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FACE OF A DEALER

ALEX TRELINSKI

BRITISH FUGITIVE CAUGHT BY GUARDIA

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baby-faced British drug trafficker, who was on the list of Crimestoppers “Most Wanted” criminals on the run in Spain, has been arrested by the Guardia Civil in the Granada area.

Michael Roden, aged 26, from Redditch in Worcestershire, was one of seven people apprehended for allegedly belonging to a criminal organisation involved in drug trafficking, illegal possession of firearms, money laundering and forgery. He was detained along with three men and three women who are Chilean, Romanian, Georgian and Spanish nationals. One of the arrests was in the Murcia region.

Six house searches in a co-ordinated operation between the Guardia in Alicante and Granada resulted in the seizure of approximately 30 kilos of cannabis, drug packaging

material, several firearms including a silencer, highvalue vehicles, and 85 thousand euro plus 600 pounds in cash.

The Guardia from

Alicante got involved in running Operation Hoyo 18 because a large amount of the drugs that were grown in the Granada region were then taken to various holding locations across Alicante Province for distribution around Spain and to other countries. Those

arrested have been brought before an Orihuela judge, with two being released on bail, but not Michael Roden.

A European Arrest Warrant for Roden, who featured on the Operation Captura fugitive list, was also executed as he is wanted by West Midlands Police in connection with the importation of 70 kilos of cannabis in 2013, and was scheduled for an extradition hearing in Madrid this week. He was convicted in October 2010 in Britain of large-scale production of cannabis and jailed for three years. Roden was released early the following year but failed to meet his probation conditions and is wanted for recall into prison.

Dave Allen, Head of the International Crime Bureau at the National Crime Agency said: “The arrest of Michael Roden marks yet another success for Operation Captura and highlights the effectiveness of the campaign in flushing out fugitives.”

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San Javier council was just one of thousands of authorities across Spain that showed their respects to those who were killed in last Friday’s terror attacks in

Paris, by taking part in Monday’s Europe-wide one minute silence. San Javier mayor, José Miguel Luengo, led the tribute in front of the town hall.

Caterpillar Fight Santa Pola council has sent out teams around Gran Alacant area to spray forest areas close to the main roads to make sure that pro-

cessionary caterpillars don’t make an appearance in a few months time. The pest can kill dogs and severely harm children.

Cheap Arrivals Low cost air carriers brought in over 477 thousand passengers into the Valencia region last month, a rise of just over seven percent on the figures for October 2014. Over 76 percent of the total arrivals

came through Alicante-Elche airport, a hike of six point seven percent over a year earlier, and a cumulative total of three point three million low cost passengers over the first ten months of 2015.

Brit Cleared An un-named British man, who spent a year on remand, has been freed after being cleared of raping a prostitute by Alicante Provincial Court. The incident was said to have happened in an Orihuela Costa villa in November 2012 with the defendant facing eleven years behind bars if he was found guilty. The judges threw out the charge due to a lack of any medical or physical evidence as well as the fact that they found the statements of the woman to be contradictory, adding that she gave different facts every time she recounted

what allegedly happened.

The accused man met the woman at a local bar and they went home together, with the judges ruling that any sex they had was consensual. The judges added that the fact that the accuser was a prostitute was irrelevant to their findings. The court also noted that even the forensic experts told a different story of what happened. The statements varied from the victim sleeping at the time of the alleged assault and the fact that the sex was consensual but led to violation when anal intercourse was attempted.

Alicante Provincial Council tourism spokesman, Eduardo Dolon, has attacked the news that the regional government is set to introduce a Tourist Tax in 2017, claiming that it would seriously impact on tourism on the Costa Blanca. The former Torrevieja mayor has called on the Valencian administration to scrap their plans, calling for common sense over the matter.

Such taxes are levied in other parts of Spain, with Catalunya introducing one in November 2012. The tax in that region applies to any facility where tourists stay overnight — from campgrounds and youth hostels to hotels and cruise ships.

Apartments and private houses rented to tourists

are subject to the charges as well, with hotel operators and others in the travel industry initially concerned by the tax and what it would mean, but numbers have not suffered. Just over 40 million euro per year are raised in Catalunya, all of which is used to promote the area internationally as well as being allocated to improve tourist areas like beaches.

Locally, Eduardo Dolon has a different view saying: - "I believe this type of tax on tourism would be a mistake and one that would have a negative impact on tourism, which is the biggest industry on the Costa Blanca, creating jobs and wealth for the area". The proposal put forward in Valencia would fol-

low the Catalan model by imposing a tax on overnight accommodation, with rates being charged there at between 50 cents and two euro twenty-five cents a night, depending where people are staying in the region, and the tax is not applied after seven nights. Dolon says that he will be meeting regional tourist representatives to discuss the consequences of any new tax across the Costa Blanca and the effect it would have on visitor numbers. He has also reiterated concerns coming from the industry, which believes that "this measure would reduce the competitiveness of the territory, especially when imposed at a time when growth is being experienced."

Repsol Sees Red Lower oil prices and problems in the North American market has actually seen the Spanish oil company Repsol record a 221 million euro loss for the third quarter of 2015, compared to a 300 million euro profit over the same period last year. Repsol said

its earnings had been hit by "significantly lower crude oil prices" as well as one-off charges related to the declining value of the company's North American gas-andpower division that were only partly offset by extraordinary gains from asset sales. The

company said crude oil prices had fallen by an average of fifty percent so far this year. Overall though, for the first nine months of 2015, Repsol posted a net profit of €1.4 billion, a five percent increase over the same period in 2014.

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Do It Yourself!

A group of Los Alcázares residents, frustrated at what they claim is the local council's lack of action to keep the area tidy, have raised money to do the jobs themselves.

Three early morning clean-ups have taken place in area behind a supermarket on Avenida Libertad, with local businesses sponsoring the operation and providing cash for a digger to clean up another adjacent area.

The rubbish clearances were organised by resident Christine Birkett and real estate business owner Graeme Harrison whose company supported them by providing the bags and gloves for those who took part. Now other businesses

have each made 50 euro donations, along with local residents and holiday home owners to hire the digger. Christine said: "Euromarina has confirmed that they own the land but it hasn't been cleared for some time. I have been in touch with them and they asked for my photographs which show what a blight these sites are on the town but they have done nothing to assist clear them.”

"We have tried the official route to establish contact with the Town Hall by email and the Linea Verde app, but have had no acknowledgement whatsoever. It is a multinational effort and so far we have been supported by British, Spanish and German resi-

dents. We want to live in a clean litter free area not in an area that looks like a rubbish dump.”

"I have also set up a Facebook group for the cleaning volunteers call Groupo de Orgullo (pride) de Los Alcázares."

Graeme Harrison said: "Los Alcázares is generally a very clean town with the exception of these privately owned areas. Some, right in the centre, are cleaned up every year before the season but others, which are not quite so prominent, are ignored. They can deter people who are looking to buy a property or invest in the area. It gives the completely wrong impression of Los Alcázares."

Castle Defaced

Misuse Quiz Six former Torrevieja councillors and officials will have to stand trial over the alleged misuse of council mobile phones. The judge at Torrevieja’s number five court of instruction says that a jury trial will take place with ex-sports councillor, Danny Plaza, and ex-director of the Foreign Residents Office, Graham Knight, amongst those having to answer charges. The allegations of misuse came to light in an investigation by the Informacion newspaper, with the claims having been strenuously denied by the defendants. Knight (pictured), was placed in 19th

Bank of Japan holds fire on stimulus despite recession.

Australia leader defends port leasing to Chinese company.

UK prime minister to get 10 million private jet. position on the Partido Popular slate of candidates for last May’s local council elections, with the PP being ousted from office.

Nasty Tumble

Belgian prime minister announces new anti-terror measures.

China detains suspected spy near North Korea 'with map in his underwear'.

Northern Ireland first minister to step down before elections.

Israel convicts police officer in beating of Florida teen in 2014 protest.

Indian film board censors James Bond kiss.

A 37-year-old driver was lucky to be alive after his vehicle plunged down an embankment by the Autovía A7 in the Elche area last Monday night. His car hit some fencing on the side of the road and the vehicle som-

ersaulted several times as it went some 20 metres down the steep embankment. He was taken to Vinalopó hospital in a serious condition, after ropes had to be used to help haul down a rescuer with a stretcher.

End Of An Era

Chinese man held for ransom says he was forced to kill woman.

Three killed, 185,000 left without power after Washington state storms.

Climate change could slash polar bear numbers 30% by 2050.

Eleven bodies found in eastern Mexico in two days.

Indian surrogates feel hurt by gov't ban on foreign clients.

Chad extends state of emergency over Boko Haram attacks.

Two killed in Wales steel factory explosion.

Yellowstone proposes killing off 1,000 bison from famed herd.

Callosa de Segura council has called in the Guardia Civil and regional police to track down vandals that have sprayed graffiti on

the side of the castle The tenth century structure is the oldest of its kind in Alicante Province with writing sprayed both

inside and outside the castle.

The previous case of vandalism was registered back in 2013.

Santa Pola’s Camelot night club, which was the area’s leading entertainment venue for 25 years, has been bulldozed into the

ground. The site will see a supermarket built on it, with the club owners calling it quits due to increased competition.

Australia bars foreigners from buying world's largest ranch

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Parents Jailed

An Orihuela couple have been refused bail by a local judge after the father of a 45-day-old baby girl was spotted in a city street hitting the child.

As reported in The Courier last week, a passer-by reported the incident to the police, with the parents being arrested and the child taken to Vega Baja Hospital for treatment on a broken femur bone.

Other signs of physical abuse were detected during a medical examination with social services taking over responsibility for the

baby, while investigations are also taking place to see whether an older child of the couple suffered in a

At Last

Maintenance work on the bridge at the entrance to Gran Alacant on the N-332 is to start in January after an 18 month delay dating to the summer of 2014, when Santa Pola council had approved the budget for the

project.

The improvements will cost just over 400 thousand euro with the work being carried out at a time which will minimise delays to motorists on a notoriously busy stretch of road.

Roof Collapse The local police office in Torrevieja’s Plaza de Cadepont had to be closed on Wednesday morning when part of the roof caved in the previous evening.

The building used to house the city’s main tourist office for two decades until it was moved in 2014 to Paseo Vista Alegre.

Big Fine

The owners of Torrevieja’s "Tropic 222" nightclub on Avenida Alfredo Nobel have been hit with a hefty 200 thousand euro fine and a six month closure notice for serious violations of health and

safety rules. The venue, which opened in 1981, was closed in August, after visits from the Guardia Civil showed that the capacity for the club were broken as well as breaching fire safety protocols.

similar way. No other details are being made public as the case is under a judicial secrecy order.

Deflating Time A man from the southern city of Cadiz has been charged with criminal damage after he went on a puncturing spree, as he slashed tyres on more than 30 vehicles in the city. The 59-yearold was spotted by police puncturing a car's tyre late at night, with a check on the street and adjoining roads revealing the extent of his activities. No reason was given for his actions or whether he had consumed some alcohol before his acts and vandalism.

Dodgy Deals Despite claims of putting its house more into order, a new survey suggests that Spain is still amongst the leading European countries for helping firms launder money and tax dodging, The European Network report, 50 Shades of Tax Dodging, ranks Spain as the fourth worst offender behind Luxembourg, Germany and Italy. The report states that Spanish firms avoid paying tax due to government collusion with multi-national companies outside the European trade agreement.

Fewer Deaths The Valencia region recorded 83 fatalities in traffic accidents this year up to November 2nd.

That’s eleven less than the corresponding period in 2014.

Heads Or Tails

Spain’s Royal Mint has unveiled a new coin featuring portraits of King Felipe and Queen Letizia on one side. This is the first time that the couple have appeared on legal tender together, since Felipe was crowned king in June 2014. The royal couple are captured side-on, with their names and the year 2015 printed on one face of the coin. On the reverse is Don Quixote, a character in the Spanish classic by Cervantes. Quixote is pictured riding his trusted mare Rocinante while his long-suffering squire and sidekick Sancho Panza kneels beside them. Although the coin has a face value of 30 euro, the limited-edition piece commemorating the 400th anniversary of the second volume of Quixotes’s adventures, would typically cost more as it is made of solid sterling silver.

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Palma Cut

German carrier Air Berlin has scrapped all its domestic flight routes to and from Palma de Mallorca including services linking Alicante-Elche and Valencia airports. The flights will be axed before the end of January as part of a move to stem losses within the competitive Spanish domestic flight market.

Meanwhile, Lufthansa’s low-cost offshoot, Eurowings, has confirmed that it will launch a service from Alicante-Elche to Vienna from April.

Load Of Dosh Torrevieja council says that water company Agamed should be responsible for facing legal action if people trip over badly maintained manhole covers in the future. In recent years, the council has had to cough up compensation claims brought against it, but Councillor Fanny Serrano says that it should be Agamed who will have to dig into their pockets.

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Exchange Trip A group of Scottish students have been spending a week in the San Javier area as part their annual exchange programme with the IES Mar Menor college.

The teenagers from the

town of Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute arrived on Monday and met the major, José Miguel Luengo.

Their Spanish hosts will travel to Scotland next spring.

Dry Docked

Plans for a new commercial centre at Torrevieja’s port have been scuppered by the regional Valencian government. The 80 thousand square metre plans put forward by the previous Partido Popular-run

Torrevieja council were the latest in a whole string of failed ideas for the site which can now only be developed under new regional port rules, which prohibit a major influx of shops and restaurants.

Guardia Demo

Kingpin Nabbed

Britain's most wanted drug trafficker has been arrested on the Costa del Sol. Robert Dawes, who is wanted by authorities in connection with murders in the UK and the Netherlands, was among "several people arrested in an ongoing operation", according to the Guardia Civil. It is understood that Dawes, a 44-year-old originally from Nottingham, has

been held on the basis of a European arrest warrant issued by a French court and that he was arrested at his villa at Benalmádena, near Malaga.

Mr Dawes was named

by Dutch prosecutors in court for allegedly ordering the 2002 murder of schoolteacher Gerard Meesters, who was apparently gunned down because his sister and her friend were

believed to have stolen a shipment of drugs. British authorities have identified what they believe to be Mr Dawes' involvement in nine national criminal investigations into large-scale drug shipments. He has also been identified by Nottinghamshire Police as the main suspect in the 2002 murder of David Draycott in Sutton-inAshfield.

Torry Tapas

Indian Summer

Beach lovers hit the coast last weekend with unseasonably high temperatures of around 25 degrees Celsius in some parts of the Costa Blanca and the Mar Menor.

National meteorological agency, Aemet, said that the warm weather was caused by an anticyclone that had settled over Spain.

Screen Grab

Thousands of Guardia Civil officers, including representatives from Alicante, marched in protest in Madrid last Saturday demanding better employment conditions and workers' rights.

The Unified Association of Guardia Civil, who organized Saturday's demonstration, is demanding its members get the same rights as

their counterparts in the national police and other Spanish security forces.

Some of the ten thousand protesting officers carried Spanish flags with French national colours and an image of a black armband superimposed to show sympathy and solidarity with those killed and injured in the Paris attacks.

More than 50 bars, cafes, and restaurants are taking part in Torrevieja’s 13th Ruta de la Tapa which started yesterday and will run until Sunday November 29th. 226

different dishes along with drinks will be available with two pricing levels at two euros and a “gourmet” cost of two euro fifty. Reporters and council officials tried out

some of the goodies on offer earlier this week with details of the participating establishments available on line via www.rutadelatapatorrevieja. com.

Open Plan

Jilted-Ex

Thieves broke into Orihuela City's Tourist Information Office on the Plaza de la Soledad in the early hours of Friday morning but the intruders weren't looking for helpful leaflets about the area's attractions.

Instead they stole a big screen plasma television as well as vandalised the premises.

On Your Bike!

Three men who stole bicycles around Alicante City and then sold them on, have been arrested by the National Police. 15 of the stolen 79 bikes have been recovered before they were sold on to unsuspecting buyers as well as using a number of second-hand bicycle shops in the area.

A man has been remanded in custody after making a court appearance over the shooting of his ex-wife in El Altet on Sunday November 8th. As reported in last week's Courier, the man appeared at her cottage just a few weeks after she moved there, and he shot her in the leg. He appeared before the Women's

Violence court in Elche, with the National Police putting through a charge of attempted murder, something that he denies, though he did admit to reloading his shotgun after firing a bullet into his ex-wife's leg. He's also being charged with burglary, breaching a restraining order, and illegal possession of a firearm.

Opposition Los Montesinos councillors have a launched a weekly surgery on the steps of the local Town Hall saying that the PSOE mayor, Jose Manuel Butron, has not allowed opposition parties to have an office in the building for the

last quarter of a century that he's been in power. The Independent AIMS party's two councillors will stage the surgery every Thursday morning whatever the weather, with councillor Fidel Gómez saying that there are plenty of empty offices within

the Town Hall that could be used, adding that the ruling party is against transparency and democracy. The mayor in turn says that there's a lack of space within the building and that councillors have to share one computer between them.

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Friday 20th November 2015

Birthday Bash And A Bang On The Bonce

It was Phyllis's birthday this week and as usual I got dragged into the occasion.

For the benefit of new readers, Phyllis is Mrs S's best mate. For regular readers, the same relationship details apply.

Phyllis is okay I suppose but her husband Spike is the most boring man in . . . well, the galaxy.

Mrs S asked (told) me to pop to the shops to buy Phyllis a birthday gift and a card. I was surprised because I'd honestly thought that Mrs S would

never again trust me with that annual errand.

Obviously, she'd forgotten the mess I'd made in 2014.

What a relief!

But as I left the house on this, my 2015 mission, I heard Mrs S call after me: 'It's your last chance to prove yourself as a dependable person after the hash you made of Phyllis's birthday last year.'

'My little lady has the memory of a large elephant,' I observed through clenched teeth.

'Beg your pardon?' she

said. 'You know I can't understand you when you say stuff through clenched teeth. All I heard was the word "elephant." I hope you weren't getting personal.'

'Can't hear you, darling.

I've already shut the front door,' I said seconds before I shut the front door.

Moments later I was back. 'So what is it you actually want me to buy Phyllis for her birthday?'

Mrs S sighed: 'A potted plant would be nice,' she said. 'As long as you don't get her what you bought last year. I have never been so embarrassed in my life.'

It was my turn to sigh.

'So what was wrong with a gift coupon?'

Mrs S went 2-1 up in the sighing stakes. 'It was distasteful enough when the local undertaker launched that stupid scheme for money-off funerals. It was even more repugnant when you actually purchased a coupon -- the only individual in the area to do so.'

I shrugged. 'At least I bought Phyllis a pleasant birthday card. Managed not to get THAT wrong,' I added sarcastically.

'There's no way even YOU could have got it wrong when the words "Birthday Greetings" or "Happy Returns" or even "Today You Are 21 or 70 or 100" are plastered all over

the front of the flaming thing!'

'Okay, okay,' I grumbled.

'I'm off to buy the blooming pot plant.'

'And make sure it IS blooming!' Mrs S called after me.

Believe me, I spent ages choosing the gift and was really pleased with my purchase. More importantly, so was Mrs S. 'Well done, you,' she cooed. 'I couldn't have chosen better myself. I'll just write out the card and . . . what the heck is THIS?' 'Huh?' I said, puzzled.

'This card says "Get Well Soon" on it!'

'Oh, dear,' I mumbled. 'I was so concentrating on getting a nice plant that I didn't read the words on the card. But all might not be lost. Do we know anyone who is ill?'

Mrs S shook her head, not so much in a negative response as to how many of our relatives or friends might currently (and conveniently) be ailing but in sorrowful acceptance that the last remnants of marital bliss had disappeared over the horizon.

'You are crazy,' Mrs S stated deliberately. 'You'd only have to ask a psychiatrist.'

That's the galling thing about Mrs S. She can make the most outrageous asser-

tions and then tag on the words 'you'd only have to ask a . . . ', slotting in the title of the appropriate profession or trade to add gravitas to her accusation.

For instance: 'You are a lousy painter and wallpaper hanger. You'd only have to ask a decorator." (Maybe not a good example because I do happen to be terrible at DIY.) Anyway, I responded to Mrs S thus: 'Show me a psychiatrist who uses the word "crazy" and I'll show you a psychiatrist with a limited vocabulary and little expertise.'

Mrs S snorted with derision. 'Trust you to get a second opinion!'

'But it's the SAME psychiatrist!' I pointed out.

'What I'm saying is that NO psychiatrist would ever utter the word "crazy."'

'Typical!' Mrs S countered. 'You've gone from one psychiatrist to two psychiatrists. And now there's no psychiatrist at all!'

