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Heart disease behind most Mallorca deaths By Jennifer Leighfield HEART disease is the main cause of death in the Balearic Islands, according to data from the Health, Family and Social Welfare Council. In 2010, cardiology departments in public hospitals in the Balearic Islands attended to 35,339 external consultations, of which 31 per cent were first-time patients.
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More than 4,320 patients were admitted to public hospitals on the islands with cardiac pathologies, most of them at Son Dureta (2,314), and the rest at Son Llatzer (901), Manacor (523), Can Misses (455) and the Inca Regional Hospital (128), according to the report carried out to coincide with World Heart Day, which is today (Thursday).
In Spain, there are 125,000 deaths from cardiac diseases, 80 per cent of which could be avoided. Preventing risk factors including hypertension, diabetes, smoking and high cholesterol, amongst others, is key to lowering death rates and controlling cardiac diseases, according to the Son Espases University Hospital Cardiac Surgery Department,. Other factors, like age, gender and family history cannot be controlled. But as well as not smoking, keeping a check on high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol and fat intake, daily exercise is recommended, as is keeping to an ideal weight, controlling infections and avoiding stress, alcohol and drugs. Some 430 patients and Allen Graham of the Allen Graham Charity 4 Kidz. underwent heart surgery at Son Espases in 2010 with different ailments, including place next Wednesday, beachfront at Magaluf. coronary, valve, October 5, at the Boatyard • Beach party for aorta and Restaurant/Café on the charity P39 congenital problems.
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Cash goes on wages CHARITY ‘Hermandad de Donates de Sangre’ in Mallorca uses 87 per cent of the €254,000 grant received from the regional government on salaries, Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported.
Store opens DEPARTMENT store chain El Corte Ingles will open its first Supercor on the island in Palma today (Thursday) in an opening ceremony at 5pm. It has created 34 direct and 15 indirect jobs.
Job insecurity MORE than 4,500 Balearic health and education trainee jobs are in danger following the government’s decision to freeze the renewal of temporary and agency staff.
Drowning A 70-YEAR-OLD woman drowned off the shore off Playa de Palma in front of Hotel Acapulco Playa.
Drug bust A MAN, 19, was arrested in Santanyi for alleged drug possession. He allegedly threw a bag containing 10g of cocaine behind a fence when he saw a police patrol.
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A 27-YEAR-old Paraguayan woman was arrested in Palma for allegedly illtreating a 91-year-old woman she was caring for. The victim’s children discovered that their mother had a bruise on one eye,
There had been months of abuse, according to the elderly woman who is of sound mind. She had not told her children because the caregiver had later asked for forgiveness. Several neighbours say they had heard shouts and insults on many occasions. Meanwhile, six other people have been arrested in Palma for domestic violence. Among them was an 18-year-old who allegedly threatened his 72-year-old grandmother after she asked him to leave home. Many operations at Manacor Hospital had to be cancelled. A 54-year-old man was arrested for supposedly beating his wife up at his home in the Levante Industrial TWO operating theatres at Manacor Hospital were evacuated after five medical staff were affected by a possible gas leak. Park. Around 30 staff members stood outside the hospital most of The victim suffered a the morning while investigators searched for the possible cause. fractured hand and two fingers.
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Pole injured in 5th floor fall A 20-YEAR-OLD Polish man was seriously injured after he fell from the fifth floor of a building on Calle Marti Ros Garcia in Magalluf (Calvia). He was taken to Son Espases Hospital in a critical condition.
Domestic abuse FOUR people were arrested on domestic abuse charges over the weekend; two in Llucmajor and one each in Inca and Arta.
Apple section MULTINATIONAL electrical appliance store Worten is set to open its new Apple space in its stores, the first of which will be in Palma.
10 arrests A TOTAL of 1,344 alcohol breath tests were conducted over the weekend in Mallorca. As a result of the tests 76 people were fined and 10 arrested for driving while over the limit.
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9 in 10 breathe polluted air ALMOST 41 million people in Spain breathe polluted air. This was revealed in a 63-page report released by Spanish environmentalist federation Ecologistas en Accion (EA), which shows 87 per cent of Spain’s 47 million people breathe air which exceeds World Health Organisation pollution limit recommendations. According to the report, if less stringent EU levels are applied, 37 per cent of the
Toxic sweet warning A WARNING about the potential toxicity of a liquid sweet, Roller Crazy, made in China, has been issued by the Spanish Food Safety Agency after a girl suffered burns to her tongue.
Mortgage woes THOUSANDS in 40 Spanish cities are calling for a solution to the current mortgage situation. Their principal demands are a halt to evictions, availability of social housing and the option of settling mortgage debt by returning the property. PAGE 10
Bullfighting ban BULLFIGHTING fans and animal rights activists jeered and jostled each other after Cataluña’s last bullfight on Sunday. PAGE 10
population would fall below the recommended limit, i.e. 17.4 million people. Despite the seriousness of the findings, the results suggest slight improvements since 2008, ‘mainly due to the recession’. Each year 20,000 people die in Spain due to contaminated air, according to Paco Segura from EA. In January 2009, the European Commission started proceedings against Spain for failing to comply with air quality
legislation. One of the biggest contributors to air pollution in Spain is road traffic. Madrid and Barcelona are the two Spanish cities with the most contaminated air, according to the report. In February, Madrid hit the headlines as the council issued a smog warning to commuters, calling for them to take public transport to stop a spike in pollution levels. Nitrogen dioxide levels were recorded more than five times above EU safety limits.
Ex-wife sting A ROMANTIC weekend in Rome with his ex-wife left Gerardo F.G. with a bank balance of 69 cents. PAGE 7
In action: Gisela rules the waves. Below: Dressed to celebrate.
Great escape A SHORT film entitled ‘Culpable’ (Guilty) made by prisoners premiered without its lead because he had escaped from prison. PAGE 9
Costa ‘10’ killer
Mother and gran held for threats THE mother and grandmother of a six-year-old boy in Girona, Northeast Spain, have been arrested for threatening to kill his teacher and headmistress.
Fatal fall A 16-YEAR-OLD girl died after falling down the stairs of a property on Calle Joan Gris de Palma.
Five boats THE company Acciona Trasmediterranea has put five boats into action for passenger and cargo connections between Barcelona and Valencia with Palma de Mallorca during the off-peak season, which begins in October
Ferrying drugs
A MAN, 42, has confessed to killing two prostitutes on the Costa del Sol. The murders occurred on August 10 and September 10, prompting the media to dub him the ‘10 killer’.
TWO Spaniards were arrested within two days of each other for allegedly attempting to take 27kg of hashish on a ferry from Denia to Palma de Mallorca.
Gisela,17, is set for Trafalgar action
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TWO Russian men were arrested in Palmanova for allegedly threatening and causing injury to a law enforcement officer after he tried to arrest him for threatening a hotel waiter with a knife.
A GROUND floor apartment in a three storey building on Calle Gavines de Peguera in Palma was completely burnt. Nobody was harmed.
RETAIL rental premises in Portal de l’Angel in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona cost up to €3,120 per square metre per year. PAGE 13
Battle of Trafalgar in Cadiz. This competition between leading kitesurfers from Spain, France and England is scheduled over six days, starting on Friday, October 7, and running until Wednesday, October 12. Nicknamed Gigi, Gisela lives in Tarifa with her parents, with the family
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OR 17-year-old Gisela Pulido, all her free time in life is spent kitesurfing. Holding seven Freestyle, one Wave, and several Second Discipline world titles, Gisela she has won more kiteboard world titles than anyone. And now the high school student is looking ahead to next month when she has been picked to captain Spain in the three-nation Red Bull
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relocating from Barcelona where they previously lived so that she could spend more time training while also focusing on her schoolwork. But, despite being on top of the kitesurfing world, Gisela also has other dreams in life. “I
would like to go to university to study journalism. I think I’ll be able to combine it with the sport,” she says. Gisela also one day hopes to be an Olympian. For a girl who has already crossed the Gibraltar Strait competing against the ferry from Tarifa to Tangiers, and rules the women’s kitesurfing world, nothing should be ruled out as not being highly likely.
Minor arrested A 14-YEAR-old was arrested in Ibiza for allegedly threatening and extorting up to €600 from another teenager via a social networking site on the Internet.
Animal motion THE animal protection group Anima Naturalis will be at Llucmajor Town Hall’s next plenary session to present a motion against shows using animals.
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5 held suspected of financing terrorists
convicted by Spanish courts in 2010, 3.6 per cent fewer than in 2009. latest National Statistics
FIVE Algerians were arrested in the Basque Country and Navarra (Northern Spain) suspected of providing support to terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, the Interior Ministry said.
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‘Al Qaeda’ Cuban released THE Cuban national arrested last week in Cala Ratjada-Capdepera on suspicion of belonging to and promoting terrorist group Al Qaeda has been released. He still has to report daily to the police station or court nearest his home. In recent years the accused had undergone a process of radicalisation and subscribed to YouTube channels containing 1,120 radical videos, most of which he apparently produced.
Blasts hit Franco man TWO home-made explosives were detonated outside the former home of the last surviving member of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s regime, a Spanish official said.
Man crashes car he stole at a wedding A 28-YEAR-old man was injured and arrested after he was involved in an accident while allegedly driving a stolen car. He apparently took the car keys from the purse of one of the guests at
his cousin’s wedding on a farm in Mallorca. The owner of the vehicle realised her car keys were missing and went with her 13-year-old son to the parking area. Her son stood in front of
the car and was nearly run over when the detainee drove off. The groom pursued his cousin in another car following him more than 300 metres down the country road until the
‘thief’ crashed into a stone wall at the entrance of the farm. An ambulance and the police were called and the thief returned a mobile and other stolen items.
Plans for Marratxi airport THE new plan for Son Bonet airport in Marratxi has finally been approved by the Ministry of Development. Among the works to be launched by Aena is the extension of the taxiway - the track parallel to the landing strip – the expansion of security areas, the construction of a technical building, the widening of
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Rabbits dig up graves THE discovery of human bones and teeth beside graves at Kinloss Abbey in Moray has been blamed on rabbits.
Old stuntman BRITAIN’S oldest stuntman, 64-year-old Rocky Taylor, from Cobham has broken a Guinness World Record by hurtling through a 19ft by 13ft sheet of breakaway glass in a car.
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Son Bonet airport is surrounded by an urban area. the runway and parking area for the planes as well as the construction of a new hanger.
The plan covers an area of 115 hectares, 12 more than the previous 2001 plan.
AMANDA QUINN won the Miss Earth Scotland title wearing a dress she made out of Tunnocks Caramel Wafer wrappers. Her prize includes a monthlong trip to Thailand where she will compete against other finalists in the Miss Earth global competition.
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Rabbits dig up graves THE discovery of human bones and teeth beside graves at Kinloss Abbey in Moray has been blamed on rabbits.
Old stuntman BRITAIN’S oldest stuntman, 64-year-old Rocky Taylor, from Cobham has broken a Guinness World Record by hurtling through a 19ft by 13ft sheet of breakaway glass in a car.
Miss Earth AMANDA QUINN won the Miss Earth Scotland title wearing a dress she made out of Tunnocks Caramel Wafer wrappers. Her prize includes a monthlong trip to Thailand where she will compete against other finalists in the Miss Earth global competition.
Hairy art CREATIVE art student Kerry Howley from Middlesex University spent 60 hours on each of the five necklaces she made from human hair.
Flying high A SPITFIRE shot down 71 years ago once again took to the skies in Duxford, Cambridge, after it was restored by a group of enthusiasts. The P9374 is now the world’s oldest surviving airworthy Mk1 Spitfire.
Spider shock A WOMAN opened a parcel she had ordered online to discover a Togo Starburst Baboon spider inside. It was taken to a zoo.
