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Bárcenas to appeal passport confiscation

Former treasurer for the PP Luis Bárcenas is appealing against a judge’s decision to force him to hand in his passport and report to the court every two weeks.

Pablo Ruz, handling the slush fund case, considered there was a real risk of the accused fleeing the country.

Bárcenas’ Swiss bank accounts contain 22 million euros, but had held as much as 38 million in the past in order to avoid paying taxes.

The origin of the funds is not known, but the ex-treasurer insists he ‘got lucky’ on the stock market and sold various works of art, and that the money also came from two estate agency businesses he owned.

Account documents show that the PP party at national level received 33 million euros in donations between 1999 and 2007, of which 23.7 million came from anonymous

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Almería has 553 volunteers working locally for the Protección Civil. Of these volunteers, 303 are detailed to Municipalities of over 10,000 inhabitants and 250 to smaller Municipalities.

Currently, Almería has Protección Civil volunteers in 21 Municipalities in the Province and their service covers a total population of 555,000 inhabitants.

The average number in each group of volunteers is 26, rising to 34 members in the case of municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants and falling to 21 in the small Municipalities.

Municipalities that have groups of volunteers are Carboneras, Los Gallardos, Garrucha, Láujar de Andarax, Macael, Mojácar, La Mojonera, Olula del Río, Pulpí, Turre, Vélez Blanco, Vélez Rubio, Adra, Albox, Almería, Berja, Cuevas de Almanzora, El Ejido, Nijar, Roquetas de Mar and Vícar.

The Protección Civil volunteers are an altruistic organisation whose main purpose is to cooperate with the public in the work of crime prevention, to assist in emergencies, large events or large gatherings of people.

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The Policía Nacional have carried out 84 arrests in the first 2 months of this year.

Policing by the Brigada de Seguridad Ciudadana and the Brigada de Policía Judicial have resulted in several major interventions.

As a result of these arrests the Policía Nacional have issued 575 warrants for possession or use of drugs and have made 68 seizures of weapons or dangerous objects.

During the month of February 1,698 deployments by the police have identified 3,107 persons of interest and 957 cars have been examined, most of them during the night shifts.

Castro de Filabres

The Municipality of Castro de Filabres will finish their ‘Salón de Usos Múltiples’

benefactors.

It is thought some of these may be construction firms bribing politicians to get building jobs.

Bárcenas is also accused of paying top-flight PP members cash-in-hand extra wages over a 10year period.

These politicians, who include Spain’s president Mariano Rajoy, deny ever receiving money in envelopes.

The accused is also suing the PP for unfair dismissal as he claims he continued working for the party for nearly 18 months after they say his employment had been terminated.

A leading union says he has a good case and is likely to be successful, which would mean he could claim dole money.

But Bárcenas has assured the nation that he has no intention of signing up to claim jobseekers’ allowance. thanks to the Diputación Provincial.

The Área de Asistencia a Municipios has drafted this proposed reform of the Nave Municipal to be used as ‘Salón de Usos Múltiples’ with a stage and dressing rooms adapted to the new needs of the municipality.

The Presidente de Diputación, Gabriel Amat has delivered to the Alcalde of Castro de Filabres, Francisco Martínez Sola, drafts for the project technicians and the Institución Provincial. It is to be funded from the Planes Provinciales 2012-2015. It is scheduled as ‘obra 44 de los Planes Provinciales’ for a budget of 144,000 €.

This project aims to transform the building, currently a warehouse, into a building more in keeping with the traditional construction of the town. On the exterior the corrugated sheeting will be replaced with slate tiles and finishes.

Inside, an area of 265 square metres, toilets and dressing rooms will be created, the stage will be expanded and disabled access created as well as understage storage for furniture.

Preparations will be put in hand to install audiovisual equipment, air conditioning and lighting.

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Several regions of Almería were on orange alert for snow and high winds last week.

The orange alert was triggered by snow in the regions of the Valle del Almanzora and Los Vélez where accumulations were up to 10 centimetres, with 5 centimetres in Nacimiento, Campo de Tabernas, Poniente and Almería city.

A yellow alert was triggered by winds up to 70 kph in the Poniente, Levante and Almería city, as well as strong coastal winds.

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Traders will not have to pay IVA until they have received the money from the client

Companies and selfemployed persons will no longer have to pay the IVA associated with invoices they issue to customers until they themselves have been paid.

A new law due to be passed, once it has been approved by the European Commission, states that if an invoice is never paid the IVA will not become payable by the issuer.

The only condition is that the company’s or self-employed person’s turnover is less than two million euros a year.

This will not take effect until 2014, but the system is already in place in Italy and Austria, and also in Holland, Slovenia and Ireland although with a much lower turnover threshold.

At present, all IVA charged on invoices has to be paid by the end of the tax year on January 30, whether or not all invoices issued during the past year have been paid by the customers.

This means companies and self-employed persons having to fork out IVA that they have not received first, leaving them out of pocket until they are permitted to claim it back at the end

of the following year.

In many countries, IVA, or VAT, is not payable unless and until a company or self-employed person has a minimum turnover, which is normally fairly high and that associated with at least a mediumsized company with several employees.

But in Spain, all selfemployed workers,

irrespective of how much they earn, have to charge IVA on all their fees.

Another move to be introduced in 2014 is that of offering tax reductions on capital investment and investigation and development (I+D) as an incentive for companies to grow and become more modern and competitive.

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Bottled gas to go up in May

Gas bottles will go up from 16.10 euros to 17.50 euros in May, and prices will be reviewed every two months thereafter, announces the ministry of industry.

They intend to impose a maximum price for the year of 17.50 euros, and where consumer purchases do not cover costs, the deficit can be dealt with later.

This is so that where costs go above 17.50 euros per bottle, this increase will not be passed onto the customer – for the year 2013 at least.

Those who get their gas bottles via a delivery contract normally have to pay slightly more to cover the cost of distribution.

The price increase is said to be a way of clawing back the deficit generated in January and, once this has been covered, the ministry will consider creating a ‘charity gas bottle’ scheme for the most hard-pressed consumers.

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Iberia workers will strike over Easter if negotiations fail

Iberia staff have threatened another five-day strike right over Easter weekend unless some progress is made with the company’s management. They say Iberia bosses have presented a new working conditions agreement which they consider to be ‘taking the mickey’.

This was given to them on a CD and they were told to sign to say they had received it, which they refused to do until they knew what the contents of it contained.

Pilots had already proposed they themselves took a 26 per cent pay cut, but Iberia told them they would lose between 30 and 35 per cent since, in addition to their wages dropping drastically, they would also no longer get expenses or transport costs paid. They would also lose the right to eight days’ holiday and seven days of public holidays or days off in lieu of these. Furthermore, they will be expected to work longer hours and provide more flexibility to the firm.

According to managing director of IAG – the company formed from the merger of Iberia and British Airways – Willie Walsh, a total of 3,807 Iberia workers will lose their jobs in a

bid to ‘bring the airline back into profit’, since although BA made around 350 million euros in the last year, Iberia’s losses swallowed these up.

Overall, Iberia’s losses in 2012 totalled 923 million euros.

Pilots, ground staff and cabin crew have attempted to compromise by saying they will accept the new and much worse working conditions if the firm agrees to halt the redundancies.

Their own suggestions for increasing productivity and their willingness to take a pay cut would cover the needs of the company, says their union. This coming week, a further fiveday strike will see Iberia losing another 50 million euros.

So far, the airline has managed to find seats on flights for 38,000 of its 40,000 passengers booked to travel next week.

In the meantime, Professor Gregorio Tudela, Dean of Employment Law, is acting as mediator between the staff unions and Iberia’s management. If, by this coming Wednesday, no progress is made, workers say they will be on strike over Easter weekend.

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Snow causes havoc on Andalucía’s roads

Emergency services have been called out to 150 incidents in the last two days due to heavy snow in Almería, Cádiz, Granada and Sevilla.

In some places, the snow has reached up to 50 centimetres (1’8”) and 13 main roads are blocked off.

Parts of the AL-5405 – between kilometres 21 and 29 – and the AL-3102 in Bacares between kilometres 20 and 41 are shut, as are seven kilometres of the AL-9100 in Canadas de Cañepla and the AL-5402 in Laujar de Andarax.

In Cádiz, nearly 14 kilometres are blocked on the CA-9104 near

Grazalema and in Granada, up to 13 kilometres are impassible on the GR-8101 via Caniles and the A-337 motorway near La Calahorra.

The Sierra Nevada is inaccessible, as is the nearby A-4025 and in Sevilla, the A-447 motorway near Alanís is shut off for 26 kilometres in both directions.

The SE-7101 in Cazalla de la Sierra (Sevilla) is inaccessible for over 13 kilometres, as is the SE-9101 near Guadalcanal.

Firefighters and police have been working round the clock trying to clear roads and rescuing drivers trapped in their cars.

Brits are largest low-cost airline market for Spain; Norwegian and Danish passengers soar Budget airline passenger numbers fell by four per cent last month on the previous year’s figures, although ‘traditional’ flight companies saw a 7.7 per cent drop in travellers to Spain.

According to a report by ThinkSpain, low-cost airlines only just pip traditional ones at the post with an almost 50-50 split, and the UK continues to be the former’s largest market, representing three in 10 passengers flying to Spain – slightly ahead of Germany, which accounts for just under a fifth.

But numbers have fallen since the same period in 2012, with around half a million fewer British travellers and 300,000 fewer German passengers.

Italy, France and the Netherlands make up the rest of the

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top five, in that order, but Italian and Dutch custom on cheap flights plummeted in January by 20 and 14 per cent respectively.

French fliers also fell by three per cent, but Scandinavian passenger numbers soared last month with a rise of 39 per cent for Norway and 27 per cent for Denmark.

Ryanair, easyJet and Vueling accounted for 55 per cent of total low-cost flights to and from Spain, and the Canary Islands saw the most arrivals, followed by Catalunya, the Comunidad Valenciana, Madrid, Andalucía and the Balearic Islands.

Barcelona’s El Prat, Madrid’s Barajas and Tenerife South were the three most popular airports for budget flight companies.

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Lleida’s burkha ban outlawed by Supreme Court

A Supreme Court ruling has abolished the burkha ban in Lleida which has been in force since 2010.

The city council had forbidden Muslim women from entering public spaces with their faces completely covered, for safety reasons, but did not forbid them from wearing any other kind of veil, such as a headscarf or niqab.

They said it was to protect the public – since a criminal could easily disguise behind a Burkha before holding up a shop, or if someone had to show their photo identity it could not be properly checked where the woman’s face was covered – and also because they considered it a form of repressing women.

An appeal against the city council bye-law was lodged by the Islamic association Watani, although it is not clear whether any women were behind the complaint.

Although a motion was approved in the Senate for Spain as a whole on June 23, 2010 to get the government to ‘regulate’ a ban on complete face-coverings in public areas,

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to date no law has been passed in this respect.

On the same date, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recommended that member State governments did not ban the burkha.

They claim it could actually backfire in the bid to abolish oppression of Muslim women, since instead of allowing her to walk the streets without a burkha, it would probably mean that if she was not permitted to wear one, she would not even be allowed out of the house.

Now, the Supreme Court says preventing women from wearing burkhas in public is a violation of Article 16 of the Spanish Constitution, which guarantees the right to free expression of one’s religion, saying that wearing a burkha is a religious matter rather than merely a cultural one imposed in certain countries.

But Lleida’s mayor, Àngel Ros, said upon being notified of the verdict that he did not agree with it since ‘the symbol of the Islamic veil is that of inequality between men and women’.

Islamic doctrine states that if a man who is not the woman’s husband or other male relative sees ‘a hair on her head’, she will go to hell, which is why she is expected to wear a scarf.

But in very strict Muslim societies, she has to go one step further and wear a gown covering her entire body and a hood which only leaves either a narrow strip to see through or even just two eye-holes covered in netting.

If the woman is in the company of other women only, she may take off her burkha or headscarf, but if men are within sight of her, she is expected to wear it.

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Eurovision entry for Spain:

Fernando Alonso’s ex with a song picked by fans

Spain’s Eurovision entry has been chosen and will be performed by the band fronted by Formula One ace Fernando Alonso’s exgirlfriend on May 18.

El Sueño de Morfeo has been a regular presence in the top 10 in Spain for nearly a decade and has several best-selling albums under its belt.

Lead singer Raquel del Rosario, 30, used to be romantically-linked with Formula One ex-World Champion Fernando Alonso when they met in his native region of Asturias after Raquel had moved there from her home in the Canary Islands to follow her music career.

The other members of the trio are David Feito and Juan Luis Suárez.

They put their choice of song to the vote among their fans, giving three possibles, and the overwhelming favourite transpired to be

Contigo hasta el final (‘with you until the end’).

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This year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Malmö, Sweden, after Loreen won in 2012 by a huge margin with the catchy club hit Euphoria, a track that shot to number

one in several countries, including Spain, within just weeks of the show.

No Spanish entry has won the contest for decades, although 2012’s Pastora Soler, a Sevilla-born solo artist with a long history of chart-topping flamenco and ballad tracks, came a very creditable 10th.

The three years before saw wins by Norway – Alex Rybaks, in 2009 – Germany in 2010, and Azerbaijan in 2011.

Bárcenas could win unfair dismissal case against PP - and claim dole money

Former treasurer and senator of the PP, Luis Bárcenas, is suing the party for unfair dismissal.

Bárcenas, who is under investigation for alleged multi-million-euro moneylaundering, paying cash-in-hand wages to PP members and being involved in the Gürtel corruption case, claimed he had been working as a consultant for the party until January 31 this year, even though the PP says his connections with them ended in April 2010.

The ex-treasurer says that if an employee is dismissed without his or her knowledge and without this being communicated to them, the dismissal is illegal.

Normally an illegal dismissal means the ex-employee will receive the maximum pay-off possible – 45 days of salary per year worked – and depending upon the situation, the company can be forced to readmit the staff member.

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Cándido Méndez, national leader of the General Workers’ Union (UGT) said: “If Bárcenas does sue the PP and wins, and is legally considered, therefore, to be unemployed, he would be able to apply for dole money, given that this is a contributory benefit paid for by salaried workers as a portion of their taxes every month.”

The amount of jobseekers’ benefit that a person can claim is based upon what they were earning and the corresponding amount they paid in respect of unemployment ‘cover’ as part of their Social Security, or national insurance, every month.

How long they can claim depends upon how long they have been working since the last time they had to claim, but is capped at two years.

That said, Méndez remarked that it would be ‘paradoxical’ if a person who had admitted to having held up to 38 million euros in a Swiss bank account were to sign on the dole and claim.

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SIX MONTHS AFTER THE FIRE – WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Six months have now elapsed since the devastating fire in Malaga province. It changed the lives of many people. Their homes and possessions were burned. All they now have from their lives are the few items they were able to throw into their cars. They raced against time to flee the fire zone and get themselves and their animals to safety. Many lost everything due to the ferocity of the fire. Some have the charred remains of their homes that are rapidly dilapidating due to the weather.

What they all have are the traumatic memories of those terrifying days and nights at the end of August 2012.

There is very little chance of them being able to recover from their trauma while the battle for permission to repair and rebuild their homes rages on.

The rural homes of the fire victims have been caught up in the legislative land-planning nightmare that affects the whole of Andalucia.

Andalucia has some 300,000 ‘illegal’ rural homes. As the law stand it seems that most homes built in rural areas (with or without Town Hall licences) are illegal.

A Decree published in February 2012 is the beginning of a way forward to regularise these rural homes.

Mijas Ayuntamiento has started the process of regularising illegal buildings.

At this moment it seems that the fire destroyed and damaged homes will be excluded from the legalisation process since, in their post-fire state, they will not meet the necessary minimum habitation standards and there is no law or permission that will

allow that work to be carried out now.

The fire victims face the permanent loss of their homes not through any judicial process but for the alleged lack of care of a gardener.

The fire was extremely traumatic. Witnessing their whole life going up in flames is an experience from which they are trying to recover. The prospect of not being able to repair the fire damage to their homes is an additional inhumane and cruel burden on them. All they want to do is get back to where they were before the fire and be part of the legalisation process.

In the meantime, the fire victims are staying with friends or are paying for rented accommodation The British Ambassador has written to the Junta de Andalucia to enquire about the situation.

