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BIGGEST EVER BIG BROTHER is watching you in Torrevieja!

The city’s state-of-theart CCTV system has recorded 30 MILLION car registrations in just one year.

Now Mayor Eduardo Dolón has hailed the system as a breakthrough in the fight against crime.

The police used 800 images to identify different types of crime and help gather evidence.

As an example of the effectiveness of the system, Dolón said the perpetrators of the beating of a local hotelier

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City spy cameras are watching you! in September 2012 were brought to justice thanks to the video surveillance, speeding up police investigations by ‘three to four months’.

The project ‘Vyriato’ (Intelligent Video and Radar Assertive Torrevieja) was first launched in 2011 but only went fully operational last year.

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Breath tests bring positives A WEEKEND crackdown on drink-driving in Murcia Province saw police conduct 2,326 breath tests, of which 109 were positive.

Hash kiosk ORIHUELA POLICE have arrested a woman for selling marijuana cigarettes to minors from a kiosk near a school.

BIG BROTHER: Police control room surveys Torrevieja.

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Finance 21 - 28 SMS SERVICE: Patients receive quick and up-to-date information by text.

Saying it by text at city hospital

MORE than 700 people used the SMS text service available at Torrevieja Hospital last year to enquire about appointments, a patient’s health or waiting times.

The text messaging services are a commitment to innovation and are aimed at improving the quality of patient

Danger toys taken off shelves A TOTAL of 34,852 units of seven different types of toys that could pose a health risk to children were withdrawn from the market last year in Alicante Province.

Director General of Trade and Consumers Silvia Ordiñaga said they

represent around 40 per cent of the total merchandise taken off the market in 2012 in the Valencian Region. She said most came from Asian countries. Among the toys removed from shelves were 11,128 bubble guns, 128 fishing games and 4,032 plastic trumpets.

information and streamlining the work of medical professionals, said health bosses.

Sending a text, costing 30 cents, to the number 215013, allows people to access three types of information. Firstly, by sending ‘urgencias’ you can find the waiting time for the emergency department.

This service received 185 requests during 2012.

Information can be received about forthcoming appointments by texting ‘citas’ to 215013 followed by your SIP card number.

This service was used by 330 patients last year.

Finally, it is also possible to receive news and updates about a patient’s

health. When admitted, a nine-digit code is given to the patient’s family.

By sending this code, along with the word ‘info’ to the text number, information can be directly received. This service is also available through touch-screen monitors located in the hospital itself.

It was used a total of 230 times.

One user of the service said: “It is quick and easy and allows the doctors and nurses to attend to the patient which should be their number one priority rather than answering the phone and updating friends and family. It also stops you having to pester the immediate family.”

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Bad father stabs son NATIONAL Police have arrested a Romanian national, aged 41, for allegedly stabbing his son in the chest and neck in Murcia. The son, aged 19, received hospital treatment.

High price RESIDENTS of Montepinar are moving forward with legal action against Orihuela City for what they consider to be the excessive cost of work being carried out in the area.

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Orihuela Costa population rise ORIHUELA COSTA saw the number of inhabitants increase last year to 33,237 people.

The figures, from January, show an increase of 1,464 registered voters compared to January 2012.

It means Orihuela Costa has just 706 fewer people living there than Orihuela town itself.

As of last month, the population across the whole municipality had reached 92,000.

The Spanish account for 56.9 per cent of the population, with the largest foreign population being British residents with 18,862 inhabitants and 1,440 Irish.

They are followed by Bulgarians and Moroccans while there has also been an increase in the number of Romanian, Norwegian and Russian residents. The figures show a marked decrease in residents from South American countries.

During the past year there were 605 births and 516 deaths. Most births were recorded in June 2012, with 93 babies being welcomed in to the world, whilst most deaths occurred during the winter months.

In the census of 2012 there were a total of 45,560 men, 50.36 per cent of the population, compared to 44,909 women, 49.64 per cent. On January 1, 2013, these figures had varied little, with a slight decrease of 0.11 per cent in males.

EMERGENCY services were called to the A-7 motorway in the municipality of Alhama de Murcia after a cement mixer overturned.

The driver suffered a head injury but was conscious.

THE Planetary Sciences department at Alicante University is calculating the chance that the asteroid 2012 DA14 will break in to pieces as it passes by the Earth.

MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY: Promotes linguistic and cultural diversity, and multi-lingualism.

Today is so special for all tongue-twisting thoughts

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ODAY (Thursday) is International Mother Language Day. Held annually since its 1999 launch by UNESCO, its aim is to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multi-lingualism.

And as a cosmopolitan arena many expatriates may believe it is all about speaking English, German or perhaps Romanian or Norwegian.

Well think again!

Today is when the spotlight

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A ROMANIAN national, aged 32, has been arrested accused of assaulting two others during a brawl at a home in Novelda.

Badly hurt

More control

Toy trade

Deep space

Brawl arrest

THE creation of corporations in the Murcia region grew 5.3 per cent in 2012 and closed last year with the opening of 2,764 new commercial companies.

THE Platform of People Affected

by Mortgages (PAH) in Alicante, has organised protests to defend and demand the right to housing and prevent evictions.

POLICE have arrested four men accused of operating a car scam, selling luxury cars over the internet which were never delivered to buyers. Complaints were received in Murcia and Barcelona.

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A MOTORCYCLIST has been seriously injured after losing control of his bike on the N-325, between Crevillente and Aspe, in the area known as ‘La Garganta.’

Mixer crash

ALICANTE Chamber of Commerce and the Spanish Association of Toy Manufacturers are to visit a toy trade fair in Moscow next month.

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Almost every time we have had primary elections we have got it wrong’

Former head of parliament, Jose Bono, on the subject of elections within the PSOE Socialist Party to choose their next candidate for Prime Minister of Spain.

turns nationally on Spain as a multi-lingual country. Though Castilian (castellano) is the official Spanish language, the constitution establishes all other languages of Spain will also be official within respective autonomous communities.

They are Basque (euskera) in the Basque Country and Navarra; Catalan (català) in Cataluña; the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community (where the variant is called

Valencià); and Galician (galego) in Galicia.

In Cataluña, Aranese, a local variety of the Occitan language, has been declared co-official, and is spoken only in the Comarca of Val d’Aran by about 6,700 people.

Other minority languages, though not official, with special recognition, include Bable (Asturian) in Asturias, Leonese in Castilla y Leon, and Aragonese in Aragon.

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per cent of positions in the Spanish Supreme Court are filled by women, despite the percentage of women working in the legal system amounting to 50.23 per cent. All the Regional Supreme Courts of Justice have all-male judges except Valencia.

POLITICAL scientists in the Region of Murcia are calling for a new regional law of transparency for more control of political parties.

Shop plan THE amendment of Article 95 of the General Urban Plan of Alicante city will allow for the growth of commercial areas for medium-sized stores.

Green car A NEW electric truck has been bought by Orihuela Town Hall at a cost of €16,000 and will be used for general maintenance of park areas.

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APPROXIMATELY 30 towns and cities in Spain joined in the One Billion Rising movement against gender violence. It was marked in 184 countries worldwide and got thousands of people together, showing their support for the billion victims in the world by dancing.

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UK and Spain launch EHIC awareness drive THE Valencian Region has been chosen for a new campaign about the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).

The joint project between the UK Department of Health and the Valencia Health Authority is partially funded by the EU and is intended to inform people about who is entitled to use the EHIC. David Pennington, Head of International Health-

care from the UK Department of Health travelled to Alicante for the launch, saying this was an important area for British nationals living in Spain. “In 2010 the Department of Health paid the Spanish authorities €237 million for health cover and we have to raise awareness between our residents on what is the correct healthcare for them.”

Martyn Standing from the UK Department of Health based at the Alicante Consulate office said: “The EHIC is not the correct cover for everyone and it is important for people to check if they have entitlement to it.”

The card is valid for holidaymakers and people on a temporary stay in Spain who ordinarily reside in the UK. Students studying in Spain can also receive health cover with the EHIC, but it is not for permanent residents.

If treatment is needed the card is recognised in state hospitals and health centres but does not

ARE YOU COVERED? Martyn Standing (left) and David Pennington launch a new awareness campaign. entitle the user to private care. It covers all medically necessary treatment.

Standing added: “The doctors define what ‘necessary’ healthcare is, but it is whatever cannot wait until the person returns to their home country.” He also pointed out that travel insurance is still essential for those visiting Spain as the EHIC will not cover repatriation to the UK in serious cases.

Leaflets are available in most health centres and a

Big Brother is watching you!

From Front Page The system contains a network of 192 cameras around the town. It is operated by 12 police officers at the Local Central Unit and Data Transmissions (UCDT) control centre, which is also the focus of telephone services and emergency calls. Last year they received 23,000 calls from residents.

More than 30 million vehicle registrations entering the city were recorded, an average of 40,000 on weekdays and 190,000 on weekends. These records will be kept for one year and could help identify other crimes, said the mayor.

The system - which puts Torrevieja at the forefront in terms of traffic, road and public safety claims Dolón has 192 sensors along the main streets with a network of 35 adjustable and zoom cameras that operate 24 hours a day for road and public safety and citizenship.

There are 16 licence plate readers, 94 fixed cameras, three adjustable cameras to keep an eye on heritage and municipal buildings and a further 15 cameras for fire detection in park areas.

new website has been launched www.healthcare inspain.eu which has a simple questionnaire for people to find out if they can use the EHIC. The consulate team will also be at Playa Flamenca Town Hall on Thursday, February 28, as part of 18 awareness events taking place throughout the year.

Local crime rates fall THE crime rate fell last year in the region of Murcia by 0.8 per cent, one tenth more than the national average.

Offences fell from 57,882 in 2011 to 57,398 in 2012.

Crime in the Valencian Region also fell by 2.4 per cent from 285,696 offences in 2011 to 277,810 in 2012.

Nationally, according to the crimes recorded by the National Police and Guardia Civil, the number of burglaries from homes increased by 25.4 per cent compared to 2011, while homicides and murders in Spain fell by 5.7 per cent.

Crime rates in Spain are still among the lowest in the EU.

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Medieval cost THE recent Medieval Market cost Orihuela city â‚Ź46,500 but attracted 200,000 people.

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Dog rescue LOCAL police in TorrePacheco safely rescued three dogs drowning at a Torreblanca farm owned by the Autonomous Community.

Missing man POLICE in the UK are appealing for help in tracing Ian Watson, 65, who was last seen in Oriheula Costa in 2000.

Any information call 0044 161 856 8499.

COASTAL WORK: The detached cliff at Cala de la Higuera is removed for safety reasons.

Cliff work makes beach safe WORK has been carried out to stabilise the northern part of Cala de la Higuera in Torrevieja after heavy rains and storms damaged the coastal cliff.

In December 2012 a landslide following torrential rain left a serious crack along the edge of the cliff.

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The area is now receiving attention to make it safe after permission was granted by the Provincial Coastal Services of Alicante to carry out the works.

As the affected area is protected by the Coastal Act, authorisation was needed.

UNSAFE: Storms and heavy rain left part of cliff unstable and detached.

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Budget carriers boost arrivals NINETY PER CENT of passengers arriving at Alicante’s El Altet Airport are doing so on budget airlines.

Of the 168,913 international passengers arriving in Spain last month through El Altet, 151,490 used low-cost carriers, notably Ryanair, easyJet, Vueling and Air Berlin.

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EL ALTET: Most passengers use low-cost airlines. shows that the number of passengers last month represents an increase of 6.7 per cent compared to January of 2012 and is the highest rate of growth at a national level, where the average was a fall of 5.9 per cent in

passenger arrivals.

International passengers arriving in Spain by lowcost carriers were mainly concentrated in six regions: the Canary Islands, CataluĂąa, Valencia, Madrid, Andalucia and the Balearics.

Police hours’ row AN agreement has still not been reached between unions and the city of Torrevieja over the annual hours that must be worked

by Local Police.

New government regulations state that they must work a total of 1,664 hours during the year.

Councillor for Police JosĂŠ Eduardo Gil Rebollo said meetings had been held

between unions and the town hall, and added: “There is unrest among a certain sector of the police caused by the new government resolution which regulates working hours, but it is mandatory and the law says that everyone has to work 1,664 hours.� He said the measure had not yet been enforced in Torrevieja.

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Man accused of domestic assault A MAN has been arrested in San Miguel for allegedly assaulting and threatening to kill his wife.

The victim called the emergency services and Guardia Civil, and Local Police arrived at the family home.

They arrested the 38-year-old man who showed signs of having consumed alcohol. His wife, who police said ‘remained calm’ throughout the incident, had injuries to her face and body and was treated at a local health centre.

Rafal winners THE campaign ‘From Rafal with love’ organised by local businesses in the town saw more than 4,000 entries and over â‚Ź1,000 in prizes being handed out to winners.

Tour date THE IFA exhibition centre in Alicante hosts a concert by Alejandro Sanz on Saturday June 8. Tickets cost from â‚Ź34 and are available by calling 966 657 600.

Romantic prize TEN couples, prize-winners in the ‘Fall in love with Torrevieja’ campaign, were treated to dinner after watching the Tribute to U2 show in the town.

El Clot to open ELCHE’S Miguel Hernåndez University will open the doors of its 26,000square-metre sports complex, El Clot, next month.

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RANDOM TESTING: Councillor Galiano and Officer Ruben Selma announce plan.

Local Police have two chip-readers and will be checking dogs randomly throughout Orihuela and Orihuela Costa.

Learn the rules at open day AN open day is to be held to bring together the Guardia Civil, Local Police

and residents of Fulgencio.

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RUBBISH: Town hall cleans up Barranco Rubio.

Campaign bags 140 tonnes of rubbish ORIHUELA TOWN HALL has removed 140 tonnes of rubbish from Barranco Rubio, between Campoamor and Mil Palmeras.

Orihuela is working to prevent the proliferation

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A month’s grace to get pooches microchipped DOG-OWNERS in Orihuela are being given four weeks to ensure that their pets are chipped and registered correctly.

Councillor Luis Galiano has launched an information campaign during which time Local Police will not fine or penalise the owners for not correctly registering their dog, but simply inform them of their obligations.

The councillor said: “The identification of dogs has been mandatory since 1996 and should be done in the first three months of life or the month after the owners get the animal.”

The microchip identification must be carried out and registered with the Valencian Animal Identification. He said the campaign is aimed at ‘preventing the abandonment of pets’.

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of illegal dumping sites and has a number of ecoparks situated around the municipality.

For information on your nearest one call 965 306 178.

Urbanisations Jeff Wiszniewski pointed out: “There is a large expatriate community here and a lot of people are not aware of the basic rules, for example, not having all your documentation on you is an offence, and being disrespectful to a police offer is also an offence under the Spanish Criminal Code.”

He says it is a way of making people aware of potential offences they could be fined for, which they may not already know about.

The news comes as Local Police officers have been carrying out a crackdown in the area, targeting motorists to ensure all their documentation is in place.

A date for the event is yet to be finalised.

7 arrested in drugs swoop COLLABORATION between Local Police in Orihuela and National Police has resulted in the arrest of seven people for alleged drug trafficking in San Antón and Rabaloche.

The operation began in October 2012, when police received news of a regular flow of people to properties where the drugs were allegedly being sold.

Following the enquiry, three suspect properties were searched and officers found heroin, cocaine and marijuana, which led to the arrest of seven people.

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Changes in Orihuela

CHANGES and improvements are under way in the Orihuela Costa Town Hall in Playa Flamenca. New Councillor for the Coast, Martina Scheurer, promised she would “do as much as possible” and true to her word she has set about making those modifications which she said CHANGE: A big difference to Orihuela Costa Town Hall. “could have and should have been done before.”

Workers have demolished an internal wall so that the international residents’ office can COUNCILLOR for the Coast, Martina so they have not been attended to for be combined with the tourist Scheurer, has pledged to smarten-up a while.” information centre. A new Orihuela Costa.

As part of her pledge, Martina met doorway has been created in the Now she has put out an appeal for with residents of La Regia. They had exterior wall so that the public can local residents to point out any works met with councillors from previous have direct access to the tourist that need doing. And she has already governments but reported that no department independent from the met with presidents of local improvements had been made to the main door. This will allow the communities to discuss any problems. urbanisation, but Martina is more tourist information office to have “We will have an additional hopeful. longer opening hours, especially “La Regia is in a deteriorated state, technician to supervise the contractors during the busier summer who do the work and the technician but many things could be done even months. will also go around and look for with a small budget. We made a tour The Guardia Civil and Local problem areas.” Martina continued: taking pictures and making a ‘to-doPolice have relocated to the same “We are looking at which parks have list.’ I hope that in the very near future office and the National Police not been attended to so we can see some things, such as an improvement office has reopened. The air what needs doing and the cost of that. of the area near the underpass to the conditioning system and the At least a third of the parks are not beach, can be made.” leaking roof of the town hall is Email residentes@orihuela.es. covered by any maintenance contracts also to be repaired.

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Seeing the woods for the pine trees AROUND 400 pine trees have been planted in the urbanisation of La Torreta II, Torrevieja.

Mayor Eduardo Dolón was accompanied by the Councillor for the Environment, Francisco Moreno, councillor for Education and Youth, Rosario Martinez Chazarra and councillor of Parks and Gardens, Carmen Gomez Candel, in planting the trees which were donated by the Ministry of Environment and Valencian Government.

DAY OF THE TREE: Torrevieja’s Mayor joins local students in planting 400 pine trees.

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Coastal law conference THE new coastal laws and their impact on Guardamar will be discussed at a conference tomorrow (Friday).

Josep Ochoa, Professor of Administrative Law from the University of Alicante is leading the conference which will be in the form of a documentary exhibition.

The event takes place at the Hotel Quino in Guardamar from 8.30 pm. Tickets cost €23. Call 609 694 908.

IES schools also attended as part of their environmental and gardening studies.

The planting of the Carrasco variety of pine covers an area of 5,000 square metres with the town hall intending for the area to become a pine forest that can be enjoyed by students of the local schools.

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Town halls act to control caterpillars ORIHUELA and Santa Pola Town Halls have started to take action against the pine processionary caterpillars.

The company responsible for parks and gardens has begun eliminating the caterpillars’ nests in Orihuela. The nests, which are now full of eggs, are cut from the trees and destroyed so no chemicals or insecticides are used.

Environmental Councillor in Santa Pola Francisco Javier MartĂ­n has confirmed that pine trees close to schools and residential areas are also being targeted.

Lines of the processionary caterpillars have already been spotted in the Pablo Iglesias and Calvario areas. The town hall urges caution for those walking amongst the pine trees.

CATERPILLAR CAUTION: Orihuela Town Hall workers remove nests from pines.

The processionary caterpillar builds its nests in the pine trees from early January onwards. They derive their name from the way they march in file to their new territory to feed off the ORIHUELA has launched a new web portal at pine needles.

Their body is covered in www.orihuela.es to help unemployed people find work.

Employment Councillor Manuel Gallud said Orihuela microscopic hairs which was granted authorisation for the project in April 2012. can cause severe allergic Job-seekers can upload their CV to a database which is reactions in humans and animals. available to companies with vacancies.

Job-seekers site

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MELENDI: Accouncement was made for this summer’s headline concert.

Star singer tickets are on sale now TICKETS are now on sale for one of this summer’s headline music concerts starring Spanish singer, Melendi.

Councillor for Youth, Rosario Martínez Chazarra, was joined by the cultural coordinator, Manuel Esteban Moreno, to announce the concert for Saturday, July 6, at the Antonio Sorio park in Torrevieja.

Tickets purchased in advance cost €20

and are available through Servicam, El Corte Inglés, the Municipal Theatre and from branches of Sprinter in Torrevieja, Elche and Orihuela.

The 33-year-old artist has sold more than 1.2 million copies of his last five albums, performing concerts to over one million people in Spain and Latin America. He is also a judge and mentor on the Spanish version of The Voice.

THE Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre in Rojales is continuing its commitment to educating youngsters about animal welfare.

It recently welcomed a group of pupils from IES Carrus school in Elche.

They visited the centre, met some of the rescued animals and got an understanding of what the aims of the centre are.

Co-founder Sue Weeding said: “We would like to thank the pupils of IES Carrus for their fundraising events to help us raise some much needed funds towards a new tractor.

“We hope the children enjoyed their day and hopefully take back with them a new love and respect for the animals around them.”

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Another white elephant THE airports of Castellon, Ciudad Real and Huesca have a worthy rival in Murcia.

The first has never seen an aircraft and the other two are closed while Corvera Airport - the ‘International Airport of the Murcia Region’ - has yet to be opened.

The €266 million project was finished a year ago and, like Castellon, was intended to receive streams of tourists - in this case principally British - expected to visit Murcia’s coastal resorts and inland urbanisations.

Alicante Airport is only 75 kilometres away from Corvera and passenger aircraft now land at the San Javier airbase-cumairport which is even nearer.

Nevertheless, the regional government

approved the Corvera project in 2006. It was built by a consortium headed by Sacyr Vallehermoso, which will run it for 40 years.

Despite belonging to the Murcia Community the airport would not require ‘one euro of public money’, announced Regional President Ramon Luis Valcarcel.

He might have spoken 2,000 high school too soon, because in 2008 students to study the consortium found itself foreign languages. in financial difficulties Meanwhile, 93 per thanks to the economic cent of Spaniards crisis. admit that learning The regional government English is their has had to guarantee a ‘pending subject’, €200 million loan, a according to a report daunting prospect for an

by Cambridge University Press. Only 10 per autonomy which had to cent speak fluent request a €527 million English and only 20 bailout from the central per cent see government last year. themselves capable of Meanwhile, Corvera is communicating well denied its grand opening, in English. and no regional or national This is one of the politician is rushing to be main obstacles which associated with what, like stop them from going Castellon, is an expensive abroad to find work. white elephant.

No more grants to study abroad THE Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport is to do away with grants for those wishing to study foreign languages abroad.

Instead, 500 language immersion programmes will be set up in Spain.

Last year, the ministry spent €24 million on grants for foreign language study abroad and in Spain, which allowed 14,000 university and professional training students to carry out courses in Spain and

CORVERA AIRPORT: The €266m project is yet to open following its completion one year ago.

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T is some time since I have written an update on the PCN Charity.

2012 saw many changes and a very difficult time with the Social Security (more about that below), all of which has taken time away from doing what we need to do, fundraising.

To enable us to continue with our ‘Nursing Care for Terminal Patients,’ we do need to be able to pay our very highly qualified nurses a wage as well as supply various nursing aids that are required.

At this moment in time, this care is sadly only available in the Torrevieja area and surrounds. At some time in the future I would like to be able to offer this care in the northern Costa Blanca.

The three charity shops – La Marina, Ciudad Quesada and Playa Flamenca beach – are doing extremely well and I am so grateful for all the wonderful donations we receive and a thank you to all the hard working volunteers, who give their time so freely to run them. Why don’t you call in and visit them, there is always a good quality bargain to be purchased.

The nursing care given, as many will testify, is both ongoing and very caring, the nurses help to support the family through a traumatic time with endless patience and understanding, this is vital in this sad time for all.

Furthermore there is a 24 hour call service. The nurses are all fully regulated both in

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Fundraising is so important HELP US: To maintain a very much needed service.

