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ON Thursday, June 16 the Euro Weekly News an‐ nounced the launch of its My Blue Badge = My Free‐ dom campaign to try to help improve the lives of disabled UK nationals living in and visiting Spain. Our petition calling on the Spanish and UK govern‐ ments to work together to reach an agreement over the use of Blue Badges in Spain has since collected hundreds of signatures and we are calling on all our readers to continue to help out by signing. This campaign started af‐ ter hearing from readers who had found that they had been left unable to eas‐ ily access shops, doctor’s appointments and other vi‐ tal services after many found their badges had stopped being accepted last year. While it has always been a requirement for those with Spanish residency to apply for a Spanish disabled badge, the Euro Weekly News knows that many may have left this late following Brexit, often because many found the application pro‐ cess daunting and had hoped for the reciprocal agreement between the UK
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Last memory
ELCHE’S Municipal Park in‐ augurated a new sculpture entitled Love without a Heartbeat. The small statue was cre‐ ated by Jesus Garcia Trapiel‐ lo to commemorate the ba‐ bies who leave life too soon, through miscarriage, still‐ birth or illness during their first months. The sculpture was un‐ veiled during a ceremony at‐ tended by the city mayor, Carlos Gonzalez, councillors, midwives from Elche hospi‐ tal and Alicante Province’s College of Nursing, and Mari‐ an Mahamud, representing the Asociacion El Hueco de mi Vientre (Emptiness Inside Me). “This brings us closer to a reality that is often invisible, unknown, but terribly hard,” Gonzalez said, acknowledg‐ ing the El Hueco de mi Viente association’s valuable work. Marian Mahamud in turn thanked Elche City Hall for collaborating with the asso‐ ciation and the Alicante mid‐ wives in installing the sculp‐ ture.
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NIBS EXTRA Charged up PILAR DE LA HORADADA Town Hall received two 100 per cent electric vehicles, free of charge, from the Diputacion provincial coun‐ cil. Worth €27,397 each, they will be used for gener‐ al services, explained the town hall, which has a fleet of 80 vehicles, but only four that are all‐electric.
New loo A TOILET at Elche’s Severo Ochoa high school that was formerly reserved for pupils with disabilities will now be shared with their transgen‐ der classmates. Guillermo Soler, who teaches Castel‐ lano, said he had been urg‐ ing the move for some time, so that transgender pupils would ‘feel safer’ at school.
Not needed ALTHOUGH practically all Covid restrictions have now been lifted, Torrevieja Town Hall must spend €1 million over the next three months for the beach con‐ trollers required during the pandemic. This is still neces‐ sary owing to the town hall’s contract with services company Broccoli which was renewed last year.
Breaking even ORIHUELA City Hall has tak‐ en the first steps towards paying €79,606 for the premises currently used for the Correntias auxiliary health centre. The Health department has paid out more than €100,00 in rent since 2003, but if the pur‐ chase goes ahead expects to break even within 15 years.
War relic ELCHE City Hall will list two more of the city’s 13 air‐raid shelters built to protect the population during Spain’s 1936‐1939 Civil War. One, which was used as a shoot‐ ing gallery and is divided in‐ to three, is located almost entirely on publicly‐owned land and has four indepen‐ dent accesses.
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Something to bet on
Linda Hall THE Ascot Ladies Day fundraising event on Thursday June 16 in Los Alcazares (Murcia) was attended by 120 generous supporters. Hosted on a glorious day by Graham and Angela Brown at their Balsamora villa, they were raising funds for the San Jose Obrero and Elche children’s homes. Everyone dug deep to make it a fantastic success, raising an amazing €2,166. A hog roast with all the trimmings was catered by Joy and Tom Campbell, the disco was provided by Ian and Maureen Durran and raffle prizes were generous-
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BALSAMORA FUNDRAISER: Some of the group of friends who raised €2,166 for children’s homes
ly donated by local bars, restaurants and businesses. Shellie White won the prize for bestdressed lady with Maureen Duran and Elaine Gibson as runners up, while Fred
Rubbish, rubbish everywhere BOTH residents and visitors to Orihuela Costa must have noticed an incredible amount of rubbish, both in and out of the bins. As a contribution to the community, Rotary Punta Prima Inter‐ national will be picking up litter along the N‐3332 main road at 10am on Sunday June 26. “We will meet by the Burger King and work south,” announced Rotary Punta Prima’s Christina Berardi. “Come for as long as you can,” she said. “Depending on the weather, we may only be an hour but everyone is welcome and all help is appreciated. Bring your gloves although other equip‐ ment is supplied.” For more information email or call Valerie (vlpeachey@gmail. com and 34 643 713 979) or Christine (chris.berardi@icloud.com and 34 693 523 905).
Fishing at The Pond ROUND four of the Carp‐R‐Us Summer‐Autumn series was fished at The Pond near Guardamar on a hot but pleasant day. “Water levels can be hit‐ and‐miss at this venue but to‐ day the level was good,” club secretary Steve Fell said. The match was won by Ter‐ ry Screen with 12.5 kilos caught by switching between pole and feeder, and using
pellets as bait. Willy Moons was second with 11.4 kilos caught using pellet waggler or feeder tac‐ tics. Third was Nick Bastock (10.9 kilos), followed by Alan Smith (8.4 kilos). Further information about the club can be found on its website http://www.carp‐r‐ us.weebly.com or on the Facebook page, Carp‐R‐Us Fishing Costa Blanca.
Remembering the Falklands REPRESENTATIVES from the Torrevieja U3A took part in a re‐ membrance ceremony at La Siesta Church on Tuesday June 14. They were among the many groups who were present at a service that was held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of the Falklands War in 1982. The service was conducted by Father Richard Seabrook and the band of the Torrevieja pipes and drums were in attendance, along with Standard Bearers from various local associations. Following the ceremony, wreaths were laid in the remem‐ brance garden.
Murphy won best-dressed man with Peter as runner-up. Meanwhile, Big John bravely took an ice-cold dousing, raising a further €100, and there were various sweepstakes with some lucky winners. The usual charity support crew - Clare and Jason Fowles, Seamus and Gillian Eaves, Leslie and Martin Armson, Steve and Marie Gooch, Leslie and Paul Eburne, Elaine Woodward and Denise Owens - worked tirelessly on the day and for many weeks leading up to the event to ensure a smooth fun-filled day. “It was a fabulous day for a great cause which everyone thoroughly enjoyed,” Steve Gooch said afterwards.
The reluctant swimmer
A YOUNG loggerhead tur‐ tle, raised in captivity and released in La Manga (Murcia) on Thursday June 16, keeps returning to the shore. It reached the Cabo Roig Marina in Orihuela Costa a day later, before travelling on to Cala Mosca and finally Torre‐ vieja where it arrived on Saturday June 18. The turtle was one of 12 hatched from eggs found two years ago on the En‐ senada del Esparto beach in San Javier (Murcia) and taken to the Oceanografic Aquarium in Valencia. There they remained until now, part of a pro‐ gramme known as ‘head‐ starting’ to give the en‐ dangered species a better chance of surviving in the open sea. When the home‐loving turtle was spotted in Cabo Roig, it was picked up by the maritime au‐ thorities and returned further out to sea. Undeterred, the turtle was later observed in Cala Mosca, swimming very close to the shore, forging ahead until it reached the Los Naufragos beach in Torrevieja. Here it was seen by two swimmers who warned the life‐ guards.
They in turn contacted Torrevieja’s municipal bi‐ ologist, Juan Antonio Pu‐ jol, who alerted the Local Police’s Environment Unit as well as the University of Valencia team monitor‐ ing the turtles and Oceanografic biologists who confirmed that the turtle was one of the 12 La Manga turtles. It has now been re‐ leased far out to sea, well away from the dangers posed by launches, mo‐ torboats and jet‐skis. A close watch will nev‐ ertheless be kept over the next few days to check whether the turtle re‐ turns to the shore, Oceanografic sources said.
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Coastal line ruled out REBECA TORRO, who heads the Generalitat’s Transport department announced a Tram link between the Marina Alta and La Safor. “These are the only two coastal areas without one,” Torro commented recently on announcing a €250 million project to ex‐ tend the Tram network from Denia, where it cur‐ rently finishes, to Gandia (Valencia). Torro’s announcement was received with aston‐ ishment in southern Ali‐ cante where the Baja Vinalopo and Vega Baja areas have no rail connec‐ tion at all. The Tram’s five lines all end at the Luceros termi‐ nus in Alicante City and there is no possibility of extending the line south‐ wards. Speaking to the local Spanish media, Jose Luis Saez, mayor of Guardamar, commented that Torro’s statement must have been due to her unfamiliarity with the area. “We don’t miss having a train, because we’ve never had one,” Saez told the local press. And much as he would welcome a coastal rail‐ way line, he said, he was aware of the difficulties involved.
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Ladies Day for Jaguar Enthusiasts Linda Hall THE Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club Costa Blanca (JEC‐Cos‐ ta Blanca) held their own Royal Ascot Ladies Day in Pilar de la Horadada. The day started early for the northern members who had to travel south and stopped for refreshments at the La Finca golf course’s clubhouse before driving on to Pilar de la Horadada. JEC‐Costa Blanca mem‐ bers had allowed plenty of time for meet and greet conversations prior to their four‐course meal at 2pm, af‐ ter which the fun began when the Royal Ascot horse racing appeared on the screen . “This changed the atmo‐
sphere to that of a race‐ course as people shouted and cheered for their favourite horse,” said the JEC’s Sandra Brook. “To finish the day we held a raffle which enabled some lucky members to win a prize, so altogether it was a full fun‐packed day
to remember.” Sandra went on to thank the committee and helpers who had worked to arrange and run a fantastic event that members always look forward to, and which has become a yearly event. “Thanks also go to mem‐ bers and guests who creat‐
ed a wonderful racing theme with their fascina‐ tors, hats and attire, not for‐ getting the fabulous turnout of Jaguar cars.” Jaguar‐owners who would like to join the club should contact Michael Brook (mikebikejec@gmail.com or 640 866 711).
HELP Mar Menor AFTER many months of planning, the big news for HELP Murcia Mar Menor is the opening of their new outlet. They have now moved to San Javier from the Oasis Centre in Los Alcazares. The new outlet is bigger, brighter and better, providing a great shopping ex‐ perience for customers and a pleasant environment for the HELP volunteers to work in. After a lot of hard work, the new premises opened on Monday June 13 in Avenida de la Union 57, San Javier. “We look forward to seeing cus‐ tomers old and new, come along and
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NEW PREMISES: HELP’S bigger, brighter and better outlet. pick up some great value items,” said HELP’s Bill Saunders.
Puppies saved THE public has been praised for preventing the illegal sale of four puppies in Tor‐ revieja. The Local Police depart‐ ment of Torrevieja praised the public for stopping the illegal street sale of four puppies on the morning of Thursday, June 16. “Thanks to the coopera‐ tion of the public, the street sale of four puppies was detected on Paseo
Juan Aparicio,” the depart‐ ment said. “Environment and Ani‐ mal Protection Unit officers began the process of trying to identify those involved in the illegal sale and have in‐ formed Local Police of the facts.” As for the puppies, “they have been taken to a veteri‐ nary centre for examina‐ tion,” the Local Police of Torrevieja said.
Torrevieja players off to Germany CHARO ESQUIVA from Club de Tenis Torrevieja represents Spain in the European Junior Champi‐ onships in Bremen (Ger‐ many) on June 26. Charo will be playing alongside Marta Pico, another player from the Torrevieja club, and Car‐ lota Garcia from Catalo‐ nia. Spain’s group will be playing against Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Hol‐ land, Turkey, Latvia and Moldava. Those who make it through to the group final will qualify for the finals that will be played in Genoa (Italy) from July 1 onwards. Go girls! And good luck!
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The percentage of passes is very similar to that recorded last year.
