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‘Stolen baby’ finds her mum & siblings 44 years later A 44-year-old woman from Valencia who always suspected she was a ‘stolen baby’ has found her family. According to a report by ThinkSpain, Isabel A.P., who was born in the Casa Cuna Santa Isabel on February 18, 1969, says her biological mother was told after the birth that the child was a boy and had died during labour. “After 44 years, it turns out I’m a girl and very much alive,” says Isabel. She said on her Facebook site: “DNA tests have confirmed 100 per cent what our hearts told us, each and every one of us. “Soon I’ll be able to hug my mother and give her the kiss that was stolen from us when I was born.” As well as finding her mother, Isabel has discovered she has four siblings. She says she is looking forward to ‘making up for lost time’ and ‘sharing her life’ with her new family. Isabel says her discovery ‘marks a before and after’ in the countrywide scandal of babies who were stolen between approximately 1936 and 1990, and highlights the ‘injustices committed’ and ‘how people playing

God decided our lives for us’. The campaign group SOS Niños Robados (‘SOS Stolen Babies’) is made up of thousands of people in Spain who either suspect a family member of theirs, or their own child, was stolen at birth, or who believe they may be one of these children. It is thought that Republican parents and unmarried mothers were told by nuns working as midwives that their babies had died during birth, and that these children were then ‘sold’ to couples who could not have children, including many who supported Franco’s stance. Many parents who adopted their children via an agency said they had no idea at the time that the baby had been stolen. As yet, no trial against the perpetrators has been completed, since the first and only person to stand in the dock – the nun known as Sor María, incriminated after mum María Luisa found her 30-year-old daughter Pilar – was in her 80s at the time and died before the case was fully heard.

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Tax evasion is costing the average Spanish resident around 2,000 euros a year out of their pay-packets, figures show. According to Hacienda, the country’s fiscal authorities, this varies by region from 2,776 in La Rioja to 1,113 in Extremadura, but means a typical inhabitant in Spain sees 1,910 euros a year more coming out of their income than they would if tax avoidance did not occur. Increases in taxes and social security have affected salaried employees the most, says tax office union GESTHA, since these have no way of hiding any of their tax liabilities, unlike self-employed workers or business owners, potentially. Spain has one of the highest tax levels in Europe for the middle class, GESTHA adds, and yet moneylaundering costs the public coffers 90 billion euros a year, or around 20 per cent of the GNP. It claims the ‘excessively-low’ taxes payable in other parts of Europe need to come to an end. To compensate for the wide-scale multi-million frauds occurring in Spain, authorities want to increase Business Tax to 35 per cent for turnover exceeding a million euros a year, a move that could bring in a further 14 billion euros annually.

Amnesty International Slams ‘Police Violence’, Forced Evictions & No Healthcare For Immigrants Amnesty International has condemned the ‘unnecessary violence’ used by riot police during public demonstrations in Spain and the ‘lack of guarantees’ for people whose homes have been repossessed. In its annual report, AI listed six areas where it considered Spain needed to improve its human rights policies. Other entries included antiterrorism measures, racism and domestic violence, but particularly emphasised repossession of homes and ‘aggressiveness’ by police in protest marches as being two areas directly caused by the financial crisis. The report mentioned two cases in point concerning the latter – the death of Ángela Jaramillo from a heart

attack three months after being repeatedly beaten with truncheons by police officers when taking part in a peaceful demonstration, the after-effects of which required medical treatment; and reporter Paloma Aznar, who suffered a serious eye injury after being hit by a rubber bullet fired at her, despite wearing her press identification in a prominent place about her person. Amnesty International referred more generically to riot police hitting, firing rubber bullets at and threatening participants and reporters in a peaceful demonstration in Madrid on September 25. They added that investigations were usually ‘impossible’ because victims were unable to identify the officers who had attacked them by their

numbers, and because they did not have evidence to prove their injuries were inflicted by the police. According to AI, this means the victims of excessive police violence are ‘defenceless’ at law, and that authorities did not carry out ‘full, structured and systematic’ inquiries into such cases. Its report also condemned ‘forced evictions’, both of mortgage defaulters and people living in poverty in shanty towns, which are ‘a long way from complying with international legal guarantees’ stipulated by legislative reforms passed to deal with the effects of the global recession. Spain was ‘not evaluating or dealing with the repercussions’ affecting the human rights of ‘vulnerable sectors of the

Petrol and diesel go up in price per barrel. Brent oil is the most-used in Europe,

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and Texas Sweet Light, which has gone up to 92.99 dollars a barrel, is the more commonly employed brand in the USA. Despite the price hikes, petrol still costs less in Spain than the EU average of 1.569 euros a litre, or 1.6904 in the Eurozone. Diesel costs an average of 1.427 euros a litre in the 27 EU member States, or 1.413 euros in the Eurozone. Spain’s cheaper petrol is due to lesser fiscal pressure than in other member States, despite the IVA hike having caused a sharp rise in prices in September.

population’, or offering the legal guarantees of prior consultation and negotiation, compensation in the case of people evicted from shanty towns, and suitable alternative accommodation for all those left homeless. Amnesty International says Spain has made no further efforts in the last two years to address this issue, despite the organisation having warned the government in 2011 that hundreds of thousands of residents were at risk of losing their homes and that nine million people were living in actual poverty with no legal support. Among other issues, AI slammed the fact that victims of domestic violence do not have access to ‘effective remedies’ and ‘face obstacles’ when seeking help, and that foreigners without a residence card or not paying social security were unable to obtain medical treatment via the public health service without paying. “This is not a cutback, it is a violation of human rights,” says Amnesty International. For governments in the European Union, it is more important to them to protect borders than to protect life and health.”

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Mother fakes Garzón To Return To Politics The ex Magistrate from the National Court, Baltasar robbery after Garzón, who lost his job for pursuing the Gürtel corruption has said: ‘It’s the moment to participate in gambling politics, the panorama is stifling’ According to a report by Typically Spanish, Garzón takings of said that he would not stand as a member of any political grouping, but he said he will be political though son’s bar ‘denuncias , debate and demand’. He considers that the

A woman who spent the entire day’s takings of her son’s bar in a fruit machine and tried to cover it up by reporting a break-in has been arrested. The accused, 56, from Artana (Castellón) told the Guardia Civil that two men burst into the bar at around 01.00hrs when she was cleaning the premises and one grabbed her by the neck and punched her, threatening her with a sharp object. She said the other man grabbed a bag containing 200 euros in coins and 600 euros in notes, which was the takings from that day and the day before. But police said her statement was ‘inconsistent’ and that she kept tripping herself up. She finally broke down and confessed that she had invented the story because she was afraid her son would find out she had spent nearly 800 euros on the fruit machine, and having afterwards fallen down the stairs, decided to use her facial injuries as a cover-up, saying they were the result of a violent burglary. The woman has been charged with simulating a crime for financial gain.

current ideological positions are very worrying. In an interview in El País today he stated: ‘Politics is not a closed shop and is a vocation of service in which you have to give everything and receive very little’. He tells the paper, ‘In politics you have to be faithful to what you say and if you can’t do that you should leave, you should not have taken up office’. The El País piece has another headline, ‘The Judicial Power should protect the Gürtel judges from the pressure from the Partido Popular’. Other quotes from the exJudge, ‘The Infanta should have declared voluntarily and helped justice’ ‘I will intend to make the State return to the victims the goods which were plundered by the Franquist’. First reaction in the Internet Polls has been an unanimous welcome and the promise of votes. Quite how Mariano Rajoy and the Partido Popular handle this remains to be seen.

British Twin Brothers Found Dead In Fuengirola Flat

Police in Fuengirola, Málaga, have opened an inquiry into the deaths of elderly British twin brothers in their home. The two men, aged 83, were found after a neighbour reported a foul smell coming from their flat yesterday and called the police. Firefighters had to break down the door to get in. One of the men was in an armchair in the lounge and the other was lying on a bed. They both had plastic bags over their heads and parcel tape over their mouths. A postmortem is due to be carried out to ascertain the exact cause of death. Police are treating it as a suicide pact, but have not ruled out any line of inquiry, including murder. The flat where the bodies were found is on the C/ Federico Ruiz Vertedor in the popular resort town.

Annie Leibovitz wins Prince of Asturias prize

The photographer, Annie Leibovitz, has been named as the winner in the Prince of Asturias Awards in the category of communication. She beat the Magnum Agency and the journalist Christiane Amanpour in the last three. She is the second woman to win this award, after María Zambrano in 1981. The jury said she is one of the ‘global photojournalism energisers’, and one of the most respected in Europe and America, whose recognized graphic work has been shown in the best galleries and museums in the emblematic cities of the world. The Jury noted that her work was seen on the covers of the most prestigious magazines. Recently famous for her naked photos of Demi Moore for Vanity Fair, she has been shown to be expert in reflecting the political time, literature, cinema, music and sport though her protagonists, such as John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, all during the 13 years she was contracted to ‘Rolling Stone’. Leibovitz is 63 years old and is considered to be the most important photographer alive at the moment, she is also the most highly paid. She showed a grand retrospective exposition in Madrid in 2009, in which she exhibited her most intimate images, among them pictures of her partner, the writer Susan Sontag, who died in 2004. Susan Sontag was also given a Prince of Asturias award for letters in 2003.

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Spain announces Premursa confirms further reform of Cajas funding to complete

Earlier this month, Spain announced plans to control the cajas blamed for causing the country’s financial crisis, the latest measure in an overhaul of its bailed-out banking sector. The government launched a bill to restrict the regional savings banks’ lending to individuals and small businesses, it announced after a cabinet meeting. The cajas - which were traditionally regionally based lenders - diversified into property during Spain’s decadelong building boom that went bust in 2008. “What we are trying to do is return to the traditional model of savings banks - a traditional model that somehow got distorted in recent years and was the basis of the problems in the Spanish financial model,” Finance Minister Luis de Guindos announced at a press conference. This is just one of the measures Spain promised to the EU last year in return for tens of billions of euros to save its banking sector from collapse. It plans to limit a savings bank’s assets to 10 billion euros, the Ministry said in a statement detailing the plan. If a caja exceeds that size, it will have to submit its financial activities to more stringent regulation. The plan also aims to place control of the savings banks firmly in the hands of depositors, shielding the boards from political influence. It will set quotas for the proportion of seats on the board held by depositors and demand that board members have financial competence and experience. That was apparently a response to past controversies over the naming of unqualified figures with links to politicians to the boards of the cajas. Dozens of cajas were swallowed up in a mass restructuring of the banking sector following the start of the Spanish crisis. Article: www.tumbit.com

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Rajoy Pledges to Cut Taxes by 2015

PM Mariano Rajoy pledged to cut taxes in Spain before the next election, due in 2015, as he forecast a return to growth for the euro area’s 4th-largest economy. “I’m not satisfied in any way with the results we’ve achieved,” Rajoy told a meeting of party officials in Salamanca, Spain, today. “In this legislature we’ll cut taxes. In this legislature there will be economic growth and job creation.” The premier is battling to sustain the morale of the Partido Popular, which has been battered in opinion polls and suffered internal strains over the allocation of spending cuts. The economy is in the 6th year of a slump and unemployment won’t

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Friday Golf Society 24 may:

Jacqui has been laid up in bed with a bad back and I have been very busy. Neither of us played on Friday so Mr President took over the reins. For a change this week we played a Texas Best 2 competition. The tee shots were played like a texas scramble where everyone tees off and you choose one of the balls. After that all players play out their own ball for the rest of the hole and count their individual stableford points. In teams of 4 everyone has to take 4 drives. In teams of 3 and a Doris (our imaginary player) the players take 5 drives. We had 29 players taking part including 2 guests (and the guests won). The winners were Barry Prior, his wife Dot, their son Damien and a second guest Paul with a score of 103. Last place and chocolates went to Albert Taylor, Elaine MacMillan and Jim Shaw with a late substitute called Doris replacing Jacqui due to her bad back. They scored 89 points. Nearest the pin was won by Walter Thorley with a distance of 6.60m. You can see the full results at:

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news update Reports & PHOTOS by Martin Shortland

The Mayor Thrives On A Very Busy Work Load

Figures have just been released for the number of engagements the mayor, Gabriel Amat attended last year. The figures actually include the first quarter of this year as well. He attended between 10 – 15 meetings per day which equates to more than 3,000 over the period, along with receiving 1,600 phone calls. Alongside his job as head of the municipal Council of Roquetas, he is also President of the Provincial Council of

Almeria, so his day is divided between the two. The Council of Roquetas is now the busiest in the province, which partially comes with being the fastest growing town in the province. The latest census figures for last year show the town grew by almost 3,000 inhabitants, with a population now of more than 93,000, second in size only to Almeria. Mr. Amat believes he is more than capable of holding down the two very

important jobs, saying, “I would not have accepted the job as President of the Provincial Council had I thought it would affect my commitment to the citizens of Roquetas.” He said the two jobs often covered similar ground and his involvement on the provincial council was often to the benefit of the work he carried out as mayor.

