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Ceasefire oﬀer fails key tests Three hooded members of the Basque terrorist group ETA announced "a permanent and general ceasefire which will be verifiable by the international community" on a video released on Tuesday morning but made no mention of handing over weapons and the announcement was rejected by the government and others. In summary: it's an ETA that displays the same arrogance as always, plus the usual discourse." Sr Rubalcaba said the government would continue to demand an unconditional surrender. He told reporters: “If you ask me whether I am more relaxed today than yesterday, honestly I would say yes. If you ask if this is the end, no. Is this what Spanish society expected? Clearly no.”

Last September, the government rejected a less explicit cease-fire declaration because ETA, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States, had not offered to hand over weapons or said the ceasefire was permanent At Monday's televised press conference, Sr Rubalcaba also rejected ETA’s call for outside intervention. Local

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In his capacity as interior minister, deputy PM Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told a press conference immediately after the video was released: "From reading their statement, we can see that we are dealing with an ETA that has the same aims as always.” He went on: "It's an ETA that has a distorted view of reality, that has a list of demands that it's not abandoning.

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The requirement to disarm is a key demand from the government – the “etarras” also said ETA would continue its "indefatigable struggle" for a "truly democratic situation in the Basque Country". ETA has broken ceasefires several times in the past. In 2006 the truce was ended by a bomb attack on the car park at Madrid airport, in which 2 men died.

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Bargain hunters fight was set up The start of the January sales is nearly always the first story on TV news broadcasts – probably because real news stories are thin on the ground between Christmas and Three Kings on January 6th – so it came as no surprise that the sight of two women grappling over a bargain at El Corte Ingles in Madrid was taken seriously by at least one national newspaper. However, it turned out that

the incident between a blonde and a redhead was staged by actress Yolanda Dominguez. She explained in her blog how she had prepared the scene for two months, with two actresses and a photographer and herself. She said she had wanted to do something about female rivalry and what better scenario than the January sales where “there is a degree of competitiveness, implicitly if not explicitly”.

One such specialist said police and judicial efforts had pushed ETA to a high level of despair and disorganization, so there was no reason for the government to change tack and allow negotiations that would risk giving ETA renewed vigour and a greater sense of legitimacy. He said Monday's statement showed that ETA had not given up the idea of imposing its own independence project which, he said, was completely unacceptable. ETA was formed in 1959 with the objective of establishing an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France. Since 1969, it has killed more than 850 people.

And the best sales are held at the famous department store. But she had to make up a script that had nothing to do with the sales – one of the actresses was apparently attacking the other one for stealing her job – because Spanish women are rarely caught fighting over sales bargains. They’re simply too well brought up to sink to that level.

Moratinos looks to FAO Former foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos presented his application for the job of Director General of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday, telling reporters that he wanted to eradicate poverty and hunger throughout the world. Speaking to them in the Spanish embassy in Rome,

Sr Moratinos said he was confident of getting the job because his six years as foreign minister had given him a lot of experience in that area of the world’s problems. Sr Moratinos is competing for the post with an Iraqi, an Indonesian and Brazilian Jose Graziano Da Silva, who is apparently the favourite with the 182

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Reactions Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said in a televised interview that ETA's announcement of a ceasefire did not go far enough. He said what the government wanted was the “definitive end” of ETA. Former defence minister and speaker José Bono said on television

Undaunted, Sr Moratinos said that as FAO’s director general his two main objectives would be eradicating poverty and hunger which was not a dream because the developed countries had the means to do so, and putting an end to speculation with the prices of agricultural products.

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that the cease-fire offer was “more of the same.” He added: “To hear talk about political negotiations from people who have killed so many politicians can only produce in me uneasiness and sadness.” Partido Popular spokeswoman Maria Dolores de Cospedal noted that ETA had not asked its victims for forgiveness or repented of its crimes. Rosa Diez (Union, Progreso y Democracia) called the announcement “a joke” and said ETA only wanted to use the democratic process to achieve its old ends. Spokesmen for the United Police Syndicate and the Unified Association of the Guardia Civil said there was “nothing new” in the announcement.

Business as usual As if to underline the general disenchantment with ETA's ceasefire offer, the Guardia Civil arrested two people in Zarautz and Ciboure in Guipuzcoa province on Tuesday who were suspected of training ETA terrorists in Venezuela.

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Spain to investigate deaths of During his three day visit to Spain last week, Chinese vice premier Li Keqiang (pictured above) reaﬃrmed that his country will buy Spanish government bonds, despite the recent Iranian exiles

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crisis of market confidence over eurozone debt, after signing trade deals worth €5.7 billion. The main deal was ratification of a giant Brazilian oil sale from Spain's Repsol to China's Sinopec. Others include exports of Spanish products, such as cured ham and olive oil, reflecting the Chinese population's growing interest in Western-style food. China's official Xinhua news agency

reported Mr Li as saying: "We will buy more Spanish government bonds depending on market conditions." His comments on Spanish government bonds were welcomed by those hoping that 2011 will not see a break-up of the eurozone. Mr Li was at the start of a European tour that took him to Germany

and the UK. China has the largest amount of foreign currency reserves in the world. Amnesty International criticised the government for not bringing up the matter of human rights during Mr Li's visit. AI spokesman Alfred Cerdán said there were serious violations of human rights

in China which included the execution of thousands of people every year, censoring of the internet and the media as well as stopping Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo from collecting the award but Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero “is more interested in signing trade agreements”.

Aznar hired by Endesa The Endesa electricity company has hired former Prime Minister José María Aznar as an external adviser to help develop its commercial strategies in Latin America. According to the Europa Press agency, Sr Aznar will be paid a salary of around €200,000 a

year. Just before Christmas, it was revealed that former prime minister Felipe Gonzalez will be joining the board of another energy company, Gas Natural, for a salary of €125,000 a year. The two former PMs have joined a small but select group of former ministers.

Sr Aznar's former deputy PM Rodrigo Rato is currently the chairman of Caja Madrid. Former minister Eduardo Zaplana work for Telefonica, and Javier Solana is an adviser to the Acciona construction company.

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Judge Fernando Andreu has opened a probe into a raid by Iraqi security forces on a camp housing an Iranian exile group in July 2009 which left 11 people dead. He is to decide whether crimes against humanity were committed when the troops took control of the camp in Diyala province. The judge said the Geneva Convention applied to the case, as it addressed the protection of civilians in wartime. He believed that Iraq was not investigating the incident properly. He has summoned Diyala's police chief, Gen Abdul Hussein alShemmari, to Madrid to answer questions. He is accused of directing the attack on Camp Ashraf, where more than 3,000 members of the banned opposition group, the People's Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI), had been confined by the US military since the invasion in 2003. The

complaint filed by Spanish human rights lawyers on behalf of relatives of the victims alleges that police and soldiers shot and beat unarmed residents of the camp so they could clear a space to build a police station there. The US military was not notified of the operation. Gen Shemmari has denied any involvement and Iraqi officials have blamed the exiles for the violence, saying they threw stones and petrol bombs. The PMOI is considered a terrorist group by the US and Iran. It set up Camp Ashraf in Iraq in the 1980s and was welcomed by then-President Saddam Hussein, who was fighting a war against Iran. The PMOI's military wing fought alongside Iraqi soldiers. Under Spain's universal justice doctrine, grave crimes committed in other countries can be prosecuted.

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Less than a year after Christian Barnard performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant in South Africa, Franco's son-in-law, Cristóbal Martínez Bordiú, tried to repeat the feat in September 1968. The positive coverage of Barnard's operation had given South Africa's apartheid regime a rare boost and after nearly three decades in power the Franco regime needed one too. Neither patient survived the operation for long: Barnard's lived for 18 days, and Martínez Bordiú's, a plumber named Juan Rodríguez Grillé, survived for just 27 hours. Rodríguez Grillé's daughter has now taken legal action against the Martínez Bordiú-Franco family for failing to keep a promise the surgeon - who died in 1998 - made to provide for her and her mother if her father died. María Jesús Rodríguez Boga said her father knew he was going to die and gave his life for the family.

Her mother, who is still alive, and the rest of her family were against the heart transplant, as was the family of the donor. Her father had been admitted to La Paz hospital in Madrid with chronic gall bladder and liver problems and Rodríguez Boga said her family were pressured into allowing the transplant. At the news conference after the death of Rodríguez Grillé, Martínez Bordiú

said the Labour Ministry would keep its promise to look after the family but the ministry had not contacted the family more than a year after Rodríguez Grillé's death. Rodríguez Boga said her mother wrote to the ministry reminding it of the promise made to the family but got no reply. Rodríguez Boga has now begun legal proceedings against the descendants of Martínez Bordiú.

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Stolen treasure and a stolen painting

Odyssey has claimed that the leaked cables show that the American ambassador offered to help Spain in the fight over the sunken treasure if the government persuaded a Madrid museum to return the 1897 Pissarro painting to a

California family that says it was illegally taken by Nazis in Germany. In the fight with Spain over the treasure in the US Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and the Justice Department have weighed in to support Spain’s claim. Odyssey has alleged that the federal government had a secret motive for getting involved in the case, and last Wednesday, its lawyers filed a motion asking the court to require the government to note its interests in the case. Odyssey’s chief executive, Greg Stemm said the company was concerned about the evidence available in the leaked

cables: “They are opening a window into the inner workings of international diplomacy for the general public, and it isn’t always pretty.” A State Department spokesman declined to comment but a New York lawyer representing Spain in the painting case has denied there was a secret

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the national Court has already computerised more than eight million documents and expects to become the first court in the country to do away with paper documents within two months. More than 100 people – half of them lawyers – have been working round the clock in eight hour shifts since september, uploading on average around 200,000 pages a day. the court uses some 27 million sheets of legal paper a year and its elimination represents a savings of more than €180,000. MaDrID

Good news on road deaths there were 58 road deaths over the Christmas and new year period, 14 fewer than during the same period last year. Given that the holiday season started oﬃcially on December 23rd and ended on January 7th, a traﬃc authority spokesman said this meant that 2010 ended with a drop of 9% in road deaths and that 2011 started with a similar drop. spain is the eu country that has most drastically reduced the number of road deaths in the past ten years. Basque Country

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One Wikileaks cable that has not aroused much comment in the Spanish press involves a treasure trove worth millions, the US government, the Spanish government and a painting by Camille Pissarro, valued at $20 million. Odyssey Marine Exploration, the Floridabased deep-sea treasure hunting company, is using classified cables from the State Department in its attempt to win its legal battle with Spain over the ownership of gold and silver coins worth $500 million which the company retrieved from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon off the coast of Portugal in 2007.

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Brazil’s finance minister Guido Mantega has warned that the world is on course for a trade war because of currency manipulation by China, the US and others. In his first major interview since Dilma Rousseff took office as Brazil's new president on January 1st, Mr Mantega said there is a currency war which is turning into a trade war. He added that China's "undervalued currency" was also distorting world trade. In September last year, he accused some rich countries of deliberately devaluing their currencies to boost exports and make their economies more competitive.

Police urged people to evacuate parts of Australia's third largest city - Brisbane - as huge floods approached the Queensland state capital on Tuesday. The city's mayor, Campbell Newman, warned that 6,500 homes, businesses and other properties were likely to be flooded by Thursday. The state is suffering its worst floods in decades. In Toowoomba, just west of Brisbane, nine people died when a raging torrent of water hit the town without warning on Monday, following more than 36 hours of incessant rain. At least 70 people are missing.

A huge rescue operation was mounted as many residents clung to trees or railings or were trapped in cars or on the roofs of buildings. At least four of the dead were children and two of them died in a car with their mother. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has warned that the death toll is likely to rise. State Premier Anna Bligh called the flash floods Queensland's "darkest hour" since the floods began

at the end of November. Some 200,000 people have been affected across the state, and billions of dollars worth of damage has been caused. The flooding has been so widespread that while some communities are still bracing themselves for the worst, in others the clean-up is under way. The forecast is for more rain to come, and there are reports of flooding in neighbouring New South Wales.

Arizona gunman appears in court 9/11 and featured in a book - Faces of Hope, Babies Born on 9/11 - about some of the children born on that day. A total of 19 people were shot outside the supermarket in Tucson where Ms Giffords had been holding a meeting with constituents. President Barack Obama, who led the US in a silent tribute from the South Lawn of the White House

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Jared Loughner, 22, appeared in federal court in Phoenix, Arizona, on Monday on charges of attempting to assassinate US congresswoman Gabrielle Giﬀords in a shooting that left six people dead and fourteen wounded. He was also charged with the first degree murder of two federal employees and the attempted murder of two federal employees. The dead included federal judge John Roll. Ms Giffords, who was shot in the head, remains in a critical condition but doctors say the swelling in her brain has stabilised. The dead included Christina Taylor Green, who was born on

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on Monday morning, will travel to Arizona today (Wednesday) to attend a memorial service for the victims of the shooting. During Monday's 13minute hearing, Loughner, who did not enter a plea, confirmed his identity and had an attorney appointed to defend him. When asked, he said he understood that he could get life in prison or the death penalty. The

lawyer assigned to him, Judy Clarke, previously defended Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Timothy McVeigh. The federal judge ordered Loughner held without bail and scheduled a preliminary court appearance for January 24th. It is unclear whether the US justice department will seek the death penalty against him.

Qantas will resume its Airbus A380s flights to the United States on Sunday, when the first flight will take oﬀ from Melbourne for Los Angeles. The airline grounded its six A380s for intensive safety checks after the explosion on November 4th punched a hole in the wing of a Qantas Singapore-Australia flight. Qantas resumed limited A380 flights to London in late

November. A spokesman said the trans-Pacific flights had been suspended for longer as the journey requires greater engine thrust.

