Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 6 - 12 December 2018 Issue 1744

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6 - 12 December 2018

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Forty years of democracy

by Darren Parmenter

THE mayor of Orihuela, Emilio Bascuñana, presided over a special event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution that took place in the Plaza del Carmen.

He was joined by a number of local councillors both past and present as well as representatives from other neighbouring towns.

After the Spanish flag was raised to the National Anthem, it was carried by students from the Virgen de la Puerta, Andres

SPECIAL EVENT: The Spanish flag was raised.

Manjon, Festive Oratory, and Jesus Maria de San Isidro Schools.

Mayor Bascuñana said: “The past 40 years of rights and free-

doms have allowed us to commemorate this special anniversary that we’re happy to share with all the people from Orihuela.”

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NEWS EXTRA First response BENEJUZAR Council has installed a defibrillator in one of its Local Police vehicles, which will enable them to be able to use it on any patient, when they first arrive on the scene of an emergency.

Five injured FIVE people, aged between 17 and 27 years old, have been injured in a crash on the N-340 in Orihuela which involved two cars and a motorbike. All victims were taken to the Vega Baja Hospital after being treated at scene.

Traffic help ELCHE Council is looking, not for the first time, at a plan to prevent the build-up of traffic in and around the L’Aljub Shopping Centre, which is estimated to see more than 50,000 vehicles on a daily basis.

Safety first TORREVIEJA’S Virgen del Carmen Cultural Centre has been temporarily closed down, after a detailed inspection of the emergency and security procedures carried out, resulted in a number of concerns in connection with the fire safety equipment.

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Supermarket worker attacked

by Darren Parmenter A SUPERMARKET worker has been seriously injured after being attacked with a broken bottle.

T h e atta c k h ap p e ne d o u ts id e th e s u p e rma rke t on Calle Orihuela in Torrevieja, after a man had alle g ed ly b ee n ca u g ht s h o p liftin g b y o n e o f t he shop workers.

According to reports, the man - described as North African - entered the superma rk et n o t lo n g afte r it o p e n ed , an d w a s ca u g ht stealing items.

Some witnesses say he went straight to the cashier

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CHALLENGED: The Torrevieja supermarket where the attack took place (File image).

t o dem and m oney and at t acked t wo em pl oyees, st r i ki ng one of t hem and leaving him with a perforated lung, after he was challenged by them.

The Local Police in Torrevieja and the Guardia Civil were called, and a suspect was arrested in connection shortly afterwards.

It is understood that he did not resist arrest and was taken into custody.

The i nj ur ed m an was st abi l i sed at t he scene by paramedics before being taken to Torrevieja Hospital in what was described as a ‘serious’ condition.

Bike gathering exceeds expectations A BRIGHT and sunny day saw a gathering of hundreds of motorbike enthusiasts from far and wide at a motorbike rally held in Parque Antonio Sofia in Torrevieja.

The rally, organised by local motorbike group Dorsal Zero, is estimated to have attracted roughly 1,500 motorbikes which totally surpassed all expectations. Motorbike groups from far and wide convened in an atmosphere of fun, camaraderie and friendship.

Attractions at the event included a very popular mass motorbike ride out through the streets of Torrevieja.

There was also live music, a BBQ serving freshly cooked food and a

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SHOWING STRENGTH: Fun and games for a great cause. very popular bar.

A varied schedule of entertain-

ment was put together, with games such as tug-of-war engendering a

friendly rivalry among the different groups.

The go-go’s, a raffle, custom and sports motorbike displays, and shops selling various motorbike clothing, helmets and other paraphernalia also added to the excellent day out.

During the rally, money was also collected for a very worthy cause, the Torrevieja Alzheimer’s Association (AFAT).

After the event, Dorsal Zero received many messages of congratulations from visitors thanking the group for their efforts and hard work.

It is hoped that following the success of this year’s event, next year will be even bigger and better.

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No more waiting

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AFTER waiting 10 years, Catral Council will be opening an oldpeople’s home which can accommodate 300 people. The building has 54 apartments with kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room. In addition, there will be another 72 geriatric rooms and a day centre. It is estimated to also provide 128 direct jobs.

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Child hurt

THE Radiology Department of the Vega Baja Hospital in Orihuela has recently acquired the latest generation CT scan that will improve the quality and accuracy of the current tests carried out on patients. There is also a new TAC machine that is able to perform a full body scan in seconds.

Check point arrest NATIONAL POLICE in Cartagena have arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with a number of crimes, among which is allegedly assaulting a police officer after being stopped at a check point. The man grabbed the police man’s arm when he tried to switch off the engine to prevent him fleeing the scene.

Shot bouncer A MAN that tried to kill the doorman of a club in Torrevieja back in 2012 has accepted a two-year prison sentence. The man was drunk as he tried to enter the club and, after a row on the door, later returned with a pistol and shot the doorman six times.

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CREVILLENTE’S Environment Department has formally written to their Local Police, Guardia Civil and the National Police to ask that they intensify their patrols to monitor the illegal dumping of rubbish in the municipality. Not only is the environment harmed - especially close to the cemetery - the costs of cleaning increase.

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A 41-YEAR-OLD woman and her seven-year-old daughter have suffered a number of injuries - none life-threatening after being hit by a car on a street in Elche. The child was taken to hospital with multiple fractures and her mother with a badly injured knee.

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Peak position HIGH POINT: The Sierra Nevada mountain range lies in Granada Province.

THIS coming Tuesday is International Mountain Day, and what better way to mark the occasion than to look upon the magnificent slopes of one of Spain’s best-known Sierras.

The Sierra Nevada mountain range lies in the Andalucia province of Granada in the south of Spain, and parts of it cross into the provinces of Malaga and Almeria.

Its name translates to ‘the mountain range covered in snow,’ with its peaks

usually white from the cold conditions at their summits.

The Sierra Nevada is home to the Mulhacen, the highest mountain in continental Spain and the third highest in Europe.

The mountains also feature a National Park, a protected biosphere reserve, the Sierra Nevada Observatory and the IRAM telescope.

The Sierra Nevada is also popular with skiers. Its ski resort is one of the

On the run THE Guardia Civil is looking for a man who kidnapped a woman as she got out of her car in San Javier.

According to reports, the man managed to force her into the vehicle and drove for several kilometres until she managed to escape and raise the alarm.

It is understood that despite having a restraining order placed on him, the man was keeping watch on the front door of the property where his former partner lived.

At this point, the woman arrived home in her car and as she was parking up the man approached her, grabbed her, and after bundling her into the car sped off.

Close to Balsicas, the man stopped the car and the woman managed to open the door after a struggle and run away.

The suspect also fled from the scene on foot into the nearby countryside and he’s still being sought by the authorities.

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most southerly in Europe.

The range is a member of the Alpine family, which also includes the Pyrenees, the Cantabrian Mountains, the Baetic System, the Atlas range and others across Europe, Africa and Asia.

All of them formed after the tectonic plates that lie beneath Africa, India and the Eurasian landmass began colliding around 66 million years ago. That process is still ongoing in some mountain ranges in the Alpide belt.

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Sniffed out A MAN and a woman have been arrested by Local Police in Murcia for carrying drugs in the backseat of their car where two children - aged two and 14 were also travelling.

The couple - a 40-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were found to have a number of marihuana plants in the car hidden under a sheet. They may have got away with their stash if it wasn’t for the Local Police noticing that the two children

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were in the car without wearing any form of seat belt or child seat.

After stopping the car, as soon as the doors opened the police noticed the overwhelming smell of marihuana that came from the three hidden plants.

It was also later discovered that the car didn’t have a valid ITV (MOT) certificate, nor did the driver have a driving licence.

The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1743 of the Euro Weekly News Costa Blanca South edition, including 142 local stories.

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Proud double for Age Concern IN the space of two days, Age Concern was part of two events which they were exceptionally proud of.

On Friday evening, the charity was delighted to become the very first recipient of the People’s Champion Award at the Pride of Spain Award ceremony.

The award was in recognition of 20 years continuous service, helping and supporting the over 50’s on the southern Costa Blanca.

President Maureen Payne, graciously accepted the prestigious award on behalf of Age Concern and all the hundreds of volunteers, past and present, who give their time freely, week in and week out.

Age Concern goes from strength to strength into their 21st year endeavouring to give constant care to those who need it most, and they were able to celebrate

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BUSY: The Christmas Fair raised over €2,600. the success of the night before with their Age Concern Christmas Fair at the Day Centre in La Siesta.

Browsers and buyers thronged the Day Centre and grounds, hunting down bargains, buying tickets for the

A DRIVER has been arrested in Alicante after being found with drugs hidden... in his genital area.

The 19-year-old man was stopped by members of the special Rapid Intervention Operations Group (GOIR) of the Local Police in Calle Las Palomas at one of their routine check points.

They discovered a total of 150 grams of cannabis in three packages hidden on his body and also stashed behind the car radio in the dashboard.

big draw, tombola, raffle, cakes, clothes, handbags, mobility aids, jewellery and electrical items, while enjoying a mince pie or a sausage roll.

The grand total raised was €2,677.40, a big thanks to

Police find drug packages The Local Police only carried out a full search of the teenage driver and his vehicle after he acted suspicious-

everyone involved.

For more information on the work and activities of Age Concern, why not pop into the centre at Calle Paganini, La Siesta, weekdays between 10am to 1.30pm or telephone 966 786 887.

ly when they stopped him.

After discovering the first packet of 50 grams lodged in his groin, the police requested the back up of the Canine Unit to make a more thorough search of the vehicle, and it was at this point that a sniffer dog concentrated on the in-car stereo.

They found the remaining 100 grams in two packets hidden at the back.

The man was arrested at the scene and is now awaiting the next stage of the Spanish legal process.

Double Guardia Civil success

by Darren Parmenter OFFICERS from the Guardia Civil in San Javier have arrested three people in connection with a robbery and a subsequent arson attack at a warehouse in the municipality.

They were also able to dismantle a gang who had been robbing a number of homes in nearby San Pedro del Pinatar.

The incidents in San Miguel led the Guardia Civil to a property in Santiago de la Ribera in connection with the search for a girl who had been reported missing.

As officers arrived at the home, the suspects began to flee the scene across nearby rooftops before being caught.

Once they entered the building, the Guardia Civil discovered a number of young people, including the missing girl, and items stolen from the warehouse which had been robbed and then set alight.

The three men are Spanish, aged 18, 23 and 24, and live in Santiago de la Ribera.

Three others, two of them children, were detained in San Pedro del Pinatar in connection with the spate of house robberies.

Others were later arrested after they were traced thanks to forensic officers finding fingerprints at the scene.

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ICONIC: Tests to see how environmentally friendly Cartagena Bus Station is.

Bus station pilot scheme

by Darren Parmenter CARTAGENA Bus Station was the location for a pilot scheme aimed at looking at ways to make the building more environmentally friendly, while reducing its energy bill at the same time.

The tests were carried out by the Energy and Environment Technological Centre (CETENMA) thanks to having obtained some funding

from the European Union.

The operation looks at analysing the layout of the iconic building which dominates the local skyline from a distance, to see if it can be made more efficient and prevent the continued emission of dangerous greenhouse gases.

The scheme was organised in collaboration with Cartagena Council and the Tucarsa transport company.

During the exercise, the current levels of energy consumption were monitored as well as looking at the efficient use - or otherwise - of space within the building.

It comes as no surprise to learn that buildings such as bus stations emit a high amount of CO2, and as such, potentially affect the quality of life of people living in the area.

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NEWS EXTRA Jobs for boys THE Murcia region is among the autonomous communities across Spain which has created more employment for men than women, according to a study

by ADECCO which says three out of four new jobs are for the male population.

Flare safe A SPECIALIST diving team from the Spanish Navy were called out to make safe a phosphorus flare which had been found on the Punta Prima beach near Torrevieja.

Badly hurt TWO emergency paramedic ambulances were called to the aftermath of a head-on collision in Rojales which seriously injured two men, aged 72 and 76 who were both transferred to Torrevieja Hospital after being stabilised at the scene.

Clothes theft gang caught GUARDIA CIVIL officers based in Aldaia have arrested four people three women and one man - in connection with a series of thefts from clothes shops in Valencia, Alicante and Murcia.

The group, aged between 37 and 49 years old, are alleged to have stolen goods, mainly clothing and shoes, to the value of more than €5,700 after studying and taking advantage of when the shop sales’ staff changed their shifts.

Op eratio n ‘Himo ’ be ga n ba c k in M arch after an A l ge r i a n national was arrested for theft in a shopping centre in Aldaia.

T h e in v estig atio n c ont i nue d wh en th e Gu ard ia Civi l be c a m e aware o f ev en mo re epi s ode s of shoplifting over a period of time, and always the same kind of products.

Once they had thoroughly examined CCTV footage supplied by the sto re, th ey d isco v ere d a not he r

APPREHENDED: One of the alleged thieves with a Guardia Civil officer.

10 similar crimes which were all e ge dl y c a r r i e d out by t he s a m e group of Algerians.

It was then established that they

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‘Noise police’ on patrol

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were part of an organised group w hi c h c a r r i e d out t he i r c r i me s across three Spanish provinces, between July 2017 and March 2018.

TWO patrols of a new ‘Leisure Police’ service in Murcia have begun to control some of the noisier areas of the city.

In addition to the three zones which have already been identified as being well-known for increased noise levels, there will also be extra monitoring around the Atalayas, Mariano Rojas, Infante Juan Manuel and Miguel de Cervantes areas. The latter have recently been the subject of a number of complaints from neighbours.

The new initiative was jointly presented by the mayor of Murcia, Jose Ballesta, and councillor for Traffic and Public Safety, Lola Sanchez.

This new section of the Local Police will aim to ensure noise regulations are fully complied with, and people will notice the presence of the team around the streets in the days leading up to Christmas.

Those on patrol will inform business owners of their responsibilities when it comes to noise pollution, as well as monitoring noise levels, closing hours, and the official numbers of people allowed in certain premises.

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Water treatment improvements ROJALES Council and water company Hidraqua have put together a number of plans with the aim of reducing the amount of waste which ends up in the salt lakes in and around La Mata and Torrevieja.

The programme of works has a budget of more than €4 million and includes improvements to the existing water treatment plants in

Lo Pepin I and II and in Doña Pepa. In addition, there are plans to build a number of antistorm tanks which are capable of storing and retaining any excess water during heavy rainfall.

Other initiatives include building five water storage tanks in the municipality which will be capable of holding more than 5,000m3.

Glass recycling smashed COMPARED to last summer, Guardamar del Segura has recycled 3 per cent more glass, with a total of 210 tons collected.

The scheme organised by the non-profit organisation Ecovidrio, who is responsible for managing glass-recycling across Spain as a whole, presented the municipality with a ‘Green Igloo’ award for having exceeded last year’s results.

The award is in recognition of the commitment of

the local people and those working in the many catering businesses to the recycling initiatives.

During that period, more than 100 bars, cafes, restaurants and hotels took part in the project and accounted for more than 50 per cent of the single-use glass bottles and jars.

The collection was helped with the installation of more than 40 of the special green containers close to the venues, to encourage their use.

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Mayor meets Neighbourhood Watch A FULL house at the last meeting - for 2018 at least - of the San Luis Neighbourhood Watch group, welcomed the mayor of Torrevieja, Jose Manuel Dolon.

Despite being slightly delayed having been called to an unexpected meeting with the President of the Valencian Community, he gave an update on the long-standing issue of the La Siesta Park.

There still appears to be no solution in sight as Mayor Dolon said there was still a court case pending and nothing could happen until the legal matters had been resolved.

There was an update on plans for new waste contracts and bus services, as well as reminders about residents making themselves legal before Brexit and how to ensure they are on the voting register.

The meeting ended with a mince pie, glass of wine, and entertainment from the Torrevieja Pipes and Drums.

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Date change for Santa run THIS weekend’s Maria and the Pink La die s a nd Pa nthe rs Sa nta R un to ra is e funds for the A EC C , ha s been moved from Saturday, to Sunday.

R e gis tra tion ope ns a t 11am and starts and finishes at Zenia Boulevard.

The a nnua l Sa nta R un raises a great deal of money and has contributed to the €420,000 raised since June 2010 to he lp in the fight against cancer and to support their early detection program. Early detection saves lives.

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from the stage and will be accompanied by some festive music played by Sunshine FM, Christmas Carols from the Honeys and entert ai nm ent f r om t he Cr azy Ladies.

Everything gets underway at 12 noon when the walk starts, until 2.30pm.

The registration fee for t he r un i s j ust €5 wi t h ever y cent goi ng t o t he AECC. FESTIVE: Everyone in a Christmas mood at a previous Santa Run.

Poppy Appeal record ONCE again, the Poppy Appeal 2018 at the Iceland store in San Javier raised a record amount this time €3,771 - which will go towards the total raised by Orihuela Costa and District branch of the Royal British Legion for use in helping members and former memb e r s o f t h e A r m e d S e rvices, based in Spain.

Diana and her team, Graham, Sandy, Patrice, Brian and Sylvia, Walter and Sue, Michael, Malcolm and Chris, Jo and Dennis, would like to thank all of the staff and especially the customers, who donated so generously to achieve the total, which is some €400 more than last year.

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Brit arrested in “one-punch” kill case Credit: Facebook

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FATHER OF THREE: Mario Sauco’s family is heartbroken.

HIV rates MORE than one in 10 people living with HIV in Spain are aged between 15 and 24 years old according to new figures from health academics which also showed 3,381 contracted the virus last year.

A 45-YEAR-OLD British man has been arrested by Spanish police in connection with the death of an Argentinian pensioner who was punched in the face on a zebra crossing in Fuengirola.

The suspect was held at Malaga Airport last Friday on a European Arrest Warrant, after flying back to Spain from the UK. Mario Sauco, 65, was a father of three and died in Malaga’s Carlos Haya Hospital, 10 days after a late-night street attack on August 14.

However, it is believed the purpose of the unidentified suspect’s return to Spain was to hand himself in to authorities.

He was reportedly questioned at a police station near the airport before appearing in court behind closed doors on Monday in Fuengirola.

Court sources suggest he has been released on bail pending a possible manslaughter charge.

A social media campaign was started by Mario’s daughter Analia, who published a picture of both her father and a man she described as the ‘attacker.’

Jobless down SPAIN has experienced one of the sharpest drops in unemployment of the European Union.

Figures fell from 16.6 per cent to 14.8 per cent in October, according to figures published by Eurostat, the European Statistical Office.

In contrast, unemployment across the Eurozone was at 6.7 per cent.

The statistics show unemployment fell across all member states, with Spain’s figures improving the most dramatically. Croatia’s numbers also fell from 10.2 per cent to 8.1 per cent.

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Murder suspect ‘destroyed’ evidence POLICE believe a teenager accused of killing another girl threw away the clothes she was wearing on the night of the attack, to evade suspicion.

The accused, Rocio M, aged 19, was arrested on suspicion of killing Denisa Maria, 17, on Monday after allegedly stabbing her multiple times in the chest in Alcorcon, Madrid.

Officers from the National Police believe Rocio’s father, who works for the Guardia Civil, helped his daughter dispose of the sweatshirt she was wearing the night of the attack to avoid physical evidence linking her to the crime.

Sources also claim the man

did not co-operate with police and even tried to hide his daughter’s mobile phone.

Officers say the evidence against Rocio is strong, claiming the victim was on her phone to a friend when she was stabbed.

Denisa allegedly said, ‘Rocio, Rocio, what are you doing,’ before telling her friend, ‘they have stabbed me with a knife, help me.’

Her friend later found Denisa lying on the ground on the town’s Calle Desmonte.

Health workers managed to stabilise the girl and transferred her to hospital where she later died.

Police believe the accused

was concerned her boyfriend, Mario, who had previously been in a relationship with the victim, would leave her for Denisa.

The victim’s parents claim Rocio had been sending their daughter threatening messages through WhatsApp. On Wednesday, a judge jailed Rocio pending trial.

Rocio denied the charges, claiming she spent the evening of the murder with Mario, wandering around the town and going out to eat a burger.

Police say they cannot find any evidence the pair ate in a restaurant and that Rocio’s mobile phone GPS history puts her near the crime scene.

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Building ruling MADRID’S 67th Court of First Instance has ruled that works to the Spanish capital’s Edificio España (Spain Building) to turn it into a hotel can continue, with a case against the company undertaking the project still ongoing.

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Balcony rescue A MAN who had left his keys in his flat tried to get in through his balcony and ended up hanging from the façade before police rescued him.

The 49-year-old climbed onto the roof of the apartment block in Sant Andreu de la

Barca, and using a rope, lowered himself over the edge.

It transpired the rope wasn’t long enough, and he was left hanging precariously.

Neighbours notified the police and fire service, who brought him back to safety.

Toddlers drive to surgery A SPANISH hospital has launched a stress-reducing initiative which allows children ‘drive’ themselves to the operating room in an electric car.

While a member of staff controls the vehicle by remote, the scheme helps ‘eliminate the stress and tears’ of young patients prior to surgical treatment.

A spokesperson for IMQ Zorrotzaurre Hospital in Bilbao, said the car system ‘is demonstrating great efficiency, getting children who require surgery to go more quietly to the operating room.’

General director, Nicolas Guerra, said there was ‘considerable concern about the tears and the state of nervousness and anguish of the little ones.’

He added that it was extremely difficult to calm some children once they realised they were being separated from their parents.

The team of IMQ anaesthetists were reportedly most concerned about the levels of

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NEWS EXTRA Pension findings SPAIN has the largest proportion of widows drawing pensions out of its retirees in the developed world, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Abuse data

BIG HIT: Almost 100 per cent of the young patients asked opted to drive to surgery. anguish because ‘if children fall asleep scared, they will wake up in the same way.’

While if a child falls asleep calmly, ‘they tend to wake up from the intervention with less upset and worry.’

A fte r mulling ove r a numbe r of ide a s a nd re searching what was done in other hospitals, the hospital board decided to purchase

an electric car.

A survey of nurses, surgeons and anaesthetists who spoke with young patients revealed 98 per cent of children wanted to use the car, all of whom entered the operating room ‘calm and without tears.’

Of those, 95 per cent woke up ‘calm and without agitation.’

ALMOST half of those who claimed they were the victims of sexual offences in 2017 were underage, figures from the Interior Ministry showed, with 4,542 youths out of a total of 9,537 people filing complaints last year.

Hotel hack AROUND 500 million people may have personal details including their names, addresses, emails, passport information and phone numbers breached following the alleged computer hacking of one of the Marriott International hotel chain’s databases.

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Spain’s ‘bloodiest’ gang falls Credit: Policia Nacional

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RONALD Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, has hit out at what he sees as a lack of political will by Europe (and Spain in particular) to investigate and recover artworks stolen by the Nazis.

Money march THOUSANDS of Catalan civil servants joined strikes and ongoing protests by students and health workers to demand more funding and better working conditions, with around 8,000 people marching to the Barcelona regional parliament.

Digits down CAVE art of hands by the Palaeolithic peoples of Spain and France indicates they may have amputated their own fingers as part of a religious sacrifice, though some experts suggest they may have lost fingers due to frostbite.

POLICE: Arrested the alleged gang in a series of raids.

By Sally Underwood POLICE from Spain and Sweden have arrested nine members of a notorious gang of hit men, allegedly responsible for two murders in Malaga.

In a joint operation named ‘Rueda,’ police arrested seven men and two women, aged between 24 and 64, for murder, organised crime, and falsifying documents.

Officers claim the group, thought to be the ‘most bloodthirsty’ in southern Spain, is connected to drug trafficking and car-

ried out murders ‘to order.’

Spanish National Police and Swedish police began investigating on March 25 after an off-road vehicle was stolen and used in a fire at a gym in Marbella, thought to belong to a known drug dealer. The same day, the suspects are thought to have tried to unsuccessfully burn down a beach bar in Estepona, returning again two weeks later to finish the job.

Police believe the gang was later responsible for two killings. On May 12, a man died of a gun wound outside the

gates of a church in San Pedro de Alcantara after being shot several times by a suspect on a motorbike. On August 20, another man was killed at his home in Estepona, before the perpetrator made off on a bicycle.

After identifying the alleged gang, police carried out several raids in Sweden and Spain, arresting nine gang members and seizing a bulletproof vest, an electric pistol, personal defence sprays, computer equipment, 11 mobile phones, €4,165 in cash, and three high-end watches valued at almost a quarter of a million Euros.

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Towers demolition TWO apartment blocks in the Costa Blanca resort of Benidorm are set to be demolished after a probe found they did not comply with planning rules.

The apartments, located in the Puenta Lista area of the city and made up of 168 flats on 22 floors, are owned by the Gemelos 28 company. Authorities are due to pay out compensation which could reach up to €100 million.

Ximo Puig, head of the Valencia Generalitat, told regional assembly members last week the previous conservative Partido Popular (PP) regional administration was to blame for the plans.

The plans follow an earlier ruling from Spain’s Supreme Court which annulled the buildings’ permit in 2012. The Court has also refused to hear an appeal from the Generalitat.

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Two arrests NATIONAL POLICE have arrested two suspects accused of an axe attack on a householder during a burglary at a Torremolinos home.

The suspects, aged 29 and

34, have been charged over the break in and thefts, as well as with attempted murder. Officers said they also seized tools and around €6,680 in connection with their probe into the robbery.

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‘Leading’ on migration CREDIT: La Moncloa

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By Joe Gerrard PEDRO SANCHEZ has said that Spain has assumed a leadership role on migration while addressing a meeting of world leaders in South America last week.

