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Friday 7th October 2016

RED FLAG DEATH Grieving Hubby Slams Lifeguards

BY ALEX TRELINSKI

Basingstoke coroner has recorded a verdict of accidental death in the case of a British mother who drowned while swimming at an Orihuela Costa beach in June, when red flags were flying, and she shouldn’t have been in the water. Julie Dudhill, 57, a project manager from Fleet, Hampshire, was swept out to sea after drifting away just yards from her husband, Andy, in the water on Monday June 27th. They had travelled up the coast from where they were staying at San Pedro del Pinatar. Her husband claimed in his evidence that the lifeguards didn’t dash in to save her because she wasn’t waving enough. The Courier reported earlier this year that red flags had been fly-

ing in the area because of the strong currents, and the couple had been hailed before by lifeguards to get out of the water. Mrs Dudhill’s body was brought ashore to La Glea beach, Campoamor, where she was pronounced dead at the scene. Orihuela council at the time also reiterated the need for bathers to observe the rules concerning red flags. Mr Dudhill, 51, told the inquest he dashed out of the sea to get help from lifeguards only for them to allegedly dismiss claims that she was struggling in the water. "We are keen beachgoers and surfers, and have been for 18 years or so. It's always been a choppy beach with a few waves but nothing that we felt was too

dangerous. About 4pm or 4.30pm we went down for one more swim, we usually go where people are swimming and after about 20 minutes we decided to get out. "I turned around and literally she was just behind me as we were getting out but in that short space of time afterwards she had difficulties getting back to the shore line and she said to me she was having difficulties. She was calling out and luckily in front of me were two lifeguards and I was nearly out so I quickly went up to them and told them she was getting into difficulty.” "They asked if she was a good swimmer and I told them 'yes she's a good swimmer but would not be calling out if she didn't need help. They didn't react and

stayed on the shore line, they suggested to me that if she was having difficulties she would be waving her arms about more. By that time, which felt like five minutes later, two more lifeguards turned up and she was waving at them but they were under the impression she was okay.” "They seemed to think she was not in danger despite what I was saying to them. She was calling out to them, I can't understand why they didn't react faster. I could see the lifeguards were not doing anything so I went in but one of them called me back.” "Then one of the lifeguards took a leisurely swim out to her. The next thing I know the lifeguard is saying she needs oxygen. By the time they brought her back I just knew it was too late.” "She was brought back to the shore line, they gave her CPR and an ambulance was called but it seemed to take an age to turn up and they worked on her for about half an a hour or 45 minutes - by then it was already over." He added: "It's dreadful from the lifeguards, especially when it's on a crowded beach. "I can't understand why it happened with four lifeguards there. It's bizarre as she's a strong swimmer and medically fit, but it shouldn't have happened."

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A 61-year-old paraglider died after falling some 50 metres onto La Ermita beach in Mazarrón on Sunday. The man from Fuente Álamo was spotted on Sunday morning plum-

meting down to the beach due to a failed motor in his paragliding apparatus. Emergency services tried to revive him, but he’s believed to have died at the moment of impact.

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An Irish fugitive wanted on kidnapping and robbery charges dating back over six years, has been arrested by the National Police at Alicante-Elche airport. 34-year-old Jeffrey Melvin was detained on a European Arrest Warrant after the Dubliner skipped bail in 2012. He had been described in court as a jack-of-all trades and a ‘Del Boy’ figure. He was accused of rob-

bing the cash from Brinks Allied employee Reginald Shannon and also falsely imprisoning him, Angela Shannon and a child in Dublin, A National Police spokesperson said: - “He was living in Alicante Province and adopted high levels of security to avoid being discovered.” Reports last year said that the Irish police had been tipped off that Melvin was based in Spain and could be using a fake passport to travel between the Costa Blanca and Ireland. It was also reported he had been travelling to Australia. Reginald Shannon’s elderly mother and an eight-year-old child believed to be his niece were held on January 2010 while the Brinks Allied employee was sent to intercept a cash-in-transit van making a delivery

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at the Bank of Ireland on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The female pair were later released unharmed. Melvin was previously described in court as a jack-of-all trades and a ‘Del Boy’ figure. The National Police spokesperson said: “The detainee is facing two possible life sentences if convicted of the crimes of robbery and illegal detention and up to 62 years if convicted of the crimes of illegal possession of firearms and membership of a criminal gang. A search was launched for him in Alicante Province and he was arrested outside Alicante-Elche airport while he was waiting in his car for another person.” It is not known when Melvin was arrested or where he was living in the area.

13 DYA lifeguards who patrolled Elche's beaches during the summer, have complained to the council about their working conditions and the quality of service they provided to beachgoers. They claim they were

under-staffed when the season began in June, and that their patrol huts had no water and electricity, and that they didn't have enough jet skis to cover the beaches in areas like La Marina and Arenales.

Pool Closure Torrevieja’s 15-year-old indoor heated swimming pool has been closed down for essential safety work. Sports councillor, Pablo Samper, said that key maintenance work had not been done over a peri-

od of years, and that air conditioning piping and electricity panels were amongst the list of the things to be repaired. “We have a duty to protect all the users of the pool by law” said Samper.

Keep It Clean Torre Pacheco council has joined big authorities like Barcelona and Ciudad Real in banning sexist posters of women being plastered across the municipality. The unani-

mous vote by councillors sees a change in the local law, which now also stops xenophobic, racist, homophobic, and discriminatory advertising material from being displayed.

The owners of a two-yearold Yorkshire Terrier say that their pet died after eating black pudding deliberately

laced with poison and have reported the incident to the Guardia Civil. The incident happened last week when

the Yorkie went for a walk in Heredades near Almoradi, and after returning home, the animal became ill and was rushed to the vets at Guardamar, but sadly died. The unnamed owners retraced the route they took on the fateful walk and came across the packaging that had the black pudding in it, with a dead hedgehog close by. A report has been filed to the Guardia in the hope that they can prevent further poisonings happening in the area.

Centre Break Out A total of 67 migrants broke out of a detention centre for foreigners outside Murcia City on Wednesday night, injuring five police officers. A detainee at the facility pretended to be sick and called for help, with

medical staff and police officers then attacked by a number of the inmates who were wielding knives, fire extinguishers and hoses. The police have caught 41 of the runaways, as of

Thursday morning, with Guardia Civil and police checkpoints being set up on major routes across the Murcia and surrounding regions in order to apprehend those who remained at large.

Quicker Tickets Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) machines are to be used by Orihuela's local police officers.

The council have approved paying three thousand euros out of their budget to get five PDA units

which they say will speed up the issuing of traffic tickets and other police documentation.

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Time To Pay Spain’s Foreign Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, says that his government wants their UK counterparts to pay for the healthcare costs of British expats living in Spain, after the country leaves the European Union. Speaking at a Brexit forum in Alicante City, García-Margallo said that an agreement would have to be reached where “residents can access Spanish healthcare services but paid for by the United Kingdom”. The minister though made no comment on healthcare provision and payments for the 103 thousand Spaniards that are registered as living in the UK. Alicante Provincial Council president, César Sánchez, said that 86

thousand British citizens live in the region and in some municipalities make up nearly half of the local population, underlining the problem that will have to be addressed by the UK and Spain. Over 300 thousand UK nationals were living in

Spain as of 2015, according to official padron figures, whilst over a million British expatriates live in other EU member states with healthcare set to form a major part of the Brexit negotiations which will start sometime early next year.

Just A Suggestion

A leading expert has called on vehicle usage to be curbed on the Rojales Carlos III stone bridge. Valencia culture ministry inspector Santiago Varela visited the site last week, and said the bridge had no structural concerns, but did suggest that vehicles using it should be restricted by introducing one-way access. Rojales council wants the

bridge and the associated waterwheel, which was built between the 16th and 18th centuries, to be classified as a site of cultural interest. The authority though is also keen to get to the bottom of what is causing some dampness on the west side of the bridge and carried out work to see if some modern water pipes are behind the problem.

Tanked Out

Cap In Hand The Spanish government says it will raise eight billion euros within the next three months by ordering companies to pay more of their tax

bill upfront. The acting Partido Popular administration had said before that they would raise six billion euros from the tax changes, but

have now raised the figure. The motivation behind the move to stop getting a hefty fine from the European Union for missing target figures.

Grandma’s Big Win An Orihuela grandmother has won a custody battle over her four-year-old granddaughter, who was left orphaned after her father murdered her mother two years ago. Maruja Cuenca, 63, had been caring for Mari Carmen since the tot's mother, Maruja's daughter, was killed by her violent husband, who is now in jail – but the social services placed her in foster care in August. Protestors who took to the streets in support of Maruja’s bid, which ended in an Alicante judge slamming Orihuela authorities for the way they have handled the case. Maruja has spent the last few months trying to gather as much evidence as possible to show how well she cares for her granddaughter and collecting character references, but was fighting a losing battle against the authori-

Heavy storms showed up the inadequacy of the newlyinstalled stormwater tank in the Lo Pagán area of San Pedro del Pinatar according to the Pacto por el Mar Menor environmental group. The improvements were launched amidst great publicity by the council in February, but the Pacto group say that the tor-

rential rain meant the facility could not cope as flooding still occurred leading to the Mar Menor being polluted. The group also criticised the amount of rubbish that ended up on Villananitos beach, which suggested that the area's drainage and guttering systems had not done their job.

Home Alone ties in Orihuela, until a higher court in Alicante agreed to let Mari go home with Maruja. The judge considered it 'proven' that the little girl was 'suffering emotionally' through being separated from her grandmother, and that the child 'did not suffer any psychological damage' whilst living with her late mother's mother. This lack of risk to her wellbeing meant her being taken away and placed in fos-

ter care 'in such a drastic manner' was 'not necessary', according to the judge's ruling, with prosecutors strongly criticising the behaviour of Orihuela social services, who refused to comment on the verdict. Maruja and her granddaughter, Mari, were reunited last Friday, when after school, Mari was taken straight back to her grandmother's home in Orihuela.

192 thousand people in Alicante Province now live on their own, according to official figures. Sole inhabitants now account for ten percent

of the local population, with half of those in figures being aged over 65. Experts predict a rise to 232 thousand down to longer life expectancy.

Short Fuses Medical staff were attacked 50 times in the Valencia region last year, up on the previous a total of 32 assaults logged in 2014. A total of 316 complaints were registered in Spain last

year, but the Valencia College of Physicians suspects that not all attacks are not being reported, and urged all health workers to report any violence against them.

Florida residents were warned to prepare for a "direct hit", as Hurricane Matthew pounded the Bahamas after devastating parts of Haiti. Damage could be "catastrophic", the state governor said, with evacuation orders being issued along the coast. At least six people have been killed after Typhoon Chaba battered South Korea, authorities said. The southern cities of Busan and Ulsan were worst affected, as well as the resort island of Jeju. Poland's parliament has overwhelmingly rejected a controversial citizens' bill for a near-total ban on abortion. The government said that protests against the bill had given ministers "food for thought". At least 29 people, most of them rebel fighters, were killed in a bombing near Syria's border with Turkey, activists say.

New Blue Route

Friday 7th October 2016

Sanchez Quits

A new flight from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport to Alicante-Elche has been announced this week. The airline Blue Air says it will launch a regular service to AlicanteElche as part of a series of new routes for the company which already flies to Romania from Liverpool.

Spain’s Unwanted Honour Spain is the European Union's most corrupt country according to a report from the European Commission. The Brussels-based body has told the country to get to grips with political corruption, after it led the list of offenders who contribute to a figure of 120 billion euros that the EU says it lost to illegal practices each year. The Commission says that the central government is unable to exert proper control over councils and regional governments over planning matters.

The leader of Spain's opposition PSOE Socialist party, Pedro Sanchez, resigned amidst dramatic scenes last Saturday, in a move that could end months of political deadlock. Mr Sanchez stood down after losing a vote by the party's federal commit-

tee over supporting the formation of a conservativeled governing coalition - a move he had strongly opposed. The lead up to his resignation saw almost half of the party's executive resign. Spain has been in a political limbo for the past nine

months, after the results of a general election in December 2015 left a hung parliament. The majority Partido Popular under acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has sought to form a coalition government but Mr Sanchez repeatedly blocked their attempts. In an attempt to break the stalemate, a second election was held in June but, again, no party won an absolute majority. The PSOE has long been divided between supporters of Mr Sanchez and those who want to end the stalemate by supporting a coalition. Many delegates at Saturday's federal committee meeting at party headquarters in Madrid had turned up hoping to force Mr Sanchez out, and they got their wish.

Any Old Iron?

Three people involved in an Alicante scrap metal dealership have gone on trial, after being accused of receiving stolen goods. The National Police arrested the trio back in 2013, though the actual thieves have not been brought to justice in a case which is part of crackdown on dealers trying to peddle items

that they know have been stolen. Prosecutors have called for 15-month jail sentences on the charge of receiving stolen goods. The items concerned include a hundred manhole covers; 30 metal beer barrels; and 40 butano bottles. Two of the defendants have existing criminal records.

Newborn Horror

Up In Smoke The Guardia Civil has seized the largest amount of contraband tobacco ever in Spain. Officers swooped on 100 tonnes of tobacco worth 16 million euros and arrested 13 people suspected of selling it over the internet. The tobacco was found in warehouses in Valencia and in Badajoz in the west of the country, with the Guardia detaining 13 Spanish and

Polish nationals suspected of selling the tobacco online, disregarding hygiene standards. "They used, without any sanitary controls, chemical products to improve the taste and smell of the tobacco," a Guardia spokesman said. They opened their investigation in January after they discovered a website offering tobacco for sale.

Getting There

Improved street lighting will be installed in the Cala Dorada section of Torrevieja's Rocio del Mar at a cost of just over 200 thousand euros, well down on the original 359 thousand - euro tender. Lumen Eléctricas will carry out the work, which was delayed after Torrevieja council missed out on funding from the Alicante Provincial Council, because they didn’t advertise the tender in time. Councillor Fanny Serrano said that the project was still subject to getting financial help from the Provincial Council and Lumen Eléctricas providing the appropriate documentation.

A woman was arrested by the Guardia Civil on Wednesday after the body of a newborn baby boy was found in a rubbish container in Pilar de la Horadada on Tuesday

night. The three kilo baby, who was covered in a blanket and said to be just a few hours old, was found by a homeless man who was rummaging through the trash.

New Feature

A major black spot in the Vega Baja is set for a makeover, with the Public Works Ministry giving the goahead for a new roundabout in

the Redován area. The new feature will be built on the N340 at the current junction leading to the San Carlos industrial estate.

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Mass Arrivals

A record-breaking 10.1 million foreign tourists visited Spain in August, according to official figures from the National Statistics Institute. That's a rise of five point eight percent compared to August 2015, and was a monthly record for arrivals as the influx of visitors bolsters the Spanish economy. Visitors to the Valencia region in August stood at 1.16 million up by over 10 percent on last year. Spain's thriving tourism industry has fuelled a jobs surge over the summer months, extending an economic recovery throughout

a period of political uncertainty triggered by two inconclusive national elections. In the first eight months of 2016, the number of tourists rose more than 10 percent from the same period in 2015 to 52.5 million, the INE said, putting Spain on track to easily beat last year's record 68.1 million arrivals for the full 12 months. Security fears in competing destinations across the Mediterranean and in the Middle East have helped lure more tourists than ever to Spain's shores. Britons remained the most numerous visitors to Spain and

arrivals from the United Kingdom were up almost four percent year-on-year in August. 12.4 million Britons visited Spain in the first eight months of the year, more than 13 percent on the same period in 2015. French visitor numbers rose by nine point six percent to eight point three million, followed by German tourists standing on seven point six million. The Valencia region, including the Costa Blanca, welcomed just over five and a half million foreign tourists over the first eight months of 2016, which is a big 16 percent rise on the figures for the same period last year. British visitors to the area have risen by 14.6 percent but French arrivals have gone up by a massive 56 percent. The Murcia region has seen British arrivals rise by over 10 percent between January and August, compared to 2015, accounting for 45 percent of all of foreign tourists, with French arrivals nearly tripling.

Deposit Fraudster A 49-year-old Belgian woman, who allegedly got 60 thousand euros of deposit money for non-existent flats on the Costa Blanca, has been arrested by the National Police in Formentera del Segura. Fellow Belgians were marked out for the scam as they paid deposits of between 12,500 and 15,500 euros for apartments in Calpe, which were marketed by her as bank repossessions, but she merely pocketed the money. The woman is said to have

been running a real - estate company and holiday - letting agency out of Formentera, and five people have been

scammed since 2012, with most of the fraudulent transactions being carried out in Belgium.

A Mere Snip

Amancio Ortega, Europe's richest man and founder of global fashion group and Zara owner Inditex, has bought one of Madrid's most famous skyscrapers for 490 million euros through his property investment arm. The purchase marks another step in the famously-

reclusive billionaire's strategy to build a property empire through Pontegadea Inmobiliaria, one of the biggest property companies in Spain, and his holding company Pontegadea Inversiones. Pontegadea Inmobiliaria bought the tower from Abu

Dhabi tycoon Khadem alQubaisi, whose fund had exercised a last-minute purchase option from Spanish lender Bankia, its previous owner. Pontegadea declined to officially comment on the reported purchase of the tower - known as "Cepsa Tower" after the oil refiner Cepsa that leases it - which along with three others dominates the skyline of MadridÂ´s northern district. Ortega has bought properties in London's Mayfair and Oxford Street, along with other properties in prime locations in New York, Madrid and Seoul. He rents out much of the space to Inditex stores like Zara, but also to rivals such as H&M.

Alicanteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Unholy Robbers A 48-year - old man has been arrested in Alicante Province for being part of a four-strong gang which stole valuable church artefacts. The other arrests by

the Guardia Civil came in Zaragoza. 200 pieces, including an 18th century statue which had been taken from a church in the Monte Rioja area last year,

were recovered in two house searches. A number of the artefacts had been altered by the gang in order to disguise where they had been stolen from.

Greener Rafal 100 thousand euros is to be spent on putting in energy efficient street lighting around Rafal, thanks to a deal struck between the local authority and the Alicante Provincial Council. Work on putting in new lamps that will save on electricity costs will begin soon.

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Drier Prospect

Work has finished on a new drainage system to stop storm flooding on Catral’s San Juan industrial estate. “The 220 thousand euro project will reduce any problems to businesses on the estate

who have suffered from flooding”, said Catral mayor, Pedro Zaplana. Another improvement is scheduled soon with a new road surface for the adjoining Puente del Rollo.

Group’s Enough Is Enough Independence Move A San Miguel de Salinas residents group has attacked the local council for not doing enough to stop what it claims have been nine cases in the last 16 months of the law being broken over environmental protection in the municipality. The San Miguel Arcángel Neighbourhood Association say that one of the worst instances has been in an area designated as a bird protection zone in the Sierra de Escalona and Dehesa de Campoamor, which is legally protected. They’ve also criticised the amount of unauthorised rubbish dumping in the municipality.

Catalunya's pro-independence regional government won a confidence vote last week, which it hopes will boost support for its efforts to split from Spain, and will hold a referendum next year. The motion to support the separatist parties in power in the region was won by 72 votes against 63, The region’s president, Carles Puigdemont, has said that winning the vote would

accelerate the government’s attempts to build an independent state. He told parliament that he would try to negotiate the region’s independence vote with Spain, but that the referendum would take place next September with or without the central government’s consent. A poll published in July showed that more than 47 percent of Catalans support a split from Spain.

Refund Relief

Google has 100 thousand up by a Torrevieja boy

written off a euro bill run 12-year-old who mistak-

enly believed he was earning money through an advertising account he opened with the internet

giant to promote videos of his municipal band. The youngster ranup ran up the Google AdWords bill over two months, with his mother, Inma Quesada (picture from Informacion), saying that her son, Jose Javier, wanted to become a "rich Youtuber" but did not realise what he was doing. The story came to light when the bank told his parents that Google was looking to charge the amount to the boy's account. Google confirmed on Wednesday that it studied the case and had cancelled the bill.

Butane Blast 90 people were injured, five seriously, following a gas explosion in a cafeteria in the town of Velez-Malaga, on the Costa del Sol on Saturday night. The five people who were seriously injured were taken to hospital in Velez-Malaga and the city of Malaga. Meanwhile 57 people were taken to the hospital Comarcal de la Axarquia and the remainder, most of whom were suffering from cuts and bruises, received treatment in local health centres. The explosion, which happened at 7.00 pm, was apparently caused by a leak from a butane gas bottle in the kitchen of the cafeteria in the centre of Velez-

Malaga, which was celebrating its local Fiesta de San Miguel celebration at the time. One of the cooks was able to give a warning that gas was leaking, which probably meant there were less serious injuries than would otherwise have been the case, nevertheless there was a large amount of material damage. Emergency services were

quickly on the scene as were two local police who were at the cafe at the moment of the explosion, with the fire-brigade retiring further gas bottles to ensure there was no second explosion. The local mayor, Antonio Moreno thanked emergency services for their rapid help, along with the "numerous people" who helped the injured.