Nessie odds BOOKIES Paddy Power reopened the betting on the existence of the Loch Ness Monster after new photos emerged allegedly showing the notorious sea creature.
Unfinished work leaves fate of 19 laws uncertain WHEN Spain’s national parliament was dissolved last Monday, the fate of 19 new laws became uncertain. With a general election on November 20 and regional elections in Andalucia on the same day, 17 of the initiatives could now come to nothing. The state Budget Act is the most important of these and with time running out this year’s previsions will instead be extended. Legislation on equality, the right to dignity in death and religious freedom are unlikely to go ahead, as are laws on collective arbitration and workplace inspections to combat fraud and legislation. A planned law on criminal trial proceedings is destined to fall by the wayside, as is another centring on sports doping. The outgoing government did, however, manage to push through some of its legislation on the rights, responsibilities
Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero announced on Monday the dissolution of parliament. and retirement age of the police with an act of parliament.
Many of the laws yet to be fully debated touched on a wide range of
subjects, from telecommunications and improvements in the foodchain supply to a high court tribunal project intended to amalgamate different courts in the same judicial districts. Legislation on funeral facilities will also be affected, together with supervision of private insurance. Two further laws that failed to find their way onto the statute books related to the European gas and electricity market. Unlike the other 17 laws which the new government elected on November 20 may choose to maintain or ignore, these two pieces of legislation will have to be dealt with. Based on EU directives they must be incorporated into national law, although the new government can choose whether to maintain them in their original form, or present new versions to the Madrid parliament.
Casino in Porto Pi opening THE new ‘Casino of Mallorca’ in Porto Pi is set to open this Monday (October 3) with an inaugural cocktail-dinner party. One of the attendees will have the honour of throwing the first ball in the roulette. Balearic Govern President Jose Ramon Bauza is one of the invited guests. On Tuesday the doors will open to the public, while the facilities in Calvia will close. Customers can choose to play one of the 70 prize machines or one of the five roulette tables, five card tables, three texas poker tables and a game of dice. The new 3,000 square meter casino also boasts a restaurant, a ballroom that can hold 200 people and a bar. Opening hours will be from 4pm to 5am and there is a permanent parking service in the Porto Pi complex, according to casino director Javier Blasco.
Harley Davidson investigation leads to several Spain arrests By Jennifer Leighfield SEVERAL people were arrested by Guardia Civil in an investigation into document falsification and fraud Harley Davidson sales. These included sellers, homologation engineers and staff at ITV centres. As previously reported in EWN, some 5,000 Harley Davidsons could be taken off the roads after the discovery that some importers may have sent them to privately-owned ITV (Spanish MOT) centres willing to overlook legal requirements. The Traffic Information Support Group (GIAT), a specialist group within the Guardia Civil, found that technical data cards of second-hand Harleys, imported from the USA, could have been forged.
The investigation began at the beginning of this year when the Guardia Civil detected an ‘unusual’ number of Harley Davidsons were being taken for ITV testing in Las Pedroñeras, Cuenca. Harley Davidson España informed them that since 2003, motorbikes for the European market must have a 5HD code on the technical data card, while those from the USA have 1HD codes. They were also able to inform the Guardia Civil that some of the motorbikes they had requested information about were in unusual situations because they had been authorised in Spain although they were configured for the US market. This led the Guardia Civil
Document falsification and fraud is to be investigated by the Guardia Civil. to request reports for more than 100 motorbikes, all checked in Las Pedroñeras, a town located between Albacete and Madrid.
They found the technical data card issued for these motorbikes should be revoked because they had US specifications and were
illegal in Spain. Meanwhile, some importers accused Harley Davidson España of tampering with the cards, but they denied this.
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Woman dies Ex-wife ‘empties’ bank in car drama accounts leaving just 69c A WOMAN died on Monday after apparently jumping off an overhead walkway by Costa den Blanes (Calvia) and being run over by several cars. Andratx motorway was closed for one-and-a-halfhours causing tailbacks for five kilometres. The ex-husband of the 34-year-old woman was
convicted the following day of having brutally beaten the deceased in their marital home in Costa den Blanes in late 2009. The defendant, a prominent German physician, admitted to the facts and was sentenced to 60 days of community service.
‘Most Wanted’ fugitive arrested NATIONAL POLICE arrested one of the ‘most wanted’ fugitives, 43year-old Romanian Ioan Clamparu, a.k.a. ‘Pig’s Head’. There were several cases pending against him in Spain, as well as European Arrest Warrants from Romania and Italy, for white slave trading, prostitution, money laundering and drugs trafficking. His photo was broadcast on the National Police channel on Youtube, www.youtube. com/policia, since November 2010, and he finally handed himself in to the police in Madrid, as he admits himself that
BUSTED: Ioan Clamparu. it had become complicated for him to get around without being identified.
By Staff Reporter A ROMANTIC weekend in Rome with his ex-wife left Gerardo F.G. with a bank balance of 69 cents. He is now suing both his Venezuelan ex, 33year-old Monica Irene G.O., for taking €240,954 from his bank account and her friend, lawyer Yolanda G.M., for helping with the sting. The couple married in 2004 but separated in 2008, shortly after 45year-old Gerardo sold shares in a family business for €575,000 and put his assets in their joint name. The husband remained in Alicante while his wife and their five-year-old son went to Venezuela. Some months later, the wife suggested the Rome weekend as a way of getting back together for the sake of their son. Gerardo then gave her €4,000 to organise the journey. After an intimate dinner ‘with a great deal of wine’ on their last night in Rome Gerardo woke to find that his wife and son had disappeared. The worried man went to the police following an unsuccessful search for them but on returning to the hotel learnt that his
STUNG BY HIS EX: Weekend in Rome ‘cost’ Gerardo a tidy €240,954. wife had left. Once at the airport, he also discovered that she had bought only one-way tickets. Worse was to come when he found that Monica had emptied his bank accounts, leaving him with just 69 cents. Neither could the bank contact him to confirm the withdrawal as Monica claimed to have lost their mobile shortly before they left for Rome. After nine months without news of his wife or child, Gerardo hired a private detective who located them in Elche. Despite his protestations, Monica was
Europe’s low-cost, high flyers give Spanish tourism a boost By John Jackson MORE than half of the 7.4 million foreigners who flew to Spain in August used a budget
airline. Ryanair, easyJet and Air Berlin accounted for 54.2 per cent of low-cost airlines (LCA) arrivals to Spain. And seven out of 10 LCA passengers were from Britain, Germany or Italy, Ministry of Tourism figures show. In August, the number of British travellers using a LCA increased by 7.9 per cent year-on-year, ahead of Germany’s 2.4 per cent, but below Italy’s 13.1 per cent rise. The increase in the number of French passengers was the
biggest rise with 25.6 per cent. But, by destination, the Canary Islands - with 20 per cent more - was the Spanish region which saw the biggest monthly rise. The Canaries was followed by the Balearics (11.1 per cent) and the Valencia Region (7.9 per cent). Forty-three million foreign people arrived at Spanish airports in the first eight months of 2011, 11.7 per cent more than the same period of 2010. Of these, 25 million
(57.3 per cent) used a LCA, a 14.4 per cent yearly rise. Again, the Canaries led the way with four million foreign tourists year-todate, 27.5 per cent more than the same eight months of 2010. This is thought to be due to political unrest and rioting in Tunisia and Egypt at the beginning of 2011, leading to a flood of holiday cancellations in favour of the islands. The Canaries usually enjoy a milder climate in the winter than mainland Spain and the Balearics.
adamant that she had her husband’s permission to use the money to open a shop in central Alicante. She also admitted wanting to prevent him from wasting the family money on his cocaine and gambling habit, an accusation which Gerardo
denied. The Prosecution Department initially recommended a four-year sentence for Monica and her accomplice, but said it is now reconsidering whether their conduct actually constituted a crime.
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By Staff Reporter A SHORT film entitled ‘Culpable’ (Guilty) made by prisoners premiered without its lead because he escaped from prison. Serving a six-year sentence for drugs offences, the star of ‘Culpable’ was an inmate of the ‘respeto’ cellblock at the Mansilla de las
Great escape almost spoiled opening night Mulas jail in northern Spain, prisoners accept rules regarding
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and conduct in return for privileges. Despite being a model prisoner, the would-be
actor failed to return after a weekend leave even though he was due to return to Chile on
Guardia Civil seize 12,000 packets of illegal medicines THE Guardia Civil have seized 12,000 packages of medicines which were being sold illegally. The illegal goods were seized at the airports in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, as well as in shops in Madrid, Almeria, Granada, Malaga, Cadiz, Huelva, Valencia, Alicante, Castellon, Murcia, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. Some 3,000 packages were seized at the airports as they were being brought into Spain. Most of them came from China, via Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam. They contained medicines such as Pollenin and Omeprazol, hormones, anabolic steroids and other products which are yet to be identified as they had no labels or were in Chinese. The Guardia Civil also searched sex-shops, smart-shops and dietary shops where the products were being sold without authorisation. ONE in four people in Spain has given money to relatives to help them during the economic crisis, according to a study carried out by La Caixa. Twenty-five per cent of people have lent money to relatives who do not live with them, to help them get over financial problems derived from buying a house, losing their job or their business going under. The study analyses how intergenerational cooperation within families has increased due to lack of confidence in being able to obtain help and social services. In 60 per cent of cases, it is parents who support their children, especially when they are under the age of 29, while only between 7 and 11 per cent of people over 75 gets any help from their children. The average person who has received help from relatives is a young person, living away from their
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probation in the New Year. A warrant is now out for his arrest. The film was shown on September 23 in honour of the patroness of prisons, Our Lady of Mercy, but the 36-yearold Chilean prisoner in the principal role was not present. The short, which took the 20 prisoners involved five months to film, needed to have some scenes cut to mask the lead actor’s absence and some close-ups were eliminated, said Rodolfo Herrero, the film director who volunteered to lead the project. Happily, the film still made sense, he explained, especially as the more complex scenes, all of them involving the Chilean runaway, were shot at the beginning. “I knew where I was going to be filming and I knew the limitations and bureaucracy involved but I didn’t expect the central character to run off,” Herrero admitted.
25% of Spaniards have lent money to relatives in need parents, with a partner and children, and not necessarily lower class.
In 39 per cent of cases they have had to ask for help because they have lost
their job or their business has fallen through, 17 per cent because of insufficient
Palma car rental company denies ‘sexist’ accusations THE union CCOO has labelled a car rental company operating at Palma airport as ‘sexist’. They say that Goldcar refused to reduce an employee’s working hours so that he could care for his child, asking for proof that his wife was not able to care for the child instead. CCOO condemned this as a ‘clear example of discrimination and sexism’ to say that the care of children is ‘up to the woman’ when in fact it is the ‘parents who are both responsible for their upbringing’. Meanwhile, Goldcar has denied these accusations, saying that the employee in
question had been working reduced hours since September 12. “The employee’s request for a reduction in working hours to care for his little girl was granted before the end of the statutory period for reply,” said a company spokesman. “Conflict arose because the employee also demanded a shift change to work the hours between 7am and 2pm. “The company requested information on the availability of his wife before upsetting the schedule of the other five workers at the airport who would have to change their shifts.”
income, and 7 per cent due to health problems or studies. A third of those who have bought houses have got a loan with no interest or guaranties required, in 95 per cent of cases from their parents or in-laws. Fifty-six per cent of people in Spain consider relatives should help financially or by looking after children or relatives, household repairs, transport or paperwork. The number of grandparents looking after their grandchildren on a regular basis has risen from 15 to 25 per cent in the past few years, and two in three families with children under three leave them with relatives on holidays, weekends or when ill.