The Legion Says Farewell To Its Three Lost Comrades

The funeral of the three Spanish Legion soldiers who died last week, was held on Saturday at the Alverez de Sotomayor military base near Viator, Almeria. The men were killed in an explosion on Monday in a munitions store at one of the bases arms depots; unofficial reports say it’s thought they

were disarming an unexploded bomb which had been found on a firing range. Two other men were injured in the incident; one of them is still in a critical condition with severe internal and leg injuries. The moving and emotional ceremony on the parade ground was conducted by the military archbishop

Lighting To Be improved Along The Romanilla Promenade

The council is spending almost 60,000 euros on new lighting for the popular Romanilla promenade in Roquetas. Deputy mayor Eoisa Cabrera made the announcement last week after the council had considered a technical report on the state of the current lighting. The report concluded the present 125 watt mercur y vapour lights were now inefficient and outdated; they will be replaced by 70 watt metal halogen lamps which give a much brighter light and are far more cost effective to run, representing a

significant financial saving. Up to 64 lamp posts which have been in place for 15 years, will be replaced along with their corresponding lights. The job will be undertaken by a company from Almeria and should take just over a month to complete. The deputy mayor said the existing posts were now suffering from corrosion due to their location next to the sea and that in the future, other stretches of the promenade would also be upgraded.

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in front of more than fifty family members, relatives and friends. In attendance was the Defence Minister of Spain, accompanied by the chiefs of the army and navy defence staff and the President of the Council of Andalucia. The occasion had all the solemnity only a full military funeral can bring, with the whole garrison on parade, slow marching to the sound of the Band of the Spanish Legion. The men were posthumously awarded the military cross of merit, given to those who sacrifice their lives on active duty. The medals were laid on each coffin by the Defence Minister. In his address, the Archbishop said their sacrifice showed, ‘a nobility of heart, loyalty and service to Spain in the true traditions of the regiment they served.’ It is unlikely the reasons why the men died will be ever made public. The ministry of defence and the legion have remained silent since the tragedy happened, referring only to the private enquiry which will be carried out by the military. All three were highly experienced and long serving members of the ordinance regiment and had served in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Lebanon and the Middle East. A private cremation ceremony for the families and relatives was held later in Almeria

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Exposure To Artificial Light ‘Fools’ The Brain Into Staying Awake

Electric lights, including those which illuminate laptop computers, smartphones and tablets, often play a key role in causing people to sleep badly, a leading expert has warned. Artificial lights disrupt the body’s natural rhythm, affect chemicals in the brain and drive people to use stimulants like caffeine to stay awake longer, according to Harvard academic Professor Charles Czeisler. The professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School called for research to help develop ‘behavioural and technical’ ways of counteracting the ill effects of artificial light on modern sleeping patterns. The decline in the number of hours slept per night is affecting public health, including a greater risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression and stroke in adults and concentration problems in

children, he said. While all electric light affected circadian rhythms the natural body clock - and sleep, night-time exposure to LED lights like those in phones and computers was ‘typically more disruptive’ than standard electric light bulbs, he said. ‘There are many reasons why people get insufficient sleep in our 24/7 society, from early starts at work or school, or long commutes, to caffeinerich food and drink, but the precipitating factor is an often unappreciated, technological breakthrough: the electric light. Without it, few people would use caffeine to stay awake at night. And light affects our circadian rhythms more powerfully than any drug.’ Poor sleep has been linked with health problems including obesity, heart disease and depression Between 1950 and 2000, the average person in the

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UK increased their use of artificial light sources by four times, with a parallel rise in sleep deficiency, Prof Czeisler said. Artificial light inhibits sleep-promoting neurons in the brain and the nightly release of the hormone melatonin, which aids sleep, while activating neurons that boost alertness, he said. It fools the brain into delaying its ‘second wind’, which kicked in during the afternoon to see people through to sunset before electric light was invented, until much later in the day. He said that as a result of modern technology ‘many people are still checking email, doing homework or watching TV at midnight, with hardly a clue that it is the middle of the solar night’. In a study, 30 per cent of all working adults in the United States and 44 per cent of night workers reported getting less than six hours sleep a night on average. Fifty years ago less than 3 per cent of the US adult population slept so little. And around the world, children are sleeping 1.2 hours less on school nights than a century ago, he said. ‘Technology has effectively decoupled us from the natural 24-hour day to which our bodies evolved, driving us to go to bed later,’ he said. ‘And we use caffeine in the morning to rise as early as we ever did, putting the squeeze on sleep.’

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many cases, and especially with those linked to lower risk for cancer. The researchers also showed apigenin binds with an estimated 160 proteins in the human body, suggesting other nutrients linked to health benefits called ‘nutraceuticals’ might have similar far reaching effects. In contrast, most pharmaceutical drugs target a single molecule. The researchers likened their technique to ‘fishing’ for the human proteins in cells that interact with small molecules available in the diet. Prof Doseff said: ‘You can imagine all the potentially affected proteins as tiny fishes in a big bowl. We introduce this molecule to the bowl and effectively lure only the truly affected proteins based on structural characteristics that form an attraction. We know this is a real partnership because we can see that the proteins and apigenin bind to each other.’ Experiments established apigenin had relationships with proteins that have three specific functions. Among the most important was one known as hnRNPA2 which influences tiny bits of DNA called mRNA containing the instructions needed to produce a specific protein. Abnormalities in these are responsible for about 80 percent of all cancers. The researchers observed apigenin’s connection to the hnRNPA2 protein restored the function of mRNA to breast cancer cells, suggesting when they are normal cells die in a programmed way, or become more sensitive to chemotherapeutic drugs. Added Prof Doseff: ‘So by applying this nutrient, we can activate that killing machinery.’ The beneficial effects of nutraceuticals are not limited to cancer, as the investigators previously showed that apigenin has antiinflammatory activities. The scientists noted that with its multiple cellular targets, apigenin potentially offers a variety of additional benefits that may even occur over time. Further research is now being undertaken.

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Declared ‘Timanfaya’ during the year of 1974, the protected national park located in the southwest region of the island of Lanzarote, is a purely mother-nature created sight. For some six years during the 18th century, this area of land experienced a series of violent volcanic eruptions, in which more than thirty massive explosions of molten lava shook the island, destroying up to eleven settlements. Although the air was filled with thick, black fumes, and entire villages were buried and destroyed under ash and volcanic gravel - known as picón - fortunately and miraculously there were no casualties. The people of these villages deserted their homes early enough to avoid any fatalities this natural disaster could have caused. It was one of these destroyed villages that the Timanfaya name was acquired from, which now - marked by its signature ‘El Diablo’ (The

Devil) entrance sign - flaunts its vast territory to the many tourists, outdoor explorers and geology lovers that visit,. Stretching from the Montañas del Fuego (Fire Mountains) out to sea, the park covers approximately 51 square kilometres of ground between the two municipalities of Yaiza and Tinajo. Unguided walking around the park is not permitted due to potential dangers of fragile rocks and unstable lava tubes. Visitors can explore the park by either a forty minute guided El Diablo bus tour, which departs every twenty minutes and offers recorded commentaries in three languages; or by foot

on a three hour walk guided by a park ranger. The walks are the most popular and only held four times a week, therefore pre-bookings are highly encouraged. There is also an option of camel rides through the park too, which departs from near the visitors centre near Mancha Blanca. The glass-walled El Diablo restaurant in the centre of Timanfaya Park hosts spectacular views over the volcanic landscape out towards the sea. Together with its impressive César Manrique-designed barbeque and cast-iron grill, which uses geothermal heat from the ground to cook food, visitors can enjoy a unique and rustic dining experience.

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

Credits for small companies in Spain may be provided by Germany

Germany may agree to provide ‘special credits’ to small and medium-sized businesses in Spain and Portugal to help them grow, and later to those in Greece. According to German national daily Der Spiegel, the central European country’s equivalent of Spain’s Official Credit Institute – the KfW – is considering investing up to 10 billion euros in small companies and sole traders’ enterprises in the southern EU nations, taking advantage of currently low interest rates. Finance minister for Germany Wolfgang Schäuble (pictured), in a letter to economy minister Philipp Rösler, compared the situation of Spain, Portugal and Greece vis à vis the rest of Europe with that of East and West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. According to Schäuble, many southern European countries are in a similar condition to East Germany – without the communism, but in terms of poverty and financial struggle – and that before the country was united, West Germany used to send aid to its counterparts behind the Iron Curtain. He said companies in crisis-torn European countries would benefit greatly from increased access to capital markets and would be able to create jobs or, at least, by staying afloat, not contribute to the jobless figures. The German finance minister said Spain, Portugal and Greece were ‘in danger of losing an entire generation’.

Non-drinking drivers get 20-euro petrol vouchers

Free petrol for young drivers in the early hours of the morning who can prove they have not drunk any alcohol is being given by Huelva city council in the south-west of Spain.

Numerous checkpoints have been set up around the city to breathalyse drivers and those who show a zero alcohol

reading will be given petrol vouchers.

To sign up to the scheme, they will be given a ‘points card’ upon registering at the city hall and showing their driving licences, and each breathalysing test they undertake which shows a reading of 0.0 will earn them one stamp. They will get a 20-euro Solred petrol

coupon once they have passed four tests with a 0.0 result, but if any readings are higher than these, their points card will be taken off them. This is part of a campaign by local authorities to convince young revellers to take it in turns among their friends to drive and not to drink

Jobseeker who ‘sang’ his CV on the metro taken on by national TV show

An unemployed graduate who ‘sang’ his CV whilst playing the Ukelele on the Barcelona metro has been given a job by Spain’s Channel 6, La Sexta. Enzo Vizcaíno’s performance on the train went viral on YouTube and hit national headlines, after he joked in song about his experience as a community manager – social network administrator for companies – and Ukelele-player. Vizcaíno has a degree in journalism, but has despaired of finding work after months on the dole following redundancy. As a result of the video

he made of himself singing his curriculum vitae, he has been taken on by the national TV station after La Sexta programme Así nos va (‘this is how it’s going for us’) called him to invite him onto the show to talk about the metro experience. Soon after this, the programme, which is presented by Florentino Fernández, employed him as a scriptwriter and contributor. He has now started work with the channel, having gone literally overnight from anonymity and propping up the giro queue in the job centre to being part of a national TV show and an internet sensation after his video clocked up more than half a million hits.

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BEING A RESIDENT OF SPAIN OR NOT CAN MAKE A CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCE TO CAPITAL GAINS TAX. NASTY SURPRISE: HAVING WHAT EVERYONE CALLS THE RESIDENCE CERTIFICATE IS NOT PROOF OF TAX RESIDENCY AND IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WILL BE TREATED AS A NON RESIDENT AND 3% OF THE SALES PRICE WILL BE HELD BACK. Q. I have sold my house. I was under the impression that I was a resident and that the 3% retention for non residents would not be applicable, but the notary said that my residence certificate was not proof of residency and that he had to treat me as a non resident which means that 3% of the sales price was retained and paid into the tax office. How can the resident certificate not be proof of residency? A. What the notary is saying is correct. It is a common nasty surprise at the notary lately suffered by sellers that are not getting the correct advice prior to selling. The new resident certificates with ought photograph issued by the police do not state you are a tax resident of Spain. What it says is that you are a resident of Europe. To be able to be treated as a tax resident of Spain at the moment of sale, you need to provide the notary with a certificate issued by the tax office in Spain stating that they consider you a tax resident of Spain. This needs to be requested in advance of going to the notary by your solicitor or yourself to avoid the 3% retention. Some notaries will also accept as proof of residency your Spanish tax returns. If you are thinking of selling, it is important to find out from the tax office well in advance if your status is that of a resident or non resident, and the certificate issued by them needs to be taken to the notary the day of signature Michael Davies is a Spanish Abogado and has been practicing law in Almería since 1993. He is member of the Law societies of Almería and Madrid and has offices in Mojacar and Almeria High Street.

