The Courier Week 88

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Friday, October 26, 2012

SEX AT 13: THE DEADLY RISK

Schoolgirl’s shooting puts Rajoy under new pressure to raise age of consent DONNA GEE reports PRESSURE is mounting for Spain to raise its age of sexual consent after a 13-year-old girl was shot dead in the street by a 39-year-old man she’d been having a relationship with.

Killer Juan Carlos Alfaro then shot another man dead and wounded the girl’s grandfather before turning his gun on himself after a six-hour standoff with police.

Spain’s age of consent is just 13 – the lowest in Europe and one of the lowest in the world. But when unemployed Alfaro grabbed one of his 15 guns and fired four bullets into victim Almudena as she and her friends walked through the village of El Salobral, near Albacete, the nation’s conscience was triggered.

The tragedy highlighted the

Civil Guard vehicles surround the area where Juan Carlos Alfaro (inset) was hiding potential volatility of liaisons between adults and youngsters barely into their teens. And it has put Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy under new pressure to raise the consent age – possibly to 15.

When Rajoy took power a year ago, Save the Children sent him a

list of ten priorities for the infant agenda - and among them was the age of sexual consent.

Britain’s minimum age (16) is among the highest in Europe – and was highlighted recently when 30year-old schoolteacher Jeremy Forrest fled to France with his 15-

year-old pupil Megan Stammers.

Europe wondered what the fuss was about as UK police hunted down the couple in a frenzy of headlines, culminating in Forrest being arrested and charged with abducting a child.

Most other nations sanction consensual sex at 14 or 15, though in Turkey and Malta the age of consent is as high as 18. But Spain’s ridiculously low 13 clearly opens the door to dangerous liaisons – with Alfaro’s crazed rampage the ultimate threat.

Alfaro’s uncle Angel Aparicio told reporters his nephew was not a criminal and would not have gone on the shooting rampage had he not been pressured by Almudena's family to stop seeing her.

Some local people confirmed that the girl had been ordered to break it off while Alfaro’s mother, Candida, said in a TV interview that her son tried to end the rela-

tionship on several occasions but the girl continued to harass him. .

After his deadly attack on Almudena, Alfaro shot her grandfather and killed a 40-year-old man before hiding over the weekend in a shed on the outskirts of El Salobral.

He called the Guardia to confess to the killings and after a massive manhunt with sniffer dogs, was tracked down on Monday morning.

After he opened fire on officers, negotiators from the Guardia’s Special Intervention Unit (SIU) tried to convince him to surrender but he refused. Six hours later he killed himself.

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BARCELONA BREAK-IN COSTS CRUYFF €500K POLICE in Barcelona are hunting thieves who stole €500,000 worth of valuables from football legend Johan Cruyff’s home in an upmarket area of Barcelona.

The robbery took place in Sarria-Sant Gervasi on Monday morning after the gang apparently climbed over a wall in the empty property and forced open a balcony window with a crowbar.

Catalonia's El Periodico newspaper reported that they ransacked the house and stole valuables including gold watches and footballing trophies.

Now 65, the Dutch superstar won the Ballon d'Or three times in the early seventies and was voted European Player of the Century in 1999. He is now an adviser to Barcelona FC and was travelling in Mexico at the time of the robbery.

A spokesman for the Mossos d'Esquadra, which is investigating the theft, said: "We can confirm a break-in at a house in Barcelona's Sarria area." No arrests are thought to have taken place so far.

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STAFF and AECC volunteers from Torrevieja Hospital joined forces last Friday to promote the importance of International Breast Cancer Day. In recognition of the day, 100 pink balloons were released at the hospital by the joint party of AECC volunteers, doctors and nurses from the oncology department.

The balloons were launched in support of patients, families and medical staff who jointly fight cancer on a daily basis and also to make people aware of the importance of screening in the early detection of this terrible disease.

Lesbian jailed by Franco stakes claim for damages

A SPANISH lesbian jailed by the Franco regime for being a "danger to society" has become the first woman to seek damages from the state for the persecution she suffered.

Identified in court papers only by her initials, MCD, the 54-year-old woman presented her case to a judge last week under a 2009 law aimed at compensating those who suffered repression during the military dictatorship.

She was arrested in 1974, aged just 17, and after a trial in which her state appointed lawyer offered no defence, was sentenced to between four months and three years in prison to undergo "a programme of re-education".

Homosexuality was des-

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ignated an offence under the "law against delinquency and criminals" introduced in 1954. But towards the end of Franco's regime, it was increasingly viewed as an illness rather than a crime and many were sent to mental hospitals to undergo electric-shock therapy.

Describing her ordeal, MCD said: "A group of plain-clothes police came up to me in the street and that was that. I have spent my life since then trying to forget what happened, and to overcome the ordeal.’’

The court's report from the time of her arrest reads: "The daughter of an honourable family, MCD shows clear signs of homosexual orientation, and has had impure relations with another young

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woman whom she dominates, pursues and attracts. She is a rebel and disobeys her family and threatens them when they try to correct her and bring her up properly. She is a danger to her family and to society."

According to the association, some 4,000 people were imprisoned for "the crime of homosexuality" under the regime. MCD insists that financial recompense is not her motive and she simply wants recognition of the injustice she and others like her suffered.

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CLEAN UP OUR COSTA BETWEEN 70 and 80 residents joined in a demonstration on Wednesday against Orihuela Costa’s dirty streets, unclean beaches and unsightly garden waste – claiming it is all down to neglect.

The protest was organised by the council’s CLARO faction, claiming the Town Hall, and in particular Councillor for the Coast Pedro Mancebo, had done nothing in response to a spontaneous demonstration against the same problem four weeks ago.

CLARO claim residents are angered by the lack of attention and failure of the local government to arrange an essential service - namely street cleaning and rubbish removal.

They say Orihuela Costa residents contribute at least half of the local government’s revenue from rates and property taxes but are not getting the service they have the right to expect in return.

The problem, claim CLARO, reflects the neglect of the coast in general by the three-party government and its unwillingness to put enough resources into looking after the coast.

In a press release issued after the demonstration, CLARO said the lack of resources is symbolised by the position of Mancebo.

They state: “As CLARO Councillor Bob Houliston knows from his time as Councillor for the Coast, the job is a fulltime job and requires a full-time advisor and a strong staff of local officials.

“Pedro Mancebo is Councillor for the Coast and Beaches, but also Tourism, Infrastructures and Maintenance. For him, the coast is at best a part-time job.

“There is no will on the part of the government to give proper attention to the coast. It is an insult for Pedro Mancebo to blame, as he reportedly did in a radio interview on the day of the demonstration, that the fault lies with the uncivic behaviour of residents of the coast and some out of town gardeners.

“The fault lies squarely with the government.

Its attitude to the coast is summed up by its recent attempt to sell almost half of the remaining municipally owned land on the coast, which will be needed to meet the needs of the coast’s future expansion.’’

DIRTY WORK: The demonstrators make their point

Brit woman faces jail over rhino-horn theft A BRITISH woman has been arrested for the bizarre theft of rhinoceros horn. The unnamed 37 yearold, was detained on the island of Tenerife on a European arrest warrant and has been handed over to German police.

She is suspected of being part of a gang that stole rhino horns worth €50,000 from the Offenburg museum in south-western Germany last February in what police describe as an "unbelievably audacious" heist.

Police said two people had distracted staff at the museum while another two climbed onto a display case, removed a rhino head from a wall and smashed off its horn with hammers.

Two other British members of the gang were arrested earlier this year and sentenced to three years and two and a half years respectively in a German prison.

Museums across Europe have been increasingly targeted by rhino

horn thieves as populations of the animals diminish in the wild, with some museums attempting to deter robberies by replacing the horns with fake ones. The rhino horns are prized in Asia where they are considered to have aphrodisiac and disease

fighting properties. A single horn can fetch close to £200,000 on the black market. The horns are ground down into a powder and used in a variety of different remedies.

Driven by soaring price of rhino horn of the black market, the animals are increasingly targeted in the wild.

Two of the five world's rhino species, the Javan and the Sumatran, have been reduced to only a few dozen each. In South Africa, where 90 per cent of the wild population of rhinos live, authorities reported last week that a total of 455 white rhinos had already been killed this year. There are thought to be fewer than 20,000 of those animals left in the wild.

Scientists say the horn, which is ingested in powdered form, has no proven medical benefit. "You'd get the same effect by chewing your fingernails," said Nigel Monaghan, keeper of the National Museum of Ireland.

Immigrants head home in job crisis

THE immigrant population in Alicante, the majority of which is made up of Latin Americans, is upping sticks and leaving.

According to national statistics, the number of immigrants was on the rise right up to 2009, when 20,000 South Americans were resident in the city, making up 40% of the entire population of foreign residents. In the last three years, though, 3,314 have returned to their home countries -and the number is increasing every day, as they see no way out of the economic crisis. Many have lost their jobs and are no longer able to meet mortgage payments.

Although most Latin Americans go back to South America, where the economies are starting to grow, some opt to move in Europe, with France, the UK, Sweden and Switzerland favourites. In these countries they have the added difficulty of learning a new language, and fewer options when it comes to a visa.

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Lorca earthquake was man-made, say scientists

LAST year’s devastating Lorca earthquake may have been triggered by decades of pumping water from a nearby natural underground reservoir.

A team of scientists led by the Spaniard Pablo Gonzalez, of the Canadian University of Western Ontario, came to this conclusion after studying the satellite data of the ground deformation caused by the earthquake, which allowed them to recreate the fault movement.

The experts concluded that the loss of water by the progressive underground mining for domestic supply disrupted the crustal fault.

This, they say, was enough to cause a fracture in the rock, which in turn induced a 5.1 magnitude earthquake, which killed nine people, injured more than 300 - and caused serious damage in the Murcian town.

El Mundo reported that the experts found that the pattern of fault movement is correlated with changes in the Earth’s crust caused by a 250-metre drop in the natural groundwater level due to continued groundwater extraction since the 60s.

This correlation implies that the terrain changes induced by human activity “helped cause the earthquake in Lorca and also influenced the extent of the fault rupture”, which determined the magnitude of the May 11 earthquake.

“We conclude that the data presented and the model results are consistent with a process of groundwater discharge to the cortex, providing a plausible explanation for the observed pattern of movement on the fault,” noted the scientists. This confirms that “human activities can influence how and when earthquakes occur’’

Test flight thumbs-up for Corvera

AENA has given test flights at the new Murcia International Airport the seal of approval – clearing the way for Corvera to finally take over from San Javier as the region’s main link with the UK. The arrival, departure and approach procedures will now be presented to the Interministerial Committee of Defence and Public Works for approval at its December plenary session.

A statement issued this week by officials of the new airport said AENA ‘’has issued a favourable report of the test flights carried out at RMU at the end of September’’.

The flights undertaken by AENA technical staff were aimed at testing out the procedures to be used by future operators of the airport and ensuring that they were acceptable.

While the technical staff had indicated their satisfaction with the outcome of the test flights, the concessionary company had to wait for AENA to deliver its official report.

Corvera Airport officials recently confirmed a new target opening date of April 2013 following successful negotiations and tests with the military.

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editor@thecourier.es COURIER POSTBAG: YOUR VIEWS ON OUR NEWS

Nasty ignorant ranters are beyond a smoke!

ON May 28, we bought through the Vodafone shop in Quesada a Samsung Galaxy smart phone. In August it was giving trouble so we took it back to the shop and after a struggle with them as they were not helpful about repairing it, they sent it away. We were told it would be back in ten days - that was on August 18.

We are still without the phone as the shop has lost it and will not replace it, saying it is not their problem but the delivery firm that took it away.

We have now had a further discussion with Vodafone Customer Service and it turns out the store does not belong to Vodafone at

all - it appears to be some form of franchise and VF have no control over it.

Furthermore, the customer service department is in Egypt, and staff are forbidden to phone the store to sort the problem out.

We are now left in limbo awaiting their pleasure of when and if they decide to replace the phone that they lost.

Can you help please?

PERCY CHATTEY If the shop care for their reputation, we would hope that publishing your complaint will solicit a response from them.

We’d be delighted to publish their explanation...

- EDITOR

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CAN I point out that it's nasty ignorant people like Donna Gee (P’s and Q’s of Smoking, Issue 86) who have forced smokers outside.

If you hate it so much, go inside to eat.

I am sure that during the winter months you will do; yet we, the smokers, will remain outside.

You cannot have your cake and eat it, so button it with your rants.

If "most Spaniards are addicted to this filthy weed’’, put up with it - or go back to

the UK, where people like you can spout your drivel, and the authorities take action to appease you.

BILL CHERRY, Rojales DONNA replies: Who’s ranting, Bill? Who is nasty and ignorant?

And who is spouting drivel? The words ‘pot’, ‘kettle’ and ‘black’ come to mind but I’ll leave readers to decide.

There are considerate smokers and there are ignorant ones who think nothing of lighting up when people are eating within a couple of feet of them. I think I can guess which category you fall into.

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A FAIR COP AT LAST...

I JUST read Jeanette Erath’s article on the police.

Great - at last someone who can understand their point of view and put it in a newspaper. Personally I

cannot understand how they can cope with the way some members of the public treat them and think that the police have no right to retaliate.

How they manage to keep such self-control in the face of drunken louts and rioters is beyond me. So thank you for your stand.

JOHN T (via website)

Thanks for the thanks!

THANKS so much, Jenny Bilton, (Issue 87) for taking the time to write your letter last week thanking the ambulance crew for their help with your husband’s fall.

My husband is the only English person on the ambulance crew and works out of Torrevieja Hospital – it is so nice to see that you appreciated their help.

So many people are quick to criticise, but not many show their appreciation. I hope your husband recovers soon, Regards, TASHA

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MENU OF THE DEE IN THE CURRENT economic climate, it takes an enormous amount of guts to launch a new business.

Particularly in a country devastated by a money crisis and mass unemployment.

So any Brit who manages to plough successfully through the endless red tape that doubles up as Spanish bureaucracy has to be worthy of a place in the Honours List (or in this case Dinners List).

Take a bow, Dee Williams, who is about to enter an unknown world by opening a new bar at El Raso. To say she’s going into it blind is an understatement – the nearest she’s ever been to the catering industry is cooking the books (her words!) in her previous life as an accountant.

Dee – short for Denise - has been in Spain since April 2011, when she flew out to look after her granddaughter Sophie during the school holidays while her daughter Amanda was working over here. But when they returned to the UK early this year, Dee refused to pack up and join them.

Husband Dave had remained in England to run his haulage company and Dee managed to obtain his backing for a business venture of her own. ”Someone has to fund my bright ideas!’’ she says with a laugh.

The decision to open a bar was made back in June, around the time one local licensee was fined 1,000 euros for a comparatively minor infringement of local authority ‘rules’. The hidden costs of living in Spain are frightening - and nowhere more so than in the world of food and drink.

But Dee is happy to embrace the potential minefield – and to enter the scene with a bang. Or a strum and a twang to be more accurate.

Dee’s granddaughter Sophie...hand-on-hip attitude Popular guitar/banjo folk duo Frank and Phil will open her music programme next Friday (November 2), and regular jazz nights are also on the agenda. Sounds saxy!

After looking at different options and areas, Dee hit on the idea of turning the former Thomas Green convenience store in El Raso’s commercial centre into something completely different.

And she was not the least bit daunted by the bureaucratic

red tape entrepreneurial expats have to cut through to help revive a half-dead economy.

Dee insists that Guardamar Town Hall have been ’very helpful’ but she also admits: “It is very, very tough to get started. With it not being a bar previously, I had to have architects and electrico technico drawing custom-made blueprints which had to be followed to the T and rubber-stamped at every stage of the work.

“It’s all due to Health and Safety regulations and it has been much more difficult than you could ever imagine, But on the plus side I now have my own parking space at the town , and am on first-name terms with the security police, who have seen me every day for the last three weeks.’’

Meanwhile, Bar Sofia – named on the instructions of granddaughter Sophie – opens its doors for the first time this weekend. And if you sense something familiar about the food, Dee’s senior cook Jane Lilley ran Ricardo’s Bar until it was taken over and became Bar Med recently.

Why Bar Sofia? “When I first thought about it, my granddaughter, who was here at the time, said with a hand-on-hip attitude: ‘Nanna, what are you going to call it?’ I said, ‘I don’t know yet’. She said, ‘Well, I do. It’s got to be BAR SOFIA’.

“It was not my choice personally but grandchildren always win in the end.’’

Now that Dee has the end (or should that be the beginning?) in sight, she reckons all the ups and downs have been worthwhile. Time will tell if Bar Sofia will be a financial success – but I have the greatest admiration for people who create jobs in a negative economy by putting their own savings on the line.

Sofia so good. What’s on the Menu Del Dee, Jane?

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THERE is one paste job in Mrs S's otherwise bejewelled crown of positive attributes.

She claims to know the difference between left and right. However, I reckon she doesn't have a clue.

Her weak spot became all too obvious to me on our first date during the latter part of the Swingless Sixties (not a particularly adventurous decade for me.

I had taken the future Mrs S to see Georgy Girl at a town centre cinema (posh).

Strangely, that bittersweet comedy-drama about a homely working-class girl was on a double bill with the reissued 1950s western The Man From Laramie.

A curious coupling, I thought then, but not as curious as the couple the future Mrs S and I were to become.

'We must go to the pictures again next week,' I suggested as we left the cinema that warm June evening.

She looked puzzled.

'What? To see the same two films? What's the point of that?'

She's an odd one, I figured as we climbed into our carriage -- a clapped-out Ford Prefect.

Our first date took place

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SHE JUST CAN’T GET IT RIGHT‌ long before the innovation of automotive navigation by satellite. So I had to rely on the future Mrs S's directions to deliver us to her abode.

'Here we are,' I announced as we arrived outside her front door. I pulled on the handbrake and pushed out my lips in one smooth action.

'So how's about a goodnight kiss?' I suggested (begged).

'Hang on a minute,' was the future Mrs S's response. 'Just where the hell are we?'

I unpuckered my lips and opened one eye. 'Huh?' She tutted. 'Isn't it customary to escort a girl home after a date? Where have you brought me?'

And then she became a bit alarmed. 'You're not a slave trader by any chance?'

I opened my other eye and peered into the darkness.

'Blimey, I do believe we are parked outside the cemetery

gates.'

The future Mrs S gasped.

'Then my fate seems even worse than I first feared. Get out of my car!'

'But this is MY car!' I countered.

'Then get out of YOUR car!'

I figured we had reached an impasse until I dug out my dog-eared A to Z street guide, turned to Page 15, followed the arrow overleaf to Page 16 and then turned the book upside down.

'I've figured out what's gone wrong,' I said. 'Every time you told me to turn right it should have been left. And vice versa.'

The future Mrs S assumed a sheepish look. 'I've almost got the hang of this left-right business, honestly I have. It's just that I'm having a bad day.'

'Well thanks a bunch,' I responded. 'That certainly says a lot for being in my company. But if not knowing

left from right is the worst flaw in your character make-up, I shall take a chance on stepping out with you again.

'Indeed,' I went on. 'Your apparent inability to tell which way is which is somewhat endearing and stimulates my protective nature. I shall look back on this evening with a warm glow in my heart.'

Fast-forward several decades to a week ago.

'You barmy bint!' I yelled at Mrs S. 'Why the hell did you tell me to turn right? It should have been left.'

I stopped the car and started to sulk.

'Sorry I directed you to the wrong church,' mumbled Mrs S. She glanced at her watch.

'I'm afraid we've probably missed the wedding ceremony. We might as well proceed to the reception. I'm sure there'll be some banoffee pie left . . .' '. . . or right,' I suggested

nastily. 'So many years I've waited for my best pal Eric the dentist to find a decent woman and get married. And now I've missed it.'

