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as work starts on 23.6m euro Tenerife motor circuit

dream come true” is how the multi-million euro project to bring a motor-racing circuit to Tenerife was described as the first cornerstone was laid on Monday.

President of the island’s Cabildo, Carlos Alonso said they had fought very hard for the ultra-modern infrastructure in Granadilla de Abona and it was now becoming a reality.

The project involves a private investment of 23.6 million euros, approximately 21.2 of which will go to the construction of the circuit, while 2.4 will be used for carrying out the northern access.

Its design complies with the current requirements of national and international car and motorcycling federations in order to organise competitions at the highest level.

For the biggest events, the extensive facilities will have

capacity for up to 10,000 people, placing Tenerife firmly on the international motor racing map. The island’s massive popularity and advantages was seen as an obvious choice for the location of such a circuit.

The works are executed by the company Axia S.R.L., while Onda Rossa S.L. will be responsible for managing the facility for a period of 35 years, renewable for another five years. The deadline of the work of the circuit is 21 months, while for the northern access, it will be 12 months.

Carlos Alonso said that “behind this project is a dream of motorsports fans. Without the teams and fans of the

engine, the circuit would be impossible. But neither would it have gone ahead without the technicians of the Cabildo and people like the late Adán Martín or Ricardo Melchior, two presidents who supported the project, or the councillors Fernando Capdevila, José Manuel Bermúdez, Dámaso Arteaga, Cristo Pérez and of course, Eduardo Pintado who instigated the project. All have enabled us to be here today and we continue fighting to have this infrastructure. “ Amongst those attending were manager of Onda Rossa and CEO of Axia, Riccardo Ferretti, the honorary consul of Italy, Silvio Pelizzolo and the director of the circuit, Walter Sciacca.

The project is creating 50 jobs during construction and 50 when up and running.

Cristo Pérez said: “It is not

simply a work, but the realisation of dreams and hopes by many people over the years. It is a credit to all those

who believed and still believe in such an important project for Tenerife.”

The ceremony of laying the

first stone began with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the Italian earthquake.

PAINTING PUERTO IN Bank gang “spears” AN UNUSUAL WAY customers’ car tyres

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colourful festival with a difference is set to light up Puerto de la Cruz on Sunday, September 11th.

Body painting by Matteo Arfa

The first Tenerife Bodypainting Festival is an international body painting competition with 13 profes-sional bodypainters from all over Europe.

The festival is taking place at the beach of Playa Jardín in Puerto. visitors will be able to watch the painters in action and take pictures becausethe artists will do their pieces in open tents.

There will also be entertainment, facepainting and plenty of other activities, plus an area for professional photographers as well.

The jury will consist of five expert, all of them with a professional background related to arts and bodypainting, including 2013 worldchampion, Italian Matteo Arfanotti, who will do a bodypainting showcase.

The event is supported by Puerto council and Loro Parque.

Doors open at noon. The gala presenting the body paintings will be at 8.30pm in the Andana Beach Club. Well known artists such as Erasmo Daaz from Málaga, Roberto PC Creaciones and the Comparsa Rio Orinoco will complete the evening with exciting stage performances.

Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.maquillaje-tenerife.es or on http:// www.tomaticket.es/Tenerife-Bodypainting-festival. Tickets at the door will be 10 euros for the full festival or 5 euros only for the gala evening (including one drink for free). Children up to the age of 11 years are free.

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OLICE in Tenerife have broken up a gang of robbers who homed in on bank customers and deliberately speared their tyres.

On one occasion, they managed to steal 10,000 euros from a victim who went back to his car and found he had a puncture.

Another vehicle then pulled up behind him, two men got out and offered to help change the tyre. Unknown to him, however, they were members

of the criminal network and whilst he was distracted, they stole his briefcase and all the money.

National Police have arrested four men aged between 20 and 57 years old and a woman of 48, all of Colombian origin.

They used a method known

as “pinchazo”, using sticks with sharp points on the end to prick tyres.

When two houses were raided in Santa Cruz, police found 30 of these metal tubes and a grinder.

The gang would pick their target by hanging around inside banks and watch for customers withdrawing large amounts.

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TALENT SHOWCASE

Poster entries sought for CreArte Young Street Art 2016

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A Orotava has announced a new edition of the contest to select the poster for CreArte Young Street Art 2016.

Interested parties have until September 30th to present their work.

This XVII Young Street Art Fair will be held on Sunday, October 30th.

Youth councillor, Yurena Luis stresses that the competition is the prelude to the fair which

this year celebrates 17 years.

“This contest implies the philosophy of the fair, which is simply to provide the opportunity for young people to showcase their talent, and in this case in the field of graphic design,” he said.

Young Street Art is a unique

event, created by and for young people, and therefore has the participation of over 500 showing in the streets and squares of the historic centre their skills in various artistic disciplines.

The theme and composition of the entries for the competition should refer to the contest: “Young Street Art 2016”. Each participant may

submit up to two original and unpublished works that have not been awarded in other competitions.

“It does not take an expert artist or designer, what prevails is the creativity and imagination,” explains the councillor.

Further information is available on uventud@villadelaorotava.org.

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RONA council has initiated the procedure for the purchase of 125 personal protective vests for the local police as protection against stabs or gun shots.

The tender budget is 89,933.50 euros as the jackets will be personalised to fit the individual officers, particularly the women.

Police councillor, Carolina Reveron Ramos said this was the first time Arona had provided such equipment for the local police but it had been an historic demand.

She stressed this measure is part of the comprehensive action plan for improving the situation of the local police.

The vests will be individualised and with priority for those agents who perform their

work in public. It is estimated that the delivery time will be about six months, as it is required to adapt to the specific measures of the police.

Vests, besides being safe protection against possible stabbing and ballistic impacts caused by firearms, will also have to meet certain qualities of comfort and ergonomics, especially in relation to minimum weight, thickness, flexibility and adaptation to the body.

They have very stringent requirements regarding everything from material to design.

Cemetery gets surveillance cameras

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EW security cameras are being installed in the municipal cemetery in San Miguel de Abona.

The council says this follows repeated requests from local residents and was therefore considered a priority.

Various improvements have recenly been made in the cemetery and it is hoped to avoid any possible vandalism or uncivil behaviour through the installation of the seven video surveillance cameras.

relay beach information

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ANTA Cruz council, through the accounts of the Department of Environment on social networks, is to inform users about the status of five beaches along the coast.

The information courtesy of the Spanish Red Cross will concern Las Teresitas, Las Gaviotas, Roque de Las Bodegas, Almáciga and Benijo, and is offered daily between 11am and noon.

The followers of Twitter account @scmedioambiente and Facebook SCMedioambiente will receive information about aspects such as wind speed, maximum temperatures, water conditions and temperature, cloudiness and bathing recommendations.

“In this way, and without the need to download a specific application, the user can decide which beach to go and better use their holidays or free time,” said local councillor, Carlos Correa.

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“TAKE CARE”

NEW CONTRACTS

Alert over More tourists for Tenerife brings more jobs beach accidents T HE increased flow of tourists to Tenerife, more than 2.7 million in the first half of the year, has led to a record of hiring in the sector, which accumulated from January to July grew 14.1 per cent to reach 78,557 contracts.

This translates in absolute terms to 9,710 more than a year ago.

According to the Canary Employment Observatory, analysed by the Research

Accident on TF-1 at Granadilla

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HE emergency services are urging people to be very careful if walking on rocks round the beach.

Tenerife firefighters have been involved in a number of rescues in the last week or so.

In one incident, the crew from La Orotava was called in to help a man who had suffered an accident on the beach of Bollullo.

They had to stretcher him to a waiting ambulance.

The same crew was also called out to deal with another incident on the beach of Fajana when a man out fishing fell on the rocks. The man was rescued and then airlifted to hospital.

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woman escaped serious injury after her car left the TF-1 at Granadilla just before 8pm on August 29th.

The driver suffered cuts and bruises and was taken to hospital for treatment but her condition was not serious.

The Civil Guard and emergency medics attended, together with a crew from Tenerife Cabildo to clear the carriageway.

Department of Tourism of Tenerife, the hospitality branch represents 77.8 per cent of all contracts signed in the island’s tourism sector, with 61,103 contracts so far this

year , 15.4 per cent more than the figure for the previous year.

Growth occurs in both hosting services, with 31,989 contracts generated (an increase of 17.4 per cent) as in the food and beverage services, which accumulated until July rose by 13.4 per cent to a total of 29,114 contracts signed.

Data for the month of July

recorded 13,211 contracts in the month, 3.8 per cent more when compared with June.

Regarding unemployment, the data for the month of July recorded a total of 20,405 unemployed, five per cent less than those recorded in the same month last year. In absolute figures, it is 1,076 fewer unemployed in one year.

POOL DRAMA

British toddler saved from drowning

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four year old British toddler was saved from drowning whilst on holiday in Tenerife.

Police say the near tragedy happened in a swimming pool of an hotel in Adeje.

“The 112 emergency services received an alert from the reception of the hotel complex reporting that a child had been pulled from the pool and resuscitation started by the rescuer,” said a police spokesman.

Horrified guests looked on as the police and medics arrived and continued to revive the youngster who was rushed to hospital once stabilised.

An investigtion is underway to determine exactly what happened.

The four-year-old was taken to a hospital in the south of Tenerife in a “non serious” condition.

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PINOLERE DATE

TOWN CUSTODIANS

Two Michelin star chef to Six historic share secrets at Craft Fair guns to remain

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HE only chef with two Michelin stars in the Canary Islands is taking part in the XXXI Pinolere Craft Fair 2016.

Erlantz Gorostiza, chef of MB at the hotel Abama, is one of the most important chefs on the national scene.

He will give a talk on Saturday, September 3rd aimed at the general public visiting the event.

Erlantz will be joined by Gonzalo Martin who is a ceramicist specialising in designing wonderful crockery dishes for the kitchen.

The talk is at noon at the Pinolere Ethnographic Park where the fair is taking place.

The event itself is on September 2nd, 3rd and 4th and will spotlight on the association between the world of cooking and crafts in the Canary Islands.

One of the highlights will be showcooking with renowned chefs, free to the general public, tastings and workshops.

There will be sensory workshop on Canary sweet wines, honeys and chocolates.

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Sansofé British woman comes to trapped in car successful close

DRAMATIC CRASH

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British woman was seriously injured when involved in a dramatic car crash on Lanzarote.

Witnesses said her car struck two palm trees in the popular resort of Costa Teguise before it “travelled through the air on two wheels” and was about to career into the opposite lane when it hit a lamp-post, flipped up and ended up on its bonnet in a vertical position.

The 66-year-old Brit was trapped inside and had to be cut free by firemen.

She suffered mutiple inju-

ries and was rushed to the Molina Orosa hospital in a critical condition.

Her name has yet to be released so it is not known whether she was on holiday in the Canaries or lived in Lanzarote.

The accident happened at 9am on Friday morning in Avenida de Las Palmeras which is near to number of large hotels and pavement cafes.

HE historic sight of six guns positioned in the Plaza de Europa in Puerto de la Cruz is to continue for another five years.

An agreement has been signed between the local council and the Centre for History and Military Culture of the Canary Islands to extend the period of two years to five.

Thus, the resort will continue to have the six guns, four bronze and two iron, unique and original pieces dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, provided by the Ministry of Defence and much-photographed in the

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emblematic Plaza.

This space, designed by La Orotava architect Luis Garcia Mesa, is an authentic urban monument in the form of a balconied fortress on the sea.

He was inspired by the ancient fortifications that defended the island and can be enjoyed at any time of year.

The six guns are considered of Cultural Interest and Puerto council continues to be their custodian.

FESTIVAL ACCLAIM

RANADILLA council is hailing the success of Sansofé, the summer cultural programme of the south, as it came to a close with a grand

fiesta.

The 23rd edition featured a host of activities during July and August and concluded with a foam party in Los Abrigos and a concert in El Médano.

The festival was organised by the council’s culture department and encompassed around 40 initiatives for the whole family: concerts, outdoor cinema, workshops, recreational activities, sports and cultural .

Culture councillor, Oscar Delgado Melo said the Granadilla coast had been a meeting place for residents and tourists seeking alternative tourism, allowing them to spend their days off enjoying the best natural beaches of Tenerife and the best of Sansofé.

Link road for Fonsalia one step nearer

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new motorway access for Fonsalía is coming ever closer, says Guia de Isora council.

Work is progressing to provide both an in and out access to the F-47 coastal road.

Reporting progresss on the new road, councillor for works and municipal services, Bruno Domínguez said they were proceeding to asphalt the new route which is wide enough for two lanes.

“Now it is up to the Cabildo to finalise the layout and circulation to end parking problems,” he added.

The municipality hopes that this measure and the roundabout that will connect the TF-47 at the same point with the insular ring (provisional for November) will help traffic flow more smoothly and improve security in the area .

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BRITS DUPED

Police warning over bogus Spain shows patrols on mainland its solidarity B after Italian earthquake GRANADA VICTIM

RITISH tourists travelling to the mainland of Spain are being warned to watch out for bogus cops who are flashing unsuspecting motorists down with false badges and unmarked cars.

The Civil Guard says the men are impersonating police officers in a bid to get unsuspecting tourists to pull over. They are then attacked and robbed of cash and any valuables the crooks can lay their hands on.

One potential victim took a

video whilst driving on the AP7 motorway along the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

A black BMW came alongside and the passenger flashed what looked like an Americanstyle police badge.

The route is particularly popular with tourists and it is

believed they are trying to target people who don’t speak Spanish and might think they are genuine officers.

On this occasion, the gang picked on the wrong person.

“Aware of situations like this, the potential victim videoed their car, catching not only the number plate but also a view of the driver,” said a police spokesman. “Noticing that he was being videod, the fake police car sped off away from the scene.”

The video was then handed to the authorities who are investigating and believe the gang was responsible for a number of robberies in the area.

Police suspect the gang is made up of a number or Peruvian and Chilean nationals who have been operating in Spain for months.

Anyone stopped and doubting if the “officers” are genuine should call 112 if they only speak English.

Marine Park to host Carnival opening ceremony

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HE Marine Park will host the opening ceremony of the 2017 Carnival of Santa Cruz.

Friday January 27 is the date chosen to lift the curtain on the party, in its next edition dedicated to the Caribbean.

Councillor for Fiestas, Gladis de Leon, has already begun to prepare the first details of the show during a coordination meeting with the director of the Gala de la Reina, Enrique Camacho, in addition to the technical managers of the opening ceremony.

Sr. Camacho will be in charge of devising the script for this show, in which the order of participation of the candidates for Queen of Carnival in three categories (child, adult and older) will be presented.

The Santa Cruz Marine Park was designed by the artist César Manrique and is a leisure complex with swimming pools in 22,000 square metres.

Located between the Auditorium and the exhibition centre, this facility has abundant tropical vegetation and palm trees which is an ideal stage on which to develop the next Carnival opening ceremony, which will be dedicated to the Caribbean.

Eliminating barriers in plaza

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A Orotava plans to start next September improvement works and removal of architectural barriers in the Plaza de la Perdoma which is adjacent to the neighborhood church.

The intervention, which will involve an investment of 9,000 euros, includes eliminating the steps in front of the temple and creating a ramp with enough inclination and wide enough to facilitate access for people with disabilities, limited mobility or with pushchairs.

It is also planned to remove the access step to the square

on the south side, from the TF324, down the sidewalks to have a fully accessible entrance.

Councillor for general services, Felipe David Benítez said the scheme was part of the council’s overall programme to carry out small interventions which would bring big benefits for residents.

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OUNCILS and Cabildos throughout the Canary Islands have been paying tribute to the victims of the Italian earthquake who included one woman from Spain.

Ana Huete, 27, from Granada was the only Spanish citizen killed in the disaster.

Her boyfriend of four years, Christian, an Italian who runs a pizza parlour in Spain, was wounded in the earthquake but survived. He is recovering in hospital.

The couple were on a dream holiday to Italy before returning to set up home together in the apartment they had recently bought in Granada.

Ana and her boyfriend were in Illica when the quake hit. It was her third holiday in Italy which she loved.

It is understood she was struck on the head by a falling beam as buildings

crumbled. Christian is said to have used his bare hands to try and dig her out of the rubble. Ana was apparently in a room with girlfriends whilst the men were on the floor above.

Spain’s Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy sent the President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Italy, Matteo Renzi, a telegram following the earthquake.

“At such a sad time, Italy can count on the solidarity and friendship of the people of Spain, and on any aid that you may consider useful in order to a l l e v i a t e t h e c o n s equences of such a devastating earthquake,” he said.

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TIME LIMIT REDUCTION

Housing benefit change will impact Education remains one of on many Brits spending time in Spain

LEISURE TIME

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EOPLE living in Great Britain can now only receive Housing Benefit for four weeks if they are out of the country.

Previously, housing benefit claimants could continue having their rent paid for up to 13 weeks.

The new rules, which came into force last month, prevent claimants from taking long drawn-out trips outside Great Britain while receiving taxpayer help with their rent, as well as bringing Housing Benefit into line with Jobseeker’s Allowance and

other working age benefits, which already have stricter limits.

Those in receipt of Pension Credit also face a reduction in the time they can continue to receive their benefit whilst abroad, from 13 weeks to four weeks.

Minister for Welfare Delivery, Caroline Nokes said: “It’s important that the benefits system is fair to those who

need it and those who pay for it.”

“It’s not right that people could be abroad for over three months and still expect the taxpayer to pay their rent back home.”

“These new rules mean that people can still enjoy holidays like everyone else, but will ensure that the system isn’t abused.”

For further information on these changes or to find out what exemptions apply, contact your local benefit office.

Those who are permanent

residents overseas remain unable to claim incomerelated benefits for any period of time. These include benefits such as Housing Benefit, Pension Credit or Universal Credit.

If you suspect someone of committing benefit fraud in Spain, call the Benefit Fraud Hotline on 900 55 444 0. Calls are free and confidential. You can also report a benefit thief online at www.gov.uk/reportbenefit-fraud. Help make sure that benefits go to those who need them most.

FOUR COMPLAINTS

Squid seized during police raids into illegal fishing

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HE Maritime Service of the Civil Guard has been clamping down on illegal fishing and hawking in Tenerife.

Operations have been carried out in both Santa Cruz and San Andrés which has led to four official complaints

against various people.

In addition, 72 kilos of squid have been confiscated.

The Civil Guard said in a

statement that several inspections were carried out on professional sports crafts where this type type of fishing was being carried out.

“The final balance of this operation, which took place during the early hours of August 22nd/23rd, resulted in the imposition of four complaints for administrative offences on

fisheries and the seizure of 72 kilograms of squid that had been captured illegally,” said a spokesman.

Hawking of the fish also failed to meet health standards, he added.

After making the necessary checks, the seizure of squid was delivered to welfare centres.

our pillars, says La Orotava council

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A Orotava council has stressed that education remains one of the pillars of the programme of the current government group.

The Municipal Education Plan benefited more than 6,000 schools throughout the past school year, with more than half a million euros being allocated.

A full programme of extracurricular activities, games and recreational work-shops, fairs and study aids and centres are some of the activities promoted by the Department of Education.

This plan encompasses 30 extracurricular activities in the 13 public schools throughout the year as well as the Municipal Scholarship Plan that benefited last year 932 students.

The programme also included maintenance of

schools, the renovation, expansion and improvement of schools and subsidies for associations of parents or for the operation of libraries in school hours, among other things.

“The offer is a complement to formal education, an alternative to occupy the leisure time of students, but also for teaching purposes and beneficial to their training and personal development,” says the council.

Activities have included sports, dancing, computer workshops, a music show, science fair, workshops, book fair, handicrafts and Canary Day celebrations.

Crackdown on drug trafficking in north NEW ARREST Tenerife

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OLICE have arrested a 47 year old man on suspicion of a crime against public health following a drugs operation in La Victoria de Acentejo.

Six other people are being investigated in relation to the same enquiry.

Members of the Civil Guard found 80 marijuana plants with a gross weight of 246 kilograms.

The operation was part of an ongoing campaign against the cultivation and distri-

Stubble blaze in Santa Cruz

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IREFIGHTERS were called in to tackle a stubble blaze which broke out in Santa Cruz.

Black smoke was spotted on land behind the funeral parlour of Santa Lastenia.

The 112 service received several reports of the fire which the crews based in the capital quickly contained and extinguished with preventive measures to stop it spreading.

Police also attended.

bution of marijuana in the northern part of the island of Tenerife.

The operation involved various units of the Guardia Civil based in Puerto de la Cruz and the Air Service (Helicopter Unit) of this body as well as the cooperation of the local police in La Victoria de Acen-tejo.

Fire follows explosion in Buzanada

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OLICE had to help evacuate residents of a building in Buzanada following reports of an explosion.

Firemen based at San Miguel de Abona were called out to put out a blaze in the house on the camino Los Migueles.

The fire was in the kitchen of one of the apartments and there was a significant amount of smoke in the building, as well as water.

For this reason, the firefighters ventilated the staircase and evacuated the occupants of the building still inside.

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STREAMLINING OPENINGS

Granadilla Loro Parque orcas become proving a mecca for new ambassadors for the wild as new tags are tested businesses INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENT

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LMOST a hundred companies chose Granadilla to develop their business in the first half of 2016.

