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What weird weather we’re having! There’s snow on the mountains and it’s been pretty cold but then today the wind must have changed direction and it has been pretty warm (23 degrees according to the temperature guages in town) again. So, what to wear? Of course, last weekend I swopped summer clothes for winter ones in my wardrobe and now I’m baking - typical! We’ve also had downpours. At least my roof hasn’t leaked this time but how anything is meant to keep out that amount of water, and let’s face it, it’s practically been monsoon volume a couple of times, is beyond me. Once again the roadway into la carreta by the garden centre is abysmal with potholes the size of wheelie bins and I’ve now got a problem with yet another tyre. There’s no way of avoiding them either. If you manage to miss them with one wheel, the one on the other side of the car goes down another. The big problem is that when la Trocha was built the drainage from there wasn’t given a tube under the road to run away the water, so all it does is come onto our road and wash it away every time. I have no idea who owns the field just up the road from there but every time it rains it turns into a swamp. The council comes along once in a while and lumps another bit of tarmac in the holes but they need to deal with the cause of the problem, not its consequences.
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US ambassador’s “insights” now in public domain According to the cables leaked by WikiLeaks, before leaving his post in 2008, US Ambassador Eduardo Agirre sent some “departing insights” to Washington about Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and some of his Cabinet members. Public Works Minister José Blanco, Mr Aguirre said, “leaves a bad taste in the mouth of some past US interlocutors, whom he strikes as particularly untrustworthy...” Thenforeign minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos is described as "egotistical". According to another leaked cable Sr Moratinos had accused the US of treating Spain like a “fifthrate power”. Defence minister Carme Chacón was"politically immature" and then-deputy prime minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, had an "icy personality," and
brought a "sterile, surgical approach to her work." Fernández de la Vega and Moratinos were dropped from the cabinet during a government reshuffle in September. In Mr Aguirre's list of politicians, high praise was reserved for interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, who took over as deputy prime minister after Fernández de la Vega was removed. But the highest praise goes to King Juan Carlos, whom the ambassador called a "formidable ally" : "Juan Carlos is well-disposed to the US but he will always act in what he perceives to
be the best interests of Spain.” He advised the incoming ambassador: “...the king will try to charm interlocutors and will bring down the level of formality and protocol... It is best to stay at the king's level of banter and not be cowed by his aura. If you push back with joviality at any verbal jousting, you will win his respect." As for Sr Zapatero, he “is a wily politician with an uncanny ability - like a cat in a jungle - to sense opportunity or danger. It is dangerous to underestimate him, as many former rivals have found out too late."
Zapatero 'stopped' RollsRoyce contract Mr Aguirre was also convinced that Rolls-Royce lost out on a key contract with the Spanish military following lobbying of Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero by Washington. He said evidence suggested that the ministry of defence had decided to award the contract to Rolls-Royce but Mr Aguirre told Zapatero that chief executives of leading US firms might stop bidding for Spanish contracts due to "a growing perception" that the Spanish government was "not welcoming" US bids.
Zapatero told the ambassador "to let him know if there was something important to the US government and he would take care of it". Subsequently, the US government agreed "to advocate on behalf of GE" in the bid against RollsRoyce. The leaked cables suggested that when the ambassador told Zapatero that GE had said "failure to win the contract would cause that branch of GE to cease operations in Spain", the PM duly stepped in. The contract awarded in 2007 is estimated to have been worth £200m.
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Aftermath of air controllers' strike Industry minister Miguel Sebastian said on Tuesday that it was “premature and precipitous” to give the losses suffered by the tourist sector as a result of the air controllers' strike and repeated Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba's confirmation that strikes would not be repeated during Christmas or afterwards. Sr Rubalcaba had said “never again” when he announced the state of alarm on Saturday and sent the military and the Guardia Civil into the control towers. Until the state of alarm is lifted, military law applies and the air controllers could be tried for sedition if they stage another wild-cat strike. The government is taking a hard-nosed approach to dealing with the strikers, who went “sick”. The air traffic controllers want their workload decreased and a
majority of them earn up to €250,000 annually before bonuses - the highest paid in Europe - in a country where unemployment is running at 20 per cent and average salaries are from €800 to €1,500 a month. Estimates of the losses caused by the strike run as high as €500,000 for the tourist industry and the airlines. But industry minister Miguel Sebastian said on Tuesday that it was “premature and precipitous”
to give the losses suffered by the tourist sector as a result of the air controllers' strike and repeated Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba's affirmation that “it will not be repeated during Christmas or afterwards”.
they can prove they were forced to take strike action by their union leaders. Public Works minister José Blanco said more than 400 air controllers were under investigation and “obviously some of them will end up on the street”.
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Guardia Civil denounces government Three Guardia Civil wearing ski masks and the force’s distinctive threecornered hat called a press conference last week to denounce the “repression” and “savage persecution” which the government has unleashed against them in reprisal for their participation in demonstrations against the Interior Ministry. The
men said that 100 disciplinary proceedings had been opened against members of the Association of Guardia Civil Unions so far this year, ten of them in the past three weeks. They said the 150 union members had been subjected to 150 similar proceedings in 2008 and
Protester comes down from crane 2009, out of all proportion with disciplinary proceedings against members of the Unified Police Union (SUP), of whom only 15 had been disciplined in the past five
years. A union spokesman, who refused to give his name, said the Guardia had been protesting because they work 166 hours a
month and earn less than the police, who work only 144 hours, and “the government wants us to keep quiet about it”.
Artworks heist revealed Police revealed last Thursday that 28 works of art, including one by Picasso, had been stolen the previous Saturday from a warehouse in an industrial zone near Madrid.
Spain has high child poverty rate Spain has the second highest child poverty rate after Portugal of the 21 countries that belong to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Italy has the third highest rate, followed by the United Kingdom, Poland, Ireland and Luxembourg. Finland, Sweden and Holland have the lowest child poverty rates. The report was drawn up by the Innocenti
Research Centre in Florence, which has been following child poverty in the world’s richest nations for UNICEF for the past nine years. The child poverty rate is based on a family’s savings, its future economic prospects, the type of housing and district in which the family lives and the parents’ level of education, among other factors.
They said three masked men had broken into the warehouse in Getafe and took a lorry containing the works, worth about €5 million, which had just been returned from being exhibited in Germany. They revealed the theft after finding the lorry empty. The works belonged to galleries in Madrid,
Barcelona and the German city of Cologne. Among the missing paintings, lithographs and sculptures are works by Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Picasso, Antonio Saura and Colombian artist Fernando Botero. The director of the Juan Gris gallery in Madrid, which lost a Chillida sculpture
and collage in the theft, said that many of the works were uninsured. Getafe councillor Sara Hernandez told reporters that she believed that the theft was an inside job. She said the thieves had known when the lorry arrived, where it was and when it would leave to distribute art to other cities and galleries.
Eighty members pay €130 a month to be able to smoke marijuana legally in Madrid's “Private Cannabis Club”, located in what used to be a restaurant on the Paracuellos de Jarama highway. The members' ages range from 20 to 65 and they all suffer from
cancer or other serious illnesses. They either bring their own supply or buy a gram of cannabis for €6 at the bar. Members are not allowed to smoke more than 50 grams a week. “We don't sell the drug here, we have a pooled supply and simply share it out,” said
Pedro Alvaro Zamora, one of the club's founders. To join the club, you have to be older than 18 and sponsored by a member. The Madrid authorities tolerate the use of cannabis in private homes but its cultivation, public sale and consumption is illegal. The
A 30-year-old National policeman, identified only as Angel, last Friday saved a man who had fallen on the tracks at the Puerta del Angel metro station in Madrid. platform. With the sound of an incoming train in his ears, Angel jumped down and managed to lift the man onto the other set of tracks before lifting him back onto the platform.
Doney Ramirez has finally come down from his crane – nine months after starting a “sit-on” protest to try to get the company he worked for to pay him the €150,000 it owed him. There were three original protesters on the crane stationed on a site where a new tunnel is being built in the centre of Pozuelo de Alarcon, on the outskirts of Madrid, but the others gave up months ago for family reasons. Doney continued living in the tent with the “home comforts” the men had taken up the crane but he threw in the towel last week. The company still hasn't paid up, but Doney said it was getting too cold and he could no longer stand the wind and the solitude. Mayor Gonzalo Aguado welcomed the news, saying he had been getting worried about any harm coming to Doney up the crane. He said he had written to the Madrid regional authorities urging them to do something about the problem. Doney said one local councillor who visited him had joked that the day the tunnel opened, “you'll still be sitting up that crane”.
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hospital. Regional premier Esperanza Aguirre called Angel the next day to tell him she had awarded him the Madrid Community’s Civil Merit Medal. The director general of the
Police and Guardia Civil, Francisco Javier Velazquez, also called Angel to congratulate him. Angel later told reporters that he had acted without thinking of the danger involved.
club organises forums and talks about cannabis and supports its legalisation. “If you can go to a bar and have a drink, which is known to be harmful, why can't you have a 'porro' (joint) as well,” Zamora said.
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Al-Qaeda support group smashed Six Pakistanis and a Nigerian man were arrested in raids in and around Barcelona last week on suspicion of having links to a Pakistani militant group blamed for the three-day assault by gunmen in Mumbai in 2008 in which 166 people died. A National Police spokesman said the men were suspected of sending money and forged documents to Lashkar-eToiba (LeT), a group connected to al-Qaeda. They said they stole passports from tourists and changed the data and photographs. Three others - two Pakistanis and a Thai national - were held in Thailand as part of the
same operation. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the arrests were part of an international operation, and that the head of the organisation - a Pakistani national living in Thailand - had been detained. The ministry said the man had directed the cells based in Europe, decided the features of the passports to obtain and, once they were received in Bangkok, supplied them to
different terrorist groups. He said the operation neutralised an important cell providing passports to al-Qaeda.
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Woman shocked by traffic fine A woman has received a fine of €140 from Trafico for speeding on February 18th this year. It was addressed to her husband – who died 21 years ago. When the family informed Trafico of this, she was told the company that owns the car named her husband as the driver. The police have told the woman that it is a problem between her and the company, even though it is obvious that the company used the dead man’s name fraudulently. MADRID
Upper House delays anti-smoking bill The Partido Popular obtained backing in the Upper House last week for its proposal that the stricter anti-smoking law, due to come into effect on January 1st, should be delayed until July and that bar and restaurant owners should be allowed to provide cubicles for smokers which do not take up more than 30% of the premises. The bill now goes back to Parliament where the government can rely on several smaller parties to obtain a majority to get it passed. MADRID
Population growth slows As of January 1st this year 47,021,031 were registered on the padron – a rise of 0.6% over the previous year. Of the country’s 17 regions, ten registered population drops of 1% (Teruel) or less, with Castilla-Leon and Asturias registering the lowest drops of 0.2% and 0.1% respectively. Andalucia has the biggest population (8,370,975), followed by Catalonia (7,512,381) and Madrid (6,458,684). The three least populated are Navarra (636,924), Cantabria (592,250) and La Rioja (322,415). Population figures are based on the municipal empadronamiento.
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EU ministers condemn Cantona plan French ex-footballer Eric Cantona called on people on Tuesday to punish banks by emptying their accounts in a "revolution" against a "corrupt, criminal" banking system. He is said to have at least 38,000 supporters in France and elsewhere. Cantona, an icon from his days at Manchester United, said in a video posted online: "The three
million people in the street, they go to the bank, withdraw their money, and the banks collapse. That's a real threat, there's a real revolution." His appeal has spread through Facebook and YouTube.
Luxembourg's prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the Eurogroup of finance ministers, said in response: "I have various feelings towards the financial sector but I find
the operation you are referring to totally irresponsible." French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde remarked that citizens "do not have the savings Cantona has".
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Landslide buries dozens in Colombia Rescuers have recovered 24 bodies following a landslide in La Gabriela district of Bello near the city of Medellin, but more than 100 people are still missing and feared dead after a hillside collapsed on Sunday following the heaviest rains in the country for decades. Local residents initially used their bare hands to dig into tonnes of mud that engulfed some 30 houses. Many of the bodies being pulled from the mud were those of children who were playing in the streets when the landslide hit. Seven people have been saved so far. The mayor of Bello, Oscar Andres Perez, said the hill had become
increasingly saturated with water over the past few days and that there had been a "high risk of landslides". Mr Perez said the authorities had warned residents of the danger. More than 20 sniffer dogs have also been brought in by Red Cross rescue workers, soldiers and police, who are searching through the
deep mud for survivors. Red Cross officials say that 174 people have died as a result of the heavy rains in Colombia, 225 have been injured and 19 are missing, without counting the victims of the Bello landslide. Tens of thousands have been left homeless after most major rivers have burst their banks as a result of the heavy rain.
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The US deputy assistant secretary of state, Joseph Yun, is visiting Burma to assess prospects for change following the country's widely criticised election earlier this month and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. It is the first US visit to Burma since the November 7th election and analysts say the West's sanctions against Burma may be reviewed following the release of the prodemocracy leader, who was freed from house arrest last month.She has said she would listen to the people's views before recommending any change to sanctions. Mr Yun is expected to meet her. The election - the first to be held in Burma in 20 years - was won by the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). Aung San Suu Kyi’s now-disbanded National League for Democracy (NLD) won the last election in 1990 but was never allowed to take power.
Olli Rehn, the EU's powerful economic affairs commissioner and himself a former director of a Finnish first division club and a Man United fan, said: "I think Mr Cantona is a better footballer than he is an economist."
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Egypt's tourism ministry has called in experts to investigate shark attacks off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where a 70-yearold German woman was killed and four other tourists injured. The environment ministry caught and killed two sharks - an Oceanic White Tip and a Mako, but they were not involved in the attacks. Shark experts and said overfishing may have driven sharks closer to shore. Others said sharks could have been attracted after a ship carrying animals for sacrifice at last month's Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha dumped the carcasses of animals which had died during the voyage.
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Crane raises protest to new heights A small crane covered in protest placards was moved into position outside the entrance of the Irish parliament buildings in Dublin just a few hours before the austerity budget was announced on Tuesday. Irish police removed a number of slogans about the Anglo Irish Bank, the government and ministerial pensions from the crane. Undeterred, a man in the cage at the top of the crane began playing music through loud speakers and threw a number of tennis balls to the ground below. IvoRy CoAST
UN evacuates non-essential staff The UN began moving non-essential staff out of Ivory Coast on Tuesday, following the state's disputed presidential election. A spokesman said some 460 staff would continue to carry out their duties from the Gambia. Earlier, Botswana's President Khama Ian Khama has urged African heads of state to strongly condemn what was happening in the country. He told reporters that President Laurent Gbagbo should step down, because it was obvious that a majority of people had voted for his rival, Alassane ouattara. UNITED STATES
Cons to make own toilet paper Prisoners in the state of Iowa could soon be making their own toilet paper if plans to save taxpayers money go ahead. State prisons would buy one-tonne rolls of paper from a mill, then process it into single rolls. Prison official Al Reiter told reporters the toilet paper was "not nice and fluffy", but acceptable. He said the plan could save up to $100,000 a year. Iowa prisoners already make and sell everything from furniture and clothing to carved wooden toys.
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China and 18 other countries have told the Norwegian Nobel Committee they will not attend Friday's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. In a statement, the Committee said the envoys of Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Serbia, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, the Philippines, Egypt, Sudan, Ukraine, Cuba and Morocco would miss the event "for various reasons". A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman had said earlier that a "vast
majority" of the world community would stay away from the ceremony. He said: "We are against anybody making an issue out of Liu Xiaobo and interfering in China's judicial affairs, and we will not change because of interference by a few clowns." He added: "Those at the Nobel Committee are orchestrating an anti-China fuss by themselves.” The
Committee describes Mr Liu as "the foremost symbol" of the human rights struggle in China. Mr Liu, 54, was a key leader in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Last year he received an 11-year sentence for "inciting subversion" after drafting Charter 08, which called for multi-party democracy and respect for human rights in China.
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Ho Ho no mistletoe Supplies of traditional English mistletoe could be a thing of the past according to the National Trust unless something is done to protect the apple orchards where it grows. Some 60% of old cider orchards in Somerset, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire have disappeared since the 1950s and by as much as 90% in Devon and Kent. The market town of Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire holds an annual Mistletoe Festival led by druids, one of whom told the BBC:“It’s magic. It’s just amazing stuff. It’s got this lovely energy about it.” Trust ecologist Peter Brash said: “Mistletoe is part of our English heritage and
part of our wonderful winter landscape. It would be a great pity if it disappeared altogether from its heartland.” Mistletoe favours the English apple tree but can also be found growing through hawthorn trees, poplar and lime. If left unmanaged the plant would eventually swamp the tree it was living on and kill it. Regular cropping would ensure that the host tree remained productive while ensuring a healthy population of mistletoe. Agriculture minister Jonathan Briggs said: “By buying English mistletoe at Christmas you are continuing a tradition that helps apple trees to flourish.”