Spain’s Prime Minister also called for more international co-operation to tackle other global issues including climate change, gender inequality and trade. He was speaking at the G20 summit in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires.

“In relation to migration, I believe that Spain has assumed a leadership role. We are talking about a global issue that needs a global response,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez added Spain planned to push for a global agreement to regulate migration and make it more ‘orderly’ at an upcoming summit on the issue in Morocco this month.

The G20 summit had been important because it provided a space for world leaders to meet and talk at a time the global order was being questioned, Sanchez said.

The Prime Minister held talks with the Argentinian Prime Minister Mauricio Macri, South African President

TAKING LEADERSHIP: Sanchez praised Spain’s action on migration while at the G20.

Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that of Canada, Justin Trudeau.

Sanchez’s comments on migration come as the number of people migrating to the country via the Mediterranean has already broken records.

More than 47,860 migrants arrived in Spain from the start of last year up to October 31, according to official

statistics.

The G20 summit saw world leaders gather in the wake of ongoing concerns over the death of Jamal Khashoggi and the alleged involvement of Saudi Arabia.

It also comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin faced criticism after naval personnel from his country captured Ukrainian sailors near Crimea.

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Violent end to Nobody deserves to go through violence - a sufferer has put an

By Tara Rippin AFTER four years of violent abuse at the hands of her ex, Debbie Ann Jones took the brave step to press charges after the most recent vicious attack, which led to him being deported to the UK last week.

Now she wants to use her experience to inspire other victims to take action before it’s too late and things escalate to a potentially fatal conclusion.

The 40-year-old singer had only been in Benidorm for two weeks after moving to Spain for a new start, when her 45year-old partner - who cannot be named for legal reasons beat her before attacking her 54-year-old brother Michael Edwards, who is registered disabled.

Speaking exclusively to Euro Weekly News, Debbie took the courageous decision to share her horrific experiences to help raise awareness.

Debbie had recently divorced when she got together with her unemployed partner, and at first everything seemed rosy. But things soon changed.

“It started off with him chucking a cup at the wall. I really wish I had seen that as a sign, but he apologised and

DEBBIE: Debbie has broken her silence. that was that.

“Things escalated from there. We had been together for about a year and were arguing when he starting pulling my hair. He said he was sorry, that it would never happen again and I believed him.”

But three months later, the violence stepped up to a terrifying level. Debbie was singing at a holiday park and her partner was sat right next to her, using his laptop. She asked him to move while she was performing.

“When we got back to the house, he shouted ‘who do you think you are, telling me what to do?’

BRUISING: Debbie’s face is blackened after being punched.

He smashed the mantelpiece above the fire, then literally punched me in the face and dragged me around while I was on the floor.

“My daughter, who was 18 at the time, came downstairs and that’s when he stopped and ran out of the house. I don’t know why I didn’t ring the police. I tried to see the goodness in him, and I loved him. He kept saying sorry and that it wouldn’t happen again.

“I never knew when he was going to get violent.

“It wasn’t drink related. He was very controlling and jealous and by my side 24 hours.

“But in public he was the perfect partner, he was like Jekyll and Hyde. I tried to be the perfect partner for his sake.

Debbie and her brother sold their flat in Wales and they all moved to Benidorm on November 1 this year for a new start.

“I believed my ex when he said it would be different, I wanted to believe him.”

But just two weeks later on November 15, Debbie asked her partner to come home at 9pm so they could watch the

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four years of hell end to four years of hell and wants to help others do the same by telling her story

VICIOUS ATTACK: Brother Michael Edwards was hit with a table leg.

last night of fiestas’ fireworks display from the balcony.

When he hadn’t come home, Debbie and her brother decided to go to Planet Benidorm.

“He found us and was shouting ‘where have you been?’ He was asked to leave because he was causing a disturbance. I walked home with my brother and when he came home minutes later he just completely lost it and smashed my wooden coffee table and the leg came off. He came over to me and punched in the face, on both sides.”

Her brother Michael lay over Debbie to protect her.

“My ex lifted the leg and hit my brother twice in the head with the metal bracket end. There was blood everywhere.”

Debbie called an ambulance and because it was an

attack the police arrived, too.

The attacker was kept in custody until a court appearance the following morning.

“The officers asked me if I wanted to press charges and I said yes. I knew it would be murder next. We gave statements and were in court by 11.30am. The police and justice system were brilliant, really on the ball.

“At Benidorm court before sentencing on November 29, he was sitting opposite me, and I felt physically sick, I was shaking and broke down, but the officers were brilliant and helped me through it.”

The aggressor was given a suspended sentence of two years and nine months, cannot

contact Debbie for nine months nor Michael for three years. He was also deported to the UK. “I feel relieved but just keep questioning why I put myself, my brother and my daughter through it all. They wanted me to leave him. I’m going through the aftermath and putting myself on trial.

“I don’t want this to happen to anyone, man or woman.

Anybody is going through abuse should run, get out of the situation and call the police immediately after an attack.

“I can’t stress enough that it’s important to trust and believe in yourself and the system, because it works.

In Spain victims of domestic/gender violence can call 016 for multilingual help and advice 24 hours a day.

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A letter from UK ambassador Simon Manley I WANTED to update you on the recent developments on our exit from the EU. As many of you are no doubt aware, on Sunday November 25, there was a special European Council on Brexit. EU leaders agreed the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the future relationship between the UK and EU. Citizens’ rights is a key part of the agreement, so this represents a big step forward in providing certainty for UK nationals living in Spain. As the PM said following the European Council “If you are one of the over three million EU citizens who has come and built your life in the UK - come to be our colleagues, our neighbours and our friends - you need a deal that guarantees your rights. If you are one of the almost one million UK nationals living elsewhere in the EU, you need the same. This deal delivers for you all.”

The next stage is for the UK Parliament to vote on the deal the government has negotiated, which is expected on December 11. The European Parliament will also vote on the agreement.

If approved, the Withdrawal Agreement will secure the rights of one million UK nationals living in the EU. It means that the 300,000 British people who have chosen to make Spain their home have a legal guarantee that they will be allowed

to stay here after the UK leaves the EU on March 29, 2019.

The Agreement also defines the Implementation Period as running from March 30, 2019 until December 31, 2020.

All UK nationals lawfully residing in Spain on December 31, 2020 will be covered by the Withdrawal Agreement. Under the current rules, UK nationals living in Spain must register with the Spanish authorities (at the Oficina de Extranjeros or at a designated Local Police station) to be legally resident here. Therefore, I and the team strongly recommend you ensure you are correctly registered as a resi-

dent, as is your current obligation. For detailed advice on registering, please see gov.uk/living-in-spain. We will, of course, update our advice if the Spanish authorities announce any changes to the registration requirements linked to Brexit.

During the Implementation Period, you will be able to visit, live and work in the EU broadly as you do now. If you want to move to a different Member State, you will be able to do so during the Implementation Period.

UK nationals and their families covered by the Agreement will continue to have

broadly the same access to healthcare, pensions and other benefits as they currently do. And you will be able to leave Spain for up to five years without losing your right to return if you have acquired the relevant residency status. If you have any questions about who is covered by the Withdrawal Agreement, please see the UK nationals living in the EU pages on gov.uk.

Next steps • Make sure you are correctly registered with Extranjeria here in Spain (please see gov.uk/living-in-spain) • Sign up for email alerts to stay up-to-date and find out about our outreach events, by visiting the Living in Spain guide on gov.uk.

• Follow our ‘Brits in Spain’ social media channels, including on Facebook.

Both the Embassy and our network of consulates will continue with outreach events across Spain to answer your questions about your rights and Brexit, with three events planned before Christmas and more planned for the New Year. And we will continue to update you with key information in the months ahead. In the meantime, I would like to wish all British nationals living in Spain, a very merry Christmas.

SIMON MANLEY: Will update advice as changes are announced.

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Chilean burglar grounded POLICE in Mallorca arrested a Chilean man on a flight bound for London who had allegedly committed a series of burglaries on the island before trying to flee to Britain.

The suspect had already seated himself in the plane when Guardia Civil officers came aboard on Wednesday afternoon and led him away.

Five alleged accomplices were also held at an apartment in Palma, where the group was staying.

An investigation has led detectives to believe that the gang is responsible for nearly 40 break-ins, stealing luxury watches, jewellery, electronic

INVESTIGATORS with the European Union (EU) have concluded that the

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TREASURE TROVE: Police seized a huge haul of stolen items. equipment and cameras worth almost â‚Ź112,000. The crimes reportedly took place over a

short period in towns including Marratxi and areas like El Toro, a neighbourhood in Calvia.

Bank probe Spanish government is at fault for not

adopting rules designed to regulate the

banking industry following the financial and eurozone crises which began in 2008.

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TRAGIC FALL: Mountain rescue experts are inspecting the area for evidence.

Horror plunge

A BRITISH man has fallen to his death while abseiling down a mountain near

Spain’s Costa Blanca known as the ‘Sleeping Lion.’

The unnamed 36-year-old was with his sister-in-law who was rescued by helicopter and taken to hospital with a broken leg.

The climber reportedly fell 80 ft while abseiling down Monte Ponoig, near the town of Polop, and his death is being investigated.

A Guardia Civil statement said: “Emergency responders spent some time trying to

save the life of the man who died, but he suffered a serious wound to his chest which frustrated the attempts to revive him.

“Members of the Guardia Civil GREIM team will be carrying out a site inspection later today to try to establish why this accident happened.”

The abseil anchor reportedly broke away, but as the woman fell from a lesser height of 25 ft, she managed to survive.

The two were believed to

be experienced climbers who were on holiday in the area.

After being rescued in a fire service helicopter, the woman was taken to a fire station in Benidorm before being transferred to hospital.

The dead man’s body was also taken by helicopter separately to the same fire station.

Monte Ponoig is one of the most iconic mountains in the province of Alicante and is a popular choice for both walkers and climbers.

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RALLYING: Demonstrators gathered in Madrid’s Plaza de Colon.

Unity rally

THOUSANDS of protesters took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday to demonstrate in favour of Spanish unity and against regional independence movements.

The rally saw demonstrators accuse pro-Catalan independence figures and others leading a coup against Spain and claimed they acted with impunity.

It was organised by the Foundation for the Defence of

the Spanish Nation (DENAES) and backed by the far-right Vox party. It was also attended by members of the conservative Partido Popular (PP) including local politicians.

Javier Ortega, secretary general of Vox, said protesters gathered there had the “determined will” to demonstrate until all pro-independence figures were jailed.

Protestors in the Plaza de Colon waved Spanish flags and

chanted slogans which included calling for the abolition of regional autonomy in Cataluña.

They also branded pro-independence parties, unions and groups “criminal organisations”.

Those rallying also called for former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont to be imprisoned and chanted: “Long live Spanish unity”. The demonstration ended with the playing of the Spanish national anthem.

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MARACAIBO: Ivan Merino (inset) admitted his crime.

Priest arrest in sex crime

by Sally Underwood A SPANISH priest from Motril has been arrested in Venezuela for allegedly abusing a 12year-old girl. The accused, 35-year-old Ivan Merino Pedial, worked as a professor at the Santo Tomas de Villanueva school in Granada until three years ago.

The priest confessed his crimes to the police in a video statement posted on Twitter.

Merino admitted: “We grew fond and it was a game… and one thing led to another.” When the police then criticised him for his comments, the priest remained silent.

Merino studied in Burgos, Granada and

Rome before working as a religious studies teacher in Granada. Three years ago he was transferred to Venezuela, ‘to support pastoral work,’ and is currently a vicar in the parish of Maracaibo, in the northwest state of Zulia.

Lisandro Cabello, the Secretary of State for Zulia, said there had been previous evidence of ‘other violations and other victims,’ and Merino had been sent to Venezuela as punishment.

His Augustine Order of Burgos strongly refute the claims, however, and said: “we have always repudiated, condemned and rejected any action that threatens the dignity of any human, and much more so if the victim is a child.”

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Judge investigates scooter death A COURT in Barcelona has heard that a young man may have been using his phone when he knocked down and killed an elderly woman, while on his mobility scooter.

Lawyers claim the accused was travelling at speeds close to 30 kilometres an hour when he fatally ran over a woman in her 90’s in Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona.

Prosecutors say this amounts to negligence and the man should be convicted of reckless homicide. Another person who was travelling on the scooter at the time of the incident is appearing as a wit-

ness in the case.

Sources told one publication the driver may have been using Google Maps on his mobile phone when he ploughed into the woman, causing her to fall and hit her head.

The incident occurred in August, in an area reserved for pedestrians. The victim was admitted to Moises Broggi Hospital in a serious condition but died a few days later from her injuries.

Sources say before the incident, the woman walked with a cane but was otherwise in good health.

The case has raised the

question of whether legislation is required to protect pedestrians from mobility scooters.

Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Granda Marlaska, said while their users were ‘vulnerable,’ they: ‘can cause significant damage to third parties, depending on how they drive.’

The general deputy director of mobility for the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT), Jorge Ordas, told one publication the DGT is working on laws to limit ‘electric propulsion vehicles’ to a maximum speed of 25 kilometres an hour and ban them from pavements.

Violence ‘unreported’ BETWEEN 60 and 80 per cent of violence against LGBT people in Spain goes unreported, according to one report.

A study by the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Trans and Bisexuals (FELGTB) and the Observatory of Networks against Hate called for organisations to become more rigorous in collecting figures of this type of hate crime.

The report explained there are many people who: ‘Neither report nor denounce the violence they suffer, in many cases they suffer in silence and solitude.’

The organisations claim public bodies should do more to find out about the background of the victim when a crime is reported, as well as asking why they were afraid to report it, in order to make progress.

CLARITY CALL: Sanchez said the Saudis should confirm what they know about the death of Khashoggi (inset).

Saudi killing call PM appeals to Riyadh over reporter’s death

By Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S prime minister has called on Saudi Arabia to clarify details surrounding t he al l eged mur der of a j our nal i s t w hi ch s ever al governments and agencies have accused Riyadh of orchestrating.

Pedro Sanchez said Saudi

Arabia had to clarify what happened i n connect i on w i t h t he deat h of Jam al Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen living in the United States before his death, was cri t i cal of t he regi m e i n Riyadh.

Sanchez previously said

t he ki l l i ng of K hashoggi was ‘terrible’.

Spain and Saudi Arabia would continue to maintain close relations and Madrid is set to continue shipping arm s t o t he count ry, Sanchez added.

“What we have said, both within the European Union (EU), as well as bilaterally to Saudi Arabia, is that we have t o cl ari fy w hat has happened,” Sanchez said, w hi l e at t endi ng t he G 20 summit in Buenos Aires.

“What’s more, it would help a lot if this investigation could count on international protection to guarant ee i t s credi bi l i t y,” he added.

Investigators at the United St at es’ CIA and ot her agencies across the world have sai d t hei r evi dence suggest s Saudi A rabi a’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bi n Sal m an ordered Khashoggi’s killing.

Officials in Riyadh have denied the Crown Prince, who is the de facto leader of the country, or anyone else connected with the regime had any involvement. Al l investigations remain open.

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WANTED: Clarke is believed to have fled to the Costa del Sol.

Fugitive appeal POLICE in Warwickshire in the UK, have appealed for information in connection with the disappearance of a man convicted on drugs offences who is believed to have fled to Spain.

Officers said Luke Daniel Clarke, 22, from the Nuneaton area, absconded from a sentencing hearing at Warwick Crown Court on Thursday November 22. He may now be hiding in near

Malaga or Marbella on the Costa del Sol, police added.

Anyone with information has been urged to call Warwickshire Police on 101 from Britain and +44 1926 410000 from Spain.

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Gang pose as police

by Sally Underwood A DANGEROUS gang who allegedly posed as police to steal drugs from other criminals, has been brought down.

Officers from the Guardia Civil have arrested 21 people in San Roque and Algeciras under operation ‘Burga-Justel,’ charging members with organised crime, illegal weapons possession, impersonating police officers, breaking and entering and attempted robbery using force.

Police say they also seized identity vests and items of clothing bearing the logo, ‘Guardia Civil EDOA,’ as well as five vehicles and several real and imitation guns.

The gang allegedly imported hashish boats from north Morocco in semi-rigid boats, as well as ‘raiding’ other drugs operations, posing as members of the police.

Following an intense investigation, officers found the gang had stormed a drugs farm in San Roque, wearing imitation police clothing, carrying guns, and shouting, ‘Guardia Civil.’

Police say the gang had also carried out other crimes ‘to order,’ including kidnapping and extortion.

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You faces A WELL-KNOWN ‘YouTuber’ is facing five years in prison for allegedly sexually abusing a child aged under 13.

Daniel Jose, a popular YouTube star with 8,449,693 subscribers, is accused of grooming and later molesting his victim in Madrid in 2016.

Jose, who is famous for posting videos of himself playing computer games under the title ‘Dalas Review’, was 22 when he allegedly first contacted his victim in July 2015. Prosecutors claim he got in touch with the child through Twitter in July and August 2015, before stepping up contact in September via Skype.

The defendant allegedly began asking his victim to send him nude photos and: “When she objected that she was underage, he told her it meant nothing,” according to the prosecutor.

The accused also reportedly asked the child to erase their conversations so her father

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Lawyers claim Jose took the abuse further the following year on January 26, 2016, during the signing of one of his books, when he allegedly took advantage of a moment alone with his victim to touch them.

It is claimed he later continued harassing his victim through WhatsApp before the pair met again at Madrid’s Atocha train station where there was allegedly more touching.

The same year, Daniel Jose was subject to allegations by several young girls who claimed he had pressured them into sex. The accused defended himself, saying someone had hacked his account and stolen his identity.

Daniel Jose took to his channel to strenuously deny this latest claim, calling it, ‘sensationalist garbage.’

DANIEL JOSE: Called the claims ‘sensationalist garbage’.

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Showing up Banksy MADRID is to host Spain’s first exhibition of enigmatic street artist Banksy’s work today (Thursday).

Although the exhibition has not been authorised by Banksy, around 70 works owned by international private collectors will be on display at the Trade Fair Institution of Madrid.

The pieces will be on show until mid-March, and many of the collectors are open to selling the works.

The exhibition is entitled ‘Genius or Vandal?’ with visitors invited to make up their own minds.

Rocking deal SPAIN and the UK have signed the most important bilateral agreement over Gibraltar in more than a decade.

Four Memorandums of Understanding have been finalised, aimed at reducing inequality between the Rock and Campo de Gibraltar, the neighbouring Spanish region in Andalucia which has struggled with high unemployment and drugs crime.

They represent the first accord between Madrid and London since Gibraltar was ceded to Great Britain in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht.

Carer held for sexual abuse A FILIPINO fugitive has been arrested in Madrid for allegedly forcing a 10-yearold girl in his care to ‘perform serious acts of a sexual nature’.

The 31-year-old father of two has reportedly temporarily cared for children for a number of years in various

countries, including Spain.

The offences for which he is being held, occurred in Norway in 2015.

But an international investigation involving both Norwegian and Spanish police officers, is underway to determine if there are other possible victims.

EVENTS have been organised across Spain today (Thursday) to mark 40 years since the adoption of the country’s Constitution.

Government officials and members of Spain’s parliament are set to gather at the Congress of Deputies for an institutional commemoration of the anniversary.

Ana Pastor, President of the Congress of Deputies, said the anniversary was a celebration of Spain’s freedom, progress and reconciliation since adopting democracy in 1978.

The government’s Constitution 40 body has organised a programme of events taking place today to mark the anniversary.

Other events have already gone ahead this year including visits to regional assemblies by Pastor.

Exhibits from Spain’s EFE news agency featuring photographs from the 40 years since the Constitution was adopted, are in Madrid and other cities across Spain.

The Congress of Deputies and the Senate, the lower and upper houses respectively of

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Spanish mark 40 years 40 YEARS: Spain adopted its Constitution on this day in 1978.

Spain’s Cortes Generales, were also open to the public

this week for tours.

Princess Leonor,

the

daughter of King Felipe and Queen Letizia and heir to the

Pool death toll drops

A TOTAL of 14 people died in pools and off beaches in Spain up to November 30, bringing the total to 356 according to a new report.

The National Drowning Report for 2018, from Spain’s Royal Salvage and Lifeguard Federation, showed the number of deaths fell by 21.8 per cent compared to the same time last year.

The number of those who died in pools and in waters off beaches stood at 455 by November 30, 2017.

The Federation said bad weather at the start of 2018 could have led to the fall. The weather would have discouraged bathers from swimming during that time, the agency said.

Data showed Spanish men aged 65 and over were the most common victims of drowning up to November 30 this year. A total of 76 per cent of those who drowned were males.

Around 82 per cent of deaths took place in places where there was no surveillance, including from lifeguards, of the pool or beach in question. Around 59.5 per cent of deaths took place between the hours of 10am and 6pm, the report showed.

Andalucia saw the largest number of deaths, followed by the Canary Islands. The Basque Country and Castilla y Leon came joint third and the Murcia Region came fourth.

POOLS: More than four-fifths of deaths happened in areas without lifeguards.

DEATHS BY REGION: • Balearic Islands - 41 deaths, 11.5% • Valencian Communities - 36, 10. 1% • Castilla y León and País Vasco -14, 3.9% in each community.

• Murcia - 12, 3.4%, • Asturias - 11, 3.1%, • Aragón 9, 2.5%, • Cantabria,Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid - 8, 2.2% in each region.

• Navarra 4, 1.1%, • Extremadura and Ceuta - 2, 0.6%, • La Rioja and Melilla - 1, 0.3%, each.

76 per cent of all of those to die in aquatic spaces this year have been male.

75 per cent have been Spanish and the largest proportion of deaths have occurred in the 65 and older age category (40.7 per cent).

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s of democracy

Spanish throne, was one of many figures who read ex-

tracts from the Constitution for the anniversary.

Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s prime minister, also read Article Two of the Constitution at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid in October.

Article Two states that Spain is an ‘indissoluble union’ and establishes autonomy for the country’s regions.

Sanchez has proposed making a number of changes to the Constitution including modifying the article from which he read to recognise Spain’s regional diversity.

Critics claim it would open the way for regions such as Cataluña and the Basque Country to break away from Spain.

Reforms proposed by the centrist Ciudadanos to end legal immunity for politicians

have also been backed by Spain’s political parties and look set to be written into the Constitution.

Work on the Constitution began after former dictator Francisco Franco’s death on November 20, 1975 and the installation of King Juan Carlos I on the Spanish throne two days later.

Politicians elected to Spain’s parliament in 1975 in the country’s first democratic elections since the Second Republic were tasked with coming up with proposals for the Constitution.

Parliament approved their plans on October 31, 1978.

The Constitution was then put to a referendum on December 6 and it was backed by almost 92 per cent of those who voted, with it ratified once ballots were counted.

The Constitution is made up of 169 Articles which commit the government to protecting certain rights, lay out the structure of the Spanish state and define conditions for citizenship.

It has been amended twice since, once in 1992 and again in 2011.

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Export market growth SPAIN will now export an expanded range of pork products and table grapes to China following an agreement made as part of the framework of President Xi Jinping’s visit last week.

Last year, it became the first exporter of pork to Asia, and the fourth supplier of offal, with a total of 373,000 tons worth €574 million.

The recent signing will significantly expand the range of products aut h o r i s e d t o i n c l u d e f r e s h meat and cured products s u c h a s h a m , s h o u l d e r, loin and sausage.

China reportedly consumes almost 50 per cent of all pork products prod u c e d w o r l d w i d e . I t a c counts for two thirds of the total consumption of meat in the diet of Chinese consumers.

Until now, Spain could only export citrus fruits, peaches and plums to the A s i a n c o u n t r y, a s C h i n a

reportedly negotiates just one fruit at a time.

So the signing of the new protocol, made in only two years is very unusual.

The negotiations were carried out by the Ministry

of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with the General Administration of Customs of China, in co-ordination with the Secretary of State for Commerce of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.

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CESAR ROMAN: As he was arrested.

Chef denies murder

By Sally Underwood A MAN accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend has denied the suitcase police found her torso in is his.

Cesar Roman, otherwise known as ‘the King of the Cachopo,’ has appeared in court to deny killing his partner, Heidi Paz, aged 25, in Usera, Madrid in August.

Police say the suitcase Hei-

di’s dismembered torso was found in is the same case Roman was seen to dump in a storage unit shortly after her disappearance.

The victim’s body was found with her head, breasts and limbs cut off.

A taxi driver testified he drove Roman to a warehouse on August 5, and helped him with his ‘heavy,’ case, which he claimed weighed around

60 kilos. A subsequent fire at the storage unit led to the discovery of Heidi’s body on August 13.

Police are yet to find Heidi’s limbs, but preliminary reports showed she died as a result of asphyxiation. Roman, a chef well-known for his chain of five restaurants serving the traditional Asturian dish ‘Cachopo,’ denies killing the victim.

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Expats Guide to

Spanish Life Sponsored by Blevins Franks For more information about the sponsors go to www.blevinsfranks.com

Driving licences in Spain LIVING in Spain can bring with it an array of issues which may not have been encountered when living in the UK. There are lots of things to consider, and we are here to help try to make the transition and life in Spain a little easier by compiling a series of helpful facts and figures relating to a variety of topics.

If you are planning on living in Spain on a permanent basis, it’s a good idea to have a Spanish driving licence - in fact it is mandatory after a while. Here are some guidelines for current and new drivers on how to do this quickly and easily.

If you already have a valid EU (European Union) Community or an EEA (European Economic Area) driving licence and meet the minimum driving age in Spain, you can use it for the first two years of residence in Spain, although you must register your details with the traffic authorities after six months.

