokerstars.co.uk and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final It's bubble time in Monaco, 130 players remain but only 96 will get paid. 2:05am Sailing 2:30am KOTV Boxing Weekly 2:55am Beach Volleyball 3:45am Brief Encounters of the Sporting Mind 3:55am Paper Moon 5:35am Smallville

12:00am CSI: NY Crime drama. 1:00am CSI: Miami 1:55am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 5:00am House Doctor Home improvement series with Californian interior designer Ann Maurice. 5:20am House Doctor 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am UK Border Force 10:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm UK Border Force 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Last Resort 10:00pm Stella 11:00pm Turbulence 12:55am Brit Cops - Law and Disorder 1:55am Road Wars

2:55am Road Wars 3:45am Road Wars 4:35am Crash Test Dummies 5:00am Stargate SG-1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:25am Snow Dogs 7:05am Hall Pass 8:55am Analyze This 10:45am Shanghai Noon 12:45pm Shanghai Knights 2:45pm This Means War 4:30pm Horrible Bosses 6:10pm Sweet Home Alabama 8:10pm Analyze This 10:00pm This Means War 11:45pm Horrible Bosses 1:30am Hall Pass 3:20am White Men Can't Jump 5:20am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:10am That Thing You Do!

7:00am The Lake Effect 8:35am The Tempest 10:30am Conviction 12:20pm City of Angels 2:20pm The Descendants 4:20pm Mother and Child 6:30pm War Horse 9:00pm The Descendants 11:00pm I Don't Know How She Does it 12:35am My Week with Marilyn 2:20am The Company Men 4:10am Against the Ropes

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:20am Paycheck 6:30am The Avengers Special 7:00am Sanctum 9:00am Street Kings 2: Motor City 10:40am Alexander 1:40pm Independence Day 4:10pm I, Robot 6:10pm The Eagle 8:10pm Your Highness

10:00pm Independence Day 12:30am I, Robot 2:30am Ironclad 4:35am Species

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Sunday, Sunday, so good to me SUNDAY; day of rest and relaxation, reflection and comfort eating, has been the yardstick by which I measure the success of my weekends.

I look forward to the marathon settee-sitting sessions which involve copious cups of tea and a great stack of books through which I will flick and browse and dream.

My With a degree in Fine Art and an MA in Writing Suzanne thoughts will is currently teaching in Alicante and writing a book for teenagers. To comment on any of the issues raised in this barely be column, go to disturbed by the www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/suzanne-manners. sound of clothes flapping gently in the breeze or the GREAT FUN: The stumble down the cliff changed my view of Sundays. evocative aroma of chicken roasting in the oven. one untaxing occupation to many years... So, I would madly and red-faced).

Alone in a corner the the next. like to know, what the hell I What on earth possessed television will belch and Sunday for me is was doing this Sunday me to become all ‘rufty gesticulate for its own sacrosanct. I will not do clambering down a cliff tufty’ on this most sacred of entertainment, every now housework, or paint or towards the beach followed days? I’ll tell you, shall I? and then capturing a sliver write or even visit friends. by four kids and two adults A bad dream, that’s what of my attention as I skip, Sunday is Me Day and Son (OK, so I was actually possessed me. I awoke like a water nymph, from Day and has been thus for following them, puffing with a vague feeling of

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dread and regret and a lingering depression that no amount of tea would dissipate. In order to stave off what promised to be an awful day of dark brooding and winsome melancholia I decided, much to the shock of my two friends, that I would join them on their walk (which makes a change from our usual drunken ramble through topics as diverse as parenting and the delights of Iceland mini buffet food).

So with the wind in my hair and sand in my toes (and ears and eyes and socks and knickers and even in my bra) I set off all Wordsworthian leaving the fey Byronic killjoy behind.

The stumble down the cliff was great fun and the walk on the beach bracing.

We talked and laughed and admired the view (although no nude bathers appeared to brighten, or darken our

day). The Mediterranean looked stunning and the winter sun warmed us. Our children played, or argued as was their wont, and we all ate chocolate biscuits.

Lou Reed would have been proud of our perfect day.

Sunday; day of friends and reflection, of comfort eating and view admiring, is the yardstick by which I will measure the success of my life.

From now on, the settee will have to compete with the sea, but fear not sweet indolence, you shall not be usurped. For truth be told I am still a creature of gentle contemplation and daydreams, except that now and then I will intersperse those pleasures with a stiff walk and an even stiffer Scotch at journey’s end.

What better way to spend a Sunday? (Answers on a postcard please.)

Tumble in the gorse, anyone?

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2:50am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:00am Breakfast The latest news stories and events. 10:15am Wanted Down Under Revisited Nadia Sawalha catches up with previous Wanted Down Under families. 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 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45pm Cowboy Trap 1:13pm BBC News and Weather The most up to date news and weather forecasts. 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Moving On

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

4:45pm Perfection General knowledge quiz show.

5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 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. 9:00pm Food Inspectors 10:00pm Africa 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 Match of the Day

1:05am The Ring 2 Journalist Rachel moves away from the city to escape the curse of the lethal videotape. 2:50am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:55am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

BBC3 8:00pm Junior Doctors 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Make Me a Muslim 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm Way to Go 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy When Peter gets hurt and can't work, his boss tells him he needs to speed things up.

12:45am American Dad! Animated series about Stan Smith, who works for the CIA. 1:07am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family.

1:30am Make Me a Muslim 2:25am Junior Doctors 3:25am Russell Howard's Good News 3:55am Make Me a Muslim

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6:00am Eco Maths A new way of showing how maths is used in the real world to help create a sustainable future. 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 8:00am The Sheriffs are Coming 8:45am Cowboy Trap 9:15am Don't Get Done, Get Dom 10:00am MasterChef: The Professionals 11:00am Robbed, Raided and Reunited 11:30am See Hear Magazine programme for the deaf community. 12:00pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed

by Weather. 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm The One Show 2:30pm The Weakest Link 3:15pm Classic Mastermind 3:45pm Reel History of Britain

4:45am ITV Nightscreen 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 Dickinson's Real Deal Why let your antiques collect dust in the attic when you can sell them?

5:35am Smallville Drama series following the teenage years of the future Superman, Clark Kent.

6:15am Deal or No Deal 7:10am The Hoobs The Hoobynut in the roof garden is finally ripe and ready to eat. 7:35am The Hoobs Lots of things go up and lots of things go down. 8:00am According to Jim 8:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Frasier Frasier buys an expensive chess set and challenges his dad to a game. 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss Canada 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather.

1:05pm Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 1:35pm Kirstie's Vintage Gems 1:50pm Broken Arrow 3:40pm Countdown

4:15pm Rick Stein's Spain Cookery series presented by Rick Stein as he searches for the best classic Spanish dishes.

5:15pm Life on Earth 6:10pm Antiques Roadshow Antique experts travel the country to appraise people's wares.

6:55pm Party Political Broadcast Labour Party 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Welsh Railways: Beating Beeching 8:30pm Great British Menu The country's top chefs compete for the opportunity to cook a banquet at London's Gherkin building. Every week, two chefs representing one of seven British regions will compete to make a starter, a fish course, a main course and a dessert for the judges.

9:00pm Hairy Bikers Everyday Gourmet 10:00pm Funny Business 11:00pm The Culture Show Topical magazine programme which features the best arts and culture stories of the last week.

11:30pm Newsnight Comprehensive coverage of the day's important national and international news stories.

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase Quiz show in which four contestants must pit their wits against The Chaser, a ruthless quiz genius determined to stop them winning at all costs. A thrilling battle of brainpower and quickthinking ensues, with each contestant trying to outrun the Chaser and bank their prize money before the final round, when the surviving team members join forces to try and win thousands of pounds.

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.

8:30pm Coronation Street More drama and turmoil from the residents of Coronation Street in the longest running TV Soap.

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

11:35pm Trevor Mcdonald: Inside Death Row

4:30pm Face the Clock Rory Bremner challenges six contestants to answer questions against The Clock.

5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me It's the turn of LED lighting salesman Richard Mercer to host in Shropshire.

7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks Ste's rattled when Brendan questions his commitment.

8:00pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Gok's Style Secrets 10:00pm One Born Every Minute Midwife Linda Abbott returns to Leeds General.

11:00pm Derek 11:30pm Dispatches

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

8:00pm Police Interceptors 9:00pm Charley Boorman's South African Adventure 10:00pm NCIS 11:00pm Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 11:55pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Forensic crime drama series.

12:20am The Genius of Invention 1:20am Dara O Briain's Science Club 2:20am See Hear Magazine programme for the deaf community.

4:55am I Never Said Yes 5:45am Ask Lara

12:35am Safari Vet School Series in which TV vet Steve Leonard acts as guide and mentor to veterinary students from the UK as they travel to the Amakhala Game Reserve in South Africa to learn about the challenges and terrors of being a wildlife vet. 1:05am Jackpot247 4:00am Dunkirk

12:30am Random Acts 12:35am Embarrassing Fat Bodies 1:40am Launched at Red Bull Studio in Association with Lacoste! 1:55am Launched at Red Bull Studio in Association with Lacoste!

2:10am Barclaycard Mercury Prize: 2012 Albums of the Year Live 2:20am Barclaycard Mercury Prize: 2012 Albums of the Year Live 2:35am Revenge 3:20am The Ice Storm 5:10am Amelia and Michael 5:20am Deal or No Deal

12:55am CSI: Crime Scene Investigation The team struggles to identify the killer of an elderly cancer patient. 1:50am True Crimes: The First 72 Hours Documentary series. 2:15am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am House Doctor Homeimprovement series. 5:45am Michaela's Wild Challenge

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train.

9:00pm Sissinghurst 9:30pm Nature's Microworlds 10:00pm Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo 11:00pm Bob Servant Independent 11:30pm Billy Connolly: The Review Show Special 12:15am Mark Knopfler - A Life in Songs 1:15am When Britain Went Wild 2:45am Nature's Microworlds 3:15am Bob Servant Independent 3:45am Eyes Down! The Story of Bingo

7:10am Igam Ogam 7:20am Fireman Sam 7:30am Jelly Jamm 7:45am Peppa Pig 7:50am Olive the Ostrich 7:55am Little Princess 8:05am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 8:20am The Mr. Men Show 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:55am Mio Mao 9:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:20am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:30am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 9:35am Roary the Racing Car 9:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Essex Jungle 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm CSI: Miami

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4:15pm Polar Storm 4:15pm Polar Storm Fast-paced sci-fi disaster movie.

6:00pm 5 News at

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Airline USA 7:30am Airline USA 8:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 9:00am UK Border Force 10:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm UK Border Force 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Futurama 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm Got to Dance 9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm John Bishop's Only Joking 10:00pm Glee 11:00pm Last Resort 12:00am An Idiot Abroad 1:00am

Brit Cops 2:00am Road Wars 3:45am Crash Test Stargate SG-1

Law and Disorder Wars 2:55am Road Road Wars 4:35am Dummies 5:00am

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:20am Win a Date with Tad Hamilton 7:00am Analyze That 8:50am Oscar Nominations 2013 Special 9:10am Wild Hogs 11:05am No Strings Attached 1:05pm The Avengers Special 1:35pm Wanderlust 3:15pm Tower Heist

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 6:10am The Tempest 8:10am Take Me Home 9:50am 33 Postcards 11:30am The Decoy Bride 1:10pm Shakespeare in Love 3:20pm Oscar Nominations 2013 Special 3:40pm Love, Wedding, Marriage 7:20pm The Decoy Bride 9:00pm Life as We Know it 11:00pm Shakespeare in Love 1:10am It's Kind of a Funny Story 3:00am The Butcher's Wife 4:50am X-Men: First Class Special

5:15pm No Strings Attached 7:15pm Analyze That 9:00pm Wanderlust 10:40pm Tower Heist

SKY MOVIES ACTION

12:30am How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 2:35am The Dilemma 4:35am Wild Hogs

4:35am Species 6:30am Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Special 7:00am Fortress 8:40am Twister 10:35am Hanna 12:30pm Batman Begins 2:55pm Haywire

4:35pm Green Lantern 6:35pm Collateral Damage 8:30pm Batman Begins 11:00pm Haywire 12:45am Green Lantern 2:45am Collateral Damage 4:45am Species II

TCM 6:00am Around the World in 80 Days 9:00am Gunsmoke 10:05am Gunsmoke 11:10am Across the Rio Grande 12:15pm Gunsight Ridge 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Pork Chop Hill 5:55pm In Like Flint 8:05pm Bus Stop 10:00pm 300 12:20am Hell on Wheels 1:20am Dead Calm 3:05am 300 5:05am The Making of Band of Brothers

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Time Out A path of destruction

Science fiction and fantasy New York City, not-toodistant-future: Eric Packer, a 28-year-old finance golden boy dreaming of living in a civilisation ahead of this one, watches a dark shadow cast over the firmament of the Wall Street galaxy, of which he is the uncontested king. As he is chauffeured across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut at his father’s old barber, his anxious eyes are glued to the yuan’s exchange rate: it is mounting against all expectations, destroying Eric’s bet against it. Eric Packer is losing his empire with every tick of the clock.

1h48 Starring: Robert Pattinson, Samantha Morton, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19)

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IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: Making the most of a fully energetic and progressive year is easy for a forthright Piscean. What is sometimes more difficult is getting a balance between your home and business life.

Try to understand where loved ones are coming from to keep the peace.

A shopping trip with a friend makes you realise that there is more to them than meets the eye. Should you have underestimated them, encourage them to open up. Something you hear this week will be of immense value to you in the future. Decorating and changes at home really bring spring into your life and perk you up.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Someone new to your circle of friends brings humour and a new lease of life, socially.

When something outside your comfort zone is suggested, then be sure that it is not just faint heart that is stopping you.

Carlos Latre, born January 30, 1979 is a Spanish comedian. He became popular for his more than 100 different impersonations for the television show ʻCronicas Marcianasʼ. He is a voice actor for animated films and acted in several movies and plays. He is now part of the jury of VIP talent show ʻTu cara me suenaʼ.

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are likely to find yourself upset but, by looking on the bright side and keeping your sense of humour, brings a balanced view.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21)

Are you in the mood for some retail therapy? There are bargains to be had this week. The trend also extends to

He later finds out it’s more difficult to break free from the organisation than it was to join it.

How can he detach himself from the grip of ‘The Major’ and his organisation, whilst he

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your personal life where it is possible to negotiate much more easily with a loved one.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20)

and his family are under threat?

Will his friend at GCHQ help him to expose the man who poses a danger to him, his friends, his family and his marriage?

BOOKS Ex-Army officer Captain Peter Wicks, now medically discharged and living in the Cotswolds with his wife Jessie, receives a mysterious offer of employment days before his 45th birthday.

Accepting the well-paid offer, he finds himself embroiled in a web of espionage, blackmail, arms deals and assassinations.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)

The more sensitive side of your nature comes to the fore this week. You

10-star quiz

This is a time of the year when new starts and fresh ideas come to you, which is excellent news for those who are looking forward to changes. The weekend brings you courage and determination and you feel confident enough to speak plainly with people.

SU DOKU

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Something said to you in confidence should be respected this week. Should the beans be spilled, it will not be you who is feeling guilty. The need to help someone with legal forms or some other complicated matter will be much appreciated.

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.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

A slow start to the week sees you full of beans come Wednesday. What is the cause of this change of attitude?

