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Silence Over Bar Offer

n offer to reopen Orihuela Costa’s beach bars has been made to Orihuela council, as the row continues over the closing down of the area’s 11 beach bars, pending the advertising of a new contract to operate the bars. Previous franchise holder Chiringuitos del Sol has offered to reopen its outlets, ahead of the contract award, describing the move as something in the “public interest”, but that offer appears to have been met with silence from the council. Meanwhile, chemical loos provided by the council have appeared at La Zenia and Cabo Roig beaches, as visitors have been scrambling around to find somewhere to perform their basic bodily functions, as a result of the closures. Besides providing refreshments, the bars offered toilets, sunloungers, chairs, and umbrellas, but this all ended

over a fortnight ago, when they were told to close down. This was because the contract with Chiringuitos was deemed to have ended, with a full extension option not being taken up, because of claimed concerns over the contract award and a judicial investigation into it, which to this date has brought no legal action whatsoever. A public row then ensued between Orihuela politicians of different parties, as to the exact end date of the previous contract and who was responsible for any extensions or terminations, in addition to consequences for tourism in the area. Chiringuitos added that they may well seek financial compensation from Orihuela council, as they had planned and budgeted for their bars to run between February and June (the end of the previous contractual period), and had presented a plan to do so back in

December, as asked for by beaches councillor, Luisa Boné. In a statement, the company said that they were willing to talk to Orihuela council, and criticised the way they had handled the whole issue. A tender for a new beach bar contract is still being put together by Orihuela’s contracts department, but nothing has been advertised as The Courier went to press, meaning that realistically, unless some kind of interim deal is done with Chiringuitos, the Orihuela Costa beach bars will be closed for most, if not all of

June. Local groups have had plenty to say about the matter including the Federación de Asociaciones de Orihuela Costa (FAOC) who blamed Ciudadanos councillor Boné, and Partido Popular contracts councillor, Paco Sáez, in addition to their council officers, for what had happened. FAOC’s Tomás Moreno said that "this is all bad for tourism and the beaches, and the council should get services back to normal as soon as possible”. The CLARO political party has called on Orihuela mayor, Emilio Bascuñana, to take “urgent measures to solve the problem and to sort out the political and legal responsibilities for the matter”. The party also stated that since inspections for the coveted Blue Flag awards take place in May, the beaches are set to lose them, due to their lack of facilities. Orihuela has a total of 11 blue flags, nine of which are for the beaches, putting it second in the list of municipalities across Spain for the number of awards.

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A British holidaymaker faces 13 years behind bars after a jury found him guilty of stabbing a British chef to death at a Villamartin Plaza bar in January 2016, whilst the bar owner was also convicted of concealing a crime. A four-day Alicante Provincial Court hearing in Elche last week convicted Benjamin Da Costa, aged 30, of killing 40-year-old father of one, Scott Waring, by slashing his neck with a glass during a bar brawl. Former army medic Scott, 40, who did four tours of Northern Ireland, died within minutes of being attacked after the row with Da Costa, who fled north to Altea, before voluntarily reporting to the local Guardia Civil barracks the following day. Prosecutors stated during the trial that Mr. Waring bled to death after the attack with a 'glass or pint jug' having damaged his jugular vein and carotid artery, as previously reported by The Courier. The jury rejected Da Costa’s defence that it was an accident and any mitigating circumstances put forward by his solicitor that he

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that he had lied to the Guardia, including his initial claim that the fatal fight had taken place outside, and not in his bar. Da Costa and Williams are scheduled to be sentenced in the next few days, with Williams likely to get a suspended prison sentence on the recommendation of prosecutors, who have stated they want no change to the 13 years for Da Costa. The victim, Scott Waring, had a three-year-old daughter called Anais at the time that he was killed, which would also jointly be paid by Da Costa and Williams. The UK address of Da Costa has not been made public.

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was not in control of his faculties because of the amount of alcohol and drugs that he had consumed. Witnesses said that Da Costa did not seem to be suffering as result of alcohol and drug consumption. Simon Williams, owner of The Hub Sports Bar, was also found guilty of trying to cover up the crime by the nine-strong jury. Williams was accused in the indictment of clearing up the broken glass and telling the Guardia Civil called to the scene that the incident had happened outside his bar 'to help Da Costa and hinder the investigation.' He admitted in the trial

One of Europe’s biggest collection of historic aircraft could be heading to San Javier airport, once the facility closes down in favour of Corvera in the next year, and that could mean some historic sights in the air to enjoy over the Mar Menor. Spain’s defence minister, María Dolores de Cospedal, put forward the initial idea that the 44-strong collection belonging to the Fundación Infante de Orleans (FIO), should consider San Javier as a new location for its aviation museum. It has been based at Madrid’s Cuatro Vientos aerodrome since 1989 with regular fly-pasts (see photo), and now San Javier is very much in the picture, along

with rivals at Getafe and Segovia. The Air Academy at San Javier has backed the proposal, and FIO President, Carlos Valle Torralbo, says a decision will be made within a matter of weeks.

It offeres the tantalising possibility of classic fighter planes from around the world being based in the Mar Menor area, in what would be seen as a big tourist boost, following the closure of operations at San Javier.

Mayor’s Rejection

A call for San Pedro del Pinatar council to hold a public consultation over plans for the redevelopment of the famous but empty, Floridablanca spa at Lo Pagán beach, has been turned down. José Luis Ros of the Ciudadanos party wanted the San Pedro authority to get more views from residents, with opinion allegedly said to be divided as to whether the empty structure should become a restaurant or not. However, San Pedro mayor, Visitación Martínez, rejected the demand because it “wasn’t what the majority of people wanted, and that the development plans were approved unani-

mously at a council plenary meeting”. Earlier this year, Martínez said that work could start on the site before the summer, with a restaurant planned to be run on a franchise, in addition to building a museum, and restoring the spa to a bathing facility. “Not everything on the site will be a restaurant,” retorted Martínez. All that work, though, is now on hold, despite money being provided by the Murcia regional government, because the Costas authority is waiting for an environmental impact study before anything can happen, which would firstly see the dismantling of the original structure.

Windy Tuesday

Strong gusts of wind of over 150 kilometres an hour kept emergency services busy across Alicante Province on Tuesday. Fallen trees, awnings, debris and collapsed aerials were part of the logged incidents that firemen attended, with over a hundred calls being received. Many of those were in the Elche and Santa Pola areas,

plus a handful further south in the Vega Baja region. Classes at two Elche schools were suspended due to collapsed trees, whilst part of the roof at the Santa Pola sports centre was ripped off. The winds were a precursor to the heavy rain that arrived in parts of the region the following day on Wednesday.

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Baron On Trial

A British drugs baron, described as 'one of the top ten most investigated criminals in Europe', has gone on trial in Alicante this week, having been arrested on the Costa Blanca five years ago. 62-year-old Brian Charrington (pictured outside court) along with his partner and son, plus six others, are accused of trying to smuggle 192 kilos of cocaine into Albir on a yacht. Charrington, a former associate of notorious gangster Curtis Warren, was arrested with his son in Calpe back in 2013. The amount of cocaine was said to be worth 12 million euro on the open mar-

ket, and the National Police described Charrington as the 'leader of an international gang of drugs smugglers.' A court embargoed bank accounts, property and other assets at the time, said to be worth around six million euro. Spain’s Drugs and Organised Crime Police Unit seized a number of luxury cars and boats, with the Unit boss stating that Charrington used his 10 villas on the Costa Blanca to provide shelter for criminal fugitives. Prosecutors are calling for Charrington to be jailed for 18 years if he is found guilty, whilst defence lawyers have

queried the use of wire-taps to get Charrington arrested. Work on getting Charrington detained started in 2010, and centred on his girlfriend, Isabelle Robert, who had a relationship with French criminal, Alain Coelier, who along with his bodyguard, was shot eight years ago in La Nucia. Charrington is well known to authorities across Europe, as well as in Spain, where he was arrested in Calpe in 1997 in possession of a shipment of four tons of hashish. He also maintains a Wikipedia page where he lists his achievements as an “international drugs dealer”.

Trouble Brewing Air-traffic controllers in Barcelona (control tower, pictured) have announced a series of strikes starting on Wednesday June 20th in protest over short-staffing, which could have a significant impact on services in and out of Alicante-Elche and San Javier airports. The industrial action is set to hit the entire western Mediterranean arc, given that the Barcelona hub manages flights from the whole of the east coast and the Balearic Islands As yet, the full list of strike dates has not been confirmed, but each strike will last for 24 hours. According to the AirTraffic Controllers' Union (USCA), 85% of the membership in Barcelona – or 255 out of 300 – have backed the strike and are expected to join in. They have opted to down tools from the third week in June in order to clash with the peak holiday season

and cause as much disruption as possible. Air-traffic controllers are calling for more staff members, having warned repeatedly that this summer could bring chaos and leave employees stretched to the limits. The air-traffic control team remains insufficient to cope, says the USCA, despite national airspace management governing body ENAIRE having opened a recruitment process for more con-

trollers. “Air-traffic controllers need a period of time to train and get settled, so even if they are taken on now, they will not be available in time for the holiday season,” USCA warns. The union says the Barcelona controllers are working extra shifts – they normally work five days on and three days off, but are having to work six days on and two days off because there are not enough of them to cover flight traffic.

Quite A Buzz

A bee colony had to be removed from a tree trunk in a Daya Nueva school on Monday. A fire crew from Almoradi arrived at the scene at the Colegio Jose María Paternina (pictured), and formed a cordon around the tree, before a bee keeper arrived to remove the colony. It’s the latest in a series of similar incidents in recent weeks across the area, with a swarm of bees removed from a Los Montesinos property at the end of last month.

Fingers Trapped A 10-year-old boy got the fright of his life on Saturday afternoon, when he got three of his fingers trapped in a toy ball vending machine. Torrevieja firefighters were called in to free him from the dispenser on La Mata’s Plaza Encarnación Puchol, after the youngster put his fingers up by the exit chute of the machine, when the ball that he paid for, did

not drop down. The fire crew smashed the glass of the machine to

end the boy’s ordeal and free him, ensuring he suffered no injuries.

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A Royal First

King Felipe is set to make his first ever visit to the Vega Baja region some time next month (May), when he will attend the National Congress of Communities of Irrigators in Torrevieja, and go for lunch at Orihuela City’s Santo Domingo Diocensan school. The King’s diary is never

made official until around four or five days before his engagements, but it is believed that he will be involved in closing the Irrigators Congress at Torrevieja’s International Auditorium on Friday May 18th. The gathering is expected to attract fifteen-hundred

delegates, as well as the Valencian President, Ximo Puig. The Santo Domingo school in Orihuela is already said to be making preparations for the royal visit, with Felipe’s mother, Queen Sofia, having opened Orihuela’s Teatro Circo back in 1993.

Unwelcome Visitors

Portuguese Man O’War jellyfish have washed up ashore on Guardamar’s beaches, with six instances being recorded as The Courier went to press. Their presence in the Mediterranean has been blamed on strong westerly winds over the last few days. The Portuguese Man O’War is often called a jellyfish but is actually a species of siphonophore, a group of animals that are closely related to jellyfish. Their tentacles are loaded with coiled, barbed tubes that deliver venom capable of

paralysing and killing small fish and crustaceans. They are rarely deadly to people but can be dangerous to children, elderly people, asthmatics and people with allergies as they can cause fever, shock and respiratory distress. Sightings have been made all round the Alicante Province coast including at Arenales de Sol, Altea and in the Benidorm area, with Guardamar council advising visitors not to go into the water at local beaches.

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Long Time Waiting A 54-year-old man 'stolen' from his parents at birth by nuns has been reunited with his biological mother and four siblings – who believed until the day they met him that he had been stillborn. Lawyer Enrique Vila (pictured), working for several families affected by the 'stolen baby' racket, said the Valencia man's parents had gone on to have three more children and never suspected their son might be alive and living with an adopted family. A victim of the so-called 'stolen babies' scandal, which went on between the 1930s and 1990s, the man took a DNA test and traced his mother, now aged 77. At the time of his birth in Valencia in 1964, his parents, who were 23, had a four-year-old daughter and were married, but were told by the nuns who worked as nurses, as well as their doctor, that the infant had been born dead. In many near-identical cases, the mother was unmarried and the baby was taken off her because she was considered 'loose' and undeserving, but in others, the children were simply sold to families who could not have offspring of their own, taken from completely random couples. During General Franco's dictatorship, many of the babies thought to be stolen were taken from poorer fam-

ilies or from those known to be Republican supporters, or dissenters. Enrique Vila said: - “In the 1950s and 1960s in particular, it was very common for everyone to believe what they were told by doctors and by the nuns who worked as auxiliary nurses in public hospitals. “For this reason, many women did not investigate further, nor did they concern themselves with checking that the death certificates for their babies were genuine, neither did they become suspicious when their children were buried.” Some parents were given their 'babies' in a coffin, and although many in hindsight realise this was very lightweight and may have been

empty, many others were so full of grief that they did not look inside. “Taking advantage of the credibility that the Church, and the medical profession, enjoyed at the time, many cases of deception were easy enough to carry out unnoticed, as we are starting to see now,” Vila continues. “But we have to keep in mind the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' and we cannot go round accusing or blaming any institution, religious or public, without proof. “The fact here is that a woman believed her son had died 54 years ago and has now met him, alive, and been able to hold him in her arms for the first time.”

Facebook Saver

The daughter of a Murcia region woman saved her mother’s life, despite being

based in the Madrid area, thanks to using Facebook. The victim, said to be

aged between 45 and 50 and living in La Unión, had been suffering severe depression and cut her wrists open with a kitchen knife in the early hours of Friday morning. She then wrote on Facebook that she had done so and said her goodbyes. Her daughter, living in Madrid, saw her mother's Facebook status and immediately rang the emergency services. Police and paramedics had to break the door down to get into the house, and found the woman unconscious. She was still alive, and was taken straight to Santa Lucía University Hospital in Murcia City, where she is expected to make a full recovery.

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Finding The Fallen

A team of structural engineers will enter Spain’s most controversial monument on Monday to search for the remains of four of the 34,000 civil war dead who have lain next to the body of dictator General Francisco Franco for more than half a century, unnamed but not forgotten. The basilica of the Valley of the Fallen, a hulking mausoleum 50 kilometres outside Madrid, is ostensibly dedicated to the memory of all those killed on both sides between 1936 and 1939. Only two graves are marked, however, those of Franco and José Antonio

Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falangist party. Around them lie the bodies of tens of thousands of people, both republicans and nationalists, which were disinterred from resting places across Spain and buried anonymously in the church in an apparent attempt at reconciliation. Efforts to reclaim the remains came to nothing until 2016, when a court finally approved the exhumation of two brothers executed by Francoist forces in the early days of the war. The bodies of Manuel Lapeña, a vet, and his broth-

er Antonio, a blacksmith, were dumped in a mass grave in Calatayud, northeastern Spain and then dug up decades later and reburied in the basilica without their families’ knowledge or permission. The Benedictine abbot who presides over the Valley of the Fallen has repeatedly opposed efforts to exhume the dead, as he argues that the site’s religious status must come before its political significance, but Spain’s national heritage authority has backed the court ruling and ordered the experts to begin work.

Free To Drink

A Scottish couple have been slammed by a holidaymaker as undeserving of children after allegedly leaving their two girls with strangers while they got drunk in Mallorca. The young sisters are reported to have been left with four different families over the course of two days at the Club Palma Bay resort (pictured). One tourist who spotted the girls by themselves has told how the eldest told her she was trying to call her dad back in Scotland, according a report in the Mirror newspaper. The father is reportedly

trying to get custody of the girl who was allegedly forced to look after and feed her four-year-old sibling during the holiday last week. The mother and stepfather then spent the majority of the week at the bar or out on the street getting drunk - leaving their girls behind, according to reports. Holidaymaker Amanda Wignall said she flew out on Sunday and spotted the girls by themselves at the hotel's children's disco the same day. She claimed she asked them if they were okay and the eldest told her it was not the first time their mother

and stepfather had abandoned them on holiday. Mrs Wignall, who was with her husband and fouryear-old son, said she bumped into a friend of hers and realised that she, too, had been looking after the girls. The eldest girl was trying to call her dad in Scotland for help, Mrs Wignall said. She told the MailOnline: "One night we saw them on their own and when we eventually found the mum she was absolutely paralytic. She was so drunk she couldn't even lift her head up to speak to us, let alone string a sentence together."

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HELP Donation

Chocolate Feast

HELP Murcia Mar Menor made a donation recently to the locallybased AFEMAR association, who help families cope with younger members suffering from mental illness and general adolescent problems. AFEMAR give training and support for up to 20 young people in the San Pedro del Pinatar area

and beyond, and HELP’s three-thousand euro donation will go towards decorating and fitting out a new centre that AFEMAR are moving to in San Pedro. With limited funding from local government, the youngster’s parents have to support the charity financially. The young people spend up to eight

hours a day at the centre learning various skills like painting, cooking, pottery and bicycle maintenance. The photograph shows HELP´s President, Christine Baillie and Caring Services officer, Janneke Chambers presenting the cheque to the AFEMAR Vice President, Jose Luis Martinez.

Velvetones Give Almoradi’s Cafe Vienna has raised 223 euro for the Huntington's Disease Association, Costa Blanca thanks to an afternoon delight of chocolate and pure indulgence! Chocolate lovers were treated to a chocolate fountain with marshmallows, fruit and cheese, washed down by a glass of cava. The charity event was organised by bar owners Heather and Derek Nelson, with the photo above show-

ing local branch secretary, Margaret Tozer, presenting a certificate of thanks to Heather. The next charity event will be an “Auction of Items and Promises” to be held at El Castillo, Calle San Fulgencio on the La Marina urbanisation on Saturday June 9th, with the entry price is just eight euro, including supper. All items in the auction are brand new have been donated by local businesses, with

Open House

The animal shelter, Finca Villamartin, supported by Happy Animales Spanien, is staging its monthly Open Day tomorrow (Saturday April 28th), entertainment provided by Anita van de Berg, known as JAZZ LADY! The fun starts at 1.00 pm, and runs through to 5.00 pm, and you can find the finca by the canal road from Villamartin to San Miguel de Salinas. It will be your chance to meet all the animals there

including the dogs, horses, ponies, pigs, goats, and chicken. Gifts of carrots apples, lettuce, tomatoes, dog food (the big tins from Aldi) will be appreciated or just a small donation, as every euro does count for the charity. Pictured are some of the Happy Animales volunteers at a flea market earlier this month staged at Restaurant/Bar Wolfies in Blue Lagoon, which raised over 350 euro.

one of the star lots being an FC Barcelona football, signed by the La Liga leader’s star players. If you own a business and would like to donate an item to the charity, or pledge some time to offer a service that can be auctioned on the night, such as, gardening, painting and decorating, hairdressing, makeovers, gym passes, and will-making, then please contact christine.watkins@hda.org.es, or phone 634 905 249.