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Top 10 for Vega Baja
TWo secondary schools in the Vega Baja were among 10 secondary schools this year to ob‐ tain the highest average marks in the University Entrance Exams held at the Miguel Hernandez
Illumination of the owls
ON Tuesday, June 21, a unique and mysterious phe‐ nomenon took place in Orihuela on the façade of the Church of Santiago Apostol, marking the arrival of the summer solstice. The last ray of spring sunlight fell on the sculpture of the owl without casting any kind of shadow in an event that only occurs with the last ray of sun at around 8pm. The beautiful event, which occurs just once a year, brought together dozens of tourists, residents and curi‐ ous onlookers to contemplate this phenomenon. The Orihuela Town Council Tourism Department or‐ ganised a specific route for this day, which started at the Tourist Info Orihuela Centro at 6.30pm and trav‐ elled along the main street of the old town, Calle May‐ or, showing the façades of the main monuments along the route until it reached the Church of Santiago.
University (UMH) on June 7, 8 and 9. Colegio La Purisima and IES Playa Flamenca in Orihuela Costa ob‐ tained the highest scores among the centres that took the PAU at the UMH and the highest mark in the Vega Baja has been recorded in the Colegio La Purisima de Torrevieja. According to data pro‐ vided by the Vice‐Rec‐ torate for Students and Coordination of the Miguel Hernandez Uni‐ versity (UMH) of Elche, 98.2 per cent of the stu‐ dents who took the Uni‐ versity Entrance Exams (PAU) at the UMH passed. The percentage of passes is very similar to that recorded last year (98.7 per cent). A total of 3,999 stu‐ dents sat the exams in June of which 3,658 sat the Compulsory Phase, while 341 sat only the Voluntary Phase.
NEARLY 5,000 people from Elche have enjoyed the mu‐ nicipal swimming pools dur‐ ing the first weekend of the summer bathing season, which started on Saturday, June 18, and will continue until the beginning of September. Almost 50 professionals, including lifeguards, ticket agents and maintenance workers, will ensure that the eight municipal open‐air pools ‐ Carrus, Toscar, Pla, Parque Deportivo, Ciudad Deportiva, Palmerales, Tor‐ rellano and El Altet ‐ with 21 pools in total, provide a quali‐ ty service to guarantee the health, safety and well‐being of the bathers who come to these areas to combat the heatwave. In this first weekend, the pool with the highest num‐ ber of visitors was the Pla pool, with 1,000 people in to‐ tal. Last season, the pandem‐ ic measures meant that these places did not have the same number of visitors as in previous seasons. After resuming normal ser‐ vice after more than two years, and with the opening of the Los Palmerales pool
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NOW OPEN: Bathers escaped the heat last weekend at the municipal swimming pools!
tomorrow, Friday, June 24, it is expected that the figures
for 2021 will be comfortably exceeded.
Unearthing history THE sand of the Guardamar dunes has preserved a Phoeni‐ cian settlement from the eighth century BC and a Caliphate Raabita, with 21 small oratories from the 10th century. Very few municipalities can offer a tour of Iberian, Phoeni‐ cian, Roman and Muslim settlements in such a small space and with such a high level of conservation and visits to the ex‐ traordinary site of La Fonteta will be open to the public in July for guided tours. Guardamar Town Hall has earmarked a million‐dollar in‐ vestment, financed with European funds, for the conserva‐ tion and musealisation of its important archaeological sites. Still, only 10 per cent of the incredible site has been exca‐ vated, in an archaeological investigation that dates back to the 1980s and has had several phases of research since then.
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Aid for vulnerable THE mayor of Social Rights in Elche Council, Mariano Valera, has an‐ nounced that the cost of maintenance and running costs of head‐ quarters has been in‐ creased, going from
€8,000 to €20,000, and funding for carrying out programmes has gone from €52,000 to €60,000. The Department of Equality, Social Rights and Inclusive Policies
Bright light city
SANTA POLA will replace 5,379 lights throughout the city with new computer‐controlled LED lamps after fi‐ nalising an energy services and maintenance contract which guarantees outdoor lighting installations, traffic lights and smart city devices. The 15‐year contract, with a base bidding budget of €1.17 million per year, will see 85 per cent of the total existing lighting replaced with LED technology lights in the city. Santa Pola’s Smart City Master Plan, which has al‐ ready been drafted, will be strengthened by the new lights, with an estimated saving of between 50 and 80 per cent of current consumption expected. Included in the construction of the Smart City in Santa Pola will be an operations, control, supervision and management centre that will unify the manage‐ ment of all services and the current control and surveillance systems, allowing intelligent manage‐ ment of the city.
continues to increase the help it provides to non‐profit associa‐ tions and social enti‐ ties to carry out pro‐ grammes, projects and activities for the bene‐ fit of groups which are especially vulnerable o r a t r i s k o f s o c i a l e x‐ clusion. Valera said: “I would like to encourage all entities to continue ap‐ plying for the council’s subsidies, as last year a total of 33 entities ap‐ plied for the three calls, and we want many more entities to be able to access the council’s 2022 subsidies through competitive competition.” All entities that want to access the grants may do so through the electronic headquarters of Elche Council, filling out the application and providing the necessary documentation.
New private parking
THE refurbishment of four private plots of land for public parking in Pilar de la Horadada has been completed. The plots of land that have been made available for parking, with their respective parking spaces, are: ‐ Avda. Camilo Jose Cela, 44 with Calle Arturo Viudas and Calle Concejal Emilio Tarraga (with 32 parking spaces) ‐ Calle Gratiniano Baches with Plaza de la Iglesia (with 28 park‐ ing spaces) ‐ Calle Azorin, 29 with Calle Quevedo and Calle Guardiola (with 20 parking spaces) ‐ Calle Ramon y Cajal , four (with 26 parking spaces) The councillor for Infrastructures, Rufino Lancharro, said that “these works help to make it easier for passers‐by to reach the shops in an easier and more dynamic way, and with this, to pro‐ mote local commerce, which is so important for our town hall and above all for the whole municipality.” Image - Ayuntamiento de Pilar de la Horadada
REFURBISHMENTS: Public parking plots now completed.
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Thief killed AN alleged thief has died after being dragged down the motorway by a lorry driver, confirmed local media on Tuesday, June 21. A fight ensued when the man tried to climb in‐ to the cab section of the lorry, then the driver took off, hitting speeds of up to 100 kilometres an hour. Throughout the three‐ kilometre journey, the would‐be thief continued to try to gain entry. By braking sharply, the 56‐year‐old driver man‐ aged to get rid of the 40‐ year‐old would‐be thief who lost his grip. Police believe the in‐ juries he sustained from the fall were the cause of his death. The incident occurred on June 3 at 5.48am just outside Alicante.
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School absenteeism SCHOOLCHILDREN from CEIP Casablanca, in Elche, pre‐ sented a film to the councillor for Education, María José Martínez on Tuesday June 21, aimed at tackling school ab‐ sences. The film ‘Reasons to come to school’ was screened at the school in from of the council‐
lor, school staff and students accompanied by their mothers and fathers. The film project was part of the Prevention phase of the School Absenteeism Protocol of the Department of Educa‐ tion and the Department of Education. Ms Martínez said she was
impressed by the school’s film and stated that they “sought to find positive aspects of com‐ ing to school so that boys and girls find it an open space for learning, fun and, above all, a reference to grow.” The school’s director, Ana Carolina García, said: “With the projection we want mothers
Firecracker forest fires ALICANTE'S Fire and Rescue Prevention Ser‐ vice was forced to extinguish a forest fire on Monday, June 20 after several outbreaks in scrubland located on Águila Street were re‐ ported. It is believed that the outbreak was caused by teenagers throwing firecrackers. Two firefighting crews, along with four Lo‐ cal Police patrols, were dispatched to the
scene to gain control of the fire, which broke out at around 7.30pm. According to the fire service, firefighters attacked the blaze from two different points using several water lines. In total, the crews spent over an hour tackling the flames, with the fire being brought under control and finally extin‐ guished just after 8.45 pm.
A CIVIL WAR air‐raid shelter has been discovered in good condition by excavators from Elche City Council be‐ tween Calles Pedro Juan Perpinyà and Avenida de Santa Pola. Following the discovery, councillor for Town Planning, Ana Arabid, said that plans are being made in order to in‐ clude this shelter, known as No. 13 ‘Fábrica de Sánchez Rojas’, together with the one on Paseo de Germanias, in the Catalogue and Special
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Civil War discovery
Entrances with stairwells.
Plan for the Protection of Buildings and Sites in the mu‐ nicipal district of Elche.
The shelter “was used as a shooting gallery for testing weapons in the old Sánchez Rojas Factory,” Arabid said. It has four independent en‐ trances with stairwells that go down to a depth of eight me‐ tres underground, two in the area of Avenida de Santa Po‐ la, one in the centre of the main gallery and another to the north in Calle Pío Baroja. The necessary work has been carried out to check the state of the shelter in order to include it in the catalogue.
to see that the children are happy coming to school, but what the little ones need is for them to be brought to school.” The video recently won ‘Best film with an educational theme’ during the fifth edition of the Cortifestival Student Film Festival, organised by El Corte Inglés of Elche and Ali‐ cante.
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Daring doggy rescue
Matthew Roscoe E M E R G E N C Y S ervices in Alicante have issued advice for drivers who spot abandoned dogs in the road, after a man was recently caught on camera performing a dramatic yet dangerous rescue of two dogs on the hard shoulder of the A7. In the video, the man can be seen trying to attract the attention of the dogs after parking his car on the hard shoulder. However, despite the heroic act, Alicante police warned that stopping on the motorway without the mandatory signage could end up causing a more serious accident. “The most normal thing to do when you find an abandoned dog
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WARNING: In trying to help we can put ourselves at risk.
is to try to catch it as quickly as possible, however this can be dangerous for you and for the animal if it becomes frightened (as can happen in the vicinity of roads),” they warned.
“Sometimes, in trying to help, we can put the animals or even ourselves at risk: stop the car carefully if you can do so in a safe place, without hindering other vehicles or obstructing them.”
Same crime twice
A 49-Y EA R-O L D man was arrested after trying to steal a car from outside a N ational P olice Station in Elche minutes after being released for the same crime. The events took place on Sunday, June 19. Police in Elche were called to Avenida de la Unesco after receiving complaints that a person was apparently tampering with the lock of a car door. W hen police officers arrived, they found the man with a metal grille in his hand, apparently taken from a nearby drain, which the man explained was because he was “hunting for iron.” T he car had no signs of damage, but officers were able to spot fingerprints and hand marks on the windows and exterior of the car, so alongside not carrying any identification and theft of a metal grille, officers took the
man to the National Police Station in Elche for questioning. After completing formalities the man was allowed to leave. However, while police pro-
cessed the paperwork, they watched as the man tried to break into a car parked outside the police station. H e was immediately arrested.
Murcia traffic accident A TRAFFIC accident in the Murcia municipality of Lorca left one dead and seven more injured. As reported by the 112 Emergency Coordination Centre of Murcia Region, a traffic accident on Saturday June 18, resulted in the death of one female. Seven more suffered injuries, including three children, with two people being trapped inside the crashed vehicles. The incident occurred in the district of La Escucha in the municipality of Lorca. 112 received several calls from members of the public, starting from 3.55pm, informing them of the collision on the Lorca road heading towards the town of Pulpi. 112 immediately mobilised firefighters from the Murcia Region Firefighting and Rescue Consortium to the location. They were joined by patrols from the Local Police, and the Guardia Civil’s Traffic Unit. They also deployed four 061 ambulances, along with two Mobile Emergency Units, plus a road maintenance team. Health sources reported a total of seven injuries of varying degrees, including three children, all of whom were subsequently transferred to the Rafael Mendez de Lorca Hospital.
