Euro Weekly News - Costa del Sol 28 July - 3 August 2016 Issue 1621 by Euro Weekly News Media S.A.

ISSUE NO. 1621

28 July - 3 August 2016

COSTA DEL SOL

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Shelter from the storm By Matthew Elliott While the world watches in horror as a wave of senseless violence targets innocent civilians across Europe on a now almost daily frequency, Spain has positioned itself as one of the continent’s leading lights, proving time and time again to be on the ball when it comes to protecting its people. Enhanced security along the coast, on the Costa del Sol and other renowned hotspots, has helped contribute to a record breaking year for tourism and local business, as Brits, Germans, Scandinavians and Americans choose southern Spain as the safest destination for their families. The nation remains on high alert following the distressing episodes in France and Germany but, unlike those countries which have been torn apart by security failings, Spain has to its credit been proactive in deploying its considerable resources and experience. Strict laws, solid intelligence and generous police powers have seen Spain arrest far more suspects than the UK or Germany, while the security apparatus has radically evolved to be prepared for any threat, building on substantial exper-

tise from the ETA years. On Wednesday July 27 Operation Minerva saw Spain lead a 13 country exercise designed to secure ports across the southern coast in one of the EU’s most highly developed anti-immigration strategies.

The interior minister has confidently stated that “we are more prepared than ever,” while a variety of false alarms, most notably in Nerja and Malaga, were met with the rapid readiness of fully equipped security forces at the

scene within seconds. Travel agents, embassies, authoritative websites and intelligence services agree Spain is one of the safest places in these troubled times, shielded by distance, a lack of military engagement, low refugee immigration,

and a smart, effective and experienced security strategy. It’s a chaotic and confusing world out there but it’s heartening to know that there’s still one bastion of calmness, courage and community, the very same place we call home.

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Court issue A 64-YEAR-OLD resident of Estepona has died of a heart attack after his family waited an hour and a half for an ambulance to arrive. He was still alive when the emergency services finally

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showed up, but passed away as soon as they reached the hospital, with police advising the devastated family to take the issue to court.

Not a pretty penny BRUSSELS has ordered Spain to recover €140.7 million in state aid which was granted to a testing facility for high speed trains located in Antequera, after concluding that the over the odds €358 million project does not contribute to sustainable development in the region, nor comply with European Union rules on state aid.

Boulevard knock YET another pedestrian has been involved in a knock over on the main boulevard in San Pedro de Alcantara, adding to the recent spate of traffic accidents on the thorough-

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fare which include the infamous hit-and-run featuring a British driver. This time, a 15-year-old roller-skater was hit at a roundabout, although he was not seriously injured.

By Matt Ford HUSKY-VOICED Latin pop leviathan and holder of 17 Latin Grammys, Alejandro Sanz, once again had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand as his Flamenco-inspired power pop almost brought the roof off the Martin Carpena stadium in Malaga on Tuesday, July 26. His latest tour is in support of 10th album ‘Sirope’ (Syrup), on which he combines the usual outpouring of swooning romanticism with thought-provoking themes such as musing on a better world for his children to grow up in, or the current social crisis in Venezuela. The 47-year-old has duetted with Shakira and Alicia Keys, among others, and is Spain’s most commercially successful artist of all time, but he seems particularly at home in Andalucia, where both his children were born, as he seduced the 10,000 strong crowd by dipping generously into his substantial supply of hits such as ‘Looking for Paradise’ and ‘Viviendo Deprisa.’

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THROATY: Sanz’ gruff voice is notorious.

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REAL MADRID and Wales superstar Gareth Bale has gone for a jaunt around San Roque’s finest golf courses, following his recent engagement to childhood sweetheart and mother of his two daughters, Emma RhysJones. The Welsh wizard thus continues his pre-season battery charging after a long season which culminated in his beloved Dragons unexpectedly reaching the semifinals of Euro 2016, as he apparently plans to take in a hat-trick of the costa’s offerings, debunking the myth that the sport is the exclusive province of wealthy, middle-aged men. Golf is one of Gareth’s main passions outside of football, and he has been busy promoting formats that will make the game more concise and zippier to play, in particular a six-hole version called ‘SPRINT6GOLF,’ in which

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GOLF LUSH: Gareth chills in San Roque.

players are allowed just 30 seconds to execute their stroke, receiving a yellow card for the first offence of dilly-dallying, and a one-shot

penalty for the second. Having been pictured teeing off at St Andrew’s last week, Bale continues his European grand tour by

bringing his trusty irons to the Costa del Sol, where he and his wife-to-be are sure to prove a hit with the local paps.

The sky’s the limit for new viewing deck CENTRO PLAZA, Nueva Andalucia’s first shopping centre, has continued to add innovations, and after celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015, it has now opened the ‘Mirador Nueva Andalucia’, a

new viewing platform on the roof. The official presentation takes place on Thursday, July 28, after which the centre aims to become a new tourist attraction, and has already started negotiations with

Marbella for inclusion in maps, brochures, and on the municipal website. The viewing deck will include benches and an information panel, with audio guides in English and Spanish available.

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Raft of resin THE strong winds brought more than jellyfish ashore on Saturday, July 16, as a package containing 30 kilos of hashish washed up on a crowded Fuengirola beach.

Fatal crash A 45-YEAR-OLD who was not wearing a helmet died from head injuries, after his moped crashed into the side of a van on La Estrella industrial estate, Malaga City.

Dirty cash NATIONAL POLICE have cracked a money laundering operation in Estepona, making six arrests as they foiled a group dedicated to ‘cleaning’ drug money.

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Roadworks impact on tree population By Matt Ford MEMBERS of the citizen’s platform ‘Marbella por sus arboles’ (Marbella for its trees) staged a mini-protest over roadworks on Avenida de Nabeul, which resulted in the felling of all trees planted down the left-hand side of the pavement. The residents claim the plants could have been saved and they have disappeared through “lack of care,” and while they understand that the removal of yuccas on the other side of the road was necessary since the forest-like conditions were impeding pedestrians, the fact that the council have “replaced them with three mini trees that give no shade or anything,” has further browned them off. The traumatised tree-huggers are on the warpath, demanding that the city council appoints a ‘Woodland Planning Director’ as soon as possible, in order that someone with a modicum of common sense be placed in charge of such activities as cataloguing the municipali-

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NEGLECTING NATURE: The council needs to turn over a new leaf.

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ty’s tree population, putting protection measures in place, and coming up with an organised pruning plan. The latter is a hot topic, since the crusaders want to see a shift from summer to winter pruning, since the trees recover more easily in cooler weather. Other issues getting on the group’s wick include the ‘passivity’ of the council in allowing the cypresses at the castle to pass away, the state of the weed-infested gardens of the Real de la Misericordia hospital, and the hush-hush plan to cut down the decrepit yucca that can be found in the city’s Romantic Garden. Protesters did applaud the ‘respect’ afforded to eucalyptus trees lining the ‘senda littoral’ coastal path, which make the route “more attractive.” However, the eucalyptus is an introduced, highly invasive species which is detrimental to native plant species, insects and birds, and the species has been accused of “ripping the fabric out of rural communities.”

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Bel Air residents noisy nightmare AS previously reported in Euro Weekly News, since last summer, residents of the quiet Bel Air community of Estepona have tried to do something to resolve the very many problems they say have been caused by the only commercial concern in this sprawling urbanisation, the Hotel Pierre y Vacances. “There are three main problems,” said resident and leading campaigner Mary Page, “Noise, rubbish and parking problems. But the worst is noise.” In summer, from mid-July until mid-September, the hotel, formerly a quiet golf complex until taken over by French company Pierre y Vacances – which has a number of properties in Spain – four years ago, hosts a group of entertainers who perform nightly on the swimming pool area which directly fronts residential properties supposedly to children and family groups. The entertainment consists of loud, amplified music with the shouting of the entertainers and the yelling of the clients loud enough to be heard in the Water Gardens Community, 500 metres away. Residents allege that the loud music goes on until almost one 1am some mornings. “We’ve tried the friendly, reasonable approach but it’s

got us nowhere,” said Mary Page. “Two meetings with the hotel manager Miren Bilbao have come to nothing, in spite of promises to lower the volume.” More than 100 residents from five communities within Bel Air have signed a petition protesting against the noise, which was presented to the Benahavis Council, the licensing authority, in May. They have also engaged a lawyer and former councillor, Cristina Rodriguez Alarcon, to take their case to court if necessary. Current laws state that noise in a residential area such as Bel Air should not exceed 55 decibels before midnight. Residents have evidence of sound levels of up to 91 decibel at 11.30 pm. “We hope reason and consideration for the rights of neighbours to enjoy their homes and gardens in peace will prevail,” said Mary Page. “But it seems as if the hotel management has no thought, respect or concern for local residents and that is unacceptable. The law is on our side and we intend to use it.” Earlier requests this year by EWN for comments from the hotel received no response but interestingly their website does not make any mention of entertainment of the type being complained about by local residents.

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Pace gathers for campaign By Matt Ford THE Costa del Sol’s campaign addressing sexual aggression towards women, ‘No is No,’ has continued its development, having made an appearance at Cala de Mijas’ feria in anticipation of its official launch on August 1. Although the plan is to maintain efforts going forwards, Malaga City Council has announced that 24-hour support for victims will be on offer throughout the summer, with an email address and telephone hotline provided by the College of Lawyers. More than 2,000 posters will be distributed, and flyers bearing slogans including ‘Do not be an accomplice, be active and report it,’ and ‘You decide who, where, and when,’ are to be printed. A numbe r of e duc a tiona l talks with Local Police and Civil Protection volunteers will also be held throughout the year.

VICTIM SUPPORT: The ‘No is No’ campaign offers 24hour support.

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Fighting the good fight By Matt Ford INDOMITABLE Mijas mayor, Juan Carlos Maldonado, appeared before the press on Wednesday, July 27, in order to discuss the state of municipal accounts following his first year in office. The chipper custodian was keen to draw attention to the council’s twin pillars of virtue, namely the ‘unblocking’ of major social projects and the fact that they have established a culture of conducting their business legally. “For this council team it is essential that we do things correctly, and proof of this is the presentation of these accounts, which we respectfully decided to postpone to allow the general election to proceed, despite our tenure reaching 12 months on June 13,” pronounced the official. “I repeat, respect for legality is our main asset because things have been dodgy in this town for years.” Projects which had been paralysed under the previous administration include the Indira Gandhi School, which is now a reality, advancement of the ‘senda litoral’ coastal footpath, with Mijas the first municipality to

HONOURABLE BRAVEHEART: Mayor Maldonado, flanked by his lieutenants. complete its section, and giving the green light to Mijas Business Park. “Mijas is not a private mansion, as

our previous rulers considered,” thundered Maldonado, adding that “the people of Mijas deserve our respect,

and they deserve a town council at its height, and where citizens can participate.”

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Council awarded payment FORMER Marbella Town Planning counci l l or Juan Ant oni o Roca has been found guilty of misappropriation of funds and corrupt practice and sentenced to 18 months in jail in a case regarding diversion of funds for the Marbella desalination plant. The cour t al so banned Roca f r om publ i c off i ce f or 12 years and ordered him to pay €10.7 million i n com pensat i on t o Marbella Council and am ount s t o be det er mined to the Commonwealth of Municipalit i es of t he Cost a del Sol to cover the costs of compulsory purchase of l and at t he site of the plant.

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Reefer madness by the sea By Matt Ford A LUCKLESS lifeguard was forced to fly the coop as he attempted to protect a large package of hashish which had washed up on Pedregalejo beach in Malaga City on Sunday, July 24, due to being charged by a legion of stampeding stoners keen to snaffle some of the soporific substance for themselves. The mayhem broke out after the pelagic package was spotted near a pier by a nearby bather, who decided to alert the lifeguard patrolling the beach. After grabbing a plastic bag, the young man headed to the scene and began to collect the resin, which had been placed into small packages, and this piqued the curiosity of other beachgoers, who headed over to see what was happening. Once they realised what the lifeguard was collecting, a free-for-all broke out, with hands appearing from all sides as the deranged dope-fiends scrabbled to claim their share of the prize, some even grappling with the poor chap, leading a few level-headed

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Concrete jungle THE citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action group calling for the creation of an urban forest on the old Repsol plant in Malaga have obtained more than 30,000 signatures of residents in favour of the idea.

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DOOBIE DUST-UP: The discovery sparked a melee.

onlookers to suggest that he run for it or risk a clobbering. Local Police were subsequently alerted, but by the time they arrived the majority of the stash had vanished, with the feeding frenzy having subsided and the predatory potheads nowhere to be seen. Witnesses spoke bewilderingly of

30 kilos of hashish, the estimated amount that washed up.

cool boxes being stuffed with hashish, and one woman was said to have changed clothes after filling as much

of her shirt as possible, and a dozen cops were called in an attempt to locate the narco-bathers, even forcing some likely suspects to open their cars. The bundle is estimated to have contained around 30 kilos of resin, but in the end only 500 grammes were recovered and no-one was arrested, leaving the wacky baccy aficionados to enjoy their fortuitous freebies elsewhere.

THE National Police has donated 345 litres of extra virgin olive oil seized during various raids this year to 500 needy families in Antequera, ensuring they will count on at least one luxury table item.

Juvenile junk A MAN has been sentenced to three years in prison for peddling drugs such as hashish, cocaine and MDMA to minors from a garage at his home in Tolox, and at a local night spot.

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Sheyla Bonnick in Spain By John Smith REGULAR readers of Euro Weekly News will remember the exclusive interview we had with Sheyla Bonnick, the charming and hard working singer responsible for the group known as Sheyla Bonnick’s Sounds of Boney M which performs all over the world and who flew specially to Spain to perform at the reopening of Joys Live in Puerto Banus earlier this year. Sheyla and her husband own a recording studio in Alicante and are looking to expand to Marbella. In the coming week they’ll perform in Poland and Dubai. They then perform one night at the Golf and Country Club in Antequera on July 29 before appearing at the Mijas Auditorium the following night.

Whether working with superb singers to a backing track or performing with a full orchestra, Sheyla always receives accolades for the quality of her voice and delivery of the Boney M songbook. Although all’s not rosy as a former friend and member of the original group, Maizie Williams, who she first performed with in Germany and for many years in a Boney M tribute band, managed to obtain the Boney M trademark although it’s subject to action in Germany from original producer Frank Farian. After acrimonious court exchanges Ms William’s manager, has contacted the promoter of one of the concerts in Dubai requesting action be taken to make it clear it’s Sheyla Bonnick’s Sounds of Boney M playing. Sheyla of course only promotes herself under that name and has no control over other promoters but continues to perform regardless.

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TERRIFIC TRIBUTE: Sheyla Bonnick’s Sounds of Boney M.

Bridesmaid tragedy A 31-year-old woman from Yorkshire has died of unknown causes in Malaga, fol-

lowing a routine operation to drain an abscess on one of her teeth. Natalie Beaumont was on a hen party with a group of friends, who had rented a villa on the Costa del Sol for the duration of their holiday. She was due to be maid of honour at the hen’s wedding when the 11-strong group returned to the UK, but on the fourth day of the trip, she began to complain of toothache after the party had earlier enjoyed a boat trip and karaoke. Husband of five years Brett paid tribute to his wife, as he said: “Everybody who knew her loved her. She was a wonderful step-mum to my daughter Lucy. “We were not just husband and wife, we were best friends. “She had just so much love for everyone and never had a bad word to say about anyone. I loved her more than life itself.”

The earth continues to move SIX months have passed since the magnitude 6.4 earthquake which woke up most of the Costa del Sol at 5.22am on January 2 and at l east 4,000 replicas of more than 1.5 on the Richter scale have been registered since as the earth continues resettling under the Alboran Sea. This, experts and investigators at the University of Granada have said could continue for up to a year and although it cannot be considered exact l y nor m al i t has been seen bef or e af t er ot her ear t hquakes i ncl udi ng one i n Jaen i n 2013. Mercedes Ferich, head of the geophysics instit ut e at t he uni ver si t y said: “The tremors could cont i nue f or m ont hs yet.”

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Summer Gala in Aid of World Vision THE fourth year of the spectacular World Vision Gala Dinner will take place on Thursday, August 11 in the Sea Grill restaurant of the Puente Romano Beach Resort & Spa, a breathtaking location with guest tables located over the pool with direct views of the Mediterranean. A non-stop extravaganza of entertainment, live music, international gastronomy and fantastic raffle prizes, set under a twinkling summer sky. World Vision is the charity specifically chosen by Daniel Shamoon, owner of Puente Romano. It is the world’s largest international children’s charity, working to bring real hope to millions of children in the world’s hardest places. ‘I wanted to create an unforgettable experience for the guests of the gala, whilst helping a very worthwhile charity. Every year through the gala we help fund a different project, of which we can actually see the results first hand,’ quoted Mr Shamoon upon his decision to support World Vision. This year’s project is to tackle malaria and provide thousands of families and children in Myanmar (Burma) with a safer, healthier future. The goal at the Summer Gala on August 11 is to raise the funds needed to ensure this vital work continues in Myanmar, rated as one of the poorest countries in our world. The summer gala begins at 8.30pm on the terrace of Sea Grill with cocktails and canapés prepared by Michelin starred chef Dani Garcia. Once guests are seated around the pool area the gala dinner commences, the five- course meal is prepared by Puente Romano’s award winning chef Thomas Stork and served with a selection of wines from the beach resort’s acclaimed sommelier. The musical entertainment consists of triple platinum international recording artist Alexander O’Neal with his all the greatest hits. In addition, live performances by Mr Peet Rothwell singing Michael Bublé’s greatest hits, Club Live, Las Vegas Showgirls and recording singer Vanna Vee, will keep guests entertained all evening. Plus our exclusive raffle with a huge variety of gifts from which all profits will be given to the charity. World Vision Gala at Puente Romano Beach Resort & Spa is destined to be the highlight of summer 2016! Dress Code of the evening is cocktail. Price 275eur per person. Wines paired with the menu are included.

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Fore play COSTA DEL SOL Tourism is trying to encourage families to get involved in golf, with a number of summer schools and other offerings for club-wielding children across the area’s many courses.

Pensioners play Pokemon By Matt Ford

Downtown development THE pedestrianisation of Torremolinos centre appears to be bearing fruit, with the number of applications for new business licences up 41.3 per cent on last year.

Suspect held A 53-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after the badly decomposed body of a woman who appeared to have been hanged was discovered in the Malaga district of La Palmilla.

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NEVER afraid of a spot of unashamed bandwagon jumping, Torremolinos Council decided to celebrate their annual ‘Grandparents and Grandkids’ day on Tuesday, July 26, by bringing the generations together for a mass Pokemon Go gymkana. The youngsters were charged with ensuring that their grandparents do not get left in the cultural dust, training them to use the omnipresent mobile game by collecting multi-coloured monsters hidden among the pine trees behind the town’s Aquapark, with the winners the first to collect 50 of the cartoon cuties. After the romp, everyone

headed over to the Aquapark itself, where 500 free tickets had been made available in advance, allowing the kids to cool down and the grandparents, presumably, to catch their breaths after a boiling few hours scampering between the trees, during which more than one utterly bemused glance was exchanged.

LIFELONG LEARNING: Children helped grandparents to use the on trend mobile app.

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No light matter BREXIT, deputy head of the Junta de Andalucia regional government Manuel Jimenez Barrios stressed at the latest parliamentary session, is a situation which must be taken seriously as it affects not just the Campo de Gibraltar area but the whole region. Therefore, he has asked the government to avoid rash, political strategies as the matter is too important to be taken lightly. He explained the Junta must focus on trying to minimise the impact of Brexit on Andalucia as more than 80,000 Britons live in the region and two million plus come on holiday. He also praised the speed of the Andalucian government in creating a working committee to analyse the matter.

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The mysterious beast of Estepona A VIDEO published on social media on Tuesday, July 26, appears to show a large, cat-like beast prowling around in scrubland close to Estepona. Commenters speculated as to the identity of the mystery animal, which is said to weigh approximately 30-35 kilos and was only on display for a few seconds before disappearing into a thicket of trees. Many keyboard warriors believe the animal to be a cougar, also known as puma or mountain lion, the world’s fourth largest cat which tends to weigh between 45 and 55 kilos when adult, although exceptional individuals can attain 90 kilos.

Cougars are more closely-related to smaller cats, including the domestic cat, than to lions, tigers, or leopards, but can still pack a hefty punch, and have been known to kill humans in their native Americas. It is difficult to say with any certainty what the animal in the video might be, but local wildlife parks do not currently house cougars, and it is definitely not an Iberian Lynx since it clearly has a long tail, leaving the possibility that it may have escaped from a private collection. Alternatively, could it just be a well-upholstered pet moggie out for a stroll, with a combination of wild imagination and misperception leading people’s minds astray?

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BIG CAT: The animal has four legs and a swishy tail.

Air Europa pilot strike called off

IN AGREEMENT: The company and union have reached some sort of agreement.

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AIR EUROPA announced late on Tuesday night (July 26) that a pilots’ strike called by Sepla trade union for July 30 to August 2 which had caused the airline to announce it would have to cancel 114 flights has been called off. Although details of the agreements reached in negotiations have yet to be announced and it remains unclear whether or not the flights, 76 of them interna-

tional, including 12 between Malaga-Costa del Sol airport and Paris, will run or not, it does appear that the company and Sepla have reached some sort of an agreement. The airline had announced as soon as the strike was called that it was willing to negotiate and promised that none of the pilots would be adversely affected by the new low cost Air Europa Express as they feared.

A RECENT cluster of break-ins at lavish properties around Marbella, in which a team of cat burglars have been ransacking high-end homes before knocking off luxury cars to make their getaway, have led National Police to increase security efforts in the area. Their endeavours almost bore fruit following a series of dramatic events on Sunday, July 24, which unfolded as a patrol was tracking a gang suspected of committing the robberies and decided to stop a presumed-stolen vehicle that they were travelling in. The shady characters did not fancy stopping, however, as the driver put his foot down and barrelled away, leading to a lengthy chase that culminated in a Mijas urbanisation, where the fugitives crashed their car before emerging with a gun, leading officers to open fire. Undeterred, the bandits legged it, somehow managing to give the pursuing plod the slip, but leaving behind a pool of blood in their mangled upmarket vehicle.

