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Friday 4th May 2018

Ramirez Resigns

arlos Ramírez (file photo) resigned as San Fulgencio mayor at a special plenary session of the council, after being sentenced to eight and a half years of disqualification from public office for prevarication last autumn.

Wednesday’s meeting had been called by opposition councillors after Ramírez had not given a statement on November’s court ruling, which he was legally obliged to do so.

Susana Ortuño has assumed the role of acting mayor until a new plenary session is convened to choose Ramírez’s permanent successor. Ortuño is one of five ex-Partido Popular councillors that were dismissed from the party in November, and along with one UPYD representative, they continued to prop up Ramírez in office.

The plenary meeting lasted less than three minutes on Wednesday morning, with the now ex-mayor refusing to allow opposition councillors to speak, as he read a prepared statement.

Ramírez criticised the sentence handed down by the Orihuela court in November, and said that he was going through an appeal process, and “that if they clear me, I will have been proved to have been innocent”.

The court found him liable for prevarication concerning the case of a total of 195 thousand euros being given as 48 grants into a football club that he was actively involved in.

Anti-corruption prosecutor, Pablo Romero, has already opened an investigation to find out the reasons why the mayor was still in office, despite being sen-

was it, but one of them decided to follow the couple’s car, and noticed the drunk hitting the woman who was driving the vehicle.

The agents stopped the car and helped save the female from further violence, before arresting the man and reading him his rights.

He was carted off to the Guardia Civil in Almoradi, ahead of an appearance before a local judge.

No further details have been made over the assault and where in Algorfa took place.

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Ramirez is now no longer a councillor, and will be replaced by a member of the Partido Popular, which means that the current administration will be in a minority in terms of votes in the chamber.

The Informacion newspa-

per has reported suggestions that the only current sitting PP representative, Manuel Gómez (who refused to join the rebels in November) may be backed by the opposition parties as the mayoral candidate.

A plenary meeting to elect Ramirez’s successor is expected in the next week.

Cops Stop Brit Assualt A drunken British man was arrested in Algorfa on Saturday night, after trying to assault his wife whilst she was driving their car, just minutes after he was thrown out of a bar by the local police.

The unnamed man was detained just minutes after Algorfa local police were called at around 11.00 pm by the bar manager wanting the customer removed because of his unruly behaviour.

Once two police patrol teams dealt with the bar incident, they thought that

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Algorfa mayor Manuel Ros and the local police issued a statement praising the work of their officers and their instincts in following

the car.

They also called on citizens to always call the police to stop any kind of aggression.

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The bars were shut amidst a row and confusion over contractual dates between the Partido Popular and Ciudadanos coalition partners on Orihuela council, and the beaches and contracting departments especially.

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Torrevieja's government team has confirmed the switch of the site of the weekly Wednesday market in La Mata, despite opposition to the plans from some traders and residents.

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An offer to reopen Orihuela Costa’s beach bars in the interim by previous franchise holder Chiringuitos del Sol was met with silence by Orihuela council, who put in chemical toilets at some locations to help visitors in desperate need of having to spend a penny.

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Three council officials are to supervise the process, but Luisa Boné was last week unable to give a date when the bars would reopen.

The Informacion newspaper reports that the “Q” quality threshold is not present in the tender documents, and that the new tender features a requirement for each bar to have a defibrillator at it, with staff

also have to erect signs and paint markings before the switch becomes effective.

Tower Staffing A jointly-owned SpanishBritish company, Ferronats, has been awarded the air traffic control contract for the new Murcia international airport at Corvera.

Ferronats, owned by Ferrovial and British operator NATS, already runs the control tower at several Spanish airports, including Alicante-Elche.

Eight controllers would be

used by them at Corvera on an eight-year contract worth a million euros per annum.

Corvera operator AENA says that it plans to switch flights from San Javier to Corvera at the start of next year, and low-cost carrier Jet2 are already promoting services to Corvera from Leeds and Manchester airports from the end of March next year.

Safety Concerns

A hundred people staged a protest last Saturday to call for safety improvements to the road that connects between San Miguel de Salinas, the Las Filipinas urbanisation, and the Orihuela Costa.

The demonstration(picture from the Informacion newspaper) at the urbanisation was organised by the Neighborhood Association of San Miguel Arcángel and the Association of Friends of Sierra Escalona.

Besides calls to widen the road and to eliminate some of the bends on it , the protest was also about the clearing of forest land and felling of trees in Los Claveles, Las Majadas, and La rambla de la Fayona.

As previously reported in The Courier, San Miguel council suspended the erection of fencing along part of the road, after complaints concerning visibiility were made to the authority by the San Miguel Arcángel group.

Poolside Swarm A swarm of bees had to be dealt with by firefighters at the La Marina Campsite on Monday afternoon, following recent similar incidents in Almoradi and Los Montesinos.

The crew from the Baix Vinalopó Regional Park station were called in, and cordoned off an area of 20 square metres, after the swarm had gathered in some shrubs next to a swimming pool.

Some 500 people had to be evacuated from the pool area, which was especially busy because of the bank

holiday weekend.

A special box was installed to capture the queen bee and hive members, with a beekeeper brought in to take charge of the process.

San Pedro Death A 58-year-old San Pedro del Pinatar man died after being struck in the head after a fight last Friday night.

The incident in the municipality is being investigated by the Guardia Civil, who arrived on the scene along with the San Pedro local police, and discovered the Spanish national lying on

the ground.

Witnesses said they saw an argument between two people shortly after 9.30 pm , with the victim later dying at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca de Murcia.

At the time of going to press, the Guardia were still trying to locate the assailant.

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Smoother Surface Pedestrians will no longer have to trip over broken cobblestones or motorists worry over tyre punctures and other problems in Torrevieja's Plaza de Oriente area, as resurfacing work started this week.

The long-delayed project saw workers appearing unexpectedly in the area on Monday, with an asphalt surface being installed to replace the stones in and around the Plaza.

The lack of notification from Torrevieja council caught people who park around the Plaza on the hop, not helped by a large influx of visitors across the

bank holiday period. The problems around the area have caused Semana Santa processions to use different

routes on the last two occasions, despite earlier promises from the authority that the work was in hand.

Rojales Logjam Opposition politicians are to ask why redevelopment work at the Poeta Miguela Hernández school in Rojales has ground to a halt for the last four months.

Partido Popular education spokesperson in the Valencian Parliament, Beatriz Gascó Enriquez, visited the school last week to meet with representatives of the parent-teacher group AMPA. New classrooms were completed in time for the start of the school year in 2017, but nothing has happened so far in regard to work beginning on the sports hall and sports courts.

Gascó said she would raise the matter in Valencia

and ask the Education Minister, Vicent Marza, what is going on, and when the building work will be finished.

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Loyalty Fraud A 37-year-old Cartagena man has been arrested in San Javier for a series of scams where he defrauded a petrol station chain of around fifteen-hundred euro through a dozen crimes by claiming illegally via a series of loyalty cards.

The Guardia Civil discovered that the alleged scammer got hold of the loyalty card details for several customers of the company, and then he linked them to a mobile phone app to help get discounts at various establishments.

Guardia officers nabbed the Spaniard when he was filling up at a petrol station in

the San Javier municipality, belonging to the company that he had defrauded.

Decent Figures

Average waiting times for surgery at Torrevieja Hospital and Vinalopó Hospial in Elche are well below the average figures for hospitals across the Valencia region.

Figures produced by Ministry of Health show that the overall average wait for the two hospitals stands at 42 days, some 57 days less than the rest of the region’s public hospitals.

Statistics for Torrevieja and Vinalopó show that general surgery numbers come in at 12 days, while urology patients expect an average school was the subject of a wait of 47 days long-running campaign to see major improvements, after the old building led to fears about the safety risks posed to pupils and staff.

The recorded bells of the church in La Mata square could be silenced by Torrevieja council if the priest does nothing to reduce the volume level.

The Our Lady of the Rosary church offers piped chimes coming out of a loudspeaker every hour, but has been the subject of complaints from residents since 2005, and now after a visit from council inspectors to measure the noise levels at a nearby house, an ultimatum has been issued.

The council has ordered the parish priest to install a volume limiter, and if he does not comply, then the taped bells will be

Bells Toll Trouble

Council Criticised The Ciudadanos political party has attacked Torrevieja council for the state of the Playa del Cura area.

Councillor Pilar Gómez Magán has described as “unacceptable”, the state of the promenade and the lack of maintenance.

The councillor said that there was a lack of litter bins and lighting, and that palm trees had to be removed for safety reasons, have not been replaced by any type of vegetation.

silenced, perhaps with the simple removal of the loudspeaker.

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Balcony Tragedy

A young British holidaymaker died after falling from a Costa Blanca balcony after popping out for a cigarette, an inquest heard, which recorded an open verdict over her death.

Danielle Hall was in Benidorm with her boyfriend Jordan Bevan and his grandmother when the tragedy occurred in November 2016.

They were staying at the Bermudas apartment hotel, and Danielle, 21, from Northumbria, had been on a night out at the resort with

Jordan that evening.

On her return, she fell over the balcony railing of her apartment and was found on the roof of a garage several floors below, Danielle, who worked as a catering assistant at a Tesco store, suffered fatal injuries.

At an inquest in North Shields, it was said that a number of reports, including post mortem and toxicology documents, had been requested from Spanish authorities to help establish what happened.

Northumbria Police also

carried out enquiries and Jordan told officers that Danielle had not shown any signs of depression or suicidal tendencies on the night she died. He said that after they returned to their apartment, she went outside to the balcony and he assumed she was going for a cigarette. He then heard a bang or a thud and found Danielle lying on the floor.

Coroner Eric Armstrong said there was no evidence to suggest she had taken her own life, and he recorded an open verdict.

Poor Parenting A British couple have been charged with child abandonment after repeatedly leaving their children alone at a Mallorca hotel to go out drinking.

The Scottish couple were arrested after hotel staff alerted police to their drunken antics last month, which were widely reported in the British media, and covered in the last edition of The Courier.

The pair had left their 11 and four-year-old alone at the Palma Bay Hotel and were drunk for most of their trip.

The couple ignored the hotel staff’s warning that it

was against the law to leave them alone.

They claimed another British couple at the hotel had agreed to watch them.

Other families reported looking after the girls for hours on end after finding them alone in the hotel, day

and night.

Police arrived at the hotel to find the parents as well as a last-minute babysitter, drunk.

The mother and stepfather were arrested, while their children were taken into protective custody.

Controversial Verdict

Tens of thousands of people have marched across Spain to protest against the acquittal of five men accused of gang raping an 18-year-old woman at Pamplona’s bull-running festival.

The protests erupted after a court last week found the men guilty of the lesser offense of sexual abuse, rather than convicting them of rape.

The five men were sentenced to nine years. The victim is appealing, along with prosecutors.

The case, which has shocked the country, became known as “La Manada”, or “The Wolf Pack”, after a WhatsApp messaging group in which the men and their friends spoke to each other.

Local police estimated between 32,000 and 35,000 people joined the march in Pamplona (pictured) on Saturday, the third consecutive day of protests.

Many carried placards with the slogan “it’s not sexual abuse, it’s rape”.

Crowds of mainly women have filled the streets in other cities, including Alicante, Orihuela (pictured below), Torrevieja and Valencia, while many also took to social media to share

their experiences of abuse using the hashtag #cuentalo, which means “tell it” in Spanish.

More than 1.2 million people have signed an online petition calling for the disqualification of the judges who passed the sentence.

Prosecutors had sought 22 years for each defendant on the more serious charge.

The protests prompted the government to announce that it will consider reforming the country’s rape laws.

The five men, aged 27 to 29, were accused of raping the woman at the entrance to an apartment during Pamplona’s famous San Fermin bull-running festival in July 2016.

The men, from Sevilla, filmed the attack with their phones and then laughed about it with their friends on their WhatsApp group.

Under Spain's criminal code, evidence of violence or intimidation must exist for the offence of rape to be proved.

The judges said in the ruling: “"It is indisputable that the plaintiff suddenly found herself in a narrow and hidden place, surrounded by five older, thick-bodied males who left her overwhelmed and unrespon-

sive."

"The videos show the plaintiff surrounded and stuck against the wall by two of the accused... she has an absent grimace, and keeps her eyes closed.”

Ana Botin, the head of Spanish bank Santander, said on Twitter that the ruling was "a step back for women's security".

Adriana Lastra, a main figure in the main opposition PSOE Socialist party, said the court ruling was "disgraceful".

"It's the product of a patriarchal and macho culture”, she commented.

An order of Carmelite nuns in the Hondarribia monastery in the Basque country also condemned the court judgement on Facebook. "We live cloistered away, wearing a habit that reaches down to our ankles, we don't go out in the evening, we don't go to parties, we don't drink alcohol and we've undertaken a vow of chastity," the nuns said. "And because that's our free choice, we will defend with all the means at our disposal... the right of all woman to FREELY do the opposite, without them being judged, raped, threatened, killed or humiliated," they wrote.

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Pensions Climbdown

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy last week agreed to increase State pensions in line with inflation this year and next as a concession to the Basque National Party (PNV), whose vote will be crucial in the minority Partido Popular (PP) government trying to get the national budget through Congress.

Economy minister Román Escolano is said to be planning extra levies on technology firms – known as a 'Google Tax' - to help fund the rises..

Escolano says the tax will come into effect in 2019, but the treasury has already started working on the exact terms.

For the last six years, pensions have only risen by the legal minimum of 0.25% every January, sparking mass protests across the country.

Now, however, they will increase for 2018 by 1.6%, the average inflation figure, and go up again in 2019 by, probably, a similar amount, depending upon changes in the consumer prices index.

Widows' and widowers' pensions will also go up, to

56% of the deceased spouse's income, instead of the government's initially proposed 54%, but will rise to 60% in 2019.

Minimum and non-contributory retirement pensions were already due to rise by 3% and will still do so.

This 3% increase was the government's response to the street protests, but demonstrators said it was not enough as it would still have left over five million State pensioners struggling to make ends meet as their own middle-income monthly payments would not qualify as 'minimum' and be subject to a rise.

The pensions reform, approved in 2013, which links pension calculation to national life expectancy, was due to come into force in 2019 – the year of the next European Parliamentary elections – but will not now apply until at least 2023.

Experts estimate that this reform based upon life expectancy would devalue pensions by an average of 5% over 10 years.

The PNV, in exchange for Rajoy's compromising over pensions, has agreed to

vote against amendments put forward by opposition parties which could prevent the budget from being signed off, but it is still not guaranteed that the Basque party will vote in favour of the budget as a whole.

Its leader Aitor Esteban says it wants the government to backtrack on applying Article 155 of the Constitution to Catalunya, which strips a region of its autonomous governing powers.

Article 155 was applied in October in response to Catalunya's regional government calling a 'banned' independence referendum.

Applying Article 155 to Catalunya is a particularly thorny issue for the Basque Country, which has long had its own independence supporters – albeit never called a referendum – since, even though those who want the Basque Country to secede from Spain are now very much in a minority, this could change in future years.

Mariano Rajoy has always blamed the pension pot deficit for being 'unable' to increase retirees' income by more than 0.25% a year, but now that he has agreed to up it by 1.6%, he says there will be no need to cut down on spending in social programmes such as welfare, education and healthcare in order to fund the higher pensions.

Trade unions, who are supporting the pensioners' protests, say the government needs to go even further and increase payments in line with inflation retroactively.

They have also signed a petition calling for decent pensions to be enshrined in the constitution and for a minimum 'wage' for retirees of at least €1,000 per month.

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Examiner Threat

Driving examiners have threatened to resume strike action, unless they get the pay rise of 250 euro per month that they have requested from the national government.

Industrial action last year saw examiners downing tools three days a week between June and December inclusive, leading to literally hundreds of thousands of driving tests being cancelled or shelved and driving schools forced out of business, as pupils decided there was little point in carrying on with their lessons if

they had no idea when they might have a chance at getting their licences.

The average first-time fail rate in Spain is around 73%, meaning demand for tests is high as the nearly threequarters of candidates who do not pass their initial driving test are keen to book another as soon as possible.

Examiners have been asking for the extra 250 euro for the last decade, since they consider it unfair that they are paid the same as office-based staff when they face additional risks, and

with long-running staff shortages due to cutbacks, often have to double up their shifts.

But now the draft annual national budget has been published, the pay rise has not been included, much to the chagrin of Ángela Arias, spokeswoman for the Association of Traffic Examiners (ASEXTRA).

If an amendment to the budget does not subsequently go through – which ASEXTRA members expect to hear about by mid-May – they will resume strike action, Sra Arias says.

Dads Get More

Paternity leave spending has exceeded maternity payments this year for the first time ever, according to Spain's Social Security office.

In the first three months of 2018, the department handled 62,832 maternity leave applications, a fall of 8.1% on the same period in 2017.

By comparison, paternity pay applications grew to 64,505 between January and March inclusive, repre-

senting a 4.8% fall year on year.

The ministry of employment, which the National Social Security Institute (INSS) forms part of, says these figures show a 'clear cultural change' in childcare.

But the actual amounts paid out continue to be higher for mums, given that they have four months off work compared with dads' four weeks.

Maternity pay in the first

quarter of 2018 totalled €363.6 million, whilst paternity pay came to €101.9m.

This said, the increase in payments for maternity leave was just 0.9% year on year, whilst paternity pay rose by 28%.

Part of this is likely to be because in the first quarter of 2017, dads only had two weeks' leave to care for newborns or newly-adopted children – a period which doubled on January 1, 2018.

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Children’s Boost

A Murcia region children’s cancer charity was presented recently with a cheque for three thousand euro from HELP Murcia Mar Menor.

Jose Mariano Fernandez Garcia the Director of AFACMUR (Association of Families of Children with Cancer in the Murcia Region) dropped into the HELP office in Los Alcazares to receive the

donation from HELP president Christine Baillie.

AFACMUR helps children diagnosed with cancer in the Murcia Region, and it provides both practical help and guidance during the dark days of first diagnosis and later during treatment in hospital.

The charity looks after and cares for more than 40 children each year, and this

Seaside Break

Volunteers and beneficiaries of Age Concern, Costa Blanca South, recently enjoyed a coach trip to the port of Mazarron in the Murcia region.

The weather was perfect, and after taking a stroll along the quayside everyone took a well-earned break for coffee or a cool drink.

A trip around Mazarron via the coach, ended up with a

long leisurely lunch at the Camposol Golf Club, with everybody nicely ready for the return journey to La Siesta, Torrevieja.