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Elda paragliding accident A 45- Y E A R - O L D man died in a paragliding ac‐ cident in Sierra de Cama‐ ra, Elda, Alicante on Sat‐ urday June 18. It appears the paraglider plunged into the mountain without the emergency parachute being able to slow down the speed, another paraglider who witnessed the incident confirmed. Once alerted, person‐ nel from Elda fire sta‐ tion, as well as a group specialised in mountain rescues and an Alpha 01 medical helicopter were deployed to the scene of the accident. At the time of his loca‐ tion, the injured man had injuries “incompati‐ ble with life,” according to the Provincial Fire Brigade Consortium. Sadly, it appears the medical team that as‐ sisted him could do nothing to save the man’s life.
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Train ticket sale La Noche de San Juan TRAIN operator Ouigo are putting on a ticket sale for the upcoming route be‐ tween Madrid and Valen‐ cia and Alicante. Ouigo will begin a sale for its high‐speed train that will connect Madrid with Alicante and Valencia with prices starting from €9. The sale will start from Thursday June 30 and dates for the rest of opera‐ tions in the region are ex‐ pected to be announced on the same day. According to sources from the railway sector, Ouigo’s train between Madrid and Valencia and Alicante is expected to start operating after the summer, although the company could operate earlier if the conditions are right. Currently, Ouigo trains only operate from Madrid‐ Chamartín station to the Valencian Community and not from the Atocha sta‐
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tion due to the tunnel link‐ ing Chamartín station with Atocha being under con‐ struction. “We are looking for‐ ward to arriving and being able to offer all the bene‐ fits that modern travel brings with it. These bene‐ fits are already being seen in the corridor between Madrid and Barcelona, with average 50 per cent lower ticket prices, new profiles such as families and young people on high‐ speed trains, a 75 per cent increase in passenger traf‐ fic and a greater decarbon‐ isation of transport, among others,” the com‐ pany said.
SANTA POLA will allow bonfires on the night of San Juan celebrations on both the Levante beach, in the centre of town, and on Gran Playa on the night of Thursday June 23 to Friday, June 24. As on previous occasions, a special area will be set aside on each beach for the burning of bonfires ‐ which will see hundreds of locals and tourists jumping over them on this special night ‐ howev‐ er, the council has warned that “it is ex‐ pressly forbidden” to make fires outside the designated areas, which will be fenced off and controlled by the Local Police of Santa Pola. On both the Levante and Gran Playa beaches there will also be two other ar‐
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BONFIRES: A special area to be set aside.
eas for people who want to celebrate the night of San Juan without fire. In addition, the Local Police will con‐ trol the access points to the beaches, where again, the burning of bonfires is “totally prohibited.”
Alicante castle drama
MORE than 2,000 schoolchildren visited Ali‐ cante’s Castle of Santa Bárbara in the month of May following the offer of free, guided and drama‐ tised visits, as well as the different educational workshops. Alicante’s deputy may‐ or, Mari Carmen Sánchez,
said that “the first step to loving, caring for and pro‐ tecting heritage is know‐ ing it, which is why it is es‐ sential that children discover the Castle of San‐ ta Bárbara, be able to tour it and learn its history.” She added: “The high number of schoolchildren who take an excursion to
the fortress and sign up for one of its workshops show that we are on the right track.” The Santa Bárbara Cas‐ tle was also visited by two educational centres from the United States, and one from Poland, France, Italy, and Hungary, re‐ spectively.
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T H E Restalia Group, which owns 100 Monta‐ ditos and The Good Burg‐ er, is being investigated by a Madrid court. The court instituted proceedings against 29 of the group’s companies on June 15 after a com‐ plaint was filed accusing the companies of fraud, criminal organisation, co‐
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Fraud charges ercion and computer crime. Although the case is said to be in the early stages of the investiga‐ tion, the judge presiding in court 52 felt it prudent to open preliminary pro‐ ceedings. Under investi‐
gation are the holding company, the owner of the group, José María Fernández Capitán, and 20 management staff. In‐ vestigators are piecing together the evidence that has been collected
Doctor theft arrest THE National Police, reported on Saturday June 18 that a doctor of a residence in Zaragoza had been arrested after admitting to stealing money from a dead patient’s bank account. An investigation was launched on June 13 when the Judicial Police Group received a complaint at a police station in Madrid. It was from a woman who claimed she had noticed several withdrawals made from the bank ac‐ counts of her father after he died. The com‐ plainant explained that she contacted the res‐
idence because she was concerned that her father was not answering his mobile phone. She was subsequently informed that her fa‐ ther had been dead since April 21 but they had no contact information for the family and had not been able to notify her. She proceeded to review the movements of her father’s bank account. Five different op‐ erations had been carried out since the date of his death, specifically cash withdrawals from different ATMs in Zaragoza and sur‐ roundings, totalling €2,000.
Smoke free beaches SPAIN has more than 540 smoke‐free beaches, it was reported on Monday, June 20. Smokers are finding fewer and fewer places to light up. In the last few years, due to the new government laws being promoted, the list of smoke‐free places has increased. There are now some 550 beaches where smoking is banned. The aim of the government is to pro‐ tect the health of all of its citizens, and the plan is to reduce smoking by 30 per cent. Smokers caught smoking on smoke‐free beaches will face a fine.
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SMOKING BANNED: There are now more than 540 smoke-free Spanish beaches.
so far, which will be pre‐ sented to the court and it will then decide whether to close the case or to pursue the charges. Amongst the charges is the claim that Restalia kept pertinent informa‐ tion away from fran‐ chisees, which includes details of supplier con‐ tracts.
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Ancient roman altar recovered Joshua Manning
THE National Police have re‐ covered a Roman altar that was stolen from the Archae‐ ological Museum of Tarrag‐ ona in 1962, after it was list‐
ed for auction in the USA. The police recovered the Roman altar in a joint operation with the Italian Carabinieri, the Homeland Security Investigations of the United States and the
Madrid resident investigated THE Guardia Civil announced, on Saturday June 18, that a fraud investigation is being conducted into a resident of Madrid who allegedly sold fake tickets online for the recent Champions League final in Paris. He is believed to have sold fraudulent tickets to at least 15 people from different provinces, pocketing €1,500 in the pro‐ cess. ‘Operation Entrafador’ was launched on May 25, fol‐ lowing a complaint from a resident of Avila. He claimed to have been scammed when he bought two tickets to attend the match between Real Madrid and Liverpool. Investigators quickly verified that the victim had bought the tickets on a portal selling second‐hand items and made the payment through an online ser‐ vice provider. They subsequently discovered that there was not just the one victim. At least 14 other people had allegedly fallen victim to a resident of the Arroyomolinos district of Madrid.
Ministry of Culture and Sport. The archaeological piece is from the Roman period and made of white mar‐ ble, which appeared in a compendium of Latin in‐ scriptions compiled by Emil Hübner and pub‐ lished in 1869. Research at an auction house in the United States, where the altar was sold, revealed the piece came from the British collection. The collaboration of the US authorities was re‐ quested through the offi‐ cial channels of interna‐ tional cooperation, who verified the auction house acquired the Roman altar in 2002 from a well‐known auction house in London, and in 2010 it was sold to a US citizen who had been living there. The altar has since been returned to its museum of origin, reincorporating it into the state public col‐ lection to which it be‐ longs.
SEVILLIAN actor and di‐ rector Paco León has made his Hollywood debut as a villain alongside Nicolas Cage in the film The Un‐ bearable Weight of a Huge Talent. Speaking to a publica‐ tion on June 17, León who normally declines English‐ speaking roles said: “I’ve had a lot of fun and I’ve discovered that there’s something of the Mafia in‐ nate in me, I think from my mother’s heritage.” Speaking about the pro‐ ject and eccentric nature of Nicolas Cage, he said: “It is very good that Ameri‐ cans come from abroad to give me the role of the baddie. “He is an eccentric guy, special but very hard‐ working, obsessive, he has everything measured, he knows the entire film before making it, very me‐ thodical and profession‐ al.” León is set to premiere his next film as a director, but that hasn’t stopped him from his foray into Hollywood as a villain that fights Nicolas Cage.
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NICOLAS CAGE: Will star alongside Paco León.
Car transporter overturns AN accident on the A‐92N, on Sunday June 19, caused the road to be cut. A car transporter overturned near the Grana‐ da municipality of Baza, shedding its load across the road in the process. Two people were reported hurt in the accident. The incident occurred at around 9am, in the direction of Granada. 112 received calls requesting medical assistance for the lorry driver. They immediately mobilised a 061 Health Emergency Centre ambulance to the location. A rescue helicopter was also deployed to the scene, along with the Firefighters Consortium, patrols from the Guardia Civil’s Traffic Unit, and a road maintenance crew. Fire sources reported that the lorry had overturned causing four of the vehicles it was transporting on its top layer to fall onto the road. In total, eight of its vehicles were affected. Emergency services managed to open one lane of the road by 11am.
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THE Spanish government confirmed on Thursday June 16 that 85,000 more people have been em‐ ployed as job creation ac‐ celerates, doubling the in‐ crease of the years prior to the pandemic. Jose Luis Escriva, Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, confirmed that job creation had accel‐ erated in the month of June. The growth in employ‐ ment will allow the first half of the year to end with 271,000 more employed
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Growth in employment.
people, which Jose Luis said was “a figure that shows the great dynamism of em‐ ployment, despite the con‐ text of uncertainty on an in‐ ternational scale.”
Jose Luis stressed that the 85,000 jobs to be creat‐ ed this month represent the highest monthly growth compared with years not affected by the pandemic, double the average growth of the 2016‐19 period. “There is job creation in more seasonal sectors, such as the hotel and catering in‐ dustry and in other activi‐ ties.” However, he also highlighted the particularly intense growth occurring in sectors with high added val‐ ue, such as IT and scientific activities.
Lorry driver strikes loom
WITH petrol prices expected to continue in‐ creasing over the summer and the govern‐ ment’s discount set to end, the threat of a new lorry driver strike looms. With no end in sight to the Ukraine crisis and demand for oil from alternative sources rising, experts believe the price of petrol could continue to rise for the foreseeable future. Ac‐ cording to local media some even believe it could reach €3 a litre by the end of the year. According to data released on Friday June
17 by the European Union (EU) Oil Bulletin, the cost of petrol hit a new high, for the sec‐ ond time in consecutive days. The average price from some 11,400 stations across Spain hit €1.803 after deducting the government’s current bonus. Without the government’s reduction, the price of petrol has already exceeded €2 cur‐ rently sitting at €2.117 taking the cost of filling a small or medium‐sized car’s tank to over €135.
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Sussex wine status A SPAT has broken out over wine produced in Sussex being granted Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) for wine by the environ‐ ment secretary, with rival wine areas saying that the
area is not special. The designation, granted onSaturday June 18, pro‐ vides the region with a sta‐ tus similar to that of Rioja, however, winemakers in Kent have described the
award as a marketing stunt. The designation adds to a growing list of specially des‐ ignated areas in the UK that include Cornish pasties, Stil‐ ton cheese and others. Sussex is the UK’s largest maker of wine‐producing more than 25 per cent of all wine made in the country. Art Tukker who owns the Tinwood Estate in Chich‐ ester told British media: “We’re going to be seeing a glass of Sussex available in New York, Tokyo, Los Ange‐ les, maybe even Paris, but I’m not sure the Cham‐ pagne guys will like that so much.”
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Prices could rise Peter McLaren‐Kennedy EASYJET has warned, in an announcement onMonday June 20, that the reduction in the number of flights announced by air‐ ports will see prices rise as demand out‐ strips supply. Expectations are that a further 15,000 passengers will be affected, with cancella‐ tions and baggage handling issues at air‐ ports heaping even more misery on pas‐ sengers. easyJet said that it would be axing flights from Gatwick and Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, with both having said they would be imposing a lower limit on flight numbers as they struggle to gear up to cope with de‐ mand. The company has once again apologised for the disruption but warned that there
BORIS JOHNSON paid tribute to Jo Cox, the MP who was brutally murdered six years ago with a remembrance Tweet on Thursday June 16. On June 16, 2016, Jo Cox died after be‐ ing shot and stabbed multiple times in the street in the village of Birstall, where she had been due to meet constituents. She was elected to represent the par‐ liamentary constituency Batley and Spen
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EASYJET: Less flights mean less seats.
would be a “cost impact’, with less flights meaning less seats and that would push up prices. Further adding to the woes is a report that Heathrow has asked airlines flying from Terminals 2 and 3, to slash 10 per cent off their planned flights because of prob‐ lems with baggage handling.