Something you worked on last week shows signs of progress just when you thought it wouldn't.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) It is now that you may realise how right you were to keep something in reserve. Certainly, so far as a relationship is concerned, holding back has proved its worth.

1. They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re altogether ooky.

2. Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a little girl, and her name was Emily, and she had a shop. There it is! It was rather an unusual shop because it didn’t sell anything!

You see, everything in that shop was something someone had once lost.

3. Here is a box, a musical box - wound-up and ready to play, but this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?

4. Who do you think you’re kidding, Mr Hitler, if you think we’re on the run? We are the boys who will stop your little game; we are the boys who will make you think again.

5. Life is the name of the game, and I wanna play the game with you. Life can be terribly tame, if you don’t play the game with two, and I wanna play the game with you!

6. Whenever you’re feelin’ lonely, or you’re gettin’ in a stew.

Just lend your ear — come over here, and, man, here’s what you do.

7. What would you say if I told you things had never changed? And we’ll find a way to take our dreams and rearrange them. Who’d believe that we could be in love again?

8. Through early morning fog I see, visions of the things to be. The pains that are withheld for me I realise, and I can see.

9. Yesterday I was happy to play for a penny or two a song.

Till a fellah in a black sedan took a shine to my one-manband. He said: “We got plans for you, you’d never dream,” 10. Here’s a house. Here’s a door. And windows - one, two, three, four. Ready to knock? Turn the lock.

TARGET: Average: 7 Good: 9

Very good: 14 Excellent: 17

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

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How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case F) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Keep a wide circle of friends and constantly seek to add to them. With such an active mind as yours, boredom is agitating and non-productive. Spring gives you the ideal opportunity to visit others and get out in the open.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) News of someone close brings finances into your mind. Perhaps some juggling is needed to keep the balance. There is more than one way to conserve both energy and money, which will give you a head start. Getting involved with a charity, even on a small scale, can bring immense satisfaction and costs nothing.

WITH

Move from the start word (DONE) to the end word (WITH) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.

DONE DONS DINS WINS WITS WITH

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DONE

DONE DINE WINE WINS WITS WITH

Getting more sleep and fresh air last week may show dividends now. The results are a brighter mind and more willingness to be social. Young people will be particularly helpful and fun to be with.

Just joking What do you call a very old ant?

An antique How do you know when it’s raining cats and dogs?

When you step in a poodle What do sick birds need?

Tweetment What do you get if you cross a goldfish and a chimp?

A swim-panzee

The following are the first lines of the theme tunes or introductions to which television programmes?

sharp, so get plenty of sleep and exercise for sure. Legal matters may be paramount and need specialist advice. So long as you are doing your best in a certain situation, no more can be expected of you.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23)

This is a time to keep your mind

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Crosswords CRYPTIC

ENGLISH - SPANISH

Across 1 A crowd worried the chicken (6) 4 Quadruped also has bicycles (6) 9 Short article at home, then call at the theatre (7) 10 Covers in tobacco at Scotland Yard (5) 11 Cinders has changed (3) 12 Stretch a number of words (8) 14 Withdraw from French division (6) 15 In pain, chest moves slowly (6) 18 Alternatively half a dance before roads turn into woods (8) 20 Get a gift containing a game (3) 23 Lad in key note clearing (5) 24 Reckless fun in a pail can make one sore (7) 25 Present Fourth of July convention (6) 26 Riches obtained by breaking the law (6) Down 1 Old clown needs a drink (5) 2 More severe endless trendy church service (7) 3 Bring up the back (4) 5 Moving could start in leaving (8) 6 A win one more time (5)

The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

Across 1 Puddle (6) 4 Pulga (4) 8 Habas (5) 9 Manzana (fruta) (5) 10 Alquitrán (3) 11 January (5) 12 Yearning (desire) (5) 15 Hombre (varón adulto) (3) 16 Humo (de fuego, cigarro) (5) 18 Suit (5) 19 Plomo (4)

Co d e B r e a ke r 7 Resists drunken nuns (7) 8 Shy of and looking up to (5) 13 Affected manner to dress up (8) 14 Doctor should supply water shortage (7) 16 Itʼs horrible, putting a lid on broken flue (7)

17 Ed and Pat have become so skilled (5) 19 Bird ran inside church (5) 21 Chug around and about large ravine (5) 22 The Italian is in the iron box (4)

Down 1 Huge (8) 2 Strength (5) 4 Rogue (6) 5 Card game (5) 6 Unique (7) 7 Defeat (4) 8 Drives back (6) 13 Fidgety (8) 15 Before noon (7) 17 Crude (6) 18 Calm (6) 20 Attentive (5) 22 Get up (5) 23 Search (4)

CRYPTIC Across: 1 Washed, 4 Debate, 7 Term, 8 Vanishes, 9 Marries, 12 Add, 14 Allies, 15 Tastes, 16 Nod, 18 Scatter, 22 Peculiar, 23 Bats, 24 Asleep, 25 Screws.

Down: : 1 Water main, 2 Scrambled, 3 Diver, 4 Dense, 5 Base, 6 Trend, 10 Reels, 11 Start, 12 Alternate, 13 Distrusts, 17 Opens, 19 Crisp, 20 Turns, 21 Dupe.

QUICK - Across: 1 Cohorts, 5 Bogus, 8 Advisor, 9 Since, 10 Haste, 11 Confine, 12 Sedate, 14 Rarely, 17 Arrange, 19 Sharp, 22 Drake, 23 Examine, 24 Lotus, 25 Sincere.

Down: 1 Clash, 2 Hives, 3 Respect, 4 Strict, 5 Bison, 6 Genuine, 7 Scenery, 12 Scandal, 13 Dormant, 15 Abstain, 16 Defers, 18 Needs, 20 Agile, 21 Piece.

ENGLISH - SPANISH Across: 1 Start, 4 Aguja, 7 Air, 8 Ahumada, 9 Briefcase, 13 Triplet, 15 Rib, 16 Pelar, 17 Sepia.

Down: 1 Seas, 2 Abrir, 3 Traveller, 4 Aguacates, 5 Uva, 6 Abad, 10 Syrup, 11 Step, 12 Obra, 14 Ill.

1. Unscramble the name of a famous singer, recording artist, songwriter, showgirl, and actress: I LIKE YOUNG ME 2. Unscramble the name of a famous stately home in Leicestershire: LOVELIEST CRAB

Play on Words 20 SETTLE SETTLE

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A ‘ DRAFT

Answers: A score to settle, A large (big) overdraft

Funagram

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

In this week’s puzzle, 25 represents M and 11 represents Z, so fill in M every time the figure 25 appears and Z every time the figure 11 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.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

QUICK Across 1 Duplicate (4) 3 Marriage offer (8) 9 Anarchic (7) 10 Retains (5) 11 Wait on (5) 12 Frightened (6) 14 Nearly (6) 16 Develop (6) 19 Make (6) 21 Lowest amount (5) 24 Combine (5) 25 Inspect (7) 26 United (8) 27 Implores (4)

20 Flowerpot (6) Down 1 Copper (5) 2 Despierto (no dormido) (5) 3 Cliente (de tienda, bar, restaurante, banco) (8) 5 Labio (3) 6 As (naipes) (3) 7 Guarantee (8) 13 Smooth (skin, hair) (5) 14 Pavement (5) 16 Sun (3) 17 Wave (in sea, lake) (3)

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open John Barrymore (1882 – 1942) American actor of the stage and screen.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Hexagram The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 sixletter 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 (POWDER) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

AGREES

HOSTEL

POWDER(10)

CHILLS

HUGGED

SLOPES

COOLED

LADDER

SPECKS

CRUSTS

LECTOR

SURGED

DOLMEN

MENDER

WICKED

GLOSSY

MINCER

HOLLOW

MUSTER

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Sagged, 2 Fright, 3 Waters, 4 Flanks, 5 Hardly, 6 Wrists, 7 Guilty, 8 Asides, 9 Maimed, 10 Glider, 11 Bairns, 12 Lemurs, 13 Boards, 14 Wheels, 15 Desert, 16 Closer, 17 Caller, 18 Stalls, 19 Awards

FUNAGRAM SOLUTION KYLIE MINOGUE BELVOIR CASTLE

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HEFTY milestone in my life swept past largely unnoticed last week: we have now been in Mallorca for one whole year.

The anniversary was not accompanied by the pop of a Champagne cork due to the tediously dry January (damn those New Year’s resolutions!) and no congratulatory cards dropped through my letterbox even though the occasion, here in the land of the sun, may deserve it.

It would be handy if we expats had a little badge with the number of years in situ. That way we’d know whom to turn to for information when needed. Or reassurance we plumped for the right country to emigrate to. Or someone to explain the curious cultural differences in layman’s terms.

The plethora of celebrations for various saints for example. I had just mastered the holy trinity of Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy, when along come more fiestas than you could shake a sacrosanct stick at.

Hot on the heels of Three Kings Day came San Sebastian and then Sant Antoni; each occasion seems to call for processions, vast amounts of bonfires and people dressed in anything from royal fineries to demon incarnates. The

Spanish milestone sweeps past me dressing-up seems to be constant. Now, I am all in favour of livening up the humdrum of daily life with a costume, but the slightly fearsome white outfits they don for Easter won’t be finding their way into my wardrobe any time soon. Of course, all these festivals seem to take place so late in the evening that I am nodding off and pleading with my kids to let me go to bed. With 12 months under my belt, I really thought I would have the hang of this ‘up-all-night’ capacity of the locals, but, sadly, this is one cultural aspect which shall forever remain a mystery.

“Don’t worry! By next year you’ll have dinner at 10pm and go to bed at 5am,” Spanish friends reassure me, but I think there is little hope.

How many years do you have on your badge? Do write in and tell me at what stage you magically metamorphosise into a night owl.

Of course, it could all be down to the fact that here in Spain emotion

times skulk into the Zumba class at my local gym to glean a few tips. The Spanish Swedish-born Ulrica is a freelance journalist living in Mallorca with her contingent generally family. Her debut novel $Expat Wives dance their hearts out at is available on Amazon and iBooks.

To comment on any of the issues the front while I and a raised in Ulrica’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/ couple of equally ulrica-marshall double left-footed ULRICA MARSHALL individuals stay ulrica @euroweeklynews.com firmly at the back. and following your heart rule the So, as you can roost. Just listen to the music. You see, I still have a could probably count on the one long way to go to hand the number of songs that become a true don’t include heart-rendering wails Spaniard, but I am of ‘mi corazon’ being ‘roto’. Clearly, working very hard at it: sleeping slips down the to do list language classes, tick; learn when engaged in such raptures of to keep up with the local emotional torment. drivers, tick. Absolutely And what follows music if not positively refuse to leave dancing; a huge cultural difference. the glorious sun here for at While I can just about survive a bit least another year, tick! of wedding dancing if push comes to shove, the Spaniards seem to be IN COSTUME: The born with the ability to Flamenco or dressing-up seems to shake their booties in manners be constant. entirely out of this world. I some-

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Web of deceit weaved by the West I WAS one of a privileged few who recently watched a video of the Iranian city of Tehran.

Rarely have I seen a more beautiful and modern cosmopolitan city. There were broad tree-lined boulevards with fashionable arcades, malls and stores; architectural wonders; super bridges, buildings, parks and highways.

A transport structure to impress, randomly taken video images of city parks and plazas showed welldressed people going about their business. The video has since been pulled by those who wish us to think of Iran as a backward and corrupt primitive hellhole desperate for liberation.

Iraq was similarly peaceful and prosperous until Western democracies decided to liberate its

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mineral wealth. Today, after liberation, Iraq is a backward and corrupt primitive hellhole desperate for liberation.

How ironic that although the internet offers insight into the real world, we are perhaps more ignorant of it and its ways than our grandparents were. I am fortunate as my ‘office’ is in Eastern and Western Europe.

TEHRAN SKYLINE: A beautiful and modern cosmopolitan city.

Sadly, one only has to read a popular newspaper’s readers comments to blush at the ignorance of today’s generation.

There is common belief that Russia and former Eastern Bloc nations are politically corrupt, impoverished and drab. This is far from the case but it helps to maintain the illusion all is well in Western Europe; that Britain and elsewhere in the European Union, though imperfect are better off.

Trying to convince people otherwise can be difficult. Visitors

to Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine; Budapest, Prague; the Czech and Slovak republics, Croatia; the Baltic States are taken aback.

They are not only impressed by the natural loveliness of these locations but of the lack of crime, lifestyle and well-being of those fortunate enough to live there.

Yes, there is social deprivation; corruption and hard times are experienced in these lands, but is far less evident than in the West.

Throughout the former Soviet nations there is an illusion that

opportunity, prosperity and political integrity are superior in Western Europe.

The truth is corruption and incompetence is a widespread political failing regardless of country. Riots and institutional violence in the West remind me of the collapse of the USSR. Because of the internet and budget air travel we now have the freedom to explore as never before. What a shame if the harshest censor of all was our own lack of curiosity.

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UK TAX REFUND SL – Your tax adviser Shortly in Malaga

Due to our knowledge of the British Tax System we are able to fully understand your situation with them, giving the best possible advice with respect to paying your tax correctly.

One other important thing is that depending on how long you have been living in Spain, there is a possibility that you are due a refund of unduly paid taxes in the UK. Covering the coast and inland from Valencia (Costa Blanca) to Mar Menor, Murcia (Costa Cálida), UK TAX REFUND SL will be launching its services in Málaga (Costa del Sol) shortly.

According to the

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Advising clients on how to grant a Tax Efficient Will is another of UK TAX REFUND SL’s specialities.

If you already have a will or are thinking of making one, then it is most important that your will is written to be a Tax Efficient Will. You do not want your family to face a high tax bill if

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UK TAX REFUND SL is constantly on the move allowing us to be closer to our clients. We normally visits our clients at home;

St Valentine’s dance for AID ANIMALS IN DISTRESS (AID) invite you to their St Valentine’s charity dinner dance on February 15.

Taking place at La Hiedra Restaurant on the Alhaurin el Grande to Coin Road from 7.30pm, guests will be entertained with a ‘Boogie Nights’ extravaganza, with performances from Frankie B and The DJ Lee Jay Road Show.

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Five years of being successful in bringing tax refunds from the Inland Revenue to hundreds of clients is shown in UK TAX REFUND SL’s positive press, with many of its clients thanking the company for the service given to them in various well-known Englishlanguage newspapers.

Give UK TAX REFUND SL a call and be one of the first clients to benefit from its service in your area.

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Garlic could help to keep colds at bay GARLIC may keep vampires (and partners) at bay, and it could help protect you from colds and flu.

The pungent food is being used to help combat winter ailments thanks to a virus-killing chemical it contains called allicin.

“This chemical has been known for a long time for its anti-bacterial and anti-fungal powers,” said Helen Bond, a consultant dietician. “Because of this, people assume it is going to boost their immune systems.”

Scientists remain divided on garlic’s ability to combat colds and flu.

An investigation last year by the Cochrane Database found that increasing your garlic

intake during winter can cut the duration of cold symptoms by one day, but said more research was needed.

Meanwhile, nutrition scientists at the University of Florida (USA) found eating garlic can boost the number of T-cells in the bloodstream which strengthen the immune system.

COLD CURE: Garlic as part of a cold-killing kit.