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e best lock-in on the planet A couple from Sheffield had been staying at the Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge, Kirbymoorside in Yorkshire when the bad weather hit the UK. The couple, along with the pub’s owners and staff, have been trapped in the building surrounded by snow drifts up to sixteen feet deep for nine days (at time of going to press on Tuesday) and there’s no sign of any rescue attempts being made yet. Waitress Katie Underwood, aged 18, said: “The novelty is definitely beginning to wear off now.” The pub however is well stocked and the bar, which normally caters to up to
150 people, has only had to deal with the Sheffield couple, the two owners, a couple of chefs and two bar staff. Young Katie added yesterday: “The boys that are here have been skiing on trays down the massive slopes. Now they're all out trying to dig their cars out of the deep snow. It's been absolutely freezing, but we've been lucky that it's a pub and B&B that we're trapped in. "We've got plenty of coal for our fire which has been great, and there's rooms upstairs so we have somewhere to sleep, and plenty of food."
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Stranded! A series of accidents together with heavy snow falls and drifting snow meant that hundreds of people had to spend Monday night in their cars having already spent some 10 hours trying to get off the M8 motorway in the Livingston area of Scotland. Both the M8 and M80 motorways that run between Edinburgh and Glasgow were affected and drivers complained that the police seemed to be doing nothing to help and were, in fact, blocking the exit roads for people trying to leave and find another route. Those that could get off the motorways found local hotels fully booked and petrol stations running out
of fuel. A fall of between 10 and 14cms of snow had overtaken the resources of local authorities to clear it quickly enough with gritting lorries unable to get through the gridlocked traffic. Inspector Stewart Carle of Strathclyde police said that they were trying to clear the villages nearest the M8 and M80 so that they could allow people to leave the motorway and have somewhere to go. By Tuesday morning some traffic was moving.
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Shark! A British tourist said she saw the sea turn red when swimming near a holidaymaker in Sharm ElSheik, the Egyptian resort. Joanna Farr told how she heard their guide shouting “Shark!, Shark!” and Ellen Barnes said that she had to scrabble across coral to get away while the shark attacked a German tourist who died in the attack. The seas have been closed to swimmers for 72 hours while marine biologists try to figure out if the five attacks in the last week have been carried out by one lone shark, or by several. The region’s economy relies on tourism and the attacks are expected to have an effect.
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Sally Ann The Salvation Army, affectionately known as the Sally Ann, has announced that it has recruited more volunteers this year than any other to help pack the Christmas food parcels handed out by it every Christmas. Requests for help in the Reading, Berkshire area alone are up by 25% on last year and this is the case across most of the country, says the organisation. The boxes contain a variety of tinned and dry food goods plus some small toys for children who would otherwise have to go without. UK NEWS
Commuters A survey has revealed that 7% of British commuters intend to try and find new ways to travel to work in light of the huge rise in train fares expected to come into force next year. UK NEWS
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Prison scandal A man serving four years for burglary has blown the whistle on the lack of security within the country’s jails. The prisoner, Michael Long, who is serving his sentence at Bullingdon Prison in Oxford, recorded pictures of himself and other inmates going from their cells to the gym, passing through three security checks where noone stopped him while he was hauling a container full of drugs up through his cell window after it had been thrown over the prison walls with streamers attached to make it easy to retrieve. Long said that prisoners were paying up to £500 to corrupt prison warders in exchange for mobile phones. The phones were used not used just to keep in touch with families but to organise drug deals and control gangs from the inside. New sensitive scanners are to be introduced to detect such items being smuggled into prison by visitors and plans are being put in place to introduce ‘signal denial’ technology in the near future.
Port Authorities in Italy last night said that they had found the wreckage of a hot air balloon and two bodies nearby and have confirmed that they are those of a couple from Bristol who disappeared in September. UK NEWS
Turner award This year’s Turner Prize has been won by Glasgow born but Berlin based artist Susan Phillips. Ms Phillips works not in the more familiar mediums of oils, watercolour or sculpture but says she “sculpts with sound.” She records her own voice singing, chanting or speaking, then plays it back to the general public. Some artists have been complaining because all the candidates nominated for this year’s prize were in their 40s which, they say, means they could not represent anything innovative or new in art! UK NEWS
Macbeth A new contemporary version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is to be aired on BBC4 on Sunday night at 7pm UK time. Shakespearean actor Sir Patrick Stewart (also known as Star Trek’s Jean Luc Picard) has descibed it as “almost a horror movie” with its graphically bloody scenes. He goes on to say that the scene is set between the two World Wars with a hint of Stalin’s Russia UK NEWS
Interest rates A big hoo-hah is erupting over interest rates charged by banks and credit card companies to customers. Some are charging as much as 19% whilst savers are getting a measly 0.5% if they are lucky. Once again, the banks are under fire for their huge bonuses given to top staff despite being bailed out with public money only last year. Customers are demanding to know why the banks are charging borrowers so much while giving out so little to investors while feathering their own nests each year without a thought to the people that are keeping them in their jobs.
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Gone but not forgotten Some of the people who took their pets to the Torremolinos Animal Park thinking they would re-homed, not put to sleep, have created a group on Facebook called “Justicia para los animales del Parque Animal”. The group was initially created to share their experiences and they also hope it will eventually lead to a private law suit against the owners and management of the “refuge”. One woman told a local newspaper she had had to let her house and move back in with her mother for economic reasons but
couldn't have her six-yearold Spaniel with her. She took him to the Torremolinos centre at the end of February and was assured every effort would be made to find him a new home. She later learned from the Guardia Civil's Seprona group who were investigating the centre that the dog had been put down a few days later.
Another woman took a stray cat to the centre but later decided she could keep it. When she went back the next day to collect the cat, it had already been put to sleep. These are just two of dozens of similar cases which have spurred the group to seek some kind of posthumous justice for the
The president of the Spanish Confederation of Hotels (Cehat) told a meeting of the organisation in Malaga last week that the development of the tourist industry had come to the end of the cycle which hasdbeen in place since the 1960s and a change of attitude and tactics was now required. Juan Molas said smaller hotels and pensiones should merge to form
groups that would run the establishments as businesses and eliminate the “family-run” attitude that was predominant. He said this attitude was leading many families to pull out of the business, which was not necessary if they could disengage emotionally and merge with other hotel and pension owners to form small chains and groups.
animals. The director of the centre was arrested on November 11th and charged with putting 2,230 to sleep in a cruel and unnecessary manner. She was released on bail. To save money, the animals were not given the full fatal dose and died slowly and in pain. Juan Molas
Court clerks demand Sevilla on flooding alert shock action plan The Union of Justice Administration Workers has warned that the legal system will collapse completely if the authorities do not take immediate steps to clear up the backlog of cases in the courts. A spokesman said that nothing has been done since the law passed to deal with the backlog entered into force in May this year. He said all the
courts in Andalucia were also still using the forms and procedures which the law repealed. He said the data base used by the courts was still in a
state of utter disarray and that, as usual, it was the law clerks who were expected to clean up the mess.
One in four toys fail checks Spot checks of toys by the National Consumers Institute revealed that many did not meet the required safety standards. The checks were carried out in toy outlets across Andalucia, with special attention given to bazaars and 100-peseta stores that sell cheap toys. Of the 159
toys taken to the Institute for analysis, irregularities were detected in 40. The Junta de Andalucia's health councillor, María Jesús Montero, said that despite
the irregularities detected, which made the toys potentially dangerous for children, only 57complaints had been made by consumers so far this year.
As a result of continuous rainfall from Monday night on, the Genil river had flooded 30% of the historic centre of Ecija in Sevilla province, forcing the evacuation of the local hospital. Residents have
been advised to stay in the upper storeys of their houses. Mayor Juan Wic has called a state of alert after 107 litres of rain per square metre fell overnight. By mid-
Roca in the dock next Monday The man alleged to be the brains behind the Malaya corruption case in Marbella, former urban planning chief Juan Antonio Roca, will take the stand for the first time on Monday, December 13th,
to be questioned by prosecutors. He is accused of money laundering, accepting back handers and tax fraud. The prosecution is asking for a 30-year jail term for him, plus €810 million in fines.
afternoon Tuesday, there was no sign of a let-up. Some 50 members of the Military Emergencies Unit have been sent to the town to rescue people and vehicles.
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150,000 vehicles not insured Of the 1,044,361 vehicles registered in Malaga province at the end of last year, some 150,000 were not insured, according to figures from the Statistics Institute of Andalucia (IEA). Figures from the insurance companies show a drop of 8.5% in policies issued. The president of the European Drivers Association, Mario Arnaldo, said because of the economic crisis many two-car families used only one because they could not afford insurance and maintenance for both. He said they were not turning in the unused vehicles
because of the expense they believed this involved. However, he said people could hand in their old cars, with papers, to the nearest authorised centre without any cost. Sr Arnaldo pointed out that drivers caught without insurance faced fines of between €601 and
No economic growth next year Economic forecasts for the province are bleak. Unicaja’s economic analysts reported last week that the creation of jobs next year will not be able to keep pace with the growing number of unemployed or absorb school-leavers. Hard on the heels of this prediction came a warning by Malaga’s official College of Economists that economic forecasts for the province are too optimistic. The institution’s president, Juan Carlos Robles, said the people of Malaga and Andalucia in general would
be living with the crisis for some time to come. He likened the forecast that the economy will start improving next June to a patient in a coma who is stable but shows no sign of improvement. He said that in addition to arriving too late, the government’s labour reforms were “spasmodic and disorganised” and looked as if they had been adopted “at a breakfast between the cereal and toast courses”. Sr Robles predicted that there would be no real economic growth until 2012 at the earliest.
Half a million affected by dole cut The Workers Commissions general secretary in Andalucia, Francisco Carbonero, said that the elimination of the €426 subsidy for those who had used up all their dole contributions would affect 500,000 in Andalucia. He said this was in addition to the 378,000 unemployed
who did not qualify for dole. He said it was a disgrace that the measure had been introduced by a Socialist government. Carbonero also said the unions would not accept raising the retirement age to 67 and warned that it would lead to more general strikes.
€3,000 according to the type of vehicle. The vehicle can be seized and if the owner does not present insurance papers within two months the vehicle will be sent to the scrapyard. He also pointed out that owners could not ITV their cars without presenting proof that it was insured.
Tourist boards wrong cruise ship So much for the security at Malaga port, said the newspaper Malaga Hoy when reporting the case of the confused tourist who got on the wrong cruise ship on Sunday. Four cruise ships were docked in the port that day and the tourist, a lady who was not identified, managed to get past the security people and board the Louis Majesty, which set sail at 1 pm. Three hours later, the ship contacted the port authorities to request permission to anchor in the bay and to send a launch to collect the woman and return her to the ship she should have boarded, the Costa Concordia. There were nearly 9,000 tourists boarding the four ships and, the paper commented, it was surprising that not more of them ended up on the wrong vessel.
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Doñana needs ‘creativity and imagination’ Former Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, who chairs the Doñana Participation Council, called last week for creative and imaginative activities to make current efforts to improve the Natural Park sustainable. Addressing the Council’s last meeting in Almonte, Huelva province, Sr Gonzalez said natural spaces are being punished by the lack of funds stemming from the current economic crisis, which he
said could be a long one. He said the crisis affecting Spain and Europe will cause many things to change, but not the interest people around the world have in this unique
wetland. He said while funds may come in from international research bodies, environmental policies were going to stretch “our capacity for coming up with ideas based on creativity and
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Sr Gonzalez said he hoped the Council’s new webpage would not only inform people better but would serve as a new tool
At the meeting, the Council studied a Junta de Andalucia plan to add another 13,000 hectares to Doñana’s 108,000 hectares
This would be the third extension since the area was declared a National Park in 1969, when it only covered 34,625 hectares.
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Green Party to take Ronda road plan to EU The Green Party announced last week that it intends to take the fight against the planned Ronda-Marbella toll road to the European Parliament. Spokesman Manuel Ramirez said the petition had already been sent to the Spanish Greens EuroMP David Hammerstein. He said explosives would be used to open up the terrain for the road and one only had to look at the barren stonecovered sides of the road between Ronda and San Pedro de Alcantara to see the effect that would have. Sr Ramirez said the party was also concerned about studies being made both in Spain and Canada of the old asbestos mines in the area and the
More robberies in the campo possibility of renewed mining activity. He said this would not only be harmful for the
environment but that the asbestos particles would be dangerous for the health of all humans living in the area.
An Asaja spokesman that robberies have increased by 20%this year and are not confined to animals and produce. The thieves are now taking farm machinery, electricity cables for the copper and “anything else they can lay their hands on”. He said one farmer had actually killed a man just a week ago near Rute in Cordoba when he fired on a group of intruders on his finca.
Local TV stations too biased A recent meeting of the Association of Costa del Sol Municipalities illustrated how local television stations are being used for political propaganda purposes. While Fuengirola Mayor Esperanza Oña (Partido Popular) was speaking, the Fuengirola TV crew kept the camera on her, and turned it away when the Socialist mayor of Estepona, David Valadez, took the floor. Ironically, one of Sra Oña’s complaints was about TV stations being used
Agricultural associations like Asaja have been asking the authorities for more security for their crops and herds for years and this year is no exception.
for political purposes. So it is not without reason that the 15 municipalities that have TV channels are fighting to keep them going, even though all of them are heavily in debt. With local elections only six months away, the parties in power can’t afford to lose such a valuable propaganda weapon, even though the Junta de Andalucia recently asked them to eliminate political bias.
The dead man turned out to be a Moroccan. The spokesman said unscrupulous companies are buying farm machinery, animals and produce, knowing they have been stolen, and cited the case of a transformer which costs between €6,000 and €8,000 on the open market but
which sold for €400 on the black market recently. A Guardia Civil spokesman said most of the campo thieves are from Eastern Europe or North Africa but because of the crisis, an increasing number of Spaniards are involved. He said the gangs, often numbering up to 10, case the fincas during the day so that they can go in rapidly at night, grab what they want and run. Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba announced last week that the Guardia Civil has implemented a series of specific measures against robberies in the campo and said that the number of agents assigned to this specific area was being increased.
As part of the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of the Constitution of Cadiz, the Centro Reina Sofia in Cadiz and the Galeria GH 40 in nearby San Fernando have mounted a joint exhibition of newspapers, books, pamphlets, manuscripts and sketches from that period. The War of Independence – known as the Peninsular War to the British – is the predominant theme but the material also gives an idea of what life was like for the average man and woman in those days. Las Cortes (Parliament) moved to Cadiz when Napoleon’s forces took Madrid. Set on an isthmus, it was considered the safest place to be as the Spanish and British armies and navies fought the French up and down the country and round the coast line. It was here that the politicians produced the 1812 Constitution, one of the most liberal in Europe at that time, which only survived a few years. Ferdinand VII repealed it not long after he returned to the throne after the defeat of Napoleon. The material comes from the National, Provincial and Municipal Archives, the Museum of Romanticism, the Prado and the Library of the Royal Palace in Madrid. The exhibition is open until January 9th next year.
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Up in arms about poinsettias Response to an e-mail from Malaga City Council's Parks and Gardens department telling almost 2,000 council employees that they would not be getting a poinsettia (pascuero) to adorn their desks this Christmas because of austerity cuts almost collapsed the municipal
server last week. Some employees reacted jokingly: “Okay, we'll get by without the plant but you're still sending us the leg of ham, right.” Another said “what is a desk?”, while another asked “what is a pascuero?” Other council employees were simply
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amazed that the plants had been handed out at all. One member of Malaga's Philharmonic Orchestra pointed out that they had always bought their own poinsettia for their offices. Parks and Gardens councillor Teresa Porras said the e-mail should not
have been sent to all council employees: “It was supposed to go to the political parties and the people at City Hall, which has a big enough budget to buy their own, but for some reason everyone got one.” Those workers not on the restricted list got their poinsettia after all.
Archbishop slams pagan 'tele'
A plague of rats, centipedes and cockroaches closed down Trafico's headquarters in the city for one day last week. It was not the first time that the pest controllers had been called in, according to the staff's union spokesman, who said he'd been complaining about the situation for years. He said the building is “sick” and does not meet any of the requirements in the labour accident prevention laws: it suffers from shortage of space, poor lighting and ventilation and no emergency exits. MALAGA
Solar panel company turned around In just six months, new owners Affirma-TopTec has managed to bring back the Isofoton solar panel company from the brink of bankruptcy and double its production. The objective is to put it back in the top ten of similar companies where it once was. Manager Angel Luis Serrano said the company's expansion plans included opening factories in the US and Asia to meet rising demand there while the Malaga factory would continue to supply the demand in Spain and Europe.
The archbishop of Seville, Juan José Asenjo, last week advised the faithful in his pastoral GRANADA letter to “switch off the tele or not switch it on” so that they would not be “swamped Malaga jobless not the worst by pagan or anti-Christian messages that the media bombards us with”. One out of every five people on the dole live in the province, Unfortunately for the archbishop, some of the media still have copies of his pastoral letter dated November 25th, 2008, which is exactly the same as the one sent last week, except for the parables he
used. In 2008, the parable was the one about the wise virgins and the watchful servants. This year it was Noah and the Flood.Local media assume that the archbishop is cutting costs this year.
where unemployment figures passed the 180,000 mark in November for the first time since records began. More than half the 8,517 Andalucians who lost their jobs last month live in Malaga province. The services sector was the worst hit followed by construction and industry. In agriculture, the number of jobless dropped by 13. A Workers Commissions spokesman said the labour reforms would create more unemployment in the province.