Tony Mayes - About Life

Friday 7th October 2016

Learning The Value of Money The sky-high cost of housing in Britain is having a profound effect on the ability of 20 and 30-somethings to amass wealth. A study has shown that people in their early 30s are half as wealthy as those now in their 40s were at the same age. Those born in the early 1980s have an average wealth of £27,000 each, against the £53,000 those born in the

1970s had by the same age. Today's 30-something generation has missed out on house price increases and better pensions, according to research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The think tank found that people born in the early 1980s were the first post-war group not to have higher incomes in early adulthood than those born in the preceding decade. This

generation's comparatively lower financial wealth was down to a combination of lower home-ownership rates, less access to final salarytype pension schemes, and stagnant wages, say the IFS. My guess is that it also has a lot to do with today's younger generation having a blasé attitude to saving, preferring to spend money on every indulgence, particularly

drinking and socialising. How many of the younger generation do we hear spending big bucks on holidays, or a fortune on a wedding, and then complain they just could not afford to save enough to get a deposit on a house? By the time I was aged 21, I had saved the 20 percent deposit needed to buy a semi on a new housing estate and we were sur-

Fools In Uniform

Put someone in a uniform and the chances are it will go to their heads - and it certainly did in Maidstone, Kent. The local council there have employed a private company to "police" litter louts and their team of 10 lit-

ter wardens have handed out more than 20,000 tickets since 2011. And it's big money, the tickets producing £170,000 in £80 on-the-spot fines, shared between the council and the private company. But the money-making

machine has been halted ever since a woman complained that she had been given a fine for throwing breadcrumbs into a river to feed ducks. The warden claimed there were no ducks in the river at the time, but

rounded by neighbours moving in who were at least 10 years older. It was achieved by foregoing a car for a moped, package holidays abroad for a few days away in Devon and spending all evening in a coffee bar rather than the pub. In other words, I put owning a roof over my head more important than "having fun". It's a shame that today's 20 and 30-some-

things haven't been taught the value of money and the foolishness of spending whatever comes in as quickly as possible, or worse, getting further and further into debt through loans and credit cards. Perhaps realism will dawn that every month's rent shelled out rather than on a mortgage is dead money and a missed opportunity to save for a better future.

The Right Priority the woman argued there had been just prior to the warden's arrival. But now the council has not only waived the £80 fine, but they have suspended the team of litter wardens so that a full review can be undertaken. The wardens have caught people dropping litter and have even fined people dropping cigarette ends. Maybe there are plenty of places which could benefit from litter wardens giving litter louts on the spot fines - the Costa Blanca and Mar Menor included - the problems arise when power goes to wardens' heads and common sense disappears. And the Maidstone dilemma raises the question why on earth councils have to delegate the work to private companies - losing control and, perhaps even more importantly, losing half of the 'revenue' which, I'm sure could have been put to better use than handing it to a private company?

Here's an interesting thought - the resignation of prime minister David Cameron created far less consternation from the public than a cake show moving TV channels has done. Makes you think where the majority of people's interests lie! And on the subject of public attitudes, how many people were actually surprised at the revelations of financial corruption among those at the top of football? I very much doubt

that it was that difficult for Daily Telegraph reporters to tempt soccer bosses with a sting. The fact is that the more money there is sloshing about the more corruption there is and there is far too much money sloshing around in the world of football. I often think that if all the money, time and effort put in by people on the altar of football was diverted into something more useful to society, the world would be a far better place.

Friday 7th October 2016

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TO BE or NOT TO BE? Resident or Domicile? That is the Question

By Richard Samuels, Blacktower Financial Management (Int) Ltd. tax in both the UK and Spain. However, to avoid this problem the UK has negotiated double tax treaties with over 100 countries including Spain. Spanish residents can therefore receive UK tax relief on most types of income. Basically, if you are a Spanish resident, you will need to pay income tax on all of your income, no matter where in the world you earn it. However, a non-resident of Spain is only required to pay tax in Spain on any Spanish income. Domicile is a legal term which is different from residence or nationality. A person’s domicile is the country which is their natural home, to which they would expect eventually to return if they went abroad. For many retired Brits living here, their country of domicile is particularly important when considering their liabilities under inheritance tax law.

Richard Burton’s “Hamlet”. One of the most frequently-asked questions asked by many of the 300,000 expats living here in Spain is ‘am I resident or not?’ It is a good question, and one worth finding the answer to, as your residential status when living abroad affects the way in which you pay tax and how much you pay. As a rule of thumb, as a Brit living in Spain you will be considered resident if you remain in Spain for 183 days or more in any tax year. (The tax year in Spain runs from 1st January to 31st December.) However, if you leave Spain and retain a home in the UK for at least 91 consecutive days, you may still be deemed to be resident in the UK if you are present in it on at least 30 days during the UK tax year. You do not have to own the property for this rule to count. If you carry out full-time work in the UK for at least 1 year you will also be deemed to be UK resident. From the above you can see it is possible to be liable to pay

Most UK expats consider their domicile to be the country where they were born. In fact, it is usually the country where their father was born. Your domicile can be changed in exceptional circumstances to be the country that you have chosen to make your permanent home, but this involves severing significant ties with your home country. Changing your domicile is not an easy thing, and can prove to be particularly troublesome, especially for UK nationals. One of the most famous examples of someone falling foul of inheritance tax due to domicile status is that of Richard Burton. Although born in the UK, Burton had lived in the US for 27 years and died in Geneva, where he had taken residence for tax purposes. Upon his death, HMRC pursued a claim for inheritance tax. This may seem unreasonable, as he had not lived in the UK for many years and did not pay UK taxes.

had not lived in the UK for decades, did not have a property there and was buried in Switzerland, during his first marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, Burton had bought burial plots in his home town of Pontrhydyfen in Wales. As such, HMRC successfully argued that he was still domiciled in the UK as he had the intention of returning there, consequently reaping £2.4 Million inheritance tax. Although you may not have the same wealth as Richard Burton, it is nonetheless important to understand the implications your residential status has on your inheritance tax liabilities both here in Spain and in your country of domicile, which for most of us is the UK. A review of your financial position would be a sensible option in view of the above or if you would like advice on any of the issues you can contact me on richard.samuels@blacktowerfm.com. I can also help you track lost pensions, including personal pensions or occupational pensions and schemes used to “contract out”. If you have lost touch with a pension scheme since moving to Spain we can contact them on your behalf in order to find out what your pension entitlement may be. For further information Call Richard Samuels, International Financial Adviser, Blacktower Financial Management (Int.) Ltd mob 692 352 156 or email richard.samuels@blacktowerfm.com The above information was correct at the time of preparation and does not constitute investment advice and you should seek advice from a professional adviser before embarking on any financial planning activity.

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Friday 7th October 2016

Pets

Friday 7th October 2016

It’s All Puppy Love

A study published recently in the humananimal interaction journal Anthrozoos suggests that owning a pet could do wonders for your love life. Canadian researchers Anika Cloutie and Johanna Peetz teamed up to look at whether pet owners were romantically better off than non-pet owners and, if so, the reasons why this might be the case. In a series of studies, Cloutie and Peetz interviewed 110 American pet owners about their personal beliefs of how pets influenced their romantic relationships. The sample included couples that were married, engaged and dating, and who had been together for between 4 months and 32 years. The pets they owned were similarly diverse, including dogs, cats, fish and even a chicken. An overwhelming 86.5 per cent of respondents reported that the romantic

effects of pet ownership were predominantly positive, 8 per cent felt no impact, and only 4.5 per cent of respondents believed that their pets had a negative influence on their connection with their romantic partner. “Pets can be a source of disagreement between couples, but for the most part, the judgment was quite positive with just minor issues,” explained Cloutier. Other findings revealed that the overall quality of a relationship was superior in couples who owned pets. Also rated as being better among this group was how responsive owners rated their partners, and how invested they were in their romantic relationship. The studies also suggested that the number of years a person had owned a pet was positively linked with their level of empathy, which in turn was correlated with various measures of relationship success.

My Dog Has Toilet Trouble Going potty on a regular schedule is one indicator of a dog’s good overall health. It is nature's way of eliminating toxicity and waste from the body. If your pup isn't going for a pee and leaving poop deposits with some regularity, it's worth investigating to see if there is a major underlying problem. Spending A Penny No matter what their size, all dogs should need to go pee at least every 8 to 12 hours, according to experts. That equates to at least two to three times per day. Smaller breed dogs with smallersized bladders, younger dogs still learning to control their urinary urges and older dogs experiencing incontinence often relieve themselves many more times per day.

Several factors contribute to how often your dog needs to pee. The frequency might increase based on little things like your pet drinking extra water after a hot day or even after sneak eating some potato crisps. A healthy dog produces 10 to 20 millilitres of urine each day per each pound of body weight. Going Too Often It isn't unusual for large breed dogs and older dogs to have bladder control challenges. This is especially true for dogs that are overweight. In veterinary terms, it is called urinary incontinence. In particular terms, it means the dog has lost the ability to control when it will pee. Dogs with this condition are more prone to urinary tract infections.

When to Visit Your Vet Frequent urination in dogs sometimes signals a health problem. Increases in frequency can indicate a bladder problem, bladder infection, kidney disease, bladder disease, liver disease or diabetes. If you notice your dog asking to go out more, that could be a red flag that something could be up. Pay close attention to the frequency, the colour of the urine, the amount, the smell and whether your dog has discomfort when peeing. Any changes in a dog's frequency, urgency or ability, or discomfort urinating is cause for concern and warrants a trip to your vet. Eat First, Poop Second It is quite normal for a dog to defecate within a short period of time after eating a meal. Going No. 2 should happen at least once each day to keep a dog on a healthy potty schedule. Some dogs will poop more than once per day. This is dependent on the type of food they are served. Foods with a high fibre content pass through the digestive system more quickly, thus resulting in more pit stops. Doggie Constipation

There's nothing sadder to watch then seeing a dog straining to go poop. Constipation is relatively common in dogs with varied symptomatic signs not necessarily immediately revealing that feces has been retained for days. That's why regular monitoring of your dog's bathroom behaviour should be part of daily care. A dog cannot "tell" you that he is straining to go poop. By the time the lack of action becomes visually obvious, the dog is often hunched over in a prolonged and painful posture. Constipation Treatments Speak to your vet before you go down a road of treatment yourself. A simple, isolated episode of constipation can treated under advice with a stool softener. An old remedy for lubricating the colon that is still in use today is mineral oil. Vets usually advise mixing it in with food rather than feeding raw. Try adding fibre to your dog’s food. Fibre is not absorbed by the dog’s digestive tract and continues on to the colon where it adds to the volume of stool. This increased volume transmits strong sensory stimulation to the colon, encouraging it to void.

Pets Corner: Can You Take In A Homeless Dog Or Cat?

BENJI

DUKE

ERNIE

FREYA

ROGAN

Benji is a lovely dog who is a curious mix of German Shepherd and SharPei and seems to get on well with everybody. He is a medium sized dog with a very friendly and social personality, and he really loves being made a fuss of by everyone who meets him. To arrange to meet Benji and to get many more details. Please get in touch with APAH on 630 422 563 or 616 210 850.

Duke is a very gentle, and to start with, shy young man, aged about two years, who was found on a busy Playa Flamenca road. He is a lovely young dog who will be a very close companion.. Duke can be nervous of men but will quickly overcome this with some TLC. He loves other dogs, and has been neutered. Please call the K9 charity on 600 845 420 if you can offer Duke a home.

Ernie is an adorable four month old pup that is looking for a home. He loves to play, have cuddles and has a lovely disposition and is a happy little man. He was rescued along with nine other pups, and he could end up being between eight and 15 kilos when fully grown, but currently weighs in at six kilos. Call on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com

Freya is a beautiful, female pup, who is aged over three months. She is really good with other dogs and was discovered dumped in a village along with her three other siblings. Freya will not be large when fully grown and will probably weigh in at seven kilos. She is very affectionate. For more about Freya, Call on 650 304 746 or e-mail: p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com

Rogan was found outside someone’s house, thirsty and hungry; nobody recognised him and because he was not chipped, there was no way of finding his owner. Rogan is a very happy one- year old who loves lots of cuddles and would make a great companion. He weighs around 13 kilos and is fully vaccinated. Please contact the SAT kennels on 966 710 047 or email info@satanimalrescue.com

TINO Tino is a small 18-month-old Lancashire Heeler breed dog who is now looking for his forever home. Tino has a small but long body and weighs in at nine kilos and is an absolute delight. He is negative for all Mediterranean diseases and gets on really well with other great with other dogs. If you are interested in learning more about Tino, then call 645 469 253. www.petsinspain.com

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Moon Night Members of the Vega Baja Astronomy Group will be keeping their fingers crossed for some nice clear skies next Thursday (October 13th), as they host a special moonwatch. After their recent successful Saturn viewing session, the amateur astronomers will be gathering on Punta Prima's promenade on Thursday from 8.45 pm onwards. The Group meets on the second Wednesday of each month at Casa Tom, Avenida Jaca, San Luis, Torrevieja starting at 2.30 pm.

Paintings Galore Local painters are being asked to get their brushes and easels ready for the annual Quesada Art Competition in aid of the Elche Children's Care Home. The event is being staged at The Club in Quesada on Tuesday October 18th, with a variety of sponsors getting involved in all of the different categories. There are different levels for absolute novices through to professional artists, and to enter a painting, the cost will be just seven euros, whilst you can enter three submissions for just 15 euros, as well as coming along to the venue for a complementary drink. For details of the categories, send an e-mail to sueinthesun@hotmail.co.uk

Weight Off His Mind

Classics teacher Christopher Synnot from Surrey is spending a year in the area, and is losing some weight, and earning sponsorship for the Paul Cunningham Nurses charity. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing a weekly Cambridge Weight Plan class at Reflections Bar, San Luis, Torrevieja, and in going for a loss of 25 kilos, he has so far shed six kilos. Sponsorship forms are available from the bar or by calling 966 790 363.

Friday 7th October 2016

Heroes Helped

Campoverde Theatre Group members recently handed over the fruits of their labours to the Help For Heroes charity recently in the form of a 700 euro cheque raised at last spring's Supper Show. The event also raised funds for the Royal British Legion, as well as for the Heroes group, which was formed nine years ago to help provide better facilities for British servicemen and women who have been wounded or injured in the line of duty.

The group is now staging their latest Supper Show next week, once again at the Phoenix Nights Bar in San Miguel de Salinas, as they pay tribute to recently deceased stars through music and comedy in Gone But Not Forgotten. The show will be staged on four successive nights beginning on Thursday October 13th (7.30 pm start) with tickets costing just 10 euros, which include a one-course meal. More details are available by phoning 629 258 697.

A Fond Farewell The ADAPT Association of San Pedro del Pinatar looks to bring Englishspeaking residents together with the Spanish community through a series of events and initiatives, and one such scheme has met with great success over the last six years. That's involved ADAPT members going to San Pedro and Lo Pagan area schools to help teach English, with a rota of 17 volunteers that has built up since the idea first became a reality. The co-ordinators since 2010 of the School Monitor Project have been Eithne Lawler and Nicky Kehoe (both pictured), but they've had to step down

due to work commitments and moving away. They were presented with bouquets at a recent meeting by ADAPT President, Janet Pierce, who thanked them for their tireless work and who introduced Carol Beech as their successor.

ADAPT meetings take place in the Pensionista Centre, Lo Pagan, starting at 10:30 am on the first Saturday of the month, and visitors are more than welcome. There are more details on their website www.adaptsanpedro.com

Double The Money

Catwalk Delight

Two charity nights last month at Guardamar's Restaurante El Alto La Dolores raised a grand total of nearly seventeen-hundred

euros for the Elche Children's Care Home and The Cats and Dogs Association. The restaurant owners

donated a Mediterranean cruise for the raffle on each night, with Denise Van Der Goten, from Torrevieja, winning the prize at the Elche event and Colleen Bryce from La Marina taking the honours at the Cats and Dogs fundraiser. Colleen is pictured with restaurant owner Berna and Irene McKeown from the Cats and Dogs Association. Another cruise will be raffled on Wednesday October 19th, with the evening offering entertainment from Woody & The Peckers in aid of Torrevieja Stroke Support.

Looking Ahead 780 euros was banked after HELP Murcia Mar Menor staged a fashion show last week at the Las Claras centre in Los Narejos. 10 volunteer models paraded in a variety of outfits ranging from casual daywear to formal evening wear in front of a 90-strong

audience. All of the items were specially donated for the show, including from Solo Boutique in Los Balones. The money raised will go to assist needy people across the Murcia region, with HELP hoping to stage a similar event next spring.

Local

A group of local artists have launched their 2017 calendar with all the proceeds going to the Butterfly Children's Charity, DEBRA. Over two thousand euros was raised for DEBRA from the last calendar which was compiled by the Quesada

Art Group, and they'll be looking to at least match that figure this time round. The calendars, which cost just five euros, can be bought from one of the DEBRA charity shops in La Marina or Pueblo Bravo, Rojales.

Friday 7th October 2016 BY DAVE SILVER

I Was A Big Hit With My Headmaster! I'VE just returned from a procedure at the eye hospital which involved having drops inserted. The doctor said afterwards: 'I'll see you again in six months.' Screwing up my dripping eyes, I said: 'Yes, it will probably be next April before I'm able to focus on you, too.' After waiting for the laugh (which never came) I hurriedly donned my shades and, with woolly hat pulled down low over my tear-stained face, fled the premises. Mrs S commented: 'Why can't you learn to keep your flaming mouth shut!' -- which I thought an odd thing to say at an eye establishment. But I suppose Mrs S had a point. I do tend to blurt out silly responses to stuff said to me. For example, I bought some apples and oranges

recently and the shopkeeper asked me: 'Would you like a bag for those?' I heard myself respond: 'No need for a bag. I'm a juggler.' Later that day, our visiting grandchildren asked: 'Why does Nana cry when she's peeling onions?' Again, I heard myself say: 'Nana weeps because she feels guilty about stealing the onions from the supermarket.' How was I to know that the kids would blab to their friends when they got home and word would soon spread among the adult community that Mrs S was a shoplifter. The point was that I SHOULD have known that every daft thing I say has a consequence. I blame the parents . . . that is MY parents . . . actually my dad. When I was a child he

would tell me the most wonderful adventure stories in which I was the hero. Every time I vanquished the baddies, my character would utter a fabulously funny one-liner or pun -- just like James Bond would do later in his films. Thus, I had a legend to live up to -- my own alter ego as bequeathed to me by my father. But I soon discovered that what I considered to be funny was not necessarily an opinion shared by others. I recall an early episode when my secondary school headmaster called me into his study to discuss my exam results. 'Silver, your marks are a disgrace. What must your people think?' Now, when my headmaster spoke of 'your people,' he actually meant 'your parents.'

He just had this weird Victorian way of expressing himself. But, of course, clever clogs here immediately conjured up all the Cowboys v Red Indians films I'd been taken by my dad to see on numerous Saturday afternoons and was horrified to hear myself respond to the headmaster's question thus: 'My people are hungry. They want to come down from hills. White Eyes speak with forked tongue.' As hackneyed, clichĂŠd and tasteless as my Native American impression was, it was not as painful as the marks I received not in my exams but on a certain part of my anatomy at the hand (cane) of my headmaster. I would rather the school chief had smoked a pipe of peace with me but that was never an option.

'Headmasters couldn't do that these days,' interjects Mrs S who has paused in her housework to read this current Courier column over my shoulder. 'I know what you mean,' I say. 'Smoking of any sort is banned in schools, not just peace pipes.' 'I was referring to corporal punishment,' sighs Mrs S. 'Schoolkids can't be beaten anymore.' 'Which reminds me,' I say. 'You couldn't lend us a fiver, could you? I'm strapped for cash.' Mrs S sweeps from the room and I continue typing my Courier column. 'Had a good day, our David?' my mother asked when I arrived home from school on the day I've just been talking about. 'Just wait until my father gets home,' I grumbled.

Mother sighed. 'What's your dad done now? No, don't tell me. He's got you into trouble again, hasn't he?' 'Sort of,' I said, rubbing my sore posterior. 'It's those stories of his, isn't it?' said Mother. 'He tells you those crazy tales with you as the protagonist and you start mouthing off with the jokes. Really, son, you should leave the comedy stuff to proper comedians like Tony Hancock.' But I'd already dashed over to the book shelf. 'I know what you're doing,' said Mother. 'You want to look in the big, thick dictionary to see what the word protagonist means.' 'No, Mother. I want the big, thick dictionary to push down the back of my school trousers in case the headmaster wants a word with me again.'