You can register at your Central Register of Drivers and Minor Offenders of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters.

If you don’t obtain a Spanish driver’s licence after two years of residence in Spain and are caught driving, you can face a fine of around €200. Visit: www.dgt.es to find out more.

Once the process is under way, you will have to adhere to the same conditions as Spanish licence holders: Have reached minimum age in Spain for the specific category of vehicle you want to drive, Relevant medical checks, Renew or exchange the licence after the first two years’ residence in Spain.

If an EU licence is renewed in Spain it effectively converts it into a Spanish EU licence, which then needs to be renewed every 10 years up to the age of 65, and every five years after 65.

The new regulation which requires new residents to exchange their licences for a Spanish one, was enforced three years ago. As such, Spain has agreements with more than 20 countries, allowing drivers to exchange a foreign driver’s licence for its equivalent. To find out more, check with your home country’s consulate in Spain or the Spanish Traffic Authority at www.sede.dgt.gob.es.

To exchange your licence, you will need to fill out an application form that is issued by the Provincial Traffic Headquarters. (See the above website). The following documents will be required: Proof of identity (original passport and a copy), Proof of your residence for six months (Certificate of Registration in the Central Aliens Register - the NIE number), Application form (in Spanish), Current valid driving licence to be exchanged (original and a copy), Written declaration stating that you don’t have another driving licence of the same class in another country, Written declaration stating that you have not been suspended or banned, Two recent passport size photographs (32 by 25 mm), Medical fitness report (visit the DGT website for information).

For new drivers, check the legal driving ages and permit types before you register. You can get details depending on what type of vehicle you want to drive by visiting: Englishdriving-school.com.

The best option (for new drivers) is to go to a driving school as they take care of the registration process with the Jefatura (Jefatura Provincial de Trafico) on your behalf. Once you have registered, get your medical and vision test done, too.

Theory tests can be done in a classroom or be computer based. The written test is normally taken in Spanish, but some places offer it in English. For more information, visit http://www.autoescuelacorsa.com.

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THE EU is ready to offer Britain a three-month extension to Article 50 to prevent parliamentary deadlock resulting in a no-deal Brexit.

Under plans being discussed by European leaders, the EU would agree to extend Britain’s membership to allow time for a trade arrangement to be ironed out.

However, Theresa May has claimed that any extension to Article 50 would require the reopening of the Brexit negotiations which could result in a worse deal than the one on offer.

In practical terms, the extension could only last until July when the new European parliament is convened.

The EU is adamant that only the political declaration and trade deal can be reviewed, not the broader withdrawal agreement, including the Northern Ireland backstop.

BREXIT BRIEF

Crunch vote looms

By Joe Gerrard

THE British government has stepped up efforts to sell its European Union (EU) withdrawal deal to politicians and the public as Parliament prepares to vote this Tuesday.

Prime Minister Theresa May continued to host face-to-face meetings with Members of Parliament from her ruling Conservative Party this week as many remain sceptical of her Brexit deal.

The Conservative Party’s position in Parliament is wafer thin and the government relies on 10 MPs from the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to pass legislation.

The vote continues to loom as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would not support her deal in Parliament.

Corbyn and other party figures added they would seek to bring about a general election if the deal is voted down, and would not rule out a second EU referendum.

May also faced the prospect that the Scottish National Party (SNP) would also vote against her. The Prime Minister hosted Scotland’s First Minister Nicola

NATIONAL

BREXIT EXTRA Easier entry A FRENCH lawmaker has told British media that illegal immigrants would be able to enter Britain ‘very easily’ in the event of a hard or nodeal Brexit, with PierreHenri Dumont adding increased customs queues allow more time for sneaking into lorries.

Plan ‘works’

SHOWDOWN: May’s (inset) Brexit deal must overcome Parliamentary arithmetic on Tuesday.

Sturgeon in Downing Street in an attempt to win her over last Monday.

May’s position was further jeopardised by hard-line Brexiteer MPs from within the Tory fold threatening to sink the deal, on the grounds it leaves Britain tied too closely to the EU. Meanwhile DUP members jumped on comments made by May’s top Brexit negotiator Oliver Robbins which suggested Britain may not be able to withdraw

from the Northern Ireland ‘backstop’ arrangement.

The mechanism, which would come into force in the event of stalling trade negotiations after Brexit, is a red line for the DUP. They claim it subjects Northern Ireland to different trade arrangements to the rest of Britain.

In these circumstances May will have to bring everything to bear if she is to get her deal over Tuesday’s crunch hurdle.

AN oil tycoon has said that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to bring Britain out of the European Union (EU) is ‘workable’ and added businesses felt that London needed to move ahead with the withdrawal process.

Goods move BRITISH factories have begun stockpiling goods and materials they fear could be harder to import into the country following Brexit due to concerns over customs problems and political uncertainty in the event of a nodeal withdrawal, the EEF trade body said.

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Woman dies in fire A BLAZE at an apartment building has claimed the life of a 64-year-old woman.

Another adult and a child who both lived with the deceased, suffered from smoke inhalation, while one of the casualties also received burns and was trans-

ferred to a nearby hospital in Barcelona.

The fire broke out at the Paseo de la Zona at 2.50am last Friday, and the surrounding roads were closed for two hours while emergency services dealt with the incident.

NEWS

Junta chief ‘not welcome’

LINARES: Has been in decline since its major factory closed in 2011.

By Sally Underwood SUSANA DIAZ, President of the Junta de Andalucia, avoided visiting Jaen’s second largest town on her pre-election campaign tour, over concerns she would not be welcomed The political chief, who has carried out an extensive tour of Andalucia in the weeks leading up to the Andalucian elec-

tions last Sunday, bypassed the major town of Linares, instead visiting smaller towns in the province.

Residents of Linares, whose major employer Santana Motor was closed by the Junta in 2011, protested in their thousands against the actions of politicians in Andalucia, who they say failed to pay out compensation and early retirement claims.

In two major demonstrations, between 30,000 and 40,000 residents of Linares came out to condemn the deterioration of their town, which was once known for its prosperity but has been in decline since the closure of the Santana Motor factory.

Instead, Susana Diaz’s campaign bus passed by the town on the A-4 motorway, stopping in nearby Ubeda and Baeza.

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Waiting times fall THE average surgery waiting times for patients in Spain is 93 days, according to new data released by the country’s Health Ministry.

One in every eight people wait over six months and figures sho w t ha t 5 8 4 , 0 0 0 p a tients were on a waiting list on June 30, 20,000 fewer than in 2017.

The best patient to population r a t i o i s i n t h e B a s q u e Country, where there are 8.02 people on a surgery waiting list f o r e v e r y 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 res ident s, f o l l o we d b y M a d rid (8.05) and Andalucia (8.15).

The a re a s wi t h th e w o rs t ratio are CataluĂąa (21.44), Ext re m a dur a ( 1 9 . 9 7 ) a n d Murcia (18.5).

Orthopaedic surgery and ophthalmology continue to have the largest number of patients, while the smallest are t ho r a c i c a n d h ea rt surgery.

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Credit: Guardia Civil

NEWS

A SUSPECT: Allegedly killed two eagles.

Poisoner arrested POLICE have arrested a man for allegedly poisoning two eagles, one of which was endangered.

The 52-year-old suspect is said to have killed a mouse eagle and an Iberian imperial eagle, a species which is at danger of extinction in Manzanares, Ciudad Real.

Officers from the Guardia Civil arrested the man, after agents from the Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) found a dead mouse eagle at a private game reserve in Manzanares.

Further tests confirmed that the animal

had died from poisoning.

Later, an Iberian imperial eagle was also found, showing symptoms of poisoning. The Guardia Civil stepped up their investigations further when a resident in Membrilla, Ciudad Real, reported two cats had died of poisoning on the same reserve.

Police later searched the home of the suspect, allegedly finding several containers of the same poison used to kill the eagles, as well as further chemicals on the roof of his house and in the trunk of his car.

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Designer robbery A GUCCI store has been ram-raided by a gang which fled with a large haul of designer goods, leaving the car embedded in the shop front.

At around 5am last Friday morning, a red car was driven at speed through a display window, smashing a metal

security blind at the shop in Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona.

Several thieves then grabbed clothing, shoes and handbags worth thousands of Euros.

It has still to be determined exactly how much was stolen, and an investigation is underway.

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Rape trial goes on

By Sally Underwood A BOY is on trial accused of raping and murdering a young woman.

The 16-year-old suspect is accused of raping 32-year-old Leticia Rosino on May 3 in Zamora, northeast Spain, before battering her to death with a stone.

Prosecutors are seeking eight years in prison, the maximum penalty allowed for criminals aged under 18, after the boy reportedly admitted his crime.

Leticia Rosino was brutally assaulted and murdered earlier this year as she walked in an industrial estate near her workplace.

Police initially arrested the suspect’s father after the accused pushed the blame onto him, before eventually confessing.

NEWS

Worker dies in plastics machine

WORKER: Died in a factory in Alcala la Real.

A YOUNG worker has died in Jaen after becoming trapped in a machine at a plastics factory.

The 21-year-old man reportedly became stuck in the moving parts of a machine, in the Poligono Llanos Mazuelos in Alcala la Real, Jaen.

Another worker called emergency services after finding his colleague trapped.

Members of the Alcala la Real Fire Depart-

ment, the Guardia Civil, Local Police, and Pu b lic Health Emerg en cy Co mp an y (EPES), all attended the scene.

Officers from the Labour Inspection and Occupational Risk Prevention Centre were also called in.

Health workers confirmed the young man had died in the incident. The Guardia Civil said the usual protocols following a workplace death had been put in place.

More skilled and lower paid SPANIARDS under the age of 30 are earning less than a decade ago, despite being better trained and prepared for the workplace, according to the Annual Salary Structure Report.

The average salary among

teenagers has dropped by 28 per cent in 10 years, while earnings among 20 to 24-yearolds slipped 15 per cent, and by 9 per cent for those aged 25 to 29.

This is in spite of the fact that those born in the 1990’s

have grown up in fear of the ‘crisis’ and are studying more, believing extra skills will help them face the future.

The report highlights two issues in particular.

The first is the ‘precarious’ nature of today’s working conditions which is littered with temporary or part-time contracts and positions which pay by the hour rather than weekly or monthly.

The second is the fact there are fewer younger people. The Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) registered 4.8 million Spaniards between the ages of 20 and 29 at the start of this year, 30 per cent less than the 6.7 million recorded in 2005.

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THE WEEK IN POLITICS

By Joe Gerrard THE dust is still settling from Sunday’s Andalucian election but wrangling has begun in earnest over who will control the region’s assembly.

The election was Junta President Susana Diaz’s to lose. Voters once again gave PSOE the largest number of seats in the Andalucian regional assembly.

But its majority of 47 has been cut to 33, leaving them the largest party by a margin of seven seats in the 109-seat parliament.

The loss came on the back of a surge in support for smaller parties from the left, far right and centre, with a turnout of little over 58.6 per cent.

Diaz acknowledged that voters had not enthusiastically backed her party, while speaking at a press conference on Monday.

“All PSOE members must reflect on how to strengthen the role of institutions. If there are people who have stayed at home, then there are things we have to do better,” Diaz said.

The conservative Partido

The votes are in Popular (PP), the second largest party in the assembly both before and after the vote, also lost seats. The PP now has 26 members in the assembly, down

from 33 before the vote.

Despite the loss, party officials claimed voters had given them a mandate to unseat Diaz.

Junta president candidate Juan

Moreno said they were ready to form a right-wing administration in a region which has been a left-wing stronghold throughout Spain’s democratic history.

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Poll tracker: Neither Diaz nor Moreno has the numbers needed to govern alone. Whoever takes power will have to work with smaller parties, the big winners of the poll.

PSOE’s natural ally would be Adelante Andalucia, a grouping of leftist parties who won 17

Partido Socialista (PSOE): 24.1 per cent, 105 seats Partido Popular (PP): 19.6 per cent, 94 seats Ciudadanos: 22.4 per cent, 70 seats Unidos Podemos: 18.1 per cent, 53 seats Result: PSOE largest party, no overall control.

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Bike drive

Redress offer THE Dutch state-owned railway company has said it will pay compensation to Holocaust survivors and relatives of victims who were transported on its trains toward Nazi death camps during the Second World War.

DENMARK

Bank inquiry

DENMARK’S prosecution authority has filed preliminary charges against Danske Bank, for ‘violation of the laws on money laundering.’ An international economic crimes’ source said the investigation is ‘still at an early stage.’

Costly travel

PETROL prices in Denmark are among the highest in the world according to the Global Fuel Price Index which compared how far €50 worth of petrol would take a motorist, with the Danes ranking in the bottom five.

EUROPEAN PRESS

BELGIUM

NETHERLANDS PLANS to spend an extra €245 million on bicycle infrastructure have been announced by the Dutch government. This is on top of €100 million that State Infrastructure Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven pledged last year to improve bicycle parking and city-to-city cycle ways.

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Legal killing

OFFICIALS are investigating whether three doctors improperly euthanised a 38-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome two months before she died in an apparently legal killing. It’s the first criminal investigation in a euthanasia case since legalisation in 2002.

FRANCE

PLEDGE: The Netherlands is investing €245 million in bicycle infrastructure.

GERMANY

Under scrutiny US ecommerce giant Amazon is accused of exploiting its market dominance in its relations with third-party retailers who use the website as a marketplace. The Federal Cartel Office is investigating ‘many’ complaints from traders.

Repatriation aid MIGRANTS are being offered rental costs in their countries of origin as Germany tackles the ‘challenge’ of migration. The Interior Ministry has launched a controversial advertising campaign to increase the number of voluntary repatriations.

Firm appeal

THE government has launched a campaign to lure finance and insurance firms away from London and to the Belgian capital after Brexit by claiming it would give them a ‘passport’ to the EU’s single market and place them closer to the heart of EU policy making.

NORWAY

HIV initiative

Sex charges

Solar energy

Clear waters

THE French government has announced it will take the rare step of reimbursing prescription-bought condoms to combat the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. French-made Eden condoms are the first to be approved for remuneration by the country’s health authority.

A PUBLIC support scheme in France that aims to encourage solar power generation from innovative installations, costing €600 million has been given the green light by the European Commission (EC). The project involves the installation of 350 MW of solar power generation capacity.

A FORMER Norwegian cabinet minister has been charged with sexually abusing three asylum seekers. Svein Ludvigsen, 72, was charged with one count of taking advantage of his position as regional governor, and another of exploiting the asylum seekers’ vulnerable situation

GLOBAL efforts to combat the generation of marine litter received a major boost during a Sustainable Blue Economy Conference after Norway and the World Bank committed US$ 300 million (€263 million) to the cause. A third has been allocated to managing dumping in oceans.

SWEDEN

Tax revenue

SWEDEN had the fourth highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the European Union last year, according to figures released by Eurostat. The country’s tax revenue accounted for 44.9 per cent of its gross domestic product, which is well above the EU average of 40.2 per cent.

Racism probe

A FORMER department head at Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska Hospital, affiliated with the body that grants the Nobel Prize in Medicine, has been accused of anti-Semitic behaviour toward Jewish doctors. Alleged victims have claimed ‘alleged’ bullying.

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NEWSDESK ALMERIA

With six editions on the Spanish Costas and Mallorca we cover the main expat areas of Spain - take a look at what is happening around our regions.

AXARQUIA

Violent crimes GUARDIA CIVIL arrested a 17-year-old in connection with a violent attack. The victim reported they had met with someone they knew in a commercial centre car park in Almeria City to sort out a misunderstanding on a social media site, and when they moved on to somewhere quie t e r, t h e t e e n a g e r s n a t c h e d their mobile phone and started to hit them, eventually whacking them with an iron bar on the legs, neck and hands.

Guardia also reported the arrest of a man in connection with an attempted mugging in Roquetas. A 66-year-old woman said someone jumped out at her as she walked to her car from her home, the individual pulling out a 20-centimetre long tool used for piercing holes and threatening to stab her if she didn’t hand over her money.

T h e w o u l d - b e t h i e f r a n o ff when a neighbour rushed over to intervene.

COSTA BLANCA NORTH

Club strips credit cards N AT I O N A L POLICE in Benidorm have arrested four people in connection with alleged credit card fraud in a strip club.

According to reports, they took more than €53,000 from more than 20 customers who

NEWSDESK

Pride of the hillside THE renowned dry stone walls of Arenas, Axarquia, have been designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO. They have been in place for centuries, with a clear function of protecting the land from STURDY STONES: The walls are now getting global erosion and creating favourable conditions recognition. for cultivation.

Now this feature, which is also seen in other parts of Spain, and countries like Croatia, France, Greece, Italy and Switzerland, has been included by UNESCO on the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The stone walls were also erected by farmers in the hills of Axarquia to assist in the planting of olives, grapevines and wheat.

Moreover, they helped to prevent landslides, floods and avalanches.

According to UNESCO, “these structures do not harm the environment and are an example of a balanced relationship between human beings and nature.”

Axarquia’s Ecologists in Action group said in a statement: “The region of Axarquia could not have been sustained without an agricultural technique being introduced on land that was very difficult to cultivate.

“These small walls follow the contours of the hills with ingenious use of local stone.”

The multi-purpose structures fortified the hillside against erosion from rain, and also helped to provide a natural irrigation system.

However, landslides did occur which destroyed the walls and they would have to be rebuilt by the farmers.

Dry stone walls were also used to construct huts, shelters for shepherds and miners, and snow defences. used their credit cards to pay for their drinks in the venue.

Those detained are the owner of the club and three employees. It is also understood the nine others are also being sought by the police, including the alleged ringleaders, and are believed to be in Poland.

Reports of the possible credit card misuse first came to light within weeks of the club opening in April, and since then there have been a

trickle of cases with customers reporting excess charges on their statements after attending the club.

It appears that every time drinks were purchased using the cards, an extra 0 was added, so that customers ended up paying

COSTA DEL SOL

Marks & Spaincers BRITISH fashion chain Marks

& Spencer is set to launch their first lingerie shop in Spain’s Costa del Sol tomorrow (Friday).

The store is set to be opened in Malaga City and is due to start by offering the retailer’s Winter range.

It comes as part of a push from the retailer to tap into the Spanish market with its o f f e r i n g o f u n d e r w e a r, b r a s and other women’s items.

To n y W e l s h , o f M a r k s & Spencer’s Spain and Gibraltar

division, said: “We want to open our first lingerie store in Malaga to offer very attractive products that we know that customers like very much.

“Combining advice and excellent customer service with high quality that characterises us together with an offer of high-value lingerie, the store brings an authentic and the only shopping experience in Malaga,” Welsh added.

MALLORCA

Isolated in Paradise A VICTIM of domestic abuse at the hands of a Mallorcan ex has written a book about her experience as a ‘wake up’ call to other women.

‘Isolated in Paradise’ is a first person account of Eva K a r l s s o n ’s , a m o t h e r - o f - o n e from Sweden, torment at the hands of a man she met online in 2007.

Eva previously met with the man whenever she could and he treated her ‘like a queen.’

But when Eva landed in Palma with her cat and all her belongings she said she knew she had made a mistake.

The book reveals how the violence began early on and the isolation she felt.

“He didn’t want a wife, he wanted a slave,” she writes.

E v e n t u a l l y, E v a f o u n d t h e courage to pack her things, and take her daughter back to Sweden where she rebuilt her life.

‘Isolated in Paradise’ has been published in Swedish, but Eva has not ruled out an edition in other languages.

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Down sizing CAIXABANK plans to cut almost a fifth of its branches in Spain over the next three years in a drive to boost profitability while undergoing a digital transformation.

As part of its 2019-2021 strategic plan, the Spanish lender has announced that it expects to cut the number of branches by 821 to 3,640 by 2021.

The bank, which employs around 32,600 people in Spain, and also has operations in Portugal, said the plan would lead to job losses, but did not elaborate.

€1 billion

6 - 12 December 2018 This is the amount that former Chief Executive of Abengoa, Felipe Benjumea, through Inversion Corporativa, is suing Santander and HSBC for its collapse.

FINANCE

business & legal

Vineyard gets wind of deal VINEYARD WIND, the company owned in a 50/50 partnership between Iberdrola and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has c h o s e n M H I Ve s t a s O f f s h o r e Wind as the preferred supplier for its 800 MW offshore megaproject in the US. The contract is worth €1.2 billion and the project is scheduled for installation in 2021.

It is large enough to act as a catalyst for the build-up of a local supply chain in the region.

Once the turbine supply order

is confirmed, MHI Vestas will begin the process of local hiring and supply chain investment to support the project as it nears the construction phase.

M H I Ve s t a s C h i e f E x e c u t i v e Philippe Kavafyan said: “We feel honoured to have been selected as preferred supplier for the first large-scale offshore wind project in the US.” To keep pace with growing demand for offshore wind turbines worldwide, MHI Vestas plans to increase production capacity at

its Lindo nacelle factory and hire new employees to work there.

The company said it plans to recruit 50 new employees and is implementing a new testing regime designed to increase production and improve quality.

“This next phase of production will allow us to meet demand and d o s o m o r e e f f i c i e n t l y, ” s a i d Kavafyan.

M H I Ve s t a s a l s o a n n o u n c e d that it has extended its lease agreement with Lindo to eight years.

New chief SPAIN’S multinational banking group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, known as BBVA, has appointed 44-year-old Turkish banker Onur Genc as its new CEO. Genc, who is currently the CEO of BBVA Compass and US Country Manager for BBVA, is expected to take over on December 31. BBVA is the principle shareholder of Turkey’s third largest private lender Garanti Bank. Genc stressed the importance of digitalisation and said that Spain and Turkey have some of the best mobile banking applications.

EU to review banks

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Tobin tax SPAIN will be the next European country to introduce the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), which aims to increase tax collection from international transactions and is estimated to raise €8.45 billion in 2019.

Game on MONEY MATTERS: The EU intends to investigate recent scandals.

EUROPEAN UNION finance ministers are set to delay a reform of money laundering supervision at banks next week, because they first want to assess recent alleged cases of financial crime at the bloc’s lenders.

An EU draft document, to be adopted on December 4, supports a need ‘to strengthen the effectiveness of the current framework’ after recent scandals.

However, it does not propose institutional or legislative changes like the creation of an EU-wide supervisor recommended by the

European Central Bank. The document details an action plan meant to be the EU response to a series of high profile cases of alleged money laundering at banks in several EU states including Spain, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Malta.

The plan foresees a review of recent bank scandals that could indefinitely delay legislative changes already proposed by the European Commission in September to bolster supervision of banks against money-laundering risks.

SPAIN’S regulated iGaming market grew by 30 per cent in the third quarter of 2018 as gross gaming revenue (GGR) reached €181.8 million, buoyed a growth in sports betting, casino and poker.

Wage boost THE Mercadona supermarket chain has signed an agreement with worker unions that will introduce a salary increase of almost 15 per cent for its entire 84,000 strong workforce, and working hours are also under review.

Spain taps up China SPAIN’S Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping along with representatives from the China-Spain Business Advisory Council, in Madrid.

President Xi Jinping urged Spanish businesses to make the best use of the China International Import Expo (CIIE) trade fair and take ChinaSpain economic and trade ties to a new level.

Xi praised the establishment of the Business

Advisory Council and said that building a strong synergy between the two countries’ strategies will help bring about a more open and inclusive relationship between Asia and Europe.

For his part, Sanchez said the trading world is changing and that Spain is paying more and more attention to Asia. X’s wife, Peng Liyuan, called for more artistic and cultural exchanges between the two countries.

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Lloyds Banking Group ORD 56.21 London Stock Exchange Grp 4,061.50 Micro Focus International 1,561.50 Marks & Spencer Group 295.45 Mondi 1,793.00 Melrose 183.63 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 239.18 National Grid 839.30 NMC Health 3,479.00 Next 4,983.50 Ocado Group 845.50 Paddy Power Betfair 7,125.00 Prudential 1,600.75 Persimmon 1,911.00 Pearson 975.90 Reckitt Benckiser Group 6,581.50 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 222.50 Royal Dutch Shell 2,438.75 Royal Dutch Shell 2,473.25 RELX 1,656.00 Rio Tinto 3,734.75 Royal Mail 318.25 Rightmove 446.20 Rolls-Royce Group 864.50 Randgold Resources 6,303.00 RSA Insurance Group 551.80 Rentokil Initial 336.65 Sainsbury (J) 309.30 Schroders 2,585.00 Sage Group (The) 596.30 Segro 616.50 Shire 4,596.50 Smurfit Kappa Group 2,204.00 Standard Life Aberdeen 268.78 Smith (DS) 349.75 Smiths Group 1,425.00 Scottish Mortgage Invstmnt Trst 505.30 Smith & Nephew 1,454.50 SSE 1,103.50 Standard Chartered 635.90 St James's Place 1,028.50 Severn Trent 1,834.50 Tesco 201.25 TUI AG 1,146.75 Taylor Wimpey 133.45 Unilever 4,274.50 United Utilities Group 763.30 Vodafone Group 169.31 John Wood Group 671.60 WPP Group 888.00 Whitbread 4,640.00

CHANGE(P) -0.13 28.50 11.50 2.75 83.50 3.63 1.58 6.40 1.00 82.50 12.10 115.00 52.25 11.00 14.50 -40.50 2.40 68.75 77.75 1.00 115.75 -1.55 8.60 14.90 27.00 9.20 5.35 4.30 8.00 14.90 -3.10 46.50 78.00 3.38 15.65 35.50 9.95 29.50 8.00 26.50 23.00 -115.50 3.70 29.75 -7.95 31.00 2.90 1.55 36.60 22.20 42.00

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-0.23 0.71 0.74 0.94 4.88 2.02 0.66 0.77 0.03 1.68 1.45 1.64 3.37 0.58 1.51 -0.61 1.09 2.90 3.25 0.06 3.20 -0.48 1.97 1.75 0.43 1.70 1.61 1.41 0.31 2.56 -0.50 1.02 3.67 1.27 4.68 2.55 2.01 2.07 0.73 4.35 2.29 -5.92 1.87 2.66 -5.62 0.73 0.38 0.92 5.76 2.56 0.91

39,387.19 14,041.22 6,524.07 4,756.06 6,277.98 8,579.68 5,626.11 28,307.31 6,866.79 6,845.98 5,803.87 5,586.95 39,928.57 6,003.01 7,524.80 46,047.41 26,289.32 106,923.70 89,723.14 32,149.88 46,043.08 3,198.00 3,916.39 16,019.07 5,918.07 5,571.70 6,083.00 6,714.84 5,711.59 6,310.05 6,113.45 41,624.25 5,043.15 6,760.88 4,575.24 5,501.49 7,211.33 12,461.95 11,245.71 20,154.71 5,322.50 4,339.83 19,347.05 6,566.86 4,390.74 49,611.70 5,185.08 45,135.62 4,327.78 10,924.78 8,443.61

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Brexit negotiations and Italian defiance drive euro Ask the expert Peter Loveday Contact me at euroweekly@currenciesdirect.com

FOR the last few weeks, Brexit chaos has remained in the driving seat in the movement of the euro, with Italy trailing not far behind.