As yet there has been no reply.

The Defensora del Pueblo from Madrid has visited the fire zone to see the fire damage for herself and taken up the

case by writing to the Mijas Ayuntamiento and the Junta de Andalucia. Responses from both are awaited.

Immediately after the fire the Ayuntamiento de Mijas wrote to the Junta de Andalucia asking for exceptional measures to deal with this exceptional situation.

Six months later there has been no response.

Victimas del Incendio have joined forces with other Associations throughout Andalucia who also have serious issues that can only be rectified by the Junta de Andalucia amending the current land planning law. Representatives from the action groups have requested a meeting with the Junta de Andalucia. There has been no response.

The Junta de Andalucia has the power to grant the reasonable request of the Ayuntamiento de Mijas who have asked for an exceptional solution to what is an exceptional situation. Why have the Junta done nothing?

Article by VICTIMAS DEL INCENDIO: August 2012 Mijas Fire Victims Action Group

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Valencia man in Kenyan jail for drug-smuggling dies

A Valencian A man facing life imprisonment in Kenya for drug-smuggling has died in a Nairobi hospital.

Pascual F., 52, who had never been in any way involved in drugs before – according to his family – had always insisted he was innocent after 10 kilos of cocaine were found in his suitcase. He was on a plane from São Paulo (Brazil) to Nairobi and had always claimed the drugs must have been slipped into his case when the airline made a fuel stop in Ghana.

His lawyer had been trying to get him released on humanitarian grounds due to his health, since he had been hospitalised several times since his arrest in early August 2012 for chronic hepatitis, a hernia and liver cirrhosis. The trial due for February 6 was unable to take place because the accused was in hospital.

Until a post-mortem is carried out, the exact cause of death cannot be ascertained, but his ex-wife and two daughters, aged 17 and 20, have been informed by the Spanish embassy in Nairobi.

“Now there’s no way his innocence can be proven,” lamented the deceased’s ex-wife.

“Pascual has never, ever been involved in drugs. He was a very trustworthy person and very gullible, very easily-led, which is why

someone got away with putting drugs in his case.”

The accused had been working in a seatbelt factory but after being made redundant in June last year, became desperate and was facing financial ruin.

He lived in a neighbourhood in Valencia with a high population of African immigrants, mainly from Ghana.

Some of his neighbours offered him 8,000 euros to travel to Ghana and marry a woman there to get her residence rights in Spain and, as he was desperate for money to survive, agreed to do it despite his family trying to talk him out of it.

“They said they’d pay for everything, and he’s a very easily-led person, very gullible,” said a relative.

But the first stop on the plane from Spain was São Paulo, since his neighbours who had offered him the money said this was a much cheaper route.

“They must have already been planning to plant the drugs on him when they worked this all out,” Pascual’s relative said.

He was arrested in Nairobi airport (pictured) and was facing a life sentence in a Kenyan jail and a fine of 1.2 million euros.

A new ‘young person’s rail card’ has just been launched throughout Spain allowing passengers aged 25 and under to travel with a 30 per cent discount on set prices.

By paying a membership fee of 22 euros a year, they can use the highspeed AVE trains at a reduced cost.

At present, the under-26s account for just 1.3 per cent of passengers on the AVE, although the ministry of public works and infrastructure hopes this will increase with the discounts.

The high-speed cross-country train service dropped its prices overall by 11 per cent on February 8, and since then has sold nearly 850,000 tickets – an increase of 38 per cent on the

same period in 2012.

AVE rail ticket discounts now include 30% off for the under-26s

According to the government, the idea is that the AVE should be ‘for everyone’ and ‘not just for the rich’.

The price cuts are mainly due to the fact that these fast long-distance trains usually only have four in 10 seats occupied, meaning they run at a loss.

But now, discounts of up to 70 per cent can be found for booking a long way in advance or right at the last minute, and up to 40 per cent for regular users, plus the 30 per cent discount on top of this with the young person’s rail card

Benzema’s speeding trial due for day of Spain-France match

Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema is due to appear in court for driving at 216 kilometres per hour.

He had already been summoned to appear on Tuesday, but requested it be rescheduled due to the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey (King’s Cup).

The player was caught on camera on the M-40 motorway in a 100-kilometre limit on February 3 and his trial is now due for March 26, the day France and Spain are due to play at the Stade de France in a bid to get

through to the World Cup in 2014 in Brazil.

But the 25-year-old will not miss the match, because this is at 20.00hrs and his court case, in Pozuelo de Alarcón – the nearest to where he was seen breaking the speed limit – is at 10.00hrs.

The trial will only be a short one, probably about 10 minutes, but Benzema could face a 12-month ban and a six-month jail sentence.

However, in Spain, a first-time offender does not have to go to prison if the sentence is less than two years.

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By Bill Blevins, Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks

Asset Reporting Obligations – Q&A’s

The deadline for submitting your first declaration under Spain’s new overseas asset reporting law is 30th April. Modelo 720 will need to be submitted online You need to declare your assets as at 31st December 2012, where the value in each of the three categories amounts to over €50,000.

The Spanish tax authority has published a list of Q&As. I have paraphrased some of them below.

If an overseas bank has joint or multiple owners, does it need to be reported?

The obligation to report exists regardless of how many account holders there are. Each holder should declare the total balance (not pro-rated), indicating the percentage they hold.

If, for example, an individual ceases to be the account holder in June 2012, is there an obligation to make the declaration?

Yes, if the balance on that date is over €50,000 (when combined

with other accounts). Full details need to be given about the account, the bank, and the balance on closure date.

Do overseas pension plans need to be declared?

There is no obligation to provide information on pension plans provided that they do not give rise to a temporary or lifetime annuity. Where there is an annuity, the capitalised value should be declared.

If a property is acquired as a gift or an inheritance, what acquisition value should be declared?

The real value of the asset at the time of its original acquisition.

What are the penalties for failing to report: a) One overseas account, two other movable assets, and three immovable properties?

The minimum penalty in this example will be €30,000.

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Where only one category of information should have been reported, the minimum penalty is €10,000.

Besides the fines, the Hacienda can look back indefinitely to review unpaid tax and charge income tax on any undeclared income, plus late payment interest, plus penalties as high as 150% of the tax due.

This is the time to review if your assets are in the right place to be as tax efficient as possible. Ask an expert advisory firm like Blevins Franks to review your arrangements and discuss the tax efficient vehicles available in Spain.

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Although they will not have to find the money and hand it over, this will be deducted from future EU grants.

Most of these involved the way in which contracts for building and development were awarded to companies, where set

criteria was not adhered to.

This included amending initial job contracts without prior authorisation, giving jobs to the same firms without putting these out to public bid first so that other companies had the chance to apply for them, and not publishing adverts for the jobs in the EU daily bulletin as required by law.

Finishing works after the deadlines and failing to pay up on time, and failing to provide full financial information and receipts to allow a complete audit were among other breaches found by the ECJ. The case has been ongoing for some years and Spain has appealed, but in the end the ECJ rejected all Spain’s arguments and appeal channels are now closed.

burglary & death of a 90-year-old man: arrestS MADE

An elderly man was found dead and his wife in a serious condition after a violent burglary at their home in the Vall d’Uixò (Castellón). Their carer and her boyfriend, both Romanian nationals, have been arrested.

Guardia Civil officers say the carer had been looking after the couple at nights for two months, but did not live with them, and they had a second carer for the daytime. She was found tied up and gagged along with the gentleman, Vicente Almela, aged 90, who is thought to have suffered a heart attack or similar due to the shock and passed away. His wife, aged 87, suffered multiple bruising and two broken ribs in the struggle and

her angina was aggravated by the trauma. After the arrest of the night carer and her boyfriend, police are looking for a third person since it is believed that at least two men entered the house at around 02.00hrs on Sunday. Officers could not get an answer at the door when they called at the house, and after climbing in through the balcony, found the couple and the carer tied to beds and gagged. Mayor of the Vall d’Uixò, Óscar Clavell, says the couple are very well-known and much-loved in the village and Vicente will be sorely missed.

Three days of mourning were held between Monday and today and the funeral took place yesterday.

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Darth Vadar confronts top politician

pause for thought

At this season of the year, as mentioned previously, many among us traditionally contemplate the 40 days Jesus spent alone in the wilderness preparing himself in prayer and fasting for his mission, which he knew could end only in his suffering and agonising death. For this mission would necessarily antagonise the political authorities of the day as he taught that obedience to God and conscience outweighed the demands of any mere mortal, however great they may consider themselves.

And worse, he outraged the religious leaders too, who found themselves side-lined and their power base under threat with his assertions that all were of equal value to God and that, however good or religious they may seem, all were equally sinful and in need of undeserved forgiveness, which he alone could offer.

So considerable preparation was required; and in that 40-day period, as in the months that followed, Jesus faced many a temptation to moderate his message, to court instead of criticise the authorities and to take the easy route, seeking popularity rather than truth. But the message of Lent is that despite the natural temptations, Jesus resisted all attempts to divert him from his destiny and faithfully continued proclaiming the message that led to his inevitable execution, which, as the means of the forgiveness he so freely offered, we particularly remember on Good Friday.

How much then we need to learn from this period of Lent. How easily we, who claim to be Christian, can find ourselves being diverted from the true teachings of Christ. How often are we ourselves tempted to moderate his message, to consider popular opinion or political approval rather than his somewhat unpalatable teaching that all, however good or religious we may seem, are equally sinful, unable to earn favour with God, but needing instead to simply accept his offer of undeserved forgiveness, made available through the suffering and death of Jesus Christ himself

Further information about the Anglican Church and details of forthcoming events may be seen on the web site www. mojacarchurch.org Duncan Burr is Licensed Lay Reader for the Anglican Chaplaincy of Costa Almeria and Costa Cálida and may be contacted at djburr@avired.com

“Memories, like the corners of your mind” - what wally wrote this? Although the analogy is somewhat suspect, the basic idea of a human memory having corners, in which we lose so much, truly is daft. Although a walk down “Physiognomy” lane might be an interesting diversion, the editors would like purely technology based articles! So let’s get started!

For our “techo bit” today, we shall get to grips with organic and technological memory in an attempt to demystify another aspect of the computer! Did you know that computer memory is modelled after our own memory model in as much as we have 2 defined storage types – Long Term and Short Term? So today, can we look at memory, both yours and your computer’s, and draw analogies to help understand both ourselves and the magic box that we sit in front of for far to long each day - at least that’s what happens when people have problems with their computers that they can’t solve themselves. Enter knight in shining armour :-) So we will start with “Short Term” storage. In computer terms this is called volatile memory as in non-permanent. In humans this is called “Short term memory”. The device used in computers is called RAM (Random Access Memory or if you’re from the other side of “the pond”, Read And Modify – symantics!). The benefit of Short term memory (STM) is its ability to be used as a temporary storage area where work is done and then the area is “Self Cleaning”. The disadvantage of this is the fact that it is “Self Cleaning”! Maybe a “A” level psychology (if it is still there – somewhere) might put things into perspective.

The human STM has a limit of between 5 and 9 seconds. The mid point of 7 seconds really isn’t long in universal time, but compare that to the 64 milliseconds (64/1000th of a second) at which rate a RAM chip needs to be refreshed, it is a monumental difference!

Now, providing the refresh is done, the information stored there can be held, theoretically at least, indefinitely. Years of experimentation within the field of Psychology has shown that ANY interruptions during this refresh process will cause the information to be immediately and permanently lost! This is true for both organic and non-organic storage systems.

There is a huge amount of information regarding memory chips, most of it can descend to great depths extremely quickly. Today you have gotten and overview comparison of our and a computer’s short term memory. You have seen before that computers are essentially stupid and now start to be know just how wonderful the human mind is!

The next nibble will be about Long Term Storage – including Hard Drive, Solid State Drives and Non-volatile memory. So enjoy your week, use your mind and hopefully the weather will pick up!

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2012 luckily ended with the Mayan prophecy unfulfilled; yet just a few weeks later a meteorite the size of a double decker bus smashed into Siberia injuring hundreds. A few hours later and the spin of the Earth would have seen it strike Northern England causing much more damage as it’s a much heavier populated area. The next day an asteroid half the size of a football stadium missed the earth by just 17,000 miles.

For years governments have procrastinated about whether to invest a few million in an early warning system to guard against strikes just like this latest one. Now finally ATLAS is being built in Hawaii costing the magnificent sum of $5 million. It will give one weeks warning of anything 45m across and 3 weeks for anything 150m across though hard hats need to be worn until it’s finally ready in 2015.

Since 1997 the Kyoto Protocol has been in place to curb and reduce emissions; it’s been signed and ratified by 192 countries excepting Sudan and Afghanistan who have internal wars raging; plus Andorra and The Vatican who have a combined population of just 86,000 and with only observer status at the United Nations. The world’s biggest polluter the US is above signing a mere document to save the world as its businesses may lose money.

With the internet and television it’s easier to expose wrong doing than ever before; people power stops corporations and politicians ruining the environment for their own selfish gains. Last week Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall protested with thousands of people outside Parliament because the UK Government reneged on its promise to create 127 safe havens for fish stocks around British shores instead watering it down to less than 20.

Hugh visited Vietnamese prawn farms exposing Tesco, Morrisons and the Co-op who buy prawns fed on illegally caught fish. ‘Meat is Murder’ is a well-known cry but seeing fishermen catch tiny fish just a few centimetres across was horrific.

Ukraine’s Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych has been threatened with Star Wars unless he lifts ban on a political party that has Darth Vader at its head.

The Star Wars villain confronted the justice minister outside his offices in Kyiv to demand that he lifts the ban on the country’s ‘Internet party’ or face the consequences.

The black masked Darth Vader left security guards sidelined as he marched up to the Minister and said: “I assume that I don’t need to introduce myself. I am Darth Vader, the former right hand of Emperor Palpatine, and now working as the first deputy head of the Internet party.

“As a symbol of the power of the Internet it is logical that I should be given this post - and therefore it is also logical that on their behalf I have been asked to intervene personally into the destiny of this institution.”

The Minister had banned the party as an official party in response to a crackdown on the fact that there were 200 registered political parties in the country.

This is not the first time Darth Vader has become involved in Ukrainian politics - the last time was when he tried to vote in the Oct. 28 parliamentary elections when he turned up at a polling station in Odesa but was refused permission to vote after he refused to take off his mask.

He said: “Everyone knows that I’ll die if I take off my mask, those people from the polling station are so ignorant.”

Sneeze costs fugitive his freedom

A Polish fugitive led police to a secret hiding place inside his home - when he suddenly sneezed.

Darius Olewski, 49 - on the run for dodging child maintenance payments - had dug a six feet deep hole under a table in his hall in Pruszkow. He covered it with a panel he’d crafted to match the rest of the wooden floor and leapt down there whenever police came looking for him.

But he was caught when officers raiding the apparently empty home heard a stifled sneeze.

“At first we couldn’t work out where it came from,” said one officer. “Then we heard another one and realised it was coming from right under our feet. After a bit of tapping and testing we found a hollow spot and he was down there covered in cobwebs. Maybe if he’d dusted more often he’d still be on the run,” he added.

The heinous crimes being committed by businesses against the worlds finite resources just to sell a cheap prawn sandwich must stop. Mercadona is no better as its prawns come from Ecuadorian farms. By buying sustainably caught cold water prawns this trade can be stopped. Just look at the packet – easy!

Humankind walks blindly towards global catastrophe, most rarely questioning the provenance of the food we put in our mouths, European supermarkets sell Peruvian Asparagus that’s not only grown in one of the driest regions of the world but then it’s flown across the world for westerners to eat without question.

We can all make a difference, take a minute or two extra when shopping to read the labels and see if it’s local and sustainably sourced. Don’t cop out and say ‘what difference can I make?’ Consumer power really works as corporations only produce things that we will buy. In Morrisons in Gibraltar there’s a display of locally sourced fruit and vegetables; balderdash, the wholesaler is local but the produce comes from around the globe.

Let’s again embrace the four seasons; eating our winter greens, spring vegetables, then summer salads followed by autumn fruit. This is how it used to be before the advent of global supply chains and huge supermarkets.

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Budget iPhone ‘to launch soon’ Apple will launch a new, plastic bodied version of the iPhone at a budget price as early as this year, it has been claimed.