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Happy in Hamburg PEOPLE living in the northern port city of Hamburg are the most content Germans, while the grumpiest residents live in the eastern state of Thuringia, according to a recent study.
Mozart fans OPERATORS of a sewage treatment plant in Treuenbrietzen in Eastern Germany saved around €10,000 last year, apparently by playing Mozart to their microbes.
More fruit SOON, palm trees and exotic fruit will grow and flourish in a remote part of Bavaria known for its long winters thanks to the Klein-Eden – Little Eden – tropics project.
Penis demand THE number of German men paying for surgery to enlarge their penis is increasing, doctors say.
Smart pants SMART trousers are undergoing field-testing by German researchers. They hope they will reduce the risk of chainsaw injuries by being able to tell when a saw is getting too close and switching it off.
Oktoberfest MUNICH’S 178th Oktoberfest is officially in full swing. On the first day of the festival nearly 80 people were treated by the Red Cross for alcohol poisoning and an organisation has accused beer sellers of pouring less beer into the mugs.
Space date GERMAN astronaut Alexander Gerst has been chosen to fly aboard a Russian rocket to the International Space Station in 2014 and be on board for half a year conducting zerogravity experiments.
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Mortgage protests throughout Spain THOUSANDS in 40 Spanish cities are calling for a solution to the current mortgage situation. Their principal demands were a halt to evictions, availability of social housing and the option of settling mortgage debt by returning the property. The demonstrations, backed by the 15M and Democracia Real Ya movements, were organised by PAH and ADICAE, two support
groups for home-owners and bank customers with mortgage problems. The Madrid demonstration attracted 5,000 protesters according to the organisers, although municipal sources put the figure closer to 500. Hundreds protested in Andalucia’s cities, including Malaga and Almeria, where ‘We want a flat like the Prince’s’ was a popular chant with the crowds. Valencia, a region with
Girl dies in accident A YOUNG girl died in Palma after she was allegedly hit by a car on Calle Cirri in the La Vileta district. The accident occurred when a Mini car lost control, hit the curb and went up on the sidewalk, hitting the girl who was being pushed in the push chair by her parents. She died from head injuries. One of the drivers
involved in the accident tested positive in an alcohol breath test. The statement of the person driving the other car implicated in the incident was taken, but no arrest made. The age of the victim is not clear, but was estimated to be between ages one and three. Family members of the victim have been to see a psychologist.
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Police gun left in Ikea toilet
There were 16,000 evictions in Spain due to repossession during the first three months of the year, Ruiz claimed, and proceedings had begun against a further 1.5 million defaulters. an estimated 72 repossessions and evictions each day, also saw protests in its capital city. The common theme was a halt to evictions during a time of crisis and unemployment and the possibility of settling a mortgage debt by giving the property back to the mortgage provider. Legislation should be modified to allow this to be done retroactively so that families did not find themselves on the street, said PAH spokeswoman Chema Ruiz. There were 16,000 evictions in Spain due to repossession during the first three months of the year, Ruiz claimed, and proceedings had begun against a further 1.5
SWEDEN – A police officer stopped for lunch at an Ikea branch in Stockholm only to discover a couple of hours later that she had left her gun in the toilet.
Children first DENMARK – Copenhagen’s 2012 budget prioritises children, bicycles and business growth.
New ideas PENOUGH! Thousands demanded a halt to evictions. million defaulters. She had asked the present government, and would ask whoever won the November 20 election, to turn empty flats and houses into social housing so that the sector ‘became a public service instead of a business’. A three-year mortgage moratorium was ADICAE President Manuel Pardos’ suggestion. This would
enable a ‘peaceful discussion’ in the new parliament of the best course to take, he believed. Jorge Garcia Castaño, an IU councillor in Madrid supporting the protesters, accused bankers of being ‘pirates’, making enormous profits out of the crisis. “But the protests will not go away,” warned the leftwing politician.
Ole! And adios to bullfighting By Annie Maples BULLFIGHTING fans and animal rights activists jeered and jostled each other after Cataluña’s last bullfight on September 25. Police quickly intervened but no arrests were made, they said later. Jose Tomas and Serafin Marin, carried out on the shoulders of fans after cutting two ears apiece from their bulls, were unaware of the fracas as they left Barcelona’s Monumental for the last time. Cataluña voted to ban bullfighting last year and although the law does not come into effect until January 2012, this was the last bullfight of the season in the region’s only remaining ring. With a bill headed by Jose Tomas, probably the best bullfighter in Spain,
NORWAY – More than two months after the July attacks, new anti-terrorism measures now include a ban on semi-automatic weapons, and more money for the Civil Defence.
Old skulls SWEDEN – Human skulls mounted on wooden stakes were uncovered from a Stone Age lake bed in Motala, Central Sweden in what is believed to be the first discovery of its kind anywhere in the world.
Rabies scare NORWAY – Two men and three women on Svalbard were inoculated against rabies after the fatal virus was found in two reindeer and a fox on the Arctic archipelago that they had been in contact with.
Bike safety Bullfighters celebrate their success on Sunday. touts were offering entrance tickets for up to €300 earlier in the day. On the internet prices were as high as €3,500 to see a spectacle still regarded as a cultural tradition by some Spaniards but which began to lose ground to football decades ago. Cataluña may have banned formal bullfights but bull-running and bull-
baiting, integral to many towns’ annual fiestas throughout Spain, remain. Opponents to bullfighting claim that spectacles where, for instance, flaming torches are attached to a bull’s horns, are no less barbaric and should also be abolished. In Tordesillas (Valladolid) where earlier this month 100 men attacked a
People flock to La Monumental for last bullfight. reluctant 600-kilo bull with spears, lances and, in one case, a screwdriver as it tried to escape, townspeople defended their right to maintain a long-standing tradition. How long bulls remain a feature of Cataluña’s popular fiestas remains debatable, as does the fate of Barcelona’s Monumental bullring. A listed building and
classed as a public facility, the Monumental cannot be developed for offices or living accommodation and local businesses are adamant that they do not want it converted into a shopping centre. The Corporation had no intention of buying it, said Mayor Xavier Trias although he conceded that maintaining it in good condition was a priority.
SWEDEN – A Swedish firm has developed a discreet novel collar that works much like an airbag, which cyclists can use to avoid the risk of serious injury.
Art overhaul DENMARK – The government-appointed Council for the Arts has presented an idea to overhaul the halfcentury-old arts funding system.
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Stat of week Marketing Directors are the best paid executives of large companies in Spain, with an average annual salary (gross) of €123,724, according to infoempleo.com.
• THE Fairway Golf Hotel & Spa, located in Benlaup Casas Viejas, between villages Viejer de la Frontera and Medina Sidonia won categories ‘Spain’s Leading All Inclusive Resort’ and ‘Spain’s Leading Spa Resort’ 2011, in the World Travel Awards. This is the fourth time they have been awarded in Spain’s Leading Spa Resort since 2007. Hotel Barcelo Formentor in Mallorca was named Spain’s Leading Boutique Hotel for the second consecutive year. • SPAIN’S treasury sold €3.2 billion in two short-term debt auctions but was forced to pay higher interest rates.
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• SPANISH chain El Arbol has acquired 19 new supermarkets from Oascual Hermanos in Burgos, Northern Spain. Excluding this latest deal, El Arbol currently operates 467 supermarkets in Spain. • FOR the third year running, France was named first choice for Britons buying property abroad, with 39 per cent, according to the latest overseas property ‘hot spots’ report by mortgage specialist Conti. Spain was in second place with 31 per cent of all enquiries received, up 7 per cent against last year. Portugal was in third place with 12 per cent.
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Barcelona rings up the top shop rents in Spain By Business Editor Brendan Small SPAIN’S most expensive shop rents are in Barcelona. And top of the pile are retail rental premises in Portal de l’Angel in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona by Plaça Catalunya, with business people paying up to €3,120 per square metre per year This means that a 100-square-metre shop premises costs a staggering €312,000 per year or an even more amazing €855 per day including Sundays when businesses are normally closed. This was revealed in the 2011 survey of the world’s most expensive retail rental locations in 63 cities around the world by property consultants Cushman and Wakefield. The Spanish city has the 13th most expensive retail rents in the world ahead of prime locations in Moscow, Dublin, Amsterdam and Buenos Aires. New York’s famous Fifth Avenue - ranked the
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Mobile services prices to fall SPAIN has the most expensive telecommunications services in the EU, according to a Eurostat report But prices in Spain are falling and will continue to drop as a result of increased competition from mobile virtual network operators, according to a study by consultants Neoris. The results of the study of the tariffs of seven major mobile service providers in Spain - Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, Yoigo, plus the virtuals Simyo, Pepephone and MASmovil - revealed the latter three were cheaper in 25 price bands.
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I READ your column every week and I hope you can help with my problem. I have held a Spanish mortgage since 2005. Half of the mortgage is with my daughter, who has never contributed and who has now returned to England and cannot pay. I am finding the payments increasingly difficult, so I asked the bank if I could pay interest only for a time. They say they need my daughter’s signature to do this and it would cost me €1,000 to amend the mortgage. I do not have the money to do this. Can I get her name off the mortgage? She never contributed towards the payments and now we are no longer in contact. Also, I would like to sell the property and buy something less expensive. Can you please give me some advice?’
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your daughter owns By David Searl half of your house if she has signed for half of the mortgage. Does she know that the bank can pursue her assets in the UK if mortgage payments are not made in Spain? 2. If your daughter owns half the house, you need her signature to sell it as well as to amend your present mortgage. Perhaps you should establish contact with her. 3. The figure of around €1,000 to modify your existing mortgage sounds about right. However, there is no way simply to remove your daughter from this existing mortgage without her agreement. 4. One possible way forward is to take out a completely new mortgage with another bank. In the new mortgage you could include a sufficient amount to pay for the cancellation of your existing mortgage as well as the opening fees and other charges. 5. It appears that you have income and are able to make small monthly payments. It also seems that you have paid on the existing mortgage for six years so you have a start. A new mortgage over a longer time period, even at a higher interest rate, might enable you to continue making your payments. 6. A mortgage offer from another bank can often make your present bank suddenly more helpful so my counsel is to visit a new bank immediately. David will respond to queries but reserves the right to select letters which will be of interest to the greatest number of readers. You can also consult David through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola. ask@lawtaxspain.com or call 952 667 090.
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• RISING household fuel bills will net the Treasury a £200 million (€229m) windfall in extra VAT this year, new research from Energyhelpline.com shows.
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Famine stalks Europe and looters wear suits FOR the first time since the Second World War, famine stalks Europe. It is a clear signal that the European Union (EU) has failed in its first objective: strength through unity. Many already claim the EU is no longer fit for purpose; found wanting at its first major crisis. Its largely unaccountable system of government, influenced by unelected shadowy figures, was useless when looters in suits hijacked the economies of the 27 member states. In fact, it collaborated in the bank burglary of each nation’s wealth through cyberloans and injurious rates of interest. On September 19, the Greek parliament, which accounts for only 2 per cent of the EU economy, submitted to rapacious demands imposed by the European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF). If the EU makes worse rather than fixes the Greek economy, which is hardly the basket case it has been made out to be if one removes debt usury, what chance has it got of
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Paul Polke resolving Europe’s economy? This will be Greece’s sixth repayment using its credit card. In the streets of Greece, people used to relative prosperity, search through skips for scraps. Survival for many is precarious; millions look for ways of supplementing a declining income whilst handicapped by price increases. It is Weimar Germany all over again. Until recently, scavenging was confined to occasional gypsy, Roma
and Third World immigrants foraging for leftovers and cast-offs. Now, many searching through bins and skips are Greek nationals, says Giorgos Pouliopoulos. “I sometimes give food to people I know,” he says. “I don’t think we have seen the worst of this tragedy yet. Things are getting worse.” “There is real famine,” says Amat Eftehar. “I don’t mean famine where there is nothing to eat, like in Africa. I am, though, talking about a famine in which people cannot afford to eat meat once a month.” If famine stalks Europe, it is artificial, similar to the Ukrainian famine caused by Stalin exporting life-
giving wheat when the USSR needed to repay foreign loans. Again, it is the bankers screwing the nations’ coffers. Politicians are impotent; often collaborative. It is an artificial famine inasmuch as there are still pockets of prosperity in Europe. The EU’s 27 member states still discard 89 million tonnes of food each year. This represents 180 kilos of food for each of its 502 million citizens. Greece is being hung out to dry by the EU-ECBIMF troika. Greek newspaper o Ethnos warns its readers of ‘blood and tears’. It is what happens when the lunatics are running the asylum. Scared? You should be!