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Israeli vulture detained for spying Saudi Arabian officials have "detained" a griffon vulture which was carrying a GPS transmitter bearing the name of Tel Aviv University and accused it of being an Israeli spy. Israeli wildlife officials dismissed the claims as ludicrous and feared the bird could meet a horrible punishment in the notoriously severe Saudi justice system. They said the device stored data that would be used to improve understanding of the endangered species' behaviour. Last month, Egypt blamed Israel for shark attacks off its coast. SOMALIA

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The son of slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto has condemned the people who have praised the assassination of Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer. He was killed a week ago by one of

Men and women have been banned from shaking hands in a part of the country controlled by the Islamist group alShabab. It also barred men and women who are not related from walking together or chatting in public. It is the first time such social restrictions have been introduced. The group said those who disobeyed the new rules would be punished according to Sharia law, probably by public flogging. The group has already banned music in areas that it controls.

his bodyguards for supporting proposed reforms to the blasphemy law, but Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said those supporting the killer were "the real blasphemers". An influential Islamist leader

has criticised Pope Benedict XVI for demanding the repeal of the law, which can carry a death sentence for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. During a new year address to diplomats

the Pope said the law served as a pretext for acts of injustice against minorities. Mr Taseer's assassination has exposed the deep division within Pakistan's society.

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FACTORY CLEARANCE! Friendship symbol could be scrapped Turkey may demolish a giant peace sculpture being built near Kars on the border with Armenia which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described as grotesque during a visit to the city at the weekend. He reportedly said the monument was an affront to the nearby shrine of Hasan Harakani and urged the local mayor to knock it down and create a park in its place. It was commissioned as a gesture of reconciliation, as Turkey and Armenia began attempts to repair relations after a century of hostility. The work, called the Statue of Humanity, towers over the city of Kars - with two 30metre high sculptures

representing a divided human. Kars once had a large Armenian community, which was annihilated in 1915 as part of mass killings which Armenians and many historians believe was a genocide. Turkey continues to reject the term, alleging that atrocities were committed on both sides in World War I. In 2009 the two countries agreed to normalise relations. Culture Minister Ertugrul Gunay has

been playing down the prime minister’s remarks. He told reporters the theme of the monument was correct, but there had been controversy over its location for several years. The concrete sculpture has been criticised as ugly or as a waste of money. The artist has said that if the statue is destroyed it would be like the Taliban's demolition of ancient Buddhist statues in Bamiyan in 2001.

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And now for Eat for a better life some great news... People in the UK are being encouraged to eat more healthily, with the added bonus of 250 million pounds worth of free vouchers from the “Change4Life’s Great Swapathon”. Books of vouchers worth £50 are being distributed through Asda supermarkets, the News of the World newspaper and local businesses that have signed up to the scheme, backers of which include

Grandparents Derek and Sandra Streets faced losing the bungalow in which they had planned to spend the rest of their lives. Quotations manager Derek had been forced to remortgage the twobedroom property after the company he worked for went bust, owing him thousands in wages. Now he and Sandra, who celebrate their ruby wedding anniversary this July, can afford to stay close to family and friends - and the local pub - in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, for good. The happy couple were celebrating "the best Christmas ever" after discovering they were one

of 25 £1 million winners of the Christmas Eve EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle. They were the 19th winners to come forward, setting a new world record. National Lottery chiefs said six winners had still to make themselves known and urged people to check for the winning tickets. Derek, 61, and Sandra, 62, played online and received an email on Christmas Day to say they had won. The National Lottery held the former world record at 18 winners in a single draw after Big Draw 2000 on New Year's Eve 1999.

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Recipes that will have nutritional advice on them will be available for shoppers who want to feed their families more healthily. The scheme gives advice on how to eat right and exercise properly and has advice on alcohol consumption among other things.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: "This is a very exciting initiative. It's a great example of how Government, the media, industry and retailers can work together to help families to be healthy. "The healthy option isn't always the cheapest option so it's a really important step to be able to offer £50 off healthier foods, drinks and activities."

More Royal wedding plans announced Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a new UK tourism drive and reckoned that there was plenty on the agenda to attract visitors. "A Royal wedding, Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee and of course the London Olympic and Paralympic Games offer us a once-ina-lifetime opportunity, not just for national pride and celebration, but also to promote this country as the perfect tourist

destination," he said. His remarks came after further announcements about the forthecoming Royal Wedding between Katherine Middleton and Prince William. Head of the Church of England, The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will marry the couple while the Bishop Of London will give the address and the Dean of Westminster will conduct the service. Katherine will travel to

Westminster Abbey for the service, starting at 11am, through historic areas of The Mall, Whitehall, Parliament Square and Horseguards Parade. It is not yet known who will be designing and making the wedding gown but the service will be followed by a private celebration in Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles has said he will be hosting a dinner in the evening “followed by dancing.”

Extinguisher student jailed Edward Woollard, the 18 year old student seen hurling a fire extinguisher from the top of the Millbank

Tower during the student riots in London last November has been jailed for 32 months by Southwark

Crown Court. His mother encouraged him to give himself up. Woollard apologised for his actions.

Bankers Pandas on their Teacher fired bonuses way to Scotland for sledging It was announced on Monday that the boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland is unlikely to receive a cash performance bonus this year. Instead he will be given shares, the dividends from which will be based on the bank’s performance. The pot for this year’s bonuses still stands at around £7 billion to be shared by the top five banks. Prime Minister David Cameron said that this was only right and proper as the bank received a huge bail-out from the British taxpayer which must be paid back first. However, banking sources said that if bonuses weren’t paid the UK would risk its senior bankers moving from UK banks to other countries where they would be guaranteed bonuses.

Edinburgh Zoo is looking forward in the near future to welcoming a pair of Giant Pandas, a gift from China. The pair will be the first giant pandas to be living in the UK for seventeen years. Negotiations started between the zoo and China in 2008 with a letter of intent being exchanged in May of that year but the final agreement was signed at Lancaster House in London this Monday. The pandas will be housed in a specailly refurbished enclosure which was formerly home to the gorillas. Scottish culture and external affairs minister

Fiona Hyslop said: "Edinburgh Zoo has a world-leading reputation for animal conservation and I am delighted that Scotland has been chosen to take part in China's breeding programme for giant pandas. "The agreement gives Scotland an important role in securing the future of this endangered species."

Design and technology teacher Richard Tremelling, 37, has been fired from his job following a hearing in which he was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct for allowing pupils to use a sledge in the ground of Cefn Hengoed Community School in Swansea In February 2009. The teacher had taken the sledge to the school to give a lesson in classic design and two of the boys in the class asked if they could have a go on the Scandinavian sled afterwards. It had snowed overnight and there was a good covering which Mr Tremelling assessed to be safe. The sledge in question was a

Scandinavian "snow racer" which was an "exceedingly stable sledge", Mr Tremelling told the hearing in Cardiff. He said: "I did not go sledding on a cheap Asda £10 sledge, I went on a Scandinavian classic design sledge which has built-in safety features, and also a brake." The school rules state that all outside activities or visits must have permission in writing and Mr Tremelling had not written for permission. However, he said that because the activity took place within the grounds of the school and were an extension of the lesson he did not feel that written permission was necessary.

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Woman announces suicide on Facebook Simone Black, 42, died on Boxing Day after announcing on her Facebook: "took all my pills be dead soon so bye bye every one" at 10.53pm on Christmas Day. There were several postings following it asking if anyone had actually checked on the Brighton woman who had a history of trying to commit suicide. Her mother said: “"It is upsetting to think nobody did anything for my daughter. She should never have gone. Normally when she takes overdoses I get help for her. I watched my daughter go from a lovely young woman to what she ended up as, someone who didn't smile." She was pronounced dead at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton just after 5pm on Boxing Day.

Joanna Yeates The murderer of landscape architect Joanna Yeates is still at large and police are currently tracing the whereabouts at the time of her death of all known sex offenders in the Bristol and surrounding area.

Flu Vaccine It has been reported in some newspapers in the UK that doctors are having to use “left-over” flu vaccine for patients. Whilst it is true that the vaccine was made last year, the vaccine is still in date and perfectly viable for use.

UK Weather Snow is expected to be heavy in the North of Scotland later this week with lesser snowfall expected in the south of the country and Northern Ireland. Those travelling to and from these areas should check with their airlines or travel agencies prior to setting off. England and Wales will see heavy rainfall.

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Local News Smoke ban man defends ‘right’ José Eugenio Arias-Camisón hit the headlines when he refused to enforce the new anti-smoking law in his Marbella restaurant and now isn’t fazed by the the authorities’ apparent willingness to make an example of him. A Basque by birth, AriasCamisón was “invited to leave” his home town of San Sebastian 25 years ago because “I'm very right wing and very Spanish”. He chose Marbella as his new home, where he worked in real estate until he opened the Asador Guadalmina ten years ago. Now he says if people can't smoke in his restaurant, he’ll close it and leave Spain altogether. He doesn't smoke more than a couple of cigars a year and never touches cigarettes but he insists on defending other people's right to smoke when and where they want to. He has called on other bar and restaurant owners to follow

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his example. He is receiving many phone calls of support and his Facebook page already had more than 1,600 followers by last Friday. He isn't alone in his crusade. He is supported by Rafael Leon, the owners of a bar in Cordoba, who said he lost €3,500 the first week after

the law came into force. Bar owners all over the country are reporting losses of up to 80% because of the law and a trickle of them are beginning to follow AriasCamisón's example, whatever the consequences.(see P10)

Ronda hotel to modernise The Fundacion Unicaja, which has taken over the concession for the Hotel Reina Victoria in Ronda, plans to tailor it to today's tourist needs by adding an indoor swimming pool, a spa, a gymnasium and several conference rooms.

A complete overhaul of the existing structure is also on the drawing board. Overlooking the Tajo gorge, it is the town's most famous hotel. It was built in 1906 to accommodate the Britons

who regularly fled to the town on the RondaAlgeciras railway to escape Gibraltar's muggy summers - which is perhaps why the path leading from the hotel to the town centre is also the Paseo de los Ingleses (Englishmen's Walk).

Author Irving's rooms in the Alhambra opened The rooms occupied by Washington Irving in the Alhambra during his second visit to Granada will be open to the public until the end of January. Irving, a member of the US diplomatic delegation in Madrid, first visited the city in March 1828 and went away very impressed with the Alhambra which was occupied by gypsies

and rapidly falling into ruin. He pulled strings in Madrid and returned with permission to stay in the Alhambra for several weeks which is when he began writing his Tales of the Alhambra. The book became a best seller in the States and Britain, arousing so much interest in the decaying Arab monument that the

Spanish government was finally pressured into rescuing it. It had been something of a mecca for romantic travellers and artists and the book's success opened up Granada and the Alhambra to a much wider audience. As a result, most of the Alhambra is closed to the public to save it for posterity.

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Walk in naked, walk out dressed More than 200 people queued overnight on January 6th outside the Desigual store in La Canada in Marbella, which was kicking oﬀ the January sales with a novel gimmick involving a bit of a striptease in exchange for a free outfit. The first 100 lucky ones had to strip down to their underwear before they were allowed to choose two articles of clothing – skirt, trousers, blouse, shirt, overcoat or jacket - to

walk out clothed in an outfit worth some €200. The gimmick is not new – it has already been used in Amsterdam, New York and Lisbon. The Desigual store in Madrid was the first to

use it in Spain last June and it was taken up by the Desigual stores in Marbella, Barcelona and San Sebastian to kick off the first sales of 2011.

Bars using blankets Gib 'a bad neighbour' to help smokers Bars and restaurants are installing heaters, installing canvas partitions in their outdoor areas to keep out the wind and even distributing blankets to clients since the tougher anti-smoking law came into effect on January 2nd – anything to keep their clients happy, said the president of Malaga's Hoteliers Association, Rafael Prado. He said the demand for canvas partitions had soared in the past two weeks. To meet the new requirements the partitions can only be used on two sides of the outdoor area, otherwise it becomes an enclosed area and must be

As polls continue to show that the Partido Popular could win a majority in Andalucia, the party has stepped up its attacks on Gibraltar.

The PP's MP for Cadiz, José Ignacio Landaluce, has said he intends to ask deputy PM and interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba why Gibraltar is being

allowed to expand into Spanish territory by land, sea and air.

Last week, he showed reporters at a press conference a video about “Gibraltar authorities” reclaiming land “in Spanish waters”. He said he wants the government to support Spanish ships which, he claimed, are not being

allowed to cross a one-anda-half mile limit imposed by Gibraltar and mentioned the “environmental risk” posed by the storage of fuel in the so-called “floating petrol stations” off the Rock. Sr Landaluce said he wanted to know if the government intends to continue tolerating “this bad neighbour's abuses”.

Fuengirola Fuen girola centre ce entre smoke-free. The demand for outdoor gas heaters is not so high because of the cost of the gas bottles. “That's why blankets are being handed out in many establishments,” Sr Prado said. Despìte fears that the new law would ruin their businesses, a recent survey

showed that 80% of smokers said they would still go to their favourite bars as often as before. “We'll just have to get used to popping out for a quick smoke every now and then,” one smoker said.

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Chinese growth confirmed The surge in Chinese businesses throughout the province has been confirmed by the most impeccable source of all – the Wen Zhion National Chinese Association.

three Chinese. And they're branching out from the so-called 100 peseta stores into restaurants, food stores and textiles. But it's not all imports from China any more.

A spokesman said that between 5,000 and 6,000 Chinese nationals manage more than 2,000 businesses in the province – one business for every

The Hojiblanco olive oil group has just signed an agreement with the Yihai Kerry Investment Co Ltd to export extra virgin oil to China, where it already

has a 12% slice of the cooking oil market. Malaga already has its own Chinatown in the Guadalhorce industrial estate although relations between the Chinese and local businessmen are still distant. One Spanish trader there said this was probably due to the fact that few spoke much Spanish.

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Man in long hair row fights sacking A man who had worked 13 years for the same company delivering its dairy products and restocking shelves at stores throughout the province was sacked after the manager of a supermarket in Torremolinos complained about his hair. The 35-year-old father of four, identified only as G.D.R. had been asked to take over the route of a woman who had called in sick. When he was restocking the shelves at the supermarket the manager approached and told him

to leave the premises immediately because he did not “want a man with a ponytail in his store”. G.D.R. wears his hair slicked back with gel and the ponytail is curled round into a bun. The following day when he went to work he was called into the manager's office where he expected to be

asked for his version of the incident, but was sacked on the spot. The man is now fighting the company for unfair dismissal and is suing the supermarket chain and the Torremolinos manager as being responsible for his dismissal.