Friday 7th October 2016

TRELI ON THE TELLY The Fall’s Low Key Return

WITH ALEX TRELINSKI

It's hard to see where The Fall (BBC 2 Thursday) is going to go in its final series, after the season three opener seemed to be more like a visit to the Holby City operating tables, as serial killer Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) cheated the reaper, despite requiring access to nearly all of the available blood banks in Belfast. There was no tension as we knew he was going to survive, like Jack Bauer always did in 24! Gillian Anderson as DS Stella Gibson is calm and wonderfully understat-

ed as always, but there's got to be a very big twist or two over the six episodes to get the whole thing going out with a bang. I just don't want a low-key quiet ending, and I hope that we are just gently being eased into things, as I honestly expected more on its return. Perhaps Line of Duty earlier this year was just too brilliant, making other dramas, even like The Fall, seem pedestrian. That was quite a moment some six minutes into ITV's new Friday night drama,

The Level, when star name Philip Glenister was bumped off (but cue flashback scenes), as a web of conspiracy was woven in this above-average procedural. It's better than the nonsense that Glenister's brother, Robert, is involved with the previous evening, namely Paranoid, which I gave up on after the first episode. Philip plays the owner of a haulage company that's been feeding information to a copper who has acted upon it, resulting in a brav-

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ery award). But somebody, perhaps within the police, has a gripe over it all and key people are being bumped off along the way, who clearly know something about Glenister's killing. Of course we don’t even know a fraction of what is going on, which is the whole point of this jigsaw puzzle. The Level is a good watch and it certainly isn't hanging around pace wise. It was also a nice surprise to see old Casualty favourites Suzanne Packer (Tess) and Jane Hazelgrove (Dixie) pop up in cameo roles which gave us a very different side to their acting talents, as well as ex-Downton and Corrie star, Rob JamesCollier, playing what appears to be a goodie copper. In other words, he must be the baddie. Mystery solved, then! The biggest new US show of the autumn season (in terms of cash and stars), HBO's Westworld, premiered on Sky Atlantic on Tuesday, and gosh it was impressive to look at. Westworld is very loosely based on that seventies Yul Brynner flick about amusement park robots that go

wrong, but it is all very different. Just rub the movie out of your mind, and start from scratch with a wonderful cast featuring Anthony Hopkins, Ed Norton and Thandie Newton. I won't get into any big details, but it felt like a big budget film, but I do wonder whether it can sustain a 10 - episode run. Only time and story development will tell, as HBO fish around for a big international hit akin to their blockbusting Game of Thrones. I was left speechless last Monday morning when I had a rare viewing of the UK Breakfast shows, only to find that two of them, namely ITV's Good Morning Morons (....sorry Britain) and Sky News Sunrise were leading with professional reality TV star Kim Kardashian being robbed of a few million quid of jewellery in Paris. Fortunately, the BBC Breakfast team didn't mention it when I saw it, but ITV and Sky went into an orgy of speculation over one of the most inconsequential human beings (besides Donald Trump) on this planet. It made me shake my head in despair,

as I grabbed my remote control and happily pressed the "off" button. I wonder how many viewers actually knew who Kardashian is, and more importantly, just couldn't care less? What has TV journalism come to? Wasn't Robbie Williams naughty on the welcome return of the Graham Norton Show last Friday on BBC 1? He told a dirty but funny tale of an unexpected sexual experience that had me on the floor, and it was just so good to have Norton back to help fill my Friday night viewing void. Forget all the facelifts. Sharon Osbourne needs psychiatric help after deciding to put in the useless rapper Honey G onto the live X Factor shows, with Robbie Williams in attendance supporting her case! I'm all for something different, but I reckon I could dig the old rap better than she can, whilst some really good singers were told that their services were not required. Please British voters, just vote her out straightaway, so that we can enjoy some excellent contenders on what has been the best season in years.

Friday 7th October 2016

The Missing

Ep 1/8 Wednesday 12 October 9.00pm-10.00pm BBC ONE It’s late 2014 and a young British woman stumbles through the streets of Eckhausen in Germany and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster - and she was abducted from the same town 11 years ago. Her return sends shock waves through the tight-knit local community, as her family are thrown into turmoil. As the search for the abductor gathers pace, Alice also appears to hold vital clues to the whereabouts of a second missing girl, Sophie Giroux, whose disappearance was investi-

gated back in 2003 by French detective Julien Baptiste. In present day, Alice’s parents Sam and Gemma are barely speaking, whilst Alice’s brother, Matthew, has become violent and withdrawn. Meanwhile Julien is in Iraq, following a clue that he believes is key to finding the person who abducted the girls. Alice Webster is played by Abigail Hardingham, Julien Baptiste by Tchéky Karyo, Sam Webster by David Morrissey, Gemma Webster by Keeley Hawes and Matthew Webster by Jake Davies. Pictured: Julien (Tcheky Karyo)

Strictly Come Dancing The Results

Sunday 9 October TBC BBC ONE This week saw the glitz and glamour of Hollywood come to Strictly Come Dancing as the celebrity dancers and their professional partners gave their best movie inspired performances. Tonight’s show opens with a very unique, high-tech routine before Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman host the results show as the 14 remaining couples hear

their fate. The public votes will be added to the judges’ scores, leaving the two couples with the lowest combined scores to face each other in the dreaded dance off. The judges’ will then have to decide who to save and who to send home. There will also be a very special musical performance from Alfie Boe and Michael Ball, plus Lens’ Lens will be on hand to examine Saturday night’s performances

Paranoid

Thursday 13 October 9.00pm-10.00pm ITV Indira Varma, Robert Glenister, Neil Stuke, Lesley Sharp and Kevin Doyle star in new eight part ITV drama, Paranoid, produced by Red Production Company. Newcomer Dino Fetscher also joins the stellar cast alongside Anjil Mohindra, Christiane Paul, Polly Walker, Michael Maloney, William Ash, John Duttine, Ayda Field and Jason Done. A conspiracy thriller, Paranoid, tells the story of a female GP who is murdered in a rural children’s playground with an abundance of eyewitnesses. A group of detectives embark on what seems to be a straightforward murder investigation, but as they delve deeper into the case they are quickly drawn into the twists and turns of an ever-darkening mystery, which takes them unexpectedly across Europe. The drama is written by acclaimed writer and producer Bill Gallagher whose previous credits include The Paradise, Conviction, Love Life and Lark Rise to Candleford. Episode 4 Identification of the Ghost Detective proves difficult when Michael’s (Neil Stuke) interference forces the elusive investigator underground, forcing Nina (Indira Varma) and Alec (Dino Fetscher) to rethink their approach. Bobby (Robert Glenister) arrives in Dusseldorf to uncover the mystery surrounding Ruben Locana’s death. And chasing a lead turns out to have catastrophic consequences for one of our detectives.

Friday 7th October 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 RipOff Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Street Auction 12:45 Thief Trackers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Decimate 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Going Back, Giving Back 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 A Question of Sport Sue Barker hosts the popular light-hearted sports quiz Matt captains Joining Dawson and Phil Tufnell are British athletes Goldie Christian and Sayers Malcolm, Ryder Cup golfer Stephen Gallacher and Irish rugby star Eoin Reddan 21:00 EastEnders It’s the plea hearing for Paul’s killers 21:30 Would I Lie to You? This week the guests joining Lee Mack and David Mitchell are Rhod Gilbert, Jamie Laing, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Claudia Winkleman

07:45 Rip-Off Britain 08:30 Thief Trackers 09:00 DIY SOS: The Big Build 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:15 The Edge 15:00 Hi-De-Hi! 15:30 Yes, Prime Minister 16:00 To the Manor Born 16:30 Ultimate Swarms 17:30 The Link 18:15 Flog It! 19:00 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

20:30 Coronation Street David has Macca’s life in 20:00 Mary Berry’s his hands Foolproof Cooking Mary prepares a warming roasted 21:00 Countrywise Liz butternut squash soup with Bonnin takes a canoe jourindulgent cheese and parma ney along the River Wye, ham twists then a foolproof meandering along the bormackerel pate with lime that der of England and Wales couldn't be simpler where the river offers up a wealth of wildlife including 20:30 Great British Menu It one of Britain’s most eluis the head to head and the sive and mysterious birds two highest scoring chefs the night jar. Ben Fogle from the London and South heads to the Exmoor coast and the picturesque village East region of Porlock, where he samples the locally farmed oys21:00 Mastermind Quiz ters that are making a comeback 21:30 Gardeners’ World Alan Power spends a day 21:30 Coronation Street with the head gardener at Can Nick talk some sense Wells’s Bishop’s Palace into David?

22:00 Have I Got News for You The topical comedy quiz show that grills celebrity contestants on the latest 22:30 The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice Jo news Brand is joined by Bake Off 22:30 Still Game Sitcom fans to shine a spotlight the featuring characters from most recent episode the comedy series “Chewin” the Fat 23:00 Mock the Week 23:30 Newsnight 00:05 Later with 23:00 News 23:35 The Graham Norton Show Jools Holland 01:10 Film 00:25 Josh 00:55 The London River (PG) 02:30 Apprentice 01:55 Weather Question Time 03:30 Alex for the Week Ahead 02:00 Jones: Fertility and Me News 04:30 This Is BBC Two

22:00 The Level Nancy seeks an ally but cannot confide in Hayley for fear of putting them both in danger. A police appeal for the missing witness puts Nancy in the spotlight 23:00 News 23:40 Film American Pie (18) 01:30 Jackpot247 04:00 Murder, She Wrote 04:50 ITV Nightscreen

07:00 Countdown 07:45 The King of Queens 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 13:00 News 13:05 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 14:05 Racing: Newmarket and York 17:00 Four in a Bed 17:30 Come Dine with Me 18:00 My Kitchen Rules 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:30 Unreported World Marcel Theroux and Daniel Bogado travel to India for a heart-warming report on new matchmaking schemes set up by people with disabilities 21:00 Jamie’s Super Food Jamie Oliver sees how local citrus fruit enhances the fresh fish netted in the turquoise waters off Sardinia 21:30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Lisbon Writer, actor, comedian and podcaster Adam Buxton accompanies Richard Ayoade on a voyage of discovery in Lisbon, Europe’s sunniest capital 22:00 Gogglebox Britain’s most opinionated and avid TV viewers comment freely on what the box has to offer 23:00 The Last Leg 00:05 First Dates 01:10 It’s a Weird World 02:05 Film Multiplicity (12) 04:05 Humans 05:00 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 05:15 Location, Location, Location

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 House Doctor 13:10 News 13:15 The Yorkshire Vet 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - Fatal Justice (14) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Gadget Show What are the greatest gadgets of all time? Is it the Walkman, a microwave, a computer game or something completely different? The team argue for their favourites as they countdown to number one 21:00 The Cars That Made Britain Great Rufus Hound continues his guide through Britain’s proud motoring history, with the ultimate car for rural living, from the Land Rover Defender to the roomy and powerful Ford Granada 22:00 Carry On Caravanning Firefighter Ashley thinks he is a modern caravanner, but his pals at work have been mocking him for his newfound hobby. Phil and wife Michelle set off in their camper van for a cowboysand-indians weekend with some friends in the Chilterns 23:00 Killer Elite 01:15 Super Casino Nightmare Tenants, Landlords 05:00 That’s Funny! HouseBusters

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In Emmerdale Kerry’s world falls apart as things look bleak for her and Dan. Meanwhile, James and Emma arrive back in the village and reveal that they’ll be moving into Wylie’s Farm tomorrow. Elsewhere, Ross gives Moira a lift home when he spots her getting drunk at

Heralding its 52nd series, the satirical news quiz returns for the first of an 11-programme run. Scottish stand-up comedian Kevin Bridges is one of the two guest panellists joining team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton as they vie for supremacy in their scrutiny of the worlds of comedy, journalism and current affairs. A roster of guest hosts throughout the series - spearheaded in this edition by former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg tries hard to make it look like they are actually in control of proceedings.

The Woolpack. Could Moira let something slip in the state she’s in? Also today, when Rishi considers giving Priya a loan from the company to pay for The Mill, he checks the account but finds that there are already unexplained expenses coming out. When Rishi confronts Jai and manages to rule him out, he confronts Priya – who takes this as proof that Rakesh is having an affair. In Coronation Street, the police call at Number 8 to question Gail about David’s whereabouts on the morning Macca was attacked, but David is later

released when the police concede he had nothing to do with it.

Now a free man, David sets his sights once more on his revenge plan and heads to the hospital, where Macca lies fighting for his life. Meanwhile, Eileen demands to know what’s going on with the twicesold apartment, but Todd

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Dinner Date 08:10 Ellen DeGeneres 09:00 Emmerdale 10:00 You’ve Been Framed! 10:30 Psych 11:20 Royal Pains 12:15 Dinner Date 13:15 Emmerdale 14:15 You’ve Been Framed! 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 19:50 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Film Knocked Up (18) 00:35 Family Guy 01:35 American Dad! 02:35 Dating in the Dark ITV3 07:00 Movies Now 07:10 Man About the House 07:35 Heartbeat 08:35 Where the Heart Is 09:35 Wild at Heart 10:35 Judge Judy 12:00 Murder, She Wrote 13:00 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 14:05 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart Is 17:15 Man About the House 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:25 On the Buses 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Rosemary and Thyme 22:00 Long Lost Family 23:00 Law & Order: UK 00:05 Wycliffe 01:15 Case Sensitive 03:05 Long Lost Family 03:55 Rory Bremner’s Great British Views ITV4 07:00 Magnum, PI 07:50 The Chase 08:50 The Sweeney 09:55 Ironside 11:00 Test Match Bowls Live 18:30 Pawn Stars 19:00 Storage Wars Texas 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Steve Mcqueen: Motorcycle Movie Star 22:00 Film - Goldfinger (PG) 00:20 FilmA Dangerous Man (18) 02:15 River Monsters 03:20 Pawn Stars 03:45 ITV4 Nightscreen

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack and Phelan try to reassure her that it’s just a wellpracticed sales scam. Eileen is furious and points out that Phelan’s unscrupulous business practices are being conducted at the expense of Jason’s money. How will Phelan manage to claw his way out of this one? Elsewhere, Izzy and Gary spot Bethany out running and are concerned when they notice she’s clearly pushing herself too far. Sarah is unsettled when Izzy later makes a point of telling her they saw Bethany out running on her lunch hour. In the second episode,

when David returns home from the hospital, he is met by the family liaison officer, who tells him that he’ll no longer be required to give evidence at Clayton’s trial. An incensed David admits to Nick that he went to the hospital to see Macca, but what did he do while he was there? And can Nick encourage him to forget about Clayton and Macca for the sake of his children? In Eastenders, The plea hearing is taking place today and the Cokers should be united, but Les is refusing to make amends with Pam after

she secretly met up with Simon’s mother. When Les and Pam head to court, will Simon and the other culprits behind Paul’s death plead guilty or not guilty? Meanwhile, things are looking up at the Queen Vic as Lee gives Whitney a gift and Mick offers his son some money.

6 07:00 Breakfast 11:00 Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30 James Martin: Home Comforts 13:00 Football Focus 13:30 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:15 Homes Under the Hammer 15:15 Escape to the Country 16:00 Film - Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out (U) 16:20 Film - Shrek The Third (PG) 17:45 Can’t Touch This 18:35 News 18:55 Pointless 19:45 Strictly Come Dancing Strictly is nothing if not glamorous, but there are a few extra sparkles this week as the contestants take their inspiration from the silver screen in a moviethemed show 21:50 The National Lottery: 5-Star Family Reunion A UK family and their long-lost overseas relatives must work together in order to win a once-in-a-lifetime reunion in a five-star location 22:40 Casualty Robyn’s plans are thwarted when Glen takes a turn for the worse 23:30 News 23:50 Film Iron Man 3 (12) 01:50 The NFL Show 02:20 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:25 News

Saturday 8th October 07:30 Film - They Flew Alone 09:10 Film - Evening (12) 11:00 Miniature Britain 12:00 Lost Land of the Jaguar 13:00 Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh and Easy Food 13:30 Great British Menu 15:00 Nature’s Weirdest Events 16:00 Flog It 17:00 The Hairy Bikers’ Chicken and Egg 18:00 Gardeners’ World 19:00 Inside the Commons 20:00 The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice

07:00 CITV 10:25 News 10:30 Murder, She Wrote 12:25 Judge Rinder 13:25 News 13:30 Tipping Point 14:30 The Chase 15:30 The X Factor 17:00 News 17:30 World Cup 2018 Qualifier Live: England v Malta 20:15 News 20:30 You’ve Been Framed Comedy show which features a selection of camcorder catastrophes and video disasters

20:30 Dad’s Army The people of Walmington are 21:00 The X Factor no longer taking the threat Thousands of aspiring pop of invasion seriously stars turned up at the auditions, 120 battled it out at 21:00 A Very British boot camp and, after the Lucy drama of the six-chair chalwith Murder Worsley Lucy Worsley lenge, the best of those investigates the dark and made it through to the revealing history of our curi- judges’ houses. Now the ous relationship with killing competition really begins as the final 12 perform live 22:00 Artsnight Michael Palin travels to north Wales for the judges and millions to interview the legendary of viewers at home. Each of them will be hoping they travel writer Jan Morris have what it takes to make an impression and stay on George’s Boy 22:30 1970s: Save Me From the show right up to the Suburbia British popstar final Boy George assesses how the 1970s moulded the per- 23:00 Newzoids 23:30 The son and artist he has Jonathan Ross Show 00:30 become World Cup 2018 Qualifier Highlights 01:50 23:35 Film - Cabaret (15) Jackpot247 04:00 Murder, 01:30 Film - Marnie (15) She Wrote 04:50 03:35 This is BBC Two Nightscreen

07:05 Gillette World Sport 07:35 Motorsport 08:05 Triathlon 08:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 10:00 The Morning Line 11:00 The Simpsons 12:30 Sarah Beeny’s Four Rooms 13:30 Formula 1: Japanese Grand Prix Qualifying Highlights 15:00 Racing: Newmarket and York 17:30 A Place in the Sun 18:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 19:30 News 20:00 Grand Designs Kevin meets Tom and Danielle, whose lifelong passion has been steambending wood. They’ve used the technique to create extraordinary furniture and lighting, but now plan to use it on a larger scale 21:00 Walking Through Time Dr Tori Herridge explores the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset 22:00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Jimmy Carr hosts with guest captain David Walliams and Jessica Hynes going up against Jon Richardson and Rhod Gilbert 23:00 Film The Inbetweeners 2 (18) 01:00 Film - Good Morning, Vietnam (15) 03:10 Hollyoaks Omnibus 05:10 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

07:00 Milkshake 10:55 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12:00 FIA Formula E: Season Preview 13:00 Police Interceptors 14:55 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 16:55 News 17:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 18:55 News 19:00 The NCIS Movie: Enemies Exposed The agents discover Ziva’s father is being targeted by terrorists 20:45 NCIS: New Orleans The race is on to find Mayor Hamilton and Special Agent Pride, who have been kidnapped 21:40 NCIS: New Orleans The team are called in when a lone terrorist’s plan to go on a killing spree on a train is thwarted by a passenger who has subsequently disappeared 22:35 Gotham Gordon and Bullock are on the trail of a vigilante who takes the law into his own hands by attaching people of dubious morals to huge weather balloons, then letting them float off into oblivion 23:25 Football 00:30 Criminals: Caught on Camera 00:55 Access 01:00 Super Casino 04:10 The Hotel Inspector

13:30 The Xtra Factor 14:30 Funniest Ever You’ve Been Framed! Gold 15:15 Film - Kangaroo Jack (PG) 17:00 Film The Flintstones (U) 18:50 Film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (12) 20:55 Film - The Mask (PG) 23:00 The Xtra Factor 23:30 Celebrity Juice 00:20 Family Guy ITV3 13:05 Columbo Inspector Morse Midsomer Murders Doc Martin Midsomer Murders Lewis

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ITV4 13:40 Film - The Alamo (PG) 15:40 British Superbike Championship Highlights 16:40 British Touring Car Championship Highlights 18:10 Film - Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (PG) 20:00 Fierce 21:00 Storage Wars 22:00 Film Cliffhanger (18)

09:00 The Weekend Mix

Sunday 9th October 07:00 Breakfast 10:00 The Andrew Marr Show 11:00 Sunday Morning Live 12:00 Sunday Politics 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:15 Homes Under the Hammer 15:00 Escape to the Country 15:45 Points of View 16:00 The Great British Bake Off 17:00 Lifeline 17:10 Songs of Praise 17:50 Animal Babies 18:50 News 19:15 Countryfile

07:30 A to Z of TV Gardening 08:15 Glorious Gardens From Above 09:00 Gardeners’ World 10:00 Countryfile 11:00 The Beechgrove Garden 11:30 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 13:00 Food and Drink 13:30 Great British Menu 15:00 Natural World 16:00 Heir Hunters (PG) 17:00 Flog It 18:00 Rugby League 19:00 Modern Times

20:15 Strictly Come Dancing It is time for another couple to leave the show as movie weekend builds to its finale. The only sequel in Strictly is the dreaded dance-off, and noone wants to find themselves in the bottom two

20:00 Ireland with Simon Reeve The second leg of Simon’s journey begins at the Giant’s Causeway, before visiting a kelp farm on Rathlin Island

West: Wild 21:00 America’s Great Frontier Discover the amazing ways 21:00 Antiques nature has found to survive Roadshow Fiona Bruce in the extremely testing and the team pay a return land of the wild west visit to the magnificent Broughton Castle near 22:00 Sir Chris Hoy Banbury in Oxfordshire Retired track cyclist Sir Chris Hoy swaps two 22:00 Poldark Ross tries wheels for four to pursue to financially support his boyhood dream of comElizabeth in the wake of peting in the world’s toughFrancis’s death, but George est endurance motor race, the Le Mans 24 Hours calls in Ross’s debt 23:00 News 23:30 Room 101 00:10 Film - War of the Worlds (12) 01:55 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:00 News

23:00 Film - Begin Again (15) 00:40 Film - Wonder Boys (15) 02:25 Countryfile 03:20 Holby City 04:20 This is BBC Two

07:00 Shipping Wars 07:20 Motorsport 07:45 Triathlon 08:40 Frasier 09:30 Find it, Fix it, Flog it 10:30 Sunday Brunch 13:30 Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast 14:30 Formula 1: Japanese Grand Prix Highlights 16:30 The Simpsons 17:30 Location, Location, Location 18:30 A Place in 20:00 The Chase the Sun 19:30 News Celebrity Special Bradley Walsh presents as celebrity 20:00 Posh Pawn James contestants Nigel Havers, gets an enquiry about a Melinda Messenger, passenger jet simulator but Michelle Hardwick and will he give a loan of Dave Gorman pit their wits £150,000 against ruthless quiz genius the Chaser 21:00 Speed with Guy Martin The inside story of 21:00 The X Factor Guy Martin’s fastest and Results Show Dermot most dangerous speed presents the results of the challenge to date: his first live show recent attempt to become the fastest man on two 22:00 Victoria The queen wheels and break the is heavily pregnant, but defies her mother and hus- motorcycle land speed band when they try to keep record her confined to the palace while the Duke of 22:00 Celebrity Island Cumberland sees political with Bear Grylls Bear advantage to be gained Grylls abandons 10 celebrishould Victoria die in child- ties on an uninhabited birth island in the Pacific