According to press reports, the long-awaited budget iPhone will just £220 ($330), according to reports - roughly half the cost of a full-blown version of the iconic smartphone.

It is understood that it will be enclosed in a glossy polycarbonate plastic case, much like the one found on the now-discontinued entrylevel MacBook.

It has long been rumoured that Apple is preparing a cheaper version of its flagship mobile product, in an attempt to increase the company’s penetration into emerging markets.

Details of the budget iPhone were published yesterday by Japanese blog Macotakara, which claimed Apple was to defer the release of a larger-screened successor to the iPhone 5, but may soon launch a less expensive handset.

It suggests that the budget iPhone will be be given a launch price of just $330 - similar to the iPad mini - in order to appeal to young, middle class consumers in countries like China and India.

The entry-level phone will also be thicker than the iPhone 5, Macotakara reports, to make its polycarbonate body more durable, and could come in a variety of colours.

However, the design of the cheaper iPhone is said to be similar to its costlier siblings, including a home button beneath its LCD display.

That means a patent granted the company in January which showed a phone with no

home button is likely not the design for the scaled-down smart phone, as was previously speculated.

Earlier this month Apple CEO Tim Cook let slip during a rare interview that an affordable iPhone might be in development.

‘We are making moves to make things more affordable,’ he said at the Goldman Sachs technology and internet conference in San Francisco.

The revelation came after Mr Cook said that he saw a ‘wide open field’ because Apple’s iPhone was currently ‘only available to 50 per cent of [mobile phone] subscribers in the world’.

Asked whether the problem might be that only 50 per cent could afford an iPhone, Mr Cook said: ‘Good question. Our North Star is “great products” - we would never do something that isn’t a great product, that’s not why we’re on this earth.

‘That said, if you look at what we’ve done to appeal to people that are price sensitive — lower price of iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, in most recent quarter, not enough supply of iPhone 4 - surprised us.’

Apple has not unveiled another trailblazing product since Mr Cook took over, raising concerns about whether the company is losing the ingenuity that has set it apart from the rest of the technology pack.

Analysts have said that the Californian firm should make a cheaper smartphone to gain more of a foothold in the important Chinese market.

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Jellyfish set to be the latest bizarre pet?

Jellyfish are becoming an unlikely new pet in British homes thanks to the creation of specialist aquariums.

A British company has manufactured a revolutionary new tank that can house up to 12 moon jellyfish. The Cubic Jellyfish Aquarium is illuminated by multicolour LED lights that can be altered to match the decoration of a room to give the impression of a living lava lamp.

Simon Garrett, of Reef Eden International in Southampton, says he has sold out of the new tanks and is struggling to keep up with demand. He said: “Previously people couldn’t keep them because the aquariums weren’t available, and they can’t be kept in normal fish tanks because jellyfish require a current to swim.

The systems that were available before were one-offs for big aquariums. This meant it cost tens of thousands of pounds for an organisation to have one made, but now we are manufacturing 50 to 100 at a time, it has brought the cost down massively.”

However the tanks still don’t come cheap as they cost £775, while moon jellyfish have to be purchased separately at prices from £30 to £40 each.

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In July 2004, whilst back in the UK for 2 months, to escape the heat and leave Mojacar to the holiday-makers, Keith (aged 56) was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. We left the hospital in total shock – totally floored by the news. We thought our world had fallen apart – and it just wasn’t fair!

We love our life here in Mojacar and want to carry on enjoying it. Naturally we first went through all the endless questions: What caused it? Why Keith? How long does he have? Then we calmed down and began to research the various options available and there are many, especially ’if’ it is caught in the early stages. Unfortunately for Keith, because the diagnosis wasn’t made early enough, there is no apparent cure, just the option of controlling the cancer (hopefully for a good few years, until such time medical research comes up with a cure for advanced prostate cancer).

The prostate doesn’t usually come up during casual conversation, so you may know little about this gland and the importance of a PSA test every year; we were the same, we knew very little, but the diagnosis prompted us to learn about it.

What/Where is the Prostate Gland?

The prostate is a gland of the male reproductive system. The prostate produces some of the fluid for semen, which transports sperm during the male orgasm.

Normally, the prostate is quite small—it is nearly the same size and shape as a chestnut. It is located in front of the rectum, just below the bladder, and wraps around the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder out through the tip of the penis. The prostate is made up of approximately 30% muscular tissue, and the rest is glandular tissue.

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It’s a simple blood test. PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) is a protein made by the prostate gland, which naturally leaks out into the bloodstream. The PSA test measures the level of PSA in your blood.

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What does it tell me about my prostate?

A raised PSA level (generally more than 5.0 ng/ml) is a sign of a possible prostate problem which needs to be investigated by your doctor. More often it purely points to something like an inflamed prostate (prostatitis), or an enlargement of the prostate that often comes with ageing (Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, or BPH).

Where can I get a PSA Test?

Simple – If you live in Mojacar you just go along to the Farmacia in front of La Caixa bank (just after the Parador – heading in direction of the Parque Comercial), the Farmacia also houses the Laboratorio de Analisis Clinicos. The assistants speak some English. You just say you want a blood test for PSA and that’s it, you have your blood test and they tell you when to come for the result (generally about two days later). If you’re not in the Mojacar area, then why not ask your local Farmacia where you can get it done.

What does it cost?

At the Mojacar Farmacia (as mentioned above) it costs approx 25 euros for a PSA Blood test - a small amount to pay for piece of mind.

If this article can prompt just one man to go for a PSA test then we are happy in the knowledge that we may have saved someone, and their family, from future misery.

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the bad bacteria that gives us blemishes They are the bane of many a teenager’s life, but the days of spots may now be numbered after scientists discovered why some people are more prone to them than others.

The researchers, from UCLA, have discovered more about the bacteria that live on the skin and cause acne. They have found that this bacteria contains ‘bad’ strains which cause pimples and ‘good’ ones that may protect the skin. Having too much ‘bad’ bacteria is what causes spots, they say.

This is rather like an imbalance of good and bad bacteria in the gut causing digestive issues.

According to the report featured on Mail Online, it is not yet clear why some people have more of either type of bacteria, or what comes first - the acne or the bacteria. Other factors. such as an individual’s genetic make-up or the sensitivity of their immune system, may also dictate whether good or bad strains grow on skin.

However, the breakthrough could pave the way for the development of new acne treatments.

About 80 per cent of people between the ages of 11 and 30 will be affected by acne. It can continue well into adult life - about 5 per cent of women and 1 per cent of men over 25 also have the condition.

‘We learned that not all acne bacteria trigger pimples — one strain may help keep skin healthy,’ said the study’s principal investigator, Dr Huiying Li, an assistant professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at UCLA. ‘We hope to apply our findings to develop new strategies that stop blemishes before they start, and enable dermatologists to customise treatment to each patient’s unique cocktail of skin bacteria.’

The scientists, who published their findings in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, looked at a microbe – propionibacterium – that thrives in oily pores. When these bacteria aggravate the immune system, they cause the swollen, red bumps associated with acne.

Using over-the-counter pore-cleansing strips, researchers lifted the bacteria from the noses of 49 pimply and 52 clear-skinned volunteers. After extracting DNA from the strips, the laboratory identified the bacterial strains in each volunteer’s pores and recorded whether the person suffered from acne.

‘We were interested to learn that the bacterial strains looked very different when taken from diseased skin, compared to healthy

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They believe that this strain contains a natural defence mechanism that enables it to recognise attackers and to destroy them before they infect the bacterial cell.

People who didn’t suffer spots had more of this ‘good’ bacteria.

Offering new hope to acne sufferers, the researchers believe that increasing the body’s friendly strain of the bacteria through the use of a simple cream or lotion may help calm spotty complexions.

Dr Li said: ‘This bacteria strain may protect the skin, much like yogurt’s live bacteria help defend the gut from harmful bugs.

‘Our next step will be to investigate whether a probiotic cream can block bad bacteria from invading the skin and prevent pimples before they start.’

The news comes just after scientists at New York University discovered that diet does impact a person’s complexion.

A landmark overview of research carried out over the past 50 years has found that eating foods with a high glycaemic index (GI) and drinking milk not only aggravated acne, but in some cases triggered it, too.

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THE SPAINIAC | Altamira Caves | Candice Parsons back to the Magdalenean and Solutrean people, have now endorsed the international fame of these caves as the ‘Sistine Chapel of Paleolithic art’.

The Altamira caves (Altamira translating to ‘high views’ in Spanish), in comparison to the other caves in Cantabria, remain well preserved due to the isolation of their deep recesses and galleries from climate and weather affects.

Another ancient wonder to add to the nation’s pool of UNESCO World Heritage sites, the Altamira Caves lie in northern Spain near the town of Santillana del Mar, nested amongst the mountains of the Cantabria region.

It was 1868 when the hunter Modesto Cubillas first discovered the caves and subsequently informed local amateur archaeologist, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, who then began excavations on the floor of the cave’s entrance chamber in 1879.

During these excavations,

Sautuola’s eight year old daughter, María, led him to discover the drawings and polychrome rock paintings of animals, human-like masks, and stencilled hands on the walls and ceilings of the caves.

These paintings and other discovered artefacts, dating

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From this preservation, the numerous archeologists that have excavated within the site over time, have been able to decipher the various inhabitants of the cave and their daily activities between 22, 000 and 14, 000 BC - some 40, 000 years ago.

Running in a straight line of around 270 metres long, the Altamira caves sit 158.5 metres above sea level in the upper part of a karst formation on Mount

Vispieres.

The caves have been attracting more and more visitors since its discovery, and increasingly promoting the tourism of the Cantabria region.

By 1970, it became apparent that the large volumes of visitors to the caves were noticeably damaging its paintings, and was closed to the public by 1977.

The caves reopened in 1982, however with limited access and very few visitors permitted entry per day.

Altamira caves resulted in a three year waiting list for visitors, until Manuel Franquelo and Sven Nebel reproduced a replica cave and museum nearby in 2001, showcasing a more accessible and comfortable

display of the replicated polychrome paintings, as well as sculptures not visible in the actual caves.

Following experts advice that conservation conditions had stabilised since the closure, the Spanish Ministry of Culture made the decision in December 2010 for Altamira caves to remain completely closed to the public.

The replica museum of the Altamira caves, may not feel as wondrous as seeing the paintings and remains of the real caves, yet remains highly impressive in its depictions of humanity’s earliest art and cultural traditions, and gives an insightful enlightening of this fascinating assertion of history.

Candice Parsons is a writer and avid Spain and Spanish culture lover from Melbourne, Australia. ‘Like’ my Facebook page: www.facebook. com/pandemicrhapsody and follow me on Twitter @MiLlamoCandi

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I hate the wind. I enjoy the sun - in moderation, last summer was a bit too much of a good thing; I don’t mind the rain; it rains so infrequently that when it does rain, it is something of a novelty, but the wind, as I see it, serves no useful purpose at all. However, probably due to my reluctance to go out in it, I have been indoors, thinking.

My style of thinking is very akin to that of Winnie the Pooh – I don’t go chasing around all over the place after the thoughts, I sit and wait for them to come to me.

And come they do – the questions, that is, but they forget

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to bring the answers with them!

For instance, where does the wind come from? And where does it go to?

Wind is made of air, and I know that it is possible to squash air up, and also to spread it out thin, like at altitude. So if you imagine that air over the earth is like butter spread on wholemeal bread, then on the flat smooth bits it will be thicker than on the sticky-up bits like the grains, or in this case, the mountains.

That’s fine on a calm day, but what happens when it’s windy?

The air gets forcibly shoved from where it is to somewhere else – our metaphorical butter gets a celestial knife behind it and gets scraped from where it was nice and evenly spread on our metaphorical slice of bread to right up against the

crust on the far side, leaving us with a slice of almost bare bread but with a great lump of butter (or in this case air) nearly toppling off the edge.

I worry that this will leave us with hardly enough air to be going along with. I want to know where it is all going to, because as I see it, if we haven’t got enough, at the other end of the wind someone else has got too much. I need to know where the other end of the wind is, so that I can go there and get some of our air back again!

Never mind the Higgs Boson Particle, forget about Dark Matter and Black Holes, the scientists should be concentrating on finding the end of the wind – this could be really important!

And while they are at it, maybe they will find the end of the rainbow too, that would be helpful in these hard times!

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I have just had a hard day cutting out the bougainvillea hedge from the front wall and the two wrought iron archways over the gates, and trying unsuccessfully to grub out the well established roots. After nearly seven years of growth, they are proving irritatingly reluctant to give up their hold on life.

Bougainvillea - and for that matter palm trees – are akin to Breville toasters and George Foreman grills. Everyone wants one, but then after a while they are stuck away in the cupboard and forgotten about . . . they seem like a good idea at the time, but soon become a nuisance taking

up valuable space.

I remember our reaction when we took possession of the house here and saw that there was a palm in the garden – what a cool item this was and it didn’t cost us any extra! Then when friends from England came to visit, their response was exactly the same; we could imagine them going back home and telling mutual friends, “. . . and they’ve got an actual palm tree in their garden!”

“Ooh”, would be the gasped reply, “Got any photos?” And out would come the holiday pics.

But as any proud palm owner knows, the damn things grow . . . and grow and then grow some more. In fact they never stop growing and the bigger they get the more difficult and expensive it becomes to keep them pruned and looking good. If it’s the wrong sex, then you have the additional problem of not only having your whole property covered in seeds

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resembling gerbil droppings, but also the street and every house in the area up to a radius of two hundred metres.

In our small cul de sac of eight houses, there is now the sum total of nil palm trees. Nada. Zilch.

Only lemon and orange and a stunted something or other that looks like a refugee from a forest fire.

And so it is with Bougainvillea.

I saw my very first many years ago – and yes I’m sorry but I am going to have to mention it again – in Bermuda. I had just moved from my first apartment into a three bedroom cottage (bungalow to us) which I shared with a male

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friend and a female who, both my pal and I hoped might become a little more than just a friend in the course of time.

In fact, and as an aside, immediately after our ad in the local paper for a third person to share our property and more importantly the rent, appeared, we were inundated with callers.

Good affordable accommodation was, and still is, at a premium in Bermuda. It became apparent very quickly that for every female applicant, there were five male candidates vying for the privilege of shacking up with Yours Truly & Co. We therefore made a decision that in the interests of sexual equality, we would only consider the female ones for a face to face interview.

Anyway, I digress.

The very next day after moving in to ‘Little Arches’ - which was ideally located near the Hamilton city centre and even more ideally located a very short walk from the Robin Hood pub – I was on my way to the said establishment when I spotted that first bougainvillea in a neighbouring garden.

It had been managed and pruned so that it had become a small tree, and was an explosive mass of crimson. Breathtaking.

I made my mind up there and then that given the chance; someday I too would have one

To say that normality reigned in Alqueria would be an over statement.

A return to the sectarian sniping and gamesman ship was somehow comforting after the recent turmoil in the village republic.

The worldwide sales of Remitroot products brought in sufficient cash to keep Alqueria in relative comfort.

Life returned to the daily grind of undeclared war between the village’s two barrios.

As the days dragged by, government ministers became increasingly more lethargic. Manuela past her time trying to make Rodriquez choke by firing paper-clips into his open mouth as he slept. Poyato spent the empty hours trying to invent new Remitroot cocktails. He usually drank himself into insensibility by midday. Blythe Gruntmore improved his Spanish. Unfortunately the course was written for English speakers and not Geordies. His pronunciation of both the English and Spanish qualified as linguistic gems.

The high power inertia eventually transformed itself into low power endeavour after the acceptance of a resolution twinning Alqueria to another European town. Serendipity settled the question of which town and where. By a coincidence of unbelievable proportions a letter arrived at the Ayuntamiento from an independent republic within the borders of England. It suggested twinning. The Republic of Uggaby lay in a bend of the River Waveney. Not in Suffolk or Norfolk and subsequently disowned by the British Government, it now enjoys independence.

A series of wonderfully colourful telephone calls took place. Pidgin English versus pidgin Spanish, as the leaders of the two villages made the necessary arrangements. The three Alquerian leaders would visit Uggaby and vice versa. Manuela eagerly looked forward to the expedition but hoped the rumours about the prowess of British men were untrue.

