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Friday 19th August 2016

BRIT MP’S ARREST

BY ALEX TRELINSKI

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British MP was detained after a row with his estranged wife at their Algorfa holiday home.

Simon Danczuk, the MP for

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Rochdale, who was suspended last year by the Labour Party for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to an underage girl, appeared before Orihuela’s domestic

violence court on Tuesday.

He was freed and the case filed as no charges were brought forward after testimony from Danczuk and his wife, Karen, where they said that nothing violent had happened, but voices had been “raised” over a personal matter.

33-year-old Karen Danczuk and her husband were on a summer break with their two sons when neighbours heard shouting coming from their Algorfa property last Saturday night. The disturbance forced them to call the local police with officers

then arriving at the address at 9.40 pm and arresting Danczuk. The MP was held for a couple of nights in Guardia Civil cells, before Tuesday’s Orihuela court appearance.

Karen Danczuk was taken by ambulance to the Vega Baja Hospital on the Saturday night for a small cut that officers said she had sustained in a fall. Reports from witnesses suggested that the 49-year-old MP snatched his wife’s phone and threw it into the swimming pool after screaming: “Karen, Karen, I just want to talk to you”.

LONG WAIT ENDS

ork has finally begun, after a six week delay, on the three million euro rebuild of the Poeta Miguel Hernández school in Rojales (formerly

known as the Príncipe de España school). Work was due to start at the end of the school year in June, but there was a dispute between the Valencian education

department and the contractor, Ecisa.

The contractors moved in to start work on taking down the sports hall, which is part of the 30-year-old building that racked up a series of serious health and safety

issues, with calls for a new building starting back in 2003. Work will take place over 18 months with the students having to use prefabricated temporary classrooms until the project is completed.

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Airport Boom

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Nearly 130 million travellers have used airports across Spain operated by AENA up to the end of July, a rise of 11.6% over the same period of 2015.

The figures for last month showed an 11.1% rise compared to a year earlier, putting the figures at 25.67 million, with Alicante-Elche airport showing the biggest percentage increase of 15.3% with 1.46 million passengers in

July, of which over 600 thousand travellers were British.

Domestic travellers came in at 123 thousand, followed by Norweigan visitors at 115 thousand, and German passengers at 96 thousand.

Alicante-Elche Airport recorded nearly seven million passengers in 2016 up to the end of July, a rise of 16.3% with a 17.2%, rise in the number of flights offered, standing at nearly 49 thousand.

Family Rescued

Fireworks rained down on Elche last Saturday with the annual Nit de l’Alba as over 60 thousand rockets launched into the night sky in the annual celebration that drew

thousands of visitors in from around the area and across Spain as well as foreign tourists.

The city centre went dark at midnight with a thousand rockets fired

from the top of the Santa María church to launch the spectacular display with authorities reporting 46 minor injuries during the festivities, with no serious incidents.

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A four-year-old boy was taken to hospital in Cartagena on Tuesday after a boat in which he was travelling with the rest of his family capsized in the Mar Menor close to Perdiguera island. Strong winds led to the incident with the boy

(who suffered minor concussion) and six other people being rescued by emergency services and taken to the shore at Los Urrutias.

Two other boats also got into difficultly due to the conditions and needed help to get to land.

Sibling Showdown A 26-year-old British woman has been arrested for biting her younger brother at her parent's home in Gea Y Truyols, Murcia. The local police were called to the Lo Santiago urbanisation after getting a call from the woman's mother about the

incident, with the daughter unable to be restrained after her brother was left with a mark on his left arm, as well getting scratched across his body including his face, neck and chest. The offender was taken to the Guardia barracks at Torre Pacheco.

Complaints from residents in the Villamartin Plaza area about the noise from the Passion Dance Club has led to a recommendation from the Valencian Ombudsman that Orihuela council should review the venue’s license,

which could see it closed.

Residents have continually complained about the late night noise from the club as well as security and safety issues.

The Ombudsman has told Oriheula council that they need to thoroughly review

the venue’s license and what it has done over sound-proofing amongst a range of issues, as well as the fundamental issue of whether the presence of the club in its current location fits in with municipal ordinances.

Body In Cupboard The husband of a Chilean woman who was reported missing from her Torrevieja home in June has been arrested, after her body was found in a room in their apartment block. 32-year-old Johana Bertina Palma González disappeared in mid-June with concerned relatives

informing authorities about the situation.

She lived with her husband, also Chilean, in Torrevieja for around 15 years, and their last address was on Calle Ramón y Cajal in Torrevieja.

The couple had two children, aged five and twelve.

The Guardia Civil made a thorough inspection of the building on Wednesday and found her body in an alcove used for a water heater in a water and electricity metre room of the apartment block. The husband apparently confessed to killing his wife after an argument.

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Brit And Run

A 40-year-old British man has been arrested two days after running away from the scene of a collision on the Mar Menor. The unnamed Brit fled from authorities after an inflatable banana boat that he was pulling in his motor-

back at his banana boat clients, rather than looking to avoid crashing into the government vessel.

The banana boat, with three people in it, skimmed over the top of the patrol vessel, and gashed the leg of a biologist that was working on it. The British man did a runner but was caught a couple of days later and charged at the Guardia barracks in Cartagena, facing dangerous driving charges as well as failing to stop at the scene of an accident. He was said not to have an excursions license as well as the illegal banana boat ride taking place out of the permitted leisure boating hours in the area.

boat hit a Murcia government patrol vessel. The patrol boat was monitoring the area for illegal fishermen off Dos Mares, with witnesses reporting that the evening collision happened when the pleasure boat driver was looking

False Alarm A suspicious package under a car forced part of the Lomas de Campoamor urbanisation on the Orihuela Costa to be sealed off for five hours on Tuesday. Security guards reacted to reports from passers-by that they saw a man putting an object under the vehicle parked on Avenida de Ibiza and they called in the police in the belief that it might have been a bomb.

Water Rules The Guardia Civil’s Maritime Service has carried out 212 inspections of pleasure boats in Alicante

Province so far this year, with 142 cases found of the law being broken by users and owners.

Gang Detained

The National Police have

broken up a six-strong cocaine distribution gang supplying the drug across the Murcia and Valencia regions. Four Columbians and two Spaniards were arrested in Cartagena and Valencia were arrested last week on charges on drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons and belonging to a criminal organisation.

Very Interesting

Valencian government representatives have visited to see if the municipality's famous hydraulic monument of the stone bridge and the water wheel, which were built between the 16th and 18th centuries meets all the requirements of being classified as a site of cultural interest. Cultural territorial chief

José Antonio López Mira and heritage inspector, Luis Pablo Martinez, were given a firsthand tour and history by visiting Rojales council officials.

The officials also visited Callosa de Segura where the council is pushing for the local historic hemp works to also get cultural interest recognition.

Algorfa Plays A bomb disposal team found that the package was in fact full of hashish and

they found another one totally up to four point two kilos of the drug.

which led to a fight breaking out with bystanders joined in the fray.

Finally, the accused man ran over the motorist who had allegedly scratched his vehicle with his own car. He tested positive for alcohol

and drug use.

The victim was taken to hospital in the city of A Coruña, and four others were taken in for questioning as witnesses, since they had all filed reports against each other.

Tempers Frayed A motorist lost his temper and a brawl led to him running over a man all over a parking space. One man claimed another had scraped his car whilst parking it in Sada (A Coruña province) near a nightclub

Shorter Time Operation waiting list times for Torrevieja Hospital are half of those for other hospitals in the Valencia region according figures up to the end of June according to the local management company, Torrevieja

A 63-year old woman died after her electric wheelchair went up in flames at her Almeria area nursing home.

The victim was living at a

Bather Saved last Thursday afternoon after he got into trouble in the water.

He suffered a cardiopul-

the Alicante Provincial Council, with Ros saying that it was important that the facility was at the heart of the municipality and would cater for children of all ages.

Chair Of Death

Salud. They say the figures showing average waits of 45 days reflect the commitment to keep delays down to below 60 days, whilst the average delay for surgery across the Valencia region stands at 98 days.

Emergency services treated a 76-year-old man on Torrevieja’s Los Locos beach

A new playground in Algorfa’s Plaza de España has been officially opened by the mayor, Manuel Ros. The project was funded by a 35 thousand euro grant from

monary arrest and was given first aid by lifeguards before taken to Torrevieja Hospital.

facility in Chirivel, but doctors were unable to save her, after she had sustained very serious burns to much of her body.

Air Lift A 23 - year - old hiker had to be taken to hospital via a rescue helicopter after being injured on the Sierra de Orihuela on Monday

lunchtime. The man suffered a number of non life-threatening injuries in a fall, and was transferred via air to the Vega Baja hospital in Orihuela.

Two big car bombs have hit police stations in separate cities in Turkey, killing six people and wounding at least 219 others.

Firefighters have tackled a huge blaze in southern California. The Blue Cut fire, as it has been named, has destroyed homes and disrupted transport links between California and Nevada.

Pat Hickey, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee, has temporarily stood down after his arrest in Rio over allegations of illegal ticket sales. The Irishman, 71, was taken to hospital following his arrest, after requesting medical attention.

Almost 7,000 "Islamophobic" tweets were sent, in English, every day in July worldwide, data seen by the BBC suggests.

This compared to 2,500 in April, with peaks recorded following the Nice lorry attack and the attempted military coup in Turkey.

Venezuelan police crushed two thousand shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world's most crime-ridden countries.

Nearly 18,000 people have died in government prisons in Syria since the beginning of the uprising in 2011.

South Sudan's sacked Vice-President Riek Machar has left the country, weeks after his forces were involved in deadly clashes with government troops. Mr Machar had gone to a neighbouring country, his spokesman said.

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Finca Body Riddle

Employees in the Murcia region clocked up more hours at their jobs than anybody else in Spain for the first three months of the year according to the National Statistics Institute. They clocked up 422 hours between January and March, followed by Madrid at 405 hours, with the national average standing at 389, the lowest figure for a quarter since 2008. The Valencia region including the Costa Blanca came in at under 380 hours.

No Let Up Murcia government officials have declared war on unregistered holiday accommodation across the Costa Calida, saying that they've identified eighteenhundred illegal rentals in the area which are advertised by 123 companies. Half the firms have received visits with three already fined for not declaring any income. The Tax Office estimates that the Murcia region as a whole has only around 28 percent of the 62 thousand holiday properties on official registers.

The Guardia Civil are trying to work out what happened in the case of a midforties farmer who was found in his Valencia Province swimming pool, with hands and feet bound and his body tied to a bag of stones. The grim find was

made by four teenagers who walked onto the property in Sot de Chera after finding the gate open.

The victim rented rooms out on his farm and reports said that he recently had two young men staying who were helping him out with

maintenance work. The Guardia said that his body was in an “advanced state of decomposition” and that he was “tied at his wrists and ankles, had a plastic bag over his head and was weighted down with a bag of stones”.

A Family Affair

An estranged husband shot his ex-wife and attempted to shoot his daughter before turning the gun on himself outside a shopping centre in Zaragoza in north-eastern Spain last Friday. The woman and her daughter had left their car in a multi-storey car park, with the man waiting outside for them in another vehicle from which he opened fire.

Police raced to the scene after reports of shots being fired, and found two people suffering severe injuries. The husband and wife had recently separated and the man had no previous criminal record. The woman actually managed to drive herself to a city hospital while the man was taken there by ambulance.

Close Call

Better Or Worse?

An amateur artist from Castilla y León has ‘restored’ a 17th century statue in a similar vein to the work done by a Cecilia Giménez on the Ecce Homo tablet which made international headlines a few years ago, and led to the opening of a special permanent exhibition in Borja.

To the dismay of historians, an unknown parishioner at the Chapel of Humiladero in Penarda de Bracamonte gave a statue of Saint Michael the Archangel a makeover which has led to heritage experts reporting the matter as an abuse of cultural heritage. One of the major changes is the sudden

appearance of big black bushy eyebrows.

The Association of Conservationists and Restorers in Castilla y Leon has defended the work: “Our work is very serious, professional and specific and not as easy as you might imagine,” commented association secretary María Luisa López.

Long Term Woe In Spain

A seven-year-old girl was taken to Zaragoza hospital after being gored through the stomach and bottom during the bull-runs at a local fiesta.

The youngster was watching the bulls from behind the railings in the village of Alfamén as part of its patron saint festival.

A two-year-old bullock charged into the barriers head-on, breaking the gate and chain around it right

where the little girl – a Romanian national who has lived in the village since she was a toddler – was standing.

Luckily, several cars were parked in the street nearby and the child was able to get underneath one of them to protect herself until the bull had moved on.

Doctors say the bull’s horns had not damaged any of her vital organs, and that she is now out of danger.

Court Date 85 Alicante Province motorists were brought before the courts for driving offences last month, with 57

25 percent of those out of work in Spain have not worked for at least four years. A report by the Fedea economic think tank found that between April and June of this year, 1,127,879 of the country’s 4.5 million unemployed had failed to work for at least four years.

The figure has increased eleven-fold since the start of the crisis in 2008. The report says because unemployment in Spain is at 20%, employers are able to be selective, and go for younger people who have been out of work for shorter periods of time.

of those for driving under the influence of alcohol. The other 28 were accused of driving without a license.

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Grounded Ship

A schooner that was used in the classic seventies BBC TV series, The Onedin Line, still has not got a certificate of seaworthiness according to an opposition Torrevieja councillor. Eduardo Gil of the Partido Popular claims that the ruling coalition council allowed the documentation to lapse last month for the Torrevieja-based schooner, the Pascual Flores.

In March, the council said they wanted the schooner to be turned into a floating museum or to become a working vessel to be used as a marine laboratory or for outreach activities. Over six million euros of municipality money has been spent on the ship over the years which is regarded as a symbol to the old local tradition of shipbuilding.

Culture councillor Alejandro Blanco said at the time that some water leaks needed to be plugged as well as the need to replace the wooden masts with cheaper synthetic materials, as the authority could not afford wooden replacements. No work appears to have been carried out since his statements earlier this year.

Imperial Recovery

The rare Iberian Imperial Eagles are on the way back after 30 years of concerns

that they may disappear, thanks to a controlled breeding programme in the Doñana

National Park, which lies across the far southern coastal provinces of Cádiz and Huelva.

In just one season, 15 chicks have been born alive and are growing healthily, according to the BirdLife charity. They hatched in four nests, with three in each, and another two with one and two respectively, after six of the park’s nine breeding couples successfully reproduced this spring.

According to BirdLife spokesman Carlos Dávila, the three per nest is ‘way above average’ and the sudden baby boom has been hailed a triumph for nature.

Quick Climb 30 palm tree climbers hit Elche on Monday for the third international palm tree climbing competition, with the overall 'Espardenya d'Or' won by Demetrio López in the “master” climbing section. A ten and a half metre tall palm tree by the Altamira Palace was used

for the contest, with last year’s “master” victor, Isaac Carbonell taking the speed category, by scrambling up the tree in 9.94 seconds.

Contestants from as far away as Columbia in addition to many others from Poland and Portugal took part.

Firebug Caught A 56-year old woman who started 15 forest fires in the north-western region of Galicia has been caught whilst attempting to ignite another seven.

In just over a month, she has single-handedly wiped out 22 hectares – 220,000 square metres or around 55 acres – around the town of Cerceda (A Coruña province), contributing to the total of 57 million square metres (5,700 hectares or nearly 14,100 acres) destroyed in the region this summer.

The pyromaniac was caught last Friday morning and is said to have put up a

huge fight when they tried to handcuff her.

The seven fires she was trying to start when she was caught had just begun to ignite, and six of them were put out by forestry

brigadiers whilst another was extinguished by a local resident.

All seven of them were close to residential homes, potentially sparking a multiple tragedy.

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Algerian Arrivals

On The Rise

Orihuela council has given the green light for new housing to be built close to the Los Dolses shopping centre on the El Barranco urbanisation. 24 homes in an addition to a garage and swimming pool will be constructed.

Big Leak Plugged

Emergency services stemmed what might have become a major incident in Molina de Segura in the Murcia region when they stopped a leak from a liquid nitrogen factory on the La Serreta industrial estate yesterday in the won on Monday.

Concerned residents said that they could smell gas near the factory, but the leak turned out to be liquid nitrogen. Fire tenders had to wait until factory staff arrived, since it was a bank holiday, so they could allow them access to the patio where the leaking tank was located. They then managed to reduce the pressure in the tank to plug the leak.

A small boat carrying eight Algerian refugees was intercepted by the Guardia Civil in the Alicante area on Tuesday morning. The craft was spotted by a sailor off

Cabo de las Huertas who rescued one of the refugees who had fallen into the water. The boat was taken to Alicante, with the Cruz Roja providing medical attention.

Racket Rumbled

A majority of Spaniards need to lose weight according to a survey produced by the National Foundation for Nutrition.

They discovered that almost 64 percent of Spaniards needed to lose some weight and highlights that only 36.1 percent of Spaniards between the ages of 18 and 64 were in optimal

condition with a body mass index (BMI) of below 25 and a waist to height ration of under 0.5.

The study gathered data on food intake as well as the level of physical activity and the socioeconomic data of the population. The waist to height ratio is becoming increasingly popular for deciding whether a person needs

or not to lose weight and is considered by many to be a more rigorous measure than BMI. If only BMI had been used in the study, closer to 55 percent of Spaniards would need to lose weight.

The study also showed there are more fat men than women in Spain with only 28.9 percent considered at a healthy weight compared to 42.7 percent of women. Older people also tend to be fatter than youngsters with only 20 percent of over 40s considered healthy.

The study confirms fears that despite the Mediterranean diet, Spaniards are getting heavier due to eating increased amounts of fast and processed food rather than traditional diets.

A Weighty Issue A Guardamar and Pilar de la Horadada-based gang that stole Toyota Land Cruiser cars and then shipped them back to Lithuania, has been arrested in a joint operation between the Guardia Civil and Europol. Six Lithuanian nationals aged between 23 and 63 years were detained,

with five being remanded into custody.

14 stolen vehicles have been recovered to date by the Guardia with the gang stealing the four by four cars in Madrid as well as in Alicante Province and the Murcia region.

Further arrests have not been ruled out by the authorities.

Two out of three people in Spain are obese according to a study by Madrid’s Complutense University. Only an estimated 36.1% inhabitants are of an ideal weight or underweight, taken as a body-mass index of lower than 25 and a ratio of height to waist of 0.5.

Dr Rosa Ortega says this ratio is a more effective method of calculation than

BMI, although if body-mass index alone was taken into account, the number of people overweight or obese would fall from 63.1% to 53.1%.

Men are more likely to be overweight than women, with only 28.9% of males compared with 42.7% of females being of an ideal size for their height, or lower. Age is also a factor – only 20% of Spanish

residents in their forties or older is of an ideal weight, or underweight.

Excess weight has gradually been creeping up on people in Spain since the mid1980s, says the Spanish Nutrition Foundation. And even in the last decade and a half, the number of Spanish residents carrying too much body weight has risen sharply. The most recent figures available, based purely upon body-mass index – but which would be higher if height-waist ratio were taken into account – date back to 2013, when 26% of people in Spain were found to be clinically obese. This has risen from 15% in 2002, according to the study which was recently published in BioMed Research International magazine.

Polished Up Spanish authorities arrested 23 members of an alleged Polish drug trafficking gang operating on the Costa del Sol, seizing more than a ton of hashish and property worth over two million euros. The operation, co-ordinated by Europol, ensnared 12 Polish citizens, as well as seven Spanish suspects, two Ukrainians, a Lithuanian and German, who were either members of or in business with the Polish “Pruszkow” criminal gang.

The group is suspected of involvement in a range of crimes including drug smuggling, murder, extortion and kidnapping. Among those arrested was a 47-year-old who went by the alias “Bandit” and had reportedly served an earlier sentence in Poland in the 1990s for his involvement with the gangs.

According to Europol, the group was partially dismantled last century, with key members receiving long prison sentences.

The National Police said the group moved its operations to Malaga after an “extensive criminal career in Poland”.

Officers seized over two mil-

lion euros of property from the suspects, as well as bank accounts and vehicles worth about 137 thousand euros and 45 thousand euros in cash, firearms and documentation. The seven Spanish nationals who were arrested were allegedly supplying the drugs to the Polish gang.

Shots In The Dark Three bullets were fired into a metal door of a summer house in the Los Alcázares area belonging to an elderly couple who have

a son in the Guardia Civil.

The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning at Los Narejos with local bars and clubs close

by, with no apparent logical motive.

Nobody was injured and the Guardia are currently investigating.

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On The Edge Of Despair A survey has highlighted the number of British households that are living on a financial knife-edge and demonstrates how catastrophic a recession would be for many of them. The report shows that a third of households would struggle

to pay their rent or mortgage for more than a month if they lost their job and and 23 percent of working families said they would be unable to pay any of their housing costs from the outset. It shows how many Brits are now existing with-

out any meaningful savings and are simply existing from hand to mouth. The study was conducted by Shelter and YouGov and comes from a July poll of 8,381 adults - including 1,581 working families with children. The findings mirror

recent government figures, which show there are 16.5 million working age adults in the UK with no savings at all and many of these say it is the sky-high cost of housing in Britain which is preventing them from being able to save for a rainy day. The

Internet Dangers Can anyone with any measure of common sense tell me how on earth a girl of five can carry out a sexual offence at school - reportedly against a boy under the age of 13 - and have any knowledge of guilty intent or, for that matter, what she was doing? According to the children's charity Plan International, UK children as young as five have been accused of carrying out sexual offences at school and this particular girl mentioned was reported to the police. For her to have any knowledge or interest in sex at that age, she must have been "groomed" by an adult or at least someone much older. Welsh police also investigated claims a

fiveyearo l d b o y h a d sexual activity with a five-yearold girl.

The same must apply in this case.

According to the charity, the number of sex crimes reported at UK schools has nearly trebled in four years from 719 in 2011-12 to nearly 2,000 in 2014-15.

Rape, child prosutution and sexual grooming are all

recorded in increased numbers.

What on earth is g o i n g o n ?

Anyone would b e

excused in thinking that Brits are totally obsessed with sex.