The Torrevieja-based Velvetones Ladies Choir recently handed over a donation to the local ALPE charity, who look after adults and children with special needs. The 500-euro gift followed a special Velvetones charity birthday party staged earlier this year with the Campoverde Reef Band. New members are always welcome and they are a friendly group, making it a great way to make new friends! The ladies meet up at a new time to rehearse at El Paraiso, Torrevieja, each

Spring Concert

The “In Harmony” chamber choir and the Orihuela Costa Male Voice choir (pictured) are joining forces for “A Spring Serenade” to be staged on Sunday May 13th at La Zenia church, starting at 7.30 pm. Under musical director Nigel Hopkins, the two

choirs will present a varied programme, along with soloist Verity Hall, with the proceeds going to La Zenia church funds, Tickets for the event are available from La Ponderosa Gift Shop at La Zenia (next to Consum) and are priced at 10 euro.

AT YOUR SERVICE

We’d love details of your charity events, amateur dramatics, and choral concerts! The Courier would love to hear from you as we gear up for another busy autumn across the Costa Blanca and Mar Menor. Send you snippets and photographs to thecourier@tko media.

Thursday from 5.15 pm through to 7.45 pm. For more details, call

Mary-Anne on 966 714 973, or visit www.velvetonesharmonytorrevieja.

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See You Below!

A fearless group of daredevils videoed themselves base jumping from a Benidorm crane at the big Tempo building construction, as part of their sport of base jumping. One of the group, Carlos Brisceno, who has been skydiving for 19 years said that the group took advantage of the building work in the resort to show off their skills in the resort.

The 44-year-old, who 'dreamt about flying' as a child, has now completed more than 9,000 skydives and 800 base jumps. Carlos said: “There is no better feeling than flying your body like a bird. When you do it, you are 100 per cent present, there are no other thoughts in your mind. This video came about after going to a base jumping competition in the Hotel Bali

in Benidorm. “The Tempo Building is one of the tallest in the area and they were finishing it and had the crane still attached, so we decided to get on the crane and jump it. “It was a Sunday so there were no workers in the building so the party was on. We were giggling like kids from nerves and from how crazy it was. It was for sure one of my favourite jumps.”

The Yorkshire Link

Valencia region-based supermarket chain Mercadona has now launched in the UK with a trading office set up in Harrogate, North Yorkshire to handle purchases of fish from the North Sea. Mercadona, founded by Juan Roig, says that the Yorkshire office will save a considerable amount of travelling. Staff from the North Sea fish-purchasing management centre in Spain have had to fly to the UK every time they needed to sign paperwork or deal with any business issues that cropped up. But now, with the office in Harrogate – led

by Gavin Radcliffe - able to handle all this on site, it means Mercadona has a foot in the door in Britain and may later be able to take advantage of its presence there for future deals. Most of Mercadona's produce is locally or nationally sourced, but some of its wares have to be bought in from elsewhere if they are not available, or in scant supply, in Spain. At present, Mercadona has a network of 120 manufacturers and suppliers, and last year alone made over 17.5 billion euro in purchases, of which 85% was from producers in Spain.

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Investing Tax Efficiently in Spain

Keith Littlewood, International Financial Adviser at Blacktower, Costa Cálida Expats from the UK coming to live in Spain often have investments such as ISAs, Tessas, PEPs or some form of National Savings. Whilst living in the UK, these investments offered excellent tax efficiency helping towards the growth of their investment. Once you live in Spain, the tax benefits offered by these tax-efficient investments disappear and any growth becomes subject to the savings tax rates applied by Hacienda. This means when doing your tax returns in Spain, you may face an unwelcome surprise in the form of a tax bill derived from the growth that these UK investments have made and where no tax has been previously deducted. This is because the double taxation treaty that exists means that you will be taxed at a rate of the difference you would have paid in Spain compared to what has already been paid by the relevant UK institution on your behalf. The amount is usually 19% in Spain, so if your ISA has increased in value by £1,000, then you can expect an extra tax bill of £190 (approx. €220) dropping in your post.

The local Blacktower office address is: 120, Avenida Dr. Artero Guirao 2C, San Pedro Del Pinatar, 30740, Murcia, Spain. Our office suite is easy to find on the main N332 through road of San Pedro del Pinatar with easy parking. If you want more information or wish to make an appointment to discuss your own situation, then call the local office on: 968 187 331 or speak to me direct on: 657 684 094 or email: keith.littlewood@blacktower fm.com

If you have made more than €6,000 in the year, then the tax rate increases even more, so you could be paying as much as 22%. There are investments available to UK expats in Spain that do have taxefficient benefits which can help you control and plan the tax payable and, with careful planning, tax can be avoided

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or at least deferred. These investments are called Spanish Compliant Bonds and are provided by large institutions such as The Prudential, SEB or Old Mutual but can only be obtained through an intermediary or financial adviser to make sure the most suitable type is recommended. The Spanish Compliant Bond providers

also have a fiscal representative to Hacienda, which means you do not have to complete a Modelo 720 (asset declaration) if you hold these investments, which can also save you time and money when doing your tax returns each year and also help you avoid fines for non-declaration. If you hold in excess of €50,000 combined in all UK cash

investments like ISAs etc., then you must complete the Modelo 720. In today’s financial climate it is essential you do everything you can to make sure your money is safe and secure and what you want to transpire in the future has the best chance happening and helping your own family members.

The above information was correct at the time of preparation and does not constitute investment advice and you should seek advice from a professional adviser before embarking on any financial planning activity. Blacktower Financial Management (Int) Ltd is licensed in Gibraltar by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and is registered with both the DGS and CNMV in Spain.

Adoption Corner

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Toilet Time For Puppies

HERMAN Herman is quiet and calm, with a gentle personality and would like his new family to be the same. Herman is six years old, healthy, and is good with other dogs but not so good with cats or small animals like rabbits. Herman is a strong character, and so his new family should be firm considerate and experienced with dogs. For more information about Herman phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com.

JADE Jade is a lovely, older cat, who has lived in APAH's Cattery since she was rescued as a kitten. She deserves to spend the rest of her life in a loving home, and would be a wonderful companion for someone looking for an older cat. To arrange to meet Jade, please call APAH on either 630 422 563 or 616 210 850.

LUCA Luca is a young healthy male pup aged around eight months, who recently won the best pup award at a dog show. He is living in harmony with lots of other dogs, and so is being very well socialized with dogs and people alike. He is ready to go to a home of his own, and will be medium-sized when fully grown. For more information about Luca please phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com.

MARIO

Mario was brought into the SAT kennels with his sister. He is a confident and handsome two-year-old who walks well on the lead. He is fully vaccinated; micro chipped; castrated, and weighs around 23.5 kilos. If you think this happy, playful dog is the boy for you then please contact the SAT kennels on 966 710 047 or email info@satanimalrescue.com.

So you have a new friend in your life with a gorgeous puppy but you straight away have to get down to the business of some toilet training. Initially, you will have to build your routine around your puppy's needs, and these are reliably predictable when they are very young. Puppies need to urinate immediately after waking up, so you need to be there to take your puppy straight into the garden without any delay. Eating its meal stimulates its digestive system, and puppies normally urinate within fifteen minutes of eating, and defecate within half an hour of eating. Puppies have very poor bladder control, and need to urinate at least every hour or two. They can urinate spontaneously when they get excited, so take your puppy out frequently if it has been active, playing or exploring. You may find it useful to keep a record of when your puppy eats sleeps, urinates and defecates. Repeat cue words like 'wee wees' and 'poo poos' or 'be busy' and 'be clean' while the puppy is actually urinating or defecating. Use different words for each action so that you will be able to prompt the puppy later on. Always go with your puppy onto the patio so you are there to reward and attach the cue words to the successful actions! Fortunately, puppies are creatures of habit, so as long as you introduce the garden to your puppy as its toilet area early on, you should be able to avoid most of the common pitfalls. Make sure that you do not make any of the following toilet training mistakes: • Over-feeding; feeding an unsuitable diet or giving a variety of foods; or not feeding at regular times. • Punishing the puppy for its indoor accidents, which can make it scared of toileting in front of you - even outside.

• Feeding salty foods which makes them drink more. • Using ammonia based cleaning compounds (which smell similar to urine). • Expecting the puppy to tell you when it needs to go out which is unrealistic. • Leaving the puppy on its own too long. • Mistakenly associating the words 'good girl' or 'good boy' when they toilet, as opposed to the specific cue words. Guess what could happen the next time you praise your dog? • Laziness on your part, resulting in more wees indoors than outdoors. • Leaving the puppy alone on the patio, so you are not there to reward it for going outdoors. • Submissive or excited urination on greeting (if this occurs, take your puppy outside before you greet it and tone down your greeting). • It is unfair to expect your puppy to go right through the night when it is very young. Owners appear disappointed that their young puppy will not toilet when out on a walk, yet relieves itself the second it gets back home. This is because the puppy has been taught to toilet only at home (hopefully on the patio), and being creatures of habit, they often wait until they have returned home before evacuating their bladder and/ or bowels. To break this habit, you will have to get up very early one morning (when you have plenty of time), and get your puppy out on a walk before it has had its morning wee. You should not bring it home until it has been forced to go out of desperation. If however, you are unsuccessful, and your puppy has not toileted, then take it immediately onto the patio, or you risk it relieving itself indoors.

PUNK Four year old Punk was found in the streets around Almoradi in a very distressed state, and was brought in to the K9 animal charity shop in the town, and then taken to a K9 cattery. Punk is very playful and affectionate and loves to have behind his ears scratched, and is also very talkative, as well as being fine with dogs and children. He has lost part of his sight, and also has feline leukemia. For more details, call K9 on 600 845 420.

TALULAH Talulah is a four-year-old Shih Tzu which was rescued from a puppy farm. When the vet took a look at her teeth, it was discovered she had a broken jaw and so a specialist was brought in to operate. He surmised that it had been broken a couple of years ago, and never treated. She is good with other dogs and is now a happy, playful little girl. To meet her, call Pets in Spain on 645 469 253. www.petsinspain.com.

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Prison Protest

Several thousand protesters marched in northern Spain at the weekend to demand that imprisoned members of the militant Basque group ETA be moved to prisons closer to their homes. The demonstration in Bilbao on Saturday came a day after ETA made an unprecedented apology for the killings of more than 850 people during the group’s four-decade armed campaign for the Basque region’s independence from France and Spain. The group, which ceased killing in 2011, is expected to announce it is dissolving next month. Hundreds of members of ETA are kept in Spanish and French prisons, mostly outside the Basque region. The Spanish government has said that ETA’s vow to not return to violence was long overdue and would not be rewarded by easing the conditions of its members in prisons.

NO AND NEIN

Spain’s Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, has refused an offer from German politicians to mediate in the dispute involving Catalunya. Dastis quickly dismissed the idea, telling the Handelsblatt business newspaper: “That’s frankly nonsense.” “Catalunya is part of Spain,” the 62-year-old said in an interview with the publication. “A mediation by third parties would be a victory for [Carles] Puigdemont, which he did not win at the polls.” The former Catalan president was arrested in Germany in late March. Earlier this month, a

German court refused to extradite the Catalan separatist leader to Spain for a rebellion charge. However, he is still facing extradition to Spain under an international arrest warrant. The court in SchleswigHolstein is currently determining whether Mr. Puigdemont can be sent to Spain over possible misuse of public funds. Meanwhile, the Spanish government is ready to negotiate with Catalonia as long as the terms of the Spanish Constitution are upheld, Mr. Dastis said. But the former Catalan regional president Mr. Puigdemont

will not have any part in the talks, Mr. Dastis stressed. “He violated the law, he abused the Catalan society for his own purposes and fled justice,” said the foreign minister. “And now he prevents his own followers from forming a new government because he only proposes presidential candidates who are legally biased and cannot take office. This is not someone you can bargain with.” Nonetheless, he is convinced that the European Union stands behind Spain in the matter: “We protect the values on which the EU is founded – democracy and the rule of law.”

Window Riddle

A patient plunged to his death from an eighth-floor window at a hospital in northern Spain. The incident happened at Gijon’s Cabueñes Hospital (pictured) on Sunday morning, with the circumstances unclear as to what caused the incident involving the man. Adding to the mystery is the fact that the windows at the facility can only be left ajar by a few centimetres, whilst other hospitals in the Asturias region cannot have their windows open at all.

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Hillside Horror

A British man was rushed to a Costa del Sol hospital on Sunday, after a car came off the road and plunged 100 feet down a hillside into a riverbed. The vehicle rolled over several times before coming to a stop. A passing local alerted the emergency services around four hours later after spotting the wrecked vehicle. The Brit and another man - a Spaniard who was a pas-

senger in the car - were stretched away from the scene by firefighters. They were taken to the Carlos Haya Hospital in Malaga suffering injuries including serious head wounds and internal bleeding. One of the men was thrown out of the vehicle as it plunged down the hillside. The accident is thought to have happened around 4.00 am on a stretch of road just

off the A-45 highway linking Malaga to the inland town of Antequera. Emergency services received the call about the mangled car around 8.15 am from a passing motorist driving along the same stretch of road in daylight. Dramatic pictures showed firefighters freeing one of the victims from the wreckage of the vehicle before taking him away on a stretcher through the shallow river water.

Productive Partners

Lynne Owens, the Director General of the National Crime Agency (NCA), visited Madrid last week to continue to develop what she described as “productive partnerships with Spanish partners, and celebrating the important successes that they have had together, tackling modern slavery, drugs and illegal immigration.” Owens said: - “Spain is undoubtedly one of our most important partners in the global fight against organ-

ised crime. Every single day, the NCA works closely with Spanish law enforcement agencies, disrupting criminal activity. Such work protects the public in the UK, Spain and beyond. “Our ability to share intelligence, biometrics and other data at speed with our European allies is essential to our shared security. We do this with Spain now, and we will ensure that our cooperation continues productively and effectively after the UK leaves the EU. This

benefits us all.” Some of the key successes of the joint work between the NCA and Spain include the Operation Captura campaign, which has seen the arrest of 80 out of 96 fugitives wanted by the UK arrested in Spain last year by the National Police and Guardia Civil. They were wanted for a range of serious offences, including murder, firearms offences, child sexual exploitation, fraud, and drugs.

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Health

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Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression Ketamine has "shown promise" in the rapid treatment of major depression and suicidal thoughts, a US study says. Ketamine has a reputation as a party drug but is licensed as an anaesthetic. The study found use of the drug via a nasal spray led to "significant" improvements in depressive symptoms in the first 24 hours. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said it was a "significant" study that brought the drug "a step closer to being prescribed on the NHS". The report by researchers from Janssen Research and Development, a Johnson and Johnson company, and Yale School of Medicine, is the first study into ketamine as a treatment for depression that has been done by a drug company. It is being published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

The trial looked at 68 people at imminent risk of suicide. All patients were treated with a stay in hospital and anti-depressants. In addition, half were given ketamine in the form of esketamine (part of the ketamine molecule) in a nasal spray and half were given a placebo. The study found those using esketamine had a much greater improvement in depression symptoms at all points over the first four weeks of treatment. However, at 25 days the effects had levelled out. The study's authors suggest it could offer an effective rapid treatment for people severely depressed and at imminent risk of suicide and could help in the initial stages of treatment, as most anti-depressants take four to six weeks to become fully effective. The nasal spray is now undergoing phase three tri-

als before it can be licensed for treatment. There were no reports of esketamine dependence or misuse in the trial but the authors warn that more research is needed on the potential for abuse of ketamine and say these should be looked at during subsequent trials. Scientists in the UK are also studying ketamine as a treatment for depression taken intravenously. Dr James Stone, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, told the BBC the "interesting" US study confirmed the findings from successful studies into intravenous ketamine. "The main reason for its significance is because this is being developed by a drug company and it's potentially quite likely that this medication might become available as a treatment available on the NHS for depression." He said because it was

being given as a nasal spray it was "much easier to administer" than intravenous ketamine and was "potentially quicker to give, so it means more people can be dosed at the same time" and you need less equipment. Dr Stone said if it did go on to be prescribed on the NHS it would be aimed at people with severe depression as a second or third line of treatment if other drugs haven't worked and could be used for people instead of electroconvulsive therapy. Prof Mitul Mehta from King's College said. "All the studies to date have been looking at intravenous use - there are some people who have explored oral ketamine but that doesn't appear to be as successful as intravenous so intranasal seems to be a really good halfway-house. "It enters the body relatively quickly - it's not as fast as

going straight into your bloodstream but not as slow as via the stomach and it's reasonably easy to control how much you give to a person. In that respect this is a really important study." But he said far bigger studies are needed to look out for any rare side-effects. Because ketamine is licensed to be used by doctors as an aneasthetic it can be prescribed off licence for depression. This is happening in private clinics in the US and the UK. But to be prescribed on the

NHS, it would need to be licensed to be used as a treatment for depression. In the UK, doctors have been trialling ketamine to treat depression since 2011. Dr Rupert McShane, who has led a trial in Oxford, says ketamine can work on patients with depression "where nothing has helped before". Last year he called for the use of ketamine to treat depression to be rolled out. However, he called for a national registry to monitor its use.

Wake up tipplers, your nice plonk is not actually doing you any good When are certain drinkers going to realise that they’re just drinkers, consuming alcohol, like everyone else, with no special exemption from health consequences? Research from the University of Cambridge and the British Heart

Foundation, which looked at 600,000 drinkers globally, revealed that drinking more than five glasses of wine or beer a week could shorten your life and that the risks for a 40-year-old drinking over the limit were comparable with smoking.

Moreover, while there are some benefits to drinking small amounts, on balance they’re outweighed by other risks. As the new upper safe limit would be around 12.5 units (even stricter than the 2016 guidelines of 14 units a week), the researchers are

confident that the alcohol industry will denounce their findings as implausible. I’m sure they will, but they probably won’t be the only ones. Obviously, it’s far more harmful to drink heavily. However, the part of the study relating to moderate drinking appears to be mainly middle-class territory – the “one (or two) glasses of red a night won’t do me any harm and probably quite a bit of good” self-delusion desperados, who seem to think their alcohol can’t hurt them because they bought it from Waitrose. I don’t mean to sound judgmental about any form of hedonism – given the way I used to drink and smoke, I remain pleasantly surprised that I didn’t end up coughing up my full set of internal organs. This isn’t about morality – it’s about how self-delusion can set it. The politely semi-sozzled culture that decides that having a certain kind of lifestyle (the home, the attitude, the Roberts radio, the organic veg still caked in authentic soil) somehow renders alcohol more benign. These people fool themselves that there’s “nice” alcohol and the other sort and their demurely sipped mid-price plonk is “different” somehow to a slugged-back pint. In truth, while a better, more moneyed lifestyle (good diet, lower stress, more exercise) protects health generally, alcohol remains stubbornly… well, alcoholic and recognised by the body as such. It could be a pricey bottle or a dented can from the budget bin of the supermarket,

but drink too much of it, at the right strength, and it will affect your health. Oddly, this middle-class blind spot only seems to relate to stealth-drinking. As far as I’m aware, nobody is busy pretending that they’re insulated from the health hazards of cigarettes – that, like with the wine, there’s a moderate way to smoke that is “actually healthier than non-smoking”. Nor do you tend to get people sticking a

needle in their arm at dinner parties, arguing: “Heroin lowers my stress levels and gives me a sense of wellbeing, so what’s wrong with that?” Only with alcohol is there this poignant belief that the effects can be waved away with a kind of wand. Just as being comfortably off was never a magic health talisman against the dangers of smoking, neither is it against drinking too much.