'Enough!' I cried, stuffing my index fingers into my ears. 'If I hear the word "psychiatrist" again I shall scream!"

Mrs S nodded. 'That's because you're crazy.'

At which point the phone rang. 'Hello, it's Spike here.'

'Oh, no!' I screamed out to Mrs S. 'The most boring

man in the galaxy. Keep him well away from me!'

Mrs S tutted. 'It's a bit late for that, husband.

YOU'RE the one who answered the phone.'

I stared in horror at the instrument clutched in my hand. My day -- nay, my whole life -- was over.

'Hello, my friend,' said the most boring man in the galaxy. 'I was wondering if you'd like to pop round to my house later. I've just filled a new album with photographs of telegraph poles from around Europe.

'We could look through it together and I could fill you in on all the details about each of the 347 exposures.'

I commenced to slam my head repeatedly against the living room wall in a crude attempt to dislodge the picture Spike had planted in my benumbed brain.

'I would have loved to have kept you company, Spike,' I managed to croak.

'However, I'm afraid I have to attend A&E immediately.

My head is bruised and bleeding.'

I arrived back home all bandaged up a couple of hours later to find a note on the kitchen table from Mrs S stating that she had gone with Phyllis to bingo.

And alongside the message was a familiar-looking 'get well soon' card addressed to me.

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Hello Again A serial offender who has racked up over 60 arrests has struck again with three transgressions in just one night in Alicante City. The National Police hauled him in after he stole a moped, as well as knifing the owner in the stomach, before smashing the window of an optician where he nicked two pairs of designer sunglasses.

No bail was allowed for this latest set of offences.

Pills Popped Nineteen people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil for allegedly being involved in a scam that involved the distribution and sale of erectile dysfunction products that were being made illegally at a manufacturer in Barcelona. Arrests

were made across the country, including one in Alicante Province, with chemists, shops, and warehouses all being raided by the Guardia's Seprona division.

687 packets of drugs were seized as well 200 substitute Viagra pills.

War On Waste

Pola Pleasures Nearly 600 people have taken part in guided tours around Santa Pola since August according to the town's tourist department. Tours have been conducted in English and French as well as in Spanish, with organisers keeping at least one session per week going during the winter months. More details on the tours as well as booking them can be obtained from the Tourist Office on Santa Pola's Plaza de la Constitución.

Bad Mummy The National Police have detained a 41-yearold woman who for years peddled naked pictures of her three daughters via her computer. Police began their investigation in September after her oldest daughter, aged 15, and her former partner filed a complaint at a Sevilla police station. The girl said her mother took pictures and made videos of her and her two sisters, aged seven and eight, in suggestive poses.

Another eight-year-old girl, the niece of the woman's former partner, also appeared in the images made and sold by

the woman. "At first the mother told them that the images were for fashion castings and the pictures of them nude and in their underwear were needed to show their size," police said in a statement.

But over time the woman's eldest daughters realised that the images were sold to men over a dating website.

"The mother then told them they needed money to eat and there were men who paid money for these images. The minor also told officers that she and her sisters were repeatedly beaten with a stick by her mother if they refused to take photo-

graphs."

Police said the 15year-old girl was sent to meet with the men who bought the images to collect the money.

The girl gave police a mobile telephone and a computer belonging to her mother that had images of her and her sisters naked. Police arrested the woman last month as well as detaining one of the buyers of the images, a 49-year-old man, a week later. The woman has been ordered to stay away from her daughters and the niece of her former partner while the investigation continues.

Tough Nuts To Crack Professional gardeners and landscapers dumping garden waste into ordinary bins in the Torrevieja area will be fined up to three thousand euros for their trouble according to the mayor, Jose Manuel Dolon. He’s met with waste disposal franchise folder Acciona, who’ve sup-

plied him with documented evidence of 34 sites where garden waste has been illegally dumped by professional contractors. Dolon says that local residents are facing full bins because of the gardening companies who are not using designated recycling sites.

More In Your Pocket

Very Smooth Sailing People taking cruises from Alicante City will soon be able to take advantage of new longterm parking facilities that are going to be built at the port. The project will eventually see the provision to close to 500 car parking spaces by the year 2021. The first phase will be completed early next year with 235 spaces, including bays for disabled drivers, buses, taxis, and motorbikes.

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Prices are continuing to fall in Spain, with the consumer price index for Spain showing a nought point seven percent fall in October compared to the same month in 2014, according to figures from the National Statistics Office (INE). According to the INE, transportation costs fell by five point seven percent in October compared to the same month of a year earlier due to lower fuel prices.

Spanish prices have been falling for three consecutive

months on a year-on-year basis after having fallen by nought point four percent and nought point nine percent in August and September respectively. On a month-to-month basis, Spain's prices rose by 0.6 percent from September to October. The rise was mainly due to higher prices of clothing and shoes that increased by just over 11 percent and prices of food and non-alcoholic drinks that rose by nought point six percent.

The Guardia Civil have swooped on a 52-strong network of almond thieves who are accused of stealing 24 thousand kilos of the product in the Valencia region. The almonds would fetch something between 60 and 100 thousand euro on the open market, with Spanish,

Romanian, and Moroccan nationals involved in the operation, which featured the production of 145 false documents with the name of a dead man on them to hide where the almonds were coming from.

A spate of thefts around the Utiel area of Valencia

province over the last few months led the Guardia to launch Operation Amande to smash the almond thieving ring which saw them being stored in an Utiel warehouse for onward distribution. The owner of the premises was one of those arrested by the Guardia.

Health Call Santa Pola Mayor, Yolanda Seva, has met with Valencia region health chiefs to call for a fully 24 hour operational health cen-

tre dedicated to Gran Alacant. Seva told regional health bosses that the eleven-thousand plus population of Gran Alacant need-

ed better coverage including round the clock emergency cover to stop people making long night-time journeys for treatment.

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Jeanette Erath - Learn Spanish

More Verbs And Prepositions This week we are carrying on with the use of verbs plus prepositions and other verbs or nouns. I hope you found last week´s article useful and are managing to put a few of the phrases to good use, remember the best way to remember them is to use them.

The next verb/prepositions we are looking at are verb + de + infinitive: acordarse de – to remember: me acuerdo de ti (I remember you), aprovecharse de – to take advantage of/make the most of: vamos a aprovecharnos de esta oportunidad (let´s take advantage of this opportunity), cansarse de – to get tired of:

amigo insistió en venir a verme (my friend insisted on coming to see me), tardar en – to be late/delayed: el avión tardó en llegar – the plane was late arriving.

The next verbs take the preposition en + noun (or pronoun): confiar en – rely on/trust: confias t to learn en mi (rely on n a w u o y If me), entrar en – panish, S k a e p s to enter into/go into: e to the you've com e. entré en la café (I c la p t righ entered the café), me meterse en – to go in: me metí en la casa (I got in canso the house). de tanto Now we´re looking at the trabajo (I´m tired of so much work), quejarse de – to verb plus the preposition por cmplain about: no te queja followed by the infinitive, de esta clase (don´t com- noun, pronoun or adjective depending on what is plain about this class).

These next verbs take the required: estar por – to be in preposition en + infinitive: favour of/to be about to: insistir en – insist on: mi Estaba por la liberación de

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los esclavos (he was in favour of freedom for the slaves), estoy por dejar de fumar (I´m about to quit smoking), pasar por – to be considered as: el señor Ruiz pas por experto (Me Ruia is considered an expert), preguntar por – to ask for/enquire about: Pregunto por el señor Ruiz ¿está en

casa? (I´m asking for Mr Ruiz, is he at home?)

Some verbs take NO preposition at all, and here are some that are followed directly by the infinitive of the verb: deber + infinitive: must/ought – debo hacer mis tareas de casa (I must do my housework), dejar +

infinitive: to allow/let – dejé de caer mi libro (I dropped my book[let it fall]), desear + infinitive: to desire/wish to – deseo tomar un café (I wish to have a coffee), esperar + infinitive: to expect/hope to: espero ir a Australia el año que viene ( I hope to go to Australia next year), preferir + infinitive: to prefer – pre-

fiero quedarme en casa esta noche (I prefer to stay at home tonight), querer + infinitive – to want to/ to wish to: quiero ir ahora (I want to go now), saber + infinitive – to know how to: ¿sabes nadar?, sí sé nadar (do you know how to swim?, yes I know how to swim). Ver + infinitive: to see – veo venir el tren (I see the train coming).

Finally here are some verbs that use a preposition in English but not in Spanish: agradecer – to be thankful for: le agradecí su regalo (I thanked him for his present), buscar – to look for: busco mi libro (I'm looking for my book), escuchar – listen to: escucho la radio (I'm listening to the radio), esperar – to wait for: espero mi amiga (I'm waiting for my friend), mirar – to look at: miro las estrellas (I'm looking at the stars, pagar – to pay for: pagas las entradas (you pay for the tickets), pedir – to ask for: he pedido la cuenta (I've asked for the bill).

I hope you have many opportunities to use your Spanish and remember the more you use it the more it stays in your head.

Remember also that we all have good days and bad days, a veces me cuesta mucho hablar, otros días no paro, no somos máquinas, tranquilo y disfrutar del idioma. ¡Hasta la próxima!

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Fayre Enough There’ll be plenty of seasonal spirit for everybody at the end of the month in Torrevieja as the La Siesta Ladies Friendship Group hold their annual Tinsel and Turkey Fayre at La Siesta church on

Lakeside Carols

Saturday November 28th starting at 10.30am. There’ll be loads of turkey and stuffing to enjoy as well as plenty of stalls and live Christmas music. All the proceeds will go to local charities.

Seasonal Voices The Torrevieja Barbershop Harmonisers will be singing some Christmas carols to the backdrop of La Pedrera Lake at Torremendo from 2.00 pm on Monday

The ladies of the Cantabile Choir are getting into the Christmas spirit by putting on a Seasonal Concert at La Siesta church, Torrevieja, on Saturday November 28th, starting a 7.00 pm. There’ll be something for all tastes, and the group is also looking for

new members, which means you’ll be given a warm welcome at the Friday afternoon rehearsals at La Siesta church, which begin at 3.00 pm. For more details, call the musical director, Jennifer Morton on 966 796 866 or email: jen-morton@hotmail.co.uk.

Listening Ear Volunteers are needed across the region by the Age Concern Lifeline team who visit people at home to assess their needs before reporting back to the Lifeline team leader. If you can spare

a few hours each week to give a little help in meeting lonely people who are after some kind of social contact, please call Age Concern, Costa Blanca South on 966 786 887.

November 30th in a fundraiser for the Elche Children's Home at Casa La Pedrera. For more details and directions check out the website www.thingstodoinspain.info

International Coro Choir Dates

International choir Coro Pilar have a busy run of Christmas concerts leading up to the big day in December, the first of which will be at Campoverde Church on Sunday November 29th at 7.30pm.

The choir will then be involved in a carol concert at La Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Pilar on Sunday December 6th at 7.15 pm, and will also perform at Las Claras restaurant in Los Alcazares on Sunday December 13th at 7.30 pm.

For more details and tickets call Rachel on 966 841 529.

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Town Meets Country

Hundreds of animal lovers attended last Saturday's first Town meets Country event in Torrevieja, which featured a variety of entertainment including a fun dog show; a police dog display; and a falconry demonstration.

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Visitors, many of whom were British, were also encouraged to adopt a dog from the local municipal shelter, with visitors filling out adoption forms which will give a dog a new start in life.

Dogs That Are Down In The Dumps

Just like people, dogs can get depressed. This might be due to some change in their lives, or it could be a sign of a medical condition. Learn how to spot the signs of depression and what you can do to help your dog cope and begin feeling better.

SPOTTING THE SIGNS The signs of depression in dogs are actually similar to those experienced by people. Dogs have down days and bad moods just like people. When your pet seems particularly lethargic or appears to be moping around the house or patio, it's possible that he or she feels depressed.

Typical symptoms of canine depression include: • Becoming withdrawn - A depressed dog may stop interacting with his companions, including his special people and other dogs in the home.

• Becoming inactive - The dog might no longer

show any interest in taking walks or playing. He might also tend to move slower and not seem to have much purpose to his wandering.

• Changes in appetite - The dog might lose his appetite, and this could lead to weight loss.

Alternatively, a depressed dog might eat more and begin to gain weight.

• Changes in sleep habits - Depressed dogs tend to sleep more, but some may become more restless and unable to sleep well.

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES As with people, events going on around your pet can cause him to feel depressed and anxious, as well as changes in a dog's environment or living circumstances triggering depression and anxiety. For example, dogs can experience depression and grief when another pet or human member of the

household is ill or dies. This is also true when a family member moves away or changes schedules. If you’ve family and friends over for the summer and your dog is suddenly alone most of the day after having children around, symptoms of depression triggered by separation anxiety and loneliness can occur.

You can counteract some life changes by giving your pet some healthy attention.

For example: • Take your pet out and about to give him some mental stimulation.

• If he has a favourite game or activity, try to make time for it at least once a day, but preferably at several periods throughout the day.

• If your pet is depressed by the loss of a canine companion, take him to a dog park if there is one in the area so he can be around other dogs, or

consider bringing home a new dog if this is feasible in your situation.

The one thing you want to avoid is accidentally rewarding your pet's depressed behaviour by being overly sympathetic.

MEDICAL CONDITIONS Don't lose sight of the fact that your dog can't tell you when he or she feels sick.

Many times, canines exhibit symptoms of depression when there is something physically wrong with them.

Behaviour changes may indicate the existence of a medical problem. This is why it's so important to seek veterinary care if depression symptoms don't seem to be triggered by a specific event or if they persist for a period of time. Your vet can run blood tests and give your dog a thorough physical examination to determine if there's a medical reason that your pet exhibits signs of depression.

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

CARAMEL Caramel was brought into the SAT kennels in Dolores with his three sisters. Their mother was uy pregnant when she was rescued and had a litter of eight. The litter is now four months old and will remain at the kennels until they go through our full vaccination programme and will then be ready for adoption. Telephone 966 710 047 or send an email to info@satanimalarescue.com

CORRY APAH has lots of beautiful kittens and cats in their cattery who need their first loving home.

We’ve plenty of lovely adult cats, many of whom were rescued as kittens and have lived their whole life in a shelter, never knowing a loving home environment.

To give one of these wonderful cats and kittens a new life, please call 630 422 563 or 616 210 850.

KITTENS Tommy, Timmy and Tinkerbell were found abandoned in a box behind the bins at a local supermarket when they were three weeks old and had to be bottle-fed. They are now around six weeks old and utterly adorable and friendly.

Tommy and Timmy are Red point Siamese and Tinkerbell the girl is a Chocolate point Siamese. Call 645 469 253. www.petsinspain.com

MANDY Mandy is a beautiful five month old pup, who is very intelligent and sweet.

She is very good with the other dogs and cats that she is currently being fostered with. Mandy is lots of fun and just wants to play and loves getting attention.

For more on Mandy, please phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or send an email to p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail. com

PUPPIES Eight two day-old puppies were left in two shoe boxes outside the APAH kennels.

One sadly died, but now the surviving seven are six weeks old.

Some have already been reserved for when they are old enough to leave, but there are still some looking for a loving home.

To arrange to meet them, please call 630 422 563 or 616 210 850.

RUFUS Rufus is one of the loveliest dogs that has come our way this year, rescued from the Perrera in a dreadful terrified state. He is now a beautiful dog, but is still scared but will adjust quickly to a new care giver once he gets a home of his own. He is wonderful with all other dogs and good with cats too. Please phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.c om

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Practical Financial Advice

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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. For more information please call our Benijofar office on 965 704 338 or email Contact@SeagateWealth.es

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Friday 20th November 2015

Tony Mayes - About Life

National Health Shambles

Year after year we hear that the UK’s National Health Service is in crisis. It seems it is lurching from one bad place to another. This year we hear that even though winter has barely begun, many of the key NHS targets in England are being missed and more patients are being stuck in hospital.

Back in September, the NHS missed its A&E target to see, treat or discharge patients within four hours.

Performance also fell short on access to cancer treatment, diagnostic tests and ambulance response times. A snapshot taken on the last Thursday of September showed more than 5,000 patients in England were occupying beds, even though they could have been discharged. This was the worst level since records began in 2010 - with the rise in delays over the past few months largely driven by problems accessing social care services, such as help in the home, which meant more bed blocking, and fewer new patients being able to be admitted. On almost every measure, the NHS in England is in a worse position than this time last year.

And as we enter winter, that spells bad news. Last year's was the worst for a generation with A&E waits hitting their highest levels since targets were introduced in 2004. But the pressures are now spreading to other parts of the system.

Once in hospital, doctors are finding it difficult to discharge patients because the support services in the community needed for the most

vulnerable are not available.

Waits for diagnostic tests are lengthening and the key cancer target has been missed for well over a year.

At the end of September, one point nine percent of patients had been waiting over six weeks for diagnostic tests - nearly twice the proportion that should be suffering such delays. One of the key cancer targets the 62-day target for treatment to start - was missed, with nearly one in five patients waiting longer.

The NHS 111 phone service missed its target to answer 95 percent of calls within a minute. The NHS is undergoing a perfect storm.

As a population we're living

longer and that, obviously in itself puts greater strain on the system. Britain is increasing its population both by more births than deaths and from immigration. With more treatments becoming more complex and costly, it puts incredible strain on an already overstretched system. Add to that cuts to social services at council level which means that councils have less money to look after vulnerable people in the community and you have the perfect storm.

We have a close relative in the UK who is an NHS mental health worker, visiting people with problems in their own homes. Every day

she is seeing people who are in desperate need for help. They may be suicidal; they may be self- harming; or they may even be a threat to others.

She is in increasing difficulty trying to cope, going from one patient to another and she knows she should be spending more time with each of them, but cannot because of the demands of the system. She's supposed to finish work at 5.30pm but almost every day comes home mid-evening, and with two young children it's putting ever-increasing strains on a marriage. Why more people are experiencing mental health problems is difficult to understand. But this is happening and it's worrying that an increasing number of people who need mental health care are simply not getting it or not getting sufficient time devoted to them.

Now let's look at the NHS desperate problems from another angle. We have a dog which, a year ago was diagnosed with terminal cancer, in the bladder, uterus and now the liver. We

took her to the vets and within a few days she had a thorough examination plus a scan diagnosed the problem. A treatment plan was introduced which has now kept her alive for a year.

Now compare this with what I wrote before, that at the end of September, one point nine percent of patients had been waiting over six weeks for diagnostic tests - nearly twice the proportion that should be suffering such delays.

One of the key cancer targets - the 62-day target for treatment to start - was missed with nearly one in five patients waiting longer.

So a dog can get a scan, diagnosis and treatment within a week, and people are having to wait longer than 62 days. How can a civilised society allow a situation where animals get quicker and better treatment than people? It is obscene.

Britain needs to take a long, hard look at where it is going. When it can give animals better care than humans something is really going wrong. Yes, I know that we have millions of dot-

ing animal lovers who pour many millions into medical care of their beloved pets and that encourages a huge army of vets, who, no doubt are able to earn much more than a doctor. Brits really need to get their priorities right. Do they really want their human loved ones to die because of late diagnosis while animals get looked after far better?

The Scottish Nationalists at Westminster are doing their utmost to frustrate the Conservative government at every turn. The latest example is over Sunday trading in England. The Scots do not have the 10am to 4pm restriction on large store opening times on Sundays which was inflicted in England because of a sop to religious bodies.

The Conservative government want to relax the rules to allow local councils and mayors to set their own opening hours, but the SNP have vowed to poke their noses into English legislation and vote against it.

Why? Because of some half-baked notion that stores would make up any extra staff costs for longer opening hours by cutting wages across Britain, including Scotland. What absolute nonsense. All that needs to be done is to introduce parallel legislation to prevent that from happening.

There's a new weapon being introduced in the UK to combat dog owners who allow dogs to foul and don't clean up after them - nightvision goggles. Wardens are being given them when they patrol parks, gardens and seafronts at night - the times when dog owners think they can get away with not clearing up after their beloved pets.

They only cost 200 pounds and will soon pay for themselves when 75 pound fines can be handed out.

This is an ideal answer here in Spain where dog fouling is still a major problem that needs to be sorted. Councils - just think of the income to be gained from fines imposed on offenders.

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Hidden Extras?

If you are thinking of buying a property, whether in Spain or elsewhere, a first or second home, it´s worth being aware that there may be one or two things you forget to add into the budget.

Money saving expert Martin Lewis has offered a few pointers.

It's not as easy as get a mortgage, grab the keys and, bish bash bosh, you're in.