San Isidro, El Medano and Los Abrigos received the greatest number of requests for opening between January and June.

Figures released by Granadilla council showed 98 companies came to the municipality to begin commercial activity during the first half of 2016. This meant the authority processed nearly a hundred applications for the licensing of new businesses in different parts of the municipality.

The largest number of requests are for the coastal area, as with the case of El Médano, with 29 starts; followed by the commercial heart of San Isidro, 26; Los Abrigos, 16; Tejitas, 10; Tenerife-Sur airport, 9; Granadilla, 4; Los Llanos, 2, and Los Blanquitos and Charco del Pino, 1, respectively.

By sector, the majority focus on the restaurants, followed by aesthetics and welfare, trade and housing rentals. For

months, April reached the highest figure, with 33; January, 18; February, 15; March, 14; June 10 and May 8.

The head of the Agency for Employment and Local Development, Maria Luz Fernandez Martin, is pleased that the companies “continue betting on Granadilla de Abona, because this represents dynamism and empowerment of local business.”

She appreciates the entrepreneurship and the work of traders and stressed the Agency for Employment and Local Development is able to provide counselling and training.

The Local Development office, in collaboration with the SAC and other municipal areas,says it is working to simplify bureaucracy and facilitate procedures, in order to avoid obstacles that delay economic activity and job creation.

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Director of Loro Parque Fundación, and Rafael Sánchez, Head Trainer of OrcaOcean, viewed positively the initial viability of the non-invasive marking system in comparison to the traditional tagging, in which harpoons are used that cause discomfort and potential injuries to the animal.

Without this kind of tests, it would not be possible to determine that the design is appropriate for use.

Therefore, it has been noted that Loro Parque’s orcas contribute to scientific

ORO Parque has strengthened its commitment to research by hosting the first noninvasive tagging test on cetaceans.

An innovative belt has been placed at the end of one of the whale’s tail in a pioneering study by Icelandic and Danish scientists.

The aim was to test the viability of the device and verify that it does not create any disturbance on the animal’s skin. The final goal of this procedure is to mark humpback whales in the wild.

“Methodically, the concept features a belt placed at the animal’s tail that includes a number of sensors to measure basic parametres,” a spokesman for Loro Parque explained.

“This will provide data for further studies on geolocation, feeding behaviours and vertical movements of the animal and many other aspects.”

These innovative “tagging” devices will also be capturing and processing

unique oceanographic data.

This will then be used to evaluate certain issues related to climate change.

The main objective of the effort is to set up a network of sensors using humpback whales in different locations around the world. This unique tool will allow learning more about both their biology and obtain information about the climate on a global scale.

Loro Parque added: “The results of the test performed on the orca Keto have been satisfying: it has not caused any problem on animal’s skin and it has been ascertained that it does not affect the movement of the animal – the innovative material of the belt is flexible, impermeable and does not create friction. “ As the success of the test in Loro Parque has been confirmed, the scientists will perform the tagging of two humpback

whales in Iceland, whose collected information will be used to know more about the migration processes of these cetaceans.

Dr. Javier Almunia, Deputy

research and to data gathering that benefit cetaceans in the wild, performing a role of ambassadors of their species in the nature.

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“Come and visit”, says collective of artists

“ACT GREEN”

Bon voyage for rescued sea turtles

FOURTH SHOW

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RTISTS from across Tenerife and also from La Palma are sharing their observations of their subjects.

The collective “Hiperfocal” is opening its latest exhibition “ Vistazos” (“Glimpses”) in the exhibition hall of the House of Culture of San Agustin de la Orotava on the evening of September 1st.

This is the collective’s fourth group exhibition after showing their work in the Convent of Santo Domingo de San Cristobal de La Laguna, Lanzarote Airport and La Casa del Profesor de Tijarafe in La Palma.

After spotlighting on the night and day landscape, this show looks in greater detail between what is portrayed, the photographer and the observer.

Members of the public are being invited to visit up until September 21st, Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 21:00.

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department and the Neotropics Foundation.

The event was organised by Los Realejos council, through its Department of Environment and environmental awareness programme ‘Act Green’, in collaboration with the insular corporation and coordination of the Rambla de Castro nature classroom.

A crowd of bathers and beach users had a chance to look closely at these turtles before wishing them a pleasant journey through the Atlantic waters, their natural habitat.

HE beach of El Socorro in Los Realejos was the scene for a new release of turtles under the “Los Realejos Actúa Verde” programme.

A trio was returned to the sea after being treated at the Wildlife Recovery Centre run by Tenerife Cabildo’s environment

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“Cheapest rentals” in the Canary Islands

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real estate study has shown that Los Realejos offers the cheapest rentals in the Canary Islands, says the local council.

Fotocasa placed the town in July with an average price of 4.92 euros per square metre of housing for rent, compared to the Canary average of 6.38 euros.

The portal said the statewide average was 7.36 euros per square metre, placing the Canar y Islands ninth in the autonomous communities.

The study reveals that the monthly change from June to July 2016 l in Los Realejos was 6.3 per cent.

WOMAN STABBED IN LA LAGUNA

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OLICE are investigating an incident in La Laguna when a 37-year-old woman was stabbed.

The victim suffered a wound to her abdomen and was taken to hospital for treatment. Her condition was described as not serious.

The assault happened in Calle Benito Pérez Galdós just after 8.30am in the morning.

The emergency services were called to the scene following reports that a woman had been stabbed in the street for an unknown reason.

One of the witnesses to the aggression took the victim to a local health centre but after an assessment by medics, it was decided to move her to the University Hospital of the Canary Islands in Santa Cruz.

LEG CRUSHED IN PUERTO ACCIDENT

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man was taken to hospital after crushing his leg in an accident in Puerto de la Cruz.

The 1-1-2 centre received an alert which reported that a man had suffered an accident while unloading goods from a truck while working and one of his legs had been crushed by it.

Police and medics went to the scene in Calle Perdomo and treated the 48-year-old man before he was taken to hospital. His condition was described as non serious.

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Council speaks out over dumped mess to alert Los Realejos residents

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HIS is the dumped mess in Los Realejos which could lead to a 3,500 euro fine for the person who left it there.

The local council says it has initiated proceedings against a resident for the dumping of debris and articles in public space.

The Mayor of Los Realejos, Manuel Dominguez, has confirmed they are taking action as a result of the abandoned items in the carpark of the Toscal Longuera infants’ school. The offender was seen by an officer of the local police and immediately reported.

The council says the offence is considered a serious one, hence the maximum penalty of 3,500 euros.

The Mayor said: “It is unusual to make statements in this regard but I feel there is a need to tell the public to be aware of the existence of such undesirable acts that violate decorum, coexistence, security and the environment.”

He said it was ironic because the council offered a free public service for the collection of debris. All that was needed was a simple call to arrange a place and time.

He stressed council and municipal services company Realserv have launched an

information campaign under the slogan ‘We want you to know ’ raising awareness through signage, social networks and Radio Realejos of

the existence of this and other free municipal utilities available for citizens to bring a better and cleaner municipality.”

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San Juan de la Rambla residents offered TV “fix-it” service

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IGH-SPEED mobile has arrived in San Juan de la Rambla but it might not be without problems.

The council recently held a meeting to inform residents of the deployment of 4G and what to do if the television signal is affected.

Work has been taking place in the municipality to deploy the 4G network, which will allow telephone operators to start offering high-speed services in the 800MHz band.

This will allow residents to enjoy mobile high-speed connections over LTE (4G) technology with better coverage inside buildings and a wider geographical spread.

This deployment can affect the reception of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), so the council recently convened a neighbourhood meeting to discuss this and what steps the residents of the

centre, Las Aguas and La Rambla, the main affected nuclei, can take to resolve incidents with televisions.

At the meeting, the Mayoress Fidela Velázquez reported that mobile operators themselves have launched the entity called “Llega800”, which is responsible to fix, for free, any involvement in receiving DTT signal.

To facilitate this process, the council has offered to meet all the demands of residents and act as the contact with “Llega800” to claim the necessary readjustments.

All the information has been posted on the municipal website (sanjuandelarambla.es) together with a form for deficiencies in the

television signal which must then be delivered to the council.

4G deployment is part of the Royal Decree 805/2014, of September 19, dated April 1, 2015 which released the frequencies between 790 and 862 MHz (channels 61 to 69 UHF) which until then were used for the reception of Digital Terrestrial Tele-

vision, a process also known as Digital Dividend.

Thereafter, these frequencies were assigned to the mobile operators to deliver its mobile services 4G. Meanwhile, for more information, Llega 800 has made available to the public a free telephone service on (900,833,999) and a website www.llega800.es.

Rescue in Masca Facelift for local barranco SAN MIGUEL

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ASCA barranco was the scene of a dramatic rescue when a walker slipped and injured a leg.

Firefighters and emergency medics were called in, together with the rescue helicopter.

The 31-year-old man was unable to walk following the accident which happened in the late morning.

He was airlifted to safety and taken to the heliport before going on to hospital.

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AN Miguel council has been spending 30,000 euros on improvements at local schools this summer.

The work responds to local requests for the various centres.

The Mayor, Arturo González said all projects would be finished in time for the new term and included such actions as painting classrooms, plumbing, electrics, humidity control, improved playgrounds and sports areas.

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Arona acts with urgency over children’s playgrounds

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RONA has invested almost 150,000 euros in the first phase of improvement of playgrounds.

Work will be carried out in 12 facilities which were deemed in the poorest condition and because they still have gravel flooring.

The Mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, and councillor for works and services, José Luis Gómez said: “The municipality remains committed to improving the quality of life for residents and are already working on the projects of the second phase, which will start running as soon as possible so that all parks are rehabilitated and are safe for users. “ More than 12,500 children under 15 years live in Arona, according to data from the municipal register.

To this figure must be added that of the thousands of families who visit the area each year and also make use of these public facilities.

The first phase of rehabilitation, which has taken longer than envisaged by the tender procedure, is well advanced and involves performances in the centres of Valle San Lorenzo, Arona casco, Montaña Fría, Buzanada, El Fraile, Costa del Silencio, Playa de Las Américas and Los Cristianos.

It includes a total area of 1,504.41 square metres and performances represent, in most precincts, the withdrawal of rubber tiles, relocation of equipment to ensure safety, as well as the installation of a new continuous rubber pavement and with thicker and new elements where necessary.

The most worrisome cases were Garañaña Park of Costa del Silencio and the promenade of Los Cristianos, where the floor was gravel.

BODY FOUND IN CAR IN RAVINE

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search for a missing man ended in tragedy when his body was found inside a car at the bottom of a ravine.

Police said it appeared the vehicle had gone over the edge of the precipice near the forest track of Cruz del Agua in the municipality of Los Realejos.

A full-scale search had been launched for the 72-year-old pensioner who went missing from the municipality.

The fire brigdade was called in to release him from the wreckage and his body was lifted back to level land by the emergency helicopter.

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TAPAS ROUTE

Job creation in Puerto de la Gastronomic stars shine in El Cruz hits seven-year high RING, DON’T TWEET

Rosario

tourism sector.”

The Mayor, Lope Afonso said Puerto’s ability to maintain the positive trend in job creation for such a long period was “the best news we can give our residents, who had been enduring the whipping of the crisis for a long time.”

He said tourism remained the engine of growth for both the municipality and the MAJOR WORK ON BUSY LANZAROTE ROAD islands.

“The renovation of the hotel industry, thanks to instruments such as the Plan for Modernisation (PMM) prepared by the “ L clan de Toño” of Tabaiba won the first gasConsortium, new openings in tronomic route “A sea of tapas” in El the commercial sector, future Rosario. projects and, in general, the with 53.5 points in bronze The restaurant’s creation of climate of stability that permeposition.

“El cofre de Mary” took the ates the municipality gives us Councillor for local gold culinary prize as part of confidence that the unemdevelopment, Yeray Gutierrez, the successful event held for ployment data will continue to and the president of the 16 days during July. improve gradually, “ he adAssociation of Small and Ten establishments took ded.

Medium Entrepreneurs of El part, with “El clan de Toño” Economic sectors where Rosario (Apymeer), Ivana del receiving 59 points, followed the largest number of conRío presented certificates, as by the bar “Zaragoza” and its tracts were generated is during well as a cheque for 100 euros “Caracoles” (Silver Cover) the month of July were hospito the winners. with 54 points, and “Donuria” tality, with 1,151 contracts; commerce with 111; construction with 34 and 525 for all NEW PAVING other sectors.

The sectors which generated fewer contracts were agriculture and industry with seven new contracts each sector.

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UERTO de la Cruz’s bouyancy as an increasingly popular holiday destination is being echoed by local employment figures.

Latest figures show the municipality is creating jobs and council leaders are particularly pleased that the growth is being sustained for a prelonged period and not just in the main season.

Puerto had 3,459 people unemployed in July, 347 less than in July 2015 and the lowest figure since 2009.

According to the Canary Observatory of Employment and Vocational Training (OBECAN), this was made up of 1,966 women and 1,493 men.

“The evolution of the number of unemployed during the first months of 2016 shows a trend of continued decline in our city since late

last year, consolidating the improvement in the employment data initiated since last year,” said a council spokesman.

“The figures are seeing a significant decline in the number of unemployed registered at employment offices in relation to previous years, with the addition that this decline is maintained regularly compared to 2015 without charge in an increasing seasonality in the

Unique training course in Puerto

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UERTO de la Cruz has become the first place in the Canary Islands to host a training day on handling chemical oxygen.

The seminar took place in the Business Initiatives Centre and involved Civil Protection volunteers and Civil Protection chiefs. More than 100 delegates were present.

Autorescatadores are designed for individual respiratory protection in case of emergency in places where there may be a deficiency of oxygen or an environmental pollution caused by gas bags, fire, mines, tunnels, etc.

They provide enough time to give affected people the chance to recover or escape.

Councillor for security, Pedro Gonzalez stressed the importance of this training, taught for the first time in the Canaries.

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Major work in popular plaza

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OS Realejos is to invest 212,554 euros in the reform of the Plaza de Los Remedios.

The project will include waterproofing and placing new lighting, the council has announced.

Mayor, Manuel Domínguez said it would be necessary to break up all the existing pavement and to replace it with basaltic natural paving.

The current waterproofing is totally degraded, which has caused humidities in the premises located in the basement of the plaza.

The project also includes the redesign of the interior space with the execution of two pergolas in order to create shaded areas.

The sewage system that runs along the walkway that serves existing housing under official protection is also to be repaced.

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FIVE CENTRES

Puerto invests 20,000 euros to spruce up schools over the summer

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Ceramic signs in La Orotava streets to get specialist attention

UERTO de la Cruz council has completed reforms in five schools in the municipality with important works of repair, rehabilitation and improvements to mark the start of the new year in September.

Thus, the centres of Tomás Iriarte, San Antonio, Punta Brava, César Manrique and Juan Cruz Ruiz, received an investment in improvement works amounting to 20,000 euros, with the aim of offering a higher quality, operability and comfort to all the users.

The work consisted of works of adaptation of classrooms, outdoor and indoor facilities, common areas, bathrooms and gardens.

Classrooms have been painted, together with replacement of flooring and tiling, improved faucets and toilets, waterproofing and repair of humidities, bricklaying, expansion of classrooms, replacement of screens, sports fields painted, repairs to electrical systems and plumbing, as well as adequacy of outdoor gardens, irrigation and lighting.

The works began on July 1st, at the end of the classes,

and has been “a real effort to conclude before the start of this school year,” said the Councillor for Education, Diana Mora, who explained that these improvements “ensure the quality of teaching and more

comfort for teachers and students of the schools in our town .”

She also congratulated “all those involved in the works for its efforts to comply with the deadlines “.

Granadilla making history as new civil protection group is formed

STRENGTHENING SAFETY

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RANADILLA de Abona has taken historic steps to form a Local Group of Civil Protection Volunteers for the very first time.

The council has approved definitively the rules and regulations which have been published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Santa Cruz Tenerife for 30 days of public consultation.

In the words of security councillor, Nicolas Jorge Hernandez, this legislation allows

steps for the effective establishment of such a group, “which is a historic event for the municipality because never before has there been a group as such and of this kind.”

The aim will be to ensure preventive and operational coordination, through collaboration with other media and

municipal resources for the protection of persons and property in emergency situations in cases of serious risk, catastrophe or public calamity.

Jorge Hernandez explained that all those who have concerns or interest in security and civil protection may be members of the group.

The regulation details say active volunteers must be people over 18 who pass the tests of mental and physical fitness and knowledge to be determined, basic training and specialisation as appropriate.

The document specifies that the organisational and functional structure will consist of a team of intervention and different operating units to ensure the best service. Ongoing activities will correspond to emergency situations, in case of serious risk, catastrophe or public calamity and other public protection.

The council says that once the document is fully appro-

ved, creation of the unit will become a reality.

“It will mean a qualitative leap in the safety of the municipality in the field of local expertise.” said Jorge Hernandez.

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T might seem like a small issue individually but when combined, missing letters are to receive big attention in La Orotava.

The local council, through the Department of Heritage, is intent on restoring ceramic labels located in different streets of the historic district.

This is an initiative that has already been approved by the Municipal Council of Heritage and is intended to end the image deterioration of these signs which, in most cases, are missing a letter, reports the acting mayor Narciso Pérez.

Ceramic labels originated in the first third of the twentieth century to replace existing ones in other materials.

“These elements have heritage significance, as they are a unique and distinctive

element of the urban image of La Orotava in the roads in which they are located,” said Narciso Pérez.

According to the study conducted by the Department of Heritage, a total of twenty original ceramic labels are preserved, all of them made up of individual pieces of ceramics corresponding to each letter. Of those twenty, eleven are in perfect condition, being necessary to act in the others.

The work will include the replacement of the missing letters or those partially affected by a company specialising in ceramic.

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Peludo needs a owner

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ELUDO is a small dog of only three years old. He was found wandering in La Orotava but now his quarantine time is over, he has been fully vaccinated and sterilised and he is ready for adoption. He is a delightful little chap and would be very happy to go to a home.

If you think you have a space in your heart and your home for Peludo please call Rachel on 629 031 273 or you can visit the refuge between the hours of 11 and 4 Monday to Friday. The Centro de Proteccion Animal de Tierra Blanca is located off junction 15 of the TF1 motorway by the restaurant Los Chasneros, just 200m above the motorway.

They do not ask for adoption fees, only a donation of food and photos to let them know how the dog is getting on in his new home.

Call 629 031 273.

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All the news from Acción All saints church news del Sol A TECHNOLOGY PLEDGE

LL Saints Church situated in the picturesque Parque Taoro offers the following times of Worship in its beautiful turn of the century church:

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UR walk and wash day proved another great success.

Volunteers came and helped us walk the refuge dogs, then they were all bathed and pampered on their return to the refuge.

We would like to say a very special thank you to all the many willing helpers of all nationalities that came and supported the event. It was a fantastic turnout and almost every dog was included so we must have the cleanest dogs in Tenerife for a while at least.

Foster homes We are also looking for

temporary foster homes for some of our many dogs so maybe if you are unable to have a dog full time but would like to help us then please do contact us on the number below.

Your help

Please do call the refuge on 922778630 if you can help in any way.

We are always in need of tinned dog food for our older dogs blankets, towels, sheets, dog toys, and collars and leads.

If you have any of the above to spare they would be very much appreciated at the refuge, or visit Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons from 14.0017.00pm and Saturdays 13.0016.00.

We are situated directly under the Eolica Parque exit 52 on the TF1 north bound which is after the after the El Medano junction . Head for the giant windmills on the coast and we are the buildings on the right hand side or email the refuge at teneriffa@aktiontier.org or visit our Facebook page ,action tier Accion del SOL

Wednesdays— 10am Service of Holy Communion.

Sunday 9.30am—Book of Common Prayer.

Sunday 11am— Sung Eucharist.

The Car Boot season is nearly upon us again. If you haven’t been to one of our Car Boots you are missing a great day out for all the family, Book the date in you diary for the first one of the season Saturday October 1st at 11.30am in the church grounds. Mingle among the 60 or so pitches looking for that inevitable bargain, something you cannot possibly do without. Then partake of refreshments tea or coffee or if you prefer something stronger as

the Bar will be open. Food will also be available and Rays Bistro serves hamburgers which now have a reputation as being some of the tastiest on the Island. Hot dogs, soup in the colder months, sandwiches and quiche are also there to be eaten when one fancies a break from browsing This year All Saints Church will be holding its Harvest Festival Service on Sunday October 23rd at the 11am Sung Eucharist Service. The church will be decorated with flowers, fruit and produce in grateful thanks for the fruits of the earth.

As usual All Saints will distribute the goods to various organisations in need. A buffet

will be held in the church grounds afterwards. Details of this from Caroline 922381981 or speak to her after the 11am Service on a Sunday.

Great news from the Anglican church in the south of Tenerife. Their new Priest Reverend John Poole will be licensed on Thursday September 15th in Los Gigantes by the Archdeacon of Gibraltar. We wish Reverend John and his wife Rosemary every happiness as they settle into life there.

As All Saint Church is currently in an Interregnum.

Our Reverend locum Priest until the end is September is Reverend Stewart Timbrell who is well known to us all and we look forward to welcoming him back once again Reverend Stewart can be reached by phoning the Parsonage on 922384038.