Mrs S touched my stressed-out arm reassuringly. 'Don't worry, love. I'm sure Eric will let you watch the video of the ceremony.'

'Oh, yeah?' I said. 'Apart from the bit where the best man hands over the ring.

Because the ring is in the best man's waistcoat pocket and the best man is sitting in a car outside the . . .'

I glanced out of the car window. 'It's not even the wrong church. It's a flaming abattoir.

And it's not even open.'

Mrs S looked as if she wanted to apologise again and then she assumed a startled expression. 'What difference,' she asked with a shudder, 'would it have made if the abattoir had been open?'

I glared at her neck. 'Don't

even go there!'

I started up the car and reversed onto the road we'd come down (or gone up) the wrong way.

'All the birthdays and Christmasses we've spent together,' I grumbled. 'You could have acquired a sat nav for me.'

'Yeah,' muttered Mrs S. 'That would have made a good swap.'

We drove around for another couple of hours looking for the wedding reception venue but to no avail.

'You'd better contact Eric the dentist on his mobile and find out exactly where he is,' suggested Mrs S. I stopped the car yet again and pulled my phone from the waistcoat pocket opposite the one that contained the ring.

'Eric,' I almost sobbed when he answered. 'What can I say.

I am so sorry I've screwed up.

How can I ever make it up to you? I'll even let you remove a couple of my teeth without anaesthetic if you'll only forgive me. What? Oh.' 'Well?' asked Mrs S. 'Where can we find Eric the dentist?'

'Er . . . he's at home. Forget the sat nav. Buy me a calendar. The wedding's next week.'

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SAY IT IN SPANISH Learn the lingo - with a little help from JEANETTE ERATH Spanish 43 This week we are going to expand on a very important area of Spanish, as of course they all are. We touched briefly on adjectives in lesson 9 all those months ago, so this is a bit of revision with some more explanation.

Adjectives are words to describe nouns.

In Spanish the adjective nearly always follows the noun, unlike English when it is the other way round. For example A brown car becomes A car brown (un coche marron) We know that nouns are masculine or feminine and the adjective also takes on the gender of the noun, for example, a white house becomes una casa blanca whereas a white dog would be un perro blanco.

They also require an ´S´ when the noun is plural, example some white houses = unas casas blancas.

If the adjective in its singular form ends in a stressed vowel i.e. one with an accent, or a consonant, we will add "-es" to form the plural Example: Marron – marrones = brown – brown You can see some adjectives will not change with the gender of the noun, only those ending in ´o´ will change for example una casa verde and un perro verde not that there are too many green dogs out there, but hopefully you get the point.

If the adjective ends in "-z" the plural form ends in "-ces" Example: Feliz – felices = happy – happy Pez – Peces = fish - fish Examples of adjectives that change their endings: Singular Plural bueno, buena (good) buenos, buenas perezoso, perezosa (lazy) perezosos, perezosas precioso, preciosa (precious) preciosos, preciosas Numerous adjectives have a single form for the masculine and feminine. If the adjective ends in -e add -s for the plural, if

it ends in a consonant add -es examples: débil (weak) = débiles; perseverante (persevering) = perseverantes Un personalidad agradable – a pleasant personality

Un hombre mexicano Un cuento interestante – an interesting story Películas populares – popular films Un vino francés y pasteles franceses – A french wine and French pastries Un chico feliz y unas chicas felices – a happy boy and some happy girls A few spelling rules: Some adjectives may drop or add an accent mark when they are changed from singular to plural and vice versa, Adjectives of nationality are not capitalized.

Remember to change z to c before adding the -es plural ending.

Here are some adjectives with the same form in the masculine and feminine.

Agradable – pleasant, azul – blue, difícil – difficult, fácil – easy, fatal – fatal, feliz – happy, fuerte – strong, gris – grey,

inferior – inferior, interesante – interesting, mediocre – mediocre, natural – natural, optimista – optimistic, pesimista – pessimistic, realista – realistic, triste – sad, verde – green To form the feminine of adjectives ending in -án, -dor and ón add -a to the masculine form, singular e.g: charlatán = charlatana (talkative), glotón = glotona (gluttonous), plural e.g: charlatanes = charlatanas, glutones = glutonas Mi hermana es muy habladora = my sister is very chatty Adjectives of Nationalities that end in -o drop the masculine ending and add -a to the singular form. They are not capitalized in Spanish: mexicano = mexicana.....mexicanos = mexicanas peruano = peruana....... peruanos = peruanas Many adjectives of nationality have other endings such as a, -án, -és, -ense and -í. These endings are both masculine and feminine. belga, canadiense, catalán Use the masculine plural for an adjective that modifies a group of two or more nouns when at least one of the nouns is masculine: ¿Adónde vas con el vestido y la chequeta viejos? – where are you going with the old dress and jacket?

Here are some sentences for you to translate into Spanish using all you have learnt so far: Today is a beautiful day, The red shoes are from Spain, they sell blue earrings, I have a large patio, I see an old aeroplane, The children are happy, the girl has a small hand, I like Italian wine.

Next week we will talk more about adjectives and remind ourselves where they go in a sentence, and learn a few more rules.

Until then enjoy speaking and listening to Spanish wherever you can.

Que tengas una buena semana.

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WHY DO THEY DO THAT? Top dog psychologist PETER SINGH writes exclusively for The Courier. Check out www.thedogyouneed.com or email Peter at peter@thedogyouneed.com

SOMETHING I am constantly reminding clients is to be aware of what energy they are projecting to their dogs.

People hugely underestimate this vital aspect of canine communication and it is the single biggest cause that leads to behavioural problems with dogs.

They are constantly picking up on our emotions and owners really do need to be aware of this important fact.

Dogs detect emotions such as nerves, anxiety, anger and frustration as weak energies and ones they simply cannot follow.

When inviting a dog into your home to live with you for life, you need to remember that they are not human and do not think like humans.

Dogs have a completely different psychological set-up to ours and it is only when we acknowledge this and learn how their minds work that a beautiful relationship can begin.

The biggest reason for any relationship breaking down, whether it is a human-human relationship or a human-animal relationship, is a lack of understanding.

One does not understand

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the other or neither understands each other.

The best relationships are always based on the foundation of a good understanding of the other and the human-dog relationship is no different.

I know so many cases, where a human has gone and rescued a dog who has had an abusive past.

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human then feels absolute sorrow for the dog, but what you need to remember is that dogs pick up sorrow as a weak energy. They know that emotion cannot help them.

Think about it. If you have gone through a traumatic event in your life and you

are surrounded by people who just feel sorry for you, they cannot help you move on.

They keep you locked in that negative state and this is what is happening to many rescue dogs.

Of course the human’s intentions are good, but sorrow never solved anything.

Moving on did.

Take Lola for example, my female German Shepherd.

When I rescued her in the UK, she was literally scared of her own shadow. remember she use to stay right in the centre of her concrete kennel when she

Peter, with Lola, who now helps the homeless puppies of Spain

was in rescue, so that no one could get near her. She was petrified of men and had never been in a house in her life.

Lola is now 100% fulfilling her potential. She is my right hand girl and helps me a terrific amount with the homeless puppies in Spain.

She looks after them all and teaches them rules and keeps them balanced. She even helps me on some of my consultations where an aggressive dog is involved.

Why Lola’s potential has been fulfilled is because when I first rescued this amazing dog six years ago, I did not feel sorry for her.

What I did do was show her guidance and give her exactly the same rules to follow as Billy, my other German Shepherd.

She became balanced and calm very quickly, but in the wrong hands of someone who would have maybe nurtured her insecurity and

fear, it could have been a totally different story for Lola.

So if you already have a dog in your life or are thinking of rescuing one of the amazing homeless puppies or dogs that Spain has to offer, make sure your energy is calm and of a leadership quality. If it isn’t, problems may occur.

Along with the human sharing the correct energy, dogs need three very simple things in order to remain balanced. These are proper exercise, consistent rules and boundaries and affection at the right times, which is when they are calm. That is the path to a happy and fulfilling relationship with your best friend.

Finally, rather than worrying about the external aspects of human beauty, nurture calm within your mind on a daily basis.

I have witnessed first hand what happens when a human mind goes pop and becomes broken and it is not pleasant. So look after the most important aspect of your body and stop it running at 150 miles per hour.

Humans, like dogs are born calm and balanced and the best gift you can ever give your dog is to return to that state.

PETS’ CORNER: CAN YOU TAKE IN A HOMELESS DOG OR CAT? Wesley WESLEY is a small wirehaired terrier, approx one year old, very bouncy and bubbly and loves to play.

Was found wandering the streets of Campoverde. To re-home, foster or sponsor one of Finca La Castellana’s dogs, call Eleanor on 610188349.

BONNY is a beautiful pointer-type puppy who was found in the campo after being poisoned but has now recovered. She is about four months old and is a very lovely girl. Call 659 274 573. www.petsinspain.com

SANCHO is a beautiful male Pointer, about one year old.

He is very friendly and loves people and other dogs. Like all Pointers he is very lively and would benefit from a reasonable amount of exercise. The K9 Club. Please call: 664 891 382. www.k9club.es E-mail: k9clubinfo@gmail.com

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BELLA is a beautiful 18 month old German Shepherd. We rescued her with her nine puppies, all of which found new homes but Bella is still waiting for a home. She is good with other dogs and children, is extremely friendly and housetrained. Call: 645 469 253. www.petsinspain.com Email: info@petsinspain.info

HARRY is a very loving ginger boy about a year old and has been neutered.

This delightful young cat will make a super companion.

To meet Harry, please call Joe (The Cat Man) on 966719272.

Harry

LISA is almost 2 years old.

She was found hunting for food by a bin in the campo and was very thin, hungry and quite nervous. She is now a very happy and healthy dog, fully vaccinated and micro chipped. Call 966 710 047 or visit our website www.satanimalrescue.com for more information about dogs and puppies in our care.

Bonny

ERNIE is approximately five months old and was abandoned outside a charity shop. He is a lovely, friendly little boy, good with other dogs and cats and will be small when fully grown. Call: 966 184 324 www.petsinspain.com Email: info@petsinspain.info

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Bella CHARLIE is a mature white male cat with green eyes and has been neutered and vaccinated. Although he is a little nervous on first meeting, he will soon settle down to make a loving pet. To meet Charlie please call Joe (The Cat Man) on 966719272.

Charlie

BRUTUS is a five-monthold Mastine cross and will be a very big boy when fully grown. He is a real gentle lad, loves being around people and is good with other dogs and cats.

Call: 645 469 253 Email: info@petsinspain.info Brutus

Lisa DYLAN is a three-year-old Boxer. He is a lovely, friendly boy and good with children. He’s housetrained, walks well on a lead and is neutered an chipped. Call: 636 000 844.

Email:info@petsinspain.info Dylan

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ACCORDING TO LINEA DIRECTA, 3 OUT OF 4 ACCIDENTS RESULTING IN INJURY OR DEATH ARE CAUSED BY DRIVER ERROR Whenever we find ourselves in a difficult or dangerous situation when we are driving we only have a fraction of a second to take a decision and carry it out correctly. Consequently, when drivers take the wrong decision, the number of accidents resulting in death or injury is tripled, as figures show that 73% of accidents are caused by drivers making a bad decision, compared to 27% in which they acted correctly.

This is the main conclusion of the study “Decision-making when driving” in which 174,000 accidents resulting in injury or death have been analysed. This means that in the last 4 years, nearly 130,000 accidents resulting in injury or death could have been avoided if the drivers involved had been able to assess the dangers on the road correctly.

The most common errors are due to drivers being distracted, joining roads incorrectly, turning badly, illegally overtaking and not maintaining a safe distance between the vehicle in front. As for types of road, Línea Directa’s report confirms that conventional roads are the most dangerous, due to the fact that 76% of accidents take place on them.

On dual carriageways and motorways, the most common types of accident caused by driver error are rear-end collisions and vehicle crashes, mainly due to sudden braking and the switching of lanes.

Driver Profile Men aged between 18 and 24 who have held a driving licence for less than two years and the over 65s are those most likely to be involved in accidents due to driver error. The former because they have a lower perception of risk and the latter because they have lost certain skills. On the other hand, women aged between 35 and 64, who have held a driving licence for 15 years or more are those who take the best decisions.

Call Línea Directa now 902 123 104

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Before you have kids...

I HAVE been reading a blog which has gone viral and is being copied and pasted onto websites all over the UK. And it wouldn’t surprise me if it went global.

It is the sort of blog that is intended to cheer people up, and goodness only knows we need more cheer. I read a news report about it and was a bit sceptical, to be honest. I thought there had been so many articles and blogs written about the subject matter that how could it possibly still be funny and make people laugh. But, inquisitive as I am, I had a look.

Some parts of it are a repetition of articles I have read. However, amongst them were some gems that, although I had read them before, were written so well that I just started to chuckle. Then I began to shake as I laughed and nodded my head in knowing agreement.

The blog is about parenthood, but with a difference. It was allegedly written for non-parents who are thinking about starting a family, advising them of the joys that await.

The blog is divided into 14 ´tests´ that let the reader know if they are prepared for the joys that a new arrival brings.

The first test starts with the preparation. It advises woman to put on a dressing gown and stick a bean bag down the front, leave it there for nine months and then remove 5% of the beans.

Men are advised to go to a local chemist, tip the contents of their wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself. They are also recommended to arrange with

the supermarket to have their salary paid directly to their head office.

Test 2 covers knowledge. It states: Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild.

Test 3 is the night preparation test, where wannabe parents are advised to keep setting their alarm throughout the

night, remembering to not be able to get back to sleep until 15 minutes before the alarm is due to go off again, carry it on for five years and above all remain cheerful.

Test 4 is instructions for dressing small children.

1 - Buy a live octopus and a string bag. 2 - Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hangout. Time Allowed: 5 minutes.

Test 5 is about cars: 1- Forget the BMW. Buy a practical five-door wagon. 2 - Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment.

Leave it there. 3 - Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player. 4 -Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat. 5 - Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Test 6 prepares for going for a walk with a small child. A -Wait. B - Go out the front door. C- Come back in again.

D - Go out. E - Come back in again. F - Go out again. G - Walk down the front path. H - Walk back up it. I - Walk down it again. J - Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes. K - Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least six questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way. L - Retrace your steps.

M - Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you. N - Give up and go back into the house.

Next week I’ll continue with more advice for those thinking of becoming parents because we all know that forewarned is forearmed.

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MILIBAND BOO BOYS NEED THEIR EDS READ

SOME people just don’t get it at times. Take the massive economic crisis we are facing. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, popped up at a big anti-austerity rally in London at the weekend, and made the very reasonable point that a future Labour government would have to make some difficult choices about what to cut.

A chorus of booing then broke out amongst the public sector workers. I presume they are living in some kind of fantasyland of milk and honey and not the real world. It’s been conveniently forgotten by many that if Gordon Brown had won the last election, then he would have cut almost as much as the current Cameron administration.

The stupid cat-calling against Miliband might have made more sense had it been over the gross over-spending of Blair and Brown when they were in power, but that salient fact seems to have been forgotten by a bunch of idiots who are more suited to militant student politics of the sixties, rather than facing up to facts.

Unless you are a madman, you can’t be in favour of cutting services, because that’s pretty much a political suicide note. But economics demand that you have to do it, and it’s easy for any fool to oppose it, whilst not having a sensible and workable alternative on the table.

Why are British voters so indignant to more qdemocracy?

Last year they turned down a chance to improve an ancient voting sys-

tem that would at least ensure that any elected MP would have to get just over half of the vote in their constituency.

Now we hear from the Electoral Reform Society that not even a fifth of voters plan to vote in the first-ever elections next month for police commissioners. We’ve also had more places saying “no” rather than “yes” to elected mayors. It’s all rather worrying and a profound comment on what people think of politicians in the UK, but what’s the betting that the big moaners and groaners just sit on their backsides and don’t bother casting any vote?

It was hardly the greatest shock of all time that A n d r e w Mitchell had to resign as Tory Chief Whip as a result of “Plebgate”. The story just wouldn’t go away, and Ed

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Miliband had an absolute field day roasting David Cameron over it. That’s politics and there are always resignations and sackings in every government, but I’ve yet to come across one in recent history that made any impact on any voter.

George Osborne is either a total twit or completely naïve in his stupidity trying to pull a fast one over his first-class rail ticket. It just adds to the nasty mood music for the Tories that they are out of touch and arrogant. It also brings back yet again the whole business of toffs and public school education. It’s strange, though, that nobody ever mentioned that Tony Blair went to an expensive and elite public school in Scotland, whilst past Tory and Labour governments were crammed full of privately educated ministers.

I think there’s just something about the image of Eton and Harrow that gets people on the political left upset or perhaps just jealous. But since two of my current favourite British actors, Damien Lewis and Dominic West, both went to Eton, it can’t be all that snobby and bad, surely?

The ‘Spitting Image’ view of ex-Tory chairman Norman Tebbit as a motorbike-riding thug acting as Thatcher’s enforcer is an absolute cracker that’s stayed with me for years. Tebbit has poured bile over David Cameron saying that his government was incompetent and that his ministers as well as Cameron himself, “needed to impose some proper managerial discipline”.

I suppose this was the same kind of discipline that saw Margaret Thatcher lose the plot in her later years and the introduction of the Poll Tax, as well as the battle between “the wets” and “the drys”.

Tebbit’s old age is certainly leading to a serious case of selective memory syndrome, and since he’s hated Cameron from the moment he became Tory leader, I don’t think the Prime Minister will be losing too much sleep over his caustic comments.

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Don’t risk jail – call the benefits office EXPAT Brits who spent July and August ‘cooling off’ in the UK were this week urged to make sure their benefit office knows when they return to Spain.

Failing to do so, warned the British Embassy in Madrid, “could lead to prosecution, imprisonment and even the confiscation of your home and possessions.’’

In a press release, officials explained: “ Expats may be intending to spend the entire winter here (in Spain), others just a few weeks or months. But however long

UK EMBASSY’S WARNING TO EXPATS your stay, it is important that if you receive a UK benefit and are going abroad, even for just a short time, you notify the office that pays your benefit before you leave for Spain.

“In fact any change in your circumstances, such as moving in with a partner, starting work, or even moving house, should be reported immediately to the relevant authority paying your benefit or

pension.’’

The advisory continued: “Spending time out of the UK, whether for a holiday or to live, doesn’t necessarily mean your benefits will be affected. But if you even go abroad for just a few weeks, failing to notify your local benefit office could be considered an offence.’’

More information on UK benefits in general and on which ones can and cannot

be received whilst living in Spain can be found at www.gov.uk.

If you suspect someone you know of committing UK benefit fraud whilst living in Spain - taking public money that should be destined for others more needy than themselves – please call the free and confidential Benefit Fraud Hotline in Spain on 900 554 440. Or fill in the online form at www.dwp.gov.uk/benefit-thieves-spain For more information about living in Spain, go to www.ukinspain.fco.gov.uk

Spanish-Insurance… just the job for Expats!

SPANISH-INSURANCE, the Expat office for Generali Seguros will be opening a second office in Oriheula Costa in early November.

The company is dedicated to providing a first-class service and prices and the new office is situated in Centro Comercial Los Dolces, next to the new La Zenia Boulevard shopping complex. It’s easy to find and there’s ample parking. Just look for Mercadona or Lidl and the office is right next door to the Hogaria.

There are two full-time positions to be filled between the

two offices. Applicants must be fluent in English and have a high level of Spanish - and any other languages will of course be an advantage. Working hours will be Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. CV´s by email only to insurance-rojales@hotmail.com .

