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Preacher's release stirs up debate Abu Qatada, accused of being one of the UK's most dangerous extremist preachers, has been released from Long Lartin top-security jail in Evesham.
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hate sermons found on videos in the flat of one of the September 11th bombers.
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Despite the government's claim that he is a threat to national security, his deportation to Jordan where he faces terror charges was blocked by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last week, effectively ending his six-year detention. The court reached its decision on the grounds that evidence obtained by torture might be used against him there. The UK and Jordan had previously reached agreement that he would not be tortured if he was deported. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile, the government's former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said: "It is extraordinary that this man should remain in the United Kingdom.
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last week in this column you read that I had been watching “Whitehall” on the TV – I have no idea how it got to be that as, of course, the programme is called “Whitechapel”. I have also been watching, on a Sunday evening on BBC1 at 9pm our time, a lovely series called “Call the Midwife”. One of the stars is the comedienne Miranda Hart who plays Midwife Camilla Colmondley-Browne, otherwise known as Chummy – she’s positively brilliant. It’s usually a bit poignant and may very well have you in tears but, what a superb pìece of drama this is for once and well worth watching. One thing that struck me on Saturday morning was how badly mannered people are becoming. On our way out of the campo we were driving along a fairly narrow camino road and saw some people coming towards us on horseback. We pulled right over to the side so they could get through but did one of them offer any indication of thanks? no, and I know that at least two of them were English. Then, we have to travel over a narrow bridge. We were almost on it when a 4X4 forced its way onto the bridge and past us, nearly causing us to go off the road. The car had British plates. What is becoming of the previously polite Brits? I know times are hard for everyone but at least let’s keep up the British tradition of impeccable manners and dignity at all times. lose that, and what else have we got to be proud of being British these days?
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€7 million in false invoices The Judicial Police estimate that the king's son-in-law, Iñaki Urdangarin, and his partner, Diego Torres, used false invoices amounting to €7 million, to empty the coffers of the Nóos Institute to avoid paying taxes. They arrived at that figure after hearing testimony last week from the people who worked at the Institute and its satellite companies. Urdangarin set up the non-profit making institute to arrange sports events and conferences for the regional governments of
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Preacher's release stirs up debate He has also been electronically tagged, and is banned from attending a mosque, leading prayers, publishing any statement, or meeting any of 27 named individuals. Use of a mobile phone or the internet is also prohibited. Unless the UK government can show significant progress towards deporting Abu Qatada within three months, his bail conditions
could be lifted. Tory MP Peter Bone said: "It cannot be right that a sovereign nation has someone who they think is an extremely dangerous individual who cannot possibly be allowed to stay in the country just because of the risk of his human rights. What about the human rights of all our citizens – our men and women and children?" Joel
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- But leaders of Spain’s main unions are not in agreement. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday that the Spanish government's proposed labour reforms show that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is determined to tackle the country's economic problems and put it back on the path to growth. He said the reforms would create more jobs in Spain, something the unions profoundly disagree with. After meeting Labour Minister Fátima Báñez on Monday, the leaders of the two main unions, Ignacio Fernández Toxo of the CCOO, and Cándido Méndez of the UGT, said the new measures would make it easier for small
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The unions have called a series of protests against the measures – starting on Sunday, February 19th – which they said could eventually lead to a general strike.
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surgery. Instead, they say, she has been enjoying a healthier lifestyle since former PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero dropped her from his team in October 2010. She has put on seven kilos, perhaps because she may have given up smoking, and changed her hairstyle. As a result, in the “after” photo she looks ten years younger than her real age of 63.
BBVA issues gloomy job report About a quarter of the labour force will be out of a job this year and next as the economy suffers another recession, according to the BBVA's research department. At the end of last year, unemployment stood at 22.8 per cent, and in its latest report on the economy, the BBVA has predicted the jobless rate would rise to 24.4 per cent by the end of this year and to 24.6 per cent the following year. However, BBVA researcher Rafael
Doménech said that the government's proposed labour reforms should create stable and more productive jobs in the long term. He said the one bright spot is the export sector, which is expected to recover the levels seen before the crisis began three years ago.
Rainfall so far this winter is 40 per cent less than normal and this January – when only 21 litres of rain per square metre fell – has been the sixth driest in the past 50 years. February is turning out to be dry and the forecast for March is not much better. The weathermen are now pinning their hopes on wetter-than-usual weather in April and May.
Poverty rate on the rise Spain has the fifth highest poverty rate in the EU, after Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia and Lithuania, according to the latest figures released by Eurostat. In 2010, there were 11.6 million Spaniards at risk of poverty, out of a total of 115.4 million EU citizens in same situation. the According to Eurostat, “at risk of poverty” means those people whose incomes are lower than 60 per cent of the national average, those who suffer “serious material privation” (that is, who cannot afford to pay rent or buy certain basic goods) or those who have used less than 20 per cent of their “work potential” in the past year, not including students.
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Serbian PM's assassins captured in Valencia National Police arrested Vladimir Milisavljevic and Luka Bojovic in a Valencia restaurant last Thursday in connection with the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in Belgrade on March 12th, 2003. Milisavljevic is alleged to have used a telescopic rifle from a nearby building to kill Djindjic while Bojovic was allegedly the intellectual author behind the crime. Djindjic had made a lot of enemies with his reformist policies, but was even more hated for his crusade to send Slobodan Milosevic to the
International Court of Justice in The Hague to face war crimes. On Saturday, High Court Judge Fernando Andreu ordered the two men to be held in custody on weapons and other charges, together with two other wanted hitmen – Vladimir Mijanovic and Sinisa Petric – who were also arrested at the restaurant. Serbia is now asking for their extradition.
four men belong to the Zemun Clan whose criminal activities include money laundering, prostitution, drug trafficking, shakedowns and extortion schemes. Police said they have lived in different parts of Spain for several years.
Child porn gang smashed Police have arrested 57 people in 21 provinces – including Malaga, Huelva, Sevilla, Cordoba and Almeria – and charged them with sharing child pornography material on the internet. The operation was successful thanks to the use of the GnuWatch programme which can detect users sharing files with paedophile content. Police also seized 240 computers containing what they described as “extremely hard” videos of sexual acts with very young children.
Court drops Garzón bribery charges The Supreme Court on monday dropped criminal charges against suspended Judge Baltasar Garzón arising from a complaint that he took money from Banco Santander chairman Emilio Botín to organize a series of lectures at New York University. Justice manuel marchena decided the statute of limitations had run out and shelved the third case Garzón was facing at the Supreme Court. Last week, Garzón was suspended for 11 years for ordering illegal wiretaps of lawyer-defendant conversations in the Gurtel corruption case. madrid
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Argentina's transport workers' union says it will boycott ships flying the British flag because of the dispute over the Falkland Islands.
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Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the islands, which it calls the Malvinas. Last December, the South American trading bloc Mercosur closed its ports to ships flying the Falkland Islands flag, and last week Argentina took its case to the UN general assembly, where it accused the UK of "militarising" the
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Tribe sues beer makers for $500m changes throughout the electronics industry, since many companies use the same suppliers. Corporate analysts said it was “a really big deal,” because the whole industry has to follow whatever Apple does.
the Oglala Sioux tribe in South Dakota is suing some of the world's biggest beer firms over severe alcohol-related issues in the community. the tribe is asking for $500 million for healthcare, social services and child rehabilitation. tribal elders said the lawsuit is a last resort after efforts to curb abuse through protests and policy failed. the lawsuit, filed in the district court of nebraska, targets anheuser-Busch inBev Worldwide, SaB Miller, Molson Coors Brewing Company, MillerCoors llC, and Pabst Brewing Company.
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Apple announced on Monday that an outside organisation had begun to audit working conditions at the plants where most of its iPhones, iPads and other products are built. has begun publicly divulging information that it once considered secret, after criticism that included coordinated protests last week at Apple stores around the world and investigative news reports about punishing conditions inside some
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Obama to tax the rich US President Barack Obama has proposed raising taxes on the wealthy in his 2013 $3.8 trillion budget plan. The proposal includes $1.5 trillion (£950 billion) in new taxes, mainly from allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire. Republican leaders, who portray Mr Obama as a taxand-spend liberal stoking class warfare, have pronounced the budget dead on arrival. But in his budget message, Mr Obama said: "This is not about class warfare. This is about the nation's welfare." He added: "In the United States of
America, a teacher, a nurse, or a construction worker who earns $50,000 a year should not pay taxes at a higher rate than somebody making $50 million. That is wrong." His plan to allow George W Bush-era tax cuts to expire would affect families making $250,000 or more per year. The
president would also put in place a rule named after billionaire Warren Buffett to tax households making more than $1m annually at a rate of at least 30%. Mr Obama unveiled details of the $3.8 trillion plan in an address to students at a college in Virginia on Monday morning.
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More arrests made for Romeo and Juliet hit the spot bribery and corruption Five senior journalists from the Sun Newspaper were among eight people arrested in connection with allegations of bribing police officers, public officials and serving military personnel. The other three held were a serving member of the armed forces, a female Ministry of Defence employee and a serving police officer from Surrey Police. The five were arrested at addresses in London, Kent and Essex on suspicion of corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office and conspiracy in relation to both those offences. All
eight arrested had been bailed by Sunday pending further police enquiries. Arrested from the Sun were deputy editor Geoff Webster, picture Editor John Edwards, chief reporter John Kay, chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker and news editor John Sturgis. They are accused of offering bribes for information to use in their newspapers. The mood in The Sun newspaper room was gloomy despite assurances from top officials that they have no intention of closing or selling the paper. However, Rupert Murdoch has made it clear that The Sun will not be going the way of the News Of The World. People have been
Back Goal! already Amanada Holden who gave birth three weeks ago returned to Britains Got Talent’s spot over the weekend. She was in intensive care following the birth of the baby who she says has “made my life complete” but it was generally felt that returning to work so soon after such a difficult time reflected her insecurity of her job.
People of all ages are being trained in football in Glasgow by professional Ian McCall.
He is showing the amateurs how to be aware of their surroundings rather than concentrating on going straight forward. and how to touch the ball more professionally and make space for themselves that the opposing team players haven’t noticed. Men and women, girls and boys have all joined in the sessions.
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arrested but not charged. It was said by one pundit that “many journalists have been slipping a fiver to police etc for many years for the scoop on a story” adding that many times the technique exposed some very nasty conduct by certain people and has made it possible to bring such people to justice. Labour MP Tom Watson said that the enquiry goes well beyond just phone hacking and goes to the very heart of the ownership of newspapers. It is suspected that the further the enquiry goes, the more likely it is that not just News International will be found guilty but also the broadsheets until now thought to be in the clear.
A painting of Romeo and Juliet has been voted the most romantic work of art on display in the UK’s museums and galleries in a poll carried out by YouGov on behalf of the Art Fund.
71% of people who voted chose the painting by Frank Bernard Dicksee which is on display at the Southampton City Art Gallery. The painting shows the couple on their wedding night and the last time they will see each other alive. Second in the poll is Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss currently on display at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Kent. And third was William Hogarth’s Before And After
The news that the birth took place last year was revealed by the transgender support group the Beaumont Society The society reported that the man, who was born a woman had approached them asking for advice about having a baby. Despite the sex change operation, as long as the overies and uterus are not
removed, it is clearly possible that a person living as a man could become a mother. The Society referred him to GIRES, the Gender Identity Research and Education Society that provides information based on research into gender identity and intersexual issues, to help improve the lives of those affected. After the birth, the man got back in touch with the society to thank them for their help.
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that is on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The Art fund helps UK museums and galleries to buy, show and share art. The poll which was carried out online surveyed 2,030 adults.
Man becomes mother A man is his thirties who had undergone a sex change operation has become Britains first “male mother”.
An asparagus grower has broken the record for England’s earliest crop, 10 weeks before the usual first arrival. S & A Produce of Great Witley, Worcestershire said that improved growing methods meant that its first crop was available in stores nore than two months before the official asparagus season starts.
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English asparagus is claimed by experts to be the best in the world due to the climate giving it a sweeter taste.
Thomas Beattie from Oregon made headlines around the world in 2008 by becoming the worlds first “pregnant man” and has since borne another two children. Scott Moore a transgender man who lives in California with his husband gave birth in March 2010. Israeli transgender man Yuval Topper was reported to have given birth on December 28th last year.
No breaks Chancellor George Osborne has already ruled out tax breaks to newly married couples – a possibility in next month’s budget – causing anger within the Conservative party. The annual cost of introducing the transferrable tax allowance has been estimated at 550 million pounds by the Institute of Fiscal Studies. The US has apparently started to turn round their economy by giving people money to spend rather than imposing austerity measures like the UK. This frees up more spending for the general public which many feel tends to kick start an economy.