Age Concern regularly organise day trips, especially for their many beneficiaries, and if you would like to become a beneficiary, then just pop into the centre at Calle Paganini, La Siesta any morning between 10.00 and 1.30pm.

donation will go towards finishing off the project of providing a play area on the roof of Arrixaca Hospital in Murcia City.

From left to right in the photograph are HELP President, Christine Baillie; José Mariano Fernández García, Director of the AFACMUR centre; and Janneke Chambers, HELP’s Caring Services Officer.

Successful Night

The coffers of Help at Home, Costa Blanca, were boosted by over a thousand euro at a dinner/dance staged at the Restaurante El Nacional in Punta Prima.

Entertainment was provided by the Campoverde Reef Band, with the raffle and auction managing to raise the impressive sum of 1,055 euro, which will go towards caring for the Help at Home clients.

Chicago Mama It’s less than a month to go before Studio 32’s latest musical theatre venture at San Fulgencio’s Cardenal Belluga theatre, namely “Chicago”, the raunchy musical set in the 1920s.

Based on real life events the show revolves around a group of women in jail awaiting trial for murder. But in prison life can be made easier by how you treat the prison warden, Matron Mama Morton.

The character of Mama is a big challenge for any actress. She’s a hard, corrupt individual – the “mother hen” who, for a price, is always willing to do “her chickies” a favour. In this production, the role is being played by Ann Bell (pictured).

Ann has been with STUDIO32 for some time and has played several principal roles over the years. Most

Montesinos Gift

Los Montesinos Mayor, Jose Manuel Butron, received two donations for the local community, on the back of the Rojales Pantomime Group’s production of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, which was staged at the town’s music school back in January.

Five hundred euro will be spent by the council for food vouchers for the needy in the municipality, with 400 euro going to buy instru-

ments for the music school band.

Pictured in the middle is the Mayor getting the donation getting the money from John Fagg, Pantomime Group chairman, and Director, Thelma Judson, watched by cast members and Montesinos council officials.

Three thousand euro was raised by the show, with more presentations coming soon!

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recently she played the joint lead female role of Betty Haynes in the company’s last production “White Christmas”.

As with the film version, the stage show does contain content of an adult nature, and the company advise that it is not recommended for children under the age of 12.

Show dates are Wednesday May 30th through to Friday June 1st, with curtain up at 7.30 pm.

The Saturday performance has sold out.

Reserved seating tickets are now on sale, priced at ten euro, and can be obtained by calling 744 484 933, or by emailing: tickets@studiothirtytwo.org.

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Francoist Scrappings

Workmen in Madrid started to remove street signs bearing names connected to the rule of dictator General Francisco Franco last Friday, despite opposition from some elements in the country who believe his legacy should be preserved.

Madrid’s city council said some 49 streets would be renamed, but the process has been fraught with legal disputes in a show of how Spain still struggles to come to terms with its dictatorship past.

A similar process has already been undertaken by many municipalities across Alicante Province and the Murcia region.

Many of the names refer to generals who took part in the military uprising against

the Spanish republic in 1936 and the Civil War that followed. Streets will revert to their pre-Franco era names or, if this is not possible, in honour of illustrious women, education institutions or politicians, the council said.

Historians estimate as many as 500,000 combatants and civilians were killed on the Republican and Nationalist sides in the war.

After it ended, tens of thousands of Franco’s enemies were killed or imprisoned in a campaign to wipe out dissent.

With its drive to rename streets, the Madrid authorities invoked the 2007 Historical Memory Law, brought in under the previous PSOE Socialist government, which made provision

for the removal of statues and the changing of place names connected to the Franco regime.

The plan was approved in 2015 but was appealed against in the courts by the Francisco Franco Foundation - which campaigns to keep the memory of the dictator alive.

This appeal was later overturned by a Madrid court.

In area of Madrid last Friday, neon-clad workmen climbed ladders to takedown place names honouring General Romero Basart, a general who fought on the side of Franco during the Civil War, replacing them with a new name in honour of the 20th century Spanish physicist Blas Cabrera.

Fairs Galore!

Pilar de la Horadada's seventh Sevillanas Fair (pictured above) ended it’s four-day run on Bank Holiday Tuesday with visitors flocking to the area to enjoy the festival of art, dance, cuisine, and culture.

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ed holiday weekend, helped to boost attendance figures.

Meanwhile, Algorfa staged their annual April Fair at the weekend (pictured below), at the setting of the Ermita de Algorfa, with music and flamenco dancing enjoyed by all.

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Benidorm Pulled Comedy show Benidorm went out for the last time on Wednesday night, with resort-based comedy being axed by ITV after 11 years, though a number of cast members are getting involved in a stage version which hits boards in the UK this autumn.

Show creator, Derren Litten, took to Twitter at the weekend to confirm that ITV had pulled the programme.

Derren wrote: "I created the series over 11 years ago, wrote it, guest starred in it and ended up directing it. It's difficult to think what else there is to do! Thank you for watching! #MuchasGracias" Fans of the show were devastated by the news and took to social media. One said: "Thank you for giving us 10 cracking seasons! One of the best programs on the telly box and it will go down in history. I do hope this isn't the end. That show is too good to end. But I know what ever you decide to do will be in the best interest of the show".

Viewing figures and critics have taken a different stance, with a number of new characters in recent

years failing to grab the same of the originals, like the Garvey family.

There’s also been the view that the stories and scripts lacked the humour and freshness of the early days, and in recent years simply have not been funny.

The Courier’s TV writer, Alex Trelinski said:- “Sadly, Benidorm has been going through the motions for the last five years, and this final run(along with the last few series) has barely raised a laugh for me. Ironically, last week’s episode with “solicitor” Winter Smallcock and the return of Mr.Wu, showed touches of how funny Benidorm used to be, and was easily the best episode of this final series”.

Irish Ferry First

Brittany Ferries this week launched a new twiceweekly route from Cork into northern Spain making it the first ever ferry link between Ireland and Spain.

The service will link Cork and Santander in northern Spain, making two returnsailings a week on a Wednesday and Friday.

The MV Connemara has been specially chartered to serve the route.

The ship has a capacity for around 500 passengers with space for a total of 195 cars. Dining options will reflect the Spanish regions served, and there will also be a small shop and cafébar, as well as passenger lounges.

Four-legged members of the family will also be accommodated thanks to a small allocation of petfriendly cabins on the ship.

Car Increase

Seat is to hire 250 more workers at its plant near Barcelona as production is set to get a big boost at the factory.

Seat, which returned to profit in 2016 for the first time in about a decade, has recently expanded capacity

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at the Martorell factory to 2,400 cars per day from 2,300 to service growing demand for its models.

The carmaker also said it has agreed with unions to run additional production shifts on weekends over the next few months.

TO BE or NOT TO BE?

Resident or Domicile? That Is the Question

By Richard Samuels DipPFS, International Financial Adviser, Blacktower Financial Management (International) Ltd. One of the most frequently asked questions asked by many of the UK nationals living here in Spain is ‘Am I resident or not?’

for many years and did not pay UK taxes.

However, as previously mentioned, under UK law, a person’s domicile is considered to be the place where, although it may not be their home, they have the intention of returning.

It is a good question, and one worth finding the answer to, as your residential status when living abroad affects the way in which you pay tax and how much you pay.

As a rule of thumb, as a Brit living in Spain you will be considered to be fiscal or tax resident if you remain in Spainfor 183 days or more in any tax year. (The tax year in Spain runs from 1st January to 31st December.) Getting your ‘residencia’ rubber-stamps this, as you are registered with both the tax office (Hacienda) and the police, effectively putting you on the radar.

However, if you leave Spain and retain a home in the UK for at least 91 consecutive days, you may still be deemed to be tax resident in the UK if you are present in it on at least 30 days during the UK tax year. You do not have to own the property for this rule to count. If you carry out full-time work in the UK for at least 1 year you will also be deemed to be a UK tax resident. Income derived in the UK is taxable in the UK, so that would include rental income from a property in the UK. Also, some income is taxed at source in the UK, such as private pensions via PAYE. However, this does not mean that this is exempt from tax in Spain.

From the above, you can see it is possible to be liable to pay tax in both the UK and Spain. However, to avoid this problem, the UK has negotiated double tax treaties (DTAs) with over 100 countries including Spain. Spanish residents can therefore receive tax relief on most types of income that has already been taxed in the UK. As the personal allowances in Spain are generally lower than the UK, there could be a difference or shortfall still to pay in Spain.

Basically, if you are a Spanish tax resident, you will need to pay income tax on your worldwide income. However, a nonresident of Spain is only required to pay tax in Spain on any Spanish income. A good ‘asesoria’ or tax adviser should ensure the DTA is used to ensure you pay the correct amount of tax, and not pay tax twice.

Domicile is a legal term which is different from residence or nationality. A person’s domicile is the country which is their natural home, to which they would expect eventually to return if they went abroad. For many retired Brits living here, their country of domicile is particularly important when considering their liabilities under inheritance tax law.

Most UK expats consider their domicile to be the country where they were born. In fact, it is usually the country where their father was born. Your domicile can be changed in exceptional circumstances to be the country that you have chosen to make your permanent home, but this involves severing significant ties with your home country and being a permanent resident abroad for at least 15 years.

Changing your domicile is not an easy thing, and can prove to be particularly troublesome, especially for UK nationals, as a UK domicile means you could be liable for UK Inheritance tax on your worldwide assets. So that would include a Spanish property, for example.

One of the most famous examples of someone falling foul of inheritance tax due to domicile status is that of Richard Burton. Although born in the UK, Burton had lived in the US for 27 years and died in Geneva, where he had taken residence for tax purposes.

Upon his death, HMRC pursued a claim for inheritance tax.

This may seem unreasonable, as he had not lived in the UK

And this is where Burton’s estate came unstuck. Although he had not lived in the UK for decades, did not have a property there and was buried in Switzerland, during his first marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, Burton had bought burial plots in his home town of Pontrhydyfen in Wales. As such, HMRC successfully argued that he was still domiciled in the UK as he had the intention of returning there, consequently reaping £2.4m in inheritance tax.

Although you may not have the same wealth as Richard Burton, it is nonetheless important to understand the implications your residential status has on your inheritance tax liabilities both here in Spain and in your country of domicile, which for most of us is the UK. A review of your financial position would be a sensible option in view of the above or if you would like advice on any of the issues, you can contact me on richard.samuels@blacktowerfm.com.

For further information contact: Richard Samuels, International Financial Adviser, Blacktower Financial Management (International) Ltd M: 692 352 156 or E: richard.samuels@blacktowerfm.com 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 Ltd is authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority and is registered with both the DGS and CNMV. 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.

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Adoption Corner

Pets

Friday 4th May 2018

The Best Of Friends

BELLA Bella is aged five and has always lived with people.

Unfortunately, her owner has serious health problems and is not able to continue to care for her. Bella is a very sweet dog that loves to go for walks and is a very happy, playful girl. She is sterilised, chipped, vaccinated and good with other dogs. For more details, please call Pets in Spain on 645 469 253. www.petsinspain.com.

CARLO Carlo is a small to medium-sized dog aged around nine years, who has a very easy going nature and loves to be near people. He is a very friendly dog, good with people of all ages and mixes well with other dogs. He does have Leishmann’s disease, but fortunately has no health problems from this condition. As Carlo is entering his twighlight years, a foster home would be considered for him, with the K9 charity being resonsible for his vet fees. If you can give him a loving home, please contact the K9 shelter on 600 845 420.

EMILY Aged just three weeks, Emily was found on a busy road and cared for by APAH. She is now three-years-old and has a wonderful, gentle and affectionate nature. She loves attention and to be with people, and also gets on well with other dogs. Emily is micro-chipped, vaccinated and neutered, and just needs her first loving home.

To arrange to meet her, please call APAH on either 630 422 563 or 616 210 850.

MAGGIE MAY

Maggie May is aged eight years and is full of love and ready to go to a home of her own. She was rescued in the most awful conditions and is in a foster home and is the most loving happy girl with no hang ups at all! If you can offer Maggie May the home she deserves, or for more details, please call PEPA on 650 304 746 or email: p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com.

Are you thinking of getting a dog but afraid your cat won't like it, or vice- versa? While many cats and dogs don't get along right off the bat, there are ways to help them adjust to living with each other. By taking your time and understanding what both of your pets need, you can create a happy, peaceful home with both a cat and a dog.

Prepare for the introduction. To begin with, make sure that your home has ample space for the two pets to have some space away from each other for several days, so multiple rooms in your home are necessary. Don't let the first encounter your cat has with your dog be a bad one because of an overzealous and aggressive pup. If you are introducing a new dog to your home or you have a young puppy that doesn't know its commands yet, then you need to be more cautious when introducing it to a cat.

Go slow. Do NOT just let your dog chase your cat around.

Keep the pets separate at first, waiting three or four days before actually introducing the animals face to face. Animals need time to get to know each other's smells and to get to know new homes before they can deal with getting to know another animal.

Alternate the rooms you keep the animals in. This is so they can sniff where each other has been without the other animal being present. Smells are a very important way that animals get to know each other. Let your animals get to know the other's smell before they actually get to know them face to face. Try rubbing a towel on your dog and then putting the towel under your cat's bowl. This will help your cat get used to the dogs smell and accept it.

Let the cat and dog smell each other under the door dividing them. This will help them associate the new smells they are smelling with a specific animal, even if they can't actually see it.

Wait to introduce your cat and dog until the cat seems relaxed and ready. If the cat is frightened and runs and hides whenever the dog gets near the door to their room, you need to give the cat more time. When the cat is adjusted to the smell and sounds of the dog, it may be time to let them see each other.

Hold your cat in your arms until it is calm and relaxed.

Then ask a family member or friend to slowly bring your dog on a leash into the room. Gradually bring the dog closer in small steps, waiting for your cat and dog to both settle down as each step of the way before getting closer. Do not let the animals make physical contact with each other, just get them used to the presence of the other. Be sure to hold the cat only if it is happy to be held. Another option is to have the cat in a crate while you bring the dog in on a leash. This will guarantee that there is not physical contact between them when they first meet.

Show your pets equal amounts of love as you introduce them to each other. Animals, like people, get jealous when 'the new kid' gets more attention than them. Show both of your pets that they are loved by you and that the other animal is not feared by you.

Separate your pets once again. Don't force them to interact for too long, this will just exhaust them, which can lead to conflict. Make sure the first meeting is a good one by keeping it brief and pleasant.

Continue to have your dog and cat interact until they are relaxed in each other's presence. Once the cat seems comfortable enough, keep the dog on leash but let the cat go loose in the room. After several weeks of this, your dog should be trained not to go after the cat, as so you can let the dog off the leash as well, and you now hopefully have the best of animal friends enjoying life together!

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PEGGY 18-month-old Peggy was rescued in a terrible condition after wandering in a village, having been hit by a car. She had to have her leg amputated and is now fully recovered, with three legs proving to be no disadvantage to her! She is quite a dominant dog and would do well to be with another dog of a similar size as she is happy in the company of another dog. For more on Peggy please call PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com

TORVI Torvi is aged four months, and will be fully vaccinated and micro chipped before she can go to her new home.

Anyone looking for a big bundle of fun to join their family may be interested in meeting her, or one of her siblings who are Mastin crossbreeds so have a quite a bit more growing to do. For further information or to make an appointment please call the SAT kennels in Dolores on 966 710 047 or emailinfo@satanimalrescue.com

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Memorable Selfie

A British tourist ended up in hospital with broken arms and legs, after falling down a cliff on Mallorca, while taking a selfie photo on his mobile phone.

The unnamed 38-year-old holidaymaker is believed to have fallen more than three metres near the Puig de Ros in Llucmajor.

He is believed to have posed on the edge of the precipice when the rock he was standing on gave way.

A witness saw the man fall and raised the alarm and while firefighters were able to successfully rescue the tourist and get him to hospital for

treatment.

It is not the first time that a walker has got into trouble on the cliffs, as back in January, a 62-year-old Spaniard survived a nine metre fall off a cliff edge in the same area.

Hung Up Boxes Phone boxes could disappear in Spain because they are 'rarely used', according to a draft Bill of Law passed in Parliament.

Until now, telephone line providers have been obliged to ensure enough phone boxes are set up in all public areas to cover society's needs, and also to issue free telephone directories to all households and businesses.

Now, according to the draft law text, it is likely that neither will be mandatory by the end of this year at the latest.

“The generalisation of use and coverage of mobile phone services means usage of telephone boxes has fallen considerably in the last few years,” it reads.

Additionally, no 'operator' service has been in use for several years as it is now considered obsolete.

And not one single telecommunications provider has bid for the job of installing and maintaining public phone boxes or for drawing up telephone directories, putting both in danger of extinction.

Even the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has questioned several times recently whether it is worth keeping either.

Spain still has 18,000 telephone booths in operation, but of these, two-thirds, or 12,000, are not financially

viable, says the CNMC, costing more to run than they earn.

The Commission carried out a survey which found that 88% of residents in Spain had never used a public phone booth in their lives.

Telefónica says around half of Spain's telephone boxes have never been used.

Yet the cost of maintaining public telephones has rise steadily over the years – most recent figures, from 2015, show that the taxpayer shells out €2.07 million a year on keeping phone boxes in operation.

Given that no companies bid for the job of maintaining telephone booths and print-

ing phone directories, Telefónica was automatically designated by the government to do both for 2017 and 2018.

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Who Helps The Horses?

A stand-off in north-west Spain as to who should look after a group of abandoned horses has seen the animals left without care, whilst a local council and regional government battle it out.

The municipal authorities say the regional government should organise veterinary checks; the Xunta, the Galicia regional government, says it is a municipal affair.

In January, passers-by at a roundabout in Lugo noticed five mastiff dogs were eating the carcass of a dead horse.

Winesses in the Galicia region town said that famished, abandoned and often injured horses had been on the outskirts of the town for some time, and donkeys have also been spotted regularly on the outskirts of Galician towns.

Local residents have repeatedly reported the stray horses to the authorities, who continue to allegedly ignore the problem because the owners cannot maintain the animals.

Local sources say the horses belong to owners without a fixed residence and "who are insolvent," making it harder for the authorities to track down the responsible parties, according to El Pais newspaper.

Last year, the animal

rights group Libera! filed a motion in the Galician regional parliament for the animals to be protected.

A 2017 law passed to protect local animals does not stretch to horses. The municipal and regional governments each say it is the other's responsibility to sort out the packs of stray horses, leaving the animals between a rock and a hard place, or on the edges of a city. Discussing a new law for the protection of animals

in 2017, Rubén Pérez, a spokesman for Libera! told El Pais the animals had legislatively been "left in no man's land" because the new law excludes them.