The Expat Spanish-Insurance office for Generali Seguros on Calle Los Arcos in Quesada will of course remain open. If you have any questions or would like to request a move from the Quesada office to the La Zenia office you can call the Quesada office on 966 731 691

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Haunted treats for Halloween SCARY HALLOWEEN JELLY Ingredients 2 x 135g packs strawberry or raspberry jelly 425g can lychees in syrup 12-14 small seedless green grapes 12-14 dark coloured jelly beans 80g white marzipan 6-8 whole blanched almonds red piping gel or red icing in a tube

Method

1.Cut the jelly into cubes with scissors and place in a bowl.

Add 400ml boiling water and stir continuously until dissolved.

2. Drain the lychees, reserving the juice. Put the juice in a measuring jug and make up to 400ml with cold water. Add to the dissolved jelly.

3. Pour about a quarter of the jelly into a clear glass dish and place in the fridge to set.

4. Take a grape and gently push a jelly bean into the centre, using the hole where the stalk has been. Then gently push the grape into a lychee. Repeat with the remaining grapes and lychees to make eyeballs.

5. To make the spooky fingers, divide the marzipan into 6 and shape into sausages the size of a finger. Pipe a little red gel at one end and attach an almond to represent a fingernail.

Using a small knife mark three or four lines half way down the finger to make a knuckle.

6. When the jelly is set, arrange half the eyeballs over the surface, add more jelly and return to the fridge.

7. When this has set, arrange the remaining eyeballs over the jelly. Place the spooky fingers against the side of the bowl. Pour over the remaining jelly and place in the fridge to set. Serve in the bowl.

SPICED ROASTED APPLES AND BLACKBERRIES Ingredients 4 medium Bramley apples , each weighing about 200g/8oz 4 tbsp clear honey ½ tsp ground cinnamon finely grated zest and juice of 1 large orange 250g blackberries

Method 1.Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4/fan 160C. Core the apples so you have a hole the size of a pound coin in each one.

Make a cut just into the skin around the middle of each apple.

2. Stand the apples in a shallow baking dish large enough to take all four. Mix together the honey, cinnamon and orange zest, put an equal amount into the cavity of each apple, then pour the orange juice into the dish.

3. Roast the apples for about 40 minutes, spooning the juices over them occasionally. Then, when the apples are almost ready, spoon the blackberries around and over the top of each apple. Return to the oven for 10 minutes or until the juices start to run. Spoon the blackberries and juices over the apples to serve.

PUMPKIN SOUP Ingredients 4 tbsp olive oil 2 onions , finely chopped 1kg pumpkins or squash (try kabocha), peeled, deseeded and chopped into chunks 700ml vegetable stock or chicken stock 142ml pot double cream 4 slices wholemeal seeded bread handful pumpkin seed from a packet

Method

1.Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a large saucepan, then gently cook 2 finely chopped onions for 5 mins, until soft but not coloured. Add 1kg peeled, deseeded and chopped pumpkin or squash to the pan, then carry on cooking for 8-10 mins, stirring occasionally until it starts to soften and turn golden.

2. Pour 700ml vegetable stock into the pan, then season with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 10 mins until the squash is very soft.

Pour the 142ml pot of double cream into the pan, bring back to the boil, then purĂŠe with a hand blender. For an extravelvety consistency you can now push the soup through a fine sieve into another pan.

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for up to 2 months.

3. While the soup is cooking, slice the crusts from 4 slices of wholemeal seed bread, then cut the bread into small croutons. Heat the remaining 2 tbsp olive oil in a frying pan, then fry the bread until it starts to become crisp. Add a handful of pumpkin seeds to the pan, then cook for a few mins more until they are toasted. These can be made a day ahead and stored in an airtight container. Reheat the soup if needed, taste for seasoning, then serve scattered with croutons and seeds and drizzled with more olive oil, if you want.

WITCHES FINGERS AND CHILLI SWAMP DIP Ingredients For the witches fingers: 454g pack 8 chilli pork sausages 8 rashers of streaky bacon 8 flaked almonds For the chilli dip:4tbsp sweet chilli sauce 50g light cream cheese 1/2 x 170g pot 0% Greek yogurt

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200˚C/400˚F/Gas Mark 6.

Line a baking tray with grease-proof baking paper.

2. For the witches fingers: Wrap each sausage in a rasher of streaky bacon starting 2cm in from the end of each sausage.

3. Place on the lined baking tray and spoon over 2tbsp of sweet chilli sauce, and bake in the oven for 30 mins, turning if necessary. Remove and allow to cool for 5 mins.

4. Meanwhile for the chilli dip: Mix the cream cheese, yogurt and 1½tbsp of sweet chilli sauce and place in a bowl and top with the remaining sweet chilli sauce.

5. Using a sharp knife, cut a small slit, 1cm in from the end, just under the skin of each sausage where the bacon isn't wrapped, and slide an almond in to make a fingernail.

6. Place the sausages at differing heights into the dip with the fingernails pointing outwards and serve.

PUMPKIN FRITTERS Ingredients 240g cooked pumpkin, dry (wash the pumpkin and pat it dry) 60g all-purpose flour ½tsp salt 1tsp ground cinnamon 2tsp baking powder (not soda) 2tbsp granulated sugar 2 large eggs Oil (for shallow frying) Cinnamon or sugar (optional)

Method

1. Mix the pumpkin and all the dry ingredients in a bowl.

2. Add the eggs and mix until the batter is thick and will hold its shape when tested with a spoon. If the batter is too stiff, add a tiny amount of milk or more flour if too runny.

3. Heat oil in a pan, scoop up heaped tbsp of batter and place into pan leaving a good space between fritters.

4. Fry both sides until firm and golden.

5. To test if the fritters are cooked, press them down lightly if they spring back then they are cooked.

6. Serve warm, either as a side dish, or as a dessert with plenty of crunchy cinnamon flavoured sugar.

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A Winning Combination Why didn’t anyone think of this sooner!

Take two proven methods of weight loss and health improvement and put them under one roof and you must have a winning combination.

For some time now we have been extolling the virtues of the Cambridge 800 Weight Plan a proven healthy way to lose weight and improve health for life. It works to reduce weight, cholesterol, body mass index and often hypertension as well as reducing blood sugar levels in diabetics and improve mobility in the seriously obese.

We have taken our commitment to your health a step further by introducing the fantastic FLABeLOS machine to our clinic.

Another piece of proven technology Whole Body Vibration (W.B.V) is the easiest and fastest way to improve health and fitness levels. Originally developed by a Russian scientist whole body vibration training was used by Russian athletes and later by the Russian space programme in order to prevent astronaut’s muscles wasting and feeling generally unwell.

Later Russian ballet dancers discovered that whole body vibration could aid the healing of their injuries and increase bone mass and total body strength.

FLABeLOS is suitable for all ages and fitness levels as it puts no strain on joints. It is recommended for osteoporosis and arthritis sufferers as it targets stiff joints and back pain bringing ease and prolonged relief.

FLABeLOS gives the benefits of regular exercise, improves circulation reduces the appearance of cellulite and elevates the feel good factor.

Working with the Cambridge 800 weight Plan it will help to improve shape and help to move the unwanted pounds. Now with only 15 minutes a day three to four times a week, with minimum effort, you can achieve a better look and really boost your confidence and wellbeing just by taking off your shoes and stepping onto to FLABeLOS Pivotal Vibrating Plate.

Call us now for appointment bookings and special offers.

TRAINING THAT’S A CUT ABOVE

The Palace Hair and Beauty Training Academy is the premier training school for would-be hair and beauty professionals on the Costa Blanca. The first batch of new students have all successfully passed their exams with flying colours.

The first VCTC approved Training Academy on the Costa Blanca, The Palace Hair and Beauty Training Academy is run by top industry professionals, Margarita and Latashia, who between them have more than 60 years’ experience in the field.

The Training Academy offers VCTC Certificate courses that are recognised in 32 countries worldwide.

Margarita started her career as a make-up artist, and has worked with local TV station Sol Productions, while Latashia has run successful salons in both the UK and Spain. Not only do these ladies have unsurpassed practical knowledge of the hair and beauty craft, they are also

experienced teachers and understand the business side of the industry. So, whatever your hair and beauty career goals, and for the best training and a perfect start to your hair and beauty career, call The Palace Hair and Beauty Training Academy today and spend a day with one of their specialist tutors. Tel: 966 760 133

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For the last 2 years my husband has been suffering from severe catarrh, it is very severe at night, resulting in loss of sleep. As soon as he lies down he starts to have persistent swallowing and clearing of throat with back nasal drip.

We have tried eliminating items from the diet without success. He has tried using a nasal wash to eliminate any pollen in his sinus, and also taking anti histamines, nasal-sprays etc. Most nights he ends up in a reclining chair and sometimes it can clear a little in the middle of the night and he might get a few hours’ sleep. He has tried going to doctor regularly but gets no relief or satisfaction. He takes bendthurizide fluid tablet, simvastatin 20 mg. (but cholesterol was only 4.5 when the doctor prescribed it), multivitamins and clochosamin. Anything you could suggest for him anything you feel might help would be appreciated.

The glands lining the nose, throat and airways produces between 1 - 2 litres of wet mucus daily, to trap and destroy deadly foreign pathogens before they invade the body. Normally, you do not notice the mucus from the nose because it mixes with saliva and drips harmlessly down the back of the throat to be swallowed gradually and continuously throughout the day. It is only when the body starts producing more mucus than usual or the mucus becomes thicker than normal does it become noticeable. Excess

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mucus can come out through the nose in the form of a runny nose.

When the mucus runs down the back of the nose to the throat as in your husband’s case, it's called postnasal drip. But sometimes it is not that too much mucus is being produced, but that it is not effectively cleared off. Swallowing problems due to aging, a blockage or acid reflux can also cause a build-up of liquids in the throat, which can feel like postnasal drip. A number of disease conditions such as flu, cold, sinusitis (inflammation of the sinuses), including changing weather and fumes from chemicals, perfumes and cleaning products can also cause post-nasal drips. Other causes include certain foods, and prescribed medications.

The statins your husband is taking may be the cause of his health problems. Statins are commonly prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels even though several studies have implicated them in a number of diseases and have shown them to have very little over-exaggerated benefits. Statins cause damage to the nerves, muscles, and kidneys. They are also known to cause heart failure, immune depression, and memory loss as well as increase the risk of developing diabetes. But these are just the studied

side effects. I searched for information on the internet using the words ‘statins’ and ‘postnasal’ drip and came across a number of health forums with people reporting severe coughs and post nasal drips soon after starting statins.

Interestingly they also mentioned that the symptoms subsided and gradually disappeared when they stopped taking statins.

There are a number of natural and safe ways to decrease overall cholesterol levels and increase ‘good cholesterol’ in the body using high dose Omega-3 fatty acids and Policosanol. For more information please visit www.medb.es.

Two months ago, I went for an ultrasound scan because I was experiencing recurring abdominal pains. The scan found stones in my gallbladder, but I was told they were too small to be removed. My doctor prescribed a medication I would have to take for up to 18 months, which I refused. I wonder if there are natural remedies for preventing gall stones.

The gallbladder is a small sac like organ located in the right side of the abdomen, underneath the liver, and close to the stomach and intestines. Its function is to store

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bile that is manufactured in the liver. Bile is an integral part of the digestive process and helps in the breakdown of fats and oils.

When the bile contained in the gallbladder loses its water content and becomes more concentrated, or when it is no longer able to contract normally to expel stored bile, gallstones are formed. An effective natural way to dissolve gallstones is with ‘Ox Bile Extract’. It consists of water, salts, pigments, cholesterol, lecithin and several ions, making it chemically similar to human bile and very useful for therapeutic purposes. Ox Bile Extract is very helpful when the cause of gallstones is the inability of the liver to manufacture enough bile. It also aids the absorption of fat soluble vitamins, and improves the contraction of the gallbladder to expel its content. It is sold as ‘Bilex’ by Douglas Laboratories. For more information please visit www.medb.es What is a renal cyst?

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A renal cyst, also known as a kidney cyst is a small fluid filled sac located in the kidney. They occur in about 27% of people above 50, and generally do not cause any problems. However, some cysts are cancerous or suspicious of cancer and are removed surgically. Renal cysts are identified using Ultrasound, MRI, or computerized diagnostics. In some cases renal cysts can cause back pain when they start to enlarge, and may require surgical intervention.

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RICHARD CAVENDER

Bluemoon Solutions www.bluemoonsolutions.es

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

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

ADVICE: Olga was having problems with an overactive ADVICE: Denise wanted to know the difference between touch pad on her laptop.

Internet Explorer 32 bit and 64 bit versions

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Hi Guys, can you tell me why when I am typing my cursor can suddenly jump back to any place in the previous sentences I have already typed. This could be on Skype, email or even just typing this message to you. I have a laptop I don't know if that makes a difference. Many thanks and keep up the good work. Olga

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Hi Olga, this problem could be caused by a number of things, however because this is happening in multiple applications it could be directly related to your laptop touchpad having a hardware problem, one easy way to check this would be to use an external mouse for a while to see if the problem goes away.

With an external USB mouse connected you could disable your laptops touchpad (most laptops have a button that will do this somewhere near the touchpad). If this stops the problem then you know that its directly related to the touchpad, if it doesn’t then you have at least ruled that out as a problem

ADVICE: George wanted an update on iGoogle and whether it was being retired.

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Hi Richard, a friend has told me that iGoogle is not going to be available after 1st November, is this true?

Hi George, yes its true, iGoogle will be retired on the 1st November, but not until 2013 so you have a bit of time left. iGoogle is the service provided by Google that lets you create a personalised Google home page, including not just the search facility but other information chosen by the user (weather, news etc). Google have decided that in today’s modern world with such information available easily and freely available at our fingertips on mobile devices, there is no longer a need for iGoogle despite a growing number of Internet users actively disagreeing with them.

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Hello Richard, please what is the difference between Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer (64-bit) and which is better, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome?

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Hi Denise, thanks for taking the time to email in, sorry it’s taken so long to get back to you. Now, to your questions…

To all intents and purposes Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer (64 bit) are both the same thing, the latter is installed only on computers that have a 64 bit operating system, it’s probably better to describe the two versions of the same program as Internet Explorer (32 bit) and Internet Explorer (64 bit). There is a technical Microsoft document that describes the full differences available at this location…

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896457 …however in summary, they are both the same with the exception of some 3rd party add-ins, some of the 32 bit add-ins don’t work in the 64 bit version of Internet Explorer, for example the Google Toolbar according to the document. In the majority of cases for those of us that simply want to browse the Internet, either will work perfectly fine.

With regards to your question of “which is better”, Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, that is simply a matter of opinion.

There are a number of web browsers out there, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari to name the top 4 (there are loads of others too!), they all have pro’s and con’s like anything we compare in life that does the same job. I personally feel that Google Chrome is a great browser because it has a “cut down” feel, pages certainly load faster for me when using it so it’s my “browser of choice”; however I am sure that because of its “cut down” feel there are facilities missing from it that other people may not be able to live without. I guess the best thing to do is to try them all and make a decision yourself.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

CAN someone please explain what dreadful disease is inflicting Britain?

Hardly a day goes by without some horrific slaughter being carried out by people inflicted with absolute madness.

I refer to the two appalling arson attacks in a fortnight in which families died. If that wasn't enough, a van driver saw fit to plough into women and children, killing one and maiming many others.

We hear of many multiple slaughters in America, where people with guns rampage through schools and universities, killing anyone in target range.

Last year a right wing fanatic gunned down scores of people in Norway – and Increasingly this madness has come to Britain. For people to commit such horrendous crimes, they must be deranged. And the increasing frequency is alarming.

Is it the recession putting too much pressure on people, making them depressed and finally at cracking point?

Is the easy ability to jump from relationship to relationship with its obvious heartbreaks a cause?

Is Maggie Thatcher's famous "care in the community" policy of keeping people with mental problems in mainstream society rather than in mental hospitals finally coming home to roost?

Or, as a good friend suggested, perhaps it is the vast number of people who no longer accept religious principles and in the process have lost their conscience?

Your theories, please.

GOOD for Home Secretary Theresa May for putting two fingers up to the US and blocking the extradition of alleged computer hacker Gary McKinnon. She used the possibility of McKinnon ending his life and his medical condition to spare him being shipped across the Atlantic.

At long last we have a politician protecting British

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The menace of the madmen citizens (rather than illegal immigrants) from fits of peak from other countries.

Ten years ago the Asperger's sufferer hacked into NASA and Pentagon computers from his north London bedroom while searching for evidence of UFOs. According to the Americans, he left messages on their computer networks and caused thousands of pounds of damage.

I suggest the real problem for the puffed-up Yanks was that the incident made them look total prats in the eyes of the world - their multi-million dollar, supposedly supersafe computer systems being invaded from a foreigner's bedroom.

In fact, Gary did the Americans a great favour, highlighting the total inadequacies of their computer systems. Just imagine what damage could have been done had those computers been hacked by Islamist extremists rather than a "friendly" young nerd.

Instead of spending ten years trying to get Gary across the Atlantic to stand trial, they should have offered him a top job working on anti-hacking computer devices.

IT’S not often I am on the side of judges, but in this case I certainly am. A top female lawyer, 47, snapped after her stupid 11-year-old daughter threw a tantrum and started hitting her mother and trashing her home.

It all started after the little brat was refused money for a taxi to go to a friend's home.

She telephoned police and when officers arrived they reprimanded her for wasting their time. But the girl still ranted, and threw ironed washing downstairs, repeatedly hitting her mother in the face with a jacket. She slammed a door so hard a chair hit a wall, and knocked over a shelf, throwing DVDs and ornaments on the floor all with the police present.

Finally, the lawyer saw red and pulled the child's hair, getting it caught in an ornamental ring, causing some strands to be pulled out.

Brainless police arrested the mother for child assault and she was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay £85 costs.

Now the mother has to appear before the Bar Council and could lose her job. Perhaps the brat child will lose her luxuries as a result.

This is yet another result of the barmy law which barmy Labour introduced making it an offence to slap a child. Children know only too well they are now in the driving seat against their parents and teachers.

A few years ago this case would never have gone to court. Brainless politicians have done their best to ruin Britain - and we know which party is at the forefront.

YOU would think that politicians who have climbed to dizzy heights like Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell and Chancellor George Osborne would have learned some basic common sense.

There is bound to be a consequence to starting a

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rant with police for not opening a door. And you’d also think it basic common sense not to sit in a first-class train carriage with an ordinary ticket.

But that's what Osborne did – and he was miffed when he was told by an inspector he would have to pay £160 for the privilege of remaining in his seat.

This man has a reported wealth of £4.6million. He doesn't need to try to defraud Virgin of £160. Why did he not buy the right ticket in the first place?

We seem to be electing politicians who are not blessed with the most basic of qualities - common sense.

Is their silver spoon upbringing getting in the way?

Isn't it about time people who the public have put at the top of the pile started setting good examples?

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NOW here's something to get the British seething. The European Commission has announced it will pay £250 towards the cost of any unemployed European youngster crossing the continent for an interview - and £830 removal expenses if they get a job in Britain.

There's growing fury from critics who ask why Brussels is offering to subsidise unemployed Europeans to travel to the UK when nearly a million young Britons are without work.

It's reinforcing the hand of UKIP in demonstrating Britain would be far better off outside rather than inside Europe.

The EU is offering the same cash benefits for any young Brit who wants to travel to continental Europe to find work. However, it's

not really a level playing field, because in Europe schools teach English as a second language whereas foreign languages don’t get such priority in British schools.

And that makes it easier for a continental to find work in Britain and not vice versa.

The consequence will be that more British youngsters will find themselves unemployed, with jobs snapped up by continentals.

One British employer hit the nail right on the head by saying: "Our young and unemployed can't be bothered to drag their backsides 10 minutes down the road for a job interview. "I've run my family building firm for 48 years and I tell you what's born here...slack jawed, beer-swilling youths who expect everything for nothing. My best and hardest workers come from as far as Afghanistan, Poland and Russia - real tradesmen who work hard and well, so I pay them in kind."