Same man? Detectives think a series of robberies on two teenage girls, a woman and an elderly man were carried out by the same attacker over a two-hour period between 6 and 8pm on Saturday evening in the town of Datchet, Windsor and Old Windsor in Berkshire. The 71-year-old man refused to hand over his wallet and the attacker ran off. In the second attack a 17-year-old girl refused to hand over her mobile phone so the attacker snatched her handbag and made his escape and in the third attack a woman out walking had her handbag snatched by the man who again escaped in the dark coloured car. He has been described as black and travelling in a dark coloured saloon car.
Nessie Near Mk II? miss New pictures of a strange creature moving under the surface of a lake are being hailed as Iceland’s answer to the Loch Ness Monster. However, one inhabitant of the Loch Ness region declared the whole thing as “utter tosh” declaring “there is only one Nessie and it’s ours!”.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate, found themselves with a pot of jet terror last week when the crew of the plane they were travelling in were told to manoeuvre a “go around” just two hundred feet off the ground during a “near miss”. A spokesperson said there was “no danger”.
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Adulterating drinks a widespread practice Police began investigating the sale of adulterated drink in Malaga after irregularities were detected in several bottles of contraband rum to minors. However, Operation Resaca (Hangover) has revealed that the practice is much more widespread than originally suspected. Cheap rum, whisky and gin is sold to bars and other establishments in large carafes and then decanted
into bottles bearing brand name labels. It is also sold in individual bottles with false labels which do not carry the lot numbers that make it possible to trace the origin of the drink. Many bar owners deny
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that the practice exists but people who work in bars and restaurants told police it is fairly widespread. A police spokesman said the bottles are sold at €1.5 less than the normal selling price which produces a tidy profit over time.
Youth compensated for lost testicle The Andalucian Health Service has awarded compensation of €56,000 to a minor who lost a testicle because of a delay in diagnosis. The 16-year-old
went to Urgencias at the Hospital Clinico in the early hours of the morning of September 12th 2009, complaining he couldn't sleep because of a pain in
his left testicle. He was told it was a urinary infection and given antibiotics and pain killers. The condition continued and he returned three weeks later, to be told
Fire destroys skating rink The skating rink in Torremolinos's Villa Deportiva was destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon, and the Town Hall is studying the possibility of
New mammogram service Some 10,000 women living in Estepona, Manilva and Casares will no longer have to go to Marbella for mammograms when the new machine at the La Lobilla health centre begins operating at the end of the month. The health centre plans to call in all women aged 50 to 69 who are registered with their local councils as part of an early detection campaign.
closing it down for good. The fire appears to have been deliberately set by vandals who used a substance to spread the flames rapidly. The wooden
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that the testicle had infarcted because of a failure in blood supply and could not be saved. The testicle was finally removed on February 4th, 2010.
Plain clothes policemen who were helping the Local Police to man a traffic control point in Mijas last week watched as a young woman switched over to the passenger seat allowing her companion to drive the car up to the checkpoint. However, the uniformed men had been tipped off and asked both of the car's occupants for their driving licences. They initially denied having switched seats until the plain clothes cops stepped in. They were both fined and the driver lost two points off his licence.
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Ted Heath remembered
A local newspaper recalled over the weekend a barely remembered visit by former Prime Minister Edward Heath to Marbella in February 1975. He had just lost the Tory Party leadership to Margaret Thatcher and fled the limelight in the UK, to surface 24 hours later in Marbella. The British media flocked to the town after a lucky local photographer snapped him walking along a street – they were much more interested in the loser than the winner, but he
refused to give interviews, brushing everyone off curtly, saying he only wanted to enjoy some sun in peace. However, local businesses were delighted with the wide coverage given to his visit in the British press and got together to give him a medal. He even got freebies. When he ordered a salmon steak at a local restaurant, the cook told him it was on
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the house – in exchange for Gibraltar, he added cheekily, putting a smile back on the defeated leader’s face.
When Mr Heath returned the following year, the town named him Tourist of the Year. Mr Heath went on to organise the first yachting tournament in Puerto Banus, an event he participated in regularly in subsequent years.
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Nasty surprise in potatoes a client and the owner of a grocer’s shop got an unpleasant surprise when a hand grenade was discovered among a bag of potatoes. The guardia Civil were called in to collect the grenade which was found in potatoes imported from an area along the frontier between France and Belgium. The guardia said the grenade was probably a relic of the Second World War.
Licence changes made easier People registered on Fuengirola council’s empadronamiento list can now change details such as a new address on their driving licences without having to go to Trafico in Malaga.
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Speeding to catch cruise ship a French tourist who was caught speeding along the a-92M between las Pedrizas and Salinas at 200 kilometres per hour told the guardia Civil that if she didn’t put her foot down, she, her boyfriend and the couple accompanying them stood to lose a Mediterranean cruise. They missed the boat anyway because the police arrested the 22-year-old woman. The last person the guardia caught speeding along the same stretch of road was a 20-year-old Frenchman in a Porche doing 217 kph. genal valley
This is the result of an agreement with the Traffic Authority in Madrid and came into effect on February 13th. Those who need to make the change can do so at the Town Hall, although a spokesman said the service would be made available on the council’s website in the near future.
Money for reforestation The Malaga Provincial government has announced financial aid of €800,000 to reforest 750 hectares which were recently devastated by fire. Provincial government president elias Bendod made the announcement during a visit to the affected areas in the municipalities of estepona, Benhavis, genalguacil, Jubrique and Pujerra. The fire affected an area of high ecological value, including part of the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean between andalucia and Morocco. a police investigation indicates the fire was started by someone burning scrub.
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he unions and the opposition parties are making a lot of noise about one aspect of the government’s proposed labour reforms – the clause that makes it cheaper to fire people by reducing severance pay from 45 to 33 days – and in some case, 20 days – per year worked. But the part that really gets the unions going is the clause that allows small companies to come to agreements with their employees as regards working hours, pay freezes, etc., which will help them to keep open. This, along with other clauses aimed at making life easier for small businesses and the selfemployed drastically reduces the power of the unions.
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artido Popular spokeswoman Maria Dolores de Cospedal has described such reactions as “demagogy and lies”. She called on the unions to act “responsibly” but added that nobody can understand “how they kept silent for seven years, watching the number of jobless rise to more than five million during that time but are now protesting because workers and companies can decide how to save their future instead of closing down.”
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s for opposition leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Cospedal said “criticising the government for taking these measures amounts to cynicism without limits and also insults the intelligence of Spaniards because we remember the important role Rubalcaba played in the economic situation that brought us to where we are today”.
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he reforms are for the medium- to long-term and it remains to be seen what effect they will have. However, the unions are already planning nationwide demonstrations – the first one this coming Sunday – and it will be interesting to see how many people turn out. Despite Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conviction that the reforms will automatically lead to a general strike, the union leaders seem to think it’s a trap he’s laid for them and refuse to fall into it. They also know the country is in no mood for a general strike, as was proved by their pathetic attempts to stage one last year after Zapatero announced budget cuts.
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udge Baltasar Garzón’s lawyers tried to stop the reading of a document during his second trial last week which referred to his refusal to investigate what was
Why Garzón should appeal probably the single biggest atrocity of the Civil War – the execution of some 4,000 prisoners by Republican militias at Paracuellos just outside Madrid in November and December 1936. In 1998, Garzón rejected a denuncia presented by the Association of Families and Friends of the Victims of the Paracuellos Genocide, calling it a “fraud” and an “abuse of the law”. He also said the massacre was covered by the 1977 Amnesty Law, the very law he tried to sidestep when he decided to put the Franco regime in the dock.
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he trouble with Garzón and fans of the Historical Memory Law – passed to right the wrongs of the Franco regime – is that they refuse to admit the wrongs committed by the Second Republic, which started with the burning and sacking of churches – especially in Madrid and Malaga – in May 1931, five years before the civil war broke out.
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he government in Madrid could not control hotheaded revolutionaries in towns and cities far from the capital. Both Right and Left were guilty of political assassinations in those years, which also saw an unsuccessful military coup attempt in 1932 and an uprising by the Asturian miners in 1934 which was expected to ignite the rest of the country and bring about the revolution.
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fter the military uprising began on July 18th 1936, thousands of people were summarily executed without any pretence of a trial by the militias in the Republican-held parts of the country, especially in Andalucia and Extremadura. Priests, nuns, schoolteachers, store owners, lawyers, other professionals and small land owners (the big landowners had fled long before) all went to the wall because by reason of their social class, they were suspected of sympathising with the military rebels. When Franco's troops arrived, they in turn executed Communists, Socialists, Anarchists, trade unionists and ordinary working men. We'll never know how many of these people were involved in the earlier executions of “Franco sympathisers” because their descendants, even if they knew the truth, would never admit it.
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he Spanish people will not be able to come to terms with the civil war until the truth is told about what both sides did during those bloody years. It also might help if certain politicians – and judges – on the Left stopped trying to keep the old hatreds alive.
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he Spanish judiciary – as I predicted two weeks ago – is now under intense international pressure and global scrutiny. Last Thursday, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court bench decided that High Court Judge Baltasar Garzón should be suspended for 11 years after finding him guilty of illegally tapping phone conversations between several jailed suspects in the Gürtel public corruption inquiry and their lawyers. Garzón breached his bench duties and violated the constitutional rights of the defendants by ordering the jailhouse phone chats recorded, the Supreme Court says. The decision made headlines around the world. The 56-year-old magistrate, known for issuing his famous 1998 arrest warrant for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and who may never serve on the bench again should he let this ruling stick, argues that the Gürtel suspects were using their lawyers to help them conceal and launder money they had obtained from the Partido Popular (PP) local governments in Valencia, Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha. Investigators later found that Gürtel heavyweight Francisco Correa, the alleged mastermind behind the massive kickbacks-for-tenders scheme, stashed away some €24 million in Swiss bank accounts.
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nder Spanish law, Garzón cannot appeal his suspension; legislation doesn’t allow for elected officials as well as appointed figures to seek relief from a higher court bench. This legal flaw is the target of one of the biggest attacks this country currently faces in many global forums. Spain is a signatory of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which, among other things, affords defendants in all criminal and civil cases the right to appeal their sentences. On January 17th when Garzón’s trial opened, the justices told the embattled judge that they didn’t have the authority to afford him the right to appeal because Congress had not changed the law. In other words, the justices, with so much power to tell lawmakers what and what not to do, conveniently put the monkey on the legislature’s back in this instance.
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arzón is now looking at taking his conviction and sentence before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He may even have a case before Spain’s Constitutional Court if he can fashion an argument that his sentence violated his constitutional guarantees. The legal battle isn’t over yet.
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his high profile judge is also facing the possibility of another conviction – and even a longer suspension from the bench – stemming from a second complaint brought against him him for opening an inquiry in 2008 on crimes committed during the 1936-39 Civil War and the subsequent 1939-75 Francisco Franco dictatorship. That trial ended on Wednesday with testimony from a host of witnesses who, for the first time, were able to tell their story in a Spanish courtroom on how the Nationalist forces murdered their parents and other loved ones during the bloody conflict, which would become a grisly prelude to World War II. The obscure right-wing union, Manos Limpias, which filed the original complaint against Garzón, argues that the judge purposely overlooked the 1977 amnesty provisions passed by Congress to lay the ghosts of a violent past during the Transition following Franco’s death. Garzón correctly argues that there is no statute of limitations on human rights abuses.
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he UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, which normally doesn’t target a European Union nation in its concerns, expressed uneasiness “about the effect of the trial on the independence” of Garzón and other judges in Spain arising from this prosecution.
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To uphold the rule of law requires an unconditional commitment to justice and human rights. In the context of full respect for the independence and autonomy of the judiciary, supposed errors in judicial decisions should not be a reason for the removal of a judge and, even less, for a criminal proceeding to be launched,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, and the five independent experts of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, in a statement released on Wednesday. “No judge may fear to be independent in his or her functions.
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While judges have to be accountable in the exercise of their functions, all measures taken in this respect have to be in conformity with the norms and safeguards, including the basic principles on the independence of the judiciary,” Knaul said.
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he Garzón case is just another in a long line of judiciary episodes that not only question the safeguards of citizens but go to the heart of an even broader perpetual argument over how actually fair is the Spanish judicial system.