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Spain and the UK and they are trained in palliative care, and if the gentlemen prefer, Paul would be able to attend them.

Many people have asked us frequently if we did private nursing. This has now been set up and I am delighted to advise you that the same teams of nurses are now available to nurse everyday illnesses and to be able to offer post operative care.

The crisis just goes on and on and I like many others see

no end to the situation.

Therefore, I have set up an S.L. company that will work hand in hand with the charity and we have looked at a minimum charge to make it viable.

Any profits, however, after costs, will be allocated to the charity. The S.L. is fully independent and is necessary as the charity is unable to charge any direct fees, only donations.

An extremely difficult situation to control.

There is a separate website and Tracy, who runs the S.L. company, is available to visit you to explain the functions of the charity, the private nursing and the Diabetic Clinic, at a meeting in your club or association.

If an association, club or bar would be interested in

sponsoring or holding an event, please let us know.

In the near future a new website will be set up, mentioning the sponsors and all the event dates and situations. Maybe an idea would be a collection tin, perhaps you would advise us if you are interested.

Ladies who lunch, are very generous in sponsoring PCN on an ongoing basis and have kindly donated an amount towards the new website, I am still searching for further sponsors to fund the website.

To help raise funds at this very difficult time we have introduced a direct debit scheme.

This means you can pay a monthly or yearly amount to the charity. I do hope it works for us, as fundraising as we used to know is now becoming more difficult.

Please think about how you can help us to maintain a very much needed service to those of us who have a terminal illness. One day it could be you or a member of your family and PCN will be there for you.

For further information, please check out our website www.paulcunningham nurses.com or contact Tracey at the PCN office on telephone 966 797 016 mornings or by email traceypcn.s.l@gmail.com

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Hospital film set is financial flop AN empty Madrid hospital used only for filming costs an annual €875,000 in upkeep.

When the Puerta de Hierro hospital was moved to a new building in upmarket Majadahonda in 2008, Madrid’s regional government had planned to use the former installation as a hospice.

The onset of the economic crisis prevented the regional government from embarking on the

project, explained the Health Department.

The hospital has been hired by 25 film units since 2010.

Productions include the popular television series, Cuentame, the film Intruders and a videoclip for the Maldita Nerea group.

FILMING LOCATION: The empty Madrid hospital costs €875,000 annually in upkeep.

But earnings have not compensated for outgoings as the regional government has received fees of only €101,614 in all this time.

€800,000 medical error THE Catalan Health Service will pay more than €800,000 to a woman who had all her fingers and toes amputated due to medical error.

The 58-year-old woman was admitted for a routine operation for gallstones at Santa Tecla Hospital in Tarragona in July 2011.

During the operation an internal organ was

damaged but doctors failed to follow up her case and her admittance to the intensive care unit was delayed. She suffered an infection for which she was given high doses of norepinephrine to save her life.

But the infection spread to her fingers and toes, which had to be amputated.

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Spanish Valentine’s treat for the Obamas LIKE many loving husbands, Barack Obama took his wife out to dinner on February 14.

And the eatery he chose for their St Valentine’s Day tryst was the Minibar Restaurant in Washington whose owner-chef, Jose Andres, is Spanish.

“Mr President, don’t forget Spain,” Andres said to Obama as he and the First Lady left his restaurant after their meal.

Born in Asturias and raised in Barcelona, Jose Andres has spent the last 15 years in the US. Jaleo, another of his restaurants, which is also in Washington, is acclaimed as the first tapas restaurant to enjoy both commercial success and praise from food critics.

Andres, who now owns 12 restaurants, has been credited with introducing Americans to traditional and modern Spanish food and helping to create the Spanish ‘food boom’ in the US.

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Charge threat in meat scandal DAVID CAMERON has said those responsible for passing off horsemeat as beef could face criminal charges. The scandal continues to shock the nation as new cases are exposed.

Choir arrest A PAEDOPHILE was allowed to continue working with children

after his arrest for sexual abuse claims. The 68-year-old Durham choirmaster continued to work with members of a choir during the investigation into his alleged abuse.

Police taunt A CRIMINAL was arrested after posting a string of videos of himself breaking the law in a bid to taunt police. The photos of the 24-year-old man from Wales included one of him urinating on a police car.

German lasagne AUTHORITIES were investigating whether a shipment of frozen lasagne contained horsemeat, following a tip-off. It is Germany’s first suspected case of horsemeat in a product labelled as beef.

Gay refuge SAME-SEX couples are choosing to live in Germany, because it’s one of just 16 countries in the world which grant rights to same-sex partners for legal immigration purposes.

Outback find A BRITISH teenager who went missing in the Australian outback has

Stories making headlines from Germany

MUSLIM plans to convert a former Lutheran church in the city of Hamburg into a mosque are generating controversy across Germany. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the country.

Pulling out GERMAN do-it-yourself chain

RUSSIAN PRESS Safe haven RUSSIA is offering the hope of a secure future to a significant number of Egypt’s Coptic Christian population.

Gun trade MILITARY hardware and light weapons are still being supplied to the governments of Syria and Mali as Russia expands arms’ sales.

Oil deal IRAN’S Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi boosted ties by

Gold rose in value.

AN investigation into a leaked photo of Jon Venables, the murderer of James Bulger, is under way after the photo was reported to be circulating on the social networking site Twitter.

GERMAN PRESS Muslim plan

Praktiker AG is closing its stores in Turkey and withdrawing from the country after failing to sell the nine stores it operates there.

Helping hand VIETNAM’S Ha Long Bay is known for its breathtaking beauty.

Environmental awareness campaigns and a German project are helping to preserve that beauty

Gold prices RUSSIA and Kazakhstan expanded their gold holdings, seeking to diversify their reserves as the metal’s value rose for the 12th year in a row.

Serious neglect

Neo Nazis

Royal storm

Bear returns

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Stories making headlines in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

Friendly face

Off the shelf

SWEDEN - According to a recent survey, Swedes are friendlier than Britons despite their reputation for being aloof.

SWEDEN - Stores are removing all products made by Comigel, the French firm that produced the Findus lasagne sold in the UK found to contain 100 per cent horsemeat.

Talk down

YOUTUBE is challenging Russia’s right to block its service. The firm has launched an appeal against the banning of a video that apparently showed how to put on Halloween make-up.

NORWAY - Two years ago, Norwegians’ English skills were ranked highest in the world amongst countries whose first language is not English. Now Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Finland are ahead.

Rules flaunted

Child shortage

A SIX-YEAR enquiry into an explosion at the Ulyanovskaya coal mine in Western Siberia on March 19, 2007, killing 110, reports the accident was caused by violations of safety rules.

DENMARK - Fewer women of childbearing age, couples waiting longer to start families, and low sperm quality in Danish men means that low birth rates are ‘approaching epidemic’ levels.

Ban challenge

been found alive. The 18-year-old from London had not returned to his Queensland accommodation after going out for a run.

THIRTEEN nurses are facing the sack and being banned from work after an investigation into from the pollution of tourism and serious neglect allegamining. tions at a hospital in Stafford, where 1,200 people died in three years.

RIGHT-WING extremists group the ‘Immortals’ are wearing masks and posting videos on YouTube to attract young new PHOTOS of supporters. pregnant Kate Middleton in a bikini on a public beach in Mustique have been BERLIN ZOO’S famous polar published in an Italian bear Knut, who died two years magazine, causing an ago, will be stuffed and put on outcry from the Royal display at the city’s natural history Family. museum until March 15.

Stories making headlines from Russia

signing a deal with the Russian Energy Minister for more cooperation in oil and gas exploration.

HORSE MEAT SCANDAL: Cameron on the case.

Photo leak

Top names NORWAY Nora and Lucas were the most popular first names in Norway in 2012. Both have been in the Top 10 for the last 12 and five years respectively.

Not enough births.

Food trail

DENMARK - Flexi Food Ltd, a meat distributor in the United Kingdom owned by the Danish firm Flexi Food Holding ApS, is suspected

by British food authorities of selling horsemeat.

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Cracking up is no laughing matter

News from our editions

PARENTS are concerned after cracks appeared in the Nou Paternina school at Calpe, which was built four years ago.

They also complain that a corridor connecting classrooms has an open lattice which lets in the wind and rain.

More popular MORE than 94 per cent of tourists would return to Benidorm, says a Department of Tourism report. Tourism continues to drive the local economy with nearly all holidaymakers wanting to make a return trip.

Forest fires FIREFIGHTERS have been called to eight forest fires in the Planes and Beniarres areas in just two weeks. The blazes were set legally on farmland but spread out of control by high winds.

Equine fever THOUSANDS of horse-lovers are heading to Oliva Nova for the second Mediterranean Equestrian Tour. Top international show-jumpers, including Peter Charles from Great Britain and world champion Philippe Lejeune, will be competing at the event.

Food fair BENISSA is hosting a gastronomy fair from March 1 to 10 when various bars and restaurants will be cooking up treats for food-lovers. Special events will include wine-tasting and a cocktail show.

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Record year THE Almanzora Valley produced almost half of all the fruit and vegetables exported from Andalucia last year, 9.2 per cent up on 2011.

Quarry tragedy A 33-YEAR-OLD local resident has been crushed by stone in a mine near Fines.

Emergency services were unable to revive him at the scene and he was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Rustlers caught The Guardia Civil have caught the gang responsible for the theft of 134 pigs. The thieves are accused of 10 different offences which began last November and were carried out in the region around Huércal Overa.

Benidorm in the top four BENIDORM is still the fourth most popular destination for Spanish tourists.

Benidorm Hotels Association HOSBEC said the resort remains the undisputed leader in Valencia Province with more than 10 million overnight stays by Spanish

visitors last year. Only Madrid, Barcelona and San Bartolome de Tirajana in Gran Canaria are more popular. Figures also show that two-thirds of hotel bookings by Spanish visitors are for rooms in Benidorm and other Costa Blanca resorts.

Flamenco legend dies

Local improvements

Council request

A KEY figure in the nation’s flamenco society, Almeria-born Diaz Benete, has died aged 89.

ESTEPONA COUNCIL will invest €1 million in 20 projects to improve the town’s urbanisations. Local residents will get the chance to decide what work should be done.

NERJA COUNCIL has approved a motion to ask the Junta de Andalucia to commence construction of the new health centre and install a lift in the existing one.

Students stay home ONLY 604 students in the Almeria region have applied for the 959 government assisted places at universities outside Spain.

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Broken bones A MAN, 49, broke several bones after falling three metres down a service lift shaft at the Plaza Mayor shopping centre in Malaga while he was working there.

Sofa fire THREE people were injured after a sofa caught fire at the home of one of them in Malaga. Firefighters believe a faulty heater was the cause of the blaze.

Pools register MIJAS TOWN HALL has created a municipal register of community pools.

This comes 14 years after the Andalucian law came into effect.

Cold meals ONLY 15 per cent of schools in Malaga Province still have kitchens for school lunches while the rest depend on meals from outside catering companies.

MALLORCA AXARQUIA

Cleaning up

53 families out

MAYOR of Torre del Mar Emilio Martín has announced that the first phase of work to tidy up the neighbourhood has begun. The second phase could commence before summer.

SINCE January, 53 homeowners have been evicted from their properties in Palma along with 38 people who rent property, according to this week’s figures collated by the Balearic Justice Department.

Shorter contracts

Pot in Pilarlí

FRIGILIANA has decided to cut temporary work contracts from three months to one-and-a-half to give the 150 registered unemployed in the town more opportunity to work.

AFTER a co-ordinated effort by the Mallorcan drug enforcement agency and Local and National Police, officers seized 300 marijuana plants at a farmhouse located in Es Pilarlí on the outskirts of Palma.

Tight squeeze A NICHE in Motril’s cemetery was too narrow for the coffin to fit inside so a bigger one nearby had to be used instead.

Tragic memorial A MONUMENT has been erected in Salobreña to remember the 20,000 victims of the Spanish Civil War who lost their lives while fleeing along what is today the N-340 motorway between Malaga and Almeria.

Flood of CVs SOON-TO-OPEN home improvement super store Bauhaus has received 4,000 job applications in less than a month of advertising the vacancies.

Pachá to return?

OWNERS of the nightclub Pachá are close to reaching an agreement with Cursach Ocio to bring the nightclub back to Palma’s Paseo Marítimo before the summer season begins.

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Stat of week Power company Iberdrola reported a net profit of €2,840.7 million last year, 1.3 per cent more than in 2011.

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Consumption down prices up Basic product sales dip but takings on the rise FOR the first time in decades, consumption of basic home products has fallen.

Sales of food, cleaning items and toiletries experienced a 0.6 per cent dip last year - the economic crisis, a reduction in the immigrant population and rising prices - were cited by market research experts, Nielsen.

Although consumption was reduced, Spanish families spent €70,700 million - or 0.6 per cent more - than in

Jobs boost as promise kept TELEFONICA created 5,000 direct and indirect jobs in Spain last year.

“At a time when backing Spain looked complicated, that is what we have done,” said Telefonica president Luis Miguel Gilperez.

The multinational provided direct employment for 450 people in 2012 as well as work experience for 555 interns through its Talentum programme.

The majority will “probably” join the company when their probationary period was over, Gilperez said.

Regarding indirect jobs, a call centre that recently opened in Las Palmas would provide employment for approximately 2,000

people over the next two years, the president added.

Another 4,000 jobs have been generated by Telefonica’s fibre optic network.

The company has taken to heart criticism from users, and intends to reduce outsourcing, Gilperez said.

At present, 50 per cent of calls to Telefonica’s customer care centres are answered in Spain.

By the end of this year, this should have increased to 100 per cent.

Gilperez defended the 2011-2013 redundancy plan for 6,500 Telefonica workers.

This had helped the company to increase efficiency, he insisted.

2012. Average price increases of 1.2 per cent were responsible for the apparent anomaly.

Packaged food and fresh products were respectively responsible for 41 and 34 per cent of family spending in 2012, Nielsen found.

CLEAN UP: Cleaning products account for 14 per cent of family spending.

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Peugeot losses PEUGEOT CITROEN reported losses of €5 billion for 2012, its worstever result. It has now built the foundations for recovery with a tough restructuring plan, the carmaker insisted.

Beer bubble HEINEKEN had net profits of €2,949 million, almost double the €1,430 million reported in 2011.

Markets in Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific compensated for a weaker European market, Heineken said.

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‘Tithe’ keeps church tills filled THE Catholic Church in Spain was once notoriously rich and still manages to get by.

Every Spanish income tax declaration has a box that taxpayers tick if they wish 0.7 per cent of their taxes to go to the Church.

Although 78.5 per cent of the Spanish say they are Catholics, only 33.4 per cent of them tick that particular box.

This donation was originally 0.5 per cent but was increased in 2006 by the Zapatero government. In return the Church relinquished its annual allocation from the state budget.

Years back, the Church announced its intention of becoming selfsufficient but made little progress.

For this to be feasible every Catholic in the land would need to pay 50 cents each time they went to Mass.

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Still confused about driving licence medical certificate Q: I AM hoping that you can explain exactly what David Searl meant in his column two weeks ago regarding the medical certificate for driving licences. We have read his answer several times and it You and the remains a puzzle.

We have had our medicals Law in Spain

By David Searl and carry them with our UK driving licences but David Searl says confusion arises because the certificate says it is valid for three months.

We cannot find this anywhere on our certificates. The most worrying thing is that he said if one does not apply for a licence or a renewal within three months, then you may have to get a new certificate. As our driving licences have not expired we have not either applied or renewed them so we really do not understand. Perhaps there is something we have not done.

We do not want to change to a Spanish driving licence but is David Searl saying we now need to do this?

LM (Costa Blanca) A: No, you do not need to change your UK licence until it expires. Then you must change it for a Spanish licence as you cannot renew your UK licence because you are not resident in the UK. 1. Your medical certificate you carry with your UK licence does not expire in three months. It is valid for 10 years.

Unless you are over 70 years of age, in which case it is valid for only two years.

2. Now, if, and only if, you are applying for a Spanish driving licence, or the renewal of one, then the medical certificate is only good for three months. That is, if you do not complete your application within three months, you must obtain a new certificate.

3. It does not matter whether your certificate states it is valid for three months or not. All such documents are valid for only three months, as noted in paragraph 2 above.

I hope this helps to clarify the situation.

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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Half of PPI claims are ‘illegitimate’ FORMER CEO of Lloyds, Eric Daniels, said he believed around half of PPI claims were ‘completely illegitimate’. He said false claims were pushing up compensation bills for banks’ mis-selling of payment protection insurance.

£££ AS Derby-based engine-maker Rolls-Royce faces a corruption enquiry, it has appointed a new chairman, Ian Davis. The former

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£££ BIG SIX energy company EDF said it is selling gas and electricity at a

loss to households and businesses.

It claimed a 25 per cent profits rise is down to its nuclear power generation division’s best performance in seven years.

£££ A PROPOSED merger between Britvic and AG Barr has been referred to the Competition Commission. The soft drinks firms have vowed to keep the £1.6 billion (€1.86 billion) deal alive.

Industrial base is absolutely essential for Spanish hopes READERS might recall that in a previous article I set out the idea that, to have a stable and successful future, Spain had to forget the old times of property bubbles and floods of tourists.

Instead it should concentrate upon establishing an industrial bedrock to underpin the economy, a manufacturing base to develop, not only full employment, but also a profitmaking ethic capable of financing it.

The present level of unemployment in Spain, particularly with that for young people (under 25s) running at more than 51 per cent, should be seen for what it is: the result of successive governments, both Socialist and Conservative, having focused only upon day-today topics leading up to the next election.

Problems have been left to fester until they have become almost incurable ulcers in the body politic. This laissez-faire attitude has proven itself to be dangerous, and once confronted and overcome – which must be the case if Spain is to have a viable future – should never be allowed to show its face again.

Spain must break away from the old, seductive comfort zones.

They have gone; the damage has been done, and future governments must ensure that such short-sighted cupidity never again infests the national mind.

Let us imagine for a moment what Spain might come to if nothing is done to correct past mistakes. It is doubtful that the

BAD IDEA: Mechanised megafarms not good news for Spaniards.

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‘property bubble’ would ever be re-inflated, not for a very long time anyway, seeing that just about every square metre of the Mediterranean coastline already lies beneath bricks, mortar and concrete.

But suppose some powerful group of international financiers should look upon Spain with a different money-making plan in mind? Instead of apartment blocks and villas, what if they saw the potential for vast profit if the

present co-operatives and privately-owned farms and smallholdings, stretching from Cataluña, through Valencia, Murcia, Castilla la Mancha, into Andalucia and Extremadura, were bought up and turned into huge farming factories?

Highly mechanised and with their own transport and storage facilities they might have their own shops and supermarkets, operating throughout Europe and spreading the gospel of low prices.

Sounds good, eh? But such vast tracts, planned to maximise profits, would require far fewer people. The others? Well, what would a few more added to the roll of the unemployed matter?

Then Spain really would become that which I forecast earlier, that is the food-producing reservoir of low-paid, unskilled labour that highly-developed industrial groups have always required.

You think I’m seeing the world, not through rose-tinted glasses but through cobwebs? Well, it has happened in the past, and will again. It occurred in Great Britain as the 19th century Industrial Revolution gathered pace, and in Germany a few years later.

The commercial rivalry between these two great powers was the true fuse that set off the conflagration of the Second World War and brought the United States of America into the equation. Now, while 21st century China and India endure their own industrial revolutions, the world teeters.

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www.euroweeklynews.com UK inheritance tax bills could rise, and more families dragged into the inheritance tax net, over the next six years. We have warned for some time that increasing longevity will lead to higher taxes, and the UK government has now taken the step to increase revenue as part of its reform of the cost of social care for the elderly.

On 11th February Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed speculation that the inheritance tax nil rate band – the amount of your estate your heirs can inherit tax free – will be frozen for several more years. This is effectively a tax rise in real terms because of inflation.

The move is quite a contrast to the Conservative Party’s preelection promise to raise the threshold to £1 million per individual.

If you are a British domicile, UK inheritance tax is charged on your worldwide estate at the time of your death, plus any assets you gave away as gifts over the last seven years. Since it is based on domicile rather than residence, British expatriates with estates above the threshold continue to be liable for this tax, unless they have successfully adopted a domicile of choice in their new country of residence. UK assets are always liable to inheritance tax regardless of domicile.

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by Bill Blevins, Financia l Correspondent, Blevins Franks

Changing your domicile is hard, but not impossible if you intend to live in your new country of residence permanently and cut ties with the UK. You need professional guidance because getting it wrong could be very costly for your heirs.

You should also consider how any local inheritance tax rules interact with the UK rules, and a specialist firm like Blevins Franks will guide you through the rules in both countries and how to lower your tax liabilities.

The current nil rate band is £325,000 per individual. Spouses and civil partners have a potential combined threshold of £650,000.

The tax rate is then a fixed 40%.

In the past, this threshold increased each year with inflation.

It has however been frozen since April 2009, an austerity measure introduced by the then Labour administration. The coalition government confirmed in the 2012 budget that there would be no change until at least April 2015.

As part of the Autumn Statement last December, Chancellor George Osborne announced that the threshold would increase by 1%, rounded up to £329,000, from 2015. 1% was lower than the rate of inflation, but it was better than nothing.

Just a couple of months later, however, this has been overturned.

The threshold will now remain frozen until at least 2019 - that will be 10 years with no change.

This was announced as part of the government’s plans for funding care for the elderly. It proposes that from 2017 a cap of £75,000 will be introduced on the costs people pay for care. After this the state will take over the costs.

The inheritance tax freeze will fund around 20% of the costs.

Changes to pensions and National Insurance are also expected to contribute to the funding.

It is calculated that freezing the threshold until 2019 will bring an

extra 5,000 estates into the inheritance tax net, earning the Treasury an extra £1 billion tax revenues each year.

If the threshold increased with inflation, it would reach £420,000 by 2019. This means that families could lose an extra £95,000 from their inherited estates in 2019.

The government argues that this is a fair system as people will not be forced to sell their home and/or use all of their savings to pay for care.

Many more people will gain from it than lose from it, it claims.

On the other hand, the Chief Executive of the Taxpayer’s Alliance, Matthew Sinclair, commented: “This sleight of hand from the Chancellor is unfairly punishing families who simply want to leave something to their relatives when they pass on.

“Inheritance tax is a double tax on assets and income that the taxman has already taken his cut of many times over.”

He agreed that the government needs to address the future cost of social care, but said this should not be by going back on its word and introducing higher taxes “by the back door”.

Longevity will continue to be a headache for governments, here in Spain as well as in the UK. It will remain an issue long after the economic crisis is behind us. This means that the government may still have to increase tax revenue even when the need for austerity measures is over.

For advice on tax planning for today and the future, on your estate as well as on your savings and investments, seek expert professional advice from a firm like Blevins Franks which has decades of experience advising British expatriates on effective tax mitigation and wealth management strategies.

The tax rates, scope and relief 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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Most Advanced Qlik Technologies Inc. Ultralife Corporation BTU International, Inc. Westport Innovations Inc BGC Partners, Inc. SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. Monster Beverage Corporation Cray Inc Incyte Corporation

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NET VOLUME 416.39 2,700.32 89.93 239.38 160.74 .00 274.03 2,962.62 516.97 500.34

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Most Declined LogMein, Inc. Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. eHealth, Inc. Motorcar Parts of America, Inc. IPG Photonics Corporation Pilgrim's Pride Corporation Fuel Tech, Inc. Elbit Imaging Ltd. Icahn Enterprises L.P.