Cats make great companions

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ATS are wonderful creatures who have a great deal to offer their human companions. It is believed that cats were first domesticated by humans around 5,000 years ago and were used to help protect farmers crops from mice & other rodents.

They are still a popular domesticated pet today, generally not for their hunting abilities but for a variety of other reasons.

Cats do well living in small homes and apartments, they don’t need a great deal of space to run around like many breeds of dog. Ideal for apartment living here in Tenerife.

Easy to care for. Unlike dogs, cats don’t require walks (although some cat owners do walk their cats on a lead). Their care is fairly minimal. Regular scooping of litter trays and feeding twice a day but grooming requirements are low in short haired cats.

Health benefits. Pet owners have been shown to have reduced levels of stress, depression & lower blood pressure. Cat owners have been shown to have an improved immune function, and can help reduce the chances of allergies and asthma in children.

Cats are entertaining. Put an empty box on the floor or a large paper bag (never use a plastic bag), some catnip, toys and enjoy the show. Cats are immensely entertaining to watch at play.

They offer companionship and unconditional love. They will always be there to greet you when you return from work, and will happily snuggle up to you on days you are at home.

Cats don’t smell. The wonderful thing about cats is they rarely, if ever smell. They are fastidiously clean, spending a great deal of their time grooming themselves.

They are quiet. Well, most cats are quiet. Some breeds of cat such as the Siamese are known for their love of talking, but the majority of cats are fairly quiet. You won’t upset the neighbours like you would with a barking dog.

Cats are independent. Don’t get me wrong, most cats love attention, but are also quite content to spend time on their own, (grooming, sleeping, watching the world go by).

Most cats don’t need constant attention.

As you can see, cats make great pets but they do require responsibility on part of their owners to ensure they are properly cared for. Cat care includes: Twice daily feeding of a good quality cat food and fresh water daily.

Providing medical care where necessary. This includes neutering once old enough, regular treatment for parasites and vaccinations as required.

Meeting their emotional needs. Don’t just get a cat and then ignore it. They require love and attention just as much as their human companions.

Regular scheduled play.

This is especially important for indoor cats. There are a vast number of interactive cat toys on the market to keep your cat entertained.

Providing your cat with the necessary equipment such as a cat bed, scratching post, litter tray, toys.

Ready to Rescue?

Mini is a beautiful 5 months old female tabby but she is a tiny dot that just does not seem

to be growing she only looks about 12 weeks. We’ve had her in foster care for many weeks monitoring her and her health. She’s healthy and happy but just in a very small body. We would like to find her a special home where she can be looked after and loved. She will be spayed and come with injections and microchip.

All adult cats currently available are in foster care and details are on our website www.cats-welfaretenerife/pets where you will find lots of information and pictures. If its a kitten then again many are in foster care but in the South we do also have kittens for viewing in Don Perro pet shop in Las Chafiras and Vet Express behind Gran Sur. Opening times and maps are on our website www.cats-welfaretenerife/our-vets. In the North, kittens can be seen in the Kiwoko pet shop in the El Trompo commercial centre just outside Puerto de la Cruz.

If you are looking for something specific message or whatsapp Maria on 646629129 (9.00 – 18.00 7 days a week please leave a message if the phone is not answered immediately) if we don’t currently have that colour/sex we can put you on a waiting list.

Donations

Do you have anything to donate to help us raise funds.

Items can be dropped into the shop on San Blas in Golf del Sur (Behind Hiperdino).

It is open 7 days a week 10.00 until 18.00 but on Saturdays is open from 11.00 until 16.00.

If you don’t have transport or have large bulky items such as furniture and household effects to donate please ring Mark on 636590557 and he will arrange collection from you.

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Rubbish, sorry recycling, is the new buzz word in Puerto de la Cruz T HIS month, rubbish is once again the main topic of my column. I know, I can hear the groans already, but it is not my fault.

This time the blame lies with the ayuntamiento. Besides, it is August, the month where very little happens, so I am grateful for any subject that crops up, which I feel is worthy of comment.

And for once when I say blame I am not finding fault, as I normally do, no this time the Ayuntamiento could be doing something right, at least, on the face of it. Since joining a quango of likeminded European councils, whose mandate is ‘how best to deal with rubbish in tourist towns and cites’, it seems to me that rubbish is Puerto’s new buzz word of the moment. Rubbish!

I must stop calling it that, because, of course, what I am really talking about is recycling.

Now the town has suddenly become serious about recycling, so much so that it is setting a target, 70% of the town’s waste (I nearly said rubbish) is to be recycled by the year 2020. I wanted to say pledged or committed but I’m not sure these are the right words. The Spanish word for commitment is compromiso which sounds too much like compromise, which as you know means something entirely different in English, though I have to say it might be more appropriate. 70% must seem a bit of a tall order, if they are going to be totally honest, which is why I opted for the word target as when it isn’t reached it is far less embarrassing.

So, how are they going to do it? Recycling bins have appeared on Playa Jardin.

That’s a start, although there needs to be more of them. A move in the right direction though, and well received on

social media, with a great deal of comment, including pictures and a video of the bins being emptied into a green wheelie bin. A teething problem I am sure and I expect that there has been an element of re-education to rectify it.

Seventy per cent, I keep thinking about it. Are they going to rely on, and continue with the roll out of the underground bins? I expect so; they appear to be thick skinned about the project. At least, that was what I had always thought until I spotted one of the ‘old style’ bins for cardboard recycling had been positioned right next to one of the ‘hardly used’ chutes.

They have seen sense at last, was my immediate thought. I took a photo, just in case it had been left there by mistake and it would quickly disappear again. Now let’s hear the official version. The bin has been positioned there as a temporary measure whilst regular users of the bin area are educated in the correct use of the underground bins.

Like, how to rip a large cardboard box into small enough pieces to fit down the small chute, or how to retrieve a box that is jammed in the chute because the user before you couldn’t be bothered to flatten it. Oh, and apparently it is everyone’s public duty to denounce anyone who they see ‘misusing the bin’, a euphemism for ‘dumping their rubbish on the pavement. Just a temporary reprieve then for users of that bin area while they go back to school, but then again is it? A lot of ‘temporary’ things in this town have a habit of becoming permanent features and if I think about it would I expect anyone to admit

that the whole underground bins idea was wrong. It is not known to a local trait, as I have found on numerous occasions, to admit when they are wrong, something I have always put down to cultural differences.

San Telmo Another recent incentive, one that I have to give the ayuntamiento credit for, even so they were very slow to react.

I admit, they rather stole my thunder, I was prepared to berate them over it, I still will, though the problem is now ‘technically’ resolved. I will use San Telmo for my example as it was the worst affected area I witnessed. At 8 in the morning, everything is spick and span, the bins are empty and the area is clean. Yet, come 4 in the afternoon, the bins are overflowing and litter (rubbish by another name) is strewn everywhere. The town is very busy, we have almost record numbers of visitors and the irony is that this influx coincides with the period when local authority employees or representatives are working on their summer rota, which appears to me to consist of roughly half a day.

Never mind, the cavalry has arrived, as of a few weeks ago; the bins are being emptied twice a day. Is it enough though? If this town is serious, both about recycling and of hitting the 70% mark, the bins which are totally inadequate need replacing with recycling bins, and highly visible ones, not hidden underground and not just in that area, but throughout the town centre.

Perhaps then once they have sorted out the town centre they can radiate outwards and some of the residential areas can get their roads and pavement swept, weeds cleared and enjoy a timely collection of garden waste

instead of it rotting in the street for weeks. Things only seem to happen if you complain.

Rainy day

Wow, that was a lot of rubbish! What else has happened in the town? I’ll leave calle Quintana, save it for a rainy day, although since the concrete slabs have arrived they are making good headway. They still won’t finish on schedule, but then no one expects them too. Now that phase one is almost complete you have a good idea of how the street will look. Another expanse of featureless ‘grey’ just what the town is becoming famous for. I sometimes wonder how we ended up with calle La Hoya, not to everyone’s taste; I am sure, but at least one street where someone used a bit of imagination.

And I said I wasn’t going to comment!

They seemed to make a song and dance about the repairs to calle Tegueste in Punta Brava. We were treated to one of those long rambling fb posts in which everything was repeated two or three times, but when you sorted the wheat from the chaff all they were saying was how good they’ve been. (Still it made a change from posts of pictures of beauty pageants, of which there seems to have been a lot this year.) Closed for over a year, they didn’t exactly rush the repairs, but work was eventually completed a few weeks ago.

Job done, I am only commenting now because I went down last week, just to be nosey, to see what sort of job they had made of it. I have to say I was surprised, what was once a narrow but negotiable road is now a pathway. So repaired it may be but reinstated it is not, let’s hope the Teno repairs fare better. I

would think there are a few vecinos who are very much aggrieved, especially those who have garages they can no longer use. True, they have tidied up the area and painted the seawall, but only so far, far enough for it to look good in the photos, they never ever really finish a job off. What’s next I wonder, perhaps a change of name; I am sure paseo Tegueste would be more appropriate now.

Taoro building

The Taoro building has been in the news again, no, still they haven’t found anyone to take it on, mores the pity; however, that was the topic of a recent Spanish newspaper article. It appears that after having no success, Cabildo who own the building are going to try again, this time adding a parcel of land next to the building, which has been ceded to them by Puerto’s ayuntamiento. The idea being the extra ground would provide more parking making the package more attractive to potential punters. To make it even more so, the proviso that it should remain a hotel has been removed. However, I

assume that any interested parties will have to cough up the cost of the dilapidations, a substantial amount, as the only part of the building to have been maintained in recent years is the gardens. One to keep an eye on, who knows they might already have someone in mind.

Traffic lights

Finally, is it likely that the two sets of traffic lights not working will be repaired in the not to distance future? I know in both cases that someone has tried their upmost to demolish one of the uprights, but come on both sets of lights have been out for weeks and it can’t be that difficult a repair, or more importantly that expensive.

Normally I would not worry or even mention it, as long as ever yone approaches the junction with a bit of logic and common sense all will be ok, but then this is Tenerife and most of the time you have to second guess what some local drivers are going to do and then add to the equation that some tourists might be driving on the ‘wrong’ side, or even the ‘right’ side of the road for the first time

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Two lucky Medics deliver baby on motorway! loggerheads get second chance A SPEEDY ARRIVAL

pregnant woman gave birth to her baby after the ambulance in which she was travelling pulled over on the hard shoulder!

Medics decided they wouldn’t have time to get her to hospital so they stopped on the GC-1, the island’s main motorway.

Staff at the headquarters of the Canary Urgency Service were called out to pick up the woman from her home in the south of Gran Canaria after she went into labour.

However, during the transfer to the University Maternity Hospital, it became obvious that baby was not going to wait!

A doctor and nurse performed the delivery which went

without complications. Once the umbilical cord was cut, mum and new-born infant were taken to hospital as planned.

This was far from an isolated incident, however. In Fuerteventura, medics looked after a woman who gave birth to her baby in a car parked at the beach of Corralejo when she went into labour. Again, mum and baby were fine.

The ambulances of the SUC have a staff composed of a doctor, a nurse and a driver

technician. They are activated to intervene in those services where it is necessary to

deal with the situation those in the same spot of the incident because of its seriousness.

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huge crowd watched on as two turtles were released back into the wild as part of an annual festival on Gran Canaria.

The touching ceremony organised by the island’s Cabildo was part of the Bioagaete Festival, an event that celebrates its sixth edition and has become a leader in environmental awareness and solidarity in the islands.

Pascual Calabuig, head of the Centre for Wildlife Recovery, explained that one of the turtles, moved from El Hierro, had suffered a wound in the neck and had lost a flap when he reached the centre.

“After six months with us, it is now fully recovered and very strong to return to the sea,” he said.

The other was rescued last month by the Red Cross in Las Canteras beach.

The two loggerhead turtles were treated and marked with a microchip in the Marine Science Centre at Taliarte.

With such activities, the council aims to sensitise the public to prevent these animals from being injured because of the negligence of human beings.

Pascual Calabuig said 60 per cent of the turtles that came to the centre had become entangled in plastics and other wastes thrown into the sea by people.

La Palma expects boom times as flight connections increase

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HE Ministry of Tourism predicts that La Palma will double its international air links next season.

The prediction has been made by the Cabildo department, headed by Alicia Vanoostende, who envisages that for the next season of 2016-2017 connections with international flights will go from 16 to 32 flights weekly.

This figure is the result of both the addition of new destinations and the increase in connections to destinations and airports already operating with the island and the commitment of new companies to La Palma, La Isla Bonita.

“ We are working with enthusiasm as the very good data of passenger arrivals and tourist occupation recorded in recent months is expected to continue and increase”, she said.

Alicia Vanoostende praised the effort and dedication that the Cabildo, along with the tourism sector,has developed in favour of publicising the many attractions of La Palma in national and international markets.

“We are reaping the fruits of a good job of promoting and negotiating with tour operators and airlines but we must not let our guard down and always view the future,” she stressed.

Germany will remain the largest tourist market of La Palma with 15 flights every week from Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover and Stuttgart through four airlines: Air Berlin, Easy Jet, Condor

and Germania.

From the UK (London and Manchester), there will be six flights arriving each week to the island operated

by Easyjet and Thomson.

From Switzerland (Zurich) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam) two planes arrive ever y week operated respectively by Air Berlin and Germania, on the one hand, and Transavia on the other.

In Belgium (Brussels), Sweden (Gothenburg and Stockholm), Denmark (Copenhagen and Billund), Finland (Helsinki) and Norway (Oslo), there will be one weekly flight.

As for national direct flights, the forecast is that Iberia Express maintains daily flights between Madrid and La Palma, while Vueling will operate twice a week between Nice and Barcelona island.

Italian man Fuerteventura president rescued from raises security issue ocean ENOUGH OFFICERS?

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HE president of Fuerteventura’s Cabildo is expressing concerns about a possible lack of security on the island.

Marcial Morales has raised the issue with the Spanish Government following an incident at the police station in Tuineje in Gran Tarajal.

A group of youths targetted the offices in the early hours of the morning when the premises were unmanned.

Marcial Morales says the incident was presumed to be an isolated one but even so, wonders if the presence of state security officers on Fuerteventura is sufficient.

The Cabildo wants to ensure sufficient coverage for the island in terms of the National Police and Civil Guard.

“These professionals do magnificent work but the fact is isolated incidents like these do occur occasionally,” said the island president.

“Peace and security are key elements in the quality of life and the image of this island which will continue to have tourism as its main source of income and welfare. “

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25-year-old Italian man was saved from drowning off the coast of Lanzarote by other beach users.

The near fatal incident happened in Puerto del Carmen in the municipilaity of Tías in the late afternoon.

The emergency services were told that a swimmer had got into trouble and was pulled from the water. They had already started resuscitation their arrival.

Medics then stabilised him at the scene before he was taken on to hospital. His condition was described as serious.

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HE Canary Government is spending 1.15 million euros on improving safety at a popular bathing area used by tourists and local people on La Gomera.

The investment at the “Pescante de Hermigua”

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A Palma Cabildo is taking new measures to boost the island’s honey sector.

The insular Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Basilio Pérez held a working meeting with beekeepers on the island in order to address the major problems and challenges that the field of beekeeping faces in La Palma.

The meeting was held in the Casa de la Miel in Tijarafe and included the offer of help from the network of agriculural offices and alerts over fire risks.

Online assistance is also being offered via www.canalagrariolapalma.es.

Beekeepers were particularly concerned about the risk of introduction of bees from outside the island and the danger it poses to the survival in La Palma of the Canarian black bee. This, they said, could be a disaster from the point of view of biodiversity and an irretrievable loss in the future potential of beekeeping

locally.

They stressed the need for the competent authorities to maintain strict vigilance to prevent the introduction of new pests and diseases like those which arrived in the last century.

Other issues raised included the need to improve the professional qualifications of the group of beekeepers on the island and the ntroduction of new information technologies in the management of the insular beekeeping.

The meeting also suggested studying the feasibility of systems of protection and promotion of the honey produced in La Palma.

Basilio Pérez said the extinction of the Canarian black bee “would have an incalculable economic and environmental impact.”

He pledged the Cabildo’s continued support for the industry.

HORSE KNOCKS MAN INTO RAVINE

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IREFIGHTERS were involved in an unusual rescue on Gran Canaria when an 80year-old man was barged and kicked by his own horse and pushed into a ravine.

The man received a chest injury of a serious nature in the incident in La Barrera in the municipality of Valsequillo.

The rescue helicopter was called in because of the difficulty of access and he was airlifted to safety with the help of the fire brigade and police.

RESCUE IN ISLA DE LOBOS

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51-year-old man sparked a full-scale rescue after falling and injurying himself in the Fuerteventura islet of Isla de Lobos.

The accident happened just before 11pm so the poor visibility added to the difficulty of the operation.

The man hurt his hip and had to be rescued by helicopter because of the isolated location. He was taken on to hospital where his condition was assessed as not serious.

was made by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports.

Councillor for Tourism, Culture and Sports, Mariate Lorenzo, stressed the importance of this historic enclave, saying: “It is a symbol of La Gomera.”

The site has a histor y stretching back to the 20th century, linked to the island’s communications and commerce.

A visit was made to the construction site recentlyby Deputy Minister of Tourism, Cristobal de la Rosa, and the Director General of Tourism Infrastructure, Hector Suarez, who came to Pescante accompanied by the mayor of the municipality, Pedro Negrin, and other members of the government group.

Sr. De la Rosa highlighted the importance of undertaking such investments “in an island

like La Gomera, which is chosen by tourists mainly for its unique nature and beautiful landscapes, therefore, it is essential to condition spaces like Pescante de Hermigua and its natural swimming pools.”

The Director General of Tourism Infrastructure explained that these works were currently in their first phase which focuses on the dam and repairing the road.

The second phase, involving an investment of 250,000 euros, will improve access for visitors and security of the slopes to curb possible landslides.

The project has already been submitted to the Directorate General of Tourism Infrastructure and, once awarded, work will begin after the summer months.

Health chiefs aim for near elimination of hepatitis B in Canaries

VACCINATION ALERT

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EALTH officials are working on a strategy to eliminate hepatitis B in the Canarian population.

The public health department of the Canary Government is currently working on a strategy to identify groups at the greatest risk and to offer vaccinations free of charge.

Immunisation against the chronic virus was added to the schedule for children in the Canary Islands in 1996, at which time it was recommended to have three doses for eleven-yearolds.

Interest in improving coverage determined in 2002 the need to incorporate the vaccination to children aged 2, 4 and 6 months, with the remaining dose at eleven.

Therefore, the population under 30 years should have completed the vaccination against hepatitis B.

Health chiefs say that since the start of vaccinations, cases have gradually decreased but it is necessary to maintain high immunisation coverage figures in order to reach a situation close to the elimination of this disease.

The Directorate General of Public Health of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) has worked on the development of information systems and alerts that notify health professionals of the need to review the vaccination status of people who come to visit.

The consequences of hepatitis B for health can be acute or chronic. Acute manifests itself with nausea, vomiting, jaundice, dark urine, muscle pain and liver pain. However, the most feared is acute fulminant hepatitis.

The Directorate is particularly focusing on children and doctors will be alerted to cases where the three doses have not been given. This will also apply to teenagers of 12, 13 and 14.

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Lanzarote seeks army of volunteers Police seize to help with Ironman 2016 exotic birds offered for sale T in pet shop HE search has started once again for an army of volunteers to help with the fifth edition of Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote 2016 on September 24th.

The Cabildo, through the councillor responsible for the area of sports, Patricia Pérez, encourages all those over 16 who want to volunteer to formulate their registration through the link goo.gl/ Gn4DHH on the website of www.lanzarotedeportes.com.

The deadline will remain open until September 18th and those under 18 must have parental permission.

The Cabildo, co-organiser of the event with Club La Santa, estimates that 250 is the ideal number of volunteers needed to adequately address the needs of athletes and the organisation in general.

They will be needed at various points along the routes, for the cycling and half marathon.

About 1,000 triathletes are expected to participate in the Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote 2016.

They must swim 1.9 kilometres in the lago of La Santa, pedal along 90.1 kilometres to the north of the island starting from La Santa, and cover a half marathon (21.1 kilometres) in the vicinity of La Santa.

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OLICE officers with the Canary environmental section have warned about their ongoing clampdown on any contraventions.

The alert follows the seizure of ten exotic birds for sale in a shop in Santa Cruz.

The Japanese quail is classified as an invasive alien species.

Members of GRUMA, the environmental arm of the Canar y Police, based in Tenerife, raided the pet store in the capital and seized the birds.

After the operation, conducted in collaboration with Biodiversity Service of the Canary Islands, the agents took details of an official complaint against the owner of the establishment. The birds were taken to a

recovery centre.

Protected or invasive species are listed in an official Spanish catalogue and the service helps to check they are not being offered for sale or being kept in private ownership.

The group also seized elsewhere nets being offered for sale over the internet for capturing rabbits.

(GRUMA) held last year 2,883 performances in environmental protection, among which are the services aimed at controlling endangered species, inspection of nurseries and pet shops.

Body recovered from sea

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HE search for a man who went missing in the sea off Fuerteventura ended in tragedy.

Rescuers spotted a body floating in the water at Caleta de Fuste in Antigua at 10pm.