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www.euroweeklynews.com IT was only to be expected, really. Just three years after the unpopular tax was abolished, the government had no choice but to reinstate wealth tax as it searches for measures to increase revenue to reduce the public deficit and try to restore financial sustainability. The word ‘abolish’ is not strictly speaking correct. The tax was not actually abolished but rather the government established a tax credit of 100 per cent of the tax and eliminated the obligation to declare. We, therefore, always knew that it would be simple enough for the government to reinstate it at short notice and the threat has been hanging over Spain’s wealthier residents virtually since the tax was dropped from 1st January 2008. After weeks of speculation, on 15th September, the Spanish government announced that wealth tax would be reinstated to ‘reinforce budget stability’. The government approved the real-decree law the following day. It is a little bit of a turnabout for outgoing Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who had argued that it unfairly targeted middle-class savers and who until now had resisted bringing it back. The threshold has, however, been raised from previous
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levels, so that it now targets Spain’s wealthier taxpayers. It is also meant to be a temporary measure. So far it only covers the tax years 2011 and 2012 (therefore tax returns and payments due in 2012 and 2013 respectively). The personal exemption has significantly increased and will now be €700,000 per person (up from €108,182 in 2007). This exemption will now also apply to non-residents of Spain. Couples are assessed for wealth tax separately, and jointly held assets are treated as belonging to each individual on a 50:50 basis, so the threshold for a married couple can be up to €1.4 million. The main home exemption has also increased, this time from €150,253 to €300,000 (so €600,000 per couple if the property is in joint names). You are only entitled to one main home deduction.
There have been no changes to the tax rates, so they will remain the same as the previous ones, ranging from 0.2 per cent to 2.5 per cent, applicable to your net tax base of wealth owned on 31st December. Wealth tax can be varied by region to make it more favourable (not more penal) but I would not expect too many concessions in the current economy. If you are resident in Spain you are liable to wealth tax on your worldwide assets, net of liabilities. Non-residents are only liable on assets located in Spain but under the old regime they did not get any of the personal or main home deductions. The new law specifically allows non-residents to benefit from the personal allowance. However, you cannot get the main home exemption if you are not resident in Spain. If you are resident in the UK (for example) and own a holiday home in Spain, it will be liable to wealth tax if its value exceeds €700,000 (or €1.4m if owned jointly). The rates above this figure would start at 0.2 per cent. Non-residents who operate through a permanent establishment in Spain, or who
have a wealth tax liability in relation to their Spanish assets, are required to appoint an accredited tax representative resident in Spain to assist with their wealth tax obligations. Failure to do so will incur a €1,000 penalty, and will be increased if the offence is repeated. Liabilities in general reduce taxable wealth, but not where it is a loan used to buy an asset that is specifically exempt or covered by exemptions. So where a mortgage is for the purchase of the main home (the value of which is covered by the main home exemption), no deduction is available for that mortgage. For a non-resident, only Spanish liabilities are taken into account. It is estimated that 160,000 people will be caught by this reinstated wealth tax, which is expected to earn the government over €1.08 billion a year. In 2007 (the last year it was levied) it had brought in €2.1 billion. The money is needed to help close one of Europe’s largest budget deficits. Finance Minister Elena Salgado told a press conference: “The economic crisis makes it necessary to
reinstate this tax, that will allow us to tax the wealthiest so those who have more contribute more to help us out of the crisis.” Only time will tell, though, if the tax does turn out to be just temporary. We do not know what will happen once elections are out of the way, and much depends on how the economy performs over the next two years and if the governments succeed in bringing the budget deficit down to 3 per cent in 2013, a rather Herculean task. These are taxing times in Spain. An effective tax planning and wealth management strategy could help you legitimately limit the amount of tax you pay while aiming to protect your wealth. A financial manager specialising in these areas such as Blevins Franks can advise you on your specific requirements. Statements relating to taxation are based upon current taxation laws and practices which may be subject to change. To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com
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Morrison (Wm) Super.
287.10
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1.02
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National Grid
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2,547.00
-17.00
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0.75M
106.60
2.60
2.50
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Next Old Mutual
Most Declined
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International Power PRICE
VOLUME 15.46M
526.50
Inmarsat
DOW JONES
% C H G. 1.95
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Diageo
BT Group Burberry Group
PRICE(£/100) CHANGE 292.60 5.60
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1,137.00
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Petrofac
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Randgold Resources
6,170.00
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Reckitt Benckiser
3,259.00
60.00
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Reed Elsevier
497.30
10.70
2.20
3.21M
Resolution
249.20
9.40
3.92
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REXAM Rio Tinto Rolls-Royce Holdings Royal Bank of Scotland Royal Dutch Shell RSA Insurance Group SABMiller Sage Group (The) Sainsbury (J)
306.90
6.00
1.99
3.70M
2,964.50
-20.50
-0.69
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599.50
3.50
0.59
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23.57
0.74
3.24
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1,999.50
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-1.19
5.04M
109.90
2.90
2.71
19.79M
2,092.00
9.50
0.46
3.21M
257.90
0.10
0.04
2.67M 7.28M
270.90
4.60
1.73
1,228.00
34.00
2.85
0.67M
Scottish & Southern E. 1,281.00
-3.00
-0.23
1.83M
Schroders Serco Group
499.80
5.20
1.05
0.78M
Severn Trent
1,494.00
30.00
2.05
0.94M
Shire
1,965.00
17.00
0.87
1.11M
581.00
3.50
0.61
2.21M 1.14M
Smith & Nephew Smiths Group
922.00
10.00
1.10
1,275.50
3.50
0.28
4.06M
Standard Life
199.90
5.20
2.67
4.97M
Tate & Lyle
592.50
-5.00
-0.84
1.97M 20.34M
Standard Chartered
Tesco
371.40
6.20
1.70
Tullow Oil
1,290.00
-6.00
-0.46
2.77M
Unilever
1,981.00
0.00
0.00
3.08M
United Utilities Group
601.50
2.50
0.42
3.50M
1,070.00
-43.00
-3.86
1.58M
162.50
0.90
0.56
84.06M
Weir Group
1,601.00
55.00
3.56
2.44M
Whitbread
1,600.00
5.00
0.31
0.61M
Wolseley
1,437.00
12.00
0.84
1.98M
Vedanta Resources Vodafone Group
WPP
609.00
7.50
1.25
5.54M
Xstrata
820.00
-6.00
-0.73
18.26M
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It’s time for some feel-good finance DID you know that bank charges in Spain are the highest in Europe? It always baffled me how I can extract money from any cash machine in Dublin without paying a commission, but here in Spain if I want to withdraw money I have to go to one of my bank’s machines or else I’ll be charged a small fortune for the service. Globally, banks and bankers have always had a shady image… the phrase: ‘I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them,’ quickly springs to mind. Their dodgy dealings have led us into an economic crisis; we – the public – were forced to bail out their backsides, and yet all the while they don’t seem to have changed their ways. That’s why when I came across the idea of ethical banking I regained a little
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respect for humanity. In light of the global financial crisis, it appears many investors are turning their backs on traditional lenders and looking into alternative solutions for investing. And one of the fastest growing alternative solutions for investing is ethical banking. ‘Derivatives’, ‘hedge funds’; does any Joe Soap actually fully understand where and how their money is being invested within traditional banking? This is where ethical banking is different and more attractive.
Ethical banking only invests in the real economy and finances projects related to sectors including renewable energies and ecological agriculture. And, unlike traditional banking, ethical banking stands for total transparency. There are now more than 50,000 ethical banking clients in Spain, with five entities currently operating in the country. Triodos Bank, which was born in the Netherlands, has some 300,000 clients worldwide. Since May, the entity says it has attracted 9,000 new clients thanks to a media visibility amplified by the M-15 movement. A banker that invests in renewable energies, in ecological agriculture and in fair trade and development, now that is an ethical banker I could warm to.
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• ONE of the world’s cheapest cars has been transformed into its most expensive after being encrusted in gold jewellery. The special version of the Tata Nano, unveiled in Mumbai, is covered in 22 carat gold, silver and assorted gemstones, raising the car’s price from the standard €1,500 to an estimated €3.3 million. • CREATED to purge Irish banks of their risky real estate loans, the National Asset Management Agency is selling helicopters and private jets as well as skyscrapers and five-star hotels to try and claw back the €31 billion it paid out for loans. • A CHINESE businessman has put down a deposit for a rare bottle of Dalmore whisky costing nearly $200,000 at a duty-free shop in Singapore’s Changi airport.
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Nervousness about European banks remains firmly in place DURING one of the busiest and chaotic trading days seen, there was almost a complete financial meltdown in equities, with my favourite safe haven investments including Gold suffering enormous losses. Europe’s banks face a capital hole of at least €200 billion if Greece forces them to slash the value of its debt and other troubled eurozone countries like Italy and Ireland follow suit. Fear that Europe needs to shore up its banks is gathering steam as talk of a possible Greek default gains pace. That in turn is increasing speculation that banks will have to write down debt from governments right across the region. A technically very bearish scenario. The International Monetary Fund reckons Europe’s banks could need to recapitalize to the tune of €200 billion and many bank analysts are far gloomier than the Fund. I estimate the recapitalisation at more like €500 billion. Credit Suisse calculates banks
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IN THE RED: Stock market falls hit the global financial scene. may need €400 billion of capital by 2012 to fill a hole left by a recession, losses on sovereign debt and higher funding costs. But private investors are clear that they will not provide the money to stop the capital gap such writedowns would cause, for as long as Europe struggles to find a joined-up strategy to exit its spiralling debt crisis. Banks could be forced to write down their Greek debt holdings by half if Athens
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fails to hammer out a deal about a second bail-out, Greece’s Finance Minister has said, according to two national newspapers. The country’s government later said it
was still focusing on getting its second bail-out done, but a statement from the French regulator saying that 15 to 20 banks needed more capital kept the worries about Europe’s banks firmly in place. How can the average member of the public protect himself from this scenario? Banks on the verge of crisis, stock market meltdown and even a sell off in Gold once thought to be the safe haven
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investment metal which traded as high as $1,922 on September 5. After a week of long liquidation and margin call selling, Gold has traded down to $1,672. The fear is that if the FED doesn’t act, we could find ourselves in a deflationary environment which would not be good news for Gold. There are obviously some long-term opportunities in equities, so if brave and with deep pockets, follow the advice of sage Warren Buffet and buy when everyone else is selling. Still hold some Gold - the Far East will use this sell-off as a buying opportunity. But perhaps the most surprising news is that the US dollar has come back into favour. And the euro, which should have collapsed on the back of Greece, is still quite a viable opportunity medium term, especially against the British pound. So, if you are an expat and have Sterling to change, the mid 1.1400’s could present the last ditch option to get out of Sterling.