I really fear for Britain in a few years time. If the number of native young unemployed keeps rising and they see jobs snapped up by foreigners, then last year's riots will be a walk in the park by comparison.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

UK HEADLINES

The Fax you DID SAVILE FIND will never CORPSES SEXY? Cee again The Mirror A FORMER BBC colleague of Jimmy Savile has accused him of being a necrophiliac whose usual sexual partners were “under-aged subnormals”.

The shocking allegations were made on Radio 5 Live by Paul Gambaccini, who started working as a DJ on Radio 1 in 1973.

He said he was made aware of the necrophilia claims, which suggest Savile was sexually attracted to corpses, in the ‘80s.

His comments stunned DJ Nicky Campbell who tried to stop the conversation by saying the allegations were not in the public domain.

Gambaccini, 63, went on to say the BBC was not the only organisation at fault for failing to expose Savile.

He said other British media was equally to blame and claimed a reporter was heard talking at a wedding 10 years ago about Savile being a necrophiliac.

He said: “The expression I came to associate with Savile’s sexual partners was either one used by production assistants or one I made up to summarise their reports ... ‘under-age subnormals’.

“He targeted the institutionalised, the hospitalised - and this was known. Why did Jimmy go to hospitals? That’s where the patients were.”

But he said these things were taking place at a time when staff failed to get to grips with the concept of paedophilia.

“It was considered so far beyond the pale that people didn’t believe it happened,” he said during the 5 Live Breakfast Show.

And he said the problems with failing to call Savile to account went well beyond the BBC. He questioned why newspapers had not acted when he said a tabloid reporter had boasted that his colleagues were aware of a story linking Savile to “necrophilia”.

Campbell pointed out: “That particularly lurid accusation that you have just brought to people’s attention is one that has not been in the public domain.”

Gambaccini agreed and asked “why not?”. And he asked: “Who vetted the knighthood? Coco the clown?”

He said the entire society was taken in by Savile - “including the Prime Minister who invited him to Chequers; including the royal family, photographed with him, he got a knighthood in this country, he got a papal knighthood.

“This is not just the BBC, this is history, this is a man who conned an entire society,” Gambaccini added.

BBC News Savile...was he a necrophiliac?

BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, has completed its final broadcast after 38 years on air.

Before Olympic champion Dame Mary Peters turned off the last of the UK's analogue TV signals in Belfast, a series of graphics on Ceefax's front page disappeared down to a small dot.

The Plain English Campaign earlier gave Ceefax a lifetime achievement award for "clarity" and use of "everyday words".

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And ex-Prime Minister Sir John Major said Ceefax would be "much missed".

Sir John, who has previously revealed that he regularly checked Ceefax pages between Downing Street meetings to keep up to date with cricket scores, said: "Ceefax will be much missed.

At moments of high pressure with little time for detailed examination of the news Ceefax headlines offered an instant window on the world.

"From breaking global news to domestic sports news, Ceefax was speedy, accurate and indispensable. It can be proud of its record."

A few weeks after Ceefax provided coverage of its 10th and final Olympic Games, Lord Coe added his own tribute by saying: "Ceefax has been an invaluable news service for every sports fan over the last 38 years.

"I have checked in on many a sports news story, track and field triumph and, of course, Chelsea results!"

Friday, October 26, 2012

UK HEADLINES

DEATH OF HEART GIRL, 14, SPARKS MONSTER ACTION

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Food labelling: Consistent system 'to start next year'

The Mirror

AN energy drinks firm is being sued by the family of a 14-year-old girl who died after having two Monster Energy drinks.

Anais Fournier suffered a heart attack brought on by “caffeine toxicity” after drinking two cans of the drink — described by its makers as a “killer energy brew”.

The youngster, who had a disorder than can weaken blood vessels, died two days before Christmas last year after the beverage affected her heart’s ability to pump blood.

Now her family is suing Monster Beverage Corp as the US Food and Drug Administration launched an investigation into the energy drink, which has reported links to five deaths and one non-fatal heart attack.

The 24oz can of Monster Energy contains 240 milligrams of caffeine — three times as much as nearest rival Red Bull.

Anais’s parents, from Hagerstown, Maryland, US, claim the company failed to warn consumers about the risk of drinking its products.

Her mum Wendy Crossland said: “I was shocked to learn the FDA can regulate caffeine in a can of soda, but not these huge energy drinks.

“With their bright colours and names like Monster, Rockstar, and Full Throttle, these drinks are targeting teenagers with no oversight or accountability.

Monster Beverage Corp, which dominates nearly 39 per cent of the US energy drinks market, saw shares tumble 16% on Tuesday.

Death ... Anais Fournier died from a heart attack

Energy ... Monster touts its drinks as a 'killer energy brew'

Police chief quits over Hillsborough SIR Norman Bettison has resigned as chief constable of West Yorkshire Police, saying an inquiry into his role after the Hillsborough tragedy was "a distraction" to the force.

At the time of the disaster he was a South Yorkshire Police inspector who attended the match as a spectator and later took part in an internal inquiry.

Sir Norman said questions over his role had become a "distraction to policing". He had been due to retire in March.

Margaret Aspinall, chairwoman of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, said: "I'm absolutely delighted he's gone but as far as I am concerned he should have been sacked." West Yorkshire Police Authority said media attention

BBC News and the investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) were "proving to be a huge distraction for the force".

Sir Norman has been referred to the IPCC over allegations he provided misleading information after the disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans died. His resignation comes after candidates bidding to become West Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner called for him to quit now rather than retire in March.

In a statement, Sir Norman said: "The police authority, and some of the candidates in the forthcoming PCC elections, have made it clear that they wish me to go sooner.

A CONSISTENT system of front-of-pack food labelling will be introduced in the UK next year, the government says.

A combination of guideline daily amounts, colour coding and "high, medium or low" wording will be used to show how much fat, salt and sugar and how many calories are in each product.

The scheme will be voluntary, but ministers are confident they have the food industry on board.

Talks will take place later this week over the exact design of the labels.

If those discussions go well it could mark the end of what has been a long-running campaign to introduce front-of-pack labelling.

The issue has been under discussion for the past decade with campaigners seeing it as a way of tackling the rising rates of obesity.

But the introduction of a consistent system has proved difficult, and instead a range of different labels have gradually been introduced over the years.

Some retailers and manufactures have used "trafficlight" labelling, in which the least healthy foods are labelled red and the most healthy are in green, while others use guideline daily amounts - or GDAs - which give the percentage of recommended intake. Some use both.

There has also been confusion over how a system could be introduced.

To make it mandatory, regulations would have to be agreed on a European level, but agreement between countries has been hard to reach.

The situation meant the UK government sought to introduce a voluntary system.

It carried out a consultation on the issue over the summer, which paved the way for this announcement.

Public Health Minister Anna Soubry said: "The UK already has the largest number of products with front-of-pack labels in Europe, but research has shown that consumers get confused by the wide variety of labels used.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Friday, October 26, 2012

SPANISH NEWS

FREED - ETA TERRORIST RIDDLED WITH CANCER

ETA inmate Iosu Uribetxebarria Bolinaga, who is suffering from terminal cancer, left the Hospital Donostia on Tuesday evening having been granted conditional release by the High Court.

The decision in September to parole the convicted terrorist, who was involved in a high-profile kidnapping case in the late 1990s, angered victims groups as well as high-profile members of the conservative Popular Party.

Having been discharged by doctors, Bolinaga walked out of the hospital accompanied by his brother and a representative of a collective that is campaigning for ETA prisoners to be transferred to jails in the Basque Country.

Bolinaga, who was wearing a beret carrying the logo of the prisoner pressure group, was then driven to his home in Mondragón, Gipuzkoa.

Bolinaga was convicted for the kidnap of José Antonio Ortega Lara, a former prison director, who was held by ETA for a total of 532 days before being rescued by the authorities.

He was sentenced to 32 years in jail, but in mid-September was granted parole by a fivemember panel of the High Court on the grounds that there was “a patent risk” to his life given the spread of cancer in his kidneys, brain and lungs.

The release was granted against the wishes of the public prosecutor and the Justice Ministry,

Iosu Uribetxebarria Bolinaga sits in the car that would take him away from Donostia Hospital on Tuesday night which opposed the decision.

The Association of the Victims of Terrorism (AVT) said that they felt “cheated” by Bolinaga’s release, calling the development “disastrous.”

The president of the AVT, Ángeles Pedraza, told news agency Efe that she hoped that the move to his home in Mondragón was due to the worsening

of his health, and not for other reasons, and that he would not be seen “holding rallies” any time soon.

ETA killed more than 800 people in its decadeslong campaign for Basque independence, calling a “definitive” end to its violence in 2011.

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Angela Merks Spain’s card Chancellor GERMAN Angela Merkel ruled out the possibility of Spain benefiting retroactively from allowing the euro zone’s rescue fund to recapitalise directly banks.

That means that the loan of up to 100 billion euros Spain will receive from its European partners will remain on the government’s books at a time when it is already struggling to tame the budget deficit and put a cap on public debt.

“There will not be any retroactive direct recapitalisation,” Merkel told a news conference at the end of a European in summit Union Brussels. “If recapitalisation is possible, it will only be possible in the future, so I think that banking the when supervisor is in place we won’t have any more the with problems Spanish banks; at least I hope not.”

BUSINESS RED TAPE’S A REAL PAIN IN SPAIN - OFFICIAL

DESPITE reiterated pledges by the government to cut down on red tape, Spain remains one of the most difficult countries in the world in which to set up a business, according to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2013 report.

Spain is ranked 136th out of the 185 countries included in the survey on the ease of doing business, three places lower than last year.

On average it takes 10 separate administrative procedures and 28 days to establish a company in

Spain, at a cost equivalent to 4.7 percent of the average annual per capita income.

The easiest places in the world to set up a company are New Zealand, Australia and Canada, while the most difficult are Ivory Coast, Iraq and Surinam. In this component of the World Bank’s report, Spain ranks, among others, behind Afghanistan, Albania, Burundi, Iran, Kosovo, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Ruanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Yemen and

Zambia. A Seville businessman recently spoke of the odyssey he had to go through to set up a business in Vejer in Andalusia, one of the regions in Europe with the highest jobless rates. It took him three years after having to go through four different administrations, at a cost of 10,000 euros.

Setting up a company remains the most arduous aspect in terms of ease of doing business in general in Spain, which ranks 44th in this component of the survey.

General strike given go-ahead for Nov 14 The top committees of Spain’s main unions, CCOO and UGT, on Friday formally approved a general strike for November 14 to protest the government’s austerity drive.

The industrial action will coincide with a general

strike in Portugal and with demonstrations and protests called by the European Trade Union Confederation against the austerity drive in Europe.

General strikes may also be called for the same day in Cyprus, Malta and Greece.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

THREE CHEERS FOR LESLEY’S BIRTHDAY HAH founder’s €1,044 gift to charities

LESLEY EBURNE’S 70th birthday party was always going to be special. But the Help at Home founder’s joint celebration with husband Paul was extra special – because it raised a stunning €1,044 for charity.

Lesley and HAH president Paul – who was 60 the following day decided that instead of presents (although many were given), donations should be made to three charities, HAH, The Luz de Murcia and El Buen Samaritano.

Wednesday, October 17th was the date, the venue was Ruf Mari Restaurant in Los Urrutias – and 170 invited guests joined in the celebration, which included an exquisite

Spanish/English hot and cold buffet and excellent entertainment.

The restaurant had been beautifully decorated for the evening

by HAH volunteers Angela Brown, Elaine Woodward, and Judith Heath. After the buffet, birthday cakes made

by Carol Perry were served – and then Mr Showbiz and singer Debbie Slater took over.

Paul, who is Worshipful master of the Luz de Murcia, said: ‘’Lesley and I decided that it would be nice to raise some money for others who were finding things a bit tough. We are delighted that so many people gave so generously - a win, win situation”

ICE ONE, KIDS Memory Walk boosts - GET YOUR Alzheimer’s campaign SKATES ON! ROJALES Town Hall youth department has announced a programme of activities which will culminate in an Ice Skating Day in THE Dramatic Licence theatre group’s 8pm performance at the Virgen del Carmen Theatre on Friday November 2 has been cancelled, due to unforeseen circumstances A full refund will be available to anyone who purchased a ticket.

The cancellation does not affect the San Fulgencio performances.

Elche on December 22. Registration is at the town hall’s Youth Information Centre – and five free tickets will be drawn.

Meanwhile, at 6pm this evening (Friday October 26) in the municipal library, the drama group Gracias Por Su Visita will act out the fairytale La Bella no Durmiente (The Non-Sleeping Beauty), to celebrate World Library Day. Other forthcoming events include an Alicante Chamber of Commerce workshop on November 9 called ‘How to set up your own company’ and aimed at technical college student.

AFA Alzheimer’s Association of Torrevieja are holding a sponsored Memory Walk tomorrow (Saturday) – and it’s open to anyone interested in supporting the cause.

Even if you simply want to encourage those taking part!

The walk will start at 5pm in the Plaza de la Constitucion and finish at the Margalla Point around the coast in the direction of La Mata. Sponsorship forms are available at the AFA Day Centre, AFA shop and various bars and restaurants - or by calling Matilde Sanchez on 647119991.

The event which has been rescheduled from September 23 and an information desk will be available from 4pm in the Plaza de La Constitucion, near the main Town Hall

building. Directions and T-shirts kindly sponsored

by AVALON Europa, will be provided and volunteers will be on hand to offer advice and motivation.

Kiosco Cabo Cervera will provide free refreshments for all those taking part at the half-way point on the route.

Matilde Sanchez, President of AFA Torrevieja, said “. We look forward to welcoming anyone on Saturday in any capacity possible”.

AFA Alzheimer’s Association Torrevieja relies on voluntary donations and now has a “Buy a Brick” campaign to raise money to build a much-needed residential care home. If you need help or advice, or feel you can contribute, call at the

AFA shop in Calle Maestro Francisco Valejos in Torrevieja, the AFA Centre in Avenida de La Estacion.

Alternatively, ring Matilde Sanchez on 647119991 or Judy Ferris on 610082593. Email: afatorrevieja@hotmail.com

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THE BEST OF BRITISH Torrevieja set to swing to Poppy Day spectacular

FUNDS dedicated to this year’s annual Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal will be further boosted by a special charity gala at Torrevieja’s prestigious Teatro Municipal on Thursday November 8.

This one-off spectacular will commence at 7.30pm and tickets are priced at only €3.

The Armistice Day Gala will open with yet another spectacular display by the Footwork Dance Academy, who have been rehearsing over several months in order to put together their own very appropriate contribution to this special show.

After their outstanding success last June in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, the young Footwork dancers will be back with a special offering which will be unique to this ‘very British’ gala.

Professional singing artists Maria O’Hara and Nick Gold have both

kindly offered their services for this special event and will make their contribution before the entrance of the various standards of the British ex-servicemen’s associations. The parade of the standards will be appropriately accompanied by the Torrevieja Pipes and Drums.

The contribution of the Phoenix Concert Band, directed by Ian Vine, will result in some stirring, typically British musical pieces as well as a ‘sing-along’ of well-known and apt favourites.

Whilst Annette Baldwin will be leading the singing, Maria O’Hara and Nick Gold will join the band, together with the pipes and drums, in such emotive numbers as ‘I vow to thee my Country’ and ‘Here’s to the heroes’. Inevitably, the haunting sounds of ‘Last Post’ and ‘Reveille’ will be heard during a short homage to the fallen.

The Poppy Appeal Charity Gala is intended to

be an appropriate and emotional event reflecting the very reasons for its being as well as a variety spectacular which includes something for everyone.

Tickets are currently available from the municipal ticket office (Tuesday to Friday inclusive from 11am-1pm) or on the door as from two hours before the curtain rises.

Headline girl Cass just loves the donkey work EASY Horse Care Rescue Centre’s reputation is spreading…to the point that Sweden’s top women’s magazine has picked up on it. A recent article in ‘Amelia’ featured Cassandra Lindahl, a regular volunteer at the Rescue Centre in Rojales.

Cassandra, an experi-

enced rider, was originally looking for au pair work abroad but was hooked after coming across the Easy Horse website. Since then, she has returned as a volunteer year after year - and even bought two of the Centre's little donkeys, Gin and Tonic, to secure their future.

For co-founder Sue Weeding, it is people like Cassandra who enable them to do the work vital work they do in the region rescuing and caring for abandoned and injured horses, ponies and donkeys, “Cassandra is an invaluable member of the team as are all our volun-

VAST MIGHT OF THE PROMS HELP Murcia Mar Menor arranged an entertaining evening at Lo Monte Hotel in Pilar de la Horadada with a large screen showing the last night of the PROMS. The music was accompanied by

lively dancing from The Crazy Ladies and rousing singing was accompanied by much flag waving.

Jim Devlin entertained with his guitar music and singing and HELP raised over €500 from the evening.

teers,’’ says co-founder Sue Weeding. “She travels all the way from Sweden at her own cost to help here and we are delighted she has been featured in her country's largest selling women's magazine. It can only raise awareness and help our cause.”

Easy Horse Care are currently working on improving the Centre prior to expanding into Villa Vera in Daya Vieja. Please note that for now, there will be just one Open Day per week, every Sunday from 1-4pm. For more information, call Sue on 652 021 980 or email www.easyhorsecare.net

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Friday,December October 26, Friday, 16,2012 2011

You wouldn’t believe it!

Listening to Ants have TRUE COOL complainers is graveyards bad for you!

Here comes another article to tell you how incredible ants are. Two days after an ant dies, it gives off an odour that lets the other ants know it is dead. The ants then pick it up and carry it to a graveyard.

Before that point, its corpse is ignored. The odour is oleic acid. Scientists dropped some on a living ant, and against its will it was carried to the graveyard. The interesting thing is that the ant was clearly alive but the others were ignoring its squirming and attempts to escape, showing that the smell overrides everything else.

To ants, if you smell dead, you are dead. But why do they do this? As you know,

corpses are pretty ripe sources of bacteria, and ant colonies are very highly concentrated in population.

That means it’s important for them to designate a graveyard and carry the dead there to avoid the bacteria spreading.

Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you

Legendary Scottish actor Sean Connery is most famous for his role as the original James Bond and many other celebrated roles. And while he often played the suave badass, he isn’t so different in real life. Johnny Stompanato was a famous US marine who eventually became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen. Stompanato couldn’t exactly be characterized as a wholesome individual.

After being married a couple times, he began an affair with actress Lana Turner, who just so happened to be making a movie with Sean Connery. The always jealous Stompanato once stormed onto the movie set of Turner and Connery and proceeded to point a gun at the actors.

Connery, in full James Bond mode, quickly disarmed the ex-marine and gangster in front of the entire set. He then picked him up and tossed him out back, solidifying his legendary reputation.

Stompanato was then deported from the UK for his offense and later stabbed to death by Lana Turner’s daughter. Connery embarrassing Stompanato became so well known that at the time of his death, Connery was forced to go into hiding as rumors flew that he was responsible!

Brain researchers have found that listening to people nag and complain can actually affect the way your brain works, and that it has some pretty negative consequences for you. They explain that the brain works much more like a muscle than originally thought. They say that if you listen to someone being negative for a long time, you're more likely to behave that way.

What's worse, it can even make you dumb.

Researchers found that being exposed to more than 30 minutes of negativity takes away neurons in the brain's hippocampus, the part of the brain that you use to solve problems!

It is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in Kentucky This is a very old law. People used to do this to steal horses. The ice cream could be used to lure a horse away, and if the person was caught they would use the excuse, "I didn't steal it - he followed me home!"

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Horoscopes Aries March 21 - April 19 Every time you tap a key on your keyboard, you are secretly filling in a membership form to a random society. Each week henceforth you will receive a newsletter from said society, explaining your duties and sign-up fees. The pain in your foot will lessen today as the pain in your hand grows.