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The Albox Branch of The Royal British Legion is pleased to announce the following... There is to be a Car Boot Sale on Sunday 23rd June from 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. at the Piedra Amerilla Social Centre, with all proceeds going to The Royal British Legion and MACS charities. Stalls can be booked for 5 Euros at any MACS outlet or by contacting TRBL Social Secretary Bob Cowan on 608049490 or email rcowan25@gmail.com This will be followed by a fantastic evening at the Piedra Amarilla Amphitheatre, starting with a BBQ at 6.00 p.m. followed by A Summers Evening of Musical Memories in the Amphitheatre itself. Appearing acts include: VOICES OF ALMANZORA. INDEPENDENT THEATRE GROUP, JILL FROM JJ MUSIC, SWEET CHARITY GROUP, AND MORE... Again, all proceeds will be shared between TRBL and MACS charities. The evening and BBQ are sponsored by Ibex Insurance. The entertainment starts at 7.30pm. The cost for both the BBQ and evening entertainment is a modest 10 Euros only! Tickets for the BBQ and evening are available at MACS outlets, any meeting of The Royal British Legion in Albox (1st & 3rd Thursday of each month) or by contacting Bob Cowan on 608049490 or email rcowan25@gmail.com The Albox Branch of The Royal British Legion meets on the 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month (10.30 & 11.00 start) at La Parrilla Hotel & Restaurant in the Main Square of Albox. If you require more details for any of the activities and events for the Albox branch contact the chairman, Peter Phillips, on 693483392 or email peatpee@sky.com, or visit the branch website, www.britishlegion.org.uk/branches/albox

Almanzora Charitable Theatre

After the production of “It’s a Dog’s Life” at the end of last year, ‘Almanzora Charitable Theatre’ is turning its attention from animals back to ‘homo sapiens’. However, in their forthcoming production, scheduled for the beginning of June it is definitely doubtful whether any of the characters portrayed possess much of the ’sapiens’ part of being human. The performances will take place on the 7th, 8th and 9th of June in Bar Parrilla, Albox and the programme is made up of 2 one-act plays which could perhaps be described as 2 utter debacles. The first, “Costa del Packet” centres around a group of 4 ladies who have booked a holiday at a four star luxury hotel in Mallorca. Unfortunately, their dream of a wonderfully relaxing time in the sun is punctured when they discover that the accommodation on offer is somewhat less salubrious than they had anticipated. The second play, “Strictly Sex Factor ( on Ice )” revolves around the ‘Little Grimley Amateur Dramatic Society” who are extremely grim to say the least. In their hey-day their audiences hardly ever reached double figures! However, their bombastic, pompous chairman has devised a plan to compete head-on with the TV reality shows that he believes have ravaged their Saturday night audiences. The evening’s entertainment includes a 3 course meal and the proceeds will be domated to MACS (See Main Advert on page 3)

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The Hotel Zafiro Goes Up For Auction – At Last

Described variously as being, ‘a blight on the landscape,’ ‘a disgrace’ and often much more, The Zafira Hotel in the urbanisation could now be sold and re-developed. Well that’s the theory! The local council has for some years been trying to get the building back into use, but with little success. Their attempts have always failed in the legal quagmire surrounding who actually owns the property.

But now they are confident they have at least got a date in the diary for an auction, to be held in September. The hotel – one of the first to be built in the area – has been closed and virtually derelict for many years. Its prime position on the main road into the urbanisation does not make for a pleasing view to holidaymakers and residents alike; vandalism, graffiti, peeling paint and overgrown trees have turned it into an eyesore. The problem in trying to find a new owner has grown as the years have passed. It’s estimated a sum of around 10 million euros would have to be spent to bring it up to modern day standards, but of course that sum could be way too low. Things become more difficult when factoring in the back taxes, VAT, unpaid insurance and a hundred

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If the council had their way, they would simply bulldoze the site and plant some palm trees; an idea which I’m sure appeals to most people, but that is not an option. Having tracked down the owners and persuaded them to sell – the bidding is set to start at a giveaway 150,000 euros. - they had to agree to allow all the back taxes etc to be passed on to the eventual new owners. And that’s where the stumbling block is. Who will be prepared to take on all the debts as well as the huge sum of money required for the refurbishment? The councils spokesperson said in a statement when announcing the forthcoming auction, that they considered it ‘unlikely’ anyone would be prepared to bid for the property under those conditions. Hardly a ringing endorsement to the residents of and future visitors to the urbanisation, but it would appear that’s as much as the council can do in the circumstances. Ideas on a postcard please...

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the legion rolls into cordoba (part 3)

The final part of the Royal British Legion’s tour saw us leave Antequera on Thursday 25th April, for the third largest city in the Province of Andalusia, CORDOBA, which has previously been referred to as the JEWEL-IN -THE-CROWN of our tour. It was about another one hour and thirty minutes before we arrived in Cordoba, where we stayed in a nice hotel belonging to the same group as the ‘HOTEL SABINAL ‘in RDM, in the district of Miraflores. The journey took us through a large olive growing area and Veronique commented that there were more than 17m olive trees! A few tried to count them as we travelled and the consensus was that there were a few more stated? Google here we come! We should have enjoyed another menu-del-dia on the way to Cordoba, but the legion members and friends were still stuffed from previous mealtimes, so most people seemed to drift off to have tapas and a few drinks, before tackling what the City of Cordoba had to offer. A few of the group went off in taxis, others went on foot to sightsee, but ten members of the Friday Tapas Group had a ride on the two red ‘City Sightseeing’ tourist buses, which toured the city and an audio presentation explained the various points of interest. The smaller bus took the splinter group around the outside of the Mezquita-Cathedral (in some very narrow streets), a totally amazing building dating back some 1,200 years or more! The Cathedral is regarded as one of the most accomplished monuments of ‘Renaissance’ and ‘Moorish’ architecture. It would seem that Spanish Muslims have lobbied the Roman Catholic Church to allow them to pray in the cathedral. The Muslim campaign has been rejected on numerous occasions, by both the Spanish Catholic authorities and the Vatican. The second, larger double-deck bus, took the group around the city, visiting the newer parts of the city, and the older parts, where the bus could only just fit, as it was tight squeeze down some of the streets. So, all-in-all, it was a right good do for €12 each, which was a specially negotiated price on the day! Friday morning, 26th April, saw the group set-off on foot, over the old bridge (see photo), over the River Guadalquivir, linking the districts of Fields of Truth and Cathedral! Veronique explained the various points of interest again and led the happy band to look around the Mezquita/ Cathedral. Others went for coffee and there are a selection of photographs to prove this! Another note of interest is that the Rio Guadalquivir continues downstream to Seville! So, if you are anywhere near Cordoba, do call in and spend some time exploring there, as did many Japanese tourists that were bussed in while we were there, complete with cameras flashing. Later in the day, the group setoff on the homeward-bound journey, calling for lunch at Luque, a small town situated on an old railway track, now redundant and, now a cycleway, between Cordoba and Granada. The old station building has been preserved and is now a restaurant and has a shop selling olive oil and various other local produce. The group enjoyed another menu-del-dia seated at a table on platform 1, see photos, and again some good wines and ale were seen off. A number of old goods wagons/vans have been preserved and converted into

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Tel: 950 472 430 / 610 053 563

www.veritashomes.co.uk info@veritashomes.co.uk You can find us on zurgena

€75,000

marina de la torre €79,995

mojacar playa

2 bed / 1 bath furnished Apartment within walking distance to beach. Front terrace of 27 m² & back patio of 13 m². Ref. 1005

2 bed / 2 bath Apartment. Sea views within walking distance to beach & amenities. Terrace of 18 m². Communal pools. Ref. 1070

€89,500

reduced

3 bed / 2 bath brand new Penthouse apartment in the middle of the town. Lift & communal roof solarium. Ref. 1340

mojacar playa front line

€95,000

€269,000

mojacar playa THE BEST INVESTMENT PROPERTY:

Nr Lubrin reduced

€90,000

Spacious well presented 4 bed / 2 bath Townhouse in La Rambla Aljibe. Utility room & terraces of 36 m². Ref. 1191

arboleas reduced

€105,000

2 bed / 1 bath front line Apartment situated right on the beach. Sea views & communal beach. Needs a modern refresh. Ref. 1506

3 bed / 2 bath brand new detached Villa on plot of 700 m² with excellent access & beautiful views. Fitted kitchen. Ref. 1338

mojacar playa

agua nueva reduced

€110,000

4 bed / 3 bath Villa with pool and garage on plot of 500 m² close to beach & amenities. Central heating. Ref 1495

South facing 2 bed / 2 bath Apartment with garage. Sea facing terrace of 40 m². Fully furnished. Ref.1507

Mojacar Playa reduced

€140,000

2 bed / 2 bath lovely ground floor Apartment with garage near beach and amenities. Large living room. Terraces. Ref 1021

nr vera reduced

€199,950

Private 3 bed / 2 country House with garage and pool on plot of 2.500 m² between Vera and Los Gallardos. Ref 1440

cariatiz Bargain

€149,000

3 bed / 2 bath Villa with large garage on plot of 1.081 m² within 30 min drive to coast. Fully fitted kitchen & laundry room. Ref.1093

Mojacar Playa first line

€246,000

3 bed / 2,5 bath front line immaculate Duplex with 2 underground parking spaces in Marina de la Torre Golf course. Ref 1508

mojacar playa bargain

€169,000

3 bed / 2 bath spacious Townhouse with private garage within 200 m to beach. Small gated community with pool. Ref 1483

mojacar reduced

€115,000

2 bed / 2 bath new built Villa. Underground garage. Plot of 400 m². 2 terraces & solarium. Build: 71 m². Garage: 50 m². Ref. 1169

llanos del Peral €169,950

3 bed / 2 bath nice Villa with garage and pool on walled plot of 2.140 m² within 10 min drive to amenities. Ref 1157

€249,950

3 bed / 2 bath charming detached Cortijo with garage set on the Huerta de Abajo on plot of 7.000 m². Bargain! Ref 1196

Please visit our office or refer to our website for more “bargains”. Vendors: If you are seriously considering selling your property please visit our office to discuss effective ways of achieving your goal. As per decree 218/2005 the “Documento de Información Abreviada” (D.I.A) for any property sold by Veritas Homes is available at our office.

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property guide.... New law will mean company debt does not affect personal assets Property Sales • Property Management • Long & short term rentals • Insurance

Business-owners and self-employed persons may no longer have to risk their main homes to pay back debts relating to their commercial activity if a new law under discussion goes ahead.

309 Paseo del Mediterraneo, Mojacar Playa (50m from Ferreteria Lopez)

According to a report by ThinkSpain, the government wants to allow people to set up a limited company, or an S.L., in the true sense, meaning that their liability as a firm will not affect their personal assets up to a limit of 300,000 euros.

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22,950€

For total rebuild, an interesting and charming village house for renovation located just behind the Church in the beautiful village of Bedar. 65 m2 with great views.

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This will involve an initial capital investment of a lower amount than the present minimum of 3,000 euros, with a total of 20 per cent of the profits going into the required capital reserve fund. A ‘second chance’ option may also be included in the draft law, whereby companies with a balance of less than five million euros can go into out-of-court negotiations instead of into receivership, allowing them to obtain a reprieve on up to 25 per cent of the debt and a three-year stay of grace in paying back tax and social security debts. Businesses and self-employed persons with a turnover of less than two million euros a year would not be required to pay IVA charged until the invoice upon which it appears has

displaying a great selection of new & used furniture

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Tel: 634 347 295

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When asked why it had taken the government so long to create the new law, vice-president Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (pictured) said that the cabinet had been obliged to approve a series of legislative initiatives ‘urgently’ since they had a time-limit for these after winning the general elections in November 2011. She added that the government had agreed to give automatic residence rights to all foreigners who bought properties exceeding 500,000 euros in value – considerably more than the initial 160,000-euro value initially planned – as well as anyone who purchased national debt to the value of two million euros or more, and anyone investing significant amounts in the country, including setting up large companies that would provide new jobs, be in the ‘public interest’, or suppose a contribution to scientific or technological innovation and investigation. Highly-qualified professionals from abroad working for major companies of international renown, new entrants to the country who already have a job offer, and those travelling to Spain for professional training or education will also be given automatic residence.

Pub owners get three year two month prison sentence for music being too loud

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Garzón appeals to ECHR over his being struck off for Gürtel phone-tapping

A Judge who was struck off for ‘acting outside his jurisdiction’ when investigating a high-profile corruption case has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Baltasar Garzón took matters into his own hands with the infamous Gürtel case and arranged for telephones of main suspects to be tapped, producing incriminating evidence which is what led to the scandal being uncovered in the very beginning. He says the fact he was banned from practising as a judge as a result was ‘against the Spanish Constitution’, which effectively gives investigating judges total freedom in their related actions. To this end, Garzón says ‘what is not criminal conduct has been considered as such’ and that he has been made into a scapegoat for the ‘poor and inadequate’ laws of Spain. Garzón adds that the ministry of justice and the prosecution service ‘supported’ his actions in tapping the suspects’ telephones and that the verdict against him is therefore ‘contradictory, irrational and arbitrary’. He says he limited himself to ‘complying with his obligations’ as a judge and did not breach any legal regulations, and that to strike him off on the grounds of his investigative procedures would create ‘unacceptable legal insecurity among judges and magistrates’. Finally, he says the magistrates who passed the verdict preventing him from practising again did so by ‘creating a tailor-made criminal offence’, since ‘there is no law in Spain preventing or regulating telephone-tapping’.

