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Friday 23rd October 2015

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DON’T FORGET! The clocks go back on Sunday October 25 2015 at 3am, Spanish time.

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he annual winter flu jab campaigns have started across Spain, including the Costa Blanca and the Murcia region, with anybody considered 'at risk' being asked to get an injection at their local health centre. Health experts say having the vaccination can cut winter hospital admissions by forty five percent since influenza can create 'major health risks' in chronically-ill patients. Medics say this year's flu risk does not appear as though it will be specifically viral, unlike in previous winters when figures suggested that a possible looked set to break out. Health authorities offer vaccinations to the over60s, plus anyone who has regular contact with the general public including medical workers, teachers, police officers, firefighters, and anyone working with the elderly, plus those who have chronic or serious health conditions such as cardiovascular problems, diabetes or cancer, and pregnant women. Young children also qualify. Valencian health minister, Carmen Stark, launched the campaign for the Valencia region on Monday saying that 780 thousand

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The Courier TV Pull-out The latest news from tele-land 23rd Oct - 29th Oct shots costing two and a quarter million euro have been allocated to the region with 270 thousand shots available in Alicante Province. The campaign will run until the end of January with eighteen hundred vaccination sites available across the whole of the Valencian region. Over in Murcia, the regional health minister, Encarna Guillen, said that it was vital that people classified as being in a vulnerable group should get a flu jab, adding that vaccination could reduce the number of hospital admissions during the winter period by up to

45 percent. The region has bought a quarter of a million shots of the vaccine, costing close to 900 thousand euro. Medical experts say preventing 'flu is 'the responsibility of healthcare professionals, patients and the public at large' since the vaccination is 'the only way of avoiding exposure to 'an illness with potentially serious consequences'. Those who do not fall into the 'high risk' category do not normally get a vaccination free of charge on the health service, but the jab can be bought over the counter at a pharmacy and either self-

administered or given by a nurse at a local health centre by appointment. Health authorities stress that the 'flu vaccination is effective, has no sideeffects and for the sake of one short appointment at the patient's local GP clinic, can save lives and prevent a great deal of unnecessary work and cost for medical services. Medics emphasise that those at risk of catching the virus who do not have the jab are also exposing other people to the perils of infection, meaning it is socially responsible to arrange to have the flu injection.

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Ryanair are to launch five new routes in their 2016 summer schedule for Alicante-Elche airport, including flights to and from Newcastle. Other new destinations next year are Rome, Hamburg, Berlin, and Copenhagen. The

summer plans mean that the low cost Irish carrier will be running 48 routes next year with 264 weekly flights, and they claim that their presence at El Altet is helping to maintain over two and a half thousand jobs.

Jeff Quits San Fulgencio councillor and leader of the twostrong PIPN independent party on the authority, Jeff Wiszniewski, has resigned from the council for what according to a report in the Informacion newspaper are for "personal reasons". Wiszniewski though will still remain as President of the PIPN. Until last May's elections, the PIPN formed a rulingcoalition with the Partido Popular, but the PP earlier this year secured an overall majority at the ballot box. Wiszniewski pulled no punches in words quoted by the La Verdad newspaper where he accused the PP under mayor Carlos Ramirez of "despising the PIPN and tricking them when they were in power,

Police say some of the images seized in raids at 80 addresses across the country were "extremely hard" and included some of babies tied up. A statement from the Interior Ministry said it took a year to track down the participants in the child pornography ring who exchanged videos and photos "that included sadism and bestiality."

Among material seized were 96 hard drives, 58 computers, 68 pen-drives, four tablets, 195 CDs and DVDs, 18 mobile phones and 25 memory cards. The statement added that one of the addresses raided also contained a marijuana plantation, with the father of the one of the underage males being arrested on public health crimes.

Roll Up For England adding that they even wanted to shut down the Urbanisation Office". He said that San Fulgencio needed a "strong opposition to challenge the decisions of the current government team, and that he had stood down from the council to help make the PIPN stronger".

Rules Enforced Torrevieja council have put a stop to a dozen unlicensed terrace areas operated by bars and restaurants in the city. The main offenders are on Calles Caballero de Rodas, Apolo and Ramón Gallud, with councillor Javier Manzanares saying that they

The National Police arrested 81 people last Saturday on suspicion of sexually abusing minors and sharing child pornography on the Internet. Six of the arrests were in Alicante Province and one in the Murcia region, as 300 agents struck in 28 provinces. All of those detained were male, with two being classified as minors.

were merely enforcing the Ordinance over terraces that had been passed by the previous Partido Popular administration. Businesses will be able to formal apply for permission to have terraces so long as certain criteria are met.

Tickets for Spain’s friendly match against England’s footballers in Alicante on Friday November 13th have officially gone on sale, with national manager, Vicente Del Bosque, and Alicante Provincial Council president, Cesar Sanchez, hosting a news conference this week in Alicante. Sanchez claimed that the match, being staged at the home of Hercules, the Rico Perez stadium, would have a big economic impact on local tourism, especially as the British market was the most important for the area. He also added, perhaps not too surprisingly, that many ex-pats living in the area will go to the match to cheer on England. The game is seen as an important build-up to next year’s Euro 2016 tournament in France, with both

sides having qualified easily, and Spain looking to defend their title. Ticket sales started on Wednesday with the prices ranging between 20 and 60 euro, and the website of the

Spanish FA is www.rfef.es with fans able to buy until there is a sell-out, or two hours before kick-off. Tickets will also go on sale at the ground from Thursday November 5th.

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Case of Disgust A 54-year-old Alicante Province man has been arrested by the National Police for sexually abusing 13 children, though authorities say the number may be actually more than 20. The predator from Alcoy targeted youngsters aged between seven and fourteen for over twenty years, and the police swooped just days after he had hosted his own birthday party where he had invited nearly 20 children. The sex fiend even kept a diary of the conversations he had with his planned victims in order to entice them, with hardened police investigators saying it was one of the severest abuse cases they had ever come across. The man has been charged with crimes of child sexual abuse and aggression, sexual aggression, exhibitionism, sexual provocation and exploitation, corruption of

minors and crimes against public health. The National Police said that his techniques varied over time, with the use of CB radio back in the nineties to trap victims, and then he started to use the internet pretending to be a young girl. Using chat rooms he would get the unsuspecting children to send him photos and videos of sexual content. The pervert also visited outdoor areas where young children were playing and used different methods to gain the confidence of the child, like introducing them to his dog; giving away sweets

or money; or inviting them for lunch at his home where they were given the inducement of playing on his video game console. The man even resorted to using a child as an assistant who helped him on some occasions to find new victims. The most serious abuse was in his home and over the years his demands became more explicit. He would offer his victims money, and if they didn't accept it, he threatened to tell their parents. The police say that he also resorted to violence if he didn't get what he wanted.

Ponzi Punished One of the ringleaders of an Alicante Province pyramid scheme has been given a two-year jail sentence and a twelve-hundred euro fine after 200 people were ripped off by a company called Global Plus, where they were promised interest rate returns of 25 percent. Two people were sentenced last year, with authorities believing that the Ponzi scheme cost investors some 400 thousand euro. Adriana Mihaela M (pictured) faced prosecution calls for six years behind bars, but her

Matilde Retires The President of AFA, Torrevieja’s Alzheimer’s charity, Matilde Sánchez Cervera, has resigned her position saying that she’s told old to continue as she has hit her eighties, and also that she needs to look after a 96-year-old relative. Sánchez had been president of AFA for the last eleven years, and two years ago won Torrevieja’s prestigious Diego Ramierz Pastor award recognising her contribution to the area. She first got involved with AFA after her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and she became a tireless

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advocate for the organisation, which also has many British and international members.

Death Riddle The Guardia Civil is investigating how a woman fell and died on a first floor balcony in Torrevieja. The incident happened at 5.00am outside the balcony and she was wearing cleaning gloves which has led to the view that she accidentally

tripped inside the property on Calle San Miguel de Salinas in the San Roque area of the city, as she was doing an early morning clean. Firefighters had to break into the flat to reach her but paramedics could do nothing to revive the woman.

Selfie Shock A Barcelona teenager gambled with his life when he decided to take a selfie on top of a local commuter train, and got himself electrocuted for his trouble. The unnamed 14-year-old was

on the roof of a train at Rubi station north of Barcelona last Friday when his head hit a power cable and was knocked unconscious but amazingly survived to tell the tale.

Cloud Burst lawyers and the prosecutors cut a deal for shorter sentence. She had run away from Spain, before arrested in Elche last December, and was granted bail by a judge

as she had a home and job in London. Her boyfriend, Constantin T, was sentenced to three and a half years last year over the scam that dated back to 2012.

Dropping Anchor Tourists coming in on boats and yachts have gone up by 13 percent this year in the Valencia region compared to 2014, according to the Nautical Club Association of Valencia (ACNCV). The ACNV represents 27 clubs across the Costa Blanca like the Real Club Náutico de Torrevieja, and they say that over four and a half thousand boats have used their member’s facilities with each vessel staying on average for six days.

The Torrevieja area got the worst of a storm that hit the Vega Baja area in the early hours of last Monday morning, with some 40 litres of water falling per square metre over a two-hour period. Despite the usual quota of

familiar flooded roads, the volume of rain was half the amount and at double the time recorded in the severe downpours at the start of August, with the southern region of Andalucía suffering the most.

Mar Menor Examined Murcia's regional government will form a new committee to look at environmental issues, with a special focus on the Mar Menor. The idea, suggested by the Podemos party, will according to their deputy, Maria Gimenez, be a good opportunity to

investigate what or what the Ministry of Environment has or has not done over the last 20 years. Gimenez added that the future of the Mar Menor should be dealt with in an integrated manner by not dealing with matters like fishing, tourism and land use in isolation.

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Just Like That

Pola Pussies Feral cats are on the rise in the Santa Pola area and the local council wants to do something about it. Environment councillor, Alejandro Escalada, says he’s planning a scheme where trained animal welfare personnel would capture, sterilise, and then release the cats in a bid to reduce the feline population hikes in the municipality.

Elche was literally a magical city last weekend as it hosted the 10th National Magician's conference, with around 120 experts in sleight of hand getting together. Charity performances and workshops were held with open-air events to entertain and amuse youngsters of all ages.

Law And Dis-order A 24-year-old man has been arrested for breaking the terms of his restraining order involving his ex-partner in Pilar de la Horadada. The incident happened last Thursday night (October 15th) outside a house in the centre of Pilar with the man reportedly threatening two people. He went away before local police came and tracked him down, and then carted him off to the local Guardia Civil barracks.

Answers Please German car manufacturer, Volkswagen, could face fraud charges in Spain over the row over fixed emission software in their cars. Spain’s public prosecutor has called for an investigation into the matter, saying that the High Court has the right to start an inquiry due to the whole business affecting many Spaniards. Nearly 684 thousand diesel cars under Volkswagen brand umbrella of VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat have been sold in Spain in recent years fitted with the pollution-cheating software. If the High Court agrees to take on the case, it would be handed to an investigating magistrate and could still take months or even years to go to trial -- or it could be dropped.

Boar Wins A wild boar in the northern Galicia region got the better of a hunter last Sunday who was about to kill it. The 59-year-old man shot the boar and when he approached it for the “final kill”, the animal got other ideas and killed him by charging at him and then goring him in the leg. The hunter bled to death with local police officers offering the somewhat unhelpful quote of describing it all as “an unfortunate accident”.

Chopper Plot Foiled

Grave Concern

Almoradi’s cemetery needs major improvements, according to the local Ciudadanos party, whose spokesman on the council, Maria Quiles says the area has not had any

work done on it since it opened nearly a hundred years ago. Quiles has called for better lighting as well as a complete overhaul of the burial niches.

Traffickers Stopped

The Guardia Civil have smashed a network which smuggled Moroccans into Spain, arresting seven Moroccans and freeing a man they were holding hostage. The smugglers charged up to 10 thousand euro per person to get them into Spain, usually in the northern region of Navarra on the border with France, and help them get their authorisation to live legally in the country. They would either trans-

port them by ferry to mainland Spain by giving them legal documents belonging to other people with similar physical appearances or hide them in cars that crossed into Spain's North African territories of Ceuta and Melilla from Morocco. But once in Spain, the group usually did not help the migrants obtain legal status and would hold those who had not paid their full fees hostage until their family and friends came up with the money. The Guardia raided a house in town of Andosilla in Navarra which the ring used and freed a man who was being held. The hostage "suffered poor hygiene and was forced to sleep on the floor on some blankets and was accompanied at all times by a person charged with supervising him," a police statement said. Police also seized two cars, including one which they suspect was used to smuggle migrants into Ceuta and Mellila from Morocco.

Two gangs who used helicopters to ship in drugs from Morocco to Spain have been smashed by the Guardia Civil, who arrested 15 people and seized a tonne of hashish into the bargain. The Guardia said that the traffickers used an experienced flight instructor to ferry the drugs in, often flying at low altitude to try to avoid detection. The flight instructor, who had experience in mountain rescues in the Pyrenees and the Swiss Alps, would

then recruit and train other pilots employed by the smugglers. The gang would then take the drug to remote farms in Malaga province, before transporting it overland across Europe. The instructor was arrested after being caught smuggling 600 kilos of hashish into Spain by helicopter while also training another pilot. The Guardia arrested seven French nationals, six Spaniards and two Moroccans and besides

seizing the drugs, they also impounded three helicopters said to be valued at around two and a half million euros. The 15 suspects were charged with drug trafficking, membership of an organised crime group and illegal possession of arms. The authorities opened their investigation in May 2014 when a helicopter loaded with hashish crashed at night after hitting electrical cables in southern Spain, killing its pilot.

Birthday Flyers

14 air display teams provided a special show last Sunday over the skies of Santiago de la Ribera to celebrate the 30th anniversary

of the locally-based Eagle Patrol team. 30 thousand people are estimated to have visited the Eagles HQ in an Open Day on Saturday,

with five hours of acrobatic displays being staged on the Sunday from Italian and French teams as well as those from Spain.

Better Late Than………

Dog Difference Opposition Partido Popular councillors in Guardamar say they're against changing the local Beach Ordinance which provides for a designated beach area that could be used by dogs. The PP say

they do want a dog beach but say they don't want to change the Ordinance at this stage, since no beach has so far been designated for the animals with health and safety issues not being satisfactorily addressed.

Almost 50 years after four nuclear bombs fell on the Spanish coast after two US military planes collided, American officials have signed a deal to clean up contaminated land.

None of the bombs detonated in January 1966, but three fell around the coastal village of Palomares in Almeria Province and a fourth was found on the sea bed.

Highly toxic plutonium was spread over a 200-hectare area, with the new deal meaning that the US will remove the soil at Palomares to a site in the States.

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Gypsies Redefined Spain's Royal Language Academy has listened to protests from Roma groups and modified a reference in its dictionary definition of gypsies as "swindlers" to specify that the term is offensive or discriminatory. The Gypsy People's State Council said it welcomed the move but will continue to push for the removal of the swindler reference altogether. The council launched a campaign against the reference last year as part of efforts to raise awareness of discrimination against gypsies, also known as Roma. The reference appeared in the dictionary's 23rd edition following complaints that the previous edition included a reference to

"gypsy" ("gitano") as one "who deceives or manoeuvres to cheat." For the moment, the modification is only in the dictionary's online edition. It is not

Sister Saviour Murcia prosecutors have called for five years of probation for a mentally ill young man who tried to stab his mother in San Javier. The investigation uncovered that the man was suffering from an acute psychiatric disorder and heard voices in his head telling him to kill his mother "for the sake of humanity, since the end of the world was nigh". His sister happened to

arrive at the house and talked him out of doing anything else as he threatened to take his own life. In the meantime, his mother escaped from the home, whilst her daughter persuaded her brother to hand over the knife. The five year probation period will include a course of regular psychiatric treatment in addition to regular medical reports and checks commissioned by the court.

Darling Daddy

A Spanish pensioner is to get a three million euro inheritance after a DNA test was performed on the body of a wealthy landowner she had long suspected to be her father. Carmen Gordo, 69, who lives in the Andalucian town of Morón

de la Frontera on a monthly widow's pension of 700 euro, was the daughter of a maid on the estate of the late Antonio Álvarez Villalón, but he had never recognised her as his daughter. Last week, Mrs Gordo announced that a DNA test ordered by a judge last year had proved without doubt that Álvarez Villalón was in fact her father. According to Mrs Gordo's lawyer, Fernando Osuna, the heiress will now request the inheritance due to her as the only child of Mr Álvarez Villalón, who had left his estate to a niece. "The economic aspect is nice, but I don't need the money", Mrs Gordo said. "What satisfies me is knowing that he was my father".

known when a new printed edition will come out. Spain has about 750,000 people of Roma heritage in a total population of some 47 million.

Hospital Impasse Benferri Mayori, Luis Vicente Mateo, wants urgent action to form a new management board for the Vega Baja Hospital and has demanded a meeting with the Valencian Health Minister, Carmen Stack. The Mayor wants to discuss what he says is a lack of progress since the new Orihuela council administration took office in June, and has called on the minister to appoint a management team at the hospital herself.

Low Becomes High

Low-cost carriers are not unsurprisingly fuelling the big rises in passenger numbers this year at Alicante-Elche airport. In what is certain to be a record year for the airport, government figures show that low cost companies accounted for just over three up till the end of September, a rise of six and a half per cent on the same period in 2014. Nationally, Ryanair, EasyJet and Vueling accounted for 33.2 percent of passengers who flew on a low-cost airline in September.

Cat Killer Banned An animal welfare group says that a colony of feral cats was poisoned by a banned chemical in the El Mojon area of Pilar de la Horadada last month. La Asociación en Defensa de los Animales Maltratados (Adam) commissioned a report from the University of Murcia which showed that an insect killer called Aldicarb which was banned by EU since 2004, was used to poison the cats. Adam say that they have filed a complaint with the Guardia Civil's environment branch, Seprona, and are also concerned that the area of the old church where the cat colony was, is used on a regular basis for walks by local residents and their children, who could also be contaminated by traces of Aldicarb.

Walk This Way

A series of walks with English-speaking guides (also in Spanish and French) will start this Sunday (October 25th) around Torrevieja's Parque Natural de Las Lagunas de La Mata. Three different routes have been put together to show off the different aspects of the park with the first walk concentrating on bird-life, which will be repeated on Saturday December 19th. Vineyards will come under the spotlight on Saturday October 31st and Saturday November 21st, whilst the marshes will be explored on November 8th and December 13th, The walks, which are free of charge, are limited to a maximum of 50 people and registration can be made by sending an E-mail to rutanatura@turismodetorre vieja.com or by visiting Torrevieja's Tourist Information Centre on Paseo de Vista Alegre, or by phoning 965 703 433.

Record Op’s Alicante General Hospital's Transplant Unit had a busy September with a record monthly number for donations and transplants. 17 kidney transplants and five liver transplants were carried out, with one factor being that the hospital's transplant co-ordinators are fluent in eight languages, allowing a greater pool of potential donors as well as providing the emotional support required to help families in a difficult situation where a donor relative has died.

Poor Murcia Close to a third of the Spanish population is at risk of poverty or are suffering it, according to figures from the European AntiPoverty Network (EAPN), with the Murcia region most in trouble. The figures for 2014 put the number of people in trouble at 13.6 million, which amounts to 29.2 percent of the population. The study says that a further 790,800 people fell into the danger category during 2014, a rise of two percentage points on the year before. This marks an overall rise of four point five percent since 2009 when the economic crisis started to have a serious effect on ordinary Spaniards. Southern Spain seems to

be worse affected, backing up studies earlier this year which pointed out places like Torrevieja and Cartagena to have some of the biggest problems in the country, though the EAPN study merely states that the Murcia region at 37.2 percent has the highest poverty risks in mainland Spain. Meanwhile Trade union leader, Consuelo Navarro of the CCO says that 90 thousand people in Alicante Province are living on absolutely no income and he claims that figure rises to 150 thousand if incomes of five thousand euros per year or less are factored in. Navarro quoted statistics from the Labour Force Survey.

Shock Move

More Of The Same?

Six new tv channels will launch on Spain's TDT terrestrial network in the next six months after license awards were confirmed by the Cabinet in Madrid last Friday. Three standard definition channels will see the start of a general entertainment service called D10 to be launched by the Secuoya group in December; Kiss TV, who is behind the

Kiss FM radio service, will start a general and music service; and existing operator, 13TV, has also been given an additional channel. The three high definition channel awards go to Real Madrid TV, who already has a satellite service; and one each to Atresmedia (who run Antena 3 and La Sexta) and Mediaset (who run Cuatro and Telecinco).

Both those operators have already got a range of channels on the TDT network, and are expected to just offer a high-definition simulcast of services that already go out in standard definition. Test transmissions for all of the channels are expected shortly, with critics saying that nothing radically new will be offered to viewers.

Signs Of Joy

Albatera is putting special beacons onto its electricity transformer pylons to stop birds being electrocuted which in turn leads to local power cuts. The work is being carried out by the Cooperativa Eléctrica Albaterense in rural parts of the municipality after a

plea from the local pigeon racing club that many of their birds were meeting a shocking end to their lives when landing for a rest. The work will take around nine months with the beacons able to ward off any bird from settling down in a transformer.

Spain’s Price

Immigrants who apply for Spanish nationality based on residency will now have to pay a new 100 euro fee to have their application processed, plus a further 85 euro to sit compulsory Spanish language and social integration exams. Applications can be made The name of the King's either in person at one of the sister, Princess Cristina, is to country's civil registry be removed from Torrevieja's offices, via the Internet, Palacio de Deportes as she through a lawyer or in any awaits her tax fraud trial in state administration office. Mallorca in the New Year. The 100 euro fee will apply Torrevieja Mayor, Jose whether or not nationality is Manuel Dolon, said the granted. Sports City facility would The requirements for initiremain without a name for ating the application are a the time being. minimum of ten consecutive

Princess Stripped

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330 people have taken part in this year's sea lion therapy sessions at Rio Safari, Elche. It was the ninth year of what is described as a unique project to help severely dis-

abled youngsters enjoy something different with the park's sea lions, Nerón, Curro and Timón. Sessions were also arranged for older visitors suffering from brain damage, dementia,

and multiple sclerosis with occupational therapist María Galvañ saying that it was a joy to see so many people in difficult circumstances get so much pleasure.