The equine drama has left authorities baffled as to who should take charge and whose responsibility the animals are.

The Fundación Franz Weber has apparently documented 160 recent cases of abandoned horses in Galicia.

Young Driver

The Guardia Civil is investigating a video which has appeared on social media in which a seven-year-old boy appears to be driving a car on a public road in Sevilla province.

The child is accompanied by both parents, sitting on his father's lap whilst his mother films him.

His father, on the video, is controlling the pedals, and

not wearing a seatbelt, whilst his son steers the car.

Guardia Civil officers say: “Even though at first glance it looks like a funny anecdote, society needs to be conscious of how serious it really is.”

Andalucía's Traffic Analysis and Investigation Group (GIAT) has launched a probe after receiving an anonymous tip-off from a

member of the public who saw the video online.

The boy's parents could both be charged with dangerous driving. “Civil education is fundamental in the fight against road accidents, and for children of this age, parents are a basic link in the chain and a strong influence on how the next generation behaves,” the Guardia Civil says.

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Within walking distance are plenty of local amenities including bars, supermarkets, shops, and restaurants. You really do have everything you could require for day-to-day living at a very short distance. The health centre is also located in this area. A well-established regular bus route takes you into the centre of Torrevieja within minutes and the local Torrevieja beaches are also easily accessed.

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Health

Friday 4th May 2018

Dementia risk linked to some medicines A study links the long-term use of some drugs with a higher risk of dementia.

In England, 1.5 to two million people are likely to be taking anticholinergics for depression, Parkinson's and bladder problems.

University of East Anglia researchers found more cases of dementia in patients prescribed larger quantities of particular anticholinergics.

But experts said patients should not stop taking them, as their benefits may outweigh any risk.

The study found no risk with other anticholinergic medicines used to treat common conditions such as hay fever, travel sickness and stomach cramps.

What did the study look at?

The research, funded by Alzheimer's Society and published in the British Medical Journal, looked at

the medical records of 40,770 patients aged from 65 to 99 with a diagnosis of dementia between April 2006 and July 2015 and compared them with those of 283,933 people without dementia.

It also analysed more than 27 million prescriptions making it the biggest study of its kind into the long-term impact of anticholinergic drugs in relation to dementia.

What are anticholinergic drugs?

They block acetylcholine, a chemical messenger that carries signals across the nervous system.

Some are available on prescription only.

What should patients do if they take any of these drugs?

The most important thing is "not to panic", according to Dr Ian Maidment, from

Aston University.

"Don't do anything suddenly.

Don't stop taking your medication," he said.

"As a patient, if you are concerned about it, go and speak to your doctor or your pharmacist.

You don't have to see them urgently."

Not taking prescribed drugs

could have serious consequences, Dr Maidment said.

"Having untreated depression is also a risk as people can die from that, so it is a question of balancing risks," he added.

How have experts reacted?

Alzheimer's Society head of research Dr James Pickett

told the BBC that compared with the risk of dementia being caused by an unhealthy lifestyle, the potential risk of an anticholinergic drug contributing to the onset of the disease was "quite small".

"We don't exactly know within those that are taking these drugs, who is at the increased risk and who isn't," he said.

Dementia Research national director Prof Martin Rossor said: "It is important to be cautious about associations as they do not prove causation."

Alzheimer's Research UK research director Dr Carol Routledge said: "The study didn't investigate what might cause this link between anticholinergics and dementia risk, and researchers will need to build on these findings in future studies."

Rob Howard, professor of

old age psychiatry at University College London, said: "It is possible that use of some of these drugs may have actually been to treat the very earliest symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, which can be associated with low mood and lower urinary tract infections, many years before the development of dementia."

Dr Parastou Donyai, associate professor of social and cognitive pharmacy at the University of Reading, said: "This type of study imagines that patients actually take their drugs as they were prescribed for them.

"But we know from other research that people with long-term health conditions really only take their medication as prescribed around half of the time - the other half, people either take more or less of their medication or not at all."

120 homeopaths trying to ‘cure’ autism in UK More than 120 homeopaths in the UK are offering a “cure” for autism that involves supposedly detoxing children of the vaccines and antibiotics held responsible for the condition, the Guardian has learned.

The homeopaths are accredited practitioners of CEASE “therapy”, which stands for Complete Elimination of Autistic Spectrum Expression.

CEASE was invented by a Dutch doctor called Tinus Smits, who died of cancer in 2010.

His book and website, which lists therapists around the world, describe a method of ridding children of toxins – predominantly vaccines and medication – that are said to cause autism. It involves homeopathic remedies and high doses of vitamin C in excess of those recom-

mended by national guidelines.

Diarrhoea, which could be a result of excessive vitamin C, and fever in children should not necessarily be cause for concern, say CEASE therapists, because it is the child’s body purging itself of toxins.

“It’s absolutely appalling,” said Carol Povey, director of the centre for autism at the National Autistic Society

(NAS), which helps develop best practice. “As healthcare practitioners, homeopaths should still be working on evidence-based practice and looking at national guidelines.”

The NAS is concerned by the suggestion that autism, a developmental disorder, could be cured. It is also disturbed by the claim that autism is linked to vaccines, as proposed by Andrew Wakefield – a theory that has been comprehensively discredited. Wakefield, a former gastroenterologist, was struck off the medical register over his claims.

Homeopathic cures, like other bogus therapies on the internet, “hoodwink new parents when they are vulnerable” and can cause harm, said Povey.

A minority of CEASE therapists in the UK are members of the Society of Homeopaths. Its regulatory body, the , has said the Society of Homeopaths must state by the middle of next month what action it will take to ensure children are safe as a condition of its reaccreditation.

The PSA told the Society of Homeopaths that “CEASE therapy contravenes medical advice by apparently advising against vaccination of children, avoiding antibiotics in the case of infection and advocates high doses of vitamins not recommended for children. We are also concerned that the full name of CEASE (Complete Elimination of Autistic Spectrum Expression) strongly implies the ability to cure autism through this therapy,” it said in a statement.

While the society had responded that its members “should not be practising the

aspects of CEASE that defy medical advice”, this was not clear on its website, said the PSA. Mark Taylor, chief executive of the Society of Homeopaths, said it was looking into how many of its members practised CEASE therapy and whether they complied with advice on respecting medical evidence. “We are looking at the advice we will offer over the next few weeks so there is nothing more to say at the moment,” said.

Many other homeopaths who are also CEASE therapists are not members of the society. The PSA urges the public to choose only those on its accredited register.

Jennifer Hautman, a homeopath who is not a Society of Homeopaths member, says she has used CEASE therapy if parents have requested it. Smits’s book, she says, is written for lay people, who then look for a therapist.

“I would never promise to cure anything. I do think autism can be treated. It can be improved,” she said.

Children often had gut disorders, she said, adding: “I’m not a gut specialist. That’s what Andrew Wakefield was working on.

She claimed: “There are a lot of scientists finding similar results to his.”

While the causes of autistic spectrum disorder are unclear, she says on her website that “ASD is often linked to vaccine damage” and asks parents to fill in a questionnaire “if you feel you or your children have been damaged by vaccines”.

Asked about the CEASE theory that fever and diarrhoea help expel toxins, she said: “Generally speaking in homeopathy, discharge can

be a good thing. If you have infected wounds, you want the pus to come out. If you have diarrhoea you want it to come out rather than be constipated.” A child must not be allowed to become dehydrated, however.

Smits, the creator of CEASE therapy, wrote in his book that “all kinds of detoxification reactions may occur” as a result of the treatment.

Most common is fever, he said, which “should not be treated with medication, as it is a healthy reaction of the organism and not a disease! ... Eliminations like diarrhea, flu, expectoration, and badsmelling and cloudy urine should also be left alone, because they are a part of the healing process.”

One child he treated had diarrhoea that “relieved his system so much that his autism almost disappeared instantly”. After 10 days, however, his mother was so concerned that she took him to the doctor, who gave him immodium to stop the diarrhoea.

“Almost immediately the child had a setback and became autistic as before.

The diarrhea was a perfect detoxification for his bowels and brain.

Neither the doctor not the mother understood this, and the medication interfered with the progress of the cure,” claimed Smits.

Ursula Kraus-Harper, a member of the Society of Homeopaths, said she has used CEASE therapy since attending a seminar with Smits in 2010 but that she uses it in conjunction with classical homeopathy.

Children started improving after a certain set of detoxes, she said. She did not believe homeopathy was a cure, however.

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Broccoli pasta shells

Ingredients 1 head of broccoli, chopped into florets 1 garlic clove, unpeeled 2 tbsp olive oil 250g pasta shells ½ small pack parsley ½ small pack basil 30g toasted pine nuts ½ lemon, zested and juiced 30g parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), plus extra to serve Method Heat the

oven

to

200C/180C fan/gas 6.

Toss the broccoli and garlic in 1 tbsp of the olive oil on a roasting tray and roast in the oven for 10-12 mins, until softened.

Tip the pasta shells into a pan of boiling, salted water. Cook according to packet instructions and drain. Tip the parsley, basil, pine nuts, lemon juice and parmesan into a blender. Once the broccoli is done, set aside a few of the smaller pieces.

Squeeze the garlic from

its skin, add to the blender along with the rest of the broccoli, pulse to a pesto and season well.

Toss the pasta with the pesto. Add the reserved broccoli florets, split between two bowls and top with a little extra parmesan, the lemon zest and a good grinding of black pepper, if you like.

Prep: 5 mins Cook: 15 mins Serves: 4

Fish, mash & peas

Ingredients 1 slice crusty bread, crusts removed handful of parsley stalks 1 garlic clove 1 tbsp olive oil, plus a little for brushing 2 salmon fillets 250g new potatoes, quartered 100g peas 2 tbsp butter ½ tbsp malt vinegar tartare sauce, to serve (optional)

Method Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Blitz the bread with the parsley, garlic, olive oil and some seasoning. Brush each of the fish fillets with a little oil then pat the breadcrumbs on, place on a lined baking sheet and bake for 10-12 mins, until flaking.

Meanwhile, bring a pan of salted water to the boil and add the new potatoes.

Cook for 8-10 mins, until a knife can slide in without

resistance, adding the peas for the last 2 mins.

Drain, then tip back into the pan to steam dry, add the butter and malt vinegar and roughly mash, keeping it a bit chunky.

Dollop the mash onto a plate, top with the fish and serve with tartare sauce, if you like.

Prep: 5 mins Cook: 15 mins Serves: 2

Food & Drink

Butternut, chickpea, feta & pickled radish salad

Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp rose harissa 1 butternut squash, skin on, seeds out, cut into large wedges 2 x 400g can chickpeas, drained 2 tbsp sherry vinegar 200 radishes, cut into pieces 80g vegetarian feta, crumbled 1 small pack dill, chopped 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds, toasted

Method Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Mix the oil with the harissa, then toss with the butternut squash and some seasoning in a large roasting tray. Roast for 30 mins. Add the chickpeas, toss together, then cook for a further 20 mins.

Meanwhile, heat the sherry vinegar in a saucepan with a big pinch of sugar and salt with 1 tbsp water. Bring to a simmer, then remove from

the heat and tip in the radishes. Mix and set aside.

Pile the butternut and chickpeas onto a platter, mix through most of the feta and dill, then scatter over the pickled radishes and their liquor. Top with the remaining feta, dill and pumpkin seeds.

Prep: 15 mins Cook: 50 mins Serves: 4

Pea & pasta frittata

Ingredients 5 large eggs 200ml milk 80g parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), finely grated 200g pasta shells, cooked following pack instructions ½ pack mint, chopped 200g frozen peas 1 tbsp butter green salad, to serve

Method Heat the grill to its highest setting. Crack the eggs into a large bowl, whisk in the milk, then combine with half the cheese, the mint, cooked pasta shells and peas, and add a big pinch of seasoning. Melt the butter in a medium ovenproof non-stick frying pan over a medium heat.

Tip in the pasta and egg

mixture and leave to set for about 5 mins.

Scatter the remaining parmesan on top and put under the grill for 10 mins until cooked through, then slide onto a plate. Cut into slices and serve with a green salad.

Prep: 5 mins Cook: 15 mins Serves: 4

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Barbecued British ribs Ingredients 75 g sea salt 2 tablespoons white peppercorns 6 fresh bay leaves 4 racks of higher-welfare pork loin back ribs , (3kg in total) 150 g radishes BARBECUE SAUCE 225 g HP sauce 300 g tomato ketchup 170 g English mustard 150 ml Worcestershire sauce 100 ml whisky 750 ml fresh apple juice 200 ml runny honey POTATO SALAD 500 g baby new potatoes ½ a bunch of fresh dill , (15g) 1 bunch of fresh chives , (30g) 50 g pickled onions 1 eating apple 1 ripe pear 200 g Greek yoghurt 1 teaspoon English mustard Method Preheat the oven to 140ºC/275ºF/gas 1.

Place the sea salt, white peppercorns and bay leaves into a pestle and mortar and bash until fine (or whiz in a blender), then decant into a jar.

Rub 2 tablespoons of

flavoured salt over the racks of ribs (save the remaining salt for another day), then transfer to two baking trays and cover with tin foil. In a 25cm x 30cm high-sided tray, mix the barbecue sauce ingredients together.

Transfer all the trays to the oven for 3 hours, placing the sauce tray at the very bottom uncovered, adding a splash of water to loosen, if needed.

When the time’s up, remove the trays from the oven, adding a splash of water to each of the rib trays to deglaze.

Divide a quarter of the sauce (roughly 300g) between the rib trays (freeze the rest for another day), turning the ribs with tongs to coat, then place the ribs directly onto the bars of the oven, with the empty sauce tray directly below.

Place a small handful of whisky wood chips into a metal sieve and set them alight. Once smoking, put the sieve into a metal bowl, place at the very bottom of the oven and smoke the ribs for 30 minutes, or until sticky and caramelised.

Meanwhile, make your potato salad. Scrub the

potatoes, then cook in a pan of boiling salted water for 15 minutes, or until tender, then drain and leave to cool slightly.

Pick the dill, then finely chop with the chives, and

place in a large bowl. Slice the pickled onions, then core and finely matchstick the apple and pear, and place in the bowl.

Add the yoghurt, mustard and warm potatoes, then

toss together to coat. Taste and season to perfection.

Transfer the racks to a board and slice into individual ribs, drizzling any juices from the tray over the top. Finely slice the

radishes and sprinkle over the top, then serve with the potato salad.

Cook: 3 hour 45 mins Serves: 6

Bakewell shots

Ingredients 6 cherries in kirsch (and some of the kirsch from the jar or tin) 100ml cloudy apple juice ½ lemon, juiced 100ml vodka 50ml amaretto 1 egg white ice

Method Take six shot glasses and drop a cherry into the bottom of each one along with a drizzle of the kirsch.

Put all of the other ingredients, except for the ice, into a cocktail shaker and shake hard until frothy. You can also do this in a

blender if that’s easier.

Once frothy add the ice and shake until the outside of the cocktail shaker feels very cold. Double strain the mixture into a jug then carefully share the mixture out between the glasses.

Prep: 10 mins Serves: 6

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Caravaca de la Cruz 18:00 Final Procession to return the statue of Nuestra Stma. y Vera Cruz from the Parroquia del El Salvador to the Basilica-Santuario 00:00 Spectacular Firework display to mark the end of the fiesta Redovan Night walk following a 4 km magical route. 9 pm from the Plaza de la Iglesia. See www.redovan.es for more details Sunday 6 May, 2018 Rojales Art and Craft market at the Rojales Caves - music, art, paella, drinks from 11 am Torrevieja Exhibition of static and radio-controlled model boats - Los Aljibes exhibition rooms in the Park of Nations Rhythms of Jamaica - free concert organised in collaboration with the town hall - from 5 pm to 8 pm in the Parque de las Naciones Formentera del Segura XXVII Day of the Bicycle - 12 km bike ride through Heredades, Daya Nueva, Daya Vieja (lunch stop) and Barrio Palacios 9 am Santa Pola Guided Nature Route (in Spanish) - 11:00 – 13:00 leaving from the Museo de la Sal

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Trust me you will not be disappointed in season two of The Handmaid’s Tale which has started being screened all around the world, including RTE in Ireland, yet UK-rights holders Channel Four have not tipped their hand yet over screen dates.

That’s stupid as fans just go elsewhere to get their fix of the show, and the first two episodes deliver big time.

This dystopian tale is magnificent, and what I’ve enjoyed is the different direction it has taken, which I did not expect (no spoilers….see below!).

Elisabeth Moss as Offred/June Osborne gives once again a killer performance, but we also get some fascinating flashbacks to what happened as it all started to get nasty, and not just with Offred as well.

The Handmaid’s Tale was unlucky to have Big Little Lies up against in the US award ceremonies last year, but this time it has a clear run, and is one of the most brutally uncomfortable pieces of television I have ever seen…..check out the first 15 minutes of the first

A Handmaid’s Triumph

episode. But we get some hope as well, and this Hulu subscription show is television drama at the very top of it’s game. It’s just a shame that UK viewers are being treated badly by Channel Four over it.

Though listings have been kept under wraps, I optimistically suspect that Channel Four could well slot in season two of The Handmaid’s Tale in the Sunday night Homeland slot, which finishes its

penultimate season for UK viewers this weekend. I’ve watched at US pace, and I have to say that I nearly rose from my armchair and applauded the finale this week. It was that good with some great twists and performances. To think that back in season three, most of us thought that Homeland should have been canned because it ran out of steam!

Coronation Street writers Simon Crowther and Chris Fewtrell have done the rare

deed of coming up with a new BBC-1 sitcom that isn’t a total dud. ‘Home From Home’ stars Johnny Vegas as a Potteries-area newsagent who has seen his dream come true of buying a Lake District lodge. He and his wife move up to Ullswater, and discover their neighbours, including Emilia Fox, are southerners with a very different background.

You know really what’s going to happen with a “weekly catastrophe”, but

the characters are likeable and Vegas is a fine performer. Just produce a better script guys!

What is it the infatuation of the UK press and social media to leak and expose every plot line in soaps and dramas? Leaks in the last few days have spoiled some great surprises coming up later this month in Coronation Street, one of them thanks to the rivals at the old BBC! I’m left to wonder why

people don’t simply want a treat of not knowing what will happen (like in Homeland)? It’s a great shame, and the US shows seem to do a far better job of keeping quiet compared to the Brits.

More doesn’t mean good in the world of television, and it so it was in the case of Benidorm (ITV) which aired for the last time on Wednesday. Executives and producers need to have the courage to say that a good idea has exhausted all avenues, and that was the case four to five years ago for Benidorm. No reason though why it should not come back in a few years time with a new cast, and crucially some fresh ideas which could make the viewer laugh.