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First woman police chief Francisca Borrero became the first woman in Andalucia to make the grade of chief inspector of the Local Police force in Almonte, Huelva province, last week. She had been chief of police until the

Women thought they were smuggling diamonds A Malaga judge has absolved two women who were used as mules without their knowledge or consent. They had been paid €3,000 in June last year to go to Venezuela, all expenses paid, and bring back diamonds. However, when they arrived back in Malaga, they were stopped at Customs where they discovered they had cocaine in the suitcases they had been given in Venezuela. The police arrested them and two members of the gang who had been deceiving people into believing they were bringing in diamonds, which carries a more lenient sentence if they were caught. The women told the judge they would not have accepted the money if they had known they were to carry drugs. The prosecution had asked for a ten-year fail sentence of each one but the judge let them off with a warning.

town passed the 20,000 population mark, which gave it the right to have a chief inspector. Borrero, 42, has been with the Almonte Local Police since February 2006

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Region lags behind in net access Just under half the region's population has access to the internet, 5% less than the national average of 54%, according to the Junta de Andalucia's latest survey. Nearly all homes have television, watched on average for two and a half hours day, half an hour more than people listen to the radio, mainly to keep up with the news. A majority favoured cutting back on commercials.

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CO2 emissions target in sight The region is approaching the 19% reduction of cO2 emissions that the Junta de Andalucia pledged to achieve by 2012. The pledge was made in 2004 when cO2 emissions amounted to 7.8 tons per inhabitant, which is now down to 6.8 tons. This has to drop to 6.32 tons over the next year if the Junta is to achieve its target. The Junta's environment department has implemented more than 140 measures to combat climate change since the target was set. GRANADA

Robbery report backfires When police went to investigate a reported break-in they found more than 30 marijuana plants in one of the rooms in the house. They were also able to verify that there had been a break-in – a door had been forced and the house had been ransacked, but the thieves had overlooked the room containing the plants and paraphernalia for their cultivation and processing. The police arrested the two men aged 23 and 24 who had reported the break-in.

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ith the elections just over five months away (May 22nd), I have visions of all those foreigners who have decided to do their duty worrying their heads off, trying to decide which party is the least corrupt before they cast their vote. Well, all the parties are equally corrupt so they can save themselves a lot of time and trouble by voting for the party that catches their fancy. There is only one exception and that’s Union, Progress & Democracy (UP&D) founded by former Socialist Euro MP Rosa Diez a few months before the 2008 general election, so it hasn’t had time to be as corrupt as ALL the others. That includes local parties like the Partido Andalucista, small parties like the Izquierda Unida (United Left), and nationalist parties like the Convergencia y Union which has just returned to power in Catalonia, as well as the Socialist Party and the Partido Popular.

know that sounds cynical but I’m simply quoting an article I picked up some weeks ago from one of the national dailies titled La cleptocracia nacional – with cleptocracia being a fusion of kleptomania and democracy (kleptomania being a recurrent urge to steal, typically without regard for need or profit, according to the Oxford English dictionary).

to line their pockets without interference from anyone – police, politicians or the general public. The Socialist Party sat back and let him get on with it because he was taking votes away from the Partido Popular.

he so-called Gurtel case involving PP politicians or party members in Valencia and Madrid is a more typical case, the article said. It hit the headlines in April 2007, when it was revealed that Valencia regional premier Francisco Camps had or had not paid for some made-to-measure suits, depending on who you listened to. Like a lot of people, I thought it was just another media circus manipulated behind the scenes by the Socialists in the run-up to the European Parliament election in July that year as part of their desperate bid to wrest control of the Valencia region from the PP. The ploy didn’t work because Francisco Camps and the PP won more votes during that election than they had in the previous year’s general election. But the case was kept alive, with a leak here and a leak there, probably because the Socialists believed that if they harped on about it long enough it would turn voters against the PP in Valencia and everywhere else. Less than two weeks ago, a poll showed that if the municipal elections were held tomorrow, the PP would wipe the Socialists off the Valencia map.

Isabel Pantoja with former beau Julian Muñoz, Marbella’s former Mayor

he article starts by highlighting the Malaya case currently being heard in a Marbella court, which is getting so much media coverage as much for the involvement of a tragically romantic singer, Isabel Pantoja (widow of a very popular bullfighter who bled to death after being gored by a bull) as much for the sheer scope and depth of the corruption unearthed by the police investigation. But it’s an atypical case of corruption because it involved “outsiders” rather than mainstream politicians, having been founded by one Jesus Gil, a builder turned politician because – and get a load of this – he was tired of paying out millions in bribes to get juicy contracts or reclassification of building sites from the then Socialist Marbella Council or the Junta de Andalucia, a Socialist stronghold. So he decided he would save a lot of money by founding his own party, GIL, which would also have the added advantage of allowing him and his cronies

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e can only conclude that a) the Socialists are as thick as two short planks, b) voters couldn’t care less about corruption or c) the Socialists are using the case to divert people’s attention from more pressing problems, like the economic crisis – or a combination of all three. In fact, the Socialists are thick, the voters don't care and, according to the article, of the 730 cases of political corruption currently before courts around Spain, 264 involve Socialists and 200 feature the PP. The rest, according to the article, are distributed proportionally among the smaller parties, with the exception of UP&D. The majority of the cases involve local councillors in charge of urban planning – shades of the Malaya case – with Andalucia leading the field.

ccording to the article, corruption today is more diffuse and has spread lower down the echelons of power. When Felipe Gonzalez was in power (19821996), corruption was closer to the seat of power in Madrid – the Guardia Civil, the Bank of Spain and other top banks, huge infrastructure contracts for the big national companies, Expo ’92, the Official Gazette and even the Red Cross. Everyone was lining their pockets and most of them were Socialists or very close to the party. And who tried to clean it up – none other than the man the Socialists most love to hate, Jose Maria Aznar. But more on that next week.

hat an unfair beating the markets are giving us. But because money makes the world go around, no matter who or what comes to Spain’s rescue, the evil global financiers will always be there, cheering on Spain’s doom and hoping, no doubt, it will lead to a euro-zone crash. This is a war between speculators, with Spain and Portugal caught in the middle. On one side, there is a group of positive thinkers from China, Korea and other Asian nations who have already envisioned the large future cashflow coming their way from their investment opportunities in the continent. But on the other side, unfortunately, you have the menaces from Wall Street, who want nothing more than to see the euro falter and allow the dollar to once again reign over the universe. Not to mention a desire to see money in their pockets now and not later, like the Chinese.

ver the weekend, Der Spiegel of Germany quoted anonymous sources saying that Berlin and Paris were pressuring Lisbon to take a bailout package now to prevent further disaster to the continental economies. Portugal’s finances are not healthy, but they're not that frail either. Lisbon knows that seeking help from Brussels would damage the country’s ability to raise credit in the international markets. Prime Minister Jose Socrates rejected the speculation by saying that his country would meet its budget targets and telling lawmakers that the 1.3% growth recorded last year was better than his Socialist government had expected. Even Spain’s economy minister Elena Salgado came to Portugal’s aid and dismissed the report on Monday. “The Spanish government is confident that it will recognize the fulfilment of its commitments and Portugal won’t need any outside help,” Salgado said in a radio interview after Germany’s finance ministry denied that it was pressuring Portugal. Still, the world’s stock market pundits consider Portugal a far gone case, and they are turning their eyes toward Spain, hedging their bets as to which month Madrid will cave in. All of this, of course, is unfair speculation because the Socialist government is doing all it can, albeit at a cautious snail’s pace, to repair Spain’s financial stability and credibility, yet wary investors won’t let up.

he conjectures over Portugal came at the end of a week of some much needed relief for Spain. In a surprisingly successful visit, Chinese executive vice premier Li Keqiang brought to Madrid a huge trade delegation, which ended up signing some €5.6 billion in agreements. Li said China was confident that Spain would pull out of its doldrums and, if Prime Minister Zapatero sticks to his austerity plan, the country will become the leader in growth in the European Union in two years. It was the same assessment given in an IMF report in October. Li then went on to Britain where he also penned some £2.6 billion in accords, even throwing two pandas in with the deal. Then the Japanese announced Tuesday that they would buy a fifth of the bonds the European rescue fund plans to issue to finance Ireland’s bailout. So if Europe is going down the drain as many sceptics preach, what are the Chinese, known for their thriftiness, and the Japanese, known for their flows of venture capital, doing here?

irst, they are betting on the euro because they know that powerhouses such as Germany and France cannot let the zone disintegrate. Writing in the International Herald Tribune on December 28th, Reuters correspondent Jeremy Gaunt said that despite all the domestic noise to let the euro fail being transmitted from inside Germany’s borders, there is a drive – albeit weakened – to keep the zone intact for political purposes. Letting the euro zone collapse would not only be economically and politically devastating but turn into a gargantuan creditability problem. Those Europeans have never been able to get their act together, many in America would gleefully say.

o unfortunately Spain’s Socialist government is going to have to roll with the punches as the markets continue to badger this country. It is going to take time for Zapatero’s austerity plans to show some gain but if the economy can demonstrate just a glimmer of growth at the end of the third quarter, then maybe the financial vultures will leave us alone – but again, don’t bet on it.

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A success story has come out of the initiative by animal charity CHAIN, based in the La Trocha Commercial Centre in Coin, in which children visited Santa and the Three Kings in the Centre from midDecember until January 5th to swap a present instead of just receiving one. The aim was to provide gifts for less fortunate youngsters. The commercial centre, together with JK’s Matchroom, Heart fm and The News all backed the scheme, which saw children of all ages bringing all

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manner of toys and fluffy animals for less fortunate youngsters that live in children’s homes in Andalucia. In return they were given gifts that included bags of marbles kindly donated by JK’s, plus other toys and items donated by the businesses in the centre, including Dunnes Stores and the toy shop. The toys had been divided into five lots. Pat Jay from Heart fm had already taken one sack to the children, including some teenagers, in a home in the Granada region in time for Three Kings. And on Monday she was given another sack full of fluffy animals, dolls and a few games for the younger children.Unfortunately, at the time of going to press, we do not know where the remaining three sacks of toys will be going as, disappointingly, the Mayor of Coin failed turn up to the presentation as planned to tell us!

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While you are taking your next shot away from your trolley and bag, watch out for people lurking behind trees and making their way over to your belongings as many have lost wallets and golf equipment during these thefts. Some golf courses have lock boxes that you can hire when you’re on the course and you should use these if possible for the forseeable future or, if not, get one of your group to keep an eye on everyone’s belonging while you’re taking your shot.

Why cats scratch

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Cats scratch for two reasons. a. To condition their claws. You will notice that they scratch off the old claws which can be seen lying at the bottom of the scratching post. b. To leave a territorial message, which varies from “Keep out - this is my territory” to “Look at me. I am scratching.” This is a visual message and also a scent message -- from the scent glands on their paws. c. They have a need to top up an existing scent marked scratch area regularly with new scent. Therefore once they have a scratching place, they will continue to use it. This may be a way of the updating information conveyed by the first scratch! THE EMOTIONAL NEED TO SCRATCH If cats get anxious or stressed, they will scratch more or in new places. Using a water pistol on an already scratching cat will therefore make it even more worried. It may even turn from scratching to spraying. So NEVER punish or frighten a scratching cat. Cats also use scratching as a way of asserting themselves and will scratch in the presence

of another cat. They may take turns at the same post. Finally some cats scratch to get your attention. They often will look at you as they start scratching. Saying “No!” or shouting at it IS attention. If your cat is an attention seeker make sure you don't 'reward' it. Walk out of the room when it scratches. A GETTING POST SCRATCHING AND ENCOURAGING USE a make) (or Buy scratching post or a scratching pad large enough for the cat to scratch at full height. It must be completely stable. One cat owner said their cat enjoyed scratching the side of fabric/cardboard plant pots. There are also based cardboard scratching pads that are more horizontal than vertical. You have to buy a product that your cat likes. This may not be the product you want and if it takes three or four goes to find the right one, you’ll have to live with that.

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As it appears that the Gas Scam "inspectors" are on the prowl again, I thought your other readers might find the following information useful.

Company and request this inspection. They will then be issued with a certificate which is valid for a further 5 years.

In Decree 919, approved on the July 28th 2006, it was decided that the owner/user of the bottled gas is the ONLY person responsible for its correct maintenance and use. This decree was published in the BOE on the September 4th 2006 and can be accessed and read by anyone. A periodic inspection must be carried out.

Under no circumstances do the "inspectors" roam the streets ( or countryside), knocking on doors to see if your gas installation needs inspecting! That is rather like an electrician dropping in to see if by chance your wiring is faulty. It just doesn't happen. So any "inspector" who has not been called in by appointment is NOT the genuine article. Unfortunately, these people prey on the elderly, usually foreigners who live alone, but elderly Spaniards have also been known to fall for this scam. A badge (which can be made up on any computer) and a clipboard can be quite convincing.

The inspection/installation is valid for a period of 5 years. Most users who live in urban areas will receive a reminder from the OFFICIAL Repsol Company 3 months before they are due to request an inspection. Very probably, people living in rural areas will not receive this letter, or will not receive it in time. It is entirely up to the client/user to contact the Repsol

Brian Deller A retired UK couple are reported in the UK national press to have been arrested for operating a vehicle MOT certificate scam for the last five years that was estimated to have netted them a million pounds sterling in payments made by resident expats on the Continent, including Spain, who were avoiding having to take their UK registered motor vehicles to the UK for the MOT test. In most cases they were probably supposed to have legally been transferred to local (Spanish, etc.) plates. The arrested couple, as the report states, operated locally under the advertised name of “J G O’Connor”, had regularly advertised in Spain in a free weekly national Englishlanguage newspaper (Editor: NOT ours!) that, we are reliably advised, must have known about the fraud as they were about 18 months ago advised of it on several occasions in writing and by phone calls and even one personal visit to their offices. The crime now means that there must be many UKregistered vehicles operating in Spain that could be mechanically faulty. Despite the aforementioned newspaper’s editor being warned in early 2009, even in

We ourselves can purchase new up-to -date orange tubing from any ferreteria

and also the "alcachofa", which clips onto the top of the gas bottle. It is a good idea to do this before making the appointment for the inspection. For any queries or doubts and also, of course, to make the appointment for the inspectors' visit, there is a Customers Service telephone number. It is 901 100 100. Finally, the only people authorized to make this inspection, and issue the corresponding certificate, are the Oficial Service of Repsol Butano themselves or an authorized representative. It is simpler and has more guarantees to go to the Official Service. Should there be a leak, fire or explosion, any unauthorized "certificate" has no value whatsoever for insurance purposes. I hope this will be of some assistance to readers.