The charity wants relation-

ship education to become compulsory in primary schools, but that is a sad indictment on modern society and seriously brings into question exactly what is going on at home when so many young children's lives are being perverted. Is the cause the ready availability of porn on the web? It may be that parents think that there are age controls in place on what kids are using in the privacy of their bedrooms, but are we creating a generation of pre-pubity sex molesters? I am so pleased I am not a parent trying to cope with bringing up children today. It's a minefield.

Roads Of Hell Mrs M and I are in the UK currently, "enjoying" all the road works everywhere something we endure in Britain year after miserable year. So I really welcome the initiative of local councils for government permission to charge utility companies a daily rate for digging up the roads. The argument is that charging would encourage them to get the work done as quickly as possible, and, by so doing, ease congestion. The Local Government

Association wants councils to be able to introduce socalled lane rental schemes, where firms pay up to ÂŁ2,000 per day for the work they do on the busiest roads at peak periods, without the need to get approval from the Transport S e c r e t a r y.

We've travelled hundreds of tortuous miles on UK roads this summer and

have seen mile after mile of road works with not a workman in sight - just hundreds upon hundreds of cones.

And while I'm on a roll of road moaning - I find it so annoying to see the growth of yellow-hatched road markings at an ever increasing number of junctions, all policed by cameras. You know that being stuck in a box will promote an instant fine but it's so irritating

that just beyond the hatched junction there's a set of traffic lights poised to create a traffic queue to catch the unwary at the hatched junction. A plague of curses on the highways engineers for dreaming this up. Bus lane markings are traps too - it's all very well until the markings get worn and councils haven't got the money to maintain them.

What a wonderful place Britain is for unwary motorists as well being very bad on the pocket!

North West of England is the hardest hit with 29% saying they would not be able to meet housing costs if they lost their job.

And with households in this parlous state, it means they are hardly likely to be setting money aside for

retirement either - so heaven help them when they approach retirement age. If this issue is not tackled soon it could lead to extremely damaging civil strife and it would make the fallout from Brexit seem like a walk in the park.

Knock Their Heads Together What have Britain's top bosses awarding themselves a massive 10% pay rises while their staff get next to nothing and a rail union inflicting strike after strike, inflicting misery on thousands of passengers, have in common? The answer - greed and selfinterest. I abhor company directors plotting to see how they can keep wages down to maximise profits just as much as I hate unions acting as Luddites to frustrate change and progress. Blue chip bosses are now awarding themselves an average of ÂŁ5.5m a year, pocketing 140 times more than their employees' average earnings. How on earth this can ever be justified heaven knows, but the government must be seen to act quickly with legislation if necessary, because this growing gulf between the super rich and poor has the potential to wreck the stability of the country. Not only that, the longer it goes on unchecked, the more credible the arguments of Jeremy Corbyn become and, incredible as it seems, his views would gain popularity with mainstream Labour voters.

Perhaps self-interest alone

will convince greedy bosses that their excesses must end - just in case Labour does get elected. For many weeks the RMT union has inflicted huge damage on the rail network run by Southern, which runs trains from the Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey to London. It's all about who closes train doors, drivers or conductors.

Pathetic, isn't it? For many years bus drivers have done the total job, driving as well as opening and closing doors and taking the money.

Arguably their job is more arduous than train drivers, after all they are not having to take money, deal with the public or cope with all the hazards of the road. Of course, this dispute is not, as the unions suggest, about passenger safety but job preservation, after all no trade unionist is ever going to vote to end his job, or see practices introduced which might lead to it after a few months. Greedy bosses and trade unions must be brought before independent judicial tribunals whose decisions are legally binding on both sides, to prevent ridiculous strikes and untold misery to the pubic. There is a better way.

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Bumpier Ride Pilar de la Horadada motorists are to be hit by more speed bumps which are being put in by the local council at a cost of nearly 14 thousand euros. The authority says they are responding to requests from residents and the local police.

All Ashore In Rescue A Cruz Roja rescue boat came to the aid of two people close to Tabarca island on Monday as they were left stranded as their boat had developed mechanical problems. All ended well as they were towed to the mainland at Santa Pola lighthouse.

Young Mug A 20-year-old Elche man has been accused of mugging two children at knifepoint. The knifeman was tracked down by the local police in the Elche area helped by a good discription provided by the youngsters, who were both aged under 14. Items and money stolen from them have been returned to the childen.

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“Stuffed” Cars Halted

Nine British nationals were amongst 22 people arrested in raids last week across the UK and Spain with authorities claiming to have broken up a major smuggling ring. 16 of the detentions were in Spain including a number in Alicante Province, as well as Barcelona and Malaga.

According to the National Police, the gang came to the UK to steal vehicles, take them back to Barcelona to "cool off", before filling them with marijuana and cocaine and driving them back to Britain.

"Each time a car was driven back to Britain, it would carry around 100 kilos of drugs," said a National Police spokesman.

In addition to the arrests, a fleet of 36 vehicles were seized.

Officers also impounded 53 kilos of skunk cannabis, 346 plants and 2,800 marijuana cuttings; 128 kilos of hash, more than 2kg of cocaine and 1,100 grams of amphetamine. They also found £21,400 and 99,000 Euros in cash.

Most of the cars stolen to order in the UK were luxury

models, with the drugs being distributed in various hiding places. Many of the vehicles were later sold in Portugal and Italy.

"When raids were carried out in Barcelona, Irish number plates were found, together with various sets of keys for different models," said the National Police spokesman. The marijuana was cultivated inside houses across Spain.

Almost A Year

The architect behind Torrevieja’s closed Teatro Municipal has told the council that it will cost around a quarter of a million euros caused by unpaid fees and a list of essential safety work to reopen the facility. Torrevieja mayor José Manuel Dolon disclosed the figure on Wednesday but was unable to say when the complex would

be reopened, after being shut in September last year.

The ruling coalition council said at the time that the theatre was running without the appropriate licenses and safety improvements were needed, but nearly a year on, the doors are still closed despite claims earlier this year of imminent reopening dates that came and went.

Counterfeit Con

Roof-Rack Fine After Car Overloaded A Catalunya driver has been penalised because the roof-rack of his car was overloaded. The Mossos d’Esquadra pulled over the vehicle on the AP-7, with the motorist telling officers that he was heading for Barcelona’s port to get a Moroccan-bound ferry. The

vehicle though was grounded due to the ‘clear risk to its stability’ caused by the huge piles of bags and suitcases, among other items, on the roof.

The occupants of the vehicle were kept at the roadside until they had adjusted their cargo and

rammed as much of it as possible inside the car, jettisoning the nonessentials.

They were then hit with an instant fine of 200 euros, which they paid immediately so that they could continue their journey.

Price Change

Spain's consumer prices fell 0.6 percent in July compared with the same month a year ago. The official Consumer Price Index (CPI) says the figure is 0.2 percent higher than the annual inflation rate of June when prices fell by 0.8 percent on a year-onyear basis.

Food and non-alcoholic drink prices rose by 2.5 percent due to the increased prices of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Prices of items related to leisure and culture fell by 0.6 percent and those related to the hotel industry rose by 0.7 percent.

Five Spaniards who made and used 200 euro fake bills, have been arrested by the Guardia Civil under Operation Kiwo. The three men and two men operated in Valencia, Murcia, and Ciudad Real by running a con which involved paying for high value items at

shops and immediately claiming they got the wrong change or an incorrect item, and then getting the money back, having slipped in a fake 200 euro note in the first place, which was not checked because of the argument they had started.

Through The Night

Over 200 people were treated last Thursday night to a perfect view of the Perseids meteor showers as they gathered at Torrevieja’s La Mata natural park.

Astronomers from the Mastral

Project were on hand to explain exactly what was going on with the first sightings happened just after 11.00 pm, with a largely cloudless sky offering good viewing through the night.

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Shark Beached

Emergency services have released a shark into the sea after it became stuck on Mazarrón’s Bolnuevo beach.

They managed to free the creature – a Prionace Glauca, or ‘blue shark’ – after it was washed ashore and

unable to get back into the water. It was then towed out by boat to around eight miles off the beach and set free. It had grounded itself opposite the Bolnuevo beach holiday park, meaning it attracted a large number of onlookers.

Carry On Talking Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy got the green light from the Partido Popular on Wednesday to negotiate with the centrist Ciudadanos party with the aim of forming a government. PP leaders met on Wednesday to discuss a six-point package of political reforms that Ciudadanos had set as a pre-condition of its support for Rajoy's bid for a second term.

Rajoy told reporters that it would still be impossible to form a government and end a near eight-month

Pregnant women in the San Miguel de Salinas municipality are now able to use the Orihuela Costa municipal sports centre swimming pool at Playa

Flamenca for free classes in a deal struck involving the two councils and Salud Torrevieja. 20 people are so far taking advantage of the sessions.

Over a thousand people had a Saturday night with a difference in Santiago de la Ribera with the area's first five kilometre Spume Run, with several points on the route seeing foam poured out all over the competitors.

A similar event is being stage further south in Mazarrón tomorrow (Saturday). political deadlock unless the Socialist party offered him some form of support in a confidence vote.

"Ciudadanos has taken a step forward, the

Socialist party has not taken a single one.

Without this step, it is not possible for the investiture to go through," Rajoy said.

Staying Put

Pool Pleasure

90 percent of Spaniards prefer to stay in Spain for their holidays according to the "Spanish Holiday Habits" survey carried out by the Madison Market Research group. The survey shows that little has changed in the holiday habits of the average Spaniard over the last 40

Foaming Mad

years, with 50 percent of those questioned saying their favourite destination was the beach, while a third also enjoy visiting new cities and enjoying the local cuisine.

One thing where Spaniards have changed over the past 20 years, however, is where they prefer

to stay, with the majority swapping the holiday home they used to own at the coast for either hotels and holiday apartments.

Although they are on holiday the majority of Spaniards need to stay connected with two thirds saying they use social networks while away be it through their mobile phone, iPad or laptop.

And what do they drink when on holiday? There is a runaway favourite, namely beer, but since the survey was commissioned by the Spanish Brewers' Association (Cerveceros de Espana), that is hardly a surprise!

In The Money

Over a million euros is to be distributed to local number holders who bought ONCE lottery tickets in Pilar de la Horadada. Marcos Serrano Lozano sold 29 tickets worth 35 thousand euros each from his regular spot at Pilar’s Plaza de Campoamor, with the draw being made on Tuesday night.

Help Me Honda A brand new 500cc Honda motorcycle is part of a series of equipment upgrades for Guardamar’s local police. Officers will soon benefit from moves to improve reception for their walkie-talkie network across the municipality.

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Inspiring Simon’s Date

The Falklands War veteran Simon Weston CBE has accepted an invitation to come and speak on the Orihuela Costa. Renowned as one of the best speakers on the British 'after dinner' speaking circuit, Simon will bring his “Evening with….”

Show to The Olympia Restaurant in Mil Palmeras on Friday October 7th.

He recently met up with members of the Orihuela Costa Branch of The Royal British Legion (pictured between RBL secretary Kevin Reardon and RBL chairman Keith Carter) who will use the event to support the 2016 Poppy Appeal which will be officially launched across the Costa Blanca the following week in Benidorm.

Over the years since his life was forever changed on board the Sir Galahad in 1982, Simon Weston’s story has been well publicised and in 2015, he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London and in the 2016 New Years Honours, he was awarded a CBE for his charitable work.

In recent years his irrepressible humour, infectious enthusiasm and engaging personality, have made him the number one choice of many companies who invite him back to speak time and again. And it will be in his capacity as a speaker, that he will be visiting Mil Palmeras in October.

Simon endured years of re-constructive surgery, including 70 major

operations or surgical procedures despite which the road to physical, spiritual and mental recovery saw him active in a number of highly successful ventures. These days, he takes the chance to tell his story in order to motivate and encourage those, who like him, want to move on to the next goal, whatever it may be.

October’s event will be supported by singer Rebecca Holt who will be performing a programme of well known songs popular during the war years as well as some recent popular classics.

The evening, which is in support of the Royal British Legion will cost 10 euros and will include a buffet supper. More details are available on 600 228 616.

A Day To Remember

The Torrevieja-based N332 road safety project had lots of reasons to thank the Hollywood Motor Show stunt drivers who have been performing next to Zenia Boulevard, and finish there this Sunday. The generous daredevils decided to donate a clutch of tickets to help the youngsters at the Elche Children´s Home have a fun day out to remember. The three stars of the show,

David, Patrick and Christopher, were delighted to help out so that the children could experience the thrills of the event first hand and be right close to the action.

Francisco Morales from N332 said, “We must think of the children during this holiday time when those with families are enjoying their time together. Many of those without a family don´t have

the same opportunities and don´t even get to leave their home”.

As well as sharing news and information to encourage safer driving and hopefully save lives, the N332 project will carry on helping local charities, and with the recent launch of the new eMagazine, they will be donating some of the proceeds earned to deserving local groups in the area.

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Friday 19th August 2016

Manager Wanted For The K9 Club Charity

The K9 club charity is looking for an animal shelter manager for their new site in the Crevillente area. The position would ideally suit somebody who already has an income, as despite the post coming with rent-free accommodation, you would have to pay your bills. You do though get a modern four-bedroomed villa situated on seven a half thousand square metres of land!

The K9 work would include caring for up to 20 cats and 15 dogs as well as dealing with shelter volunteers, vets and members of the public, as well as with the team of K9 foster carers. The right person or couple would also work as part of the

team of volunteers who work closely with one another to rescue and rehome abandoned animals.

K9 has operated on the Costa Blanca for many years, and are a fully legal, non-profit making organisation.

The organisation is run by a dedicated team of volunteers who feel strongly about animal welfare and work hard to rescue, care for and re home animals.

They rely totally on public donations, fund raising and the income from their two shops to provide the money to care for the animals to the high standard which they deserve.

Phone 610 832 726 for more details or email k9clubinfo@gmail.com

How Much Should Your Dog Drink?

Everyone knows that humans should drink about two litres of water a day, but what about our pets? Just like with us, fluid intake is much more important than

dogs is constipation, because by not drinking all the water their bodies need, their stool becomes harder and more difficult to pass.The daily quantity of

the amount of food we give our dogs, as it is useless to carefully ration their food if they are dehydrated.

Especially in a Spanish summer, it is essential to control the quantity of water our dog drinks, because a lack of hydration could trigger heatstroke. Another consequence of poor hydration in

water to give them varies, especially depending on the type of food you're giving them and the weight of the dog. So a dog that mostly eats dry food will require more fluids than one that eats wet food. However, veterinarians always recommend giving the dog dry food because wet dog food con-

tains a much higher fat content.Since the amount of food in grams is calculated based on the weight of the adult dog, knowing the approximate number of litres the dog should eat daily also depends on their weight.

They are recommended to drink 60 ml of water for every kilo of their bodyweight. So a dog weighing 10 kg, for example, needs to drink 600 ml of water daily. However this is only a guideline because physical activity and climate also influence it.This means that a large breed of dog that, for example, weighs 20 kg, eats 300 to 400g per day and goes on two hour-long walks a day in which it gets a lot of exercise, instead of needing 1200 ml of water which would be the result of the above calculation (multiply 20 kg by 60 mL), actually requires at least a litre and a half per day. The difference is relatively small but very important.As for the water a puppy should drink every day, during the first three months veterinarians recommend mix-

ing puppy food with water to soften it and make it easier to chew. Then they'll also become hydrated while they eat. As the puppy begins to eat the food and drink the water separately, the equation is the same as above, multiply 60 ml of water by its total weight. For example, a 5 month old puppy weighing 1500g should drink approximately 90ml of water daily.

Remember that the weather also affects this, so if temperatures are high like here in Spain, you should increase the amount of water.The water should be fresh, not too cold or warm, to help the dog maintain a suitable body temperature. Also, if you do not have the time to calculate the suitable quantity of water, it is best to just always keep the bowl full. Always make sure your dog drinks and monitor how much. Because if they do not drink the water even with the bowl full, they may be suffering from an illness or disease and you'll have to take them to the vet.

The same applies if they spend all day drinking water.

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

JESSIE

JIMMY

LOUISE

MURRAY

TED

Jessie is a beautiful tabby female, not old, but a little on the mature side. She is a bit shy, but will make a wonderful companion cat once she learns to trust you, and is one of many cats in APAH's care who need a loving home.

To visit the APAH Cattery, please call 630 422 563. For full details of all of the cats and dogs at APAH, please go to their website page at www.apahrescue.org

Jimmy was found wandering in a small town and is a lovely friendly dog who is now currently fostered with other dogs and cats. Jimmy is a one year old setter/retriever cross and weighs in at around 20 kilos. He has had the full range of vaccines has been blood-tested clear and castrated. If you can offer Jimmy a home, please call PEPA on 650 304 746 or email: p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com

Louise came into the SAT kennels with her sister Thelma after being found running in the road. She is now three months old and is fully vaccinated and microchipped and is now ready to experience a new life with a loving family. If you would like more information about Louise call the SAT kennels or to meet any, then do phone 966 710 047 or email info@satanimalrescue.com

Murray is looking for a permanent home after being found abandoned at the side of a busy main road, covered in fleas and with bald patches around his eyes. Murray was just six weeks old then, and he is now flea free, has started his vaccinations and is a happy little boy. For more about Murray, please call the SAT kennels in Dolores on 966 710 047 or email info@satanimalrescue.com

Ted is an adorable 11 week old pup that is looking for a home.

He loves to play, have cuddles and has a lovely disposition and is a happy little man. He was rescued along with nine other pups, and he could end up between 8 and 15 kilos when fully grown though he is very small at the moment! For more on Ted, please phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.c om

TINO Tino is a small 18 month old corgi cross type dog with a small, long body, and who is now looking for his forever home. He weighs in at nine kilos, and Tino is negative for all Mediterranean diseases and gets on really well with other dogs, and would be perfect fit for anybody. If you are interested in meeting him, then get in touch with Pets in Spain on 645 469 253. www.petsinspain.com

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TRELI ON THE TELLY WITH ALEX TRELINSKI

As the curtain gets set to come down on the Rio Olympics this weekend, there will be a TV void for me for a few days, after this vastly entertaining spectacle bows out for another four years until we do it all again in Tokyo. Grief councilling anybody? Despite niggles over some of the “waffling” and sub-standard commentaries from the BBC, as a whole they produced a fine package, which if you look around the internet, is the envy of sports viewers around the world. The time difference in Tokyo in 2020 will mean that the action won’t start to get going until mid-evening, but the BBC does need to learn a little lesson from this time round,

BBC Lessons From Rio

and it’s not just to do with cutting down the waffle. I have never ever come across so much “channelswitching” in a TV Olympics and I cannot understand why the Beeb didn’t do what they did for London 2012 and just turn BBC 1 into a total Olympic service. Four years ago Eastenders and other regular BBC 1 shows like Holby City were run on BBC 2 (surely a sensible idea) but this time the events at Walford were deemed more important to be kept on the main channel. It bordered on frustration and annoyance (especially if you were recording the action) that you had to have your remote at the ready to flick around, sometimes at key moments.

Also if you were watching an event on BBC 1, it was abandoned to make way for something that BBC 4 was screening or vice versa, and don’t even get me started about BBC 2 being used to fill in the gaps on BBC 1!

Why? I also have sympathy for sports-haters (shame on you!). Four years ago BBC 1 news bulletins were switched to BBC 2, but this time round we got the frustration of viewers wanting the Ten O’Clock news on BBC 1 on Tuesday night having to wait the best part of two hours as the cycling massively overan due to two false starts in Jason Kenny’s crucial Kieran final. This did no favours to non-sporting viewers and somebody at the BBC should have their heads examined in not dedicating BBC 1 to uninterrupted blanket coverage, whilst offering an alternative “normal” schedule on BBC 2.

Makes sense doesn’t it?

After expressing annoyance at some of the BBC commentators in last week’s column, let me hand out plaudits to the still relatively new cycling duo of Simon Brotherton and Chris

Boardman, plus Sir Chris Hoy for being an absolute invision natural as an analyst and great in tandem with the lovely Clare Balding (a star again). Top marks too to the very experienced duo of Adrian Moorhouse and Andy Jameson at the pool, and athletics team lead by Steve Cram were good. In Michael Johnson, the BBC have as good an analyst as you can get on any sport, but it was frustrating at times to have too much “in-vision talk” as action was going on behind Gabby Logan’s back. Yes we love Team GB, but we want to see all of the athletes and action as well. We’re not as blinkered as Team USA supporters who just don’t seem to realise that other countries exist. Trust me, I’ve been in the States watching their Olympic coverage of both the winter and summer games, and it would make you scream. There were worrying times that the BBC veered a bit into this uncomfortable blinkered territory and it must not become a regular habit.

Credit must go though to some of the BBC’s “immediate reaction” interviewers who have to ask the “how do

you feel?” question when a British competitor is hustled to their broadcast point, just seconds after finishing their competition. It’s comparatively straight forward job when you are dealing with winners, and so it was a great gig for Jill Douglas at the cycling, but it was also abundantly clear that the British cyclists were all on first name terms with her, after a number of years doing that role, and she’s good and exudes authority, as rugby union fans will know well. Phil Jones at the athletics has tons of experience behind him and a real respect for him from the British athletes, with firstname terms also abounding.

I was extremely impressed at how Jones handled a very emotional Greg Rutherford who only got bronze in the long jump last Sunday and was almost on the verge of breaking down. Jones gave him a hug and calmed him down in way that only an old hand in the game could do, and note that both Jones and Jill Douglas are not sports stars turned presenters. Both are seasoned broadcast journalists who know what they are doing as opposed to the lacklustre exswimmer Sharron Davies who always underperforms with her poolside interviews.

More of the likes of Douglas and Jones please, and roll on Tokyo 2020.

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Animal Park Ripper Street Summer Special

Monday 22 August 9.15am-10.00am BBC ONE Fifty years ago Britain’s first safari park opened to the public and this summer at Longleat, Ben Fogle and Kate Humble return to celebrate, commemorate and continue the story of Britain’s wildest country house.

There is a special episode every day this week and

today Ben and Kate reenact the moment 50 lions were unleashed on unsuspecting Brits!

Meanwhile, at the giraffe house, there’s a tense wait as Ella prepares to give birth. Will the keepers need to step in and save her baby?

World-famous wildlife photographer Simon King attempts to take a killer shot of Longleat’s Siberian Tiger.