Tyred Out

years of legal residency in the country, with some reductions for refugees (five years), for people from Equatorial Guinea, Andorra or the Philippines (two years) or for people either married to or widows/widowers of Spanish citizens (one year). From now on, people hoping to be granted Spanish nationality will also have to sit a series of exams to demonstrate their ability to speak and write the language and to test their knowledge of Spanish culture, history and society with an eye on ensuring their full integration in the future.

Authorities are struggling to get rid of five million tyres dumped on a site close to a housing development north of Toledo. The 90 thousand tonnes of tyres that have been dumped there since 2002 cover 117 thousand square metres straddling the Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha regional boundaries. The dump, the largest in Europe, lies 400 metres from

the El Quiñon housing development, one of the most notorious of the housing boom. Only about one thousand of the planned 13 thousand units are occupied, rendering it a virtual ghost town. The local authorities have announced that are to put out a tender in January to find a company with the capacity to shred the mountain of rubber, which poses a serious fire

and environmental risk. The company originally tasked with managing the recycling had only four employees and was incapable of coping with work on this scale. It was fined on various occasions for infringing environmental regulations and in 2009 the owner was jailed for three months for crimes against the environment. Dumping on the site ended in 2011

Dave Silver

Friday 23rd October 2015

Let's 'ear It For Vincent Van Gogh!

I'VE had a bad back for 39 years. Mrs S maintains that my front isn't up to much either. But I digress. I know what caused my chronic condition -- jumping over a puddle in the street as I arrived for work one wet October morning in 1976. I didn't leap over the puddle because I was in a hurry to get to my desk. God forbid. I was never THAT ambitious. No, I jumped into the air in a forward-thrust motion simply in order to prove that I still had the ability to leap a puddle. As a child I found there was nothing more enjoyable than launching myself over pools of water like a junior Tarzan but without the aid of a jungle creeper or, in my

case a length of manky frayed rope, to grab onto. You can keep the modern antics of Peppa Pig and her television family who love to splash childishly in puddles and then fall down in them, snorting uproariously. I just don't see what is pleasurable about the whole dumb exercise. Incidentally, I believe the whole Peppa Pig family need to be sectioned. They are just too damned happy most of the time. It's not natural even if they are mere cartoon characters. But I digress again. No doubt the question on your lips is did I make it over that puddle in 1976 without getting wet. Well, yes I did. I cleared it in one successful

leap and swoop. The next question you will want answered is: Then how come you are whingeing about an injured back? And you are quite right. With the benefit of hindsight it would have been better if I had walked through that puddle (it was too wide to step around) instead of jumping over it. The direst consequences of the former action would have been merely soaked socks and shoes and waterlogged trouser turn-ups. In that scenario, after I'd dried out I would have thought nothing more about the incident and my memory of it gradually would have faded to the extent that if somebody were to ask me:

'Dave, do you recall walking through a puddle 39 years ago?' I would have replied: 'I have no memory of it. Have a nice day.' The reality of the situation was far more memorable -and serious. Fifteen minutes after my puddle jump I was stretched out on the floor of the newspaper office, unable to move. 'Is Silver asleep again?' asked the editor as he nonchalantly stepped over my still form. 'Don't think so,' a colleague replied. 'He's not snoring.' The editor shrugged. 'Whatever,' he said. 'Would someone move him out of the way. I have a newspaper to produce.' Security were summoned and I was thrown into the back of a newspaper van and delivered to my house. Because I'd lost my front door key (it was probably at the bottom of the puddle) I managed to prop myself up against a wall and waited for Mrs S to return from Tesco. 'Straight to bed,' she ordered me after I explained why I couldn't lug three bags of King Edwards into the kitchen. The next few days passed in a blur of muscle spasms and painkiller-induced sleep. A doctor came to visit. Then a specialist. The next thing I was aware

of was lying in a hospital bed which had been tilted backwards. My legs were suspended in the air and a heavy weight was hanging from each ankle. 'It's called traction,' a nurse explained. 'I don't care what it's called,' I whinged. 'How am I going to eat soup while I'm tilted backwards like this. I don't fancy spoonfuls of spring vegetable going up my nose.' 'Please try to be a little patient,' the nurse urged. And then focusing on my dumpy legs dangling above the bed, she exclaimed: 'My goodness, you ARE a little patient. Maybe you should be in the children's ward.' 'I may be no giant,' I moaned. 'But I'm suffering the pain of a tall person.' On being assured that I would have to stay in that position only for a week (ONLY a week?), I promised the nurse that I would be cooperative. Ten minutes later I was crying out for the doctor. 'I can't stay like this for one more minute!' I yelped. 'I fear I'm going mad!' The doctor tutted sympathetically. 'Try to be a little patient,' he urged. 'No more jokes!' I implored, snorting minestrone soup from both nostrils. 'Anyway,' said the doctor, adjusting my ankle straps and dabbing my nose,

'What's so bad about going mad? Vincent Van Gogh went quite insane near the end of his life but just look how much his paintings fetch these days.' 'I know, doc, but . . . what do you mean "near the end of his life"? Are you trying to tell me something?' Before I was discharged from hospital the doctor sent round a man with a tape measure. I blanched and stammered: 'That's not for my coffin, is it?' The man smiled. 'The doctor said you had a death fixation. No, I'm measuring you for a corset. It will ease your backache.' 'No way, mate!' I retorted. 'What if I get run over crossing the road and the paramedics loosen my clothing and spot a foundation garment around my midriff. I'll just die of embarrassment.' 'There's that death fixation again,' said the tape measure man. Anyway, all that happened 39 years ago. These days I am better than I was although I still get the occasional bout of back misery. Fortunately, modern medical thinking means that I no longer have to wear my corset. Yes, I feel fine physically although Mrs S maintains that mentally I am totally puddled.

Poppies On Parade The Royal British Legion launched their annual poppy appeal on the Costa Blanca with a special parade in Benidorm. Torrevieja Pipes & Drums with Pipe Major Lilian Nicholson lead the procession along the Calle Mediterraneo and down onto the promenade along to the Rinton. Over 188 thousand euro was raised in last year’s appeal across the region.

Ill-eagle Kill The Guardia Civil are investigating the death of a protected bird in Benejúzar. The eagle owl was found in a field often used as a cut-through to the town centre, with the bird apparently being killed by a bullet from a 22 caliber rifle. The Guardia Civil´s envirnmental branch, SEPRONA, are investigating.

Rice Is Very Nice Torrevieja’s twice-yearly Tapas runs, plus the National Rice Contest, both introduced by the council’s pevious Partido Popular administration, will continue. Tourist councillor, Fanny Serrano made the announcement as Francesc Colomer of the Valencia Regional Tourist agency signed a new deal with Torrevieja mayor, Jose Manuel Dolon, which includes a 20 thousand euro subsidy for the annual rice competition in May.

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Taste Buds Tickled

Last Shift An employee at the Aludium aluminium factory in Alicante has been killed after the forklift truck she was driving overturned and nobody was on site to help her. The 45-year old woman was working at the plant (based next to the N-332 between the airport at El Altet and Alicante City) when she became trapped under the vehicle after unloading her cargo whilst the rest of the shift were on a lunch break.

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A restaurant in Northern Spain has been named 'best in the world' in a TripAdvisor survey. The Restaurante Martín Berasategui, in Lasarte, just south of San Sebastián in the Basque Country, is described in the most recent comment as 'the best combinations of flavours

ever experienced' in a meal which was 'culinary poetry'. The service is also considered to be outstanding, and praise has been heaped on the three-Michelin-starred restaurant by visitors from Canada, Jordan, Puerto Rico, Germany and the UK, among others.

Bullfighting courses could start appearing in Spanish schools according to plans drawn up by the country's education ministry. For the first time, bullfighting, as well as other subjects related to the spectacle, will be available for students aged 16 and older who move into vocational training after finishing their compulsory education. Students who complete the course will receive a professional training certificate in "Tauromachy – bullfighting

– and Auxiliary Livestock Activities" after they have learned the skills of bullfighting, the regulations applied to the event and the rules on breeding Spain's fighting bulls. The full-time, two-year courses will be offered at a number of high schools around the country. The education ministry's draft proposals defend the decision to include bullfighting in the state educational system as a logical extension of the activity's importance within Spanish

society, denying any political dimension to the move, with the ruling Partido Popular trying to stay in power in December's general election. Pacma, Spain's leading animal rights organisation criticised the move, saying it "makes a joke of Spain's educational system". Academic elements of the course would be studied in high school classrooms, but bullfighting skills would be imparted at existing specialised academies.

Cold Case Revived

Wood Blaze

A third fire in just three months in the La Marina woodlands caused 500 square metres of damage last Saturday afternoon. Fire tenders from Almoradi, Elche, and

Guardamar were brought in to bring the blaze under control which was just 500 metres away from the El Rebollo beach sand dunes in the Guardamar municipality.

A deep septic tank in Santa Pola was being checked by the Guardia Civil this week to see if the remains of a 19-year-old woman are in it, some 24 years after she disappeared. Remedios Ludeña vanished in May 1991, and

after a tip off, officers have unsealed the tank at the Catarra barranco, some 200 metres away from where she lived in the Calvario area of Santa Pola. The tank has been covered by a concrete slab for a number of years and a

bulldozer was brought in to remove it with the dangerous state of the structure making the operation a difficult one. At the time of going to press, there was no news of any remains being found.

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Fewer Drags

The number of smokers in Spain has fallen by just over three percent since 2009, with 23 percent of the population still having a cigarette on a daily basis, despite substantial price hikes during the last six years. Figures from the European Health Survey suggest that younger people (in the under 50 age category) are the ones who are not taking up the habit or are giving up.

No Disaster For Duffy?

British popstar and actor, Keith Duffy, hit Alicante City this week as part of a new British TV cookery competition under the watchful eye of straight-talking Marco Pierre White. Battlechefs will see ten amateur celebrity chefs, including Alex James from Blur and Boyzone &

Coronation Street star, Duffy (pictured in the white shirt in an Alicante restaurant) taking it in turns to run the kitchen on the new luxury P&O ship, Britannia. The show for the UKTV Watch channel, is being recorded over two Mediterranean cruises, with five celebrities visiting shops and restaurants in Alicante City to learn about the local food and traditions, whilst the Britannia came into port on Monday. Each itinerary, like Alicante, hosts its own selfcontained competition featuring five celebrities, who will each assume the role of head chef and prepare a meal for the Captain and his VIP guests. The series will air in Spring 2016.

Spruce Up

New Wheels A new ambulance for the Pilar de la Horadada area was unveiled by Ambumar SYA at a special ceremony last week. Pilar Mayor, Ignacio Ramos was amongst the people in attendance.

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The La Mata promenade and the Dique de Levante (pictured) are two areas of Torrevieja that will see improvements thanks to the

latest La Laguna employment workshop. 38 unemployed people are to be taken on for the work, which will start in mid-November.

Bitter In-Law

Spain's Queen Letizia was seen as a threat to the country's royal household by former king Juan Carlos, according to a new book about the royal family. Former king Juan Carlos viewed his soon-tobe daughter-in-law as 'the worst thing that happened to the royal family in many years', before she married his son Felipe. The 77-year-old Juan Carlos abdicated last year in favour of his 47-year-old son, now King Felipe VI.

Spain's unemployment rate has fallen to 21.2 per cent, the lowest level in four years, according to official figures published yesterday. The National Statistics Institute said that the number of people out of work dropped by 298,200 between July and September to a

But he has always been cold towards Queen Letizia, 43, a divorcee and 'commoner', according to the book. The book, 'The Court of Felipe VI', has been written by two online journalists, Daniel Forcada of El Confidencial and Alberto Lardies of El Espanol. The pair claim that Juan Carlos would entertain his friends with jokes that Letizia's arrival would devastate the royals, referring to her as 'la chacha', meaning

Dole Fall

rounded total of 4.9 million. That took the rate down to 21.2 percent from 22.4 percent in the previous quarter. The country is now the European Union's leading job-creator, although its unemployment rate is the second highest in the EU after Greece. In Alicante

the maid, He told friends in 2003 that Felipe was 'about to destroy the monarchy' when he learnt of his determination to marry Letizia. As a former television journalist, Letizia was an unusual addition to the Spanish royal family, which has always been famously shut-off to the media. She came from a working family, her grandfather was a taxi driver and her mother was a union activist.

Province, the unemployed figures fell by 6,700, to 209,800, compared to the second quarter of 2015, whilst the Murcia region saw a big fall of 11,500 people (over six and a half percent) from the previous quarter, bringing the total number of unemployed to 164,400.

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Man With Cat Studio 32’s pantomime, Dick Whittington, is being staged at San Fulgencio’s Cardenal Belluga Theatre next month. The shows will be performed on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th of November, with curtain up at

Home Boost

7.30pm, plus there’s an evening and matinee performance as well on Saturday November 14th, with the matinee starting at 2.30pm. Reserved tickets can be obtained by calling Philip on 642 080 258.

Help at Home, Costa Blanca celebrated their 13th anniversary in style with 650 euro being raised at an event in La Florida. The charity support those in need of a little help in their

own homes having been discharged from hospital and helping carers also get a rest. The group are always looking for more volunteers, and for more details, call 965 328 794.

Open For Business which will go to the AECC cancer charity. The event was staged to mark International Breast Cancer awareness month, with a whole host of local entertainers donating their services during the day.

Rousing Crescendo The Crescendo International Choir is presenting an evening of music and song on Saturday October 31st at the La Siesta Evangelical Church in

Torrevieja. The concert starts at 7.30pm, and entry is free though there will be a retiring collection to boost the church’s electrical rewiring fund.

The Sun Will Come Out… The strains of the song, “Tomorrow” will be hitting the Teatro Capitol in Rojales in a one-night only presentation of the story of the little orphan girl, Annie. It’s a fund-raiser for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal which is being staged by the Calpebased Footlights Youth Theatre Group. The per-

Splendid Pink

Two thousand helium filled pink balloons were released on Sunday at Zenia Boulevard to end a big fund-raising day for Maria and the Pink Ladies, who ended up with an astounding 3,164 euro

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Help Murcia Mar Menor have a new charity shop at the Arches Complex in Los Alcazares. Help President Pat Massingham and Elizabeth Bell, from the British Consulate in Alicante, carried out the opening ceremony. The store will be open Tuesday

to Saturday from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm, and sells clothing, bedding, furniture and many other items. All money raised will allow Help Murcia Mar Menor to continue their work in the community helping people through emergencies and in times of need.

formance will be on Saturday November 14th, with tickets at 12 euro for adults, and eight euro for children. Tickets can be obtained by phoning 693 925 377 or they will be on sale from the Cats and Dogs Association in Quesada; The Post Room, Benijofar; and the Post Box, Dona Pepa.

Jeanette Erath - Learn Spanish

Friday 23rd October 2015

Don’t IR On The Side Of Caution! This week’s verb under the spotlight is IR which means to go. It is an irregular verb, although you may notice similarities in the endings to –ar verbs, this is how the verb IR conjugates: yo voy, tú vas, él/ella va, nosotros/as vamos, vosotros/as vaís, ellos/as van. We use this verb more often in the future simple as ´I am going to´ etc. rather than the actual translation ´I go´, etc. S o

going to the cinema we say: vamos al cine, remember the contraction of a + el to make al. It can be used in the present simple as well of course, if you want to say I go to school every day then we use the same format: voy al colegio todos los días. When we want to say we do something, i.e. we want to follow the verb IR with another verb (in the infinitive) we have to remember to add the preposition a in the middle, therefore it is Ir + a + infinitive. For example: voy a comer – I am going to eat, ¿vas a cerrar la puerta? – are you going to close the door? Van a ir a Spain on Heading to ing on la fiesta – they are vell going to go to the holiday, tra Brush up . .. s party. s e busin anish We also use vamos on your Sp to mean let´s go, so when you´re waiting for how your partner or children to do we get a move on a quick shout say in of ¡vamos! Can get them Spanish: I am going to the moving a bit quicker than a beach? I hope you said voy ´come on!´ I always prefer a la playa. To say we are speaking Spanish when I´m

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annoyed or impatient, the harder sounds of the words(to me at least!) makes what I say more urgent and important. Some more useful phrases using the verb IR are: vamos is ´vamos a ver´ which means ´let´s see´ or ´we´ll see´. Another common phrase in Spanish is ¡Que va! Which translates as roughly: what nonsense! and ¡vaya! Which means. You don´t say! Some useful expressions using IR are: ir de compras – to go shopping and ir delante – to go on ahead, remember when using these expressions to conjugate the verb IR to whoever you are talking about. Here are some conjugations of IR into different tenses, starting with the present participle which is ido, and that goes with the perfect tense of the verbs using the auxiliary haber, the past imperfect which can be used to mean was going to go as well as used to go is: iba, ibas, iba, ibamos, ibais, iban. The

preterite tense which means went is: fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fuisteis, fueron. The future tense of IR is regular so I hope those of you with a good level of Spanish can write down or say the verb before you read them: to say I will go, you will go, etc: Iré, irás, irá, iremos, iréis, irán. Here are some sentences for you to translate using various verb tenses, write the following in Spanish: we sometimes go to the cinema, the tourists went to the museum, I used to go to London every year, I will go to the party tomorrow, I went to the shop, I am going shopping, I´m going to the hospital, where are we going?, we are going to

drink coffee. Here are the translations of the above sentences, how many did you get right? A veces vamos al cine, los turistas fueron al

museo, yo iba a Londres cada año, iré a la fiesta mañana, fui a la tienda, voy de compras, voy al hospital, ¿A dónde vamos? Vamos a beber café.

Pets

Friday 23rd October 2015

Storm Phobia Cures Last week we talked about your furry friend suffering from all the noise caused by firework explosions, but there is a similar problem (and in some ways less predictable especially in the middle of the night) and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big thunderstorm. It can be heartbreaking to watch: Even before the first clap of thunder, otherwise well-behaved dogs begin to pace, pant, cling to their owners, hide in the closet, or jam themselves behind the toilet. In severe cases, they'll claw through drywall, chew carpets, or break through windows in their escalating panic. Thunderstorm phobia in dogs is real, not uncommon, and shouldn't be ignored, experts say. Most of the time they don't grow out of it on their own, and many will get worse with time if nothing is done. Veterinarians don't know all the triggers but suspect the dogs are set off by some combination of wind, thunder, lightning, barometric pressure changes, static electricity, and low-frequency rumbles preceding a storm that humans can't hear. According to one theory, dogs experience painful shocks from static build-up before the storm. The anxiety often gets worse throughout the season as storms become more frequent. " Herding breeds, such as border collies, may be predisposed to the problem,

We have now counted the votes and know who the highest scores from the website. We will reveal the winners next week, including the first prize, which we can tell you is a dog. The other prize winners are composed of another dog and two cats, which makes a nice balance. We can also tell you that the results were very close, not just at the top ranks, but right the way through. The pictures of the winners will be posted here next week, as well as details about how to collect your prizes, including the 10 euro voucher for Los Montesinos vets, the free rabies jab at 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.

according to a recent Internet survey. Dogs with other fearful behaviours, such as separation anxiety, also seem more prone to panic. Some dogs with storm phobia are also frightened of other loud noises, such as fireworks or gunshots, but others are only afraid of storms. There's no easy fix, and unless your dog is only mildly affected, it can be difficult to treat, vets say. But there are lots of tools to reduce your dog's distress during stormy weather. 1. Reward calm behaviour all year Many owners make the mistake of trying to console and pet a fearful dog that's whimpering or climbing on them, but that just encourages the panicky behaviour. Practice getting your dog to settle on command. During

the storm, you can also try distracting the dog by offering its favourite toy, playing fetch, petting it, and feeding treats as long as the dog remains calm. You are trying to get them to forget about the storm and replace the fear with something positive. 2. A safe haven That might be an open crate, a basement where the dog can't hear or see what's happening outside, an interior room with music playing, or a bathroom. Let your dog decide: Notice where he goes during a storm, and if possible, allow access to it. Be sure your dog can come and go freely, since some animals become more anxious if confined. 3. Play your dog some storm sounds Play a CD of thunder recordings at low enough

levels that don't frighten your dog, while giving him treats or playing a game. Gradually increase the volume over the course of several months, stopping if your dog shows any signs of anxiety. The goal is to get your dog used to the sound of thunder, and associate it with good things. 5. Ask your vet for help Your vet may have some more ideas and can assess whether medication may also be needed. A 2003 study by veterinarians at the University of Georgia found that 30 out of 32 dogs with storm phobia showed significant improvement when given medication combined with behaviour modification and desensitisation. Owners gave some medicine to their dogs at the start of the day, based on a weather forecast, and the results were good.

Pets Corner: Can You take in a Homeless Dog or Cat?

BENJI Benji's has been in a foster home as his owner sadly passed away and his wife was taken into a care home, Benji is around five years old and great with other dogs and cats. He is one of the gentlest dogs we have had and will make a wonderful companion. To arrange to meet Benji please telephone 645 469 253 or email; www.petsinspain.com

CORRY Cute and gorgeous, fluffy little Corry is one of many of the beautiful kittens currently in APAH's care. They are all colours and personalities, but the one thing they all have in common is the need to start their new lives in a loving home. To arrange to meet APAH's cats and kittens. Please telephone today on 630 422 56 to come and take a look at the kittens.