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The Knee Clinic WITH Christmas over and New Year Resolutions made (maybe even already broken or forgotten), many of us will be putting our best foot forward and will start to exercise.

Sadly there are also many of us who wish they could exercise, even if it meant only going for a walk (the best form of exercise) but can’t because of their knees.

There is a Clinic here on the Costa del Sol that can help. This Clinic has no surgical affiliation, avoiding surgery wherever possible and has had so many successes with knees that they opened a www.thebodyworksclinic.com Specialist Knee Unit.

When dealing with any part of the body, it cannot be stressed how important a BEST FOOT FORWARD: Don’t let your proper physical assessment is. Here, you knees affect your life. will get a detailed and thorough evaluation by a Consultant English Chartered necessary accuracy and a video assessPhysiotherapist who is registered with both ment helps both your consultant and the UK’s Health Professions Council (HPC) yourself pinpoint areas of concern. and the Spanish National and Local Prescriptive orthotics from this system are Authorities. If necessary, thermal imaging, small, discreet, unobtrusive and can be X-rays and/or MRI scans can be arranged, worn in the majority of shoes. They may often on the same day, and onward referral be small but do not underestimate the to an orthopaedic consultant can also be power of such devices! made if deemed necessary and A straight knee is essential to how you appropriate. It should be noted that the walk but after trauma, be it an injury or Clinic is also fully registered with all the surgery, the knee protects itself by being in local and national authorities. a slightly ‘bent’ position. This new This Knee Clinic has many unique and specialist Knee Clinic has patient controlled technically advanced tools to aid in the technology that gently stretches and conservative treatment of knees. There is straightens that knee, helping to prevent the cutting edged Magnetic Resonance future problems.

Therapy (MRT), currently the only such Injury affects muscle control and system in Spain. MRT is a fully medically strength and new specialised biofeedback trialled and tested derivative of Magnetic technology stimulates muscle activity Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanner improving strength, stability and function technology. MRT delivers energy to the around the knee. cartilage cells at a specific frequency, The clinic also carries a range of forcing these cells to harden and repair, supplements which helps to keep you, your and also drastically reduces bone knees and your cartilage, healthier for inflammation, the major cause of arthritic longer. pain.

If you want your knee problems solved Interestingly, foot posture problems are without the need for surgery or if you the main cause of non-specific knee pain have had surgery and need the best of and this can easily be rectified by the fitting rehabilitation, call The Bodyworks Clinic and wearing of prescriptive orthotics. A on 952 883 151 or visit computerised gait analysis system, unique www.TheBodyworksClinic.com. to mainland Europe provides for the

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By Carol Adams of Stop Smoking In Spain IF you are a smoker then you’ve probably tried most things to try and stop, because quitting smoking is one of the hardest things to do as nicotine is one of the most addictive chemicals known to mankind. In fact it’s even more addictive than heroin, both physically and mentally.

I first discovered Bioresonance myself after watching Richard and Judy one afternoon and I thought that somehow this might work for me. It sounded weird and wonderful and was sceptical, really sceptical! However, I booked an appointment in London and flew back to the UK to have the therapy.

I stopped after an hour’s treatment quite easily and yet I was previously smoking 30 cigarettes a day for more than 30 years. In fact I was so amazed at the ease of stopping that I knew I would be able to help other smokers and so I began the process of becoming a therapist myself.

I have now been offering the treatment for eight years in Spain and also run monthly clinics in the UK. Bioresonance therapy cancels the charge of nicotine over the body so that the addiction is quite simply removed. I do this using a computer called a BICOM 2000 which reads your addiction from a sample of your saliva and a half-smoked cigarette.

Because the nicotine has a negative charge over the body I invert this charge to the exact opposite and return it, thus cancelling out the addiction so that your body no longer needs the fix. I said it sounded weird and wonderful didn’t I? But it works. I have been doing it for eight years with great success. I’ve helped literally thousands of people to quit and like me, most people cannot believe how easy it was.

After just an hour’s treatment the resonance of your body is now just like that of a non-smoker. Of course, at first you will think about it but you will find, like everyone else has, that you can be in control of your thoughts and therefore in charge of the habit of cigarette smoking instead of the other way around.

The therapy is completely safe and harmless and you can even have the therapy if you have heart problems, use pacemakers or take medications.

If you would like some more information or a chat about it then please call me on 962 965 261/649 123 238 or email on moreinfo@stopsmokinginspain.com and I will send you an information pack. You can read about the treatment at www.stpsmokinginspain.com.

Below are some lovely messages I have received from people over the years Hi Carol I'm completely free! I’ve a few urges to smoke every now and again, but nothing I would call a true craving and it gets easier every day. I don’t recall thinking about cigarettes at all today until I got your follow up email.

Completely free of it in one treatment. It really is a miracle.

I’ve been giving out your number to lots of colleagues and patients. I hope they book up.

Thank You. Dr Luke Maddocks Feel free to use this as a testimonial (hence the Dr).

Hi Carol, Wanted to send this to let you know I’m still not smoking and it’s brilliant to finally be free of fumes.

I haven’t been bothered at all and no intention of going back on them again, I would like to say a big thank you for doing your job here in Spain because if it wasn’t for you I would still be trying patches, tablets and goodness knows what to try and stop and not one of them would be doing a blind bit of good except costing more money than they are worth so Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Hope all is well with you and yours and you had a merry Xmas, have a good New Year and all the best for 2013.

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The significant growth in the popularity of elective cosmetic surgery has had a significant, positive effect on the lives of millions of people around the world.

Yet it is no secret that the demand for cosmetic surgery has also led some firms to put profit before care, and this has sadly put clients at risk of bad practice. This might be through the use of unqualified, non-specialist cosmetic surgeons, poor quality implants, or an inappropriate clinical environment.

This in turn has made governments and medical authorities renew their focus on the cosmetic surgery sector, with a view to protecting patients.

Aria Medical Group embraces this focus on providing the highest level of care for every patient. Dr. Marco Vricella and his team continually strive to offer Best Practice, and want to see a healthy, sustainable cosmetic surgery sector.

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Barmy signs while millions wasted WHICH WAY?: Airport roads are badly signposted.

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HERE seems to be an ‘it’ll do’ mentality about airport design.

They spend hundreds of millions building unused white elephant airports, but approach roads to existing airports are badly signposted.

Valencia’s airport approach is a maelstrom of fast-moving multi-junction roads every few hundred metres. The few airport signs are tiny and half obscured.

Placed within 500 metres of the turn-off on what appears to be a road leading to an industrial estate you have .05 seconds to turn.

In daylight a nightmare; in darkness, don‘t ask.

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Gangster style leaders I CHECK out El Pais, Spain’s flagship daily as I have a morbid interest in organised crime and corruption.

The latest headlines suggest the modern equivalent of Al Capone and his Chicago syndicate now run things in modern Spain. Up for investigation is a PP treasurer found to have €22 million in a Swiss account and a regional premier probed for renting a posh Marbella apartment for a third of its market value.

Meanwhile, the EU’s unelected heads tell Ukraine they can join when they prove they are not corrupt. You can’t make it up.

The wages of sin IN the UK a crooked estate agent trousered £210,000 (€251,600) of tenants’ deposits and was jailed.

I would do 12 months in the slammer for that kind of money. It was only newsworthy because of the amount involved.

In my experience, retention of deposits in Spain is normal as are one-sided tenancy agreements. A retained month’s rent as a deposit seems to be a perk of the letting trade. In the long term these do not serve the interests of either owner or tenant. The proof is in the faded and endemic ‘alquila’ signs.

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Not just spag bol HAS a New York restaurant created the priciest pasta dish?

At $2,013 (â‚Ź1,505) the answer is that it quite possibly has.

On offer at BiCE, located in Midtown Manhattan, the restaurant expects the homemade tagliolini topped with two pounds of fresh Maine lobster and one ounce of black

truffle, to be a hit with wealthy diners.

It is served on a gold leaf plate designed by the late fashion mogul Gianni Versace, which diners are allowed to take home with them after their meal.

With only 45 plates left from the 800 which were originally made, it really is a once-in-alifetime limited offer.

Stack ’em up PANCAKE batter is almost exactly the same as the batter used to make regular cakes.

The pancake batter is just a little thinner.

They have become so popular; people choose to eat them at any meal time, not just for breakfast as in previous years.

In the past, on Pancake Day, items were placed in the pancake batter before it was cooked to foretell the future for family members. If a boy received an item for a trade, it meant he would enter that particular trade. If a girl received an item for a trade, it meant she would marry a person from that area.

Caffeine fix THERE are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, and five milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.

Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.

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HAPPY HOUR: Beer and cocktails are most the popular drinks.

Drink happy for an hour ACCORDING to a survey carried out by Technomic Inc, 81 per cent of men were likely to order beer during happy hour at a bar or restaurant.

Women, on the other hand, favoured a cocktail or a mixed drink.

Germany is in the top three European countries

in beer production, producing more than 95 million litres in 2010.

It makes sense in the country known for the Oktoberfest, a 16-day festival celebrating beer held annually running from late September to the first weekend in October.

Nestle rule the world of cuisine.

Cocoa money

CHOCOLATE manufacturer Nestlé made £6.5 billion (€7.7 billion) last year. They’ve had their share of controversies in the past, including the Cocoa Protocol in 2001 to stop using child labour to produce cocoa, amongst others, yet they remain the biggest food and drinks producer in the world. They also make pet food.

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IN THE PINK: Dragon fruit said to have health benefits.

Dragon fruit is the latest super food DRAGON FRUIT, also known as pitaya, is being hailed as yet another new ‘super food’.

So if you’re bored with blueberries and have gorged on goji berries, then why not try dragon fruit.

It is not the easiest thing to eat, being covered in spikes from the cactus it is harvested

from. But, its health benefits are worth the effort. It is said to be rich in vitamin C, fibre and calcium and claimed to regulate blood sugar levels in diabetics as well as providing a dose of anti-oxidants.

The bright pink fruit tastes similar to a kiwi fruit and pear, and is full of edible black seeds.

Celebrate Burn’s Night at Cristal@costamar FRIDAY the 25th of January sees the celebration of Burn’s Night at Cristal’s restaurant in Benalmadena. They offer a special menu and entertainment in delightful surroundings for just 20€ per person - not 25€ as stated in last week’s review.

Banned foods disparity JELLY BEANS may seem innocuous enough, but those made from a thickening agent called konjac are banned from import in Spain, the UK and the rest of the EU, on the basis that they pose a choking hazard.

However, the same sweets are widely available in Japan and

the Far East.

Meanwhile, unpasteurised milk is banned in 22 states in the US and Canada over concerns about germs, despite the fact that it is widely available in Europe, Africa and Asia, with advocates insisting it is actually very healthy.

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By Bryan Rand I can’t sing Bangkok Restaurant’s praises enough!

This venue in Marbella is a great family-friendly place to enjoy authentic Thai and Chinese cuisine. Located near Puerto Banus, the restaurant has a relaxed atmosphere which is appropriate for the whole family.

As one would expect from anything associated with Thailand, Bangkok has a friendly, smiling staff, who serve appetizing, great value food. The Bangkok is an ‘all you can eat’ restaurant not to be associated with buffet-style eateries. Here you order food at your table from an extensive menu. For an all inclusive price of €26.95 you can eat and drink as much as you like.

As always I found the service to be friendly and the dishes delicious. If you have anyone in your family who is not keen on

BRIGHT AND AIRY: The Bangkok’s relaxed atmosphere is appropriate for the whole family. spicy food then there is still plenty to choose from. The menu has photographs of every dish and contains 36 different starters.

These include dishes like spring rolls, BBQ ribs, and prawns and crab meat served in a shell.

Different soups are also available including a delicious Thai seafood soup. Bearing in mind the ‘eat as much as you like’ policy, this presents the perfect opportunity to try a number of different starters and/or main courses

From the grill I recommend the Entrecote with teriyaki and the Salmon with curry sauce. Fish dishes include Thai style prawns with a selection of sauces or Chinese style sizzling prawns with black bean sauce. Duck is served

in different styles including my favourite way, with pancakes.

Not to be forgotten are the beef dishes like beef Kon Pao. In total there are 50 main course dishes on offer including 12 rice and noodle dishes with such delicacies as rice with prawns and fresh pineapple.

The Bangkok offers something for everyone, a children’s and vegetarian menu available and for the all-inclusive menu children pay just €13.95.

For diners not wishing to partake in the all-inclusive menu, A la carte is available.

The restaurant is open for lunch from 1pm till 4pm and for dinner from 6.30pm until midnight.

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Healthy but tasty chocolate treats

NO WORRY: Guilt free chocolates have hit the market.

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INALLY, a chocolate that can actually be good for you has been created.

Nutritious Delicious truffles have been developed to provide a sweet treat that is not full of sugars, artificial flavours and preservatives. They were created

by Carey Davis-Munro from Sussex (UK) who wanted to give her three young children a

healthy snack without however denying them a sweet treat like chocolate.

After struggling to find a suitable product on the market she decided to make her own.

The Nutritious Delicious truffles are made using healthier dark chocolate and, thanks to Carey’s special ingredients, are also high in omegas three, six and nine.

A 100 gramme serving contains more than 15 per cent of your recommended daily allowance of zinc and magnesium.

They contain a low GI sweetener, essential fats, vitamin C and have a high anti-oxidant value.

The truffles come in four flavours: orange, lime, almond and vanilla.

Fruit or veg?

TECHNICALLY, tomatoes are a fruit. But in an 1893 US Supreme Court case, tomatoes were ruled as vegetables and subject to the vegetable name. The reason for this ruling was because tomatoes are usually served with dinner as opposed to dessert, and should be classed as a veggie.

TOMATOES: Not eaten for dessert.

FANCY: Peanut butter was once considered to personify lavishness.

Luxury spread

IN the early 20th century, peanut butter was considered a luxury.

Establishments including New York’s Vanity Fair Tea Room served up peanut butter and watercress sandwiches, and the cookbooks of the day endorsed plenty of peanut butter pairings, including pimentos and chilli. Nowadays, there are warnings that in fact the spread features small amounts of animal hair.

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where food is cooked and served by robots.

Robot Restaurant in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, has 20 robots cooking dumplings and noodles and delivering food to the customers.

They even speak, ushering customers into the restaurant with the greeting “Earth person, hello. Welcome to the Robot Restaurant.” As human guests enjoy

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their food, a singing robot provides entertainment.

Each robot can work continuously for five hours before it needs recharging.

There was an investment of five million yuan (€600,000) in creating the restaurant, with each robot costing 200,000 to 300,000 yuan (€25,000 to €35,000).

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Acanthus – These are getting ready to flower so remove any brown leaves or excess growth.

Bay – Trim to a neat shape and spray with 5cl propolis in a litre of water against black sooty leaves.

Caesalpinia – Trim off dead flower stalks and trim to shape, also cut out unsightly branches.

Datura – Trim dead flowers and cut back 25 per cent to stimulate new flowering growth.

Ericas, heathers – Trim plants that have stopped flowering.

Ferrocatus – Carefully clean any dead fallen leaves from the thorns plus any irregular unpleasing growth.

Geraniums – Cut out dead and

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untidy straggly growth.

Hydrangeas – Cut out dead growth and trim back other stems to one or two buds.

Irises – Clear/cut away dead leaves and any dead stems.

Jasmines – Cut back as necessary to have tidy tight growth.

Kalanchoas – Trim straggly and dead growth after flowering ends.