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CAMERAS which the DGT traffic authority is implementing on the Spanish roads to check seatbelt and mobile phone use are already producing fines in Malaga Province but official locations and details have yet to be announced. So far the only official information stated that 270 cameras of this type would be put in place on roads across the country, 60 per cent of them on conventional roads, however a DGT source has confirmed that some are up and running on the Costa del Sol but not all at once. When all are filming simultaneously there will be a presentation to give more details of the system, the source promised. This has awoken suspicions at motoring associations, which have complained they are not convinced the software will be reliable and also said that by law the locations of the cameras should be made public and drivers warned with signs as they approach them. “We think there will be problems, the fines are created by software and in many cases the camera will not be able to see whether a driver is talking on a phone or scratching his ear, or see his seatbelt if he’s wearing a dark shirt,” complained Mario Arnaldo, head of the Automovilistas Europeos Asociados association. With Malaga Province second only to

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Big brother ups the stakes for drivers

WINGS CLIPPED: The plane was forced to divert.

PHONEY FINES: Cameras may be erroneous. Madrid for the number of fines issued for seatbelt and mobile phone use, the new cameras are expected to result in an even higher number of people facing €200 fines and loss of three points from their licences than the 8,403 registered in 2015 on the roads of the Costa del Sol.

Flight downed by fowl play By Matt Ford THERE was brief panic on an easyJet flight which was heading from Liverpool’s John Lennon airport to Malaga, as a kamikaze bird careered into the plane, causing a ‘huge bang’ shortly after take-off, causing concerned pilots to divert to London Gatwick in order to ensure passenger safety. According to the website AeroInside, “the left hand engine ingested a bird during take off resulting in a huge bang from the engine and a brief loss of engine power although the engine fully recovered resulting in all instruments showing normal values.” Despite the bird apparently having had its goose

cooked inside the enormous jet engine, the crew decided to play it safe, and swung the jet around less than an hour into the journey, with the 179 passengers transferred to a replacement plane. They eventually reached the Costa del Sol around five hours behind schedule, while the original airliner

was grounded for 24 hours as a full safety check was carried out. An easyJet spokesperson said: “easyJet can confirm that the captain of flight EZY7179 from Liverpool to Malaga took the decision to divert to L o n d o n Gatwick as a result of a bird strike on take-off. “The aircraft landed routinely at Gatwick and passengers continued their journey on a replacement aircraft later the same day. “The safety of its passengers and crew is easyJet’s highest priority and easyJet operates its fleet of aircraft in strict compliance with all manufacturers’ guidelines.”

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Made in Marbs By Matt Ford

MARBELLA continues working towards its goal of becoming a modern city where transport is concerned, and has just seen work to this end carried out in the Divina Pastora district which local residents will soon benefit from. Due to a lack of underground garages and the high population density of the area, Avenida Doctor Maiz Viñals has undergone a renovation which has created 72 extra parking spaces, already open for use, and the final touches are being put to a new 700 metre stretch of bike path. Mayor Jose Bernal explained that the new bike path will link the northern and southern parts of the city and eventually be joined to a network of paths which will allow free travel on two wheels for all, as a modern sustainable city should.

PINT-SIZED ‘constructed reality’ star and social media junkie Louise Thompson has been in Marbella over the last few days, soaking up some sun alongside new squeeze and man mountain Ryan William Libbey, who is also her personal trainer. Louise is a stalwart of exotically ghoulish series Made In Chelsea (MIC), which specialises in awkward silences, close-ups of posh-looking drinks, love octagons, and ‘major dramz,’ and her ‘gap yah’ musings have earned her a legion of followers on Instagram, Snapchat, and the other usual social media suspects. Her various accounts reportedly went into meltdown as she confirmed that she is dating Libbey, after she recently split from MIC co-star Alik Alfus following a two-year romance, giving the upper-crust New Yorker the elbow in favour of the beefy gym nut. She certainly seems to hold the sturdily built strongman’s Herculean appearance in high regard, having shared photos of Ryan on her Instagram page alongside messages such as “his body is a sick joke,” and “Woof! The view.” Having attended the same school as

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the Middletons, and with Pippa now engaged to the older brother of MIC cast member Spencer Matthews, it remains to be seen whether Louise will view ripped Ry a n a s a s e r i o u s l o n g - t e r m prospect, although what is certain is that she will press on with her unswerving commitment to exposing her own foibles on national television.

TOFF TALKING: Slim thoroughbred Louise is clatteringly posh.

Bust travel group causes holidaymakers distress AROUND 100 people on holiday on the Costa del Sol were affected when LowC os t Tra ve l G roup w e nt bust a fortnight ago, a UGT trades union spokeswoman has reported. A lthough the y w ill be able to claim for compensation, some of those who had booked holidays with the Mallorca-based group were

a s ke d for mone y by the ir hotels if they had not been paid in advance by the company, causing difficulties for many. “ We ’ve s e e n dra ma tic scenes with families literally unable to afford to pay for their holidays all over again,” said Monica Paloma from the UGT in Malaga. She hinted that there were

f i ve or si x hot el s on t he coast which are owed money by t he gr oup, up t o €100,000 in some cases. However Luis Callejon Suñe, head of the Costa del Sol Hoteliers’ Association (Aehcos) said he was only aware of three or four hotels having been affected and the amounts owed ranged from €12,000 to €13,000.

Family doesn’t matter A YOUNG man accused of stealing his uncle’s credit cards and running up a €9,321 bill in 2011 has had his two year and four month jail sentence confirmed by a provincial appeals court. The accused, who was under 18 at the time of the events, was found guilty in court and handed the sentence and a €300 fine after police investigators discovered that he had used the cards to stay at a hotel with his girlfriend, put credit on

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his phone, make purchases online and withdraw €6,850 from cash machines. Although the victim asked for the case to be halted when he discovered it was his nephew who had run up the bills and explained that the young man lived with him and knew his PIN number, Malaga City’s number nine criminal court continued with the case and eventually issued a verdict, which has now been confirmed and upheld by the appeals court.

MALAGA City Council has had to temporarily close off a dog park and admit its error after causing outrage when it was discovered that the park had been built over the site of a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War. While ‘I defecate on your deceased relatives’ is a popular insult in Andalucia, even those with the most perverse senses of hum our f ound t he matter to be in bad taste and although at first it had f ought back, t he council eventually had to backt r ack af t er com plaints and accusations from Malaga’s Historical Memory Association. The error, Town Planning councillor Francisco Pomares (whose resignation was demanded by the opposition over the matter) explained aft er a m eet i ng wi t h t he association head and its archaeologist, arose due to a bureaucratic error. Although the association had provided a report including the exact coordinates of the mass grave in sector eight of t he San Raf ael par k, a former cemetery, from which 1,000 bodies were recovered some years ago, it got stuck in the system and failed to arr i ve at t he depar t m ent meaning the project had been drawn up using incomplete surveys which were not topographically correct. Luckily the error appears to be easy enough to correct as all that is needed is for fences to be moved to reduce the size of the space open to dogs, however i t m ay take more effort to calm relatives of those who were killed by dictator Franco’s troops and buried there who are understandably hurt.

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Open door for the Indi Polo Tournament By Matt Ford GET the Champagne on ice and break out the lobster rolls, because the cream of the world’s polo teams and players have converged on the Santa Maria Club in Sotogrande to compete in the 45th Indi Polo Tournament, which runs for

Pressure to prepare proves effective MARBELLA Council’s battle to make urbanisations in wooded areas meet current regulations and draw up self-protection plans against fire is finally giving results, with 160 of the 174 so far asked for the documents having presented them for approval. The plans, Sustainability councillor Miguel Diaz stressed, are of vital importance to help fight possible fires, especially at this time of year, and it was only during the terrible fire which hit the Costa del Sol in 2012 that the authorities realised how few actually had them. Once presented and approved, Diaz explained, these plans are included in the Local Forest Fire Emergency Plan which splits the area into 93 sectors and details a host of information that could be of use in case of fire for each one. However, the councillor stressed, there is still plenty of work to be done as Marbella contains approximately 800 urbanisations, many near woods, and more than half still have to draw up their plans. Commercial zones must also have their own protection plans, and one example given by the council was that of the grounds where the Starlite Festival is held. Although the festival has been running for five years now, there was no record at the town hall of any protection plan prior to the one which has just been presented.

a full month from July 28 until August 28. The meeting represents a Grand Slam for the royal-approved, toffee-nosed equestrian sport, with eight of the world’s top 10 players taking part as 24 teams of 18 nationalities competing for four separate cups which count towards classification in the World Polo Tour,

of which the most prestigious is the Open-level Gold Cup. Sotogrande is something of a mecca for the bluebloods of European polo, with more than 80,000 visitors expected to attend over the course of the event, glasses of bubbly in hand. In a surprising move, however, spectators

don’t need a trust fund or title to get in on the action, as doors will be thrown open for the hoi polloi, meaning entrance is free on all days except the grand final, for which the price will be a more than reasonable €10, with all proceeds donated to Santa Maria Hippotherapy Centre.

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Barmy backpackers brought back down By Matt Ford A TEAM from the mountain rescue arm of the Guardia Civil swooped into action to rescue four half-baked hikers who had become lost and disorientated on the peak of La Concha, near Marbella. The first emergency call reported that a father and son, aged 50 and 10, respectively had not returned after attempting to summit the famous mountain, leading to the launch of a helicopter to find them, with an on-foot rescue deemed hazardous due to the oven-like conditions. Following a short search the desiccated duo were located, but no sooner had they been transferred to Istan to recover than it was panic stations for a second time, as a message containing GPS details arrived

alongside an SOS from an Irish dad and his young son, who were hemmed in on a steep part of the mountain near La Concepcion dam. Quickest to respond was a trio of firefighters, who set off for the area in a truck, locating a particular ravine that the illequipped ramblers had ascended before getting lost. From there, the eagle-eyed officers were able to pick out their quarries, who had evidently got the willies after somehow finding themselves on a near-inaccessible part of the massif, and the helicopter was once again deployed to save their bacon. Although tired and suffering from dehydration, the terrified twosome was airlifted to safety after a two-hour operation was complicated by the perilous terrain.

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LA CONCHA: Four hikers had to be rescued.

An achievement of sorts A FORTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Maghrebi man has earned himself the dubious privilege of holding the record for being the person arrested with the most drugs inside their body trying to fly out of Malaga-Costa del Sol airport. The obvious nerves and odd behaviour of the arrestee, who was travelling to Ibiza, sparked the suspicions of Guardia Civil officers at air-

port security who decided to send him for an xray after failing to find anything strange in his luggage. The test hit the jackpot, revealing 385 balls of hashish in the manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abdomen, and he was held in hospital for 70 hours until his body eventually released the stash which weighed a total of 2.099 kilos.

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Malaga student wins award By John Smith

THE organisation Soroptimist International Costa del Sol w a s de lighte d to a nnounce that a local student from M a la ga ha s be e n awarded €4,000 from the 2016 Scholarship Fund of Soroptimist Internationa l of Europe (SIE Scholarship) which is only open to women and girls. Laura Domínguez García is a graduate s tude nt a t the U nive rs ity of M a la ga c urre ntly s tudying for a PhD in Linguistic s , Lite ra ture a nd Translation. “ We a re s o ha ppy that our candidate will receive this essential fi-

Laura Domínguez García

nanci al suppor t ,” sai d Daphne Theunissen, President of SI Costa del Sol in Mijas. “One of our primary goals is to help women and gi r l s t hr ough educat i on. Laura was the ideal candidate, because of her international project, her social involvement and her ambition to become one of the leaders of the future. “Thi s i s t he f i r st t i m e we’ve been successful in achieving an SIE Scholarship award for Spain.” The f i nal deci si on on who would be awarded the scholarships was taken during the Governors Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, where over 220 Soroptimists from 62 countries were present. All European members pay an annual fee to SIE, part of whi ch goes t owar ds t hi s amazing Scholarship Fund. The good news was given to Laura while she was att endi ng t he Sor opt i m i st Leader shi p Academ y i n Macedonia, where she participated in practical holistic training to empower and inspire young women to become leaders in their community. Soroptimist International Cost a del Sol i s par t of a wor l dwi de Non- Gover nmental Organisation (NGO) wi t h m or e t han 80,000 members in 132 countries, al l pr of essi onal wom en wor ki ng t oget her t o educate, enable and empower women and girls which was f ounded i n t he USA i n 1921. Next year’s SIE Scholarship will be looking especially for female STEM students (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). For more information visi t www.soropt i mi st .es or Facebook Soroptimist International Costa del Sol.

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Crash and burn plot thickens By Matt Ford A TOTAL of four people have been arrested as investigations into the mysterious burning body discovered in Pinares de San Anton last week, reported by EWN on July 21, continue. The still-smouldering cadaver was discovered in a

hole excavated for planting of olive trees on a farm on the north face of Mount San Anton, while a white vehicle had been dumped close by. The victim has been identified as a 51-year-old-man who had suffered from “some form of mental disability,” while the vehicle had apparently been stolen

by the murderers, with the suspects comprising two men and two women, one of whom is a minor. Initial reconstructions of events suggest the victim was brought from Granada Province to Malaga, before being burned alive, with police believing robbery to be the most likely motive.

Not quite the full shilling IN a moment of comedy gold worthy of a sketch show, a pea-headed cocaine consumer managed to get his dealer busted, after first attempting to purchase his fix from a plain-clothes police officer in Puerto Banus. The gormless vendee initially sidled up to the undercover copper and nervously waved a €50

note at him, while muttering a name in a questioning fashion, with the brainy bizzy replying that he had got the wrong man. After calling in reinforcements, the cops saw him making several phone calls, with a man then emerging to hand him a cigarette packet which contained white powder in exchange for the €50.

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Obey! Obey! Obey!

AUTOMATON: Mayor Mula (second left) on her way around the exhibit. By Matt Ford A TRAVELLING exhibition showcasing the latest in converging technologies is now open on Fuengirola’s seafront boardwalk in the Los Boliches district, until August 28. The futuristic display entitled ‘Tecnorrevolucion,’ enables visitors to see firsthand just how close humanity is to an Orwellian-style reality, with robots and all-seeing computers set to control our lives before people realise what is going on.

Among the first to take in this celebration of intelligent technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other tech-related wizardry was Ana Mula, mayor of Fuengirola, who took in all six of the interactive ‘modules’ which dominate the space. The exhibit focuses on how converging technologies can be used for social welfare rather than control, and Mula explained: “Among the many ac-

tivities that are taking place to mark Fuengirola’s 175th anniversary, this is one of them, and in this exhibition we can see and experience very strange things like how it is to interact with a robot.” The free exhibition is opposite Hotel Angela and open from 11am to 2pm, and 6pm to midnight seven days per week.

Kicking up a stink EMPLOYEES of two court houses in Torremolinos and Fuengirola, respectively, may resort to bulk-ordering of clothes pegs due to the humming conditions at their places of work, where “unsustainable foul odours are being r e l e a se d b y th e drains.” The pongy problem has apparently been ongoing for years, with the Occupational Health Committee having been advised on several occasions, but conditions continue to deteriorate, with the F uengir o l a b u i l d i n g n o w surrounded by fences due to chunks of it falling off, and staff having to enter the dilapidated structure by a side door to ensure their personal safety. In Torremolinos, workers’ w oes ar e c o m p o u n d e d b y the dodgy air-conditioning, which leaks water “continuously,” forcing the cheesed

o ff e mp lo y ee s to in s ta ll c u p s a n d s a u ce p an s n e a r their desks, adding Chinese

water torture to the list of shame driving them up the wall.

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Spending to save lives

PUBLIC BUILDINGS: Are to have defibrillators. By Eleanor Hawkins MIJAS has become even more heart-friendly this week with the installation of five new semi-automatic defibrillators in public buildings. The council has spent €6,400 on the equipment, which is being fitted at the council offices in Las Lagunas

and La Cala de Mijas, Mijas Town Hall, the social services office and at the municipal services warehouse, Human Resources and Work Safety councillor Jose Carlos Martin reported. The defibrillators, similar to those already in place at the Las Lagunas sports centre and in one of the fire brigade’s vehi-

cles, can be used by anyone who has undergone basic first aid and reanimation training and has been taught how to use the equipment. A similar piece of equipment has also been installed on Plaza de España in Casares and waiters and staff from nearby shops and restaurants are being taught how to use it.

Four fugitives caught MARBELLA’S Local Police arrested four fugitives in 10 days this week, two of them locals, one a Moroccan and the other a Brazilian. The four were unfortunate enough to be stopped by police officers for other reasons and upon checking their data three of them were found to have arrest and remand orders pend-

ing while there was also an order from a court to check the address and location of the fourth. The two Spaniards were stopped in a car in San Pedro and found to be carrying drugs, plus the driver had lost his licence. The Brazilian was in a car crash and failed a breathalyser test and the Moroccan stole a car battery.

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Pokemon fever spreads FIVE teenagers had to be invited to leave a four-star hotel in Marbella last week after employees spotted

them by the swimming pool hunting for Pokemon. The trespassers, who later apologised to the hotel manager, said that they had no idea they were not allowed to go onto private property.

While they were chasing virtual creatures with their mobile phones they wandered into the swimming pool area of the BlueBay Banus hotel and ended up infecting holidaymakers at the fully booked hotel

with the apparent fever which is spreading across the world with regards to the new game. It led others to foll ow sui t as t hey st ar t ed t o reach for their mobile phones too as the craze caught on.

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Alleged burglar detained THE Guardia Civil has arrested a 41-year-old man in Las Lagunas, Mijas Costa, suspected of being behind four burglaries in the area over the last few weeks. The suspect was tracked down and remanded in custody following investigations into the burglary of a local church, where the thief broke glass in a threemetre high central ceiling dome to get into the building and escaped with €1,000 in cash after causing extensive damage inside. Investigators linked the incident to two at nearby business premises and one in a private residence days beforehand.

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THE TUI Discovery made its first stop at Malaga Port on Thursday (July 21). The 264 metre long cruise ship with capacity for 2,074 passengers arrived from Cadiz at 8am and stayed until 6pm before leaving for Cartagena and is expected to stop off in Malaga three more times this year, once in August, once in September and once in October.

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Help’s at hand

VICTIM SUPPORT: Support and information is completely free of charge. By Eleanor Hawkins EIGHTY women, victims of domestic or sexual abuse, have sought assistance from the Andalucian Women’s Institue (IAM) over the first half the year in Malaga Province. The IAM’s psychological attention service deals with an average of 1,400 women in Andalucia each year, which Andalucian government delegate Jose Luis Ruiz Espejo has described as a “terrifying number, but at least it shows that victims trust us to help them improve their situations.” During presentation of a report on the institute’s work between January and June, Ruiz Espejo, regional Equality, Health and Social Policies delegate Ana Isabel Gonzalez and IAM provincial coordinator

50 per cent of attackers are already aquainted with their victims. Rosa del Mar Rodriguez explained that the service, via its free helpline 900 200 999, provides information and psychological and legal support for victims of abuse completely free of charge, “as finances cannot be allowed to influence a woman’s ability to seek help.” Of the women who seek assistance and support from the IAM, 33 per cent are aged between 18 and 27, 44 per cent between 28 and 37 and 22 per cent between 38 and 47, the institute has reported. Of particular note is the fact that 38 per cent of attacks or abuse are reg-

istered within the home environment with 50 per cent of attackers already acquainted with their victims. Public awareness is an important factor in the fight against violence, Rodriguez stated, which “is a social problem due to its frequency and because it goes against women’s human rights.” A survey by the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency has revealed that one in 10 European women have suffered sexual aggression at some point in their lives and one in 20 have been raped, in many cases by someone from within their circle of acquaintances. The head of the Malaga branch of the IAM said, “we need more social implication to encourage education based on equality and respect.”

Driver causes crash A TAXI overturned at a roundabout on the access road to Malaga-Costa del Sol airport on Monday afternoon (July 25) after being hit by a Seat Ibiza whose driver ignored a give way sign, 112 Emergency Services sources have reported.

T h e ta xi drive r is re c ove ring from scrapes and bruises and a sore neck but has luckily suffered no serious injuries. He said: “I heard the squeal of the other driver’s brakes but I didn’t have time to avoid the impact.”

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coastal conurbation now houses many middle-class commuters who work in Malaga City, which places third with €23,955. Malaga is just the 26th richest city in Andalucia, however, and the provincial capital finishes a lowly 500th if the entire country is taken into account. The poorest in Spain is Zafarraya, which is located in Granada province but has clear links to Malaga, while for Malaga it’s Almachar in Axarquia, the third most-deprived nationwide.

Exploring ‘ear’ RESIDENTS and visitors to Casares should not be surprised to spot people wandering around wearing headsets and staring intently at certain buildings, monuments, and other features, since the town has just acquired 30 audio guides of the type normally seen in museums and art galleries. The contraptions are available in Spanish, English, German and French, as ‘council research’ suggested these are the most commonly used by foreigners in the municipality, with the devices available for hire from the Casa Natal and Blas Infante cultural centre.

SMURF VILLAGE: Will soon renew its blue facade.

A bluer shade of smurf By Eleanor Hawkins THE mayor of Juzcar, the Serrania de Ronda’s smurf village, has announced that Sony and other sponsors have agreed to spend €70,000 to repaint the village blue. The blue village, which has become a popular tourist attraction since it decided to go blue for smurfs and has not been repainted since the second movie was

presented there in 2011, will be given a new lick of paint between September and December and one of the conditions Mayor Francisco Lorenzo Fernandez insisted upon during talks with the multinational company was that local jobless people are employed to do the work. Two hundred homes and public buildings (everything in the village except the cemetery and two homes whose owners

Lorenzo is currently trying to talk into letting the colour of their houses be changed) will therefore be ready and waiting if, as the mayor has hinted, the village is chosen for the presentation of the third movie. As the council prepares activities for the next busy season, Lorenzo has also said they intend to negotiate with Sony to try and obtain the official title of Smurf Village.