Monday 22 August 9.00pm-10.00pm BBC TWO Three years have passed since Reid left the heaving maelstrom of Whitechapel for a life of quiet contemplation by the sea with his daughter. However, he finds himself drawn back to the naphtha glare of those East London streets when he learns that Isaac Bloom, a Jewish mathematician who helped Reid on two previous Whitechapel investigations, is set to hang before the week is out.

Bloom’s purported crime is a vicious murder, and it is a crime of which Reid believes his old friend incapable. And

yet it was Drake's investigation that sent Bloom to the hangman's noose, so when Drake learns of Reid’s return the two men must surely come to blows.

An Indian man has been found murdered at the docks, and Drake finds himself working alongside the man’s father - a Bengal Lancer by the name of Haroun Al-Qadir - to track down the young man’s killer.

Meanwhile, Bloom is not the only familiar face soon to meet the hangman's noose.

Long Susan languishes in Newgate Prison, awaiting retribution for her part in the Leman Street locomotive disaster of 1894.

Rookies

Tuesday 23 August 9.00pm-10.00pm ITV Seven ordinary people - from a dance teacher to a phlebotomist - are about to make a life changing decision.

They’re becoming Police Officers. With exclusive access to Surrey Police, the Rookies and their families, this series reveals what it is like to be dropped on to the front line of law enforcement without a lot of experience and the impact on the Rookies loved ones.

Filmed over the ‘breaking-in period’ - when the Rookies leave the safety of training school and start working on the fast response cars - this programme documents the toughest and most emotional part of the training process. As the new recruits venture out onto the streets under the watchful eye of an experienced veteran Officer, it is a baptism of fire.

They come face to face with violent criminals and learn to deal with abusive members of the public who do not respect the Police.

In this first episode we meet the trainees, including 29year-old Tyne, who has made a radical career move from dance instructor to trainee Police Officer. Tyne decided to follow her dreams of joining the police after witnessing her sister’s own career ambitions be frustrated by a rare degenerative illness. 19-year-old Angus, one of Surrey’s youngest ever Rookies, is leaving a close family home in rural Somerset where he worked in a call centre, to take on a career which will push him to his very limits. Whilst his school friends back home are still living for the weekend, Angus will have to grow up fast if he is to cope with a job that demands he makes life and death decisions.

Shaven-headed, six foot three, nineteen Stone gym addict Antony might look like the archetypal copper, but contrary to first impressions he’s a deep thinking idealist.

Antony resolved to make it in the Police so that he can help vulnerable victims of crime

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Friday 19th August 07:00 Paul Martin’s Handmade Revolution 07:45 Homes Under the Hammer 08:45 The Housing Enforcers 09:15 Eat Well for Less?

10:15 Olympic Games 14:00 Live: Olympic Games 14:45 Red Rock 15:30 The Edge 16:15 Escape to the Country 17:00 The Great Antiques Olympic Map of Britain 17:30 Flog It! Live: 20:00 Games Live coverage from 18:15 Pointless 19:00 Live: day 14 of the Rio Olympics, Olympic Games featuring the men’s and women’s BMX finals and 20:00 Eggheads General the men’s super heavy- knowledge quiz weight boxing semi-finals

07:00 Olympic Breakfast 10:15 Countryside 999 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Wanted Down Under 12:45 The Housing Enforcers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Live: Olympic Games 19:00 News

EastEnders 21:00 Emotions are running high in Albert Square as the residents wait to hear the outcome of Dean’s trial Olympic Live: 21:30 Games Day 14 continues with the taekwondo at Carioca Arena 3 having reached the quarter- and semi-final stage in the men’s -80kg and women’s The disciplines.

67kg schedule is a gruelling one for the competitors, with all of the bouts in each division taking place on the same day, and the finals will follow later this evening, with Britain’s Lutalo Muhammad among the contenders.

There is also news and action from the finals of the women’s football and hockey. Presented by Clare Balding

20:30 Mastermind Quiz

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 Secret Dealers 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 Alphabetical 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Zak and Lisa fear for Belle 20:30 Coronation Street Mum’s the word for Michelle 21:00 Gino’s Italian Escape Gino D’Acampo returns to his native Campania, the Italian region where he grew up and where his family still live. As a chef, he is eager to visit the town of Gragnano, which is worldfamous for its pasta

21:00 Live: Olympic Games Live coverage of the women’s lightweight boxing final, and the men’s under80kg in taekwondo. Britishborn Aaron Cook went into that competition with a point to prove after missing the 21:30 Coronation Street London Olympics and sub- There is more than one sequently changing nation- bump in the road for Steve ality to Moldova 21:30 Gardeners’ World Now that birds are no longer nesting in hedges, now is the time to get them looking trim and neat 22:00 Highlands: Wild Heart of Scotland Ewan McGregor narrates as summer gives way to autumn and winter in the Highlads

23:00 Live: Olympic Games 23:35 Newsnight 00:10 Film - Burke & Hare (14) 01:35 23:00 News 23:35 Live: Sicily Unpacked 02:35 Olympic Games 05:00 Inside the Factory 03:35 Weather for the Week Imagine 04:40 This Is BBC Two Ahead 05:05 News

22:00 Doc Martin After Martin and Louisa tell Dr Timoney about their failed date night, she questions their ultimate compatibility.

Erica, the new art teacher at Portwenn school, moves in with her daughter Bernie.

Louisa’s happiness at finding a permanent teacher is short lived when Erica asks to try out some rather alternative ideas on the children 23:00 News 23:40 Film Forgetting Sarah Marshall(18) 01:40 Jackpot247 04:00 Murder, She Wrote 04:50 ITV Nightscreen

07:15 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:05 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:00 Frasier 10:00 The Big Bang Theory 11:00 The Simpsons 12:30 Come Dine with Me 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:35 Racing: Ebor Festival Day Three 17:00 Four in a Bed 18:00 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year Before the winner is announced, there are two more categories to explore. The Budget category includes a beach house made for just £20, and The Cabins and Summerhouses group features a classic van 22:00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Jimmy Carr is joined by Sean Lock and David O’Doherty who go up against Jon Richardson and Natasia Demetriou. John Kearns joins Susie in Dictionary Corner, while Rachel looks after the numbers and letters 23:00 Friday Night Dinner 23:35 Big Fat Quiz of Everything 01:05 Man Down 01:40 A Granny’s Guide to the Modern World 02:05 I’m Spazticus 02:30 Film - Road Trip: Beer Pong (15) 04:10 Fresh Meat 04:55 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 13:10 News 13:15 Celebrity Big Brother 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - The Santa Suit 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door Featuring two quarrelling neighbours who record each other’s every moment on CCTV and in diaries 21:00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords Margaret tries to get the £20,000 she is owed from a letting agent, Stavros and Emily try to get their house back from squatters, and Peterborough council find 12 people crammed into a category-one fire hazard house 22:00 Celebrity Big Brother Emma Willis announces the identity of the least popular housemate and invites them to vacate the house. Plus, the usual round-up of highlights from the past 24 hours, narrated by Marcus Bentley 23:00 It’s Not Me, It’s You 23:30 Celebrity Big Brother 00:05 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 01:05 SuperCasino 04:10 Celebrity Big Brother 05:00 Celebrity Big Brother

DON´T MISS AMAZING SPACES SHED OF THE YEAR

Channel 4 21:00

SOAPS

The 2016 competition concludes, with the Budget category, which includes a colourful beach house made for just £20 and a shed that actually earned its owner £100 in profit. The Cabins and Summerhouses group features a classic van and a dream structure in an allotment. Next, presenter George Clarke and his fellow judges are tasked to choose one shed from all the category winners across the series to crown as the overall winner. Last in the series.

Charity about Belle, but she pretends she knew nothing.

In Emmerdale the police take DNA so they can identify Belle if they find her. Bailey wants to help search, but the Dingles don’t want him involved.

Lisa blames herself for not noticing Belle’s state, but her anger turns to Bailey for not spotting Belle’s state of mind either.

Meanwhile, Carly is looking forward to her date with Pete, until she hears about Belle going missing.

Concerned for Marlon, she cancels and is delighted when Bob suggests she searches with Marlon for Belle. In the woods, Marlon falls and pulls a muscle, so Carly lifts him and carries him home.

Marlon apologises for falling out with her and Carly confesses that she wanted to be more than friends with him.

Later, Charity lets Bailey stay with her. Cain probes

In Coronation Street, reminding Steve that she’s

at her most fertile, Michelle suggests they meet for an afternoon lie down. Liz is disapproving and tells Steve it’s time he told Michelle the truth, that he doesn’t want another baby. Seizing the opportunity to escape, Steve grabs an airport run and heads off.

Put out to discover that Steve has done a runner, Michelle confides in Maria and Kate that she and

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Dinner Date 08:10 Ellen DeGeneres 09:00 Emmerdale 10:00 You’ve Been Framed! 10:30 Psych 11:20 Royal Pains 12:15 Dinner Date 13:15 Emmerdale 14:15 You’ve Been Framed! 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Film - The Matrix Revolutions (14) 00:35 Family Guy 01:35 American Dad! 02:30 The Cleveland Show ITV3 07:00 Movies Now 07:10 In Loving Memory 07:35 Heartbeat 08:35 Where the Heart Is 09:35 The Royal 10:40 Judge Judy 12:00 Murder, She Wrote 13:00 Love Your Garden 14:00 Heartbeat 15:05 The Royal 16:05 Where the Heart Is 17:15 In Loving Memory 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Birds of a Feather 22:00 Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs 23:00 A Touch of Frost 01:15 Film Elizabeth: The Golden Age (PG) 03:15 Long Lost Family 04:05 Rory Bremner’s Great British Views 05:45 George and Mildred ITV4 07:00 Magnum, PI 07:50 Gunsmoke 08:45 The Sweeney 09:45 Ironside 10:50 Quincy, ME 11:50 Magnum, PI 12:55 Gunsmoke 14:00 The Chase 15:00 Storage Wars 15:55 The Sweeney 16:55 Quincy, ME 18:00 Ironside 19:00 Storage Wars 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 World Series of Darts 00:30 Film Lock Up (18) 02:40 The Sweeney

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack Steve are supposed to be trying for a baby. At Kate’s suggestion, Michelle downloads a new pregnancy app and is shocked to realise she’s five days late.

Having returned from his airport run, Steve plucks up the courage to face Michelle and tell her the truth, while Maria calls in the corner shop to buy a pregnancy testing kit for Michelle. Aidan clocks her purchase with alarm, worried that Maria may be pregnant. Maria and Kate wait on tenterhooks while Michelle does her pregnancy test.

In the second episode,

Steve finally admits to Michelle that he doesn’t want a baby. Utterly devastated, Michelle reveals that she’s pregnant. She confides in Liz that she wishes Steve had been honest from the outset, as now it’s too late and she’s carrying his baby. Liz is stunned.

Later, Michelle finds Steve buried deep in thought in the back yard. Telling her how sorry he is for upsetting her, will Steve come clean about his fling with Leanne?

In Eastenders, emotions continue to run high as the local residents wait to hear the outcome of Dean’s

trial. Ronnie, Roxy, Linda and Shirley find themselves waiting together at The Vic, where they discuss Dean and everything that’s happened.

As the ladies all reveal their feelings, they offer words of support to each other and Ronnie insists that Dean is the only person at fault. But will Dean be found guilty or not guilty?

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Saturday 20th August

07:15 Film - Night Song 08:55 Film - Whisky Galore! (U) 10:15 Olympic Games 14:00 Bargain Hunt 14:45 Escape to the Country 15:30 Flog It! 16:00 Full Steam Ahead 17:00 Final Score 18:30 Live: Olympic Games 18:50 Live: Olympic 18:50 The A to Z of TV 19:00 Gardening Games Clare Balding intro- Gardeners’ World 19:30 duces the latest live cover- Dad’s Army age on day 15 of the Games. The women’s fly- 20:00 BBC Proms Extra weight boxing final takes This episode looks at place at Riocentro at 19:00, Rachmaninov, the John with Team GB’s defending Wilson Orchestra performGershwin and visits the Olympic champion Nicola ing Proms at Shakespeare’s Adams hoping to be Globe involved in the main event once again. That is followed 20:40 BBC Proms Valery the conducts by the men’s bantamweight Gergiev Philharmonic and middleweight finals at Munich 19:15 and 20:00 respective- Orchestra in three popular Ravel’s hypnotic ly. The coverage then classics; “Bolero’, the ravishing suite crosses to the Maria Lenk from Richard Strauss’s “Der Aquatics Centre for the Rosenkavalier” and men’s 10m platform diving Rachmaninov’s romantic final from 21:30, as Britain’s third “Piano Concerto’, with Tom Daley looks to improve the outstanding young upon his bronze-medal fin- pianist Behzod Abduraimov ish at London 2012, having 22:40 Edinburgh Nights already collected a bronze Kirsty Wark presents highmedal with partner Dan lights and performances Goodfellow in the synchro- from the world’s biggest festival of arts and culture nised event 07:00 Olympic Breakfast 11:00 Saturday Kitchen Live12:30 Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh and Easy Food 13:00 News13:10 Football Focus 13:45 Live: Olympic Games 18:30 News

23:20 News 23:40 Match of the Day 01:10 Live: Olympic Games 05:00 Weather for the Week Ahead 05:05 News

23:10 The National Lottery Live 23:20 Live: Olympic Film01:10 Games Infamous (14) 03:05 Oslo, August 31st (14) 04:30 This Is BBC Two

07:00 CITV 09:25 News 09:30 Weekend 10:25 Murder, She Wrote 12:25 Columbo 14:25 News 14:35 River Monsters 15:00 The Chase 16:00 Doc Martin 17:05 Film The Mummy Returns (PG) 19:20 News 19:45 You’ve Been Framed!

07:15 Mobil 1 The Grid 07:40 Gillette World Sport 08:05 Volkswagen Racing Cup 08:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 The Morning Line 11:00 Frasier 12:00 The Big Bang Theory 13:20 The Simpsons 14:45 Racing: York and Sandown Park 17:30 Come Dine with 20:15 Spotless Game Me 19:35 News show set against a backdrop of immaculate white rooms, in which two cou- 20:00 Film - Men in Black ples compete in fiendishly 3 An alien criminal escapes messy games where their from a prison on the moon only mission is to stay and goes back in time on a absolutely spotless mission of revenge, changing the course of history.

21:15 Catchphrase Agent J of the top-secret Contestants Petra Dunne, Sara Manchipp and Earth defence organisation Zechariah Hemans are follows him back to 1969, challenged to `see it and and joins forces with a say it’ as Stephen Mulhern younger version of his hosts one last round of the mentor Agent K to set quiz show things right (PG) 22:00 Film - The Bourne Supremacy Life never becomes easy for ex-CIA agent Jason Bourne, who is forced out of hiding, and must return to Europe to find out exactly what happened in his past. It’s not easy, as he’s being framed for murder and his old employers are leading the manhunt (14) 00:00 News 00:15 Jeremy Kyle USA 01:10 Jackpot247 04:00 Murder, She Wrote 04:50 ITV Nightscreen

22:00 There’s Something About Romcoms Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Rupert Everett and Stephen Merchant reveal the untold stories behind the greatest romantic comedy films of the past three decades 23:35 Film - I Give It a Year (14) 01:30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 02:20 Film - Call Girl (15) 04:45 Hollyoaks Omnibus

07:00 Milkshake 10:00 The Saturday Show Live 12:10 Police Interceptors: Unleashed 15:05 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 17:10 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! 19:05 News 19:10 NCIS: Los Angeles 20:00 NCIS Gibbs is injured in an explosion while conducting inquiries aboard a ship. He lapses into a coma, during which he has flashbacks of the past he has always kept hidden. Meanwhile, Tony takes over the investigation, but his approach begins to cause friction 21:50 News 22:00 Football on 5 George Riley and Lynsey Hipgrave introduce highlights from the weekend’s games, including Sheffield Wednesday v Leeds United at Hillsborough, Birmingham City v Wo l v e r h a m p t o n Wanderers at St Andrew’s, and Bristol City v Newcastle United at Ashton Gate 23:30 Celebrity Big Brother 00:30 V Festival 2016 01:15 SuperCasino 04:10 Celebrity Big Brother 05:00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 05:50 Divine Designs

13:45 Ninja Warrior UK 14:45 You’ve Been Framed! 15:45 Film Batteries not Included (PG) 17:50 The X Factor: Top 10 18:55 Film - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (12) 22:00 Film - Hall Pass (15) 00:05 Family Guy 01:35 American Dad! ITV3 13:45 Lewis 15:45 Calamity Jane (U) 17:55 Foyle’s War 20:00 Doc Martin 21:00 Lewis 23:00 Agatha Christie’s Marple 01:05 Inspector Morse ITV4 14:10 Film - The Secret War of Harry Frigg (U) 16:25 British Touring Car Championship 17:55 The Motorbike Show 19:00 World Series of Darts 22:30 Storage Wars 23:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 00:00 Film - Child’s Play 2 (15) 01:45 The Sweeney

09:00 The Weekend Mix, ,

Sunday 21st August 07:15 Gardeners’ World 07:45 Countryfile 08:45 Saturday Kitchen Best Olympic 10:15 Bites Games 14:00 Film - Pal Joey (PG) 15:45 Flog It! 16:25 Highlands: Wild Heart of Scotland 17:25 Songs of Praise 18:00 Live: Olympic Games 19:30 Film - Wallace and Gromit: The 19:30 Live: Olympic Wrong Trousers (G) Games Live coverage of the Olympic boxing from 20:00 Cats v Dogs: Which Rio, with tonight’s schedule is Best? Based at one of including the men’s light Britain’s largest cat and dog welterweight and super veterinary centres, Chris heavyweight finals. Clare and Liz go head to head to Balding and guests also test different aspects of review the 2016 games each animal 07:00 Olympic Breakfast 08:30 Match of the Day 10:00 News 11:00 Sunday Morning Live 12:00 Homes Under the Hammer 13:00 Bargain Hunt 13:45 News 14:00 Live: Olympic Games 18:00 News 18:30 Countryfile

22:00 Fake or Fortune?

The team choose three of the most promising portraits to investigate further. This includes a portrait of a child, believed to be by prized modern artist Willem de Kooning; a portrait of a young lady, attributed to 18th century society painter Philip Mercier; and a portrait of a formidable looking man, said to be by 19th century German master Adolph von Menzel 23:00 News 23:30 Match of the Day 2 00:25 Live: Olympic Games 05:00 Weather for the Week Ahead 05:05 News

07:00 CITV 09:25 News 09:30 Weekend 10:25 Murder, She Wrote 12:15 Columbo 14:15 News 14:20 Long Lost Family 15:20 The Chase 16:20 Film - The Incredible Hulk (PG) 18:25 Masterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh 19:25 News

07:15 Shipping Wars 07:40 The King of Queens 08:30 Frasier 09:30 The Big Bang Theory 10:30 Sunday Brunch 13:30 The Simpsons 17:30 Location, Location, Location 18:35 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 19:30 News

20:00 The Zoo Asian elephant Karishma gives birth to her second calf at ZSL’s Whipsnade, in Regent’s Park Asian lion keeper Paul Kybett notices fifteen year old mum-of-three lioness Abi is not feeding and becomes acutely unwell and keeper Graeme Williamson, looking for new challenges in his career, 21:00 Robot Wars Dara O moves to looking after the Briain and Angela Scanlon chimpanzees battles more present between homemade fight- 21:00 Midsomer Murders ing robots, including a tow- An international cycling ering, sword-wielding war- competition comes to the village of rior built by a Mensa mem- Midsomer Burwood Mantle. When the ber and his three sons race leader is murdered, DCI Barnaby and DS Den Nelson find themselves Dragons’ 22:00 Projects up for investment drawn into a ruthlessly this week include an unusu- competitive world of blackal coffee lid and a range of mail, bribery and bloodshed where winning comes at coconut-based products any cost 23:30 Fleabag 23:00 Murder in Successville 23:00 News 23:20 Slow 00:00 Sex & Drugs & Rock Train Through Africa with 01:50 Griff Rhys Jones 00:15 (15) Roll & Point 01:15 Countryfile 02:45 NYPD: Tipping Jackpot247 04:00 Biggest Gang in New York? Motorsport UK 04:50 ITV 03:30 This Is BBC Two Nightscreen

20:00 Posh Pawn A sculptor wants to sell a life-size statue of David Beckham, James takes a rare Porsche for a spin, and Claudia values a pair of designer handbags for a customer who is trying to fund a mansion for her cat 21:00 Film Transformers: Dark of the Moon The Autobots and the Decepticons become involved in a space race to find a hidden Cybertronian spacecraft stranded on the Moon. Sam Witwicky must come to the aid of the Autobots to defeat the evil Decepticons to stop them discovering the secrets of the Cybertronian craft (PG) 00:00 Film - The Grey (14) 02:10 Friday Night Dinner 02:40 Walking the Himalayas 03:35 The World’s Weirdest Weather 04:30 China: Treasures of the Jade Empire

07:00 Milkshake 10:55 The Fairly OddParents 11:30 Football 13:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

14:00 Film - Secret Santa Film 15:50 (PG) Christmas Song 17:40 Film - Lucky Christmas 19:20 Film - Defending Santa A widowed sheriff falls for a defence attorney when Santa Claus stands trial for a crime that he did not commit 21:00 Christmas Makes You Laugh Out Loud Funny-man Iain Lee narrates an entertaining compilation of the most amusoutrageous and ing Christmas themed videos that have taken the internet by storm. Featuring cringe-worthy moments such as the performances of out-of-tune carol singers and a truly unforgettable star of a nativity play 21:55 News Big Celebrity 22:00 Brother The remaining housemates embark on their final week 23:00 V Festival 2016 02:00 SuperCasino 04:10 Suspects 05:00 House House 05:25 Doctor Doctor 05:50 Wildlife SOS

14:20 Take Me Out 15:50 You’ve Been Framed!