C O M PA N Y PRICE(P) CHANGE Croda International PLC 2515.00 -33.00 Diageo PLC 1923.25 -9.91 Eurasian Nat Resources ... 391.65 -10.90 EVRAZ PLC 284.75 -4.80 Experian PLC 1079.50 -5.29 Fresnillo PLC 1532.00 -19.00 G4S PLC 285.40 0.56 GKN PLC 257.20 0.00 GlaxoSmithKline PLC 1470.25 -1.09 Glencore Intnal PLC 390.50 -1.55 Hammerson PLC 495.20 7.80 Hargreaves Lansdown 846.50 -1.50 HSBC Holdings PLC 726.00 -0.40 IMI PLC 1169.00 9.00 Imperial Tobacco Gr PLC 2352.50 35.00 InterContinental Hotels 1999.50 15.00 International Consldtd 223.20 -4.70 Intertek Group PLC 3267.00 -9.00 ITV PLC 120.25 3.28 Johnson Matthey PLC 2274.50 -19.00 Kazakhmys PLC 733.50 -13.50 Kingfisher PLC 270.95 -1.60 Land Securities Grp PLC 837.00 1.50 Legal & General Grp PLC 151.05 -0.20 Lloyds Banking Grp PLC 54.49 -0.18 Marks & Spencer Grp PLC 383.25 -3.96 Meggitt PLC 449.60 -1.70 Melrose Industries PLC 238.40 0.29 National Grid PLC 692.75 10.50 Next PLC 4163.00 -12.00 Old Mutual PLC 197.90 1.32 Pearson PLC 1193.50 9.00 Petrofac Ltd 1634.00 -9.00 Polymetal Intl PLC 1002.00 3.50 Prudential PLC 948.75 3.56 Randgold Resources Ltd 5572.50 -10.00 Reckitt Benckiser Grp 4486.00 7.00 Reed Elsevier PLC 694.25 0.50 Resolution Ltd 261.35 -1.20 REXAM PLC 471.70 2.84 Rio Tinto PLC 3698.00 -35.92 Rolls-Royce Holdings 1008.50 0.00 Royal Bank of Scotland 340.25 -4.03 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 2152.75 1.50 RSA Insurance Group PLC 131.75 -0.40 SABMiller PLC 3194.25 7.50 Sage Group (The) PLC 334.75 -3.20 Sainsbury (J) PLC 332.45 1.54 Schroders PLC 1964.50 8.00 Serco Group PLC 563.25 -2.95 Severn Trent PLC 1602.00 18.00 Shire PLC 2046.50 -14.00 Smith & Nephew PLC 696.50 -5.00 Smiths Group PLC 1229.50 -8.00 SSE PLC 1409.50 1.10 Standard Chartered PLC 1729.00 11.00 Standard Life PLC 336.20 -0.10 Tate & Lyle PLC 785.50 1.00 Tesco PLC 366.60 1.85 TUI Travel PLC 316.10 -3.00 Tullow Oil PLC 1247.00 -16.00 Unilever PLC 2563.00 -1.28 United Utilities Group 722.75 2.56 Vedanta Resources PLC 1277.00 -21.00 Vodafone Group PLC 167.12 -0.70 Weir Group PLC 2172.00 -9.00 Whitbread PLC 2663.50 -8.00 Wm Morrison Sprmrkts 262.80 1.60 Wolseley PLC 3069.00 -8.00 Wood Group (John) PLC 800.50 -5.50 WPP PLC 1040.50 -7.00 Xstrata PLC 1172.75 -8.00

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MENU FOR SUCCESS : Many Spaniards are opening their own businesses.

Create your own job SPANIARDS are becoming their own bosses in an effort to escape the economic crisis.

Between 2008 and 2011 more than 625,000 self-employed had to give up, according to government figures. But last year, as the unemployment rate climbed above 26 per cent, 53,000 newly registered

self-employed made their numbers rise rather than fall for the first time since 2008.

These entrepreneurs created 72,000 jobs, said Lorenzo Amor, President of the small entrepreneurs’ association ATA. “For the next few months it is going to be easier to create your own job than to find one,” Amor said. He added that in Spain 67 people an hour register as self-employed. But in these tough times it is hard to keep a new business going. Just THE number of people who used planes to travel half of new businesses within Spain fell by 12.5 per cent in 2012, while train are still running after passengers fell by 2 per cent, according to the three years.

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The death of the teenage odd job means a shock in the real world AS a kid, my brother had a paper round from the age of 11. I used to babysit for neighbours from the age of 14. My friend packed bags at the cashier of a local supermarket at the age of 16, while nearly every friend I have worked parttime in a café or restaurant during their college years to make a few extra quid.

In our home, apart from keeping our bedrooms clean, my brother’s job was to load A look and empty the at finance dishwasher, while I was for females the queen of ironing, which I enjoyed because Jane Plunkett it’s a job where you can jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews. watch TV at the same com time.

That’s why it always surprises me how little many Spanish kids do around the house, or how unaccustomed they are to dreaming up small jobs in their neighbourhood that could enable WORK: Odd jobs to make money. them to earn a few Euros.

Just last week, I was speaking to a group of together to spend at the weekends?” I asked. teens about pocket money and odd jobs. “So “Que?” was the unanimous reply from blank and what do you have to do to get a bit of money confused young faces.

From the looks of things, the concept of working doesn’t enter their minds until they finish studying and start looking for a job. Having surveyed five separate classes of Spanish kids between the ages of 10 and 17, regardless of receiving pocket money each week, about 80 per cent do not have to do any small chore in their homes in return. The girls among the classes definitely admitted to doing more jobs around the home, but the boys blatantly confessed that ‘mama’ didn’t ask anything of them in exchange for their pocket money.

Earning a bit of money as a kid is an important start to lessons in finance and managing money.

If a child thinks money just appears on a silver plate for doing nothing, it’s some shock they are going to get when they enter the real world.

Kids need to dream up silly jobs to earn some money. Even if it’s picking flowers from gardens, mixing the petals with water and selling it door to door as perfume.

This is the start of entrepreneurialism and creative thinking that could make a person rich in the future. A child that doesn’t begin to understand the value of money early in life is in for a tough lesson on dealing with finances in the future.

Mystery shoppers shop Santander SPANISH banking giant Santander’s UK division is suspected of providing clients with flawed investment advice, according to internet rumours.

The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has ordered an in-depth investigation of Santander UK, claim industry sources.

Between March and September last year, ‘mystery shoppers’ from the FSA paid 1,231 visits to six banks and building societies, posing as potential customers.

“A major high street bank” was referred to its enforcement division, the FSA announced. It could face a fine or licence changes preventing it from providing these services in future.

But as yet the FSA has refused to reveal which bank is involved. Santander

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Last December, Santander UK suspended its investment advice service.

There were concerns that employees would be unable to meet new FSA rules arising from its Retail Distribution Review (RDR) introduced at the end of 2012.

SPAIN exported 75,000 tons of garlic worth €130 million in 2012.

The average price per kilo last year fell to €1.80, compared with €2.40 in 2011.

Less beauty TURNOVER for Spain’s 78,000 hairdressers and 11,000 beauty salons fell by 7.5 per cent last year. While some independent establishments struggle, chains continued to increase their share of the market.

Lines cut SPAIN lost 2.7 million mobile lines – one in 20 - in 2012 owing to the crisis, fewer handset offers and purging of inactive lines. Further reductions are predicted for 2013.

High price A THIRD of children in Spain have been pushed to the brink of poverty by austerity measures.

Charity Caritas said Spain and other countries that have had EU loans, are raising poorly fed children with few job prospects.

More cash SAREB, Spain’s ‘bad bank’ has increased its capital for the third time. Iberdrola has bought €2.5m shares and Banco Camino another €800,000, increasing Sareb’s capital to €1,200 million.

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Time to learn a lesson in honest politics I’VE lost track of the corruption cases involving Spanish politicians or other public servants.

The worst is that the average Spaniard on the street is now so used to it that they almost automatically accept their daily dose of political scandal with resignation.

The word ‘transparency’ recently coined by Barack Obama enjoyed a certain amount of popularity here until Spain’s voters discovered that their political representatives were economical with the truth.

So much so that the word transparency might as well be eliminated from the Spanish dictionary.

It would be worthy of a Marx Brothers’ movie if it were not so tragic.

I humbly but urgently suggest that Spain’s politicians take an example from Obama’s honesty before its irate voters abandon the polling stations like rats from a sinking ship.

Richard M McBride, Benidorm (Alicante)

Quiet anticipation I RELISH the opportunity for quiet discourse and relaxation in public bars that the rumoured upcoming disappearance of British television from Spain will bring.

The chance to enjoy a quiet drink without having to yield to the almost daily onslaught of football fanatics who are generally capable of volubly expressing ‘qualified’ opinions; the inane audible hum of analysis of soap operas; the discussion of vapid televised talent.

Karl Marx may now be inclined to state that ‘Vacuous televised entertainment is the opium of the people.’

British televisions’ entertainment output is as appalling as that of Central and South America and even ranks lower than that of Nigeria and Tanzania given, at least, that the latter output is made more amusing by the introduction of witchcraft.

C S, Mijas Costa (Malaga)

Gulag justice BRITISH people living in Spain probably remember the Birmingham Six and similar cases of unjust

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Six phone calls later (all to different numbers!) I was told that as the demand was sent by certified post I could not pay by phone! Neither the banks listed on the bill nor the post office would let me pay with my card.

I had to get €800 in cash out and pay at the post office. I do not like walking the streets with that amount of money in my pocket.

Jack Andrews, Fuengirola (Malaga)

Fuming at waste SO 10,000 inspections were carried out to make sure no smoking laws are being followed in Murcia (More ignore no smoking laws, EWN, Costa Blanca South, Issue 1441). Result? Just 711 complaints reported. What a waste of time and money in the middle of an economic crisis!

Sheila Quinnell, Orihuela (Alicante)

In or out?

All this sun and sangria makes my head swell, so I am resting in Paloma Park, Benalmadena. I think I need to see a shrink!

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imprisonment. The same thing happens here.

Take the case of Jose Maria Zaragoza Berenguer, a popular garage owner from Polop, who for the last 16 months has been languishing in Fontcalent Prison (Alicante).

The reason for his unjust imprisonment is that in 2011 his garage assistant allegedly killed two people. Yet Jose Maria, although innocent, has not been liberated. This is obviously an injustice that should be corrected ASAP. We are not in the Gulag Archipeligo.

Name supplied, Polop (Alicante)

Weevil solution THERE is a simple, safe and cheap preventative measure against red palm weevils which has been tried with some success in Castellon.

It’s to spray a diluted mixture of turpentine (aguaras) on the fronds, top centre and at the base of plants

likely to get infected. The weevil is killing palms, and the black version, agaves, yuccas and aloes.

This application doesn’t cure infected plants, it apparently keeps the bugs away because they hate the odour. The turps should be diluted about one part to five of warm water.

How often the spray should be used I don’t know. Probably every month or so or after heavy rain.

Chuck (by email)

SINCE the no smoking in public places law was introduced, there has been a dramatic increase of terrace coverings, with gas heaters and in some cases a door fitted to enter the premises. This covers entirely all tables and chairs placed outside some restaurants and cafés. This forces the non-smoker to go inside. Is this area classified as inside or as an outside smoking area?

Don Ralph, Benijofa (Alicante)r Editor’s note: Terraces where smoking is permitted should have a minimum of two sides open under Spanish Law.

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THERE are lots of advertisements on TV asking for donations for the African children as they cannot drink the water.

I have lived in El Galan for 10 years and during that time I have spent thousands of euros on bottled water as the tapwater was unfit to drink.

Will anyone send me money to compensate for all those years as I am only a hard-up pensioner?

Deirdre Drayton, San Miguel de Salinas (Alicante)

WE received a visit from two alleged gas inspectors. They insisted that they had right of access and if we refused then we would be denounced and face a €2,000 fine.

They were told to depart and off they went with many glowers and muttered threats.

A few days later, we heard gravel crunching and the sounds of conversation. There was a loud bang and on reaching the lounge we found a piece of firewood protruding into the room between the door and frame. My wife shouted, and we heard footsteps running. By the time we got out of the cottage there was nothing to be seen except slashed fly screens front and rear.

We called the police who were with us in 15 minutes. Excellent service.

Dr/Colonel Bob & Sandra Lyons, Puerto Lumbreras (Murcia)

Card blues WHY does the Endesa electricity company make it so hard to pay a bill by card? I had a big bill to pay for my business, and following the instructions on the letter I phoned their help-line.

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2:40am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under Revisited 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 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 Only Fools and Horses 3:45pm Only Fools and Horses

4.00pm - midnight 4:15pm Perfection Nick Knowles hosts the general knowledge quiz show.

5:00pm Escape to the Country Series in which prospective buyers are helped to find their dream home in the country.

5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 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.

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5:40am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning A vibrant mix of showbiz news, fashion, cookery, gardening, travel, advice and DIY. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world.

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4:00am River Monsters 4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

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Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Got to Dance 7:30am Got to Dance 8:00am Glee 9:00am Glee 10:00am John Bishop's Only Joking 10:30am John Bishop's Only Joking 11:00am Modern Family 11:30am Modern Family 12:00pm The Middle 12:30pm The Middle 1:00pm Modern Family 1:30pm Modern Family 2:00pm The Middle 2:30pm The Middle 3:00pm Terra Nova 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm 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 Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces 2:00am Road Wars 3:00am Road Wars 4:00am Terra Nova 5:00am Stargate SG-1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 4:30am Something Borrowed 6:30am Kung Fu Panda 2 Family Show Special 7:00am Oscar Nominations 2013 Special 7:30am Irreconcilable Differences 9:25am The Big Year 11:10am Argo: Sky Movies Special 11:30am This Means War 1:20pm Flight: Sky Movies Special 1:40pm Tower Heist 3:40pm Bad Teacher 5:20pm The Dilemma 7:15pm The Big Year 9:00pm This Means War 10:40pm Tower Heist 12:30am Bad Teacher 2:10am Stan Helsing 3:45am No Strings Attached 5:35am Prom

SKY MOVIES DRAMA 5:05am The Candidate 7:00am Stay Cool 8:40am The Chateau Meroux 10:20am 4 Wedding Planners 11:45am Conviction 1:35pm Big Miracle 3:25pm Friends with Benefits 5:15pm It's Kind of a Funny Story 7:00pm Life as We Know it 9:00pm Big Miracle 11:00pm Friends with Benefits 12:50am 8 Mile 2:45am Mother and Child 4:55am Argo: Sky Movies Special 5:25am Lucky Christmas

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:15am Bunraku 6:30am Life of Pi 7:00am Taxi 8:40am Tomorrow, When the War Began 10:30am The Recruit 12:30pm Sahara 2:35pm Safe House

4:35pm Kingdom of Heaven 7:00pm Killer Elite 9:00pm Sahara 11:10pm Safe House 1:10am Death Warrant 2:45am Broken Arrow 4:40am Braddock: Missing in Action 3

TCM 6:00am Taras Bulba 8:10am Gunsmoke 9:10am Gunsmoke 10:10am Return of the Seven 12:05pm Day of the Evil Gun 1:55pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Fort Utah 5:35pm Take the High Ground!

7:30pm The Pride and the Passion 10:00pm U.S. Marshals 12:30am The Jacket 2:25am U.S. Marshals 4:35am Fort Utah

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BBC2

2:35am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team. 10:15am Wanted Down Under Revisited 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 1:15pm Bargain Hunt The red and blue teams go hunting and haggling in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Only Fools and Horses 3:45pm Only Fools and Horses

4.00pm - midnight 4:15pm Perfection Nick Knowles hosts the general knowledge quiz show.

5:00pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 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 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 New Tricks 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show

12:25am Pretty Woman Romantic comedy reworking of the Pygmalion theme, set in modern-day America. 2:20am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:25am BBC News

BBC3 8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel 8:15pm Doctor Who Sci-fi drama series.

9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm World's Craziest Fools 10:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:00pm Come Fly with Me 11:30pm EastEnders The atmosphere in the Brannings is extremely strained.

12:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 1:00am Family Guy 1:25am Family Guy James Woods returns to seek revenge against Peter.

1:45am Being Human Supernatural comedy-drama series about a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire.

2:45am Pramface 3:15am Way to Go 3:45am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 4:45am Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel

ITV

Channel 4

Channel 5

6:05am What Makes Me, Me? 6:10am What Makes Me, Me? 6:15am What Makes Me, Me? 6:25am What Makes Me, Me? 6:30am In My Shoes 6:40am Joey's First Fight 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer 8:00am Saints and Scroungers 8:45am Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 9:15am Show Me the Monet 10:00am Antiques Roadshow 11:00am Question Time 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm Animal Park 2:00pm The One Show 2:30pm The Weakest Link 3:15pm Mastermind 3:45pm Reel History of Britain

4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Daybreak 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning A vibrant mix of showbiz news, fashion, cookery, gardening, travel, advice and DIY. 12:25pm ITV News The latest headlines from around the world.

Followed by a local weather forecast. 12:30pm This Morning A vibrant mix of showbiz news, fashion, cookery, gardening, travel, advice and DIY. 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather 3:00pm Dinner Date

5:50am Countdown 6:35am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard 7:00am The Treacle People 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:05am According to Jim 8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Kirstie's Vintage Gems 1:15pm Distant Drums 3:15pm Face the Clock 3:40pm Countdown

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 9:45am Milkshake Monkey 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 Being Liverpool 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm Person of Interest

4:15pm Rick Stein's Mediterranean Escapes 5:15pm Cycling 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Flog it! Trade Secrets Paul Martin and a host of regular experts offer tips and advice on antiques and collectibles.

8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm Mastermind John Humphrys presents the first semi-final as five contenders vie for a place in the grand final.

9:30pm Sea City The second in a three-part documentary series about the Port of Southampton.

10:00pm Wild Arabia Few places on earth evoke more mystery and romance than Arabia.

11:00pm QI Comedy quiz. Stephen Fry looks at the quite interesting side of jobs.

11:30pm Newsnight In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines with Eddie Mair.

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 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Wild Britain with Ray Mears 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Piers Morgan's Life Stories 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm Three Kings

4:30pm The Common Denominator 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 Can Darren hide the truth as Nancy gets more suspicious?

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

8:55pm 4thought.tv Recent surveys suggest that Britons have never been more secular.

9:00pm Come Dine with Me 10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats 10:30pm The Last Leg 11:20pm Paddy's TV Guide

4:15pm Stolen Innocence Crime drama.

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

6:30pm Neighbours Tash offers Sonya a genuine apology.

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

8:00pm Winter Road Rescue Documentary series following the work of snowplough drivers and patrols.

9:00pm Ice Road Truckers 10:00pm The Mentalist American crime drama.

11:00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Crime drama.

11:55pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Crime drama. The brutal murder of a family leads to three separate confessions.

12:00am The Review Show Oscars Special 12:50am Southern Comfort 2:30am Question Time David Dimbleby chairs Question Time from St Paul's Cathedral in London.

1:40am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Coogan's Bluff Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan, a tough Arizona cop, travels to New York to collect a wanted man. 5:35am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

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

8:30pm Masterworks Exploring orchestral works of the 20th century.

10:00pm The Swing Thing 11:30pm ... Sings the Great American Songbook 12:30am Frank Sinatra 2:05am The Swing Thing Documentary telling the story of swing, an obscure form of jazz that became the first worldwide pop phenomenon, inspired the first ever youth culture revolution and became a byword for sexual liberation and teenage excess well before the Swinging Sixties.

3:35am Masterworks Exploring orchestral works of the 20th century.

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SATELLITE CHANNELS

12:10am Hot Shots!

1:45am Random Acts

11:15pm War Horse

12:55am Inside Hollywood 1:00am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel. 5:00am Motorsport Mundial The latest motor racing action from around the world. 5:25am House Doctor 5:50am Michaela's Wild Challenge

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Got to Dance 7:30am Got to Dance 8:00am Glee 9:00am Glee 10:00am John Bishop's Only Joking 10:30am John Bishop's Only Joking 11:00am Modern Family 11:30am Modern Family 12:00pm The Middle 12:30pm The Middle 1:00pm Modern Family 1:30pm Modern Family 2:00pm The Middle 2:30pm The Middle 3:00pm Terra Nova 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm The Simpsons 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 An Idiot Abroad

12:00am Spartacus: War of the Damned 1:15am Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces 2:15am Road Wars 3:10am Road Wars 4:05am Terra Nova 5:00am Stargate SG-1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:35am Prom 7:20am Tommy Boy 9:00am 30 Minutes or Less 10:25am Sweet Home Alabama 12:15pm Oscar Nominations 2013 Special 12:45pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 2:35pm The Sitter 4:05pm Road Trip 5:40pm Sweet Home Alabama 7:35pm 30 Minutes or Less 9:00pm The Sitter 10:30pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 12:10am Road Trip 1:45am Boat Trip 3:25am Wild Cherry 5:05am Evolution

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

1:30pm Fantastic Four 3:20pm Contraband

5:25am Lucky Christmas 7:00am The Fighting Temptations 9:10am Beautiful Wave 10:50am Mean Girls 2 12:35pm The Stepford Wives 2:15pm Captain Corelli's Mandolin

5:20pm Collateral Damage 7:15pm Your Highness 9:00pm Fantastic Four 11:00pm Contraband

4:30pm Country Strong 6:30pm Les Miserables Special 7:00pm Footloose 9:00pm Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 11:15pm War Horse 1:45am The Adjustment Bureau 3:35am Girl, Interrupted 5:50am The Fighting Temptations

SKY MOVIES ACTION 6:30am The Avengers Special 7:00am Lincoln: Sky Movies Special 7:30am Sanctum 9:25am Paycheck 11:30am Battle: Los Angeles

1:00am A Man Apart 3:00am Death Wish

TCM 6:00am The Pride and the Passion 8:20am Gunsmoke 9:20am Gunsmoke 10:20am Take the High Ground! 12:15pm Fort Utah 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Firecreek 5:55pm Billy Two Hats 7:50pm In Like Flint 10:00pm Hard to Kill 11:55pm Poltergeist 2:05am Hard to Kill 3:45am Poltergeist

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2:25am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen 12:30pm Nigel Slater's Simple Cooking Food writer Nigel Slater rustles up inspiring yet achievable meals.

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 2:00pm Bargain Hunt Game show in which two teams compete for the best bargains before they go up for auction. 3:00pm Six Nations Rugby Union

4.00pm - midnight 5:25pm BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

5:30pm Regional News All the latest local news.

5:33pm Weather The latest weather information.

5:35pm Six Nations Rugby Union Action from the Six Nations Trophy.

8:00pm Let's Dance for Comic Relief Celebrity-packed dance show in conjunction with Comic Relief.