Buying a home's almost guaranteed to cost more than you think. Here's some factors to consider, although they do vary from person to

person, location to location, and property to property.

Mortgage arrangement Expect to pay your lender an arrangement fee. They vary considerably and in some cases this is nonrefundable, even if the purchase falls through.

Valuation fee This is the fee lenders charge for a valuation to check the property exists and that it also offers sufficient security for the loan. The cost varies according to lender and purchase price.

Legal fees

Many lenders will contribute to legal fees, although in that case you would have to use a solicitor approved by them. If you pay for your own conveyancing, remember to add this to the purchase price.

Removal costs Unless you can pile your belongings into the back of a car, factor in a removal van.

These can cost anything from a few euro to hundreds, depending on the amount to be carried and the distance.

Home repairs From flaky paintwork to leaky sinks, put aside some cash for unexpected property maintenance and repairs as well as faults and flaws.

As Money Saver Delphinum says: “If it's an old house, expect Frank Spencer to have done every piece of DIY work. Expect to undo everything and do 10 other things you didn't expect to do before you start a job."

Furniture and extras Maybe you are currently renting a furnished place?

Remember you might need to buy everything from beds and sofas to carpets and a kettle.

Then there are the boring but essential extras: light bulbs, lamp shades, toilet brush, washing up bowl, door mats, hooks and extension leads.

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Music and Dance - Whatson´s Choice

We have taken on a strictly musical theme this week (see what I did there?). Firstly with Strictly Come Dancing going on the road to Blackpool, quite possibly the most famous location in the world for ballroom dancing, and a great place for fish and chips and a walk along the prom as well. Plus, the lineup for the Christmas Special has been released, giving us something more to look forward to on the big day. By the way, can you believe it´s only 5 weeks now until that day nobody likes us to talk about too early, but this can´t be too early, surely, 5 weeks, a month on Wednesday…

Christmas is coming.

In other musical treats we´ve got Adele at the BBC this week, and the Mercury Prize winners on BBC Four, so treats all round for music

fans, although if I´m honest, I haven´t heard of most of the artist up for the award! Is that bad? I guess it must be an age thing, I´m not as young as I used to be.

I´ve got to talk about The Hunt as well this w e e k .

What a show that has been.

We talked about it when it started a few weeks ago but this week, another famous singer, the Blue Whale is one of the featured creatures, and what an awesome creature it is too. The show is particularly poignant at the moment in the build up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference which will take

place at the end of the month, and the devastating news of the number of polar bears at risk due to global warming. You might remember the show also featured a polar bear recently and how their fight for food is becoming increasingly difficult.

The show is an amazing insight into a world that we might otherwise never get to see.

I must mention Holby as well this week, as Jac’s back. But when she discovers that Guy has taken over part of Darwin, the battle lines are drawn and Ollie gets caught in the crossfire.

I do like Holby, not only because of the skilled way

every story unfolds in front of us, usually telling the same tale but from two different perspectives of character, but the fact they help raise awareness of real problems, without being overly political or offensive.

Finally, Prey is set to return to ITV on Wednesday 10th December, with a brand new three part story featuring Philip Glenister. If you remember the first series, on the run accused of a terrible crime, John Simm played Manchester Detective Marcus Farrow who tried to prove his innocence whilst being hunted by his former friends and colleagues.

We will talk about that more next week, this is just a teaser, but for now I bid you goodbye once again, tatty bye my friends, tatty bye.

Adele At The Mercury Prize BBC Live 2015

For BBC One, BBC Music brings Adele At The BBC, a world-exclusive entertainment show hosted by Graham Norton.

In this one-off, hour-long special on Friday, Adele will perform classic tracks as well as songs from her eagerly awaited new album '25', accompanied by her live band, as well as chat to Graham about her career and life to date.

It will be Adele’s first television performance since she performed ‘Skyfall’ at the 85th Academy Awards in February 2013, where she won Best Original Song for the theme tune to the 23rd James Bond film.

Adele says: "I can't wait for the show. The BBC has been wonderful to me over the years and Graham and I

get on great so it's going to be a laugh."

Graham Norton says: “This is the music event of the year and I'm thrilled to be part of bringing it to BBC One. This opportunity to spend an hour with Adele, her music and her stories is a truly rare treat. If I wasn't hosting this special I'd be sat at home watching it!”

The BBC has supported Adele since the beginning of her career. Her first ever play was ‘Daydreamer’ on Reggie Yates' BBC Radio 1 show. ‘Hometown Glory’ was first played on the radio

by Zane Lowe on Radio 1 in 2007 and she made her debut television performance on Later with Jools Holland on BBC Two in the same year, performing ‘Daydreamer’.

There´s another musical treat on BBC Four, also on Friday, live from the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House and presented by Lauren Laverne, a special show celebrating the 12 albums that have been selected for what is arguably the most prestigious music prize that is held in the UK and Ireland.

The show will culminate with the winner being announced live in front of an audience of shortlisted artists, judges and special guests.

This year’s shortlisted artists are Aphex Twin, Benjamin Clementine, C Duncan, ESKA, Florence + The Machine, Gaz Coombes, Ghostpoet, Jamie xx, Roisin Murphy, Slaves, SOAK and Wolf Alice. As

ever, the list has thrown up an eclectic mix of music from emerging acts alongside more established artists - and there's a passionate judging panel whose decisions will have unquestionably directed wider attention to many albums that might otherwise have stayed underground.

Earlier this year, BBC Music announced an exciting new partnership with the Mercury Prize for 2015 which sees the iconic prize return to the BBC. Past winners include 6 Music presenters Guy Garvey and Jarvis Cocker.

They won the award with their respective bands Elbow (won in 2008 with the album The Seldom Seen Kid) and Pulp (Different Class in 1996).

Strictly News

For one weekend only, Strictly Come Dancing packs its bags and relocates to Blackpool as the show is broadcast live from the world-famous Tower Ballroom this weekend.

Expect sparkles, joy and lots of magical moments as presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are joined by the eight remaining celebrities and their professional partners, as well as the awesome foursome judging panel of Len Goodman, Darcey Bussell, Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood.

Raising the stakes for the celebrities and their professional dance partners, the pressure is well and truly turned up, as they edge ever closer to the grand final one month from now.

And if that wasn't enough, on the Sunday results show there will be an extra special music performance from Take That, one of the UK's most successful bands, who return to their Northern routes - while Len’s Lens will be inspecting the dances from the night before.

Meanwhile, the line-up for the Christmas Special has been released. Six of the most loved Strictly Come Dancing winners and contestants from previous series will return for a festive edition of the nation’s favourite show and add some sparkle to BBC One on Christmas Day. The celebrity ladies and gentlemen rocking around the Strictly Christmas tree this year will be: Abbey Clancy, Model and TV Presenter, Winner of Strictly Come Dancing (Series 11).

Alison Hammond, TV Presenter, Contestant in Strictly Come Dancing (Series 12).

Cassidy Little, Former Royal Marine Medic, Winner of The People’s Strictly for Comic Relief 2015.

Harry Judd, McFly Drummer, Winner of Strictly Come Dancing (Series 9).

Lisa Snowdon, TV and Radio Presenter, Runner up in Strictly Come Dancing (Series 6).

Tom Chambers, Actor, Winner of Strictly Come Dancing (Series 6).

Professional dancers Pasha Kovalev, Brendan Cole and Robin Windsor will partner the ladies while Natalie Lowe, Oti Mabuse and Joanne Clifton will partner the gentlemen.

In this year’s Christmas cracker of a show, all six couples will each perform an enchanting and magical routine themed around a host of family favourites including Alice in Wonderland, Jack Frost and Scrooge, in a bid to be crowned Christmas champions 2015 and lift the famous Silver Star trophy.

Plus a Strictly Christmas wouldn’t be complete without our Judges, Darcey Bussell Sprouts and her three wise men, Len Glitter Goodman, Bruno Tinsel Tonioli and Craig Revel Humbug will be there to bring along some joy and festive cheer and decide who is good and who is bad.

And the icing on top of the Christmas cake will be a spectacular music performance from the legendary Dame Shirley Bassey.

Following the Grand Final of Strictly Come Dancing 2015, Sir Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly will be back for the annual Christmas Special on BBC One on Christmas Day.

The Hunt: Oceans - Hunger at Sea Jonathan Ross Show

The open ocean is an immense wilderness that covers more than half the surface of our planet, yet for the most part it’s a watery desert, largely devoid of life.

Food is incredibly scarce and very widely spread so hunters have to travel great distances in their search for prey.

And even when they find

food, catching it presents a whole new set of challenges.

Open ocean hunters are highly specialised to survive in the big blue, none more so than the blue whale, our planets greatest hunter. But how is it possible for the biggest animal that has ever lived to survive in an ocean desert? The blue whale's giant size holds the key.

Another remarkable ocean hunter is the Frigate bird: their feathers aren’t

waterproof so they rarely, if ever, land on water - yet they manage to hunt at sea.

Instead Frigates rely on dorado - predatory oceanic fish - to force flying fish from of the water, and once in the air the frigate birds take flying fish on the wing.

Sharks, sea lions, spinner dolphins, albatross and the characterful sargassum fish have all developed extraordinary ways to hunt in the open ocean, Sunday on BBC One.

The One Direction boys join Jonathan following the conclusion of their global tour. Earlier in August, news broke that Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles and Liam Payne would be going on an `extended hiatus' in 2016 to focus on solo work.

The announcement prompted the hearts of Directioners worldwide to skip a beat, fearing the boys might be about to split for good, but the group has since insisted that this is not the end for One Direction. Here, the lads perform two songs, and speak to Jonathan about their decision to take a break.

Friday 20th November 07:15 Len and Ainsley’s Big Food Adventure 08:00 Neighbourhood Blues 08:45 Junior Bake Off 09:15 Pound Shop Wars 09:45 Great British Menu 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Michel Roux’s Service 15:00 Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals 17:45 Kangaroo Dundee 18:15 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Strictly Come Dancing: It 20:30 Citizen Khan Baby Takes Two Mohammad is having a few Antiques and 20:00 Celebrity nights, unsettled Road Trip Legendary comeShazia and Amjad are finddy duo Tommy Cannon and ing it difficult to cope with Bobby Ball hit the antiques the lack of sleep trail

07:00 Breakfast 10:15 The Wanted 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Housing Enforcers Neighbourhood 12:30 Blues 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Coroner 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Len and Ainsley’s Big Food Adventure 17:30 Flog It 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show

21:00 EastEnders Roxy 21:00 Mastermind Quiz attempts to get to the bot- show tom of what happened to Charlie 21:30 An Island Parish: Falklands As Easter week 21:30 Adele at the BBC arrives, Reverend Richard Accompanied by her live lends a hand in Stanley’s band, Adele performs her only bakery preparing the much-loved classics along- hot cross buns side new material 22:00 Great Continental 22:35 Have I Got News for Railway Journeys Armed You Regular team captains with his 1913 Continental Paul Merton and Ian Hislop Railway Guide, Michael are joined by guest host Portillo ventures deep into Victoria Coren Mitchell and the Black Forest on a quest Hal to discover the essence of panellists guest Cruttenden and Jacob Germany Rees-Mogg 23:00 QI 23:30 Newsnight 23:05 News 23:40 The 00:00 Artsnight 00:35 Film 02:05 (18) Graham Norton Show Badlands 00:25 Josh 01:25 Weather Question Time 03:05 Class for the Week Ahead 01:30 of 92: Out of Their League 04:05 This is BBC Two News

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In Emmerdale Ashley has an opportunity to tell Harriet the truth, but he bottles it. Instead he suggests that they should split up, leaving Harriet hurt and confused.

Ashley realises how much he needs Harriet, but he tells Bob that he needs to make sense of what he wants first - much to Bob’s

despair. Can Bob be persuaded to keep Ashley’s secret much longer?

Meanwhile, Belle accompanies Zak and Joanie to a Northern Soul night. The evening is fun and Belle meets a boy called Matt.

All is going well until Joanie jokingly poses as Zak’s wife. Suddenly Zak’s attitude changes and Joanie is shocked by his decision.

x07:00 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 Bob struggles to keep Ashley’s secret as Harriet’s heart breaks 20:30 Coronation Street Leanne prepares for the hardest goodbye Italian Gino’s 21:00 Escape: Islands in the Sun Gino visits the town of Orgosolo, made famous by the abundance of murals depicting its proud history, meeting a shepherd who explains how the simple food from the land sustains the Sardi people, 21:30 Coronation Street Michael sets his sights on redemption 22:00 I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here Ant and Dec catch up with the latest news from camp as one of the celebrities prepares for the Bushtucker Trial 23:30 News 00:15 Film The Eiger Sanction (15) 02:30 Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Kyle USA 04:40 ITV Nightscreen In Coronation Street, Leanne calls at Number 1 and admits to Ken that she’s finding it hard to cope with Simon. She suggests that Simon should come to live with him for a few weeks and Ken agrees.

Simon makes spiteful digs at Leanne, suggesting that she wants him out of the way so she can drag men back to the flat. As they set off, Simon begs Leanne not to leave him at Number 1, telling her that he’ll never speak to her again if she does. Will Leanne be able to go through with it?

Meanwhile, when Aidan announces to the factory

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07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:30 Come Dine with Me 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 15:10 Deal or No Deal 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Homes by the Sea 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 Marcel Theroux visits South Korea to investigate the growing scandal of modern-day slavery, 21:00 TFI Friday Chris Evans’ seminal cult entertainment show continues the new series with brand new features, raucous stunts and guests including Mark Ronson, ELO, Hozier and Stereophonics 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 First Dates 01:05 Rude Tube 02:00 Film - The Man with the Iron Fists (18) 03:35 Supernatural 04:25 Four Rooms 05:20 Location, Location, Location girls that they have a huge order and he’s looking for volunteers for overtime, Kate is disparaging. On behalf of the workers, Kate demands a decent overtime rate but Aidan refuses to budge. Accusing Aidan of exploitation, Kate gathers her things and walks out. Carla is quietly impressed.

After the break, Tracy is unimpressed to discover that Simon has moved in.

Ken assures her that it’s only temporary. Amy winds Simon up by playing her violin down his ear while he’s trying to watch a DVD. Simon grabs Amy’s violin bow and the cousins fight.

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:25 Film - A Fairytale Christmas 14:10 News 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film Will You Merry Me (PG) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The UK’s Strongest Man 2015 The biggest, strongest men in the UK come together in Belfast for three days of competition in a bid to win the title. Eddie Hall defends his four-time championship against competitors from Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Contests include Farmer’s Walk and Daddy Dumbbell.

21:00 Ice Road Truckers Lisa heads further north than any Polar trucker has done before, Art has 450 miles to go with bad chains, Todd tackles a lake crossing in white-out conditions and Alex tries to rub his former team’s noses in the dirt, 22:00 NCIS: New Orleans When LaSalle’s brother Cade becomes a suspect in a murder investigation, he turns to Pride for help 23:00 NCIS 23:55 NCIS: Los Angeles 00:55 Access 01:00 Super Casino 04:10 Autopsy 05:00 Inside Holloway Prison 05:45 House Doctor In Eastenders, The Mitchell sisters reach breaking point as a furious Roxy confronts Ronnie.

Roxy also becomes determined to get to the bottom of what has happened to Charlie, so she turns to Dot for help but learns a worrying truth. With the pressure building, Roxy confronts her sister and demands to know whether Charlie is alive or dead.

Meanwhile, Linda confides in Elaine by questioning whether Mick is really the man she wants to marry after last night’s events.

Mick sets out on a mission to cheer Linda up, but will it work?

07:00 The Hot Desk 07:10 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:35 Psych 08:20 Emmerdale 09:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 09:50 Dinner Date 10:50 Psych 11:40 I’m a Celebrity 12:45 You’ve Been Framed 13:10 Emmerdale 14:15 You’ve Been Framed 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 I’m a Celebrity 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:15 Film - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (12) 23:30 I’m a Celebrity 00:30 Celebrity Juice 01:20 Two and a Half Men 02:15 The Vampire Diaries ITV3 07:00 George and Mildred 07:25 Heartbeat 08:30 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:30 Judge Judy 11:55 A Touch of Frost 14:00 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor at Large 17:50 On the Buses 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Doc Martin 22:00 Lewis 00:00 A Touch of Frost ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:55 The Sweeney 08:45 Minder 09:45 Alias Smith and Jones 10:50 Gunsmoke 11:55 The Professionals 13:00 The Sweeney 14:00 Minder 15:00 Pawn Stars 15:55 Gunsmoke 17:00 Alias Smith and Jones 18:00 The Professionals 19:00 The Sweeney 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 The Car Chasers 22:00 River Monsters 23:00 Film - The Long Kiss Goodnight (18) 01:25 Ax Men

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

Saturday 21st November

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07:00 Breakfast 11:00 Saturday Kitchen 12:30 Simply Nigella 13:00 News 13:10 Football Focus 13:50 Saturday Sportsday 14:00 Bargain Hunt 15:00 Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals 17:30 Final Score 18:10 Now You See It 18:40 News 19:00 Pointless

07:00 Race to Super Bowl 50 07:45 Film - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (PG) 09:35 Film - Sinbad, the Sailor (U) 11:30 Animal Park 12:00 Ronnie’s Animal Crackers 13:00 My Life on a Plate 13:45 My Life on a Plate 14:30 Len and Food Big Ainsley’s Adventure 15:15 Talking Pictures 15:55 Film - In Search of the Castaways (U) 17:30 Escape to the Continent 18:30 The Great Pottery Throw Down 19:30 Flog It

19:50 Strictly Come Dancing The eight remaining couples battle it out on the dancefloor of the Blackpool Tower Ballroom.

The show opens with the dancers performing an Upstairs, Downstairs20:30 Great Continental themed Lindy hop routine Railway Journeys Michael 21:10 Doctor Who The Portillo ventures deep into Doctor and Clara, with their the Black Forest on a quest old friend Rigsy, find them- to discover the essence of selves in a magical alien Germany world, hidden on a street in the heart of London 21:30 Dad’s Army Pike

loses his way in a minefield 22:00 Casualty Dixie is during night manoeuvres forced to ignore her gut feeling, and Cal faces every 22:00 QI XL Stephen Fry parent’s nightmare and guests navigate the 22:50 The National Lottery topic of mathematics Live 23:00 News 23:20 Match of the Day 00:50 The Apprentice 01:50 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:55 News

22:45 Film - The Help (12) 01:05 Film - The Painted Veil (12) 03:00 This is BBC Two

07:00 Bottom Knocker Street 07:35 Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 08:00 Share a Story 08:05 Oddbods 08:10 Sooty 08:25 Super 4 08:40 Adventure Time 09:00 Marvel’s Avengers Assemble 09:30 Thunderbirds are Go 10:00 Jessie 10:25 News 10:30 Murder, She Wrote 11:25 Jeremy Kyle 12:25 News 12:40 Jeremy Kyle 14:45 Judge Rinder 15:45 Doc Martin 16:45 Film - Field of Dreams (PG) 18:45 News19:15 Catchphrase 20:00 The Chase: Celebrity Special Four celebrities come together hoping to win thousands for their charities

07:15 How I Met Your Mother 08:05 Garmin Mourne Skyline 2015 08:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 The Morning Line 11:00 Frasier 12:00 The Big Bang Theory 13:25 The Simpsons 14:30 Racing: Haydock Park and Ascot 17:00 Come Dine with Me 19:30 News 20:00 The World’s Weirdest Weather More unusual natural phenomena, including freak hailstorms in the desert 21:00 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud reveals five more candidates vying to be crowned Riba House of the Year 2015

21:00 The X Factor The nation’s favourite singing 22:00 Film - Red 2 (12) competition continues with The team of mature former the fourth live show CIA operatives is called 22:40 I’m a Celebrity, Get back into action to track Me Out of Here Ant and down a nuclear device left Dec catch up with the over from the Cold War that still poses a threat to world stranded stars following peace 23:40 The Jonathan Ross Show 00:45 News 01:00 00:20 TFI Friday 01:20 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories Jimmy Carr: Being Funny 01:55 Jackpot247 04:00 02:15 Alan Carr: Chatty Show Me the Telly 04:50 Man 03:10 Fargo 04:10 ITV Nightscreen Hollyoaks Omnibus

07:00 Milkshake 09:55 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:30 The Saturday Show 12:30 Film - My Santa (PG) 14:10 Film - Rosemont 16:00 Film - Christmas Mail (PG) 17:50 Film - Naughty or Nice (U) 19:30 News 19:35 Fail Army 20:00 Police Interceptors Dog-handler Jimmy tries to make sense of a bloke with a blooded face 21:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away Brian and Del track down an elusive company director whose business has been destroyed by the recession 22:00 Football League Tonight In the Championship, Leeds host Rotherham in what is sure to be a hotly contested Yorkshire derby.