DUKE Duke has his passport, microchip and is fully vaccinated. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking for somewhere togrow up to be a wonderful companion for someone. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now ready to go to his forever home. For more information on Duke, To arrange to meet and fall in love with Duke please telephone 865 776 348 or visit the website at www.k9club.es

JACQUES Jacques was abandoned in a vegetable crate with three litter mates at two months old. We expect he will grow to a medium size and is now fully vaccinated and micro chipped; if you think this cutie could be the boy for you then please contact the SAT kennels in Dolores on 966 710 047 or email info@satanimalrescue.com for more details or information.

RANI Rani was born 18 months ago and survived in the campo. Since March this year, she has been living in a foster home with three other dogs and a cat. Rani is a very intelligent and loving young dog, and walks well on the lead, loves playing and she loves to learn. For more on Rani, please phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail. com

RUFUS Rufus at three years old is perhaps one of the loveliest dogs that has come our way this year rescued from the Perrera in a dreadful terrified state and he is a stunner. This boy has certainly suffered some trauma and still very scared but will adjust quickly. He is wonderful with all other dogs and good with cats too. Please phone on 650 304 746 email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com

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“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.” - Jackie Mason

A great quote by Jackie Mason. What do you feel when you hear the term ‘financial planning’? Excited about tackling the next stages of your life with confidence or apprehensive perhaps because you may find out things you didn’t want to know? When dealing with unfamiliar subjects many individuals reach for a reference guide, often Google! Our experience is that financial planning is as individual and important an issue as financial security and independence and there can be no ‘off-the-shelf’ instruction manual. As a result, financial strategies may often be developed and based on fear, misinformation from sales agents or ignorance, which rarely leads to any positive outcomes. As a result people are left feeling very frustrated, short-changed and fearful about their long-term financial security. Our view is that no one knows as much as you about your finances as you do. As such you need to be the Chief Executive of your own financial destiny and a financial adviser should act as your Chief Financial Officer, using their professional knowledge to help to inform, advise and guide you to develop your own financial road map based on your specific situation, attitude to different risk levels, your objectives and your adviser’s understanding of taxation, budgeting, investment skills, forecasting, product types/availability and financial planning. The finance field is in a constant state of flux and if you are to receive creditable advice about your investments, the financial adviser needs to have current, up-todate information. How do they go about getting this? Do they take refresher courses? Are they going to pass this information on to you at regular intervals so you have background information on advice? Many financial advisers are little more than glorified personal shoppers, flitting here and there to find off-the-shelf financial products to sell to you. In some cases this may be exactly what you want but in other cases you may want to benefit from an adviser’s trade discounts or have a detailed financial plan created with coherent objectives and cash flow planning. The key is to make sure that both the expertise and service you expect is actually delivered and right for you. Always clarify anything that you don’t understand, make a note of all other things you would like to know and don’t hesitate to ask. If the adviser isn’t forthcoming, please contact our team who will research the adviser and their firm on your behalf at contact@seagatewealth.es

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Tony Mayes - About Life

Clean That Mess Up!

Something must be done over the appalling dog mess problem across the Costa Blanca, and one particularly bad spot is along the picturesque walkway at Cabo Roig. This lovely area has spectacular views right across to the Mar Menor and beyond, but every few yards there's another pile of animal mess to spoil the experience. The health hazard from animal faeces is well known and the sheer volume of the mess along the walkway must be stopped, along with the dreadful stench from the manholes along the walkway. Toilet paper, forced up through the manholes during heavy rains, is there as a grim reminder of how inadequate the drainage system is at this spot. Come on council, this is a total disgrace! This is an outstanding beauty spot for which Orihuela should be proud. Don't let it down through a total lack of cleanliness - we're living in 2015, not 1815! Talking about stench, there are many other places where the smell of sewage is ripe. And one of the worst is on the N-332 in the Torrevieja area close to the crematorium. Such smells attract flies and what building is only a few hundred

yards away as the crow flies? Yes, Torrevieja Hospital. Health hazard or what? And if I read next week a letter from a reader complaining that I shouldn't expect British standards in Spain and if I don't like it I should go home, I will scream! If people do not complain about such things then nothing gets done. Now back to Cabo Roig, and along this walkway there are two abandoned cat colonies I say abandoned cats because many are not feral, they are too friendly. Someone, obviously not a cat lover, has posted warnings about feeding the cats, suggesting offenders will be prosecuted. Come on council - let's make a decision over these cats. Either every encouragement should be made to get them re-homed, or they should be properly fed and looked after where they are, or caught and humanely put down. The vast majority of people are not going to watch animals starve to death, and to hell with those heartless people who would willingly see these cats suffer. Back in Britain, we’ve an account with the Santander bank, and when we go there, just inside the door, is a

reception desk, which is always manned to deal with people's problems. At the paying- in desk there are always three people behind the counter, and sometimes more. Because the branch is adequately staffed, we seldom have to spend more than 10 minutes there. Compare that experience with Santander here in Spain, and pretty much with every bank in this country for that matter! Three times last week we went to a branch in Torrevieja and there was a throng of people waiting to see an adviser. There was only one person behind the counter and the queue went from the counter to the door. We dread going to a bank in Spain because we know we're going to lose the will to live there. Santander is a Spanish bank, so how the hell can they get their customer care near perfect in Britain and so appallingly bad in their home country beats me. Actually, yes, I can give an explanation - the Spanish surely have never experienced the British level of banking, otherwise they would demand better. Santander knows that it wouldn't last five minutes in the UK if it offered Spanish customer care there, so it up’s its game in the UK. A fortnight ago I paid into the bank in Spain a cheque for 46 euros, and I've just been charged three euros for the transaction. Can you imagine the uproar if that happened in the UK? There's a paragraph I wrote in the earlier article and I'll repeat it again. "If I read next week a letter from a reader complaining that I shouldn't expect British standards in Spain and if I don't like it I should go home, I will scream! If people do not complain about such things then nothing gets done." If there's one thing we Brits love it's someone who takes on authority and makes those pompous you will do what I say brigade look absolutely stupid. We applaud it when someone discovers that some overpaid council official hasn´t got the law right and discovers

those no parking signs are illegal. We love it when someone finds that the taxman has overstepped the mark and has to pay back cash snatched from us. So I applaud Jon Platt, who, single-handedly, has taken on the government and has won an important legal argument. And as well as helping himself, he has helped thousands of other parents who want to take their kids on holidays during school term time. He took his daughter to Disney World and was fined £120 but he refused to pay and spent £1,000 on lawyers' fees to fight the case - and has won. Mr Platt had been prosecuted under Section 444 of the Education Act 1996, which states that parents are liable if their children fail to 'attend regularly at school'. His daughter had been attending school most regularly, in fact she had a 100% attendance record until she went on the holiday, and even despite that, her record was 94%. The government had not defined what "regularly" actually means - they told head teachers that they can no longer let children go on holiday during the term. But after Mr Platt's success in court, councils may now be reluctant to impose fines on parents who remove their children from schools for a short time. However, Mr Platt's victory was only in a magistrates' court and the "bruised" education authority and government may appeal. In my book, the government should have had the courage to define the type of parent they wanted to hit when they made their demand to head teachers. Because their target was not the likes of Mr Platt who is obviously a caring parent who wants to ensure his daughter receives a good education. The real target is the low-life parent who cares nothing of their kids and whether they go to school or not. And if it so important that a child attends school every day, why allow teachers to have inset days and also allow them to strike. Striking teachers should be

fined if they absent themselves from school without permission. I hate tattoos. I supposed it was an age thing - people who had them in my youth were in biker gangs or convicts or people that were just not nice to know. But a survey has found that people with tattoos are more aggressive and rebellious than those without. Professor Viren Swami of Anglia Ruskin University found that those adults with tattoos were found to have 'significantly higher' levels of verbal aggression and anger, and were more rebellious compared with people without tattoos. So there it is, my old reason for disliking tattooed people has been proven! People who I have seen year after year standing in the dock of magistrates' courts I have covered during my years in journalism, dripping with tattoos over their faces,

pointing and frustrating events by getting tattooed." Meet Ted Richards, aged 56, who's obsessed with parrots and has had his ears removed so his head is more parrot like, and now he wants to have his nose turned into the shape of a beak. He has 110 tattoos, 50 piercings and a slit tongue. He's done all this as a tribute to his beloved parrots and Ted doesn’t come from a Third World country, but he lives in Bristol. If the professor's survey is right, Ted must be at the pinnacle of aggressiveness. But what I find appalling is not so much that he has done it –but that he managed to find someone prepared to surgically lop off his ears. Marc Pacifico, a consultant plastic surgeon and member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, has slammed the surgery. He said: "I would like to think whoever did this is not med-

arms and hands, balling out obscenities at the judge and everyone else in court. Says Prof Swami: "One explanation is that people who have higher reactive rebelliousness may respond to disap-

ically qualified because that would call into judgement their ethics and morals. As an accredited plastic surgeon you have to have a great sense of moral and ethical responsibility."

Friday 23rd October 2015

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Residencial Villamartin Gardens Three Main Characteristics Are Quality, Space And Light.

Villamartin Gardens is located in El Barranco, Villamartin, in the popular southern municipality of Orihuela, in the heart of the Costa Blanca, favoured by many ex-pat residents and visitors. Villamartin is in a privileged location, close to all amenities, including numerous golf courses, the Blue Flag beaches of Orihuela, and the Zenia Boulevard shopping centre, boasting 150 prime-brand stores, all within about 2 kilometres. There is also a weekly market in Playa Flamenca and the Municipal Sports Centre just 1 km away, as well as a wealth of other stores, supermarkets, and restaurant and leisure facilities. The location of Villamartin is also well connected, with direct road links to other popular locations such as Torrevieja, Orihuela, Elche, Cartagena and Alicante and

Murcia, both served by regional airports, AlicanteElche airport being 54 km away, and Murcia-San Javier even closer at just 25 km away. Villamartin has everything you need to enjoy life in all seasons with over 320 days of sunshine a year. This development consists of 2 and 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms apartments with living / dining room, large kitchen with island and separate laundry. The spacious terraces (either south or east facing) offer views of the gardens and swimming pools and penthouses with private solarium also they have sea views. Taking care of every detail of the construction process much attention has been given to creating gardens and public areas between the buildings. In the closed residential, gardens are an oasis of tranquility with its palm trees,

trees, natural grass and flowering plants. The 3 pools (1 heated) and play area are perfectly integrated into the environment. Included in the price are white goods such as fridge/freezer, oven, ceramic hob, washing machine, dishwasher, extractor fan and microwave, as well as a complete installation of a ducted air conditioning system and your own underground garage parking space and storage room. At the moment there are just 22 apartments available with completions in March/April 2016. Prices start from just 146,000 euro (2-bed) and 186,000 euro (3-bed), inclusive of features listed. For more information on this exciting development, as well as many others, contact Best Price Properties today on 966 44 33 81, or visit their website for hundreds more, at bestpriceproperties.com.

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Friday 23rd October 2015

FootGolf

Footgolf is the latest sport taking the world by storm, believed to originate in South America in 2006. It is said to be the fastest growing sport in the world today. Footgolf is played on a golf course using sizes 3, 4 and 5 footballs depending on the age of the player. The object of the game is to get the ball into a 53cm wide by 40cm deep hole using only your feet in the fewest number of shots possible. John Willmott and Darren Scopes created Footgolf Costa Blanca in August 2015 after taking up the sport in the UK. Having owned a villa on the costa Blanca for 12 years they saw the opportunity to bring this great family sport, that can be played by all ages young and old to the coast.

Footgolf Costa Blanca currently operate from El Plantio, Golf resort in Alicante, Located 5km from the airport, just off the A-79 Alicante road, making this the ideal location. Footgolf Costa Blanca intend to operate at 5 separate locations up and down the coast, allowing everyone on the Costa Blanca easy access to the joys of Footgolf. Offering unlimited daily play for Adults €15, Children/Students €10, and a family of 4 for just €40, it makes Footgolf a great day out without breaking the bank. To make a booking or for expressions of interest in our weekly league competition, send an email to john@footgolfcostablanca.com.

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Salt & Pepper Sprinkle KUBE Architecture recently completed the design of Salt and Pepper House, a lively family residence in Washington, D.C.. In the planning stage, the architects stumbled across some interesting details, which led to the original development of their project. “The owners of this home love to cook, and their first requirement was a cook’s kitchen as the centrepiece of the house,” the architects said. “In addition, they have a strong colour preference for black and white. Thus the concept of ‘salt and pepper’ was developed as an inspiration for the design palette. The owners are also art collectors, so the display of art in the house was another

critical component.” White walls with black framing elements seemed like the perfect choice to balance the design needs of the inhabitants. Pops of colour were sprinkled throughout the home to spice up the visual mix. The layout of the rowhouse was designed for both daily living and entertainment. In order to host gatherings throughout the year, the rear second floor was removed to allow for a double-height wall of windows and sliding doors. This also allows the two-story living space to connect with the new rear garden. Photos and information provided with courtesy of KUBE architecture.

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Time to Change – Whatson´s Choice This week, it´s all about the change, well in couple of ways it is anyway. Firstly, we have got the superb new Jekyll & Hyde drama on ITV. I saw a preview of it this week and it looks really, REALLY good. Don´t worry if you´re a little nervous, it´s not overly scary, that´s why they´ve been allowed to show it so early in the evening, but it does get the heart racing in places.

For me, one of the best parts had to be the sets. They transformed the world into 1930´s London and it is so believable it makes you want to be there, but not getting into any kind of trouble of course, just being part of the glamour. The second change I want to mention is the clock. It is officially time to put your clock back this weekend. Remember that American saying, “spring forward, fall back”, well it´s

fall, so we´re going back, that means an extra hour in bed for many of us, oh and sadly an extra hour in work for others, but it also means a change in lighting up time. Do you remember in the olden days though when you had to work your way around the house changing all of the clocks by hand. There was always one that you missed though, wasn´t there. These days a lot of electronic clocks set themselves, like computers and phones, but there are still many that need us to

change. Don´t forget the microwave, that´s always a favourite, oh, and the car. It´s also Halloween week, so there will be lots of spooky goings on in your favourite shows. ITV2 has dedicated most of their week to scaring us, which is nice, and next week I will give you a rundown of my favourite show s to really scare the pants off you. For now though, I will leave you with the joke of the week, what do you call a tense clock? All wound up. Tatty bye my friends, tatty bye.

NEW - Jekyll & Hyde

Tom Bateman, Richard E Grant and Natalie Gumede join forces to star in Jekyll and Hyde, a brand new, tenpart action adventure drama starting Sunday on ITV. From an idea conceived by acclaimed novelist Charlie Higson, the action and fantasy series has been inspired by The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Higson has written and will executive produce the drama which exudes mystery, fantasy, horror and sci-fi. Set in 1930’s London at a time of Hollywood glamour,

aerodynamic cars and monster movies, the drama will pay homage to the Stevenson novel, and focus on the young, attractive, troubled hero, Robert Jekyll, the grandson of the original doctor. At the heart of the drama is Robert Jekyll’s quest to discover his real identity, his true family history and the nature of his ‘curse’. Jekyll transforms into Hyde in moments of extreme anger, stress and when his or the lives of others are threatened. In episode 1, it’s 1885 and Edward Hyde gets into an

altercation in the street with his patron, Sir Danvers Carew – and murders him. Fast forward to 1935, in Ceylon, where Hyde’s grandson, the orphaned Robert Jekyll, is a young doctor and completely unaware of his ancestry. Here Robert saves a young girl with a superhuman show of strength. This strength is a side effect of his mysterious ‘condition’, for which he has always taken pills. But this time the incident gets into the newspapers. The report reveals his whereabouts to a lawyer, one Max Utterson in London. So, Utterson summons Jekyll to England and Robert learns he is the sole heir to a large estate. There’s only one snag, Robert wants nothing to do with the dark story. However, Robert has also been spotted on the radar by two other organisations. The first is MIO, a government department headed up by Mr. Bulstrode. MIO’s mission is to combat monsters. For them Robert’s appearance is a harbinger of increasing

enemy action. Tenebrae are the enemy: an ancient and sinister organization with a keen interest in recruiting shape-shifters like Robert. Sure enough Tenebrae and their top agent, Captain Dance, arrive in Ceylon and descends upon Robert’s family. Now Robert is adrift in London, with only Utterson and a new friend, Lily, to guide him. At which point news of event’s with his foster family reaches him. Right now, right when he needs them most, Robert discovers his pills are missing and he suffers his first full blown transformation into another personality - Hyde. In contrast to the sensitive, considerate Robert Jekyll, Hyde is a selfish, uninhibited, muscle-bound brute. He goes out on the town looking for trouble, and finds it. At ‘The Empire’ bar, an old watering hole of Edward Hyde’s, Robert’s drunken antics start a fight and he gets injured. An old man called Garson and the lovely bar owner, Bella, save his life.

Halloween on ITV2

ITV2 gets into the spirit of Halloween this week with a selection of new and exclusive programmes celebrating all things spooky, kicking off with a special edition of the hidden camera magic show Tricked on Tuesday. Everyone’s favourite undercover magician Ben Hanlin does his best to freak out more unsuspecting celebrities and

members of the public in Tricked Fright Night, featuring swapping corpses in coffins and a scary bear encounter for former TOWIE star Gemma Collins. On Wednesday night, it is the turn of Reggie Yates to scare some famous folk as reality TV stars Joey Essex, Charlotte Crosby and Pete Bennett take part in a celebrity edition of the horror game show Release the Hounds: Famous & Freaked, which features some of the scariest challenges ever faced on British television. Will they have what it takes to outrun those angry dogs? Following Reggie, ITV2 welcomes the return of the sexiest vampires on television with the season seven premiere of The Vampire Diaries. What has been happening in Mystic Falls since they were last on air in the spring? The themed week continues on Thursday with more frightening fun as Keith Lemon hosts his annual crazily creepy instalment of Celebrity Juice, and Friday night is a frightening film-fest with showings of Paris Hilton vehicle House of Wax and horror spoof sequel Scary Movie 4.

imagine… Shylock’s Ghost As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, he travels with Alan Yentob to the ghetto in Venice to explore Shakespeare's most performed play - and in particular the character of the most divisive fictional Jew in history, Shylock.On their journey, Howard and Alan examine the evidence behind the charge of antisemitism against Shakespeare. How did this old Jew from Venice become such a useful propaganda tool during the Third Reich, and what was behind the absurd and infamous proposal to cut off a 'pound of flesh'?

Strictly Come Dancing Saturday & Sunday BBC One Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman return to the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom this weekend, as the battle for the glitter ball trophy continues. The 12 remaining dancing duos will each take to the floor in a bid to impress the awesome foursome - Len Goodman, Darcey Bussell, Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood - in the studio, and the viewers at home. As the competition reaches its fifth week, the judges will be looking for the couples to show what they are really capable of. After the judges have given their scores the public will have the chance to cast their votes. The two couples with the lowest combined judges’ scores and viewer votes will face the dreaded dance-off on Sunday’s Results show. You won’t want to miss it. Then, on Sunday, Tess and Claudia reveal the two couples with the lowest combined scores, in Strictly Come Dancing - The Results Show. The bottom two dancing duos will take to the famous ballroom floor to dance for survival. Which couple will Len, Darcey, Bruno and Craig save, and who will leave the competition? The remaining 11 couples will go forward to next weekend for the spooktacular Strictly Halloween special. This weekend's musical performance comes from the legendary Bryan Adams and Lens’ Lens will once again be putting Saturday night’s routines under the microscope.

FA Cup 1st Round Draw – Live Monday BBC Two The FA Cup returns to the BBC for the 2015-16 season as Mark Chapman presents live coverage of this year’s FA Cup 1st round draw live from Thackley Juniors Football Club in Bradford. Thirty-two non-league sides have battled through qualifying and will be dreaming of being drawn against one of the 48 Leagues One or Two sides who enter the competition at this stage. The 2013 FA Cup winners, Wigan, are among the clubs waiting to hear their fate following their relegation to League One last season. Among the highlights of last year’s draw were Warrington Town against Exeter City, 1987 winners Coventry City versus Worcester City and Weston-super-Mare against Doncaster Rovers.

Class Of 92: Out Of Their League Thursday BBC One The ex-Manchester United stars known as the Class of ’92 are going on a new adventure. They’ve bought a football club seven tiers down from the Premier League with a dream of taking it up to the top. This new series brings unique access into the lives of Ryan Giggs, Phil and Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt, following them at home and at work as they start out on their new journey as owners of Salford City FC. In this first episode, the reality of life in non-league football sinks in and it soon becomes clear that the five exprofessionals have a lot to learn. On the pitch, the season gets off to a flying start but the bubble soon bursts when tempers flare on the touchline and the team drops position. The manager’s abilities start to be questioned and the Class of '92 decide to take serious action. Salford City FC need to save their season. But can the team find their winning form again and get the promotion dream back on track?

Friday 23rd 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

07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 The Edge 09:15 Gardeners’ World 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 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

20:30 A Question of Sport Sue Barker hosts the light20:00 The Great British hearted sports quiz Bake Off Masterclass Mary makes a tennis cake and 21:00 EastEnders Paul makes two types of Tensions rise in Albert Square when Marsden cream horns arrives 21:30 Still Open All Hours There are mysterious sightings in the shop and Granville is convinced the place is haunted by Arkwright 22:00 Have I Got News for You Paul Merton and Ian Hislop are joined by guest host Michael Sheen 22:30 The Kennedys Brenda decides it’s high time Jessop Square had its own version of Opportunity Knocks 23:00 News 23:35 The Graham Norton Show 00:25 Asian Provocateur 00:55 Film - When in Rome (PG) 02:15 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:20 News

SOAPS

In Emmerdale, Robert is worried that Aaron wasn’t the shooter and wants the police to guard his door. He suggests that Chrissie framed Aaron and she enjoys the look of fear in his eye as she toys with him. However, Robert isn’t the only one with a price on his head as someone is plotting a thousand painful

21:00 show

Mastermind

Morning Good 07:00 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 Pete is horrified to learn the truth 20:30 Coronation Street Will Jason spill all to Gary on the pub crawl?

