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hat's been described as the most sophisticated marijuana greenhouse in Europe has been closed down by the Guardia Civil in Murcia, with seven Dutch people and an Icelandic national being arrested. The premises were located at Molina de Segura, with six thousand plants discovered growing in the warehouse, with the plants and associated paraphernalia said to be worth around one million euro. The Guardia said that the gang had advanced plans to open up a second greenhouse in the Crevillente area. Such was the size of the operation at Molina (10 tons of marijuana every month was taken by road to Holland), that power cuts made the authorities suspicious of what might be going
WHATSON’S TV VIEWS on. The sheer amount of illegal electricity needed to power up the extensive lights and heating system led to a cable overloading and catching fire on an industrial estate where the drug greenhouse was located. As the gang dispersed, the Guardia swept them up at various locations, as they
kept a track of their movements. A Dutch couple who ran the operation were picked up in Rojales, whilst a man was arrested at Alicante-Elche airport as he was planning to board a flight to Iceland. Two others were detained as they tried to flee the country by car. Besides legal action over
public health and trafficking issues, prosecutors have also pledged to recover the costs of the illegal electricity, and have just started an action against a marijuana plantation in Novelda that syphoned off nearly 13 thousand euro of unpaid power from Iberdrola over a number of years.
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BRIT IN DOG QUIZ A British man was
arrested after his dog died
next to a campsite in the El Campello area of Alicante. The Guardia Civil moved in after being told by the local police that they found a dead dog in a cage outside the site. Appearing in Alicante police court, the unnamed defendant said that he had to leave the campsite because he was in arrears
on his payments and asked a friend to look after the animal. It was put in a cage on the fringe of the site, with the promise that it would be fed but the owner returned two days later to find that the dog was dead in the cage. The defendant was freed on bail after his statement to the court, but is charged with animal abuse.
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Customs officers and Murcia tax officials hit the jackpot last week in a major drugs raid on a boat that was docked in a Mar Menor harbour. Fourteen hundred kilos of cannabis resin was seized with a street value of around two point three million euro from a motorboat anchored at the Tomás
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north in the Elche area, there was also an incident on the southbound carriageway of the AP-7 on Sunday afternoon, when a refrigerated lorry carrying fruit rolled over onto its side, causing delays to motorists. The lorry driver walked away with no serious injuries. Meanwhile, two people were injured last Friday
morning when their car overturned on the AP-7 in the Dolores area. They were travelling on the Alicante-bound carriageway of the motorway and were taken to Torrevieja Hospital for treatment. The accident happened at around 10.30am, with a crane being brought in to remove the vehicle some two hours later.
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A car transporter jackknifed across both lanes of the northbound carriageway of the AP-7 in the Los Balcones/Los Altos area of Torrevieja on Sunday afternoon. No other vehicles were involved and the driver was not seriously injured. Motorists were diverted at the La Zenia toll booth onto the N-332. Further
An iconic roundabout in San Javier has been given an 11 thousand euro makeover. The El Mirador roundabout features a plane donated by the area's General Air Academy, with
the council planting new grass and plants in a series of beds, as well as installing drip irrigation and removing surplus land. The crowning glory will be some new lighting focusing on the plane itself.
A local residents group say that no effort was made by Orihuela council to remove seaweed and algae from some Orihuela Costa beaches before last weekend’s bank holiday break. The FAOC (La Federación de Asociación de Vecinos de la Costa) said they had approached the authority about cleaning up a number of Campoamor area beach-
es like La Glea ahead of the long holiday weekend, but nothing happened. Coastal councillor, Sofía Álvarez said the situation on the beaches was a natural one, with the appearance only temporary and that emergency action was not needed because the area was no longer in the “high” tourist season. The seaweed is beneficial to the water cleanliness.
Dirty Beaches
Alicante-Elche airport has recorded yet another recordbreaking month for passengers easily passing the million mark for September, whilst the Murcia regional airport at San Javier, continues to flounder, though that’s unsurprising with a number of services choosing to use Alicante-Elche at its expense. September’s returns for the facility at El Altet were just below one point one million passengers, a rise of four point six percent on September 2014, and that means that over the first nine months of 2015, AlicanteElche airport had almost eight point three million passengers, an increase of three point eight percent on the same period in 2014, which
in itself was a record-breaking year. Fewer services meant fewer passengers at San Javier, with 138 thousand people using the airport in September, some four point
four percent down on last year, with so far 908 thousand passengers going through the airport in the first nine months of 2015, a reduction of two point four percent on 2014’s figures.
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Handbrake Hell
An elderly couple had the shock of their lives last week when their car rolled from the Nautilus Restaurant car park at Rocío del Mar, Torrevieja and straight into the sea. The frightened passengers remained in their Seat Ibiza car until a young man jumped into the water to help them, releasing them through the window. An ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive and the
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'critically ill' in Royal Free isolation unit. U.S. urges release of Chinese lawyer in growing crackdown. fire brigade had to be called in later as the vehicle recovery teams were unable to retrieve the car,
which apparently rolled into the water due to the handbrake either not being put on or failing.
Turning Turtle
20 of a batch of logger-
head turtle eggs that were
found on La Mata beach in Torrevieja during the summer have hatched at La Albufera beach in Valencia. The eggs were discovered by tourists and were transferred to the safety of La Albufera. A total of 85 eggs have been monitored by volunteers since then and the little turtles that hatched have been taken to an incubator to help in their survival.
Missing Link A delayed motorway stretch has finally opened between Granada and Málaga via Almería, meaning the three provinces are connected along the coast. The opening ceremony was carried out by Prime
Minister, Mariano Rajoy. Drivers will no longer have to negotiate the traffic jams and 1,060 bends along the N-340 single-carriageway inter-provincial highway – although they were originally promised the final stretch of
the AP-7 would be open by 2008. This means the AP-7 now links the French border in the province of Girona with Algeciras in Cádiz province, which is just one province away from Portugal.
Delay Over The logjam over trying to restore the deserted Arenales del Sol hotel which faces onto the local Arenales beach appears to have been solved according to Elche’s planning councillor, José Manuel Sánchez. Work was due to start at the end of last year to totally renovate the empty building which has been empty since 1979, but approval of licenses have been mired in delays in a process that has run for over a decade. Now,
Flags Raised
Manuel Sánchez says that developer Princesol has been given the green light for a start early next year, with the project finishing in 2018. The eleven million euro redevelopment would
see the building become a four-star resort complex with 100 bedrooms, as well as restaurants, bars, function rooms, and spas which will be open to non-residents.
Market Worries
The weekly Saturday market at Almoradi has become a haven for pickpockets according to the traders union, the SPPLB. They say that they are getting reports of an average 15 thefts every week, with older people being especially vulnerable.
Valencia Day was commemorated last Friday across all of the municipalities in the Valencia region including Torrevieja and Orihuela. Every year, October 9th is the date the region celebrates the same day in 1238 when King James I officially entered the city of Valencia, freeing it from Moorish rule. In Torrevieja, the Valencia flag was raised in the Plaza de la Constitucion by the mayor, José Manuel Dolon, who said it was a great day for celebration, but criticised the previous Partido Popular regional government, he was happy that the new left of centre administration was full of people that would change
things. Over in Orihuela, the PP mayor, Emilio Bascuñana pulled no punches in asking the Valencian government to respect the wishes of the area, and that people should not be discriminated against for not speaking the regional Valenciano language, adding that school children should not be forced to "use a language that isn't heard in the street". Bascuñana also added that the traditions and history of the Orihuela area should be respected, and that meant no negativity from Valencian authorities towards people that have "only learnt and speak Spanish/Castilian".
Taxing Times Barcelona star, Lionel Messi, will have to answer tax fraud charges in court after all, just days after being told by prosecutors that he was in the clear. In a surprise move, the investigating judge last Thursday rejected the request of the public prosecutor to try only the Argentine footballer's father, Jorge. The pair were accused in 2013 of defrauding the taxman out of just over four millions euro in taxes related to Messi's image rights
between 2007 and 2009 through the creation of fake companies in Belize and Uruguay. Both Messi and his father denied wrongdoing and instead pointed the finger at a former agent. They both face jail sentences of up 22 months each, but since it is a first offence and the four million euro has already been paid to the tax office, reporters will be deprived of seeing one of the world’s famous footballers having to go to prison.
Muddy Impasse Rojales council has asked the Segura River Board (CHS) to clear up the mud that has appeared as the Segura goes through the municipality.
Heavy rain at the start of September has led to the build-up, but the CHS in turn has said that it's the responsibility of the council to do the work.
Turkish PM says 12 detained over Twitter messages on Ankara bombing. 747 plane engine snaps off during Iran flight, no injuries. Ukraine threatens 'legal war' with Russia over debt. Vast Alpine glacier could almost vanish by 2100 due to global warming. European court says Turk had right to deny Armenia genocide. UK court endorses view that bridge is not a sport. Europol official says organized crime preying on migrants. Myanmar signs ceasefire with eight armed groups. Pakistan says deafmute Indian woman to return home this month. England to get first 'new' grammar school in 50 years. Wooden boat collides with Greek patrol vessel; 8 missing. Animal group criticizes Danish zoo for killing young lion. Hong Kong police, 'beaten' protester, all face charges. Merkel says EU 'needs Turkey' to halt migrant tide.
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Vandals Strike
Clean Sweep
Alicante City Hall was hit by vandals over the weekend with a worker discovering damage to several computers and printers last Saturday morning. One of the windows was found open with a computer and printer lying on the street, with documents being scattered around the premises.
Anchors Down
Alicante port has produced a massive 87 percent rise in the number of cruise passengers landing there in August compared to the same month last year. From January to August, there have been over 35 thousand cruise passengers arriving, compared to 18,838 for the same period in 2014. Of the 35 thousand passengers, just over 13 thousand decided to go on shore to try out the delights of the city. Despite the big rise, Alicante’s numbers are still behind Cartagena and Valencia, although their passenger numbers have only increased by seven percent and nine percent respectively.
VW Pledge German carmaker, Volkswagen, has guaranteed to invest over four billion euro in Spain, according to Industry Minister, Jose Manuel Soria. VW accounts for 22 thousand employees directly or indirectly in the country, and announced investments earlier this year in Navarra and Barcelona. Those have been confirmed by the company's new chief executive, Matthias Mueller, in the wake of the recent emissions scandal, with Jose Manuel Soria saying that he had met the new VW chairman, Hans Dieter Poetsch, who had pledged his commitment to the new Spanish investment.
Private Eye
A National Police officer allegedly recorded his female colleagues with a camera located in their changing rooms in Madrid. One of the women officers discovered that she was being videoed and reported it to her bosses, who suspended the man, ahead of a full inquiry which could see him be thrown out of his job.
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Madrid's mayor, Manuela Carmena, wants partying
students to clean up rubbish on the city's streets. Carmena says that she's fed up of students leaving rubbish including bottles around the area of the Complutense University of Madrid at weekends, and has called on them to spend a few months every year cleaning up the capital's roads. Carmena said: "It is not bad that, for two or three months, a person is cleaning, or occasionally cleaning, the street. Youth events where rubbish accumulates are intolerable.
Rajoy Rapped
Crews In Spain has been told to make more cuts after the government's budget plans fell foul of the European Union's tough spending targets, just two months before the country holds the general election. Now Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces the unpalatable and electorally disastrous prospect of more cutting and tax rising as he tries to get the Partido Popular back into power with the European
Firefighters from Almoradi and Crevillente were drafted in to help their Elche colleagues deal with a big blaze on the eighth floor of an apartment in the
Altabix area of Elche early last Saturday evening. It took three hours to put the fire out but nobody was injured as the residents were not at home.
Commission telling the Madrid government that its draft budget forecasts failed to comply with Europe's fiscal rules. Pierre Moscovici, the EU's economics chief, denied the Commission's judgement was motivated by the looming general election. "We use rules, there is no ideology in our work", said Mr Moscovici. "What counts is to talk about figures. We work on the basis of facts".
The Spanish government denied on Tuesday that its budget forecasts were too optimistic. "I can guarantee that the public accounts will meet the deficit target of four point two percent (of GDP) this year... and two point eight percent for 2016," minister Jose Manuel Soria said in a television interview. He denied claims that the government's strong forecasts were just "electioneering".
Teething Troubles
Fall Guy? kilometres from Santiago de Compostela. Mr Garzón will face 80 charges of causing reckless homicide after a preliminary investigation into Spain's worst rail disaster for 40 Santa Pola's new two and years found that excessive a half million euro bus staspeed was the only factor. tion is continuing to have Last year he wrote an open problems and this time it's to letter to the families of the do with noise. After a victims and to the injured, delayed opening due to begging their forgiveness. uncompleted work and bus He said he had been operators preferring to use "destroyed" by the crash. The investigation found that the state-owned rail infrastructure company, Adif, cannot be held liable for the fact that the track was not fitted with the latest speed-limiting technology. It acknowledged that "safety on the line could have been better", and the decision is likely to infuriate the victims' families, many of whom believe the Adif should at least share responsibility for the accident. After interviewing several senior executives at the company, Dogs are to be used next all criminal investigations year to help adults and chilwere dropped. dren improve their reading skills in the Alicante area. An American programme that originated in Salt Lake cent compared to the same City back in 1999 is used in period in 2014. 14 other countries, whilst That means the compa- other Spanish cities, ny have had 23 million peo- including Murcia, are getple using their services so ting a lot of success from it. far this year. The programme is called
old facilities citing a lack of space, local residents have now been complaining about the noise when buses enter the station. The franchise holder Vectalia has now been ordered by the local council to provide them with
an acoustic audit by the end of the month. Santa Pola mayor Yolanda Seva says there are no plans for an official opening ceremony for the facility, once the problems have been fully ironed out.
Best Friend Helps
The driver of a train that crashed in northern Spain over two years ago, killing 80 people, is set to be the only person to face criminal charges over the accident, prosecutors have announced. Francisco José Garzón Amo was on his mobile phone just before the crash in July 2013, as the high-speed train left the track on a sharp bend at 190 kms an hour– twice the speed limit for that section of the route, less than four
Rail Boost Spanish train travel is on the up over first nine months of 2015, with operator RENFE reporting that the number of passengers is up by just over six per-
READ de Lectura con Perros (Learn to Read with Dogs) and will be started initially in schools in Alicante next year. The theory, which has been proven to work, is that people learn to read better because of an emotional bonding that they have with a dog that is alongside them, and they are motivated to improve
because they are relaxed. There are three full certificated READ teams in the Alicante with a trained owner besides a trained dog, which has to have a special type of temperament. Though youngsters with special needs will be targeted, the READ teams also work with adults who need rehabilitation.
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Big Salute King Felipe VI of Spain presided over his third Spanish National Day parade on Monday as around 3,400 military personnel marched through the centre of Madrid. King Felipe's second parade as monarch (his first was standing in for his father Juan Carlos) also saw a drive past of 48 vehicles and a fly past of 53 aircraft, at an estimated cost of over a million euros. The parade involved 400 more troops than in 2014, and on a day designed to highlight the unity of Spain it was attended by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, his cabinet and Socialist
Party leader Pedro Sanchez, as well as General Philip Breedlove, NATO's Supreme Allied commander in Europe. However, Basque,
Marriage Rights Respected 84 percent of Spaniards back same-sex marriage, according a Eurobarometer survey from the European Commission. The figures show that Spain is one of the most supportive countries of same-sex marriage on the continent, with the top figure coming out from the Netherlands at 91 percent. Spanish support for samesex marriage has gone up by 28 per cent since 2006
(when the law allowing people of the same gender to marry had already been operational for one year), as back then, support was only at 56 per cent. In addition, the one thousand people quizzed in Spain were asked whether or not they thought gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals should have the same rights as heterosexual people. Nearly all of them at 90 percent said yes.
Crime Down
Robberies across Alicante Province have fallen by more than 16 percent during the first half of the year, according to
Valencian government delegate, Juan Carlos Moragues, who was at an event last Sunday in Alicante to celebrate the feast day of the patron saint of the Guardia Civil, La Virgen del Pilar. Moragues said that home burglaries had dropped by 12 percent in the first six months of 2015, with a record crime low of 48.3 incidents reported per one thousand of the population. The minister quoted various figures from some of the local municipalities with robberies down by nearly 21 percent in Orihuela, whilst there was a more modest fall of nine point two percent in Elche.
Roads Up Motorists in Torrevieja face another five months of delays and diversions as work has resumed on the city gas pipeline after a break for the summer. Natural gas is currently
being brought in via Calle Campoamor as part of the ongoing seven million euro project but the works will mean more delays to drivers on various roads in the city until March 2016.
Catalan and Navarre leaders did not attend in addition to Pablo Iglesias, the leader of the anti-austerity left-wing party Podemos.
Bulls On The Run The Balearic Islands could become the third Spanish region to ban bull-fighting, thanks to a motion put forward by a left of centre independent party which is set to gain majority support in the local assembly. MP for MÉS. David Abril, says the move, largely instigated by animal rights activists, would mean reforming the existing regional animal protection law, and some of the main regional parties have told him that they would be in favour of doing so.
Green Time
Alicante Provincial Council is to hand out grants worth a total of 400 thousand euro to enhance green areas across the region. Money is to be given to improve nature areas in Callosa and Elche, whilst Benijófar is to get a grant to build a maze in the Cañada Marsa. Other funds go to Rojales to improve the condition of parkland on the La Fiesta urbanisation; Bigastro for general green area enhancements; and to San Miguel de Salinas to improve the green area around the Ciudad de las Comunicaciones.
San Javier’s Council Concensus San Javier's councillors have unanimously voted in favour of the area's local courts being upgraded in status due to the backlog in the cases. The unanimity also stretched to approving a financial package that would try to stop those in need being evicted from their homes. The council plans will create a municipal housing plan and they will talk to the necessary financial institutions about individual cases of struggling tenants and home-owners to make sure they can stay where they are.
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Cycle Tips Motorists can't help avoiding the sheer number of cyclists on Spanish roads, but apparently they should give a wide berth to male cyclists aged between 15 to 24, as they more likely to be involved in an accident compared to any other cycling age category. The findings come from a Granada University study of more than 50 thousand cyclists across Spain that found that men are more likely to be hit by cars in all age groups as opposed to the ladies. Men aged over 35 are also twice as likely to die if they are hit by a car. Virginia Ruiz from the Granada research team says that she is going to take the report to the DFT Traffic Authority as part of move to educate both cyclists and drivers. Meanwhile, at least 500 cyclists staged a demonstration in the middle of Pamplona on Sunday followed by a rally throughout the northern city calling for drivers to be more careful around two-wheeled travellers and for safer road conditions. Misunderstandings between bikers and drivers are frequent, with the latter often complaining that the former ride two or more abreast and do not raise their hands to thank drivers for slowing down and giving them a wide berth – similar complaints to those made about riders on horseback.
Booted Journey
An Albanian man was found by the Guardia Civil hiding in the boot of a van that was heading for the UK on a ferry from Santander in northern Spain. The discovery was made last Thursday during a routine check as vehicles were about to board a Plymouth-bound ferry. The Guardia carried out an inspection of the vehicle having got wind that something was up and found the man in the trunk. They also detained the female Spanish driver.
Gate Crashers
Organisers of the big cycle event, La Veulta, which last August saw a stage between Torrevieja and the Northern Costa Blanca, say that the only downside of the local section was the number of people fiddling their way into the Torrevieja VIP enclosure. In a report in the Informacion newspaper, the organisers Unipublic say fake credentials were produced with the National Police being brought in to investigate the matter.
Man With A Gun
The two month hunting season started on Monday with 500 areas across the Valencia region available for the 40 thousand licensed
shooters to enjoy their pastime in. There are 168 hunting clubs in Alicante Province with over nine thousand licensed hunters. The President of the Valencia Hunting Federation, Vicente Segui, told the Informacion newspaper that, “the hunters perform important environmental work that is unnoticed and unappreciated. It was a well-managed hobby that helps to keep pests down that destroy crops".
Gang Busted
89 people have been arrested and accused of being part of a gang which smuggled Chinese nationals into Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United States. The network, run by Chinese and Pakistani citizens, used Spain as a transit point, housing the people in apartments in the northeast of the country while they awaited falsified travel documents, The smugglers charged up to 20 thousand euro per person, half paid in the country of origin and the other half to be handed over once they arrived at their destination, according to Spain's interior ministry. If the second pay-
ment was not made, travel documentation was withheld and, in many cases, family members were threatened, it said. Four of those arrested face charges of belonging to a criminal organisation, document falsification and crimes against foreign citizens, while the other 85 are accused of document falsification and crimes against foreign citizens, the ministry said. The investigation began following several arrests in Spanish airports of people carrying fake passports from countries including South Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Portugal.
Excalibur Remembered
Great Display
Mar Menor’s skies will be filled this Sunday with the talents of the locallybased Eagle Patrol, who start the formal celebration of their 30th anniversary over the next year with a series of special events. As reported in last week’s Courier, Spain’s answer to the Red Arrows will stage a special display over the San Javier area from 10.00am through till 3.00pm, with
the help of top French and Italian display teams. The event, based at their headquarters at Santiago de La Ribera, will be screened live on the regional 7RM TV channel, as well as streamed via the San Javier council website. Three large car parks will be made available in Avenida Carrero Blanco area of Santiago, which will be formally renamed on Saturday
evening at 7.00pm as Avenida Patrulla Acrobática Águila (Acrobatic Eagle Patrol). An Open Day will also take place on the Saturday with a shuttle bus service operating from the main area car parks to the Eagle Patrol base. Patrol members went to the Town Hall on Tuesday to formal sign the municipality’s Book of Honour.