Police, the Civil Guard, the emergency group and the fire brigade had all been called in to help with the search.

The body was recovered and taken to the pier of El Castillo but nothing could be done to save his life.

Hashish found in underwear

THREE SUFFER SMOKE POISONING

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HREE people suffered smoke inhalation when fire broke out in a house in Gran Canaria.

One of them, a 69-year-old woman, had to be taken to hospital for treatment.

Two rooms on the fourth floor of the property in calle Jaime Torrente Ballester in Las Palmas were affected.

MAN DROWNS IN FUERTEVENTURA

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EDICS tried in vain to save the life of a German man who was pulled from the sea off the coast of Fuerteventura.

The tragedy happened just before 6pm at Jandía in Pájara.

Lifeguards rescued the swimmer after he got into trouble. He was in cardiac arrest so they immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Medics from the SUC took over on their arrival on the scene but there was nothing they could do to save him.

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MOTORCYCLIST DIES IN CRASH man has been arrested in Lanzarote after police found drugs hidden in his underwear.

He was stopped as part of routine police patrols carried out in Arrecife.

The driver was found to be in possession of 46 grams of hashish, three mobile phones, a knife with traces of hashish and a precision scale.

Officers saw him trying to hide some of the drugs in his underwear.

The 25-year-old faces charges of a crime against public health.

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47-year-old motorcyclist died after he was involved in an horrific crash with a lorry in Gran Canaria.

The accident happened on the GC-550 on the descent to Temisas in the municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana.

The 112 emergency service received a call, reporting that the motorcylist was trapped under the lorry.

Firemen rescued him but his injuries were so severe that he died at the scene.

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LATEST FIGURES

Number of foreign workers in Spain at nine-year high

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HE average number of foreign workers registered with the Spanish Social Security system stood at 1,747,114 in July.

A month-on-month decrease of 0.04 per cent was posted, equivalent to 688 workers.

The increase in the year-onyear rate of foreign workers rose to 5.18 per cent, the highest increase since 2007, which represents 86,120 more workers than in 2015.

The highest figures for foreign workers contributing to the Social Security system correspond to Romania (312,132), Morocco (204,915),

China (96,063), Italy (89,458) and Ecuador (71,662). These countries are followed by the United Kingdom (58,686), Bulgaria (55,427), Colombia (55,427) and Bolivia (53,648).

AUTONOMOUS REGIONS In month-on-month terms, the highest increases in foreign National Insurance contributors were in Cantabria (6.54

Seven arrested for child sexual exploitation

EUROPOL RAIDS

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OLICE in Spain have arrested seven people for distributing material online in connection with child sexual exploitation.

They were caught in Vigo, Teruel, Seville, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Madrid and Valencia as part of a Europol operation against computer crime in the European Union.

The operation began in Spain in August 2015 in the framework of the Strategic Objectives of the European Union in the fight against child sexual exploitation on the internet, specifically in this case against P2P distribution platforms.

Peer to Peer is the most widely used network to share and download files of

paedophile content.

Eight house were searched that have led to the seizure of a large amount of computer equipment and thousands of pornographic files with explicit sexual content among minors.

Advanced research techniques now allow the sharing of such content to be traced.

At present, we are working at international level in the identification and location of all the victims of the paedophiles on these thousands of files found on the computer devices of the detainees,” said a police spokesman.

per cent), the Balearic Islands (3.72 per cent), Castile and Leon (2.47 per cent) and Catalonia (2.45 per cent). In year-on-year terms there were increases in foreign National Insurance contributors in all autonomous regions.

The figures posted for July show that 1,012,277 of the total foreign citizens registered with the Spanish Social Security system are from countries outside of the European Union, while the remaining 734,836 are from EU countries.

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citizens are registered under the General Regime: 1,464,525 in total, a figure that includes the Special System for Agricultural Workers (185,332) and the Special System for Domestic Workers (196,273). This is followed by the Special Regime for SelfEmployed Workers (277,581), the Special Regime for Seamen (4,783) and the Special Regime for Coal Workers (225).

Of the total foreign citizens in the system in July, 958,473 are men and 788,641 are women.

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12-year-old British boy who was saved from drowning from a swimming pool in Spain has lost his battle for life.

The youngster was rescued from the pool in an hotel in Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava.

He was rushed to the Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona in a critical condition but never recovered and has since died in the intensive care unit.

Medics had been called to the scene following the near drowning at the popular holiday resort.

The boy reportedly hit his head when jumping into the pool and was spotted unconscious in the water by other swimmers.

They pulled him to safety and started resuscitation until an ambulance crew arrived and took over. Police who were passing the hotel on a routine patrol also helped.

The youngster was then airlifted to hospital where he remained in a critical condition for four days.

Drugs gang used bar staff to peddle hash and cocaine

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ATIONAL Police agents have arrested 15 members of a criminal organisation dedicated to the distribution and sale of drugs in bars and shops in Gijon, Oviedo and Bilbao.

During the operation, officers seized 4,416 grams of hashish, 99 grams of cocaine, 6,551 euros, five vehicles and 28 mobile phones.

The operation began after police in Gijon received an anonymous tip-off and complaints from residents who reported the sale of hashish in different bars in the town, all run by citizens of Moroccan origin.

They discovered they were part of a criminal network whose leader ran several establishments in Gijon, Oviedo and another one in Bilbao, where hashish from Morocco ws mainly distributed.

Police investigations revealed the drug was being transported from his home in vehicles to Bilbao and from there periodically to Gijón, to be sold by waiters or managers of establishments that were part of this criminal network and who were responsible for retail distribution.

Officers kept watch on the various bars for weeks and noted customers going in and out withut buying drinks.

Five bars and six homes were raided, with most of the impounded substances found in storeroom.

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Spain to spend 97 million euros to modernise air fleet

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HE Spanish Government is to allocate 97 million euros in modernising the aircraft and helicopter fleet of theSpanish Air Force.

The acting Vice-President of the Government, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, specified that “this amounts to an investment of 97 million euros that will help modernise our fleet of aircraft and helicopters”.

The first agreement relates to maintaining the T22 (Airbus 310) fleet in service for Group 45 of the Air Force, for an estimated value of 30 million euros.

Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría

pointed out that the missions assigned to this type of aircraft include the transportation of State officials, passengers and medical air evacuations, as well as the transportation of troops deployed on international missions and NEO operations (non-combatant evacuation operations) and the repatriation of the deceased.

The aim of the second agreement is to maintain

the TM-11 (Falcon 20), T-18 (Falcon 900), T-20 (Cessna Citation V) aircraft, for an estimated value of 35 million euros. The missions of these aircraft include electronic warfare and electronic countermeasure operations, the transfer of State officials, passengers and medical air evacuations, as well as aerial photographs and the inflight calibration of radio navigation aid systems.

The two agreements will have a duration of four years, from 2016 to 2020, distributed in five annual payments.

The third agreement is designed to maintain the various

aviation engines for helicopters operated by the Air Force, for an estimated value of 32 million euros. The Vice-President of the Government specified that this maintenance basically consists of work to revise and repair engines, components and accessories to restore their useful life, as well as to make the third step modifications necessary to ensure that their configuration is kept up-to-date. The agreement will have an estimated duration of two years, which may be extended for a further two years.

Policeman hailed hero as he saves two children from drowning

Paedophile gang distributed A more than one million indecent images

N off-duty policeman is being hailed a hero after saving a seven-year-old British boy and his sister from drowning in Mallorca.

MOROCCO LINK

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OLICE have smashed a paedophile network which spread more than one million sick images of child porn and videos across the world.

The gang was even planning to arrange “child sex” holidays in Morocco, details of which were sent to “members” via the internet.

Seven people have been arrested by Spanish police who believe the abuse had been going on for at least 15 years and involved about 80 children.

“Those arrested include the alleged leader of the group who has also been charged with eight offences of sexual abuse against children under the age of 13,” said a spokesman for the Civil Guard.

It is believe he earned more than 80,000 euros in payment fees for distributing indecent images in the post and over the internet.

Most of the child porno-

graphy pictures and videos involved boys and girls who were in risk situations in Barcelona, Tortosa (Tarragona), Valencia and Morocco.

In addition, the network obtained and produced images of child pornography on trips made between 2000 and 2015 in countries such as Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Czech Republic, Kenya, France, Java and Bali.

Los Mossos and the Civil Guard have so far been able to identify 29 of the abused youngsters.

They were forced to encourage other children to take part in obscene acts and were plied wih drugs and

alcohol.

“The network planned to create in Morocco a point of sexual exploitation by selling a vacation package aimed at paedophiles,” said the police spokesman.

The investigation revealed that a flat in Tortosa was being used for filming videos. This property was raided and two Frenchmen and a Moroccan arrested.

The gang used at least 28 domains from which to distribute more than one million photographs and videos of child

pornography and over 1,000 DVDs. Computer equipment with child pornography files and recording material for capturing images, sex toys and cash were also seized when other houses were raided.

“Members of the group maintained a close relationship as they were travelling together and regularly to various parts of Spain and abroad to produce the material, especially Morocco,” say Spanish police.

The plucky officer jumped into the choppy ocean off the beach of Son Serra de Marina which lies aong the eastern end of the Bay of Alcudia after spotting the two youngsters in trouble.

Both were calling for help in English and waving their arms in the air. The ten-year-old girl was already sinking under the water.

A police spokeman said the children would almost certainly of drowned if not for his swift intervention.

“The officer, hearing the cries for help, did not hesitate to jump into the water because of the imminent danger that the two children were in,!” he said.

The drama happened at a time when the red flag was

flying due to the hazardous conditions which made it unsafe to swim.

Lifeguards had been on duty during the day but had just finished their shift.

It is understood the brother and sister went into the sea and were swept away by the strong tide.

“The youngsters were waving their arms and had very serious difficulties in returning to shore,” said the Spanish police.

The officer just happened to be spending his day off at the beach when he swung into action. He got the girl out first and then her brother.

According to the policeman, the children were in the worst possible area for the current.

Woman claimed bomb was going to explode on board daughter’s plane

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Swiss woman who caused terror on board a holiday flight from Mallorca by claiming there was a bomb on board was trying to stop her daughter from leaving, police have revealed.

The 49-year-old mother, living in the town of Ciutadella on the Balearic island of Menorca, created mayhem on a flight to

Stockholm.

She phoned the emergency services and falsely claimed there was a bomb on board the

packed holiday jet.

Just a few minutes earlier, she had contacted the same 112 control room to say her daughter was about to leave Menorca for Stockholm “to be adopted”.

The distraught woman said she had changed her mind about the arrangement and wanted her child back.

In her second call, she gave precise details about the flight to Stockholm on which her daughter was travelling and made the bomb threat.

“She said there was a bomb on board the plane and that her daughter would die,” said a police spokesman.

The allegation led to a fullscale alert at the airport in the

early hours of the morning.

Police with sniffer dogs were brought in to search the grounded plane which ws surrounded by the emergency services.

The Swiss woman has since been arrested for making a false bomb threat and faces up to a year in prison.

Witnesses say she was staying in holiday apartments in Ciutadella where the night before the bomb threat, she was heard to have an argument with a couple about the adoption of her daughter. Police had to be called to the scene to intervene.

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“SEXIST TRAP”

Mallorca urged to ban free nightclub admission to young women

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OURISM chiefs in Mallorca want to ban night clubs from giving free admission to women only after slamming the offer as “chauvinistic traps”.

They say it is turning young girls partying on the holiday island into “objects” and does nothing to help the campaign against sexual violence or the bid by popular resorts for a cleaner image. “”It’s a sexist trap,” Nina Parron, Mallorca’s general director of equality told Spanish

newspaper Diario de Mallorca: “It is something that has been happening for many years and has to stop.”

The plea comes just a day after five young French holidaymakers were arrested by police on suspicion of sexually assaulting a young American in a nightclub in

Palma.

The lads, aged 19 to 21, were alleged to have attacked the girl and indecently touched her. One of them is also said to have punched her in the face.

The woman escaped before reporting the incident to the police who arrested the five friends at their hotel in Calvia.

The alleged victim has since left the island following a medical examination but is said to have identified the five. It is understood four have been released with charges and one without pending further investigations.

L a Palma council has confirmed that it is to start a round of meetings with the owners of nightclubs in October or November in a bid to clampdown on sexual violence against women.

The campaign will be launched under the banner of “No is no!” and all areas of Mallorca will be taking part.

Huge posters are to be put up declaring “Partying, Mallorca free of sexist attacks.”

La Palma spokeswoman Lucia Segura said the aim was to allow women to enjoy their holidays and nightlife without the fear of attacks.

The islands say young girls have to realise that being offered free admission to nightclubs was not a “privilege” but a “trap”.

Tourism leaders say nightclub owners should take a step back and think about what they were doing and the reasons behind their promotions.

Money is to be given to one local organisation, the “Pacto Ciudadano para una Mallorca Libre de Agresión Sexistas” (Citizen’s Pact for a Mallorca Free of Sexual Aggression) so the group can continue its own campaign.

Other areas of Spain have launched similar campaigns, including Pamplona where there were 16 allegations of sexual assaults during the annual San Fer min bullrunning festival, including a rape of a young woman by four men who were said to have filmed the attack on their mobile phones.

CLANDESTINE LAB

Two Brits sent thousands of legal highs through the post

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WO Brits have been arrested for running a Breaking Bad-stye drugs lab in Spain which was churning out thousands of “legal highs” and sending them out by POST. Police said the clandestine operation was hidden inside a warehouse in the quiet town of town of Leioa in Bizkaia.

The two British men were using the lab to manufacture huge quantities of so-called “new psychoactive substances” which mimic ampheta-

mine, cocaine and ecstasy, as well as LSD and tranquilisers.

The Spanish Civil Guard seized about 17,000 units of anti-depressants, 8,700 doses of hallucinogenic-type substances and ten kilos of stimulant powder.

“We also found precision scales, computer equipment,

POLICE DETECT DANGEROUS POLISH DRUGS GANG HIDING ON COSTA DEL SOL

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OLICE in Spain ha-ve busted a dangerous international drugs gang whi-ch moved its base from Poland to the Costa del Sol and was involved in murder, extortion and kidnapping.

Properties valued at more than 1.5 million pounds have been impounded and numerous bank accounts blocked.

Luxury cars were also seized, together with a ton of marijuana and hashish, firearms and even police sirens.

So far, 23 people have been arrested, including the alleged ringleader of the criminal group known as “PRUSZKOW”. He was nicknamed “El bandito” or “The bandit” who was caught in Marbella and had a string of previous offences.

Spanish police, helped by officers in France, Poland and Denmark, said the gang deliberately moved its operations to Malaga.

“This group was partially dismantled in Poland in the late 90s and many of its members sentenced to 15-20 years,” said a police spokesman. “However, on leaving jail, they moved to Spain to start their criminal activities.”

The 23 suspects include a dozen Poles, one Lithuanian, two Ukrainians, seven Spanish and one German.

A dozen raids were carried out both in Spain and Poland and cars in convoy were stopped on several occasions whilst in the process of smuggling drugs into Denmark.

Various shipments were also intercepted with drugs hidden inside legitimate goods.

Marijuana was found stored in various villas in Marbella and Estepona.

Huge amounts of cash was stashed in the houses, plus drug-making equipment, guns and ammunition.

At least eight luxury vehicles have been impounded and blocks put on bank accounts and financial products.

envelopes , seals and other documentation for the manufacture and distribution of these substances,” said a spokesman.

The operation was called “Kit Postal” because the duo were sending out the drugs to international destinations via the post in different formats. They were either in pill form or powder or even impregnated into cardboard.

The lab also served as the

international distribution centre from where the drugs were sent out to countries in Europe, Oceania and North Africa but mainly in the United States.

Police found a huge batch of envelopes waiting to be picked up from inside a post box right next to the warehouse on an industrial estate!

“All of the drugs contained substances seriously harmful to health,” said the spokesman.

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Chasing butterflies at Teno Rural Park near Erjos

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HE Teno area in the North West of Tenerife is an island within an island having been formed from violent volcanic lava eruptions around 18 million years ago.

Teno is a region of steep gorges, ridges and high plateaus which have been carved out of ancient volcanic rock. Much of the northern slopes are covered with Laurel forest, a sub-tropical forest where a high humidity exists. There are some 20 different species of trees in this area with a thick undergrowth of shrubs, mosses, and other typical plants of dark and shady habitats.

A variety of walks exist through a landscape consisting of many diverse ecosystems such as Laurel and Pine forests, deep ravines, high cliff faces, and many small ponds; our very own “Lake District”.

Walks here can vary from short easy lazy country strolls to challenging long distance mountain treks so there is something for everyone irrelevant of fitness levels. Bespoke walks are a speciality in this area.

There are over 700 species of moths and butterflies in the Canary Islands. Finding them in Tenerife is quite easy, however, trying to photograph them is another matter entirely, as it is difficult to get close enough to them as by their very nature, they flutter away.

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Additionally, Liberty Seguros has a great affinity for the expat abroad and provide their services in many languages with an extensive network of English and German Brokers, plus others that also speak Dutch,

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Documentation is also available in English and German if required.

All Liberty Brokers and Agents are experts in their field and will discuss, face to face, the cover you require and guide you through all the features and benefits of every policy that you take out, as well as explaining the ‘small print’ so you get no startling surprises.

Liberty Seguros is simplicity, convenience and efficiency combined; that set them apart from other insurers.

The simplicity of taking out insurance with all the necessary guarantees included for your peace of mind.

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Incorporated in 1912, Liberty Seguros is part of the giant Liberty Mutual Group who is one of the world’s largest insurance and financial institutions. The company has been insuring millions of people over 5 continents for over a century so its strength and foundations are unsurpassable.

One of the most commonly seen butterflies in Tenerife is the Canary Blue which is a member of the Lycaenidae family.

Another is the Clouded Yellow butterfly colias crocea mainly from Asia but is a strong migrant reaching into Northern Europe in favourable years. The female is paler in colour than the male.

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Probably the most famous is the Canary Red Admiral vanessa vulcania and belongs to the Numphalidae family.

This butterfly is endemic to the Canary Islands except for Lanzarote.

There are many walks on this island that are ideal at certain times of year for chasing butterflies and no one knows these trails and tracks better than Andy Tenerife Walker.

For more information please see: www.tenerife-guided-walks.com

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THE SCIENTISTS

A series about the magnetic draw of climbing to the top of Teide

An adventure written in the stars

CHARLES PIAZZI SMYTH (1819-1900) The Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Egyptologist,

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HARLES Piazzi Smyth was born in Naples. His father was a Captain (later Admiral) in the British Navy and also a keen amateur Astronomer. Charles’ godfather was Giuseppe Piazzi, a famous Italian astronomer, and therefore Charles’ future was written in the stars.

Due to hard work and good connections Smyth had a meteoric rise and, at 27 years old, he was appointed the Astronomer Royal for Scotland.

In 1704, Isaac Newton had written in his book “Opticks” that telescopes cannot be so formed as to take away that confusion of the Rays which arises from the Tremors of the Atmosphere. The only Remedy is a most serene and quiet Air, such as may perhaps be found on the tops of the highest Mountains above the grosser Clouds.

This suggestion had been ignored for 150 years until, in 1856, Piazzi Smyth petitioned the Admiralty for £500 to take a telescope to Tenerife to carry out an experiment to prove Newton’s theor y. This was granted. Before we go any further, let me explain that one of the two telescopes that Piazzi Smyth acquired needed eight mules to carry it to the vantage point on Mount Teide; extremely different to the telescope used by Nelson when he scanned the harbour of Santa Cruz 60 years earlier. And this is where Piazzi Smyth had an enormous stroke of luck when Robert Stevenson MP, the greatest engineer of the nineteenth century, loaned his 140-ton yacht “Titania” and crew for the expedition. The two sailors allotted to the expedition were to become invaluable in mounting the smaller telescope, the Sheepshank.

Piazzi Smyth used a stereoscopic camera to register threedimensional views and, by taking two pictures, to reduce the likelihood of accidental faults and tampering with the image. All we need to mention now is the photographer and this position was taken by Piazzi Smyth’s new bride, Jessica

Duncan, who was thrilled to be part of this great adventure.

She was an experienced geologist and over 40 years old when they married. Two months on Mount Teide, the perfect honeymoon. Unfortunately I don’t know if her photo was taken before or after the experience. She is never mentioned in his reports but he calls her his intrepid wife in his book.

On their arrival in the Port of Orotava on 10th July 1856 the party were met by the acting Consul, Mr Andrew Goodall and, according to Piazzi Smyth, “we were happy to add to our Councils, Mr Charles Smith, a former graduate of St. John’s College, Cambridge; resident in Orotava for twenty years; and while keeping up his mathematical lore, adding practical science thereto, and, above everything else, a speciality for all that appertains to ascents of the Peak” Charles Smith was the patriarch of the family that owned Sitio Litre from 1854

to 1996 when it was purchased by John Lucas and transformed into the Orchid Garden. According to Olivia Stone, Smith had climbed to the peak of Teide several times.

After a full discussion of the needs of the expedition the seasoned expert Charles Smith shouted out “Guajara, that is the mountain for you; ten thousand metres high, four miles to the south of the peak.”