There appear to be no surprises so far from the US networks as to what they are keeping on for next season, as the majority of their newer offerings over recent months have tanked (deservedly).

I’ll scream right here if something stupid happens in any favourites being pulled, but so far so good.

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Friday Distracted by the voices in her head, Belle reacts badly when she thinks the voices are telling her to destroy the alcohol for her new business. She goes berserk in the barn.

Later, Lachlan and Gerry search for Belle. Will they be able to find her?

Meanwhile, Priya sees an act of destruction.

Monday Gerry is wary as he questions Lachlan on what he told him about the crash yesterday. A defensive Lachlan gets upset and Gerry agrees to drop it. Later, Gerry continues his detective work and finds Lachlan’s voicemail message, but what will he hear? Meanwhile, Lisa returns to the village after recent events with Belle.

She and Zak are unable to avoid the inevitable conversation. Zak is emotional as he admits how much he’s missed Lisa, but can he convince her to stay?

Tuesday DI Bails emerges as Charity puts the bins out. He backs her into a corner and Charity struggles to keep it together, lashing out at the bin when he goes. Later, Charity is unable to hide her disgust for Bails any longer, but what does she have in mind? Meanwhile, Noah knows a secret.

Elsewhere, Laurel tries to be strong.

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Wednesday Charity opens up to Harriet. Meanwhile, it’s extremely awkward as Laurel is forced to join Brenda’s hen do and Brenda tries to keep up appearances. Doug also gets involved by trying to persuade Laurel to admit her feelings to Bob before it’s too late. Elsewhere, Bob’s stags gather in the pirate ship to remember Ashley, but Bob wants to be alone. The others reluctantly go, leaving Bob grieving for his friend and his love for Laurel.

Thursday It’s the day of Bob and Brenda’s wedding, but the groom is nowhere to be seen. Lydia is instructed to delay Brenda, but Brenda leaves for the church before she can. Brenda is shocked when she arrives at the church and hears that Bob is nowhere to be found.

Later on, Doug and Laurel find Bob in the pirate ship and Arthur admits to locking him in. Bob rushes off, hoping he can still make it to the wedding, but will he?

And if so, will Brenda still want to marry him?

Meanwhile, Dawn asks Ross for drugs and he asks her for information on Simon.

Will Bob and Brenda’s wedding go ahead after the day’s events?

Meanwhile, tipsy Bernice is miffed by Daz’s reaction when she asks him to move in. Later, when she overhears him on the phone to Kerry, she becomes suspicious.

Elsewhere, Charity gets support from an unlikely source.

Friday Toyah arrives back in Weatherfield with the baby and Peter is instantly smitten. Simon is unimpressed and tells Leanne that he thinks Toyah has been having an affair.

Meanwhile, Johnny confides in Liz that Jenny has been behaving strangely and Liz urges him to speak to her. When Johnny implies to Jenny that he thinks she might be cheating, how will she react?

Simon tells Leanne about the cottage Toyah was renting and about how she covered for him when he was bunking off school.

Leanne confronts Toyah, who says the cottage is for a friend who is escaping an abusive relationship.

However, Toyah also confides that she does have a secret – Eva is not coming back to Weatherfield.

Troubled by her lies, Toyah takes Susie out in the pram, but Aidan notices Toyah’s awkwardness when he stops to say hello to the baby.

Monday Alone, Aidan is deep in thought, but he’s forced to snap out of it and head to Johnny’s leaving party at The Rovers. With the party in full swing, Aidan gives Johnny a farewell present as everyone raises a toast to Jenny and Johnny. Toyah is happily watching Susie being passed round the pub, but when Sally goes to hand Susie to Aidan, she panics and swoops in. Aidan and Toyah’s eyes meet, and while Toyah quickly looks away, Aidan continues to

look at Susie. Is he piecing it all together? Finding an opportunity, Aidan picks up Susie, battling to make sense of it all. Later at the cottage, Eva is on the phone to Toyah when there’s a knock on the door. She’s shocked to see Aidan.

Admitting that he found the address for the cottage in Toyah’s handbag, Aidan apologises to Eva for how he spoke to her when he found out she was pregnant. Eva is confused as to what exactly Aidan knows, but when Aidan brings up Susie, Eva bursts into tears and tells him she’s sorry. Soon afterwards, Eva discovers that Aidan has purposely left her engagement ring. Later, when Toyah video calls Eva at the cottage, she panics on seeing Aidan’s coat on the sofa. Eva tells Toyah about Aidan’s visit and how she thinks he wants to get back together.

Back on the street, Toyah goes to speak to Aidan.

Wednesday Hour-long episode Eva toys with her engagement ring, hoping it’s a sign that Aidan wants to try again. However, when Aidan doesn’t arrive to open up at the factory, Johnny presumes that he’s slept in and lets himself into Aidan’s flat.

school, which leaves her nervous that Aidan could have returned for revenge.

Later, while working alone at the pub, Mick is jumped on by a man in a balaclava in the barrel store. xxxFriday Halfway is centre of attention at the Queen Vic following the week’s revelations. Later on, Halfway’s eventful week continues when he discovers that the Carters are throwing him a party with a surprise guest.

Meanwhile, Hunter discovers that Mel and Jack have spent the night together, despite her attempts to keep it a secret.

Monday Stacey receives a glam makeover from Tiffany and goes on a night out with Whitney. When Stacey flirts with a group of men and one of them gets carried away, Martin jumps in to defend her – but things get out of hand when he throws a punch and hurts his back in the process.

Despite the mishap, Stacey is impressed by Martin’s heroics and moves in for a kiss after helping him back home. Will Martin reciprocate her advances?

Tuesday Mel feels nervous when she realises that someone has driven a car with blacked-out windows to the Square, clearly keen to keep an eye on something. She also learns that Hunter hasn’t turned up for

He finds a note in Aidan’s handwriting and then forces his way into the bathroom. Johnny lets the police and paramedics inside, breaking the awful news that Aidan has taken his own life. The police confirm Aidan’s suicide and the Connors are overwhelmed with grief.

Thursday As they continue to spend time together, Sonia can’t help reminiscing over a time when she and Martin were happy as a couple. Later, Martin falls asleep and Sonia secretly kisses him. Meanwhile, Phil suggests to Kim that Vincent may have left Walford because he couldn’t cope.

With the clock ticking to find a cure for his secret patient in Portugal and Abigail breathing down his neck, Gaskell takes a massive gamble to save his trial.

An unexpected discovery throws Dom’s career as a surgeon into doubt, which leads him to question things closer to home.

When an angry relative questions Fletch’s integrity, he is forced to find a way to play the management game without giving up his soul.

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Friday 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 Sounds Like Friday Night Celebrating her sixth studio album to hit the top spot Kylie Minogue will perform two tracks live.

21:00 EastEnders Mel tries to brush off the events of the previous night.

21:30 The Button Game show set simultaneously in the houses of five UK families, whose members tackle a number of fiendishly fun challenges requiring skill, determination and intellect from the comfort of their living rooms over the course of a day in the hope of securing cash prizes.

22:00 Have I Got News for You Paul Merton Ian are joined by guest host Rhod Gilbert and panellists Andy Hamilton and Baroness Warsi.

22:30 Home From Home Neil is feeling despondent about his lack of popularity and throws a party to try and make amends.

23:00 News 23:35 Graham Norton 00:25 Wannabe 00:50 Film - No Strings Attached (14) 02:30 Weather 02:35 News

07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 08:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 09:00 Antiques Roadshow 10:00 News 11:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 13:00 Local Elections 2018 14:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 16:00 Election 2018 17:30 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Britain in Bloom 20:00 Live: World Championship Snooker Jason Mohammad introduces live action from the penultimate session of the first semi-final, where the winner is guaranteed a minimum of £180,000.

22:00 Syria: The World’s War How an uprising about high unemployment, corruption and a lack of political freedom under President Bashar seven years ago has turned into a full-scale civil war. In the second of two programmes, Lyse Doucet speaks to politicians and soldiers from within Syria and also from Western and regional powers. She asks difficult questions of the foreign minister of Syria itself, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar concerning their involvement in the decisions that shaped the conflict.

23:00 Episodes 23:30 Newsnight 00:05 Front Row Late 00:35 World Championship Snooker 01:25 Film - Easy Money (15) 03:20 Panorama 03:50 Civilisations 04:50 American Crime Story

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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 Belle reaches breaking point.

20:30 Coronation Street Toyah introduces Peter to their baby daughter.

21:00 Love Your Garden The team head to Canterbury to meet an outstanding soldier, Gurkha Hari Budha Maga, and his young family.

Despite tragically losing both his legs in the Afghanistan in an IED incident, Hari remains focused on helping others.

One of his acts of generosity was to make the journey to Cumbria to help pensioners whose homes were hit by the terrible floods in 2011.

21:30 Coronation Street Simon alerts Leanne to Toyah’s lies.

22:00 Lethal Weapon Riggs deals with withdrawal from drinking while searching for the culprit behind a heist. Meanwhile, Murtaugh gets called ‘grandpa’ by another parent while at the playground with Harper.

23:00 News 23:45 The Keith & Paddy Picture Show 00:10 Through the Keyhole 01:10 Jackpot247 04:00 Take on the Twisters

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:35 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 20:30 Unreported World Reporter Rania Abouzeid and director Karim Shah travel to Kabul where the population, long used to living with bombs and gunfights, face a new danger: criminal gangs who kidnap for ransom.

21:00 Our Wildest Dreams Lyndon and his pregnant wife Ruth take a gamble of a lifetime, quitting the UK and ploughing their savings into a safari lodge in the Zambian outback. What could possibly go wrong?

22:00 Gogglebox The householders critics share their opinions on what they have been watching on TV. The programme captures their deliver sharp, insightful, passionate and sometimes emotional critiques, delivered from the comfort of their armchairs.

23:00 Friday Night Dinner 23:30 High and Dry 00:05 First Dates 01:05 Film The Grey (14) 03:10 True Horror 04:05 Kiss Me First 05:00 Come Dine with Me

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07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 13:10 News 13:15 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 14:10 Access 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:20 NCIS 16:15 Film - Presumed Dead in Paradise 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Gadget Show Jon Bentley gets an earful of the latest advance in home cinema audio and the G Team team rustle up a sampling menu featuring three very different styles of barbecue.

21:00 Britain’s Great Cathedrals with Tony Robinson Liverpool cathedral was designed in the Gothic style by Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed the red telephone box. It took 74 years to build and was paid for by money donated from the people of Liverpool.

22:00 Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain Michael Portillo explores Shepton Mallet prison, which over its 400-year history has seen numerous executions and escape attempts. At the start of the Second World War, it became a safehouse for precious historical documents, and later in the conflict was transformed into the US Army’s death row.

23:00 Inside... 00:05 Meet the Psychopaths 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 18:50 Take Me Out 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 21:30 Superstore 22:00 Film Hercules (14) ITV 3 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 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Marple 23:00 The Syndicate ITV 4 07:00 Football’s Greatest 07:15 The Chase 08:00 The Chase 08:50 Tour de Yorkshire Road Cycling 13:45 Cash Cowboys 14:45 Pawn Stars 15:15 Tour de Yorkshire 19:30 World Cup Top Goalscorers 19:45 Live: UEFA Under 17 European Championship Football 22:00 Tour de Yorkshire Road Cycling 23:00 Film - The Bourne Identity (14) 01:25 The Americans

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Live Women's FA Cup Football

Saturday - BBC One Arsenal Women v Chelsea Ladies (Kick-off 18.30).

Coverage of the final, which takes place at Wembley

Stadium, as the successors to Manchester City Women are crowned. Fourteen-time winners Arsenal overcame Everton Ladies 2-1 in their semi-final, while Chelsea

defeated the holders 2-0.

This match is a repeat of the 2016 fixture, in which the Gunners emerged victorious 1-0 thanks to Danielle Carter's early strike.

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Bake Off: The Professionals

Sunday - Channel 4 Professional duos from across the UK go head to head, aiming to impress judges and celebrated pastry chefs Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin, and

progress to the next round.

In the first episode, the teams must finely craft two batches of uniform miniature classics - 24 conversations and 24 tartes aux fruits - in just three and a half hours.

This is followed by the

Showpiece, in which a reinvention of the Black Forest gateau is required in five hours.

This new show is presented by former Bake Off contestant Liam Charles and comedian Tom Allen.

Tabula Rasa: Spectre

Saturday - ITV Jeremy Clarkson steps into Chris Tarrant's shoes to host the first in a special weeklong revival of the quiz, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

Contestants sit in the famous chair to answer a maximum of 15 questions, hoping to win ÂŁ1 million and join original millionaires Judith Keppel, David Edwards, Robert Brydges, Pat Gibson and Ingram

Wilcox.

As ever, each player has three lifelines - Ask the Audience, Phone a Friend and 50:50, and, of course, there are also some new and exciting twists along the way.

Sunday - Channel 4 First episode of a Belgian crime drama about a woman with amnesia in an institution

who becomes a key figure in a missing person’s case, and must recover her memories to prove her innocence. While visits from her

family bring the past back to light, she remains uncertain if she is constructing fantasies or recovering memories.

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 Bargain Hunt 15:15 Live: World Championship Snooker 17:10 News 17:30 Final Score 18:10 Live: Women’s FA Cup Football Arsenal v Chelsea 20:40 Pointless Celebrities A kids TV special edition of the knowledge quiz. Presented by Alexander Armstrong and co-host Richard Osman, featuring Timmy Mallett and Michaela Strachan, Bernard Cribbins OBE and Jenny Hanley, Andy Crane and Janet Ellis, plus JB Gill and Cat Sandion.

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 14:10 Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge 16:10 Love in the Countryside 17:10 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes

20:00 Dad’s Army A land mine cuts off all power and communications services in Walmington-on-Sea, but Mainwaring rises to the challenge by declaring martial law - while Pike gets 21:30 Who Dares Wins stuck on some railings..

Nick Knowles presents the game show in which two 20:30 Live: World pairs of strangers team up, Championship Snooker each battling to outdo the Hazel Irvine presents covother by listing as much as erage of the fourth and final they know about a given session of the second subject. semi-final, where the first player to reach 17 frames 22:15 Casualty Connie is will progress to the final. back and she has a big idea Barry Hawkins has been for the emergency depart- one of the most consistent ment, but Charlie’s not con- performers at the Crucible vinced. Meanwhile, Alicia in recent years, reaching has got the keys for her the final in 2013 and the new house and the gang semi-finals on three other convince her to have a occasions, although The house warming and Ethan Hawk lost at this stage in pays his respects at the 2017 to four-time champion spot where his brother died. John Higgins.

23:05 News 23:25 Match of the Day 00:45 The Button 01:15 Film - When in Rome (PG) 02:40 Weather 02:45 News

23:00 Film - Kajaki: The True Story (18) 00:40 A Life on Screen 01:40 Film Easy Money II (15) 03:15 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 Invitation to a Royal Wedding 13:20 News 13:30 This Time Next Year 14:30 ITV Racing: Live From Newmarket 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News

07:15 British GT Championship Motor Racing 08:10 The King of Queens 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:30 The Big Bang Theory 12:55 The Simpsons 14:25 Come Dine with Me 15:25 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 17:30 Collection Hunters 19:30 Ninja Warrior UK 18:35 The Secret Life of Gethin Jones, Jenni the Zoo 19:30 News Falconer, and Josh Cuthbert from Union J will 20:00 The Restoration be among the competitors Man George Clarke looks taking their turn and trying back at four of the most to defeat the obstacle dramatic tower conversions from the show, including a course. conversion of a derelict 20:30 Harry Hill’s Alien water tower on the Settle to Fun Capsule Helping Carlisle line, and a transforHarry Hill fill the fun capsule mation of Gerogian windto prevent an alien invasion mill into a beautiful family are Rizzle Kicks singer home.

Jordan Stephens, broadcaster Janet Street-Porter, 21:00 Britain’s Most Towns In star of “The Last Leg” Alex Historic Brooker, and legendary Cheltenham, Britain’s most Regency town, Professor actor Una Stubbs.

Alice Roberts attends a 21:00 Britain’s Got Talent period society ball, investiAnt and Dec host the fourth gates social hierarchy and audition round of the explores the Regency fondness for enemas. nationwide talent search.

xxx07:00 Milkshake 11:05 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:40 The Gadget Show 12:30 Police Interceptors 15:25 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 17:20 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 18:20 Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords 19:15 News

22:00 Film - Zoolander 2 A special agent recruits former models Derek Zoolander and Hansel to save the world’s most beautiful people from a deadly plot. (PG)

22:15 King Tut’s Treasure Secrets King Tut’s incredible death mask, 24 pounds of pure gold, has always been the subject of debate, with many scholars believing it was more likely made for his female ancestor, Nefertiti.

22:15 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The world’s most famous quiz returns with new host Jeremy Clarkson for a week of special shows to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Will anyone scoop the millionpound prize?

23:20 News 23:35 Film Sex and the City 2 (14) 02:15 Jackpot247 04:00 Babushka 04:50 ITV Nightscreen

00:00 Film - Ride Along (PG) 01:50 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 02:40 Hollyoaks Omnibus 04:50 Come Dine with Me 05:45 Gok's Fill Your House for Free

09:00 The Haunted Hathaways 09:25 News 09:30 Zoe Ball on... 10:25 Love Your Garden 11:00 Peston on Sunday 12:00 Britain’s Got Talent 13:15 Britain’s Got More Talent 14:15 News 14:30 ITV Racing: Live From Newmarket 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase: Celebrity Special 19:00 Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule 19:30 News

07:10 Mobil 1 The Grid 07:40 British Rally Championship 08:05 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:25 Eat the Week with Iceland 10:30 Sunday Brunch 13:30 Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast 14:30 The Simpsons 15:30 Film Megamind 17:25 Location, Location, Location 18:30 News 19:00 Escape to the Chateau

20:00 Little Big Shots Dawn French hosts a variety show featuring some of the world’s most talented children, including a street dance crew, a nine-year-old boy who knows everything there is to know about Eurovision, an artistic cyclist, a five-year-old expert on flags, a stand-up comedian and a world champion hen racer.

20:00 The Crystal Maze Richard Ayoade guides Black Ice, an AC/DC tribute band from Newcastle to the show. Will they rock the Maze or will the physical and mental challenges prove to be a highway to hell?

19:20 Rich House, Poor House Successful vets Colin and Lizzy Whiting 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.

20:20 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! Featuring a feisty eviction in a brothel, a lockdown in a takeaway and a tricky tenant who has cost a landlord a small fortune.