Euro EUR/GBP: Remained at £0.88 EUR/USD: Remained at $1.13 Although the euro has been pressured by the ongoing Brexit chaos, and the tensions between Italy and the European Union Commission, it has managed to start and finish the period at a very similar rate.

The tensions between Brussels and Rome played out this month, as Italy’s refusal to revise their draft budget for 2019 as it went against European Union regulations. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini remained defiant in the face of the EU, calling for the EU to ‘respect the Ital-

BREXIT CHAOS: Has remained in the driving seat in the movement of the euro. ian people.’ Despite this, it seems that Italy have backed down against the European Commission with sources suggesting that they are going to reduce their deficit target for next year to as low as 2 per cent of GDP, despite the previous 2.4 per cent goal.

There has been a lot of weakness revealed in the German economy, with the economy contracting for the first time since 2015, as it shrank by 0.2 per cent in the third quarter, with investors believing that the German economy is not going to recover rapidly from this weakness in its third quarter.

Unemployment figures for Germany are set to be released later this week, with a predicted drop in unemployment, and if this is the case, the euro is likely to push back further against the major currency pairings before the month is up.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is set to be released for the Eurozone on December 7, which will show whether or not the Eurozone has grown, if GDP is seen to have grown compared to this time next year, it could mean the euro is likely to push back against the pound and US dollar.

Pound GBP/EUR: Up from €1.12 to €1.13 GBP/USD: Remained at $1.28 The pound remained volatile for the majority of the month, as Brexit chaos saw the currency continuously pushed around, being able to push back against the euro and US dollar, only to plummet when pessimistic Brexit-related news hit. The currency suffered a major dent when Theresa May’s cabinet was hit with the shock resignation of Dominic Raab, and then again when Jo Johnson resigned.

Sterling took a dent from the Consumer Price Index and Core Consumer Price Index figures, as both were expected to increase, although they remained at the same figure as the previous month.

The UK GDP figures are set to be released for October on December 10, and the average earnings for October are set to be released the following morning. If these figures are positive and show growth, it is likely the GBP will push back against the major currency pairings.

Although May’s Brexit negotiations are happening around the same time, major opposition from MPs over the EU Withdrawal Act is likely to cause the majority of the movement within the currency.

US Dollar USD/GBP: Remained at £0.77 USD/EUR: Remained at €0.88 The US is currently embroiled in a trade war with China and with the G20 Summit coming up at the end of this month is likely to show whether this tension is going to be eased or escalated further.

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FEATURE

Snowflakes need boot camps…

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT SOMETIMES I really do find myself losing the will to live (I can hear the hurrahs from here!)

This week yobbo violence against the British police rose to new unprecedented levels. In one of a number of incidents, after the beleaguered force was called out to attend to a fight outside a pub (where else?) they were apparently set on by up to 100 youngsters.

Among this gang of feral youths it was later discovered that a few were actually only around 10 years old! In the fracas, the police were pelted with stones and fireworks, kicked and one punched heavily in the face.

OMG I hear you say. How many were arrested? When do their trials come up? What assault charges are the police going to bring? Well, don’t hold yer breath. After the incidents, (and all the arrested perpetrators were released, basically with slaps on the wrist) the police issued a statement accusing the parents of ‘not having enough control’ over their offspring and that they had to ‘move up to the plate’ and give more guidance to their children.

Is that not the most naive, unhelpful and posi-

POLICE: Confronted by ‘feral’ youths. tively inane simpering rubbish you have ever heard? So what do they suggest? Stopping their pocket money? Not letting them watch the X Factor for a week?

This PC ‘snowflake’ attitude toward the

young is the main reason their behaviour is spiralling out of control. The only ‘guidance’ they need, is a short swift sentence in boot camp on bread and water. All these do-gooders are simply confusing our youngsters into experiment-

ing just how far they can actually go before they receive some heavy retribution or another.

As for leaving it to the parents to sort out, are these law enforcers actually kidding? Don’t they realise that most of these youngsters come from homes that contain no love, no respect for the authorities and are often even worse than the unwanted offspring they allow to roam the streets.

Step up to the plate? The only plate these products of our benefit society are interested in, is the one bearing a pile of chips on a Friday night.

In the absence of National Service (come back, all is forgiven!) the only real answer to this yobbo culture are heavy boot camps with zero tolerance and the ability to make these youngsters petrified of ever being sent to them.

Only then will we be able to introduce alternatives, youth clubs, gymnasiums, sports facilities and the like, to give them the opportunity to live decent lives and respect the laws and decencies of our society.

As a final note to the small number of sad people that continue to think they are ‘revealing’ the ol’ boys hidden past, I suggest they buy my autobiography available on Amazon. Or if they are too mean for this, look me up on Wikipedia. Then for heaven’s sake give us all a break.

Keep the faith, love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com.

Leapy Lee’s opinions are his own and are not necessarily representative of those of the publishers, advertisers or sponsors.

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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/nora-johnson

A BIT of a rant this week (so what’s new, I hear you say!) First off, a nursing graduate claiming to be a doctor secured a management job with the NHS and fraudulently earned almost £350,000. What? Didn’t HR do any checks?

Then, we have the completely unqualified psychiatrist who ‘treated’ NHS patients for 22 years. (Maybe she raised suspicions because she provided the best psychiatric care ever encountered in the NHS?) Isn’t it amazing what people can get away with, if they’re brash enough and nobody checks? I mean, just look at my own qualifications: Nora Johnson FRCS, PhD, QC! And guess what: I regularly carry out heart surgery with only a Girl Guide certificate in embroidery (plus my stitching of vital organs is so artistic - incredibly underrated these days).

Next we learn that residents in Belgravia, London and Chigwell, Essex pay for private ‘bobbies on the beat’ and community groups in Hartlepool, Co Durham conduct nightly patrols to prevent crime and ‘protect what’s ours.’

Let’s look at the NHS and police service a bit more closely. Firstly, the NHS. Its sacred cow status has allowed its service and efficiency to decline still further with unac-

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LEGALLY SPEAKING

Can they rent out their road?

Two properties which are not part of our community or our urbanisation share our privately owned sewer and road. They pay into a special fund for repairs to these facilities when needed. This is separate from the community fees which we on the urbanisation pay into twice a year. At our AGM this year it was decided to make these payments a legal undertaking. Is this possible?

IN CHARGE: Bureaucrats have taken over.

W J (Costa Blanca)

countable bureaucrats more committed to keeping their jobs and the unwieldy bureaucracy than improving the patient’s lot.

Although we’ve all heard wonderful stories of people saved by the NHS, we’ve also read truly shocking, dreadful accounts of hopeless, abusive, incorrect care, leading to suffering and death.

And as for the police, get bobbies back walking the beat, policing real crime, not ‘hate’ crime. It’s ridiculous that time, effort and taxpayers’ money is spent on virtuesignalling PC issues while real life ones go wanting. What’s the betting enterprising villains are at this moment hell bent over sewing machines, running up their own

‘private bobby’ costumes?

What a sad indictment of these depressing Brexit times. But time to get used to the fact Britain’s rapidly changing. Incompetent politicians; incompetent police; the NHS run by ‘managers’ who couldn’t run a village fête let alone vital NHS trusts...

Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.no ra-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.

Yes, you can make a legal agreement David Searl but you want to give it You and the Law careful study first. First in Spain there is the general principle that communities cannot be seen to make money.

However, there are various possibilities. You can make an agreement with the two owners to pay a yearly fee for the use of the sewer and road, for example. This payment will be subject to Spanish tax because it is the community renting out an asset. We see this sort of agreement when an apartment building rents out its roof for a telephone aerial. Or you could make a legal agreement with the two owners for them to pay a certain percentage of any work on the road or sewers.

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

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CONSULAR MATTERS

A warm Danish welcome

Marisa Moreno is the Danish Consul on the Costa del Sol. As an international lawyer, she has a wealth of knowledge and experience on many matters which affect expats of all nationalities. She will bring this experience to you in her monthly column, but first she wants to introduce you to Peter and a taste of Danish Christmas….

CHRISTMAS is almost upon us and I would like to take the opportunity to share with you one of my favourite Danish traditions.

I am going to introduce you to my good friend ‘Peter’ who will be the subject of my articles over the coming weeks on social, cultural and legal matters which concern all foreign community residents in general, and the Danish in particular.

So Peter, who is very organised in his life, has this year offered to do traditional activities with his grandchildren to get ready for the arrival of Christmas. Peter is 50 years old and is Danish by birth, al-

FEATURE

DECOR: Sharing family traditions.

though he has been living in Spain since he was 10 years old when he moved with his family, parents and siblings, from his native Roskilde to our Costa del Sol. Peter has two grandchildren from his two daughters of his previous marriage and he wants to prepare a special Danish Christmas for them this year, because he wants his grandchildren to know and enjoy the traditions of their own country.

Many Danish traditions have common roots with several other

northern European countries, so many readers will recognise the similarities in their own traditions.

Christmas in Denmark begins with the preparation of the Advent crown, a Christmas decoration which each family makes, so Peter will take his two grandchildren to the field and pick up pine twigs and pine cones, to surround and shelter four white or red candles.

They will also look for small wild red fruits and they will decorate it with some red ribbons.

Then they will have to wait for each of the Sundays which precedes Christmas Eve for their grandchildren to light one of the four candles, one for each Sunday until the four candles are lit, then it will mean that Christmas has arrived.

Also, Peter wants his grandchildren to have an authentic ‘Christmas calendar’ this year. To do this, Peter will have to prepare 24 small gifts (one for each day of December before Christmas).

It’s going to be a big job because

there are two Christmas calendars, one for each grandchild, but it’s worth the effort.

Peter could use chocolate figures in the advent calendar. They are easy to buy in the shops, but he wants his grandchildren to experience a different calendar this year along with the illusion of surprise which each gift gives.

Peter has to give it some thought because children today are not as excited as when he was a child himself.

So his two grandchildren, Alicia, four, and Adam, six, will be given gifts of small cars, animal figures, coloured pencils with glitter, plasticine, etc.

The idea is that the grandchildren can share their gifts as he himself did with his brothers when he was little. I am sure that Peter ’s grandchildren are privileged to be able to enjoy the preservation of this beautiful Danish tradition but I am even more sure it will be Peter who will enjoy ‘Christmas calendar’ this year the most.

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I have always been clear as to where I would have put my mark when voting. Brexit has outlined to me that the average politician is very inexperienced about life, knows nothing about business and therefore their ideology is very dangerous.

The politicians and only the politicians are to blame for the position that the UK finds itself in about Brexit or No Brexit; what a choice.

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Plus of course, the after-sales service, with both ASSSA and my company, is first class. Do not be tempted to cancel unless you are entitled access to the state system, then think about the enormous

HEALTH INSURANCE: Make sure you are covered. waiting lists, which are becoming longer and longer.

If you have no health cover in Spain, you will have to pay privately and you will be shocked at the costs involved. We do not yet know what will happen to the European health card and it may be that we will need travel insurance in the future, whether going to Spain or to the UK. It is quite possible that British expatriates will have to resubmit all current paperwork as we will no longer be considered European citizens, and it is likely you will have to prove your healthcare cover.

We are in unknown territory and can only wait for these decisions to be made, so it may be important not to cancel at this time if you are not entitled to the state system.

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A diabolical liberty Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man APART from me, who is fed up going into restaurants, and when ordering a soft drink like a coke, getting served a 200ml mixer sized bottle that’s the size you use for rum and coke or gin and tonic instead of a 330ml can or bottle and being charged ‘full’ price?

It’s a diabolical liberty and a raving con.

Don’t give me the old tosh that you can only get them direct from Coca Cola. I don’t care.

Go into the local supermarket and buy some. I don’t care if they cost 30 cents and you sell them for €2.20 - just give me a proper size drink OK! One place told me if you use cans, it lowers the tone of the establishment. Listen mate, I’ve got news for you - your place, as brilliant as it is and I love eating there, is an upmarket cafe serving people in t-shirts, swimming shorts and flip flops in the summer.

All the staff are walking about in t-shirts, jeans and trainers, not dinner suits and bow ties. It’s not the Ritz. Don’t be the person that stands behind the counter saying ‘you are the 200th person today that I’ve told we don’t get any call for this.’

OK so it’s ‘have a grump at eateries’ today.

If you have a sign up saying you close at 4pm like the place Mrs S and Dr S went to in England - then it should be pretty safe to assume that you close at four o’clock correct? Wrong!

Mrs S goes in at half three and Dr S is going to join her five minutes later. Patti orders a coffee then Sarah comes in five or so minutes later and also orders a coffee only to be told she can’t have one because the machine is off and is being cleaned. ‘But you don’t close til 4.’ ‘Yeah, but it takes half an hour to clean the machine and tidy up.’ ‘Yes, so do it when you close not when you are open.’ ‘We can’t cos we are open till four.’‘Then close the doors at 3.30!’‘But we have to stay open till four.’

Unfortunately it was a comprehension battle that could not be won. You can almost hear the staff saying, ‘if it wasn’t for all the bloody customers we could get on with our work!’

When I had my shops there was a very simple rule. We opened at 10am and closed at 10pm.

The staff had to get there at 9.30am to hoover and do whatever was needed to do so we were ready to serve the public at 10am, and at night they didn’t start the closing process till the shop was closed and all the shifts that worked knew those were the rules. mikesenker@gmail.com

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3rd Rock from the Sun Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA The Simpsons Channel 4 News A New Life in the Sun My Family Secrets Revealed Countdown Fifteen to One A Place in the Sun Kirstie's Handmade Christmas The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News The Political Slot The Supervet at Christmas The First Naked Attraction First Dates Random Acts

Teleshopping The Chase Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Ironside Pawn Stars Pawn Stars The Chase: Celebrity Special Inside London Fire Brigade The Usual Suspects FYI Daily The Usual Suspects Hornblower Tommy Cooper ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

9:25am 9:40am 9:50am 10:05am

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Floogals Digby Dragon Shimmer and Shine The Secret Life of Puppies Jeremy Vine Chasing Christmas Neighbours Snowed-Inn Christmas Christmas with a Prince 5 News at 5 Friends Friends Neighbours 5 News Tonight Esther Rantzen's House Trap Shop Smart, Save Money Oxford Street 24/7 Stabbed in the Back: Murder of Sam Caulfield Young, Dumb and Banged Up in the Sun

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

Mike and Molly Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory Young Sheldon Happy Together New Girl The Inbetweeners The Inbetweeners The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory

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11:25am The Accountant 1:35pm Black Panther 3:50pm Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge 6:05pm Wild Wild West 7:55pm Mission: Impossible II 10:00pm Black Panther 12:15am The Bourne Ultimatum

5:15am 7:00am 8:45am 10:30am

Holly Star Bomb City Wonder Wheel A Very Sordid Wedding A Gift for Christmas The Greatest Showman Showstopping musical biopic about legendary 19thcentury circus entrepreneur PT Barnum.

Lady Bird Bomb City A Gift for Christmas The Greatest Showman Wonder Wheel Lady Bird Western Top Ten Show, the 2018 Which movies are doing the best business at home and across the pond?

Holly Star

9:45am A New Life in Turin 10:00am Football Years 11:00am Play-Off Final Highlights 12:00pm One2eleven 12:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:00pm Football's Greatest 1:30pm Football Countdowns 2:00pm EFL Greatest Games 3:00pm Play-Off Final Highlights 4:00pm Football's Greatest 4:30pm Football Countdowns 5:00pm One2eleven 5:15pm One2eleven 5:30pm One2eleven 5:45pm A New Life in Turin 6:00pm Football Years 6:30pm UEFA Nations League Review Show 7:30pm Football Countdowns 8:00pm EFL Matters 8:30pm A New Life in Turin 8:45pm EFL Greatest Games 9:00pm Championship Season Review 10:00pm EFL Matters 10:30pm A New Life in Turin 10:45pm EFL Greatest Games 11:00pm Play-Off Final Highlights 12:00am EFL Matters

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6:00am 7:45am 9:20am 11:00am 1:05pm 3:25pm 5:30pm 7:15pm

Whisky Galore!

The Night is Young Big Daddy You've Got Mail Downsizing Hitch The Wedding Singer Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 9:00pm You've Got Mail 11:05pm Downsizing 1:25am Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 3:05am Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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3:55pm 5:40pm 7:25pm 9:00pm 11:00pm 12:45am 2:35am 4:50am

5:10am

Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 7:30am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Live European Tour Golf 4:00pm Sky Sports News 5:00pm Sky Sports News 6:00pm Sky Sports News at 5 7:00pm Sky Sports News at 6 7:30pm Live Mosconi Cup Pool Day three of the 2018 Mosconi Cup from the Alexandra Palace in London.

12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am To be Announced 1:30am Live NFL: Jacksonville @ Tennessee

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Richard Shanley THE BBC has released its full Christmas TV schedule - including a six-part adaptation of Les Miserables and the return of Idris Elba in Luther.

Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders, a new interpretation of Richard Adams’ Watership Down and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song are also lined up. And old favourites such as Mrs Brown’s Boys, Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing return to our screens.

Mary Berry and Nadiya Hussain will both present their own cookery shows. Charlotte Moore, director of BBC content, said: “We’ve got a wonderful array of stars to keep everyone entertained, with the very best in drama, entertainment, comedy and documentaries over the festive period. As has become tradition, another David Walliams’ book has been adapted for the festive period - this time round, it’s The Midnight Gang.

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Mrs Brown’s Boys and Luther set for a BBC Christmas

MRS BROWN’S BOYS: Will be returning to our screens over the Christmas period.

Take That mark their 30th anniversary with a special one-off p ro g ramme fo r B B C O ne a nd younger viewers may be keen to catch the animated version of Ju-

lia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Zog. The stars of Goodness Gracious Me will celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary alongs ide c e le brity fa ns of the hit

BBC Two series.

Documentaries focus on the likes of comedian Billy Connolly and The Snowman author and illustrator Raymond Briggs. The

festive edition of Doctor Who will be shown on New Year ’s Day on BBC One instead of Christmas Day for the first time since the drama’s return in 2005.

Watership Down, about a warren of intrepid rabbits, features an original song from Sam Smith and will be split over two feature-length episodes. It boasts a stellar cast including James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, John Boyega, Gemma Arterton and Olivia Colman.

Separately, award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies - the subject of a documentary also shown over the Christmas period - has adapted Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables for the small screen. John Malkovich will return to BBC One playing Poirot in The ABC Murders, with Rupert Grint appearing alongside as Inspector Crome. Ken Dodd will be remembered in How Tickled We Were on BBC Two.

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12:00pm A Matter of Life and Debt 12:45pm Ill Gotten Gains 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries 4:15pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm The Best Christmas Food Ever 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Not Going Out 10:00pm Have I Got News for You 10:30pm Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special 2015 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show 12:25am Enterprice

5:20am This is BBC Two 7:30am The Best Christmas Food Ever 8:15am Flog It! 9:00am Dynasties 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Snooker 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Strictly: It Takes Two 8:00pm Snooker 9:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 10:00pm Made in Great Britain 11:00pm The Mash Report 11:30pm Newsnight 12:05am Snooker 12:55am Roots 2:35am Panorama 3:05am Imagine...

4:30am Doctor Who 5:20am This is BBC Two

4:25am ITV Nightscreen 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 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 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Imitation Game 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

11:30pm ITV News 12:00am ITV News London 12:20am The Break-Up 2:10am Jackpot247 4:00am Cold Feet

9:25am Emmerdale 9:55am You've Been Framed!

10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:20am Planet's Got Talent 11:50am I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

1:15pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed!

2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

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 Family Guy 11:00pm Family Guy 11:30pm I'm a Celebrity...

Extra Camp 12:35am Family Guy 1:05am American Dad!

4:30am This is BBC Four 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Top of the Pops Janice Long presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 30 October1986.

9:00pm The Live Lounge Show 10:00pm Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942-1984 11:00pm Roxy Music: A Musical History 12:00am Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me 1:00am Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones 2:00am Top of the Pops 2:30am The Live Lounge Show 3:30am Blackadder Goes Forth 4:00am Blackadder Goes Forth 4:30am Blackadder Goes Forth

3:30am Teleshopping 7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:50am Heartbeat 8:55am The Royal 9:55am Judge Judy 10:25am Judge Judy 10:50am Judge Judy 11:20am Inspector Morse 1:35pm The Royal 2:40pm Heartbeat 3:40pm Classic Coronation Street 4:15pm Classic Coronation Street 4:45pm Inspector Morse 7:00pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 10:00pm Midsomer Murders 12:00am A Touch of Frost 2:05am Chicago 4:00am Inspector Morse 5:55am Murder, She Wrote

8:45am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 10:05am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm A New Life in the Sun 2:05pm My Family Secrets Revealed 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Kirstie's Handmade Christmas 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:30pm Unreported World 9:00pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm The Last Leg 12:05am Ministry of Justice 1:05am The Purge: Anarchy

4:00am 7:00am 7:50am 8:10am 8:30am 9:25am 10:35am 11:35am 12:40pm 1:40pm 2:45pm 3:50pm 4:50pm 5:55pm 7:00pm 8:05pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:05pm 12:05am 1:05am 1:10am 2:20am 3:15am 3:45am 4:00am

Teleshopping The Chase Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Ironside Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Monster Carp Source Code FYI Daily Source Code Falling Down FYI Daily Falling Down The Americans The Protectors ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

7:55am 8:05am 8:15am 8:35am 8:45am 8:55am 9:05am 9:25am 9:40am 9:55am 10:05am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:45pm 2:15pm 4:00pm 5:45pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 1:15am

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Thomas and Friends Fireman Sam Shane the Chef Peppa Pig Peppa Pig Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Paw Patrol Floogals Digby Dragon Shimmer and Shine The Secret Life of Puppies Jeremy Vine Switched for Christmas Neighbours Season's Greetings The Perfect Christmas Village 5 News at 5 Friends Friends Neighbours 5 News Tonight The Gadget Show Britain by Boat Portillo's Hidden History of Britain Run All Night Super Casino

9:00am 9:30am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 12:15am 12:40am 1:05am 2:10am

Deep Blue Sea The Hurricane Heist Rocky Balboa The Perfect Storm Marvel's Avengers Assemble Mission: Impossible III Die Hard The Bourne Legacy Rambo Marked for Death

5:10am 7:00am 8:50am 10:40am

Robin Hood: Men in Tights Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Hope Floats The Grinch: Special This is the End Father Figures Rough Night The Grinch: Special My Cousin Vinny This is the End Father Figures

Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Identity Thief The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Naked Attraction Tattoo Fixers

Holly Star Lady Bird Holly Star The Greatest Showman 12:40pm Maze Runner: The Death Cure Sci-fi action sequel starring Dylan O'Brien (American Assassin) as the leader of a renegade group battling to save their friends from sinister organisation WCKD. 3:15pm Wonder Wheel 5:15pm A Gift for Christmas 7:00pm The Greatest Showman 9:00pm Maze Runner: The Death Cure 11:25pm Lady Bird 1:05am Bomb City 3:00am Western 5:15am A Gift for Christmas

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9:00am 9:30am 10:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 12:15pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:15pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 11:15pm 12:15am 12:45am 1:00am

Sky Sports News Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Good Morning Sports Fans Good Morning Sports Fans Good Morning Sports Fans Live European Tour Golf Football Centre Football Centre Sky Sports News at 5 Sky Sports News at 6 Football The Debate - Live Premier League Best Goals Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sporting Records Live NBA: Golden State @ Milwaukee

Football's Greatest EFL Greatest Games Football Years Play-Off Final Highlights A New Life in Turin One2eleven SPFL Greatest Games Football's Greatest Football Countdowns A New Life in Turin EFL Greatest Games Play-Off Final Highlights Football's Greatest Football Countdowns One2eleven Football Years Football Countdowns SPFL Matters EFL Matters Football The Debate - Live SPFL Matters EFL Greatest Games Football's Greatest

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SATURDAY TV

7:00am Breakfast The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team.