Smyth asked Smith if he was certain that Guajara was 10,000 feet. Smith wasn’t sure but knew that it was the highest mountain except for the peak itself.

Before sunrise, on the morning of 14th July the party of five on horseback (the consul’s nephew Andrew Carpenter joined them as interpreter) and 20 muleteers with their mules packed to the limit set off from the port.

Within 24 hours after a couple of stops they reached the top of Mount Guajara at 9,000 feet having arrived in small clusters of twos and threes each group carrying its own stor y but the equipment arrived safe and sound.

Their first major job was to build a dry stone wall round the little compound to

This photograph shows the smaller of the two telescopes, the Sheepshank, they carried up the mountain, mounted on a lower site. ‘The two sailors are seated amongst the packing boxes,’ wrote Piazzi Smith, ‘looking very tired’.

protect them from direct sunlight and any cold night winds that may occur.

Fortunately, Andrew Carpenter was skilled in this method of building. The two seamen were perfectly happy to peform all the labouring work for setting up the telescope and finding and carrying the large stones for the compound. This activity took days and Piazzi Smyth studied the lava fields and reached the conclusion that the Peak of Tenerife has, in fact, been steadily burning out for ages and is, happily for mankind, no longer in its youthful energy, nor in its primeval vigour of destructive power.

They were not always alone as they received visitors from the village of Chasnia (Vilaflor) who brought fresh goats milk.

Other visitors came from the Port of Orotava. Charles Smith and his son called to advise them that they were catching the next steamer to England but couldn’t leave without coming to see how Smyth was prospering on that particular part of the mountain which they had recommended. As it happened, Piazzi Smyth was beginning to realise that they had pitched camp too low.

One afternoon a number of villagers came from Chasnia, smartly dressed, well mannered and of all ages. The children played but the elders had come for something more important.

They had heard rumours that an English Astronomer had arrived with a telescope so large that he has actually been able to see goats on the moon.

If the moon was inhabited by people they would surely have goats!

Throughout the weeks Piazzi Smyth had sent regular reports back to the Admiralty, The Royal Society, Sir Robert Stephenson and all his sponsors. They were so well received that he decided to go higher as, at the present level, they had often been troubled with dust. After scouting the

JESSICA DUNCAN SMYTH (1812-1896) area it was decided that it would be possible to climb to 10,500 ft at Alta Vista, on the Peak itself. This was as high as the animals could go.

And as such he could justify taking the large telescope.

Having made the decision Piazzi Smyth decided to go back himself to the Port of Orotava and organise the movement of the large telescope on which 8 horses had to be employed to carry all the parts. He was to write – “True, that experienced local men had declared the bringing up of such a telescope to be impossible; but as the interests of science demanded that it should be brought up, I determined to descend the mountain, and see how the affair was to be managed.”

On 25th August Mr and Mrs Piazzi Smith plus the two Spanish guides left the camp in Alta Vista to wend their way back to Orotava leaving behind the two sailors and Andrew Carpenter to fix the station. It took them 5 days to unpack and repack the telescope into smaller cases. This was done with the invaluable assistance of a German resident watchmaker by the name of Kreitz.

When they arrived back at Alta Vista everyone joined in setting up the telescope.

It was called the Pattinson Equa-torial – Mr Pattinson of Newcastle having lent them the monster. After the telescope had been erected and tested, they received a visit from a certain nobleman called Don Rodriguez.

Such was his enthusiasm, Piazzi Smyth decided to take time out to “do” the final climb and reach the summit.

On September 8th they started off at daybreak. At first they encountered loose pumice which hindered them and, together with the cracks that were scattered

around, they soon realised why this was too dangerous for ani-mals; but not too difficult for humans. Piazzi Smyth writes; - after the loose pumice we came across red lava crags offering such very fair footing that the ascent ought not to be spoken of as difficult by any man traveller.

Soon after this excursion, the weather changed, as they had envisaged when planning the expedition, so they packed up with the help of their new found friends in Chasnia and returned to Orotava.

So what did Charles Piazzi Smyth discover during his two months honeymoon in Las Cañadas and his stay at Alta Vista? Here is an extract from the web-site of The Sky of Teide, a great tourist attraction on Tenerife.

The work of the astronomer in Tenerife was so important that he was honoured with the crater Piazzi Smyth on the Moon.

The astronomical observations that Charles Piazzi Smyth conducted from the Teide National Park in 1856 demonstrated that astronomical observatories should be installed, as suggested by Isaac Newton, on high mountains and not in big cities as it had been done so far.

During his astronomical observations of the sky of Teide, Charles Piazzi Smyth observed the Moon and planets, identified Saturn and its rings, observed double stars as it had never been done before, studied the zodiacal light, the ultraviolet radiation of the Sun and the infrared radiation of the Moon, among other astronomical observations of great importance for modern astronomy.

Charles Piazzi Smyth, the first person who enjoyed the pleasure of observing the sky from Las Cañadas del Teide in the summer of 1856, marked the beginning of modern astronomy in the Canar y Islands.

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Waste not Want not

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E all know just how small our island of Tenerife is, and how important it is to protect and preserve it for future generations – but do we ever think of this when we throw our waste into our buckets, and out into the larger bins for uplift?

My husband and I have recycled for some years now but it was only in this last year that we started to be even more conscious of just how much waste we actually bring into our lives. It is true that the island, like the rest of Europe has embraced the recycling revolution and provide adequate bins for plastics, paper, and glass – but is it not better to tr y and reduce even our recyclable waste?

One of the main questions people ask me is, where does all the waste go here on Tenerife? Well, despite certain sceptics thinking that we are totally wasting our time trying to put the right packaging into the correct bins, only for the waste companies to throw it all back together, we have quite a good set up here.

There are various companies who provide the uplift and processing services. They uplift all the waste from various areas around Tenerife and take the general waste to be weighed and pack it into bundles, to then be put into landfill sites – that are carefully managed. The recyclable waste gets shipped to various places for processing.

How amazing would it be to reduce our landfill waste? I think that this would be a great target for our island, being a small place we could all pull together to try and reach new heights.

Landfill waste is obviously taking up vast areas of land but it is also contributing to CO2 emissions dramatically.

In 2014 in Gran Canaria one landfill site was closed and the gases were used to create energy, primarilly to operate another site. This is good practice but ideally greatly reduce landfill sites is the ultimate target.

When I am shopping I try to purchase non-packaged food products. The best way to achieve this is to buy from farmers markets or small local greengrocers. They have no objection to you putting your purchases into your own bag and you only buy what you need. It has not travelled for miles and therefore doesn’t need to have been securely packaged with polystyrene or plastic.

Buying bigger boxes or bottles of things is expensive initially but it reduces waste, for example you could buy three separate bottles of clothes washing liquid to one large bottle, it is also more economical in the long term.

In some countries, and especially in cities you can buy loose nuts, seeds, flours and dried fruits, making it even more easy to avoid unnecessary packaging. I would love to see this here in Tenerife.

Another fantastic way to recycle and reduce your

waste is to up-cycle your waste into another useful item. Being an avid crafter, I have been involved in turning milk cartons into purses, toilet roll inserts into personalised photo books and old books turned into works of art. When I was visiting the TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes) in Santa Cruz, maybe a year and a half ago, I saw an amazing exhibit where someone had placed lots of identifiable pieces of product packaging onto the floor and covered it in plaster of paris, it was extremely powerful and in some ways a little disturbing, that even without the coloured labels, you could identify each individual component of the piece of art, a washing up liquid bottle, egg

box, etc.

Clothes can be recycled too, the many charity shops on the island are a great place to pass your old or non-fitting clothes onto. I often buy a piece of clothing in a charity shop for the fabric, turning it into something completely different. I also have bought clothes that I am happy to wear too, it makes you feel

really good giving to charity shops and then buying from them.

Shoes are something that you also see in the charity shops but if they have seen better days, along with any clothes that are almost just rags, then pop them into the metal bins, that state clearly they are for clothes and shoes (Ropa y Calzado). Tie the shoes in pairs and remember not to mix them with the clothes.

These bins are often called Africa Bins but more and more the clothing is staying here in the Canaries, often going to the Canarian Red Cross for distribution to the needy.

Companies all over the world buy rag bags and reform the fabric into other products, or repair them.

Also the shoes can be worn by third world countries or reformed into products in the construction industr y.

Insulation is one example of what can be made from recycled rags or shoes.

You can also have a go at making a rag rug with your old clothes cut into strips and then knitted or tied into colourful rugs for your floors.

Obviously we have a lot of food waste too, which is becoming a global catastrophe and for this, the only solution is to compost the fruit and vegetable waste, along with carbon based waste, such as newspapers, toilet roll inserts, twigs, making wonderful nutrient rich earth for our plants. I think it would be better though if we didn’t have so much food waste, and for this we can only educate ourselves and buy only what we need.

Being a predominantly

tourist based island, this comes with challenges regarding waste. The food waste problem alone is escalated with tourism, especially in the form of all inclusive hotels, where food has to be available all day and all you can eat buffet restaurants. The high end restaurants tend not to have the same waste, due to better management of resources.

Beer bottles and plastic water bottles are often strewn across grass verges or they litter the walkways, as boozy tourists just don’t care where they put their rubbish. The solution is, to have waste management companies to clean up after them.

There is no limit to how we can change our attitude to waste on this island...think out of the box, take your own shopping bag – we all know the risks that plastic bags pose to our planet as a whole, never mind just in Tenerife, think about buying nonpackaged products, try and reform waste into something else more useful – my husband and I turned a washing machine drum into a coffee table and a tyre and some rope into a footstool, give composting a go, swap clothes with friends or give them to a charity shop or put them into the metal clothes bins.

The other and final point is when you buy storage boxes, baking tins and the likes – think about buying glass instead of plastic. They last much longer and glass is so much easier to recycle as it is a more natural and less toxic material. I have glass baking dishes and they far surpass any metal or silicon ones that I have had, and wash clean every time.

There will always be r ubbish but lets tr y and reduce it, and not just expect someone else to take responsibility for it.

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Q30 takes Infiniti to new heights

O most British drivers, driving here in Spain, be it on holiday or as a resident the thought of approaching and going around a roundabout is almost always a feeling of dread as to whether you will make it safely and if the other drivers around you will be following the rules of the road. In the majority of cases the answer to the latter is no and I am sure that we have all seen many near misses by drivers trying to exit a roundabout from the inside lane. Here in Spain this is not the correct lane to be in if you wish to exit at the next turning, because you will almost certainly find yourself cutting in front of cars going around the outside and should an accident or incident occur then the fault will be with the driver on the inside lane not the outside lane. Confused?...... not surprising.

There has been a recent case investigated by the Guardia Civil prompted

by Insurance companies who believed that certain gangs were operating an insurance scam and claiming vast amounts of money by involving the police.

They would approach roundabouts in the outside lane and then when a car was attempting to exit from the inside lane they would accelerate swiftly to deliberately cause an accident. Often there was little or minor damage to the vehicle but by calling the police their claims were strengthen for faking injuries as they would then be asked if any one was injured and of course there always “was” so these people would go to hospital with fake injuries, get a medical report and then proceed with a claim for compensation for these so called injuries. By attending the Police were unknowingly supporting these claims and any witness charades being carried out. This type of incident was being performed by a gang who choose the roundabouts carefully and almost always had “witnesses” to support the claim. Cases such as these became highlighted by insurance companies who notified the Guardia Civil and a case was prepared based on several incidents which is now going through the legal process.

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ISSAN’S quality Infiniti brand was launched in 1989, arriving in Europe in 2008, but it’s taken some time for the new models to make a real impact in the UK.

To make things clear on roundabouts, we would like to point out that unless there are signs, signals or clear road markings, you should always exit a roundabout in Spain from the right hand outside lane.

Sales figures here were on the up last year – 60 per cent – but the total was still just under 1,200.

But this year has seen sales soar so far – with the first six months’ figure of 1,565 blasting past the 1,195 sold during the full 12 months in 2015.

And the sales success continued last month with 399 Infinitis appearing on UK roads – a massive 191 per cent rise on the 137 in July, 2015.

That brought a 163 per cent year-to-date surge from 747 to 1,964 vehicles – January to July.

Infiniti couldn’t give me a model breakdown but the car responsible for this leap in sales is the Q30.

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The new model didn’t go on sale until the end of Januar y – a month after production started at the Sunderland plant.

It’s the first Infiniti built in Europe and brought a £250 million investment to the North East of England plant.

The Q30 brings Infiniti into the fast-growing premium compact segment and I have just had my first drive in it.

Top marks to the Sunderland workers as the quality build is excellent.

I liked the curvy front design of this hatchback and its low-slung roofline gives it a sleek, coupe-like side view.

The test car came in a cracking Liquid Copper colour and the dual rectangular chrome exhausts finishes added to its rear appeal.

Also adding to its looks were the black lacquer coloured fog-lamp finishers, roof-side spoiler, side sills and wheel arch mouldings Prices start at £20,555 and I sampled a high-spec Premium Tech model, costing £26,430.

The In Touch navigation system was the only option fitted and this added a further £1,400.

I loved the interior which featured white Nappa leather seats with graphite inserts and red stitching.

There was a feeling of quality in this Q30 with premium touches including the leather steering wheel and shift lever and a leatherette dashboard finisher.

Interior space is good up front but tall rear passengers could be touching the roof with their head.

Cargo space is decent, offering 430 litres which can be extended with the 60/40 rear seats folded forward.

The Q30 offers a choice of

It is also worthwhile remembering that if you have a minor bump in your vehicle that unless any one is injured, or is aggressive, abusive or threatening, then there is no need to call the police. You should simple fill out as fully as possible the accident claim form, which both parties should sign, and if in any doubt as to what the other person has written e.g. if they are Spanish, German, Flemish, Russian etc. and they have written their side in their mother tongue it is important for you to write in the notes section that you do not speak or read Spanish, German, Russian etc. The majority of people are honest however there are of course some unscrupulous people whom may write something that implicates that you were at fault when in reality you were not, if that of course is the case.

With the uncertainty of unrest in many countries, more and more tourists are coming to the Canary Islands and hence there are more drivers on the roads who are not familiar with them, so they will be driving slower and often stopping suddenly. The best advice for competent drivers familiar with the roads and their layouts is to assume that those around you are not and adjust your driving accordingly, slowing down if necessary, it’s better to be 5 minutes late arriving at your destination than be involved in an avoidable accident.

diesel and petrol engines as well as manual and automatic transmissions.

My model was powered by a frugal 1.5-litre 107bhp turbo diesel engine with a sixspeed manual transmission.

Power was good from liftoff with its zero to 62mph time of 12 seconds and the gear shifts were slick and smooth.

The engine was never too noisy and this model cruised smoothly at motorway speeds with little wind or rood noise.

Driving on some country roads didn’t disappoint either.

There was a little body roll when cornering at speed but road grip was good.

And even on some potho-

led surfaces the ride comfort couldn’t be faulted.

I liked the Q30 the more I drove it with a number of features making it a pleasurable experience.

These included the easy one-touch cruise control, easy-to-use satnav and InTouch infotainment system with its 7-inch touchscreen.

Buyers of this model will be tempted by the excellent fuel economy figures of 68.9mpg combined, 74.3mpg extra urban and 60.1mpg urban, and CO2 emissions of 108g/km.

The massive list of standard equipment on all models is also pretty impressive.

Other features on the test

car included heated front seats, manual reach and rake adjustment steering column, multifunction steering wheel, LED daytime running lights, rear view camera with front and rear parking sensors.

And a massive list of safety features, including forward collision warning and stop lane departure warning, earned the Q30 a best-inclass ‘small family car’ 2015 award from independent vehicle safety organisation Euro NCAP. It might be small in the UK, but Infiniti looks to be growing fast with the impressive Q30 already delivering big time and taking the brand to new heights.

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Home comforts for hamsters

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HE ideal home for a Syrian ham ster is a large wire cage with a plastic base no smaller than 60cm x 30cm floor space, by 30cm tall.

Hamsters love climbing on different levels so a cage even taller than this is better but be careful not to make it too high in case they fall and hurt themselves.

Wood should be avoided as it absorbs urine and quickly becomes smelly and unhygienic.

Puppies need to chew but the right things!

LL puppies enjoy and need to chew. This is partly to relieve some of the discomfort they experience during teething (between three and seven months of age) and also to help facilitate the removal of the puppy teeth and the eruption of the adult set.

Puppies also have a huge desire to explore their environment and as they don’t have hands, picking things up and chewing is one of the ways they like to find out about the world in which they live in!

What sort of things should my puppy be chewing?

Stuff biscuits inside a Kong or smear some cheese spread inside. Your puppy will work to get the food out, and will nibble, lick and chew on the toy for some time To help satisfy your puppy’s desire to chew and explore, it’s important to provide a variety of different items:

Chews Unlike toys, chews are designed for nibbling and gnawing and are essential if you want your puppy to chew acceptable items instead of your furniture!

Examples of chews include dental sticks, pressed hide and rawhide twists.

Kongs Most dog toys aren’t designed for hard chewing and some will be easily damaged if you allow your puppy to chew on them for too long. Your puppy may also accidently ingest some of the toy which could be very dangerous.

It’s good advice to pick up toys when you aren’t there to supervise for these reasons; however it is important to leave at least one ’safe’ toy down for them to play with at any time. An excellent choice for this purpose is a chew toy such as a Kong (available from pet shops).

This is a firm rubber toy, hollow on the inside and which can withstand lots of chewing. If you stuff biscuits inside the Kong or smear some cheese spread inside, your puppy will work to get the food out, and will nibble, lick and chew on the toy for some time. Kongs are also good

at stimulating play and chase behaviour, since they bounce unpredictably in different directions when thrown.

Activity balls

These are hollow dimpled balls, the size of a small football, with two holes. If you place small pieces of dry food inside (such as a portion of your puppy’s daily food ration), your puppy has to roll the ball around to get the food to drop out of the holes. This keeps them occupied for quite some time.

How long will I need to provide chews for my puppy?

Once a young dog reaches adolescence (between seven and 12 months of age), they often have an uncontrollable desire to chew even more than they did when they were a puppy. This could be because it’s the time that the adult teeth settle into the jawbone which could be uncomfortable for some dogs.

Young dogs are also easily bored at this time, so it’s important that you meet their needs by providing the right amount of exercise and mental stimulation.

A terrier cross puppy chews on a soft toy

Although the desire to chew will lessen gradually as your dog gets older, it’s important to remember that most dogs need to chew throughout their lives Although the desire to chew will lessen gradually as your dog gets older it’s important to remember that most dogs need to chew throughout their lives - for pleasure, to exercise the jaw and to keep teeth clean. How much they’ll need to chew will depend on the individual and often their breed type.

Labradors and Staffordshire bull terriers certainly seem to have a stronger need and desire to chew.

Chewing is also a calming activity and most dogs seem to find it immensely

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Dwarf hamsters can squeeze through small places so are best kept in a tank or aquarium no smaller than 60cm x 30cm floor space, by 30cm tall. The tank needs a securely fitted wire lid to allow ventilation and stop them escaping.

Dust-extracted bedding is good for all types of hamsters. Hamsters can be litter-trained, which helps to keep their cage cleaner. Dwarf hamsters need beds deep enough to allow them to burrow. You should also provide shredded paper or dry peat as nesting material. Avoid fluffy bedding that could wrap around a hamster’s limbs and cause stomach problems if eaten. Make sure your hamster’s home is away from draughts, sunlight and direct heat. Clean out the cage at least once a week.

WHAT TO FEED YOUR HAMSTER A commercial hamster mix is a good basis for your pet’s diet. Hamsters also like small pieces of fruit and vegetables, like a slice of apple or a small sprig of cauliflower. Hamsters hoard food in their beds, so do not give them too many green vegetables because they will rot. Remove all uneaten food every day. They also store food in their cheek pouches (see Health matters).

A hamster’s front teeth, like those of other rodents, grow continually so they need to gnaw to keep them in shape. Dog biscuits make both good hamster treats and teeth trimmers. Fresh water must always be available from a free- access drinking bottle fastened to the cage. Check this daily to see that it has not become blocked and also to change the water.

HAMSTER HEALTH Storing food in cheek pouches can occasionally lead to problems. If your hamster seems to have permanently stuffed cheeks, it could be because food has become impacted. Sharp pieces of food may also occasionally pierce their pouches.

Always seek veterinary advice because, if either of these has caused an infection, the hamster may need antibiotics.

The other common problem needing veterinary help is wet tail, which is diarrhoea associated with stress, especially in newly weaned babies. You can minimise the risk by preparing the cage before you bring the hamster home and leaving them undisturbed, except for feeding, for the first two or three days. Be careful handling your hamster when you have a cold as you can pass this on to them.

It’s useful to know that hamsters have scent glands on opposite sides of their flanks, which can look like small, dark patches. These are normal. The testicles of male hamsters enlarge in the spring, so two large swellings at the bottom end of your hamster are usually nothing to worry about. However, if you are at all concerned about your hamster’s health, do consult a vet. Finally, it is worth remembering that hamsters are short sighted, especially those with pink eyes, so keep a close eye on yours if let out of the cage. satisfying, so it’s important they are allowed to chew. that you provide appropriate Don’t punish your puppy items to fulfill this need. for chewing the wrong thing as this may cause your puppy to become frightened of you Chewing on a soft or anxious. If you notice your toy puppy is about to / in the Rotate chews on a regular middle of chewing somebasis. Adding some novelty thing you don’t want them to, will ensure your puppy quietly direct attention onto doesn’t get bored and begin an acceptable chew, and to target more ‘interesting’ make a huge fuss when the items (like your furniture!) dog begins to chew on it.