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2. What if you end up paying too much? The fear: If you go 'all inclusive' everything is done and paid for in one go with – hopefully – no hidden extras. But a DIY trip can leave you worried that you'll blow your budget. You want the best you can get for your money, but don't want to overpay. The solution: Skyscanner is your secret weapon when it comes to getting the best deal on flights, hotels and car hire. You can sign up to our price alerts to make sure you never miss out on the cheapest flights and explore our best time to book tool which tells you when to travel to make sure you get the best deal.

What can you do? Timing is everything, so for stress-free organisation start early. If you want to keep things simple, choose a single destination trip like a week on the beach in Portugal or sightseeing in Rome. Multiple destinations can complicate things, but only you know what you're ready for. You can book flights, accommodation and car hire weeks and months ahead – so, tick! That's three things done. For handy tips on things like travel insurance, what to pack and getting through the airport, Skyscanner's travel news site is the ideal place to help you figure out what needs to be done before you go. Sign up to the weekly Skyscanner newsletter and get all this straight to your inbox.

1. You don't know the language The fear: Not knowing the language makes you feel helpless. You don't know how you'll find your way around, catch a bus, order food, book a room or explain any medical problems. The solution: English is the third most widely spoken language in the world after Chinese and Spanish, so chances are someone will be able to help you. You'll find that people speak some English in most tourist hot spots, but if not, there are plenty things you can do to help yourself get around. What can you do? Download a language translation app such as Google Translate or iTranslate, as well as a map app such as Google Maps to help you get around. If you've got a phone plan that charges you for using your phone and internet abroad, then you need to go old school. Get a printed map, guide book and phrase book to carry round with you, or look things up before you go and keep a handy notebook with you at all times. Knowing key phrases like 'please can you tell me the way to...' can come in very handy when you're stuck in the middle of a busy plaza with no idea which direction is north. If you make the effort to respect the local language and culture, it'll go a long way with the locals. Learning how to say 'please', 'thank you' and 'excuse me' will score you brownie points when you're asking people for help. But if the thought of all that is too much, go easy on yourself and choose an English-speaking country for your first independent trip.

What can you do? Give yourself a budget and stick to it. Use Skyscanner to find the flights and hotel that are right for you. But it's on you to make sure you don't leave yourself strapped for cash. Don't opt for for a five star boutique hotel when your budget is three star B&B, so be strict and you won't overspend. An amazing trip doesn't have to mean you spend hundreds of pounds either, check out you can do for free at your chosen destination.

4. Taking the kids The fear: You're worried that if you bring the brood, you'll never rest for worrying about them. Where are they? What are they doing? Have they got enough sun cream on? What if they get sick? The solution: Not all child-friendly holidays have to be package deals, just check before you book that there's plenty to see and do with the kids. You could leave them at home with a responsible adult, but where's the fun in that? Embrace the challenge; if you want to travel independently there's no reason why you can't do it with the little ones in tow.

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What can you do: Plan, plan, plan. It might require a bit more effort than going solo, but if you do your research, budget well and get organised it'll be a breeze. Start thinking about your trip in a childfriendly way. Where can you get the best travel insurance? What do you take on the plane? What should you pack? Which destinations offer fun activities? Look for hotels that offer a kids club so you can get some time out. We've got loads of top tips for a kid-friendly holiday from reviewing the latest kid tracker technology to suggestions on flying with children.

Friday 27th April 2018

Vegan Sour Cream

Ingredients 150g cashews 50ml lime juice 2 tsp nutritional yeast

Method Blitz all the ingredients together in a food processor with 110ml water and ½ tsp salt until you have achieved a completely

smooth and creamy consistency. Store in the fridge for 1 week. Prep: 5 mins Serves: 4 - 6

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Roasted Asparagus & Smashed New Potato Salad

Ingredients 200g asparagus ½ lemon, juiced and zested 500g new potatoes 2 tbsp olive oil 2 Little Gem lettuces, quartered 50g peas 100g soft goat’s cheese small bunch dill or parsley Method Slice the bottom 2cm of the asparagus spears into thin rounds and set aside in a bowl with the lemon juice. Bring a pan of salted water to the boil and boil the pota-

toes for 10-12 mins until cooked through, adding the asparagus spears for the last 2 mins of cooking. Drain and steam-dry in the colander. Heat the grill to high. Tip the potatoes onto a baking tray and use a spoon or fish slice to crush them a bit. Add the asparagus to the tray and toss in 1 tbsp of the olive oil, season and grill for 10-15 mins, turning halfway through, until the potatoes are crisp and the asparagus is cooked through and a little charred. Add the lettuce for the final 5 mins until

charred. Meanwhile, cook the peas, drain and add these to the lemon juice and asparagus ends. Whisk in the olive oil and season. Pile the lettuce, asparagus and potatoes onto a large serving dish. Top with chunks of goat’s cheese, the asparagus stalks and peas, drizzling the sauce over the rest of the vegetables as you go. Scatter with dill and lemon zest to serve. Prep: 15 mins Cook: 20 - 25 mins Serves: 3

Chicken legs with pesto, butter beans & kale Ingredients vegetable oil, for frying

½ lime, juiced 2 tsp sesame seeds

For the burger 1 peeled sweet potato (200g), cut into small chunks 1 tbsp olive oil 1 small onion, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, crushed 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp smoked paprika 1 tsp garlic salt 225g pack smoked tofu 50g roasted cashews

To serve vegan mayonnaise mixed with ½ tbsp Sriracha vegan burger buns, halved and toasted

For the coating 1 tsp English mustard 150ml soy milk 75g plain flour 50g panko breadcrumbs 1 tsp garlic salt ½ tsp cayenne pepper 1 tbsp icing sugar 1 tsp baking powder For the slaw ¼ red cabbage, finely shredded 1 carrot, grated 2 tbsp chopped coriander

Method Put the sweet potato in a microwaveable bowl, cover with cling film and cook on high for 3 mins until soft. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan and fry the onion with a big pinch of salt until soft, around 5 mins. Add the garlic and spices and cook for 2 mins more, then set aside. Blitz the tofu with the cashews in a blender, then tip in the sweet potato and fried onions. Season and blitz again until combined. Shape into four burger patties and set aside in the fridge on a lined baking tray while you make the slaw. Make the slaw by combining the ingredients in a

bowl, then set aside until needed. When you’re ready to fry the patties, mix the mustard with the soy milk in one bowl, then mix the remaining coating ingredients in another bowl. In turn, take each patty and dip into the flour mixture, then into the soy milk mixture, then back into the flour mixture. Repeat this again so you get a really nice crust on the patties. Pour the vegetable oil into a large frying pan over a medium-high heat - you want the oil to come about 2cm up the side of the pan. Once hot, use a spatula to carefully add the patties and gently fry for 1 min on each side until crispy, then leave to drain on kitchen paper. Serve the burgers in burger buns, topped with the slaw and drizzled with the mayo. Prep: 35 mins Cook: 5 mins Serves: 4

Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 4 skin-on chicken legs 2 x 400g cans butter beans, drained 4 tbsp good quality pesto 100ml white wine 180g kale, woody stalks removed ½ lemon, juiced Method Heat a splash of oil in a large frying pan over a medium-high heat, season the chicken and add to the pan skin-side down. Brown for 7-10 mins until

the skin is golden and crisp. Meanwhile, mix the butter beans with the pesto, wine and 100ml water. Flip the chicken legs over so the crispy side is facing up and pour the butter bean mix around them (be careful not to pour over the chicken so the skin remains crisp). Turn the heat down to a simmer and cook for 20-30 mins until the liquid has reduced by about half and the chicken is cooked through. Remove the

meat, set aside and cover with foil. Add the kale to the butter beans, along with the lemon juice, season and cook for 3-5 mins until wilted. Add a splash more water if it looks too dry. Split between four plates, top with the crispy chicken legs and crack over some black pepper and add an extra spoonful of pesto, if you like.

Prep: 5 mins Cook: 45 mins Serves: 4

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Lemon and Thyme Pork Schnitzel

INGREDIENTS 2 x 180g pork loin steaks 1 large egg 2 tbsp plain flour 75g coarse dried white breadcrumbs (Japanese panko breadcrumbs are ideal) finely grated zest of ½ lemon 15g Parmesan cheese, finely grated 1 heaped tbsp chopped

fresh thyme leaves 300ml vegetable oil 2 handfuls of watercress, to garnish 1–2 tsp extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle flaked sea salt freshly ground black pepper METHOD Place a pork loin steak between 2 sheets of cling-

film and bash it with rolling pin or meat mallet until it is about 1cm thick all over. Remove the clingfilm and cut the flattened steak in half lengthways, then prepare the other steak in the same way. Season the steaks on both sides with salt and black pepper. Beat the egg in a bowl. Sprinkle the flour on to a plate. Mix the bread-

crumbs, lemon zest, Parmesan, thyme and a good pinch of salt in a shallow bowl. Take a piece of pork and dredge it in flour, then dip it into the beaten egg, and lastly in the breadcrumb mixture until it is completely coated. Repeat with the other pieces of pork. Heat the oil in a large frying pan until a breadcrumb siz-

zles and turns goldenbrown when dropped into it. Take care: hot oil can be dangerous so don’t leave the pan unattended. Add 2 of the schnitzels to the pan and fry for 2–3 minutes on each side, or until the pork is cooked through and the coating is crisp and golden brown. Remove them from the pan and set aside on a

warmed plate lined with kitchen paper. Keep them warm while you cook the other 2 schnitzels. Serve garnished with watercress and drizzled with a little olive oil. Some potato salad on the side is just right with these. Prep: 20 mins Cook: 10 mins Serves: 4

Easy Chocolate Molten Cakes

Ingredients 100g butter, plus extra 100g dark chocolate, chopped 150g light brown soft sugar 3 large eggs ½ tsp vanilla extract 50g plain flour single cream, to serve Method Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Butter 6 dariole moulds or basins well and place on a baking tray. Put the rest of the butter and chocolate in a heat-

proof bowl and set over a pan of hot water (or alternatively put in the microwave and melt in 30 second bursts on a low setting) and stir until smooth, then set aside to cool slightly for 15 min. Using an electric hand whisk, mix in the sugar, then the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract and finally the flour. Divide the mixture among the darioles or basins. You can now either put the

mixture in the fridge, or freezer until you're ready to bake them. Can be cooked straight from frozen for 16 mins, or bake now for 1012 mins until the tops are firm to the touch but the middles still feel squidgy. Carefully run a knife around the edge of each pudding, then turn out onto serving plates and serve with single cream. Prep: 15 mins Cook: 20 mins Makes: 6

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Official Sponsors of the What’s on Guide! Silverstones, the first motorsport-themed bar and bistro on the Costa Blanca, opened its doors on 1 March 2018. It offers a unique fine-dining experience with top quality food, fine wines and excellent service. The Bar and Bistro we have all been waiting for! You will find Silverstones Bar and Bistro in Montebello, just off Junction 745 on the AP7. Contact them now on: 965 729 140 or email: info@silverstonesbarbistro.com or find them on Facebook. An experience not to be missed! Now offering FREE transport, pick up and drop off, within a 10 likometre radius. Ask about our loyalty card scheme. Each Saturday and Sunday morning until Sunday 6 May Torrevieja Exhibition of static and radio-controlled model boats in the Los Aljibes exhibition rooms in the Park of Nations Until 30 April, 2018 Guardamar Exhibition of photographs taken by homeless people in Guardamar. Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 April, 2018 Torrevieja 3rd edition of Nos Vamos de Tapas - Let’s Grab Some Tapas Friday 27 and Saturday 28 April, 2018 Algorfa Feria de Abril - lots of events to enjoy over the weekend. Friday 27 to Sunday 29 April Calpe Expo Deco Friday 27 April to Tuesday 1 May, 2018 Pilar de la Horadada 7th edition of the Feria de Sevillanas at the Parque Raimundo Benedicto - lots of horses, shows, performances, dancing, music and food

Friday 27 April, 2018 Guardamar Concert by Brazilian singer Gustavo Almeida at the Escuela de Música Saturday 28 April, 2018 Orihuela Miguel Hernández Cultural Walk. Starting point: Tourist information office Orihuela Centre. Time: 11 am. Free. Phone 96 530 46 45 or 96 530 27 47 to book Elche Manolo García in concert. 10 pm at the Auditorio del Parque de la Rotonda. National rock and flamenco singer Sunday 29 April, 2018 Cehegin Cehegin Craft Market in the Plaza de Castillo from 9-2 pm Guardamar I Open International Chess Tournament from 9.30 am at the Palau Sant Jaume Jacarilla IV Fun Run - 5k and 10k from 10 am at the Parque de la Pinada. More info on the Jacarilla town hall website San Miguel The Teatro Coliseo theatre company presents ‘Una Noche en Su Casa’ at the Casa de Cultura - free entrance Tuesday 1 May, 2018 - National Holiday - Labour Day Granja de Rocamora XXIX half marathon from the Ermita La Santa Cruz 10 am. Catral Fiesta de las Paellas from 4 pm to 8 pm - beer, music, inflatables and lots more surprises Friday 4 May, 2018 Torrevieja Theatre performance of Miguel Delibes’ ‘Cinco Horas con Mario’ at the Auditorio Internacional de Música Saturday 5 May, 2018 Orihuela Cultural Guided Walk at 11 am from the tourist info Alfaz de Pi Alfaz Spiritual Foundation charity event - Mind, Body & Spirit Fair - stalls, workshops and talks, tarot, mediums 10 am to 4 Torrevieja Celebrating Spanish Mother’s Day (tomorrow) - huge raffle of goods such as discount vouchers, bags, clothes, flowers, meals etc offered by local businesses. Plus music, kids’ entertainment etc. From 11 am - 2 pm in the main square

Local Markets Friday Albatera, Almoines, Banyeres, Benejuzar, Beniarres, Benidoleig, Crevillente, Daimus, Denia (Rastro), El Verger, Finestrat, Gata de Gorgos, Granja de Rocamora, L’ Alfas del Pi, Monforte del Cid, Monstesinos, Moraira, Muro de Alcoi, Oliva, Onil, Petrer, Pilar de la Horadada, Playa de Daimus (summer evenings), Rafol d’ Almunia, Sella, Tibi, Torrevieja, Villalonga. Saturday Alcoi, Alicante, Almoradi, Alqueria, Banyeres, Bellreguard, Benifairo, Benissa, Callosa d’En Sarria, Calpe, Castalla, Castell de Castells, Catral, Elche, Elda , La Font d’En Carros, La Romana, Gaianes, Hondon de las Nieves, Novelda, Ondara, Pedreguer, Tavernes de la Valdigna (summer evenings), San Vicente del Raspeig, Salinas, Relleu, Santa Pola, Xalo (Jalon) Rastro Sunday Benidorm, Elche, La Nucia, Campoverde, Algorfa, La Marina, Zoco, Almoradí street market, Lemon Tree Road, Mil Palmeras. Monday Agres, Callosa d’En Sarria, Cox, Denia, Elche, Formentera, Granja de Rocamora, Ibi, La Nucia, Llocnou de Sant Jeroni, Parcent, Petrer, Penaguila, Playa de Miramar (summer evenings), Monover, Real de Gandia, San Pedro del Pinatar, Santa Pola, Sax, Torremendo, Xeraco Tuesday Alicante (Rastro), Aspe, Altea, Barx, Bellreguard, Benijofar, Campo de Mirra, Castalla, Elda, Orihuela, Palma de Gandia, Piles, Playa de Piles (summer evenings), Rafelcofer, Relleu, San Fulgencio, Sella, Tibi, Villalonga, Xalo(Jalon), Xeresa Wednesday Ador, Albatera, Alcoi, Alqueries, Almoines, Banyeres, Barx, Benjema, Beniaries, Benidorm, Benilloba, Benitatxell, Biar, Callosa de Segura, Calpe (Rastro), El Campello, Elda, Guardamar del Segura, La Font d’en Carros, La Mata, Muchamiel, Monforte del Cid, Novelda, Orba, Ondara, Petrer, Polop, Potries, Rotova, San Miguel de Salinas, Sella, Teulada Thursday Agost, Agres, Albatera, Alguena, Alicante, Aspe, Benidoleig, Campoamor near Cabo Roig medical centre, Cocentaina, Hondon de los Frailes, Llocnou de Sant Jeroni, Pego, Playe de Bellreguard (summer evenings), Rafelcofer, Rojales, Tavernes de Valldigna, Villajoyosa, Xabia (Javia), Xixona (Jijona)

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Abi Morgan’s latest drama, The Split (BBC 1, Tuesday) is all about lawyers and divorce, or should that be divorce and lawyers? Her work is always interesting, but to be honest I felt a bit undernourished by the first episode. There’s no complaints about the line up of actors, led by Nicola Walker, who looks almost unrecognisable in a load of make-up and light coloured hair, as she plays one of a trio of sisters who work in a very dogeat-dog world of being divorce solicitors. So nasty in fact, that one of Walker’s clients pinches a big money client off her! Walker, as always, delivers in a role which has seen her quit a firm run by her mother to work for a rival, and there’s no love lost, plus we have her dad (Anthony Head) making an unwelcome return onto the scene, having abandoned his family decades earlier. Despite Walker’s bravura performance, The Split surprisingly didn’t deliver enough on emotion and family matters, and got too bogged down in legal and

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office business/politics, which didn’t do it for me, and it all got a bit boring. Let’s hope there’s a shift in focus over the remaining five episodes, as the foundations are all there for The Split to truly deliver. HBO have been frantically looking around for a blockbuster replacement for Game Of Thrones, once the final series airs next year, and Westworld (Sky Atlantic) has been touted as perhaps fitting the bill. Sorry,

think again! I quite enjoyed the first series some 18 months ago, but this week’s opener left me totally baffled and bewildered in a classic example of style over substance. Not helped by the break between series, I just could not work out what was going on, and more importantly I really couldn’t care less. If you think that Game Of Thrones takes a bit of following, I challenge you to the Westworld test!

Sadly episode one was just an excruciating bit of self-indulgence by the producers and a waste of some fine acting talent. Fortunately for HBO, they have some Thrones spin-off shows in the works, plus in a very different vein, the return of the glorious Big Little Lies (with Meryl Streep) next year. As for Westworld, regrettably just put it in the file and forget column. There’s no doubt that

Britain’s Got Talent (ITV) delivers a highly entertaining package that makes for perfect Saturday night viewing, and the first two outings show that the producers know exactly how to pull the old heart strings. But did you really witness anything so far that could be classified as an outstanding and original new talent that is worthy of being the winner? I didn’t, and I much prefer the American version which is far more creative with the acts and hits the top level for craziness, and has a better judging panel. The latest run of The Good Karma Hospital (ITV), which finished on Sunday, was I think even better than the first series, and the finale had some nice cameo appearances and bags of emotion. There’s no surprise that ITV ordered a third series (ages ago, by the way), but why only six episodes? A Good Karma series is certainly worthy of hitting double figures in an episode order, whilst The Durrells at least gets eight instalments (and a guaranteed and deserved official renewal

announcement next month). Come on ITV, you are not awash in newish drama hits, so make the most of what you’ve got! I think that Kate Oates has done a great job in her two-year tenure running Coronation Street, but that seems to be the average time limit of being the show’s producer before moving onto pastures new, and that announcement came this week. Oates has boosted the ratings for Corrie, and has brought old favourites back to the show (Carla Connor, Peter Barlow, Toyah Battersby) and also rightly put a big focus on the Barlows. I’ll forgive her for the over-long, and at times ridiculous Pat Phelan plot! The main task for new boss, Iain McLeod (who like Oates and his other predecessors, has been producing Emmerdale) is to get some more comedy in there, with things not helped by the absence of Malcolm Hebden (Norris Cole), who is on extended leave at the moment. More Brian please, and perhaps even taking over The Kabin?