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Back on the mainland now and a trip along the Great Ocean Road was in order. Part 1
There is apparently a rule in Australia about low flying aircraft not being allowed. Travelling first from Sydney to Melbourne, then to Tasmania and back on a rather nice little airline called Jetstar we could see just what they meant. You get to where you are supposed to be and all of a sudden you drop at a rapid rate of knots out of the sky, thwack the tarmac and the brakes are put on so smartly that everybody nearly ends up in with the captain at the front! With just two days to catch our breath everybody decided that we should have a little trip along the coast to Torquay, Janjuc and Lorne. The journey by car takes around three hours from West Melbourne and it’s mostly on motorways so the trip is easy.
We went past Sorrento where we had been before Christmas and then got to the Great Ocean Road which is Australian National Heritage listed and a 243-kilometre (151 mile) stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool. The joy of this road apart from the stunning scenery is the fact that it was built between 1919 and 1932 by around 3,000 soldiers returning from the first world war to make sure their returning heroes had jobs. It is the biggest war memorial in the world. The road travels along the edge of the Southern Ocean and views are stunning. It also winds its way through rainforest as well as large and small towns for surfers and sailboarders.
You can ride a wave at Bells Beach, one of Australia's famous surfing beaches. You walk along a small track towards the beach and, to the left, is the place for the “amateurs” – turn right and you have to be a serious surfer. There seems to be great rivalry between the two sets of surfers with those going left striving in ridiculously cold weather to be able to be good enough to do that little right turn next time – and, er, no, I didn’t try it! On the other side of the track as the sun was going down we were able to watch around 50 wild kangaroos going about their business. The heat had gone from the day so they came out from under the shade of the trees looking for food for themselves and their joeys.
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Dentists - our favourite people. In Spanish el dentista is a male dentist and la dentista is a female dentist. If you need to make an appointment you ask for una cita. Quiero una cita - I want an appointment Lo antes posible - As soon as`possible Me duele means it hurts, Me duele mucho - it hurts a lot Me duele muchísimo - it hurts like crazy Los dientes are your teeth (mainly the front ones). Use las muelas for the back teeth. And una muela de juicio is a wisdom tooth. Un empaste is a filling. Se me ha caido un empaste - A filling has fallen out. Of course you can have un empaste simple, a single filling or un empaste doble a double filling. Una corona is a crown and un puente is a bridge. Then, of course, there are all sorts of implantes - implants. Necisito una corona nueva - I need a new crown. And to ask if the dentist thinks you need a new crown you simply change how you say it, ¿Necesito una corona nueva? - Do I need a new crown? If you're brave - No quiero anastesia - I don't want an anesthetic Or in my case - No quiero sentir nada - I don't want to feel anything ¿Hay que sacarla? - Do you have to take it out? Quiero hacerme una limpieza - I would like to have my teeth cleaned Quiero hacerme una revision - I would like a check-up. And the all important question ¿Cuánto va a costar? How much is it going to cost?
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Community News Age Concern España help in English Bring and buy Age Concern España whose chief concern is the welfare of the elderly English speaking population in Spain are looking for more volunteers to help raise funds. There are hundreds of ways this can be done but two of the more popular fund raisers are the Pub Quiz and the Big Brew Up. Anyone who thinks their local bar or café would be interested in or benefit from hosting such an event is invited to contact Kim Stollard by email on ccm@ageconcern-
espana.org where they will be able to register the event and arrange for a free fund raising kit. Recently the well-known James Joyce Irish Pub in Madrid – with Simon Montague (pictured) from The British Embassy acting as the Quiz-master – hosted such an event and raised an impressive €1190 for Age Concern España. Such events have two functions, firstly they raise much needed funds and secondly they raise awareness that help is available in English.
Age Concern España principally provides support in two areas, to anyone over the age of 50 and to those of any age – including their families – who serve or have served in the British Armed Forces and now live in Spain. Their work is not limited to the British in Spain but the service is primarily provided in English. If you think you would like to help in any way or feel you may be in need of help, advice or information yourself –especially in English – feel
& dinner date The Benalmadena Branch of the Royal British Legion held a Bring and Buy Sale on 13 February. This raised 160.20 euros for the Poppy Appeal and they would like to say a big “thank you” to everyone who supported the event. free to contact them on 902 00 38 38 or via their website www.acespana.org. written by Pete Woodall Woody’s Los Boliches
Costa. The entertainment will be by Adèle and Jason from Rock Studios and there will be raffle. Tickets are only €18 for a three course hot and cold buffet meal. Dress code will be smart casual so book your tickets now for a fabulous evening. For further details please contact Val Bales, Tel. 669 350 779.
A Dinner Dance is being held on Tuesday, 6th March at The Peacock in Avenida Bonanza, Benalmadena
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Youngsters ran their own café at the British School of Marbella to raise money for charity on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week with around 50 children aged between two and five making a healthy twocourse meal for their parents before delivering it to their table as waiters. The event followed their latest topic about food and healthy eating.
The children raised €20 euros in tips during the event which will be donated to The Butterfly Children charity which has two charity shops in Marbella.
Children with Epidermolysis Bullosa have skin as fragile as a butterfly's wing, which can blister at the slightest touch.
Triple A’s first Open Day of this year will take place next Sunday, February 19th in their Shelter off the Carretera de Ojen,1.5 km from La Cañada roundabout on the right hand side. Doors will open at 12 noon. There will be delicious tapas, a bar service, homemade food, a flea market and good music so why not go along, have a great afternoon out, meet the staff and volunteers, take your friends
along and give their animals love and affection, if only for a few hours and maybe even meet your new best friend! All the money raised will go to the cost of caring for the 500 animals we have at the shelter (currently 330 dogs and 220 cats). More information about this event can be found on their web page www.aaahelps.com or you can call 952 771 586 or 607 163 379
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Pet of the week Scrabble date MABS cancer support group has a change of date for their monthly Scrabble afternoon. This month’s has been changed to Tuesday 21st
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If anyone is interested in meeting Luke in person, for further information please contact Pat on 620 354 885 or visit the Fama website at www.f-a-m-a.net Unfortunately Luke is only one of many abandoned dogs wanting a family and home of their own so, if you don’t think Luke would suit you, why not pop along and have a look at our other dogs to find one to love. Fama never puts a healthy dog down, they have a home for life, or until they are adopted.
Piddling – Part 2 - The solution. In the meantime, how do we address the problem of wet, ammonia smelling carpets? When you arrive home or have visitors try to greet your puppy outdoors. It will squat and urinate, but at least it will do so on grass. Approach playtime, inside, with a lowkey, calm attitude or, better, take your puppy outside to play. If it does piddle on the carpet, calmly blot the wet spot with paper towels, slosh white vinegar on the spot and blot that up. White vinegar will kill the odour of both urine and faeces. And finally, rejoice. This problem will, in time, correct itself.
Administration of Tablets - part 1 Many drugs in tablet form, licensed for use in dogs, have been specially formulated with palatability in mind. However, if your dog is at all suspicious he is unlikely to eat the tablet voluntarily irrespective of how pleasant it may taste. Can I train my dog to take tablets? Yes, it is good foresight to train a puppy to accept tablets pushed down the throat. This is a useful technique to practise with a puppy using something pleasant like a vitamin tablet or a special doggy choc drop.
My dog has never had a tablet - how can I get them into him? Try subterfuge to start! Most dogs readily accept treats such as a piece of cheese or meat even if they aren’t used to being offered them. Try giving him one or two treats and then give one with the tablet pushed into the centre. You may be successful. Make it a game and a lot of the problems will be solved. If necessary push the tablet disguised in the treat down the throat. You say push the tablets down the throat. How do I do this? Remember that dogs quickly learn when it is tablet
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time and may vanish from sight . First catch the patient! If possible try to get someone to help you to hold the dog. Depending on his size you may find it more comfortable supporting him on your lap if small or held between your knees if larger. Most people find it easier to approach from the side or behind when giving tablets. More in next week’s article.
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In this sort of weather, a lovely lie-in snuggled in a warm bed on a Sunday is just what you need. On Tuesday March 6th the Lux Mundi branch at Torre del Mar, will take friends on a coach trip to Loja and Rio Frio. Loja is situated in the Sierra Loja in the Province of Granada. The town dates back to prehistoric times and has been occupied by the Phoenicians, Romans and Moors. The Catholics finally conquered it in 1486. The visit will be accompanied by a guide who will take the group to see the Museo Historico de
La Alcazaba, Mirador de Sylvania and many otherhHistorical sites. Lunch will be taken in Loja and on the return trip there will be a visit to Rio Frio to see the trout farm. The price includes transport and insurance, lunch, and all entrance fees. Departure time is 8.45am picking up in Algarrobo, Caleta, Torre Del Mar and the parking area close to the Hotel La Vinuela. Departure time to return home from Rio Frio will be 6.00pm. For further information and bookings please call in or contact the Centre. Tel. 952 543 334 or 952 540 432.
Well, this week you’ll be able to do just that if you were thinking of getting up early to go to the boot sale at the Hipodromo Race Course in La Cala. The boot sale has been suspended due to the horse racing being on so the next one will be on Sunday March 11th. Enjoy!
Unfortunately, there can be a few drawbacks. Excellent as the Spanish health care system is, there is a tendency to discharge patients much sooner than their counterparts in the UK. Once at home, people often have no one to help them through these delicate weeks, as their families are miles away, and perhaps their friends are incapable of providing them with the assistance they need. Even a trip to the local store can result in a nasty fall due to the neglected infrastructure of many streets, and people find
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Our main translator, Duncan Burrell will already be known to many of you and, between us we have over 45 years of experience living and working in Spain plus sorting out our own problems and therefore knowing the systems. Call us here at The News in the first instance on 952 454 491 and let us help you to be able to see a light at the end of the tunnel at last!
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The News Help Desk will run on three days each week Wednesday, Friday & Saturday between the hours of 10.30am and 12.30pm and any queries we can’t deal with there and then, we will make enquiries about using an excellent team of experts that we have come to respect over several years.
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Back in Gibraltar after nearly 50 years ..... but sadly not with the happiest of memories! Former Royal Marines musician Gerald Miles spent a few precious moments thinking about the last time Written by he was on the Rock back on Christmas Day 1963. Clive Smith There was nothing to celebrate on this festive day because Gerald along with his colleagues had just landed 55 bodies from the fire stricken cruise ship The Laconia. One hundred and twenty-eight people died in the fire and its aftermath – 95 passengers and 33 crew members. Gerald and his fellow musicians were on their way to the Far East on board the aircraft carrier H.M.S.Centaur when they were ordered to join other ships in the rescue operation. Although 20 Merchant ships were soon at the scene of the disaster they were not allowed to retrieve dead bodies so the Centaur was summoned to carry out the sad task.
When not playing their instruments, the Royal Marines musicians take on the role of First Aiders and on Christmas Eve 1963 they pulled 55 dead bodies from the icy cold waters of the Atlantic which they duly brought ashore at Gibraltar on Christmas Day. “It was the one Christmas in the 76 years of my life that I will never forget, “ explained Gerald who paid a flying visit to Gibraltar this week....his first visit in 49 years. “Normally we are musicians but in sad times we have to revert to first aiders. But we had never been faced with such a horrific task as on this occasion. There were bodies bobbing about everywhere and our job was to recover all of them and take them ashore.
“We were all so upset we couldn’t speak to our loved ones back home in the UK as ringing home was not so easy in those days, especially from on board ship.”
“As servicemen we were mostly interested in the bars in those days and there were plenty of them in the main street – in fact every other building was a bar.”
Fortunately, Gerald’s previous visit to the Rock – back in 1954 – had been a lot happier. The musicians were on their way to the Far East and they called into Gibraltar for a week.
“I remember taking a taxi ride to the top of the Rock and seeing the apes and some of the tunnels but I was only 18 then and the bars were more of an attraction.
“That was a happy occasion as we hit the bars and restaurants and mixed with the locals,” explained Gerald who lives in Exmouth, Devon.
“Coming back after all these years has been a bit of a shock because although I have kept abreast of the many developments over the years to see the amount of reclaimed land and the skyscraper apartments for myself has been quite an eye-opener,” Gerald added.
“There is simply no comparison to Gibraltar as it was then and now but I can understand why it still remains such a major tourist attraction even with all the changes.
”There’s no comparison .... I remember the main
street, the Rock and apes but so much else is new.”
he played on that sad occasion.
He met up with well known Gibraltarian resident Roy Button who served for many years with the RAF and who was only too aware of the plight of the Laconia.
He is also proud of the fact that Gibraltar remains British. “There is no doubt about the Rock’s importance as a major military base as it controls one of the most important stretches of water in the world ... the Straights. Gibraltar is very British and so it should always remain,” he added.