07:00 CITV 10:25 News 10:30 Bear Grylls Survival School 11:00 Peston on Sunday 12:00 Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury 12:30 Chopping Block 13:30 News 13:40 The X Factor 15:40 Midsomer Murders 17:40 Victoria 18:40 Doc Martin 19:35 News

23:05 News 23:20 Peston on Sunday 00:20 Rugby Highlights 01:10 Jackpot 04:00 Motorsport UK 04:50 British Superbike Championship Highlights

23:00 Gogglebox 00:05 Film - Predators (15) 02:05 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Barcelona 02:35 U.S. Presidential Debate

07:00 Milkshake 08:30 FIA Formula E Live: Hong Kong 10:30 Football 11:30 The Gadget Show 12:30 Fail Army 12:55 The Hotel Inspector 15:50 Film Disney’s Hercules (U) 17:35 Film - Robin Hood (U) 19:15 Now That’s Funny

14:25 Catchphrase 15:10 You’ve Been Framed 15:40 Film - Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (PG) 17:50 Film Despicable Me (U) 19:50 Film - Paranoia (12) 22:00 The Xtra Factor 23:00 Family Guy

20:05 Penn and Teller: Fool Us in Vegas Scott and Puck bend metal, Eric Jones does a coin trick Calabrese Mark and throws 51 decks of cards into the woodchipper

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21:00 Ice Road Truckers Todd has the dubious honour of hauling the heaviest load in Polar Industries’ history 21:55 News 22:00 Film - Parker (15) A professional thief with his own code of ethics is betrayed by colleagues and left for dead, after which he vows to find those responsible and exact revenge with the help of an attractive but unlikely ally 00:20 Film - Safe (15) 02:00 Super Casino 04:10 Raw Recruits: Squaddies at 16

13:25 Rosemary and Thyme (PG) 15:25 Film Columbo (12) 17:10 Film Carry on at Your Convenience (PG) 19:00 Rosemary and Thyme 20:00 Lewis 22:00 It’ll be Alright on the Night 23:00 A Touch of Frost 01:05 Wire in the Blood ITV4 12:35 Pawn Stars 15:25 Film - The Hanging Tree 17:45 Film - The Alamo (PG) 21:00 Rugby Highlights 22:00 Car Crash Britain Caught on Camera 23:05 Film - American Gangster (18)

09:00 The Weekend Mix

Monday 10th October

8 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Street Auction 12:45 Thief Trackers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Decimate 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Going Back Giving Back 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Inside Out

07:45 Rip Off Britain 08:30 Thief Trackers 09:00 Ingenious Animals 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:15 The Edge 15:00 Hi-De-Hi 15:30 Yes, Prime Minister 16:00 To the Manor Born 16:30 Wonders of the Monsoon 17:30 The Link 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

21:00 EastEnders Pam gives some words of encouragement to Ben about his future

20:00 Simply Nigella Nigella demonstrates her favourite recipes for sharing with family and friends

21:30 Panorama Jane Corbin reports on the collapse of the BHS department store chain that led to 11,000 people losing their jobs, investigating the multimillion-pound deals and cut-throat business practices that made former owner Philip Green and his family very rich while the retailer fell on hard times

20:30 Great British Menu The first of the North East heats 21:00 University Challenge Quiz 21:30 Only Connect A team from Scunthorpe take on a trio of Beekeepers in this heat

22:00 The Victorian Slum 22:00 Reggie Yates’ In the heart of the modern Extreme UK Against the East End of London, a Victorian slum has been backdrop of unprecedented recreated and a group of gun violence, Reggie Yates 21st-century people are travels to Chicago to inves- moving in. Michael Mosley tigate gun crime in joins them to tell the President Obama’s adopt- extraordinary story of how ed hometown, there were the Victorian East End 468 murders in 2015, and changed our attitude to this year the murder rate poverty forever has soared by 72 per cent 23:00 Morgana Robinson’s Agency 23:30 23:00 News 23:45 Have I the Got a Bit More News for Newsnight 00:15 Sir Chris You 00:30 The Graham Hoy 01:15 The Great Norton Show 01:15 British Bake Off 02:15 The Weather for the Week Hairy Bikers’ Chicken and Egg 03:15 This is BBC Two Ahead 01:20 News

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Priya makes a heartbreaking discovery 20:30 Coronation Street Steve has devastating news for Michelle 21:00 Gino’s Hidden Italy Chef Gino D’Acampo returns to explore more of his native country, this time heading off the beaten track to meet people keeping age-old traditions alive, as well as showcasing the scenery and culture of these lesser-known parts of Italy 21:30 Coronation Street Leanne puts the pressure on Steve 22:00 Cold Feet Convinced they’ve seen the back of Grant, Jenny raises the subject of Harry’s will again with Pete, who is devastated when Chloe announces she no longer wants to call him dad. Fancying herself as a bit of a property guru, Tina attempts to find Adam his dream home 23:00 News 23:45 The Agenda 00:25 The Jonathan Ross Show 01:25 Newzoids 01:50 Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Kyle 04:55 Nightscreen

06:55 3rd Rock from the Sun 07:45 King of Queens 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 13:00 News 13:05 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 14:05 Posh Pawn 15:10 Find it, Fix it, Flog it 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Four in a Bed 17:30 Come Dine with Me 18:00 My Kitchen Rules UK 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:55 Stand Up To Cancer 21:00 Dispatches The wealth gap between young and old has become a defining feature of modern Britain and in this special edition Fraser Nelson investigates just how divided the country has become 21:30 Food Unwrapped Matt heads to Italy to find out how supermarkets can sell pesto at an affordable price when the traditional ingredients are expensive 22:00 Derren Brown Derren Brown, the master of psychological Illusion, performs his latest jawdropping stage show, Miracle, on stage in London 23:35 First Dates 00:40 Tattoo Fixers on Holiday 01:40 Embarrassing Bodies 02:35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 03:25 Grand Designs 04:20 Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 05:10 The Tiny Tots Talent Agency

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 House Doctor 13:10 News 13:15 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:20 NCIS: New Orleans 16:15 Film When Calls the Heart: New Year’s Wish 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Aircrash Documentary exploring the events of November 12 2001, when American Airlines 587 crashed into Belle Harbour, New York, shortly after taking off from JFK Airport 21:00 Police Interceptors The Interceptors are in for a nasty surprise when they respond to reports of a fight involving a handgun and a machete 22:00 Raw Recruits: Squaddies at 16 The rookies of 19 Platoon continue their Phase 1 training, travelling to Catterick in North Yorkshire to spend three days and two nights out in the open in an exercise that will test their stamina and endurance 23:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 00:05 Film Layer Cake (15) 02:00 Super Casino 04:10 The Yorkshire Vet 05:00 Violent Assault: Caught on Camera 05:45 HouseBusters

DON´T MISS THE VICTORIAN SLUM

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In Emmerdale, Emma and James are due to move house today, but all hell breaks loose when Ross confronts his dad over what he said to Moira. When it turns physical and Ross shoves his father, James falls down the stairs and breaks his leg. Later, Emma overhears Ross continuing to row

Michael Mosley follows the progress of a group of people experiencing the tough living and working conditions of the Victorian poor after moving into a restored Victorian tenement in the heart of London’s East End. In the opening edition the slum dwellers move into their new home, a building made up of sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outdoor privy toilets, while one finds out first-hand the back breaking labour his forebears would have experienced and the effect on a Victorian family when the main breadwinner

with James at the hospital. How will Emma feel when she overhears the truth about James and Moira? Meanwhile, Priya accuses Chrissie of being Rakesh’s other woman and she sees the evidence for herself when she steals Chrissie’s phone. Later, Priya slaps Rakesh upon his return to the village, making it clear that she knows he’s been sleeping with Chrissie. Will Rakesh reveal the real story? In Coronation Street, Michelle and Steve attend their first baby scan, but it’s obvious that something is playing on Steve’s mind.

Clearly distraught, he breaks the news to Michelle that he had a call from Jim to tell him he’s got Myotonic Dystrophy it’s genetic and both he and their baby are at risk.

The news is a blow to Michelle and the couple quiz Rana about how MD could affect their baby. But of course, Michelle isn’t the only woman pregnant with Steve’s child, so will

07:00 Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Dinner Date 08:10 Ellen DeGeneres 09:00 Emmerdale 09:30 Coronation Street 10:30 Psych 11:20 Royal Pains 12:15 Dinner Date 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 Coronation Street 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Family Guy 23:00 American Dad 23:55 Family Guy 00:25 The Cleveland Show 01:25 Film - American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (15) ITV3 07:00 Man About the House 07:20 On the Buses 07:50 Heartbeat 08:45 Where the Heart is 09:50 Wild at Heart 10:45 Judge Judy 12:05 Murder, She Wrote 13:00 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Man About the House 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:20 On the Buses 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Doc Martin 22:00 Britain’s Busiest Airport - Heathrow 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 Wycliffe 01:10 Law and Order: UK ITV4 07:00 Barcelona’s European Glory 07:10 Magnum, PI 08:00 The Chase 08:50 The Sweeney 09:50 Ironside 10:50 Minder 11:55 Magnum, PI 12:55 The Chase 13:55 Pawn Stars 14:50 Storage Wars Texas 15:50 The Sweeney 16:50 Minder 17:50 Ironside 18:55 Storage Wars Texas 19:55 Pawn Stars 20:25 World Cup 2018 Qualifier Live: Netherlands v France 23:00 Ronaldo 01:00 Rugby Highlights

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack Steve tell Leanne too? Meanwhile, noticing a spring in her mum’s step, Bethany wonders if she’s got a new boyfriend. Her suspicions prove to be correct when Sarah admits there is someone. In the second episode, Leanne does her best to hide her inner turmoil as an oblivious Michelle reveals there’s a 50% chance that Steve may have MD. Steve also breaks the news to Liz, who is gobsmacked. Close to tears, Leanne tells Nick about Jim’s genetic condition and how their baby could be affect-

ed. Nick calls Steve to the flat, where an apologetic but determined Nick and Leanne put pressure on Steve to find out his results as soon as possible. Losing his temper, will Steve comply with the pair’s requests?

their upcoming move, Les worries that Pam seems to be ignoring the significance of the day. Pam promises Les that she isn’t, but it’s not long before the couple are thrown yet another curveball.

Meanwhile, Bethany breaks down, coming clean to Sarah about how she started taking diet pills in desperation, even though Gary had warned her not to.

Meanwhile, Billy tells Les that he’s worried about taking over the business once the Cokers have gone..

In Eastenders, it’s a difficult day for the Cokers, as today would have been their son Lawrie’s birthday. With so much focus on

Tuesday 11th October 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Street Auction 12:45 Thief Trackers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Decimate 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Going Back Giving Back 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders Pam and Les look to the future 21:00 Holby City Hungover Jasmine desperately tries to step up her game in order to win Ric over, but it has devastating consequences 22:00 Ambulance A man who has travelled all the way from Essex to east London to eat at his favourite kebab house is viciously assaulted and a man in Brixton takes an overdose. The ambulance dispatchers are forced to make tough calls about who gets an ambulance quickest and who will have wait, and when a stabbing comes in they have to divert a crew from a sixyear-old who has fallen from a bunk bed 23:00 News 23:45 Anne Robinson’s Britain 00:45 Being Jamie Baulch: The Search for My Birth Dad 01:45 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:50 News

07:00 Street Auction 07:45 Thief Trackers 08:15 Going Back Giving Back 09:00 Coast: The Great Guide 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Countryfile 14:15 The Edge 15:00 Hi-De-Hi 15:30 Yes, Prime Minister 16:00 To the Manor Born 16:30 Wonders of the Monsoon 17:30 The Link 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking Mary prepares a selection of dishes perfect for outdoor entertaining and lazy summer days

22:00 Great Continental Railway Journeys Michael Portillo embarks on an action-packed adventure from the Italian Riviera to the Austrian Alps with his Bradshaw’s 1913 Guidebook in hand

20:15 World Cup Qualifier: Slovenia v England Mark Pougatch presents coverage of the Group F fixture, which takes place at the Stozice Stadium in Ljubljana. Gareth Southgate continues his short stint as England boss here, having been drafted in from his post as Under-21s manager to cover four games in the wake of Sam Allardyce’s shock departure last month. The former Middlesbrough defender will hope he can steady the ship and keep the Three Lions on course to reach the tournament in Russia. With commentary from Clive Tyldesley and Glenn Hoddle. Kick-off 20:45

23:00 Later Live with Jools Holland 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 NFL 01:05 Wild West: America’s Great Frontier 02:05 The Apprentice 03:05 The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook 04:05 This is BBC Two

23:00 News 23:45 World Cup Qualifier Highlights: Slovenia v England 01:10 Murder, She Wrote 02:00 Jackpot247 04:00 Loose Women 04:50 Nightscreen

20:30 Great British Menu The North East chefs attempt to impress the judges with their fish courses 21:00 The Hairy Bikers’ Chicken and Egg The Bikers question whether the best chicken dish in the world might actually be at their doorstep!

9 07:00 Countdown 07:45 King of Queens 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 13:00 News 13:05 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 14:05 Posh Pawn 15:10 Find it, Fix it, Flog it 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Four in a Bed 17:30 Come Dine with Me 18:00 My Kitchen Rules UK 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:55 Stand Up To Cancer 21:00 Location, Location, Location Phil Spencer catches up with househunters from previouis episodes for whom space was a decisive issue. Ian, who wanted a workshop for his collection of vehicles and spare parts, while in Wolverhampton, he drops in on Darren and Me'sha, who wanted room for a recording studio 22:00 National Treasure Paul and his family arrive in court to face his accusers and await the verdict. Paul is desperate to take the stand, to put his side of the story; Jerome is dead against it. Dee senses that Marie is wavering 23:00 Damned 23:30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 00:35 Hunted 01:30 KOTV Boxing Weekly 02:00 Triathlon 02:55 The Supervet 03:50 Food Unwrapped 04:20 Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 05:10 The Tiny Tots Talent Agency

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 House Doctor 13:10 News 13:15 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:20 NCIS: New Orleans 16:15 When Calls the Heart: Troubled Hearts 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 House Doctor In Derbyshire, a picturesque former pump house is causing a financial blockage for retired vicar John, so Tracy sets out to spruce up the tired interior 21:00 The Yorkshire Vet Alfie has suffered an unusual baking incident the greedy but blind labrador has swallowed a spatula! Elsewhere Julian attends a cow birth and an overweight rat, while Peter helps a champion race horse get his teeth fixed 22:00 Eamonn and Ruth: How the Other Half Lives Known as the King of the Gypsies, onetime Traveller Alfie Best now owns an estimated £160m. Poker pro Liv Boeree talks about the risks of the high-roller’s table, and the creator of Moshi Monsters shares his story 23:00 Extraordinary People 00:05 The Hotel Inspector Returns 01:05 Inside Broadmoor 02:00 Super Casino 04:05 Love/Hate 05:00 Caught in the Act 05:45 HouseBusters

DON´T MISS THE HAIRY BIKERS’ CHICKEN AND EGG

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Dave Myers and Si King head to Bromsgrove to taste some jerk chicken and sample an authentic Birmingham Balti as their culinary tour reaches a climax. They end the adventure at WOMAD, where they make their piri piri chicken for the crowds before storming the Taste the World stage to regale the audience with tales of their travels, while cooking one chicken and one egg dish. Last in the series.

when he finds out that Mill Cottage is being repossessed. When he checks his life insurance, it’s clear that he has a new plan in mind - but what is it?

In Emmerdale, Chrissie is furious when she sees that Priya has spray-painted the word “whore” on her car. She retaliates by hinting to Priya about what Rakesh is really capable of, warning her to stay away from him.

Meanwhile, Chrissie’s sister Rebecca interrupts Ashley’s speech at the dementia event by arriving in a helicopter. Rebecca makes an immediate impact by immediately slapping Robert on Chrissie’s behalf. Chrissie is delighted to finally have someone on her side, but is Rebecca really as supportive as she’s making out?

At the same time, life gets even worse for Rakesh

Elsewhere, Emma is furious when she sees Moira

visiting James. Emma tells James that she’ll be nursing him at home.

Later, Pam discusses recent events with Ben and asks for his help packing up Paul’s room. Soon afterwards, it becomes

ITV3 07:00 Movies Now 07:10 Man About the House 07:35 Heartbeat 08:40 Where the Heart is 09:40 Wild at Heart 10:40 Judge Judy 12:00 Murder, She Wrote 13:00 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 14:05 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:15 Where the Heart is 17:20 Man About the House 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:20 On the Buses 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 Life of Crime 01:00 Wycliffe 02:05 Law and Order: UK ITV4 07:00 Football Rivalries 07:10 Magnum, PI 08:00 The Chase 08:50 The Sweeney 09:50 Ironside 10:55 Minder 12:00 Magnum, PI 13:00 The Chase 14:00 The Car Chasers 14:30 Pawn Stars 14:55 Storage Wars Texas 15:55 The Sweeney 16:55 Minder 18:00 Ironside 19:00 Storage Wars Texas 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 River Monsters 22:00 Benidorm 23:05 Film Body of Lies (15) 01:40 Class of 92 03:35 Tommy Cooper

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack clear that Ben will now be making a big decision of his own as he prepares to move forward.

Also today, Rhona tells Paddy she doesn’t want to be alone with him on a call-out. In Eastenders, Les spends his birthday continuing to make preparations for his upcoming move away from Walford with Pam, but everything is interrupted when the Cokers receive even more big news.

by Ricky’s gift. Also today, Carmel confides in Denise. In Holby City, Jasmine gets herself into trouble as she battles her hangover while working with Ric. Things take a turn for the worse when Jasmine finds comfort speaking to Tristan Wood, using him as her confidant.

Meanwhile, Ben also finally receives an apology from Abi over the fake pregnancy saga. Elsewhere, Dot summons Ronnie and Jack to the launderette and makes it clear that she’s offended

Meanwhile, Zosia refuses to emotionally engage with a terminally ill patient who reminds her of Arthur. Not wanting to face the fact that she wasn’t there for Arthur in death, she learns that she needs to let go.

But is there more to her behaviour than meets the eye? Elsewhere, Raf is positive about stepping up his career, but when a charismatic female patient comes in, he questions whether he should actually be spending more time living his life and not putting work first.

CODE CRACKER

DOUBLE CROSS-WORD

Code Cracker is a crossword puzzle with no clues; instead, every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number, the same number representing the same letter throughout the puzzle. All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number. In this week's puzzle, 17 represents T and 2 represents Z, when these letters have been entered throughout the puzzle, you should have enough information to start guessing words and discovering other letters.

Solve the Double Cross-Word puzzle using either the standard or cryptic clues, the answers are exactly the same.

QUICKIE

In this week’s Quickie crossword, all the answers are ANAGRAMS of the clue words: Across 1 Snips (5) 3 Scots (5) 6 Low (3) 8 A cretin (7) 9 Nest (4) 10 Seldom (6) 12 Stream (6) 13 Hits (4) 16 Eastern (7) 17 Nap (3) 18 Tide (4) 19 Means (5)

Down 1 Hosts (5) 2 Cask (4) 3 Contra (6) 4 Cheap sips (9) 5 Signs (5) 7 Ascend Alp (9) 11 Evens (5) 12 Denim (5) 14 Skins (5) 15 Nuts (4)

Last weeks Solution Across: 2 Ferrous, 7 Slain, 8 Erect, 9 Tun, 11 Dust, 14 Tsar, 16 Aside, 17 Mean, 19 Ages, 22 Lea, 24 Rogue, 25 Chore, 26 Letters. Down: 1 Based, 2 Fears, 3 Runt, 4 Open, 5 Steps, 6 Alter, 10 Unite, 12 Use, 13 Tan, 14 Tea, 15 Ape, 17 March, 18 Angel, 20 Gloss, 21 Scent, 22 Left, 23 Ache.

