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Owners of killer dogs may face life connexions

The owners of killer dogs could face life in jail under proposals put forward by ministers, according to press reports.

The Mail Online reports that 16 people have been mauled to death since 2005, but the law states dog owners can only go to prison for a maximum of two years.

Ministers have now launched a public consultation as to whether owners should face jail terms of up to ten years if their pet injures someone and life for a fatal attack. Killing or injuring a guide dog could also attract a maximum penalty of ten years.

The move comes months after Jade Anderson, 14, was killed by four dogs while visiting a friend near Wigan.

Every year dogs are responsible for 210,000 attacks – around 6,000 of which lead to hospital visits. The Government said it would introduce new measures to tackle out of control dogs The Government said it would introduce new measures to tackle out of control dogs The CWU union representing postmen and telecoms engineers – who suffer 5,000 attacks a year – welcomed the move, pointing out that at present some owners are fined just £100 if their dog attacks.

General secretary Billy Hayes said: ‘Current sentencing arrangements do not match the serious nature of offences.

‘This consultation is very welcome and hopefully indicates the Government is serious about tackling the problem of irresponsible dog ownership.’

The consultation was launched yesterday by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Members of the public will be asked their opinion on the severity of punishments, with recommendations put forward in the AntiSocial Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill.

Animal welfare minister Lord de Mauley said: ‘Dog attacks are terrifying and we need harsh penalties to punish those who allow

their dog to injure people while out of control.

‘It’s crucial the laws we have in place act as a deterrent to stop such horrific incidents.’

Last month Jade Anderson’s parents, along with the parents of four-year-old John Paul Massey – who died after his uncle’s pitbull attacked him in 2009 – presented a petition to Downing Street calling for David Cameron to take action to prevent more attacks.

In February the Government said it would introduce new measures to tackle out of control dogs by changing the law to ensure irresponsible owners can be prosecuted regardless of where their dog attacks.

But David Hanson, Labour’s policing spokesman, said: ‘The Government’s proposals on dangerous dogs are weak.

‘As the victims of dog attacks, select committees, the RSPCA and the British Veterinary Association have made clear, the Government should legislate for “dog control notices” which would give local councils and the police the powers they need to make sure owners are responsible and dog attacks are stopped.’

Crime prevention minister Jeremy Browne said: ‘Dog owners who fail to take responsibility for their dogs must be held accountable.

‘This Government is taking urgent action to protect the public from out of control dogs. We are changing the law so owners can be prosecuted for attacks on private property and our antisocial behaviour reforms will give police and local agencies more effective powers.’

A report published in June by the charity Guide Dogs revealed attacks by other dogs on guide dogs are at an all-time high of ten a month.

A total of 240 attacks were reported between March 2011 and February 2013.

Ecologistas en Acción Almanzora are extremely concerned about a ‘plague’ of Cochinilla del Carmín, the Cochineal beetle, which, according to the Consejería de Medio Ambiente de Murcia, has been present on prickly pears in the Murcia region since 2007.

It is thought that the beetles have been brought in on plants that were imported from other countries during the housing boom, and have been present in the Almanzora Valley since 2013.

The Cochineal Insect is a scale insect traditionally used by Native Americans to make a crimson dye called cochineal. In the 1550s Spanish explorers brought cochineal from Mexico back to Europe, and it became the most widely traded and, next to gold and silver, the most valuable product of the West Indies.

Cochineal is one of the few water-soluble colourants that resist degradation with time. It is one of the most light and heat-stable and oxidation-resistant of all the natural colourants and is used in a vast range of foods and drinks which contain a red colourant.

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The insect feeds on Prickly Pear cacti and are most obvious on the flat pads of the cactus, where they occur in colonies covered with a fluffy white wax. The insect’s bright reddish body is not visible unless the waxy secretions are scraped away and the scale’s outer covering is punctured. Cochineal is produced from the dried, crushed bodies of the cochineal scale insects. A carefully tended cactus yields about 20 pounds of scale each year. About 70,000 insects are needed to make a pound of dye, and as of 2005, the market price of cochineal was between 50 and 80 USD per kilogram.

The insect does not kill the host plant, though it may weaken it, and so it is not generally regarded as a pest. Methods of control are to use a soap-based product. However, Ecologistas en Acción Almanzora are concerned that those who eat the fruit of plants which are host to the insect, and which have been treated, may ingest some of this wash, a potash soap, which they regard as poisonous.

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Building could be allowed on land affected by fire

LAND destroyed by forest fires may soon be able to be built on without waiting the requisite 30 years, although the government admits it will have to act with caution, reports ThinkSpain.

At present, the 30-year rule, imposed some years back, is aimed at discouraging unscrupulous developers from setting fire to land they wanted to use to build residential and holiday complexes and golf courses so they could then make a drastically-reduced offer to buy it.

Now, there is little point in arson attacks by property promoters, since even if they bought the burnt-out land they would not be able to develop it for another three decades.

But agriculture minister Miguel Arias Cañete says he does not see why structures of ‘general social interest’ should not be built on charred plots, a description in which he includes schools, hospitals and prisons.

Arias Cañete will not recommend any law changes that allow residential or commercial property or ‘anything that could lead to private financial profit’ to be constructed, and

Turkey court clears 21 over ‘coup’

A court in Turkey clears 21 people accused of conspiring to overthrow the government, with verdicts still coming in for the other 254 defendants.

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German officials demand publication of a partially-leaked study which reportedly alleges that West Germany engaged in systematic doping of athletes.

US extends closure of embassies

The US says it will keep 19 embassies in north Africa and the Middle East closed for up to a week, due to fears of a possible militant threat.

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says legislation reforms would have to be thought through very carefully since the definition of ‘general social interest’ could be stretched beyond all recognition fairly easily.

Problems with ‘general social interest’ description: Why the wording has to be watertight

This definition was used when the infamous ‘land-grab’ law, the LRAU, was first approved at the end of the 1990s when the PP last came into power, and allowed local authorities to compulsorily purchase plots of land for a very low figure where building plans ‘in the public interest’ were needed.

Whilst this was mainly to allow schools and hospitals to be built and to prevent speculators from buying cheap plots of wasteland and then being able to hold the local council to ransom when they needed it for these purposes, huge luxury urbanisations, hotels and golf courses were considered on many occasions to be of ‘general social interest’ as they would create jobs and bring in local business from holidaymakers.

When corruption and nepotism was thrown into the mix, the outcome was disastrous for homeowners whose

The majority of properties originally affected by the now-defunct LRAU were constructed decades before as farm outbuildings and had been renovated as ‘picnic and sunbathing’ homes for Sundays in the countryside. These properties, known as casitas de campo, frequently fail to appear on council maps as they were not designed to be residential, but many owners have modernised theirs and fitted electrical generators and water-pumps – since only ‘urban’ property can be connected to mains - using them as a first home.

Electricity bills rise for the second time in a month

Electricity went up yesterday (Saturday) by 3.2 per cent, just a month after a 1.2-per-cent rise in a bid to mop up the multi-million deficit the government has with energy suppliers.

Minister for industry José Manuel Soria says this latest hike will claw back around 400 million euros for the government by the end of this year and claims that the State is now

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Thousands of British/EU citizens have now come forward to reclaim up to £400 million in overpaid inheritance tax (IHT) by the Spanish government after the Spanish tax loop was recently discovered. With the average reclaim amount currently being £12,000, higher than the original estimated average of £10,000.

Background: Up to 40,000* UK families who have been lucky enough to be gifted with an inherited property in Spain have fallen foul of a Spanish tax loop that has seen them overcharged Spanish IHT (inheritance tax) to the tune of £400 million, whilst Spanish residents paid close to 0% IHT. • The different IHT treatment between residents and non-residents recently led the European Commission to take Spain before the European Court of Justice on March 7 2012, as it is the European Commission’s belief that the current Spanish inheritance tax provisions infringe EU treaty freedoms when either the heirs or deceased persons are non-residents in Spain.

• “Experts state it is very risky to wait for the ECJ ruling. It is impossible to know when the ECJ ruling will be taken and due to legal time limits cases may have expired by then and the claim could not be filed anymore.” In addition, the sooner claims are filed, the sooner people affected may get their refund.

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Gibraltar Border Queues Incense British Authorities

Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has called an ‘urgent’ meeting with the Spanish ambassador to find out why ‘unjustifiable and unacceptable’ border queues mounted up between Spain and Gibraltar last week.

According to various press reports, drivers were subjected to ‘disproportionate’ and ‘unnecessary’ checks, causing seven-hour delays getting to and from Gibraltar between July 26 and 30.

Hugo Swire will meet with ambassador Federico Trillo to

request that such delays ‘do not happen again’.

“Long delays of up to seven hours at the border between Gibraltar and Spain occurred as a result of completely over-the-top inspections on vehicles entering and leaving the Rock by Spanish authorities. The British government considers these delays unjustified, unacceptable and should not be happening between two European Union member States,” Swire stated.

“The UK would not wish to speculate whether this incident bears any relation to the disagreements between Spain and Gibraltar over the installation of concrete blocks to create an artificial reef in Gibraltarian waters,” added Swire, referring to the latest in a series of disputes between Britain and Spain over the Rock.

On Friday, after Swire’s announcement, queues of between four and five hours were experienced most of the day getting back into Spain from Gibraltar.

The Gibraltarian government has welcomed the British authorities’ stance and said the procedures established by Spain in relation to border controls ‘are out of place’ within the European Union.

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Police check documents for people, vehicles and merchandise for every single car, van, coach, motorcycle or lorry that travels between the two territories.

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The UK said it wanted an explanation from Spain about any new measures targeting the British territory. Gibraltar has been a British territory for 300 years but Spain disputes UK sovereignty over the rocky outcrop on its southern tip.

In the statement the UK reasserted its ties with Gibraltar and said it wanted to continue its strong relationship with Spain.

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‘Bárcenas-gate’ case: Rajoy likened to Richard Nixon

Spanish president Mariano Rajoy has been compared to former US leader Richard Nixon in a video launched by the opposition socialist party, the PSOE. According to a report by ThinkSpain, they have likened Rajoy, who spoke out in Parliament for the first time on Thursday over the Bárcenas slush-fund scandal allegedly involving him and other top-flight PP members, to Nixon in the Watergate case.

It was this case which forced the former American president to ‘admit the truth, accept political responsibility and resign from his post in light of the seriousness of the situation’, said the PSOE, who add that ‘history is repeating itself’.

The socialists recalled that during Rajoy’s speech in Congress this week, he said he did not benefit from being in politics – since he has another profession he could return to – and that he had no reason to hamper investigations

or the course of justice, always proclaiming his honesty and innocence and flatly refusing to stand down as head of State.

PSOE members said this was exactly what Nixon said when the Watergate case hit the headlines, but that in spite of his insistence that he would not resign, he had to back down, confess and leave.

