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Mojácar bans 'unseemly' stag and hen party behaviour

will be subject to fines, too, although the stag and hen party behaviour is what has most upset the council.“We don't want that kind of obscene conduct in Mojácar,” PP mayoress Rosa María Cano says.

A POPULAR tourism hotspot in the province of Almería has banned 'vulgar' stag and hen parties, saying it is 'fed up' with seeing revellers lowering the tone – especially in the daytime when children may be around.

Mojácar town council plans to fine anyone seen wearing 'phallic tiaras' or indulging in 'unseemly behaviour with blow-up dolls', or anything similar to these actions which are frequently witnessed by local residents and other, more peaceful holidaymakers.

Whilst the local government does not want to ban hen and stag parties altogether, realising it would be financial suicide as Mojácar relies so heavily on tourism, it wants to clamp down on those visitors who do not know how to behave in a civil fashion in public.

Walking around in swimming trunks or bikinis – except on the beach or the immediate seafront – or men going topless other than on the beach

Such revelry often starts as early as midday and goes on until the early hours, meaning the likelihood of families seeing groups with plastic penis accessories is high.

In general and even at night, fines for offenders will range from €100 to €300, but if partygoers are seen acting in this manner in the daytime, near large crowds or where children are around, or near listed buildings and tourist attractions, they could be hit in their pockets by as much as €1,000 each.

Opposition members slammed the new rules, saying they were guaranteed to 'destroy tourism'.

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The incident happened at around 2am at Apartments Paraiso del Sur in the resort of Adeje. The apartments in Apartments Paraiso del Sur where the woman died The apartments in Apartments Paraiso del Sur where the woman died The dead woman is understood to have fallen onto a lawn. Her body was found by a security guard, who was alerted by her partner and his dad.

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investigators looked through CCTV footage. Sources close to the case say they believe the possibility that the woman took her own life is “minimal”.

The dead woman, who has not been named, is believed to have jetted to the island last month with her partner and child. A spokesman for an emergency response centre said: “We were called around 2.20am on Friday to reports a woman had plunged from the 12th floor of an apartment block. “A 25-year-old British lady was confirmed dead at the scene.” www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Rare orangutan birth celebrated at Madrid Zoo

Zoo keeps are visitors are celebrating after a new baby orangutan was born in Madrid's zoo.

The cute baby orangutan was born on May 29th in Madrid’s Zoo-Aquarium, much to the delight of zoo keepers, visitors and animal lovers around the world, who watched the birth live on video app, Periscope.

"The baby was born to orangutans Surya and Dahi after an eight and a half month pregnancy in a natural birth that surprised vets with its speed," Madrid Zoo said in a statement.

The baby weighed 1.5kg and mother and baby are both doing well the zoo confirmed.

The new baby joins the zoo’s group of Bornean orangutans, which includes its mother and father, Surya and Dahi, as well as the group’s other female orangutan, Kedua, the new arrival’s big

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Spain’s Supreme Court backs renewable energy cuts

Decision finds that €1.7 billion drop in subsidies was legal, but government still faces dozens of claims in arbitration agencies The Spanish Supreme Court has dealt a new blow to renewable energy producers.

In a ruling, the court backed the 2014 government decree that resulted in cuts of nearly €1.7 billion in subsidies for the sector.

The decision is a setback for the three producers who fought the legal battle against the Spanish government The court finds that the decree, passed by Mariano Rajoy of the

Popular Party (PP), does not violate the Spanish Constitution or EU legislation, as the plaintiffs claimed.

The decision, which confirms an earlier ruling by the Constitutional Court, is a setback for the three producers who fought the legal battle against the Spanish government: Ingeniería Civil, Alternativa y Medioambiental (Incam), Renovables Samca and Llerena Solar, Temcli y Powersol 2007. But hundreds more similar appeals have reached the Supreme

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E.P. The legislative changes to conditions for investment in renewable energies were rushed through parliament by royal decree, as Spain sought to contain its ballooning deficit in the middle of the economic crisis.

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• Spaniards Diego Costa (Chelsea) and Juan Mata (Manchester United) and the English duo of Phil Jaglieka (Everton) and Theo Walcott (Arsenal) have been left out of their country’s squads.

• Bastian Schweinsteiger is included in the German party but Belgium are without defender Vincent Kompany.

• The first European Championship tournament was staged in France in 1960.

• The first winners of the trophy were the USSR who beat Yugoslavia 2-1 in the final in Paris.

• Only 17,966 fans attended that initial final which was referee by England’s Arthur Ellis.

• A record crowd, which still stands, of 79,115 saw Spain win the 1964 final in Madrid (v USSR) • Ten countries have previously won of the European Championship… Spain (3 victories, 1964, 2008 and 2012), this year’s hosts France (2 wins in 1984 and 2000) and West Germany (also 2, in 1972 and 1980) plus Czechoslovakia (1976), Denmark (1992), Germany 1996), Greece (2004), Italy (1968), the Netherlands (1968) and the USSR (1960).

• Despite entering at the outset (in 1960) England have yet to reach the final.

• The Spanish team is aiming to become the first to claim a hat-trick of European titles.

• Past shock winners include Denmark (v Germany) in 1992 and Greece (v Portugal) in 2004.

• The former Czechoslovakia beat reigning world champions West Germany in the 1976 final… which was the first to be decided on penalties.

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• Wembley staged the 1996 final when Germany beat the Czech Republic 2-1 with a ‘sudden goal’ goal in front of 73,611 spectators.

• The biggest win in a European Championship game is 13-0 by Germany v San Marino in 2006.

• The biggest win in a final is 4-0 by Spain versus Italy in 2012 in Kiev.

• The official mascot for Euro 2016 is Super Victor (a caricature of a young boy).

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The town's religious architecture is very impressive and visitors should take some time to visit the church of Nuestra Seňora de la Asunción. Founded in 1505, the church is situated in the “Old Town” of Huercal Overa. Here you will find the traditional Spanish plaza which is surrounded by bars, restaurants and local shops.

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founded in 1505, La Asunción de la Virgen built in 1748 and the Chapel of Jesús Nazareno founded in 1749 which houses a beautiful statue of Jesús of Nazareno.

Hueval Overa is a market town that sits along the side of the Almanzora River in the province of Almeria, in Andalusia. The town is a merge of two medieval settlements – Huercal and Overa.

The town and surrounding area has a thriving agriculture industry, mainly for the lead mining in the region. The town has a population of just under 14,000 inhabitants.

Natural area Much of the surrounding countryside is desert-like; many visitors remark that the area is more like Arizona or Australia, than the Mediterranean coast.

However, a few years ago a pine plantation was planted close to Huercal Overa - the first in the area for some 500 years. The forest is part of a long-term project to transform much of the area into lush greenery. The trees include almonds, oak and eucalyptus, as

Other interesting monuments and buildings are a bell tower, dating back to the Middle Ages, the old granary (Pósito) and the Via Crucis, which takes you to the Hermitage del Calvario. well as the ubiquitous palm.

Local Festivals

Market Town

During Easter Week a procession heads through the town of Huercal Overa, which celebrates the Passion of Christ.

Statues are carried on floats by figures in white, brown or black robes; a religious spectacle which has been designated a National Tourist Attraction.

Market day is Monday and much of the town is taken over by the market on Monday morning.

Huercal Overa benefits from good facilities with hotels, restaurants, hospital and municipal swimming pool and leisure centre.

Architecture The towns religious architecture is very impressive and visitors should take some time to visit the Nuestra Seňora de la Asunción church,

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Cabrera mountains, Huercal Overa enjoys a perfect all-year round Mediterranean climate.

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Hello and welcome to CanDu Computer and once the deadline Bytes, Your Only Stop for solutions to Your has passed it will likely computer problems. My ‘drop-in’ clinic (like increase to over €1000.

Paying the ransom invariably the way doctors used to be!) is at Maloans Bar in Albox (opposite the BP). Call involves paying a form of e-currency (689892745). Well, today is Wednesday (cryptocurrency) like Bitcoin, also called and I’m sat here chuckling over how many BTC. Once the hacker’s verify payment, of you have read last week’s article and they unlock the encryption and the laughed at the way my friends dealt with computer starts the arduous process of the unwanted callers. This started me decrypting all of the files. Am I Infected? thinking about other things that inevitably Well, The symptoms are as follows: • You suddenly cannot open normal files lead to my Ransomeware.

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Ransomware can take and get errors such as the file is corrupted different forms, but in its essence it denies or has the wrong extension.

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• The program warns you that there is a as a PC or Mac-based malicious piece of software that encrypts a user or countdown until the ransom increases or company’s files and forces them to pay you will not be able to decrypt your files.

• A window has opened to a ransomware a fee to the hacker in order to regain access to their own files. The hackers use program and you cannot close it.

• You have files with names such as HOW the following vectors to infect a machine: phishing emails, unpatched programs, TO DECRYPT FILES.TXT or DECRYPT_ compromised websites, online advertising INSTRUCTIONS.HTML. What do you do now? 1. Disconnect (from and free software downloads.

Not only can ransomware encrypt the WIFI, Network any other computers); 2. files on your computer, the software Determine what it is trying to change. 3. is smart enough to travel across your Determine the strain (you will need a lot of network and encrypt any files located experience for this and it really isn’t that on shared network drives. This can lead important unless you are reporting this to a catastrophic situation whereby one to interested parties). 4. Evaluate your infected user can bring an entire company response, which are quiet limited and to a halt. Imagine a law firm or accounting these are they: 1. Restore from a recent firm having all their client files encrypted. backup, 2. Decrypt your files using a 3rd It has happened. Once the files are party decryptor (unlikely to work), 3. Do encrypted, the hackers will display some nothing (lose your data) or 4. Negotiate / sort of screen or web-page explaining Pay the ransom! Did I ever mention about how to pay to unlock the files. Also, typical backing up your data regularly and making ransomware has a 48-72 hour deadline a system backup occasionally? NOW, is a which, once passed, causes the ransom really good time to do these things. to increase. Most For further information or advice on ransoms start in the computing,contact Trevor on 689 892 745 or €100-€500 area, canducomputing@hotmail.co.uk

UK Satellite TV News I know most people using the new larger dishes needed in this area are having a few problems, but we get these at this time each year. It will start to improve at the end of June so “Don’t Panic”.