16:20 Film - The Smurfs 2 18:25 The X Factor: Top 10 19:25 Film - Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG) 21:00 Film - Evan Almighty 23:00 Family Guy ITV3 13:40 A Touch of Frost 15:55 Wycliffe 17:05 Film That’s Carry On (PG) 18:55 Margery and Gladys 21:00 Royal Stories 22:00 Million Dollar Princesses 23:05 The Young Victoria (PG) ITV4 12:55 Film - The Rawhide Years 14:40 Film - Destry 16:45 Film - The Secret War of Harry Frigg (U) 19:00 Mr Bean 20:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 21:00 The Chase 22:05 Film - State of Play (14) 00:40 Film - Transporter 3 (14)

09:00 The Weekend Mix,

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Monday 22nd August

07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Animal Park Summer Special 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Wanted Down Under Revisited 12:45 Heir Hunters 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Red Rock 15:25 Escape to the Country 16:25 Think Tank 17:10 Flog It! 18:10 Pointless Celebrities 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show

07:30 Homes Under the Hammer 08:30 The Housing Enforcers 09:00 Natural World 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 Olympic Games 15:00 Three Up, Two Down 15:30 Hi-De-Hi! 16:10 Sahara With Michael Palin 17:10 The Great Interior Design Challenge 18:10 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Debatable 19:30 Make Me an Egghead

20:30 Panorama With the new Prime Minister facing tough decisions on Government spending cuts, Richard Bilton investigates the impact of six years of austerity measures on his home town Selby. Services are still being cut and many people are being asked to make do with less, so can a new army of volunteers bridge the gaps?

20:00 Britain’s Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy Twenty volunteers are taking part in an experiment to test their skills against some of the fastest growing jobs in Britain’s low wage sector

21:00 EastEnders Buster makes a decision about his relationships 21:30 Eat Well for Less?

Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin head to Edinburgh to meet Derek Hoyland, who is coeliac and hasn’t eaten the same meal as his wife and two kids for nearly 6 years 22:30 Mrs Brown’s Boys The family celebrate the baptism of Dermot and Maria’s triplets with a party 23:00 News 23:45 Have I Got News for You 01:00 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:05 News

21:00 University Challenge Quiz 21:30 Only Connect Two teams who lost their first heats return as highest scoring losers in tonight’s show 22:00 Ripper Street Three years have passed, and Reid is drawn back to Whitechapel to investigate a case that condemns Isaac Bloom to death.

Meanwhile, Long Susan awaits her execution in Newgate Prison and Drake looks into the case of a man found murdered at the docks 23:00 QI 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Robot Wars 01:15 Full Steam Ahead 02:15 Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS 03:00 This Is BBC Two

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Secret Dealers 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 Alphabetical 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Charity faces the consequences of her actions 20:30 Coronation Street Leanne says goodbye to Weatherfield 21:00 Barging Round Britain With John Sergeant The Regent’s Canal runs through the heart of London linking the docks with the rest of Britain. John navigates the history-filled route, finding the East End’s haunted Ragged School, and making and sampling a bottle or two of `mother’s ruin’ along the way. The veteran broadcaster even finds time to stop off to feed the giraffes at London Zoo 21:30 Coronation Street Nick comes to his senses 22:00 500 Questions Giles Coren hosts the quiz show with one all-important rule - get three questions in a row wrong and you are out of the game, with another challenger waiting to take your place 23:00 News 23:40 Spotless 00:40 Britain as Seen on ITV 01:10 Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Kyle 04:55 ITV Nightscreen

07:15 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:05 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:00 Frasier 10:30 The Big Bang Theory 11:30 The Simpsons 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 15:40 Wedding Town 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Gok’s Fill Your House for Free 18:00 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 Make My Body Better With Davina McCall 32-stone teaching assistant James finds a simple walk along the street a feat of endurance.

At just 27 years old, his health and life are at risk Davina is determined to help, and sets James a mind-blowing challenge that would make anyone baulk 22:00 Big Fat Quiz of Everything Jimmy asks questions from the last 100,000 years of human history, giving the unique Big Fat Quiz spin on everything from science to music, food and drink to crime and punishment, with a dollop of celebrity thrown in for good measure 23:30 Naked Attraction 00:35 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 01:35 The World’s Weirdest Weather 02:30 One Born: What Happened Next?

03:35 Grand Designs Australia 04:30 Phil: Secret Agent Down Under

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 13:10 News 13:15 Celebrity Big Brother 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film Expecting Amish (PG) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Aircrash: The Downing of Flight 8509 Documentary about Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, which crashed less than a minute after take-off from London Stansted Airport on 22nd December 1999, killing all four crew members. With the aid of dramatic re-enactments, CGI, cockpit voice recordings, official reports, interviews and eye-witness testimony, this film reconstructs the sequence of events to find out what went wrong and why - and discovers that a minor mechanical fault turned into a major disaster 21:00 Police Interceptors: Unleashed Reports of a handgun lead to a hotel on lock-down 22:00 Celebrity Big Brother A chance to catch up with the latest action as the celebrity contestants continue to live out their lives in front of the cameras 23:00 Tattoo Disasters UK 00:05 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 01:05 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

02:00 SuperCasino 04:10 Person of Interest

DON´T MISS

RIPPER STREET

BBC Two 22:00

SOAPS

The Victorian crime drama returns with the first of a two-part story. Three years have passed since Reid left Whitechapel for quiet life by the sea with his daughter, but he finds himself drawn back to east London when he learns that Isaac Bloom, a Jewish mathematician who helped him on two previous Whitechapel investigations, is set to hang for murder before the week is out. Meanwhile, Drake investigates the killing of an Indian man at the docks. Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn star.

leave, but she has other ideas.

Meanwhile, April notices the closeness between Marlon and Carly and tells Bob. An unimpressed Bob warns Marlon off Carly, making it clear that he doesn’t approve.

In Emmerdale, Cain is furious when Charity admits that she knew Belle was lying about the pregnancy. He doesn’t waste any time before telling the rest of the Dingles, so Zak and Lisa make it clear to Charity that they want nothing more to do with her.

Later, Cain gets Charity a suitcase and tells her to

In Coronation Street, Eva begs Leanne to reconsider her decision to leave, but Leanne is adamant that a fresh start

is what she needs. Eva quietly suggests to Simon that he should hide the coach tickets. Leanne then calls in the Bistro to say her goodbyes. Nick is gutted to realise she’s moving to Liverpool for good but tells her if things don’t work out, she knows where he is.

Michelle also tells Leanne that she’ll be sorry to see her go and reveals that she’s pregnant. Feigning surprise, Leanne congratulates her. Relieved she’s going, Steve wishes Leanne luck.

Having said an emotional goodbye to Eva and Ken, Leanne and Simon leave

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Dinner Date 08:10 Ellen DeGeneres 09:00 Emmerdale 09:30 Coronation Street 10:30 Psych 11:20 Royal Pains 12:15 Dinner Date 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 Coronation Street 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 19:50 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Family Guy 23:00 American Dad! 00:00 Family Guy 00:30 Bordertown 01:00 The Cleveland Show 02:00 Two and a Half Men 02:25 The Vampire Diaries 03:15 The Hot Desk ITV3 07:00 Movies Now 07:10 In Loving Memory 07:35 Heartbeat 08:35 Where the Heart Is 09:35 The Royal 10:40 Judge Judy 12:00 Murder, She Wrote 13:00 Love Your Garden 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 The Royal 16:10 Where the Heart Is 17:15 In Loving Memory 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Marple 23:00 Case Sensitive 00:05 Liverpool 1 01:15 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Magnum, PI 07:50 Gunsmoke 08:45 The Sweeney 09:45 Ironside 10:50 Quincy, ME11:55 Magnum, PI 12:55 Gunsmoke 14:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 15:00 Storage Wars 15:55 The Sweeney 16:55 Quincy, ME 18:00 Ironside 19:00 Storage Wars 20:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 21:00 MotoGP Championship Series 22:00 Film - The Naked Gun (PG) 23:50 Film - Don’t Say a Word (14) 02:05 Motorsport UK 03:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack for the coach station.

However, when Eva gets a call from Leanne telling her that she’s lost her tickets and had to rebook a later coach, Eva forms another plan. Cornering Nick, she reveals that Leanne has missed her coach, explaining that Leanne loves him deeply but feels she can’t be honest with him as she’s expecting a baby...

In the second episode, Eva implores Nick to go after Leanne and stop her from leaving, but Nick is in turmoil as he tries to digest the news of Leanne’s pregnancy.

Having purchased another lot of coach tickets,

Leanne discovers the first lot in Simon’s rucksack and realises with a heavy heart that he doesn’t want to leave.

As Leanne and Simon board the coach for Liverpool, Simon secretly phones Nick. Simon then forces Leanne to admit that Nick is the love of her life. Having overheard their exchange, Nick comes to a decision. As the coach readies to leave, Nick scrambles on board and begs Leanne not to go, telling her that he knows about the baby.

In Eastenders, Buster and Kathy continue their affair as they sneak into

Beale’s restaurant together, but Buster starts to fear that he’s losing Kathy when she gives him a reality check about the situation. Desperate to keep hold of Kathy, Buster tells her that it’s time he came clean to Shirley so they can be together properly.

Later on, Kathy spots an angry Shirley. Has Buster gone through with his confession and does Shirley know the truth?

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Tuesday 23rd August 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Animal Park Summer Special 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Wanted Down Under Revisited 12:45 Heir Hunters 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 BBC Local, National & International News 14:45 Red Rock 15:30 Escape to the Country 16:25 Think Tank 17:15 Flog It! 18:15 Pointless Celebrities 19:00 BBC Local, National & International News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders Kathy is put on the spot when Ian drops a bombshell 21:00 Holby City Buoyed by the launch of his memoir and today’s speech to investors, Guy is brought crashing down to earth when someone from his past turns up and reopens old wounds 22:00 One of Us After the brutal murder of their children, the Elliot and Douglas families are shocked when the killer turns up on their doorstep that night. His fate lies in their hands - will they show mercy, or get their revenge?

23:00 BBC Local, National & International News 23:45 Clean Eating’s Dirty Secrets 00:20 Film - White Oleander (14) 02:05 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:10 News

07:15 Animal Park Summer Special 08:00 Homes Under the Hammer 09:00 The Best Bottoms in the Land 09:30 The Hairy Builder 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 14:00 The Super League Show 14:45 Three Up, Two Down 15:15 Hi-De-Hi! 15:45 Yes, Minister 16:15 Sahara With Michael Palin 17:15 The Great Interior Design Challenge 18:15 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Debatable 19:30 Make Me an Egghead 20:00 Britain’s Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy The volunteers are working in food and farming, picking broccoli and making ready meals for our tables 21:00 Inside the Factory Gregg helps to unload a tanker full of sugar and sees it transform it into over a hundred million individual sweets 22:00 An Hour to Save Your Life Dusan is in a critical condition after being hit by a bus. With potential head, chest and abdominal injuries causing major internal bleeding, the air ambulance team anaesthetise him before rushing him to hospital 23:00 Mock the Week 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Dragons’ Den 01:15 Mo Farah: Race of His Life 02:15 The Mystery of Van Gogh’s Ear 03:15 Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS 04:00 This Is BBC Two

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Secret Dealers 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 Alphabetical 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Charity is in danger 21:00 500 Questions General knowledge quiz hosted by Giles Coren in which contestants bank cash as they progress through rounds of 50 questions, but are eliminated if they incorrectly answer three in a row 22:00 Rookies Documentary following trainee officers in Surrey Police, charting their progress as they venture out onto the streets under the watchful eyes of experienced veterans. Rookie law enforcers include 29year-old Tyne, who has made a radical career move from dance instructor to trainee Police Officer. Cameras also follow 19-year-old Angus, who is leaving a close family home in rural Somerset where he worked in a call centre, to take on a career which will push him to his limits 23:00 News 23:40 Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America 00:40 Murder, She Wrote 01:35 Jackpot247 04:00 Loose Women 04:50 ITV Nightscreen

07:15 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:05 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:00 Frasier 10:00 Frasier 10:30 The Big Bang Theory 11:30 The Simpsons 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 15:40 Wedding Town 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Gok’s Fill Your House for Free 18:00 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 Location, Location, Location Kirstie’s with childhood sweethearts Andy and Jenny from Warrington, who are desperate to buy their first home and start a family 22:00 President Trump: Can He Really Win? Donald Trump has now emerged as the clear front runner for the Republican Presidential nomination.

His popularity has reached fever pitch Matt Frei asks: can Trump really go all the way to the White House?

As the race to the Oval Office has heated up the billionaire tycoon has continued to spark indignation 23:00 Beauty and the Baker 23:50 999: What’s Your Emergency? 00:50 Secrets of a Police Marksman 01:50 KOTV Boxing Weekly 02:15 Mobil 1 The Grid 02:45 Volkswagen Racing Cup 03:10 Gillette World Sport 03:40 Grayson Perry: All Man

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 13:10 News 13:15 Celebrity Big Brother 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - A Wife’s Nightmare (12) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Conspiracy Bart Sibrel and journalist Marcus Allen claim to have evidence that proves that the American moon landings in the late 1960s and 70s were faked. Gary McKinnon, who hacked into the Pentagon computers in 2002, claims that he found information about a secret US space fleet in orbit and powered by alien technology 21:00 The Dog Rescuers A hungry husky needs some help to get back to his target weight, inspector Justin recalls an awful case of abuse and there is the tragically bittersweet tale of Peg, a beloved crossbreed who befriended a Para in Afghanistan 22:00 Celebrity Big Brother Emma Willis presents all the drama from the CBB house 23:00 Borderline 23:30 Impractical Jokers UK 00:05 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 01:05 Tribal Teens Here Comes Trouble 02:00 SuperCasino 04:10 Person of Interest 05:00 Caught on Camera

DON´T MISS

ONE OF US

BBC One 22:00 SOAPS

Drama set in the remote Scottish Highland village of Braeston, focusing on the aftermath when two childhood sweethearts are killed on their return from honeymoon. Their families are devastated to hear of their deaths, but their world is turned upside down when the murderer arrives badly injured on their doorstep the night after the killing, leaving them with a terrible dilemma. Starring Juliet Stevenson, Joanna Vanderham, Laura Fraser and Joe Dempsie.

he initially thinks it’s just another one of her lies. But soon realises she’s really in trouble. Soon afterwards, Cain finds a battered and bruised Charity at Dean’s. When Cain later comforts Charity and she leans in for a kiss, will he respond?

In Emmerdale, Charity gets a lead on Belle’s whereabouts, but she worries when she realises it’s in the red light district. She finds the address of her lead but is shocked to see Holly’s ex-boyfriend Dean there. Dean threatens Charity with a bat, forcing her to hide in the bathroom with no way out.

Meanwhile, Tracy is on the phone to her dad’s nurse, but Vanessa overhears her on the phone and thinks she’s cheating on David.

Leyla tells David what Vanessa heard, but she soon feels bad when David fills her in on Tracy’s dad.

When Charity calls Cain,

It’s not long before Leyla and David put the pieces

together and realise Vanessa and Tracy share the same father, but how will the girls feel when Vanessa turns up at the hospital and Frank has no choice but to confess all?

Elsewhere, Chrissie is reluctant to honour her deal with Rakesh, suspecting she can’t trust him.

Also today, Brenda warns Bob to make up with Carly and Marlon. He apologises, although he clearly still has reservations about their relationship.

Finally, Liv is worried that she’s going to be kicked out, but Aaron reassures her she’s going nowhere.

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Dinner Date 08:10 Ellen DeGeneres 09:00 Emmerdale 09:30 Coronation Street 10:30 Psych 11:20 Royal Pains 12:15 Dinner Date 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 Coronation Street 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Film - The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) 23:40 Family Guy 00:40 American Dad! 01:40 Two and a Half Men 02:35 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 03:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 03:20 Teleshopping ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:30 Where the Heart Is 09:30 The Royal 10:35 Judge Judy 11:55 Murder, She Wrote 12:55 Wycliffe 14:00 Heartbeat 15:05 The Royal 16:05 Where the Heart Is 17:15 In Loving Memory 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Case Sensitive 00:00 Wire in the Blood 01:35 Inspector Morse 03:25 ITV3 Nightscreen 03:30 Teleshopping ITV4 07:00 Magnum, PI 07:50 Gunsmoke 08:45 The Sweeney 09:45 Ironside 10:45 Quincy, ME 11:50 Magnum, PI 12:50 Gunsmoke 13:55 Vuelta a España, Cycling 14:55 Storage Wars 15:55 The Sweeney 16:50 Quincy, ME 17:55 Ironside 19:00 MotoGP Championship Series 20:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 21:00 Mr Bean 22:00 Benidorm 23:00 Public Enemies (14) 01:50 River Monsters 02:55 Vuelta a España, Cycling 03:45 ITV4 Nightscreen 04:00 Teleshopping

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack In Eastenders, Honey turns to Roxy for help after finding the drugs and shares her suspicions over what’s going on. She also ends up seeking some advice from Pam, who encourages her to put on a united front with Billy.

her what he saw on the security tapes. Jane later talks to Kathy about the situation.

At the same time, Roxy rushes to find Billy and Jay to warn them about what’s happened. Honey goes home to confront Jay, but it’s not long before some surprising truths come to light and Honey comes to a shocking realisation. As a result, she kicks both Jay and Billy out.

Elsewhere, Martin accuses Tina of leaving Sonia to cope with Sylvie by herself. Martin tells Tina she doesn’t deserve Sonia, especially when she has so much on her plate.

Meanwhile, Ian puts Kathy on the spot when he tells

Also today, Shakil drops a bombshell on Bex.

Finally, Les tells Pam that it’s about time they started making plans for Paul’s funeral.

In Holby City, Guy must face his past when an unexpected patient arrives at the hospital. Meanwhile, Fletch struggles with single parenthood as his work and home lives collide, and Ric makes a new enemy as he campaigns for the deputy CEO role.

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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 B and 3 represents C, when these letters have been entered throughout the puzzle, you should have enough information to start guessing words and discovering other letters.

QUICKIE

Across 1/6 Postpone (3,3) 3 Fundamental (5) 6 See 1 8 Capital of Georgia (7) 9 Free from dirt (5) 10 Loans (5) 11 Make clear (7) 12 Forgive (6) 14 Balanced (6) 17 Duplicate (7) 19 Slightly burn (5) 21 Greeting (5) 22 Put to use (7) 23/25 Neptune, for example (3,3) 24 Frightening (5) 25 See 23

Down 1 Flower part (5) 2 Diluting agent (7) 3 Dreamy happiness (5) 4 Tremble (6) 5 Pilot's compartment (7) 6 Last letter of Greek alphabet (5) 7 Money matters (7) 12 Roosts (7) 13 Menacing (7) 15 Flags (7) 16 World's largest desert (6) 18 Bohemian dance (5) 19 Overly sentimental (5) 20 Terminated (5)

Last weeks Solution Across: 1 Pat, 3 Bossa nova, 8 Raids, 9 Leading, 10 Ire, 11 Ahead, 12 Collide, 13 Sparse, 15 Ushers, 19 Promise, 21 Admit, 23 Mar, 24 Unaware, 25 Traps, 26 Prototype, 27 Sty. Down: 1 Perhaps, 2 Twice, 3 Besides, 4 Select, 5 Avail, 6 Orifice, 7 Argue, 14 Avocado, 16 Startle, 17 Satisfy, 18 Remedy, 19 Plump, 20 Imago, 22 Moans.

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 (6) Across 23 Sy’s red, can look styl1 Like a bird slightly injured ish (6) (6) Down 5 Dairy food for a dirty 2 Adore lookers (but not fighter (6) doers), we hear (7) 8 Spanish painter involved 3 Flies the deer back north in yoga (4) in (5) 9 Ignominious hoax leads 4 Detest scruffy kid’s lie (7) to fuel spill (8) 5 Capital of Belgium has a 10 War paint in defeat dearth of ebony (5) across one quiet street (8) 6 Move otter record to 11 Streak without South canopy (7) African tramp (4) 7 Draw out end, but crew 12 The beloved compiler’s regularly missing (5) expression of dismay (4,2) 13 War returning? Conceal 14 Portray part of old epic television series (7) tale (6) 14 Wasn’t sure about 16 Cold weather from the party, but confused jourfirst of September, instant- nalist (7) ly (4) 15 Slips company up on 18 False encouragement Saturday (7) before debts (8) 17 No points on afternoon 20 Fashionable police prayers (5) force at hospital depart- 18 A dialectic name for varment event (8) ious ducks seems back21 Female with hole in her ward (5) footwear (4) 19 An edition for the chil22 Weigh a female donkey dren (5) 23 In fancy clothing (6) STANDARD CLUES Across Down 1 Wounded superficially (6) 2 Hero-worship (7) 5 Dairy product (6) 3 Small flies (5) 8 Spanish painter (4) 4 Aversion (7) 9 Disgraceful (8) 5 Of the darkest colour (5) 10 Coloured cosmetic (8) 11 Long, arduous journey 6 Upper branches and leaves of large woody plant (4) 12 Used to express shock, (7) dismay, disappointment or 7 Draw out (5) sympathy (4,2) 13 Clint Eastwood TV 14 Portray (6) series (7) 16 Precipitation falling from 14 Considered questionclouds in the form of ice able (7) crystals (4) 15 Vouchers (7) 18 Plausible but false (8) 17 Fifth canonical hour (5) 20 Single distinct event (8) 18 Pintail ducks (5) 21 Footwear (4) 22 Evaluate (6) 19 Edition (5) Last weeks Solution Across:1 Opiate, 5 Grouse, 8 Bond, 9 Bracelet, 10 Relegate, 11 Awed, 12 Berate, 14 Herbal, 16 Item, 18 Marginal, 20 Magnesia, 21 Chin, 22 Falcon, 23 Dorset.

Down: 2 Protege, 3 Addle, 4 Embrace, 5 Grape, 6 Open-air, 7 Suede, 13 Almanac, 14 Harvard, 15 Avarice, 17 Tiara, 18 Mason, 19 Incur.

Wordsearch

The aim of our Word Search puzzle is to find all the 33 words listed below hidden within the puzzle.