21:00 Tonight Catherine Tyldesley investigates the pressure to have a perfect body and attempts to separate dieting facts from the Quiz myths

21:30 Coronation Street 21:30 Gardeners’ World In Alya has a shocking prothe last programme of the posal for Gary current series, Monty Don takes stock of his year at 22:00 Film - Skyfall (12) When an operation to Longmeadow retrieve a computer hard 22:00 Great Continental drive containing the names of agents goes wrong, the Railway Journeys Portillo’s authority of MI6 boss M taking the trans-Alpine route comes under scrutiny Her starting from the Austrian only ally seems to be Bond, his who is assigned to track clutching capital, Bradshaw guide and sport- down the mastermind ing a string of jolly outfits behind the theft It’s a mission that will reveal long23:00 QI 23:30 Newsnight hidden secrets from M’s 00:00 Artsnight 00:35 Later and Bond’s pasts with Jools Holland 01:35 Film - Tommy (15) 03:25 23:00 News and Weather 04:25 23:45 Film - Skyfall (12) Time Question Special Forces - Ultimate 01:25 Jackpot247 04:00 Hell Week 05:25 This is Jeremy Kyle 04:40 ITV Nightscreen BBC Two deaths for another resident... Meanwhile, a drunken Chas ends up stumbling near James and Emma but is left furious when Emma makes a comment about Aaron. Emma watches with thinly veiled contempt, when James helps a drunken Chas upstairs. Is she right to be jealous?

Gary, Kirk and Tyrone head into town, Gary resolves to stick to his promise and not to drink any alcohol. Clearly wound up, Jason picks a fight with a punter in the pub. Chesney and Kirk step in and restrain Jason as Gary demands to know what’s the matter with him. Will Jason spill?

In Coronation Street, When Alya admits to Jason how difficult she is finding it to live with the guilt, Jason snaps that she might be best to tell Gary the truth. Later, as Chesney, Jason,

In part 2, Jason reins in his temper. Masking his guilt,

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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 20:30 Unreported World Reporter Giles Duley and director Leslie Knott visit a remarkable clinic for victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh, where many of the staff are survivors of attacks themselves 21:00 TFI Friday Tonight’s guests include Justin Bieber, Dawn French, Macklemore and Lewis, Nicholas Hoult and Hurts 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 - Max Payne (15) 03:45 Supernatural 04:30 Four Rooms 05:25 Deal or No Deal he tells the lads that he’s heading home. At the same time, as Yasmeen enthuses about wedding venues, Alya snaps at her. Zeedan can sense Alya is hiding something but she refuses to be drawn. The lads arrive back and Alya is sickened to hear how their evening came to an abrupt end when Jason and Gary had some kind of altercation. Concerned about his mate, Gary heads over to Jason’s. He pours his heart out to Jason and tells him how much he loves Alya and how she has brought out the best in him. Meanwhile, Fiz is sur-

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: Los Angeles 16:15 Film Fatal Acquittal (15) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Secrets of Great British Castles Dan Jones goes behind the battlements of Dover Castle, where he descends into an underground lair to discover how a vast network of tunnels has been used to defend both the castle and the country for centuries 21:00 Conspiracy The programme revisits the case of US senator Robert Kennedy, speculating his assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was a pawn of the CIA and brainwashed into the act 22:00 NCIS: New Orleans Convinced that the elusive ‘Baitfish’ has returned, Pride goes to alarming lengths to locate him 23:00 NCIS 00:00 NCIS: Los Angeles 01:00 Super Casino 04:10 Now That’s Funny 05:00 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 05:45 House Doctor prised to see Tyrone back so early. Tyrone explains how he just wanted to be with his family and Fiz is touched. When Tyrone promises Hope that she can visit Santa in Lapland at Christmas, Fiz berates him and points out that Hope is too sick to travel. In Eastenders, Kathy goes ahead and speaks to the police, but what does she want to tell them about? And when DCI Marsden arrives on the Square, who is she looking for this time? Later, Gavin gets wind of Kathy’s plan and is furious. Will he follow through with his threats and kill Phil?

07:00 You’ve Been Framed 07:20 Psych 08:05 Emmerdale 09:35 Dinner Date 10:35 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 Funniest Ever You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Film - Knocked Up (15) 00:35 Film - Scary Movie 4 (15) 02:15 The Almost Impossible Gameshow 03:05 The Hot Desk ITV3 07:00 Movies Now 07:10 In Loving Memory 07:35 Heartbeat 08:35 Murder, She Wrote 09:35 Where the Heart is 10:35 Judge Judy 11:55 Inspector Morse 14:05 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 Film Hamlet (PG) 03:25 Where the Heart is 04:15 ITV3 Nightscreen ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:55 The Sweeney 08:50 Minder 09:50 Highway Patrol 10:45 Magnum, PI 11:45 The Professionals 12:50 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 14:55 Pawn Stars 15:50 Gunsmoke 16:55 Magnum, PI 18:00 The Professionals 19:00 The Sweeney 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 The Car Chasers 22:00 Film Nighthawks (18) 00:05 Film - Escape From New York (15) 02:10 Film - The Jerk (15) 03:55 ITV4 Nightscreen

07:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

Saturday 24th October

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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 11:15 Countrywise 11:45 Jeremy Kyle 12:50 News and Weather 12:55 Downton Abbey 14:00 The X Factor 16:00 Rugby World Cup:1st Semi Final South Africa v New Zealand 19:30 News and Weather

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 Bargain Hunt 15:00 Homes Under the Hammer 16:00 Escape to the Country 17:00 Final Score 18:30 News 18:45 Pointless

07:40 Film - The Magic Box (U) 09:25 Film - Angels One Five (U) 11:00 Animal Park 12:00 Animal SOS 13:00 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 14:00 Talking Pictures 14:50 Film - Gypsy (PG) 17:10 Earth’s Wildest Waters 18:10 World’s Weirdest Events 19:10 Flog It

19:35 Strictly Come Dancing Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present another round of procelebrity ballroom action

20:00 Gardeners’ World In the last programme of the current series, Monty Don takes stock of his year at Longmeadow

21:20 Doctor Who A deadly highwayman going by the name of Knightmare stalks the dark streets of 17thcentury London, but after finding some mysterious loot that’s clearly not of this world, he comes face to face with the Doctor

20:30 Great Continental Railway Journeys 20:00 The Chase: Portillo’s taking the transCelebrity Special Four Alpine route starting from celebrities come together the Austrian capital as a team in order to take 21:30 Dad’s Army Captain on one of the country’s Mainwaring and his platoon finest quiz brains acquire a boat 21:00 The X Factor the 22:00 QI XL Quiz show in final 24 hopefuls will be live which the aim is to be inter- in the X Factor studio esting 23:25 The Jonathan Ross 22:45 F1: US Grand Prix - Show 00:30 News and Qualifying Highlights 00:00 Weather 00:45 Rugby Top Coppers 00:30 Film - World Cup Highlights 01:30 The Quiet American (15) ITV Changed My Life 02:25 02:00 Film - The Night of Jackpot247 04:00 Show The Generals (15) 03:20 Me the Telly 04:50 ITV This is BBC Two Nightscreen

22:10 Casualty Jacob helps a harassed teacher to accept help, but can he take his own advice? 23:00 The National Lottery Live 23:10 News 23:30 Match of the Day 00:50 The Apprentice 01:50 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:55 News

07:10 How I Met Your Mother 08:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 08:30 FIM Superbike World Championship 09:00 The Morning Line 10:00 Frasier 11:00 The Big Bang Theory 11:55 Come Dine with Me 14:30 Channel 4 Racing 17:05 Couples Come Dine with Me 18:40 News 19:05 Location, Location, Location 20:00 Grand Designs Following the progress of Stephen and Anita, who want to build a house covered in rusty metal

07:00 Milkshake 10:30 LazyTown 11:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:35 Cowboy Builders 13:30 Film - Paper Angels 15:15 Columbo: A Case of Immunity 16:45 Columbo: A Deadly State of Mind 18:10 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 19:10 Now That’s Funny 20:05 Psycho Pussies: When Cats Attack From the makers of Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud, using online clips and live case studies to explore some feline bad behaviour

21:00 The Sex Change Spitfire Ace The story of Michael , the world’s first woman to transition to a man, and Roberta, Britain’s first man to become a woman

21:05 News National and international news

22:00 It Was Alright in the 1980s Matt Lucas narrates another look back at TV shows from past decades

22:00 Football League Tonight Tonight’s matches include Blackburn and Burnley at Ewood Park, while in the capital Brentford head to Charlton

23:00 Gogglebox 00:05 TFI Friday 01:10 Fargo 02:05 Film - The Fourth Kind (15) 03:40 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 03:35 Hollyoaks Omnibus 05:50 Hugh’s 3 Good Things 05:55 River Cottage Bites

21:10 The Gadget Show Amy and Jason give the latest health apps a check up

23:25 Film - The Fifth Element (PG) 01:50 The True Story 02:40 Super Casino 04:10 The Gift of Life 05:00 Secrets of the Scammers 05:55 Make it Big

15:00 Tricked 16:00 The Almost Impossible Gameshow 17:00 You’ve Been Framed 17:35 Film Happy Feet (U) 19:40 Film - Lost in Space (PG) 20:40 FYI Daily 20:45 Film - Lost in Space (PG) 22:20 James Bond’s Spectre: With Jonathan Ross 23:25 The Xtra Factor ITV3 13:40 Inspector Morse 16:00 Agatha Christie’s Marple 18:00 Lewis 20:00 Doc Martin 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Lewis 01:00 Inspector Morse ITV4 14:30 British Superbike Championship Highlights 16:05 Film - Field of Dreams (PG) 18:10 Film Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (PG) 20:00 Storage Wars 21:00 Film Open Range (15) 23:45 Film - High Plains Drifter (18)

09:00 Trev Massey, 12:00 Gordon Lack, 15:00 Keith Nicol

Sunday 25th October 07:00 Breakfast 08:35 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 BBC News 14:15 Homes Under the Hammer 15:15 Autumn’s Supermarket Secrets 16:15 Escape to the Country 17:00 Points of View 17:15 Songs of Praise 17:50 DIY SOS 18:50 News 19:15 Countryfile 20:15 Strictly Come Dancing Tess and Claudia announce which two couples have received the fewest votes and will therefore face each other in the dance-off 21:00 Antiques Roadshow The Antiques Roadshow visits Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire 22:00 From Darkness Claire risks everything in her battle to stop the killer 23:00 News 23:30 F1: US Grand Prix - Highlights 01:00 Film - Wake Wood (18) 02:25 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:30 News

07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 07:45 The Big Allotment Challenge 08:45 Countryfile Autumn Special 09:45 Gardeners’ World 10:15 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:45 The Great Off Bake British Masterclass 12:45 Terry and Mason’s Great Food Trip 13:15 MOTD2 Extra 14:00 NFL Live: Buffalo Bills v Jacksonville Jaguars Railway: The 18:00 Keeping Britain on Track 19:00 Britain’s Classroom Heroes 2015

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 FIA Formula e Championship Highlights 11:25 Jeremy Kyle 12:25 News 12:35 Jeremy Kyle 13:35 The X Factor 16:00 Rugby World Cup: Semi Final Argentina v Australia 19:15 News

20:00 Caribbean with Simon Reeve The adventurer travels around the 19:30 Jekyll and Hyde islands and mainland coast Fantasy adventure series inspired by Robert Louis of the Caribbean Sea Stevenson’s novel 21:00 Earth’s Wildest Waters The six anglers 20:30 The X Factor Olly travel to Mekong River in Murs and Caroline Flack present the next stage of Laos the talent show 22:00 Britain’s Ultimate Pilots: Inside the RAF 22:00 Downton Abbey Action-packed series look- Opinions are divided when Downton Abbey is open to ing at the Red Arrows the public 23:00 Match of the Day 2 00:20 Family Guy 01:00 23:00 News 23:15 Rugby Film - Trishna (15) 02:50 World Cup Highlights 00:05 Countryfile Autumn Special Rugby Highlights 01:05 03:45 Holby City 04:45 River Monsters 01:35 This is BBC Two Jackpot247

07:00 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 07:15 How I Met Your Mother 08:05 Plusnet Yorkshire Marathon 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 10:30 Sunday Brunch 13:30 The Big Bang Theory 14:25 The Simpsons 14:55 Film - Furry Vengeance (PG) 16:45 Film - Dr Seuss’ the Lorax (U) 18:30 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 19:30 News 20:00 Homes by the Sea Charlie Luxton examines properties on the Solway coast of Dumfries and Galloway 21:00 Great Canal Journeys Actors and canal lovers Timothy West and Prunella Scales go in search of London’s lost route to the sea 22:00 Homeland Jonas and Carrie decide to revisit Carrie’s past, but it puts their relationship under strain 23:00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 00:05 Film - Killing Them Softly (18) 01:55 Grand Designs 02:50 Come Dine with Me 04:45 Food Unwrapped 05:10 Four Rooms

07:00 Milkshake 09:35 Football League Tonight 11:00 Great South Run 13:30 Chinese Food in Minutes 13:40 Cowboy Builders 14:40 Film - Loch Ness (PG) 16:40 Film The Shaggy Dog (PG) 18:30 Film - Peter Pan (U) 20:00 News

15:05 Film - Back to the Future (PG) 17:25 Film Back to the Future Part II (PG) 19:35 Film - Back to the Future Part III (PG) 22:00 The Xtra Factor 23:00 Film - Knocked Up (15)

20:05 Film - Rush Hour (12) A Hong Kong cop is called in when the Chinese consul’s daughter is kidnapped But chaos ensues when he teams up with a officer LAPD flashy assigned to keep him away from the action

13:05 Inspector Morse 15:20 Lewis 17:10 Midsomer Murders 19:10 Countrywise 20:15 Wycliffe 22:00 Les Dawson: An Audience That Never Was 23:00 Birds of a Feather 23:30 Film Angela’s Ashes (PG)

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14:25 The Car Chasers 14:55 Pawn Stars 16:50 Storage Wars New York 17:50 Film - Field of Dreams (PG) 20:00 The Chase: Celebrity Special 21:00 Rugby Highlights 22:00 Film - Two Mules for Sister Sara (15)

09:00 Trev Massey, 12:00 Gordon Lack, 15:00 Tony De Love

Monday 26th October xxx07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Housing Enforcers 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 My Life on a Plate 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 BBC News 13:00 The Daily Politics14:00 Britain’s First Photo Album 14:30 F1: US Grand Prix - Highlights 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

21:00 EastEnders With emotions high and Sharon 20:00 FA Cup 1st Round makes a drastic decision Draw Live coverage of the draw 21:30 Britain’s Mental Health Crisis Panorama 20:30 Grand Tours of the Paul goes inside one of the UK’s Scottish Islands examines the mechanics largest frontline mental required to keep the 70 health trusts With funding islands in the Orkney archicuts drastically reducing pelago connected bed numbers, they follow University the teams through their 21:00 Challenge Quiz series daily decision-making of who to let in and who send 21:30 Only Connect Quiz home show

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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 Pawn 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 20:00 Emmerdale Pete 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun: Winter makes preparations Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 20:30 Coronation Street 18:30 Come Dine with Me Tyrone is shocked when 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hope is rushed to hospital Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:55 The Political Slot 21:00 Countrywise Ben Fogle heads to the breath- 21:00 Dispatches taking Cumbrian Fells to try Dispatches investigates the his hand at sheep dog traincold calling trade and ing with shepherdess extrashows how some people ordinaire Katy Cropper Liz Bonnin visits a sanctuary are fighting back looking after injured and orphaned hedgehogs in 21:30 Food Unwrapped Lancashire, while Paul Jimmy wants to know if Heiney is in Hampshire there are any easier ways helping with the watercress to get the meat out of a fiddly crustacean harvest 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 and Weather

22:00 Traffic Cops Documentary series following the traffic police as they enforce the law on some of Britain’s busiest and most dangerous roads

22:00 Modern Times Dukedoms are created by the monarch, the last created by Queen Victoria As they gradually become extinct, what will become of those that remain?

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 News

23:00 Mock the Week 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Britain’s Ultimate Pilots 01:15 Face of Britain 02:15 The Apprentice 03:15 Who Do You Think You Are? 04:15 This is BBC Two

21:30 Coronation Street 22:00 SAS: Who Dares Alya paints on a smile to Wins Only 20 of the origimask her guilt nal 30 civilians remain and the directing staff ratchet 22:00 Doc Martin After the intensity up a notch, Martin and Louisa tell Dr Timoney about their failed 23:00 Fargo 00:20 It Was date night, she questions Alright in the 1980s 01:20 their ultimate compatibility Undercover Boss Australia 23:00 News and Weather 02:10 Film - Goliyon Ki 23:45 The Job Lot 00:15 Raasleela Ram-Leela (PG) Murder, She Wrote 01:15 04:45 Location, Location, Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Location 05:40 Fifteen to Kyle 05:05 ITV Nightscreen One

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have a separate room from Lawrence. Later, Bernice hides what she’s doing when she gets a message from Robert asking her to visit him. He warns her that the Whites are a dangerous family and she should keep an eye on them.

When Hope is taken ill and Fiz is unable to get hold of Tyrone, she heads off in an ambulance and asks Kevin to let Tyrone know what has happened. Tyrone returns to the garage and is shocked to hear Hope has taken a turn for the worse.

In Coronation Street, Kevin cracks the whip as he shows Tyrone and Luke the fleet of cars parked outside the garage which all need servicing. Having broken one of Hope’s toys that morning, Tyrone seizes the opportunity to swing by the toy shop when a motorway breakdown comes in.

In the second part, unable to find a parking space, Tyrone abandons the tow truck in front of the hospital entrance and dashes in. Fiz explains to Tyrone that Hope has got an infection and has to stay in overnight. Tyrone is horrified to discover the truck has been towed away and it’ll cost £300 to get it back.

In Emmerdale, Emma is surprised to see Ross back in the village. Robert is intrigued when he hears that Bernice has moved into Home Farm, knowing this could be useful to him. At the same time, Bernice tries to cover her disappointment when she learns that she will

As Tyrone returns home for Hope’s overnight things, Kevin calls and tells Tyrone that after explaining Hope’s situation, the towing company waived the fee and returned the truck. Back at the hospital, Tyrone tries to assure Fiz they will get through this together. At the hospital Tyrone tries to assure Fiz that they will get through this together

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 16:15 Rosamunde Pilcher’s Coming Home 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Gadget Show The gang try to capture ghosts on their smartphones and test the UK performance of chromebooks 21:00 Police Interceptors PC Damo Stevens takes on an aggressive arsonist intent on bringing Darlington to a standstill and dog handler Andy Hunt is called to a violent domestic disturbance 22:00 Benefits Britain: The Millionaire Thief Kim claims to have shoplifted more than £2 million worth of goods After 30 convictions she has finally gone straight, but can she find a job that will pay her what she thinks she is worth? 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 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 The Great Artists 05:45 House Doctor In Eastenders, Sharon pays a visit to her lawyer Margaret and tells her that she wants a divorce from Phil. At the same time, Kathy heads back to the Beale house and tries to explain herself to an angry Ben. Kathy reveals about the blood she found, pushing Ben to breaking point as he forces her to also admit the truth to Jay. When Sharon arrives home, she refuses to believe Kathy’s story until Marsden arrives and confirms the blood in the house was Phil’s. Sharon is left stunned when Phil returns home battered..

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 21:55 Film Quantum of Solace (12) 00:05 James Bond’s Spectre: With Jonathan Ross 01:05 Celebrity Juice 01:50 Two and a Half Men 02:15 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 02:40 Psych ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Murder, She Wrote 09:30 Where the Heart is 10:35 Judge Judy 11:55 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 18:50 Heartbeat 19:50 Murder, She Wrote 20:55 Wycliffe 22:00 The Mafia with Trevor McDonald 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 Marchlands 01:05 Inspector Morse 03:00 ITV3 Nightscreen ITV4 07:00 Goals of the 90s 07:10 Gunsmoke 08:05 The Professionals 08:55 Minder 09:55 Highway Patrol 10:55 Magnum, PI 11:55 The Professionals 12:55 The Sweeney 14:00 Minder 15:00 Pawn Stars 16:00 Gunsmoke 17:05 Magnum, PI 18:05 The Professionals 19:05 The Sweeney 20:15 Rugby World Cup Highlights 21:00 Motogp Highlights 22:00 Storage Wars Texas 23:00 Benidorm 00:00 Bundesliga 01:00 Rugby Highlights 02:05 Motorsport UK 03:05 Minder

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Tuesday 27th October

6 - The Courier TV Pull-out

07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Housing Enforcers 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 My Life on a Plate 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders As truths come to light, the Mitchell family come to terms with everything that’s happened 21:00 Holby City Cara has to think on her feet when gangster Sean returns to Holby looking for his missing wife 22:00 River With his career and access to the Stevie case resting on the outcome of his psychiatric report, River must keep his unofficial investigations into Stevie’s death to himself This sends tensions high with his new partner Ira, who fears being dragged down by River’s instability 23:00 News 23:35 Imagine 00:45 Who Do You Think You Are? 01:45 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:50 News

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In Emmerdale, Pete regains consciousness and finds that he is hanging perilously from a high viaduct. Ross has attached him to a winch and releases it so that he drops yet further down. Soon afterwards, Ross brings his brother back up and orders him to send a suicide message to James before jumping off the viaduct.