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Schoolteachers to run military operations in Afghanistan! ‘UK Education Secretary, Michael Gove, today announced plans to enable primary schoolteachers to run elite military units’. Yes, I made that up but you get the idea where this story’s going. It’s said that in London Breaking you’re never more then Views nine feet By NORA JOHNSON from a rat. Well, on a visit to the capital over the Deprived children will be taught by former soldiers. summer, I was less than that, scarcely inches from hundreds of screaming, 0900 until 1200, it’s basic from the membership of rioting feral kids. tank-driving and the NUT. But really, isn’t the Then I read about the bayoneting; from 1300 idea of teachers as proposed Phoenix free until 1600, marching skills enforcers where we’ve been heading all this time, school in Oldham for and square bashing!” Now, have I got this anyway? After all, isn’t that deprived children to be staffed ‘exclusively’ by ex- right? Teachers are trained why nobody wants to be a soldiers and said to offer its to teach children. Soldiers teacher any more? Government policy and students ambitious are trained to, er, kill academic goals, outdoor people. On the face of it, the refusal to exclude children activities and a the idea of this proposed badly-behaved demonstration of ‘martial school is amazing. It makes have made schools so about as much sense as undisciplined that only values’. Great, I thought! “So, look sharp there, selecting people for the those who enjoy endless Form 1B squaddies! From SAS special forces entirely confrontation would want
to put themselves through teaching in them. It’s been getting to the point where what seems to be required by the job spec isn’t a trained subject specialist any more but rather a glorified bouncer. This is just the logical conclusion of that process. Another issue for me is that the school is described as ‘exclusively’ ex-military. If I wanted to run a school staffed exclusively with MPs or bankers or hedgefunders, would anyone think that a good idea? And, blaming the riots on the teaching profession is a huge jump in logic, too. The idea that former soldiers should become teachers and that this will somehow put the country instantly to rights is equally illogical. I accept that more male role models are needed, but looking exclusively to the military for them is not the answer.
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Two sides of the coin THE markets, now more powerful than governments, are the stamping grounds of casino bankers. Although they are all ‘rogue traders’, according to former Lib-Dem Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott, unlike UBS employee Kweku Adoboli they are seldom exposed. There is little doubt that if Adoboli had been better at placing his bets instead of losing £1.3 billion, he would be on a bonus, not remand.
‘OBAMA coordinates Syria transition with Turkey’, announced a recent headline. Much as Syria deserves a transition, who knows if the aftermath of Al Assad’s removal will lend itself to coordination? Who, apart from Obama, can be sure that Turkey’s assistance would be welcome? Libya’s transitional government is already displaying symptoms of disunity in a reminder that too many North African and Middle Eastern factions are more interested in conserving power than sharing it with the society they liberated from tyranny.
Slap bang in the middle ANYONE in work is now regarded as middle-class, a description which would once have raised bourgeois eyebrows. But the label is apt, because people with jobs are crushed between the unemployed on benefits and the rich who pay accountants to avoid as much tax as possible. Wealth taxes come and go, but it is the money of the non-wealthy that makes the world go around.
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LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Some legal matters need your attention. That's not really what you want at this time of the year. A decision has to be made and it needs a fine balance. Asking others may just confuse matters, so only seek expert advice. At the end of the day, you will know what is both best and acceptable.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A last-minute invitation turns out to be just the ticket in more ways than one. An invitation to join a holiday may be proffered. This is unusual, certainly, but keep an open mind. Your company is clearly well appreciated so why not make that a point of pride? Let's face it, who is best equipped to blow your trumpet?
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Someone you mistrust offers to add to your celebrations. Why not call a truce? We both know that little long term will come out of it, but who cares? Sometimes, it is better to share one good moment with someone than none at all.
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) As you are very much in the limelight,
FILMS amongst others, Pat, newly widowed and looking for companionship, know-all Mick (known as ‘Mr Wikipedia’) and his nemesis Malcolm, and Julie who is desperate to
integrate into Spanish life. Not to mention the mysterious Trish. Covering the rain, the heat, the World Cup, volunteering in a hospice shop, Spanish lessons and quiz nights, Not Joined Up covers the full spectrum of the
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Born October 2, 1951, Sting is an English musician. When he was small, his ʻbest friendʼ was an old Spanish guitar with five rusty strings which had been left behind by an uncle who had emigrated to Canada. He worked as a bus conductor, a construction labourer, and a tax officer, while playing in bands in his free time.
it comes as no great surprise that admiration comes your way. What may surprise you, however, is the direction it comes from. Who would have thought that such a situation would arise? Strange things happen sometimes. Treat life with humour and kindness and you will not go far wrong.
AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) There is a wonderful enthusiasm about you at the moment. Seeing the reaction of others to you, it occurs that you should have taken this attitude before. Therefore, make a resolution to put more energy into everything
IF ITʼS YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK:
Asking too much of yourself is unrealistic. You need to pace yourself and make plans.
ARIES (March 21 - April 20)
that you do. The rewards are both social and financial. There is no great progress in love this week but patience is a virtue.
Being totally inspired this week, you could be tempted to let enthusiasm run away with you. It is a lovely feeling, like being a child again. Be sure to have fun, but do keep as much money in your pocket as possible. With many demands at the moment, restrict your exuberance on finances.
PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Something new which you started in recent weeks becomes more than a passing interest. Although it may be surprising to you, it is owing to a predictable situation. In opening your mind, you also seem to have opened your heart. Many people do that at this time of the year and so you are not alone. Trusting is sometimes difficult but it must happen sometime.
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REST OF THE WEEK Alicante TODAY: CLEAR, MAX 26C, MIN 18C Fri -26 18 S Mon - 27 17 S Sat -26 18 S Tues - 27 17 S Sun - 26 17 S Wed - 27 18 S
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Barcelona TODAY: SUN Fri - 26 16 S Sat -25 16 S Sun - 25 16 S
MAX 26 MIN 16C Mon - 24 18 S Tues - 24 18 Cl Wed - 24 18 Sh
Benidorm TODAY: CLEAR, MAX 26C, MIN 18C Fri - 27 18 S Mon -27 17 S Sat -26 18 S Tues - 27 17 S Sun - 27 17 S Wed - 28 18 S
Madrid TODAY: SUN, MAX 29C, MIN 10C Fri - 27 10 S Mon - 27 11 S Sat -28 10 S Tues - 27 11 S Sun - 27 11 S Wed - 25 11 Sh
Malaga TODAY: SUN, Fri - 26 19 S Sat -26 19 S Sun - 25 18 S
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)
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MAX 26C, MIN 19C Mon - 25 18 S Tues - 26 18 S Wed - 26 18 S
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LEO (July 24 - August 23)
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A business partnership takes on a romantic tinge this week. It is possible that the other party sees this as more significant than you. To avoid problems later it would be best to let them do all the running.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Your outgoing attitude is spot on. Some may say you are a little crazy, the way you go for things. Each person has their own way and yours can be quite unique but that certainly does not make it wrong. People who make the world around us that little bit more colourful are gems. Let's hope that you will be more fully appreciated in this exciting week.
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There will be a certain amount of discussion regarding holiday plans. You know what you want but how do you persuade others? It's quite easy really. All you have to do is to get someone else to suggest a certain place.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23)
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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21)
You are so sharp that there is a danger you will cut yourself! Seriously, though, try not to appear pompous over a certain matter. You may be right and you may be clever, but smarty pants are rarely popular. Some of that sharpness gets things going for you in the love department.
HOW TO PLAY Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.
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Funagram 1.Unscramble the name of a Major League Baseball team: INTRINSIC DANCE 2.Unscramble the name of a famous singing duo: OLD MAN SANG FUNKIER
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‘Not Joined Up’ is a novel set in the little seaside town of Orilla del Mar, in the Eastern Costa del Sol. It tells of the interwoven lives of a mixed bunch of British ex-pats as they struggle with the many bewildering aspects of living in Spain. We meet Brian and Lynne who have taken over the El Marinero bar where the regulars are only too happy to initiate them into the lifestyle. Their customers include,
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IRISH LOTTO
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CRYPTIC Across 1 Arrests singer Stevie (5) 4 Arranged loans for the beauty parlour (5) 8 Retire mid-afternoon, unruly soldier (7) 9 Wounded in Stirling or Edinburgh (5) 10 Sounds like thereʼs plenty of paper for the church group (5) 11 Pilots travelling South must carry hand guns (7) 12 Stand in the middle of Bourbon city outskirts (6) 14 Fruit for disoriented nomads (6) 18 Sadly I belong to the worthless (7) 20 Cathyʼs new boat (5) 22 False statement admitted by an incomer (5) 23 Tramp on the dock, itʼs rougher (7) 24 Made off with a scarf (5) 25 False report from womenʼs lib election (5) Down 1 Becomes aware of a new section (7) 2 Madagascar goatherd carries a load (5) 3 Romeo, Romeo! I rest awkwardly without troublemaker (7) 4 Fights for leftovers (6) 5 African cityʼs exceptional goals (5) 6 Anxious, I left funny souvenir (7) 7 Fateful day with teams heading off (4)
13 Criminals appear in nightclub and itʼs mayhem (7) 15 Poor babyʼs malnourished inside (7) 16 Unspoilt old city in South African region (7) 17 Weak coffee blend is found here (6) 18 Islamic leader governed country (4) 19 Old groaner has nothing but lotto (5) 21 Scale the end of rheumatic arm or leg (5)
Across 1 Maybe (7) 5 Cut (5) 8 File (7) 9 Gains by labour (5) 10 Additional (5) 11 Hoping for (7) 12 Broken into pieces (6) 14 Hateful (6) 17 Hair cleansing agent (7) 19 Fourth month (5) 22 Expel (5) 23 Devalue (7) 24 Sweet yellow liquid (5) 25 Remainder (7)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 9 represents M and 14 represents K, so fill in M every time the figure 9 appears and K every time the figure 14 appears. Now using your knowledge of the English language work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS: CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Stopgap, 5 Cried, 8 Entraps, 9 Remit,
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10 Knows, 11 Lesotho, 12 Steady, 14 Preset, 17 Artisan, 19 Crepe, 22 Sober, 23 Tonsure, 24 Ahead, 25 Dessert.
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Down: 1 Sleek, 2 Outdo,
Down 1 Chaplain (5) 2 Adjust again (5) 3 Stir violently (7) 4 Write illegibly (6) 5 Paces (5) 6 Dizziness (7) 7 Stands down (7) 12 Beg (7) 13 Stopping-place (7) 15 Underwear (7) 16 Agree (6) 18 Minor (5) 20 Swift (5) 21 Thrust (5)
3 Grassed, 4 Pestle, 5 Cures, 6 Inmates, 7 Detroit, 12 Swansea, 13 Eatable, 15 Recants,
H ex a g r a m The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (CHASED) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.
16 United, 18 Shred, 20 Etude, 21 Exert.
QUICK - Across: 1 Boss, 3 Saucepan, 9 Servant, 10 Adept, 11 Badge, 12 Cornet, 14 Desire, 16 Scheme, 19 Native, 21 Needs, 24 Agile, 25 Explain, 26 Fearless, 27 Heal. Down: 1 Busybody, 5 Chair, 6 Precede,
1 Kissed, 2 Tested, 3 Absent, 4 Settee, 5 Beards, 6 Melted, 7 Stress, 8 Cereal, 9 Messes, 10 Earned, 11 Pieces, 12 Dreams, 13 Engine, 14 Sealed, 15 Reined, 16 Denied, 17 Sledge, 18, Ranges, 19 Eating
20 Ideal, 22 Evade, 23 Calf.
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1. How many months of the year are named after real people? 2. Also known as a ‘double-magnum’, which over-large Champagne bottle, approximately equivalent to six normal-sized ones, is named after the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin? 3. Which Womble was named after the chief town of the Hebridean island of Mull? 4. What type of coffee is named after a brotherhood of monks, as it is said
that the drink’s froth resembles the monk’s white hood? 5. Named after its pilot’s mother, what was the name of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? 6. Which famous food spread is named after a covered earthenware or metal cooking pot? 7. Which soft-nosed expanding bullet is named after an arsenal near Calcutta where it was first made?