The delegation had to travel through the United Kingdom to reach Uggaby which is landlocked and unable to afford an airport. There were initial problems with visas due to Alqueria’s rather grey international status. The permissions were eventually granted as long as the group went straight through England and didn´t touch anything.

Gruntmore was apprehensive about returning to his native land. It appeared that a story he told about one of his relatives being awarded the ‘Order of the British Empire’ was in fact ‘ordered out of the British Empire’. He was however needed as an interpreter despite the fact his Spanish was appalling and his Geordie accent was incomprehensible to anyone south of Middlesbrough.

What will befall the ‘Iberian Three’ as they prepare to embark for Uggaby?

What will the three elders from Uggaby make of dysfunctional Alqueria?

What will Manuela make of English men?

These questions and others will be answered here.

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of these wonderful plants in the garden of my own house.

Never has the expression – ‘be careful what you wish for’, been more apt.

There is no doubt that bougainvillea is a beautiful addition to any garden, but as a first cousin to Triffids, it is an invasive bully and a litter lout supreme.

During the flowering season and particularly when there is even the hint of a breeze, sweeping up becomes an operation that has to be repeated two or three times a day if you are particular about the tidiness of your garden.

It has to be admitted that we got so brassed off with the constant

sweeping that sometimes we would simply leave it and any unfortunate visitors would have to take their chances and try to wade through the stuff. We are pretty sure that we have even lost a couple of people on the way, not having seen one or two acquaintances for some time.

So it all had to go. The space that is left between gates will be filled with block work and rendered, thus restoring our privacy, and all plants from now on will be billeted in pots.

Including perhaps one small obedient bougainvillea?

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MOJACAR WINDOWS AND HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTRE, Ventanas y Puertas Mojacar S.L. invite you to our Home Improvement Centre showroom on Mojacar Playa. We are the area´s Official distributors for top quality HOCO Windows/Doors, who are a part of the HAAS Group, one of Europe´s leading Windows/Doors manufacturers. We give you top German quality, made to measure just for you and manufactured at our factory in Valencia, under the strictest quality control. At Ventanas Y Puertas Mojacar S.L, you will find friendly and experienced English and Spanish speaking staff that can see you through from your initial enquiry through to installation. Come and talk to us and discuss your requirements. We have a lot more to offer than you think. We are open Monday to Friday 09.30 till 14.00 and 16.30 till 18.00. You can call us on 950 473 104 – email us at info@mojacarwindows. es or alternatively call into our showroom Paseo del Mediterraneo, 04638 Mojacar Playa, Almeria.

Voila de Lima’s are a family run business with the resources and experience to cover all of your furniture removals, storage and even buying and selling. At Voila de Lima’s we are able to move furniture both locally and internationally using our fleet of sizeable vehicles. Removals are not as simple as it may appear, it does not just mean lifting and shifting of furniture, these goods are your prized possessions, accumulated over many years of hard work. We at Voila de Lima’s, never forget this and treat all your items with care and attention. You can contact us on the telephone numbers in our advert or by email enquiries@delimas.biz. We look forward to hearing from you!

Wacky Barber & Hairdressers have been established on Mojacar Playa since 2005 and offer modern & traditional cuts along with all aspects of hairdressing for men, women and children. Staff are fully qualified and trained by SAKS (Covent

Azeefa Indian Restaurant on the Red Cross roundabout and opposite side of the Riding Stables, is well worth a visit.

They pride themselves on friendly service and excellent Indian cuisine. Anyone trying them for the first time will be in for a treat, with good sized portions and a good range dishes to choose from. Their evening buffet where you can eat as much as you like, is the perfect choice for hungry diners. With seating both inside and outside on the terrace, it is a nice place to eat on a warm Spring evening.

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Spain Received 2.7 Million Foreign Tourists in January

According to the latest tourist border movements survey data released on Friday from Frontur, Spain received 2.7 million foreign tourists in January, which is 2.6% less than a year ago. Italy was the source market that most contributed to this decline, with 68,000 fewer tourists visiting Spain, representing a drop of 29.3%, while visitors from the United Kingdom and Germany (first and third source markets in January) were down 4.6% and 6%, respectively.

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Madrid was the region which noted almost half of the UK market decline, while the bulk of the German descent was felt in the Canary Islands.

Andalusia and Madrid also registered declines, of 8.2% and 6.6%, respectively, while the Balearic Islands lead with a significant increase of 16%, reaching 99,000 tourists. Catalonia grew by 2.6%, following the significant increases in 2012, and Valencia climbed

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Tourist arrivals by air, 81.6% of the total, were down 3.4% in January, while arrivals by road rose 5.3%. Hotel accommodation maintained its steady rate of arrivals in relation to the figures reported a year ago, while non-hotel accommodation fell by 6.4%.

The number of tourists who contracted a tour package slightly increased, while those who chose other forms of trip fell by 3.7%.

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The 21st century Polaroid A real-life Instagram camera is set to go on sale after being backed by Polaroid.

The camera was originally developed as a concept by designers Socialmatic. It contains a lens, touchscreen and printer - and has been designed to look like the icon for Facebook’s photo sharing site.

The product was originally designed as a concept, and uses film that has space to write, and a sticky strip on the back rather like a postit note. However, after the designs became a hit online, the two firms have decided to turn them into a real product.

The camera is set to go on sale next year, and will come with camera bags, lenses, filters and other camera accessories.

‘We are so proud to work together with C & A and Polaroid, giants of digital photography,’ said Antonio De Rosa, CEO of Socialmatic.

‘It ‘s been a long and difficult negotiation but we were strongly motivated to reach an agreement to create a small revolution in digital photography.

‘This mix of Hardware and Software, together with our brand new photo social network will fill the gap between virtuality and reality.’

The firm says the design of the camera has not yet been finalised, but hopes it will go on sale next year.

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Honesty pays for homeless man

An internet campaign to reward a homeless man who returned a diamond engagement ring to a woman after it fell into his cup has raised more than £100,000.

More than 7,000 people have contributed to the fund to reward Kansas man Billy Ray Harris, with 78 days to go before the 90-day appeal ends.

The campaign was set up by the fiance of Sarah Darling, who accidentally dropped her engagement ring into Mr Harris’ cup while giving him spare change.

Mr Harris discovered the ring about an hour after Ms Darling gave him the money and, although he says he knew it was incredibly valuable, decided to hold on to it, rather than cash it in.

“The ring was so big that I knew if it was real, it was expensive,” Mr Harris told local television station KCTV. Mr Harris, who usually sleeps under a bridge, said a distraught Ms Darling returned to him two days later after failing to find him the previous day.

He told a reporter: “She squatted down like you did right there and says ‘Do you remember me?’ And I was like ‘I don’t know, I see a lot of faces’.

“She says ‘I might have gave you something very valuable’. I said ‘Was it a ring?’ And she says ‘yeah’. And I said ‘Well I have it’.”

Ms Darling’s fiance Bill Krejci was so moved by Mr Harris’ kindness that he set up the GiveForward.com donation page.

Mr Harris added: “My grandfather was a reverend. He raised from the time I was six months old and thank the good Lord. It’s a blessing but I do still have some character.”

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...FOOD & ENTERTAINING

new food labelling system launched

Pre-packaged foods like ham or cheese need to be eaten within a certain number of days of being opened - even if they are still within the use-by date. It is hoped the smart labels will cut food waste by preventing customers throwing out food they wrongly believe has gone off.

A typical Brit throws away around £700 worth of edible food a year, often because they are being over-cautious

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changing colour. It can be adjusted by varying the thickness of a special film covering the label so it will turn purple for ‘past best’ at between two and seven days.

Insignia Technologies’ chief operating officer Stephen Currie said: ‘It’s all systems go. I think it is fantastic. It is a real, genuine innovation for the food packaging sector. It is something which can help restore shoppers’ confidence.’

The company, based in Newhouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland, received backing from Scottish Enterprise and private investors.

It is also working on developing a similar system using stickers which can be applied to items such as fruit, cosmetics or even pharmaceutical drugs.

Delicately flavoured goods such as coffee and spices could also benefit, as consumers could use the system to tell if they still taste their best.

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Food packaging could soon feature a label that changes colour to let you know if it has gone off. A British company today launched the smart labels that ‘activate’ when a package is opened and change colour using a traffic light system to indicate whether the contents are still safe to eat.

with open packets in the fridge.

Professor Andrew Mills invented the technology for the ‘smart plastic’ when he worked at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and has spent five years refining the idea. The labels were launched on 28th February by Insignia Technologies, who say they have had interest from retailers and supermarket chains in the UK, France and America. Each one will add around 2p to the cost of a packet of food.

Experts are also working on similar systems for fresh fruit and vegetables, food and drink in jars or bottles, and cosmetics such as mascara or contact lens solution.

Prof Mills, now a professor in Materials Chemistry at Queen’s University, Belfast, said: ‘It is a huge development for consumers and for the food industry. It has got real potential.

‘We have all gone to the fridge and thought “I can’t remember how long ago I opened that”, and we err on the side of caution and tend to throw it away.

‘This indicator is focused on how long the package has been open. This is vital to prevent good food being thrown away.

It would reassure you that it’s only been open for a day, and it is fine to eat. Anything that makes a dent into food waste is a good thing - the levels of food waste are unsustainable.

It’s also brilliant for frozen foods that have been defrosted, as then the best before date doesn’t apply. This has the potential to make a very big difference to the way we use packaged goods, whether foods or other materials.’

The labels work with foods that have been packaged in a modified atmosphere using carbon dioxide (CO2). Each features a central disc bordered by three segments - a brown one for ‘just opened’, an orange one for ‘use soon’ and a purple one for ‘past best.’ When the packet is opened, the CO2 released triggers a timer in the label so it begins

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Bar Menu & Snacks Home-made puds

MENU DEL DIA

Burgers, Lasagne, pies, Omelettes, chilli plus

All Day Breakfast from 9am

onl y €

2 Courses

5

served 12 - 3 except Fri & Sun

Includes FREE Tea or Coffee

friday & SATURDAY Fridays &

Cod ‘n’ ChipS

Beerfrom battered 5.95€ Atlantic Cod, Homemade Chips, Mushy or Garden PeaS SERVED 12-9pm

Saturdays The Restaurant is Open 6pm-9pm MENU FROM 5.95€

Traditional SUNDAY LUNCH

ly Delicious & Home-cooked n o served A Choice of Topside Of Beef & 12.30 - 5pm Yorkshire Pudding; Roast Pork With Crackling And Apple Sauce Tender or Roast Chicken With Stuffing - all served with Locallygrown Potatoes, Seasonal Vegetables & a Glass Of House Wine, Tubo of Beer or a Coffee

6.95€ to include a FREE Drink

BREAKFAST

Friday 8th March Activities at

Monday Rock ‘n’ Roll - 7:30pm Tuesday Quirky Quiz - 7:30pm Wednesday Line Dancing 7:30pm Thursday Ceroc Dancing & Fun

from 8pm-12am come and boogie on down to all your dance Plus Social Night 7:30pm favourites ...Art Classes (held most days)

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all welcome food available from 6pm

...Computer Club ...Keep fit & slimming classes

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protein or soya protein, it is made from highly processed types of soya flour, called ‘isolate’ or ‘concentrate’.

The use of these soya ingredients isn’t restricted to meat lookalikes. Even if you aren’t a meat avoider, you are almost certainly eating soya in a number of products, from cheese spreads and non-dairy creamer to protein bars and ice cream.

The soya bean is cultivated worldwide, with the biggest supplies coming from the U.S. and Brazil. Once the oil has been extracted, the solids that remain are processed to obtain pure protein.

Until the Eighties, soya protein was seen merely as a by-product of the soya oil industry, but then U.S. soya companies set about making it more profitable by promoting it as a health food. They claimed eating soya could give you stronger bones, control symptoms of the menopause (hot flushes and night sweats) and make you less likely to develop breast, colon and prostate

Traditional Takeaway Fish & Chips Opening Hours

SUNDAY SERVED 10AM-12PM Steve King

The horsemeat scandal has dented our appetite for processed meat products.

For those who already felt squeamish about eating meat, these unsavoury revelations have been the last straw.

This is great news for sales of vegetarian foods in general and imitation meat products in particular. You can buy a wide range of meat ‘replacements’; from ‘pepperoni’, ‘lamb-style roast’ and ‘meat-free turkey’ to ‘fish-style steaks’, ‘duck’ pate and veggie ‘mince’.

Last week, Asda boss Andy Clarke said more shoppers are buying vegetarian meals in the wake of the horsemeat scandal. And health food chain Holland & Barrett reported earlier this month that sales of its veggie burgers were up by 17 per cent, while vegetarian ‘beef roast’ had lifted by 50 per cent.

The main ingredient in mock meat products is a modern type of soya, first manufactured for food use in 1959. Labelled as vegetable protein, textured vegetable

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cancer.

Soya was marketed as a wonder food, the Orient’s remedy for the West’s health problems. However, the health virtues attributed to soya were soon challenged by researchers. And the jury remains ‘out’ on the long-term health impact of eating soya. Soya beans contain naturally occurring toxins. These include phytic acid, which reduces our ability to absorb essential minerals, such as iron and zinc, and might therefore cause mineral deficiencies, and trypsin inhibitors, which impair the body’s capacity to digest protein. These toxins are also found in other foods, such as chickpeas and wheat, but at lower levels.

Processing soya is designed to substantially reduce or remove these toxins, but traces may remain. Soya also contains isoflavones - potent plant compounds that mimic the female hormone, oestrogen.

In 2011, the European Food Safety Authority’s scientific panel dismissed claims made by the soya industry that isoflavones helped hair growth, eased menopause symptoms, supported heart health and protected cells against oxidative damage.

It concluded a cause-andeffect relationship between consumption of soya products and health benefits ‘had not been established’.

The industrial nature of soya protein manufacture also raises concerns. While some soya foods, such as tofu, miso, soya milk and yoghurt, are lightly processed, pure soya proteins - the sort you might find in a veggie sausage or vegan cheese are commonly extracted by washing soya flour in acid in aluminium tanks. This raises the possibility that aluminium, which is bad for the brain and nervous system, can leach into the product.

Soya is one of the eight most common food allergens, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

A further issue with many soya products is not the soya itself, but what is added to it.

As soya protein is pale, odourless and almost tastefree, many manufacturers rely on sweeteners, artificial flavourings, salt and colourings to make their products more appealing.

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...FOOD & ENTERTAINING

email your favourite recipes to editor@soltimes.com

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Baked goat cheese marinara

INGREDIENTS Salt & Pepper 1/4lb Green Beans 14 fresh asparagus, ends snapped off 2tbsp olive oil 1 spring onion, trimmed and slices 3 cloves garlic, finely grated 1 piece (1”) ginger root, grated 3 slender carrots cut in thin 2” matchsticks 1 small fennel bulb, white part thinly sliced ¼ lb sugar snap peas 1 cup green peas 1 small courgette, cut into matchsticks 1 tbsp brown sugar ¼ cup water 2 tbsp chopped parsley 1 tbsp chopped basil

METHOD Set your grill to high. Brush each side of the bread slices with olive oil and place on a baking sheet. Toast each side until golden brown.

INGREDIENTS SERVES 4 2/3 cup tomato pasta sauce (e.g. Ragu) 4oz goat cheese 2 tbsp fresh basil, chopped 10 – 12 slices French bread 1 tbsp olive oil

METHOD In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the green beans for 2 minutes. Drain and rinse them with cold water.

Cut the asparagus stalks into 1-inch pieces; reserve the tips. In a large frying pan over medium heat, heat the olive oil. Cook the onion for 1 minute. Add the garlic and ginger and cook 1 minute more. Add the carrots, fennel, and asparagus stalks. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 4 minutes.

Add the sugar snaps, peas, courgette, asparagus tips, sugar, water, salt, and pepper. Cover and simmer for 9 minutes.

Remove from the heat. Sprinkle with parsley and basil.

Add more salt and pepper, if you like.

spring vegetable main stew

Pour tomato sauce in the bottom of a baking dish. Slice the goat cheese in half and place in the centre of the tomato sauce.

Bake under the grill for 4 – 6 minutes or until the goat cheese is soft and slightly golden.

Sprinkle the mixture with fresh basil before serving.

