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Spain finally has a govt as Rajoy voted back to power

Spain's parliament voted conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy back into power Saturday, ending a rollercoaster, 10-month political crisis despite bitter opposition and lingering divisions.

One hundred and seventy lawmakers voted for Rajoy, 111 against, and 68 abstained - all Socialist MPs, in line with the party's reluctant decision to let its arch-rival govern rather than trigger a third round of elections in the poll-weary country.

Rajoy pledged to plough on with economic policies deeply unpopular with the opposition which blames austerity measures taken in his first term for rising inequality.

"Do no expect me to... damage economic recovery and job creation," the 61-year-old told lawmakers in a tense pre-vote session, referring to Spain's return to growth under his watch following an economic downturn.

"There is no sense in getting rid of all reforms."

'They don't represent us' The Socialists' decision to abstain drew stinging criticism from its rivals including far-left Podemos, and divided the party so seriously that Socialist chief Pedro Sanchez was ousted earlier this month.

Hours before the vote, Sanchez himself gave a tearful statement to the media, announcing he was quitting as a lawmaker so he would not have to abstain and allow his staunch rival Rajoy to govern.

Hundreds of protesters gathered near parliament amid a heavy police presence,

unhappy about corruption and sweeping spending cuts during Rajoy's first term, shouting: "They don't represent us."

"It's going to be the same government, or similar, (as in) the past four years, which was disastrous for Spain," said Carmen Lopez, a 65-year-old retired computer technician.

In the pre-vote session, party leaders strongly criticised Rajoy and one another - just as they have done for the past 10 months as the country went through two inconclusive elections.

This unstable period saw Spain go from jubilation after polls last December that ended the two-party hold on power as millions voted for two upstart parties - to disillusion following polls in June that returned inconclusive results once again.

Rajoy's Popular Party (PP) won both elections but without enough parliamentary seats to govern alone. As no political grouping was able to agree on a viable coalition, Spain looked set for more elections.

That changed last weekend when the Socialists opted to abstain in Saturday's confidence vote after weeks of infighting that saw Sanchez ousted.

'Turbulent' term Rajoy's party will only have 137 out of 350 seats in parliament and will face huge opposition, forcing him to negotiate every bill.

He originally came to power in 2011 with an absolute majority.

"You are in the clear minority and under tight surveillance of this lower house.

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monitoring your every step," Antonio Hernando, the Socialists' parliamentary spokesman, told Rajoy.

Among Rajoy's priorities will be the 2017 budget, which may need at least five billion euros ($5.5 billion) in spending cuts to reduce the deficit in the face of EU pressure.

But further cuts are likely to face stiff opposition both in parliament and on the street.

He will also face rising separatist sentiment in the northeastern Catalonia region.

After the vote, Rajoy sought to strike a conciliatory tone.

"If we all make an effort, we can reach agreements and we have to try and turn this difficult and complex situation into an opportunity," he told reporters.

Political analyst Pablo Simon said his term in office would be the most "turbulent" ever in Spain and could prompt Rajoy to call early elections if he faces gridlock in parliament.

But he predicted it would not be as difficult for Rajoy as some have anticipated.

The Socialists will need time to regroup and will not want early elections, knowing they would fare badly after their very public breakdown, he said.

The PP also has a majority in the senate, and may be able to form pacts with smaller parties in the lower house to see laws through, Simon added. thelocal

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Gold coin worth £250,000 discovered in child's pirate treasure collection

ort The coin among the collection The coin among the collection Credit: SWNS An 18th-century gold coin worth up to £250,000 has been discovered in a child’s pirate treasure collection.

The rare Queen Anne Vigo five guinea piece was given to the anonymous owner by his grandfather when he was a child.

The coin was kept in a toy box for pirate games and the owner had no idea of its value.

It was packed away and forgotten about until his grandad died when he rediscovered the coin and gave it to his own son to play with.

Experts then told him it was one of 20 made of gold seized from Spanish treasure ships in Vigo Bay, Spain, in 1702.

The coins, made out of treasure captured by the British fleet, were struck in 1703 as part of a propaganda campaign to detract attention from the British failure at Cadiz the previous year.

The treasure was delivered through London and received at the Royal Mint by then Master of the Mint, Sir Isaac Newton.

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I looked back through the coins, remembering the stories I made up about them when I was small, and then gave them to my own son to play with and put into his own treasure box. My little boy has been playing with this coin as I did all those years ago.

– The owner The man, of Bishop’s Stortford, Essex, eventually took it to be valued.

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Dalí's 'lobster telephone' and 'lips sofa' to go under hammer at Christie's in December SPANISH surrealist artist Salvador Dalí's famous lobster telephone is up for auction with a starting bid price of €280,000, along with a number of other items including the artist's 'Mae West lips sofa' modelled on the American actress.

The Edward James Foundation, which continues the legacy of the British poet of the same name, is one of the trustees of Dalí's assets and works of art, which Edward James owned.

One of these is the marble sculpture titled the White Aphrodisiac Telephone, better known as the 'lobster telephone', which has gone under the hammer at Christie's in London for a quarter of a million pounds (currently around €280,000).

It is one of five pieces that will be bid on during the auction on

December 15 from Edward James' 'Temple of Surrealism', which included the original 'lobster phone' and a replica. At least 200 items from the Foundation are up for grabs at prices totalling around 2.5 million pounds (€2.8m). thinkspain

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Gregory Tong of Boningtons auctioneers, in Chelmsford, instantly recognised its value as one of fewer than 15 known examples.

It is expected to fetch up to £250,000 at auction next month and is only the sixth example of its type to be offered for sale in the last 50 years itv.com

TWENTY-FIVE cities in Spain have pledged to be 'tax haven-free' in line with an Intermón Oxfam campaign.

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Oxfam's report, ¿Beneficios para quién? ('Benefits for whom?'), which analyses fiscal activities of the IBEX 35 – Spain's 35 largest companies in terms of share capital – shows that in the year 2014 alone, a total of 891 branches of these corporations were set up in tax havens. thinkspain

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Cellphone of missing Spanish teen Diana Quer found

Device found close to the last known location of 18-year-old who went missing in August while on holiday in Galicia A shellfish collector in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region has found the smartphone of missing Spanish teenager Diana Quer who went missing more than two months ago.

The phone – a white iPhone 6 – was found on Thursday by the man as he hunted for shellfish in muddy ground under a viaduct in Taragoña – an area that was the target of intensive police searches carried out in September after cellphone reception data indicated it was last place where the device was used.

The phone is the first evidence to be found in the two-month search for the missing teen The phone is the first physical evidence obtained by police of the teen who went missing after saying goodbye to friends at the local fiestas in the coastal village of A Pobra do Caramiñal in the early hours of August 22.

The case received national headlines with much of the attention focused on the young woman’s family situation.

Soon after the teen went missing, it emerged that a court was taking custody of Quer’s younger daughter away from the mother.

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Business schools in Spain named best in the world for entrepreneurs Spain’s students were also found to be the most driven.

BUSINESS schools in Spain have been named the best in the world for entrepreneurs.

Research by the Financial Times found that Spain had the highest proportion of students who set up their own company following graduation.

With 26% of its business school students creating their own company, the country surpassed the US and UK, with 19% and 24% respectively.

Spain’s students were also found to be the most driven, receiving a 9.1 out of 10 in the ‘motivation’ category. expatica

Italy quake: Powerful tremor near Norcia destroys buildings

A strong earthquake has struck near Norcia in central Italy, destroying numerous buildings.

Human life spans may be limited to a maximum of about 115 years, claim US scientists.

Their conclusions, published in the journal Nature, were made by analysing decades of data on human longevity.

They said a rare few may live longer, but the odds were so poor you'd have to scour 10,000 planet Earths to find just one 125-year-old.

But while some scientists have praised the study, others have labelled it a dismal travesty.

Life expectancy has been increasing relentlessly since the nineteenth century - due to vaccines, safer childbirth and tackling killers like cancer and heart disease.

UK changes in life expectancy But can that go on forever?

The team in New York analysed data from the Human Mortality Database and the deaths of supercentenarians (those over 110) in France, Japan, UK and US. The data showed increases in life expectancy were slowing in centenarians and that the maximum age of death had plateaued for at least two decades.

Prof Jan Vijg, one of the researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, told the BBC News website: "In people over 105 we make very little progress, that tells you we are most likely approaching the limit to human life.

"For the first time in history we've been able to see this, it looks like the maximum life span - this ceiling, this barrier - is about 115.

"It's almost impossible you'll get beyond it. You need 10,000 worlds like ours to end up with one individual in a given year who will live until 125 - so a very small chance."

Jeanne Calment came close. The oldest ever person, whose age can be backed up by official documents, was 122 when she died in 1997.

The French icon of longevity was born before the Eiffel Tower was constructed and met the painter Vincent van Gogh.

Nobody has since got near her venerable age.

Prof Dame Linda Partridge, the director of the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, said a limit to lifespans "logically has to exist".

But she told the BBC: "Although this really interesting paper describes what is happening, it doesn't describe what will happen."

The crop of centenarians in the study were affected by malnutrition and infectious diseases in their

childhood back in the late 19th Century. Remember smallpox was declared eradicated only in 1980.

"It was certainly very different to what the current birth cohort will go through, but it could yet be rather negative as a lot of children have grown up obese and that could bring lifespan down quite a lot," Prof Partridge added.

'Travesty' The 115-year claim is too much for Prof James Vaupel, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He described the study as a dismal travesty and said scientists had in the past claimed the limit was 65, 85 and 105 only to be proven wrong over and over again.

He said: "In this sorry saga, those convinced that there are looming limits did not apply demography and statistics to test hypotheses about lifespan limits—instead they exploited rhetoric, deficient methods and pretty graphics to attempt to prove their gut feelings. "[This study] adds nothing to scientific knowledge about how long we will live."

Experiments, which look after animals in ideal conditions, have suggested lifespans do have a limit.

Prof Jay Olshansky, from the University of Illinois, said mice tend to live for about 1,000 days, dogs for about 5,000 days and "humanity is approaching a natural limit to life".

Stopping ageing?

The challenge with tackling ageing is that we have not evolved to live to extreme old ages.

Millions of years of natural selection has honed us to survive, grow and reproduce in our youth.