M e a n w h i l e , Middlesbrough continue their promotion push when they take on QPR, and Hull make the trip to Bristol City 23:25 Greatest Christmas TV Moments 02:10 Super Casino 04:10 Bamma: Night of Champions

13:30 The Xtra Factor 14:30 Scorpion 15:25 Totally You’ve Been Framed 16:25 Catchphrase 17:05 I’m a Celebrity 18:35 Film - Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (12) 20:55 Film Hulk (12) 23:40 I’m a Celebrity 00:40 The Keith Lemon Sketch Show ITV3 11:20 A Touch of Frost 15:55 Columbo 17:55 Midsomer Murders 19:55 Doc Martin 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Lewis 01:05 A Touch of Frost ITV4 11:45 Pawn Stars 13:45 World Series of Darts Finals 18:00 Storage Wars Texas 19:00 Fifth Gear 20:00 World Series of Darts Finals 00:00 Film How I Spent My Summer Vacation (15)

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

Sunday 22nd November 07:00 A to Z of TV Gardening 07:45 The Big Allotment Challenge 08:45 Countryfile 09:45 An Island Parish: Falklands 10:15 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:45 My Life on a Plate 12:30 Len and Food Big Ainsley’s Adventure 13:15 MOTD2 Extra 14:00 Len and Food Big Ainsley’s Adventure 14:45 Film Cimarron (PG) 17:10 Flog It 18:00 Demolition 19:00 Tennis: ATP World Tour 20:15 Strictly Come Finals Dancing Tess and Claudia present the results of last 20:00 Robert Peston night’s judges’ scores and Goes Shopping Exploring the unstoppable rise of viewers’ votes Tesco, IKEA and Primark 21:00 Antiques Roadshow The team val- 21:00 Ireland with Simon ues a jacket worn by Reeve Exploring the history of both the Republic of President Kennedy Northern and Ireland Ireland 22:00 The Hunt following blue whales, sharks, sea 22:00 Monty Don’s Secret lions, frigatebirds, dolphins History of the British and albatrosses to reveal Garden Monty turns his the strategies they use to attention to the 18th centuhunt for prey in the big blue ry 07:00 Breakfast 08:25 Match of the Day 10:00 The Andrew Marr Show 11:00 Sunday Morning Live 12:00 Sunday Politics 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:15 Sophia: Suffragette Princess 14:45 Homes Under the Hammer 15:30 Escape to the Country 16:15 Eat Well for Less 17:15 Songs of Praise 17:50 The Hunt 18:50 News 19:15 Countryfile

23:00 News 23:30 Match of the Day 2 00:15 Citizen Khan 00:45 Graham Norton 01:30 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:35 News

23:00 Family Guy 00:05 Film - All Good Things (15) 01:40 Countryfile 02:35 Holby City 03:35 This is BBC Two

07:00 Bottom Knocker Street 07:35 Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 08:00 Share a Story 08:05 Oddbods 08:10 Sooty 08:25 Super 4 08:40 The Matt Hatter Chronicles 09:00 Marvel’s Avengers Assemble 09:30 Fish Hooks 10:00 Jessie 10:25 Murder, She Wrote 11:20 Jeremy Kyle 12:20 News and Weather 12:25 Jeremy Kyle 14:35 The Chase 15:30 The X Factor 17:15 Film - The Mummy (12) 19:30 News and Weather 20:00 Jekyll and Hyde Robert discovers he has some distant relations, so goes to see them

07:15 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:05 Chasing Perfection 09:00 Frasier 10:30 Sunday Brunch 13:30 The Simpsons 14:25 Film - Inkheart (PG) 16:30 Film - Rio (U) 18:30 News 19:00 Emergency Animal Hospital 20:00 Restoring Britain’s Landmarks The last episode in the series follows the final push to complete the restoration of St Edward’s Presbytery in Ramsgate

21:00 Building Hitler’s Supergun Hugh Hunt examines how the Nazis built the largest cannon in history during the Second 21:00 The X Factor World War, a 25-barrelled Results Show The two artillery piece lowest scoring contestants compete in a sing-off 22:00 Homeland Carrie gets the opportunity to 22:00 I’m a Celebrity, Get reconnect with some old Me Out of Here catching friends up with the latest news from the camp 23:00 Gogglebox 00:05 Film - Welcome to the 23:05 News 23:20 Film - Punch (15) 01:55 Grand Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Designs 02:50 Obsessive (15) 01:40 Jackpot247 Compulsive Cleaners 04:00 Motorsport UK 04:50 03:50 Come Dine with Me ITV Nightscreen 05:40 Food Unwrapped

07:00 Milkshake 10:55 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:30 Football League Tonight 13:00 Criminals: Caught on Camera 13:30 Film Christmas with the Kranks Film 15:20 (PG) Matchmaker Santa 17:00 Film - Mrs Miracle (PG) 18:55 Film - Annie Claus is Coming to Town (PG) 20:35 News 20:40 Fail Army Clip show based on the YouTube phenomenon 21:10 Impractical Jokers USA Hidden camera practical joke show 22:00 Film - Angels and Demons (12) Thriller about an expert in religion, who is called on by the the when Vatican Illuminati, an ancient antiorganisation, Catholic hatch a revenge plot to destroy the church 00:45 Film - Stargate (PG) 02:50 Super Casino 04:10 Eamonn and Ruth: How the Other Half Lives 05:00 House Doctor 05:25 Make it Big 05:50 Make it Big

12:20 The X Factor 14:05 I’m a Celebrity 15:10 Film A Cinderella Story (PG) 17:05 Film - Happy Feet (U) 19:15 I’m a Celebrity 20:15 Film - Liar Liar (12) 22:00 The Xtra Factor 23:05 I’m a Celebrity 00:05 Plebs ITV3 11:30 A Touch of Frost 13:40 Columbo 15:50 Agatha Christie’s Marple 17:55 Midsomer Murders 19:50 Sunday Night at the Palladium 20:55 Wycliffe 22:00 Lewis 00:00 Inspector Morse 02:10 Film - Death Becomes Her (PG) ITV4 13:45 World Series of Darts Finals 18:00 Storage Wars New York 18:55 River Monsters 20:00 World Series of Darts Finals 00:00 Being Kevin Pietersen

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

Monday 23rd November

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Neighbourhood 07:15 Blues 08:00 Len and Food Big Ainsley’s Adventure 08:45 Junior Bake Off 09:15 Caught Red Thief 09:45 Handed Trackers 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics Roux’s Michel 14:00 Service 15:00 The Box 15:30 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 16:30 Cash in the Attic 17:15 Kangaroo Dundee 17:45 Planet Dinosaur 18:15 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 20:30 Fake Britain Matt Eggheads 19:30 Strictly reveals the rogue operators Come Dancing: It Takes using fake ATOL member- Two ships to convince travellers 20:00 Grand Tours of the to part with thousands Scottish Islands Paul 21:00 EastEnders Denise crosses the Sea of the Hebrides to explore the receives a suspicious visitor remote Shiant Islands in the middle of the night 20:30 Only Connect Quiz 21:30 The Taliban Hunters show joins Azhar Mobeen University Superintendent Ijaz and his 21:00 show for Quiz Challenge team as they try to regain students control of the city 21:30 Simply Nigella 22:00 Tomorrow’s Food Nigella rustles up more of Dara O Briain and a team of her favourite recipes experts examine the cutting-edge technologies and 22:00 London Spy In a the produce transforming how brutal interrogation, police accuse Danny of food is grown, bought and being responsible for his eaten around the world lover’s death

07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Fake Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Oxford Street Revealed 12:45 Rip Off Britain 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Coroner 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Len and Food Big Ainsley’s Adventure 17:30 Flog It 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show

23:00 News 23:35 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 00:20 Doctor in the House 01:20 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:25 News

23:00 Live at the Apollo 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Ireland with Simon Reeve 01:15 The Apprentice 02:15 The Great Pottery Throw Down 03:15 This is BBC Two

SOAPS

Later, Andy asks Bernice if a no-sex marriage is really enough for her. They’re soon kissing passionately, before Andy asks her if she wants to leave with him. A horrified Chrissie watches the pair leaving through a gap in the door.

In Emmerdale, Kerry is on a mission to prove to Bernice that a sexless marriage would be a very big mistake, and she gets an idea when she sees Andy.

Bernice is soon confronted by a scantily-clad Andy at her hen night, as Kerry wants to show her what she will be missing out on.

In Coronation Street, Tensions run high at Number 1 as Simon and Amy continue to wind each other up. Ken is shaken when an irate Simon shouts that nobody wants him anymore. Robert steps in and chats to Simon about his own childhood, making him see that he’s lucky to have Leanne.

Simon breaks down as Robert hugs him.

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:30 Come Dine with Me 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 15:10 Deal or No Deal 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 18:00 20:00 Emmerdale James Couples Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons tries to find Emma 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 20:30 Coronation Street News Tensions run high for the 21:00 Dispatches Morland Barlows Sanders investigates why demand for ambulances is 21:00 The Martin Lewis rising Money Show Martin Lewis and Saira Khan examine 21:30 The Shopper’s some of the unmissable Guide to Saving Money Black Friday deals, and use Kate Quilton and Dave the show’s unique Festive Fishwick investigate two of Forecaster to predict when life’s bigger outlays: diais the cheapest time to monds, and funerals 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 1000 Heartbeats 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News

shop in the big stores 22:00 Hunting the before Christmas Paedophiles: Inside the National Crime Agency 21:30 Coronation Street Hundreds of British Simon shows no remorse teenage boys had been duped into sending inde22:00 I’m a Celebrity, Get cent images of themselves Me Out of Here As the to what they thought was a celebrities settle in to their teenage girl online. This second week in the jungle, programme re-tells the who is adapting to camp life hunt to find this offender and who is missing their 23:00 Fargo 00:05 8 Out of home comforts?

10 Cats Does Countdown 01:05 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 23:00 News and Weather 01:55 The Undateables 23:40 The Mafia with 02:55 Gente De Bien 04:25 Trevor McDonald 01:35 You Deserve This House Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy 05:15 Location, Location, Kyle 04:50 ITV Nightscreen Location Later, when Simon spots a relaxed Leanne returning from a shopping trip, his mood instantly darkens again. Alone in the house doing their homework, Amy and Simon row. Amy goes to phone Tracy, but Simon snatches her mobile and throws her against a wall. How far will Simon go?

After the break, Ken, Nessa and Tracy enter Number 1 to find Amy fending off Simon. When Amy reveals that Simon hit her, Tracy is incensed and goes looking for Leanne.

Leanne then arrives to question Simon, but he shows no remorse and Eva forces her to admit

how Simon has physically abused her for months.

Ken, Tracy and Robert are stunned as Leanne breaks down, pouring her heart out to the Barlows. Ken is full of sympathy, but how will Tracy respond to Leanne’s revelation?

In Eastenders, Roxy tries her best to avoid Ronnie after speaking to the police. When Ronnie turns

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:20 Film - Rosemont 14:10 News 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS: New Orleans 16:15 Film The Christmas Pageant (PG) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 20:00 The Gadget Show The team meets 15-yearold internet sensation Jack Mitchell, explores tech to make our homes smarter and our phones faster 21:00 Police Interceptors Under Attack Special episode featuring footage of the elite interceptors coming under attack while trying to keep the bad guys off the streets, from axewielding criminals to thugs who are handy with their fists 22:00 Sepp Blatter Exposed: The Fall of FIFA Documentary examining the scandal that surrounds world football’s governing body and its current president Sepp Blatter 23:00 Britain’s Biggest Bank Jobs 00:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 01:00 Gypsies on Benefits and Proud 02:00 Super Casino 04:10 Loch Lomond: A Year in the Wild 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 HouseBusters 05:45 House Doctor to Sharon for help, Sharon agrees to hold a family lunch to help bring the Mitchell family back together. Sharon insists that Phil shows his support too.

When they get a moment alone in the kitchen, Ronnie apologises to a guilt-ridden Roxy for everything that has happened recently, but she’s left confused when Roxy tells her to leave. Before Ronnie has a chance to go, the police arrive and arrest her for the murder of Carl White. A smug Dean turns up to watch the scene, but Roxy admits that it was her who went to the police.

07:00 Alesha Dixon: The Hot Desk 07:10 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:35 Psych 08:20 Emmerdale 08:50 Coronation Street 09:50 Dinner Date 10:50 Psych 11:40 I’m a Celebrity 12:45 You’ve Been Framed 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 Coronation Street 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 I’m a Celebrity 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Plebs 23:00 I’m a Celebrity 00:05 Celebrity Juice 00:50 Safeword 01:35 Two and a Half Men ITV3 07:00 George and Mildred 07:25 Heartbeat 08:30 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:35 Judge Judy 11:55 A Touch of Frost 14:00 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:05 Where the Heart is 17:10 Doctor at Large 17:45 On the Buses 18:15 George and Mildred 18:50 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Doc Martin 22:00 Midsomer Murders 00:00 A Touch of Frost 02:00 Where the Heart is 02:55 Judge Judy ITV4 07:00 Hat-Trick Heroes 07:15 Tommy Cooper 07:40 The Professionals 08:40 Minder 09:45 Alias Smith and Jones 10:45 Gunsmoke 11:50 The Professionals 12:55 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 14:55 Pawn Stars 15:50 Gunsmoke 16:55 Alias Smith and Jones 18:00 The Professionals 19:00 The Sweeney 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Storage Wars New York 22:00 Car Crash Britain 23:00 Benidorm 00:00 Bundesliga 01:00 Motorsport UK 02:00 Ax Men 02:50 Minder

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

Tuesday 24th November 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Fake Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Oxford Street Revealed 12:45 Rip Off Britain 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Coroner 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Len and Ainsley’s Big Food Adventure 17:30 Flog It 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders The Mitchells reel from earlier events, pushing the family even further apart 21:00 Holby City The formidable Jac Naylor is back on Darwin and Ollie is intent on not letting her belittle him anymore 22:00 Capital The residents of an affluent south London street struggle with their health, financial and family problems behind closed doors. The community is wary and stunned when dwellers each receive a note bearing the words `we want you to have’, through their letterboxes, but in due course begin to see their lives transformed 23:00 News 23:35 Imagine 01:10 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:15 News

SOAPS

In an hour long Emmerdale, it’s the day of the wedding and Bernice wakes up next to Andy after their night of passion in the salon. Victoria gets a shock when arriving for a hair appointment and wonders if the wedding will be cancelled, as does Bernice. Chrissie decides to tell Lawrence what she saw last night.

07:00 Escape to the Country 07:45 Oxford Street Revealed 08:30 Len and Ainsley’s Big Food Adventure 09:15 Great Continental Railway Journeys 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Michel Roux’s Service 15:00 The Box 15:30 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 16:30 Cash in the Attic 17:15 Kangaroo Dundee 17:45 Planet Dinosaur 18:15 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Jo Joyner and Sunetra Sarker hit the antiques trail in Somerset and Devon 21:00 MasterChef: The Professionals Three cooks have to fillet a sea bream and cook it, the next three have to make watercress soup 22:00 The Great Pottery Throw Down The remaining potters are challenged to make a garden sculpture 23:00 The Truth About Child Sex Abuse 23:45 Newsnight 00:30 Race to Super Bowl 50 01:15 The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track 02:15 The Hunt 03:15 Britain’s Ultimate Pilots: Inside the RAF 04:15 This is BBC Two Bernice is shocked to hear that Lawrence still wants to marry her. When she explains that she needs intimacy in her marriage, Lawrence makes a proposition - if they marry he would turn a blind eye to her sleeping with other people, as he would rather share her than lose her.

With everything still up in the air, Andy tells Victoria that he thinks Bernice would leave Lawrence for him but reckons he’d only make her miserable in the long run.

Later, everyone waits in the marquee for the wedding and Lawrence is about to tell everyone it’s off when Bernice interrupts

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 1000 Heartbeats 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Bernice and Lawrence’s wedding day arrives - but will it go ahead?

21:00 Emergency! Trains v Weather Documentary revealing the efforts taken by engineers and maintenance teams to keep Britain’s railways functioning through winter weather. Cameras follow them tackling floods, hurricaneforce winds, snow and the yearly blight of leaves on the lines in a bid to prevent the delays which cause misery for millions of passengers 22:00 I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here With the temperatures rising, so is the competition. Who is facing the next Bushtucker Trial - and who is crumbling under the pressure?

23:00 News and Weather 23:45 On Assignment 00:25 The Jonathan Ross Show 01:25 Benidorm 02:15 Jackpot247 04:00 Loose Women 04:45 ITV Nightscreen him. Does she want to marry Lawrence? Even if she does, Andy is waiting outside the venue, bracing himself to go in and stop the wedding...

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07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:30 Come Dine with Me 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 15:10 Deal or No Deal 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 18:00 Couples Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News

20:00 Ultimate Police Interceptors Reality documentary series featuring highlights of the elite highspeed road policing units in 21:00 The House of Lincolnshire, Durham and Hypochondriacs Dr Cleveland as they crack Christian Jessen invites down on criminals three people with health anxiety to meet others liv- 21:00 Loch Lomond: A in the Wild ing with the conditions they Year autumn fear most, in a bid to relieve Documenting events at Loch Lomond their hypochondria and the Trossachs National 22:00 24 Hours in A and E Park, a time for the red Cameras follow a 10-year- deer rut, when stags battle old who has severed his for the right to breed finger at school and a stonemason who has 22:00 Eamonn and Ruth: dropped a slab of marble How the Other Half Lives Eamonn and Ruth visit a on his hand £30 million country house hotel 23:00 Catastrophe 23:35 Tattoo Fixers 00:35 A Very 23:00 CSI: Cyber 23:55 British Brothel 01:30 The Unseen Fred West PokerstarsCom Shark Confessions 00:55 Law Cage 02:30 KOTV Boxing and Order: Special Victims Weekly 03:00 Gillette Unit 01:50 Car Crime UK: World Sport 03:25 Chasing Caught on Camera 02:15 Perfection 04:20 Mobil 1 Super Casino 04:10 GPs: The Grid 04:45 Garmin Behind Closed Doors Mourne Skyline 2015 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 05:10 Location, Location, HouseBusters 05:45 House Doctor Location no longer a Mitchell.

he decide?

Phil hopes to find a way to fix the mess, but he’s interrupted when he bumps into Shirley and she realises that he’s been drinking.

Jay also realises that something isn’t right and soon finds Phil drinking in The Albert.

In Holby City, Battle lines are drawn on Jac’s first day back. When she discovers that Guy has taken over part of Darwin, Ollie gets caught in the crossfire.

When Jay fails to take the scotch away from Phil, he asks Billy for some help.

In Eastenders, The Mitchell family share some harsh home truths with Roxy in the aftermath of Ronnie’s arrest. Sharon is furious with Roxy, but it’s Phil who takes things a step further by kicking her out and warning that she’s

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:20 Film Crazy for Christmas (U) 14:10 News 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - Road to Christmas (PG) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News

Later, Sharon heads to The Vic with Aunt Sal. After talking to Shirley, she goes to The Albert where she finds a drunken Phil.

Elsewhere, Honey tells Billy that it’s her or the Mitchell family. What will

Though Guy explains that he only has the best intentions for his patients, Jac puts him in his place - stay on your own territory or suffer the consequences.

Meanwhile, Morven learns there are many approaches to medicine when she clashes with Arthur over a treatment.

Though Hanssen casts the deciding vote, whose way is the right way?