The main news is that Channel 5HD became available to Freesat viewers on the 5th June, and most Freesat boxes will retune themselves automatically. There is no Channel 5 SD on the Freesat system anymore.

If you use a Sky it will not effect, and a Free-To-Air receiver will have to be manually retuned.

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The other day I came across the following passage in the Bible: “Gossip is spread by wicked people who stir up trouble and break up friendships” and couldn’t but reflect on how true that is even today, 3000 years or more since it was first written.

How often our children have been hurt by stories spread by jealous ‘friends’, and how many friendships have been destroyed as a result.

But we adults aren’t immune to the hurt gossip can cause.

We have, I’m sure, all of us come across folk who delight in gossip, and witnessed the immense damage they wreak on others. It’s so easy to spread a rumour which may contain little, if any truth, and so hard to ignore the mischievous report, allegedly passed on in friendship, of another’s negative comments or actions. How quickly even the best relationships can be undermined or destroyed as a result of listening to and believing such stories.

For gossip is, as the Bible asserts, only and always spread by wicked people, whose intent is to cause trouble.

So how can we counteract this scourge in our society?

Well again I’d suggest the Bible has the answer, as St Paul, in his letter to Christians living in Philippi wrote: “In conclusion then,

(11,425 H 27500) has been moved to the UK beam of Astra 2 E and has a much weaker signal meaning some people have struggled to tune in there new Freesat boxes again this is only a problem in this area at this time of year A number of set-top boxes and smart TVs will not be able to use iPlayer from September this year, as the BBC has decided to end support for an early (MHEG) version of its player. V2 has low bit rates compared to newer iPlayer versions, resulting in blocky picture quality in scenes with rapid movement. Affected will be Freesat devices without the Freetime label,

fill your minds with those things that are good and that deserve praise: things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and honourable.” ‘If only’, St Paul suggests, ‘we were to concentrate on these positive ideals, then gossip and its consequent hurt would be a thing of the past’. We’d see the child (or adult) reporting that “so-and-so hates you” as, perhaps through jealousy, the trouble-maker they are, and try to help them attain a more positive outlook rather than allow ourselves to be infected by their attitude.

So let’s beat the gossips of this World and, discounting all unsubstantiated rumour, concentrate our minds on things that are good, true, noble, right, pure, lovely, honourable and praiseworthy and I’m sure we’ll all, as a result, feel a lot better.

Details of a number of English Language Churches are given in Sol Noticeboard for any who wish to Worship, but 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

Sony 2010 (KDL-EX range) TVs and some older Freeview devices.

If the iPlayer home screen on your device looks like the image above, your device will stop working.

Unfortunately for UK expats, the very popular Foxsat Humax HD and HDR (right) are included. These Freesat devices were sold extensively in mainland Europe owing to their highly sensitive tuners. A few people have managed to get them working out of the UK with the aid of a VPN router, which prevents geo-blocking.

The Foxsat will continue to work as a satellite receiver, but as far as iPlayer is concerned, it will be bricked.

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Brexit campaign resonates with Catalan separatists While regional president Carles Puigdemont is pro-European, he knows that the

turmoil caused by Brexit would boost his independence campaign.

There is something familiar about Britain’s Brexit campaign, to Catalan separatists such as new regional president, Carles Puigdemont.

At play are many of the sentiments that drive this wealthy Spanish region’s independence movement: sovereignty, identity, a sense that scroungers elsewhere are spending your money and dislike of a far-off, unfamiliar metropolis. Replace the word “Brussels” with “Madrid” and some of the literature could be recycled.

Puigdemont, like the vast majority of Spaniards, is a fervent pro-European. But he sympathises with those who seek to bolster their sovereignty by demanding a referendum. And he knows that the turmoil caused by Brexit would also boost his independence campaign by obliging the EU to accept a major reconfiguration of member states. That explains why, uniquely among Spanish politicians, he is critical of the remain campaign.

“We have also suffered campaigns of fear,” says Puigdemont, a 53-year-old former mayor of Girona who was catapulted into the Catalan presidency five months ago.

“I remember when the banks started issuing their opinions. They treated us as if we were not grown-ups and said a whole lot of lies.”

Those who predict that Brexit will destroy the European Union are wrong, he insists.

“The EU will make an extraordinary display of political realism, and an admirable, Darwinian ability to adapt,” he says, implying that it would also adapt to Catalan independence. “It will be very interesting.”

Catalan independence is as unpopular among European Union leaders as Brexit.

Yet at the last regional elections in September, a majority of the deputies sent to the Catalan parliament were separatists. Puigdemont now leads a government which he

Basque Country Moves Closer to Independence Referendum

Spain’s autonomous Basque Country made a step closer to an independence referendum on Sunday after tens of thousands backed secession in a regional poll, organizers said.

The vote was initiated by Gure Esku Dago (It’s in our hands) group, the organizers told RIA Novosti. Around 37,000 voted in the poll that was conducted in 34 municipalities. The region’s total population is over 2 million.

The group’s leaders, Angel Oiarbide and Zelai Nikolás, praised the vote as “historic,” saying it was “the first step to a referendum.”

“We are on the way toward a referendum. And we will continue working in this direction. Today is a historic day,” the organization said in a statement.

The Basque Country has followed in the footsteps of Catalonia, a well-off Spanish region which has held dozens of local votes on whether it should leave Spain in the past years. Madrid has called all of them unconstitutional. http://sputniknews.com/

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claims is already 70% of the way along the path to independence.

That may be wishful thinking. Just as Europe considers Brexit a nightmare, so Spain sees Catalan independence as a calamity. Acting prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, of the conservative People’s party, is determined to stop that happening and has blocked a referendum. This means, for the moment, that Puigdemont is driving Catalonia towards a nasty showdown with Madrid.

Puigdemont believes that the rising tide of separatism will win the day. “In 2012 there were just 14 deputies elected on a separatist ticket in the Catalan parliament,” he pointed out in an interview during a break between debating and voting at the 135-seat parliament in Barcelona. “Now we are a majority.”

Puigdemont’s government has embarked on a plan that aims to break with Spain – but, somehow, remain in the European Union – within just a few years. He does not believe warnings that Catalonia would be instantly expelled from the EU and refused to say whether he would choose independence over Europe. Like most Catalans, he finds that an impossible choice.

His task is to guide the regional parliament, governed by an unstable coalition that includes his own Convergence party and a small group of radical anti-capitalists, for an 18-month “pre-independence” period while it passes so-called “disconnection” laws to prepare for life outside Spain.

Fresh regional elections would then be called next year to choose a government charged with drawing up a constitution for an independent Catalonia. If that was approved at a local referendum, then Catalonia would deem itself independent – regardless of what the rest of Spain has to say. And Puigdemont might end up in jail.

Spain’s constitution gives Catalonia no right to self-proclaimed independence. The constitutional court’s powers were recently beefed up so that it could act against separatists. Friends and colleagues insist that Puigdemont – who still lives in Girona with his two daughters and Romanian wife – would go to jail if necessary.

He refused to confirm that to the Guardian, saying only that he had pledged – using a Catalan and Spanish expression for working hard or doing whatever it takes – to “give up his skin” for the cause. “This is a deeply serious business, and profoundly democratic,” he says. “I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.”

Puigdemont’s absolute belief in independence makes him one of the more hardcore members of a mostly conservative Convergence party which only embraced the separatist cause four years ago. Unlike former president Artur Mas, he has always been a separatist. That helps explain why, when the anti- capitalists vetoed Mas, Puigdemont was suddenly elevated from mayor to president in January.

He claims that independence can happen without breaking the law, though this is largely because he has already decided that Spain’s constitutional court must be ignored. The combined will of Catalan voters and the parliament weighs more heavily on him, he claims, than the “whims of a disacredited court”.

“What is more important?,” he asks. “What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me it is clear.”

There are timid signs that, after half a dozen years of effervescence and with the anti-austerity Podemos party offering Catalan voters a different kind of hope, the separatist balloon may start to deflate. The one thing certain to change that would be for Puigdemont to be sent to jail. Indignant Catalans would never forget. theguardian.com

EU referendum: Brexit campaign accused of ‘fanning flames of division’ with controversial map

'Coded nudges and winks like this are utterly horrific and they should stop fanning the flames of division.

Vote Leave is just playing the politics of division. It has no place in British society' The official Brexit campaign group has been accused of “fanning the flames of division” after publishing a map highlighting how the EU will a share a border with Syria if Turkey gains membership.

In their referendum campaign material, set to be sent to millions of people across the UK , Vote Leave claim that five countries – Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey – are "set to join the EU”. Only three territories are actually named on the map: the UK, Syria and Iraq.

David Cameron has previously criticised the Vote Leave campaign for claiming that Turkey is set to join the 28 member-state bloc. Speaking in May the Prime Minister said the country would not be ready to join the bloc “until the year 3000” on its current rate of progress.

“This is just the visual interpretation of a dog whistle,” Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, told The Independent.

He added: “Coded nudges and winks like this are utterly horrific and they should stop fanning the flames of division. Vote Leave is just playing the politics of division. It has no place in British society.”