What happens to our bodies half a century or more later - at ages we have never reached in our evolutionary history - are a side-effect of the instructions in our DNA that are important in youth.

So any attempt to really increase lifespan will need an approach that goes beyond treating diseases and tackles ageing inside every cell of the body.

Prof Jan Vijg added: "To get maximum life spans of 120, 125 or 130 maybe, we need to do something very fundamental here.

"We need to change the whole genetic make-up of the human species, you would have to develop thousands or tens of thousands of different drugs.

"The ageing process is so complicated that it will not be possible to substantially change this limit to human life."

It comes nearly two months after a major earthquake killed almost 300 people and destroyed several towns.

The quake early on Sunday measured 6.6, larger than August's quake and aftershocks last week.

It is thought to be Italy's most violent in decades.

At least 11 people have been hurt but no deaths are reported so far. Many locals left after last week's quakes.

Nine people have been pulled alive from the rubble, Italian media say.

Tremors were felt in the capital Rome, and as far away as Venice in the north. It was at a depth of only 1.5km (0.9 miles).

Pope Francis mentioned the quake in his Sunday blessing in Rome's St Peter's Square.

"I'm praying for the injured and the families who have suffered the most damage, as well as for rescue and first-aid workers," he said to loud applause.

The US Geological Survey said the epicentre of the quake was 68km south-east of the regional centre of Perugia and close to the small town of Norcia.

Monks at the monastery of San Benedetto, an international Benedictine community in Norcia, tweeted an image of the Basilica of St Benedict destroyed by the earthquake.

"The monks are all safe, but our hearts go immediately to those affected, and the priests of the monastery are searching for any who may need the Last Rites," the monks said later in a statement.

Norcia is believed to be the birthplace of St Benedict.

Frightened residents rushed into squares and streets after the quake, at about 07:40 local time (06:40 GMT), AP reported.

Italy's civil protection department head Fabrizio Curcio said there were at least nine people with minor injuries and two seriously injured.

Helicopters were being used to reach remote areas and help the injured, he said.

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How to Make Your Hair Super Shiny When You're Air-Drying You don't have to settle for a lackluster air dry thanks to these stylist-suggested tips.

I’m on the following life kicks: attempting to cook, lifting weights, arranging flowers (don’t ask), and almost exclusively air-drying my hair. The latter is mostly because I don’t feel like standing in a steamy locker room post-workout and sweating it out under a blow-dryer, and also just because I like sleep. The lack of heat tools in my routine has actually taught me to embrace and enjoy my natural texture, but I’m not going to lie, I miss the super shine that comes with an indulgent, cuticle-sealing blowout.

Not ready to give up that extra hour in the AM, but longing for a dose of sheen, I reached out to a few pros to find out how I can get that smooth, shiny result I love, while sticking to my air-drying kick. For starters, I can’t just rely on my hair brush and the air anymore. I’m going to need to enlist the help of all the products that are

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Spaniards chased away by crisis attempt return home

Luis Lag is one of thousands of Spaniards who went abroad during the crisis. This “very good decision” allowed him to find a better job when he eventually came back.

But many others who left their country in search of work are still unable to return home due to Spain’s sky-high unemployment.

Before leaving in 2011, Lag says he was giving private lessons as he was unable to find work as a chemist, earning between 500 and 1,500 euros ($550 and $1,700) a month.

Speaking just weeks after he finally returned, the 40-year-old said it had been difficult to live well and reimburse his mortgage with that amount of money. So he decided to leave for Germany.

He first worked for a laboratory near the Austrian border in the southeast, and then moved west near Switzerland.

Having now returned to Alcala de Henares near the Spanish capital with his wife and son, who was born in Germany, he manages a team of 15 people at a laboratory.

This rise up the career ladder would have been impossible had he not moved abroad, he says.

“I made progress in Germany,” he says, from a professional and salary standpoint. Andreu Domingo, an expert in international migration at Barcelona’s Centre for Demographic Studies, told AFP that since 2008 when Spain plunged into financial crisis to 2015, “473,000 Spaniards have left.”

And the prospect that these may not come back, emptying the country of its young and qualified workers, is of huge concern in Spain.

But as the country emerges out of the crisis, with its economy growing at 3.2 percent last year -- one of the fastest rates in the eurozone -- some have decided to return.

According to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, the number of Spaniards arriving in the country -which had for years been on the rise -- reversed its trend in 2014 just as Spain began its economic recovery and started dropping.

Meanwhile, the number of Spaniards leaving Germany is on the increase, it adds.

“A multitude of little things” -- the language, being closer to family, quality of life -- prompted Lag to

come back, even if he was going to be paid less. And he is not the only one.

Three friends in February created a platform called “Volvemos.org” (translated as “we are returning”) to help people like Lag connect with potential employers.

Since then, 4,600 migrants have contacted the website -- engineers, architects, professors, researchers or sociologists currently living in a total of 86 countries attracted

by Spain’s improved outlook, says founder Raul Gil. The government is predicting that Spain’s economy will grow 2.9 percent this year, better than Germany and France.

And unemployment is also dropping, even if at 20 percent it still remains the second highest rate in the eurozone after Greece.

But Gil warns that “the return is often harder than leaving.”

While jobs are now being created, many are temporary, low quality and badly paid. Gil’s website has to discard 45 percent of all job offers it comes across, as the conditions are not deemed good enough.

“Atypical contracts have increased a lot,” says Anna Gines, professor of social law at the Esade business school. Some 15 percent of all salaried employees in Spain now work part-time, and a quarter have temporary contracts.

Sonia Martinez, who returned to Valladolid in the north after a year spent in Kentucky in the United States, acknowledges that the work market in Spain is still difficult.

An economist, the 40-year-old returned to her post as an analyst in the public sector after taking unpaid leave, but says changing jobs would be a challenge.

By comparison, she had been offered several jobs in the United States, and ended up working in human resources.

“They appreciate the fact that you have a career, an MBA, that you’re bilingual,” she said, refusing to exclude leaving Spain again. Another drawback for those wanting to return is the salary level.

Gines says that on average, salaries have dropped 10 percent since 2012.

“Companies have trouble understanding that talented people are not going to come back at any price,” warns Gil expatica

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Writing this in mid October it has just started raining ! Feels like the first real rain of the autumn and so very welcome to the garden. Any regular readers will know we have a largish garden watered by two wells on the land that have in the past few years dried up in the summer but this year do seem to have kept flowing although I do not remember that much rain last winter time – anyway I know those on holiday want sun but a few days steady downpour would be welcome to all the gardens , farmers and reservoirs.

Otherwise all is well at the RAINBOW house – dogs , cat , terrapins and fish all survived the heat of summer and the garden is in its autumn growing state – seasons do change the way plants grow here compared to the UK. TV News ………. Not much seems to have changed in the TV world in the last month so initially I thought I would give a quick summary of other entertainment available to us Brits in the Murcia region.

Many cinemas now show a film or two in original language (marked VO or VOS in cinema listings) ……… Aguilas generally shows one on a Tuesday, Lorca once a week, Centrofama Murcia on a Monday, Nueva Condomina Murcia has several films on a Tuesday and Torreviega generally has one English language film every evening.

Other Murcia cinemas do have odd nights with an original language screening.

It is not always easy to find the VO films but www.cinesa.es lists the Nueva Condiminia Tuesday films and www. cine.entradas.com lists all the others – both are Spanish language sites and you will need a basic knowledge to navigate around but they are not that difficult.

Then there are a good selection of theatres often performing shows that requires very little Spanish Language knowledge – musicals, circus type, singers etc …….. Murcia has at least 3 theatres ( Teatro Romea, Teatro Circo and Sala Narciso Yepes) and Cartagena two (Auditorio El Batel and Teatro Circo) – all have websites with programme listings that a quite easy to follow in Spanish but www.ticketmaster.es has an English version that will list most events in

the Murcia Region.

We have Cabaret in Murcia, Swan Lake and Gregory Porter in Cartagena all booked in the next couple of months – Theatre is great entertainment and cinema is the place to see a film !

TV …… with the cooler weather signals have come back up a bit as they always do in winter but not to the levels of last winter. It does seem that every year signals reduce in the summer heat but never quite get back to the levels of the previous winter. As I have been predicting for some time dish based UK TV viewing does have a limited life – at some point in the future it will not be available and the only way to view will be over the internet – it may well be years away but start thinking about how you will be installing that. Really good internet service is needed with ideally a hard wire cable from router to TV digibox. Many measure internet speed and say “I have 10MBS – I will be OK” but whilst speed is important there are many other factors that come into play …….. we are at present trying to install IPTV for a client who has 30MBS but will TV work – NO and we cannot find the reasons at the moment.

If you are moving house or first time buying down here be sure that internet is available that will support IPTV – investing lots of money in a new dish (if there is a place for the huge dish now needed) may well be money wasted if as above the service becomes unavailable. Get advice from an established UK TV installation company before you sign the final papers on your new dream home !

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Purple Hibiscus.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Reading and reviewing this novel has been a “pleasure” but also painful. It is a cathartic experience for Kambili and the readers. The hibiscus plant grows all over the world and is important symbolically. In places such as S.Korea and Malaysia it is the national flower. The red hibiscus is the flower of the Hindu goddess, Kali. Adichie wanted to use it as the symbol of freedom, a new beginning away from the oppression of society and family life.

Kambili is the protagonist, a young naive girl who loves her father even though he intimidates her and constantly punishes her. On one occasion she is hospitalised fighting for her life. Eugene, her father is a wealthy business man showing benevolence towards the poor but abuse and malevolence towards his family. He has been indoctrinated by the fervour of post-colonialism after independence was declared and the turmoil of civil war through his views on Catholicism. He is depicted as a religious zealot, an extremist and shockingly, he has severed his ties with his own father who he refers to as a heathen who continues to worship his ancestors in the way the traditionalists did.

As a contrast, Eugene’s sister Aunt Ifeoma is warm

and caring but poor. She is a university lecturer at a time of unrest and she provides Kambili and her brother Jaja with an alternative life, one that is full of hope and more moderate.

It is in her aunt’s modest flat where the 15 year old falls in love with Father Amadi; it is a beautiful experience for her and the reader after tolerating the oppressive and damaging “love” of her father. He is a wonderful person, full of life, extremely caring, a young man who spontaneously bursts into Igbo song and full of humanity.