11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live Matt Tebbutt is joined by Yotam Ottolenghi plus special guest Hugh Dennis 12:30pm Classic Mary Berry 1:00pm Football Focus 2:00pm BBC News 2:15pm Snooker 5:30pm Final Score 6:25pm BBC News 6:35pm BBC London News 6:45pm Pointless 7:35pm Strictly Come Dancing 9:10pm Michael Mcintyre's Big Show 10:10pm Casualty 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Match of the Day 12:50am The NFL Show 1:20am Weather for the Week Ahead

8:00am All Over the Place 8:25am Wild and Weird 2 8:40am Show Me What You're Made of 9:10am All Over the Workplace 9:40am Flushed Away 11:00am Radio Gibbon 12:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 1:00pm A Cook Abroad 2:00pm Call Me Madam 3:50pm Escape to the Country 4:35pm Flog It! 5:30pm Snooker 6:00pm Football: Women's World Cup Draw 2018 7:00pm Dad's Army 7:30pm Richard Osman's House of Games 8:00pm Snooker 11:00pm Performance Live: Love 12:00am Snowfall 12:40am Gambit 2:00am Hunky Dory 3:45am Louis Theroux's Altered States: Choosing Death

8:00pm Wild Tales From the Village 9:00pm Tap America: How a Nation Found It's Feet 10:00pm The Sinner 10:40pm The Sinner 11:20pm Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942 - 1984 12:20am Top of the Pops Gary Davies and Peter Powell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 22 May 1986.

12:55am Guitar Heroes 1:55am Wild Tales From the Village 2:55am Mcmafia 3:50am Mcmafia

8:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:05am Frasier 10:05am The Big Bang Theory 10:35am The Big Bang Theory 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am Heineken Champions Cup Rugby 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm The Simpsons 1:30pm Heineken Champions Cup Rugby 4:10pm The Simpsons 4:40pm The Simpsons 5:15pm The Simpsons 5:40pm Arthur Christmas 7:35pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Britain's Most Historic Towns 9:00pm Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship 10:00pm Allied 12:25am The Impossible 2:30am Ministry of Justice 3:25am Hollyoaks Omnibus 5:40am Big House, Little House

8:45am Peppa Pig 8:55am Peppa Pig 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Paw Patrol 9:35am Nella the Princess Knight 9:50am Shimmer and Shine 10:00am Pirata and Capitano 10:20am Rusty Rivets 10:35am Paw Patrol 10:55am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:05am Rooftop Christmas Tree 12:50pm The Christmas Train 2:55pm Enchanted Christmas 4:40pm Rock and Roll Christmas 6:30pm Home for Christmas Day 8:10pm 5 News Weekend 8:15pm Britain's Craziest Christmas Lights 9:10pm Harrogate: A Yorkshire Christmas 10:10pm Harrogate: A Yorkshire Christmas 11:10pm My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 1:00am Super Casino

5:45am Mike and Molly 6:05am Mike and Molly 7:00am Christmas Land unclassified.

8:35am Baby Daddy 9:00am Baby Daddy 9:30am Baby Daddy 10:00am Couples Come Dine with Me 11:00am Made in Chelsea 12:00pm Thunderbirds 1:50pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 2:00pm The Goldbergs 2:30pm The Goldbergs 3:00pm The Goldbergs 3:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 4:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 4:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 5:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 5:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6:00pm Young Sheldon 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The World's End 12:10am Gogglebox

Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Good Morning Sports Fans 9:00am Rugby Gold Remember some classic matches from rugby's autumn internationals.

9:05am Live Rugby 7s: Cape Town 12:15pm My Icon 12:30pm Football Bournemouth host Liverpool at the Vitality Stadium in the Premier League.

4:15pm Info not available 6:15pm Football Reading take on Sheffield United at the Madejski Stadium in the Sky Bet Championship.

12:00am Live NBA: Houston @ Dallas 2:30am Sporting Records 3:00am Sky Sports News 4:00am Sky Sports News 5:00am Sky Sports News

8:35am The Tom and Jerry Show 8:50am The Powerpuff Girls 9:10am Toonmarty 9:30am Robozuna 10:05am Mighty Magiswords 10:25am ITV News 10:30am Saturday Morning with James Martin 12:40pm The X Factor 2:10pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:20pm Apollo 13 5:00pm You've Been Framed!

5:30pm Tipping Point 6:30pm ITV Evening News 6:40pm ITV News London 6:55pm Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 9:10pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 10:10pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

11:10pm The Jonathan Ross Show 12:15am ITV News 12:30am Jaws 2 2:30am Jackpot247 4:00am Paul O'grady: For the Love of Dogs

3:20am Teleshopping 6:50am ITV2 Nightscreen 7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:25am Emmerdale Omnibus 9:55am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:50pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

2:20pm Catchphrase 3:20pm Jack Frost 4:20pm FYI Daily 4:25pm Jack Frost 5:25pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

6:55pm Yes Man 7:55pm FYI Daily 8:00pm Yes Man 9:00pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 10:05pm FYI Daily 10:10pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 11:10pm I'm a Celebrity...

Extra Camp 12:15am Family Guy 12:40am Family Guy 1:15am Family Guy 1:40am Family Guy

5:55am 6:45am 7:00am 7:20am 7:40am

4:00am 7:00am 7:15am 7:40am 8:35am 9:30am 10:30am

9:25am The Amazing SpiderMan 2 11:50am Spider-Man 2:00pm Spider-Man 2 4:15pm Spider-Man 3 6:40pm The Amazing SpiderMan 9:00pm The Amazing SpiderMan 2 11:25pm Spider-Man: Homecoming 1:45am Spider-Man

5:15am A Gift for Christmas 7:00am Wonder Wheel Woody Allen's 1950s-set drama stars Kate Winslet as a former actress whose life is upturned by the appearance of her husband's estranged daughter.

9:00am The Greatest Showman 11:00am A Yeti Adventure 12:40pm Maze Runner: The Death Cure 3:15pm A Gift for Christmas 5:00pm Black Panther: Special 5:30pm Lady Bird 7:20pm A Yeti Adventure 9:00pm Maze Runner: The Death Cure 11:25pm The Greatest Showman 1:20am A Very Sordid Wedding 3:20am Bomb City 5:15am Holly Star

6:00am 6:30am 6:45am 7:00am 7:15am 7:30am 7:45am 11:00am 12:30pm 1:00pm

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1:50pm 2:55pm 4:00pm 6:00pm 8:00pm 10:00pm 12:00am 2:05am 2:35am 3:00am 3:30am

Murder, She Wrote ITV3 Nightscreen Judge Judy Judge Judy Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot Bertie and Elizabeth Enchanting featurelength portrayal of the life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

Santa Claus Classic family Christmas adventure starring Dudley Moore, 1985 Agatha Christie's Poirot Agatha Christie's Poirot Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders On the Buses On the Buses ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

11:35am 11:50am 12:20pm 12:45pm 1:10pm 1:40pm 2:15pm 5:00pm 5:25pm 5:50pm 6:50pm 6:55pm 7:55pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:05pm 12:05am 1:05am 1:10am 2:25am 3:20am

Teleshopping World of Sport The Protectors The Professionals The Professionals Motorsport UK ITV Racing: The Opening Show World of Sport Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars ITV Racing: Live from Sandown Pawn Stars Pawn Stars The Train Robbers FYI Daily The Train Robbers Hornblower First Blood FYI Daily First Blood Training Day FYI Daily Training Day The Americans The Protectors

9:55am Click 11:50am Sweet Home Alabama 1:50pm Game Night 3:40pm Role Models 5:30pm National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 7:15pm Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 9:00pm Game Night 10:45pm Role Models 12:35am Fist Fight 2:15am The Little Hours 4:00am Wilson

6:00am 7:00am 8:00am

4:15pm 6:00pm 6:15pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:00am 12:15am 12:30am 12:45am 1:00am 2:00am 2:15am 2:30am 2:45am

Football's Greatest EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games Football Soccer A.M. SPFL Matters Gillette Soccer Saturday Info not available EFL Greatest Games Football EFL Goals: Championship UEFA Nations League Review Show EFL Goals: Championship A New Life in Turin EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games EFL Goals: Championship One2eleven One2eleven SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games

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BBC News Breakfast Match of the Day The Andrew Marr Show Sunday Politics My Faith and Me: Jj Chalmers Bargain Hunt BBC News Songs of Praise Escape to the Country Shrek the Third Dynasties BBC News BBC London News Countryfile Doctor Who Strictly Come Dancing Dynasties Care BBC News BBC London News Match of the Day 2 The Women's Football Show The Apprentice The Apprentice: You're Fired!

10:30am The Martin Lewis Money Show 10:55am Gino's Italian Coastal Escape 11:25am Doc Martin 12:25pm Midsomer Murders 2:20pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:30pm Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury 3:00pm Paul O'grady: For the Love of Dogs 3:30pm The Chase 4:30pm Tenable 5:30pm How to Spend it Well at Christmas with Phillip Schofield 6:30pm Tipping Point 7:30pm ITV Evening News 7:45pm ITV News London 8:00pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 9:00pm I'm a Celebrity Catchphrase Special 10:00pm I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Final 11:35pm ITV News 11:55pm Les Dawson Forever 1:40am Football Genius

7:15am School for Scoundrels 8:45am Greatest Gardens 9:15am The Instant Gardener 10:00am Countryfile 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Best of British 1:30pm Food and Drink 2:00pm Snooker 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Britain's Biggest Warship 8:00pm Snooker 12:00am The Mash Report 12:30am I'll Get This 1:00am Athletics 2:00am Stacey Dooley Investigates 3:00am Question Time 4:00am Holby City A much-loved face from the past forces a guilty Serena to think about her future.

5:00am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

8:00pm A History of Christianity 9:00pm Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here Professor Jeremy Black examines one of the most extraordinary periods in British history.

10:00pm Daredevils and Divas: A Night at the Circus 11:00pm The Sky at Night A look at the world of astronomy.

11:30pm Horizon Series exploring topical scientific issues.

12:30am The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey 2:00am Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here Professor Jeremy Black examines one of the most extraordinary periods in British history.

3:00am Mcmafia

7:20am King of Queens 7:45am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Frasier 9:25am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm The Simpsons 2:00pm The Simpsons 2:30pm The Simpsons 3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm Stuart Little 2 5:05pm Father Christmas 5:35pm The Snowman 6:05pm The Snowman and the Snowdog 6:35pm Home Alone 8:35pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Escape to the Chateau 10:00pm A Very British Country House 11:00pm Tin Star 11:55pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 1:00am The Angels' Share 2:45am The Last Leg

7:35am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:10am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:10pm I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

2:15pm You've Been Framed!

2:50pm Shrek the Halls 3:20pm Spy Kids 3: Game Over 4:20pm FYI Daily 4:25pm Spy Kids 3: Game Over 5:05pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas 6:05pm FYI Daily 6:10pm How the Grinch Stole Christmas 7:10pm Despicable Me 8:10pm FYI Daily 8:15pm Despicable Me 9:00pm The Mask 10:00pm FYI Daily 10:05pm The Mask 11:05pm Family Guy 11:35pm I'm a Celebrity...

Extra Camp 12:40am Family Guy 1:10am Family Guy 1:35am Family Guy 2:05am American Dad!

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Murder, She Wrote Heartbeat Heartbeat Goodbye Mr Chips Columbo: Forgotten Lady Agatha Christie's Poirot Agatha Christie's Poirot Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Endeavour Crime drama series about the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse.

Vera Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure Agatha Christie's Poirot Lucan Road to Avonlea Road to Avonlea Judge Judy Murder, She Wrote

The Professionals The Professionals The Sweeney The Sweeney The Sweeney Minder Minder The War Wagon FYI Daily The War Wagon The Train Robbers FYI Daily The Train Robbers Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Made in Britain Hornblower Executive Decision FYI Daily Executive Decision The Usual Suspects FYI Daily The Usual Suspects Minder ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

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Thomas and Friends Bob the Builder Digby Dragon Peppa Pig Peppa Pig Peppa Pig Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Paw Patrol Nella the Princess Knight Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends 101 Dalmatians Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!

Call Me Claus Warship: Life at Sea 5 News Weekend Edge of Tomorrow Timecop Super Casino

7:00am Hollyoaks Omnibus 9:25am Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 9:40am Baby's Day Out 11:30am Made in Chelsea 12:35pm Don't Tell the Bride 1:35pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Goldbergs 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm Young Sheldon 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm Oblivion 10:00pm Colombiana 12:05am The Big Bang Theory 12:35am The Big Bang Theory 1:05am The Inbetweeners 1:35am The Inbetweeners 2:05am Tattoo Fixers 3:10am Rude Tube 4:05am Rude(Ish) Tube 4:30am Hollyoaks Omnibus

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Spider-Man Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man 3 Spider-Man: Homecoming 4:10pm The Amazing SpiderMan 6:30pm The Amazing SpiderMan 2 9:00pm Spider-Man: Homecoming

7:00am A Gift for Christmas 8:45am Black Panther: Special 9:15am A Yeti Adventure 10:55am The Greatest Showman 12:55pm Maze Runner: The Death Cure 3:30pm In Darkness 5:25pm A Yeti Adventure 7:00pm The Greatest Showman Showstopping musical biopic about legendary 19thcentury circus entrepreneur PT Barnum.

9:00pm Maze Runner: The Death Cure 11:25pm In Darkness 1:15am Lady Bird 2:55am Bomb City 4:50am Top Ten Show, the 2018 5:10am Holly Star

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7:30am Dude, Where's My Car? 9:00am A Little Something for Your Birthday 10:45am Pretty Woman 12:50pm The Terminal 3:05pm Jack and Jill 4:45pm How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 6:45pm Pretty Woman 9:00pm The Terminal 11:15pm Pineapple Express 1:10am Zombieland 2:45am Ali G Indahouse

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Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Total Goals Info not available Rugby Archive Live Rugby 7s: Cape Town Info not available Live Rugby 7s: Cape Town Info not available Live Renault Super Sunday Live NFL: Sunday A match from the NFL. Live NFL: Sunday A match from the NFL. My Icon My Icon Live NFL: Sunday The Oakland Raiders take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum in the NFL.

EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games Info not available Sunday Supplement One2eleven One2eleven SPFL Greatest Games A New Life in Turin EFL Goals: Championship Football Info not available A New Life in Turin SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games To be Announced EFL Goals: Championship Football's Greatest Play-Off Final Highlights To be Announced EFL Goals: Championship Football's Greatest Play-Off Final Highlights

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A good servant or poor master?

Prince was wrong; the internet is definitely not over, says Terence Kennedy

TECH FOR THE TIMID A HILARIOUS scene in ‘The IT Crowd’ had naive tech novice Katherine Parkinson given a precious box to hold. It ostensibly contained the Internet. All of it.

The World Wide Web, the Interweb, the Intertubes, call it what you will. Barely three decades old, it now connects almost half of the world’s population, with five exabytes coursing through it daily. No I don’t know what that means either, but apparently it’s equivalent to 40,000 movies per second. Slightly too large to fit in Ms Parkinson’s box.

From cat videos to connected kettles, from ordering pizza to analysing the Kardashian rear, the internet has become an essential part of our everyday lives. How on earth did we ever manage without it?

Few of us have any conception of what holds it together. Try 300 un-

INTERNET: Around 85 per cent of people in Spain are online. dersea cables for a start.

Experts estimate it will use 20 per cent of the world’s electricity by 2025 and release 5 per cent of our emissions. America’s data centres alone will need the equivalent of 10 nuclear power stations.

Back in the mid-90’s we were impressively tech-savvy if we searched on AltaVista, which put the world at our fingertips through 13 million queries a day at its peak. Today’s

Google does 3.5 trillion. But fully half the world’s web traffic goes to just 0.1 per cent of today’s two billion websites.

And miaouw for the news: astonishingly there are well over seven billion pictures of cats on the web, with two million videos on YouTube alone. Grumpy Cat and its ubiquitous videos earned its owners more than € 100 million. That’s a lot of Whiskas.

Of course the web has a dark side.

Some estimates say up to 95 per cent of it is unindexed and thus invisible to standard browsers. Although this ‘dark web’ can have its good sides (not least in preserving the anonymity of journalists, activists and whistle-blowers), much of it is driven by criminal activity.

While China leads in adding new users with more than 800 million people connected, Chinese surfers are actually far less fortunate than the rest of us. Imagine a world without Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram and that’s China, infamous for its so-called ‘Great Firewall of China’ manned by a mindboggling 50,000 internet censors.

Around 85 per cent of Spain’s people are online, but that’s still well behind global leaders like Iceland (98 per cent) and those other lucky Nordics.

So all in all, if ever you’re privileged enough to be allowed to hold the entire internet in its box, be very aware of your awesome responsibility. Respect, bro.

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For better or worse CAT videos apart, the internet undoubtedly spreads real knowledge and understanding around the world.

But it’s also responsible for many of our modern problems, from the rabbitholes of time wasted on social media to the sheer destructiveness of online bullying and trolling.

In the western world we spend an estimated 24 hours a week online, and many of us have little to show for it.

Our sleep is disrupted, our attention-spans fragmented, our credit cards reeling.

But observers say we are finally gaining more control over both our online identities and our habits as the dangers become all too apparent.

That eminent 21st-century philosopher Lady Gaga said famously that ‘The internet is a toilet’. But we can at least flush it to let clean water in.

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12:00pm Britain's Secret Charity Cheats 12:45pm A1: Britain's Longest Road 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm The Doctor Blake Mysteries 4:10pm Escape to the Country 4:40pm The Best Christmas Food Ever 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm River Walks 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm Nadiya's Asian Odyssey 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm Have I Got a Bit More News for You 12:30am The Graham Norton Show 1:15am Ambulance

9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Martin Lewis Money Show 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Sir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and in Private 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm ITV News London 11:50pm Killer Women with Piers Morgan 12:50am Judge Rinder's Crime Stories 1:15am Jackpot247

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BBC News at 9 Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live Politics Live Athletics Coast Railways: The Making of a Nation Who Do You Think You Are? Gordon Buchanan: Elephant Family and Me Eggheads Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Richard Osman's House of Games Strictly: It Takes Two Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Only Connect University Challenge Babies: Their Wonderful World People Just Do Nothing Newsnight Inside the Foreign Office The Apprentice

9:55am Coronation Street 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:20am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 11:45am I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Final 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

Final 8:35pm You've Been Framed!

9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Family Guy 10:30pm American Dad! 11:00pm American Dad! 11:30pm Family Guy 12:00am Family Guy

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Christmas University Challenge 2017 9:00pm Hidden Wales with Will Millard Professor Jeremy Black examines one of the most extraordinary periods in British history.

10:00pm Treasures of Ancient Rome 11:00pm A Very English Scandal 11:55pm A Very English Scandal 12:55am Everyday Eden: A Potted History of the Suburban Garden 1:55am Mcmafia 2:50am Mcmafia 3:50am Hidden Wales with Will Millard

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Murder, She Wrote ITV3 Nightscreen Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Heartbeat The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Inspector Morse The Royal Heartbeat Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Inspector Morse Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Agatha Christie's Poirot Liar A Touch of Frost Liverpool 1 ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

9:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 10:40am Frasier 11:05am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm A New Life in the Sun 2:05pm My Family Secrets Revealed 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Kirstie's Handmade Christmas 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 8:55pm The Political Slot 9:00pm Liam Bakes 9:30pm Food Unwrapped 10:00pm 24 Hours in A&E 11:00pm First Dates 12:05am Emergency Helicopter Medics 1:10am Ramsay's Hotel Hell 2:00am Obsessive Compulsive Country House Cleaners

8:45am Peppa Pig 8:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:05am Paw Patrol 9:25am Floogals 9:40am Digby Dragon 9:55am Shimmer and Shine 10:05am The Secret Life of Puppies 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pm Mr Christmas 1:45pm Neighbours 2:15pm My Christmas Love 4:00pm Christmas Catch 5:45pm 5 News at 5 6:00pm Friends 6:30pm Friends 7:00pm Neighbours 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Gallagher Premiership Rugby Highlights 9:00pm Police Interceptors 10:00pm Warship: Life at Sea 11:00pm The Sex Business 12:00am The Internship 2:15am Super Casino 4:10am Secrets of Great British Castles 5:00am Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink

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Teleshopping The Chase Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Ironside Pawn Stars Pawn Stars The Chase: Celebrity Special Rambo: First Blood Part II FYI Daily Rambo: First Blood Part II American History X FYI Daily American History X The Protectors Motorsport UK ITV4 Nightscreen

Justice League Dark Battleship Legion Sucker Punch The Last Samurai King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 7:00pm The Mummy 9:00pm The Terminator 11:00pm T2: Judgement Day 1:35am Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 3:30am Terminator Salvation

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Police Academy 6: City Under Siege Psych: the Movie Permanent Dear Dictator Little Nicky The House Bad Teacher Fred Claus Chips: Law and Disorder The House Bad Teacher Bowfinger

Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Brooklyn Nine-Nine Young Sheldon The Big Bang Theory Made in Chelsea The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Naked Attraction Gogglebox

Holly Star A Yeti Adventure The Grinch: Special The Greatest Showman Showstopping musical biopic about legendary 19th-century circus entrepreneur PT Barnum.

11:00am Katie Says Goodbye 12:45pm Maze Runner: The Death Cure 3:20pm In Darkness 5:20pm A Yeti Adventure 7:00pm The Greatest Showman Showstopping musical biopic about legendary 19th-century circus entrepreneur PT Barnum.

9:00pm Maze Runner: The Death Cure 11:30pm Katie Says Goodbye 1:10am In Darkness 3:10am Wonder Wheel 5:10am Holly Star

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Sky Sports News Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Good Morning Sports Fans Good Morning Sports Fans Good Morning Sports Fans Football Centre Football Centre Football Centre Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sky Sports News at 5 Sky Sports News at 6 Live Monday Night Football Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Live NFL: Minnesota @ Seattle

Football's Greatest EFL Greatest Games Football Years Play-Off Final Highlights One2eleven SPFL Greatest Games Football's Greatest Football Countdowns EFL Greatest Games Play-Off Final Highlights Football's Greatest Football Countdowns One2eleven One2eleven Football Years Football Countdowns Soccer Am Best Bits Football Countdowns Info not available EFL Goals: Championship Soccer Am Best Bits Play-Off Final Highlights Info not available SPFL Greatest Games Soccer Am Best Bits EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games

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Breakfast Defenders Homes Under the Britain's Secret A1: Britain's Longest Road Bargain BBC News at One BBC London Doctors The Doctor Blake Escape to the Country The Best Christmas Flog It!This edition Pointless BBC News at Six BBC London The One Show EastEnders Holby City Mrs Wilson BBC News at Ten BBC London The Apprentice Stacey Dooley in the USA Weather for the Week Ahead BBC News

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 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge RinderJudge 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal Northampton plays host to David and his dealers.

5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase Four more contestants face The Chaser.

7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm The Royal Variety Performance 2018 11:05pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:35pm ITV News London 11:50pm Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow 12:20am Lethal Weapon 1:15am Jackpot

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The Best Christmas Flog It! MasterChef: The BBC News at Victoria BBC Newsroom Politics Live Think TankBill Reel History of Britain Railways: The Making of a Nation Who Do You Think You Are? Gordon Buchanan: Elephant Family and Me Eggheads Put Your Money Richard Osman's House of Games Strictly: It Takes Two Celebrity Antiques Road Trip MasterChef: The Professionals School I'll Get This Newsnight NFL A Hotel for the Super Rich and Famous

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Christmas University Challenge 2017 9:00pm The Story of Wales Huw Edwards concludes an indepth history of Wales.

Huw Edwards concludes an indepth history of Wales. Wales changes rapidly from the 1940s onwards, as Aneurin Bevan battles to set up Britain's most cherished institution, the NHS. 10:00pm Rise of the Clans 11:00pm A Very English Scandal 12:00am The Jeremy Thorpe Scandal 1:00am The Men Who Built the Liners 2:00am Mcmafia 3:00am Mcmafia 4:00am Rise of the Clans

You've Been Framed Gold at Christmas Ninja Warrior UK Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show Planet's Got Talent Planet's Got Talent Britain's Got Talent Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show You've Been Framed!

You've Been Framed!

You've Been Framed!

You've Been Framed Gold at Christmas Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men The Holiday FYI Daily The Holiday Family Guy

7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 8:55am The Royal 9:55am Judge Judy 10:25am Judge Judy 10:50am Judge Judy 11:20am Inspector Morse 1:35pm The Royal 2:40pm Heartbeat 3:40pm Classic Coronation Street 4:15pm Classic Coronation Street 4:45pm Inspector 7:00pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Agatha Christie's Marple 11:00pm Liar 12:00am A Touch of Frost Frost investigates when a couple returning home from holiday find the body of a stranger 2:05am Liverpool 1

7:30am 3rd Rock from the Sun 7:55am 3rd Rock from the Sun 8:20am 3rd Rock from the 8:45am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 11:10am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:05pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 1:05pm A New Life in the 2:05pm My Family Secrets Revealed 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Kirstie's Handmade 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 8:55pm The Political 9:00pm Celebrity Lego Masters at Christmas 10:00pm 999: What's Your Emergency?

11:00pm Gogglebox 12:05am First Dates 1:10am Paul Heaton: From Hull to Heatongrad

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Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Ironside Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Made in Britain The Motorbike Executive Decision Action thriller FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment.

Executive Decision Action thriller The Sweeney Minder Comedy drama series.