The leaflet, first published by the Spectator, highlights “the facts” of the EU, adding: “The EU is expanding to include: Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. When we joined, there were just nine member states. Now there are 28, the most recent being

Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. Five more countries are in the queue to join, including Turkey, totalling 89 million people. When they join, they will have the same rights as other member states”.

It also carries the widely disputed claim that the EU “costs us £350 million a week”, which is “enough to build a new NHS hospital every week.” Despite warnings from the UK Statistics Authority, who criticised the figure as inaccurate, both Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have continued to publicise the figure relentlessly.

“We get less than half of this back, and have no say over its spent,” the leaflet adds.

It comes as the pound fell sharply against the dollar on Monday as financial markets reacted badly to new polls suggesting momentum is moving towards Britain’s exit from the European Union.

On Sunday Nigel Farage was criticised by a fellow Brexit campaigner of “outrageous blatant

scaremongering” after suggesting women could be at risk of sex attacks from migrants if Britons vote to stay in the EU. Referring to reports from the New Years Eve attacks in Cologne in Germany that hundreds of women were sexually assaulted, the Ukip leader said the possibility of such attacks in the UK will be "the nuclear bomb" of the referendum campaign. independent.co.uk

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According to data published by the Ministry of Public Works last week, the average price of housing in Spain stood at 1,492.4 euros per square metre in the first quarter of 2016, which represents a quarter-on-quarter rise of 0.2% and a year-on-year increase of 2.4%.

In real terms, discounting inflation, the average price of homes in Spain experienced year-on-year growth for the sixth consecutive quarter, reaching an annual increase of 3.1%.

The Ministry explained that, according to their statistical records, with this increase, the price adjustment since the maximum values registered in the first quarter of 2008 is 29%. In contrast, since their minimum values registered in the third quarter of 2014, the price of housing has now recovered by 2.5%. In real terms (including the consumer price index variation) the current price reflects a decline since the peak levels, of 34.3%.

By property type, the average price per square metre of housing of up to five years old stood at 1,727.8 euros in the first quarter of the year, representing a year-on-year increase

of 0.2%, while the price for homes over five years old stood at 1,486.4 euros per square metre, which represents a rise of 2.6% year-on-year.A total of 12 of Spain’s regions recorded yearon-year price increases in the first three months of the year, especially the Balearic Islands, which recorded the greatest increase, of +9.6%, followed by: Catalonia (+4.9%); Madrid (+4.2%); Extremadura (+3.7%); Galicia (+2.6%); Valencia (+2.4%) and the Canary Islands (+2.4%).

In the cities and towns with over 25,000 inhabitants, those with the highest housing prices were: San Sebastian, with an average price of 2,993.9 euros per square metre; Ibiza (2,620.4 euros/m2); Sant Cugat del Vallès (2,610.2 euros/m2); Barcelona (2,594.5 euros/m2); Madrid (2,533.6 euros/m2) and Getxo (2,507.9 euros/ m2), whilst the lowest prices were recorded in: Elda (508.9 euros/m2); Ontinyent (547.5 euros/m2); Jumilla (560 euros/m2); Villarrobledo (567.6 euros/m2); Vilena (598.3 euros/m2) and Tomelloso (621.5 euros/m2). kyero.com

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Casa Balconies , Palomares 425€

Los Arcos, Cabrera

990€

Casa Coto , Vera Playa

Casa Faulkner , Vera Town

350€

475€

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POOL & GARDEN SERVICES All aspects of pool cleaning, maintenance and general repair including total refurbishment. We can carry out acid washing to eliminate calcium deposits, full re-grouting and replacement of missing tiles. Sand filter overhauls/replacement of sand & glass. All equipment repairs/ replacements including pumps, filters etc Single cleans or fixed price weekly cleaning including all chemicals. We pride ourselves in putting the “sparkle” back in to your pool.

We also offer a comprehensive range of gardening services including gravelling, pruning, weeding, weekly/monthly tidying especially for holiday homes where owners & guests don’t want to arrive and find a garden full of weeds & debris!

FRIENDLY, RELIABLE, AFFORDABLE SERVICE We cover most areas within a 40km radius of Albox FOR A FREE, NO OBLIGATION QUOTE, PLEASE CONTACT US NOW Tel: 634 332 170 / Email:oasispools@live.com www.facebook.com/oasispoolcleaning

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O Olive

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Located in the picturesque village of Bedar these new 2 bedroom apartments have been finished to a good standard and represent fantastic value for money. There are only 3 left for sale now, starting at 44,000 Euros.

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Bedar

44,000€

OLV1043

www.espanarural.com Avenida 28 de Febrero 34, Albox 04800- Almeria.

We are now on the A334 road coming into Albox on the left hand side between the Grand Sport Shop and the Heaven Cafe/Bar. ESP2715

Villa Terraza

125,000€

Nice rural farmhouse attached to one side.

A popular rural area. Situated in Cantoria The farmhouse has 2 floors and is surrounded.

The house has all services connected.

ESP2703

Villa Pilares

178,000€

Precious and wonderful Cortijo Andaluz with 2 floors.This cortijo is situated in Cantoria.

Its habitable and detached.

The house has all services connected.

Also has a wonderful view.

ESP2709

Cortijo Heidi

299,000€

Detached Villa situated in a very beautiful area. The house was built to a very high standard.

Situated in Arboleas.

Mains are connected, internet can be connected ESP2700

Cortijo Geronimo

86,000€

Situated in Zurgena. Detached country property on two floors with all services with the first floor is habitable.

It’s in a quiet and nice area and about 20 minutes from the beaches of Vera, Garrucha and Mojacar.

All mains are connected.

Mon-Fri 10-3pm ● Sat 10-1pm Tel Office 950102505● Mobile: 654359607

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FROM ONLY 20€ & HAVE YOUR BUSINESS SEEN BY OVER 30,000 READERS. CALL: 950 121 936 EMAIL: SALES@SOLTIMES.COM

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Building Licences for New Homes Climbed by 57% in Q1 In the first three months of this year the number of licences authorised for the construction of new homes in Spain reached a total of 16,782, which represents an increase of 57.1% compared to the same period of 2015, when only 10,682 permits were granted.

According to data from the Ministry of Public Works, this is the best figure recorded since the first quarter of 2011, when the number of building permits reached a total of 21,953.

Of the total number of building permits requested between January and March, some 74% related to the construction of new apartments in blocks, with a total of 12,425 units and an increase of 64.7% over the same period of last year, while there were 4,356 permit applications for single family homes, which is 39.2% more than the previous year.

Thus, the latest data shows that the first quarter of the year confirms the path of recovery in housing construction, following the 42.5% increase in building permits in 2015, which came after 2014 broke a run of seven consecutive years of negative results by registering growth of 1.7%, to reach a total of 34,873 permits issued.

This real estate market indicator recorded an all time low in 2013 for the total number of building licences authorised (34,288 units in the year), and since the peak level reached in 2006, when a total of 865,561 permits were issued (126,753 in the month of September alone), this represents a

calida homes

decline of 96%. El País reported that the areas where there are a growing number of building licence applications are the regions which have lower stocks of unsold housing.

In Madrid, developers applied for 4,962 licences, which is 56% more than in the first quarter of 2015, while in Catalonia, there were 2,192 licences issued (+49.4%), in Andalucía there were 2,198 (+35.4%), and in Valencia the number of building permits increased by 21%, to a total of 1,590 authorisations.

The data also shows that the size of these new homes has grown, with the average size of a family home standing at around 203.6 square metres, while the average apartment size stood at 118 square metres (114 metres in the same quarter of 2015).

The Ministry pointed out that licences for the reform and restoration of homes in Spain, which up until 2015 had accumulated four consecutive years of declines, registered a total of 5,976 licence authorisations up until March, representing an increase of 0.5% compared to the same period of the previous year, when 5,943 permits were issued.

However, the number of licences for home extensions declined by 2.7% yearon-year, to just 348 permits issued. kyero.com

COMPLETE HOLIDAY HOLIDAY CARE CARE COMPLETE MOJACAR PLAYA

RENTALS - SALES -MANAGEMENT - MAINTENANCE

We urgently need more properties for sale & rental for waiting clients

Ref ground floor, easy Ref.AA/KB UC/DZ– –Fantastic Beautiful, Andalucian style,23bed/2 bed/2.5 villa, a/c 130&m2, access, bathbath, apartment, wi-fi, pool & gardens in 25,000 m2, & parking, terrace next to indoor & olive outdoor almond trees, 40park/gardens, mins to Mojácar. pools, play NR SORBAS - 69,950€ VERA PLAYA -REDUCED– – REDUCED €295,000

Ref.Ref: OA/RJ – Stunning 3 bed, 2,5 bath, 130 AL/SR - Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath, sea views, pool, air con., m2,apartment, duplex in renowned complex Oasis del 300 m to Mojacar Playa Mar 1, terraces & solarium withbeach sea views, & promenade. fantastic pools/gardens, private parking, a/c.

NEW MOJACAR PLAYA €99,950 MOJACAR – REDUCED - €249,950

Ref: ES/TS - Det. Villa, 100m to beach, sea

Ref. LA/FR - Beautiful linked villa on 3 levels, superb sea views of Mojacar Playa, various terraces, 2 lounges, 3 beds, 3 baths, garage, a/c, mini-pool, perfect & popular location MOJACAR PLAYA – REDUCED €349,000

views, 3 bed, 2 bath + 2 bed s/c apt. below hse. private pool,garage, gardens, solarium.