CRYTPIC CLUES Across 7 Lady collecting silver, what’s amount spent? (6) 8 Sailor next to fathom mark (6) 9 Clues found in a Mickey Spillane novel (4) 10 Insects are, perhaps, emitters (8) 11 Desert ship and take in a gunner, that’s sweet (7) 13 Crashed plane in Asian country (5) 15 Taxi in a small house (5) 17 Copy section about low wall (7) 20 Sophisticated young lady’s ecstatic (8) 21 Bird often seen in the afternoon (4) 23 Pollute seabed badly (6) 24 Roving ranter is wrong (6)

Down 1 Repaired leak with a vegetable (4) 2 Suffering queasiness in Barcelona, use a toilet (6) 3 Savage to warm bird (7) 4 The way to the rescue boat is pretty desolate (5) 5 Injury caused initially by running unaccompanied in sandy environments (6) 6 About five, porter has time for a drink (8) 12 Roused when a vigil comes to a sorry end (8) 14 Horseshoe expert is rarer if crazy (7) 16 Is there nothing at the counter to equalise pressure? (6) 18 The players are in contract or similar negotiations (6) 19 Trainee soldier from America detained (5) 22 Stinking row (4)

STANDARD CLUES

Down 1 Type of cabbage (4) 2 Queasiness (6) 3 Pagan (7) 4 Bleak (5) 5 Contusion (6) 6 Drink (8) 12 Roused (8) 14 Horseshoer (7) 16 Meteorological term (6) 18 Performers (6) 19 Trainee (5) 22 Grade (4)

Across 7 Harm (6) 8 Objective (6) 9 Solutions (4) 10 White ants (8) 11 Firm chewy sweet (7) 13 Asian country (5) 15 Hut (5) 17 Ramparts (7) 20 Elegant (8) 21 Type of gull (4) 23 Humiliate (6) 24 Wayward (6)

Last weeks Solution Across: 1 Bushel, 4 Sabot, 8 Aspic, 9 Ruffian, 10 Cremate, 11 Heel, 12 Nod, 14 Gong, 15 Iron, 18 Emu, 21 Oslo, 23 Scooter, 25 Centaur, 26 Aloft, 27 Shred, 28 Critic. Down: 1 Branch, 2 Supremo, 3 Exchange, 4 Sofa, 5 Boise, 6 Tingle, 7 Green, 13 Dinosaur, 16 Outpost, 17 Voices, 19 Usurp, 20 Arctic, 22 Loner, 24 Bald

An Apology We are aware that there have been one or two problems with the quizzes in recent weeks, especially the Code Cracker, and we thank you for the feedback you have sent us. We are sorry to have disappointed you and we are working on a resolution. For now, we have slightly increased the Code Cracker size and made the figures bolder whilst we work on designing a better layout in the next few weeks or so. We apologise for the problem and we thank the many puzzlers who have got in touch.

FILL IT IN

Complete the crossword grid by using the given words:

2 letter words An In It Ma Me Of Up Us 3 letter words Aim Are Fee Gum Hoe Ion Leg Rap

Roe Tar Tea Ten 4 letter words Afar Airs Arts Boot Bore Lead Less Mane Mild Name Opal Ours Pros

Rang Safe Same Sane Shun Tiny Tuna 5 letter words Emote Gloop Tenet Tuner 7 letter words Lineage Manteau Onetime Teatime

SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORD

Improve your Spanish - clues in Spanish, answers in English or vice versa.

Across 1 Rockets (fireworks) (7) 5 Asientos (muebles) (5) 8 Announcer (radio, television) (7) 9 Oats (5) 10 Sour (f) (5) 11 Our (7) 12 Manzanas (6) 14 Jugs (6) 17 Card (greetings card, visiting card etc) (7) 19 Python (5) 22 Cows (5) 23 Camiones (7) 24 April (5) 25 Calles (7)

Scribble Pad

Down 1 Fault (blame) (5) 2 To make (fire, bed, tea, will, remark, plan, suggestion) (5) 3 Tattoo (7) 4 Fuerte (6) 5 Forma (figura) (5) 6 To accept (7) 7 Estaciones (partes del año) (7) 12 Dual carriageway (7) 13 To seem (7) 15 To suck in (air or dust) (7) 16 Cockerels (6) 18 Caballete (arte) (5) 20 Dos veces (5) 21 Narices (5)

Across 1 Which small marine fish of the herring family, is widely caught for food and fish products? (5) 4 What was the surname of the female star of the Hope/Crosby ‘Road’ films? (6) 9 What phrase describes a look that is superstitiously believed to have the power of inflicting harm? (4,3) 10 What is an affectionate name for Father Christmas? (5) 11 Which wild cat with yellowish-brown fur has a short tail, and tufted ears? (4) 12 What was the surname of writers Nancy and Jessica and their sisters Unity and Diana? (7) 13 What is the international code signal of extreme distress? (3) 14 Which word of French origin means elegant and stylish? (4) 16 Which rod or spindle passes through the centre of a wheel or group of wheels? (4) 18 What title is given to a university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge? (3) 20 Which writer created the character Winnie the Pooh for his son Christopher Robin? (1,1,5) 21 Which coin is equal to 100th of a dollar? (4) 24 Which city in Belgium is the capital of the province of East Flanders? (5) 25 What is the name of the small egg-shaped ceramic or metal wind instrument with holes for the fingers? (7) 26 In the Roman Catholic Church, what is the name of the

Quiz Word

important and traditional devotion consisting of a set of prayer beads and a system of set prayers? (6) 27 What was the first name of the son of the motor manufacturer Henry Ford? (5)

Down 1 What was the forename of Ms Gibbons, the author of Cold Comfort Farm? (6) 2 What name is given to the period during which a monarch is sovereign? (5) 3 What was the name of the rock band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the hit singles Baby Please Don’t Go and Here Comes the Night and also for launching singer Van Morrison’s musical career? (4) 5 What is an alternative name for the German shepherd dog? (8) 6 What phrase is used to describe an act that unintentionally harms one’s own interests? (3,4) 7 Which African country’s capital is Kigali? (6) 8 What name is given to the long, sturdy pieces of squared timber or metal spanning an opening or part of a building? (5) 13 Name is given to an artist who creates sculptures? (8) 15 What is the nickname of West Ham F C? (7) 17 Which heavily built omnivorous nocturnal mammal of the weasel family, typically has a grey and black coat? (6) 18 What was the surname of the writer best remembered for his novel about Robinson Crusoe? (5) 19 Which Christian missionary was also known as Saul of Tarsus or the Apostle of the Gentiles? (2,4) 22 What title is usually given to the rulers of Kuwait? (5) 23 What was the nickname of baseball star George Herman Ruth? (4)

SALLY’S SIMPLE SPANISH

SUDOKU

1. Grevy's and Burchell's are types of what animal? 2. What is the common name of rubella? 3. Quinsy is the inflammation of which body organ due to abscess? 4. If you were studying Iatrology what would you be studying? 5. A nilometer measures the rise and fall of what? 6. What other name is used for the snow leopard? 1. Zebra 2. German Measles 3. Tonsils 4. Science of Medicine 5. Rivers (originally Nile) 6. Ounce ANSWERS

Last Week’s Solutions Code Cracker ANSEWRS 1. Venezuela1.2.Gypsy A Spider 3. Tongue vitamin b 5.American Michael ANSEWRS Moth 2. K2 3.4.Bats 4. An Farraday 6. A Rhombus The First Processor 8. Chemist Named William H 7. Carothers 5. AMicro Spider 6. The Atom Black 10. The scut Bomb9.7.Electroencephalograph Breech Birth 8. Hay Fever 9. AnKnee OtterCap 10. 11. Bulimia 12. 13.Alexander LightningFleming 14. Radioactivity 15. Porcine 11. Rabies apple 12. 13. Gary Kasparov (Chess) 14. He Invented Cats

Last weeks Quiz Wordsolution Across: 1 Pasta, 4 Okapis, 9 Wailers, 10 Manor, 11 EFTA, 12 Epicure, 13 Par, 14 Edna, 16 Dr No, 18 Cue, 20 Charlie, 21 Abba, 24 Troll, 25 Adamski, 26 Conker, 27 Ellis. Down: 1 Pewter, 2 Swift, 3 Aden, 5 Kim Wilde, 6 Penguin, 7 Surrey, 8 Aster, 13 Paul Klee, 15 Dragoon, 17 Acetic, 18 Cedar, 19 Radius, 22 Basil, 23 Yale.

Empareja estas palabras - Match the Spanish and English words You will find the answers at the bottom of the quiz. 1.aburrido 2.antipatico 3.delgado 4.feo 5.guapo 6.malo 7.pobre 8.trabajador 9.alto

Soduko

a.tall b.blonde c.hardworking d.friendly e.good f.boring g.good looking h.rich i.poor

10.bajo 11.divertido 12.gordo 13.holgazan 14.moreno 15.rico 16.amable 17.bueno 18.estupido

Span - Eng

j.small k.bad l.intelligent m.unfriendly n.stupid o.dark p.thin q.big r.short

Quizword

19.grande 20.inteligente 21.pequeno 22.rubio

s.ugly t.fun u.lazy v.fat

Answers: 1f, 2m, 3p, 4s, 5g, 6k, 7i, 8c, 9a, 10r, 11t, 12v, 13u, 14o, 15h, 16d, 17q, 18n, 19q, 20l, 21j, 22b.

science QUIZ

Every week we’ll be covering a different topic to help readers enlarge their Spanish vocabulary. This week we start with: Adjectives to describe men N G Y S G O M G G R R S E E I GRANDE ABURRIDO M O R E N O U G O O F D R T I GUAPO ALTO S R I K X A A D H D N U B N E HOLGAZAN AMABLE H D A N P B A O R A U R O E O N O A O M J L O R G A R P G P INTELIGENTE ANTIPATICO WS T M A G O G N L B I J I R MALO BAJO V L B B A M D N P E X C U L E MORENO BUENO A M A Z P B A I E D U O G E S Z R A N A O L L V U L B G T T PEQUENO DELGADO T N O I B U R E O E Q S F N U POBRE DIVERTIDO A N T I P A T I C O R E G I P RICO ESTUPIDO K I P F Y B A J O A O T P G I O D I R R U B A Q V A G I L D RUBIO FEO X G G U M E T Q Z WT B X D O TRABAJADOR GORDO Z B G B K H G B Q Y N Z WN O

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Wednesday 12th October

07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Street Auction 12:45 Thief Trackers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Decimate 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Going Back Giving Back 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 21:00 The Great British Bake Off The quarterfinals arrive, and only five contestants remain in the tent, and as the stakes get ever higher for the amateur bakers, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins introduce yet another new Bake Off challenge - Tudor Week. All three tasks this week revolve around baking practices from the time of Henry VIII, beginning with a signature bake in the form of savoury-stuffed pies. Plus, Sue Perkins visits Hampton Court to discover how a sweet delicacy nearly tempted the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I to marry. 22:00 The Missing A young British woman stumbles through the streets of Eckhausen in Germany and collapses. Her name is Alice Webster, and she was abducted from the same town 11 years ago. Her return sends shockwaves through the tightknit local community 23:00 News 23:45 A Question of Sport 00:15 Ambulance 01:15 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:20 News

07:00 Street Auction 07:45 Thief Trackers 08:15 Going Back Giving Back 09:00 Great British Menu 09:30 The Severn Bridge at 50: A High Wire Act 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 12:30 The Daily Politics 14:00 Lifeline 14:10 Coast 14:15 The Edge 15:00 Hi-De-Hi 15:30 Yes, Prime Minister 16:00 To the Manor Born 16:30 Wonders of the Monsoon 17:30 The Link 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Simply Nigella Nigella demonstrates dishes that combine the comfort of the familiar with the excitement of the new 20:30 Great British Menu The main course section of the competition arrives for the North East chefs

Emmerdale takes drastic

20:30 Coronation Street David fine tunes his plan 21:00 All Star Mr and Mrs Loose Women presenter Andrea McLean and her partner Nick, boxer Audley Harrison and his wife Raychel, and celebrity hair stylist Nicky Clarke and his significant-other Kelly battle it out in the quiz that determines which couple knows each other the best

22:00 Horizon Alice Roberts explores the latest discoveries in the study of human origins, revealing the transformation that has been brought about in this field by genetics

22:00 The Aberfan Young Wives’ Club Documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan colliery spoil tip collapse by meeting the group of mothers who have met every week since the disaster. Making use of archive footage and first-hand testimonies, this film details how the women of the community developed a decades-long bond that helped them deal with their grief

23:00 The Premier League Show 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 No Such Thing as the News 00:45 Dominic Sandbrook: Let Us Entertain You 01:45 Natural World 03:45 This is BBC Two

23:00 News 23:40 Wedding Surprises Caught on Camera 00:40 British Touring Car Championships Highlights 02:00 Jackpot247 04:00 Murder, She Wrote 04:50 Nightscreen

21:00 Coast: The Great Guide Presenting the ultimate guide to East Anglia from The Wash to Canvey Island

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 House Doctor 13:10 News 13:15 The Gadget Show 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:20 NCIS 16:15 When Calls the Heart: Heart of a Hero 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Police Interceptors The clock is ticking for Paul Jackson as he tries to talk down a bloke threatening to take his own life with a knife

21:00 Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages The Welsh peninsula of Pembrokeshire provides the setting for Penelope’s last outing, as she tours villages clinging to the cliffsides and estuaries, or nestled beside beaches, farms and castles

21:00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors Anger, and how best to manage it, takes up much of the busy doctors’ time this week. Daniel is a cannabis addict angry about his inability to kick the habit. David is furious with mankind in general. Mario is strangely 22:00 Grand Designs upbeat about cutting his Kevin McCloud meets finger off with a powersaw Michelle Parsons, an artist and teacher who decided 22:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll to seize the day and build Take it Away Experienced her own private hideaway agent Stewart and trainee in a woodland environment Iain chasing £3,500 owed in Essex after she recov- by a builder to a dissatisered from a serious illness fied customer. Del and Dael collect over £2,500 23:00 It’s a Weird World owed to a frozen food com00:05 999: What’s Your pany Emergency? 01:10 Four to the Floor 01:35 The Lie 23:00 Undercover: Nailing Detective 02:15 Film - The the Fraudsters 00:05 The Time Traveler’s Wife (12) Nightmare Neighbour Next 04:05 Superscrimpers Door 01:05 On Benefits Christmas Cracker 05:00 02:00 Super Casino 04:05 Location, Location, Love/Hate 05:00 Witches: Location 05:55 Kirstie’s A Century of Murder 05:45 Vintage Gems HouseBusters

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THE MISSING

BBC One 22:00

SOAPS

A British woman found stumbling through the streets of Eckhausen in Germany is revealed to be Alice Webster, who was abducted from the same town 11 years earlier. Her re-appearances sends shockwaves through the community, as her family are thrown back into turmoil by the renewed search for her kidnapper. However, police are convinced the returned Alice also holds vital information about the whereabouts of a second missing girl, Sophie Giroux, whose case was initially investigated in 2003 by French detective Julien Baptiste.

finally tell Priya everything? Meanwhile, when Emma finds her old wedding dress, she suggests that James should get busy with wedding planning while he’s recovering. He clearly isn’t keen on the idea and Emma’s dark mood gets worse when she hears him calling Moira.

In Emmerdale, with his desperate plan in motion, Rakesh makes preparations by writing Priya a letter and holding baby Johnny for what he thinks will be the last time. Will Rakesh go ahead with his plan? Or is it time to

Elsewhere, Robert tells Aaron that he has set up Rebecca as his spy. First up is pressuring Rebecca to get a DNA test for Lawrence, believing this is his best chance at getting some leverage with Chrissie.

Also today, Moira doesn’t want Cain anywhere near her, while Rhona agrees that Paddy can go to Leo’s play.

07:00 Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Dinner Date 08:10 Ellen DeGeneres 09:00 Emmerdale 09:30 You’ve Been Framed and Famous 10:30 Psych 11:20 Royal Pains 12:15 Celebrity Dinner Date 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 Ultimate You’ve Been Framed 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Hell’s Kitchen 23:00 Ibiza Weekender 00:00 Family Guy 01:00 American Dad ITV3 07:00 Man About the House 07:25 On the Buses 07:50 Heartbeat 08:50 Where the Heart is 09:50 Wild at Heart 10:50 Judge Judy 12:05 Murder, She Wrote 13:00 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 14:05 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:15 Where the Heart is 17:15 Man About the House 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:20 On the Buses 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 Life of Crime 01:05 Wycliffe ITV4 07:00 Football Rivalries 07:10 Magnum, PI 08:00 The Chase 08:50 The Sweeney 09:50 Ironside 10:55 Minder 12:00 Magnum, PI 13:00 The Chase 14:00 Pawn Stars 14:55 Storage Wars Texas 15:55 The Sweeney 17:00 Minder 18:00 Ironside 19:00 Storage Wars Texas 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 When Football Changed Forever 22:00 Car Crash Global 23:00 Film Terminator 2: Judgment Day (18) 01:50 The Big Fish Off

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack Nick’s car and drives to the courthouse, where he fine tunes his plans for Clayton’s demise. Later, David calls at the garage and is still focused on revenge, so he makes Tyrone, Luke and Freddie an offer they can’t refuse.

In Coronation Street, Gail’s suspicions are piqued, but when she asks David where he keeps disappearing off to, he manages to cover. Confident that he’s got his mum off his back, David borrows

Meanwhile Steve tells Michelle that he’s not going to have the genetic test as he’d rather not know. When Nick and Leanne quiz Rana about MD, she is taken aback to realise they know about Steve and Michelle’s situation but Leanne covers. Soon afterwards, Leanne corners Michelle and piles on the pressure to get

Steve tested, but will Michelle take Leanne’s advice on board? Elsewhere, when Sarah is cold towards Gary, Izzy wonders what’s going on. Gary explains how he was trying to help, but now Sarah won’t give him the time of day. Later, Izzy corners Sarah and makes her see that Gary only

wanted the best for Bethany. Can Izzy’s words make Sarah give Gary a second chance? Also today, Kevin admonishes Anna for her harsh approach to Faye. Soon afterwards, Sophie is thrilled when she receives confirmation that she has nailed the Bradshaw contract for the garage.

Thursday 13th October 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Street Auction 12:45 Thief Trackers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Decimate 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Going Back Giving Back 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders Pam makes an upsetting discovery 21:00 Anne Robinson’s Britain Anne celebrates the nation’s pet owners, meeting other people who, like her, have a strong love for their four-legged companions. The humans she talks to include a socialite with a love of horses and a homeless dog-owner, as well as a woman whose rabbits helped her through her divorce 22:00 The Apprentice The candidates are summoned to the Istituto Marangoni, where Lord Sugar tells them that for their next task they must create an advertising campaign for jeans made from Japanese denim. Teams need to design packaging, Film - a TV advert and create an attention-grabbing bus shelter advert, all before pitching the whole campaign to a panel of leading industry experts 23:00 News 23:45 Question Time 00:45 This Week 01:30 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:35 News

07:00 Street Auction 07:45 Thief Trackers 08:15 Going Back Giving Back 09:00 Gardeners’ World 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:15 The Edge 15:00 Hi-De-Hi 15:30 Yes, Prime Minister 16:00 To the Manor Born 16:30 Wonders of the Monsoon 17:30 The Link 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking The Great British Bake Off judge prepares a selection of dishes perfect for families, preparing a simple and easy herb flatbread 20:30 Great British Menu North East chefs serve up their desserts in a last bid to make it through to the regional final 21:00 Nature’s Weirdest Events Chris Packham sets out to understand why a much-loved dolphin has started breaking people’s bones 22:00 The Fall Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson discovers evidence that there may be more victims 23:00 The Apprentice: You’re Fired 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 A Brief History of TIM 00:30 Fail 01:00 The Victorian Slum 02:00 Panorama 02:30 Conviction: Murder at the Station 03:30 This is BBC Two

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale James makes a disturbing discovery 20:30 Tonight Looking into the problems faced by hospital A&E departments, which are said to be overwhelmed by record numbers of people 21:00 Emmerdale James’s situation goes from bad to worse 21:30 Paul O’Grady: For The Love of Dogs Paul is in puppy heaven when he meets a litter of newborn Staffie cross pups - but things turn serious when three of them fall sick and are rushed into intensive care 22:00 Paranoid Identification of the Ghost Detective proves difficult when Michael’s interference forces the elusive investigator underground, forcing Nina and Alec to rethink their approach. Bobby arrives in Dusseldorf to uncover the mystery surrounding Ruben Locana’s death. Chasing a lead turns out to have catastrophic consequences for one of them 23:00 News 23:40 Exposure 00:40 Murder, She Wrote 01:35 Jackpot 04:00 Tonight

07:00 Countdown 07:45 King of Queens 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 13:00 News 13:05 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 14:05 Posh Pawn 15:10 Find it, Fix it, Flog it 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Four in a Bed 17:30 Come Dine with Me 18:00 My Kitchen Rules 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:55 Stand Up To Cancer 21:00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces George meets farmers Ali and Rich, who hope to salvage one of the rarest and - for its time - one of the most expensive caravans in the world: a 1950s Warwick Knight, complete with spiral staircase and roof garden 22:00 Hunted The investigation takes a psychological turn as the hunters search for the chinks in the fugitives’ armour. They suspect the key to Nick’s downfall is his close-knit family, so they place his wife under scrutiny. They also taunt Adu for being absent on his daughter's birthday, while paranoia sets in for Yorkshire girls Anna and Elizabeth, who become increasingly spooked by the continuing mind games. 23:00 The Lie Detective 23:50 Gogglebox 00:55 Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls 01:50 Undercover Boss USA 02:40 Film Delhi-6 (PG)

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 House Doctor 13:10 News 13:15 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:20 NCIS 16:15 When Calls the Heart: Forever in My Heart 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Tube: Going Underground Tube staff face their busiest and most unusual shift of the year New Year’s Eve. Firework displays, urinating on the escalators, all-night vomitmopping and a suspect package at Waterloo Bridge 21:00 On Benefits: Life on the Dole Rob is 45 and has been on the dole for 20 years. He has lost his case for compensation against the council after an accident outside a shop, but refuses to give up and is seeking damages from the shop owner instead 22:00 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door What happens when one person’s idea of a friendly generous gesture is deemed as an unwanted invasion of privacy by another? 23:00 Celebrity Botched Up Bodies 00:05 Tattoo Disasters 01:00 Super Casino 04:10 House Doctor 05:00 Witches: A Century of Murder 05:45 HouseBusters

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SOAPS

In Emmerdale, James is determined to attend Holly’s funeral today, despite feeling groggy, and he makes this clear to Emma. So he naturally feels uneasy when he overhears Emma telling Pete that he won’t be able to make it as he’s asleep. Emma also seizes control by refusing to give James his phone.