Examiners Brake
Spain's driving examiners have called a national strike for Wednesday October 21st, to back up their recent action of brief strikes, including protests in the Valencia and Murcia regions (pictured) that started in the
middle of September. They are worried about attacks from candidates, as well calling for better pay and more staff. The CSIF union claims their members have suffered 15 physical attacks this year, along with
a stream of verbal use, when candidates are told that they have failed the test. The CSIF says that most of these incidents happen in quiet areas where it is difficult to get help.
Passing Through
The Spanish nurse who contracted the deadly Ebola virus a year ago and lived to tell the tale, took to the streets of Madrid last week to protest on the first anniversary of her dog, Excalibur, being euthanized. Teresa Romero's pet was put down after Romero contracted Ebola, and the Madrid protest was one of 18 demonstrations across Spain organised by the Pacma animal rights party. A nurse at a Madrid hospital, Romero had been treating two Spanish mis-
sionaries who were flown home from Africa and later died. Health authorities were criticised at the time for their hasty reaction over the dog, with leading Ebola researchers questioning their actions. Since then Romero and her partner have an abandoned puppy called Alma. Pacma say they want a special facility that would allow animals to be kept in quarantine as well as for Spain's to change its policy on putting down dogs they believe might be carrying the Ebola virus.
A 34-year-old Moroccan who swallowed 700 grams of hashish was arrested at Alicante bus station as the canine police unit saw him acting strangely. The man, who was en route to Barcelona from the southern port of Algeciras, was showing some bizarre behaviour as some 10 of
the 70 acorns of the drug had started to dissolve in his stomach. His eyes were bright red; he was pale; and was threw up as agents questioned him, eventually admitting to swallowing the large stash. He was initially rumbled when a dog sniffed out that some of the acorns had
been hidden in his underpants. The man was carted off to Alicante General Hospital so that the remaining acorns could be "expired" with officers saying it was the highest amount of swallowed drugs they had encountered in their experiences at the bus station.
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You Can Lead A Mule To Water, But‌..
An optimist walks into a bar and asks for a free pint. 'That is not funny,' observed Dave the barman at his pub the other evening. I say 'his' pub because Dave the barman is not only the barman there. He owns the place, too. 'So your joke is not only not funny, it is doubly unfunny,' said mein host. 'The fact that you miserable lot never buy any drinks means I cannot order myself as barman to hand over his (my) tips to me as the owner because he (me) gets no tips in the first place.' 'Then let me give you a tip, Dave,' I said. 'Life is not all about financial riches. Indeed, money is the root of all evil. I believe Mark Twain
said that.' 'Actually,' sighed Dave the barman, 'the full quote is THE LACK OF money is the root of all evil.' 'Who's Mark Twain?' asked Daft Barry. 'I thought it was William Shakespeare who said that,' commented Indoor Lou. 'No,' said Fearful Phil. 'It was definitely Daft Barry who just asked who Mark Twain was.' 'Thank the Lord you're here,' gasped Dave the barman as our leader Andromeda Arkwright arrived. 'This lot are driving me nuts. Mind you, they could be suffering from dehydration.' Andromeda took the hint and produced some folding
money from her purse. 'Drinks all round, mein host!' Tears of gratitude formed in Dave the barman's eyes as he lovingly placed the money in his till alongside the trays containing the dingy silver and grimy copper coins (and the odd tap washer) which the rest of us had scraped together for earlier rounds. 'Would you send someone out with a bottle of water,' requested Fag Ash Bill from the pavement. (As a habitual smoker, he could no longer legally enter the pub.) 'I've decided to switch from ale to a healthier drink so that I can smoke more ciggies.' 'It makes no difference whether you order a pint of beer or a bottle
of water in this pub, Bill!' I yelled. 'It's much the same thing.' Dave the barman stared hard at me and growled: 'Dave Silver, if you persist in spreading false and malicious rumours about me allegedly diluting my drinks, I shall drown you in the huge vat of water I keep on the premises for. . er . . emergencies.' Which reminds me. My father's favourite song was an opus called Cool Water which is about a man and his mule and a mirage in the desert. Dad bought the record by crooner Frankie Laine back in 1955 and he would play it over and over again on our old record player -- my father, that is, not Frankie Laine. 'What the heck has Frankie Laine and his flaming donkey got to do with ANYTHING?' demanded Andromeda Arkwright who at that point was looking as confused as everybody else in the pub. 'Sorry,' I mumbled. 'I tend to ramble occasionally. That's probably why Mrs S likes to spend her quality time alone. But might I just point out that it was a mule and not a donkey in that Frankie Laine song.' And then something stirred on the floor. Our oldest pub mate Ol' Red Eyes was slowly waking up from yet another
of his deep sleeps. He opened one rheumy peeper and managed to croak out a few unintelligible words which we had to ask him to repeat in order to make sense of his contribution to the proceedings. 'I said that is not the lack of money which is the root of all evil. It is THE WANT of money which leads to most of the wickedness in this world.' As usual, Ol' Red Eyes was a couple of conversations behind the rest of us but his theory about wealth was certainly an interesting notion. 'Would you care to expand on your hypothesis regarding the conceptual link between money and evil?' we chorused to our former guide and mentor. 'My goodness!' exclaimed Andromeda Arkwright, wonderment in her voice. 'I do believe that I may have achieved a breakthrough in my attempts to bring erudition to you collection of rough diamonds.' She gazed proudly at her pubster charges and stepped forward to embrace each of us. Unfortunately, she stepped on the outstretched form of Ol' Red Eyes and the resultant shock to his system rendered the poor blighter unconscious. All thoughts of high intellectual discussion were for-
gotten as Dave the barman went through the usual routine of phoning for an ambulance and having Ol' Red Eyes checked over at A&E where he would be certified dead and then, shortly afterwards, alive again. 'Ah, well,' sighed Andromeda Arkwright upon Ol' Red Eyes' return as the old duffer was made comfortable on the pub floor. 'At least there is always tomorrow to continue our little gabfest about life and everything. And, who knows, maybe Fag Ash Bill will extinguish his cigarette long enough to join us at the bar.' 'And wouldn't it be nice if Mark Twain and that other guy, Shakespeare, could pop in, too,' said Daft Barry. 'Yeah, yeah,' said Dave the barman. 'And maybe we can phone up Clint Eastwood and get him to come as well. Maybe he'll even get a round in. He must be worth a bob or two these days.' Ol' Red Eyes raised his head from the floor. 'But I bet Eastwood was once skint, too, just like us, until he got his first break in that TV western series Rawhide.' 'That was a fabulous show!' yelled Fag Ash Bill from the pavement. 'Great stories as well as that catchy theme song sung by Frankie Laine. Does anybody remember him?'
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Top Tipple The best wines in Spain go head to head in a contest at the end of the month to find the finest wine in the country. The event will be staged at Madrid's Palacio Municipal on Thursday October 29th, with sampling available for visitors at a cool 60 euro each. 200 producers are taking part in the competition which has been organised by Guia Penn, who have created the shortlist from their 2016 wine guide.
Country Crooks Four Spaniards have been arrested by the Guardia Civil for robbing at least 35 rural cottages and sheds in the Marina Alta region of the Costa Blanca. The officers raided a house in Vergel and detained the men there after a two month operation to apprehend the gang, who are aged between 36 and 54.
Net Tightens
It’s The Real Thing
Rivera’s Balance
Support for the anti-corruption centre-right Ciudadanos party surged while backing for anti-austerity party Podemos dropped sharply in October, according to the latest poll published by El Pais on Sunday, just two months before a general election on December 20th. Ciudadanos (Citizens) would take 21.5 percent of the vote if the election were held tomorrow, according to a poll of 1,200 people by Metroscopia, up from 16.1 percent a month earlier, bringing its support close to that of the two main parties. The Socialists (PSOE) and the ruling Partido Popular would gain 23.5 percent and 23.4 percent respectively, leaving Ciudadanos, led by 35year-old Albert Rivera and only running with a national agenda since January, as potential king maker. Podemos led by political scientist Pablo Iglesias, would take 14.1 percent of the vote, according to the poll which half their position from their height in January with 28.2 percent. A deep and prolonged economic crisis, massive unemployment and a slew of corruption scandals has prompted many Spaniards to turn away from the two traditional left and right parties and seek an alternative.
News
Friday 16th October 2015
Three more people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil and the National Police in the wake of last January's detention of a Santa Pola man and his son, who landed 465 kilos of cocaine at Torre de la Horadada. The Guardia said at the time that the two men had no direct
Spain's national court has said that Coca-Cola can go ahead with plans to reduce its bottling workforce in the country, which includes its plant in Alicante. The ruling ends a tense legal dispute that included street protests, strikes and an attempted boycott of Coke
products. In its decision, the court said that the bottler, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, had acted "in good faith" when it decided to move workers to different plants, or to change their role in the case of the Madrid plant being converted into a logistics centre.
connection with the criminal gang that organised the shipment. The three fresh arrests happened in Torrevieja, Aspe, and Alicante with authorities saying they were involved in a gang that would take drugs from a large "mother ship" and load them into small boats that would then land
ashore in Alicante Province. The fresh arrests saw two Spaniards and a Montenegrin being detained, with all of them having existing police records and they are accused of getting hold of the small boats for drug transfers as well hiding the narcotics once they hit shore.
Picasso Battle
Impressive Pics
A new exhibition featuring over 52 modern day photos of the Torrevieja area put together by the Mastral Project has opened in the Vista Alegre exhibition hall in the city. The event, which includes some videos, runs until
November 30th and is called “Torrevieja, la sal de un paisaje (Salty Landscape)”, featuring a collection of images taken by local photographers showing off a wide variety of scenic settings in the area.
A prominent Spanish banker is facing charges of trying to smuggle a 26 million euro Picasso painting out of the country via Valencia on a yacht. Jaime Botin, former boss of Bankinter and a member of the family that founded giant lender Santander, has been trying to get the painting out of the country for months. French customs seized the work "Head of a
Young Girl", at the end of July where it was found on board the yacht in Corsica, and taken to the Reina Sofia art museum in Madrid. A court in Pozuelo de Alarcon is investigating Botin, who has an appeal pending against the judicial procedures. He had been trying since 2012 to get permission to export the work but Spanish authorities refused on the grounds that
it was a unique example in Spain of that period of Picasso's work. Auction house Christie's had already tried to export the painting to Britain on Botin's behalf in 2012 but the Spanish culture ministry blocked that move. Botin later claimed that the picture was not in Spain after all and that he owned it indirectly through a Panamanian company.
News
Bargain Hunters
Safe And Sound
30 kilometre long queues were reported on the AP-7 motorway on Valencia Day last Friday on the stretch between Orihuela and Murcia City. Authorities claimed that many of the motorists were making their way to do some shopping at IKEA in Murcia, and were "border-hopping" to a region where it was "business as usual".
Looking Forward San Javier's Mayor, Jose Miguel Luengo, has asked local residents to come up with ideas for the municipality's "Horizon" strategic plan for 2022. The plan features five sections looking at environmental matters; culture; new technology; social integration; and sustainability, with the council wanting European funding to bring various ideas to fruition. Two public meetings have been held over the last 10 days with plans being mentioned like the regeneration of local neighbourhoods in addition to improvements to Avenida de la Aviación Española and park areas like Almansa and Príncipe de Asturias.
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A hungry and stranded vulture was rescued from the Mar Menor area at El Algar last week, having been sighted a number of times over a few days in a disorientated state. The
starving bird was safely captured and taken to the El Valle wildlife centre, and will be released once it has made a full recovery. Further north, the Guardia Civil’s Seprona wildlife team rescued a heron that had got itself entangled in some rope and branches at the mouth of the Segura river at Guardamar. The incident happened last week with the Guardia being tipped off by a number of passers-by, and they managed to release the Grey Heron, who would have died if it not been rescued imminently. After a check-up, it flew off safely without the need to take it to a wildlife centre.
Too Much Stock
Despite the recent upturn in property sales, a leading Spanish property consultancy says that around 40 percent of the country's one point six million unsold properties will take at least a decade to be sold. RR de Acuña y Asociados bluntly say that there is 'no demand
whatsover' for this stock of 657 thousand units. Their report says there were 668 thousand unsold residential properties in city areas and 331 thousand on Spain's coast at the end of last year, but they do predict that 112 of these will be sold next year and in 2017.
Andrea Dies
A 12-year-old girl from north-western Spain who had been at the centre of a debate over a "dignified death" died last Friday just four days after doctors at the University Hospital Clinic in Santiago de Compostela stopped feeding her artificially. Andrea had been suffering from a rare degenerative illness since she was a baby and had been hospitalised for the past three months, as reported in The Courier last week. A fortnight ago her
health deteriorated and Andrea's parents, Estela Ordonez and Antonio Lago, asked the hospital to remove her feeding tube, alleging that keeping her alive using artificial means was causing her a disproportionate amount of suffering. The hospital originally refused to do so and received the backing of the Galician health chief, Rocio Mosquera, who said the parents were asking for "active euthanasia." Ordonez and Lago took their case to court, while
Mosquera was sacked from her post by Galician regional leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo. The court asked for four separate reports into Andrea's condition, but 11 days ago, the hospital did an about-face and agreed to remove Andrea's feeding tube, saying the change of opinion was the result of the 12year-old's rapidly failing health. The act prompted Ordonez and Lago's lawyer to comment that Andrea's death "would be easier," than her life had been.
Lick Of Paint Orihuela local police are using Facebook to ask people to tell them which pedestrian crossings need repainting. This week they posted pictures of word being carried out in the city, and have
asked followers on Facebook to report any areas where crossings are in urgent need of a fresh coat of paint across the whole of the municipality. The information will then be passed on to the municipal
contractors based on the priority and urgency of the work. Go onto Facebook and search for Policía Local de Orihuela or send them a direct e-mail to policialocal@orihuela.es
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Gratefully Received The cancer charity, AECC, in Torrevieja got two very welcome donations recently. Firstly, "The Weigh-In Club", based at Casa Mia, El Chaparral, Torrevieja raised a bumper seventeen hundred euros with an event plus cake sales and raffle. Secondly, Jackie McGee
Happy Clicking
raised nearly five hundred euros all from a coffee afternoon at the Bamboo Lounge on the Entre Naranjos urbanisation. AECC volunteer Ann Bissett received the grand total of 2,149 euro, thanking everybody for their generosity and hard work.
Dev Drops In
The youngsters at the Elche Children’s Care Home have a brand new Cannon camera thanks to the Rods & Reels & Abbey Angling Club, who also recently donated 500 euro of toiletries to the home. Tony Price, James Rouse, and Steve Budd
handed over the camera to Home director, Mohamed Turin, who said it would be used to photograph the children at various events and keep a permanent souvenir for youngsters to take with them when they leave the home.
The recent monthly meeting of the ADAPT Association had a healthy aspect to it as a nurse from the Angels Association gave a talk about giving CPR, as well taking blood pressure and cholesterol tests amongst the members. ADAPT’s aim is to integrate
with the Spanish community around the San Pedro del Pinatar area, and meetings take place at 10.30am on the first Saturday of the month in the Pensionista building, next to Castelar College, Lo Pagan, where new members will be made very welcome.
Just A Small Prick
Coronation Street star, Jimmi Harkishan, who plays shopkeeper Dev Alahan in the famous ITV soap was a surprise guest at the recent MABS Mar Menor Cancer Support group Party in the Park at Roda which raised over four thousand euros for the charity. Over 400 people
attended the event which brought top food and entertainment, plus a bonus appearance by Jimi who was on holiday on the area. He happily got involved once he heard about the work of MABS, and posed for photos with the MABS team on the night.
Local & News
In The Pink Popular local fundraisers, Maria and the Pink Ladies, will be hosting a special day of entertainment at the Zenia Boulevard shopping centre this Sunday (October 18th) to commemorate October being a world breast cancer awareness month. A variety of local entertainers will take to the stage from noon, and helium filled pink balloons will
be sold at two euro each, with chance for you to attach a message to it. After they have been released, furthest travelling balloon will earn a cool 100 euro for the owner of the card. All funds raised from the event will be donated to the AECC charity for their early detection programme for breast, cervical, and prostate cancer.
Jeanette Erath - Learn Spanish
Friday 16th October 2015
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How To Use ‘Estar’ In The Spanish Language
This week we are going to cover the Spanish verb ESTAR which means to be, see last week´s article for the verb ´to be´ if you´re
out my articles online at thecourier.es if you miss a week. So the verb estar is an irregular verb just like it´s counterpart SER, so here is how it conjugates: yo estoy, tú estás, él/ella/usted está, nosotros/as estamos, vosotros/as e s t á i s , ellos/ellas/ustedes están. We use panish S rn ESTAR normally a e L d An 2, 3! when talking about Easy As 1, temporary situations, and in most cases it´s n o t about how we are feeling. sure One of the most common which one it expressions we use is is. You can always check ´¿cómo estás? Which
KEEP CALM
means ´how are you?´ and we usually answer with ´estoy bien´ - I´m fine. Or when speaking we can tend to miss out the verb altogether and just say ´bien´ although not grammatically correct it´s acceptable as we know what it means and to whom we are referring. So we should be ok with generally temporary conditions. For example, the sky is normally blue so if it is we use ser but if it´s grey or orange we would use estar, because it´s not how we think of it normally. The same goes for a yellow banana (ser) and when it goes black we use estar. Feelings are obviously tem-
porary; feliz, triste, enfermo, emocianado (excited) are all temporary situations which use estar whereas; alto, bajo, gordo, delgado, etc are all physical conditions that will not change and so use ser. There are some adjectives which change what you´re saying depending on whether you use ser or estar and once you see a couple, I hope you realize that the difference is quite obvious. For example, the word aburrido means bored or boring depending on which verb you use, the adjective doesn´t change, therefore if you say eres aburrido, which adjective are you using – bored or boring? Have a think for a minute before reading on. That´s right, because you´re putting it into a permanent state you are saying ´you are a boring person´. However if you say ´estoy aburrido´ you are saying ´I´m bored´. There are a few adjectives that work in that way so be careful, some of the most common are: listo: ser – clever, estar – ready, malo: ser – bad, estar – ill, rico: ser – rich, estar – tasty. As well as temporary situ-
ations we also use ESTAR for locations, whether temporary: el lapis está en la mesa or permanent Londres está en Inglaterra. This actually makes it easier for us to use because we are not trying to remember whether the location is a temporary one or not. So with every case of where something/someone is we use estar, but remember if we are saying where someone is from we use ser, so, estoy en la cocina, estoy en España, but soy de Inglaterra, eres de España. There are some idiomatic expressions that use estar, some of the most useful are: estar de pie – standing, estar de acuerdo – to be in agreement, estar en camino
– to be on the way, estar a gusto – to be comfortable/content with, estar a punto de – to be just about to, llegar a estar – to become. Try and think of some phrases you can use with the above expressions, remember all you do is change the verb to whoever you are talking about, for example, estoy de acuerdo – I agree, estoy a gusto en mi trabajo – I am happy with my job. So we have had a rundown of two of the most useful verbs in the language and hopefully you may have learnt a few new uses of them even if you have a good level of Spanish. Que tengas una buena semana, ¡hasta la próxima!
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Pets
Friday 16th October 2015
Why Are Dogs Scared of Fireworks?
Voting for Pet Idol 2015 has now come to a close. We are now counting the votes and will reveal the winners next week. We have been astounded by the number of votes received, and it is for that reason that there are no losers, because not one single animal or picture was not voted for. That said, we have got to give the prizes to somebody, and so once we calculate and check the figures with our adjudicators, the prize winners will be announced here and on the website, thecourier.es. There are some great prizes on offer too, like the Los Montesinos vets who are giving a 10 euro voucher, Eduardo Pets who are offering a free rabies voucher as a prize, as well as Tidy Paws and their 10 euro voucher for a pet hairdo, and of course the 1st prize is a 50 euro voucher to spend at the San Anton pet store and hospital
in Guardamar. Huge thanks to everybody for taking part and to those who voted. Rest assured, the competition will return again soon and it will be bigger, brighter and bolder than ever.