Lucky swine has bacon saved ECOLOGICAL action group ‘Equo’ has expressed its satisfaction that the bizarre ‘greased pig’ children’s race will no longer take place in the Antequera hamlet of La Joya. The event, described as ‘unfortunate,’ involves lubricating an adolescent porker with lard, before the hapless hog is forced to go hell for leather across a course, with a bevy of screaming children hot on its trotters as they try to catch it. As the race unfolds, adults begin to join the bedlam, which culminates in an intergenerational swine-scuffle that has been heavilycriticised by campaigners, who propound that the

tradition contravenes both regional and national animal cruelty legislation. Equo spokesman, Francisco Sanchez, boomed: “We have gifted the children of La Joya with a great lesson, teaching them that it is possible to have fun without animal cruelty, and that

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BENAHAVIS is Malaga Province’s richest town, according to data gleaned from the national tax agency for the financial year of 2013, although it is not even in the top 100 richest municipalities in Spain. The average gross income of the mountain village’s inhabitants is €29,410, boosted chiefly by residents of housing development La Zagaleta. Surprisingly, Rincon de la Victoria is second with average income of €26,417, because the

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gives us great satisfaction. “We are happy with a shared job well done, and hopefully this will set a precedent for the rest of Andalucia and Spain.”

PIGGY PARDON: This piglet is no longer sweating.

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A right royal pain By Matt Ford A BRITISH man has been detained in Marbella, after a Saudi Prince had his night out ruined as the Lamborghini Aventador he was driving was impounded amid suspicions that it had been stolen. The drama began as a Local Police patrol was conducting a routine vehicle check on Avenida Naciones Unidas, one of the principal roads feeding swanky Puerto Banus, and elected to inspect the high-end motor, which has a market value in excess of €360,000. On board the flying machine was a 31-year-old man with surname Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a member of the current Saudi Royal Family who have long been known to holiday in the ritzy resort. The vehicle showed up in the police’s database with an in-

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SHEIKH A LEG: The prince did not drive the car home. triguing series of notes, as a German national who had reported the car stolen in London several weeks ago had spotted it cruising the streets of Marbella, leading him to inform the National Police that he believed the vehicle to be his, although they could not access the report that the man had filed in Britain.

Following a round of questions, the princely pilot produced a full, valid driving licence, but was unable to offer any documentation for the car, since there was nothing in the glove box, although he did have signed paperwork to prove that he had rented it from a local firm specialising in upmarket rides.

The vehicle was promptly seized, although reports suggest that no charges will be pressed on the hapless driver, who presumably was not required to walk home. Officers then visited the director of the rental agency, a 31-year-old man who holds dual Indian-British citizenship, and owns properties in Westminster and on a luxury Marbella urbanisation. When the vehicle’s documentation was examined, it transpired that they did not match the vehicle’s British registration, and instead corresponded to a set of temporary German plates which had expired on June 22. On further inspection, it became clear that the British plates were ‘entirely false,’ leading to the arrest of the Brit, who is also apparently sales director of a bespoke luxury car sales firm in London, on charges of forgery.

Beware of cheeky free newspaper sellers By John Smith THERE is always somebody who wants to try to take advantage of people who don’t know exactly what is going on and from time to time we hear of ‘entrepreneurs’ who walk around tourist areas and beaches offering to sell free newspapers like ours for €1. Flattered as we are that so many people think that Euro Weekly News is worth paying for (and is probably cheap at €1), we need to warn all of our readers that a free paper is exactly that so don’t get caught out by what is a scam when there are so many distribution points around all of the areas we cover. If for any reason there is any difficulty in obtaining your favourite English language newspaper on a regular basis, do please let us know and we will do our best to rectify the situation. Euro Weekly News - great value for money

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Heave-ho no no By Matt Ford A YOUNG man who served nine y e a r s b e h i n d b ars has been re-arrested for attemp t i n g t o b u m p o ff his ex-girlfriend’s new partner, not 24 hours after being r e l e a se d f r o m th e slammer. Several witnesses were privy t o t h e e v e n t , a ll o f whom described observing a man c r e e p u p an d

wordlessly stab a second c h ap in th e b a c k on Calle Quevedo, San Pedro de Alcantara, leaving the v ictim w o u n d ed o n t he ground in front of his girlfriend. As police arrived on th e s c e n e th ey ten d e d to th e w o u n d e d ma n a nd p as s e d a d e s c rip tio n of the assailant to colleagues, who located the 30-year-old a t h is h o me w ith c u ts a ll

over his hands and a bloodcoated kitchen knife measuring 20 centimetres hidde n be tw e e n a be d a nd a wall. The victim’s sweetheart informed cops that the trio had earlier had an ugly confronta tion, w ith he r e x s e e mingly una ble to le t go despite her ending the relationship when he was handed the nine-year sentence.

Fear in the camp THE crime-trampling Guardia Civil have detained four men of Romanian origin who are accused of committing a series of robberies on campsites close to the village of Mollina, near Fuente de Piedra. According to the official report, the contemptible quartet targeted elderly motor home owners, the majority of whom were English, located on leased plots. The attackers were far from subtle, using violent methods, including the use of elec-

trical cable to tie up their unfortunate victims, and even threatening them with an axe, with the strong-arm tactics allowing them to walk away with more than €22,000 in cash, jewellery worth more than €6,000 and various items of electronic equipment, stereos and laptops. The perpetrators were identified by witness accounts and DNA which was extracted from a piece of clothing left behind following one of the hold-ups.

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Brand new wheels for nature officers MALAGA Province’s Environmental officers have four new vehicles to aid them in their important work, the Junta de Andalucia regional government’s Environmental and Land Planning department has reported. Three all terrain vehicles have been replaced in the northern area of the province, Genal valley and the Axarquia area, and an all terrain pick-up truck has also been purchased to collect injured wild animals and transport them to recovery centres. Altogether the 120 officers across the province have access to 92 vehicles, which the Junta is gradually modernising to allow for a better service, regional delegate Adolfo Moreno explained.

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Social cleansing Photo Credit Ayuntamiento de Estepona

By Matt Ford ESTEPONA has joined most other Costa del Sol municipalities by announcing an intensified street cleaning effort over the summer months, particularly around the seafront and old town. Deputy sociocultural and services councillor, Blas Ruzafa, explained that one of the primary offensives this year will be twice-daily sorties on the touristladen promenade, with an extra scrubbing and sweeping operation to take place between 5pm and 8pm on a daily basis. This will complement the usual early-morning wash-down and hydro cleaning effort, while the historic centre will receive regular additional hosings from a new light vehicle equipped with a motorised pump and 1,000 litres of water impregnated with a potent chemical cocktail featuring a degreaser and scented with pine and bishop’s weed. The ebullient council hasn’t stopped there, with two new hy-

CLEAN TEAM: The councillor and staff, plus one of the new vans. dro cleaning vans capable of unleashing high pressure blasts of hot water having been added to the local fleet, with eight new

members of staff added to the team. Ruzafa also underlined that citizen participation is essential

in maintaining the town’s squeaky clean image, imploring residents to use public waste bins, and ensure that household

waste is transferred to municipal containers in closed bags by 9pm in order to prevent unpleasant odours.

Vaccinations good news for parents ANDALUCIA will include the pneumococcal

vaccine on the health service’s vaccination cal-

endar by the end of this y e a r, H e a l t h D e l e g a t e Aquilino Alonso announced, with three doses to be given to babies a t t w o , f o u r a n d 11 months old. Alonso explained he expects the contract for provision of vaccinations to be awarded within the next few weeks. After that has been completed the logistics will need to be organised to guarantee that all children in the region will have access to the injections, which can help prevent some cases of pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis. The news will be welcomed by parents, who have previously had to pay up to €90 per dose to have their youngsters vaccinated.

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A PROJECT to ‘reinstate’ local tomato varieties in favour of the uniform blandness of commercial hybrids appears to be bearing fruit, with the number of producers on the up.

Dutch visit AS they prepare for their land to be engulfed by the rising North Sea, the Dutch are invading the Costa del Sol, with tourist numbers up by almost 20 per cent on 2015.

Kettle of fish YET more fish and seafood that is immature or breaches traceability regulations has been seized in Malaga, with 703 kilos, including 495 kilos of mussels confiscated from Mercamalaga by inspectors.

ONCE OVER: Jose Carlos Martin in front of the plaza.

By Matt Ford MIJAS’ infrastructure councillor, Jose Carlos Martin, has been checking on progress in Plaza Virgen de la Peña, where maintenance work is due to be completed by August 4. There have been some obstacles along the way, not least the unearthing of archaeological findings, although the chief con-

troversy was when irate residents and local business owners converged on the town hall because they had not been made aware of the nature and timescale of the work. Naturally, this was the fault of the previous administration rather than the current incumbents, and it was left to heroic mayor, Juan Carlos Maldonado, to step in and calm his seething subjects and agree to a series of measures with them, since

the project was too far down the line to cancel. Martin was keen to stress that this sort of situation will not repeat itself under the current regime, since citizen participation is high on their list of priorities when implementing new policies, citing the recent decision to restore the Fuente de los Siete Caños following public rejection of its scrapping.

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Angolan arrested LOCAL POLICE in Malaga were forced to arrest a Frenchman of Angolan origin, after guests alerted staff that screams and shouts were emanating from a second floor room of the hotel they were staying in. Once on the scene, officers hotfooted it to the scene, where they hammered on the door and put an arm lock on the perpetrator, before rushing to the aid of a 19year-old Swiss girl who was lying on the floor at the back of the wrecked room. Using hand gestures, she explained that the man had twice punched her in the face, pointing to reddened, swollen areas on her nose and mouth. The girl agreed to make a statement

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Brit’s driving ends in arrest A BRITISH man has been accused of offences against road safety, drunk and dangerous driving, disobedience and attacking police officers following a high-speed chase through the streets near Sotogrande marina in the early hours of the morning. A Local Police patrol from San Roque was sent to investigate after private security guards at the marina reported there was a sports car speeding and endangering pedestrians and upon their arrival, officers spotted a Jaguar which matched the description. However rather than halting as ordered, the driver sped away and was chased until eventually the police officers and security guards forced him to stop. Even then, the driver put up a fight, ramming the patrol car and struggling with officers during his arrest, the local council’s Citizens’ Security department has reported. One of the officers was injured during the incident and was taken for medical treatment.

The beautiful people By Matt Ford PEPE LOPEZ, Antonio Rodriguez, Maria Sanchez and Ana Gutierrez are not household names, but all four are Andalucian and considered the most attractive people in Spain according to a recent public vote. Now, a nationwide survey by a contact lens company has revealed that the people of Andalucia are more satisfied with their personal appearance than in any other part of the country, with a whopping 62 per cent radiant about their outward form. More surprising still, is that a glance at the most preferred body parts of Andalucians reveals a distinct lack of meat, with eyes the overwhelming favourite, and “an intense gaze” the most powerful weapon of seduction, closely followed by a perfect natural tan. The report concludes with the vaguely churlish

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FOLLOWING an agreement with the owners, a plot of land in Aldea Beach, by Manilva’s Playa del Negro beach, is to be conditioned as a parking area for beachgoers. The area is currently being prepared for use.

Speedy bike A MOTORCYCLIST faces charges for an offence against road safety after being caught by the Guardia Civil doing 175 kmph in a 60 kmph zone. The 34-year-old biker was caught on the A-357 road near Pizarra.

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THE EYES HAVE IT: Andalucians’ fave body part. remark that “no matter how distorted reality can be

viewed through the mirror of an Andalucian, the im-

portant thing is that it will be.”

A NEW Local Police office has opened to the public in San Luis de Sabinillas, Manilva. Initially the office will be open from 8.30am to 2.30pm Mondays to Fridays.

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Useful discovery By Eleanor Hawkins A NEW parking area has been created in Torreguadiaro on a 7,200m2 plot of land in the Los Alamos area which the mayor has admitted the council didn’t even know it owned. Following years of complaints of a lack of parking by local businessowners, particularly in the summer months when the number of vehicles and people in the area multiplies, council

workers began to look through the books to see what could be done about the problem, Mayor Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix explained during a visit to the new car park to inspect it. “Growth had not allowed for public grounds, there was just one near the church, on Calle La Escuela. Yet when we checked the inventory, we found this plot which neither council staff nor politicians were aware was municipal prop-

e r t y. T h e Wo r k s a n d S e rvices Department has tidied the land up and now there is space there for hundreds of cars,” the mayor said. The plot can be found n e a r t h e e n t r a n c e t o To rreguadiaro, just before a statue of a woman by Sergio Galea. However as it is on rough grounds and a little further away, the mayor has recommended that it is used only when the parking spaces on the sea front are full.

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COASTAL FOOTPATH: Three new sections have now received funding. ESTEPONA and Malaga Provincial Councils have formed a deadly duo of tourism potential in order to fund three new sections of the ‘senda litoral’ coastal footpath, which will eventually link the entire Costa del Sol. With an investment of €1.1 million, work will thus begin on the segments at Hacienda Beach-La Chimenea, Punta de la Plata, and El Roquero-Punta Doncella, as

Estepona is now second only to Marbella in terms of the number of kilometres of completed walkway. Provincial president, Elias Bendodo and mayor of Estepona, Jose Maria Garcia Urbano, both appeared as pleased as Punch when making the announcement, with the plans having already been ratified by the Junta de Andalcia regional government.

Volunteers receive praise THE Civil Protection team in Alhaurin de la Torre has been praised by the council for their work to find a man who went missing in the area last week. Citizens’ Security councillor Salvador Herrera told the

volunteers they were an example to follow and thanked them for their professionalism. The man, a 46-year-old resident of Pinos de Alhaurin, was reported missing by relatives in the early hours

of the morning on July 19 and volunteers searched virtually all night, eventually finding him in good health in a parked car in the Comendador Alto area about 10 hours later.

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Pilgrims prepare A GROUP of 35 people from Huercal-Overa who are setting off on July 31 to do the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage were invited to the town hall last week and presented with t-shirts so they can take their hometown’s image with them on their travels. The pilgrims will be walking from Lugo to Santiago cathedral, covering just over 100 kilometres in five days. Local Mayor Domingo Fernandez said: “We’re always working to promote Huercal and this group will be taking its name and our emblem, the symbol of the Tree of Life, with them on their adventure.” Along with their t-shirts the pilgrims received their accreditation documents from the Almeria Jacobea pilgrims association which will be used to register their itinerary.

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Don’t make reservations LOCAL POLICE in Torrox have taken a combative approach to people reserving spots on the beach. Police in the town have begun removing umbrellas and other items which have been used to keep a space on the town’s beaches.

Strings attached NERJA councillor Jorge Bravo Gallardo will be managing the presentation of the first Nerja Puppet Festival from August 1113. The event promises to be a spectacular for people of all ages.

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THE religious sisterhood of Jesus Maria in Albox will say goodbye to the town at the end of this month (July). After 40 years of serving the congregation and community, the group will be disbanded and the nuns will move to pastures new.

A 20-YEAR-OLD injured three people in a bar in Playa de Palma in Mallorca when he jumped from the first floor balcony into the crowd. Apparently he wanted to be caught by the people standing below who were, however, not aware of his intentions.

VILLENA will site firework displays at the Castle during the Moors and Christians fiestas. Although trees there are inside the official 25-metre fireworks exclusion zone, they are in a park and are not woodland, the town hall argued.

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THE prestigious La Manga Club has joined forces with Cricket Ireland and Cricket Scotland to create a European Cricket Performance Centre. The agreement has seen the sports and leisure resort based on the Mar Menor sign a 10- year agreement with the two organisations to develop an overseas warm-weather training base.

DOG-OWNERS in Torre Del Mar will soon be allowed to let their furry friends roam free on the beach. A dog beach, measuring 250 metres is currently being planned by the municipal authorities. Swimming will be banned in the area as required by Spanish law.

A MOROCCAN man who escaped from Almeria courts through a fire escape some weeks ago has been caught burgling a house in the El Zapillo district and arrested, a government spokesman has reported.

SOLDIERS stationed on Cabrera found 30 kilos of hashish during a clean-up operation on the island off the south of Mallorca. The drugs were hidden in a coloured bag near the Es Burril Beach. The island is a military restricted area and the material found was handed over to the Guardia Civil.

THE body of a Romanian resident in Jijona found dead in his bath by a friend showed no signs of violence although the Guardia Civil investigators have opened an enquiry. They now await the autopsy results, sources said.

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GUARDAMAR Town Hall has released a number of job vacancies through the local employment agency including positions within restaurants, pharmacies and shops. A native English teacher is also needed. Call 965 729 014 for information.

VELEZ-MALAGA Town Hall has received €110,000 in funding to aid young entrepreneurs in the town. The money has come from the Cameral Foundation Institute for the Creation and Development of Business, through the Youth Entrepreneurship Sustainability (YES) scheme.

Garrucha-Go GARRUCHA Council has issued a warning to users of the new PokemonGo game. Some users have been crossing the street without being aware of traffic while looking for the character. The council acknowledged however that the game had attracted people to the town.

Risk reduction EMERGENCY repairs to the north wall of the first precinct of the Alcazaba of Almeria have been announced by the Junta de Andalucia regional government after an archaeologist discovered the wall was seriously deteriorated and could put passers-by at risk.

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GLORIA GAYNOR, the queen of disco music converted Port Adriano into a real dance floor on Saturday July 23. An audience of all ages danced to her legendary hits Never Can Say Goodbye, I Am What I Am and I Will Survive.

THE official Colleges of Pharmacists in Alicante, Castellon and Valencia signed an agreement with the regional government regarding payment of prescriptions. This will now be paid within 30 days after being filed, the Generalitat’s Health department pledged.

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IN view of the prevailing drought in Mallorca several municipalities on the island have decided to rationalise water consumption. Particularly in the Tramuntana region and in the middle of the island consumption will be limited and controlled by the Local Police.

THE Calvari chapel in San Juan was again defaced with graffiti. The walls of the chapel, a listed building, were cleaned two weeks earlier to remove spray-painted slogans but more graffiti with the same tags has since reappeared.

A COGNITIVE impairment programme has been organised by the AFA association of relatives of Alzheimer’s disease in San Fulgencio. It runs from 10am-12pm, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Civic Centre.

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SUPERCROSS rider David Braceras from Guardamar, participated in the Spanish Supercross Championship 2016 in Fuente Alamo, Murcia. He took part in the SX85 category and came second.

Good news OWNERS of irregular homes across Andalucia breathed sighs of relief on Wednesday (July 20), as the Andalucian parliament approved modifications to the LOUA (Andalucian Land Planning Law) which will save between 20,000 and 25,000 homes from demolition.

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Go ahead SWEDISH energy giant Vattenfall has confirmed it will develop a wind farm off the coast of Scotland despite fierce opposition from Donald Trump, who owns a nearby golf course.

Castle dreaming SWEDEN: A fairytale castle on a lake two hours south of Stockholm has gone on sale for the price of a one-room apartment in the capital. It costs ‘just’ 3.5m kronor (€370,000) but the new owner will have to dig deep as its interior was completely destroyed by fire.

Body recovered THE body of a woman was pulled from the water when a car careered off the road after clipping two parked cars and plunged into a Scottish river next to a busy shopping centre in Renfrew, near Glasgow.

Baggage claim A ‘TECHNICAL fault’ which occurred at Heathrow airport meant

BRITISH PRESS thousands of passengers went on holiday without their luggage. The glitch affected all airlines.

High alert

A RAID on a home in Bavaria uncovered an assortment of knives and guns as well as more unusual weapons. The owner had come to the attention of police for making racially hateful comments against foreigners and Jews.

THE UK was put on high alert as armed police arrested a knifeman and suspected gunman in incidents at seaside towns. A 35-year-old man was arrested in Brighton for brandishing a knife with a 30-year-old arrested in Ramsgate armed with a gun.

Cop out

BOB GELDOF: Stopped his performance in Essex.

A WOMAN has been fined €8,500 for refusing to show a plain-clothed police officer her ID following a minor accident. She said she did not believe he was a police officer and almost ran him over trying to drive away.

Fans trapped AROUND 500 football fans were trapped on a train on the way to the Allianz Arena in Munich when it broke down. No one was seriously hurt, but two people had to be treated for exhaustion.

Medals gone NORWAY: Cross-country skier Martin Sundby has been stripped of his wins in the 2015 Tour de Ski and banned for two months for using banned asthma drug Ventoline.

Female crime DANISH women are closing the gender gap when it comes to crime as figures show that since 1980, the proportion of law violations committed by women has doubled from 10 to 20 per cent.

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SWEDEN: An international team has been sent home from the World Youth Club, a major Swedish children’s football tournament, after their manager was arrested for allegedly groping teenage girls at the opening ceremony.

NORWAY: A couple took their wedding photos to new heights as the newlyweds from Tromso asked their photographer to carry his equipment on a 3.4 kilometre hike to 900m above sea level to the peak of Vasstinden on the island of Kvaloya.

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SIXTY per cent of Germans think internet users should be forced to use their real names on social networks and internet forums. More than 80 per cent of those aged over 59 thought real names should be obligatory.

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Boring and tame HUNDREDS walked out of a music festival in Essex after Bob Geldof launched a foul-mouthed tirade at the crowd for wearing Primark. He stopped his performance after one song, complaining the family event was ‘boring and tame.’

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HIGHEST RISE: In Amsterdam house prices have rocketed.

House prices increase HOUSE prices rose in the Netherlands 4.6 per cent last month compared with June 2015, the highest rise in almost nine years. In Amsterdam, house prices have rocketed and are now 7 per cent higher than their precrisis peak.

DUTCH PRESS according to a study of fundraising at 40 of the country’s largest charities.

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DUTCH charities are benefiting from the economic recovery, with donations rising 3.6 per cent last year,

THREE people remain in intensive care after falling ill during the Nijmegen Vierdaagse, a four-day march-

ing event. Some 2,000 of the 44,000 walkers dropped out on the second day of the event, which was the hottest day of the year so far.

Pay back A MAN jailed eight years ago for money laundering and forgery has been ordered to pay back €58.5m to the State as part of Dutch legislation which aims to strip criminals of their ill-gotten gains.

AIRLINE Lufthansa has cut its full-year profit forecast “due to increasing political and economic uncertainties.” In the first half of the year Lufthansa reported earnings of €529 million: 13 per cent more than 2015.