21:15 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! In Essex, a negligent tenant flees the premises when Paul and Phil arrive to evict him.

23:10 Egypt Unwrapped 00:10 Football 01:10 SuperCasino 05:00 Billionaire...

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:15 Emmerdale Omnibus 09:40 Coronation Street Omnibus 12:35 Britain’s Got More Talent 13:35 Ninja Warrior UK 14:40 Film - Babe 16:30 Film Twister (PG) 18:40 Film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (14) 22:15 Britain’s Got More Talent 23:15 Celebrity Juice 00:05 Family Guy 01:30 American Dad! 02:30 Plebs 02:55 CelebAbility 03:40 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records ITV 3 07:00 Murder, She Wrote 09:50 Film - The Railway Children 12:00 Agatha Christie’s Marple 14:00 Film - Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder 16:00 Film Casablanca (PG) 18:00 Midsomer Murders 00:05 Vera 02:05 Stephen Fry’s Key to the City 03:00 ITV3 Nightscreen ITV 4 07:00 Football’s Greatest 07:15 Minder 08:05 Motorsport UK 08:55 British Touring Car Championship 10:30 ITV Racing 11:30 Pawn Stars 12:20 Liege-BastogneLiege Cycling 12:55 Tour de Yorkshire Road 19:00 Pawn Stars 20:00 The Motorbike Show 21:00 Tour de Yorkshire Road 22:00 Film - Heartbreak Ridge (15) 00:45 Film - The Fugitive (12)

Sunday TV 07:00 Breakfast 08:35 Match of the Day 10:00 The Andrew Marr Show 11:00 The Big Questions 12:00 Sunday Politics 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:15 Escape to the Country 15:15 Money for Nothing 15:45 Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall 16:45 Points of View 17:00 Songs of Praise 17:35 Britain’s Best Home Cook 18:35 News 19:00 The Big Painting Challenge

07:05 Coast 07:35 Glorious Gardens From Above 08:20 Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 08:50 Countryfile 09:45 The Beechgrove Garden 10:15 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:45 Spring Kitchen With Tom Kerridge 12:30 Lorraine Pascale: How to Be a Better Cook 13:00 MOTD2 Extra 13:30 Live: Badminton Horse Trials 15:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 18:30 Live: Badminton 20:00 Countryfile Anita Horse Trials Rani is in Rothbury, being put through her paces with 19:00 IAAF Diamond the Mountain Rescue Team League Athletics Gabby as she hears how new tech- Logan introduces highlights nologies are helping search of the first Diamond League and rescue operations. meeting of the 2018 season, which takes place in 21:00 Antiques Doha, featuring a field Roadshow Fiona heads to packed with the world’s top Helmingham Hall that has athletes. The women’s been home to twenty gen- 100m features Olympic erations of the Tollemache champion Elaine family.

Thompson and 200m World champion Dafne Schippers.

22:00 The Woman In White Count Fosco and Sir 20:00 Live: World Percival’s plan is set into Championship Snooker motion with tragic results. Hazel Irvine presents all the Meanwhile, Marian and action from the second sesWalter make a horrifying sion of the final at discovery whilst seeking Sheffield's Crucible justice for Laura and a Theatre, where a further heartbroken Mrs Clements nine frames are scheduled tells Erasmus that Fosco to take place. took Anne to London.

00:00 Famalam 00:20 Live 23:00 News 23:30 Match of at the Apollo 01:05 Film the Day 00:40 Life and Easy Money III: Life Deluxe Death in Chicago 01:35 (15) 03:05 Question Time Weather 01:40 News 04:05 Holby City

21:00 The Durrells Leslie and Margo have news about their relationships, and as Lousia and Spiro grow closer, a circus comes to town.

22:00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Tense game show where contestants compete for a top prize of one million pounds.

23:05 News 23:20 Peston on Sunday 00:20 Royal Wives of Windsor 02:05 Jackpot247 04:00 Motorsport UK

21:00 Bake Off: The Professionals Liam Charles and Tom Allen present as six teams from top hotels, restaurants and businesses compete to make perfect miniature classics and a reinvented Black Forest gateau.

22:00 Homeland Carrie and Saul’s mission doesn’t go as planned. Elizabeth Keane fights for her presidency.

23:15 Tabula Rasa 00:15 Film - Transporter 3 (14) 02:10 Film - Rustom (PG) 04:40 Mobil 1 The Grid 05:05 World Sport 05:35 Kirstie's Vintage Gems

07:00 Milkshake 11:00 Live: Great Birmingham Run 13:00 Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud 2 13:30 Film - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (12) 15:05 Pets Make You Laugh Out Loud 16:05 Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud 2 17:05 Greatest Celeb Wind-Ups Ever! 18:05 News 18:10 The Adele Story 19:30 Britain’s Favourite Songs ABBA Documentary and clip show charting our enduring love affair with the ultimate Swedish pop stars.

Learn fascinating facts, glimpse rare footage, explore the band’s unique legacy, and meet the crazed fans who have gone out of their way in honour of their idols.

Eurovision’s 21:00 Greatest Hits Pulling Eurovision’s together biggest, best and most memorable songs, from “Waterloo’ by ABBA to Gina G’s `Ooh, Aah... Just a Little Bit’ and Bucks Fizz’s `Making Your Mind Up’ in the 1980’s.

07:00 The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:10 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:35 Emmerdale Omnibus 10:10 Coronation Street Omnibus 13:00 You’ve Been Framed!

14:00 Catchphrase 15:05 Film Spy Kids (PG) 16:55 Britain’s Got Talent 18:10 Britain’s Got More Talent 19:10 Film - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (14) 23:00 Family Guy 00:30 American Dad! 01:25 Film - Saw (15) ITV 3 07:00 Murder, She Wrote 08:45 Heartbeat 10:50 Film - Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder 12:50 Agatha Christie’s Marple 19:00 Lewi 21:00 Sunday Night at the Palladium 22:00 Midsomer Murders 00:00 Wire in the Blood 02:10 Blue Murder ITV 4

07:00 Football’s Greatest 07:15 The Protectors 07:40 Minder 08:30 British Touring Car Championship BRDC British 22:00 When Eurovision 09:55 Goes Horribly Wrong A Formula 3 Championship celebration of Eurovision, Motor Racing 10:55 The including the times when it Big Fish Off 11:55 Tour de Yorkshire Road Cycling goes horribly wrong.

18:30 Pawn Stars 19:55 00:55 Football 01:50 Mr Bean 21:00 Tour de Caught on Camera 02:15 Yorkshire Road Cycling 22:00 Film - Jaws 3 SuperCasino

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21:00 EastEnders Martin and Jack get more than they bargained for at E20’s Bank Holiday night.

21:30 Would I Lie to You? David and Lee are joined

by Mel Giedroyc, David Haye, Martin Kemp and Romesh Ranganathan.

22:00 The Woman In White Following Mr Fairlie’s betrayal, Walter, Marian and Laura are forced into hiding from Sir Percival and Fosco. With Fosco still at large and Laura’s identity yet to be proven, Walter appeals to his Sicilian friend Pesca for help.

23:00 Peter Kay’s Car Share Unscripted 23:30 News 00:00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 00:45 Graham Norton 01:30 Weather 01:35 News

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07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 08:15 Rip Off Britain: Food 09:00 Nature’s Weirdest Events 10:00 Film - Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast 11:10 Film Kung Fu Panda 2 12:30 Natural World 13:30 Plan It, Build It 14:00 Britain’s Biggest Warship 15:00 Live: World Championship Snooker 19:00 Great British Railway Journeys 19:30 Eggheads 20:00 Live: World Championship Snooker Hazel Irvine introduces coverage of the concluding session of this year’s final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, where the successful player needs to reach 18 frames to lift the famous trophy. Mark Selby became only the fourth player to retain the trophy in the Crucible era, as he completed a fine comeback against John Higgins to claim the title for the third time in his career. Selby started the session with a 13-11 lead and held off late resistance from the Wizard of Wishaw to clinch victory 18-15 and end his opponent’s hopes of a fifth world crown. The commentary team features Dennis Taylor, Steve Davis, Ken Doherty and John Virgo.

00:00 Film - Papillon (15) 02:25 Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation 03:25 Countryfile

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:45 News 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Tenable 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs - India 19:25 News 20:00 Emmerdale Gerry’s suspicion grows.

20:30 Coronation Street Johnny and Jenny throw a leaving party in the Rovers and Toyah's behaviour arouses Aidan's suspicions.

21:00 Give It a Year Karren Brady meets a man who wants to start a private bin-collection service, as well as a woman who decided to go it alone in the clothing business, before revisiting them 12 months later to see how their ventures are faring.

21:30 Coronation Street Eva wonders exactly how much Aidan knows.

22:00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Jeremy Clarkson hosts the third edition of the revival of the quiz in celebration of its 20th anniversary.

23:00 News 23:20 Film Notting Hill (PG) 01:30 Jackpot247 04:00 Jeremy Kyle 04:55 ITV Nightscreen

07:30 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:20 Film - Step Up 4: Miami Heat (PG) 10:05 The Big Bang Theory 11:00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 11:55 The Simpsons 13:20 Film The Princess Bride (PG) 15:10 Countdown 16:00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 17:00 The £100K Drop 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Buy It Now 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:30 Dispatches Morland Sanders speaks to people who rely on Universal Credit to see what difference credit changes are making to their lives.

21:00 Holidays Unpacked Lucy Hedges tries windsurfing in Cape Verde.

21:30 Tricks of the Restaurant Trade Simon unlocks the science of what happens to our taste buds during air travel.

22:00 Genderquake Eleven strangers with different gender identities and sexualities spend a week together under one roof in the hope that they will discover what divides them and what unites them.

23:00 Gogglebox 00:00 Kiss Me First 01:00 999 02:00 The Secret Life of the Zoo 02:55 The Supervet 03:55 Come Dine with Me

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 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 Film Open Season 16:55 Film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Aviva Premiership Rugby Mark DurdenSmith and David Flatman present rugby union highlights including Harlequins v Exeter, Saracens v Gloucester, Newcastle v Wasps and Sale v Leicester.

21:00 Police Interceptors Interceptor Spike takes the lead against a runaway car thief in one of the most challenging pursuits ever.

Liam investigates a gang of suspected drug dealers.

A supposedly straightforward stop snowballs into a showdown with an aggressive youngster.

22:00 Paddington Station 24/7 As Storm Eleanor strikes, a fly-away plastic bag causes a power outage trapping three trains, and in Hungerford a falling tree hits a Penzancebound service.

23:00 Britain’s Cocaine Epidemic 00:00 Film Layer Cake (18) 02:05 SuperCasino 04:10 Portillo’s Hidden History

07:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 08:10 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 08:55 Emmerdale 09:25 Coronation Street 10:25 You’ve Been Framed! 11:25 Film - Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 13:00 Emmerdale 13:35 Coronation Street 14:30 Catchphrase 15:35 Jeremy Kyle 17:50 Film Despicable Me 19:55 Film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (PG) 22:00 Family Guy 23:00 Plebs 23:30 Family Guy ITV 3 07:55 Heartbeat 09:00 The Royal 10:00 Judge Judy 11:25 Film - Casablanca (PG) 13:30 The Royal 14:35 Heartbeat 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:50 Midsomer Murders 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 23:00 DCI Banks ITV 4 07:15 The Chase 08:05 Cash Cowboys 09:00 Ironside 10:00 Tour de Yorkshire 11:00 Pawn Stars 11:30 Film - Lawman (15) 13:30 Film - Tobruk (PG) 15:45 Live: UEFA Under 17 European Championship Football 18:00 Football’s Foreign Legion 19:00 Pawn Stars 19:30 Film - For Your Eyes Only (PG) 22:00 Film - The Bourne Identity (14)

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 A suspicious car is casing the square.

21:00 Holby City As the pressure builds from all sides, Gaskell takes a huge risk to save his trial.

22:00 The Split Hannah finds herself caught in the middle when Nathan and Christie clash on a highly charged divorce case involving fertility law and the ownership of frozen embryos. Ruth continues to evade questions regarding Oscar’s return and the increasing concern over Defoe’s finances. When Rose loses her engagement ring, she finds herself in a compromising and unexpected situation that throws her into turmoil.

Meanwhile, Goldie is heartbroken when she discovers a painful secret.

23:00 News 23:45 Back to School With Mum and Dad 00:40 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 01:00 Weather 01:05 News

07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 08:15 Flipping Profit 09:00 Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 12:30 The Week in Parliament 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 The Super League Show 14:45 Home Away From Home 15:30 Going Back, Giving Back 16:15 Digging for Britain 17:15 Tudor Monastery Farm 18:15 Money for Nothing 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Great British Railway Journeys 20:00 Back to the Land with Kate Humble Kate is in Cornwall meeting seaweed entrepreneurs Tim and Caro.

21:00 Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge Four baked goods producers with fledgling businesses test out their products in Malhamdale.

22:00 Secret Agent Selection: WW2 Just six survivors remain to undertake SOE’s “Final Scheme”: a 24-hour practice mission bringing together all the skills they have learnt.

23:00 Later Live... with Jools Holland 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Love in the Countryside 01:15 Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation 02:15 Secret Agent Selection: WW2

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 Can Charity move on?

20:30 Devon and Cornwall Cops As the festival season gets underway, a sleepy fishing port receives a very special visitor - the future king.

21:00 This Time Next Year Davina meets an 11year-old meningitis survivor hoping to have hands, a young couple with fertility complications that dream of starting a family of their own, parents whose only wish is for their young son to take his first steps, and a man who shed half his body weight but has an unsightly reminder of his past.

22:00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Host Jeremy Clarkson asks the questions in the iconic quiz game.

23:00 News 23:45 Britain’s Busiest Airport 00:15 Prince Harry’s Story: Four Royal Weddings... 01:10 The Durrells 02:00 Jackpot247 04:00 Loose Women 04:45 ITV Nightscreen

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 11:05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 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 The £100K Drop 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 5 Year Olds How children learn the difference between right and wrong.

Consultant clinical psychologist Dr Elizabeth Kilbey and educational neuroscientist Professor Paul Howard-Jones watch the drama unfold and offer expert insight.

22:00 Genderquake As the exploration of genderfluidity in the UK continues, a feud simmers between Markus and gender-traditionalist Romario after a boozed up night that went too far.

Meanwhile, Cambell, Brooke and Charlie escape the tension with an emotional return to Brooke’s old school.

23:00 Genderquake 00:00 Flight HS13 01:00 First Dates 02:00 One Born Every Minute 02:55 Our Wildest Dreams 03:50 The Channel

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 The Yorkshire Vet Casebook 16:15 Film - Snatched at Birth 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 MotoGP Championship Series Highlights of the fourth round of this year’s world championship, from the Circuito de Jerez.

21:00 The Yorkshire Vet Julian is called out to lovely llama Gus, while his beloved jack russell Emmie has an injury. Peter is asked to help relocate a young male deer and he also drops in on elderly farmers the Greens to care for their beloved lurcher Ruben.

22:00 British Airways: 100 Years in the Sky Former pilots, crew and customers reveal their tales, combined with incredible archive footage.

23:00 Circus Kids: Our Secret World 00:05 Gypsy Kids: Our Secret World 01:05 Celeb Trolls: We’re Coming To Get You 02:00 SuperCasino 04:10 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 05:00 Tribal Teens... Here Comes Trouble

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 19:00 Take Me Out 20:30 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 21:30 Superstore 22:00 Film - Hot Fuzz (14) ITV 3 07:00 Classic Coronation Street 07:55 Heartbeat 09:00 The Royal 10:00 Judge Judy 11:20 A Touch of Frost 13:30 The Royal 14:35 Heartbeat 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:45 On the Buses 17:55 You’re Only Young Twice 18:25 George and Mildred 19:00 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 23:00 Scott & Bailey ITV 4 07:25 The Chase 08:10 Pawn Stars 8:30 Ironside 09:30 Quincy, M.E. 10:35 Minder 11:35 The Saint 12:35 The Avengers 13:45 Ironside 14:50 Quincy, M.E. 15:50 Minder 16:50 The Saint 17:55 The Avengers 19:00 Cash Cowboys 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 River Monsters 22:00 Film - Executive Decision (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 21:00 Watchdog The Swab Mob goes undercover to test the cleanliness of cinemas and “First Dates’ Maitr”d, Fred Sirieix, investigates customer service on the high street. Plus, in rogue traders, a company is misleading customers into paying for something they could do themselves for free.

22:00 Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall Hugh turns his attention to junk food marketing techniques, and compares them to the amount that is spent on marketing for vegetables and healthy eating alternatives. Hugh also heads to a Conservative Party Conference, where he has been invited to speak about obesity, but is frustrated in his attempts to get an audience with Jeremy Hunt.

With the help of Jamie Oliver, he comes up with a plan to try and improve the health of the nation.

23:00 News 23:45 Joshua v Klitschko: Return to Wembley 00:30 Ambulance 01:30 Weather 01:35 News

07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 08:15 Flipping Profit 09:00 Super Fast Falcon 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 12:30 Daily Politics 14:00 Perfection 14:45 Home Away From Home 15:30 Going Back, Giving Back 16:15 Digging for Britain 17:15 Tudor Monastery Farm 18:15 Money for Nothing 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Great British Railway Journeys 20:00 Back to the Land with Kate Humble Kate is in Yorkshire meeting pig farmers Lisa and Tim, an 69-year-old ex-submariner turned lobster fisherman, a sustainable gamekeeper selling directly to the public, and a husband and wife team of award-winning glass blowers.

21:00 Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge In the grand final, seven heat winners compete for the title of best up-and-coming artisan. They will supply the shop for a month, but won’t be there themselves to tempt customers to buy.

22:00 Love in the Countryside Pete’s and Ed’s dates arrive, are thrust straight into unfamiliar farm life, and have to compete with each other for the attention of their dates.

23:00 Detectorists 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Syria: The World’s War 02:15 Stephen: The Murder That Changed A Nation 03:15 Pilgrimage 04:15 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 20:00 Emmerdale Charity opens up to Harriet, Brenda keeps up appearances. Bob talks to Ashley.

20:30 Coronation Street David insists on attending court without his family and Shona solves a longrunning mystery.

21:30 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport At Heathrow a plane takes off or lands every 45 seconds and in this week’s episode we learn the secrets of parking planes with a rookie and his ping pong bats. The King and Queen of Terminal 2 Demi and Sue wrestle with a bare chested drunk, and back at immigration Kat and Bob come across a visitor whose reason for entering the UK just doesn't add up 22:00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The special 20th anniversary week continues with host Jeremy Clarkson. Will one lucky contestant answer all 15 questions correctly to win a million pounds?