Tribute to Jo Cox at the 2015 general election, having spent several years working for international humanitarian charity Oxfam. She was married and had two young children. The perpetrator of the attack was Thomas Alexander Mair, a 53‐year‐old unemployed gardener born in Scotland.
Mair had mental health problems, though he was declared sane at the time of the attack. Mair, who held far‐right views, was found guilty of her murder in November and sentenced to life impris‐ onment with a whole life order. In re‐ membrance of Jo, Boris tweeted ‘Re‐ membering Jo Cox and her contribution to politics and public life. My thoughts are with her loved ones today’.
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B R I T O N S have been urged to get travel smart before they go abroad this summer in a campaign re‐ leased by the UK gov‐ ernment on June 20. The campaign, which will run across Foreign, Common‐ wealth & Develop‐ ment Office (FCDO) social media chan‐ nels, is supported by partners including TUI, Gatwick Airport, Liverpool John Lennon Airport, ABTA and the Association of British Insurers. It will signpost trav‐ ellers to the essential information they need as they prepare to go overseas. With people across the country planning holidays, the cam‐ paign recommends travellers check FCDO travel advice and get travel insurance be‐
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Britons are urged to get travel smart before they go abroad.
fore they leave. Research shows that FCDO travel ad‐ vice is the most com‐ monly used and trust‐ ed source of advice for Britons travelling abroad. In 2021, there were over 150 million views of FCDO travel advice pages. There is FCDO trav‐ el advice for over 200 destinations which is kept under constant review to ensure it reflects the latest in‐ formation.
AN original cast member of Coronation Street, Ernst Walder, who played Ivan Cheveski has died, it was an‐ nounced on Wednesday, June 16. Daran Little who is a former writer for Coronation Street announced the news on his Twitter page. His Tweet read: “Very sad to read of the passing of dear‐ est Ernst Walder. An original C St cast member who quickly became Tony Warren’s boyfriend before Tony caught him in bed with another cast member. Ernst used to send my sons chocolates every Christmas and was the loveli‐ est man.” The star died of natural
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ERNST WALDER: Starred in the soap in its early years.
causes aged 94 on September 6 last year, but it wasn’t until Daran Little broke the news on social media that his death was publicly revealed. As one of the original char‐ acters on the cobbles, Ernst
starred as Ivan Cheveski, son‐ in‐law of cobbles’ icon Elsie Tanner, on Corrie during its earliest years. Ernst played Ivan on Corrie in two separate stints, from 1960 to 1963, and again from 1966 to 1967.
Eugenie’s Andrew snub PRINCESS EUGENIE wished her husband, Jack Brooksbank, a Happy Father’s Day on Insta‐ gram on Sunday, June 19 but there was no mention of her own father. She called her hus‐ band the “best dada” along‐ side some adorable family photos. In the post, there was no mention of her own father,
Prince Andrew, however who could be facing another legal battle. The Duke of York is al‐ legedly facing a new legal bat‐ tle with claims he was at the late Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion the night a teenager was raped according to British media. The victim’s attorney, Spencer Kuvin, is seeking testi‐
mony from the 62‐year‐old Duke of York, Prince Andrew and has threatened to serve le‐ gal papers on him if necessary. Spencer Kuvin acts for a 28‐ year‐old woman who claims Epstein attacked her at his New York home while Prince Andrew was a guest there in December 2010.
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UK barrister strikes BARRISTERS have vot‐ ed to strike this month, over legal aid funding, it was reported on June 20. The news comes hot on the heels of reports that teachers, binmen and NHS staff have all threatened to walk out. The Criminal Bar As‐ sociation (CBA), which represents barristers in England and Wales, said several days of court walkouts will begin next week along with a re‐ fusal to take on new cas‐ es. The CBA representa‐ tives, Jo Sidhu QC and Kirsty Brimelow QC said: “Without immediate ac‐ tion to halt the exodus of criminal barristers from our ranks, the record backlog that has crippled our courts will continue to inflict misery upon victims and defen‐ dants alike, and the pub‐ lic will be betrayed.”
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Britain regulates lenders Peter McLaren‐Kennedy WITH inflation rampant and many strug‐ gling to make ends meet Britain plans to regulate the ‘buy now pay later’ industry, bringing it more in line with the financial services industry. The plans announced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on Monday June 20 will see ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) companies carry out, amongst other changes, affordability checks. It will also see the industry having to apply for ap‐
proval of advertisements from the FCA. John Glen, Economic Secretary to the Fi‐ nance Ministry said: “Buy now pay later can be a helpful way to manage your fi‐ nances, but we need to ensure that people can embrace new products and services with the appropriate protections in place.” He added that a consultation on draft legislation would be towards the end of this year, which would then be used to fill in the detail of the act by mid‐2023. After that, the FCA would consult on its rules for the sector.
Bird flu outbreaks
EIGHT of the UK’s top scientific organi‐ sations are coming together to find new ways to contain bird flu, the UK government announced on June 20. The eight‐strong consortium, headed by the world‐leading research team at the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), has received £1.5 million from the Biotechnology and Biosciences Re‐ search Council (BBSRC) and the De‐ partment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and has been tasked with developing new strategies to tackle future outbreaks of the dis‐
ease. This year’s outbreak has been the largest and longest ever experi‐ enced in the UK and in many parts of Europe. The outbreak started earlier than previous years after the virus continued to circulate in Europe over summer 2021 and led to over 100 cas‐ es in the UK. The news will be a significant boost to the UK’s poultry sector and rural economy, which has experienced sig‐ nificant disruption, with compulsory indoor housing measures put in place to protect poultry.
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Planning your retirement in Spain 7 steps to take before and after your move Spain remains a popular destination for British retirees and there are so many benefits to living here. If you take specialist advice and follow the procedures correctly, you can continue to live the dream in Spain. Here are seven key wealth management steps you need to take as part of your journey. 1) Apply for your Spain residence visa Applying for legal residence in Spain now involves stricter requirements and more advance planning and paperwork - but is generally still possible provided you can support yourself. Work visas are harder to obtain, but retirees can apply for a Spanish non-lucrative visa. If you have capital to invest locally, the ‘Golden Visa’ may be an option. 2) Understand the tax implications of living in Spain You are a tax resident of Spain if you spend more than 183 days here a year, or if your centre of economic
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or vital (wife/children) interests is in Spain. Tax residence makes you liable for Spanish income, capital gains and annual wealth taxes on worldwide income and assets and subject to the succession and gift tax rules. For Spanish residents, most UK pensions are taxed in Spain, not the UK, but government service pensions are an exception. Purchased annuities can sometimes be taxed
very favourably. Pension lump sums are fully taxable in Spain. 3) Timing your move to save tax The Spanish tax year runs from January to December, whereas the UK is April to April. The two countries apply different capital gains tax rules and rates. Weigh up whether it is better to sell your UK assets as a UK or Spanish tax resident, then time your move accordingly. 4) Structure your assets to minimise tax in Spain A potentially costly mistake is assuming what was tax-efficient in the UK is the same in Spain. ISAs, for example, lose their tax-free status here. While Spanish taxation can look high, the tax regime presents attractive tax mitigation opportunities. The way you hold your assets can make a significant difference to how much tax you pay. 5) Analyse your pension options Pensions are usually the founda-
tion of retirement. Review all the options available to you as an expatriate and weigh up which is most suitable for you. For example, you might benefit from consolidating several UK pensions into one to provide a coherent, more cost-effective investment platform for your retirement income. Pension rules frequently change so the appropriate solution today may be slightly different tomorrow. The important thing is to take regulated, specialist advice before making pension decisions. If you are not yet Spanish tax resident, there may be tax benefits to seeking advice before you become one. 6) Reviewing your savings and investments This is the time for a fresh review of your savings and investments. Ensure your portfolio is suitable for you today, has the right currency mix, is designed to meet your aims and risk appetite, and has adequate diversification to reduce risk. Consider what currency to hold
your savings in - keeping assets in Sterling puts you at the mercy of conversion costs and negative exchange rate movements. It may be sensible for you to have a mix, so look for investment structures that allow flexibility. 7) Don’t forget estate planning Spanish inheritance tax works very different from the UK’s. Spain also restricts who you can leave assets to, though you can plan ahead to get round this. A helping hand It pays to do your research, but taking specialist cross-border advice will prove invaluable. Find a firm who can advise you for the longerterm, on all these various aspects, from the planning stages in the UK throughout your new life in Spain, and if you return to the UK in future. Keep up to date on the financial issues that may affect you on the Blevins Franks news page at www.blevins franks.com.
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Covid loans falsely applied for DIRECTORS of a distressed building firm have been disqualified from running busi‐ nesses after abusing government support they were not entitled to. David Garry Harrison (48) and Paul Hud‐ son (47) both received 11‐year bans after they did not dispute they caused their company to apply for £100,000 worth of bounce‐back loans it was not entitled to. The pair, both from Cullompton, Devon, are now disqualified from directly, or indi‐ rectly, becoming involved in the promo‐ tion, formation or management of a com‐ pany, without the permission of the court. Ace Buildings and Maintenance Services
Limited was incorporated in June 2017 and carried out general building and mainte‐ nance work. However, the company began to strug‐ gle and by October 2019 had a winding‐up petition presented against it because it could not pay its debts. The firm’s insolvency, however, trig‐ gered an investigation by the Insolvency Service before investigators discovered David Harrison and Paul Hudson caused Ace Building and Maintenance Services Limited to submit two sham applications for bounce‐back loans it was not entitled to.
Spain was life-changing DANNIELLA WESTBROOK confirmed an in Instagram post on Thursday, June 16 that “Living in the marvellous Mediterranean was such a life‐changer, after a long mar‐ riage I was kind of lost and was a huge gamble as to if I would adapt and heal. “I adapted fine obviously but I didn’t heal, but I did meet the man I adore and af‐ ter loads of back and forth, we got there.”
Starred in EastEnders.
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At age 16, Danniella first came into the limelight as the troublesome Mitchell daugh‐ ter, Sam, in ‘EastEnders’. Since
then the actress has become known more for her lifelong cocaine addiction than her work. In her autobiographies, she revealed she started using the drug at the age of 14 after be‐ ing introduced to it through pals in nightclubs. She also later admitted she used the drug while pregnant and estimates she spent near‐ ly a quarter of a million pounds on the powder.
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Fast-track passports MP backlash A LEAKED memo has revealed that Passport Office workers were told to encourage peo‐ ple to pay £100 (€117) for fast track renewals according to local
press on Sunday, June 19, despite the cost‐of‐ living crisis leaving many people strug‐ gling. As many as 500,000 passports are waiting
to be issued, so under‐ standably Passport Of‐ fice workers have faced an increasing number of angry cus‐ tomers recently. Some customers even turned up in per‐ son at their premises in recent weeks de‐ manding to know what has happened to their application. It has been claimed that the Passport Of‐ fice remains in crisis, with staff unable to get on top of their ev‐ er‐increasing pace of work. A leaked memo has given staff advice on how to deal with a rise in ‘casual callers’ who turn up in person, in‐ cluding encouraging them to pay for an up‐ grade if they’ve waited more than six weeks for their renewal and have an urgent need to trav‐ el in the next fortnight.
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QUEUES: A busy Stanstead airport.