Taurus April 20 - May 20 If you don't claim that free holiday, you'll never win it. The sun doesn't wear a hat, and it's probably not a good idea to play with it. Testing times will see you fall by the wayside. The computer you are trying to access has forbidden you entry as it deems your horoscope too scary.

Gemini May 21 - June 20 A picture frame will feature highly in your day today and will probably make you feel like you'd never gotten out of bed. Indeed, you'll probably end up going back to bed as soon as today's mishaps have had done with you. If everything that's ever been said about you is true, why are you such a jackass? You're doing really well, keep it up!

Cancer June 21 - July 22 If it's tasty, then lap it up. If not, don't. This is the best course of action for this week.

Your tendancies may land you in trouble today. Can you be held responsible for everything you *don't* do? Who knows.

Your ideals are starting to shape the way you're living, so congratulations. Always think "Take the easy way out". You won't go wrong.

By Pandora Leo July 23 - August 22 The re-animation of dead tissue may become an issue for you later this month.

The law may be your friend today, or it might turn round and bite you in the ass.

Either way the word "law" is going to crop up. If you don't wear glasses now, the chances are that you're going to need to after an upcoming sports accident.

Virgo August 23 - September 22 Find yourself someone to settle down with today. Don't be choosy - just pick at random. If random fails, go for whoever doesn't violently sick-up on your clothing.

Everything you have done is brilliant and you will get the reward you richly deserve.

Terrible news is headed your way - the best way to save your sanity is by implicating as many people as possible in your demise.

Libra September 23 - October 22 Old wives tales aren't smutty recollections of sexual conquests. Your itchy nose will soon be gone after you suffer a week of agonising hell locked in a pepper cupboard with a strait-jacket. If there's one thing you can take for granted this week, it's that things cannot be taken for granted.

Scorpio October 23 - November 21 A flurry of exclamation marks will come back to haunt you later this month as an email comes true. Blue moon caught you standing alone, but ensure you're not also caught short this weekend. Good fortune is raining down on everyone but yourself today. Hearing clicking noises in your head is not a good sign for you today.

Sagittarius November 22 - December 21 This horoscope does not afftect your statutory rights. You will win large compensation in a court case this month. Wake up, wash your face, change your pants.

Life needs a good "start" routine, make this YOURS. Homeless people may wander up to you today and offer to buy the magazine you're holding.

Capricorn December 22 - January 19 "For Topical Application Only" - words which might cause you grave concern over the coming days. I've written hundreds upon hundreds of horoscopes, but this one is the most special. Looking into your future is like looking into a blocked pipe on a waste disposal machine. A new love will present itself today, grab it with both hands, in all possible places.

Aquarius January 20 - February 18 People will today start to resent your annoying habit of repeating the last funny thing said and then laughing. If some things start to appear impossible, it may be time to invent robots. Believe everything you read today. You gullibility may cause you problems later this week. You will find you get better sex advice if you stop talking to your cat.

Pisces February 19 - March 20 Everything will suddenly sound good to you today. This may be due to a syringing appointment you have earlier in the week, or it may be become love has just entered your life in the form someone floating down a river in a large plastic swan-type boat. Or it may just be because you've won a serious amount of money and people want to shower you with platitudes. Speaking of which - you do look amazing today!

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Car-hunting? Then here’s where Faster than a you Auto Direct your attention speeding bullet IT has often been said that buying a house or second-hand car can be two of the most stressful events we mere mortals have to endure.

Well, the team at Autos Direct are certainly skilled in making car purchases a smooth and pleasant experience.

The attractive car sales area can be found just five minutes outside the town of San Miguel De Salinas, on the CV 940, direction Benijofar. Look for the Shell petrol sign, it's just opposite!

With over 60 cars in stock, it may seem difficult to make a choice, but with helpful advice from Paul and Kevin, proprietors of the company, the mystique and risks of making the right decision is soon resolved. All paperwork will be looked after for you, including help in finding a reliable insurance quote, should the purchaser need it.

Every car sold receives a full service, including a cam belt check, ITV if required (that's MOT to you and me) and a full parts and labour warranty. The experienced vehicle technician at San Miguel is a valuable asset to the team The valeting bay is kept very busy. All cars are given an exhaustive clean before going onto the sales park, but as a vehicle is sold, it is returned to the bay to

receive a second pre-delivery check and clean.

As the buyer receives his or her keys, it can come as a surprise, perhaps, to be asked to stand alongside the car for a photograph, to be included on the Autos Direct website!

Part exchange is not a problem. Both left and right hand drive cars will be considered.

The company opening times are between 09.30 and

18.00 hrs. (that's 9.30am to 6pm in old money) Monday to Thursday, with 09.00 to 17.00hrs (again, 9 to 5 in old money) on Fridays. On Saturdays it’s visits by appointment, so no reason not to come and take a look.

In short, an excellent range of cars, affordable prices and awfully nice chaps to deal with.

Paul and Kevin can be reached on (0034) 966 723 718.

What is the Aussie Invader 5R? This 1,000mph dart is the Aussie Invader 5R and - you guessed it - it's from the land down under. It's a whopping 16 metres in length and weighs 6.2 tonnes, but these aren't the most staggering numbers surrounding the project...

How powerful is the Aussie Invader 5R? That'd be the 62,000 lbs of thrust - equating to around 200,000hp - from the liquid oxygen fuelled rocket motor.

That's around 1,333 times more go than your average family saloon.

What is the Aussie Invader 5R's goal?

The Aussie Invader 5R is aiming to break the Land Speed Record and the 1,000mph barrier in the process, beating the British Bloodhound SSC project to the crown of the car to record the first four-figure mph reading ever.

How fast is the Aussie Invader 5R?

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Friday, October 26, 2012 As you can imagine, motive force this great is going to give some serious performance. The people behind the project reckon the rocket ship (literally) will accelerate from 0 to 1,000mph in 20 seconds flat.

Just imagine what that sort of acceleration would do to your face...

How efficient is the Aussie Invader 5R? Yes, really...

With a massive horsepower output and huge aerodynamic drag at speeds of up to 1,000mph - even if the car has been designed to be super-slippery through the air - it's not going to be efficient. In fact, fully fuelled, the 5R's weight increases to 9.2 tonnes. The 2.8 tonnes of fuel on board will be burnt in just 25 seconds.

What issues does travelling at 1,000mph hold?

Travelling at 1,000mph throws up a few more problems than just the power v drag ratio though. At that velocity the 5R's wheels will be turning at 10,000rpm putting huge stresses on the solid machined items. If the course isn't swept properly, just one tiny pebble could induce complete chaos.

Anything else I should know about the Aussie Invader 5R? Which gives the project leaders another headache what location to use for the run. At full speed the rocket car will complete the measured mile in a little over four seconds, but it obviously needs enough room to

accelerate and decelerate down in stages - shutting the motor off straight away would cause the pilot to black out and likely send the car into a spin, causing a massive crash.

Where will the Aussie Invader 5R attempt to break the land speed record?

A suitable surface is just as important. Too firm and the car could slide around; too soft and the vehicle could dig in and not reach its target due to the extra friction. 'Foreign bodies' as they're known (stones to you and me) are also an issue as the track needs to be painstakingly scoured and swept clean before any record attempt. Safety first.

How far along is the

Aussie Invader 5R's build?

It's all academic at the minute however, as the Aussie Invader 5R doesn't even exist. Building of the car is underway and the planned date of a record attempt is '2013/2014', according to the 5R's developers.

Will the Aussie Invader 5R beat the Bloodhound SSC to the 1,000mph record?

Will the Aussie Invader beat Bloodhound SSC in breaking the 1,000mph barrier? Given that the Britishbacked project has already tested its engine, is being driven and engineered by the people who hold the current Land Speed Record, and the 5R is still on the drawing board, we'll back Bloodhound to be first.

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CODE CRACKER Code Cracker is a crossword puzzle with no clues; instead, every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number, the same number representing the same letter throughout the puzzle. All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number. In this week’s puzzle, 24 represents P and 9 represents X, when these letters have been entered throughout the puzzle, you should have enough information to start guessing words and discovering other letters.

QUICKIE

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

CRYTPIC CLUES Across 1 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)

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)

STANDARD CLUES

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Complete the crossword grid by using the given words:

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 Sofa

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

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

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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)

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)

Last weeks Solution 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.

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.

Scribble Pad

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

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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)

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)

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Friday, October 26, 2012 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

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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 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)

SALLY’S SIMPLE SPANISH APERITIVOS - SNACKS

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

(Answers below)

geography QUIZ

ANSWERS: 1. Staves 2. Sandie Shaw 3. France 4. Deacon Blue 5. Joni Mitchell 6. Ebony Eyes 7. Ringo 8. Sting, Andy Summers, Stewart Copland 9. The Village People 10. Mildred & Patty Hill 11. The Funeral March

Last Week’s Solutions Code Cracker Last weeks Quiz Wordsolution 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 DynaMite, 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.

galletas saladas

almendras

jamón

bocadillo

montaditos

boquerones

patatas fritas

canapés

queso

ensaladilla

tortilla

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

1.aceitunas, 2.almendras,

14.tostadas, 15.yogur,

i.tapas on a slice of bread,

3.bocadillo, 4.boquerones,

16.canapes.

j.crisps, k.a roll, l.vol-au-vent, m.fruit, n.ham, o.crackers,

5.ensaladilla, 6.fruta, 7.frutos secos,

a.yogurt, b.nuts and raisins,

p.white bait fish in vinegar or

8.galletas saladas, 9.jamón,

c.almonds, d.toast,

fried in batter.

10.montaditos, 11.patatas fritas,

e.Russian salad, f.olives,

12.queso, 13.tortilla,

g.cheese, h.Spanish omelette,

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1. What Do You Call The Lines Upon Which Musical Notes Are Written?

2. Eurovision:- Which bare-footed chanteuse sang her way to success for the UK in 1967?

3. Eurovision:- Which Country Won The Eurovision Song Contest In 1977?

4. Which Group Gave Us The 'Four Bacharach & David Songs' EP? 5. Who Began The Decade Riding In A 'Big Yellow Taxi'?

6. What Equally Successful Track Was On The Flip side Of 'Walk Right Back' In 1961?

7. Which Beatle Who wore the pink uniform on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's?

8. Name Two Of The Three Members Of The Police?

9. Which was the first group beginning with the letter V to have a No.1 hit in the UK? 10. Who Composed The Song 'Happy Birthday Tou You'?

11. What Is Chopin's Piano Sonata In B Flat Minor Also Known As?

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BRAZILLIANT! Palin is still The greatest

history and it gave Michael Palin a whole new career for which we can all be very grateful.

It’s that time of the NATIONAL Treasure year when the new Michael Palin was back for American drama shows start his latest travel series for hitting UK TV screens, and BBC 1 on Wednesday, with this week has been very his latest trip taking him to busy. Not too surprisingly, Brazil.

SKY have used their muscle It’s a vast country that we to get the British rights for don’t seem to know about, many of them, and they’ve but which we’ll get to see a bagged some lot of in the next few years, with all the major sporting events that’ll happen there.

I learnt a lot in an hour that packed in plenty, perhaps even too much, and once again the amiable Monty Python star is a natural as he asks the right sort of questions which allows his guests to shine.

I can’t believe that it’s 25 years that Palin made his first journey going around the world. And that only happened when such luminaries as Alan Whicker, Noel Edmonds and Miles Kington turned it down. The rest is

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real goodies. On Monday, I watched Arrow on Sky 1, which is a superhero yarn featuring a billionaire who goes missing for a few years, and then returns home to seek revenge on those that have caused trouble for his family. Based on the comic book, Oliver Queen has a secret alter ego, who is pretty sharp in the art of arrows, and so the fun

begins. As with all new shows, I hope the rest of the series matches the high entertainment level of the opener.

That’s my view as well on Elementary, on Sky Living. It’s Sherlock Holmes set in New York, with Jonny Lee Miller playing a drug-recovering version of the detective, helped by his lady physician, Dr.Watson (Lucy Liu). Not being a Sherlock Holmes fan until the recent BBC revival, I wasn’t sure what to expect and I had low expectations of Elementary, waiting for it be a bit of cheap American tack, cashing in on the British hit version. I was proved wrong, with a lot of chemistry between Lee Miller and Liu. The main downside was that they only have around 45 minutes to play with in plot development, which is just half of the BBC Sherlock run-

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ning time. That aside, I will be making a regular date to watch it, alongside Arrow, both of which have been the two big new hits of the Stateside autumn season.

My Friday night is now complete with the return of Graham Norton to BBC1. What a great way of rounding off the week and the first show delivered as expected with the wonderful combination of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Miranda Hart, and Ronnie Corbett.

Bond night tonight should be a hoot with Daniel Craig and Judi Dench. Much as I’m a Jonathan Ross fan, his ITV shows just don’t have the fun level and high quality of guests that Graham is able to get.

Hooray! Bates is released from the nick on this Sunday’s Downton Abbey, to give us some cheer after all the

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doom and gloom in the last couple of weeks. More gloom though for ITV 1’s X Factor, as the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing is continuing to extend it’s viewing figures lead. On the plus side, the teenager from Grimsby, Ella Henderson is fantastic and is the one to beat for me, whilst Nicole Scherzinger has been a great fun judge, helped by being on the American version of the show last year.

The gossip by the way is that she’ll back in 2013 alongside Cheryl Cole, will.i.am, and somebody called Simon Cowell!

Great BBC Panorama programme about Jimmy Savile on Monday night, but you were left in no doubt that somebody high up in the Beeb put pressure on the Newsnight Editor, Peter Rippon, to drop their feature on the paedophile a year ago. Heads will roll.

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00:35 This Week 01:20 Holiday Weatherview 01:25 Panorama 01:55 Countryfile 02:55 The Culture Show 03:25 How We Won the War 03:55 How We Won the War 04:25 BBC News 04:30 Asia Business Report 04:45 Sport Today 05:00 BBC World News 05:30 HARDtalk 06:00 BBC News 06:30 World Business Report 06:45 BBC News 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Helicopter Heroes 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:58 BBC News; Weather 12:00 Claimed and Shamed 12:30 Cash in the Attic 13:13 BBC News; Weather 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 BBC News; Weather 14:30 Regional News and Weather 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Escape to the Country 16:00 BBC News; Weather 16:05 Deadly Top 10 16:35 Lockie Leonard 17:00 Prank Patrol Down Under 17:25 Shaun the Sheep 17:30 Blue Peter 18:00 Newsround 18:15 Pointless 19:00 BBC News 19:30 Weather 20:00 The One Show 20:30 BBC News; Regional News 20:30 Nigel Slater's Dish of the Day 21:00 EastEnders 21:30 Miranda 22:00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:30 Me and Mrs Jones 23:00 BBC News 23:25 Regional News and Weather 23:35 The Graham Norton Show

00:20 01:50 02:20 02:30 03:00 03:30 03:45 04:00

Storyville The Culture Show Newsday ABC World News BBC World News Asia Business Report Sport Today BBC World News

04:25 Close 05:00 Schools 07:00 Zigby 07:10 Finley the Fire Engine 07:20 Little Robots 07:30 64 Zoo Lane 07:45 Chuggington: Badge Quest 07:50 Rastamouse 08:00 Escape from Scorpion Island 08:30 League of Super Evil 08:40 Eliot Kid 08:55 Shaun the Sheep 09:00 What's New Scooby-Doo? 09:20 Leon 09:25 Mister Maker Comes to Town 09:45 I Can Cook 10:00 ZingZillas 10:15 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 10:25 Wibbly Pig 10:40 The Koala Brothers 10:50 Get Squiggling!

11:05 Hoof and Safety with Nuzzle & Scratch 11:25 Driver Dan's Story Train 11:40 Waybuloo 12:00 In the Night Garden 12:30 BBC World News 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Restoration Roadshow 14:30 To Buy or Not to Buy 15:15 Weakest Link 16:00 Real Rescues 16:45 Flog It! 17:30 Breakaway 18:15 Antiques Road Trip 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing 20:00 The Many Faces of Richard Wilson 21:00 Mastermind 21:30 Gardeners' World 22:00 Natural World 23:00 QI 23:30 Newsnight

00:05 The Jonathan Ross Show 01:05 Jackpot247 01:05 ITV News Headlines 04:00 Tonight 04:25 ITV Nightscreen 05:35 The Jeremy Kyle Show 06:30 ITV Morning News 07:00 Daybreak 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 ITV News and Weather 14:55 Meridian News and Weather 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 16:59 Meridian Weather 17:00 May the Best House Win 18:00 The Chase 19:00 Meridian Tonight 19:30 ITV News and Weather 20:00 Emmerdale 20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 Island Hospital 21:30 Coronation Street 22:00 Piers Morgan's Life Stories 23:00 ITV News at Ten and Weather 23:30 Meridian Tonight and Weather 23:35 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

DERREN BROWN: APOCALYPSE He survived a game of live Russian roulette, `predicted' the lottery numbers, stuck half the viewing audience to their sofas and taught a member of the public to fly a plane overnight. Now, acclaimed showman Derren Brown returns with a new two-part special that is arguably his most audacious stunt yet, as he convinces one person that the planet has been devastated by a meteor strike and that he is only one of a handful of survivors in this zombie-ridden land. Will the chosen one rise to the challenge?

00:05 Random Acts 00:10 999: What's Your Emergency?

01:15 Jewish Mum of the Year 02:15 Jews at Ten 02:40 Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life 03:40 Buried Alive: The Chilean Mine Rescue 04:35 Dispatches 05:05 Deal or No Deal 06:00 Countdown 06:45 Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard 07:10 Channel 4 Presents 07:15 The Hoobs 07:40 The Hoobs 08:05 Freshly Squeezed 08:35 According to Jim 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:35 Frasier 10:05 Frasier 10:35 The Big Bang Theory 11:00 Undercover Boss 12:00 A Place in the Sun 13:00 Channel 4 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 15:05 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Deal or No Deal 18:00 Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 Channel 4 News 20:55 4thought.tv 21:00 Baggage 22:00 Derren Brown: Apocalypse 23:00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man

00:05 The True Story 01:05 SuperCasino 05:00 Great Artists 05:25 House Doctor 05:50 Michaela's Wild Challenge 06:10 Wildlife SOS 06:35 Wildlife SOS 07:00 Thomas & Friends 07:10 The WotWots 07:20 Fireman Sam 07:30 Jelly Jamm 07:45 Peppa Pig 07:50 Milkshake! Music Box 07:55 Little Princess 08:10 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 08:20 The Mr Men Show 08:35 Thomas & Friends 08:45 Make Way for Noddy 09:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 09:15 Peppa Pig 09:25 Peppa Pig 09:30 Roary the Racing Car 09:45 Bananas in Pyjamas 09:55 Milkshake! Show Songs 10:00 Abby's Flying Fairy School 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:15 Shark 13:10 5 News Lunchtime 13:15 Law & Order 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 16:10 Blessed Stranger: after Flight 111 18:00 5 News at 5 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 5 News at 6.30 20:00 Heroes of the Skies 21:00 Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers 22:00 Death Race

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The Courier Saturday TV

October 27

00:20 The National Lottery Friday Night Draws 00:30 Would I Lie to You? 01:00 EastEnders 02:50 Weatherview 02:55 Hairy Dieters: How to Love Food and Lose Weight 03:55 Question Time 04:55 Click 05:00 BBC News 05:30 On the Road With 06:00 BBC News 07:00 Breakfast 11:00 Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30 Nigellissima 13:00 BBC News; Regional News and Weather 13:15 Football Focus 14:00 Formula One 15:15 Live International Rugby League 17:30 Final Score 18:20 BBC News; Regional News and Weather 18:40 Pointless Celebrities 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing 21:20 Merlin 22:05 Casualty 22:55 The National Lottery Saturday Night Draws 23:05 BBC News; Weather 23:25 National Lottery Update

00:00 00:45 00:50 01:55 03:50 04:00 04:30 05:00

The Review Show Weather Later with Jools Holland Molière The Week in Parliament BBC News Click Close

07:00 Zigby 07:10 Finley the Fire Engine 07:20 Little Robots 07:30 64 Zoo Lane 07:45 Rastamouse 08:00 Roar 08:30 Bear Behaving Badly 08:55 The Scooby-Doo Show 09:20 Dennis and Gnasher 09:30 Trapped Ever After 10:00 Jedward's Big Adventure 10:30 Sorry, I've Got No Head 11:00 The Ministry of Curious Stuff 11:25 Deadly 60 Bites 11:35 Splatalot 12:00 Prank Patrol 12:30 Diddy Movies 12:45 MOTD Kickabout 13:00 Animal Park 14:00 The Importance of Being Earnest 15:35 Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont 17:15 Escape to the Country 18:15 Wartime Farm 19:15 Flog It! 20:15 The Spitfire: Britain's Flying Past 21:15 Dad's Army 21:45 QI XL 22:30 The Thick of It 23:00 Family Guys? What Sitcoms Say About America Now

01:30 ITV News Headlines 04:00 Passenger 57 05:25 ITV Nightscreen 06:30 ITV Morning News 07:00 CITV 10:25 ITV News 10:30 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 11:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 12:20 Dinner Date: Australia 13:15 ITV News and Weather 13:29 Meridian Weather 13:30 All Star Family Fortunes 14:15 Home Sweet Home 15:15 Home Sweet Home 16:15 Star Wars Episode IV: a New Hope 18:40 Meridian News and Weather 18:50 ITV News and Weather 19:05 The Golden Rules of TV 19:35 New You've Been Framed!