Do fireworks scare your dog? He’s not alone. While they’re fun for most humans, the loud, unexpected sounds of fireworks cause stress and anxiety for a lot of dogs. And there are of course plenty of fireworks here in Spain because of the various fiestas, but also the unpredictable explosion of bangers at any time of the year. Here are a list of things to know about why your dog gets anxious and what you can do to help. 1. It’s normal if your dog gets scared. “While we humans have learned to expect fireworks around fiesta times, the sound of fireworks can be quite startling for dogs,” says dog behaviour scientist Ragen T.S. McGowan. 2. After all, your dog has keen senses that make fireworks a more intense experience. Your dog’s acute hearing makes him more sensitive to the sounds of fireworks than you are. “Fireworks also produce an odour that dogs may be sensitive to,” McGowan said. 3. During fireworks, your dog experiences the same kind of startled response you do when you’re surprised by a loud noise. This may mean an increase in heart rate, a rush of adrenaline, and an increase in stress hormones circulating through the body. 4. For your dog, fireworks aren’t the same experience
as say a thunderstorm. Thunderstorms come with a lot of warning signs, like changes in barometric pressure and high winds, so dogs anticipate them. Since fireworks are sudden and occur less frequently than thunderstorms, dogs might be more intimidated by them. 5. There are plenty of dogs who aren’t afraid of fireworks. It might be because they’re naturally easy-going, or it might be because they were exposed to enough noises when they were young that they understand that fireworks aren’t a threat. 6. If you start early, you can help lower your dog’s sensitivity to the sound of fireworks. If you know there are going to be fireworks in your area, you can help prepare your dog by exposing him to recorded firework sounds. Note that this process takes months of effort that includes gradually increasing the volume while you reward your dog for keeping calm. It’s not a shortterm fix. 7. If you start really early, you might be able to desensitise your dog to a lot of loud noises. If you expose your dog to noises like fireworks, thunder, car horns and train whistles in a positive manner when he’s between 3 weeks and 3-months-old, he’s more likely to be unfazed by noises later in life. 8. No time? Create a spe-
cial area in your home where your dog can feel safe and secure during the noise. If your dog is basket trained then he may feel most secure in his basket or a corner area with a nice chew toy to occupy his time. Put the dog’ bed in a calm place during any fireworks, and try closing the windows and playing some music. 9. Help your dog feel happy during fireworks. Why not give your dog a special treat or his favourite toy? It might help to create positive associations with fireworks. 10. Calming wraps and clothes may help for some dogs, too. These work like swaddling does for infants – they make your dog feel secure during stressful situations. 11. The most important thing you can do is stay calm. “Making a big fuss around the dog only reassures him that there is a good reason to panic,” behaviourist McGowan said. “Dogs look
at us for reassurance so showing them that we are calm and relaxed is likely to help the dog understand that there is no real danger.” 12. Lead by example. Giving your dog cuddles could make it seem that you are fearful too. If you remain calm then you encourage them to remain calm. Dogs also learn from each other. If you have a friend who has a dog that is not afraid of fireworks, invite them round for the evening when the fiesta display is happening. Your friend's dog will help set the right example. A word of caution - learning by example can work both ways. If the visiting dog becomes anxious after observing your dog's fear, do not continue. 13. Tired Out. If your dog has been for a nice long walk and is physically and mentally tired out, they will be much more likely to settle in the evening and less likely to worry about the noise, lights and activity outside.
Pets Corner: Can You take in a Homeless Dog or Cat?
DANI
FEENA
JACK
LULU
MANDY
Dani is a large two-year old GSD cross who was found wandering in the campo. He is obedient and loving who likes to play and loves to be with people. He is a happy boy that would make a great addition to any family. If you can give Dani a home or to find out more about him, please call PEPA today on 650 304 746 or email: p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail. com
Feena is six months old and a super little dog who was found wandering on a main road. She has a lovely temperament and is a happy, healthy girl who weighs six kilos and is now fully vaccinated, micro chipped and sterilised. If you think you could give Feena a home then please contact the SAT kennels in Dolores on 966 email or 047 710 info@satanimalrescue.com
Rescued from Death Row in one of the infamous 'Killing Stations', Jack is a big softie, but suffers from the bad reputation that many of his breed are sometimes well known for. He is a strong dog and would need someone able to handle him, but he will be very faithful and loving with the right person. To arrange to meet Jack, please call 630 422 563.
Lulu is a beautiful but very shy and timid five month old kitten who was rescued with her brothers and sister. She needs a quiet, calm and loving home, where she will grow up to be a wonderful companion cat for someone to have by their side in her new forever home. To arrange to meet and fall in love with this little sweetheart Lulu, please call 630 422 563.
Mandy is a beautiful sweet five month old pup, who is very intelligent. She is very good with the other dogs and cats that she is currently being fostered with. Mandy is lots of fun and just wants to play and loves getting attention. For more details on Mandy, please phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail. com
PHOEBE Phoebe is an eight month old Yorkie cross, who was rescued with her sisters and is now the last one needing a home. She is a very loyal and playful girl who is full of joy and spreads happiness with her playful attitude She is great with other dogs, cats and children. For more details, please 253. 469 645 phone www.petsinspain.com
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Friday 16th October 2015
Tony Mayes - About Life
No Justice For Wronged Couple
I couldn’t help being disgusted by the story of the couple who had their baby taken away from them and saw it adopted after they were charged with child abuse - only to have charges against them dropped three years later. If ever there was a case of an appalling lack of justice this is it. Britain prides itself in having one of the most just and fairest justice systems in the world. Sadly a total lack of humanity displayed by Surrey social service department, medical staff and the justice system has totally failed this couple. Surrey County Council and the courts should move without any further delay to return the child to its rightful parents. Karrissa Cox and Richard Carter, of Guildford, faced assault charges after health staff found bruises on the baby and X-rays appeared to show fractures. The couple maintained their innocence for three years, but the adoption went ahead while the case continued against them. This is an appalling example of a council acting as judge, jury and executioner - prejudging the issue before it had been heard by the courts. It is also appalling on another level how on earth can it possibly take three years for a case to get to court? This is no
justice, it is a disgrace. If the government expects doctors to provide a 24/7 service to the public, it should also expect judges and barristers to get off their backsides and execute justice far more efficiently than they are presently doing - if it means evening and weekend courts, then so be it, after all, they're paid enough. And doctors involved need a massive kick up their backsides as well! In April 2012, the couple took their six-week-old baby to hospital after they spotted blood in the child's mouth. But hospital staff noticed bruising and marks on the child's body, and X-rays were carried out which a radiologist said showed healing fractures on the baby's limbs. The injuries were considered to be nonaccidental and the heartless bureaucratic machine swung into action. The child was first removed into foster care and then later adopted. During the court case, defence lawyers said the Xrays were consistent with rickets, and the bruising with von Willebrand's disease. Three weeks into the trial, the prosecution said one of their own medical experts could not be sure that X-rays showed fractures and therefore it would not be possible
for a jury to reach a conclusion. Why couldn’t this socalled medical expert say that three years ago? I hope the couple sue him to hell and back and so he never gets the chance to ruin some other couple's lives. They plan to appeal against their child's adoption, but legal experts say it will be a long uphill struggle for them to get their own child back. If ever there was a case for David Cameron to personally intervene and get this case fasttracked, this is it. Can you possibly imagine how terrible it must be, firstly to be wrongly accused of harming your own child and then see him or her permanently taken away from you without even the chance to clear your name in court before that decision is made? The council say they always put the interest of the child first in considering such cases, which is justifiable, but if that policy is taken to its illogical extreme conclusion, then every youngster with a bruise would be removed from their parents "just in case". Why am I so incensed over this appalling case? Because the situation happened to me when my younger son was aged about four. His mother and I knew something was wrong
with him when he would have screaming fits and became uncontrollable. One day we took him to the zoo and had a lovely day but he got overtired. He slept in the car on the way home but when we arrived he had one of his 'turns' and threw himself around the kitchen, hitting his face on a cupboard door handle and he too had blood in his mouth from the injury. I was given the third degree in hospital and it was a dreadful experience. My son was eventually diagnosed as having an allergy to dairy products and some fruits but it took a long time to get to the bottom of the problem, like the Guildford couple with their baby. I wish them well in their battle to be reunited with their child and hopefully some lawyer with an interest in human rights will take on the case free of charge. Last week acres of UK media time were given up to the news item of the century. Listening to it, anyone would have thought the entire nation was going to be turned upside down and impending disaster was about to happen. What was all the fuss about? The introduction of a 5p charge on plastic bags in supermarkets! This should have happened years ago, why
England has followed limply behind other parts of the UK beats me, and of course we’ve had this here in Spain for the last five years, and nobody has lost any sleep over it! Imposing a 5p charge is fair enough, although I think it's not enough money. But if we really want to have a cleaner world not filled with rubbish everywhere there is a much more productive answer. If you're my age you will remember buying bottles of pop and on the label was a note which said if you returned the bottle the shopkeeper would give you 3d (that's three old pence, worth just over one penny in today's money). Tesco introduced a fantastic clean-up campaign a few years ago where people could earn the store's green points by returning cans and plastic bottles, with one enterprising couple even paying for their wedding by touring the streets "Wombleing". It didn't surprise me the initiative didn't last long - it probably cost too much money for Tesco. So, why can't the government get us all collecting and recycling rubbish by paying us to do it? At a stroke, instead of kids throwing their rubbish in parks, streets and the beach you would see them taking cans, bottles and bags back to depots to supplement their pocket money. It's a win, win. Among all the puerile rubbish reported about the introduction of the 5p charge, one story stood out. A shopper was accosted by supermarket security staff and accused of theft after she used a basket to carry her groceries to her car to avoid paying the new 5p carrier bag charge. She had been shopping for her lunch at a Tesco Extra store and decided not to pay for a plastic bag as she had one in her car. However, as she walked out of the branch with her purchased shopping in the basket she was confronted by two guards who accused her of stealing. Another shopper filmed the incident
in the shop's car park including the moment one guard grabbed her basket after accusing her of trying to steal it. The security workers explained to her that the new 5p charge for bags had seen a rise in the number of people using baskets to carry goods to their cars, with some taking them home. 'I hadn't even got to my car when the security guards chased me and then grabbed my basket and wouldn't let go,' she said. Apparently there have been many other similar incidents all because of the 5p bag charge. Is it rocket science to get people to keep a few re-usable bags in the boots of their cars and get them out when they go shopping? “Every little helps”, as Tesco might say if they used some common sense! Is it crazy that a 77-yearold man was allowed to drive a bus which ploughed into the front of a Coventry supermarket killing two people? The bus company said: "No driver we employ is allowed behind the wheel of our buses without us being satisfied that they are fully qualified, safe and meet all necessary legal requirements. In this case, our driver has many years' experience and has also passed a mandatory annual medical." The driver was a former mayor and from reports was an all-round good chap. That is all very well, but I challenge anyone to prove to me that someone aged 77 has as quick a reaction as someone say in his 40s, and can anyone suggest that a person aged 77 is as unlikely to suffer a sudden heart attack or stroke than someone aged 40? The question is whether the degree of risk too great for a person aged 77 to be driving a public service vehicle. Oh yes, it's UK government policy to allow people to continue working beyond retirement age, but surely not in jobs such as bus, train or lorry drivers and other occupations where people can be put at increased risk.
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GARDENING IN THE AUTUMN WITH PRO POOLS & GARDENS
As we are now in October, this is the last month of the year that your garden plants should need feeding before this winter. It is important to ensure you give feed which is specific to the types of plants you have. Fruit trees for example which are not ever green (Cherry, Apple, Grape, Pear) shouldn’t be fed as they no longer require feeding, as this time of
year is when the trees drop their leaves and will require pruning back to ensure they will grow well in the next season. Citrus fruits (Lemon, Orange, Mandarin) will need feeding and Iron in the soil for them to stay healthy through the winter period. They don’t require pruning this time of year, better in February or March just before the tree is about to flower.
Tropical fruits such as Mango, Papaya, and Litchi should ideally be covered to protect the flowers from the cool wind and rain. If you use an irrigation system for your plants, it should now be set up for the winter time, ideally every other day now and twice a week in November, December and January. Don’t forget to check the battery, ideally batteries will last a year,
but best to change every six months. Your grass in your garden will stay short now over the winter months and the watering will need to be reduced right down. There are some beautiful flowering plants to give your garden that autumn feel such as Chrysanthemum, Rudbeckia, Calluna, flowering in red, Yellow, white and purple.
POOLS In our part of Spain we don’t need to winterize our pools as you would in a cold climate as there is little risk of the pipes freezing. It’s always a risk leaving pools running when unattended incase of blockages or leaks, however if they are turned off, they will discolor. How bad, will depend on how long they are left. If your pool is left running and the
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national heath service will not only effect jobless UK expats. Cut backs by both the UK and Spain are hitting working expats and Spanish alike. Not only do we now have tighter rules and controls on the use of the E111 and SIP cards. The cut backs across the board in the Spanish national heath service and ever growing waiting lists are forcing both the working and retired to look for alternative costly private treatments. Don't get caught out. You wouldn't set up a home insurance and then ask to open a claim for a robbery that happened the previous week. The same rule applies to heath insurance, private
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Spy in the House – Whatson´s Choice
The name´s Whatson… James Whatson… Do, do, do, DOO, do, do, do. Do, do, do, doo, do, do, do. DO DO, dooo, DO DO. Well, it isn´t really, it´s just Whatson, but I didn´t want to be left out. The new James Bond film looks amazing and I hear that Daniel Craig might be hanging up his Bond boots and moving on to other things, so there might be an opening soon for a smooth, suave, sophisticated young television star to take over. I mean me, obviously. It could be my big break onto the silver screen. Anyway, enough dreaming, I´d better explain why. Jonathan Ross is back this week for another series of
his chat show on ITV. But before he´s joined by his celebrity friends he takes us on a tour of the new Bond film, Spectre. He takes us all around the world to show us some of the filming locations, and he also shows us some of
the amazing cars that have starred in Bond films. A fascinating insight into the world of Bond is promised. Oh, I just realised something. I can´t drive! On the subject of cars though, BBC Two are going to show us how they´re
made. Not just your usual tour of a factory sort of show, oh no, this one is going to be completely different, because it is live! For two nights, Tuesday and Wednesday, the show takes us on a tour of the MINI plant in Oxford, where a new car can roll off the production line in just 24 hours. They also visit Germany and look at driverless cars. Ah, there we go. Problem solved. I don´t need to drive. Anyway, that´s it for another week. The joke of the week was a bit tricky, but then I stumbled across this little gem. What do you call James Bond in the bath? Bubble 07. Tatty bye my friends, tatty bye.
Welcome Back Jonathan
Saturday night on ITV is set to be dominated by the return of two screen
favourites. Ahead of the first episode of the ninth series of his chat show, lifelong
James Bond fan Jonathan Ross gains exclusive access to the cast and crew of the latest 007 blockbuster Spectre in a one-off special for ITV on Saturday evening. He explores the enduring success of the Bond films as he chats with current Bond Daniel Craig, latest Bond villain Christoph Waltz, and Miss Moneypenny herself – Naomie Harris. As well as looking ahead to the new film, the show celebrates the history of the spy series as Jonathan takes a look at the
classic cars, impressive gadgets, evil villains and beautiful Bond girlss. The programme features exclusive behind-the scenes filming at locations all over the world, including Mexico, Rome, Austria, Morocco and London, offering a unique insight into the glamorous world of 007. James Bond’s cars have always featured prominently in the series. Jonathan takes a look at the beautiful Aston Martin DB10 which has been specially designed for the latest film. Speed will be important as he has to hurry back to the studio as his Saturday night chat show returns for a ninth series. Having made the move to ITV back in 2011, Jonathan has cemented his place as one of the UK’s most revered interviewers, securing a diverse range of guests from Hollywood A-listers and musicians to sporting heroes and the cream of today’s comic talent. Appearing on the opening show this week are US action hero Vin Diesel, whose Fast and Furious series of films is one of the most successful of all time. He will no doubt be discussing the most recent and highest grossing instalment of the series, Furious 7 – now the fifth biggest film ever – which featured the final starring role of the late Paul Walker. Also on the show are comedy partners Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, who are celebrating 25 years of working together with a tour later this month. Sheffield-born Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill discusses motherhood and her preparations for Rio 2016, while Tom Jones chats about his new album and autobiography as well as performing live in the studio. Will the no-nonsense Welshman be able to hold back as the subject of his exit from The Voice inevitably rears its head?
Building Cars Live Buckle up for an incredible journey into the fascinating secret world of the car factory, which will see BBC Two getting under the bonnet of the UK car industry. Every 20 seconds a brand new car rolls off the production line somewhere in Britain and James May, Kate Humble and Ant Anstead are live behind the scenes at one of the biggest and busiest car factories in the country - the MINI Plant in Oxford. Over two nights they’ll reveal the science, engineering and people that keep us all on the road and see a car built from start to finish in a little over 24 hours. Building Cars Live will also step outside the factory to explore the evolution of global mass production, bust the myth that British manufacturing is dead and see how design becomes reality. In this first programme on Tuesday, James makes friends with an army of diligent robots, Kate heads to Norway to discover why the electric car is king of the Norwegian road and Ant explores the history and heritage of one of the most iconic cars ever built. With access all areas on the factory floor, the team will see exactly how a car is born - a car that tomorrow will be driven off the line, ready for life on the open road. In the second live programme on Wednesday, James races against the clock on the production line and embraces the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen. Kate gets to the bottom of how manufacturers test car seats for mass production and Ant heads to Germany to put his faith in a driverless car on the autobahn. Inside the factory the team reveal what it takes to build 1,000 different cars a day and are live as a car that started being built yesterday drives off the production line for the very first time.
Pick Me! Pick Me! sees an entire audience of colourful characters compete for the attention of host Stephen Mulhern. If he picks them to play they could take home cash, or a brilliant prize, but only if they come out on top in a dramatic, often hilarious game of knowledge, judgement and bluff. Expect lying leprechauns, phoney pirates and bluffing babies, as an ever-changing panel of players are challenged to come up with convincing answers to some of the toughest questions on television. But can contestants spot who's been given the right answer, and who's just made something up on the spot? In the first episode on Monday, hoping to win big are blonde-bombshell ‘Marilyn Monroe’, an Elvis Presleylookalike called Daniel from Essex, Tara the vampire, CJ the naked butler and cowboy Jay and his inflatable horse. As well as money, amongst the prizes up for grabs today are a luxury break in Cornwall, an exhilarating tandem-bungee jump and a magnificent seven-night holiday in Madeira. However, it isn’t long before the lies and bluffs start to cause ructions, with contestant Alyisha declaring: ‘It just shows you who you can trust nowadays!’ Will Elvis be all shook up? Will Jay and his blow-up horse be galloping off to the Cornish coast? Find out as the audience shouts...Pick Me!
Scream Street Scream Street follows the story of Luke Watson, a regular teen apart from the werewolf gene! When the Government Housing of Unusual Lifeforms (G.H.O.U.L.) gets wind of Luke’s hairy habit, they transfer him and his parents to Scream Street – where surfer-dude zombies, sarcastic vampires, martial arts mummies, glamorous witches and just plainbad monsters put a whole new spin on community spirit. The fast, furious stories are packed full of horror and humour delivered with warmth and heart – even if some of those hearts have stopped beating!danger.
Friday 16th October 07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 Film - The Edge (15) 09:15 Gardeners’ World 09:45 Great British Victoria 10:15 Menu Derbyshire 12:00 BBC News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 20:30 A Question of Sport Natural World 18:15 Flog It Come Strictly Sue Barker hosts the light- 19:00 Two Takes It Dancing: hearted sports quiz 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Film - The Edge (15) 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show
20:00 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass Paul demonstrates how to make soda bread in under an hour and Mary makes cappucci21:30 Still Open All Hours no creme brulees Granville has bought a job lot of bargain stock but 21:00 Mastermind Quiz needs a clever plan to sell it all 21:30 Gardeners’ World Carol explores the inner 22:00 Have I Got News for workings of leaves You Paul and Ian are joined by guest host Sue Perkins 22:00 Great Continental Railway Journeys Michael 22:30 The Kennedys travels east through the Some Scandinavians have Balkans heading for Istanbul moved into Jessop Square 21:00 EastEnders Donna reels from her discovery, but will she be able to keep it to herself?
23:00 News 23:35 The Graham Norton Show 00:20 Asian Provocateur 00:50 Film The Disappearance of Alice Creed (18) 02:25 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:30 News
Morning Good 07:00 Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News and Weather 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 ITV News and weather 20:00 Emmerdale The Dingles present a united front 20:30 Coronation Street The Platts need divine intervention 21:00 Tonight: Cheap Food - What’s the Cost? Jonathan Maitland investigates the real cost of cheap food 21:30 Coronation Street Will one of the Platts break rank and put their faith in Billy?
22:00 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories Piers Morgan has a candid chat with Warwick Davis, the star of stage and screen who stands at just 3’6” due to an extremely rare bone condition he reflects on his varied career - which includes starring 23:00 QI 23:30 Newsnight roles in both the Harry 00:00 Artsnight 00:35 Later Potter and Star Wars films with Jools Holland 01:35 Film - The Tempest (PG) 23:00 News and Weather 03:20 Question Time 04:20 23:40 Film - Quantum of 01:35 (12) Solace Special Forces - Ultimate Jackpot247 04:00 Britain’s Hell Week 05:20 This is Best Bakery 04:50 ITV BBC Two Nightscreen
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07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:30 Unreported World Against daunting odds, medics in the desperately poor African country of Malawi organise and perform 15-minute operations that allow blind people to see 21:00 TFI Friday Chris Evans’ seminal cult entertainment show is back with a new series 22:00 Gogglebox Britain’s favourite opinionated TV viewers share their sharp, insightful, passionate and sometimes emotional critiques of the week’s biggest and best shows 23:00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:05 Celebrity Benchmark 01:05 First Dates 02:00 Film - The Runaways (15) 03:50 Supernatural 04:40 You Deserve This House 05:35 Deal or No Deal
07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - Obsession 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Police Interceptors Barry hunts a lad wanted for assault, the interceptors are hot on the tail of a suspected drug dealer and a drunk driver tries everything to avoid giving a breath sample 21:00 Murder at the Vatican? Conspiracy Did a future pope turned a blind eye to Nazi war criminals, did a Vatican insider poison Pope John Paul I and did the KGB attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II? 22:00 NCIS: New Orleans After a Navy recruiter is the target of a lethal hit-andrun, the NCIS team investigates whether the murder was tied to her career or to her role as a foster mother 23:00 NCIS 23:55 NCIS: Los Angeles 00:50 Access 01:00 Super Casino 04:10 Now That’s Funny 05:00 Autopsy 05:45 House Doctor
07:00 You’ve Been Framed 07:20 Psych 08:05 Emmerdale 09:05 You’ve Been Framed 09:35 Dinner Date 10:35 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 14:15 You’ve Been Framed 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Film White Chicks (15) 00:20 Educating Joey Essex 01:25 Two and a Half Men 02:15 The Almost Impossible Gameshow 03:05 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:25 Judge Judy 11:50 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor in the House 17:50 Rising Damp 18:15 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 20:55 Foyle’s War 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:05 The Vice 01:40 Inspector Morse 03:35 Where the Heart is 04:25 ITV3 Nightscreen 04:40 Emmerdale Omnibus ITV4
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right. She heads downstairs and steps on some broken glass before seeing that there are smashed bottles and optics everywhere. She begins to shake, fearing that she is being targeted. Who has done this?