ONE MP, David Lammy, faced fury on Twitter after tweeting about queues at Stanstead Airport on Sunday June 19. The politician took to Twitter to vent his annoyance in a Tweet that read “Another morning, another horrid queue at airport security! This time at Stanstead. Well done Boris Johnson. Top marks Priti Patel Welcome to #BacklogBritain.” His Twitter followers were quick to respond, confirming it isn’t just the UK with problems in a Tweet that read: “Seriously?” “You are a potential future Foreign Secretary and you are unaware of similar problems at Schiphol, Arlanda, Dublin and Palma Airports, to name just four? “Clearly if you ever did get that job, attacking the UK would come before the truth.” Another follower not quick to jump to David Lammy’s defence tweeted “My daughter waited four hours in Dublin for a flight to Canada. I find it strange that an MP should tweet such stuff. “So unprofessional. At one time MPs from all parties knew how to speak and conduct themselves in a professional manner but now it seems anything goes.”
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Eastenders star quits booze EASTENDERS star Adam Woodyatt has confessed that he decided to give up alcohol because doctors warned him his liver was ‘taking a bit of a hammer‐ ing.’ Speaking on The Nightcap podcast, Adam said: “It was a health thing. I went into hospital with a stomach is‐ sue and they pointed out my liver was probably tak‐ ing a bit of a hammering. “They said, ‘Look, give your liver a rest for six weeks, we’ll do some tests.’ Then Covid happened and six weeks became 12 weeks. “And I thought, ‘Do you know what, I’ve cracked this, I don’t miss it, I’m bet‐ ter off without it’ and I thought, that’s it. “I’m not going to say nev‐ er again, but at the moment no alcohol and it’s fine. “But I still like smelling it, especially rum. I’m not so good on whisky.”
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Hollywood writer arrested CANADIAN-BORN Oscar winner and Quantum of So‐ lace writer Paul Haggis was detained in Italy, on Sunday June 19, on suspicion of sexu‐ al assault. The film director, who is in Italy for a film festival which began on Tuesday, June 21 in Ostuni, a tourist town in Puglia, was arrested follow‐ ing allegations that a ‘young foreign woman’ was forced to have ‘non‐consensual’ sex‐
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Haggis detained in Italy.
ual relations over two days. Prosecutors Antonio Ne‐ gro and Livia Orlando, who
are conducting the investiga‐ tion, said in the statement the woman was “forced to seek medical care” after two days “of non‐consensual sex.” The woman who made the complaint said she was “accompanied by the man” to Brindisi airport on Friday June 17 and “left there at dawn despite (her) precari‐ ous physical and psychologi‐ cal conditions.”
Civil Society Prize
THE objective of this year’s CESE Civil Society Prize is to create a better future for young people and to help victims of the Ukrainian war. The European Economic and Social Com‐ mittee is receiving its candidates for the Civil Society prize 2022, that recognises innovative and creative projects and initiatives in two categories: young people’s training and sup‐ port for the Ukrainian civilians affected by the terrible events in their war torn country.
The prizes, with a total provision of €60,000, will be given to a maximum of six winners, three for each category. The award ceremony will take place on December 14 and 15, 2022, during the CESE conference in Brussels. The candidates for the awards will be fi‐ nalised at 10am on July 31, 2022. The projects can be finalised or ongoing. Projects which are proposed but the carrying out of which has not begun by July 31, 2022 will not qualify for the award.
EU extends sanctions
THE European Council has extended EU sanctions in re‐ sponse to Russia’s annexa‐ tion of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, by one year, as reported on Monday, June, 20. The sanctions were first in‐ troduced in June 2014, and included prohibitions that aimed to target the import of
products from both Crimea and Sevastopol. The EU sanctions will now last until June 23, 2023. Josep Borrell, High Repre‐ sentative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy stated that “the EU does not recog‐ nise and continues to con‐ demn the illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula as a
serious violation of interna‐ tional law.” The EU also claims that it “remains steadfast in its commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial in‐ tegrity within its internation‐ ally recognised borders and dedicated to fully imple‐ menting its non‐recognition policy.”
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Money laundering crackdown IN a speech at a meet‐ ing of the Financial Ac‐ tion Task Force (FATF), Federal Chancellor Scholz has launched a fight against money laundering and terror‐ ist financing. He has identified these crimes as a prob‐ lem “both within Eu‐ rope and worldwide.” Germany is currently leading the task force to crack down on these issues by ensur‐ ing strong, modern, and efficient laws. Addressing the ple‐ nary in Berlin, on Tues‐ day June 14, Scholz ex‐ pressed his view that they must begin “at home.” Germany is susceptible to these crimes due to its large economy and financial centre, and its strate‐ gic location in Europe and strong interna‐ tional connections. FATF was estab‐ lished in Paris in 1989, and through this inter‐ governmental body, international stan‐ dards are established to prevent illegal activ‐ ity and identify culprits of financial miscon‐ duct.
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Footballer tax fraud EX-BARCELONA football star, Samuel Eto’o, was handed a 22‐month sus‐ pended prison sentence, on June 20, after admit‐ ting tax fraud to the tune of £3.32m (€3.7m). The charge is in rela‐ tion to failing to declare the transfer of image rights as personal income for three years during his time at Barcelona Foot‐ ball Club. Instead, he taxed the image rights through two companies,
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Ex-Barcelona football star found guilty of £3.3m tax fraud.
one in Hungary and one in Spain, so he was not taxed as heavily as he
should have been. The former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker admitted the offence, but alleges that he was a victim of manipulation by his former agent Jose Maria Mesalles. In a statement, the 41‐ year‐old said he would repay all of the money but sought to put the re‐ sponsibility on Mesalles, who he viewed as a fa‐ ther at the time of the of‐ fences.
Germany NATO confidence A GERMAN govern‐ ment source has said they are “very confi‐ dent” NATO will reach an agreement with Sweden and Finland over the bid for mem‐ bership of the alliance, it was reported on Monday June 20. The source did add
that it would not be a ‘catastrophe’ if this did not happen. “As nice as it would be to announce con‐ crete steps, it would not be a catastrophe if it needed a few more weeks,” the source said. “What is decisive from our point of view
is there are no insur‐ mountable problems.” In response to Rus‐ sia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sweden and Finland applied to join the Western defence alliance last month but have since faced opposition from Turkey.
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Parking for electric cars WITH petrol prices ris‐ ing rapidly, govern‐ ments around the world are looking to see what they can do to encourage the switch to electric and
other alternatives, with one Dutch Minis‐ ter suggesting a solu‐ tion could be lower parking fees. The suggestion be‐ ing considered for all
major centres in the Netherlands is that owners of electric, hy‐ drogen and non‐oil‐fu‐ elled vehicles pay less for parking their cars in town centres, at shopping centres, air‐ ports and other pay‐ to‐park places. The proposal, which could be introduced as early as 2023 ac‐ cording to Junior Min‐ ister Vivianne Heij‐ nen, could see owners of hydrogen and elec‐ tric cars saving up‐ wards of €500 annual‐ ly. This would add to the savings already provided through low‐ er licensing fees. Given that some councils have already opted to provide free parking for hydrogen and electric vehicles, the proposal is to al‐ low councils to make the decision whether to offer the discount.
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Schiphol slash passenger numbers Peter McLaren‐Kennedy AMSTERDAM’S international hub Schiphol has announced it is to follow Gatwick’s earlier announcement and slash passenger numbers in an effort to avoid chaos over the summer months. The announcement on June 17 said that the airport will cut the number of passengers by 13,500 a day in July and that these restrictions will possibly continue into and throughout August. Airport Chief Dick Benschop said
IRISH TV presenter, 43‐year‐ old Aideen Kennedy died on Sunday June 19, following a long illness. Aideen was a popular journalist and a familiar face on UTV news bulletins over the years. On June 17 Aideen updat‐ ed her Twitter fans with her condition in a Tweet that read: “So life has not gone
they were still working on proposed cuts for August and they will make an announcement in two weeks’ time. Schiphol has suffered problems as a result of a shortage of baggage han‐ dlers and security staff, as well as staff in other areas. But it is those two key roles that led to the chaos and at one stage the announcement by KLM that it would halt all flights into and out of the airport over a number of days to try and alleviate the chaos and delays.
Irish star dies well and I am as sick as I was as when I went into hospital, so essentially going home to die but getting palliative care. “The kids know. If you ever come across them, will you keep an eye out for them, they are the kind‐ est, sweetest most
thoughtful kiddies.” Alongside, Aideen shared selfies with her young chil‐ dren Jacob and Eva, whose exact ages are unknown. They had made a card for her saying, “To mummy, I hope you get well soon. Love you loads.”
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Brussels passengers stranded A LAST-MINUTE strike by security personnel forced the partial closure of Brussels airport leaving thousands stranded. The strike, which began on Monday June 20, re‐ sulted in the cancellation of all departing flights with only incoming and cargo flights being han‐ dled. Because the strike was only announced late on
Sunday evening few pas‐ sengers were aware that flights had been cancelled leaving more than 70, 000 people stranded and in limbo. Many people gath‐ ered at the airport on Monday morning, with some not having heard that there was a strike and others simply trying their luck. An airport spokesper‐ son had appealed to pas‐
sengers to stay away from the airport and to contact their airline who would either help them rebook or obtain a re‐ fund. Some airlines aware of the changes were quick to put in alternate plans, among those Lufthansa who rebooked all their Brussels flights to Os‐ tende, Antwerp and Liège.
Coal coming back EUROPE is heading back to using coal as Russia slows gas flow, it was reported on June 20. Some of Europe’s biggest receivers of Rus‐ sian gas have been searching to find an al‐ ternative fuel supply. This has led to consider‐ ing burning more coal. Reduced gas flows from Russia have
threatened an energy crisis, come winter, if stocks are not being re‐ placed. Eni, Italy’s main ener‐ gy supplier, said it had been informed by Rus‐ sia’s main supplier, Gazprom, that it would only receive part of its request for gas. Eni has confirmed that this will push the country closer
to declaring a state of alert that will spark gas‐ saving measures. On Sunday June 19, Germany also faced re‐ ceiving lower Russian gas supplies and they announced the plan to increase gas storage lev‐ els and said it could restart coal‐fired power plants that it had aimed to phase out.
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FEATURE
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Joshua Manning BORN on January, 4, 1937, 85‐year‐old William ‘Mickey’ Stevenson is an extremely talented songwriter, writing and producing huge hits
such as ‘Dancing in the Street’ performed by Martha & the Vandellas, ‘It Takes Two’ performed by Marvin Gaye and Kim West‐ on and ‘Nothing’s too good for my baby’ performed by
Stevie Wonder. He sat down to talk, exclu‐ sively, with the Euro Weekly News, about his impressive career. A veteran of the music in‐ dustry, known as the origi‐
nal Motown A&R man, Mickey Stevenson scouted for promising new talents for Berry Gordy’s Motown labels, pushing huge house‐ hold names including Stevie Wonder, the Funk Brothers and The Supremes. “I’m not a genius, I just have a gift, a God‐given gift as I say, I believe we all have one, and not just one but two or three. For me it was seeing talent in young artists when other people didn’t,” stated Stevenson. “It happened with Stevie Wonder when he was just 11 years old, I told Berry we had to push this kid, at that age he had something that a lot of people don’t have even after graduating music at college, and if nobody pushed that, he was gonna lose it.” In 1959 Mickey Stevenson joined Berry Gordy’s record label when it was first founded, initially known as Tamla and a year later changed to Motown records. Mickey Stevenson would go on to not only prove his worth as Motown’s A&R man throughout his life, but also as a writer and produc‐ er. Speaking on the inspira‐ tion behind his biggest hit ‘Dancing In The Street’ Stevenson stated: “That’s my favourite song, it holds such happy memo‐
Permission of Mickey Stevenson
‘Dancing in the Street’ Songwriter Mickey Stevenson
MICKEY STEVENSON: A veteran of the music industry.
ries of when we were kids and we used to break fire hydrants and play and dance in the street under the water. “We bled those streets,” recalled Stevenson as he laughed. But Mickey Stevenson’s successful career does not stop there, in latter years he’s produced a large num‐ ber of stage musicals such as ‘Memories of Motown’, ‘The Gospel Truth’ and more recently ‘Sang Sister Sang,’ about some of the most iconic women of colour to ever live. This includes Dorothy Dandridge, Dinah Washington, Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, Mahalia Jack‐ son, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith. Speaking on the musical Mickey stated: “Women have gone through hell, and
are still going through a part of it, you ask your mother or sister, they’ll tell you the walls they face just because they’re women, which is crazy. That’s why writing on these things is important.” On June 16, 2022, Mickey Stevenson was inducted in‐ to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City alongside Mariah Carey, Steve Miller, and The Isley Brothers amongst others. “I was shocked when I heard the news, but it’s such an honour to even be con‐ sidered and to know that all these people voted me in when I thought they didn’t even know me, it’s crazy. “I have a hunch it will be my old friend Smokey Robinson who inducts me, but he wouldn’t tell me even if it was him,” laughed Stevenson.