28 But what will her answer be? Meanwhile, Charity is driven to obsession.

Friday Daz struggles to contain his emotions after the news about Ali and he ends up sharing a huge secret with Kerry after getting drunk. What has Daz been hiding? Meanwhile, Noah reaps material rewards by playing Joe and Charity against each other. Elsewhere, Vanessa pleads with Charity. Also today, Rishi needs Frank’s unique skills.

Monday Kerry feels burdened by the secret she is guarding for Daz, but he’s keen to offload and explains the full story. A brooding Kerry is conflicted about what to do. Can she keep the secret? Meanwhile, Tracy confesses her feelings. Elsewhere, Frank helps a friend in need.

Tuesday Megan is fearful that Frank has been cheating on her again and she ends up sharing a kiss with Graham during a business meeting. Later, Megan is shocked when Frank explains that he wasn’t cheating and reveals the real reason for his secrecy by getting down on one knee to propose.

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Wednesday Megan tries to contain her secret and wants Graham to keep quiet, but will it be that simple? Meanwhile, Aaron and Robert are both proud to think Liv is dealing with things as they prepare to leave after their latest visit.

Friday Alya, Imran and new waitress Kayla set up the restaurant with Zeedan. Rana is jumpy, having heard nothing from her parents, but Zeedan says she should set the police on them. Later, Rana receives an anonymous phone call and is shocked when her father arrives at Number 6. He angrily accuses her of having her mother arrested. Meanwhile, as Simon winds up Toyah, she covers in front of Peter as she’s fearful of Simon blabbing her secret. But when Simon’s behaviour oversteps the mark, with him and Tyler skiving off school in the pub back room, she realises it may be time to come clean to Peter.

However, Steve approaches them and soon Aaron is left concerned. Elsewhere, Charity sabotages a secret meeting.

Thursday Noah and Joe share some brotherly bonding time at the edge of a quarry, chucking stones into the water. They share their thoughts and it’s emotional as they bond. Noah dares Joe to jump off the edge and Joe impulsively does it. However, when Joe doesn’t resurface, Noah is left terrified that his brother is dead. Meanwhile, Belle conceals her inner torment.

Rana is furious with Kate for reporting her mother and heads off to the station, where she tells the police there is no way she would testify against her mum. She apologises to Zeedan, who offers her a job at Speed Daal. Kayla walks in to find Zeedan hugging Rana and giving her a kiss. Zeedan tells Kayla that he thinks Rana still has feelings for him. Monday Simon helps Toyah carry a cot from the car into the pub, leaving her keys in the car. Tyler spots this and persuades Simon to let him take the car for a spin. When Toyah makes a video call to Eva and notices she looks unwell, she tells Eva she is coming over but panics when her car keys are missing. Simon returns with the car but says he

found a direct debit inside for a cottage in Lymm. Toyah tells Simon it was a surprise for Peter, but Leanne is suspicious when Toyah covers for Simon with Peter.

Toyah manages to break into the bathroom and calls 999. An operator talks them through the labour and Eva gives birth in the bathroom before being taken to hospital. Eva tells Toyah that they will have to come up with a plan, as her surrogate is supposed to be in Dubai. Eva has avoided holding the baby, but left alone in hospital, she has no choice but to pick up her daughter and she stares down at her little face in awe. Wednesday In the flower shop, Mary coaches the two people she has booked to play Seth and Philippa. Over at the Marine Centre, the real Seth and Philippa are sacking Jude after seeing CCTV footage of him setting off the fire alarm. Jude gets back to The Rovers and tells Mary to abandon the plan, but Angie arrives and ushers them all to Number 3 for dinner. Will the meal go to plan?

Friday Max tries to get his life back together following his return, but how easy will it be? Meanwhile, Mel gets tough with Kat – warning her to return the booze she stole the night before if she wants to keep her job. Later on, Kat manages to get herself a cleaning trial at The Vic and steals some of the Carters’ alcohol to pay Mel back! Elsewhere, all is well for the Ahmeds again now that Harley’s parents are in custody.

Monday Halfway makes a surprise return to Walford and makes up a cover story in front of Whitney and the Carters when they notice that he’s injured. Halfway gets a warm welcome from everyone, with Mick and Linda even offering him Shirley’s room at the pub so he has somewhere to stay. Later on, Whitney tries to seduce Halfway but notices that he’s not his usual self. What is Halfway hiding? Meanwhile, Phil decides it’s time to concentrate his efforts on becoming a successful business owner again. realises that it’s Max. Tuesday Max turns down a cash bribe from Phil, who

Meanwhile, Peter is excited to get a text from Toyah saying the surrogate is in labour. Eva then hides in another room in the cottage whilst Toyah video chats Peter to show him his daughter. They agree to call her Susie.

wants him to leave the Square. Phil’s mood worsens when Henry – the rude customer from yesterday – confronts him over Sharon’s antics. Phil is also unhappy with Keanu for messing up the books while he was away, so he gives him a one-day deadline to prove himself at The Arches or get sacked. Thursday Billy’s birthday gets off to a bad start when Mel angrily confronts him for messing up at work. Seemingly regretting being so harsh, Mel shows a softer side by deciding to organise a surprise birthday party for him.

Abigail is unimpressed when Mikey unexpectedly turns up at Holby on a busy shift and forces Fletch to question where his priorities lie. Can he keep an overstretched ward afloat and still be there for his family?

Determined to impress Abigail on a complicated case, Nicky tries to bury her head in the sand. With time running out fast she reluctantly faces her spiralling money problems.

Week Days 08:00 Breakfast to Brunch with Dennis Christian 12:00 Tim´s Lunchbox with Tim Bridge 14:00 Alex in the Afternoon with Alex Trelinski 17:00 Tea Time with Mark Nolan

Weekends Joe battles for survival. Meanwhile, Belle is plagued by confusion. Elsewhere, Priya fears repercussions.

Saturday 08:00 Paul Baker on the radio 10:00 The Gary Jackson Show 12:00 Saturday Afternoon with Paul Norman 15:00 Saturday Sports with Alex Trelinski 18:00 Paul Baker on the radio 20:00 Northern Soul with Peter Marsham 22:00 The Love Zone Sunday 09:00 Sunday Breakfast with Tim Bridge 12:00 Sounds of the Seventies with Gary Jackson 13:00 Sounds of the Seventies with Kevin Larkin 14:00 Northern Soul with Peter Marsham 16:00 Classic Charts with Richard Todd 18:00 Country with Tim Rogers 20:00 Dark Side of the Moon with Gary Jackson 22:00 The Love Zone

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Friday TV 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 Heir Hunters 12:45 The Housing Enforcers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 800 Words 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Flipping Profit 17:30 Flog It! 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Sounds Like Friday Night Fresh from his number one album success, singer-songwriter George Ezra performs his new single Shotgun at the now refurbished BBC Television Centre studio in White City. 21:00 EastEnders The Slaters are forced to dig themselves out of another hole. 21:30 The Button A game show taking place in the houses of five UK families who compete to win challenges in the comfort of their own living rooms. 22:00 Have I Got News for You Celebrity guests join in the fun on the satirical current affairs quiz, with regular team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. 22:30 Home From Home Neil takes the family on a perilous mountain walk and Robert steps into avoid disaster. 23:00 News 23:35 The Graham Norton Show 00:25 Wannabe 00:50 Film - Tropic Thunder (14) 02:30 Weather for the Week Ahead 02:35 News

07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 Heir Hunters 08:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 09:00 Great Continental Railway Journeys 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 11:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Britain in Bloom 20:00 Antiques Road Trip While Philip Serrell plays a safe bet with a mahogany breakfast table, newcomer Arusha Irvine is all at sea gambling on an antique pond yacht. 21:00 Gardeners’ World Monty Don begins to divide ornamental grasses, offering advice on what to do with containers that are past their best.He also plants up a colourful alpine trough and gives tips on what to sow now in the vegetable garden. Nick Bailey travels to Shropshire to assist a viewer whose border has become a tangle of shrubs. 22:00 The City and The City Under the vigilant eyes of Breach, Borlú doggedly chases the truth about what lies between the city and the city, making a devastating discovery that changes his life forever. 23:00 Episodes 23:30 Newsnight 00:05 Front Row Late 00:35 World Championship Snooker 03:25 Panorama 03:55 Civilisations 04:55 American Crime Story 05:45 This Is BBC Two

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07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Tenable 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News

20:30 Coronation Street Rana stands accused of reporting her mother to the police.

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:25 Frasier 10:55 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Practice 1 12:45 News 12:50 Coast v Country 13:50 Posh Pawnbrokers 14:55 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Practice 2 16:35 A Place in the Sun 17:00 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Buy it Now 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News

21:00 Love Your Garden Alan and the team are in the sleepy town of Wiveliscombe to surprise a pair of real-life Golden Girls - Roberta and Enid, who have been friends for 71 years.

20:30 Unreported World Marcel Theroux and Kate Hardie-Buckley travel to Ulaanbaatar, where the air quality can reach more than 100 times the accepted limit and is causing a public health disaster.

21:30 Coronation Street Shona plays peacemaker to Billy and Summer.

21:00 Our Wildest Dreams The first of a series following British families as they depart the UK to start from scratch in some of the most remote places on Earth. In this programme, ex-businesswoman Mari leaves her home in Greenwich, southeast London, for a new life in rural Ecuador.

20:00 Emmerdale Daz struggles to contain his emotions.

22:00 Lethal Weapon Bailey's sister runs into trouble with the law, prompting her to judge how far she can go to protect her family. Elsewhere, with Trish away on a company retreat, Murtaugh finds himself left alone to help Riana navigate 'boy problems', while Riggs deals with the fallout of a night of heavy drinking. Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans star. 23:00 News 23:45 The Keith & Paddy Picture Show 00:15 Through the Keyhole 01:10 Jackpot247 04:00 Take on the Twisters 04:50 ITV Nightscreen

22:00 Gogglebox The biggest and best TV moments of the week get a grilling from Britain’s sharpest armchair critics. 23:00 Lee and Dean 23:35 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 00:35 First Dates 01:35 Film Solomon Kane (15) 03:20 True Horror 04:15 Kiss Me First

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Paddington Station 24/7 13:10 News 13:15 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 14:10 Access 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film The Nightmare Nanny 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Gadget Show Jon tests out brand new indoor security cameras. Georgie and Ortis present golf tech to Las Vegasbased golf tutor Amanda Carlson. Georgie and Jon also test out the latest advances in sewing tech. 21:00 Britain’s Great Cathedrals with Tony Robinson Durham cathedral is one of Britain’s first UNESCO World Heritage Sites and a leading tourist attraction. The cathedral is over 900 years old and stands 218 feet high. When it was first constructed, it was the country’s tallest building. 22:00 Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain For almost a century, Orford Ness was owned by the MOD, a lens into a bygone era of secrets, spies and superpowers. When it closed in 1993, its buildings were still shrouded in secrecy. 23:00 The Missing Evidence 00:00 Stonehenge: The Final Mystery 01:00 SuperCasino 04:10 GPs: Behind Closed Doors

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 08:10 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 08:55 Emmerdale 09:55 You’ve Been Framed! 10:25 Ellen DeGeneres 11:20 The Bachelorette 13:15 Emmerdale 14:15 You’ve Been Framed! 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Film - Knocked Up (18) 00:15 Through the Keyhole ITV 3 07:00 Classic Coronation Street 07:55 Heartbeat 08:55 The Royal 10:00 Judge Judy 11:25 Agatha Christie’s Marple 13:30 The Royal 14:35 Heartbeat 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:45 On the Buses 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:25 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Marple 23:00 The Syndicate 00:30 Family Guy ITV 4 07:00 The Saint 07:50 Pawn Stars 08:35 Ironside 09:35 Quincy, M.E. 10:40 Minder 11:40 The Saint 12:45 The Avengers 13:50 The Protectors 14:30 ITV Racing: Live from Sandown 17:00 The Saint 18:05 The Avengers 19:05 Cash Cowboys 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 The Motorbike Show 22:00 Car Crash Britain: Caught on Camera 23:00 Film - Jaws 2 (PG)

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Escape to the Chateau

Saturday - ITV Ant and Dec host the third heat of the nationwide talent search, which sees a wide variety of acts, from comedians to contortionists, singers to spoon players, compete to impress judges Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and David Walliams. Whomever the quartet choose to send through to the live stages will then be in with a chance of winning a huge cash prize and a coveted slot at the Royal Variety Performance later this year, following in the footsteps of 2017 winner Tokio Myers.

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Sunday - Channel 4 Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree continue their renovation of a French chateau, 18 months after the end of the first series. So far, only nine rooms have been renovated and many areas of the 12-acre estate have yet to be looked at - but the project is going to have to start paying for itself soon. They make plans to host weddings on the grounds, while looking ahead to keeping livestock and growing their own crops. Dick takes steps to generate solar power during a hot summer, and turns an old oil tank into a pig roaster.

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Saturday - Channel 4 Professor Alice Roberts tells the story of Tudor England via the history of another town with a rich and varied past: Norwich. As Britain's most Tudor city, Norwich offers a window into the harsh reality of religious intolerance as it was back then. Alice also uncovers the origins of the town football team's iconic canary, before experiencing the humiliation that goes handin-hand with justice, Tudor-style.

Marian hears a disturbing story, which she struggles to believe but shares with Gilmore. Laura is forced into marriage to Sir Percival in spite of her love for Walter, and soon comes to realise that her fiance has a dark side to his nature, leading to a series of disturbing recurring dreams. A heartbroken Walter accepts a position in Honduras and prepares to bid farewell to Laura - but the jealous Sir Percival intervenes. Marian is struck by a mysterious nobleman whom

Laura and Percival have met during their honeymoon, and also finds a wounded dog,

which leads her to a woman who is searching for her missing daughter.

Saturday TV 07:00 Breakfast 11:00 Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure 13:00 Football Focus 14:00 News 14:15 Live: World Championship Snooker 17:30 Final Score 18:20 A Question of Sport 18:50 Celebrity Mastermind 19:20 Ready or Not 19:50 News

07:15 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 07:40 Naomi’s Nightmares of Nature 08:10 The Pets Factor 08:30 The Dengineers 09:00 Absolute Genius: Monster Builds 09:30 Beyond Bionic 10:00 Robot Wars 11:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 13:00 Wanted Down Under 13:45 Flipping Profit 14:30 Britain’s Biggest Warship 15:30 Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge 17:30 Live: World Championship Snooker 18:30 Britain in Bloom 19:00 Antiques Road Trip

20:10 Pointless Celebrities Presented by Alexander Armstrong and co-host Richard Osman. Featuring Denise Van Outen and Lydia Bright, Michelle Ackerley and Arthur Smith, Ann Widdecombe and Tyger Drew-Honey, Foster and 20:00 Live: World Allen. Championship Snooker Another quarter-final spot is 21:00 Who Dares Wins filled on day eight. Teams of strangers compete in a battle of brains 21:00 The Forest Mark and bravery in the hope of Bonnar narrates a docuwinning £50,000. mentary following the people who live and work in 21:40 Casualty Robyn Galloway Forest Park, questions whether she is fit where 600,000 tons of timto be in work and Ethan is in ber is produced every year. danger of crossing a line with Leigh-Anne. 21:30 Dad’s Army Mainwaring’s platoon runs 22:30 Mrs Brown’s Boys into an abandoned steam Agnes Brown thinks every- engine. one has gone mad; Father Quinn is losing his faith as 22:00 Civilisations on fast as he loses parish- Your Doorstep Mary Beard ioners and newlyweds goes in search of extraordiDermot and Maria won’t nary works of art from all stop fighting over the world that can be seen in Britain. 23:00 News 23:20 Match of the Day 00:45 The Button 23:00 The Ruins of 01:15 Film - City Slickers II: Empires 23:30 American The Legend of Curly’s Gold Crime Story 00:25 Snooker (PG) 03:00 Weather for the 03:15 Civilisations 04:15 Week Ahead 03:05 News This Is BBC Two

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07:00 CITV 09:25 News 09:30 Zoe Ball on... 10:25 James Martin’s Saturday Morning 12:20 Film Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang 14:20 News 14:30 ITV Racing: Live from Sandown 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 19:30 Ninja Warrior UK Harry Judd, British Dan Powell and a Rainbow Unicorn will be among the competitors taking their turn to try to defeat it. Who will be triumphant, conquer the course, and get the chance to ascend the 22metre rope climb to the top of Mount Midoriyama?

07:15 Caterham UK Motor Racing 07:40 The King of Queens 08:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 The Big Bang Theory 11:55 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Practice 3 Live 13:25 F1 Meets... Jackie Stewart 13:55 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Qualifying Live 16:45 Car S.O.S 17:45 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 18:30 The Secret Life of the Zoo 19:30 News 20:00 The Restoration Man George Clarke looks back at four incredible industrial conversions into homes: the restoration of the 17th century Thrum Mill, the conversion of a pair of listed barns in Herefordshire, and the restoration of an idyllic lochside ice house.

07:00 Milkshake 10:55 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:30 The Gadget Show 12:25 Police Interceptors 15:30 Live: Aviva Premiership Rugby Gloucester v Bath 18:15 World’s Scariest Animal Attacks 19:00 The World’s Deadliest Weather 20:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! Paul and Steve face a moral dilemma when they find out the tenant they have been instructed to evict is on his way to a funeral. Elsewhere, Stewart and Victor chase £1,000 from a debtor who has defaulted on his payment plan.

20:30 Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule Helping Harry fill the fun capsule in this episode are Johnny Vegas, Jimmy Osmond, Samantha Giles and Sue 21:00 Britain’s Most Johnston. Historic Towns In 21:00 Britain’s Got Talent Norwich, the UK’s most Ant and Dec host the third Tudor city, Professor Alice heat of the nationwide tal- Roberts learns about religious intolerance. ent search.

21:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! Paul and Ben are called in to evict squatters from a residential property, but something about the squat does not quite add up for the team. Brain and Graham arrive at a restaurant to collect unpaid rent.