The love is reciprocated but he is unable to commit to a relationship with Kambili.

Beatrice, her mother tolerates most of the abuse inflicted on the family. It is because of Eugene that she miscarries twice and like her daughter, is hospitalised.

Adichie wanted to show that there were alternatives even if the fight for freedom and human rights destroys the nucleus of the family which it does for Eugene and family. Highly recommended.

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I must, over the years, have managed to educate, through these article, many people about their computers and how to get the best from them. This is based on the number of people that have been coming to my clinic recently. As You have been such good students and learned so much, I have decided to end the clinic unless You make a specific appoint to meet me there.

So the subject for today! We are going to re-visit the creation of memorable passwords. Over the years that I have been writing, and hopefully, educating, We have considered the use of passwords, safe password storage programs and ‘aid memoirs’ to keep your passwords safe. We have discussed the need to have a different password for every website that you visit and still many readers use the same one for everything! This is your choice and must be respected! What if there were a method that you could use to create memorable passwords, would that be of any use to you?

Today we will look at several techniques to create wonderful passwords that can be easily remembered.

Let’s look at the different passphrases (not passwords – a phrase is MUCH more difficult to unravel) that are already easy available and being used every single day!

So as they say on ‘Strictly come dancing’ “in no specific order”:Nursery Rhymes! How many have thought of using a nursery rhyme? I didn’t! Stop reading and think of one. When you have recited or sung it through, think of another, then come back to the article!

Favourite line from a film! In my case there are tens of thousands to go at. My current favourite it “It is better to burn-out than to fade away!”. Spoken by the Kurgan on the

original ‘Highlander’ film.

Techno-Jargon! This is often levelled at many of my peers and probably rightly so. This career specific terminology is particularly difficult to crack as it is so specific. He is a really simple phrase “A tooth Bytes, Bits are tiny and a nibble can get you into trouble”.

Numbers! This can be as easy or as difficult as you choose. One easy way is to select 2 birthdays. When you run them together you will have a 12-16 digit password (depending on if you use the century part of the date)! For Example. Battle of Hastings (14th of October 1066) becomes 10661014 and Lincoln Cathedral was consecrated on (9th of May 1092) becomes 10920509!

Used together they become a stinker of a password to crack!

KeyBoard Patterns! Using your keyboard you create a ‘design’ that starts with a given letter and then hits every letter on the keyboard under the simple picture (design)!

For example the Hike Swoosh (Tick) might start with the ‘S’ and hit ZDTYU en route.

Now the method to use the first 3! The method is simple, pick a nursery rhyme, or film line or techo-babble. Now substitute numbers for some of the letters, for example, number 1 for the letter I, number 7 for the letter L, 5 for S and so on. Create your own imaginative substitution code.

So here is an example: “Hickory dickory dock” becomes “H1ck0ry_d1ck0ry-d0ck”.

Simple to create, much harder to crack ;-) We can also extend the number method by using a standard mnemonic system to create complete sentences from a random string of numbers. There are websites that can instruct you how. The best one found to date is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Mnemonic_major_system So until next time, Happy Password Creation.

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SOLTIMES PROPERTY SUPPLEMENT Mortgages should not be commoditised

2-year money is up 0.05% at 0.61% 3-year money is up 0.06% at 0.67% 5-year money is up 0.07% at 0.78% 10-year money is up 0.07% at 1.09% In the mortgage world, NatWest has made a plethora of rate changes by up to 0.79 per cent.

It has rates available from 1.32 per cent on a two-year fixed basis and 1.987 per cent on a five-year fixed basis to 60 per cent loan-tovalue. Ninety per cent LTV rates are available from 2.35 per cent fixed for two years.

Accord has also cut some rates and has a 75 per cent LTV twoyear fix at 1.38 per cent with a £995 fee. There is also £250 cashback and a free valuation for purchases.

Ipswich has a new 90 per cent LTV product at 2.29 per cent fixed for two years, while Clydesdale Bank has some new products and has removed pricing differentials between its interest-only and capital repayment products.

Elsewhere, Harrods Bank has slashed some of its fees: its foreign income mortgage loading is reduced from 0.25 per cent of loan to a fixed £500 per case, while all residential tracker rate products now carry a flat 1.25 per cent arrangement fee. For larger loans, this is a reduction of 0.5 per cent.

Fleet Mortgages has some new products and a new buy-to-let pay rate on its lifetime tracker, priced at 3.99 per cent for personal applications or 4.19 per cent for limited companies. The rental calculation is 125 per cent at the respective pay rates and the fee is 1 per cent or 1.5 per cent respectively.

Finally, Family Building Society has released a new product with its Retirement Lifestyle Booster for those who need to supplement their pension income. It pays a regular fixed sum every month for up to 10 years. In return, clients make a payment each month to cover the ‘average’ interest due.

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Last week we saw some betterthan-expected UK GDP growth: up 0.5 per cent since the EU referendum. Of course, it is still early days. With politicians on all sides doing their best to confuse, scare and generally talk a lot of hot air, things can always change as the debacle rumbles on.

Brexit aside, I cannot ignore the fact Santander is planning to extend its ‘30-minute’ remortgage service to homemovers and firsttime buyers by the end of the year.

Although lenders have the right to do what they feel they need to, I worry about the advice element in all of this and whether the consumer is getting the right outcome. A first-time buyer going online to obtain the biggest loan they are ever going to take out, via an effective panel of one and all in 30 minutes? Sounds like a really bad idea to me.

I am biased, of course, but I passionately believe that mortgages should not be commoditised. They are special cases that need careful handling and, most of all, advice. It still amazes me how little people really know and understand about products, fees, risks and processes, or what a mortgage broker does, for that matter.

This is not just about Santander.

I have always respected the people who work there, from the BDMs all the way up. And let’s not forget how it supported brokers when other lenders were lagging behind.

Indeed, it is not the only player looking at this idea. But we need to work together and be responsible as an industry to educate the public and protect them from poor decisions and bad advice.

Yes, speed is important and there are many ways the industry needs to be overhauled with the use of technology. But scrimping on advice is not part of that. The tech revolution should mean we have more time to spend on the customer: on the soft facts and on the advice part. Let’s use it to enhance the advice process, not to limit it.

In the markets, three-month Libor is still around the 0.41 per cent level, while swap rates have risen like a sponge cake to mark the end of The Great British Bake Off as we know it.

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The UK economy grew faster than expected in the three months after the Brexit vote, official figures indicate, helped by strong service sector growth.

The economy expanded by 0.5% in the July-to-September period, according to the Office for National Statistics.

That was slower than the 0.7% rate in the previous quarter, but stronger than analysts’ estimates of about 0.3%.

“There is little evidence of a pronounced effect in the immediate aftermath of the vote,” the ONS said.

Welcoming the figures, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Phillip Hammond said: “The fundamentals of the UK economy are strong and today’s data show that the economy is resilient.”

The economy was boosted by a strong performance from the services sector, which grew by 0.8% in the quarter.

Transport, storage and communication was the strongest part of the service sector, growing by 2.2%. That was the fastest pace since 2009 and was helped by a healthy quarter for the UK’s film industry. The latest films in the Jason Bourne and Star Trek franchises were released in July along with other popular productions, lifting takings at box offices.

ONS chief economist Jo Grice said “A strong performance in the dominant services industries continued to offset further falls in construction, while manufacturing continued to be broadly flat.”

This is the first estimate of economic growth for the period, using less than half the data that will be used for the final estimate.

The economy has slowed slightly but by nothing like as much as feared and the Office for National Statistics says that “the pattern of growth continues to be broadly unaffected following the EU referendum”.

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of the economy that continued to grow was services, up by 0.8%; agriculture, manufacturing production and construction all shrank.

Brexit supporters will take these figures as a sign that warnings about the economic costs of voting to leave the EU were nothing more than scaremongering. Remain supporters will argue that only prompt action by the Bank of England saved the economy and that worse is to come.

While growth in the services sector was robust, the construction sector contracted by 1.4% and industrial production fell 0.4%, with manufacturing output down 1%.

“In manufacturing, the contraction in output should be attributed to some unwinding of the massive growth spike seen in the second quarter, rather than industry scaling back production for any referendum related reasons,” said Lee Hopley, chief economist at the EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation.

“In line with the raft of survey data the GDP estimates confirm that it has been more or less business as usual but it doesn’t tell us, however, if this will continue for the foreseeable future.”

No details of consumer spending were released in this set of figures, but Howard Archer, UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said: “It looks certain that third-quarter growth was also heavily dependent on consumers’ willingness to keep spending, supported by still decent purchasing power and high employment.

“Consumer spending also clearly benefited from the weakened pound encouraging spending by overseas visitors to the UK. The weakened pound also supported foreign orders for UK goods and services.” bbc.com

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Sombre mood on the Costa del Sol as Brexit takes its toll

Marbella conference on foreign demand for property in Spain As I predicted, Brexit is turning out to be bad news for the property market on the Costa del Sol, where the British have been the biggest group of buyers for many years. I was in Marbella on Wednesday speaking at a conference on the property market organised by Tinsa (Spain’s leading appraisal company), HolaBank (part of CaixaBank, specialising in banking services for foreigners in Spain), and the Observatorio Inmobiliaria trade magazine, in collaboration with the Malaga Lawyer’s Association.

I gave a presentation on trends in foreign demand before and after Brexit, and had the chance to speak with a good number of lawyers and agents who work with foreign clients. Most told me that Brexit has had a significant negative impact on their business, which I already knew from a survey I have carried out in the last couple of weeks (more on that another day).

As you can see from the chart below, British demand is dominant in Malaga province (home to the Costa del Sol) as it has been for many years.

Buyers from the UK were 36% of the foreign market in Malaga province last year, more than double the next biggest group (Sweden), and 50% of the top six markets combined.

Brexit impact costa del sol property market Since Brexit, and even in the months leading up to Brexit, British buyer interest (enquiries, visits, sales) has taken a dive. Most of the professionals I spoke

to at the conference, and those I have surveyed by email, report that British demand has suffered a “moderate” or “big decline”, and I think when reliable figures are finally available we will see a big decline in British purchases, perhaps 50% or more, at least in the six months after Brexit. “You can forget the British market for the next year,” one agent told me.