MOJACAR REDUCED €319,950

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Murcia Properties Price 179,000€

clm 294

3 bed 2 bath villa Murcia, 600m corner plot, 130m build, easy walking distance to Molina de Segura town and all facilites, private pool Price 160,000€

clm 292a

4 bed 2 bath country home Murcia 5500m plot, 140m build with underbuild, private pool

Price 82,500€

Due to a very busy first half of the year we urgently require new properties for sale in both Almeria and Murcia locations.

Get in touch to see how we can help get your property sold.

Almeria Properties Price 89,000€

Bargain duplex Palomares 2 bed 1 bath, 95m build communal pools and gardens Price 159,500€

cla 6761

3 bed 2 bath villa Arboleas Sought after area, easy walk to facilities, 10x5 pool Price 174,950€

clm 99833

cla 6697

cla 6766

calidahomes@hotmail.com www.calidahomespropconsult.com 3 bed 2 bath duplex Los Alcazares 120m build, patio and garden 5 minutes to beach and shops

Office: 0034 950 430 763 - Richard: 0034 634 302 801 Andrea: 0034 697 875 717

Detached character villa Arboleas Much sought after location, amazing views, easy walk to the village bespoke swimming pool

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SM042

ALMANZORA

fantastic value for money

100,000€

Spacious 3 bed 4 bathroom detached traditional cortijo with much charm and character and many original features. Most attractive and desirable location as short drive to the nearest village and just off main access road. This large property offers scope for minor renovation hence the fantastic price. This home comes with many extras including 4 outbuildings, garage and a new fitted kitchen. Set in a small hamlet of country houses in a setting yet so close to amenities. A short drive to the traditional village of Almanzora with all amenities you would require including bars, cafes, medical centre and banks. Only 5 mins drive to the nearest main market town of Albox.

SM052

zurgena

viewing highly recommended

SM048

ALMANZORA

Tel: 950 064 584 609 199 394 LOW PRICE

47,500€

This house is a tardis must be seen to be appreciated Detached traditional cottage set in hamlet of homes, short distance to the busy village of Almanzora with bars, cafe, medical centre, shop and many other amenities Features 2.5 bedrooms, one bathroom , land to the front , large roof terrace and front courtyard.

In good order and fantastic value for money

SM049

99,000€ Cucador

Detached 2 bedroom property set in a small hamlet of houses in a peaceful location. Lovely views. 2 beds, 2 well appointed shower rooms, inner and outer lounges, large well fitted kitchen with centre island unit & breakfast bar. The master bedroom has en-suite shower room.

The garden is paved with planted mature borders. The separate garage (with additional covered parking) is accessed from the garden.

Viewing is highly recommended.

June 2016

Investment Oportunity

120,000€

Detached 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home on 1000m2 of land in prime location in Cucador.

Walking distance to local bar, restaurant and shop. Being sold as is hence fantastic value for money and must be viewed to appreciate.

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Avenida 28 de Febrero Nº 44, Albox Email: info@solymarspain.com │ www.solymarspain.com sM055

Exceptional value for money

Rambla de oria

sM056

55,000€ el granero

Casa de Flores is located on a small hillside overlooking the Rambla de Oria. It’s only a 5 minute drive to the main town of Oria with it’s many bars, restaurants, small supermarkets and amenities. The property has only recently become available for sale andrepresents amazing value for money given that this is essentially two properties in one. The main house has a small entrance way leading to the ground floor fitted kitchen, dining room, bathroom and bedrooms.

Upstairs there are two further bedrooms, a large lounge area and a small balcony to the front.

It also enjoys installed internet and telephone landline. Adjoining the main house is a cottage in need of reformation. It has a large lounge as you enter, a small kitchen, bathroom and two bedrooms. Both the main house and the cottage were fully rewired 3 years ago.

Stunning traditional property

145,000€

EL GRANERO is another of those decptively large properties that appear anything but so from the outside. It’s only a 5 minute drive to the main town of Oria with it’s many bars, restaurants, small supermarkets and amenities.

This mid terraced property has been extensively renovated to a hish standard using quality materials.

Double glass doors from the lounge lead out to the tiled patio with it’s feature BBQ and fully fly screened area with Jacuzzi and dining area.Ypstairs is another large lounge, two family bedrooms, a bathroom with a jet bath, and a further bedroom with en-suite. A small room currently serves a workshop but could easily be another small bedroom. There are two barns, currently used for storage, a well laid out small garden to the rear and a large flat piece of land fronts the property.

RENTAL SECTION RSM024

near Albox

Urgent viewing recommended

rsM003

600€ PCM RENTAL La Alfoquia

Highly sought after detatched country villa with 4 bed, 2 bath home newly refurbished. Features many extras including swimming pool, flyscreened eating area, pellet burner to name just a few.

Ideal location with stunning views only 2 mins drive to the nearest village with bar, restaurant, doctors surgery and only 15 minutes from the market town of Albox.

Please note no pets are allowed with this property Urgent viewing recommended

Ideal Location

450€ PCM RENTAL

Ideal Location as just a short walk to the many amenities of this busy village This house is finished to a high standard, in immaculate order and available long term.

Featuring 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, separate kitchen, enclosed terrace, open terrace and upstairs balcony Viewing highly reccomended

WE URGENTLY REQUIRE LEGAL PROPERTIES FROM COAST TO COUNTRY WE ARE LOOKING FOR ALL TYPES OF PROPERTIES FOR RENTAL OPPORTUNITIES. CLIENTS WAITING CALL US 950 064 584

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www.immo-carlos.com email: info@immo-carlos.com Address: La Plaza Nueva, No 10, Albox (Opposite the Donkey Statue)

Office: 950 102 191 • Carlos: 648 505 938 • Gavin: 671 293 942

Arboleas

149,950€

This lovely villa is on an end plot of a quiet street and has great views.

The villa (120 sq mtrs) consists of 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a fully fitted kitchen with separate utility room, a good sized lounge and a private pool (8x4).

The plot is completely fenced and has 707 sq mtrs.

Albox

139,950€

This is a big farmhouse (200 sq mtrs) with one hectare of land and 360 degree views. The house itself needs a bit of work.

However, it is habitable and is only 5 minutes drive from the busy town of Albox.

It is a very traditional farmhouse (cortijo).

We need more properties!

Please contact us if you are thinking about selling

Focusing on smaller area to give our clients a better service.

Voss Homes would like to thank our property sellers, buyers & friends for their loyalty and support.

ENJOYING A BUSY 2016

VH889 Villa Jardine - €127,950 ABSOLUTE BARGAIN - A well maintained, furnished, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom villa with established garden of 422m2 with full sized sun roof. Walking distance to the municipal swimming pool, bowling green, cafes, restaurants, shops, banks, etc in La Alfoquia village. Cee tbc

For more information and to arrange a viewing contact us asap.

Please call 0034 950 616 827 / 0034 678 002 006 / 0034 667 891 741 or email: info@vosshomesspain.com

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Office: 155a Carrerera Estacion, Huecal-Overa. 1km off the A7 motorway at exit 553. 100metres from Lidl.

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REF AMD5V01, PRICE €299,950

REF HUE3VES02 PRICE €149,950

REF SOR2T02 PRICE €79,995

REF VAL2TL09, PRICE €109,950

REF CUE3VL01 PRICE €139,000

5 bed 5 bath detached villa in Almendricos with private pool, very private aspect, 2 self-contained apartments, long shady terracing, great views, outside kitchen and lots of land.

A Splendid home.

3 bed 2 bath detached villa near Huercal Overa. 122m2 build on a plot of 400m2.

A simply stunning villa with great views. Private aspect with an enclosed fly free terrace for dining, fitted wardrobes and ceiling fans.

2 bed 2 bath fully reformed village home in Uleila Del Campo, Sorbas. An immaculate property in a beautiful village with bundles of character and outside space. Rear terrace and roof terrace with superb views!

2 bed 2 bath town house on Valle del Este with superb views to the sea, communal pool, garden, terraces and roof solarium. Property comes fully furnished with air-con and open fireplace.

A 3 bed 2 bath semi-detached villa located near Cuevas del Almanzora. Includes a private pool, car port, terraces, fly free eating area and garden.

The property is immaculate and can be taken fully furnished via negotiation.

REF ABZ2V01 PRICE €87,500

REF TAB2V01 PRICE €109,950

2 bed 1 bath detached villa very near Albanchez with air-con, front & rear gardens, amazing views, casita store and Jacuzzi.

A bargain home!

A beautiful 2 bed 1.5 bath semi-detached cortijo style villa with amazing views in Taberno.

Includes a private pool & enclosed fly free terrace, bar area, pellet burning fire and so much more.

Immaculate presentation!

REF ARB3VRQ04 PRICE €169,950

3 bed 2 bath detached villa in Arboleas presented to perfection, beautiful private pool, a large 831m2 garden and terracing. Air-con, fitted wardrobes and Sat TV. A stunning property with superb views.

REF ARB3VGL14 PRICE €169,950

A striking 3 bed 2 bath detached villa in Arboleas.

A Lakes Vega build impressive home with fly free eating area, private pool, great views, air-con, BBQ area, car port and fitted wardrobes.

REF VER2A34 PRICE €84,950

A stunning penthouse 2 bed 2 bath apartment on Vera Playa.

Just reduced this home has amazing sea & mountain views, large terrace with sun awning, air-con, wall heaters, covered private parking, lift to all floors, communal pool and gym.

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US Supreme Court rejects Google appeal in lawsuit brought by advertisers

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The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Google over a class action lawsuit from advertisers who accused the internet company of displaying their adverts on “low quality” web sites.

The judges decided that the lawsuit, which represents hundreds of thousands of advertisers using Google’s Adwords program, could continue.

Google had tried to argue that a federal appeals court in San Francisco should not have approved the class action because damages should be calculated individually for each advertiser.