Lagerstromea – Trim out growth that has flowered and shape.

Musas, bananas – Cut back dead/dying growth and use the leaves as a valuable high in potassium mulch.

Narcissus – Leave until they have flowered and leaves die.

Polygala – Leave or trim to shape.

Querus ilex, holm

oak – trim to a pleasing shape with an attractive trunk clear of side growth.

Raspberry – Cut out dead stems and trim tips of live stems to new buds.

Santolina – These can become woody and straggly so trim back to stimulate more tidy young growth.

Teucrium – Trim as you would a hedge whether single plants or an internal edge.

Ulex, gorse – Cut back hard after winter flowering finishes.

Verbena – Trim back 25 to 75 per cent to have a neat plant that will create new creeping flowering growth.

Waterlillies – Clear out dead leaves and stems. In small or medium sized ponds remove plants from water every two or three years.

Xanthostemon, myrtle – Trim to shape.

Yucas – Trim to shape and height. Remove dead flowered stems and leaves from stems if you want to see the trunks.

Zantedeschia, water arum lily – Remove dead or dying leaves and brown flowered stems. ©Clodagh and Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com January 2013

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Taking legal action can be rewarding D

ESPITE the general hurdles of time and expense facing any legal dispute, the result of taking legal action in Spain can often have a worthwhile and rewarding outcome.

To some extent the timings of legal action in Spain are not too far off those of the UK, although they differ from one court

Nick Snelling Web master www.culturespain.com and author of 5 books including: ‘How to Buy Spanish Property and Move to Spain – Safely’ and ‘The Laptop Entrepreneur’

to another, throughout the country.

As a general rule, a major case in Spain (say of over €50,000 value) will take some 24 to 36 months to come to trial (at the Court of 1st Instance), with the actual judgement always given in writing (unlike in the UK). The judgement is not provided immediately after the trial ends, but is presented within some two months thereafter.

If a matter is appealed to Audencia, the matter will generally be dealt with without the clients involved having to go to court and may take anything from six to 14 months to be resolved. The matter can be appealed further to the Supreme Court. However, access to such an appeal process is very limited.

Of course, if your opponent does not obey any court judgement, you may then open a further process to execute your judgement. Any application to execute a judgement can normally be obtained relatively quickly but actually obtaining any money can sometimes be a tortuous process.

The good news is that the cost of taking legal action in Spain is usually much less than it would be in the UK, largely because Spanish lawyers do not charge as much as they do in Northern Europe. That said, do not take this for granted and always find out what your Spanish lawyer will charge and try to obtain some ‘worst case’

WEIGH IT UP: Make sure that going to court is going to be worthwhile. idea of the costs involved in any potential litigation.

Of course, taking legal action should be seen as a

In Spain the judgement is always written. last resort and it is always worth making every effort to settle a dispute before you have to start an action in the courts. Often this is best done through using an experienced litigation lawyer, the employment of whom can often act to concentrate the minds of most opponents in a dispute.

Indeed, a few well written letters from a litigation lawyer can often be enough to settle a matter, before any

issue of legal proceedings are required.

Needless to say, before ever starting a legal action, one must assess whether it is likely to be a worthwhile endeavour. In order to establish that you have a good chance of winning your case, your lawyer will investi-gate whether there is enough sufficient (objective!) evidence to prove matters before a court.

Certainly, you should be wary about starting a court action as a matter of ‘principle’.

Winning court cases is all about having sufficient quality evidence at your disposal to persuade a disinterested court that you are in the right and your opponent is in the wrong.

If you do not have sound evidence and proof to back up your claim then you should try to settle your dispute before making any attempt to resolve it through the courts,

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regardless of the moral outrage you feel.

The key to a successful legal action, of course, also centres upon having a first class independent litigation lawyer on your side and this should be someone who is an expert in your type of dispute. So, if you have a construction related dispute then go to a lawyer who specialises in this particular area.

He will know what is required by the courts and be able to assess your evidence and advise you whether you really do have

Find the best possible lawyer to present your case. a viable case. Furthermore, he will also know exactly how to assemble persuasive evidence and be able to present this to a court in a compelling way.

Litigation is a specialist skill, the stakes are always high and you must make sure you have the best possible lawyer around to present your case.

Do otherwise and you risk losing a good case or taking a legal action that should never have been started in the first place.

It is worthwhile spending the time searching for a lawyer that you will be able to communicate with easily and with whom you will be able to establish a rapport.

So, taking legal action in Spain is workable.

However, like everywhere in the world, you need to appreciate that court cases take time, money, patience and determination, which is always worthwhile, (in Spain or elsewhere) - if a major problem is corrected and you are properly compensated for any loss.

Nick Snelling is the author of five books including ‘How to Buy Spanish property and Move to Spain – Safely!’ and runs the information site Culture Spain.

Buying property in Spain in 2013 SPANISH property buying is on the increase. Here are a few reasons why purchasing a property in Spain will be beneficial this year.

Desired location Everyone still wants to visit Andalucia. Between January and October 2012, 52 million tourists travelled to Spain, a 3 per cent rise on the same period in 2011. And plenty of people still want to buy.

Britons are leading the way (30 per cent), according to the Ministry of Public Works, and Russian, Scandinavian and Benelux buyers are also major purchasers.

More rights Proposals by the Spanish government to offer residency rights to non-EU buyers who spend more than €160,000 will be positive for the market if it goes through this year.

Easily accessible New flights include new British Airways routes to Alicante, Barcelona, Palma and the Canaries; whilst Monarch are now flying from East Midlands Airport as well as new routes to Ibiza and the Balearics.

Lifestyle The climate, beaches and range of dining options lend itself to an enviable location.

Cheap housing Properties are cheaper than they have been since

This year is the year to buy property in Spain.

2002. Apartments sell for under €50,000, and villas for €100,000.

Ski friendly Spanish ski property is down by 50 per cent. Tapas on the piste? What could be better?

Market growing The overseas market has seen five straight quarters of growth, in contrast with the domestic market which is stalling. And new-build properties in prime locations are selling.

Art festival returns ARTE MARBELLA has become one of Marbella’s most popular and dynamic cultural events. Many of the artists featured will now have their pieces displayed in a new gallery opening in Cheltenham in early March.

Inscription is still open for artists wishing to participate in the fifth edition from 20 until 23 June. For full details see their website, www.artemarbella.com.

A non-profit making organisation, all interested sponsors, collaborators and volunteers are welcomed by the President Caroline Bowley and her email address is caroline@artemarbella.com.

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Corruption must go if financial crisis to end and nations recover many nations on the verge of bankruptcy. For too long corporations have been exploiting the developing countries regardless of the misery of indigenous workers thanks to corrupt political and www.pfieldman.blogspot.com business leaders.

This London-born journalist and author, Peter spends his time between Paris and Madrid. connivance has produced huge His novel ‘1066 The Conquest’ available on increases in profits and Amazon or www.1066TheConquest.com dividends as well as massive rises in the remuneration of leaders to accumulate real board-room directors. And to estate in London, Paris, make matters worse justice is rarely seen to be done.

Corruption and fraud are on the increase yet the punishment rarely fits the crime.

There are relatively few cases brought to court involving politicians and if there are, they are invariably acquitted.

Spain took the decision to actually remove Judge Baltasar Garzon, the only magistrate who was PUERTO BANUS: Rich man’s playground, but some yacht owners clearly pay less tax than others. investigating organised political corruption.

In Italy many politicians individuals and multi- revenues.

Too many To escape their tax But the main culprits are are suspected of political national corporations evade political and establishment liabilities wealthy indivi- the banks themselves. As fraud or links to the Mafia tax on a massive scale, figures end up in the duals with undeclared bank well as bringing our while the sub-prime growing ever richer boardrooms of major accounts and major economies to the brink of mortgage deals and rate through the use of offshore financial and industrial financial and multinational disaster through greed and fixing by banks have not banks and companies in tax corporations or allow corporations have nego- speculation, banks play a resulted in any banker havens, exacerbating the corporate lobbies to tiated secret deals with leading role in tax evasion being investigated. erosion of government tax proliferate. government tax offices. and money laundering.

HE financial crisis has brought to the surface the extent of political and corporate corruption around the world whether it is for political funding, bowing to corporate lobbies or straightforward selfenrichment.

Western nations tend to give moral lessons and criticise dictators and despotic regimes in the developing world, yet have allowed many of their

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Marbella and Monaco as well as fill offshore bank accounts in tax havens like the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Geneva and even London.

Those linked to the leaders of the ex-communist regimes in Eastern Europe and ‘communist’ leaders in China have somehow become billionaires overnight.

Central Government has allowed local politicians and

corporate bosses to exploit their power and the cash governments bestowed on them to make money through land deals, public service contracts and pure extortion in an orgy of speculation and greed.Privatisation of utilities, road, transport and energy has stripped us of our national assets and collusion between politicians, banks, regulators and ratings agencies has left

The adage ‘power corrupts’ has never been more accurate

Avoiding tax by many secret deals THE incestuous relationship between political leaders and financial and corporate bosses has led to a two-tier state.

Due to the global economy and removal of monetary controls, wealthy

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How to recognise separation anxiety EVERYONE needs a little time alone now and then, unless of course you are a dog which suffers from separation anxiety.

Dogs with separation anxiety exhibit behaviour problems when they’re left alone. The most common of these behaviours are: • Digging, chewing and scratching at doors or windows in an attempt to escape and reunite with their owners • Howling, barking and crying in an attempt to get their owner to return • Urination and defecation (even with house-trained dogs) as a result of distress.

We don’t fully understand why some dogs suffer from separation anxiety and others don’t.

It’s important to realise,

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however, that the destruction and soiling that often occur with separation anxiety are not the dog’s attempt to punish or seek revenge on his owner for leaving him alone. In reality, they are actually part of a panic response.

Because there are many reasons for the behaviour associated with separation anxiety, it’s essential to

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RIGHT OR LEFT: Pets normally prefer one or the other.

Paws for thought DOGS can be left-handed, right-handed, or ambidextrous.

A 2006 study by the University of Manchester in England showed 50 per cent of dogs preferred their right paw and 50 per cent preferred leading with their left. There are a few tests to decipher the orientation of your pet. When your dog ‘shakes hands’, note which

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Better with age AS my best friend ages, he definitely gets better looking.

I am loving his grey beard!

Kat Anzola, Calpe 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.

OLD BOY: Max is 13 years old.

paw it offers first and most often?

Fill a toy with something delicious and put it in the centre of the dog’s visual field. Which paw does it use to touch the toy first?

Which paw does the dog use to hold the toy?

Put something sticky on a dog or cat’s nose. Which paw does the animal use to remove it?

LOYALTY: Dogs will stay dedicated to their owners.

THERE may not be a scientific explanation for why dogs are so loyal, but it is true that dogs will remain loyal to their masters for life.

By nature, dogs are considered ‘pack animals’, meaning that when in the wild they roam in groups or families of dogs to find food and stay safe. So a pet dog might consider their owner as part of his pack or family.

Seeing eye to eye A CAT’S mood can be identified by looking into its eyes.

If it’s hungry, once an owner reaches for the food dish, their pupils will expand. The area of the pupils can increase to between four and five times their former size in less than one second.

Cats also respond better to women than they do to men, and react more readily to names that end in an ‘ee’ sound.

Spending up to 18 hours sleeping each day, they dedicate the rest of their time to grooming.

CAT’S EYES: Pupil size will alter depending on its mood.

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Thursday •BRIDGE CLUB Los Boliches: 645 684 756.

•HARMONY SINGING in Benalmadena Costa 952 560 651.

•ROTARY CLUB MarbellaGuadalmina: 2pm lunch at Restaurante Cortijo del Guadalmina, San Pedro de Alcantara.

952 888 077. www.rotaryclub-marbella-g.org.

Friday •ADANA COFFEE MORNING, 11am in Plaza Manilva (Estepona): 952 800 975.

•BRIDGE CLUB Los Boliches meets at Cafe Manilla 1.45-5pm.

New players welcome. 951 081 984 / 645 684 756.

•DIABETIC SUPPORT GROUP: 952 464 184.

•ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY OF ST ANDREW Services every Sunday 9.30am at Iglesia San Miguel Calahonda; 9.30am Capilla San Jose Benalmadena; 10.30am Cemetery Chapel Alhaurin el Grande, 11.30am St Andrew’s Church Los Boliches. 952 580 600 or www.standrews-cofespain.com.

•ANGLICAN CHURCH Costa del Sol West: Holy Communion Sundays. 952 808 605.

•ARK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, Fuengirola - Evangelical family church Sundays 11am. 952 592 171.

•CALAHONDA BAPTIST CHURCH: Calle San Jeronimo 1. Worship Sunday 11am with Sunday School. President Terry Webb 952 815 528. www.calahondabaptistchurch.com.

•CALAHONDA CHURCH - Evangelical Christian Fellowship - Sundays

Monday

•U3A Marbella COFFEE MORNING 11am. www.u3a.es or 622 670 158.

•ALANON – Help for family and friends of alcoholics – 8.30pm.

670 635 201.

•TRIPLE S SOCIETY Sports and Social club meets at noon at Lauro Golf Clubhouse on the A404 between Alhaurin el Grande and de la Torre. 952 411 463.

•BRIDGE CLUB Los Boliches meets at Cafe Manilla 1.45-5pm.

New players welcome. 951 081 984 / 645 684 756.

Saturday •MALAGA HASH HOUSE HARRIERS; a drinking club with a running problem. Meet friendly people who enjoy running and walking in the Malaga countryside. www.malagahhh.com, robertandmarisa@hotmail.com or 637 544 761.

•CAR BOOT SALE at petrol station Europe on A357 between Cartama and Alora.

Sunday •ICE Coffee morning: www.siberme.com or 952 802 549.

•PAD OPEN DAY first Sunday of month: 952 486 084.

•SEPE CAR BOOT SALE, La Alqueria, last Sunday of month: 610 775 413.

•ROMAN CATHOLIC MASS in English, Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre, Fuengirola, 12pm. 952 474 840.

4.30pm.

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•CHURCH OF SCOTLAND Service Lux Mundi, Fuengirola, Sundays 10.30am.

951 260 982.

•BAPTIST CHURCH, Arroyo del la Miel: Sunday English Service 4pm, Conjunto Zodiaco, Edificio Aries, Calle Sagitario.

Call 952 447 967.

•ELIM FAMILY FELLOWSHIP Sunday service: 11am in Benalmadena Costa and 3.30pm in San Pedro de Alcantara. www.elimfamilyfellowship. 695 115 496.

•EVANGELICAL CHURCH, Paseo Maritimo 77, Los Boliches. Sunday ‘Breaking of Bread’ at 2.45pm; worship and Bible teaching 4pm. Wednesday Bible study and prayer at 7.30pm. 952 460 728.

•ROMAN CATHOLIC MASS in English in the Parish Church of Virgen del Carmen y Santa Fe at 5.30pm. Marbella Sunday 11am at Calvario Church. 951 153 340.

•ROMAN CATHOLIC MASS in English, Arroyo de la Miel Parroquia de la Inmaculada, Plaza de la Estacion, with Father Joe Crawford, Saturdays 1pm.

•WELSH SOCIETY COFFEE MORNINGS, 11am on last Monday of month at Bar Mediterranea, Avenida Gamonal in Arroyo de la Miel. 622 922 207.