The party’s video shows excerpts from both Rajoy’s and Nixon’s speeches in parallel format to demonstrate their comparison.

Although no answers were given to UPyD leader Rosa Díez’s rhetorical and specific questions during the meeting in Parliament and Rajoy merely reiterated that he had been ‘wrong’ in ‘trusting’ Bárcenas, who was ‘a fantasist and a liar’, vice-president of the PP government Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said the leader’s speech had ‘clarified the situation fully’.

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In May alone this year[1] 493 emergency passports were issued to British nationals in Spain, including 280 as a result of theft (mainly bag theft), car break-ins, burglary and pickpocketing. Of the 213 emergency passports issued for other reasons, 14% were because full passports had expired.

Expatriates should check when their passports are due to expire and make a diary note to renew them up to nine months earlier, says Will Middleton, new Consular Regional Director for Spain.

“Living overseas, it can be easy to think that you don’t need your passport or to forget to renew it.

“But if you need to travel at short notice, getting an emergency passport is both costly - currently 116 euros - and time-consuming, which can add further to what may already be a stressful situation. And you will still need to renew your full passport when you get back.”

Many people fear that by renewing a passport before it expires they will ‘lose out’ on validity they have paid for. In fact any remaining validity on your existing passport (up to a total of nine months) will be added to the new one.

Circumstances in which British expatriates can find themselves needing emergency passports vary from the death or serious illness of a loved one through to job opportunities put at risk - like the resident who was offered an interview in Germany only to discover his passport had expired. Others have been forced to cancel holidays of a lifetime for lack of a valid passport.

One customer, who had already suffered five lost or stolen passports over the years and received a warning from the Passport Service, decided to keep the latest one safe by storing it in the freezer. Unfortunately it got wet, so he had to get yet another emergency one.

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2. Cranberries - These might be great for preventing urinary tract infections, but they can also get rid of toxins inside of your body. These get rid of waste from the body and are antibacterial so they remove toxins.

3. Cabbage – This food has sulfur inside of it, which is essential when it comes to breaking down chemicals in the body. Sulfur can help get rid of everything from pesticides to prescription drugs, which could be harmful if they stuck around.

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5. Broccoli – If you’re the type of person who doesn’t like broccoli, you should try it out once again! It’s full of antioxidants that can cleanse your body. It’s also high in enzymes that help to get your digestive system running efficiently. Raw broccoli is best because it has a high level of nutrients inside of it.

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Early to mid-August: Festa Major de Gràcia, Catalonia All year long, the residents of Gràcia work on elaborate decorations with themes such as marine life, the solar system, or even local politics, to hang in the streets. By day, long trestle tables are set up for communal lunches and board games; at night, thousands invade the tiny streets for outdoor concerts,

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August 28: La Tomatina, Buñol, west of Valencia: This is the world renowned, absolutely crazy, tomato flinging, juicespraying five-day festival held on the last Wednesday of August.

Thousands of joyful revelers use truckloads of overripe tomatoes as missiles. Bring goggles and a change of clothes.

Sep 7 – 8: Fiestas de la Mare de Deu de la Salut in Algemesí, Valencia: The main local festival in Algemesí dates back to the Middle Ages and has been awarded the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage designation.

Theatre, dance and music are part of the celebrations and more than 1,400 people take part in the main parade. The festival also features giants representing King James I of

Aragon and his wife as part of the “Volta General”, which also includes numerous biblical characters.

Sep 20 – 28: San Sebastián International Film Festival, San Sebastián: The premier film festival of Spain takes place in the Basque capital, often at several different theaters.

Retrospectives are frequently featured, and weeklong screenings are held.

Sep 24: Fiesta De La Mercé, Barcelona: This celebration honors Our Lady of Mercy (La Mercè), the city’s patron saint.

Free music concerts, from traditional to contemporary, are held in the plazas (particularly Plaça de Catalunya and Plaça Sant Jaume), and figures from folklore such as the gigants (giants) and cap grosses (fatheads) take to the streets.

People come out to perform the sardana (the traditional Catalan dance) and to watch the nail-biting castellers (human towers). Firework displays light up the night, and the hairraising correfoc, a parade of firework-brandishing “devils” and dragons, is the grand finale.

Oct 12: El Día de la Hispanidad or Columbus Day), throughout Spain - A national holiday of Spain that is celebrated on October 12, commemorating the exact date that Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas. A special parade is held in la Plaza de Colon, in Madrid, led by the Spanish military and followed by the King and the Royal Family. A wide array of other authorities, from foreign diplomats positioned in Spain to the presidents of the autonomous governments, are invited to attend this parade. The Spanish Armed forces also fly through the air doing aerobatics with red and yellow smoke drawing images in for the crowd to see.

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Bretón brags about ‘fame and fortune’ on TV

A father who murdered his two children by drugging them and incinerating them alive has bragged about how he is ‘going to get rich on TV’ after being approached by mainstream channels to perform live interviews.

José Bretón, serving 40 years for killing six-year-old Ruth and José, two, to get revenge on his wife Ruth Ortiz after she announced she wanted a divorce, is allegedly receiving offers on a daily basis for giving an interview to an unnamed analogue channel.

But Mediaset, the broadcasting control body, has put a stop to it as a result of public outrage when the news leaked.

The channel was making lucrative offers, sources claim.

Bretón was reported as saying: “I’m going to have to tell my dad to stop sending me 60 euros a week, because the

TV people are going to make me rich.”

Head of Mediaset’s PR department, Mirta Dragó, said on Twitter: “He’d better not think it’s going to happen on any of our channels.”

She recalled the interview on the programme La Noria with Rosalía García, mother of the youth known as ‘El Cuco’, who was involved in the murder of Sevilla teenager Marta del Castillo Casanueva, which led to public outcry so intense that the presenter, Jordi González, was forced to cancel the slot.

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In a statement the Foreign Office added: “Due to increased security concerns, all staff in our Yemen embassy have been temporarily withdrawn, and the embassy will remain closed until staff are able to return.”

The BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner, said the decision was taken on Monday and that all the staff were currently en route back to the UK. Officials are describing the action as a “drawdown”, rather than an evacuation, our correspondent added. Similar closures of British missions have recently taken place in Benghazi and Damascus.

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I understand that if I sell my property I needtothink about the following expenses: solicitors fee, capital gains tax and plusvalía tax. What is plusvalía tax , and how is it calculated?

A . Up to recently this was a small tax when you sold or inherited , but now it can be a high amount and needs to be considered before the transaction. It is charged on the transfer of ownership of a property by sale, inheritance etc. . This tax is a local tax charged by each municipality on the increase in value of Urban land in its own district land and is distinct from Capital Gains Tax. It is important to realize that the tax is charged on land alone, not on the buildings that may stand on the land.

The rates of tax are set by each municipality and can vary widely between neighbouring municipalities.The tax is based on the increase in the official, that is to say the “Catastral”, value of the land which a property occupies. This is the same value that is used to set your local property tax or “IBI” and can be found on the bill for your “IBI” issued by your local ayuntamiento each year and is shown as the “valor del suelo”.The actual price at which a property changes hands, or the value attributed to it if is the subject of a gift or inheritance is irrelevant.

Calculation: The Plusvalia is calculated as a function of the catastral value of the land and the number of years of ownership (up to a maximum of 20 years). The higher the catastral value and the number of years of ownership, the higher the tax.

Plusvalia tax = Catastral value of the land x Yearly percentage of value’s increase x Number of years of ownership x Tax rate The yearly percentage of value’s increase and the tax rate are fixed by the Town Halls.They are established locally. Up to now, when a Town Hall had updated the catastral values, usually with really high increases of the values compared to the existing ones, article 107.3 of the Law had established that on the following five years after the revision of the values, the Town Halls had to apply a deduction of 40 to 60 % to the catastral value. If a Town Hall made not contemplation of this rule teh law established an automatic deduction of 60%. However new Law passed in 2012 has changed that situation allowing the Town Halls to eliminate

those deductions, which is why a loto of people are suddenly paying much higher rates and find themselves with an unfairly high plusvalíaa tax when they sell. On a sale of a property it is the responsibility of the seller to pay the tax, but if the seller fails to pay this responsibility may be passed to the buyer, who would then have to recuperate the money form this seller. If the property is being inherited or is the subject of some other type of gift it is the beneficiary or recipient of the property who is liable to pay the tax.

Certain transactions are exempt from the Plusvalia Tax, the main ones which are likely to affect the general public are the transfer of property between spouses who are divorcing, or to children to comply with Court judgments, and “aportaciones” or transfers to companies in which spouses are the only shareholders which may be used for tax planning.

The amount of the tax that will be charged on a transaction will depend firstly on the Catastral value of the land which the property occupies, and secondly on the length of time since it last changed hands. If you are selling an individual house which stands on a large plot which you have owned for a considerable length of time the amount of the Plusvalia Tax could be many thousands of Euros. On the other hand, as the tax is charged on the value of land alone, the amount of Plusvalia Tax charged on a flat in a block which you have not owned for very long the tax may be quite modest.

For those of you who are considering rearranging your financial affairs to take advantage of tax planning schemes, the amount of Plusvalia tax that may be due is one of a number of elements, which include the Notary and other fees that may be payable, which you need to consider when balancing the costs and benefits of these schemes. Depending on the amount of Plusvalia, it may be cheaper to make a gift of the property rather than enter into more complex arrangements with higher Notary and other fees.

The time for paying the Plusvalia Tax is within 30 days of a sale or gift between living people, or 6 months of the date of death on an inheritance.

Your town hall can advise you of the amount of Plusvalia that may be payable on a transaction involving your property, or in many cases it is possible to obtain the calculation “on line”, but as I always write in concluding these articles, if in doubt take professional advice.

Michael Davies is a Spanish Abogado and has been practicing law in Almería since 1993. He is member of the Law societies of Almería and Madrid and has offices in Mojacar and Almeria High Street.

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Countless street parties and fiestas are constantly held each month throughout the year in cities all over this country, with each event commemoration being a different excuse for people to celebrate together.

Fiestas de las Virgen Blancas (The Festivals’ of the White Virgin), is held every year from August 4th to 9th in Vitoria-Gasteiz, to honour the patron saint of the city,

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The festivals were first celebrated in 1884 and have been a significant feature of the regions cultural calendar ever since.

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He seemed appalled at the apparent waste of time and money in my regularly making such a journey, and spluttered an indignant denial when I suggested that he travelled even further to his Church; until of course I reminded him that along with many others, his Church was a football club - in worship of which he regularly travelled the length and breadth of Britain.

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Tel: 617 150 300 or 850 993 057 trifenners@gmail.com

S.M.S. BUILDING MAINTENANCE All Building Work Undertaken Garages, Patios, Boundary Walls, Cladding, Driveways, Tiling plus more...