Penal Court Number 3 has given a three year and two month sentence to both the owners of a pub in Valverde del Camino, Huelva. The two have been found guilty of causing acoustic contamination, and in addition both will have to pay a 3,800 Euro fine, and compensation of 7,000 Euros for the neighbours somatic and psychic disorders. The court considered it proved that the neighbours suffered acoustic contamination from 2008 to May 2010 from the pub next door. The sentence notices that the pub owners used an improper sound limiter. Article: Howard Brereton - Typically Spanish

More than 80 families have benefited so far from the housing decree issued by the Junta de Andalucía

More than 80 families have benefited so far from the housing decree issued by the Junta de Andalucía which gives those evicted the chance to live in empty property owned by the banks. In a report by Typically Spanish, it appears they can use the property for five years, and while they are there the Junta will pay the bank a small rent. Manuel García Peláez, Andalucía Councillor for Development and Housing, has said that 53 municipalities in Málaga province had signed an agreement to move ahead with the decree.

Three dead and one critical in light aircraft crash

Two men and a woman have died in a light aircraft crash and the pilot is in a critical condition in hospital. The plane, a singleengine Cesna 172 owned by the company Aviation Centre, went down in an area of scrubland near Marratxí (Mallorca), killing two men aged 22 and 36, and a woman aged 36. Emergency services say the pilot, 22, is seriously injured and has been taken to the Son Espases hospital in Palma after having been attended to at the scene. Firefighters were called out to deal with the blaze which flared up when the plane hit the ground, and one of the firemen and a bystander suffered minor burns when attempting to help. A full investigation is under way as to the exact causes of the crash.

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STANDARD CROSSWORD

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works (8)

Down

20 Newts (4)

1 Not readily available (6) 2 Standardize (9) 3 Pertaining to cities (5) 4 Craftsman (7) 6 A nearby galaxy (9) 7 Smooths (5) 8 A writer of literary

11 Smile (4) 15 Revering (9) 17 Not figuratively (9) 18 Pet rodents (8)

Down

1 High pitched, quiet and small channel (6) bacteria (7) 2 Dessert, led astray by little 22 An impetuous rush pool (6) (6) 3 Pull 17ac (3) 5 Try this mixture - it’s dry (7) 24 Fragrance (5) 25 Hindu for “Mister” 6 Carry on Connie, you French (5)

Very Hard!

SUDOKU PUZZLE CRYPTIC crossword

CROSSWORD

SOLUTIONS SUDOKU PUZZLE

2 Kick 17 ac (4) 4 Lured decent lunatic to take Iodine (7) 8 You old penthouse dweller! (4) 9 Head start in gloomy 17 ac (6) 12 In North, queen is central (5) 13 Discovery reportedly punished (4) 14 Drumming could be supersonic? (10) 15 Attached good light around centre court (5) 17 Put nothing in animal vessel (4) 19 Ponytail belonging to us, but not mine! (5) 20 One-dimensional missing a 17ac (5) 21 Vehicle taking very loud polishes (5) 25 Humble? Me? Heartless elk! (4) 27 A merest error producing a 17ac (7) 28 Attractive share of profits for middlemen (4) 29 Sebastian takes in a named 17ac (5) 30 17ac each way? (5) 32 Capture in humane trap (3) 33 Grotesque thong outside university for nothing! (6) 34 Pad excavations (4)

drunk! (8) 7 Band with no light? (8) 10 Sleep mid-morning with a political leader (3) 11 Poor Cynthia missing in 17ac (5) 15 Tree hiding amongst legumes (3) 16 Relative loses a free... (5) 17 ...17ac from “Club Argentina” (5) 18 Music for your photos? (5) 22 17ac cook without hesitation (5) 23 Hit deck as mass disintegrates (7) 24 Trying times in middle-age without drugs (7) 26 That woman takes a weekend to tremble (5) 27 Almost frown for 17ac (4) 31 Tree has transformation (3)

21 Rod-shaped

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

1 Not plural (8) 5 A type of inflorescence (6) 9 Aerialists (8) 10 Bovine mammary glands (6) 12 Secure or fasten (5) 13 Earnestly (9) 14 Ape or monkey (6) 16 Pins (7) 19 Astounding (7) 21 Attractiveness (6) 23 A piece of numerical data (9) 25 A tree of the genus Betula (5)

26 Titillating (6) 27 Ball-shaped (8) 28 Sprinkle with moisture (6) 29 A unit of computer memory (8)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

HARD SUDOKU

Across

STANDARD SUDOKU

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food & drink...food & drink

Jamie Oliver is our favourite TV chef Delia is deemed out-of-date and Nigella is making us fat!

His cheeky smile and carefree approach to cooking won the nation over when he hit our screens 15 years ago. And it seems Jamie Oliver still has our hearts today. According to a report by Mail Online, ‘The Naked Chef’ has been voted Britain’s favourite celebrity chef in a new survey, as well as the cook whose recipes we find easiest to follow at home. The survey also shows that Britons feel long time culinary queen and television staple Delia Smith is out of date, and that the famously sultry Nigella Lawson makes us fat. Jamie Oliver, 37, was picked as our number one by almost a fifth (23 per cent) of those polled - with Gordon Ramsay second (16 per cent) and Nigella Lawson third (11 per cent). The least popular was Masterchef’s John Torode, picked by just one per cent of the 1,000 people polled by diet firm Forza Supplements. Surprisingly, the nation’s cookery queen Delia came second bottom with just two per cent of votes. Delia, 71, was also the chef voted most out of date - chosen by more than quarter of respondents (26 per cent), as being increasingly past her sell by date. Foul mouthed dynamo Gordon Ramsay was almost deemed by respondents to be outstaying his welcome on our TV screens with 12 per cent of the vote with the Hairy Bikers coming third (10 per cent). When it comes to actually picking up the spatula and heading into the kitchen ourselves, the nation’s foodies reckon that Jamie Oliver’s recipes are the easiest to follow - with 57 per cent saying his were the most reliable. Delia came second for reliability (14 per cent) and Nigella Lawson third (8 per cent). Unsurprisingly Heston Blumenthal, who is famous for his complicated and intricate recipes such as snail porridge, came bottom

with just one per cent of the votes. One of the most interesting findings is that people feel that if you cook Nigella Lawson’s recipes you are likely to have the most fun but also most likely to pile on the pounds. It is to be expected that people fear eating the famously voluptuous chefs food will wreak havoc with your waistline. The BBC2 star’s chocolate hazelnut cheesecake, featured on her TV show Nigellissima, famously contains more than 7,000 calories. She was chosen as the most calorific chef by 49 per cent of those polled - beating the Hairy Bikers (11 per cent) and Delia Smith (9 per cent). But it’s not just eating Ms Lawson’s recipes that is why we blame her for piling on the pounds. The kitchen temptress, Nigella also makes us hungriest when we watch her shows - chosen by 31 per cent, ahead of Jamie Oliver on 30 per cent and Gordon Ramsay (10 per cent) . Managing director of Forza, who commissioned the survey said: ‘I think Jamie won the poll because of the success of his cook books. ‘Virtually all of us have got one of his books in our homes and any idiot can follow the instructions. ‘It is interesting that Delia has gone so quickly from the being the nation’s favourite to being such a turn off. ‘We are learning to love food more and become a bit more ambitious with our cooking. It’s why so many of us are overweight. ‘The days of Delia telling us all how to boil an egg are long gone. It’s why Nigella is so popular. She has put the sex back into cooking. ‘She’ll make us all fat - but we don’t care because we are having so much fun.’

Restaurante Pizzeria Nautilus WEEKEND PIZZA

FESTIVAL

Tel: 950 132 890

Fantastic ALL YOU CAN EAT Pizza ly You won’t go home hungry

On p/p €8

Friday Evening Saturday Lunchtime Sunday Lunchtime

Mixed salad, chips, 6 x variety of Pizza (thin cut) Eat as much as you like

ning e p O May imes Friday Evening 7 - 12 T Saturday Lunchtime 11.30 - 12 midnight Sunday Lunchtime 11.30 - 12 midnight

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

Breakfast

Lunches

served 9 - 12: 2€ or 5€

12 - 2.30pm

Daily Specials

from 4€

Sunday Lunch ON The Last Sunday of eVERY month themed on a different country each time 4 or 5 courses Parties & Events Catered for

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

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON SPECIAL

BOOKING s only

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

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

MINIMUM TWO PEOPLE ORDER 1 DAY IN ADVANCE

14.95€ FOR 2 PEOPLE

1 LITRE JUG OF BEER OR BOTTLE OF WINE

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

Open Tuesday - Sunday

10am til Late WHAT’S ON

FISH’N’CHIPS - 5.50€

EXTRA’S: MUSHY OR GARDEN PEAS - 50c Paseo Maritimo Urbanizacion Mar y Cielo, Local 18, Vera Playa

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

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

WI-FI & PRINTING AVAILABLE

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

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Spain sees “Food Tourism” explosion

ALBOX

Bar Menu & Snacks Home-made puds

Burgers, Lasagne, pies, Omelettes, chilli plus

All Day Breakfast from 9am

MENU DEL DIA

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2 Courses

served 12 - 3 except Fri & Sun

Includes FREE Tea or Coffee

friday & SATURDAY

Friday & Saturday

Cod ‘n’ ChipS

Our Restaurant is Open 6pm-9pm

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

Barely a week after Spain was shown to be the dominant country in “Restaurant” magazine’s list of top 50 Restaurants in the World, a new report has shown how “Food Tourism” is becoming a more and more important sector for the industry. The latest statistics from Spain’s tourism office show that the country’s Food was thought to be a key attraction for as many as 5.6 Million visitors last year - an increase of 4% on 2011. Estimated expenditure on food and wine was placed at €6.4 million - representing a 10% increase on 2011. In a report by Tumbit.com, according to a survey by the Institute of Tourism Studies or IET, the wine-making region of La Rioja received top marks by international tourists for its gastronomy, followed by Asturias, Extremadura and Navarra in 2010. This follows further news this weekend which revealed how “Healthcare Tourism” has also been seen to become a more important niche for the tourism industry over recent years.

Los Mellizos Restaurant La Alfoquia, Zurgena

EVENING from MENU 5.95€

Traditional SUNDAY LUNCH

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

6.95€ to include a FREE Drink

Starters, Puddings - 2€ each

SUNDAY SERVED 10AM-12PM

BREAKFAST

Activities at Monday

Line Dancing with Gillie 2:30pm ROCK’N’ ROLL 7:30PM

Tuesday

Quirky Quiz - 7:30pm

Wednesday

Line Dancing with Carrie 7:30pm

Thursday

Ceroc Dancing & Fun Social Night 7:30pm

PLUS... Art Classes (held most days)... Computer Club ...Keep fit & slimming classes

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Open Mon - Fri 8am - late. Sat & Sun 9am - late

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NOW OPEN THE “ALL NEW” LA ALFOQUIA CHIPPY!! Serving all your traditional favourites

including Cod, Haddock, Pies & Pasties, Sausages, Peas, Gravy Burgers, scampi, plus much more

Eat in or Takeaway! Regular Entertainment

will be held on our sunny patio every Friday evening

Private Party this Friday 31st May (Featuring Steve Fisher as Rod Stewart)

Plus Sunday afternoon Entertainment coming in June when the Los Mellizos restaurant visits the summer patio area! Open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12 noon – 3pm & 5pm – 9pm (Closed Tuesday’s and Sunday’s)

Tel: 667 919 025 for more information!

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food facts... food facts... food facts... The Fact: The Popsicle was invented by an 11 year who kept it secret for 18 years!