9:25pm National Lottery Saturday Draws 9:40pm Casualty 10:30pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Weather 11:20pm Match of the Day

Channel 5

5:35am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service. 7:00am CITV 10:25am ITV News 10:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham 12:25pm Dinner Date Dating show with a twist. 1:25pm Countrywise Paul Heiney presents a series with memorable scenes drawn from the best of the ITV regions. 1:40pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 1:45pm Carry on Up the Jungle 3:30pm Celebrity Chase

5:55am Countdown 6:40am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard 7:05am Sali Mali When autumn comes, Jackdaw tries to stick the leaves back on the trees. 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am Will and Grace 8:25am Freesports on 4 8:55am The Morning Line 9:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:20am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:50am Frasier 11:20am Frasier 11:50am The Big Bang Theory 12:20pm The Big Bang Theory 12:45pm The Simpsons 1:10pm The Simpsons 1:40pm The Secret Millionaire 2:45pm Channel 4 Racing

7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Power Rangers Samurai 11:35am Batman - The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Looney Tunes 12:20pm Looney Tunes 12:25pm Monkey Life 12:55pm Police Interceptors Documentary series profiling the work of a high-speed police interception unit in Essex. 1:55pm I Dream of Murder 3:40pm Corrina, Corrina

4:50pm Coast A look back at part of an episode of coast.

5:00pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving.

5:30pm Final Score 6:15pm Cycling Coverage of a cycling event.

8:00pm 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.

9:00pm Dad's Army 9:30pm Natural World Special 10:30pm Howard Goodall's Story of Music 11:30pm Funny Business Documentary revealing how top comedians can earn fortunes through various gigs.

4:30pm Midsomer Murders 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 Totally You've Been Framed!

8:00pm Saturday Night Takeaway 9:20pm Take Me Out 10:50pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:50pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news.

5:05pm Come Dine with Me This competition from Portsmouth begins with Allison Hampshire first to host.

5:35pm Come Dine with Me It's the turn of sociology lecturer Will Dixon to host in Portsmouth.

6:05pm Come Dine with Me 6:40pm Come Dine with Me 7:10pm Come Dine with Me 7:40pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm The Queen's Mother in Law The late Queen Mother was one of Britain's most instantly recognisable figures.

9:00pm Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home 10:00pm Terminator Salvation

5:55pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

6:00pm Columbo 7:55pm CSI: NY New York-based spin-off of the crime drama series.

8:40pm NCIS 9:35pm NCIS 10:30pm Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Drama series about an elite force based in New York which investigates sexually oriented crimes.

11:30pm Law and Order: Criminal Intent

10:00pm - Terminator Salvation Christian Bale & Sam Worthington

12:30am The Men Who Stare at Goats

BBC4

12:05am Gauntlet 2:05am Jackpot247 4:00am In Plain Sight Drama about a U.S. Marshal attached to the highly secretive Federal Witness Protection Program. 4:45am ITV Nightscreen

Nicolas Cage 9:35pm National Treasure: Book of Secrets

8:00pm Britain's Natural World 8:50pm Britain's Natural World Wild Summer River.

9:00pm Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's 10:00pm Spiral 4: State of Terror 10:50pm Spiral 4: State of Terror 11:45pm Joy of the Single 12:45am Country at the BBC 2:15am Top of the Pops 1978 2:50am Prince - Purple Reign 3:50am Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's

12:10am Rising Sun 2:35am Southland Tang and Cooper's past physical problems are put to the test when they are attacked on the street.

3:15am Hollyoaks Omnibus As Will's dark fascination with Texas continues, what lengths will he be driven to? 5:20am Deal or No Deal

12:25am CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas. 1:15am Super Casino

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

Ralph Special 7:00am The Avengers Special 7:30am Fortress 9:15am Twister 11:15am Spider-Man 1:20pm Spider-Man 2 3:35pm Daylight

Satellite channels SKY1

BBC3

8:00pm Merlin 8:45pm Doctor Who 9:35pm National Treasure: Book of Secrets 11:30pm World's Craziest Fools 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! 1:30am Russell Howard's Good News 2:00am Russell Howard's Good News 2:30am Way to Go 3:00am Pramface Comedy series about two teenagers trying, and often failing, to come to terms with parenthood.

3:30am World's Craziest Fools Mr T takes a look at some of the craziest clips from around the world.

4:00am Being Human Supernatural comedy-drama series about a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire.

Channel 4

7:00am Preview 8:30am Great British Menu 9:00am Great British Menu 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Great British Menu 10:30am Great British Menu 11:00am A History of Britain 12:00pm Meet the Ancestors 12:30pm Map Man, Martin Hotine's Ordnance Survey 1:00pm Indian Food Made Easy 1:30pm Mastermind Classic quiz show. 2:00pm University Challenge 2:30pm Talking Pictures: Tony Curtis 3:15pm The Black Shield of Falworth

12:40am The Football League Show 1:55am Weatherview 2:00am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

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Forces 4:05am Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces 5:00am Crash Test Dummies

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:05am Evolution 7:00am Top Secret 8:35am Argo: Sky Movies Special 8:55am Little Nicky 10:30am Jack and Jill 12:15pm Oscar Nominations 2013 Special 12:30pm 50 First Dates 2:15pm Shanghai Noon 4:15pm Shanghai Knights 6:15pm Junior 8:15pm Jack and Jill 10:00pm 50 First Dates 11:45pm Little Nicky 1:20am Planes, Trains and Automobiles 3:05am Love and Other Drugs 5:10am Good Burger

5:50am The Fighting Temptations 8:00am Take Me Home 9:45am A Valentine's Date 11:15am Shakespeare in Love 1:25pm I Don't Know How She Does it 3:00pm Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 5:00pm Flashdance 6:45pm Shakespeare in Love 9:00pm I Don't Know How She Does it 10:35pm Romeo and Juliet 12:40am Just Married 2:20am That Thing You Do! 4:15am Lincoln: Sky Movies Special 4:45am The Tempest

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:45am American Ninja 2: The Confrontation 6:30am Wreck-it

5:40pm Spider-Man 7:45pm Spider-Man 2 10:00pm First Blood 11:40pm Rambo: First Blood Part II 1:20am Rambo III 3:05am 22 Bullets 5:05am Twister

TCM 6:00am In Like Flint 8:00am Gunsmoke 9:05am Gunsmoke 10:10am Gone with the Wind 2:20pm Ben-Hur 6:20pm The Longest Day 10:00pm The Fugitive 12:30am The Matrix 3:05am Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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initiatives at all to prevent Britain’s core of rottenness and indecision expanding unchecked, until it totally engulfs the once beautiful country so many of our forefathers fought and died for. Sorry, Dad! My piece on the alleged cache of weapons stored under Buckingham Palace caused quite a stir last week. One gentleman, who didn’t want his name published as he is still bound by the Official Secrets Act, assured me there are actually no weapons stored directly under the palace. He suggests my friend was probably in the basement of Wellington Barracks, some 500 metres away.

Thank you, sir, for that information. It did strike me, though, that if a cache of weaponry and explosives of that magnitude is not exactly under the palace, at only 500 metres from the royal abode, it may as well be!

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Furry fiends CARS parked at Denver International Airport, US, have suffered thousands of dollars’ worth of damage by wild rabbits eating spark plugs and other wiring.

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THE problem with the UK’s ‘esteemed’ political leaders is that they’re all talk.

Most of us are fully aware of this pathetic trait among those who are supposed to be guiding Britain to a better future, but since they’ve finally begun to listen to those who voted them in, it’s got decidedly worse.

The whole bunch are now falling over each EAPY EE other to voice their agreement with prevSAYS IT iously taboo subjects CARING FOR ELDERLY: MPs have no answers.

OTHERS THINK IT that have concerned the British public for How are they What they are actually doing is years. The problem is none of them going to achieve that? Nada. “We endeavouring to make all the right seems to have a single idea as to have to make sure our elderly are noises simply to get their sorry what to do about any of it. properly looked after in our hides re-elected and that’s about it.

“Oh, yes,” they declare grandly, hospitals and care facilities.” What Don’t ask me what the solutions “it is totally wrong for child benefits can they do about it? No idea. “We are. I’m only an old pop-singing to be sent out of the country to have to cap immigrant numbers.” hack. What I do know is that Britain provide for children who don’t even Fine, er... any ideas? Not a clue. desperately needs a bunch of live here.” Solution? Zilch.

“We must pull ourselves free from leaders with some ‘cajones’. This “We have to make sure we only the yolk of Brussels’ law-makers.” limp-wristed ‘all mouth and no trousers’ brigade appears totally let in those who want to work and Any bulbs lit up? Nope. incapable of coming up with any not those simply here for benefits.”

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2:00am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 8:35am Match of the Day 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show Andrew Marr talks to key figures from politics, current affairs and the arts. 11:00am The Big Questions A series of moral, ethical and religious debates on topical issues.

12:00pm Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 1:00pm BBC News 1:05pm Weather for the Week Ahead 1:10pm Countryfile 2:05pm Bargain Hunt 2:30pm Six Nations Rugby Union

5:00pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

5:30pm Songs of Praise 6:05pm Penguins - Spy in the Huddle 7:05pm Deadly 60 on a Mission 7:35pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm Countryfile 9:00pm Call the Midwife 10:00pm Ripper Street 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Regional News 11:20pm Weather 11:25pm Match of the Day 2

8:00pm Let's Dance for Comic Relief 2013 9:10pm Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 11:00pm Being Human Contemporary supernatural drama about George and Mitchell, a pair of perennial outsiders.

12:00am People Like Us 1:00am Family Guy Animated comedy series about US family life.

1:20am Family Guy US animated comedy series about family life. Brian meets the girl of his dreams, Carolyn.

1:40am Being Human Contemporary supernatural drama about George and Mitchell, a pair of perennial outsiders.

2:40am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 3:40am People Like Us 4:40am Great Movie Mistakes 2011

Channel 5

7:00am Preview 7:20am Once Upon a Honeymoon 9:15am Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein Plantswoman Carol Klein shares with us a year in her garden at Glebe Cottage in North Devon. 9:45am A to Z of TV Gardening. 10:30am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:00pm Cycling Coverage of a cycling event. 3:05pm EastEnders Omnibus A roundup of the week's events from Albert Square.

4:45am ITV Nightscreen 7:00am CITV 10:25am ITV News 10:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am Murder, She Wrote Drama series about a sleuthing writer who solves murder mysteries.

12:25pm Dickinson's Real Deal Why let your antiques collect dust in the attic when you can sell them? 1:25pm ITV News and Weather A round-up of the latest news headlines and a national weather forecast. 1:30pm Carry on Henry 3:15pm Doc Martin Comedy drama series about a top London surgeon who developed a phobia of blood.

5:20am Deal or No Deal 6:15am Countdown 7:00am Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 7:20am The Hoobs 7:45am The Hoobs 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier Maris uses Niles' feelings for Daphne as ammunition in the divorce. 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:10pm The Big Bang Theory Penny's break-up spurs Leonard to summon the courage to ask her out. 1:40pm The Big Bang Theory 2:10pm The Simpsons 2:40pm The Simpsons 3:10pm The Wedding Planner

1:15am Super Casino 7:00am Milkshake!

11:00am Power Rangers Samurai 11:35am Batman - The Brave and the Bold 12:10pm Disney Shorts Bone Bandit. 12:15pm Looney Tunes 12:20pm Once Upon a Time 1:15pm Cowboy Builders 2:20pm Winnie the Pooh's Spring Time with Roo 3:35pm Stuart Little 2 More charming episodes in the life of dapper mouse Stuart Little in this delightful sequel.

5:00pm The Lions' Roar 5:30pm Flog It! Antiques show which helps amateur auctioneers, collectors and bargain-hunters make a saving.

6:15pm Restoration Home 7:15pm Food and Drink 7:45pm Ski Sunday Coverage of winter sports events.

8:30pm Open All Hours 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Wonders of Life 11:05pm Dancing on the Edge

4:15pm Agatha Christie's Marple 6:15pm You've Been Framed!

Comedy show which features a selection of camcorder catastrophes and video disasters.

6:45pm Local News and Weather All the very latest local news and weather.

7:00pm 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 New drama series telling the story of Harry Selfridge who arrived in London from Chicago in 1908 with a grand plan to open the finest department store in the world in just one year.

11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather Round-up of the day's news.

11:15pm Her Majesty's Prison: Aylesbury

5:20pm Time Team 6:20pm Deal or No Deal 7:20pm Channel 4 News Includes sport and weather.

7:50pm The Political Slot Green Party leader Natalie Bennett and her deputy Will Duckworth look at ways to help the jobless.

7:55pm 4thought.tv Recent surveys suggest that Britons have never been more secular.

8:00pm Ottolenghi's Mediterranean Feast 9:00pm A Great British Air Disaster 10:00pm Unstoppable 11:50pm Runaway Jury

5:05pm To Hell and Back 7:10pm Beat the Ancestors 8:05pm Mosquito Squadron 9:55pm 5 News 10:00pm Person of Interest 11:00pm Saw: The Final Chapter

12:25am The League Cup Show 1:05am The Apprentice USA 1:50am The Apprentice USA 2:30am Weatherview 2:35am BBC News

BBC3

Channel 4

CH4

4.00pm - midnight

ITV

12:05am Six Nations Highlights 12:50am 10 Rillington Place 2:40am Holby City 3:40am Being Eileen

BBC4 BBC3

9:10pm Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Jake Weird 8:00pm The Story of British Pathe 9:00pm Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern 10:00pm Madness on Wheels: Paris to Dakar Rally 11:00pm Time Shift 12:00am The Swing Thing 1:30am ... Sings the Great American Songbook 2:30am Sounds of the 70s 3:00am The Story of British Pathe 4:00am Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern

3:10pm - The Wedding Planner Jennifer Lopez & Matthew McConaughey

12:15am Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights 1:15am The Store 3:15am Monk Crime drama series about a private police consultant with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. 4:00am ITV Nightscreen

2:10am My Funniest Year Comedian Chris Addison shares his funniest year with his audience at the Hackney Empire. 4:00am 4funnies: Brian Gittins 4:30am Eating for Two Craft-based animated film developed through Channel 4's Animation in Residence scheme.

4:35am St. Elsewhere 5:20am Deal or No Deal

12:50am The True Story Documentary exploring the real-life incident that inspired the 1973 film 'The Exorcist'. 1:50am Super Casino

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Crash Test Dummies 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Luton Airport 8:30am Luton Airport 9:00am Lion Man 9:30am John Bishop's Only Joking 10:00am Road Wars 11:00am World Wrestling 12:00pm WWE Experience 1:00pm John Bishop's Only Joking 1:30pm John Bishop's Only Joking 2:00pm Andre Rieu:Live in Maastricht VI 4:30pm Raising Hope 5:00pm Raising Hope 5:30pm Futurama 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm Got to Dance 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Glee 10:00pm Hawaii Five-0 11:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 1:00am Miami SWAT 2:00am

Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 3:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 4:00am Armed and Dangerous: Ultimate Forces 5:00am Crash Test Dummies

6:50pm Anonymous 9:00pm The Vow 10:45pm Coach Carter

SKY MOVIES COMEDY

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

5:10am Good Burger 7:00am Crazy, Stupid, Love 9:00am Ice Age 10:25am American Pie 2 12:15pm The Dictator 1:45pm The Terminal 3:55pm The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

7:00am Like Dandelion Dust 8:45am I.Q. 10:25am The Vow 12:15pm Coach Carter 2:35pm Moneyball

5:35pm Ice Age 7:00pm Crazy, Stupid, Love 9:00pm The Dictator 10:30pm American Pie 12:10am American Pie 2 1:55am The Dilemma 8:45am I.Q. 10:25am The Vow 12:15pm Coach Carter 2:35pm Moneyball 4:50pm Life as We Know it

1:05am Sisters and Brothers

4:50pm Life as We Know it 6:50pm Anonymous 9:00pm The Vow 10:45pm Coach Carter 1:05am Sisters and Brothers 2:35am The Conspirator

SKY MOVIES ACTION 5:05am Twister 7:00am Batman 8:50am Batman 11:00am Batman

Returns 1:10pm Batman Begins 3:30pm Batman and Robin 5:40pm Batman 7:50pm Batman Returns 10:00pm Batman Begins 12:25am Batman and Robin 2:35am Batman Forever 4:40am Batman

TCM 6:00am A Lion is in the Streets 7:45am The Longest Day 11:25am Cleopatra 4:00pm Sam Whiskey 5:50pm The Horse Soldiers 8:10pm Gunfighters of Casa Grande 10:00pm Hell on Wheels 11:00pm Hell on Wheels 12:00am City Heat 1:50am The Curse of the Jade Scorpion 3:35am City Heat 5:15am Off Set

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BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

Channel 5

7:00am Preview 7:10am Homes Under the Hammer 8:10am Saints and Scroungers 8:55am Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 9:25am Show Me the Monet 10:10am Great British Menu 10:40am Countryfile 11:35am Click 12:00pm BBC News 2:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm The One Show 2:30pm Six Nations Rugby Highlights All the action from the Six Nations tournament. 3:15pm Coast 3:20pm Mastermind Classic quiz show. 3:50pm Britain's Heritage Heroes 4:20pm Great British Food Revival

4:00am ITV Nightscreen 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 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 Dinner Date Dating show with a twist.

5:20am Deal or No Deal 6:15am Countdown 7:00am Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:00am According to Jim 8:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Secret Millionaire USA 12:00pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm What's Cooking? 2:45pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 3:45pm Countdown

1:50am Super Casino 7:00am Milkshake!

10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Being Liverpool 2:15pm Home and Away Brax trusts Kyle to help out as they concoct a plan to get to Adam by snatching Jamie. 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS

4:15pm Perfection General knowledge quiz show.

5:00pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Inside Out 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm Penguins - Spy in the Huddle 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News All the latest local news.

11:30pm Weather The latest weather information.

11:35pm Being Eileen

5:20pm Living Planet 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow Antique experts travel the country to appraise people's wares.

7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Flog it! Trade Secrets 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 University Challenge Cult student quiz show where two rival university teams battle it out to see who has the most superior intellects.9:30pm Food and Drink 10:00pm Dancing on the Edge Drama set in the early 1930s, following a black jazz band in London at a time of extraordinary change.

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 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Cornwall with Caroline Quentin 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Her Majesty's Prison: Aylesbury 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm The Agenda

4:30pm The Common Denominator 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 Dispatches 9:30pm Wild Things 10:00pm Embarrassing Bodies 11:00pm Black Mirror

4:10pm Ladies of the House Drama in which three strong-willed women rebuild a run-down house.

6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away Brax trusts Kyle to help out as they concoct a plan to get to Adam by snatching Jamie.

7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Beat the Ancestors 9:00pm Police Interceptors 10:00pm Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 11:00pm Horsemeat and Other Food Shockers

12:05am Have I Got Old News for You Awardwinning comedy quiz show in which celebrity contestants are grilled on the week's news.

12:35am The Graham Norton Show 1:20am The Apprentice USA 2:00am Weatherview 2:05am BBC News

12:30am Weather The latest weather information. 12:35am Wonders of Life 1:35am Film 2013 2:05am Who Do You Think You Are? 5:00am Made of Money 5:30am The World My Stuff and Me

2:35am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Operation Hospital Food 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:58am BBC News and Weather 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 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 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors Drama series set in a busy Midlands medical practice. 3:15pm Only Fools and Horses

4.00pm - midnight

BBC3 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Junior Doctors 10:00pm Year of Making Love 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 Animated comedy series about the life of an American family.

12:22am Family Guy Animated comedy series about the life of an American family.

12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family.

1:30am World's Craziest Fools Mr T takes a look at some of the craziest clips from around the world.

2:00am Year of Making Love 3:00am People Like Us 3:55am Junior Doctors

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook.

9:00pm Decisive Weapons Jumping Jet Flash.

9:30pm Britain on A Woman's Place 10:00pm Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War 11:00pm Storyville Series showcasing the best in international documentaries.

12:25am Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War 1:25am Britain on A Woman's Place 1:55am Art of America 2:55am John Steinbeck: Voice of America 4:00am Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

12:05am Monk 1:00am Jackpot247 4:00am UEFA Champions League Weekly 4:25am ITV Nightscreen

Satellite channels

SMD

7:20pm - The Decoy Bride

Kelly MacDonald, David Tennant & Alice Eve

12:05am My Social Network Stalker 1:15am Random Acts 1:20am The Shooting Gallery 2:15am Scandal 2:55am Get Your House in Order 3:50am The Renovation 4:45am How to Look Good Naked 5:40am Deal or No Deal

12:00am Striking Distance Fast-moving thriller about a cop hunting for his father's murderer.

1:55am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel.

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Crash Test Dummies 7:00am Got to Dance 7:30am Got to Dance 8:00am Glee 9:00am Glee 10:00am Dog the Bounty Hunter 10:30am Dog the Bounty Hunter 11:00am Modern Family 11:30am Modern Family 12:00pm The Middle 12:30pm The Middle 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Terra Nova 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm The Simpsons 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: War of the Damned

12:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:15am Glee 2:15am Road Wars 3:05am Road Wars 4:00am Terra Nova 5:00am Stargate SG-1

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:30am Prom 7:15am Swingers 8:55am Wild Hogs 10:40am Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 12:25pm Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2:10pm Bad Teacher 3:55pm Arthur 5:45pm Swinging with the Finkels 7:20pm Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 9:00pm Bad Teacher 10:40pm Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 12:15am Arthur 2:05am Fright Night 3:55am Cedar Rapids 5:25am House Arrest

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

Motor City 10:50am Priest 12:25pm Ironclad 2:30pm Haywire

5:15am I.Q. 7:00am The Candidate 9:00am Stay Cool 10:40am War Horse Sky Movies Special 11:10am The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1:20pm What's Your Number? 3:15pm Conviction

4:10pm White Men Can't Jump 6:10pm Rush Hour 8:00pm Hanna 10:00pm Haywire 11:40pm The Delta Force

5:10pm Jane Eyre 7:20pm The Decoy Bride 9:00pm The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 11:10pm What's Your Number?

1:00am Beginners 2:50am The Hours 4:50am X-Men: First Class Special 5:20am Cupid, Inc

SKY MOVIES ACTION 4:40am Batman 6:30am Lincoln: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Bunraku 9:10am Street Kings 2:

1:50am Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection

TCM 7:50am The Horse 10:10am Gunfighters Grande 12:00pm Sam 1:50pm Gunsmoke Gunsmoke

Soldiers of Casa Whiskey 2:55pm

4:00pm A Thunder of Drums 5:50pm Guns for San Sebastian 7:55pm The Furies 10:00pm The Lost Boys 11:50pm Broadcast News 2:15am The Lost Boys

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St Delia of The Stove finally hangs up her television apron N

EWS that after four decades, doyenne of the kitchen Delia Smith is turning her back on TV cookery shows – fed up with having to ‘entertain’ rather than teach people to cook – to launch her own cookery school online came as no surprise.

Telly’s now crammed with ‘edgy’ so-called chefs and shouty attention-seekers.

Accomplished classic cookery teacher that she undoubtedly is, I suspect the main reason for hanging up her TV pinny has less to do with her professed dislike of TV as ‘entertainment’ or even her age (after all, she’s six years younger than the ubiquitous Mary Berry) but because she’s been refused TV work by the BBC. On the one hand, she chose to stay off TV for years between series in order to concentrate on highly paid commercial work and deals with leading supermarkets.

like Nigella or Jamie (unless you have massive cleavage or a mockney accent, the BBC aren’t interested, apparently!). Rare is the programme aimed at serious cooks who want to see more complicated techniques, more esoteric ingredients but without today’s TV whizz-bang production values that worship style over content.