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bviously the decision to call in the military was made by the cabinet, as Zapatero pointed out, but the teeth that were shown weren't his but Rubalcaba's. Having watched the Zapatero government taking the line of least resistance in any situation demanding a firm hand, it was exhilarating to see the air controllers crawl back to their posts like cowed dogs. They really over-estimated their clout this time. One young woman broke down as she told told a TV reporter how frightening it was to see the Guardia Civil march into the control tower – with guns drawn, she said – and order everyone back to work. I'm sure many Spaniards, like myself, roared with laughter, yelling “If Franco were alive he would have had you taken out and shot”. Of course, during the dictatorship nobody dared to go on strike because that is exactly what would have happened.
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ir traffic controllers – a spoilt group of around 2,300 – don’t want to see their wages cut but instead their workload decreased. They want to work 250 less hours per year for the same pay. After discovering that there had been abuse in the way these tower workers had been carrying out their shifts in the past, the government has been far from happy. Public Works officials found that many controllers were clocking in extra hours without authorised permission in exchange for generous remunerations per the terms of their soon-to-expire collective bargaining agreement. A majority of them have been earning up to €250,000 annually – the highest among their Europe counterparts. In July, they crippled the nation’s airspace when they held a “sick-out” in Barcelona in order to pressure the government to bow down to their terms before renegotiating their collective bargaining agreement. The Public Works Ministry and the USCA union sat down and, after long discussions, headed off what would have been a complete disaster in the nation’s air traffic at the height of summer.
oreigners – and even some Spaniards – who were watching the development of the air controllers on the telly over the weekend could be forgiven for thinking that Spain has a new prime minister called Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. Zapatero was conspicuous by his absence – his only appearance over the weekend was a brief clip on TV news showing him at an emergency Cabinet meeting. He finally surfaced on Monday in Parliament to attend the Constitution Day ceremonies – and found himself answering questions about why he had allowed Rubalcaba to deal with the crisis.
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n fact, Zapatero was only living up to the reputation given him by former US ambassador Eduardo Aguirre – “a wily politician with an uncanny ability - like a cat in a jungle - to sense opportunity or danger”. In the air controllers' crisis it was danger he sensed. He knew that because of his annoying habit of repeating almost every sentence he says, he wouldn't come across as firmly as Rubalcaba did. And if the situation worsened instead of improving then Rubalcaba would take the flak. So when journalists asked him why he had not been at the helm, he mumbled something about the Cabinet deciding on a line of communication and sticking to it.
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ut if Zapatero is as wily as ambassador Aguirre thinks he is, he had better start doing some serious thinking. El Mundo newspaper started off an article on Sunday - “With Zapatero in eclipse, the 'polyminister' (Rubalcaba) is taking over in Moncloa (the PM's official residence) and Ferraz (the name of the street where the Socialist Party has its HQ in Madrid).” Ambassador Aguirre told his bosses in Washington that Rubalcaba is tired of being in power and wants to retire from the limelight, but he's extremely loyal to Zapatero and will stay around as long as the PM needs him.
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ut with the polls showing that people see him as Zapatero's successor, and still glowing in the praise being heaped on him for his successful handling of the air controllers' strike (dealt with at length in Martin Delfin's column), perhaps he'll start getting more ambitious.
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he young Spaniard who works with us came into the office on Monday almost drunk with joy. He and his brother are the only people in his family who have jobs right now and to see this exclusive band of merry men holding a whole country to ransom because they refuse to accept a cut in pay – from around €350,000 a year with overtime to between €200,000 and €250,000 – brought to heel gave him enormous satisfaction. The vast majority of Spaniards take home between €800 and €1,500 a month so sorry, sweeties, don't expect any sympathy from us.
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hen I lived in Spain in the Sixties, I loved the wicked jokes about Franco and the Church that the Spaniards were always inventing. But since I came back to Spain I've been wondering where this wonderful sense of humour went to. A new book, called “When we laugh from fear” goes a long way to explaining this. Its author, historian Gabriel Cardona says Franco, who had absolutely no sense of humour, was the most joked about man in all of Spain's history. Humour was “an arm against the dictatorship, a form of resistance, an alternative to an opposition that was banned”. And Cardona should know what he's talking about. An ex-military man himself, he says he comes from very Catholic family with a long military tradition who were all Falangists during and after the Civil War, so who better to understand those times. The regime spawned a slew of satirical magazines, which poked fun so subtly that humourless Franco and his humourless men didn't realise what they were up to. They could understand plotters using dynamite and machine guns, but not humour. Today, the few “satirical” magazines that exist are just plain vulgar, reducing everything to the lowest common denominator – smutty sex. I must find out if Cardona's book gives a selection of those wonderfully savage jokes. I'd love to read them again.
he Socialist government, finally, showed some teeth not only to a group of unruly professionals but to the entire world. The unprecedented “state of alarm” invoked by the Zapatero administration was the best avenue taken to restore what little is left of this country’s global credibility, which is being chipped away by financial speculators, the opposition and now by privileged groups in Spain who don’t want their lifestyles altered. Spain’s international image was tarnished last Friday when about 300,000 passengers were left stranded across the nation after air traffic controllers held a wildcat strike. The chaos, which also disrupted air traffic across the continent, helped raised more questions among European leaders as to whether prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero really has a solid grip on power in this country.
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ut on Friday the controllers once again thought they were in control. While the Cabinet was meeting to approve the latest round of austerity measures – including the privatisation of the Madrid and Barcelona airports – the controllers began calling in sick. The covert walkout was being carried out as thousands of people were getting ready to depart for the long five-day Constitution holiday weekend. The 24hour tower tantrum caught the Cabinet, as well as the USCA union, by surprise. It enraged stranded Spaniards who saw their plans for their weekend get-away dissipate.
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he administration’s three toughest members – Deputy Prime Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Public Works Minister José Blanco and Defence Minister Carme Chacón – decided that there was only one way to deal with these
airy people. By invoking a never-used “state of alarm” clause in the Constitution, which would make striking controllers face sedition charges if they didn’t climb back up into the towers, the government regained the upper hand and restored sanity.
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hen the controllers union officials, who were all holed up in a hotel near Barajas International Airport, were contacted by the government late Friday, they all believed they were going to finally sit down and negotiate. But it wasn’t just any bureaucrat who was calling them – it was Constantino Méndez, the secretary of state for Defence. “I have come to inform you about your situation,” Méndez told the eight USCA representatives, according to an El País summary of the events. “Public Works isn’t in charge anymore. If this isn’t solved by the morning, the cabinet is going to sign a decree calling a state of alarm and the militarization of not only the airspace but of all of you.” Taken aback, the USCA officials still demanded to negotiate. “None of you understand. Public Works is no longer in charge. You are now dealing with the secretary of state for defence,” Méndez countered.
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o Spanish government had invoked such emergency powers since democracy was restored in 1975. After much haggling among the cabinet chiefs and legal advisers on whether this was the best route to take, Rubalcaba went on the air shortly after midday Saturday to announce that the “state of alarm” would be enacted. To pull teeth you need to show some teeth. By 4pm Saturday the controllers began returning to their towers and the situation began to normalise.
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he Zapatero government doesn’t want any more surprises, especially during the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s holidays, so he has announced that the state of alarm, which is limited by law to 15 days, may be extended. The closing off of airspace by the controllers is a serious crime; not only does it affect national but regional security as well. A total of 424 controllers are facing disciplinary charges, but whether they deservedly will be punished remains to be seen.
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Pat Bell Further to the recent letter published in your newspaper I felt I had to reply as I am one of the campo people who are also affected by the simultaneous notices asking for money for tubes and roads. I am quite concerned because I am not in a financial position to pay out all these monies and feel if we are important enoughfor the Powers-That-Be to merit our votes for the elections, having followed all the necessary rules, regulation and patronada registrations, then surely we should be acknowledged through the correct system of the 'town hall' within a reasonable time for discussion in English as to their intentions prior to demands for payment. I understand that coming to a different country we should try to learn the language, this takes time and when it comes to legalities, money being taken from our banks without our knowledge, changes of procedure all to do with further demands for money, learning the language isn't enough to also understand all the mysterious new bills that keep landing in our post box, without any notice. Whoever is sending these notices from the town hall
by email know we are English speaking by the names, they have all our personal and private information, yet we do not qualify for any prior explanation or information, either in Spanish or English, as to why the systems keep changing , before demanding yet more money. The latest thing is a 4 quarters demand (in one envelope) for payments for the year 2010 (two or three already having been paid in the last demands!!!) which now needs clarification, further visits to the town hall to clarify and be told, yet again, to pay and we MAY receive a refund, but previous experience has proved that we don't. We are constantly receiving demands for things we have already paid for in Spanish, and then take, on many occasions, abuse for not understanding when we attend the town hall, wait in the endless queues, only to be dismissed with the wag of a finger and telling us to get an interpreter, which, guess what, costs money again. I have heard rumours that all these demands are being made effectively to get money in prior to the election period, (whether this is true or not is yet to be established) but this is at a cost of peace of mind, despite having already
Arthur Webster The question was asked by Ed Naughton - "Which brain in Spain decided to waste €28,000 on stupid speed bumps?". I can tell him. It was probably someone who takes their life in their hands by walking on the streets of Coín. The criminal speed of motorists in Coín and the lunatic parking mean that pedestrians are more like cannon fodder than people. These new speed bumps are much less aggressive than the metal ones that were used before and, in my experience, make absolutely no difference at all to the velocity of the traffic. (In that respect, I suppose they were a waste of money.) Towing a trailer with two horses should imply a level of care to traffic velocity and to
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Despite the sterling efforts of the Coin Foreigners department - who must be run ragged with the amount of people experiencing these dilemmas - to give advice, it is clear that it depends on who you get at the town hall, and often proves noneffective.
I have received dozens of emails over the last few weeks asking what is the very bright ‘star’ that can be seen in the mornings.
Get out of your car and walk round Coín. Experience the terror of a car coming at you in excess of 50kph because you did not read the drivers mind and discover he was going to turn into your road and did not see the crossing you were using. Have the joy of watching mothers push their babies into the parh of traffic as they are forced off the pavements because a driver insisted on parking outside a shop. Enjoy seeing a car accelerate to ensure that you could not start to cross the road by closing the gap in a stream of traffic.
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Someone, with some clout, should be nominated to work in the town hall, without family connections and completely neutral, without holding out their hands for money, to help us or to petition to have the power to monitor what is fair and just PRIOR to the volume of paperwork demands for money with such short notice. If our money is good enough and we have complied with all the constantly changing rules, then we should be given a fair and reasonable amount of time and possibly a payment scheme because people just don’t have this money available. The town halls may be struggling but so are we.It is not a one way street.
Coin say that these speed bumps are a menace to negotiate begs the question "Just how bloody fast are you travelling?". I have not seen a new speed bump that is not on a straight section of road.
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paid bills, and there is no honest body of persons to guide us or help when there are no monies left in the pot to pay.
Best of all, try walking in a one way street, believing that the traffic will only travel one way. ("But officer, I was only going one way!"). These speed bumps are necessary to try to curb delinquent drivers. 20kph and 30 kph - do these figures mean anything?Oh, yes. The dangerous bend. Spending €28,000 will not stop the accidents there. As was stated, the bend is 300 metres along the Ronda road out of Coín - I guess road observation and self preservation is less important to drivers than massive acceleration. Try standing on that bend and listening to the engines of the cars as they go past. I did and was horrified!
I know that Christmas is just around the corner but I can assure you that this bright ‘star’ is definitely not the star of Bethlehem. It is the planet Venus. Venus is the closest planet to Earth and so appears as the brightest in our skies. Venus is also closer to the Sun than we are and for many years was considered the ‘sister’ planet to Earth but nothing could be further from the truth. Venus may be named after the God of beauty but it is the closest thing to hell that you could imagine. Venus is a very strange planet; it is just slightly smaller than the Earth but it is completely covered in a thick cloud layer, it is impossible to see the surface because of these clouds. The clouds are made of dense carbon dioxide and are causing the temperature on Venus to soar to hot enough to melt lead. It is an out of control greenhouse effect with the sun’s rays getting to the surface but not being able to escape again. It rains sulphuric acid, wind speeds are in the hundreds of miles an hour and to top it all, Venus rotates so slowly on its axis that a day on Venus lasts longer than its year. If anything was more contrary to the normal workings of the Solar System then it is Venus. Someone once wrote a book entitled ‘Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus’, now we know why hey lads! Because Venus is closer to the Sun than we are then we can only see it when it is either to the far left of the Sun and
appears in the evening sky after the Sun has set or as it is now to the far right of the Sun and appears in the mornings before the Sun has risen. If you keep watching it at the same time for the rest of the month you will see it getting higher and higher in the sky until New Year’s day when it reaches greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, then it is at its most extreme in its orbit from the Sun, after this it will steadily move back toward the Sun until it re-appears in late February as an evening star. Observed through a telescope, Venus displays varying phases similar to those of the Moon, at the moment Venus’s left side is half lit by the Sun with the right half being in shadow. As it progresses in its orbit around the Sun more of the face will become illuminated, but it will also get further away from us so will appear smaller and smaller. On very rare occasions Venus can be seen actually passing right across the disc of the Sun in what is known as a transit of Venus. A transit of Venus only occurs after 121 years but then there will be another one eight years later and then 121 years after that. The last transit of Venus occurred in 2004 and the next one will occur on June 6th 2012 but unfortunately will not be visible from Europe. I’m afraid that most of us will not be around to see the next one after that which will be in December 2117.
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Despite all the cold weather, this heron seemed to be happy having a dip in reader Bob Livermore’s pool last weekend.
Perhaps it had something to do with the dolphin tiled onto the bottom of the pool?
PAD at the Hipodromo Animal Charity PAD will be having a stall at the Christmas Fair being held at the Hipodromo in La Cala de Mijas on Sunday December 12th from 12pm until 8pm.
Entrance is free and there’ll be plenty of stalls to hunt through for Christmas presents and lots of other stalls selling hot cups of coffee etc to keep you going if the weather is cold.
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Meet new friends at FADS Fuengirola & District Society (FADS) was formed in 1988 by a small group of people who realised the need for an English speaking social club in the area. After holding the club in several different venues, it is now based in St. Andrew s Church, Los Boliches, meeting every Thursday from 11.0 a.m. until 1.0 p.m. The first hour of the club is an opportunity to chat with friends or book trips and the second hour is dedicated to cash-bingo games. There is also an extensive fiction library available for the loan of books. The reputation of the club, and the social activities organised are passed by word of mouth. There is a welfare officer to help members with blood pressure checks and flu jabs and for general advice on health matters. Over the years, they have raised funds to support numerous charities, including Fuensocial and Cudeca, as well as supporting a young
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lad in Haiti. FADS organises mystery trips on a regular basis, with named trips in between the mystery trips. The club organises a monthly trip to Gibraltar and also organises regular Dinner Dances and ad hoc functions such as San Juan celebrations on the beach. The club is happy to welcome new members, who hopefully can bring with them new ideas and suggestions to further benefit the club and its members. Membership is 10 euros per year, but you can pop along to visit the club on a Thursday morning to meet the current members before deciding to apply for membership. If you would like to find out more, go along to St. Andrew s Church, near Los Boliches train station, any Thursday between 11 am and 1 pm or email fadsfuengirola@gmail.com for further information. FADS will be closed from December 16th until January 13th 2011.
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e Americans do it in style The American Club of the Costa del Sol celebrated Thanksgiving and presented founding member Dorothy Kravitz with the "Dr Paul Castelle award of recognition". Dr Castelle was the first Consular Agent for the Costa del Sol. One hundred and fifty members and guests attended and after the social hour with cava, wine and canapes, went to their tables for the welcome from President of FMB Chapter and MC of the night, David Kylen. Following David, their Consular Agent Roberta (Bobbye) Aaron read an historic Thanksgiving Proclamation from the 1700s in New York City as well as the Annual Thanksgiving Message from US President Barak Obama. The main event then took place as president for 2010 Frazier Gardella, and founding member and recipient 2009, Troy Davis, presented the Dr Paul Castelle Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Club of the Costa del Sol to Dorothy Kravitz. This was also a
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Belen trip On Tuesday December 14th Lux Mundi have organised a full-day trip to Lucena and to Rute to see the chocolate Nativity display. This is always a very
special year for the Club, now in its 36th year, in terms of unity and friendship, especially within the Marbella Chapter which went through some ups and downs during the past year. The Marbella Chapter Board were there in their typical "Marbella Style" along with most of their membership. Estepona Chapter showed up this year with sixty people and most of them were members! FMB Chapter (Fuengirola / Mijas / Los Boliches) showed up with their dedicated and hardworking Chapter Board and most of their members. Malaga Chapter unfortunately had a bad year with most of their membership either away or unable to attend.
turkey, stuffing, roasted potatoes and vegetables cooked to perfection, they finished it off with Rafael's now famous pumpkin pie with whipped cream, as well as mince pies...for those who still can't get the pumpkin pie thing together! Pierce was there again to entertain and he got most diners up dancing to burn away some of those calories. An event like this takes up so much time, attention to detail and mostly dedication. The entire membership and their guests would like to give a big round of applause and a huge "Thank You" to the 2010 Thanksgiving Team of: David Kylen, Troy Davis, Mike Barber, Gigi Joly, Patricia Gray, Ulla Barak and Pamela Becque. Until next year!