•ROYAL ANTEDILUVIAN ORDER OF BUFFALOES España No 1 Lodge meet at Woodies/Peacock Bar, Avenida de Bonanza, Benalmadena at 7pm. 952 563 950.

•THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION, Benalmadena Branch meets at The Lounge, Avda Bonanza, Benalmadena Costa at 10.30-11am. 952 442 655.

•ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION meets third Monday of each month at the Peacock Bar, Ave de Bonanza, Arroyo de la Miel at 2pm.

• U3A LEARNING FOR PLEASURE monthly talk ‘The Boer War’ by Chris Becket. The Ark Fellowship Hall, Las Rampas, Fuengirola, 4pm.

•AGE CARE ASSOCIATION drop-in centres various locations: 691 761 088 or www.agecare costa.org. CHARITY SHOP, El Zoco, Calahonda, Monday-Friday 10am-4pm, Thursday 10am-7pm, Saturday 10am-2pm.

•FUN PAELLA NIGHTS at The Yucatan, San Pedro, in aid of animal rescue: €15 without drinks. 952 781 177 or info@animalcharter.com.

•GLORYHOUSE International Christian Centre, La Nogalera, Torremolinos.

Charity shop Monday-Saturday. Sunday service 11am. 951 210 300 or 679 740 825.

•GAMES: Whist Mondays, Dominoes Thursdays, 2pm at Bar Calla Bella in La Cala Village. Proceeds to Mijas La Cala Lions Club. 633 748 558.

•ST JOSEPH’S CHAPEL, Las Rampas.

Roman Catholic Mass daily at 11am.

Benediction Thursdays and a Vigil Mass Saturdays 7pm. Closed Saturday am.

•MOTHER AND TODDLER GROUP The Ark Christian Fellowship, Fuengirola, Tuesday and Thursdays 11am.

•THE GOOD COMPANIONS CLUB Los Boliches: 952 494 730.

•THE INTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS CLUB welcomes new players of good club standard or higher. Play every Thursday and Sunday, no membership fees. 952 373 813.

•THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION meets throughout the week, various locations. www.britishlegion.org.uk/ counties/spain-south/branches.

• ESTEPONA, Casares and Manilva Jewish Social Club meet regularly for various social events etc. gerrycee@yahoo.co.uk or esteponajcom@btinternet.com.

•COSTA BOOK CLUB, Hotel Tamisa, second Monday of month. 677 251 058.

•ROYAL ANTEDELUVIAN ORDER OF BUFFALOES Benalmadena Costa: 952 563 950.

Others

•THE WAY – Christian Counselling Ministry – Fuengirola. 634 369 414 or 663 708 224.

•TABLE-TENNIS CLUB, Benalmadena. Children welcome.

663 138 062 or drtfranklinkim32@yahoo.com.

•BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY group meets at Marbella sangha in English at 8.30pm. Contact tonybillings@telitec.com or 952 852 190.

•PETANCA Arroyo de la Miel, 10am. Play opposite the library up the slope. €1, beginners welcome.

952 566 079.

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.

•DEMENTIA/ALZHEIMER’S plans for a support/advice group. remembertheperson@ymail.com

ARTISTIC PROWESS: John Myatt will lead the class.

BENAHAVIS DECORATIVE & FINE ART SOCIETY Tikitano Restaurant. February 16, 1pm. info@benahavisdfas.com.

Tuesday

•AGE CARE ASSOCIATION: El Zoco, Calahonda 11am-1pm. 655 903 182. www.agecarecosta.org.

•AGE CONCERN Estepona and Manilva: acesteponaymanilva@ ageconcern-espana.org or 650 163 928.

circle.com.

month. 952 494 323.

•SOUTHERN SOUND BARBERSHOP CHORUS Lux Mundi, Fuengirola, 5pm-6pm. 952 473 051.

•SEPE COFFEE MORNING, La Alqueria: 610 775 413.

•ACE BRIDGE, 4pm at Pueblo Lopez, Fuengirola. Computer scoring also Monday, Thursday and Saturday. 952 485 678 or ace.bridgeclub@yahoo.com.

•BRIDGE CLUB Casaes: 655 459 576 or www.bridgeweb/ casares.com.

Wednesday

•COLMENAR DISTRICT SOCIAL CLUB: 951 163 071.

•CHICAGO BRIDGE, Estepona, small friendly group. 4.30pm Age Concern drop-in centre. 952 780 243.

•LUX MUNDI DUTCH LANGUAGE LIBRARY, Calle Nueva, Fuengirola, 3pm-5pm.

•MABS Cancer Support Group: 952 833 568.

•MARBELLA HEALING CIRCLE fortnightly: www.marbellahealing

•COFFEE MORNING and Charity Shop every Wednesday 10.30am-12.30pm in St Andrew’s Church Los Boliches 952 580 600 •LIONS CLUB La Cala de Mijas: Second and fourth Wednesday of

•THE ACHIEVERS TOASTMASTERS CLUB, Nueva Andalucía: 646 533 112.

•TORREMOLINOS & DISTRICT SOCIAL CLUB meets at The Bailey off Plaza de la Independencia, Torremolinos. 952 386 172.

•ANDALUCIAN RESCUE CENTRE FOR HORSES are holding a horse tack sale on the first Wednesday of the month at the stables behind Miralmonte.

•PARASOL SINGERS, friendly amateur singing group, welcomes new members who can hold a tune. Rehearse between Sabinillas and Estepona. 692 558 041 or parasol.singers@btinternet.com.

•FREETHINKERS GROUP: Informal get-togethers for humanists, rationalists, secularists, atheists, agnostics and sceptics to exchange views and ideas and have social outings with likeminded people. costadelsolfree thinkers@gmail.com.

•MARBELLA SINGLES Social Group meets socially for drinks and dinners. For singles in the over 45 age group. English speaking, any nationality. 617 662 538/marycormack1@aol.com.

Coming Up •BALLROOM DANCING Tikitano Restaurant, February 6. Full English cream tea and ballroom instruction, 3.30pm. Tickets 690 083 113.

• Frigiliana Camera Club February 13, ‘How to make HDR pictures’ at The Sal y Pimenta Bar, 5.30pm. www.frigilianacamera club.com.

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TC will buy them all. Telephone 652 072 600 (200664) WANTED – House Clearance, best prices paid. Contact Paul Vickers, 617 543 315 (201399)

IRISH CARPENTER. Doors, decking, kitchens, bathrooms, all aspects. Established 2002. 952 196 457, 696 064 019. www.complete-carpentry.com (201422)

Caravans

Catering

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PRIVATE Chef Service. Hire your own chef for that special occasion.

Gift vouchers available.

637 802 743. www.cookingholiday spain.com (204493)

TIMBER Building SL has been a leader in a prefabricated market for the last 28 years with more than 5,500 happy customers. Ring for wooden houses, garden sheds, pergolas, reforms. 666 819 689 (204408)

APEX CHIMNEY SERVICES, professional chimney sweeping and smoke testing. NACS Qualified. Clean and efficient Tel: Bob 696 320 202 (202354)

CASAS MOVILES EUROPA has an experience in the mobile home trade, all over Europe for the last 25 years. You can put your trust in us! Ring Jane now on 952 119 053 (204408)

Business For Sale

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BUSINESS FOR SALE! Beachside, hotel (Bed & Breakfast) 9 Bed and staff apartment, reduced for quick sale. Call 952 774 945 / 607 511 512 (203021)

BOOK your Gibraltar/La Linea car hire online at www.brunoscar.com.

Malaga and Gibraltar car hire with inclusive rates. Also cheap airport parking, Malaga. 952 891 415 (204494) T1

Business Opp

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FANTASTIC opportunity to earn a great income. The most exciting, scientifically proven, natural health product. Looking for distribution outlets and sales agents. Contact 693 501 517 www.vencosan.com (202713)

CAR HIRE. Exeter Airport from £80 week. 0044 1803 312 253 / 0044 7880 921 421 lowcostdrivehire@hotmail.co.uk (203009)

FOR RENT: Office in Calahonda facing N340. 108m2. Suitable for an office, shop or warehouse. Tel: 696 206 698 (206812)

Buy & Sell POOL TABLES, Snooker Tables, Table Tennis Tables, Darts. Tel: 666 933 726 www.spainpool.com (203168)

CARPENTER cabinet maker, Irish.

Available for all types of property maintenance, plumbing, painting, electrical, kitchens and bathrooms renovated etc, 30 years experience, very reliable. Tel: 952 441 955 / 677 087 575 (101611)

WE BUY old radios, records, postcards and MUCH more. Phone 950 325 235 or 636 134 272 (201462)

PLASTERING, RENDERING, Water damage. Tradesman, over 20 year’s experience, references available. Call: 618 776 864 (100417)

HERBALIFE independent distributor.

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Carpentry

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Chiropractors MARBELLA Chiropractic. Free spinal check. Mark Lane, Australian trained, licensed chiropractor. C.C. Guadalmina. San Pedro de Alcantara. 952 880 398 www.marbellachiropractic.com (101253)

Classes

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PC PROBLEMS solved! Error messages fixed, viruses removed. Hardware and software upgrades available. Also one-to-one training. Experienced and reliable service, no call out charge. Paul 630 652 338 / 952 493 859 (200566) PC DOCTOR 20 years serving the Coast. Laptops, PC sales and repairs. In any language. We come to you. 952 591 071 (200826) FREE phone calls from your PC, learn how and other basic skills at home.

Taught by mature male and female, 10€ ph, 626 980 869 / 609 292 209 (203057)

Curtains

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Damp Proofing DAMP Problem!! Sourced and cured by master builder, longest established damp company on the coast. Call Ed 693 859 894 (200930)

GUADALMINA: Direct from owner, equipped business office for long term rent. 70 sq.metres in busy commercial centre. 750 euros per month. Call 609 585 969 (206813)

Computers COSTASYS computer support and maintenance. Home and office visits. Support Contracts, ADSL, Wireless, Antivirus, Networks, PC Repairs, Hardware and Software. www.costasys.com or call Steven 622 253 592 (89638) T1 COMPUTER HELPLINE. Desktop, laptops, upgraded, repaired. New and used supplied. Internet, Email problems solved. 952 564 274 / 677 702 501 (89597)

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TONY’S MARBLE RESTORATION SERVICE. Marble and terrazo floors, professionally refurbished, quotations without obligation. +34 620 726 875 (203825)

For Sale/Wanted

LADIES CLOTHES 34 - 40. Good quality, used and new. Day, evening and furs.

Shoes 36. 661 903 526 (202460)

Furniture CLEARFLOW DRAIN SERVICES. All drain problems solved. More than 25 years on the coast. Tel 952 885 661 or 630 200 600 (99408)

ELECTRICAL installation and repairs. All work guaranteed. 10 yrs on coast. Tel James 652 023 012 (201328) T1

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Fencing Services CHAINLINK FENCING erectors, general builders, really competitive prices. Free quotation, no job too big or small, very reliable. Tel: 655 218 466 (201475)

TREE SURGEONS No tree too tall, removal of dead palm trees and limbs, eco gardening, mulch and manure fertilizer, palm pruning. 686 948 552 / 661 129 146 www.top-jardin.com (204796) PROFESSIONAL garden services from Fuengirola to Estepona. All aspects of gardening and full maintenance and landscaping, free quotes, competitive prices. Contact Andrew 600 259 981 An drew@garden-professionals.com (203055) GARDENER. Trees, hedges, palms pruned, lawns, fencing, strimming, gardenS tidied, maintenance. Steve 952 485 941 / 616 669 285 / 654 320 567 (203855)

ARBOLISTA Tree Surgery, No. 1 for trees and palms, on the Costa since 1998. 600 260 534 - 952 117 486 Kit Hogg C.G.Arb www.spaintree.com (204960) FEMALE GARDENER and PLANT CREATOR, call Heather 952 113 163 or 679 462 156, Estepona (201395)

Gates EXPRESS Metalwork Services.

Gates, grilles, rails and scissor gates. Stainless steel specialists.

952 485 261, 617 065 636. www.express-steel.com (201493)

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ELECTRICIAN 16th Edition BS7671 qualified 24 years experience.

Rewires, extra sockets, lights, fault finding etc. www.electrician costadelsol.com Contact electri cian.in.spain@gmail.com Call Ian 650 151 569 (203235)

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SAYAN MASSAGE. Your best traditional & tantric massage for ladies and gentlemen. 952 586 339 - 608 977 260 www.masajessayan.es (204418)

GARDENER for private homes, communities, tree pruning, pool maintenance, garden design. Specialist in water systems. Tel: 666 953 892 (100065)

FIND LOVE IN THE SUN www.iwant2meetyou.com. Browse for free Spain’s No 1 online dating site.

Bringing ex-pats together. (204448)

BE CLEAN SWEEP S.C Property Management and Cleaning Company. Honest and reliable. Call 635 152 313 or 630 614 412 (200804)

Commercial Properties

MARBLE FLOORS polished. Fast service.

Reliable, family run. TERRACOTTA CLEANED and sealed. Wooden floors treated. No job too small. Family run.

Cleansol 10am - 10pm 7 days all areas.

952 930 861 / 607 610 578 Discount Code: EWN 1 CLEAN (206775)

Friendship

PROFESSIONAL cleaner / House keeper.

Tel 633 461 951 (204205)

WINDOW CLEANING. Professional, reliable, affordable. Free quotes. 629 769 136 www.windowcleaning donjose.com (201277)

MARBLE FLOOR (2.50€/m2) WHY PAY MORE. WE CLEAN, CRYSTALLISE THEN POLISH TO HIGH GLOSS NON SLIP. PROFESSIONAL FAST SERVICE. COVER ALL COSTA DEL SOL. 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE. TEL: 671 244 683 (95517) T1

DOMESTIC Appliance repairs - washing machines, fridges, cookers, ovens, water heaters, gas / electric, professionally repaired. Christian 608 337 497 (97989)

Drainage

Gardening

POLISH your marble floor professionally at half price. 671 244 683 (203209) T1

Domestic App Repairs

L & B CLEANING services, no job too small, professional ladies. Tel 645 561 716 (200567)

WINDOWS

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PAIN? Neck, Arms, Back, Legs. Acupressure. Fast results. No cure – no pay.

Fuengirola 651 172 474 (200814) NON-SURGICAL LIPOSUCTION IN BANÚS. WWW.TRANSFORMALL. COM TEL 605 865 755 (200953) TEETH WHITENING IN BANÚS FROM 75€ WWW.TRANSFOR MALL.COM TEL. 605 865 755 (200953) NON-SURGICAL FACELIFTS IN BANÚS 35€ WWW.TRANSFOR MALL.COM TEL. 605 865 755 (200953) PERMANENT HAIR REMOVAL AND SKIN TREATMENTS USING IPL IN BANÚS. WWW.TRANSFORMALL. COM TEL 605 865 755 (200953) WEIGHT LOSS or Quit Smoking Consultations. International Health Author BSc qualified. Home visits 632 731 164 any time (203076) HERBALIFE independent distributor.