22:00 Film - Iron Man Tony Stark, playboy and an engineering genius, is captured whilst in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile. Creating an armoured suit to help his escape, his technology will ultimately be put to a greater use. 22:50 News 23:05 Film - (PG) Overboard (PG) 01:15 Change Your Tune 02:10 00:25 Film - The Maze (PG) 02:30 Jackpot247 04:00 Runner Babushka 04:50 ITV Undercover Boss USA 03:20 Hollyoaks Omnibus Nightscreen

22:00 Football Colin Murray presents highlights of the latest games in the SkyBet Championship, including Wolves v Sheffield Wednesday, Hull City v Cardiff City, Aston Villa v Derby County and Burton Albion v Bolton Wanderers.

07:05 The King of Queens 07:55 FIA World Rallycross Championship Motor Racing 08:55 Eat the Week with Iceland 10:00 Sunday Brunch 13:00 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Live Build Up 13:40 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Live 16:55 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Live Reaction 17:30 Car S.O.S 18:30 Grand Designs 19:30 News

07:00 Milkshake 10:40 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:15 Football 12:40 FIA Formula E Motor Racing 13:45 Police Interceptors 14:40 Film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Film 16:30 (PG) Zookeeper (PG) 18:25 Film - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (12)

22:20 The Keith & Paddy Picture Show This edition presents their version of “Pretty Woman” featuring Philip Glenister, Amanda Holden, Louise, Tracy-Ann Oberman, George Potts and Ainsley Harriott.

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23:30 Film - Dances With Wolves (15) 02:35 SuperCasino 04:05 Film Highlander (15)

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:15 Emmerdale Omnibus 09:55 Coronation Street Omnibus 12:45 Britain’s Got More Talent 13:45 Ninja Warrior UK 14:45 Film - Yogi Bear 16:25 Film - The Mummy Returns (PG) 18:45 Film - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (14) 22:20 Britain’s Got More Talent 23:20 Celebrity Juice 00:05 Family Guy 01:30 American Dad! 02:25 The Cleveland Show 02:55 Plebs 03:25 CelebAbility 04:00 Teleshopping ITV 3 07:00 Murder, She Wrote 09:40 Lewis 11:40 Inspector Morse 13:55 Agatha Christie’s Marple 16:00 Film - Carry on Screaming (PG) 18:00 Midsomer Murders 00:05 Vera 02:05 Law & Order: UK 03:00 ITV3 Nightscreen 03:30 Teleshopping ITV4 07:00 The Protectors 07:25 The Avengers 08:30 World Superbike Highlights 09:30 Motorsport UK 10:30 ITV Racing: The Opening Show 11:30 Pawn Stars 13:50 Film - Chisum (PG) 16:05 Mr. Bean 17:10 Film Every Which Way But Loose (15) 19:25 Film Moonraker (PG) 22:00 Film - Safe House (15) 00:20 Film - American Gangster (18) 03:25 Tommy Cooper 03:50 ITV Nightscreen

Sunday TV 07:00 Breakfast 08:30 Match of the Day 10:00 The Andrew Marr Show 11:00 The Big Questions 12:00 Sunday Politics 13:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 14:00 News 14:15 Bargain Hunt 15:00 The Truth About... 16:00 Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall 17:00 Points of View 17:15 Songs of Praise 17:50 Pointless Celebrities 18:35 News 19:00 The Big Painting Challenge

07:00 Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 07:35 Gardeners’ World 08:35 Countryfile 09:30 The Beechgrove Garden 10:00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 12:00 ITU World Series Triathlon 13:15 MOTD2 Extra 14:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 Super Fast Falcon

07:00 CITV 09:25 News 09:30 Zoe Ball on... 10:25 Love Your Garden 11:00 Peston on Sunday 12:00 Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury 12:30 News 12:40 Britain’s Got Talent 13:55 Britain’s Got More Talent 14:55 Britain’s Brightest Family 15:25 Ninja Warrior UK 16:30 Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs - India 17:00 The Real Camilla: HRH The Duchess of Cornwall 18:00 Chase: Celebrity 20:00 Live: World The 20:00 Countryfile Matt Championship Snooker Special 19:00 Harry Hill’s Baker meets Julian Live second-round action Alien Fun Capsule 19:30 News Jackson who lost his sight continues at the Crucible. in 2010 and is raising money for a vision charity 21:00 Britain’s Biggest 20:00 Little Big Shots by walking from Land’s End Warship Life on board Dawn French hosts a varito John O’Groats. ultra-modern super aircraft ety show featuring some of carrier HMS Queen the world’s most talented 21:00 Antiques Elizabeth, as she is taken children. Roadshow One lucky visi- to sea for the first time on tor learns that a family gift is gruelling and risky sea trials 21:00 The Durrells Louisa worth a small fortune but that push ship and crew to finds it more than a little awkward when Larry invites there is a question mark breaking point. Henry Miller to stay. over some 18th century glass. 22:00 My Year with the Insisting on walking around Tribe Will returns for his naked. 22:00 The Woman In final two trips to Korowai White Laura is forced by Mr territory, to try and find 22:00 Invitation to a Royal Fairlie to set aside her love August and his family. He is Wedding A look behind the for Walter and marry Sir keen to spend time with scenes to find out what we Percival, whose character them too, to better under- can look forward to from takes a dark turn. stand how most Korowai Prince Harry and Meghan’s Meanwhile, Marian finds live today, but when he gets big day. herself drawn to his enig- to their village, they are 23:00 News 23:20 Peston matic friend, Count Fosco. nowhere to be found. on Sunday 00:15 Last 23:00 News 23:30 Match of 23:00 Famalam 23:20 Josh Laugh in Vegas 01:10 This the Day 2 00:30 The Widdicombe: What Do I Do Time Next Year 02:00 04:00 Women’s Football Show Now 00:20 Snooker 03:10 Jackpot247 01:10 Weather For The Question Time 04:10 Holby Motorsport UK 04:50 Take Week Ahead 01:15 News City 05:10 This Is BBC Two on the Twisters

20:00 Escape to the Chateau Dick and Angel Strawbridge continue their French adventure. They host their first-ever paid event at the chateau. Dick tries to turn an old oil-tank into a pig-roaster, and Angel creates a Versaillesinspired downstairs loo. 21:00 The Crystal Maze Richard Ayoade guides a group of five likely lads through the Maze. What puzzling possibilities await the team in the four zones?

20:00 Biggest Dog in the World A revealing look at the highs and lows of living with giant dogs, including crippling costs of £12,000 a year and constant care for a pet that cannot be left for longer than four hours at a time. 21:00 Before They Were Stars The candid tour back through TV history concludes, as we highlight more embarrassing early fame with brushes endured by some of today’s biggest stars. 21:55 News.

22:00 Homeland The clock starts to tick on the future of the Keane administration, which hangs in the balance. Plus, Saul’s controversial mission gets the green light and starts to go ahead. 23:05 Gogglebox 00:00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 01:00 Film The Voices (18) 03:00 Film - Happy Bhag Jayegi (PG)

22:00 Most Shocking Talent Show Moments Ever! A look back over some of the most shocking talent show moments of all time. Ever Greatest 01:00 Celebrity Wind Ups 02:00 SuperCasino 04:10 GPs: Behind Closed Doors Most World’s 05:00 Pampered Pets

07:00 You’ve Been Framed! 07:25 Emmerdale Omnibus 10:10 Coronation Street Omnibus 13:05 Film - Babe 14:55 Film - Twister (PG) 17:05 Britain’s Got Talent 18:25 Britain’s Got More Talent 19:25 Film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (14) 23:00 Family Guy 00:30 American Dad! 01:30 Film - Jack and Jill (PG) ITV 3 07:00 On the Buses 07:25 Murder, She Wrote 08:25 Heartbeat 10:30 Film Carry on Screaming (PG) 12:30 Inspector Morse 17:00 Lewis 19:00 Film Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide 21:00 Les Dawson: An Audience With That Never Was 22:00 The Murder of Stephen Lawrence 00:10 Film - The Constant Gardener (14) 02:40 Blue Murder ITV 4 07:00 Football’s Greatest: Bobby Charlton 07:20 Minder 08:15 Cash Cowboys 09:10 Pawn Stars 10:35 The Motorbike Show 11:40 MSA British Touring Car Championship 19:20 Pawn Stars 19:50 Film - Every Which Way But Loose (15) 22:00 Film Heartbreak Ridge (15) 00:40 Film - Maximum Conviction (15) 02:50 It’s Not Rocket Science

32 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 12:45 The Housing Enforcers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News c 14:45 Doctors 15:15 800 Words 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Flipping Profit 17:30 Flog It! 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Civilisations Amber Butchart unravels the story of the Huguenot silk weavers of Spitalfields, who made a perilous journey to Britain over 300 years ago, but left a legacy of industry, great riches and artistic masterpieces. 21:00 EastEnders Whitney is thrilled when Halfway makes a return. 21:30 Panorama Katie Razzall investigates cases where crucial evidence had not been investigated by the police or where evidence had been withheld from defendants. 22:00 The Woman In White Sir Percival goes to violent lengths to get his hands on Laura’s fortune, while Marian starts to suspect there might be something sinister behind Count Fosco’s charming facade. 23:00 News 23:45 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 00:30 Graham Norton 01:15 Weather 01:20 News

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07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 Heir Hunters 08:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 09:00 Hugh’s Wild West 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 12:30 The Week in Parliament 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Britain in Bloom 20:00 Live: World Championship Snooker Live coverage this evening features the opening frames from the concluding sessions of the secondround matches. 21:00 Only Connect In the grand final, two returning teams battle it out to be named series champions. They compete to find the connections between Caloris Montes, Skadi Mons Mount Everest, and more. 21:30 Coast Lives Weather man Barra Best voyages around the Northern Irish coastline, along the way meeting people for whom the sea is a huge part of their lives. 22:00 Secret Agent Selection: WW2 The students are transported to a British Stately home for SOE Finishing School: a 1940s spy school. 23:00 QI 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Snooker 03:05 Countryfile 04:00 MasterChef

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 Tenable 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Daz unburdens his past. 20:30 Coronation Street Simon finds incriminating evidence in Toyah’s car. 21:00 Give It a Year Baroness Karren Brady meets a former Manchester United trainee who quit to become a solicitor, only to find that he did not like it, so he quit that too. We discover if his new venture is the answer to his problems. 21:30 Coronation Street Jude invents more lies to throw Angie off the scent. 22:00 Royal Wives of Windsor Ahead of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, this documentary explores how the women who have married into the house of Windsor over the last century have transformed one of the most famous dynasties in the world. 23:00 News 23:45 A Grammy Salute 01:30 Last Laugh in Vegas 02:40 Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Kyle

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 11:05 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 12:00 Undercover Boss USA 13:00 News 13:05 Coast vs Country 14:05 Posh Pawnbrokers 15:10 Countdown 16:00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 17:00 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Buy It Now 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 Holidays Unpacked Lucy visits Morocco to take in the vibrant souks of Marrakesh. 21:30 Tricks of the Restaurant Trade Simon Rimmer explores the secretive world of research and development at Starbucks. Sophie Morgan investigates one of the biggest trends on the high street, cocktails. 22:00 The Island with Bear Grylls Facing their last week of isolation, the two camps decide to settle their class issues and battle the high seas, in a joint bid to raft to the neighbouring island. 23:00 Kiss Me First 00:00 Your 999: What’s Emergency? 01:05 First Dates 02:00 Lee and Dean 02:30 Our Wildest Dreams 03:25 Hidden Restaurants with Michel Roux Jr 04:20 KOTV Boxing Weekly

Monday TV 07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! 13:10 News 13:15 The Gadget Show 14:10 Access 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film Deadly Dance Mum 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Aviva Premiership Rugby A round of England’s Aviva Rugby Premiership. 21:00 Police Interceptors A reverse ramming sends Chris reaching for german shepherd Ronny, Lee is confronted by a particularly mouthy motorist, Liam arrests a man who denies carrying out a shocking attack, tasers are drawn after a van driver causes carnage, and a wanted man holes up in a loft and refuses to come quietly. 22:00 Paddington Station 24/7 A track circuit failure closes a platform which is used by high-speed trains, British Transport Police are out in force as rival Oxford and Millwall fans use the network, and a young man is seen walking close to the edge of the platform. 23:00 Britain’s Cocaine Epidemic 00:05 Gangland 01:05 America’s Toughest Prisons 02:00 SuperCasino 04:10 My Extreme OCD Life

07:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 08:10 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 08:55 Emmerdale 09:25 Coronation Street 10:25 Ellen DeGeneres 11:20 The Bachelorette 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 Coronation Street 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 21:30 Superstore 22:00 Family Guy 22:30 American Dad! 23:00 Plebs 23:30 Family Guy ITV 3 07:55 Heartbeat 09:00 The Royal 10:00 Judge Judy 11:25 Agatha Christie’s Marple 13:35 The Royal 14:35 Heartbea 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:50 On the Buses 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:25 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Lewis 23:00 DCI Banks ITV 4 07:00 The Chase 07:45 The Protectors 08:10 Pawn Stars 08:35 Ironside 09:30 Quincy, M.E. 10:35 Minder 11:35 The Saint 12:35 The Avengers 13:40 Ironside 14:45 Quincy, M.E. 15:50 Minder 16:50 The Saint 17:55 The Avengers 19:00 Cash Cowboys 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 FA Youth Cup Live: 2nd Leg Arsenal v Chelsea 23:00 Film - Jaws 3 (15)

Tuesday TV 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 12:45 The Housing Enforcers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 800 Words 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Flipping Profit 17:30 Flog It! 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders Phil attempts to take control of the situation with Max. 21:00 Holby City An exhausted Fletch clashes with Abigail when an unexpected visitor turns up on the ward. 22:00 The Split As Hannah continues to fight her feelings for Christie, she buries herself in her work, refusing to engage with issues at home involving their eldest daughter, Liv and pushing Christie towards the arms of her sister, Nina. As the McKenzie case grows increasingly bitter, Hannah supports Goldie as they go through painful revelations. Meanwhile Oscar wants to see his estranged daughters. Can Nina and Rose persuade Hannah to meet with the father who abandoned them 30 years ago? 23:00 News 23:45 Life and Death Row 00:45 Obesity: The Post Mortem 01:40 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:45 News

07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 08:10 The Super League Show 09:00 Sea Cities 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 11:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Britain in Bloom

20:00 Live: World Championship Snooker Jason Mohammad presents live coverage from Tuesday night’s quarterfinals.

20:30 Devon and Cornwall Cops The newest batch of police recruits are put through their paces as weather temperatures soar in 21:00 Top of the Shop Ilfracombe. with Tom Kerridge our food producers with fledg- 21:00 This Time Next ling businesses come to Year Davina McCall meets test out their products on a lady who wants to be the locals in Malhamdale, able to smile for the first in the heart of the Yorkshire time in 30 years, and a Dales. This time, meat pro- music teacher who would ducers fight it out for one love to become a published author. place in the final. 22:00 Royal Wives of Windsor Exploring the responsibilities of being a royal wife once the fairy tale wedding is over, from producing babies to supporting good causes. With contributions from David Starkey, Jeremy Paxman, Andrew Morton, Penny Junor, Gyles Brandreth 23:00 Cunk on Britain and Rachel Johnson. 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 World Championship 23:00 News 23:45 Harold Snooker 03:05 MasterChef Shipman: Doctor Death 04:05 Secret Agent 00:45 The Durrells 01:35 Selection: WW2 05:05 This Jackpot247 04:00 Loose Women Is BBC Two 22:00 Hospital Fifty-oneyear old Ruth will need a critical care bed to recover from major surgery to her spine. On the morning of her operation, there is only one bed available for the six patients who are booked in for major surgery that day.

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! 13:10 News 13:15 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 14:10 Access 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - Running for Her Life 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News

21:00 Class of Mum and Dad Class 6M are packing in some last-minute cramming, with many feeling the pressure of the forthcoming SATs exams. As many of the class members are struggling with their revision, the high performers of the real Year 6 are drafted in to help. However, Richard is nowhere to be seen on site, as he's packing for a family holiday to Thailand - and facing a fine for taking his kids out of school during term-tim

21:00 The Yorkshire Vet Peter battles to save a young cow in labour, whose calf does not want to come out. Much-loved hamster Christopher has an ugly skin condition. Rescue sausage dog Bella needs surgery for a fastgrowing lump. Dobby the llama needs castrating.

22:00 My F-ing Tourette’s Family From meals out to day trips and their first holiday abroad, the DaviesMonks family confront the everyday challenges of living with Tourette’s. 23:00 The Island with Bear Grylls 00:05 Flight HS1315 01:00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares 01:55 One Born Every Minute 02:50 The Supervet

20:00 FIA World Rally Championship Coverage from the latest rally event.

22:00 British Airways: 100 Years in the Sky Documentary charting the history of British Airways. Stories include the first passengers who sat in wicker with no toilets, and the secret flights made from neutral Sweden during wartime. 23:00 Missing Flight MH370: Inside the Situation Room 00:05 Secret Life of the LongHaul Flight 01:30 Funniest Fails, Falls & Flops 02:00 SuperCasino 04:10 Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain

07:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 08:10 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 08:55 Emmerdale 09:25 Coronation Street 10:25 Ellen DeGeneres 11:20 The Bachelorette 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 Coronation Street 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 21:30 Superstore 22:00 Film - Knocked Up (18) ITV 3 07:55 Heartbeat 09:00 The Royal 10:00 Judge Judy 11:25 Agatha Christie’s Marple 13:30 The Royal 14:35 Heartbeat 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:45 On the Buses 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:25 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Scott & Bailey ITV 4 07:50 Pawn Stars 08:10 The Protectors 08:35 Ironside 09:30 Quincy, M.E. 10:30 Minder 11:35 The Saint 12:35 The Avengers 13:45 Ironside 14:50 Quincy, M.E. 15:50 Minder 16:55 The Saint 17:55 The Avengers 19:05 Cash Cowboys 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 River Monsters 22:00 Film - The Fugitive (15)

Wednesday TV 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 12:45 The Housing Enforcers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 800 Words 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Flipping Profit 17:30 Flog It! 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show

07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 08:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 09:00 See Hear 09:30 Great British Railway Journeys 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 11:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 12:30 Daily Politics 14:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Britain in Bloom

21:00 Watchdog Matt Allwright, Steph McGovern and Nikki Fox expose more big name companies letting customers down, with live reports and topical investigations. Among the stories, what has gone wrong with a global company’s attempt to put right a huge problem, plus, a new twist on the trouble some viewers are having with smart meters. Also, Queen of the jungle, Georgia “Toff” Toffolo, discovers an unexpected issue with packaging many of us routinely recycle.

20:00 Live: World Championship Snooker Jason Mohammad introduces live coverage from the concluding sessions of this year’s quarter-finals, with the first players to 13 frames moving into the last four.

22:00 Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall Two-thirds of us are already overweight or obese, and there’s no doubt that our poor diet and lack of exercise is slowly killing us, as well as crippling the NHS. After smoking, obesity is the next biggest cause of premature death in the UK. Hugh is on a mission to try and do something about this health crisis.