Allan Cubitt’s dark thriller about the game of cat and mouse between senior detective Stella Gibson and serial killer Paul Spector continues, having taken a surprising left turn now that the accused is in a hospital bed. Spector’s recovery is proving slow, and when his legal team springs into action, Gibson is more desperate than ever to ensure justice is served - especially after receiving a late-night visit from his last victim, Rose Stagg. Meanwhile, Spector and his nurse Kiera grow closer, while his wife Sally Ann reaches breaking point. Elsewhere, Ashley and Laurel are forced to choose a different church for Dotty’s christening.

Meanwhile, Jai and Rishi finally discover the truth about Rakesh.

Also, Aaron and Robert are uncomfortable when talk turns to marriage.

In the second episode, James is keen to escape from Emma’s clutches, but he only makes matters worse by slipping and falling on his broken leg, which leaves him in agony.

Determined to be in control, Emma destroys James’s phone and decides not to call an ambulance for him. How will James react as the truth dawns on him that Emma is holding him prisoner? Meanwhile, Cain agrees to a drunken night in town with Charity.

07:00 Movies Now 07:10 Man About the House 07:35 Heartbeat 08:40 Where the Heart is 09:40 Wild at Heart 10:40 Judge Judy 12:00 Murder, She Wrote 13:00 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 14:05 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:15 Where the Heart is 17:15 Man About the House 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:20 On the Buses 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Rosemary and Thyme 22:00 Paul O’Grady’s Animal Orphans 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 Life of Crime 01:05 Wycliffe 02:10 Law and Order: UK ITV4

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack

Later, James makes a shocking discovery when he lets the cat eat his food...

Elsewhere, Rebecca tells Robert that she has sent off the DNA sample, but she is also thrown to see how close Aaron and Robert are.

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07:00 Magnum, PI 07:55 The Chase 08:55 The Sweeney 09:55 Ironside 11:00 Test Match Bowls 18:30 Pawn Stars 19:00 Storage Wars Texas 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Fishing Impossible 22:00 Film Goldfinger (PG) 00:15 Car Crash Global 01:15 Film Fire Down Below (18)

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07:00 Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Celebrity Dinner Date 08:10 Ellen DeGeneres 09:00 Emmerdale 09:30 Coronation Street 10:00 You’ve Been Framed 10:30 Psych 11:20 Royal Pains 12:15 Dinner Date 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 Coronation Street 14:15 You’ve Been Framed 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed and Famous 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Dating in the Dark 23:00 Celebrity Juice 23:50 Family Guy 00:45 American Dad 01:40 The Cleveland Show 02:10 Two and a Half Men

Finally, will Lachlan agree to go to the pub with Rebecca? In Eastenders, with the Cokers’ move away from

Walford imminent, Les starts to have doubts about whether it’s really the right decision for them until Pam reassures him.

Later, Pam pays a visit to the homeless shelter to drop off Paul’s clothes, but she receives a shock when she arrives there... Meanwhile, Claudette tries to support Billy as he struggles to transition into

the role of manager at the funeral parlour. Claudette thinks that Billy needs to show the staff who’s boss, so he decides it’s time to remind everyone that he’s now in charge - and Les is very impressed.

Elsewhere, when Steven shows Lauren a video which shows Louie saying “dada”, he doesn’t get the reaction he was expecting.

Food & Drink

Friday 7th October 2016

Tomatoes forever recipe Fresh tomatoes can still give us one glorious final taste of summer Tomato and plum salad

with nori and sesame salt.

You can get everything

chopped and prepped an hour or two ahead, but don’t put this together until just before serving. Double (or quadruple!) the amount of nori and sesame salt, if you like: it’s a great alternative seasoning for all sorts of day-to-day cooking. Serves six. 800g mixed ripe tomatoes (beef, plum, tiger, green, yellow and cherry), large ones cut into 1cm-wide wedges, cherry tomatoes halved or quartered 3 ripe dark plums, stoned and cut into 1cm-wide wedges 6 spring onions, finely sliced on an angle 15g coriander leaves, roughly chopped 1¼ tsp fish sauce 2 tsp caster sugar

2 tbsp rice vinegar 2 tsp soy sauce 2 tbsp groundnut oil 3cm piece ginger, peeled and julienned 1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed ¼ tsp finely grated orange zest Flaky sea salt ½ sheet of nori seaweed 2 tsp black sesame seeds, toasted 1 tbsp white sesame seeds, toasted ½ tsp chilli flakes Put the tomatoes and plums in a large bowl with the spring onions and coriander. In a medium bowl, whisk the fish sauce, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce and groundnut oil, stir in the ginger, garlic, orange zest and half

a teaspoon of salt and leave to infuse for 10 minutes. Heat a medium frying pan on a high flame, then dry-fry the nori sheet for a minute, turning it over halfway through, until crisp and dry. Roughly break up the nori sheet, then blitz to a rough powder (a spice grinder is the best tool for this). Tip the nori powder into a small bowl, then mix in the sesame seeds, chilli flakes and half a teaspoon of salt. To serve, pour the dressing over the tomatoes and plums, toss gently and transfer to a platter. Sprinkle over half the nori and sesame salt mix and put the rest in a small bowl to serve alongside, so your guests can add more, if they like.

Easy stuffed peppers A beautiful starter or a late night snack A fifteen minute supper that won't leave you feeling stuffed. Serves 4 Ingredients 4 red pepper 2 x 250g pouches cooked tomato rice (we used Tilda Rizazz Mediterranean Tomato) 2 tbsp pesto handful pitted black olives, chopped 200g goat's cheese, sliced Method Use a small knife to cut the top out of the peppers, then scoop out the seeds. Sit the peppers on a plate, cut-side up, and cook in the microwave on High for 5-6 mins until they have wilted and softened. While the peppers are cooking, mix the rice together with the pesto and olives and two-thirds of the cheese. Scoop the rice into the pep-

pers, top with the remaining goat’s cheese and continue to cook for 8-10 mins. Tip Quick rice, Pouches of cooked rice make a great storecupboard standby. Serve them as a side dish or tip straight into a wok and stir-fry with your favourite ingredients.

The Fat Duck regains three Michelin stars after Australian sojourn Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck has regained its three Michelin stars to rejoin the elite of world restaurants, increasing the number of top-rated eateries in the UK from three to four. The high-end venue run by the chef renowned for serving snail porridge lost its stars last year after he moved it 10,000 miles to Melbourne, Australia, for 12 months. But at the unveiling of the 2017 Michelin Guide on Monday, it was announced that the £255-per-person restaurant in Bray, Berkshire – which reopened in September 2015 – was back in the three-star club. After eight anonymous

inspections, it was deemed worthy of regaining its status as one of only about 100 restaurants in the world with three Michelin stars. The guide’s editor, Rebecca Burr, said: “Our inspectors had many meals here during the course of the year and found the restaurant invigorated, rejuvenated and unquestionably worthy of being re-awarded our highest accolade.” The Fat Duck takes its place at the top of the pile alongside Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay – both in London – and Michel Roux’s Waterside Inn, also in Bray, Berkshire. Those three already had

three stars and there were no other new restaurants receiving the honour. Blumenthal’s Knightsbridge

restaurant Dinner retained its two Michelin stars, along with Araki, Le Gavroche and The Ledbury.

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Dessert

Okayu and cucumber salad

Raspberry oat slices Ingredients

Serves: 12 5 tablespoons light brown soft sugar 125g (4 1/2 oz) plain flour 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda pinch salt 100g (4 oz) porridge oats 125g (4 1/2 oz) butter, softened 250g (9 oz) good quality raspberry jam. Method Prep:15min › Cook:40min › Ready in 55min Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas mark 4. Grease one 20cm (8 inch) square cake tin, and line with baking parchment. Combine brown sugar, flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and porridge oats in a large bowl. Rub in the butter using your hands to form a crumbly mixture. Press 3/4 of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared cake tin, reserving the rest for the topping. Spread the jam over the base but not quite to the edges as it will spread. Sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture over the top and lightly press it into the jam. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in a preheated oven or until lightly browned. Allow to cool before cutting into slices.

Friday 7th October 2016

Semolina porridge with amazing blackberry syrup Serves 2 200g semolina 400ml milk A pinch of salt 150g blackberries Season the por 1 tsp sugar ridge w sugar, it salt an 3 tbsp honey d a pat h a little Serve w o it h s 1 Mix the ome m f butter. and a p ore s at semolina with compo of butter, or w ugar te or fr a tiny bit of esh be ith fruit honey. rries and cold water to form a smooth paste – if you were to put the juices. grains straight into hot 3 Once the milk is milk you would get close to boiling, slowly clumpy kasza, and no stir in the semolina one likes that. You only paste with a wooden need about 4 table- spoon. spoons of cold water for every 200g of 4 Turn the heat down semolina. Meanwhile, and simmer for about heat the milk with a 3-4 minutes, stirring often. Sweeten with pinch of salt. 2 In a separate pan, honey to taste. heat the blackberries 5 Serve the kasza and the sugar, covered, manna in a bowl with on a low heat, until the blackberry syrup on berries fall apart and top, for a extra bit of release their lovely flavour.

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Serves 1 Ingredients Okayu 50g sushi rice 250ml stock (chicken, vegetable or dashi) 1 egg Cucumber Salad 1 small cucumber 60ml rice wine vinegar 1tsp caster sugar 1/2tsp coarse sea salt 2tbsp toasted sesame seeds (I used half black sesame seeds) Soy sauce, to serve. Equipment Small saucepan with a lid Wooden spoon Vegetable peeler or mandolin Kitchen towel

Mixing bowl 1. Wash the rice three times and then cover with water. Leave to soak for half an hour. Preheat your oven to 180C. 2. Drain the rice then add it, and the stock, to a saucepan. Cover with a lid and place over a medium heat. Bring to the boil, then turn the heat right down and simmer gently for 25 minutes. Keep the lid on the whole time. Once 25 minutes have passed, turn off the heat and steam for five minutes. 3. Transfer the rice to a heatproof bowl, make a slight well in the rice and then crack

the egg in. Bake for 10 minutes, until the white is cooked but the yolk is still runny. 4. While the egg is cooking, slice the cucumbers thinly using a vegetable peeler or mandolin. Pat down with kitchen towel to remove some of their moisture. Combine the other salad ingredients (except the sesame seeds) in a bowl and swirl around so that the salt and sugar dissolve in the vinegar. Add the cucumber ribbons, toss, sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve immediately with the rice and egg, and some soy sauce, if you like. Get ready to enjoy!

Friday 7th October 2016

Jamie Oliver's paella brings fractured Spain together… against him Naked Chef’s inclusion of chorizo in classic rice dish draws opprobrium

Fears that Spain had become irreparably divided following two inconclusive general elections and almost 10 months of ceaseless political bickering were allayed on Tuesday morning after Jamie Oliver united the nation by tweeting his own twist on paella. Unfortunately for the Naked Chef, philanthropist, and scourge of pushers of

Turkey Twizzlers, it was against him that Spaniards united. Offering a slightly different take on the classic rice dish may seem a reasonable thing for a welltravelled chef to do, but the perceived transgression – particularly the use of a highly-spiced paprika sausage – was grave. Barely had he posted “Good Spanish food doesn’t

get much better than paella. My version combines chicken thighs & chorizo” before the backlash began. Some were perplexed (“WTF, Jamie Oliver?”); some satirically offered their own interpretations of fish and chips using aubergines, duck, beef and ravioli, and some were sinister: “Remove the chorizo. We don’t negotiate with

terrorists. First warning”; “Let’s hope the knife slips when he’s chopping coriander”, and “Why don’t you make some chicken nuggets out of your own fingers?” Kinder commenters pointed out that while the inclusion of chorizo meant the recipe absolutely could not be described as a paella in keeping with the dish’s true, Valencian origins, it might just sneak into the distinct category of “rice and stuff”. Paella, which spread around Spain from the eastern region, is a seasonal, local dish whose ingredients can include meat, fish, shellfish, vegetables and beans. Oliver is not the first UKbased chef to visit questionable variations on Spanish classics. Earlier this year, an article in El País criticised Gordon Ramsay for a sloppy paella spiked with chilli – “because it’s never too late to confuse Spain with Mexico”.

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Thoroughly impressive cocktails you can easily make at home If you’re having people over and want to impress, these three drinks are surprisingly easy to make – and will win you more than a few accolades. Sloe gin fizz: This classic uses similar techniques to the Earl Grey marTEAni, but adds an extra twist by straining the drink over soda water, which reacts with the egg white for a lovely aerated texture. 22.5ml sloe gin 22.5ml dry gin 22.5ml freshly-squeezed lemon juice 15ml simple syrup One egg white 30ml soda water (as fizzy as possible) Build all ingredients except soda water in cocktail shaker. Seal shaker and dry shake. Add ice and shake again. Place soda water in a chilled coupe and slowly strain cocktail on top. If you’re trying to impress someone special, scatter some dried rose petals onto the

foam. Prescription julep: 45ml cognac (VSOP or thereabouts) 15ml rye whiskey Six or so mint leaves, stems removed Two teaspoons sugar 10ml or so water Build sugar and water in glass. Stir until dissolved. Add mint leaves and muddle lightly. Top with crushed ice, then cognac and rye. Stir to incorporate, then top again with crushed ice. Garnish liberally with mint (and berries, if you’re so inclined). Earl Grey marTEAni: 45ml Earl Grey infused gin 30ml freshly-squeezed lemon juice 22.5ml simple syrup One egg white Build ingredients in cocktail shaker. Seal shaker and dry shake. Add ice, shake again, and double strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel or – why not? – a slice of cucumber on the rim.

Apples, potatoes and bacon recipe

The recipe Put a pan of water on to boil. Scrub a couple of large potatoes (about 450g total weight) and cut them into large pieces, drop them into the boiling water and cook them for 10 minutes, then drain. Roughly crush 6 juniper berries. Cut 2 large apples into quarters and remove the cores. Warm a thick slice, about 30g, of butter in shallow pan with 2 tbsp of olive oil, then add the crushed juniper, apples and drained potatoes. Keep the heat low to moderate and the pan partially covered with a lid. Baste from time to time. As the apples and potatoes edge towards tender-

ness, add 6 rashers of back bacon to the pan, cut into short strips, and let them cook in the appley butter. Chop a couple of handfuls of parsley. Season with salt and coarse black pepper and half of the chopped parsley. When the potatoes are golden and the apples are soft, remove everything from the pan on to warm plates. Tip away any fat, but not any of the delicious crusty bits stuck to the pan, then spoon in 150ml of crème fraîche. Bring gently to the boil, stirring constantly, then spoon over the bacon and apples, and add the remaining parsley. Serves 2. The trick

Keep the heat quite moderate when sautéeing the potatoes. If you overheat it the butter will burn. As you add the crème fraîche to the pan, scrape at the crusty bits of potato and apple that are stuck to it. There’s too much flavour there to waste. The twist Mustard, either smooth or grainy, goes well with both apples and bacon. Stir some into the crème fraîche as it heats. I would probably add some chopped tarragon to this if there was some around. The aniseed notes are good with apple. You can omit the crème fraîche if you like, in which case you might like to deglaze the pan with a little cider.

Food & Drink

Friday 7th October 2016

DVDs Record Of The Week!

Back to a TKO Pick this week and a track that was released on 1 October from the Robster – taken from his 11th studio album called Heavy Entertainment Show – due out on 4 November. As expected, he is doing the rounds of chat shows on TV to promote the single and the album – including last week's Graham Norton show. A clever little tune, this, poking fun at the way the Russians walk over everything and everyone … allegedly – on this showing I can't see Robbie being invited to be the next Ambassador to Russia any day soon! You can hear the track on every show this week on 91.9 and 90.8 fm. Perhaps you have a song that brings back happy memories or says thank you to someone special, or is just a great tune that you love to hear. Then send your own 'Record of the Week' request to studio @tko.fm … and include details of the track and what it means to you … and next week … It could be your special track played every day on TKO 91.9 & 90.8 fm. So, we look forward to tuning in to the show next week and maybe you’ll be inspired to send in your own Record of the Week song, with Costa Blanca’s best radio station TKO!

BOX OFFICE

TOP 10 1.Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2. Deepwater Horizon 3. The Magnificent Seven 4. Storks 5. Sully 6. Masterminds 7. Queen of Katwe 8. Don't Breathe 9. Bridget Jones's Baby 10. Snowden

Laid-inAmerica 2016

DIRECTOR Peter Berg GENRE Action, Drama, Thriller SYNOPSIS A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history. RELEASE DATE 30 September 2016 (USA) DURATION 1h 47min Those who go to see Deepwater Horizon for a thoughtful examination of what took place on the deep-water drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2010 will be sorely disap-

DEEPWATER HORIZON REVIEW pointed. Although undeniably light on explanation, the latest collaboration between Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg, who worked together on Lone Survivor, excels when it comes to depicting the devastation caused on the rig. The true star of this movie is indeed said devastation, which is seen through the eyes of the rig's crew. Those front and centre include the chief electronics technician on board, Mike Williams (Wahlberg); the man in charge of the crew, Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell); rig worker Andrea Fleytas

(Gina Rodriguez); and BP representative Donald Vidrine (John Malkovich). The film's take on each of these characters is relatively one-note. That is, Williams is the hero, Harrell (who goes by Mr. Jimmy) is the wise and understanding boss, Fleytas is the relative neophyte who can't keep her head when things get bad, and Vidrine is the villain.from the cast of Blazing Saddles. Deepwater Horizon quickly points to Vidrine and other BP folks as the cause of the disaster, making them out to be irresponsible and irre-

Laid in America is about Jack and Duncan, a pair of foreign exchange students with only one night left in the US. They decide to make their last day in America memorable, vowing to lose their virginity before the night is through. Jack and Duncan know that their best chance to accomplish their goal is to snag an invite to the party of the year. One problem: it's being hosted by the school bully, who has no intention of adding two foreign exchange students to the guest list. In their attempts to wrangle an invitation, they're forced to deal with drug lords, gangsters, and all kinds of comedic mishaps.

The Wailing

deemable individuals who can't see past an earnings report. Without a true explanation of the process—and the step or two BP decided to skip in preparing the well—the audience is left only with Malkovich's sneering drawl and the crew's hatred of Vidrine. Deepwater Horizon is a Hollywood disaster movie. It offers up incredible explosions, stories of heartbreak and heroism, visceral thrills, and paper-thin characters. It is a movie that flinches from explanation, but not from brutality. So sit back and enjoy!

La Mostra Viva puts the Mostra Valencia as a meeting of Mediterranean cultures The objective of the Mostra Viva Mediterrani is to turn Valencia into a meeting point of cultures and conflicts around the Mediterranean Sea. Discover other looks and build bridges to understand what unites us and what makes us different. And the best tools to convey this knowledge are movie theatres, literature, visual arts, gastronomy, music, debate, and so on. The inauguration will take place on the 7th of October at Palau de la Música and the closing will be on Saturday 15th in the same cultural site. Eight thematic areas will be the outline. The Mostra Film Mediterrani in Valencia will offer feature motion pictures and shorts films from the riparian countries.

The Trobada De Música del Mediterrani will bring together bands of the north, east and south shores. The Encontre d'Esriptors / Mediterrani is gaining weight in its new headquarters and music unite the voices of poets and storytellers. Meanwhile, the scene Mediterrani returns with circus and story-telling activities. The Visuals Arts Mediterrani maintains the successful dialogue between the students and teachers of Fine Arts and the sea. The Debats del Mediterrani delve into the various sides of this sea. Gastronomy of Mediterrani inquire into the variety of the Mediterranean diet, and Mostra Education show that art and culture is participatory.

The film opens with a view of a lake by a little village (Goksung) in the mountains of South Korea. A stranger is fishing by the river. The stranger, an old man who speaks Japanese, has recently arrived at the village, and he lives at a secluded house in the mountains by the village. A mysterious sickness starts spreading among the people of the village, causing violent murderous outbreaks followed by stupor and eventually death.

The Purge: Election Year Years after sparing the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Barnes has become head of security for S e n a t o r Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to eliminate the Purge.

Friday 7th October 2016

Successful Women In Business Sarahs Curtain and Bedding

Sarahs Curtain & Bedding Store is now entering its fourth Autumn/Winter season at Los Dolses Commercial Centre, Villamartin. With plenty of fabulous curtains and bed linen from well known UK and Spanish suppliers as well as a reliable sewing service business is booming. Sarah has added new ranges of fabrics for curtains which are made in Spain and Portugal this season. The in store sewing service offers clothing alterations as well as full home textile making, alterations to curtains and recovering outdoor furniture. Sarahs Curtain & Bedding Store is open Mon - Thurs 10 - 4.30 and Friday 10-2.

Head To Toe Head to Toe hair and beauty salon in La Zenia, now in its 14th year under the ownership of Geraldine just gets better and better. Always priding herself of offering only the best service and top of the range products at affordable prices, Geraldine has now introduced a state of the art and top in its range SHR Laser Hair Removal machine to allow a fully permanent hair removal service. This treatment is preformed by Natalie who is fully qualified and experienced in this treatment. Along with laser hair removal Geraldine can now offer the latest non surgical face lift treatment and fat loss treatment. Along with hair, beauty, nails, foot clinic and physiotherapy and recently added is our Wig Boutique offering a large range of both natural and synthetic hair wigs. Geraldine truly offers a fully Head to Toe service. To discuss your needs call into the salon in La Zenia, were open Monday till Saturday from 10am to 6 pm.