23:00 News 23:45 Sunday Night at the Palladium 00:45 British Touring Car Championship 02:00 Jackpot247 04:00 Grantchester

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 11:05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 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 The £100K Drop 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Buy It Now 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 The Secret Life of the Zoo Chester Zoo's penguins move into a temporary home while a new luxury home is built for them, but the move becomes upsetting when malaria sweeps the colony, with elder Rudd battling to survive against the odds.

Meanwhile, the African painted dog pups venture out of their den for the first time, but the runt of the litter Mosi refuses to go out into the cold, and keepers worry she may have issues with her eyesight.

22:00 One Born Every Minute Lauren and Rachel have one daughter, who Lauren carried. Rachel always wanted to be a genetic parent too, but had a miscarriage. Now Lauren is carrying their second child.

23:00 First Dates 00:05 Naked Attraction 01:10 Friday Night Dinner+ 01:35 High and Dry 02:05 Genderquake 03:00 Film The Quiet Ones (14) 04:40 Fill Your House for Free

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 The Yorkshire Vet Casebook 16:15 Film - Driven Off the Rails 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Police Interceptors Interceptor Spike takes the lead against a runaway car thief in one of the most challenging pursuits ever.

Liam investigates a gang of suspected drug dealers.

A supposedly straightforward stop snowballs into a showdown with an aggressive youngster.

21:00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors David suffers from Parkinson’s, but is still getting out most evenings. Sean is thrilled with his rhinitis diagnosis as it explains his ongoing ENT issues.

22:00 Rich House, Poor House The Scaife-Lacy family are used to a weekly budget of £2,700, which they splash out on skiing trips. Restricted to around £170 each week, the Flinthams and their four children make do with free activities.

23:00 Tortured by Mum and Dad?: The Turpin 00:05 Criminals: Caught on Camera 01:05 Countdown to Murder 02:00 SuperCasino 04:10 GPs: Behind Closed Doors 05:00 Get Your Tatts Out

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 19:00 You’ve Been Framed! 20:00 You’ve Been Framed! 21:00 Two and a Half Men 21:30 Superstore 22:00 Film Hercules (14) ITV 3 07:00 Classic Coronation Street 07:50 Heartbeat 08:55 The Royal 09:55 Judge Judy 11:20 A Touch of Frost 13:30 The Royal 14:35 Heartbeat 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:45 On the Buses 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 23:00 The Street ITV 4 07:00 The Chase 07:50 Pawn Stars 08:35 Ironside 09:35 Quincy, M.E. 10:35 Minder 11:40 The Saint 12:45 The Avengers 13:55 The Protectors 14:30 ITV Racing: Live from Chester 17:00 The Saint 18:00 The Avengers 19:05 Cash Cowboys 20:05 Pawn Stars 21:00 British Superbikes Motorcycle Racing14 22:00 The Motorbike Show 23:00 Film - RoboCop 3 (12)

Bar/Restaurant with Owner Accommodation - Costa Blanca North

Large Bar/ Restaurant/Activities with Accommodation

Very Popular Cocktails/Sports Bar Costa Blanca South

House and business with a total build size of 465m2. This bar/restaurant has been trading since 1954 and is probably one of the oldest and longestrunning around. The bar area has a capacity for approximately 54 covers and also has tables outside. The business functions all year round with both food and drinks.

With 435m2, this is one of the largest bar/restaurants around. Providing visitors with full days of fun, facilities include 10 TVs, projected large screen, karaoke, bingo machine and full music system plus its own private function room with stage, bar, and comfortable seating for 80 guests. Outside is a swimming pool and children's play area.

This business is one of the busiest in a popular and lively area on the Costa Blanca. With all-year-round trade to many nationalities, this cocktail/sportsthemed bar is an ideal first-time venture. More than 250m2 cover two floors, with seating inside and out. A separate business within the unit selling greetings cards and books is also available.

Property ID: 1106 - 295,000€

Property ID: 1102 - 800,000€

Property ID: 1085 - 85,000€

A Very Popular Bar - Restaurant in Guardamar

Ideal First-Time Venture Hairdresser’s and Nail Bar

Well-Established Hire Centre Torrevieja

One of the busiest bars/restaurants in the area and the focal point of the urb. Just a 5-min drive from Guardamar beach. Seating for 30 customers inside and an additional 45 on the covered terrace. Full air-con, pool table and televisions. This business is sold FREEHOLD with well established local tenants who are prepared to continue if required.

This hairdressing business and nail bar is ideal as a first-time venture. The salon is located in one of the busiest commercial centres in the Costa Blanca South area. The salon has an area of 60m2 and a small sun terrace at the front, which is suitable for the clients to sit out in the sun and have a coffee etc.

This well-established business has been profitably trading on the Southern Costa Blanca for 10 years.

It mainly hires tools to the building trade and DIY enthusiasts. The needs of holidaymakers are also catered for with a range of items including children's car seats, high chairs and travel cots, plus disability aids such as wheelchairs and walkers.

Property ID: 1083 - 299,000€

Property ID: 1099 - 15,000€

Property ID: 1001 - 195,000€

Accident Repair Centre - Bodywork and Paint Specialists

Very Busy Car Repair Vehicle Parts Warehouse and Shop

Bed, Bed Linen and Soft Furnishings Business

Established in 2008, this thriving, profitable business is for sale due to retirement. It is housed in a large, clean, airy premises on an industrial estate close to the N332. It has a fully equipped body-paint oven, low-bake oven, Car-o-liner body jig for major accident repairs plus all necessary tools to offer the very latest paint and repair technology.

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.

A very well-established bed and soft furnishing business located in an excellent position within a busy commercial area. Trading for 4 years, it has grown to be very successful and profitable. It enjoys an enviable reputation for a quality products and quality service. Good potential to expand the business.

Property ID: 1002 - 250,000€

Property ID: 1043 - 100,000€

Property ID: 1008 - 235,000€

Luxury Dog Kennels in Salinas with Quality Owner Accommodation These well-designed kennels incorporate quarantine rooms, animal isolation rooms as well as a vets room for weekly vets visits.

The current owners also offer extra services such as grooming and the shipment of dogs worldwide.

The kennels are located in a stunning rural location only a 25minute drive from Alicante and surrounded by farmland and a national park.

The 126 m2 kennels have excellent facilities and clients from both the Spanish and the English-speaking communities.

The living accommodation consists of a 4 double-bedroom house, all en-suite, bathroom with separate shower, open-plan large living/dining room and kitchen. Externally there is a patio, pool house and recently built pool alongside an additional lounge.

Both the house and business, which are thermally insulated, are self sufficient in electricity provided by solar panels, a stateof-the-art battery bank and two generators. The property built on 270m2 also benefits from two water deposits. The 30 kennels are housed in a range of buildings & enclosures, they are of various sizes to accommodate different sizes and breeds of dogs. There is also an office, kitchen, shower room/WC and vets surgery in the kennel complex.

General Amenities * Owner Accommodation Included Solar Installation * Well Established Business * Close to Airports * Panoramic Views Exterior Amenities * Enclosed Swimming Pool * Outside Kitchen

Property ID: 1007 - 395,000â‚Ź

36 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 gives Kim some home truths.

21:00 Britain’s Best Home Cook Claudia Winkleman presents week two of the culinary contest, which sees the cooks create their ultimate fish dish, with accompaniments designed to showcase their individual personality.

They must then invent a sweet or savoury meal with squash or rice as the key ingredient.

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07:00 Flog It!: Trade Secrets 07:30 A1: Britain’s Longest Road 08:15 Flipping Profit 09:00 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 09:30 Kate Humble: Off the Beaten Track 10:00 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Perfection 14:45 Home Away From Home 15:30 Going Back, Giving Back 16:15 Digging for Britain 17:15 Tudor Monastery Farm 18:15 Money for Nothing 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Great British Railway Journeys 20:00 Back to the Land with Kate Humble Kate visits meets arable farmer John and his wife Julie.

21:00 The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes Piers and Caroline travel to Spain, a country with a tradition of flamboyant and fearless architecture.

22:00 Ambulance Specialist trauma team Pete and Matt are called to the victim of a knife attack, carrying out urgent medical intervention at the scene in a bid to save the man's life.

Paramedics Christine and Chris start their day shift with a man who has collapsed in Worcester town centre after a suspected drug overdose. A 96-yearold reports that an elbow wound will not stop bleeding.

22:00 Red Ape: Saving the Orangutan For the last decade, a team of frontline medics has been fighting to save Borneo’s critically endangered orangutans.

Armed with cameras, International Animal Rescue has documented their struggle: pulling apes from devastated jungle, giving medical care, rehabilitating, and releasing the healthiest orangutans back into the wild.

23:00 News 23:45 Question Time 00:45 This Week 01:30 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:35 News

23:00 QI 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Dara And Ed’s Great Big Adventure 01:15 Versailles 03:05 The Truth About... 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 It’s Bob and Brenda’s big day.

20:30 Tonight With the World Cup on the horizon, Jonathan Maitland goes inside the world of Russian football to see what might face fans travelling there this summer.

21:00 Emmerdale Charity gets support from an unlikely source.

21:30 Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs - India Paul helps a traumatised dog that desperately needs to find a home, and joins Delhi's vets once more as they go out and about to treat injured street dogs. However, the pooches are not the only ones needing medical attention when the presenter falls ill.

22:00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The penultimate episode in this week of 20th anniversary shows, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson sees more contestants play for the chance to win a million pounds.

23:00 News 23:45 Great Art 00:50 Give It a Year 01:15 Lethal Weapon 02:00 Jackpot247 04:00 Tonight

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock From the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 11:05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 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: Winter Sun 17:00 The £100K Drop 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Buy It Now 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 Food Unwrapped The team reveal the secrets of China’s food, exploring ancient farming techniques, modern commercial production on a huge scale and everything from noodles to fortune cookies and soy sauce.

22:00 999: What’s Your E m e r g e n c y ?

Documentary following the emergency services in Wiltshire, continuing with crimes relating to the rising use of cannabis. PC Joe Tompkinson is cut up at a roundabout and when he stops the car responsible, all he can smell is the drug.

PC Adam Burson visits a family whose members have had a brick thrown through their front window and officers are called by a mother after she is assaulted by her son.

23:00 Riot Girls 23:30 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 00:30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares 01:25 Football Show 01:55 Genderquake 03:45 Holidays Unpacked

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 The Yorkshire Vet Casebook 16:15 Film - Sinister Stepmother 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door Gillian abused the Howard family’s friendship by using their house as a drunken crash pad and even defecated on their bathroom floor.

21:00 Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords After responding to an alarm, firefighters discover several people living illegally on the premises, a landlady feels betrayed after renting her property to a friend whose pets caused damage, and tenants owe a landlord more than £16,000.

22:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! A debtor’s mother gets involved and tempers start to fray when the agents chase over £2,000 owed for unpaid parking fines. A woman is refusing to pay fees to a veterinary practice after she claims her dog has been misdiagnosed.

23:00 Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters 00:05 Where There’s Blame, There’s a Claim 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 19:00 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 ITV 3 07:00 Classic Coronation Street 07:55 Heartbeat 08:55 The Royal 10:00 Judge Judy 11:20 A Touch of Frost 13:30 The Royal 14:35 Heartbeat 15:40 Classic Coronation Street 16:45 On the Buses 17:50 You’re Only Young Twice 18:20 George and Mildred 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 23:00 The Widower ITV 4 07:45 Pawn Stars 08:30 Cash Cowboys 09:35 Quincy, M.E. 10:40 Minder 11:40 The Saint 12:50 The Avengers 13:55 The Protectors 14:30 ITV Racing: Live from Chester 17:00 Snooker v Darts 17:05 The Saint 18:10 The Avengers 19:15 Pawn Stars 19:45 Live: UEFA Under 17 European Championship Football 22:00 Film - The Bourne Supremacy (14)

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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: Sid wanted some advice on backups.

Q

I have a 1TB hard drive for backing up my computer. I have it set to back up midnight every Friday using the windows 7 backup program. The problem is although the computer is backed up I cannot access any folders or files as it has been saved as a disk Image. What free back up program do you suggest that will run in conjunction with the windows 7 back up program so that I can access files and folders on the Hard Drive?

A

Hi Sid, you are absolutely correct, the data that is backed up by Windows 7’s backup application stores the data in such a format that it is not readable directly, you need to go back into the backup program to read the data. Like you I much prefer to store my backups (space allowing) as a direct copy of the individual files – that way I can see what data has been backed up and access the files directly should I need to. There are a number of applications out there that will allow you do perform backups in this way, one of the best ones that I have used is called “Allway Sync” and you can get a free copy of it at www.allwaysync.com The great thing about this product is that it will, should you require, keep multiple locations in sync – by that I mean if you delete a file from one location, allway sync will remove the file from the backup, keeping both locations exactly synchronised. It has the facility to be scheduled, so you could still run your backups at midnight on Fridays and as I mentioned before it stores the files in the same format as they are in the source location so you can view the files directly in the destination location.

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

Website:www.bluemoonsolutions.es NEW: Tel: 965 987 032

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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.

2 letter words Ma So 3 letter words Ace Ash Dub Eve Nor Pin Rat Was 4 letter words Ages Alee Area Beam Bite

Boos Cess Dire Epic Ides Iran Lope Male Opus Otic Pale Peel Pint Plus Ruse Sera Silk Skua

Cryptic Across 1 Buy a grip (8) 7 Cook in the right oven (5) 8 By mistake meander to a French cathedral (5,4) 9 Record contains number one sauce (3) 10 Real mixed up peer (4) 11 Strange desire to live in (6) 13 Get down from deserted Andes’ accommodation (6) 14 See 18 17 Twist and odds come down (6) 18/14 Consider I’m an inbred agitator (4,2,4) 20 The French across the pasture (3) 22 Does a swap by means of sex-change surgery (9) 23 Departs without first part of roof (5) 24 One weighs up fools like this, right? (8)

Sofa Spas Spat Sulk Term Tern Tosh User Yare 5 letter words Ankle Aster Audio Belle Bulbs Chips Doubt Epoch

Clues Down 1 Underwrite a church for money (5) 2 Being about worn out, withdrew (7) 3 Pliny the Elder exposes a bounder (4) 4 Goes to the top of musical ladders (6) 5 Loudly competent to spin a yarn (5) 6 Get a salary but spend it anyway (7) 7 I learnt about dependent (7) 12 A new form of beer, sir, from fruit (7) 13 The son got on well redeveloping and had expanded (7) 15 Winter terms? (3,4) 16 Endlessly discuss event (6) 17 Round of fire involving Vietnam’s leader in Laos disturbance (5) 19 To err is mistakenly taken for an upward step (5) 21 Kate’s unusual income (4)

Erase Humus Links Loner Manse Oasis Oiler Owlet Pangs Prove Sales Sense Sinus Soles Talks Taper Tapir Tiger

Tongs Wrath 6 letter words Carlos Delete Dieter Matins Optics Oyster Sateen Smiths 8 letter words Palisade Terminus 9 letter words Fishermen Winterise

Standard Clues Across 1 Buy (8) 7 Cook in the oven (5) 8 French Gothic cathedral (5,4) 9 Mouth part (3) 10 British peer (4) 11 Dwell (6) 13 Make unhappy (6) 14 See 18 17 Painful injury (6) 18/14 Be aware of (4,2,4) 20 Pastureland (3) 22 Replaces (9) 23 Ends of the roof (5) 24 Evaluator (8) Down 1 British coins (5) 2 No longer working (7) 3 Shoe part (4) 4 Climbs (6) 5 Short moral story (5) 6 Regular payment (7) 7 Dependent (7) 12 Fruits (7) 13 Distended (7) 15 Glacial periods (3,4) 16 Athletics event (6) 17 Volley (5) 19 Part of staircase (5) 21 Seize (4)

Quiz Word

Across 8/3 Which English-born actress starred as the mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher in the television series Murder, She Wrote from 1984 to 1996? (6,8) 9 In the 1985 film Santa Claus: The Movie, what sort of folklore creature was the character Patch, played by Dudley Moore? (3) 10 What name is usually given to the meat of young calves? (4) 11 Which two words complete the title of the first ever UK top 10 hit single for Lonnie Donegan: (What) (What) Line?

(4,6) 12 Which word completes the title of a 1930 musical film starring Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, and James Gleason: Puttin’ on the (What)? (4) 13 See 7 Down 16 Which adjective means ‘persistent in occurrence and unvarying in nature’? (8) 17 Step On and Kinky Afro were both UK top 10 hit singles for the Happy (What)?

(7) 18 What word is used in the US to mean ‘to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light’? (7) 22 Which theatre in Sheffield has been the home of the World Snooker Championship since 1977? (8) 25 What surname is shared by singer Tina, actress Kathleen and blues singer Big Joe? (6)

26/5 Which 1955 film, based on a novel

by John Steinbeck, was the first major screen role for James Dean? (4,2,4) 27 Which two-act ballet by Tchaikovsky features the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy? (10) 30 Which toy, consisting of interlocking plastic building blocks, was invented in 1932 by the Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen? (4) 31 Which word can mean both ‘a short sleep’ and ‘a card game resembling whist’? (3) 32 Which word meaning ‘morally degraded’, is derived from the Latin for ‘be dirty’? (6) Down 1 Which word is missing from the opening line of Shakespeare’s Henry V: ‘Once more (what) the breach, dear friends, once more’? (4) 2 What was the surname of the pioneering English record producer and songwriter whose most famous work was the Tornados’ hit Telstar? (4) 3 See 8 Across 4 Which noun means ‘possession of land or property as a tenant’? (7) 5 See 26 Across 6 What name is often given to a state of privileged seclusion or separation from the harsh realities of life? (5,5) 7/13 Which American film and television actor is best known for his roles as Rollin

QUICKIE Across 1 Films (6) 4 Light teasing repartee (6) 9 Cervus elaphus (3,4) 10 Green dish (5) 11 Small giraffe-like animal (5) 12 Locals (7) 13 Ahead of current trends (11) 18 Give sanction to (7) 20 Playing field (5) 22 Operate a vehicle (5) 23 Composed of animal fat (7) 24 Agreeably curious (6) 25 Households forbidden to male strangers (6)

Down 1 Looking glass (6) 2 Russian spirit (5) 3 Latter part of the day (7) 5 Useful or valuable quality (5) 6 Large city in Israel (3,4) 7 Pungent fleshy edible root (6) 8 Award for third place (6,5) 14 Copy that is not the original (7) 15 Enduring strength and energy (7) 16 US electronic stock market (6) 17 Stroke (6) 19 Large body of water body (5) 21 Arouse (5)

SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORD

Improve your Spanish - Clues in Spanish, answer in English or vice versa.