In Emmerdale, the Dingles rally around Chas following Aaron’s arrest, but Diane says she’ll never be able to forgive Chas for not telling her the truth. Later, when James comforts Chas, Emma witnesses them together and seethes with jealousy.
Chrissie is upset regarding Lawrence’s time in prison, but Rakesh tries his best to keep his relationship with her professional. She later tells Bernice that Lawrence found prison really hard and he adores her. But does Bernice agree or is Kerry right?
In the early hours of the morning, Chas awakes sensing something isn’t
In Coronation Street, Billy is concerned about Sarah when he witnesses
her snapping at Todd. Todd explains to Billy how he and Sarah have history. When Billy approaches, Sarah panics. Will she confide her fears?
At the same time, the police call at Number 8 and quiz David, Kylie and Sarah about Callum’s whereabouts, explaining that he has skipped bail. David assures them they’ll be in touch if they hear
anything, while Kylie and Sarah struggle to contain their fear. Consumed with guilt, Kylie and Sarah wonder if they’d be better off confessing all to the police, but David insists they stick to their story. When we return, Billy hurries after Sarah. He assures her that as a vicar, his job is to listen and whatever she tells him is in the strictest confidence. Sarah starts to open up to Billy, revealing how her boyfriend threatened her and things got out of hand. As Billy encourages her to go to the police, will Sarah make a full confession? In Eastenders, shocked
by what she has seen, Donna confronts Les and Claudette. They both insist that they’re not having an affair, but Donna has some harsh words which infuriate Claudette. Claudette then tries to comfort a panicking Les, assuring him that it’s going to be okay. Kim insists on interviewing Ronnie for the job at The Albert, but Sharon overrules her and gives Ronnie the position. Kim later tells Patrick that she thinks Ronnie is stalking Vincent. After spotting Vincent texting someone, Kim heads back to The Albert and confronts Ronnie. Is the truth about their affair about to come out?
07:00 Gunsmoke 07:50 The Sweeney 08:50 Minder 09:50 Motorway Patrol 10:50 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:50 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 14:55 Motorway Patrol 15:55 Gunsmoke 16:55 Magnum, PI 18:00 BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge 22:40 Rugby World Cup 23:45 Film - Maximum Conviction (15) 01:50 River Monsters 02:55 Ax Men 03:40 Movies Now 03:50 ITV4 Nightscreen
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07:00 Breakfast 11:00 Saturday Kitchen 12:30 James Martin: Home Comforts 13:00 News 13:10 Football Focus 13:50 Saturday Sportsday 14:00 World Amateur Boxing Championships 15:30 Bargain Hunt 16:30 Escape to the Country 17:00 Final Score 18:20 News 18:40 Pointless 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present as the 13 remaining couples hit the dance floor for a ballroom battle to stay in the competition 21:20 Doctor Who Captured by Vikings, the Doctor and Clara must help protect their village from space warriors from the future, the Mire
07:20 Film - War and Peace (U) 10:40 Film - The Lavender Hill Mob (U) 12:00 Animal SOS 12:30 Animal SOS 13:00 James Martin: Home Comforts 13:30 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 14:30 Terry and Mason’s Great Food Trip 15:00 Harvest 2015 18:00 Earth’s Wildest Waters 19:00 Flog It
07:00 Bottom Knocker Street 07:20 Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 07:45 Share a Story 07:50 Sooty 08:05 Fish Hooks 08:25 Adventure Time 08:45 Marvel Avengers Assemble 09:15 Horrid Henry 09:30 Thunderbirds are Go 10:00 Jessie 10:25 Jeremy Kyle USA 11:20 Countrywise 11:45 ITV News and Weather 11:55 Jeremy Kyle 12:55 Downton Abbey 14:00 The X Factor16:00 20:00 Gardeners’ World Rugby World Cup: Quarter Carol Klein explores the Final South Africa v Wales inner workings of leaves - 19:15 News and Weather how they harness the sun’s 19:30 James Bond’s energy and turn it into food Spectre: With Jonathan Ross Lifelong James Bond 20:30 Great Continental fan Jonathan Ross gains Railway Journeys Michael exclusive access to the Portillo travels east through cast and crew of the latest 007 blockbuster Spectre the Balkans
20:30 Rugby World Cup: 21:30 Dad’s Army Frazer Quarter Final New Zealand 22:10 Casualty Love con- loses a vital part of a gun v France. Live coverage of quers all for one young couthe second Rugby World ple, while Charlie helps a 22:00 QI XL Quiz show in Cup quarter-final from father and daughter deal which the aim is to be inter- Cardiff with their grief esting 23:15 The Jonathan Ross 23:00 The National Lottery 22:45 Cradle to Grave Show 00:20 News and Live 23:10 News 23:30 Weather 00:35 Rugby 23:45 Film - Drive (18) World Cup Highlights 01:35 Match of the Day 01:00 The Apprentice 02:00 Weather 01:20 Film - La Vie En Jackpot247 04:00 Show for the Week Ahead 02:05 Rose (12) 03:30 This is Me the Telly 04:50 ITV Nightscreen BBC Two News
07:15 How I Met Your Mother 07:40 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 Hever Castle Triathlon 09:00 The Morning Line 10:00 Frasier 11:00 The Big Bang Theory 12:25 The Simpsons 13:30 Racing: British Champions Day From Ascot 17:00 News 17:15 Come Dine with Me 19:45 Film - Beautiful Creatures (12) Bored and frustrated teenager Ethan soon becomes smitten when the enigmatic Lena arrives in his Deep South home town but his new love has “powers” 22:00 It Was Alright in the 1990s Matt Lucas narrates another set of eye-popping, brain-spinning clips in the series that asks whether the television we watched tells us about who we were 23:00 Gogglebox 00:00 TFI Friday 01:05 Film Scary Movie 2 (18) 02:40 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 03:35 Hollyoaks Omnibus 05:45 Location, Location, Location
07:00 Milkshake 10:30 Dora and Friends 11:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:35 Access 11:45 Cowboy Builders 14:45 Film - Columbo (12) 16:30 Columbo 18:20 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 19:15 Fail Army 20:00 Now That’s Funny Clip show featuring the most hilarious, cute and inspiring family-friendly viral videos from around the world 21:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away The High Court Enforcement Agents face neighbours at war and a showdown in a kebab shop 21:55 News National and international news 22:00 Football League Tonight Highlights of all the day’s games, including QPR’s trip to strong starters Birmingham City, while Leeds take on early pace-setters Brighton 23:30 20 Moments That Rocked the 00s 00:55 The Best of Bad TV: The 00s 02:10 The Gadget Show 03:00 Super Casino 05:00 Witches: A Century of Murder 05:50 Make it Big
14:15 Funniest Ever You’ve Been Framed 15:20 Film What a Girl Wants (PG) 17:30 Film Hotel Transylvania (U) 19:15 Film - Hulk (12) 22:00 Film - Bridget Jones’s Diary (15) 00:00 Celebrity Juice 00:50 The Almost Impossible Gameshow ITV3 13:45 Inspector Morse 16:00 Midsomer Murders 18:00 Lewis 20:00 Doc Martin 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Lewis 01:00 Hidden Treasure ITV4 12:15 The Professionals 14:25 Silverstone Classic 2015 15:30 British Touring Car Championship Highlights 17:00 Film - The Sting (PG) 19:40 Storage Wars 20:10 Film - Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (PG) 22:00 Film - Escape From New York (15) 00:05 Film Fearless (15)
09:00 Trev Massey, 12:00 Gordon Lack, 15:00 Keith Nicol
Sunday 18th October 07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 07:45 The Big Allotment Challenge 08:45 09:45 Countryfile Gardeners’ World 10:15 The Beechgrove Garden 10:45 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:15 The Great Off Bake British Masterclass 13:15 MOTD2 Extra 14:00 Terry and Mason’s Great Food Trip 14:30 Talking Pictures 15:10 Film - The Man Who Would be King (PG) 17:15 The Railway: Keeping on Track 18:15 Flog 20:15 Strictly Come Britain It 19:00 Don’t Panic - The Dancing The judges’ Truth About Population scores and public votes have been combined, and 20:00 Landward Special the two couples with the Dougie Vipond presents, lowest score dance off focusing on Scotland’s west against each other coast 07:00 Breakfast 08:30 Match of the Day 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 16:00 Eat Well for Less? 17:00 Points of View 17:15 Songs of Praise 17:50 DIY SOS 18:50 News 19:15 Countryfile Autumn Special
21:00 Antiques Roadshow The Antiques Roadshow makes a return visit to the Royal William Yard in Plymouth 22:00 From Darkness A direct threat on Claire’s life pushes her uncomfortably close to John 23:00 News 23:30 Match of the Day 2 00:15 The Apprentice 01:15 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:20 News
07:00 Bottom Knocker Street 07:20 Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 07:45 Share a Story 07:50 Sooty 08:05 Fish Hooks 08:25 The Matt Hatter Chronicles 08:45 Marvel Avengers Assemble 09:15 Horrid Henry 09:30 Thunderbirds are Go 10:00 Horrible Science 10:25 Murder, She Wrote 11:25 Jeremy Kyle USA 12:20 News and Weather 12:25 Jeremy Kyle 13:25 Rugby World Cup: Quarter Final Ireland v Argentina 16:15 Rugby World Cup: Quarter Final Australia v Scotland 19:15 News and Weather 19:30 You’ve Been Framed
07:20 How I Met Your Mother 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 10:30 Sunday Brunch 13:30 The Big Bang Theory 14:25 Film Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (PG) 16:05 Film A Knight’s Tale (PG) 18:40 A Place in the Sun 19:40 News 20:00 Homes by the Sea Architectural designer Charlie Luxton leaves behind mainland Britain and heads to the Channel Islands, as his quest to visit impressive seaside homes continues
20:00 The X Factor The 21:00 Secret History A look at the relics found in 21:00 Earth’s Wildest final stage of the six chair the tombs of China’s Han Waters A group of passion- challenge Dynasty ate anglers from the UK push their skills to the limit 22:00 Downton Abbey Violet invites Neville 22:00 Homeland Carrie 22:00 Britain’s Ultimate Chamberlain to dine at and Düring pay a visit to a Pilots: Inside the RAF The Downton Abbey refugee camp, Saul and RAF put on a performance Allison find themselves at at the UK’s largest air show 23:00 News and Weather odds, while Quinn stays on 23:15 Rugby World Cup mission 23:00 Family Guy 00:05 Top Coppers 00:35 Film - Highlights 00:15 Rugby 01:15 23:00 Experimental 00:05 Eight Minutes Idle (15) Highlights 02:20 Film - Haywire (15) 01:45 01:55 Film - Corridors of Perspectives 04:00 Film - Metro Manila (15) 03:20 Jackpot247 (15) Blood Countryfile 04:20 Holby Motorsport UK 04:50 ITV 03:45 Come Dine with Me City 05:20 This is BBC Two Nightscreen 05:35 Food Unwrapped
07:00 Milkshake 09:35 Football League Tonight 11:00 2015 Morrisons Great Birmingham Run 13:05 Film - Mannequin (PG) 14:50 Film - Did You Hear About the Morgans? (PG) 16:55 Film Seabiscuit (PG) 19:35 News
14:05 Film - What a Girl Wants (PG) 16:15 You’ve Been Framed 17:15 Film Happy Feet (U) 19:25 Film - Lost in Space (PG) 22:00 The Xtra Factor 23:00 Film - White Chicks (15) 01:20 Viral Tap
19:40 Film - The Fifth Element (PG) Science-fiction thriller starring Bruce Willis as an ex-government agent, now reduced to driving a taxi in 23rd century New York
13:20 Inspector Morse 15:40 Lewis 17:40 Midsomer Murders 19:50 Foyle’s War 22:00 Sunday Night at the Palladium 23:00 Birds of a Feather 23:30 City Lights 00:35 Lewis
22:00 Film - Centurion (15) Following a devastating guerrilla attack on their legion, a small splinter group of Roman soldiers are left behind enemy lines in the Scottish Highlands They attempt to get back to the safety of the south, but must contend with both the marauding Picts and betrayal from within 00:00 Film - Conan the Barbarian (15) 01:55 Super Casino 04:10 Britain’s Flashiest Families 05:00 House Doctor 05:25 Make it Big
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ITV4 14:40 Film - The Sting (PG) 17:20 Film - Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (PG) 19:10 Film - Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (PG) 21:00 Rugby Highlights 22:00 Film - High Plains Drifter (18
09:00 Trev Massey, 12:00 Gordon Lack, 15:00 Tony De Love
Monday 19th October 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Inside Out
07:15 Home Away From Home 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 The Edge 09:15 Escape to the Continent 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:10 Coast 14:00 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes 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 Pick Me 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Diane blames Chas for the damage 20:30 Coronation Street The Platts face a stark warning
21:00 EastEnders Pam does her best to get to the 20:00 The Great British bottom of what’s going on Bake Off Masterclass Mary makes her version of with Les a sugar-free carrot cake 21:30 Panorama On the eve of the president Xi Jinping state visit to the UK, the BBC’s China editor Carrie Gracie examines the life and career of a man born into power and privilege 22:00 Traffic Cops An insight into the working life of officers as they patrol the nation’s busiest and most dangerous roads 23:00 News 23:35 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 00:20 The Graham Norton Show 01:05 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:10 BBC News
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In Emmerdale, Chas is convinced that Robert’s shooter is still out there and is now targeting her. Cain visits Aaron at the remand centre and is shocked to see that he’s a broken man. He’s left seriously worried when Aaron alludes to killing himself. Later at The Woolpack, Diane suggests that Chas
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07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News
21:00 Countrywise Paul Heiney is on the stunning Dorset coast Ben Fogle travels to Northern Ireland in search of the elusive and University iconic Irish hare, and Liz 21:00 Challenge Quiz series for Bonnin ventures out into the Atlantic to snorkel with students basking sharks 21:30 Only Connect Quiz 21:30 Coronation Street show Carla sees Johnny’s worth 22:00 The Celts Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver go 22:00 Doc Martin Martin in search of the Celts - one and Louisa do not seem to of the world’s most mysteri- be having much success with their therapy, so Dr ous ancient civilisations Timoney advises that they 23:00 Mock the Week should try and take things 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 back to the beginning of Britain’s Ultimate Pilots: their relationship and plan a Inside the RAF 01:15 Face date of Britain by Simon Schama 02:15 The Great British 23:00 News 23:45 The Job Bake Off 03:15 Who Do Lot 00:10 Piers Morgan’s Stories 01:10 You Think You Are? 04:15 Life The Apprentice 05:15 This Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Kyle 04:55 ITV Nightscreen is BBC Two
21:00 Jamie’s Super Food In Costa Rica’s Nicoya peninsula, Jamie learns the importance of enjoying the simple things in life from a group of fisherman
discussing her problems with the local vicar. Dragging Sarah into the Rovers back yard, David berates her for blabbing to Billy and tells her that if she does it again, he and Kylie will tell the police that she killed Callum and forced them to cover for her. Sarah is stunned by his threat.
upset and tells Sarah there’s no way she’s getting on the plane.
smashed up the bar herself as a smokescreen for Aaron. Cain arrives shortly afterwards and Chas starts to break down when she hears that Aaron has been charged. Cain feels the pressure to save his family, but how? In Coronation Street, Callum’s mother Marion calls at Number 8 wanting answers about Callum’s whereabouts. Kylie and Sarah conceal their guilt. David soon launches an attack on Marion, calling her son a drug-dealing thug and throwing her out. Kylie and Sarah are shocked. Later, when Billy asks after Sarah, David realises with horror that Sarah has been
When we return for part 2, David persuades Sarah that she’d be best to move back to Milan, where she can put the whole Callum saga out of her mind and start afresh. Sarah hands her notice in at the pub, telling Michelle that she is returning to Italy as soon as possible. When Sarah breaks the news to Bethany, the teen gets
21:30 Food Unwrapped Putting plums, prunes and prune juice to the test
07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 The Yorkshire Vet 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS: New Orleans 16:10 Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Gadget Show Amy and Jason give the latest health apps a check up, Jon reveals which tech can keep car insurance down, and Ortis and Amy reveal which next-generation TVs turn them on 21:00 Police Interceptors Damo Stevens hunts down a heroin dealer, Jacko rushes to a critical car crash, and the Interceptors investigate some potentially hazardous goods
22:00 SAS Selection for the SAS is the world’s toughest job interview, and the truth about what it takes to pass it is surprising
22:00 Benefits Focusing on a woman regularly vilified by the tabloid press who is expecting her 12th child, and claims nearly £40k in benefits a year
23:00 Fargo 00:05 It Was Alright in the 1990s 01:10 Undercover Boss Australia 02:00 Being Bhaijaan 02:55 Grand Designs 03:55 Location, Location, Location 04:55 Four Rooms 05:50 River Cottage Bites
23:00 Britain’s Horror Homes 00:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 01:00 Now That’s Funny 01:50 Super Casino 04:10 Police Interceptors 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 Great Scientists 05:50 House Doctor determined to get to the bottom of what’s really going on with Les following the recent events at Claudette’s house. When Billy returns to the Square and warns Les that Pam is behaving suspiciously, Les is finally forced to tell the truth. Pam’s world falls apart when she discovers what Les has been hiding.
When Bethany moans to David about Sarah’s plans, David tells her that it’s for their own safety as Callum has threatened to kill them both. Bethany is scared witless, while Kylie is shocked by David’s vehemence. In Eastenders, Pam is
Meanwhile, Ben and Kathy are still planning to leave the Square, but Kathy gets more than she bargained for when an oblivious Ian turns up with Dot and Martin. Once they’re alone, Dot shares some home truths to Kathy, leaving her feeling guiltier than ever.
07:00 The Hot Desk 07:10 Psych 07:55 Emmerdale 08:30 Coronation Street 09:30 Dinner Date 10:30 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 Coronation Street 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Film Quantum of Solace (12) 00:10 Celebrity Juice 00:55 Two and a Half Men 01:50 Viral Tap 02:25 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 02:50 Animal Practice ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:30 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:30 Judge Judy 11:50 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor in the House 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 20:55 Wycliffe 22:00 The Mafia with Trevor McDonald 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice 01:40 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:55 The Professionals 08:50 Minder 09:50 Magnum, PI 10:50 The Sweeney 11:50 Minder 12:55 The Professionals 13:55 Gunsmoke 15:00 Magnum, PI 16:05 The Sweeney 17:05 Film Kojak: The Marcus Nelson Murders (15) 20:00 Rugby World Cup Highlights 21:00 MotoGP 22:00 Storage Wars 23:00 Benidorm 00:00 Bundesliga 01:00 Rugby Highlights 02:05 Motorsport UK 03:05 Ax Men 03:55 ITV4 Nightscreen
07:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G
Tuesday 20th October
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07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders Kathy finds herself torn and comes to a decision about her future 21:00 Holby City Cara is shocked to the core when her husband’s lover is admitted in labour On edge after his hostage ordeal, Guy is determined it won’t have a detrimental effect on his work 22:00 River Still wracked with grief over the death of his friend and partner Jackie ‘Stevie’ Stevenson, River and his colleagues must attend her wake 23:00 News 23:35 KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy 00:35 Is Britain Racist? 01:35 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:40 BBC News
SOAPS
In Emmerdale, Eric tells Cain about seeing Chrissie with a gun on the night of the shooting and how he would stick to this story if the police’s attention was diverted back to her. Cain comes up with a plan and sneaks into Home Farm during Bernice’s engagement party and heads upstairs whilst wearing gloves.