Timeless Fashions Timeless Fashions, Punta Marina, Punta Prima Our shop on the top floor of the Punta Marina Commercial Centre in Punta Prima is an independent ladies fashion store that sells beautiful clothes and accessories for all ages and sizes. My name is Joy Jobbins and I am the owner of Timeless Fashions. I have a wonderful team of four ladies – Jane, Lynne, Dorothy and Sharon – that I employ, who help make sure that everything runs smoothly and every single one of our customers leave feeling happy with their purchase. Our aim is to always meet customers' expectations when they visit us. Our fashion items are sourced not only from the UK, but also from other countries including Germany and France. We love to offer our customers the latest in new styles, designs and colours, so that when they wear one of our items on an evening out, they feel a million dollars. Our clothes make women stand out!

Eva Veronika YOU DESERVE PRIVACY, peace, harmony, wide views, Spanish relaxing sunny side life – therefore we are here in Spain! And still it is affordable And still there are real bargains waiting for you making your dream of this heaven on earth life true. For EVA VERONIKA as well the years have passed , now better than before being in a position to know what most of us retired youngsters (some of us with limited mobility) are looking to buy and to enjoy: No complications, no steps, comfortable distribution of rooms, low maintenance gardens, near to village and to ameneties as bars, restaurants, doctors, pharmacies, hospitals and vets. All this at a fair price and with a perfect customer service. EVA VERONIKA will be at your side finding the right home with you, she will assist you in all doubts and questions whenever they may arise during the process of purchasing, before and after it. EVA VERONIKA's customers are more likely her friends and as a friend she will be glad to advise and to support you.

Successful Women In Business The Electrical Shop

There are a lot of things that are needed to make a business successful - Great service goes without saying. A great service will encourage your customers to return to you the next time they need something instead of going to a competitor. How many times do people say they will not return because of poor service? A great workforce is also very important, as is consistency. It´s pointless reccomending a business to a friend only for them to receive poor products or service. Euronic´s is part of one of Europe´s largest buying groups. All the Euronic´s shops are independantly owned but have the back up of a big company trying to offer the best prices for their products. Debbie Wright owns both the Blue Lagoon & Quesada shops. She and her team strive to do their best to provide the right product for their customers at the right price. They will always do their best to price match. Why not pop in and see what they have to offer. You won't be disappointed!

Sue Whittemore During the 15 years that Sue Whittemore has lived in Spain, Sue has built up a sizeable and loyal client base. She is a qualified, experienced beauty therapist and chiropodist, with foot care being her speciality. Based at Platinum Hair & Beauty, at the Commercial Centre El Galan, Orihuela Costa (5 minutes from Campoamor Golf Club) Sue provides a full range of beauty treatments and a comprehensive Chiropody service, including care for diabetic feet, removal of corns & calluses, and treatment and advice for fungal skin & nail infections and verrucas, with clients travelling from far and wide for her expertise. For those unable to travel to the salon, she also provides a home visit Chiropody service covering Torrevieja, Los Montesinos, Ciudad Quesada, Orihuela Costa, San Miguel de Salinas and Mil Palmeras.

Hollywood Hollywood hair & beauty salon are into their third year of business now still offering the very best treatments at affordable prices. Manager Dee is there for all your beauty needs to ensure you have the perfect pamper from head to toe. Sam the owner of Hollywood offers semi- permanent make up at great prices. Our talented nail technician Niamh does all nail treatments including fabulous pedicures. Pop in and meet the team. We are located at The Commercial Centre Los Dolces (50meters from Bankinter). Our opening hours are Monday- Friday 9am-4pm 96676583 or please email hollywoodhairandbeauty@outlook.com Check out monthly offers in The Courier newspaper.

Salon Margaretha’s Worried About Hair Loss? At Salon Margaretha's, we are the leading experts in hair loss and scalp disorders for women and men on the Costa Blanca. We offer professional help and real solutions for all types of hair loss with completely undetectable personalised hairreplacement systems, custom-made top pieces, ready-to-wear wigs and toupées. These state-of-the-art super thin skin hair prostheses are indistinguishable from your real hair and scalp. Our highly trained and experienced technicians tailor, cut, colour and style your prothesis, so that it exactly matches your own hair and lifestyle. Book your free private and confidential consultation today with our specialist trichologist Margaretha on 966 92 18 46. Salon Margaretha's Calle Segovia 2, Lomas Playa III, Torrevieja www.salongmargaretha.com Tel: 966 92 18 46.

Sales & Design Team at The Courier They say that to become successful you have to work hard. And, as The Courier’s most recent addition to the sales team, I can see exactly how hard the female team behind the Costa Blanca’s most popular free English newspaper does actually work. If you think that the paper looks good, that’s all down to just one person – Nicola Cross – our fantastic designer. She’s in charge of the layout and designs all of our adverts, and, with her former positions including The Daily Star, the Daily Express and the Manchester Evening News, we’re extremely lucky to have her. Nevertheless, there would be no newspaper without any sales, and most of that is down to Jean Harris and Myra Macrae, who have been there right from the start, never faltering and braving all kinds of weather through rain and shine. As a former journalist I have found my place within the group, and can honestly say it’s a fantastic team.

Health

Friday 7th October 2016

'Breakthrough' lung cancer drug made available on NHS About 300 patients in England and Wales eligible for drug that can lead to ‘unprecedented’ reduction in tumours through the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), after a financial agreement was reached with AstraZeneca. Overall, almost twice as many patients responded to the treatment compared with another chemotherapy, and the drug stalled progression of the cancer by an extra four months. Dr Alastair Greystoke, senior lecturer in medical oncology at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS foundation trust and clinical investigator for the drug, said: “This is a turning point in the treatment of EGFR T790M mutationpositive non-small-cell lung cancer, and very welcome news for a group of patients with limited options. “Two-thirds of patients have A last-chance drug that can lead to an “unprecedented” reduction in lung cancer tumours has become available on the NHS. Tagrisso (osimertinib) was granted a licence only in February and has been hailed as a breakthrough drug by manufacturer A s t r a Z e n e c a . The once-a-day tablet will be available immediately for patients with non-small-

cell lung cancer who have a specific mutation, known as EGFR T790M-positive, that means they have stopped responding to earlier treatments. Experts predict about 300 patients in England and Wales will be eligible for Tagrisso every year. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has issued final draft guidance that says Tagrisso should be made available

THE FIRST MEDICINE TO ENTER THE NEWLY REFORMED CANCER DRUGS FUND “This new type of targeted therapy is an exciting development in the treatment of lung cancer. For many of our patients and their families this is a breakthrough moment – a recognition that these new medicines can truly benefit people with an advanced form of the disease. “We welcome the announcement – it is good news for patients with the appropriate type of lung cancer. We hope this paves the way for further positive decisions for lung cancer patients across the UK.”

a good reduction in the size of their tumours with an accompanying improvement in their symptoms, which is unprecedented for patients at this stage of their dise a s e . ” Lisa Anson, country president for AstraZeneca UK and Ireland, said: “We are very proud that NHS patients in England now have access to osimertinib. This is a breakthrough medicine with one of the fastest development programmes in pharmaceutical history. “Now it is the first medicine to enter the newly reformed Cancer Drugs Fund, which is specifically designed to ensure earlier access to breakthrough cancer t r e a t m e n t s . ” The cost of the drug agreement with AstraZeneca is being kept confidential, Nice said. Without the agreement, it costs £4,722.30 per pack of 30 80mg tablets. Paula Chadwick, the chief executive of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, said: “Osimertinib represents a new option for hundreds of patients who have this specific form of lung cancer.

MedB Health Dr M. Mannu

Friday 7th October 2016

How People Affect You From a Distance

You’ve probably had the experience of feeling something behind you only to look back and find someone star-

ing intently at you. According to Scientist, Rupert Sheldrake, this phenomenon is real and not a coincidence.

His experiments showed that people could tell when someone is staring at them at a statistically significant rate. He has shown by experiments and published peer-reviewed studies arguing that human beings have telepathic abilities, and can perceive signals from other people by means other than the known senses. Scientists from the Heart Math Institute have also arrived at a similar conclusion through other scientific experiments. A few years ago, scientists from the Institute performed a ground-breaking experiment demonstrating that human beings were capable of knowing events before they occurred. The scientists

hooked up participants to monitors measuring their heart rate, brain waves, breathing, blood pressure and other vital signs that indicate a response from the body. The participants sat in front of a computer screen that flashed pictures at random. These pictures were either very pleasing such as a picture of a beautiful countryside, or very disturbing, such as the picture of a murdered person. The scientists were surprised to discover that the participants anticipated the disturbing pictures even before the images flashed through the screen. What was even more amazing was that the heart responded faster than the

brain. The scientists measured the signals from the heart and brain and found that the heart has 60 times the electric power and 5000 times the magnetic power of the brain. The brain and the heart are in constant communication. When the heart is in harmony and at peace, it sends better signals to the brain, which allows us to think better. When we are stressed and thinking negatively, the heart sends disordered signals to the brain, making it difficult to concentrate. Although science considers the brain to be the centre of the body, the human experience is very different. When we feel emotions, we

feel a tug in our heart and not the brain. We refer to people with a ´warm heart´. We even know something by heart, not by brain! According to the scientists at Math Heart, the energy radiating from the heart extends about 7 feet from the body, which means that we are affected by the energies of people around us, something people have always known. When people refer to someone having a magnetic personality, perhaps we are referring to a person having a very strong heart energy field. For Full Body Diagnostic Scan Call MedB Diagnostics: 965071745, 966189074. Visit – www.medb.es.

Revealed: MRSA variant found in British pork at Asda and Sainsbury's

Meat produced from British pigs has been shown to be infected with a livestock strain of MRSA, the Guardian can reveal, raising concerns that the UK is on the brink of another food scandal. Tests on a sample of 97 UK-produced pork products

from supermarkets show that three – sold at Asda and Sainsbury’s – were contaminated with the superbug strain which can cause serious health problems. The Guardian, working with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), has also

established that a loophole in import regulations is leaving an open door for MRSA CC398-infected live pigs from countries such as Denmark, where the disease is rife. The findings have serious implications for human health. MRSA CC398 is a potentially

deadly bacteria which can be resistant to even the strongest antibiotics. It is less harmful to humans than the MRSA bug that kills about 300 people in hospitals in England and Wales each year. But it causes unpleasant persistent infections and can seriously

harm people with compromised immune systems, such as those already suffering other illness. It is known to have been responsible for at least six deaths in Denmark, though that is likely to be the tip of the iceberg. People can contract

the disease from infected meat, and from infected animals. The superbug, is killed thorough cooking - but it can be passed on through lapses in hygiene. Workers on pig farms can catch the disease from infected animals and pass it on to other people.

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BlueMoon Solutions is the computer and IT services company on the Costa Blanca. BlueMoon Solutions come to you at home or work, our personal service covers from Alicante to Pilar de la Horadada.

Richard moved to Spain ten years ago having left his management background behind in the UK and decided to use his IT skills to help home users and small businesses with their PC problems. Now a relaxed 'computer man' he is out and about in the Spanish sun every day, making house and shop calls and using his vast experience and qualifications to sort out the problem there and then. Computers are his hobby as well as his work so don’t be surprised to get an answer to your email in the early hours!

ADVICE: Alexandra had problems watching videos sent ADVICE: William was having problems opening .pdf files and attachments. to her on the TV.

Dear Richard, I loved your page of PC questions and answers. They were really well set out without all the hi-brow jargon, so easy for me to understand!!! My daughter regularly sends me photos taken by her i phone via e mail. I then save them to my hard drive and also transfer them to my memory stick. I then plug this into the television and watch them on screen, however when she sends me short video clips, I still save them but they will not play on the TV. I have done a lot of research on the internet but have come up with nothing that helps. Can you help me PLEASE!

Hi Alexandra, yes I am pretty sure I understand why you can’t watch the movies on the TV now I can see the file format of the files that you have sent. Now for the technical bit….the iPhone stores its movies using a format called Apple QuickTime, these are .MOV files, however, your TV almost certainly won’t be able to read these files and probably wants them in .AVI format (hence your problem). What you need to do is convert the .MOV files to .AVI files and to do this you need some specialist software that is probably not already on your computer. I have done some research and I think I have just found an easy way of doing what you need, there is a website called www.zamzar.com and they convert files for free and email you a link to the converted file, it’s an easy 3 step process. Update from Alexandra… Hi Richard - WE HAVE SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!Thank you so much for sorting this out for me. top-client/Tutorial-How-to-disable-Skype-advertisements/td-p/3316902 ..that you could try if they are really bugging you.

Hi Richard,I bought a lap top in the UK a few months ago and initially I was unable to open PDF attachments to e-mails. I went back to PC World and a member of staff downloaded Yahoo software to allow me to open these attachments but I have since discovered I cannot open attachments in web sites, such as Easyjet, I cannot open boarding passes etc. I have Free PDF Tablet on my desktop but when I try to open the attachments all that comes up is Free PDF Tablet has stopped working (A problem caused the programme to stop working correctly. Windows will close the programme and notify you if a solution is available). There never seems to be a solution. Can you recommend any software I may download to correct this? Thank you.

Hi William, many apologies for the delay in replying to your email. The best software to use to open .pdf files and attachments is Adobe Reader, you can download a free version of it from http://get.adobe.com/reader, once downloaded and installed you should be able to open .pdf files to your heart’s content.

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And The Nominations Are…….. On Your Marks!

900 competitors from around Alicante Province pounded the streets of Rojales on Saturday in the fourteenth staging of the Carrera Popular, which included 300 youngsters taking part in a special children's race. The youngsters did laps around the town centre, the exact number

determined by their age, with the adults then competing in the 10 kilometre challenge. The Malecón del Soto in Rojales was the starting point for the races, with prizes being donated by local businesses. Two and half thousand people were estimated to have watched the various races.

Going The Mile in Pilar

La Manga Club on the Mar Menor has been nominated in the category of the World's Leading Luxury Sports and Villa Resort 2016, in the World Travel awards, where it will be up against four other nominees from Italy, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and the Caribbean. It’s the third year running that

La Manga Club has been nominated for this award. La Manga Club has also been nominated in three other categories in the World Travel Awards, namely the award for Spain's Leading Sport Resort 2016; Europe´s Leading Sports Resort 2016; and Europe's Leading Villa Resort 2016.

Not Plain Sailing

The third autumn race day for the 10 boats of the Sailing Association Mar Menor (SAMM) was tricky,

with no wind delaying the start of the first race, before it appeared and then changed directions twice. By the time of the second race, the wind was NE 5 to 10 knots so the course was reversed. Sirocco was away first to be followed after five minutes by the dinghies. It was a close start with lots of shouting as one boat was going in the wrong direction, but there wasn’t an accident, with each lap closely contested as several boats crossed the line together. Shoestring Uno (pictured) was declared as the day's winning boat, with the next SAMM race day coming up on Sunday October 16th at 10.00 am on the beach at CTD Los Narejos.

Sunday Strolls

Track Race Hots Up

The battle for the Number 1 plate in the inaugural Spanish Flat Track Championship (RFME Copa de España de Flat Track) has narrowed to a three-way battle between Ferran Cardus (Grau Suzuki), Franc Serra (Honda Alonso) and Nico Terol (NicoGas Honda), the three separated by 13 points and with only two rounds to go as the series returns to the Ricardo Tormo Circuit of the Valencian Community for the second time this year. Former 125cc World Champion Terol led after winning the Madrid short track, but Cardus and Serra shared first and second places at Rancho Canudas with Cardus winning the oval track event and Serra taking the TT. Terol, seventh and fourth at Rancho Canudas, dropped to third.

Returning to the fray for race five of the seven-race season is Britain´s seventeen-year-old hotshoe Ollie Brindley. Brindley battled Terol for the win in Madrid until he caught his steel shoe in a rut and suffered a fractured ankle, causing him to miss the next two races. After the Valencia round riders will need to recalculate their positions because the series rules count only the six best results of each competitor. Riders scoring points in all seven races will automatically have their single worst score subtracted from their total. In addition to cash and the prestige of the title, the eventual Pro Flat Track Champion will be invited to the opening round of the newly branded American Flat Track Championship in Daytona.

Anyone For Tennis? Campoamor's La Glea beach will host this weekend's national beach tennis championships with the event starting on Saturday morning at 9.00 and will finish with the finals on Sunday. 89 pairings will be competing in the ninth staging of the tournament, with seven

courts set to be used. Orihuela's sports councillor, Dámaso Aparicio, said that it was a coup for the area to host a sport that is on the rise across Europe, with Orihuela mayor Emilio Bascuñana adding that it would be the area on the national sporting map.

Season’s End 338 athletes aged between 4 and 69 took part in last Sunday's Urban Mile race in Pilar de la Horadada, which was being staged for the 19th time. There were eight different categories

ranging from infants through to veterans, with Dario Romero from San Javier setting the fastest time for the men, whilst veteran runner Sabina María Rico had the quickest female time.

Last Sunday saw the fourth running of the Correlimos races around the natural beauty of San Pedro del Pinatar, 600 people took part in two runs of 13 and a half

and six and a half kilometres, as well as considerably shorter tests for the younger competitors in the Marina de las Salinas area of the municipality.

Torrevieja Cricket Club will be entertaining a team from Rainham in Essex tomorrow (Saturday October 8th) in what will almost certainly be their final match of the season. It will be a 40 over per side encounter stating at Torrevieja’s Sports Centre at 11.00 am, with spectators more than welcome to come along. Further details at Torrevieja-cricket@live.com

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Ivie Davies on Golf

No Miracle This Time That's the thing about miracles. They don't tend to happen every time you want one, like the amazing Ryder Cup recovery at Medinah four years ago. Last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s USA 17-11 Ryder Cup win over Europe started with a sprint and finished in a stampede, a long, painful wait ended with a collective roar of triumph and relief. Europe began those singles needing seven and a half points and came up three short, the game up early, the spirit of Medinah invoked but seldom stirred. A clean sweep on the first morning leading to a ruthless polishing off on the final Sunday. If a fightback came in between those points on a sunsmeared slice of Minnesota countryside, it rapidly withered as the US players stormed back in the singles, fired up by intensely partisan support, inspired by the bellicose Patrick Reed and their contrasting memories of that stunning reversal four years ago. This was the highest number of points a US team had scored in 35 years, an affirmation of so much that their captain Davis Love and his 11-man task-force have done, an evisceration of a European team with three great players, but just too many who

faltered in the fierce early autumn heat. Only early on the Sunday afternoon were the scoreboards around this heaving course awash with the blue of Europe. Two hours into a day that had opened with mass chants of, "I believe that we will win!" from those in red around the first tee, Darren Clarke's men were up in six matches, all-square in four and down in just two. Around an hour later that had switched to up in four and down in six. It would never get better. It would never come back. For lightning to strike again you felt that Rory McIlroy, conductor-in-chief across the first two days, had to win his first-up fight against the relentless Reed, an often controversial figure in American golf, who has stepped out of the shadows here and delighted in stomping centrestage. We thought it would be the Tussle of the Talismen, but for a long while it went a lot further: a flat-out fistfight of a contest, an unrelenting game of golfing one-upmanship, a showdown that teetered along the edge of what was acceptable and then swept you away again on the next exchange of cavalier shotmaking before you could

worry too much about the morality of what had just happened. There were drives that rendered slick fairways irrelevant and short irons that went for broke and usually made it. Most of all there were putts from all over rolling over Hazeltine's infamous cruel contours, from backs of greens, from backs to the wall. Reed roared at the galleries, the galleries roared back. Rory shushed them, and when that didn't work, screamed at them that he couldn't hear them, when people living several miles away were watching ornaments fall off their shelves. Reed fist-pumped his arms like a man pulling at the reins of a runaway chariot. He mocked McIlroy with a faux-bow to match the one the Northern Irishman had given on the 16th on the Friday, and then wagged an admonishing finger across the green but in his face. McIlroy swung uppercuts at the air like Barry McGuigan and matched his opponent blow for blow. On the eighth they were locked together, and it was there that their duel produced pure magic: McIlroy arrowing in an impossibility of a putt from all of 50 feet, Reed looking up, tak-

ing aim from the fringes and crushing home his own from 20 feet too. Amid the chaos on the eighth green, there was the mutual respect of a fist bump between McIlroy and Reed. It would be McIlroy who buckled first, his putter suddenly turning cold on the 12th and 13th, Reed opening his lead with a soft-handed bunker shot on 16 and then yet another dead-eyed putt on the last to seal both the first point of the day and the most important. If it was a classic, the halved point between Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia was arguably even better, a ding-dong of 19 birdies that neither deserved to lose. Behind that, despite the heroics of rookies Thomas Pieters and Rafa Cabrera-Bello, too few other Europeans deserved to win. Pieters was flawless, a young man who has only ever played in two majors but who flourished under the unparalleled pressures of an overseas Ryder Cup to win four of his five matches, the first European debutant in history to take home such a haul. Cabrera-Bello too, another unheralded name who some feared would lack the chutzpah to survive in a bear-pit like this,

KNOW YOUR RULES

TITTER ON THE TEE

QUESTION: - I hit a wayward ball and lose it. How long do I have to find it before it is deemed to be lost?

A coach driver is taking a bus load of pensioners down a motorway when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady. She offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up. After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful of peanuts. She repeats this gesture about five more times. When she is about to hand him another batch again he asks the little old lady, 'Why don't you eat the peanuts yourself?' 'We can't chew them because we've no teeth', she replied.