Marbella writing, the warnings were totally ignored and the paper continued the weekly adverts until late 2010 giving the advert its own column in the classifieds. The couple are reported to have operated out of a caravan in Essex and a luxury villa in Portugal that possibly could have been bought with the proceeds and the press photo showed several luxury cars around the villa. Now the owners of hundreds of UK-registered vehicles that have used this couple¡s service and are driving here in Spain will have to wait and hope they are not stopped during the increasing numbers of roadside checks as this will be more proof that their vehicles are illegal. Not only can they be fined for not having transferred the vehicle onto Spanish plates, they also face the charge of participating in a crime as they will have known that the MOT certificates supplied by the above couple were bogus. They can be identified by the garage name at the top, a London area garage. Also, please note that foreign EU vehicles now used by resident expats in Spain can only be MOT-tested in the country of the legal

registration - for the UK this does not include Gibraltar, only the British Isles. New arrivals that settle in Spain have 60 days to reregister private vehicles that qualify and 30 days for commercial units. Many do not bother to check the rules and hope they will not be caught. The method used was (I phoned up and checked in early 2009) that the willing victims were asked to send a photocopy of their UK vehicle registration documents and up to £200 in cash, then a new MOT certificate would be posted back for that vehicle. Now the “victims” in Spain will have to decide whether or not to rapidly re-register their UK vehicles with the added problem that they will most likely be expected to pay import duty now as the time is past where they could be imported as personal property (when they first arrived to settle in Spain within the 60/30 days periods), or to quickly dispose of the vehicle. Also the DVLA will want to know the legal status of such vehicles as they should have been advised of any “exporting” and failure to do so attracts a penalty of up to £1,000.

Stargazing By Ken Campbell

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e Brightest Star Whenever I ask people which is the brightest star in the sky they almost invariably say ‘The North Star’. Well the North Star is NOT the brightest star, instead it is Sirius. Stars’ brightness is measured in magnitude, the lower the number then the brighter the star or planet will be. Under absolute perfect viewing conditions away from any light pollution and with perfect eyesight a human can make out stars down to about 6.4 in magnitude. In ‘normal’ viewing in a small town with a few street lights you will probably get to see stars that are brighter than about 3.0 magnitude. Venus, being the brightest planet in the sky can reach a dazzling brightness of -4.6 and the full Moon is -12. The Sun also has a magnitude, this is -26 magnitude and now the International Space Station can reach a magnitude of -4 almost as bright as Venus. The North Star is a mere 1.9. Sirius or the Dog Star marks the head of the constellation Canis Major or the ‘great dog’. It is magnitude -1.46, almost twice as bright as the next brightest star Canopus (or Sohail as the Moors called it). You may have noticed the name Sohail around Fuengirola; the town’s Moorish first inhabitants had a strong connection with the star Sohail but more about that next month. Sirius is about twice the size of our Sun but is over 25 times brighter; it is also relatively close by being only about 8 light years from us whereas the closest star to us, Alpha Centauri, is around 4.5 light years away and cannot be seen from north of the equator as it is a southern star. Sirius is not just one star, with the advent of more powerful telescopes in 1861 a faint companion star, Sirius B, was discovered orbiting around Sirius. Double stars, even triple and quadruple groups of stars are more common in the universe than single stars like our sun; can you imagine what it must be like living on a planet

that has two, three or even more suns in the sky? In ancient Egyptian times the appearance of Sirius above the horizon just before sunrise was a sure fire indication to the annual flooding of the Nile and they even based their calendar around the appearance of Sirius in the sky. Ancient Egyptians called Sirius the 'Dog Star', after their god Osiris, whose head in pictograms resembled that of a dog. In Egypt, Sirius shines for most of the summer, and since it is such a bright star, the Egyptians actually believed that the additional light from this nearby star was responsible for the summer heat. This of course is not true. However the origin of the phrase 'the dog days of summer' comes from this ancient belief, the 'dog star' being the root of this common saying. So how to find Sirius. Go outside at this time of year around 10pm and look south east and you will see the distinct ‘butterfly shape’ of Orion. You cannot mistake Orion; he has three stars very close together in a perfectly straight line forming his ‘belt’. Now follow the line of his belt down to the left and you will find Sirius as a very bright blue/white coloured star twinkling above the horizon and now you will know that you are looking at the brightest star in the sky.

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Your Weekly Entertainment Guide INSIDE THIS WEEK Burns Nights at La Risa @ Lauro Golf and Leslie’s Book club new venue Late late Christmas party for charity

A set of traditions steeped in history and passed on to new generations Written by Andrea MacLean

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Gomera resident using the unique whistling language

Flamenco Castells of Catalonia

ultural heritage is not only expressed through buildings and artefacts. It is also embedded in language, music, dance, story telling, festivals and rituals.

pain is rich in cultural heritage and is second only to Italy for its number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. But it’s also a country that has revered its festivals and rituals, cultivated over many generations and a constant within communities despite the modern age - the sort of things that are also recognised by UNESCO, as Intangible Cultural Heritage treasures.

nd here the country has also been making its mark. Just a couple of months ago UNESCO added some new Spanish entries to the list that is being built of things that are not just rooted in architecture but reflect the very heart of communities and are a source of interest

to tourists.

op of the list of recent Spanish additions was flamenco. It seems almost superfluous here in Andalucia to recognise this art form. You don’t have to go to the heartland in Seville to enjoy it. Just about every town and village has a Peña and there’s nothing to stop any of us from going to classes and joining in at feria time. On the other hand, if you do go to Seville or to Granada you can steep yourself in this art form and enjoy it at its highest level. Seville at festival time is a noisy place – clicking and stamping and strumming assails the ears from every theatre, tapas bar and street corner. It’s not just about castanets and flouncy frocks – it’s a style of guitar playing and singing that has a worldwide following. UNESCO believes that it is absorbed into the identity of numerous communities and groups, in particular the Gitano (gypsy) ethnic

community. The heart and soul of flamenco has been passed from generation to generation and if you cannot make it to the Seville feria this year (May 3rd –8th) then next time you go to Granada head up to the top of the Albaicin, the gypsy quarter. There, at the panoramic look-out, you will almost certainly find yourself swaying to the sound of the guitar and clap of hands as groups of young gypsies entertain the tourists. The police pop along to move the youngsters on, then disappear themselves after ten minutes – a cue for the return of the youngsters. As you look across from the viewing area to the setting sun turning the walls of the Alhambra to liquid gold, while listening to the unaffected joy of these youngsters it becomes a tourist moment to treasure.

nother of the recent additions includes the Castells in Catalonia. We are not talking about

castles as such – but precarious human leaning towers that take the breath away. The towers are as high as 10 storeys – big blokes shoulder the strain and as it gets higher the participants get smaller and lighter. The three uppermost tiers are made up of youngers hurled up the side and placed on the top ranks. So visitors won’t get the chance to try to clamber the tower. But anyone is welcome to help form the Pinya – the throng of people that supports the base. Musicians set the rhythm while the tower is being built and the reason the castells are now on the UNESCO list is because the knowledge of how to successfully raise the towers is passed down from generation to generation as successive youngsters are trained in the art. Catalonians regard the castells as an integral part of their heritage and no festival in a Catalonian town or village is complete without one. One of the best places for the visitor to see them is in

Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia. At the Fiesta de la Merce ( September 24th), the climax of the festival season in the city, thousands flock to the castell competition on Placa de Sant Jaume, in the Barri Gotic. But be prepared for the sound of ambulance sirens to compete with the sound of the bands. Towers can and do fall – but so far no health and safety executive type person has ever tried to decree that something as idiosyncratic and mad as the tower building should be wiped from Spain’s heritage.

ther Spanish additions to the list show just how diverse and rich Spain’s culture can be. The Mystery Play in Elche is a sacred musical drama of the death, the passage to heaven and the crowning of the Virgin Mary and since the mid 15th century has been performed in the Basilica of Santa Maria and the streets of the old city of Elche, near Alicante. The

performance is entirely sung over two days (August 14th and 15th) and comprises a night procession, lit by hundreds of people carrying candles and a day procession, ending with the Basilica. The Patum of Berga is a series of parades and performances, with papier maché figures, held during the week of Corpus Christi in this Catalan town north of Barcelona. Cavalletes (model horses) vie with Maces (demons wielding whips and maces and Guites (mule dragons) in this spectacular production.

ut maybe one of the most interesting on the list is the whistled language of Gomera, in the Canary Islands. It is a fully formed language with different sounds for consonants and vowels in use for centuries. It has been formally taught in schools since 1999 and is used by most of the island’s inhabitants – more than 22,000 of them. A truly rich and deeply held tradition.

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Rabbie Burns Night at La Risa Burns Night celebrations are always a ‘must attend’ event and this year is no exception with La Risa @ Lauro Golf holding theirs on Saturday January 22nd. For only €15 per person you will enjoy a scrumptious 3 course meal that will include Haggis - the traditional Scottish dish; neeps swede to all non-Scottish people, and tatties - potatoes. Of course, the wee dram of Scotch whisky is also included in the price. Robert Burns was born on January 25th 1759 in Alloway in Ayrshire, Scotland. Known simply as The Bard in Scotland he is the country’s best loved poet and writer with his style such that a love of his works extends far beyond the Scottish borders. Best known for

his “Auld Lang Syne” sung at New Year (or Hogmanay), he is also famous for his “Love is like a red, red rose”, and his poem “To a louse; To a mouse”. He also wrote in standard English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt. Burns was a total romantic who had many affairs which didn’t endear him to the elders of the local kirks (churches). His romanticism is reflected in his poetry and it is his poetry that has made him immortal. Rabbie Burns died on July 21st 1796 in Dumfires Scotland at the young age of 37. Places are limited for this fabulous night out so to book your table call La Risa on 660 350 896 as soon as possible.

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A recipe e Late Late for Christmas Party success Ray Cooney and John Chapman's wildly funny Move Over Mrs Markham can be seen at the Salon Varietes Theatre, Fuengirola from Friday 14th to Wednesday 19th January, nightly at 8pm, but 7pm on Sunday. The recipe: take one apartment, apparently unoccupied for the evening. Add: several amorous couples with ideas for its use, many unexpected interruptions and developments, and an eccentric to whom all seems quite normal. Then: mix and flavour with lashings of slick action, witty risque dialogue and plenty of misunderstandings - and what do you get? Naughty nonsense at its greatest! Early booking is recommended for this great production with a superb cast - George du Sel, Lynn Halliday, Catrina Helsby, Richard Hughes, Martina McCormack, Christine Morton, Geoffrey Stansfield, David Vincent and Margaret Williams - directed by Peter Brooks.

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The Ladies That Lunch club will be meeting at Leslie’s Bistro in Coin on Thursday January 13th from 10am. Lisa Sadlier from the Costa Advice Bureau will be there to answer any questions. Call Emma on 608 408 771 for more info.

Christmas and New Year have been and gone but if you are in the mood to keep on celebrating and help animal charities at the same time then put the CHAIN and SOS Late Late Christmas Party in your diary and buy tickets now.

The evening starts at 8pm, on Saturday January 29th. An entry ticket of 12.50 euros includes a donation to the two charities and means you can enjoy a fabulous buffet, and live music from Barry Mac. There will be a charity auction in which the star

prize is a 19 inch LCD television plus a raffle with lots of great prizes. The event is at El Pescador in Villafranco, near Coin. Tickets are available from Cat and Dog World Kennels in Alhaurin El Grande, the CHAIN charity shop in La Trocha, Coin and the SOS stall at the La Trocha Sunday market. Contact Denise on 630 197 435 or Ronna on 665 682 919 for more information.

e Costa rocks Remember when bands were all about the music and not about the hype? Well, Costa Rock is just that. The band is going from strength to strength after a complete change at the beginning of this year, when founder member Rob Thorby decided to hand over the reins to vocalist Pete Carter. Pete knew of the legacy he had inherited: “Costa Rock was always THE band people spoke of as one of the top acts in the area,” he said ,“So when Robert asked me to take the band on and restore that reputation I jumped at the chance.” Joining Pete in the band is drummer Paul Hodge and guitarist Stephen Toals. ‘Hodge’ was a founder member of Rockabilly

legends The Sharks whilst Stephen is fast establishing himself as one of the best guitarists around. Meanwhile the recent departure of bass player Dave Speers left a huge gap until the band heard that Keith Bradshaw was looking for a new challenge after the demise of local band The Sandancers. “The key to a great band is whether they are asked back,” Pete explained: “And we get asked back everywhere we play, with one venue even booking us for regular appearances throughout next year after we'd finished our first set!” Call 628 578 317, email maidstoned@hotmail.com or find them on Facebook to find out where they’re next on.

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Book lovers should know that there is a lively Book Club in Mijas Costa that meets on the 2nd Monday of every month at 8 pm.

Coming up soon is the anniversary of Scottish hero Robert Burns, celebrated the world over by his compatriots and anybody else who enjoys a good traditionally Scottish night out. Leslie’s Bistro in Coin, owned by Scotsman Ian Leslie, throws an exceptionally good bash with a menu of Cock-aleekie soup followed by traditional Haggis, neeps and tatties with a wee dram,

then a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings and, if you still have room, trifle. The ode to the haggis will be read plus the address to the ladies. Music will be by Alan Hamilton and you can burn off all the calories dancing until late. Don’t miss a great night out, call 952 112 123 to book your table for Friday January 28th. See their ad on page 3 for more of what’s on at Leslie’s Bistro, Coin.