07:15 Home Away From Home 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 The Edge 09:15 Rick Stein From Venice to Istanbul 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 BBC News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands Paul travels to the Outer Hebrides 20:30 Building Cars Live Behind the scenes at the MINI Plant in Oxford to bring us the modern miracle of car production in real time 22:00 The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone It’s the semi-final of Gareth’s contest to find the nation’s most entertaining amateur a cappella group 23:00 Later Live with Jools Holland 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 The Celts 01:15 Face of Britain by Simon Schama 02:15 Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You 03:15 The Apprentice 04:15 This is BBC Two Cain then crashes the party and begins to go through his list of suspects in front of all the guests. Chrissie reddens, but does she have something to hide? Later, Cain arrives at the scrapyard and asks Adam to help him kill Robert and make sure Chrissie takes the fall for it... Meanwhile, Bernice tells a gobsmacked Diane and Victoria that she is getting married to Lawrence. Doug advises Diane not to push her daughter away and she can see that he is right. However, when Cain crashes the party and Chrissie lets rip with an outburst, Diane tells
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 Pick Me 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Cain looks for another suspect 20:30 Deals, Wheels and Steals Six car dealers compete against each other to bag the best bargain car and sell it on for a profit 21:00 Eternal Glory Richard Bacon presents the entertainment series in which a group of sporting legends battle it out to be crowned champion of champions 22:00 Lewis When a college dean is found dead, an alchemic image is discovered by the body, denoting the first of four stages of a process called The Magnum Opus. The team realise that there are three more murders to follow 23:00 News and Weather 23:40 The Jonathan Ross Show 00:45 Benidorm 01:40 Jackpot247 04:00 Loose Women 04:50 ITV Nightscreen Bernice that she doesn’t want anything to do with the Whites. In EastEnders, Kathy continues to feel guilty after spending some time helping Ian at the café. She tells Ben that she isn’t sure if she can really go through with their plan, but he urges her not to back out now as they need to save Phil. Soon afterwards, a furious Gavin confronts Kathy and asks about the money. After Gavin makes a threat that she can’t ignore, Kathy returns to the Beale house. Ben storms out when tensions rise and Ian is left fearing that Kathy is
07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News
07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:10 Rosamunde Pilcher’s Valentine’s Kiss 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News
20:00 Police Interceptors Damo hunts down a heroin dealer, Jacko rushes to a critical car crash and the investigate 21:00 Obsessive Interceptors Compulsive Cleaners some potentially hazEstate agent Michelle ardous goods helps Susanne clean her cluttered two-bedroomed 21:00 The Yorkshire Vet flat, while pharmacy super- Julian visits George the visor Amar comes to the goat who has a nasty looking leg injury and Peter aid of 66-year-old Sylvia rushes to the stables to 22:00 24 Hours in A and E save a young horse that The RTS award-winning has cut its leg open documentary series returns for a tenth series following 22:00 Witches: A Century patients treated in the of Murder Last of a twosame 24-hour period at St part documentary series in Dr Suzannah George’s in south west which Lipscomb investigates the London origins of the obsession for 23:00 My Big Fat Wedding mass witch hunts and trials 00:05 My Transgender that swept the British Isles Summer Camp 01:05 400 years ago PokerstarsCom Shark Cage 02:00 KOTV Boxing 23:00 CSI: Cyber 00:00 Weekly 02:25 Gillette The Mysteries of Laura World Sport 02:55 Hever 01:40 Super Casino 04:10 Castle Triathlon 03:20 Four Secrets of Underground Rooms 04:20 Location, Britain 05:00 Wildlife SOS Location, Location 05:15 05:25 Great Scientists 05:50 House Doctor Deal or No Deal leaving again. Jane is also starting to question whether Kathy is really telling the truth. Later on, Ian drops a bombshell on Kathy... Meanwhile, Denise learns that Vincent’s mystery woman was Ronnie. This causes her to clash with Roxy, who throws water over her. Kim puts Vincent in his place following some advice from Claudette, but she is left confused when he suddenly leaves. Later, Ronnie attempts to build bridges with her sister. In Holby City, Cara is alarmed when her husband’s lover is admitted onto AAU in labour.
With the maternity ward full, an emotional Cara becomes an unwilling spectator to the birth of her husband’s child.
Meanwhile, in the aftermath of his hostage ordeal, Guy buries himself in paperwork and cancels his surgical commitments. When he sees what appears to be an abandoned bag on the ward, he panics and fears that it’s a security risk.
07:00 The Hot Desk 07:10 Psych 07:55 Emmerdale 08:30 Coronation Street 09:30 Dinner Date 10:30 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 Coronation Street 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Tricked 23:00 Glitchy 23:30 The Job Lot 00:00 Release the Hounds 01:05 Two and a Half Men 02:00 Glitchy 02:25 The Job Lot 02:50 Animal Practice ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:25 Judge Judy 11:50 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor in the House 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 20:55 Rosemary and Thyme 22:00 Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice 01:40 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:55 The Sweeney 08:50 Minder 09:50 Motorway Patrol 10:50 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:55 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 14:55 Motorway Patrol 15:50 Gunsmoke 16:55 Magnum, PI 18:00 The Professionals 19:00 MotoGP 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 The Chase: Celebrity Special 22:00 Film - Two Mules for Sister Sara (15) 00:25 Film - The Wild Bunch (18) 03:15 Ax Men
07:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G
Wednesday 21st October 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 21:00 DIY SOS Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team continue with their most ambitious build ever an attempt to regenerate a rundown community in Manchester 22:00 The Apprentice For the candidates it’s an abrupt end to their day off as Lord Sugar sends instructions to pack a bag and head to the wartime tunnels underneath Dover Castle. Here, Lord Sugar has a message - find nine items, negotiate the best possible price, and the team that spends the least amount of money will win this task
07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 The Edge 09:15 Pound Shop Wars 09:45 Terry and Mason’s Great Food Trip 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 BBC News 12:30 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands Paul explores the Isle of Mull and its satellites 20:30 Building Cars Live The team reveals what it takes to build thousands of different cars a day 22:00 Face of Britain by Simon Schama The historian explores how portraiture has the power to immortalise love
23:00 The Apprentice: You’re Fired 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Len Goodman’s Dance Band Days 01:15 Reginald D Hunter’s Songs of the 23:00 News 23:35 A South 02:15 The Hairy Question of Sport 00:05 Bikers’ Northern Exposure Reggie Yates: Race Riots 03:15 Alex Polizzi: Chefs USA 01:05 Weather for the on Trial 04:15 This is BBC Two Week Ahead 01:10 News
SOAPS
In Emmerdale, Adam is shocked by Cain’s murderous plan. As Cain hides himself from the hospital CCTV with a large teddy, Adam warns Zak about what’s going on. Cain distracts a nurse and snatches a cordless phone from her desk. Chrissie is lured into Cain’s trap when she receives a call from the hospital, telling her that
she needs to come in. As Cain prepares to cut Robert’s oxygen tube, Zak arrives suddenly and interrupts him. Can Zak persuade Cain to spare Robert’s life? Meanwhile, Harriet suggests that Ashley should ask Sandy to move in with them, but he is nervous about trying to convince his father this would be the best place for him. Sandy’s pride takes over and Edna scolds him for being obstinate. Sandy tells Ashley he only has his pride left and soon puts Ashley in an upsetting predicament when he makes a big request. Elsewhere, Rhona sug-
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 Pick Me 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Cain takes matters into his own hands 20:30 Coronation Street Carla tears a strip off Aidan and Johnny
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07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News
21:00 All Star Mr and Mrs The couples hoping to win big this time are motoring expert Quentin Willson and his wife Michaela, former footballer Jermaine Jenas and his wife Ellie and TOWIE star Billie Faiers and her fiance Greg
21:00 Restoring Britain’s Landmarks This new series goes behind the scenes at conservation charity The Landmark Trust, following amazing restorations and delving into the history surrounding some of Britain’s most 22:00 Land of the remarkable buildings Midnight Sun Alexander Armstrong continues his epic 8000-mile journey 22:00 Grand Designs halfway around the Arctic Kevin McCloud follows the of Stephen Circle, deep in mid-winter - progress the most spectacular, but Yeoman and Anita Findlay, potentially deadly, time to who want to build a cuttingexplore this incredible edge, post-industrial house region covered in rusty metal
23:00 UEFA Champions League Highlights 00:00 News 00:45 UEFA Champions League: Extra Time 01:15 Jackpot247 04:00 British Touring Car Championship Highlights 05:15 ITV Nightscreen
23:00 Million Pound Properties 00:00 24 Hours in A and E 01:05 Blink 01:30 Film - Chennai Express (12) 03:55 Film Double Indemnity (PG) 05:40 Fifteen to One
gests some time alone with Paddy, but he says he has to check up on Chas. He heads to The Woolpack where he stays drinking for most of the day. When Rhona comes to collect Paddy, he apologises for what he’s done to her and Chas. They assume it’s just the drink talking, but behind the drunkenness there is a deeper guilt.
from a supplier friend of his. Beth struggles to work with the cheap material and when Johnny tries to help, he only succeeds in breaking her machine. Carla tears a strip off Johnny and Aidan for buying inferior material and risking her reputation.
In Coronation Street, Carla, Johnny and Aidan call a meeting with the factory girls and announce that they’ve secured a huge new order and it’s all hands on deck. With Carla out of the way, Johnny takes delivery of some cheaper material
Meanwhile, when Kylie finds out from Sarah how David threatened her by claiming that they’d shop her to the police for murder, Kylie is appalled and assures Sarah she would never do that. Kylie persuades Sarah to have a holiday in Italy to clear her head but to return in a couple of weeks. David is furious with Kylie for meddling in
07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 Secrets of Underground Britain 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film Fatal Trust 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Secrets of the Scammers Alexis Conran investigates new forms of financial fraud, meets the people who have lost money, and examines the clever tricks fraudsters use Behind GPs: 21:00 Closed Doors Dr Eleanor Beecraft fears her patient is in the middle of a drugs overdose 22:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away Paul and Phil take possession of a house but discover a full-scale cannabis factory inside Paul is accused of racism when trying to evict a Kosovan family from emergency council accommodation 23:00 The Gift of Life 00:00 Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 01:45 Super Chris 04:10 Casino Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 The Great Artists 05:45 House Doctor his plans and the couple row.
Jamie meets up with Luke and reminds him that either he enters the race or Steph’s saucy photos will become public knowledge. As Maria leaves for Cyprus, Luke promises her that his racing career is over. But desperate to protect Steph, will Luke give in to Jamie’s demands?
07:00 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:20 Psych 08:05 Emmerdale 08:35 You’ve Been Framed 09:35 Dinner Date 10:35 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 The Cube 14:40 Dinner Date 15:45 Jeremy Kyle 16:55 You’ve Been Framed 17:30 Film - Back to the Future (PG) 19:50 Film - Back to the Future Part II (PG) 22:00 Keith Lemon’s Back T’future Tribute 23:30 Film - Back to the Future Part III (PG) 01:50 Tricked ITV3 07:00 Movies Now 07:10 In Loving Memory 07:35 Heartbeat 08:35 Murder, She Wrote 09:35 Where the Heart is 10:40 Judge Judy 11:55 Inspector Morse 14:10 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:15 Where the Heart is 17:20 Doctor in the House 17:55 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice 01:05 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:55 The Sweeney 08:45 Minder 09:45 Motorway Patrol 10:40 Magnum, PI 11:40 The Professionals 12:40 The Sweeney 13:45 Minder 14:50 Pawn Stars 15:50 Gunsmoke 16:55 Magnum, PI 17:55 The Professionals 19:00 The Sweeney 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 British Superbike Championship Highlights 22:00 The Football Mavericks 23:00 Film - Air America (15) 01:20 Film - Nighthawks (18) 03:25 Motorway Patrol
07:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G
Thursday 22nd October
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07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders Kathy reels from her discovery and makes a drastic decision 21:00 Watchdog This edition of the consumer series features cars that burst into flames and looks at the confusion over energy bills 22:00 Who Do You Think You Are? Celebrity genealogy series. Frances de la Tour’s family tree holds a tantalising clue which hints at aristocratic ancestors Hot on the trail of her three times great grandmother. Frances uncovers a story of a secret lover, an illegitimate child and a landmark divorce case 23:00 News 23:35 Question Time 00:35 This Week 01:20 Holiday Weatherview 01:25 News
SOAPS
In Emmerdale, Diane and Victoria are floored when the police arrive at the hospital and it’s suggested they might have arrested the wrong person. At the same time, Aaron sits alone in his cell wishing he’d never laid eyes on Robert Sugden. Meanwhile, Ross returns
07:15 Home Away From Home 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 The Edge 09:15 The Great British Bake Off Class of 2014 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 BBC News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands Paul visits two islands which are only a few miles apart but couldn’t be more different 21:00 World’s Weirdest Events Chris Packham discovers the secrets behind a flame-filled firenado 22:00 The Last Kingdom The life of Saxon boy Uhtred is turned upsidedown by his father’s defeat in the Danish invasion of York
07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Pick Me 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale There is a development with Robert 20:30 Tonight: Xxl Britain Why do so many people continue to eat unhealthy food, and might a pioneering new drug treatment help us to fight the flab? 21:00 Emmerdale A special rewind episode in celebration of Emmerdale’s birthday as the story returns to the night of Robert’s shooting 22:00 Unforgotten As the investigation in to Jimmy’s death continues, Cassie and Sunny pay a visit to Father Robert Greaves. But, when the priest is unable to help identify the mysterious Jo-Jo, the duo move on to interview a former bookkeeper to Arlingham House
23:00 Russell Howard’s Good News 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone 01:15 Panorama 01:45 Welcome to the Mosque 02:45 Doctor Who 03:30 This is BBC Two
23:00 News and Weather 23:40 UEFA Europa League Highlights 00:55 Birds of a Feather 01:20 Jackpot247 04:00 Tonight 04:25 ITV Nightscreen
to the village and is annoyed that Andy seems to be on friendly terms with Pete.
episode, Emmerdale flashes back to the night that Robert Sugden was shot.
Elsewhere, Harriet is unaware of what Sandy requested of his son and is taken aback by Ashley’s vehemence when he calls his father a selfish old git. Harriet is shocked to hear what Sandy has asked of Ashley, but she convinces Ashley to have another word with him.
The identity of the culprit is revealed, as we see the crucial moments which led up to the shooting and what the motive was.
Also, Paddy receives a phone call and his face falls when he recognises the caller’s voice. Meanwhile, in a special hour-long ‘rewind’
07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces George meets couple desperate to get onto the housing ladder who’ve come up with a radical plan - to build a home made almost entirely from scrap 22:00 My Son the Jihadi In 2011, Sally Evans made a devastating discovery: her eldest son, Thomas, aged just 21, had left their home in a Buckinghamshire village and travelled to Somalia to join a deadly Islamist terrorist group 23:00 First Dates 00:05 Gogglebox 01:10 SAS 02:05 Embarrassing Fat Bodies 03:00 My Transgender Summer Camp 03:55 Location, Location, Location 04:50 Food Unwrapped 05:15 Deal or No Deal arrives and asks for help with a drunken Ben. After dealing with Ben, Kathy finally admits the truth to Ian about Gavin and her secret plan. Later, Kathy makes another drastic decision and heads to the police station...
07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Aircrash: Terror in the Sky Documentary investigating the events of June 8 1983, when pilots of Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 were forced to make an emergency landing due to damage to the fuselage from the loss of a propeller 21:00 World’s Fastest Train A look at the engineering breakthroughs that made the France’s highspeed TGV possible, including the Japanese bullet train and Stephenson’s recordbreaking Rocket 22:00 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys Chris attempts to cross the length of Cuba, the only island in the Caribbean to boast an extensive railway network 23:00 Film - Total Recall (12) 01:15 Super Casino 04:10 Britain’s Horror Homes 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 The Great Artists 05:45 House Doctor However, her day takes an unexpected turn when Vincent surprises her with the news that he has bought a house for his family. Kim is delighted to accept his peace offering, but Patrick and Denise are sceptical. Whose side will Kim take?
Two other shocking secrets are also revealed that will rock the village forever...
Elsewhere, Pam gives Les a chance to explain things further, but she struggles to hold it all together.
In Eastenders, Kathy is shocked by what Ian has told her and she feels terrible when she realises how much he has needed her support. The pair’s honest conversation is interrupted when Abi
Also today, Dean forces Roxy to apologise to Denise for their earlier argument. Kathy warns Ronnie about Dean’s controlling behaviour, forcing Ronnie to take matters into her own hands.
Meanwhile, Kim is heartbroken as she thinks that Vincent has left her.
07:00 You’ve Been Framed 07:20 Psych 08:05 Emmerdale 08:35 Coronation Street 09:05 You’ve Been Framed 09:35 Dinner Date 10:35 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 Coronation Street 14:15 You’ve Been Framed 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 The Almost Impossible Gameshow 23:00 Celebrity Juice 23:50 Glitchy 00:20 The Job Lot 00:50 Two and a Half Men 01:45 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records ITV3 07:00 Movies Now 07:10 In Loving Memory 07:35 Heartbeat 08:35 Murder, She Wrote 09:35 Where the Heart is 10:40 Judge Judy 11:55 Inspector Morse 14:10 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:15 Where the Heart is 17:20 Doctor in the House 17:55 Rising Damp 18:25 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Rosemary and Thyme 22:00 Million Dollar Princesses 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice 01:05 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:55 The Sweeney 08:45 Minder 09:50 Highway Patrol 10:50 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:50 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 14:55 Highway Patrol 15:30 Pawn Stars 15:55 Gunsmoke 17:00 Magnum, PI 18:00 The Professionals 19:00 The Sweeney 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Storage Wars New York 22:00 Film - The Fugitive (15) 00:40 Film Fearless (15) 02:50 Ax Men
07:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G
The Courier TV Pull-out - 9
TRELI ON THE TELLY WITH ALEX TRELINSKI
Things have gone utterly crazy in Autumn TV Land because some nice person has pressed a big button, and suddenly new and returning shows are coming at us at all directions, with finding the time to watch everything a real problem. Loads of the stuff is pouring out of America, and I have to say that so far, so very good indeed! Homeland is that rare example of a US show that died and then was totally reborn as a smart spy show last year, and the signs look good for season five based on last Sunday’s opener on Channel Four. Our loose cannon of a CIA operative, Carrie, no longer works for the firm but for a shady looking philanthropist in Berlin, and she has a work colleague as a new guy in her life. All happy then? No, forget it! She’s getting wrapped up with
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some Middle Eastern baddies (but of course), and we got a great scene when she met with exboss Saul(scene pictured), and the ice didn’t melt at all, as they snarled at each other for a glorious minute. And why is Quinn an “off the books” killer? A real tense start to the new run. Homeland opened up with a great cyber-hacking scene and that kind of business takes centrestage in the new CSI franchise show that is CSICyber on Channel Five. No surprise that Patricia Arquette steals things leading an FBI cybercrime unit and the plots are original, though you do have to concentrate a bit to follow what is going on. It’s many times better than the awful main CSI final episode a few weeks ago, but the Yanks are finding it slow going for their taste, so Ted Danson
Aries March 21-April 20 Recent tensions in a close alliance ease from this weekend, so do not look for problems where there are none, or misread someone’s intentions. Tuesday’s New Moon in peace-loving, diplomatic Libra shows farreaching changes in a situation that preoccupies you. It also stresses the importance of being flexible about the future.
Taurus April 21-May 21 The planetary pattern in the week ahead suggests that you are on the threshold of some kind of breakthrough, so do not let an unexpected sequence of events throw you off your stride, or make you feel unsure of where you stand with someone close. If you are true to your real needs and feelings, you can leave recent problems in the past.
Gemini May 22-June 21 Your home life and your deeper, long-term bonds with others are under lucky stars this week, when optimistic Jupiter aligns with Pluto, the planet that rules new beginnings. The New Moon also helps you to overcome misunderstandings that have undermined your confidence in recent weeks. All you need to do is open up to change.
Cancer June 22-July 23 Making someone see life from your angle may have seemed a challenge lately. But with easygoing, optimistic Jupiter now beaming down on your close bonds with others, all that is due to change. In fact, all you need to do to solve a recent problem is stand back and take a more relaxed and confident approach. The rest will follow.
as CSI character, DB Russell, will pop up to liven up things for season two. Worth watching though, even to check up on the ageing process of ex-Dawson’s Creek star, James Van Der Beek. Is he really now 38-yearsold? “Zombies!”, I hear Sergei the Meerkat cry in some of the Corrie sponsorship bits, and he would have had a field-day counting thousands of them (helped by dear old CGI technology) on a simply astonishing first double series six episode of
The Walking Dead on Fox UK. It was like watching a big movie as leader Rick worked out a ruse to blast the blood suckers all to smithereens in a quarry not far from his group’s current safe haven. It was so in your face that I’m sure blood oozed out of my TV, but it was also about working out once again how far Andrew Lincoln’s brilliantly played character would go, prompted by the welcome return (from season one and three) of Morgan: - a man with a conscience, portrayed by Lincoln’s fel-
Leo July 24-August 23 This week’s alignment between Jupiter, the planet of success, which is now travelling through your chart’s financial sector, and the wealth planet, Pluto, is due to help you reach a new, ambitious goal. Do not hedge your bets this time. If you are confident about the future, you can overcome resistance to your plans from those who count.
Virgo August 24-September 23 The importance of being open to new people and ideas is strongly stressed this week. New horizons beckon, so do not let uncertainty about the future make you miss a chance to usher in a more fulfilling era. With the zodiac’s luckiest planet, Jupiter, in Virgo, the only thing you can do wrong is sell yourself too short, so put your real interests first.
Libra September 24-October 23 Do not try to plan too far ahead this week, or put others under pressure. The New Moon in your sign ushers in a new era in your private life, so take each situation as it comes. You could find that someone is prepared to come halfway to meet you. Let them make the opening move.
Scorpio October 24-November 22 With so much action in your chart’s most sensitive and psychic zone this week, you have a sixth sense for coming trends, and for how to handle colleagues. It also seems an unexpected setback could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. You will make the right decisions if you relax and trust your judgment, instead of listening to advice.
low-Brit, the top class Lennie James, who despite all his UK work, lives in Los Angeles. I’m not a natural horror fan, but The Walking Dead really is a study of humanity and relationships, and over five years on from the first series, it continues to deliver on a grand level. The two big superhero shows, The Flash and Arrow returned on successive nights on Sky One this week, and with the same producers, they complement each other well. The Flash has a lighter touch as well as what appeared to be a helpful person from a parallel Earth in the last scene of the opener whilst Arrow into season four has had something of a relaunch with an excellent opener that also raised the humour level, after some pretty emotional episodes in the last run.