INGREDIENTS - SERVES 4 250g plain (all-purpose) flour 2 tsp baking powder 25g (4 1/2 oz) unsalted butter, softened 4 ripe bananas, mashed 2 eggs, lightly beaten 1 tsp vanilla extract 250g sugar 175g good-quality chocolate chips

METHOD

t r e s des

banana bread

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Heat the oven to 180°C (350°F).

In a large bowl sift the baking powder and flour.

Using another bowl, Mix together the butter, sugar, banana, eggs, vanilla extract and choccy chips in.

Add to the dry ingredients and stir well but be careful that you don’t over mix.

Pour the bread batter into a nonstick 19 x 11 cm loaf tin and bake in the oven for around 1 hr 15 mins.

Leave the bread to cool in the tin for around 5 mins. Then leave on a wire rack to cool further.

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Very Hard!

SUDOKU PUZZLE CRYPTIC crossword

CROSSWORD

SOLUTIONS SUDOKU PUZZLE

Sudoku is a placement puzzle. Enter the numbers 1 to 9 in each row and column of a grid, made up of 3 x 3 subgrids. The catch is that each row, column and grid must contain only one instance of each number or letter.

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7 Employ (4) 14 Our planet (5) 16 Rubber wheels (5) 18 One who compels (8) 20 Remembrances (8) 21 Silk-screened or litho’d, for example (7) 23 7th planet (6) 25 Forever (6) 27 Wharf (4) 29 Outer membranous covering (4)

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HARD SUDOKU

STANDARD CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

coffee break

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STANDARD SUDOKU

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Dogs raise the alarm following attack

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VidaRestaurant&Venue Cucador

tapas 1€

Mother’s day Sunday 10th March Bookings now being taken

a gift to all the mum’s on the day

in the bar

ST. PATRICK’S night

saturday 16th march

When an 81 year old widow was allegedly attacked in her home, her only hope of survival was her four-legged companions.

Following the alleged break-in, Mrs Terri Mills was left fatally injured, with her personal belongings stolen, unconscious and pinned to the floor underneath a television set. Her two loving companions Chico and Kathy, knowing that she was in danger, raised the alarm by making as much noise as they could, thereby causing the neighbours to come and investigate.

The neighbours contacted emergency services and tried to help Mrs Mills but the dogs would not leave her side until the ambulance arrived. Mrs Mills was taken to Huercal Overa hospital, where she sadly died two days later. Obviously, this crime is still under investigation by the police in Albox.

These two faithful dogs are now in the care of The Dog House Foundation. They are lost and confused without their owner, missing the one to one attention that she provided. Kathy is approx 18 years old and medium sized and Chico is about 6 and small. They mix well with other dogs and enjoy nothing more than to play in a garden. They are both affectionate and love a cuddle and petting. They require little maintenance - just a lot of love from a forever friend who can provide the love and attention that they tried so desperately to show their previous owner and the only reward for their bravery in this terrible situation was being brought to the Centre.

If you can help these loving animals and provide a forever home for them, please contact The Dog House Foundation by email at thedoghse@hotmail.com, or by telephone on 626766073

ST. PATRICK’S THEMED

MUSICAL QUIZ

PERFORMED BY J&J MUSIC & 3 course irish-themed dinner

All Selections 1€ Each

Tuesday Bar

Specials 6 - 9pm Chicken Curry & Long Grain Rice

5€

or Cod, Chips ‘n’ Peas

Finish the evening with a large helping of J & J Music’s rock & roll

call for menu & to book

Thursday night special Enjoy Wonderful Views delicious homemade from our pies , Homemade Chips & Peas Restaurant Candelit wed - sat evenings Opens 6:30 - 9:30pm Includes complimentary filtered water, bread & alioli & filtered water

fridays

Beer-battered cod,

homemade chips & peas

Starters Ask for today’s choice of Starters, €2.50 each Mains

served 12.30pm - 9pm from

5.95€

Intoxicated Pork €7.45: Succulent loin of pork slow-cooked in garlic & red wine Creamy Chicken €7.45: Tender chicken breast coated in fresh breadcrumbs, pan-fried & served in a creamy mushroom sauce Cajun Salmon €7.95: Poached salmon with a delicious cajun crust served on a bed of spinach

in the Bar

THE ABOVE MAINS ARE SERVED WITH A CHOICE OF POTATOES & SEASONAL VEGETABLES

Gammon & Pineapple or Egg €7.95: Juicy gammon steak served with a choice of pineapple or fried egg, hand-cut chips, peas & salad Atlantic Cod ‘n’ Chips €7.95: Beer-battered medium Atlantic cod served with hand-cut chips & peas Mixed Grill €14.95: 4oz Steak, chicken fillet, pork sausage, onions, mushrooms, fried egg with grilled tomato, hand-cut chips & garden peas Surf & Turf €12.95: 4oz Entrecote steak & deep fried Scampi, served with salad garnish, grilled tomato, hand cut chips & garden peas Juicy Sirloin Steaks 16oz €18.95 ~ 12oz €15.95 ~ 8oz €12.95 Cooked to your liking, with a Peppercorn or Roquefort sauce on the side with onion rings, grilled tomato, handcut chips & garden peas Slow-Roast Shoulder of Lamb for 2 people to share €24.95 Served with roasted vegetables & potatoes (Must be pre-ordered 24hrs in advance)

booking advisable

traditional

sunday lunch

12.30PM - 5PM a to include e in w f o glass or tubo

Sides: Ask your waitress for our choice of side dishes, 1.50 each Scrumptious Homemade Puddings Ask your waitress for the specials of the day, all €2.50 Cheese & Biscuits Selection A selection of Cheeses served with biscuits & homemade chutney €3.50

Bar Los Mellizos, La Alfoquia, Zurgena FREE

Open Every Day 12pm - Late

Tel: 950 634 562 lavidacucador@gmail.com

Arboleas

Mojacar

E15

booking advisable

We are here

Albox

Zurgena La Alfoquia

fISH OF THE DAY OPTION

1km

La Vida

Cucador Junc 547 Huercal Overa

book the Venue

For your Private Parties, Weddings and Birthdays etc.

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out & about

MARI CRUZ is situated in Turre high street. It has a lovely outside terrace and roomy indoor area. Specialising in grilled meats, fish all cooked on BBQ & regional dishes as well as a great variety of wine, beers, tapas and an excellent variety of freshly homemade pizzas & pastas is available to eat in or take away. Every week they offer a different choice of Menu del Dia for only 9€ including starter, main course and a choice of a dessert or coffee. Receive a free bottle of cava when ordering a 2 course meal from the evening menu, minimum 4 people. There is Lounge for meetings, company dinners, small events & birthdays. Come & buy any pizza to take away and get a free margarita pizza absolutely free.

Rafa and Vanessa, a husband and wife team, are the managers in the Restaurant at Albox Tennis Club.

They would like to invite you to visit their humble restaurant situated within the grounds of the tennis club, they enjoy great views from the large terrace, surrounded by nature and benefiting from a private car park. They have two large rooms for events, and are able to offer an economical but quality Menu del Dia for just €8.50 through the week and €10 at the weekend, they have different tapas every day and special Carne a la Brasa (grilled meats) on weekends.

If you pay them a visit, they are sure not to disappoint! To those who have already been, thank you for your support, to those who are yet to come - we look forward to seeing you soon! Tel: 667 671 578.

The Crazy Cow Bar/Cafe on Mojacar Playa - have a New Menu available. They are still serving old favourites such as Fishcakes, Smoked fish in cream sauce and Cottage pie.

Some newcomers are Mixed seafood spaghetti, Vegetarian rice and Chicken and mushroom bake, most of our menu is gluten free. If you would like G.F Spaghetti please call and give notice and they will be happy to cook it for you. Please

La Cena

go along and graze on a selection of their mini meals. You will not be disappointed ... Just ask your friends. FOR MORE INFO PLEASE CALL 697 465 620. Great venue for Private Functions.

LA CENA, in Albox is a fine dining experience without the expense. A beautifully decorated restaurant run by husband and wife team Simon and Carol. At the moment they are serving a superb Menu Del Noche, where you can choose from a choice of 3 starters, 5 mains and 3 deserts. They also offer an alternative to the Sunday lunch, a Sunday Sizzler Mixed Grill at just €9.95 per person, with a carafe of wine per couple included! If any of this has whetted your appetite, call 950 430 930 after 5.30pm today!

Here are a few dates for your diary for forthcoming events at The Beachcomber. Monday 11th March Charity MACS Cancer Charity Quiz Night. Wednesday 13th March is a 60’s & 70’s Tribute Night with a load of Rock n Roll with Lenny. Those lucky enough to see Lennie early December 2012 at the Beachcomber will remember what a great night it was, for those unlucky not to have, don’t miss this one. He’s a great guitarist and singer. Call now to reserve your table on 950 473 099 or visit the website. http://beachcombermojacar.com Julie and Cliff at The Welcome Stranger in Limaria welcome customers to one of the prettiest rural restaurants in the area. With mid-week roasts from 4.50€ and lunchtime specials from only 4€, your hosts will ensure a fine dining experience in a friendly environment. To tempt you even further they also offer Steak Night Specials every Thursday and Friday evening and at only 7.95€ per person, it’s got to be worth a try!.

Give them a call to reserve your table on 950 432 719.

The Crazy Cow

Restaurante

Albox

menu del noche 3 starters, 5 mains & 3 deserts Full A La Carte also available

Sunday Sizzler mixed grill €9.95 including a carafe of wine per couple

Tuesday - Saturday 7.30pm - late. Sunday 2pm - 6pm Closed Monday. Call 950 430 930 after 5.30pm Find us across the old bridge from Palza Mayor Albox, opp Bar Wassy

tranger come S WelRestaurante, Limaria

Mid week roast – (Wednesdays) 4.50€ Lunchtime Specials – from 4€ Thursday & Friday – Steak Night 7.95€ A La Carte always available Evening set menu – 3 courses plus a drink 9.95€ Sunday Lunch – 1 course, 4.50€ / 3 courses, 9.75€ We are now taking bookings for Mothers day 3 course Mothers Day Lunch Sunday 10th March served 12 - 4.30pm only €9.75 per person Open: Wed - Sat 12-3pm & 7-9pm (Last Orders) Sun 12-3.30pm Established 7 years

free wifi

950 432 719 / 677 378 952

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Food Cooked With Love

YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED

ALL FOOD COOKED TO ORDER

NEW MENU WITH ALL YOUR OLD FAVOURITES PRIVATE PARTIES CATERED

WINTER HOURS: MONDAY – SATURDAY FROM 11am

CLOSED SUNDAY

KITCHEN OPEN 12noon - 6pm

WE ARE OPPOSITE PLAYA BLANCA TEL: 697465620 SEE YOU THERE XX MOJACAR PLAYA

Email : crazycowcafe@yahoo.com Facebook : Thecrazy Cowcafe

Menu del Dia

Tues - Fri 8.50€ Sat - Sun 10.00€

RESERVATIONS 667 67 15 78 666 55 98 77

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RESTAURANTE Club de Tenis Albox C/Avda de Almeria 17, 04639, Turre, Almeria, Tel: 950 47 96 46

Restaurante pizzeria

Mari Cruz

Downstairs on the sea front next to the Irish Rover Look out for our live entertainment evenings

sunday Roast

3 course - €10.50 main course - €7.50 Winter Opening Times 10 til close Food orders taken from 10:30 til 4pm

menu of the day

Special menu del dia

3 courses €10

regular TRIBUTE SHOWS see website for details

tel: 950 473 099 www.beachcombermojacar.com

Find us on “Pizza Mari Cruz”

Junior & Adult Classes (9 yrs - 15 yrs) (16 yrs - Adult) Mondays: 7pm - 8.30pm Wednesdays: 5.15 - 6.45pm Saturdays: 4pm - 5.30pm Kids Classes: (4 - 8 yrs) Wednesdays: 4.15 - 5.15pm Saturdays: 3pm - 4pm

Taekwondo

Indigo Gym - Mojacar Playa Tel: 646 844 708 www. tkdspain.webs.com

Puppy Rescue

Spanish Charity No 5087 CIF: G04698817

Calle Malaga, Albox, Spain, 04800

Puppy Rescue will be having their A.G.M. on Wednesday 20th March at 7.30pm

Venue: Bar Lepanto, Avenida Lepanto, Albox.

Agenda 1. Opening of meeting by the President with announcement that the quorum is reached.

2. Received apologies from members not present 3. President’s welcome and report.

4. Secretary’s report.

5. Treasurer’s report.

6. Election of officers.

7. Any other business.

Please will members bring their membership cards.

Tel: 690 143 140 www.puppyrescueinspain.org

q uirky q uizzes La formerly rumores Albox

tuesday evenings

7.30pm with cherry

all welcome prizes for winners & wooden spoon

VidaVenue

Cucador

Monday evenings 7.30pm The word for this week ~ BATTOLOGIST ~ sounds like someone who likes to study old conflicts ~ but no, it means something else entirely! Do you know what it means? If you do, or can find out, then it will earn a point for your team in next week’s Quiz!!!

sEE OUR MAIN AD ON PG 35 for directions

La FREE

VidaBar Cucador

tuesday bar specials Spicy Chicken Curry & Rice or Cod Fillet & Chips

only 5€

all Premier league football all welcome live ladies friendly darts wed 8pm

new tapas menu

only 1€

take away service til 8pm

starter avocado filled with Seafood OR leek soup main course Entrecot steak OR Pork Fillets with a choice of pepper or mushroom sauce

SAXON REAL ALE ON TAP - ONLY 2.40€ PER PINT

free bottle of cava when ordering 2 courses from the menu - min 4 people

Open Every Day 12pm - Late Tel: 950 634 562 • lavidacucador@gmail.com

dessert or coffee only 9€ Evening special

blackthorn cider

ESTRELLA ONLY 2€ PER PINT

book the Venue: For your Private Parties, Weddings and Birthdays etc.

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COMMUNITY NEWS To my

mummy

pam Happy Step

Mother’s Day Thanks for everything you do.

Lots of love Jodie & Dew xxx and also Lucky & the rest of the crew xxx

Happy Mother’s Day

To the best mum in the world.

Love & hugs Fliss & Jess xxx

on your 1st Mother’s Day Oodles of love, from Flynn xx

mum

Thanks for everything you have to put up with. Love u loads Soph, Ab, Jody xxx

Happy Mother’s Day

Fran

“Employee of the month”

Mum Have a great Birthday love all of us xxx

Such Fun! Love from Claire & Danny xx

To my lovely

mummy Happy Mother’s Day Miss you loads, Love you loads.

Paulette xxx

A Reminder for Carers

If you are a carer for your partner, parent or friend and would welcome information or support in your challenging role, Age Concern Almanzora are holding their first Carers Meeting at Maloan’s Bar (side room), Arboleas on Friday 15th March at 11.00 a.m.

Please come and meet with us & share your ideas on how we can best develop our services to support you.

If you are unable to get to the meeting, we would still welcome your views. You can contact us on 634333544 or ageconcernalmanzora@live.com We look forward to meeting you!

Calling all Carers! We Need Your Help!

Are you caring for: • A person in a physically frail condition • A person with short-term memory loss • A person with a mental health problem Age Concern Almanzora are hoping to develop their services to older people living in the area by developing Carers Support networks and activities. We realize that the role of carer can be physically and emotionally demanding and that everyone’s experience is different. That’s why we need your help – to tell us the ways in which we can offer you the most effective support.

We are holding our first Carers meeting at 11.00 a.m. on Friday 15th March, in Maloan’s bar (we are using their side room), Arboleas, and we do hope you can come & join us to discuss how we can best support you.

We realize, of course, that it is not always possible, as a carer, to attend meetings, but we still value your ideas and opinions. So you are welcome to contact us on 634333544 or ageconcernalmanzora@live.com Your contribution is invaluable!

market days

Mondays: Antas, Berja & Huercal Overa Tuesdays: Albox, Cuevas, Los Gallardos Wednesdays: Mojacar, Bedar, Lubrin, Velez Blanco Thursdays: Carboners, Cuevas, Sorbas Olula del Rio Fridays: Garrucha, Turre, Zurgena Saturdays: Vera, Aguilas, Arboleas Velez Rubio Sundays: Villaricos Nightly: Garrucha, San Juan (Sunday)

WANTED PURRFECT PARTNERS

Do you have room in your heart for one of our beautiful but lonely cats who are just looking for love.