07:00 My Life on a Plate 07:45 Escape to the Country 08:30 The Edge 09:15 Great Continental Railway Journeys 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 Masterclass 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 Gymnastics Matt Baker presents coverage of the World Gymnastics Championships from Glasgow

21:00 Eternal Glory Five sporting legends remain in the running to claim the title of champion and face more challenges, including a gruelling test of aerobic stamina, an explosive game of endurance and a contest of reaction speed, before another competitor is eliminated in a head to head duel

22:00 The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone Gareth Malone presents the final of the search for the nation’s best amateur a cappella group Just one more performance stands between the three finalists and the title of series champion 23:00 Later Live with Jools Holland 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Modern Times 01:15 Face of Britain by Simon Schama 02:15 Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You 03:15 This is BBC Two Pete apologises when Ross blames him for everything that has gone wrong in his life. Ross is thrown when Pete says that he loves him and agrees to his demand, starting to type the suicide message to James into his phone. Will Ross really go through with pushing his brother to end his own life? Meanwhile, Priya struggles with how busy they are at the factory. Rishi tells her that he is meeting his solicitor and is planning on cutting Jai out of the business. However, Rakesh is worried about Priya and warns Rakesh that her busy schedule might be causing her to

20:00 Emmerdale Pete is in jeopardy 20:30 Deals, Wheels and Steals Scott goes head to head with new dealer Manny for a Mercedes, and twosome Mel and Jim take a punt on a potentially problematic Jaguar

22:00 Lewis After failing to prevent a second murder, Lewis and Hathaway realise that the victims were part of a secret society 23:00 News and Weather 23:40 On Assignment 00:15 The Jonathan Ross Show 01:15 Benidorm 02:10 Jackpot247 04:00 Loose Women 04:45 ITV Nightscreen skip meals.

In EastEnders, with his family in shock, an injured Phil refuses to open up about what happened to him. When an ambulance arrives to take him to hospital, Kathy arrives to see what’s going on but is sent away by Sharon. Soon afterwards at the hospital, Marsden arrives to talk to Phil but he rejects her help despite the seriousness of what’s happened. However, Phil does have a

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 Pawn 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: Winter Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:55 The Political Slot

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 Britain’s Horror Homes 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:10 Rosamunde Pilcher’s Coming Home 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 90 Cats and Counting: Cat Crazies This programme meets cat lovers who take feline worship to a whole new level including one woman has turned her back on human relationships to the point that she has married her cats

21:00 The Three Day Nanny Kathryn Mewes is called in to help the Ali family, whose two children play off one parent against the other until they get their 21:00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies way Documentary following 22:00 24 Hours in A and E RSPCA officers responding Nineteen-year-old motor- to reports of appalling cyclist Sam is airlifted to St treatment, atrocious living George’s after crashing conditions and severe neginto a bus and being lect of dogs thrown under a car 22:00 Eamonn and Ruth: 23:00 Catastrophe 23:30 How the Other Half Lives Documentary series with Sarah Millican: Chatterbox Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Live 00:35 Bodyshockers Langsford, exploring the 01:30 PokerstarsCom lavish and luxurious Shark Cage 02:25 KOTV lifestyles of the super-rich Boxing Weekly 02:55 Gillette World Sport 03:20 23:00 CSI: Cyber 00:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 03:50 FIM The Mysteries of Laura Superbike World 01:45 Super Casino 04:10 Championship 04:15 Aircrash: Terror in the Sky Plusnet Yorkshire 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 Marathon 05:10 Location, The Great Artists 05:50 House Doctor Location, Location heart-to-heart with Sharon, while Ben also turns up and apologises to his dad for everything. Later, Phil forces Kathy to leave the hospital when she arrives to check up on him. Ben returns shortly afterwards and finds a fragile Phil struggling to come to terms with everything, but what did Gavin do? In Holby City, Cara turns to Jed for help when she finds herself having to answer awkward questions about Nicole’s disappearance. But unable to face the truth about her troubled ex, Cara’s lies ultimately lead an innocent Raf into danger.

When Brett wakes from an induced coma Mo is filled with joy - but it dawns on her that his recovery means she will soon have to give William back. Unable to control the situation, she overcompensates - professionally - by giving an incurably sick patient false hope.

Sacha’s confidence is knocked when new boy Jesse bounces onto Keller and seems to be one step ahead of him.

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 Film - House of Wax (15) 02:10 Two and a Half Men 02:30 Glitchy 03:00 The Job Lot ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Murder, She Wrote 09:30 Where the Heart is 10:35 Judge Judy 11:55 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor at Large 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Rosemary and Thyme 22:00 Carry On Forever 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 Marchlands 01:05 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Football’s Greatest: Ronaldo 07:05 Gunsmoke 08:00 The Sweeney 08:55 Minder 09:55 Highway Patrol 10:50 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:55 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 15:00 Highway Patrol 15:55 Gunsmoke 17:00 Magnum, PI 18:00 The Professionals 19:00 Motogp Highlights 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 World Rally Championship Highlights 22:00 Film - The Fugitive (15) 00:40 Film Universal Soldier: Regeneration (18) 02:40 Ax Men 03:30 Whisker Wars

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Wednesday 28th October 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Housing Enforcers 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 My Life on a Plate 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 21:00 Cuffs On his first day working with Ryan, rookie cop Jake faces a challenging shift on the Brighton streets. But, being the boss’ son, Jake’s biggest challenge is earning the respect of his new colleagues 22:00 The Apprentice Lord Sugar instructs the candidates to tap into one of the UK’s biggest markets - pet products. The task is simple - choose some products that pet lovers will like and sell them at the London Pet Show

07:45 My Life on a Plate 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 Britain’s First Photo Album 15:30 Cash in the Attic 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Gymnastics Matt Baker introduces continued coverage of the World G y m n a s t i c s Championships from Glasgow 22:00 Face of Britain by Simon Schama Simon explores the motivations behind self-portraits, looking at what they say about the creative minds of the artists and the human condition, the film explores how self-portraits stand on a knife edge between selfindulgence and self-scrutiny

23:00 The Apprentice: You’re Fired 23:30 23:00 News 23:35 A Newsnight 00:15 Len Question of Sport 00:05 Goodman’s Big Band Sam Smith: Live at the Bonanza 01:15 The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure BBC 01:00 Weather for the 02:15 Alex Polizzi: Chefs Week Ahead 01:05 BBC on Trial 03:15 This is BBC News Two

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In Emmerdale, Ross sees April, who is angry about having to live with Arthur. Much to her amazement, Ross seems to know exactly what it’s like to hate a sibling. James goes to the pub looking for Ross but ends up confiding in Chas how he has failed his sons. Later, Debbie calls to see

Ross after returning from her holidays. She wants him to kiss her, but he warns that he will only end up hurting her. Is he right? Meanwhile, Rishi lies to Jai regarding the reason for his meeting with the solicitor. Priya remains under pressure when the family worry about her working too hard and question whether her eating disorder could return. Priya screams at Rakesh and tells him to get out of the office. Later, after speaking to Laurel, Rishi makes a phone call and warns the person on the other end that his proposal isn’t

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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

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 Pawn 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 20:00 Emmerdale Rishi’s 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun: Winter concerns for Priya grow Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 20:30 Coronation Street 18:30 Come Dine with Me Will Audrey cancel her date 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 with Ken? Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:55 The Political Slot 21:00 All Star Mr and Mrs The couples hoping to win 21:00 Restoring Britain’s £30,000 this week are pre- Landmarks Alastair Dicksenters Marvin and Cleland heads to the Rochelle Humes, ‘Allo ‘Allo Trust’s most remote and actress Vicki Michelle and location, her husband Graham and challenging Lundy Island where he The Wanted’s Tom Parker oversees the complex and his partner Kelsey restoration of the famous 22:00 Land of the old lighthouse Midnight Sun In the last episode of the series, 22:00 Grand Designs Alexander heads off from Kevin returns to the Northern Canada, travelling Thames in into the icy wilderness of Buckinghamshire to see if Alaska Along the way, he the eventful construction of meets people who have the UK’s first amphibious escaped the rat race and house has been a success headed north in search of adventure 23:00 Multi-Million Pound 23:00 News and Weather Properties 00:00 My Mania 23:40 Sports Life Stories and Me 01:05 24 Hours in 00:40 Wild Ireland 01:10 A and E 02:00 Blink 02:25 Jackpot247 04:00 Ejector Film - The Broken Circle Seat 04:50 ITV Breakdown (15) 04:20 Film - Warlords of Atlantis (PG) Nightscreen

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 World’s Fastest Train 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Love Finds you In Charm 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News

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tory. At home, Yasmeen shows Alya her mother’s wedding dress, suggesting that she might like to wear it at her own wedding. In tears, Alya tells Sinead that for her marriage to work, she has to be honest with Gary and tell him the truth about her one-night stand.

Tyrone insists that he’ll sort out his own mess.

Elsewhere, Kerry and Dan become cautious of what they eat when Amelia starts monitoring their diet for a school project. Amelia tests Kerry’s blood pressure and tells her that she is in the danger zone. In Coronation Street, When Tyrone presents Hope with a lovely new doll, Fiz is concerned that they’re spending too much money. Tyrone admits to Kevin that he’s in financial straits as he never got round to cancelling the Lapland trip which he can ill afford. Kevin offers to lend him some money, but

At the same time, Sophie suggests to Kevin that with his ever-increasing workload, he should look for bigger premises locally. As Izzy and Eva quiz Alya about her wedding plans, Alya can no longer suppress her mounting anxiety and flees from the fac-

20:00 Secrets of the Scammers Alexis Conran investigates new forms of financial fraud and meets some of the victims Behind GPs: 21:00 Closed Doors Dr Watson tries to break a vicious circle as her patient tries to self-medicate depression with alcohol and Dr Pearce issues an urgent warning to a patient whose liver is showing the strain of coping with 25 pints a week 22:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away Britain’s best-loved High Court Enforcement Agents face violent debtors, gritty evictions, distraught landladies and the consequences of a wedding day dispute 23:00 The Gift of Life 00:00 Capital One Cup 01:25 Criminals: Caught on Camera 01:50 Super Chris 04:10 Casino Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 The Great Artists 05:45 House Doctor

Ken invites Audrey round for dinner. Worried about what people will think, Audrey wonders who else will be there and Ken is forced to invite Roy and Cathy too. However, when Rita comments on how much time Audrey is spending with Ken lately, Audrey’s fears are heightened.

07:00 You’ve Been Framed 07:20 Psych 08:05 Emmerdale 08:35 Funniest Ever 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 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Educating Joey Essex 23:00 Release the Hounds 00:00 The Vampire Diaries 00:55 Tricked 01:55 Two and a Half Men 02:20 Release the Hounds 03:10 Teleshopping ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Murder, She Wrote 09:30 Where the Heart is 10:35 Judge Judy 11:50 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor at Large 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 Marchlands 01:05 Inspector Morse 03:00 ITV3 Nightscreen 03:30 Teleshopping ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:55 The Sweeney 08:50 Minder 09:55 Highway Patrol 10:50 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:50 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 14:55 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 Texas 22:00 The Football Mavericks 23:00 Film Above the Law (18) 01:10 Film - Open Range (15) 03:45 ITV4 Nightscreen 04:00 Teleshopping

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Thursday 29th October

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07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Housing Enforcers 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News and Weather 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 My Life on a Plate 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News and Weather 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Watchdog The team scam the scammers in an investigation into computer virus fraud and the gym that charges customers even after they have cancelled their membership 21:30 EastEnders Kush confronts Shabnam over her true intentions 22:00 Class of 92: Out of Their League Fly-on-thewall documentary series follows Manchester United’s Class of 92 as they bid to take Salford City to the top after a takeover by Reds legends Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Gary and Phil Neville 23:00 News and Weather 23:35 Question Time 00:35 This Week 01:20 Holiday Weatherview 01:25 BBC News

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In hour-long episode of Emmerdale, Nikhil returns to the village with Molly following Rishi’s call about Jai’s behaviour. Rishi hopes to convince Nikhil to stay on longer, but he still has his demons regarding Gennie’s death and is seemingly unable to forgive Debbie for the part she played. Later,

Jai’s

behaviour

07:00 My Life on a Plate 07:45 Escape to the Country 08:30 The Edge 09:15 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Britain’s First Photo Album 15:30 Cash in the Attic 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Gymnastics Continued World G y m n a s t i c s Championships coverage from Glasgow, introduced by Matt Baker 22:00 The Last Kingdom After the massacre of his Danish family, Uhtred finds himself in dangerous limbo - neither Saxon nor Dane. After approaching fearsome Viking warlord Ubba for protection, he realises his best hope lies in the soon-to-be Saxon King Alfred 23:00 Russell Howard’s Good News 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone 01:15 Britain’s Mental Health Crisis 01:45 The Celts 02:45 Doctor Who 03:30 This is BBC Two causes a factory walkout. Rishi is furious over the chaos and Jai is given his marching orders. Jai feels he has been stabbed in the back as a result. Nikhil visits David to talk about the situation but reiterates that the village holds too many bad memories for him to stay. As the day continues, Megan bumps into an out-of-control Jai but walks away. Meanwhile, when Debbie asks Ross to move in permanently, he tells her the truth about what happened while she was away. Andy and Pete are both troubled to learn that Debbie and Ross are living together again. However, Ross and Pete soon discuss how they

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 Nikhil returns to the village 21:00 Coronation Street Alya confesses to a deeply shocked Gary 21:30 Paul O’Grady: For The Love of Dogs Paul meets Peanut the Pug, a boisterous and playful dog always looking to join in the fun The only problem is that he has a serious breathing problem 22:00 Unforgotten The investigation into Jimmy’s death continues, as marks are discovered on his body that indicate gangland torture methods. Cassie and Sunny question Sir Phillip Cross to find out what his involvement was with a prominent East End crime family, while Eric and Claire Slater’s anniversary party gets underway 23:00 News and Weather 23:40 The Magic Show Story 00:40 Birds of a Feather 01:10 Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Kyle USA 04:40 ITV Nightscreen have to stop fighting each other, as their parents wouldn’t cope if they both ended up in prison. In Coronation Street, As Gary and Jason set off to work, Gary tells Jason that he’s going to have to quit his job as Sharif has given him a stake in the gym. Alya is horrified to discover that Gary has signed the contract for the gym and has also asked Jason to be his best man.

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 Pawn 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: Winter 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 and Will’s floating beach hut is finally ready to do battle with the elements as it’s launched onto the open seas 22:00 Kitchen Impossible Leading chef Michel Roux Jr takes eight trainees who are all struggling to find work and sets out to give them the basic skills to cope in a modern kitchen. However, these novices present a unique set of challenges - they all have disabilities 23:00 First Dates 00:05 Gogglebox 01:10 SAS: Who Dares Wins 02:10 My Son the Jihadi 03:05 Embarrassing Fat Bodies 03:55 Dispatches 04:25 Four Rooms 05:15 Location, Location, Location hosts an art class at the community centre, her sister Nessa arrives in a state and tells her that her son Alex has gone missing. Ken and Audrey feel for her and offer to help in the search. As Nessa thanks Ken and Audrey for their help, Audrey is quick to explain that they’re not a couple. Ken is quietly disappointed but Nessa seems pleased.

Cathy

20:00 Secrets of Great British Castles Historian Dan Jones explores the turbulent past of six of Britain’s most famous strongholds, beginning by heading to the south-east of England to visit Dover Castle 21:00 Chasing Monsters Cyril Chauquet visits the Gabonese jungle in search of the African threadfin, a predator fish that grows up to two metres in length and preys on other fish, crabs and octopus 22:00 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys Chris journeys a thousand miles across Japan to find out if Japanese railways really are the best in the world 23:00 Film - King Arthur (12) 01:15 Super Casino 04:10 Britain’s Horror Homes 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 The Great Artists 05:45 House Doctor hospital stay and is determined to get back to normal. Ben learns that Gavin has been trying to contact Kathy again, so he suggests to Phil that they should let Marsden help them. Phil doesn’t react well to this and some harsh words are exchanged between father and son. Later at The Arches, Ben begins to crumble but Paul arrives and shares some advice.

With her anxiety evident, Alya drags Gary into Number 6 and confesses that she’s had sex with someone else. Deeply shocked, Gary asks Alya who it was... Meanwhile,

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 - Spirit Riders 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News

In Eastenders, Phil returns home following his

With Paul’s words in mind, Ben takes matters into his own hands and attempts to bring his family back together. Will Phil listen to Ben? And can Ben get rid of Gavin once and for all?

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 The Xtra Factor 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 The Almost Impossible Gameshow 23:00 Celebrity Juice 23:50 Keith Lemon’s Back T’future Tribute 01:20 Two and a Half Men ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:30 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:30 Judge Judy 11:55 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:15 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor at Large 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Rosemary and Thyme 22:00 Paul O’Grady’s Animal Orphans 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:05 Marchlands 01:05 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:55 The Sweeney 08:50 Minder 09:55 Highway Patrol 10:50 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:50 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 15:00 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 Universal Soldier: Regeneration (18) 00:00 Film - Out for Justice (18) 01:50 Film - The Jerk (15)

08:00 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

You don’t get surprised anymore by the antics of the candidates on The Apprentice who give the impression each year that they’ve never ever watched the show before, and always fall into the same traps. Some of the egos are amazing and it all makes, of course, for a great watch. The big shocker so far concerns rottweiler Claude Littner who built up a reputation for ripping into the hapless candidates in the gripping “Interview” edition of the show, and was rightly brought in to replace Nick Hewer who called it quits last year. One problem: Claude is just meowing rather than growling, whilst the other surprise is seeing Karren Brady doing what I expected Claude to do! She’s gone right for the jugular against some of the pitiful budding apprentices as she fires out her welljudged barbed critiques.

Come on Claude!

Heaven help the aspiring business partners of Lord Sugar once Claude is nudged out of his generous somnambulant mood. A French drama over two years ago about a bunch of dead teenagers in a bus crash that started reappearing years later, created a big buzz, and it’s back for a second series. I’m talking about The Returned which is beautifully made and just so different from anything else. More Four are screening the show but there’s one massive problem: - I’d forgotten the characters and plotlines of series one, due to it being off screen for so long (French viewers had a three-year gap!). I’d just about picked up the threads come the closing credits but what a shame that most fans had to do the same. Why no recap before the first episode? The producers say the deal over series two is down to

Aries March 21-April 20 Whether you succeed in leaving recent problems in the past and reaching a more easygoing and secure position could depend on how you play your hand this week. If you take a confident, upbeat approach, opposition to your plans will crumble, so do not hedge your bets or let your doubts stand in your way. It is the opening move that counts.

Taurus April 21-May 21 With so much action in your chart’s zone of new departures and adventure, the time has come to break free from a situation that you find restrictive and let go of attitudes you have outgrown. To take full advantage of the stars, you also need to make it clear to someone close that you need extra space. Put your personal interests before all else this week.

Gemini May 22-June 21 With the action planet, Mars, helping you to streamline your routine and solve problems that have held you back, you can now draw up new, constructive plans and push through the domestic changes that you had postponed. What you need most now is freedom to pursue your personal goals. It seems that one of them is in easy reach.

Cancer June 22-July 23 As a Cancerian, you usually prefer to take a subtle approach to solving problems or to making others see life from your angle. But with dynamic, forceful Mars now travelling through your chart’s communication zone, the importance of being open and direct is strongly stressed. Do not hesitate to spell out where you stand this time around.

the ponderous way French TV works but I think the long wait has taken the gloss off something that was unmissable first time round. I hope episode two tonight proves me wrong. A second series always defines whether the first run was a “flash in a pan”, but I’m pleased to report that the return of Fargo on Channel Four was a total treat and it’s business as normal. The quirky drama inspired by the Coen broth-

ers movie has gone for a prequel set nearly 30 years earlier and we’ve a super ensemble cast giving us drama and black humour in equal measure. Thank heavens that we’ve not ended up with what happened to True Detective’s second season which slid onto Sky Atlantic during the summer and wasted a great cast with the biggest load of boring bilge that I’ve seen this year. Massive credit then to the Fargo

Leo July 24-August 23 Confidence could well be all it takes to win backing or support for a new project, so do not let uncertainty about the future make you overcautious. With lucky Jupiter and forceful Mars behind you, you hold a winning hand. You also have a real sixth sense for how to play it, so trust your judgment and your sense of timing.

Virgo August 24-September 23 This weekend’s powerful link between outgoing Mars and lucky Jupiter in Virgo gives you a new advantage in a situation that has held you back in recent weeks. The time has come to ask for what you really want, long-term, from those concerned, so stop weighing up the pros and cons and act. You could find that someone has been waiting patiently for you to make a move.

Libra September 24-October 23 Deep down, you know you are right about a certain situation, and you can sweep obstacles aside if you take decisive action, so let nothing throw you off your stride. A confident approach could well be all it takes to bring about a breakthrough. You have waited long enough for the recognition you deserve.

Scorpio October 24-November 22 This weekend’s meeting between lucky Jupiter and extroverted Mars suggests that an important friendship could now go from strength to strength, and unexpected changes are on the horizon. Do not look for problems where there are none. Financial tensions also ease, so plan to celebrate the turning of the tide with those who count.

team, and also to Channel Four, who with Homeland as well, have two of the smartest American shows around that viewers don’t have to pay to see. Please try and watch ITV’s drama Unforgotten on a catch-up service if you can, because this six-part thriller is the best new thing they’ve done this year, and miles better than the muchtrumpeted second series of Broadchurch. If nothing else, you can enjoy a return to the small screen of the lovely Hannah Gordon uttering a very foul word in the first episode that you would never have imagined her doing in her golden days of the seventies! Talking of that decade, The Muppet Show ruled supreme, but a new series called The Muppets on Sky One would have those two old moaners, Statler and Waldorf in total apoplexy because it is rubbish. I loved what the Muppets did

in the past and their current movies are great, but some idiot at the US ABC network decided that it would be a great idea to have the Muppets acting more grown up and tackling adult issues. In a flash, all the charm and laughs have gone, and you’re left wondering what their creator, Jim Henson, would have made of it all. I’m a big Jonathan Ross fan and he looks fit and young at the moment, but that can’t paper over the cracks that his ITV chat show is missing out on the stellar names that Graham Norton has totally cornered for the BBC on a Friday night. Incidentally one Norton trump card that you may not be aware of (besides the fact that he’s brilliant) is that his show is screened Stateside on the BBC America channel, which makes it “unturndownable” for the Hollywood A-listers.