Painting & Decorating (from 50€ per room incl.paint) Also All Exterior Painting & Damp-Proofing

GUARANTEED TO BEAT ANY QUOTE

For free estimate or advice please call

Steve on 950 930 536 or 634 306 690 or email: steven561@btinternet.com

British Plasterer

• 8 years in Spain with 25 years experience • Quality work guaranteed • References available

Tel: 634 327 201 / 661 129 028 Email: atpspain@gmail.com www.paulmorrison.es

New Walls Structual Alterations SpecialiSing in Reforming of old Buildings & general Building Work Professional Bricklayer Building for you

Phone Gerard 626 730 764

POOL SHOP

Special Offers

1 x tub chlorine plus 1 x jolly gel - only 30€ 2 x Mix and match tubs - only 36€ Glass medium sand change (up to 5 sacks) - only 200€ Normal silica sand change (up to 5 sacks) - 80€

FIND US In Longo’s Courtyard

Shop: 950 104 345 or Maintenance: 637 582 696

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

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accumulated a drop of 37.1%.

By region, year-on-year the fall in house prices has been more pronounced in Cantabria, with a drop of 15.7%, followed

by Catalonia, with 15.2%, only slightly higher than the regions of Murcia and Castilla-la Mancha, which both fell by 13.9% in the last year. Below these values, but still exceeding the national average, are Madrid (-13.7%),

Offering Quality Rental Homes

Beautifully furnished, new townhouse in Bedar Beautiful Townhouse.

3 Bedrooms.

6 people.

595€ pcm Available from September SRA028

Apartment with fantastic sea views on Mojacar Playa Apartment.

2 Bedrooms.

4 people.

395€ pcm Immediately available SRA223

3 Bed Townhouse **REDUCED**Los Gallardos Townhouse.

3 Bedrooms.

6 people.

380€ Immediately available SRA223

For more information, visit www.siarraalmeria.com

Tel: 678 587 007

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120,000€ Mojácar Playa A1174 Superb apartment of 68m2 + 39 m2 terrace with outstanding sea views. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, hot & cold air-conditioning & furnished. Well maintained.

Community pool & private garage.

130,000€ Mojacar Playa LV667 Lovely townhouse of 80m2 + large terraces & solarium with sea views in a small, sought after, urbanisation. 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Communal pool, gardens & terraces. Furnished.

299,000€ El Pinar DV1275

Large detached villa of 310 m2 on 3,250 m2 with superb views. Newly renovated with 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms & 2 further rooms in the attic for conversion.

Ample terraces, gardens, garage & large pool.

295,000€ Mojacar Playa SDV1276

Very attractive semi-detached villa, south east facing, of 94 m2 on 423 m2 5 mins walk from the beach with good sea views. 3 bedrooms with built in wardrobes, 2 bathrooms, ample terraces. garage & private gardens.

www.pricebrown.com Tel: +34 950 478 915 Fax: +34 950 478 963 sales@pricebrown.com

rentals@pricebrown.com

Mondays 10am - 1.30pm & 4pm - 7pm Tuesdays - Fridays 9.30 - 1.30pm & 4pm - 7pm

August only Monday - Friday 9.30am - 3pm

We are able to organise Energy Efficiency Certificates at very competitive prices Contact us for more details Members of the National Association of Estate Agents Overseas

All properties listed with Price Brown comply with the consumer protection act - decreto 218/2005 11 Octobre (Andalucia).

Members of the Agrupacion Tecnica Profesional

Prices are correct for 7 days from going to print for all properties on these pages

Galicia (-12.9%), Castilla y León (-12.8%), Navarre (-12%) and Aragón (-11.6%).

The regions registering performance more in line with the national average are Asturias (-10.6%) and Extremadura (10.2%).

La Rioja is the region which registered the smallest decline in the price of housing, only falling by 5.0%, closely followed by the Balearic Islands (-5.1%), and the Canary Islands (-5.3%).

Also recording values below 10% were Valencia (-7.7%), Andalusia (-9.7%) and Melilla (-9.9%).

The report states that all regions have already registered decreases of over 25% since reaching their maximum values, with Catalonia (-48.5%), Castilla y León (-47.4%) and Aragón (-45%) registering the most pronounced accumulated decreases, compared to those of the Balearic Islands (28.8%), Asturias (-28.9%) and Extremadura (-29%), which are the provinces which have seen the least lowering of housing prices in cumulative terms.

By province, registering the most significant year-on-year variations in the second quarter of the year for falling prices were Guadalajara (-19.1%), Barcelona (-17.7%), Cantabria (-15.7%) and Huesca (-15.6%), which all exceeded 15%, however none surpassed 20% as did Barcelona and Ávila the previous quarter.

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TINSA: Housing Prices Fell by 10.5% in Q2

According to the latest Imie local market report prepared by leading real estate appraisers, Tinsa, the price of housing in Spain fell by 10.5% in the second quarter of 2013. This reduction represents a slight improvement over the decrease registered in the first quarter of this year, of 12.1%. Since the peak prices reached in the last quarter of 2007, house prices have now

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food & drink...food & drink

el ~poli, partaloa GREAT FOOD, GREAT ATMOSPHERE ~ PAELLA MEAL DEAL

SUNDAY AFTERNOON SPECIAL

BOOKING s only

Bread & Ali-oli, Salad PAELLA (Fish Or Meat) 20€ FOR 2 PEOPLE

achieve serenity at dinner

Madonna Gaulding, author of The Meditation Bible, gives you a beginner’s guide to easy serenity. This week, a meditation to do at dinner.

Eat slowly and mindfully

BENEFITS: Eating slowly and mindfully increases the pleasure you will get from your food. Not only will you taste more, but by eating consciously, you will be more likely to choose to eat healthier foods.

TO START: Make yourself a healthy, balanced meal.

STEP ONE: Lay the table and sit down, but don’t start eating straight away. Take time to relax and settle your mind. Set your intention to eat mindfully and be a healthier person.

STEP TWO: Pick up your fork and place a bite of food in your mouth. Put your fork back on

the table.

Chew carefully and focus on the sensations on your tongue, teeth and throat as you swallow. Is it sweet, salty, sour, bitter, or flavoured with spices or herbs? You will probably notice a combination.

STEP THREE: When you have completely experienced the taste sensations from the first bite, pick up your fork and take another.

Focus on what arises in your mind. Are you frustrated by eating so slowly? Are you anticipating the next bite before you finish the one you have? Are you continuing to eat even though your stomach feels full?

STEP FOUR: Try to let go of all your emotional baggage about eating and simply savour the taste of your food, as if you were eating for the first time. Try to bring mindfulness to your everyday eating.

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MINIMUM TWO PEOPLE ORDER 1 DAY IN ADVANCE

BOOKING s only

Bread & Ali-oli, Salad Half a Spit-Roast Chicken, served with Chips

POOL NOW OPEN

1 LITRE JUG OF BEER OR BOTTLE OF WINE

12-2PM 4-8PM

14.95€ FOR 2 PEOPLE

FRIDAY FISH’N’CHIPS Summer Opening Hours AVAILABLE FROM 3PM

TAKEAWAY AVAILABLE

Open Tuesday - Sunday

10am til Late WHAT’S ON

FISH’N’CHIPS - 5.50€

EXTRA’S: MUSHY OR GARDEN PEAS - 50c

ALSO AVAILABLE...

SCAMPI - 6.45€ BATTERED SAUSAGE - 3.95€ CHICKEN KORMA - 5.50€ CHICKEN ROGAN JOSH - 5.50€ BEEF MADRAS - 5.50€ ALL SERVED WITH RICE OR CHIPS

Tuesday: Art Class 2-4pm Wednesday: Speak Spanish With Antonio 1:30pm-3pm Soft Ball Cricket 6pm Thursday: Quiz Night 8pm FOOD TAPAS & AVAILABLE

INCL. HOMEMADE & CHICKEN STEAK OR PIES MUSHROOM

WI-FI & PRINTING AVAILABLE

CALL 637 061 489 (ENG) OR 678 834 747 (ESP)

YELLOW STONE BAR Piedra Amarilla, Partaloa Tel: 634 332 178 (fOOD AVAILABLE TUESDAY - SATURDAY)

Breakfast

served 9 - 12: 2.50€ or 5€

Daily Specials

Lunches 12 - 2.30pm from 4€

Sunday Lunch ON The Last Sunday of eVERY month themed on a different country each time 4 or 5 courses ay Take awble availa

Parties & Events Catered for

Mobile Top Ups

find us using GPS Co-ordinates Lat: 37.38738 Long: -2.201018

Tues - Sat: 9am - 9pm, Sun - Mon: 2 - 9pm

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Green Apples Relieve Claustrophobia...

ALBOX

Bar Menu & Snacks Home-made puds

Burgers, Lasagne, pies, Omelettes, chilli plus

All Day Breakfast from 9am

MENU DEL DIA

onl y €

2 Courses

5

served 12 - 3 except Fri & Sun

Includes FREE Tea or Coffee

friday & SATURDAY

Cod ‘n’ ChipS

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

Friday & Saturday

Our Restaurant is Open 6pm-9pm

In a study from The Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation of Chicago found that the smell of green apples helps relieve claustrophobia. In the study of claustrophobic it is found that green apple scent can help make the room seem bigger, and it also help to reduce migraine and headaches.

Always keep a green apple or green apple scent with you, so in case you have claustrophobic you just sniff it and you won’t feel the panic caused by claustrophobia. A green apple scent is also used by those who want to sell their house. Making potential buyer smell the scent of green apple using aromatherapy and thus the house will seem bigger to the person smelling the green apple scent....

Los Mellizos Restaurant La Alfoquia, Zurgena

EVENING from MENU 5.95€

Traditional SUNDAY LUNCH Delicious & Home-cooked served

A Choice of Topside Of Beef & Yorkshire Pudding; Roast Pork With Crackling And Apple Sauce Tender or Roast Chicken With Stuffing - all served with Locally-grown Potatoes, Seasonal Vegetables...

Fish dish also available...

12.30 - 5pm

NEW SUMMER MENU

onl y

6.95€

Starters, Puddings from 2€ each

Activities at

Monday Line Dancing with Eleanor & Gilly 2:30pm ROCK’N’ ROLL from 7:30PM Tuesday Quirky Quiz - 7:30pm Wednesday Line Dancing with Carrie 7:30pm

PLUS...

Art Classes (held most days)...

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

check the board for times

ALBOX

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Daily s 4€ r details) frobm o oards f

Menu changes weekly!

(see

Main Course

Choice of Roast Beef, Pork or half roast chicken with roast potatoes, mashed potatoes Yorkshire pudding, stuffing and crackling All served at the table with a bowl of fresh vegetables. 5.95€

Open 1pm - 10pm Thurs - Mon (Closed Tues & Wed) Bar snacks always available

SUNDAY SERVED 10AM-12PM

BREAKFAST

Delicious home made starters and desserts 3.50€

pecials

BP Garage

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BAZA → OPEN 9AM-LATE MON-SAT 10-6 SUN ← ARBOLEAS Av•••AL . L BO ep an X → to jacksalbox@gmail.com

950 120 718 / 610 641 567

The Traditional English

Chippy

667 919 025

Fun Quiz Every Wednesday Evening Tel: 634 324 484

for more information!