Paws cats are looking for 20 people to adopt or foster a cat from our rescue centre.

All cats are neutered and vaccinated and in some cases have been in the cattery for over a year and are desperate for a loving home.

Please take the time to look at our web site for more information. If you think you can help please call Diane 950 617 643, Sam 627 835 109 or Ruth 637 817 982

M.A.C.S. CHARITY QUIZ

with Tony Matthews at the BEACHCOMBER, Mojacar Playa, on MONDAY 11th March at 8.30pm…. Meals available before the first question.

Animal Protection Society Albox (APSA)

Monthly Raffle Prize Winners For February 2013 Amigos Bowling Centre – 2 course Sunday Lunch for 2 or Fish & Chips with Dessert for 2 any day of the week (Closed Mondays) John & Dee Eurowise – A €15 Voucher Bob & Liz Pricebusters – A €20 Voucher Carol & Mel Winning tickets drawn by Ann Taylor APSA Shop Volunteer.

Sellers Cash Received Jean /Dolores 80, Keith 60, Total Collected € 140 APSA is grateful to the Amigos Bowling Centre, Eurowise, & Pricebusters for their monthly prizes and to all who purchase raffle tickets. The proceeds of which will go towards helping the many animals in the care of APSA. Many Thanks for your continued support Keith Roberts

The Fundraiser Charity & Community Shops

The people’s charity, The Peoples Choice

Run totally by volunteers

Helping the disabled Cancer Research Vera Orphanage We put our hearts Asprodalba and many more

into helping

winter stock now in Opposite Super Turre in Turre & Maxi Dia in Vera Open 6 days a week... times on shop doors Contact 664 620 288

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Servicing / Repairs

bouncy castle 110€, Fridge freezer nearly new 100€, Dishwasher 60€, Bundle of gardening tools, fork, rake, hoe etc 20€, Vera Playa area Tel: 617166270 or 950 390964 or 659089658 Wicker small child’s/doll’s settee, curved back L 78 cm x D 44 cm x H 48 Roquetas de Mar. 5€ Tel: 619 253 983 2 small wicker/ cane round back chairs D 45 x L 48 x H 74 Roquetas de Mar 5€ the two. Tel: 619 253 983 7 Piece Patio Set, 4 Folding Chairs, Parasol and Base Square Glass Table 110€ ono. Tel: 950 473 268

A irport transfers pick up all areas, competitive rates.

For a quote please visit www. spanish estateagent.c om or call 661 143 871

electrical cont...

construction

ELECTRICIAN Full City & Guilds

not a jack of all trades

Fully

insured & legal

For all your installation or service MD Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration S.L offers requirements including our latest info@md-aircon.com telephone 950 432 110 / 607 364 917

Mat Murray 647 841 750 matmurrayes@gmail.com

email: info@md-aircon.com

established in spain for 14 years

alternative energy

Constructions

607 364 917 or 950 432 110

md_aircon@mobileemail.vodafone.es

Solar Wind Power Solutions.

Over 15 years installation experience. established 12 years in Spain. Call Phil for competitive prices 636 261 240 email:info@ s un e r g ya l m e r i a . com www.sunergy almeria.com

carlos saliente plumbing & heating for solar pool heating, solar hot water installations and repairs. call 950 930 900 or 968 969 962, email carlos.saliente@ gmail.com

business opportunity Ladies or gents Do you have what it takes to become an Independent party organiser To display and sell a wide range of lingerie, dressing up clothes, oils & adult toys?

Sell at adult themed parties

--------FULL START UP KIT PLUS HELP TO RUN YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT NOW!!

Tel: 627 851 679

Also call this number for direct sales

carpenter

Bills Carpentry & Shop fitting • Hanging Doors • Flat Pack Furniture • Tiling • Kitchen Fitting

NO JOB TOO SMALL FREE QUOTATIONS tEL: 633 507 165 computers

Steve Hayes Informatica

Pc’s, Laptops, Printers etc.

Sales & Repairs on-site callout / tuition.

Consumables Albox, Almeria

Tel: 950 120 900

Neil Godwin

25 years experience

25 years sole experience in Air Conditioning & Refrigeration

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advertise all your unwanted items

250€, Vera Playa area Tel: 617166270 or 950 390964 or 659089658 Octagonal Bird Cage. 7ft Tall, 5ft Wide, good condition, possible delivery 300€ Tel: 674 515 770 TV cabinet at 35€, 2 stools at 15€ each Tel: 950 396 820 or mob: 646 009 453 Orbegozo Electric Oven.

Small & Spacious fits on work surface. New, still under guarantee.

Genuine reason for sale. 80€ Tel: 950 478 377 or Mob: 666 755 876 Water tank, 1.2m diameter, 2m long, never used, nearly new, holds approx 3,000 litres. 250€. Tel: 622 600 356.

Aluminium long ladders 60€, Kids

MD S.L

City & Guilds Fully Qualified F-Gas Certified

LOOKING TO BOOST YOUR INCOME??

FOR SALE

Wooden Garden Shed. Good Condition.

Height 7ft, Length 6ft, Width 5.5ft. Possible Delivery 300€ ovno Tel: 674 515 770 Coffee Table with Chess/Dominos inlaid Board feature on top, with under shelf L 73 cm x W 47cm x H 53cm. Roquetas de Mar 5€ Tel: 619 253 983 Full Sized Table Tennis Table (Blue) Nearly New, hardly Used 100€ Tel: 634 364 759 Trendy chrome tall boy cupboard for bathroom 25€, Kitchen tap & sink 15€, 3 metal arch “formas” for building masonry archways 80€, Bar, trendy white wooden bar with glass top 60€, Wrought iron oblong glass table & exquisite chairs x 4

MD Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration S.L.

construction

fully legal

Martinez moreno cb

Boletins supplied

Tel : 687 245 569 equipment hire

(Rambla de Oria) All types of building work undertaken inc plumbing & electrics

tel: 609 421 734 (Spanish) tel: 696 052 044 (English) drainage

Cleaning of Septic Tanks

BABY HIRE

furniture

Everything for

Linea

• Emptying of Septic Tanks & Cesspits, with high pressure cleaning Only • Small unblockages of 100€ pipes & drainage Pool Cleaning & Water Tanks

seats,high chairs, stair

Contact: 675 838 808

or 666 375 688

Drainage

expectingababy@

Solutions

• Emergency Drain Cleaning • High Pressure Water Jetting • CCTV Surveys • Drainage Repairs • Location of Cesspits • Qualified Engineer • Expert Reports

the visiting baby Car gates, cots etc Tel: 950 436 581

hotmail.co.uk

Nueve sofas kitchens bedroom furniture Arboleas

Tel: 950 120 630

gardening

landscape gardening

• Block work • Balustrades Established 7 years in spain Tel: 616 531 283 or 670 088 966 • Paving Driveways & Paths LICENSED POZO/CESSPIT EMPTYING • Installation of fibreglass

septic tanks

• Blocked Toilets, Sinks, Baths & Drains • CCTV Surveys • Drain Tracing • Turbine Root Cutting • All types of domestic plumbing carried out

950 091 109 or 648 768 587 electrical Knowles & Abbott no.1 for electrics and plumbing. Re-wires, free to air UK satellite systems 950 137 208 or 638 010 691

Call Graham & Barry now for free estimate 620 112 193 or 667 853 062 potty finca services professional tree felling & pruning, including all types of palm trees

strimming of overgrown gardens & hedge cutting spanish registered. logs available ring john on 616 855 294 or 950 163 930

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www.soltimes.com heating neater heater See our main ad on the news pages Carlos (Saliente) plumbing & heating services. If it involves water, we can help! www.carlossaliente.com Tel: 968 969 962

health & beauty

avon cosmetics

claire Tel: 691 987 454 avonfromclaire@yahoo.es Do you have a health or beauty business or service you want to advertise Call Paulette on 950 121 936 or 902 750 190 ext 332 house clearance

THE HOUSE CLEARING SPECIALIST

Immediate Cash. Quick decision. * We cover all areas * We turn up, give cash & carry * We buy almost anything – The Highest Cash Prices Paid **ONLY serious & immediate sellers should call please**

Tel: 679 207 545 or 636 411 540

legal

PAINTER / DECORATOR CONT...

Safe painter & decorator Gas Registered

If you wish us to print an article about a particular topic in our regular space on pg 21, please email info@daviessolicitors.com locksmith

logs

Phil the Pick Locksmith 24 hours. Locked Out? Locks fitted/ upgraded house safes. Arboleas & surrounding area.

Special weekend rates.

load of small or big

Tel: 697 243 181

Olive logs, no roots €160 load of mixed Olive some roots €140 load of eucalyptus, no roots €150 all loads 2 tonnes Arboleas & surrounding areas Call Lee on 636 092 632

NUMBER PLATES

“RE-PLATE” MATE GB

hobby/craft Elaine’s Wools quality UK wool & accessories. Come & view my display Also available at Camposol, Mazarron Call 667 273 889 elaines wools@gmail. com

insurance

“we have grea offers on lifet insurance”

glenn & jayne Formerly of Knights Insurance, C / Malaga, Albox ... are now exclusive agents for Liberty Seguros

same people - same great service - differeent name

Tel: 950 121 943

infoalbox.libertyseguros@gmail.com

iron/metal works

The Metal works

plumbing CONT...

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Don’t take a chance!

Don’t break the Law! Let us take the hassle away from you and re-register your vehicle on to Spanish plates

over 25 years experience

give your property or business a fresh look this NEW YEAR

Tel: 649 186 107 or

email thunderpaul2003@hotmail.com PETS SECTION

TRAVELLING IN AIR CONDITIONED VEHICLE DELIVERED TO DOOR PETS STAY IN PET FRIENDLY HOTELS. ACCOMPANIED TRAVEL AVAILABLE

(0034) 667 235 205 (sp) (0044) 7850 575862

friendly mare 9 years old 14.3hh 1.50m 500€ telephone 678 838 547

American Staff Puppies for sale. 8 weeks old, 150€ ono for more information.

Call James: 651 325 677

www.replatematecostablanca.com

OPTICIANS

PLASTERER

full service contact:

Alan 662 249 159

Optica Albox All your optical needs, British plasterer All work guaranteed eye tests, hearing tests, contact lenses Tel Paul 634 327 201 Tel: 950 121 991

PAINTER / DECORATOR

Grills, railings, gates of all types, security/ sliding/roller, rejas, concertina doors etc.

For all your painting needs inside & out contact Graham on 620 112 193

638 900 949

commercial & major retail painter’s

Tel: Keith Wood on

now covering mainland spain

T & T Metals For all quality metal works, including gates, railings, rejas, staircases, gazebos & chain-link fencing - Tel: 950 431 738

expert quality workmanship visit our website for more info tntpainters@live.co.uk www.tntpaintersltd.co.uk

contact barry 667 853 062 or graham 620 112 193

plumbing

Plumber

KNOWLES AND ABBOTT No 1 for Plumbing & Electrics All types of Plumbing

Central heating gas/oil Solar hot water Boiler servicing, repairs & replacements Water leaks Sewage blockages Water deposit tanks 500-8000L Pool pumps Septic tanks Osmosis systems

TEL. 950137197 / 606807797

gas fast Gas boiler & plumbing repairs. Tel: 618 062 080 or 637 829 787

PROPERTY FOR SALE/rent

pet taxi SOLTIMES

woodhouse No need for kennels boarding kennels or cattery, & cattery Pet sitting in your own arboleas home, Arboleas & Small friendly kennels, surrounding areas.

24hr vets service, pet transporting arranged, Call Vanessa on welcome to view 637 061 482 ministry approved Not just cats & dogs, Tracy Mobile All other types of pets 650 211 952 considered

WE PROMISE TO BEAT ANY GENUINE QUOTATION For a

For all your plumbing needs Fully Qualified heating engineer

C A R L O S S A L I E N T E Plumbing and Heating offer machined boiler decals for gas water heaters for just €65 – aguafuerte is not the answer! Call 950 930 900 or 968 969 962, email carlos. saliente@gmail.com

Now offer our Classified advertisers 5 LOCAL EDITIONS

online at

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www.soltimes.com for more information Telephone 950 121 936 902 121 936 EXT 332

for SALE detatched cortijo

20mins from mojacar This is a unique spanish cortijo with 4 beds, 2 baths, Open plan living areas, kitchen & dining room as well as a workshop, courtyard front & back & room for a pool.

Mountain views.

reduced €150,000 0no

649 186 107

email for more info at thunderpaul2003@hotmail.com

Reduced €39,950

Apartment For Sale

cortij0 grande golf course

1 bed, 1 bath apartment fully fitted kitchen, white goods, parking, lovely views. Ideal golfing holiday apartment.

Close to Mojacar / Turre.

T: 664 291 793

jescott29@hotmail.co.uk

3 bed villa for sale phone now for details

VERA APARTMENT FOR RENT SHORT-TERM/HOLIDAY RENTAL

2 BEDROOM, 2 BATHROOM, pENTHOUSE APARTMENT IN VERA PLAYA ALL MOD CONS, BALCONY & ROOF TERRACE OFFERING FANTASTIC VIEWS cALL 663 977 230 EMAIL: gedfab@yahoo.com Vera Playa Apartment

ARBOLEAS

self contained 1 bedroom apartment with B & B facilities offered starting from 25€ per night, walking distance of Arboleas & Zurgena

Tel: 950 449 074 or 634 368 071

Long term rentals also considered 175€ + bills chalmersj8@hotmail.co.uk

recruitment I am looking for a person to join my team in the Albox area.

(Possibilities for further afield.)

Interested in becoming a Cambridge 800 Consultant?

Do you have the ability to motivate others to lose weight?

Full training given, good earning potential If you think you have what it takes please speak to Ann on 660 681 166 E:mail ann.cambridge800@hotmail.com

experienced

cook

wanted

please call

678 989 979

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are you a trade Business? advertise in the classified section & reach over 30,000 potential customers Classified box from 9€. lineage only 45 cents per word - Deadline 5pm Friday Contact Paulette on 950 121 936 or 902 750 190 ext 332 REMOVALS

recruitment cont...

SOLTIMES

are looking for A

satellite/television

translation

Sky Digibox

Translation

60€

can deliver.Tel: 667 235 205 A1 Sky Television Systems

Satellite TV installations, alignment of dishes etc.

Also Spanish “freeview” systems supplied & installed

Tel Dave: 628 607 778

solar power system

www.ecocorp.eu at ecocorp we do not just sell you a system we deliver, intall & guarantee everything for up to 10 years

Swimming Pool Heating

titanuim swimming pool heat pump For pools approx 8m by 4m 2495€ INC Installation This unit uses only 1.7kw input power!

Solar Power Systems

off grid systems for homes with no electricity 3kw systems from 6495€ 5kw systems from 7495€ 7kw systems from 8995€

Tel: 671 716 597 stables

Rancho Luz Del Sol, Retamar, Partaloa. One to one or group lessons, latest EN standard hats provided.

Escorted hacking and treks. Qualified BHS Instructor. Call Erika Drew on 678 838 547

Large Van Removals / Deliveries Spain - UK Full or Half Loads Collections e.g from IKEA Tel Mick: 950 122 447 Mob: 620 475 218

Call now 0034 620 049 524 (Es) 00 44 794 3135 214 (UK) woodnco@hotmail.com

Send your CV to cmm@soltimes.com or telephone Chrissie on 647 379 878

BBC 1, 2, 3, 4 ITV1, 2, 3, ch4 & 5

7.5 Ton, Lorry Part loads, Self load/Unload Minimal rates, Owner Driver Spain/uk/Local Storage available, based “Los Gallardos” &”hertfordshire”

Bright, enthusiastic person with an outgoing personality to join our sales team and leap into spring with us...

Office & Field Positions Available.

Experience not essential as full training will be given - as long as you’re organised and can work to deadlines!