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Fireman Sam Shane the Chef Peppa Pig Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Paw Patrol Floogals Digby Dragon Shimmer and Shine The Secret Life of Puppies Jeremy Vine Murder, She Baked: A Christmas Pudding Mystery Neighbours Christmas in Homestead Christmas by the Book 5 News at 5 Friends Neighbours 5 News Tonight Ultimate Strongman Team Challenge 2018 Our Yorkshire Farm Secrets of Ss Great Britain The Sex OAPs Behaving Badly

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Babylon A.D. Braven Collateral Red Sonja Marvel's Avengers Assemble 6:15pm Gone in 60 8:15pm Avatar 11:00pm Transformers: The Last Knight 1:40am Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Hollyoaks Mike and Molly Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang The Big Bang Tattoo Fixers Tattoo Fixers at Christmas 12:05am The Big Bang Theory 12:35am The Big Bang Theory 1:00am Naked

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11:25pm 7:00am Austin Found 8:50am The Competition 10:40am The Truth About Cats and Dogs 12:25pm Ferris Bueller's Day Off 2:15pm You've Got Mail 4:20pm The Back-Up Plan 6:10pm Bad Santa 7:55pm You've Got Mail 10:00pm Pretty Woman 12:05am T2: Trainspotting 2:10am City Slickers 4:10am The Nutty Professor

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Whatever happened to civil discourse?

ANGER: Better to listen and respond in a civil manner.

Barry Duke I DON’T normally quote favourably from religious publications, but a while back I set aside an unusually intelligent piece written for the Salvation Army’s The War Cry by Rivera Sun, who called for calm and civil language ahead of the US presidential election.

Sun wrote: ‘Discourse is the f o u n d a t i o n o f d e m o c r a c y. T h e ability to have a respectful and informed conversation about polit i c s - i n t h e p o s t o ff i c e , o u r homes, on the media, with friends, family or with total strangers - is essential for a society that prizes the ideals of liberty and freedom.

‘If we are not free to converse without being verbally assaulted, insulted and screamed at, what does that say about the content of our character? Is it really so hard to engage in the practices of be-

ing curious about our differences, asking questions, listening and responding in a sane and civil manner?’

Already things were hotting up, with Trump using the most obnoxious rhetoric to attack his opponents. We all see now, that a

president whose neck size exceeds his IQ has propelled America into a very dark place indeed, where a tsunami of intolerance has been unleashed against vast swathes of the population.

Pipe bombs being sent by one of his more deranged supporters

to people like Barack Obama and actor Robert De Niro, the massacre of 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue and the gassing of refugees, are the latest examples of the lunacy that has overtaken the country.

Meanwhile, Brexit has done immense damage to the UK, with discourse on both sides reaching unprecedented levels of hysteria.

I’ve nothing against sarcasm a n d i n s u l t s p e r s e , b u t i t ’s t h e poor quality of the language used which irritates me most.

Put-downs now being traded are completely lacking in subtlet y, w i t h t h e F - b o m b b e i n g dropped into every sentence.

Insults, of course, have been bandied about since biblical times. Elijah, for example, told the priests of Baal. ‘Perhaps your god is sleeping, or maybe he’s off relieving himself somewhere,’ he suggested (2 Kings 18:27).

Shakespeare was renowned for

his insults. ‘Thine face is not worth sunburning’, ‘Thou art as fat as butter ’ and ‘Thou art unfit for any place but hell.’

Centuries later, when boxer Joe Frazier said of Muhammad Ali ‘he’s a phoney, using his blackness to get his way,’ Ali retorted ‘Joe Frazier is so ugly he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.’

When Noel Coward told US writer and playwright Edna Ferber that she ‘almost looks like a man,’ she came back with ‘so do you.’

Actress Mae West said of a fella she met, that ‘his mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork’; and when a woman said to Winston Churchill ‘You’re drunk, and what’s more, you’re disgustingly drunk,’ he replied ‘You’re ugly, and what’s more, you’re disgustingly ugly.

But in the morning I shall be sober and you’ll still be ugly.’

Oh, for a return to a time when invective was at its most entertaining when people had a better command of the English language.

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By Barbara Belt barbarabelt@gmail.com HELLO from the Canary Islands, where this year we’re stepping very cautiously into the festive season after receiving sobering news.

‘Canaries, the place in Spain with the longest wait for surgery; five months!’ was the Diario de Avisos cheery headline on the last day of November.

This paper often provides the most objective Canarian news, being less restrained by ‘complex political considerations,’ or funding as it was previously called.

The worrying information did appear in other papers, cosily tucked away inside with articles on dog grooming and other non-news.

The Canarian press practices layout censorship. But there it was, the result of Ministry of Health national waiting list times, published the day before, blazoned in bold 100-point on the front page.

Spare a thought then for us during the festivities. Send us cautionary thoughts, reminding us to be careful, because should we hurt our-

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Beat the waiting lists…

NO WAITING: Alternative ways to beat the waiting times. selves, or suffer internal malfunctions and need a touch of tweaking, it’ll be five months before anybody gets involved in fixing us.

Gracious, we’ll have to hobble, crawl or clutch the defective part through till May. To be fair, the report said 147 days, which is marginally less, plus we’ll be the lucky recipients of loads of pharmaceuticals for pain

relief, along with complementary pharmaceuticals to minimise any side effects.

Nevertheless, I personally will be restraining myself from the usual wild, mid-winter dancing on the edge of precipices and brandy fortified Christmas immersions where enormous waves bash rocks.

I’ll resist all temptation to take part in New Year’s Eve bareback

gallops along aforementioned precipices.

Gaffer taping a broken tibia longterm is unappealing and precipices are legion in these parts, affording many opportunities for accidents to those inclined and, curiously, it seems that many of our visitors are.

Despite advice to the contrary (not much), and common sense (none) they do drop off edges with

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alarming regularity, often managing to seriously injure themselves and, the holiday to end all holidays, sometimes to kill themselves.

But investigations reveal no five month backlog of injured walkers, groaning in German, in Canarian hospital corridors.

Is their nationality relevant? I hear you ask. Well, possibly.

In Germany, as I’m sure you know, dangers are properly advertised. Large warning signs like ‘Danger! Precipice!’ tell you there’s a precipice. But what are you doing up there if you can’t see that for yourself?

Is it the absence of signs here which causes problems? Whatever it is, there are injuries and surgery is obviously alive, well and immediately available if they happen in a certain way. Bad backs and hernias don’t count, for example.

So here’s an alternative to waiting five months, which in festive mood I pass on to all: should you be here and have the misfortune to need surgery, local bearers must immediately carry you up a rockface and then abandon you. A helicopter will soon arrive and within an hour you’ll be in the operating theatre.

A Merry Christmas to us all and may we keep our wits about us!

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Being together is a life saver AS Christmas approaches I often think of those in the autumn of their years who for whatever reason, find themselves without friends and family around them.

Recently I read that being lonely is as bad for elderly people as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

The evidence suggests that people don’t eat as well when they are on their own, which can make them more vulnerable to kidney and heart problems.

While people are living longer, society has changed and extended family life is not as common as it used to be.

I hope you will help to promote social clubs for pensioners and activities that they can get involved in on the Costa del Sol. Nora Clarkson

Sorry Leapy I WILL indeed withdraw my statement and would like to send my sincere apologies to Leapy Lee. I am sorry I misread his comments when highlighting the Grenfell disaster.

The quote was: ‘To hear the moaning and whingeing of the evacuated you would have thought they would have preferred to chance an agonising death than be disturbed at that time of night.’

He was of course referring to a neighbouring tower block that was also evacuated, again very sorry for misreading his comments.

Ray Osborne

Barrelling in I WAS shocked to read about Malaga Council’s plan to employ a marksman to cull the city’s parakeets. I do understand that their numbers have grown out of control and that they impact on other birds and wildlife, but this just seems a little inhumane.

I personally prefer another method used to eradicate some overpopulated species; increasing numbers of their natural predators. In London, falcons used to be to help keep down the number of pigeons.

Some people may disagree with this but I think it is better to let nature take its course rather than having gunmen wandering through the streets.

Mrs A Ford

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BEAUTIFUL: Calle Larios, Malaga, Xmas 2017.

I JUST wanted to say thank you for your guide to upcoming Christmas events in last week’s Social Scene (Costa Del Sol issue 1743). My grandchildren always look forward to the turning on of the lights in Malaga and this year I will now be able to surprise them with a few more local events.

On the subject of Christmas lights, I was pleased to read that Malaga City Council was using LED lights in this year’s display. I imagine this measure will help to save costs for the taxpayer and also give us a much-needed reminder we should all be doing more to avoid waste, even during the festive period.

Mrs Sheila A Booth

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OUR VIEW

A call for order AS British Members of Parliament prepare to vote this Tuesday on the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal, many expatriates will be left wondering what the future holds due to ongoing uncertainty.

Many will no doubt welcome the repeated guarantees Theresa May has made to expatriates living in Spain and elsewhere in the European Union (EU).

These state that at least 300,000 expatriates living in Spain should, in theory, be able to continue living or working in the country as they did before Brexit.

The problem lies not in the details of the deal, but in its chances of being approved in Westminster. Scores of MPs including those from Labour, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and hard-line Conservative Brexiteers have said they are prepared to vote the deal down.

The British expatriate community is a broad church as far as Brexit is concerned. Many would have liked Britain to remain in the EU, while others are happy the country is leaving.

But all are equally entitled to feel secure about their future in Spain. While political posturing and threats may satisfy some MPs it is people here who are left worried about their homes, pensions and if their future here is secure.

Politicians should for the sake of all British citizens both at home and abroad focus on securing an orderly Brexit instead of playing fast and loose with people’s lives.

Now we want to hear your views.

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Spain is leading on migration at G20 summit I am not sure how accepting 47,000 migrants and then allowing them to cross into France and make their way to Calais to try to get to central London ... is leading the World.

May we know how many have been repatriated ?

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ANDALUCIA ELECTIONS: Ruling PSOE’s majority slashed as far right Vox party makes gains This is a reflection of the people’s opinion of the ruling elite that have plundered Andalucia for decades. I think it is a protest that should make all Spain wake up to the fact that they have been misled by the governing parties for too long.

Derek Robinson

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Public announcement from the Sales Director of EWN Media Group Proud to work in the best expat paper in Spain and I’m sure this new venture will only make things even better.

Nazario I am proud to have been part of the EWN family for more

COMMENTS FROM EWN ONLINE than eight years now and always look forward to seeing the paper hitting the streets. Here’s to another few years to enjoy this publication.

Maureen The EWN continues to grow from strength to strength, power in presence and publication across southern Spain with its tangible product as well as with the digital and social platforms opening the reading audience globally for all past residents, visitors and future visitors to the region to continue to keep up with the news.

Being part of the EWN family previously I continue to enjoy reading weekly, so far this year I have read and introduced new readers to the Euro Weekly in the UK, Sydney, Australia, Budapest and Transylvania, Romania, the heart of the South Pacific in New Caledonia as well as the USA, friends globally message me saying they still read despite only having spent the odd five minutes initially, why, because it’s more than a weekly, bi-weekly rag, it’s a people persons community publication and people read to keep up with both news and columnists, that pretty much speaks volumes!!!

The public have spoken, and the general consensus is that the Euro Weekly is by far the best in the region then yester-

day’s announcement makes absolute perfectly good sense!

Good luck (not that it is needed) in the future growing publications of the Euro Weekly News!

Harrison I really hope I can continue to get the EWN after the changes. I live in the UK and go to the Costa del Sol as often as I can, although it is getting increasingly difficult for me. As a pensioner and the crumbling UK financial situation since Brexit, I find I can only get down there for one week a year now. I would come to live there, but just can’t afford the initial outlay as I don’t have property here. Very sad!!

Anyway, I really enjoy reading EWN as I feel it brings me closer to the place I love and it’s good to keep up with what’s going on there.

Good luck in the new venture, I will stay a loyal reader and poster of certain articles on Facebook.

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The Euro Weekly family is working very hard to achieve the best result ever.

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The chance to travel seems exciting but can be made even more so by including a few people who are on your wavelength. So busy have you been on the more mundane aspects of life that the ‘big picture’ may have faded into the background.

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VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Does someone in the family need your attention?

Don’t begrudge time spent with them, even if you are busy. Consider what you would want others to do if you were in the same position. After all, you love a challenge so see this as a bit of a juggling act.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) With your enthusiasm socially at a peak, now is the time to get involved with anything that takes your fancy. A project involving music or painting will give you the chance to make new friends.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) This week will see more progress on a health issue.

Maybe you have recently given up something or taken to the gym. Recent weeks may have conspired to upset your best efforts. It is never too late to make a fresh start, though, especially right now. Someone who gives your confidence a boost also leads you to believe that anything is possible.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Avoid like the plague people who would dampen your spirit.

It may not be deliberate but, if you are near repressed or depressed people, it may rub off. Find positive, active people to be near.

If you have not started a form of exercise, then now is as good a time as any. Make it group activity if you want more social contacts.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Romance will find you this week if only you are in the right frame of mind. You may be inclined to refuse festive social gatherings that hold no prospects for you, but don't close the door on anything.

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Cryptic Across 7 Friend given card in royal residence (6) 8 A Brie I made from the peninsula (6) 9 Keep making a little dog (4) 10 Example of epic men’s makeup (8) 11 Rowing types, terrible moaners (7) 13 Put off in high-altitude terrain (5) 15 Old Peruvians of a certain caste! (5) 17 Returning paler, she loses heart to fall ill again (7) 20 Accommodation for American coins (8) 21 Where a camper sleeps is in contention (4) 23 Fancy cake outside exotic den (6) 24 Root cause of vehicle decay?

(6) Down 1 Loose cloak or carbon copy (4) 2 Sapper's new identity documents? (6) 3 Had plenty of food - but about a quarter had no food! (7) 4 Article I had submitted to editor helped (5)

5 Determine content of crude cider (6) 6 Enjoy Scottish loch portrait (8) 12 Declare Ann put on very little weight (8) 14 Poems about current fashion

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company (7) 16 A Liberal from overseas (6) 18 Possibly faster getting desert (6) 19 Poet has European facial feature (5) 22 Approval after turning on corner (4)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 5 represents C and 12 represents G, so fill in C every time the figure 5 appears and G every time the figure 12 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 Pleasant-smelling (8) 8 White heron (5) 9 Concur (5) 10 Inactive (4) 11 Sailplane (6) 13 Medical practitioner (6) 15 Elaborate song for solo voice (4) 18 Desist from (5) 19 Intermission (5) 20 Singer of folk songs (8)

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Across 1 Caliente (no frio) (4) 3 Piruleta (8) 9 Kidneys (7) 10 Limpio (5) 11 Asado (5) 12 Dill (6) 14 Burbujeante (6) 16 Bitter (in taste) (6) 19 To grow (6) 21 Dirt (5) 24 Bendecir (5) 25 Beehive (7) 26 Tan pronto como (2,4,2) 27 Silk (4)

Down 2 Relating to the countryside (5) 3 Movable barrier in a fence or wall (4) 4 Capable of being farmed productively (6) 5 Weary (5) 6 Drunk (10) 7 Publication that appears at fixed intervals (10) 12 Formal and dignified (6) 14 State to be true or existing (5) 16 Established line of travel or access (5) 17 Pimple (4)

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

Down 1 Guardarropa (8) 2 Income (from property) (5) 4 Ostra (6) 5 Milk (5) 6 To catch (7) 7 Fist (4) 8 Useless (person) (6) 13 Slap (8) 15 Barriles (7) 17 Mascullar (6) 18 Paintbrush (decorating) (6) 20 Basket (5) 22 Gansos (5) 23 Work (4)

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

AFFORD ASCENT BETONY BIOPSY CENTER CORDON COTTON (10) CUPFUL FRAYED FROSTY HIDDEN MICRON POUNCE PYRITE SCHOOL SIERRA SUFFER SUNDER VERBAL

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Coarse 2 Larvae 3 Locate 4 Tallow 5 Rookie 6 Breezy 7 Vestal 8 Tinkle 9 Armful 10 Single 11 Gentry 12 Effort 13 Ginkgo 14 Memoir 15 Floury 16 Shaken 17 Typify 18 Cougar 19 Stroll.

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• 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.

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Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.

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TARGET: • Average: 19 • Good: 27

• Very good: 39 • Excellent: 50

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

Average: 7 Good: 9 Very good: 14

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Excellent: 18

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QUICK Across: 1 Proboscis, 5 Nudge, 7 Sober, 9 Dear, 10 Cannon, 12 Sweden, 13 Fake, 15 Radio, 16 Clean, 18 Regarding.

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Across:

1 Thrush, 4 Bairns, 9 Rangoon, 10 Sonic, 11 Alert, 12 Explore, 13 Clandestine, 18 Lioness, 20 Apple, 22 Snaps, 23 Radiant, 24 Sadden, 25 Serene.

1 Cliffs, 4 Chupar, 9 Realeza, 10 Glove, 11 Ahead, 12 Ternera, 13 Hermanastro, 18 Apostar, 20 Etapa, 22 Tease, 23 Outside, 24 Spokes, 25 Granja.

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Down:

1 Tarzan, 2 Range, 3 Shorten, 5 Aesop, 6 Run-down, 7 Sacred, 8 Unnecessary, 14 Leopard, 15 Twaddle, 16 Blasts, 17 Gentle, 19 Elsie, 21 Plane.

1 Cargar, 2 Image, 3 Freedom, 5 Hogar, 6 Proveer, 7 Ruedas, 8 Waiting room, 14 Enojado, 15 Sweeter, 16 Mantas, 17 Bañera, 19 These, 21 Avion.

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QUIZ: YOUNG AND OLD 1. By what name is the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales in London more commonly known?

2. In which 1944 Frank Capra film does Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant), a writer who has repeatedly denounced marriage as ‘an old fashioned superstition’, fall in love with Elaine Harper (Priscilla Lane), the minister's daughter who grew up next door to him?

3. In which decade was BBC TV’s iconic, non-chart music programme the Old Grey Whistle Test first broadcast?

4. In which US state is Salt Lake City, where Brigham Young and his Mormon followers first settled in July 1847?

5. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical poems by which Nobel Prize winning, USborn, British poet?

6. Singer-songwriter/actor Will Young first came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of which ITV talent contest?

7. Unchained Melody and The Man from Laramie were both UK number one hit singles in 1955 for which BBC DJ/radio personality?

8. Which anarchic 1980s British sitcom featured the characters Mike, Rick, Vyvyan and Neil?

9. Which Ernest Hemingway short story, first published in 1952, tells the story of Santiago, an ageing Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba?

10. Which worldwide organisation, now based in Geneva, was founded in June 1844 by George Williams in London and aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy ‘body, mind, and spirit’?

Not a lot of people know that… the phrase ‘angry young men’ was originally coined by the Royal Court Theatre's press officer in order to promote John Osborne’s 1956 play ‘Look Back in Anger.’

Answers: 1. OLD BAILEY, 2. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, 3. 1970s (1971), 4. UTAH, 5. T S (Thomas Stearns) ELIOT, 6. POP IDOL, 7.

JIMMY YOUNG, 8. THE YOUNG ONES, 9. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, 10. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YMCA)

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*Gary Lineker, Ex-footballer; November 30, *Britney Spears, Pop singer; December 2. 36 57 The superstar’s first two albums, Baby One The legendary striker, who played for the More Time and Oops, I Did it Again, both sold English national team from 1984 to 1992, over 20 million copies worldwide. She released another six albums from 2001 to 2013 and became the country’s all-time top scorer in the FIFA World Cup finals after scoring a starred in her film debut Crossroads in 2002.

Ozzy Osbourne. remarkable 10 goals. Since retiring, he has *Ozzy Osbourne, Heavy metal singer; forged a successful career as a sports commentator.

December 3, 69 *Bette Midler, Singer and actress; December 1, 72 The Black Sabbath frontman became known as the Prince of Darkness and the Godfather of Heavy Metal. He Midler has sold more than 30 million records worldwide, earning herself the stage name The Divine Miss M, and married X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne in 1982 and the biggest hit is ‘Wind Beneath My Wings.’ Her films they split in 2016. include Down and Out in Beverley Hills, Get Shorty, *Jeff Bridges, Movie actor; December 4, 68 The actor starred as Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski in the 1998 Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune and Hocus Pocus.

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cult classic The Big Lebowski and earned an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Otis ‘Bad’ Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart. *Little Richard, Rock singer; December 5, 85 The ‘Good Golly Miss Molly’ hitman was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He infused gospel tones with blues music during his performances as a teenager, and performed onstage when he was 14. *Andrew Flintoff, Cricket player; December 6, 40 Retired English all-rounder was named ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2004 and ICC Player of the Year in 2005.

He finished his Test career with more than 3,000 runs and 200 wickets taken. He retired from cricket in 2010.

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FROM the outside, a snowcovered cottage in the Cotswolds looks like an idyllic festive home, but inside waits the body of local writer Leonora Jewell.

When Melissa Craig visits the area to enjoy her first winter there, she is asked to complete Jewell’s final book. Staying in her cottage, Craig finds a gruesome discovery overlooked by the police; a metal bar covered in blood.

Police refuse to take seriously Craig’s claims this could be linked to the murder and she is left to finish her book. As she goes through Leonora’s notes, though, she begins to wonder whether the writer accidentally laid the way for her own murder.

Doing some digging of her own, Melissa uncovers some unsavoury locals who she begins to suspect. But can she solve the case before the killer strikes again?

Murder on a Winter Afternoon is the fifth book in the Melissa Craig series by Betty Rowlands.

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1884 - Monument complete One of the world’s most iconic structures, the Washington Monument was completed.

1917 - Halifax explosion The largest man-made explosion in the pre-atomic era takes place when a French munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, collides with another vessel in Halifax, Canada.

1921 - Free state Following five years of Irish struggle for independence from Britain, an Irish Free State is declared.

1936 - Stepping down After less than a year on the throne, Edward VIII becomes the first ever English monarch to voluntarily abdicate.

1941 - Pearl Harbour America joined the Second World War after a surprise attack by the Japanese on the American naval base at Pearl Harbour.

1945 - Bermuda Triangle Five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers became lost in the Bermuda Triangle during a routine training mission. A search plane dispatched to rescue the men also became lost.

1975 - East Timor Indonesia launches a largescale invasion of the former Portuguese part of the island of Timor, near Australia.

1980 - Shock shooting One of the most famous pop stars in history John Lennon was killed by an obsessed fan in New York City.

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PICTURE the scene; candles lit, a warm bath gently soothing away your cares, perhaps even a glass of wine.

Baths are synonymous with winter comfort and may offer the perfect way to relax as the nights draw in.

In fact, regular baths have even been shown to lower stress levels, aid blood pressure and perhaps even boost our immune systems. But how do you make sure you get the most out of your ‘me’ time?

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So why not take advantage of the many products on the market and treat yourself this festive season?

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For those looking for a sensory experience, a pure bath oil can offer an intense hit of aromatherapy using natural products, which can again offer a range of mood-enhancing benefits depending on your preference.

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Staphylococcus epidermis grows naturally on our skin and is normally harmless, but experts claim the bacteria is mutating to defend itself against antibiotics, leaving us more vulnerable to infection.

The bug, which is similar to the hospital superbug MRSA, can make its way into an open wound after surgery, causing infection. Scientists at the University of Bath are now urging doctors to identify patients who may be more vulnerable to infection and work to prevent or quickly treat any issue.

Professor Sam Sheppard from Bath’s Milner Centre for Evolution said: “Staphylococcus epidermis is a deadly pathogen in plain sight.” He added: “It’s always been ignored clinically because it has

RESEARCH FOUND: Bacteria on our skin is becoming resistant to antibiotics. frequently been assumed that it was a contaminant in lab samples, or it was simply accepted as a known risk of surgery.”

Professor Sheppard noted: “Post-surgical infections can be incredibly serious and fatal,” adding, “infection accounts for almost a third of deaths in the

UK so I believe we should be doing more to reduce risk if we can.”

The scientist concluded: “If we can identify who is most at risk of infection, we can target those patients with extra hygiene precautions before they undergo surgery.”

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Beauty baubles WHAT do you give the beauty aficionado who has it all? Why, a beauty bauble, of course.

Not content with bringing us the beauty advent calendar, companies are now rolling out another must-have Christmas gift in the form of cosmetic products designed to be hung from the tree.

Depending on your preference, you can buy coloured globes of shower gel, triangular decorations containing miniature candles, or cubes holding skincare essentials.

Some canny sellers have even created crackers, hiding popular products.

These novelties range from stockingfiller prices to blow-the-budget expense.

If you want to get in on the trend this Christmas, check out the selection of baubles from boots.com, from The Sanctuary’s ‘Spa Shooting Star Shower Duo’, £6 (€6.75), to Maybelline’s ‘Super Slay Nails Gift Set ’ bauble, £8 (€9), which contains a top coat, and a festive-appropriate deep red shade.

For sleep-deprived beauty experts who knows their way around a quality

product, why not gift the This Works ‘Sleep Tight’ bauble from spacenk.com? The hexagonal decoration contains three miniature bedtime rescue remedies; a ‘deep sleep’ pillow spray, the ‘sleep plus’ pillow spray and a ‘deep sleep stress check’ roll on for £13 (€14.70).

Overworked mums and dads will likely appreciate this year’s Christmas offering from Cowshed. The square decoration contains two relaxing products; the ‘Knackered Cow Bath & Shower Gel’ and body lotion, containing eucalyptus and lavender oils to calm the mind and body for £12 (€13.50), spacenk.com.

Impress selfie-loving teens with Instagram-friendly Becca ‘Shimmering Skin Perfector Champagne Pop Mini Ornament’ for £16 (€18.10), spacenk.com.