The general mood was sombre.

BLAME STERLING What’s driving the decline? A few people report client concerns about the status of Brits in Europe after EU exit, but more than anything it’s the fall in the pound that’s taking potential buyers out of the market. The next chart shows British purchases (all Spain) and the EURGBP exchange rate in recent quarters. I think we will soon see reported sales following the exchange rate down.

Spanish property sales Some professionals I have spoken to say that Brexit has influenced clients from other countries, some of whom are also deciding to wait and see. Buyers will often jump on any excuse to avoid having to make a big decision, and uncertainty is nearly always bad for confidence in any market.

Looking on the bright side some agents report that British buyer interest stabilised in September after plunging in July and August in response to the original Brexit shock. “We have noticed an impact from the Brexit, not only on British demand but across other EU nationalities as well as the shockwaves of uncertainty touched other countries, however that now seems to be righting itself and figures are working steadily back up,” says Catriona Hogan, Marketing Director of Your Viva, one of the leading agents on the coast.

“We are still getting a good level of interest but there is a certain reticence when it comes to closing the deal – with some people presumably holding off until

Looking to move to Spain. How best to spend my small pot of cash.

I am very new to the world of Spanish property/ lifestyle so am appealing to your collective wisdom, Insightful Ones:) I am 49, have recently separated, no savings but with cash due from sale of house in UK and am ready for a move to Spain. My retired parents live in Murcia but I’m not keen to make a permanent move that far South.

(Too hot, arid, not close to major cultural cities and caters to a mainly retired demographic).

I’m looking for a cash buy not mortgaged. However, my budget is small (£80k) and I realise that this limits my options in my preferred areas further North (Costa Brava or Daurada) though I have spied some property at good prices in extreme North of Costa Blanca in Denia/Gandía. (I need something with 3 bedrooms or 2 beds and a study/studio space for my work and one room to rent out).

So: Should I rent for a while in my preferred areas (Costa Brava/Daurada) and build up some funds through work till I can afford something to buy there?

Or buy cheap in the next few months (before the property prices go up) further south and use the potential rental income to fund my lifestyle (supplemented with other freelance work) until I’m ready to move North later.

Or any other advice/suggestions welcome.

Particularly if anyone has any thoughts on Denia and any other areas I might consider as an alternative to more expensive North.

Many thanks P Hello P In the photography business, arriving at a location with the weather dismal and grey, the locals always said, “You should have been here last week. It was lovely!”. By great good fortune I bought my Euros last Dec. For once I was indeed “here last week”.

You are contemplating a move into a Eurozone country when GBP is tanking. Uncertainty will infect the UK’s political and financial organism for some years. Nobody knows what will actually eventuate out

of Brexit but one thing we know is – uncertainty rules.

Uncertainty is a cast iron guarantee of a spooked fx market for any currency. This state will persist beyond the actual exit date. The UK economy will be finding its place in the post-Brexit world.

This should seriously be taken into account. I had exactly the same amount as you for my spend on property. At the rate I exchanged GBP to €, back in Dec, I have been able to buy a small flat in Valencia city centre (in a rather dog-eared building but a superb location) and budget €20k for renovations. That €20k and more has ‘disappeared’ with the fall in GBP. The up-side for me is that at the present fx rate, going back the other way, € to GBP, would refund my renovation costs, in theory. Meanwhile my derisory pension has taken a massive hit.

If I was in your position now, if I moved to Spain at all (questionable, that), I would not buy. I would rent, see how things develop with Brexit and fx and not commit to buying until it seems safe to do so. This might take years.

As to where, I can only speak from my experience.

I’d been coming to Valencia city for 15 years. I knew it was the place for me – I prefer city life to the campo – and prices were (and I believe still are) continuing to sag gently downwards. There are numerous attractive small towns in Valencia province. You mentioned Gandia – that’s one. Xativa is a charming place.

But the main thing is to protect your modest stash. With Santander UK about to halve its savings rate (on up to GBP20K) from 3% to 1.5% on 1st Nov, there is really nowhere to go that produces a meaningful return. As usual, the UK property market is one. Ironically, Spanish property might be another reasonable punt. After plunging to the depths, the only way is up and, give or take, (keep an eye on Mark’s multi-source prices graph) up is the trend. Now the Spanish politicians have agreed to a minority coalition government, a tad more stability might be evident in an economy that has already shown signs to being growing faster than any other in the €-zone.

I can’t help but hear that thing ringing in my ears, “You should have been here last week.”

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they know what is going to happen and also holding to see if Sterling recuperates further.”

Unfortunately, the pound has lurched down again in October, so I wouldn’t be surprised if British interest is back on the slide. If you want to know where British buyer interest is heading, just look at the direction of the pound. And when I say interest I’m not talking about people dreaming of buying in Spain and making enquiries online, I’m talking about people who are serious about buying.

BRITISH VENDORS MORE FLEXIBLE Most professionals I have surveyed around the country report more flexibility from British vendors, though perhaps not in the Balearics, where vendors tend to have more bargaining power than in other regions. With the pound now so weak, British vendors can afford to accept lower offers that don’t look so bad when changed into pounds.

There’s no escaping the fact that Brexit has been a negative shock for the property market in Malaga (Costa del Sol) and Alicante (Costa Blanca), where the British are by far the biggest group of buyers.

No other nationality is big enough to compensate for a big drop in British buyers in those areas, if that is what has happened. Agents and developers on these coasts will have to refocus their strategies on winning market share through brand building, as rising with the tide is no longer an option until the pound stages a recovery. And I suspect a lot of small players might be put out of business.

The day after the referendum I wrote in my article Brexit implications for Spanish property market that “British demand has been growing strongly since 2013, but I expect we will now see a big reversal in that trend. This will have a negative impact on the markets where British demand is dominant, namely Alicante (Costa Blanca) and Malaga (Costa del Sol), and to a lesser extent the Balearics, The Canaries, and Murcia. Thanks to this Brexit vote, there will just be fewer British buyers about.” I’m sad to say I was right.

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Desierto de Tabernas Natural Area Sandwiched between the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, Gador, Filabres and Alhamilla is one of the most dramatic landscapes in Spain, the desolate Desierto de Tabernas. The only semi-desert in Europe; there is a surreal, lunar quality about its weirdly eroded ravines, dry river beds and barren slopes apparently devoid of vegetation, bleached by the sun and occasionally singed with ochre hues. With its poor soils, low rainfall and temperatures that range from -5°C to 48°C, the landscape has been little changed by agriculture or other human activity, with just a few pockets of subsistence farming.

Climate change rate to turn southern Spain to desert by 2100, report warns

Film makers have long been attracted to its landscape, with its similar appearance to the North American Wild West, and so the desert has been the scene of many a spaghetti western.

Visit Mini-Hollywood 7km south of Tabernas, where many westerns were filmed.

The real impact on Mediterranean ecosystems, which are considered a hotspot of biodiversity, could be worse because the study did not look at other human impacts, such as forests being turned over to grow food.

Tabernas desert is one of the most geologically interesting landscapes in Europe, since it clearly shows the process of natural desertification and erosion. Its features include sheer-sided gullies, carved out by the infrequent but torrential rains that only fall on a few days in the year. Another feature is piping, where water permeates through the top of a slope and emerges further down through a hole, the water creating an underground pipe in the process. In certain places there are so many holes that they have a created a Swiss cheese effect.

Eight million years ago in the Miocene period the sea covered the Tabernas desert area, reaching inland as far as the foothills of the Sierra de los Filabres, where today a strip of fossilised coral dunes delineates the former coastline. The deposited material consisted on sand and loam and this is what makes up the Tabernas desert today. A million years later the Sierra Alhamilla rose up, cutting off the Tabernas desert area from the ocean and creating an inland sea, where further sand, loam, clay, limestone and gypsum were deposited. At the end of Pliocene epoch the sea receded, leaving the seabed exposed to erosion.

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Mediterranean ecosystems will change to a state unprecedented in the past 10,000 years unless temperature rises are held to within 1.5C, say scientists

Southern Spain will be reduced to desert by the end of the century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, researchers have warned.

Anything less than extremely ambitious and politically unlikely carbon emissions cuts will see ecosystems in the Mediterranean change to a state unprecedented in the past 10 millennia, they said.

The study, published in the journal Science, modelled what would happen to vegetation in the Mediterranean basin under four different paths of future carbon emissions, from a businessas-usual scenario at the worst end to keeping temperature rises below the Paris climate deal target of 1.5C at the other.

Temperatures would rise nearly 5C globally under the worst case scenario by 2100, causing deserts to expand northwards across southern Spain and Sicily, and Mediterranean vegetation to replace deciduous forests.

Even if emissions are held to the level of pledges put forward ahead of the Paris deal, southern Europe would experience a “substantial” expansion of deserts. The level of change would be beyond anything the region’s ecosystems had experienced during the Holocene, the geological epoch that started more than 10,000 years ago.

“The Med is very sensitive to climatic change, maybe much more than any other region in the world,” said lead author Joel Guiot of AixMarseille University. “A lot of people are living at the level of the sea, it also has a lot of troubles coming from migration. If we add additional problems due to climate change, it will be worse in the future.”

He said that while his study did not simulate what would happen to production of Mediterranean

food staples such as olives, other research showed it was clear the changes would harm their production. Climate change has already warmed the region by more than the global average – 1.3C compared to 1C – since the industrial revolution.

“The effect of the human is to deforest, to replace with agriculture and so on. You change the vegetation cover, the albedo, the humidity in the soil, and you will emphasise the drought when you do that. If you have the [direct] human impact, it will be worse,” said Guiot.

The researchers fed a model with 10,000 years of pollen records to build a picture of vegetation in the region, and used that to infer previous temperatures in the Mediterranean.

They then ran the model to see what would happen to the vegetation in the future, using four different scenarios of warming, three of them taken from the UN’s climate science panel, the IPCC. Only the most stringent cut in emissions – which is roughly equivalent to meeting the Paris aspiration of holding warming to 1.5C – would see ecosystems remain within the limits they experienced in the Holocene.

“The main message is really to maintain at less than 1.5C,” said Guiot. “For that, we need to decrease the emissions of greenhouse gases very quickly, and start the decreasing now, and not by 2020, and to arrive at zero emissions by 2050 and not by the end of the century.”