Any valuable possessions This will encourage your (such as wallets) or potenpuppy to select the items you tially dangerous items (such want to be chewed. as scissors) should be If you provide a range of removed from your puppy’s chews, plenty of play sesreach when you are not there sions and the opportunity to to supervise. Your puppy may explore different envichew your best shoes or the ronments and exercise well, remote control if these are you are well on the way to having a contented puppy that within reach and you are not only chews the right things. there to show them what

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Award-winning drama, based on a true story of a gifted musician’s triumph over adversity. Raised by a strict father, David Helfgott is a piano-playing prodigy. His talent is soon spotted and, despite his father’s misgivings, David is sent to London to study music. With success beckoning, however, his life is thrown into turmoil by a setback which threatens his future career and mental stability.

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Crime drama series. The apparent suicide of Steve Richards’ daughter Kat leaves the grieving father to conduct his own unique brand of investigation, relying on violence to procure answers. Banks is suspicious, a hunch that is confirmed when it seems that Kat’s death is not suicide after all - someone else may have been involved. But if so, who? The team now have two murders to solve, and the pressure is on.

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6TH SEPTEMBER 21:00 INSIDE BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (DOCUMENTARY) When children come along and a relationship becomes a parenting partnership, couples learn a lot about each other. And when their child’s health is in danger, they learn an awful lot more, sometimes testing even the strongest relationships. This episode follows three children facing very different challenges, and three couples relying on each other as never before. Accident-prone four-year-old Finley is putting first-time parents Mark and Nicola through their paces in the Emergency Department waiting room. Sitting still is not on his agenda, even though he has an alarming cut on his forehead; just his latest mishap as his mum and dad climb the steep learning curve of early parenthood. Meanwhile, 10-year-old Louie faces the prospect of major heart surgery with quiet courage. But his parents Kerry and Damien struggle to hide their anxieties about the surgery and also worry about his response to their fear.

A team of wildlife experts travel the globe in search of the most surprising animal stories and reveal how and why animals do such remarkable things.

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CGI-animated series about a seven-year-old girl who talks to animals.

There’s a super new ice-slide ride to play on, but Peggy the penguin discovers that being small can leave you at the back of the queue! So Wissper summons huge Herbert the shire horse and noisy Monty the meerkat to help teach the other penguins to take turns.

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Return of the popular comedy drama series. The gang are reunited when Adam returns to Manchester after years of working abroad, though not everyone is thrilled at his return. Whilst Adam travelled the world on business, his 15 year-old-son Matthew chose boarding school and, under the guardianship of Karen, has turned into a well-adjusted young man - though Karen knows what Matt needs more than anything right now is his dad.

Meanwhile, Pete and Jenny are struggling financially.

With two teenagers to support, Pete is juggling two jobs while Jenny’s work in events management is not exactly adding much to the coffers. Pete is understandably miserable but is pleased to see his best mate back home again.

Starring: James Nesbitt, John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Robert Bathurst, Hermione Norris, Leanne Best

2ND SEPTEMBER 08:05 WISSPER (ANIMATION)

Observational documentary series filmed inside the consulting rooms of a busy London NHS practice. Four more patients from the first three series tell their stories. Carrie has Body Dysmorphic Disorder, wheelchair-bound Alan and his partner and carer John recall life when homosexuality was illegal, Milton is caught in a poverty trap and depends on Dr Shah for advice and guidance. When Sue consulted Dr Helm about her tremors, she feared she was in the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease.

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TENERIFE NEWS 558 I TV GUIDE

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Breakfast Fake Britain Homes Under the Hammer Dom on the Spot Caught Red Handed Bargain Hunt BBC News at One Regional News and Weather Doctors Think Tank Escape to the Country Yes Chef Antiques Road Trip Pointless BBC News at Six Regional News and Weather The One Show EastEnders Holby City One of Us BBC News at Ten Regional News and Weather Stacey Dooley Investigates Drugs Map of Britain Weather for the Week Ahead BBC News

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Dom on the Spot Yes Chef Natural Born Winners Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics The Super League Show Three Up, Two Down Hi-De-Hi! Yes, Minister Cairngorms: A Year in the Wild The Great Interior Design Challenge Flog It! Debatable Make Me an Egghead Garden Rescue Great British Menu The Hairy Bikers’ Chicken and Egg New York: America’s Busiest City Motherland Newsnight Dragons’ Den A Week in the Wild An Hour to Save Your Life Full Steam Ahead

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Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Judge Rinder Who’s Doing the Dishes?

Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Fishing Impossible Garden Nightmares Rookies ITV News at Ten and Weather ITV News London Lady C and the Castle Murder, She Wrote Jackpot247 Loose Women ITV Nightscreen

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3rd Rock from the Sun King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Undercover Boss USA Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Channel 4 News Summary Come Dine Champion of Champions A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun Countdown Gok’s Fill Your House for Free Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Location, Location, Location Inside Birmingham Children’s Hospital 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 999: What’s Your Emergency?

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WEDNESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2016

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Yes Chef See Hear The Hairy Builder Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics The Edge Three Up, Two Down Hi-De-Hi! Yes, Minister Wild Burma: Nature’s Lost Kingdom The Great Interior Design Challenge Flog It! Debatable Make Me an Egghead Garden Rescue Great British Menu Skies Above Britain Natural World People Just Do Nothing Newsnight Horizon See Hear Britain’s Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy Countryfile Summer Diaries BBC Parliament on BBC Two

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Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Coronation Street All Star Mr and Mrs DCI Banks ITV News at Ten and Weather ITV News London Everything or Nothing: The Untold Stories of 007 British Touring Car Championship Highlights Jackpot247 Murder, She Wrote

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3rd Rock from the Sun King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Undercover Boss USA Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Channel 4 News Summary Come Dine Champion of Champions A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun Countdown Gok’s Fill Your House for Free Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News The Last Leg Paralympics 2016 One Born Every Minute Location, Location, Location Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

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Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters Secrets of the SAS: In Their Own Words Cricket on 5 Super Casino

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Yes Chef Gardeners’ World Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics The Edge Three Up, Two Down Hi-De-Hi! Yes, Minister Wild Burma: Nature’s Lost Kingdom The Great Interior Design Challenge Flog It! Debatable Make Me an Egghead Garden Rescue Great British Menu Trust Me, I’m a Doctor Absolutely Fashion The Premier League Football Show Newsnight All Together Now: The Great Orchestra Challenge Panorama Fake or Fortune?

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That’s Entertainment! III Flog It! Hairy Bikers Best of British

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Gillette World Sport Men’s Health SOTF World Endurance Motorsport 2016 Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier The Morning Line The Big Bang Theory The Simpsons Come Dine with Me Rio Paralympics 2016 Paralympics 2016 Live Channel 4 News Rio Paralympics

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The presenters unveil a sparkling summer bedding display, Carole Baxter shows off some colourful calla lilies and black-eyed Susans, and it is tasting time for Jim McColl’s tomatoes. Chris Beardshaw dons his waders to plant in the pond and Jim pays his second visit to Tillycoultry allotments, where he looks at the communal greenhouses and finds out about the tuition sessions in a range of garden machinery.

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Shipping Wars USA

Continuing the series following the independent US road transporters who have discovered fortunes can be made by shipping the things traditional carriers won’t touch. Chris Hanna and Robbie Welsh transport two pieces of music history that were owned by Elvis Presley. And with a load that is slowing him down, Jarrett Joyce races against the clock to get to a restaurant opening in time.

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Stars to shine at 10th Garachico to host Tenerife International fifth Gastronomic Film Music Festival

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ARACHICO will once again become a centre of gastronomic excellence from September 15th to 18th.

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HE renowned opera, contemporary music and film music German conductor, Christian Schumann, will join the guest conductors attending the 10th Tenerife International Film Music Festival (FIMUCITÉ), which will be held from September 23rd to October 1st.

Schumann will be conducting the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife (OST) at the concert “Space Opera: The Music of the Stars”, on September 30th in Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín”.

The concert on Wednesday, September 28th, will pay tribute to the com-poser and conductor Shirley Walker, who died in 2006, with the participation of the Symphony Band of the Conservatory of Music (CPM) of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, conducted by José Toledo.

Teacher in the CPM and the Conservatory of Music (CSM) of the Canary Islands, in the disciplines of Trumpet and Ear Training, Toledo will conduct a programme that includes several world premieres of the work of Shirley Walker, as well as other pieces that bear her legacy composed by Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion and Kristopher Carter, founding members of Dynamic Music Partners. This concert will take place at the Guimerá Theatre in Santa Cruz.

Last year, Toledo taught the subject of Band and, with other teachers of the CPM (Federico Gascó and Javier Llopis/ Woodwinds, Domingo Abreu/ Brass, Sixte Escrihuela/ Percussion, Miguel Jaubert and Mónica Chirino/ Strings, and Any Diaz/ Piano) and the whole Clarinet section of the CPM and the CSM (Vicente Ferrer, Eloísa González, Moisés Évora, Juan F. Álvarez and Antonio J. Sanchís), he faces, under the organisation of the CPM management team and

the collaboration of the CSM, the direction of the Band FIMUCITÉ X. This activity belons to the programme of the Centre and has been carried out, for the last ten years by former teachers (Jose Luis Cebolla, Benigno Cedres and Julio Castañeda).

Also, the recital “Animated Warner Heroes” will take place on September 29th in the Guimerá Theater.

The concert will be conducted by José A. Cubas, who has been responsible for launching the Symphony Orchestra, which is participating for the first time in FIMUCITÉ, under the agreement between the Conservatory and the Festival.

This new musical formation is born with all the enthusiasm and dedication thanks to the collaborative work between the director, the students and the teachers of different instrumental specialties of the CPM and the CSM (Isabel Osorio/ Flute, Federico Gasco/ Oboe, Juan Félix Álvarez and Eloísa González/ Clarinet, Sixte Escrihuela/ Percussion, Miguel Jaubert and Cristina Padron/ Strings, Inés González and José María Collado/ Horn, Deanna Dee Decker, José Domingo Abreu/ Trombone, José Corviniano / Tuba).

All the pieces of this programme have been composed

by Ritmanis, McCuistion and Carter, Emmy Award winners, who will also conduct pieces of a concert which will include the world premiere of the music for the hit Warner Bros.

TV series “Teen Titans”, arranged specifically for FIMUCITÉ.

Cubas is currently a Trombone teacher at both the CPM and at the CSM.

The Closing Night Gala, which will be held in Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín”, will put the final touch to FIMUCITÉ X with a tribute to the composer Howard Shore.

The concert will be conducted by Diego Navarro, the most well-known film music composer and conductor in the film industry of the Canary Islands, author of the music for “Capture the Flag”, among other films, and founder and director of FIMUCITÉ. The acclaimed composer for “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies will receive one of the FIMUCITÉAntón García Abril Awards at the Closing Night Gala on October 1st.

Likewise, the composers Óscar Navarro and Federico Jusid, who will attend FIMUCITÉ to collect their Spanish Critics Choice Awards 2016, given by Scoremagacine, will both conduct, at the beginning of the concert on September 30th, the OST performing their works.

Thus, the Spanish composer Óscar Navarro, Best Original Score Award winner, will release the world premiere of the suite for the Goya Award winner documentary “Sueños de sal”. The Argentinian Federico Jusid, Best Spanish (or Settled in Spain) Composer Award winner will conduct his music for the television series “Isabel” and “Carlos” and for the film “Misconduct”.

The Tenerife film Choir and the Children’s Choir of the Conservatory of Music of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, directed by Cristina Farrais and Juan Ramón Vinagre, respectively, will also participate in the concerts held at Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín”.

FIMUCITÉ X is sponsored by Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, the Canary Islands Government and Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council.

The event will bring together about 20 students who are in the first year of their cookery studies at the five official vocational training centres of Tenerife.

This annual venture is known as “Paisaje Gastronómico” or “Gastronomic Landscape” and turns the spotlight on the products of the Canary Islands such as honey, potatoes and the black pig. The presentations will be given by specialist speakers.

The students will also get the chance to put the theory into practise during practical workshops with these products and enjoy a materclass with the Galician Michelin star chef Pepe Solla. This will take place on September 15th in the former convent of San Francisco.

This event is open to members of the public.

The educational part of this gastronomic festival will come to a close with a competition for the students who will be asked to create a dish with a Canary product as its star.

During the four days, there will be other attractions for the visitor to Garachico including gastronomic cinema,tasting the creations in a tapas competition and learning more about cocktails, as well as the enjoyment of some of the best chefs on the national scene.

Paisaje Gastronómico has the support of the Cabildo of Tenerife via Tourism Tenerife and Saborea Tenerife.

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MILESTONE ACHIEVEMENT

Baby sandbar sharks turn five months old in perfect health in Loro Parque Photo by www.piramidesdeguimar.es

Pyramids of Güímar shortlisted for major European award

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HE Pyramids of Güímar Ethnographic Park has been shortlisted for the “European Museum of the Year 2017” award.

This competition was established by the European Museum Forum with the aim of highlighting new challenges and quality of museums in Europe.

A tribunal of judges will visit 42 museums over the summer in various European countries, including the Pyramids of Güímar, the only representative of Spain in this edition.

Towards the end of the year, the final selection will be announced which will consist of a small group of

candidates to compete for this prestigious award, as well as other mentions and accolades.

The recent opening in the Ethnographic Park of a Sustainable Garden has played an important role in the candidancy for this award because it represents a new model of development of endemic Canarian gardens.

To find out more about this fascinating tourist attraction here on Tenerife, see http:// www.piramidesdeguimar.es/ en/

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ORO Parque is happy to celebrate the perfect health and size of the sandbar sharks, which were born in March this year in the aquarium of the Best Zoo in Europe and second in the world, according to TripAdvisor.

Abel, Airam, Lian and Juan, healthy and strong, have successfully turned five months of age – the most delicate and risky period for their species.

These baby sharks have passed

their first blood test after which a more specific and complete diet is created by their keepers.

Even so, the baby sharks begin to make preference for hake and squid while they find themselves in a habitat perfectly adapted to their

needs including in recreating a natural light during the day and a dim moonlight at night.

Even the temperature of the water is maintained at a certain level based on the season of the year.

These four baby sandbar sharks, just like the other representatives of their species, are true ambassadors for the protection of their own species in the oceans and the seas.

These animals are in an elevated risk due the damaging human activities. As is known, the continued exploitation of the natural resources puts at risk many species of animals, among them sharks that are now facing extinction after having habituated our planet for over 400 million years.

Every year more than 100 million sharks are caught and killed at sea. According to the data from World Health Organization (WHO), each year about 600.000 tons of sharks are thrown away as a useless product. Currently, 11 species already appear on the International Red List of Endangered Species, among them the sandbar shark.

Therefore, Loro Parque together with Loro Parque Fundación puts forth the efforts to raise awareness about the importance of the responsible and sustainable use of natural resources and conservation of the biodiversity among more than million visitors that come to Loro Parque every year.

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Mayumana to preview stunning new show in Gran Canaria

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AYUMANA, the Israeli dance troupe that combines dance, song and percussion, is to present its new show ‘Rumba!’ at the Teatro Perez Galdos in Las Palmas.

It will be presented for the first time from December 16th to 30th, ahead of the national premiere which will take place at the Rialto Theatre in Madrid in January 2017.

Through the unique language of Mayumana, Rumba! tells the story of two

families at war in the same neighborhood. But in their hatred and disputes comes an unexpected romance.

The music of Estopa, the Spanish rock/rumba duo from Cornellà, has been chosen to provide the soundtrack to this spectacular, played by an extraordinary cast of artists

who sing, dance and play all the instruments to generate the rhythmic and visual miracle that distinguishes all Mayumana shows.

Mayumana debuted in Spain in 2001 and their performances have been applauded by over 1,000,000 people in Spain and eight million worldwide.

During August, tickets for this show can be purchased through the web pages www.auditorioteatrolaspalmasgc.es, www.teatroperezgaldos.es and www.entradas.com and on the phone 902 488 488.

From September 1st, they will be available at the box office Alfredo Kraus Auditorium from 16:00 to 21:00 hours, Monday through Friday, and at the box office of Teatro Perez Galdos, from 10:00 to 15:00, and until a few minutes before the show starts.

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Sook

Mamma Rosa

Meson El Drago

Santa Cruz

Playa de las Américas

Tegueste

Summer has arrived and the wonderful SOOK restaurant has devised a refreshing and appetising menu for the hot months.

New mouth-watering dishes are home-made salmorejo with extra virgin olive oil, diced Iberian ham and bread croutons, avocado from our islands in tempura, served with sweet chilli sauce and soy, tuna tataki with seaweed salad and caramelised soy sauce and duck breast soft grilled, with papaya chutney.

In addition, the air-conditioned restaurant continues to offer its refreshing desserts such as seasonal fruit salad with guava mayonnaise.

SOOK is now also opening with its a la carte during the weekend, both for lunch and dinner. The opening times are 13:00 to 15:30 and 20:30 to 23:30 and for your convenience, there is a parking area.

You might also like to try the full breakfast buffet open to the public from 7am to 11am from Monday to Sunday. Ideal to start a day of shopping or tourist visit to Santa Cruz. The price is 16 euros per person.

Mamma Rosa is one of the longest established restaurants in the south of Tenerife and has an extensive menu and a modern ambiance which appeals to all ages.

For more than 22 years, it has offered elegance, top-class cuisine, an excellent varied wine list and, of course, the service you would expect.

The cuisine is described as classical Italian and Scandinavian with Spanish and French influences, blended together and cooked in a modern style. Part of the new approach is to offer a very extensive fish menu. As with the meat, the restaurant tries where possible to buy local produce and support the islands’ agriculture.

Distinguished chef, Carlos Gamonal is passionate about food and he and his team aim to give the diner an experience to remember.

Restaurant Mesón el Drago looks beautiful but it is still affordable to all as you can tailor your choices to fit your budget. Carlos is a pioneer of modernist cuisine, using only the freshest of products grown in the region and cleverly combining ingredients to produce a unique taste.

Customers love his Canary dishes but they also offers an international menu and dishes of the day. The wine cellar is very extensive and the desserts are simply exquisite.

This is a lovely location for special celebrations, parties, weddings etc or just to eat an exiting meal. It is only open Friday, Saturdays and Sundays.

Avda. 3 de Mayo, 3 Santa Cruz Tel.: 922 294 500 www.hoteles-silken.com

For reservations call 922 794 819 Avda. Santiago Puig, Apartamentos Colón 2 Playa de la Américas www.mammarosa.com / mammarosa@mammarosa.com

For reservations call 922 543 001 Calle Marqués de Celada nº2 Tegueste www.mesoneldrago.com

Restaurante El Cine

Tipsy Terrace

Restaurante Gom

Los Cristianos

Los Gigantes

Santa Cruz

The regular sight of people queuing for a table will give you the best clue ever about this restaurant. The alley-way where people queue has been described as the most famous on the island and no-one seems to mind having to wait for a table.

This is very much a fresh fish restaurant, the only meat you will find are chicken. The menu, in extense: grilled cuttle fish, grilled hake fillet, fresh sardines, the fish of the day, grilled fresh herrings, all seven euros each. Tomato and onion salad, chips or Canary potatoes for 2.50 euros a bowl. Fried octopus, nine euros. Grilled prawns, eight euros. Fried chicken wings, seven euros.

There is one hour free parking at the dock for restaurant visitors.

Just request a ticket and this will be stamped at El Cine.

Tipsy Terrace in Los Gigantes is described as one of the friendliest places around and you will see why when you visit.

You will find great home cooking and dishes to suit all tastes, from breakfast through to evening meals and everything in between.

Tap into their menu on www.tipsy-terrace.net and you can see all the choices for yourself, from Tipsy’s Ploughman’s and Rise and Shine sandwiches to wraps, jacket potatoes, burgers, crunchy salads, light lunches and much, much more. Tipsy Terrace also has a swimming pool, tennis, mini-golf and lovely gardens. It is easy to find as it is just by the coach and bus stops.

This iconic restaurant in the heart of Santa Cruz is definitely a place to head for if you enjoy stunning decor and high-end cuisine but at prices you can still afford.

The food here is best described as a slice of home-made cooking with the taste and touch of nouvelle cuisine. The emphasis is on quality, freshness and naturalness where the raw product is the star, depending on what is available that day in the market.

They offers a special menu for celiac and can help create food for anyone with a specific allergy. Weddings, etc are also catered for and there is always a dish of the day.

You will find GOM within the Hotel Taburiente, located in front of Parque García Sanabria. Their opening times are Tuesday to Saturday from 13:00 to 16:00 and 20:00 to 23:00.