For products www.herbal-nutrition.net /stupendos. For business opportunities www.workfromhomesys tems.com/ stupendos. Tel. 952 932 789 (201445)

MASSAGE PROFESSIONAL MASSAGE by qualified therapeutic masseuse, for both ladies and gentlemen, prices start at €20, contact Isabelle 664 596 220 (201471) TANTALIZING full body massages, Tantric, Nuru, Kiokuero …

Incalls/Outcalls 635 290 724

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WANTED - VINTAGE OR MODERN SILVER, by English collector, any quantity, highest prices paid. Tel Colin 697 193 941 (202453)

MINI digger and driver, self drive hire available, sand and stone delivery service. 649 526 922 (204976)

ESTABLISHED English Jeweller requires any quantity of unwanted gold jewellery or coins. For the highest price, tel Colin 697 193 941

MINI DIGGER / dumper hire.

Property maintenance and small building projects. Reliable, references available. Simon 678 450 051 (203874)

Handyman

ALL styles of furniture designed and made to measure,built-in or freestanding. Residential/Commercial.

Portfolio available. 635 878 116 stu art_macg@hotmail.com (200999)

INNOVATIVE HANDYMAN, contact Jerry 952 113 163 or 616 933 509 from €10 per hour, Estepona (201395)

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Hot Tubs/Spas HOT TUBS, new, used, bought, sold, hired. Also move & repairs 691 973 131 / 952 793 398 (93498)

House Clearances WANTED FURNITURE & household items houses gardens garages cleared top prices paid fast reliable service 639 229 607 / 649 977 723 (203868) WANTED HOUSE CLEARANCE. We buy anything, best prices paid for your unwanted items.

Call mobile 693 480 411 email annette.goddard@yahoo.co.uk (201299)

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Doors opened without damage, locks changed, patio doors and windows secured, 24 hour honest, fast and reliable service. Call Paul 657 466 803 (93549)

MOBILITY SCOOTERS, electric wheelchairs, wheelchairs, walking frames etc for sale and hire. Delivered to home or hotel. Always a good selection of quality used scooters in stock with guarantee. e.g. used 4 wheel scooter, new batteries €350. Electric wheelchair can go into car €1,595. Rascal Eco 4 boot scooter €2,100 for €1,395.

New wheelchairs from €250. Mobility scooter batteries supplied and fitted. For same day delivery phone 609 581 139. Mobility Scooters Direct. www.mobilityscootersdirect spain.com (203240)

COSTALOCKS 24/7, LOCKSMITH/ HOME SECURITY, NEW KEYS, KEYED ALIKE, WINDOWS SECURED, SAFES OPENED / INSTALLED, FREE HOME SECURITY CHECK, CALL Debby or Bob 952 660 233 / 667 668 673 CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED WWW.COSTALOCKS. COM (200741) T2

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SECURITY OF SPAIN – 24 HOUR LOCKSMITH – Lock / safe opening service. Locks changed / upgraded. Contact Darren, Tel 636 770 865 www.security ofspain.com (204407) T3

HOSTING - Carrier grade data centre in Elviria, two diesel generators, multiple backbone symmetrical carrier-class connections, BGP4 routing, aircon, secure facilities. For dedicated housing or hostings with serious bandwidth and 99.99% uptime, we can host your servers and applications in our data centre in Elviria. Feel free to visit us to discuss your needs. 951 055 676 www.mercuryinternet.com (200563) ABBEYGATE INSURANCE If you are renewing your policy or looking for new cover. Call us, as we are the only Insurance Company in Spain to offer protection on your no claims bonus. Call 952 893 380 (68259) ABBEYGATE INSURANCE Make the right choice and join the thousands of expatriates who have. We provide a friendly personal service, for all your home, motor, health, travel or marine insurance. Call 952 893 380 (68259)

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ECOMMERCE - Want to sell your products online? Let us help create or update your Ecommerce website. For a fast and professional service, contact info@ecom mercespain.net or call 638 816 067

Lawyers

LOCKSMITH Unlock doors, strong box/cars. Change security locks, emergencies, 24 hours, Marbella, 630 333 615 (200733)

Miscellaneous WOODY´S LOS BOLICHES. Greeting Cards, mail to and from the UK. Passport renewals and all adverts for Euro Weekly News – display or classified. Open 9.002.00PM (Sat 10.00 – 2.00PM) One street behind the Confortel, just off Plaza San Rafael, Los Boliches, on C/Poeta Salvador Rueda 93 (Passports Mon to Fri Only) Tel: 952 471 877 (95705)

WE BUY, Sell, remove all types of mobile homes. We pay CASH and cover all of Spain. More details call Suzi Caley 616 250 727 / 951 063 059 or email suzica ley@gmail.com (200742) MOBILE HOME WOODEN HOUSE ?

We buy & sell new and second hand units. Remove, level, repair, transport and build extensions. 30 years experience nationwide. Call us, Casas Moviles Europa 952 119 053 (204408)

ABBEYGATE INSURANCE Car insurance exclusive for expatriates, save up to 50%. Find out about our price pledge on UK plated cars. Home insurance from €50. Tel: 952 893 380

Mobility

24 HOUR locksmith. Emergency opening of doors and safes, established since 1993. 617 921 824

Mobile/Static Homes

HEALTH INSURANCE Competitive prices, English worded policies. Pay monthly or annually. All levels of cover.

Premiums from €25 a month. Tel: 956 795 453 Abbeygate Insurance (68259)

Motoring

THE MOBILITY WIZARD. All types of mobility scooters, wheelchairs and disability aids for hire or sale.

Replacement parts including batteries, tyres and motors available.

Authorised Agents for all major companies. Most repairs carried out at your home or FREE loan machine if scooter has to be taken for repair, ensuring you are kept mobile. Fully comprehensive mobility insurance for 105 euros per year. Tel 952 584 302 / 633 127 901 / www.mobili ty-spain.com /info@mobili ty-spain.com (201449) All models serviced and repaired. Two years guarantee. Free delivery 952 584 302 / 633 127 901 / 633 128 104 www.mobility-spain.com (203865) T1

Mortgages

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BRAND NEW WILLERBY Siena 32m² home sited within a stylish gated community, 45 minutes from Malaga airport £19,995 Freephone: 0044 1782 90 80 70

Loans LOANS AVAILABLE on all types of paintings, jewellery, watches, silver etc, any condition, immediate cash settlement. For more information call into Anthony’s Antiques & Jewellers shops extensive premises at C/Ramon y Cajal 40, Fuengirola .

Silver fox furs wanted, see main advert on page 27. Mobile 609 529 633 Tel: 952 588 795 (85364) holaCREDITO.COM offering short term loans on your valuables. Also cash for your old GOLD, top prices paid, guaranteed. Please see web for details or call Banus office 951 319 538 (202525)

WILLERBY COTTAGE 28x10 sited in ‘La Serrana Hills’ of Pizarra, site open all year round, swimming pool, only £13,495. Want to view? Freephone: 0044 1782 90 80 70 (85143)

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Mosquito Screens ACE OF SHADES - Vertical, Venetian, Roman, Roller, Wooden blinds, various colours available, also black-out blinds. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / aceofshadesla cala@hotmail.com (101730)

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KTM LC4 640, Enduro Motor Crosser, on road, off road, orange, 1999, Spanish plates, very low klms, very little use, absolute immaculate condition, €3,500. 603 151 587 (203856)

INSTANT CASH SAMANTHA – GORDON

952 83 21 73 608 658 785 www.robertsoncars-spain.com

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www.euroweeklynews.com CHIPS AWAY, Marbella, San Pedro. 10% discount. Tlf. 952 853 350. See advert on page 108 (204112) www.benalcars.com Sports, prestige and 4x4’s. Visit our website or telephone 661 351 877 (203056)

CAR SERVICES MECHANIC workshop & mobile. All work undertaken. ITVs done, reasonable rates, prompt, reliable services 24/7. 620 020 232, 951 165 090 (204978) CABRIOSOL soft tops, German top quality, for all Cabriolet cars & jeeps. Professional fitting, repairs & change of plastic windows. Cabrio-sol. 639 580 372 (Camino de Coin km 13.2 Mijas Golf).

Opening hours: 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday (203028) AUTOMATIC gearbox specialist.

Transmatic. All models including classic cars, serviced, repaired and reconditioned. Also 4x4 transfer boxes and power steering Call/fax 952 796 166 / 952 805 804 email: transmatic2005@yahoo.com. www.transmatic.es (200578) RECOVERY SERVICE car / light plant transported, cars disposed of with official destruction certificate, fully insured. 600 868 056 (203856)

FOR SALE 2002 FORD FOCUS 1.6 Trend, 5 door, 5 speed, hatchback, one owner from new, now leaving Spain, only 48,000kms, approx 30,000 miles. Full service history, silver, air condition, CD player, kept in garage, rarely used holiday car. 4,995 euros. Phone Samantha or Gordon Robertson 952 832 173 / 608 658 785. See our web page www.robertsoncars-spain.com AUTOMATIC Opel Astra 2000 1.6 Comfort, one owner (nearly) silver, air condition, PAS, was 2,500 euros. Now only 1,995 euros. Samantha and Gordon Robertson 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 www.robertsoncars-spain.com (NEW SHAPE) 2008 Chevrolet Matiz 0.8 litre S model, silver, only 50,000kms, approx 31,000 miles, 5 door, 5 speed, air conditioned, power assisted steering, elderly lady owner leaving Spain, small car, big bargain, was €4,500 now 3,750 euros. Samantha or Gordon Robertson 608 658 785 / 952 832 173 (200963)

DIESEL SEVEN SEATER Opel Zafira 2.2DTi, 2005, Blueline, 16 valve (125bhp), blue with alloy wheels, climate control, great people carrier, was €5,995, now only €4,995. Samantha or Gordon Robertson 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 (200963) 4X4 AUTOMATIC Hyundai Santa Fe 2.7 GLS V6 2003 model, top of the range, silver, every extra, great on bad roads, calling all campo drivers, this one is for you. Was €4,995, now €4,750. Samantha or Gordon Robertson 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 www.robertson cars-spain.com (200963) 4X4 DIESEL MITSUBISHI Montero 3.2GLS long wheel base, 2003, “top of the range”, one lady owner, gold, alloy wheels, air con, 5 speed, was €7,995 now only €5,995. Samantha or Gordon Robertson 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 (200963) SEVEN seater automatic 2008 Toyota Corolla Verso 1.8 VVTI, one owner, only 53,000kms (33,000miles), sale due to relocation, climate control, electric everything, good looking in grey with alloy wheels, was 9,995 euros, now only 9,500 euros. Samantha or Gordon Robertson 952 832 173 or 608 658 785 www.robertsoncars-spain.com (200963) 4x4 AUTOMATIC Ford Explorer XLT Limited Edition 1995, UK reg, but left hand drive, only 47,000 miles, looks right in white, air con, CD player, rarely used holiday jeep, great for bad roads and campo, was 2,995 euros, now 2,500 euros. Samantha or Gordon Robertson 608 658 785 / 952 832 173 www.robertson cars-spain.com (200963) AUTOMATIC diesel BMW, 530 estate, touring low kms. Midnight blue, leather interior, every extra immaculate condition. 6,500 euros. Samantha or Gordon Robertson 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 www.robertsoncars-spain.com (200963) JUST arrived SuperSport Coupe Nissan 350Z (300 BHP), only 18,000kms (approx 11,000 miles). FSH, striking in copper colour with black leather, this is a real driver’s car, see it on our web page, cost new 45,000 euros. What a bargain, was 16,995 euros, now only 15,995 euros. Phone Gordon for more information 608 658 785 / 952 832 173. www.robertsoncars-spain.com (200963) SMART CAR for sale. Perfect condition, 44,000km. 5,500€ negotiable. 627 414 140 (202745)

Motoring

Costa del Sol LARGE choice of vans and multispaces, 4x4 commercials from 2008, fivepeastrading@aol.com.

600 868 056 (203856) LOTUS Elise s2 convertible 2001, bright yellow, alloys, 75,000 documented miles, very clean example of a very sought after vehicle, call for details. 672 550 037 (203856) 2006 RENAULT Megane, 1.6 petrol, new model, 5 door, new ITV, alloys, air con etc. 3,995€ 672 550 037 TOYOTA Land Cruiser, 3.0 diesel, auto, rhd on Spanish plates, lwb, very good condition. 4,995€ 600 868 056 (203856) 2004 AUDI A4 convertible, 3.0 automatic, tiptronic, black, 130 klms, top spec, 8,995€ 600 868 056 JEEP Cherokee 1994 only 54,000klms, one owner from new, automatic, must be seen. 2,495€ px 672 550 037 (203856) RENAULT Clio 2002, 1.4 petrol, very clean car, 1,995€ 600 868 056 FIESTA diesel sport 2007, 85,0000klms, black, recaro seats, alloys, air con etc, €5,750. 600 868 056 (203856) AUDI s4 4.2 quattro silver with half leather, 6 speed, estate, Spanish plates, every extra, 8,995€. 600 868 056 (203856) 2009 Citroen Jumper, 2.2 6 speed high top van, top spec, cost €26,000, new low klms, €12,995.

600 868 056 (203856) 2007 Corsa 1.3 CDTi diesel, 80,000klm, air con, electric, etc. 5 door sport model, very nice car. €5,450 672 550 037 fivepeastrad ing@aol.com (203856) FIAT Doblo multi space, metallic blue 2005, 1.9 diesel, twin side doors, low klms, very good, all round, 4,750€ 672 550 037 FORD FIESTA, silver 2006 1.4 tdci, 5 door, aircon, newer shape, very clean car. 4,995€ fivepeastrad ing@aol.com 600 868 056 TOYOTA Yaris 2007 1.4 d4d black diesel, alloys, aircon, 120,000klms f.s.h. very economical, excellent condition. 5,450€ 600 868 056 five peastrading@aol.com (203856) E55 AMG MERCEDES 5.5 silver, 2001, fully loaded, 130klms, full service history, very clean example.

6,995€ fivepeastrading@aol.com BILL BRADY CARS has been established on the Costa del Sol since 1986, in which time he has helped thousands of expatriates to buy or sell their quality used Spanish cars and also keeping all the documentation simple so you understand all that is going on (which is important). You can contact Bill direct on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 or billbrady cars.com (204276) FORD FIESTA 1.4 Inj 2005 with only 30,000klm (20,000mls) from private owner, new ITV (MOT), air conditioning, elec/windows/locks, metallic blue, don’t delay, only 3,500€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (204276) JAGUAR XF Diesel 2.7 Premium luxury, Automatic 2008, only 48.000km. Bought from main dealer Marbella, Sat/Nav, parking sensors, front and rear memory seats, too many extras to list , metallic silver, black leather, this car has been garaged since new and immaculate condition. Price slashed WAS €29.995 NOW €21.995. Tel 952 838 842, 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (204276)

PEUGEOT 206 GTI Sport Coupe 2.0 ltr, new ITV (MOT), metallic black, half leather and suede interior, climate control, sensors/lights/wipers, spoiler and much more, has to be seen at this price of only 2,995€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (204276) DIESEL Citroen C-1 2008 polar white, air conditioning, full electric pack, perfect little car that saves you a fortune on fuel and selling at trade price, yes only 3,995€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 bill bradycars.com (204276) AUTOMATIC/Diesel Citroen Picasso 2007, one private owner, full service history, low klm. Loads of extras, has to be seen for this price, metallic copper, a very scarce MPV for only 7,995€ 952 838 842 /608 950 221 billbradycars.com (204276) 4x4 DIESEL Hyundai CRDI 2.0Ltr, 2005, one private owner, only 44,000klm (30,000mls), full service history, airconditioning, electric windows, locks, mirrors, alloy wheels. Metallic turquoise, velour trim, a fabulous jeep for only €7,995. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 bill bradycars.com (204276) FANTASTIC opportunity Ford Fiesta 1.25 Inj 16V 2009 5 door (new shape) from lady owner bought from Ford Malaga and serviced by them. Parrot hands free, great first car or coastal car, metallic silver, looks and drives fantastic, was 7,500€ NOW €6,995. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (204276) THIS has to be seen, Citroen C-3 Exclusive 1.4 Inj 5 door 2005, one private owner, only 69,000klm (48,000mls) with service history, climate control, cruise control, full electric pack, six CD changer and lots more, was 4,995€ NOW 3,995€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbrady cars.com (204276) AUTOMATIC Honda FRV 2008, six seater 1.8 I.VETEC Executive, one owner, full service history and loads of Honda extras, great saving at only 11,995€. 952 838 842/608 950 221. billbradycars.com (204276) NEED A CAR? - Can’t get credit? Self employed? - Why not “Rent to Own” your next car? - No loans, no credit checks. HispAuto.com 952 564 912 (202636) LAND ROVER 2001 Freelander TD4 2.0 Diesel. Green, A/C. Spanish plates.