The appeals court responded that Google should use a formula to calculate damages based on the average advertiser’s experience.

The court’s decision leaves in place a September ruling which allowed Californian advertisers, who used the Adwords program between 2004 and 2008, to press ahead with the lawsuit.

Google is part of Alphabet Inc and generated $67 billion in revenue last year, according to

the Associated Press.

Google has been battling multiple lawsuits across the US recently.

Last month the tech giant was cleared in court and escaped $9 billion worth of damages over claims from Oracle that it violated copywright laws by using a section of its Java code.

In a separate case, a federal judge in Florida ruled that a SEO-marketing company which accused Google of improperly censoring its search results for “economic reasons” has been allowed to go forward with its lawsuit.

It was a rare instance in which Google’s “First Amendment” argument - protecting the company’s opinions as to what should be included in search results - was dismissed.

Associated Press

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Residencia who attended an emergency within seven

Alqueria has decided to open its doors to immigration. The rationale behind this brainwave is as follows. The Alquerian people are dysfunctional with the result that the two barrios which make up the Pueblo are in a constant state of open warfare. Each blames the other for any misfortune, an unexpected rainfall can bring on the energetic oiling of rifles. If foreign blood is brought into Alqueria it would dilute the original population with a proportional dilution of hostility.

What could go wrong?

Of course the right sort of people would be needed, so some sort of vetting procedure would be required. The immigration requirements of various countries were studied but as Alqueria is a singular country to say the least none of the procedures examined fitted the singular bill. It was therefore decided to put prospective candidates through a series of tests to establish their suitability for ‘residencia’.

One would think that the ability to walk and talk simultaneously would be qualification enough for residence in Alqueria. If one could also adequately ride a bike it would suggest an intellect of gigantic proportion when compared to the mental capability of the present incumbent Alquerian population. The Alquerian Government however wanted the ‘creme de la creme’ of immigrants and ‘set the bar high’.

Test number one: The prospective candidate had to demonstrate that they called a local plumber

hours. Some candidates naively simply phoned, another offered wine and tapas and one enterprising individual offered his wife. None were unsuccessful. One plumber, the one offered wine and tapas did turn up but after consuming the repast suddenly remembered he had left his tool bag at home and was never seen again.

Test number two: To order a meal at the Restaurante Grasiento Gabino. It isn’t the restaurant that is the problem but the waiter Roberto.

He talks and talks describing the menu in minute detail, it’s what he was born to do. A family of three tried, Mother went into a coma through hunger, husband went into a catatonic trance through boredom and the child missed his fifth birthday. Roberto spends so long in his descriptive oratory that no food has been served for three years, the kitchen is closed and deserted.

Test number three: To successfully notify the British Pension Office of a change of address. No one even attempted this task.

The bar was indeed too high and no candidates emerged successful. It was then decided to issue residence to those who managed to spell their name correctly on the application form. Two were accepted, two rather strange individuals, more of them later.

Enchanting Spain - out now

From Santiago de Compostela in the north-west to Granada in the southeast via Madrid in the centre, Enchanting Spain reveals the fascinating breadth and depth of this exuberant country.

The Moorish Alhambra, Toledo’s Jewish quarter, the Roman amphitheatre at Mérida and Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, the famously unfinished cathedral, each show a different aspect of Spain’s complex history, now intermingled with fabulously contemporary museums and art centres.

The major towns sparkle with life, which visitors can share through the vibrant night scene, the delicious food and wine, the flamenco performances and the abundant festivals.

The landscape is diverse and dramatic, whether you are discovering the sundrenched beaches of Andalucía, hiking in the Picos de Europa or taking a trip down the Guadalquivir River.

Enchanting Spain is a portrait in words and images of both the familiar and the unexpected pleasures of this vibrant country.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------John MacDonald has written for many Spanish and international publications and has a special interest in Spanish history. He studied journalism, photography and archaeology at the University of Exeter and UCL. He shares his time between the UK and Spain.

Patricia Díaz Pereda studied at the Complutense University of Madrid, and has worked as a television director and for a media publication.

She is passionate about her homeland and has written many articles for magazines as well as contributing to Descubrir España, a National Geographic publication on the subject. She lives in Madrid.

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Stolen Goods

When I returned home from Urgencias with my newly mended arm in its pristine plaster cast of blinding white I knew that sooner or later I would suffer Plaster Itch.

The universally accepted alleviative for this irritating condition is a knitting needle, so in order to be prepared when the inevitable manifested itself I searched the house in vain for such, or for anything that might pass as such.

The nearest I could find was a barbecue skewer. However, this is such a long, sharp and generally lethal weapon to use on one delicate arm encased in one small plaster that it was like going sparrow shooting with a Kalashnikov. But I could find nothing better – our house is a knitting needle-free zone.

Shortly afterwards we were again patronising the services of the Hospital Inmaculada, but for another reason entirely. Business completed, we headed for the Restaurante for a strengthening bite of something, which in my case was a Pincho.

I chose a Pincho because it is possible to eat it one-handed without too much loss of dignity – you don’t have to get someone to cut it up for you, neither do you have to chase it around the plate before finally capturing it and transferring it to mouth in a sort of gulp that would offend any well-bred pig.

As I delicately picked the meat from the skewer I couldn’t help but notice that the skewer was the exact length

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josbiggs@hotmail.co.uk and thickness of a knitting needle – it would be perfect for Plaster Itch.

Picked clean it lay on my plate, smooth and gleaming, nicely rounded at one end and stabproof blunted at the other. Fate, I reasoned, had put it in my path – Fate had seen my need, and was coming to my rescue; it would be ungrateful of me to ignore her intervention. Silently I thanked her, picked it up, wiped it clean and stuffed it in my handbag - I stole the Hospital’s skewer!

Today I was back in the Restaurante after the removal of my plaster. I wondered briefly if I should return my contraband – was The Case of the Stolen Skewer was still open?

Or would the re-appearance of the skewer simply draw attention to me as a suspect? Would I be able to escape prosecution on the grounds of Diminished Responsibility?

No, I think I’ll keep quiet – I think I may have got away with it!

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4. What is the name of the largest island in Denmark............................................

5. Transport…what was first introduced into the UK on 31 October 1951?.............

6. Belgian port famous for a disaster in 1987?.....................................................

7. Who won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in Cold Mountain......

10. What number can’t be represented in roman numerals?...............................

Answers 10. Zero

5. Zebra Crossing

9. Count von Zeppelin

4. Zealand

8. Zephyr

3. Zeal

7. Zellweger Renee

2. Z Cars

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6. Zeebrugge

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1. Zavaroni (Lena)

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8. A soft, gentle breeze?.........................

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2. Which 1960s cop show was set in

6. Greg Norman 7. The Yips 8. Mark Spitz 9. The right 10. Greg Lemond

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Find and circle all of the words that are hidden in the grid.

The remaining 50 letters spell a secret message.

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1. Which team reached the Super Bowl in four consecutive years (1991-94 ) and lost them all?...........................................

2. In which sport did Irina Rodnina win 23 World, Olympic and European gold medals?......

3. The 20th of 22 children, unable to walk until 11, she won three sprint golds in the Rome Olympics. Who?..............

4. Which Scottish golfer topped the European order of merit in 1993, 1994 and 1995?...............

5. Kapil Dev held the world record for Test match wickets: with 404, 414, 424, 434 or 444?

6. Who lost an apparently unassailable lead to Nick Faldo in the last round of the 1996 US Masters? ................................

7. In golf, what is the informal name given to nervous tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance especially when putting?..........

8. Which swimmer won 7 gold medals at the 1972 Olympic games?....................................

9. A southpaw boxer leads with which hand and off which foot?

10. Who became the 1st nonEuropean to win the Tour de France cycle race?.....................

1. The Buffalo Bills 2. Ice Skating 3. Wilma Rudolph 4. Colin Montgomerie 5. 434

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soltimes Alphabetical Quiz

name the correct movie title

1: Tremors 2: The Sound of Music 3: The Godfather

on this day 9th June

1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen. 1946 – King Ananda Mahidol is found shot dead in his bedroom, Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world’s longest reigning monarch.

1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London’s Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

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Contact Karl on 0044 7976 662395

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across 6 Feelings of great intensity (British spelling) (7) 7 Order (5) 9 Devastation (4) 10 Became pals (10) 11 Protective coverings or structures (8) 13 Provide evidence (6) 15 Sexual craving (4) 17 Military blockade (5) 18 Female student (4) 19 A fragrant oleoresin (6) 20 Candidate (8) 23 Wild promiscuous gatherings (10) 26 Islamic prayer leader (4) 27 Chieftain (5) 28 Paginations (7) Down 1 Interprets (10) 2 Idiosyncrasy (6) 3 A German noble title (4) 4 Fragile (8) 5 Pottery oven (4) 6 Empty a toilet (5) 8 Pale cane syrup (7) 12 A sharp blow (5) 14 Deceits (10) 16 Not cognizant of (7) 17 Conferences (8) 21 Citrus fruit (6) 22 Dice game (5) 24 Utilizer (4) 25 Cuts or prunes (4)

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950 121 936 - sales@soltimes.com

La Montaña

Bar & Restaurant

La Montana is a charming Restaurant midway between the beautiful villages of Bedar and Lubrin. It offers both style, affordable and modern food and in the hot summer months is a cooling place to eat and drink.

While taking in the surrounding views.