The inventor was Frank Epperson who, in 1905, left a mixture of powdered soda and water out on the porch, which contained a stir stick. That night, temperatures

in San Francisco reached record low temperature. When he woke the next morning, he discovered that it had frozen to the stir stick, creating a fruit

flavored ice treat that he named the epsicle. 18 years later he patented it and called it the Popsicle...

el Cucador

VidaRestaurant&Venue

Enjoy Wonderful Views over the Olive Groves

from

8.95€

our main menu includes

traditional

16oz steaks ~ mixed grills ~ Fresh Fish

sunday lunch

menu changes weekly

Dine in our Candelit Restaurant wed - sat evenings SATURDAY EARLY BIRD MENU

Natural

Come support your local producers and try some of the amazing natural products the area offers. All-natural artisan beer, fresh goats milk cheese, organic essential oils from the Alpujarras, home-made jams, wines, organic extra-virgin olive oil, honey, natural artisan soap and skincare, jojoba oil, hand-crafted ceramics… Date / Fecha: 31st May, 2013 Time / Hora: 11:00 - 13:30 Place / Lugar: Hotel Tikar, Garrucha

showbar & restaurant

The Irish Rover

Your No1 Entertainment Venue in Mojacar for All the Family

Fantastic New menu of the Day only 10€ per person

Madness Friday 31st May

Chicken, Chips, Salad & a Only Bottle of Wine per 2 People 15€

Friday 21st june

Charity Day with

Live Entertainment & lots of stalls

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

5-7PM FROM 6€

Locally-Made Products Event!

friday 28th june

The Return of Rich Lucas with his Rat Pack Tribute

telephone: 950 473 135 mojacar playa between Lua & Moma Beach

Open 10am till late 7 days a week

s Fish & Chip with tter d Brea & Bu

5.95€

TO INCLUDE SALAD, BREAD & ALI- OLI

from

fridays

5.95€

Creamy Mustard Pork 7.45€ Tender Pork Loin in a 3 mustard cream sauce served with rice

in the Bar

Blue Chicken 7.45€ Chicken Breast filled with blue cheese & wrapped in bacon served on a bed of wilted spinach Crusted Hake 7.95€ Fillet of Hake topped with chorizo, herbs & breadcrumbs

Beer-battered cod

homemade chips & peas FRIDAYS 12.30pm - 9pm

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

tapas choice of 10 all 1€ 12:30-9pm

lite menu

Homemade Starters

2.50€ each

salads, burgers, wraps

Scrumptious Homemade Puddings

TWO COURSE LUNCH 12:30-3:30PM 6€

all 2.50€ each!

FROM 5€

MONdays HOME-MADE MARGHARITA PIZZA 6 - 9pm

+ TOPPINGS

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

Tuesdays 6 - 9pm

wednesdays 1/2 roast chicken, or gammon chips & peas OR SALAD

6 - 9pm

thursdays ...is pie night! 6 - 9pm

Open Every Day 12pm - Late

Tel: 950 634 562 lavidacucador@gmail.com

delicious homemade pie, chips & peas

Mojacar

E15

only 5€

We are here

Albox Arboleas Zurgena La Alfoquia

only 5€

1km

La Vida

Cucador Junc 547 Huercal Overa

book the Venue

For your Private Parties, Weddings and Birthdays etc.

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Moby & Fernando find their forever homes

be a  part  of it 

Monday - saturday 12 noon - 4pm & 7pm - close Sunday : carvery 1pm - 5pm Thursdays - closed

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3 Course Meal 10.95€ Adrian’s Home Made Cake Available Daily 5 bottles of beer 6€

Mini meals

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Main Meals 6.95€

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1.50€ Every Friday fish chips & peas €3.95 Large Cod, Chips & Peas €5.50 Every Lunchtime

Served All Day 12 noon - 10pm

Sunday Carvery €6.95 Now with Salad Bar Sunday Special 2 Carvery with jug of beer or tinto de verrano €15 Served 1pm til 5pm

Tel: 659 683 447

www.newyorknewyork.es

OPPOSITE THE PLAYA LUNA hotel, roquetas urb

Burty’s BAR Playa Serena, roquetas de mar

sun - fri from 11am Closed saturday

rrace e t y n n u s e g u h bar and spacious

Specialities now available every night: 6 oz Sirloin Steak, Real chips, fried onion, mushrooms & mixed salad only €8.95. Larger steaks & baby fillet available. Home made pies – steak & ale, chicken, bacon & mushroom or mince, onion & potato with chips & mushy peas or potatoes & veg – €6.95 Please pre book by 6 pm the previous day every thursday quiz 2.15pm prompt

Tapas

served from 1 pm

Next Table top Sale

30th june call to reserve a table

tuesday

bingo 2.30pm

anglican church service 3rd thursday of the month 11:30am

next service 19th june

Opposite Playa Luna Hotel between Oasis & New York New York. Tel: 679 156 715

There is good news from the dog shelter. Moby has been given a home in Germany and is now nicely settled in, taking over the sofa where he lies surrounded by cushions. He’s a very smart dog as he has not only found himself firmly in the heart of his mistress, but the husband is also completely conquered. Fernando is also spoken for and is destined for Germany. He will travel to his new home by mid June. It is nice to present the success stories but we must never forget the less fortunate of the inhabitants of the shelter, the injured and ill who are in need of expensive treatment, explorations and operations. The shelter is committed to help them and is in need of funds to continue their magnificent work. They want to give these suffering creatures a dignified existence by giving them the vitally needed medication, treatments and operations. The ultimate hope is for forever homes for all of these dogs. DORIAN and KINARA require exploratory tests and ultimately, operations to cure them. LUPITA has an eye problem that can be cured with an operation. AGUA, CAMILIA and BOLERO are being treated for MANGE (SCABIES). CURY, DONNA and SANCHO have LEISHMANIOSIS POSITIVE and are receiving the medication that will enable them to lead a normal life. CURY and DONNA already had a ticket to Germany when their condition was discovered. The SOCIEDAD PROTECTORA DE ANIMALES DE ROQUETAS DE MAR is sending out a desperate MAYDAY appeal so they can assist as many

dogs as possible to a happier life. If you want details of the Shelter’s Bank Account to send a small donation or you want to visit the shelter yourself to meet these lovely animals, please send an email to Geoff at geoffalmeria@hotmail.com and he will reply to you straight away.

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ROQUETAS DE MAR Happy Birthday Kyle (30th May) from all your friends in Roquetas

what’s on

Bar Southern..................................................... Every Thursday Bingo 3pm Last Saturday of the month - Jackpot Money Quiz 8pm 1st Friday of Month: Ladies Do Lunch! from 2pm (Menu del Dia 7€) Burtys Bar......................................................... Tuesday - 2:30pm Bingo Tuesday - Pie Night Thursdays - Quiz 2:15pm Thursday - Steak Night Table Top Sale - 30th June

3rd OPEN POOL COMPETITION

IS BEING HELD ON THURSDAY 13TH June 2013 6PM FOR REGISTRATION 6.30PM DRAW TAKES PLACE AND PLAY COMMENCES Promptly! Cash Prizes For Winner And Runner-up. 3€ Entry Fee, With 1€ Going To The Poppy Appeal. See You On The Night! Venue: The Lodge, Calle Americo Vespucio, Roquetas De Mar. Further Details Can Be Obtained From Barry On 605 313 590.this Is A Fundraiser For The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal 2013

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Bar cARDIES........................................................ Monday Night: Buy One Get One Half Price On Selected Meals, Served 5pm-8pm Tuesday: Bingo At 3pm Wednesday: Fillet Steak, Home Made Chips, Salad €8 Served From 6pm-9pm; Fun Quiz At 9pm Thursday: Closed Friday: Cod in Homemade Beer Batter, Homemade Chips, Peas, Bread & Butter €5 - The Best Cod And Chips In Town! Saturday: Onion Bhajees, Curry With Rice Or Chips, Naan Bread, Glass Of Wine €7.50. Served 6-9pm Sunday: Sunday Lunch, One Course From €4.50, Three Course From €8 - Booking Advisable All Sports And Soaps Shown On 4 Televisions...

Authentic Italian Restaurant

• Pizzas • Fresh Pastas • Fresh Fish • Argentinian BBQ’d Food On The Terrace

BBQ

EVERY DAY

Dental Clinic

lady lay.............................................................. Tuesday Night - Curry Night Wednesday - Quiz - twice monthly Saturday - Super Saturday Special Sunday - Sunday Lunch from only 3.50€ NEW YORK, NEW YORK......................................... Friday - Fish’n’Chips Sunday - Carvery 1pm-5pm Revita Natural Health and Relaxation centre........................................... Calle Tortola 4, Roquetas De Mar Tel 950 333 048 Tai Chi - Tuesday & Thursday 10am pb’s - the return............................................... OPENING WEDNESDAY 29TH MAY...4pm with free light buffet Y Da wakes......................................................... SKY SPORTS Monday 8:30pm Bingo Help For Heroes Charity Day - 19th June - Table Top, Book & Cake Sale and ‘Roquetas Has Got Talent!’

Here’s Orphan Ted at Bar Aurora, Roquetas De Mar

Roquetas Bridge Club..................................... meets on Monday’s at 3pm. For more info please contact Alison Ferguson 950349749 or Sue Barlow 950 333 344 the Royal british legion................................ forthcoming events Fundraising for 2013 poppy appeal 13th June – Open Pool Competition – 6pm registration for 6:30pm draw – The Lodge – call Barry on 605 313 590 for further details

FTG Notice

The ‘Friday Tapas Group’ meet up at 1pm each week (Friday) and the venues for the next few weeks are as follows:

31st May Bar Estampa, (Lily’s) in the Urb. 7th June La Bodeguina, C/Sierra Nevada. 14th June Marley’s, in the Urb. 21st June Oasis, opposite Hotel Playa Luna.

Anyone is welcome to join in and have a laugh, exchange views and ideas. The more, the merrier and the bar owners enjoy it too!

Open 12 - 4pm 7 - 12.30am Av. Playa Serena, 37 Roquetas de Mar

950 334 188 609 337 316

to reserve your table

On-site Dental Laboratory Dr med. dent Hubert Hillenbrand

bar Chaplins...................................................... Opening Hours: Open 1pm til’ close Tuesday to Sunday, 5pm til’ close Monday TEL: 950 335 022 Wednesday: Rib Night Friday: Chip Shop Day - Fish’n’Chips etc served from 1pm, Quiz Night Saturday Night - Buy One Get One Free on ALL MEALS plus 1€ Drinks!

Help For Heroes

Orphan Ted

La Grappa

20 years experience

950 32 64 52

Edificio Porto Mar Avda Mariano Hemandes 48 Roquetas de Mar, German & English Spoken

www.almeria-dentista-zahnarzt.com

near Hotel Zoraida Garden

estampa apas T

y outdoor n n u s s u io c Spa ating 24 e s e c a r r te SKY TV

Bar

Tapas/Snacks English Breakfast Fish & Chips Coffees & Cakes Cocktails/Sangria

sky sports and espn shown here Open 10am - late (Closed Tuesday)

FREE WI-FI Next door to Zurimar 678 202 160

Naturopathy Phytotherapy Organic Food Reflexology Osteopathy Diet and nutrition

Treatments Include: Podiatr y Foot Care Anti Stress Massage Pasaje Zoraida, Cambridge Dietde Available 11 Urb. Roquetas Mar

Pasaje Zoraida, C.P 04740 11 Urb. Roquetas de Mar (Almeria) C.P 04740, Tel. 950 328(Almeria) 152 Tel. 950 328 152 670 356 370 670 356 370 www.farma-natura.com www.farma-natura.com email: email: ria@farma-natura.com ria@farma-natura.com

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not a jack of all trades

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email: info@md-aircon.com advertise all your unwanted items for md_aircon@mobileemail.vodafone.es sale in this section any single item up to 300€ free of charge

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For sale

dining table & 4 chairs, good condition 90x90cm extends to 90x18cm 80€ ono buyer to collect Tel: 663 977 230

Mass MTB mountain bike Carbon, rock shock adjustable suspension, xt shimano gear system, all round disc breaks cost 2800€ now 900€

Tel: 647 841 750 E x tr a ctor fan Zanussi 25€ Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658 L ockable small pine filing cabinet 25€ Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658 Metal bird aviary 150€ Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658. 1200 Old Roof Tiles. Buyer Collects 475€ Tel: 676 381 349 Gas fridge /freezer - large - vgc. Buyer to collect. Lubrin area. €600. Tel: 600 707 607. after 6pm Bed settee x 2 - vgc €55. Lubrin area. Tel: 600 707 607. after 6pm 2 x Single bed blankets Coffee & Cream colour square pattern excellent condition. 10€ each Vera Tel: 634 302 967 8 Fitted & 2

Flat sheets for single bed most are brand new Coffee,Cream and Lemon Colour 30€ the lot Vera Tel: 634 302 967 3 Draw Wicker Basket Stand Very good condition ideal for storage. 15€ Vera Tel: 634 302 967 Cement mixer like new 120€ Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658 Gazebo for garden brand new still in box 3m hex 180€ ono (299 in iron art last year) Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658 O blong gl ass/wroght iron dining table and 4 matching chairs with cream cushions like new 250€ Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658 Dark brown bookcase 20€ Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658 Trailer 1.40x1.05 excellent condition hardley used 300€.Tel: 669 348 768 Solid dark wood round dinning room extendable table with 4 chairs. Excellent condition 180€ Tel: 634 302 967. Vera Playa area D ouble ottoman bed base. cream with pink pattern fabric covering. Very Good condition.