Or, try the Maybelline ‘Pout of This World’ bauble, £10 (€11.30), boots.com, containing a lip gloss and lip liner.

For the true beauty connoisseur and lover of luxury, splash out on Diptyque ‘Surprise Pocket L’Ombre dans

L’eau & Baie’. This pyramid shaped decoration, costing £38 (€43) from spacenk.com, contains miniatures of two of the iconic brand’s most popular fragrances, as well as a travel-sized candle.

Finally, if you like the idea of individual crackers on the table, the Caudalie ‘Vinosource Christmas Cracker’, £10 (€11.30), spacenk.com, contains three small products and is sure to bring cheer to your festive place settings.

CHRISTMAS: Finding the perfect gift for a beauty-lover.

CRACKERS: This Caudalie decoration contains three gifts.

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HEALTH & BEAUTY

Year round WHILE it may feel like winter is the one time you can take a break from using a daily SPF, the reality is, everyone can benefit from wearing sun protection year-round.

The two rays delivered by the sun - UVA and UVB - both work differently.

While UVB absorbed in moderate quantities can offer a series of health benefits, including helping our bodies create vitamin D, as well as working as a mood enhancer, and treating some skin conditions, UVA offers no such benefits.

In fact, UVA rays penetrate deeper, simply damage the skin, causing premature wrinkles and increasing the risk of skin cancer.

UVB, while potentially helpful in small amounts, also dramatically increases the risk of cancer.

Even on a cloudy day, UV rays can still reach the skin so make sure to wear a daily SPF protection, ideally factor 30 or above, and top up frequently throughout the day.

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FURTHER to being the leading British private medical clinic on the Costa Blanca, Medcare was also one of the first British dental clinics in the area.

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WE all know that in winter we should take care to ensure our skin does not become too dry.

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Next, apply a heavy duty hand cream or barrier cream regularly throughout the day.

The more often you do this, the stronger your skin’s natural barrier will become. Some of the best products are petroleum jelly and creams designed for eczema.

For a more intense hit of moisture, slather your hands in

product and wear a pair of gloves over the top, overnight.

For the skin on your face you may be less inclined to walk around with noticeably shiny lotions or creams on.

Too heavy a product could clog your skin’s pores, leading to breakouts. Take care of the delicate skin on your face by avoiding washing with water that is too hot, and limit the use

of exfoliants until your skin is back to normal.

Try using a special facial oil which will hydrate without being greasy, followed by a rich moisturiser designed for the face.

Nourish your skin from the inside, by upping your intake of water and consuming more Omega 3 oils found in oily fish, pumpkin seeds or supplements.

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Taj Mahal Benimar - quality at every turn

FROM the first moment you set eyes on the Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant prominently located on the corner of the Urbanisation Benimar, one word just hits you, and that’s ‘quality’.

As you walk through the doors, receive the warmest and friendliest of welcomes, be shown to your table and see the wonderful decor with the feeling of space inside, you know that the quality will extend to the cuisine itself.

Now established for 14 years, the Taj Mahal in Benimar was the first Indian Restaurant to open in the area and it quickly became the Nº1 choice for people living in Benimar, Benijofar and Ciudad Quesada.

The Taj Mahal underwent a major refurbishment back in 2017, which included a Tandoor Clay oven in the outside area of the kitchen extension so customers can watch their own Tandoori dishes and Naan Breads being cooked if they so wish, and learn just what’s involved at the hands of some of the most experienced chefs brought over from India.

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All main courses can be either lamb, beef, or chicken and made to the strength of your

choice, from Kormas, Jalfrezis, Baltis and other specialities of the house such as Karahi or the very popular Handi, which is made from your chosen meat and cooked in a sauce of garlic, ginger, red chilli, and coriander.

For something different, why not try Chicken Kofta; minced balls of chicken with onions, ginger and served with yoghurt.

The Taj Mahal Biryanis are becoming increasing popular when customers experience their unique taste. Not only is the rice and meat cooked together as normal, it is then placed in the Tandoor to bring out the intense flavours of the dish.

It takes a little longer to prepare, but is well worth the wait.

The extensive and clearly laid-out menu also has a selection of vegetarian dishes to suit all tastes too. There is a special threecourse lunchtime menu priced at €9.95 and available every day between 12 noon and 4pm (except Monday) and a two-course evening special at €11.95. Both include a drink.

A full takeaway service is on offer, and spend €20 or more to receive a complimentary bottle of wine.

The Taj Mahal is open every day from 12 noon to midnight (open 6pm on Monday) and includes Christmas and New Year ’s Day as well.

As the proud owner of the Taj Mahal says, “there is no doubt that being in business for over 14 years is proof of our quality, professionalism and loyalty of our customers who come back again and again.”

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This week Celebrity Chef from Ready Steady Cook & Fellow Master Chef Steven Saunders, proprietor of The Little Geranium in La Cala shares a special Christmas recipe.

I’m dreaming of a White Chocolate Christmas!

Steven Saunders FMCGB The Little Geranium La Cala de Mijas & Marbella

www.thelittlegeranium.com WHEN I was younger I had borrowed hundreds of thousands to invest into my first restaurant (The Pink Geranium).

I was concerned about how to make it a viable project financially but almost immediately employed a top quality pastry chef (dessert chef) because desserts are not my strongest point!

A few months later my pastry chef fell seriously ill and I had to take over that section as well as running the whole kitchen. I had to literally learn how to make high level desserts and I searched high and low for recipes and ideas and I taught myself how to pull sugar, how to make honeycomb for crispy decoration, how to use dried ice and how to make gels to create glossy, shiny fin-

ishes which are very much on trend even nowadays.

The Pink Geranium was a hit pretty quickly and very soon we started to see the food guides hovering around us and the celebrities poured in. I have served this dessert to many of my clients over the years, including Pierce Brosnan who reluctantly ordered it saying… bang goes my diet!

He was about to take on the role as the new James Bond and in his soft Irish accent he asked me if I have ever seen a fat James Bond. I assured him that he wasn’t fat, in fact he looked great and that the calories for this dessert were worth it and he actually agreed! Would you like another slice Pierce? Lol. All year around I try my best to avoid unnecessary calories. I love chocolate though and so it’s nearly impossible especially at this time of year, we should eat what we want at Christmas… right?

I created this special cheesecake after spending hours of playing around with white chocolate to create something amazing. It encapsulates every-

PIERCE BROSNAN: Bang goes the diet!

thing that a chocolate lover needs and wants and has a Christmas theme, so it’s a great alternative to the traditional Christmas pudding.

That doesn’t mean that you make this instead but you should consider making it as well as the traditional pudding, its better to have some choices. My mother who was a great cook always made three desserts for Christmas Day and we always finished them off on Boxing Day, just as it should be! (One of them was always a Christmas trifle and I will share that recipe with you soon) I promise that this is the best cheesecake you will ever eat and one of the easiest desserts to make. When you make it you should take full credit for it, saying, ‘well I played around with white chocolate and this is what I came up with!’

However I am also happy for you to say that I’ve shown you this recipe personally because it feels as though I have! I am going to be sharing lots more Christmas recipes in the coming weeks so watch this space. I am happy to be your online chef, so if you need me, just email me.

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• 200 grams digestive biscuits • 75 grams butter (melted) • 300 grams white chocolate • 280 millilitres double cream • 500 grams soft cheese (fullfat, such as Philadelphia) • 200 grams of mixed dried fruits (cranberries, apricots (cut into small pieces) sultanas, glace cherries) • 100g of glace sweet cherries (in jar) • 100g of cooked chestnuts (you can find these in most supermarkets) • 100g of dark choc broken into small pieces • 100g of white chocolate pieces • 2 tablespoons of icing sugar • 3 leaves of gelatine softened in a little cold water

Method 1. Mi x t h e c r u sh e d b is c u its with the melted butter and tip the mixture into a lined 20cm springform cake tin and smooth down with the back of a metal spoon.

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Dreamy White Chocolate Christmas cheesecake

WHITE CHOCOLATE: An amazing dessert.

2. Pop it in the fridge to keep cool while you make the topping.

3. Melt the white chocolate in a bowl over some gently simmerin g w a te r, b e in g c a re ful not to overheat it otherwise it will be ru-

ined.

4. B e a t the c re a m a nd Philadelphia c he e s e in a bow l until smooth.

5. H e a t a little c re a m (a bout one tablespoon) and add the three le a ve s of ge la tine (s ofte ne d in cold water for a few minutes first).

Now pass it through a sieve into the melted white chocolate and whisk quickly in.

6. Stir the melted white choc mix into the creamy, cheese mix.

7. Scatter dried cranberries,

glace cherries, apricots, cherries and sultanas into the mix.

8. Add the choc pieces and stir in well with a spatula.

9. Add the chestnuts and stir well in.

10. Pour t he m i x i nt o t he springform tin which is lined with digestive biscuit base 11. Chill for at least six hours or preferably overnight before cutting.

Chef’s Note Cut it with a warm knife for best results. You could serve it with a dark chocolate sauce or a toffee s auc e . I l ove i t wi t h t he t of f ee sauce see below.

Quick home-made toffee sauce 110 g butter 250 g light brown sugar 225 ml double cream 1/2 tsp vanilla extract or fresh vanilla seeds

1. Put the butter in a saucepan set over a high heat and melt.

2. Add the sugar and stir well for approximately 4-5 minutes, stirring regularly.

3. Add the cream (or you can use condensed milk) and whisk in the vanilla.

4. Whisk the sauce until it has thickened. Pass if lumpy. Serve warm.

You can email Steven your questions or enquiries to: steven@thelittlegeranium.com.

Steven Saunders FMCGB - The Little Geranium, La Cala de Mijas & Marbella. www.thelittlegeranium.com

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Jobs fit for a queen AFTER attending a glittering gala banquet at Madrid’s Royal Palace it was back to business for Queen Letizia last Thursday as she took part in a series of workshops in the Spanish capital.

The Spanish queen, 46, joined Labour Minister M a g d a l e n a Va l e r i o t o mark the 40th anniversary of the National Employment Institute at the palace.

Letizia looked typically sharp in a belted grey coat

teamed with a pussybow blouse and flared trousers, with her hair worn in her signature side parting.

She began her day by meeting the President of the National Heritage Board of Directors, Alfredo Perez de Arminan, before attending the workshops which included saddlery, binding, moving goods and gardening.

At the end of the engagement, Letizia spoke to students from the institute.

REGAL STYLE: Queen Letizia was promoting employment.

The only way is marriage JAMES ARGENT has big plans for 2019, revealing recently that he’ll propose to girlfriend Gemma Collins within the next year.

Moreover, he is thinking about sunnier climes for the nuptials, saying: “We love the idea of getting married in Es-

sex or Brighton as they’re both special places to us, or we might go abroad and do it in Spain or Italy.”

While the marriage may be on the cards, Gemma, 37, is not feeling rushed and does not plan to have a baby until at least 40.

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Elsa is a siren SHE portrays the darkly enigmatic leader of a group of siren-human hybrids in upcoming Netflix series Tidelands, and this week Spanish actress Elsa Pataky, 42, praised the show for having strong female characters and embracing gender equality.

The mother of three, who lives in Byron Bay, Australia, with husband Chris Hemsworth, said: “I’m not saying the men’s characters are not s t ro n g , I ’ m j u s t s a y i n g they’re very equal. “ I t ’s g o o d t o s e e s t o ries like that right now.”

The former model who was born in Madrid, also said she felt particularly connected to the mythology surrounding sirens, saying she “grew up with them.”

Last month, Elsa revealed that s t a r r i n g i n Ti d e l a n d s h a d b e e n a positive experience for her marriage.

She said being on set again had allowed her and husband Chris, 36, to

focus on things outside family life and bond over their shared love of acting.

SPANISH SIREN: Elsa Pataky.

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Time to sing along again THIS year ’s ‘Carols in the Square’ is on Friday, December 14 from 5.30pm in the Plaza de la Constitucion in front of Torrevieja’s La Inma c ula da C onc e pc ion church.

The laser light display is being put on once again by Torrevieja Town Hall, Along with snow generated by a special machine to put everyone in the Christmas mood, together with the fa mous B e le n na tivity scene, there will also be a s ta ll s e lling mulle d w ine with all proceeds going to charity.

This popular international carol concert is expected to attract more than 3,000 people, and a number of local choirs will be there to lead the s inging, inc luding: U3A, Velvetones, Studio 32, C re s c e ndo, A nda nte , Cantabile, TAABS, De Costa Shantys and many others.

The Phoenix International Concert Band, with guest players, will be providing a popular programme of music to entertain the audience and will be accompanying the carols for everyone to sing along to.

The re w ill be w ords available to the carols so please come along on Friday, December 14 and join in with the singing.

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CHOSEN: APANEE will benefit from this year’s Carol Concert. choirs still wishing to be included this year, please contact Gloria on 679 576 591 for more details.

Likewise, any musicians w is hing to pla y w ith the band please call Gloria or come along to rehearsals for the carols on Tuesdays at 1.30pm be ne a th the B ibliote c a /Libra ry in Sa n Miguel de Salinas.

APANEE, the association

for parents of children with special educational needs in Torrevieja, is the main charity chosen to benefit from the event this year.

Repr esent at i ves of t he charity will move through the crowds on the evening to make collections on behalf of APANEE and will be easi l y i dent i f i ed by t hei r charity logo on their clothing and collection boxes.

Please give generously to this worthy charity for children with congenital or acquired physical and mental disabilities.

Members of the Phoenix International Concert Band spent time with APANEE last week at their premises i n Tor r evi ej a wher e t hey met a number of children as well as staff and carers, who do a fantastic job.

Amata Fair in San Fulgencio SAN FULGENCIO will be hosting the Amata Craft Fair over the weekend of December 15 and 16 in the town hall square, giving people living in the south of the Alicante Province a chance to buy some original handmade gifts for Christmas.

Amata specialises in superb individual craft work, with no cheap imports or factory made products, everything must be handmade by those taking part in the fair.

Not only that, the organisers also make sure that every stall offers something different, so you can find something very different, ranging from handwoven shawls and vests, colourful boots and shoes, ceramics, patchwork, crocheted cuddly toys, small pieces of furniture and decorations.

The fair opens from 11am to 9pm, closing earlier on the Sunday.

INDIVIDUAL: A hand-crafted chess set.

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Law change will affect spouses A NEW Spanish law will require both parties in a married couple to agree before selling a property, even if the home is in just one name.

This change will apply to any property which serves as the main residence for a couple, and limits the freedom of the spouse who is the sole owner of a home to sell or rent it.

The law is designed to protect families, placing the needs of the unit above those of either partner in a marriage, and will only apply to those who married in a civil or church ceremony.

Salvador Salcedo, partner in the law firm Atico Juridico, told ide alista.com, the law is aimed to safeguard the family home and prevent one family member making a decision which could adversely affect others.

He added the regulation would not apply to situations where there had been a marital dispute, as this is already covered by an-

MARRIED COUPLES: Must both consent to selling a property.

other law governing the use of a family home in the event of separation and divorce.

Salcedo explained: “A part of the Supreme Court’s decision has at heart the principle of equality, which comes into play both when choosing a house and when deciding whether to keep it.”

He said the new law would ensure any spouse whose name is not on a deed, ‘tolerates or grants their approval to an act carried out by another to which they are not a party.’

If no consent is given, a notary can refuse to authorise the transfer of a property without face-toface confirmation one party is happy to go ahead, or by power of attorney from the non-owner spouse. If a sale takes place without the consent of a notary, the land registrar will now refuse to register a property.

Salcedo confirmed the new law will apply not just to sale of property, but also if it is given away.

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Record month for property sales in November WITH Christmas around the corner, a fantastic month for the Swedish estate agency Fastighetsbyrån was capped off by a monthly sales record with 39 sales during the month for the Costa Blanca South offices.

The Swedish love affair with the area shows no sign of abating and Sweden’s largest estate agency is reaping the rewards.

The company’s success is owed to its four core values which have underpinned the record results: Professionalism, openness, innovativeness and attentiveness, all tied together by a fantastic team.

Professionalism: All the company’s employees take a three-month course focussed on the Spanish property market’s latest trends and its legal framework as well as how to consistently provide top-class service to clients.

Openness: Transparency has always been at the heart of the agency’s work in Spain with all properties listed fully checked to

REWARDS: Fastighetsbyran’s premises in La Zenia. ensure there are no surprises for buyers and sellers alike.

Innovativeness: With 360º tours and drone photos the company always makes sure it is at the cutting edge of technical innovation in property.

Attentiveness: Relationships are key in the property industry, Fastighetsbyrån ensure they keep their clients informed every step of

the way.

This year the agency is celebrating its 10th year anniversary in Spain during which time it has gone from strength to strength with their Spanish office network currently taking in 20 offices in addition to their 250 offices in Sweden.

The Torrevieja office was one of the first offices opened by the company in Spain and has become one

of the largest agencies in the area averaging 400 sales a year.

At the time the office opened, Spain was dealing with the aftermath of one of the biggest crises in the property market’s history which had some of its roots in the unscrupulous and unprofessional state of the Spanish property industry leading up to the bust.

Fastighetsbyrån’s focus has been

to help create a new, professional and transparent property sector with attention on the rights of buyers and sellers and a dedication to making sure that Spanish law and company policy is applied to every listing and sale.

This safeguards not only the buyer and seller but also the company which has a long-term vision for its Spanish department and a responsibility to uphold the image of its parent company in Sweden.

The latest results are just further proof that the work the agency is doing is paying dividends and sets up what will surely be a recordbreaking 2019.

Are you thinking of selling or know someone who is? Why not contact Fastighetsbyrån for advice and a free valuation!?

You can visit them at one of their four offices located in Torrevieja, Ciudad Quesada, La Zenia and Torre de la Horadada or call +34 966 925 281 or email torrevie ja@fastighetsbyran.se.

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Stable investment

By Sally Underwood THE head of a major real estate company has praised the stability of Spain’s property market.

David Vila, the CEO of Renta Corporacion, told idealista.com the country continues to pull in foreign investment, ‘attracted by opportunity.’

He said: “After the important recession which Spain experienced, there came a time when investors believed that the country had reached rock bottom and there was a certain opportunity.” Vila added: “They began to re-energise a market which had lost any kind of momentum.”

The expert explained the boom was because “Investment follows when it sees there is a gap. The second quarter of 2013 in Spain was the moment when investment began to follow.” He claimed this had led to a period of sta-

SPAIN’S MARKET: Continues to be strong according to David Vila (inset). bility in the property market, saying he thought Spain was in, ‘a period of stabilisation.’

He added: “The period of greatest growth in this cycle has belonged to 2016, 2017 and possibly 2018. We will continue to grow, but in a more stable manner. We see good prospects for the sector in the next three or four years.” Assuaging any con-

cerns about a second property bubble, the CEO explained: “In our opinion it does not exist. There has been a process of recovery from a period of significant recession.”

He added there was still room for market growth, explaining: “The figures we have, show it has not yet recovered to the maximum prices prior to the crisis.”

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Falling at the last fence Cassandra Nash A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

GIBRALTAR residents, according to the Daily Mail, ‘mocked’ Pedro Sanchez’s claim of victory over Spain’s recent Brexit spat as ‘fake news.’

To a certain extent it was a victory because Spain’s ‘prior agreement’ will be needed on matters concerning Gibraltar, although this was confirmation of the existing agreement rather than a concession.

And it was a foregone conclusion that poor Teresa May would say yes to practically anything that Sanchez wanted, to avoid falling at the last fence in the EU obstacle course.

Esp e c i a l l y wh e n s h e k n ew th at th e Grand National was waiting for her back home.

Cold comfort for old cure DANI MATEO is described as a humourist alth o u g h a n y o n e w h o w atc h es G ra n Wyoming’s programme El Intermedio can

Nick Horne The Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England IAN FLEMING creator of James Bond, owned a Bentley, and the car is thought to have inspired him to equip his secret agent with such a car in his 1961 novel, Thunderball.

The car that James Bond ‘loved more than all the women at present in his life’ is one of Bentley’s most iconic, and is said to be the design inspiration behind the all-new Continental GT Convertible, the sister to the new Coupe, and priced to start at just £175,000.

While the official launch has been pushed back to coincide with the centenary celebrations of the marque in 2019, the convertible has been revealed.

The convertible’s roof sweeps open in just 19 seconds to reveal the luxurious handcrafted interior.

Heated seats, heated armrests, neckwarmers and even a heated steering wheel option provide a luxurious driving experience, in all but the harshest environments, at which point the stylish Z-fold roof may have to be deployed.

Unmistakably a Bentley, this third generation Continental GT Convertible is pushed to a to p sp e e d o f 3 3 3k p h (2 0 7 mp h ) an d from 0 to 100kph (60 mph) in just 3.8 seconds by the 635PS W12 engine and eightspeed dual-clutch transmission, augmented by the latest developments in chassis technologies.

The profile of the convertible is longer and lower than its predecessor, as the front wheels are 135mm further forward which

Choice of friends JUAN CARLOS I, who abdicated in favour of his son Felipe more than two years ago, was photographed hobnobbing with Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

Juan Carlos has always been on good terms with the Saudis and has supposedly helped Spain to pull off some very juicy arms and civil engineering contracts.

see that he’s a satirist.

He’s in big trouble because of a sketch where he allegedly insults the Spanish flag in a mock homage to Frenadol, Spain’s go-to cure for a cold and is now being prosecuted for hate crime.

Reverently intoning its contents he finishes with an almighty sneeze and wipes his nose on the nearest thing to hand, a Spanish flag, before realising in mock horror what he’s just done.

Credit: Twitter/Saudi Foreign Ministry

HOBNOBBING: Former king with Saudi Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince is in hot water right now, but presumably the Rey Emeritus isn’t fussy about socialising with someone with no qualms about disposing of the journalists who diss him.

Hastily gabbling Sana sanita he then kisses it better as a Spanish mother does when a toddler hurts itself.

It wasn’t Mateo’s best sketch and he knew what to expect, but the nose-wiping has been taken out of context.

Called before a Madrid judge, he refused to declare but said before entering that he found it worrying that a ‘clown was being taken to court for doing his job.’

The Spani sh nat i onal i st s ar e besi de themselves with wounded patriotism, but the manufacturers Frenadol, who should al so be out r aged, haven’t com pl ai ned about the implication that it doesn’t work.

Not so simple arithmetic HACIENDA did its sums and Spain’s tax aut hor i t y f ound t hat t he unaut hor i sed Catalan referendum of October 1 last year cost €197,000, a long way off the €3 million that the previous government maintained.

St r i ct l y speaki ng, €615,717 was ‘compromised’ but in the way of governments worldwide, most of that was not paid.

Misappropriation of public funds is the charge that will get the remanded members of Cataluña’s previous government convicted, rather than rebellion. Ironically, it is below €250,000 and means they face lowish sentences.

Makes you wonder if it was all worth it when weighed up against the cost of paying the board-and-lodging in chokey of Oriol Junqueras & Co for more than a year.

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REVEALED: The Continental GT Convertible has been unleashed. has allowed the bonnet to be extended and the nose to be lowered, further strengthening the face of the Bentley while the lines flow back to the muscular haunches at the rear.

Meanwhile the face of the Bentley Continental GT Convertible is adorned with jewels, and the design of the headlamps are the latest LED Matrix technology. Inspired by cut crystal glasses, the internal surfaces are tra n s p a re nt w ith s ha rply de fine d e dge s which catch the light like a diamond, a result which is not unlike an illuminated gem.

The tail-lights also feature the cut crystal effect.

The exquisite and endlessly customisable

interior is a showcase for all which Bentley offers in the use of materials and is displayed whenever the roof is lowered.

Over 10 square-metres of wood, sustainably sourced, is used in every car. The dashboard is long and flowing, discreetly packed with technology.

The 20-way adjustable seats set standards in comfort and refinement, smooth centre panels allow maximum efficiency for the ventilation, heating and massage functions, while the adjustable bolsters retain the signature Bentley quilting.

No less than three audio systems are available, the standard features 10 speakers and 650 watts while the Bang & Olufsen

features 16 speakers and 1,500 watts.

The Naim delivers 2,200 watts through no less than 18 speakers with active bass transducers built in to the front seats. Your driving play list never had it so good.

The driving experience is not neglected either. Through the Drive Dynamics Control system, different modes may be selected which modify the suspension, engine, gearbox and other chassis systems to match the sel ect ed dr i ve m ode; Spor t , Bent l ey or Comfort.

Vary the ride from limousine smooth, to sporting stiffness. Even James Bond may have chosen this car, given the chance.

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He was also involved in charitable activity in Spain and Britain and helped to found the Nottinghamshire Hospice in the latter country. He is married to his wife, Susan.

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ADOPTION: Faith needs a forever home on the Costa Blanca.

Faith is a beautiful Labrador-cross about two years old. She is very gentle and affectionate although can be a little nervous when she first meets you.

But, she quickly overcomes this. She is a medium sized dog, fully vaccinated and vet checked.

Faith was very much loved by her previous owners but sadly they were no longer able to care for her.

For more information on Faith or any of the animals over at K9 Club in Alicante, please call 600 845 420.

ADOPTION: Wiggly Scooby needs a forever home on the Costa Blanca.

A German Short-Haired Pointer, Scooby is one of the most wiggly dogs the team at Akira in Benissa have come across.

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Scooby is vaccinated, microchipped and treated for parasites.

He is waiting for you at Akira in Benissa on the Costa Blanca.