20:05 Take Me Out 21:20 The X Factor 23:15 The Jonathan Ross Show

00:05 01:10 02:10 02:15 02:40 03:00 03:25 03:45 04:40 05:20 06:15 07:00 07:10 07:35 08:00 08:55 09:55 10:25 11:30 12:25 12:55 14:25 14:55 16:55 Under 19:25 19:55 20:00 21:00 22:05

Friday Night Dinner Comedy World Cup Random Acts My Name Is Earl Bob's Burgers Napoleon Dynamite Allen Gregory Misfits Charlie's Angels Deal or No Deal Countdown The Treacle People The Hoobs British Rallycross FIA GT1 World Championship The Morning Line Skyfall: T4 Movie Special Made in Chelsea Revenge Suburgatory The Big Bang Theory The Simpsons Channel 4 Racing Come Dine with Me Down Channel 4 News 4thought.tv River Cottage Comedy World Cup The A-Team

THE A TEAM Action adventure based on the popular 1980s TV series, starring Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper.

Four American soldiers serving in Iraq are wrongly convicted and sent to prison following the death of a senior officer during a secret operation. While incarcerated they receive information that they were framed, so decide to escape and begin an effort to clear their names.

00:10 Being Liverpool 01:05 SuperCasino 05:00 Motorsport Mundial 05:25 House Doctor 05:50 Michaela's Wild Challenge 06:10 Wildlife SOS 06:35 Wildlife SOS 07:00 Peppa Pig 07:05 Fifi and the Flowertots 07:15 Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 07:20 The Mr Men Show 07:30 Castle Farm 07:40 Abby's Flying Fairy School 07:55 Roobarb and Custard Too 08:05 Bananas in Pyjamas 08:20 Play!

08:30 Noddy in Toyland 08:45 City of Friends 09:00 Little Princess 09:30 Angelina Ballerina 09:50 Rupert Bear 10:05 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:20 Toby's Travelling Circus 10:30 Roary the Racing Car 10:40 Jelly Jamm 11:00 Power Rangers: Super Samurai 11:35 Batman: The Brave and the Bold 12:10 Looney Tunes 12:15 Looney Tunes 12:20 How Do They Do It? 12:50 Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers 13:50 The Gun Hawk 15:40 Gunfight in Black Horse Canyon 17:30 Man without a Star 19:15 5 News Weekend 19:20 Last of the Dogmen 21:30 Joe Kidd 23:15 CSI: Miami

The Courier Sunday TV

October 28

01:00 BBC News 01:30 Talking Books 03:00 BBC News 03:30 Click 04:00 BBC News 04:30 The Bottom Line 05:00 BBC News 05:30 Politics Europe 07:00 Breakfast 08:40 Match of the Day 10:00 The Andrew Marr Show 11:00 Sunday Morning Live 12:00 Sunday Politics 13:20 Countryfile 14:20 Bargain Hunt 15:05 Formula One 16:45 Nature's Miracle Babies 17:45 Points of View 18:00 Songs of Praise 18:35 Nigel Slater's Dish of the Day 19:05 BBC News; Regional News 19:30 Countryfile 20:20 Strictly Come Dancing 21:00 Antiques Roadshow 22:00 Andrew Marr's History of the World 23:00 BBC News; Regional News and Weather 23:25 Match of the Day 2

01:10 The Beast in the Cellar 01:35 Close 04:30 MotoGP

07:00 Zigby 07:10 Finley the Fire Engine 07:20 Little Robots 07:30 64 Zoo Lane 07:45 Rastamouse 08:00 Roar 08:30 Deadly Art 08:45 Copycats 09:15 Paradise Cafe 09:40 Wingin' It 10:00 12 Again 10:30 Junior Bake Off 11:00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30 The Great British Bake Off 13:30 MotoGP 15:00 Valley of Eagles 16:20 Mackenna's Gold 18:25 The Teaching Awards 2012 19:25 Fawlty Towers 20:00 Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 21:00 Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes 22:00 Dragons' Den 23:00 Harry & Paul 23:30 Hebburn

01:25 03:15 06:30 07:00 10:25 10:30 11:25 12:25 13:25 13:34 13:35 15:20 17:10 18:10 19:10 19:35 19:45 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:05 23:19 23:20

ITV News Headlines ITV Nightscreen ITV Morning News CITV ITV News House Gift There's No Taste Like Home Dickinson's Real Deal ITV News and Weather Meridian Weather Carry On Jack The X Factor The Home of Fabulous Cakes Downton Abbey Cornwall with Caroline Quentin Meridian News and Weather ITV News and Weather Surprise Surprise The X Factor Downton Abbey ITV News and Weather Meridian Weather Piers Morgan's Life Stories

MONSTER HOUSE

Animated comedy horror featuring the voices of Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Kathleen Turner. With Halloween approaching, three kids attempt to unlock a haunted house's dark secrets before it swallows up unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. With its unique, distinctive storybook-look enhanced by new technology, Monster House is an unforgettable and irresistible adventure.

01:35 Birth 01:15 Hollyoaks 04:20 Countdown 05:05 Deal or No Deal 07:00 The Treacle People 07:10 The Hoobs 07:35 Beach Volleyball 08:30 Channel 4 Presents 08:35 Triathlon 09:05 Will & Grace 09:30 Frasier 10:00 Frasier 10:30 Sunday Brunch 12:40 The Big Bang Theory 13:10 The Simpsons 13:40 Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 16:15 Deal or No Deal 17:15 Fool's Gold 19:25 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 The American Road Trip: Obama's Story 21:00 How Britain Worked 22:00 Homeland 23:00 Friday Night Dinner 23:30 Derren Brown: Apocalypse

00:15 SuperCasino 04:00 House Doctor 04:25 Divine Designs 04:50 Rough Guide to Activity Holidays 05:00 Hana's Helpline 05:10 The Milkshake! Show 05:35 Thomas & Friends 05:45 Roary the Racing Car 07:00 Peppa Pig 07:05 Roary the Racing Car 07:15 Fifi and the Flowertots 07:25 Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 07:35 Funky Town 07:40 The Mr Men Show 07:50 Castle Farm 07:55 Abby's Flying Fairy School 08:05 Roobarb and Custard Too 08:15 Bananas in Pyjamas 08:25 Play!

08:35 Noddy in Toyland 08:50 City of Friends 09:00 Little Princess 09:15 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 09:25 Angelina Ballerina 09:45 Rupert Bear 10:15 Toby's Travelling Circus 10:30 Roary the Racing Car 10:40 Jelly Jamm 11:00 Great Run Series 13:00 Looney Tunes 13:10 Looney Tunes 13:15 Looney Tunes 13:25 Rolf's Animal Clinic 14:25 The Ghost of Greville Lodge 16:10 The Canterville Ghost 18:00 Monster House 19:50 5 News Weekend 19:55 Stargate 22:00 Next

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The Courier Monday TV

October 29

00:45 NFL 01:45 The Graham Norton Show 02:30 Weatherview 02:35 The Choir: Sing While You Work 03:35 Holby City 04:35 The Paradise 05:35 HARDtalk 06:00 BBC News 06:30 World Business Report 06:45 BBC News 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Food 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:58 BBC News; Weather 12:00 Robbed, Raided, Reunited 12:30 Cash in the Attic 13:13 BBC News; Weather 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 BBC News; Weather 14:30 Regional News and Weather 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Escape to the Country 16:00 BBC News; Weather 16:05 Trade Your Way to the USA 16:35 Lockie Leonard 17:00 Prank Patrol Down Under 17:25 Shaun the Sheep 17:30 Sam & Mark's Big Wind Up 18:00 Newsround 18:15 Pointless 19:00 BBC News 19:30 Weather 20:00 The One Show 20:30 BBC News; Regional News 21:00 EastEnders 21:30 Panorama 22:00 New Tricks 23:00 BBC News 23:25 Regional News and Weather 23:35 Have I Got a Bit More News for You

00:00 00:30 02:00 03:45 04:00 04:30 04:45 05:00 05:40 07:00

Never Mind the Buzzcocks Down Terrace Formula One Sport Today BBC News Asia Business Report Sport Today BBC News Close Zigby

07:10 Finley the Fire Engine 07:20 Little Robots 07:30 64 Zoo Lane 07:45 Chuggington: Badge Quest 07:50 Rastamouse 08:00 Escape from Scorpion Island 08:30 League of Super Evil 08:40 Eliot Kid 08:55 Shaun the Sheep Championsheeps 09:00 What's New Scooby-Doo? 09:25 Mister Maker Comes to Town 09:45 I Can Cook 10:00 ZingZillas 10:15 Baby Jake 10:25 Octonauts: Creature Reports 10:30 Wibbly Pig 10:40 The Koala Brothers 10:50 Get Squiggling!

11:05 Hoof and Safety with Nuzzle & Scratch 11:30 3rd & Bird 11:40 Waybuloo 12:00 In the Night Garden 12:30 BBC World News 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Restoration Roadshow 14:30 To Buy or Not to Buy 15:15 Weakest Link 16:00 Real Rescues 16:45 Flog It! 17:30 Breakaway 18:15 Antiques Road Trip 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two 20:00 Great British Food Revival 21:00 University Challenge 21:30 Nigellissima 22:00 Top Gear 23:00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 23:30 Newsnight

00:15 Premiership Rugby Union 01:10 The Store 03:15 Golden Balls 04:00 Motorsport UK 04:50 ITV Nightscreen 06:30 ITV Morning News 07:00 Daybreak 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 ITV News and Weather 14:55 Meridian News and Weather 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 16:59 Meridian Weather 17:00 The Dales 17:30 Cornwall with Caroline Quentin 18:00 The Chase 19:00 Meridian Tonight 19:30 ITV News and Weather 20:00 Emmerdale 20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 Little England 21:30 Coronation Street 22:00 Monroe 23:00 ITV News at Ten and Weather 23:30 Meridian Tonight and Weather 23:35 The Agenda

00:35 The Function Room 01:10 American Football Live 04:45 Channel 4 Presents 04:50 Ultimate Frisbee 04:55 Deal or No Deal 05:50 Countdown 06:35 Make Do & Mend 07:00 Channel 4 Presents 07:05 Sali Mali 07:10 The Hoobs 07:35 The Hoobs 08:00 Freshly Squeezed 08:30 According to Jim 08:55 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 10:00 Frasier 10:30 The Big Bang Theory 11:00 Undercover Boss 12:00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 13:00 Channel 4 News Midday 13:05 Come Dine with Me 15:05 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Deal or No Deal 18:00 Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 Channel 4 News 20:55 4thought.tv 21:00 Dispatches 21:30 Food Unwrapped 22:00 999: What's Your Emergency?

23:00 8 Out of 10 Cats 23:50 Alan Carr: Chatty Man

BAD BOYS

Action comedy thriller starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. Two chalk-and-cheese Miami drugs squad detectives - one a wise-cracking, Porsche-driving ladies' man, the other married with a family - are assigned to track down a missing $100-million shipment of heroin.

00:00 Hatfields & McCoys 02:05 SuperCasino 05:00 The FBI Files 05:45 Rough Guide To 06:00 Hana's Helpline 06:10 The Milkshake! Show 06:35 Thomas & Friends 06:45 Roary the Racing Car 07:00 Thomas & Friends 07:10 The WotWots 07:20 Fireman Sam 07:30 Jelly Jamm 07:45 Peppa Pig 07:50 Milkshake! Monkey 07:55 Milkshake! Music Box 08:00 Little Princess 08:10 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 08:20 The Mr Men Show 08:35 Thomas & Friends 08:45 Make Way for Noddy 09:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 09:15 Peppa Pig 09:25 Peppa Pig 09:30 Roary the Racing Car 09:45 Bananas in Pyjamas 09:55 Mio Mao 10:00 Abby's Flying Fairy School 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Shark 13:10 5 News Lunchtime 13:15 Law & Order 14:10 Looney Tunes 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 CSI: NY 16:10 Hush 18:00 5 News at 5 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 5 News at 6.30 20:00 Cowboy Builders 21:00 Classic Car Rescue 22:00 Bad Boys

The Courier Tuesday TV

October 30

00:20 Our War 01:20 Weatherview 01:25 Wartime Farm 02:25 Lorraine's Fast, Fresh and Easy Food 02:55 Neighbourhood Watched 03:40 How We Won the War 04:10 BBC News 04:30 Asia Business Report 04:45 Sport Today 05:00 BBC News 05:30 HARDtalk 06:00 BBC News 06:30 World Business Report 06:45 BBC News 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Food 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:58 BBC News; Weather 12:00 Robbed, Raided, Reunited 12:30 Cash in the Attic 13:13 BBC News; Weather 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 BBC News; Weather 14:30 Regional News and Weather 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Escape to the Country 16:00 BBC News; Weather 16:05 Trade Your Way to the USA 16:35 Lockie Leonard 17:00 Prank Patrol Down Under 17:25 Shaun the Sheep 17:30 12 Again 18:00 Newsround 18:15 Pointless 19:00 BBC News 19:30 Weather 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders 21:00 Holby City 22:00 The Paradise 23:00 BBC News 23:25 National Lottery Update 23:35 Britain's Hidden Hungry

00:20 01:45 02:00 02:30 03:00 03:30 03:45 04:00 04:05 05:00

James Bond: A Bafta Tribute HARDtalk Newsday ABC World News BBC News Asia Business Report Sport Today BBC News Close Schools

07:00 Zigby 07:10 Finley the Fire Engine 07:20 Little Robots 07:30 64 Zoo Lane 07:45 Chuggington: Badge Quest 07:50 Rastamouse 08:00 Splatalot 08:25 Leon 08:30 League of Super Evil 08:40 Eliot Kid 08:55 Shaun the Sheep 09:00 What's New Scooby-Doo? 09:25 Mister Maker Comes to Town 09:45 I Can Cook with You 10:00 ZingZillas 10:15 Baby Jake 10:25 Octonauts: Creature Reports 10:30 Wibbly Pig 10:40 The Koala Brothers 10:50 Get Squiggling!

11:05 Hoof and Safety with Nuzzle & Scratch 11:30 3rd & Bird 11:40 Waybuloo 12:00 In the Night Garden 12:30 BBC World News 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Restoration Roadshow 14:30 To Buy or Not to Buy 15:15 Weakest Link 16:00 Real Rescues 16:45 Flog It! 17:30 Breakaway 18:15 Antiques Road Trip 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing - It Takes Two 20:00 Great British Food Revival 21:00 Autumnwatch 2012 22:00 Operation Iceberg 23:00 Later Live - with Jools Holland 23:30 Newsnight

00:05 The Skeleton Key 01:50 ITV News Headlines 01:50 Jackpot247 04:00 Champions League Weekly 04:25 ITV Nightscreen 05:35 The Jeremy Kyle Show 06:30 ITV Morning News 07:00 Daybreak 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 ITV News and Weather 14:55 Meridian News and Weather 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 16:59 Meridian Weather 17:00 The Dales 17:30 Cornwall with Caroline Quentin 18:00 The Chase 19:00 Meridian Tonight 19:30 ITV News and Weather 20:00 Emmerdale 20:30 The Martin Lewis Money Show 21:00 The Pride of Britain Awards 2012 23:00 ITV News at Ten and Weather 23:30 Meridian Tonight and Weather 23:35 Take Me Out

THE PRIDE OF BRITAIN AWARDS 2012 Carol Vorderman hosts the annual awards show from London's Grosvenor House, where Prince Charles joins some of the biggest names in TV, showbusiness, politics and sport, including Stephen Fry, Prime Minister David Cameron and David Beckham, to celebrate the nation's heroes. The winners include the stars of the Olympics and Paralympics, a courageous girl who saved her four-year-old sister's life.

00:55 Random Acts 01:00 Shameless 02:00 The Good Wife 02:40 The Good Wife 03:25 90210 04:05 90210 04:50 Supernanny US 05:30 Supernanny US 06:10 Deal or No Deal 07:05 Channel 4 Presents 07:10 The Hoobs 07:35 The Hoobs 08:00 Freshly Squeezed 08:30 According to Jim 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 10:00 Frasier 10:30 The Big Bang Theory 11:00 Undercover Boss 12:00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 13:00 Channel 4 News Midday Summary 13:05 Come Dine with Me 15:05 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Deal or No Deal 18:00 Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 Channel 4 News 20:55 4thought.tv 21:00 George Clarke's Amazing Spaces 22:00 Jewish Mum of the Year 23:00 Fresh Meat 23:50 Homeland

00:20 Death Race 02:20 SuperCasino 05:00 Great Artists 05:25 House Doctor 05:50 Michaela's Wild Challenge 06:10 Wildlife SOS 06:35 Wildlife SOS 07:00 Thomas & Friends 07:10 The WotWots 07:20 Fireman Sam 07:30 Jelly Jamm 07:45 Peppa Pig 07:50 Milkshake! Monkey 08:00 Little Princess 08:10 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 08:20 The Mr Men Show 08:35 Thomas & Friends 08:45 Make Way for Noddy 09:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 09:15 Peppa Pig 09:25 Peppa Pig 09:30 Roary the Racing Car 09:45 Bananas in Pyjamas 09:55 Mio Mao 10:00 Abby's Flying Fairy School 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Shark 13:10 5 News Lunchtime 13:15 Law & Order 14:10 Looney Tunes 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 CSI: NY 16:15 Relative Stranger 18:00 5 News at 5 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 5 News at 6.30 20:00 Highland Emergency 20:30 Highland Emergency 21:00 Rolf's Animal Clinic 22:00 Body of Proof 23:00 CSI: NY

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The Courier Wednesday TV

October 31

00:30 Bad Company 02:20 Weatherview 02:25 Watchdog 03:25 Exploring China 04:25 Neighbourhood Watched 05:10 How We Won the War 05:40 HARDtalk 06:00 BBC News 06:30 World Business Report 06:45 BBC News 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Food 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:58 BBC News; Weather 12:00 Robbed, Raided, Reunited 12:30 Cash in the Attic 13:13 BBC News; Weather 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 BBC News; Weather 14:30 Regional News and Weather 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Escape to the Country 16:00 BBC News; Weather 16:05 Trade Your Way to the USA 16:35 Lockie Leonard 17:00 Prank Patrol Down Under 17:25 Shaun the Sheep 17:30 Horrible Histories 18:00 Newsround 18:15 Pointless 19:00 BBC News 19:30 Weather 20:00 The One Show 20:59 BBC News; Regional News 21:00 Watchdog 22:00 Brazil with Michael Palin 23:00 BBC News 23:25 Regional News and Weather 23:35 The National Lottery Wednesday Night Draws 23:45 Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow

00:20 01:20 01:30 02:00 02:30 03:00 03:30 03:45 04:00 04:30 04:45

Dragons' Den BBC News HARDtalk Newsday ABC World News BBC World News Asia Business Report Sport Today BBC World News Asia Business Report Sport Today

06:00 Bringing Books to Life 07:00 Zigby 07:10 Finley the Fire Engine 07:20 Little Robots 07:30 64 Zoo Lane 07:45 Chuggington: Badge Quest 07:50 Rastamouse 08:00 The Slammer 08:25 Leon 08:30 League of Super Evil 08:40 Eliot Kid 08:55 Shaun the Sheep 09:00 What's New Scooby-Doo? 09:25 Mister Maker Comes to Town 09:45 I Can Cook with You 10:00 ZingZillas 10:15 Baby Jake 10:25 Octonauts: Creature Reports 10:30 Wibbly Pig 10:40 The Koala Brothers 10:50 Get Squiggling!