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Tragedy of ‘mini Tornado’ A KITESURFER was killed and eight injured after a sudden ‘mini Tornado’ according to French press on Sunday June 19. The tragedy happened on the beach of Villers‐sur‐Mer, Normandy in France. The strong gales hospi‐ talised five people along with the 31‐year‐old kitesurfer who died instantly after smashing into a restaurant on the seafront. One person ‘disappeared’ after being swept away at sea, but was found well after the National Society of Sea Rescue (SNSM) and a helicopter was mobilised to find him. The deceased man was a 31‐year‐old kitesurfer original‐ ly from Paris who had a sec‐ ond home in Normandy. Thierry Granturco, the may‐ or of Villers‐sur‐Mer, called the winds a “violence as we have never known on our coast.” The winds lasted 20‐25 min‐ utes from 8.30pm on Satur‐ day, June 18. The gusts of wind carried away the garden furniture on seafront terraces
causing further injuries. This unexpected weather phenomenon was not an‐
nounced by Meteo‐France, the organisation which moni‐ tors weather events.
Leaders give support for EU
Chris King THE leaders of four Euro‐ pean nations met with Pres‐ ident Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on June 16, where they jointly voiced their sup‐ port for the Ukrainian bid to join the European Union. This action was publicly backed by France’s Presi‐ dent Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, Mario Draghi, the Italian Prime Minister, and Klaus Iohannis, the Romani‐ an President, during their meeting at the Mariyinsky Presidential Palace. Previously, officials had stated that any proposal to join the EU could take sev‐
eral years, or even decades: However, Macron said “im‐ mediate” candidature had his full support, plus that of his counterparts in the oth‐ er countries, according the British media. In a further move aimed at supplying Ukraine with means of stopping the Rus‐ sian invasion, Zelenskyy was promised more heavy weaponry. Macron spoke of supplying another six lor‐ ry‐mounted artillery guns. France has already provided military hardware. They said European lead‐ ers were “doing everything so that Ukraine alone can decide its fate.”
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EUROPEAN PRESS DENMARK
FINLAND
New border
Trusting media
FOR decades Denmark and Canada have had a friendly tussle over who owns Hans Island, a tiny rock in the Arctic situated between the two countries with regular removals of flags and replacement with national alcoholic drinks. Now the countries have agreed to peacefully share the island.
FINLAND is considered number one in media trustworthiness when compared to 46 other countries in the annual Reuters Institute's Digital News Report as 75 per cent of Finns surveyed said that they trust the news they follow, a 2 per cent increase over 2021.
THE NETHERLANDS
IRELAND
Bird brains
Poor research
ALTHOUGH seagulls can’t read or talk, they do like to return to the same spot each year to breed. Fed up with the noise and potential danger of dive-bombing birds, the Alkmaar council has designated two roofs at an outof-town industrial estate for their nests.
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been the butt of a number of jibes on social media when on June 13 in an Irish TV interview she referred to the Irish Prime Minister as the tea sock when the correct English pronunciation of Taoiseach is teeshock.
BELGIUM
ITALY
Fair cop
Female first
IF you are going to offer stolen goods for sale in a busy shopping street in Brussels, it’s probably not a good idea to wander up to two strangers who are police officers in plain-clothes tasked with trying to catch shoplifters. Four arrests were made.
MILAN has unveiled its first ever public statue of a woman opposite the Statale University and for Italy it is also the first monument featuring a female scientist, as the sculpture of late astrophysicist Margherita Hack celebrated what would have been her 100th birthday on June 12.
GERMANY
PORTUGAL
Not insulting
Peace Index
THERE is a history of European churches from the 14th century being emblazoned with antiSemitic sculptures and 20 still exist with images of Jewish people suckling on a sow. On June 14, the High Court denied a petition demanding that one be removed from a Wittenberg church.
ALTHOUGH there has not been an outbreak of civil war and things generally haven’t changed a great deal, Portugal has slipped from third to sixth place in the 2022 Global Peace Index but in comparison it is 23 places above Spain and 28 places above the UK.
FRANCE
UKRAINE
Cool it
Up in smoke
AS summers become hotter, the French government is to invest €500 million in order to assist local councils to create oases of shade by planting trees and other tall vegetation in urban areas in a bid to tackle the effects of climate change.
ALTHOUGH the Ukraine government is fighting a war against the Russian invasion, the day to day running of the country continues and Health Minister Viktor Liashko has indicated that he plans to submit a bill to increase access to medical cannabis to help ease mental strain.
NORWAY
SWEDEN
SAS strike
Dirty talk
WITH SAS airline staff getting ready to strike at the beginning of July, it looks as if both the reborn Norwegian Air and relative newcomer Flyr, which is in its first year of operation and covers much of Europe including Spain, will benefit considerably.
KNOWN for its openness about sex, the latest experiment from Sweden comes from Malmö where one of its rubbish bins has been programmed with a seductive female voice which gives a number of double entendre responses such as “Ooh, yeah, right there” when accepting rubbish.
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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT PERSONALLY, I don’t think the crime wave of tsunami proportions, which is at the moment practically engulfing the UK, has very little to do with the country’s lack of police resources. I believe a large part of the blame can be firmly apportioned to the breakdown of the family unit. Huge numbers of families across the UK have for years taken full advantage of the liberal benefit policies of successive governments. Child benefits have been a particularly lucrative source of earnings. Consequently, many children have been conceived and born purely to add to the family income. This has resulted in enormous dysfunctional families, of individuals, particularly immigrants, to whom benefits are a way of life and children merely a means to a financial end. There is no love or guidance in these families. Once the children’s purpose has been served, they are left to roam the streets with no sense of decency or compassion for their fellow human beings whatsoever. How could there be when there have been no examples of it at home? Once let loose, they link
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up with likeminded offsprings of their fellow dysfunctional neighbours and begin to run riot. They soon begin to realise, that the impossibly priced electronic devices and expensive ‘toys’ they have been bombarded with on television, are completely out of their financial reach‐ even if they took a ‘proper’ job. So, they turn to crime. This includes knifing and young murders in some areas which now seem to be publicised for a day and then forgotten! To be honest I can see no answer to the immediate situation. Lock up as many of them as possible I suppose. As to the future, only allowing child benefits for up to two children would be a start. At least this would curb the temptation to pour even more unwanted and unloved future criminals into our society. More police are certainly needed, but only because the numbers of young criminals have escalated so alarmingly. I would like to see Boot Camps built all across the country, where these young offenders can be sent to learn discipline, values and respect for their fellow human beings. Trades could be taught. Even
simply showing someone actually cares may rescue at least a proportion of them that can then be released to become valued members of society. Although Spain also has some problems with young offenders, it is nothing like the enormous criminal issues confronting the UK at this time. I firmly believe that a great deal of this lies in the simple fact that the Spanish family unit is still as strong as ever. Love and respect are firmly entwined and practised from Grannies and Grandads down to the youngest of the broods and although I do feel they spoil some of their kids rotten, it’s infinitely better than chucking them out to survive with no pre‐preparation, guidance or sense of decency whatsoever. Thanks for all the mail. Keep ‘em coming. Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com expatradioscotland.com Mon. Fri. 1pm till 4.
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STAT OF WEEK
€1.22 billion
was the value of sales earned by Spanish ceramic company Pamesa Grupo Empresarial during 2021 with final profits of €97 million.
Electric car charging Credit: Pool Moncloa / Fernando Calvo
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SINGER Billie Eilish broke off from her UK tour to be the host at Overheated Live at the O2 in order to promote green awareness amongst musicians and venues hosting tours. All crew members on her American tour were required to follow a vegan diet.
Not smiling
Sales down ALTHOUGH not always an accurate barometer of a country’s economic situation, reports of a reduction in sales by major supermarkets certainly gives an indication of problems and the UK’s largest supermarket Tesco has announced a drop in the value of sales of 1.5 per cent compared to last year.
Advert banned THE UK Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints against a Paddy Power TV advert which shows a man so distracted by gambling on his phone that when his wife says “Do you think I’ll end up looking like my mum?”, he says “I hope so.”
National debt THE Bank of Spain has announced that the country’s national debt fell by 0.6 per cent in April to €1.44 trillion, a reduction of €8.4 billion after reaching a record high in March of this year. Currently the debt stands at 117.7 per cent of GDP.
MADRID: Pedro Sánchez and Teresa Ribera at GENERA 2022.
SPAIN is to invest a further €225 mil‐ lion to make electric car charging easier according to a statement by President Pedro Sánchez at the GENERA 2022 Fair in Madrid on Wednesday June 15. This investment announced through the Electric Vehicle Recharging Infrastructure Working Group is in addition to the €400 mil‐ lion previously committed which has already been spent in almost all of the autonomous communities. Electric vehicles are, he believes, the future and the number of elec‐ tric vehicle registrations already ex‐ ceeds the threshold of 10 per cent of
the total, in less than a year so that Spain will have a backbone deploy‐ ment of more than 1,000 recharging points throughout the national terri‐ tory. This is only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ as with the latest injection of cash, the government has received com‐ mitments for another 27,000 charg‐ ing points to be installed throughput Spain. Addressing the matter alongside Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, the President ex‐ plained that Spain is the second largest vehicle producer in Europe
and the eighth in the world. With 17 production plants owned by nine manufacturers the sector ac‐ counts for 8 per cent of Spain’s gross domestic product and Sánchez wants to see an increase in the num‐ ber of models of electric vehicles generated in the country with Spain becoming leaders in the manufac‐ ture of batteries, components and recharging infrastructures. The Strategic Project for the Re‐ covery and Economic Transforma‐ tion (PERTE) of the Electric and Con‐ nected Vehicle (VEC) is endowed with a historic public investment of almost €4.3 billion.
Claim against Apple UK consumer champion Justin Gut‐ man has launched a claim against Ap‐ ple for allegedly ‘throttling’ a number of older iPhones by installing a new up‐ date which slowed them down. The claim is against Apple Inc (and its subsidiaries) for breaching UK competi‐ tion law through its exploitative and abusive behaviour in relation to the supply of iPhones and iOS updates. It is what is known as a class action with Mr Gutman acting on behalf of all members of the class who don’t have to take part in the court case. He is re‐ sponsible for making sure their inter‐ ests are put first throughout the con‐ duct of the claim which is for £768 million. A number of different iPhones rang‐
FINANCE
Credit: Ana Bernardo on Unsplash
ANOTHER victim of the pandemic has been New York based cosmetics company Revlon which after being 90 years in business has had to file for bankruptcy protection as lipstick sales in particular plummeted as people around the world had to wear face masks in public.
Many iPhone 6 and later models were affected.
ing from iPhone 6 to 8 as well as X are affected and his legal team will argue that the company misled users over an upgrade that it said would enhance performance but, in fact, slowed phones down. The reason for this was allegedly be‐ cause Apple sold iPhones with defec‐
tive batteries that were unable to de‐ liver peak power and they encouraged owners to allow automatic iOS up‐ dates to iPhones which incorporated a power management tool which slowed down the iPhones and caused performance issues. Commenting on the claim, Apple told the British press: “We have never, and would never, do anything to … de‐ grade the user experience to drive cus‐ tomer upgrades. “Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that.” Similar actions have been brought in the past in the USA which included a significant pay‐out by Apple.