07:00 The Hot Desk 07:10 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:35 Psych 08:20 Emmerdale 08:50 Coronation Street 09:50 Dinner Date 10:50 Psych 11:40 I’m a Celebrity 12:45 You’ve Been Framed 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 Coronation Street 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00I’m a Celebrity 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Tricked 23:00 I’m a Celebrity 00:05 Celebrity Juice 00:50 Safeword ITV3 07:00 Movies Now 07:10 George and Mildred 07:35 Heartbeat 08:40 Murder, She Wrote 09:35 Where the Heart is 10:40 Judge Judy 12:00 A Touch of Frost 14:00 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor at Large 17:50 On the Buses 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Doc Martin 22:00 Midsomer Murders 00:00 A Touch of Frost ITV4 07:00 Football’s Greatest 07:10 Tommy Cooper 07:40 The Sweeney 08:35 Minder 09:40 Alias Smith and Jones 10:45 Gunsmoke 11:50 The Professionals 12:55 The Sweeney 14:00 Pawn Stars14:55 The Big Fish Off 15:55 Gunsmoke 17:00 Alias Smith and Jones 18:00 The Professionals 19:05 The Sweeney 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 The Chase: Celebrity Special 22:00 An Audience with Billy Connolly 23:00 Being Kevin Pietersen 00:05 Film - Total Recall (18)

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

Wednesday 25th November

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07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Fake Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Oxford Street Revealed 12:45 Rip Off Britain 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News and Weather 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Coroner 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Len and Ainsley’s Big Food Adventure 17:30 Flog It 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News and Weather 20:00 The One Show

07:00 Escape to the Country 07:45 Oxford Street Revealed 08:30 Len and Ainsley’s Big Food Adventure 09:15 Simply Nigella 09:45 Terry and Mason’s Great Food Trip 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 12:30 The Spending Review 16:30 Cash in the Attic 17:15 Kangaroo Dundee 17:45 Planet Dinosaur 18:15 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

21:00 Cuffs Felix investigates a kidnap case with more to it than meets the eye Jo struggles with Robert’s rejection and Carl is left to pick up the pieces

20:00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Fashion guru Gok Wan and actress Harriet Thorpe, hunt for antiques in Sussex

22:00 The Apprentice The candidates are taken back in time to the Museum of Childhood, where Lord Sugar instructs the teams to become party planners In two days, they must set up and host a children’s party for some high-spending clients. With a £2,000 budget, the candidates must throw an event to remember 23:00 News and Weather 23:35 Live at the Apollo 00:05 Film - 2015 00:35 Film - Shine (12) 02:20 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:25 News

SOAPS

In Emmerdale, Chas awakes to find a large kitchen knife by her bed.

She insists that she didn’t leave her room all night, so Cain sets out determined to sort Emma.

Aaron tells Cain his own concerns and Cain is left troubled when he begins to doubt his sister, wondering if she might be set-

21:00 MasterChef: The Professionals Three chefs have to make lobster and salmon ravioli with lobster sauce, whilst the other three have to debone and stuff a pig’s trotter 22:00 Dominic Sandbrook: Let Us Entertain You Dominic Sandbrook explores the rise of the individual in post-war culture 23:00 The Apprentice: You’re Fired 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Monty Don’s Secret History of the British Garden 01:15 Earth’s Wildest Waters 02:15 Patagonia: Earth’s Secret Paradise 03:15 This is BBC Two ting Emma up. Chas is furious when Aaron queries how the knife got by her bed, but is relieved when Cain promises that he and Aaron are going to watch Emma’s house during the night.

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 1000 Heartbeats 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 11:30 Come Dine with Me 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 15:10 Deal or No Deal 16:10 Countdown 17:00 20:00 Emmerdale Chas’s Posh Pawnbrokers 18:00 fear has disastrous conse- Couples Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons quences 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 20:30 Coronation Street News Robert knows Tracy has 21:00 The Supervet crossed the line Return of the documentary 21:00 All Star Mr and Mrs following the work of Three celebrity couples `Bionic Vet’ Noel battle it out to see who Fitzpatrick and his team at knows the most about their a pioneering veterinary other half in a bid to win up practice to 30,000 pounds for their chosen charity. The cou- 22:00 Grand Designs In ples hoping to win this this final episode Kevin week are Carl Fogarty and McCloud reveals the winhis wife Michaela, Vernie ner of the Royal Institute of Bennett and her husband British Architects House of Bryan, and Alex Brooker the Year 2015 then visits the house and discovering and his wife Lynsey why it has been crowned 22:00 I’m a Celebrity, Get the best new home in Me Out of Here Ant and Britain Dec present more action 23:00 Peep Show 23:30 from the Australian jungle Toast of London 00:05 24 23:00 UEFA Champions Hours in A and E 01:05 League Highlights 00:00 Best Before 01:35 Film News 00:50 UEFA The Perks of Being a Champions League: Extra Wallflower (12) 03:20 Film Time 01:20 Jackpot247 - King and Country (18) 04:00 Ejector Seat 04:50 04:50 Four Rooms 05:45 Deal or No Deal ITV Nightscreen

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:25 Film Christmas Mail (PG) 14:10 News 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS: Los Angeles 16:15 Film - A Christmas Kiss 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News

pist. Tracy is scornful and clearly jealous of Robert’s friendship with Leanne, but Robert is disgusted by her immaturity.

that he’s still a partner in the business and intends to stay involved. Sharif points out that Gary’s share of the gym was a wedding present, but Gary argues he signed on the dotted line and needs the income to provide for Jake.

the knife. Diane walks round the corner, straight into Chas who lunges at her in the dark. Chas is horrified to see Diane unconscious, bleeding from a serious wound to her stomach.

Later, a tense Chas has closed up the pub and nervously heads upstairs with the knife. Not long afterwards, a tipsy Diane heads towards the back door of the pub. Slightly worse for wear, she accidentally smashes a glass in the pub while negotiating her way through.

Disturbed by the noise, Chas awakes with a start and heads downstairs with

In Coronation Street, Leanne calls at Number 1 and reveals that she is taking Simon to a thera-

Later, Tracy gets dolled up to sit in the Bistro, hoping to win Robert’s forgiveness. When Tracy spots Leanne talking to Robert, she flies into a jealous rage, laying into Leanne and calling Simon a thug.

Robert is furious and throws her out, telling her she’s gone too far. Is it the end for Robert and Tracy?

Meanwhile, Gary arrives back on the street.

Zeedan and Sharif are shocked when he turns up in the gym, making it clear

20:00 Ultimate Police Interceptors Reality documentary series featuring highlights of the elite highspeed road policing units in Lincolnshire, Durham and Cleveland as they crack down on criminals Behind GPs: 21:00 Closed Doors A diabetic man needs to reduce his sugar but just can’t lay off the chocolate, and another man with chronic airways disease flatly refuses to quit smoking 22:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away This week, the agents face a web of deceit in a delicatessen 23:00 Suspects 00:00 Murdered: The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 01:00 Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (15) 01:50 Criminals: Caught on Camera 02:15 Super Casino 04:10 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild UK 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 05:45 HouseBusters House Doctor

Also today, Mary goes UFO spotting with Brendan for the night, so Dev invites Erica round to watch TV. Erica mistrusts Dev’s motives, but Dev assures her that he’s not planning a seduction. As Dev ribs Erica for assuming he fancied her, Erica teases Dev about his own vanity and they begin to warm to each other.

07:00 The Hot Desk 07:10 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:35 Psych 08:20 Emmerdale 09:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 09:50 Dinner Date 10:50 Psych 11:40 I’m a Celebrity 12:45 You’ve Been Framed 13:10 Emmerdale 14:15 You’ve Been Framed 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 I’m a Celebrity 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:15 Film - Liar Liar (12) 23:00 I’m a Celebrity 00:00 The Vampire Diaries 01:00 Two and a Half Men 02:00 Tricked ITV3 07:00 Judge Judy 07:20 George and Mildred 07:45 Heartbeat 08:45 Murder, She Wrote 09:45 Where the Heart is 10:50 Judge Judy 12:05 A Touch of Frost 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor at Large 17:50 On the Buses 18:25 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Doc Martin 22:00 Midsomer Murders 00:05 A Touch of Frost 02:05 Judge Judy 02:45 Movies Now ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:50 The Sweeney 08:45 Minder 09:45 Alias Smith and Jones 10:50 Gunsmoke 11:55 The Professionals 12:55 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 14:55 Pawn Stars 15:50 Gunsmoke 16:55 Alias Smith and Jones 18:00 The Professionals 19:00 The Sweeney 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Fifth Gear 22:00 River Monsters 23:00 Film - Midnight Run (18) 01:35 Film - Sudden Impact (18)

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

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Thursday 26th November 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Fake Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Oxford Street Revealed 12:45 Rip Off Britain 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News and Weather 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Coroner 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Len and Ainsley’s Big Food Adventure 17:30 Flog It 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News and Weather 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Watchdog The team go undercover at the company taking money out of customers’ accounts without asking, actress Sheila Hancock looks into rising insurance premiums, and in Rogue Traders a car dealer is caught on camera lying to his customers 21:30 EastEnders Roxy wonders if she has made the right decision about Dean 22:00 Doctor in the House The doctor is called upon to get to the bottom of Ray’s back pain He’s been suffering for decades even though he looks fit and runs his own gym 23:00 News and Weather 23:35 Question Time 00:35 This Week 01:20 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:25 News

SOAPS

In Emmerdale, Aaron’s stake-out is interrupted when he gets a call from Chas. He and Cain are concerned as they run to the pub and find that Chas has stabbed Diane. Chas makes a run for the door as Cain and Aaron apply pressure to Diane’s wound. Cain chases after Chas and sees she is struggling with a panic

07:00 Escape to the Country 07:45 Oxford Street Revealed 08:30 Len and Ainsley’s Big Food Adventure 09:15 MasterChef: The Professionals 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Michel Roux’s Service 15:00 The Box 15:30 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass 16:30 Cash in the Attic 17:15 Planet Dinosaur 17:45 Planet Dinosaur 18:15 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Legends of the snooker world Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne join the Road Trip 21:00 MasterChef: The Professionals The best six chefs from the week battle it out in the third quarterfinal, in which the judges test their pastry skills 22:00 The Last Kingdom Uhtred leads a raiding party to Cornwall on a mission for wealth and independence 23:00 Russell Howard’s Good News 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Dominic Sandbrook: Let Us Entertain You 01:15 The Taliban Hunters 01:45 Let Us Entertain You 02:45 Doctor Who 03:30 This is BBC Two attack.

As paramedics arrive at the scene and tend to Diane, Cain tries to reason with Chas and is desperate to help. Aaron does his best to pretend Chas is in danger while the police are there, but as soon as they leave, he tells Zak and Lisa that she was the one who stabbed Diane.

Diane is left needing emergency surgery at the hospital, but will she be okay?

Meanwhile, Andy is taken aback when Robert suggests killing whoever it was who stabbed Diane, both united at the prospect of vengeance. At the same time, Emma and James

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 1000 Heartbeats 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Diane is in critical condition 21:00 Coronation Street Eva remains at arm’s length 21:30 Paul O’Grady: For The Love of Dogs Paul meets a pair of cavalier king charles spaniels that have spent their entire lives in each other’s company, but will they be able to find a new home together? He also meets Baloo, a beautiful alaskan malamute with a case of the blues - can Paul cheer him up?

22:00 I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here As the basic jungle diet starts to take its toll, which campmate will be suffering for the group’s supper tonight?

23:00 News and Weather 23:40 UEFA Europa League Highlights 01:00 Birds of a Feather 01:25 Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Kyle USA 04:40 ITV Nightscreen are uneasy to think there was a stalker after all.

They’re concerned for Chas when they learn about the stabbing, unaware it was Chas who did it.

In Coronation Street, Eva bumps into Gary and commiserates over Jason and Alya’s betrayal. Jason walks in as Eva gives Gary a hug and warns Gary off Eva.

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:30 Come Dine with Me 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 15:10 Deal or No Deal 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 18:00 Couples Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds After two weeks apart and time has made the heart grow fonder for Alfie and Emily 22:00 The World’s Most Expensive Food While most people buy their food in the supermarket, Britain’s growing number of billionaires use a private network of luxury food suppliers. This documentary sees how they cater to their super-rich clients in a world untouched by austerity 23:00 First Dates 00:05 Gogglebox 01:10 Hunting the Paedophiles: Inside the National Crime Agency 02:05 Embarrassing Bodies 02:55 Food Unwrapped 03:20 Dispatches 03:50 Unreported World 04:15 Four Rooms 05:10 Location, Location, Location Jason is pleased when Eva agrees to join him for a night out in town, just as friends. However, when Jason warns Eva that Gary is using her to get back at him, Eva accuses Jason of paranoia. Will she change her mind about going out with him?

Meanwhile, Tracy is angry when Robert stays out all night and switches off his phone. Tracy calls in the Bistro and apologises to Robert, begging him to come home. Will Robert agree?

Later, Simon apologises to Amy but Tracy is unimpressed and insults Leanne. As Leanne bites back, Robert gives Tracy a

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:30 Film - Naughty or Nice (U) 14:10 News 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:10 Film - Mrs Miracle (PG) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Ultimate Police Interceptors Reality documentary series featuring highlights of the elite highspeed road policing units in Lincolnshire, Durham and Cleveland as they crack down on criminals Polizzi’s 21:00 Alex Italian Islands Alex explores Sardinia’s rich and diverse culture, and uncovers more of her family roots 22:00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild UK Amanda Owen left Huddersfield to pursue her lifelong dream to become a traditional dog-and-stick hill shepherdess. She now lives with her husband and eight children on a 2,000 acre hill farm 23:00 A and E: When Patients Attack 00:00 Police Interceptors Under Attack 00:55 Access 01:00 Super Casino 04:10 Ice Road Truckers 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 HouseBusters 05:45 House Doctor piece of his mind.

Finally, Fiz helps the girls write wish lists for Santa.

Tyrone is moved and vows to make it the best Christmas ever for Hope.

In Eastenders, Sharon seeks help from Billy and Jay as she tries to get a drunken Phil home. She’s quick to share some harsh words with her husband and struggles as it sinks in that Phil has fallen off the wagon.

When Aunt Sal offers her support, Sharon does her best to help her husband.

However, when Phil insists on having another drink, Sharon snaps and locks him in the bedroom.

07:00 The Hot Desk 07:10 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:35 Psych 08:20 Emmerdale 08:50 Coronation Street 09:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 09:50 Dinner Date 10:50 Psych 11:40 I’m a Celebrity 12:45 You’ve Been Framed 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 Coronation Street 14:15 You’ve Been Framed 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 I’m a Celebrity 20:00 The Xtra Factor 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Scorpion 23:00 I’m a Celebrity 00:05 Celebrity Juice 00:50 Safeword 01:35 Two and a Half Men ITV3 07:00 George and Mildred 07:25 Heartbeat 08:30 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:30 Judge Judy 11:50 A Touch of Frost 14:00 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor at Large 17:50 On the Buses 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Doc Martin 22:00 Midsomer Murders 00:00 A Touch of Frost ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:50 The Sweeney 08:45 Minder 09:45 Alias Smith and Jones 10:50 Gunsmoke 11:55 The Professionals 12:55 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 15:00 Pawn Stars 15:55 Gunsmoke 17:00Alias Smith and Jones 18:00 The Professionals 19:00 The Sweeney 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Deals, Wheels and Steals 22:00 Fifth Gear 23:00 Film - Total Recall (18) 01:20 Film Driven (PG)

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

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CODE CRACKER Code Cracker is a crossword puzzle with no clues; instead, every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number, the same number representing the same letter throughout the puzzle. All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number. In this week’s puzzle, 7 represents C and 11 represents Z, when these letters have been entered throughout the puzzle, you should have enough information to start guessing words and discovering other letters.

QUICKIE

Across

Down

1 Quantity of baked bread (5) 4 Damned (6) 9 Put in order (7) 10 Fling (5) 11 Powder (4) 12 Fervent (7) 13 Stinging flying insect (3) 14 Scoundrel (5) 16 Robust (5) 18 Falsehood (3) 19 Genuine (7) 20 Quote (4) 23 Main arterial vessel (5) 24 Attendant (7) 25 Plucked (6) 26 Pay out (5)

1 Lodger (7) 2 Periods (5) 3 Clue (4) 5 Changeable (8) 6 Grave (7) 7 Sediment (5) 8 Grab (5) 13 Drink (8) 15 Broad (7) 17 Gave way (7) 18 Smallest (5) 19 Outer covering of the skull (5) 21 Annoyed (5) 22 Untidiness (4)

Last weeks Solution

Across: 1 Cargo, 4 Tsar, 9 Secular, 10 Under, 11 Imp, 12 Agree, 14 Irate, 15 Asked, 16 Kiev, 18 Idea, 20 Egypt, 22 Rules, 23 Yacht, 25 Due, 26 Decor, 27 Algebra, 29 Taps, 30 Seedy.

Down: 1 Casual, 2 Recur, 3 Owl, 5 Stupidity, 6 Red tape, 7 Prickly pear, 8 Brief, 13 Eavesdrop, 17 Illicit, 19 Crude, 21 Steady, 24 Cable, 28 Gas.

Scribble Pad

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

CRYTPIC CLUES Across 1 Some disapproval lets customers try out goods before buying them (5) 4 Poorly? Don’t start crying (6) 9 Land needs me badly (7) 10 Ms Hird can be seen in Bath or a nearby town (5) 11 Authentic old coin (4) 12 Six rings around maidens (7) 13 Cherry does not need her blubber (3) 14 Renew what’s damaged with something modern (5) 16 Nymph hiding in toreador’s home (5) 18 Measure the middle of the paellas (3) 19 First book new sign, see? (7) 20 Smack on the wrist? (4) 23 Rebuilt abode using clay (5) 24 Bad example or examples (7) 25 Formally agrees to provide luxury (6) 26 Age is a new form of support (5)

Down 1 Road inn arranged around the hearth (7) 2 Dad gets a measure of current grass (5) 3 Kiln, as in Old Testament (4) 5 Law agency involved in plot to capture the Queen (8) 6 Funny oldies I hero-worship (7) 7 Scruffy togas for Capricorns (5) 8 He and a docked Navy is substantial (5) 13 Redesigned Civil Service Centre is curved in shape (8) 15 It’s charming to have the odd victory (7) 17 Fed up with Ray’s refunds (7) 18 Compound built of trees (5) 19 Enormous soldier ant (5) 21 Take down awful pun, for example (5) 22 Greek goddess is part of the Ram constellation (4)

STANDARD CLUES 26 Support (5) Across Down 1 Favourable reception (5) 1 Fireplace log holder (7) 4 Not well (6) 2 Argentine grassland (5) 9 Landed property (7) 3 Brewer’s kiln (4) 10 First name of actress 5 International law enforceHird (5) ment agency (8) 11 Actual (4) 6 Hero-worship (7) 12 Inexperienced persons 7 Agile mountain animals (7) (5) 13 Weep (3) 8 Weighty (5) 14 More current (5) 13 Half-moon (8) 16 Mountain nymph (5) 15 Charming (7) 18 Measure of cloth (3) 17 Bears the expenses of 19 First book of the Bible (7) (7) 18 Organic compound (5) 20 End of a shirt arm (4) 19 Monster (5) 23 Sun-dried brick (5) 21 Remove dowels (5) 24 Models (7) 22 Queen of Mount 25 Deals with (6) Olympus (4) Last weeks Solution Across: 1 Scraping, 5 Ever, 9 Ocelots, 10 Civil, 11 Beef, 12 Calends, 15 Roster, 16 Beggar, 19 Heretic, 21 Gala, 24 Livid, 25 Spotted, 26 Goya, 27 Canoodle.

Down: 1 Snobbery, 2 Reefers, 3 Pool, 4 Nassau, 6 Vivid, 7 Rely, 8 Acceded, 13 Beheads, 14 Organdie, 17 Granted, 18 Fiesta, 20 Envoy, 22 Flog, 23 Dodo.