Opening Times: Lunch Wednesday to Sunday 12pm until 4pm Dinner Wednesday to Saturday 7.30pm until close Tel: 950 398 856 Mob: 670 589 788 Email: barlamontana@hotmail.com Closed Sunday evenings, Mondays and Tuesdays.

lily’s

Lounge and Restaurant Edd & John formerly of the Parata & Fantasia

June 2016

come dine our way Just a few or your favourite restaurants in Mojacar and surrounding areas

To advertise here contact Jane: Tel: 950 121 936 - sales@soltimes.com

Ingredients

1 green pepper 1 yellow pepper 1 red pepper 1 small cucumber 6 tomatoes 4 onions 3 garlic cloves Salt, pepper, Tabasco 75 ml red wine vinegar 60 ml olive oil 1 pinch ground cumin 100 g sandwich bread ½ bunch basil

Gazpacho Andaluz

Serves: 4 Preparation time: 30 minutes Total time: 30 minutes

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Method

Peel the peppers and cucumber carefully.

Blanch and peel the tomatoes. Roughly chop all the vegetables and place in a large bowl.

Finely chop the onions and garlic cloves and add to the bowl. Season with salt, pepper and a few drops of Tabasco. Add the red wine vinegar, olive oil and ground cumin.

Remove and discard the crust from the sandwich bread. Cut the centre of the bread into slices and add to the bowl. Mix together well and leave to marinate for one hour in the refrigerator.

Blend until smooth and pass the soup through a large sieve Check the seasoning.

To serve: fill four glasses with cold gazpacho.

Decorate with the diced peppers and bread crisps. Finish with a sprig of basil.

Lunchtime Snacks A La Carte Menu Sunday Roasts Spectacular Views Amazing Food Tailormade menus suited to individual budgets available (for parties 8-30 people) Open 12 noon - 4pm, 7pm - Late (Closed Mondays) Local 78, 2nd Floor, Parque Commercial, Mojacar Playa

To Serve

Tel: 950 806 767

Sandwich bread, cut into thin slices green, red and yellow bell pepper, diced Basil leaves

lilys lounge and restaurant mojacar

Sally Sally

950 132 048

Delicatessen & Bakery

FRESH SALADS, SANDWICHES & DRINKS TO TAKEAWAY • Pork Pies • Scotch Eggs • Quiche

“ The Good Food Place”

continuing in its 35th season

950 615 030 www.elbeachbar.com

“el beachbar” Mojácar South Beach

• Carrot Cake • Cream Cakes • Apple Pie

Many other Delicious Homemade Treats all made on our premises and available to order Opening Hours: Monday - Saturday 9am - 3pm Local 29, Las Buganvillas (Next to Paws)

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come dine our way

Every Saturday from 10pm at

Just a few or your favourite restaurants in Albox and surrounding areas

To advertise here contact Julie: Tel: 950 121 936 - sales@soltimes.com Gazpacho is a soup made of raw vegetables and served cold, usually with a tomato base, originating in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia.

Gazpacho is widely eaten in Spain and neighbouring BAR Portugal, particularly during the hot summers, RESTAURANT as it is refreshing and cool.

CERRO GORDO Gazpacho has ancient roots. There are a number of theories of its origin, Saturday including as a soup of Breakfast bread, olive oil, water 9 - 11:30am and garlic that arrived in 4,50€ inc Tea Spain and Portugal with or coffee the Romans and also with the addition of vinegar.

Once in Spain, it became a wednesday nite, Mid week roast, 7pm part of Andalusian cuisine, main course only 6€ Booking Essential particularly Córdoba and Sizzling Steak Nite Every Saturday Seville, using stale bread, garlic, olive oil, salt, booking essential and vinegar, similar to Friday Nite cod & Chips 7€ must book ajoblanco.

There are many modern variations of gazpacho, often in different colors and omitting the tomatoes and bread in favor of avocados, cucumbers, parsley, watermelon, grapes, meat stock, seafood, and other ingredients.

Tel: 622 582 538 / 666 959 822

Paraje Los Castejones s/n Albox ventaguarducha@gmail.com www.ventaelguarducha.wix.com/venta-el-guarducha

Sat Nav co-ordinates N37° 24.511 W002° 11.479 EL556 Call for all enquiries & reservations Tel: 650 599 739 / 950 930 169

www.bistrobonita.alittlebitofengland.es bistrobonita1@hotmail.com

The Yellow Stone Bar Back by popular demand singing outside on the plaza Saturday 18th june, 8pm

Open Daily 9:30am til Late. Tuesday-Thursday evenings only.

Breakfast, Tapas, Snacks and Homemade Pizza served daily

Full English Breakfast Large 4.50€, Small 3€ Friday Fish And Chips 6€ Takeaway available Saturday Homemade Pie Chips & Gravy

from 3.95€ different exciting fillings each week, Takeaway available.

Sunday Roast, 1st & 3rd Sunday of each month, 7.95€ for 2 courses Sunday BBQ, 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month, Booking essential

Saturday 11th June Partaloa Fiesta in the Plaza Friday 17th June Karaoke with Graham D Available for parties with marquee and bouncy castle. Free wifi BT and Sky Sports Call Linda f or mor e inf or mation Tel: 642 947 182 P l a z a d e C o n s t i t u c i o n S / N Pa r t a l o a plazabarpartaloa for up and coming events

free entry Food available hot rolls, paella, roast pork with apple sauce, roast beef with mushrooms, chicken fillet with sage & onion stuffinG lots more to choose from

call maggie or sue to book or more info

Tel: 634 332 228 Closed Monday

find us on facebook

Email: ysb1@albox-online.net sat nav to bar N37.38742, W002.20080

Saturday 11th june Back by popular demand

MISS GIN 6pm

Ticket only 5€ Food Available

Saturday 18th june New to the Area

K enn y & t h e W i l d B u nc h 6pm

call for more details

Avenida Lepanto, Albox Tel: 950 930 988 All Football & Rugby Games Being Shown

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& entertaining out and about

e on this is t r e v d a ...to 6 0 121 93 5 9 ll a c pa g e Menu del Dia 10€ Selection of Tapas English Speaking Everyone Welcome Friendly Atmosphere

Bar-Restaurante

LA PALMERA

Avda Lepanto, 43 Opposite the BP Garage 04800 Albox-Almeria Tel: 950 430 993 Mobile: 659 056 082

week days a OPEN 7

is situated in the pretty village of Cerro Gordo and just 10 minutes outside Albox. They do delicious homemade food including beef wellington, orchard pie and speciality food.

All freshly prepared so booking is essential. Try their homemade 3 course Sunday lunch at 8.50€. Free venue for your Party or Get Together just phone Chris for details 950 930 169 or 650 599 739. www.bistobonita. alittlebitofengland.es

Meet Our New Managers Nicole and Stefan

NEW VEGETARIAN MENU cous-cous, risottos, vegetable lasagne, fresh pasta, pizzas, soya burgers, vegetable soups, vegetable pies, tofu salads, all serve with fresh vegetables and potatoes or rice.

La Cena

MENU DEL NOCHE

20OZ T-BONE STEAK, 16OZ BEEF ENTRECOTE, 12OZ PORK TENDERLOIN, ROASTED LAMB SHANK & sHOULDER, ROASTED PORK KNUCKLE AND MORE. SERVED 7PM - 10PM

would like to invite you to sample the exciting new additions to the already successful menú of the

night. With 4 new additions per the 3 course taking it to

La Cena

Restaurante

Albox

menu del noche €10.95

Includes a carafe of wine per couple 11 starters, 10 mains & 9 Desserts Full A La Carte also available Monday - Saturday 7pm - late. Closed Sunday

Call 950 430 930 after 5.30pm

Find us across the old bridge from Palza Mayor Albox, opp Bar Wassy

Full Menu Available ALL DAY, EVERY DAY from 10am - 9pm, Sunday 5pm-9pm

11 starters 10 mains, and

SUNDAY ROAST MENU DEL DIA

9 sweets.

4 COURSES WITH BOTTLE OF RIOJA WINE PER COUPLE, COFFEE INCLUDED, ROAST LAMB SHOULDER & PORK KNUCkLE, 20OZ T-BONE STEAK, 12OZ ENTRECOTE, 10OZ PORK TENDERLOIN, ROAST POTATOES & FRESH VEGETABLES. SERVED 1PM - 4PM

With additions to include more choice for the high volume of gluten free people.

Still priced at the value beating 10.95€ for 3

Booking Recommended

courses, including a carafe

Spanish Speaking 950 430 145 English Speaking 647 730 103

of wine for 2 people.

Full al-carte still available.

Please call for reservation.

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SATURDAY 11th JUNE Tony Justice “The King of Swing” in the garden at 6pm with BBQ menu (diners take priority for bookings)

w w w. m e s o n d e i r e n e . c o m

Restaurant - Bar ida

Sharron & Danny welcome customers new and old

Traditionally Cooked Sunday Lunch

Roast Beef, Pork, Chicken, Honey Roast Gammon

Entertainment followed by 1st England match of the Euros against Russia, being shown LIVE on large screen in garden Scan Code for our Facebook Page

PolIG ONO I ndu st r ia l A lb ox, Nea r t he ITV Ga rage

(and now Braised Lamb available at a supplement)

Available 12:30pm - 4pm

EVERY WEDNESDAY 6pm - 9pm

Buy one fillet meal at 10€ get the 2nd half price.

Booking essential

(Fillet is available on the menu everyday of the week for 10€)

Fridays

ZUMBA every Friday 10am-11am

Monday - Saturday 10am - Late ● Sunday 12 - Close Avenida Europa, Cucador (Above The Attic) ● 950 634 562

Atlantic Cod Fillet with Handcut Chips & Peas full menu available We are here

Albox Arboleas Zurgena La Alfoquia

Mojacar

E15

1km

La Vida

Cucador Huercal Overa

Junc 547

Tel: 950 121 936

with or without experience to play.