Gerald, who recently celebrated his Golden Wedding with his wife Pauline, is proud of the role
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Apparently it once welcomed royalty when King Alfonso XIII came here to hunt. A more recent claim to fame is that General Charles de Gaulle stayed here in 1970 looking for a peaceful spot to finish writing his memoirs. In keeping with its traditions the restaurant specialises in game dishes and fine wines – you can even have an impressive menu del dia with a two-hour siesta
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rom here there are a number of delightful (and for the fitter, more strenuous) walks. You can buy walking guides with all the available routes marked from the Refugio or in the tourist office in Marbella or Ojen. For the less ambitious the route to the Mirador isn't demanding, the path is an easy one through pine and eucalyptus and the views over Marbella and San Pedro – some 1000 metres below – are breathtaking, on a clear day you can see Gibraltar and the African And looking coastline. down at you from on high is a statue of a mountain goat, whose family members can often be glimpsed jumping dizzily from rock to rock higher up the mountain.
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or the serious hiker the Refugio de Juanar is the jumping off spot for the ascent of La Concha – which is said to take around five hours (I haven't tried this one myself!). It is apparently eight kilometres to the the top and you are advised to “take the necessary precautions: wearing adequate clothing, taking enough water and a mobile phone with charged batteries. In case of emergency, you should contact emergency services by calling 112 and stay in one place until you are found”. Sensible in view of the way the weather can change so quickly in these mountains. A feature of this trek is the old sandy “beach”, a remnant from millions of years ago before the continental plates shifted and raised the area some 3,000 feet.
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he area is a wonderful one for wildlife. Birdwatchers can spend days with guides here. The pine forests are home to crested tits, crossbills, nuthatch, jays, short-toed tree-creepers (whatever they may be!) and several species of warbler. The olive plantations and open scrub hide woodlarks, redstarts, various buntings, hoopoes, wheatears and
shrikes, while overhead raptors – eagles, falcons, kestrels, vultures, buzzards and kites – can be seen at certain times of the year. It's a paradise for flora and fauna too. The botanist can search for an amazing variety trees and plants, including many types of pine trees while orchids can be found in spring and early summer, as well as aromatic plants, shrubs and grasses, dotted with butterflies and dragonflies. You need sharp eyes to see the genet cats, the martens and foxes but mountain goats are not as shy and lizards abound, snakes fortunately tend to remove themselves when footsteps approach.
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f you want to enjoy the mountain air in a more relaxed fashion then stay on the main road a little longer until you see the sign for Shanti-Som on the right hand side. I recently discovered this “wellbeing retreat” on a sunny Sunday morning and was enchanted by it – surprised too since the last time I had been there it was a rather sad and shabby hotel. Driving down through the
pine woods you suddenly find yourself enveloped in the oriental, approaching a building constructed in Balinese style architecture under South African thatched roofs with a giant reclining Buddha between the two sets of entrance steps. Balance and harmony are echoed in the gardens around it while streams, waterfalls and fountains enhance the sense of tranquility. Walking into the beautiful marbled floored hall with its high ceiling beamed in iroko wood, its side tables decorated with orchids and carved furniture, smothered in cushions arranged to encourage relaxation, I could feel my pulse rate going down and an instant sense of peace. They say it is “a place were you will regain your energy and gain balance and focus”, sadly we only had time for a guided tour and a cup of coffee but were made extremely welcome and plan to return to sample the restaurant menu (which offers Amrita creative cuisine, delicious Asian fusion dishes) later this month.
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Celebrate the Women’s World Day Of Prayer at the Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre, in Avda. Moscatel 1”I”,(in the Gardens of Viña Malaga/Antigua Casa de la Viña), Torre Del Mar. Opening hours are from 10.00am to 1.00pm and 3.00pm to 6.00pm. For more information on this event and anything else Lux Mundi are organising call 952 543 334/952 540 432, luxmundi@lux-mundi.org.
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Carnaval!
Though it seems that we have only just taken down the Christmas decorations Andalucia is back in fiesta mood with processions and parties as “Carnaval” hits the streets of towns and villages this month. Traditionally a final fling before the privations of Lent this colourful event livens up a normally rather gloomy and flat February with feasting and frolics. Malaga town's carnaval started on Sunday with a grand parade and runs for a week ending on Sunday 18th in the Entierro del Boqueron (Funeral of the Anchovy) when after a procession through the town centre the fish will be buried on the beach of La Malagueta, symbolising the death of fun and the beginning of fasting and praying. During carnaval the city streets will throng with costumed revellers – there is a fancy dress competition following the battle of flowers
in Calle Larios on Saturday night, hosted by the Carnival Queen and King Momo – with murgas (street bands), dancers and singers. Malaga is not alone is its celebrations. Marbella carnival runs until February 25th. Fuengirola's begins on February 20th as does Benalmadena's and Alhaurin el Grande's. But, as with most things in Spain, it is wise to check up with local tourist offices or town halls beforehand to discover exactly what is happening and when!
Elvis Tribute Johnny G will perform his tribute to The King on Saturday February 25th at the Salon Varietes Theatre in Fuengirola. The show, which is for one night only, covers the life and music of Elvis Presley. It starts with the early years of gyrating hips and 50's rock 'n' roll and goes through to Elvis's movie years and the “1968 comeback”. Johnny G – possibly more well known to theatre goers as the actor John Gale, delivers authentic and enthusiastic performances of Jail House Rock, Hound Dog and Blue Suede Shoes, as well as Wooden Heart, Return to Sender and GI. Blues. The show moves on
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The Parrot has a Danish chef and together they came up with a great idea. On Fridays there will be a buffet, with lots of delicious dishes such as salads, herrings, salmon, pork filet, and meat balls. The week before last they tried the menu out with invited guests. My husband and I were there and we really enjoyed the evening. In total there were around 30 guests and that is the limit, because The Parrot is not the biggest of restaurants so the atmosphere is always good. The evening was a huge success and now they will follow it up every Friday.
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Star Wars: Phantom Menace in 3D By George Lucas, Starring: Liam Neeson, Ewan Mcgregor & Jake Lloyd In a galaxy far, far away...oh, no, actually in a cinema near you, it’s now possible to see just how George Lucas has managed to retro-fit the first of the six Star Wars movies with 3D. When 3D became the film technique du jour, Lucas announced 18 months ago that he was proposing to jump on the bandwagon, and split the fan base with the news. Purists greeted it with horror and of course most 3D retro-fits have resulted in a murky mess. But Lucas is a master technician, and the general consensus is that the 3D works pretty well, and for those who have
never seen the young Anakin Skywalker in the pod race there are some exciting moments. The expectation is that Phantom Menace and the other five movies will now capture a new, young audience as well as proving to be a tempting delicacy for older fans of the original films. There are many Star Wars lovers who believe that 1977’s Star Wars, 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, and 1983’s Return of the Jedi were a perfect trilogy and that the three prequels fell well short. And it is true that Phantom Menace introduced possibly the
silliest character ever in the shape of the irritating Jar Jar Binks. Critics of the original Phantom Menace struggled with the movie’s wooden dialogue – though it must be admitted that sparkling dialogue was never Lucas’s strong suit in any of the movies – and a leaden plot involving some boring row about taxation laws. But we got to see the seven-yearold Anakin (Lloyd) meet the young Obi Wan Kenobi (McGregor channelling Alec Guiness). Liam Neeson had gravitas as the noble Jedi Knight Qui-Jon, and we
discovered how R2D2 and 3-3PO met for the first time. And now we can see it again in glorious 3D. In the next two movies we saw how Anakin grew up, how he went to the Dark Side, and how he finally became Darth Vader. And if the very name sends a quiver of excitement down your back, and if memories of the action sequences in the original movies are vivid enough to want to see them all over again – but this time with a light sabre coming straight at you – then the 3D conversions will be right up your street.
made headlines at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, when paramedics were called in as movie goers were passing out and being sick. However, if you had not heard that bit of news, you would probably never know who he was or even care. On the other hand, I had heard of Ti West and his work and this is what I have to say about it.
e Adventures of Tintin (2011) Secret of the Unicorn. March 13th
Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure. After discovering a model ship carrying an explosive secret, Tintin and his friends find themselves in the crosshairs of a diabolical villain. From the high seas to the sands of the North African deserts, every new twist and turn sweeps viewers to ever greater levels of thrills, peril and adventure.
Her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs a disgraced financial journalist and a
days at The Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
attention, but it didn’t quite deliver. I preferred the characters in “The Innkeepers” more than the ones in “The House of the Devil”. West seems to be really good at keeping you intrigued while nothing happens – suspense is definitely his trademark, I am just hoping that his new movie “V/H/S” overcomes this recurring issue. “V/H/S” is due to be released in the next few months. It is about a group of misfits that are hired by an unknown third party to burgle a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape. They discover more footage than they bargained for.
only set in the ‘80s, but shot as if it were filmed in the ‘80s, using 16mm film. The story is about a college student called Samantha Hughes who takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realises her clients harbour a terrifying secret – they plan to use her in a satanic ritual.
ow from what I’ve heard N about “V/H/S” it is what horror films are made of, and
Release Date: March 20th 2012
tattooed, ruthless computer hacker to investigate. When the pair find a link in Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the family are a secretive clan and are about to show just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
slightly better attempt A was the 2011 ”The Innkeepers”. During the final
totally understands and appreciates ‘80s horror movies, and for that reason I like his style. Back in 2009, West made “The House of the Devil” which was not
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upstairs, what a bad babysitter”. That said it was good at keeping your attention and quite suspenseful.
ne of the cool things gain, “The Innkeepers” O about Ti West is that he Awas a suspenseful and was born in the ‘80s and he creepy film, it kept your
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ver the past few weeks O you may have heard the name Ti West. He recently
here was one particular Treallyscene in this movie that caught my attention, but unfortunately that was the best scene in the movie. The main character was irritating, and during most of the movie, all I kept thinking was “you wouldn’t do that if someone was sleeping
I am psyched! Even though I do have reservations regarding West’s ability, there are three other directors involved in the project, which gives me hope. est’s movies have that W classic horror feel to them and in time, I believe he will find his niche and could be a great horror movie director. He has plenty of potential, now he’s just got to learn to be a little less spirit fingers and a little more trigger happy.
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March 21st April 19th
Communication or power struggles may suddenly appear and although it may not be the best time to talk things through it is certainly the best time to make plans for the future. Daily tasks and certain obligations need to be completed, double check the details this week. The weekend is all set to be incredible for any social or relationship fun. You are getting back in touch with your inner fire and that personal flame of passion lights your way.
Enjoy a tasty Indian dish with this simple recipe for spiced lamb with green peas. The flavours are just sublime and it will certainly warm you up these cold nights. We have substituted beef mince before now and it certainly doesn’t detract from the flavour.
Keema mutter (minced lamb with Ingredients:
TAURUS
April 20th May 20th
GEMINI
May 21st June 21st
CANCER
June 22nd July 22nd
LEO
July 23rd August 22nd
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August 23rd September 22nd
There are no random events or coincidences happening now – there is a reason for everything. Your energy is focused on your personal relationships and a surprise is likely but more a case of being in the right place at the right time. You could be attempting to set something in motion and if you want this plan to succeed do not get sucked into any negative undercurrents. Your life is full of emotional breakthroughs as change occurs in all areas of your life. A new idea is brimming with potential and the energy can take off like a burning bush, so much so it can be impossible to shut off your brain, making sleep difficult. A totally new perspective may descend into your field of vision. You are finally going to be on the other side of a recent barricade as you have not only done your work but have found a way to set yourself free from an attachment to a certain outcome. A new outcome, even better, is soon to show itself. It is time to start your engines, be on your toes, ready to leap and take action as you are on the brink of an earning opportunity right now. This is a time for selfreliance when you need to depend more upon yourself, so focus on the moment and let the future take care of itself. Even if you are in a relationship there could be a deep desire to start something brand new so that all those initial feelings of new love come rushing back in. Enjoy this fresh burst of energy. Is someone else doing something that is being covered up? Whatever it is will be revealed soon enough. Beware of things that appear too easy or simple as these are likely to turn around on you and prove more complex than you originally thought. This is one of those times when you may find that others are more interested in telling you what you want to hear than the truth. There is no denying the true stirrings of your heart right now; you could not hide your emotions if you tried. Do not allow yourself to get caught up or distracted by the waves of feelings and emotions that may overpower your logic and reason this week, stay focused. For this very same reason, you'll also find others can be so caught up in their own wants and desires that they could not care less about the things they currently have. Don't be shy, speak right up and ask for exactly what you want as others are very likely to give it to you.