The Foundation of Friends is holding its Xmas Fayre on Friday December 10th at Aloha Gardens Multi Sports Club in Nueva Andalucia from 6pm. Come along and join in the Christmas spirit with carol singers, mulled wine and Santa's grotto plus you can purchase some xmas gifts! This event will be raising money for Crece (for children with Down’s Syndrome) and AVOI (for children in hospital with leukemia at Materno de Infantil in Malaga). Have a look at their website at www.thefoundationoffrien ds.org or email them at info@thefoundationoffrien ds.org
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popular trip so, if you want to go, please book early to avoid disappointment. Contact 952 474 840 for more information and to book your tickets for the trip.
“Christmas in Aspen” competition TAPAS are performing their Christmas in Aspen show this coming weekend and are offering two free tickets to see the show to the first person to answer the following questions: Question 1: Who wrote "The Christmas Song"? Question 2: What are the names of Santa's reindeer? Answers by email to info@tapassociety.com by Thursday evening, to include a contact telephone number. The show runs on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th starting at 7:30 pm. and on Sunday 12th for a 4pm matinée. Tickets are normally €5 for members and €7 for non members. The show is being
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How much skullduggery will Rodrigo have to get up to? Read on for part one of Episode 6 Rodrigo wound his way through the narrow streets that led to the harbour. He had sent Nicholas on ahead to the transport ship that was to carry them back to Spain. Various matters had required his attention before he left and he had written several notes: to his banker, to his first officer on his ship the ‘Castille’ and to others to settle outstanding debts. This had delayed him and he hurried along the cobbled lanes, stepping carefully since the stones were wet from a brief tropical shower. The streets were empty as people had taken shelter from the recent rain and his footsteps echoed in front of him as he turned a corner into a long lane leading to the sea. Oil street lamps and light spilling from windows provided a weak illumination to the descending gloom of
night. He was deep in thought about events of the past few days so did not notice at first as three men stepped from an alley-way to block his path. Rodrigo stopped about ten paces away and looked at these men. They were heavily built and from what he could see of their clothing in the dim light he guessed them to be sailors from one of the many merchant ships in the harbour. The two to the left and right were dwarfed by the man in the centre who stood at least a head above them. He was black and his intimidating physical presence alone was enough to confirm to Rodrigo that this was not a coincidental meeting. The big man’s eyes bore into him as he smiled, revealing a gleam of white teeth. ‘Are
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Rodrigo Vivar?’ he asked in Spanish that had a heavy Caribbean accent. Rodrigo had worn civilian clothes covered with a lightweight hooded cloak for the impending journey and he realised that the lack of uniform had been the reason for this man’s question. He looked at each man, returning their stares and felt a strange calmness settling on him. He felt it whenever danger threatened; he put it down to an acceptance of the inevitable.
pointed dagger, the one on the right a pistol and the black man had a curved Arabian knife that reflected the weak light as he flicked it from side to side.
them. The man on the right raised his pistol, the hammer clicking as he cocked it; Rodrigo stared down its barrel. There was a crack, followed by a whiz and the man with the pistol flew backwards firing his pistol into the air as he fell. A second crack and whiz followed an instant later and the man on the left span around to hit the wall of a building before sliding down it, leaving a bloody smear. Rodrigo glanced quickly behind to see a cloaked figure about twenty paces away; a smoking pistol in each hand. Rodrigo looked back to the big black man who had now stopped smiling. Rodrigo stepped in quickly to disable him with a zigzag slash of his sword. The first cut slashed through arm and wrist, knocking the Arab blade from the man’s grasp. The second split the man’s abdomen from left to
‘Someone has asked us to say hello ‌and to bring back a souvenir,’ he smiled, emphasising the last phrase with an upward flick of his curved pointed blade.
‘Yes, Captain Rodrigo Cortez Vivar, ‘he replied, lowering the cloak’s hood to reveal his face and giving a slight bow, ’how may I be of service to you ‌ah, gentlemen.’
‘Hmm ‌I see,’ replied Rodrigo, smiling as he held their stares. Then in one quick motion, Rodrigo flicked back both sides of his cloak and drew his rapier, pointing it at each man in turn, â€˜â€Śbut you should know that some souvenirs can be very expensive to obtain.’
The black man smiled again and all three slowly raised weapons. The man on the left held a long
The men hesitated but Rodrigo knew that he was at a disadvantage with his injured eye against three of
right. The man’s teeth gleamed again, but this time in a grimace as he sank to his knees attempting to hold in his guts as they spilt onto the ground. Rodrigo turned to look at the dark figure behind and saluted with his sword. The figure nodded as it quickly reloaded a pistol. Rodrigo turned back to the kneeling man.
Who sent the men and what will Rodrigo do now? Read the next part of the Captain’s story in The News to find out!
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Your Weekly Entertainment Guide INSIDE THIS WEEK Light a light at Cudeca centre Winter gardening with Andalucian Gardening Club Lots of Christmas fairs to enjoy throughout the area
From the Lakes to El Chorro In almost 5 years of searching out some truly stunning walks in and around the Costa del Sol, the well known ‘Lake District’ near Ardales has, strangely, never featured. Written by Gary Dearden
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ll that changed recently with this truly memorable 9km circuit.
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hile not overly long, this is not a walk for beginners, as the pathfinding is often quite demanding and there are some quite vertiginous climbs and ledges to be encountered – including the soaring views from high above the breathtaking natural beauty of El Chorro gorge, looking down over the notorious Camino del Rey!
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pecial note: the route involves a lot of prickly undergrowth, so dress accordingly, and it also involves negotiating a rock tunnel, which although safe is quite narrow and extremely dark. We were warned to bring torches but forgot and paid the price with several unwelcome bumps to heads and shoulders. Please don’t make the same mistake!
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rom Malaga, take the A357 north to Campillos. At Ardales, turn right at the ‘Embalses de Guadalhorce’ sign and stay on the MA444, keeping the lakes on your left, for about 5-6km. Ignore a right turn for El Chorro/Alora and, just before a rock tunnel/bridge, turn right onto a well marked forest track to find parking space above and behind the Mirador restaurant.
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limb for 10 minutes to reach a level area – ideal for a breather. Gazing out over the lakes, our two minutes’ silence here on Remembrance Sunday was extraordinary. Your climb now continues in the opposite direction, up and to the left. With care, you’ll spot a clear line of metal markers heading up towards the left hand corner where the path becomes easier to follow – but watch closely for more markers.
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ith magical lake views now on your left, carefully follow the path up and across the incline, through bushes and around boulders, always watching for assorted black and white markers as you progress. The undergrowth thickens and you eventually emerge into a low pine copse – take your time here and bear right to pick up a very faint, overgrown path between some taller trees, several of which have black and white paint patches guiding you ever upwards. The path clears a little as it ascends and, after 15 minutes steady climbing, you reach a firebreak on top of the ridge. Views over the lakes here are stunning – and it’s another good place for a rest.
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ake the opportunity to approach the right side of this ridge, where there are fantastic views of the gorge and the famous ‘Von Ryan’s Express’ bridge. After about 250m, a tall tree on the right marks a short climb down over some rocks – watch for a pretty little cave on the left – from where you continue
descending on a clear, meandering path. ome 300m straight ahead is a sheer-sided plug of rock, which is a great spot for a picnic lunch. (You could stay on the level area below, but the short, steep climb over loose ground is totally worth the effort – although you need to be careful on the top, especially with children or dogs.) There can be few places where lunch comes complete with 360º views of the lakes and the gorge - almost indescribably beautiful and the celebratory ‘vino’ felt entirely appropriate.
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fterwards, head carefully back down to the level area of the firebreak and, keeping the lunch spot on your left, line up with an electricity pylon set on rocks on the opposite side of the valley. There is no clear path here so simply pick the best route down through the thick bushes for 150m – the going improves the nearer you get to the pylon.
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ick up the path on the left as it zig-zags down to join a wider downhill track – turning left here is your route back to the car park. However, if you have time and inclination, turn right and head gently uphill, picking up a faint path across the rocks. After about 200m you are rewarded with even more spectacular views of the gorge – where we spotted Griffin vultures and Peregrine falcons – and the
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eturn to the main track, which meanders gently downhill, passing through the lovely river valley and eventually merging with an asphalt surface. After a few minutes, take a narrow branch on the right leading 50m to the tunnel entrance – where you’ll definitely need those torches. It’s only about 200m long and OK underfoot, but it’s surprisingly dark - so proceed with
care and have fun! Emerging back into the light, turn left and you’re just a few metres from the Mirador restaurant, where a well-earned beer awaits and the car park is via the back entrance.
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Winter gardening The Christmas meeting of The Andalucian Garden Group will be held in Bar La Penita, Calle Gerald Brennan, Alhaurin el Grande on Tuesday December 14th. Guests are welcome and the charge to them is €5.
Gardens of France”. This promises to be both a visually stunning and extremely interesting talk. The evening will end on a festive note with wine and cake and of course, another chance to chat!
The meeting starts at 6pm but many members come along about 5.30pm to choose their library books, buy plants and of course, chat to friends.
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Cudeca Cancer Care Hospice once again celebrates Light a Light in memory of our loved ones on Friday December 17th from 6pm at the Hospice Centre. Light a Light is a special tribute to a loved one when a light and candle is dedicated to them for a minimum donation of €10. The Hospice building is decorated with lights which are switched on by Cudeca president and founder, Joan Hunt O.B.E., and every
one of those lights is in memory of someone special. On this special evening, you can enjoy listening to choirs singing Christmas Carols and the wonderful sound of bell ringers. There will also be a raffle and you can enjoy eating home made cakes and other savoury delights. Further items on sale will be Cudeca’s popular Christmas cards, hand crafted by patients and volunteers, the 2010
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This month’s guest speaker is Gil Pound. Gil comes from the Languedoc region of France and her topic is “The Hidden
A different kind of market The annual Alternative Christmas Market at Muebles del Mundo in Coín (opposite Mercadona) will be held on Saturday December 18th.
The ‘Bar’ will be situated in the new Jaima (Moroccan tent) selling mulled wine and fresh ginger tea amongst other drinks and food.
The day will run from 11am until 10pm and feature stalls selling arts and crafts, artisan goods, natural cosmetics, alternative gifts and cards, organic vegetables and eco-products and there will also be activities for children and workshops.
There will be live music and sounds from DJ James and DJ Loopez whilst the fun will continue after 10pm with local band Mulakong who will be playing at Bar Copas El Sauce on the Coín-Guaro road where the party will continue indoors.
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This week the popular serve yourself Indian Curry Night buffet, normally on a Friday evening at El Potro Restaurant has been nudged over to Saturday for one week only. The restaurant is hosting a private function but will still open to the public for the usual à la carte and takeaways orders and both the sports bar and the family bar will be open as usual but for your tasty
curry you'll will have to wait until Saturday. For those who have not tried it the curry buffet idea is a good deal that works well at El Potro; a choice of starters and different meat, chicken and vegetable curries for 10 euros a head. Eat as much of what you fancy it's all presented piping hot and with plenty of spicy extras, rice and chapattis.
RBL Coin trips The Coin Branch of the Royal British Legion has a number of trips and events arranged this month, which include a visit to Rute to see the Chocolate Belen, anise and turron factories on Saturday December 11th. There’s a shopping trip to Gibraltar on Thursday
December 16th and their Christmas Party is open to all comers on Friday December 17th. There is also a trip to see the Malaga lights on the Tuesday January 4th. For further information contact Denise Walker on 637 474 753 .
calendars and the “El Gordo” lottery tickets. Everyone is welcome to join them for this poignant evening. Your participation will help them to continue offering their “Special Kind of Caring” to those who need it most. Cudeca Cancer care Hospice, created in 1992, is a self-funding charity and non-Governmental organisation which has cared for more than 5.600 patients via the following
care programmes; home care, external consultations, rehabilitation, psychosocial attention, information, counselling, day care centre and their in-patient unit. All the costfree care provided is for both the patient and the family. The Cudeca Centre is in Avd. del Cosmos s/n, 29631 Arroyo de la Miel. You can call them on 952 564 910 or you can visit their website at www.cudeca.org for more information
Santa heads to ARCH Fayre ARCH (Andalucian Rescue Centre for Horses) is holding its Traditional Christmas Fayre on Saturday December 11th, at La Finca, Ctra de Coin (A404) Km 3.5, Partido la Campinuela, Alhaurin el Grande, from 11am-3pm.
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Mad Terry, the coast’s craziest entertainer, noted for his mad antics and vocal impressions, has teamed up with owner Julie and Andy, the singing chef/bar steward/bottle washer! They make a great team and are putting the fun back in the Costa, with different top quality acts every night.
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e Voyage of e Dawn Treader BY MICHAEL APTED Starring Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Liam Neeson (voice) The third in the Chronicles of Narnia franchise has been a long time coming after Disney studios pulled out after poor returns for Prince Caspian. So, Potter it’s not at the Box Office, but with a glitzy premiere last week, at which the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were guests, there are high hopes that this latest instalment will capture a keen Christmas audience. There has been a 3D retrofitting which has not gone down too well with the critics so no need to worry about splashing out more on ticket prices – 2D is
fine. The movie picks up where the elder Pevensie children have handed over the Narnia baton to younger siblings Lucy and Edmund, who enter the magical kingdom through a portal in an animated painting. Unfortunately their annoying younger cousin Eustace comes along for the ride and for him it is a journey of redemption and discovery as he grapples with a magic world where animals speak. Lucy and Edmund join up with old friend Caspian – now King and heading towards the
end of the world on the royal ship The Dawn Treader, in a bid to lift the curse cast from the Dark Isle. We meet Reepicheep, the brave talking mouse with his bodkin sword (Simon Pegg), for the first time as the epic journey unfolds. Neeson, the voice of the spiritual, omniscient lion Aslan, caused a bit of a stir last week when he said the lion could just as easily be Mohammed or Buddha as Jesus, but the C.S. Lewis estate quickly moved to correct that bit of political correctness by reminding us that the tales of Narnia
are a Christian allegory. Like the Potter stories they are about the battle of good against evil, and again, like Potter, they are heavily laced with action, adventure and emotion. Apted has been the man behind Bond movies, so expect high octane filming and a hugely enjoyable family film for all the family, whatever your religious beliefs. Fingers crossed for a good showing at the box office and a rather sooner runout for the next book in the saga, The Silver Chair.
BY ANDREW ADAMSON Voices by Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas That’s it – the end of an era. No more Donkey, Puss in Boots or the green ogre. It’s the fourth and final instalment – not as good as the first (little can beat it) or the second, but a lot better than the third and the kids will love it, while adults will yet again laugh at the subtle adult oriented humour. This one is a riff on It’s A Wonderful Life. Shrek gets fed up with family life and constantly being at the beck and call of others and tries to turn back the clock – but he has sold his soul to do so and finds out just how awful life would be for everyone else now he has changed the timeline. So, some quite dark moments – and
hilarious ones (Puss has become so fat he can barely stagger) and on the journey back to Far Far Away Shrek discovers the value of love and friendship. A fitting end to an overall marvellously inventive series.
h, snow. How magical – A a time for fun, for grabbing a carrot and a scarf and making a snowman, for sledding and curling up in front of a roaring log fire. Well, that’s the romantic vision. But it’s nothing like the harsh realities we have seen these last few days.
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Inception BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt Definitely one for the grown ups who want an intelligent thriller that keeps you guessing to pop on the box over the festive season. It’s a blockbuster that is smart and innovative as it sets out a story of how to enter the human mind through dream invasion and how that can be used to secure all sorts of objectives. DiCaprio is on great form and Nolan as usual directs tautly and uses some great special effects. Warning – it’s not one to watch after the Boxing Day spread when a nap might be more the thing. You need to pay attention and nodding off for part of it is not an option!
this week – the huge explosion that rocked Corrrie and set the scene for a week-long celebration of the soap’s 50th anniversary, or the real life drama of a country enveloped by snow.
t’s a real life movie set – and got me thinking to just how important snow scenes have been in movies over the generations. We havenot enjoyed the Christmas time movie treat in which snow scenes cast a cosy glow on the world – Santa will definitely make an appearance and all will be well with the world as we snuggle up and watch snow fall through the window, out of a starlit sky.