Starting in Zurgena Sports Hall next Monday 13th June 7pm to 9.30pm.

All ages are welcome. 3€ per person Email rob@soltimes.com for more details

New Charity Shop (Arboleas) Opening Soon

Helping good causes and specific charities around the Almanzora Valley and surrounding areas.

We expect to be supporting the elderly, children, animals and enhancing quality of life for our communities.

Opening Soon

We are looking for volunteers to help in the shop between the hours of 10-2.

If you have a little time or a morning you can spare to help good causes and have a sunny disposition, then please call Rob on 609 199394 (4candlescharity@ gmail.com) for more details.

urgent

Also we URGENTLY need your unwanted clothes and household items, bric-a-brac and even furniture.

For now we have drop off points at SolyMar in Albox and Sol Times Offices at Los Carasoles (Zurgena), next to Almeria Angels. The shop is nearly ready to open opposite the Ayuntamiento in Arboleas and we need stock! All for a good cause, please help us to help them......

Tel: 609 199 394

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TOTAL MAILBOX SOLUTIONS · YOUR OWN P O BOX WITH A REAL ADDRESS · EMAIL ALERTS FOR ALL YOUR MAIL RECEIVED ONLY 30€ FOR 6 MONTHS

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Open: 9:30am - 3pm

Tel: 950 064 584

Email: info@solymarspain.com LEARN SPANISH WITH“PACO” THE WEATHER CLIMATE- Clima SPRING - Primavera SUMMER - Verano AUTUMN - Otoño WINTER - Invierno RAIN - Lluvia

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WHAT IS THE WEATHER LIKE? ¿QUE TIEMPO HACE? IT’S RAINING / IT IS STILL RAINING ESTÁ LLOVIENDO / SIGUE LLOVIENDO IT’S (VERY) COLD IT’S (VERY) HOT HACE (MUCHO) FRÍO / HACE (MUCHO) CALOR IT´S (VERY) WINDY / IT´S SUNNY HACE (MUCHO) VIENTO / HACE SOL DO YOU THINK IT’S GOING TO RAIN? CREES / PIENSAS QUE VA A LLOVER? I THINK SO / I DON’T THINK SO / I DON’T KNOW PIENSO / CREO QUE SÍ / PIENSO / CREO QUE NO / NO LO SE IT’S GOING TO BE HOT / BE COLD / IT´S GOING TO RAIN VA A HACER CALOR / HACER FRÍO / VA A LLOVER WHAT IS THE TEMPERATURE? ¿QUE TEMPERATURA HACE? Learn more Spanish with Paco at Campsite Los Gallardos, Lessons based in conversation, All levels catered for plus Private lessons!

Contact Paco-661 142 606 or email pacospanish@yahoo.es

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Almanzora Group of Friends

The Almanzora Group of Friends was originally started in 1998 by a small group of ex-patriots as a means of sharing information and giving advice. It now also has a library with over 5,000 items for loan and organises interesting and original trips, as well as producing a monthly newsletter, and holding a quiz on the first Monday of the month at Maloans, Albox.

The Library and Information Centre is based at 44, Avenida Lepanto, Albox and is open from 10am to 1pm on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. More details can be found at www.almanzoragof.org and/or on Facebook.

ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION BRANCH 1359

The Branch meets on the third Tuesday in the month at 14.30 hrs at the El Paraiso Restaurant, located in Jardin del Mar 3, which is located very near Carrefour. If you would like information please contact the Chairman on 692508916 or Welfare on 615048892 or visit the Website www.rafacb.com

Anglican Church of Mojacar.

Friday 10th June at 5pm at St. Pascal Church, Mojacar, Street party outside the Church to celebrate the 90th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth 11nd and also the 95th birthday of Prince Phillip. Afternoon tea, Games and a “little fun”. €10. All welcome, come along and join us. Contact Lynne HughesJones on 617830660

Anglican Church, LLanos del Peral. Thursday 16th June at 3.30pm Ascot Ladies Race Day (gentlemen invited). Afternoon tea and racing.

Tickets €3 on the gate at the Church.

Information for all present and future COLLYFER clients, you can now take your policy with you should you need or want to return to the UK, contact Karen for details 617 456 335 karencecere@collyfer.com

ZURGENA & DISTRICT RBL BR3620

The Zurgena & District Branch of the RBL meet on the first Thursday of the month at Latino's Bar in Alfoquia. We are a small Branch of around 96 people.

We have various social events throughout the month and year. There is a Lunch Club that meet on the second Tuesday of the month, we choose a different restaurant to visit each month and this event has great support with Members and Guests enjoying experiencing different cuisine.

We have a Coffee Morning on the third Wednesday of the month at Latino's Bar with various activities. It is a good opportunity to meet up and have a chat and you would be made very welcome. If you would like to join the Branch or attend any of our events and would like further information please contact the Secretary, Chrissy at zurgena. rblsecretary@yahoo.co.uk. You will be made very welcome.

You do not have to have been a member of the Military to join.

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SUMMer crazy offer

Free Bottle of wine

per couple to take away after having our night menus Valid only with this voucher dinner 19.00-22.00 until 30th june

Su mm Fair er Saturday June 18th 2016, 12-4pm The Renfe Building, La Alfoquia Lots of Stall’s, Raffle & Refreshments Music by Johnny Slade All proceeds to animal rescue cucador entrance 1 euro All enquiries to Anne: 634 341 282

Exhibition "Shockpalmo" The pastelist group "Shockpalmo" students of Manuel Garcia de la Torre will exhibit their works at the Art Center "La Source", from 17 to 30 June.

His works are pastel paintings.

Opening June 17 at 19pm

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CONTACT SALES ON Tel: 950 121 936 or 902 750 190 ext 332

Customers can now pay for advertising in our New Drop in Sol Times office located within Sol y Mar

for sale

advertise your unwanted items up to 300€ for free email: sales@soltimes.com by TUESday 5pm air con

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

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Digital Vision Air Conditioning Services based in Mojacar & all areas with 10 years experience covered

We offer competitive affordable rates visit

www.digitalvisiones.com email: info@digitalvisiones.com

Tel: 645 294 064/950 472 081

alternative energy Solar Wind Power solutions Over 15 years installation experience. established 12 years in Spain. Call Phil for competitive prices 636 261 240 email:info@sunergy almeria.com www.sunergy almeria.com

www.ecocorpshop.com are you getting frustrated at ever increasing electricity bills do you want a clean, reliable energy alternative if so call ecocorp on 671 716 597 or 950 930 187

bright pink suede Sofa bed, Silver frame, excellent condition, very comfortable 120€ (Arboleas) Tel 634 374 539.

WASHING MACHINE BOSCH MAX 1100 SPIN 80€ ONO Tel: 671 45 91 32

Outlander, complete season 1 & 2, 16 episodes, 5 DVD BLUE RAY discs, have not been played except to try in machine. Taken from Dianna Gabalden books, filmed in Scotland but only seen in USA, 993 minutes of footage. Will accept €200 ono. Tel: 627 209 887 3 seater leather settee. Navy blue with reclining seats at each end. €125. Old navy blue recliner (has been repaired) free to buyer if wanted. Futon/ double sofa bed. Very strong wooden frame with thick reversible mattress/ cushion (not foam). Clean and hardly been used. €100. Wooden coffee table.

Approx. length 142cm by 61cm deep by 16.5cm high with heavy wooden surround. €65. Arboleas area. Settee and coffee table can be delivered. Tel: 690 120 346.

Life Jackets 4€ each. Live Mar Model 100 - N (70 Kgs) Unused, min. 80€ for the 4. Tel: 950 475 410.

German (Bauknecht) Power Water pump, ex Pool counter current jet use, 220/380V, 50 Hz, 5.5KW/9,6A, IP44 fully reconditioned and tested, with security switch min 250€ Tel: 950 475 410.

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airport services

computers

www.AAparking.es Tel: 639 081 067 Cheap

Airport Parking

Alicante Almeria Murcia New

Servicing / Repairs

Steve Hayes Informatica

drainage

Cleaning of Septic Tanks ▪ Emptying of Septic Tanks & Cesspits, with high pressure cleaning ▪ Small unblockages of pipes & drainage

avon cosmetics Tel Claire 691 987 454 avonfromclaire @yahoo.es

hobby/craft

• Installation of new septic tanks with certificates

ELAINE’S WOOLS Quality UK Wool & Accessories.

Come & view my DISPLAY. Also Available at CAT Services & Total Entertainment Call 667 273 889 elaineswools@ gmail.com

• Repairs to existing pozos

insurance

Pool Cleaning & Water Tanks

Contact: 675 838 808

LICENSED POZO/septic tank emptying

• CCTV Camera Inspection Call Andy on 950 091 109 or 648 768 587 Email: blockeddrainsrus@albox-online.net

Drainage Solutions

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

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Please contact Glenn & jayne 950 121 943 infoalbox.libertyseguros @gmail.com

Tel: 616 531 283 or 670 088 966 iron/metal Gardening

potty finca services professional tree felling & pruning, including all types of palm trees

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

Valley Garden Services

Pc’s, Laptops, Printers etc.

Sales & Repairs on-site callout / tuition.

Consumables

Garden Maintenance weekly, fortnightly or monthly, Quality Work guaranteed

Tel: 950 120 900

Albox & Surrounding Areas

Albox, Almeria

health & beauty

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“Everything was in a mess. She’s been left in this horrible room because she was the wrong girl. She wasn’t good enough to be Phoebe or have a mum like Melissa. Of course she wasn’t. How could she ever have thought she was?”