21:00 Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge Four drinks producers with fledgling businesses come to test out their products on the locals in Malhamdale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

22:00 Love in the Countryside Sara Cox is going back to her farming roots in the hope of helping single people living and working in the countryside to find love with urbanites seeking their perfect partner. From dairy farmers to rural vets, farriers to pig breeders eight single people isolated from the urban dating pool are ready to see if they can meet their match. . 23:00 News 23:45 A 23:00 Detectorists 23:30 Question of Sport 00:15 Newsnight 00:15 Snooker Ambulance 01:15 Weather 03:05 See Hear 03:35 01:20 News MasterChef 04:35 Pilgrimage

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07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Tenable 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Megan tries to contain her secret. 20:30 Coronation Street Mary and Jude pull out all the stops to keep Angie in the dark. 21:00 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport Focusing on the nearly 77,000 colleagues that work on the airfield and in the terminals and who are now trying to keep Heathrow in prime position more than ever. 21:30 Coronation Street Toyah’s baby news delights Peter. 22:00 Benidorm Transfer day and a baggage handlers’ strike at the airport cause panic at the Solana. The Dawsons hightail it to the airport with their anniversary party in jeopardy, but it looks increasing likely that they won’t be getting back to the UK to celebrate. They get the cold shoulder at check-in from some very unhelpful staff, but every cloud has a silver lining when Billy meets his lifetime hero Holly Johnson. 23:00 News 23:45 UEFA Champions League Football 00:45 Play to the Whistle 01:20 Jackpot247

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 11:05 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 12:00 Undercover Boss USA 13:00 News 13:05 Coast vs Country 14:05 Posh Pawnbrokers 15:10 Countdown 16:00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 17:00 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Buy It Now 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 The Secret Life of the Zoo Giraffe Orla is pregnant, but with the length of giraffes' legs and the size of their calves, the birth is always risky. As Orla goes into labour, the keepers must watch from the sidelines; will baby Narus arrive safely? Bornean orangutan Sarikei also has a new baby. His name is Tombol and it's not long before he's out exploring the habitat and testing his luck with his housemates, the gibbons. Male sengi Stud has sired multiple babies at Chester.

22:00 One Born Every Minute Nadia, who’s 25, and Jaedon, who’s 22, are expecting their second baby and are desperate to fly the nest and start life together, but their mums have other ideas.

22:00 Rich House, Poor House Vets Colin and Lizzy enjoy spending their disposable income on antiques. Marine engineer Ross Timmins and his wife Sarah, a hairdresser, work hard to budget what funds they have.

23:00 First Dates 00:05 My F-ing Tourette’s Family 01:05 Live from Abbey 01:35 Road Classics How’d You Get So Rich? 02:15 Film - Playing for Keeps (PG) 04:00 Come Dine with Me

23:00 Billionaire... 00:05 My F-ing Tourette’s Family 01:05 Live from Abbey Road Classics 01:35 How’d You Get So Rich? 02:15 Film - Playing for Keeps (PG)

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 08:10 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 08:55 Emmerdale 09:25 The Cube 10:25 Ellen DeGeneres 11:20 The Bachelorette 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 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 21:30 Superstore 22:00 Film Hot Fuzz (15) 00:25 Family Guy 01:55 American Dad! 02:50 Two and a Half Men ITV3 07:00 Classic Coronation Street 07:55 Heartbeat 09:00 The Royal 10:00 Judge Judy 11:25 Agatha Christie’s Marple 13:30 The Royal 14:35 Heartbeat 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:45 On the Buses 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:25 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Endeavour 23:00 The Street 01:45 Agatha Christie's Marple ITV4 07:00 The Chase 07:50 Pawn Stars 08:30 Ironside 09:30 Quincy, M.E. 10:30 Minder 11:35 The Saint 12:40 The Avengers 13:45 Ironside 14:50 Quincy, M.E. 15:55 Minder 16:55 The Saint 17:55 The Avengers 19:05 Cash Cowboys 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:55 Mr. Bean 22:00 The Motorbike Show 23:00 Film - Hard Target (18)

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Well-Established Ink and Toner Delivery Business

Well-Placed Restaurant High Street Position Costa Blanca South

A well-established and respected provider of automotive services to both private motorists and to trade and fleet companies including repairs, servicing and diagnostics. The business has been operating for five years and has a very good client base, with many long-term customers. Sale includes stock at value (approximately 75k) and equipment.

Well-established ink and toner delivery business for sale based around the Torrevieja area. Excellent price of only 49,000 euro, which includes over 12,000 euro worth of stock. Regular business includes supplying computer shops and newsagents. Genuine reason for sale - retirement. Great potential in this business.

This is an ideal first-time venture for the right people. This restaurant is located on a high street in a typical Spanish town that is very popular with tourists, as well as having all-year trade with people of all nationalities. There is comfortable seating for 50 people inside the air-conditioned restaurant and 25 on the outside covered terrace.

Property ID: 1043 - 100,000€

Property ID: 1012 - 49,000€

Property ID: 1090 - 29,000€

Busy Gymnasium Fitness Centre Costa Blanca South

Established Family Butcher’s on Main Road Position, Costa Blanca South

Highly Profitable Drainage Service Business

Without a doubt, one of the busiest gymnasium/fitness clubs in the area. The frontage of the gym is on a main road and highly visible. High volume of clients due to the facilities offered, which include cardio and resistance equipment, a private studio for other fitness-based activities and a treatment room. The gym has various sources of revenue.

Well-established butcher’s trading for many years. Serves English cuts of meat and is famed for its burgers and sausages. Also selling pies, pastries , tinned and packet products. It has its own refrigerated delivery van. With regular customers, passing trade and holidaymakers, it also supplies to local bars, restaurants and other food outlets.

This fantastic business is on the market due to the retirement of one of the partners. It has successfully traded for many years. This business is advertised well below the market value having established annual contracts to the value of more than the asking price. It comes with five vehicles and a lot of spare necessary expensive equipment.

Property ID: 1095 - 69,500€

Property ID: 1076 - 84,500€

Property ID: 1051 - 149,000€

Very Popular Town Centre Restaurant Costa Blanca South

Nail Bar and Hairdresser’s in Popular and Busy Area on the Orihuela Costa

Upgraded Bar/Restaurant in Busy Shopping Centre - Costa Blanca South

This is a typical Spanish-style restaurant located in the centre of Torrevieja. With seating for 60 customers: 40 inside 20 outside (with the possibility to extend the outside seating arrangements). The restaurant comes fully equipped and is ready to go. This business is also available FREEHOLD - see Business ID: 1080.

This popular and busy nail bar and hairdresser’s with all amenities is in a prime position on the Orihuela Costa and is for sale due to retirement. The business has been trading for 15 years with regular clientele. The freehold is for sale at a good price.

A well-presented, recently refurbished bar in one of the busiest holiday areas. With a total area of 225m2; internal 137m2 and the external terrace of 88m2. The restaurant has full licences to operate and meets all h&s, food hygiene, and disabilities regulations. The restaurant has an office area, storage area and is fully air-conditioned.

Property ID: 1079 - 35,000€

Property ID: 1096 - 89,000€

Property ID: 1073 - 495,000€

Irish-Themed Pub-Disco Close to Torrevieja Town Centre This is a very rare opportunity to buy one of the most wellknown and popular Irish-themed pubs in Torrevieja. This large, fantastic unit is located right in the heart of where it all happens and there is no competition within this area, which has lots of foot traffic. Although food is not served, there is a possibility to serve light snacks/mealsy. In addition, there is also potential for showing Sports TV, Karaoke and for the daytime hours to be extended. This is one of only a handful of locations with a music licence until 4.00am and live acts and bands could be introduced legally. A full sound-proof system has been installed. This establishment needs to be viewed as soon as possible as for anyone interested in this type of business, it is an opportunity not to be missed. It is one of the busiest nightclubs in Torrevieja, trading for a decade from 2007 and has an inside area of 250 square metres for the pub and 350 square metres on the terrace, with an opening license until 4 am. The business is currently open only on weekends but has a huge potential for more business during the week and opening during day-time hours. The present relocation of the Friday market in Torrevieja to this area is also a massive potential to run a special promotion day. For further information on this and other similar businesses in the area please contact us. Leasehold - Looking for a very quick sale.

Property ID: 1070 - 150,000â&#x201A;Ź

Friday 27th April 2018

07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 12:45 The Housing Enforcers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 800 Words 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Flipping Profit 17:30 Flog It! 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show

07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 08:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 09:00 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 09:30 Kate Humble: Off the Beaten Track 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Britain in Bloom

20:30 EastEnders The feud between Phil and Max builds.

20:00 Live: World Championship Snooker Hazel Irvine introduces live coverage of the first eight frames from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

21:00 Britain’s Best Home Cook Mary Berry, the queen of home cookery, top chef Dan Doherty and produce expert, Chris Bavin, are putting ten of the nation’s best home cooks through their paces in the search for Britain’s best home cook. Hosted with wit and warmth by Claudia Winkleman, ten talented home cooks are embarking on the ultimate cooking competition by living together in a shared house and competing against each other in the kitchen as they are tested by a trio of exacting judges on the very best of home cookery. 22:00 Ambulance West Midlands Ambulance Service sees a spike in trauma cases and must manage problems of the winter NHS crisis that has left patients lying in the corridors of Royal Stoke Hospital. 23:00 News Question Time Election 2018

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21:00 The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes Piers Taylor and Caroline Quentin travel from “the boggy parts” of South West Britain to Florida, USA to discover how high-end design and a celebrated architectural heritage combine to produce extraordinary homes. 22:00 Syria: The World’s War Lyse Doucet explores how peaceful protest for change in Syria spiralled into unspeakable savagery, with half a million people killed, millions of lives shattered, and so much of the country left in utter ruins. 23:00 MOTD: The Premier League Show 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 World Championship Snooker 01:05 Secret Agent Selection: WW2 02:05 Josh Widdicombe: What Do I Do Now 03:05 MasterChef 04:05 The Secret Helpers

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 Tenable 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News 20:00 Emmerdale Joe is forced to confront his fears. 20:30 Tonight Adam Shaw investigates the personal information which has been gathered, held, and sometimes shared by some of the most popular smartphone apps we use. 21:00 Emmerdale Belle is plagued by confusion. 21:30 Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs - India Having fallen in love with the country on a previous trip, Paul continues to explore the population’s complex relationship with dogs and to meet the heroes who have dedicated their lives to helping sick and abandoned canines in dire need. 22:00 Prince Harry’s Story: Four Royal Weddings.. Charting Harry’s journey from a childhood touched by grief through active service as a soldier in Afghanistan and his later international charity work, going right up to his upcoming wedding as Prince Charming. 23:00 News 23:45 UEFA Football 00:45 Lethal Weapon 01:40 Give It a Year 02:05 Jackpot247

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 11:05 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 12:00 Undercover Boss USA 13:00 News 13:05 Coast vs Country 14:05 Posh Pawnbrokers 15:10 Countdown 16:00 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun 17:00 Escape to the Chateau: DIY 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Buy It Now 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 Location, Location, Location Tonight, Phil catches up with two young couples who were struggling in two tricky housing markets to take their first step onto the property ladder. In 2015, Phil was in Leeds with Charlie and Hayley, who had been searching fruitlessly for nine months, unable to make a decision on a home for fear of making the wrong one. In 2013, Nicki and Rob were struggling too, when Kirstie and Phil suggested an unusual solution. Four years on, Phil's back to find out how it worked for them. 22:00 999: What’s Your Emergency? Exploring the rising use of cannabis, which is now increasingly being smoked openly on Wiltshire’s streets as people’s attitudes to the class B drug change fast. 23:00 True Horror 00:05 Gogglebox 01:00 The Real Football Fan Show 01:35 The Island with Bear Grylls 03:25 Class of Mum and Dad

Thursday TV 07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 The Yorkshire Vet 13:10 News 13:15 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 14:10 Access 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - Murder She Baked: A Deadly Recipe (12) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door Neighbourly harassment turns to violence in Shropshire. An Essex mother and daughter's lives are made a misery after they objected to a neighbour's extension plans. An elderly couple who claim to be victims of a noisy neighbour deny wrong doings themselves when the council send them a noise abatement notice and the police come knocking on their door! 21:00 Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords A doctor needs to evict a defaulting tenant from his old family home. Over 30 men found living in an unsafe house refuse to name the landlord. 22:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! A Warwickshire debtor moves goods to a neighbouring house to stop the agents seizing them. A family on the south coast pretend they are not in. 23:00 Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters 00:05 Countdown to Murder 01:00 SuperCasino 04:10 GPs: Behind Closed Doors

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 08:10 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 08:55 Emmerdale 09:25 Coronation Street 10:25 Ellen DeGeneres 11:20 The Bachelorette 13:15 Emmerdale 13:45 Coronation Street 14:45 Ellen DeGeneres 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 21:30 Superstore 22:00 Family Guy 23:00 Celebrity Juice 23:50 Family Guy 00:40 American Dad! 01:35 Plebs ITV 3 07:00 Classic Coronation Street 07:55 Heartbeat 08:55 The Royal 10:00 Judge Judy 11:25 Agatha Christie’s Marple 13:30 The Royal 14:35 Heartbeat 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:50 On the Buses 17:55 You’re Only Young Twice 18:25 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Vera 23:00 Lewis 01:05 Agatha Christie's Marple ITV 4 07:00 The Chase 07:50 Pawn Stars 08:30 Ironside 09:30 Cycling: Tour De Yorkshire Live 13:45 Cash Cowboys 14:45 Cycling: Tour De Yorkshire Live 19:45 World Cup Top Goalscorers 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Cycling: Tour De Yorkshire 22:00 Film For Your Eyes Only (PG) 00:40 Film - Swordfish (15)

Home Computing

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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 comes to you at home or at work. Their 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: Pauline wanted to know if an Amazon Dot was an ADVICE: Rose wanted to know how to get hold of the latest appropriate present for her grandson version of AVG

Hello Richard, Do you think there would be any benefit in buying our 14-year-old grandson an Echo Dot, since he already has an Apple watch? Also, if we do buy one, is there more than the unit itself to purchase? Thank you. Pauline Smith.

Hi Pauline, sorry for the delay in replying. You see, my initial reaction to your email was “yes of course, it’s a great gadget, he would love it”. However, on reflection, it’s probably something that you should discuss with his parents, of course. At the age of 14, he is older than the mini mum age (which is 13) required for the use of an Amazon Dot, however, in order to use it effectively, a credit card is needed (for the purchase of additional services) and, of course, at that age he wouldn’t have one.

Hi Richard, It’s Rose. When I type in website for AVG free security cover and click search, a list of sites offering AVG free cover appears. I’m not sure which heading to click on at the moment on my computer. It says I have 28 days left of cover, so I thought I would download the new free version of avg. Thanks Richard.

Hi Rose, You can download the free version of AVG 2013, the latest version, from the link below… http://free.avg.com/eu-en/free-downloads… once down loaded, you just need to run the installation and AVG will automatically remove the previous version and install the new free version.

In terms of what to purchase, you can either go for the more expensive (and much better speaker) Amazon Echo or the cheaper (and fine if you don’t want to play music) Amazon Dot. I hope this helps.

Email: office@bluemoonsolutions.es Mobile: 655 044 970

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Fit the words into the boxes.

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.

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

3 letter words Ads Ape Are Ask Ate Cad Ems Fop Hem Ins Let Nan Ode Sap Set Sit 4 letter words

Ably Ales Area Aver Deli Dial Erne Errs Fens Fire Guru Have Hour Idle Iron Lamp Mead Mire

Cryptic Across 1 Masters vandalised small rivers (7) 5 A lot of bloodsuckers pursue her (5) 8 A member of parliament with the French is quite enough (5) 9 Instruction to thoroughly lubricate the fuel source (3,4) 10 Finds out about record deliveries (9) 12 Computer graphics contains hip-hop music (3) 13 Cowardly cat initially facing Poe’s talking bird! 14 Group of 10 become rotten we hear (6) 17 Anoint Oscar and the Italian (3) 18 Nasty repercussions not once are bolts from the blue (9) 20 Promote cocktail at levee (7) 21 A wild animal but it’s all right, a quiet one (5) 23 Sort of start pastries (5) 24 Symbol of authority that could get respect (7)

More Newt Ocas Opal Open Oust Pads Pair Papa Pear Peer Pelt Peri Pipe Rift Robe Root Sham

Clues Down 1 Second team leader and get up (5) 2 Dead letters? (3) 3 A pair of card-players with amount of money said to be incredible (7) 4 Floor for cooked oyster (6) 5 Maps for a sailor to bring up (5) 6 Dessert made by crime aces (3,6) 7 Obscure notes about movie excerpts (7) 11 A half of lager is unimportant (5,4) 13 Wandering ocelots are the least ruffled (7) 15 Peer with an honour’s place for a stud (7) 16 Vegetables for use in bowls (6) 18 Corset’s remains (5) 19 Snap request? (5) 22 Worker starts another nice trip (3)

Sole Tree 5 letter words Alarm Arena Argon Atone Carer Clean Clerk Dense Deuce Elite Fiery Flats Isles Laden Melon

Peter Piety Poets Realm Sauna Spate Straw 6 letter words Jostle Orpine Retort Sacred 8 letter words Airstrip Enormity Macerate Marjoram

Standard Clues Across 1 Brooks (7) 5 Girl's name (5) 8 More than enough (5) 9 Fuel source (3,4) 10 Detects (9) 12 Strike sharply (3) 13 Cowardly (6) 14 Ten years (6) 17 Lubricate (3) 18 Startles (9) 20 Lift (7) 21 Giraffe-like creature (5) 23 Small open pies with fruit fillings (5) 24 Ceremonial staff (7) Down 1 Endure (5) 2 Tear (3) 3 Excellent (7) 4 Floor (6) 5 Map collection (5) 6 Frozen desserts (3,6) 7 Overshadow (7) 11 Trivial (5,4) 13 Most nerveless (7) 15 Pendulous part of the hearing organ (7) 16 Putting areas (6) 18 Remains (5) 19 Grin (5) 22 Social insect (3)

Quiz Word

Across 1 Swedish hard rock/glam metal band topped the British singles charts in 1986 with The Final Countdown? (6) 4 Henry Saint Clair Fredericks is real name of famous American blues musician? (3,5) 9 Word meaning ‘having attractively strong, rough-hewn features’ often used to describe stars like Daniel Craig, Clint Eastwood and George Clooney? (6) 10 Name usually given to a ‘large landform stretching above the surrounding land in a limited area in the form of a peak’? (8) 12 What name is often applied to the intermission separating parts of a theatrical or musical performance? (8) 13 Which item of men’s neckwear, often worn at formal functions, consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar in a symmetrical manner such that the two opposite ends form loops? (3,3) 15 What was the surname of the pioneer television and music producer who produced the Six-Five Special, Oh Boy!, Wham! and Boy Meets Girls televisions series, the first UK teenage music programmes? (4) 16 By what name is the amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, founded in 1883, and run by the students of Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University usually known? (10) 19 World-famous theme park in Anaheim, California opened to public on July 18, 1955? (10) 20 Cancer, the fourth astrological sign in the