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last few days – is that snow is treacherous. It can kill, and it can set a sombre mood. A white screen can provide the perfect frame for drama – and snow has featured in some of the most dazzling and chilling scenes in movie history. ne of my favourite O movies ever is It’s a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra starring James Stewart as George. The director used pioneering special effects for the time – in those days cornflakes painted white were the black and white movie snow staple. But they made too much noise, so 6000 gallons of fire-
fighting chemical foam, mixed with soap and pumped through a wind machine, were used instead. It’s a movie that uses snow to cover the whole spectrum of drama – it draws you into a warm, family, glow and it takes you into the frightening frozen wastes. It’s just been re-mastered on DVD so if you don’t have it in your collection then pick up a copy. But a word of warning - make sure it’s not the colourised version. The impact in black and white is stunning. May all your Christmases be white” – well, Irving “Berlin’s song is now better remembered than the film it is most famously remembered for. Michael Curtiz’s White Christmas, made in 1954, had Bing at his best though the song of course was first used in the Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire movie Holiday Inn in 1942. But I defy anyone not to go into a romantic reverie on hearing the opening chords – and I bet all of us can sing along. A true white Christmas moment. ome movie franchises Sas have made snow scenes familiar as a mince pie and a sprig of holly. Where would Commander Bond be without his ski chases as ruthless villains tried to waste him in the icy wastes. OO7 escaped from Blofeld’s Alpine hideout in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, there was a ski chase in The World Is Not Enough, and don´t forget the scene with the cello in The Living Daylights. But my favourite Bond snow moment has to be the spectacular stunt in The Spy Who Loved Me. It was the 10th Bond movie – The Man with the Golden Gun had performed less well than expected, and a lot was riding on this, Roger Moore’s third outing as OO7. The studio threw a fortune at it and director
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HOROSCOPES ARIES
March 21st April 19th
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April 20th May 20th
GEMINI
May 21st June 21st
CANCER
June 22nd July 22nd
LEO
July 23rd August 22nd
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August 23rd September 22nd
by Cathy Stronach
It could feel as though a gift of insights has landed in your lap, this is a critical point for you when you are working to catapult yourself out of a situation that you have found yourself inadvertently wedged into. If you remain alert you won’t miss this opportunity. It is your actions that determine where you end up. There are temptations all around Aries so remain smart and remember what you want, there are many adventures that you will find yourself immersed in. Venus is working at softening your feathers and smoothing out your knots, a sense of grace is entering into your world just when you were letting those fears take hold. It is like heaven’s way of reminding you that there is good in the world. Relationships become the main focus and the people in your life remind you that team effort with shared vision lends you the support to be the best you can be and also your support in return enables another to shine. Intelligence, charisma and energy is what you are blessed with this week enabling you to get busy and make things happen. This is a good time to focus on getting those unfinished projects completed. Make a plan and take it step by step, by plodding on in a systematic way all opposition will fall by the wayside. Changes on the work front could lead to wealthier months ahead. Check out any details on a legal document as someone could want to slide something past you. There are others around you that are waiting for you to take the lead, they want someone who can ‘walk the walk’ and not just ‘talk the talk’. Opportunities are sitting there waiting in the wings so it is all up to you – are you going to take the bait and rise to the occasion or settle for less. Perhaps you are content with less or is it down to your confidence – does it need a boosting? If it is the latter those days are coming and a gushing validation from others will follow. Leos thrive on being ‘King of their castle’ and need a comfortable ‘home base’ from which everything can spring from. Every effort should be made to concentrate on making sure those family relations are harmonious and the ‘pride of cubs’ are content. You are moving into a time where there are crucial decisions to consider and they cannot be rushed or hurried by anyone. In order for decisive action to be taken you need to be totally clear-headed about where you are going. That worry has made a wonderful exit from your life and now is the time for a reprieve, a time to relax and have some fun. Enjoy the break and let it revitalise your spirit so that you are refreshed. You may want to believe promises that are made and genuinely hope and wish for the best - this is the genuine qualities that a Virgo’s nature has. Remember to combine this with past experience and you will not feel too let down if a good intention does not materialise.
Kym’s Kitchen ...you don’t have to be a chef!
With Christmas just around the corner (yes, again!) I wanted to do something a bit festive. If you reckon on three meals a day from Christmas Eve to New Year, that's 27 meals to get to the table! So, the more you can do in advance the better and this recipe will last for up to two months in the freezer so you can make it now and just defrost it when you need it. Last year we did how to cook the turkey etc so this time we'll do a few extra bits and pieces. (If anybody wants the prep and cook instructions from last year, just ask!)
Pork and Port Paté Ingredients:
(Serves 8)
● 1 large onion ● 1 clove garlic ● 450gr belly pork ● small glass of port ● 1tsp fresh mint, chopped ● salt and pepper to taste ● 225gr liver, finely chopped ● 3 rashers streaky bacon, finely chopped ● 50gr mushrooms, finely chopped ● 1 egg, beaten
Directions ● In a food processor mince the onion, garlic and pork together, then mix in the port and mint, season to taste then put in a bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave to marinate overnight in the fridge. ● Heat the oven to 180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4. ● Mix in the liver, bacon and mushrooms to the contents of the bowl, then stir in the egg. Place in a foil lined loaf tin and bake in the oven for 1½ hours. Pour off the fat then leave
to cool. ● To freeze, fold the foil over and put into the freezer in the tin. Once frozen you can remove from the tin and leave in the freezer just wrapped in the foil for up to 2 months. ● When ready, thaw at room temperature still in the foil on absorbant kitchen paper. To serve, remove from the foil, put on a pretty plate, place a sprig of rosemary on top for decoration, and eat with either crusty bread or toast cut into triangles.
There is a saying it is not ‘what you know’ but ‘who you know’ and these persons flocking around you will be instrumental in opening doors of opportunities. In fact there will be more that one or two doors springing open for you to walk through, and this of course leaves you, Libra, in a quandary as you sit on the fence with both options, unable to decide on the best route. September 23rd - Look at the facts but listen to your instincts, follow each route through to its October 22nd conclusion and prepare to march on ahead.
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October 23rd November 21st
Some ‘talk a good job’ but you are the opposite - you let your ‘actions speak the words for you’. Now is the time to put something together, the more you do, the more attractive, stronger and dynamic you become. There is magic waiting to happen not just in your daily working life but also in the area of your personal relationships, you are expected to be an instrument of change not just a casual bystander. Prepare yourself for action packed moments.
SAGITTARIUS Your nature has you going full steam ahead without taking much notice if things get too unpredictable and don’t run according to plan. An unpredictable turn has happened but instead of complaining about it, you keep your head down and remain focused on achieving the goal. This cuts out a lot of worrying time that other signs can get pre-occupied with leading November 22nd - them to inertia. You may still feel that you do not have the control that you December 21st once had but it is your spontaneity that will see you through.
CAPRICORN This is not the time to sell your abilities short but to rise up and let your creative genius radiate. Believe in yourself and get moving, take risks, chances and speak up and ask for what you want. If you don’t ask – you may not get, not everyone can read your mind. The more you produce the more others will be drawn towards you, making this a very magnetic time, when some will find nd December 22 you very attractive. Romantic exchanges are likely this week. January 19th
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Do you have what it takes to ‘go the distance’? Of course you do – you are made of determined stuff and this is what is required of you now. To let go of your insecurities and doubts and be totally prepared to go through with a voyage of discovery. Even though the challenge may seem great, there are so many rewards waiting for you, it will not be much longer before you find your pot at the end of the rainbow. Just keep moving forward.
You are about to reach another rung on life’s ladder of accomplishments. You are nearly at the finishing line of what seems like a marathon, just one more corner to turn and the end will be in sight. The true motivations and intentions of others have been more than apparent lately but this has enabled you to stay true to your own course of action. The only outcome you need is to be able to hold your head up high, knowing you are justified because you listened to your heart.
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Here comes the festive season when we are all looking forward to something, whether it’s a few days off work, visits from family and friends, gifts of chocolates and champagne or the latest Play Station and, of course, most of all, the departure of afore-mentioned family and friends. The majority of Spanish people celebrate Nochebuena on December 24th with families gathering for a meal. Christmas day is a low key affair with many going out to eat in restaurants. The standard greeting is Feliz Navidad – Merry Christmas. Then, when Christmas day is over one tends to use Felices Fiestas - Season’s greetings until Nochevieja – New Year’s eve. When wishing friends and neighbours Happy New Year remember it’s very important to pronounce it right or you will be met with stares of amazement or even hostility. Feliz Año (pronounced anyo and that’s most important) Nuevo. And it’s still not over because for Spanish children the most important night is Los Reyes – The Kings, when on January 5th they receive their gifts. Remember January 6th is a national holiday too. To talk about your plans for the festive season use Voy a - I’m going to Vas a - You’re going to Vamos a - We’re going to. ¿Dónde vas a pasar Nochevieja? – Where are you going to spend New Year’s Eve? Voy a celebrar Nochevieja en casa - I’m going to celebrate New Year’s Eve at home. Vamos a celebrar Navidad en casa de mis suegros – We’re going to celebrate Christmas at my in-laws’ house. Voy a invitar a mis vecinos a cenar con nosotros – I’m going to invite my neighbours to have dinner with us. Voy a preparar una cena tradicional - I’m going to prepare a traditional dinner Vamos a comer pavo y jamón – We’re going to eat turkey and ham. ¡Qué lo pases de maravilla! - Have a wonderful time! Hasta la próxima - Until next time. Valerie. Valerie runs the Centro Idiomas Language School in Coin. Her books, “The First Twelve Shortcuts to Spanish” , “The Second Twelve Shortcuts to Spanish” (€5 each) and “The Verb Book” (€7) are available from The News office in Coin, Woody’s Cards and Books in Los Boliches, David’s Books in Los Boliches or by email from vjeffrey1@fastmail.fm or call 952 450 747.
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Coffee can ease asthma symptoms
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What's in cigarettes? With the anti-smoking law about to be tightened once again, here are some good reasons for giving up smoking.
Caffeine is known more as a pick-me-up but studies indicate that it may have benefits for people with asthma. Caffeine's chemical structure resembles that of theophylline, a common asthma medication that relaxes the airway muscles and relieves wheezing, shortness of breath and other respiratory problems. When caffeine is ingested and broken down by the liver, small amounts of theophylline are produced. In the study, researchers pooled and analysed the results of a half dozen
clinical trials looking at the effects of caffeine on asthmatics. They found that caffeine produced small improvements in airway function for up to four hours, compared with a placebo, and that even a small dose – less than the amount in a cup of coffee – could improve lung function for up to two hours. So in a pinch, a cup of coffee or strong tea might provide some momentary relief. However, the improvements are very
slight, certainly not enough to make caffeine a replacement for medication. The other problem is that because of their chemical similarities, consuming too much caffeine can compound any side effects of theophylline. As a result, doctors advise people taking that medication to watch their consumption of coffee, tea, chocolate and other foods with caffeine.
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People&fashion Meerkat magic for Aleksandr
Contemporary lifestyle and celebrity gossip Corrie audience gripped The Coronation Street fireball explosion and train crash was watched by more than 13.7 million viewers on Monday as the show captured 48.1 per cent of the viewing audience. The earlier episode, in which Molly crushed Tyrone with the news that baby Jack was not his, pulled in 12.37m viewers (46.1 per cent). And tucked between the two episodes the historic airing of the first ever Corrie captured 6.7m viewers. Molly and baby Jack were seen trapped under rubble in the corner shop with Sunitta, after the tram crashed from the viaduct and she will be one of the characters to take centre stage in Thursday’s special 50th anniversary one hour live broadcast, when it is revealed who has died.
Celebrity authors and political memoirs have been left trailing in the wake of a very simple person, who has raced to the top of the Christmas best selling book charts this week. The autobiography (but this is not a real person! – Ed) of Aleksandr Orlov, “A Simples Life”, is now sitting at the top of the nonfiction book charts.
friends on Facebook and more than 44,000 followers on Twitter, as well as becoming a YouTube sensation within days of the first ad airing.
We have all seen him on the telly urging us to compare the meeerkat – oops, sorry the market – dot com in a series of adverts setting out the life and times of his ancestors. He hit TV screens just two years ago and rapidly built up a huge internet following, with 770,000
His catchphrase “Simples” has captured the imagination – in October it was included in the latest edition of the Collins English Dictionary and the BBC News website nominated it as word of the decade. And as for compare the
market.com. – well, the insurance company enjoyed a tripling in its brand awareness and an 80 per cent increase in quote requests in the first nine weeks after the first ad aired. Now “A Simples Life” -the publicity campaign for which runs : First there was Shakespeare. Then Dostoevsky. Now Orlov – has sold 32,875 hardback copies in the last week alone and his overall sales total 122,745 and counting.
Celebrations for Sir Cliff as he nabs top spot Well, who would have thought it. Veteran singer Sir Cliff Richard has beaten off challenges from teen sensation Justin Bieber and popular group JLS in the calendar stakes. From January 1st the 70year-old will be adorning kitchen walls everywhere. Sir Cliff, who stripped to the waist for one shot, has the biggest selling celebrity calendar according to online retailer Amazon, after his army of dedicated fans have swooped in to buy the stocking filler. Sir Cliff has pushed JLS into
According to The Sunday Times best sellers list the meerkat leads the race for Christmas No 1 – last week he outsold comic Michael McIntyre, Rolling Stone Keith Richards, Lord Sugar, Stephen Fry and Paul O’Grady as well as Tony
Blair. Mind you he may well have a Christmas chart rival – opera singer Wynne Evans, who has been trilling “Go Compare” in all sorts of situations, is releasing a single, Santa Claus is Coming To Town.
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million viewers tuned in.In the meantime X Factor was embroiled in another huge row as judges, and not the public vote as announced, decided for the first time in the show’s history who would be axed at the semifinal stage. Ireland’s Mary Byrne was given the boot and Cheryl Lloyd was reprieved amid suspicions that Mary had polled the
most votes. The ITV switchboard was flooded with complaints about the rule change, which was announced to contestants shortly before the show. Thousands posted online comments claiming that the show was “more corrupt than FIFA”. Mary said later that she believed the change was made to save Cher.
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IT’S GOING TO BE AN APPS-Y CHRISTMAS
Forget searching out missing Scrabble tiles for the Christmas time board game. If you have an iPad then buy the Scrabble app at £3.39 - and if you have an iPhone or iPod touch use them as your tile rack. It’s the latest in apps that will come in handy over the festive season. If you want to check on whether Christmas will be white then get the
Met Office’s free weather app. And if you want to get off the mark flogging unwanted gifts or picking up a bargain then the free eBay app (most mobile phones) will come in handy. You can keep track of the site and it has a bar code so you can check out prices in the shops. To become addicted to the Angry Birds game - hit of the year - splash out 59p.
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China 'orchestrated Google hack' A senior Chinese politician ordered attacks after Googling his own name and finding critical articles, US dispatches have revealed. The hacking of Google that forced the search engine to withdraw from mainland China was orchestrated by a senior member of the communist politburo, according to classified information sent by US diplomats to Hillary Clinton's state department in Washington.
The leading politician became hostile to Google after he searched his own name and found articles criticising him personally, leaked cables from the US embassy in Beijing say.
Google, forcing it to "walk away from a potential market of 400 million internet users" in January this year, amid a highly publicised row about internet censorship.
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two politburo members. The cyber assault was described to the Americans by a high-level Chinese source as "100% political in nature" and having "nothing to do with removing Google... as a competitor to Chinese search engines".
Google Super-fast net tackle planned across UK 'to piracy' Every community in the UK will gain access to super-fast broadband by 2015 under plans outlined this week.
Groupon turns away from Google deal The much hyped Google-Groupon deal in finally off! After turning down Google’s offer, Groupon wants to stay independent. The search engine giant Google is feeling heartbroken after its $6 billion proposal to Chicago-based Groupon, an internet coupon service, was declined. As per the latest updates, Groupon has declared plans to stay independent instead of going public; this announcement is very much contradictory to the acquisition news spread before. The markets went abuzz with speculations over the
Google-Groupon acquisition news and most predicted that Google has got a magic ingredient to grow bigger with. However, the unthinkable happened in the last 24 hours, resulting in a loss for Google. Google was so in love with the thought of growing bigger with Groupon that the search engine giant didn’t have a second thought about placing the bid. In fact,
Google was ready to offer hefty, performance-based incentives to the executives at Groupon in order to win the deal. However, the billiondollar deal fell apart after Groupon CEO Andrew Mason expressed concerns over company’s future and employee wellbeing and thus, turned down the offer. It seems like Groupon was just teasing its potential buyers and finally has the last laugh.
The private sector is to deliver broadband to two thirds of the UK. Other, mainly rural, areas will receive public funds to build a "digital hub" with a fibre optic internet connection. Ministers say they aim for the UK to have Europe's best broadband network.
by private firms. Mr Hunt said the strategy would give the country Europe's best broadband network by 2015 and would be central to economic growth and the delivery of future public services, dependent on quick, reliable access to the internet.
The search giant will implement four changes, including the removal of words that are associated with piracy from appearing in its autocomplete feature. However, it will not prevent sites that host illegal copyright material from appearing in its search results. The music industry said the measures did not go far enough.
"The reason we want to do this is very simple -- it's about jobs," said Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Speaking to the Today Programme he said the government had a key role in "catalysing investment by the private sector" in broadband. Mr Hunt cited the example of South Korea which has high speed broadband throughout the nation and which was "90%" paid for
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The X Factor: Final Night
Fri, Dec 10th 23:30
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights An American girl living in Cuba meets a waiter with a talent for dancing. A relationship blossoms against the backdrop of a Havana nightclub, where the girl learns some dance moves of her own.
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Middletown Set in the heart of Ireland's bible belt, this drama takes a hard look at how religion brings families together and pulls them apart. After fulfilling his religious instruction, Preacher Gabriel returns home to Middletown and finds gambling, drinking and sinning at every turn. His prodigal brother is threatened by Gabriel's moral crusade.
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Bridget's brand new relationship with Darcy has taken a plummet due to her jealousy of his workmate. Having previously left the publishing house she worked for to avoid her boss, Daniel, with whom she had an unsuccessful romance, she finds him along for the ride on her new job....
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My Best Friend's Wedding When Julianne Potter hears that her best friend is getting hitched, she's horrified; it was meant to be her. Installed as the maid-of-honour, she has just four days to convince the groom that Kimberly Wallace, who's beautiful, smart and loaded, isn't the girl for him.
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Sudden Impact In the fourth of the `Dirty Harry' series, Inspector Harry Callahan is shipped out of San Francisco by his superiors and becomes involved in the hunt for a brutal killer who has carried out a series of murders in a small seaside town.Starring Clint Eastwood.