We can all sympathise with being in the wrong place at the wrong time can’t we? But imagine having the wrong life and being the wrong person? Does that make any sense? Once you’ve worked through the complexities of this plot with these dysfunctional characters that all seem to have fragile egos appearing to be very unstable and grossly unhappy it should make sense. This is typical of Guardian crime reviewer, Laura Wilson and this one is certainly worthy of your time.

Wilson reminds us throughout that whatever actions we have taken in the past, they will always come back to haunt us. Guilt unfortunately, may define us, so how do we choose the guilt we can live with and repress it as long as we struggle through day to day living? Can we ever escape the burdens and actions of the past? Probably not.

The Prologue intrigues us with a Mr Fix-it, alias mystery man, sounding dejected and suicidal. “Everything had gone wrong too many times.” Our mystery man was a roadie in the past, forty years back. He refers to a missing child and inevitably, his inability to be able to bring back the child. Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? We are also told that there is a mystery surrounding his parentage and of course, his identity. It’s what he refers to as knowing and not knowing like honesty or lying, something that alcoholics do and he should know. Mystery man was on a mission to retrace the past, to visit a man from the 60s and find out answers but he was running out of time. He also wanted to protect Molly.

Molly Armitage is Suzie’s daughter. Mother, daughter and Tom had been staying at the Old Rectory in Repshall with Dan Carthy Todd. Dan was 66 when he dies suddenly. Ten year old Molly discovered his waxwork like form and this gave her nightmares that he would come back to haunt her. Suzie phones Janice, Dan’s sister who also happens to be her birth mother that she has not had contact with in over 44 years. Janice was pregnant at 19 and was persuaded by her parents to have the child adopted. Two marriages, short-lived, ending in divorce, left her financially comfortable with properties in Notting Hill Gate and Suffolk which allowed her to travel extensively and enjoy an affluent lifestyle.

Janice had grown apart from Dan. He had moved back to his parents’ home in Norfolk to look after them whilst the sister enjoyed a carefree, more hedonistic type of existence and after their deaths, he remained in modest surroundings as an odd-job man, helping where help was needed. The last time Janice had seen Dan was in 2008, for Ma’s funeral.

Receiving the phone call from her one and only daughter proved too much.

Throughout the novel Janice constantly reflects on abandoning her child and tries to explain to a fragile, unstable Suzie how she has always been haunted by this action. The wrong action. We are told that Janice always seems to be selfcentred and controlled. Through life’s tribulations she hasn’t shed a tear and as readers, we don’t feel sympathetic towards her. Meeting her middle-aged daughter

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and two grand-children overwhelms her, especially when Dan has just died and she has to arrange a funeral. Suzie carries feelings of anger and hatred towards her: “If you’d really loved me, you wouldn’t have let me go. Then how could you do it?” A difficult one to answer. Understandably, having to confront her demons turns her into a blubbering wreck.

We are taken back to the swinging 60s, with rock stars and gigs and days of tripping. For Janice it was meant to be a time of sexual liberation and freedom.

“Everyone got stoned.” She had a fling with Jeff and then a more serious one with Joe: “Joe was a rock star, and they were expected to take drugs and be crazy.” She called herself his ex-girlfriend or groupie believing the relationship was real: it was “something real, something that formed part of who she was.” His sister Marie had been killed at a young age and this has had a profound effect on him. “Ribbons in the Wind” was probably dedicated to his sister. Drugs ruined his career and he was kicked out from the Weather Ship where he became a recluse, suffering a breakdown and having to seek psychiatric help. His existence was Spartan compared to his glamorous days as a rock and roll star, no heroism and nothing spectacular.

Tributes were still being left outside his home, close to Dan’s. Always remembered.

Molly bears a striking resemblance to a projected image of Phoebe Piper, a girl who has been missing for seven years. She discovers a letter left by Dan to Joe with two photos, in his garden shed and is convinced that she is Phoebe and not Molly.

She keeps a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings relating to Phoebe’s disappearance and becomes mortified when she reads that the Pipers are divorcing.

“Not being able to catch up with the life you were supposed to have was a lot worse than coming last in the sack race, because if you couldn’t do that, then you’d never be able to belong anywhere.”

A reference to Joe and a ribbon seemed crucial for Molly’s adopting her new life as the right girl otherwise “she’d be the wrong girl for the rest of her life and she’d never ever be happy.” She was suspicious when Janice arrived in Norfolk and would not accept her as a grandmother. Within a short space of time, Molly goes missing, leaving Suzie bereft and Janice feeling useless, at odds with the daughter she needs forgiveness from. What are they going to do?

We are told about the Sneaky Man also known as the Catweazle, obsessed with Joe who lives in the woods. Mark, Suzie’s boyfriend discovers a corpse which he assumes belongs to this man. We soon discover the darker side of the swinging 60s, Magic Malc, Malcolm Devlin, who used to supply magical substances to the 60s rock scene, completely mad and dangerous. In time, Janice learns to connect the 1967 picnic scene when she was tripping with the rock band with a disappearance of another girl, Lisa Wynn. Some grisly discoveries shake Janice’s awareness of those carefree days: “freedom was an illusion, and all of it meaningless.” The story contains so many twists and turns to engage your interest throughout. Enjoy.

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Last Friday (3 June), world superstar Muhammad Ali passed away, aged 74, in Phoenix, Arizona. He had been suffering with Parkinson’s for over 30 years.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville, Kentucky in January 1942, he won six USA ‘Golden Glove’ titles and an Olympic gold medal in Rome in 1960 before turning professional. He then went on to have 61 heavyweight fights, winning 56 of them, 37 by a knock-out.

Nicknamed by himself as the ‘Greatest’, he was world champion three times in 1964, 1974 and 1978, and was involved in two of the most-talked about contests ever – against George Foreman (The Rumble in the Jungle) in 1974 and against Joe Frazier (The Thriller in Manilla) a year later. And, of course, he was also knocked down by Henry Cooper in London, but still got up and won!

He refused to do his National Service and was sentenced to four years in prison but he appealed, won his case and never went behind bars.

A black civil rights activist, he changed his name from Clay to Ali in 1964 (after beating Sonny Liston to become world champion for the first time) and thereafter became a sporting hero. Whether you like boxing or not, everyone seemed to know Muhammad Ali - or the ‘Louisville Lip’, another nickname his was given. In fact, someone said, if he parachuted down from the sky and landed anywhere in the world, people would know who he was!

I had the pleasure of being in his company in August 1983 when he opened a youth community centre in Hockley,

Birmingham… and even then 4,000 people turned up just to get a glimpse of their hero!

All too frequently, the word legend is used when talking about a star performer (in all walks of life)… but on this occasion, Muhammad Ali was certainly a true legend. Married twice, he leaves a wife, seven daughters and two sons.

This is what he always told people of the world and wanted each and everyone to know....

"I would like to be remembered as a man who won the world heavyweight title three times, who was humorous and who treated everyone right… As a man who never looked down on those who looked up to him and who helped as many people as he could… As a man who stood up for his beliefs no matter what…

As a man who tried to unite all humankind through faith and love… And if that's too much, then I guess I'd settle for being remembered only as a great boxer who became a leader and a champion of his people. And I wouldn't even mind if folk forgot how pretty I was!

L i k e M a r t i n Luther King, his spirit will live on… and on… and on.

R.I.P.

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• Novak Djokovic holds all four Grand Slam titles after defeating Andy Murray to win the French Open for the first time.

• Venezuelan-born Spanish nationalist Garbine Mugubuza beat Serena Williams in the women’s final. The last Spanish female to win at Roland Garros was Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in 1989.

• The Aga Khan-owned Harzand, ridden by Pat Smullen and trained

by Dermot Weld, won the Epsom Derby 24 hours after Minding (Ryan Moore on board) had triumphed in the Oaks.

• On Sunday we have the Canadian F1 Grand Prix from Montreal.

• Last weekend, Matt Neal and Sam Tordoff both won races in round 12 of the BTCC at Oulton Park; Tordoff also had two seconds and leads the driver’s championship by one point from Neal (139-138) with Rob Collard third (113).

• In Liverpool, GB’s Liam Smith stopped Predrag Radosevic in round two to retain his WBO light-middleweight crown.

• Mo Farah has set a new British record for the 3,000m track race in Birmingham.

• The third cricket Test between England (2-0 up) and Sri Lanka starts tomorrow at Lords.

• Everton want chief Southampton Ronald Koeman as their new manager while five Championship clubs have engaged new bosses for 2016-17: Aston Villa (Roberto Di Matteo), Blackburn (Owen Coyle), Derby (Nigel Pearson), Leeds (Gary Monk) and Rotherham (Alan Stubbs).

• Jamie Vardy could leave Leicester for Arsenal and will Manchester United sign Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic?

• Three FIFA members - Sepp Blatter, Frenchman Jerome Valke and German Markus Kattner - are under investigation for illegally sharing £50m over four years.

• England beat the Rest of the World 3-2 in the annual Soccer Aid football match at Old Trafford… and to date over £4.5m has been raised for charity.

• And if you don’t already know, the Euro football championships start on Friday (see my preview on pages 6&7).

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The inaugural game for the new Rugby Club in the town of HuercalOvera has been announced for Saturday the 11th June the time is scheduled for 12:00 (Kick off time not confirmed) and they will welcome the Almeria Veterans Team.

Doors will open at 10 am as prior to the senior game the youth team will kick off at 10:30 also against a side from Almeria. Entrance is FREE and the bar will be open for the duration.

More friendly games are in the process of being confirmed ahead of the Beach 7s Tournament in July which take places on the San Juan de Los Terreros beach.

Then next season the club will compete in the Andalucian Federation League of Rugby.

The club are hoping to see plenty of Expats turn up to encourage the new team in what will be a fantastic occasion and the start of something new & exciting for the town.

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