Opening Hours:

La Alfoquia

Real Home Made Chips from a real chip shop Crispy Battered Atlantic 5.50€ Cod or Haddock Served with Homemade Chips & Mushy Peas

... eat in or Takeaway! ... patio Bar Entertainment Friday 9th August Saturday 10th August

The Twilight Shadows Dog House

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY LUNCHTIMES

MENU DEL DIA FISH, CHIPS, DESSERT + A DRINK

8.00€

Weekdays 12:30 - 3:00pm - 5:30 - 9pm Sat 3:00 - 8pm (Closed Tuesday)

from 9pm from 9pm

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air-conditioned

OPEN 7 days a week

La

MENU DE LA NOCHE 4 COURSES WITH WINE & COFFEE

20oz T-BONE STEAK, 16oz BEEF ENTRECOTE 12oz PORK TENDERLOIN, ROASTED LAMB SHANK & SHOULDER, ROASTED PORK KNUCKLE AND MORE DINNER 7PM-10PM

MENU DEL DIA

PASTA & PIZZAS

4 Courses with Wine & Coffee

Monday to Saturday inclusive

Lunch 1pm - 4pm

Fresh pasta spagheti, macaroni, lasagne, ravioli, carbonara, bolognese, napolitana, pizzas margherita, tuna, mushrooms, vegetarian, 4 seasons vegetarian menu available

sunday roast menu del dia

4 courses with bottle of ESTE wine per couple & coffee included: Roast Lamb Shoulder & Pork Knuckle, 16oz Entrecote, 20oz T-Bone, 12oz Pork Tenderloin, Roast Potatoes & Fresh Vegetables Freshly Baked Bread SERVED 1pm - 4pm

Childrens menu available

Booking Recommended

FREE WI-FI

Spanish Speaking 950 430 145 ~ English Speaking 647 730 103 Poligono Industrial Albox, Near the ITV Garage

www.mesondeirene.com

tIGEr bAR

open 6 days a week 12 - late Sunday opens from 6pm Food available from 1pm to 4pm & 6pm to 11pm

Tel: 950 449 000 www.tigerbarzurgena.com

India n Bar & Rest aura nt open in Zurg ena

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el Cucador

VidaRestaurant&Venue

Enjoy Wonderful Views over the Olive Groves and Relax in our Garden

from

8.95€

our main menu includes

16oz steaks ~ mixed grills ~ Fresh Fish

traditional

menu changes weekly

sunday lunch

Dine in our air-conditioned Restaurant wed - sat evenings 6:30pm - 9pm

served 12.30PM - 5PM includes a complimentary coffee & chocolate

SATURDAY

EARLY BIRD MENU

booking recommended

5-7PM FROM 6€

TO INCLUDE SALAD, BREAD & ALI- OLI Chicken Chasseur 7.45€ Succulent chicken braised on the bone with mushrooms, cooked in a tomato and white wine sauce

from

fridays

5.95€ in the Bar

Liver, Crispy Bacon and Onions 7.95€ Tender liver and onions, braised and served with crispy smoked bacon in a rich gravy Herb Crusted Haddock 7.95€ Haddock fillet pan fried and topped with a delicious crust of parmesan cheese, breadcrumbs, parsley & dill

Beer-battered cod

homemade chips & peas FRIDAYS 12.30pm - 9pm

Choice of tapas all €1

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

lite menu

salads, burgers, wraps

Homemade Starters

12:30-9pm

2.50€ each

TWO COURSE LUNCH

Scrumptious Homemade Puddings

12:30-3:30PM 6€

all 2.50€ each!

only 5€

MONdays HOME-MADE quiche, salad & 6 - 9pm

Chips

cod, chips & peas only or chicken curry & rice 5€

Tuesdays

Great Food with an extensive eat in or takeaway Menu

6 - 9pm

wednesdays 1/2 roast chicken,

only 5€

thursdays ...is pie night!

only 5€

or gammon chips & peas OR SALAD

6 - 9pm 6 - 9pm

Open Every Day 12pm - Late

Tel: 950 634 562 lavidacucador@gmail.com

delicious homemade pie, chips & peas We are here

Albox Arboleas Zurgena La Alfoquia

Mojacar

E15

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

...to advertise on this page call 950 121 936 C/Avda de Almeria 17, 04639, Turre, Almeria, Tel: 950 47 96 46

Restaurante pizzeria

Mari Cruz

Menu del dia 9 €

Changes Regularly

Menu del noche 1 2 €

Freshly made pizzas & pasta

La Cena

Restaurante

Albox

menu del noche €9.95 7 starters, 6 mains & 5 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

free wifi

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

Menu del noche

3 courseS - €12.00 Beach Opening Times 10am til close Food served 10:30am til 10pm

FREE La

menu of the day 3 courses €10.50 regular TRIBUTE SHOWS see website for details

tel: 950 473 099 www.beachcombermojacar.com

VidaBar El

Cucador

Monday

Homemade Quiche, Coleslaw, Salad & Chips

TUESDAY special

Spicy Chicken Curry & Rice or Cod Fillet & Chips

5€ 5€

5€ Thursday Pie Night 5€

wednesday supper

Half Roast Chicken Chips & Salad Gammon Chips & Peas Homemade Pies, Chips & Peas SERVED 6-9PM ladies friendly darts wed 8pm

all welcome

all Premier league Luncheon football live 2 courses

tapas 6 €uro

Selection

1€ Each

Open Every Day 12pm - Late Tel: 950 634 562 • lavidacucador@gmail.com book the Venue: For your Private Parties, Weddings and Birthdays etc.

send your news & events to editor@soltimes.com

Win Brennan

specialises in bbq meat & fish, paellas & tapas

Find us on “Pizza Mari Cruz”

what’s on

John and the team at The Beachcomber always ensure your food is beautifully cooked and is served with a smile.

With Fish and chips to die for plus all the traditional favourite meals you would expect, John has also added a Slimming World breakfast to the menu, which is the perfect way to enjoy a meal and not feel guilty!

Here’s details of some forthcoming events: Tuesday 13th August - Paws monthly charity book & DVD sale Wednesday 11th September - a night with the fantastic ‘Maria’ best known for her ‘Dusty Springfield’ tributes. Tel. now to book or to find out more about any of our events: 950 473 099.

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 for only 9.95€, where you can now choose from a choice of 7 starters, 6 mains and 5 desserts. Full A La Carte is also always available.

Please note our new Summer opening times are now Monday to Saturday 7.00pm until late. We are closed Sundays!

If any of this has whetted your appetite, call 950 430 930 after 5.30pm today and reserve your table, you will not be disappointed!

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.

There is Lounge for meetings, company dinners, small events & birthdays. Enjoy a free bottle of cava when a minimum of 4 people order a starter and main course from the A la carte menu for this week only.

ALBOX

Happy Birthday 10th August To the best mum in the world, all our love as always Christine, Rob, Pauline, Cathy, Michael & Joanna, Jacki & Simon, Antony & Sam

Happy Birthday

Zoey

love from Paul & Alfie xxx To Zoey Hope you have a fantastic day.

All our love darling.

Mum, Dad, Sharron, Lee & Flynn xxx

Congratulations Ruby

Restaurant

Restaurant open Fri & Sat 6PM - 9PM for a la carte - Waitress served in restaurant or on the patio garden New menu up to 3 courses available.

Booking preferred

Sunday lunch 12:30 - 5:00 New summer menu Waitress served in restaurant or on the patio garden OPEN 9AM-LATE MON-SAT 10-6 SUN

950 120 718 / 610 641 567 jacksalbox@gmail.com

Ruby, from Jacks Bar, was left ‘gobsmacked’ at the recognition of 5 years behind the bar and over the moon with her cake card and wine And dine in style in the new dining area available every Friday, Saturday evening and Sunday lunch.

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COMMUNITY NEWS Ellie

APSA

Paperback books are only 5 for €1 at the APSA charity shop.

Lots to choose from, in good condition. If you would like to browse for your reading by the pool, call in the APSA shop in Avenida Lepanto in Albox (opposite Jacks) Monday to Saturday 10 - 2pm.

Happy 3rd Birthday

to our darling Goo Bear.

10th August Enjoy your day!

All our love and kisses Mummy, Daddy and Ozzy XXXXXXX

Antas Church raises €3,500 !

Earlier this year the Antas Church in Jauro Village, near Antas, celebrated its fifth year of being.

This small, friendly fellowship, which holds two services a month in the small Community Room in Jauro, does not take a regular collection but instead, without any pressure, invites donations to support two charities. One of these is a Babies Home in Nairobi, Kenya, where they care for abandoned babies until they are either adopted, or transferred to a children’s home, once they start school, and from whom we receive regular feedback; and the other is a Christian Group called “Rainbows of Hope” which cares for children the world over.

GUESS WHO’S 65!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

FRANK BUTTON!!

LOVE FROM THE “LAS LABORES SIX”

To their own astonishment, the cumulative total the small congregation of between 9 - 18 worshippers, meeting just twice-monthly, has raised during their 5 year existence is a staggering €2,300 for the children’s home and a further €1,200 for Rainbows of Hope! Their website at antaschurch. com goes further into details of these organisations and, indeed, of the church itself and its members.

XXXXXX

emma Wishing you all the

very best of luck for your new venture in the UK.

Congratulations are certainly in order for this staggering achievement by so few. New members are always welcome; either go to the website or speak to Geraldine or Barrie on 950 092 091.

Thank you El Prado Fiesta Raffle Prizes

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El Prado Fiesta would like to thanks the following companies for their generous help in making the Raffle a HUGE success.

Ana Berbel Hnos Berbel Oller, Eurowise, Albox Insurance, Humbugs, Bistro Bonita, Sophias, Mrs Mac Pantry, Leanne - Sol Yoga, Eddies Sausages, Paul the Pool, Ana Bedford.

Lots of love from all of your friends in Spain.

XXXXXXX

send your news , views & birthdays to : EDITOR@SOLTIMES. COM also visit us at www.soltimes.com

TABLE TOP SALE!!!!

Join US on Sunday 18th August in Bar Gaudi next to the New Water Church and the Charity Shop in Huercal Overa...

We sell all kinds of goods for small prices, there is always something available for you.

Perros Sin Casa offers all their visitors free tea or coffee and a slice of Homemade Cake.

The table top sale is in benefit of our furry four legged friends.

The Sale starts at 10.30am, please bring your furry friend with you. All are welcome.