150€ Tel: 634 302 967. Vera Playa area T ranqui l Flatweave Rug Paprika colour Size 1.20 x 1.60 20€ Tel: 634 302 967 Vera Player. EDESA built in electric fan oven & EDESA gas hob. Brushed aluminium.Perfect order. €75 Tel: 950 410 615 L ockable computer table 25€ Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658 2 x bathroom mobile storage units crome/glass on wheels 20€ each. Vera Playa Tel: 617 166 270 or 659 089 658 Pool, above ground, metal sides, 3.5 m diameter, 900 high, pump, steps, cover etc 50€ ono Tel 689371127 (Lorca area) H otpo i n t Mistral Frost free Fr i d g e / Fr e e z e r, silver, 6.6cu ft fridge, 4.3cu ft f r e e z e r, h a r d l y used,ex condition, 100euros ono Tel 689371127 (Lorca area

wanted C he a p scrambler type bike any condition, no papers required 673 502 867 commerc i a l kitchen oven must be in good working order, can collect call 609 199 394

Airport services

www.AAparking.es tr a n s f er s Tel: 639 081 067 A i rport

Cheap

Airport Parking

Alicante Almeria Murcia New Servicing / Repairs

pick up all areas, competitive rates. For a quote please visit www. spanish estateagent.c om or call 661 143 871

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

c a rlo s s a l i e n te plumbing & heating for solar pool heating, solar hot water installations and repairs. call 950 930 900 or 968 969 962, email carlos.saliente@ gmail.com

baby equipment hire

Professional Baby Equipment Hire Free delivery & collection All our equipment has been purchased from new Tel: 615 806 126 thebabyhirecentre@hotmail.com

computers

Steve Hayes Informatica

Pc’s, Laptops, Printers etc. Sales & Repairs on-site callout / tuition. Consumables Albox, Almeria

equipment hire

Tel: 950 120 900

construction

construction gardening

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

fully legal

drainage

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

Pool Cleaning & Water Tanks

Contact: 675 838 808

Drainage Solutions

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

BABY HIRE Everything for the visiting baby Established 7 years in spain Car seats,high chairs, Tel: 616 531 283 or 670 088 966 stair gates, cots etc Tel: 950 436 581 or 666 375 688 expectingababy@hotmail.co.uk

carpentry

WILDWOOD Bespoke Joinery

For all your carpentry requirements

Fast, efficient, competitive service.

Tel: 634 328 574

james@wildwood.es

electrical cont...

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

electrical

ELECTRICIAN Neil Godwin

25 years experience

Full City & Guilds

Fully

insured & legal

Boletins supplied

Tel : 687 245 569

landscape gardening

• Block work • Balustrades • Paving Driveways & Paths

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

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

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

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www.soltimes.com health & beauty

locksmith

avon cosmetics

Phil the Pick Locksmith 24 hours.

claire Tel: 691 987 454

avonfromclaire@yahoo.es

Visting barber

good haircuts done at your home by barber with 30 years experience also hot towel shaves

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

NUMBER PLATES

“RE-PLATE” MATE GB

call steve on

634 379 177 or 634 379 175 house clearance

THE HOUSE CLEARING SPECIALIST

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

Tel: 679 207 545 or 636 411 540

insurance

hobby/craft Elaine’s Wools

& view my display Also at

available Camposol,

Mazarron Call 667 273 889 elaines wools@gmail.com

glenn & jayne

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

Tel: 950 121 943

infoalbox.libertyseguros@gmail.com

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

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

Alan 662 249 159

www.replatematecostablanca.com

OPTICIANS

quality UK wool & accessories. Come

The Metal works

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

PAINTER / DECORATOR

painter & decorator

638 900 949

legal

or cattery Pet sitting in your own home, Arboleas & local area. Call Vanessa on 637 061 482 woodhouse boarding kennels & cattery arboleas Small friendly kennels, 24hr vets service, pet transporting arranged, welcome to view ministry approved

Tracy Mobile 650 211 952

Germ a n Shepherd Cross Puppies Absolutely Gorgeous Free to a good home. 8 weeks old and ready to rehome 634 357 434

NEED A PAINTER? Time served, professional painter & decorator Excellent Rates Superb Work References Available

634 388 243 For a free quote

pets section

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

personals

VERA BEACH

calle tortuga boba, 69,

4 sexy girls erotic and relaxing massages. Discreet

Tel: 687 891 515

Julie, Jenny, Karen Sexy bodies, erotic and relaxing massage, Discreet outings, hotels and home visits for Men & Women

Tel: 631 402 850

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

B ritish All plasterer work guaranteed Tel Paul 634 327 201

plumbing CARLOS SALIENTE Plumbing and Heating offer machined boiler decals for gas water heaters for just €65 – aguafuerte is not the answer! Call 950 930 900 or 968 969 962, email carlos. saliente@gmail.com

great price! now reduced €99,000 Lovely 2 bedroom townhouse of 70 sq metres with stunning sea views overlooking Mojacar Playa with communal pool, WIFI, furniture included. Excellent Rental Investment. Call New Wave VIllas on 950 475 800 for info & viewings.

Apartment

MOJACAR BEACH For Sale (Spanish Flag in Window) now only

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

PLASTERER

PROPERTY FOR SALE/rent

“Readers of a sensitive disposition may find some of the ads in this section offensive”

pet taxi

friendly mare give your property or business 9 years old a fresh look this summer 14.3hh 1.50m 500€ Tel: 649 186 107 or telephone email thunderpaul2003@hotmail.com 678 838 547 For all your painting needs inside

Contact Jonothan on

If you wish us to print an article about a particular topic in our regular space on pg 16, please email info@daviessolicitors.com

No need for

kennels

over 25 years experience

Grills, railings, gates of all types, security/ sliding/roller, rejas, concertina doors etc. & out contact Graham on 620 112 193 Tel: Keith Wood on

PETS SECTION CONT...

stables Rancho Luz Del Sol, Retamar, Partaloa. One to one or group lessons, latest EN standard hats provided. Escorted hacking and treks. Qualified BHS Instructor. Call Erika Drew on 678 838 547

plumbing cont...

Plumber KNOWLES AND ABBOTT

in Cucador Self contained 1 large bed casita, bathroom, lounge & kitchen area, partly furnished, A/C, cortij0 grande Private, Fabulous golf course views, use of pool 1 Bed, 1 Bath & jacuzzi

€29,995

Gated entrance, Parking, Great views. Close to Turre & Mojacar Playa. Fully Legal.

T: 664 291 793

TELEPHONE: 950137197 / 606807797

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

60€ a week plus utilities (suit lady, small dog welcome)

Call 647 379 878

for SALE detatched cortijo

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

Build 256 m², Terrace 100m², Plot 1200m²

€150,000

Tel: 649 186 107

thunderpaul2003@hotmail.ccom

PROPERTY FOR SALE

No 1 for Plumbing & Electrics All types of Plumbing

Central Heating Gas/Oil - Solar Hot Water Boiler Servicing, Repairs & Replacements Water Leaks - Sewage Blockages Water Deposit Tanks 500-8000l Pool Pumps - Septic Tanks Osmosis Systems

Property for rent

Price 200.000€

San José (Cabo de Gata, Almería) Duplex, 5 bed 2 bath. Fitted kitchen. Sea view within walking distance to beach. Terraces & balcony Private garage on plot of 280 m2

Call: 610 700 805

ARBOLEAS

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

Tel: 950 449 074 or 634 368 071

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

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

motoring section

bar/restaurant management opportunity Inflatable Rib Boat for sale

WE REQUIRE

An experienced couple to manage all aspects of the bar & venue to include front of house, kitchen & activities in the venue in our busy town location of Albox. To include contract with salary & bonus. This full time position is demanding as long hours are required but if you have a happy personality, service with a smile attitude then the results will be rewarding

for more information call 609 199 394 Do you love to Cook...

ARE YOU F A RAY O E? SUNSHIN

Then we want to meet you

SOLTIMES

are looking for A

Bright, enthusiastic person with an outgoing personality to join our sales team in Mojacar. Full or part time sales position available. Experience not essential as full training will be given as long as you’re organised, enjoy meeting people & can work to deadlines

Send your CV to cmm@soltimes

Cutting Edge require a

Qualified Beautician

to work within the busy salon

Please call for details

950 633 086

HOME HELP WANTED Male Pensioner in Almerimar requires some help in & out of the home Some English & Spanish

Tel: 636 616 505

Chef/Cook is required at our Bar / Restaurant in Arboleas We are looking for an experienced person used to working in a fast paced kitchen You will be able to produce delicious home cooked food to a high standard

Shift work is required & weekends salary will include a contract

Rob on 609 199 394

Immaculate condition with trailer, & many extras

1800€

Tel: 676 665 168 or 634 353 503

car & van hire

Van hire

ONE WAY



UK to Spain or Spain to UK

*LOCAL *NATIONAL *EUROPEAN

* COLLECTION & DELIVERY *STORAGE

TEL: 667 235 205

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

car parts

Toyota Surf 1995. 3 Litre cheap motorbike tyres & parts Tel: 697 524 238 Turbo Diesel. Black. UK Plates. Tow Bar, Bull Bar & Many Extras. MOT October Need quality new parts for any car 2013. 98,000 miles. 2 Owners. Ideal for towing caravan if for sensible prices on all parts Clutches, Brakes, alternators, service kits returning to the UK.

Car parts

2300€ ono

Starter Motors, headlights

mobile mechanics

or telephone 692 930 326

Tel: (0044) 7940 44 04 12 Free quote go online or phone www.carpartsinspain.com

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

wanted URGENTLY REQUIRED

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

for more information

TEL: 636 411 540 OR 664 619 819

satellite/television

A1 Sky Television Systems

REMOVALS

Sky Digibox Pace with sky card BBC 1, 2, 3, 4 From a parcel to a small ITV1, 2, 3,6 house move 0 € ch4 & 5 Professional,Friendly & Caring can deliver. Fully insured, scheduled Tel: 667 235 205 monthly door to door service

Ge s tor i a Satellite TV installations, Salvador alignment of dishes etc. a consulting Also Spanish c o m p a n y “freeview” systems established in Almeria since 1969 supplied & installed is opening a new Tel Dave: 628 607 778 office in Mojacar and requires solar power system a Manager with excellent communication skills and knowledge of the at ecocorp we do not just sell you a Mojacar area. The system we deliver, install & individual must guarantee everything have experience in tax consultancy, for up to 10 years legal work, book keeping and other Solar Power System kits administrative services, Spanish Telephone 671 716 597 or 950 030 187 for UK phones and English speaking is 01332 896510 essential. An additional language is advantageous. Send your CV swimming pool safety with photo to our email ags@ NEATER HEATER See our main advert gruposalvador.es on the news pages Tel 950 237 155

www.ecocorp.eu

UK - SPAIN - UK

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

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

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

www.delimas.biz

fortnightly SERVICE TO & FROM UK FULL OR PART LOADS

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

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

SPAIN UK SPAIN Removals

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

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If I were a garden, I wouldn’t want to be our garden. It lives life on the edge, exposed to the burning ardour of the sun and the ferocious caresses of the west wind, with the plants heroically seeking to draw sustenance from the bedrock that passes for soil. However, in the last month it has managed to rain twice, or maybe three times. Everything in the garden responded with gusto, including the weeds, to which I responded with weedkiller. But when I took our trusty sprayer from its winter hibernation, I discovered that it had become a sprayer in name only – its once virile squirt had become no more than a pathetic piddle. The fearsome wand that once dealt death was now reduced to a limp parody of its former might. To restore its flow required an operation, and confident that sprayers do not have a prostate gland nor need anaesthetics I donned my surgeon’s mask, scrubbed up and made the first incision – or rather, I dismantled the whole thing! The anatomy of a sprayer is simple, and within my understanding, josbiggs@hotmail.co.uk but even so

By Jos Biggs

viewpoint alqueria - The Democratic Process I was careful to keep all the pieces tidily in order on the operating table, which was in fact Pete’s work bench. I did not want to put it all together again and find one piece left over, or that I had put it together wrong, thus creating a Frankenstein’s monster, which might subsequently turn on me before running amok and devastating every living thing in the village. I meticulously cleaned and checked each part for vital function. I even deployed a specialist tool (a bent safety pin) to clean out the little hole in the end of the wand. Then I re-assembled it, filled it with water, pumped up the pressure and pressed the trigger. Its response was immediate – a perfect circle of fine spray! Without further ado I mixed up the weedkiller and sallied forth, death on my mind and at my trigger finger. Weedkilling by sprayer is gardening made easy – no bending, no kneeling, no broken fingernails, no scrabbling around after the last remnant of root. It is a variation on Lock and Load, it is Pump and Press. I quartered the garden with a stealthy tread, my finger on the trigger, every sense tuned to Weed Alert. The instant I spied an unwelcome alien, I lined it up within the cross-hairs of my sight, and fired. I spared none, there was no escaping my eagle eye, nor evading my lightning draw and dead-eye aim. I was the Quick-Draw McGraw of the pressure sprayer!