Breaking Views NORA JOHNSON A Costa del Sol resident for a number of years, Nora is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/ nora-johnson

And on the other, she badly damaged her brand and reputation for good, classic British cooking with her dreadful ‘cheats’ series where she championed tinned and packet food.

Here she badly misjudged her audience.

People who aren’t cooking food from scratch buy it pre-prepared (and why not?) they don’t ‘cheat’ at real cooking. People who cook

Delia Smith - the Fanny Craddock HANGING UP APRON: Delia Smith retiring from TV cookery scene. seriously don’t buy Aunt Bessie’s frozen mash or M&S tinned minced lamb. Moreover, you don’t need Delia to tell you how to cook that stuff. It says so on the packet. That series, too, included snippets of her personal life and religious philosophy, turning many people off.

Basically, TV cookery shows broadly fall into three categories.

Those that cater to people who are clueless about cooking. Delia is for this group. (She was quite right to begin with how to boil an egg!)

Celebrity chefs who do restaurant food; interesting but impractical for home cooks to copy. (Blast chillers and vacuum sealers, anyone?)

Finally, those with a gimmick,

of our times. How we'll miss your boiled eggs, prawn cocktail and Black Forest gateau… No horsemeat for you!

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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2:05am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Operation Hospital Food 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:58am BBC News and Weather 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 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 Only Fools and Horses 3:45pm Perfection

4.00pm - midnight 4:30pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show Magazine series featuring a mix of interviews, topical reports and features from around the UK. 8:30pm EastEnders Another visit to the residents of Albert Square, for a regular dose of drama, excitement and tears.

9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Death in Paradise Detective drama series.

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, Followed by the National Lottery Update 11:35pm My New Hand

12:35am Who Do You Think You Are? USA 1:15am Then She Found Me 2:50am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast.

2:55am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

BBC3 8:00pm Total Wipeout 9:00pm Year of Making Love 10:00pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 11:00pm Impractical Jokers 11:30pm EastEnders Another visit to the residents of Albert Square, for a regular dose of drama, excitement and tears.

12:00am Family Guy Animated comedy series about the life of an American family.

12:22am Family Guy Animated comedy series about the life of an American family.

12:45am American Dad! 1:07am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family.

1:30am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 2:30am Way to Go 3:00am World's Craziest Fools 3:30am Impractical Jokers 4:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents

ITV

Channel 4

Channel 5

6:00am History Hunt 6:55am Primary Maths Promo 7:00am Preview 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 8:05am Saints and Scroungers 8:50am Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 9:20am Show Me the Monet 10:05am Great British Menu 10:35am Natural World 11:35am HARDtalk Stephen Sackur talks to newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 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 Super League Show 3:15pm Coast 3:20pm Mastermind 3:50pm Britain's Heritage Heroes

4:25am ITV Nightscreen 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 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 Dinner Date Dating show with a twist.

5:40am Deal or No Deal 6:35am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard 7:00am Kirsty's Handmade Britain 7:10am The Hoobs 7:35am The Hoobs 8:05am According to Jim 8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier Frasier dates Cassandra, with whom he had a confusing time on Valentine's Day. 11:00am Secret Millionaire USA 12:00pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 1:00pm Channel 4 News Includes news headlines and weather. 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm What's Cooking? 2:45pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 3:45pm Countdown

1:55am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel.

7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am The Wright Stuff Lively magazine show in which Matthew Wright and guests discuss the topical issues of the day.

12:10pm Trisha Join in the chat with Trisha and her guests. 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News The latest news coverage. 1:15pm Dirty Great Machines Documentary series revealing the demon diggers burrowing below our cities.

2:15pm Home and Away Adam meets with Brax at Angelo's. 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS

4:20pm Great British Food Revival Cookery series where chefs and foodies champion British produce.

5:20pm Living Planet 6:15pm Antiques Roadshow Antique experts travel the country to appraise people's wares.

7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Flog it! Trade Secrets 8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm Alex Polizzi: The Fixer Alex Polizzi sets out to wage a one woman campaign to save Britain's family businesses.

10:00pm The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track 11:00pm Heading Out 11:30pm Newsnight

4:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm FA Cup 5th Round Replay 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm FA Cup

4:30pm The Common Denominator 5:00pm Deal or No Deal 6:00pm Four in a Bed The second B&B is Pitlessie House in Fife, Scotland, owned by German-born Kristin Grantham.

6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks As tension mounts, can Leanne resolve the chaos she's caused before it's too late?

8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Supersize v Superskinny 10:00pm Secrets of the Pickpockets 11:00pm Shameless

4:10pm Looney Tunes 4:20pm Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part Mystery spy thriller about a housewife who leads a double life as an undercover government agent.

6:00pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

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

8:00pm Monkey Life Series about Monkey World in Dorset, the world's largest ape rescue centre.

8:30pm Highland Emergency 9:00pm Benidorm ER 10:00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas.

11:00pm CSI: NY New York-based spin-off of the crime drama series.

11:55pm Dallas Epic soap saga following the lives and loves of the Lone Star State millionaires.

12:20am Murder on the Victorian Railway 1:20am The Brain Doctors 4:55am Tips for Young Composers 5:30am Children at Work Two hundred million children around the world go to work every day.

12:40am Piers Morgan's Life Stories 1:35am Jackpot247 4:00am Loose Women 4:45am ITV Nightscreen

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook.

9:00pm Horizon 10:00pm The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music 11:00pm Good Italy, Bad Italy: Girlfriend in a Coma 12:30am Rick Stein's Taste of Italian Opera 1:30am Bob Servant Independent 2:00am Art of America 3:00am America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine 4:00am The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music

Satellite channels

5:40pm The Adjustment Bureau

SMD

BBC1

12:05am Derek 12:35am Random Acts 12:40am One Born Every Minute 1:45am Pokerstars.co.uk and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final It's the final table of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final. 2:40am KOTV Boxing Weekly 3:05am Sailing 3:35am Freesports on 4 4:00am Inside Nature's Giants 4:55am Great Migrations 5:45am Wild Things

12:55am CSI: Miami US drama series focusing on the work of the Miami forensics department.

1:50am True Crimes: The First 72 Hours 2:15am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel.

Satellite channels SKY1 6:00am Stargate SG-1 7:00am Got to Dance 7:30am Got to Dance 8:00am Glee 9:00am Glee 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 Terra Nova 4:00pm Stargate SG-1 5:00pm Stargate SG-1 6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm Got to Dance 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm A League of Their Own 10:00pm Stella 11:00pm Frantic 1:20am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:20am Road Wars 3:10am Road Wars 4:05am Terra Nova

SKY MOVIES COMEDY 5:25am House Arrest 7:15am We're No Angels 9:05am The Muppets Sky Movies Special 9:35am Hall Pass 11:25am Love and Other Drugs 1:25pm Johnny English Reborn 3:15pm Cloud Atlas Exclusive 3:30pm Wanderlust 5:10pm The 40 Year Old Virgin 7:10pm Hall Pass 9:00pm Johnny English Reborn 10:45pm Wanderlust 12:25am The 40 Year Old Virgin 2:25am The Pool Boys 3:55am Planes, Trains and Automobiles 5:35am Dunston Checks In

Meroux 10:20am The Butcher's Wife 12:10pm Friends with Benefits 2:10pm The Art of Getting by 3:40pm Welcome to the Rileys 5:40pm The Adjustment Bureau 7:30pm The Art of Getting by 9:00pm The Help 11:30pm Friends with Benefits 1:30am It's Kind of a Funny Story 3:15am Legends of the Fall 5:35am Lucky Christmas

SKY MOVIES ACTION

SKY MOVIES DRAMA

5:45am Fantastic Voyage 7:30am Cloud Atlas Exclusive 7:50am Tomorrow, When the War Began A group of Aussie teens get home 9:40am K-19: The Widowmaker 12:00pm Immortals 2:00pm Daylight

5:20am Cupid, Inc 6:50am The Top Ten Show 2013 7:10am 4 Wedding Planners 8:40am The Chateau

4:00pm The Recruit 6:00pm Your Highness

8:00pm Immortals 10:00pm Bloodsport 11:40pm Cyborg 009 1:10am Death Warrant 2:45am Broken Arrow 4:40am Avenging Force

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It’s chilly here but soaring temperatures in the UK THE winter weather on the Costa coastlines has not been anything to write home about. My fleece has not been off my back. With night-time temperatures at just 10c, I became something of a recluse.

According to Spanish media, it has been the windiest winter for 20 years. Considering the wind - chill factor, we can presume it has hardly been the warmest.

I had a right to feel sorry for myself.

That was until I read the headline of a UK newspaper. ‘Temperatures set to soar to 10c’. I suppose it is a matter of expectations and perspectives.

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Rattling swords WITH increasing rancour between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, one hopes that Brits abroad will be the most conciliatory ambassadors imaginable.

Occasionally swords cross over Spanish naval incursions in disputed territorial seas off

WRAP UP: Spain has had the windiest winter for 20 years, but is incomparable to the UK. Gibraltar. It is easy for those whose umbilical cords are tied to mother countries to be passionately defensive.

On such issues, I think the less said the

better. There has not been much progress if over 300 years politicians cannot reach amicable compromise so we all share and benefit.

A rum bunch ONE very famous Spaniard who did like the British was Jorge Juan y Santalices (17131773).

His achievements in natural science, humanitarianism, exploration and naval expertise, are far too numerous to mention here.

He liked the British foe so much that he spied against them on behalf of the Spanish Crown.

The wily chap coveted Britain’s shipbuilding expertise.

Such was his chutzpah that he recruited British shipbuilders to design and build Spanish ships later used against the British Crown forces.

Because the French did not follow his example, they lost the Battle of Trafalgar, so it is said.

What a rum bunch we all are.

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2:55am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

7:00am Breakfast The latest news stories and events. 10:15am Operation Hospital Food 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 Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 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 Drama series set in a busy Midlands medical practice. 3:10pm Only Fools and Horses

4.00pm - midnight 4:00pm Perfection General knowledge quiz show.

4:45pm Escape to the Country Series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.

5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 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 Holiday Hit Squad 10:00pm Child of Our Time 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, Followed by the National Lottery Update 11:35pm A Question of Sport 12:05am Film 2013 12:40am The Mothman Prophecies An adaptation of the strange events that occured in Point Pleasant in the mid-1960s. 2:35am Weatherview Detailed weather forecast. 2:40am 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 People Like Us 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 12:00am Family Guy Animated comedy series about the life of an American family.

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12:45am American Dad! Animated adventures of a hapless CIA agent and his family.

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1:30am People Like Us 2:30am Junior Doctors 3:25am Way to Go 3:55am Year of Making Love

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6:00am Your Paintings 6:30am Your Paintings 7:00am Homes Under the Hammer Property experts visit three properties before they go up for auction. 8:00am Saints and Scroungers 8:45am Britain's Empty Homes Revisited 9:15am Show Me the Monet 10:00am Great British Menu 10:30am Food and Drink 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 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 Mastermind 3:45pm Britain's Heritage Heroes

4:45am ITV Nightscreen 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 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 Dinner Date Dating show with a twist.

4:15pm Great British Food Revival Cookery series where chefs and foodies champion British produce.

5:15pm Living Planet 6:10pm Antiques Roadshow Antique experts travel the country to appraise people's wares.

6:55pm Party Political Broadcast by the Liberal Democrats A Party Political Broadcast by the Liberal Democrats.

7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Flog it! Trade Secrets 8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm Hairy Bikers Everyday Gourmets 10:00pm Masterchef Professionals Uncovered 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 Chat show that celebrates the very best of British.

5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather Up to the minute regional news and weather updates.

7:25pm Party Political Broadcast by the Liberal Democrats A Party Political Broadcast by the Liberal Democrats.

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 9:00pm Food Glorious Food 10:00pm Lightfields 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm From Romania with Love

Channel 5 2:15am Super Casino Live interactive gaming featuring roulette, blackjack and autowheel.com.

7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Trisha 1:00pm Looney Tunes 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Dirty Great Machines 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS

5:45am Wild Things 6:10am Deal or No Deal 7:05am Sali Mali Jackdaw gets taught a lesson by Sali Mali for making everyone jump. 7:10am The Hoobs The biggest hoobynut loaf ever made contained 230 hoobynuts. 7:35am The Hoobs 8:05am According to Jim 8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond Debra's upper class parents come to visit. 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond Ray decides to ignore his dad's poker advice, to prove he doesn't need any help.

9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Secret Millionaire USA 12:00pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:35pm What's Cooking? 2:45pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 3:45pm Countdown

4:30pm The Common Denominator 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 How will the Osbornes cope with the consequences of the previous night?

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

8:55pm 4thought.tv 9:00pm Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 10:00pm One Born Every Minute 11:00pm Derek 11:35pm The Making of Derek

1:00pm Looney Tunes 4:15pm Tenth Circle 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge 9:00pm Myra Hindley 10:00pm NCIS 11:00pm Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 11:55pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas.

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Jessica Lange 12:20am The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track 1:20am See Hear Magazine programme for the deaf community. 1:50am The World's Most Dangerous Roads 5:00am Bringing Books to Life

BBC4 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Great British Railway Journeys Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook.

9:00pm Sissinghurst 9:30pm Nature's Microworlds 10:00pm Johnny Kingdom and the Bears of Alaska 11:00pm Bob Servant Independent 11:30pm Andy Stewart - The Man Behind the Kilt 12:00am Michael Wood on Beowulf 1:00am Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's 2:00am Art of America 3:00am Nature's Microworlds 3:30am Bob Servant Independent 4:00am Johnny Kingdom and the Bears of Alaska

12:35am Safari Vet School 1:00am Jackpot247 3:40am King Kong Derided at the time, largely because it was produced by the then king of schlock Dino De Laurentiis, John Guillermin's remake of the 1933 classic actually has a lot going for it.

12:05am 8 Out of 10 Cats 12:55am Random Acts 1:00am The Last Leg 1:45am The New Normal 2:10am The New Normal 2:35am Revenge 3:20am The Notebook 5:25am Deal or No Deal

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www.euroweeklynews.com FEBRUARY is, this year, a month that brings about uncertainty.

The joys of Christmas and New Year are long gone.

January – one of the longest months of the year – is finally over.

The dreaded Valentine’s Day has thankfully passed.

I took a two-day hiatus on all social media to avoid seeing any flowers, presents and romantic dinners being enjoyed by all the couples in the world, making it as painless as possible.

And now my birthday is a little over two weeks away, I have to start thinking about how I’m going to celebrate. Each year, my family throws a huge party in my honour and fly all of my friends to Marbella. We always rent out a different discotheque each year, exclusively for my party.

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will soon be upon us. However, it just reminds me about everything Ana Jefferson-Smith takes an irreverent look at life as a I don’t have. ‘rich child’ singleton expat in Spain My mother and father – who are never able to attend – are practically living separate lives in different parts of the MAN OR CATS: What will fill the empty hole? world.

My sister – eight years my younger – is virtually a stranger to me. And I have no-one special to share my birthday with.

My friends are my life, but they just don’t fill the hole that a man can. I know I said last week that I was loving single life, but growing older and spending endless nights alone are starting to take effect. As my mother constantly reminds me, I’m not getting any younger. presents, selecting the location, occasion. And Daddy never bats I’m a firm believer in fate. I just enjoying lavish dinners. an eyelid about treating my friends hope someone is around the Of course, money is no object, to everything they want. corner waiting for me, because at so my friends and I are treated I am so lucky to have been the end of the day, that’s all that with the utmost respect given the life I have, to have everybody is searching for. everywhere we go. We all need a everything I desire without a Hopefully I won’t end up an old whole new wardrobe so we are thought. So you would think with spinster, living alone with only my appropriately dressed for the all that, I’d be happy that March 10 pet cats for company.

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Little swimmer A TURTLE left disabled after a shark attack has been fitted with prosthetic flippers at a Japanese aquarium. The new limbs allow the turtle to swim without any problems.

Hula-hooping A NEW Guinness World Record has been broken in Thailand for a hula-hoop dancing record. Five thousand people participated in the seven-minute hula-hoop swinging challenge.

An earful!

AN American man has been charged with firstdegree assault after biting off and swallowing his cousin’s ear in a fight over loud music.

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Useful information All foreigners who wish to reside in Spain will be issued with a unique identity number or NIE. This number will be used on all official documents in the person’s name.

To obtain this, you will need to present the EX-15 form (www.interior.gob.es/file/ 58/58421/58421.pdf), full passport original and copy at the Foreigners’ Office. You must also take proof of having paid the fee, which is €9.18. Other documents may also be requested.

ENTERING SPAIN: Citizens from many non-EU countries need to obtain a visa if they wish to live in the country.

Non EU family wanting to live with you in Spain GETTING a Foreign Residents Card as a relative of an EU Citizen, when the applicant is from outside the EU, requires a different process to the one covered in the last issue.

Citizens from many countries will need to obtain a visa from the Spanish Consulate in their country of origin or place of residence in order to join their partner, spouse or relative here.

See here which countries require visas: http://www.maec.es/es/ MenuPpal/Consulares/Servicios Consulares/Informaciona Extranjeros/Visados/Documents /2011listadopaisessomentidos visado.pdf

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By Gabrielle Devon Within three months of their arrival in Spain, they must request a Foreign Residents Card as a Relative

of an EU Citizen. To do so, they need to visit the Foreigners’ Office in the capital city of the province where they plan to reside or their nearest National Police station with a Foreigners’ Department.

They will receive proof of having requested the card which will make them legal residents in Spain until the card is issued.

They need the EX-19 form, which can be downloaded here: www.interior.gob.es/ file/58/58403/58403.pdf plus originals and copies of a full valid passport, proof of their relationship with the EU citizen who they are joining in Spain, copy of the EU

GETTING TOWED: If you are caught drinkdriving or refuse to take a breath test, police can impound your car.

cause an accident. If you are with someone else who has a valid

driving licence, they can drive your car for you if tests show they

have not consumed alcohol. The cost of immobilising the vehicle, moving it or taking it to a pound, must be paid by the driver.

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citizen’s Foreigners Central Registration Form (green document), the EU citizen’s passport or ID card, three recent photos, proof of having paid the fee.

You can download the payment form from the following website: https:// sede.mpt.gob.es/tasasPDF/ prepareProvincia?idModelo= 790&idTasa=052# Please note that other documents may also be requested and different documents will be required depending on whether the non-EU citizen joining their EU

When police impound your car If you test positive for alcohol in a breath or blood test, the officers who stopped you can immobilise your vehicle or remove it to a vehicle impound if it is blocking the road.

Your vehicle may also be immobilised if you refuse the tests.

This is so you cannot

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relative in Spain is their spouse or partner, descendant or ascendant.

In the case of your non-EU spouse joining you in Spain, please visit the following site to find out more about the recognition of foreign marriage certificates in Spain. http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk /en/help-for-britishnationals/living-inspain/births-deathsmarriages/marriage/foreignmarriage

Useful words to know are: Copas – drinks Prueba de alcoholemia – Alcohol test Coche – car Aire – air Sangre – blood ¿Has bebido? – Have you been drinking?

Multa – fine Cárcel – prison Vino – wine Cerveza – beer Nivel – level

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ROMWELL is back. He took up residence in my head sometime around midnight last night.

Granted I had been drinking a varied mixture of spirit and grape and waxing lyrical about the British versus American education system at full volume in the completely arrogant assertion that I was not only witty and urbane, but utterly correct.

At some point during the afternoon/evening/early morning Cromwell was joined

by John Knox and they sat happily discussing my lack of self-control and vaguely libertine view on life.

Knox was a little harder to listen to as his accent was so thick and his constant riposte of ‘burn the papist heretical witch’ was beginning to get on my nerves. Cromwell, on the other hand, took the high road and talked about the suitability of educating women. The devil was not in my body but in the detail, the detail being that I was too clever for my own good and should get me to a nunnery henceforth. They argued a bit, hurled a few insults (Cromwell: “You child-snatching windbag!”

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Suzanne Manners With a degree in Fine Art and an MA in Writing Suzanne is currently teaching in Alicante and writing a book for teenagers. To comment on any of the issues raised in this column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/suzanne-manners.

OLIVER CROMWELL: Appeared in my head last night discussing my lack of self-control.

Knox: “Wart face lame brain,” which was disconcerting to say the least, but on the whole were in complete agreement about the entropic nature of my life.

The cause of which, they asserted, was my refusal to find a good puritan man to share it with. (Knox offered himself at one point which was flattering

but a little scary as he has been dead several hundred years and exists as a disembodied voice in my poor hungover brain.)

That women have been living their own lives - and happily making their way in the world for over a century now did little to change the dour duo’s mind.

I’m not sure if it was the alcohol

or the chocolate liqueurs that finally did for me, but at some point Cromwell walked away in disgust and Knox looked on with fiery eyes full of damnation (and something that looked a little like regret but I can’t be sure as his face was covered in beard).

It has always been the nature of those with a puritanical bent

to try to mould others into facsimiles of themselves, a bit like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Imagine if somewhere beneath the Houses of Parliament a vast gallery of puritan pods lays waiting, ready to suck out all the joy, music, art and chaos that is the human condition and replace it with silent prayer and a pinched look of disapproval.

Actually I’m not really much of a libertine, the Marquis de Sade would find me deathly dull; most evenings I’m more than content to curl up with a good book and a nice cup of tea. Unbridled passion is a little messy for me and if I’m honest I really can’t be bothered with all that grunting and groaning.

So while not a puritan, I do lead a simple, rather uncomplicated, life (except for being sole carer of a sullen teenager) and as such am probably more Cromwell than say Catherine de Medici.

And as for being too clever for my own good I think the last 10 years of my life have probably disproved that one.

So leave your pod at the door, Master Knox, and join me for a wee dram!

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Music can make children smarter CHILDREN who learn to play a musical instrument at a young age could be smarter in later life.

Research shows that there is a special window of learning in a child’s brain between the ages of six and eight, when musical training boosts the development of the motor skills regions of the brain.

Concordia University in Montreal (Canada) carried out a study on the brains of 36 musicians, all of whom had played for around the same number of years.

SMART MUSIC: Studies show children who learn a musical instrument could be smarter.

They were split into two groups, those who started playing music before the age of seven and those who started at a later stage in life and then they were monitored as they carried out non-musical

tests of their motor skills. The findings were then compared with test results from those who had received little or no formal musical training.

However, despite their conclusion that early musical training can enhance specific skills, the researchers said learning early had little impact on their development as musicians.

Cut the apron strings

UNIVERSITY students with overcontrolling parents are more likely to be depressed.

That’s the claim by the University of Mary Washington, Virginia, (USA) which conducted an online survey of 297 American students aged between 18-23.

Their study said that so-called ‘helicopter parenting’ affected students in a negative way making them feel less competent and increasing their levels of depression and their dissatisfaction with life.

Living at higher can help you slim IF you want to slim down, you may want to move inland to the Spanish mountains as it is believed that living at a higher altitude can help lose a few pounds.

Researchers found that Americans who lived well above sea level were less likely to be obese than those in low-lying areas.

The study assessed data

from 400,000 people living in Colorado (USA) with the figures showing that a person’s obesity risk dropped with every 660ft increase in elevation.