Arrow this season will also welcome a Brit who was a major character in Holby City not that long ago to be a new baddie for Oliver Queen to face off to. No… it’s not Tina Hobley! Is Downton Abbey boss Julian Fellowes playing with us over the fate of Earl Grantham in this final series? It appears utterly obvious, what with his spluttering and indigestion, that Hugh Bonneville’s character is set to be bumped off, but if so, why make it so clear, unless we have a red herring thrown at us? By the way, are you of the same opinion that you couldn’t give a single jot about the most boring Downton plotline ever, namely the fate of the village hospital. It’s only served to waste the wonderful talents of Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton in a mire of total inconsequence.
Sagittarius November 23-December 21 Changes in the company you keep are on the horizon, so be open to the possibilities around you and prepared to go along with what occurs. An unexpected conversation could be the start of a new friendship. It could also point you in a new direction. Do not be afraid to break free from a situation that you have outgrown.
Capricorn December 22 - January 20 A powerful, week-long link between Jupiter, the Lord of Luck, and Pluto in your sign is due to help you get considerably closer to a very personal goal this week. A problem that has held you back can now be solved and left behind you, so be proactive and determined while the stars are on your side. Travel and romance are also linked this week.
Aquarius January 21 - February 19 An unexpected piece of news could throw you off your stride early in the week and make you wonder if you should change course. Do not give up on your current goal, as yet. Feedback and support from someone close is due to help you turn the situation to your own advantage, so do not try to stand alone. Plan to socialise on Thursday.
Pisces February 20 - March 20 With Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and success, travelling through the area of your skies that rules your close relationships with others, better times now lie ahead, so let go of recent doubts and focus on the opportunities around you. The New Moon also helps you to reach a deeper understanding with a loved one or close friend.
10 - The Courier TV Pull-out
CODE CRACKER 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, 16 represents R and 22 represents J, when these letters have been entered throughout the puzzle, you should have enough information to start guessing words and discovering other letters.
QUICKIE
Across
Down
1 Saunter (6) 4 Shut (6) 9 Flyer (7) 10 Applauds (5) 11 Tight (5) 12 Housing (7) 13 Exciting (11) 18 Well-liked (7) 20 Range (5) 22 Monster (5) 23 Organise (7) 24 Sore (6) 25 Begrudge (6)
1 Meagre (6) 2 Rule (5) 3 Correspondence (7) 5 Clear-headed (5) 6 Staying power (7) 7 Blueprint (6) 8 Working class (11) 14 Make comprehensible (7) 15 Watch (7) 16 Small peg (6) 17 Discard (6) 19 Supple (5) 21 Snow leopard (5)
Last weeks Solution
Across: 1 Crass, 4 Bent, 9 Regatta, 10 Piano, 11 Get, 12 Lurid, 14 Idiot, 15 Yearn, 16 Opts, 18 Edge, 20 Pains, 22 Agree, 23 Satin, 25 Pro, 26 Flats, 27 Upstage, 29 Soak, 30 Basis. Down: 1 Circle, 2 Anger, 3 Sit, 5 Emptiness, 6 Trading, 7 Magnanimous, 8 Loath, 13 Dyspepsia, 17 Perhaps, 19 Gaffe, 21 Unless, 24 Traps, 28 Sob.
Scribble Pad
DOUBLE CROSS-WORD Solve the Double Cross-Word puzzle using either the standard or cryptic clues, the answers are exactly the same.
CRYTPIC CLUES Across 1 Walls formed of legs and forequarters of mutton? (8) 5 Expert witness revealed to be a fool (4) 9 Nelson to supply workforce with New Deal? (7) 10 I name new state (5) 11 Tie up in low river (4) 12 Rewrite diverse amendments (7) 15 English flower festival (6) 16 Fix up extremely remarkable couple (6) 19 Sex and dope are wrong, it's revealed (7) 21 Coo! luv - starting to look really with it (4) 24 Redesigned River Nile for a big ship (5) 25 Requiring dead engine to be repaired (7) 26 Greek character around a nurse, he's a card (4) 27 Loses car damaged by game (8)
Down 1 Think about an appendage (8) 2 Chap leaves to gather fruit (7) 3 Sage going out for a long time (4) 4 Crockery from disputed estate (3,3) 6 I put in a movement of the hand to resign (5) 7 Being rank, it is returned by the Queen (4) 8 A doctor I sent to bed drunk (7) 13 A trip with O'Connor around bypasses (7) 14 Poor glue ruined this introduction (8) 17 Somatic form of nuclear engineering (7) 18 She's back in academy and then sustained a rupture (6) 20 Gas produced by Norse oxen (5) 22 Fruit found in plumber's lunch box (4) 23 Almost take Boyd out of the boneyard (4) Down 1 Recapture the past (8) 2 Tropical fruits (7) 3 A long time (4) 4 Set of crockery for drinks (3,3) 6 Give up (5) 7 Row of seats (4) 8 Drank (7) 13 Roundabout routes (7) 14 Introduction (8) 17 Science that deals with nuclear energy (7) 18 Rupture (6) 20 Noble gas (5) 22 Purple fruit (4) 23 Close by (4)
STANDARD CLUES Across 1 Defensive fortifications (8) 5 Foolish one (4) 9 South African statesman (7) 10 New England state (5) 11 Heath (4) 12 Brought up to date (7) 15 Christian festival (6) 16 Make good (6) 19 Unprotected (7) 21 Close to cold (4) 24 Large commercial ship (5) 25 In want of (7) 26 Bill of fare (4) 27 Native American sport (8) Last weeks Solution Across: 1 Humus, 4 Lancet, 9 Macrame, 10 Annex, 11 Read, 12 Let-down, 13 Was, 14 Mafia, 16 Until, 18 Gas, 19 Forbear, 20 Leer, 23 Clubs, 24 Pinnace, 25 Step-in, 26 Booty. Down: 1 Humdrum, 2 Mecca, 3 Seal, 5 Acanthus, 6 Consort, 7 Toxin, 8 Keels, 13 Water-ski, 15 Fortune, 17 Larceny, 18 Grips, 19 Focus, 21 Erato, 22 Snub.
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Complete the crossword grid by using the given words:
2 letter words So To 3 letter words Ace Egg Ewe Flu Ill Its Lop Sin 4 letter words Able Ache Apse Atop
Bake Bare Blow Chap Clan Clog Coke Dais Diet Edit Elmy Etna Foal Hens Imam Lobe Lure Naps Skua Sled
Sons Sore Step Sure Syne Tare Thou Used 5 letter words Acute Allot Amole Audio Caber Cress Odour Opera Poets Poker
Rules Shade Shard Sheet Shire Shone Shops Spate Spree Stair State Sties Suede Timer Title Token Waken Yeast
6 letter words Cabins Chrome Cornet Corona Decree Echoed Spouse Status 8 letter words Reechoed Speedway 9 letter words Hobgoblin Laborious
SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORD
Improve your Spanish - clues in Spanish, answers in English or vice versa.
Across 1 Cáscaras (de huevos, nueces) (6) 4 Cebollinos (6) 7 Nightmare (9) 9 To praise (4) 10 Dawn (4) 11 Laws (5) 13 Serpientes (6) 14 Laguna (6) 15 Broccoli (6) 17 Plátano (6) 19 To know (facts) (5) 20 Raíz (de planta) (4) 22 Coffee (4) 23 A veces (9) 24 Tiburones (6) 25 Sellos (Correos) (6)
Down 1 Centuries (6) 2 To read (4) 3 Escamas (zoología) (6) 4 Formón (6) 5 Island (4) 6 Torcedura (6) 7 Passengers (9) 8 Pillows (9) 11 Far away (5) 12 To take out (5) 15 Donkeys (6) 16 Etiquetas (6) 17 Comienza (6) 18 Bees (insects) (6) 21 Gira (4) 22 Eyebrow (4)
The Courier TV Pull-out - 11 Across 1 Stage surname of comedians Harry and Benny (4) 3 Group of businessmen in a town organised as a service group and to promote world peace (6,4) 10 In rugby union a formation of parallel lines of opposing forwards at right angles to the touchline when the ball is thrown in (4-3) 11 English ska band whose UK Top 10 hit singles include: My Girl, Baggy Trousers, It Must Be Love, House Fun and Wings of a Dove (7) 12 North American term for reindeer (7) 13 Horses’ sounds (6) 15 Pasta in the form of short wide tubes (5) 16 According to the New Testament, one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus (9)
18 Person with an unusual or odd personality (9) 21 Nickname of Robert Leroy Parker, the American train robber, bank robber and leader of the Wild Bunch Gang in the American Old West: ----Cassidy (5) 23 Midwestern US state nicknamed the ‘Sunflower State’ (6) 25 Raised platform on which a person stands to make a public speech, receive an award or medal, play music or conduct an orchestra (7) 27 US city that is home to the Dwight D Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum (7) 28 Statue in Copenhagen honouring Hans Christian Andersen: The Little ------(7) 29 Author whose novels characterised the Jazz Age in the US: F Scott ---------(10)
SUDOKU (Medium)
Quiz Word
30 Large dark antelopes also called wildebeests (4) Down 1 Aircraft without wings
that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades (10) 2 Title of the sixth studio album by the Eagles,
released in 1979: The ---- -- (4,3) 4 Be more numerous than (9) 5 Capital and largest city of Jordan (5) 6 Language used by Jews in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages and still has some 200,000 speakers, mainly in the US, Israel and Russia (7) 7 Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end (7) 8 Northern Irish professional footballer who, in 1968, won the European Cup with Manchester United and was named the European Footballer of the Year: George ---- (4) 9 Dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force (6)
14 Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC) (10) 17 Of or relating to tears (9) 19 Two-wheeled vehicle drawn by horses, used in ancient racing and warfare (7) 20 Fund of money put by as a reserve (4,3) 21 Small, inexpensive restaurant (6) 22 Piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential (7) 24 German architect and Nazi Minister for Armaments and Munitions, who designed the Nuremberg stadium for the 1934 Nazi Party congress: Albert ----- (5) 26 Chunk of ice broken off from a larger glacier, iceberg, ice shelf, etc. (4)
SALLY’S SIMPLE SPANISH
Envejecer-getting old Match these words with their Spanish translations then find them in the wordsearch. (Answers below)
canas
jugar bingo
charlar con amigos
la residencia
cumplir años
la vejez
dentadura postiza
leer mucho
dolor de espalda
memorias
el bastón
nietos
ir mas lento
tiempo libre
jubilarse
ver telenovelas
general QUIZ
ANSEWRS 1. Screwdriver 2. Damon Albarn 3. Fokker 4. Jeffrey Archer 5. Mr Blobby 6. Campanulate 7. Hernia 8. January 1978 9. Wimpy
Last Week’s Solutions Code Cracker Last weeks Quiz Word Solution Across: 1 Scythe, 5 Channels, 9 Macaroon, 10 Log out, 11 Sierra Nevada, 13 Reno, 14 Thirteen, 17 Stilwell, 18 Data, 20 Penitentiary, 23 Diwali, 24 Omelette, 25 Colossus, 26 Shrimp. Down: 2 Coal, 3 Toadstool, 4 Exocet, 5 Congratulations, 6 Atlantis, 7 Negev, 8 Laundrette, 12 Lee Trevino, 15 Teddy bear, 16 Genetics, 19 Lakers, 21 Imago, 22 Atom.
Empareja estas palabras - Match the Spanish and English words You will find the answers at the bottom of the quiz. 1.canas, 2.charlar con amigos,
14.memorias, 15.nietos,
j.chatting with friends, k.to retire,
3.cumplir años,
16.tiempo libre.
l.backache, m.slow down,
4.dentadura postiza,
n.read a lot, o.watch series,
5.ver telenovelas,
a.memories, b.play bingo,
6.dolor de espalda, 7.el bastón,
c.the rest home, d.free time,
8.ir mas lento, 9.jubilarse,
e.grey hair, f.old age,
10.jugar bingo, 11.la residencia,
g.false teeth, h.grand children,
12.la vejez, 13.leer mucho,
i.the walking stick,
Soduko
Span - Eng
Quizword
p.to have a birthday.
Answers: 1e, 2j, 3p, 4g, 5o, 6l, 7i, 8m, 9k, 10b, 11c, 12f, 13n, 14a, 15h, 16d
1. Vodka and orange juice makes up what kind of cocktail? 2. Who Appeared On The Cover Of A June 98 NME Dressed As A Tiger? 3. Which German Company Introduced The Interrupter Gear Enabling A Machine Gun To Fire Through An Aeroplanes Propeller? 4. Which Politician took part in a Play called 'The Accused' in the year 2000? 5. Which Pink Creation From Noel's House Party Had A UK No.1 In 1993? 6. What Word Is Used To Describe Bell Shaped Flowers? 7. What Is The Condition Called When An Internal Organ Protrudes Through The Wall Of A Cavity In Which It Is Intended To Co 8. When Was The First Baby Born On The Antarctic Continent? 9. Who is The Name Of Popeye's The Sailors Hamburger Eating Friend?
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Cartoonify Your Living Space If you fancy a change from the more traditional looking furniture, a quick trip to your local self-assembly outlet might offer a modern replacement, but there is an alternative that transforms your room into something quite unique. British artist Richard Woods traverses the boundaries between art, architecture and design in an ongoing examination of the relationship between the functional and the ornamental. Woods has said that his vibrant colour palette is inspired by his childhood memories of his parents’ home in 1970s England, where he was surrounded by “plasticky” colours and garish, narrative wallpapers.
Okay, so an alternative sideboard or dining set might be a start, suppose you want to go a whole lot further? You could transform your home entirely into a cartoon replica. As part of a 1997 promotion, Fox, Pepsi, and Kaufman and Broad homebuilders sponsored a contest that gave people the chance to win a fully-furnished Simpsons house. No detail was left out, from Duff beer cans to the print on the kitchen curtains. Unfortunately the winner opted to take $75,000 in cash instead of the house (tax would have been payable on the house by the way, but not the cash), and Bart’s humble yet colourful abode was converted to a more-or-less nor-
mal living space and sold in 2001, though fans with sharp eyes may still be able to spot the Treehouse of Terror in the backyard. Or how about the modest but charming domicile Carl Fredricksen improbably flew to South America in the film Up? It isn’t in Paradise Falls however it’s in Utah, constructed, with Disney’s permission, by Bangerter Homes. Fittingly, the home was purchased by a couple of Disney fanatics who had been searching for a place with the Up flavour in California, but were having trouble finding something in their price range. Carl and Ellie’s house was a steal at $400,000. Added bonus: one
of the basement bedrooms is decked out to look like Andy’s room from Toy Story. Finally, if you fancy “life in plastic”, (which is “fantastic” by the way), then a real life Barbie girl needs to be looking to the area dominated by another doll, Malibu, To celebrate Barbie’s 50th birthday in 2009, Mattel enlisted designer Jonathan Adler to help create a real-life Malibu beach house. Sadly, the contents of the house were dismantled but some of it was made into a suite at the Palms hotel in Las Vegas, so while you can’t buy the furnished beach houae of your dreams, you can still get the Barbie experience and for a fraction of the cost.
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Friday 16th October 2015
Active Surfaces Supporting DEBRA
Everybody´s favourite safety flooring company, Active Surfaces, are pleased to announce that they have formed a collaboration to support DEBRA, the charity for children with butterfly skin, as their surfaces are a key factor in keeping children´s play areas safe. They will shortly be hosting a special event and charity auction, which will be held at Victoria´s Tea Room in Almoradí, located on Calle Pablo Picasso no 5 (Close to the Ayuntamiento / Town Square), where TKO´s Dennis Christian jumped at the chance to help out by turning auctioneer for the day. We will bring you more details about the event nearer the time and of course on TKO, as Active Surfaces are the proud sponsor of the Who´s on TKO Mystery Voice competition, where you can win a cash prize just for
guessing who is saying a short phrase. Meanwhile, if you´re still wondering what Active Surfaces are about, they provide and install one of the most popular additions to pool and play areas, “Wet Lay Rubber” surfaces. After years of experience laying this product in the U.K., the company thought it high time the product was brought to the Spanish market, where the heat can often lead to hardened surfaces, and solid tiles and concrete are often the norm. Unlike those hard and slippy surfaces, the flooring installed by Active Surfaces is a solid coloured granule composition which will leave a smooth textured surface which is soft and cool to walk on in all weathers. Prior to installation the surveyor will discuss meeting your individual needs and requirements, in detail, and
according to your budget, making sure the right choice is made and ensuring the product ticks all the boxes. The surface itself has been independently tested in accordance with Critical Fall Height (BS EN 1177), Resistance to Abrasive Wear (BS 7188), Slip Resistance BS 7188), Resistance to Indentation (BS 7188), and Flammability (BS 7188) standards, so you are sure that quality is key. The surface installed is environmentally friendly, hard wearing, impact absorbing and easy to clean and is suitable for a wide range of different areas, including pool and play areas, golf courses, gardens, driveways, football pitches and sports grounds and the home. You can actually see a sample in a live display at Victoria´s Tea Room in Almoradí, so you can see for yourself what it´s like when you attend the charity auction. What´s more, Active Surfaces will back up your purchase with a 5 year guarantee against fair wear and tear, so your installation is all set to last well into the future. For more information you can visit their website at, www. activesurfaces.es, or call 662 679 467, and keep listening to TKO radio on 90.8 or 91.9 fm for the latest special offers.
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Best British Recipes Roast saddle of lamb with mint sauce
Food & Drink Tequila cocktails you need to try now
Desserts
Pears & Chocolate
2 x 410g cans pear halves in syrup, 100g chocolate, chopped into small chunks, 8 scoops vanilla ice cream, 2 tbsp chopped hazelnuts. Directions Drain the pears over a pan. Divide between 4 dessert glasses. Boil the syrup on a high heat until reduced and thick. Take off the heat and stir in the chocolate until melted. Add 2 scoops of ice cream onto each portion of pears and pour over the hot choc sauce. Top with the chopped nuts.
Nectarine & Pistachio layers
50g fresh wholemeal breadcrumbs, 25g porridge oats, 50g demerara sugar, 25g shelled pistachios, finely chopped, 500g fresh low-fat custard, 500g 0% fat Greek yogurt, 2 tbsp maple syrup, 4 ripe nectarines, stoned, sliced Directions Heat oven to 180C/160C, Mix breadcrumbs, porridge oats, sugar and pistachios together and spread out in an even layer on a baking parchmentlined baking tray. Bake for 8 mins, stirring half way, until crisp and golden brown. Cool Gradually beat the custard into the yogurt in a mixing bowl. Sweeten with the syrup or honey.
Saddle cooked on the bone is unusual so ask your butcher in advance. Don’t let them bone and roll it as this method produces a better result. Serves 6-8. Whole lamb saddle around 1.5kg, oil or goose fat for frying, demerera sugar 200g, water 200ml, malt vinegar 200ml, mint medium bunch. Heat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6. Score the lamb on the skin side and season well. Using a large frying pan on a medium heat, fry the lamb all over and then
leave skin side down for 10 mins (you may have to lower the heat) to render the fat under the skin. The colour should be mahogany. Put the whole joint in the oven for 20 minutes, then turn the oven down to 150C/gas mark 2 and cook
for a further 35 minutes. Take the meat out of the oven and leave to rest for 30 minutes.
Now take the fillets off. Run a knife down the backbone until you get to the rib and then run your knife horizontally using the ribs to guide you. Do this on both sides and you should have 2 long fillets. Season well again and carve each fillet into 3-4 pieces. Serve with your favourite greens and potatoes. To make the mint sauce, boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes. Leave to cool completely. Weigh the sugar syrup and add roughly the same amount of malt vinegar. Now chop the mint and add to the sauce (it will take plenty of mint).
The Margarita Nothing says sunny days and happy times better than the sharp and spiky Margaritas. One sip and I am back in California. Chips and guacamole are mandatory, as is some suitable mariachi music. Wipe a wedge of lime around the rim of a tumbler. Dip the rim into some sea salt. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add 30ml lime juice, 30ml Cointreau, 60ml white tequila (I favour Herradura). Shake, shake, shake until bitingly cold. Then fill the tumbler with fresh ice and strain the drink over the top. Squeeze a wedge of lime into the glass, and toss it in too. Stir and drink. Tequila Sunrise - How much more rock’n’roll can a drink be? aThe Rolling Stones purportedly got through their ’72 American tour on a lot of
them and The Eagles named a song after it. Yeah, baby! Fill a tall glass with ice. Add 50ml white tequila. Then carefully pour in 90ml fresh orange juice. DO NOT STIR. Add 10ml grenadine. The grenadine should sink to the bottom of the glass … giving you … a sunrise effect. Garnish with a slice of orange and a maraschino cherry. Sip to side one of Sticky Fingers. The Mexican Negroni This twist on the classic works very well with tequila and makes a slightly sweeter drink. Fill a tumbler with a couple of large cubes of ice. Add 60ml white tequila, 20 ml Aperol and 20ml sweet red vermouth (I favour Riserva Carlo Alberto) . Add a dash of orange bitters. Stir well and serve garnished with a twist of orange.