He said the main limitation of the study was the relatively simple model at its heart, but this was offset by the fact it was used consistently, to reconstruct the past and to forecast future vegetation. https://www.theguardian.com

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The Wedding

Loco Paco and Loca Pepe are to be wed.

Pepa wanted a white wedding with all the trimmings, carriages drawn by horses, a retinue of bridesmaids, clouds of confetti and a full church service. Paco wanted to watch the football.

Pepa had ‘popped’ the question, “Do you want to marry me?” But this was a sentence of some six words and Paco lost concentration after the fourth. To his confused and permanently dazed mind the fifth and sixth words were “watch football” something people with diminished intelligence can do, in fact it is a requirement.

The day was set, preparations made and Pepa waiting in anticipation. Loco Paco didn’t know if it was his wedding Day, Christmas Day or the anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate, quite frankly he didn’t much care as his pet Saharan Dung Beetle, Benjy was in training.

Alqueria’s existentialist Priest, Sacerdote del Semblante Lánguido performed the ceremony in front of a packed church. He was patience personified as Paco stopped the proceeding several times to discuss the U.S. Presidential Elections with Bert, his imaginary five foot rodent friend. The worthy Priest did however snigger when he came to the promise of fidelity in the service, thinking it the biggest work of

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fiction since the Tories promised to properly fund the NHS. But then Sacerdote del Semblante Lánguido had heard Manuela’s confession which had driven him into the arms of Sartre and existentialism.

Paco had some vague idea why this woman in white was standing next to him making absurd promises which even in his confused state knew couldn’t and wouldn’t be kept, but then this applies to most wedding services.

The ‘happy’ or perhaps bewildered couple left the church and began an idyllic honeymoon.

Idyllic because Loca Pepa spent two weeks in the Bar La Casa Devante where Remitroot Wine was only at an arms length away and Paco went to Zamora for a Dung Beetle Race meeting.

Anselmo Adamso, the photographer raced to his studio to print and mount the wedding pictures before the couple could file for divorce, seventy-two hours was where the smart money was going.

Pepa finally sobered from her Remitroot induced coma and couldn’t remember the wedding, Loco Paco or her name. Paco, flush with success after Bengy his dung beetle won the Duke of Chinless Stakes, although Paco is being investigated for doping, all else then paled into insignificance causing him to totally forget his marital status.

In fact the marriage was never spoken of again.

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Day 5: By now the Burial Ground was becoming overcrowded, so green netting from found from goodness knows where, and stretched over the fencing, thus thwarting access through the fence from all sides.

Day 6: All corners of the Burial Ground were now in use. The enemy could only be accessing the Patch from the party wall, so our only option was to prevent them from getting on to that wall. But how? We retired to confer.

Day 7: Was spent in thought.

Day 8: To pass the time whilst still thinking I hosed the Patch, thus flattening the barrows and nicely damping the ground.

Day 9: No more barrows. The Cat Relief Centre was now obviously in use, and the cats threatened the Geneva Convention. I pointed out that they were using Biological Warfare.

Day 10: The peace will hold as long as I keep the Patch wet – cats don’t like wet.

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The Battle of the Patch

The Battle of the Patch A.D. 2016 was fought over the sovereignty of a patch of ground measuring about 2 metres by 4 metres, and arose due to neglect by the incumbent owner.

The Patch became overrun with weeds, and turned into an apparently unadopted waste area.

However, as my health has improved I felt the desire to Grow Things, namely vegetables, in my vegetable patch. I summoned both my troops, Pete and the Indispensable Andy, who weeded my patch and turned the soil over to produce a nice friable surface ready for my anticipated plantlets.

The opposing side, the Felines, instantly overran it. I know this because next morning it was covered with small neatly scraped mounds, making it look like a miniature medieval barrow burial ground.

Battle was met. Day 1: 4 posts were located among the heap of Useful Things That We’d Better Not Throw away and Indispensable Andy drove them in at the corners of the disputed area.

Day 2: The number of barrows in the miniature medieval barrow burial ground had increased, despite the threat posed by the not yet deployed posts.

Day 3: Under Pete’s supervision Indispensable Andy built a bespoke Cat Relief Centre next to the Patch.

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heart warming soups

Warming soup recipes to nourish the soul, and help use up all those extra vegetables lurking in your fridge!

Evidence of the existence of soup can be found as far back as about 6,000 BC. Boiling was not a common cooking technique until the invention of waterproof containers (which probably came in the form of clay vessels or pouches made of animal skin) about 9,000 years ago. Soup can be made out of broth or a form of liquid.

The word soup comes from French soupe (“soup”, “broth”), which comes through Vulgar Latin suppa (“bread soaked in broth”) from a Germanic source, from which also comes the word “sop”, a piece of bread used to soak up soup or a thick stew.

The word restaurant (meaning “[something] restoring”) was first used in France in the 16th century, to describe a highly concentrated, inexpensive soup, sold by street vendors, that was advertised as an antidote to physical exhaustion. In 1765, a Parisian entrepreneur opened a shop specializing in such soups.

This prompted the use of the modern word restaurant to describe the shops.

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early colonial cooking; but as new immigrants arrived from other countries, other national soups gained popularity. In particular, German immigrants living in Pennsylvania were famous for their potato soups. In 1794, Jean Baptiste Gilbert Payplat dis Julien, a refugee from the French Revolution, opened an eating establishment in Boston called The Restorator, and became known as “The Prince of Soups”. The first American cooking pamphlet dedicated to soup recipes was written in 1882 by Emma Ewing: Soups and Soup Making.

Portable soup was devised in the 18th century by boiling seasoned meat until a thick, resinous syrup was left that could be dried and stored for months at a time. The Japanese miso is an example of a concentrated soup paste.

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40g butter 150g onion, roughly chopped 225g floury potatoes, such as King Edward’s, peeled and chopped 400g parsnips, peeled and chopped 20ml paprika, plus extra to dust 950mls fresh chicken or vegetable stock 450ml milk 60ml double cream Salt and ground black pepper 65g sliced chorizo sausage, cut into fine strips FOR THE PARMESAN CRISPS 1 large parsnip, weighing about 75g , peeled Vegetable oil for frying 45 ml grated Parmesan cheese

p Parsnip Sou with Parmesan Crisps Method

Melt the butter in a large heavy-based saucepan.

Add the onion and cook over a gentle heat for 5min or until soft. Add the potatoes, parsnips and paprika, mix well and cook gently, stirring occasionally, for about 15min or until the vegetables have begun to soften.

Add the stock, milk, cream and seasoning. Bring to the boil and simmer for 25min or until the vegetables are very soft. Add 50g (2oz) of the chorizo.

Allow the soup to cool a little, then place in a blender or food processor; process until smooth. The soup can be thinned with additional stock or milk, if wished. Correct the seasoning and return to the saucepan.

To prepare the Parmesan Crisps, using a vegetable peeler (the wide swivel ones are best for this), peel off long strips of parsnip until there is nothing left to peel. The strips should be as wide as possible.

In a large saucepan or deep-sided frying pan, pour in the oil to a depth of 2.5cm (1in) and heat to a moderate temperature. Shallow-fry the parsnip strips in batches until they’re light golden and crisp. Drain on kitchen paper and sprinkle lightly with salt. Arrange the strips in six little piles on a baking sheet, then sprinkle with half the Parmesan cheese and the remaining chorizo. Set aside.

Cook Parmesan Crisps at 200°C (180°C fan) mark 6 for 3-5min or until the cheese begins to melt. Don’t let the crisps become too brown or they’ll taste bitter. Meanwhile, reheat the soup. Serve topped with the Parmesan Crisps, sprinkled with remaining Parmesan cheese and dusted with paprika.

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Dancing in the Fountain: The secret to the Spanish diet

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The Spanish diet may violate every nutritional belief Karen McCann has learned, yet the lifestyle and eating habits in Spain have worked enormous benefits. What's the secret?

At dinner parties, even nibbling the minimal amounts required of a good guest, I am always more than replete after the appetisers alone. But of course, there is always more to come. But how, with all this eating and tobacco consumption. When I arrived in Seville, it seemed as if everyone drinking, aren’t the Spanish fatter? More to the point, why wasn’t I gaining smoked, including my doctor and the young woman who worked at the health food store. Many considered it one of the basic pleasures of life and a health risk worth taking, in much the same way Americans consume considerably more sugar than they know is good for them. A famous Spanish ad campaign positioned smoking as a matter of personal freedom; its slogan, “I choose,” ran beneath photos such as a naked man capering joyfully in a field or two pretty girls kissing passionately.

I began to understand why the Spanish live an average of four years longer than Americans, despite the fact that huge numbers of them smoke, drink alcohol (sometimes even at breakfast), and eat vast amounts of ham (which they claim actually lowers cholesterol).

Sitting with good friends, nibbling ham and olives, sipping drinks, and trying to express how we truly think and feel about what’s most important to us — life just doesn’t get better than that. As the Spanish saying goes, el vino, para que sepa a vino, bebelo con un amigo — for wine to taste like wine, you must drink it with a friend.

I suspect their longevity is due to some combination of the famous Mediterranean diet, the less hard-charging lifestyle, and of course, universal access to medical treatment. Their approach to health care may sometimes appear a little unorthodox by American standards, but it seems to work. http://www.expatica.com weight?

In Spain, I had abandoned my long-held, low-fat vegetarian diet, committing a host of sins with jamon, fried fish, chocolate, and beer. Yet my weight actually went down a little, and I knew I looked and felt fitter.

How was this possible? And what next? Was I about to learn that recycling actually harms the planet, driving sober increases the chances of car accidents, and cigarettes prevent cancer? Just how upside-down was my worldview going to get?

So far, no one has tried to convince me of any of those things. But during my first year in Seville, as I violated one fundamental nutritional belief after another with apparent impunity, I began to develop some theories 12noon till 5pm Fish, Chips (or possibly rationalisations) to explain the phenomenon.

Cod or Haddock The true Spanish diet & Peas Chips, Peas, Bread First of all, while my diet is extremely rich, the amount I eat (when not and Butter at dinner parties) is quite small. I consume less but never feel hungry, because in place of mountains of low-fat food, I’m eating small portions of All Day dishes that are truly satisfying to palate and stomach.