FILL IT IN

Complete the crossword grid by using the given words:

3 letter words Lee Ran War 4 letter words Area Aria Aver Axis Bald Bard Bass Bike Brae Cane Cote

Data Else Enol Into Isle Left Loge Node Nuts Oral Pint Rely Rift Rode Rues Sent Silo Skis

Slow Stew Taxi Team Tole Unit Watt 5 letter words Aches Adder Alike Aster Awake Boast Eaten Elope Heave

Ingle Kiosk Pixie Ratel Recap Reset Roost Scene Seers Soaks Steer Stirs Swabs Taper Venue Wiles 6 letter words

Almost Hacker Ornate Papers Pastry Sparse Splice Svelte 7 letter words Anthrax Attract Seethes Whereas 8 letter words Database Easiness

SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORD

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

Across 7 To scratch (with claw, nail) (6) 8 Hardly (6) 9 Nombre (de persona, cosa) (4) 10 Meanwhile (8) 11 Esponjas (para el aseo) (7) 13 To sew (5) 15 Cajas (5) 17 To mix together (ingredients, colours, liquids) (7) 20 Generoso (persona) (8) 21 Brazos (de persona) (4) 23 Receta (6) 24 Pavo (6)

Down 1 Berry (4) 2 Pantalla (television, cine) (6) 3 Trompeta (7) 4 Puertas (de jardín, ciudad) (5) 5 Centre (6) 6 Chambermaid (8) 12 To protect (8) 14 Sensible (having good sense) (7) 16 To choose (6) 18 Square (6) 19 Cuerdas (gruesas) (5) 22 Honey (from bees) (4)

The Courier TV Pull-out - 11 Across 1/24 1973 American comedy film set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression, starring Ryan and Tatum O’Neal as Moze and Addie (5,4) 4 Weekly listing of the current bestselling pop records (3,6) 9/10 Otherwise unknown person, usually abroad, with whom one corresponds (3,3) 11 Symbol of socialist revolution or a warning of danger (3,4) 12 Cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump (4) 13 Drug prepared from the leaves and root of deadly nightshade (10) 15 Dog of a short-legged breed with a fox-like head (5) 16 Treat a sacred place or thing with violent disrespect (9) 17 Refused to abandon

one’s opinion or belief (5,4) 21 Old Testament prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red Sea on a journey known as the Exodus (5) 23 Physicist who studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole (10) 24 See 1 27 Diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work (7) 28 Heavy metal stove used for heating and cooking (3) 29 Elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting open on both sides when ripe (3) 30 Austrian-born actor and film director who was a leader in developing method acting in the US (1901-1982): Lee --------- (9) 31 Soft, malleable greyish-yellow paste, made from ground chalk and raw linseed oil, which hardens after a few hours and is used for sealing glass in

SUDOKU (Hard)

Quiz Word

window frames and filling holes in wood (5) Down 1 Dark circular opening

in the centre of the iris of the eye, which varies in size to regulate the amount of light reaching the retina (5) 2 A large basket, usually

one of a pair, carried by a beast of burden or on a bicycle (7) 3 Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used (4) 4 Pike fitted with an axe head (7) 5 American rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, whose UK hit singles include Happy Together, She’d Rather Be With Me (both 1967) and Elenore (1968) (7) 6 Military officer acting as a confidential assistant to a senior officer (4-2-4) 7 State capital and largest city of Georgia (7) 8 Skilled workers who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching (9) 14 Rolling Stones’ song from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers, which was a UK Top 10 hit single for Susan Boyle in 2009 (4,6) 15 Small concave pieces

of wood, ivory, or plastic, joined in pairs by a cord and clicked together by the fingers as a rhythmic accompaniment to Spanish dancing (9) 18 Month known to the Anglo-Saxons as Winterfylleth, because at this full moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin (7) 19 Someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service (7) 20 Another term for bêche-de-mer, a large sea cucumber eaten as a delicacy in China and Japan (7) 22 Athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball is hurled as far as possible (4,3) 25 Wooden boy who lives in Toyland, created by children’s author Enid Blyton (5) 26 Coarse file or similar metal tool for scraping, filing or rubbing down objects of metal, wood or other hard material (4)

SALLY’S SIMPLE SPANISH LA REALEZA /ROYALTY

Match these words with their Spanish translations then find them in the wordsearch.

(Answers below)

abdicar

la casa real

coronar

la corona

el jefe de estado

la infanta

el palacio

la monarquía

el príncipe

la princesa

el rey

la reina

el trono

reinar

movies/tv QUIZ

ANSEWRS 1. Fred Quimby 2. Marcel 3. Karl Malden 4.

Charlie Chaplin 5. An Actress 6. The Great Dictator, Adenoid Hinkel 7. Vince Edwards 8. Hocus Pocus 9. In the heat of the night 10. Psycho 11. Ginger Rodgers 12. Happy Rabbit 13. I Love Lucy

Last Week’s Solutions Code Cracker Last weeks Quiz Word Solution Across: 1 Dragnet, 5 Summons, 8 Loire, 9 Rainwater, 11 Battering rams, 13 Spruce, 16 Hangover, 18 Hannibal, 19 Nelson, 24 Spill the beans, 26 Stage door, 27 Agile, 28 Cologne, 29 Big bang.

Down: 1 Delibes, 2 Aviator, 3 Niece, 4 Turnip, 5 Stingray, 6 Oates, 7 Sarah, 10 Wrangle, 12 Peso, 14 Pear, 15 Cuisine, 17 Calliope, 20 Stamina, 21 Nest egg, 22 Cherub, 23 BASIC, 24 Snail, 25 Bragg.

Empareja estas palabras - Match the Spanish and English words You will find the answers at the bottom of the quiz.

1.abdicar, 2.coronar,

a.the queen, b.the palace,

k.the royal household,

3.el jefe de estado, 4.el palacio,

c.the King, d.to reign,

l.to crown, m.the throne,

5.el príncipe, 6.el rey, 7.el trono,

e.head of state,

n.the princess.

8.la casa real, 9.la corona,

f.the princess(not in direct line

10.la infanta, 11.la monarquía,

to the throne), g.the crown,

12.la princesa, 13.la reina,

h.the monarchy, i.to abdicate,

14.reinar

j.the prince,

Soduko

Span - Eng

Quizword

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

1. Who produced the 'Tom and Jerry' cartoons until 1956?

2. What was the name of Rose's monkey on the TV show 'Friends'?

3. Malden Serkiovitch became famous as which actor?

4. Which film star has his statue in Leicester Square?

5. Dorethy Parker said "Scratch an actor and you will find" what?

6. In which film did Charlie Chaplain have his first speaking part in 1940?

7. Name the actor who played Ben Casey?

8. Which 1993 Disney film starred Bet Middler as a witch?

9. What film won the best picture Oscar in 1967?

10. In what film was the first flushing toilet seen?

11. Virginia McMath, became famous as which actress?

12. What was Bugs Bunny's original name?

13. Which TV show did 44 million Americans watch, while only 27 million watched Eisenhower being sworn in?

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Tko Teddy Out & About Hello everybody from TKO Teddy and what a busy week I’ve had coming and going all over the place meeting loads of you. I was just slightly disappointed that there wasn’t a bear section in the Town Meets Country show in Torrevieja last Saturday, but there were loads of lovely doggies instead, and nice people including Barrie Crawford

and one of the show organisers, Gina Marks.

I’ve been waving the scarf for the Torry Army everywhere over the last week, including meeting the nice folk at JMG in La Siesta, Torrevieja. In case you didn’t know, the Torry Army has been the CD (Club Deportivo) Torrevieja international supporters club since 2003 and they organ-

ise coaches to away matches as well having a lively and enjoyable social side.

They’re trying to double their membership and are also getting a Walking Football team together, so get involved and Vamos Torry!

My travels also took me to meet the very busy team at The Christmas Shop at the Lakeside Centre, San Luis, Torrevieja; and then I

noticed that one of my tyres was getting a bit worn, so I whizzed round to get a new one from the folk at Tyres Direct in Quesada.

Don’t forget that if you want me to pay you a visit, then contact me via Facebook and my special page, TKO Teddy. My phone number is 664 315 470 or you can email me at tkoteddy@tko.media

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TRELI ON THE TELLY WITH ALEX TRELINSKI

What on heck is The Frankenstein Chronicles doing on ITV Encore? Two episodes in and I love it (only four left), and I can only presume that there will be a future airing on the main ITV channel, because this is absorbing, if somewhat disturbing fare. Sean Bean plays a copper in the 1820's who's asked to work for Home Secretary Robert Peel in solving a curious case involving missing children and body parts being resassembled to create some kind of new entity.

Told you it was disturbing!

Bean's working class cop has family tragedy in the past and he meets some society types including a certain Mary Shelley, as well being on the trail of some very nasty individuals in a atmospheric and enjoyable production. It's actually far better than ITV's Jekyll and Hyde though you certainly wouldn't put this on during the early evening. Bean, as always, is brilliant and it is

Sean's no has-bean

without doubt his show, which is no bad thing.

The death last weekend of Warren Mitchell allows us to reflect on one of the great TV creations from the pen of Johnny Speight, namely the bigotted Alf Garnett who we first saw in the sixties on Till Death Us Do Part. The incredible thing is that so many people got the wrong end of the stick over Garnett, as Speight and Mitchell (both passionate socialists) wanted to expose right-wing racism and bigotry, yet many viewers thought it was a platform for those views(views that incidentally too many people agreed with). I interviewed Johnny Speight just weeks before he died in 1998, and I made the point that Alf might have done more harm than good. He disagreed saying that comedy was one of the best weapons against bigotry and that he would not have changed a thing if he started from scratch.

Are television companies

too sensitive these days and people too eager to complain about anything, thanks to the world of the internet?

A case in point was last Sunday's non-appearance of Jekyll and Hyde on ITV, ostensibly because there was a gun fight in it, which would be viewed as disrespectful in the light of the disgusting atrocities in Paris on the Friday. No problems though for Homeland the same evening on Channel Four which featured a bunch of plotting jihadists in Germany planning an outrage, or later, a bank robber shooting dead a young child in Sky’s new heist thriller, The Last Panthers. A fortnight earlier a cracking episode of Doctor Who featured a plane being blown up, and the profesional complainers whinged that it should not have been screened because of the plane crash over Sinai. I didn't even think of the connection until the following day when the BBC started to get

a handful of complaints from people with nothing better to do with their time. In this modern age, let's go back to the sixties and scrap everything, and just put on the test card and some classical music everytime something nasty happens on this planet of ours. But then I suppose somebody will complain that the music chosen would be out of kilter to the circumstances!

No apologies here for returning to ITV's fabulous drama, Unforgotten which ended last week, with a very neatly done finale. The real surprise was over the closing credits when excellent news appeared that we are going to get a second series next year. We'll obviously get another cold case for Nicola Walker and her colleagues to deal with, but the producers will have to rustle up one hell of a new cast to match the super performances that we've enjoyed over the last couple of months.

I wonder if we've seen the last of Sir Terry Wogan on the BBC's annual Children in Need telethon? El Tel had to literally “back out” last Friday of his hosting duties for the first time ever, and much as I love him, the show didn't suffer with Dermot O' Leary being brought in as a replacement.

To be honest there wasn't that much of Derm, as Nick Grimshaw and Rochelle Humes did a pretty good job at the busy end of things in what was one of the slickest CIN shows in many a year.

Meanwhile the wonderful world of irony is poised to strike for Dermot as the tabloid talk is that ITV have him lined up to present their version of The Voice from 2017, just months after he quit/was pulled from The X Factor by Simon Cowell.

Louis Walsh in a big revolving chair anybody?

Last Friday's jollity of CIN was tempered by the dreadful news coming out of Paris, and for a massive

event you start to flick round the various news channels.

The BBC stuffed Sky News, simply because the Beeb have a Paris team and Sky have no-one there, but my top marks go to a little known channel staffed by mainly British journalists called France 24 based in the French capital. They sadly had the story of their lives and handled it very well both in the studio and outside, led by anchor Mark Owen, who used to work for ITN. His cool and sensitive studio presentation was one of the best examples of crisis anchoring I have ever seen. Perhaps somebody should send a recording over to Kay Burley at Sky? I'm perhaps the only person that doesn't get I'm a Celebrity...... which is pulling in the crowds every night for ITV. I don't have anything against the show and I love Ant and Dec, but seeing people eat worms or even worse stuff just isn't my cup of tea.

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Condensation Condensation is visible evidence of excessive moisture in the air. It may appear as water, frost, or ice on the room surface of windows and doors. The warmer the air, the more water it can hold.

This means that the air in the centre of any given room will hold more water than the air adjacent to the window or door walls, since this area is always colder. When the warm moisture-laden air moves toward the cooler window or door wall, it becomes cooler and could not hold the moisture it held when it was warmer. Therefore, the moisture is dropped and appears as water on the glass and frames of windows and doors. This occurs more frequently during the winter months, because of the extreme difference between the inside and outside temperatures. If you wish to avoid condensation during the winter months, when the average outdoor temperature drops to 35 degrees or less, it would be wise to maintain a 25 to 35 degree relative indoor humidity.

Ventilation is a very effective way to remove excessive moisture from the air, which is why old poorly insulated houses with single glazed windows often times do not have condensation problems.

This is because the air is changed by infiltration around the windows, vents, and

other openings.

Newer homes which are constructed to meet current insulation standards and energy conservation requirements; or older homes which have been newly insulated through the addition of added attic or basement insulation and installation of prime windows with dual or triple glazed glass, are now so air tight that they present a new problem.

All homes will on occasion have temporary condensation, which is the result of one of three occurrences: Building materials contain a great deal of moisture. As soon as the heat is turned on, this moisture will glow out into the air and settle on the windows and so on.

During humid times, houses absorb moisture. This will be apparent during the first few weeks of heating, and then the house should dry up.

Sharp, quick, and sudden drops in temperature, especially during the heating season will create temporary condensation problems.

If you have an existing moisture or condensation problem, do not count on correcting it merely by installing new windows. Windows do not cause condensation; therefore, windows cannot cure condensation. However, an energy efficient vinyl replacement window with Super Spacer warm edge technology helps.

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Christmas Breaks - The hidden gems

If you´re looking for the perfect Christmas escape, there may be one or two places you haven´t yet considered. Lee Magill from

travelandleisure.com gives us his top tips for this year.

A girl on a donkey leads a candle-carrying procession past San Miguel de

Allende’s shops festooned with piñatas and poinsettias. When they stop before a Spanish-colonial building and break into song, you realize you’re witnessing the re-enactment of Joseph and Mary’s search for shelter that takes place in the days leading up to Christmas.

Whether your winter holiday trip enhances your yuletide nostalgia with traditions, sparkly lights, and nippy air or makes a radical break from it—by, say, taking you to warmer climes or a quiet, far-flung hideaway—breaking the habit of staying home will always reward you with a Christmas you’ll never for-

get. With that goal in mind, we’ve rounded up diverse, exceptional places to get you in the spirit of taking off.

Quebec City is one of our favourite historic destinations for the holidays. The narrow cobblestoned streets and stone architecture of the walled city, founded in 1608 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain, make it as romantic and European as it gets on this side of the pond.

Add to that a proclivity for snowfall and an abundance of top-notch bars and restaurants, and you may wish the New Year could be

postponed.

But the appeal of warming up over the holidays is undeniable, too. For the die-hard contrarian, Kaikoura, New Zealand, ought to do the trick. It’s the height of summer there at Christmas, a holiday most often celebrated outdoors with backyard barbecues.

But it’s also a great time to be hiking the rainforest of the Kaikoura mountain range or on the waters of Kaikoura Bay, one of the most biodiverse marine environments on the planet.

It’s the summer home of sperm whales, fur seals, dusky dolphins, and pilot

whales, and all it takes to commune with them is a boat and a bit of perseverance.

South America has weathered the global recession better than most regions, and it’s not hard to see why. Brazil in particular is peppered with off-thebeaten-track gems that offer a true escape, like the coastal Portuguese colonial town of Paraty, about 140 miles south of Rio. Its friendly locals, cerulean waters, exceptional beaches, and exotic-bird-filled jungles may make you forget what holiday it is altogether. Like we said: unforgettable.

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Do You Want a Safe And Colourful Pool or Play Area?

Active Surfaces have many years of experience laying Wet Lay rubber surfacing to pools, children´s play areas and sports arenas all over Europe. Fully legal and compliant we promise to provide a no quibble quotation and no hidden extras.

to a depth of 15-20mm and carefully measure the quantities of Latex added to ensure the surface is fully bound and will last for years. There is normally no need to tear up and rebuild thus preventing long term works and disruption.

Our fully experienced Supervisor (Alan) will be in attendance with our installation team. His hands on experience will ensure the surface you have purchased will be completed to the highest standards. Meeting your individual needs we visit your area to discuss your requirements in detail and according to your budget. We explain the benefits of the Rubber safety surfacing product making sure the right choice is made. We will show you our samples and will happily present to communities if required.

Wet pour surfacing is a mixture of rubber granules bound together by a polyurethane resin and laid on an existing tarmac, concrete, tile or MOT type 1 stone base to provide a continuous rubber surface free from seams or joints. We lay

Our rubber is available in 19 colours and can also be mixed to provide different effects. Ask us to show you the full range of colours from our samples.

Designs and logos and even games can be incorporated into your surface and we include pool depth numbers in contrasting colours for pools. However the more complicated the design, the more time it will take to carry out the installation. This is because each level of colour requires a full 24 hours to dry.

Let your imagination run wild.

Ask to see our catalogue of ready-made designs which can be included in your surface whilst being laid thus reducing installation time.

Tolerant to high temperatures it will not be affected by the summer temperatures here in Spain with the added luxury of being able to walk

bare foot without burning your feet! You can also feel secure knowing your family, friends or even clients will be less likely to sustain injuries through falls as there are never any sharp or hard edges. If there is any earth movement then rubber is flexible enough to move with it and is unlikely to crack and split.

Fully UV resistant your pool or play area will retain its colour for many years. Any repairs or add ons can be matched exactly and so you can be sure that there will be no “discontinued” issues as is often the case with tiled surfaces. Very easy to clean, marks can be easily removed and the surface can be jet washed. The product will not harbour bacteria or fungus.

We have clients here on the Costa who are willing to allow us to show you their new surface. Just call us to arrange a visit. We also have an area in our premises.

This product could help prevent accident claims which in turn may help keep insurance costs down (speak with your insurers about this).

Bars, clubs and communities would benefit enormously by using this surface around their pool or play areas knowing that their clients are less likely to sustain serious injuries through slips or falls.

The surface will last for many years with our 5 year labour guarantee plus a 10 year manufacturer’s warranty you can be sure your surface will remain for many years to come with very low maintenance. There is evidence of some surfaces still in good

condition after 25 years of use. The surface is also suitable for many other areas such as Golf Tee off points and pathways, 5 a side football pitches, terraces; in fact anywhere a safe, hard wearing nonslip surface is required.

Our client requested a border with a mix of natural colours to provide a textured look to the surface. He chose a mix of beige, brown and terracotta for the main area with a highlighted border in Terracotta which resulted in a stunning and natural looking finish to his pool area.

Our client wanted his terrace brightening up and

wanted to match the patterns on the exterior wall. He also wanted a defined pathway.

Discussing his requirements and with our range of colours at hand he chose a light grey with a dark grey to define the path and bright orange for the diamonds. The installation was carried out by our team and the client was delighted with the end result.

This area is available to view by appointment. Just call Rob on 00 34 662 67 94 67 to arrange a visit and see for yourself.

Wet lay rubber can be applied to any hard surface and so if you are having a new pool built why not

choose wet lay rubber as your surface.

We are Happy to announce that we have adopted DEBRA Childrens Charity as our preferred Charity and will be supporting them in Fund Raising efforts along with assisting as required in providing safe surfaces for Children with EB. For further information or for a free no obligation quotation, you can visit our website www.activesurfaces.es or you can telephone us on 00 34 662 67 94 67 and visit our offices (by appointment) at Calle Principe España no 88, Almoradi, 03160.

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A Vegetarian Christmas

Crepes Ingredients

In large bowl, 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 or oil applied with a brush or kitchen paper. 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 minutes on a side, or until golden brown. Serve immediately.

The Best Vegan Beers

Roasted onion squash and cep with sage, soft parmesan polenta and mascarpone

Dessert

4 eggs, lightly beaten 320ml milk 2 tablespoons butter, melted 125g plain flour 2 tablespoons caster sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt Directions

Food & Drink

Vegetarians and Christmas used not to be a perfect marriage. While everyone else was being offered goose, turkey or capon, the poor non-meateaters could be made to feel left out. Nowadays, however, most tastes are willingly catered for by the cook, especially at Christmas.

Roasted onion squash and cep with sage, soft parmesan polenta and mascarpone Serves 6. Small to medium onion squash 2, olive oil 60ml, sage 1 tbsp, chopped, plus a few large leaves, garlic 2 cloves, crushed to a paste, cep, portobello or field mushrooms For the polenta: Milk 500ml, water 250ml, bay leaves 4, garlic 2 cloves, crushed to a cream, sage 1 tsp, chopped, coarse polenta 500g, butter 50g, parmesan 100g, freshly grated, plus extra for serving at the

table, mascarpone 200g.

Preheat the oven to 170C/gas mark 3½. Wash the squash and remove the skin carefully with a sharp knife. Cut the flesh into even sized wedges (discarding the seeds) and place in a bowl. Drizzle generously with olive oil, season with sea salt and pepper and the chopped sage and creamed garlic. Jumble the wedges together so that all surfaces are well coated in the marinade. Arrange the squash in an ovenproof dish that is large enough to hold all the vegetables. (Retain the remaining marinade in the bowl.) Roast the squash in the oven for 20-30 minutes, or until they start to colour at the edges and soften a little.

Trim the mushrooms , toss them gently in the bowl with the remaining marinade until well coated. Remove the dish from the oven and arrange the mushrooms in

and around the squash.

Scatter with the whole sage leaves. Return to the oven and roast for a further 20 minutes, or until all the vegetables are soft.

Meanwhile, for the polenta, bring the milk, water, bay leaves, garlic and chopped sage to a gentle simmer.