Other factors that could influence the results were also taken into account, such as retirement age.

The researchers found that adults living at the lowest altitudes had a

Sweet healing NEW research shows that pouring granulated sugar into wounds can help heal them faster.

The African folk medicine can be more effective at healing than general antibiotics and a natural way of clearing infection, claimed the report.

The study found that sugar poured directly onto leg ulcers, bed sores and amputation promoted skin healing.

The process allows the sugar to draw out the water from the wound onto the dressing thus preventing bacteria from growing.

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1. BARGE, 2. CLIPPER, 3. FERRY, 4. GALLEON, 5. GALLEY, 6. HYDROFOIL, 7. JUNK, 8. LINER or CRUISE SHIP, 9. OIL TANKER, 10. YACHT.

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PISCES (February 20 - March 20) So far as your work or business life is concerned, those in authority may seek to see things done their way. Where they seem to pay lip service to your needs, that is all it is…talk. Be clear that you want action and that you will not give in easily. Humour will not help.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Putting yourself first is necessary at the moment. There is so much happening this week that you may be tempted to run yourself ragged trying to do it all yourself. It is possible to persuade others to give a hand and, although it may seem too much trouble at the time, you will reap the benefits in the longer term.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) You should bear in mind that you are the best one to decide what you want, when you want it and how you will go about getting it. Others may offer you short cuts, but is that really going to deliver the goods? I think not.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) You know where you are going and who with, but there is this one unresolved thought in your mind. It is just a thought, isn't it? Or is it more?

This is something only you can answer. Be prepared this week to take advice and ask questions.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) You are still looking more to the past than to the future, but now it seems that circumstances are urging you to move ahead at more of a pace. Because the matter becomes urgent, it may seem to you that circumstances are overtaking you.

The choice is still yours if you show speed and determination.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) What you truly want in life is now becoming clear to you.

Not for you the fuzzy ideas of the past. Now, you realise that, if you do

ADHERE

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Detain, 2 Fences, 3 Enable, 4 Castle, 5 Cinder, 6 Barely, 7 Litter, 8 Header, 9 Paltry, 10 Leaped, 11 Chaste, 12 Riddle, 13 Specks, 14 Yelled, 15 Desire, 16 Reeked, 17 Killed, 18 Bruise, 19 Rusted

IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK: The months ahead now are all about playing games: mind games, physically challenging games, whatever takes your fancy. Indulge your intellect and your body to find balance.

February 21 - Alan Rickman (1946) English actor and former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company February 22 – George Washington (1732) America’s first president February 23 – Emily Blunt (1983) British actress best known for her role in The Devil Wears Prada and The Young Victoria February 24 – Bill Bailey (1964)

not give a strong lead, then others will lead you. To avoid going backwards now you must be determined and clear. Show others that you are firmly taking the lead in your future.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) With your self-confidence on a high note, you are ready to sing the song of your future. There will be highs and lows but that is what makes life interesting and exciting.

Do not now avoid changes for the sake of peace. What is exciting and balanced this week is where your future lies.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Where you see things failing to go your way, it may seem that others are being

Your Stars

This week in history 1594 – Henry IV was crowned King of France at a Catholic ceremony in the Cathedral of Chartres.

1925 – The first issue of The New Yorker newspaper was published.

1956 – Elvis Presley entered the music charts for the first time with his track ‘Heartbreak Hotel.’

1981 – Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Price Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.

1993 – Six people are killed and more than a thousand are injured after a car bomb exploded under the World Trade Center in New York.

1998 – Tornadoes in Florida killed 42 people and damage and destroyed 2,600 homes and businesses.

2009 – 750 people are arrested for drug trafficking in ‘Operation Xcellerator’ investigation in one of the biggest organised crimes in American history.

Popular British stand-up comedian February 25 – George Harrison (1943) Lead guitarist of the Beatles Jose Maria Aznar Born February 25, 1953, he was Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004.

He is the grandson of Manuel Aznar Zubigaray, a prominent journalist during the Franco era, and both his father and grandfather held governmental positions under Franco. He graduated in law from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1975. He became a Tax Inspector in 1976. As a teenager, he was a member of the Frente de Estudiantes Sindicalistas (FES), a Student Union supporting the Falange, Francoʼs one-party fascist organisation.

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unfair. It is unlikely to be that simple.

Perhaps, by being too easy-going and friendly, you have given the impression of not being particularly caring. State your case and change the tune.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Judgement may be impaired this week and it would be advisable to get second and even third opinions. In much the same way that you sometimes have an instinctive feel for things and situations, you now have this sensation about a certain person.

An unbiased and imaginative opinion scatters your stress.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) This week be prepared to be forthright when it comes to a certain difficult situation. This involves

February 26 –Johnny Cash (1932) Influential American singer and songwrite

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February 27 – Elizabeth Taylor (1932) American supermodel and actress

someone trying to get you to make a decision you are either not sure of or against.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Are you being pushed into a corner? There is no need to respond with aggression, but a smooth and fast move is required to avoid this. They say that forewarned is forearmed.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) You are looking to having everything your own way, which may not be entirely out of the question.

The only sticking point could be that you are not even willing to be sharp with someone who has been far from straight with you. Be prepared to trip over a loose end later if you do not tie it up now.

hero, hoer, hole, holt, holy, hone, horn, loth, then, they, ethyl, helot, henry, heron, holly, honey, horny, hotel, hotly, north, other, thole, thorn, throe, hornet, theory, thorny, throne, helotry, heronry, norther, NORTHERLY

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 Y) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

Word ladder FACT

MOOD

Move from the start word (FACT) to the end word (MOOD) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder.

You must only change one letter at a time.

FACT FAST MAST MOST MOOT MOOD

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

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Across 1 Commissioned work? (5) 4 Dossiers? No sir! Medical units (5) 7 Blackberries turn cars around (8) 8 Take care of seat (4) 9 Bring round rude apes by mistake (8) 11 Trail from the Carpathian Mountains (4) 12 Is put off by the bad end, which is silly (6) 14 Mass is the place where one gets help (6) 16 Unfermented wine is essential (4) 18 The Spanish notice changes of appointment (8) 20 Hanker after a coniferous tree (4) 21 Example of epic men's makeup (8) 23 The kitchen features are drops in the ocean (5) 24 Trials for important matches (5) Down 1 Learner damaged Ted's nut (7) 2 Ancient instruments discovered in famous family residence (5) 3 Sounds like a star issue (3)

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Across 1 Cuellos (5) 4 Pala (para cavar) (5) 7 Airports (11) 8 Preguntar (3) 9 To see (3) 14 Stepbrother (11) 15 Pueblos (5) 16 Wide (street, river, trousers) (5)

4 Pestered a poor frightened person in need of help (9) 5 Bands' trip to England in a ship (7) 6 It's shrewd to reverse street cars (5) 10 Postal information lectures (9)

QUICK Across 1 Begrudge (6) 4 Extremely (5) 8 Louisiana marsh (5) 9 Parcel of land (7) 10 Sports ground (7) 11 Drill a hole (4) 12 Young dog (3) 14 Gull-like seabird (4) 15 Reign (4) 18 Permit (3) 21 Above (4) 23 Substitute (7) 25 Debts (7) 26 Kitchen stove (5) 27 Filthy (5) 28 Crossbreed (6)

13 Design net trap (7) 15 Floors fresh oysters (7) 17 Battalions' learning blocks (5) 19 Dogs in a tailspin (5) 22 Enact odd swallow (3)

Down 1 Cerca (indicando proximidad) (4) 2 Sacacorcho (9) 3 Toad (4) 4 Estofado (4) 5 Auténtico (legítimo) (9) 6 Este (costa) (4) 10 ¿Qué? (interrogativo) (4) 11 Sierras (herramientas) (4) 12 Pope (4) 13 Well (for water) (4)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS Down 1 Full-bodied (6) 2 Small songbird (7) 3 Concerning navigation, sailors or the sea (8) 4 Classify (4) 5 Keyboard instrument (5) 6 Athlete (6) 7 Part of wicket (5) 13 Real estate (8) 16 Apprentice (7) 17 Central European country (6) 19 Faith (5) 20 Guard (6) 22 Mistake (5) 24 Simple (4)

CRYPTIC Across: 1 Hengist, 5 Pass, 8 Inlay, 9 Laconic, 11 Oars, 12 Nagasaki, 15 Fiend, 16 Acres, 1 9 Anglican, 21 Undo, 23 Account, 25 Dense, 26 Deed, 27 Bassist.

Down: 2 Enlarging, 3 Guys, 4 Sultan, 5 Pro, 6 Skink, 7 Pilot, 10 Chance, 13 Apennines, 14 In lieu, 17 Mantra, 18 Money, 20 Nacre, 22 Odds, 24 Old.

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QUICK - Across: 11 Slight, 4 Sadly, 8 Quits, 9 Overall, 10 Examine, 11 Halo, 12 Yes, 14 Hera, 15 Rest, 18 Let, 21 Away, 23 Release, 25 Tedious, 26 Noise, 27 Party, 28 Called.

Down: 1 Sequel, 2 Imitate, 3 Hospital, 4 Seek, 5 Drama, 6 Yellow, 7 Honey, 13 Sri Lanka, 16 Spaniel, 17 Laptop, 19 Trust, 20 Depend, 22 Adder, 24 Copy.

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ENGLISH - SPANISH Across: 1 Torre, 4 Ataud, 7 Ice, 8 Puppies, 9 Raindrops, 13 Earring, 15 Arm, 16 Entre, 17 Spear.

Down: 1 Twin, 2 Rueda, 3 Expensive, 4 Asparagus, 5 Ahi, 6 Desk, 10 Peace, 11 Jefe, 12 Amar, 14 Rat.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 10 represents H and 4 represents Z, so fill in H every time the figure 10 appears and Z every time the figure 4 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.

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Kat Shakespeare is one heart-pounding step from bankruptcy when she lands a lucrative contract to troubleshoot a South London multi-million-pound council housing estate makeover.

After a human skeleton is

discovered in the ruins of a tower block she demolishes, Kat turns detective, determined to both solve the mystery and bring in the project on time, but soon finds that a little amateur sleuthing can seriously

damage your health. A laugh-out-loud book with bang-on descriptions and dialogue.

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4 Biffy Clyro – Opposites

Biffy Clyro are a Scottish rock band that formed in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. Opposites is the band’s sixth album and experiments with a diverse range of musical style and instruments. Their music influences include Nirvana and Metallica

5 Les Miserables – Motion Picture Cast Recording Les Misérables is a sung-through play based on the novel of the same name by French poet and playwright Victor Hugo.

This album is a collection of music from the recent motion picture.

6 Emeli

Events Emeli Sande is a British singer songwriter from Aberdeen. This is her debut album, a collection of beautiful soulful songs and ballads.

Her musical influences include

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Rumours is the eleventh album from the band and was originally released in 1997 and became the fastest selling LP in history. Their influences include The Beach Boys and Al Green.

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Fish 'n' Ships What do you call spiders who have just got married?

Newly-Webs!

What do invisible people drink?

Evaporated Milk!

Why do they compare men with roses?

You have to watch out for the thorns!

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As former soccer star and alcoholic Paul Gascoigne undergoes rehab in the US, England footballers and the FA have paid €48,000 towards treatment, also

being financed by Piers Morgan and friends. Could this money perhaps be better spent?

EWN newsdesk reports.

Gascoigne’s alcohol rehab cash wasted or well spent?

OSE LUIS GONZALEZ, a 56-year-old salesman from Madrid visiting family in Altea thinks it’s a waste of money to pay for more rehab, but also considers footballers can afford it. “Since footballers are so ridiculously overpaid they’re not likely to miss the money, are they?” he said.

Spanish resident Sito Fabrega Navarro, who is the president of Albox Football Club, said: “Footballers can spend their money where they like. If they want to drink themselves to death it’s their choice.”

Recently retired Oria resident Wilhelmina Rice said: “George Best was given a new liver and it didn’t stop him. These footballers should be like Alan Sugar and give their money to Great Ormond St Children’s Hospital.”

Roger Davies, a retired mechanic from Benalmadena was surprised to hear the news.

“Where is his family when he needs help? Maybe they have given up on him after all these years of abusing himself.”

Meanwhile Tony Quintero from La Marina felt that Paul Gascoigne has made enough money over the years to pay for his own rehab. “It would be nice to

know a few famous people who would be willing to pay for their mistakes.” He added: “I do hope he gets sorted out, but I think the money could have been better spent going to charity.”

Alicia Pico, a student at Alicante University, had never heard of Paul Gascoigne. Once the Euro Weekly News briefed her on the troubled footballer’s career and his failed attempts at rehabilitation, Alicia felt compassion towards him. “Everyone deserves a second chance,” she said.

But Terry Matthews a resident of La Marina feels Gascoigne should pay for his own rehabilitation. “He should take responsibility and sort himself out, it is not down to anyone else.”

Fuengirola resident Simon Canales believes there is no hope left for Gascoigne. “After hearing that he was drinking two litres of gin every day and his massive drug binges, I don’t think he can ever recover mentally or physically.”

PAUL GASCOIGNE: Undergoing rehab.

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Sweet trends CAKE was once considered a luxury treat but now it is much more affordable and common. During the 1960s, cheap and simple cakes were part of afternoon tea.

Mould-free future for food RESEARCHERS have developed a technology that stops bread from going mouldy without the use of preservatives.

The new MicroZap technology, produced at Texas Tech University in the US, has been made with the aim to reduce outbreaks of food-borne illnesses by sterilising and extending the shelf-life of different food.

And the university claims it does not affect the bread’s taste.

Along with bread, food including turkey, herbs and jalapeño peppers was also tested.

The bread treated with the MicroZap technology showed no mould growth up to 60 days after being tested, providing the evidence that the bread was suitably sterilised by the method.

The technology uses microwave frequency pulses to pasteurise the food but the process does not cook or damage food as regular microwaves do.

The technology is claimed by

MOULD-FREE: The MicroZap technology is a breakthrough. the makers to be more effective at killing the E Coli virus and salmonella than older

methods. The company is also promoting it as a way to eliminate the drug-resistant

MRSA virus, which has become a major problem in hospitals worldwide.

GENEROUS: Members of the choir and Caritas charity.

Church choir hits the right notes for charity A DONATION from the Montgo Chorale choir of €2,450 was given to Caritas, the Loreto church charity in Javea Port. The money was raised at a concert held at the church.

A framed plaque from the Caritas committee was given to the choir as a thank-you gift for their support. The money will help towards feeding more than 80 families in the Javea Port area who

have been affected by the financial crisis.

Their next fundraising event is a piano recital on April 13 at Orba Casa de Cultura, followed by a concert on May 5 at Pedreguer Church.

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Prehistoric cheese EVIDENCE reveals that cheese was first made 8,000 years ago by prehistoric people in Northern Europe.

It is thought the types of cheese produced were similar to ricotta or fromage frais using a similar process to how we make it today. The research, carried out by the University of Bristol discovered fatty acids were present in pottery vessels thought to carry dairy DATED DAIRY: Cheese-making process has been around for thousands of years. products.

Milk residues found on sieves thought to have been used as The results offer an insight into the cheese-strainers are the earliest ancient human diet and food evidence of the cheese-making process. development.

Charity auction JALON VALLEY HELP are holding a fundraising auction at El Cid Restaurant, Benidoleig, tomorrow (Friday) at 1pm.

They are appealing for any unwanted goods to sell and raise money for the charity including books, kitchenware, furniture, musical instruments, toys, electrical goods and general bric-a-brac. The charity is run by volunteers

SUPPORT: The volunteers can provide emergency assistance. who provide emergency assistance to people in need around the local community. All items can be left at HELP shops in

Jalon or Alcalali.

For more information contact 659 624 643. www.jalonvalleyhelp.com

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Taxing times as authorities seek to know about every last cent…

RE you sitting comfortably? Taken the daily Valium? Good, then I will begin.

Life for us expats in Spain, it seems, is about to become a whole lot more complicated and perilous within the next couple of months.

If you’ve been reading the financial comments here in the Euro Weekly News or recent emails from your diligent tax advisor you know what I am talking about.

In case you have been on the moon or in denial, let me sum it up in a simple, nonfinancial advisor sort of way: before the end of April you have to tot up all your savings, flats, houses or shares you happen to own outside of Spain and jot them all down online on the relevant parts of the Tax Agency Form 720. Because this government wants a cut.

Sounds easy enough? Think again… because if you missed something - maybe the inheritance from dear Aunty Ethel - you will have to pay 150 per cent of what you failed to declare as a fine. And yes, that means you will have to give away the whole inheritance plus half again from some other pocket to clear the ‘multa’, a

Expat Strife Swedish-born Ulrica is a freelance journalist living in Mallorca with her family. Her debut novel $Expat Wives is available on Amazon and iBooks.

To comment on any of the issues raised in Ulrica’s column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/ ulrica-marshall

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Spanish word we risk becoming all too familiar with.

Oh and remember when you followed the UK government advice and invested in tax-free Personal Equity Plans or Individual Savings Accounts back in Blighty? You have to declare those, too, because here in Spain they are taxed. And although it is not strictly related, never give any money to your spouse, because that too could be taxed at 7 per cent. In fact, there are very few parts of life that are not taxing.

Of course, taxes are a necessary evil and we do live in this country so it is only fair that we pull our weight. It’s just that these latest measures seem a tad Draconian.

The new law is not intended to target expats specifically, rather the wealthy

WISE WORDS: Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes.

Spaniards who have tucked away nest eggs in distant tax havens. But since many expats still have a property or a savings account outside Spain, we are the ones who have to be particularly careful, especially since we’re unlikely to enlist the top tax gurus to guide us. Mistakes can be more than costly, they can be ruinous, so it may be worth seeking advice after all.

Unemployment may well run at 26 per cent but at the tax advisors’ they’re working around the clock, it’s a real bonanza year for this lot.

In fact, with the swings and roundabouts in this sector, every year is a good year.

Benjamin Franklin was spot on when he said that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes.

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Guardamar Port baits its hooks GUARDAMAR PORT is hosting a fishing tournament on Saturday February 23.

Registrations can be made prior to the

event at the yacht club restaurant with entry costing €20. Rules of the competition will then be issued with the event starting at 7am after breakfast at the port.

The annual anchored fishing event attracts a THE Ex Servicemen’s Association of Mazarron wide fan base and among District (ESAMD) is meeting on Sunday March members of the yacht 10 at the Trevi Restaurant for a Mother’s Day club are anglers who lunch at 1.30pm for a 2pm start. have competed in The function is open to all members of provincial and national ESAMD and invited guests. championships in the Please contact the Social Secretary on 968 sport.

437 074 or 618 591 298 for more information.

The first prize is a gift voucher worth €300.

Mother’s Day lunch

Torrevieja Easter fayre TORREVIEJA Christian Fellowship (TCF) is holding its annual Easter Fayre between 2pm and 4pm on Saturday March 16 at Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68,

Torrevieja (opposite Maxi Dia).

Please bring your friends to purchase handcrafted Easter gifts and cards, jewellery, scarves and toiletries, as

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well as household items and bric-a-brac.

Homemade scones, jams and cakes and refreshments will also be available.

Free entrance.

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T is 32 years on Saturday - when democracy was just two years old in the new Spanish constitution since a civil guard coup attempt failed in Madrid.

On February 23, 1981, Spanish television viewers were treated to a few minutes of high drama.

As 220 heavily armed civil guards took control of the Cortes (parliament) in Madrid their leader, Lt-Colonel Antonio Tejero made his way to the central parliamentary chamber and, waving his pistol in the air, informed the deputies that their “ineffectual” services to the country were no longer required.

He and a number of civil guard officers and King Juan Carlos with military generals would restoring the rule of law now be taking control of and the democratic A new monthly Iberian history column. the country to save it process to a briefly Bruce - a former UK career linguist has studied national history and culture from terrorism, most shaken nation through for years. A Spanish resident for two notably Basque stout leadership, with his decades, he lives in Alfaz del Pi, near Benidorm. separatism. televised address to a It appeared that transfixed population a

by Bruce Walbran Spain’s fledgling twofine example of the year democracy had power of rhetoric. ended in gunfire; an ominous echo He stated unequivocally that the from the Civil War 40 years earlier. monarchy, being the symbol of And when General Milans de Bosch Spanish unity, would not tolerate any ordered tanks onto the streets it threat to the democratic seemed that the coup was complete. process that was part of the But then it all started to fall constitution, voted for by the Spanish apart. people.

History has, more or less, credited But the conspirators themselves

Victorious day for democracy

Historically Speaking!

actually ensured the coup would fail through rushing and not securing support from enough officers and units beforehand. They gambled that their actions would galvanise a nationwide revolt.

But most of the army sided with the King.

Civil Guard units were stood down; the people demanded an end to the madness, and in all the coup bid lasted just eight hours.

And what of Tejero? He is the most remembered of the conspirators, mainly because unlike many conspirators who distanced themselves from the plot, he remained true to the objective,

SAVIOUR: Current King of Spain Juan Carlos has been credited with restoring the rule of law and democracy when a civil guard coup attempt failed in Madrid 32 years ago.

believing Spain needed a strong patriarchal hand, in the form of a military junta.

He finally stood down the following day and spent the next 15 years behind bars.

Now approaching 80 and living a sedate lifestyle, he enjoys painting and strolling.

One wonders if, between brush strokes or during tranquil strolls, he contemplates his actions of 32 years ago when he stormed into the parliamentary chamber to ‘save Spain from terrorism’.

It appears so far, through a more peaceful parliamentary process, that Spain is saving itself.

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No guarantee in the book world but there is money to be made!

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CYNIC asks a newspaper columnist if aspiring authors actually make money from selling their books.

They do, and the chances of recouping their outlay are far higher than returns offered by many other investments.

There are no guarantees that a book, film or television series will be successful.

Like new fashions or newspapers, they are acts of faith. Wilbur Smith and Jeffrey Archer cross their fingers when their latest title rolls off the printing press.

Amazon-Kindle and e-books have provided a level playing field. New authors, who in the past would have received wads of rejection slips, now collect wads of banknotes whilst well-known authors fail.

Most people spend on indulgences like photography, painting, learning a language, horse riding; taking on a pet for life. Do cynics ask, “Do you actually make money from that?”

Of course not, but writing a book costs considerably less. It is a feat, most authors recover their outlay and many do well out of their book’s success. When introduced as an author there is always the ‘Wow Factor’ response. Tell them instead you

READ IT AND WEEP?: E-readers have boosted interest in books.

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vwww.michaelwalsh.es Mike Walsh. Based in Mijas Costa, international journalist, author and professional writer: exbusiness assessment executive Guild of Master Craftsmen. European correspondent Boston Revolutionary Radio.

just spent time and money on a skiing holiday and watch eyes glaze over.

Most authors are philosophical. If their only reason for writing was to make money, you can guarantee two things.

They would never get round to it and if they did it would fail. Good books are written with passion. If it were otherwise, it would be as fruitless as attempting to sell a product you do not understand or have a belief in.

Writing a book, painting a picture or creating a sculpture are triumphs that bring out the best in us. Such achievements are therapeutic and nothing

quite matches the feeling you get when you see your accomplishment in its completed form.