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Friday: Home-made Beer Battered Cod & Chips served all day. Sunday: Our popular Sunday Roast from 1pm Friday 14th, 11am: Diabetic Support Group Thursday 20th, 1.30pm: Ladies Lunch Club Private Parties - Buﬀets or 3 course menus - we can cater to your budget For further details of all these events and our new winter opening times contact us on 660 350 896 or pop into the bar. On the road between Alhaurin el Grande & Alhaurin de la Torre Across From the Clubhouse

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e Green Hornet BY MICHAEL GONDRY Starring Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Superhero movies are usually slated for a big summer release in the hope of maximising the box office return so it’s a bit unusual for a no-holds barred secret hero dressed in a disguise to hit cinema complexes this early in the year. The suspicious minded of us would put it down to the studio trying to bury its turkey post- Christmas. And certainly The Green Hornet is a comic book hero low down on the recognition list – so we have a superhero that not

many people have heard of and a release slot not designed to help. Yet all the critical buzz (sorry about the pun) is that this should certainly be on the to-see list. Rogen plays Britt Reid, the rich playboy son who is spurred into sorting out his life when he inherits a media empire after his father James (Tom Wilkinson) is killed in mysterious circumstances. He meets employee Kato, a martial arts expert. (And yes, apparently the Kato in

the Pink Panther movies was based on this character). The two decide to make a difference and team up to fight crime, with Britt becoming the masked vigilante Green Hornet and faithful Kato his unnamed assistant. The two take on Los Angeles gangland boss Benjamin Chudnofsky (Inglourious Basterd’s award winning Christoph Waltz) who unites all the gangs in a bid to bring down the man who would be his nemesis. In the meantime Britt’s love interest is his secretary

Lenore (Cameron Diaz). The character was a famous American radio show in the 30s which had died out by the early 50s and there have been TV outings too. But because it has been under the radar it means that the director and actors can create a film that has not been hampered by critical fan comment calling for strict observances of every nuance. So what you get is some camp comedy, and pacy action which does not rely on a CGI mega budget.

call on Iron Man Tony Stark’s father Howard to design the super protective suit our hero wears. Hugo Weaving plays Johan Schmidt/ Red Skull – Hitler’s head of advanced weaponry and Captain America’s nemesis. If this does big box office it has franchise written all over it. And to wrap it up, Ryan Reynolds will be turning out as The Green Lantern in June. So hang onto your hats – it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

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A super year for superheroes With The Green Hornet first off the blocks ( see above) the fight for top dog in the world of superheroes will be fiercely contested this year. Runners and riders won’t include Batman and Superman - slated for release in 2012. All X-Men fans will be wanting to see what director Matthew Vaughn makes of the prequel to the first three XMen movies, in which Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen flexed their acting muscles. His XMen: First Class is out early summer. Vaughn had at one time been slated to direct Thor but the role of helming the movie passed to the slightly unlikely

figure of Kenneth Branagh. It’s a Marvel comic out of Marvel Studios and Chris Hemsworth plays the Norse god Thor who is banished to Earth from the kingdom of Asgard by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) as punishment for his reckless and feckless attitude. This will be released end April to separate it from another Marvel movie Captain America: The First Avenger - set in the 2nd World War and with links to the Iron Man series. Chris Evans plays the sickly Steve Rogers, enhanced to the peak of physical perfection by an experimental serum to turn into Captain America. The government

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his films. I think I originally decided I didn’t like him the one and only time I saw James Cameron’s version of Titanic. Although it was the biggest earning film of all time until Mr Cameron released Avatar onto the world last year, I thought the then 23 year old DiCaprio looked more urchin than leading man and for me the romantic scenes between his character Jack, and Kate Winslet’s character Rose, look like an uncomfortable cradle snatching, even though he is actually older than she is in real life. o armed with my Swaspredetermined dislike , I surprised when I first saw the film The Beach, which was released in 2000. I had already read Alex Garland’s book on which the film was based but I thought DiCaprio played the part of a cocky, American traveller really well and The Beach is still a film that I enjoy watching from time to time. The story is based around a community of young travellers that have drifted in one way or another into a hidden paradise on the shores of an isolated island oﬀ the coast of Thailand. The self sustaining commune of modern day hippies rely on their own discretion and remote location to keep the hordes of backpacking tourists from their door but as rumours spread around the busy tourist resorts of an idyllic ‘secret’ beach, the tranquillity of the community is threatened. An added complication is the heavily guarded marijuana plantations that are also located on the same remote island, meaning that as stray backpackers arrive at the island, their first and sometimes last image is of machinegun wielding drug gangs. DiCaprio’s character Richard causes mayhem as he inadvertently draws unsuspecting backpackers to the island and ultimately, their deaths, fracturing the delicate agreement that keeps the drug mafia from

hassling the beach community. His sexual affairs also don’t endear him to the rest of the pack and a shark attack that leads to two deaths and a visit from armed drug growers, suddenly make the idyllic beach life seem much less idyllic. In the end, Richard and the remaining inhabitants of the beach swim back to the mainland having been chased off by the drug lords, lucky to escape with their lives and their memories. till holding onto the Swhatbelief that I couldn’t see others saw in this rapidly rising Hollywood star, I was surprised again to see how much I enjoyed Catch Me If You Can. Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken also have leading roles in the 2002 film that charts the rise and fall of epic young conman Frank Abagnale Jnr. Based on a true story, it is the relationship between DiCaprio’s 19 year old conman character and Tom Hanks as the FBI Fraud Agent Carl Hanratty that really seals the deal on the film. Fast paced and full of wit, the film charts the search for Abagnale as he bounces bad cheques across America and Europe. Bluffing his way into jobs as an airline pilot and a doctor, the quick thinking Abagnale manages to stay one step ahead of his would be captor, until eventually he gets caught in France. Back in the USA, Hanratty turns to the imprisoned master forger to help identify other cheque forgeries, eventually getting an early release for Abagnale on the proviso that he helps the US government and banking system to develop their own anti-fraud measures, for which the ex-con receives a generous enough salary to prevent him from needing to carry out the fraud for himself. All in all DiCaprio uses his charm and humour to great effect - and as we now know, is no slouch at heavy weight roles either.

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HOROSCOPES ARIES

March 21st April 19th

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April 20th May 20th

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May 21st June 21st

CANCER

June 22nd July 22nd

LEO

VIRGO

August 23rd September 22nd

What a romantic and creative time you are having at the moment Aries? You will feel compelled to express your true feelings to another and this could result in quite a passionate and fun filled week. You have the ability to motivate others into helping you with a sticky project that needs finishing. Make sure that you check any ‘minor’ details yourself instead of relying on others, let them help in the process but make sure that you are ‘on the ball’. Your actions are directed towards long term gain and the ‘bigger picture’ - as soon as you stray from this vision you will be jolted back to re-focus on long term growth and solutions. If abundance and wealth are your goals then this is the time to put the effort in to attain just that. Make sure that your facts are proven and valid and that you understand in depth any subject that you will be required to ‘pitch’ on. Social skills will be needed to excite and entice others. There are moves that you know you have to make even though they could make you ‘squirm’. Radical changes will help a situation that has become stale and although you may face opposition it will be better for all in the long run. Once your plan is solidly in place all opposition falls by the wayside. You are highly sensitive at the moment and are likely to take a lot of things to heart that would not normally affect you. There are those too that offer invaluable support. Keep your eyes open with regard to your personal possessions or wealth, there could be something devious going on behind the scenes that you are not fully aware of. One way or another the ‘truth’ has its way of surfacing now. This week could be challenging but at the same time you have the ability to turn things around with this new information. Perhaps someone is waiting for you to take the bait but do you really want to? Before jumping in feet first, first make sure there is a soft landing. The planets have a way of amplifying your words and actions right now, therefore you need to think very carefully about what you do or say. Words carry with them a great impact and your grace, charm and powers of attraction are very high. This is the perfect time for social and business networking, when important contacts can be made, as long as you don’t buy into all the flattery coming your way. There may be some good news on the financial front by the end of the week. Slowly but surely things are all starting to fit together and fall into place. Your intuition combined with your acute powers of observation are scarily revealing this week. You have the ability to figure out a secret or mystery long before anyone else has realised there is even one to solve. A close relationship is evolving and improving making you feel happier and far more emotionally secure than you have for a while. Time also to get your head down and concentrate on a project that needs attention.

If it’s not broke then don’t fix it. Due to planetary pressure you will feel an overwhelming urge to try to move things on before they are ready, so the key to this week is patience. There has been a lot of progress going on behind the scenes and things are moving quicker than seems apparent. You have been pushing down a certain path and you need to hold onto trust and certainty that you will reach your rd September 23 - goal. You have done all you can, time to wait for your ship to come in. nd October 22

October 23rd November 21st

Just because something happened a certain way in the past does not mean that it will happen the same way again. Your instincts are high right now and this is fuelling a desire in you that is feeding your will. With energy like this directed to a purpose you have an opportunity to get exactly what your heart desires. Make sure that you really listen to what others are saying as there is a temptation to hear only what you want to hear.

SAGITTARIUS It is all work and no play, with little time for any rest and relaxation but perhaps you are being pushed for a very good reason. What is certain is what you are putting out there is going to pay oﬀ and the rewards will wing their way back to you soon. The weight of Saturn has been weighing heavily on you giving your body a feeling of being held down by gravity but by the weekend there will be November 22nd - a slight release from this intensity. December 21st

CAPRICORN It can feel as though everything is closing in on you this week and it is essential that you stop yourself from having the classic reaction of panicking. Some things are out of your hands and a certain drama needs to be played out. As the week progresses the mood will lighten and the surge of energy within you will make you unstoppable. Changes are on their way, follow your dreams, nd December 22 keep your vision and the sun will shine shortly. January 19th

AQUARIUS

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After the Christmas season's excesses, here's a nice light recipe for a change.

Salmon fillet with lemon and garlic Ingredients:

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Something is happening behind the scenes and it is vital to pay attention to what is going on. Keep your eyes and ears open and your feet firmly on the ground so that you are not caught up in someone else’s fantasy. You realise that one chapter of your life is not completely closed and you know that you cannot move on fully unless you have laid it totally to rest. What you need is closure on some issue or to discover the ‘truth’ on some matter that means a lot to you. Some of the greatest innovations and ideas are born from people experiencing some kind of struggle in their lives. Having risen from the ashes there is an urge in you to create something new, fresh and useful that will improve the lives of others. Knowledge and even associates from the past are likely to creep back helping you combine the old with the new. There is a desire to keep traditions and yet to explore new horizons and seek out adventures.

- makes 8 servings -

● 1½ pounds salmon fillet ● salt and pepper to taste ● 3 cloves garlic, minced ● 1 sprig fresh dill, chopped ● 5 slices lemon ● 5 sprigs fresh dill weed ● 2 spring onions, chopped (use a small onion finely chopped if you can't get spring onions)

Directions ● Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Lightly oil two large pieces of aluminum foil. ● Place salmon fillet on top of one piece of foil. Sprinkle salmon with salt, pepper, garlic and chopped dill. Arrange lemon slices on top of fillet and place a sprig of dill on top of each lemon slice. Sprinkle fillet with chopped spring onions.

● Cover salmon with second piece of foil and pinch together foil to tightly seal. Place on a baking sheet or in a large baking dish. ● Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until salmon flakes easily. ● Serve with either a fresh green salad or buttered baby potatoes, mange tout, peas or ratatouille.

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By the time this first article of 2011, dos mil once, appears everyone will have made their New Year's resolutions - própósitos para el año nuevo. Perhaps some may even have broken them already but let’s talk about intentions. Some of the good intentions I've been hearing are: Voy a aprender español - I'm going to learn Spanish Voy a hablar más español con mis vecinos - I'm going to speak more Spanish with my neighbours. Voy a estudiar los verbos - I'm going to study the verbs Vamos a practicar mucho - We're going to practise a lot Vamos a aprender una palabra nueva cada día - We're going to learn a new word every day. Of course, there are other good intentions not related to learning Spanish: Voy a adelgazar - I'm going to lose weight, and Voy a dejar de fumar - I'm going to stop smoking seem to be two of the favourites. Just in case you find yourself in the position where all those great ideas and resolutions have turned to dust you can talk about what you intended to do. Iba a perder diez kilos - I was going to lose ten kilos Iba a dejar de beber tanto - I was going to give up drinking so much Ibamos a ir al gymnasio todos los días - We were going to go to the gym every day. Ibamos a correr todas las mañanas - We were going to run every morning. Well, there's always next year. Hasta la próxima - Until next time, Ya está That's it 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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Eating carrots makes you more attractive Researchers have found a novel way to get young people to eat their veggies. Yellow pigment, or carotenoids, give the skin a yellow hue which, according to researchers at St Andrews and Bristol universities, makes people more attractive. The team asked 40 volunteers to rate 51 Scottish Caucasian faces for healthiness and attractiveness and found people that with a yellow skin hue were perceived as particularly healthy and attractive. They also established for the first

time that yellow pigments, or carotenoids, from certain fruit and vegetables such as carrots, plums, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, kale, spinach and collard greens played a key role in producing yellowness in skin. The researchers said the link

between yellowness and carotenoids opened up new strategies for encouraging young people to eat more fruit and vegetables, especially as it took just two months of increased consumption to produce visible results. They said: "Telling people

they might have a heart attack in 40 years' time if they don't eat more healthily is one thing. But we can now say 'This is what you could look in a couple of months if you increased your fruit and veg intake'."

Garlic good for athlete’s foot It’s easy to contract athlete’s foot - all it takes is a step on a moist floor or a moment in a gym locker room to end up with the fungus which causes flaking and tiny cracks between the toes that sting as much as paper cuts. But it’s not so easy to treat. People use creams, sprays, gels and prescription drugs but the condition has a bad habit of returning .

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infections, including those caused by Candida. Researchers compared a week of twice-daily applications of mild garlic solutions with topical applications of the popular drug Lamisil in about 50 people with athlete’s foot. Two months later, they found that a garlic solution containing about one percent ajoene had a 100% cure rate, compared with a 94% cure rate for one percent Lamisil. Some

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days. They then divided them into groups, put them to work on difficult cognitive tests to raise their stress levels, and tempted them with unwrapped chocolate bars. The researchers found that if the subjects walked for 15 minutes on a treadmill at a pace that was brisk but not tiring, they were far less likely to suffer cravings, and even showed lower blood pressure when handling the chocolate bars. Other studies with people trying to give up smoking found that brief walks not only beat back cravings, but also reduced withdrawal symptoms and increased the time between cigarettes smoked.