1. TWO - July and August (Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus), 2. JEROBOAM, 3. TOBERMORY, 4. CAPPUCCINO, 5. ENOLA GAY, 6. MARMITE, 7. DUM-DUM.
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bake, bane, bank, bare, bark, barn, beak, bean, bear, berk, bier, bike, bier, brae, bran, kern, verb, vibe, bairn, baker, barer, barre, biker, brain, brake, brave, break, briar, brier, brine, brink, banker, barker, barren, braver, RIVERBANK
How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case Y) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
Answers: Half baked; Lift out of order; To know you is to love you
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My story Living with emetophobia By Caroline Dowdall, Mojacar EWN EXCLUSIVE For me, and probably for countless other female sufferers, the most profoundly traumatic effect was the impact my phobia had on me during pregnancy, which in its early stages is a period almost defined by nausea and vomiting. Then came the fear that my children might get bugs that would cause them to vomit. And, of course, they
Famous people with emetophobia
IVING with any kind of phobia must be, at best, inconvenient, and no doubt can become a living hell. It depends what you’re phobic about: if it’s something that’s easy to avoid, like heights, it’s not likely to cause too much difficulty. On the other hand, if the object of your phobia is something that is an inescapable part of everyday existence, it must make life difficult to bear. One well-known example is agoraphobia, a fear of being in places where there is a chance of having a panic attack. Less well-known, but apparently very common, is emetophobia, which is narrowly defined as a fear of vomiting, but usually includes the additional fear of seeing other people vomiting, and also extends to a general fear of feeling nauseous. Generally, the effect on the life of an emetophobe is that he or she lives a life dictated by a constant programme of trying to avoid becoming nauseous or being exposed to people who are.
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did, leading to anxiety and compulsive preventative and curative behaviour. This has made me feel that I didn’t adequately perform
IT isn’t unknown for us Europeans to look suspiciously at the strange customs of others, including those of Aborigines or Inuits, Native Americans and various Asian or African tribes. I wonder if they scratch their heads at European peculiarities. As one Arab said: ‘Europeans parade their women in a state of undress then get upset when others desire them’. We expose our children to adult imagery then throw up our hands in indignation when they follow the examples set. Some rites are truly beautiful and inspirational. Take for instance the Ritual Fire Dance of Spanish composer Manuel De Falla. If you are not mesmerised by that orgiastic spectacle then witness instead the ‘Ritual Flier Dance’, or airport security. Before flying, everything needed to identify each passenger’s entire, even personal, history, is painstakingly entered weeks before the acolyte arrives at the airport. Most would be horrified if they knew how much is known about them. Yet, despite being armed with everything police national computers can throw up, passengers, even children and grannies, will be subjected to a degrading sacrament, including having to undergo various forms of undress and functional fondling. Pawed over and pored over, one’s
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my duties as a mother, despite being so evidently devoted to that role. Aside from my children, there were many other
strands of life that this phobia affected. For instance, I am still troubled by guilt that I didn’t adequately support friends who were ill
because of a fear of them vomiting in my presence. More trivially, there was fear of travel sickness, which was so bad I avoided travelling by plane for 30 years. I am now a grandmother to three beautiful children; I live in Southern Spain and my dearest wish is to be able to have them come and visit me for holidays. My story is a compelling account of life with a near-debilitating fear and how I managed to keep it a secret for 46 years. But, through my own shame and with the love and understanding of my third husband, I have almost managed to overcome it. I am fully aware now that I am not alone and through a lot of research I am astounded at how many emetophobes there are throughout the world.
Readers can email me at caroline.daw@talk21.com or visit my facebook page: dowdallcaroline
The strange rituals of travelling by air
AIRPORT SECURITY: Even grannies are subjected to ritual humiliation.
By Mike Walsh www.michaelwalsh.es
passport will be examined several times before one reaches one’s destination; the earlier examinations weren’t effective, then? These rituals are performed each time you enter an airport where
you find functionaries wearing colourful costumes. Their demeanour suggests they take their performance seriously. They presumably attend the same initiation ceremonies, for their zombie-like expressions suggest similar vapidity of thought. Once admitted to the plane, priestesses run through a welcoming ceremony. Standing between aisles leading to the heaven-bound altar, they demand the absolute attention of those gathered together. Waving their arms in carefully
contrived motions, they draw captivated acolytes into the mysteries of flight. The throng are informed that this is a ‘non-smoking flight’. It is doubtful if anyone is old enough to remember a time when you could actually pull out a pack of cigarettes and, lighting up, inhale the fumes whilst dreamily contemplating the earth’s curvature. Mile-high clubsters are frowned upon but it will be sudden and painful retribution should one repair to the loo to light up. A life jacket is said to be a survival aid if the plane ditches. It is carefully explained how to inflate, light its light and blow the whistle. One cannot quite imagine survival when from 30,000 feet above the sea, 207,000kg of screaming, burning metal and plastic plummets to its watery grave at 600km per hour. It is, though, a comforting thought that one’s airliner may float whilst nearby helpful ships, responding to its Mayday call, circle to invite us on board for cocktails and sympathy. Yes, we too love our rituals and strange customs.
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FROM time to time, I note references in Letters to the Editor about some of the bureaucracy in Spain. I have been told that the mother of bureaucracy is often corruption! Recently, I have spent more than €300 in obtaining papers to prove that my wife and I are still legally married so that her shortly due to expire Spanish residencia can be renewed on the back of my own already approved papers as a European national. Though we produced documents fully certified from our marriage in Singapore in 2004, they demanded a freshly certified marriage certificate ‘to prove you have not since divorced’. They refused to accept that joint ownership of a property bought last year, Spanish tax payments by us both in the last five years plus a joint bank account actively used by us both as proof of our ‘togetherness’. I realise that some people may try to ‘cheat’ the system, but a little common sense should be allowed so that clearly above-the-board foreigners can live in Spain without having to get papers from halfway across the world… plus the added cost of then having them translated into Spanish, and the additional hiring of a Spanish lawyer to handle the case! N Sutton, Huercal Overa (Almeria)
No, no, no! I GET really annoyed over frequent cold-call phoning by company representatives trying to sell a variety of things, including internet services and insurances. Many people have told me there are plans to make cold calling by phone to private numbers in Spain illegal. If this is true, I trust it happens sooner rather than later. As it is, I receive numerous calls frequently after 5pm in the afternoon - and invariably from people who do not speak more than a few words of English, trying to get me to buy or subscribe to something. At times I wonder what part of ‘no’ the more persistent do not understand! N Childes, Los Boliches (Malaga)
Holiday plea THERE has just been a feria in Mijas, which saw many local businesses close for one day in surrounding locations in Mijas Costa. However, not only did I not see any reference to the feria ahead of the event in EWN but nor did I see a report saying that a
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Mallorca I have received letters, emails, etc, with many forms of this letter, the most recent supposedly from a British woman trapped in Libya with money to invest in a business. When something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Tracey Thompson, Torrevieja (Alicante)
Vera beaches
THIS was taken in the Molina gardens, near the water park in Torremolinos (Malaga). We go regularly as the gardens change with the seasons but are always beautiful; there is a small charge for entry but for local pensioners it is free. I have many other photos, but this is my favourite.
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local holiday was planned. You always point out - ahead of any national holidays - when they are due. Advising readers of local holidays would be an added bonus. MA, Name and address provided Editor’s note: EWN advises readers of all national Spanish holidays as part of its editorial service. With more than 100 local feria holidays throughout our circulation area - many of them very small village ones stretching from the Costa Blanca down to Gibraltar and across to Mallorca, it would be impossible to publish details of all of them, though we will in future attempt to inform readers of the main ones.
Those who do not agree with bullfights, bull running or even people throwing tomatoes at each other should remember they are guests. One week in the UK or even reading the British papers should remind many expatriates what kowtowing to immigrants has done to their nation. Last week in Mercadona, I heard a lady, with a strong regional accent, complaining that she could not find Bird’s custard powder. We live in Spain, for goodness sake... I had to rush home for a glass of vino blanco and a siesta. Sash Harvey, Albir (Alicante)
Business plea WHILE I agree that rogue traders are detrimental to legal shops (Costa Blanca South, Issue 1368), Spain should make operating a business easier. Having opened and tried unsuccessfully to close a business here I can attest to the difficulties, especially if your Spanish is limited and you are given incorrect advice. Tom Hilton, Torrevieja
Please remember Just amazing EVERYBODY has moved to Spain for their own reasons and they should respect the Spanish customs and way of life.
WHAT amazes me about the Nigerian letter scam (Costa del Sol, Issue 1368) is that people still fall for it.
I WOULD like to comment on the article about Vera beaches (Almeria Issue 1365). Whilst I agree the beaches require attention, I do not agree about the need for a promenade on Vera Playa. This area has an abundance of wildlife that inhabits the lagoon and grassed area, and is probably the only beach in this area with this type of natural surroundings. This would disappear if a promenade was to be built! I suggest that the Veraplayazul association walk the existing promenade outside the Zimbali Hotel one evening and try to avoid the cyclists, joggers, roller-skaters, prams and dogs’ mess that is in abundance there. I am sure people would prefer to walk on the natural beach path, free of concrete, less busy and enjoy nature as it was intended. Jim, Vera Playa (Almeria)
Feral cats I HAVE a point to add to Connie’s Pets Corner article on local feral cats (Issue 1368). Feral cats actually provide a service, much as they have since ancient history to man; they keep rat numbers down. When faced with the choice between feral cats and rats, I know which one I would choose. While feral cats that have not be neutered breed a lot, they do not usually live much more than three years and many of the kittens do not survive even that long. Kathryn Carter, Mijas Costa (Malaga)
Extra attraction WHILE I am not a golfer, I can see the attraction of buying on a golf course (Issue 1368). You are virtually guaranteed a green view with no chance of a building site sprouting up next to you in the future. There is often a clubhouse nearby which offers social activities, a restaurant, bar and other services. Janet Harrison, Benidorm (Alicante)
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By John Jackson MORE than a third of passengers travel without travel insurance, risking huge medical bills if they have an accident or become ill abroad. This was revealed in a survey of 4,000 passengers by low-cost airline Ryanair, which also shows 82 per cent with insurance did not know if their policy offered ski, business travel or sports (golf) cover. Ninety per cent of those who travelled without insurance were unaware that medical repatriation flights within Europe could cost them more than €18,000, and substantially more from other parts of the world, should they become seriously ill when abroad. British Embassy spokesperson, James Birkett told EWN: “Medical treatment abroad can be very expensive and to avoid being faced with large bills if taken ill or after having an accident, the Foreign Office is urging people to take out a comprehensive travel insurance policy before travelling to Spain and other foreign destinations. “The UK has mutual health care agreements with many countries, but these arrangements do not cover all expenses.” In 2010, around 12 million UK residents visited Spain, and the
A 40,000 CROWD made up entirely of women and children watched a Turkish league match after sports authorities took the decision to bar men ‘to remind supporters of the beauty and values of football’.
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SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT number of points. Firstly, and most disturbingly, just who are these people, who appear free to dictate their wishes to a government elected by and answerable to those of us who put them into power? Secondly, we only have the word of this apology for a human as to what his treatment would be were he to be deported to his own country. And, thirdly, who gives a damn? This lump of garbage was part of a plot to cause misery, terror and pain to innocent people in his host country, while he was probably living off the benefits of their generosity. Who cares what happens to him? Who cares if they string him up by his proverbials the minute he steps off the plane? To me that would be justice well served, anyway.