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Friday 16th October 2015
Best Soups Around Proper homemade stock boosts a soup, and much more
Beetroot, fennel seed and chilli soup with ginger creme fraiche This has such depth of flavour that I’d happily serve it as a fancy starter. 6 medi-
um beetroots, 3-4 floury potatoes (about 500g), 3 tbsp olive oil, 2 small onions, peeled and chopped, 1 tsp fennel seeds, 1-2 small dried chill-
ies (or ½ tsp dried chilli flakes), to taste, 2 fat cloves garlic, peeled and chopped, Salt and freshly ground black pepper, 1.5 litres chicken or vegetable stock. For the creme fraiche sauce. 250ml creme fraiche, 1 large knob ginger, The zest of 1 lime, plus half its juice. Top and tail the beetroots. Peel the potatoes and dice, Heat the oil in a large casserole over a medium heat, then add the onions, fennel seeds and chilli. Sweat for about eight minutes, until the onion is soft, then add the garlic, potatoes, beetroot and beetroot stalks. Cook, stirring, for about five minutes, then season generously, pour in the stock and leave to simmer gently for half an hour. Blitz with a stick blender, then adjust the consistency: add water to loosen or reduce further to thicken. Finely grate the peeled ginger into the creme fraiche, add the lime zest and juice, and season with a pinch of salt. The soup is lovely served right away with a dollop of the cream mix swirled on top, but it improves with time – preferably overnight, if you can wait that long. Mostly, I can’t.
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Health
Friday 16th October 2015
Weight gain in teens may be linked to late nights Teenagers’ body mass index increasing with every hour they stay up during the school week
Staying up late could be associated with weight gain in teenagers, according to a study. Researchers in the US found that each additional hour adolescents stayed up during the school week has been associated with an increase of 2.1 points in body mass index.
There are suggestions that the results – observed in a sample of more than 3,000 participants – highlight that bedtimes could have a role to play in weight management. Although BMI (body mass index) does not distinguish between lean muscle and
fat, and the researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University did not measure waist circumference, the study will raise further concerns about the reported relationship between lack of sleep and obesity. The authors said they
were surprised to find that the relationship between bedtime and BMI – calculated using an individual’s height and weight – was not significantly changed or moderated by total sleep time, exercise frequency or screen time. However, the relationship between bedtime and BMI was significantly reduced with the inclusion of fast food consumption. The paper said this made the case for future research on the effect of later bedtimes upon dietary habits. Lead author Lauren Asarnow, said: “The results are important because they highlight adolescent bedtimes, not just total sleep time, as a potential target for weight management concurrently and in the transition to adulthood.”
The study incorporated three waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health between 1994 and 2009, with the youngest participants aged 12 and the eldest 32. Sleep and circadian variables were determined via self-reported measures at all three waves and investigators measured height and weight at each stage. The authors believe their research to be the first to investigate the relationship between bedtime and BMI longitudinally in an observational study. A study by the University of Bristol, published in March, found that if you
need a lie-in at weekends to make up for lack of sleep in the week, you may be at risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. As well as lack of sleep being linked to obesity, night shift work has also been linked to being severely overweight, because sleeping during the day burns fewer calories than at night. Experts suggest that a mismatch between the body’s internal circadian clock and sleep patterns can disrupt normal metabolism.
Do you need the flu vaccine? The winter season is here again, and with it comes more incidence of colds and flu. The winter season is also the time when flu shots are given mainly to elderly people and those with chronic diseases especially lung disorders. The unspoken truth is that there is no scientific evidence to justify the use of vaccines to protect the body against the flu. In a recent interview, Dr Rost, a former vice president of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, exposed the bribery, corruption and scientific data manipulations that lead to the manufacture of vaccines and other drugs. Flu vaccines do not work because the flu virus is continuously mutating into different strains. And this makes it impossible to predict the type
of virus that will cause the next season's flu. Some studies have shown that flu vaccines protect less than 20% of recipients. However, the real danger of flu vaccines is in the damage it does to the body. Flu vaccines contain chemicals that are known to cause severe inflammation and damage to the body. They are produced from the tissues of dead animals and contain foreign animal proteins as well as toxic chemicals including formaldehyde, aluminium salts and a preservative that contains toxic levels of mercury. These foreign proteins and chemicals when injected into the body, cause intense inflammatory reactions. The diagnostic scans performed at MedB clinic reveals that people
who recently receive flu vaccines show intense inflammation and degeneration of nearly all the systems of the body, especially the immune system. Rather than trying to boost your immune system with flu vaccines, you can achieve much better results using natural remedies. And while you may still suffer from flu after taking natural remedies, it will run its course in days and not weeks and months. A healthy diet is key to boosting the immune system, and should comprise of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as proteins, carbohydrates and healthy fats and oils. Drinking at least 1.5 litres of water a day will help the detox system flush out toxins that are the underlying cause of inflammation in the
body. One of the most important nutrients for the immune system is Vitamin D, of which the sun is the best source. The early morning or late evening is usually the best time to catch the sun. Powerful supplements that help improve the immune system are Reishi and Colostrum. Reishi can stimulate the immune system when this is necessary, or even suppress a hyperactive immune system if also necessary. Colostrum contains antibodies and other proteins that can provide immediate protection against microbes. Before you go for that flu shot, remember that there is no proof that it works, and that you have an alternative way to improve your immune system.
I’m 65 years, and in the last 20 years I’ve had worsening pain in my left calf. The pain is not always there but appears when I walk for a short while. I also have pain in my hips occasionally, but not in any of my other joints. I´ll be happy to hear your opinion.
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In my experience when people have complained of the same problem, our diagnostic scan has revealed problems with the blood vessels of the legs. And usually the problem we detect is narrowing and hardening of the arteries. And sometimes this appears with thrombophlebitis or inflammation of the veins as well as inflammation of the tiny arteries of the legs. Atherosclerosis, which is another name for the narrowing or hardening of the arteries occurs when there is a build-up of plaque in the walls of arteries. This buildup eventually leads to the
narrowing of arteries, which causes a restriction in blood flow. Without adequate blood supply, our organs become starved of oxygen, and this triggers a chain reaction of problems. In your case, the narrowing of the arteries of the calf will limit blood flow to the muscles of the calf, which in turn will cause inadequate oxygen supply. Without adequate oxygen, the muscles produce large quantities of lactic acid, and this is what leads to pain. Furthermore, plaque deposits restrict the flexibility of blood vessels, making them less able to cope with variations in blood pressure and this results in high blood pressure. Therefore, It is
important that you keep an eye on your blood pressure. Atherosclerosis can affect any of the arteries in the body, and if a lot of arteries become affected, the cardiovascular system may become compromised. Hardening of the arteries is also a common cause of many hip joint problems when the arteries of the hips are affected. Very commonly, hardening of the arteries will occur together with arthritis – inflammation of the joints. Serrapeptase is a natural enzyme that can prevent or treat atherosclerosis. Serrapeptase is found in bacteria living inside the silkworm. Studies have shown that serrapeptase can dis-
solve plaque and other unwanted tissue in the body. At our clinic, we have noticed that patients who have taken serrapeptase for a few weeks, notice a reduction in blood pressure. Also, people with atherosclerosis in the arteries of the brain also notice clearing of head fog within weeks of taking serrapeptase. Of course, your problem could be caused by other factors, and your best option is to have a full body diagnostic scan. But in the absence of a scan, I believe serrapeptase will be very very helpful. For a full body scan, call MedB Clinic: 965071745, 966189074
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Friday 16th October 2015
Elderly falls may not caused by fraility Contact@medb.es
Family members and care providers should not rush to judgment and think falls are a sign of fraility and mental decline A fall at home is often the final decider for family members when considering whether their elderly relatives should go into care. Researchers found that minor ailments like urinary tract infections, which can cause low blood pressure and dizziness, account for up to 45 per cent of painful
Website: www.medb.es
stumbles. And they suggest that family members, care givers and healthcare providers shouldn't rush to judgement about the cause of a fall, particularly in older people, as they might just be under the weather. "Over the years I've been struck by the fact that some of the more serious infections I treated were in people who came to the hospital because they fell," said lead investigator Dr Farrin Manian MPH. "Even though many of the patients had vague early signs of an infection, such as weakness, or lethargy, it was the fall that brought them in."
Researchers analysed 161 patients who went to the emergency room because they fell and were subsequently diagnosed with a coexisting infection. Of those, 44 per cent had a urinary tract infection, 39 per cent had a bloodstream infection, 23 per cent had a respitory infection and nine per cent had an infection of the heart valve. Falls in elderly people is one of the leading causes of death in the over 75s due to complications caused by
fractures. The charity Age UK has estimated 7,000 lives could be saved in the over 65s each year if widespread exercise programmes were implemented to prevent hip fractures from falls. A previous study in Australia also suggested that people who were depressed or taking antidepressants were 50 per cent more likely to fall than those in good mental health. One class of antidepressants seemed to increase the risk of a fall even more, with a 66 per cent increase in falls amongst those on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI). Exercise, tai chi and yoga have all been shown to prevent falls for older people. The new findings also suggest that while these falls may be more common in the elderly, they shouldn't be overlooked in younger people: 20 percent of patients in the study were younger than 65.
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RICHARD CAVENDER
Bluemoon Solutions www.bluemoonsolutions.es
BlueMoon Solutions is the computer and IT services company on the Costa Blanca, they provide quality computer services at realistic prices and specialise in working with home users and small businesses.
Richard moved to Spain eight 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 (usually) 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: Robin wanted to know how to get the pound sign ADVICE: Mark wanted to remove the adverts from his Skype home screen - £ - on a Spanish keyboard
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Hi Richard, I have a new (Spanish) laptop and although there are keys for $ and for € there is not one for pounds sterling. I believe there is a way to produce the required symbol by using a combination of keys. Please advise. Thanks Robin
Hi Robin the ALT code for the UK pound sign is 0163, so to use this you hold down the ALT key on the keyboard, type in the number 0163 and then release the ALT key, you will then have your pound sign.
Hi Richard, could tell me how to stop adverts appearing in my skype page, also what webcam would you recommend me to use. Cheers Mark
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ADVICE: Shirley wanted some information on an older article Hello Richard. Have just read your BlueMoon Solutions page in the 18 September edition of the Courier, in which you published instructions on how to renew European Health Cards on line. You mentioned previously you published instructions on how to book a medical appointment. Sorry but as I have been in the UK for a couple of months I missed them and would be most grateful if you would be so kind as to email the instructions to me. : Hi Shirley, you can find all of our old articles on our website at www.bluemoonsolutions.es – click on the link to articles and then search for medical, the specific articles you are looking for are… http://www.bluemoonsolutions.es/booking-a-spanish-medical-appointment-online/ and http://www.bluemoonsolutions.es/booking-a-spanish-medical-appointment-online-update/
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Friday 16th October 2015
The Hottest Of Hot Renault Cars The Megane Sports 275 is worth the money if you want performance and fun
For a very brief moment, the Seat Cupra R held the lap record for a front-wheel drive car around the famous Nurburgring. Trouble is with holding records, someone always comes along and beats it. Which is what happened to Seat when Renault decided to have a crack at the record with its RenaultSport M e g a n e Trophy 275. Does being a few seconds slower around a race circuit make the Seat a bad car? Of course not. But the Cupra R is a very different car from the new Renault. The Seat is like a Golf GTI: a very fast hatchback that’s refined and very easy to live with every day. The Renault Megane Sport 275 S&S Trophy, to give the French car its full name, is quite the opposite. It’s an angry car that spits and growls and jiggles your spine over bumpy road surfaces. It’s also the best hot hatch that money (quite a lot of it) can buy. We’ve had this test car for a week and it’s surprising
that the driving licence is intact. What a motor! First, the specs. Take the previous Trophy 265’s 2.0-litre turbocharged engine
a n d nudge the horsepower up to 271bhp (enough to justify rounding it up to 275 for the badges). Then attach to it an Akrapovic titanium exhaust system for extra noise pleasure. On paper this more powerful Trophy is no quicker to 62mph but it’s faster at the top end. On the previous Trophy the “Cup” pack was an option but here it comes as standard. And that’s a very good
thing because not only does
it include a limited-slip differential, but also stiffer springs, dampers and antiroll bars. The standard Trophy 275 costs £28,930 but you can spend some extra cash on options to make the car even more track-focused. Ours has quite a few addons, including the somewhat expensive fully adjustable Ohlins dampers. I doubt you’d notice them on the road but they’re good
for bragging rights – as are t h e
Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres at an extra £1,000. Then there’s our car’s “liquid yellow” metallic paint. It might cost an extra £525, but it looks so good that you just have to do it. It’s a cliche, but not many cars could keep up with this car on a bendy road. A BMW M5 tried and had the legs on the Renault in a straight line but didn’t fancy trying to outcorner the mega Megane. Quite wise. The car has electric power steering (as have a large
number of modern cars because it saves fuel) and apart from the steering on my Porsche GT3, it’s about as good as it gets. The wheel is wrapped in sexy Alcantara and you can feel everything that’s happening to the front tyres through it. Bikers are familiar with Akrapovic exhausts but it’s a new name to car drivers. You get lots of lovely pops and bangs through the system as you change down through the six-speed manual gearbox. A 0-62mph time of 6.0sec
doesn’t sound that fast by modern standards but trust me, this car is very quick. It stops quickly, too. But what this hottest of hot Renaults does is provide endless amounts of fun. If you want a calmer drive go for the Seat or a Golf GTI but if you want thrills in a daily dose, the Renault is the motor of choice . The brilliance of the new Megane RenaultSport 275 S&S Trophy just shows what a cock-up Renault has made of the RenaultSport Clio 200. The previous hot Clio was a way to get as much fun as the Megane but for less money. If you’ve got the extra money for the Megane, don’t even consider the Clio.
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Friday 16th October 2015
Klitschko’s 'Mind Games'
Tyson Fury believes Wladimir Klitschko's decision to delay their world heavyweight title fight will backfire on the champion. Tyson Fury says world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko was playing 'mind games' by postponing their bout but insists his preparations are unaffected.
The 39-year-old Klitschko (64-3-KO53) pulled out of the scheduled clash of October 24 but with the fight swiftly rearranged for November 28 - Fury is more enthusiastic than ever. Fury says "It feels great. I knew it would come back on so it was just a question of whether it was going to be this year or next year but we
got what we wanted and it's this year. "I'm getting my world title fight I've craved for so many years. There can't be another injury because there'd be a massive kerfuffle so I know it's going to happen on November 28. Camp's going well, training and sparring are going good so maybe it was a blessing in disguise." Ahead of the clash in Dusseldorf, Fury has already provided some memorable moments - he arrived at the London press conference dressed as Batman and wrestled The Joker.
Off Again Technical problems delayed the start of the autumn series of races for the Sailing Association Mar Menor (SAMM), but normal service was resumed for the first action of the season at Los Narejos earlier this month, with nine boats taking part in the first four lap race in very light winds. First to finish was Shoestring Dos with Tug Wilson and Pat Fleck, and they were then confirmed as winners after all the corrected times were sorted with Dave Belcher second in the Faversham 14. Even poorer winds meant the second race in the afternoon was just two
laps, and with Shoestring Dos again first to finish but was pushed into second place by the Faversham 14 on corrected time. Pictured left to right are Dave
Belcher, Tug Wilson, and Pat Fleck. The next race day is this Sunday October 18th starting at 10.00am at the CAR Centre, Los Narejos.
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UEFA Champions League Tuesday 20 October 20:45 Arsenal v FC Bayern München 20:45 BATE Borisov v Barcelona 20:45 Bayer 04 Leverkusen v Roma 20:45 Dinamo Zagreb v Olympiakos 20:45 Dynamo Kyiv v Chelsea 20:45 FC Porto v Maccabi Tel Aviv 20:45 Valencia CF v KAA Gent 20:45 Zenit St Petersburg v Lyon
Wednesday 21 October 20:45 Atlético de Madrid v FC Astana 20:45 CSKA Moscow v Manchester United 20:45 Galatasaray v Benfica 20:45 Juventus v Borussia Mönchengladbach 20:45 Malmö FF v Shakhtar Donetsk 20:45 Manchester City v Sevilla 20:45 Paris Saint-Germain v Real Madrid 20:45 VfL Wolfsburg v PSV
UEFA Europa League
Wrong Man
Former Rugby Football Union chairman Martyn Thomas says he warned Twickenham bosses that Stuart Lancaster was the wrong man to lead England into the World Cup. Calling it a "tragedy" that Sir Clive Woodward is not pulling the strings in the international set-up, Thomas says Lancaster's lack of top-level experience before rising through the England ranks meant he would be found lacking on the biggest stage. Lancaster's career as England head coach is under close scrutiny and could be brought to an early end after the host team's failure to reach the World Cup knockout stages.
Thursday 22 October 17:00 FK Qabala v Borussia Dortmund 19:00 APOEL Nicosia v Asteras Tripolis 19:00 AZ v FC Augsburg 19:00 Lazio v Rosenborg 19:00 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk v St Etienne 19:00 FC Basel v Belenenses 19:00 FC Schalke 04 v Sparta Prague 19:00 Fiorentina v Lech Poznan 19:00 Lokomotiv Moscow v Besiktas 19:00 Monaco v FK Qarabag 19:00 Partizan Belgrade v Athletic Club 19:00 RSC Anderlecht v Tottenham Hotspur 19:00 Sporting Lisbon v Skenderbeu Korce 21:05 Bordeaux v FC Sion 21:05 FC Midtjylland v Napoli 21:05 Fenerbahçe v Ajax 21:05 Legia Warsaw v Club Brugge 21:05 Liverpool v Rubin Kazan 21:05 Molde v Celtic 21:05 PAOK Salonika v FK Krasnodar 21:05 SK Rapid Wien v Viktoria Plzen 21:05 Slovan Liberec v FC Groningen 21:05 Sporting Braga v Marseille 21:05 Villarreal v Dinamo Minsk
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Teddy. So just check in to see where he goes each week (with loads of pictures), which will also include all
Torry home matches. This week TKO Teddy was out visiting local supporters Casa Espana and Quesada Fish and Chips (who won the 200 Club draw to get their names on the team shirts), in addition to saying hello to James at Quesada Colors who donated painting supplies to spruce up the look of the entrance to the stadium; the team from Sacko's Bar who helped out with some building repairs at the stadium; and the Phoenix Bar in Dream Hills, one of the new outlets where you can buy tickets for home games in advance.
Former Holland international Youri Mulder has criticised Memphis Depay for thinking that he is a “big star”. Memphis arrived at Old Trafford during the summer, with United paying PSV £27.5 million (€37m) for the winger, who struck 22 times in 30 Eredivisie games last season. The 21-year-old has bagged three goals in four Champions League outings for United but netted just once in eight Premier League appearances. He has also disappointed in his country’s
dismal Euro 2016 qualification campaign and Mulder believes that Memphis has got too big for his boots. “In the Premier League he suffers, yet his attitude suggests that he is a big star. “It seems that people at Manchester United are starting to get fed up with this.” Pierre van Hooijdonk has also lashed out at Memphis, claiming he has failed to step up to the mark for Netherlands in the injuryenforced absence of winger Arjen Robben.
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Matt’s Maiden Masters It’s always exciting to see a newcomer to the professional ranks getting their first title under their belt and so it was for 21-year-old Sheffield-born Matt Fitzpatrick who held his nerve to take the British Masters at Woburn. Interestingly enough, Matt became the 12th first-time winner on the 2015 European Tour. It was the 24th European Tour event he has played in with the top of the leaderboard somewhat crowded for most of the final day, but Fitzpatrick
pulled away from the field with four birdies between the 11th and 17th holes. Fitzpatrick becomes the youngest winner on the European Tour since 20year-old Matteo Manassero won the PGA Championship in 2013. He also becomes the youngest British Masters winner since the event became part of the European Tour in 1972. The previous youngest was Justin Rose, who was 21 years and 307 days old when he won in 2002. Matt is the fourth wire-to-
wire winner this season, the other being: Branden Grace (Alfred Dunhill Championship), Jordan Spieth (US Masters) and David Horsey (Made In Denmark). It was also the ninth tour victory by an Englishman this season. The others have been by Danny Willett (Nedbank Golf Challenge and European Masters); Andy Sullivan (South African Open Championship and Joburg Open); James Morrison (Open de España); Chris Wood
(Lyoness Open); David Horsey (Made in Denmark) and Lee Slattery (Russian Open). Incidentally, the return of the British Masters after a six-year absence was hailed as a success after 57 thousand spectators came out to watch across the four days in mid-October. Tournament host Ian Poulter said: “The fans have come out in their thousands and that’s what this place needs. British golf has been away for too long. This tournament, being able to bring it back the way we
have, is a huge honour.” Also at the Masters were Luke Donald and Lee Westwood, and both have confirmed that they will host future years just as Ian Poulter did at Woburn. The English pair, both of whom have held the honour of being World Number One, believe the event’s inclusion on the 2015 Race to Dubai is positive news for British golf and for fans of the sport in their home country. Since its return was announced in March, the tournament has proved a big hit with the
British public, with the opening round of the £3million tournament a complete ‘sell out’ following the ‘Sky Sports Thursday’ promotion, which offered 15,000 free tickets as part of the event’s aim to attract a new and existing audience to golf. Donald and Westwood featured alongside Poulter on the event’s striking new promotional image, with both players saying how much they enjoyed the event which was last played in 2008 at the Belfry when Lee Westwood came second.