Prozac boosts stroke recovery Giving stroke patients Prozac soon after the event could help their recovery from paralysis, a French study of 118 patients has found. Tests on stroke patients 90 days after being given the antidepressant (also known as fluoxetine) found that those who took the drug had gained significantly

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Will Romeo be joined by Juliet in Beckham household when summer baby arrives? The Brand Beckham new baby, expected in the summer, is favourite to be a girl reckon the bookies – and Sandra and Juliet are topping the list of names for the new tot. David and Victoria announced the news of their fourth child to family and friends at their Hertfordshire home on Sunday and the couple were said to be “delighted”. Victoria has long wanted a fourth child and has made no secret of the fact that she would love to have a girl. The news puts a sparkle into the New Year for the Beckhams, whose marriage has yet again come under the spotlight following allegations of David’s aﬀairs with women in the US. But Becks is now starting to train with Premier

League side Tottenham, and the couple are looking forward to spending the next couple of months close to family and friends in the UK.

Victoria suddenly start scoﬃng down the chocolates it will be a girl, according to the old wives’ tales. But if she develops savoury cravings then it will be a boy.

Now all eyes will be on Victoria to see if there are any give-away signs of the sex of the child. The three month scan has just revealed that the baby is healthy but there is no news yet on whether it’s a boy or a girl. So when Victoria’s bump starts to show fans will be watching for a low bump for a boy, and a high bump for a girl. Should

Victoria is notorious for her dietary self control so at least now she can increase her food intake as she will be eating for two – so that will mean a doubling of the lettuce leaves and prawns then. Bookies William Hill has already had to pay out £5,000 to one punter who placed a bet on a

Actress under strain following story line EastEnders actress Samantha Womack has said she has been plunged into a “living hell” since the controversial baby cot death/swap story line and is quitting the soap. Around 9,000 viewers have now complained about the New Year episode, in which Womack’s character Ronnie Branning

discovered her baby son James dead in his cot and swapped his body for Kat Moon’s newborn son Tommy. The actress has revealed that she is reluctant to leave her home after being verbally abused on the street by people who have been unable make a distinction between soap drama and real life.

year and has had chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Photographs of him last weekend swimming in the sea with his children revealed a much fitter looking man who had lost the frail, gaunt look he had just 12 weeks ago.He said the tumour had disappeared

But there’s a wide spread to put your money on if you fancy a punt.

William Hill is oﬀering Sandra at 9/1 and David at 10/1 while Ladbrokes is oﬀering Barry Beckham at 150/1, Becky Beckham at 50/1, Milan at 66/1 and Galaxy at 500/1. The name Angel was also on people’s lips soon after the announcement. Mind you – there may be one clue to help prospective punters. David famously has the names of all his family tattooed on his body – there isn’t much space left so that could mean we are looking for something very short.

Remembering Titanic Costumes worn by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Oscar winning movie Titanic are to go on show as part of an exhibition to commemorate the fated liner. Now BBC bosses have ordered a speedy and radical re-draft to the plot line. The story was supposed to run until next Christmas but will now conclude happily at Easter. The actress said she had been tempted to walk away immediately after expressing reservations about the story line but she will continue to appear until Spring.

Douglas back in business In his first interview yesterday (Tue) since ending his treatment for throat cancer, actor Michael Douglas said he believed he had “beaten” the disease.He told NBC’s Today show that he felt relieved after a “wild 6 month ride”. The star was diagnosed in August last

Beckham baby this year at odds of 6/1. Ladbrokes are now offering 10/11 for a girl and 5/6 for a boy, while William Hill is offering 5/6 for both a boy or a girl and 50/1 for multiple births. And there is a lot riding on the names – the couple famously like slightly off the wall monickers, hence the boys’ names Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz. Some observers reckon Juliet is a front runner because Romeo would love it.

and that, given the type of cancer it was, he felt that the odds were that he had beaten the disease. The 66year-old has been nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as Gordon Gekko in last year’s Wall Street:Money Never Sleeps and will start filming Liberace in May/June.

The exhibition in Derby will open on February 26th – 100 years almost to the day since the Titanic’s owners, the White Star Line, placed an order with bone china company Royal Crown Derby to supply items for the ship’s first class restaurant. The company still has the

1911 pattern book with the design of the crockery, which was to be exclusive to the Titanic. The order was for 600 dinner plates, 150 soup bowls, 150 breakfast plates, 100 salad plates, 150 breakfast cups and saucers and 100 teacups and saucers. Just one plate survived the 1912 disaster when the ship

sank after hitting an iceberg, which is housed in Southampton Museum. The exhibition in Derby will also feature memorabilia from the Titanic and sister ship the Olympic and plans are underway to commemorate the centenary of the disaster next year.

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iPhone hacker publishes secret PlayStation 3 key

Global drop in spam e-mail is 'short lived'

The PlayStation 3's security has been broken by hackers, potentially allowing anyone to run any software including pirated games - on the console.

A recently observed global decline in spam e-mail could prove to be short lived, researchers say. A network of infected computers used to produce spam has sprung back to life after a lull of several weeks. The Rustock botnet - as it is known - mysteriously stopped sending spam emails in early December, resulting in a massive decline. But according to security firm NetWitness, it restarted activity early on Monday (Jan 10th). Overall spam levels are still below their levels in August 2010, when Rustock began to wind down its activity. The reason for the lull was

not immediately apparent, Alex Cox of NetWitness said. Those controlling Rustock do not appear to have made major strategic changes to their spamming campaigns, he added. "As best we can tell, they took a holiday," said Mr Cox. "The people running Rustock are running a business - albeit an illegitimate one - so maybe they needed time off too." Rustock's reawakening has also been detected by security firm Symantec

Hosted Services. According to Paul Wood, a senior analyst at the firm, Rustock is now pumping out more than a quarter of all spam circulating worldwide. On Monday alone it was expected to have sent out 67 billion junk e-mails, he said. Rather than the spammers enjoying a Christmas break, he believes the lull in Rustock's activity was most likely because the botnet owners rented it out to new spammers.

A collective of hackers recently showed off a method that could force the system to reveal secret keys used to load software onto the machine. A US hacker, who gained

notoriety for unlocking Apple's iPhone, has now used a similar method to extract the PS3's master key and publish it online.Sony declined to comment on the hack.

Geohot, the PS3 hacker

WIKILEAKS - TWITTER

US wants Twitter details of Wikileaks activists The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records,

telephone numbers and payment details.Those named include Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an Icelandic MP.

The US is examining possible charges against Mr Assange over the leaking of 250,000 classified diplomatic cables.

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3. The Royal Yacht Squadron Cup was the original name of which trophy?

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4. What naturally occurring common substance containing lactose may scientifically be described as an emulsion of butterfat globules within a water-based fluid? 5. Ehud Barak succeeded Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister of which country in 1999?

1. Hound 2. Peer 3. Obtain 4. Religion 5. Morning 6. Cornucopia

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MERCEDES ML430 AUTO,

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02/2007, 45.000KM, ABS, AIRBAGS, ALARM, CLIMATE, ELEC.HEATED SEATS, CRUISE, FOGS, XENONS, ALLOYS, RADIO/CD, PDC, NAVI, LEATHER, SUNROOF. 31.000€

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JEEP CHEROKEE 2.5 CRD SPORT,

KIA SORENTO 2.5 EX, 09/2003, 134.000KM, 4WD, ABS, AIRBAGS, AIRCON, POWER STEERING FOGS, ALLOYS, RADIO/CD. 9.900€

RANGR ROVER 2.5 DT,

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MERCEDES CLK 320 CABRIO, 05/2003, 39.571KM, ABS, SIDE AIRBAGS, CLIMATE, CRUISE, ELEC.WINDOWS, ESP, FOGS, NAVI, PDC, LEATHER. 24.900€

LAND ROVER DISCOVERY 4.4 V8 HSE, 11/2004, 89.000KM, ABS, AIRBAGS, CLIMATE, ESP, XENONS, FOGS, PDC, NAVI, LEATHER, SUNROOF.

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New series:

New series: Michel Roux’s Service Wed, Jan 12th 20.00

Thu Jan 13th 21.00

WEDNESDAY January 12

Tue, Jan 18th 23:35

Trust the Man Two couples fight to save their relationships: Rebecca is an actress whose marriage to sex addict Tom is falling apart, meanwhile, Rebecca's brother Tobey is in a long term relationship with Elaine but is scared of making a commitment.

FILM

Sun, Jan 16th 23:30

Battle in Seattle Set during the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle this film presents the riots that swept through the streets during the five-day conference from the perspectives of police, protestors, and city oﬃcials.

FILM

Sat, Jan 15th 22:15

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry When bureaucratic red tape prevents him from naming his children as life insurance beneficiaries, a firefighter asks his buddy to pose as his domestic partner...

FILM

Thurs, Jan 8th 10 :15

Genevieve Two couples, all car enthusiasts, challenge one another to a friendly race on the return from the annual London-to-Brighton veteran car rally. What starts out playfully becomes increasingly serious as they speed to the finish line at the Westminster Bridge. ( Some great old classics in this British evergreen comedy)

FILM

Sun , Jan 16th 21:00

Bad Boys II Narcotics division cops Mike Lowrey and Marcus Bennett team up again to battle the trade in ecstasy in Miami. They walk right into an underground war which is raging, as a druglord has already tried to take control of the city's drug traﬃc.

FILM

Sun, 16th Jan 20:00

The Chronicles of Narnia

Trevor Eve plays Dominic King, an international hostage negotiator haunted by the death of a client. He is called in by the distraught husband of a kidnapped wife in this meaty three part thriller packed with good actors.

Kidnap and Ransom

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FRIDAY January 14th

06:00 Breakfast 09:15 Wanted Down Under 10:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 Saints and Scroungers 11:45 To Buy or Not to Buy 12:15 Bargain Hunt 13:00 BBC News at One 13:30 BBC London News 13:45 Doctors 14:15 Cash in the Celebrity Attic 15:00 BBC News 15:05 Deadly 60: South Africa 15:35 Me and My Monsters 16:00 The Best of Little Howard's Big Question 16:25 M.I. High

16:55 Newsround 17:15 The Weakest Link 18:00 BBC News at Six 18:30 BBC London News 19:00 The One Show 19:30 Rip oﬀ Britain 20:10 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 22:00 BBC News at Ten 22:35 The Lottery Draws 22:45 Film 2011 with Claudia 23:25 The League Cup Show 00:05 Timecop 01:40 Weatherview 01:45 Country Tracks 02:40 Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders 03:40 Turn Back Time: The High Street

17:15 The Weakest Link 18:00 BBC News at Six 19:00 The One Show 19:30 EastEnders 20:00 Human Planet 21:00 Come Fly with Me 21:30 Not Going Out 22:00 BBC News at Ten 22:25 BBC London News 22:35 Question Time 23:35 This Week 00:20 Skiing Weatherview 00:25 Panorama 00:55 Countryfile 01:55 Antiques Roadshow 02:55 Turn Back Time: The High Street 03:55 Review 2010: Return to the Floods

06:00 Breakfast 09:15 Wanted Down Under 10:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 Saints and Scroungers 11:45 To Buy or Not to Buy 12:15 Bargain Hunt 13:00 BBC News at One 13:30 BBC London News 13:45 Doctors 14:15 Cash in the Celebrity Attic 15:00 BBC News 15:05 Deadly 60: South Africa 15:35 Me and My Monsters 16:00 Dani's House 16:30 Tracy Beaker Returns 17:00 Newsround

17:15 The Weakest Link 18:00 BBC News at Six 18:30 BBC London News 19:00 The One Show 19:30 A Question of Sport 20:00 EastEnders 20:30 QI 21:00 Hustle 22:00 BBC News at Ten 22:25 BBC London News 22:35 The Graham Norton Show 23:20 The Lottery Draws 23:30 Starship Troopers 01:25 Weatherview 01:30 James May's Man Lab 02:30 Horizon 03:30 Filthy Rotten Scoundrels

07:25 Newsround 07:30 Dennis & Gnasher 07:45 Eliot Kid 07:55 The Owl 08:00 Mission: 2110 08:30 LazyTown 08:55 Numberjacks 09:05 Octonauts 09:10 The Koala Brothers 09:25 Sesame Tree 09:40 Big and Small 09:55 Guess with Jess 10:05 Postman Pat 10:20 Pingu 10:25 64 Zoo Lane 10:40 Waybuloo 11:00 In the Night Garden 11:30 The Daily Politics 13:00 See Hear

13:30 Live: Snooker 16:30 Pointless 17:15 Antiques Road Trip 18:00 Eggheads 18:30 Great British Railway Journeys 19:00 Live: Snooker 20:00 Michel Roux's Service 21:00 Edwardian Farm 22:00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 22:30 Newsnight 23:20 Snooker 00:10 Snooker Extra 02:10 BBC News 02:30 The Record 03:00 BBC News 03:30 Click

07:30 Dennis & Gnasher 07:45 Eliot Kid 08:00 Mission: 2110 08:30 LazyTown 08:55 Numberjacks 09:10 The Koala Brothers 09:25 Sesame Tree 09:40 Big and Small 09:55 Guess with Jess 10:05 Postman Pat 10:20 Pingu 10:25 64 Zoo Lane 10:40 Waybuloo 11:00 In the Night Garden 11:30 Animal Park 12:00 The Daily Politics 12:30 GMT 13:00 Ready, Steady, Cook

13:25 Coast 13:30 Live: Snooker 17:15 Antiques Road Trip 18:00 Eggheads 18:30 Great British Railway Journeys 19:00 Live: Snooker 20:00 Michel Roux's Service 21:00 Men of Rock 22:00 The Great Outdoors 22:30 Newsnight 23:20 Snooker 00:10 Snooker Extra 02:10 BBC News 02:30 The Record 03:00 BBC News 03:30 Review 2010: Return to the Floods 03:55 Pages from Ceefax