For more information telephone

Carla 0034 674 552 286 Glynis 0034 950 069 142 Jenny & Hugette 0034 950 930 637

The people’s charity, The Peoples Choice

Run totally by volunteers

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

vera shop has now moved to just before the guardia civil & next to the chinese shop

Opposite Super Turre in Turre & Just before the Guardia Civil in Vera Open 6 days a week... times on shop doors Contact 664 620 288

kids

9 yrs +

Mon: 7pm - 8.30pm Wed: 5.15 - 6.45pm Fri: 5.30pm - 7pm

club

1st lesson

4 - 8 year olds

free

Wed: 4.15 - 5.15pm Fri: 4.30pm - 5.30pm

Indigo Gym - Mojacar Playa

Tel: 646 844 708

www. tkdspain.webs.com

weekly quiz nights with CHERRY Original Quizzes

Questions to make you think! Smile & Ponder...

This week our word is NEOLOGISM But do you know what it actually means? Perhaps you do, but if not, then you can look it up, because if you can find out it will earn a point for your team in next week’s Quiz at La Vida!!!

A really enjoyable night out - All levels welcome from 7.30pm Come on your own or bring a team Prizes & Wooden spoon presented on the night!

La Albox

tuesdays 7.30pm

VidaVenue

el Cucador

Monday evenings 7.30pm

showbar & restaurant

The Irish Rover

Your No1 Entertainment Venue in Mojacar for All the Family

Fantastic New menu of the Day only 10€ per person Chicken, Chips, Salad & a Bottle of Wine Only per 2 People 15€

thursday 26th september

status quo tribute karaoke every night

all gaa games shown & all major sporting events

Fresh d eer Battere mojacar playa between Lua & Moma Beach B s Fish & Chip

telephone: 950 473 135

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL SOON!

The Fundraiser Charity & Community Shops

tAEKWONDO

Open 10am till late 7 days a week

selecciones displaying a great selection of

STOP ‘N’ SHOP IN YOUR...

new & used furniture

Super Corner ENGLISH SUPERMARKET

we also stock Sportswear supplied direct from the UK

ALL YOUR FAVOURITE BRANDS AND MORE IN ONE SUPERSTORE!!

open thursday night 6pm - 8pm Find us in Turre near the Fundraiser.

Summer Opening Times Mon - Sat from 9am - 3pm

Tel: 634 347 295

TURRE, NEXT TO MESON DEL POBRE

OPEN MON-SAT 9:30-6PM & SUN 9:30-1:30PM

tel: 950 479 213

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SOL CLASSIFIEDS SOLTIMES www.soltimes.com see us online everyday

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Between 10am & 5pm

Air-con

For all your avon air conditioning needs Graham & Barry on 620 112 193 or 667 853 062

Monday to Friday

950 121 936 or 902 121 936 FOR SALE

advertise all your unwanted items for sale in this section

any single item up to 300€ free of charge

MD Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration S.L.

email: sales@soltimes.com MD S.L

ink cartridges refills or buy a compatable at great prices.

We love to save you money.

ICS shop inside liberty seguros insurance, Calle malaga (next to puppy rescue) or call 609 199 394 household Sale. items furniture and garden equipment at Calle Urcal 44, Urcal (Exit 536) on Saturday and Sunday 17th/18th August 12.30 - 5.30 pm Lot Of Fishing Gear ( Iceboxes, Anchors, Ropes, Tackle, Fishing Reels, Etc.) Tel: 648 831 300 Almerimar Single Bed, converts To double or two singles complete with white iron headboard, never used. 60€ ono.

Tel: 950 069 197 Log Burner, cast iron, glass front inset design.100€ Tel: 950 066 144 Professional Cerwin Vega Amplifier 1800 W. 150€ Tel: 647 202 599 E nglish T railer , Halfords ERDE 122 box tipper with fibreglass high top 295€ Tel.: 950 163 809 or 669 177 421 Yamaha PSR/37 Keyboard. Voice Bank, Dual Voice

etc 100€ Tel: 634 suit lady or junior.

337 185 Excellent condition Diving Suits x €90 Tel: 950 497 3. Plus Underwater 612 or 647 921 Torch, Camera, 286 Belt etc 100€ Tel: 3 electric 634 337 185 radiators, 1 oil W O O D E N filled €60 for the 3 V E N E T I A N Tel: 950 497 612 B L I N D S or 647 921 286 (BROWN) IKEA W H E E L C H A I R New Condition still For Sale, Folding, in box, 120 Wide x Self Propelled.

155 Drop 20€ Tel Delivery may be 689 906 691 possible, 60€ Boomerang ono 950329416 / folding bike, 603195451

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not a jack of all trades

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

607 364 917 or 950 432 110 email: info@md-aircon.com

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Airport services www.AAparking.es Tel: 639 081 067

Need

Transport??

Cheap Airport Airport Parking services Alicante Almeria Murcia shopping trips New hospital Servicing / Repairs appointments etc A irport transfers 663 429 521 english lessons pick up all areas, professional English Lessons by TEFL competitive rates.

Qualified English Teacher. Call 664 For a quote please reliable visit www. spanish 291 793 after 6pm service estateagent.c om or call 661 143 871 free for hire

Venue @ La Vida El Cucador

alternative energy

Solar Wind Power Solutions.

Over 15 years installation experience. established call Bar for more 12 years in Spain. Call Phil information: competitive 950 120 718 for prices 636 261 240 email:info@ wanted sunergyalmeria. com www. sunergy almeria. com

Private parties Birthday etc, all events catered for call for more information 950 634 562

in Albox Private parties Birthday etc, all events catered for

DJ WANTED Call Brian 634 305 132

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

baby equipment hire

to include backwash chair plus adjustable hairdressers chairs, Large mirrors etc can collect must be in good condition Tel. 647 379 878 email: retreatcucador@gmail.com

cosmetics

Tel Claire 691 987 454 avon fromclaire@ yahoo.es

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY LAND FOR SALE, VERA

10,000sqm2 Suitable for commercial building of 3,000sqm2 4 minutes to Vera Centre 10 minutes to the beach with sea views.

14€ per square metre.

Call Steve for information

672 862 604

carpentry carpenter & shop fitter looking for work full or part time tel: 633 507 165

WILDWOOD Bespoke Joinery

For all your carpentry requirements

Fast, efficient, competitive service.

Tel: 634 328 574

james@wildwood.es computers Steve Hayes Informatica

Pc’s, Laptops, Printers etc.

Sales & Repairs on-site callout / tuition.

Consumables Albox, Almeria

BABY HIRE Everything for the visiting baby, Car seats,high chairs, stair gates, cots etc Tel: 950 436 581 or 666 375 688 expectingababy@hotmail.co.uk

drainage cont...

LICENSED POZO/septic tank emptying • I nstallation of new septic tanks with certificates • Repairs to existing pozos • C CTV Camera Inspection Call Andy on 950 091 109 or 648 768 587

Email: blockeddrainsrus@albox-online.net

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

Pool Cleaning & Water Tanks

Contact: 675 838 808 electrical

Tel: 950 120 900

construction

construction

Knowles & Abbott no.1 for electrics and plumbing. Re-wires, free to air UK satellite systems 950 137 208 or 638 010 691

ELECTRICIAN Neil Godwin

25 years experience Full City & Guilds

Mat Murray 647 841 750 matmurrayes@gmail.com established in spain for 14 years

fully legal

drainage

commercial kitchen oven must Professional Baby Equipment Hire be in good working order, can collect call Free delivery & collection, All our 609 199 394 equipment has been purchased from new Caravan Wanted for occasional use.

Tel: 615 806 126 Must be clean and good value for money. thebabyhirecentre@hotmail.com Call 671 715 294.

Hairdressing equipment wanted

business opportunity

beauty

Drainage Solutions

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

Established 9 years in spain

Tel: 616 531 283 or 670 088 966

Fully insured & legal

Boletins supplied

Tel : 687 245 569 equipment hire

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www.soltimes.com fly screens

house clearance

PAINTER / DECORATOR

Fly screens sliding, pull down & doors, made to measure, enclosures also installed, for more info or free quote, contact graham 620 112 193 or 667 853 062

THE HOUSE CLEARING SPECIALIST

painter & decorator

Immediate Cash. Quick decision. * We cover all areas

gardening

* We turn up, give cash & carry

landscape gardening

• Block work • Balustrades • Paving Driveways & Paths

Call Graham & Barry now for free estimate 620 112 193 or 667 853 062

potty finca services

* We buy almost anything – The Highest Cash Prices Paid **ONLY serious & immediate sellers should call please**

Tel: 679 207 545 or 636 411 540

hobby/craft

& view my display at

available Camposol,

273 889 elaines wools@gmail.com

glenn & jayne

have great offers on Life Insurance same people same great service new name

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infoalbox.libertyseguros@gmail.com

iron/metal works

The Metal works Grills, railings, gates

Bespoke paving to suit all !! of all types, security/ Handmade paving,

sliding/roller, rejas,

T & T Metals For all quality metal works, including gates, railings, rejas, staircases, gazebos &

concertina doors etc.

Landscaping, maintenance and much more !!

chain-link

Tel: Keith Wood on

Tel: Ian 634 389 890

638 900 949

fencing Tel: 950 431 738

legal

heating Carlos (Saliente) plumbing & heating services. If it involves water, we can help! www.carlossaliente.com Tel: 968 969 962

home services

House

proud

House proud a family business helping to keep your home proud!!!

All household jobs covered including cleaning, ironing, shopping & much more.... specialist services also available call for details

resonable rates

Tel: 634 346 037 634 389 890

watch tv for free

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for all the latest programmes

PLASTERER

pets section

Mazarron Call 667

Paving

email thunderpaul2003@hotmail.com

accessories. Come

including all types of palm trees

1

Tel: 649 186 107 or

quality UK wool &

Elaine’s Wools

Also

ring john on 616 855 294 or 950 163 930

give your property or business a fresh look this summer

British plasterer All work guaranteed Tel Paul 634 327 201

professional tree felling & pruning, strimming of overgrown gardens & hedge cutting spanish registered. logs available

insurance

over 25 years experience

If you wish us to print an article about a particular topic in our regular space on pg 16, please email info@daviessolicitors.com locksmith Phil the Pick Locksmith 24 hours.

Locked Out? Locks fitted/upgraded house safes. Arboleas & surrounding area. Special weekend rates. Tel: 697 243 181

OPTICIANS Optica Albox All your optical needs, eye tests, hearing tests, contact lenses Tel: 950 121 991

Palomino Kennels, Exclusive Boarding Kennels/Cattery, All Diet requirements catered for, vet on 24/7 standby, Tel: 662 668 423 or 950 067 051

No need for kennels or cattery Pet sitting in your own home, Arboleas & local area.