11:05 Hoof and Safety with Nuzzle & Scratch 11:30 3rd & Bird 11:40 Waybuloo 12:00 In the Night Garden 12:30 Daily Politics 14:00 See Hear 14:30 To Buy or Not to Buy 15:15 Weakest Link 16:00 Real Rescues 16:45 Flog It! 17:30 Breakaway 18:15 Antiques Road Trip 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing 20:00 Great British Food Revival 21:00 Autumnwatch 2012 22:00 How Safe Are Britain's Roads?

23:00 The Culture Show 23:30 Newsnight

00:50 Grimefighters 01:10 ITV News Headlines 04:00 Loose Women 04:50 ITV Nightscreen 06:30 ITV Morning News 07:00 Daybreak 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 ITV News and Weather 14:55 Meridian News and Weather 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 16:59 Meridian Weather 17:00 The Dales 17:30 Cornwall with Caroline Quentin 18:00 The Chase 19:00 Meridian Tonight 19:30 ITV News and Weather 20:00 Emmerdale 20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 All Star Mr & Mrs 22:00 DCI Banks 23:00 ITV News at Ten and Weather 23:30 Meridian Tonight and Weather 23:35 Exposure

00:55 Random Acts 01:00 Poker 02:00 Channel 4 Presents 02:05 KOTV Boxing Weekly 02:35 Sailing 03:00 Beach Volleyball 03:55 Bullrun: Cops, Cars and Superstars 04:20 British Rallycross 04:45 Triathlon 05:15 FIA GT1 World Championship 06:10 Deal or No Deal 07:05 Channel 4 Presents 07:10 The Hoobs 07:35 The Hoobs 08:00 Freshly Squeezed 08:30 According to Jim 09:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 10:00 Frasier 10:30 The Big Bang Theory 11:00 Undercover Boss 12:00 A Place in the Sun 13:00 Channel 4 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 15:05 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 16:10 Countdown 17:00 Deal or No Deal 18:00 Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 Channel 4 News 20:55 4thought.tv 21:00 Come Dine with Me 22:00 Grand Designs 23:00 Shameless

GRAND DESIGNS

Kevin McCloud meets artists Indi and Rebecca, who are planning to build a modern, larch-clad home on the Isle of Skye, with a second hand-crafted building alongside to use as their studio, all on a tight budget of £150,000. They have been saving for years, but making it happen will mean taking on the savage weather, not to mention the sceptical locals - and as if that weren't enough, most of the work is being done by one man, local builder Donald.

00:00 CSI: NY 00:55 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 01:50 Forensic Files 02:15 SuperCasino 04:55 Great Artists 05:20 House Doctor 05:45 Michaela's Wild Challenge 06:10 Wildlife SOS 06:35 Wildlife SOS 07:00 Thomas & Friends 07:10 The WotWots 07:20 Fireman Sam 07:30 Jelly Jamm 07:45 Peppa Pig 07:50 Milkshake! Monkey 07:55 Milkshake! Music Box 08:00 Little Princess 08:10 Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 08:20 The Mr Men Show 08:35 Thomas & Friends 08:45 Make Way for Noddy 09:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 09:15 Peppa Pig 09:25 Peppa Pig 09:30 Roary the Racing Car 09:45 Bananas in Pyjamas 09:55 Mio Mao 10:00 Abby's Flying Fairy School 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Shark 13:10 5 News Lunchtime 13:15 Law & Order 14:10 Looney Tunes 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 CSI: NY 16:15 Dead Lines 18:00 5 News at 5 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 5 News at 6.30 20:00 Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers 21:00 The Removal Men 22:00 Dallas 23:00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 23:55 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Courier Thursday TV

November 1

00:15 01:10 03:00 03:05 03:35 World 04:35 05:05 05:35 06:00 06:30 06:45 07:00 10:15 11:00 11:58 12:00 12:30 13:13 13:15 14:00 14:30 14:45 15:15 16:00 16:05 16:35 17:00 17:25 17:30 Of 18:00 18:15 19:00 19:30 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 22:00 23:00 23:25 23:35

National Lottery Update No Way Out Weatherview See Hear Andrew Marr's History of the

00:20 Work 01:20 02:40 03:00 03:30 03:45 04:00 04:30 04:45 04:55

The Choir: Sing While You

Cash Britain How We Won the War Panorama BBC News World Business Report BBC News Breakfast Rip Off Food Homes Under the Hammer BBC News; Weather Robbed, Raided, Reunited Cash in the Attic BBC News; Weather Bargain Hunt BBC News; Weather Regional News and Weather Doctors Escape to the Country BBC News; Weather Trade Your Way to the USA Lockie Leonard Prank Patrol Down Under Shaun the Sheep Show Me What You're Made Newsround Pointless BBC News Weather Regional News Programmes The One Show EastEnders Young Apprentice Hunted BBC News Regional News and Weather Question Time

Storyville ABC World News BBC News Asia Business Report Sport Today BBC News Asia Business Report Sport Today Schools - How God Made the

English 05:35 Strictly Soulmates 07:00 Zigby 07:10 Finley the Fire Engine 07:20 Little Robots 07:30 64 Zoo Lane 07:45 Chuggington: Badge Quest 07:50 Rastamouse 08:00 Splatalot 08:25 Leon 08:30 League of Super Evil 08:40 Eliot Kid 08:55 Shaun the Sheep 09:00 What's New Scooby-Doo? 09:25 Mister Maker Comes to Town 09:45 I Can Cook with You 10:00 ZingZillas 10:15 Baby Jake 10:25 Octonauts: Creature Reports 10:30 Wibbly Pig 10:40 The Koala Brothers 10:50 Get Squiggling!

11:05 Hoof and Safety with Nuzzle & Scratch 11:30 3rd & Bird 11:40 Waybuloo 12:00 In the Night Garden 12:30 BBC World News 13:00 Daily Politics 14:00 Restoration Roadshow 14:30 To Buy or Not to Buy 15:15 Weakest Link 16:00 Real Rescues 16:45 Flog It! 17:30 Breakaway 18:15 Antiques Road Trip 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing 20:00 Great British Food Revival 21:00 Autumnwatch 2012 22:00 Operation Iceberg 23:00 Hebburn 23:30 Newsnight

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Ref: 61, A lovely two bedroomed ground floor apartment, located in the centre of the small Spanish town of Los Montesinos, With a pleasant communal swimming pool adjacent & all amenities in walking distance. Long and short term rental available. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Viva Villa and Vacation Services, For Short or Long Term Rentals visit: www.villaandvacation.com or Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 2 or 3 bed / 2 bath apartments in San Miguel. Lift, communal rooftop pool & solarium, video entry system. Available for short or long term rent from 300 pcm. Tel 966723437 or 636615716. (91) Ref. RS69 – Spacious towncentre apartment only a two minute walk from the beach and well known Marina International in Torrevieja centre. 2 large bedrooms, 1 full bathroom, fully furnished, 350 € pcm. 966 923 963 Ref. KBJ3 – Luxury duplex penthouse apartment located near the marina in Guardamar. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, amazing panoramic views, inc.parking and storage. 600 € pcm.

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room, direct and full-on sea views. 500 € pcm. 966 923 963 Ref. CBR20 – Spanish style 4th floor apartment right on the beach! 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, lovely balcony to soak up the amazing sea views. 500 € pcm. 966 923 963 Ref. CBR19 – 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment in sought after area beachside Punta Prima, with communal pool and fully furnished, only 400 € pcm. 966 923 963 Ref. CBR18 – Fabulous finca-style villa only metres from Punta Prima beach, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, garage, private pool, and much more! 900 € pcm (price inc. Gardener and pool maint.) 966 923 963 Ref. CBR3 – 2 bedroom 2 bathroom townhouse located in Algorfa, communal pool, fully furnished, 300 € pcm. 966 923 963 Ref. RS20 – 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment within private enclosed residential in San Luis, large terrace, 375 € pcm. 966 923 963 Ref: 49, 2nd floor one bedroom apartment situated conveniently located in the town centre of Torrevieja, with a small sun balcony overlooking the lovely communal pool. Short or long term rental available. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 CBR23 : Stylish new house

in Los Montesinos, 3 bed 2 bath with large 65m2 garage, front and back terraces. 500 € pcm. 966 923 Ref 33, Ground floor spacious 2 bedroom apartment, located in Torre la Mata.

Close to all amenities and beach.

3 month rental €300pcm Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 104, 2 Bedroom apartment in Torrevieja, (near gypsy lane), small balcony, near all amenities and Friday market. €350pcm Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 112, Spacious 3 bedroom detached villa with its private pool is located on the El Raso urbanisation near Guardamar. Convenient for all amenities, shops, supermarket, restaurants and bars. Short term rental available. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 155, Luxurious Three Bedroom Villa With Private Pool, in Quesada Close to shops and restaurants within a five minute drive, and Guadamar Beach is within a ten minute drive. Short term rental €800PCM. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref 702: Beautiful 2 bedroom apartment, located near los Locos beach, beautifully furnished. Short term rentals from 175€ per week.

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El Chaparel/La Siesta Two bedroom apartment in a quiet gated urbanisation for rent €350 per month plus bills. Reference No 17 Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 709, A lovely 1 bedroom apartment in Aguas Nuevas, within a 5 minute walk of the beach. There is a terrace outside with views to the sea. Short or long term rental available. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 117, A Lovely 3 Bedroomed 1st floor apartment on the outskirts of Torrevieja (Mar Azul). The Apartment is in walking distance of the excellent beaches and a good selection of restaurants, shops and bars. Long and short term rental available. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 63, Two bedroom 1st floor apartment situated in Monino Blanco. The property overlooks a superb communal pool area, in within walking distance of bars, restaurants and shops.

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Lovely Corner property in Novamar V, Gran Alacant. 2 bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms Being sold fully furnished including appliances, Has secure underground parking and faces large oasis communal pool. Walking distance to beach. 139.000 Euros, Call 627 711 155 and quote Ref No. K10 Ground floor duplex, with splendid views. Quiet location in Gran Alacant.

Immaculate condition. Price has just been reduced to 105.000 and includes everything. For viewing call 627 711 155 Ref. No K27 Rare opportunity to purchase on Mediterrania III, Gran Alacant. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Private Parking, F/Furnished, Large communal pools & Tennis courts S/W facing, Dramatically reduced for quick sale to 126.000 euros.

Ref No. K58 Call 627 711 155 for immediate viewing Ref: 521, €105,000. This comfortable bungalow is located in San Luis with a new roof and solarium tiles.

It is close to supermarkets, bars, restaurants and is on the local bus route. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397

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Don Pueblo, Gran Alacant. 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, Large Kitchen with Galleria, Secure underground parking, Gas Central Heating, Glazed in Porch, Solarium with stunning views.

Viewings absolutely essential. Very large property at reduced price of 190.000 euros. Ref No. K38 Call 627 711 155 Opportunity to purchase at the off plan price of 195.000 euros. Large 4 Bed, 3 Bath Brand new property. Secure underground parking for 2 cars and communal pool.

Situated opposite Gran Alacant and over looks projected golf course. Ref No. K52. 627 711 155 Viva Villa and Vacation Services are pleased to offer property sales for the Torrevieja and Oriheula areas of the Costa Blanca, Spain. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 or Visit : www.villaandvacation.com 2 Bed, 1 Bath Ground floor duplex. Central heating, Grills, Fully furnished,

Glazed in Galleria, 2 communal pools, private parking and walking distance to the Gran Alacant commercial centre. Situated in the popular urbanisation of Puerto Marino. Now only 96,500 euros for quick sale Ref No. K46. 627 711 155 Immaculate ground floor Duplex, 2 beds, 2 bath, Private Parking, Situated in Novamar, Gran Alacant.

Price includes very tasteful furniture and white goods.

Walking distance to all local amenities and beach. Now only 129,750 euros. Ref No K24. 627 711 155 Gran Alacant Detached villa, located in a very sought after location.Situated on a 560m2 S/W facing plot and constructed in 2005.

Comprising of 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (2 full baths), Lounge-Diner, fully equipped Kitchen, Porch and Solarium with Alicante & Sea Views. ref.L81. €258,000 neg.

Tel. 680333242 Ref 533: Lovely 2 bedroom

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Townhouse located in the popular area of Punta Prima, the property has a large lounge and fully equipped kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, one with balcony, bathroom with double shower. €126,000 Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Gran Alacant Town House with a difference.

2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Glazed in Porch, Quiet Location, Extra storage areas, and South Facing Private Pool as well as 2 communal pools. Fully Furnished, All mod cons.

Greenland Views and all local amenities close by.

Ref. No L79. 179.000 euros 680 333 242 Gran Alacant immaculate villa, 3 bedroomed, 3 bathroomed property maintained to a very high standard inside and out and the interior furnishings are top quality, offering a feeling of luxury and good taste. The plot size is 400m2 and has been beautifully tiles, and graveled and has established palms and plants. Oil fired central heating throughout, log effect fire place, ceiling fans in all rooms, towel heater rails, glazed in shower units, instant hot water, water purifier, free English TV, phone & internet lines, fitted double hanging wardrobes, safe, glazed in front porch, vanity units and much more. The pool is an 8 X 4 m2 salt water pool, meaning maintenance is much easier plus outside toilet and shower. Sea views to front with Greenland views to the rear. ref K51. €245,000 Tel 680333242 Balsares is opposite Gran Alacant where the proposed golf course is now being started so this property will

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virtually be on the golf course, it is an investment not to be missed. The property is on a small gated urbanisation of 18 houses with private underground parking for 2 cars and direct access to the house, communal pool and toilets/changing rooms etc.

The house is brand new and consists of 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, lounge with working fire place, large kitchen 12 m2, large galleria/ utility room, bedroom balcony and front tiled terrace. This property also has a converted under build for an extra lounge or bedroom. ref K52 €198,000 Tel 680333242 Ref: 516, €39,999. Studio apartment in San Luis, close to amenities. Open plan fully equipped kitchen. Good sized lounge, bedroom and out onto balcony which has been glazed to create another room. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 510, €70,000.

Bungalow located in San Luis. It is close to the supermarkets, bars and restaurants and is on the local bus route. An Opel Corsa car is included in this sale. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: KP3100, €183,000.

Three bedroom, two bathroom detached villa, located in San Luis, on a 450sqm plot, with communal pool.

Garage to side of house.

Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 78, €120,000. Three bedroom Quad in Jardin Del Mar VII. There is off-road parking and small storage shed in the enclosed garden area, communal pool nearby. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Ref: 709, €60,000 A lovely 1 bedroom apartment in Aguas Nuevas, within a 5 minute walk of the beach.

There is a terrace outside with views to the sea. Short or long term rental available.

Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Gran Alacant Opportunity to purchase a beautiful 3 bedroomed, 3 bathroomed,large kitchen, detached property with roof- top solarium. Well established gardens and drive way for 2 cars, whilst

also overlooking the projected 18 hole golf course.

Comprising of fitted wardrobes, utility room, air con H/C, alarm system, electric wall heaters, intercom system, fireplace, ceilings fans, 8x7 gazebo, use of 2 large communal pools, immaculate condition with many extras. ref K12. €180,000 Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant bargain, detached villa with pool on 400m2 plot. Briefly comprising of 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, Lounge Diner, independent kitchen, solarium with views, well maintained gardens. Quiet location yet within walking distance of all amenities. Top quality furniture and appliances included in the price. Extras include, mosquito nets, grills, toldos blinds, built in wardrobes, gas fire, electric heating, ceiling fans, English & Spanish TV, tastefully tiled & graveled garden with irrigation system. ref K43. €229,000 Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant South facing attractive corner house Situated in the sought after

urbanization of Monte Faro, this secure gated urbanization offers a stunning oasis pool, with mountain views, tennis courts and football courts. Consisting of 3 double beds with balconies, 2 bathrooms, kitchen leading onto court yard which can easily be converted into an extra room, lounge diner with working fireplace, front garden with private parking for 2 cars. Being sold fully furnishes with white goods, built in 2006 so immaculate condition hardly lived in. Ref K48 €168,000 priced for quick sale Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant, Large detached villa with beautiful gardens set on 550m2 plot, built in BBQ area and large 10x6 pool.Comprising of 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, Lounge Diner with fire place, Independent Kitchen, air con H/C, Solarium, front porch, converted under build with 3 extra rooms, private covered parking, irrigated gardens, close distance to beach and amenities. Ref. K18 €250,000 Tel 680333242

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Friday, October 26, 2012 Gran Alacant Gem! Fabulous detached Villa, with Alicante sea views to the front and wood land views to the rear, means this immaculate villa is very private and un-overlooked.

Comprising of 2 large bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, 2 bath, large fully equipped kitchen,glazed porch sitting area, solarium, Attractive Pool with cover, well maintained Gardens. Central Heating, Air Con, Ceiling fans, Private Parking, Alarm system, Decorative working Fire Place complete with electric Fire. Outdoor workshop/storage area, Quality Pergola & BBQ. Constructed in 2006, on plot size of 380m2 and being sold fully furnished including white goods. ref L80. €234,995 Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant, Situated front line to the famous blue flag beaches of Carabassi, the real beauty of this property is its proximity to the beach, but also on offer is a fantastic communal pool situated in beautifully kept gardens with little Spanish walk ways.Comprising of 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lounge diner, American style kitchen including all appliances, roof top solarium with stunning views, front porch area with front garden and a secure underground garage. fully furnished Ref. K23 €125,000 rare opportunity Tel 680333242

Ref: 520, €85,000. Two bedroom apartment in Dream Hills, with a fully equipped kitchen, large lounge, glazed-in terrace and a large solarium. This property comes with a large communal swimming pool. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Top floor Duplex. Very good price of 108.000 euros for a quick sale. Furnished to a very high standard, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, Lounge Diner, Glazed in Porch, Large Roof Top Solarium.

Choice of Communal Pools, Private Parking. Walking distance to all amenities and on the First urbanisation as you enter Gran Alacant.