13:30 Live: Snooker 17:15 Antiques Road Trip 18:00 Eggheads 18:30 Great British Railway Journeys 19:00 Live: Snooker 20:00 Mastermind 20:30 Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 21:00 Can't Take It with You 22:00 Fast and Loose 22:30 Newsnight 23:00 The Review Show 23:50 Snooker 00:40 Snooker Extra 02:40 The Record Review 03:00 BBC News 03:30 Click 03:45 Newswatch

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 May the Best House Win 15:00 Dickinson's Real Deal 16:00 Doc Martin 17:00 The Chase 18:00 London Tonight 18:30 ITV News and Weather 19:00 Emmerdale

19:30 The Unforgettable... Pat Phoenix 20:00 Midsomer Murders 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 Constantine 00:45 The Zone 02:50 Out for Justice 04:20 ITV Nightscreen

19:30 Can You Keep a Secret?: Tonight 20:00 Emmerdale 20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 Kidnap and Ransom 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 Odd One In 23:20 Send in the Dogs 00:15 The Zone 02:15 The Jeremy Kyle Show 03:10 Can You Keep a Secret?: Tonight 03:35 ITV Nightscreen

19:30 Coronation Street 20:00 Children's Hospital 20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 Take Me Out 23:50 30 Years of An Audience With... 00:40 The Zone 02:40 US Marshals 04:50 Nightscreen

07:15 Freshly Squeezed 07:45 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:10 Frasier 08:40 According to Jim 09:10 Supernanny US 10:00 Doctor in Distress 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 Three in a Bed 12:35 Come Dine with Me Down Under 13:05 Come Dine with Me Down Under 13:35 Come Dine with Me Down Under 14:05 Come Dine with Me Down Under 14:40 Come Dine with Me Down Under

15:10 Countdown 15:55 Deal or No Deal 17:00 Celebrity Five Go To... 17:55 Jamie's Fish Supper 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 Arthur's Hell on High Water 20:55 Jamie's Fish Supper 21:00 Hugh's Fish Fight 22:00 Shameless 23:10 Teenage Paparazzo 01:00 My Family's Crazy Gap Year 01:55 Gregory's Two Girls 03:50 Brothers & Sisters 04:35 Hill Street Blues

08:25 Frasier 08:50 According to Jim 09:20 Supernanny US 10:15 Genevieve 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 Three in a Bed 12:35 Come Dine with Me Down Under 13:05 Come Dine with Me Down Under 13:35 Come Dine with Me Down Under 14:05 Come Dine with Me Down Under 14:40 Come Dine with Me Down Under 15:10 Countdown 15:55 Deal or No Deal 16:55 Jamie's Fish Supper

17:00 Celebrity Five Go To... 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 Relocation, Relocation 20:55 Jamie's Fish Supper 21:00 Hugh's Fish Fight 21:55 Jamie's Fish Supper 22:00 Shameless 23:10 Hot Shots! 00:45 4Play 01:00 Live and Lost 01:10 Live and Lost 01:25 Orchestra United 02:20 Orchestra United 03:15 The Untold Great Fire of London 04:10 Brothers & Sisters

06:30 The Hoobs 06:55 Freshly Squeezed 07:25 Everybody Loves Raymond 07:50 Frasier 08:15 Frasier 08:40 According to Jim 09:10 Supernanny US 10:10 Blithe Spirit 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 Three in a Bed 12:35 Come Dine with Me 13:05 Come Dine with Me 13:35 Come Dine with Me 14:05 Come Dine with Me 14:40 Come Dine with Me 15:10 Countdown 15:55 Deal or No Deal 17:00 Celebrity Five Go To...

18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News 19:25 4thought.tv 19:30 First Cut 19:55 Jamie's Fish Supper 20:00 Relocation: Phil Down Under 21:00 Heston's Fishy Feast 22:00 Shameless 23:10 Hot Shots! Part Deux 00:50 4Play 01:05 My Name Is Earl 01:30 My Name Is Earl 01:55 Comedy Lab 02:20 Baby Boy 04:30 ER 05:15 Countdown

08:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 08:10 The Milky and Shake Show 08:15 Peppa Pig 08:20 Peppa Pig 08:30 Roary the Racing Car 08:40 Hana's Helpline 08:50 The WotWots 09:00 Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom 09:15 The Wright Stuﬀ 11:00 The Vanessa Show 11:45 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12:40 Five News 12:45 Emergency Bikers 13:45 Neighbours 14:15 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

15:10 Murder 101 17:00 Five News 17:30 Neighbours 18:00 Monkey Life 18:25 Live From Studio Five 19:00 Five News at 7 19:30 How Do They Do It? 20:00 Battle of Britain: The Lost Evidence 21:00 NCIS 22:00 Law and Order: Criminal Intent 22:55 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 23:55 PartyPoker.com: World Open VI 00:50 Super Casino 04:00 How Not to Decorate

07:30 Thomas and Friends 07:45 Noddy in Toyland 08:00 Fifi and the Flowertots 08:10 The Milky and Shake Show 08:15 Peppa Pig 08:20 Peppa Pig 08:30 Roary the Racing Car 08:40 Hana's Helpline 08:50 The WotWots 09:00 Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom 09:15 The Wright Stuﬀ 11:00 The Vanessa Show 11:45 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12:40 Five News 12:45 Emergency Bikers 13:45 Neighbours

14:15 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 15:05 Trust 17:00 Five News 17:30 Neighbours 18:00 Monkey Life 18:25 Live From Studio Five 19:00 Five News at 7 19:30 Monkey Life 20:00 Ripped from the Cockpit: BA Flight of Terror 21:00 The Bone Collector 23:25 Forensic Files 23:55 Cops in Crisis 00:15 Super Casino 04:00 How Not to Decorate 04:45 HouseBusters

07:30 Thomas and Friends 07:45 Noddy in Toyland 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 The WotWots 09:00 Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom 09:15 The Wright Stuﬀ 11:00 The Vanessa Show 11:45 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12:40 Five News 12:45 Emergency Bikers 13:45 Neighbours 14:15 CSI: Crime Scene

Investigation 15:05 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 17:00 Five News 17:30 Neighbours 18:00 Monkey Life 18:25 Live From Studio Five 19:00 Five News at 7 19:30 Michaela's Zoo Babies 20:00 The True Story 21:00 The Mentalist 22:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 22:55 NCIS 23:55 Cops in Crisis 00:15 Super Casino 04:00 Motorsport Mundial 04:25 How Not to Decorate

19:00 Top Gear 20:00 Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel 21:00 How Drugs Work 22:00 EastEnders 22:30 Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live 23:30 Family Guy 23:50 Family Guy 00:15 How Drugs Work

01:15 Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel 02:15 Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live 03:15 Music, Money and Hip Hop Honeys 04:15 Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 05:15 SIGN OFF

19:00 Most Annoying People 2010 20:00 Doctor Who 20:45 Doctor Who Confidential 21:00 Come Fly with Me 21:30 Him & Her 22:00 EastEnders 22:30 Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents

23:30 Family Guy 23:50 Family Guy 00:15 Snog Marry Avoid? 00:45 Snog Marry Avoid? 01:10 Most Annoying People 2010 02:10 Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 03:10 Is Oral Sex Safe? 04:10 Snog Marry Avoid?

19:00 Madagascar 20:20 Doctor Who 21:05 Doctor Who 21:50 Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel 22:00 The Terminator 23:40 Family Guy 00:05 Family Guy 00:30 Great Movie Mistakes 2: The Sequel

02:30 Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 03:30 Love Me, Love My Face 04:25 How Drugs Work 05:25 SIGN OFF

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New series: Relocation Relocation...

New series: Episodes: comedy with Matt Le Blanc Mon Jan 17th 22.00

NOTE: Add 1 hour for Spanish viewing times. Kirstie and Phil are back - hmm, have they ever been away? More fussy clients seek their help to find a new home - this week we head to Devon.

Thu Jan 13th 20.00

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06:00 Breakfast 10:00 Saturday Kitchen 11:30 Baking Made Easy 12:00 BBC News 12:10 BBC London News; Weather 12:15 Football Focus 13:00 Live: Snooker 16:30 Final Score 17:10 BBC News 17:20 BBC London News; Weather 17:30 Hole in the Wall 18:00 Total Wipeout 19:00 The Magicians 20:00 The National Lottery: In It to Win It 20:50 Casualty 21:40 Come Fly with Me

22:10 BBC News 22:30 Match of the Day 23:50 The Football League Show 01:05 Weatherview 01:10 BBC News 01:30 Return to White Horse Village 02:00 BBC News 02:30 HARDtalk 03:00 BBC News 03:30 Return to White Horse Village 04:00 BBC News 04:30 Click

06:00 Breakfast 07:35 Match of the Day 09:00 The Andrew Marr Show 10:00 The Big Questions 11:00 Country Tracks 12:00 The Politics Show 13:00 Cash in the Attic 14:00 Escape to the Country 14:55 EastEnders Omnibus 16:50 Lifeline 17:00 Songs of Praise 17:35 BBC News 17:50 BBC London News; Weather 18:00 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Countryfile 20:00 Lark Rise to

Candleford 21:00 Zen 22:30 BBC News 22:45 BBC London News; Weather 22:55 Match of the Day 2 00:15 Needful Things 02:10 Weatherview 02:15 Holby City 03:15 Making Scotland's Landscapes 04:15 BBC News 04:30 HARDtalk

06:00 Breakfast 09:15 Wanted Down Under 10:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 Saints and Scroungers 11:45 Cash in the Attic 12:15 Bargain Hunt 13:00 BBC News at One 13:45 Doctors 14:15 Land Girls 15:00 BBC News 15:05 Deadly 60: South Africa 15:35 Me and My Monsters 16:00 The Big Performance 16:30 Blue Peter 16:55 Shaun the Sheep 17:00 Newsround 17:15 The Weakest Link 18:00 BBC News at Six

18:30 BBC London News 19:00 The One Show 19:30 Inside Out 20:00 EastEnders 20:30 Panorama: Where's Dad?: 21:00 Silent Witness 22:00 BBC News at Ten 22:35 A Question of Sport 23:05 Late Kick Oﬀ 23:35 Graham Norton Show 00:20 Weatherview 00:25 Giles and Sue Live the Good Life 01:25 Ancient Worlds 02:25 JFK: The Making of Modern Politics 03:25 Filthy Rotten Scoundrels

06:00 Breakfast 09:15 Wanted Down Under 10:00 Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 Saints and Scroungers 11:45 Cash in the Attic 12:15 Bargain Hunt 13:00 BBC News at One 13:45 Doctors 14:15 Land Girls 15:00 BBC News 15:05 Deadly 60: South Africa 15:35 Me and My Monsters 16:00 My Almost Famous Family 16:30 Blue Peter 16:55 Shaun the Sheep

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 Silent Witness 22:00 BBC News at Ten 22:35 Kara Tointon: Don't Call Me Stupid 23:35 Trust the Man 01:10 Weatherview 01:15 See Hear 01:45 Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets 02:45 Climbing Great Buildings 03:15 Filthy Rotten Scoundrels

06:00 Harry and Toto 06:10 Everything's Rosie 06:20 Dirtgirlworld 06:35 Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks 07:00 Basil and Barney's Game Show 07:30 Arthur 07:55 Leon 08:00 Richard Hammond's Blast Lab 08:30 Deadly 60 09:00 Dick and Dom's Funny Business 10:00 Trapped: Ever After 10:30 OOglies 10:45 The Slammer 11:15 My Life: The Young Mayor of Newham

11:45 MOTD Kickabout 12:00 Coast 12:05 Trust Me I'm a Dealer 12:35 El Cid 15:30 The Bear Family and Me 16:30 Live: Snooker 18:00 100 Years of the Palladium 19:00 Dad's Army 19:30 Pete Postlethwaite: A Tribute 20:20 Live: Snooker 22:30 QI XL 23:15 Fast and Loose 23:45 Goodbye Solo 01:10 Snooker Extra 03:10 Pages from Ceefax

06:00 Harry and Toto 06:10 Everything's Rosie 06:20 Dirtgirlworld 06:35 Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks 07:00 Basil and Barney's Game Show 07:30 Arthur 07:55 Leon 08:00 Richard Hammond's Blast Lab 08:30 Deadly 60 09:00 Barney's Latin America 09:30 Roar 10:00 Something for the Weekend 11:30 Film 2011 with Claudia Winkleman 12:00 The Long Duel

13:55 Live: Snooker 16:45 Ski Sunday 17:30 Legally Blonde 19:00 James May's Toy Stories 20:00 Live: Snooker 23:00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 23:30 Battle in Seattle 01:05 Days of Wine and Roses 02:55 Dateline London 03:00 BBC News 03:30 The Record Europe 04:00 BBC News 04:15 Pages from Ceefax

08:00 Mission: 2110 08:30 LazyTown 08:55 Numberjacks 09:10 The Koala Brothers 09:25 Sesame Tree 09:40 Big and Small 09:55 Guess with Jess 10:05 Postman Pat 10:20 Pingu 10:25 64 Zoo Lane 10:45 Waybuloo 11:05 In the Night Garden 11:35 Ready, Steady, Cook 12:00 The Daily Politics 12:30 GMT 13:00 Live: Bowls 15:00 To Buy or Not to Buy 15:45 Flog It! 16:30 Perfection

17:15 Antiques Road Trip 18:00 Eggheads 18:30 Great British Railway Journeys 19:00 Simon King's Shetland Diaries 20:00 University Challenge 20:30 Baking Made Easy 21:00 Horizon 22:00 Episodes 22:30 Newsnight 23:20 NFL Football 00:20 Bowls 01:20 BBC News 01:30 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer 02:00 BBC News 02:30 The Record 03:00 BBC News

08:55 Numberjacks 09:10 The Koala Brothers 09:25 Sesame Tree 09:40 Big and Small 09:55 Guess with Jess 10:05 Postman Pat 10:20 Pingu 10:25 64 Zoo Lane 10:40 Chuggington 11:05 In the Night Garden 11:35 Ready, Steady, Cook 12:00 The Daily Politics 12:30 GMT 13:00 Live: Bowls 15:00 To Buy or Not to Buy 15:45 Flog It! 16:30 Perfection 17:15 Antiques Road Trip 18:00 Eggheads