Lee Puts Kids Before Golf As Divorce Takes Toll
The American dream is over for Lee Westwood, as he’s resigned his PGA Tour membership some three years after moving from Worksop to Florida in a bid to improve his short game and to find the missing piece to winning majors. The bottom line is a personal one. Westwood split from his wife Laurae in the summer and she has returned to Scotland with their two children, Sam and Poppy. That means that
daddy Westwood is primarily back because he wants to be near his kids, but the move makes golfing sense as well, as Westwood left for America as the fourth best golfer in the world. Last week at the re-launched Masters, he began as the 44th ranked player, following a solitary top-three finish in 52 events during this period as a PGA Tour member. I think it’s fair to say that while living in the States his
career didn’t move in the direction he wanted it to move, but obviously that’s not the reason why he’s doing this. But it’s good to see him back. There are a few events in the UK that he’s missed not playing in, and he has dropped a lot in the world rankings, so he knows he needs to address that. In fact, Westwood is in dire need of a huge improvement over the autumn if he is not to suffer all sorts of
consequences next year, like not being part of next year’s Ryder Cup team, which his best friend Darren Clarke will be captained. Meanwhile, Rory McIlroy has revealed how a chat with new European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley has calmed any thoughts he had about quitting the Europe to concentrate on the US circuit. Players are required to play a minimum of 13 events in order to
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QUESTION A player’s swing is interfered with by a stake
retain their European Tour membership -- a number many are hoping will come down in future -- but for now McIlroy is happy travelling back and forth across the Atlantic to fulfil his commitments. World number three McIlroy admits he feels guilty that someone will miss out on their European Tour card as a result of him taking exemption in the Tour's Final Series He is always going to be a
European Tour member. But what he wants is his “cake and eat it” and hopes there is going to be some give and take in the future, as he thinks at least half the Ryder Cup team are based in the States with families. To reduce travelling times, he reckons the European Tour going to have to figure something out, be it reducing the minimum tournaments from 13 to 11, or whatever.
That’s My Boy!
defining out of bounds. The player mistakenly considers the stake an obstruction and he lifts his ball and drops it in the manner prescribed in Rule 24-2b. What is the ruling?
ANSWER The player incurs a penalty of one stroke under
Rule 18-2a and he must replace his ball before playing his next stroke. Otherwise, he loses the hole in match play or he incurs a total penalty of two strokes in stroke play.
Bill Haas delivered the winning point to his team and to his father last Sunday in a Presidents Cup that ended with a familiar result amid tension not felt in years. The Americans won for the sixth straight time, 15½-14½, only this was one that came down to the final match. And the emotion was never stronger -- on both sides U.S. captain Jay Haas made his son one of two
wild-card selections, and he put him out in the last of 12 singles matches at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club, Korea against the local star, Bae Sang-moon, playing in his final event before he starts his mandatory military service in South Korea. It was a nerve-jangling finish, but it was still the ninth time in eleven matches that the USA had beaten the international side.
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Bok To The Future One of the most fascinating aspects of the World Cup is its unpredictability. And no nation knows more about the highs and lows of the rugby rainbow than South Africa, writes GERRY GREEN. Three weeks ago, the Springboks were at an alltime low after losing their opening Pool B match to the 66-1 minnows of Japan. It was an astonishing result the biggest upset in the competition's history if not in the entire history of sport. It was a result that sensitive, nervous nations like England and Wales might never have recovered from. Not so South Africa – they just dug in with double determination and destroyed Scotland, Samoa and the USA to win the group and storm into the knockout stages. Their utter refusal to accept failure is testimony to the never-say-die spirit of the rainbow nation, a spirit that became part of South African culture on that his-
toric afternoon in 1995 when, inspired by Nelson Mandela wearing a Springbok jersey, Francois Pienaar's heroes reached the ultimate pinnacle themselves. "We had no right to win that game,'' recalls Joel Stransky, whose extra-time dropped goal sank a New Zealand team that had started the final as firm favourites. "But that is the great thing about rugby. The favourites can be beaten – it all depends how you play on the day.'' That is precisely why Wales have every chance of beating South Africa at Twickenham in Saturday's opening quarter final. Warren Gatland's injuryplagued Dragons are not expected to overcome the resurgent Springboks. They have lost an entire back division from their senior squad, a handicap that may help to explain why they failed to score a try even when Australia had two players in the sin-bin last
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13:45 Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool 16:00 Chelsea v Aston Villa 16:00 Crystal Palace v West Ham United 16:00 Everton v Manchester United 16:00 Manchester Cityv Bournemouth 16:00 Southampton v Leicester City 16:00 West Bromwich Albion v Sunderland 18:30 Watford v Arsenal
Sunday 18 October
17:00 Newcastle United v Norwich City
Monday 19 October 21:00 Swansea City v Stoke City
Sky Bet Championship weekend. Now they have lost versatile runner Liam Williams as well but the big plus point for Wales is that the Wallabies didn't cross their line, either – and Gatland's men have the psychological advantage of having won their last encounter with the Boks last autumn. Ireland should see off Argentina, and that will more than likely set up a semi-final against Australia, who simply have too much power to be held by Scotland. Hot favourites New Zealand, have come unstuck against the unpredictable French more than once in past World Cups. But after being blown away by the Irish, I cannot see Les Bleus holding up the All Blacks' march towards another final. Ultimately, it's beginning to look as if Richie McCaw's men will be going head to head in the final with their Antipodean arch-rivals from across the Tasman Sea.
Ireland look the most likely Northern Hemisphere challengers but what haunts me is the possible scenario of four Southern Hemisphere nations battling it out in the semi-finals. That, following England's humiliating exit from their own tournament, would be the ultimate slap in the face for rugby North of the Equator. The only consolation for Stuart Lancaster and his beleaguered England camp would be Australia winning the trophy. Then they could at least boast that it took the World champions to knock them out of the tournament! QUARTER-FINAL LINEUP SOUTH AFRICA v WALES (Twickenham, Saturday, 5pm Spanish time) NEW ZEALAND v FRANCE (Cardiff, 9pm Saturday). IRELAND v ARGENTINA (Cardiff, 2pm Sunday). AUSTRALIA v SCOTLAND (Twickenham, 5pm Sunday).
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Friday 16 October 20:45 Bristol City v Nottingham Forest
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Sheffield Wednesday v Hull City Birmingham City v Queens Park Rangers Brentford v Rotherham United Burnley v Bolton Wanderers Ipswich Town v Huddersfield Town Leeds United v Brighton and Hove Albion MK Dons v Blackburn Rovers Middlesbrough v Fulham Preston North End v Cardiff City Reading v Charlton Athletic
Sunday 18 October
14:15 Derby County v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Scottish Premiership Friday 16 October 20:45 Ross County v Aberdeen
Saturday 17 October 13:00 16:00 16:00 16:00
Motherwell v Celtic Hamilton Academical v Dundee Kilmarnock v Inverness Caledonian Thistle St. Johnstone v Partick Thistle
Sunday 18 October 13:15 Dundee United v Heart of Midlothian
Spanish La Liga Saturday 17 October 16:00 18:15 20:30 22:00 22:05
Real Madrid v Levante Eibar v Sevilla Barcelona v Rayo Vallecano Valencia CF v Málaga Real Betis v Espanyol
Sunday 18 October 12:00 16:00 18:15 20:30
Villarreal Celta de Vigo Real Sociedad v Atlético de Madrid Getafe v Las Palmas Deportivo de La Coruña v Athletic Club
Monday 19 October 20:30 Sporting de Gijón v Granada CF See page 43 for European Fixtures
A 300-plus crowd saw Monte come up with a gritty performance to come from behind to get their third win of the season. The visitors asked the early questions, with Lopez having to pull out two early saves, before Racing Playas took the lead in the tenth minute. Monte didn’t panic and stuck to their game plan and with five minutes before the interval, Pley’s great pass was latched onto by M&A who was bundled over by the away keeper, with M&A duly converting the penalty.
Lopez was pressed into early second half action, whilst at the other end, a great cross ball pass reached Carlos who missed a total sitter. The visitors began to tire, and Monte took the lead as a pass from Pley found Macan who cooly slotted home. Monte finished with a flourish and were unlucky not to get a third with a fine inter-passing move seeing a wellsaved shot from Macan. This Sunday sees Monte at home again, as they entertain Sporting Orihuela with a 5.00 pm kick-off.
Victory over a deadly rival was just what Torry wanted after a poor start to the season, and they seized the game by the scruff of the neck with absolute determination to win it. They took the early lead in the seventh minute with Vicente thrusting down the right wing and delivered his cross, which was handled just inside the penalty area. Cesar then converted the spot kick to put Torry
ahead. Torrevieja’s positive mood was epitomised by the return of captain Jorge at the heart of the defence alongside Quintero and he was magnificent. Jorge takes no prisoners, and a great moment saw a biting tackle on former team mate Ernesto which was done with such forcefulness that he burst the ball. Ernesto lay on the floor whereas Jorge would have been
prepared to carry on playing with the exploded remains! He was a captain in every sense of the word, battling with his customary vigour and encouraging others to follow suit. When young Metej came on as a substitute, he made a point of speaking with him and getting him in the right frame of mind. It was Metej's countryman Brani, also on as a second half substitute who wrapped up the contest. Collecting the ball unexpectedly down the right wing, he quickly focussed and cut inside, driving hard into the box and cracking the ball into the net(pic-
tured). At the other end, Oscar made no mistakes and guaranteed a clean sheet with an authoritative display returned between the sticks. This was a Torry line up that was more recognisable in terms of players being in positions akin to their relative strengths, and to manager Pedreño’s credit, he is organising the unit much better to get optimum results. Saturday evening’s match at high-flying Elche Ilicitano(5.00pm kick-off) promises to be a stern test, but Torry will go into it in a far better frame of mind than they would have a month ago.
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It’s all gone wrong for the Ilicitanos in just six days, as they suffered a second successive four-one drubbing, but this time last Saturday at home, and once again to modest opposition. Just a fortnight ago, Elche were aspiring to top placing in the Segunda division, but now two poor performances have got coach Rubén Baraja wondering what is going on, with the defeat to Mirandes leading him to keep the players in the dressing room after the full time whistle for a comprehensive post-mortem about the manner of the loss. It was a wretched display by Elche at the Martínez Valero stadium and the side’s first home defeat of the season, and though the absence through injury of captain Lolo has disrupted the Elche balance, the effect of his not being there should not have been as dramatic. The visitors dominated with Elche only really looking dangerous from set pieces, but it stayed goalless until the second half, when Galan put Mirandes ahead from a badly defended corner. Velez doubled the advantage with 17 minutes remaining and though Vergos pulled one back, the contest ended in the 80th minute when Elche keeper, Javi Jimenez brought down Lago Junior in the penalty area, and got red-carded, whilst Nestor converted the spot kick, with Lago Junior then getting a fourth. Poor stuff all-round for Elche who barely troubled at the other end , and are away to their old enemy, Almeria, this Sunday lunchtime.
England, who won all 10 of their qualifiers on the road to France 2016, will now be among the top seeds when the draw takes place in December UEFA have confirmed that England will be among the top seeds when the draw for next summer's European championship takes place. Roy Hodgson's side will join holders Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium and hosts France in Pot One, but the December 12 draw is sure to be tougher on their home nation counterparts. Northern Ireland won Group F with 21 points but have the lowest UEFA co-efficient of any team still involved and, like Wales, will be pulled from Pot Four.
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CD Torrevieja have unveiled two of their biggest signings in recent years, Ruben Suarez and Javi Selvas, who have been bagged by the club’s recently appointed sporting director, Jonathan Risueño. They both come from CD Castellon with 36-year old Suarez scoring 15 goals in last season’s second division B promotion campaign. He’d previously played for Elche and Levante. 32-year old defender/midfielder Selvas made 29 first-team appearances last season, netting three goals, and was released by the club last month for financial reasons.
Transfer Investigation Eliaquim Mangala's move to Manchester City is reportedly the subject of a FIFA investigation. Mangala switched to City from Porto in the summer of 2014 for a reported fee of £32million, which was later discovered to be £10million more. Porto owned more than 56 per cent of the player, but the rest of his contract was owned by investment companies Doyen Sports and Robi Plus.
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scooped a record fourth Golden Boot award on Monday and is already eyeing his fifth. He picked up his prize at Madrid’s Hotel Westin Palace after netting 48 times to make him Europe’s top scorer last season. The win puts Ronaldo one above deadly rival Lionel Messi’s Golden Boot haul. “I want the fifth Golden Boot and if possible the sixth. I always want more,” said Ronaldo.
Real Opportunity Real Madrid get a gilt edged chance to go top of La Liga’s Primera Division tomorrow as surprise leaders Villarreal don’t play until Sunday. Real are at home to struggling Levante, though the visitors did turn over Barcelona in their last fixture. The champions, just a point off the top, have a Saturday night home meeting with Rayo Vallecano, who are just above the relegation area. The focus then turns to Sunday, with a lunchtime encounter between Villarreal and thirdplaced Celta Vigo.
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Manchester City Post Manchester City have posted a net profit for the first time since Sheikh Mansour bought the club in 2008. The Premier League leaders' annual financial figures show they made a profit of £10.7m in the 2014-15 season. That is despite having to pay some £16m in fines for failing to meet Uefa's Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. City, who posted a loss of £22.9m during the 2013-14 season, saw annual revenue grow for the seventh straight year - to £351.8m. It is the first time the club's revenue has broken the £350m barrier. Despite match day revenue falling last season, largely due to the club's early exit from the League Cup and ongoing stadium improvements, City say the club is now valued at £676m. City also announced they had reduced their wage bill for a second
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Net Profit Of £10.7m successive year, down to £193.5m compared to £205m for the 201314 season. Manchester United spent £203m on wages last season, while Arsenal spent £192.2m. The most recent figures for Chelsea's wage bill are £192.7m for the 2013-14 season. “To put things in their simplest terms, we are now a profitable business with no debt and no outstanding restrictions," said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak. “Our transition to profitability has been a long-planned milestone. "The fact that we consider last season to be below par is a testament to how far we have come in the last seven years. City had accumulated losses of £583m over the past six seasons under the ownership of Mansour. It is estimated Mansour's family have as much as $1tn (£648bn) in overseas assets alone.
Remember, even the great Volkswagen company came a calamitous Klopper recently. So much against the popular buzz of thrilled anticipation from Red hearts and minds, including posing pundits, this football writer is calling for caution on the Kop. To be a successful manager of Liverpool: like a diplomat with good fortune, knowledge of (British) football and how it works – and doesn’t work like ‘elsewhere’ is essential. The great Liverpool managers of the past were pioneered by the legendary Scot Bill Shankly, who built the great 60s and 70s Liverpool teams that regularly terrified the opposition and his legacy and tradition was carried on by successful successors like Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan. Great players like Souness and Dalglish managed the club with limited success, and soon Liverpool was in the shadow of mighty Manchester United. Some big continental names have come and gone like Frenchman Gerard Houllier, with the most successful being Rafael Benitez, who was boss when Liverpool staged their dramatic Champions League Final comeback ten years ago. In 2012, Brendan Rodgers fitted the bill: young and confident, the Northern Irishman had learnt his craft with his ambitious young side at
Swansea. Rodgers soon gelled with the Liverpudlian faithful and two years ago it looked like Liverpool would at long last win the coveted Premier League title. But football stepped in to cruelly deny the club, and due to a challenging set of circumstances since, the club have wavered – and Rodgers was sacked 12 days ago. 48-year-old Jurgen Klopp has enjoyed one big burst of success with a minor German team, a club significantly without Liverpool’s traditions. The unlikely-looking Klopp appears like a cross between a trendy college lecturer and Elton John. ‘Kloppy’ is a real character though, with some excellent management qualities and skills but will that experience be enough to re-establish Liverpool as a major force in the all-conquering Prem? In taking unfashionable Borussia Dortmund to the Bundesliga title and winning their domestic cup in the same season, comparisons could be legends like Bobby Robson with Ipswich and the legendary Brian Clough. The latter took provincial Midlands clubs like Derby County and - be still my beating heart – Nottingham Forest to the very pinnacle of European football. Yet in the German’s case, his legend hasn’t lasted long – and therein lies the true test of greatness, as we currently watch struggling Jose Mourinho striving to maintain his initial suc-
cess at Chelsea – again. It took four years for Klopp to win the double in the Bundesligia. The £192m (and more) question is – will this charismatic German be given the necessary time to rebuild Liverpool into a championship-winning side, one that can challenge the mighty Manchesters of today? Because the expectations at Anfield are so immense, the likeable new boy will have instant pressure from the Fenway Sports Group above, the media everywhere , and of course the ever-watchingclosely Anfield faithful – fantastic fans who want a return to Shankly-type past glories. Most of the above-mentioned groups of people keenly watching the world-famous Merseyside club seem sure the Reds have found their right man at last. Have they? Meanwhile Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has been given a suspended one-match stadium ban and fined £50,000 by the Football Association for comments made about match officials. Mourinho had claimed officials were "afraid" to award his team penalties after Robert Madley denied Chelsea a spotkick in a 3-1 loss to Southampton. The FA charged that his comments "imply bias on the part of a match official".Mourinho's ban will only be enforced if he repeats the offence within a year.
RUGBY UNION Ireland ready to risk injured Sexton FOOTBALL Gossip: Sherwood under pressure TENNIS Murray reaches Shanghai last eight EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Barca set to take Turan case to court FOOTBALL Uefa members discuss Platini backing RUGBY UNION Cheika 'feels' for banned Scottish duo FOOTBALL Gutierrez suing ex-club Newcastle FOOTBALL Liverpool Ladies exit Champions League RUGBY UNION England review 'wrong to focus on coaching' CYCLING British quartets qualify fastest at Euros TENNIS Konta beaten for second time in Linz FOOTBALL 'Dutch not a force for a while' CRICKET Pietersen open to England coaching role
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e e r h T s n Klopp Sig Deal Year In yet another superbly ironic twist that football regularly provides, after the international break Klopped-up Liverpool are first on stage on Saturday in the early game at White Hart Lane. Spurs are eighth with 13 points, Liverpool tenth with 12, so it couldn’t be set up more perfectly for Jurgen-the German to closely observe top British soccer between two of football’s most famous names – but now with a very personal viewpoint! Following on at 4 pm aqui en Espana there’s a scintillating set-up of Premier prize-fighters squaring up to each other. Can Chelsea get the Bridge bandwagon rolling along again against third-frombottom-and-worried Aston Villa? Both badly need a win – shh, but the name of Brendan Rodgers has been Brumbled about in the West Midlands. Capital Cracker, fourth plays sixth. Crystal Palace at home to West Ham looks like the southern version of Match of the Day, mate, with both managers currently doing a great job. No chance, pal say those in t’ north-west of the country - MOTD is definitely Everton at home to Man United, seventh v third – and that looks a belter. Those leaders, who’ve wobbled lately, Man City will be looking to remind newbies Bournemouth how tough life is in the top tier, especially at the Etihad. Perhaps sweet for the Cherries is that fivegoals-last-time-out Sergio Aguero will be mercifully missing, injured on international duty. Southampton v Leicester looks lively, especially after that Saints scalp of champions Chelsea at the Bridge two weeks ago. Despite recent wobbles the Foxes are still lurking headily in fifth – and only three points behind Man City at the top.
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Arsene Wenger has revealed he faces an anxious wait to discover the condition of Alexis Sanchez. Sanchez played twice for Chile during the international break, despite picking up a hip injury in Arsenal's 3-0 win over Manchester United. Wenger is concerned he might not be ready to face Watford on Saturday.
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England reaching 197-1 at tea on day three in reply to Pakistan's Shoaib Malik-inspired 523-8 declared. England skipper Alastair Cook made 100 and led the tourists' charge, compiling his 28th Test century - and eighth in Asia - as well as surpassing 1,000 Test runs in 2015.
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There’s a massive relegation battle as West Brom entertain Sunderland. The Black Cats have sensiblyfor-them-for-once found a new home for much-travelled Sam Allardyce. The big man did a great job at West Ham in: - a) getting the Hammers out of the Championship, and: - b) keeping the ungrateful so and so’s up there in the top half of the Prem. His reward for this double feat? The sack: -- nice. Now can saviour Sam illuminate the Stadium of Light where other luminaries haven’t shone for a good long while? Once employed, albeit fairly briefly by nasty neighbours Newcastle, if Uncle Sam succeeds for the Yank owners he will surely also win the hearts and minds of those long-suffering ones on Wearside. Elsewhere, Watford entertain Arsenal this Saturday evening. The Hornets have surprised a few, including me to have lately achieved mid-table respectability, only conceding 7 goals in eight games (their goalie Gomez is good, he saves penalties) – but have merely scored six. The second-placed Gunners have also conceded seven, but in sharp contrast to their hosts have banged in thirteen, providing the usual high expectations in North London. Re-invented central striker Theo Walcott’s now going well as the main man, 12 goals from 13 games, and super Sanchez looks back in form. Let’s hope it’s not a goalless draw at Vicarage Road, then.
Must Win For McCLAREN! Newcastle v Norwich must produce a victory for Steve McClaren as the storm clouds are following him from the East Midlands where the man is not popular? Prem newbies Norwich have started reasonably with nine points from eight: two wins, three draws and three defeats isn’t bad for the canny Canaries who some predicted would struggle in the Prem. There’s an ‘MNF’ – that’s code for an evening match held on the first day after the weekend - this time it’s Swansea v Stoke: scintillating stuff? Possibly, the Swans have slipped back of late and are only one point above improving-at-last Stoke, 11th plays 14th.
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