Recycle bomb A DISTRICT court in Bochum has issued arrest warrants for two suspects in connection with a bomb that was set off in a recycling station at a Lidl in April. The married couple are accused of attempting to extort the supermarket chain for millions of euros.

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PERSIAN LEOPARDS: Their survival is under threat.

Money talks A SKI resort in Sochi has come under fire for expansion plans which threaten the survival of rare Persian leopards who used to roam the region freely. A recent vote in the Russian parliame nt w e a ke ne d e nvironmental regulations leading to the U N de s c ribing the a re a a s a ‘w orld he rita ge site in danger.’

Crushing dissent A PROMINENT critic of authoritarian rule in Russia, B e la rus a nd U kra ine w a s murdered in a car bomb atta c k in K ie v. Pa vel Sheremet, a renowned journa lis t, is thought to ha ve been targeted for his work which has seen him awarded internationally for his s e rvic e s to both fre e dom and democracy.

Super Sharapova D ESPITE a rough ye a r which saw her admit to taking ba nne d s ubs ta nc e s, Maria Sharapova has once again been named Russia’s highest earning celebrity. The tennis player and spons ors hip que e n took in roughly €20 million in 2015-16 a c c ording to

Monumental mistake LOCAL residents in the city of Oryol are furious over plans to erect a massive statue of 16th century Tsar Ivan the Terrible next to a children’s theatre to celebrate the city’s 450th anniversary. A petition has been launched and politicians have denounced the associ at i on wi t h I van’s barbaric reign.

Forbes magazine who declared the second-highest earner to be ice hockey star Alexander Ovechkin.

Close encounters A TROLLEYBUS travelling through the northern city of Petrozavodsk was st r uck by l i ght ni ng and promptly burst into flames but all the passengers and driver miraculously escaped with no injuries. The subarctic city is known for its cel est i al si ght i ngs wi t h wi despr ead r epor t s of ‘glowing balls’ and UFOS.

Disney dilemma DONALD DUCK has

TSAR: Ivan the Terrible.

been rehabilitated in Kamchat ka af t er t he r egi on’s highest court revoked a ruling describing the Disney icon’s adventures during the Nazi period as ‘extremist material’ in 2010. I t t ook l awyer s year s to explain that the cartoon was m eant t o sat i r i se t he Nazi r egi m e not suppor t it.

Quack Quack ANOTHER Donald, who may well have his paws on the nuclear codes, has said that he would not automatically leap to a NATO member ’s defence if they were attacked by Russia. Donald Tr um p, t he Republ i can presidential nominee, has called NATO obsolete and pledged to make pals with Putin.

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Eurotunnel profits hit by Brexit By John Smith COMPANIES that have to make large payments in foreign currencies or like Eurotunnel have to report sterling sales in euros, have found that the drop in the value of sterling has caused them considerable difficulty and forced them to reduce their profit forecasts quite considerably. In the case of Eurotunnel, this means

is the amount that Eurotunnel estimates it will have to reduce 2016 forecasts by because of the Brexit vote.

MARIO DRAGHI: President of the European Central Bank.

Interest rates held IN its first meeting since the results of the British referendum were made known, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided on July 21 to keep interest rates on hold and not to increase as some had anticipated. It now appears that the central bank, which exists to cover the needs of the members of the Eurozone, expects rates to remain at record lows or fall to lower levels for an extended period of time. Although primarily owned

the 2016 forecast is reduced by 4.5 per cent to €535 and 2017 forecasts are also reduced by a little over 4 per cent. This particularly affects Eurotunnel as 80 per cent of its passenger traffic is with UK customers paying in sterling and the bulk of profit comes from passenger rather than freight traffic. Shares in the company saw a major fall following the Brexit vote and although they have recovered to some

Access to the single market cannot be guaranteed unless free movement of workers is respected.” French President Francois Hollande on Brexit.

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by the members of the Eurozone, the Bank of England also technically holds nearly 14 per cent of unpaid share capital in the bank, third only to Germany and France and 60 per cent more than Spain. All economic eyes will be on anticipated statements from bank president Italian Mario Draghi who is yet to make a definitive observation on the thorny topic of how Britain leaving the European Union is likely to affect Europe’s economy.

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HSBC arrest ON the evening of July 19, Mark Johnson, head of global foreign exchange trading for HSBC, was arrested at Kennedy airport and has been charged, with former colleague Stuart Scott, of being involved in a $3.5 billion (€3.18 billion) insider trading scam. This arrest follows recent revelations by the American authorities of the pressure brought to bear by the British government to protect the same bank from prosecution for alleged money laundering and may be seen as a reaction by the US Department of Justice to that news.

Bankia benefits FOLLOWING an announcement made in January 2016 that it would be removing fees for up to 2.4 million retail customers Bankia now reports that after six months, it has not only retained its core base but has attracted more than 100,000 new customers who benefit from reduced charges when they credit their salaries or pensions to their accounts on a monthly basis.

Sophisticated Malaysian fraud THE Government of Singapore has announced that it will be taking action on any bank which it considers to have been involved in any irregularities which may include money laundering in association with the scandal affecting 1MDB, a Malaysian state fund. Four banks including Standard Chartered and

£40 million (€48 million) is the amount of income lost by easyJet in the four weeks following the Brexit result due to the drop in value of sterling.

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UBS have been implicated in the Singapore enquiries and $177 million (€160 million) has been seized from individuals said to be involved in a sophisticated fraud which it is alleged has seen $3.5 billion (€3.18 billion) removed from the Malaysian economy according to US investigators.

extent, they are still some 16 per cent lower and it is not just caused by the Brexit but also the fact that Eurostar has suffered a drop in passengers due to fear of terrorist activities in both Brussels and Paris. Conversely, some luxury companies such as McLaren Automotive who export their luxury cars mainly to the USA should see an increase in sales as prices drop in dollar terms.

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Spanish deficit THE Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility has published the fact that it does not believe that the Spanish economy will meet any of the targets that were set by either the Stability programme or the agreement that was reached with the European Union. It fears that with the lack of a settled government and a deterioration in public accounts during 2016 that the deficit could exceed agreed targets by as much as 1 per cent.

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FINANCE, BUSINESS & LEGAL

Surprising news from Chancellor NOT unsurprisingly, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond is being closely monitored by the world’s financial sectors and now on his first trip to a G20 meeting in China, he has caused quite a surprise by saying that he may use the Autumn Budget Statement to ‘reset’ Britain’s financial policy if this was considered necessary. After the statement by Theresa May that the government would not look to return to surplus by 2020, this announcement by Mr Hammond at such an important meeting certainly indicates that the government may well be ready to change fiscal policy quite dramatically as it seeks to steady the economy in the wake of the Brexit vote. Mr Hammond said at the meeting with fellow Finance Ministers on July 22, “Over the medium term we will have the opportunity with our Autumn Statement, our regular late year fiscal event, to reset fiscal policy if we deem it necessary to do so in the light of the data that will emerge over the coming months.” For someone who has been considered as conservative with a small c, this came almost as a bolt out of the blue as it suggests that Britain may well follow a much more radical course than that set by the previous Chancellor. Already public borrowing has begun to show

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HAMMOND’S HOME: The Treasury building in London where the new Chancellor may ‘reset’ the Autumn Budget Statement. signs of slowing down although it is still likely that the 2016 figure could still exceed the original forecast but a new policy could see additional borrowing to allow further investment in housing and the infrastructure of the UK but a lot depends upon the financial position over the next few months and the state of sterling.

Britain still sees China as a potential major trading partner with investments going both ways especially after leaving the European Union but the Chinese who were reportedly not happy with the Brexit result as they feared it would hurt their economy, may decide to adopt an inscrutable position.

The government also continues to court America, but with accusations against HSBC, takeovers of British companies and the looming presence of Donald Trump who may become a particularly unpredictable president, there is still a great deal to consider before embarking on any radical policy change.

YAHOO, one of the internet’s mighty starter companies which was once valued at $125 billion (€114 billion) and rejected a 2008 offer of $44 billion (€40 billion) is now being sold to Verizon Communications for a little under $5 billion (€4.5 billion) to join other ‘lame duck’ former internet star AOL. The deal is for the main internet business and Yahoo will continue to exist through its shareholdings in its Chinese business site Alibaba, but Verizon will gain both photo sites flickr as well as tumblr which hosts numerous micro blogging and social media accounts. Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo was brought into the company in 2012 in order to try to reverse its fortunes, but has not been successful and it has been running at a significant loss for some time. She is anticipating that she will continue to remain with the company once the takeover is completed by early 2017 saying “I love Yahoo, and I believe in all of you. It’s important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter.” It would appear that Verizon, a

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Oh how far the mighty have fallen

MARISSA MAYER: The CEO of Yahoo is anticipating she will remain with the company. significant broadband telecommunications company is looking to compete with Google and Face-

book by the acquisition of Yahoo and AOL, giving it the ability to promote the entire group to a still

large number of users but by rolling the two companies into its group, making economies of scale

Deal is about unleashing Yahoo’s full potential. and maximising potential profit. There is a huge market which generates significant income from digital advertising sales and this is almost certainly where Verizon wishes to focus the attention of its recent acquisitions. AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong said the deal was about “unleashing Yahoo’s full potential,” and creating a major player in mobile media. It is interesting to follow the fortunes of some of the companies that first appeared during the days of the internet boom, often two or three launching the same concept at the same time, yet often one would have that magic touch and a perfect example is e-bay which effectively saw off all competition after its launch and even the mighty Amazon which decided to launch its own auction site in 1997 was soon sent packing.

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GOOD MOVE: The deal should benefit smaller companies and consumers.

By John Smith IN the second major purchase of a British company by foreign investors in a week, the government appears excited whilst many suggest that it’s more like selling off the family silver. American goliath MasterCard is taking over Vocalink, the company responsible for the bulk of Britain’s cash machines and also the owner of the BACS clearing house which processes direct debits for £869 million (€1.025 billion). Vocalink is owned by a number of major banks including Barclays, Lloyds and HSBC and chaired by the Bank of England’s former deputy governor Sir John Gieve but it appears that this isn’t an opportunistic move by MasterCard due to the weakness of the pound, but has been the matter of discussion for some eight months. No doubt however the timing has been of particular

This isn’t an opportunistic move by MasterCard due to the weakened pound, it’s been in discussion for months.” benefit to the American company as the cost in dollar terms will be so much less due to the advantageous exchange rate following the referendum vote. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, said that this latest sale “shows that Britain remains an attractive destination for international investors.” It is fairly common knowledge that unless it can be proven that any sale could damage the security of the UK, there is little, if anything, that the government could do to stop the sale anyway. To some extent, this sale is in accordance with government approval as the Pay-

ment Systems Regulator had earlier in 2016 commented that the banks should not continue to own the Link payment system as it gave them too much control and discouraged research and invention in the field due to a lack of competition. The deal which sees more than 90 per cent of the shares in Vocalink whilst the banks will continue to hold the balance initially is being heralded as a good move as it should benefit a number of smaller companies and consumers in the long term by improving banking competition, although the best way of helping companies and consumers would be in increasing interest rates for investors and decreasing them for borrowers. In justifying the sale, a spokesperson for Vocalink said that all parties, including the government, Payment Systems Regulator and the Bank of England, had been fully consulted.

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It’s a matter of opinion... and a right to express it LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT HEAVEN only knows I am certainly by no means perfect. However one thing you can be perfectly certain of is that I am not a downright liar. I also take severe umbrage at being inferred as one. Over my 25 or so years as a columnist, I have received a fair number of what is commonly termed ‘hate mail.’ As long as it contains even a smidgen of constructive criticism, it presents no problem whatsoever. It is when the attacks become personal that the lines of unacceptable are crossed. Up until a couple of months ago, mail of this ilk was considered negative rubbish and consigned to the ap-

RIGHT TO REPLY: Expressing opinions.

propriate bin. Of late, however, a number have seemed important enough to be given some form of prominence on the letters page. Therefore I have no alternative but to use my already limited space to exercise my right of reply. So Mr Hall, who accused me of being a ‘delusional dingbat’ (not terribly creative, but not bad!) I would just like to inform you that I do not consider myself a ‘latter day Nostradamus.’ All my opinions have been well chronicled in past columns, as my regular readers will I’m sure concur. I have come to most of my conclusions through a lifelong mistrust of politicians, a degree of common sense, knowledge of human nature and an adamant refusal to view the world through a pair of rose coloured glasses. My eight year stint in Saudi

Arabia, where I was trying to provide some light relief to the entertainment starved expat community, involved, as can be imagined, considerable guile considering the Islamic attitude toward entertainment. Primarily it meant obtaining three month visitors visas as truck drivers. When we outstayed our time, we would subsequently bribe the customs officers at the airport to stamp our exit visas. Finally managing to become legit, I did indeed obtain a likeminded, extremely pleasant and bona fide Saudi sponsor. In conclusion, although I never ran one, at that time there were actually quite a number of illicit pubs dotted around the Kingdom. Goodbye Mr Hall. Keep the faith. Love Leapy, leapylee2002@gmail.com.

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Brexit and the ‘Iron Mayden’ Nora Johnson

Breaking Views Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/norajohnson

AS usual, conspiracy theorists are hard at work. For them, PM Theresa May handed key foreign affairs posts to the Three Brexiteers - alpha males Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox who, as far as Remainers are concerned, “created the mess” in the first place - hoping they’ll s c r e w u p . H o w e v e r, t h e ‘Iron Mayden’ as she’s already been dubbed isn’t silly. Whatever the outcome, Leavers will be able to blame them, NOT her. As a Remainer, she knows she’ll have done her duty (“Brexit is Brexit” she has often stated) to Leavers in carrying out their mandate. To M r s M a y ’s c r e d i t i s her indifference to currying favour with cliques, cabals, the media, even the electorate. Only someone with genuine self-confidence and deep convictions could have kept herself apart from all these temptations while simultaneously rising to the top of government. Let’s hope she can retain that independence throughout her premiership. There have been too many fractures and divis i o n s r e c e n t l y. S o m e o n e like her former rival, Andrea Leadsom, would have delighted one half of the country and seriously alienated the other, like for instance, her daft talk of immediately triggering the starting gun on Article 50. The problem is, the moment the UK invokes Article 50, it puts itself into a tight corner. The longer it can hold out and canvass support among the other 27 EU countries

BORIS JOHNSON: Will he fulfil his ambition?

27 EU countries that the UK needs to canvass support from before invoking Article 50.

the more leverage it will have. Several contentious issues are coming to a head within the EU: the refugee/migration crisis, the Italian banking crisis plus both Merkel and Hollande face re-election next year. The whole environment could soon change. Incidentally, one MP provoked laughter when he sniggered that Boris Johnson’s appointment “must be the most remarkable since the emperor Caligula appointed his horse as a senator.”

The same jibe was made by the Daily Mirror in 1960 when Harold Macmillan appointed the Lord Home as f o r e i g n s e c r e t a r y. L o r d Home went on to become PM. What do you think: Boris, too, will fulfil his ultimate ambition or end up sampling Mary Berry’s special Humble Pie?

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘No Way Back’, ‘Landscape of Lies’, ‘Retribution’, ‘Soul Stealer ’, ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89; £0.79) and iBookstore. All p ro f i t s t o C o s t a d e l S o l Cudeca cancer charity.

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ITV News Weekend Murder, She Wrote Judge Rinder ITV News and Weather Rebound Long Lost Family Love Your Garden Midsomer Murders Masterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh Local News and Weather ITV News and Weather The Chase: Celebrity Special Skyfall ITV News and Weather Singha Premiership Rugby 7s Series Highlights River Monsters Jackpot247 Motorsport UK British Superbike Championship Highlights

7:00am You’ve Been Framed! 7:25am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:25am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:50pm Take Me Out 2:00pm Funniest Ever You’ve Been Framed! 3:05pm Stormbreaker 4:05pm FYI Daily 4:10pm Stormbreaker 4:55pm The Wedding Planner 5:55pm FYI Daily 6:00pm The Wedding Planner 6:55pm Yogi Bear 7:55pm FYI Daily 8:00pm Yogi Bear 8:35pm Twilight 9:35pm FYI Daily 9:40pm Twilight 11:00pm Family Guy 11:30pm Family Guy 12:00am Family Guy 12:30am Bordertown 12:55am American Dad! 1:25am American Dad! 1:55am The Cleveland Show 2:25am The Cleveland Show 2:50am Planet’s Funniest Animals 3:15am Teleshopping

7:00am 7:25am 8:20am 9:25am 10:30am 12:40pm 2:55pm 4:50pm

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BBC Proms 2016 Generation ‘66 Cathy Come Home Rich Hall’s Inventing the Indian 1:50am Yellowstone Series following America’s wildlife in Yellowstone National Park. As the spring melts the winter snow, the full extent of Yellowstone is gradually revealed. 2:50am Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army Documentary investigating the war against the Japanese in Burma during the Second World War, often regarded as one of the forgotten wars. 3:50am Generation ‘66

7:15am 7:40am 8:05am 8:30am 8:55am 9:25am 9:55am 10:30am 1:30pm 3:00pm 4:40pm 5:45pm 6:45pm 7:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 12:10am 12:45am 2:20am 3:15am 4:10am 5:10am 5:20am

5:50pm 5:55pm 6:55pm 7:55pm 9:00pm 11:00pm 1:00am 2:35am 3:50am 4:40am 5:35am

On the Buses Wycliffe Heartbeat Heartbeat Inspector Morse A Touch of Frost Sparkling Cyanide The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s FYI Daily The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s Doc Martin Doc Martin The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt Agatha Christie’s Marple Wire in the Blood Wire in the Blood May the Best House Win May the Best House Win On the Buses This bold, bawdy and brash sitcom hit British screens in 1969.

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Shipping Wars Shipping Wars King of Queens King of Queens Frasier Frasier Frasier Sunday Brunch A Goofy Movie Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax Location, Location, Location A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun Channel 4 News Formula 1 Flying to the Ends of the Earth The Imitation Game Friday Night Dinner Date Night The World’s Weirdest Weather Walking the Himalayas Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures Double Your House for Half the Money

7:00am Milkshake! 10:50am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:25am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12:00pm Beverly Hills Ninja 1:40pm Police Interceptors 2:35pm Zookeeper 4:25pm The Parent Trap 7:00pm Bruce Almighty 9:00pm Now That’s Funny 9:55pm 5 News 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Ultimate Celebrity Power Couples 12:55am Family Feud - My Big Family Fallout 1:55am Super Casino 4:10am Secrets of Great British Castles 5:00am World’s Most Pampered Pets Entertaining documentary about the most glamorous and luxuriously kept pets in the world. 5:50am Wildlife SOS

Motorway Patrol Ax Men The Saint Monster Carp The Motorbike Show British Touring Car Championship Live Snetterton Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Premiership Rugby 7’s Highlights 1966 a Nation Remembers Tremors FYI Daily Tremors Born to Raise Hell FYI Daily Born to Raise Hell Hell on Wheels ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping Innovative, value-formoney products brought directly to you at home.

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7:00am 7:25am 7:45am 8:05am 8:35am 9:00am 9:30am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:35pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 11:00pm 12:00am

3:10pm 5:10pm 7:10pm 9:00pm 11:15pm 1:15am

Clash of the Titans Stealth Dante’s Peak Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Taken 3 The Italian Job Clash of the Titans Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Taken 3 Behind Enemy Lines

1:30pm The Bad Education Movie 3:15pm How to Lose Friends and Alienate People 5:15pm Click 7:10pm Ricki and the Flash 9:00pm The Bad Education Movie 10:40pm How to Lose Friends and Alienate People 12:40am There’s Something About Mary 2:45am Life 4:40am This is Where I Leave You

Rude(Ish) Tube The Mindy Project The Mindy Project Baby Daddy Baby Daddy How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Hollyoaks Omnibus Coach Trip Coach Trip Coach Trip Coach Trip Coach Trip The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Golden Compass Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Tattoo Fixers on Holiday Rich Kids of Instagram

7:00am Swelter 8:45am Ghostbusters: Special 9:15am Against the Wild 2: Survive the Serengeti 11:00am Go with Me 12:45pm Minions 2:30pm Burnt 4:15pm Wolves 6:00pm Mcfarland, USA A disgraced football coach who finds himself in charge of a ragtag running team. 8:15pm Minions Despicable Me’s gloriously silly sidekicks get swept up in a plot to steal the crown jewels. 10:00pm Go with Me 11:45pm Burnt 1:30am Swelter 3:15am Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse 5:00am The Top Ten Show 2016 5:15am Against the Wild 2: Survive the Serengeti

SUNDAY TV

8:00am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 4:30pm 4:55pm 12:30am 12:45am 1:00am 1:15am 1:30am 1:45am 2:00am 3:00am 5:00am 5:30am

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Football Football Football Football Football Football Live Germany GP: Track Parade Live Germany GP : Pit Lane Live Live German Grand Prix Cricket’s Greatest Cricket Sporting Triumphs Sporting Triumphs Sporting Triumphs Sporting Triumphs Spanish Gold Spanish Gold Sporting Heroes The Premier League Years Premier League Legends Premier League Legends Series profiling some of the greatest players to grace the Barclays Premier League.

Cricket’s Greatest Ashes Best Days Ashes Best Days Live Cricket Writers on TV Live Rl Cup Cricket MLS Live Cricket Shorts MLS Live Football Gold A chance to relive some classic matches from the English top flight. Football Gold Premier League 100 Club A celebration of some of the finest goalscorers in Barclays Premier League history. Cricket Shorts MLS Live Football Gold Football Gold Ashes Best Days Sporting Triumphs Sporting Triumphs

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Countryfile Summer Diaries 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Wanted Down Under 12:45pm Neighbourhood Blues 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:25pm Escape to the Country 4:25pm Garden Rescue 5:10pm Flog It! 6:10pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Rip Off Britain 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm The Musketeers 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Have I Got Old News for You

7:00am 7:45am 8:30am 9:00am 9:30am 10:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 3:00pm 3:25pm 3:45pm 4:10pm 5:10pm 6:10pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm

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7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Wild France with Ray Mears 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Brief Encounters 11:00pm ITV News 11:45pm Benidorm 12:45am Britain as Seen on ITV 1:10am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:55am Nightscreen

Fake Britain Garden Rescue The Hairy Builder An Island Parish Gardeners’ World Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Caine Mutiny Coast Natural Curiosities Natural Curiosities Super Giant Animals Michael Palin’s New Europe Antiques Roadshow Eggheads Blitz Cities New Zealand: Earths Mythical Islands University Challenge Only Connect The Somme 1916: From Both Sides of the Wire Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience Newsnight Weather The Women’s Football Show Robot Wars

7:20am Dinner Date 8:10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 10:00am Coronation Street 10:30am Psych 11:20am Royal Pains 12:15pm Dinner Date 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You’ve Been Framed! 8:30pm You’ve Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Family Guy 10:30pm Bordertown 11:00pm Family Guy 11:30pm American Dad! 12:00am American Dad!