For reservations call 609 107 758 Calle Juan Bariajo, nº8 Los Cristianos www.barelcine.es / barelcine@gmail.com

For reservations call 922 868 432 Los Gigantes Sports & Gardens Calle Hibisco 4, Los Gigantes www.tipsyterrace.net

For reservations call 922 276 058 Calle Dr. Guigou,29 Santa Cruz www.hoteltaburiente.com

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Harriet’s

Brunelli’s Steakhouse

The Oriental

Los Cristianos (new) & Fañabé

Puerto de la Cruz

Puerto de la Cruz

English Tea Room Very much a Tenerife business success story, Harriet's English Tea Room and Restaurant in Los Cristianos has a very welcome addition to its extensive menu - Sunday lunches for 9.95 euros which are served between 12 noon and 5pm.

With a big sunny terrace and beautifully designed interior, this lovely restaurant is just a stone’s throw from the bus station at the San Marino building (ie turn left at the bottom of the bus station and it is 100 yards or so on your left, in premises formerly occupied by the Heritage bar).

In addition to the fantastic Sunday roasts, with "proper" roast potatoes, you will find the most gorgeous food, all home-made and great British cooking, including all day breakfasts, mouthwatering cakes, salads, jacket potatoes, sandwiches and rolls, home-made burgers, pancakes, ice-creams, evening meals and numerous varieties of teas and coffees served in china pots and cups. There are also many gluten-free and diabetic options.

For reservations call 922 712 791 Los Cristianos, San Marino building.

Open daily from 9am to 11pm.

Playa Fañabé,56 Central Commercial.

Open 9am to 10pm, closes 5pm Saturday and Sunday

Celebrating the First Anniversary of Success with Our Clients Just 50 metres from Loro Parque and with beautiful views of the ocean, a special gourmet experience awaits you at Brunelli’s Steakhouse. This early September this outstanding Steakhouse is celebrating its first anniversary. In this special occasion, Brunelli´s is inviting all its guests to explore the delights of the palate.

Inspired in the original American steakhouses, Brunelli’s is located at the former fisher village of Punta Brava and, since its opening, offers you the best quality meat – tender, juicy and with an incomparable texture.

Between 5 and 11 of September, you can enjoy an absolutely fascinating menu prepared with all our care and attention to the client and passion for our product and its preparation in the best conditions.

THE SPECIAL OCCASION MENU INCLUDES:

Inaugurated in 1996 by Queen Sirikit of Thailand, our Oriental restaurant offers Asian style ‘haute cuisine’, which includes a wide range of delicious dishes with the unique flavor of an essential continent within the international gastronomic scene.

The menu changes regularly and offers the best of the delicate and tempting, yet sophisticated cuisine from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Japan. The unforgettable experience in El Oriental is also felt though the traditional decor of the restaurant, which reflects both the magic and fineness of Thailand, making this restaurant the ideal place for a perfect dinner.

For reservations call 922 381 400 Avda. Richard J. Yeoward, 1 Puerto de la Cruz ( Hotel Botánico) www.hotelbotanico.com/service/el-oriental

A welcome glass of cava ½ Lobster cooked in butter and lemon Sorbet made with citrus and champagne The renowned Brunelli´s-style tenderloin Cheesecake with rom and raisins

The Oyster Catcher

II Pappagallo

Los Cristianos

Puerto de la Cruz

It’s always nice to try a new experience when in Tenerife so pop along to the Oyster Catcher in Los Cristianos and enjoy some spectacular flambé.

The restaurant, on the thriving El Mirador strip, offers an extensive menu of British and Spanish cuisine, using only the best of fresh ingredients at affordable prices, including homemade soups, daily roasts served with classic Yorkshire pudding and stock gravy, pastas, fish and fresh salads. All the main courses are served with a choice of fresh vegetables and potatoes. You can sit indoors or on the undercover terrace.

Flambés are the speciality of the house, with the steaks, king prawns , pork or chicken cooked right in front of you with delicious sauces. Follow up with a flambéed dessert such as crêpe suzette and banana flambé. Delicious!

For reservations call 922 788 038 Open daily C.C. El Mirador, Local 5 Avenida San Francisco, Los Cristianos www.oystercatcher.es - info@oystercatcher.es

The guests will also be offered to enjoy coffee and a drink of limoncello and there is a glass of wine and water included in a fixed-price offer.

Come celebrate our first year with us and discover flavours like you have never tasted before thanks to a specially controlled maturation and their ‘Southbend’ oven, unique in the Canaries and which cooks the meat at more of 800ºC. A great way to enjoy the exquisite cuisine in the company of your loved ones and with breath-taking views of Atlantic Ocean on this first year of success with Brunelli´s!

For reservations call 922 062 600 In front of Loro Parque Puerto de la Cruz www.brunellis.com

Il Pappagallo restaurant perfectly combines the old art of making pasta dishes and innovative side dishes that will both delight diners. The menu has been entirely renovated to offer diners a modern culinary repertoire that matches our attention and love for details, as well as our passion for excellence. A varied buffet and a great selection of Italian specialties await you in its terrace overlooking the Atlantic, ideal to enjoy unforgettable sunsets and the tranquillity of the night during summer. In addition, our wine cellar houses the best Italian wines, chosen amongst the most traditional wines of the country.

For reservations call 922 381 400 Avda. Richard J. Yeoward, 1 Puerto de la Cruz ( Hotel Botánico) www.hotelbotanico.com/service/il-pappagallo

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Rendezvous

Take-away and delivery now available!

The Potter Inn

Restaurant/Bar & Bistro

Puerto Santiago, Costa del Silencio & Playa de las Américas

Puerto Colón

Golf del Sur

If you love Indian food, you will find the very best at Bobbys Tandoori, now at three locations.

The food served here is absolutely superb which is why Bobbys is a firm favourite with local residents and visitors alike.

The Costal del Silencio restaurant is in the unusual octagonalshaped building on the corner of the main road through Silencio with Las Galletas.

The restaurant in Puerto Santiago is on Avenida Maritima, about 50 yards from the Los Dragos Hotel.

The Playa de las Americas restaurant is near the seafront on the second floor of CC Puebo Canario.

The food is great and affordable, as are the drinks.

Puerto Colon has so many places to eat and drink so where should you choose? Pop in and see Mark, Kerry and their team at this great family pub, just down the steps near the taxi rank.

There’s lots to tempt, including hand battered cod with homemade chips and mushy peas and a multitude of home-made dishes. The food is great, with generous portions.

Why not try their home made Staffordshire Oatcakes (made from a secret recipe) with a choice of fillings such as bacon and cheese or sausage and egg only two euros each!

Threre are also some great drink offers.

They serve a great breakfast and a brilliant Sunday lunch which has become quite “famous” with visitors and locals alike in the south.

You can sit inside or out on one of the two sunny terraces. You can watch your favourite soaps here or live sport as a relaxing background.

The Rendezvous in Golf del Sur offers diners a double delight. By day and in the evening, you can enjoy a full menu with great prices and big portions at the Rendezvous Bar and Bistro, overlooking the bowling green at the Winter Gardens.

In the evening, you might opt for the Rendezvous Restaurant which is just above it and offers an extensive à la carte menu, fine wines and a relaxing night out to enjoy excellent cuisine at a leisurely pace.

The Rendezvous Restaurant has a lovely ambience and it’s a restaurant where you can sit back and enjoy. Booking is advised at the main restaurant because it is extremely popular.

Bobby's Playa Santiago (922 868 690) Open: 1pm-4pm, 6pm-11pm. Mondays evening only Bobby's Costal del Silencio (922 072 177 /610 864 241) Avenida Jose Antonio Tavio Open every day 2pm-11pm Bobby's Playa de las Americas (922 796 816) CC Pueblo Canario, second floor, local 204 Open 2pm to 11pm (Monday from 6pm)

For reservations call 922 714 231 Local 232, Puerto Colon Costa Adeje potterinn@outlook.com

For reservations call 922 738 683 / 922 738 602 Winter Gardens Complex Golf del Sur San Miguel de Abona

El Teatro del Puerto

Restaurante Magnolia

Bar El Pincho

Los Cristianos port

Puerto de la Cruz

Las Vistas, Los Cristianos

Restaurante Magnolia has come a long way, starting life as a small intimate restaurant with an outdoor terrace to the finished article we see today, with the terrace now covered and well spaced tables inside.

The kitchen is open plan and creates the most wonderful national and international dishes with an extensive menu of fish, shellfish, lamb, steaks, pastas.

This venue is always busy and customers are full of praise for the Restaurante Magnolia as one of the finest places to eat on the island. The quality and service certainly stands out and the cost is very reasonable indeed.

They are open every day from 13:00 - 16:00 and 19:00 to 23.30.

At Bar El Pincho you can enjoy good prices, good food, good service and a fantastic view of the ocean.

They are winning fans because of the friendly staff you encounter and the delicious Spanish tapas.

They have a great offer, a combination of tapas for two for only 9.50 euros. There is also a wide selection of main plates, such as steak, chicken and fish, all cooked with love and the best ingredients they can find.

Do try their fantastic cocktails which they always try to improve. Try also the special dishes from the north of the island and the drinks.

Reservations can be done between 10:30 to 20:00pm

For reservations call 922 385 614 Avda. Marqués de Villanueva del Prado s/n Puerto de la Cruz www.restaurantemaganolia.com

For reservations call 649 431 110 Paseo Las Vistas, Los Cristianos www.barelpincho.com

If you love a location with a lot of atmosphere, head down to the busy port of Los Cristianos. There is always something to see here and it’s great to watch all the ferries coming in and out as you enjoy a coffee or meal amidst all the action.

Whether you are travelling to another island or not, seek out the cafeteria in the port terminal.

“El Teatro del Puerto” in the Estacion Maritima specialises in bread rolls, cakes and some really first-class coffees.You will also find a great selection of tapas, typical Canary products, ice-creams and more.

One great option is their daily menu which offer a first and second course, plus a dessert, with drinks paid separately.

A real bonus is that it is open early in the morning, from 7am every day, closing at 8pm.

For reservations call 609 107 758 Estación Marítima, Los Cristianos Port, Arona

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Your dining experience around our restaurants The “Picoteo” triangle

Donde Mario

El Calderito de la Abuela

La Bodeguita de Enfrente

Cuesta de la Villa

Cuesta de la Villa

Cuesta de la Villa

A great part of the fun of wining and dining in Tenerife is finding somewhere different and it’s well worth a trip out to Santa Ursula to the warm and inviting Donde Mario.

Though from the outside you might easily pass by it, the inside is elegant and captivating.

Restaurateur Mario Torres surpises us every day with his extensive use of produce in season, and his unbeatable experience with wines and cookery.

Just try his Cherne warm salad, a super-healthy Canarian fish soup, or his Lomo de Vaca Morucha. You will be surprised.

Why not try a touch of “picoteo”, the Spanish-style of eating where, as the name suggests, you pick a selection of dishes and share with your companions.

You will find “El Calderito de la Abuela” in Santa Úrsula and it offers a unique and homely atmosphere combining Canary cuisine with modern creativity.

This is already an award-winning restaurant and it’s not surprising that this year, it has again scooped a TripAdvisor accolade.

The exterior of this property belies what you will find inside as it is full of charm and carácter and there is an incredible view of La Orotava valley. “A gem” is how it is described.

Set in a series of old Canary houses, this restaurant is made up of a labyrinth of inter-connecting rooms leading off from the bar area in the centre.

The atmosphere is reminiscent of an English country pub with its low ceilings with wooden beams and warm décor.

The food is fundamentally Canarian. They grow most of their own produce at their allotment and only use olive oil to cook with. Their ethos is a simple one, only use the best, fresh produce and cook it with thought and care.

The menu is described as Picoteo, slightly more than tapas without reaching the full-blown three-course meal status. It’s delicious and affordable.

For reservations call 922 304 585 Exit 31 TF-5, Carretera Provincial, 119 Cuesta de la Villa, Santa Úrsula www.dondemario.net

For reservations call 922 301 918 Exit 31 TF-5, Carretera Provincial, 130 Cuesta de la Villa, Santa Úrsula www.elcalderitodelaabuela.net

For reservations call 922 302 760 Exit 31 TF-5, Carretera Provincial, 205 Cuesta de la Villa, Santa Úrsula www.labodeguitadeenfrente.net

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Coping with an indoor allergy

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N indoor allergy is when something in your home or work environment triggers an allergic reaction that causes the lining of your nose to become inflamed.

This can cause cold-like symptoms such as sneezing, a runny nose and nasal congestion.

The symptoms of an indoor allergy can range from mild to severe. While it doesn’t pose a serious threat to your health, it can have a considerable impact on your quality of life. It can affect sleep, daily activities and performance at work or school.

An indoor allergy is also known as perennial allergic rhinitis.

The symptoms can occur all year round, unlike the seasonal types of allergic rhinitis, such as hay fever, which is caused by an allergic reaction to certain types of pollen.

However, some allergens inside the home can trigger the symptoms of hay fever as well as other conditions such as eczema and asthma.

In some cases an indoor allergy can contribute to sinusitis, a condition where the sinuses become inflamed or infected.

WHAT CAUSES AN INDOOR ALLERGY? Anything that causes an allergic reaction is known as an allergen. The most common triggers of indoor allergies are dust mites, fungus spores, pets, in particular the dead skin that is shed by pets (known as animal dander) and/or substances related to particular occupations or workplaces, such as wood dust and chemicals.

TREATING INDOOR ALLERGIES Medication to help manage the symptoms of an indoor allergy is available over the counter at pharmacies or on prescription.

This includes nasal decongestants, antihistamines and corticosteroids.

In some cases, the symptoms of an indoor allergy can be reduced by using a treatment called immunotherapy. This involves exposing the affected person to small amounts of whatever they are allergic to over time so that their body builds up a tolerance to the allergen.

However, immunotherapy is time-consuming, taking three to five years to complete. It’s also not suitable for everyone.

The best way to prevent indoor allergies is to avoid whatever is causing the allergic reaction. However, this is not always possible and extra steps might be needed, such as replacing carpets with hard wood flooring, minimising contact with pets and regularly checking for signs of fungal mould.

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The pain of cluster headaches

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LUSTER headaches are excruciating attacks of pain in one side of the head, often felt behind the eye.

Sufferers often call them ‘suicidal headaches’ because they’re so severe.

They are much more painful than migraines or any other type of headache and come on very suddenly.

Cluster headaches are so called because sufferers usually get one to three of these attacks every day, for several weeks or months, before they subside. A pain-free period will follow, which sometimes lasts months or years, before the headache attacks start again.

Because of the intensity of the pain, some people will pace the room, rock, or bang their head against the wall out of frustration, restlessness and despair.

Research suggests that when a cluster headache happens, there’s a lot more activity in an area of the brain called the hypothalamus. It’s thought the hypothalamus releases chemicals that trigger the cluster headaches, possibly by causing blood vessels to widen, causing an increase in bloodflow to the brain.

It’s not known what causes the hypothalamus to act in this way. However, in some people, cluster headaches are triggered by certain things, such as drinking alcohol during the period that headaches occur, an extreme increase in temperature (such as from exercising in hot weather) or taking inhaled nitroglycerin – a medication that causes the blood vessels to enlarge.

They are also more common in autumn and spring.

The benefits of strength exercises

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TRENGTH and flexibility exercises will help you increase muscle strength, maintain bone density, improve balance and reduce joint pain.

A strength exercise is any activity that makes your muscles work harder than usual. This increases your muscles’ strength, size, power and endurance. The activities involve using your body weight or working against a resistance.

Examples of muscle-strengthening activities include lifting weights, working with resistance bands,heavy gardening, such as digging and shovelling, climbing stairs, hill walking, cycling, dance,push-ups, sit-ups and squats and yoga.

What exercises are good for preventing falls?

Exercises that improve leg strength, balance and coordination can help people maintain and improve their muscle mass and avoid falls as they get older.

You could try ta chi, yoga, dance, walking up stairs, hiking or lifting weights.

How can I tell if I’m doing enough?

For an activity to be

muscle-strengthening, it needs to work your muscles to the point where you may need a short rest before continuing. For example, if you’re lifting weights, you would have to put the weight down after doing a number of lifts before carrying on.

What are flexibility exercises?

Flexibility exercises are activities that improve the ability of a joint to maintain the movement necessar y for carrying out daily tasks and physical activity.

What are the health benefits of strength and flexibility activities?

There is strong evidence of the health benefits of musclestrengthening activities. These include maintaining the ability

to perform everyday tasks and the reduction in bone and muscle loss associated with ageing. There is also a reduction in the number of falls.

Unlike aerobic and strength exercises, the specific health benefits of flexibility activities are unclear. However, health professionals believe that improving your flexibility can improve your posture, reduce aches and pains and lower your risk of injur y. Good flexibility can also help you to continue carrying out everyday tasks.

How often should I do strength and flexibility exercises?

It’s a good idea to do muscle-strengthening activities that work all the major muscle groups (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest,

shoulders and arms) on two or more days a week. No specific amount of time is recommended but a typical training session could take less than 20 minutes.

Exercises should be performed to the point at which it would be difficult to do another repetition without help. A repetition is one complete movement of an activity, like lifting a weight or doing one push-up or one sit-up. Tr y to do 8 to 12 repetitions for each activity, which counts as one set. Try to do at least two sets of muscle-strengthening activities, but to gain even more benefits, do three sets.

Remember to start gradually and build up over a period of weeks.

There are no specific recommendations for how much time you should spend on flexibility exercises.

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Early loss of teeth or premature labour, the risks of poor dental hygiene

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ECENTLY, in a casual conversation between friends, the hilarious idea was raised of creating a game like Pokémon Go and to name it “Kill The Dentist”. It is easy to understand why.

Calling your dentist is rarely a pleasant experience. It is a socially shared feeling that even has its own pathology, odontophobia.

We delay the visit until the last moment, when the situation has worsened and we usually do for two reasons: that we can no longer endure the pain or the problem we have is related to some aesthetic aspect that affects us socially.

Industry professionals are probably bored of warning us that constant oral health directly affects our overall health. In some cases, this neglect when accompanied by dental fear can have tragic consequences.

Complications resulting from poor dental hygiene may have the greatest risk during pregnancy.

Carmen Dolores Luis Hernandez (Loli, as she prefers to be called), hygienist at the Artedental clinic in Puerto de la Cruz, explains that pregnant women experience hormonal changes that impact on the whole body.

“One such consequence is

the increased permeability of blood vessels, making it easier to have gingivitis, bleeding gums. With bleeding, bacteria and pathogens can pass through your circulation and reach the placenta, which increases the risk of low birth weight or preeclampsia, as well as the risk of preterm delivery.”

“Preeclampsia associated with hypertension can lead to eclampsia with damage to the maternal endothelium, kidneys and liver, and the most common treatment in this case is the induction of labour or caesarean section to avoid putting at risk the mother and to the baby.”

Cleaning is therefore “very important during pregnancy because it reduces the inflammation of the gums and prevent these cases.”

Loli also explains that one of the biggest advantages of maintaining proper dental hygiene is to “keep the teeth as long as possible”. And this is something that sooner or later will eventually affect us all.

The role she plays in Arte-

Loli, hygienist at Artedental, warns that “diseases such as periodontitis can be prevented with good dental hygiene as well as the onset and/or warsening of diabetes and cardiovascular problems”. dental is fundamental. If the bustle of a dental clinic is observed, we see a constant coming and going of professionals walking with accelerated steps in its corridors and in and out of their offices.

And not just dentists. There are other professionals whose work complements and enhances the role of the dentist.

The dental hygienist, like Loli, is responsible for what they call in their jargon prophylaxis ie. remove tartar and stains that are on the teeth or

under the gum.

It also entails teaching functions, since most of their time is devoted to explain to patients, whether children or adults, proper care to maintain a healthy mouth and gums.

These consist essentially of “proper brushing, flossing once daily and rinses; and an annual visit to the dentist and hygienist “, says Loli.

“We often fail to visit the clinic, and therefore the remains of scale which are not accessed with the brush or

thread are not eliminated. Over the years without going through the consultation, the situation may worsen until it causses irreparable tooth damage and extraction,” she explained.

The Artedental hygienist adds that “certain diseases can be prevented with good dental hygiene, such as periodontitis. It has even come

to prove the relationship with the onset and / or worsening of diabetes and cardiovascular problems. “ The best in any case will always be an annual visit. This will reduce the difficulty of dental cleanings and thus the discomfort they may cause, and prevent the occurrence of multiple diseases.

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ADIES - don’t forget the lunch, especially, and only, for you, which is to be held at the Restaurant Algarrobo in La Paz on Thursday September 22nd. The time is 13.00 for 13.30 and the price is 15 euros. Please choose your preferred menu when you book at the Treasurer’s desk.

In this issue of the Tenerife News there is to be found another article by Ken Fisher - This time the subject is the scientist and astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth.

The DVD ‘The Raven’ starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff has been highly recommended by one of our helper/members. This is, of course, not a recent film as it was made in 1963.

Roger Corman, a great director, produced a series of films based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. All low budget, and over-acted, they have become cult classics. Set during the 15th century, the story relates the efforts of two sorcerers (Price and Lorre) to exact revenge on the evil Dr. Scarabus (Karloff) - the former for stealing his wife, and the second for turning him into a raven ! As always, good triumphs in the end and Scarabus gets his comeuppance.

Those of you expecting a faithful adaptation of Poe’s poem will be sorely disappointed as Corman decided to present the story as a comedy. All three stars are so good at being bad that there are probably a few more laughs than Corman intended!