ANSWER: - A player has five minutes to look for a ball before it is deemed to be lost. The player must then add a onestroke penalty to the score. They must then play a second ball as near as possible to the spot from where the original shot was played (not where the ball was thought to be lost). An exception to this is when the ball is lost in a water hazard. Then the ball may be dropped behind the hazard, keeping the point at which the ball last crossed the margin of the hazard between the flag and the spot where the ball is dropped. There must be 'reasonable evidence' to suggest the ball is The puzzled driver asks, 'Why do you buy them then?' lodged in the water hazard in order for it to be deemed lost The old lady replied, 'We just love the chocolate around in it. Otherwise it must be classed as a lost ball and the play- them.' er returns to the original spot.

won three of his matches and halved the other, the pair of them surely staples for the European team for years to come. The disappointments came from those steeped in experience. Lee Westwood, in his 10th Ryder Cup, failing to win a single point from his three matches, twice seeing a late lead turned to cruel defeat. His friend, Danny Willett, Masters champion but taught an inadvertent lesson by the inflammatory comments of his brother and the peculiar stresses of this old competition. Martin Kaymer, twice a major champion and sinker of the winning putt in Medinah but winning only one point from four this time around, and that when the battle had already been lost. Westwood was two up after 15 holes but lost the last three as Moore secured the winning point for the US. Perhaps it may not all be a bad thing. There is the redemption for Love, chastised four years ago when let down late by stalwarts who should have closed that contest out. There is the continued joy in watching Mickelson grin at the passing years and thumb his nose at his driving stats as he makes chips and putts of casual

magic. There is the emergence of Reed as an unlikely folk hero, and there is the pleasure in seeing usually staid figures like Brandt Snedeker turned into animated conductors of an atmosphere that still has no match in this sport. And there is what it does for this 87-year-old competition, dominated to an unprecedented extent by Europe over the past 25 years but now given fresh impetus by only a second US victory in 16 years. If Love's team were strong favourites before Europe arrived in Hazeltine, it was also clear that this was a Ryder Cup they could not lose. Having thrown so much at it they were left with little else to offer and even less to inspire their hungry home support. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paris next time round, with the first French hosting in two years' time not only for a fresh start but also that familiar essential of two-way sporting rivalries: a desire to win the thing back. Retaining trophies is fun. Winning them back, as the Champagne-soaked scenes around the 18th green on Sunday afternoon graphically illustrated, is even better. Only 24 another months to overcome this European disappointment!

The Courier Sport

A Deceptive Bend

ONTINYENT CF 1 CD TORREVIEJA 0 It was a mystifying and violent last second movement of the ball in the 63rd minute leaving Torry keeper Buba in the wrong place, and giving victory on Sunday for high-flying Ontinyent. A short free kick from Fernando Doménech, 30 metres out, was blasted almost straight at Buba, who had it covered until an astonishing swerve diverted it away from his body and into the net. It beggared belief, but that's what happens when you are bottom of the table with just a point to your name. Just minutes earlier, Buba had shown his credentials by diving to his right to punch away a Doménech penalty. All this drama unfolded after Torry took to the pitch led by their new captain,

Lewis Allen, and with plenty of personnel and positional changes. Juanmi and Carrasco played as central defenders whilst Allen was based just in front of the back four, providing cover for his team mates. Damian and Matheus struggled in the first half to get on the ball, but Torry created more attacking chances in the second half, with Ontinyent under serious pressure. This was in contrast to the first period, when they dominated possession, but they found Buba equal to all their efforts. After the bizarre goal, Torry went close with a Vicente header; an attempted bicycle kick from Lewis Allen; and a long range effort from Hugo, but it wasn’t to be their day.| Torrevieja now play three

matches in a week as they entertain Castellón this Sunday at the Nelson Mandela stadium with a 6.00 pm kick-off, before a Wednesday-night trip to Buñol, who are just above the relegation area. Off the field, two more summer signings, keeper Marcano and Pastor have joined the growing list of players who have been shown the door after their brief Torrevieja experience. Coming in is the former Torry favourite Alejandro Pastor who is joining the club for a short spell before returning to play for Wolves in the Australian Soccer League in January. It's also been revealed why there has been a delay in Pedreño being officially confirmed as Torry manager. Apparently it is all

Smash And Grab

CD ALMORADI 1 PATERNA CF 2 Almoradi gave a first team debut to Adrián Real, deputising for injured keeper Josete in a match that they deserved to get more from. The 350 home fans knew it wasn't their day when both Gonzalo in the first half, and Obele in the second period, were both fouled in the penalty area, but no spot-kick was given on either occasion, as Paterna stole all three points. Something out of nothing

gave Paterna the lead, with a strike from the edge of the area from Tobías giving them the advantage in the 25th minute. Almoradi had chances though to least go in level at the break, if not ahead, with a Gonzalo shot five minutes later going over the bar, and Saul missing a good chance before half time. A good run from Coco set up a Saul header and a 51st minute equaliser with both teams now going for it, though Almoradi looked the

most dangerous, even when Luis almost put the ball into the back of his net. Cristian hit the post with a great shot in the 70th minute, but Paterna played "smash and grab" when on a counter attack, Alcaide, shocked the home supporters with what turned out to be a winning goal with thirteen minutes remaining. Obele was pushed in the penalty area in the 83rd minute, but no kick was given, and Almoradi had nothing to show for their efforts, and now go to Borriol on Sunday. Elsewhere in the third division, managerial changes at Orihuela are doing the trick with a second win on the trot, this time against Recambios Colon, two-nil, with Orihuela away to Crevillente this weekend, who got a one-one draw at Villarreal. Elche lost one-nil at Rayo Ibense, and have a blank weekend.

Big Local Win BENFERRI CF 1 CD THADER 2 Thader climbed to eighth in the Preferente Group Four table on Sunday after they inflicted Benferri's first home defeat of the season. It was a good feisty contest between two old rivals that was marred by a card happy-referee, Rodriguez Mejias, who

booked nine Benferri players and sent one off, in addition to handing out four cautions to Thader. The Rojales-based side were quickly out of the starting blocks and looked determined, as they took the lead from Valentine after a 15th minute corner. Thader defended well and the expe-

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rienced Arias doubled their advantage eight minutes into the second half, with Pitu pulling one back for Benferri nine minutes later. Despite a couple of chances from Benferri, Thader repelled the pressure to get a welldeserved victory. They now play Elda at home this Sunday.

over compensation terms that have been negotiated with his predecessor Gabi Correa where money isn't an issue, but Correa cannot reach an agreement (at the time of going to press) over the instalment payments, which the ex-boss says comes with no guarantees. The Informacion newspaper has reported that CD Torrevieja also faces a fine from the Valencian FA if Correa's replacement, Pedreño, is not confirmed in his post ahead of Sunday's match, as rules prohibit a club not having somebody officially in charge for more than two games. The club have made no comment over the Correa impasse or what happens if Pedreño doesn't officially take over this Sunday.

Patience Exhausted The opening two matches for CD Montesinos have produced two defeats for Monte, with Sunday's fourone home loss to CD Murada proving too much for the club's football committee, who held an emergency meeting afterwards and promptly sacked recentlyappointed manager Camacho. At times in the Murada defeat, Camacho held his head in his hands as the players ran around like headless chickens. Long term supporters of the side said they had never seen such a low standard of play and commitment from the Monte team in all the time that they have followed them. The committee agreed with the supporters, and with promotion as an ambition, they fired Camacho after the match. On Monday, they announced the appointment of ex-Torrevieja CF manager, Carlos Perez (pictured) as manager, with former FC Torrevieja player, Angel Ivan, joining him as his assistant. “It strikes me that this is a well run club”, said Perez. “I also know some of the committee members and noticed the excellent support at the club when I watched them at

just a friendly match. The next thing I knew was that late last Sunday evening the club contacted me, explained the situation and asked me to take over, which I did on Monday night at the training session”. With injured men like Vaz and Fernando returning to training this week, and new management in charge, the slate will be effectively wiped clean for the visit of Playas Orihuela a week on Sunday (October 16th). Montesinos will take on town rivals Todo Deporte in a friendly this Sunday with a 5.00 pm kickoff.

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Clean Run

La Liga has provisionally elected Javier Tebas to a second four-year term as president. Tebas ran unopposed after Alex Aranzabal ended his proposed candidacy on Tuesday, a day before the deadline for candidates to register. The Spanish league is composed of 42 first and second-division teams and La Liga said that 54-year-old Tebas will be officially confirmed as president this coming Tuesday, Tebas was first elected league president in 2013, running unopposed. His biggest success during his first term was consolidating the sale of television rights for Spanish football under the league's control.

A Real Worry REAL MADRID 1 EIBAR 1

Ronaldo Causing Real Slump

Real Madrid's alarming slump in form is down to Cristiano Ronaldo's ongoing fitness issues, according to former head coach Fabio Capello. Zinedine Zidane's side have not won a game since equalling Barcelona's 16-game La Liga winning-streak record with victory over Espanyol in September. Instead, Real have been held to four frustrating draws against Villarreal, Las Palmas, Borussia Dortmund and Eibar - a feat last achieved in Capello's second managerial spell at the Bernabeu in 2006.

Barca Come Unstuck Again CELTA VIGO 4 BARCELONA 3

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane accepts things must change after the club drew for the third straight game in La Liga but insisted there is no crisis at the club. Real looked a jaded and disjointed outfit in their one-all draw with Eibar at the Bernabeu at the weekend with Gareth Bale (with his 50th La Liga goal) cancelling out Fran Rico's sixth-minute header. The Real supporters made their feelings clear as they jeered their players off the field. However, Zidane insisted it was no time to panic despite his side's poor run of form. "This is not a crisis this is just October, we mustn't go crazy about this," he told reporters at his post-match press conference. "We did not play in the first half and our opponent did play well. The second half was much better, but this is something we are saying too often at the moment. "We will analyse things again, and when the players come back from the international break we must change. We can't go on like this."

Uninspiring Elche ALCORCON 1 ELCHE 0 The Ilicitanos slipped to their second succesive onenil defeat, this time away to Alcorcon who were under pressure to get a win after a poor September. Elche seemed to be short of ideas as the Madrid-based outfit were the better first-half side with a shot hitting the woodwork and keeper Juan Carlos producing a twohanded save from forward David Rodríguez. At the other end, the only first period chance for Elche was a long-range strike from Edu Albacar. Rodríguez got the game’s only goal five minutes after the interval, and the home side pressed for a second, but both sides could have scored in the dying minutes, with subsitute Hervías having the best late chance with a free kick for Elche, whilst David Rodríguez came close for Alcorcon in the end. Elche’s two defeats has seen them slip to 12th in the Segunda Division, as they entertain Gimnastic this Saturday with a 6.00 pm kick-off.

Barcelona missed the chance to go top of La Liga as they lost to bogey side Celta Vigo. Celta beat Barcelona 4-1 at home last season, and it looked like a shock was going to be on the cards again as they charged into a three-goal first-half lead with strikes from Pione Sisto and Iago Aspas before a Jeremy Mathieu own goal. Barcelona clawed their way back into the game in the second half via Gerard Pique and a Neymar penalty, but goalkeeper Marc Andre ter Stegen's late error allowed Pablo Hernandez to score Celta's fourth. Pique then netted another three minutes from time but it was too little too late for Barcelona, who stay fourth in La Liga, two points off the Madrid pairing of Atletico and Real at the top of the table. There are no Primera Division matches this weekend due to the international break.

The Italian Job New Valencia coach Cesare Prandelli wants to take the "glorious club" back to enjoying a starring role in La Liga and Europe, he said on Monday. The 59-year-old Italian has signed a contract until June 2018, becoming Valencia’s ninth coach since 2012. The club fired Pako Ayestaran two and a half weeks ago after registering the worst record of any coach in the club's 98-year history, taking 10 points from 12 games after taking over from Gary Neville in March. Valencia are 18th in the La Liga standings with six points from seven games. "My aim is to find a balance which is currently lacking," Prandelli told a news conference on Monday at the Mestalla stadium. "I want to transmit to the players the values of this club. "For me it's an honour to be in such a glorious club and we want to take it back there." During his five-year spell at Fiorentina, Prandelli guided the team to fourth place in Serie A and to the round of 16 in the 2009-10 Champions League. He led Italy to a runners-up finish at Euro 2012 before resigning after the team's first-round exit at the 2014 World Cup. He coached Galatasaray before leaving the Turkish club in November 2014 and has not managed a team since.

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Cazorla Keen On New Deal Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla says he would sign a new contract with the club if it was offered. Cazorla, 31, is out of contract in the summer but insists he is very happy at the Emirates despite recently confirming he is yet to receive an offer to extend his deal. The Spaniard, who joined Arsenal from Malaga in 2012, has been linked with a move to Atletico Madrid in the Spanish press, but says his future is with the Gunners. "Atletico Madrid is an amazing club," Cazorla said. "Just have a look at their results, El Cholo [Diego Simeone] is doing great things. It is not easy to reach two Champions League finals and win the league. "I am happy here. I am trusted by the manager and my team-mates. "I am feeling important here, and if they'll offer me a new contract, I'll sign it .”

World Cup Qualifiers Gareth Southgate couldn’t possibly have come up with a better start for his tenure in the Sam-less hot seat, writes JOHN MCGREGOR. It’s Malta at Wembley on Saturday in the World Cup qualifiers and this looks like a real gift from the Gods for our Gareth. If a team of English professionals who play at the Premier League level cannot beat a team from a country of 420,000, well… Oh, hang on a mo, what about Iceland (shudder) – surely lightning can’t strike twice? On paper, Gareth’s guys should murder modest Malta and majestically march on to slay Slovenia on Tuesday for the replay of England’s last-laugh Lallana win last month.

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S S E L RUTH Support Role, Not For Me Memphis Depay says he is not happy to remain at Manchester United if it means only having a supporting role. The 22-year-old winger joined United from PSV Eindhoven in the summer of 2015, stating his desire to work with "the best manager in the world", Louis van Gaal, as a driving force behind the move. Depay fell out of favour last season and has made just three Premier League appearances under new United boss Jose Mourinho this season, all coming from the substitutes' bench, and the Dutch forward is adamant he will not be content at Old Trafford while the situation continues.

Weekly Preview ..... Lithuania in Glasgow represents a good chance for Scotland to get points on the board on Saturday evening, followed by a difficult fixture in Slovakia on Tuesday. Following Euro 2016, Wales are now a team to be feared: the game away to Austria last night is swiftly followed by Georgia in Cardiff this Sunday. Northern Ireland play San Marino in Belfast tomorrow, and then Michael O’Neill’s men travel to take on Germany, who were rattled in France, and that could work in Northern Ireland’s favour. So it’s all to play for this weekend!

A Game Of Two Halves

You are a good, if not great footballer: a big striker with a big heart, and your team’s fans love you. Especially in the town you grew up in where you enjoyed iconic status after scoring one particular goal; that was at Wembley to take your team into the Premier League for the first time. A well-known name (for various reasons), you take your work all over the country, including Scotland as your long footballing career flourishes even well into your late thirties. Then suddenly it’s all over, and ‘real’ life kicks in. You know, the sort normal people have always experienced with its pressing problems of work, money, relationships – and now what-to-do-every-day? Because of the football clubs’ protective allembracing hold on you, when it’s finally over a huge gap appears – one which is hard to fill. F o r m e r Premier League footballer Dean Windass is approaching bankruptcy, now owing the tax man more than £150,000. The Hullborn striker made more than 600 appearances and scored more than 200 goals in an 18year career for half a dozen clubs, including Hull City, Bradford City, Middlesbrough, Sheffield United and Aberdeen. In 2008, aged 39 he scored the winning goal in the Wembley play-off final which saw Hull City promoted to the top flight for the first time in the Tigers’ history. "I wasn't the best player in the world, I admit that, but I knew what I was good at. All the supporters have probably recognised that and that's why I've probably become a bit of a

cult hero". It is hard now to envisage Dean’s massive fall from grace. Despite earning more than £500,000 a year at the height of his fame, Windass, who also helped Bradford win promotion to the Premier League (scoring 86 goals in two spells with the Bantams), said most of his money was now gone. Today he speaks openly about his battle with alcohol and depression following his retirement from football in 2010. This popular footballer has battled severe depression for much of his life, which started when he was 12 with his parents divorcing. The later years that followed his football were tinged with depression, alcohol and attempts to take his own life after divorcing from his wife and losing his father suddenly. His 18-year marriage has broken up and, with little income and grieving for his recently deceased father, he decided to take his own life. "People outside football think we have it all," he said. "But I was in a hole that I honestly didn't know how to get out of. People have this image of me as this big strong man who can take anything life throws at him. But I'm not ashamed to say I wanted to end it after a string of setbacks. We're not the brightest but you play football all your life. There are hundreds of footballers in the same boat. There is nothing to get up for in the morning.” Seeking help, Windass was admitted to Tony Adams’ Sporting Chance clinic for 26 days: "It was scary, I was scared stiff. Every time I spoke to a counsellor, I cried, every day. It got better and better the more I

spoke about it. I got through it. It's the best 26 days of my life, because it saved my life. The Professional Footballers' Association or the governing body need to help us. I have hurt the people closest to me, so I've come out today and admitted I need help.” George Best, Paul Gascoigne, Tony Adams, Paul Merson, Kenny Samson, Ray Wilkins, these are just some of the famous names who couldn’t cope as their careers dwindled – and there are many more ‘minor’ names affected, equally with tragic stories involving drink, drugs, depression, gambling, money and much more. Of course it’s the individual and sadly their families that suffer ultimately as a result. Surely with the colossal amounts of money in top class football today some kind of organisation could be set up to help people with problems like Windass? In recent years ex-servicemen with problems are beginning to be recognised and helped, albeit slowly, but there is public sympathy there. In this particular man’s case Windass was a cult figure - surely the people of Hull, Bradford, Aberdeen and the others could and would put their hands in their pockets to help? Or is football that cynical and short-sighte d ? Perhaps it is.

The Latest Sport Headlines CRICKET Jos Buttler plans to "lead from the front" when England's one-day series against Bangladesh begins on Friday. Buttler will captain in a one-day international for the first time in Dhaka as the three-match series gets underway. Buttler - deputising as captain after Eoin Morgan chose to miss the tour over his security fears - is hoping his front-foot contributions can help inspire a batting line-up likely to include uncapped Ben Duckett and new opener James Vince. FORMULA 1 Lewis Hamilton insists he is not dwelling on the disappointment of Malaysia despite the engine problem that left him facing an uphill battle to win a fourth world championship title. Hamilton was comfortably leading the Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur when yet another reliability issue forced him to retire and left him trailing Nico Rosberg by 23 points in the title race. With just five races to go Hamilton looks unlikely to overhaul his Mercedes team-mate but insists he remains positive heading into Japan this weekend. BOXING Kell Brook could step back down to welterweight to face Errol Spence but might not "reach the same performance levels", says promoter Eddie Hearn. The 'Special One' is still the reigning IBF world champion at 147lbs despite moving up two divisions to unsuccessfully challenge middleweight king Gennady Golovkin in September. The governing body has informed Brook (36-1KO25) and his team that if he wants to remain champion negotiations to face mandatory challenger Spence (21-0KO18) must begin on October 26.

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REAL DEALS Real Madrid forwards Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale have 'agreed new contracts' at the La Liga club. Unconfirmed reports suggest Wales international Bale has been offered a 100 million euro contract as an incentive to reject a move to Manchester United next summer. Ronaldo's deal would keep him at the Bernabeu until 2021 and end interest from China or MLS.

GOOD LUCK GARETH! On the good side he’s English, played to a good standard for his club and country, and has certain management experience, including internationally at Under 21 level during the last three years, writes JOHN MCGREGOR. Looking at the England manager’s position negatively, the latest poor sap’s been thrust in the deep end for only four matches, two of them in the next few days. This is all because Sam the Sham let his country and himself down to embarrass us all. New (temporary) manager Gareth Southgate is a decent man, who deserves better treatment, but in the crazy ‘world’ of soccer – including FIFA and all that – his opportunity must be grasped, or the 46 year old might not get another chance. Southgate had no doubts about retaining Wayne Rooney as captain, hailing the striker as the “outstanding leader of the group”. “The most important thing at this time is leadership, on and off the field”, said Southgate. “Wayne has provided that over the last two years. The way he has matured into that is really impressive. I have no doubt in my mind about keeping him in that position.” inside. Preview Inside.

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England winger Anthony Watson is a doubt for the autumn Tests with a suspected fractured jaw. The Bath player, 22, suffered the injury earlier this week during regular practice at England's training camp. Flanker Sam Jones is also set to miss the matches against South Africa, Fiji, Argentina and Australia after breaking his leg in a judo session in training. The Wasps man, 24, suffered a fractured fibula while grappling with Maro Itoje at the training camp in Brighton.

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TYSON FURY NEEDS HELP Boxing authorities should fund a new foundation to help fighters with mental health issues, says Barry McGuigan. The former world featherweight champion, 55, wants the new body to pay for treatment where needed. "It should happen sooner rather than later because we don't want a fatality on our hands,"

said McGuigan. World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has revealed he is suffering from depression and has taken cocaine to help him deal with the issue. McGuigan told the BBC that the sport has "been blind" to elite athletes suffering mental illness, adding he is "genuinely concerned" about Fury.

Unbeaten Fury faces losing his licence after admitting to Rolling Stone magazine he has taken cocaine. Fury reportedly pulled out of his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko later this month due to mental health issues. On Monday, he tweeted to say boxing was the "saddest thing" he had taken part in.

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