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8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm The Wonder of Animals Series in which Chris Packham delves deep beneath the skin to discover the unique features that have made certain animal groups successful. 9:00pm Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones 10:00pm The Girl From Ipanema: Brazil, Bossa Nova and the Beach 11:00pm The Real White Queen and Her Rivals 12:00am Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing 1:00am A History of Art in Three Colours 2:00am The Story of the Music Hall with Michael Grade 3:30am Rude Britannia

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Doctor in the House Heartbeat Where the Heart is The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Murder, She Wrote Love Your Garden Heartbeat The Royal Where the Heart is Doctor in the House Rising Damp Man About the House Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Rosemary and Thyme Charles: The Destiny of a Prince Law and Order: UK Crime drama based on the hit US series Law and Order. Liverpool 1 Blue Murder Marchlands ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am The Big Bang Theory 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Simpsons 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:40pm Come Dine with Me 3:10pm Fifteen to One 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm The Question Jury 6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm Superfoods: The Real Story 10:00pm Eden 11:00pm Naked Attraction 12:05am Tattoo Fixers on Holiday

7:00am 7:50am 8:50am 9:50am 10:55am 11:50am 12:50pm 1:50pm 2:20pm 2:45pm 3:50pm 4:55pm 5:55pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:05pm 12:05am 1:20am 1:25am 2:00am 3:00am 3:50am 4:00am

Gunsmoke Minder Ironside Quincy M.E. Ax Men The Chase Gunsmoke Pawn Stars Pawn Stars The Saint Minder Quincy M.E. Ironside The Saint Pawn Stars Pawn Stars River Monsters Nighthawks FYI Daily Nighthawks Universal Soldier: Regeneration FYI Daily Universal Soldier: Regeneration Premiership Rugby 7’s Highlights Motorsport UK ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

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Milkshake! The Wright Stuff To B&B the Best 5 News Celebrity Big Brother Home and Away Neighbours NCIS Secrets in the Attic 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News FIA World Rally Championship Police Interceptors Unleashed... Celebrity Big Brother No Fatties Allowed Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! Super Casino Person of Interest Now That’s Funny Great Scientists

10:45am Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 1:00pm Charlie’s Angels 2:45pm Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle 4:35pm The Last Samurai 7:10pm The Fast and the Furious 9:00pm Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 11:15pm Gone in 60 Seconds 1:15am K-19

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Ghostbusters: Special Confetti Rushmore Analyze This Nutty Professor II: The Klumps Trainwreck The 40 Year Old Virgin Balls of Fury Trainwreck Search Party

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Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Charmed Charmed How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Coach Trip The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Made in Chelsea Rich Kids of Instagram The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory

Wolves Hyena Road Go with Me Burnt Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse Wolves Things get hairy when a teenager discovers that he’s got werewolf blood running through his veins. Minions Burnt Minions Despicable Me’s gloriously silly sidekicks get swept up in a plot to steal the crown jewels. Hyena Road Go with Me A woman harassed by a corrupt former cop turns to a pair of locals for help. Swelter Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

MONDAY TV

7:00am 7:15am 7:30am 7:45am 8:00am 9:00am 10:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 1:45pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:45pm 7:00pm 7:15pm 7:30pm 8:30pm 10:30pm 12:30am

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Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold WWE Raw Premier League 100 Club The Premier League Years Premier League Legends Football Gold Football Gold ATP Tennis - Toronto Highlights The Premier League Years ATP Tennis - Toronto Highlights Sporting Triumphs Sporting Triumphs Speedway Gold Speedway Gold Football League Playoff Classics Live Elite League Speedway The Premier League Years Football League Playoff Classics

Cricket Classics Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest ATP Tennis - Toronto Highlights Royal International Horse Show Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Live Rl Cup Cricket A game from the 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup. NRL: Rookie of the Year Episode nine from The NRL Rookie, the show that seeks to find the next rugby league superstar. Super League Fulltime Royal International Horse Show Cricket’s Greatest Series profiling some of the greatest cricketers of all time.

E W N 28 July - 3 August 2016 / Costa del Sol

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Countryfile Summer Diaries 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Wanted Down Under 12:45pm Neighbourhood Blues 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:25pm Escape to the Country 4:25pm Garden Rescue 5:10pm Flog It! 6:10pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm The Living and the Dead 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm NYPD 12:30am Blades of Glory 2:00am Weather for the Week Ahead

7:00am Countryfile Summer Diaries 7:45am Garden Rescue 8:30am Neighbourhood Blues 9:00am An Island Parish 9:30am The Hairy Builder 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:00pm The Master of Ballantrae 2:25pm Coast 3:25pm Natural Curiosities 3:45pm Natural Curiosities 4:10pm Animal Odd Couples 5:10pm Michael Palin’s New Europe 6:10pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Blitz Cities 8:00pm Great American Railroad Journeys 9:00pm Inside the Factory: How Our Favourite Foods are Made 10:00pm New Zealand: Earths Mythical Islands 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight 12:00am Weather 12:05am Dragons’ Den 1:05am The Refugee Camp Our Desert Home

8:00pm World News Today The latest national and international news, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective. 8:30pm The Wonder of Animals 9:00pm Sacred Wonders of Britain Neil Oliver goes in search of the Sacred Wonders of Britain. The story of how our island has been shaped by belief from the end of the Ice Age through to Henry VIII’s Reformation in the 16th Century 10:00pm Britain’s Pompeii 11:00pm The Bermuda Triangle: Beneath the Waves 12:00am Fossil Wonderlands: Nature’s Hidden Treasures 1:00am Sacred Wonders of Britain 2:00am A History of Art in Three Colours

7:15am 3rd Rock from the Sun 7:40am 3rd Rock from the Sun 8:05am 3rd Rock from the Sun 8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am The Big Bang Theory 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Simpsons 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm Come Dine with Me 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 3:10pm Fifteen to One 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm The Question Jury 6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Child Genius 10:00pm Gogglesprogs 11:00pm Celebrity First Date 12:05am Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 1:00am Eden

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 9:00pm Love Your Garden 10:00pm Holiday Horrors: Caught on Camera 11:00pm ITV News 11:40pm Tom Daley: Diving for Gold 12:40am Murder, She Wrote 1:40am Jackpot247 Join the presenters live and play roulette on your telly. 4:00am Loose Women 4:50am Nightscreen

7:00am Planet’s Funniest Animals 7:20am Dinner Date 8:10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 10:00am Coronation Street 10:30am Psych 11:20am Royal Pains 12:15pm Dinner Date 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You’ve Been Framed! 8:30pm You’ve Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Mom 10:30pm Mom 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm Family Guy 12:15am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad!

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Doctor in the House Heartbeat Where the Heart is The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Murder, She Wrote Love Your Garden Heartbeat The Royal Where the Heart is Doctor in the House Rising Damp Man About the House Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Midsomer Murders Law and Order: UK Wire in the Blood Inspector Morse Police drama series featuring Colin Dexter’s enigmatic chief inspector and his sidekick Sergeant Lewis Teleshopping Innovative, value-formoney products brought directly to you at home.

2:05am 2:10am 3:40am 4:00am

Gunsmoke The Saint Minder Ironside Quincy M.E. The Chase Gunsmoke Pawn Stars Pawn Stars The Saint Minder Quincy M.E. Ironside The Saint Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Mr. Bean Mr. Bean Benidorm The Glimmer Man FYI Daily The Glimmer Man Firefox Cold War espionage thriller in which a pilot is called out of retirement and sent on a dangerous mission FYI Daily Firefox Highway Patrol Teleshopping

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Milkshake! The Wright Stuff To B&B the Best 5 News Celebrity Big Brother Home and Away Neighbours NCIS The Gourmet Detective Death Al Dente. 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Police Interceptors The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies Celebrity Big Brother Borderline Impractical Jokers UK Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side Celebrity Big Brother Super Casino Person of Interest Now That’s Funny Clip show compiling the best internet videos. HouseBusters

Snakes on a Plane 2 Fast 2 Furious Fury Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Seventh Son Black Sea 2 Fast 2 Furious Fury Max Payne Platoon De@Th on Live

7:00am 7:25am 7:50am 8:10am 9:05am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:35pm 12:00am 12:30am 1:00am

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8:20am One Night in Istanbul 10:00am Twins 11:55am Analyze That 1:40pm Mr. Deeds 3:25pm Vacation 5:10pm Cop Out 7:05pm Let’s be Cops 9:00pm Vacation 10:45pm Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 12:30am The Cable Guy 2:15am Better Living Through Chemistry 4:00am Get Smart

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Hollyoaks Coach Trip Melissa and Joey How I Met Your Mother Rules of Engagement The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Charmed Charmed How I Met Your Mother The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Coach Trip 2 Broke Girls 2 Broke Girls Tattoo Fixers on Holiday Wasted The Inbetweeners The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Gogglebox

Hyena Road Go with Me Swelter Minions Burnt Bad Blood Go with Me Minions Despicable Me’s gloriously silly sidekicks get swept up in a plot to steal the crown jewels. Burnt Bradley Cooper plays a talented but troubled chef desperate to salvage his once-glittering career. Bad Blood A bright teenager tries to help her family escape the violent criminal underworld. Hyena Road Swelter Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

TUESDAY TV

7:00am 7:15am 7:30am 7:45am 8:00am 9:00am 9:30am 11:30am 1:00pm 1:15pm 1:30pm 1:45pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 4:55pm 12:30am 12:45am 1:00am 1:30am 2:00am 2:30am 3:00am 3:30am 3:45am

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Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold WWE SmackDown! Premier League 100 Club The Premier League Years Live NRL: Rookie of the Year Final Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Football Gold Premier League Legends MLS Goals Round Up The Premier League Years Cricket Sporting Triumphs Sporting Triumphs Football Premier League Legends Premier League 100 Club Premier League 100 Club Football Football Gold Football Gold

Cricket Classics Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket Classics Ashes Best Days Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Cricket Specials Live Rl Cup Cricket A game from the 2016 Royal London One-Day Cup. Live Sky Poker Cricket’s Greatest Cricket’s Greatest Super League Fulltime Cricket Specials Cricket Specials Cricket Specials Exclusive footage as the season enters a crucial phase for Yorkshire. Cricket’s Greatest Series profiling some of the greatest cricketers of all time. Cricket’s Greatest Ashes Best Days

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Countryfile Summer Diaries 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Wanted Down Under 12:45pm Neighbourhood Blues 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News All the latest local news. 2:45pm Red Rock 3:25pm Escape to the Country 4:25pm Garden Rescue 5:10pm Flog It! 6:10pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 9:00pm Eat Well for Less 10:00pm Saving Lives at Sea 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm A Question of Sport 12:15am In the Electric Mist 2:05am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:10am BBC News

7:00am Countryfile Summer Diaries 7:45am Garden Rescue 8:30am Neighbourhood Blues 9:00am See Hear 9:30am The Hairy Builder 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:00pm The Deadly Companions 2:30pm Coast 3:10pm Nature’s Weirdest Events 4:10pm Animal Odd Couples 5:10pm Brazil with Michael Palin 6:10pm Antiques Roadshow 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Blitz Cities 8:00pm Great American Railroad Journeys 9:00pm £100k House Revisits 10:00pm Versailles 11:00pm Boy Meets Girl 11:30pm Newsnight 12:00am Weather 12:05am People Just Do Nothing 12:35am Inside the Factory: How Our Favourite Foods are Made 1:35am See Hear 2:05am Saving Lives at Sea

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Elsa the Lioness 9:00pm Yellowstone Series following America’s wildlife in Yellowstone. Winter is around the corner and there are just two months for the animals to get ready or get out. 10:00pm Masters of the Pacific Coast: The Tribes of the American Northwest 11:00pm Britain’s Pompeii A Village Lost in Time. 12:00am The Horizon Guide to Mars 1:00am The Real White Queen and Her Rivals 2:00am The Ladybird Books Story: How Britain Got the Reading Bug 3:00am Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing 4:00am Masters of the Pacific Coast: The Tribes of the American Northwest

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What to do in the event of an emergency IT’S all very well having a list of local numbers to call in the event of an emergency, but when you may well be in the grip of panic, confusion, injury or fear, it’s best to have a basic understanding of all the processes involved. This helps ensure that a difficult situation is not made worse by any un-

necessary mix-ups, time-delays or other problems that could easily be avoided. The following steps will provide you with a brief summary of what to do should you find yourself in certain emergency situations while in Spain.

When a death occurs Although it’s everybody’s worst nightmare, waking up or coming home to discover the death of a loved one is a tragic situation that calls upon you to be strong and keep your wits together. First call the Local Police on 092 and say “my husband/wife/partner is dead” in Spanish (“Mi marido/mujer/pareja esta muerto”), followed by “I live in ...” (“Vivo en…”) If your loved one was under medical supervision also call the doctor who was treating them. If the police were called they will normally call a doctor themselves to issue a death certificate. Unless the police keep the body (due to suspicious circumstances or a road accident), then you next need to call a funeral director. They will send undertakers who will require the full ID of the deceased. Beware ‘ambulance chasers’ who might try and pretend to be undertakers and ask politely for an ID representing the funeral directors you contacted. The doctor or funeral director will be able to direct you to the nearest civil registry where you must register the death within 24-hours, with the funeral or cremation to normally be held in 24-48 hours. If the body is to be repatriated you must tell the attending doctor and ensure that the passport is kept with the body.

SERIOUS INJURY: Call the emergency services on 112 or 061.

When a death occurs the doctor or funeral director

will be able to help you with registration of death.

When there’s a break in There are two types of break in, a burglary that takes place when you are out, and one which occurs when you are still at home, perhaps unknown to the thieves. If you return home to find that you have been burgled, then call 902 102 112 to report a

BREAK IN: Make a ‘denuncia.’

crime, known as making a ‘denuncia.’ You can say “I need you to send a police car, I have been robbed” (“necesito una patrulla, han entrado en mi casa a robar”) or “I live in ...” (“Vivo en…”). Bear in mind that for insurance purposes and to ease the police process, you should be able to prove that certain valuables have been stolen by producing a receipt. If you are at home and realise your home is being broken into then it is imperative that you stay quiet and contact the emergency services on 112 immediately. Tell them “I am at home and someone has broken in” (“Estoy en casa y hay un intruso”), “I live in ...” (“Vivo en…”).

In the event of injury Should you or a family member or friend suffer a serious injury at home the first thing to do is call the emergency services on 112 or 061 and say “I need an ambulance” (“Necesito una ambulancia”) and “I live in” (“Vivo en…”). If your own doctor speaks English and Spanish and is able to come out in the event of emergencies then it will be worthwhile to contact them too, as they may be able to give the ambulance team valuable advice about your medications or allergies. Hospitals must treat you in the event of a serious emergency, regardless of your financial or insurance situation, so put such thoughts to one side and concentrate on getting help. If you are on the road then asking people or taxis for an ‘urgencias’ will see you directed to a hospital emergency clinic or casualty ward. Remember always carry identification with you and your EHIC if you have one.

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More than meets the eye LEAPY, as I don’t know you personally, I cannot begin to ascertain your level of common sense, but some of your remarks need to be considered and addressed. You may feel that a leave vote was a good thing but the vote was only in ‘leave’ favour by the slimmest of margins. You say ‘in a wholly democratic event, the UK voted to leave the EU.’ No they didn’t because 15 million voted to Remain. Most of the MPs still believe that it is best to Remain and a high percentage of their constituents want to Remain. Yes they will upset 17 million (or maybe less now that they have seen the beginning of the problems - (perhaps 12-hour delays at Dover?) but they will certainly upset the 15 million of us who still think it was best to Remain. Are these 15 million just supposed to say nothing and watch the destruction of the UK and its position in the world markets? The referendum was an unbelievable error, allowing the populace to vote on such a serious issue with a simple ‘in or out’ as if they were voting for the England football manager. Do you really think that the 17 million ‘leave’ voters knew exactly what the effect would be? I ‘keep the faith’ that someone sees sense before the UK does something most of the population will regret. Colin Granville

A helpful note JUST to let you know that not all banks close your joint account on the death of one partner. My husband passed away on June 8, and our bank, which is Banca March here in Mallorca, has kept our joint account open whilst opening a new account in my name. They have been most cooperative and sympathetic in every aspect and made certain that I haven’t had any difficulty by making sure I have access to money from our joint account whenever I needed it. I hope this reassures your readers. Gina Harrop, Mallorca

Not frozen WHAT to do in an emergency. The information given is not correct. Joint accounts are no longer frozen on the death of a partner. That used to be the case, but banks are no longer able to do that. I speak from my own experience with Banco Sabadell and Unicaja Bank. I’ve also helped three friends to

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one Tory MP in Westminster and 56 SNP MPs, but what did it get? Tory policies forced on it by the Tory majority in England - policies that cannot be overturned in the Scottish parliament. Perhaps now, he might understand why the majority of Scots want to quit England in exactly the same way England wanted to quit the EU. More than 60 per cent in the current polls want to exit the union with England. Just think - the majority of Scots actually want their country to maintain its existing links with a union of 27 other nations, but quit the union with the UK. What does that tell you about Scotland’s relationship with Westminster? Says it all really. How deep can the mistrust of a nation get? Brian

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I READ with pleasure, the letter from Mary Groser about Bertie’s love of Mozart’s music. We gave a home to a Russian Blue kitten that was left in a box by the basura. I play the piano and it was not long before we realised that when I was playing, the cat would arrive, jump on a chair near the piano and sit with her eyes closed, listening to the music. As she got older, she would tap me on my bottom, to let me know that she was there. Her favourite composer was Debussy! Her particular favourite was his first Arabesque

do the inheritance papers and not one of them had a problem with the bank. I enjoy reading your paper each week. Mary

Happy reading WE just wanted to express our sheer enjoyment of this week’s EWN, and congratulate you on this week’s superb reporting! We haven’t enjoyed reading a newspaper so much before. The articles I will refer to are all written in superb time-relevant eloquence by Matt Ford. We have read so many informative articles that have also made us laugh until we have cried by the use of his terminology. We have Chameleons as ‘boggle-eyed reptiles,’ cars ‘going like

and if we needed to know she was indoors, before we went out for the evening, I would play a few bars of this piece, receive the usual pat on the behind to say she was there, and we could then go out knowing she was safely at home. This gentle creature gave us 15 years of affection and after she died, I could not bear to play her piece of music, and although she has been gone a few years, I still cannot play this music. Yes, animals do appreciate music and I hope that Bertie will give Mary as much pleasure as our cat gave to us.

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One huge pat on the back for Matt Ford and may we suggest a pay rise for this genius of news reporting? With much appreciation, painful sides and sore jaws. Stephanie and Henry

Deepening SCOTLAND is not just some region of England. It is a separate country with a different identity, but it is a member of a Union with England and others, a bit like a smaller version of the EU in some ways. Ironic that. People like ‘Leapy’ wanted England to leave that other union and got their wish, so why shouldn’t Scotland also leave its union with England if it so wishes - especially when that union is so undemocratic? Scotland put only

DEAR Leapy, I have just finished reading your column and yet again I agree with all that you say. Europe or is it just the UK that is in a hell of a mess. I think it won’t be long before England is attacked, Hal Rockliffe

Missing parrot PLEASE may I make an appeal through your newspaper to ask if anyone has found an African Grey parrot to contact us on 671 063 686. Her name is Lucy and she has a leg ring and a deformed toe and she is now six years old. She is very timid and is a man’s bird - she does not tolerate women unless she wants to. She escaped on Friday night and my husband is heartbroken, so if anyone can help us we will be eternally grateful. She lives with us on Dan park 3, Baranco Hondo, La Nucia and was last seen flying over Las Palmeros. Thank you for your help. Theresa Wilson

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in history 1492 - Christopher Columbus left Spain on his voyage to the new world 1540 - Henry VIII of England married Catherine Howard. Thomas Cromwell was beheaded on Tower Hill on charges of treason on the same day 1588 - The Spanish Armada was sighted off the English coast 1610 - Henry Hudson of England discovered a great bay on the east coast of Canada and named it for himself 1703 - English novelist Daniel Defoe was made to stand in the pillory as punishment for offending the government and church with his satire The Shortest Way With Dissenters 1740 - Thomas Arne’s song Rule Britannia was performed for the first time 1819 - Charles Guille made the first parachute jump from a balloon in New York City 1834 - Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire 1836 - The Arc de Triomphe was inaugurated in Paris, France 1866 - Beatrix Potter, children’s author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was born 1898 - Spain requested peace terms in its war with the United States through the offices of the French embassy in Washington DC 1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, beginning World War One 1921 - Adolf Hitler became the president of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party 1945 - A B25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 13 people 1972 - Former Beatle Paul McCartney announced formation of his new group, Wings 1981 - Charles, Prince of Wales, married Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, an event viewed by a worldwide audience of more than 700 million 1987 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterand signed an agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel 2005 - The IRA announced an end to its 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland

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Miles Ahead Directed by: Don Cheadle Starring: Don Cheadle, Emayatzy E Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor, Keith Stanfield DON CHEADLE co-wrote and stars in his directorial debut, a whimsical account of an encounter between a Scottish Rolling Stone journalist and jazz legend Miles Davis in 1979. An out-of-control Davis is rumoured to be mounting a comeback, but the publicity stunt descends into a caper involving drug deals, shootouts and stolen tapes, replete with flashbacks to Davis’ relationship with Francis Taylor, his first wife. The plot hinges on a recording Miles has made but doesn’t want the record company to take, which is subsequently stolen.