Scorchio SPARE a thought for workers in the UK who are not used to the same high temperatures that we often experience here in Spain. As Britain basks in an‐ other heatwave, many will find it uncomfortable to work in shops and of‐ fices but despite what many may think, there is no law in the UK to pro‐ tect workers who are suf‐ fering from excessive heat. There is advice and guidance that work‐ places should be kept to a ‘reasonable’ tempera‐ ture and unions recom‐ mend that the maximum reasonable temperature is 30°C or 27°C if work is strenuous, but neither that nor a minimum working temperature can be enforced as the laws stand.
Green success A YOUNGER generation of entrepreneurs in Spain is attracting atten‐ tion from international investors and one of the latest is Reby which rents out electric scoot‐ ers, motor cycles and bi‐ cycles in 18 cities across Spain and Italy. Only founded in 2018 and having had to suffer two years of negative growth due to the pan‐ demic, the company has recently been taken over by Canadian green in‐ vestment company House of Lithium for $100 million (€95.6 mil‐ lion). Reby owns more than 10,000 vehicles and is now promoting its ser‐ vices to corporate com‐ panies rather than solely to individuals.
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1.402,50 4.255,0 66,84 207,97 2.017,0 731,20 245,00 42,59 7.182,0 771,60 147,90 1.424,00 1.045,00 219,30 5.938,0 1,89 819,60 1.967,0 615,00 958,20 5.960,0 2.093,00 446,50 540,80 5.414,9 87,28 0,60 613,20 1.152,00 0,0453 2.710,0 694,29 995,20 2.863,0 2.135,0 1.129,50 1.441,00 9.328,0 1.598,71 1.132,00 594,90 122,43 249,46 150,00 3.575,0 1.043,00 126,06 2.622,0 809,17
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FUNERAL plan provider, Golden Leaves, is on track to become regulated by the FCA after securing ‘Minded to Approve’ status. Just one of a few funeral plan providers now very likely to achieve full regulation, the new FCA ruling will come into force on July 29, 2022, by which time it will become a criminal offence for any non-regulated provider to sell or administer a funeral plan. Announced in July 2021, the FCA advised this latest move would ‘enhance’ consumer protection and ensure all plans are sold fairly, perform as expected and provide value for money. A leading independent funeral plan provider, Golden Leaves has long adhered to standards of excellence, having played a major role in the development of the FPA [Funeral Planning Authority]
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in 2001, and in becoming the first and only independent firm within the UK to secure the prestigious BSI Kitemark Customer Service Certification. Barry Floyd, CEO of Golden Leaves, confirmed: “Since inception, Golden Leaves has worked tirelessly to establish our reputation as a stand-out funeral plan provider that genuinely cares for our customers and their loved ones. This has been demonstrated in other regulatory achievements, such as BSI accreditations, together with the development of fully guaranteed funeral plans that have been designed with the sole purpose of protecting consumer interests. We are, therefore, delighted to have progressed to the next stage of the FCA regulation and look forward
to upholding high industry standards from July 2022 and beyond.” Initially formed by a highly regarded family of funeral directors in South London, Golden Leaves has been at the forefront of the funeral planning sector since the early1980s and was one of the first to introduce the funeral planning product to the UK market. It has successfully continued this legacy, being the first independent funeral planning company to launch a Guaranteed Cremation Funeral Plan, which freezes the cost of a funeral regardless of when the plan was purchased, and ensures that the next of kin have nothing further to pay. For more information, visit https://www.goldenleaves.com/
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THE Bank of England increased UK inter‐ est rates to 1.25 per cent following a meeting of the Monetary Policy Com‐ mittee (MPC) held on June 15, but not announced until the following day. The MCP sets monetary policy to meet the 2 per cent inflation target but in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. Members of the Committee voted by a majority of 6‐3 to increase Bank Rate by 0.25 percentage points but those members in the minority preferred to in‐
crease Bank Rate by 0.5 percentage points, to 1.5 per cent. It confirmed that its central projec‐ tions in the May Monetary Policy Re‐ port, UK GDP growth was expected to slow sharply over the first half of the forecast period and, although the labour market was expected to tighten slightly further in the near term, the unemploy‐ ment rate was projected to rise to 5.5 per cent in three years’ time. CPI inflation was expected to average slightly over 10 per cent at its peak in the
fourth quarter of 2022 and the MPC forecasts that inflation would drop to 2 per cent within two years. The base rate is the interest rate the Bank of England charges other banks and lenders when they borrow money, but low base rates doesn’t benefit con‐ sumer borrowing as banks and other lenders charge around 25 per cent inter‐ est on credit cards. Any increase in the bank rate is gener‐ ally reflected in an increase in loan and credit card interest rates.
Spanish exports soar SPANISH exports reached just under €121 billion to the end of April, a new all‐ time high the Spanish government confirmed on Thursday June 16. Spanish merchandise exports rose by 23.2 per cent in the first four months of 2022 compared to the same period last year. Imports also reached an all‐time high and rose by 39 per cent to €142.7 bil‐ lion as shown in the latest declared trade data from Customs. The Secretary of State for Trade, Xiana Mendez, confirmed that “trade in goods continued to be very dynamic in April and Spanish exports contin‐ ued to grow strongly, stronger than the exports of our main trading part‐ ners.”
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FRUIT JUICES: The summer is the perfect time to try new combinations.
Tamsin Brown AS the temperatures soar, there is nothing better than a cool drink to help us cope with the heat. Fruit juices are one of the best options for this, as not only are they hy‐ drating, but they are also rich in a variety of different nutri‐ ents. Read on to find out what some of the best juices are for summer and how they can be combined. Orange Orange juice is one of the most popular juices all year round, standing out for its vi‐ tamin C content. But this fruit
is also extremely versatile and allows an infinite number of combinations. Try orange and mango juice; orange, pineap‐ ple and strawberry juice; or‐ ange and apple juice; or or‐ ange, carrot and ginger juice. Pineapple This tangy tropical fruit is ideal for summer. Pineapple juice can be combined with many other flavours to create a healthy and nutrient‐rich drink. Some delicious combi‐ nations include pineapple, ba‐ nana and lime juice; pineap‐ ple and blackberry juice; and pineapple, apple and cucum‐ ber juice.
Watermelon Watermelon is one of the quintessential summer fruits. Its high water content makes it ideal as a refreshing way of combating the heat. Try wa‐ termelon, banana and apple juice; watermelon juice with ginger; and watermelon and strawberry juice. Melon Melon is yet another sum‐ mer fruit that contains a high amount of water, so it is also a good candidate for delicious summer juices. Try melon juice with mint; melon and watermelon juice; or melon, cucumber and lime juice.
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Preventing painful varicose veins V A R I CO S E V E I N S are an indication of poor blood circulation. Al‐ though they are often considered an aesthet‐ ic problem, they can affect your health, as they are dilated veins in which blood accu‐ mulates and has diffi‐ culty returning to the heart. The most common symptoms are aching, throbbing and swelling, which may get worse with the summer heat. Preventing varicose veins is not always pos‐ sible, as causes include pregnancy, genetic fac‐ tors, obesity and standing for many hours. However, you can minimise discom‐ fort with the following tips. Raise your legs: Lie on your bed with your legs up against the wall for several minutes to get your circulation go‐ ing. You can also sleep
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POOR CIRCULATION: The pain caused by varicose veins can be made worse by the heat.
with your legs raised by placing a blanket or pillow under them. Aloe vera: Aloe vera gel can help to calm itching. There are also other soothing prod‐ ucts on the market that contain ingredients such as butcher’s broom and horse chest‐ nut. Move around: If you
spend most of your time sitting, get up of‐ ten. If you stand all the time, find time to rest and raise your legs. Try rotating your ankles, standing on tiptoe and tensing your leg mus‐ cles to stimulate blood flow. Of course, regular exercise is essential anyway. Other treatments: Try
applying a hot damp towel to the varicose veins for a few min‐ utes, and then do the same again with a cold cloth. Alternate several times. Gentle massages can also be helpful. Remember, if the dis‐ comfort is severe, the best thing to do is seek advice from a qualified medical professional.
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Hide redness with green concealer WHY is it that celebrities seem to have perfect skin? Is it diet? Is it genetics? Is it some type of expensive treat‐ ment? Well, make‐up works wonders. Cosmetic products and make‐up techniques have advanced so much over the years that the results can be practically perfect‐look‐ ing skin. However, you don’t have to be a celebrity to achieve the same effect. As strange as it may seem, a green concealer can be your best friend. Continue reading to find out why it works and how to apply it. Why green concealer works If you have ever had any type of blemish on your face, you may have tried to cover it up with make‐up that was the colour of your skin. But have you ever tried green con‐ cealer? Green and red are opposite each other on the colour wheel, so when they are brought together, they neutralise each other. This makes green concealer an ex‐ tremely effective way of hiding imperfections such as scars, spots or rosacea. How to apply green concealer Wash and moisturise your skin as normal. Apply your foundation. Apply a small amount of the green concealer to any red areas. Gently dab with your finger, a concealer brush or a make‐up sponge to blend it in. Be gentle so as not to irritate any spots ‐ rubbing too hard will only make them look red‐ der. Now apply another concealer that matches your skin tone on top of the green concealer. Seal everything in with some translucent face powder. All ready!
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Avoid summer ear infections
YOU probably know that your skin needs extra atten‐ tion during the summer to protect it from the sun’s rays, but you might not think about your ears so much. Whether you prac‐ tise water sports in the sea or prefer to spend an hour at the local swimming pool, the large amounts of hu‐ midity can lead to an infec‐ tion of the middle ear (acute otitis media) or the outer ear (acute otitis ex‐ terna). The problem is not that water gets into the ears, but that it does not dry properly afterwards, as the humid environment is an ideal condition for an infec‐ tion. This is why you should follow the guidelines given below to help protect your ears. ‐ If you tend to get ear in‐ fections, you will need cus‐ tom‐made earplugs, as generic earplugs will not keep water out fully. ‐ Earwax is necessary be‐ cause it helps to maintain a
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WATER SPORTS: Swimming can lead to ear infections if the ears do not dry out properly.
pH that makes infections more difficult, and you should not try to remove it completely. If your ears be‐ come blocked, you can have the wax removed by your doctor. ‐ Dry your ears with a
towel and your finger. You do not need to obsess about drying them com‐ pletely. Avoid using cotton buds or other objects to clean your ears. ‐ Avoid swimming in dirty or stagnant water.
‐ Give your ears time to dry before you go swim‐ ming again and avoid con‐ stantly having your head underwater. When you get out of the water, remove your earplugs so that your ears can ventilate.
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Serving quality food I T’S amazing how time has flown, and the Punjabi Palace at La Marque‐ sa is now in its eighth year. If you’ve not been to the La Mar‐ quesa restaurant, then you have been missing out on a treat, as the regular diners can vouch for a won‐ derful view of the golf course, along with an outside terrace that is just perfect for a spot of al fresco dining during the long summer nights. The three Punjabi Palace restau‐ rants are synonymous with serving up superb quality food coupled with outstanding service and a friendly at‐ mosphere for you to enjoy your lunch or dinner. That’s why they get so many repeat customers not only English and Spanish, but Scandina‐ vian, Swedish, Norwegian, French, Italian and German all come back for an evening of amazing food and the wonderful atmosphere
LA MARQUESA: Now in its 8th year.
All three restaurants are open daily from noon until late when you can enjoy the popular lunchtime special for only €10.95 per person. At Pun‐ jabi Palace II you will find a large out‐ side terraced area perfect for birth‐ days, parties and weddings etc. They even cater for the younger ones and have a varied children’s menu. There is also a takeaway service available.