One thing is for sure, anything you do must be done with excellence and to the best of your ability, if you do that, everything will somehow find a way to work out for you. To give without expectation or gain but to give simply for the act of giving, unconditionally, straight from the heart has an infinite impact. All those small acts September 23rd - of kindness may have added up to measure more than you can possibly know and your recent efforts may receive feedback or immediate gain. October 22nd
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SCORPIO
October 23rd November 21st
When it comes to sinking or swimming, these scenarios seem to bring out the survivor in you, revealing new talents and abilities that you never knew you had. The road ahead may not always be easy but your determination holds out and you end up shining even brighter as a result. Right now, everybody is looking to you for answers and direction, as much as you know it is very unfair at times, Saturn will start to bring to light those that are merely taking your efforts for granted. For some reason, it appears that you are waiting for a certain event or sign to take
SAGITTARIUS place before you shift into high gear and with all due respect, that is just plain
madness. You have all the experience and wisdom needed to create all kinds of new solutions for both yourself and others, so what are you waiting for? Time is being wasted, so this week you can expect to encounter some unusual nd November 22 December 21st conversations or experiences, anything to get your mind and imagination churning once again. There is a lot more going on than meets the eye and even though the focus of this energy is about expanding your personal awareness, it also has a lot to do with the refining of your personal relationships too. Your powers of attraction are supercharged, not just in a romantic sense; it causes everybody to become interested in December 22nd - what you are doing or what you have to say. Use this time to your advantage and January 19th some positive things will happen.
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AQUARIUS
January 20th February 18th
PISCES
February 19th March 20th
You can go ahead and try to spell out all your ideas and insights to others but you can pretty much bet that it's going to fall upon deaf ears; this is because the information is intended for your use. It is up to you to make these ideas, talents and abilities work for you. You're going to find the events that take place will have a way of challenging you to rise beyond the expected reactions, if you don’t speak from the heart, then what is the point of speaking at all?
Anywhere in your life where you have felt fixed or stuck is about to free up as Venus leaves your sign and enters Aries. New life and energy is feeding a dream now and you can expect a desire that has been dormant to be unearthed. This is an earthquake of energy strong enough to create some electric change and to help things kick into gear. Just take one sweet foot and put it in front of the other Pisces. You are going somewhere and it will prove to be right on course
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Serves 2- 4
3 tbsp vegetable oil 2 bay leaves 1 medium onion, peeled & chopped 1 tsp grated root ginger, 2 cloves garlic, peeled & sliced 1 red tomato, chopped 500g minced lamb 150g frozen peas, defrosted 2 green chillies ½ tsp turmeric ¼ tsp ground coriander ¼ tsp ground cumin
Directions
peas)
• ½ tsp garam masala • fresh coriander for garnish
Preparation time: 10 mins – Cooking time: 25 mins
1. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and add the bay leaves, onions. garlic and chillies and fry until the mixture begins to turn golden brown, about 5 minutes. 2. Slowly mix in the coriander, cumin, turmeric, tomato and salt and let it sizzle for a minute. 3. Add the mince and brown it for 7 - 8 minutes stirring frequently. 4. Add the ginger and continue to fry for a
30 seconds. 5. Fold in the peas and cook for a further 4 minutes. 6. Sprinkle over the garam masala, and fresh coriander to garnish and serve hot with basmati rice and pitta breads.
• No fresh chillies? Use ¼ teaspoon of chilli powder instead.
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It was a cold night for the BAFTAS but a warm reception for the stars … and The Artist sweeps the board at London’s Royal Opera House extravaganza The red carpet was, as usual, graced by a host of designer gowns, many strapless in spite of the winter weather. Michelle Williams, the My Week with Marilyn star, broke with tradition and wore a custom-made dress by Swedish high street retailer H&M. Her cream and black strapless frock was finished with a flower at the waist and she carried a matching clutch bag in the shape of a book. A tribute to The Misfits – Marilyn´s last film scripted by her playwright husband Arthur Miller – was embroidered on the front. Meryl Streep, who won the Best Actress award, chose a Vivienne Westwood outfit with a low-cut neckline but, unlike many of the
stars she was sensible enough to take note of the temperatures and wore a boxy-shouldered jacket. The Iron Lady turned into Cinderella as she tripped going up on stage to accept her award but Prince Charming in the guise of the debonair Colin Firth sprang to her aid, retrieved the lost shoe and fitted it back on her foot like the true gentleman. The Artist, the generally acclaimed black and white silent film was the real star of the evening. Nominated for 12 awards the film won seven gongs, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor. Jean Dujardin beat Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Michael
Fassbender to take the gong for the Best Actor, while Michel Hazanavicius scooped the Best Director prize. Dujardin said he was “proud and shocked” and apologised to his fellow nominees. The French star said he was surprised to get the award and paid tribute to his director, saying “Michel what have you done to me? It’s all your fault!” The Artist also picked up awards for best original screenplay, cinematography, costume design and music and is favourite to clean up at the Oscars later this month where it is nominated for 10 Academy Awards. The Artist swept the board at the BAFTA’s
Whitney Houston dies aged 48 Whitney Houston died in a fourth floor room at the Beverley Hilton in Los Angeles, California on Saturday at the age of 48. A police spokesperson said officers had been called to the hotel at around 3.20pm and following attempts to revive the singer, she was pronounced dead at 3.55pm. It has been reported that she had gone to have a bath and her maid and bodyguards began to worry after they hadn’t heard from her for an hour. Friends and family who had been with her at the hotel identified the body but cause of death has yet to be released. Her 18-year-old daughter was taken to hospital on Sunday night following her mother’s sudden death to be treated for stress. Unconfirmed reports have said that she tried to get into her mother’s bedroom once she heard there was a problem but was stopped by police from entering the room. Whitney Houston had been due to perform at record producer Clive Davis’ annual pre-event Grammy Awards party at the hotel. The singer was probably best known for her acting and singing in the film The Bodyguard
and particularly the song,”I Will Always Love You” written and first performed by Dolly Parton in 1974. Houston was one of the most celebrated female singers having won multiple Grammy, Emmy Music and Billboard awards. She came from a music family. Her mother was Cissy Houston, her cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and her godmother was Aretha Franklin. Her popularity was at its height during the ‘80s and ‘90s with one number 1 following another. However, the last ten years have been fraught with drug abuse, trips to rehab and relapses and in 2002 she admitted to using marijuana, cocaine, excesses of alcohol and prescription drugs. Trying to relaunch her career in 2009 she said that media reports in 2010 that she was again using drugs were “ridiculous” but in May 2011 she once again enrolled into a drug and alcohol rehab programme. Her body was taken from the hotel to the coroners offices for autopsy late on Saturday. Music Mogul Simon Cowell said: “ I am so sad to hear about Whitney. We have lost one of the greatest
singers of all time.” Other Whitney hits included “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”, “Saving All My Love For You”, “How Will I Know”, “The Greatest Love Of All”, “I Have Nothing”. She sold over 150 million during her career. In 2009 she gave a performance on The X Factor which was slated by critics. Singer Jamie Archer said that she seemed aloof, distant and “a bit vacant” and not entirely at her best. Pete Waterman said that he felt that she had been led astray by her entourage. And her marriage to singer Bobby Brown spiralled out of control. She follows a long line of talented artists who have died prematurely. Writer and playwrite Bonnie Greer said she was generally very shy and fragile but, once she got up on stage, was one of the greatest singers and performers of all time. Whitney grew up in Newark, New Jersey and, although being groomed to be a star, was also very vulnerable during a
crossroads in American pop culture when rap etc was starting to show it’s face. She had been seen in interviews with Oprah saying that the drugs took over her every day and she didn’t care anymore about the music. 11-year-old Houston started singing in the Gospel choir at her local church. Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson said that their hearts were heavy after the loss of such a huge star
Six gongs for Adele
British soul singer Adele swept the board at the Grammy Awards this week, being presented with trophies for Album of the Year for 21 and Best Record for “Rolling in the Deep”. She also won Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Pop Vocal and Short Video. The 23-year-old had surgery on her vocal cords late last year and had been resting her voice on her doctor's orders until the music industry's biggest night when she stepped back on the stage for the first time since the op to sing “Rolling in the Deep” to a standing ovation.
A star for Macca The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has paid tribute to Sir Paul McCartney with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the historic Capitol Records building in LA, alongside the other three Beatles. "Way back in history, in Liverpool, when we were kids and we were listening to Buddy Holly and all the rock-and-roll greats, I would have never thought that the day would come that I'd be getting the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame," McCartney said. "That was, like, an impossible thing to happen. But here we are today, and it's happening. Well, I couldn't have done it without, certainly, three boys. So, I want to say thanks to those guys: John, George and Ringo."
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Hip replacement problems’ news Did you know that every year there are in excess of a million people around the world (primarily over the age of 60) who undergo hip replacement surgery? Usually, the people who decide to undergo the operation have been dealing with severe joint pain for years. This chronic pain can destroy a person's way of life by preventing them from enjoying what they used to enjoy most – morning walks with their spouse, playing in the garden with their grandchildren, fishing, golfing, etc. Although surgery is difficult, many times it is the only option. Hopefully, after the 1 ½ to 3 hours of surgery, 5 to10 days in the hospital after the operation, and up to ten weeks of intense physiotherapy and rehabilitation, the patient may be able to walk again without pain. Patients have enough to worry about between the surgery, recovery, and possible long-term and short-term risks associated with the operation (such as blood clots, infections, dislocation of the prosthesis, change of leg length, etc.), to worry about another complicated surgery afterwards if the hip replacement doesn't properly take or deteriorates. Unfortunately, close to 93,000 individuals who have received a hip prosthesis from DePuy Orthopedics Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, may be in need of revision surgery. Two of DePuy's orthopedic products, the ASR Hip Resurfacing System and the ASR XL Acetabular System, were recalled on August 26th, 2010, after data from the National Joint Registry revealed that one in every eight people with these systems required a follow-up revision surgery.
If you or a loved one has received a hip implant recently, or within the last five years, and have experienced pain, swelling, or problems walking, you may want to consult your doctor to verify the prosthesis used. Symptoms that may indicate a need for a revision surgery include: • Loosening of the implant, when it does not stay in its proper position against the bone • Fracture of the bone surrounding the implant • Dislocation of the implant, when the two adjoining parts are no longer correctly aligned. • Metal toxicity • Irritation to the scar tissue • Unusual pain in the thigh or groin area • Changes to your eyes and hearing • Changes to cognitive function
DePuy implants consist of ball and socket components made of metal that rub against one another as the joint functions. These implants, also known as metal-onmetal implants, often wear down over time, leaving small traces of metal within the blood, bone, and muscle tissue. While these traces are often too small to detect, thousands of people have reacted to these particles which can cause swelling, pain, and even permanent muscle, bone, and nerve damage. If you have felt any of these symptoms, you should contact the surgeon who performed your hip operation. He or she should have a record of which prosthesis was used. They then may need to take blood tests, x-rays, an ultrasound or an MRI to
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determine if you are in need of a follow-up operation. If you have received one of the recalled products but have not felt any symptoms or pain, you should still follow up with your doctor for the first five years after surgery, to ensure that the replacement continues to function properly. If you do not know the surgeon who performed the surgery or what type of prosthesis was used, contact the hospital where
the surgery took place. The hospital should have a medical record of the surgery and the prosthesis. Each prosthesis has a unique identification number and this should be in your medical records. The legal team representing DePuy have put together a comprehensive compensation procedure that can be complicated and it is recommended that you seek independent legal advice before proceeding
with any further surgery. A support group sponsored by medilink a local health care company has been formed here on the Costa del Sol to assist people who have one of the affected prostheses. The group was started by someone who has first hand experience and is in the process of recovering from her third hip revision. If you are unsure of what to do next call please call medilink on 952 93 38 76.