Using a whisk, add the polenta to the liquid little by little. Once it has all been incorporated and is smooth, continue stirring with a wooden spoon as it thickens. This may take up to 15 minutes, depending on the type of polenta, but it is important that the polenta loses its graininess as it cooks. Remove the bay leaves.

Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter and half the grated parmesan. Season to taste with sea salt and black pepper.

Pour the polenta into a serving dish, scraping the pan clean with a plastic spatula.

Scatter the remaining parmesan over the surface and dot with generous dollops of mascarpone. Cover and leave in a warm oven until ready to serve.

Serve the roasted vegetables with a scoop of the soft polenta on the side, a drizzle of good olive oil, and a bowl of freshly grated parmesan at the table.

From wriggly worms in tequila to bull’s blood in wine and egg whites in cocktails, booze is full of ingredients to trip up the unwary vegan. The bane of many a vegan and vegetarian drinker, stealthy isinglass gives old school, cask ales their ice-clear iridescence. It binds to the proteins that make beer cloudy; they drop, together, to the bottom of the cask, and are thrown out with the sediment, leaving the ale with the clarity that used to be the hallmark of a wellkept pint. This is good news for many.

Old Ford Export Stout, Redchurch Brewery, available from specialty beer shops or honestbrew.co.uk Nothing works better to wrap you up against winter than a dense, velvety stout. This classic from Redchurch Brewery in east London should dispel any con-

cerns that vegan Guinness will be thin and insipid without its fish jelly. It’s hoppier than most, but that bitterness helps balance out the heavily roasted, complex malts, lifting it from espresso-bitter to lighter, blackberry and liquoricelight levels. It’s quite strong – 7.5%.

Green Gold, Mikkeller, vailable at Brewdog bars and shops or brewdog.com The team behind the Copenhagenbased “gypsy brewery”, one that borrows other people’s kit to make beer, is known for experimental brews such as Texas Ranger, a porter brewed with chipotle chillies, and Spontantripleblueberry, a lambic beer made with blueberries. Green Gold, Mikkeller’s classic IPA, is rich, nutty and caramelised, with plenty of the sweet mango and it’s gluten free.

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Surge in UK adults with diabetes British Heart Foundation analysis finds nearly 3.5 million British people have condition The number of UK adults with diabetes has risen by more than 65% since 2005, figures show.

Almost 3.5 million people are living with diabetes, according to analysis of GP data for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

In the past year there has been a 3.5% rise in cases, while hundreds of thousands more people are undiagnosed with type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity and unhealthy lifestyles.

The BHF is highlighting the issue because of the strong link between diabetes and heart attacks. Having diabetes doubles a person’s risk of a heart attack.

Patient data for 2014-15 shows almost 3.5 million people have diabetes; in the previous year, the figure was 3.3 million, and it was 2 million in 2004-05.

To mark World Diabetes Day, the charity is announcing more than £3m funding for research into the link between heart disease and diabetes, plus new treatments for the condition.

It is hoped the work will look at how blood vessels function, which will lead to new therapies to reduce the chance of diabetics dying early from heart disease.

Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the BHF, said: “Diabetes is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Up to 4 million adults in the UK have diabetes so treatments are urgently needed that can help prevent them suffering a deadly or disabling heart attack or stroke.

“Research we’re funding is showing us how diabetes can affect the blood vessels and bring on disease. By

understanding this process, we hope to develop medicines that can prevent this disease process or even reverse it.”

Dr Richard Cubbon from the University of Leeds, hopes to find a new way to treat the blood vessel damage associated with diabetes. “We’ve known for some time that diabetes can be hugely damaging to the blood vessels and, in spite of modern treatments, we are currently unable to reverse that damage,” he said.

“We’re studying a protein which could be involved in blood vessel repair. Our research could lead to new drugs that help to prevent the deadly heart attacks and strokes associated with diabetes.”

The work comes as separate research from University College London found socio-

cultural factors including time pressure, commuting time and where people live played a role in the risk of developing diabetes.

Experts know that living a healthy lifestyle and maintaining a healthy weight reduces the chances of developing type 2 diabetes.

Chris Askew, chief executive

of Diabetes UK, said: “The number of people with diabetes is rising at an alarming rate and every year there are more than 20,000 people who die tragically young as a result of the condition.

“Given the scale and the seriousness of the condition, it is vital that there is more research into better treat-

ment and, ultimately, into finding a cure.

Diabetes remains one of the biggest health challenges of our time. We must protect the health of the nation by taking urgent steps to get to grips with it or we will continue to see more and more people dying before their time.”

Why We Need Sleep As junior doctors vote on striking over the new contract proposed for them by the government, sleep has become a political issue. While tiredness causes slip-ups at work, the right kind of rest is also crucial: learning is consolidated during dreaming sleep, when the body is taken ‘offline’ and the brain can run through what it has

done that day. Our dream cycles increase in length from five to 40 minutes as we doze.

The healing power of hunting.

This means junior doctors can practise procedures they have just learned without bloody consequences. A particular nucleus stops us from acting out our dreams, pre-

venting hundreds of scalpel-wielding sleepwalking junior doctors from wandering around at night.

Experiments have been done on cats where this nucleus is removed, and they begin running and fighting in their sleep.

The less you dream, the harder it becomes to recall new procedures the next day. This isn’t the only type of ‘practice’ needed – doing things in a realistic context and under pressure is also very important for learning.

Lung Cancer Drug Given Green Light In US A new lung cancer pill from AstraZeneca has been approved by US regulators, in a major boost for the British drugmaker.

AZD9291, which will be sold as Tagrisso, is for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, the most common form of lung cancer.

Tagrisso targets a genetic mutation, known as T790M, that helps tumours evade current lung cancer pills. The drug will be made available to patients in the US as soon as possible and its price will be “comparable to other oral cancer therapies,” a spokeswoman said. AstraZeneca will reveal the price early next week.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women, accounting for a third of cancer deaths, more than

breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined.

The treatment, developed in Cheshire, is one of several highlighted by AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot in his defence against a £69bn takeover approach from American rival Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, last year. AstraZeneca estimates that Tagrisso could bring in sales of $3bn (£2bn) a year but analysts are more cautious, forecasting sales of $1.1bn in 2020. The company needs new blockbuster medicines to make up for sales losses on older drugs that are losing patent protection.The once-daily Tagrisso tablet had a “significant effect on reducing tumour size in over half of patients who were treated,” said Richard Pazdur of the FDA’s centre for drug evaluation and

research. Its approval means AstraZeneca has taken another step forward in its ambition to bring six new cancer treatments to patients by 2020, following the recent launch of Lynparza for ovarian cancer in the US. The approval comes just

two-and-a-half years since Tagrisso was first tested on humans. It had received breakthrough status in the US and has also received accelerated assessment in the EU following its filing in the summer, as well as priority review in Japan.

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More babies born to women 35 or older than under 25 for first time Contact@medb.es

Website: www.medb.es

The 2014 figures also show that two-thirds of babies has fathers aged 30 or over More babies have been born to women 35 and over than to those under 25 for the first time.

Newborns to mothers aged at least 35 accounted for 21% of births in England and Wales last year, compared with 20% to those under 25, , according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

There were 138,592 live births to women under 25 and 144,181 to women 35 and over. There were three times as many births to mothers aged 25 to 34 than to those under 25.

Dr David Richmond, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), said: “It’s undeniable that the age in which women are having their first baby has increased over the past few decades, due to a variety of social, professional and financial factors.”

The trend of later parenthood is unlikely to be reversed dramatically, he said. “But it’s important that both men and women are

aware that fertility starts to decline from the mid-30s onwards.”

He added: “As well as it potentially taking longer to get pregnant, later maternity can involve a greater risk of miscarriage, a more complicated labour, and medical intervention at the birth.”

Richmond said the RCOG supported initiatives to help educate young people about the optimum age to start a family. “More could also be done as a society to support women who would like to start a family earlier. For example, maternity pay, job security, access to flexible working and the cost of child-

care are all prohibitive factors,” he said.

Fathers tend to be older than mothers, the ONS figures for England and Wales show. Last year two-thirds of babies had fathers aged 30 or over.

The average age of all fathers increased to 33.1 in 2014, from 32.9 the previous year. For mothers, the average age was 30.2, compared with 30 in the previous year.

The average age of first-time mothers was 28.5 in 2014, up slightly from 28.3 in 2013.

The number of births to women in their forties was above 29,000 for a fourth year in a row – a pattern not

What’s behind the rise in Skin Problems?

In the past few weeks, we have noticed at our MedB clinic, a dramatic increase in the number of people coming to us with skin problems including lesions, discolorations and itchiness.

Diagnostic scans show that the underlying cause of these skin problems is microorganisms, especially the virus papillomavirus, detected on the skin and hair of patients, but sometimes also present in the internal organs. The typical skin lesion observed at the clinic usually starts as a red spot with raised edges on the head, arms and leg, which may increase in size, gradually fading but spreading to

other parts of the body.

Sometimes the lesions have an encrusted whitish top that may dry out or become infected and yellowish in colour.

Those suffering from such skin problems show a decompensation of their immune system from the failure of the organs to function properly. The Thymus, Spleen, Bone Marrow, tonsils, and blood are all organs responsible for maintaining a healthy immune system, and they do so by producing a variety of antibodies, cells and chemicals to fight harmful foreign microbes.

The increase in skin problems may be secondary to a

depression of the immune system.

The microbes detected from diagnostic scans are usually opportunistic viruses and bacteria that thrive all around us, unable to invade the body until the immune system becomes depressed. In general, viruses that invade the body are never totally destroyed with treatment, and will remain in the body in a dormant state, even in the absence of symptoms.

Stress is well known to depress the immune system, could this be an underlying cause of skin diseases?

An effective treatment used in our clinic for treating skin problems is Colloidal sil-

seen since the years after the second world war. The number of babies born to women aged 20 and younger was almost half of what it was in 1999, at 839 last year.

The majority of births (53% last year) were to couples who were married or in a civil partnership, compared with 58% in 2004 and 93% in 1964.

A recent report from the Royal College of Midwives said the NHS was short of about 2,600 midwives as record numbers of births to older mothers were putting maternity units under pressure.

ver gel. Colloidal Silver is a broad-spectrum antibiotic effective against viruses, bacteria and fungi, unlike most prescription antibiotics that work only against bacteria. Even with successful treatment, it is important that the sufferers of skin problems improve their immune systems to avoid recurrence.

Vitamin D is a key nutrient for enhancing the immune system. Taking good care of the skin is equally important, and that includes using non-toxic cosmetic products and maintaining proper skin hygiene.

FOR A FULL BODY DIAGNOSTIC SCAN CALL MEDB CLINIC: 965071745, 966189074.

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RICHARD CAVENDER

Bluemoon Solutions www.bluemoonsolutions.es

BlueMoon Solutions is the computer and IT services company on the Costa Blanca, they provide quality computer services at realistic prices and specialise in working with home users and small businesses.

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

ADVICE: : Kath wanted to know how to deal with a mes- ADVICE: Patricia wanted to know how to download sage about her File History settings.

YouTube videos

Q A

Hi Richard. My computer is running on windows 10 and I keep getting a message to say “the file history drive is disconnected” I don’t save files or anything that is important, is this a problem. Don’t know what this means or how to rectify it since I didn't switch it off in the 1st place. Can you suggest something please? Regards Kath

Hi Kath, the file history drive is an external USB drive or stick that is used as a backup to save copies of your files so that you can get them back if they are lost or damaged, you can access all of the settings relating to this feature within Windows by using the control panel and navigating to system and security and then to file history.

5. Click Signatures and add your information to the Signature Settings area 6. Once done click OK and you’re done.

ADVICE: Margaret dropped her phone in the loo!

Q A

Please can you recommend n 'easy' way to download YouTube videos and then convert them to MP3. I have express software for burning discs but my previous download/conversion (speedbit) does not appear to work. Thanks very much for your online newsletters which I find very helpful. Thanks, Pat K

Q A

Hi Patricia, there are a number of tools that allow you to do this, I have used this one before and it’s pretty flexible and advert free... http://clipgrab.org/faqs/howto-download-youtube-video screen copy will be pasted.

Hi, my iPhone fell in the loo. I put it in rice, and everything has come back except the Camera. Help. Margaret

ADVICE: Stan wanted to know more about AVG Zen Hi Margaret, I´m afraid it sounds like you did exactly the right thing with the phone, however unfortunately it sounds like the camera has been damaged, I would recommend that you take it to one of the Apple stores.

Q A

Hi Richard. My antivirus is AVG Zen (Is there a difference between this and plain AVG??) Recently it is changing everything on my computer after updates. would you recommend changing to 'Panda'? Also is 'Revo uninstaller' ok to use, do you think? Thanks, Stan.

Hi Stan, yes "AVG Zen" is the new version of their security software, the jury's out as far as I´m concerned at the moment - I like AVG, I´m just not sure about this "Zen" thing, it's essentially a control panel that purports to allow you to group all of your AVG products together (AVG on your laptop, PC, smartphone etc.) so that you can manage them all together - we´ll see but I don’t see a reason to move from AVG at the moment. As far as Revo is concerned I have to say I´m not a fan.

Hope that answers your question.

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Friday 20th November 2015

Latest Road Fatality Statistics Released

The average person reads at two hundred words per minute. Around the world, a person dies on the roads every twenty five seconds. If we divide two hundred by sixty and then multiply our answer by twenty five, we reach a total of eighty three words in twenty five seconds. This paragraph has eighty three words in total. That stark reality means that in the time it has taken you to read this paragraph, another life has been lost somewhere on the roads.

Sunday was recognised as the World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Road Traffic Accidents, prompting the latest statistics to be revealed by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.

In its report on the global road safety situation in 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) shows

that the number of deaths from traffic incidents has stabilized since 2007, despite the increase in the number of motor vehicles between 2010 and 2013 growing by 16%, and the world population increasing by 4%.

Despite the evolution of road safety technology, the roads still claim the lives of 1.25 million people every year. Road traffic incidents are the leading cause of death for the 15 to 29 year old age group and 49% of the victims are vulnerable road users such as motorcyclists, pedestrians and cyclists.

Spain is named amongst countries which have seen success in the campaigns to reduce deaths on the roads, through changed legislation and enforcement, as well as education.

The WHO report places Spain as the thirteenth

country in the world and the fifth in the EU with the lowest mortality rate from traffic incidents, with 3.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.

Across the Valencia region, 83 people have lost their lives on the roads so far this year a 12% decrease on the same period of 2014. Last year, 94 people were killed in the same period.

Government representative for the Comunitat Valenciana, Juan Carlos Moragues, said that the trend is a positive one, although still too high as the aim is for zero deaths and injuries from traffic related incidents.

“We are facing a global problem affecting all countries and we have to do all sorts of campaigns to improve road safety in Valencia, on the roads of Spain and around the world”, he said.

Moragues also took the opportunity to point out that road traffic incidents are the main cause of death amongst the 18 to 29 year old age group, a problem that has “global significance”, from which the entire family suffers.

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Friday 20th November 2015 Friday 30th October 2015

Sibling Success

Locally based brother and sister Adam and Lucy Stewart have come back home with a fistful of medals from the European Open Down’s Syndrome swimming championships

in Loano, Italy.

The tournament featured around 250 swimmers from 20 countries from as far away as Mexico, South Africa, Australia and Brazil with most of the competi-

Rugby News

Last Saturday’s international sevens tournament at Elche saw Spain run out 26-12 victors over France in the men’s final whilst Britain’s women beat their French counterparts in their final, 35-19. The French participation in the event was even more poignant after the terrorist attacks in Paris the previous evening, with all the players stand-

tors understandably coming from Europe, with five new teams from Eastern Europe and one from Iceland.

The standards were very high this year as there were a large number of new young swimmers competing, with Adam taking part in seven events. He came away with a gold; two silvers; and bronze, along with personal best times in every single race. Sister Lucy also got a personal best, as she took silver in the 25 metres breaststroke final.

Adam and Lucy are grateful for all the support they have received especially with generous financial help from the Orihuela Costa branch of the Arsenal supporters club and the team at Dolans Bar at Via Park 3.

Their next event is in Elda at the end of the month before preparing for the Disability Championships in Liverpool and the European Down’s Syndrome Federation Championships early next year.

Legend Lomu Dies

ing in a minute’s silence prior to the start of the first match.

All games played within the Murcia and Valencia regions mirrored the tribute at Elche, including the group two Murcia region cup encounter between Murcia University and ITV Orihuela Vega Baja, which saw the home students roll in an easy 53-7 victory.

One of New Zealand’s greatest ever rugby union players, Jonah Lomu, died earlier this week at the age of 40. Lomu, who scored 37 tries in 63 matches for New Zealand between 1994 and 2002, had been diagnosed with a rare and serious kidney condition by 1996. It forced him to quit the game and he had a kidney transplant in 2004, but the organ stopped functioning in 2011.

"Jonah was a legend of our game and loved by his many fans both here and around the world," said New Zealand Rugby chief execu-

tive Steve Tew. The son of Tongan immigrants, Lomu made his Test debut in 1994 against France in Christchurch. As well as playing for several domestic teams in his homeland, he made 10 appearances for Cardiff Blues in Wales between 2005 and 2006, shortly before his retirement.

Despite never winning the World Cup, he is the joint top try-scorer in its history - alongside South Africa wing Bryan Habana, scoring 15 tries in 11 games.

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Ivie Davies on Golf

Europe’s Special Dozen DARREN CLARKE WILL CAPTAIN HOLDERS EUROPE IN THE 2016 RYDER CUP AT HAZELTINE

I think that there are only two certainties for the Europe team for the 2016 Ryder show down, with everything else up for grabs in Hazeltine next September. The year-long qualification process for Europe’s Ryder Cup team began in Russia the other week, and it would be a challenge to first guess Darren Clarke’s picks.

In the past, you could have picked more than half the team without thinking but you can’t do that on this occasion.

Normally, for example, there would be a tick next to the claims of Lee Westwood, G r a e m e McDowell and Ian Poulter without a moment’s hesitation but, after the sea-

son they are having, this trio of warriors have it all to prove over the next 12 months. This time, for me, there only two certainties: McIlroy and Rose. In addition, there are three more you would expect to claim a spot: Sergio G a r c i a , H e n r i k Stenson and M a r t i n K a y m e r.

Thereafter, however, all bets are off.

For the last seven places, there’s going to be a seismic collision between those who have contributed so much to past successes and the men eager to step up and demonstrate it’s time to change the guard. Of these, I’d say Danny Willett and Shane Lowry are definitely ready. That leaves five

to find.

From the last team, Jamie Donaldson and Victor Dubuisson did so well you would have put money on the fact they would have more Ryder Cups in them, but this year they have gone missing in action. Stephen Gallacher has had this starting date in his calendar ringed for some time now and is desperate to make another team.

Then there are the class players to consider on both sides of the Atlantic. From the PGA Tour we have got Paul Casey, now back in the world’s top 30 but unable to start earning Ryder Cup points until January; Luke Donald, who missed out last time but would surely be an asset at a Ryder Cup in America; and the unheralded Swede David Lingmerth.

From Europe we have got the likes of Austrian Bernd Wiesberger, Joost Luiten from Holland, Italy’s

New Year New Handicaps There’ve been rumours that England Golf were going to adopt the European Golf Association Slope System, but they are in fact making changes to the Handicapping system. For those of you who still play in the UK here are some of the changes. Incidentally, I still think they should adopt the Slope System and you would not have queries on the SSS and CSS. It’s all change from this coming January 1st, and the highlights include:NEW 28+ HANDICAPS FOR MEN It was agreed that no change would be made to the existing handicap category boundaries. However a new ‘Club Handicap’ will be introduced for clubs who wish to allocate a handicap higher than 28/36 for use in club run events. This handicap will only be valid at the player’s home club and can-

not be used in opens etc.

NINE HOLE QUALIFYING SCORES If you score better than, or within, buffer you will have 18 points added to create an 18 hole score. If your score returned is outside buffer, it will be doubled, while nine hole scores will also be included in the ESR process.

4 BALL BETTER BALL HANDICAP CHANGE The allowance for fourball better ball has been increased from 3⁄4 to 90%.

This is now the same as we use here in Spain. So there you have it but it’s not all doom and gloom as there is a move to have non gender Tees. Some clubs have introduced this in the UK, and I am researching this and to see if it could be used here. I have spoken to England Golf’s Handicap and Course Rating Manager, so let’s see!

KNOW YOUR RULES

TITTER ON THE TEE A husband and wife were at the bus stop with their nine children. A blind man joins them after a few minutes. When the bus arrives its full and only the wife and nine kids were able to get on to the bus.