Expert Advice – Take it with a Pinch of Salt

Most people profess to have a genuine desire to maintain a healthy lifestyle by eating the correct foods. There is it seems, much truth in the oft used maxim – We are what we eat. There is of course a vast difference between having the aspirations to do the right thing and actually doing something tangible about it. The number of fast food establishments and the huge range of processed food and drinks available in supermarkets, gives a strong indication that the spirit might be willing with many of us, but the ever expanding flesh around the waistline is weak. But even with the most dedicated health freaks, it is no easy task to recognise just what is good and what is detrimental to our well being and once again this is all down to those frizzy haired scientists, who spend their working days shuffling around the laboratory in their baggy knitted jumpers and sandals, trying to find new ways to confuse us. Just when you think you have it cracked in the dietary

department, out comes another report telling us that what we had hitherto been told about the health benefits from this food or that, is now a load of old horlicks and moreover, is doing us great harm. I came to the conclusion a long time ago, that my reasoning when deciding which foods to embrace or to give the boot, should be – If in doubt, think natural. I have always loved that simple food, the egg. Fried, boiled, poached scrambled, it doesn’t matter, where would we be without them and just ask my wife who it is that makes the best omelettes around . . . no, not Jamie Oliver . . . me! There was a time when I made an effort to cut down on the number of eggs I ate in a week because, we were told, eggs are high in cholesterol and should be consumed in moderation. I have looked at the information available and who am I to disbelieve it, but equally important are the other foods we select for our daily needs to go along with them. It’s the same with butter. I simply love the stuff. Nevertheless I was gradually persuaded to give up this fatsaturated poison for the health giving benefits of vegetable oil spreads of one brand or another. Although I was forced to believe the hype that this

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would make me a leaner, more robust individual able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, there is no advertising executive alive who was ever going to convince me that it tastes like the real thing. Can’t believe it’s not butter? I bloody well can! And then we had the new miracle additive; the ingredient that not only guarded against heart attacks, strokes, Nile Fever and ingrown toenails, but actually reduced cholesterol in the blood – at least according to Gloria Hunniford in the TV ads. Methuselah will have nothing on me I thought. I will eat five kilos a day and live forever. But then twelve months ago, having endured the misery of consuming this bland sludge over several years, and observed the manufacturing process and the dirty grey colour of most low fat spreads before the yellow dye is added; I made a conscious decision to return to my old favourite – good English slightly salted butter. Okay, it is rich in saturated fats – I have to accept that but hey, if I use a little restraint and common sense, what harm can it do. A little bit of what you fancy does you good, is another maxim that rings true to me. I’m full of maxims. Then in February, another report came out, announcing that perhaps butter was not

the villain it had been made out to be after all and that in fact, some saturated fat was advantageous to good health. I saw this as vindication for my stance on the subject and did back flips around my living room; but soon stopped when I began to wheeze and require oxygen. In fairness, the report also stressed the need for the blend of saturated and unsaturated fats including an intake of the necessary Omega 3 and 6 fats for good health. In other words, it all comes back to what most of us know but fail to practice often enough – that balance and moderation are the key factors. Common sense is the one sure ingredient to maximise on prolonged good health, but common sense as I am always banging on about, seems to be an endangered commodity in 2013. And isn’t it sensible to eat everything containing preservatives? Because if they can give your bread, cakes and soft drinks long life, then surely they will do the same for you. Stands to reason...

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Of the seven hundred and eighty-five souls that comprise the population of Alqueria one hundred and fifty-seven are below eighteen and therefore not eligible to vote. Nor are they eligible to run for President. The remaining six hundred and twenty-eight are however and they did. Every person over the age of eighteen registered as a candidate for the post of President. This included the bedridden, the indifferent and the illiterate. Those who couldn’t normally string three words together eloquently and accurately completed the necessary documentation. The agoraphobic and infirm managed to negotiate the streets and byways of Alqueria to appear before the Electoral Qualifying Committee. Campaigning took on a surrealism understood only in Alqueria. Regiments of would-be politicians mounted on soap, fruit and Remitroot boxes promoted xenophobic, ill considered and totally impractical policies. The British Conservative Party looked on in envy. The prospective candidates engaged in a strange game. Stacking boxes upon boxes they tried to stand head and shoulders above their rivals. Collapses occurred frequently with untidy heaps of writhing would-be politicians becoming a frequent sight in the Pueblo. The sound of massed political doctrines being propounded resonated through the streets of Alqueria. The ballot paper resembled the cast list from the Soviet version of ‘War and Peace’. The parties represented, ranged from the ridiculous to the plain daft. One candidate stood on the ‘free roller-skates for over eighties’ ticket while another wanted ‘Abyssinian Goat Shirling’ legalised. On election day the turn out was one-hundred percent, the sight of so many exercising their constitutional right to elect a head-ofstate, a privilege not afforded in some western democracies was uplifting. No-one could fail to be stirred by the sight, not shaken perhaps but certainly stirred. Counting was quick and predictable. One vote for each candidate apart from Loco Paco. Paco became so confused by the catalogue of names on the ballot paper he put his cross by the printers name. Inky Pedro the printer, lived happily in Madrid unaware of the fickle ballot paper of fate. He was naturally surprised when the letter dropped on his mat naming him as joint President of Alqueria. He changed his name, donned dark glasses and hid in the roof space peering through the slates like a cornered lynx. Loco Paco became the only constituent in the village with six hundred and twenty-seven people to represent him. A two party system tends towards democracy while any more can see a candidate elected even though the majority of votes are for others. The Alquerian result became much debated, held by radical idealists as a model for the future but by everyone else as ruddy ridiculous. Perhaps Alqueria’s electoral process needs some tinkering?

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As promised, Today we will find ways of making sure that information that has been deleted is truly “gone”! Last time we looked at the way the Disk stores the information, the weaknesses within the design and the ways in which this information can be recovered. Today, we will look at the methods and programs, that will IRREVOCABLY remove all recoverable traces of information. We have looked at how your information is stored to the disk and how, with expertise and patience, we can retrieve it again. So, we need a little revision before we move on. All information is overwritten, either in part or completely, at some time or other. There is usually enough information left to be able to re-create the original information, either, completely or partially. Ever since “secrecy” was introduced into the use of computers, there has been a need to completely remove all traces of sensitive information. In “day’s gone by”, you might have burned the piece of paper then spread the ashes to the four winds, possibly ate it or found some way to completely destroy the information. As we have seen it isn’t quite as easy with computerised storage, but there is a method that will produce a result similar the “good old fashioned” way. We have seen that if you over-write your file it becomes far more difficult to recover. So, what if you deliberately write and re-write over the same information a number of times. This would make it even more difficult to get the original back! How do we check that the process is working? What if we used a pre-defined pattern of information, for example, overwrite with a string of “0’s”? We could then read and check that they had been written! Now change the string to “trev you are a totally awesome” or some such non-sense, write it and then read it to check that it is written properly. Using this method it would be possible to achieve complete anonymity. There are a number of wipe options that are commonly in use for a secure wipe. Option 1 is the longest and most thorough is a method that overwrites the information 35 times. Option 2 is a US government recommended wipe that uses 7 re-writes. This doesn’t take as long (hours instead of days!) with almost the same security (almost impossible to recover anything) as the 35 re-writes. Option 3. Also US government but only 3 rewrites. This method is great for destroying your information and also for “Once a month” cleaning of the “unused” space on the disk. Option 4. Is the quick wipe of the PseudoRandom one pass and even with most recovery programs it will be impossible to recover. Fortunately, none of us have to be a computer genius, to be able to do this as there are a number of programs “out there” that will do it for you. The one I use is called “Eraser” and can be found at; “http://eraser.heidi. ie/”. I have used this program for years and never been able to recover anything that has been overwritten more than 3 times! It is free (now there is a surprise!) and does what it says on the tin. If you choose to try it the rest of this article will help you set it up! When it has been installed, you will see a window that has a menu bar (at the top). Click on “Edit” → “Preferences” → “Erasing”. On the tab marked “Files” you will see all the wipe options that are available to you. I use the 3 rewrite wipe to balance speed and security. This is my “day to day” file wipe choice. Now if you look again at the tabs the other one is marked “Unused Disk Space”. This is the once a month or twice a year option and should be a good, leave it all night, clean. My choice is the 7 rewrite US government wipe. Leave all the other boxes as they are and press OK. Now you are set-up and ready to go. Have fun playing with the program but beware – once the file is gone, it is gone! La Vida Fayre is on Thursday 30th and I will be there to provide answers and solutions to your computing problems. See you there!

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Rosalind’s Sister by Tara Scott-Page “I am everything you ever feared in your life. Someone would pay one way or another for the filth and humiliation suffered. Bitter Sweet Revenge.” Rosalind McKinley is a tough 28 year old cookie, ambitious and extremely determined to leave her unhappy past well and truly behind her in Indiana and an abusive, sexist lout of a father unwittingly following in sister Shirley’s footsteps who had long since escaped this drudgery. Both girls carry a family portrait, sentimentally showing two young girls standing in a park, one 5 years of age the older one, 15. A lifelong bond and inevitably, essential to the plot and the thriller element of this story. Will they meet up and be reunited? Rosalind undergoes a dramatic transformation; a new persona emerges with “a tinge of quality for a woman of obvious quality.” Leonora Carrington-Jones’ love affair with Manhattan, New York begins at the salubrious Carlisle hotel, synonymous with wealth and power, working for Madame Durand. Our girl aspires towards grasping this opportunity firmly in both arms, embracing wonderful opportunities through fair or foul means. She can exploit opportunities and manipulate her men to suit her needs. Her own shot in the power stakes? “There was money to be extracted from the silk lined pockets of the rich and famous today and she wanted her fair share.” It is 1976 and Leonora has this vision of being a hair stylist to the stars and lover to one or two British lords or realistically, their athletically suitable sons. So, what is missing from the life of this successfully popular stylist? A handsomely wealthy, eligible bachelor perhaps? Or even a married man? Not just anyone. Leonora craved the powerful and wealthy. And as luck would have it, the most beautiful man she had ever seen enters her life and sweeps her off her feet. Powerful yes, wealthy yes but also married. The wrong type? The dangerous type. Like playing with fire. Hareb bin Aziz al Hareb, a Saudi Prince is a man of considerable substance and looks a million dollars. Leonora was completely absorbed by the near hypnotic quality of his deep dark brown eyes and the whirlwind of a passionate love affair is kindled.

But fire burns and it can easily destroy. His stay in New York is for business and once he returns to the Middle East a love-sick, forlorn Leonora agrees to meet him in Dubai, excited by the formulaic smells of the orient with its spices, exotic fruits and the salty sea air. Atmospheric and exhilarating. Our heroine fantasizes over her dream man appearing in the misty distance mounted on his white Arab stallion on a mission to whisk her up and away to his tented, desert palace of love. Full of anticipation and excitement like the fairy tales. But reality and fantasy are poles apart and pigs don’t fly so poor Leonora becomes enmeshed in a poisonous web of deceit, lies and more abuse. How can love turn so sour, transform dreams of love to ones of despair? Survival meant letting go of her dreams and her dream man. In spite of her betrayal and distress she holds on to a thread of hope that they would indeed ride off in to a desert sunset together. Dream on naïve one. Ironically salvation in the form of Susan aids the mentally battered, bruised, physically nauseous and disillusioned Leonora, fighting for her life, for her survival in an alien world where females are powerless and exploited for the pleasures of men. A long way from home, almost friendless and alone and isolated. Easy prey. But some women are made of stronger mettle and can look danger in the eyes without flinching and seek retribution such as an eye for an eye without suffering the pangs of guilt. Even murder. Amidst this erotic tale of love and despair, Rosalind’s sister fits in there somewhere but that’s something you’ll have to work out for yourself. Available on Kindle: ASIN- B00C438ADA; Paperback: Create Space. ISBN10:148401-36-11 and ISBN-13:978-148401-3618

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before I left I got a text from my mother saying ‘bring warm clothes and it’s raining too!’ Just the sort of unwelcome travel advice anybody dreads. A quick look on a weather forecasting website confirmed that Britain was scheduled to be under feet of snow with a hurricane and biblical flood thrown in for good measure. Landing at Gatwick it was cats and dogs and the mercury was in single digits. Yet within a few hours the sun was shining and apart from a brief hail storm and a cloudy day the forecasters certainly screwed it up in my favour. My 94 year old Grandmother was gravely ill and sitting by her bedside I could not help but remember the old adage that we are born unable to fend for ourselves; needing to be clothed and fed and helped with our personal hygiene and then at the end of our days we may again have to be helped in all the same For further information or advice on ways. My gran is a popular lady and a steady stream of visitors computing, contact Trevor on 689 892 coupled with her ox like constitution and cheery demeanour 745 or canducomputing@hotmail.co.uk means she will soon be back on her walking frame again. Having already moved homes twice this year; we now have the She made me laugh when a relative apologised for not visiting hang of it so when a flat became available with the gorgeous her sooner saying he had not known before where she was. views pictured here it just had to be done for a third time. Through a fog of heavy antibiotics she classily replied ‘don’t Mercadona did us proud again as their 60c bags for life are worry dear - nor do I.’ ideal for packing and carrying. It’s funny how priorities change As well as visiting family the other reasons for my trip were as in the past I was always happiest living in the middle of nowhere. Now however, the convenience of civilisation being twofold, I had a ticket for the last home game at Anfield where close by is great with the added bonus of Jamie Carragher bowed out after 17 years and 737 senior draught Guinness available just a few paces appearances. Craftily after the speeches at the end of the game my mate and I hopped over a wall so escaping our seats from my front door. up in the gods and ending up by the players entrance tunnel, I ventured back to Blighty recently and just there I managed to get some close up shots of a good few Enjoy Stephens musings? Pop over to http://findmeahomeinspain.wordpress.com as the players. All in the name of articles are posted on there too...and they’re a bit longer too! Findmeahome are always journalism would have been looking for quality homes for their sales and rental portfolios, please contact Stephen for a valuation: stephen@findmeahome.es Telephone: 636 266 641 my defence if caught. The

photos are on my Wordpress blog for any interested Liverpool fans. After the game it was a quick dash into the city centre as Mark Knopfler was in town and I had secured second row seats for a few of us. Yes I know there are still great guitarists around like Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton but in my humble, Mark is awesome and anyone reading this in Spain with a love for live music could try and grab tickets for one of his Spanish dates. In July he plays Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga and the Costa Brava. Just like Cordoba 2 years ago he again kindly remembered my birthday is on the 25th and organised the Barcelona date for then as an excellent pressie for me!