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3:00pm Helicopter Heroes 3:45pm Flog It! 4:30pm Perfection 5:15pm Antiques Road Trip 6:00pm Eggheads 6:30pm Britain's Heritage Heroes 7:00pm Live Cycling 8:00pm Mastermind 8:30pm Mastermind 9:00pm Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest 10:30pm Newsnight 11:20pm The Review Show 12:00am Weather 12:05am Baka: People of the Rainforest 1:50am The Leather Boys
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:55pm London News and Weather 2:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 3:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 3:59pm London Weather 4:00pm Midsomer Murders 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm London Tonight
6:30pm ITV News and Weather 7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm Live UEFA Champions League 10:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 10:30pm London News and Weather 10:35pm UEFA Champions League: Extra Time 11:35pm Kidnap and Ransom 12:30am The Zone 2:35am The Alamo
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:55pm London News and Weather 2:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 3:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 3:59pm London Weather 4:00pm Midsomer Murders 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm London Tonight
6:30pm ITV News and Weather 7:00pm Emmerdale 8:00pm Live UEFA Europa League Football 10:15pm ITV News and Weather 10:45pm London News and Weather 10:50pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:50pm Take Me Out 1:00am The Zone 3:00am ITV Nightscreen
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:55pm London News and Weather 2:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 3:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 3:59pm London Weather 4:00pm Midsomer Murders 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm London Tonight
6:30pm ITV News and Weather 7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm Coronation Street 8:00pm Safari Vet School 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Law & Order: UK 10:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 10:30pm London News and Weather 10:35pm Movie: Hot Fuzz 12:45am The Zone 2:45am DOA: Dead or Alive
8:30am Frasier 9:00am The Secret Millionaire USA 9:55am Relocation: Phil Down Under 11:00am A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 12:00pm Channel 4 News 12:05pm Country House Rescue 1:05pm Ladies in Lavender 3:05pm 4 Presents - 2012: Danielle Brown - Part Two 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 5:30pm Coach Trip 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks
7:00pm Channel 4 News 7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm Daddy Daycare 9:00pm One Born Every Minute 10:00pm 10 O'Clock Live 10:55pm Random Acts 11:05pm The Inbetweeners 12:05am Mark Ronson 12:40am Countdown to the NME Awards 2012 12:55am Album Chart Show 1:05am Album Chart Show 1:20am 4Play: Lanterns on the Lake 1:35am Professor Green Unseen: After Hours 2:00am Matt Cardle: The Album Chart Show Special
7:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:25am Frasier 9:00am The Secret Millionaire USA 9:55am Relocation, Relocation 11:00am A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 12:00pm Channel 4 News 12:05pm Quick Bakes with Eric Lanlard 12:15pm Country House Rescue 1:20pm Courage of Lassie 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 5:30pm Coach Trip
6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks 7:00pm Channel 4 News 7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm Location, Location, Location 9:00pm Restoration Man 10:00pm Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 11:05pm The Wedding Proposal 12:10am Random Acts 12:15am Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth 1:10am Embarrassing Bodies 2:05am Knights of the South Bronx 3:35am Brothers & Sisters
8:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:25am Frasier 8:55am The Secret Millionaire USA 9:55am Relocation, Relocation 11:00am A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 12:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 12:05pm River Cottage Bites 12:10pm Country House Rescue 1:15pm Cry Havoc 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with
Me 5:30pm Coach Trip 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks 7:00pm Channel 4 News 7:30pm 4thought.tv 7:35pm Come Dine with Me 8:30pm New Girl 9:00pm The Bank Job 10:00pm The Mad Bad Ad Show 10:50pm Rude Tube: Ultimate Stunts 11:55pm 10 O'Clock Live 12:50am Mandip Sehmi 12:55am Hustle & Flow 2:55am Random Acts 3:00am My Name Is Earl
7:35am Thomas & Friends 7:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 8:10am Peppa Pig 8:20am Milkshake! Monkey 8:25am Peppa Pig 8:30am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 8:35am Roary the Racing Car 8:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 9:00am Hana's Helpline 9:15am The Wright Stuff 11:10am LIVE with Gabby 12:05pm 5 News Lunchtime 12:15pm Build a New Life in the Country 1:15pm Home and Away
1:45pm Neighbours 2:15pm CSI: NY 3:15pm The Reading Room 5:00pm 5 News at 5 5:30pm Neighbours 6:00pm Home and Away 6:30pm 5 News at 6.30 7:00pm Cowboy Builders 8:00pm Benidorm ER 9:00pm NCIS 10:00pm Law & Order: Criminal Intent 10:55pm Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 11:50pm Poker: The Big Game 12:50am Inside Hollywood 1:05am SuperCasino 4:00am House Doctor
6:55am Little Princess 7:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 7:20am The Mr Men Show 7:35am Thomas & Friends 7:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 8:15am Peppa Pig 8:25am Peppa Pig 8:35am Roary the Racing Car 8:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 9:00am Hana's Helpline 9:15am The Wright Stuff 11:10am LIVE with Gabby 12:05pm 5 News Lunchtime 12:15pm Build a New Life in the Country 1:15pm Home and Away
1:45pm Neighbours 2:15pm CSI: NY 3:15pm Animal Rescue Squad 3:25pm Hush 5:15pm Live UEFA Europa League Football 8:05pm Movie: Pearl Harbor 11:30pm UEFA Europa League Highlights 12:15am SuperCasino 3:55am House Doctor 4:20am Wildlife SOS 4:45am Wildlife SOS
7:20am The Mr Men Show 7:35am Thomas & Friends 7:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 8:10am Peppa Pig 8:35am Roary the Racing Car 8:50am Bananas in Pyjamas 9:00am Hana's Helpline 9:15am The Wright Stuff 11:10am LIVE with Gabby 12:05pm 5 News Lunchtime 12:15pm Build a New Life in the Country 1:15pm Home and Away 1:45pm Neighbours 2:15pm CSI: Miami
3:15pm Out of the Woods 5:00pm Neighbours 5:30pm Neighbours 6:00pm Home and Away 6:30pm Home and Away 6:55pm Inside Hollywood 7:00pm Royal Navy: Caribbean Patrol 8:00pm World's Toughest Trucker 9:00pm The Mentalist 9:55pm NCIS 10:55pm NCIS 11:50pm Inside Hollywood 12:00am SuperCasino 4:00am Motorsport Mundial 4:25am Wildlife SOS 4:45am Wildlife SOS
7:00pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 7:30pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 8:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:00pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 10:00pm Blades of Glory 11:30pm Family Guy 11:50pm Family Guy 12:15am American Dad! 12:35am American Dad! 1:00am Don't Tell the Bride
to Be: The Proposals 1:55am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 2:55am Don't Tell the Bride 3:55am Snog, Marry, Avoid? 4:25am Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands
7:00pm Strictly Soulmates 8:00pm Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 9:00pm Live at the Apollo 9:30pm Live at the Apollo 10:00pm EastEnders 10:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:05pm Family Guy 11:25pm Family Guy 11:50pm American Dad!
12:10am American Dad! 12:35am Don't Tell the Bride: Valentine's 1:30am Russell Howard's Good News 2:00am Snog, Marry, Avoid? 2:30am Being Human 3:30am Strictly Soulmates 4:30am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents
7:00pm Doctor Who 8:30pm The Real Hustle: Celebrity Chancers 9:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 10:00pm EastEnders 10:30pm Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 11:30pm Family Guy 11:50pm Family Guy 12:15am American Dad!
1:00am Russell Howard's Good News 1:30am Russell Howard's Good News 2:00am Bizarre Crime 2:30am The Real Hustle: Celebrity Chancers 3:00am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 4:00am Being Human
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A compilation of highlights from the series inspired by Jerome K Jerome's novel. Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O ‘Briain and Rory McGrath travel around the British Isles by waterways and tour Ireland by canal, before heading further afield to mainland Europe, where they sail the coastline of Croatia and take part in a Venetian gondola race.
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The Diamond Queen Monday, 20th 9.00pm
Three Men in a Boat: The Best Bits Sun, Feb 19th 10:00pm
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MONDAY
TUESDAY
February 18th
February 19th
February 20th
February 21st
6:00am Breakfast 10:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 11:35am Rachel Allen: Home Cooking 12:00pm BBC News; Regional News and Weather 12:15pm Football Focus 1:00pm Live Athletics 4:30pm Final Score 5:10pm A Question of Sport 5:40pm BBC News; Regional News and Weather 6:00pm Winter Wipeout 7:00pm Let's Dance for Sport Relief 8:20pm The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins 9:10pm Casualty
10:00pm BBC News; Weather 10:20pm Starsky & Hutch 11:55pm The Football League Show 1:10am Weatherview 1:15am BBC News 1:30am The Bottom Line 2:00am BBC News 2:30am Dateline London 3:00am BBC News 3:30am British Olympic Dreams
6:00am Breakfast 9:00am The Andrew Marr Show 10:00am The Big Questions 11:00am Country Tracks 12:00pm Sunday Politics 1:00pm EastEnders 2:55pm Penguin Island 3:25pm Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice 4:50pm Lifeline 5:00pm Songs of Praise 5:35pm Antiques Roadshow 6:35pm BBC News; Regional News and Weather 7:00pm Countryfile 8:00pm Call the Midwife 9:00pm Upstairs Downstairs
10:00pm BBC News; Regional News and Weather 10:25pm War of the Worlds 12:10am Weatherview 12:15am Film 2012 with Claudia Winkleman 12:55am Holby City 1:55am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 2:55am Sport Today 3:00am Newsday 3:30am Asia Business Report 3:45am Sport Today
6:00am Breakfast 9:15am Wanted Down Under 10:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:00am Doorstep Crime 999 11:30am Cowboy Trap 12:13pm BBC News 12:15pm Bargain Hunt 1:00pm BBC News; Weather 1:45pm Doctors 2:15pm Escape to the Country 3:00pm BBC News 3:05pm School for Stars 3:35pm Wingin' It 3:55pm Deadly Art 4:15pm OOglies 4:30pm Helen's Polar Challenge for Sport Relief
5:00pm Newsround 5:15pm Pointless 6:00pm BBC News 7:00pm The One Show 7:30pm Inside Out 8:00pm EastEnders 8:30pm Britain's Hidden Alcoholics - Panorama 9:00pm The Diamond Queen 10:00pm BBC News 10:35pm A Question of Sport 11:05pm Late Kick Off 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show 12:20am The Celebrity Apprentice USA 1:50am Weatherview 1:55am Birdsong 3:25am Celebrity Antiques
6:00am Breakfast 9:15am Wanted Down Under 10:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:00am Doorstep Crime 999 11:30am Cowboy Trap 12:13pm BBC News 12:15pm Bargain Hunt 1:00pm BBC News 1:45pm Doctors 2:15pm Escape to the Country 3:00pm BBC News 3:05pm School for Stars 3:35pm Wingin' It 3:55pm Deadly Art 4:15pm OOglies
4:30pm Pixelface 5:00pm Newsround 5:15pm Pointless 6:00pm BBC News 7:00pm The One Show 7:30pm EastEnders 8:00pm Holby City 9:00pm Prisoners' Wives 10:00pm BBC News 10:35pm Death Unexplained 11:15pm Neighbourhood Watched 12:00am The Celebrity Apprentice USA 1:30am Weatherview 1:35am Inside Men 2:35am Horizon: Playing God
6:00am Little Robots 6:10am Bob the Builder 6:35am Octonauts 6:45am Everything's Rosie 7:00am Richard Hammond's Blast Lab 7:30am Dennis and Gnasher 7:40am The Scooby-Doo Show 8:05am Pixelface 8:35am Prank Patrol Down Under 9:00am Ultimate Sports Day 9:30am Helen's Polar Challenge for Sport Relief 10:00am My Life 10:30am Trapped Ever After 11:00am Hacker Time 11:25am OOglies
11:40am MOTD Kickabout 12:00pm The Sky at Night 12:20pm The House Guest 2:05pm A Good Woman 3:30pm Birds Britannia 4:30pm Flog It! 5:30pm Dad's Army 6:00pm The Culture Show 7:00pm Live Cycling 9:00pm Have I Got a Bit More News for You 9:45pm Lucian Freud: Painted Life 11:15pm Pan Am 12:00am Bull Durham 1:40am The Culture Show
6:00am Little Robots 6:10am Bob the Builder Special: Bob's Big Plan 6:35am Octonauts 6:45am Everything's Rosie 7:00am Richard Hammond's Blast Lab 7:30am Dennis and Gnasher 7:40am The Scooby-Doo Show 8:05am Paradise Cafe 8:30am Wingin' It 9:00am Friday Download 10:00am Something for the Weekend 11:30am The Burning Hills 1:00pm The Gumball Rally 2:45pm Live Cycling 6:15pm Ski Sunday
7:00pm World's Most Dangerous Roads 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Swimming with Crocodiles 10:00pm Three Men In a Boat: The Best Bits 11:00pm Frank Skinner's Opinionated 11:30pm Ski Sunday 12:15am Movie: Southern Comfort 1:55am Sport Today 2:00am Newsday 2:30am Asia Business Report 2:45am Sport Today
9:45am Harry and Toto's World of Opposites 9:50am Louie 9:55am Same Smile 10:10am Chuggington: Badge Quest 10:15am 64 Zoo Lane 10:30am Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies 10:40am Waybuloo 11:00am In the Night Garden 11:30am BBC World News 12:00pm Daily Politics 1:00pm Animal Park 1:30pm To Buy or Not to Buy 2:15pm Weakest Link 3:00pm Helicopter Heroes 3:45pm Flog It! 4:30pm Perfection
5:15pm Antiques Road Trip 6:00pm Eggheads 6:30pm Britain's Heritage Heroes 7:00pm Operation Hospital Food with James Martin 8:00pm University Challenge 8:30pm The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 9:00pm The Tube 10:00pm Watson and Oliver 10:30pm Newsnight 11:20pm Pan Am 12:05am BBC News 12:30am HARDtalk 1:00am Newsday 1:30am Asia Business Report 1:45am Sport Today 2:00am Newsday
9:45am Harry and Toto's World of Opposites 9:50am Louie 9:55am Same Smile 10:10am Chuggington: Badge Quest 10:15am 64 Zoo Lane 10:30am Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies 10:40am Waybuloo 11:00am In the Night Garden 11:30am BBC World News 12:00pm Daily Politics 1:00pm Animal Park 1:30pm To Buy or Not to Buy 2:15pm Weakest Link 3:00pm Helicopter Heroes 3:45pm Flog It!