So the husband and the blind man started to walk, and after a while the husband gets irritated by the clicking of the blind man’s stick tapping on footpath, and asks him, “Why don’t you put a piece of rubber on the end of your stick? That tapping is driving me crazy!”

The blind man replies, “If you had put a rubber on the end of your stick we’d be sitting on the bus so, shut up”

Francesco Molinari, Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and the Scot Marc Warren. And what about rising stars like Eddie Pepperell, Matt Fitzpatrick and the fine young Belgian Thomas Pieters — such an impressive winner of the Czech Masters?

If recent Ryder Cups have shown us anything, it is that youth can hold its own these days against experience.

OK then, enough deliberations. Here is my 12: McIlroy, Rose, Garcia, Stenson, Kaymer, Casey, Willett, Lowry, Wiesberger, Poulter, McDowell and — a real shot in the dark, this one — Fitzpatrick We’ll check back at the end of next summer to see if I’ve matched Clarke— or will you and he be splitting his sides at the fact I’ve got it hopelessly wrong. But hey, who would you choose? Let us know.

QUESTION

What would happen if your ball is resting against a movable obstruction such as a rake on the outside edge of the bunker, and is almost certain to move if the obstruction is removed and into the bunker?

Do you play the ball from?

1) Where it rolls to when you remove the rake.

2) Where it was when you found it.

3) Choice between the two locations.

ANSWER 2) Where it was when you found it.

Sometimes this is likely to be good news if the rake has prevented your ball rolling into the back edge of a bunker, and sometimes bad news if it leaves you perched awkwardly on a slope. But you don’t get a choice!

Before removing the rake, mark the position of the ball so you know where to replace it if it does move. The obvious next question is what you do if you can’t get the ball to remain at rest in its original location – You’re not allowed to press it into the ground, make two attempts to place it, and if it still rolls away, place it at the closest spot possible – not nearer the hole – where it will remain at rest. The ball is then in play.

All Change

The European Tour has made significant alterations to its membership guidelines from next season, reducing the number of events players need to compete in.

Since the 2011 season, all European Tour players have been required to play a minimum of 13 events in order to be included in the final Race to Dubai rankings and stay eligible for membership, but from next year players will only need to feature in only

five tournaments outside of the majors and WGCs. The changes, announced at a press conference in Dubai which also outlined a change to the Final Series from next season, have been designed to help players plan their schedules more effectively, with the Ryder Cup, EurAsia Cup and the Olympic Games all events that will count towards fulfilling the required number of tournaments.

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Friday 20th November 2015

Torry Pay The Penalty

Barclays Premier League Saturday 21 November 13:45 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 18:30

Watford v Manchester United Chelsea v Norwich City Everton v Aston Villa Newcastle United v Leicester City Southampton v Stoke City Swansea City v Bournemouth West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal Manchester City v Liverpool

Sunday 22 November

17:00 Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United

Monday 23 November 21:00 Crystal Palace v Sunderland

Sky Bet Championship Friday 20 November 20:45 Middlesbrough v Queens Park Rangers

Saturday 21 November

Torry’s defeat away to fellow strugglers Bunol last Sunday means that they’re just one place above the relegation area, just two points ahead of Jove Español and Benigànim, and five clear of bottom side Acero.

They now face a tough Paterna side this Sunday afternoon across the road at the Nelson Mandela Stadium as their regular Vicente Garcia pitch undergoes another round of repairs. The match

kicks off at 5.00 pm with Higón likely to face his former club having made a solid debut at Bunol, showing flashes of grit and determination, assets that Torry need in abundance if they are to avoid a relegation dog fight.

Lack of firepower continues to be Torry’s big problem and they’ve used 24 players in their 14 league games this term, with Higón (pictured prematch) and Manu Amores the latest to add their

names to the team sheet.

Centre half Quintero is joint leading scorer with three goals, although Cesar could have moved to four had he converted his second penalty of the season.

He did not, sweeping the ball to the left of keeper Vicente, who guessed right, but placing it at an ideal level for his adversary. Instead of being one to the good, Torry trailed at the interval after a lack of concentration from a

free kick on the left saw the ball hit low across the goal area for More to tap home.

Buñol had no less than nine bookings, with Valero and More getting two apiece and thus dismissed. After defender Valero´s expulsion on 69 minutes, Torry pressed hard, but efforts from César, Manu, Carrasco, Higón and Suarez failed to find the net. Quintero, Lewis and Metej saw yellow for Torry.

Monte March On

13:30 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00

Bristol City v Hull City Birmingham City v Charlton Athletic Brentford v Nottingham Forest Derby County v Cardiff City Ipswich Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers Leeds United v Rotherham United MK Dons v Fulham Preston North End v Blackburn Rovers Reading v Bolton Wanderers Sheffield Wednesday v Huddersfield Town

Sunday 22 November 14:15 Burnley v Brighton and Hove Albion

Scottish Premiership Saturday 21 November 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00

Celtic v Kilmarnock Dundee United v St. Johnstone Heart of Midlothian v Dundee Partick Thistle v Inverness Caledonian Thistle Ross County v Motherwell

Sunday 22 November 13:30 Hamilton Academical v Aberdeen

CD MONTESINOS 4 GRUPO CALICHE1

Spanish La Liga Saturday 21 November 16:00 18:15 20:30 22:00 22:05

Real Sociedad v Sevilla Real Madrid v Barcelona Espanyol v Málaga Valencia CF v Las Palmas Deportivo de La Coruña v Celta de Vigo

Sunday 22 November 12:00 16:00 18:15 20:30 250 spectators enjoyed a fine-all round display from Montesinos with some wellcrafted goals that keeps them fifth in the table, with a trip to old rivals San Miguel to come this Sunday. Monte got the perfect start with Marcos opening the scoring after just four minutes, and then they doubled their lead on the 10 minute mark, as an excellent Marcos through

ball to Carlos beat the Caliche offside trap, and the little striker rounded the keeper to make it two-nil.

The home pressure continued with a string of chances whilst there little to worry Monte at the other end, but they didn’t add to their advantage come the half-time break.

The referee must have had some strange oranges for his half-time refresh-

ment as he did a mean impression of Jekyll and Hyde in the second period, handing out yellow cards aplenty as if they were meant for Christmas, and Wallace’s lack of discipline saw him get a red card present for the referee which put added pressure on Monte.

Nevertheless, Orourke made it three for Monte before Caliche got back

into it with a fine breakaway goal.

Ten men Monte were not finished and continued to hit on the break as youngster Paredes came on as a substitute and he made an instant impact using his quick speed to produce a sublime chip over the advancing keeper which killed the game off, to cap an entertaining display from the home side.

Javier’s Wish List

La Liga president Javier Tebas admits he would like to see Wayne Rooney and David de Gea playing in Spain. De Gea was close to a move to Real Madrid in the summer, but a deal was scuppered at the final hour of the Spanish deadline day and the goalkeeper has since signed a new deal at Old Trafford.

In an interview with Spanish newspaper AS,

Tebas pinpointed the United pair as stars he wished played in La Liga. "I'd like to have seen Rooney play in Spain," self-confessed Real Madrid fan Tebas said. "I'd like to have seen a Premier League icon play in our league, but there's also [Franck] Ribery.

"De Gea is one of the best goalkeepers in the world and I wish he played in our league, regardless of who

for." Tebas noted how quickly the likes of Brazilian Neymar and Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez have adapted to life in La Liga, and

says Welshman Gareth Bale has been given more of an "international presence" since moving to Real Madrid in 2013.

Sporting de Gijón v Levante Villarreal v Eibar Granada CF v Athletic Club Real Betis v Atlético de Madrid

Monday 23 November 20:30 Getafe v Rayo Vallecano

Torry Army Dates The Torry Army is the long-established international supporters club that follow CD Torrevieja, and they’ve put together some seasonal events to get everybody into the Christmas spirit over the next few weeks.

The Torry Army Christmas Lunch will take place at the Marina Bar, Toretta 2, Torrevieja on Friday December 11th at 1.00pm, with a threecourse meal costing 15 euros per person.

The Christmas Dance featuring music from the group, Timeless, will be at Casa Ventura in San Luis, Torrevieja on Wednesday December 16th, from

9.00pm. There’ll be a buffet besides the entertainment with the cost being 12 euros for members and 14 euros for non-members.

Ahead of those dates, the Torry Army are putting on a Skittles Challenge at Casa Ventura which will also feature a basket meal, all for the cost of just four euros. The fun starts on Saturday November 28th at 8.00pm.

If you are interested in learning more about the Torry Army and coming along to the events, then just put your name down at the Torry Army office in San Luis, or ring the office on 966 784 111 or call Pat Stewart on 966 786 352.

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It’s El Clasico!

Zlatan Ibrahimovic: I've retired

The Courier Sport

SHOW ENGLAND 2 - FRANCE 0

UNITED FRONT and

yers England pla e French in fans join th e Marseillais singing La d n ly sday’s frie before Tue al at internation y le b m e W Barcelona's Lionel Messi returned to full training this week after being out with a knee injury, and he could play a part in tomorrow’s El Clasico encounter at Real Madrid (kick-off at 6.15pm at the Bernabéu). Barca have performed well in the absence of the four-time Ballon d'Or winner, with four straight league victories propelling Luis Enrique's side to the top of La Liga, three points ahead of Madrid. Neymar and Luis Suarez have scored 10 goals apiece since Messi was sidelined, and the duo could again lead the line tomorrow with reports suggesting that Barca may not rush the 28-year-old back into the starting line-up as a precaution.

Meanwhile Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas is the main home side doubt for the Barcelona showdown. Navas has been Madrid's most impressive player so far this season, conceding just three times in his first 13 appearances of the campaign across La Liga and the Champions League, but a muscle injury kept him out of the last games, with Kiko Casilla playing in Madrid's last two La Liga outings -- including the 3-2 defeat at Sevilla just before the international break.

Sergio Strikes Again

Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he has sent Denmark into retirement after scoring twice to secure Sweden's place in Euro 2016.

Ibrahimovic's brace helped Sweden secure a 43 aggregate victory over their Scandinavian neighbours after a 2-2 draw in their play-off second leg in Copenhagen.

"It was great to do this here in Denmark," said Ibrahimovic, who had been rumoured to be on the brink of retiring from the international game had his side failed to progress.

Irish Eyes Are Smiling!

Republic of Ireland 2-0 Bosnia (agg 3-1)

LUGO 1 ELCHE 1

Not for the first time this season was the name of Sergio León scrawled onto the Ilicitanos goal-scorers tally as his leveller stopped the Galician side notching up a third straight win, whilst maintaining Elche’s own ambitions of a return to top flight action in May. A lot of the early play saw Elche look the more likely to score, with León looking especially dangerous, before on the 32nd minute mark, a Javi Jiménez fist-punched save landed at the feet of Lugo’s Marcos who put the ball into the back of the net. At the other end, home-keeper José Juan kept out what seemed to be a certain Alvaro equaliser before the interval.

Lugo looked good early in the second half, but it was Elche that got the second and only other goal of the match as Sergio León beat the defence in the 72nd minute to chip over keeper Jose Juan. Elche keeper, Javi Jiménez, saw off the expected late onslaught saving a header, though Armando at the other end could have got all three points for the Ilicitanos as his shot smashed against the crossbar.

The Segunda league table is very tight with tenthplaced Elche just four points off top slot held by Osasuna. They have another good test when they entertain fifth-placed Alavés tomorrow (Saturday) with an 8.15 pm kick-off.

Never before has there been more British and Irish interest in a major football tournament after the Republic of Ireland secured the win over Bosnia and Herzegovina that booked their place in Euro 2016.

A side that were written off at the start of the campaign, a team that feared they would lose out to Scotland when they failed to beat Gordon Strachan’s side at home back in June, will take their place alongside England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the rest of European football’s elite.

The cherry on top of the icing on the cake was the fact, for once in a play-off game, it was the Irish who had some good luck, Walters’ first goal coming from the penalty spot after a dubious handball decision had been given in their favour.

The penalty was clinically dispatched by Walters, who sent his former Stoke teammate Begovic the wrong way. Walters’ second, though, was a classy moment, Ireland’s best player during their qualification campaign, side-footing home a volley at the far post after Robbie Brady’s beautifully delivered freekick had caused panic in the Bosnia defence. The whole south of Ireland is now in Jack Charlton-type celebration, and plans for travelling to France next year are now well under way. It was even reported that assistant manager Roy Keane broke into a smile, but others said it was wind. Seriously, Martin O’Neill did highlight the tremendous contribution to qualification made by Keano, who once walked out on Ireland just before the 2002 World Cup finals started - and many of his countrymen have not forgiven the ex-Manchester United man. Perhaps Ireland’s success will now help to heal that wound. Vive La Republic!

PAY TRIBUTE

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Blatter and Platini fail Fifa president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini have had their appeals against 90-day bans rejected by world football governing body's appeal committee.

They were suspended in October while Fifa's ethics committee investigates corruption claims against them.

Blatter, 79, is accused of signing a contract "unfavourable" to Fifa and making a "disloyal payment" to Platini.

Both deny wrongdoing and will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Blatter's American lawyer, Richard Cullen, said in a statement: "President Blatter is committed to clearing his name and hopes this inexplicable delay is not an effort to deny him, during his elected term, a fair hearing before a neutral body."

Platini will contact Cas by Friday and has "absolute confidence" in the

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William, together with Didier Deschamps lay floral tributes

to overturn FIFA bans Swiss court, lawyer Thibaud d'Ales said. "For the first time since he was suspended he knows that he will be treated in a completely independent and fair way," he added.

Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke was also suspended in October but there was no mention of him in Wednesday's Fifa statement. The adjudicatory panel of Fifa's ethics committee is due to hold hearings into the misconduct charges before Christmas.

Uefa chief Platini - who wants to succeed Blatter as Fifa president has said the 2m euros (£1.35m) payment was "valid compensation" from his time working under the Swiss more than nine years earlier.

They insist there was an oral agreement for the payment in 1998, although it was not made until 2011. Blatter and Platini were suspended after the Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceedings.

On Tuesday evening the England football team played well to beat France 2 – 0 at Wembley. That simple description hides a night of massive emotion poured out on the terraces: following last weekend’s carnage in Paris never has ‘La Marseillaise’ been sung with such heartfelt poignancy and sympathy by both sets of supporters. After the minute’s silence both teams stood together linked in a poignant show of solidarity.

With Prince William and David Cameron at Wembley to show shoulder-to-shoulder affection with France this support, showed how strong our country’s united stance is with our sad, grieving neighbours. England captain Wayne Rooney summed up the night well: ‘It was always going to be a difficult night for everyone, especially the French players and staff.

For ourselves to be involved in this occasion was tough, the young players were excited but it was a difficult game for them. I thought both teams handled it extremely well. The fans were brilliant. This will be shown round the world and will show unity. Football is a

global game and, as Didier Deschamps said yesterday, it is not about religion or race. We need to stand tall together in these tough times.’

Putting politics aside England’s performance was good, and that was much-needed after last Friday’s fairly inept performance in losing 2 – 0 against current Euro champions Spain in Alicante. After winning all their ten qualifying games in a tame group, England were brought sharply back down to planet earth because Spain are still so good, so classy in just about every department it hurt, and although their two late goals were a long time coming, the Spanish were absolutely worthy of the result.

It’s best not to look at France’s performance against England too carefully. Who knows what psychological damage has been to the Euro 2016 hosts. But our young blades looked good; the game was played more like an English Premier League match with more urgency and excitement.

Roy Hodgson’s team put out was our youngest national side put out since 1989, with an average age of 24. This factor alone

must bode well for our future, so outclassed we were in Brazil at the World Cup last year. John Stones, Nathaniel Clyne, Kieran Gibbs, Dele Alli, Eric Dier, Raheem Sterling, Ross Barkley and Harry Kane all looked good, plus we have excellent young reserves challenging for places like Jack Butland, Adam Lallana and Jesse Lingard. Alli’s goal in the 37th minute was particularly pleasing, coming immediately after the young Spurs midfielder won a crunching, ball-winning tackle. To complement that, Rooney’s 48th minute volleyed goal following a great move between Alli and Sterling was excellent, sealing the win and in the process making England look a class act with the bonus of keeping a clean sheet, with France getting few opportunities to score.

If this nucleus of players can be brought together regularly by Roy Hodgson and combined with the experience of Wayne Rooney, Gary Cahill and Joe Hart then England have an even chance of competing well next year in France – which, it has to be said after the Spain match looked decidedly unlikely.

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Some sort of soccer sanity returns on Saturday: early doors in the Premier League re-open to see Watford hosting mighty Manchester United at lunchtime. The Hornets have buzzed off a few clubs this season including high-fliers West Ham - could boring-boring United get stung? Later at Goodison Park, Everton entertain Remi’s regulars, aka Aston Villa. Last time out, Garde’s guys grew in stature, goallessly drawing with the Prem’s heavyweight leaders Man City. But Everton aren’t ninth for nowt: Lukaku’s on fire, Stones and Barkley were outstanding for England on Tuesday and the Toffees have more international class running through their side – but this is another huge test for valiant Villa.

Lowly Newcastle at home to third-placed Leicester

LA VUELTA RETURNS

Spain’s biggest cycle race, La Vuelta, will be back in Alicante Province next year, but only in the northern part of the region, as opposed to last August’s Torrevieja to Benitatxell stage. Like this year though, a time trial will be held around the Calpe area.

The 2015 event saw Italy’s Fabio Aru secure his first major title victory.

looks no contest - a sure-fire away win. But the getout-of-jail Magpies did pull off a highly unlikely win away against Bournemouth, Steve McClaren’s muchneeded first win. Can the Foxes goal machine Jamie Vardy – 12 this season already - make history and beat Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record of scoring ten consecutive goals in ten games? Seventh-heavenly Saints v persistent Potters, aka Southampton v Stoke could be a cracker; both teams have class and are capable of beating some good teams – ask Chelsea.

Meanwhile Arsenal are on the verge of securing Alexis Sanchez to the club for the foreseeable future after talks over a five-year contract worth £155,000a-week, with Mesut Ozil deal also on the table.

MCCAW RETIRES

New Zealand captain Richie McCaw has announced his retirement after a glittering career.

The 34-year-old flanker played a world-record 148 Tests, 131 of them wins, and led the All Blacks to two World Cup final victories, including last month's triumph against Australia.

McCaw is a three-time winner of the World Player of the Year award.

Now then, long faces: this is serious. Two teams who can’t buy a win between them and both need one badly are playing each other. Swansea are on the slide, a modest-sized provincial club not only surviving in the Prem but up until recently have been regularly punching above their weight. But now no wins in nine mean Gary Monk’s men are putting their young boss’s future in grave doubt.

However, to put it bluntly – basically Bournemouth are there for the taking on current results, and represent a great opportunity of Liberty for Gary in the Swans home stadium. The Cherries have come up from the Championship on a South Sea Tsunami of optimism and excitement - but the Prem is a brutal place to survive in. With another equally young and capable track-suited manager, Eddie Howe, it’s sad to watch Bournemouth’s confidence eroding week by week as the results have not been good - and now the Cherries have slipped into the Dreaded Drop Department. This result is crucial for both clubs.

S R E N N GU Y A D G BI If Arsenal are to win the Premier League (surely not) then the Gunners must put away teams like West Brom on the road. Hostility-to-visitors, especially London ones comes naturally at places like the Hawthorns, and these days the Baggies defences are miserly managed by Tony ‘cleansheet’ Pulis. Saying that though, West Brom went down 2 – 0 last time out at Old Trafford. But hey, say it loud - you might not get another chance Arsenal are joint top, and you don’t get there without ability and class (just don’t mention Europe…). And there’s more….

You see, just maybe Arsene’s army could take real advantage if they were to win in the West Midlands – and Man City trip up against Liverpool? Don’t forget, that’s the late game on Saturday at 6.30 pm Spanish time: given all the above key games this clash easily commands ‘Match of the Day’ status. There’s a helluva lot riding on this result at the Etihad, taking on mighty City at their Citadel is an awesome task.

On paper the Blues should be too strong for most teams - but keep slipping up on grass, Villa-style when it matters. City’s famous opponents Liverpool still have it all to do and prove from down in tenth place, and the eyes of the football world are watching this great club with fascination. Everyone is dying to see if their new wunderkinder manager Jurgen Klopp can bring back the glory days of Liverpool folklore. It’s a huge call for anyone to get anything against City, but it can be done, and if the Reds can manage a positive result, then a few others in the Prem will watch enviously – and Facebook-style - like that!

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