Across 1 Cogedores (8) 7 March (month) (5) 8 Aubergine (9) 9 To be (3) 10 Jabón (4) 11 Flowers (6) 13 German (6) 14 Gift (present) (6) 17 Garganta (6) 18 Bostezo (4) 20 Hielo (3) 22 Puppies (9) 23 Bee (5) 24 Tan pronto como (2,4,2)

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Sudoku

Down 1 Deudas (obligaciones) (5) 2 Apellido (7) 3 Rosa (color) (4) 4 Fog (6) 5 Latón (5) 6 Nephew (7) 7 Casado (7) 12 Factory (7) 13 Eagles (7) 15 Saffron (7) 16 Salsas (6) 17 To have (possess) (5) 19 Nidos (5) 21 Well (for water) (4)

Hand in Mission: Impossible and Commander John Koenig in Space: 1999? (6,6) 14 Which word, meaning ‘fuss’, completes the title of a play by William Shakespeare: Much (what) About Nothing? (3) 15 Performed by Roy Castle, what was the title of the closing theme to the television series Record Breakers? (10) 19 The name of which symbol used in text as a pointer to an annotation or footnote is derived from the Greek for ‘star’?

(8) 20 Which first name is shared by actors Majors, Marvin and Van Cleef? (3) 21 By what name was the official secret police of Nazi Germany usually known?

(7) 23 The only UK top 20 hit single by Blue Oyster Cult was entitled (Don’t Fear) The (What)? (6) 24 Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky were collectively known as the (What) Splits? (6) 28 Robert Smith, Porl Thompson, Simon Gallup and Jason Cooper were the original members of which rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976? (4) 29 The 19th century English essayist Charles Lamb often used which alias? (4)

SUDOKU

Last Week’s Solutions Quizword Across: 1 Europe, 4 Taj Mahal, 9 Rugged, 10 Mountain, 12 Interval, 13 Bow tie, 15 Good, 16 Footlights, 19 Disneyland, 20 Crab, 23 Albion, 25 Pinafore, 27 Original, 28 Chains, 29 Dyna-Mite, 30 Island.

Down: 1 Earring, 2 Righteous, 3 Poetry, 5 Amos, 6 Mandolin, 7 Heart, 8 Lintels, 11 Cagoule, 14 Stand-in, 17 Harmonica, 18 Nepotism, 19 Diamond, 22 Pathos, 24/21 Brian Blessed, 26 Cast.

Double Crossword Across: 1 Streams, 5 Alice, 8 Ample, 9 Oil well, 10 Discovers, 12 Rap, 13 Craven, 14 Decade, 17 Oil, 18 Surprises, 20 Elevate, 21 Okapi, 23 Tarts, 24 Sceptre.

Down: 1 Stand, 2 Rip, 3 Awesome, 4 Storey, 5 Atlas, 6 Ice creams, 7 Eclipse, 11 Small beer, 13 Coolest, 15 Earlobe, 16 Greens, 18 Stays, 19 Smile, 22 Ant. Quickie Across: 1 Impress, 5 Fever, 8 Fangs, 9 Prairie, 10 Raconteur, 12 Ado, 13 Patter, 14 Optics, 17 Awe, 18 Heartless, 20 Termite, 21 Brain, 23 Mulct, 24 Useless.

Span - Eng

Down: 1 Infer, 2 Pen, 3 Essence, 4 Supper, 5 Flair, 6 Versatile, 7 Reeboks, 11 Cathedral, 13 Phantom, 15 Potable, 16 Gateau, 18 Hoist, 19 Sends, 22 Ale.

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Friday 4th May 2018

BLENHEIM PALACE LAUNCHES ITS OWN SUPERCAR BREAKFAST CLUB BLENHEIM PALACE CLASSIC & SUPERCAR LAUNCHES ITS OWN SUPERCAR BREAKFAST CLUB

The magnificent grounds of Blenheim Palace will be brimming over with 130 classic and contemporary supercars this Sunday 6th May as Supercars At The Palace roars into action. This hotly-anticipated event, the warm-up act for the 2nd edition of Blenheim Palace Classic & Supercar to be staged on 2nd September, will see globally-renowned marques and boutique manufacturers vying for your attention in four distinct categories.

Each display will comprise 30 cars, with the “Best of British” arena including four McLaren 720S hypercars and ten Aston Martins ranging from a 1968 DB6 Volante to the latest Vantage V12 AMR. Italian exotica will also feature prominently with “Forza Italia” featuring a raft of Maranello classics, from a 1970 Ferrari 365GTC/4 to the latest 2018 488 Spider, with Sant’Agata also represented via such rarities as a 1977 Lamborghini Silhouette. Germany will also be making its presence felt, with the “Porsche Performance” class celebrating 70 years of this much-loved sportscar marque. The timeline of icons ranging from the beautiful 356 to the latest awe-inspiring 991.2 GT3 is not to be missed. Audi and BMW, meanwhile, will star in “Best of the Rest” thanks to such thoroughbreds as the V10 Plus and i8 respectively. They will be joined by musclebound American performance cars including the Ford GT 720 Mirage and the Mustang GT500.

Manufacturers will also be in attendance, displaying their latest supercars. First-time attendees include: McLaren. This renowned British manufacturer is sure to slacken jaws with two models on show from their Special Operations Division. The Surrey marque will be displaying the timeless and alluring 720S in Atlantic Blue, alongside a 570GT in Burton Blue Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will be promoting its own particular brand of bespoke luxury with the twin-turbocharged, V12-engined Dawn Black Badge edition. This latest model packs an explosive 593bhp for a 0-60mph time of less than five-seconds.

The resurgent Alpine brand will appear at Blenheim with a brace of featherweight A110’s.

These shapely mid-engined junior exotics pack styling cues inspired by the original rally-conquering A110 Berlinette with turbocharged 1.8-litre power and handling to match.

David Brown Automotive present their 601 horsepower supercharged V8Speedback Silverstone Edition which blends thunderous performance with British coachbuilding artistry. Only ten will be made, the name honouring the firm’s move to a new facility in Silverstone. Displayed alongside Mini Remastered, the company's modern interpretation of the classic icon, coachbuilt and remastered for the 21st century.

Supercars At The Palace takes place from 9am to 12pm this Sunday.

8,900€

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2016 Dacia Sandero Low Mileage

2014 Ford Mondeo 62,005 km

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2009 Citroën C5 150,000 km

2012 Peugot 5008 159,000 km

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2009 Toyota Avenses 59,500 km

2011 Jaguar XFS 97,000 km

MAZDA MX-5 RF SPORT BLACK ON SALE FROM 28TH MAY Mazda has added another stylish limited edition model to its MX-5 line-up. Marked out by its free-of-charge Eternal Blue Mica paint with contrasting black rear spoiler and door mirrors, the £25,695 RF Sport Black goes on sale from the 28th May. Like the convertible Z-Sport special edition, the newcomer follows Mazda’s long held tradition of producing distinctive limited edition MX-5s with stand-out looks, enhanced equipment and genuine exclusivity. The black rear spoiler, piano black door mirrors and gunmetal alloy wheels contrast attractively with the Eternal Blue Mica paint, while inside unique floor mats, scuff plates and badging further distinguish this stand out MX-5.

Based on the 2.0-litre 160ps SE-L Nav, the Sport Black is upgraded with standard leather seats, rain-sensing front wipers, rear parking sensors and automatic headlights, which added to the free-of-charge Mica paint makes this exclusive model great value. In addition, the standard limited slip differential ensures the Sport Black has the dynamic ability to match its looks.

Like the rest of the RF range, the retractable hardtop consists of front, middle and rear roof sections, and a rear screen. When the top is lowered the front

and middle portions are stowed together, while the rear glass sits behind the seats, leaving the rear roof section in place to create a unique open-topped look, and a cabin feeling that combines a sense of open air freedom with the impression of being securely ensconced within the car.

Commenting on the launch of the new RF Sport Black, Peter Allibon, Sales Director Mazda Motors UK said, “I’m delighted that we can offer an exclusive RF model to our customers. With it joining the Z-Sport convertible in the line-up, we now have an unrivalled choice of MX-5s in the range, which means that anyone wanting to drive a distinctive and stylish roadster can find what they need with one of our special edition models.”

On sale since the 1st March, the Mazda MX-5 Z-Sport stands-out thanks to its deep cherry red fabric hood, 17-inch black BBS wheels, and free-of-charge Machine Grey Metallic paint. It will be joined in Mazda dealerships by the MX-5 RF Sport Black from the 28th May. Ahead of its launch, the new Mazda MX-5 RF Sport Black will be exclusively revealed at the 2018 MX-5 Owners Club Spring Rally at Goodwood Motor Circuit on the 29th April.

SEAT’S ELECTRIC eMiis ARE NOW ON THE ROAD IN BARCELONA

SEAT has released a fleet of electric eMii prototypes into circulation to kick off the car sharing service aimed at the more than 1,000 employees of the SEAT Metropolis:Lab Barcelona and the Pier 01 Barcelona Tech City, the benchmark hub for Europe’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. As well as sharing the eMiis, they also share expertise and workspace. We ride along in one to discover the benefits of car sharing and how SEAT’s eMii fleet works: - Sustainable mobility:“It’s practical and ideal for the city. I usually take one to attend meetings in Barcelona. When I return it, another colleague can reserve it and take it out”, says Sergi Vila, who is responsible for Operations and Finance at the SEAT Metropolis: Lab Barcelona and a regular user of the fleet of eMiis.

- An entire fleet at a single click: Users can reserve a car from the fleet via a mobile app.

“You choose the day, the car and the time you need the vehicle…and you’re done!”, adds Vila. After making the reservation, the system sends a digital key that enables the user “to access the car with a single click, without the need for a physical key”, he explains as he unlocks the door. In the end, “the system is very simple and intuitive”, he assures.

- 160 kilometres to go the distance: When he returns the car to the carpark, Sergi plugs

it in to the mains. “Recharging is a simple procedure” and the batteries, located where the petrol tank would normally be found, take 8 hours to charge at the slow recharging points, and only 35 minutes at the fast charge points. Once the process is complete, the eMii has a total range of 160 kilometres.

- From having to sharing: Estimations point to over 36 million users of car sharing services by 2025. “People have gone from wanting to own goods to simply wanting to use them, like a service”, says Vila while driving around Barcelona. For this reason it is important “to commit to projects that promote the use of shared cars”.

With this pioneering project in Barcelona, SEAT takes another step forward towards the goal of analysing and finding solutions to the challenges facing future mobility. In addition, the data provided by the fleet of eMiis will be added to the research and development of technologies spearheaded by SEAT’s digital lab.

SEAT is the only company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets cars in Spain. A member of the Volkswagen Group, the multinational has its headquarters in Martorell (Barcelona), exporting 80% of its vehicles, and is present in over 80 countries through a network of 1,700 dealerships. In 2017, SEAT achieved worldwide sales of nearly 470,000 vehicles.

PAIR OF RARE CLASSIC LANCIAS HEAD TO AUCTION Two rare post-war Lancias both styled by legendary designer Pininfarina

Silverstone Auctions is offering classic car enthusiasts the opportunity to own two rare Lancias at its upcoming May Sale taking place at Silverstone Circuit. A rare Lancia Aprilia Farina Cabriolet and Lancia Aurelia B20 GT Series IV will go to auction on 19th May. “When a car combines luxury, performance, looks and charisma it’s the golden recipe. It’s difficult to look at these two very desirable examples of legendary Pininfarina design without wanting to take them home,” explains Nick Whale, managing director, Silverstone Auctions.

Considered as one of the finest examples of Pininfarina’s post-war cabriolets, the supremely elegant Lancia Aprilia for sale is one of just ten chassis to receive the attention of Batista Farina himself.

Built in 1946 the Aprilia was first registered on the 1st January 1947 in Switzerland. By the time it reached its second owner, Jean Pierre Baumgartner, a well-known Swiss Lancia enthusiast, the Aprilia was in a sorry state having spent many years in a field, so the decision was taken to restore it, returning it to its original appearance.

The restoration was carried out over five years at the hands of a master Lancia specialist and included a bare metal respray and full interior refurbishment.

The Aprilia was finished in gleaming white with a wine-red leather interior and a bespoke hood in dark blue mohair.

The Lancia was later sold to a Swiss gentleman and is now for sale from its fourth owner, who has transported the car to the

UK to be offered on the open market for the first time in its life, with an auction estimate of £220,000 to £250,000.

The second of the Lancias for sale is an Aurelia B20 GT Series IV and is one of just 573 original, UK-supplied right-hand drive models built during 1954. A simply revolutionary car of its time, the design combined both luxury and performance, featuring the world's first production V6 engine.

Cared for by just five owners in its time, the Aurelia was restored in the 1990s and finished in beautiful Baby Blue (Azzuro Agnano-Celeste Aurelia) with Oatmeal upholstered interior with Tan leather piping. It and is presented today with superb bright work, new overcarpets and a Nardi wood steering wheel.

After recent expenditure of over £7,000 with marque specialist Omnicron, the Aurelia is on the button, ready to enjoy and will be offered with an estimate of £100,000 to £120,000.

“Both of these wonderful classics are rarely available on the UK market making this an unmissable opportunity for collectors.

“When first built, cars of this calibre were only accessible to wealthy privateers, and today they have a whole new level of appeal,” concludes Nick.

To find out more about the 1947 Lancia Aprilia Farina Cabriolet or the 1954 Lancia Aurelia B20 GT for sale and Silverstone Auctions’ May Sale visit. http://www.silverstoneauctions.com/may -sale-2018/view_lots/pn/all

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Friday 4th May 2018

St. Albans Super Sixes

The second staging of GolfSixes returns this weekend at the Centurian Golf Club in St Albans, and here’s everything you need to know!

With the addition of female teams and the retention of themed golf holes that include holes with a shot clock or nearest the pin contest, Golf Sixes returns for a second year - a week after the PGA Tour held their own two-man pairs competition at the Zurich Classic.

Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup captains Thomas Bjorn and Catriona Matthew are the first mixed team to be competing, and are joined by two other female-only teams as Charley Hull and Georgia Hall form an English team and Mel Reid and Carlota Ciganda reprise their Solheim Cup pairing for a European team.

Defending champions Lucas Bjerregaard and Thorbjørn Olesen(pictured) have also returned to represent Denmark in the fast-paced competition as the 16 teams go head to head on the specifically designed 6 hole course for a total prize fund of €1 million with the eventual winners

Playas Youngsters

The latest set of matches for the Escuela Racing Playas De Orihuela saw the Pre-benjamin side (pictured) roll over Cox in an away win by four goals to nil.

Meanwhile the girl’s team recorded an excellent twoone win over Sporting Plaza Algiers club, in a great example of how they have been developing.

Elsewhere, the Cadet side beat Dream Elche two-one, whilst the Children’s category team thrashed Bigastro, seven-nil.

In a cracking weekend, the Alevins won at home to Dolores, four-one; the Cherubs drew nil-nil at Rojales; and the Benjamins had a six-nil away victory at Callosa.

receiving €100,000 each.

Matches, starting on Saturday, will be played over all six holes with 1 point awarded for each hole won. The winner of each match will be the player with most points at the end of six holes.

The format is greensomes, where both players in each team hit tee shots on each hole. The best tee shot is selected and then the team alternate play of all subsequent shots required to complete the hole.

Tomorrow(Saturday May 5th), the 16 teams will be split into four groups of four teams, with the top two teams from each group progressing to the knockout stages.

The quarter-finals, semi-finals, 3rd/4th place play-off match and the final will all be contested this Sunday.

In the group stages, 3 points will be given for winning a match, 1 point will be given for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.

La Liga Loss

Sky have lost the live TV rights to show La Liga matches in the UK and Ireland after Eleven Sports secured an exclusive threeyear deal. It brings to an end Sky's 20-year association with the Spanish league's top flight. Founded in 2015, Eleven Sports is owned by Italian Andrea Radrizzani, who became Leeds United chairman in 2017.

The partnership will begin from the start of the 2018-19 season and run until the end of the 2020-21 campaign.

"Eleven Sports are an excellent partner for us in various markets across Europe and we are delighted to have the opportunity to work with them in the UK and Ireland - important markets for us in which La Liga is very popular," said Javier Tebas, president of La Liga.

Eleven Sports also holds La Liga rights in Belgium and Poland.

It’s likely that Eleven will launch an internet channel as well as sub-letting coverage to other broadcasters.

Farewell Andres

Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta will leave the La Liga champions at the end of the season, as widely anticipated.

The Spain midfielder, 33, has made 669 appearances in 16 seasons, winning 31 trophies with Barca and three major tournaments for Spain.

Iniesta, who has been linked to a move to the Chinese Super League, has

not said where he will play next season.

"I said I would never play against Barca so it is not going to be in Europe," he said.

It is a difficult day for me to be here saying goodbye when I've spent my whole life here," he said in an emotional news conference watched by his family, teammates and manager Ernesto Valverde.

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Third Division News

Play-off chasing Eldense sprung a one-nil victory at Valencia third division leaders Orihuela last Sunday, with Levante overhauling them at the top, with both sides on 78 points.

The visitors won for the first time at Los Arcos, with Five new players lined up for CD Torrevieja as they were thrashed 5-1 by Preferente play- the goal coming in the 53rd off contenders Hercules at the Nelson Mandela stadium last Sunday lunchtime. minute from Terol.

The match had been switched because of demolition work at the Vicente Garcia stadium, and it proved to be a demolition job by the visitors who were three-nil up by the interval, and five to the good by the 64th minute.

Torry’s problems deepened when Greuchi got his marching orders in the 70th minute for a second caution, and with Hercules looking forward to their remaining crucial fixtures, Torry actually contrived to put the ball into the back of the next through Manuel just two minutes later!

Three matches remain in Torrevieja’s wretched season with the only interest being the margin of defeats they have to endure. After defeat to second-placed Hercules, Torry travel this Friday evening to third-in-the table Villajoyosa, who must be licking their lips in anticipation.

Torrevieja remain 12th in the table, a place above CD Almoradi (pictured pre-kick off), who drew nil-nil in their local derby at FB Redovan on Sunday.Almoradi’s Achilles Heel in recent

Getting back to the top is not going to be easy for Orihuela, as they look forward to the play-off matches, and there are two fixtures left including the next clash, which is a trip to thirdplaced Castellon this Sunday.

11th placed Crevillente drew nil-nil at Paterna at the

weekend, and now entertain struggling Almazora on Sunday.