Zodiac, is usually represented by which creature? (4) 23 Derived from the Latin for ‘white’, what is the archaic name for England or Great Britain? (6) 25 The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera subtitled The Lass that Loved a Sailor is better known as HMS (what)? (8) 27 Which word, often applied to musical soundtracks, means ‘being as first made or thought of’? (8) 28 Which Goffin and King song was a minor US hit for the Cookies in 1963 and later covered by the Beatles on their Please Please Me album? (6) 29 Which Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn song, originally rejected by the Sweet, was the first UK top 10 hit single for Mud? (4-4) 30 Record label founded by Chris Blackwell and Graeme Goodall in Jamaica in 1959? (6) Down 1 Radar Love was the only British UK hit single for the group known as Golden (what)? (7) 2 Musical duo Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield better known as the (what) Brothers? (9) 3 Traditional written art form associated with Benjamin Zephaniah and John Hegley? (6) 5 Surname shared by American pianist and singer-songwriter Tori and English stand-up comedian Stephen K? (4) 6 Which musical instrument, resembling a

QUICKIE Across 1 Make a dent (7) 5 High temperature (5) 8 Snake’s teeth (5) 9 Treeless grassy plain (7) 10 Person skilled in telling anecdotes (9) 12 Fuss (3) 13 Rain gently (6) 14 Scientific study of sight and light (6) 17 Overwhelming feeling of wonder (3) 18 Lacking in feeling, pity or warmth (9) 20 White ant (7) 21 Seat of the faculty of intelligence and reason (5) 23 Money extracted as a penalty (5)

24 Having no point (7) Down 1 Reason by deduction (5) 2 Writing implement (3) 3 True nature (7) 4 Light evening meal (6) 5 Natural talent (5) 6 Having great diversity (9) 7 South African antelopes (7) 11 Large and important church (9) 13 Ghost (7) 15 Drinkable (7) 16 Rich and elaborate cake (6) 18 Lift (5) 19 Dispatches (5) 22 Beer (3)

SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORD

Improve your Spanish - Clues in Spanish, answer in English or vice versa. Across 1 Without (3) 3 Great-grandmother (9) 8 Inepto (5) 9 Open (not closed) (7) 10 Alquitrán (3) 11 Season ticket (theatre, rail, sport) (5) 12 Playa (costa) (7) 13 Talones (de pies, calcetines, zapatos) (5) 15 Faces (5) 18 Plum (7) 20 Después de (5) 22 To give (3) 23 Friendship (7) 24 Cream (for face, shoes etc) (5) 25 Ingenieros (9) 26 Corbata (3)

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Down 1 Espinacas (7) 2 Grandson (5) 3 Botones (7) 4 Escaso (6) 5 Beret (5) 6 Más temprano (7) 7 Arriba (indicando situación) (5) 14 Pendiente (joya) (7) 15 Puddles (7) 16 Apellido (7) 17 Silla de montar (6) 18 Grúa (5) 19 Comer en casa (3,2) 21 Robo (de dinero, objetos) (5)

lute, has paired metal strings plucked with a plectrum and a characteristic tremolo when sustaining long notes? (8) 7 Alone, Never/These Dreams and All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You, were all UK top 10 hits for which rock band? (5) 8 Name given to horizontal supports of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of doors or windows? (7) 11 Derived from the French for ‘cowl’, name given to a lightweight, hooded, thigh-length waterproof jacket? (7) 14 In film and tv, name given to a person substituting the actor before filming, for technical purposes such as lighting? (5-2) 17 Instrument associated with musicians Larry Adler, Max Geldray and Tommy Reilly? (9) 18 Derived from the 17th century French for ‘nephew’, what name is given to the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs? (8) 19 In The Pink Panther film, starring Peter Sellers as French detective Jacques Clouseau, what was the Pink Panther? (7) 21 See 24 22 Which word that means a quality that evokes pity or sadness, is derived from the Greek for ‘sorrow’? (6) 24/21 Which Yorkshire-born actor first found fame as PC Fancy Smith in the BBC police drama Z Cars? (5,7) 26 What general name is often given to the actors in a play or a film? (4)

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Last Week’s Solutions Quizword Across: 1 Operas, 5 Staccato, 9 Kangaroo, 10 Astral, 11 Goldfinger, 12 Eden, 13 Napoleon, 16 Merlin, 17 Magpie, 19 Starling, 21 Vera, 22 Tony Curtis, 25 Square, 26 Electric, 27 Teletext, 28 Soothe. Down: 2 Piano, 3 Rigid, 4 Service, 5 Shotgun, 6 Anagram, 7 Cathedral, 8 Tragedian, 14 Arabesque, 15 Orphanage, 18 Extreme, 19 Sennett, 20 Archers, 23 Retro, 24 Irish. Double Crossword Across: 1 Deafness, 7 Terse, 8 Thirstier, 9 Pet, 10 Slap, 11 Cerise, 13 Averse, 14 Sedate, 17 See red, 18 Cent, 20 Act, 22 Therefore, 23 Cards, 24 Restless. Down: 1 Dates, 2 Agitate, 3 Nest, 4 Sniper, 5 Grape, 6 Lecture, 7 Trainer, 12 Aspects, 13 Advance, 15 Anemone, 16 Revere, 17 Stark, 19 Trees, 21 Bent. Quickie Across: 7 Fedora, 8 Amazon, 9 Fine, 10 Splutter, 11 Harpoon, 13 Faith, 15 Scant, 17 Release, 20 Ravenous, 21 Sure, 22 Famine, 23 Chapel.

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Down: 1 Retina, 2 Bore, 3 Bassoon, 4 Eagle, 5 Rag trade, 6 Honest, 12 Pandemic, 14 Seasick, 16 Cravat, 18 Surrey, 19 Boxer, 21 Snag.

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Friday 27th April 2018

Automobili Pininfarina to launch new electric hypercar in 2020 ‘World’s newest sustainable luxury car brand’

Fabled Italian design consultancy Pininfarina is branching out and building its own electric car brand, it was announced today. The first model will be an electric hypercar and it’s due to launch in 2020. It’s a reflection of how electrification is reshaping the car industry, enabling new players to leapfrog established manufacturers and start selling EVs in quick order. Not that Pininfarina is a newcomer; it’s been designing cars for 88 years and has specialised in low-volume production for quite a few of those. The styling specialists used the Italian round of the Formula E race to announce its new launch, in partnership with Indian automotive giant the Mahindra Group. Automobili Pininfarina is the new company and it’ll be based in Italy, albeit with plenty of financial and business assistance from Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, which brings a slew of electric car know-how. ‘The company will design, engineer and manufacture high-technology, extreme perform-

ance, luxury electric vehicles for the most discerning global customers,’ the statement in Rome said. ‘Automobili Pininfarina will combine Pininfarina’s legendary automotive design prowess with Mahindra’s growing electric vehicle (EV) expertise gained from its participation in the Formula E electric racing car championship. Automobili Pininfarina plans to launch its first model, a Pininfarina-badged electric hypercar, in 2020.’ Mahindra is racing in the fledgling Formula E championship (above); it is currently second in the manufacturers and drivers’ championship. Paolo Pininfarina, chairman of Pininfarina SpA, said: ‘We are pleased to welcome the new company, Automobili Pininfarina which represents an additional client for Pininfarina SpA, joining the list of the many prestigious car makers for which we will be designing cars in the future. This project helps me and my family to realise my grandfather’s dream of seeing outstanding innovative cars solely branded Pininfarina on the roads.’

8,900€

24,500€

2016 Dacia Sandero Low Mileage

2014 Ford Mondeo 62,005 km

8,500€

10,800€

2009 Citroën C5 150,000 km

2012 Peugot 5008 159,000 km

9,500€

26,900€

2009 Toyota Avenses 59,500 km

2011 Jaguar XFS 97,000 km

OFF-TRACK ATTRACTIONS ADD TO THE FUN AT DONINGTON HISTORIC FESTIVAL

As well as an outstanding programme of 19 races from 14 world-class grids of historic competition cars from the 1920s-2000s, the 2018 Donington Historic Festival (Donington Park, May 4, 5 and 6) features a host of off-track attractions to add to the excitement and entertainment. Clouds of tyre smoke will waft across the paddock from the Melbourne Loop as the ever-popular Group B rally cars demonstrate their considerable power and agility. These mighty machines echo back to the 1980s, when Donington Park was an RAC Rally stage and Group B dominated international rallying. These lightweight, 4WD, supercharged beasts, which could command in excess of 600bhp, were all-powerful, but their reign was brought to an end following a series of driver deaths and high-profile accidents. Now the only chance to see Group B cars in action is at demonstration events, when icons such as Audi quattros, Ford RS2000s, Porsche 911 RSRs and MG Metro 6R4s

remind us of just how potent they are. The off-track attractions aren’t confined to the ground - it’s eyes to the skies at Donington Park on Saturday May 5, when a Spitfire and Hurricane from the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) will treat DHF visitors to a flypast. And necks will be craning again on Sunday, May 6, when the BBMF Dakota – a rather larger aircraft – flies over the event. Back down to Earth again, F1 car demonstrations on the Saturday and Sunday of the event, plus static displays on all three days will celebrate that famous day at Donington Park in April 1993, when Ayrton Senna fought Alain Prost, Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher and the British weather to win the European Grand Prix by an incredible 80 seconds. For further information and to book tickets please visit www.doningtonhistoric.com.

‘WORLD’S FINEST CAR’ COMING TO CONCOURS OF ELEGANCE 2018

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance ‘Best in Show’-winning 1929 Mercedes-Benz S Barker Tourer ‘Boat Tail’ – arguably the finest car in the world – is now confirmed for Concours of Elegance 2018. This year’s event, hosted at Hampton Court Palace from 31 August to 2 September, represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for visitors to see the award-winning Mercedes as it comes to the UK for the first time since 1958. Based on the 1927 Mercedes S-Type, the unique ‘Boat Tail’ was one of the most powerful road-going automobiles in the world in period, developed as the perfect roadgoing, race capable car. Originally owned by racing enthusiast and British Racing Drivers’ Club co-founder Earl Howe, this car was fitted with a revolutionary body which incorporated a lightweight and aerodynamic shell with unique aircraft-inspired aluminium side pods crafted by English coachbuilders Barker. The car was a regular on tours, trials and competition events in the UK before new ownership in 1958 took it to America, where it has remained, and will remain, until it travels

across the Atlantic for the Concours of Elegance from 31 August to 2 September. When it was first sold to American owners, the car was repainted in a dark maroon colour and the rear of the car was renovated to sport an additional spare tyre instead of its distinctive ‘Boat Tail’. But, its most recent owner has just completed a multi-year project of restoring the car to its former glory. The majority of Earl Howe’s unique specifications were all-but-lost until a host of photographs unearthed aspects of the original vehicles. They revealed the missing ‘Boat Tail’, numerous reflective surfaces, custom touring luggage and a red spotlight which was given to Members of Parliament to alert other road users to their status. Upon disassembly patches of the Earl Howe’s signature Peacock Blue paint were also discovered, which has now been sympathetically recreated. Visitors to this year’s Concours of Elegance will not only be treated to the unique ‘Boat Tail’ but to around 60 other extremely rare or unique vehicles in the Main Concours event. Telling the complete story of the motorcar, the Concours will begin with a 1903 Panhard et Levassor and finish with one of 2018’s most exclusive supercars.

AUTONOMOUS PARKING READY FOR SERIES VEHICLES Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche testing autonomous parking at Hamburg Airport

Using what is to date unique technology, the Volkswagen Group is currently testing autonomous parking at Hamburg Airport: based on a car park map the Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles navigate their way to a parking space on their own. Orientation is provided for them by simple pictorial markers installed in the multi-storey car park. Its advantage: this can be used in essentially any car park. The function is set to be available for the first customers in selected multi-storey car parks from the start of the next decade. Johann Jungwirth, Chief Digital Officer of the Volkswagen Group, says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Autonomous parking can make an important contribution to creating convenient, stress-free mobility for our customers. We therefore want to democratise the technology and make it accessible to as many people as possible.â&#x20AC;? The autonomous parking function being publicly demonstrated for the first time in Hamburg has already left the research lab and is currently at an advanced stage of development. It is due to be ready to order for some initial Volkswagen Group vehicles from the start of the next decade. Safety the top priority: autonomous parking to be introduced in stages In the first stage it will be possible to use autonomous parking in selected multistorey car parks in an exclusive traffic flow, i.e. in separate areas of the car park not accessible to people. Before operation in exclusive traffic begins, the autonomous parking system is being

extensively tested: thousands of parking procedures in different places around the world are being performed and analysed. In parallel with this safeguarding of the system through simulations is also taking place. The next stage will be operation in mixed traffic, i.e. vehicles parking and moving autonomously in the same areas of the car park as cars with drivers. And the vision is clear: to have vehicles parking autonomously in all car parks, including public ones, such as outside supermarkets. There are good reasons for gradually introducing autonomous driving functions: "What we offer our customers works absolutely reliably and safely. This is what today's technology for vehicles from the Volkswagen Group stands for, and we will continue to keep this promise â&#x20AC;&#x201C; also in the era of autonomous driving," says Johann Jungwirth. The vehicles with the autonomous parking function will all be equipped with an active surroundings recognition system. This is able to recognise objects and react accordingly, be that by going around them, braking or completely stopping. Vehicles are equipped for this with a sensor set, including, for instance, ultrasound, radar and cameras. The data is processed in a central control unit in the car. In the multi-storey car park the car uses map data to drive on its own accord to a vacant parking space. Simple pictorial markers put up in the car park provide the vehicles with a means of orientation.

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LAYING A TARMAC RULE

Many golf clubs allow relief from tarmac roads and other hard paths, but not all, writes JOHN FARMER. So should a tarmac road ever be an integral part of the course in the modern era? Pro’s play off Granny Clark's Wynd on the Old Course at St. Andrews but most of them can afford to replace their clubs! There is a number of annoying golf rules that seem to give us a particularly bad deal. But the Rules of Golf’s real ‘two of spades’ is undoubtedly the tarmac, or other distinctly hardsurfaced road or pathway, that for some unfathomable reason the committee, in its infinite wisdom, has deemed an integral part of the course.In other words, if you’re on it, you either play it or take a penalty. It could be argued that this is both blatantly unfair and practically irresponsible in an era where a decent full set of sticks can set you back as much as a nice secondhand family

saloon. Who would feel it fair if, to park your precious motor, you were required by the laws of the road to either first scrape your front wing on a nearby wall or pay a hefty fine. But that’s exactly what golf’s outdated integral road rule asks you to do – damage your five iron or sand wedge, perhaps irreparably, or take a penalty drop and hand your opponent the advantage. Nowhere is this more prevalent than on the Old Course at St Andrews. Knock it through the back of the already devilishly difficult 17th – not hard to do as anyone who’s ever played there will readily testify – and not only do you now face an almost impossible chip up and over a four foot bank onto a downslope, but it’s highly likely you’ll also find yourself having to play it from a rock-hard pathway or road. No wonder the hole is renowned for humiliating cricket scores and fraught tempers.

Title Winning Squalos Final Playas Battle

The youth team (under 19s, pictured) from the Escuela Racing Playas De Orihuela were crowned juvenile league champions last weekend, with a three-two victory at San Miguel de Salinas. Two goals from Esteban and one from Bermudez sealed the title, with three of the squad last week having the experience of doing some training in Madrid with top flight side, CD Leganes. It was an impressive weekend of results for the Payas De Orihuela teams with the Prebenjamins win-

ning three-two at Promesas Torrevieja, whilst the Benjamins thrashed Daya Nueva, five-nil. The cadets put six past La Murada, who got just one in replay, and it was six of the best as well for the girls side, winning with the same score at Bonavtista. The Alevin side drew oneall at Oriol; the Infantil Brave team lost three-four at home to Callosa, but the Infantil Federado players had a three-one victory over La Murada; and the Juvenil side edged out Algorfa, threetwo.

The Mar Menor Squalos (pictured in blue) finished off their season in the Murcia Federation FERRMUR Top Five league, with a battling home performance last weekend against Cartagena University. Though they suffered a defeat at San Javier by 17 points to 7 on Sunday, the Squalos equipped themselves bravely with the visitors already assured of second place in the table, with

the Squalos also guaranteed third position before kick-off. The final table saw the Squalos win four and lose four of the eight matches played over the last few months. A season that has seen the club make significant progress, will now have heads already turning to the next campaign, in addition to all of the summer’s beach rugby events.

Walk to the 18th tee and it’s a similar story – misclub, or misjudge your drive, especially into the wind, and the sparks will be flying as you attempt to pick a clean mid-iron off the neatly tarmacked Granny Clark’s Wynd that crosses the fairway at 240 yards. Even if you do knock it on from here, you’ll be heading straight back to your club pro to get the loft and lie checked, and those irritating scratches and scrapes ground out of your costly seven iron as much as possible. But it’ll never be the same again. Maybe in golf’s earlier, more primitive days, people weren’t overly fussed about the appearance of their golf gear. But in our 21st century world of high-tech and expensive golf equipment, the majority of players most definitely are. So perhaps those more primitive days are exactly where the integral road rule now belongs?

Orihuela’s Victory

ITV Orihuela Vega Baja (pictured in black and yellow) rounded off what was a disappointing season, by their standards, in the Murcia Federation FERRMUR Top Five league, with an expected victory over bottom side Rugby Lorca. Last weekend’s home fixture saw the local Orihuela team roll over Lorca by 57 points to 22, with the Vega Baja side subsequently fin-

ishing fourth in the table, with three victories in their eight outings. Rugby Lorca’s campaign saw them winless in all of their fixtures. The title was won a few weeks ago by XV Rugby Murcia, who lost just one match throughout the whole of the campaign, and that was earlier in the month away to second-placed Cartagena University.

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An 85th-minute Rayo Ibense goal denied Orihuela a victory in last weekend’s Valencia Regional Third Division clash, but the point from the two-all scoreline kept Orihuela on top, after second-placed Castellón were surprisingly held nil-nil at home by bottom side Recambios Colon. With play-off status already in the bag, Orihuela got the perfect start at Ibi, as Iván put them ahead in the third minute, only for Rafa Pina to equalise shortly CD Thader’s hopes of making the end-of-season play-offs suffered another major blow last Sunday, when the Rojales-based side went down three-nil to Callosa Deportiva( Thader pictured in their away orange kit). 350 spectators watched the match, which saw Víctor put Callosa ahead in the 21st minute, with Juanjo Manresa making it two in the 68th minute, plus Tono wrapping up matters right at the very end. What was frustrating for Thader was that they dominated large chunks of the match, but with no reward at all, including a Rubén Sanz penalty miss in the 85th minute to sum it all up. Three matches remain for fifth-placed Thader, who have to win them all, and hope for teams above them to drop points. Next up is a home fixture this Sunday against relegation-bound Petrelense with an 11.30 am kick-off.

before half-time. Fran Martínez restored the visitors’ advantage in the 63rd minute, but Jordi got the late equaliser for the home side to get a share of the spoils. With three fixtures remaining, Orihuela return to the Los Arcos stadium on Sunday for a 6.00 pm kickoff against fifth-placed Eldense, who are battling to get into the play-off zone. It wasn’t a happy Sunday for Crevillente, as the midtable side suffered a three-

nil home defeat at the hands of Buñol, who grabbed the welcome three points in their fight against relegation. Crevillente take on another side below them this weekend, as they go to Paterna. A new coach has seen Elche Ilicitano record successive wins, and last weekend saw a fine one-nil victory at Villarreal. The Ilicitanos stand three points clear of the relegation area, and play CD Roda this Bank Holiday Tuesday.