Auk Avocet Bunting Crane Crow Curlew Dove Duck Eagle Emu Finch

Flamingo Goose Grebe Heron Hummingbir d Ibis Jay Kestrel Kite Macaw

Magpie Ostrich Owl Pelican Pigeon Plover Quail Raven Rhea Robin Rook

Shrike Skylark Snipe Sparrow Stork Swan Swift Tern Toucan Woodpecker Wren

SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORD

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

Across 1 Sierras (herramientas) (4) 4 Cream (for face, shoes etc) (5) 9 Bee (5) 10 Recipes (7) 11 Southeast (7) 12 Basket (5) 13 Puddle (6) 15 Mirror (6) 18 Dressing gowns (5) 20 Respuestas (a preguntas, en examen, test) (7) 23 Goddaughter (7) 24 Cebolla (5) 25 Esclavo (5) 26 Zapato (4)

Down 2 Happiness (cheerfulness) (7) 3 Costuras (puntadas) (5) 4 Jail (6) 5 Scottish (person) (7) 6 Before (5) 7 Country (nation) (4) 8 Tin (ore) (6) 13 Goats (6) 14 Waterfall (7) 16 Enemy (7) 17 Palacio (6) 19 Colas (de animales, aviónes, cometas) (5) 21 Tiendas (5) 22 Healthy (4)

Across 7 British passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when she was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage in April 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives (7) 8 Government building in Washington where the US Senate and the House of Representatives meet (7) 10 Stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors (6) 11 American political movement known for advocating a reduction in the US national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing US government spending and taxes (3,5) 12 Small slender-bodied amphibian with lungs and a well-developed tail, typically spending its adult life on

land and returning to water to breed (4) 13 Communist country in East Asia, established in 1948, whose capital is Pyongyang (5,5) 14 Woman who performs undulating movements of the stomach and rapid gyration of the hips (5,6) 19 Rastafarian hairstyle in which the hair is washed but not combed and twisted while wet into tight braids or ringlets hanging down on all sides (10) 22 Animal, especially a horse or cow, having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey (4) 23 Number by which the votes cast for one party or candidate exceed those for the next (8) 24 Thin slice of bacon or ham (6) 25 Fall from a surfboard, especially one that looks

Quiz Word

painful. (7) 26 One of two metal bands joined by a chain, for fastening a person's hands or

ankles (7) Down 1 In baseball, the player who delivers the ball to the

batter (7) 2 Long, narrow French stick loaf (8) 3 Wild and domesticated bird having a heavy body and short legs; now common in many cities (6) 4 Long-distance running race, strictly one of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km) (8) 5 Ceremonial monarch in Japan's system of constitutional monarchy (6) 6 American actor and film director, the first black American actor to achieve superstar status, whose notable films include Lilies of the Field (1963, for which he won an Oscar) and In the Heat of the Night (1967): Sidney ------- (7) 9 Extinct flying reptile of the late Jurassic period, with a long slender head and neck and a very short tail (11) 15 Land imagined by

Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people (8) 16 High-speed passenger rail service that links London with various European cities via the Channel Tunnel (8) 17 Country in SE Europe, formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, whose capital is Zagreb (7) 18 Small, slender antelope that typically has curved horns and a fawn-coloured coat with white underparts, found in open country in Africa and Asia (7) 20 Group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Portugal (6) 21 Popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910: The -----(6)

SALLY’S SIMPLE SPANISH

SUDOKU (Easy)

MEDIDAS - MEASUREMENTS

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

general QUIZ

ANSEWRS 1. Backstreet Boys 2. New York Marathon 3. Redbud 4. Jack Straw 5. Dragon Flies

Last Week’s Solutions Code Cracker Last weeks Quiz Word Solution Across: 5 Ottawa, 7 Amethyst, 9 Mantilla, 10 Aviary, 11 Palette knife, 13 Kiosks, 15 Muscle, 18 Harley Street, 21 Lariat, 22 Squeegee, 23 Tenement, 24 Sundae.

Down: 1 Matthews, 2 Hamlet, 3 Geranium, 4 Shrike, 6 Tia Maria, 7 Alaska, 8 Surf, 12 Aloe vera, 14 Spritzer, 16 Sergeant, 17 Jet set, 18 Heifer, 19 Squash, 20 Dace.

el vatio

el año luz

el voltio

el día

la hora

el grado

la libra

el metro

la milla

el minuto

la piedra

el nudo

la pulgada

el pie

la semana

el segundo

la tonelada

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

1.el año, 2.el año luz, 3.el día, 4.el grado, 5.el metro, 6.el minuto, 7.el nudo, 8.el pie, 9.el segundo, 10.el vatio, 1 1.el voltio, 12.la hora, 13.la libra, 14.la milla, 15.la piedra, 16.la pulgada, 17.la semana,

Soduko

18.la tonelada. a.the mile, b.the metre, c.the day, d.the volt, e.the inch, f.the hour, g.the year, h.the degree(s), i.the watt, j.the second, k.the stone,

Span - Eng

Quizword

l.the week, m.the light year, n.the minute, o.the tonne, p.the knot, q.the pound, r.the foot.

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

1. Which American Vocal Group Scored Their First UK Top Ten Hit In 1996 With 'We Got It Going On'?

2. Which Is Older The New York Marathon Or The London Marathon?

3. what is the common name for cercis canadensis, the state tree of Oklahoma?

4. Which Labour Politician Was Elected MP For Blackburn In 1979?

5. What Type Of Insects Are Hawkers, Clubtails, Biddies, Emeralds, Darts & Skimmers?

el año

Fill It In

12 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Animal Park Summer Special 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Wanted Down Under Revisited 12:45 Heir Hunters 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Red Rock 15:25 Escape to the Country 16:25 Think Tank 17:10 Flog It! 18:10 Pointless Celebrities 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Rip-Off Britain Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville get to the bottom of more situations viewers have asked them to investigate, including the story of a couple who paid to put their belongings into storage but have never seen them since 21:00 The Great British Bake Off Twelve contestants begin the battle to be named Britain’s best amateur baker by judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, who have created 30 new tasks to test their baking skills and creativity 22:00 The Chronicles of Nadiya Documentary following Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain as she takes a foodinspired journey and returns to her roots in Bangladesh 23:00 News 23:45 A Question of Sport 00:15 Britain’s Most Wanted Motorbike Gangs? 00:50 Weather for the Week Ahead 00:55 News

Wednesday 24th August 07:15 Animal Park Summer Special 08:00 Homes Under the Hammer 09:00 Gardeners’ World 09:30 The Hairy Builder 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 14:00 The Edge 14:45 Three Up, Two Down 15:15 Hi-De-Hi! 15:45 Yes, Minister 16:15 Sahara With Michael Palin 17:15 The Great Interior Design Challenge 18:15 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Debatable 19:30 Make Me an Egghead 20:00 Britain’s Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy The nine remaining workers are put to the test in one of Britain’s newest and fastest growing sectors, ecommerce 21:00 Can Britain Have A Pay Rise? One hundred workers representing all levels of pay face each other in a studio to try and work out whether Britain can have a pay rise 22:00 Skies Above Britain Air traffic controllers guide a passenger jet with a major technical fault safely to the ground 23:00 People Just Do Nothing 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Inside the Factory 01:15 Brexit: The Battle For Britain 02:15 Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS 03:00 This Is BBC TWO

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Secret Dealers 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 Alphabetical 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Cain makes a choice 20:30 Coronation Street Bethany pushes herself to the extreme 21:00 500 Questions Giles Coren hosts the quiz show with one all-important rule - get three questions in a row wrong and you are out of the game, with another challenger waiting to take your place 22:00 Long Lost Family The team assists 39-yearold mother of three Miriam Aragon in her search for her Salvadoran father.

After growing up in Wales with her single mother and only finding out about her father’s identity at the age of 19, Miriam is desperate to find him. Meanwhile, 48-year-old Annie Sims is determined to find her birth mother, who gave her up for adoption as a baby, but kept her older sister 23:00 News 23:40 UEFA Champions League Football 00:40 British Touring Car Championship 02:00 Jackpot247 04:00 Murder, She Wrote 04:50 ITV Nightscreen

07:15 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:05 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:00 Frasier 10:30 The Big Bang Theory 11:30 The Simpsons 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 15:40 Wedding Town 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Gok’s Fill Your House for Free 18:00 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 13:10 News 13:15 Celebrity Big Brother 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS: Los Angeles 16:10 Film Garage Sale Mystery: The Novel Murders 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Stop! Roadworks Ahead In Buckinghamshire, tempers fray all round as night-time road works on the A412 take a wrong turn, with site manager Tom finding himself squaring off against an angry trucker who failed to see the `road closed’ signs

21:00 Great Canal Journeys Tim and Pru explore a network totally new to them as they embark on a voyage across the Netherlands.

Travelling from the Windmills of the Kinderdijk to the vibrant city of Amsterdam, they explore a GPs: Behind country that was partly cre- 21:00 Closed Doors This special ated by its canals focuses on three memorable consultations from 22:00 The Watchman A the first three series, CCTV operator who including Karen who was becomes intoxicated by the caught in a cycle of binging power his position gives and purging, and Leonard him but becomes frustrated who was diagnosed with by the police’s failure to stage one bladder cancer tackle a gang of drug dealers, and decides to take 22:00 Celebrity Big matters into his own hands Brother Highlights of the - but his actions have terri- famous housemates’ past fying consequences which 24 hours under the all-seeplay out over the course of ing eye of Big Brother a single night shift 23:00 Suspects 00:00 23:00 First Dates 01:05 Football 01:30 Criminals: Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 01:55 Caught on Camera 02:00 Film - The Fourth Kind (14) SuperCasino 04:10 Celeb 03:30 Grayson Perry: All Trolls: We’re Coming To Man 04:25 Phil Spencer: Get You 05:00 Criminals: Secret Agent Caught on Camera

DON´T MISS

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF

BBC One 21:00

SOAPS

In Emmerdale, Charity threatens to tell everyone about her one-night stand with Cain unless he does something for her. Cain then persuades Zak and Lisa to let Charity help look for Belle.

Later, Cain is full of jealousy when he sees his wife with James. What does he have in mind

Twelve contestants begin the battle to be named Britain’s best amateur baker by judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, who have created 30 new tasks to test their baking skills and creativity. The first signature challenge takes the bakers back to basics with a British classic, while the technical sees them tackle a popular little cake with a fatless sponge and tricky chocolate work. Finally, the competitors must impress the judges with their first showstopper, but there is nowhere to hide. Presented by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins.

when he Cain goes in search of Charity?

Tracy also vents about Vanessa.

Meanwhile, Rakesh gets a nasty surprise when Chrissie tears up the contract for buying the Mill.

He responds by threatening to tell everyone that Lachlan shot Lawrence, but she insists nobody will believe a bent solicitor.

Chrissie tells a shocked Priya that she hasn’t bought the Mill, but Priya thinks it’s because Rakesh wouldn’t sleep with her. Chrissie is furious, but it’s not far from the truth.

Also today, when Dan is lined up for a voluntary caring position, Nicola offers to do a practice interview with him.

Elsewhere, Vanessa complains about Tracy rejecting her peace offering.

In Coronation Street, Bethany furtively pops some more diet pills.

When Sarah mentions her forthcoming exam results, Bethany covers her unease. While Gary over-

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Dinner Date 08:10 Ellen DeGeneres 09:00 Emmerdale 10:00 You’ve Been Framed! 10:30 Psych 11:20 Royal Pains 12:15 Dinner Date 13:15 Emmerdale 14:15 You’ve Been Framed! 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Hell’s Kitchen USA 23:00 The Vampire Diaries 23:55 Family Guy 00:55 American Dad! 01:50 Two and a Half Men 02:20 Hell’s Kitchen USA 03:10 The Hot Desk 03:20 Teleshopping ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Where the Heart Is 09:25 The Royal 10:30 Judge Judy 11:50 Murder, She Wrote 12:50 Wycliffe 14:00 Heartbeat 15:00 The Royal 16:05 Where the Heart Is 17:10 In Loving Memory 17:40 Rising Damp 18:15 George and Mildred 18:50 Heartbeat 19:50 Murder, She Wrote 20:55 Foyle’s War 23:00 Wycliffe 00:05 Wire in the Blood 01:35 Inspector Morse 03:25 ITV3 Nightscreen 03:30 Teleshopping ITV4 07:00 Magnum, PI 07:50 Gunsmoke 08:45 The Sweeney 09:45 Ironside 10:50 Quincy, ME 11:55 Magnum, PI 12:55 The Professionals 14:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 15:00 Storage Wars 15:55 The Sweeney 16:55 Quincy, ME 18:00 Ironside 19:00 Storage Wars 20:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 21:00 River Monsters 22:00 Parking Wars 23:00 Film State of Play (14) 01:40 Highway Patrol 02:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 03:05 Duck Dynasty 03:50 ITV4 Nightscreen 04:00 Teleshopping

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack sees Craig’s induction at the gym, Bethany pounds away on a running machine and suddenly collapses.

When Bethany regains consciousness, she assures Gary she’s fine.

Gary is not convinced and confronts her after finding her diet pills. Bethany snatches them from him and storms off.

Meanwhile, Eva explains to Aidan that Leanne has ditched her Liverpool plans, so he won’t be able to move in after all. Aidan feigns disappointment.

Nick calls on Leanne and asks her who the father of the baby is. Leanne lies,

making out that she had a one night stand with a stranger.

Later, Nick takes Leanne to the hospital and attends her first scan with her.

Tracy is intrigued when she clocks Nick and Leanne leaving the maternity unit. Reaching a decision, Nick tells Leanne how much he loves her, but is he willing to be a part of the baby’s life?

Elsewhere,

offering

to

help Gail with the kids, Michael takes Max to The Kabin. While Michael pays for Max’s comic, he clocks Max stealing a toy. Max explains to Michael that he took the toy as his mum always used to buy him a present on Lily’s birthday. Making Max promise that he won’t steal again, Michael agrees it can be their secret. Later, Michael assures Gail he no longer has feelings for Eileen, will Gail give their relationship another go?

Also, as Sonia searches the paper for a flat, Yasmeen assures her that she’s welcome to stay as long as she likes.

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Thursday 25th August 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Animal Park Summer Special 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Wanted Down Under Revisited 12:45 Heir Hunters 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Red Rock 15:25 Escape to the Country 16:25 Think Tank 17:10 Flog It! 18:10 Pointless Celebrities 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show

07:15 Animal Park Summer Special 08:00 Homes Under the Hammer 09:00 Caravanner of the Year 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 14:00 The Edge 14:45 Three Up, Two Down 15:15 Hi-De-Hi! 15:45 Yes, Minister 16:15 Sahara With Michael Palin 17:15 The Great Interior Design Challenge 18:15 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Debatable 19:30 Make Me an Egghead

20:30 EastEnders Steven steps up to help Ian, much to Jane’s frustration

20:00 Britain’s Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy The six remaining workers sample the manufacturing sector, taking jobs on the minimum wage in a car parts company and the textile industry

21:00 Holby City A zen like Jac returns from her break 22:00 Class of ‘92: Still Out of Their League The documentary following Salford City FC returns, as the semi-professional football club owned by former Manchester United stars Ryan Giggs, Gary and Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt try to win backto-back promotions. The squad begin their first-ever season in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, but it soon becomes clear that life in a higher tier might not be a fairytale story, despite a thrilling run in the FA Cup 23:00 News 23:45 Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS 00:30 Film Keeping Rosy (15) 02:00 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:05 News

21:00 Full Steam Ahead The team find out how the combination of increased leisure time and affordable rail transport brought a new kind of freedom for working-class Victorians 22:00 Horizon The severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics, asking why the same genetic disease, neurofibromatosis 1, can affect he and his twin brother Neil so differently 23:00 The Premier League Football Show 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 An Hour to Save Your Life 01:15 Panorama 01:45 Fake or Fortune? 02:45 Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience 03:15 This Is BBC Two

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Secret Dealers 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 Alphabetical 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Dan feels neglected 21:00 500 Questions General knowledge quiz hosted by writer and broadcaster Giles Coren in which contestants bank cash as they progress through rounds of 50 questions, but are eliminated if they answer three in a row incorrectly. This is an intense battle of brainpower that will test even the cleverest of contestants 22:00 CCTV Neighbourhood Watching Documentary exploring the rise in British domestic CCTV use through the extraordinary footage captured by home surveillance cameras, and the dramatic, funny and bizarre stories of those behind - and in front of the lens. From mysterious acts of car vandalism in a picturesque village, to a decade-long neighbourhood dispute, and an outrageous garden robbery, this film explores the growing impact of domestic CCTV on people’s lives 23:00 News 23:40 Rookies 00:40 Murder, She Wrote 01:30 Jackpot247 04:00 ITV Nightscreen

07:15 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:05 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:00 FrasierPG 09:30 Frasier 10:30 The Big Bang Theory 11:30 The Simpsons 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 15:40 Wedding Town 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Gok’s Fill Your House for Free 18:00 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 The Supervet The owner of a one-year-old cat born with deformed front legs hopes Professor Noel Fitzpatrick will be able to fit it with two new bionic feet.

Plus, a couple bring their Irish Wolfhound to see Noel, hoping he can remove the primary tumour in its leg and replace it with a metal implant 22:00 999: What’s Your Emergency? With alcohol-related incidents in the UK costing the emergency services nearly £3 billion a year, this episode features people who risk ruining their own - and other people’s - lives for the sake of a night out 23:00 The Circuit 23:50 First Dates 00:50 Naked Attraction 01:45 President Trump: Can He Really Win? 02:40 The World’s Weirdest Weather 03:40 Grayson Perry: All Man 04:35 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 13:10 News 13:15 Celebrity Big Brother 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:10 Rosamunde Pilcher 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Underground Britain Rob Bell continues his subterranean adventure in Wales, heading underneath the Brecon Beacons park to explore the largest natural cave system in Europe 21:00 Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole The documentary about people fighting to make ends meet catches up with some of those featured in earlier editions. They include Kim, known as the `millionaire shoplifter’, who is determined to leave her thieving days behind her. In Warrington, one-time Big Brother contestant Lisa’s quest for fame is reinvigorated after a visit to a psychic 22:00 Celebrity Big Brother The last chance to catch up with the famous contestants’ antics before tomorrow night’s final, when the viewers’ favourite housemate will be revealed

HORIZON: MY AMAZING TWIN

SOAPS

In Emmerdale, Dan is hurt when Kerry isn’t enthusiastic about him getting the job. With Nicola far more supportive, she shares an awkward moment with Dan. They’re both uncomfortable that their feelings seem to be developing beyond friendship.

Later, Dan thanks Nicola for cheering him up and

Severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics, asking why the same genetic disease, neurofibromatosis 1, can affect he and his twin brother Neil so differently. For Adam, the disease has left tumours on his face that are growing out of control and he could lose his sight.

For years, everyone thought his brother had escaped symptoms, but today his life is governed by epilepsy and a mysterious memory loss, that suddenly came on during his teens.

heads off with Kerry, not as happy as he’s pretending to be. He catches a glimpse of Jimmy sweeping Nicola off her feet and his disappointment is clear.

Meanwhile, Priya and Rishi are shocked that £20,000 has disappeared.

Priya calls Rakesh and he’s stressed to find out what they’ve discovered.

He promises to call the bank and sort it out, but he calls Chrissie instead and agrees to sleep with her if she’ll pay him that day.

When Rakesh kisses Chrissie’s neck, she snaps a photo. How will desperate Rakesh react to find

he’s been set up?

Finally, Holly is thrilled to get an interview as a photographer for Megan but is dismayed when she learns it’s at the same time as

07:00 Movies Now 07:10 In Loving Memory 07:30 Heartbeat 08:35 Where the Heart Is 09:35 The Royal 10:35 Judge Judy 11:55 Murder, She Wrote 13:00 Wycliffe 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 The Royal 16:10 Where the Heart Is 17:15 In Loving Memory 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Endeavour 23:00 Lewis 01:05 Inspector Morse 03:05 ITV3 Nightscreen 03:30 Teleshopping

07:00 Snooker and Racing 07:05 Magnum, PI 07:55 The Professionals 08:50 The Sweeney 09:50 Ironside 10:50 Quincy, ME 11:55 Magnum, PI 12:55 The Professionals 14:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 15:00 Storage Wars 15:55 The Sweeney 17:00 Quincy, ME 18:00 Ironside 19:00 Storage Wars 20:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 21:00 World Series of Darts 01:00 Benidorm 02:00 Vuelta a España, Cycling 03:00 Hell on Wheels 03:45 ITV4 Nightscreen

08:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Trev Massey, 14:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Gordon Lack Moira’s HIV test results.

under way.

Back home, Ian tells Jane how proud he is of Steven, but Jane isn’t so enthusiastic about him. When alone, she then makes a shocking discovery about Steven...

Elsewhere, Zak misses a call from Belle while getting frisky with Joanie. Zak is dismayed and tries to ring back, but Belle’s phone has now been left in the gutter in a random street.

Also today, Charity enjoys taunting Moira.

She sneaks up on Cain outside the garage and kisses him, pleased to have him exactly where she wants him.

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In Eastenders, The Beales need a way to offload the restaurant’s food supplies following the recent setback with the kitchen equipment. Jane has one idea, but Ian annoys her by going with Steven’s suggestion instead - a pop-up barbecue. Ian is very impressed

by Steven’s entrepreneurial spirit as the event gets

Meanwhile, Jack encourages Honey to talk to Billy, but she resolutely refuses.

Billy desperately tries to make peace with Honey, Elsewhere, Bex struggles with Shakil’s bombshell.

She attempts to talk to her mum about it but gets interrupted.

In Holby City, Jac returns

from a break away and learns that Guy’s mother is on her ward and needs urgent treatment.

Realising that all is not well between mother and son, she can’t help but hold a grudge against Guy. Jac is impressed by young junior doctor Jasmine, who shows a keen interest in the medicine. However, that soon turns sour when Jac discovers that Jasmine is her half-sister.

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Smoothie Kitchen: Work-out smoothie recipes Smoothies are at their most optimal after exercise when there is no quicker way to refill your body with energy Green Hydration - postcardio Celery contains antiinflammatory properties and is a great source of sodium, while bananas are rich in potassium and spinach is high in magnesium – all of which are electrolytes that you lose when you sweat.

Together with the hydrating coconut water and protein from the pea powder, they are the perfect ingredients to help your body recover and rehydrate after a workout. The lime and ginger, on the other hand, provide a

fresh boost in flavour. celery stalk, 1 frozen banana, 1 handful spinach, 1 tablespoon pea protein powder, ½ teaspoon fresh ginger, grated, 250 ml (8 ½ fl oz/1 cup) coconut water juice of ½ lime.