125,000km, good condition. €4,500. Tel: 675 314 854 (203916) GIB PLATED CARS - Mini 1 2006, low kms, reduced £7,950 to £6,500. Also Kangoo estate 2005, good condition, now £2,995, and 96 MGF convertible £1,950 - 691 973 131. Must go, returning UK (201476) ASTON MARTIN DB9 Coupe 2007.

RHD. 46,000 miles. Full Aston Martin Service History. Sapphire blue, cream leather interior. Immaculate throughout. Solar temperature sensors, Bluetooth, hands free phone, stack CD system, Satellite Navigation, cruise control, front rear sensors, paddle gear change.

2 years tracking, transferable. Taxed.

Tested. Regarded coolest car ‘Top Gear’. Only 47,500 Euros. Genuine callers only. No messers. 650 679 123 David (201420) CHEV MATIZ 1000 2006 White 5 door power steering, CD Radio, air con 2 year ITV, 2,950 euro transfer include Finance Part Exchange. 607 733 610 (200577) RENAULT Megane 1.9D, ITV until June, all extras, year 2000, a great car, 1,200 euros ONO. Tlf 680 603 041 (201392)

INSURANCE ABBEYGATE INSURANCE. No automatic annual increase on our Motor Insurance, renewal policies. Call 952 893 380 (68259) MOTOR INSURANCE. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 153, you could save as much as 30% and you can transfer your existing no claims bonus. Call Linea Directa on 902 123 153 for motor insurance with a human voice in English from Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and save money now! (200726)

MECHANICS BRITISH MOBILE MECHANICS. Fully qualified, home visits, reasonable prices and repairs for all cars. ITV’s €80 we come to you.

951 400 189 www.mbcmecha nics.com 695 913 592 (101500)

REPAIRS AUTO ELECTRICAL Specialist. Over 30 years experience. Cars, commercials & boats. Latest diagnostic equipment.

Petrol / diesel fuel injection problems solved. No job too small. Tel: 647 289 753 (203172)

REGISTRATION CAR TRANSFERS AND IMPORTS PROBLEMS WITH EMBARGOS ON ROAD TAX? SAME DAY COLLECTION OF PAPERS. ENGLISH SPEAKING. PLEASE CALL 633 271 274 (101382)

WANTED WANTED. CARS & JEEPS & camper vans for cash. All makes, LHD, any condition. 693 357 000 (204332) CARS, VANS UK OR SPANISH BOUGHT FOR CASH. FREE COLLECTION IN SPAIN AND UK. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 OR 952 669 701 (101382) WANTED cars / vans / light plant, anything considered, even with paperwork problems, cash buyer, instant decisions made. 600 868 056 fivepeastrading@aol.com (203856) CAR, VANS BOUGHT WITH OR WITHOUT PAPERS. CASH WAITING 678 808 837 (101382) WANTED Legal Spanish Cars and Commercial, under 10 years old, any condition, including non-runners and damaged. Cash paid. Buyer collects.

Transfer included. Tel: 605 109 796 (200754)

Music PROFESSIONAL live music for any event. Weddings a speciality. Solo Spanish guitar to dance band. Details David 687 627 434 (Not an Agent) (204219) FOR SALE Guitars, Amps, PA, Powered Mixers, Effects, Mics, Bargains. Call 653 749 649 for details, email cox.paulandl iz@gmail.com for lists (201421)

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PAINTER & DECORATOR If you just want the job done, then call the rest, but if you want the job done right call the best. Sam “Simply the Best” 18 years Mijas area 952 666 025 / 629 546 128 (201280) PAINTER & DECORATOR Lounges from 120€, bedrooms, halls 60€. Paper hanging, plastering, tiling and paint spraying. Call Dennis, Calahonda. 670 774 527 (204975) DAMP problems, painters & builders, interior, exterior, 18 years experience, free quote. Tel 626 954 440 (203059)

Personal SPANISH male, 54, seeks relationship with sincere, optimistic, reasonable, nice humanitarian, good, faithful woman.

Jose: +34 619 805 714; jmpb8@ yahoo.es (201469)

Personal Services PROFESSIONAL bilingual assistance with private and work related problems.

Nursing care, medical appointments, interpreting, translations, municipal, police and legal problems, electricity and water red tape, etc. 661 341 568 / 627 925 941 www.redtape.es (201417)

Pest Control COCKROACHES, ANTS, insects, fleas, mice, rats, wasps, termite specialists.

Fumigations, bars, restaurants, houses, etc. Sanitary department officially registered certificates. Guarantee, serving the coast since 1985. Only legal English owned pest control Company on the coast. If you want the best then phone N.P.S. Nigel 606 008 940 (95515)

Pets YOUNG DOMESTICATED cats rescued from the killing station need kind homes. Fully vaccinated and neutered, free of charge. We will also deliver to England for a donation to the charity.

Please give one of these beautiful cats a home so we can save more from death.

Can be seen without obligation at Cat and Dog World Kennels. Tel. 630 197 435 (93398) CHIHUAHUA pedigree puppies with passport. All year round available. 952 112 870 / 654 285 667 (200746) ACCOMPANY your pets to their new home. Fully licensed pet transport service. Denise www.petchauffeur.eu 952 197 187 / 696 233 848 info@petchauf feur.eu (204880)

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CHARITIES ADANA THE ANIMAL SHELTER IN ESTEPONA. We always need volunteers to walk and socialise with our dogs and help with cleaning. We also need good homes for our animals that you can see on www.adana.es. Kennels open every day 10-1.30, Camino de Casares, near Parque de los Pedregales, Estepona. (5 minutes from the Poligono) For more information call Marjorie 952 79 74 05 or 636 934 146 (93319) ACE CHARITY at El Refugio Kennels always needs volunteers to help with dog walking. It’s good exercise, a couple of hours any morning of the week. Foster and permanent homes also needed for our many inmates! Vivien 639 991 079 (93320) SEPE the horse and donkey charity is open to the public week-ends from 10.00 to 5.00. Volunteers are much needed in all departments and are welcome at anytime. For our riding for the disabled classes, we are also in need of extra helpers. We are nationally registered by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (164640) but only with your support can we give the equine a voice. If you can just commit to 2 or 3 euros a month it will really help make a difference. You can find us at Lauro Golf Equestrian Centre, Alqueria, Alhaurin de la Torre. Tel. 608 258 950 info@sepeon line.net www.sepeonline.net (93321) At SOS Animal Refuge we have dogs, young and old looking for homes. Some of our dogs have been with us for some time and would love to find a cosy spot to curl up in and a knee on which to rest their heads. If you have room in your heart and home we would love to hear from you. We do not put our dogs to sleep - no matter how old, they are safe with us. For day to day needs and to pay for veterinary care, we much appreciate the support we receive. We desperately need items to sell on our market stall to help raise funds and are happy to come and collect. So if you are having a clear-out, please contact us on 665 682 919 or 605 227 155. If you would like to know more about re-homing, please call 653 257 875. Visit our website www.sos-animals.org or please phone Sandy on 952 385 923 or 666 814 056 if you would like to make a donation or help in any way. (93317) ARCH - The Andalucian Rescue Centre for Horses welcomes visitors and volunteers to their stables on Saturdays from 10 - 12 or by appointment.

Come and help out, drop your children off for the Kids Club on a SATURDAY or sponsor or adopt one of our horses, donkeys or mules. We always need help with fund raising to look after the abandoned and abused animals. Our aim is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome. We are a small friendly team why not join us. Find us in Alhaurin El Grande, behind the Venta Miralmonte on the road from Alhaurin to Coin, (A404) Urb. Viña Borrego, follow the yellow signs. Charity registered with the Junta de Andalucia No 8448. www.horserescuespain.org info@horserescuespain.org archres cue@yahoo.co.uk Tel: - 635 798 219 or 656 935 613 or 620 175 828 (93322)

KENNELS EURODOG Boarding Kennels and Cattery. Under new ownership, fully licensed and sanitary approved, long/short term. Mijas Costa Tel 697 731 171 www.eurodogspain.com (89637)

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SPECIAL PROMOTION for new clients at Cat and Dog World Kennels.

Dogs €10 per day plus IVA Tel: 952 112 978. www.cat-and-dog-world.com (97995)

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GREAT OPPORTUNITY. TORREBLANCA. Ideal detached villa offering two self contained separate levels - main upper level 3 beds/1 bath - lower level 1 bed/1 bath, ideal for rental or elderly person/teenager/guests, large plot, private swimming pool and spacious garage, quiet residential area. Original asking price €299,500 - no agents fees, now €230,000. Viewing recommended 647 647 629 (101501)

PETCARE PET HOTEL. Holiday accommodation for dogs and cats. Individual heating available. Introductory offers for new clients. Tel: 952 112 284 / 685 400 216 www.petcarespain.com (98147) COOL KENNELS AND CATTERY. Air conditioned. Your pets lovingly cared for by English mother and daughter. Near Coin.

LAGUNAKENNELS@hotmail.com Tel 952 112 021 / 606 838 983 (204248) STEFANIE’S KENNELS AND CATTERY, Estepona. Fully licensed, Junta approved, est. 1986. Viewing welcomed 952 790 943 www.stefanieskennels.com (202692)

Pet Insurance PROTECTAPET. Spain’s leading pet insurance. 965 756 371 www. info@protectapet.eu (95962)

WWW.INMOANDALUZ.COM. Bargain inland properties for all budgets Tel 952 491 609 / 685 514 835 (100017)

NEED an administrative or computer job done, but don’t have the time or staff?

Computer literate women, Dutch and English, can help. Content management, data entry, mailings, typing jobs etc. Call Eva on 632 993 039 (206777) FOR all your typing/proof reading requirements. Contact Val, mobile 677 086 835 or email vmvassay@gmail.com (201472)

Property for Sale

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LA CALA APARTMENT, 2 double bedrooms and 1 child’s bedroom. Fantastic sea views, refurbished, satellite, pool, parking, €89,950. 603 584 979 or 672 751 439 (201470)

MIJAS COSTA - Bungalow €175,000 Calypso. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. 952 939 618 (201388)

Property to Let

MARBELLA centre, first line beach, 3 beds, 3 baths, suitable for cash buyer. Price €250,000. 671 244 683

DUQUESA: Direct from owner. Large 2 bed apt, excellent sea views, fully furnished. Priced to sell at 125,000 euros.

Mortgage available if required. Call 609 585 969 (206813)

CAMPO MIJAS. 1 bedroom apartment, sea views, pool, parking, €69,000. 626 864 683 (201474) IF YOU are seeking a bargain country house in Alhaurin el Grande area, we do the research and present you with a shortlist. Call FabFincas 692 151 931 (203834)

ACCOMPANY your pets to their new home. Fully licensed pet transport service. Denise www.petchauffeur.eu 952 197 187 / 696 233 848 info@petchauf feur.eu (101721

ALHAURIN EL GRANDE, Reduced, pretty 2 bed, 2 bath country house, access views, garden + land, 135K€ Neg. FabFincas 692 151 931 (203834)

Plot for Sale PLOT approx 500 sq mtrs. Riviera del Sol with uninterrupted sea views. 696 206 698 (201394)

HOUSE/VILLA for sale in Alaro-Mallorca. 1,700m2 plot, 200m2 house, pool, 4x8 garage for 2 vehicles. 599,000€.

Tel 661 427 008 (Juan) (201447)

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APARTMENT for sale. El Torcal residential. Mountain views. 114,000€.

Negotiable. 662 300 056 (202746)

www.Quick-Sale-Deals.com. For The Latest Marbella Serious Investor and Quick Sale Luxury Property Deals Updated Daily: www.BobCallan.com Mob: 616 004 771 (203792) T1

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LOOK Calahonda €99,950. 2 bed/2 bath. Large terrace. West facing.

Garage space. Storeroom. Furnished.

609 058 322 (201388) PLOT for sale in Alaro-Mallorca.

3,500m2 with small house 83m2, with refurbishment project and licence, pool.

150,000€. Tel 661 427 008 (Juan) MIJAS GOLF, Penthouse, south facing, 3bed, 2bath, 160m2 built plus 140m2 terrace, A/C, Garage, Store-room, sea views. 295,000 Eur. Tel 609 544 160 (206906)

www.costarents.com over 900 properties for long term rent 671 093 925 (204353) 24 HOUR warden assisted apartments for rent at Casares del Sol. Please see our main ad on page 94 for further details (203015)

COUNTRY house in Coin. Front porch, living room, fitted kitchen with utility room, 3 bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, 1 bathroom and terrace.

Extras: A/C in the living room and bedrooms, parking area, vegetable plot, chicken pen and nice terrace with beautiful views. Built 90m2. Land: 3700m2. Price 600€ including bills.

TLF: 656 917 342 (REF AQ_F-787) (204315)

MARBELLA La Reserva, Penthouse, about to be repossessed, prime location, 2 bed, 2 bath, 160K€ neg. FabFincas 692 151 931 (203834)

PET TRANSPORTATION by air. Complete service from professional licensed kennels. 630 197 435 www.cat-and-dogworld.com (97995)

LONG TERM RENTALS We have a large selection of properties available in the Manilva area. Please see our website for details and information. www.spanishrentalsabroad.com or call 678 307 622 (Properties always needed) (204045)

EXCELLENT country house in Alhaurin el Grande. The property is on 2 floors.

Ground floor: front covered porch, entrance hall, 2 bedrooms, bathroom and garage. On the first floor is the fitted kitchen, utility room, living room with terrace and bedroom with ensuite. Extras: heating throughout the whole property, A/C in 2 bedrooms, fully fenced, automatic entrance gates, parking, put up swimming pool and amazing views. Semi furnished. Built: 180m2. Land 4,000m2 Price: 800€.