Late Leveller

CD MONTESINOS 2 CALLOSA DEP B 2 With a much changed side and no less than five first team regulars missing, CD Montesinos almost came unstuck again last Sunday in their Valencia Primera Division clash against a Callosa side who were desperate for the points as they try to avoid relegation. The first half performance from Monte was, as it had been the previous week at Cox, totally out of character with their form this season. The players looked tired and unable to play their free flowing game as they have

A goal four minutes into added time deprived CD Almoradi (pictured above before kick-off) of a win against Pinoso CF, with the match finishing two-all at the Sadrian stadium. Two goals either side of the interval from Confi and Saúl had put Almoradi into the driving seat, before Jahiro pulled one back on the hour mark. Victory seemed to be heading Almoradi’s way though when Pinoso’s substitute José was sent off, with four minutes remaining, but Jony did not read the script by getting a 94th-minute leveller to silence the home supporters. Almoradi lie 13th in the table, and go to 11th-placed FB Redovan this Sunday, with the match starting at 11.30 am. After a break last weekend because of Calpe being thrown out of the Preferente, CD Torrevieja return to action this Sunday. 12th placed Torry entertain third-placed Hercules B, with an 11.30 am kick-off. The club has stated via social media that the match will be played at the Nelson Mandela stadium, but in keeping with the lack of news of what is going behind the scenes there, no explanation has been given over the switch from the neighbouring Vicente Garcia stadium.

done for most of the season and found themselves 0-2 down with the visitors scoring from their first two attacks thanks to Alex Monera (10 mins) and Josan (16 mins). The one Monte glint on an otherwise woeful first half came right at the end. Having already had a goal disallowed (as Monte woke up after going 0-2 down), they pulled a goal back right on half time when Daniel Saiz fired past the keeper. The second half held great expectation for Monte, but it was not to be, having

hit the woodwork twice; had another goal disallowed; and a number of goal line clearances. It looked as if all the good work in the second half would count for nothing, when up popped second half substitute Manuel Sanchez who, in the 89th minute of the game, equalised with a truly magnificent effort to give Monte a share of the points. This Sunday, CD Montesinos travel to local rivals Racing San Miguel for a 6.00 pm kick-off, in what will be the penultimate fixture of the season.

Friday 27th April 2018

A Winning Farewell

Champs In Charge

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BAYERN MUNICH 1 REAL MADRID 2 VALENCIA B 3 ELCHE 3

BARCELONA 5 SEVILLA 0 Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde admitted he would "give an arm" to have had Andres Iniesta's playing career, after the veteran's starring role in the Copa del Rey final thrashing of Sevilla last Saturday. Iniesta's long and decorated career with the club, now comprising 31 trophies, is winding down and he is widely expected to head for China at the end of the season. His performance in the 5-0 success at Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano therefore took on an extra dimension, with a fine second-half goal the highlight and his tearful exit in the closing minutes the emotional peak. Despite Luis Suarez's first-half double, Lionel Messi's 40th goal of the campaign and Philippe Coutinho's penalty, it was Iniesta's night, as fans of both sides came together to hail his contribution. Valverde, whose first piece of silverware at the helm continued Barca's four-year reign in the competition, admitted he withdrew the maestro in the closing moments to maximise what could be his final performance in the spotlight. Let's see what happens. He has to make the decision. See it, enjoy it," said Valverde. "I wanted people to give him a tribute for his party. It is marking an era. "It's a pleasure to see him play. He does easy things that are so difficult. I would have given an arm when I was a player to do what Andres does." Valverde looks certain to end the campaign with a domestic double, the La Liga title requiring only the finishing touch, but still has his critics after a shock Champions League exit to Roma. "I feel good but I am aware that at big teams when there is an elimination there is a cataclysm. You have a failure and it seems that everything goes overboard," he said. Barca could become LaLiga champions with a draw or a win over struggling Deportivo La Coruna this Sunday. They could also be crowned champions before that if Real Madrid fail to beat Leganes and Atletico Madrid fail to beat Alaves. The club have already begun preparations to celebrate doing the double for the eighth time in the club's history, with plans to hold a street parade on Monday.

Real Madrid boosted their hopes of winning the Champions League for the third successive year after seizing control of their Champions League semi-final showdown with Bayern Munich by winning Wednesday’s away leg. Bayern opened the scoring through Joshua Kimmich only for Marcelo to reply for the visitors shortly before half-time and substitute Marco Asensio to conjure a winner prior to the hour mark. A 150th Champions League victory and two crucial away goals ensured Real assumed pole position in the battle to reach the final in Kiev on May 26th, potentially against Liverpool who hold a 5-2 lead over Roma following Tuesday’s first leg. “We were really solid and defended very well. We’ve taken the first step,” said Real captain Sergio Ramos. Real return to La Liga action this Saturday evening with a match against Leganes, which kicks-off at 6.30 pm.

Elche were caught napping after a crazy start to Sunday’s match saw them go a goal down within just 20 seconds with a Jordi Sanchez goal. Things then got worse, when Fran Villalba doubled Valencia’s advantage within two minutes! Almost straight away, Sory Kaba pulled one back for the Ilicitanos, only for Valencia, through Miguel Merentiel, to restore their two goal advantage on the 15 minute mark. The eventful first half continued to deliver, as Manolin got Elche’s second in the 35th minute, and then Valencia’s opening scorer, Jordi Sanchez, was sent-off before the interval, after a dreadful challenge. Sory Kaba put the Ilicitanos back on level terms eight minutes into the second half, but Elche just could not get the crucial winner against 10-man Valencia, as scoring chances were squandered. Despite what could have been, the away point all but guaranteed Elche a place in the play-offs, with three matches remaining. They remain third in the Segunda Division B table, and are seven points ahead of fifth-placed Lleida Esportiu who come to the Martinez Valero stadium this Sunday. Trying to overhaul second-placed Villarreal is important for the Ilicitanos, as the third and fourth-placed sides may have to be involved in some elimination rounds. Elche’s remaining matches after the Lleida clash sees them at home to local rivals Hercules, and then away to Olot.

Real Targets

Lopez Sacked

Tottenham striker Harry Kane is a transfer target for Real Madrid, according to the club's former president Ramon Calderon. Kane is under contract with Spurs until 2022, but has been touted as a potential signing for Real. Calderon believes Kane is on their wishlist, along with Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski. Meanwhile, Real Madrid have had no contact with Liverpool over a move for Mohamed Salah, according to Sky Sports. Liverpool were reported to have told Real Madrid that £200m would not be enough to sign the PFA Player of the Year. Salah has four years remaining on his contract at Anfield after signing from Roma for £34m last summer. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said earlier this month he "knows" Salah will remain at the club. "It's not the situation where I would even think about it," said Klopp, when asked if Salah could leave.

Barcelona have dismissed Gerard Lopez as coach of their B side after a poor run of form. Gerard has been replaced for the final six league games by Francisco Javier Garcia Pimienta, who recently led the Barcelona U19s to UEFA Youth League glory over Chelsea. Barca B have lost their last five matches and currently sit in 21st place in the Segunda Division, two points from safety with six matches remaining. Lopez was initially appointed to the role in 2015 and oversaw promotion at the end of his second season. He had played for Barcelona for five years and won six international caps for Spain. Barcelona have a history of promoting managers through their youth system, with former bosses Pep Guardiola (20072008) and Luis Enrique (2007-2011) having previously taken charge of Barca B.

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FIXTURES Friday 27 April English Football League - Championship 20:45 Fulham V. Sunderland Scottish Premiership 20:45 Aberdeen V. Heart of Midlothian

Rafa Nadal beat Japan's Kei Nishikori in straight sets (6-3, 62) to take the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 crown on Sunday, extending his extraordinary legacy at the event. The 31-year-old Spaniard won in just 94 minutes to claim a record 11th triumph at the clay-court event. Nadal has now won 36 straight sets on his favoured surface and notched up a record 31st ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title in the process. Nishikori saved one break point in a 16-point second game of the pair’s 12th meeting, then proceeded to break Nadal’s serve with a delicate backhand winner down the line for 2-1. But Nishikori looked deflated one game later when he double-faulted to gift Nadal a way back into the set. Nadal didn’t need another invitation as he won four of the next five games finishing the 56-minute opener with a trademark forehand approach down the line. Once Nadal broke Nishikori in the third game with a crosscourt forehand winner, the second set was one-way traffic. From 0-1, Nadal won five straight games and Nishikori's challenge faded away. Nadal lost just 21 games in his five matches — against Aljaz Bedene, Karen Khachanov, Dominic Thiem, Grigor Dimitrov and Nishikori — at the Monte-Carlo Country Club, where he has a 68-4 record with 12 final appearances. It is the fifth time he has won the Monte-Carlo title without dropping a set (also 2008-10 and 2012). Nadal was competing in just his second tournament of the season, having sustained a hip injury during his Australian Open quarter-final against Marin Cilic in January. His Serene Highness Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, and his wife, Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, presented Nadal with the Monte-Carlo trophy in front of a capacity crowd on Court Rainier III. Nadal received 935,385 euro in prize money and earned 1000 ATP Rankings points, keeping him at world number one, ahead of Roger Federer.

Gang In Town

Spain’s Marc Marquez overcame a grid penalty to score his sixth straight MotoGP victory at Austin in typically dominant fashion. The reigning world champion annihilated the MotoGP field to win the Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas on Sunday. Pole starter Maverick Vinales came home second while Andrea Iannone was third, holding off a midrace challenge from Valentino Rossi to take his first podium finish for Suzuki. Having been demoted to fourth place on the grid from pole for blocking fellow Spaniard, Maverick Vinales in qualifying, Marquez leapt to second into Turn 1 as Andrea Iannone took the lead. The Suzuki man's time in front proved short-lived however, as Marquez got by at Turn 12 on the opening lap. Iannone was able to stick close enough to Marquez to have a go at the Honda rider at Turn 11 on lap three, but he ran wide and was repassed by the reigning champion on the exit of the corner. Marquez proved unstoppable from that point on, opening a two-second advantage by the end of the fifth lap and doubling that margin in the following two tours. His lead peaked at around seven seconds, and he controlled the gap to take his first win of the 2018 season and his 12th straight triumph on American soil by 3.5 seconds. "My strategy was just start, push and that's it," said Marquez, who shrugged off boos from the crowd reacting to a champion whose on-track clashes with rivals have been a talking point of the season. "I didn't have confidence to battle so I was pushing from the beginning and just go away, open the gap...in Spain they will be happy." After losing touch with Marquez, Iannone soon came under pressure from Vinales, who passed for second at Turn 1 on lap seven and enjoyed an untroubled run to the runner-up spot after that. Iannone managed to hang on to third place for his first podium as a Suzuki rider, ahead of Valentino Rossi, who pressured Yamaha team-mate Vinales in the early laps but couldn't find a way through. Pre-race points leader Cal Crutchlow crashed at mid-distance during a tense scrap for fifth place, which was eventually won by Andrea Dovizioso over Tech3 Yamaha's Johann Zarco. It means Dovizioso retakes the lead of the championship by a single point from Marquez, with Vinales just five behind in third. Marquez's team-mate Dani Pedrosa salvaged seventh in a race he was unsure he would complete owing to the pain from his broken wrist. The world championship heads to Europe now for the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez on May 6th.

English Premier League 13:30 Liverpool V. Stoke City 16:00 Burnley V. Brighton and Hove Albion 16:00 Crystal Palace V. Leicester City 16:00 Huddersfield Town V. Everton 16:00 Newcastle United V. West Bromwich Albion 16:00 Southampton V. Bournemouth 18:30 Swansea City V. Chelsea English Football League - Championship 16:00 Aston Villa V. Derby County 16:00 Barnsley V. Brentford 16:00 Burton Albion V. Bolton Wanderers 16:00 Hull City V. Cardiff City 16:00 Norwich City V. Leeds United 16:00 Nottingham Forest V. Bristol City 16:00 Queens Park Rangers V. Birmingham City 16:00 Reading V. Ipswich Town 16:00 Sheffield United V. Preston North End 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers V. Sheffield Wednesday 18:30 Middlesbrough V. Millwall English Football League - League One 16:00 Blackpool V. Shrewsbury Town 16:00 Bradford City V. Southend United 16:00 Bristol Rovers V. Gillingham 16:00 Bury V. Portsmouth 16:00 Charlton Athletic V. Blackburn Rovers 16:00 MK Dons V. Scunthorpe United 16:00 Oldham Athletic V. Doncaster Rovers 16:00 Oxford United V. Rochdale 16:00 Peterborough United V. Fleetwood Town 16:00 Plymouth Argyle V. Rotherham United 16:00 Walsall V. Northampton Town 16:00 Wigan Athletic V. AFC Wimbledon English Football League - League Two 16:00 Accrington Stanley V. Lincoln City 16:00 Cheltenham Town V. Coventry City 16:00 Chesterfield V. Wycombe Wanderers 16:00 Colchester United V. Swindon Town 16:00 Crawley Town V. Crewe Alexandra 16:00 Grimsby Town V. Notts County 16:00 Luton Town V. Forest Green Rovers 16:00 Morecambe V. Barnet 16:00 Newport County V. Cambridge United 16:00 Port Vale V. Carlisle United 16:00 Stevenage V. Exeter City 16:00 Yeovil Town V. Mansfield Town Scottish Premiership 13:30 Hamilton Academical V. Ross County 16:00 Hibernian V. Kilmarnock 16:00 Motherwell V. Dundee 16:00 St. Johnstone V. Partick Thistle Scottish Championship 16:00 Brechin City V. Queen of the South 16:00 Dundee United V. Livingston 16:00 Dunfermline Athletic V. Dumbarton 16:00 Falkirk V. St. Mirren 16:00 Morton V. Inverness Caledonian Thistle Scottish League One 16:00 Airdrieonians V. Forfar Athletic 16:00 Ayr United V. Albion Rovers 16:00 East Fife V. Stranraer 16:00 Queen's Park V. Arbroath 16:00 Raith Rovers V. Alloa Athletic Scottish League Two 16:00 Clyde V. Berwick Rangers 16:00 Cowdenbeath V. Annan Athletic 16:00 Montrose V. Elgin City 16:00 Peterhead V. Edinburgh City 16:00 Stirling Albion V. Stenhousemuir Sunday 29 April

Leading members from Wimbledon's FA Cup winning side of 30 years ago will rekindle the famous Crazy Gang spirit at La Manga Club this summer when they take part in the 22nd edition of the popular Footballers' Golf Classic. Lawrie Sanchez (pictured), scorer of the only goal when the Dons stunned Liverpool 1-0 to win the 1988 FA Cup Final, Dave Beasant, Wally Downes and Dean Holdsworth will join former Wimbledon manager Dave Bassett at this year's event, which take place at the world-famous between June 2nd and June 7th. The Dons legends will face strong competition from a line-up headed by defending champion, ex-Birmingham and Wales defender Andy Legg.

English Premier League 15:15 West Ham United V. Manchester City 17:30 Manchester United V. Arsenal Scottish Premiership 13:00 Celtic V. Rangers Monday 30 April English Premier League 21:00 Tottenham Hotspur V. Watford

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Saturday 28 April

STEVE’S SHOT

THE BATTLE OF BAKU Ex-Liverpool and England captain Steven Gerrard is on a shortlist to become the new manager of Rangers. The 37-year-old, who is currently a Liverpool academy coach, is viewed as a possible replacement for present manager Graeme Murty. Murty was put in charge until the end of the season after the sacking of Pedro Caixinha in October, but is not seen as a full-time contender. The Ibrox side travel to Celtic Park on Sunday, when a victory for Brendan Rodgers' side in the Glasgow derby will secure a seventh consecutive title.

EURO 2024

F1 Championship leader Sebastian Vettel returns to the scene of last year's road rage conflict with Lewis Hamilton this weekend when the title challengers contest the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. One year on from a fierce and defining on-track battle that saw the German Ferrari driver collide with the Briton's Mercedes, after claiming he was 'brake tested', Vettel has a nine-point lead over Hamilton in this year's title race. Hamilton and Mercedes are without a win after three races this year and, on recent form, appear to be struggling to defend their drivers' and teams' crowns against a resurgent Ferrari and threatening Red Bull. Both Vettel and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo have registered victories this season and Hamilton, notably in China two weeks ago, has not shown his usual elan so far. His former Mercedes team-mate and 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg, however, is adamant that the four-time champion will bounce back stronger than ever. Rosberg said: "When he comes back, he comes back so damn strong that he's almost unbeatable - so let's see when that happens." His belief in Hamilton was echoed this week by Mercedes

team chief Toto Wolff who also noticed that the defending world champion was below his best in Shanghai. "He was, like the car, maybe not in the best place," said Wolff. "He is the best driver, in my opinion, but also the best ones have days where it is just not 100%.” Chasing down Vettel and Ferrari is not a new experience for Hamilton and Mercedes. Last season, the German led the title race for 12 races before he was caught and overhauled when Hamilton reeled off a sequence of five wins in six races that laid the foundation for his fourth title. In that run, Ferrari made errors and Red Bull were not a serious threat. This year, however, it is a different story. Following Vettel's two season-opening wins in Australia and Bahrain, Ricciardo, courted by Ferrari for 2019 and beyond, triumphed in China. He hopes another Baku win could help him cement his future. "I want to be in the best car and I proved in China that if I've got the machinery, I can do the job. If we win a few more races, with Red Bull, that makes it (staying) very attractive, but if not...there's other options."

SHOW ME THE MONEY! Germany and Turkey have both confirmed their bids to host the 2024 European Championship finals. The German Football Association (DFB) submitted its application on Tuesday, with the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) following suit yesterday. Uefa, European football's governing body, will announce the host nation on September 27th. Euro 2024 will return to a single-host format, after Euro 2020 is held in 12 cities across Europe.

Britain’s Anthony Joshua wants to "see the money" before agreeing to Deontay Wilder's $50m unification fight offer, says promoter Eddie Hearn. American heavyweight Wilder posted a video on Twitter showing WBO, IBF and WBA titles holder Joshua, 28, saying he would accept the fight for $50m. But Hearn said he must be convinced the money "exists" before agreeing to the bout "in either London or Vegas". The offer came via an email directly from WBC champion Wilder, said Hearn. In a video interview on Wednesday, Hearn also said: “The offer feels like a PR move" but they are "definitely interested" Hearn said that he would not rule out allowing Wilder's

team to pick the fight's date and location, adding that a meeting between both fighters and their advisors is set for today. Wilder's manager Shelly Finkel confirmed to ESPN that an offer had been made. Finkel also said the offer contains no rematch clause and that it would be the next fight for each boxer, taking place between September and December at a venue of Wilder's choosing. "It's a great move from Deontay. It makes everyone say: 'You've got to take the fight now'," added Hearn. Unbeaten Joshua added the WBO belt to his collection after a unanimous points win over Joseph Parker in Cardiff on 1 April, while Wilder beat Luis Ortiz in his last fight in March.