4:30pm Perfection 5:15pm Antiques Road Trip 6:00pm Eggheads 6:30pm Britain's Heritage Heroes 7:00pm Raymond Blanc: The Very Hungry Frenchman 8:00pm Alex Polizzi: The Fixer 9:00pm How to Grow a Planet 10:00pm Have I Got Old News for You 10:30pm Newsnight 11:20pm Rubicon 12:50am HARDtalk 1:00am Newsday 1:30am Asia Business Report 1:45am Sport Today 2:00am Newsday 6:30pm ITV News and Weather 7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm River Monsters 8:00pm The Brit Awards 2012 10:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 10:30pm London News 10:35pm Benidorm 11:35pm The Cube 12:30am The Zone: Jackpot247 3:00am Crossing Jordan 3:45am ITV Nightscreen
6:00am Mini CITV 7:25am CITV 9:25am ITV News 9:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 10:25am May the Best House Win 11:25am This Morning: Saturday 12:25pm Murder, She Wrote 1:25pm ITV News and Weather 1:30pm Casino Royale 4:00pm You've Been Framed! 4:20pm London Tonight 4:35pm ITV News and Weather
4:50pm Live FA Cup Football 7:15pm New You've Been Framed! 7:45pm Harry Hill's TV Burp 8:15pm Take Me Out 9:15pm The Jonathan Ross Show 10:15pm ITV News and Weather 10:30pm FA Cup Football Highlights 11:30pm The Cube 12:25am The Zone: Jackpot247 3:00am In Plain Sight 3:45am ITV Nightscreen
6:00am Mini CITV 7:25am CITV 9:25am ITV News 9:30am FA Cup Football Highlights 10:30am Dinner Date: Australia 11:30am Dickinson's Real Deal 12:30pm Murder, She Wrote 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:35pm Live FA Cup Football 4:45pm All Star Family Fortunes 5:30pm London Tonight 5:50pm ITV News and Weather
6:05pm Dancing on Ice 8:00pm Coronation Street 8:30pm Wild at Heart 9:30pm Dancing on Ice: The Skate Off 10:00pm That Sunday Night Show 10:30pm ITV News and Weather 10:45pm FA Cup Football Highlights 11:45pm Premiership Rugby Union 12:35am The Zone: Jackpot247 2:10am River Monsters 2:35am ITV Nightscreen
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News 1:55pm London News 2:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 3:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 3:59pm London Weather 4:00pm Midsomer Murders 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm London Tonight 6:30pm ITV News 7:00pm Emmerdale
7:30pm Coronation Street 8:00pm Cornwall with Caroline Quentin 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Whitechapel 10:00pm ITV News at Ten 10:30pm London News and Weather 11:00pm That Sunday Night Show 11:05pm Law & Order: UK 12:05am River Monsters 12:35am The Zone 2:35am Champions League Weekly 3:00am ITV Nightscreen
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:55pm London News and Weather 2:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 3:00pm The Alan Titchmarsh Show 3:59pm London Weather 4:00pm Midsomer Murders 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm London Tonight
6:10am The Hoobs 6:35am The Hoobs 7:00am GT Academy 7:25am Daytona 24: The Story of the Daytona Challenge 2012 7:55am The Morning Line 8:55am Everyone's Talking About - Top Ten 9:25am Bourjois Boutique 9:30am This Means War: T4 Movie Special 10:00am New Girl 10:35am New Girl 11:05am Bourjois Boutique 11:10am Playing It Straight 12:05pm New Girl 12:40pm The Big Bang Theory
1:05pm The Simpsons 1:40pm Channel 4 Racing 4:00pm Come Dine with Me 4:30pm Come Dine with Me 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 5:30pm Come Dine with Me 6:05pm Come Dine with Me 6:35pm Channel 4 News 7:05pm 4thought.tv 7:10pm The Day the Earth Stood Still 9:00pm The Bank Job 10:00pm Movie: Final Destination 3 12:00am The Manchurian Candidate 2:15am Dave Gorman's Googlewhack
6:15am The Hoobs 6:40am The Hoobs 7:05am That Paralympic Show 7:30am Channel 4 Presents 2012: Helen Turner 7:35am Sailing: America's Cup Uncovered 8:05am One Tree Hill 9:00am Countdown to the NME Awards 2012 9:20am Bourjois Boutique 9:25am Hollyoaks 11:55am Bourjois Boutique 12:00pm The Big Bang Theory 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Mighty Joe Young 3:10pm Deal or No Deal
4:05pm Time Team 5:10pm Channel 4 News 5:40pm 4thought.tv 5:45pm The Political Slot 5:50pm Fantastic Mr Fox 7:30pm Home of the Future 8:30pm The Hotel 9:30pm Homeland 10:40pm Under Siege 2: Dark Territory 12:40am Collateral 2:45am The Grand Finale
7:00am Freshly Squeezed 7:30am According to Jim 7:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:30am Frasier 9:00am The Secret Millionaire USA 9:55am Relocation, Relocation 11:00am A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 12:00pm Channel 4 News 12:05pm Country House Rescue 1:05pm 2012: David Clarke 1:10pm Rooster Cogburn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me
5:30pm Coach Trip 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks 7:00pm Channel 4 News 7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm SuperScrimpers 9:00pm Coppers 10:00pm My Social Network Stalker: True Stories 11:10pm Homeland 12:20am Random Acts 12:25am Shameless 1:20am Channel 4 Presents 2012: Stephen Miller - Part Two 1:25am Embarrassing Bodies 2:20am Comedy Lab: Kabadasses 2:45am 90210
7:00am Freshly Squeezed 7:30am According to Jim 7:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:25am Frasier 8:55am Undercover Boss 9:55am Relocation, Relocation 11:00am A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 12:00pm Channel 4 News 12:05pm Country House Rescue 1:05pm They Who Dare 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 5:30pm Coach Trip
7:25am Family! 7:35am Make Way for Noddy 7:50am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 8:00am Little Princess 8:15am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 8:30am Angelina Ballerina 8:45am Rupert Bear 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am The Mr Men Show 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:45am Mist: Sheepdog Tales 10:00am Demolition
11:00am Police Interceptors 12:00pm Al Jennings of Oklahoma 1:30pm Riders of Vengeance 3:00pm King of Kings 6:05pm 5 News Weekend 6:10pm NCIS 7:05pm NCIS 8:00pm NCIS 9:00pm CSI: NY 10:00pm Live Boxing 11:30pm True Grit: The True Story 12:30am SuperCasino 4:00am Nick's Quest 4:25am Divine Designs
7:15am Bananas in Pyjamas 7:25am Family! 7:35am Make Way for Noddy 7:45am Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures 7:50am Little Princess 8:10am The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 8:30am Angelina Ballerina 8:45am Rupert Bear 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am The Mr Men Show 9:30am Roary the Racing Car 9:40am Mist: Sheepdog Tales
10:00am Grey's Anatomy 11:00am Police Interceptors 12:00pm Cowboy Builders 1:00pm Murder 101: Locked Room Mystery 2:45pm Starman 4:45pm Pearl Harbor 8:00pm Saving Private Ryan: The True Story 8:55pm 5 News Weekend 9:00pm Death Race 11:10pm Thir13en Ghosts 12:50am Inside Hollywood 1:05am SuperCasino 3:55am Rough Guide to Adventures
7:00am Little Princess 7:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 7:20am The Mr Men Show 7:35am Thomas & Friends 7:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 8:10am Peppa Pig 8:20am Peppa Pig 8:25am Peppa Pig 8:35am Roary the Racing Car 8:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 8:55am Milkshake! Monkey 9:00am Hana's Helpline 9:15am The Wright Stuff 11:10am LIVE with Gabby 12:10pm 5 News Lunchtime
12:15pm Build a New Life in the Country 1:15pm Home and Away 1:45pm Neighbours 2:15pm CSI: Miami 3:15pm The View from Here 5:00pm 5 News at 5 5:30pm Neighbours 6:00pm Home and Away 6:30pm 5 News at 6.30 7:00pm World's Toughest Trucker 8:00pm Police Interceptors 9:00pm Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan 10:00pm The Condemned 12:15am Soho Blues 1:15am SuperCasino 3:55am House Doctor
7:00am Little Princess 7:10am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 7:20am The Mr Men Show 7:35am Thomas & Friends 7:45am Noddy in Toyland 8:00am Fifi and the Flowertots 8:15am Peppa Pig 8:30am Roary the Racing Car 8:45am Bananas in Pyjamas 9:00am Hana's Helpline 9:15am The Wright Stuff 11:10am LIVE with Gabby 12:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 12:15pm Build a New Life in the Country 1:15pm Home and Away
1:45pm Neighbours 2:15pm CSI: NY 3:15pm Deadly Honeymoon 5:00pm 5 News at 5 5:30pm Neighbours 6:00pm Home and Away 6:30pm 5 News at 6.30 7:00pm Police Interceptors 8:00pm Braveheart: The True Story 9:00pm Body of Proof 10:00pm CSI: NY 11:00pm CSI: Miami 12:00am CSI: NY 12:55am SuperCasino 3:55am House Docto
7:00pm Doctor Who 7:45pm Doctor Who 8:30pm Top Gear 9:35pm Live at the Apollo 10:05pm Live at the Apollo 10:35pm Family Guy 10:55pm Family Guy 11:20pm American Dad! 11:45pm American Dad! 12:05am Great Movie Mistakes III: Not in 3D
2:00am Being Human 3:00am Don't Tell the Bride to Be: The Proposals 4:40am Live at the Apollo
7:00pm Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 8:00pm Young Carpenter of the Year 9:00pm Being Human 10:00pm Movie: Blades of Glory 11:30pm Family Guy 11:50pm Family Guy 12:15am American Dad! 12:35am American Dad!
1:00am Being Human 1:55am Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents 2:30am Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2:55am Don't Tell the Bride: Valentine's 3:55am Young Carpenter of the Year
7:00pm The Real Hustle: Celebrity Chancers 7:30pm World's Craziest Fools 8:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:00pm My Home Town Fanatics: Stacy Dooley Investigates 10:00pm EastEnders 10:30pm Bizarre Crime 11:00pm Family Guy
11:25pm Family Guy 11:45pm Being Human 12:45am My Home Town Fanatics: Stacy Dooley Investigates 1:50am Don't Tell the Bride 2:40am The Real Hustle: 3:10am World's Craziest Fools 3:40am Bizarre Crime
7:00pm Winter Wipeout 8:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:00pm Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 10:00pm EastEnders 10:30pm Little Britain 11:00pm Family Guy 11:20pm Family Guy 11:45pm American Dad! 12:05am American Dad! 12:30am Junior Doctors:
Your Life in Their Hands 1:30am Don't Tell the Bride 2:30am Little Britain 3:00am Live at the Apollo 3:30am Young Carpenter of the Year
6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks 7:00pm Channel 4 News 7:55pm 4thought.tv 8:00pm Gok's Teens: The Naked Truth 9:00pm Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 10:00pm Shameless 11:05pm Random Acts 11:10pm Desperate Housewives 12:10am Poker 1:10am Sailing: America's Cup Uncovered 1:35am KOTV Boxing Weekly 2:00am Best of British 2:55am Late Night Poker
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Name supplied I have belatedly read your article regarding the proposed plan of Jose Antonio Griñan of the Junta de Andalucia to legalise a large number of 'illegal' properties in Andalucia in the coming year. The number generally referred to is in the region of 60,000 although I would anticipate it will be far less than this at the final count as PSOE are well-known to exaggerate and greatly inflate these figures for their own political advantage – not that PP are any better. The reason I write is to ask if you know, or indeed have any interest in knowing what has occurred and is continuing to occur in Chiclana de la Frontera with regard to the reclassification of land and property problems as I have seen no mention of it? The head of the Urbanismo department of Chiclana Town Council, Andres Nuñez a lawyer who is paid a great deal of money to make urbanistic decisions as the
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PP councillor for Urbanismo decided he was unable to make one regarding the reclassification of land of Chiclana, especially as he had only discussed the matter with his own colleagues of the PP party and had not had an open debate within the council chambers with members of other political parties, the federations or N e i g h b o u r h o o d Associations. As the PGOU of Chiclana has been thrown out by the 'Tribunal Supremo' – The Supreme Court – Chiclana has reverted to the Normas Sustantivas of 1987 and Nuñez then gave the land re-classification 'problem' to the Junta de Andalucia to sort out, which they did in agreement with Nuñez as head of Urbanismo de Chiclana. Unfortunately much of the land previously classified as in areas due to be urbanised now find that they have been changed to white land.These areas contain many
via Brian Cave Just as I was yesterday, I am typing emails sitting up in bed. I am fully clothed in three jumpers, two pairs of trousers and a track suit. My dear husband, similarly dressed, is tucked up beside me. He is eighty-six,and suffers from from epilepsy and a certain amount of mental confusion. Outside the temperature is minus 2 degrees, and is CENTRO DE IDIOMAS
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by email expected to fall further tonight. Our energy supplier EDF has decreed that we should have ten, 'red days' over the last two frozen weeks, meaning that those of us who live on the Old Age Pension can afford to use electricity only very sparingly. We retired to bed at three o'clock this afternoon, when my husband found that crouching over our log-burner became too much strain on his back. The only room we can afford to keep warm is our bedroom, where we can use our electric blanket plus a paraffin stove for warmth. My husband served his country during the war,and worked all his life thereafter without claiming a day's unemployment benefit. He finally retired at seventy, and was actually proud that he had
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e Retrograde of Mars The planet Mars makes a return to the night skies this month after an absence of almost two years.