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www.thenewsonline.es After her stunning performances last weekend Rebecca Ferguson has a chance of taking the top spot in this season’s show. Last week the show’s producers changed the format, but it does seem that they are favouring mini-me Cher Lloyd. Matt needs a better week, whilst One Direction can not be ruled out.
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17:15 The Hairy Bikers' Cook Off 18:00 Eggheads 18:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 19:00 Live: Snooker 19:30 Match of the Day Live 22:00 The Stephen K Amos Show 22:30 Newsnight 23:00 The Review Show 23:50 Snooker 00:40 Middletown 02:05 Pages from Ceefax
06:00 Daybreak 08:30 Lorraine 09:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 This Morning 12:30 Loose Women 13:30 ITV News and Weather 14:00 House Gift 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 Midsomer Murders 17:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 18:00 London Tonight 18:30 ITV News and Weather 19:00 Coronation Street 19:30 Live: UEFA
Champions League Football 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 UEFA Champions League: Extra Time 00:35 The Zone 02:35 The Cowboy Way 04:20 The Jeremy Kyle Show 05:20 ITV Nightscreen
06:00 Daybreak 08:30 Lorraine 09:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 This Morning 12:30 Loose Women 13:30 ITV News and Weather 14:00 House Gift 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 Midsomer Murders 17:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 18:00 London Tonight 18:30 ITV News and Weather 19:00 Emmerdale 20:00 Coronation Street
Live 21:00 Coronation Street: 50 Years, 50 Moments 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 Coronation Street Live 23:35 The Late Debate 00:05 Grimefighters 00:35 The Zone 02:35 Surface 03:20 The Jeremy Kyle Show 04:15 ITV Nightscreen
06:00 Daybreak 08:30 Lorraine 09:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 This Morning 12:30 Loose Women 13:30 ITV News and Weather 14:00 House Gift 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 Midsomer Murders 17:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 18:00 London Tonight 18:30 ITV News and Weather 19:00 Emmerdale 19:30 Coronation Street
20:00 Countrywise Kitchen 20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 Coronation Street: The Big 50 22:30 ITV News and Weather 23:05 Taking Lives 01:00 The Zone 03:00 Species IV: The Awakening 04:40 ITV Nightscreen
06:30 Planet Cook 06:50 Yo Gabba Gabba 07:15 Freshly Squeezed 07:40 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:05 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:35 Frasier 09:10 According to Jim 09:40 Friends 10:10 One Tree Hill 11:05 Smallville 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 3 Minute Wonder 12:10 River Cottage Bites 12:20 Iron Chef UK 13:20 Wake of the Red Witch 15:25 Countdown 16:10 Deal or No Deal
17:00 Come Dine with Me 17:30 Four in a Bed 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 Kirstie and Phil's Perfect Christmas 21:00 Grand Designs 22:00 Rude Tube 23:05 The Event 00:05 On Track 00:20 The Album Chart Show 00:50 Mercury Prize Sessions 01:05 The Shockwaves Album Chart Show 01:20 Old Boy 03:20 Brothers & Sisters
06:50 Yo Gabba Gabba 07:15 Freshly Squeezed 07:45 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:10 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:40 Frasier 09:10 According to Jim 09:40 Friends 10:10 One Tree Hill 11:05 Smallville 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 3 Minute Wonder 12:10 River Cottage Bites 12:20 My Eden 12:30 Iron Chef UK 13:30 The Last Wagon 15:25 Countdown 16:10 Deal or No Deal
17:00 Come Dine with Me 17:30 Four in a Bed 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 Kirstie and Phil's Perfect Christmas 21:00 The House That Made Me 22:00 My Best Friend's Wedding 00:00 Reaper 00:55 King of the Hill 01:20 King of the Hill 01:45 Our Drugs War 02:40 Dispatches 03:30 Brothers & Sisters 04:15 ER
07:40 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:05 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:35 Frasier 09:05 According to Jim 09:35 Friends 10:05 One Tree Hill 11:00 Smallville 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 Iron Chef UK 13:05 Channel 4 Racing 15:25 Countdown 16:10 Deal or No Deal 17:00 Come Dine with Me 17:30 Four in a Bed 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News
19:25 4thought.tv 19:30 Unreported World 20:00 Come Dine with Me 21:00 The Event 22:00 Peep Show 22:30 Robert's Web 23:05 Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights 23:40 The Morgana Show 00:10 Dylan Moran: What It Is 01:10 Live at Russian Standard Originals 01:25 On Track 01:40 4Play 01:50 This Week's 4music Top 20 03:45 King of the Hill 04:10 ER
07:30 Thomas and Friends 07:45 Noddy in Toyland 08:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 08:15 Peppa Pig 08:25 Peppa Pig 08:30 Roary the Racing Car 08:40 Hana's Helpline 08:50 Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom 09:05 Milkshake! Music Box 09:15 The Wright Stuff 10:45 Trisha Goddard 11:45 House Doctor 12:10 House Doctor 12:40 Five News 12:45 Austin Stevens Adventures 13:45 Neighbours
14:15 Home and Away 14:50 The Family Recipe 15:00 Meals in Moments 15:05 Two Against Time 17:00 Five News 17:30 Neighbours 18:00 Home and Away 18:25 Live From Studio Five 19:00 Five News at 7 19:30 Highland Emergency 20:00 Emergency Bikers 21:00 NCIS 22:00 Law and Order: Criminal Intent 22:55 Law & Order 23:55 PartyPoker.com: World Open VI 00:50 Super Casino 04:00 The FBI Files
08:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 08:15 Peppa Pig 08:25 Peppa Pig 08:30 Roary the Racing Car 08:40 Hana's Helpline 08:50 Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom 09:05 Milkshake! Music Box 09:15 The Wright Stuff 10:45 Trisha Goddard 11:45 House Doctor 12:10 House Doctor 12:45 Five News 12:50 Austin Stevens Adventures 13:45 Neighbours 14:15 Home and Away 14:50 Meals in Moments 15:00 Meals in Moments
15:10 Wishing Well 17:00 Five News 17:30 Neighbours 18:00 Home and Away 18:25 Live From Studio Five 19:00 Five News at 7 19:30 Highland Emergency 20:00 Revealed... 21:00 Men of Honor 23:35 The World of Stupid Criminals 00:05 Super Casino 04:00 The FBI Files 04:45 House Doctor 05:10 Michaela's Wild Challenge 05:35 Michaela's Wild Challenge
08:15 Peppa Pig 08:25 Peppa Pig 08:30 Roary the Racing Car 08:40 Hana's Helpline 08:50 Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom 09:05 Milkshake! Music Box 09:15 The Wright Stuff 10:45 Trisha Goddard 11:45 House Doctor 12:10 House Doctor 12:40 Five News 12:45 Austin Stevens Adventures 13:45 Neighbours 14:15 Home and Away 14:50 Animal Rescue Squad 15:05 Angel in the Family
17:00 Five News 17:30 Neighbours 18:00 Home and Away 18:25 Live From Studio Five 19:00 Five News at 7 19:30 Fifth Gear 20:00 White Van Man 21:00 The Mentalist 22:00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 22:55 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 23:55 Cops in Crisis 00:15 Super Casino 04:05 Motorsport Mundial 04:30 Street Market Chefs 04:55 Rough Guide to Weekend Breaks
19:00 Mad About the House 20:00 The World's Strictest Parents 21:00 Bruce Almighty 22:35 Family Guy 22:55 Family Guy 23:20 My Boyfriend the War Hero 00:15 Russell Howard's Good News
00:45 Mad About the House 01:45 The World's Strictest Parents 02:45 Russell Howard's Good News 03:15 My Boyfriend the War Hero 04:15 Love Me, Love My Face 05:10 SIGN OFF
19:00 Top Gear 20:00 Young Beautician of the Year 21:00 The Real Sleeping Beauty 22:00 EastEnders 22:30 Russell Howard's Good News 23:00 Family Guy 23:20 Family Guy 23:45 The Real Sleeping
Beauty 00:45 Russell Howard's Good News 01:15 Beyond Walford: Roxy Mitchell 02:15 Young Beautician of the Year 03:15 Can't Bully Me 04:10 Beyond Walford: Roxy Mitchell 05:10 SIGN OFF
19:00 Doctor Who 19:45 Doctor Who Confidential 20:00 Doctor Who 20:50 Doctor Who Confidential 21:00 Russell Howard's Good News 21:30 Coming of Age 22:00 EastEnders 22:30 Don't Tell the Bride
23:30 Family Guy 23:50 Family Guy 00:15 Russell Howard's Good News 00:45 How Not to Live Your Life 01:15 Coming of Age 01:45 Don't Tell the Bride 02:45 Beyond Walford: Roxy Mitchell 03:45 The Real Hustle
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Series:
Kirstie and Phil's Perfect Christmas Sat, Dec 11th 19.00 and following on at 20.00
Doc: Pompeii: Life and death in a Roman town
Gleaning evidence from an extraordinary find, Cambridge professor and Pompeii expert Mary Beard provides new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption. In a dark cellar in Oplontis, just three miles from the centre of Pompeii, 54 skeletons who didn't succumb to the torrent of volcanic ash are about to be put under the microscope, with big surprises in store.
Tues, Dec 14th 21.00
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06:00 Breakfast 10:00 Saturday Kitchen Live 11:30 Nigella Kitchen 12:00 BBC News 12:10 BBC London News 12:15 Football Focus 13:00 Inside Sport 13:30 Live: Snooker 16:30 Final Score 17:10 BBC News 17:20 BBC London News 17:30 The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson 18:00 Strictly Come Dancing 19:00 Total Wipeout: Celebrity Special
20:00 The National Lottery Saturday Night Draws 20:15 Casualty 21:05 The Armstrong and Miller Show 21:35 BBC News 22:00 Match of the Day 23:20 The Football League Show 00:40 Weatherview 00:45 The Reporters 01:00 BBC News 01:30 Victoria Derbyshire Interviews 02:00 BBC News 02:30 Growing Up in a War Zone 03:00 BBC News 03:30 Our World
06:00 Breakfast 07:35 Match of the Day 09:00 The Andrew Marr Show 10:00 Fern Britton Meets... 11:00 Country Tracks 12:00 The Politics Show 13:00 Wild Weather of the South West 13:20 EastEnders Omnibus 15:15 Drop Zone 16:15 Points of View 16:30 Songs of Praise 17:05 BBC News 17:20 BBC London News 17:30 Jimmy's Food Factory 18:00 Countryfile 19:00 Strictly Come Dancing Results
19:30 Antiques Roadshow 20:30 Inspector George Gently 22:00 BBC News 22:15 BBC London News 22:25 The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson 22:55 Match of the Day 2 00:05 The Apprentice 01:05 Weatherview 01:10 Coast 02:10 Holby City 03:10 Who Do You Think You Are? 03:55 The Record Europe 04:00 BBC News 04:30 HARDtalk 05:00 The World Today
06:00 Breakfast 09:15 Rip off Britain 10:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 Real Rescues 11:45 To Buy or Not to Buy 12:15 Bargain Hunt 13:00 BBC News at One 13:45 Doctors 14:15 Escape to the Country 15:00 BBC News 15:05 Horrible Histories 15:30 What's New ScoobyDoo? 15:50 Shaun the Sheep 16:00 Hotel Trubble 16:30 Blue Peter 16:55 Deadly 60: Bitesize 17:00 Newsround
17:15 The Weakest Link 18:00 BBC News at Six 19:00 The One Show 19:30 Inside Out 20:00 EastEnders 20:30 Baby P: In His Mother's Words - Panorama 21:00 Accused 22:00 BBC News at Ten 22:35 A Question of Sport 23:05 Sports Personality of the Year: The Contenders 23:45 Graham Norton Show 00:35 Weatherview 00:40 The Apprentice 01:40 A Life Without Work 02:40 The Story of Science Power, Proof and Passion 03:40 Victoria Derbyshire
06:00 Breakfast 09:15 Rip off Britain 10:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 Real Rescues 11:45 To Buy or Not to Buy 12:15 Bargain Hunt 13:00 BBC News at One 13:45 Doctors 14:15 Escape to the Country 15:00 BBC News 15:05 Horrible Histories 15:30 What's New ScoobyDoo? 15:50 Shaun the Sheep 16:00 Deadly 60 16:30 Blue Peter's Christmas Special 17:00 Newsround
17:15 The Weakest Link 18:00 BBC News at Six 19:00 The One Show 19:30 EastEnders 20:00 Holby City 21:00 Crimewatch 22:00 BBC News at Ten 22:32 BBC Weather 22:35 Crimewatch Update 22:45 Imagine... 23:35 The Wackness 01:10 Weatherview 01:15 See Hear 01:45 The Big Silence 02:45 The Bionic Vet 03:15 BBC News 03:30 The Reporters 04:00 BBC News 04:30 HARDtalk
07:00 Arthur 07:15 Muddle Earth 07:25 OOglies 07:40 What's New ScoobyDoo? 08:00 M.I. High 08:30 Mission: 2110 09:00 Ingenious 10:00 Little Howard's Big Question 10:20 Sam and Mark's Guide to Dodging Disaster 10:50 Dennis & Gnasher 11:00 Roy 11:30 The Big Performance 12:00 The Cut 12:30 The Season 13:00 The Season 13:30 The 5:19 Show
13:50 Revealed 14:05 Revealed Extra 14:20 The Sky at Night 14:40 The Big Circus 16:30 Live: Snooker 17:30 Dad's Army 18:00 Making Scotland's Landscapes 19:00 Live: Snooker 21:30 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:15 QI XL 23:00 The Trip 23:30 Dara O'Briain Live at the Theatre Royal 00:30 Snooker 01:20 Gilda 03:05 Pages from Ceefax
07:00 Arthur 07:15 Muddle Earth 07:25 Sportsround 07:40 Bear Behaving Badly 08:00 Scoop 08:25 Hotel Trubble 08:55 Diddy Dick and Dom 09:00 Deadly 60 09:30 Horrible Histories 10:00 Something for the Weekend 11:30 Escape to the Country 12:00 The Triple Cross 14:00 Live: Snooker 17:20 The Three Musketeers 19:00 Coast 19:30 Dad's Army
20:00 Live: Snooker 00:00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 00:30 The Stephen K Amos Show 01:00 Homicide 02:35 Dateline London 03:00 BBC News 03:30 The Record Europe 03:55 Pages from Ceefax
09:40 Toddworld 09:50 Pingu 10:00 Waybuloo 10:20 Clifford's Puppy Days 10:30 Pablo the Little Red Fox 10:35 3rd and Bird 10:50 Wibbly Pig 11:00 In the Night Garden 11:30 Animal Park 12:00 The Daily Politics 12:30 GMT 13:00 Due South 13:45 Film 2010 with Claudia Winkleman 14:15 Ready, Steady, Cook 15:00 Murder, She Wrote 15:45 Flog It! 16:30 Pointless 17:15 The Hairy Bikers' Cook
Off 18:00 Celebrity Eggheads 18:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 19:00 This World 20:00 University Challenge 20:30 Miranda 21:00 Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders 22:00 Grumpy Old Men 22:30 Newsnight 23:20 American Dream 00:20 BBC News 00:30 BBC World News America 01:00 BBC News 01:30 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer 02:00 BBC News
09:25 The Large Family 09:40 Toddworld 09:50 Pingu 10:00 Waybuloo 10:20 Clifford's Puppy Days 10:30 Pablo the Little Red Fox 10:35 3rd and Bird 10:50 Wibbly Pig 11:00 In the Night Garden 11:30 Animal Park 12:00 The Daily Politics 12:30 GMT 13:00 Due South 13:45 Car Booty 14:15 Ready, Steady, Cook 15:00 Murder, She Wrote 15:45 Flog It! 16:30 Pointless
17:15 The Hairy Bikers' Cook Off 18:00 Celebrity Eggheads 18:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 19:00 Coast 20:00 Decade of Discovery 21:00 Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town 22:00 Miranda 22:30 Newsnight 23:20 This World 00:20 BBC News 00:30 BBC World News America 01:00 BBC News 01:30 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer 02:00 BBC News
06:00 The Fluffy Club 07:25 Toonattik 09:25 Cool Stuff Collective 09:50 Planet Sketch 10:00 The Planet's Funniest Animals 10:30 The Crocodile Hunter Diaries 11:30 This Morning: Saturday 12:30 ITV News and Weather 12:35 You've Been Framed! 13:05 Best Ever Worst Dance Moments 14:05 Step Up 16:00 Liar Liar 17:35 London Tonight
17:45 ITV News and Weather 18:00 This Is JLS 19:00 The X Factor: Final 21:00 Take Me Out 22:00 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 23:00 ITV News and Weather 23:15 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 00:15 The Zone 02:15 Surface 03:00 Sons and Daughters 03:25 ITV Nightscreen
06:00 The Fluffy Club 07:25 Toonattik 09:25 Monk 09:30 The X Factor: Final 11:30 This Morning: Sunday 12:30 ITV News and Weather 12:35 Coronation Street Omnibus 16:15 Midsomer Murders 18:15 London Tonight 18:30 ITV News and Weather 18:45 All Star Family Fortunes 19:30 The X Factor: The Final Results 21:30 Piers Meets Elton: A
Life Stories Special 22:45 ITV News and Weather 23:00 Music and Lyrics 00:55 The Zone 02:00 Motorsport UK 02:55 ITV Nightscreen
06:00 Daybreak 08:30 Lorraine 09:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 This Morning 12:30 Loose Women 13:30 ITV News and Weather 14:00 House Gift 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 Midsomer Murders 17:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 18:00 London Tonight 18:30 ITV News and Weather 19:00 Emmerdale 19:30 Coronation Street 20:00 Countrywise Kitchen
20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 The Savoy 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 Young Adam 00:25 The Zone 02:25 UEFA Champions League Weekly 02:55 The Jeremy Kyle Show 03:50 The Jeremy Kyle Show 04:40 ITV Nightscreen
06:00 Daybreak 08:30 Lorraine 09:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 This Morning 12:30 Loose Women 13:30 ITV News and Weather 14:00 House Gift 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 Midsomer Murders 17:00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show 18:00 London Tonight 18:30 ITV News and Weather 19:00 Emmerdale 19:30 Living in Fear:
Tonight 20:00 A Touch of Frost 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 The War You Don't See 00:25 The Zone 02:25 The Rockford Files 03:20 The Jeremy Kyle Show 04:15 ITV Nightscreen
06:25 The Treacle People 06:35 Yo Gabba Gabba 07:00 World Sport 07:25 Extreme Sailing Series Europe 07:55 The Morning Line 08:55 One Tree Hill 09:50 Ugly Betty 10:40 Koko Pop 11:15 T4 Movie Special 11:40 Friends 12:10 Friends 12:45 Beyoncé: I Am... World Tour 13:45 Channel 4 Racing 15:55 Come Dine with Me 16:25 Come Dine with Me 16:55 Come Dine with Me 17:25 Come Dine with Me
17:55 Come Dine with Me 18:25 The Political Slot 18:30 Channel 4 News 18:55 4thought.tv 19:00 Kirstie and Phil's Perfect Christmas 20:00 Kirstie and Phil's Perfect Christmas 21:00 Meet the Spartans 22:40 The Beach 00:55 King of the Hill 01:20 King of the Hill 01:40 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 02:25 Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 03:15 Brothers & Sisters 04:00 One Tree Hill 04:40 The O.C.