TLF: 656 917 342 (REF AQ_F-788) (204315)

SANTA CLARA GOLF south facing, sea views, 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, intermediaries and estate agents abstain €475.000 librosyso bres@hotmail.com Tel: 630 313 814 (203858)

www.villanovaspain.com. We need properties for our Belgian-Dutch-Scandinavian clients. Tel 600 392 795 (206784)

MARBELLA centre, rooms to let 671 244 683 (203209)

VILLAS, TOWNHOUSES, APARTMENTS from 300€. VILLA 4 bed, pool, 3,000m2 plot, 800€. Damisa123@ yahoo.es - 664 686 653 / 634 278 784 (201457)

LUXURY Apartment For Sale. Reduced by 20,000€. See: www.mijasgolfapart mentforsale.co.uk 00+44+1322 839 009 (204817)

LOOK NO FURTHER FOR YOUR PET TRANSPORT. WE OFFER A SERVICE TO TRAVEL WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR PETS/FURNITURE. ALL PETS TRAVEL WITH US IN AIR CONDITIONED PEOPLE CARRIERS. CALL FOR PRICES. 952 596 213 / 665 150 227 WWW.SPAINUK SPAIN.COM (204441)

PLUMBER: Water heaters repaired, replaced same day. Full bathroom and kitchen reforms, previous work can be seen. References available. Mark Allan 608 454 778 / 952 937 244 (203807)

CAMPO MIJAS, Villa, pool, large plot, €275,000 626 864 683 (201474)

ALHAURIN - For sale, park home, two beds, 22,500€ 634 359 716 sim moc1941@yahoo.co.uk (204814)

THE DOG MOVER. Licensed professional transporters. Two handlers, so dogs never alone. 680 781 699 / 0044 (0) 7875 947230. www.moveyourdog. com (89749)

RETIRED REGISTERED PLUMBER / DRIVER. Needs beer money, any job considered. Free advice, lowest rates.

Chris 652 665 380 (93499)

OPPORTUNITY in Rio Gordo. House 190m2, 5 rooms, patio. 60,000€. 662 300 056 (202746)

PUERTO BANUS - Price reduced. Private sale. Four bedroomed townhouse, Condes de Iza. 0044 (0)7801 427 884 (200913)

PET-COURIERS.COM – If you love your pet try us first – we are the best.

Door to door service throughout Europe.

Specialised vehicles – bespoke service.

Full legal service including documentation if required. For further information call or e-mail us: Tel: (0034) 651 033 670 or (0034) 637 066 227. Email: info@pet-couriers.com or www. pet-couriers.com (200622)

THE Irish plumber for all your plumbing requirements, all areas covered. 7 days, reasonable rates. 605 206 394 (200961)

TORROX COSTA, plot for villa 420m2, to build 126m2, fantastic sea views, south facing. 80,000 Eur. Tel 609 544 160 (206906)

ROOM TO LET - Double room, separate kitchen and shower, within Finca, Alora. €300 pm inc. Tel: 628 421 289 WWW.INMOANDALUZ.COM. Inland property rentals, long or short term, holidays 952 491 609 / 685 514 835

ROOM TO LET/FLAT SHARE. Benalmadena Costa, TV, pool, own bathroom. €300 pcm including bills, 639 767 782 (201465)

MONTEMAR, one bedroom apartment to let, all day sun, pool/gardens, any let 300€ pcm. 605 206 394 (200961)

TORREMOLINOS, Montemar, 1 bedroom apartment, renovated, fully furnished, south facing, sea view, 350 euros. 666 517 479 (201355)

Property Wanted

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www.euroweeklynews.com CARIHUELA, Castillo Santa Clara.

Top floor apartment, panoramic sea views, spacious 1 bedroom apartment, lounge, nice sunny terrace, furnished, swimming pool, 24h reception, 600€ long term, ref.

10054, www.inmouniversal.com; 952 381 280 (204491) ALHAURIN EL GRANDE 2 bed, country house, terrace, lawn, pool, excellent location, 600€ month. FabFincas 692 151 931 (203834) ALHAURIN EL GRANDE 4 bed, 2 bath, pool, terrace, parking, 500€ month.

FabFincas 692 151 931 (203834) CALAHONDA, next to Mercadona. Nice 3 bed, 3 bathroom, townhouse, parking, pool, gardens. 750 euros. 654 519 727 (201398) MIJAS COSTA - DOG friendly garden apartment. Angel de Miraflores. 2 bedrooms, furnished, €475pm. 952 939 618 (201388) TOWNHOUSE Playa Golf, Torrequebrada, 2 bed, 2 bath, private garden, furnished, fantastic mountain & sea views, very clean, €650pm. 634 123 652 (203856) MARBELLA APARTMENT Rentals from 700 per month to 1500 per month.

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Garage/store/furnished. €500pm ono.

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PENTHOUSE Riviera, 3 bedrooms, fully furnished. Sat TV, parking, gated complex. €650 pm. 609 058 322 (201388)

MOVING BACK TO UK? Removal vehicle departing weekly throughout 2012.

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TORREMOLINOS, La Carihuela, 1 bed apt, furnished, beach 50m, long term, €400/month, 670 539 504 (201330)

15 CUBIC metre van returning to the UK 8th February Space available. Tel. 639 928 090 (202659)

SMALL House with garden and sea view, next to Holiday Village Hotel 690 094 251 (201463)

INTERNATIONAL and European Removals. Expert removals worldwide. www.universalremovals.com Tel: 951 247 834 (200810)

VILLA for rent. Arabic style, sauna, two Jacuzzis, sea view with four apartments, parking, next to Holiday Village Hotel 690 094 251 (201463)

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Over 16 years experience. For free quotation Tel 951 311 118. www.moving matters.eu (202620)

TWO bedroom apartment, sea view, garage, Marina 100 metres, €600 month, 690 094 251 (201463)

Pumps WATERWELLS waterwell drilling, well pumps, irrigation, pump tests, pressure pumps.

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Experienced and 100% reliable. €20 per hr. Paul 622 793 989 (97996)

REMOVALS Local and International. Full and part loads taken please call 952 816 582 www.focus-trans port.com (201301)

MANVAN REMOVALS €20 / hour, 3 vans available. House clearances. Storage from €10 / week. Tel David 696 810 618 (89629)

FLORIDA SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combi trans.es (203120)

EUROPE / UK fortnightly, full or part load service. David 696 810 618 (89629)

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Scrap Metal SCRAP METAL WANTED. HMS 1&2, Copper Wiring, Brass, Stainless Steel, Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Batteries, Plastic & Cardboard. Tel. 603 128 012 (200922)

Services CARPENTRY CARPENTER cabinet maker, Irish. Available for all types of property maintenance, plumbing, painting, electrical, kitchens and bathrooms renovated etc. 30 years experience.

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RELIABLE BILINGUAL COUPLE SEEKING HOUSE SITTING / MAINTENANCE POSITION. OWN TRANSPORT ALL AREAS. 644 167 561 (86212) T1

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ITH the 2008, Peugeot has created a new hatchback/ SUV crossover.

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At just 4.16 metres long, the 2008 innovates by combining the driving characteristics of a hatchback and the strength of an SUV with an on-board area that

provides passenger space, modularity and comfort.

Equally at ease in town as on the open road, it can escape from the city with confidence due to its extended mobility features.

The 2008 is to be produced close to its markets, in France (Mulhouse), in China (Wuhan) and in Brazil (Porto Real).

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The boot volume, with a low loading sill, has above it a roof line with dynamic curves, inspired by the RCZ. The wide tailgate is framed by lamps secured to the bodywork.

The latest-generation engines take care both of the driving experience and fuel economy.

RED DEVIL: Stingray’s provocative exterior styling is as functional as it is elegant.

Corvette Stingray lives up to its name THE 2014 Corvette Stingray is the most powerful standard model ever built by the Chevrolet subsidiary, with an estimated 335kW (450 horsepower) and 610Nm of torque.

It is also their most capable standard model ever, able to accelerate from 0100Kph in less than four seconds.

It is expected by the carmaker to be the most fuel efficient Corvette, exceeding the EPA estimated 26mpg of the current model. It will go on sale this year, no prices disclosed yet.

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Lexus presents IS range TOYOTA’S luxury brand unveiled the all-new Lexus IS model range to be launched in Europe by mid-2013.

It includes the IS 300h – the first IS to feature Lexus Hybrid Drive – and the rear-wheel drive IS 250, as well as a further evolution of the F SPORT package.

Incorporating no less than 12 first features and technical innovations, the new IS also showcases an all-new interior with a more sporting, focused driver’s environment, a significant improvement in rear seat space for best-in-class roominess, and a larger luggage compartment.

The most affordable version (the 250) will be available in Europe at a base price of €24,800, with the rear wheel drive version of the 2.5l V6 petrol engine. The front suspension system has been revised.

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By Tony Matthews A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.

going to print, Olympic gold medallist Andy Murray was looking strong, as were Messrs Federer and Djokovic (after a gruelling fivehour, five-set marathon) while Maria Sharapova was on form in the women’s section.

Soccer Round Up

• After seeing rivals City beat Fulham, and by drawing 11 at Tottenham, Manchester United’s lead at the top of the Premiership is down to five points.

Clint Dempsey hit a dramatic ‘Fergie-time’ equaliser for Spurs to cancel out Robin van Persie’s 21st goal of the season for the Reds.

• Chelsea kept in touch by beating Arsenal 2-1. Frank Lampard’s 195th goal for the Stamford Bridge club puts him seven behind Bobby Tambling’s club record of 202.

LOOKING STRONG: Andy Murray at the Australian Open.

week with the ‘transfer window’ closing next Tuesday.

Sport in General • The quarter-finals of Rugby’s Heineken Cup will feature Clermont v Montpellier, Munster v Harlequins, Saracens v Ulster and Toulon v Leicester.

• Mark Selby beat 2012 winner Neil Robertson 10-6 in the Masters Snooker final at Alexandra Palace.

• Jamie Donaldson (Wales) beat Justin Rose (England) by one shot to win the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.

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ATTENTION will turn to the FA Cup this weekend.

The first of 16 fourth round FA Cup ties takes place tomorrow (Friday) night when Millwall play Aston Villa.

On Saturday a further 12 will be played including Bolton v Everton, Brighton v Arsenal, Macclesfield v Wigan, Manchester United v Fulham, Norwich v Luton, QPR v MK Dons, Reading v Sheffield United and Stoke v Manchester City, while the last three on Sunday see Oldham take on Liverpool, Spurs visit Leeds and Brentford entertain Chelsea. There’ll be an upset or two; there normally is!

The African Cup of Nations is well under way with at least one game taking place virtually every day over the next two to three weeks. Early results saw South Africa held to a draw by Cape Verde and Morocco likewise by Angola.

The strongest countries seem to be DR Congo, Ghana and Nigeria. We’ll see what transpires.

The winners of the Australian Grand Slam singles finals will be crowned this weekend, and at the time of

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The FA Cup takes centre stage this weekend

DRUG-CHEAT: Lance Armstrong (above) appeared on the Oprah Winfrey (left) Show.

• Michael Owen struck his first goal for Stoke who lost 3-1 at Swansea…

Reading won at Newcastle for the first time ever…

Daniel Sturridge made it three goals in his first three games for Liverpool who walloped Norwich 50.

The last Reds’ player to achieve a three in three feat was Ray Kennedy in 1974…

And QPR (who’ve got rid of Djibril Cisse) earned a point at West Ham for whom Joe Cole scored his first goal for 10 years.

• Southampton sacked manager Nigel Adkins three days before Monday’s home PL game with Everton, replacing him with unknown Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino. The fans aren’t happy!

• It’s ‘Cities’ 1-2-3 in the Championship with Cardiff leading Leicester and Hull by 10 points.

• Barcelona (2-0 up and despite another Lionel Messi goal) lost in La Liga for the first time this season, beaten 3-2 by mid-table Real Sociedad.

• Watch out for some interesting deals this

• If you get a chance, watch GB’s brilliant ‘bouncer’ Harry NewboldCozens on TV. He’s taking part in the youth international trampoline championships!

And all I’m going to say

Did you know?

A WORLD-RECORD 45,000 runners will compete in the New York marathon this year. about drug-abusing cyclist Lance Armstrong is that he’s admitted he cheated!

The seven-time Tour de France winner said so several times on last week’s Oprah Winfrey Show and I was told, that cheats never prosper!

Several people have put a spoke or two in his works (or should that be his wheels) so we’ll see what happens once the solicitors get involved!

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Barça again as Malaga hope for repeat upset TONIGHT (Thursday), Malaga again host Barcelona, this time in the Copa del Rey (King’s Cup) with a 10pm kickoff.

The score stands at 2-2 after the first leg with Malaga holding the advantage with two away goals.

Then the club will travel to face Real Mallorca this Sunday (kick-off 9pm) having again failed to secure their first La Liga

By EWN Malaga CF Reporter Dave Redshaw Dave is the author of ‘Malaga Football Club – The Story’ available from Amazon.

win of 2013.

Manuel Pellegrini’s men disappointed in a 1-1 home draw with strugglers Celta Vigo and missed the chance to

climb back into the Champions League spots, the Galicians having battled hard for what was a deserved point.

Both teams failed to gain a foothold early on with a swirling wind and a slippery surface proving difficult for the players to master.

The first shot of any note came after the quarter-hour mark when Malaga’s Willy Caballero parried a shot from Danish striker Michael Krohn-Dehli.

Nonetheless, the hosts went in front from their first real attack on 38 minutes, central defender Martin Demichelis bundling home following a goalmouth scramble after a succession of shots had been blocked inside the Celta box.

The visitors’ protests Isco, Malaga’s 2012 Golden Boy.

BBVA LEAGUE - 1ª Division

Champions League

Europa League

Relegation

PT

P

W

D

L

GF

GA

Barcelona

55

20

18

1

1

66

23

Atlético

47

20

15

2

3

42

18

Real Madrid

40

20

12

4

4

50

20

Betis

35

20

11

2

7

31

30

Málaga

32

20

9

5

6

30

17

Rayo

31

20

10

1

9

27

36

Valencia

30

20

9

3

8

27

32

Levante

30

20

9

3

8

24

29

R. Sociedad

29

20

8

5

7

31

27

Valladolid

28

20

8

4

8

29

25

Getafe

26

20

7

5

8

25

31

Sevilla

23

20

6

5

9

24

29

Real Zaragoza

22

20

7

1

12

21

30

Athletic

22

20

6

4

10

24

40

Espanyol

21

20

5

6

9

23

32

Granada

20

20

5

5

10

18

29

Celta

19

20

5

4

11

20

25

Osasuna

18

20

4

6

10

16

21

Mallorca

17

20

4

5

11

20

36

Deportivo

16

20

3

7

10

24

42

Position as of Wednesday Noon.

Martin Demichelis and Joaquín Sanchez. over a possible offside were ignored as the referee allowed the goal to stand, and Natxo Insa then went close for Celta two minutes later as they looked to get back in the game, but Caballero comfortably saved his effort.

After the restart neither side showed much invention, with Los Blanquiazules striving to

Malaga meet Barcelona in the Copa del Rey with a two away goal advantage break down a resolute defence, but it was Celta who levelled things 14 minutes from time when the ball broke to Augusto Fernandez and he made no mistake with a measured low shot into the corner.

Demichelis then headed straight at Javi Varas from a free-kick

inside stoppage time before the away side spurned a great opportunity to grab all three points.

Argentine international Demichelis was again involved, this time failing to cut out a long ball that left Quique de Lucas with a free run on goal.

However, Caballero was at his best to pull off a superb one-handed interception and deny the midfielder a late winner.

There was still time for Celta to pass up the opportunity to claim only their second away win of the season when De Lucas was again allowed to run through one-onone with Caballero, but Weligton got back to make a magnificent lastgasp tackle.