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Jim Davis, July 28, Cartoonist, 71 A cartoonist who created the famously sarcastic cat, Garfield, his gormless owner Jon and much put upon dog Odie who appear in newspapers around the world, on TV and now in feature films. Garfield first appeared in print in 1978. Arnold Schwarzenegger, July 30, Film Star, 69 Austrian born bodybuilder who first came to the film world as Conan the Barbarian and has since gone on to star in many films, playing comedic as well as action roles. He was elected Governor of California from 2003 to 2011. JK Rowling, July 31, Author, 51 English author who went from rags to riches after creating the bestselling Harry Potter series of books which spawned seven movies and Harry Potter theme parks across the world. Bastian Schweinsteiger, August 1, Footballer, 32 One of Germany’s great footballers who has played in more European Cup matches than any other German player. Although he has suffered with injury problems he has regularly captained the German international team and is currently with Manchester United. Charlie XCX, August 2, Singer, 24 British singer born Charlotte Emma Aitchison, she has released two albums and her first single was released when she was just 16. She has performed with a number of well-known artists including Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora. Tony Bennett, August 3, Singer, 90 Born in New York and one of the last of the old style crooners respected for his recordings and live performances of classics such as ‘I left my heart in San Francisco’. He has also found a second career as a very successful artist with some of his paintings fetching high five figure amounts.

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YOUR STARS VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Your outgoing attitude is spot on. Some may say you are a little crazy, the way you go for things. Each person has their own way and yours can be quite unique but that certainly does not make it wrong. People who make the world around us that little bit more colourful are gems. LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Some legal matters need your attention. That's not really what you want at this time of the year. A decision has to be made and it needs a fine balance. Asking others may just confuse matters, so only seek expert advice. At the end of the day, you will know what is both best and acceptable. SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A last-minute invitation turns out to be just the ticket in more ways than one. An invitation to join a holiday may be proffered. This is unusual, certainly, but keep an open mind. Your company is clearly well appreciated so why not make that a point of pride? Let's face it, who is best equipped to blow your trumpet? SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Someone you mistrust offers to add to your celebrations. Why not call a truce? We both know that little long term will come out of it, but who cares? Sometimes, it is better to share one good moment with someone than none at all.

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A business partnership takes on a romantic tinge this week. It is possible that the other party sees this as more significant than you. To avoid problems later it would be best to let them do all the running. Unless, of course, you are determined to run yourself. With a lot of excitement in the air it is possible for you to show just what fun you can be. Enjoy! CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) As you are in the limelight, it comes as no surprise that admiration comes your way. What may surprise you, however, is the direction it comes from. Who would have thought that such a situation would arise?

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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Being totally inspired this week, you could be tempted to let enthusiasm run away with you. It is a lovely feeling, like being a child again. Be sure to have fun, but do keep as much money in your pocket as possible. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) There will be a certain amount of discussion regarding holiday plans. You know what you want but how do you persuade others? It's quite easy really. All you have to do is to get someone else to suggest a certain place. You then agree and it looks like their idea.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) There is a wonderful enthusiasm about you at the moment. Seeing the reaction of others to you, it occurs that you should have taken this attitude before. Therefore, make a resolution to put more energy into everything that you do.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) You are so sharp that there is a danger you will cut yourself! Seriously, though, try not to appear pompous over a certain matter. You may be right and you may be clever, but smarty pants are rarely popular. Some of that sharpness gets things going for you in the love department, though.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Something new which you started in recent weeks becomes more than a passing interest. Although it may be surprising to you, it is owing to a predictable situation. In opening your mind, you also seem to have opened your heart. Many people do that at this time of the year and so you are not alone.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) With everyone busy round you, the chance may be taken to show what you are capable of. Instead of watching someone make a pig's ear of a work project, offer to help. It's important, though, to let them think any bright ideas were theirs. Giving praise now will mean it coming back to you tenfold.

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1. According to legend, which British leader created a ‘Round Table’ to prevent quarrels among his knights, none of whom would accept a lower place than the others? 2. Call Up the Groups (1964), Pop Go the Workers and Merry Gentle Pops (both 1965) were all UK Top 10 hit singles for which humorous pop group? 3. Originally consisting of Merald and Brenda Knight plus William and Eleanor Guest, what was the name of singer Gladys Knight’s ‘backing group’? 4. What is the name of the American actor who starred as high-tech modern crime fighter Michael Knight in the 1980s television series Knight Rider? 5. What was the name of the fictional female rough collie dog character created by Yorkshire-born novelist Eric Knight? 6. Which famous footballer was awarded an honorary knighthood (KBE) in 1997? 7. Which famous sailor was knighted in 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail singlehanded around the world by the clipper route? 8. Which Mediterranean island was owned by the Knights of St John from 1530 until it was captured by Napoleon in 1798? 9. Who, in 1953, was the first (and, so far, only) flat race jockey to be knighted? 10. With which sport would you principally associate both the Newcastle Knights and the York City Knights? Answers 1. King ARTHUR, 2. The BARRON KNIGHTS, 3. The PIPS, 4. David HASSELHOFF, 5 . LASSIE, 6. PELÉ (Edson Arantes do Nascimento), 7. Francis CHICHESTER, 8. MALTA, 9. Gordon RICHARDS, 10. RUGBY LEAGUE

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

TARGET: • Average: 10 • Good: 14 • Very good: 20 • Excellent: 26

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION abed aide arid bade band bard bead bend bide bind bird brad bred dare darn deaf dean dear dine dire drab drib fade fend find idea nard nerd raid rand read rend ride rind abide aider aired bared beard braid brand bread bride darer debar dinar diner direr drain drear drier fader fared fiend fined fired fried nadir rabid rebid rider arider barfed barred binder birder brined darner errand faired finder friend inbred raider rained rebind riband bandier brained brander drainer randier infrared FIREBRAND

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Across 7 Horse the French produce is fit for farming (6) 8 Banker finally maintains they’re party goers (6) 10 Get a different baby’s bed first for the country residence (7) 11 Search for centre of Canberra (5) 12 Brute makes the ruler go back (4) 13 About time for detail (4) 17 Drop a heroic tale (4) 18 Locks in permanently (4) 22 Lacks pounds by the sound of it (5) 23 Sales patter about a new dog (7) 24 Applause for toast (6) 25 Elk in soy mixture for country folks (6)

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Down 1 Furry creature ran around cricket club's old oak, initially (7) 2 Performer consumed by extremely funny plant (7) 3 Sadly, British lake is rather desolate (5) 4 Boat has sufficient models (7) 5 Of French, German, English county (5) 6 Very pale, like the female (5) 9 Small cup is steamed by mistake (9) 14 Genius sat more awkwardly (7) 15 Console a group of ministers (7)

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1 Stamen, 4 Way-out, 9 Avoided, 10 Tithe, 11 Tot, 12 Restrains, 13 Rocket, 15 Repeal, 19 Landscape, 21 Pen, 22 Swami, 23 Extract, 24 Series, 25 Dashes. Down: 1 Starter, 2 Aloft, 3 Endorse, 5 Aster, 6 Outline, 7 Treks, 8 Odist, 14 Centaur, 16 Electra, 17 Linctus, 18 Gavel, 19 Lists, 20 Swine, 21 Peach.

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16 Pupil, for example, not so much drunk (7) 19 Put last prawn in fire, for a light meal (5) 20 Ward off a returning pariah (5) 21 Meat from Jacob, a contractor (5) Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 12 represents F and 23 represents Z, so fill in F every time the figure 12 appears and Z every time the figure 23 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.

Across 1 Earnings (5) 4 Vocalists (7) 8 Associate (7) 9 Articulate (5) 10 Reserve (5) 11 Put in order (7) 12 Drowsy (6) 14 Shuts down (6) 17 Make good as new (7) 19 Ray or beam (5) 21 Look after (5) 22 Part (7) 23 Gracefully thin (7) 24 Curves (5)

Down 1 Rubs with cloth (5) 2 Trash (7) 3 From that time (5) 4 Unbroken series of events (6) 5 Impartial (7) 6 Consumed (5) 7 Thoroughfares (7) 12 Contracts (7) 13 Go on (7) 15 Railway stopping place (7) 16 Assistant (6) 18 Wait on (5) 19 Clean with hard rubbing (5) 20 Takes care of (5)

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

1 Dispatch, 4 Bars, 8 Cocoa, 10 Spaniel, 11 Abysmal, 12 Best, 14 Equate, 16 Decree, 19 Near, 21 Resolve, 24 Abandon, 25 Torso, 26 Data, 27 Connects.

Down: 1 Declared, 2 Alarm, 3 Costly, 5 Alias, 6 Sole, 7 Gamble, 9 Coypu, 13 Generous, 15 Tirade, 17 Ruler, 18 Bronco, 20 Exact, 22 Satin, 23 Wand.

ENGLISHSPANISH Across: 1 Godmother, 8 Peaje, 9 Argue, 10 Rios, 11 Amar, 15 Ancho, 17 Lento, 18 Apologise. Down: 2 Opalo, 3 Miel, 4 Trap, 5/16 Egg cup, 6 Aparcar, 7 Bedroom, 12 Menos, 13 Boil, 14 Flag.

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Across 1 Peluquero (6) 3 Celery (4) 7 Fin (3) 9 To chat (7) 10 Pintor (7) 13 Camiones (7) 14 See 1 Down 15 Train (railway) (4) 16 Tejón (6)

Down 1/14 Posavasos (4,3) 2 To write (8) 4 Peregrino (7) 5 Another (4) 6 Ghost (8) 8 Sport (7) 11 Plano (4) 12 Estrella (4)

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By Geoff Dyer GEOFF DYER’S restless search for the fundamental questions in life continues in this evocative series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D H Lawrence famously claimed to have had his “greatest experience from the outside world”; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; or with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. books@euroweeklynews.com

MAYHEM and controversy dogged this year’s Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona, one of the world’s largest theatres of the absurd, but far from the craziest. While Spain certainly has its fair share of outlandish festivities, there are plenty others across the world. Here we take a look at some of them, from Spain to Germany, and even as far afield as Japan. 1) Known locally as ‘tomcat poking’ this obscure ‘sport’ dates back centuries but is now illegal in Germany although isolated incidents persist. Tomcat poking sees villagers gathering together to force a cat into a sack, and then the sack into a box, and then whacking the box with sticks until the cat screams. It is not thought to be the origins of Schrodingers Cat. 2) A slightly friendlier festival taking place each year in Gloucestershire sees hundreds of participants chase a block of cheese down an extremely steep hill with the winner being the first to catch it. Funnily enough this year’s champion, a decorated veteran of the event, absolutely detests cheese but loves the thrill of the chase. 3) The Spanish aren’t all about animal cruelty and take a leaf out of the English book with the annual La Tomatina in Bunol, Valencia, which, like similar festivals, features a flurry of tomato throwing. It all begins with one person scaling a greased pole to capture a cooked ham before hundreds of tons of tomatoes are fired on the scene by water cannon. 4) Valencians, however, wouldn’t want to acquire a reputation as softies and so counter La Tomatina with an annual quail catapulting event. This sees squads of excited residents gather baby quails, crush them into a canon and blast them into the sky where they then attempt to completely

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ITALY: Sienese residents get together to celebrate the Palio. destroy them with shotguns. Whole clubs are dedicated to the cause. 5) Across the seven seas in Japan, festival goers in Kawasaki celebrate Kanamara Matsuri every spring which involves a giant steel phallus being paraded around as part of a Shinto fertility rite. People buy vegetables, sweets and gifts all shaped like the male organ while prostitutes hop along in the hope of protecting themselves from disease. 6) A small town in Belgium enjoys their annual Krakelingen festival with the usual marching, singing and speechmaking but when it’s all done and dusted the townsfolk gather to watch the mayor swallow a live fish. Dating back centuries the tradition usually saw all the villagers swallow a fish, but a 2001 ruling limited it to just the lucky mayor and a few special guests. 7) Over in Italy Sienese residents get together twice a year to celebrate the Palio, an infamously dangerous 90-second horse race around a minuscule racetrack packed with baying tourists. Animal rights groups estimate that around 50 horses have died in the past 40 years and the Italian government has

begun slowly clamping down on the ‘sport.’ 8) Not to be outdone, in Spain’s Galicia province some men don’t content themselves with racing horses, but prefer to wrestle them instead, gathering each year for the Rapa das Bestas festival where they get drunk and chase wild horses into the local town, struggle to subdue them and then shear the bewildered beasts. 9) Animals aren’t always the victims fortunately and in Thailand the focus is on pleasure rather than pain as a nationwide Monkey Buffet Festival sees locals furnish huge tables with fresh fruit and let wild monkeys loose to stuff their faces and generally have an absolute whale of a time. Just don’t ask about the dogs... 10) Last but not least it’s back to merry England where real Yorkshiremen prove their manliness by stuffing live and very hungry ferrets down their trousers for as long as they can handle, the presumably ticklish, sensation. Originally invented by competitive-minded coal miners, the Animal Welfare Act and growing social squeamishness puts the practice under threat.

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Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules? The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms. No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice. No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

TARGET: • Average: 19 • Good: 26 • Very good: 37 • Excellent: 48

SCORING: • 4 letters: 1 point • 5 letters: 2 points • 6 letters: 3 points • 7 letters: 4 points • 8 or more letters: 11 points

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION crash carr cars carob carol caroler cash carp carps carpel carper bosh boor boors boos bogle born borne bops bole arcs aspen asper goral gorals gosh gospel goos goop goops glob glop glops glen hasp harp harps harper frosh frog epos enrol infra inert

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The Cambridge Global Payments Costa del Sol team: Kelly Eason, Matthew Harris, Ed Aguilar, and Sophie Hull. waves through the international financial markets and many of our new enquiries were concerned as to the value of their currency now or the value of the currency they intended to buy.

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Bermuda: The Isle of Devils Somers and his crew must have been pleasantly surprised to find that Bermuda was in fact an island paradise.”

Colin Bird A weekly look Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-thewall view of the world to the pages of EWN in his own irreverent style.

WITH the eccentric English penchant for giving names to our houses - even though we have perfectly adequate street numbers - we decided as soon as we arrived in Spain, to christen our new home ‘Bermudez’. Far more exotic than plain 24. Being a fairly common name in Spain, people who do not know us and see the plaque, naturally assume that the occupants are Spanish. In fact it was named after the Spanish navigator Juan de Bermudez, who in 1503 or 1505 (historians are at slight odds here) discovered, en route from Cadiz to Mexico, the isles of Bermuda. Isles in the plural, because covering a total area of only 21 square miles, Bermuda is in fact a mini archipelago of 150 or so islands and islets.

ISLAND PARADISE: Bermuda, beautiful but surrounded by treacherous reefs. It is also where I lived and worked in the 70’s and where I met my present wife. In 1511 the name Bermuda first appeared on a map and although it was well known to Spanish and Portuguese navigators who occasionally

landed in order to replenish their food and water supplies, it was generally given a wide berth and inexplicably became known as The Isle of Devils. This was possibly because of the treacherous reefs sur-

rounding Bermuda, where many ships have come to grief over the centuries. The islands remained unclaimed and uncolonised therefore, for over a hundred years. Then in 1609 Admiral Sir

George Somers, aboard the flagship Sea Venture, became separated from his fleet en route to the James Town colony in Virginia during a violent storm, and was driven on to reefs off the east coast of Bermuda. It is thought that Shakespeare based his play The Tempest on this event. Somers and his crew, who all survived the storm, must have been pleasantly surprised to find that Bermuda was in fact an island paradise and able to sustain them in their 10 month long task to rebuild their ship – renamed Deliverance - and sail on to Virginia. Thus Bermuda became a crown colony and celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2009.

Malaria, mosquitoes and chickens John Smith Random thoughts... MALARIA is one of the greatest killers known to man and according to the World Health Organisation, there were an estimated 214 million cases diagnosed in 2015 with nearly 450,000 deaths caused by the disease which is transmitted by the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium parasites. Now, according to a report in the specialist Malaria Journal co-authored by a Swedish scientist and a colleague from the university of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia they posit that th i s k i l l e r d i se a s e may b e cured by introducing live chickens into the household! Although this may appear as a rather far-fetched notion, it appears that chickens emit odours which

discourage mosquitoes from feeding on their blood and therefore, the birds need to be further examined to see whether they contain the secret of repelling the insects for humans. Currently, the use of mosquito nets, insecticides and anti-malaria tablets are the main sources of protection for those in vulnerable areas but whilst these help, the figures show that th e y are s imply not enough. Mosquitoes primarily use their sense of smell in o rd er to s ele c t suita ble host species and based on this fact, the researchers h a v e in v e s tig ate d w hic h smells the insects are both most and least attracted to through a series o f ex p e rime nts in Ethiopia where young children in particular are most at risk. They collected mosquitoes from inside and outside houses in three

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Elliott and Sadie.

The ‘Playa in Marbella’ FOR six weeks, itvBe. will be following the life of former TOWIE star Elliott Wright with his family, fiancée Sadie and staff at Olivia’s restaurant which he launched last year. It would be easy to belittle the programme, aired on Wednesday July 20, especially as it faced criticism on social media of the voice over from comedian Tom Davis whose accent appears to have come via Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist. What can’t be denied is he shows the Costa del Sol is a vibrant area which welcomes new investment from the UK and reacts positively to help entrepreneurs who follow the rules of their host country. A great deal of the way the story unfolds will be due to editing of the hundreds of hours of film and the power of the director must never be underestimated as Elliott could be portrayed as a hero or zero, even though neither may be quite the true picture. This first week introduced viewers to Elliott and Sadie, members of staff (some didn’t last the first episode), together with Elliott’s mum, a successful restaurateur in her own right, and his father off camera who’s being treated for cancer. We know Olivia’s has survived its first year and is popular with expats along the coast. It doesn’t matter it’s not quite in Marbella, the ‘Playa from Cala’ hasn’t got the same ring! Let’s not criticise the show but applaud the young man for setting up a business and obtaining so much coverage for himself and the Costa del Sol (not Blanca as misreported in the Daily Mirror).

villages and discovered that whilst they seemed to be happy to bite quadrupeds and of course humans, t hey seem ed t o avoid chickens. The next step was to set traps in houses wi t h and without chickens and they discovered that those with chickens present at t r act ed f ar fewer mosquitoes. Whi l st t her e m ay be som e way st i l l t o go, as m osqui t oes becom e m or e r esi l i ent t o man-made repellents, it is just possible that ‘eau de Now we poulet’ may be a successful want to shield against mosquito bites. hear your views. If this is the case then one of the last great killer disYOUR PAPER - YOUR VOICE e a s e s m ay go t he way of - YOUR OPINION smallpox in the not too distant www.euroweeklynews.com future.

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GIBRALTAR hosted the latest inaugural call for a cruise ship on Saturday July 23 when the Sirena, part of the five-star Oceania Cruises fleet of vessels, sailed into the port. The Sirena built in 1999, has a gross tonnage of 30,277 tonnes, a length of 181 metres, a guest capacity of 684 and a crew of 400. As is customary, there was an informal welcome ceremony.

THE decision by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission a week ago to direct Enterprise Insurance Company to cease writing new business after the company admitted to being insolvent has now led to the directors agreeing with the Supreme Court for the company to be placed into liquidation and a provisional liquidator has been appointed.

THE Chief Minister visited San Roque on July 27 to give an address on the implication of Brexit for Gibraltar and the Campo Area at the Cursos de Verano. These summer courses are organised on an annual basis by Cadiz University in conjunction with San Roque City Council. This year, one of the day sessions will be held at the University of Gibraltar.

HMS Ambush in collision off Gibraltar NO sooner had Parliament approved the renewal and upgrading of the Trident defence system, than one of Britain’s newest nuclear submarines, the ironically named HMS Ambush was involved in a collision with a merchant ship and was forced to return to Gibraltar. According to the Royal Navy, the submarine which was submerged and involved in a training exercise suffered only minor damage from what was described as a ‘glancing blow,’ although its conning tower appeared to have suffered quite badly. The incident occurred in the early afternoon of July 20 and it has been stressed that no damage has been done to the nuclear reactor on board, no one was injured and there is no danger from the submarine docking in Gibraltar. There will of course be a formal investigation into the incident.

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HMS AMBUSH: Collided with a merchant ship at sea.

THE ‘seaweed’ that has been turning up in Gibraltar waters over the past two years is a brown alga, commonly known as Forkweed (Dictyota dichotoma), which has increased tremendously in its distribution throughout the Bay. The alga has been turning up on shores around the north of the Bay, including Western Beach and the Playa de Poniente in La Linea. It has also appeared growing and expanding in areas such as off Camp Bay and Seven Sisters where it is possibly beginning to interfere with other marine life. As part of its continued marine surveillance programme,

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Forkweed invasion in the Bay the Department of the Environment and Climate Change (DECC) has been monitoring the increasing presence of the brown alga throughout Gibraltar’s waters. Although this species is native to the north-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, where it is widely-distributed and common, scientists from the DECC are now investigating the reasons why this species is proliferating in Gibraltar’s underwater environment and washing up in large quantities on its shorelines.

FORKWEED: Spreading.

Bitcoin launch DESPITE the fact that many governments around the world have accused the Bitcoin (a form of internet currency) as being a major source of movement of drug cartel money around the world, the stock exchange in Gibraltar has decided to list the BitcoinETI, which is being issued by local company iStructure PCC PLC. According to the Gibraltar Stock Exchange, this will be the first regulated Bitcoin in Europe, although time will tell whether the Spanish Government will accuse Gibraltar of further potential money laundering activities by allowing this launch. There is a suggestion that it will also be traded in Germany which will give it greater credibility.

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Ice baths for beauty boost SPORTS professionals use ice baths to heal and ease their muscles, but could taking a dip in a freezing cold bath also offer beauty benefits? Research shows that cold temperatures help to redistribute the blood flow, removing fluid and leads to less swelling around the muscle, ideal for athletes after training, but some claim that it can improve the appearance of skin, banish cellulite by improving blood flow and boost your mood. In the UK, the idea of this hot and cold contrast has started to catch on, with spas offering various â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fire and iceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; treatments incorporating massages with chilled stones and facials using ice to reduce inflammation and puffy eyes. So next time you want a quick mood boost get the ice trays out the freezer and fill the bath!