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Déjà Vu circus show
DÉJÀ VU is a personal, the‐ atrical, highly visual, sugges‐ tive, risky, and full‐of‐life cir‐ cus show that explores the distance between a man and his dreams, about what he is and what he would like to be. The man’s very ambitious dreams awaken his delusions of grandeur, but are at the same time impossible. This visual show, which has no text, blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy in a story in which it is as if Her‐ man Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener suddenly found himself immersed in the fabu‐ lous world of Alice in Wonder‐ land. The art of Charles Chaplin,
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Déjà Vu is a visual, risky and highly suggestive circus show.
Charlie Rivel or Marcel Marceau comes to mind when contemplating the per‐ formance of Manolo Alcán‐ tara, a virtuoso acrobat with a fine sense of humour.
Almoradi weekly market EVERY Saturday Alicante’s Almoradi holds its long‐stand‐ ing weekly market, a meeting point for traders and buyers from all over the region. The market is set up in the streets adjacent to the Plaza de la Constitución, occupying more than a kilometre in to‐ tal. The stalls offer a huge range of products, including flowers and plants, birds, carpets, handicrafts, imported goods, clothing and footwear, crockery, gifts, fruit and veg‐ etables and all kinds of food. Visitors will not be disappointed by a pleasant stroll through the Saturday market and are bound to find a bar‐ gain or two. Also, a series of entertainment activities for all ages are held parallel to the market in the Plaza, along with guided tours of the main buildings of the town and the traditional paths of the orchard of Almoradi.
It all begins when Alcántara gets up from a bed. We do not know what it means, whether it is a dream or his awakening. That’s the game. Because Déjà Vu is a world of illusions, with scenery of im‐ probable proportions, funny moments and great physical dexterity. The performance will take place on Sunday, June 26, at 6.30pm in the Municipal The‐ atre of Torrevieja. Tickets cost €5 and can be purchased at www.entradasatualcance.co m.
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OUR VIEW UNEXPECTED RESULT LOCAL elections are not always a real test of public opinion on the popularity of the national government but the Partido Popular had a spectacular success in the Junta de Andalucia elections which took place on Sunday June 19. In 2018, Barcelona born Juanma Moreno became the first Partido Popular (PP) President of the Junta, even though his left-wing opponents the PSOE secured more seats, but Moreno was able to put together a coalition supported by Ciudadanos and smaller parties, allowing him to take power. In this latest election, there was always an expectation that the PP would secure the largest number of votes, but it was anticipated that Moreno would have to form another coalition possibly with Ciudadanos or right-wing Vox. In the event, he obtained a sufficient share of the votes to win an overwhelming majority which has allowed him to take absolute control of the Junta and whilst Vox made small gains and PSOE small losses, Adelante Andalucia lost 10 of its 12 seats and Ciudadanos was wiped out, losing all 21 of its seats, For an autonomous community that has been so staunchly in favour of the PSOE since the establishment of the Junta in 1978, such an enormous turnaround despite the problems of the PP at national level suggests that the next general election which must take place no later than December 10, 2023 could see some major changes. We should make it clear that this newspaper does not take a stance as far as Spanish politics are concerned, but believes it useful to readers to explain the current situation as well as alerting them to pointers to the future.
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GO LOCAL
THE EURO WEEKLY NEWS has urged its readers to support local businesses in the community by shopping locally in recent times. Now things are heading back to normal, we challenge you to maintain that habit by supporting local high streets, markets, butchers, greengrocers and all of the wonderfully quirky inde‐ pendent businesses in your area. Local businesses make our villages, towns and cities
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WHILE there are official campsites in Andalucia, there are also a number of other options for wild camping. Camping doesn’t just mean a standard family tent, makeshift construc‐ tions made out of sticks and plastic sheeting and one person bivouacs are also considered camp‐ ing. There is a subtle le‐ gal difference for cara‐ vans and campervans between parking and camping ‐ if the awning is erected or there is the pres‐ ence of equipment such as chairs or stoves then this is considered to be camping. National and natural parks in Spain do have refugios or mountain shelters, usually consisting of basic accommo‐ dation with limited cooking and washing facilities. You can also find free camping in national and natu‐ ral parks, however, these are closed from June to Septem‐
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Camping in Spain
The best way to camp in Spain is at designated camping sites.
ber due to fire hazards. While it’s appealing to camp on the beach, and though many of the camp‐ sites are located along the coast, camping on the beach itself is not allowed. It is also not allowed in Spain to just
pitch up and wild camp and, in general, camp fires are also not allowed ‐ particularly in the summer months. Camping (not parking) on public roads is not legal and, although car parks on the seafront or in other locations
will have their own local coun‐ cil rules, camping is generally not permitted. Sleeping in a car on the roadside is legal if you are parked in an area where cars are allowed, such as a public car park. Howev‐ er, be sure to not set up any chairs or camping equipment outside of the vehicle. Camping on private land is tolerated in Spain, how‐ ever, Article 46.1 says that, even on private land, no more than three tents or car‐ avans and no more than 10 people can camp in the same place for more than three days. This national law also states it is prohibited to wild camp within 200 metres of the high tide mark of the beach, within a few kilome‐ tres of military installations, within a few kilometres of an official campsite, in protected areas like national parks, nat‐ ural parks and at national monuments.
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Camping Essentials Laura Kemp YOUR basic camping kit! First of all, a tent! They come in lots of sizes, and a good rule of thumb is to aim for a tent that sleeps one or two people more than you need. Tent pegs ‐ you will get some with your tent, don’t forget to take them! Sleeping bags for everyone who is camping ‐ it gets pretty chilly at night, even in summer. A sleeping mat, air bed, or camp bed for each person ‐ air beds are cheap and comfortable so a good place to start. Pillows ‐ easy to forget, but make a huge differ‐ ence to a good night’s sleep. If camping by car take your ones from home. Camping stove, fuel and cutlery. Water carrier or jerry can ‐ so you don’t have to go to the site tap every time you need water! Camping chairs ‐ the best way to relax in the sun is on a comfy folding lounger or chair. Torch and bat‐ teries. Bin bags ‐ so you can keep the tent clean and tidy. Wet wipes or cloths ‐ For easy, quick clean‐ ing. A travel First Aid Kit!
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Annie Dabb AS well as the size of their home, pet owners have to consider the care and ne‐ cessities that come with owning a pet. In big cities, there are significantly more people who live with a pet in a small apartment. Living with an animal of‐ fers companionship and experts suggest that it also offers several health bene‐ fits, such as diminishing stress and stimulating the immune system. However, when deciding whether to get a pet, it’s important to consider how much space and attention certain pets need to ensure that they are happy. Not all pets re‐ quire the same things. Exotic Animals There are exotic animals that don’t need much space, but require very specific care, experts clari‐ fy. Amongst these pets are small rodents, fish, reptiles
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Pets at home and exotic birds. Small ro‐ dents tend to require little space and spend a lot of time in their cage. They are very sociable, affec‐ tionate and sweet, perfect for children. Many exotic fish require
little attention and certain species live compatibly, however it’s important to keep their aquarium clean. Dogs and Cats Dogs and cats are the most quintessential pets. Cats are great for small
apartments, especially if provided with toys and
scratch posts. However, depending on their age and breed, dogs tend to require a lot more space and more time and atten‐ tion to make sure they get enough exercise.
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Whichever pet you choose, it’s important to take into consideration whether you can provide for it properly to ensure that it is happy and healthy whilst in your care.
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ROAD TEST by Mark Slack INITIALLY the advent of electric cars saw existing combustion engine mod‐ els adapted to become EVs. Now we see cars specifically designed as EVs becoming more com‐ mon, and one of the most recent is Kia’s EV6. Although sharing corpo‐ rate underpinnings with Hyundai and Genesis it feels completely different and has more sporting credentials. It’s a large car too, so it’s no surprise that the interior offers lots of space even though it feels more intimate. It’s a car come crossover and works well, although to some the rear styling is unconvincing. ‘Pop‐out’ door handles are a stylish feature and the charging socket on the rear corner is much more convenient than those positioned on the wings.
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The EV6 can charge from 10‐80 per cent in just 18 minutes, unfortu‐ nately you’ll struggle to find a 350kw charger to achieve this undeniably impressive time. The
KIA EV6: Has distinctive styling that sets its cars apart from the mainstream.
much more common 50 kw chargers will do the same job in just under
Facts at a Glance Model: Kia EV6 GT-Line S AWD Engine: Lithium 77.4 kwh kwh battery - 321 bhp Gears: Automatic Performance: 0-100 km/h (62 mph) 5.2 seconds/Maximum Speed 186 km/h (116 mph) Range: up to 300 miles Emissions: 0 g/km (WLTP) Price as tested: €61,368/£52,695 Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.
1.5 hours, even more common 22kw or 7kw charg‐ ers between 7.5 and 9.5 hours. Therein lies the EV problem, which must frustrate manufacturers, the UK’s charging infras‐ tructure is poor unless you’re in London or the southern counties. A home charger is a must and makes commuting
and slightly longer jour‐ neys, where thanks to the EV6’s range you can get back home without the need to charge, much more viable. The EV6 is another ex‐ ample of Kia’s ability to hit the mark in terms of practicality, quality and distinctive styling that so often sets their cars apart from the main‐ stream.
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A NEW model is in the pipeline, but very little is known yet about the Peu‐ geot 408 as it is shrouded in secrecy. As reported on Wednesday, June 15, the new Peugeot 408 is still cloaked in camouflage to hide its details. It contin‐ ues to be subjected to the most severe tests in preparation for its pro‐ duction launch in the au‐ tumn. However, all will be revealed shortly. This new model may be unexpected, its validation programme follows an extremely precise proto‐
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Peugeot 408 secrecy col, including tests on roads and tracks, as well as in the laboratory and on dedicated benches. The aim, says Peugeot, is uncompromising quality and excellence from the very first units produced. To achieve excellence, both in terms of perfor‐ mance and quality, the development of a new vehicle requires that a whole host of tests and
trials be performed on it. First of all, different simu‐ lations are carried out with the help of highly sophisticated computer programmes, which make it possible to accelerate development while mak‐ ing the best use of re‐ sources. With these test cars, the new Peugeot 408 has already been driven a to‐ tal of nearly 1,100,000 km Credit: Wikipedia - Jengtingchen CC BY-SA 4.0
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Peugeot 408 subjected to severe tests.
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WALKING FOOTBALL - WHO WILL BE THE FIRST CBWFL CHAMPIONS? THIS week saw the first of the three matches to decide who would be the first Costa Blanca Walking Football League Champions. On Wednesday June 22, a match vital to both Formentera WFC and Portobello WFC took place at the home of Formentera. They were hoping to pull off a shock result against League leaders Portobello, which would take them off bottom place and avoid the ‘wooden spoon’. A win for Portobello however would almost certainly give them one hand on the League Championship Trophy and only needing a point from their visit to Hondon Valley Flyers tomor‐ row night (Friday June 24). Defeat at Formentera however would leave ‘Porto’ needing a win at Hondon and at least a point from their last game, home to Moraira on Thursday June 30. Defeat in these first two games would open up the finish to the season with ALL three teams having the chance to lift the trophy. Printing deadlines unfortunately mean the re‐ sults and match reports will appear in next week’s edition of the Euro Weekly News, so make sure you get YOUR copy to find out who are the first CBWF League Champions. Most teams will be taking a short summer
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League Table going into the final games. break during the hot weather. Meanwhile team managers will be getting together after the cur‐ rent League AGM to discuss plans for the new season when an expanded league is expected to kick off in September. More news next week about the Costa Blanca Open Walking Football Tournament which will take place on October 29, 2022 at Torrevieja. This tournament is being organised by Esquina Park Rangers in conjunction with several spon‐ sors. Many thanks to the Euro Weekly News for their continuing valuable support for Walking Football.
The forthcoming Costa Blanca Open Walking Football Tournament.
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