Takeaway Also Available Meals are also taken slowly. The Sevillano lunch is no mere sandwich, Quesada Villamartin Plaza no quick carton of yogurt gulped down at the desk surrounded by ringing phones. This is the main meal of the day, and most shops and businesses close from two until five in order to allow people time to collect the kids from school and head home to a family meal or to a nearby café with friends or coworkers.

The other reason I feel so healthy is that I walk everywhere. In a city like Seville, travelling by foot is simply the most practical way to get around.

The convoluted street plan, with its overabundance of one-ways and deadends — to say nothing of the narrow streets crowded with illegally parked vehicles — makes driving in the city centre a nightmare.

Living in the Ohio countryside, I averaged two hours in the car every day; now I spend that amount of time strolling through the city to visit the shops, markets, cafés, gymnasium, friends’ homes, museums, theatres, and other places that make up the daily round.

On the rare occasion when my husband Rich and I want to go out of the city, we rent a car or travel with friends. Many Spanish and expat friends have cars, especially if they have kids or need to travel for business; but even then, if they live in the city, walking is their first choice. Among all the other advantages, the pedestrian lifestyle means no one has to serve as the designated driver and spend the night drinking cerveza sin alcohol (alcohol-free beer), known as sin for short.

Alcohol is such an accepted fact of Spanish life that the government makes little effort to control the drinking habits of the population, but it has undertaken the equally thankless task of trying to rein in the nation’s

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Warm winter locations in Spain

Not everywhere in Spain is warm in winter.

Contrary to popular mythology, some places are actually cold in deepest winter.

But there are several places to go where winter warmth is on offer every year.

S o m e obvious locations, others m o r e surprising.

H e r e are some suggestions where to go to chill out, but not be chilly.

A g u a Amarga, Almeria a warming location in Spanish winters Agua Amarga in winter -Snowbirds of Spain In America when people flock south to Florida they are called the ‘snowbirds.’

Well the equivalent people in Spain would likely head to Almeria. A province famed for its lack of rainfall and winter warmer weather.

For those travelling from traditionally cooler winter locations, the warmth that hits them when they step out in Almeria each winter is the first pleasing part of a holiday in this unique area.

There are plenty of great places to rent in Almeria.

Some have been used in famous films. Not so much the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns that put this area on the map, in which a beautiful villa

with a pool would have looked out of place, but in more modern movies such as ‘Sexy Beast.’

That film was shot at a favourite destination in Almeria, the quiet little location of Agua Amarga.

I can verify that this is what I would call a ‘winter warmer.’

Much warmer than some neighbouring provinces and yet, in Agua Amarga, you also have the sea and the beaches to enjoy.

And on many a day it is warm enough to swim in one and sit on the other.

Agua Amarga is small enough to walk around and much of the spectacular countryside of the Cabo de Gata national park is on the doorstep.

Do take a drive from your rented accommodation around the park.

There are plenty of small beaches to savour and some amazing sights to photograph.

But what makes this warm winter location special is how peaceful it is. What more could you wish for in the depths of winter? Warmth, sunshine, peace and quiet, superb property to rent and spectacular views. It makes you feel warm inside just thinking about it.

Murcia city centre - a warming location in Spanish winters Murcia under blue winter skies Winter in Murcia If you want more life around you, but still wish to avoid being cold, then why not head for Murcia. the group was recently asked to The splendid perform at the Los Montesinos and busy Mediaeval Market Fiesta. city itself, or The Morris Dancing group was the coastal founded by Terri Hovarth, originally resorts as a ladies group known as Jingle of this Belles and then changed to Belles province and Beaux when men joined the which is group. Sadly Terri passed away in significantly 2012 and the group was renamed warmer Terri Horvath Morris in her honour. than some o t h e r s The group has a live band for during music both at rehearsals and the winter dances out which consist of four months. regular and several transient musicians. The Morris dancing Perhaps you would like consists of many to rent a property in the kinds of English popular seaside resort Traditional dances of Puerto de Mazzaron, from North West, or the smaller but just as warm and welcoming Cotswold, Border Aguilas. Both resorts and many other have something for all mixed dances. the family and, out of The group is season, you will have always looking for much of the beach to more dancers, with yourself. or without prior The city of Murica itself experience. If you is too often overlooked would like to find by those going on a out more about holiday to Spain. Big the Morris group, mistake. either to join, learn Murcia is a magnificent the dances or city worthy of taking enquire for booking time to see in all its glory. performances for your venue, Positively tropical please contact: One coastline in Spain Sue Walters - suzi. known for its warm inspain@gmail.com winter weather is the

The Terri Hovarth Morris Dancers

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Costal Tropical. This stretch of coastline is in the province of Granada. While the city of Granada, less than an hour away, can be cold in the winter months, the Costa Tropical is not.

Locations such as Salobreña and Almuñécar are marvellous towns to visit or to use as your holiday base out of high season. You will be pleasantly surprised by just how many days here are truly warm.

Even, on some days, hot.

The Costa Tropical really does have a unique climate come winter.

From La Herradura in the west, to the small city of Motril in the east; this is a coastline that lives up to its name and its billing. It is not often you can feel tropical in Europe in the months between December and March. But you can here.

And, finally, another different place to consider going for a warm up. Not a seaside destination as such – although the coast is very close by – but, instead, a tropical garden.

Yes, you read that correctly. How about going to a warm little jungle of a garden just outside the centre of the great city of Malaga.

Tall trees in Malaga The Finca de la Concepción gardens are located alongside the motorway that takes you to Malaga Airport and beyond. You will be pleasantly surprised to discover this tropical paradise.

If you were not into gardens when you arrived,

you will be by the time you leave. In total there are over eight hundred tropical and subtropical species.

The palm tree, the specimen we all associate with warmer climes, is itself represented with over one hundred varieties.

Now they would not be living here were it not a warm climate for them. The gardens also include the tallest tree in all of Malaga province, standing at forty five meters high.

There are, of course, hundreds of superb holiday homes to rent throughout the province of Malaga and along the ever popular Costa del Sol. Visit the concepcion gardens at malaga spain If it is a touch breezy on the beach, or a little cool around your pool, then get to these gardens.

Admire their grandeur and feel yourself perspire a little.

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Costa Calida Country Music Club

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Wednesday November 16th. For this months dance we welcome a 4 piece band, Starbeats. They are new to this area, playing 60’s music including a Beatles tribute and more. €8 December 7th. Welcome Christmas Party. One of the highlights of the year featuring the wonderful Ricky Lavazza and supported by a great duo Time Warp. This really kicks starts the festive season and is always very popular. €12 December 31st. New Years Eve Dance. See the new year in with your friends singing and dancing to 3 very popular artists, our own Christine, Terry J and Rob Sweeney. Included is an excellent buffet with Champagne at midnight. A coach is available for €7. These tickets fly away so be quick. €20 For more information or to book your tickets for 2016 events only, call Rosemary on 620 105 179 January 25th. 2017. The first dance of 2017 at Marianos features Gary George, first time in area, a very popular comedian from Benidorm ably supported by Martin Ross, always puts on a great show. This should be a really good night. €9 February 17th. 2017. Granada Trip. There are still some rooms available for this trip so don’t delay give Steve a call, 3 nights on half board at 4* Melia Granada city centre hotel. On the return journey we will visit the amazing cave houses and museum in the fabulous village of Guadix. All this including coach travel €215 p.p.

March 16th. 2017. St. Patrick’s Day in Benidorm. If you enjoy a fun weekend this is the trip for you, there is still availability, you know it makes sense. Paint the town green and watch the procession on Friday 17th. Staying at the 3* Ambassador Playa 1 for 4 nights on half board with a visit to a chocolate factory on the journey home.

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Strictly Week 6 Halloween

By Lyn Aspden of ‘Strictly Dance’ Class Info 635 584 431 As ever the BBC always excels with costumes and makeup for Halloween and this year was no exception. A fabulous opening number involving all professionals judges and celebrities with some spooktastic tricks.

Opening the show this week were Louise Redknapp and Kevin with a

Charleston. In my opinion between the choreography and the music I could have been watching a jive!

There was very little Charleston evident and as Louise had trainers on her feet this prevented good foot swivel. Disappointing and a 7 with the judges over marking on 35. Next were Judge Rinder and Oksana with a Paso Doble. Again I didn’t like the music but nevertheless good characterisation with some nice lines and Paso Doble figures. I gave him 7

and the judges 32. Claudia Fragapane and AJ then performed an American Smooth. Beautifully danced American Smooth Foxtrot, nicely controlled basic figures with a great top line and clean elegant lift work. I awarded 9 and the judges 36.

Anastacia and Brendan and a Jive were next. Oh dear!

Heavy footed no leg retraction at all on kicks. Definitely not her dance she was fighting to keep up with the music throughout.

A 5 from me and a generous 25 from the judges. Danny Mac and Oti then danced a Foxtrot. Again music far too fast and for the first time in the competition a disappointing performance from my favourite! He made a mess of the choreography part way through and didn’t look in control. An 8 from me and 30 from the judges.

Laura Whitmore and Giovanni and a Tango were next. I thought Laura was out of the competition because of last weeks ankle injury but she came back very strongly with this performance. Strong staccato action with a good frame and characterisation. A 9 from me and 36 from the judges.

Ore Oduba and Joanne and a

Charleston followed. This was an uninspiring performance for me.

Again I didn’t like the music and I didn’t think much of the Charleston swivels either. A 7 from me and 32 from the judges and again over marked. Greg Rutherford and Natalie then danced a Rumba. Where was the Rumba? I saw a few basic walks and a couple of basic steps. Perhaps she was trying to cover up his lack of Rumba ability and twine toes! I gave him 7 and the judges 26. Daisy Lowe and Aljaz followed with a Paso Doble.

This was her weakest dance so far, lacking high hips and a strong core.

I gave 6 and the judges a high score of 33. Closing this week’s show were Ed Balls and Katya with a Cha Cha Cha. Entertaining yet again. Not the best dancer in the show but plenty of basic steps performed on time and well characterised. I gave 6 and the judges 26.

In the bottom 2 this week were Anastacia and Daisy with Anastacia leaving the show after the dance off and a unanimous judges decision. So the fight continues for that glitter ball trophy. Have you selected your winner yet? I have and I can’t wait to see who will pull out all the stops next week. In the meantime come and join one of our classes to keep up with the strictly gossip.