Roughly or finely chop the celery and add it to the blender along with the rest of the ingredients. Blend on a high speed until completely smooth. Pour into two medium-sized glasses and serve, or store in a large airtight glass bottle to pack into your gym bag.

Purple performance – preand post-workout Drink beetroot and sour cherry juices and smoothies regularly to gain the physical benefits.

1 small raw beetroot, peeled (approx. 80 g/3 oz), 1 tablespoon dried sour cherries or sour cherry powder (or goji berries) 60gm (2 oz/ cup) frozen raspberries, 1 ripe banana, peeled, 1 tablespoon hemp seeds or hemp protein powder, , ½ 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated (or ¼ - ½ teaspoon ground ginger).

350 ml (12 fl oz/1 ½ cups) almond milk (or unsweetened milk of choice), 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice.

Roughly chop or grate the beetroot and add it to the blender along with the rest of the ingredients. Blend on a high speed until completely smooth. Taste and adjust the spiciness and sourness to your liking by adding more ginger or lemon juice if necessary. Pour into two medium-sized glasses and serve, or store in a large airtight glass bottle to pack into your gym bag.

Rio 2016: The top Brazilian street foods

Picanha Barbecuing meat is something the Brazilians do very

well. Churrascarias are specific barbecue restaurants which can now be found all

over Brazil, but the tradition comes from the Gauchoculture of the south, where cowboys would cook meats skewered on metal spits over hot coals, seasoned simply with rock salt.

The prime cut of meat now associated with this style of cooking is picanha – the top part of sirloin steak. This has a thick layer of fat which ensures the charred, smoky meat just melts in the mouth.

Pastel de queijo A crisp, deep-fried pastry, this portable snack is found mainly in the southeast of the country (particularly in São Paulo) and makes for

the perfect street food.

Served hot as an accompaniment to drinks, the pastéis can be stuffed with any number of savoury fillings, from chicken or ground beef to heart of palm or melting cheeses. Sweet versions can also be found, usually flavoured with tropical fruits, chocolate or caramel.

Brazilian chicken coxinha Another deep-fried classic from São Paulo, coxinha are crunchy croquettes usually made with a filling of shredded chicken and Catupiry (a soft, creamy cheese). The filling is surrounded by a layer of dough, then coated in golden breadcrumbs before frying to create the perfect crunch.

Often shaped like a teardrop, this is thought to represent the shape of a chicken thigh which would have originally been used for the filling.

Cassava chips Grown across the country, the cassava plant is one of Brazil’s most-used ingredients. Often known as cassava, yuca, manioc or aipim, the whole plant is used in a variety of formats, most

commonly as a starch (tapioca) or as a vegetable. Cut into batons and fried, mandioca (oraipim) frito are sold on street food stalls almost everywhere as the Brazilian alternative to the humble potato chip.

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The Spanish Way Few Spaniards race through a meal on the way to an appointment.

Dessert

Mango Fool Ingredients

Serves: 4 230g mangoes, cubed 4 tablespoons caster sugar 300ml chilled double cream

Method Prep:15min Ready in:15min Add mango to a blender or a food processor with 1 tablespoon of sugar and mix until pureed. Set aside.

Beat double cream with 3 tablespoons of sugar until soft peaks are formed.

Into 4 dessert glasses add 1 tablespoon of mango puree in each glass followed by 1 heaped tablespoon of cream on top. Repeat layers, finishing with cream.

Use a wooden skewer in each glass and make circular movements for a marble effect. Chill in the fridge until time to serve.

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Meals are an extremely important social activity in Spain, whether that means eating out late at night or having large family gatherings for lunch. Although Spain is faster paced than it once was, few Spaniards race through a meal on the way to an appointment.

The food in Spain is varied; portions are immense, but the prices, by North American standards, are high. Whenever possible, try the regional specialties, particularly when you visit the Basque Country or Galicia.

Many restaurants in Spain close on Sunday, so be sure to check ahead.

Hotel dining rooms are generally open 7 days a week,

and there's always something open in big cities, such as Madrid and Barcelona, or in well-touristed areas, such as the Costa del Sol. Generally, reservations are not necessary, except at popular, top-notch restaurants.

Breakfast -- In Spain, the day starts with a continental breakfast of coffee, hot chocolate, or tea, with assorted rolls, butter, and jam. Spanish breakfast might also consist of churros (fried fingerlike doughnuts) and hot chocolate that is very sweet and thick.

However, most Spaniards simply have coffee, usually strong, served with hot milk: either a café con leche (half coffee, half milk) or cortado

(a shot of espresso "cut" with a dash of milk). If you find it too strong and bitter for your taste, you might ask for a more diluted café americano.

Lunch -- The most important meal of the day in Spain, lunch is comparable to the farm-style midday "dinner" in the United States. It usually includes three or four courses, beginning with a choice of soup or several dishes of hors d'oeuvres called entremeses. Often a fish or egg dish is served after this, and then a meat course with vegetables. Wine is always part of the meal.

Dessert is usually pastry, custard, or assorted fruit -followed by coffee. Lunch is served from 1 to 4pm, with "rush hour" at 2pm.

Tapas --Tapas bars all over the country offer many of the same dishes, although pa amb tomate (grilled country bread rubbed with tomato, drizzled with olive oil, and dusted with salt) is a Catalan specialty. It sounds simple, but it tastes sublime.

Likewise, bars along northern Spain’s Atlantic coast often feature the exquisite tinned seafood of Galicia, and tiny fish fried whole are a specialty on the Andalucían coast.

Mojo Ribs juices, 160ml water, 2 Ingredients tablespoons olive oil For the mojo 12 tbsps extra-virgin or and all dry ingredients.

Bring sauce mixture to virgin olive oil 10 large cloves fresh a rolling boil. Remove garlic, room tempera- from heat and let cool ture, peeled, chopped, to room temperature.

Ribs: sliced 40g yellow onion, 1) Preheat oven to peeled, very finely 160C/Gas 3.

2) Season the ribs with minced 80ml fresh squeezed salt and pepper. Add enough orange juice, oil preferable bitter orange 240ml fresh squeezed lime Toast 2 tbs juice pumpkin p each of sunfl ow se 160ml water lightly b eds for a few m er and ro 15g finely yogurt a wned. Mix 5 tb ins until nd may chopped fresh mu onnaise sp each stard in with parsley leaves apples, a small bowl. C 2 tbsp cored a o 1/2 tsp dried n d sliced mbine 5 finely sh , with ½ redded oregano a sliced c cabbage arro ,6 3/4 tsp garlic dried cra ts and a large h finely a nberries powder . Mix an ndful of d serve 2 tsps ground . to a cumin hot large skillet to For the ribs 3 country-style ribs, just cover. Add ribs and sear, about 3 minutes boneless on each side. Remove 1 tsp salt 1 tsp ground black pep- to a large shallow roasting pan. per.

Mojo sauce: 3) Add mojo sauce over 1) In skillet over medi- the country style ribs um-high heat, add and turn to cover. Seal about 2 tablespoons of tightly with foil and olive oil. Once heated, roast for 3 hours. Baste add the garlic and ribs each hour with onion, cook until pale mojo sauce. golden brown, 2-3 min- Take foil off for the last utes only, stirring con- 30 minutes of cooking, stantly. or until tender, wait to 2) Stir in the citrus cool then serve.

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The weekend cook: two ways with asparagus Asparagus with anchoïade: ‘A beautifully simple starter

Asparagus with anchoïade Serves four.

200g asparagus, trimmed For the anchoïade, ½ tsp cumin seeds, 1-2 fat garlic cloves, 6 good-quality anchovy fillets in oil, drained, 60g chopped walnuts, Zest and juice of ½ lemon, 1-2 tsp red-wine vinegar, to taste, 90ml extra-virgin olive oil, 12 tsp rosemary leaves, finely chopped , 1 tsp truffle oil.

First make the anchoïade.

Toast the cumin in a dry frying pan for a few minutes, until fragrant, then grind to a powder in a pestle and mortar (or pulse in a blender).

Add the garlic and anchovies, and bash to a paste. Slowly pound in the walnuts bit by bit (if you add too many at once, they tend to fly out of the bowl), then transfer to a large bowl and stir in all the other ingredients. Season to taste and set aside.

Break off and discard the woody ends of the asparagus stalks – the spears have a natural breaking point and should snap off easily. Bring a large pan of lightly salted water to a boil, then simmer the asparagus for three minutes, until cooked but still with some bite.

Drain, then refresh under cold water if you’re serving up later (this helps preserve that bright green colour), or serve at once with a small dipping bowl of the anchoïade on each plate and a sprinkling of salt on the asparagus.

Asparagus, anchovy and parmesan bread pudding A wonderfully enveloping, comforting dish: light, fluffy and steaming hot. If you are vegetarian, omit the anchovies and use a hard cheese made with vegetable rennet. Serves four.

200g bunch asparagus, 30g unsalted butter, 5 medium free-range eggs, beaten, 500ml whole milk, 3 anchovy fillets in oil, drained and chopped (optional), ½ garlic clove, peeled and grated, 1 pinch freshly grated nutmeg 50g grated parmesan, plus an extra sprinkling for the top of the pudding, 4-5 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves picked 100g day-old sourdough bread, torn into large chunks Melted butter, to serve Heat the oven to 190C/375F/gas mark 5.

Break off and discard the

woody ends of the asparagus, then cut the spears into walnut-length pieces. Heat the butter in a large saucepan and fry the asparagus until the butter has browned and the asparagus has coloured a little.

To make the filling, whisk the eggs with the milk, anchovies, garlic, nutmeg, parmesan and thyme, and season generously.

Butter a deep, two-litre ovenproof dish (eg, an enamel bowl, ceramic soufflé dish or non-loose-bottomed cake tin) and add the bread chunks and asparagus. Pour in the custard mix and sprinkle with extra parmesan.

Leave to soak for 10 minutes, then bake for 50 minutes, until the custard is deep golden, firm and risen.

Remove and leave to cool slightly (don’t worry that it sinks back a bit) then serve scoops on to warmed plates with plenty of freshly ground black pepper and a crisp green salad. For an extra lick of silkiness, drizzle over a trickle of melted butter.

Breakfast Recipie

INGREDIENTS 450g sweet potatoes 85g plain flour, ¾ tsp baking powder, ¾ tsp ground cumin, Salt, 2 eggs, separated, 70ml whole milk 20g unsalted butter, melted, plus 50g diced, for frying, 2 tsp maple syrup 4 spring onions, thinly sliced, 1 green chilli, finely chopped, 25g coriander leaves, roughly chopped 5g tarragon leaves, finely chopped.

FOR THE SALAD 250g long radishes, quartered lengthways, 15g coriander leaves, 15g rocket, 2 tsp olive oil 1 tbsp lemon juice.

FOR THE TOPPING 8 slices smoked streaky bacon, 2 tbsp maple syrup.

Heat the oven to 220°C/425F/gas mark 7. Put the whole, unpeeled sweet potatoes on an oven tray and roast for an hour, then remove and leave to cool.

Peel and discard the skin, then put the flesh in a clean J-cloth or piece of muslin.

Draw up the sides, roll into a ball and squeeze out any liquid: you should be left with about 180g of flesh.Turn down the oven to 160C/320F/gas mark 2½.

In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, cumin and three-quarters of a tea-

spoon of salt. Put the egg yolks, milk, melted butter and maple syrup in a second bowl, whisk to combine, then stir into the dry ingredients. Add the sweet potato, spring onion, chilli and herbs, and stir until smooth. Whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until stiff, then gently fold in.

Melt half the diced butter in a large frying pan on a medium heat. When it starts to foam, spoon in three heaped tablespoons of the batter and gently spread out into a pancake 7-8cm wide and 1.5cm thick. Repeat until you have three or four pancakes in the pan, then fry for three to four minutes, turning halfway, when bubbles appear in the middle.

Transfer to an oven tray lined with baking paper, and repeat with the rest of the batter. Mix all the salad ingredients with an eighth of a teaspoon of salt.

Heat the grill. Place the bacon on a wire rack on top of a foil-lined tray and brush with half the maple syrup. Grill for two minutes, until the bacon starts to turn crisp, then turn, brush with the remaining syrup and grill for a minute or two, until crisp.

Sorbet, ice-cream When it’s hot , pudding needs to be something cooling, and nothing does that better than ice-cream. And lollies

If you’re gearing up for the weekend’s tennis-boxing-racing-football quadrathlon, you’re going to need a frozen treat to cool you down when things heat up. And if you’re planning an escape to a delightfully empty park, you’re also going to need an ice-cream, too – if only to keep you company. Whichever you choose, it’s a win-win.

Strawberry sorbet and vanilla ice-cream lollies Shop-bought ice-cream is a great timesaver here; if you have the time, by all means make your own. If you are starting with firm ice-cream, let it sit at room temperature until it’s soft

enough to spoon into the moulds. The sorbet is set by whisking it as it sits in the freezer. If you have an icecream machine and want to use that instead, churn the sorbet just until soft waves form. Makes six lollies.

INGREDIENTS 260g hulled strawberries, 40g liquid glucose, 50g caster sugar, 2½ tbsp lime juice, About 120g vanilla ice-cream Put the strawberries in the small bowl of a food processor and blitz smooth. Put the glucose, sugar and lime juice in a medium saucepan on a medium heat. Stir until the sugar has dissolved, then add the strawberry

puree. Bring to a boil, cook for a minute, then take off the heat and set aside to cool.

Once cool, pour into an air-tight container and freeze for three to four hours, whisking it every 30 minutes, until almost set.

Spoon 20-25g sorbet into each ice-lolly holder, and tap the base against a work surface to disperse any air bubbles. Spoon 15-20g icecream on top of the sorbet, compressing it as you do.

Finish with a second layer of sorbet, until almost full to the top, tap again and put a lolly stick in each one. Set in the freezer for at least five hours before serving.

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Artist – LadyHawk Track Title – The River Phillipa Margaret "Pip" Brown (born 13 July 1979), better known by her stage name Ladyhawke, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She took her stage name from Richard Donner's 1985 film Ladyhawke.

Brown was part of the Wellington-based band Two Lane Blacktop (2001–2003), before moving to Australia where, in 2004, she formed the art rock band Teenager with Nick Littlemore of Pnau.

In 2007 she moved to London, and she relocated to Los Angeles around 2013.

Brown's debut solo album, Ladyhawke, was released on 22 September 2008 and her third solo album, Wild Things, was released on 3 June 2016. This is the First single from it – and a little cracker it is too!

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TOP 10 1. Suicide Squad 2. Sausage Party 3. Pete's Dragon 4. Jason Bourne 5. Bad Moms 6. The Secret Life of Pets 7. Star Trek Beyond 8. Florence Foster Jenkins 9. Nine Lives (2016) 10. Lights Out

Narcos

When Pablo Escobar met Mateo Moreno, Escobar was already established as a trucker in the Colombian black market. As a chemist working underground, Moreno could prod u c e cocaine, and enliste d Escobar to help him traffic the new and popular drug. Enter Steve Murphy, an agent for the US Drug Enforcement Agency commissioned to put an end to the illegal flow of cocaine into the USA. Working with the Colombian government, Murphy and his partner try to find evidence against Escobar that will allow him to be extradited to the US.

SAUSAGE PARTY REVIEW

DIRECTOR Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan GENRE Animation SYNOPSIS Life is good for all the food items that occupy the shelves at the local supermarket. Frank (Seth Rogen) the sausage, Brenda (Kristen Wiig) the hot dog bun, Teresa Taco and Sammy Bagel Jr. (Edward Norton) can't wait...

RELEASE DATE August 12, 2016 DURATION 89 mins Sausage Party follows a freethinking hot dog named Frank, voiced by Seth Rogen, who undertakes a dangerous quest after learning the horrible truth about the relationship between his fellow grocery products and the “gods” who spirit them away from

the store. The brainchild of Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Rogen’s frequent collaborator, Evan Goldberg, Sausage Party features an impressive cast of voice actors that includes Kristen Wiig as a buxom bun named Brenda, as well as Hill, Edward Norton, Michael Cera, Salma Hayek, Paul Rudd, Craig Robinson, and Danny McBride, among other familiar voices.

From the film’s opening musical number – which begins innocently enough, but eventually features goose-stepping sauerkraut jars screaming “kill the juice” – there’s a sense that Rogen and company are keen on seeing how far they can actually go in an unusual project like this one. And the

answer to that question, it seems, is much farther than even the red-band trailers for the film suggest.

If there was ever any question about a filmmaker’s ability to get away with more in animation than one might be able to get away with in a live-action project while still getting a wide release, Sausage Party offers some tremendous evidence of the anything-goes flexibility with animation. Make no mistake: Sausage Party is a film that could only get released in theaters as an animated feature, and everyone involved with it seems well aware of that fact.

Amid all of the outrageous toilet humor, sex jokes, and ethnic-stereotype gags, though,

there’s also a surprising amount of higher-brow comedy in Sausage Party. Rogen and the film’s creative team tackle topics as complicated as the conflict between Israel and Palestine (as personified by an anthropomorphic bagel’s ongoing argument with a lavash over the course of the film) and humanity’s struggle to find a happy medium between faith and science, and they find some respectably thoughtful ways to tackle them, too.

Sausage Party is clearly meant to be a parody of the more innocent animated features of recent years, but the film not only distances itself from those projects in its content, but also in its presentation.

Aras Rural, A Gateway Into Valencia

Rural Aras is the main complex of rural tourism of Alto Turia (Valencia). Experience nature in a single place, either at our hotel or in one of our wooden houses and enjoy the best cuisine in our restaurant.

Offer description: You can stay in the hotel or in one of the 12 wooden houses un the forest and enjoy the many activities that can be done.

Aras Rural is the main complex of rural tourism of Alto Turia, in the heart of the region of Los Serranos (Valencia). It is the best base to experience nature in a unique setting. If you want to stay in a hotel with 15 rooms or in one of the 12 wooden houses that inhabit the forest, mountain biking, try a bike on a enduro circuit, hiking, climbing, canyoning or even stargazing, Aras Rural is your place.

Optional services:

Wander the quiet streets of Aras de los Olmos (and discover its history) or one of the most beautiful natural areas in the interior of the Valencia: the secret corners of the Turia River reveals, the wonderful forests of pine and the banks lined with poplars and oleanders. Fairytales landscapes.

And do not forget to enjoy one of the great attractions in the area: gastronomy. Gazpacho de monte, sausages and porridge, accompanied by ham and pork ribs, are typical of the region and therefore tasting is mandatory. Las Sabinas Restaurant, built in the rural Aras complex is one of the best places for an introduction to the cuisine of Los Serranos.

Aras Rural en Aras de los Olmos 639 19 69 28 arasrural@arasrural.com Aras Rural

The Man Who Knew Infinity Based on the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the first East Indian mathematicians to open the world's eyes to the infinite possibilities in the field of mathematics. The m o v i e emphasizes that the fact that he discovered a whole new realm in mathematics in isolation. Ramanujan's infinite calculations is what attracted G.H. Hardy, a professor at Trinity College.

Superstore A lot of people think they know what it is like to work at a Big Box store.

The work lives of the employees of the Cloud 9 super store will surprise you. Every day gives them a new chance to do an extraordinary job or fail miserably.

Yet the employees of Cloud 9 take everything in their stride, including a new hire's horrendous pricing mistakes, a customer's death, a missing child and a hostage-taking marriage proposal.

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Fevipiprant trial indicates it could halve patients’ risk of suffering asthma attacks and being admitted to hospital

Is this the Asthma drug ‘gamechange?

Could this drug revolutionise treatmentt? suffers from a typical problem in the reporting of innovation in drug discovery and development. The new drug in question, Fevipiprant – developed by Novartis – will be the end result of many years of painstaking and costly research and development, yet Novartis is not credited for this innovation until 582 words into a 942word article, and, yes, that’s off the front page.

The clinicians that ran the trial are critical partners, and are rightly mentioned early and often in the article. Drug R&D, however, relies on part-

nership between drug companies, clinicians, patients and regulators. In a case of wrongdoing we could expect to see Novartis in the headline of this article, but when a drug company has genuine positive impact, we don’t do a good job in assigning credit where it is due. One might argue that pharmaceutical companies are big enough to survive without public recognition, but in a post-Brexit environment, when pharma companies are reviewing their decisions about where to do R&D, little things could make a big difference.

You note that, “according to the British Lung Foundation, the number of people with asthma rose sig-

nificantly between 2004 and 2012” and that the NHS considers “increased air pollution, chlorine in swimming pools and modern hygiene standards to be key factors in

the development of the disease”.

Surely it would be sensible, instead of finding a “cure” for the affliction, which the drug is not, it might be wiser to tackle the environmental hazards causing the problem. Not only would asthma suffers benefit, but so too would other sectors of society, and not least the Earth itself.

Asthma treatment has barely changed over 20 years, with those who cannot easily control their condition relying on inhalers or using steroids which carry a high risk of weight gain, diabetes, osteoporosis and high blood pressure.

But the development of the drug, called Fevipiprant, opens up the possibility that the 250,000 people with this

more severe form of the disease could now take a pill twice a day instead of relying on those methods. It could also benefit at least another 250,000 people who have the more moderate form of the disease.

Brightling hopes that, if Fevipiprant proves effective and is approved by medicines regulators, it will lead to asthmatics becoming acutely unwell less often and so needing less care, and make asthma less burdensome for the NHS, which currently spends over £1bn a year treating it. There are 5.4 million diagnosed asthmatics in the UK, of whom 1.1 million are under 15. Someone in the UK suffers a life-threatening asthma attack every ten seconds, Asthma UK says.

A total of 1,418 people died

FEVIPIPRANT TRIAL The Leicester trial reported in the Lancet involved 61 people and was jointly funded by the NHS’s research arm, the National Institute for Health Research, and the European Union and also Novartis, the Swiss drug company behind Fevipiprant.

It is a phase-III trial, meaning the drug has already undergone small-scale safety tests in patients, as well as initial analysis of any side effects.

This trial is aimed at establishing with more precision how effective the drug is in larger numbers of patients.