Call Vanessa on 637 061 482

friendly mare

9 years old 14.3hh 1.50m 500€ Telephone 678 838 547

woodhouse boarding kennels & cattery arboleas Small friendly kennels, 24hr vets service, pet transporting arranged, welcome to view ministry approved

Tracy Mobile 650 211 952

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

pet taxi 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 plumbing

KNOWLES plumbing No 1 for Plumbing

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

TELEPHONE: 950137197 / 606807797

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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 c ar lo s.s aliente@ gmail.com

For all your plumbing needs Fully Qualified heating engineer contact barry 667 853 062 or graham 620 112 193

PROPERTY section

property for rent

for SALE villa in arboleas detatched 4 beds, 2 baths & garage cortijo

only for retired people

250€ p/month plus bills

Tel: 630 471 422 holiday let in almanzora Plot 2000m2, 3 Beds 2 Baths, Kitchen/dining Room Porch, includes Furniture, Fence Around The House

Tel: 673 502 867 Velez Rubio opportunity absolutely Unique Location.walk To Town, Live In Country.

Large Modern Chalet + Land.

All Extras. Private Pool. Double Glazing, Central Heating.

Tastefully Furnished. Vacant Possession. €180.000 No Offers.

Appointment To View Telephone: 950 410 615.

energy performance certificates avoid large fines & hefty prices

all property for sale or rent needs one property up to 120m for 130€ inc IVA qualified & registered engineer call 618 830 754

20mins from mojacar, 4 beds, 2 baths, Open plan living areas, kitchen & diningroom as well as a workshop, courtyard front & back & room for a pool.

Mountain views.

Build 256 m², Terrace 100m², Plot 1200m²

€150,000

649 186 107 thunderpaul2003@ hotmail.ccom

A partment For Sale, now only €29,995, cortijo grande golf course, 1 Bed, 1 Bath, Gated entrance, Parking, Great views. Close to Turre & Mojacar Playa. Fully Legal. T: 664 291 793 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

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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 recruitment La

el Cucador

VidaRestaurant&Venue

experienced with a smile bar staff part time evening shifts

Call Rob on

609 199 394 Albox

require part time experienced bar staff Call Rob on 609 199 394

creative cook/chef

Then we want to meet you!

Full Time Chef/Cook is required at La Vida We are looking for an experienced person used to working in a fast paced kitchen You will be able to produce delicious home cooked food to a high standard Shift work is required & weekends

salary will include a contract

Rob on 609 199 394 for more information

REMOVALS

motoring section

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

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

UK - SPAIN - UK

car parts

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uk@fmtransport.co.uk www.fmtransport.co.uk +44 (0) 1582 499 836 +44 (0) 7977 754 389

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

M&D transport

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

De Lima’sremovals Local, National & international REMOVALS & STORAGE Quality Second hand furniture showroom

263 Paseo del Mediterraneo Mojacar Playa, Next to Sal Marina Hotel Mon-Sat: 10am-2pm Call Marc on 647 006 183 or Jo on 600 344 565 or e-mail enquiries@delimas.biz

www.delimas.biz

fortnightly SERVICE TO & FROM UK FULL OR PART LOADS

satellite/television A1 Sky Television Systems, Satellite TV installations, alignment of dishes etc.

Coming soon UKTV without a dish Call for more info. Tel Dave: 628 607 778

1996 Mitsubishi Challenger 2.8

Need quality new parts for any car

for sensible prices on all parts Clutches, Brakes, alternators, service kits Starter Motors, headlights

Free quote go online or phone www.carpartsinspain.com

or telephone 692 930 326

From a parcel to a small house move

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

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car & van hire

ono

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Immaculate Condition

Tel: 674 496 422 number plates

Van hire

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TEL: 667 235 205

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

for sale

80on0o€

ltimes sold thanks to the so Bargain 10,500€

motorbike daelim 125, dor 2006, 6840km, average 20km a week, gloss black, very good condition, powerful engine, absolute bargain, owner going back to uk 2 helmets included

renault espace

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Don’t break the Law! Let us take the hassle away from you and re-register your vehicle on to Spanish plates WE PROMISE TO BEAT ANY GENUINE QUOTATION For a full service contact:

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wanted wanted uk cars & vans bought for cash Tel: 667 235 205

URGENTLY REQUIRED

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

2.2 dci, 2001, 7 seater, rhd, a/c, privacy glass, mot nov 2013, towbar, 111,000 miles, electric window/mirrors

for sale yamaha ybr 125cc

as new 3,500k taxed & itv 900€ ono

tel: 666 311 625

To advertise your vehicle in the motoring section & reach over 32,000 readers

call paulette on 950 121 936 mobile mechanics

Mikes Mobile Mechanics All types of service, repair & ITV testing Fully qualified & legal with over 35 years experience Ring Mike 628 350 178 or 636 824 974

Mobile motor mechanic covering all areas, fully qualified & legal, over 30 years experience, Call Paul on 617 150 300

Landrover mechanic

servicing & repairs of all landrovers parts supplied & fitted

1995€ Tel: 676 045 164

Do you have a caravan, vehicle, or motorbike for sale

call 673 502 867

TEL: 636 411 540 OR 679 207 545

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My attitude towards my body has always been somewhat cavalier – I feed it, clothe it, and generally pander to its demands, therefore I believe that it should keep its end of the bargain. I feel my requests are reasonable; I don’t expect it to leap tall building in a single bound, or outrun a speeding bullet, but nowadays leaping anything is completely out of the question, and even a racing snail can give me a run for my money.

All things considered I have arrived at pensionable age in pretty good nick, but my progress towards my pension has been marked by phases: Firstly came the ‘Charmed Life’ phase, when my Guardian Angel would pluck me from the jaws of damage on a regular basis.

Then came ‘Teenage Invincibility’, a condition that affects all teenagers, leading them to believe that no harm can possibly come to them, because they are all-knowing and invincible, and the rest of the adult world is made up of stupid old fuddy-duddies.

After that was the ‘I’ll Be OK’ phase, and mostly I was.

Imperceptibly that then merged into the ‘I Used To Be Able To Do That phase, josbiggs@hotmail.co.uk Easily’

By Jos Biggs

where everything was beginning to need an amount of effort and forward planning which had previously been unnecessary. I began going round puddles, so as ‘not to get my shoes wet’ and putting a raincoat on, even if it was only drizzling and I was only ‘going to be out in it for a minute.’ Shopping lists became essential, no longer could I keep the entire stock of household and kitchen goods in my head, I needed physical reminders.

However, I could easily dismiss these minor inconveniences as ‘Being Sensible.’

It was somewhere about this time that some unwise person remarked to me that ‘I wasn’t as young as I used to be.’ Piffle! I’m not old!

But I have to admit the truth is that I’m going that way – I sit down with an audible ‘Aaah’ to put my socks on. I get up with an ‘Urgh’ to go and get my shoes, because I’ve forgotten to bring them with me.

At night, when all is silent except the Limaria dogs, my body creaks and cracks like an oaken galleon on a heavy Atlantic swell.

And how is it that my body mass is greater than it used to be, yet I seem to have surplus skin? Surely it should be stretched tight to accommodate the extra poundage? Is my skin getting bigger?

It must be – how else can I account for all those wrinkles?

Checkmate . . . Forty Euros Please!

What is it about shoe shops that have this instant pull on my wife? We may be browsing shop windows, perhaps taking a pleasant stroll, or on our way somewhere, but it’s as if my wife’s underwear is lined with iron filings and there is a whacking great magnet strategically placed just inside the entrance, because she is invariably pulled violently into the establishment.

I am not alone in this. All my friends tell me that it’s the same with their other halves; they would cross a six-lane highway in the middle of Cairo blindfolded if that’s what it took to get to the shoe shop. I bet if you looked at all the millionaires living in The Seychelles or Grand Cayman, you would find that most of them are ex-shoe shop owners schmoozing around on the hard earned dosh of us working class husbands.

I have never had the courage to actually count the number of pairs of shoes/boots/sandals/ flip flops/slippers/wellies that my wife has accumulated, but I am confident that it would represent a sizeable herd of

Jersey cows. If I didn’t know better, I would say that Imelda Marcos must surely be a blood relative.

And it’s the same story with handbags. Our women folk gaze like children at Christmastime through the windows of bag shops; their eyes glaze over and as if in a trance, they are compelled to enter. Actually it’s all quite clever, because the purchase of either of these products is a handy justification to purchase the other. “Oh look at those red court shoes, just what I have been looking for to go with my red handbag.”

Ah yes I think, but you bought that handbag to go with the red sandals you bought the week before that, which you purchased because you told me that one thing you didn’t possess, was a nice pair of red sandals. But I say nothing.

It cracks me up when she tells our friends in all seriousness that I have more shoes than she does. “I bet if you counted the shoes in his wardrobe, and the shoes in my wardrobe, he would have more”, she reports.

It’s almost certainly true. But what she doesn’t tell them is that ALL the available space under ALL of the beds, in ALL of the bedrooms, is filled up with ladies shoes. Her shoeboxes are stacked on shelves in the garage and we have purchased pine shoe storage units that

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are sitting next to me here in my office. It wouldn’t surprise me to find a pair or two in the refrigerator. She’ll be asking me to move my beer out next.

The latest chapter in the shoe epic started a few weeks ago in Santa Pola. We had gone there with friends for the day to just mooch around the town and dream and dribble over the luxury cruisers in the marina, and of course to enjoy a long, leisurely lunch somewhere.

Mooched out and having done the marina, we discovered a small restaurant in one of the back streets where we settled for a very pleasant hour or so before the dreaded shopping began. But thankfully only window shopping, because we had mercifully reached the siesta period.

Well it wasn’t long before my beautiful other half spotted a pair of must-have sandals with an unspecified price, which, she cooed, would be perfect for our cruise later in the year. But the shop was closed for another two hours and we needed to leave town before that. How sad.

Two weeks later we had taken the same friends to Alicante airport and remembering the marvellous footwear, my wife suggested we detour to Santa Pola on the way back so that she could try them on. Problem was, after trudging around a spider web of streets - tracing

and re-tracing our steps - we could not locate the shop and after an excruciating hour, decided to get some lunch in the little restaurant we had previously discovered. But then, no sooner had we parked ourselves when my wife spotted the sought after shoe shop . . . slap bang opposite. Indigestion was assured.

Lunch over, my lady shot across the street to try on the wonderful sandals, but then immediate consternation when she was informed by the billionaire shopkeeper, that the price was 40 Euros. Italian crafted you see.

“I’m not paying that”, protested my wife.

“We’ve traipsed around most of Santa Pola; bought a lunch and notched up God knows how much for parking at the marina.” I told her. “So you bloody well are!”

There was no hesitation.

“Alright then”, she said. “Debit card please.” And off she marched to the counter.

I could have ripped my tongue out. I had been outmanoeuvred and checkmated yet again.

alqueria - ‘The Children of the Divine Paco’ John MacDonald (El Sordo) - www.caratacus.eu

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If anyone in Alqueria was interested in statistics then a study of recent data would show an increase in population.