Sagittarius November 23-December 21 Your ruler, Jupiter, joins forces with dynamic Mars early in the week to help you make real progress with an ambitious scheme you were forced to shelve. This is your opportunity to revolutionise your chances of success in months to come, so be proactive and determined. Ignore well-meant advice from a colleague or close friend on Friday.

Capricorn December 22 - January 20 If you focus on your real goals this week, you will start to see how strong your hand is, so do not let a minor setback take up all your energy and time. A recent problem will resolve itself if you are patient. It could also be a blessing in disguise, so banish doubts, stand back and try to see the bigger picture. The stars are truly on your side this week.

Aquarius January 21 - February 19 Do not let your natural reserve make you miss a chance to reach a deeper understanding with a loved one now. This week’s meeting between Jupiter and Mars, the zodiac’s most outgoing planets, marks the opening of a whole new chapter in a close alliance. It is also due to help you leave your doubts about a certain situation in the past.

Pisces February 20 - March 20 You have good luck all around you in the week ahead, so if you have been hoping for a chance to overcome a recent problem or misunderstanding, this is the right time to act. You could also find that what you want, or need, from someone is now changing. Do not feel you should maintain the current status quo, or let others call the tune.

10 - The Courier TV Pull-out

CODE CRACKER

DOUBLE CROSS-WORD

Code Cracker is a crossword puzzle with no clues; instead, every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number, the same number representing the same letter throughout the puzzle. All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number. In this week’s puzzle, 25 represents B and 16 represents Z, when these letters have been entered throughout the puzzle, you should have enough information to start guessing words and discovering other letters.

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

QUICKIE

Across

Down

1 Woodwind instrument (8) 5 See 3 Down 9 Sentry (7) 10 Common viper (5) 11 From here (4) 12 Salt lake in the Jordan valley (4,3) 15 Verbal (6) 16 Bother (6) 19 Aromatic herb (7) 21 Worry (4) 24 Speculate (5) 25 Inspect (7) 26 Edge (4) 27 Forwards (8)

1 Fall down (8) 2 Tropical fruit (7) 3/5 Nickname of Margaret Thatcher (4,4) 4 Respect (6) 6 Confuse (5) 7 Three feet (4) 8 Relating to the heart (7) 13 Continue (7) 14 Fidgety (8) 17 Assume (7) 18 Given in (6) 20 In front (5) 22 Eras (4) 23 African country (4)

Last weeks Solution

Across: 1 Stroll, 4 Closed, 9 Aviator, 10 Claps, 11 Tense, 12 Lodging, 13 Sensational, 18 Popular, 20 Scope, 22 Giant, 23 Arrange, 24 Tender, 25 Resent. Down: 1 Scanty, 2 Reign, 3 Letters, 5 Lucid, 6 Stamina, 7 Design, 8 Proletariat, 14 Explain, 15 Observe, 16 Spigot, 17 Reject, 19 Lithe, 21 Ounce.

Scribble Pad

CRYTPIC CLUES Across 7 Poorly mends gas monsters (6) 8 So Edna is around some Poles (6) 9 Event in Monica Seles’s diary (4) 10 Set off in good time towards dawn (8) 11 Coach scruffy cheater (7) 13 Outing Aunt Joan initially arranged (5) 15 Bored Jack’s dead wrong (5) 17 Plant hidden fact or yearning (7) 20 I propose a mention be made (8) 21 Implement for starting, taking off or landing (4) 22 A tonic for Prince, it’s reported (6) 23 Reason for shaking hands? (6) STANDARD CLUES Across 7 Evil spirits (6) 8 Positive terminals (6) 9 Legal matter (4) 10 Towards sunrise (8) 11 Educator (7) 13 Short journey (5) 15 Fatigued (5) 17 Plant (7) 20 Propose a candidate (8) 21 Implement (4) 22 Shot in the arm (6) 23 Uneasy psychological state (6)

Down 1 Tell about the departed (6) 2 Book some customers (4) 3 American male gets embarrassed when escorted (7) 4 Rope back in colossal catch (5) 5 Open-minded to the French rave (8) 6 A magician’s bird (6) 12 Bred lice indiscriminately? Would you believe it! (8) 14 Bars servant work out (7) 16 Fuss over Northern Ireland’s handsome youth (6) 18 Herod’s new island (6) 19 US resort seen in stamp album (5) 21 Rotate tea boiler (4) Down 1 Make a logical connection (6) 2 Large and scholarly book (4) 3 Escorted (7) 4 Lariat (5) 5 Broad-minded (8) 6 Legendary magician (6) 12 Capable of being believed (8) 14 Inns (7) 16 Handsome Greek of myth (6) 18 Greek island (6) 19 Resort city in western Florida (5) 21 Revolve (4)

Last weeks Solution Across: 1 Ramparts, 5 Twit, 9 Mandela, 10 Maine, 11 Moor, 12 Revised, 15 Easter, 16 Repair, 19 Exposed, 21 Cool, 24 Liner, 25 Needing, 26 Menu, 27 Lacrosse. Down: 1 Remember, 2 Mangoes, 3 Ages, 4 Tea set, 6 Waive, 7 Tier, 8 Imbibed, 13 Detours, 14 Prologue, 17 Atomics, 18 Hernia, 20 Xenon, 22 Plum, 23 Near.

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Complete the crossword grid by using the given words:

3 letter words Are Gap Nan 4 letter words Aces Afar Ages Ague Amen Ante Cede Ciao Dost Elba Else

Ergo Ergs Euro Gene Keen Knot Lava Naan Ogee Open Pack Pale Pert Port Rasp Reek Rosy Rude

Scan Sild Spot Thee Tsar Turn Urge 5 letter words Abate Alien Aloha Avers Beano Canoe Caper Cards Darts

Elfin Holds Inner Inset Keyed Niece Oasts Pager Piano Riser Safes Salsa Tails Tared Topee Unite 6 letter words

Darken Impose Invest Ironed Itself Scrape Sender Slogan 7 letter words Marshal Morning Offbeat Sardine 8 letter words Inverted Teenager

SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORD

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

Across 1 Barcos (de grandes tamaños) (5) 3 Shepherd (6) 6 Air hostess (7) 8 Yearning (desire) (5) 10 Gold (metal, commodity, currency) (3) 11 El más fácil (7) 12 Edge (of cliff, wood, bed, paper) (5) 13 Silver (metal) (5) 18 Office (workplace) (7) 20 Deber (dinero, explicación, respeto) (3) 21 Pavement (for walking on) (5)

22 Customer (7) 23 To rest (6) 24 Toads (5) Down 1 Sombra (proyectada por un objeto) (6) 2 Alga (7) 3 Oración (religión) (6) 4 Asientos (muebles) (5) 5 Letter (mail) (5) 7 Pedir perdón (9) 9 Maíz dulce (9) 14 Camiones (7) 15 Leaves (of plants) (5) 16 Platillo (6) 17 Joyas (6) 19 Italia (5)

The Courier TV Pull-out - 11 Across 1 British Labour party politician, who has been the MP for Morley and Outwood since 2010, and is the current shadow chancellor of the exchequer: Ed ----- (5) 4 Department or division of a police force that enforces laws against prostitution, drug abuse, illegal gambling, etc (4,5) 9/22 English aviator who, in 1930, became the first woman to fly solo to Australia (3,7) 10 Invisible gaseous substance surrounding the Earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen (3) 11 Defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet (7) 12 French couturier whose first collection in 1947 featured narrowwaisted, tightly fitted bodices and full pleated skirts, which became known as the New Look: Christian ---- (4) 13 Point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid or comet at

which it is closest to the sun (10) 15 Game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards (5) 16 Try again, because an earlier effort was unsuccessful (9) 17 HBO period drama series set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the prohibition era: --------- Empire (9) 21 British prime minister from 1990 to 1997: John ---- (5) 23 Large round yellow citrus fruit with an acid juicy pulp (10) 24 Derogatory term for a young, lower-class person typified by brash and loutish behaviour and the wearing of real or imitation designer clothes (4) 27 Showing a lack of intelligence or thought (7) 28 Long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding (3) 29 Large star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar sys-

SUDOKU (Hard)

Quiz Word

tem (3) 30 Female ballet dancers (9) 31 Members of a religious community of men

typically living under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience (5) Down

1 Surname of comedians Jo, Katy and Russell (5) 2 Song performed by Eric Clapton and written by Clapton, Marcy Levy and George Terry that featured on his 1977 album Slowhand and reached number three in the Billboard Hot 100 chart: --- --- Sally (3,4) 3 German Eurodance group whose UK number one hit singles include The Power and Rhythm Is a Dancer (4) 4 Seventeenth century Dutch painter who chiefly painted domestic genre scenes, for example The Kitchen-Maid. His work is distinguished by its balanced composition and treatment of light: Jan ------(7) 5 French mountainous island off the west coast of Italy that was the birthplace of Napoleon I (7) 6 Famous aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess (10) 7 Heavy toxic silverywhite radioactive metallic element that occurs in

many isotopes and is used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons (7) 8 Device or small sensitive charge used to set off an explosive (9) 14 Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from a text or account, especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective (10) 15 Smallest size of grand piano, about 1.5 metres (five feet) long (4,5) 18 Early French settler in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (7) 19 Inflatable mattresses (3,4) 20 Chessmen shaped to resemble the heads of horses that move by jumping to the opposite corner of a rectangle two squares by three (7) 22 See 9 Across 25 Roman goddess of love, the counterpart of the Greek Aphrodite (5) 26 Microorganism, especially one that causes disease (4)

SALLYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SIMPLE SPANISH

PROTECCION SOLAR

Match these words with their Spanish translations then find them in the wordsearch. (Answers below)

bajar persianas

nadar en el mar

el filtro solar

ponerse crema

la gorra

refrescarse

la piscina

sentir la brisa

la sombra

tomar helados

la sombrilla

toma mucha agua

mojarse

usar ropa floja

science QUIZ

ANSEWRS 1. Mules 2. Le Figaro 3. It's Feet 4. Hay Fever 5. Sand 6. Sodium 7. Kitten 8. Sputnik I 9. Ohm 10. Armadillo 11. Walnut 12. Strowger 13. Dolly The Sheep Was Created

Last Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Solutions Code Cracker Last weeks Quiz Word Solution Across: 1 Hill, 3 Rotary Club, 10 Line-out, 11 Madness, 12 Caribou, 13 Neighs, 15 Penne, 16 Balthasar, 18 Eccentric, 21 Butch, 23 Kansas, 25 Rostrum, 27 Abilene, 28 Mermaid, 29 Fitzgerald, 30 Gnus. Down: 1 Helicopter, 2 Long run, 4 Outnumber, 5 Amman, 6 Yiddish, 7 Leeches, 8 Best, 9 Zombie, 14 Archimedes, 17 Lachrymal, 19 Chariot, 20 Nest egg, 21 Bistro, 22 Terrain, 24 Speer, 26 Calf.

Empareja estas palabras - Match the Spanish and English words You will find the answers at the bottom of the quiz. 1.bajar persianas, 2.el filtro

13.toma mucha agua,

i.swim in the sea, j.the hat,

solar, 3.la gorra, 4.la piscina,

14.usar ropa floja.

k.put the blinds down, l.get wet,

5.la sombra, 6.la sombrilla,

m.wear lose clothes,

7.mojarse, 8.nadar en el mar,

a.sun screen, b.feel the breeze,

9.ponerse crema,

c.put on cream, d.the shade,

10.refrescarse,

e.have ice-creams, f.cool down,

11.sentir la brisa,

g.the swimming pool,

12.tomar helados,

h.drink lots of water,

Soduko

Span - Eng

n.the sunshade.

Answers: 1k, 2a, 3j, 4g, 5d, 6n, 7l, 8i, 9c, 10f, 11b, 12e, 13h, 14m.

1. A barren is a group of what kind of animals? 2. Which Newspaper Had It's Own Office On The 2nd Floor Of The Eiffel Tower? 3. What Part Of Its Body Does A ButterFly Use To Taste? 4. What Is The More Common Name For Allergic Rhinitus? 5. What Do Alligators Lay Their Eggs In? 6. Which soft metal is used in the production of soap? 7. What is the correct name for a baby otter? 8. Which Soviet Artificial Satelite Was Launched In October 1957? 9. What Is The SI Unit Of Resistance? 10. What animal always gives birth to same sex twins? 11. Juglans Regia is the scientific name of what type of nut tree? 12. Who Developed The First Aautomatic Telephone Exchange? 13. Which Piece of science history was created at the Roslin Institute in Scotland on 5th July 1996?

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Friday 23rd October 2015

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Friday 23rd October 2015

Property

Friday 23rd October 2015

London Property Booming It´s not only in Spain where the property market is booming once again, the Evening Standard report this week that wealthy investors have snapped up at least £100 billion of property across London using overseas companies in the past six years, new figures reveal today. Official data seen by the Standard shows that since 2008 there have been 27,989 purchases of homes, buildings and land in the capital by shadowy corporate structures usually registered in tax havens to hide the buyers’ identities. The stampede of investment has been blamed for pushing property prices beyond Londoners’ reach and in some cases has been linked with money laundering and tax evasion. Two-thirds of the purchases were made by companies registered in just four “British” tax havens — Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and the British Virgin Islands, according to the Land Registry data obtained by Private Eye magazine through freedom of information requests. It found that properties sold to overseas firms included homes, commercial buildings, land, parking spaces and even the “airspace and structures” at Aldgate East

Tube station. Individual buyers often prefer to make their purchases through corporate structures to keep their names out of any official records and for inheritance and capital gains tax purposes. Until 2013 the structures could also be used to avoid stamp duty, though the Chancellor has since closed that loophole. Hundreds of the biggest property deals over recent years in London have been made through companies, the vast majority with wealthy foreign individuals behind them. The Metropolitan Police this year revealed that British property purchases worth more than £180 million were being investigated as the likely proceeds of corruption — almost all bought through offshore companies. When Saadi Gaddafi, playboy son of the late Libyan tyrant, had his £10 million Hampstead Garden Suburb mansion seized in 2012, it emerged that the eight-bedroom home was bought in the name of a British Virgin Islands firm called Capitana Seas Ltd. Private Eye’s research also reveals that almost all of the homes on London’s most expensive street Kensington Palace Gardens — where the Crown Estate owns the

freeholds — have been purchased through firms based in Delaware, Cyprus, St Vincent and the Grenadines, the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. A 2013 investigation of the One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge found 64 of the 76 apartments then sold had been bought via corporations. The Land Registry figures also show that in just one deal signed off by Boris Johnson in 2011, at Riverlight Quay in the Nine Elms regen-

eration area, 15 per cent of the homes sold so far have been bought by foreign firms. Green London Assembly member Darren Johnson said: “The Mayor has been too relaxed about investors buying property in London. “These figures show a huge volume snapped up via tax havens — and whether it’s laundering money through a Chelsea mansion or dodging tax in a major regeneration project, Londoners are losing out.” “I want the Mayor’s deputy

to be frank with the big property developers. They need to build homes for Londoners to live in, not assets for investors and tax accountants. “He should also lobby government for full transparency and tighter rules to block tax avoidance, including requiring that the beneficial owner is declared for all property and land in the UK.” Mr Johnson has said it would be wrong to “slam the door” on rich foreigners buying property in London and

added that the best way to address the housing shortage was to increase supply. His deputy mayor for housing and land, Richard Blakeway, said: “London is a global city and has for decades had an international element to its property market focused on the prime central area. Inward investment boosts our economy and creates jobs. “It has helped to support the current house-building boom and the delivery of a record number of affordable homes for low-income Londoners, with the Mayor building 100,000 low-cost homes over his mayoralty. “Mr Johnson has been clear that homes built should be marketed to Londoners first and every major developer has signed that agreement. “The Bank of England has estimated the number of homes sold to overseas buyers is about three per cent across the whole market.” The volume of purchases through “corporate entities” has slowed dramatically since 2013 after Chancellor George Osborne introduced hefty tax penalties in successive Budgets. Private Eye linked more than 100,000 land register entries to specific addresses around the country.

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Friday 23rd October 2015

Golden Leaves International diversifies to shake up the Spanish expatriate services market!

Golden Leaves International Limited, proprietors of International Funeral Plans for the expatriate community, has announced that the company is to diversify into new service offerings in the Spanish market. With the opening of their new office in Javea, Alicante,

Spain, the business will serve as a hub of valuable support by providing a spectrum of much needed products and services to the expatriate community living throughout Spain. One call really does do it all! Working off the premise,

‘It’s all about you’, glexpatservices.com will serve as a one stop shop for local expatriate lifestyle and travel news, reviews and information – and its physical office will provide a comprehensive suite of services. These services include Private Health Insurance, Money and

Wealth Management, Legal Services, funeral plans and general insurance products. The insurance cover extends to Home, Holiday apartment, Travel, Motorbike and car, Marine, Pet, and of course funeral plans. Barry Floyd, Managing Director at Golden Leaves International Limited said, “The purpose of our new GL Expat Services’ initiative is to offer expats a simple way to procure all the vital services they require, without having to waste countless hours of their precious time calling around town in the process. Now, one call really does do it all. They can get it all in one place and from one company. Customers will deal with one person, from one single company and from that, be able to save a significant amount of time and hassle. So we are providing an essential “one stop shop” resource hub to Expats, so they can save a considerable amount of their time. Time and effort that is

better put to use enjoying themselves having fun and relaxing, which one would imagine was clearly why they decided to emigrate to sunny Spain in the first place. So watch this space, as the list of services and products we provide, is going to be growing daily!” GL Expat Services’ new hub of valuable support has already opened its doors for business, the lines are open

and the staff are standing by to assist expats living in Spain in any way possible to get the services they need, when they need them. For more information about GL Expat Services’ portfolio Call 8000 98309, visit glexpatservices.com or pop in and see their team at their new offices in Javea, in the Arenal at Avenida De La Pla 123-125, Edifico Caribe, Locale1, Javea.

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Lamb curry with garlic and garam masala

Honey Roast Rack Of Lamb

Jucy lamb marinated in a spiced yogurt sauce

Mint and Lemon will transform your rack of lamb

Desserts Crepes

4 eggs, lightly beaten, 320ml milk 2 tablespoons butter, melted 125g plain flour 2 tablespoons caster sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt Directions Whisk together eggs, milk, melted butter, flour sugar and salt until smooth. Heat a medium-sized frying pan or crepe pan over medium heat. Grease pan with a small amount of butter. Using a serving spoon or small ladle, spoon about 3 tablespoons crepe batter into hot pan, tilting the pan so that bottom surface is evenly coated. Cook over medium heat, 1 to 2 mins.

Easy syrup sponge

2 tablespoons golden syrup, 75g (3 oz) plain flour, 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 2 large eggs, 100g caster sugar 100g butter, softened. Directions In a 1-litre microwave safe mixing bowl, add the golden syrup, turning to coat the bottom and sides of the bowl. In a separate bowl, place the remaining ingredients and beat well for 2 to 3 minutes. Spread mixture evenly. Cover loosely with cling film and cook in the microwave for 5-6 mins. Remove and let stand for 5 minutes.

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INGREDIENTS 1 kg leg of lamb on the bone, cut to bite-sized pieces, 5 garlic cloves, roughly chopped, 3.5cm piece ginger, roughly chopped, 4 tbsp vegetable oil, 500g tomato, thinly sliced, 200g onions, thinly sliced, 1 heaped tsp kashmiri chilli powder (or mild paprika). Salt to taste 2 tbsp Greek yogurt, 2 tsp coriander powder, Pinch turmeric powder, 1 tsp cumin seeds, coarsely crushed, ½ tsp black pepper, coarsely crushed Pinch garam masala powder 2 green chillies, slit lengthwise (optional). 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves, 1 tbsp chopped mint leaves ginger slivers for garnish.

METHOD Place the lamb in a mixing bowl. Crush the garlic and ginger to a coarse paste and add to the lamb. Stir well and set aside for an hour or overnight if you have time. In a large heavy-bottomed saucepan or kadhai heat the oil on a medium heat. Add the marinated lamb chunks and fry for 5-6 minutes stirring well to seal. Add the sliced tomatoes and cook for a further 8 minutes. The tomatoes will begin to break down and soften. Add the onions and chilli powder and stir well cooking for a further 3 minutes. Season to taste. Now lower the heat and simmer with

the lid on for 30 minutes stirring half way through the cooking process. Add the Greek yogurt to a small bowl and mix in the ground spices: coriander, turmeric, cumin and black pepper. Add this to the karahi gosht and stir well, making sure the yogurt does not split. Continue simmering on a low heat and with the lid half over the pan, cook the lamb for 45-50 minutes, stirring half way through cooking, making sure it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan. Turn the heat off and while it’s still warm add the garam masala, chillies if using, coriander, mint and ginger slivers. Serves 2 persons.