When you spend money on a sport or holiday, all you have to show for it are photographs and memories. An expensive piece of jewellery is someone else’s gift, not yours. These are personal indulgences.

The author, sculptor or artist shares their achievements with others. Their works are enduring.

Today we get pleasure from books, movies and we enjoy listening to beautiful music; we marvel at works of art that were created by paupers who, at the time,

laboured under passionate self-belief.

Yesterday’s libraries and art galleries are stuffed with biographies and pictures of famous, but boring people. Because of advances in publishing, posterity can now look forward to sharing the lives of today’s not so famous, but who lived lives that are far more interesting.

Imagine if today we could read first hand accounts of servants who lived ‘under the stairs’ of stately homes, travellers who journeyed steerage, soldiers who served in the Peninsular Wars. This is the legacy that today’s authors leave to the world. What will you leave to posterity?

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Divorce is stressful for family dogs too DIVORCE is a sad fact of life. These human problems can cause stress to dogs. A dog is a social animal bonded to a family routine and way of life that relies on us for their mental, physical and emotional welfare.

Dogs of course are frequently denied consideration when it comes to difficulties in relationships. When couples shout and argue with each other this will indeed affect the dog (and also the cat). Nervous behaviour is often caused by the owner’s actions.

Whenever I am called to a home where owners have a howling, barking, destructive, digging, housesoiling dog, or one showing symptoms of an anxiety-related behaviour, I always ask if there has been a death, separation or indeed a divorce which could have triggered the problems. This behaviour is a typical expression of canine anxiety.

Another extreme behaviour pattern is dogs going to the bottom of the garden and staying close to walls, which is often seen when a dog’s instinct tells it that it is dying. In the

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SEPARATION: Divorce can be hard on pets as well.

wild, dogs leave their packs and go away to die. I always ask the owner of the house if there are any known medical problems. If none are known and a separation has taken place, then these behaviour patterns must be considered as an expression of extreme canine anxiety.

Dogs are creatures of habit and function to our timetable - wake-up time, meal-time, bedtime, playtime,

etc. Some dogs find it harder to accept a change of routine than others and it is especially hard for the older dog, who may go downhill rapidly when faced with the upheaval that accompanies divorce.

Next week I shall return to this subject and look at therapy to help pets get through these difficult times.

For your local radio frequency see www.talkradioeurope.com

KIND GIFT: The walkers presenting the special gift.

Walkers celebrations THE Costa Blanca Mountain Walkers celebrated their Silver Jubilee at the Bon Aire Restaurant, Benigembla with over 50 walkers attending the event.

The walking group gets together twice a week to

enjoy local mountain walks. During the afternoon, Carol from CBMW presented the owners of the restaurant with a specially commissioned framed cartoon drawing to thank them for their support over the years.

Jazzy afternoon CASA Ventura Jazz Club present a Swingtet Plus afternoon tomorrow (Friday) 2pm to 4pm at the Urbanisation San Luis, Torrevieja. With live music entertainment, a special lunch menu and a raffle for Help Vega Baja charity. €5. 868 182 406. Gullee70@hotmail.com.

MABS Cancer Support events MABS is a cancer support group based in Murcia.

They offer help and

support for those affected by cancer in the local area.

MABS are holding a Jigsaw Bereavement Group tomorrow (Friday) at the Cats Bar Sector A Camposol at 12 noon.

Contact 620 582 418. A Volunteers meeting will be held on Tuesday at Trevi Bar, Camposol Sector B at 11.30am.

For more information contact 634 362 954. www.mabsmurcia.com.

SUPPORT: (From left:) Shirley Adams, Chris Wyatt, Torsten Loesch and Robin Hargrave.

Poppy appeal donation LLOYDS BANK INTERNATIONAL presented a cheque for €141, a sum raised in local Lloyds branches in the area, to The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

Lloyds has shown continuing support for the charity and raise funds all year round, said Robin Hargrave, the Poppy Appeal co-

ordinator. He thanked the company for its generosity.

For more information on the Royal British Legion and if you and your business are interested in supporting this charity visit www.britishlegion.org.uk/spain-north.

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Grow your own plants and save money with an interesting hobby

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HE self growing or propagation of plants is an economic way of producing new plants and can be an interesting and fascinating hobby.

Luckily the warmer Spanish climate makes some propagation easier than in Northern Europe and in many areas without the need of a greenhouse.

Much of our garden was planted from our own plants raised from cuttings or seeds from our own or a friend’s garden.

The cost of

By Clodagh and Dick buying Handscombe Spain’s best known gardening each authors who have lived and plant gardened in Spain for 25 years. from a www.gardenspain.com. garden centre would have been astronomic and we have some plants that are often not readily available on sale.

This month we therefore review a number of practical ways of propagating and EXPENSIVE: Garden centres can be a pricey option. indicate what can be produced with relative perennials including therefore carefully remove ease by each method. herbs, vegetables, bulbs the plant from its pot and prise the roots apart to Splitting of mature and flowering plants. root balls: The easiest Often pots of the produce up to a dozen or propagating method is latter are already root more good plantlets from a to split large root bound when purchased single purchased plant.

Normally the several new clumps in the autumn or from a garden centre spring. This can be done and of a size too large plants will be immediately with a wide range of for edging borders. We planted out in the garden although small plantlets can be grown on in pots before planting out.

Root cuttings: New plants of herbs and rhizomes can be produced by cutting off and planting up a short length of a healthy strong root without the need for any top growth.

Leaf cuttings: Pot plants can be easily raised this way.

Remove any healthy young leaf and pin the leaf down on the surface of the soil in a

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CUTTING: Propagating plants can save a fortune. plant pot or sink one edge of the leaf into the soil.

Stem cuttings: This is probably the most popular method used by both amateur gardeners and commercial growers for the reproduction of shrubs.

The cuttings can be rooted by planting up in pots or directly into a flower bed or special nursery corner of the garden.

Rooting can be stimulated by dipping the cut ends of cuttings in rooting powder before inserting them into the potting compost.

For roses a useful Spanish trick is to cut a two centimetre slit in the end of each cutting and insert a dried sweet corn seed in the slit before planting the cutting.

Removing runners or baby plants: Some plants develop runners with small rooted plants on the ends.

Next week we will give more tips on propagating plants.

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Darts League welcomes new teams for next season

HE Euronics Thursday Night Darts League is already welcoming bars and clubs to sign up for its 2013/2014 season.

Currently, 14 bars with around 200 registered players are part of the league that operates around the Orihuela Costa and San Miguel area.

The league works on a home and away basis, playing throughout the quieter winter months.

Teams are made up of six players working on a points basis playing 12 legs; one leg six aside, two legs of triples, three legs of pairs and six singles. Two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw. A singles and pairs competition is run alongside the team event.

As the league is full of keen players, all at different levels, halfway through the season the

teams in the bottom half of the standings compete to win the Hatton’s League Plate, awarded at the end of season finals and presentation night. “It means everyone has something to play for,” explains Paul Durrant, who has been chairman of the league for the last four years.

Paul worked in the sports trade, manufacturing darts for wholesale and export to 45 countries around the world so darts is somewhat of a profession as well as a passion.

He played at a high level in the UK and was part of the professional scene when a group of pro players split from the British Darts Organisation to form the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) in 1992. He still goes to the annual PDC awards dinner at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

BULLSEYE: Keen darts player Debbie is pleased to offer Paul sponsorship of the Darts League. the Euronics Electrical Shop in Blue Lagoon, which is owned

by Debbie Mackleston, a player for the Mirador Mixtures.

“Debbie’s team is still looking for their first win and are currently at the bottom of the league but their effort goes on,” jokes Paul.

To know more about the professional darts scene and the local league, you can hear Paul’s review and forecasts every Saturday afternoon from 3pm on Exite radio.

As chairman, Paul says the league “all revolves around participation and it makes the

league interesting and fun.”

Sunworld sponsors the knock-out cup programme with the main league sponsored by

For more information on the league call Derek Kingsbury on 965 072 971 or email Paul at durro2000@aol.com

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EACHING the end of another financial year, MABS Cancer Support Group have many people to thank and do so gladly and unconditionally.

Since 2000, the people of the Costa Blanca, have donated â‚Ź850,000 to the group.

So thank you to the individuals, the businesses and the charitable groups that have made this amount of care possible. There are a lot of people who were sick, or, who are seriously sick at the moment, that are very grateful to you all.

MABS Groups in other areas, for example, Murcia and the Costa del Sol raise their own funds which are also only spent locally. MABS Costa Blanca’s financial situation is independently audited annually in accordance with Spanish law and any monies not spent in a current financial year stay here in Spain to be used the next year.

Secondly, they would like to

HELPING: MABS Cancer Support Group help everyone in the community. thank all volunteers and helpers, those who give one day a month, one day a week or, in some cases, most of their spare time. Without you wonderful people, MABS would

not exist. You are the core of MABS, you are indispensible, you are invaluable.

Finally a huge thank you to the local mayors, the police chiefs, the British Consulate,

friends in the Press and the many other people that make our task a little bit easier.

MABS Costa Blanca appreciate everything you do and value the relationship between

yourselves and the Group.

They feel part of the community, helping all peoples on the Costa Blanca irrespective of race, nationality, gender or religion.

January was a big month for the group, formally opening their new treatment centre in the Ana Maria Espinos Residential Home building in Teulada (you may recognise it as the iMed Clinic).

The last Tuesday of every month at 11am is coffee morning and everyone is welcome to join. You may want to help MABS, you may be worried about cancer, you may have a friend or relative touched by cancer, or, you may just want to have a look round, go for a coffee and a chat, they would love to see you.

Details and contact telephone numbers can be found at www.mabscancersupport.org.

MABS Cancer Support Group is registered charity number 7261.

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Ibn Firnas AS Western countries teach their children about the Wright Brothers, Islamic countries tell about Ibn Firnas, a man who ‘first flew’ 1,000 years before the Wrights.

In 822AD this Andalucian Muslim ‘covered his body in vulture feathers and a loose cloak’ and jumped off a tower in Cordoba. According to Moroccan historian Ahmed al Maqquari, Ibn Firnas ‘flew faster than a phoenix’.

Whether he was attempting to fly or merely parachute is open to debate.

Fifty years later at over 65 years of age, Ibn Firnas made another attempt. This time he fashioned wing-like wooden struts stretched over a cloth sheath before jumping off a Cordoba hillside in front of wildly cheering spectators.

He flew a ‘considerable distance’ but his landing was bad. He said later that he failed to consider fashioning a tail similar to a bird’s.

Juan de la Cieva

Born in Murcia, this Spanish aeronautical engineer invented the autogiro, an aircraft which served as the forerunner to the

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Magnificent men in their flying machines SPAIN’S aviation legacy, like many things Spanish, is colourful.

Jack Gaioni Consider This US citizen Jack is spending the first years of his retirement in Almeria. His articles have been published in Spain and the US.

Spain’s aviation history achievement, irony, and intrigue intersect in a way that gives a unique twist. I would expect nothing less.

modern-day helicopter. He was convinced a rotor gave the pilot better control while reducing the possibility of stalling and loss of torque. In 1928, Cieva flew his

AUTOGIRO: The forerunner to the modern-day helicopter.

autogiro from London to Paris, becoming the first rotating wing aircraft to cross the English Channel. Many of his blueprint designs and technologies are

today both licensed and patented.

In an ironic twist of fate, Cieva died aged 41 in a propeller-driven air crash in Croydon, England.

The cause of the crash was due (in part) to loss of torque and stalling of the propellers, those very dynamics he spent his life trying to mitigate!

Ramon Franco Ramon Franco was much more than the younger brother of dictator Francisco Franco. He was a Galician pioneer of aviation who in 1926 piloted the Ultra Plus flying boat on a trans-Atlantic flight. His co-pilot was Julio de Alda Miqueleiz.

They left Huelva, Spain, stopping in Gran Canarias, Cape Verde, Rio and landing in Buenos Aires. The 10,270km journey took close to 60 hours. Although their flight preceded Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight by a full year, it was not solo or non-stop, hence, it did not get the worldwide acclaim.

Mysteriously, he suddenly abandoned his leftist political ideology and joined forces with his nationalistic brother Francisco.

For this reason he was mistrusted by certain military commanders.

In October, 1938, his seaplane crashed near Mallorca. His death and the suspicious nature of the crash has led to theories of sabotage and assassination.

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SNAP UP A BARGAIN: Now may be a good time to buy.

A good time to buy?

THERE has been a surge of interest in Spain’s property market over the past year with the cost of Spanish property continuing to fall.

Buyers from abroad are using Spain’s current financial situation as an opportunity to acquire bargain properties. Many experts feel that investors should take advantage of the current market situation. Due to the euro dropping, Spain’s banks

are offering high load to value mortgages with some banks offering 75 to 100 per cent loans to Britons looking to buy here.

Spain’s economic problems have left properties struggling to sell across the whole of the country.

Despite the slump in value since the financial crisis hit, last year overseas mortgage specialist Conti saw a 33 per cent increase in

Spanish mortgage enquiries compared to previous years.

But there is much debate over whether now is the right time to step onto the property ladder due to the current unstable situation of Spain’s economy and its unpredictable future.

In 2012, foreigners invested over €4.5 million into the Spanish property market.

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Honest and trustworthy service for 14 years on Orihuela Costa

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STABLISHED in Spain since 1999, Ford Property Group has built a strong reputation on the Orihuela Costa for low cost, honesty and trust.

Owner Rob Ford said, “We are very principled, we believe in honesty and integrity and want our clients to place trust in us, whether they are buying or selling. We have a transparent service based on a low cost ethic.” It is these principles which has seen them operate successfully for 14 years. “Our customers are our best advert and we pride ourselves on being able to say any one of our customers would recommend us and many have sold and bought with us time after time.”

There are currently over 200 properties on their books, with Ford Property Group specialising in the sale of

residential, holiday, investment, coastal and golf properties in the areas of La Florida, Los Altos, Dream Hills, Los Balcones, Punta Prima, Playa Flamenca, Villamartin, Campoamor and south Torrevieja. They also work closely with other agencies from the UK, Russia, Czech Republic and Norway, meaning that your property is extensively marketed if you are trying to sell.

Professional companies, such as solicitors and currency experts, are at the disposal of Ford Property Group so you are assured of a reliable and quality service at every part of the house buying and selling process. “Everyone we deal with has a long time served reputation and we expect our customers to be treated in the best possible way.”

FORD: For all your property needs.

The whole Ford team live full time in the community and are able to provide advice on schools, health care and general day to day living and working in Spain. Rob adds,

“The company remains available after transfer of ownership for advice, support and guidance about life and living here in Spain. We believe in the Orihuela Costa, it’s a

great place to live and we at Ford Property Group want our customers to reap the benefits of being involved in a great community.”

Rob is also pleased to announce that they will soon be able to offer a ‘direct to owner’ rental service.

Property is still moving as Rob believes, “the right price property in the right location will always sell” so for a friendly yet highly professional and trustworthy service call Ford Property Group to see how they can help you buy or sell your home in Spain.

The office, situated in the Punta Marina Commercial Centre is easily accessible from the N-332 at Punta Prima and is open Monday to Friday from 10am-2pm and from 3-5pm.

Call 965 329 498 or visit www.fpgspain.net.

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The Real Estate Agency for results

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HE REAL ESTATE AGENCY is the Spanish division of Fastighetsbyrån; Sweden’s leading real estate agency.

Established in Sweden in 1966, the company now has 240 offices and launched in Spain in 2008 with a network of eight offices. One of the newest branches is in the Torremarina Commercial Centre in Torrevieja which is owned by Veronica and Roland Wallman.

After purchasing their own Spanish holiday home through The Real Estate Agency, they were invited to take on a franchise and expand into the Torrevieja and Orihuela Costa area and the office opened in May 2010.

Since then, Veronica and her team of friendly and efficient staff have been ignoring the recession and the apparent decline in the property market and have been selling house after house.

“We sold 160 properties last year,” explains Veronica, “and we hope to sell 250 properties

LEADING AGENTS: Award winning The Real Estate Agents in Torrevieja.

WINNING TEAM: Veronica (front left) with staff Julían Posada, Annika Westerlund and Christina Norwood. this year.” Already they are well on target for that goal as the day when the Euro Weekly News met with the team, they closed five deals.

With results like that it is no surprise that sales person Nina Gisslén came in fifth place of 1,000 retailers for best results 2012, won retailer of the month

in January and retailer of the year in Spain two years running.

The Torrevieja office was also nominated for best office of the year in 2012 out of all 240 branches in Sweden, plus the Spanish and French division.

The close collaboration between the Swedish offices brings them in direct contact with clients looking for properties in Spain and with the Swedish Krona strong against the Euro, property buying in Spain is still attractive to a lot of people.

The sales team have a list of around 3,000 potential buyers waiting for their perfect property and this is kept in mind when they take on new homes.

“Our team will see around 20 properties each week and we will take on just 12 of those so we are quite selective, we want to have properties on our book that we believe we can sell.”

Veronica says that all homes are checked to ensure they have the correct and legal paperwork before they take them on and in return they extensively market each property internationally, “We attend a lot of exhibitions in Sweden and are doing our own event in Norway and we have been to ‘A Place in the Sun’ in London.”

The Real Estate Agency sells new and re-sale homes and are currently looking for more properties in the Orihuela Costa area. With the company being a wholly owned subsidiary of Swedbank, Sweden’s largest bank and one of the most wellknown brands in the country, sellers and buyers, know they are in safe hands.

The office is open Monday to Friday 9am-6pm and Saturdays from 10am–3pm but appointments are available outside these hours.

For more information call 966 925 281.

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Top quality care to be proud of

CARAVANS SANGAR buy, sell and rent welcome snacks, drinks, a barbecue for all motorhomes, caravans and static homes. attendees, live music, and special offers on much of the motorhomes and Based in Cartagena, Murcia, they caravans in stock, and a cover the whole of Spain, minimum of 10 per cent on supplying top-quality service all accessories. and care.

Celebrating their 10As well as stocking the year anniversary of trade, most recent products, in November Caravans with names including Sangar will host a party Dethleffs, Eriba, LMC, Sfor all existing customers, Light, Caravelair and with special offers and Carado Distributors, promotions on all vehicles Caravans Sangar are and accessories. Watch this specialists in all types of repair, space to find out more. with the largest accessories ANNUAL EVENT: Their Open 9.30am until 1.30pm shop in southern Spain.

Multi-lingual, one of the open door sales event and 4.30pm until 8.30pm most important processes of is always popular.

Monday to Friday, and finding you your dream Saturday mornings, motorhome or caravan is their after care.

Caravans Sangar can be contacted on Each second hand motorhome or PedroSanchez@CaravanasSangar.com or caravan sold is supplied with a minimum of Piedad@CaravanasSangar.com. a one year warranty and two years Caravans Sangar, Cartagena, Murcia.

Km800 of the AP7 ‘Los Camachos, warranty for new.

From March 15 to 17, they are holding poligono industrial norte.’

Tel. 968 554 586. their annual ‘open door sales’ event, which www.CaravanasSangar.es. is extremely popular year after year. With

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RINCE CHARLES will edit a special edition of Countryfile to mark the programme’s upcoming 25th anniversary.

Filming for the episode, which will air on BBC One in March, has been taking place at the Prince of Wales’s organic farm in Gloucestershire since September.

The heir to the throne will also be seen visiting a number of farmers and other external projects around the UK, including an inner-city school where children grow their own vegetables.

“It’s our 25th anniversary and we were looking for a special way to mark that and [the prince] was very much up for that,” Countryfile executive editor Bill Lyons told BBC News.

“We’d heard a rumour that Countryfile might have some viewers in very high places and

not return for a third series, Broadcast reports. A BBC spokesperson said: “We loved the show but have to make hard choices to bring new shows through.”

Jane Featherstone, chief executive of producers Kudos Film and Television, said she was “sad and disappointed” by the BBC’s decision.

The first series of The Hour launched with 2.89 million viewers in July 2011, but the show’s second run fared less well in the ratings, opening with just 1.68 million.

DISHING THE DIRT

By Richard Shanley Of Europa Digital

ROYAL GUEST: Prince Charles will edit Countryfile’s 25th anniversary show. as it turned out, Prince Charles was very warm to the idea of joining us,” Lyons added.

He remarked that footage of the prince taking part in his annual Highgrove hedgegrowing competition showed “he’s not at all afraid to get his hands dirty and the way he cuts back and replants [hedges]. It was all we could do to persuade him to stop!”

Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference in January,

Prince Charles said he was not surprised that Countryfile had become ‘tremendously popular’.

He added that the show’s success since its move to a primetime Sunday evening slot demonstrated that “there is

evidently a thirst for the countryside and for the culture it represents.”

• THE HOUR has been axed

by BBC Two. The newsroom drama - which starred Dominic West and Ben Whishaw - will

If you would like me to answer any questions you may have on satellite TV or to expand on anything I have written about please call me on 678 332 815 or email richard@europa-digital.com. I look forward to your comments and questions.

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SMART RECYCLING is a tried and trusted organisation specialising in collecting, and paying for, unwanted clothing and other items.

Vic Klein and his partner Helen started the business in April 2012. Helen said, “We wanted to have a business to work in this sort of climate and to provide people with a way of getting something back for things they would otherwise just get rid of. We throw away thousands of tons of clothes every year and textiles are considered to be the fastest growing item entering the waste stream. With the advent of ‘fast fashion’ we need to maximise the scope of textile recycling and reuse.”

Traditionally, a lot of environmental policy has focused on the production stage of textiles but the popularity and rapid growth of low cost clothes has increased the amount of waste and the need to recycle textiles.

The Smart Recycling scheme is an innovative part of this solution, allowing

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S one of your New Year’s resolutions to stay in touch with friends and family back home more regularly, but do you worry about the costs when phoning from your mobile?

Would you like to have access to the Internet the moment your plane touches down in Spain, but haven’t got a landline or ADSL? MÁSMÓV!L is here to help.

Nominated in the Customer Focus Category for the prestigious European Business Awards and recently awarded the coveted Ruban d’Honneur status, they offer customer care in English, German, Spanish, and the Scandinavian languages.

Moreover, as of mid-January, customer care is also available in Russian, the latest addition to an already impressive set of customer perks. MÁSMÓV!L really does speak YOUR language!

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LEASEHOLD Bar/Restaurant Mar Menor. Fully fitted, ready to trade immediately. Good all year expat trade. Owner retiring. Priced reasonably for quick sale. Phone 680 334 422 for info. (202372)

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BOATING LICENCES ARE NOW A LEGAL REQUIREMENT IN SPAIN. Serenity Sailing RYA Training Centre, Competent Crew to Yacht Master, VHF & ICC. Own boat tuition on sail and power. If you have a yacht or powerboat, get qualified and certified. Contact Richard (0034) 638 056 224 enquiries@serenitysailing.com / www.serenitysailing.com (202889)

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS ALCOHOL COSTING YOU MORE THAN MONEY? Drinking to excess not only affects your health it can spill over into every other aspect of your life – damaging everything that is important to you. Englishspeaking AA meetings are held throughout the Costa Blanca from Valencia City to Murcia.