Brightling is leading another clinical trial into Fevipiprant’s effectiveness, which involves 850 patients, though it will not produce results until 2018, and other studies are planned.

from asthma in the UK in 2015 – more than three every day. Although 19 were aged 14 and under, the vast majority were those aged 15 and above. The total figure of 1,418 asthma deaths was 210 higher than the 1,208 seen in 2014. Females are much more likely to die than males. Last year 1,022 girls and women died compared with 396 boys and men.

However, an audit of asthma deaths found more than half of those who died were only being treated for mild or moderate asthma before they passed away. The others were among those with the most severe asthma which is most resistant to treatment.

“The UK has one of the highest rates of asthma prevalence in the world with over one million children suffering from the disease, so this has the potential to make a massive impact on many children’s lives. Previously, new treatments for asthma required regular injections, so this is a significant advancement,” said Prof Jonathan Grigg, a respiratory expert at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

But he added the study’s small size meant other, larger trials needed to be carried out to establish whether the drug would be suitable for children.

Luke Ambler wants #ItsOkayToTalk to halve number of male suicides

The rugby league player behind a social media campaign urging men to talk about mental health problems says he wants to halve the rate of male suicides in five years.

Luke Ambler, who plays for Halifax RLFC, launched the #itsokaytotalk campaign after the suicide this year of his brother-in-law Andy Roberts.

Celebrities including Ricky Gervais, the author Irvine Welsh and the rugby union star Danny Cipriani, as well as the former health minister Norman Lamb have backed the 26-year-old’s campaign, posting a picture doing the OK hand gesture as thousands of people tweeted their support.

Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK

and men accounted for 75% of the 6,122 suicides reported in 2014, according to the latest available figures.

Ambler said his brother-inlaw might still have been alive if he had somewhere to go to talk about his problems before he died. “He was at our house on Saturday having a laugh and a joke, he played football as usual on Sunday before spending

time with the family and then on Monday night, he killed himself with no explanation,” he added.

In an attempt to break down the stigmas surrounding mental health, Ambler set up Andy’s Man Club, aimed at encouraging males from all walks of life to come and chat with other like-minded men in Ambler’s hometown of Halifax.

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How Drugs Cause Skin Problems Indapamide is a diuretic (water tablet) used to lower blood pressure. Many people prescribed Indapamide will eventually stop the medication because of severe skin rash and other skin problems. Drugs damage the skin through a variety of effects on the body.

Steroidal drugs thin the skin, and a thinner skin is more prone to injuries that will allow harmful microbes into the skin to cause disease. Steroids will also reduce the body's immune system increasing the likelihood of infections.

A strong immune system prevents harmful microbes that live on the surface of the skin from infecting the skin and causing skin disease. Steroids and similar medications that reduce the immune system such as omeprazole for treating acid reflux cause skin problems as a long term side effect.

Other drugs such as antibiotics will also reduce immunity

and cause skin diseases, but in a different way.

Antibiotics destroy beneficial bacteria in our gut that form part of our immune system. These beneficial bacteria prevent harmful bacteria from colonising our gut to cause infections.

Harmful bacteria such as streptococcus will produce toxins that cause skin disease.

Antibiotics will also increase hypersensitivity reactions that increase the skin's sensitivity to other compounds and cause skin disease. Other drugs that cause hypersensitivity reactions include anti-inflammatories such as naproxen as well as statins.

Some drugs cause skin dam-

age by increasing the rate of renewal of the skin, causing excessive shading of the skin which leaves the skin dry and scaly. Drugs used to treat cancer are notorious for such problems.

Drugs that affect fat metabolism will also cause dryness of the skin and other skin problems. Statins lower cholesterol and is known to cause dryness of the skin.

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Would you swim in a green pool?

Olympic officials have said that though they don’t know what has caused the water to go green, it is nothing to worry about and will be fixed soon.

But a pool treatment expert has warned that he would not go in the water while the health of the pool is still uncertain.

“The water is not supposed to be green,” said Ralph Riley, vice-chairman of the Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group (Pwtag).

“If it has gone green and it’s due to a lack of disinfectant, then that means there is some sort of implied threat or risk.

“If they’re saying that’s not the case, then it does point towards algae,” said Mr Riley.

But if there’s algae “then that implies there’s been a break-

down in the disinfectant process anyway”, meaning that the pool could be unclean and not properly treated, he said.

Whatever the cause, the systems that are built to automatically keep the water clean and safe had clearly broken, Mr Riley said, and the pool wouldn’t be safe until it was clear that they were working again. Mr Riley said definitively that he would not swim in the pool.

Howard Gosling, an independent pool and spa adviser and former chairman of Pwtag, said that he too would not swim in the pool.

"If there's not enough chlorine in the water, you don't know what bugs will be growing in there," he said. "I would

certainly – even though the divers don't stay in there very long – I certainly would be reluctant to go into it."

Rio spokesman Mario Andrada said the green was caused "by a proliferation of algae".

"This was because of heat and a lack of wind," he said.

"We did all the chemical tests.

The pool will be blue today.

"If it were green and yellow, we would know it was a patriotic thing," Andrada joked, referring to Brazil's national colours.

Canada’s team leader Mitch Geller said that he suspected a broken system had led the algae to come out, and that the warm and sunny day had allowed it to multiply quickly.

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Dave Silver

Friday 19th August 2016

Dave’s Reason For Being Down, Down DAVE the barman was looking down in the dumps the other evening.

He was looking so down that we customers could have reflected his mood by playing the rock classic Down Down on the pub's jukebox.

However, the hostelry was not in possession of that great ditty by Status Quo. And, perhaps more to the point, we didn't have a jukebox either.

But there was no denying that Dave the barman was on a downer.

'It's you flaming lot!' he declared when he ceased sulking silently. 'It's bad enough that none of you ever buys a Bloody Mary or any other bloody drink but you've also forgotten what today is.'

We pubsters looked at each other blankly. Daft

Barry even piped up: 'I think today is Tuesday.' But, of course, that was of no help.

'You'll have to give us a clue, mein host,' we chorused. 'We've overlooked something which is obviously important to you. But is it any wonder that we might sometimes forget things considering what busy lives we lead.'

'Busy lives!' echoed Dave the barman. 'Don't make me laugh!' But he was far from laughing You lot do NOT lead busy lives,' he declared, slamming his fist down hard on the bar top and in the process waking up Ol' Red Eyes who'd been dreaming about . . . well, who knew what the old codger dreamed about.

Indeed, Ol' Red Eyes, our former guide and mentor, claimed that he never ever dreamed. Mind you, he also

claimed that he never ever slept.

That was a blatant lie, of course, because these days Ol' Red Eyes spent all his days and nights fast asleep.

The only times he was awake was when one of us gently poured liquids down his arid throat to hydrate him.

But then there were the few occasions when Ol' Red Eyes actually died. It is arguable, of course, that being dead was like being asleep. But who really knew?

Certainly, the doctors didn't. They would scratch their heads in puzzlement when the old codger, after being pronounced dead several long minutes previously, would let out a deep yawn, open one rheumy eye and ask to be gently helped down off the mortuary trolley.

Once back at home (the pub), Ol' Red Eyes would be asked where he thought he had been while he was flatlining.

'None of your business!' he would snarl. 'Now if you don't mind, I have a class to teach.'

Ol' Red Eyes had been an English master once upon a time but those days had long been gone on the night that Dave the barman had his hissy fit.

'I slave away behind this bar day after day,' mein host complained. 'All I ask is for some recognition of what I do for you.'

We pubsters looked sheepishly at each other and chorused: 'Sorry, Dave, but you're going to have to tell us why this day is so special to you.'

Dave the barman sighed and then announced. 'It was

exactly 40 years ago today that I came to this town with just a knapsack on my back.

Now I own the whole building.'

'Wow! You have done so well, Dave,' we chorused.

And then Daft Barry piped up: 'And what did you have in the knapsack, Dave?'

Dave the barman shrugged. 'I had one million quid in the knapsack but that has nothing to do with anything.'

'Enough!' Mrs S has just shouted down my ear. 'I've been reading this Courier column over your shoulder and you've just sacrificed the truth for a very old joke. Now, tell your readers exactly why the day was special to Dave the barman.'

'Okay, okay,' I mumbled. 'It had nothing to do with knapsacks and loadsa money.

Dave the barman was miffed

because we'd all missed his birthday.'

But, to cut a short story even shorter, it all worked out very nicely when the pub lights suddenly dimmed and in walked our leader and mentor Andromeda Arkwright pushing a trolley (not a mortuary one) on top of which was perched a huge birthday cake with candles in the shape of beer pumps ablaze.

Of course, we'd all been in on the practical joke. We'd known that August 16th was Dave the barman's birthday.

We'd only pretended we weren't aware of his big day in order to intensify his surprise 'What a wizard wheeze,' chortled Dave the barman.

'You certainly had me hoodwinked.’

'Yeah,' agreed Daft Barry.

'April Fool!'

Is Your Volkswagen At Risk?

It can probably be unlocked by hackers!

Almost 100 million cars made by Volkswagen are vulnerable to numerous hacks that could let thieves unlock them remotely through a wireless signal, security researchers have revealed.

The "worrying" flaws in the cryptography of the physical keys have been around since the 1990s, and could be used to unlock millions of cars and drive them away.

The two flaws in Volkswagen's keyless entry software are present in

almost every car Volkswagen has sold since 1995, according to the researchers at the University of Birmingham, including models from Audi, Ford, Fiat, Skoda, Citroen and Peugeot.

All an attacker requires to exploit them and unlock the cars is a radio that can be made for £30 with a small control board and a radio receiver.

One of the vulnerabilities is in Volkswagen's computer system, which could allow a

thief to steal the car without the owner and key being nearby, unlike with similar key fob attacks.

The researchers managed to reverse engineer a part of Volkswagen's network and get hold of a cryptographic key that is shared with millions of Volkswagen cars.

Using the radio, they could then intercept the unique signal given off by each car's key fob that together could be used to clone the key, access the car and drive it away.

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Dont Fall Asleep Behind The Wheel Reaction time after two hours at the wheel decreases by 86%

ONE in four Spanish drivers admits to having felt sleepy or extremely tired on short journeys, a report by the country’s Royal Automobile Club, the RACE, reveals.

Around seven in 10 of the drivers who took part in the study say they make fairly short trips in the car during

their holidays, and 55% confess they often do not stop for a break every two hours.

In fact, 6% say they never take a break when driving, continuing for several hours at a time.

The survey, jointly run by the RACE and the Association of Soft Drinks (ANFABRA), formed part of

an advertising campaign urging motorists to keep themselves hydrated at the wheel by drinking plenty of fluids.

The risk of suffering an accident increases by 12% after the first two hours of driving, since the motorist’s attention starts to wander and he or she fails to notice 30% of what goes on around him or her.

Reaction time after two hours at the wheel decreases by 86%, not quite double, and distraction is thought to be one of the prime causes of fatal accidents along with fatigue, drink and drugs.

The campaign calls for motorists to get out of the car at least once every two hours, stretch, take a walk and drink something with glucose in it.

Drivers should take extra care on secondary roads, even if they know them well, because the RACE says that’s where 80% of accidents happen.

Roads with two-way traffic – single carriageways, but not one-way streets – are the most likely to tire drivers out, in 60% of cases.

On long journeys, 31% of drivers admit they suffer extreme tiredness or become sleepy at the wheel. Please take a break when driving.

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RICHARD CAVENDER

BlueMoon Solutions www.bluemoonsolutions.es

BlueMoon Solutions is the computer and IT services company on the Costa Blanca.

BlueMoon Solutions come to you at home or work, our personal service covers from Alicante to Pilar de la Horadada.

Richard moved to Spain ten years ago having left his management background behind in the UK and decided to use his IT skills to help home users and small businesses with their PC problems. Now a relaxed 'computer man' he is out and about in the Spanish sun every day, making house and shop calls and using his vast experience and qualifications to sort out the problem there and then.

Computers are his hobby as well as his work so don’t be surprised to get an answer to your email in the early hours!

ADVICE: Lynda wanted to access her Outlook account on her mobile device but didn’t know how.

ADVICE: Ron was having issues printing emails within the outlook.com website.

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Hi Richard. Since I was 'forced' to change my Hotmail to outlook I cannot access any Hotmail on my mobile. I have managed to find both addresses on my laptop but cannot sync them on my phone. Microsoft and other sites tell me nothing. My Hotmail account is linked to Amazon and sites like that so do you think it would be a problem to delete both Hotmail / Outlook accounts and start again? Thanks.Lynda.

Hi Lynda, I think that deleting and starting again is probably a bit over the top and unnecessary, Microsoft have a great app that you can use to access your Outlook accounts on your mobile device, it’s called, imaginatively – OUTLOOK – you should be able to find it in the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store, depending on your flavour of mobile device. Once downloaded and installed it is very simple to configure to access your accounts.

Hi Richard, I am having trouble printing e-mails in Outlook. If, say, I receive an e-mail of 3 pages which I need to print out, when I press CTRL P to print, I get the full inbox page including side panels, and only one page of e-mail. Any ideas on how to enable me to print without the side panels, and get the 3 pages of the mail?I am on Windows 10.Many thanks, Ron.

Hey Ron, thanks for taking the time to email us, this is a common question and thankfully the answer is pretty simple, rather than pressing CTRL + P to print you should click on the the dots (…) in the menu bar within the email message that you want to print, and then choose the print option. This method will print just the email out, your method (as you have found) will print everything on the screen, including the side panels of the website. Have a look at the image below to see exactly what I mean.

office@bluemoonsolutions.es www.bluemoonsolutions.es NEW: 965 987 032 Mobile: 655 044 970 Don’t forget you can follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/bluemoonsolutionsspain/ Alternatively why don’t you sign up for my newsletter. You can do this by going to:www.bluemoonsolutions.es/newsletter .

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Friday 19th August 2016

Froome’s Spanish Test

Barclays Premier League Friday 19 August 21:00 Manchester United v Southampton

Saturday 20 August 13:30 Stoke City v Manchester City 16:00 Burnley v Liverpool 16:00 Swansea City v Hull City 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur v Crystal Palace 16:00 Watford v Chelsea 16:00 West Bromwich Albion v Everton 18:30 Leicester City v Arsenal

The last of the cycling season’s grand tours, the Vuelta a Espana promises to end the season with a bang, as the race gets going tomorrow (Saturday) in Ourense. The favourite will be three times Tour de France winner and Rio Olympic Road Race bronze

medallist Chris Froome (Team Sky).

Froome himself has said he has "unfinished business" with the race. And apart from a natural ambition

to try to become Britain's first winner of Spain's Grand Tour and the first rider to win both the Tour and the Vuelta since Bernard Hinault in 1978, the events of last year's Vuelta when he broke a bone in his foot early on the ultra-mountainous stage in Andorra are

surely still uppermost in Froome's mind.

Should Froome take the lead, a big factor in his favour, as it was in the Tour de France, there’s an excep-

La Manga’s Award

Sunday 21 August 14:30 Sunderland v Middlesbrough 17:00 West Ham United v Bournemouth

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tionally strong Team Sky lineup to back him up that includes Pete Kennaugh, Mikel Kwiatkowski, Leo Konig and Mikel Landa.

That's even without the experienced Nicolas Roche, missing from Sky's Vuelta line-up after falling ill in Rio. Finishing on Sunday September 11th, La Vuelta will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,315.4 kilometres.

In total there are ten summit finishes, one more than last year, with the first on stage three, a short but very steep ascent to Ezaro. After a week of constantly rolling, technical terrain in Galicia, the 'flat' stage eight finish on la Camperona actually concludes with an 8.5-kilometre

climb, with some sections at 22 per cent. Stage 10 to Covadonga, eleven to Peña Cabarga, 13 to Urdax and 14 to the mountain top finish of the Aubisque could well all but resolve the overall classification a week before the race reaches Madrid.

The Northern Costa Blanca will feature at the business end of the action as the race pretty much snubs the southern part of Spain this year. Javea and Calpe host the stage 19 individual time trial over 37 kilometres on Friday September 9th, and then the penultimate and crucial stage 20 starts the next day from Benidorm and goes into the mountains of Aitana.

Paddles Up

Saturday 20 August 13:30 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 18:30

Sheffield Wednesday v Leeds United Birmingham City v Wolverhampton Wanderers Blackburn Rovers v Burton Albion Bristol City v Newcastle United Fulham v Cardiff City Huddersfield Town v Barnsley Nottingham Forest v Wigan Athletic Queens Park Rangers v Preston North End Reading v Brighton and Hove Albion Rotherham United v Brentford Derby County v Aston Villa

Sunday 21 August 13:00 Ipswich Town v Norwich City

Spanish La Liga Saturday 20 August 18:15 Barcelona v Real Betis 20:15 Granada CF v Villarreal 22:15 Sevilla v Espanyol

Sunday 21 August 18:15 Sporting de Gijón v Athletic Club 120:15 Real Sociedad v Real Madrid 22:15 Atlético de Madrid v Alavés

Monday 22 August 20:00 Celta de Vigo v Leganés 22:00 Valencia CF v Las Palmas

Scottish Premiership Saturday 20 August

The Mar Menor’s La Manga golf club has been handed one of Spain’s most prestigious golfing awards. The Royal Spanish Golf Federation gifted the world-famous resort with the ‘Merit in Golf’ award in recognition of its contribution to the sport in Spain, Europe and worldwide.

Built more than four decades ago, the club has hosted the Spanish Open five times and has become a recognised course among the world’s elite sportsmen.

Jose Asenjo, general manager of La Manga Club, said: “It is a great honour for us to be given this honour.

“The award is recognition

for all the hard work and effort that has been made over the last four decades to make La Manga Club the favourite destination for golfers in Spain and Europe.”

The club was most recently named as Spain’s best golf hotel at the World Golf Awards for the second year running and was voted the best golf resort in Spain by Today’s Golfer readers for the fifth successive year.

The 1,400 acre resort features three 18-hole courses, a nine-hole academy course and a recently opened Leadbetter Golf Academy – the only one in mainland Spain.

Paddle surfing is coming to the Orihuela Costa this Sunday at Playa Glea in Campoamor with up to a hundred competitors on the regional Alicante circuit expected to take part. Unlike traditional surfing where the rider is sitting until a wave

comes, stand up paddle boarders maintain an upright stance on their boards and use a paddle to propel themselves through the water. The longest test on Sunday will go up to fifteen hundred metres in the elite category.

Bowling Best La Siesta Bowls club in Torrevieja held their annual internal competition last weekend which produced some very close encounters.

Founded in 1990, the club staged the contest at their regular venue on Calle Rossini in La Siesta, with Irene Mangan and David Davies winners of

the Drawn Out Pairs, whilst David Davies also took the Summer Singles.

The Bryan Rourke Trophy was taken by Alex Morrice and Irene Magan, with the Mr and Mrs Trophy won by John and Penny Porter. For more details on the club, call Jim or Lyn on 690 190 523.

13:15 St. Johnstone v Celtic 16:00 Aberdeen v Partick Thistle 16:00 Heart of Midlothian v Inverness Caledonian Thistle 16:00 Rangers v Motherwell 16:00 Ross County v Kilmarnock

Marcus’s Gold An British-born man with an English father and German mother, who is now a Spanish national living on Mallorca brought an international flavour with gold medal success for Spain in the Rio Olympics this week.

Kayaker Marcus Cooper won the K-1 open-water 1,000-metre race in a time of three minutes, 31.44 seconds – barely a tenth of a second ahead of the silver winner, the Czech Republic’s Josef

Dostál, who crossed the finishing line in three minutes, 32.14 seconds.

Marcus was born in Oxford, but grew up in Mallorca where his parents moved when he was very young, and has taken Spanish citizenship. His win was against the odds, since the favourites were Danish René Holten – last year’s world champion – and German Max Hoff, who took the silver in London 2012.

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Ivie Davies on Golf

Justin Rose Blooms In Rio 2016 For those you who did not have the opportunity to watch Sunday’s historic fourth round of the return of golf to the Olympics, these were the final moments. There was nothing to separate Britain’s Justin Rose and Sweden’s Henrik Stenson through 71 holes with the former Ryder Cup partners both 15-under par as they stepped on to the 18th green at the Olympic Golf Course.

However, after Rose’s third shot, an extraordinary pitch from 38 yards that landed within three feet of the pin, it was Stenson who blinked. The Open champion three putted from 20 feet to give Rose two putts for the first Olympic gold medal in golf since 1904. He would only need one.

The 36-year-old Briton finished with a five-under 67 to hold off a stern challenge from the in-form Stenson and an inspired

charge by Matt Kuchar, becoming the first Olympic gold medalist since George Lyon of Canada won the competition at Glen Echo Country Club at the St Louis Olympics. After sinking the winning putt Rose raised his right fist in the air and embraced Stenson before finding his wife Kate in the family zone behind the 18th hole.

“It’s a dream come true,” Rose said. “I’ve been thinking about Rio for a long, long time. I’ve been dreaming about coming here for a few years now. I was hoping my ranking would allow me to compete in the Olympic Games.

“I came here in good form and I felt excited about competing, excited about giving it 100%. Then when I actually got down to Rio and experienced the whole vibe of the Olympics, to come out of it with a medal is incredible.

To come out of it with gold, unbelievable.”

Stenson, playing the best golf of his career after the duel with Phil Mickelson at Royal Troon last month, started the final round one shot off the pace and had shot a bogey-free round with four birdies through 13 holes.

But he was forced to summon the trainer to help with back issues on the 14th hole, which left him face down on the tee for a brief spell. He went on to bogey the hole.

“I didn’t make the best swings there for a little while but it wasn’t hindering me too much,” Stenson said. “But it’s not something you plan to have worked on out on the course.

“It did kind of put me out of rhythm a little bit, but I was still there till the end.

It was just down to whoever made a birdie on the last, otherwise we would have been out for a play-

off.”

Both players held off a fierce challenge by Kuchar, the American who started the day five-under in a tie for seventh but shot a 63 to tie the course record and secure the bronze.

Named to the US team only after Jordan Spieth withdrew due to concerns over the Zika virus, (yet he was there commentating with Rory McIlroy), Kuchar had already moved into the bronze position after going four under on the front nine. But when he followed two excellent shots on the 10th with a 13-foot putt for eagle, the gold was suddenly within touching distance. “My heart started pounding out of my chest,” Kuchar said.