INGREDIENTS: 1 rack of lamb, about 440g, 1-2 tbsp runny honey, 10g parsley, finely chopped, 5g mint, finely chopped, finely grated zest of ½ lemon. METHOD: Preheat the oven to 220C/gas mark 7. Allow the lamb rack to come to room temperature, then place it in a lightly oiled baking tray. Roast for 12 minutes, then remove from the oven and brush the

honey all over the fat. Return the rack to the oven and continue roasting for 6-8 minutes if you like your lamb pink, or 10 minutes for well done. Remove from the oven and leave to rest in a warm place for at least 10 minutes. To serve, mix the herbs and lemon zest and sprinkle all over the lamb. Carve the meat between the ribs.bacon in a béchamel sauce, teamed with rösti. Serves 2 persons.

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Italian restaurant chain under fire over tipping policy Waiting staff say changes to tipping policy at Jamie’s Italian have left them out of pocket Waiting staff at the Italian restaurant chain set up by Jamie Oliver are in dispute with the company after complaining that changes in the company’s tipping policy are exploitative and have left them out of pocket. Jamie’s Italian, which has been valued at more than £150m and serves Italian food at 42 branches across Britain, requires its waiting staff to pay a 2% levy from table sales they generate on each shift. The money is taken from credit card tips, the company says, to be redistributed among kitchen and door staff. This means that if waiting staff sell £1,000 of food and drinks in an evening, they have to pay £20 back from their credit card tips to the restaurant regardless of how much they have actually made in tips. Some shifts can bring in as little as £20 in tips, they have claimed. A number of staff members have told managers that the new tipping system is unfair because it bears no relation to how much they actually earn in tips, and is run without staff input or transparency. On occasion, they claim, waiting staff have to “pay to

work”. Jamie’s Italian, one of Britain’s most successful chains, has rejected claims that their tipping system is unfair and that it has never asked staff to pay more than they earn in gratuities. Two restaurant chains, Pizza Express and the Latin American food outlet Las Iguanas, have recently changed controversial tipping policies following complaints from staff that they were being exploited.

On Friday, Las Iguanas bowed to pressure from diners and announced plans to change its tipping policy. The chain had been criticised for requiring staff to pay it 3% of the table sales they generate on each shift. The business secretary, Sajid Javid, launched an investigation into the abuse of tipping in August following articles by the Guardian, the Observer and other newspapers about dubious tipping practices. This inquiry runs

until 10 November.

Health

Friday 23rd October 2015

Calorie-counting machines won’t help people lose weight The Scio promises to scan food and reveal its calorific content

If you think you should be counting calories in an attempt to lose or control weight you are, on paper at least, an ideal candidate for the Scio, a neat palm-held scanner that uses beams of light to detect the quantities of fat, carbohydrates and protein in food. The Scio’s main

selling point – for all except those of a geeky bent who are gripped by curiosity to record the chemical make-up of their food – is that it counts calories. No more thumbing through dog-eared Weight Watchers calorie charts or eye-crossing consultation of wildly differing calorie-listing

websites is required: just point the Scio at your lunch and bingo, you’ve got your calorie content in a flash. The Scio is currently available for pre-order priced at £160, so it is surely only a matter of time until it features on daytime TV shopping channels, and beds down nicely among the heart-rate monitors and nasal-hair trimmers in those catalogues of nifty gadgetry that tumble out of magazines. The Scio undeniably rehabilitates the plodding 20th-century chore of calorie counting, reinventing it as a more accurate, more desirably consumable 21st-century technology. We all need one, right? An alternative way of looking at this techno-wizardry is that the Scio is already redundant because calorie counting is last century’s

bankrupt diet concept. Far from being the keenest tool to control your weight, calorie counting looks like the bluntest. Now this may sound like nutritional heresy. Indeed, the NHS still informs us that knowing how many calories are in our food is “the key to a healthy weight”, a proposition reiterated daily by wellintentioned healthcare professionals, health charities, and assorted loyalists who adhere to the gospel that weight can be boiled down to an arithmetical calculation of calories in and energy out (calories burnt). As their clients get fatter and fatter while dutifully counting calories, exercising more and studiously eliminating saturated fat from their diets, some health practitioners may be quietly troubled by the nag-

ging thought that this nutritional tablet of stone is irredeemably flawed. But if this jaded doctrine were to be revised, the public might conclude that the advice doled out by supposed experts over the years has been wrong, and how embarrassing would that be? A research suggests that different calorie sources do have significantly different effects on energy expenditure and the hormones that regulate food intake. Many

voices now argue that the “a calorie is a calorie” dogma has done much to contribute to the ever-worsening health of the western world. Dr Robert Lustig, for instance, has effectively challenged the orthodox dietetic view that “all calories should be treated equally”, showing, for example, that identical calorie counts from fructose, or glucose, fructose and protein, or fructose and fat, will cause entirely different metabolic effects.

Living with Down’s syndrome It was a cold February Sunday on a busy maternity ward when Caroline White found out her baby had Down’s syndrome. Seb, Caroline’s first child, had been born the day before, swollen and blue. He wouldn’t latch on. He slept and slept, and although no one had mentioned anything, Caroline had a nagging feeling something wasn’t right. That Sunday, while she and her husband, Simon, were sitting quietly with Seb, reading messages of congratulation, a midwife came to her bed, saying, “I’ve got a few concerns.” Caroline and Simon then waited two hours for a junior paediatrician. “He said, ‘There are a few things which could mean Seb has a chromosomal abnormality,’” Caroline recalls. “I had no idea what that meant.” Later that evening, while Seb slept beside her, she read what the doctor had written in Seb’s notes and typed the phrases into Google: “mild hypotonia”

and “flat features”. Up came page after page about Down’s syndrome. At her antenatal screening, Caroline had been given a one in 700 chance of her baby having Down’s. She had no previous experience of disability. “I was guilty of assuming everyone with Down’s was the same,” she says now. That night in hospital, she felt “petrified; this was my worst nightmare. I felt sick, my face was hot.” She cried quietly so the other three mothers in the bay wouldn’t hear. “I didn’t want to be different.”Caroline clung to a hope that the doctors were wrong. When the consultant delivered the formal diagnosis, she remembers, “Seb was looking beautiful, asleep in his car seat, wrapped up in a white polar bear suit that I’d excitedly bought a few weeks before. I couldn’t believe it. The paediatrician ended the meeting by handing over some leaflets that made my stomach turn.” When they got

home, the house was bursting with presents and cards and balloons. “I hated it,” Caroline says, “because it was so perfect, just how I’d pictured having my first baby. Except for one thing.” As she talks, her three children – Seb, now seven, Dominic, five, and Polly, two – are playing on the floor of her living room. Seb and Polly are often in cahoots, Caroline says, while Dominic is quieter. Dominic and Polly don’t know there’s anything different about their brother (although Dominic did mention recently that Seb “speaks funny”). The weeks after the diagnosis, she says, involved many “bad days”. One friend sent a card saying, “I’m really sorry”. Pity was, of course, the last thing she wanted, even though secretly she was feeling something “like grief”. Now, she says, she would give anything to have those precious early weeks back to enjoy. “When Seb was born, I assumed a lifetime of exclusion, feeling sad and second rate; I dreaded the future.” Then, one day in the garden when Seb was four months old, he started to smile and Caroline saw his character for the first time. “That was

the first good day. After a while I realised he’s not a list of characteristics in a textbook; he’s my child. He’s everything I wanted my son to be.” Caroline writes a popular blog called Force Of Nature, about life with Seb, including his modelling for companies such as Marks & Spencer and JoJo Maman Bébé, and the various campaigns they have been involved with to raise awareness of issues around Down’s. She is concerned about the way the condition is stigmatised. “Had I been told when I was pregnant, I would have trusted the people in the white coats and terminated,” she says. “That’s what people do. Now I can’t believe I’d have thought that. “I’m pro-choice, but it needs to be informed choice. People need to be aware of what it means to have Down’s in the 21st century.” In 1959, a scientist called Jérôme Lejeune discovered that Down’s was caused by an extra chromosome. Antenatal screening for Down’s began in the 1970s, and in the 1980s blood tests were developed to predict expectant mothers’ chances of having a baby with Down’s.

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We often misunderstand the role of sugar in diabetes, and while sugar is a contributory factor in the development of the disease, there is more to the process. Diabetes occurs when the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin, or the cells are unable to utilize the insulin produced to regulate blood sugar (glucose). The level of sugar in the blood is tightly controlled, and normal fasting blood sugar

level is slightly less than one teaspoon of sugar in the whole body. And so it´s easy to see how the body will struggle to regulate the eight teaspoons of sugar in a can of coke. When we consume food, the level of insulin in the body rises. Foods rich in refined carbohydrates or simple sugars will raise insulin levels faster and in higher amounts. However when the fiber content of a

meal is high, insulin rises much slower. A large meal, regardless of the type of calories, causes a large surge in insulin levels and this creates a challenge for the body. Insulin helps transport glucose to parts of the body where it is needed such as the liver and brain. In a healthy person, insulin transports 60% of sugar into the liver for storage. Insulin also transports sugar into fat

Is it a myth that we all need eight hours sleep a night? Because a study involving hunter-gatherer societies, whose habits are thought to mirror how humans used to live, showed they made do with six. In fact, the research from UCLA and other universities, which spurred the news stories, said no such thing. The research was measuring sleep duration in a very specific way, a highly technical approach not reflected in the reporting of the study’s conclusions. “The early bird catches the worm” One start time doesn’t suit everyone. Too many people believe starting early is the sign of a good employee: up at 5am, gym at 5.30, work at But these early-rising “larks” are extremely rare

(and smug). And they’re welcome to catch – and eat – worms. Highly productive, creative workers sleep well and arrive later. Early starts leave almost everyone reaching for coffee to wake up and alcohol to go to sleep. “I only need four hours’ sleep a night” Politicians and leaders of industry brag about their need for only a few hours of sleep. Yet too little sleep can destroy successful leaders. Margaret Thatcher developed Alzheimer’s – probably after leaving office. The former UK prime minister Harold Wilson and US president Ronald Reagan probably had the condition in office. What’s the connection? Natural sleep has restorative functions – in sleep it detoxes the neurotoxic waste that accumulates

when you’re awake. Too little sleep, and this waste remains. Lack of sleep can be dangerous in other ways: it is a central contributor to CEO burnout. Jetlag is known to lead to bad decisions. And poor sleep causes millions of road accidents. “Shift work is a fact of life” We know instinctively that working long, tiring shifts impacts on performance. Imagine: 10am and your partner is rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack. Two doctors are available, one near the end of her 24-hour shift, another just arriving. Which do you choose? Harvard Medical School checked the performance of their doctors on 24hour shifts. They were shocked. Interns towards the ends of their shifts made

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cells, which triggers the production of the hormone Leptin, responsible for controlling the ‘feeling of fullness’ during meals. Leptin travels to the brain while eating and as it does so, the desire to eat starts to diminish. Obesity is now thought to occur when the body ignores the fullness signal from Leptin. As Leptin reaches the brain, the desire to eat ceases completely, and the pancreas stops producing insulin. From this point, any extra morsel of food will cause an uncontrollable rise in blood sugar levels. Excess sugar in the body is stored as fat. Unfortunately, high levels of fat will block the feeling of fullness during a meal. In the long term, neglecting the feeling of satiety will result in weight gain and insulin resistance. Eventaully, this will lead to type 2 diabetes together with the risk factors for heart disease such as; increased levels of triglycerides and cholesterol, raised blood pressure as well as inflammation. Avoiding a diet rich in

refined carbohydrates and refined sugars is one way to control blood sugar levels in diabetes. Eliminating Wheat from the diet is a good place to start. Studies have shown that 2 slices of bread made from wheat increases blood sugar levels more than 5 teaspoons of pure white sugar. Alternative grains to wheat include; rye, corn and rice. Artificial sweeteners such as aspartame are not healthy alternatives because they are very toxic to the body. A healthier natural sweetener is Stevia. Stevia has a long history of use by the native peoples of

South America for nutritional and medicinal purposes. Stevia is 300 times sweeter than sugar but has no caloric value since its sweetness derives from non-caloric molecules called glycosides and not from sugars. Research has shown that Stevia regulates the function of the pancreas and maintains blood sugar levels. Stevia has also been shown to lower blood pressure, improve digestive function and inhibit the growth of bacteria that cause gum disease. FOR A FULL BODY DIAGNOSTIC SCAN CALL MEDB CLINIC: 965071745

36% more serious errors. Of consultants who regularly worked 24-hour shifts, 74%

showed signs of burnout or depression. The research found that shorter shifts and

more informed placement of recovery days got much better results.

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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: Brian wanted to know why he was getting the ADVICE: Ray wanted to know where he could get hold of error message “There is no email program associated to old issues of The Courier perform the quested action.”

Hi Richard, I am using Windows Media Player on Windows 10. I need to send an audio file by email When I open the file location and click Send To Mail Recipient I get a message: There is no email program associated to perform the quested action. Please install an email program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs Control Panel. How do I do this? I use bt.com for my normal emails. Would appreciate your advice. Kind regards, Brian Jakes.

Hi Brian, what’s happening here is that Windows (Media Player really) is trying to open up an email program on your computer in order to send your file and can’t find one. You would need to install something like Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, Microsoft Office 365 or similar in order to enable this functionality, we or any other computer guy can help you do that if you are struggling. Alternatively, you need to login to your own web based email service and attach the file from within there in order to send it.

A couple of weeks ago in the Courier paper, you supplied information to apply for Spanish version of EHIC. Thinking this to be very useful I kept it, unfortunately it is now gone and I can’t find it on your site. Again help please

Hi Ray, you can view the back issues of The Courier on their website, the issue you need is number 239, here is a link... http://thecourier.es/2015/09/17/edition-239-is-now-available/

ADVICE: Geoffrey wanted to know how to get Windows 10 Hi there, we do have one friend who has been able to download Windows 10 .... but .... he cannot remember how he did it. Is there a special knack? Has one just to keep trying by the light of a votive candle? Please advise, Thank you Geoffrey

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Hi Geoff, nope no special nack, you need to be up to date on your updates – do you have any outstanding to install? If you sign up to our facebook page there are links on there to download your own copy and burn it to DVD. https://www.facebook.com/bluemoonsolutionsspain

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Friday 23rd October 2015

Range Rover’s most luxurious 4x4 EVER!!!

The SVAutobiography costs £150,000 and comes with tailgate chairs, and a 150mph top speed

he most luxurious, exclusive and powerful production Range Rover ever launched has broken cover in New York – with a £150,000 price tag to match. From the company that is providing most of the villains’ cars in the new 007 movie ‘SPECTRE’, the new flagship 4X4 has been specially engineered at Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) new elite Special Vehicle Operations unit. It was unveiled today at the New York International Motor Show in the US - one

of the company’s biggest export markets. The ‘special ops’ arm of JLR has fitted the Range Rover SVAutobiography with a powerful supercharged 5litre V8 engine which develops a staggering 539bhp of pulling-power – equivalent to five Ford Fiestas. It is the sort of power normally found in an Italian supercar - and gives the offroader a top speed of around 150mph. But JLR stress that it isn’t just about performance on

and off-road. The SVAutobiography is designed to take the Range Rover to ‘another level of comfort, craftsmanship and refinement’. A spokesman said: 'The SVAutobiography is the most luxurious and powerful series-production Range Rover in the model’s successful 45-year history.’ The unique front grille is finished in distinctive Graphite Atlas and polished chrome. Passengers in the back

can relax in luxurious seating complete with a chiller compartment and powered deployable tables. Solid aluminium coat hooks are incorporated into the rear pillars while, on the floor, aluminium seat rail finishers and deep twist pile mohair carpet mats add to the luxurious feel. John Edwards, managing director of Jaguar Land Rover Special Operations, said: ‘Range Rover originally defined the luxury SUV segment and the new

SVAutobiography, developed by Special Vehicle Operations, takes Range Rover to another level of comfort, craftsmanship and refinement.' The car also has what Jaguar Land Rover is calling ‘event seating’. Stowed in the boot and hand-crafted from Windsor leather, the two seats can be deployed to provide comfortable chairs for adults who want to sit on the tailgate. A spokesman for JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations division said: 'For the first time on a Range Rover, customers of the 2016 Model Year SVAutobiography are able to specify a unique duotone body colour option. 'The combination of

Santorini Black upper body and nine colour choices for the lower body create true distinction and individualism. Prices for the Range Rover SVAutobiography start at £148,900 – or twice the cost of an entry-level Range Rover and around the same price as the long-awaited Bentley Bentayga 4X4, which goes on sale next year. Gerry McGovern, Land Rover’s design director and chief creative officer, added: ‘With the SVAutobiography we have taken the opportunity to optimise the Range Rover’s luxury execution and precision while delivering beautiful detailing that considerably enhances the customer’s experience of our flagship vehicle.’

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Friday 23rd October 2015

TKO Teddy’s Week

Hi everybody from TKO Teddy and I love my new job of being CD Torrevieja’s mascot meeting local businesses that support Torry. I can’t wait for Sunday, as the team are going to be playing Castellon, but do set your alarm clocks early, as the match kicks-off at noon. Somebody at the club has got wind that I love eating paella, so guess what? After

the match, there’ll be plenty of it free of charge for all the supporters. How good is that? Don’t forget to come along and say hello to me, and to be honest you can’t mistake me for anybody else! And follow me on Facebook: - just look for TKO Teddy. So what about those nice people I have been meeting in the last week or so? I’ve

brought you some pictures of them and the warm welcome I’ve got, and every week in The Courier, I’ll get the pics in for you, as well as posting them on Facebook! I had my paw shaken by 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 at El Limonar who helped out with some building repairs at the Vicente Garcia; the crew at Casas Espania; and also the Phoenix Bar in Dream Hills, which is one of the new outlets where you can buy tickets for home games in advance. See you next week, and Vamos Torry!

CD Torrevieja’s top goal scorer from last season, Rafa Gomez, is back at the club in a timely boost ahead of Sunday’s match against Castellon, having been persuaded to return by sporting director, Jonathan Risueño. He played in 27 matches last season and in last May’s Gala Awards, he was voted Player of the Year by his team mates, as well as taking the leading goal scorer trophy. With Rafa’s return, and the signings of ex-Castellon players Ruben Suarez and Javi Selvas, Torrevieja have released four from their squad:- namely centraldefenders David Rives and Ricardo Cavas; left-back Eddy and striker Juanfran.

Opening Salvo The first round of territorial Rugby matches were staged last weekend, with ITV Orihuela Vega Baja losing 30-12 away to Lorca in their first division encounter, whilst the Orihuela cadetes, many of whom were making their debuts, suffered a 79-nil defeat at Lorca. The Torrevieja Tigers cadetes however recorded an impressive home win last Sunday, beating the University of Murcia by 31 points to 17 at the Nelson Mandela stadium.

Pep’s promise over ticket prices Pep Guardiola says Arsenal fans will be "taken care of" in terms of ticket prices when they visit the Allianz Arena to play Bayern Munich. The assurance comes despite fans of the German side being charged a minimum of £64 to see their side compete at the Emirates last night. Those ticket prices led to a protest from Bayern fans, who only entered the stadium five minutes after kick off. Banners in the away section declaring "£64 a ticket but without fans football is not worth a penny" were

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As a golfer (Well I like to think I am!), I know how the game can look to a nongolfer: Boring. I’ve heard it time and again from my non-golfing friends. They wonder how I can chase a little ball around the course all day. Of course, they’re just watching the game on TV, and hey, I’m bored by that also. I don’t watch golf on TV that much either and I’d rather just go out and play myself. But what if you are a golfer and the game seems to be getting a little stale to you? Maybe you need a few things to spice your game up a bit. Why not give a couple of these tips a try? 1. PUT A LITTLE MONEY ON IT – Nothing makes a game a little more interesting than a friendly wager. Maybe you throw down a few Euros on the round best front 9 and best back 9? Maybe you’re feeling a little more daring and you go for a few Euros per hole? Maybe not…so you

Friday 23rd October 2015

Ivie Davies on Golf

Putting Some Spice Into It play instead for a round at the 19th hole. No matter what you play for, there are no questions that a golf bet makes your round much more interesting. 2. PLAY A GAME OTHER THAN YOUR NORMAL 9 OR 18 – Most of us golfers go out and simply play our normal game with routine scoring. Is that getting a little tired? Especially, if one guy in your regular playing partners or Society, is constantly beating the rest of you? Try a little something different – play a different game. How about a skins game? Or maybe you could play a round of better ball? Maybe you just want to stick to your regular game, but you’re tired of your mate wiping the floor with the rest of your foursome. Why not take your handicap into account? Or using the correct Handicapping System? After all, getting beat every time you play can certainly take the wind out of your

sails. Leveling the playing field a bit certainly makes the game more fun for all. 3. SPUR THE NEW GUY – Call me an idiot if you must, but I find it quite entertaining to have a little fun at the new guy’s expense as he stumbles through his first time doing, well.., just about anything really. So why not incorporate that into your round? Think about it – you’ll be doing the game a service by introducing it to someone new. But at the same time, you’ll be laughing your way through the round as your new golfing buddy learns the rules, both of the game and of etiquette. He or she will leave their bag on the wrong side of the green, forget their putter in the buggy or have to play the rest of the hole with their pants around their ankles for not reaching the women’s tee on their drive. OK….maybe not that one or your round might be over much earlier than anticipat-

ed. But you get what I mean… 4. LEAVE SOME CLUBS IN THE CAR – Want to try a little something different out there? Play with only half of your clubs. It’s a little something my golfing buddies and I have tried a couple of times. Granted, it’s a game better suited for a short or executive course, but fun nonetheless. Choose either five or seven clubs, plus your putter, and see what you can do. The fun starts when you have to decide which clubs you choose to exclude. Wait until you get to that first time you would use your six-iron, only to find out you didn’t bring it along. Fun? Well, I can understand how that might be questionable. Good luck! But one thing is for certain your score will be better than you think, especially if you leave you driver out. 5. STEP OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE – Are you the type who plays

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After slicing his tee shot into the woods, a golfer heads off in search of his ball, which he finds behind a large tree. After considering his positio -- and not wanting to take a drop and lose a stroke -- he decides to hook the ball around the tree. He swings, the ball hits the tree, ricochets back at him, and instantly kills him. When he opens his eyes, he sees the Pearly Gates and St. Peter standing before him. “Am I dead?" he asks. “Yes, my son," replies St. Peter, who looks the man over and notices his clubs. "I see you're a golfer," St. Peter says. "Are you any good?" "Hey, I got here in two, didn't I?"