Pace with sky card

M&D transport

DAVE’S TRANSPORT

Services in Huercal Overa Tel: 677 102 006 tuition

LEARN SPANISH… …in a fun and enjoyable enviroment with Paco in his new classroom at Camping Los Gallardos,

SPAIN UK SPAIN Removals

UK - SPAIN - UK From a parcel to a small house move

Professional,Friendly & Caring Fully insured, scheduled monthly door to door service

Friendly Reliable Service Fully Legal Special deals from UK - Spain Office: 968 564 298 Mobile: 696 621 884 marmenorremovals@hotmail.com

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Now offer our Classified advertisers 4 LOCAL EDITIONS

...Let the Soltimes team help your business grow...

costa Almeria costa blanca costa calida Roquetas De mar

online at

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motoring section car parts

car & van hire

Car parts

Van, car & driver

for sensible prices on all parts

house & garden clearances, collections & deliveries, weekly collections from IKEA,

Need quality new parts for any car

Clutches, Brakes, alternators, service kits Starter Motors, headlights

Free quote go online or phone www.carpartsinspain.com

or telephone 692 930 326 wanted URGENTLY REQUIRED

ENGLISH & SPANISH CARAVANS, CARS, MOTORHOMES & VANS ANY CONDITION WE COLLECT! THROUGHOUT SPAIN

for hire

Airport transfers Almeria 60€ one way, 110€ return Alicante 80€ one way, 150€ return

Tel: 634 345 257

Van hire

ONE WAY

*LOCAL *NATIONAL *EUROPEAN

Private lessons and different levels also available.

* COLLECTION & DELIVERY *STORAGE

TEL: 667 235 205

TEL: 636 411 540 OR 664 619 819

mobile mechanics

Mikes

Mobile Mechanics All types of service, repair & ITV testing Fully qualified & legal with over 35 years experience

Ring Mike or Chris: 628 350 178 or 636 824 974 motorbike mechanic



UK to Spain or Spain to UK

New beginners class starts wednesday 6th march 2013 4.30pm

CALL PACO 661 142 606

SOLTIMES

Pick up/drop off locations Throughout UK, France and Spain

For all your motorbike repairs tel:634 326 905

for sale

T o advertise your vehicle in this section for

only 10€

a week & reach over 32,000 readers contact Paulette on swimming pool safety 950 121 936 or 902 750 190 NEATER HEATER See our main advert ext 332 on the news pages

125cc Lifan Heritage cruiser

FOR SALE : Vauxhall/ Opel Omega FORD TRANSIT 90 T350.

for sale

Registered 2009, immaculate condition. New ITV, Large Topbox &Transfer incl 500€ Albox area.

Tel Shaun on 610324666

UK plates • 2002 • long MOT • Low Mileage Automatic • 2.2 petrol •Air con • CD/Radio Power steering • Electric windows ABS etc GOOD CONDITION - SILVER Tel: 669269491 email:marylewis54@hotmail.com

2004 2.4 Diesel.

Taxed & MOT May 2013 FSH. RHD.

2200€ Tel: 689 500 346 / 850 993 007

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K.F.S Kennedy Financial Services

Hard Times

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Kennedy Financial Services (KFS) has over 25 years’ experience in the Financial Services Industry and are dedicated to providing professional guidance to all its clients.

For too many years now people have neglected their retirement planning, possibly in the main, because we as ex-pats cannot contribute to our retirement plans when we live abroad.

Times are changing there are now pension transfers (QROPS) that allow us to contribute to our funds and help to secure a better retirement.

Are your current pension benefits in one of the following areas?

• • • •

Frozen benefits in the UK that are under performing?

In a QROPS that is not giving you what you wanted?

Trapped in New Zealand for many years to come?

In a S.I.P.P. (are you aware that if you return to the UK your S.I.P.P. may be liable to a tax charge of up to 55%)?

If your answer is YES to the above it may be possible to transfer your benefits to a new receiving pension scheme and release some tax free cash. This may help your current financial position whilst still securing your retirement income.

Did you work in Public Services, NHS, Councils, Armed Forces, MOD, Civil Servants, Teachers, Aviation Authority, Nurses, Police, and Fire Brigade? The pension pots of loyal public servants are shrinking. You should submit your application to transfer your benefits now or you could lose out on thousands. The same applies to personal pensions, SIPPS etc.

There is a huge crisis in the UK as far as pensions are concerned. At the start of the Nineties, a £100,000 pension fund would have guaranteed an income of £15,640 a year for life, twenty three years on, a 65-year-old man will secure just £5,140 a year. This is mainly due to poor performance and market conditions over the same period of time. In May 2012 the pension deficit reached an all-time high of £312bn.

There were also an estimated 5,418 schemes in deficit, with only 1,014 in surplus. Which side of the fence is your pension sitting?

KFS is here to help all expats, regardless of Nationality, through this pension crisis which will affect all those with Pension benefits still in the UK, or possibly those with underperforming QROPS or S.I.P.P’s.

For too many years now people have neglected their retirement planning, possibly in the main, because we as ex-pats cannot contribute to our retirement plans when we live abroad. Times are changing, there are now pension transfers (QROPS) that allow us to contribute to our funds and help to secure a better retirement.

Should you wish to find out how this may affect your benefits please contact at admin@kennedyfinancialservices.com or fill in the assessment form at

www.kennedyfinancialservices.com

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OPEN for business

tel: 950 930 900 968 969 962 Solar Hot Water & Pool Heating Full Heating Installations Water Treatment Systems Water Deposits & Pumps

Solar Oil Gas Solid Fuel pellet

fully legal company with public liability insurance carlos.saliente@gmail.com • www.carlossaliente.com Cortijo Pipa, Avda de Limaria 1, Limaria, arboleas

TNT

Eurozone to mull Cyprus bailout

Eurozone finance ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss how to fund a potential 17bn-euro ($22bn; £15bn) bailout for Cyprus.

Germany has pushed for depositors in Cypriot banks to help pay for the rescue, a process known as a “bail-in”.

But Cyprus fears a bail-in could spark a withdrawal of funds from the country, making its economic situation worse.

Meanwhile, Portugal is also seeking to renegotiate parts of its own bailout at the same meeting.

The Eurogroup meeting is expected to assess the rescue of Portugal, with the possibility that the country will be given slightly longer to pay back the loans it has already received.

The Republic of Ireland may also be granted similar leniency on its bailout.

Cyprus’s newly elected President, Nicos Anastasiades, has promised to secure a financial bailout, saying his top priority is to restore Cyprus’ credibility.

As he arrived for the meeting, the head of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said the eurozone hoped to have a deal for Cyprus by the end of the month.

“Of course we are very glad that there is a new government in Cyprus that we can work with to find a solution for Cyprus,” he said.

“And, as I have said before, we are probably going to reach

POOL SHOP

Mix & Match

an agreement in March, that’s what we are aiming at, and it is going to be an agreement which works on stabilisation, both for Cyprus and for the eurozone as a whole.”

EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Olli Rehn warned over the weekend that Cyprus leaving the eurozone remained a dangerous possibility.

“Even if you come from a big EU country, you should be aware that every member of the eurozone is systemically relevant,” Mr Rehn was quoted as saying in Germany’s Der Spiegel.

“If Cyprus becomes disorderly insolvent, it is very likely that would lead to it exiting the eurozone.”

Protect your property Heavy duty 110 decbel Alarmed Padlocks

Ideal for doors - garages - sheds pool pump houses - rejas - trailers etc

any 2 Tubs Of either Multi, Shock or Chlorine tablets for just 36€ tighten up on security with an alarmed paddlock at ony 15€

available from

FIND US In Longo’s Courtyard

Shop: 950 104 345 or Maintenance: 637 582 696

pucker plastering & tiling Damproofing and SIKA TANKING Specialist Guaranteed British quality internal plaster finish

covering all aspects of:

Rendering, Plastering, Floor Screeding, Morticem, Partition Walls, Tape & Joint, Dry-Lining, MF Ceilings, Re-Skims, Coving, Cornice & Mouldings 28 years Experience in the trade 9 years in Spain English & Spanish Fluent

697524238

puckerplastering@hotmail.com covering Baza to Mojacar

HIRE A HUSBAND

Professional, reliable, handy man available... ...for all the jobs he doesn’t get round to, including Van Removals, Painting Exterior/Interior, Small Plumbing Jobs, Shelves, Garden Clearance, All Outside Work - Walls, Stone Cladding, Rendering etc... Property Maintenance Good hourly/daily rate - 7 yrs in the area.

Call Jim 677 557 190 Evenings 950 930 596 References available & Pics of work completed

Solar Panels

S

l Supermercado

POOL SHOP

S.M.S. BUILDING MAINTENANCE

New Walls New Roofs Structual Alterations professional bricklayer Building for you Phone Gerard - 626 730

only 15€ each

All Building Work Undertaken

764

Tel: 619 744 516

• New and secondhand solar products bought and sold • Battery Reconditioning and installation service available • Full solar systems available from 350€ Solar • 3000 watt inverter charger 850€ Swimming SOLAR • 230 watt solar panels 230€ Pool POWER • Solar charge controllers from 35€ Pumps • MPPT from 100€ up to 30%more power • Batteries from 60€ inverters from 60€ for 700watt inverter • 2v Traction batteries from 275€ set of 6 � Double insulated 4mm solar cable 1 per mtr • 690watt grid tie system no paperwork needed just plug in a socket and save money easiest system on the market 999€

Garages, Patios, Boundary Walls, Cladding Driveways, Tiling plus more...

Painting & Decorating ( from 50€ per room including paint) Also All Exterior Painting and Damp-Proofing GUARANTEED TO BEAT ANY QUOTE For free estimate or advice please call Steve on 950 930 536 or 634 306 690

elite plant hire construction & drainage

• general builders • walls • jcb 3cx hire • paving • patios • extensions • roofing • cladding references available call lee on 636 092 632 eliteplanthire@hotmail.co.uk

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Latvia applies to enter eurozone

Latvia has formally applied to join the euro in 2014, in a move which could see it become the 18th member of the bloc.

According to a report by the BBC, the move had been expected and comes after the small Baltic state met the required financial criteria.

Latvia suffered a deep recession in the wake of the financial crisis that saw it receive an international bailout. PM Valdis Dombrovskis imposed big public spending cuts that helped the recovery. Latvia is now one of the fastest-growing economies in the EU. The European Commission and the European Central Bank are likely to decide on the request in June.

Latvia says it has met the five requirements needed to gain entry into the eurozone, which relate to levels of debt, deficit, inflation, long-term interest rates and having a stable peg to the euro. Latvia’s currency, the lat, has been pegged to the euro since 2005 and Mr Dombrovskis argues that joining is the next natural step.

However, opinion polls in the country suggest that nearly twothirds of the population are against joining the single currency.

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Upholstery

• We Upholster Chairs, Sofas and Wing Chairs • 30 years of experience • Large fabric selection • Free pick up & delivery • In home free estimates

Tel: 692 17 60 69

swift transport

MOBILE VEHICLE VALETING PART & FULL VALETS - T CUTS & POLISHING - INTERIORS UPHOLSTERY CLEANING - SOFAS AND RUGS

• Deliveries to / from UK • Monthly runs • Local deliveries also available

Wayne English

spain-uk-spain 07857 484886 Uk +34 618 511 234 Spain

full / part loads uk shopping swift.transport@rocketmail.com

James & Son Removals / Storage

UK, France & Spain personal shopping from the UK (Argos, Screwfix, Wickes etc)

Pet Transportation & Competitive Rates 950 529 731 / 627 968 434

Tel: 950 930 527 & 646 341 575

LOGS FOR SALE City & Guilds & ACS qualifications, CORGI registered with 10 years experience

Chris: 637 82 97 87 / 618 06 20 80 Gas & Oil Fired Central Heating - Gas Appliances Plumbing - Servicing - Repairs - Installations FREE QUOTATIONS & ADVICE

FREE KINDLING WITH EVERY LOAD - Grade a Olive - No Roots - Best Prices Available

Tel: 687 314 775 Same Day Delivery & Stacking Service Available

Clean Team British Plasterer Brighten up your Walls!

Domestic & Commercial Cleaning Services Quality Cleaning at an Affordable Price 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed Regular or One-Off Service No Job Too Big or Too Small All Areas Covered

Holiday ers Change Ov m fro

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“Then when I walked on the green grass the paint came off on my trainers. What kind of fool tried to beat nature like this?” he said.

Red-faced local officials admit they did paint the lawns, but claim special nutrients in the tint will help the grass grow.

“People feel more positive, cheerful and productive when Spring is here and everything is green and new,” explained a spokesman.

Simon Bates puts panda in mood for love

Edinburgh Zoo’s panda Yang Guang is getting in the mood for lover - by listening to former Radio 1 stars Simon Bates and David ‘Kid’ Jensen.

Keepers have switched his radio from Classic FM to the sounds of Smooth Radio hoping it will encourage him to mate with Tian Tian.

The station has responded by playing a daily love song for Yang Guang, including Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On. Interest is growing around the world as the panda mating season approaches and intimate details of the pair’s warm-up routine have already emerged, including physical exercises, special lighting and extra rations of bamboo.

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A spokeswoman for Edinburgh Zoo confirmed: “We play easy listening radio to Yang Guang in his off-show area.

“He has always been more sensitive than Tian Tian to background noise, so it’s settling and soothing for him to have it playing softly in the background.

“You can often see him sit back, relax and eat his bamboo whilst the radio is on.”

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LANDROVER DISCOVERY Infallibility is a dangerous feeling and often results in disappointment, I am told.

Often drivers of 4x4s seem to possess this quality in spades tackling most situations on the road with an unattractive bolshy attitude.

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Clambering onto the leatherclad driver’s seat it is clear that my surroundings are positively luxurious; on a par with the pricier Range Rover (I tested the old model Autobiography last year). A straight grained walnut finish contributes to the elegance of the interior. An array of technology assists:

from the seven inch full colour centre console Touch-screen for controlling key vehicle functions, to front and rear parking aids and phone integration. In Discovery 4 HSE Luxury, every journey is a pleasure. At a quick glance I spy all the off-roading controls I might need, a television and even that much sought after DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) radio.

It’s a responsive luxurious brute of a vehicle.

During the test it snows heavily, so much so that all major airports cancel flights and it takes all night for some office workers to travel home. On one occasion there is over six inches of snow covering the whole vehicle and so I clear as much of it off as possible and then get driving. However, a quantity falls off the roof on the windscreen wipers, as I

manoeuvre and they handle it as if it were just light rain, brushing it off the screen with ease. It’s minus one degrees and I am cold so it is gratifying to discover the heated steering wheel and heated seats front and rear.

Outside the picturesque winter wonderland provides the perfect environment to put the Disco through its paces. For the duration of the test I drive in ice mode. Only the foolhardy would venture off road in these treacherous conditions but this is a test and Land Rover would not look favourably upon me if their vehicle remained on the tarmac.

My wife and daughter insisted on accompanying me just in case I got into difficulties. They just don’t trust me or the Disco. Selecting the low switch and remaining in ice mode we drive

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through a thickly snow covered and hilly woodland and it handles the snow and the ice underneath well, only losing grip a couple of times. It is on exiting that it comes unstuck. I try reversing back the way I came but it doesn’t like this one bit, the wheels spinning as I apply the accelerator as you can see in the video at testdrives.biz. So I drive forward, starting to inwardly panic, not for me but for my wife (who is expecting our second child shortly) and little Harriett, who is happily saying “Oh dear” in the back. As we point north I move forward and then back kicking the accelerator down and thankfully the Land Rover climbs the hill and gets us back on to the road. Think of its weight and the challenging winter conditions and this is impressive. In fact this is the stickiest situation I have been in in a Land Rover.

During this period when Britain is covered in snow competent Land Rover owners make themselves available as a sort of fourth emergency service to rescue stranded motorists.

The news reports alert me to two accidents along my motorway route so I choose an alternative road deciding to join the motorway at a later junction.

But the traffic is still snarled up. Roads are icy and inexperienced motorists are seemingly incompetent. The height of the 255bhp Landy provides an excellent view of the road ahead and when the roads allow, it easily overtakes the most frustrating of dawdlers. Sports mode is a useful addition in these situations.

Despite its size it is a joy to drive and easy to manoeuvre. The eight-speed auto box is operated by a simple dial that rises when the engine starts. But

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the driver does have to remember to push the dial down slightly in order to engage the desired mode. Also, care must be taken when using sports mode because on re-selecting drive it can slip into neutral if the dial is turned too vigorously. Steering wheel mounted paddle shifts allow it to be driven like a responsive manual thanks to a ‘sequential mode boosting system to increase the air density entering the engine’s cylinders’. This enables a correspondingly greater amount of fuel to be injected for increased power output.