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Experts agree that in today's Spain, superstitions are on the rise. So we thought we would detail, along with their origins, some of the most popular superstitions in Spain (even though many are common in other countries)

Tuesday and the Number 13

Breaking a mirror

BAD LUCK: The Curse of the number thirteen is rooted in the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the twelve Apostles, when he was betrayed. BAD LUCK: It is said to curse you with seven years bad luck. The mirror It is believed that if thirteen people sit down to eat at the same table, one was a magical element of divination, so if it broke, it was so that it couldn’t show the frightening future ahead. Seven years is due to the of them will die within a year. belief that the body renews itself every seven years.

The day of the week varies: in Spain, Mexico and Greece it is Tuesday and thirteen, In the UK and other countries it is Friday the thirteenth, Placing bread upside down on the table or dropping it on the ground because Jesus was crucified on a Friday.

BAD LUCK: Bread is a staple food. Therefore there have been several superstitions that have arisen related to making it, cutting it, eating it Starting the day on your left foot and offering it to others. Placing it upside down is supposed to bring BAD LUCK: Petronius in the 'Satyricon' alluded that “misfortune” entered bad luck because it's treated as an insult to the body of Christ, also, a room or a place with its left foot. In Spain, it may have originated from when it falls to the ground it is custom to kiss it and do the sign of the a Celtic tradition and the solar motion, which always moved towards the cross three times to ward off misfortune. right. To counter-act it one must do the sign of the cross three times.

Throwing rice at a wedding

Parsley

GOOD LUCK: In Ancient Greece parsley was considered a sacred plant GOOD LUCK: Before, everyone threw pieces of sweets at the bride and that symbolised triumph and resurrection. Driven by this belief, the groom, symbolizing happiness and fertility. But in lean times they threw Greeks adorned graves with wreaths of parsley. wheat or rice, as it was much cheaper, to this day in Spain, they throw Putting a hat on the bed rice.

BAD LUCK: Putting a hat on the bed is an omen, in Spain and Italy, Feeling a buzz in your ear that means something bad will happen. This superstition has another GOOD LUCK: When you hear or feel a whistle like buzz in your ear meaning: that your mind will go blank. This belief probably comes from ask someone to give you a number. The letter of the alphabet that the symbolism of the hat, which represents the head and thoughts and corresponds to that number will be the first letter of the name of the is a symbol of identity. person you expect to marry. "The Left ear is for love and right for spite."

If you pinch the right ear immediately when you hear the whistle, the An off-centered picture hanging on the wall or falling from the wall where it was hung. person who is criticizing you will bite their tongue!

BAD LUCK: This idea has its origins in ancient Greece, where it was Somebody casts an “evil eye” (spell - mal de ojo) believed that if the portrait of a monarch or a celebrity fell to the ground BAD LUCK: It is traditionally believed that if we are completely reflected in the pupil of an eye, we could be trapped by it. Therefore, from ancient suffering serious damage it meant that they would soon die.

Rome to the Middle Ages, those who had cataracts or other visual defects were often sacrificed at the stake. In Greece, Turkey and Egypt is widely believed that there are people with evil powers in their eyes, even unconsciously, one with these powers could cause harm just by casting their eyes over something. For protection one needs to carry garlic, gold and silver, blue glass eyes and horseshoes.

Putting a cactus on the windowsill

GOOD LUCK: A popular belief says that this plant wards away the evil of the house. Its great ability to absorb moisture from the atmosphere makes it a powerful protector against evil spirits, that need moisture to grow. The custom of placing a cactus by doors and windows, observed in all the Mediterranean comes from the belief that if spirits find water along the way, they could drown crossing it and be trapped there forever.

Sweeping the feet of a single woman or a widow

BAD LUCK: This meant that they would never marry. Related to witches.

A falling eyelash

GOOD LUCK: The Devil collects eyelashes and, according to tradition, losing one meant running all kinds of dangers. So if one falls, put it on the back of your hand and throw it over your shoulder or place it on the tip of your nose, blow it upwards and make a wish.

Spilling salt

Throwing coins into a well or fountain

GOOD LUCK: It comes from ancient divination, the ritual of throwing AD LUCK: Its origin dates back to 3500 B.C. Then, they believed that B stones or hair pins down a well, in order to know whether a fact would salt was incorruptible, which is why it became a symbol of friendship. be fulfilled or not. If bubbles rose to the water surface it meant that they Hence the belief that if you spill it, the friendship would break. To would be fulfilled. counteract this effect, one would take a pinch of the spilt salt and throw A black cat walking towards you or which crosses your path it over one’s left shoulder.

BAD LUCK: Although in Egypt it was believed that the cats were the Saying "Jesus" or "bless you" when someone sneezes reincarnation of the gods, centuries later, the Catholic Church regarded GOOD LUCK: It was because sneezing was the beginning of many them as the reincarnation of the devil, so they were burned. Black was different diseases and so one asked God to drive away the danger identified with the devil being the color of night. In most of Europe and of infection. It is also said that it was to keep the devil from entering North America it is believed that a black cat brings bad luck if it move through the mouth. away from you, but good luck if it walks towards you. In Spain it pretty Spilling wine much in any direction, but it’s always bad luck!

BAD LUCK: When you spill wine on the table, you should immediately http://www.eyeonspain.com/ put a little of it on your forehead for good luck and if it was champagne then you have to touch it with the tip of your fingers and put it on the earlobe to achieve eternal happiness. The origin of this belief is thought to be related to the fetus as it begins life with the earlobe. For this reason, when you soak it in champagne you’re wishing that your life will be surrounded by all kinds of happiness and joy.

Bringing a used broom to a new house

BAD LUCK: You mustn’t take a used broom with you when you move house, as doing so, will bring bad luck and all the misfortune from the previous home.

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November 2016

Lewis Hamilton wins Mexican Grand Prix to keep title chase alive

hamilton back on top but still a way off rosberg

Daya Nueva 3 v. Alguna CF 0

Jose A stars in easy Daya Victory After last week's good result away from home Daya had high hopes of more of the same today. Daya started well and on two minutes won a free kick. Unfortunately Branlio did not make the most of this chance and his effort was poor. It was end to end play for a ten minute period but very little in the way of a goal threat by either side. On thirty minutes the visitors did have a brief spell where they produced a couple of good efforts that saw Jaime in the Day goal having to make good saves.

The home side went in front on twenty four minutes when Jose A headed home.

The remainder of the half was played out in mid-field with no real threat to either goal. So 1-0 Daya at the break. Daya took the game to Alguna from the start of the second period and should have scored early on. With the chances being created by the home side it was surprising that it took until the fifty eighth minute for goal number two to go in. It was that man Jose A, again with another good header. It was still all Daya and more chances came and went before Branlio made it 3-0 on eighty two minutes. So final score 3-0 Daya.

Coach Jesus is slowly building a good side from the large squad of players he has had to assess. Today's result was very good given that prior to this evening's match Alguna occupied fourth spot whilst Daya were in the bottom four. Man of the Match was Jose A. Report by Daya Dave with info provided

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Lewis Hamilton kept his title hopes alive with a comfortable victory from Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the Mexican Grand Prix.

Hamilton survived a scare at the start, when he ran wide at the first corner after locking a front tyre.

But otherwise he was untroubled en route to his 51st career win.

In the championship, the result changes little, and Rosberg can win the title by finishing second to Hamilton at the last two races of the season.

Hamilton is 19 points adrift with a total of 50 available in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.

Rosberg can now regroup after a weekend on which Hamilton was in almost total control throughout.

The German will doubtless keep to his well-worn mantra that he is taking it one race at a time and trying to win each one, but he has the luxury of knowing he can afford to take it easy in both remaining races and clinch his first world title.

Both Mercedes take to the grass Rosberg also had a scare, and a more eventful race than Hamilton, as 120,000 fans had little to excite them under blue skies and warm sunshine in Mexico City, until some frantic and bad-tempered late action in a battle over third place between Red Bull's Max Verstappen, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.

Hamilton spent the first stint controlling his pace to ensure he did not overwork his damaged tyre, while Rosberg was under pressure from Verstappen.

Rosberg and the Dutchman had collided at the first corner as Verstappen tried to take second place, Rosberg taking to the grass behind Hamilton after the collision.

The incident was investigated by the stewards but given the all-clear.

Verstappen's audacious overtake attempt It was a foretaste of what was to come.

As Hamilton controlled the race - on the way to a victory that puts him equal with Alain Prost in second place in the all-time winners' list, with Michael Schumacher way ahead on 91 - Rosberg spent much of the afternoon watching his mirrors for Verstappen.

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Red Bull's gamble of starting on the super-soft tyres to try to mix it with the Mercedes did not really pay off, but it led to a dramatic battle in the closing laps.

Instead of challenging Rosberg, Verstappen found himself under pressure in the closing laps from Vettel and Ricciardo.

Vettel started on the soft tyre like the Mercedes and ran a very long 33-lap first stint, leading for 16 laps after Hamilton's first stop.

That gave him tyres that were 20 laps fresher than Verstappen's for the final stint and he closed in inexorably until he was within 1.2secs with six laps to go.

Verstappen the villain Verstappen locked up at the first corner on lap 68 and ran wide over the grass, cutting the corner and keeping hold of third place, the German complaining he should be given the position as Verstappen was advised by his team to hand it over.

But Verstappen kept fighting as Vettel tried to pass, the four-time world champion claiming the Dutchman was backing him into Ricciardo, who fought back through the field after a first-lap stop put him on a two-stop strategy.

The three were nose to tail at the start of the penultimate lap and Vettel was right on the edge in holding Ricciardo back as he tried to pass into Turn Four.

The incident spread the gap between the three cars and Verstappen crossed the line in third, from Vettel and Ricciardo.

But Verstappen's cutting of the first corner was investigated by the stewards on the grounds he might have gained an advantage by leaving the track and in dramatic scenes Verstappen was given a five-second penalty immediately after the race and was demoted to fifth.

Mexican Grand Prix marshalls "Vettel said WHAT to Charlie?!?" Some of the marshals donned face paint to celebrate Mexico's Day of the Dead Verstappen was forced to leave the pre-podium room as Vettel ran to take up his place on the podium.