18:30 Great British Railway Journeys 19:00 Simon King's Shetland Diaries 20:00 The Natural World Special 21:00 Britain's Banks: Too Big to Save? 22:00 Have I Got News for You 22:30 Newsnight 23:20 The Planets 00:10 Bowls 01:10 BBC News 01:30 ABC World News with Diane Sawyer 02:00 BBC News 02:30 The Record 03:00 BBC News

07:00 Babar and the Adventures of Badou 07:10 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That 07:25 Monk 07:30 Beyblade 07:55 Spider-Man 08:20 Horrid Henry 08:30 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 09:00 Hannah Montana 09:25 Coronation Street Omnibus 11:45 This Morning: Saturday 12:45 Monk 13:45 ITV News and Weather

13:50 Kangaroo Jack 15:30 Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones 18:05 London Tonight 18:15 ITV News and Weather 18:25 Harry Hill's The Best of TV Burp 19:00 Primeval 20:00 Take Me Out 21:15 Benidorm 22:15 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry 00:40 The Zone 02:45 Starter Wife 03:30 ITV Nightscreen

07:30 Beyblade 07:55 X-Men 08:20 Horrid Henry 08:30 Horrid Henry 08:45 SpongeBob SquarePants 09:00 Wizards of Waverly Place 09:25 May the Best House Win 10:25 The Biggest Loser 11:30 This Morning: Sunday 12:30 Dinner Date 13:30 ITV News and Weather 13:35 Columbo 15:35 Midsomer Murders 17:40 London Tonight

17:50 ITV News and Weather 18:05 Harry Hill's The Best of TV Burp 18:35 Dancing on Ice 20:30 Wild at Heart 21:30 Dancing on Ice: The Skate Oﬀ 22:15 That Sunday Night Show 22:45 ITV News and Weather 23:00 Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford 00:00 Cops with Cameras 00:50 The Zone 02:00 October Road 02:50 ITV Nightscreen

20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 The Biggest Loser 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 The Zoo 23:35 That Sunday Night Show 00:05 Grimefighters 00:30 The Zone 02:30 The Jeremy Kyle Show 03:25 ITV Nightscreen

20:00 The Secret Mediterranean with Trevor McDonald 21:00 Taggart 22:00 News at Ten and Weather 22:35 Highlander 00:40 The Zone 02:45 Crossing Jordan 03:30 ITV Nightscreen

06:00 The Treacle People 06:10 The Hoobs 06:35 The Hoobs 07:00 GT Academy 07:30 Freesports on 4 07:55 The Morning Line 08:50 Live and Lost 09:05 Friends 09:40 Hot List 2010 10:45 Glee 11:50 Friends 12:20 Friends 12:50 The Big Bang Theory 13:20 The Big Bang Theory 13:50 Channel 4 Racing 15:50 Come Dine with Me 16:20 Come Dine with Me 16:50 Jamie's Fish Supper 16:55 Come Dine with Me

17:30 Come Dine with Me 18:00 Come Dine with Me 18:30 Channel 4 News 18:55 4thought.tv 19:00 Jamie's Fish Supper 19:05 Dispatches 20:00 The Devil Wears Prada 22:05 British Comedy Awards: The Nominations 23:10 Shameless 00:15 Shameless 01:10 Coming Up 01:35 Live and Lost 01:50 Dirty Sexy Money 02:30 Dirty Sexy Money 03:15 Brothers & Sisters 04:00 Beauty and the Geek

06:15 The Hoobs 06:40 Swimming 07:35 That Paralympic Show 08:00 Friends 08:30 Friends 09:00 Hollyoaks Omnibus 11:35 Glee 12:40 The Simpsons 13:10 The Simpsons 13:40 Four in a Bed 14:10 Four in a Bed 14:40 Four in a Bed 15:10 Four in a Bed 15:40 Four in a Bed 16:15 Jamie's Fish Supper 16:20 Deal or No Deal 17:25 School of Rock 19:25 Jamie's Fish Supper 19:30 Channel 4 News

19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 Jamie's Fish Supper 21:00 Gordon Ramsay: Shark Bait 22:00 Comics Choice 23:05 Shameless 00:10 Shameless 01:10 Cutting Edge 02:05 No, No, No 02:10 Coming Up 02:35 I Hate That Smile 02:40 Wedding House 03:35 Brain Damage 03:40 Brothers & Sisters 04:25 ER

07:10 Freshly Squeezed 07:40 Everybody Loves Raymond 08:05 Frasier 08:35 According to Jim 09:00 Supernanny US 10:00 Desperate Housewives 10:55 Relocation: Phil Down Under 11:55 Jamie's Fish Supper 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 Jamie's Fish Supper 12:10 Three in a Bed 12:40 The TV Book Club 13:10 The Herd 13:15 Quentin Durward 15:10 Countdown 15:55 Deal or No Deal

17:00 Come Dine with Me 17:30 Jamie's 30 Minute Meals 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 Birth of Britain with Tony Robinson 21:00 One Born Every Minute 22:00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 23:05 Comics Choice 00:10 Shameless 01:10 Party Poker Premier League Poker 02:10 The Genius of British Art 03:05 Dispatches

07:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 07:55 Frasier 08:25 According to Jim 08:55 Supernanny US 09:50 Desperate Housewives 10:50 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 11:55 Jamie's Fish Supper 12:00 Channel 4 News 12:05 Jamie's Fish Supper 12:10 Three in a Bed 12:40 Great British Brands 12:55 The Password Is Courage 15:10 Countdown 15:55 Deal or No Deal 17:00 Come Dine with Me

17:30 Jamie's 30 Minute Meals 18:00 The Simpsons 18:30 Hollyoaks 19:00 Channel 4 News 19:55 4thought.tv 20:00 The Year Britain Froze 21:00 My Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 22:00 Shameless 23:10 Comics Choice 00:10 Poker 01:10 Freesports on 4 01:35 Sony Ericsson World B-Boy Series 02:05 FIVB Beach Volleyball 02:55 KOTV 03:25 Challenger World London Triathlon

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Last gasp equaliser denies Wolfie spoils Deano’s party Malaga three points Malaga 1 - 1 Athletic Bilbao. A much improved performance from Malaga After the three nil home defeat by Sevilla in the Copa Del Rey last Wednesday, Malaga were looking to bounce back knowing that they have the prospect of playing Barcelona and Valencia away as their next two games. Julio Baptista was introduced to the fans in the week but unfortunately his transfer from Roma was not finalised in time for the kick off. However Malaga gave full league debuts to their new signings, goalkeeper Asenjo, Demichelis, Camacho and Italian Maresca. The first half was a game of cat and mouse, with both sides more intent on not conceding than going forward, however Malaga were the better side. Apono and Duda both went close with chances but just couldn't convert, so they went into halftime on level terms. Shortly after the break Malaga keeper Asenjo made an excellent save to deny Muniain. The game then sparked into life in the

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last fifteen minutes with Rondon and Apono missing chances that should have seen Malaga go 2-0 up and seal the game. On 81 minutes Malaga made the breakthrough that they deserved after a good spell of pressure- a corner from Duda found the head of Demichelis to glance the ball in the far corner which

looked enough to seal the three important points. However, in the dying seconds of added time Demichelis was harshly ajudged to have bought down Llorente at the other end. From the resulting free kick from Gabilondo, Martinez rose to meet the ball and headed past Asenjo leaving Malaga's manager

Pelligrini tearing his hair out. This was one of Malaga's best team performances but two points dropped. Malaga travel to the Camp Nou next Sunday (16th) to take on high flying Barcelona, kicking off at 9pm.

On Saturday Oosthuizen was joint leader overnight with Markus Brier but the Austrian soon fell by the way side on Sunday, as did England’s Chris Wood and Spain’s Manuel Quiros, who both only managed pars and it finished with an 18 under par three way tie. The game went to a play-off and although Oosthuizen had the worst drive out of the trio, his second shot landed in best position with a ten footer for birdie, Woods was 20 feet from the hole and Quiros just off the green. Oosthuizen duly holed out for his birdie and the win. Scotland’s Steven O’Hara played an impeccable round

On his victory, he added: “It means it's number three and that equals one or two records. I want to win a third one [in a row] next year." Yorkshire's Winstanley, 29, was proud of his performance, despite falling short against the top seed.He said afterwards: "The better man won on the night, he deserves it. But it was nice to see the man with the beard shake."

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Oozing success Oosthuizen does it again on home soil South African Louis Oosthuizen claimed the title for the Africa Open in East London, South Africa, at the weekend. A birdie on the first play-off hole was just enough for the world champion to clinch the victory win.

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with a total of seven birdies and no bogeys, managing to card a 66 and holding the clubhouse lead on 16 under, ultimately he settled for a joint share of fourth place with Charl Schwartzel and Jaco van Zyl, two local players. In Maui, Jonathan Byrd was flying high after managing to hold off Robert Garrigus to win the opening game of the year at the PGA Hyundai tournament again in a play-off. Both players

made par as they played the 18th on the first extra hole, but Garrigus could no longer maintain the pace at the second as he missed a fourfooter for par handing over the crown to his rival, Byrd. "I'm pretty overwhelmed, probably, is the best word to describe it," the American said, after earning a cheque of $1.12 million. “It's definitely the biggest tournament I've ever won. I've won some great tournaments but this is the

It seems that McDowell’s brand new clubs were working well for him after he posted 24 under and saw a nine-footer for birdie at the last hole, just slide past leaving him to settle for third place on his own. The US Open Champion showed his usual sparkle with a flawless course record 62 with six birdies on the front nine and a further five coming on the way home. A great start for the Northern Irishman who told reporters in Maui that his goal was to become World No1 this year.

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Have a chuckle at the expense of the Aussies What do you get if you cross the Aussie cricket team with an OXO cube ? A laughing stock. The Aussie bobsleigh team have asked the Aussie cricket team for a meeting. They want to ask their advice about.. going downhill so fast! What’s the diﬀerence between Ricky Ponting and a funeral director ? A funeral director doesn’t keep losing the ashes. What do you call an Australian with a champagne bottle? A waiter. What did the spectator miss when he went to the toilet ? The entire Australian innings. Why can’t Australian blokes take their girlfriends to the cricket ? They eat all the grass.

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Babel charged over Twitter attack Ryan Babel has been charged with improper conduct by the FA after he tweeted a mocked-up picture of referee Howard Webb in a Manchester United shirt. The Liverpool winger criticised Webb's handling of Sunday's third-round tie. He wrote: 'And they call him one of the best referees. That's a joke. SMH.' (SMH is an abbreviation for 'shake my head) but it was the picture of Webb which caused most furore. In another tweet, he added: 'My apology if they take my posted pic seriously. ‘

Messi triumphs over Spanish team mates Lionel Messi was the undisputed winner of the FIFA Ballon d'Or at the glittering award ceremony in Zurich. Argentina star Messi was selected ahead of Barcelona team-mates Xavi and Andres Iniesta, who both won the World Cup with Spain last summer. Messi, 23, scored an astonishing 60 goals for club and country in 2010 and is regarded by many as the most gifted player of his generation. The FIFA Ballon d'Or was created following the merging of France Football magazine's European

On his way out to the middle to bat, Ricky Ponting gets a call from his wife and team mate Michael Hussey tells her he’s heading out to the crease. His wife replies. ” I’ll hold, he won’t be long”. What do you call a cricket field full of Australians ? A Vacant Lot.

Footballer of the Year prize with the FIFA World Player of the Year gong. As such, it is awarded based on votes cast by journalists from around the world and coaches and captains of national teams. Messi was the holder of both titles and therefore joins former Brazil strikers Ronaldo and Rivaldo and France legend Zinedine Zidane as a multiple winner of the latter accolade. Alfredo Di Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Kevin Keegan, Michel Platini,

Marco van Basten, KarlHeinz Rummenigge and Ronaldo are the only other men to win the Ballon d'Or more than once. Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho received the coach of the year award for his time at Inter Milan.

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Former boxing champ Mason killed in bike accident Gary Mason, 48, was riding his bike in Sandy Lane South, Wallington, south London, on Thursday last week when he was involved in a collision with a van. The former heavyweight, who fought the likes of Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis, was pronounced dead at the

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Kevin Pietersen offers Ashes bat and shirt for auction. Kevin Pietersen has offered to auction off a shirt and bat he used during England's Ashes triumph as the batsman looks to raise money for the Queensland flood victims. The highest bidder will also be rewarded with flights and accommodation and two tickets for the Perth one-day international. There has been widespread flooding in the Australian state with communities devastated. Flash floods have swept through Toowoomba in the north-east of the state, killing at least eight people and leaving 11 others missing.

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scene. The driver, 43, who was driving a white Vauxhall van, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving. but has been released on bail as the police continue their enquiries. "It's a terrible shock. He was a very good champion in the era when we had Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis," British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith said. Mason became the British heavyweight champion in 1989, and hung up his gloves in 1994 with a career record of 37 wins from 38 contests. His sole defeat in the ring came at the hands of compatriot Lennox Lewis in 1991 when the pair fought for the British and European belts.

Europe's player-captain Colin Montgomerie felt that players on the Asian team will benefit from the 7-9 reverse suﬀered in the 5th Royal Trophy Golf 2011 on Sunday. Going into the final day down 2-6, Montgomerie's victory over Kim Kyung-Tae and inspiring presence saw Europe retain the trophy with a 7-1 victory in the singles at the Black Mountain golf course. "It is all about how you respond to setbacks like that. If the Asian Team grows stronger as a result of what they are going through, the negative feelings will soon be forgotten."

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Stevenage star was attacked by love rival, claims ex The girlfriend of a man who was caught on camera punching Stevenage star Scott Laird on the pitch after Saturday's FA Cup win over Newcastle says he did it because she used to be his 'lover'. Pregnant Jade Coles says Rob Fitzgerald attacked the fullback after their shock 3-1 thirdround win over the Barclays Premier League side because he was ‘defending her honour’. Fitzgerald was arrested on Monday on suspicion of assault in relation to the incident after handing himself in at Stevenage police station and faces a tenyear ban from football grounds.

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