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Designers, like writers, crave inspiration and a desire to stand out from the crowd. For all the right reasons, too. So what on earth is the poor designer to do when confronted with a request to introduce a new luxury mid-range family hatchback into, what many may consider to be a saturated marketplace? A marketplace flooded with Volkswagens, BMWs and Audis. Not only look to the competition but draw on the past, all the while looking to the future. And that partly helps to explain the new Volvo V40. This is the second generation model because its predecessor was launched in 1996, manufactured until 2004. My uncle was the proud owner of one of these, until he hit a deer while travelling at speed on the motorway. He was lucky to be alive but then he was driving a Volvo, renowned for its safety features. Looking back at the original V40 it followed a long line of Volvos of that era with their slightly rounded edges, the manufacturer slowly breaking away from its trademark straight lines of the ‘80s. There were a lot of curves on earlier models and in common with many manufacturers these are being revisited with today’s offerings. The Swedish manufacturer has always offered something slightly different and the new V40 continues along this road. It can be easily recognised as a modern Volvo, sharing much in common with its larger brothers. But there is no doubt that while the brand has resurrected the V40, the model we have before us shares nothing in common with its ancestor, apart from the distinctive Volvo emblem of course and its flawless safety record. Today’s V40 is clean, fast and perhaps most interestingly of all, a hatchback. The original V40 was offered in either saloon or estate variants. For me, an important test currently, is whether a car has a large enough boot to carry a cumbersome tandem pushchair. It’s not a fair test by any means but one that is necessary in the current state of the Saunders family made up of two little rascals of two years old and a little over two months. Harriett, our eldest despises the very thought of having to sit in the front of the pushchair but eventually gives in after a long day’s walking. Heidi is perfectly happy sleeping all day long. Anyway, you can see the necessity. A great many vehicles have boots that do not allow for such a large item. I thought the Volvo was going to join them and after a few attempts, I was about to give up when I decided to push the split fold rear seats down. This allowed me to manoeuvre this bulky, awkward item into position and to my surprise and delight, I was then able to pull it back into the boot. The boot is just wide enough to accommodate the length of the pushchair as you can see from the video at testdrives.biz. The parcel shelf has to be removed, though. This extremely tight fit means that

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with beachcomber john Shore Fishing. ‘Spanish Alex’ has been doing well surf casting south of Mojacar. See photo of Alex and a dentex bream to be proud of. Boat Fishing. ‘The Carboneras boys’ have again been doing well fishing from their boat in the area of

the town. We in Mojacar just do not have this standard of fish it seems. Villaricos like Carboneras, north of the harbours is also producing a few good fish. Even though in Garrucha we have some great deep water marks, though this is not where the big dentex and snappers are being caught, we are still

CORTIJO GRANDE We managed to get both days Wednesday and Sunday completed despite the threat of rain and the competition was good. I am pleased to report we are getting more golfers who want to play on this lovely course . Some of us can remember the old course fondly but must admit the new one is very good. Our winner on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 was Bob Winter with 35 points second with 34 David Baird and third with 31 Greg Ward.

Ball sweep winner Bob Winter. Sunday and 35 points required to win from the inform David Baird second with another 35 but lost on back nine Sylvia Bradfield in third with 34 David Hardy. Ball sweep winners were hard to find so more balls for our next winner. We will be pleased to welcome anyone who wishes to come and join or rejoin and to do so your contact number is 950475509 Enjoy your golf with Corijo Grande all welcome MP

suffering from the effects of last year’s storms. Unlike the flatter sand banks the river mud is still in the holes. Oh well we will just have to await the tuna run. ‘Pugwash Pete’ took mates Andy and Russ out last week. They braved the conditions which was quite difficult to say the least. They managed to catch plenty of good sized mackerel up to about 2lbs. The bottom was plagued with the usual bait robbers, pickerels and weavers so they mainly fished mid water where apart from mackerel they also had a few small red snappers and pandoras. ‘Blisters Steve’ and I went out with skipper ‘Orca Steve’ and we were joined by Frank and Mike. We headed for the area in front of the Repsol garage and drifted from 40 to 120 feet. Just the usual bait robbers except for one plate size red snapper. Steve B.S. hooked into a big conger in about 120 feet just on top of a 1000 foot hole. His light tackle didn’t have much chance and in the end the

fish bit him off. The rest of us were immediately waiting for a take but it didn’t come, maybe the conger was upset by the lead weight it now had to get rid of. Trolling in and out of the harbour produced nothing so we still await the arrival of the tuna. Something must be happening though as a few Spanish boats were trolling which they haven’t done for months. Coarse Fishing. ‘Bryan V’ caught a zander when he was fishing the River Ebro last week for carp and cats, I think it was his first zander, apparently it tasted fantastic. I have eaten them before and to me considering they are a freshwater fish I was surprised just how much like cod they taste. ‘Puentes Ray’ made an early start to Puentes and was at the lake for 7am. Conditions were excellent, water calm; sun just coming up, weather warm and lots of fish rolling. Ray set up in his favourite spot, the water

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is still dropping. He tackled up an old Shakespeare President 13 foot match rod which he has had for about 30 years, it has lovely soft action with spliced tip. He fished a waggler on a ledge in about 10 foot of water with 10lb main line and 8lb bottom to Kamasan B911 barbless hook and single sweetcorn. He fished about 1 rod length out and ground baited with his new ground bait mix which contained Horlicks. (Hoped it would not send them to sleep) He was into a carp about 2lb within minutes, lots more followed for about the next 2 hours by which time he decided to try for a barbel and so changed the bait to a halibut pellet on a band. First take arrived after about 10 minutes and his reel screamed off about 50yds of line. Unfortunately he could not turn the fish and after about a ten minute fight the line snapped. He continued to fish with the pellet and landed 4 small barbel, the biggest about 2lb. Fish kept

on coming throughout the day and he stopped counting after 40. The wind got up about 4pm so ray decided to call it a day. He reckons he had about 70-80lb in total for the day and was pleased with the results. The Albox fishing club meets every two weeks or so at Bar Wassy. For details of the next meeting tel Sid 634 313 650. Latest license info. There is a new loophole for those without a nie number who want an Andalucian beach and/or boat fishing license. It will mean a trip in person to Almeria with a friend who has a nie number and has a 50/50 chance of working! The other loophole for fishing the beaches and boats in Andalucia without an NIE document is to make a trip to Murcia. For up to date information on any of the above see John at the Beachcomber Bar Restaurant on Mojacar Playa or tel 950 473 099. Tight lines, Beachcomber John.

Sweden, Spain and the UK gave the competition an international flavour and made for an exciting and close finish in the Stapleford singles event. Results : 1st Sean Walsh 36 pts ( on count back) 2nd Nigel Lorriman 36 pts 3rd Svenn Kellne 35pt Nearest the pin Bob Connell : Longest drive Darren Thompson At the post match Lunch and presentation Valle Del Este director Antonio Alcala said “ In the past I have worked in Madrid and did a lot of work with the Lions Club there and know

of the work they do for local charities so when the Vera Lions approached me to run a competition at Valle Del Este it was a pleasure for me to welcome them and I thank everyone who has supported the day”. Pictured above centre Winner Sean Walsh with Antonio Alcala Right 2nd Nigel Lorriman Left 3rd Svenn Kellener Vera & District Lions Club helping local charities & other good causes International Charter No. 117889 : Malaga District 116B : Unidad Registral Of Andalucia 5443 Sec. 1

Badgers Golf Society at Valle de Este On Wednesday 22nd May, Badgers golf society visited Valle de Este for there weekly competition. With the course in its usual good condition and the elements favouring a good day’s golf the competition was going to be close. Topping the points scoring on the day was George Crichton playing his home course, with 2nd place going to Wilfred Deverill and 3rd place to Jim Tierney. Nearest the pins went to Andy Mucha, Jim Tierney, john Ferguson and nearest in 2 on the 18th went to Phil Fellows

Saturday’s roll-up at Macenas on glorious sunny morning was won by Roger Whitehead on count back from Mick Weston Forthcoming Fixtures are: , Wednesday 29th Macenas., Wednesday 5th June Macenas, Thursday 13th June away day to Serena(Roquetas), Wednesday 19th June Valle de Este, Wednesday 26th June Desert Springs Badgers Golf Society also plays every Saturday at Macenas for their weekly roll-up. Please book in at Badgers. Badgers Golf Society next

Away day is booked for Thursday 13th June to Playa Serena, Roquetas. Coach departs from Badgers at 08.00am. Members or Visitors interested in going please book in with Richard at Badgers Guests are welcome to join the society on both Wed and Sat comps and can book in either at Badgers Restaurant on Mojacar Playa or by phone on 950 478 525. Fixtures can be found on www.badgersmojacar.com

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On Thursday the 23rd May a smaller number than usual descended onto Desert Springs to play this singles stableford.

Marina Phoenix Golf Society Monday 20th May saw Ali Mahmud win the individual stableford with 39 pts and continue his handicap reduction, second was Jarlath Staunton with 36 and Jim Budd (34) in third. The ladies division was won by Margaret Budd (34) from Rosalie Fardon (31). Thursdays team competition was best two to count. 1st Margaret Budd, Nigel Greenwood, Ali Mahmud and Peter Warnham 90 pts 2nd Linda King, Jarlath Staunton, John lally and Steve Dimmock 86 pts 3rd Rosalie Fardon, Brian Couper, Geoff Paddock and Jim Budd 82 pts

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With the weather taking its toll on Tues we had to cancel golf. With hollow tining taking place on 28th & 29th the society is having an away day to Lorca golf course. Friday and and our usual stableford com attracted 24 players on the day. The winner with his new silky soft putting stroke was Tony Dudley with 37 pts 2nd Bill Churchill with 36pts 3rd on countback Sean Walsh 36 pts.nearest the pins 2nd shot to the 5th hole Robins Hawkins and on the 12th Sean Walsh. Enjoy your golf at Valle del Este.

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Marina Phoenix play Mondays (individual) and Thursdays (team game). To join us for a €25 greenfee. Ring Jim on 950 162 727 / 600 353 670 or Rosalie 950 397 117/ 697 512 882.

The weather and the course were perfect, but even these conditions failed to produce a really good score. The winner, playing off 10, Derek Adgey scored 32 points winning by 4 points from Nick Pogson on 28 with Ralph Hunter in 3rd on 26 points. Rocket Ron and John Ball each had a nearest the pin on holes 17 and 2 respectively. Roger( The Dodger) Kaye had an indifferent day mainly caused by his head being in a different time zone to his swing. Christine Dow was the leading lady player with 23 points (actually she was the only lady player) well done Christine. Terry Caddick maintains his poor form only scoring 23 points, one suggestion from a helpful member was that Terry would enjoy his day

more if he left his clubs at home and walked the round with his dog ( hardly helpful I thought). Results:1st Derek Adgey 32 points (10) 2nd Nick Pogson 28 points (18) 3rd Ralph Hunter 26 points (31) Nearest The Pin: 2nd Hole John Ball 17th Hole Ron Curtis Thanks to all the members who supported the 19th Hole Golf Society. The 19th hole G/S are now arranging weekly games at various courses in the area, our home course, which we will play fortnightly, is Aguilon. If you are interested in joining the 19th hole give the secretary a ring on 610340653. or email gs19thhole@hotmail.co.uk

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