Anyone wishing to attend a meeting or discuss a possible drinking problem contact Costa Blanca North: *648 169 045* or Costa Blanca South: *625 912 078* or Costa Calida *679 385 105*. All calls are treated in the strictest confidence. AA in German: 645 456 075; Spanish: 679 212 535; Flemish: 635 047 053; and Scandinavian: 659 779 222. www.aa-costablanca.org (93323) ROUNDABOUT CHARITY SHOP. We are now into summer and very soon we will be feeling the heat! It is time therefore for another visit to the shop where you might find a bargain or two. Choose from the clothing selection, jewellery, household goods, books or bric a brac. There is usually something there for everyone —- but not always. Charitable

donations have recently been made to The Alzheimers Centre, Cancer Research and The Amigos Ambulance Service.

We still need your help with donations etc. Please keep them coming in! During July and August the shop will only be open Wednesday to Saturday from 09.30 until 13.00 (93325) FULL GOSPEL Business Men’s Fellowship International. We are a Christian organisation with a difference. Breakfast meetings for men each month including a testimony time, & time to ask questions for those who seek answers. Info: Stuart 968 575 417 or 664 673 863 (95452) THE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH OF QUESADA, meets at Sociedad Compas, 14 Calle de Toledo, Quesada. Sunday Service at 11.30am. A Tuesday evening of Mediumship at 7.30pm and every Thursday there is an opportunity to develop your skills at the Open Circle at 7.30pm. Spiritual Healing is available Sunday and Tuesday. Contact Wendy on 965 323 028. (95454) THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, Torrevieja Branch, meet at 17.00 on the first Wednesday of each month at the Restaurante El Paraiso, Urb. Jardin del Mar 3 (behind Carrefour), Torrevieja. Contact Mike Wright, Chairman 966 722 895 or Margaret Forshaw, Secretary 966 921 996. (95455) HELP VEGA BAJA. We help anyone, any age and any nationality, 24hr helpline. Offices based in San Miguel at Calle Lope de Vega and in Torrevieja on Rambla Juan Mateo Garcia 4. You can contact us on 966 723 733 between 10am and 1:30pm or online at www.helpvegabaja.com. For emergencies 24hr helpline 965 704 282 (95456) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Orihuela Costa - covering from Punta Prima to San Javier. The branch meets at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras on 3rd Thursday of each month at 19.00 - 19.30pm. More info can be found on branch website www.orihuelacostarbl .co.uk. (95457) THE BAKER FOUNDATION for SPIRITUAL AWARENESS. 16 Nicolas De Bussi Ave, Playa Flamenca. Sunday Service

every week 11am to 12 noon, everyone welcome. For further details please phone/fax 966 760 665 (95458) THE PHILIP SCOTT LODGE No 10671 of the RAOB meets every Friday in the Bar Catorce, Benijofar. Please call the secretary, Colin Bird on 653 066 919 for further information. (95459) CHARITY BOOK STALL PEGO THURSDAY MARKET. Selection of over 500 books, all proceeds given to the elderly/disabled of Pego and local Animal Rescue. More stock always required please contact Chrissie 965 977 228/617 647 395 (95460) THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, La Fustera. For more info: contact Frank Bentley on 966 495 188 (95461) CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (MABS) MURCIA/MAR MENOR Help and support is just a phone call away, Avda Rio Nalón, Tel: 693 275 779 or 968 432 525 (95462) PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH has moved to: Calle Canalejas, 3. Pilar de la Horadada. Sunday Service 11am & Thursday at 5pm for Bible Study and Prayer. All welcome from any church background or none.

Info: PilarChristian.CommunityChurch@gmail.com or Eddie on 966 769 300 / 650 509 606 (95463) TCF is a multi-national English speaking church now located on Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas 68, Torrevieja. The Sunday Service, including Communion and Creche/Sunday School, commences at 10.30am with a Bible Study/Prayer Meeting on Wednesday evenings at 6.00pm. Telephone 966 700 391 or call in to the Church any day between 9.00am until 1.00pm. Monday to Friday to find out more about Church activities. (95464) THE AIRCREW ASSOCIATION COSTA BLANCA BRANCH. Former & serving aircrews of the UK or Allied Armed Forces are welcome to join this convivial & friendly organisation, now in its 21st year. www.acacostablanca.org or call the Secretary on: 966 495 042 (95465) HELP MMM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Appointments for cervical, breast and prostate

screening in the Murcia area, please ring 680 393 257 (95466) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION JAVEA BRANCH meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month @ Scallops Rest on the Arenal at 11.00am. Everyone is welcome to attend as a visitor and join the branch if they wish. Anyone needing any help or advice on welfare, or any information regarding the branch can contact either Sheila on 965 791 270 or Roger on 965 790 123 (95472) TORREVIEJA STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets each Friday 3pm to 5pm in The Annex, (behind Age Concern Centre), Calle Paganini, Urb. La Siesta. Our aim is to support stroke survivors and their carers by a range of facilities from speech therapy, rehabilitation exercise, group discussion etc. For info: Louie 96 671 8964 or Carol, Secretary: 966 765 488, e-mail: strokesupportgroup@ hotmail.com Donations and further voluntary helpers are needed and guest speakers with relevant knowledge or experience are very welcome. (95473) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant Branch meets 1st Tuesday of every month at The Norwegian Club on Sierra Mar Urbanisation at 7pm for 7.30pm prompt. For further info contact Barbara Turnbull, Branch Secretary on 608 994 456 or e-mail b_dmt1966@yahoo.co.uk (95474) CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open Mon-Fri 10 - 2pm and is run by unpaid volunteers and all monies raised goes to the AECC. We urgently need donations of clothes, books, large and small furniture etc, and we will arrange collection of large items. We need volunteers to help out in the shop and also clothes rails, shelves etc. for display. Please support your local Cancer charity and if you wish to obtain literature or simply talk to someone.

Please stop by at the shop.

Contact Mina or Trisha. Tel 650 071 278 or 610 921 413 e-mail aecc_campello@hot mail.com (95475)

International Christian Assembly Calle Pilar de Horadada 5, Torrevieja Evangelical non-denominational Sunday services 11am Children’s church 11am House groups in Torrevieja, Los Balcones, San Javier Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. Pastor, Rafael Restrepo All nationalities welcome 966 799 273 / 660 127 276.

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Chimney Sweep HOME FROM HOME. Professional chimney sweep. Family run business Telephone 660 478 881 (207034)

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Electrician UK ELECTRICIAN Fully qualified all aspects of electrical work. Free estimates. 965 725 445 / 616 226 083 (200645)

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WANTED Cars, vans, caravans, 4 X 4’s British Spanish 600 781 873 ibuyanycar@hotmail.com (200261) BARRY MOTOR BODY REPAIRS Over 35 years experience, all types of motor body repairs, panel beating and refinishing. Call me now on 676 330 169 or 678 818 147 (201812) 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! (95302) SALT’S BAY INSURANCE BROKERS. Call now for your competitive quotes on insurance for: motor (UK & Spanish plates), household, life, private medical, travel and more.

Policies in English. Tel: 965 706 394 E-mail info@salts bay.com (202637)

Friendship FIND LOVE IN THE SUN www.iwant2meetyou.com.

Browse for free Spain´s No. 1 online dating site. Bringing expats together. (201369)

Limousine Hire

FEMALE 55-65 with no ties wanted by male for holidays, meals out. Man is resident with OHAC. Tel: 663 159 408 (200367)

TUXEDO LIMOUSINE CHAUFFEURS we specialise in Limousines, Rolls Royce’s and Vintage cars for hire. Airport transfers Benidorm Palace, birthdays, theme parks, shopping trips, weddings etc.

Check our website www.tuxedolimousines.es Tel 968 969 648 / 618 315 933 in fo@tuxedolimousines.es

Gardening GARDENER, 25 years working in Spain. English/Spanish spoken. Private gardens and communities. Free quotes, billthe gardener@hotmail.es. Tel 699 682 630 (96109)

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Gold Wanted

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 suzicaley@ gmail.com (200742)

GOLD WANTED. English jeweller will buy broken, unwanted jewellery and coins. 664 890 990 (202483)

LUXURY mobile home located near the coast on small family run site. 630 055 418

Health & Beauty LASER teeth whitening, facials, microdermabrasion, cellulite treatment, lymphatic cleanse 966 194 030 www.envytherapy.webs.com (200348)

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Pergola Covers SAILS, carports etc. Tailor made durable canvas. POLYETHYLENE SAILS. Exhibiting Procomobel Market Guardamar Saturdays/Camposol anyday. 667 879 399 krugercanopies@in.com (203169)

Pet Insurance PROTECTAPET Spain’s leading pet insurance 965 756 371 www.info@protectapet.eu (95962)

Pets

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) PERSONAL Pet Transporter Spain/UK/Spain. Also travel for free door to door with your pets in our petmobile. www.spanishmoves.net. UK 01209 843971 or Spain 678 756 644 (202471)

Pet Transport INTERPAWS: 20 years’ licensed pet transportation.

Competitive rates. Difficult dog? Effective behavioural training in your home. www.interpaws.com janette@interpaws.com 689 742 289 (204958)

Pet Charities EASYHORSE CARE RESCUE CENTRE We aim to rescue HORSES. If you would like to DONATE please call 965 967 033 or sales@easyhorse care.net www.easyhorse care.net or call Sue 652 021 980 (95706) SPAMA GANDIA SHELTER. Dog and cat rescue registered charity, La Safor area. 500 animals awaiting re-homing.

Shelter open 7 days a week 12noon - 2.00pm & 3.30pm 7.00pm. (Spanish speaking staff) or phone Gail 962 896 118. Visit our website for directions. www.spama.org and view our new blog at www.spama-safor.blog.com.es PLEASE HELP US TO HELP THEM (95707) P.E.P.A. VOLUNTEERS & FOSTER HOMES URGENTLY NEEDED. By fostering an abandoned dog, or spending a few hours each week on our telephone helpline, you could help save the lives of many animals. Please call: 650 304 746. For more information browse our website: www.pepaspain.com EURO WEEKLY NEWS CLASSIFAX AGENT (95708) GATAMI ORGANISATION, to help kittens and cats, looking for good homes, also spaying wild cats in the community.

Kittens require adoption, fully vaccinated, de-wormed, defleed. We also need volunteers to help Car boot sale in Polop on Sundays Tel Anna: 966 806 976 / 654 729 977 (95709)

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Property for Rent SM133 - Playa Golf, Orihuela Costa, 3 bed, 2 bath quad, garden, driveway, terrace, solarium, com pool, 5 mins to beaches & golf - 525€ per month - 965 720 766. (89468) SM171 - San Miguel - 1 bed ground floor apartment in Los Pinos. Terrace, security grills, TV, safe, air con, parking.

Short drive to San Miguel village - 250€ per month - 965 720 766 (89468) SM118 - Villamartin - 3 bed, 2 bath quad, off-road parking, garden, terrace, com pool, 10 mins to beach and golf and walking to shops - 495€ per month 965 720 766 (89468) SM165 - San Miguel - Second floor, 2 bed apartment in the heart of San Miguel. Terrace, solarium with views, secure building with lift, walk to bars & restaurants. 325€ per month - 965 720 766 (89468) NEW 2 bed, unfurnished/furnished apartment. Algorfa town centre, swimming pool, €250 per month + two months deposit or yearly advance €2,400 plus €150 bills monthly. 0044 7949 589 539 londonangels@ hotmail.com (97728) 2/3 BED, 2 bath apartments San Miguel. Lift, communal roof top pool and solarium, video entry system. Available short/long term from €300 pcm. 966 723 437 / 636 615 716 (207036) UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY 2 x 3 bedroom villas (one let out already) set together amongst fruit trees in 31,000m2, Catral / San Isidro, pool, garages, stunning mountain views. €550pcm each. 0044 7797 862 874 (207008)

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INTERNATIONAL Medium, spiritual readings and healings. Call Sammy 965 725 424 (206901)

FED UP PAYING TOO MUCH FOR YOUR MOBILE PHONE CALLS? THEN CONTACT TELITEC TODAY. CALLS TO SPAIN 7C PER MINUTE INCLUDING MOBILES. CALLS TO UK 5.3C PER MINUTE. NO MONTHLY FEES, NO CONTRACT. WWW.TELITEC.COM TEL: 902 889 070 (0)

Swimming Pools MAN AND VAN UK - Spain. 2 vans travelling twice a month, Murcia - North / South UK Tel 610 846 260 or 0044 751 918 6355 email van.man@hot mail.co.uk (202670) UK-SPAIN-IRELAND. Removals with the personal touch. Pets transported 965 696 750 / 0044 (0) 7814 010 283 e-mail chrisy ounge73979@aol.com (202629)

TOTAL POOL CARE. Leak detection, structural repairs, regrouts and retiling, replacement pumps, lights, sand filters etc. Tel: 654 687 536 (207047)

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EUROPEAN removals and transport with scheduled UK routes. UK Company, fully legal, taking loads from 5kg to 24,000kg. Lowest prices and the best service. 952 816 582 or www.focus-transport.com (201300)

Sewing QUALIFIED SEAMSTRESS 40 years experience, turn-ups to tailoring patterns taken from your favourite cloths, reasonable prices. Torrevieja, Sandra: 966 799 188 / 680 486 336 (98431)

JACUZZI, SPA, HOT TUB WANTED. Working or not. 650 722 905 (200581)

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Geneva showcase for the McLaren P1 THE new McLaren P1 supercar will be making its official debut at this year’s Geneva Motor Show.

SUPERCAR: Photos from its Inspired by Formula Middle East launch in One engineering. front of VIPs in Bahrain show the ‘mean street its diameter racing car’ concept of the British company’s team of designers. It will determined by McLaren’s extensive use the twin-turbocharged 3.8L V8 experience in Formula One racing.

With this much attention to detail, used in the smaller MP4-12C. But with a state of the art KERS energy storage the P1 is bound to be exceptional to system, power will be boosted to drive on the track, even if it won’t be the most comfortable ride. more 800 horsepower.

That should see the successor to A McLaren spokesman said: “It is the F1 accelerate from 0-60mph in 2.8 designed with one aim in mind, to seconds and from 0-100mph in just simply be the best driver’s car in the 5.5 seconds. world, on road and track. The Even the P1’s steering wheel has McLaren P1 is one of the decade’s been designed for performance, with most highly anticipated cars.

“Inspired by Formula One engineering, it will offer exceptional aerodynamics, amazing performance and bespoke design for every owner.”

Only 500 will be built, at a price tag expected to be approach €1 million.

McLaren calls the cabin ‘minimalist’ in its design, and the carbon fibre used throughout the interior is there for function as well as to look good.

Unlike a race car, however, the P1 does make concessions to civility and occupant comfort.

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New concept for Toyota TOYOTA has released the first images of its FT-86 Open and iRoad concepts ahead of their debuts at the upcoming Geneva motor show.

The carmaker’s FT-86 Open concept previews a potential

future development of the GT86 sports coupe. Toyota is using the concept to gauge public reaction while carrying out engineering tests on a prototype.

Toyota’s i-Road promises to

generate a lot of interest, having been developed as a compact, emissions-free personal mobility concept.

The concept is designed to offer fast and efficient urban transport for two people.

Also at the Japanese car giant’s stand will be the production-ready Auris Touring Sports and the fourthgeneration RAV4, supported by two design studies, the RAV4 Premium and RAV4 Adventure.

TEASER: Toyota will unveil the FT-86 Open in Geneva.

Audi puts on style for Black Edition AUDI has revealed its Amplified Black package on TT Coupé Black Edition models. It adds distinctive black exterior styling features to the sporty high-end. It also includes 19-inch ‘five-arm rotor’ design black alloys.

The package is available in combination with a choice of four exterior paint finishes: Misano red, Daytona grey, Glacier white, or Samoa orange normally only available on TTS.

In the UK it will add €840 to the list price, on top of the Black Edition cost.

It will also have 19-inch x 9J fivearm rotor-design black alloy wheels with 255/35 R19 R tyres and black exterior design elements.

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Mazarron fight back to earn well deserved point Mazarron FC 2 Nuestro Abaran CF 2

CATEGORY GOLD: Ivie Davies – Alan Moody – Arthur Williams.

CATEGORY SILVER: Tom Richardson – Ron Nicholson – Pete Nicholls.

Slick greens at Vistabella THE greens at Vistabella were in excellent condition but very slick and with the wind putting was difficult.

It was a stableford competition with some singles first round knockout rounds being played.

Results of the day were: In the gold category, first was Ivie Davies, 26 points, second Alan Moody (25), third Arthur Williams (23).

In the silver category first was Tom Richardson (24), second Ron Nicholson (24) and third Pete Nicholls (23).

Nearest the pins were Alan Moody and Ron Nicholson.

Ivie Davies beat Tom Baldwin 10 and 8 Malcolm Anderson beat Geoff Wild 5 and 4 - Alan Moody beat Rodney Smith 8 and 6 in the first round of the singles knock-out competition.

Next game is at Altorreal Golf, Tuesday, February 26 ,

For more information or if you wish to play with the society contact Ron Nicholson on 678 849 142 or sanmigron@gmail.com.

MAZARRON came storming back to earn a point after going two goals down.

Abaran bossed the early stages although Panocha had a point blank header from five metres, well saved by the Abaran keeper on six minutes.

A minute later Abaran took the lead when, following good work down the left, Emilio’s well hit shot was deflected past Iker in the Mazarron goal.

Abraran continued to attack and Mazarron’s only other chances in the first half fell to Jose Ruben.

Abaran obviously recognised Ruben’s threat as he was pushed, kicked and elbowed by their centre half at every opportunity during the first half.

Abaran increased their lead three minutes into the second half when a

close range shot was well saved by Iker but the Mazarron keeper was helpless when Nicolas hammered the ball home.

Jose Ruben was booked in the 49th minute when he retaliated to further rough treatment as Mazarron began to get on top.

In the 57th minute the home team pulled a goal back when Barrachina scored from close range.

Mazarron were now playing good football.

Mazarron had another chance on 75 minutes when, following a corner, around 16 players were involved in a free for all in

the Abaran penalty area but the ball was cleared.

However, in the 86th minute, Mazarron levelled the scores when excellent work by Ruben, saw Barrachina’s shot being turned home by Cecilio.

Next game February 24, against Alquerias FB, 4.30 pm. €4 with children free.

Torrevieja swimmers splash out at the winter regional championships THREE swimmers from Torrevieja Swimming Club took part in the Winter Regional Swimming Championships.

Alexandra Amat, Zoe Connolly and Elian Del Rio Castillo competed in

Captain’s trophy hotting up at La Finca LA FINCA was the venue for the third of four rounds for the Captain’s Stableford Trophy for The Members’ Golf Society.

Ray Ewins came in with 39 points to take the Silver Division. Ray was five points ahead of Jenny Morris who took 2nd spot with 34 points,

GOOD GAME: Mazarron stormed back after going two goals down.

pushing Ian Parkinson into 3rd place with 32 points.

In the Gold category 34 points was enough for Steve Higgins, to claim the top spot with Captain Alan Rickers taking the runners-up spot with 32 points, one point ahead of Richard Wale on 31 points.

two races each against the top swimmers from clubs in the Valencian region in the Alevin (12 to 13-year-old) category.

The trio had qualified to participate against 232 other

swimmers from 36 clubs throughout the Valencian Region. They were held last Saturday in the Municipal Pool Sagunto, Valencia.

With the support of their coach, Juanma Martinez, the team started the morning’s events with Elian in the 100m freestyle event, knocking four seconds off his previous personal best time earning 15th position out of 61 swimmers (1:11:25).

Alexandra set a new PB of 1:21:21, to be 21st out of 55 participants, lowering her time by two seconds.

Last to compete in the morning session was Zoe Connolly in the 100m Butterfly event.

Zoe reduced her PB by one second and gained 6th GOLD WINNERS: Mick Kennedy, Alan Rickers, Steve Higgins and place in the competition Richard Wale. with a time of 1:26:67.

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A full house for Torregolf TORREGOLF had a full house when they played Alenda in a Stableford competition.

On the day the results were: Category 1, first Keith Mann 36 points, second Paul Hurrell (31) and third on a countback from Peter Kerr, Sue Owens, Paul Abbott and Roy Middleton was David Gill with 27 points.

Category 2, first Phil Brigham 32 points, second Bernard Ball (30) on a countback from Con Moore.

Category 3, first Brian Coombes 39 points, second Christopher Rose (38) and third David Winder (34).

Nearest the pins were Keith Mann, Geoff Betts, Dudley Pike and Peter Kerr.

The society’s game at Vistabella was won by Alan Moody with 33 points.

Next venue is at La Serena on Saturday (February 23) followed by Altorreal on March 5 and Vistabella on March 10.

More information: David Winder on 626 774 157 or davidwinder.torregolf@gm ail.com. Membership is

Thriller for Costa Cadetes against current champions COSTA faced a tough trip away to reigning champions and currently second in the league, Benejuzar.

The opening 20 minutes saw Costa dominate with the midfield

finding Costa’s strike force of Bass and Gudmundsson on several occasions.

On 23 minutes, Gudmundsson latched onto a free kick from well

outside the area to beat the stranded home keeper and put Costa in the lead. Unfortunately this was only to last six minutes as Costa failed to deal with a corner.

Neither side was willing to give an inch.

Then the best goal of the game came from the back of Costa’s defence when Aidan Sullivan calmly played the ball out of his own area to right wing Ciaran Sullivan who found Charley Frost who then set up Patrick Bass to The match was played finish the move with a well at a fast pace. taken goal and to go in at half time 2 - 1 up.

Benejuzar made several changes which seemed to improve their team and put extra pressure on Costa, and once again a corner undid Costa, the home side levelling the tie 2 - 2 on 46 minutes.

Costa continued to battle and fight hard with solid performances from Jack Mcginnell, Glen Lawton and Jamie Cockroft but Benejuzar were growing in confidence and had a larger share of possession. On 64 minutes a cross down Costa’s left side wasn’t dealt with and Benejuzar went 3 - 2 up. With five minutes to go Costa were awarded a free kick on the edge of the area. A neat lay But Orihuela mounted a off from Liam Nicholas to final push and pressurised Aidan Sullivan saw his the Albacete line in an powerful shot too hot to attempt to get that all handle as it smashed the important score. back of the net. 3 -3 and in However, Jose after the final minute Costa had missing two penalties, went their goalkeeper Jordan from villain to hero to win Marshall to thank for some the game 13-12 after his fine saves to deny the yellow card of the first half. home side a victory.

Information: Garry 692 For more information on 767 242, or Oscar on 600 the Cadetes visit: 871 606 (Spanish). www.orihuelacostafc.com.

Tense finale as ITV do double over Albacete in return fixture ITV ORIHUELA RFC hosted Albacete RFC in the return fixture for this season hoping to get the double over them.

The match started off at a fast pace with both sides trying to get a hold on the game, which throughout the match never proved possible.

Neither side was willing to give an inch, with both

teams like two gladiators in an arena.

Albacete struck first with a penalty, but straight after Orihuela, putting pressure on the opposition, caught Albacete offside for Jose to even the score.

The tackling was ferocious, with both teams getting yellow cards in the first half, which finished all square.

In the second half Orihuela found themselves 9-3 down. Alvin surged through some weak tackles to go three quarters the length of the pitch to score under the post. Jose put the conversion over for Orihuela to lead 10-9.

Again Orihuela seemed to lose composure with eight minutes to go, to give the lead back to Albacete.