If you enjoy this, have a look at ‘The Comedy Of Terrors’, another Price/Lorre/Karloff horror comedy collaboration.

The Library is located in the Taoro Park, Puerto de la Cruz, and we are open on Mondays and Fridays from 15.00 to 17.30, and on Wednesday and Saturday mornings from 10.00 to 13.00 hours. Find us on our website ‘theenglishlibrary.es’ and on Facebook and TripAdvisor.

Sweet memories Of You by Ellie Dean

The Slaughter Man by Tony Parsons

wood) is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises and now she is on a road trip to help her friends and family.

She is determined to get to the bottom of why her dad has mysteriously disappeared, help her best friend Suze, and even bond with Alicia (maybe). As Becky discovers just how much her friends and family need help, she comes up with her biggest, boldest, most brilliant plan yet!

So can she save the day just when they need her most ?

Black Ops by Stephen Leather

LEISURE YOUR HOROSCOPE WWW.ASTROLOGY-ONLINE.COM ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) Travel will promote new romantic encounters and additional cultural knowledge. Someone you work with may be trying to make you look bad. They won’t pay you back and you’ll be upset.

TAURUS (Apr. 21- may 21) Look into physical activities that will help get rid of some of that tension you may be feeling. The advice you get today may be based on false information. Any attractions toward clients will be one sided and must be put right out of your head.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Be extra careful with your valuables; loss and theft are evident today. Others may want to steal your thunder when they realize your ideas are pretty solid. Listen to the advice given by those with experience.

CANCER (June 22-July 22) You can surprise members of your family, which in turn will bring you a pat on the back. Put your thoughts on paper. Colleagues may try to undermine you.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22) Equilibrium in your romantic life is likely if you treat your partner well. Changes in your home are apparent, and you must be willing to bend if you don’t want to find yourself alone. This is not the best day to visit relatives who get on your nerves.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) Investments may not be as lucrative as you thought. Don’t trust a deal that looks too good, or a lover who appears to have it all. You need to interact with others if you want to expand your knowledge.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) Pleasure trips will bring you into contact with new and interesting people. Opportunities for romance are present. Be on your best behavior.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)

It is 1943 and Peggy Reilly is at her best when the troubles of war come knocking at the door of Beach View Boarding House especially when it concerns her younger sister Doreen.

Doreen is divorced from Eddie, but his letters have taken on a more threatening tone of late.

When Doreen barely survives a traumatic disaster whilst on leave in London, she returns home to Peggy and Cliffehaven in the hope that the love and comfort that she will find there can help her recover.

However, Eddie continues to be an unsettling reminder of her past - and Doreen’s life is about to change dramatically.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21)

Shopaholic To The Rescue by Sophie Kinsella

Try to spend time with those having similar interests. It might be best not to spend your money on luxuries today. You can help a close friend find solutions to personal problems.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22.- Jan. 20)

Disclaimer by Renee Knight When an intriguing novel appears on Catherine’s bedside table, she curls up and begins to read. But as she turns the pages, she is horrified to realise that she is a key character, a main player.

This story will reveal her darkest secret. A secret that she thought no one else knew...

You can bet that you’ll draw attention to yourself.

You are best to deal with those outside your family. Communication must be open, precise, and honest.

As Detective Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless serial killer through the streets of London, he learns that even the happiest of families have black twisted secrets that someone is ready to kill for.

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As an MI5 agent, Spider is used to going undercover, but when he is asked to assume the identity of the contract killer hired to take out President Vladimir Putin, he knows that he will become a wanted man. And things are about to become more complicated. Spider is told that his MI5 controller and close friend Charlotte Button has been running an off-the-books assassination operation, taking vengeance on the men who killed her husband. Spider owes his life to Button - but this discovery will stretch his loyalty to the limit....

You can make major gains if you talk to your boss about your findings. Opportunities for romance will develop through group endeavors; however, the association isn’t likely to last. Don’t get involved in expensive entertainment that involves gambling.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) You can expect changes in your living arrangements. You can elaborate on your creative ideas and get involved in groups that relate to the arts.

Make plans that will take you to exotic destinations.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Don’t hesitate to look for alternatives that will enable you to raise the kind of donations you need to do the job right. You can get ready to celebrate your new direction. Too much talk might lead to hassles.

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Invite to walk to the Entries invited for new window of astronomy VARIOUS CATEGORIES

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EEN walkers who live in the Granadilla de Abona municipality are being invited to enjoy a window into the history of astronomy.

The Department of Youth and Citizenship has organised a route linking Guajara with Las Vegas on September 11th.

Granadilla has a wealth of valuable heritage, ethnographic and natural resources which have become a benchmark for active tourism.

The summit of Guajara is

where the the first mountain observatory in the world was located in the mid-nineteenth century.

The walk lasts approximately eight hours and will have its starting point the Parador Nacional del Teide, then climbing the Degollada de Guajara and down the

Granadilla Starlight trail.

Granadilla de Abona is a certified Starlight destination, having been the first municipality in the world to gain the accolade in 2013.

The event falls within the programme Senderos de Granadilla, which also offers a circular walk to Las Vegas on September 24th. This will run along eight kilometres Horno de Las Toscas, Canal de Madera, el Molino and Barranco Seco.

The walks are of medium to high level difficulty and enrollment can be made at the offices of the SAC and are aimed at people registered in the municipality. Places are limited and the price is 8 euros, which includes a guide, insurance and transportation.

The departure is at 7am and the end time around 6pm.

More information on 010 or 922759959. Also in www.granadilladeabona.org

race in La Laguna

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LANNING for the first edition of the San Miguel Archangel Mile is now underway.

The test on Saturday, September 24th leaves from the Plaza del Adelantado and runs through the urban area of Calle Nava and Grimón.

Registrations can be made until September 22nd on the website of www.oadlaguna.com.

The San Miguel Archangel Mile is organised by the Independent Sports Body and the local police and adds to the busy schedule of tests carried out in the municipality of Aguere.

In the race, which will start from 4.30pm, participants, both male and female in the various categories (1.6 kilometres) on the street circuit of calle Nava and Grimón.

There will be categories too for Pitufos/as (200 metres), Benjamín (400 metres), Alevín (800 metres) and Infantil (1,2 kilómetres).

The race has a maximum quota of 400 runners and has a registration fee of four euros. They will start five minutes apart.

Delivery of chips, dorsal and commemorative T-shirts of this debut test will be held the same day of the race in the Plaza del Adelantado, between 10:30 and 13:00, and 14: 00 to 15:30 hours.

Hotel plans second Los Realejos honours two outstanding athletes charity run SPECIAL RECEPTIONS

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national delegation in the Brazilian capital.

She was also thanked for her achievements “season after season”, bringing the name of Los Realejos to the ver y top of international sport.

Also honoured was María Rodríguez, Spanish champion in life-saving.

She too was welcomed by Manuel Dominguez, and Benito Dévora.

One of the most outstanding athletes of the municipality, she achieved five single medals and two team medals in the last championships in Spain Lifesaving held in Castellon. All this despite her young age of 12.

María also took part in the Championship of Spain Youngsters Swimming Championship in Madrid with outstanding participation and results at distances of 100, 200 and 400 freestyle.

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OS Realejos has once again been honouring its outstanding athletes.

Elizabeth Chávez, who comes from La Cruz Santa, was a member of the Spanish handball team which took part in the recent Olympic Games in Rio 2016.

She was received by the Mayor, Manuel Dominguez, and the Councillor for Sports, Benito Dévora, who conveyed congratulations for her outstanding contribution to the

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HE Hotel Sheraton La Caleta is inviting charity supporters to take part in its second run in aid of UNICEF.

The solidarity event is on October 2nd and will feature two distances, one over five kilometres, the other over ten.

The starting time is 10am.

The hotel hopes local people and visitors alike will put the

date in their diaries and consider taking part to show their support for a worthy cause.

Further details will follow but keep up tp date via Facebook and Twitter.

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Arona acts to encourage amateur football in the municipality FEE DECISION

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RONA council is encourging the return of amateur football in the municipality by trying to reduce club costs.

More than 40 clubs are to receive either free or idiscounted fees to use soccer pitches for their matches.

Arona’s sports department has been very concerned about the absence of amateur football over the last six years because of financial restraints.

The elimination or reduction of the pitch fee (30 to 20 euros per game) will directly affect more than 40 clubs in Arona participating in competitions for seven to 11 year olds.

These fees used to be deducted from the financial contribution from the council.

Area councillor, Juan Sebastián Roque said: “We have been working for months to recover the presence of amateur football in Arona, which had disappeared more than six years ago by the high costs of infrastructure use.

We are one of the municipalities with more teams in these competitions so we are trying to address this as soon as possible, always with the utmost compliance with the law.”

“We have analysed the method for enhancing amateur football in the municipality, as part of our strategy to promote sport for healthy lifestyles and social integration. The amateur teams also had to have our support and this was one of their main demands.”

Arona thus joins the other three municipalities on the island that already offer a zero fee for the use of their sports facilities for the discipline, except that these towns have fewer clubs and Arona has 41.

Santa Cruz opens registration for two October races

SWIM RULED OUT AT BESTIALÓN OF TEJINA

TEAM CHALLENGES

Santa Cruz is to house two racing competitions for teams on October 1st

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EGISTRATION for the fourth edition of Crossfast and the first Warriors Team Race will be open until September 15th.

The events are being organised by the city council in association with the Militar y Command of the Canary Islands and the Port

Authority.

The IV Crossfast will leave for the first time from its original site in the Hoya Fria quarters to settle in the

esplanade of the dock Los Llanos, specifically in the space where the traditional Christmas concert organised by the Port Authority is usually held.

This test, the Xtreme type, will be developed by the system of qualifying and will

start at 9:00 am.

Participants must overcome in the shortest possible time a circuit formed by obstacles of all kinds like an American track. Teams must be composed of three persons and one of them at least should be a woman.

The Warriors Team Race, meanwhile, will be a threemember team race over a distance of five kilometres through different streets of the city centre whilst overcoming obstacles at the same time.

The output is scheduled for 16:00.

The registration period for both tests will be open until September 16 on the web www.crossfastcivicomilitar.com.

The only requirement is team members must be over 18 years of age and, in the case of Crossfast, at least one of its components is a woman.

Prices are 10 euros for Crossfast and 4 euros in the case of the Warriors Team Race.

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ARLOS Alberto Delgado and Anabel de la Rosa were the winners of the thirteenth edition of Bestialón of Tejina.

The event was held on Saturday, August 27th on the streets of the coastal town of La Laguna under the organisation of the San Bartolomé fiesta committee.

Travertoro Gladys Socas and Las Alongadas were the winners of the team mode.

Unfortunately, due to the conditions of the sea, the swimming test of this Bestialón of Tejina, which had the collaboration of the Autonomous Agency for Sports (OAD) the City of La Laguna, could not take place.

The swimming section was replaced by a beach run over a distance of 800 metres.

In the men’s overall section, Carlos Alberto Delgado (55:11)

reached the finish line ahead of Adrian Perdomo (56:34) and Yeray Alvarado (58:13), second and third place, respectively. Meanwhile, for the women, the winner Rosa Anabel (1:14:06) was joined on the podium by Leonor González (1:22:17) and Luz Maria (1:22:30) .

For the men’s teams, the winners were Gladys Travertoro Socas (49:56), followed by the Ascent Trail Mapfre (50: 53) and Vallivana CD (51:42).

In the women’s categor y, victory went to Las Alongadas (1:22:33), ahead of Sin Nombre (1:22:43) and The Bartolinas (1:29:15).

The Bestialón of Tejina was attended by 110 athletes and 46 teams.

Expert talks of mini-bubble as buying is cheaper than renting

What Spaniards want from a holiday home in Spain A recent Facebook survey by Anida, the real estate arm of Spanish banking behemoth BBVA, shines light on the preferences of Spanish demand for holiday homes.

Spaniards are better off buying a home than renting given current house prices and mortgage rates, claims Eduardo Molet, a real estate expert often quoted in the Spanish press.

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OLET, who founded the Network of Property Experts (Red de Expertos Inmobiliarios), and advises Spanish banks and foreign funds investing in Spain, says that buying is now “more attractive than renting, even with a fixed rate mortgage,” given that the typical monthly Spanish mortgage repayment on a loan of 100,000 euros is now around 350 to 400 euro per month.

Someone renting a typical property of similar characteristics would be paying around 500 euros per month in rent, he claims.

THESE ARE THE PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: 66% of respondents said they want to buy a flat as their second home, compared to 32% who are after a detached property.

A big majority had a budget of up to 100,0000 euros, whilst only 1% had a budget of 200,000 euros or more.

48% want a home with 2 bedrooms, and 33% want 3 bedrooms.

76% want a property near the beach, 15% prefer a quiet location away from the beach, 8% want to be far away from tourists, and 7% want to be close to green areas and leisure facilities (presumably including golf courses).

56% are after a second home for short breaks and holidays, 35% are looking to relocate to the coast, and 10% are investors looking for holiday rentals.

Andalusia was the top destination with 40% of respondents putting it first, followed by the Valencian Community (20%), Catalonia (12%), Galicia (6%), and the Balearics and Canaries (5% each).

Based on their findings from this survey Anida conclude that holiday-homes on the coast make an attractive investment for Spanish buyers today. “The increasing popularity of coastal destinations coupled with latent demand for both rental and purchase of homes on the coast, ensures its profitability over time,” say Anida, who probably have a lot of property they need to sell on the coast.

MINI-BUBBLE IN THE MAKING? Given the current low level of house prices and mortgage interest rates in Spain, Molet forecasts that prices will rise faster in some hot segments like city centre and popular coastal areas. “In no case will it reach the level of the boom years,” he says, quoted in the Spanish press, “but the possibility exists that in the big cities and coastal areas prices will rise at a faster rate than other parts of Spain.

We are already seeing this in Barcelona and Madrid.”

As a result, he forecasts there could be a “mini real estate bubble” in the coming months in some parts of Spain, as low prices and cheap mortgage loans join forces with rising demand to drive up prices.

Written by Mark Stücklin Mark Stücklin is a Barcelona-based property market analyst and consultant, and author of the 'Spanish Property Doctor' column in the Sunday Times (2005 - 2008). He can be reached by email on ms@spanishpropertyinsight.com.

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60173682. Calle La Cabezada, Valle San Lorenzo: Ground floor apartment that has a terrace and is sold with parking space and store room in the basement, 61 m2. 61.000 Euros 73237750. C/ El Llano, Cabo Blanco: 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment situated in a quiet residential area.

69.100 Euros 60223585. C/ Bambu: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment with parking space. The building has lifts. 70.400 Euros 67688. Granadilla. C/ Canarias: Duplex apt with 3 bedrooms & 3 bathrooms, fitted kitchen and also sold with garage parking space. Reduced price: 75.500 Euros

Los Atamantes, Torviscas

La Florida Very nice 5 bed villa in a cul-de-sac street surrounded by a beautiful garden in a very quiet area. 367 m2 build. Plot 814 m2.

Ref: D1600

890.000 Euros

Popular complex situated just across the road from the very attractive Torviscas beach. For sale is a well-maintained 2 bed apartment.

Ref: C1727

235.000 Euros

San Isidro Lovely 3 bed property with lots of spacious rooms and good views

Ref: D1593

60048007. C/ de Timanfaya, Guia de Isora: Flat distributed in a kitchen, lounge-diner, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom. 85.000 Euros 73904664. Calle Herrador, Puerto Santiago: 55,88 m2 apt in a central location close to all amenities. Sold with garage parking space & store room 86.000 Euros 60165234. C/ La Era, Guia de Isora, 3 bed, 2 bath, terrace, lounge-diner, kitchen. Parking space & store room. 86.000 Euros

131.250 Euros

ESTATE AGENTS Calle Flor de Pascua 33 , Los Gigantes I Tel.: 922 862 901 I www.delmargigantes.net

California - Near Los Gigantes Fully furnished 2 large bed 2 bath apartment with beautiful sea views from the terrace. Fully fitted kitchen , community heated pool. £129,000

C/ Agustin Herrera - Puerto Santiago Modern 1 bed 1 bath furnished apartment ,American fitted kitchen, utility patio.

Very central close to restaurants and shops.

69.000€

C/Mendez - Alcalá Furnished 1 bed 1 bath apartment with great views to Teide. Air con in lounge, utility patio, balcony. Restaurants, shops and supermarkets 2 minutes walk.

Casa Langheim - Playa de la Arena

79.500€

Very spacious 2 bed 2 bath house . Fully furnished, separated kitchen, garden and terraces, double garage, basement / utility area. Community pool with great views.

420.000€

Jacaranda - Los Gigantes

Club II - Los Gigantes

Bamboo Court - Los Gigantes

Av. Jose Gonzalez Fortes - Los Gigantes

Beautifully presented 1 bed 1 bath apartment with magnificent views of the cliffs & La Gomera. Fully furnished , new fitted kitchen. Large terrace and heated community pool. £125,000

Attractive 2 bed 2 bath apartment with large terrace. Fully fitted kitchen, lounge- dinning room. Sea, cliffs and marina views,community pool,lift and parking area.

209.000€

Canarian style 2bed 1.5 bath apartment in the village center. Fully furnished, utility room, balcony with views to the square, community court garden.

87.000€

Very spacious apartment with 3 double bed 2 bath 1 en-suite, fitted kitchen, fully furnished. Large terrace with wonderful sea views and garage. £179,000

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Dear vendor Due to the success of our recent participation at A Place in the Sun Live 2016 shows in Manchester & London we are delighted to inform you that we will also be attending their upcoming show in Birmingham from 23rd to 25th September, stand B54.

A Place in the Sun Live is the official exhibition of the hit overseas property TV show and, as the biggest overseas property show in Europe, it is the perfect place for many clients looking to find their dream home in the sun.

We want to make sure that we promote your property worldwide and to ensure maximum exposure for our selling clients and we are confident that this show will be even more successful than the previous ones.

Ref 6164

674,000€

Beautiful house built in 2004 in the quiet urbanization of Jardin del Sol situated close to the sea and five minutes’ drive from the motorway access. There is a garage with storage, bathroom and a laundry room whilst on the main dwelling floor there is a cosy living room with fireplace, large bright kitchen overlooking the sea, bedrooms with large wardrobes, 2 bathrooms, WC and laundry room. Upstairs there is a further bedroom with sea views, WC, fireplace, balcony and wooden ceiling. The house has been completed using high quality materials; wooden interior staircase, parquet flooring, stoneware, solar energy, aluminium window frames with double glazing.

There is a large garden with heated swimming pool and a barbecue area. Excellent weather, proximity to schools, pharmacies, supermarkets, shopping centres, tennis club, golf and horse-riding and the north Los Rodeos airport make this an excellent family home well worth viewing.

www.clearbluetenerife.com info@clearbluetenerife.com

C.C.Fañabé Plaza 129, Fañabé, Costa Adeje Phone (0034) 922 717 779

This is just one of the many ways that Clear Blue Skies Group SL are working hard to promote your property and this is sure to be another great showcase for Tenerife, for Clear Blue Skies and for your property.

If you can make it to the show we would love to see you there on September 23rd, 24th or 25th between 10:00am and 5:00pm.

Free tickets are available for our clients.

Clear Blue Skies Group S.L. @clearblueteam

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Icod de los Vinos

La Guancha

Fantastic house , 130 sqm, large salon, 3 bedrooms, 2, bathrooms, one of them ensuite, two large terraces, very nice garden with 160 sqm for vegetables or trees and wine, released for construction.

Wonderful Finca, 10.000 sqm, great view, completey renovated in 2013 every room designed nicely, 2 bedrooms, 2 unbeatable bathrooms, extra studio, living space 140 sqm

185.000 €

385.000 €

La Orotava

La Orotava / Las Candias

Beautiful house with atlantic view, quiet location, 84 sqm, 2 bedrooms, open kitchen, completely renovated, garden, pool, garage, plot 268 sqm.

Big family house, 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 guest toilet, approx. 218 sqm, 3 seperated units a lot of potential for business use, beautiful garden, view to atlantic, various terraces, plot 655 sqm + 350 sqm for use.

265.000 €

299.000 €

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Price: 442.000 €

San Marcos - Icod de los Vinos

Los Realejos Romantica II

Los Realejos - Romantica II

Very nice house, 100 sqm, with large terrace , roof terrace, atlantic view, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom , 1 guest toilet, separated kitchen, dining area, large living room, very beautiful furnished

Fantastic bungalow in quiet location, 135 sqm, two bedrooms, living room with dining area, kitchen, very nice garden with extra studio, terrace and roof garden and second terrace in garden, plot 460 sqm, garage.

149.000 €

280.000 €

Outstanding finca with 8.000 sqm. in fantastic quiet location, 8 rooms, 240 sqm, main house with two floors and seperate living areas, diverse terraces, fantastic views

Contact in Tenerife:

Joachim Wierzchacz

Office in Tenerife: Avda. de la Familia Betancourt y Molina, 35 Tel.: (0034) 922 10 10 12 E-mail: j.wier@jw-i.es Homepage: www.jw-i.de

Head Office Germany (Hamburg) : Tel.: 00 49 40 53 88 88 88

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Brand new development in Los Gigantes. 18 luxury apartments with touristic licence, panoramic views, communal swimming pool and properties with private swimming pool, garage and store room

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