Elche Ilicitano remain too close to the relegation area for comfort, not helped by their May Day holiday loss, one-nil to CD Roda. Elche go to the tean above them in the table this weekend, namely Rayo Ibense.

Lacklustre Monte

RACING SAN MIGUEL 3 CD MONTESINOS 0 Montesinos have gone from being unable to stop scoring to being unable find the net in a matter of weeks, and the squad almost seem looking forward to the summer break.

It is clear that the pre-season objective, following last season´s promotion to the Valencia Primera Regional Division, Group Eight, has been more than achieved.

A top five finish in the group would have been hap-

times has been their inability to score goals away from home, and this was again the case at Redovan where they had a lot of the play but were unable to create chances into goals.

Almoradi return to the Sadrian stadium this Sunday morning, as they welcome league leaders, Jove Espanol.

A last minute leveller killed off any outside mathematical hopes of CD Thader making it into the play-offs, as a string of disappointing results has seen them slip down the table to seventh place, some seven points behind third-placed Villajoyosa.

Thader captain Lloyd Dummett put the home side in front in the 59th minute, having had keeper Ortega sent off in the 22nd minute.

It looked like a battling three points were in the bag, only for lowly Petrelense to get an 89th minute equaliser through Miguel, and now Thader just have two games left for the season to fade out.

That’s because this weekend’s scheduled match with Calpe was scrapped when the team were thrown out of the league a few weeks ago.

pily accepted by both club and supporters, but the players appear to have stopped doing the things that got them to the third place they held up to a couple of weeks ago.

Last weekend Monte (in their away blue kit) made the very short journey to San Miguel in a massive derby game, and has been the case in the past few seasons, those bragging rights went to Racing who won this

game comfortably. Antonio Sanchez with two goals, and Antonio Erineo were the scorers. This result also means that San Miguel go above Monte into fourth place with just one match left of the campaign this Sunday, when Monte entertain Sporting Guardamar with a 6.00 pm kick-off.

The visitors will have all to play for as they are in 14th position and trying to avoid relegation.

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Barca Champions

Real Nailbiter

REAL MADRID 2 BAYERN MUNICH 2 (AGG 4-3) DEPORTIVO 2 BARCELONA 4 A hat-trick from Lionel Messi sealed the La Liga title for Barcelona as they beat Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday evening.

It was not an easy win at the Riazor for the newly crowned champions, although they took a two-goal lead with Philippe Coutinho (7) and Messi (38) netting before Lucas Perez (40) deservedly pulled a goal back for Depor in the first half.

The hosts got themselves level through Emre Colak (64) before Messi netted a quick-fire double late on (82 and 85) to round off his hat-trick and ensure that the La Liga trophy returns to the Nou Camp.

The title win means more success for Barca, after securing the Copa del Rey the previous weekend against Sevilla.

Coach Ernesto Valverde was relieved more than anything as his side finally sealed their 25th La Liga title at the weekend with four games to spare.

"When you're chasing something for the whole season, it's more a feeling of 'finally' when you eventually get there," Valverde said, playing down the euphoria of his first-ever league title in Spain.

"At the end of the day, the league is such a long competition.

You have to make sure you get through autumn and through the tough winter, and we have come through it all. We have got there with room to spare. I think we have been the best team."

Next up is the small matter of El Clasico, at home to Real Madrid this Sunday evening.

Reigning European champions Real Madrid reached their third successive Champions League final as they edged out Bayern Munich in a thrilling semi-final second leg.

Trailing 2-1 after the first leg in Germany, Bayern needed a win at the Bernabeu to reach the final but it finished 2-2 as Real clinched a 4-3 aggregate victory.

Joshua Kimmich scored early on for the German champions from six yards out, before Karim Benzema headed in for Real from Marcelo's fine left-wing cross eight minutes later.

A second for Benzema, after a horrendous mistake from Bayern goalkeeper Sven Ulreich, put Real in control, although Bayern's on-loan James Rodriguez then scored against his parent club to set up a dramatic finale.

Bayern had chances to win it, but Corentin Tolisso and Thomas Muller's efforts were saved by Keylor Navas and Mats Hummels headed wide as the Spanish side held on.

Real will face either Liverpool In the final in Kiev, Ukraine, on Saturday May 26th.

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ELCHE 2 LLEIDA ESPORTIU 0 Elche booked their place in the Segunda Division B end-ofseason play-offs on Sunday by beating a potential rival to their spot at the Martinez Valero stadium.

The victory guaranteed the Ilicitanos at least third place in the table, and they remain a point behind second-placed Villarreal, wih two matches remaining.

If Elche can overhaul Villarreal, their route through the playoffs will be less complicated as they would avoid the possibility of any early elimination matches.

As for last Sunday’s match, watched by nine thousand spectators- the biggest home league attendance of the season, Elche looked a bit disjointed until an excellent goal from Nino (pictured above) just before the interval calmed the nerves down.

Gonzalo Verdú got the second goal for Elche in the 66th minute, and it should have been three, a couple of minutes from time after Lolo Plá missed a penalty.

Coach Pacheta admitted that Nino’s goal came as a relief for him, but added that the side kept another clean sheet at home.

The next game is the final home match of the regular league season, as rivals Hercules make the short journey this Sunday for a 6.00 pm kick-off. The match will be all-pay, even for season ticket holders.

Relieved Zidane

No Move Neymar Forget It!

Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos says they will not give Barcelona a guard of honour in El Clasico at the Nou Camp on Sunday.

Barca full-back Jordi Alba has suggested they should be given a guard of honour by their rivals prior to kick-off to acknowledge them winning La Liga last weekend (see above).

But Ramos has rejected the idea with Real Madrid head coach Zinedine Zidane instructing his side not to respect Barcelona's league triumph.

The defender said:- “What Zidane says is gospel. We're making too much fuss out of all this.”

"Barca have the title, which is what they wanted, but there will be no guard of honour full stop.”

Zinedine Zidane (pictured on Tuesday) admitted it was not good for the heart and that Real Madrid had “suffered” to reach a third successive Champions League final in a row but said: “It’s better this way.”

“It was a mad game but a lovely one,” Zidane said after Real withstood intense pressure from Bayern Munich to get a one goal aggregate win.

“You have to suffer in football. You can’t reach a final without suffering and it’s even better like this. Well, maybe not for the heart. But it is.”

Asked what his team have that means somehow they always find a way through, Zidane replied: “It’s not just the team, it’s the club. It’s a history that comes from a long way back and now it’s a history we are writing, just as those other teams did. This team never surrenders. We know it is hard but we believe in what we do and keep fighting.”

“I feel very good, because when you do something like this it’s very nice. We like football because of this kind of emotion.

We still haven’t won anything, but we’re in the final and that’s enormous. We can be happy because it’s not normal to be in the final for a third year in a row.”

Former Brazilian international, Ronaldo de Lima, has stated that his compatriot, Neymar, won’t be joining Real Madrid from PSG at the end of the current season.

Ronaldo said the 26-year-old forward is happy with life in Paris.

Neymar shocked the footballing world when he quit Barcelona for PSG in a world-record deal worth over 200 million euros last summer.

The Brazilian international’s first nine months in France have been surrounded by speculation that he will return to Spain one day with Real Madrid.

But Ronaldo, a former Real Madrid star, told the newspaper, AS, “I’ve heard a lot of that that Neymar can end up at Real Madrid but the truth is that I think it’s very difficult.”

“He just recently signed for PSG for a lot of money, I do not think that money is a problem for PSG.” “Even if Real Madrid puts [forward] a very large number I do not think that PSG will change their mind.

“I see it quite complicated that some day Neymar can play at Real Madrid; right now I think it is impossible. “He will still be young, but now I think it is impossible”.

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Battle Resumed

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A spectacular performance on home turf saw Spain's Rafa Nadal clinch his 11th Barcelona Open title on Sunday after dispatching Stefanos Tsitsipas in two straight sets.

The 'King of Clay' was already celebrating his 400th win on his favourite surface the day before, and a week earlier netted another 11-times title after clearing up at the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters.

Now, the Mallorca-born world number one has joined legendary John McEnroe in snaffling his 77th trophy since the start of the so-called 'Open Era', and is only beaten in title totals by Jimmy Connors, Roger Federer and Ivan Lendl.

Unseeded Tsitsipas (pictured below), who is just 19 and already sits at number 63 in the world, had never played his hero Rafa before, but put up a good fight in the Conde de Godó Cup final before falling to the unstoppable Spanish ace, who has now won his 55th clay tournament.

Despite the rain and wind, which led to the match at Barcelona Royal Tennis Club being stopped several times – or perhaps because of it – Nadal displayed a clear advantage over his young rival, who was no match for the star's famous forehand, sharp focus and relentless authority, leading to a 6-2 6-1 victory.

The Barcelona Open final was Rafa's 19th match win on the trot, having not dropped a single one of his last 46 sets.

Carolina Conquers

Spain’s unstoppable Carolina Marín won her fourth consecutive European Championship at the weekend – the first female in badminton in history to achieve the feat.

Carolina, who will be 25 in June, took the gold in just 35 minutes after dispatching Russia's Evgeniya Kosetskaya by 21-15 and 21-7.

Even more special than beating the record of three European championships on the trot set by Denmark's Camilla Martin in 1996, 1998 and 2000 was the fact that Carolina's swift victory took place in the stadium named after her in her native city of Huelva in Spain's far south-west.

The Olympic gold medallist has always dreamed of winning a major championship title in front of her local people on home turf, although she had never imagined this would happen in the Carolina Marín Stadium, which was packed out with over 4,000 spectators.

She thanked 'everyone who came along' and said she hoped they had 'enjoyed the whole of the European championship tournament'.

MotoGP returns to Europe this weekend at Jerez, the Spanish circuit renamed to Circuito de JerezAngel Nieto in honour of the MotoGP great who sadly passed away last year.

The 4,423m layout has not only been renamed, but it has also undergone a complete resurface. Although it is one of four races held in Spain, it is the only one given the title of Spanish Grand Prix and this highly charged event always attracts a huge crowd which fills the hillsides surrounding the track.

With the stunning stadium section always packed to the rafters and the final ‘Jorge Lorenzo’ corner sure to provide some fireworks, everything is perfectly placed to go down to the wire as five riders arrive at the track within eight points.

After his sixth straight Americas GP win, Spain’s Marc Marquez(pictured above) comes into the Spanish GP off the back of a big statement in the title fight and only one point off the lead – but now it’s back to Europe and the Circuito de Jerez. With only one win in Andalucia, in 2014, it’s a track that the number 93 often picks out as one he finds tougher – will that be true this season?

The man he’s chasing down in the standings is currently Italy’s Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team). After winning the opening race of the season and then taking two solid top six finishes, ‘DesmoDovi’ is back on top.

He came fifth last year at Jerez, but was a good haul of points below where he is at this point in 2018. A good omen? Consistency is the Italian’s calling card.

His teammate, Jorge Lorenzo, was top Ducati in 2017, however – taking his first podium in red.

And what of Marquez’ teammate Dani Pedrosa?

After breaking his wrist in the Argentina GP, the threetime World Champion put in a stunning ride in Texas to – somehow – come home seventh on one of the most challenging tracks on the calendar.

Humble Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton believes other Formula 1 drivers would celebrate an inherited victory more than he did in Azerbaijan on Sunday, because he is "wired differently".

Hamilton took the lead in the closing laps after Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas suffered a right rear puncture, and he delayed the podium ceremony to seek out the Finn to commiserate with him postrace.

The reigning world champion believes he has been on the receiving end of races determined by luck in the past, with other winning drivers being more exuberant in their celebrations.

"This is a lottery race, and whether or not you use 'gifted' as the word, I don't know if I would use that, but it was a fortunate race for me," said Hamilton.

"I was standing on the podium believing that Valtteri should have been standing there, because I felt that he had earned it.

"There have been days I've been on a podium where I've lost a grand prix, and it's been gifted to someone else, be it a couple of the drivers that are here, or one of the drivers that have left.”

"The happiness they've had, doesn't matter whether they've earned it or not, fingers up in the air...

I'm just wired differently.”

English Premier League 13:30 Stoke City V. Crystal Palace 16:00 Bournemouth V. Swansea City 16:00 Leicester City V. West Ham United 16:00 Watford V. Newcastle United 16:00 West Bromwich Albion V. Tottenham Hotspur 18:30 Everton V. Southampton English Football League - League One 18:30 AFC Wimbledon V. Bury 18:30 Blackburn Rovers V. Oxford United 18:30 Doncaster Rovers V. Wigan Athletic 18:30 Fleetwood Town V. Walsall 18:30 Gillingham V. Plymouth Argyle 18:30 Northampton Town V. Oldham Athletic 18:30 Portsmouth V. Peterborough United 18:30 Rochdale V. Charlton Athletic 18:30 Rotherham United V. Blackpool 18:30 Scunthorpe United V. Bradford City 18:30 Shrewsbury Town V. MK Dons 18:30 Southend United V. Bristol Rovers English Football League - League Two 16:00 Barnet V. Chesterfield 16:00 Cambridge United V. Port Vale 16:00 Carlisle United V. Newport County 16:00 Coventry City V. Morecambe 16:00 Crewe Alexandra V. Cheltenham Town 16:00 Exeter City V. Colchester United 16:00 Forest Green Rovers V. Grimsby Town 16:00 Lincoln City V. Yeovil Town 16:00 Mansfield Town V. Crawley Town 16:00 Notts County V. Luton Town 16:00 Swindon Town V. Accrington Stanley 16:00 Wycombe Wanderers V. Stevenage Scottish Premiership 13:30 Dundee V. Hamilton Academical 16:00 Aberdeen V. Hibernian 16:00 Motherwell V. St. Johnstone 16:00 Rangers V. Kilmarnock Sunday 6 May English Premier League 14:30 Manchester City V. Huddersfield Town 17:30 Arsenal V. Burnley 17:30 Chelsea V. Liverpool English Football League - Championship 13:30 Birmingham City V. Fulham 13:30 Bolton Wanderers V. Nottingham Forest 13:30 Brentford V. Hull City 13:30 Bristol City V. Sheffield United 13:30 Cardiff City V. Reading 13:30 Derby County V. Barnsley 13:30 Ipswich Town V. Middlesbrough 13:30 Leeds United V. Queens Park Rangers 13:30 Millwall V. Aston Villa 13:30 Preston North End V. Burton Albion 13:30 Sheffield Wednesday V. Norwich City 13:30 Sunderland V. Wolverhampton Wanderers Scottish Premiership 13:15 Heart of Midlothian V. Celtic Tuesday 8 May English Premier League 20:45 Swansea City V. Southampton Scottish Premiership 20:45 Aberdeen V. Rangers 20:45 Hamilton Academical V. St. Johnstone 20:45 Partick Thistle V. Motherwell 20:45 Ross County V. Dundee Wednesday 9 May English Premier League 20:45 Chelsea V. Huddersfield Town 20:45 Leicester City V. Arsenal 21:00 Manchester City V. Brighton and Hove Albion 21:00 Tottenham Hotspur V. Newcastle United Scottish Premiership 20:45 Celtic V. Kilmarnock 20:45 Heart of Midlothian V. Hibernian Thursday 10 May English Premier League 20:45 West Ham United V. Manchester United

Information correct at time of publication but subject to change at short notice.

Saturday 5 May

NO GO RIO

Former Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand says he is "disappointed" after being refused a professional boxing licence.

The 39-year-old, who retired from football in 2015, launched his new career in September.

The British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) said they would not be reviewing his application, Ferdinand said.

"It is with a heavy heart that I am hanging up my gloves," he wrote on Facebook.

MIAMI DATE

Formula 1 is planning to hold a grand prix in Miami, Florida, next year.

The Miami City Commission will vote next week on a proposal to conclude a deal with F1, with a view to the first race being held in October 2019.

If the event comes off, it would be the first street race in the US since a grand prix in Phoenix, Arizona in 1991.

The Miami race would be the second F1 race in the United States, in addition to the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.

FIGHTING THE DROP The Premier League moves into the final stages, with most of the interest generated by the battle against relegation, as we look at the runners and riders ahead of this weekend’s matches.

15th-placed West Ham are looking nervously over their shoulders after just one win in eight. Confidence is low after consecutive 4-1 defeats to Arsenal and Manchester City, and a training ground row between David Moyes and Andy Carroll points to unrest behind the scenes.

Saturday's game against an out-of-sorts Leicester might be their best hope of claiming a vital victory from their last three games. They then face Manchester United and Everton at home. Their old boss Sam Allardyce is unlikely to go easy on them on the final day.

Huddersfield, level on points with West Ham, have tough games to come and the second-worst goal difference of the bottom seven sides behind Stoke.

Getting any kind of result from their final three games would be an impressive feat. Manchester City will be eager to lift the Premier League trophy in style at home on Sunday, then there is a trip to Chelsea before they face Arsenal in Arsene Wenger's final Premier league game in charge.

Swansea in 17th place have not won in six Premier League games, leaving them just one point above the bottom three with three games to play.

The meetings with Southampton and Stoke, the two teams directly below them, are likely to be decisive. Carvalhal's side will need to make their home advantage count.

Southampton blew the relegation battle open with their 2-1 win over Bournemouth on Saturday - their first in the Premier League since the start of February - but there remains a big job ahead.

They face Everton at Goodison Park before the vital trip to Swansea next week, and with Manchester City the visitors on the final day of the season, they might need to have their safety already assured.

Three points adrift of safety and with only two games left to play, Stoke's prospects look bleak, and they entertain a buoyant Crystal Palace tomorrow.

West Brom's resurgence has surely come too late, but they remain five points off 17th-placed Swansea with only two games to play.

They will hope to continue their upturn in form against Tottenham this weekend and then Crystal Palace, but it would take a minor miracle for them to escape the drop.

CHAMPIONSHIP FINALE The Football League Championship reaches its final day this Sunday afternoon and five teams can still join first relegated club Sunderland in League One next season, with Reading, Birmingham, Barnsley, Burton and Bolton all in the mix.

There are stacks of permutations but a lot of neutrals will be marvelling at a potential Houdini escape act that tiny Burton Albion have produced from a seemingly doomed position.

After three wins on the trot for the Brewers, they now have a final match to come at Preston North End, as the Lancashire side are trying to sneak into the play-offs.

Burton though also need other results to go their way.

Bolton must beat Nottingham Forest to stand any chance of survival, and they may need to win well.

Barnsley will stay up if they win away at Derby, but the Rams have their own priorities as well to guarantee themselves a place in the play-offs.

A win over Fulham would mathematically secure Birmingham's place in the Championship next season, whilst Reading are still technically in trouble, but many permutations would have to go against them if they lose at Cardiff.

A point in Wales would secure their status.