Viewing essential. Ref No. K44. Tel. 627 711 155 Gran Alacant, corner property in Don Pueblo with no expense spared, comprising of 3 double bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, 2 decoratively tiled bathrooms, very large independent kitchen with galleria. Included in the price are all kitchen appliances such as large fridge freezer, washing machine, dishwasher, microwave to name just a few. There is a huge lounge complete with chimney, plus large fully transformed under build,and small workshop. Front and rear private garden area, secure underground garage, tennis courts, football pitch and communal pools. Ref. K14 €209,00 Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant, Situated in

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the "Alto" part of Gran Alacant, this 3 bedroomed, 4th floor apartment, offers luxury accommodation, with absolutely stunning sea views, as well as views of Alicante bay and the famous Santa Barbara Castle.The apartment is 89 square meters with open plan kitchen / living room and includes all electrical appliances & furniture also there is a utility room, open terrace, and private parking.

The urbanisation also offers many communal pools, tennis courts, restaurants and bars. Ref. K20 €109,000 Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant large detached villa with 3 double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lounge-diner, fully equipped kitchen, large porch, roof top solarium, 400 m2 Plot, with established low maintenance very private gardens with irrigation system, electronic gates, private parking, outside wc, sink & shower, terraces, air con ( h & c ), mosquito nets, grills, alarmed, large spa pool with separate Jacuzzi section.

Within easy walking distance to Gran Alacant commercial centre and close to local bus and tram route.

Ref K33. €260,000 neg Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant limited edition villa, not very often available on the market. Only a few of this type were ever constructed- Very large 5 bedrooms, 4 bathroom(2 ensuit) property, situated on a large corner plot with a 10 x 5 private pool and private parking. Lounge-diner with working fireplace, fully equipped kitchen with utility room. Large landing area, leading onto solarium, with extra storage external room.

Front porch area leading into large well established gardens with irrigation system and fruit trees. Being sold fully furnished. Within walking distance to Gran Alacant commercial centre and 5 minute drive to Carabassi beaches. ref.

K11. €270,000 Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant Limited edition bungalow. Only six of this type available in Gran Alacant. Constructed in 2003 and immaculately maintained on a large plot size of 500m2 with a 10 x 5 pool.Comprising of 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lounge-diner leading out onto front porch, independent kitchen including white goods, outside galleria, court yard, large garage with electric door, roof top solarium and private parking. Also built in wardrobes, Toldos

blinds, air con H/C, security grills, alarm, security doors, bathrooms heaters, outside toilet, outdoor lighting, irrigation system, attractive and well kept gardens, beautifully tiled inside and out, fire place, English TV, phone line. Being sold with top quality furniture. ref L95. €275,000 Tel 680333242 Gran Alacant, Situated in the central area of Gran Alacant and within walking distance to all local amenities such as a selection of different cuisine restaurants, bars, pharmacies, banks, popular GA market and Carabassi Beach.

Comprises of 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with a private garage and roof-top solarium. This property is part of a small urbanization which has the use of a large decorative communal pool. Ref. K36 €149,000 Tel 680333242 Ref: 513, €115,000. Two bedroom ground floor apartment, in Aguas Nuevas, close to all amenities including the beach. It has a good size lounge, kitchen and has off road parking facilities.

Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397 Gran Alacant, Ground floor south west facing apartment in Puerto Marino close to G.A commercial centre, comprising of 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom, Lounge-Diner, Independent Kitchen with Galleria, Porch area and large tiled front garden, The property is being sold fully furnished and includes all kitchen appliances, H & C Air con is fitted as well as sky TV. The apartment enjoys the use of 2 large communal pools and has private parking in an enclosed electronically gated car park.

Competitively priced for a

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quick sale. Ref. K40 €91,000 Tel 680333242 Ref: 520, €85,000. Two bedroom apartment in Dream Hills, with a fully equipped kitchen, large lounge, glazed-in terrace and a large solarium. This property comes with a large communal swimming pool. Call: 965 707 188 or 626 397 397

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Greenside Gossip IVIE DAVIES takes a weekly look at the golf scene - golfdavies@gmail.com

NOT ON YOUR BELLY! BELLY putters and all other forms of anchoring should be outlawed.

Who said this? None other than Tiger Woods.

The world No.2 is backing not only a ban on all forms of long putters for professionals, but also wants it extended to the amateur game.

He has previously proclaimed for a ban on belly putters and broomsticks in the professional arena, which are increasingly being used by the world's top golfers (wait till he gets the yips or old!).

The R&A and the PGA are looking into the matter and it is expected the use of belly or broomstick putters may be outlawed by 2016.

Tiger putts his weight behind rule change Ryder Cup players Webb Simpson and Keegan Bradley, Open Champion Ernie Els and runner-up Adam Scott all used a long putter.

I can remember Aussie Peter Senior in 1989 at Woburn switching to a belly putter, as did Bernard Langer and Sam Torrance.

Peter Dawson, Chief Executive of the Royal and Ancient, says there are two major concerns. The first is the sense that pros who falter using a conventional putter turn to the long putter

as a crutch and then get to use it against players who have not failed with traditional, shorter putters.

The second issue is the increasingly common belief that even players who are performing well with conventional putters view the longer putter as an advantage they must embrace to perform at the highest level.

Only four years to wait but I guess there will be more strong words on the subject between now and then!

ON YER NIKE, A fag-gone RORY conclusion

THE rumours of Rory McIlroy jumping from Titleist (whose in out runs contract December) to Nike Golf aren’t really all that new (they’ve been floating around for a while) but apparently it might finally be a done deal.

It’s still too early to speculate what clubs might fill his new Nike golf bag but we understand he’ll be able to retain his endorsement deal with Jumeirah Group and still wear their logo on his hat. that something That’s doesn’t happen all that often as Nike like their athletes sporting the swoosh.

Put it this way… nothing will be “official” until Nike trot out Rory at a news conference and talk about how great it is to have both him “Team on Tiger and Swoosh”.

But if I were a betting man… I think there’s a better chance of Rory switching to

Nike Golf than of West Bromwich Albion winning the Premier League. And we all know that will happen again….

But I have checked with my contacts at Nike Golf in the USA and they just say that I know more than them!

Stay tuned, you read it here first…

MIGUEL Angel Jimenez, Darren Clarke, Thomas Bjorn and John Daly, among others, may start trembling under the new rule to keep cigars and cigarettes out of their golf bag.

The Alps Tour de Castellón Valencia, a European Tour satellite circuit, has taken the first step towards preventing players participating in tournaments from smoking or chewing tobacco.

Accordingly, The Alps are the first to ban smoking on a pro circuit for players and caddies participating in its tournaments.

International Spanish referee Pablo Mansilla confirmed: "The Alps is ahead of any professional golf circuit for both men and women by prohibiting smoking in areas where its tournaments are played, and during the ProAm. Smoking will be allowed only in designated areas. " If players try to break the rule, the first offence will prompt a €150 fine and the second €300.

TITTER ON THE TEE A HUSBAND and wife are out playing golf . They tee off and one drive goes to the right and one to the left.

The wife finds her ball in a patch of buttercups. She grabs a club and takes a mighty swing at the ball. She hits a beautiful second shot, but in the process hacks the hell out of the buttercups.

Suddenly a woman appears out of nowhere. She blocks the wife’s path to her golf bag, looks at her, and says, "I'm Mother Nature and I don't like the way you treated my buttercups. From now on, you won't be able to stand the taste of butter. Each time you eat butter you will become physically ill to the point of total nausea."

The mystery woman then disappears as quickly as she appeared. Shaken, the wife calls out to her husband "Hey, where's your ball?"

"It's over here in the pussy willows." The wife screams back, "DON'T HIT THE BALL!!!! DON'T HIT THE BALL!!!

RULES IN QUESTION LAST week I listed some quirky rules, eight to be precise. Well, at the weekend one of our readers, Ron Chambers (yes, we have more than one) stopped me in Vistabella clubhouse and said how much he enjoys the Greenside Gossip and in particular the items about the odd rules.

So much so that he raised the question that’s been puzzling him.

Ron had heard that if your ball is lost in Ground Under Repair you still get a free drop and asked if this was a fact. Well Ron, it’s true - here is the answer and thanks for the question.

RULE 25-1 - ABNORMAL GROUND CONDITIONS (GUR) Such areas are normally temporary and circled in white or with blue stakes if more permanent

A. Interference Interference by an abnormal ground condition occurs when a ball lies in or touches the condition or when the condition interferes with the player’s stance or the area of his intended swing. If the player’s ball lies

on the putting green, interference also occurs if an abnormal ground condition on the putting green intervenes on his line of putt. Otherwise, intervention on the line of play is not, of itself, interference under this Rule.

B. Relief

Except when the ball is in a water hazard or a lateral water hazard, a player may take relief from interference by an abnormal ground condition as follows: (i) Through the Green: If the ball lies through the green, the player must lift the ball and drop it, without penalty, within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief. The nearest point of relief must not be in a hazard or on a putting green.

When the ball is dropped within one club-length of the nearest point of relief, the ball must first strike a part of the course at a spot that avoids interference by the condition and is not in a hazard and not on a putting green.

C. Ball in Abnormal Ground Condition Not Found It is a question of fact whether a ball that has not been found after having been struck toward an abnormal ground condition is in such a condition. In order to apply this Rule, it must be known or virtually certain that the ball is in the abnormal ground condition. In the absence of such knowledge or certainty, the player must proceed under Rule 27-1.

If it is known or virtually certain that a ball that has not been found is in an abnormal ground condition, the player may take relief under this Rule. If he elects to do so, the spot where the ball last crossed the outermost limits of the abnormal ground condition must be determined and, for the purpose of applying this Rule, the ball is deemed to lie at this spot and the player must proceed as follows: (i) Through the Green: If the ball last crossed the outermost limits of the abnormal ground condition at a spot through the green, the player may substitute another ball, without penalty, and take relief as prescribed in Rule 25-1b(i).

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Friday, October 26, 2012

SAINTS AND WINNERS HAVE you had all sorts of ‘fun’ over the years following your team? Probably my most memorable time was in 1979 when my Nottingham Forest reached the final of the League Cup against Southampton. I was living in Swindon at the time and, as I hadn’t got a ticket, resigned myself to having to watch the game on TV. On the Friday evening my in-laws phoned from their pub in Bristol. A regular had two tickets and did I want them? Is the Pope Catholic? Next morning I was heading down the M4 to pick up the tickets – away from Wembley, but I sped back, picking up Brian, my co-football nut neighbour, en route to accompany me.

We hit Uxbridge about 2pm, and tubed it to Wembley by 2.30, running up Wembley Way as the singing intensified. We hurried round to our gate - shock, horror!

Yes, we were slap-bang in the middle of the Southampton end…

I’ve never been able to hide my feelings where and when my team is playing. It was quickly and fairly happily received – at that stage that I was a Forest fan. Brian was actually a Bristol City supporter (hey, no-one’s

The trials and tribulations of following your team…

Wembley 1979...our Mac found himself in with the Saints fans

perfect) but a Forest fan with me that day. This was the final when the ever-unorthodox Brian Clough decided to ‘relax’ his lads the evening before by making them all have a drink. Afterwards it was said some were still hungover at the start - and initially they played like it.

Unsurprisingly, we went a

goal down on the quarter hour; cue much ribbing me with such comments as: ‘C’mon then, support your team!’ to which bait I easily rose, joining in with the loud masses from the other end (where I fervently wished I was) at the top of my voice.

Cue South Coast amusement all round. I had smug-

SUPER SAINTS GO MARCHING ON C.F Sporting de San Fulgencio 4 Crevillente Deportivo ‘B’ 1 A COMPREHENSIVE win against the division’s bottom side ensured the Saints remain at the summit of the league after six games, reports JORDAN LUCAS. After Crevillente had wasted a golden opportunity to take the lead, San Fulgencio went ahead just after the 20-minute mark.

Fernando, unmarked at the far post, tucked the chance away neatly after the ball found its way through a heap of bodies.

The home side continued to dominate and when Jose Bonmati picked out Gary Williams with a delightful cross, the midfielder only had to touch the ball into the empty net.

Aaron Lopez came close to making it 3-0 before a Crevillente header grazed the wrong side of the post. But before the hour, Williams made amends for missing a giltedged chance when, moments later, he tapped in from Hector Silva’s

clever cross.

Then Marco Aurelio got on the scoresheet to make it 4-0, turning in Giacomo Marcello’s driven cross after the big man had shaken off a couple of robust challenges.

The visitors did eventually get their consolation goal after some poor San Fulgencio defending.

Tomorrow (Saturday), San Fulgencio are away to Hondon Nieves. Thank you to Telecom 900 and the rest of our sponsors!

Tough start for Orihuela

ITV Orihuela RFC face a daunting opening to the new league season tomorrow (Saturday) – a home clash with last season’s champions Murcia XV. The game kicks off at 5pm..

The rugby bar at The Steakhouse in

Rojales will be showing a full weekend of live rugby – so why not come along and join the Costa Blanca Rugby Supporters Club as well?

Further information from Garry on 692 767 242.

gled a half-bottle of whisky in, and generously passed it round that nice group of lads round me.

We were all getting on well, and it stayed 1 – 0 at half-time.

Six minutes into the second half Garry Birtles equalised. I passed the scotch round again and we all took another swig as the tension rose: then our great Garry scored again to put us 2 – 1 up.

Suddenly it went quite quiet around us – well, it did until I loudly challenged those around me, a tad mockingly I admit,

‘Come on, support your team!’

Brian told me later that my ecstatic performance was being ominously noted all around. Oblivious, I was on cloud nine, so when four minutes later Tony Woodcock made it 3 - 1, Brian grabbed my arm in a vice-like grip before I could further celebrate, ‘C’mon John, we’re going.

Now!’ he insisted. ‘I wanna get out of here alive’.

Protesting that I wanted to see Forest get the cup, reluctantly I saw sense and we beat a hasty but sensible retreat. As we sped off again

down Wembley way, a massive cheer went up. Saints had pulled one back - and it was with some relief I found the final score was 3 – 2.

I have been to Wembley five times with Forest - three wins, against Southampton, Everton and Luton, and two defeats, Wolves in the same League Cup the year after Southampton, and finally the infamous FA Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur in 1991. You know, the ‘Gazza’ final – don’t get me started on that one! But hey, it’s all part and parcel of being a ‘real’ supporter, isn’t it?

CLOUD NINE!

Torry hang on for victory after double sending off TORREVIEJA travel to Gandia on Sunday, sitting just one point outside the play off places in the league table.

They journey there knowing that a win will likely propel Torry back into those coveted top four slots, but do so without their two star players - Ernesto and Koeman.

Both received two cautions in the hardfought 2-1 win over Castellon, leaving their nine teammates to battle out the last seven minutes to retain the lead and all three points.

Koeman worked nonstop from start to finish, scoring in the second minute and running fully 60 yards to chase his own penalty box clearance, before tripping an opponent and earning an unjust second caution and sending off.

Gasch got the winner and is now looking a solid acquisition.

Contrary to his dynamic colleague, Ernesto played only 12 minutes, having entered as a substitute on 67 minutes and

waving adios on 79 after accumulating two quick yellow cards. Through gritted teeth Torry's remaining heroes hung on grimly, when Castellon were worthy of at least a share of the spoils.

On to Gandia and then a Fiesta day of crackerjack football against the current league leaders, Utiel, on Thursday 1 November with a 5pm kick off.

This could see Torry resume a serious challenge for the championship, provided they can return from Gandia with at least a draw.

All Torry and non Torry fans can get in the mood for the game by enjoying the club's Halloween Variety Show at the Municiap theatre the night before.

It kicks off at 8.30pm featuring Shanni, Bene, Tom & Kara Lumley plus a thrilling Halloween performance from Footwork Dance. Tickets are €5 and can be bought from the municipal box office.

Rafal CF 0 CD Montesinos 0

that it was a point gained, although the team and management know they need to improve rapidly.

To keep in touch with CD Montesinos and The Full Monte supporters club, please visit www.cdmontesinos.com or email thefullmonte2011@hotmail.com.

On Sunday (October 28), CD Montesinos are at home to second placed Grupo Caliché FC. Kick-off is at 4.15pm

NOT QUITE A VICTOR

CD Montesinos gained a point from a game where neither side created enough chances to merit victory.

Most of the danger came from Montesinos, with the best chances falling to Victor. With a little more luck on his side, the ex-Torrevieja man could have scored at least twice.

The best thing about this encounter was

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Friday, October 26, 2012

JUST CAPITAL! GARY CAHILL: Blinding volley

It’s all a Mata of class – Chelsea are number Juan ROBERTO Di Matteo’s main man Mata merited Man of the Match.

Mmm...

Euro Champions Chelsea gave Gareth Bale-less Spurs a lesson in finishing to win 4-2 at White Hart Lane after a rip-roaring match that had everything. Gary Cahill’s blinding volley gave brought-back Brad Friedel in Tottenham’ s goal no chance, and Chelsea were in control at half-time. But Aaron Lennon imagined a comeback, began to find space - and Spurs were level two minutes into the second half. The little winger put Jermain Defoe through to give Spurs a 2-1 lead, but Tottenham triumph tottered as two Juan Mata goals put Chelsea back in the lead. And the Spaniard picked Kyle Walker’s pocket to enable sub Daniel Sturridge to wrap it all up two minutes from time. Oh, there was and one more (good) thing: There was a bald ref called Mike Dean Whose eye was especially keen, Ivanovich dived It looked so contrived Deano booked him – for what he had seen!

It’s not often these days Manchester is ‘yer second city’ in footballing terms, but City and United are currently fighting it out for second place, both four points

John McGregor reports

adrift of Chelsea. City’s ethos up front is dead simple, isn’t it? Perm any two world-class strikers from Mario Balotelli, Carlos Tevez, Edin Dzeko or Sergio Aguero: after a bit, if it’s not working – and it usually isn’t these days with Barmy Balo bu****ing about, so you ring the changes. It never fails, but plays havoc with your blood pressure…

This time ten-man City left it very late, as usual, to avenge West Brom’s earlier strike, and could – should(?) - have lost it as the Baggies threw everything at them. However, it was Dzeko’s deadly double direct from the subs bench that swung it for City. But that Mario…

Manchester United also came from behind after Stoke scored early at Old Trafford . Well, Wayne Rooney did actually - in his own net - before making amends. United’s hero scored two and generally made himself a nuisance as United overwhelmed the Potters 4 -2. Now for the big one as the Red Devils visit Stamford Bridge – that’ll certainly sort out the men from the boys!

Arsenal had an off-day as Grant Holt-led Norwich sorted ‘em out. His regular early goal was enough (this time) to double the Canaries points to six, their first win lifting them to a welcome 15th place. Delia Smith looked chuffed for once, but now comes a visit to Villa this weekend. See old friends, eh Dee? Samsammers are on the rise again, but does it count against the Saints? Southampton sank to a 4 -1 thump-

ing, that’s 24 (ouch!) conceded in just eight games.

Ne’er mind, Nige, ‘sonly Spurs next week, they couldn’t even beat Chelsea! Reading lost 1 - 0 to a Sterling effort to lift Liverpool to mid-table respectability, but leaves the Royals still winless and joint bottom with QPR - who managed a respectable draw with fourthplaced Everton. Hey, youse – Merseyside derby at Goodison Park next week…

I told you The Championship was gonna be a cracker! Forest followed up last week’s win over bottomplaced Peterborough by beating top-of-the-table Cardiff 3 – 1, doing nasty neighbours Leicester a favour, their draw with Birmingham enough to take The Foxes top on goal difference.

The top two moved three points clear after Tuesday’s games, Leicester pipping fellow contenders Brighton 1-0 and Cardiff coming from behind to chalk up a record sixth successive home win with an injury time goal against Watford. Mind you, the Hornets were down to nine men by that stage.

In Spain Barcelona go marching on unbeaten at the top, but Real Madrid have also got their act together after a dodgy start. In the second division, Elche’s unbeaten run came to an end at neighbours Murcia, courtesy of a penalty in the 84th minute. The Illicitanos are still top by five points, since Villarreal and Almeria both lost too. Oh, and Alicante’s Hercules have sacked their manager Juan Mandia after a bad start. Esta la vida!