However, in a further twist, Vettel then lost third place after becoming the first driver to be punished under a new dangerous driving rule for his defence against Ricciardo's attempted pass.

Vettel was penalised 10 seconds for moving while in the braking zone and given two penalty points on his licence - ending up fifth and Ricciardo eventually being classified as third.

Furious Vettel rants at F1 referee Vettel had earlier fumed over the radio, using several expletives in telling his team how unhappy he was with race director Charlie Whiting.

Vettel celebrates his podium after Verstappen's demotion, but his delight would be short-lived He and Verstappen then gesticulated at each other after crossing the line, Vettel wagging his finger at Verstappen. bbc.com

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• Last Saturday, there were excellent PL wins for Manchester City (4-0 at WBA 4-0), Liverpool (4-2 at Crystal Palace), Arsenal (4-1 at Sunderland), Chelsea (2-0 at Southampton), Everton (2-0 v West Ham), Middlesbrough (2-0 v Bournemouth) and Watford (1-0 v Hull).

• Spurs drew 1-1 with Leicester, Manchester United, despite having 42 attempts on goal and seeing Ander Herrera sent-off, were held 0-0 at home by Burnley. Stoke played Swansea on Monday.

• In the Championship, Brighton (v Norwich) and Fulham (v Huddersfield) both registered 5-0 victories; leaders Newcastle won 2-1 at Preston (a few days after hammering North End 6-0 in the League Cup) and the Birmingham City-Aston Villa derby ended 1-1.

• Cristiano Ronaldo netted a hattrick and missed a penalty as La Liga leaders Real Madrid won 4-1 at Alaves; Barcelona (2nd) beat Granada 1-0.

• The top PL matches this weekend are Arsenal-Spurs, Chelsea-Everton, Leicester-WBA, Liverpool-Watford, Manchester City-Southampton, Swansea-Manchester United.

• The key Championship games are Bristol City-Brighton, HuddersfieldBirmingham and Newcastle-Cardiff.

• FL1 leaders Scunthorpe visit Coventry; FL2 table-toppers Plymouth play at Crewe, and unbeaten Carlisle travel to Newport.

• Celtic, SPL leaders by seven points, take on Inverness CT and several non-

League clubs compete in the FA Cup first round, with Eastleigh starting off against Swindon on Friday.

• Bangladesh (220 & 296) beat England (244 & 164) by 108 runs in the second cricket Test to level the series at 1-1. England collapsed from 100 for nought in their second innings, as teenage spinner Mehedi Hasan took 12 wickets in the match (19 in the series).

• It was Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Danny Ricciardo 1-2-3 in last Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix. With two races left (in Brazil and Abu Dhabi) Rosberg leads Hamilton by 19 points in the driver’s championship.

• Andrea Dovizioso won last weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang. Valentino Rossi finished second with Jorge Lorenzo third.

• Andy Murray COULD become world number one if he wins this weekend’s tournament in Paris. The Scot defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsongo in last Sunday’s Erste Bank Open final in Austria.

• In the four Nations Rugby League tournament there were wins for Australia 54-12 over Scotland and New Zealand 17-16 over England.

• In the Aviva Premiership there were wins for Bath 16-13 at Exeter, Harlequins 36-14 v Worcester, Sale 31-13 at Bristol, Saracens 24-10 v Leicester and Wasps 31-6 v Newcastle.

• Jordan Thomas has won GB’s first World karate gold medal for 12 years.

LA MARINA GOLF-SOCIETY CAPTAIN’S DAY 2016 The usual format for Jimmy Scott’s Captains Day took place on Thursday with an early competition on the Par 3 course at El Plantio ,followed by breakfast and the premier competition on the 18-hole course.

The Society provided a very acceptable Bacon baguette between rounds and we moved to the main event with much hope. However, 27 holes in a day proved too much for most and scores In general didn’t meet expectations.

Prize- giving took place at the La Marina Club in the evening where we were provided with an excellent 3-course meal with wine by Helena and her staff ,together with a round of drinks from the Captain. A curiously fun raffle game followed with much hilarity when people’s prizes disappeared from their table and were sometimes snatched back immediately only to disappear again.

All in all a thoroughly enjoyable evening thank you Jimmy ,Irene and Elspeth.

Competition results are as follows: Gold Medal and Captain’s Trophy - Vic Smith 38 points Silver Medal Winner -

Carol Marriner Nearest the Pins - Alan Craig, Vic Smith, Mick Cook and Mark Pope Par 3 Winner (on countback) - Roger Honey 25 points Our next meeting is at BonAlba on 10th November at a cost of 40 E ,first tee 10.00 a.m.

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(in association with Costa Blanca and the prize presentation and we Green Fee Services) at Mar Menor give our thanks for their continued on 27th October 2016. support under the new owner For this month’s meeting a Lorraine and why not pop into the group of 22 players visited the established course at Mar Menor bar and see for yourself.. taking advantage of the excellent society deal obtained from Costa Our next interim game is at Blanca Green Fee Services.

Altorreal on 10th November 2016 The course was in excellent and the next society fixture is condition and there wer some good scores on the day.

CAPTAINS DAY at El Plantio on The winning scores on the day 24th November 2016. were as follows:1st – Steve Report by Mike Probert Hanaway - 40 points, 2nd – Steve Davey 38 of Costa Blanca points, 3rd – Neil Green Fee Services Atkinson - 36 points, 4th – Rod Allen – 35 on 966 704 752 points or 661 345 931 or Nearest the Pins – see us at our webMark Singfield, Neil Atkinson & Steve site at www.costaHanaway blanca-greenfees.

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AD ALQUERIAS 0 MAZARRON FC 1

Mazarron gave one of their best performances of the season so far to earn a 1-0 away win at AD Alquerias.

Alquerias started brightly and Juan Pedro in the Mazarron goal made a couple of early saves with Raul Torrano also helping out with a goal line clearance from a corner.

Most of Alquerias’s threat came from their star player David who caused Mazarron many problems in the corresponding game last season.

However, Mazarron soon got to grips with the artificial surface and Jimmy shot over the bar from a Boudia free kick. The only goal of the game came after 24 minutes.

Raul was fouled midway inside the Alquerias half and Raul Torrano’s pinpoint free kick was headed firmly into the net by Raul. Juan Pedro was again forced into action as Alquerias sought an equaliser but it was Mazarron who created the better chances with Jimmy again firing over the bar and Ruben’s cross to the far post being just too long for Raul to reach.

Steven replaced Raul at half time and Mazarron used his pace down the right to good effect with Jimmy taking up a central striking role.

Juan Pedro again made a crucial save at the near post early in the second half and then had to come off his line smartly to smother another Alquerias attack.

Andreo and Ruben both had shots

off target for Mazarron and Steven made an excellent break down the right but chose to cross the ball when he was better placed to have a shot at goal. Mazarron almost increased their lead on 65 minutes when Juan Pedro’s clearance was cleverly controlled by Jimmy. He played the ball into the path of Ruben whose fierce drive was just touched around the post by the Alquerias keeper.

A minute later Juan Andreo’s pass found Andreo whose shot crashed against the bar as Mazarron started to take control of the game. Then Jimmy and Ruben exchanged passes with Jimmy’s shot again being well saved.

Alquerias surged forward in the last 15 minutes but Mazarron’s defence again superbly marshalled by captain Juan Andreo held firm to earn three precious points and take the team up to ninth position in the league.

Mazarron’s next game is the local derby at home to second placed Bala Azul from Puerto de Mazarron on Sunday (6th November) kick off 5 pm when a bumper crowd is expected at the Estadio Municipal.

Team: Juan Pedro; Raul Torrano; Boudia; Juan Andreo; Pedro; Raso; Andreo; Ruben (Mariano); Cesar (Koko); Raul (Steven); Jimmy Man of the Match: Juan Pedro

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GARETH BALE: REAL MADRID STAR HAS REPORTED $1 BILLION BUYOUT CLAUSE IN NEW DEAL

Gareth Bale has become the world’s best-paid player, after the Real Madrid forward signed a three-year contract extension in the Spanish capital worth £350,000 a week after tax.

The deal, confirmed

by Madrid on its official website on Sunday, will keep Bale at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium until at least June 2022. Bale’s new buyout clause was reported by The Guardian to be £900 million ($1 billion).

As significant as tying Bale to Madrid for what should be the best years of his career, is the fact that he will now earn more than the putative £288,000 per week ($351,000) currently garnered by Cristiano Ronaldo.

Ronaldo remains in talks with Madrid over a potential new five-year deal.

Bale eclipsed him as the world’s most expensive player when the Welshman signed for the Spanish giant in 2013 for £85 million ($103.6 million), a fee since beaten by Paul Pogba’s £89 million ($108.4 million) summer 2016 move to Manchester United. http://europe.newsweek.com/

T.M.G.S. @ Alenda Golf 26/10/16

This course is not on our frequent visit list, but son could be, every time we play here they have made some very subtle changes and for the better I might add.

Upon arrival we were greeted by warm hazy sunshine making it a perfect day for golf that is unless your name is Kjell Aasebo. Could it have been that we began from tee 10 or was that he was boasting about hitting great balls on the range or that he returned a nett 70 in last week’s competition, well any of the above could be the reason that his tee shot just managed to dribble of the end of the tee ( far short of the ladies tee and we all know what that means!) it even took him 2 more shots to pass the tree in the fairway ( 150m from the tee) but he did manage to score a point, well done Kjell. Let’s hope that you’re in the Vikings team at La Manga playing for the Viking Trophy.

Today’s results: N.T.P.’s Hole 3 T. Roed, Hole 5 L. Holmberg, Hole 13 A. Rixson and Hole 16. 86 years young Tom Jones who’s tee short finished just a few cm’s short for a hole in one. Tom was joined in

the “2’s” kitty by John Hettrick and Lennart Holmberg. Our Best visitor was Cecilia Kinnerfelt 30 pts.

Bronze cat: 3rd J. Dursley 33 pts, 2nd J. Hillier 33 pts. on L/H 1st Mrs G. Handeland 34 pts. Silver cat: J. Darowszeski 36 pts. 2nd Mrs. K. Alm 37 pts. 3rd J. Hettrick 37 L/H. Gold cat: 3rd D. Cranston 34 pts. 2nd G. Cromm 35 pts. 1st T. Roed 36 pts.

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