He might have done even better, but he threeputted on the 16th and left a 17-foot birdie putt short on the 18th to finish with a 13-under 261. Afterwards, he cried on the medal

KNOW YOUR RULES

TITTER ON THE TEE

Ron is playing with Alan and Graham when Rodney has putted to with an inch of the hole and Alan said “pick it up it’s good”. They were playing an individual Stapleford competition, is this correct and legal?

A new member walks into the Golf Club House and takes a seat next to a very attractive Lady member. He gives her a quick glance then casually looks at his watch for a moment.

The woman notices this and asks: “Have you missed your Tee time?”

'No', he replies, “I just got this state-of the-art watch, and I was just testing it.”

The intrigued woman says: “A state-of-the-art watch, what's so special about it?”

The member explains: “It uses alpha waves to talk to me telepathically.”

The lady says, “What's it telling you now?”

“Well, it says you're not wearing any panties”, replied the member.

The woman giggles and replies: “Well it must be broken, because I am wearing panties!”

The new member smiles, taps his watch and says: “This thing's an hour fast!”

QUESTION

A: No. It is not legal – all putts must be holed out in any Individual Stableford Competition.

B: Yes. If your partner tells you to pick it up you must.

C: Yes. Always to keep up with the pace of play.

NO. In determining the nearest point of relief accurately, it is recommended that the player use the club, address position, direction of play and swing (right or left-handed) that he would have used had the obstruction or condition not been there. For example, the player has interference from an immovable obstruction and, were it not for the obstruction, he would have used a right-handed stroke with a 4-iron to play the ball from its original position towards the green. To determine the nearest point of relief accurately, he should use a right-handed stroke with a 4-iron and the direction of play should be towards the green.

ANSWER

A: One of the first rules in the book – Rule 1-1 States that the ball must be played until it’s in the hole. The only exception to that is to concede a putt is in Match Play. No gimmies in Stroke Play under the rules.

stand while carefully inspecting his medal.

A week of lively galleries at the new course within the Marapendi reserve in Barra da Tijuca peaked with a sold out crowd of 15,000 on a balmy Sunday afternoon with a steady ocean breeze.

The showdown between Rose and Stenson, who went head to head with neither extending their advantage to more than one shot the entire round, offered a storybook ending to a week that began in doubt – with many of the sport’s top stars having withdrawn.

Stenson said “To call yourself an Olympian is something very special, to be an Olympic medalist is even more special. I’m very pleased that I went here. It was the experience of a lifetime.”

During the week Rose said: “The atmosphere is more like a Ryder Cup than a major but it’s more

unique than either of those two. You can’t compare it to anything else.”

With many first-time spectators in the crowd – golf is not popular in Brazil – the lighter side of the Olympics’ grand experiment reared itself in unexpected ways. When Rose’s drive off the 2nd tee sailed into the gallery, a fan picked it up thinking she could keep it. Rose was allowed to drop because the exact finishing spot was unknown. Yet little else went wrong for the Englishman, who started the week with the first Olympic hole-in-one and ended it with a historic gold.

He had a few fitness issues this year. In the back of his mind he wanted to be 100% for Rio. So he did a lot of hard work and sacrificed a lot of hours in the gym just to really get himself feeling good. Then he achieved his dream.

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Friday 19th August 2016

Torry Set And Ready

Monte Blow

Benferri 1 CD Torrevieja 2

Two friendly wins at Callosa (1-0) last week, and then at Benferri last Saturday night have set the stage for the serious league business which kicks off on Sunday as CD Torrevieja face newly promoted Almoradi, whose squad is jam packed with former Torry stars like winger Cristian Sanchez. The home side though has been boosted by the news that one of last season’s few success stories, the 22year-old British striker, Lewis Allen, has signed up for the current campaign, despite being looked at by higher division clubs, and also getting involved with some pre-season training

at Atlético Saguntino.

At Benferri, new manager Correa fielded what again looked like being his league line up for the opener against Almoradi, with the only omission being Luis Carlos who was suffering with a cold. Pastor played a captain's role whilst striker Zapata impressed with fast, strong runs down the channels.

Lewis Allen was lively and only denied by a brave Vivanco from point blank range in the early exchanges. However, first blood was drawn by Benferri on the quarter hour when a deft Guille lob completely deceived Marcano for an excellent goal.

The lead lasted a mere two minutes before Carrasco drove home to level affairs. It was left to the cultured left foot of Adrian to settle the contest when he expertly placed his right footed free kick against the post and into the net, with once more the brave Vivanco getting within a whisker of stopping it.

This was a resolute Torry display with a much better level of bite and spite in the middle of the park. Adrian was always available and used the ball intelligently.

Matheus is sharp and direct, likely to cause problems week in week out.

Zapata and Lewis Allen are predators with much

courage and an eager willingness to work for the benefit of the team. When the physical Salamanca made his entrance for the final quarter of an hour, he added even further aggression to the attack, although his three left foot blasts from outside the box were very high over the mark.

This Sunday’s encounter at the Vicente Garcia stadium against Almoradi has a 7.00 pm kick-off, with season tickets for the 20 home league schedule available at the gate on match day at a cost of 125 euros. Fans are asked to come early as delays are expected as the season tickets are bought at the turnstiles.

Almoradi’s Big Day After 19 years, CD Almoradi are back in the third division with a tasty local encounter at CD Torrevieja this Sunday. They warmed up very nicely last Saturday with a six-nil thrashing of neighbours Daya Nueva Athletic for the inaugural preseason Segurlab trophy, which was played at Daya Nueva. That means they go into league action this weekend with a 100 percent record from their friendly matches.

Saul with two goals, plus Obele, Manu, Keko and Pablo all got onto the Almoradi scoresheet at Daya Nueva, with a clutch of familiar local names in their squad brought in by manager Fran Rodríguez including the exCD Torrevieja captain Burguillos; Coco from Orihuela CF; ex-Torry and Orihuela man Sergi Murcia as well as Rafa Canales and Gonzalo from Benferri (who played for Fran Rodríguez when he was at Benferri).

Almoradi skipper Fran Ortíz received the Segurlab trophy from Daya Nueva

mayor, Maria Teresa Martínez, and her Almoradi counterpart, Jaime Pérez.

Thader Build Up Rojales-side CD Thader kick off their Valencia Regional Preferente Group Three campaign at home to Villajoyosa on Sunday September 4th, and have been building up for the new campaign with a series of friendlies which include a trip to Santa Pola tomorrow evening (Saturday) with a 7.30pm kick-off.

Thader’s matches have seen a 3-0 victory over Kelme Juvenil, as well as well as defeats against higher league

sides Orihuela and Crevillente. Season tickets are available from just 25 euros and all of Thader’s

home games will be on Sunday mornings. For more details, call Lloyd on 688 438 773.

CD Montesinos new manager Camacho, has suffered a setback in his pre-season preparation as his former club, Deportivo Orihuela, have blocked him from bringing in five players over to Montesinos. Camcho though is hopeful of securing

three immediate replacements, and saw his side draw one-all with Catral in a friendly last Friday. Both sides (Monte pictured) made multiple changes and Monte also missed a number of key players including striker Vaz and Fernando.

Locals Join Torry CD Torrevieja has announced that local players Costa and Matheus, who have been involved in pre-season training with the club, have been included in the first team squad by coach Gabriel Correa for the forth-

coming season.

23-year-old defender Costa played for Torrevieja CF in the 1st Regional division last season, whilst 20-year-old w i n g e r Mattheus was also part of the Torrevieja CF team in the last campaign.

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Premier Preview After tonight’s match at Old Trafford, early doors tomorrow sees United’s rivals and equally mega spending Man City travel down the M6 to Stoke City, writes JOHN MCGREGOR (continued from Back Page). The Potters modestly drew 1 -1 at newbies Middlesborough last Saturday, whilst City only just overcame Sunderland 2 – 1 in injury time at the Etihad, surprisingly asking all sorts of questions of Pep Guardiola’s super strength side, until Tuesday night’s Romanian demolition job.

Put aside the two Manchester sides, as the match of the weekend is tomorrow night as champions Leicester entertain Arsenal, one of the few teams to beat the Foxes emphatically last season. Coming back down to Planet Earth, Leicester surprisingly lost away to wayward Prem returnees Hull last weekend, but then Arsenal were blown away by a Liverpool hurricane. The scoreline of 4 – 3 flattered the Gunners really with two late goals to save some face, but losing 4 – 1 at home before your own faithful fans is not a good way to start the season. Game on!

Promoted Burnley didn’t start well losing their first game 1 – 0 at home to Swansea, and now have the doubtful privilege of entertaining lively Liverpool tomorrow. Kop King Klopp’s kids looked awesome at the Emirates smashing four goals past an astounded Arsenal in eighteen astounding second half minutes, and Burnley must be quaking!

Tottenham drew their opener at Everton and host problematic Palace tomorrow. After the traumatic endof-season performances when Spurs slipped to third – behind Arsenal – great things are expected of Mauriccio Pochettino’s players this season, and everything is in place to succeed. But Palace have carried on from where they left off in their disastrous calendar year of 2016, this time losing 1 – 0 at home to West Brom. New signing Andros Townsend from Newcastle was unable to make a difference, while Palace’s offer of £30m for Liverpool’s Christian Benteke has been refused… so far. N.B. Klopp is said to be wanting rid. At Selhurst Park questions are now being asked of manager Alan Pardew - and it was all going so well last year.

Another key all-London clash is Watford v Chelsea: the 1 – 1 draw at Southampton provided a reasonable start for the Hornets, but now all eyes are on Antonio Conte and his animated antics on the Chelsea touchline. The Italian seems to have relit the dampened Blue fuse at Stamford Bridge and got the big names fired up again: both Eden Hazard and Diego Costa scored in the narrow 2 – 1 win over West ham on Monday to get Chelsea off to a great start to the season. On paper Watford don’t look a huge problem, but the usual unpredictable rules apply.

With Newcastle gone, it’s left to promoted Middlesborough to provide the north –east local derby on Sunday as they entertain Sunderland , complete with new manager David Moyes. Everyone here has a lot to prove, including Boro’s new Basque manager Aitor Karanka. Late on Sunday afternoon, West Ham play their first match in their new home, the ‘old’ Queen Elizabeth Olympic stadium – now to be known, rather unimaginatively as the London Stadium. Bournemouth are the visitors in a little bit of history and the match should provide a great new start for the Hammers and their inspirational manager Slaven Bilic, having narrowly lost at Chelsea on Monday.

Elche Arrival

The 23-year-old Athletic Bilbao striker, Guillermo Fernandez has signed a two year contract with Elche in a deal which sees Bilbao reserving an option to get him back at the end of each of his two seasons. His last campaign saw him go out on loan to Segunda division side Leganés, with five goals in his 23 outings, and he could well link up with Sergio León for tomorrow evening’s Segunda division home opener against Rayo Vallecano (7.00 pm kick-off). León’s chances of a move to another club seem to be receding as Elche are holding firm on the valuation of last season’s top scorer in the division.

La Liga Season Begins There will be plenty of familiar faces when La Liga kicks off the 2016-2017 season this weekend, with eight sides in Spain's top flight having new men in their respective dugouts.

The biggest shock was Villarreal's decision to sack Marcelino Garcia just a week before his side's Champions League qualifying round and replace him with the former Elche coach, Fran Escriba. Escriba bounces straight back into club management just five months after being sacked by his former club Getafe, who ended up being relegated to the Segunda division.

On the field, La Liga champions Barcelona will meet last season's 10th-placed side, Real Betis at the Camp Nou tomorrow. Team captain Andres Iniesta (knee) and defender Jeremy Mathieu (hamstring) are out with injuries and newcomers midfielder Denis Suárez and Lucas Digne are expected whilst Neymar is away at the Rio Olympics on Brazil international duty. Champions League holders, Real Madrid open up on Sunday at the Anoeta Stadium when they take on Real Sociedad. Real could have Cristiano Ronaldo ready to start after his recent injury as well as Karim Benzema, who is rumoured to be coming off the bench as newcomer Alvaro Morata, who was bought back from Juventus this summer, is being developed as a future star by head coach Zinedine Zidane.

Torres Feels Betrayed Fernando Torres believes he was unfairly portrayed as a "traitor" by Liverpool following his departure to Chelsea.

The 32-year-old, who became a fan-favourite at Anfield after scoring 65 goals in 102 league appearances for the club, moved to Chelsea in January 2011 for a then-British transfer record of £50m.

In a new book by Simon Hughes entitled 'Ring of Fire: Liverpool FC into the 21st Century - the players' stories', Torres explains the sequence of events that led to that move.

Despite enjoying huge personal success during his first three seasons at Liverpool, Torres became unsettled at the direction the club was taking as a potential takeover loomed and sought to have talks with managing director Christian Purslow in the summer of 2010.

Torres wanted to know if the club's financial position would lead to key players - including himself - being sold, but was left frustrated by the sale of Javier Mascherano to Barcelona soon afterwards.

"Comolli told me that the new owners (FSG), they had an idea of how to spend their investment," says Torres.

"They wanted to bring in young players, to build something new. I was thinking to myself, this takes time to work. It takes two, three, four, maybe even 10 years.

"I didn't have that time. I was 27 years old. I did not have time to wait.

I wanted to win. Here we are five years later and they are still trying to build - around the same position in the league as when I left."

Torres admits he did speak to thenLiverpool boss Kenny Daglish about the possibility of leaving - but insists that was only after the club had begun discussions with Chelsea.

A source from within the club subsequently leaked that Torres had "verbally requested" a transfer and the striker felt this was a betrayal of his trust.

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Super Barca Arda Turan scored twice and Lionel Messi once as Barcelona earned a 3-0 second-leg Wednesday victory over Sevilla to win the Spanish Super Cup 5-0 on aggregate, after taking the first match 2-0, on Sunday.

Turkey midfielder Turan slotted in the first goal at the Nou Camp from Messi's through pass in the 10th minute. Turan chipped in his second shortly after the break, with Messi guiding in a sublime header for the third.

It is the first time Barcelona have won the Super Cup since 2013. The two-legged match usually pitches the league champions against the Copa del Rey winners.

However, as Luis Enrique's team won both trophies last season, Sevilla took part as Copa del Rey runnersup.

City’s Sterling Performance On Tuesday evening a powerful-looking Man City thrashed Steaua Bucharest 5 – 0 away in the first leg of the Champions League qualifying round, writes JOHN MCGREGOR. City striker Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick but somehow managed to miss two penalties in the first half, as Nolito and David Silva scored the other two.

England midfielder Raheem Sterling carried the brunt of the criticism of the country’s dismal performance in France, but at last turned in another impressive performance for City. Sterling made the first for Aguero and under new manager Pep Guardiola is at last looking like the £49m player bought last year from Liverpool.

In direct contrast out-of-favour England goalkeeper Joe Hart was again dropped in favour of old Elche favourite Willy Caballero, and appears to have no future at the Etihad. The second leg in Manchester is on Wednesday.

Joe Hart Open Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart is considering a move away from the club after being dropped for the first two games under Pep Guardiola.

Everton and Spanish side Sevilla are interested in taking the England star.

With just two weeks left of the transfer window, Hart, 29, is only interested in a loan move in order to examine his options.

Barcelona's Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Claudio Bravo have been linked with moves to City.

It is understood Guardiola and Hart, who knows he has no future at the club, have not

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The Latest Sport Headlines FOOTBALL Former Fifa president Joao Havelange has died at the age of 100.

The Brazilian was predecessor to Sepp Blatter at world football's governing body, serving from 1974 to 1998.

He resigned as Fifa's honorary president in April 2013 following an investigation into bribery allegations and was admitted to hospital the following year with a lung infection.

He was an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member from 1963 until 2011, resigning because of ill health.

>> Lionel Messi raises the Spanish Super Cup at the Nou Camp.

Misfiring Gunners Mahrez Signs Up! Riyad Mahrez has signed a new Leicester contract tying him to the Premier League champions until 2020.

But news of his new deal means Leicester have managed to keep hold of last season's PFA Player of the Year and Football Writers' Award winner Jamie Vardy. N'Golo Kante did leave for Chelsea after his release clause was activated, but Wes Morgan, Kasper Schemiechel and Andy King have all signed new contracts this summer.

Arsenal need people like Piers Morgan as one of their fans, with the exMirror editor and failed US TV star fitting the bill perfectly as one of those celebrities who never quite make it, writes JOHN MCGREGOR. That is the story of Arsenal over the last decade since the great

To Move Abroad built up any kind of relationship, with Guardiola saying on Friday that Hart does not have the time to become the kind of 'sweeper-keeper' he is looking for.

"I am not saying he's not able to do it with training he can do it," said Guardiola on Friday. "With time. But his time is now.

It's not about what happens in six months, seven months."

Hart has made nearly 350 appearances for City in all competitions since joining them from Shrewsbury in 2006. hart made mistakes against Wales and Iceland as England were knocked out.

Thierry Henry and Denis Bergkamp days.

Yes, sure, Gooners, I know you twice won the FA Cup recently and Spurs didn’t (I’m not a fan of either, hon-

est) , but to be a top class English contender today your team just has got to win the Premier League now and again. Even modest Midlanders Leicester City did it last season to surprisingly join the top table of the Manchesters, United and City, and Chelsea twice since the Gunners in 2003/4: but not Arsenal despite an array of highly expensive and paid stars.

On Sunday came a new low, perfectly designed to get the anti-Arsene alliance arming their ancient Flintlocks as Arsenal lost the first game of the season 4 – 3 at the mightily-impressive Emirates stadium. After reasonably leading 1 – 0 at half-time to a decent Theo Walcott goal on the half hour, the Red roof suddenly fell in as the second half started. An unbelievable four goals rained in past hapless goalkeeper Petr Cech over a pulsating 18 minute spell. The goals came from three different playe r s , what must that have been like to watch for Arsenal fans frustrated from last season when nothing happened – again.

In direct contrast to the Manchesters, Arsene

Wenger has bought nobody important in the close season, presumably content to try and re-motivate the same team that finished second-best once again last year. The club is packed with ‘top class’ players who never quite perform to their vaunted potential: Ozil, Giroud and Sanchez come to mind – and then there’s Oxley Chamberlain, Welbeck, Ramsey, Cazorla… and Wilshere (sigh). I almost sound like the disenchanted, frustrated Arsenal supporters I know. The amount of top class strikers linked to coming to the Emirates are endless:Higuain, Vardy, Mahrez, even Luis Suarez two years ago, but they never come. Arsenal would win a gold medal for always having their top class players out injured. Are their medical team treating a team of hypochondriacs? Jack Wilshere’s arm is always up before he hits the ground, and of course is out again for the start of this season.

Would you believe his last 90 minutes for Arsenal was on 23 September – 2014. And Roy Hodgson took him to France!

There’s a huge evening for Arsenal tomorrow as they visit the champions Leicester – losing would sound the alarm bells, and bring the vultures circling the Emirates.

FOOTBALL Liverpool have rejected an offer worth £30m from Crystal Palace for striker Christian Benteke.

The bid of £23m up front plus £7m in add-ons follows a previous offer of £25m, which was turned down.

Benteke, 25, has fallen out of favour at Liverpool since boss Jurgen Klopp took over last October, starting only eight league games.

He joined the Reds for £32.5m in July 2015 under former boss Brendan Rodgers and has scored 10 goals.

BOXING Wladimir Klitschko has revealed he is taking negotiations over his rematch with world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to court.

The 40-year-old Ukrainian (64-4-KO53) lost the WBA Super, WBO and IBF titles to Fury (25-0-KO18) in November last year and postponed talk of retirement by exercising a contractual rematch clause.

The return was initially scheduled for Manchester on July 9, but was called off due to an ankle injury to the champion.

A new date of October 29 was then pencilled in but with talks appearing to have broken down again, Klitschko released a statement via social media.

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A FRIDAY FIRST Friday nights will see the Premier League get an early kick off, starting tonight as Man United play Southampton, writes JOHN MCGREGOR. Paul Pogba should make his home debut after Jose Mourinho’s side won at Bournemouth.

Saints drew with Watford in their opener, with huge question marks over the unknown Claude Puel at the helm. More on the league on Page 46.

The 2016 Rio Olympics end on Sunday night, but there are still more medal nuggets to come from Team GB perspective, writes ALEX TRELINSKI. Staying up into Sunday morning is compulsory, as Mo Farah goes for his second Olympic middle distance double in the 5,000 metres final at 2.30 am. Earlier on, Tom Daley chases a second diving medal at Rio in the 10 metre platform event at 9.30 pm.

Team GB have surpassed what was expected, especially in hitting gold so many times, and have become the most successful ever British Olympic team away from home shores. A big highlight was the gold medal haul in the velodrome from the “soon-to-be” husband and wife team of Jason Kenny and Laura Trott, who just might become a Knight and Dame as a nice wedding present!

LIGHTNING BOLT Usain Bolt's bid for the 'triple triple' is still on track after he cruised into the final of the Olympic Games 200m.

The Jamaican sprint-great eased down over the last 50m of his semi-final but still managed to clock 19.78s in narrowly beating Canada's Andre de Grasse.

He is attempting to win the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles for the third successive

e r a c S s e iv v r u S Farah To Reach 5,000m Final In Rio Boxing Officials Dropped At Rio CHELSEA TARGET KALIDOU KOULIBALY Celtic Win 5-2 In Qualifier

Games after sweeping the titles in Beijing and London.

BRAZIL REACH FINAL Neymar scored after only 14 seconds - the fastest goal in Olympic football history - as Brazil thrashed Honduras 6-0 to reach the men's final in Rio. The hosts will next face Germany, 7-1 winners against Brazil at the 2014 World Cup, as goals from Lukas Klostermann and

Nils Petersen gave the European side a 2-0 win over Nigeria.

Neymar and Gabriel Jesus scored twice for Brazil in their convincing victory.

Marquinhos and Luan also scored to take them into their fourth Olympic final. Brazil have never won gold in the men's football competition, los-

ing in the finals in 1984, 1988 and 2012.

Saturday's game will kick off at 21:30 BST and be played in front of a capacity crowd of 78,000 at the Maracana.

Brazil have a chance of revenge after Germany humiliated them in the semi-finals of their home World Cup two years ago.

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