Actually, my second example of political correctness gone mad is even more alarming. It appears that the magazine Nursery World has put forward a number of guidelines aimed at children as young as two. I’ll list a few and you can make up your own mind. Witches, who have traditionally dressed in black since the Wizard of Oz, should now be dressed in different colours, i.e. with pink hats! Children should be given paper other than white to draw on.
Get rid of PC and justice will be served. Crayons should be in flesh coloured tones and teachers prepared to lie and answer ‘black or brown’ when asked as to their favourite colour. Well, I don’t know about you but I have NEVER come across a twoyear-old racist. It is not our innocent offsprings, it is this dangerous PC mob that create the divisions in our society.
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A DOG-EATING carnival in China was banned after public outrage at the way the dogs are slaughtered. It celebrates a victory during the Ming dynasty when dogs were killed so that they could not alert the enemy.
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WOULDN’T it be wonderful if just one week would pass without some blood boiling, incomprehensible decision being taken by the PC or ‘uman rights brigade? What happened to all those promises (hah!) from our esteemed leaders to stamp out the often dangerous nonsense issuing from the obscure offices of a race of individuals who reside on a totally different planet from the rest of us? Safe to say this week has been no exception. Yet another toerag has escaped being thrown out of the country because it would breach his human rights. This hate-filled psychopath was jailed for aiding the failed July 21 bombers, who sought to repeat the carnage of July 7. He has now been released after serving just half of his sentence (don’t ask!). Apparently, although the British government is desperate to deport this object back to his native Ethiopia, they have been told they cannot do so because he could face ‘inhumane treatment or punishment’. This decision raises a
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Living dead A TOWN council in central Turkey has built a morgue with a warning system in case dead bodies come back to life. They have equipped it with refrigerators sensitive to movement inside.
One in three travellers risk huge medical costs
Medical repatriation flights within Europe could cost more than €18,000. first six months of 2011 unrest in North African destinations produced a 25 per cent year-onyear increase, Foreign & Commonwealth Office figures show. But experts warn not all travel insurance policies are the same. “It is important to know exactly what is and what is not covered by your travel insurance
policy, so don’t select a policy simply on price,” David Deveson from Globelink Travel Insurance said. Retired Britons David, 80, and Gloria Smith, 69, paid the price of not having travel insurance during a visit to Spain earlier this month. The couple travelled to the Costa del Sol from London to
attend the wedding of their granddaughter. “We didn’t think to get travel insurance because we thought it was just a short trip within Europe,” Gloria said. They were due to fly back to London two days after the wedding and just hours before they were due to depart for the airport, David collapsed in the
hotel. He had suffered a heart attack. David was taken to the nearest clinic, which was a private one, where he was stabilised. “When the clinic found out we did not have insurance I had to leave a €2,000 deposit,” Gloria said. A few hours later, David was transferred to the state hospital in Malaga City. “But before leaving, the clinic asked for a further €4,000 deposit,” Gloria remarked. The clinic later returned €3,000, so the cost of him being there for a few hours was €3,000. “My husband was in a critical state, and we were very distressed as hardly anyone in the Spanish hospital spoke any English,” she said. Two weeks later, David was discharged from hospital and has since returned to London. “I feel so stupid for not taking out travel insurance,” Gloria admitted. “It has been an expensive and stressful lesson which we have learnt.”
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Raising awareness of breast cancer OCTOBER is Breast Cancer Awareness month. This is an annual international health campaign that aims to increase awareness of the disease and raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure. It is also an opportunity to remind women of the importance of early detection. Education and screening programmes are essential to improve cancer mortality via early detection, WHO has suggested. One in eight women who live beyond age 70 will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. This number decreases with less
age so that women in their 60s have a one in 26 chance, in their 50s a one in 37 chance, 40s one in 69, 30s one in 229 and 20s one in 2,000 chance of getting breast cancer, according to figures from the American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Facts and Figures. In 2010, nearly 1.5 million people were told they had breast cancer worldwide. Despite this high incident rate, in Western countries 89 per cent of women diagnosed with breast cancer are still alive five years after their diagnosis thanks to detection and treatment, according to a study in 2008.
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Another history altogether WHAT exactly is history? Well, I suppose it’s often what’s seen as truth by the victors of battles fought over centuries. The losing sides, of course, never get the opportunity to write their version of events, having been beaten into submission, and probably enslaved. It’s been said many times that traitors never prosper simply because if the cause favoured by their treachery wins, they are no longer considered traitors. Truth, it seems, suffers much the same historical fate. A British film called ‘The History Boys’ came out a few years ago. It concerned a group of sixth form history students preparing for their entrance interviews for Oxford. They are all fairly middleclass, with one lad, clearly of a lower order, the only exception. When asked “What is history?” this one replies: “Just one damn thing after another,” and this answer, honestly given, gets him through. However, as we all know, life is different, and relying on that sort of response would not normally
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be all that well received. But going back to ‘History’: we are taught that the Ancient Greeks gave us philosophy, science, art, and certain basics of hygiene; but mentioned less frequently are the slaves who, by carrying out all the day-today tedious tasks, gave the great thinkers and artists the time they needed to exercise their intellects. Slaves have played an important role in the development of civilisations over the centuries. They were there in Greece, and in the Roman Empire which gave us much of our modern language and history. They were there even in Britain, where technically speaking, slavery hadn’t existed since feudal times. However, and although this is something history tends to ignore, the industrial expansion of the Victorian era could not
Adolf Hitler (right) meets Francisco Franco. have taken place without the 19th-century working classes; slaves in all but name. Historical plays, films, novels and romances are perhaps more popular today than in any past era, and include those involving what is known as ‘alternate history’, where the author looks at how the world might have been changed if,
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for instance, Napoleon had been the victor at Waterloo, or if the South had been successful in the American Civil War. If I had the writing ability, my favourite theme would explore a fictional world in which the Republicans had come out on top in the Spanish Civil War.
The Spain of 1940 probably would have had a left-wing government with strong ties to Moscow, whilst Germany, straddling a prostrate France and threatening a weakened Britain, would be standing, with its mighty war machine, on the Spanish-French border. Britain, depending for its very survival upon its merchant shipping, would be under serious threat (as it was in the non-fictional history) by U-boats based on the French Atlantic coast, and at times almost on its knees. If Germany, invading a Spain weakened by three years of civil war, had succeeded in taking Gibraltar, and thus closing the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal, perhaps the entire European continent, and even Russia, might now be under the control of the thousand-year Reich. If the Republican navy (more ‘ifs’) had been used to block the arrival of Franco’s Moroccan reinforcements, the outcome of that war might have been different; another history altogether.
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How can there ever be an holistic approach to cruelty? INCREASINGLY, the irascibility that came with my red hair is fading as the colour itself is silvering into embers of its former state; though surely that has been caused by the sun rather than the passing years? A few things can still stir the old passions, though, including the concept that when a newborn child dies it will roast for all eternity in the furnace of hell if a man-in-a-dress doesn’t perform a magic trick. Another was the now discredited teaching that children should be left to cry and fed only according to an inflexible timetable. Surprisingly, that view was almost universally accepted, at least in the Anglo Saxon world, just a couple of generations ago. Most readers would readily accept that
All this nonsense reminds me of the pre-Second World War advice to smack a child who wets the bed
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Ron Williams children - just like adults - need comfort and security and that we cannot be dehumanised by a clock. Few in Spain have probably ever acceded to that ignore-the-child concept and could that indeed have contributed to the reduced youth criminality here? The concept that children should be treated strictly and live apparently devoid of parental affection came
Dogs are pack animals and seek comfort from their fellows. largely from academics, of course, rather than parents. But, this week, I read an advertorial here
in Spain expressing a similar diktat from one of those new breed of ‘holistic advisers’. The author claimed to have previous experience as a veterinary assistant but is now running an animal care business and into all things holistic including crystal healing, chakras, colour and aromatherapies, kinesiology and mind control; yes, indeed her advertisement listed ‘mind control’. The good lady advocated that when a dog is obviously distressed by loud noises like fireworks, you should not rush to comfort it but instead display a ‘cold attitude’ in case sympathy is taken as approval of the dog’s automatic response to pain and discomfort barking.
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‘Tender loving care’ was said to be undesirable. Only when the dog overcomes its fears and presumably when the bangs stop assaulting the dog’s acute sense of hearing, are you permitted to then comfort it. But, instead of patting it, the article advised that we could rather comfort the dog by issuing a series of brusque, one-word training commands. That sounds like Gulag therapy to me. Dogs are, even more than humans, pack animals and seek comfort from their fellows. In my personal opinion, it is unnatural in the extreme to ostracise an animal from its pack (yourself) and treat it in such an inhuman manner. How can anyone advocate such
treatment? Even crueller, in my view, was her recommendation for curing the problem. She went on to advise that the dog should be subjected to the same noises and ‘When the dog shows no anxiety towards the noise the intensity is raised slightly. The pattern is repeated and repeated again and again increasing the intensity until the dog demonstrates calmness and no anxiety. The process goes on until the loudness is as loud as a firework and the dog does not react in fear’ and is presumably by then nearing either deafness or insanity. How would the lady like to forced to become accustomed to the howling of mopeds by repeated subjection in her lounge to their noise at ever increasing levels? Especially if we could improve her hearing to canine levels. Readers were then advised to bring the probably insensible dog around by the application of such aromatherapic delights as Mimulus, Rock Rose or Cherry Plum, or best of all, Buddhist Reiki sessions for the dog (not the owner) provided, of course your dog speaks fluent Japanese; mine is still teaching me Spanish. All this nonsense reminds me of the preSecond World War advice to smack a child who wets the bed. Both are far more likely to increase the existing distress considerably.
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By Sharon Garner BECAUSE, in general, valuations are free, some vendors use them as a kind of competitive test, playing different agents off against each other to see which one paints the most optimistic picture of how much they can get for your property. ‘It doesn’t always pay to go for the agent who offers you the highest valuation.’ In the same way, some agents use high valuations as a way to persuade vendors to instruct them in the sale and drastically high valuations can mean that an agent is desperate for business. In my opinion, choosing an agent that deliberately overvalues your property will probably mean that you end up wasting time while the property remains unsold. I don’t think setting the asking price too high is going to entice people in to negotiate, they are much more likely to simply be scared off and look elsewhere. It is also worth remembering that different agents with different training (assuming they have any) will value a
Take proper advice when selling your home.