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ars is the fourth planet from the Sun at an average distance of 128 million miles and it is the second smallest planet in the Solar System, only Mercury is smaller. And out of all the planets Mars is the one we tend to see less of because of its orbital properties. Mars takes 686 days to orbit the Sun compared to our 365 days so a Martian ‘year’ lasts almost two Earth years.
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magine that we are looking down onto the Solar System from above with the Sun at the centre of a giant clock and we start Mars and Earth off together at the twelve o’clock position. All the planets orbit around the Sun in an anti-clockwise direction, so when the Earth has gone half way round its orbit to the 6 o’clock position Mars has only moved to 9 o’clock. When the Earth completes one full orbit and returns to its starting point of 12 o’clock then Mars is half way round its orbit and is now on the other side of the Sun at 6 o’clock.
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y the time we get to the 6 o’clock point Mars has moved again, it is now at 3 o’clock so we are forever playing catch-up with Mars. It’s only after two years of chasing that we finally catch up with Mars before we overtake it again on the inside. And it’s now that something very strange appears to happen to Mars – retrograde motion.
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s we observe the outer planets over a series of weeks they all appear to be moving from right to left against the background stars as they slowly make their way in their respective orbits. But as we overtake them then, for a few
weeks, they seem to change direction and appear to be moving in the opposite direction from left to right. If you think about when you are travelling along a motorway and you overtake another slow moving vehicle then as you pass it, it appears to be moving backwards – this is retrograde motion and it is most clearly demonstrated with Mars. Over the next few weeks Mars is in retrograde motion and will be seen to move backwards along almost the entire length of the constellation of Leo.
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k, so firstly let’s find Mars. Mars rises due East at around 9.15 in the evening. Look for the constellation of The Plough – this is the one that looks like a giant saucepan with three stars making up the curve of the handle of the saucepan and another four stars forming a crooked square bowl of the saucepan. At the moment The Plough is standing up on its handle. The two uppermost stars are called the Pointers, if you follow them in a straight line to the left then they point to the North Star but if you follow them in the other direction to the right then they point to the Star Regulus in Leo the Lion.
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irectly below Regulus near to the tail of Leo you will find Mars shining brighter than any other stars in the area and a vivid red in colour. Now if you keep watching Mars over the coming months it will gradually move closer to Regulus until April 12th when it will change direction and begin moving back towards the tail of Leo arriving back at the same point on June 20th.
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The documentary “Senna, has won two of the prestigious BAFTA awards. Nicolai Winding Refn´s “Drive” was nominated for best movie, but the real winner in the documentary section, was the epic “Senna”, which took two of the coveted BAFTA statues home, Best Documentary and Best Editing. The movie was nominated in the same category as Martin Scorsese´s film about the life of George Harrison and the very moving “Project Nim”. “Senna” was released in 2010, 16 years after his death .
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General Motors warns of 'horrendous' losses Fears for thousands of British jobs and the future of Vauxhall’s UK car plant have surfaced after bosses at US parent company General Motors warned of ‘horrendous’ losses in Europe to be announced next week.
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Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port factory, which employs 2,100 people might be closed as General Motors attempts to reconcile losses.
Executives of the American car giant in Detroit say they are considering closing the Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire as part of a major restructuring of its Vauxhall/Opel operation as it prepares to announce fourth quarter losses in excess of $300million (£190million).
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Sol Classics F1 trip to Jerez Well the F1 pre-season practice at Jerez has come and gone. A small but enthusiastic group from the Club went down to watch last Friday and a good time was had by Qasim and Hebbi, Richard, Bob and Nick. The journey was around two hours each way, but the “new” road from Los Barrios to Jerez made the trip shorter and easier. Nick’s prior experience got us in there and SatNav got us back out! It was only 10€ for parking and a grandstand seat out on the circuit, with an extra 10€ to sit in the stand opposite the pits. We reckon there must have been around 20,000 spectators and we were swallowed up by the crowd. It was very warm, very noisy and sometimes a bit confusing. Unlike a race where all the teams have the same agenda, here each team was doing it’s own thing – some trying different tyres, some doing long fast stints, some trying new parts. However, there was always something to see with a constant procession in and out of pit garages. But teams were understandably shy at this early stage of the season – blinds were much in evidence and anything that broke down went under covers quicker than a Test match pitch in the rain. This track, rather old fashioned by today’s standards, allows you to get up close to the cars – in places just a few yards away. The noise of an F1 car at full
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Malaga get back to winning ways Malaga 3 - 1 Mallorca After Monday's bad defeat at Granada and a week of criticism in the press, Malaga knew only a win would sufice in their quest for European football. But Malaga suffered the worst start possible after just four minutes when a free kick set up Pereira to fire home from 30 yards, with Caballero in goal left looking a bit flatfooted. The goal seemed to be the spur Malaga needed and they started to take charge
of the game. The equaliser wasn’t long in coming and after 11 minutes Rondon's shot was parried out by the Mallorca keeper and there was Seba to finish well. Malaga continued to dominate the first half but had to wait until the 54th minute to take the lead. A cleared corner fell to Toulalan and his strike went in via a deflection, 21 to Malaga. Aouate in goal was keeping Mallorca in the game denying Isco and Sanchez, but after 69 minutes Rondon made the
game safe for Malaga. Sanchez fed Rondon in the box and he swivelled to fire in a fine goal. The rest of the game was played with Malaga in full control but failing to boost their goal difference. A great three points which moves Malaga to joint 6th in La Liga. A win against Athletic Bilbao next Sunday would be good! An emotional moment’s silence for former Malaga director José Carlos Pérez
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Surprise winner of Wolves sack Manager Dubai Desert Classic Mick McCarthy
Dramatic final victory as Zambia win shoot out Zambia lifted the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time after beating the Ivory Coast 8-7 in a dramatic penalty shootout in Sunday's final in Libreville. Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba missed a penalty in the second half of regulation play as the match ended scoreless after extra time. The team’s coach, Hervé Renard, had only one explanation: “There was a special spirit with us,” he said. “It was written in the sky.” Renard, a Frenchman, had used this spirit from the very start. He has twice worked for the Zambian federation, and was hired for the job by Kalusha Bwalya, the only surviving star of the country’s most famous, and most blighted, team. Now
the president of Zambian soccer, Bwalya was not on the military plane that crashed into the sea off the coast of Libreville, Gabon, killing all aboard in 1993. He was not there because, as a player with P.S.V. Eindhoven, he was taking his own flight from the Netherlands. But Bwalya, or Kalusha as most Zambians know him, was on the beach of Libreville on Thursday to lead the “boys” as they honoured the team many of them were too young to know. Right or wrong in terms of emotional risk just three days before the final, Bwalya, Renard and all the players walked as close as they could to where the plane came down, said their prayers and scattered flowers on the waves.
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Rafael Cabrera-Bello was the surprise winner of the Dubai Desert Classic Sunday after sinking a nerveless birdie on the 17th hole to end on 18 under par and beat Lee Westwood and Scottish veteran Stephen Gallacher by a single shot. The unfancied Spaniard, 27, had started the day one stroke behind overnight leader Westwood, but made three birdies on the back nine to clinch his second European Tour title, belying his lowly world ranking of 119. Westwood had started the day on 15 under, one shot ahead, while Ulsterman Rory McIlroy and Germany's Martin Kaymer, who sandwich him in the world rankings, were two strokes behind. The two Brits had hoped for tougher conditions to
make the Majlis course bare its teeth following a birdie bonanza on the tranquil opening two days and they got their wish on the final round as swirling gusts of wind buffeted the fairways.
Westwood, though superb from tee to green, failed to convert a flock of birdie chances. And though very firm, Dubai's heavilygrained putting surfaces were deliberately slowed to allow for the wind, and ‘Westy’ is a notoriously streaky putter. So instead of forcing his way into another Desert Classic play-off (Westwood was beaten in sudden-death by Miguel Angel Jimenez here in 2010), he had to settle for a final-round 70 and a share of second with Stephen Gallacher (69) on 17-under, one behind Cabrera-Bello.
Wolves have sacked boss Mick McCarthy following Sunday's 5-1 home thrashing by Black Country rivals West Brom. McCarthy has been in charge at Molineux since July 2006 but his side have won only one of their last 13 matches. "Mick McCarthy has done a fantastic job but if we continued in this way we were definitely going to be relegated," said Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey. "The trend was only going one way and when we lost 5-1 at home to West Brom we had to act," he added. "This has been a
Armstrong second on Triathlon return Lance Armstrong marked his return to competitive sport by finishing second in a half ironman event in Panama. The seven-time Tour de France winner, who retired
decision we've taken with a heavy heart but we have to act in the best interests of the club," Moxey told Sky Sports News. Sunday's loss saw Wolves drop into the relegation zone on goal difference, having collected only 21 points from 25 games.
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Rangers Football Club enters administration This means the club will be docked an immediate 10 points in the Scottish Premier League. It follows an unsuccessful legal bid by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) at the Court of Session in Edinburgh to appoint its own administrator. London-based firm Duff and Phelps was appointed by Rangers at 14:50. It will now take over the day-to-day running of the club while addressing its massive debt problems.
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Lefty outduels Tiger at Pebble Beach PhilMickelson has won the Pebble Beach National ProAm for the fourth time to deny playing partner Tiger Woods a chance at his first official PGA Tour victory in more than two years. The 41-year-old American fired a final round eight-under par 64 for a 17-under total of 269, winning by two strokes and ending the hopes of Woods, who closed with a threeover 75. "It feels amazing," Mickelson said. "Hopefully this is one of a few I will win this year because I am starting to feel pretty good." Third round leader Charlie Wi of South Korea was second after shooting a even-par 72 to finish on 271 with American Ricky Barnes (67) a further two shots back on 273. Mickelson outduelled Woods by getting off to a quick start with a superb opening stretch of one eagle and three birdies in his first six holes and then saving par twice by sinking two long putts on the back nine. Mickelson, who got off to a rocky start this season, picked up $US 1.15 million in first-place prize money in posting his 40th career
PGA triumph and first victory since the Houston Open 10 months ago. It was the 30th time the two US golfing giants have gone head-to-head, with
Mickelson at 5-0 against Woods in their last five meetings in a final round. Overall they are even at 1313-4 in head-to-head contests.
England captain Alastair Cook was delighted to put a "frustrating" Test series whitewash to Pakistan behind them with a 130run win in the first one-day international in Abu Dhabi. Cook led the way with 137, while there were also good performances from Ravi Bopara (50) and Steven Finn (4-34).
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And, once Finn ripped out Pakistan's top four inside nine overs with a devastating new ball spell, the tourists were always on course for victory.
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Carlos Tevez will resume his Manchester City career despite accusing Roberto Mancini of treating him "like a dog" in the incident that sparked their rift. Tevez is to return to Manchester from Argentina, where he has been without City's permission since 7th November. The Argentine has not played since boss Mancini accused him of refusing to come on against Bayern Munich in September. He claimed Mancini insulted him but on Monday he said: "I am ready to return, to win and do the best for the club."
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