Not explainable by birthrate however, only Rosalinda de la Lujuria had given birth recently. This also prompted half of the male population to go into hiding. The increase was by immigration. Perhaps immigration is too grand a word, they simply wandered across the Spanish border into the Pueblo.

The Spanish border guards weren’t bothered about people entering Alqueria. They only stopped the anarchic Alquerians entering Spain and making nuisances of themselves.

These ‘travellers’ took up residence in the orange grove opposite Loco Paco’s house in the Avenida de Naranjas. These erstwhile itinerants were the ‘Children of the Divine Paco’.

They saw Loco Paco as their spiritual leader and Messiah. Paco, oblivious to his new found status was only aware of a lot of noisy scruffy individuals below his bedroom window.

The Village Priest, Sacerdote del Semblante Lánguido who should have objected to this challenge to his religious authority didn’t mind at all. As an existentialist his only interest in the church was somewhere to live, the offertory and Communion Wine.

As Paco appeared at his window so the assembled crowd made the sign of the Celestial Dung Beetle. This was an intricate hand gesture involving all the fingers of the right hand and the second and fourth of the left. Enrique Stenchio tried to emulate the gesture and never played the heckelphone again.

Loco Paco became withdrawn and spoke only to his imaginary five foot rodent. The gathered hordes took this to be the ‘Holy Rodent’ which completed the ‘Holy Trinity of the Divine Paco’.

Just how Loco Paco became the new Messiah is a mystery.

Paco can remember talking about his philosophy of life to some travellers in Órgiva some months ago. He can´t remember much of the conversation as he was well into a Remitroot filled hip-flask. He was sure his oratory was profound however, they always are after a drink or two.

As Paco was their new Messiah so they needed its complement and Manuela was singled out for this honour. They believed her to be the conduit to Hell and a servant of the Devil. A bit harsh perhaps but it did add to the legend of Manuela. Manuela has always thought that the ‘Master of Darkness’ had more fun than the puritanical inhabitants of Heaven.

How will Manuela react to being the ‘Mistress of Darkness’?

How will Paco react to being the Messiah, saviour of thousands?

Will it go to his head or will he be the same daft, rambling old Paco?

We shall see.

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TRANSFERRING PHOTOS TO YOUR COMPUTER You know how some days, you just can’t get your head around the simplest of things. Me Too! In this case, it is the topic for this week’s article that has thrown a curve ball passed me. Well! As you read this, say a soft and heart-felt “Thank You” to the editor for inspiring me into the particular piece.

Most cameras today are digital in as much as they capture the ‘real life’ images in thousands of pixels (read PIX as in picture, ELS as in Cells). These dots of colour are stored as numbers, each relating to a colour. The better quality the camera, the higher the number of pixels, the greater the size of the picture and the better the quality of the finished picture. These pictures are stored, usually, on a memory chip that can be removed from the camera. The simplest way of transferring these pictures from your camera to your computer involves connecting your camera to your computer using the, usually, provided USB cable. I’m assuming that your computer is running and the camera turned on!

The instant that your computer recognises that you have a memory device (card/camera/video etc.) attached, it will start the options window. One of the options will be “Copy pictures to a folder on my computer”. Highlight this option by a single click on it and the click the button marked “OK”. The ‘Scanner and Camera Wizard’ will now take you through the process of copying / moving the pictures from your camera to the computer. Click on the button marked ‘Next’.

Before you, will be a window, that will display some of the pictures that are waiting to be copied. Next to each picture, is a little box that already has a ‘tick’ in it. This just means that the picture has already been selected for copying.

At the bottom of the screen on the left hand side are 3 tiny icons.

These will allow you to rotate the picture 90 degree in either direction to straighten it and give property information (size, time and date taken, and default name – usually DSCFxxxx. The xxxx is a 4 digit number). If you are happy with everything so far click on the button marked ‘Next’.

The next window shows 2 drop-down boxes, a tick box at the bottom and several buttons. The first drop-down box wants to know what name to call them, the default is ‘Picture’. This will be followed by numbers in sequential order (001,002,003 ….). You can leave it as is or change it to something more meaningful to you! The next drop-down box shows where the pictures will go to. This too, can be changed to suit yourself. Under this is a ‘tick’ box that will allow you to delete the pictures from your camera as it copies them to your computer. So, do you want to make a duplicate copy of the pictures or actually move them from your camera to the computer. If moving is your choice then click on the tick box and then on the button marked ‘Next’.

The window will change to show your picture(s) being copied/ moved from the camera to the place on your computer that you have asked them to go. If you chose to tick the box, there will be another window displaying the picture being removed (deleted) from the memory chip in the camera.

The final window wants to know if you would, now, like to publish these pictures to the web (see notes on Facebook and loosing your rights to these pictures if you do publish them!), Order prints from the web (pretty neat, if you like that sort of thing) or finally just finish with the copying process (this is the default option). Click on the button marked ‘Next’ and you will be rewarded with a window that states proudly that ‘x picture(s) were copied’ to ‘Wherever\picturefolder\.

Done!

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The Cardinals of Schengen

by Michael Barton Flailing arms disappeared as the flames from the burning gasoline shot even higher and engulfed the few heads that bobbed on the surface. He could hear the screams of men as their flesh melted in the heat.

We start with a prologue, set in Germany towards the end of the second world war with an insignificant man, Gerhard Schneider, witnessing cargo being unloaded from a U-boat, overseen by Doenitz. The military convoy left with Doenitz before the submarine exploded. No survivors. About the same time a raid on Selsey, south England went horribly wrong. The German fast boat went down. Again, no survivors.

The story then begins in Kent, England and moves to the present day. What a dramatic opening with the planned assassination of Jack Hudson, Secretary of State-a high profile figure. The Assassin is utterly wicked, a typically Machiavellian character who was addicted to killing and found it pleasurable.

To him, it was much better than any snort of cocaine or a puff of weed.

The killing is gruesome-darts of snake venom which are highly toxic, causing rapid paralysis and finally suffocation. Named the pin prick of death. The assassin found it a PLEASURE to watch the Secretary of State die. How sick is that?

Brother Peter, nicknamed Hud was in the SAS in Iraq during 1991 to gather intelligence on the movement of the Soviet scud missile launches. Barton reminds us of those shocking images of war when a young officer is brutally killed. Hud was meant to be protecting him: The bullet had entered from behind, just under the neck of his helmet and blown away his face as it exited. Blood and tissue splattered. Blood and brains mixed into one horrible mass, the boy unrecognisable.

Sixteen years later and Hud is still possessed by the horror of reality of that moment. His comforter, his security blanket that dulled the pain was his Southern Comfort and because his nerves were shattered, his marriage to Judy hit rock bottom and lead to a divorce but fortunately, an amicable one.

He is horrified to discover that his brother Jack has died from a suspected heart attack. When he sees Jack’s corpse he notices a red mark on the right side of his neck and more importantly, fear in his eyes, the kind of fear that Peter had never seen before, as if Jack had been able to see his fate before it

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The Spanish government, the Partido Popular is mired in a huge corruption scandal; last Thursday after months of denials PM Rajoy admitted to Parliament that he was personally guilty, but only of over-trusting the ex-party treasurer Luis Barcenas. Some of the largest construction companies in Spain paid donations/bribes totalling tens of millions of Euros to secure building contracts. Rajoy denies ever receiving any of this money, though there is paperwork that suggests otherwise.

Conveniently for Rajoy whose been on the PP executive board for 25 years and party leader for10 of those, he was always on the loo or taking a stroll in the garden whenever the brown envelopes stuffed with 500€ notes were delivered. Barcenas a fastidious

had happened.

Amy, Jack’s widow gives Hud a locker key with VIV embossed in gold-some cryptic clue that Peter has to decipher and unravel the reasons why Jack met his untimely end. We meet Mark Chatfield nicknamed Chatters, a close friend to Peter. Both men served in the Falklands’ war in 1982 before drifting apart.

Hud travels to Paris to unravel the mystery aided by Judy without realising the full extent of the danger he faces. There are some excellent James Bond type car chases and crashes leaving cars mangled to pieces and explosions. And there are plenty of brutal killings.

The Cardinals remain a mystery…for a while…. but we do meet the triumvirate of terrorists planting bombs to annihilate Parliamentary buildings across Europe and working alongside the Schengen organisation preparing for the Fourth Reich, a European Empire controlled by the Nazis.

It’s like the Nazis have never really been away. They’ve always been there, in the background, controlling Europe and waiting for the opportunity to pounce.

Their power has been built on murder, corruption and greed. It seems that Hud and Judy are lambs to the slaughter. If Hud becomes a condemned man, how is he going to survive? Will his army training give him the mental and physical strength to beat his adversary? To survive?

The final showdown reveals a shocking act of betrayal although this thriller does end on a positive note for those survivors. A possible act of reconciliation perhaps?

I like Hud’s comment towards the end: If I’m lucky there’ll be a tomorrow. And if I’m not….well then I always had today.” The key question is Does Hud survive? Is he one of the lucky ones?

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record keeper, arrived at court recently with files of paperwork detailing how he came to have €22 million in a Swiss bank account.

The total sums involved are alleged to be three times this figure.

Knowing the way power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely Barcenas told the court he has more evidence, a classic insurance policy. No doubt they will be released if ever he meets with an unfortunate accident.

Political donations in Spain are limited to 60,000€ for anonymous donations, donors got around this by illegally paying multiple payments of 50,000€ a time.

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These to date unnamed companies were awarded huge building contracts totalling €6,6bn. Ferrovial the road and rail conglomerate have separately been accused of paying €5.9million to the then Catalan administration. It’s now clear why airports were built like Corvera in Murcia that apart from birds may never see anything else land on them, high speed railways with stations that never have passengers and motorways that are almost empty such as the A7/E15 Cartagena/Vera in Almeria. Then there is the housing bubble that has brought pain and misery to millions of people. By chance the PP locally was in power when the Albox bypass contract was awarded. Locals know this as the road to nowhere and it’s blighted the landscape for years ever since construction stopped three years ago.

In court Barcenas explained how representatives of the companies involved would turn up at the PP headquarters with cash. No receipts were given but the amount was noted both in his private records and on the back of the donating firms’ business card. Barcenas would then phone the local mayor of wherever the contract was that was of interest to the donator, tell them to expect a visit from the company representative, to give him a ‘coffee’ and make him ‘welcome.’ Barcenas regularly updated the PP leadership keeping records of when and how much he paid party officials as so called ‘salary top-ups.’ This is denied by the PP. Just two days after Rajoys part admission of guilt Madrid started sabre rattling against Britain and Gibraltar. There was already a build-up of tensions as Madrid have been instructing their lackeys the Guardia Civil to make life difficult for anyone crossing the border, all under the pretence that it’s unfair local Spanish fisherman can’t illegally fish anymore in Gibraltarian waters due an artificial reef that was completed recently.