Realistic property valuations property in different ways, so there may be considerable discrepancy in the prospective sale price quoted by the different agents. I’d like to quickly highlight the commonly held misconceptions many people have regarding their property’s true worth. What your property is
worth (ie, what it will sell for) has NOTHING to do with: (1) How much you paid for it. (2) How much money you’ve spent on it over the years. (3) How much you’d like to sell it for. Instead, you would be wise to focus on this one truth:
‘Your property is worth what a buyer in this current market is willing to pay for it.’ In turn, what a purchaser will decide is a fair price is determined by looking at common factors: (1) The price a similar property to yours has recently sold for. (2) The price a similar property to yours is currently being advertised at. (3) Their knowledge of the area and the vast information now obtainable from the internet. You see, unlike the UK market where the properties we sold were more than likely to be in a 10-mile radius of our home towns, where properties and developments were much of a muchness, here in Spain it is not that simple. A true valuation should be based on the agent’s general knowledge of the current market, the recent sales they have completed, experience within the sector of the market they specialise in, whether it be coastal or inland or off-plan and, most importantly, in line with their professional association guidelines. The truth is until your property is sold, nobody can guarantee what price you’ll achieve in today’s market and as I said previously, it’s worth what a client is prepared to pay for it. www.spanishproperty choice.com
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3% of Spanish invent trips they have never been on ALMOST 23 per cent of people in Spain admit to having lied or exaggerated when telling other people about their holidays. And 10 per cent admit they do so to make other people envious, and 3 per cent of Spaniards have invented a trip they have never been on. Another 3 per cent confesses to having modified photos to make them more attractive. This was revealed in a survey carried out by popular website lastminute.com, 19 per cent of Europeans admit to having gone overboard when telling others about their holidays, with the Irish being the worst offenders with 29 per cent, while Spain and
Germany come in neck and neck. At the other end of the scale, the French and the Danes are the most truthful about their jollies. The average time spent telling colleagues at work is 22 minutes in Europe, an average which Spain fits in with, but is beaten by Ireland (26 minutes), Germany (25) and Sweden (23). Thirty-nine per cent of the Irish consider themselves ‘very good’ at talking about their holidays, while 50 per cent of Spanish believe that they are good at it. Least depressed Meanwhile, another survey revealed people in Spain get less depressed
after their holidays than other Europeans. A study by travel website TripAdvisor was carried out amongst
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depression at least once, while for the British, the percentage is 78 per cent. Some 75 per cent of The best way French claim they have to beat the suffered from the holiday blues syndrome, the same as is to plan 70 per cent of Italians. another trip. Around 36 per cent of Spanish people said they try to take another trip before the end of the year. Sixty-two per cent of Spanish claim that the best thing to take their mind off the fact that their holidays are over is to start planning their next trip and stay positive. Eleven per cent admits 4,000 Europeans, to having invented an including 700 Spaniards. However, 61 per cent of excuse to miss work Spanish say they have during the first month suffered post-vacation back.
A VENETIAN couple hired a lawyer after several attempts to convince their 41-yearold son to leave home. He has a good job, but refuses to leave and demands meals and ironing from his mother.
Small woman A 69CM-TALL college student, aged 22, whose hobbies include dancing and cheerleading is the world's shortest woman, Guinness World Records announced.
Bee gone! A US golf tournament was halted after a branch fell from a tree near the 18th green and exposed a beehive, releasing 70,000 bees.
Business as usual? Then the Small Business Day is for you! GOODNESS me, what a week of changes. There seem to be so many people packing it all in and heading back to the UK. People who are going back for health reasons, for family reasons, and for financial ones as well. But there are still people toughing it out here, with gritted teeth they’re persevering with their businesses and trying to tighten their belts now that the summer tourist season has finished. I know of some cafes which only have just enough cash to restock so that they can keep their doors open. And just as these people are leaving or struggling so many other people are arriving and thriving on the island, which I think is also important to remember, it’s not all doom and gloom. If your business is booming or floundering, or hasn’t even been set up yet, the Small Business Day is for you. It’s
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an opportunity to network with other business owners, to meet industry experts and professionals and to discover some new skills and ideas which might make a difference in your own field. When I came up with the idea for the Small Business Support Day a couple of years ago I wanted to make it as inclusive as possible which is why the price for the whole day is so low, it’s only €30 for the workshops which start at 9.30am and go through until 4pm and includes lunch. The last time I did the event it attracted about 60 people, so I am hoping this time to get around a 100.
There will be workshops and seminars presented on topics such as ‘How to protect your business’, ‘How to manage PR’, ‘Group dynamics and communication’, ‘Personal Branding’ ‘Accounting and preparing for the tax man’ amongst others. Last time we did this event there was a varied group of delegates, people representing their own small and mid scale business, people looking for investors, and people looking to invest and buy businesses, and people who had not yet set up their business but subsequently have done. If you’ve got an idea or a dream that you want to fulfil then the SBS day is a really good way to start. When I set up my first business in Mallorca all those years ago I didn’t really have a clue about things like cash flow and marketing, and
I had to learn the very hard way about how to do things, there wasn’t an event or a course which I could have gone on (in English anyway) that would have addressed some of the things that I wanted to develop. Well there is now, and I’m proud to be the person who came up with it! The event will be on Wednesday, October 19 and will be at Mood Beach Bar & Restaurant in Costa D’en Blanes (it’s between Marineland and Sporting Tennis). If you want to come for the day, or know someone who you think would benefit from coming then contact info@moodbeach.com or call 971 676 456 to make your booking. It’s best to reserve in advance as tickets on the day are more expensive.
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Beach party in aid of charity FOR the past seventeen years a group of ladies and their friends from Oldham, Greater Manchester, have visited Magaluf on holiday. They call themselves ‘amigas para siempre’ - friends forever - and they return year after year to have fun and raise money for local charities on the island. This year they are back this Saturday (October 1) and ready to have a great time and collect funds for a good cause, the Allen Graham Charity 4 Kidz. The highlight of their stay is a beach party that is held at the Boatyard Restaurant/Café on the beachfront at Magaluf next Wednesday (October 5). This year English Radio Mallorca has been asked to provide the entertainment for the afternoon. “I am delighted that we have been asked to help” says Laura Penn of English radio (ERM). We have supported the ‘amigas’ and Allen Graham for years and are very happy to be involved.
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“All the radio team will be there doing various things and we have put out the word to all our entertainer friends. “Many of them have already volunteered to perform on the day so it is going to be a mini Mallorca Live Aid!” There will be an auction on the day with lots of great prizes including a makeover for two, as well as magic tricks, and a few surprises. “So far Jon Paul Bradshaw, Nicky Stixx, Leapy Lee, Liam Live, Martin Diaz, Jerri Rouw, Mark Gibson and Jeannie, Mike Jones, Vinnie Scott, Lady Letitia and magician Andy Charlton are all lined up,” said Laura. “We are really excited that Danny Darcy and the lads from Durty Nellys bar will joining us this year for the first time as a climax to the afternoon’s entertainment. Plus 50 lads from Cork are coming especially to see the Irish boys so it is going to be a bigger party than ever before!”
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Happy car journey MORE than one in three pet owners take their dogs or cats on car journeys on a regular basis, a new study shows. Of those surveyed by Confused.com, 41 per cent said their pets enjoyed the journey. Listening to the radio was one method pet owners used to keep their companions amused on longer journeys with Adele, Madonna and Lady Gaga the most popular artists. Others admitted to singing to their pets and taking plenty of toys to keep them amused. While 12 per cent of pet-owning motorists said they let their dog stick its head out of the window, experts at Dogs Trust say this is not necessarily a good idea. “Dogs might really enjoy the sensation of having their heads out of the window, but it is dangerous for them so we would always advise keeping ears, paws and noses inside the vehicle while the car is moving,” said Veterinary Director Paula Boyden. Almost 10 per cent of pet owners have almost had an accident when driving because of their pet’s behaviour. “Road trips should be as fun for our pets as they can be for us and keeping our pets happy in the back is also going to reduce distraction for us as drivers, making our journeys safer for us and our animals,” said Gareth Kloet, Head of Car Insurance at Confused.com
CONTINUING on from last week’s article about the emerging mobile device market, here are a couple of things you can do to make sure your site is mobile friendly. If your business relies on the internet to generate revenue, then it is critical that you make adjustments to your website to accommodate mobile customers. A lot of people don’t realise that iPads and iPhones will not play Flash video without a special application that you need to download. This also applies to Flash based websites. If you have a lot of videos on your site that use Flash, you may want to post a link to the
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install it and view your videos. Another tip is to resize and compress images for the small screen to ensure fast page loading and eliminate any images that are really unnecessary. There are a lot of things that can be done to make viewing your website an easier and more enjoyable experience for mobile users: just visit Google and
search ‘creating a mobile friendly website’ or something similar and you’ll find a wealth of information on the topic that will help you identify things you may or may not want to change. Please keep your queries and questions coming in and I will try to answer as many as possible here in my weekly column.
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Snappy dog woes DEAR Connie We have a problem with our two-year-old dog. We got him from a rescue home at eight weeks old. He is a small dog, a cross between a Yorkshire terrier and a spaniel. He has never really liked children and growls and barks whenever he sees a child. He has become very snappy if anyone comes up to him and I have to warn people not to stroke him as he goes to nip their hand. He is a loving dog in our own home, but when we take him out I feel nervous because he seems a totally different dog. I would rather cross the road than walk past other people. He sometimes snaps at people he knows, so you never know what he is going to do. We have tried a muzzle but he wouldn’t keep it on. I would appreciate any advice from you. Carol Jones Hi Carol, You do have a lot of problems! Dogs that snap unfortunately get worse. You do not say if he has been castrated; if not, that is the first job.
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I would suggest you then ask your vet to recommend a trainer or better still a behaviourist to help you as soon as possible. It does not take long to change a dog’s behaviour, the problem is changing your way of thinking. We now say in the profession that there are no
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Hyundai i40 The launch of the estate Wheels By James Yeadon HYUNDAI recently held a ‘Family day’ at its Marbella showroom, Hyundmar, to celebrate the launch of its new estate, the i40. • The i40 has a luggage area of 553 litres • Below: Standard features of the i40 Hyundai i40 Blue Drive are, 16” alloy wheels, Bluetooth connectivity with voice recognition, leather steering wheel with audio controls, electric heated door mirrors with integrated LED indicators, electric front and rear windows and electric parking brake with automatic hold function. Touch-screen satellite navigation with rear view camera, front and rear parking sensors, cruise control and dual zone climate control are occupied and a total of 1.719 litres with standard on the mid-point ‘Style’ range. the rear seats folded down. The Premium models benefit further Car salesman, Jose Manuel Cazorla, from the addition of leather upholstery, who has been with Hyundamar group panoramic sunroof, keyless entry and since 2005, described the car as “safe, supervision instrument cluster with LCD spacious, fuel efficient and reliable.” colour display as standard, plus the Hyundmar in Marbella first opened in option of the Lane Departure Warning 2004 with further showrooms in and Smart Parking Assist, heated leather Estepona, Mijas, Fuengirola, Coin and steering wheel and ventilated front seats. Ronda. The i40 has a spacious 553-litre boot The i40 is now available at a starting with the rear seats occupied and a totala price of €25,590.
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OOTBALL – Peter Crouch scored for his sixth different Premiership club as Stoke held leaders Manchester United to a 1-1 draw... Fernando Torres was sent off for the first time ever after netting for Chelsea who beat Swansea 4-1... Manchester City saw off Swansea 3-0... Robin Van Persie grabbed his 100th ‘PL’ goal for Arsenal who defeated Bolton 3-0... Demba Ba hit a hat-trick as unbeaten Newcastle clipped Blackburn 3-1... Steven Gerrard returned to League action after six months as Liverpool checked Wolves 2-1... Spurs won 2-1 at Wigan (just)... it was Norwich 2 Sunderland 1... And the QPR-Aston Villa and WBAFulham games ended level.
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There were important wins for West Ham, Derby, Portsmouth and Nottingham Forest in the Championship, for in-form Hartlepool, Notts County, PNE, Sheffield Wednesday and leaders Charlton in League One and for AF Wimbledon, Gillingham and bottom club Plymouth in League Two, which is still headed by Morecambe. Meanwhile, Rangers, sensationally knocked out of the League Cup by Falkirk, hit back with a 40 win at Dunfermline to stay top of the SPL. And,
here in Spain, Lionel Messi’s hat-trick helped Barcelona whip Atletico Madrid 5-0. In the League Cup 4th round, it’s Aldershot-Manchester United, Arsenal-Bolton, BlackburnNewcastle, Cardiff-Burnley, Crystal Palace-Southampton, Everton-Chelsea, StokeLiverpool and WolvesManchester City. UGBY WORLD CUP – Ireland, by thumping Russia 62-12, qualified for the quarter-finals. They’ll be joined by England who walloped Romania 67-3 with hattricks from Mark Cueto and Chris Ashton, and Wales, for whom Stephen Jones won a record 101st cap in their emphatic 12-try, 81-7 victory over Namibia.
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