The traditional handbrake has been replaced by a simple switch. Now usually I can’t get on with these but it seems easy enough for me to use so no complaints here either. The 45-minute journey threatens to take double that time and so it is a joy to eventually hit the outside lane of the motorway and for a clear path to emerge ahead.

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Boat Fishing.

‘Orca Steve’ went out fishing Monday and caught a few tiddlers but nothing special.

‘Chef Jeremy’ and ‘Blister Steve’ braved the cold wind to go out with Steve for a morning’s fishing. They started late at 10.am to allow the sun to get up and as the forecast showed the best conditions at midday to mid-afternoon it seemed the best option. However, the wind blew a Hooley and although there was only a slight swell it got choppy. They could see the snow topped mountains in the direction of the Los Velez area and this is where the cold NE wind came from. Initially they anchored 200m out from the Garrucha harbour wall and fished in a hole 270feet deep where they caught a few pandoras and a comber and Jeremy hooked an Atlantic mackerel whilst winding up.

The wind was too strong for the anchor and they drifted fast dragging the anchor with them.

Steve decided to move the boat to shallower water and try and get an anchor hold so they moved to the area opposite the Rio Aguas and settled in 65ft where they caught the usual bait strippers, pickerel, bogues, small pandoras, red snappers and a couple more mackerel.

They enjoyed the day but needed thawing out when they got back to port, roll on the spring.

I hear ‘Brian Cuba’, has boat engine trouble so hasn’t been out but not heard anything from our other two local

skippers ‘Pugwash Pete’ and ‘Hissing Sid’.

Shore Fishing.

‘London Bill’ fished Macenas beach and rocks and landed a 4lb palometon while spinning.

He also had striped bream, Atlantic scad and a small stingray while bottom fishing.

I’m now told ‘Dizzy John’ and ‘Always Laughing Tony’ caught 34 pickerels from the shore last week, unusual that many coming in so close. I presume they must have been chasing small fry into the shore or themselves being herded there by bigger predators.

Another source said he had a 4lb sea bass off Macenas rocks.

Another mate was walking his dog midway across the Macenas beach when his dog swam into the water after a thrown stick, quite a few two foot long dark backed silver bellied fish jumped out of the water so I suggest you all get down there spinning for tuna with luck.

Coarse Fishing.

‘Puentes Ray’ made another visit to Lake Puentes; water levels are dropping rapidly and must have gone down 3 feet since the floods. Water was calm and it was a beautiful day.

While weeding the other day Ray located about 6 earthworms so decided to give them a try.

First carp landed after about 20 minutes weighed in at 5lb and a real fighter it was as the

worm was not damaged too much he tried it again only to take a second carp about 2lb 5 minutes later.

Tactics was an 11 foot Preston feeder rod with 3/4oz tip, 8lb Tiger Fluorocarbon line to Drennan enclosed swim feeder on a safety rig and size 14 Kamasan animal hook tied to 8lb Drennan double strength mono. Problems with Puentes are lots of snags so Ray nearly always loses 4 or 5 hooks on a visit. Anyway bites continued through the day and he ended up with 12 carp and a small barbel. He’s still loving the place and looking forward to fishing there when it warms up.

See photo of Ray and a mirror carp (I’m sure you’ve caught that one before Ray!) Top winning weights in two Murcia matches were 18lbs (Eden Canal) and 37lbs (Nancy’s/Sweet water canal) The Albox fishing club meets every two weeks or so at Bar Wassy. For details of the next meeting tel Sid 634 313 650.

Latest license information: There is now a loophole for those wanting coarse fishing licenses for Andalucia who don’t have NIE documents or/and don’t want to do the 24 hour course in Spanish, see me for more details. The only loophole left for fishing the beaches and boats in Andalucia without an NIE document is to make a trip to Murcia.

I’m pleased to report the Beachcomber’s three web cams are working again and the other good news is they work on both 32 and 64 bit systems and on any browser so checkout Mojacar’s weather and Mediterranean Sea conditions here. www. beachcombermojacar.com/ beachcomber-webcam/

Cortijo Grande Wednesday 27th February Smith and Alan Woodward. and its still cold with this strong wind making golf a problem .

But we keep on coming back for more,when will we learn.

Anyway our winner with 40 points Frank McGovern second with 36 Grace Ward and third with another 36 Cathal Higgins . Ball sweep winners John Noel

Badgers Cold and Windy

Wednesday 27th Feb Badgers visited Desert Springs for their weekly competition. With the weather turning very cold and windy, points scoring was going to be hard, with the scores reflecting this. Winner on the day playing his home course was Mark Newhall with 32pts, beating Ken Lee also with 32 pts on count back. Third place going to Phil Fellows with

Badgers.Coach from Badgers at 8.00 am.

Partners also welcome on the day to be dropped in Lorca for shopping etc

Saturday 3nd March at Macenas Golf for the Sat roll up was won by Jan Page with 38pts with a great back nine of 26pts Forthcoming fixtures are Wed 6th March Macenas, Sat 9th March Macenas, then an away day trip to Lorca Golf on Thursday 14th March, anybody interested in going on the away day please contact Richard at

up to his full height ( 4´11”) and wearing a smile as big as the moon. Very well done Al, you deserved a good result from your recent consistent play.

It was a bleak, cloudy and quite cold morning with rain threatening when our stalwart members plus one guest from the UK (who thought the conditions positively tropical), heaved off the first tee to start the competition.

At the other end of the spectrum just feel a tad of sympathy for Pete Dow and Dave Denyer. These two guys have got to live with constantly being reminded by their respective “her in doors” of how good/ brilliant their Tee shots were, how accurate their putting was and how well they read the greens and how we guys were just unlucky in missing every putt and tee shot( said with a large smirk on their faces).

For up to date information on any of the above see me at the Beachcomber Bar Restaurant on Mojacar Playa or tel 950 473 099. You can also contact me on Facebook @ ‘John Beachcomber Mojacar’.

Tight John.

Clearly, Big Al thoroughly enjoyed this impressive win and

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21 members of the 19th Hole Golf Society took to the beautiful fairways of Aguilon to play a singles stableford competition.

Big Al (the artist) Alan Greenfield had a great round scoring 35 points playing off 21( now 19 “hee hee hee”) easily taking 1st place from a greatly improving Christine Dow in 2nd place on count back from Alan Chippendale in 3rd and Zeta Denyer in 4th place all on 30 points.

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We shall be going for an away day soon so watch this space for a special event on probably the best golf course in the area

19th Hole Golf Society Cucador On Tuesday 19th of February celebrated by pulling himself

The weather held with very little sign of rain or wind and all returned safely to the 19th hole, in varying states of temper and mood. These ranged from pure elation to deep deep despair.

Dieden .

Sunday 3rd March and the ladies strike again with 40 points from Pam Webster and 37 from Ursula Lade in second and Frans Deden 36 in third.

We seem to have a very strong ladies group playing with us now. Our ball sweep winners Pam Webster Bob Winter Frans

Another casualty of the day was Terry Caddick, Terry had one of his poorest rounds to date only scoring 19 points, I think he is pining for his old mate Brian Lowden to return from his golf rest. Geoff Smith beat his regular playing partner , Nigel Greenwood, by a couple of points to maintain the rivalry between the two. Nice to see

Enjoy your golf with the original golf club in Almeria Cortijo Grande Visitors and guests welcome MP

Badgers Golf Society also play every Saturday at Macenas.

Guests are welcome to join the society on both Wed and Sat comps and can book in either at Badgers Restaurant on Mojacar Playa or by phone on 950478525

one of our newer members, Mike Donarski, entering into the spirit of the society by going from bunker to bunker to barranco on the short par three 4th hole, well played Mike!!!.

Results.

1st Alan Greenfield 35 points (21) 2nd Christine Dow 30points (36) 3rd Alan 30points (14)

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10th Hole Terry Caddick 17th Hole Alan Chippendale The 19th hole G/S is now arranging weekly games at various courses in the area, our home course, which we play fortnightly, is Aguilon.

If you are interested in joining the 19th hole give the secretary a ring on 610340653. Or email gs19thhole@hotmail.co.uk

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URCAL GOLF SOCIETY After a week of uncertain and consisted of a mixture of weather the society was blessed with a day of sun and slight winds for their fun team game played at Macenas golf course on Saturday 2nd March.

After the bad weather during the week the course was in reasonably good condition.

Turnout from the members was excellent and we were able to field 5 teams to play a team lone ranger format. The teams were selected before

high medium and low handicap players. The scores returned by each team were close with the eventual winners of Steve Fear (team leader) Clive Filkins , Bob Wormsley and Shirley Marriott.

Steve Fear also went on to win the longest drive and nearest the pin in 2 with Barry Kilby taking nearest the pin on the 18th Hole.

Also played was the first of our society singles match of the

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year hotly contested between Keith Thompson and Phil Harris with the outcome of Phil Harris

•L ast night, Manchester United and Real Madrid played the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final. The first game ended 1-1 at the Bernabeu. Ryan Giggs may or may not have made his 1,000th senior career appearance at Old Trafford; if not he’ll make it this coming weekend (we hope).

winning on the 17th by 2 holes.

Our next game will be on the 16th March which will be a team game. Anyone interested in joining our friendly society feel free to call Tony Hinds on 647639426 or email torab55@

•T his evening Celtic, 3-0 down, need a miracle against Juventus in the same competition!

yahoo.com 1st Drive, He Didn’t Disapoint Hitting The Centre Of The Fairway. The Captain, Vice Captain Bill Churchill, Handicap Secretary Sue Hull, And Jackie Quigley Went On To Win On The Day With 3 From 4 Scores To Count. Friday And Our Monthly Medal Comp Which Was Won By Sue Hull Nett 77 (Hcp 32) 2nd Paul Jones Nett 78 (Hcp15) 3rd Martin De Bruin Nett 79 (Hcp21). Nearest The Pins Jimmy Ramsay And Fred (Visitor) Well Done To Everyone. Enjoy Your Golf At Valle Del Este.

•T omorrow, three English clubs compete in the last 16 of the Europa League.

Newcastle face Anzhi (6pm), Chelsea play Steaua Bucharest (7pm) and Tottenham entertain Inter Milan (9.05pm).

•O ver the weekend, the Six Nations rugby tournament continues with England facing Italy, Ireland tackling France and Scotland meeting Wales, all live on BBC.

AGUILON GOLF MEMBERS REPORT Congratulations to Stuart making the winners score very card play off Green who recorded his first ever hole in one, playing in our weekly team competition, Stuart achieved this feat on the par 3 140yards 8th hole using his trusty 7 wood.

RESULTS Friday February 22 – Individual Stableford On yet another windy day the players found it difficult to master the playing conditions

creditable on the day 1st Dave Sharp 35pts 2nd Sandra Siggers 33pts 3rd Bill Gibb 30pts Twos: only one Dave Sharp 8th Wednesday February 27 – Individual Stableford More of the same as the wind and showers made it a test of stamina rather than a game of golf and this was reflected in the scoring 1st Glyn Ombler 30pts on a

2nd Derrick Stephenson 30pts 3rd Bob Schofield 29pts on a card play off

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• I talian club Lazio has been fined £120,000

by UEFA and must play their next two European home ties away after continual racist chanting.

• \Michael Thompson won the Honda Classic in Florida - his first maiden title.

•T he Don Valley Stadium, where Olympian Jessica Ennis trains, is to be demolished as part of cost-saving measures by the Sheffield City council. It cost £29m to build!

• I n tennis, Novak Djokovic was victorious the recent Dubai Desert Classic while fit-again Rafael Nadal won the Mexican Open.

•T eam GB won eight medals in total at the European indoor Athletics Championships in Sweden, with Holly Bleasdale (pole vault), Perry Shakes-Drayton (400m) and both the men’s and women’s 4x100m quartets, all claiming gold.

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difficult on the road as Molina pick up the pace!

Huercal Overa now have important games over the next few weeks with a home tie against bottom side CD Beniel then a trip to local rivals Pulpi and then back at home against Plus Ultras where a minimum of 7 points is required as Bala Azul who hold the final relegation spot only 4 points behind Huercal Overa.

•G lasgow Rangers will not lose the titles/ trophies they won between 2001 and 2012, but the company that once owned the club, has been fined £250,000 for ‘failing to declare’ payments to the SFA.

•T he first cricket Test between New Zealand and England is taking place in Dunedin.

• I n Spain, Real Madrid defeated Barcelona twice in four days - 3-1 in the Copa Del

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Rey semi-final and 2-1 in a La Liga.

•L ionel Messi has now scored 50 goals in a season for the third time in a row and 18 in ‘el clasico’ matches - equalling the tally Alfredo Di Stefano’s tally, set in the 1950/60s.

• I t’s Saracens, Harlequins and Leicester, 1-2-3, at the top of Rugby’s Aviva Premiership.

•L ast weekend, Shinji Kagawa’s hat-trick helped Manchester United beat Norwich 4-0… QPR won the relegation six-pointer at Southampton 2-1… and Spurs edged Arsenal by the same score in the North London derby… while on Monday, it was Aston Villa 0 Manchester City 1

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• I n the round ball game, it’s Everton v.

Wigan and Manchester City v. Barnsley (on Saturday) and Manchester United v.

Chelsea (ITV1) and Millwall v. Blackburn (on Sunday) in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, while we’ll see two crucial bottom-ofthe-table PL clashes on Saturday - Reading v. Aston Villa and QPR v. Sunderland.

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CD Molina 2 Huercal Overa CF 0 Huercal Overa CF find it With only 9 games to go Huercal Overa CF find themselves 4 points above the relegation zone but with their fate in their own hands after a disappointing result in Molina.

The home side were odds on favourite’s by the bookies so the result in the end was not a surprise but the visitors would have liked to have picked a point on the road. Goals in the 80th minute from Francis and the 93rd minute from Jorge Paredes sealed the points for Molina in front of a crowd of 250 at the Estadio Sánchez Cánovas which pushed Molina into 5th in the table 5 points shy of the play offs.

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to rack up a win in Division 2 : followed to the post by Terry Harris’s 25. Martin Fisk found the green on the 3rd, recording the only NTP of the day which he converted to a 2.

Hacienda del Alamo 27th February 2013

The final weds of Feb was slightly kinder than its predecessors, though the original handsome field of competitors (as opposed to field of handsome competitors) was somewhat depleted by a sickness bug which has been doing the rounds in the Albox/Arboleas area – this has yet to be traced to a particular water supply or watering hole.

Those that made the trip had to contend with this season’s fierce winds once again, though at least this time the course was playable.

The low scoring reflected the battles with the elements, whilst the low turn out confined the day to 2 divisions.

Division 1 was won by captain Derek Leonard with a score of 32, achieved despite being battered by the winds and by the society members he had assured of good weather. Dave Lees was a creditable runner-up with 31. Peter Tinsley matched Dave’s score

Boxers busy schedule continues with a trip to Sensol on the 7th March for the Spring Trophy, whilst the interrupted Home Internationals tournament recommences 13th March. ATexas Scramble putting comp (pick the bones out of that!) will take place at Desert Springs 17th March. and 21st March the society meets at Aguilon for a regular stableford competition.

After last year’s popular debut, the captain has once again organised a 3 day break to Los Alcázares in Murcia, 22nd/24th April, with a spectacularly good price for dinner, b&b + 2 visits to local golf courses and all of the pleasures of Murcia’s shopping centres on hand for the non-playing ladies. Skilled advice on hangover managementwill be available.

All of these events are open to members and guests alike. For more information call Derek on 690 352 860

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The first of our monthly medals was won by Dave France with a good score of net 70 second place went Donny Simpson with a net 74 and in third place was Ray Dixon with a net 78. The second qualifier a Stapleford was won by Donny Simpson with 38 points.

Second place went to Ray Dixon with a score of 35pts. The Friday fun day game which is normally played on the last Friday of the month, this month took place on the first of March This months was organised by Donny which was a 3 clubs a putter better ball pairs, This was won by Ray Dixon and Lee Hunter with a score of 39pts second place went to the organiser Donny Simpson and Paul Holley.

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