06:10 Sali Mali 06:15 Planet Cook 06:35 Yo Gabba Gabba 07:00 Survival of the Fittest 07:30 Freesports on 4 07:55 Sony Ericsson World B-Boy Series 08:55 Hollyoaks Omnibus 11:35 Friends 12:05 Friends 12:40 Ugly Betty 13:40 The Simpsons 14:15 The Simpsons 14:50 Volcano 16:50 Deal or No Deal 17:40 Elf 19:30 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought. 20:00 Celebrity Come Dine
with Me Christmas Special 21:00 Any Human Heart 22:25 Desperate Housewives 23:25 8 Out of 10 Cats 00:15 The Real Housewives of New Jersey 01:15 Live: NFL Football 04:45 Freesports on 4 05:15 Grudge Match 05:25 Countdown
06:30 Planet Cook 06:50 Yo Gabba Gabba 07:15 Freshly Squeezed 07:40 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:05 Smallville 09:00 One Tree Hill 09:55 Friends 10:25 Friends 10:55 Glee 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 12:30 Iron Chef UK 13:35 Hills of Home 15:25 Countdown 16:10 Deal or No Deal 17:00 Come Dine with Me
17:30 Four in a Bed 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 Heston's Christmas Feast 21:00 River Cottage Christmas 22:00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 23:05 Peep Show 23:40 The Simpsons 00:10 Music on 4 Favourites 00:40 Party Poker Premier League Poker 01:40 Guilty by Suspicion 03:25 King of the Hill 03:50 King of the Hill 04:10 Brothers & Sisters
07:15 Squeezed 07:40 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:05 Smallville 09:00 One Tree Hill 09:55 Friends 10:30 Friends 11:00 Glee 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 Iron Chef UK 13:05 Swiss Family Robinson 15:25 Countdown 16:10 Deal or No Deal 17:00 Come Dine with Me 17:30 Four in a Bed 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News
19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 Kirstie's Homemade Home 21:00 The Family 22:00 Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights 22:35 The Morgana Show 23:10 The Big Bang Theory 23:35 Robert's Web 00:10 Paloma Faith 00:25 The Shockwaves Album Chart Show 00:40 The Crush 01:05 Sony Ericsson World B-Boy Series 02:00 Freesports on 4 02:30 Beach Volleyball 03:20 KOTV 03:50 World Sport
07:20 Roobarb and Custard Too 07:30 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 07:40 Make Way for Noddy 07:55 Mist: Sheepdog Tales 08:05 The Little Princess 08:20 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 08:35 Play! 08:45 Castle Farm 08:55 Olivia 09:10 The Mr. Men Show 09:30 George Shrinks 10:00 Your Sport 10:10 The Gadget Show 11:10 All I Want for Christmas
12:55 The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue 14:55 Avalanche Express 16:35 Five News 16:40 Airport 19:15 NCIS 20:00 NCIS 21:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 22:00 CSI: NY 22:55 CSI: NY 23:50 Forensic Files 00:10 Super Casino 04:00 Fifth Gear 04:25 HouseBusters 04:50 Your Sport
07:00 Mio Mao 07:05 The Wot Wots 07:20 Roobarb and Custard Too 07:30 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 07:45 Make Way for Noddy 07:55 Mist: Sheepdog Tales 08:05 The Little Princess 08:20 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 08:40 Family! 08:45 Castle Farm 09:00 Olivia 09:15 The Mr Men Show 09:30 George Shrinks 10:00 iCarly 10:35 True Jackson, VP
11:10 Your Sport 11:25 Street Market Chefs 11:55 Cats and Dogs 13:30 Blizzard 15:30 Snow White 17:15 Five News 17:20 Force 10 from Navarone 19:50 The One 21:30 Dirty Dancing 23:35 Fools Rush In 01:40 Super Casino 04:00 HouseBusters 04:25 Fifth Gear 04:50 Your Sport
08:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 08:15 Peppa Pig 08:20 Peppa Pig 08:30 Roary the Racing Car 08:40 Hana's Helpline 08:50 Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom 09:05 Castle Farm 09:15 The Wright Stuff 10:45 Trisha Goddard 11:45 Five News 11:50 CSI: NY 12:45 CSI: NY 13:45 Neighbours 14:15 Home and Away 14:50 Your Sport 14:55 Meals in Moments 15:05 A Christmas Visitor 17:00 Five News
17:30 Neighbours 18:00 Home and Away 18:25 Live From Studio Five 19:00 Five News at 7 19:30 How Do They Do It? 20:00 The Gadget Show 21:00 Extreme Fishing with Robson Green 22:00 Sudden Impact 00:25 The World of Stupid Criminals 00:55 Super Casino 04:00 The FBI Files 04:45 House Doctor
08:20 Peppa Pig 08:30 Roary the Racing Car 08:40 Hana's Helpline 08:50 Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom 09:05 Castle Farm 09:15 The Wright Stuff 10:45 Trisha Goddard 11:45 Five News 11:50 CSI: NY 12:45 CSI: NY 13:45 Neighbours 14:15 Home and Away 14:50 Your Sport 14:55 Meals in Moments 15:10 The Christmas Gift 17:00 Five News 17:30 Neighbours 18:00 Home and Away
18:25 Live From Studio Five 19:00 Five News at 7 19:30 Street Market Chefs 20:00 Sea Patrol 21:00 CSI: Miami 22:00 CSI: NY 23:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 00:00 True Crime Scene 00:55 Super Casino 04:00 The FBI Files 04:45 House Doctor
19:00 The Real Hustle on Holiday 19:15 Great TV Mistakes 19:25 Bruce Almighty 21:00 Russell Howard's Good News Extra 21:45 Family Guy 22:05 Family Guy 22:30 American Dad! 22:50 American Dad! 23:15 Great TV Mistakes
23:45 Russell Howard's Good News Extra 00:30 Family Guy 00:50 Family Guy 01:15 Family Guy 01:40 Family Guy 02:05 Lip Service 03:05 Lip Service 04:05 Lip Service 05:00 Special 1 TV 05:05 SIGN OFF
19:00 Great Movie Mistakes 20:00 Sherlock 21:30 Gavin and Stacey: The Outtakes 22:00 How Not to Live Your Life 22:30 Family Guy 23:10 American Dad 23:30 American Dad 00:00 Gavin and Stacey: The Outtakes
00:30 How Not to Live Your Life 01:00 Family Guy 01:20 Family Guy 01:45 Family Guy 02:05 Family Guy 02:30 Family Guy 02:55 Being Human 03:55 Being Human 04:55 Freak Like Me 05:25 SIGN OFF
19:00 Great Movie Mistakes 19:05 Doctor Who 19:55 Doctor Who 21:00 The World's Strictest Parents 22:00 EastEnders 22:30 How Not to Live Your Life 23:00 Family Guy 23:20 Family Guy 23:45 The World's Strictest
Parents 00:45 How Not to Live Your Life 01:15 Mad About the House 02:15 Lip Service 03:15 Lip Service 04:15 Great Movie Mistakes 04:20 Mad About the House 05:20 SIGN OFF
19:00 Total Wipeout 20:00 EastEnders: The Greatest Cliffhangers 21:00 Mad About the House 22:00 EastEnders 22:30 Young Fishmonger of the Year 23:30 Family Guy 23:50 Family Guy 00:15 Mad About the
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BENALMAdENA Municipal Police 952 562 142 Health Centre 952 440 404 / 952 443 545 Arroyo de la Miel Health Centre 952 562 142 Taxi 952 441 545 Tourist Office 952 442 494 Foreign Residents Department 952 579 802
First Aid (Night time & Holidays) 952 468 653 Police (Urgent 092) 952 589 324 Taxi 952 471 000 Tourist Office 952 467 625 Town Hall 952 589 300 Foreign Residents Department 952 589 440
ESTEPONA Bus Station 952 800 249 Municipal Police 952 800 243 Taxi 952 802 900 Tourist Office 952 800 913 Town Hall 952 801 100 Fire Brigade 952 792 121 Foreign Residents Department 952 809 031
GIBRALTAR Ambulance 199 Fire Brigade 190 / +350 200 72936 Police 199 / +350 200 72500 Tourist Office +350 200 74982
FUENGIROLA Bus Station 952 475 066 Fire Brigade (Urgent 080) 952 461 046 First Aid (Emergency) 952 468 835
MALAGA Airport 952 048 804 Bus Station 952 350 061 Fire Brigade 952 411 890 Guardia Civil 952 071 520 Renfe Railway Station 902 240 202 Taxi 952 327 950
Tourist Office 952 213 445 Town Hall 952 135 000 MARBELLA Bus Station 952 764 400 Fire Brigade 952 774 349 Municipal Police 952 899 500 Taxi 952 774 488 Tourist Office 952 771 442 Town Hall 952 761 100 MIjAS Police Las Lagunas 952 460 909 Fire Brigade Las Lagunas 952 586 328 Town Hall & Foreign Residents Department 952 485 900 Town Hall Las Lagunas 952 473 125 Taxi 952 478 288 Social Services 952 486 370 Consumer Office 952 582 911 Tourism Office 952 589 034
NERjA Municipal Police 952 521 545 Taxi 952 520 537 Tourist Information 952 521 531 Town Hall 952 548 401 SAN PEdRO dE ANCANTARA Fire Brigade 952 774 349 Town Hall 952 789 300 TORREMOLINOS Bus Station 952 382 419 Fire Brigade 952 381 414 Taxi 952 380 600 Tourist Office 952 379 512 Town Hall 952 379 400 VELEz MALAGA Town Hall 952 559 100 Municipal Police 952 549 238
Austria 952 600 267 Belgium 952 599 159 Canada 952 223 346 denmark 952 211 797 Finland 952 212 435 France 952 226 590 Germany 952 363 591 Great Britain 952 352 300 Greece 952 311 847 Holland 952 380 888 Hungary 952 308 393 Iceland 952 661 200 Ireland 952 475 108 Italy 952 306 150 Norway 952 667 955 Phillipines 952 222 757 Saudi Arabia 952 310 358 Sweden 952 604 383 USA 952 474 891
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CHURCHES Church of England / Episcopal St. Georges Malaga 952 219 396 San Miguel Nerja 952 521 339 Parish Church Competa 952 219 396 Capilla de Nuestra Señora del Carmen Almuñeca 952 521 339 Anglican Chaplaincy of St Andrew Los Boliches 952 580 600 San José Chapel Carmen Church, Benalmadena Costa. Norwegian Church at El Camponario, Calahonda. Iglesia Cristo, Coin. Cemetary Chapel, Alhaurin el Grande. Iglesia Paroquial Virgen del Rocio San Pedro. Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Sotogrande. Torre Guadiaro 952 808 605 St Barnabus IERE (Anglican) 958 359 388 St Barnabus IERE (Anglican) 952 030 461 Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar +350 200 78377 Muslim Mezquita del Rey Abdul Aziz 952 774 143 Mezquita del Centro Cultural Sohail, Fuengirola 952 473 916 Mezquita Calle San Augustin, Malaga 952 228 595 Roman Catholic Santo Cristo del Calvario, Marbella 952 774 899 Saint Joseph’s Chapel, Fuengirola 952 472 985 Lux Mundi, Fuengirola 952 474 840
Church of the Immaculate Conception Arroyo de la Miel Hermita de San Miguel, Calahonda St Andrew’s Chapel, Los Boliches Parish Church of Virgen del Carmen, Benalmadena Costa Lux Mundi Second Ecumenical Centre, Torre del Mar 952 543 334 Nuestra Señora de Europa, Chiclana (Cadiz) Methodist Methodist Church, Gibraltar +350 200 77491 / +350 200 40870 La Capilla de la Torre, Sotogrande, 956 795 062 La Capilla de la Torre, Torre Guadiaro, San Roque Jehovah’s Witnesses Edificio Apollo, Torremolinos 952 561 170 Kingdom Hall, Fuengirola 952 469 082 Calle José Palanca 20, Malaga. Fuente Nueva, San Pedro 952 818 595 Kingdom Hall, Torrox Costa 952 526 740 Calle Infantes, Torre del Mar. Calle Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente, Coin 952 499 239 Evangelical /Baptist/Pentecostal Elim Family Fellowship 952 486 820 / 951 912 525 Evangelical Church, Los Boliches 952 460 728 Evangelical Community Church, Torremolinos 952 384 706 Christ Ambassadors, Torremolinos
952 384 706 Fellowship of the King, Nerja 958 658 439 Community Bible Fellowship, Nerja 952 521 776 Presbyterian Hotel Torremar, Torre del Mar 952 532 825 Informal Community Church, Torrox Park, 952 532 825 Evangelical Christian Fellowship, Calahonda 952 930 275 Arroyo Baptist Church, Arroyo de la Miel 952 447 967 / 952 386 716 Baptist Church, Calahonda 952 834 213 Asambleas de Dios, La Linea. The International Christian Fellowship, Marbella 952 932 216 Christian Church, Christamar Centre, Puerto Banus 637 408 194 Words of Power Evangelical Church, Mijas 952 591 180 Fellowship of the King, Salobreña 958 658 439 Fellowship of the King, Almuñeca 958 658 439 Evangelical Reformed Church, Almuñeca 958 639 529 / 677 699 490 Fellowship of the King, La Viñuela 952 033 021 Brethren Assembly, Gibraltar. Plaza Ibensa 35 - 37, Benalmadena 952 486 820 Ark Christian Fellowship, Fuengirola 952 592 171 Faith Baptist Church, San Pedro 952 930 458
Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre, Fuengirola 951 260 982 / 654 328 016 Saint Andrews Church, Gibraltar +350 200 77040 Dutch Evangelical Skandinaviska Turistkyran, Fuengirola. Avenida Montemar 10a, Torremolinos. Church of Jesus Christ of latter day Saints Calle Rueda 7, Los Boliches 952 469 392 / 607 521 032 Calle Jesus del Gran Poder, Motril 958 825 665 Calle Babell 1, Malaga. Calle Sevilla 43, Algeciras 956 630 894 Bahai Bahai Information Offices: Marbella 952 902 121 Fuengirola 952 474 447 Malaga 952 214 057 Benalmadena 952 442 424 Alhaurin de la Torre 952 411 496 Rincon de la Victoria 952 402 870 Gibraltar +350 200 73287 Synagogues Beth Minzi, Torremolinos 952 052 550 Beth El, Marbella 952 859 395 Quakers Quakers (Society of Friends) Malaga zvi@gotadsl.co.uk
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The Norwegian Seamans Church El Campanario, Calahonda 952 939 800
MABS Cancer Support Group 952 833 568 NADFAS Costa del Sol 952 382 713 De La Frontera 952 804 692 Nerja 958 640 176 Nederlandse Club 952 473 545 Out of Africa Association 952 668 081 / 952 440 312 Photograpihic Society Costa del Sol 952 446 893 Positively Pink (Breast Cancer charity) 670 004 422 Recovery International (Mental Health) 952 593 455 Rotary Club Benahavis 670 604 392 Benalmadena 952 441 440 Estepona 952 800 999 Fuengirola/Mijas 648 292 146 Guadalmina 610 702 683 Marbella 952 821 121 San Pedro 951 318 381 Royal Air Force Association RAFA 952 119 708 / 952 484 117 Royal Antideluvian Order of Buffaloes 952 563 950 / 951 313 970 Royal British Legion: Alcaucin 696 391 224 Alhaurin de la Torre 952 595 412 Alhaurin el Grande 952 499 238 / 655 316 160 Benajarafe 952 514 226 Benalmadena 952 447 655 Coin 637 474 753 /663 157 776 Colmenar 951 163 071 Estepona 671 846 204 Fuengirola 952 468 106 La Viñuela 618 293 749
Marbella 952 774 572 Mijas Costa 615 758 959 Mollina 654 472 922 Nerja 952 526 423 Torre del Mar 628 343 198 Torremolinos 952 370 907 Trapiche 951 239 366 Royal Naval Club 677 311 902 Scouts 606 305 664 SOL Classic Car Club 951 244 149 Soroptimist International 653 771 625 Table Tennis Club International 952 373 813 The International Music Society (TIMS) 952 486 947 THESPA (The English Speaking Players Association) 952 472 985 Toastmasters Club 646 533 112 Torremolinos and District Social Club 952 386 172 Triple “S” 952 417 452 U3A Fuengirola 952 494 172 U3A Marbella 622 670 158 U3A Marbella - Inland 952 112 847 41 and Tangent Club 639 542 387 (East of Malaga 951 160 509) Zoological Society 952 711 377 Animal Charities ACE Animal Charity 610 752 350 ADANA 952 800 975 CAS Animal Charity 952 523 607 CHAIN Animal Charity 672 399 323 FAMA Animal Charity 620 354 8850 PAD Animal Shelter 952 468 054 SEPE Horse and Donkey Charity 610 775 413 SOS Animals 626 351 881 Triple ‘A’ , Bettina, 952 771 586
CLUBS, SOCIETIES & CHARITIES Age Care Calahonda 691 761 088 / 655 903 182 Age Concern Lifeline 650 163 928 Alcoholics Anonymous 600 379 110 Al-Anon 662 180 326 Arroyo Friendly Club 952 446 935 American Club Costa del Sol Estepona, Sotogrande 952 804 693 Fuengirola, Mijas, Benalmadena 653 274 392 Malaga 952 400 006 Marbella 675 094 494 Arroyo Social and Welfare Club 952 051 610 Art of Living Club 646 379 944 Arte y Cultura Marbella 952 773 188 Asociacion Francofonos 952 815 444 Barbershop Harmony Group 952 473 051 Bowls: Belplaya Bowls Club, Torremolinos 952 416 534 Bridge Club - ACE 952 485 678 Bridge Club Atalaya 609 548 595 Bridge Club Calahonda 952 931 636 Bridge Club Casares 952 893 633 / 952 890 199 Bridge Club - Nerja 952 525 425 / 617 534 342 British Association of Marbella 951 275 049 / 952 828 533 British Society (Britsoc) 952 416 552 Brownies & Rainbows 667 433 581 Club Charity and Pleasure 696 241 678 Collegium Musicum 952 775 492 / 952 475 840 Computer Club St Andrews 637 091 130 Conservatives Abroad 951 250 901 / 952 565 777 Costa Chordbusters 952 464 184
Cricket Club Costa del Sol 606 526 618 Cubs & Beavers 952 568 55 / 618 705 166 CUDECA 952 564 910 Diabetic Support Group - Alhaurin /Fuengirola/Puerto Banus 952 464 184 English Speaking Group Malaga 952 432 235 Estepona Floral Arts 952 880 935 Ferrari Owners Club 952 812 490 Friends of the Theatre (FOTA) 952 448 410 Fuengirola and District Society 952 476 385 Good Companions 952 494 730 Guides 667 433 581 Hash House Harriers 606 761 942 / 654 633 430 History Club Nerja 952 538 526 International Club of Estepona 952 802 549 International Labour Group 952 464 324 / 952 375 909 International Music Club 952 449 298 Irish Association of Spain 952 375 482 Irish Cultural Association 952 374 127 Jazz Appreciation Society, Benavista 952 888 106 / 669 504 942 Jazz Club 952 830 900 Amigos de Jazz 952 669 580 Lions Clubs: Benalmadena 627 440 361 Calahonda 952 934 791 / 647 379 652 La Cala de Mijas 952 473 238 Marbella 952 823 135 Marbella Francofono 952 815 444 Nerja 952 523 051 Puerto Banus 620 288 500 Los Claveles Charity 952 810 374 Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre Fuengirola 952 474 840