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Sting allergy vaccine showing good results CONSTANT TEXTING: Can cause swollen, aching fingers.

Textitis is a real growing concern ‘TEXTITIS’ is a growing concern amongst a generation of phone and iPad users. Doctors say swollen and aching fingers are being caused from texting and excessive use of electronic devices and is leading to cases of arthritis in younger people. Arthritis, inflammation and joint stiffness usually affects only older people. While there are several causes for osteoarthritis, the degenerative form of the condition is often caused by general wear and tear. Rheumatology experts say gaming and texting can cause two problems in hands.

There is the immediate problem of the overuse of tendons from the thumb to the forearm. Then there is the overuse of the carpometacarpal joint at the base of the thumb which can lead to a clicking or cracking sensation due to ligament strain which can lead to osteoarthritis in later years. Several other ailments are already being linked to new technology such as texter ’s neck (pain in the neck caused by looking down at the screen for too long) and selfie elbow (caused by continually stretching your arm out to take a photo).

PATIENTS with an allergy to venom (from wasps and bees) can be cured in over 95 per cent of cases with a vaccine. July and August are the months with the highest rate of incidence of stings causing concern for those who have an allergic reaction, but doctors Amparo Conde and Mercedes Hernandez from the Nisa Sevilla Aljarafe hospital said there is a cure rate of 95 pe r c e nt of pa tie n t s tre a te d w ith be e ve no m and in 98 per cent of those who have been had wasp venom. The aim of the vaccine is to modify the response of the defence system and immune system, which in allergic patients overreacts to the insect bite. “Today” said Dr. Fernandez “it is considered accepted that this vaccine protects pa-

STINGING SUCCESS: New venom vaccine. tients from three to five years.” Those who suffer from allergic reactions to such

stings are advised to speak t o t hei r m edi cal pr of essi onal about havi ng t he vaccine.

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Why do my knees hurt when taking the stairs? By Estelle Mitchell www.thebodyworksclinic.com IT’S always interesting what prompts people to take action. What one movement that hurt which made them make an appointment. Interestingly many people are unbothered that their knees hurt when walking long distances but, when they start to have pain going up and down stairs this is a big problem. So why are stairs a problem? When we are walking on a flat surface our knees don’t have to bend or straighten too much, in fact we often ‘cheat’ by changing how our feet and back move by limping. But when we go up or down stairs

we have to bend our knees further and extend or straighten our knee more and this can cause more discomfort. Especially if we aren’t very good at getting our knee straight usually! Other Bends The deeper movement in squatting, kneeling, or sitting with the knees bent greater than 90 degrees (like a low chair) may also cause more pain, a ‘cracking’ or ‘grinding’ sensation or a feeling that the knee will ‘give way.’ Hips, Knees and backs One of the ‘cheats’ that the body uses when the knee can’t move very well is to make the hips work harder. This means we can end up with hip pain w h ic h is ac tua lly c oming from the knee, this is called referred pain. Top Tip: if you think you have hip problems but get more pain on stairs, get your knees checked too! Your back can also get involved in th is ‘c h ea ting’ a nd you c a n e nd up w ith lo w e r ba c k pa in be c a us e you

aren’t using the muscles in your legs correctly. What to do Make that appointment!!! And when you do make sure that you get your knees, hips and back checked and on both sides. You can get the best treatment in the world, but if it’s in the wrong place you won’t get better. Do your knee straightening exercises. Here’s the weird thing about knees, if you can get them straight, they’ll bend. It seems backwards but if you train your knee to straighten completely the bend will come back quick and easy. For more information on getting your knee straight and pain free check out our website, www.TheBodyworksClinic.com, our Facebook page, Bodyworks Health Clinic or call us on 952 883 151

Sweet and fruity cure CRANBERRIES could form the basis of new antibiotics. Scientists say they have discovered that the flavonols compound in their juice could help block bacterial infections and during tests were found to greatly reduce the ability of E. coli bacteria to trigger an infection. The team from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA) said that with the emergence of new super bugs that are resistant to current antibiotics, it is hoped this finding could form the basis for new antibiotic drugs.

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SPECIALIST: Doctor Luis Perez Belmonte. This week a reader has asked the doctor about his blood test results: DEAR Doctor, For some years I’ve been under treatment for high blood pressure and recently I’ve been having trouble keeping it under control. My GP sent me for blood tests and the results said my triglycerides were very high, twice as much as they should be, but he didn’t explain what that means, just said that could be what’s sending my blood pressure up and told me to go on a diet and get some exercise. Could you please explain what they are, what they do and why I need to lower them? I’d also appreciate some detailed advice on ‘diet and exercise.’ The doctor replied High blood pressure is a chronic complaint which usually shows no symptoms to begin with but can cause problems in various internal organs such as the heart and kidneys over time. Treatment consists of an adequate, balanced, low in salt diet, regular moderate exercise (a 50 minute walk

five days per week or 50-60 minutes swimming three of four days per week) and medication. This is often enough to keep blood pressure under control but sometimes it can remain a problem. If this is the case, you should see a specialist in Internal Medicine to rule out certain causes which may need more specific treatment. In your case, your triglycerides are high which has nothing to do with your high blood pressure levels but can usually be controlled with a low-fat diet and by avoiding alcohol. High triglyceride levels are dangerous as they are a cardiovascular risk and can increase the chance of suffering a heart attack. Diet is the most important thing to change. Follow a diet low in fat and sugar, rich in vegetables, fruit and fish. Red meat should be avoided and swapped for white meat. Food should be boiled or grilled. You should avoid drinking too much alcohol and fizzy drinks.

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PEACEFUL SLEEP: Exercise and a healthy work-life balance is key.

A better night’s sleep THERE is nothing worse than lying in bed, feeling exhausted, but unable to sleep, tossing and turning for hours. Removing electronic devices from the bedroom and avoiding caffeine late at night are all popular recommendations to assist in a peaceful night’s sleep, but there are other things you can do: Get a routine: Try and manage your day so that you get into the routine of finishing everything within 16 hours so you can have the all important eight hours sleep. The body clock thrives on regular habits so try and keep to the same bed time. Limit stress: It can be easier said than done but try leaving your work or any big issues outside of the bedroom. Deal with the day’s problems in the day

and put the day to bed before you go to bed. Healthy lifestyle: Exercise and a healthy work-life balance is key to a restful night’s sleep but try and avoid exercise too close to bedtime as it can be too stimulating. Don’t eat late: The Spanish are famous for late night meals and eating late is preferable during the long hot summer months, but be careful what you eat. Big heavy meals do not aid the sleep pattern and can cause indigestion too close to bed. Bedroom: Reserve the bedroom for sleeping and marital affairs and avoid watching TV or using electronic devices. This will help programme the brain in to knowing the bed is for sleep. Keep the room cool and dark for comfort and a better night’s sleep.

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See the Dark Side of the Rock GIBFLOYD will be headlining a very special event to be held at the MUGA Sports Complex located within the Victoria Stadium complex on Friday August 5 with doors opening at 4.30pm, a happy hour and a half at the bar until 6pm and performances in the chill-out area from 5pm with local acoustic acts Mark Montegriffo, Ethan Rocca, Butch Sundance and Layla Bugeja. Action will commence on the main stage at around 6pm with Reggae band Heritage (who recently supported Maxi Priest) and then there will be an appearance by After Hours. What will follow can only be described as a life experience as Gibfloyd present their three-hour audio/visual show which includes special effects, animation, pyrotechnics and some very special surprises imported specially from China. One of those behind the show Jay Jenson told Euro Weekly News “After three years of sold out shows and headlining the GMF Seaside Stage in 2015, we are very proud to finally offer the Gibfloyd Chronology event for everyone to enjoy… this could be

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TECHNICAL SHOW: Gibfloyd on stage. the final show so we decided to go all out in terms of stage, special effects, custom animations, lasers and other surprises.

This is the highest technical show in Gibraltar and we aim to make it the most technically challenging one yet and we are extremely proud of

welcoming Paul Isola (from Breed 77) as guest performer on the evening! If you like Pink Floyd then you will love Gibfloyd.

Come down and spend an incredible day and evening with amazing music, food and drink and finish it off with the most complete Floyd show anyone has ever reproduced in the South of Spain!... Don’t wait too long or we might sell out of tickets!” Speaking of tickets, they are priced at a very reasonable £25 (€29.74) or following the latest trends, VIP tickets which have been selling fast are £50 (€59.47). Bookings can be made in Gibraltar at Music Corner on Main Street, Parilla on the Go on Cornwall’s Parade or for those outside of Gibraltar or too lazy to go to either outlet, they can be purchased online at on www.buytickets.gi or if you can’t manage that, you can turn up and purchase on the door (although it will be a little more expensive). Accompanied children under 12 will be admitted free. Seven of Pink Floyd’s best known albums will be covered in this spectacular mix of sound and vision, so there is every chance that apart from ‘several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict’ your favourite number will receive the Gibfloyd treatment.

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Butterfly Children need funds ALTHOUGH it seems that life in the Costa del Sol takes a bit of a siesta in August, disease never sleeps nor do those involved with fundraising for the Butterfly Children Charity (DEBRA) and there will be two special fundraisers in August to allow the charity to bring relief from pain and to continue to investigate the causes and possible cure of this incredibly unpleasant disease. Thursday August 11 sees the first part of the 13th Piel de Mariposa Golf Tournament and Dinner. The Golf Tournament will take place at the Marbella Club Golf in Benahavis starting at 9.30am with Green Fees costing €120 per person and the format is Texas Scramble. Any company that would like to sponsor a hole can do so by donating €600 to the charity. The dinner takes place two days later on Saturday August 13 on the terrace of Aloha Golf Club. The evening consists of an exquisite BBQ buffet, live entertainment and luxury tombola with more than 300 prizes at a

GOLF TOURNAMENT: The format will be a Texas Scramble. cost of €60 per person. For information and reservations or to donate prizes or gifts, visit www.butterflychildrencharity.c

om or call 952 816 434. For 13 years these events have successfully contributed towards the Non-Governmen-

tal Organisation (NGO) providing a team of nurses, psychologists and social workers to support the Butterfly Chil-

dren and their families anywhere in Spain, from the moment a baby is born and throughout their life.

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Family fun on Saturday THE sports centre of Los Palacios district in Torremolinos will be t he st age f or t hi s year ’s ‘ Vel adi l l a de Ver ano de Los Pal acios’ on Saturday, July 30, with residents set to party until the wee hours in celebration of the Santiago and Santa Ana festival. Scheduled activities begin at 9.15pm with a ser i es of chi l dr en’s shows by t he ani m ation collective ‘Unidad Canina,’ followed by children’s Mr and Miss competitions. Fr om 11pm t her e wi l l be a t eenybopper ’s dance and f l am enco show, wi t h a gi g by cover s band Pop FM bringing proceedi ngs t o a heady close as adults hit the bar.

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Sheyla Bonnick’s Sound of Boney M By John Smith THIS weekend, the Festival of Legends is presenting two fantastic concerts: one in Antequera Golf on Friday July 29, and another in the Mijas Municipal Auditorium on Saturday July 30. The Sound Of Boney M features renowned vocalist Sheyla Bonnick, with a full four piece line up and all the famous hit songs of Boney M. On Friday 29 in Antequera Golf, the support show is from ABBAtastic as well as a George Michael and Wham tribute from the UK . On Saturday 30 in Mijas Auditorium, the support show is from The New Jersey Boys and the George Michael and Wham tribute.

There is a bus going from Capone's in Benalmadena to this concert. Anybody wanting info please call Agnes on 627 474 916. Both shows, doors open at 8.30pm and show time is 9.30pm. Tickets for both shows are €25 and can be reserved on 609 488 572, or purchased from El Corte Ingles, or online with Ticketea. Various ticket sale points along the coast can be found online at www.thefestivalofle gends.com/EVENTS.html. The Euro Weekly News is once again the main media sponsor of these great live summer concert events, along with Global Radio.

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THE lineup for this year ’s ‘Alhaurin Rock’ knees-up has been confirmed, with the free event to begin at 10pm on Friday, Aug u s t 5 , i n t h e t o w n ’s municipal park. The bill comprises three groups, with the headbanging line-up topped by a set from Cordoban veterans Estirpe, who have released a dozen albums and had hits on the international stage, performing at renowned festivals such as Vive Latino in Mexico. Local bands will play in support, with Alhaurin Rock set to unleash their storming brand of hard rock on unsuspecting attendees, mixing their own tracks with a sprinkling of classic covers from such luminaries as AC/DC, Judas Priest

and Triana. Opening the event are young covers band Session Golfa, who only formed in November 2015, uniting members of former groups Soda 80 and Fly. Their repertoire includes classic pop-rock tunes from the 1980s onwards, featuring mostly Spanish artists such as M-Clan, Pereza, Fito y Fitipaldis, Manolo Garcia, Tequila and Hombres G. Town mayor, Joaquin Villanova, was certainly enthusiastic as he said: “We have been improving year after year. In Alhaurin we have a lot of musicians and a lot of quality, so we have been organising initiatives such has this, which have always been a big hit among fans.”

Meals on wheels FUENGIROLA’S Natural Park (Spanish: Parque Natural), is to host a unique event featuring an exhibition of classic vehicles, varied international cuisine and live music, as the ‘Food and Wheels’ dingdong motors into town. Events get under way at 7pm on Thursday, July 28, and run until Sunday, with vintage trucks and vans operated by a dozen local catering firms dishing out an eclectic menu including barbecued meat, hot dogs, burgers, fish, pizza,

sandwiches, ‘arepas,’ and cocktails. Having taken place at Sohail Castle in 2015, this year’s new location has got culture councillor, Rodrigo Romero, hot under the collar, as he explained: “Food trucks are very popular mobile restaurants in European cities and especially the United States, and last year we already enjoyed this event at the castle, which turned out to be a brutal success in all respects, with a large influx of people. “We reckon that the new location will be more comfy and suitable for everyone, and I have no doubt it will be successful again.” A children’s play area will also be installed, with several inflatable structures for nippers to bounce around on, plus a Scalextric circuit for young lads to fight over, with the site open from midday to 4pm, reopening between 7pm and 2am.

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TUNA: On sale in a Japanese market.

Estepona tuna master class By John Smith ON July 22, Raul Cob and his talented team of chefs gave a master class in tuna preparation and a sampling of the stunning fish at the Kempinski Hotel in Estepona. As part of the ‘Ronqueo del Atun,’ they prepared a 50 kilo tuna, showing the different cuts and explaining the best way to cook and enjoy them. He advised that the tuna belly or ventresca was the most expensive part of the fish, with the highest fat content and recommended that this should be cooked medium-well. The chef’s favourite part is the tar-

entelo or the mid belly of the fish, due to its perfect balance of fat. They also explained about the head of the tuna which has meat which is full of flavour, but needs to be cooked slowly as a stew. The ‘plato’ cut was selected as the best type for sashimi as it was low in fat and tender, and Chef Cob cut it there and then so guests could enjoy during the presentation. Even more amazing was the invitation to take a spoon and pull the freshest meat off the bones right on the table, a delicious and exciting experience. Once the fish was prepared, guests were able to choose what they would

like, and how they wanted it to be cooked and the sommelier was on hand to recommend the perfect pairing. Sashimi and maki were prepared, paired with a dry Manzanilla sherry. Then Chef Cob showed guests his special oriental tartar with soy, kimchi, mayonnaise, shallots and pickles and shared the secret of the perfect tartar - don’t dice the fish, shred and crush the meat with the back of your knife for the best flavour and texture. This was served on a bed of avocado, paired with a crisp albariño white wine and was a triumph. The cuts from the head were

served in a stew as a Marmitako of tuna, with a special sauce from the Basque Country. The prized tuna belly was cooked medium well done and served with potatoes and the tuna loin was seared and served with a stunning vizcaina sauce. These more meaty cuts were served with a gutsy rose wine, or red wine, as a perfect complement to the flavour. The event was an amazing spectacle where guests learned so much about the tuna and enjoyed sampling all the cuts paired with delicious wines. The Kempinski will be organising more gastronomic events during the summer season.

SOCIAL SCENE New ADANA Board team ADANA, the Estepona based dog rescue and rehoming charity, celebrated its 26th Annual General Meeting at the Pedro Munoz Sports Centre on Thursday July 21. A packed room heard outgoing President Michele Yanez-Bowker deliver an upbeat report on the state of the organisation, referring especially to the wonderful work done by all involved in the charity. Special mention was made of the work carried out by the volunteer maintenance team, led by Reg Winkworth and Pete Roberts, who over the year have overseen and carried out major works of improvement as well as routine maintenance. The new ADANA Board consists of three new faces and two very familiar to ADANA members and volunteers. Mary Page, Vice-President from 2010 until 2013 was elected President, with Maria Cawsey, Manager of the ADANA charity shop, continuing as Vice-President. New team members are Reg Winkworth, Treasurer, Lynn Bessant, Secretary and Peter Roberts, in charge of the maintenance team. Mary thanked everybody for their vote of confidence and promised that the new Board would build on what had been achieved by the outgoing team. “We all work for one common aim, the welfare of our dogs,” she said.

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Bird Society visit Cadiz Province By John Smith IN keeping with their monthly programme of visits, members of the Andalucia Bird Society will cross the border to take them into Cadiz Province where they will visit Trocadero Island and the Bay of Cadiz in their quest to see a range of birds in their natural habitats on August 6. The bay itself is enormous and is a network of amphibious channels, underwater at high tide but exposed mud at low tide. Until the middle of the 20th century, the BahĂa de CĂĄdiz Natural Park was worked sustainably using the salt marshes, tidal streams, creeks and salt pans in a way which benefited the local community and the local biodiversity. The area is an important migrant bird resting area. Here, birds returning to Europe from Africa can stop to feed and recuperate after their crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar and then again in autumn before heading back to their wintering grounds. A group of local scientists set up SALARTE (Fund for the Stewardship and Recovery of the Salt Marsh) to reopen these saltpans to encourage wildlife and local employment. This improved the envi-

JUVENILE SPOONBILL: The saltpans have generated an increase in spawning grounds for fish. ronment which meant improved conditions for many habitats and the local species of shellfish and small fish increased. The saltpans have generated an increase in suitable spawning

grounds for fish and as the habitat improved, the food chain improved. With the increased fish, the bird population increased with waders, spoonbills and ospreys moving into the area.

SALARTE have now taken over the management of La Covacha Island, part of Trocadero Island and has erected two nesting platforms and several artificial perches for ospreys. They have created a hide to

monitor the spoonbill colony, refurbished the tool room for the management and maintenance of the island, built a jetty to make it easier to access the island and set up a video camera to monitor the ospreys. By maintaining the water levels between certain heights, the food chain develops which is required for many water birds. A small colony of spoonbills has established itself on the island and many other birds use it too. For the last two years, a pair of Ospreys have taken up residence, although they have yet to breed. Despite being quite common in the UK, land stewardship is a tool that is practically unknown in Andalucia. SALARTE aims to set an example to show how important it is for civil society to get involved in restoring the natural environment and how it generates environmental benefits, and leads to social improvements for the population and restores pride in the local community. Anyone interested in joining this visit or simply finding out more about the society should call 652 552 956 or email: abs.sociedad@gmail.com. Alternatively visit www.andalucia birdsociety.org.

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LIONS CLUB: Presentation of the cheque which paid for air conditioning units for the classrooms.

Now coping with the heat By John Smith RECENTLY, the President of the La Cala de Mijas Lions, Tony Bellamy, presen t e d t h e h e a d mis tre s s o f th e Jardin Botanico School in La Cala, Maria Vallerico Leon-Romera, with a cheque for €4,000 to pay for air conditioning units now installed in four classrooms.

T h e mo n ey ha s a ls o a llow e d the school to purchase seven tablet comp u te rs fo r u s e by the pupils . The cheque was presented in the presence of the Mijas councillor for Education, Nuria Rodriguez, the Mijas Foreigners Dept representative, Anette Skua, and several members of the Lions Club. The Jardin Botanico School has had to expand rapidly in recent years to ac-

commodate the increased numbers of pupils. Unfortunately, this has meant that a number of classrooms, and other areas of the school, have no air-conditioning w hic h ma de te a c hing a nd le a rning very difficult in summer, so the new units financed by the Lions will make four of the classrooms that face south much more comfortable.

THERE is to be a showing of the Oscar nominated film ‘Woman in Gold,’ starring Hel en Mi r r en and Ryan Reynolds. This is the story of a Jewish woman determined to r ecover pai nt i ngs st ol en f r om her f am i l y by t he Nazis, including the very famous Woman in Gold by Gustav Klimt which will be pr esent ed j oi nt l y by t he Marbella International Film Festival and H10 Andalucia

Plaza on Thursday August 4. Tickets for the presentation will include a buffet meal which will cost just €20 but must be booked in advance by e- m ai l i ng j oanne.f 7@gmai l .com or calling 952 811 047. The buffet which does not i ncl ude dr i nks wi l l com m ence at 7.30pm and t he film will start at 9pm at the H10 Andalucia Plaza opposite Puerto Banus.

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Dumb sayings Mike Senker

In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man WHY do people ask such stupid questions or say dumb things? Like when you bump your head, some smart arse always pipes up ‘Mind your head!’ Err too late; I needed that information 10 seconds before, not 10 seconds after! Or ‘this goes without saying...’ Then they say it. One of my favourites is when someone starts a sentence, ‘With all due respect...’ then you know they are not going to be the least respectful. How about ‘I don’t mean to be rude but ...’ oh you so know they are going to be rude. ‘Just between us...’ ha ha, not a chance mate. ‘It will only take a moment...’ 20 minutes later I’m still standing there like a lemon. ‘To be completely honest...’ now that one really worries me because it makes me think the rest of what they said wasn’t!! Someone once said to me ‘for the most part.’ What does that even mean? Oh how about, ‘At the end of the day.’ I always finish that when someone says it by saying ‘you go to bed.’ They then say ‘what?’ and I say, ‘at the end of the day

you go to bed’ and stare at them. Security at airports. I know they do a great job but some of the questions they are just repeating to every single person that they see like ‘Have you had your suitcase with you at all times’? I know I should just say yes but sometimes I’m just forced to say ‘No it was in the loft for 11 months.’ How about when people phone you up and ask questions and finish up by asking your name. You give it to them and then they say ‘Can you spell it?’ Of course I can spell it, it’s my name. I’ve had it for 67 years and I’d be some kind of fool if I couldn’t spell it. Oh sorry what you meant was will I spell it for you. Sure I will. The English have an amazing knack of irony and sarcasm which sometimes just doesn’t translate especially to Americans. For instance I was in a bar in Miami with a crowd of friends and the waitress dropped a tray of glasses. We did what all good Brits would do. We all cheered and clapped and shouted ‘ladies and gentleman, a big hand for the juggler!!’ whilst the Americans just looked at us like we were nuts. I mean how stupid is that? Why would you cheer and clap? But we all do it. So remember: If at first you don’t succeed... skydiving is probably not the sport for you... to be honest!