To meet Scooby, phone Akira 657 689 567.

communication, feeding and behaviour. He is also an honorary life member of the British Police Services Canine Association.

His professional life began with a career in Israel’s Border Police K9

Dog Section which saw him take part in air-sea rescues, scent work and drug and explosives detection.

He later became a Fellow of The Institute of Directors and also worked with the Board of Trade.

The British Prime Minister’s Office went onto congratulate him for his achievements in the field.

David’s charity work goes back to the 1970’s, when he used his passion for the piano and organ to raise money by breaking records for non-stop playing.

The causes he backed included centres for the elderly, mental health patients and for disabled children.

He was honoured for his work with an illuminated scroll presented by then Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire Sir Philip Franklin in December 1973.

David later went on to found The Nottinghamshire Hospice in 1977.

David retired aged 50 in 1988 and moved to Spain where he has lived ever since. It was while living in Spain that he formed a Costa del Sol-based action group to help people who had suffered from scams, to recover their money.

David’s media career has seen him work on radio stations in southern Spain and Gibraltar and he has also appeared on television.

He has had a lengthy career as EWN’s in-house dog writer. Everyone at EWN wishes him a happy, well-deserved retirement.

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CHARITIES/CHURCHES LA SIESTA EVANGELICAL CHURCH on Urbanisation La Siesta, Torrevieja is a friendly, English speaking church.

We hold services each Sunday and everyone is welcome. Our 11.15am Services are held every 2nd and 4th Sunday in the month (and 11.15 am on the 5th Sunday, if this applies.) On the 1st and 3rd Sunday’s our Services are at 9.30am. Our choir sings at our 11.15am Services and there is also a Sunday school, called Stepping Stones, on these Sundays. We welcome residents, visitors and children.

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THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, La Fustera. For more info: contact Frank Bentley on 966 495 188. (95461) ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS ALCOHOL COSTING YOU MORE THAN MONEY? Drinking to excess not only affects your health it can spill over into every other aspect of your life – damaging everything that is important to you. Englishspeaking AA meetings are held throughout the Costa Blanca from Valencia City to Murcia. Anyone wishing to attend a meeting or discuss a possible drinking problem contact Costa Blanca North: *648 169 045* or Costa Blanca South: *625 912 078* or Costa Calida *679 385 105*. All calls are treated in the strictest confidence. AA in German: 645 456 075; Spanish: 679 212 535; Flemish: 635 047 053; and Scandinavian: 659 779 222. www.aa-costablanca.org ROUNDABOUT CHARITY SHOP. We are now into summer and very soon we will be feeling the heat! It is time therefore for another visit to the shop where you might find a bargain or two.

Choose from the clothing selection, jewellery, household goods, books or bric-a-brac.

There is usually something there for everyone - but not always. Charitable donations have recently been made to The Alzheimers Centre, Cancer Research and The Amigos Ambulance Service. We still need your help with donations etc. Please keep them coming in! We are situated on Avenida Del Furs close to the Fountain Roundabout and immediate left

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THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, Torrevieja Branch, meet at 15.00 on the first Wednesday of each month at the Restaurante El Paraiso, Urb. Jardin del Mar 3 (behind Carrefour), Torrevieja. Contact Paul Edwards, Chairman 618 644

934 or Margaret Forshaw, Secretary 966 921 996.

(95455) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Orihuela Costa - covering from Punta Prima to San Javier. The branch meets at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras on 3rd Thursday of each month at 19.00 - 19.30pm. More info can be found on branch website www.orihuelacostarbl.co.uk HELP VEGA BAJA. We are a non-profit making organisation that helps and supports anyone, without prejudice, in times of need or crisis within the Vega Baja area. Our offices are based in San Miguel at Calle Lope de Vega 46 (Tel 966 723 733), Torrevieja at Rambla Juan Mateo Garcia 4 (Tel 965 704 282). Both offices are open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 1.30 pm and the Helpdesk at La Marina is open every Thursday (10 am to 1.30 pm) at the Hope Fellowship Church (opposite the Thursday Market site) at Avda de Justo Antonio Quesada, Urb. La Marina (Tel 615770145). We are online at www.helpvegaba ja.com and also on Facebook. You can email the San Miguel Centre at office@helpvegabaja.com.

We also have a 24-hour Emergency help-line which is available to both members and non-members on 966 723 733 THE BAKER FOUNDATION SPIRITUALIST CENTRE. Find us on the Saturday market road opposite the Chinese Restaurant. Playa Flamenca.

Different International and local mediums every Sunday and Tuesday. Sunday, divine service with clairvoyance 11 am start. Tuesday, evening of clairvoyance doors open 7 o’clock for 7.30 start. Spiritual Healing is available on Sundays after service and on Thursday mornings from 10.

30 until 12. We have a development group on Tuesdays 5 until 6.30 for those interested in meditation and advancing your knowledge of spirit. Private readings are available on request. Please join us and make new friends, a warm welcome

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awaits you all. Tea, coffee and soft drinks are available.

You can join us on Facebook at, The Baker Foundation spiritual centre. Hall is available for hire. For more information please contact Linda on 606 990 665.

Email, schugy54@gmail.com THE PHILIP SCOTT LODGE No 10671 of the RAOB meets every Friday in the Bar Catorce, Benijofar. Please call the secretary, Colin Bird on 693 287 614 for further information. (95459) CHARITY BOOK STALL PEGO THURSDAY MARKET. Selection of over 500 books, all proceeds given to the elderly/disabled of Pego and local Animal Rescue. More stock always required, please contact Chrissie 965 977 228/617 647 395 (95460) CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (MABS) MURCIA/MAR MENOR Help and support is just a phone call away, Avda Rio Nalón, Tel: 693 275 779 PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, Calle Canalejas, 3. Pilar de la Horadada.

Sunday Service at 11am & Thursday at 5pm for Prayer and Praise and Worship. Home groups meet during the week. All welcome from any church background or none.

For further information, www.pilarchurch.org Reg No: 2009-SG/A (95463) TORREVIEJA Christian Fellowship (TCF) is an English speaking lively church located at Avenida de las Valencianas 68, Torrevieja 03183.

Residents and holidaymakers are welcome to attend our services with communion and ‘kids church’ each Sunday at 10.30am. We have a Fellowship Meeting (Bible Study) each Wednesday at 6.00pm. For further information see our website www.tcf-Spain.org or tel 966 700 391. (95464) THE AIRCREW ASSOCIATION COSTA BLANCA BRANCH. Former & serving aircrews of the UK or Allied Armed Forces are welcome to join this convivial & friendly organisation, now in

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its 21st year. www.aca costablanca.org or call the Secretary on: 966 495 042 STROKE ASSOCIATION Spain (formally known as Torrevieja stroke support) meet every Wednesday and Friday 2.30pm until 5.00pm.

Our new address is Casa de Cultura, Calle Francisco Ribera Perez Benijofar. Our aim is to help and support stroke survivors and their careras. With rehabilitation, speech therapy, OC therapy and a very active social group. For info please contact 654 801 260 or email strokesupportgroup@hot mail.com, website: torrevie jastrokesupport.org. We are always looking for volunteers who have the skills and knowledge to support our groups and activities.

THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant & La Marina Branch meet the 1st Monday of every month at Lounge D, Calle Holanda, Plaza Mayor, Gran Alacant at 6pm. For further info, contact the branch Secretary at granalacant.secretary@rbl.c ommunity CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open Mon-Fri 10 - 2pm and is run by unpaid volunteers and all monies raised goes to the AECC. We urgently need donations of clothes, books, large and small furniture etc., and we will arrange collection of large items. We need volunteers to help out in the shop and also clothes rails, shelves etc. for display.

Please support your local Cancer charity and if you wish to obtain literature or simply talk to someone.

Please stop by at the shop.

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Evangelical non-denominational church. All nationalities welcome. Sunday service 11.00 a.m; Sunday school; Prayer meetings; craft and computer clubs.

Ladies Bible Study: Thursday 11.00 a.m. Church Bible Study: Thursday 1.30 p.m.

House groups in Torrevieja, La Siesta, La Zenia - Contact 966 752 543 / 617 215 463.

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The meeting starts at 1430 hrs. You do not have to be an ex-member of the RAF to join this friendly Association, which supports the welfare of the RAF family and provides a social hub for ex RAF members and their friends. For further information about the Association and its activities please contact the Chairman on 692 508 916 or the Welfare Officer on 615 048 892 or visit our website: www.rafa.org.uk/costa-blan ca (238593)

CLASSIFIEDS THE PATIENCE LODGE No 2177 of the R.A.O.B meets every Sunday morning at the Sacko´s Bar, El Limonar near Las Siesta at 10am. We are always looking for new and lapsed members to join us. Please call Secretary Dave Tonge on 688 704 091 for further information.

CHURCH SERVICE IN ENGLISH EVERY SUNDAY AT 10.30am. Everyone welcome at Turre Evangelical Church next to Muebles Nuñez just across form the vet. Tea, coffee and fellowship after every service. Transport can be arranged. Tel: 950 617 549 www.givinglight.com.

The Spiritualist Centre, Benijofar meets at Hamilton´s Bake House, 62 Calle Vicente, Blasco Ibañez, Benijofar 03178. We hold a Sunday Service at 11.30 a.m., a Tuesday Evening of Mediumship at 7 p.m.

Spiritual healing is available every Sunday and Tuesday after the service. Open Circle is every Thursday at 6.30 pm. The Divine Service, with Mediumship, on Sunday 9th December with Len Cox, is at 11.30 am. Tuesday 11th December is our Carol Service (tickets only). We are then closed until Sunday 13th January with David Darnbrough. Everyone welcome. Contact Wendy on 965323028. www.spiritual istcentre-benijofar.com New email is phoenix church23@gmail.com or in fo@spiritualistcentre-benijo far.comIdentificacion Fiscal G54713789.

Huntington’s Disease Association - Costa Blanca. We are a non profit organisation that helps and supports sufferers of Huntingtons and their families. For details visit www.hda.org.es. We have a social gathering every Friday 2 - 4 at O’Brien’s Bar in El Raso, Guardamar. As a social group, we welcome anyone with a neurological disease, such as Parkinsons, Motor Neurone and their partners and collectively we call ourselves “The Movers and Shakers”. If you would like to attend, please contact Marion Smith on 651 043 681.

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MOTORING FACT TO build a car that remains at the very top of its class even when it’s at the end of its life, after new rivals have come and gone, is some feat.

Even as the last Ford Fiesta bowed out, it was still winning group tests, still earning itself fivestar reviews, and still at the top of many hot hatch buyers’ want list.

The latest Fiesta ST is available with three or five doors, both of which come with the same 197bhp, 1.5-litre three-cylinder turbo engine.

The improvements Ford has made in the interior become immediately apparent on climbing inside.

Gone is the old, plasticky dashboard littered with buttons, with a too-small infotainment screen.

Although it is not exactly upmarket, the dashboard is more userfriendly, more modern and better finished, with some smart sections of black plastic drawing your attention away from the hard, brittle plastic lower down.

In the front the chunky Recaro seats offer fabulous support all THE BMW Vision iNEXT provides an insight into the future of personal cars.

The latest Vision Vehicle from the BMW Group symbolises the dawn of a new era in driving possibilities, and it has celebrated its world premiere at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

Far more than a vehicle, the iNEXT encompasses pioneering technology and design that is set to filter across the company and its brands.

This is the first time that all of BMW’S strategic innovation fields: Autonomous driving, Connectivity, Electrification and Services, have been incorporated into a single vehicle.

Engineers were driven more than ever by the idea that the future of transport must revolve around people’s emotions, needs and preferences.

Possibilities offered by autonomous driving, electrification and ever-greater connectivity will in future open the door to completely new experiences and ways of shaping a journey.

Drivers will have ever greater freedom to decide how they wish to use the time spent travelling in a car.

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round, enclosing you within deep bolsters and keeping you wonderfully comfy.

But this leaves slightly less room in the back than is ideal, and the boot could be a little bigger too.

However, as with all versions of this model, the extraordinary driveability of the Fiesta ST soon makes you forget about any foibles.

Put your foot

down away from the lights and the ST’s potency comes into play, the steering wheel gliding

FEISTY FORD: The new ST delivers once again.

in your hands as the front wheels effortlessly grip the tarmac.

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BMW Vision iNEXT

The future has arrived interior will become increasingly important, with the feelgood factor playing a more prominent role.

The all-electric BMW Vision iNEXT has therefore been created as a mobile space that offers real quality of life and addresses the need for a new ‘favourite space’ in which we can be ourselves and relax.

Composed of just a few, clean-cut lines, the geometry of the iNEXT cabin places the focus on materials and

NEXT GENERATION: The BMW iNEXT gives a glimpse into the future.

The Sport driving mode gives you sharper throttle and opens up the exhaust to deliver more engine noise, while race disengages traction control to really put the car in your hands.

The nose still responds beautifully to the steering, which is incredibly accurate and perfectly weighted.

Overall the new ST is exhilarating, addictive and beguiling, just like the old model was.

colours.

A mix of cloth and wood creates the kind of sophisticated feel associated with furniture design, helping to give the interior its special ‘boutique’ character.

The inside of the car is bedecked with warm, welcoming colours, such as the nude shade Purus Rosé, Brown and

Beige, while the shimmering metallic Mystic Bronze accentuates the effect.

A petrol-coloured Enlighted Cloudburst cloth upholstery covers the rear compartment with its intricate Jacquard weave, which runs asymmetrically across the seat area and extends

into the side panelling and parcel shelf.

In the BMW Vision iNEXT, smart technologies stay in the background and out of sight hence the name Shy Tech - and are only deployed when needed or at the driver’s or passengers’ request.

There is virtually no need for either screens or buttons, as functions can be operated using surfaces made of materials such as wood or cloth.

Control of the vehicle is therefore tailored in every respect to the requirements of the people travelling in it.

Moreover, the stunning Liquid Greyrose Copper paint finish, which gradually changes in shade from warm copper to dark rose, exudes style and class.

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Porsche 911: Style for the ages THE eighth generation of Porsche’s evergreen 911 sports coupe has been revealed in Los Angeles, 55 years after the first car to wear the famous designation was introduced.

As you might expect, the 911’s traditional flat-six engine (now ex-

clusively turbocharged) is more powerful than ever, with both of the new 911 S models developing 444bhp, an increase of almost 30bhp compared with the outgoing model.

Both have a new eight-speed dual-clutch PDK gearbox.

The rear wheel drive S can accelerate from 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds, while the all-wheel drive of the 4S cuts that time by 0.1 sec.

Quoted top speeds are 191mph for the Carrera S, with the 4S 1mph slower.

Efficiency has been increased via an improved direct fuel injection process and a new arrangement for the twin turbochargers and intercooler.

As is traditional in Porsche’s most famous car, the engine is in the wrong place, as it was when Ferry Porsche started tweaking Volkswagen Beetles before making cars under his own name.

The exterior styling features significantly wider wheel arches than the previous generation, while the wheels are now 20” in diameter at the front and 21” at the rear.

The outer shell of the body is now made from aluminium, apart from the front and rear, while the door handles are flush to the bodywork and pop out electrically when required.

At the rear there is a much wider, variable-position spoiler, beneath which a seamless

light bar runs across the full width of the car.

The straight lines of the facia design and recessed instruments were inspired, apparently, by 911s from the 70’s.

The central screen of the Porsche Communication Management (PCM) system is now 10.9 inches, with new software that’s claimed to be faster and easier to use.

A safety function dubbed Wet Mode, included as standard, detects water on the road and pre-conditions the control systems accordingly, and alerts the driver.

Also standard is a warning and brake assist system, which detects the risk of collisions with moving objects and initiates emergency braking if necessary.

Night Vision Assist with a thermal imaging camera is optional on the 911 for the first time.

SUCH STYLE: The Porsche 911 series is nothing short of iconic.

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by Nick Fletcher THE Mini Clubman is a retrostyled hatchback which looks very different from most in its sector, offering a more charismatic persona and outstanding driving dynamics.

With twin rear doors instead of a conventional lift-up hatch and its distinctive Mini ‘face’ which still has faint echos of its 1960’s ancestors, the Clubman competes against the likes of the Volkswagen Golf and Ford Focus, and has strong appeal to those seeking something a little different in the crowded hatchback arena.

Available with petrol and diesel engines and with manual or automatic gearboxes, the Clubman is priced from €22,513 (£19,995) and it is the entry-level City version featured here. With a threecylinder 1.5-litre 102 hp petrol engine and six-speed manual gearbox, this model is well equipped and is aimed not just at families but at business users.

Top speed is 185 kph (115 mph), the 0-100 kph time 11.3

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Mini Clubman City CLUBMAN: On the road the City gets top marks for performance.

seconds, and average fuel economy is very respectable at 17.2 kpl (48.7 mpg). Emissions are 131 g/km.

Standard kit includes alloy wheels, sat-nav, digital radio, Bluetooth, connectivity features including Apple CarPlay, air-conditioning, cruise control, auto stop-start, rear parking sensors and auto lights and wipers.

Build integrity is high standard, as with all models in the

STATS PANEL Model: Mini Clubman City Engine: 1.5 litre petrol Transmission: 6-speed manual Performance: 0-100 kph 11.3 seconds, top speed 185 kph (115 mph) Economy: 17.2 kpl (48.7 mpg) Emissions: 131 g/km

Model tested is UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.

BMW group, and the cabin has a top-quality appearance. The dashboard is dominated by a large central instrument dial, again echoing the original Mini, and the controls are well-placed for easy use. Cabin space is very good, with four adults easily accommodated and a fifth squeezed in if necessary.

Family hatchbacks are all about practicality and here, the

Clubman scores well. The boot space is surprisingly capacious at 360 litres and when the rear seats are folded flat, space is boosted to 1,250 litres giving the car some smallbusiness appeal.

On the road, the Clubman gets top marks for performance. The steering is very precise, handling beautifully poised partly thanks to a longer wheelbase than the standard Mini hatchback and partly due to well-balanced suspension which keeps the car composed on the corners while still delivering good ride comfort.

While the Mini Clubman isn’t the cheapest hatchback in the class, nor the most spacious, it arguably has the most cachet - a strong sales point in an increasingly image-conscious marketplace.

Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.

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Premier League Preview

Arsenal rule demolition derby an important 2-0 victory at Stamford Bridge.

The Blues took the lead early on when Pedro slotted home from N’Golo Kante’s pass and they could have had more in the first half had Sergio Rico not twice denied Olivier Giroud.

Fulham threatened to find an equaliser in the second half as C h e ls e a s truggle d for fluency, but subs titute Loftus Cheek made the win safe when he fired p as t R ic o a fte r a n in tr ic a te pa s s ing mo v e w ith Ede n Hazard and Pedro.

Chelsea next face a testing tie against league leaders Manc h es te r C ity, w hile Fulham will travel to Manchester United.

M a n C ity ha d to work hard to see off Bournemouth 3-1 and

maintain their 100 per cent home record in the league this season.

All seemed to be going to script when Bernardo Silva smashed them ahead early on, but without Sergio Aguero they lacked a killer instinct and Simon Francis swept in a perfect cross for Callum Wilson to level for the Cherries just before half-time.

However, Raheem Sterling del i ver ed agai n wi t h a poached effort, before Illkay Gundogan’s close-range finish made sure of the points with 11 minutes remaining.

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UNAI EMERY’S Arsenal side produced a wonderful attacking performance to overpower London rivals Tottenham 4-2 at the Emirates.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang put the Gunners ahead before an Eric Dier header and Harry Kane penalty saw Spurs surprisingly ahead at the break.

But Aaron Ramsay and Alexandre Lacazette were introduced for the second half, and the Wels hma n so o n se t u p A u b ame y an g fo r th e equaliser.

Then Lacazette’s deflected shot beat goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, before the outstanding Lucas Torreira sealed a fine victory for Arsenal.

Arsenal next host Huddersfield while Tottenham will travel to Leicester.

Liverpool’s Divock Origi scored a bizarre 96th minute goal in dramatic circumstances as an uncharacteristic Jordan Pickford error gifted the Reds a 1-0 victory over Everton.

The feisty derby was heading for a draw when Pickford mishandled a sliced Virgil van Dijk shot, allowing Origi to head home the loose ball.

It sent Jurgen Klopp sprinting onto the pitch to hug goalkeeper Alisson, but was harsh on Everton who had played with adventure.

Liverpool will next face Bournemouth away, while Everton will entertain Watford.

Chelsea overcame a spirited Fulham to claim

FINE FORM: Arsenal’s PierreEmerick Aubameyang is making his mark this season.

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Kenny and Nelson strike gold BRITAIN’S Laura Kenny and Emily Nelson claimed madison gold on the final day of the UCI Track World Cup in Berlin.

Four-time Olympic champion Kenny was a late replacement after Katie Archibald withdrew following her omnium crash during her gold medal win on Saturday.

Kenny and Nelson had Britain’s sole podium finish on the final day in Germany, and the fifth of the weekend.

Sunday’s race was halted with 54 laps to go after a crash involving Italy’s Letizia Paternoster. When racing resumed, Kenny and Nelson consistently scored highly in the sprints.

In the closing moments, Danish duo Julie Leth and Trine Schmidt took a lap to go top of the leaderboard but the British pair secured the double points victory on the final sprint to finish on 37, nine points clear.

Vuelta to hit Bilbao Real revolution continues

BRIT GRIT: Simon Yates will be looking to defend his Vuelta title next year.

It will be the first time since 1987 that the Vuelta has visited Oviedo, the home of Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso.

The 2019 Vuelta España will start in Torrevieja on

August 24 and will spend three days in Alicante Province.

The full route of the race will be officially revealed in a ceremony in Alicante on December 19.

REAL MADRID kept up their remarkable renaissance with a 2-0 victory over Valencia at the Bernabeu.

An eighth minute Daniel Wass own goal and Lucas Vazquez’s late strike earned Real boss Santiago Solari his sixth win from seven games since he took over.

Gareth Bale had a shot brilliantly saved by Neto, and Karim Benzema volleyed wide early in the match.

Defeat for Valencia leaves them 13th in the table, while Real Madrid are fifth but looking upwards.

Los Blancos next face Huesca while Valencia will host Sevilla.

Barcelona moved above Sevilla to the top of La Liga in securing a comfortable 2-0 win over Villareal.

Pique headed in Ousmane Dembele’s cross for the opener, and youngster Alena scored his first ever league goal when he chipped the ball over Sergio Asenjo from Lionel Messi’s through ball.

It was only the second win in five games for Barca, while Villareal remain one place outside the relegation zone with one win in eight.

The Catalans will next travel to Espanyol, while Villareal will host Celta Vigo.

Atletico Madrid missed the chance to go top of La Liga after drawing 1-1 at Girona.

Girona forward Cristhian Stuani struck the

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WITH less than two weeks to go until the official unveiling of the 2019 Vuelta a España route, pieces of the puzzle continue to fall into place.

Visits to Andorra and France are already on the cards, and Bilbao and Los Muchucos have now been added to the route.

The Minister for Employment, Industry and Tourism, Isaac Pola, has also revealed that the Vuelta will be spending three days in Asturias.

The stretch is set for the end of the second week, September 7, 8 and 9 and will see the riders tackle two summit finishes.

With its challenging climbs, the Vuelta has visited Asturias on several occasions and this year’s race featured summit finishes at Praeres de Nava and Lagos de Covadonga.

In 2019, the Alto de Acebo and Puerto de La Cubilla will play host to the two summit finishes, while the third stage finish will be held in the Asturian capital of Oviedo.

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La Liga Preview

REAL RECOVERY: Real Madrid are transformed under their new manager. opener from the penalty spot after he was fouled by keeper Jan Oblak.

Atletico were on course for a first domestic defeat since September 1 but a Jonas Ramalho own goal denied the home side.

Atletico will next face Alaves, while Girona will take on Athletic Bilbao.

Other fixtures this weekend will see Leganes host Getafe, Eibar entertain Levante, and Rayo Vallecano travel to Real Betis.

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S PA N I A R D J o n R a h m recorded seven birdies to win the Hero World Challenge by four strokes in the Bahamas.

Rahm, who led overnight with Tony Finau and Henrik Stenson, posted a bo-

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Rahm rocks Bahamas gey-free seven-under 65 to finish on 20 under.

Britain’s Justin Rose was

in sight of the world number one spot after a 65 but Finau denied him with a birdie at the last for sole possession of second.

To u r n a m e n t h o s t Ti g e r Woods was 17th in the 18man field after a closing 73 left him at one under.

Rose, 38, who was five shots off the lead in a share of eighth going into the final round, holed a putt f r o m o ff t h e g r e e n a t t h e 11th for his fourth birdie of t h e day.

He drained a 15-footer to

eagle the 15th and birdied the par-three 17th from five feet, but saw another birdie chance from 12 feet, for a

round of 64, finish on the edge of the cup.

Needing a three-way share of second place to re-

HEROIC WIN: Rahm was in sparkling form during the tournament.

gain the top spot he first earned in September, it left him in sole possession of the runner-up spot at that stage after Finau made a double bogey at the 14th.

But the American picked up two shots in the closing four holes to ensure that compatriot Brooks Koepka, who was not playing this week, remained at the top of the rankings as Rose finished third.

Big-hitting Rahm, the first Spaniard to play in the 20-year history of the event, moved ahead after four birdies in his opening nine holes in Albany.

T h e 2 4 - y e a r- o l d w o r l d number eight, part of Eur o p e ’s t r i u m p h a n t Ry d e r C u p t e a m i n S e p t e m b e r, wrapped up his third individual title of the year, the sixth of his blossoming career.