QUESTION Kevin finds a ball in the rough that he believes

to be his but he cannot see his identification mark on the ball. Kevin marks the position of the ball, lifts it, identifies it as his ball and replaces it. What is the ruling? A: There is no penalty. B: Kevin incurs a one stroke penalty. C: Kevin incurs a two stroke penalty. B: Kevin incurs a one stroke penalty. Before lifting the ball, the player must announce his intention to his fellow-competitor (opponent or marker) and he must give his fellow-competitor the opportunity to observe the lifting and replacement (Rule 12-2).

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the same course or two all the time? If so, then you are severely missing out. Half the fun of golf is the variety that it offers from course to course. Do you play a muni on a regular basis? Well once a year or so, go treat yourself to a higher-end course. Maybe go try out a par-3 or executive course. Ever play golf at night? Now there’s something different. In golf, different is fun! Look, if you’re not on the course to have fun, then either you’re a PGA pro, or you’re doing it wrong. It’s become my mantra here– Golf is a game, you should have fun playing it. If you take the game too seriously and get angry when you don’t play well, you need a change in your mindset. Let me help. The sooner you accept that you will never be a pro golfer, the sooner you will begin having fun. The sooner you accept that you just reasonable at this game, the sooner you’ll

have fun playing it. If you’re that type of golfer who gets angry at every poor shot, slam’s your club into the ground or tosses it into a lake, then you need to rethink the reason you’re out there. Not only are you not having fun, but you’re ruining it for the people who are playing with you and around you. Again, it’s a game. You’re on the right side of the turf, It should be fun. If it’s getting stale to you, then maybe you need to switch it up a bit. Put a little wager into your round. Play something other than your standard scoring, play competitive golf against other Societies or external competitions. Get your Golf Society to join a League and get yourself in the team. Introduce someone new to the game. In the end, just do what it takes to make sure you keep giving yourself a reason to be out on the course. And for crying out loud, have fun!

Royal Portrush To Hold The Open In 2019 Royal Portrush Golf Club will host the 2019 Open Championship with the event returning to the Northern Ireland venue for the first time in 68 years. Organisers the Royal & Ancient said last year that Royal Portrush would host the event and they confirmed 18 to 21 July 2019 as the dates on Tuesday. A successful staging of the Open at Royal Portrush in 2019 is likely to mean the major returning to the venue. Portrush's hosting of the event in 1951 is the only previous occasion that the golf major was staged outside England or Scotland. The Open will be the biggest sporting event ever

held in Northern Ireland. The famous links, situated on the northern tip of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, became the first course outside Scotland and England to host The Open in 1951, when Max Faulkner clinched his only major title. There has been much clamour to take the tournament back to Portrush over the last few years, although the R&A had been wary of logistical problems including access to the course for spectators. Calls for the Open to return to Northern Ireland reached a crescendo after Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Clarke all won major tournaments in recent years.

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Fair Dinkum Blue, The Scots Were Robbed! So referee Craig Joubert got it wrong - and Australia should have been awarded a scrum rather than the penalty which won them Sunday's Rugby World Cup quarter-final, writes GERRY GREEN. Personally, I admire the guy for having the bottle to go with his interpretation of that particular situation unlike the Scotland fan who is rumoured to have launched his bottle in the direction of the South African referee as he fled the field at the final whistle. Rugby refs have the toughest job in sport. While new technology and TMO officials have become a tremendous asset to referees in recent years, the laws governing scrummaging, rucking and mauling are now so complex that it needs a rugby equivalent of Judge Judy, Judge Rinder plus the entire International Board to get anywhere near an unarguably correct decision. At the risk of Scotch bot-

tles flying through my lounge window, dare I suggest that had Joubert made the correct decision and awarded Australia a scrum rather than a penalty, they would inevitably have scored from it, anyway? But what a bonny fight Scotland's perceived nohopers put up before losing 35-34 to that controversial last-minute decision by Joubert. Written off by everyone bar the Princess Royal and themselves, they seemed to be heading for the last four when Mark Bennett's interception try under the posts powered skipper Greig Laidlaw and his men into at 34-32 lead amid a feast of tries at Twickenham. Perhaps significantly, Bennett was wearing the No.13 shirt and after a last-minute lineout in Scotland's own 22 went awry, out-of-form Wallabies goalkicker Bernard Foley landed the decisive penalty to complete the quarter-final humiliation of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Wales, France and Ireland had all been KO'd over the weekend by South Africa, New Zealand and Argentina respectively. Ireland, like Wales decimated by injuries to key players, took the field at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium as favourites to beat the Pumas. But the South Americans, who have become a genuine world power since joining the Southern Hemisphere championship, stormed into a 17-0 lead in the opening 20 minutes and survived a brave Irish fightback to complete a 43-20 rout. So who are the real winners and losers of this amazing tournament, whose crowds already top two million? Well, England's failure to reach the knockout stages has to be top of the losers list. But for me the biggest disappointment has been ITV's unpredictable match coverage by a hotch-potch of unknown commentators and C list explayers I'm not talking about

Saturday 24 October

16:00 Aston Villa v Swansea City 16:00 Leicester City v Crystal Palace 16:00 Norwich City v West Bromwich Albion 16:00 Stoke City v Watford 16:00 West Ham United v Chelsea 18:30 Arsenal v Everton

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Sunderland v Newcastle United Bournemouth v Tottenham Hotspur Manchester United v Manchester City Liverpool v Southampton

Sky Bet Championship Friday 23 October 20:45 Rotherham United v Sheffield Wednesday the studio panellists but the faceless voices that pipe up with drivel like (pre Australia v Scotland) ''After the break, we'll have the best of Antipodean ambition and Caledonian courage'' and (at final whistle) ''There will be no Caledonian quickstep on the streets of London tonight''. It's the ultimate embarrassment to see one of these anonymous intruders thrusting a microphone in the face of a squirming losing captain moments after the final whistle and asking: 'How does it feel to lose in the last minute?'' Bloody great, Jimmy - isn't it obvious? Bill McLaren, rugby misses you. And please come back soon, Auntie Beeb. Meanwhile, all that remains for the Home Nations is the legacy of Scotland the Brave, Gatland the Grave, the Lancaster Bummers and Faint Patrick's Day. Now where's that bottle of Southern Comfort I put aside for the Final?

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Blackburn Rovers v Burnley Fulham v Reading Bolton Wanderers v Leeds United Brighton and Hove Albion v Preston North End Charlton Athletic v Brentford Huddersfield Town v Derby County Hull City v Birmingham City Nottingham Forest v Ipswich Town Queens Park Rangers v MK Dons Wolverhampton Wanderers v Middlesbrough

Monday 26 October

20:45 Cardiff City v Bristol City

Thursday 29 October

20:45 Leeds United v Blackburn Rovers

Scottish Premiership Saturday 24 October 16:00 Aberdeen v Motherwell 16:00 Dundee v Kilmarnock 16:00 Heart of Midlothian v Ross County 16:00 Inverness Caledonian Thistle v St. Johnstone 16:00 Partick Thistle v Hamilton Academical

Sunday 25 October 16:00 Celtic v Dundee United

Spanish La Liga Friday 23 October 20:30 Rayo Vallecano v Espanyol

Saturday 24 October 16:00 18:15 20:30 22:05

Celta de Vigo v Real Madrid Granada CF v Real Betis Sevilla v Getafe Málaga v Deportivo de La Coruña

Sunday 25 October 12:00 Levante v Real Sociedad 16:00 Las Palmas v Villarreal 18:15 Barcelona v Eibar 20:30 Atlético de Madrid v Valencia CF

Monday 26 October 20:30 Athletic Club v Sporting de Gijón

The only surprise in a fine contest was that it finished goalless with Sporting’s Felix producing some fine early saves. This match was played at a fierce pace and a midfield battle saw Marcos feed Macan but a great goal bound shot was blocked by Felix and two minutes later he again denied Macan, as well as efforts from M&A and Mario. Sporting then got Monte keeper Carlos L into action, with three quick great blocks. The keeping exhibition continued in the second half, with Felix quickly frustrating Carlos twice, whilst the lively

Sporting forward, Andrés García, produced a fantastic save from Carlos L in the Monte goal. Unfortunately the referee lost the plot in the second half by disallowing a perfectly good goal(for offside) from Orourke; a bizarre red card dismissal of Macan for an innocuous tackle; and crazily ending the match six minutes early, with both managers furiously demanding an explanation as the official sprinted off the pitch quicker than Usain Bolt. This Saturday, Monte are away to Callosa Deportiva “B” with a 5.00pm kick-off.

This was an excellent away point for ever improving Torrevieja, but they thoroughly deserved a win at a side that are chasing promotion. They frankly hammered the hosts, blasted the woodwork until it was thought the framework would crack, but only left with a single point. Torry had switched off to allow tall striker Nuha to nod home from a corner

against the run of play, but knuckled down to pepper the Ilicitano goal with a string of great efforts. Brani shot over after Carrasco lobbed the defence and left him with only the keeper to beat. Cesar coolly executed his goal after out pacing the defence. Then Juanma struck a post, Brani reacted first and saw his 10 yard shot deflected for a corner. Jorge was denied from the

resultant set piece. It was more of the same in the second half, with Juanma having his best game yet in a Torry shirt. Vicente and Luis Carlos were forging down the flanks and adding vim and urgency to attacks. Pedreño deployed a back five, with Jorge, Metej and Quintero solid in the centre. Sanchez was grafting in the middle of the park, whilst Brani scorched past defenders with blistering pace. He almost scored a wonder goal late on when he threaded a path through five defenders, this time from the right flank. His angle was acute but he

fired on target only to see Juanma stand firm and palm his shot away to safety. This was vintage Torry, dominating play, controlling the game and creating exciting chances, and with new signings still to factor in, the increase in confidence is tangible as are the better results. Sunday at noon sees Torrevieja entertain Castellon at the Vicente Garcia stadium with the added bonus of new signings Suarez and Selvas possibly making their debuts against their former side, plus the return to the club of fan favourite from last season, Rafa Gomez.

Friday 23rd October 2015

Neymar’s Night

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Neymar netted four goals as Barcelona overcame to join Real Madrid and Celta Vigo at the top of the table after an easy win last Saturday. The visitors took an early shock lead but Neymar turned the game on its head by winning and scoring two penalties before halftime. The Brazilian then who scored twice more in the space of a second half minute and then laid on a classy cross for Luis Suarez to score the fifth, before a late consolation for Rayo. Barca are away to Getafe tomorrow night.

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Cristiano Ronaldo became Real Madrid's all-time top scorer as Rafael Benitez's side saw off Levante last Saturday to go joint top of the table along with Barcelona and Celta Vigo. The prolific forward hit his 324th goal in 310 games in the white of Madrid just three minutes after Marcelo had given the hosts the lead midway through the first half, moving ahead of Raul as the club's leading marksman. Although Levante had made a positive start to the game, Ronaldo's strike gave Madrid a comfortable lead going into half-time, and substitute Jese rounded off the win late on with a terrific individual goal. Real should look good for another win as they entertain struggling Las Palmas tomorrow.

Ballon d'Or Manchester City trio Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and Yaya Toure are among five Premier League players on the 23-man Ballon d'Or shortlist. Chelsea's Eden Hazard and Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez are also in the frame to be named world football's best player. Ballon d'Or holder Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid and Barcelona's Lionel Messi, who have won the past seven awards between them, lead the nominees. Wales and Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale is the only British player named. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho and Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger are on the 10-man Coach of the Year shortlist. They will contend with Barcelona manager Luis Enrique, who guided his side to the treble of Champions League, Spanish league and Spanish cup titles, and Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola. Midfielders and forwards vastly outnumber goalkeepers and defenders, with Bayern Munich keeper Manuel Neuer and Barcelona centre-back Javier Mascherano the only players shortlisted from their respective positions. Spain's La Liga leads the way, with 11 players nominated, while Germany's Bundesliga has six nominees. There are two from Italy's Serie A and one from France's Ligue 1.

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Real Madrid failed to score in a Champions League group-stage game for the first time since 2008 as they played out a goalless draw at Paris St-Germain on Wednesday. The two sides had picked up maximum points from their first two fixtures but largely cancelled each other out. The visitors' Cristiano Ronaldo had the best chance in the second half, shooting just wide of the far post.

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Ivan Rakitic scored his first two goals of the season as Champions League holders Barcelona went top of Group E on Tuesday night by three points. A dominant Barca had most of the possession and 21 shots in Belarus, with Rakitic, who replaced the injured Sergi Roberto after 18 minutes, finding the top corner from 20 yards after half-time. Neymar created Rakitic's coolly taken second with a slick pass.

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Fifa To Elect Blatter's Elche bounced back from two bad defeats which saw them concede four goals on each occasion to record an outstanding victory at old rivals Almeria last Sunday. The quality of performance matched the promised improvement that coach Rubén Baraja had promised with Quique González, Sergio León, and Armando getting onto the scoresheet, with the Ilicitanos leading 3-1 with a quarter of an hour remaining. Almeria made it 3-2 to set up a nerve jangling finish, but Elche held their nerve for a famous win. Elche, now seventh in the table, are back at home tomorrow night as they entertain Leganes.

World football's governing body Fifa has confirmed it will hold the election for its next president at a special congress on 26 February. The election will determine who will succeed Sepp Blatter, who has been president since 1998. Blatter, 79, and vice-president Michel Platini have both been suspended for 90 days amid corruption allegations, which both men deny. Platini is seeking the next presidency, as is Prince Ali bin al-Hussein. Frenchman Platini, president of European football's governing body Uefa, cannot declare his candidacy before the 26 October deadline because of his suspension - but could be allowed to stand at the discretion of Fifa's electoral committee. Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain is expected to contest the election. Former Trinidad and Tobago midfielder David Nakhid said he

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Successor On Feb 26 will stand, while ex-Tottenham defender Ramon Vega is considering doing likewise. "Michel Platini is still fighting to save his candidacy and is determined that he will make the election on 26 February. However, the Football Association has suspended its support and others in Europe are unsure of his political longevity. "The search is on for somebody to step in as Uefa's preferred candidate. That could be a European: Ramon Vega and Dutch FA president Michael van Praag have been mentioned as potential names. "However, Uefa may look outside its borders, and with Shaikh Salman having backed Michel Platini earlier this year, it will be interesting to see if that support is reciprocated."

When I was recruiting in Sales Management you had to probe a candidate’s past, and their reasons for seeking new employment. For some strange reason, that type of logical thinking doesn’t apply in football management – why not? In fact previous failure/little success almost seems to be a must-have quality on your CV these days. David Moyes and Brendan Rodgers for example. Both ‘yesterday’ names are being Villainously banded about for under-fire Tim Sherwood’s position. The short-lived, deliriouslyhappy memories of saving the once-great-longago Aston Villa from relegation and reaching the Cup Final have long been conveniently forgotten in north Birmingham. The vulture culture swirls around as the storm clouds gather more darkly with every Villa defeat and poor performance. From a neutral fence-sitting position it seems little surprising, considering Villa’s position of second bottom. If after salvation you promptly sell your best striker (whose goals recently saved your neck), plus your midfield captain, both for today’s amazingly ridiculous fees and then don’t replace them, then how do you expect to survive? Swansea coming Sunday could see Sherwood off. Then who? Are there any Leeds United supporters left out there (there is, I know one

or two…). The oncefeared Yorkshire club have just sacked their fifth manager in less than two years, the latest a proud, decent, experienced German called Uwe Rosler. Five managers gone, how come? Well, the “looney who took over the asylum” is a nutty Italian called Massimo Cellino who bought the club 18 months ago - and it’s been chaos all the way ever since. Rosler’s apparent crime was when asked for ‘Heavy Music’ he served up ‘Country Music’ instead. Not cool enough, man, apparently... And in case you think Cellino is just an impatient man with an itchy trigger finger, consider this gem: the Football League has just disqualified the volatile one from running Leeds because back in his native Italy he had not paid VAT on an imported Landrover from the USA. If his appeal fails, the Mass management murderer will lose ownership of Leeds, much to the relief of many who have watched him turn the worldwide name of Leeds United into a laughing stock. The new Leeds manager is Scotsman Steve Evans who turned up at Elland Road previously in a sombrero, sun glasses and flip-flops whilst manager of neighbours Rotherham – declaring at the time, of course he could never work with Cellino. You couldn’t make it up really, could you? Newcastle? Oh, yes,

the Magpies got their man in the close season, and at last a positive result, 6 2 against Norwich. Hmm, strange, the experts say it could have gone either way, and that manager Steve McClaren has a dodgy past, failure in several past ways. Amongst other positions, once long ago he was the England manager, aka the ‘Wally with the Brolly’, then midterm at Forest where he was sacked, and then last time out at Derby - who got rid after the Rams somehow missed promotion, as McClaren lost interest when linked with Newcastle. These are dubious credentials for managing a huge, worldfamous institution like Newcastle United. Despite earning no top-flight wins before the game, McClaren insisted his team was making progress, and three points coupled with a stunning attacking display will vindicate that view; but the Magpies have now conceded 19 goals in nine games, second only to Norwich (20) and the same as bottom side Sunderland. And guess what? This Sunday, the fixtures fairy with the funfilled philosophy has fitted together the two North East giants at the Stadium of Light as Sunderland ‘entertain’ Newcastle. Big Sam Allardyce has got little to lose with the bragging rights results – but for McClaren the pressure to deliver is enormous that one win in 19 tells its own dangerous story.

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No mistake, it’s a mightily massive derby day at Old Trafford on Sunday as United play City for the freedom of Manchester – or kicking the cat if you lose, two points in it between top and third places. Both of them played on Wednesday in the Champions League: at the Etihad without Aguero, Kompany and Silva, Kevin de Bruyne repaid some of his huge fee by saving City’s Blue blushes with an injury time winner against Sevilla, whilst United drew 1 -1 at CSKA Moscow, courtesy of that man Anthony Martial’s equaliser. But now comes really Serious Sunday, as it’s everything to play for in Manchester no-one dares lose – don’t miss it! Arsenal 2 Bayern Munich 0 – is that a ‘Now You’re Gonna Believe Us…’ moment in the Gunners’ illustrious history? More importantly the result gives Arsene’s army a chance of progression in the Champion’s League, as Olivier Giroud and Mesut Ozil scored late to get their first win in this season's competition. What’s 3 – 0, 3 -0 and 2 – 0? Only Arsenal’s last three results, and now comes Everton this Saturday at the Emirates - the Blues need to come out of mourning, Howard Kendall wouldn’t want it any other way. And if Man City lose and Arsenal win, the Gunners could go top. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho compared the referee in Tuesday’s goalless draw at Dynamo Kiev to controversial Rugby World Cup official Craig Joubert as the wood-got-in-the-way for the Blues! Tomorrow, West Ham v Chelsea’s got everything, the High-flying Hammers are fourth. Are there Hazard warnings from the nail-biting Bridge, where last week’s priceless 2 -0 Chelsea win over vacillating Villa is only a distant memory? Who’da thought that Leicester at home to Crystal Palace would be between the fifth and sixth-placed clubs with a quarter of the season gone? Never knowingly undersold? With Leicester it should read ‘Never knowing they’re beaten’ after the Foxes yet again came back from a 2 – 0 deficit, this time to draw at Southampton with a Jamie Vardy double.

CRUYFF HAS DAVIES TOP CANCER SHOT Johan Cruyff has been diagnosed with lung cancer, according to reports in Spain. The 68-year-old was diagnosed on Tuesday and is currently undergoing tests to discover the extent of his illness. Cruyff helped Holland reach the World Cup final in 1974. He won three consecutive European Cups with Ajax and also managed Barcelona.

Aled Davies threw a new championship record in the F42 shot put to win Britain's first gold on day one of the IPC Athletics World Championships. The Welsh 24year-old, who had hernia surgery 10 weeks ago, defended his title with a best of 14.95m in Doha. He also took bronze in the London 2012 Paralympics.

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All three Prem newbies sit uneasily just above the bottom three, but being new boys the bosses should be safe for a while on the ‘they got us here didn’t they’ theory, at least applicable to the first two incumbents. Been-around-a-bit Quique Flores at Watford looks more like a college lecturer – but the Spaniard’s learning fast. Bournemouth entertain Tottenham, where anything could happen. Norwich need steadying, and play West Brom, where prodigal son Saido Berahino is scoring again as the Baggies begin to climb away from trouble. Watford face a difficult trip to Stoke, where goalscorer Bojan’s back to take the Potters moving up in the world again after Monday’s win at sliding Swansea. Perhaps the Swans can reverse the hearse at Villa Park where nothing is going right for Sherwood’s merry-not men. Elsewhere, the super Saints will test Klopp at the Kop on Sunday, where Liverpool expect, big-time. So far, so good, but a goalless draw at White Hart Lane proves nothing apart from revealing the expected touchline display of German passion which will enhance Red fervour wherever Liverpool play.

High Toon FOR SAM! Statement: Sam Allardyce has big shoulders – and why aye, man, he’s gonna need them. Sunderland, rock bottom of the Prem are simply awful, with only three measly points from nine games and although only losing 1 – 0 to Tony Pulis’s West Brom in his first game Big Sam has a lot to do – and if he saves the Black Cats from another huge relegation fight he deserves a medal. It’s high noon for high stakes this Sunday at the Stadium of Light as nasty neighbours Newcastle are coming, fresh from somehow putting six past Norwich.

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