MONdAY: Marbella at Las Albarizas, Alora, Torrox at El Llano, Torrox at Urb Costa del Oro TUESdAY: Antequerra, Fuengirola, Marbella at Puerto Banus WEdNESdAY: Alhaurin de la Torre, Estepona, Malaga next to Avenida Juan XXIII, La Cala, Rincón de la Victoria at Supersol. THURSdAY: Alhaurin el Grande, Malaga at Cruz de Humilladero, San Pedro Alcantara, Nerja, Torre de Mar, Torremolinos, Velez at El Pozancon. La Trocha (Coin) boot sale. FRIdAY: Almunecar, Benalmadena, Manilva, Rincón de la Victoria at La Cala del Moral. SATURdAY: Coin, Malaga at El Palo, Nueva Andalucia, La Cala II, Las Lagunas, Ojen, Velez at La Caleta de Velez. SUNdAY: Estacion de Cartama, Malaga at Matiricos, Rincón de la Victoria at Benalgalbon, Ronda. La Trocha (Coin) boot sale. Pizarra - boot sale.
EMERGENCY NUMBERS Emergency Number to make a preliminary report in English - you must still report to a National police station to sign the report to make it official within 48 hours 902
102 112 Emergency Operator 112 Ambulance 061 Fire Brigade 080 National Police 091 Local Police 092 Sea Rescue 900 202 202
HOSPITALS Carlos Haya 951 290 000 Materno Infantil 951 290 00 University Hospital 951 032 000 Costa del Sol Hospital 951 976 670
CINEMAS Malaga - Plaza Mayor: 902 902 103 Fuengirola - Parque Miramar: 952 198 600 Marbella - Gran Marbella: 952 810 077 Velez Malaga - C.C. El Ingenio: 902 221 622
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Chevy’s new 7 seater people mover Winnie’s Daimler European consumers love the compact people movers generally termed monocabs, multi- to go to auction purpose vehicles, or a small crossover SUV. Now Chevrolet has announced full pricing and specification details for the upcoming Orlando; its first MPV to see British shores. The Orlando line-up is split into three trim levels – LS, LT and LTZ – and customers can choose from three Euro 5compliant engines, two diesels and one petrol. The range starts with the LS trim, which gets air conditioning, electric windows and mirrors, three 12v power sockets, follow-
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me-home headlights, electronic stability control and six airbags as standard. Also included is a supplementary rear-view mirror for the front passenger and a storage compartment behind the stereo fascia to hide any valuables.
cycle while emitting 172g/km of CO2. Alternatively, customers can upgrade to the 127bhp 2.0-litre diesel engine, which cuts emissions down to 159g/km and boasts an improved combined fuel
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THE ASHES 2010/2011
It took only 90 minutes for England to bowl out the last six wickets of Australia for a total 304 to win the second Test in Adelaide in emphatic fashion by an innings and 71 runs and take a 1-0 lead in the Ashes.The huge deluge that the Australians were hoping for failed to arrive on time, as they resumed in warm sunny conditions on 238-4.Michael Hussey's wicket was the first to fall for 52 in the sixth full over, then James Anderson struck twice with successive deliveries.There was a brief moment of concern on the final morning when wicketkeeper Matt Prior failed to cling on to a thin edge from Hussey three balls after the obdurate lefthander had recorded his 23rd Test fifty, prompting fears that the man known as 'Mr Cricket' might somehow help Australia scrape a draw. A reprieve for such a renowned occupier of the crease, coupled with uncertainty over the
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Runners and riders line up for Toon job Chris Hughton was surprisingly axed as manager on Monday just 24 hours after the 3-1 defeat at West Brom. Now Martin Jol and Alan Pardew have been strongly linked with the role and former Toon hero Shearer admits he would consider a return to St James' Park. Shearer took charge of the side for eight games at the back end of the 2008/09 season but was unable to keep the side in the Premier League as they suffered relegation. Chris Hughton took Newcastle back to the Premiership after dominating the Championship last season.
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weather, might have led to some anxiety for England but 10 balls later Prior was relieved to see Hussey heading back to the pavilion. Ryan Harris
confirmed after a referral to the TV umpire.He became only the second Australian, after legendary wicket keeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist, to be dismissed for a king pair - out first ball in both
Siddle is dismissed by Swann to confirm England's victory
offered no shot to the next delivery, which swung back the other way, and was given out lbw, a decision
innings - in a Test match. Graeme Swann took the final wicket an hour before lunch by bowling Peter
Siddle to finish with figures of 5-91. Victory here means Australia need to win two of the last three Tests and stop England winning the other one if they are to reclaim the Ashes. Even though England will now be without Stuart Broad, that is a mighty big ask for an Australia side devoid of confidence, continuity and international class. It is very hard to see England losing the Ashes now. Not this England side. This England side is different. There has been a complete role reversal with Australia. They are very well placed now to become the first England team to win an Ashes series in Australia for 24 years. This was England’s 100th Test victory against Australia, their first win against them by an innings for 24 years, and only their ninth in 30 Tests at Adelaide.For Australia, the torrential rain they had hoped for did eventually arrive late in the afternoon but by then the England celebrations were in full swing. England then are in the ascendancy as the series moves west to Perth for the third Test beginning on December 16th.
Team GB in the medals Britain’s leading at Melbourne Worlds downhill racer suffers horrific breaks Chris Hoy won the men's keirin to clinch another gold at the track World Cup event in Melbourne to add
Chris Hoy and Matt Crampton joined Jason Kenny to take gold
to his team sprint gold along with Matt Crampton and Jason Kenny, while Victoria Pendleton took silver in the sprints. On day two of the competition where vital qualification points for the 2012 Olympics can be gained Pendleton was second to Australia's Anna Meares. Olympic champion
Pendleton also took silver, with Jess Varnish, for Great Britain in the team event on Thursday. Ed Clancy also took bronze for Britain in the men's omnium.
And Jason Kenny also won sprint silver as Great Britain picked up two more medals on the final day of the World Cup event, taking their total to seven. Olympic silver medallist Kenny missed out to Australian Shane Perkins in the final, with GB's Matt Crampton seventh. The European champion GB men's pursuit team of Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Luke Rowe and Andrew Tennant could only take bronze behind Australia and Russia
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Chemmy Alcott, Britain’s leading ski racer, believed she was about to die when she suffered a horrific leg break after a high-speed crash in a training session on the eve of a World Cup downhill race at Lake Louise, Canada last week. Alcott, 28, the three-time Olympian, who was recovering in hospital in Canada on Sunday, said: “It’s the worst pain I’ve ever been in and I’ve broken my neck and my back in other crashes. I really didn’t know if I would be all there as I fell.” The accident happened on Thursday, when, during final practice for the
Four star Malaga gain vital three points Malaga 4 - 1 Racing Santander - as Pellegrini opts for attacking line up Malaga started brightly and as early as the second minute Duda really should have put Malaga one nil up. However, Racing came into the game with striker Rosenberg going close on two occasions.
and give the visitors a glimmer of hope. Any thoughts Racing had of mounting a comeback after the break though were quickly snuffed out, as Rondon
José Salomón Rondón,breaks through the Racing defence
All their pressure was unable to give them the lead, though, and Malaga duly broke the deadlock with 27 minutes gone. A training ground move saw Duda's corner floated to the edge of the box where Eliseu's volley flew into the bottom corner. It was a great goal to set Malaga on the way. After great build up play Malaga went 2-0 with 2 minutes of the half left, Recio collecting the ball to score from the edge of the box. However a lapse in concentration by Weligton seconds before half time let in Rosenberg to slot home
took centre stage, he forced home Eliseu's 52nd-minute cross to give the home side some breathing space and then got his head on a centre from the same player to make it four soon after. Fernandez then went close as did the ever dangerous Rondon who should have had a hat trick. One of the easiest wins seen at La Roselada for a while and it sees Malaga out of the relegation places. For the next game the team travel to Alicante to take on Hercules. Report By Scott Forbes
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Westwood on cruise control to Graeme McDowell take Nedbank Golf Challenge overhauls Tiger Lee Westwood confirmed his status as the world’s number one golfer last weekend, with a resounding victory at the Gary Player country club. No one could get near the 37- year- old from Worksop, after he chipped in for a birdie on the 18th to secure a final–round of 68 and finish on 17 under par, with Tim Clark of South Africa finishing a distant second, closing (71) and leaving him only one ahead of fellow South African Retief Goosen and Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez. Ernie Els and England’s Ross Fisher were a further three back on five under after respective rounds of (73) and (75). Ireland's Padraig Harrington (75) ended up alongside defending champion Robert Allenby, who finished with a score of 72. Dane Anders Hansen and Italian Edoardo Molinari both finished on (76) and Louis Oosthuizen brought up the rear on two over after signing for a (74). After his rivals struggled in blustery winds, Lee Westwood showed exactly why he has earned his title as world’s number one golfer when he carded five birdies with ease to win the $1.25m
(£792,000) first prize. His only blemish, which was rare for Westwood, was a dropped shot at 17, but he certainly made up for it with a stunning chip on the last hole. In an interview on Sunday he joked: "I think that's the first time I chipped in all year. That's what you call a grand stand finish. It was a good time to do it." He then added: "It was never over. Sometimes it's more pressure with a big lead because it's yours to blow then. I got off to a fast start, got a few in front and then felt pretty comfortable, particularly after birdies at nine and 10. It was a nice
back nine because it was tricky out there, the wind was strong and swirling around and the finish was tough. I was just pleased to get it done in the end." This is Westwood’s second triumph of the year after having won the St Jude Classic in America, which will secure his status at the top spot in the world rankings for the rest of 2010. It was a great achievement yet again for Westwood, who seems to be on an all time high after such a successful year. Report by Claire Voet
Graeme McDowell showed once again that he is a real pressure player as he clawed back a four-shot deficit to beat Tiger Woods and win the Chevron World Challenge. The Irishman holed a 20-foot putt on the 18th green on the final hole of regulation to force a playoff and then did it again on the same green to win on the first hole of that play-off. "This is dream stuff," the 2010 US Open champion said afterwards. It was for McDowell, but it was something else for Woods, who had never lost a tournament in which he had led by four shots. In a year of unwanted "firsts", it was yet another setback. A gracious Woods said: “I thought I had it in the bag but, when you consider how well Graeme has been playing this year, I honestly wasn’t surprised to see those monster putts of his go in.” Yet if the ultimate outcome was disappointing for Woods, he will have taken heart from a week in which his golf swing has looked as good as it has in a long while, even if his putting stroke has not. For it was the missed
putts that cost him his first victory of 2010,and it seems inconceivable to comprehend a season without a Tiger Woods victory.
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Kaymer and G-Mac share award Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer have been named joint winners of the 2010 European Tour Golfer of the Year award. They both won their first major titles, McDowell the US Open and Kaymer the USPGA, won four times each and played on Europe's victorious Ryder Cup team. Northern Ireland's McDowell secured the final point to beat the United States in the Ryder Cup while Germany's Kaymer won the "Race to Dubai" money list. They are pictured right with the Dubai trophy.
O’Sullivan dumped out Ronnie O'Sullivan suffered a stunning 9-6 defeat to qualifier Stuart Bingham on Monday night in the first round of the 12bet.com UK Championship. Bingham later hit out at O'Sullivan's sportsmanship after his shock victory. The threetime former world
champion looked to be fending off Bingham's threat when he moved from the overnight score of 4-4 to a 6-4 lead with breaks of 62 and 77. However the 35 year-old, a day on from his birthday, then dropped five frames in a row to make his early exit. Bingham did not even need to score heavily to take the frames, his highest break in the run being a modest 48 to O'Sullivan's paltry 24. Bingham, 34, has caused shocks in the past, notably when he ousted defending champion Stephen Hendry from the World Championship at the firstround stage in 2000. The
world No 23 aimed a blast at O'Sullivan after his victory, accusing his fellow Essex cueman of being a player who displays a lack of good manners at the table. "When you fluke a ball or fluke a snooker, 99 out of 100 players apologise to their opponent, but Ronnie doesn't do that," Bingham said. "Before the match I said to my manager that if I get a fluke and say sorry, he can slap me round the face. A couple of times in the match Ronnie fluked a ball and never said a word. We used to practise together, he would text me and ask if I wanted a game. But he hasn't texted me for nearly a year." O'Sullivan admitted: "I was just second to the punch all day and felt as if I was being bullied around the table.I was second to Stuart in every department."
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Ian Botham and Ian Chappell in new bust up Legendary cricket enemies Sir Ian Botham and Ian Chappell had to be pulled apart after a furious bust-up in the car park after the end of play on the fourth day in the Adelaide Test. The England and Australia icons have a feud going back more than 30 years and squared up before their Sky and Channel 9 colleagues intervened. A Channel 9 source, who works with Chappell, said: “They went for each other all right and it could have got very nasty if there hadn't been people on hand to keep them apart.”
FORMULA 1 Red Bull driver Mark Webber raced with broken shoulder Mark Webber has revealed he raced the final four races of the Formula One season with a broken shoulder. The Red Bull driver was injured while mountain biking on the morning before the Japanese Grand Prix, he reveals in his new book, Up Front 2010, A Season To Remember. The fracture could not be treated and he had to race with cortisone injections to numb the pain.
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