Spain also announced the sale of 20 Mirage jets (that they can’t afford to run) to Argentina, coincidentally another country with economic woes that has a territorial dispute with the UK. Nothing like a war (or threat of one) to detract voters’ attentions from the real issues!

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Taekwondo Mojacar

During the last three months, students from the Mojacar Taekwondo Club prepared themselves for taking their summer examination. They worked extremely hard in very high temperatures, although the training was tough they enjoyed it.

their 2 hour examination for gaining their next belt. A mixture of skills were tested including sparring with one on one, two on one and even three on one, patterns for precision and leg placement and Korean vocabulary. The level was excellent.

Sunday 28th July students gathered at Indigo Gym for

All the students showed dedication and great skills

19th Hole Golf Society Cucador. Thursday 1st August with temperatures in the high 30s, a depleted number of 19th Hole members took to the desert course of Desert Springs.

In spite of the heat and the recent lack of rain, the course was in excellent condition with greens as quick as could be for this Pairs Texas Scramble.

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Boat Fishing: I managed to get out for a half day with ‘Orca Steve’ and was joined by my grandson ‘Beachcomber H’ who is over on holiday with his sister and her boyfriend ‘Dan the man’.

Also joining us was my mate ‘Flash Gordon’ and Steve’s favourite waiter at the Wok in Vera ‘Chow Mein’ Chung. A troll out ( And back) to our mark a kilometre out in front of the River Abajo (or River Antas) produced nothing so there’s still no tuna about. I can see us having a very short tuna season this year. With a northerly wind and a back current going south west we decided to anchor in about 100 feet and drop back down the slope in 130 feet. We soon got fed up with bait robbing pickerels and after an hour or so and coincidently as the wind direction changed to come from the north east we moved to the opposite side of the river, anchoring and dropping down the opposite slope, where

under the watchful eye of the examining board: Mr. Serge Dewrée, Mr Michael Williams, and assistant instructors Miss Ruby Miles-Kirby, and Mrs Jodie Escott Dewrée.

All students passed the examination, and special awards granted to best students. Congratulations to Miss Bobbi Booth-Roberts, who fought her way to a well-earned best student award and was promoted to the junior class, to Joshua Lee who received the Star Medal Award for his efforts and dedication and to Nikita Komyagin who was crowned best junior student.

Congratulations to all of you!

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Neil Greenwood (I hate Desert Springs) & Darren Banks easily won with a very creditable Nett 73 with Craig Steers and Syd Walker in second place with a Nett score of 76.

Results: Pairs Texas Scramble 1st Neil Greenwood &Darren Banks, 2nd Craig Steers & Syd Walker Nearest the Pin: Hole No 17

Darren Banks Thanks to all the members who supported the 19th Hole Golf Society. The 19th hole G/S are now arranging weekly games at various courses in the area, our home course, which we will 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

we started to catch some better sized fish. Good size pandoras to 2lbs and the biggest bogues I’ve seen. Apart from those we caught weavers, red snappers and one white bream. I also caught a couch bream that are often mistaken for red snappers.

Hearing about ‘Squiddly Sid’s’ lost big fish last week when live baiting I thought I would float one out 50m with a live mackerel on offer 6m down. An hour or so later I had a stingray abroad for a nice photo. A quick kiss and cuddle! and it went off back to Davy Jones’s locker. See the photo of me with my stingray and note the rare sight of me wearing gloves to handle a fish. I wanted to get a good grip as the fish was very slippery Shore Fishing: ‘Tubby Jimmy’ fished the Indalo Arm and caught a weaver, a wide eyed flounder and a palomete. A Spaniard caught a decent palomete (Generally known as a palometon when big) from the same mark.

The ‘Albox Fishing Club’ fished from 5 to 9pm off rocks by Repsol garage in Garrucha.

West Country Dave’ caught 4 x palomete, 1 x cow bream, 1 wide eyed flounder and 4 x bogues.

‘Tony always laughing’ caught 4 x small palomete 4 bogues. ‘Take your time Tony’ caught 2 x small palomete. Squiddly Sid’ caught 1 x cow bream, 2 x palomete, 1 x weaver and 1 x bogue.

Again lots of small fish pinching the bait. Dave had a good sized palomete for supper and a cow bream weighing over a pound among the fish he caught. Tony A.

L. caught all small fish. T.Y.T.Tony only caught small palometes. All fished with prawn baits with and size 4/5 hook traces.

Coarse Fishing: ‘Cuddly Keith’ over on holiday from the UK for 2 weeks went to Puentes in Lorca with ‘40 Watts’. Both started off on the waggler, by 1pm ‘40 watts’ had 40 x carp with Keith landing just 4 fish. They changed to a feeder and the fish came thick and fast. End of the day ‘40 watts’ had 55 with Keith on 18.

They said “Try this, cut cherries in 4 and fish in close” and yes they did catch on them, what next?

‘Puentes Ray’ said Thursday was a real all British day at Puentes.

Ray decided to adopt a size over quantity approach for the day and so set up with a waggler in about 8ft of water with size 8 hook and his old favourite, the frankfurter sausage. First fish was a 3lb carp followed by a 2lb barbel then number of smaller carp but by 10am it had gone very slow but he continued with the tactic until 6pm and ended up with 36 x carp and 7 x barbel.

He was snapped three times all of which he thought were barbel, all in all a very pleasant day.

The Albox fishing club meets every two weeks or so at Bar Wassy. For details of the next meeting tel Sid 634 313 650.

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There’s plenty off sporting action over the next week or so. Tomorrow, the US PGA Championship starts at Oak Hill, New York; England play Australia in the 4th Ashes Test at the Riverside on Friday; Manchester United meet Wigan in the FA Community Shield at Wembley on Saturday, followed by England v. Scotland at the same venue on Wednesday (as part of the FA’s 150th anniversary celebrations) and the World Athletics championships will be taking place in Moscow (they start on the BBC at 7am on Saturday) and of course, there’s soccer action at League level all over Europe!

• The third rain-effected Test at Old Trafford ended in a draw and therefore England retain the Ashes having won the first two games in the five-match series.

Australia scored 527-7 declared and 1727 while England replied with 368 (Kevin Pietersen scoring his 23rd Test century) and 37-3.

• Last weekend the three clubs relegated from the PL - QPR, Reading and Wigan - all won their opening Championship games. Yeovil, playing at this level for the very first time, also claimed victory at Millwall, and there were wins also for Watford, Blackpool, Leicester, Leeds, Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth.

• Newport County, absent from the FL for 25 years, returned with a 4-1 home win over Accrington Stanley; Oldham won a seven-goal thriller at Stevenage by 4-3 and luckless Coventry, without an official home ground and starting the season minus ten points, went down 3-2 to Crawley in League One. • Elsewhere, Lionel Messi has started scoring again - doing so in Barcelona’s 80 win over Santos 8-0 in the Spain/Brazil Gamper Trophy.

• Qualifying rounds in both European Competitions are underway. Celtic are taking part in the Champions League while SPL side St Johnstone, along with

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Swansea City (4-0 winners over Malmo) are in the long drawn out Europa League.

• There will be plenty of transfer activity over the next ten days, and I will list the important deals next Wednesday.

• St Helens slaughtered the Catalan Dragons 26-6 to move into a play-off spot in the Super League, behind Huddersfield, Wigan, Warrington and Leeds. There are three rounds of matches remaining.

• Denmark’s Niels-Kristian Iverson won speedway’s Italian GP ahead of GB rider Tai Woffiden.

• GB Olympian Laura Trott and Arnou D’Mar (France) won their respective Prudential London/Surrey Classic events last weekend and a fit again Sir Bradley Wiggins triumphed in the Polish TT race.

• Britain’s top MotorGP rider Cal Crutchlow will ride for Ducati next season.

• Tiger Woods warmed up for this week’s PGA Championship (the last major of 2013) with his fifth victory in the Ohio Open, while fellow American Stacey Lewis won the Women’ professional Open at St Andrew’s.

• GB’s Black Country-born driver Matt Neal still leads the BTCC championship after last weekend’s event at Snetterton.

• And finally, in the World Athletics Championships - apart from Usain Bolt and Mo Farah - I believe these athletes WILL win medals: Jessica Judd (GB) 800m; English Gardner (USA) 100m; Yarisley Silva (Cuba) pole vault; Blessing Okagbare (Nigeria) 100m/200m/long jump; Kirani James (Grenada) 400m; Warren Weir (Jamaica) 200m; Zuzana Hejnova (Czech Republic) 00m; Bohdan Bondarenko (Czech Republic) high jump; Tiffany Porter (GB), 100m hurdles; Conseslus Kipruto (Kenya) 300m steeplechase.

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f1: Ferrari boss shares Fernando Alonso concern

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“But something happened and instead of moving forward we went backwards.

“Therefore the right attitude, the one I am taking from now on, is as follows: understand the mistakes, fix them and after this careful analysis, develop the car in the right direction.

“We must put our heads down in this return match, as I describe this second part of the season after the break.”

Alonso heads into the final nine races of the season, starting with the Belgian Grand Prix on 25 August, 39 points behind championship leader Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull with a maximum of 225 available.

The 32-year-old has not won since the Spanish Grand Prix in May, and the car has been increasingly uncompetitive over the last four races, in which he has finished second, third, fourth and fifth.

Di Montezemolo said: “Firstly, our DNA, Ferrari’s and mine, has a characteristic that we never give up. We must get back on the path we were on up until Barcelona.

We can do it.

“Secondly, Spa and Monza (the next two races) are two circuits that could suit the characteristics of our car.

“Yes, the conditions are in place to give a strong signal of a recovery and, on top of that, I expect results from our engineers who must demonstrate their worth.”

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Ferrari president Luca Di Montezemolo says he shares Fernando Alonso’s frustration at the team’s poor form.

But the Italian said he had no regrets about reprimanding his star driver for making remarks critical of the car.

Di Montezemolo said Ferrari “must” get back to early-season form, when Alonso took two dominant victories in the first five races.

But he said he admonished the Spaniard because he “didn’t like some attitudes, a few words, some outbursts” from him.

Alonso had said after the Hungarian Grand Prix, where he finished fifth in the last race before Formula 1’s month-long summer break, that as a birthday present he would like “someone else’s car”.

Di Montezemolo, who also addressed the team last week to make it clear they must improve their performance, said: “Fernando is a great driver and I understand him. He is a bit like me: he wants to win.

“He must just remember that one wins and loses together and, for its part, Ferrari must give him a car capable of starting from the front two rows. It doesn’t sit well with me seeing our car is not competitive.

“That’s why I intervened, even if I didn’t want to abuse my authority over my men.

However, it had to be done.

“We started so well, we had begun the world championship with a very competitive car, maybe even considered

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