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Hitching a ride AS part of the series, we answer some common driving questions and keep you updated on the latest driving and road news kindly provided by members of the Guardia Civil based in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca, who set up the N332 website and Facebook page to help break down barriers.

UNWANTED PASSENGERS: Are unlikely to attack unless they feel threatened. DISTRACTIONS when driving are a major cause of traffic related incidents, from drowsiness, using your mobile, tuning your radio, to talking to other vehicle occupants. Many of those distractions can be dealt with easily, but others can be so far out of our control, they become an even bigger danger. What do we do when an insect enters our car, especially if we start to panic the insect, such as a wasp, might actually attack us? If an insect enters your vehicle, first and foremost, the advice is do not panic. Even though there is a fear and a risk, insects like wasps do not normally attack unprovoked and so remaining calm may reassure your insect passenger that you are not posing any kind of threat. Outside of vehicles, the most time wasps will sting is when they feel under attack, such as when people wave their arms around trying to deflect it. This action not only confuses the wasp, it too starts to feel threatened

and panics, resulting in a defensive attack. Remain calm and tell other occupants to do the same, keep your eyes on the road and keep driving as you look for a safe place to pull over. Simply opening windows when the vehicle is moving will not usually work, the force of the wind will blow the insect back inside. Although, if your vehicle is travelling slowly, this is a more realistic option. An insect in the car is not actually considered an emergency, so the hard shoulder of the motorway is not the place to stop and you should wait for the next service station. On any other road, the normal rules for stopping will apply, find a location that is both safe and convenient and does not cause problems for other road users. Once stopped open the window and doors if safe to do so and the insect should leave on its own accord. For more news and articles visit www.n332.es or search N332 on Facebook.

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Can Community hire members? In line with several recent questions about Communities and money, we have in our building two owners who are retired people who take care of the gardens and do odd jobs around the place. We voted at the AGM several years ago to engage them in exchange for not paying their Community fees. Some members have now raised the question: Is this legal? S.D. (Costa del Sol) No, it’s not legal, unless they are registered with Spain’s Social Security system as self-employed workers who pay monthly contributions of about €250 into the system. Further, the Community must show any payments to them on its books, with the

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appropriate withholding tax paid into the Tax Agency. Your operation seems to harm nobody but Spain’s strict labour and employ-

ment regulations require anyone working must pay into the system. This means your Community is guilty of employing ‘black’ workers outside the tax system and this could draw substantial penalties of €3,000 for each unregistered worker.

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

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ALL training should be based on the assumption that the dog does not reason and that he learns by association of ideas. For training purpose we try to create associations we want by reward.

breeds and individuals of the Reward: this can be apsame bred. plied in many ways dependAll this can be explained ing on the individual animal by your trainer at question and what has to be done. Altime. though food is condemned by some, if applied correctly it can be used, however, most Most dog owners dogs like to be fussed, petted will never know and talked to in a friendly or have any idea voice. of the pleasure they Anything that a dog likes are losing in not having a dog can be used as a reward. The which is a faithful companion end product is entirely deand partner.” pendent upon reward: a dog’s Within the family houseinstinct plays a vital role. hold it is common to find that The average dog owner a dog will link up with some does not have the haziest idea members of the family but of the instincts inherent in the not others. dog that he owns. Canine instincts vary in strength between different

A bully who rules by force may obtain implicit obedience, but at the loss of friendship and or affection often bordering on cruelty. Most dog owners will never know or have any idea of the pleasure they are losing in not having a dog which is a faithful companion and partner. Dogs are not almost human and suffering can be caused by people who think they are. Human and canine social habits have many similarities. A dog will accept a human as a substitute for a canine and this willingness to accept a human makes him easier to train than most other animals.

REWARD TIME: Food, if applied correctly, can be used.

Little hope for dogs in Spain A DOG trainer and former TV show presenter, Borja Capponi, has spoken out on the matter of abandoned dogs in Spain and forecast that “while there is bullfighting, there is little hope for animals in Spain.” The trainer, who used to present Malas Pulgas, a pet show, on Cuatro TV channel has reported that he has tried to get back on television as he sees a need for dog owners to learn how to live with their pets and stop dumping them over minor issues which could be easily solved, but has been turned away by TV stations,

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BEST BUDDIES: Chris and Kyla. KYLA the Alsatian was an only dog for five years keeping guard of the villa and taking care of her human family. Then the family found an abandoned puppy in their neighbourhood and decided they had to save him. Enter Chris. There were concerns how Kyla, who was usually jealous of other dogs, would react to a small interloper in her home. However, they were more concerned about the puppy’s wellbeing as he was malnourished with protruding ribs. So they adopted him and managed a careful introduction to Kyla. At first they kept Chris in a separate part of the kitchen where he would have company for much of the day. From there he could go into his own area of the garden and he could rest to build strength. Naturally they took him to the local vet’s to monitor his progress carefully. After two weeks he had gained weight, his eyes were more alert and he was looking much better and sleeping less during the day. His curiosity began to get the better of him, and

one time when the door to living room was left open he slipped through and found the sofa. Kyla was on the sofa and immediately noticed him. Everyone was suddenly worried about how she would react. She eased her way down and went over to examine him. He was tiny by comparison to her and still a little frail. She started to lick him and nurture him, and they became friends. For Chris’ sake the family keep the dogs at home when they go on holiday. He needs stability, and Kyla likes to look after him. House-sitters feed and water the dogs and make sure all is well in the home while the family holiday. The dogs take care of each other. House-sitting can be a winwin for both parties, free house and pet-sitting and the experienced and checked sitters get free accommodation! Register now for a 20 per cent off introductory offer using coupon code PERFECT20. To find a house pet-sitter go to www.HousesitMatch.com.

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Growing medicinal plants at home By Simon Russell SOME plants are for looking at and some are for eating. There is a third type which is those with some medicinal qualities. Here are a few you should be able to grow even in a small garden or window box. • Aloe Vera is good for sunburn, so a good plant to have around for the Spanish summer. Grows best in direct sunlight. • Peppermint can help with stomach upsets and makes your garden smell good. • Ginseng has been promoted by many as a ‘superfood.’ It is supposed to be good for ove ra ll health and in particular the immune system. Many infuse it in tea. • Marigold helps relieve bee stings and other insect bites. This thrives in any soil. B e fore pla nting think of what common ALOE VERA: Great for soothing sunburn.

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Summer container gardening top tips especially for apartments Dick Handscombe

Gardening Corner By Spain’s best known expatriate gardening author living in Spain for 25 years.

JULY is now hot for all and very very hot for some. Plants, like humans and pets, are perspiring unless precautions are taken. And plants have other summer problems, unique to themselves. The soil or compost in which they are planted, especially in containers, can dry out in a day if in full sun. But despite that many container gardens on apartment terraces, balconies and window sills are thriving, as are shady patio gardens. Here are some tips for taking care of plants in the stifling summer heat: 1. Use the blind to shelter plants from the hot sun except for those that love the sun such as succulents and cacti. 2. Double or even treble watering compared to June. 3. Deadhead as flowers die to stimulate follow on flowering buds and flowers. 4. Mist spray plants in the early evening. Evergreen plants: 1. Mist spray leaves fort-

HERB GARDENS: Ideal for harvesting, decoration or their lovely aroma. nightly and clean leaves with a beer and milk solution monthly. 2. Watch out for mealy bugs and scale and treat ASAP. 3. Watch out for drooping and falling leaves that could indicate under watering. 4. Watch out for the yellowing of leaves and white rings around the bottom of the trunks that could indicate overwatering. Herbs: 1. Ensure compost does not dry out. 2. Harvest herbs regularly to stimulate new growth.

Remain injury free when moving heavy objects IF you don’t move heavy objects on a day-to-day basis, chances are on the odd occasion you have to, such as moving house or buying furniture, you will be doing it wrong. People who make a living out of carrying and lifting things, such as furniture removers, have a few rules they follow to avoid injury: • Take your time, think about where you are going before moving something. Measure spaces before trying to get something through that doorway or up those stairs. • Use your legs for lifting, never your back. Bend your knees, keep your back straight

and then lift. • Never lift things above chest height unless you have to. This is dangerous and likely to lead to strains. • Think about what equipment you can use to make the job easier. Again, the less lifting you do regularly, the less kit you are likely to have around that can help you. Trolleys, carts and straps (for grip) all help you get the job done. Think of yourself as well, gloves, hard hat, back braces and so on can all help. • Don’t do what you you’re not capable of. Better to get a professional in rather than damage the item or yourself.

3. If you can’t use all the new growth harvest it and dry or freeze for winter use or hang up bunches for decoration and the aroma therapeutic effect. 4. Move plants that were in full sun in the spring to semi shade. Fruit growing: many can be grown successfully in containers. 1. Thin out excessive growth of grape vines. 2. Spray trees and vines monthly with a neem/propolis mix. 3. Double or even triple the

watering. 4. Give a monthly general feed. 5. Thin out fruit to increase size of those left on the trees. Vegetable growing: Many can be grown in containers on the ground, on a growing table or in window boxes hung on end or inside walls. 1. Ensure composts are damp at all times. 2. Dust fruit vegetable plants with yellow sulphur powder every two weeks. 3. Give leaf vegetables a fortnightly rich in nitrogen

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“Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you’ve got the ebola virus and you’re about to sneeze.” Some might say...

Dream or speculation? By Matthew Elliott A RECORD appreciation of value has been noted in the collector car market as classic supercars command far higher prices second hand than they did new. Porsche specialist dealers have confirmed 2016 911 R models now fetch upwards of €1 million, despite retailing in the US for just $185,000 (€168,000). The 911 R is something of a special case as only 991 models were ever built (a reference to the generation’s internal code) and so it car-

ries an air of exclusivity and rarity. It is thought unlikely that rampant motoring enthusiasts are behind the price surge as the collector car market is becoming more and more saturated with speculators who consider acquiring limited editions to be a sound investment rather than fulfilling a childhood dream. Indeed while it’s been suggested that a 911 is a more worthy investment than a London flat, the Carrera 2.7 RS is the granddaddy of appreciation, with prices climbing a stag-

gering 700 per cent in just a decade. In 2004 a 1973 model would set a buyer back around €92,000 (adjusted for inflation) but today a second-hand purchase would command a lavish €710,000 and be considered a bargain. Bear in mind that’s for a standard model and rarer, more lightweight or historically intriguing models can fetch far higher sums. Recently a 1985 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 with less than 5,000 miles on the clock went on sale for

€101,000. The lucky buyer will benefit from cruise control, an electric sunroof, Blaupunkt cassette player, and graphic equaliser, as well as the original jack, toolkit and handbook. Not to mention the kind of pristine interior that comes with a car being driven an average of only 143 miles a year for 31 years. Motorheads will surely hope that whoever buys the model will be a true aficionado and not simply another investment banker trying to upgrade his portfolio.

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Summer in gear FANS of Top Gear are in for a summer treat as the show returns in a live format to liven up motoring events across the UK. The show itself is on a break but the renowned stunt team will tour across Britain dazzling spectators with new cars and eye-popping skills. Key events will be the Carfest North festival in Cheshire this weekend from July 29-31, the Ignition Festival at Glasgow’s SECC from August 5-7, and the exclusive Beaulieu Supercar Weekend in Hampshire on August 20 and 21. There will be a total of 11 live action days with the stunt team’s participation expected to draw a total of 120,000 fans as stunt driver Paul Swift promises a brand new motoring line up for those lucky enough to attend.

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LATE LEARNERS: Many delay driving until older. ALMOST half of all new learner drivers in the UK are more than 25-years-old, a startling statistic that suggests that the old days of teenage driving kicks are well and truly of the past. Only 34 per cent of current learners are in the traditional 17-20 age bracket, with the figures declining significantly in the past decade. Many of the older learners cite obstructive costs and other commitments as the key reasons they didn’t get on the road at an earlier age, a reasonable assessment given huge insurance premiums and driving lesson fees. The drawback is that many over 25s are considerably more worried about the process than their younger counterparts, juggling jobs and family responsibilities while learning or often being forced to learn to secure a new position.

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Welcome to the fourth dimension LAUDED as the ‘third industrial revolution’ 3D printing is already with us, having a powerful impact on the healthcare and architecture industries, but its impact is yet to be fully felt in the motoring world. Jaguar Land Rover technicians now claim they can print a full-size 22-inch wheel in only hours, a process that previously took

ten days using clay modelling, and is done far more accurately using 3D technology. At present 3D printing is restricted to engineering and design rather than full-scale production and experts believe that the first encroachment of the technology into mass production territory will come through niche, personalised adaptations demanded by the luxury market.

Though it’s probably too early to get excited about, even 3D printing is something of yesterday’s news as a 4D version of the technology is already being tested. In the not-so-distant future 4D car printing could see vehicles being printed out by computers and programmed to adapt and change form over time to deal with various mechanical faults or difficult terrains.

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Froome and Hamilton complete a ‘Great’ British double Tony Matthews International Sports A former player and now the world’s most prolific author of football books with almost 150 published since 1975, Tony is also the sports correspondent for Spectrum Radio and lives on La Pilica in the Sierra Cabrera Mountains overlooking Turre. Costa de Almeria

ONCE again there has been some terrific sporting action over the last week and there’s plenty more to come. • CYCLING: Last Sunday, brilliant Chris Froome (team Sky) became the first British rider and the eighth of all-time, to win the Tour de France three times. Fellow Brit Adam Yates (4th) took the young rider award while Mark Cavendish won four stages. Froome’s teammate, Spain’s Mikel Landa, joined 214 riders in the 2,103 mile race. • MOTORSPORT: The Hungarian Grand Prix was won (lamentably) for the fifth time by Lewis Hamilton; Nico Rosberg was second and Daniel Ricciardo third. Hamilton is now six points clear of Rosberg (192-186) in the driver ’s championship. On Sunday, it’s the German F1 from Hockenheim. • GOLF: The last major tournament of 2016, the US PGA, starts today in New Jersey, while the women’s British Open is underway at Woburn. • CRICKET: Hopefully England won the second Test at Old Trafford! Alastair Cook (105) and Joe Root (a majestic 264, the highest individual knock on the ground since 1964) guided England to a first innings total of 589-8 declared. It was Cook’s 29th hundred (in 130 Tests) and he’s now level with the great Sir Don Bradman (29 in just 29 matches). Pakistan were dismissed for 198 before England batted again, setting the tourists a huge total for victory. The third Test is at Edgbaston from August 3-7. Virat Kohli has become the first Indian to hit a double Test century outside his own country, doing so in the West Indies, and the inau-

gural women’s League starts this weekend at Leicester. • SAILING: In Portsmouth, Britain’s America’s Cup campaign got off to a great start under Ben Ainslie. The four-time Olympic champion won two of the first three races with his Land Rover BAR team to take the lead with 26 points. •HORSE RACING: Frankie Dettori hopes to ride his 3,000th career winner this week at Goodwood and Francesca Cumani, daughter of Newmarket trainer Luca, will be the new face of ITV racing next year.

WORLD CUP: England were the winners in 1966.

•FOOTBALL: England have appointed Sam Allardyce as manager on a two-year contract. His first game in charge is a friendly against Slovakia on September 1. David Moyes is Sunderland’s new boss and FA Chairman Greg Dyke has quit. Celtic came back from a goal down to beat Gibraltar ’s parttimers Lincoln Red Imps 3-1 on aggregate in a Champions League qualifier. The Buoys played Astana last night in another qualifier. Hearts and Hibs are out of the Europa League but Aberdeen, West Ham and

Cork are still in… and they are all in action tonight in qualifying games. • BOXING: Ex-Norwich striker and now a middleweight fighter Leon McKenzie (38) will face Jahmaine Smyle in London on November 12 and former Irish light-middleweight Des Rea has died aged 72. • DARTS: Michael Van Gerwen retained the World Match-play title, beating 15time champion Phil ‘the Power’ Taylor in the final. • ENGLAND WORLD CUP WINNERS On Saturday, 50 years ago to the day (July 30, 1966) England won the World Cup, beating West Germany 4-2 after extra-time at Wembley with a Geoff Hurst hattrick. Under manager Alf Ramsey, England began with a 0-0 draw against Uruguay in Group One be-

fore Mexico and France were both defeated 2-0. Bobby Charlton and Roger Hunt scored against the Mexicans while Hunt netted twice against the French. In the quarter-finals, a Hurst header saw off 10 man Argentina who had Antonio Rattin sent-off before Bobby Charlton scored twice in a 2-1 semi-final victory over Eusebio’s Portugal. Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst was ready to call time when Wolfgan Weber struck a dramatic 89th minute equaliser to take the game into extra-time. The England players and fans were gutted. With quality players like Franz Beckenbauer, Helmut Haller, Uwe Seeler and Sigi Held, the Germans were favourites to win the final. Indeed, Haller fired them in front on 13 minutes after a poor header by Ray Wilson, but Hurst nodded in the equaliser six minutes later from Bobby Moore’s freekick. After some tense and nervy moments at both ends of the field, England went in front on 77 minutes through Martin Peters. But with Swiss referee

Gottfried Dienst ready to call time, Wolfgang Weber struck a dramatic 89th minute equaliser to take the game into extra-time. The England players (and fans) were gutted but Ramsey’s men raised their game superbly and although controversy surrounded Hurst’s 101st minute ‘over the line’ effort that put England 3-2 ahead from Alan Ball’s cross, there was nothing wrong with the striker’s hattrick goal in the dying seconds which sealed a famous victory, prompting commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme to shout out: “Some people are on the pitch - they think it’s all over - it is now”. A crowd of 96,924 attended the final with 32 million watching on TV. This was England’s victorious 1966 team: Banks; Cohen, Wilson, Stiles, J Charlton, Moore, Ball, Hunt, Hurst, R Charlton, Peters. * I wonder if we’ll ever say this again: England World champions at football?

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Ron Garrood DOÑA JULIA GOLF, on the Costa del Sol, is situated in the municipality of Casares, although part of its perimeter is adjacent to Manilva, a few metres from the sea and the mountains, where you can enjoy panoramic views of Sierra Bermeja and Ronda and is strategically situated just 45km distance to Marbella, 18km to Sotogrande, and 35 km to Gibraltar. Established in 2005 this golf course is perfectly integrated into the natural landscape area and is noted for its magnificent views over the Med sea and the African coast. The course is 18 holes par 71 (provisional) with a length of 5,976 metres and built to the standards of the United States Golf Association (USGA) in terms of tees, bunkers, drainage and greens. It was designed by

PANORAMIC VIEWS: Set in the natural landscape. renowned Malaga architect Antonio Garcia Garrido, responsible for some of the most emblematic areas of Spain. The most outstanding feature of this field, developed by the Group Evamarina is the breadth of green with a surface between 700m2 and 1,000m2 planted with Agrostis Pen G-2. Facilities include a majestic clubhouse complete with stylish furnishings and a welcoming atmosphere, a golf store selling well-known

brands, and the impressive Restaurante Doña Julia Golf serving guests with authentic Andalucian cuisine, a great place to relax before and after your game. On August 13 Doña Julia will hold their summer tournament. Why not book our special offer of two players including shared buggy for only €98 during August. For further details call CostaLess Golf on 952 661 849 or email: enquiries@costaless golf.com.

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LAST Sunday Chris Froome became the first British rider, and the eighth of all-time, to win the Tour de France three times.

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CONTROVERSY: Has descended on many host cities over the years.

CONTROVERSY over Russian doping, a mosquito borne virus, unclean water, even dirtier athlete accommodation, corruption, and knocking down entire neighbourhoods to make way for an unfinished superhighway, Rio 2016 has been mired in scandal since the get go but next weekend the Olympic Games will get underway regardless.

Although Brazil’s preparations for its debut Games have been described by a member of the IOC as the “worst ever,” it wouldn’t really be the Olympics without a flurry of pre-kick off doubts, dilemmas, controversies, criticisms and outright disasters. More than a century ago, in 1908, London held the Games, which somehow conspired to be

the longest in modern history, spanning an insane 187 days from April till October, compared to the thankfully more modest 16 days we can expect from Rio. London wasn’t even supposed to hold the Games that year as Rome was selected for the honours in 1904 but the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 devastated

Napoli, forcing the Italians to redirect Olympic funds to the emergency efforts. Controversy ensued when the American delegation refused to dip their flag to King Edward VII, while its leader was so disgusted by the accommodation on offer in London that he uprooted the entire team to Brighton. Revenge was had to some

degree, however, by the British authorities who cunningly played with the marathon distance to ensure symbolic American fealty to the King. In previous Games marathons had been 25 miles long, the rough distance from Marathon to Athens by a flatter path, but the stubborn Brits decided to stretch it an extra mile so racers would collapse

exhausted at the finish line just beneath the King, hence the current 26 mile distance. The Olympics largely seems to have either arrived in a city on the brink of chaos or to have left destruction in its wake. The Seine flooded in Paris before the 1924 Games; Los Angeles in 1932 was in the grip of the Great Depression; in 1964 the Japanese killed hundreds of thousands of stray cats and dogs; Israeli athletes were massacred in Munich in 1972; Moscow rid its streets of the homeless in 1980; Seoul had just seen a military dictatorship fall in 1988; and the Chinese expelled millions of people from their homes in order to make Beijing the fantastically ‘green city’ it is today.