Euro Weekly News - Axarquia 24 - 30 December 2015 Issue 1590

With voters across the nationshifting their allegiances to in-surgent newcomers Podemosand Ciudadanos, Axarquiabucked the trend with a tradi-tional largely two-party raceunfolding between the gov-erning PP and the SocialistPSOE parties.

Velez-Malaga saw thePSOE just edge out the PPwith 11,376 to 10,523, whilethe PP secured a fairly domi-

nant victory in Rincon de laVictoria, whilst stealing Nerjawith just a few hundred votes.

The wider Malaga elec-torate gave the PSOE a nar-row victory and they will sendsix representatives to theMadrid Congress, while thePP claim five and Podemosthree.

Locally and nationwide theresults were tight, and, giventhe critical negotiations nowlingering on the horizon as thefour main parties scramble to

forge new alliances, it is clearthat important sections of theelectorate will be courted inthe future.

Unfortunately, for long-

term expatriate residents, thismeans they will likely contin-ue to be excluded from a vi-brant political scene with noviable campaign existing to

extend suffrage to the million-strong expat community.

Only nationals can vote inthe general election, and untilthere is a consensus demand

for inclusion, through politicalparticipation, expats will con-tinue to be helpless bystandersas ever more important deci-sions are made in Madrid.

Axarquia bucks national trend

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TWO-PARTY race goes against the grain but expats still miss out

By Matthew Elliott

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THREE lucky Axarquia citizens have won€6,000 each in the Christmas Lottery. Oneof the winning tickets was sold in Velez-Malaga, one in Almuñecar and one in Motril.

Thirty-seven-year-old Inmaculada Lopezwas the vendor of the ticket in Velez-Malaga.Lopez said that it was the second consecutiveyear that her establishment had sold a win-ning ticket, with a €20,000 ticket going outof her shop last year.

In Motril, Jesus Ruiz Perez was the luckyvendor, and he couldn’t contain his excite-ment. He said that it was “a joy” and that hisestablishment couldn’t wait to put up theposter that indicated that they had supplied alucky ticket.

Meanwhile, in Almuñecar, a third ticketwas sold by proud vendor Maria TeresaGamarra. Her establishment has sold manywinning tickets before, and Gamarra saidthey were “proud” of the good luck that theyare always able to provide to their clients inthe Christmas Lottery.

THE Growing up with DanceConference took place lastweekend at the Hotel VictoriaPlaya Almuñecar. Boys and

girls between six and 17 yearsold took part in the event,which aimed to teach childrendifferent styles of dance.

Dance conference

LOCAL NEWS

By Sam Croft

Three winning lotterytickets sold in Axarquia

DESPITE a few days of torrential rain which caused flooding androad accidents, the overall rainfall for Malaga Province has beenwell below expectation which means the seven reservoirs in thearea have seen a drop in levels of nearly 30 per cent in two years.

Reservoir problems

NEXT week the Euro Weekly News will be hit-ting the streets a day early again. It will be out onWednesday, December 30. Don’t forget to pickyour copy up!

Reminder

THE PP Opposition Group inRincon de la Victoria has criti-cised the local council for a“wave of parking fines” in ur-banisations and residentialzones of the town.

PP Representative SergioDiaz claimed that there havebeen many complaints fromlocal residents who feel thatthey have received parkingfines for no good reason.

Many parking fines

ONE was sold in Velez-Malaga, Almuñecar and Motril

CHRISTMAS LOTTERY: Three citizens of Axarquia have won this year.

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A WONDERFUL thing about Christmas is that it’s compul-sory, like the British rain, and we all go through it together.This year the EWN family implores you to remember thatword. Together. We urge you to help us bring back the truemeaning of Christmas - the spirit of giving, not getting. Let usabandon meaningless materialism, rekindle the flame of char-ity in our hearts, and remember that without community, wecan never speak of character.

This is why this Christmas, as part of the Euro WeeklyNews 2016 Giving While Living campaign we will be donat-ing to a wide variety of worthy causes on behalf of you, ourreaders. We believe that these different charities do such in-valuable work in their local communities that through them,together, we can make a lasting difference.

We will be kicking off our campaign with a thousand eurodonation to the Asociacion de Padres Serrania de Churrianawho assist parents of disabled children, working especiallyhard at this emotional time of year. We will be donating toMake a Smile to help with their invaluable assistance to or-phaned and suffering children; MABS, one of the leadingcharities in Spain dedicated to supporting those with cancer;Sam Bayley who has done incredible work for those withmental health issues; MACS who support and raise funds formedical treatment for people with cancer and related prob-lems; and Palma Pictures who have produced a wonderfulshort film to help raise money for food-banks.

A donation will be made to 3C’s Care Agency, an agencydevoted to helping senior members of the community in theirtime of need. On a personal note we will also provide help toa family in Axarquia, where the children unexpectedly losttheir father in February. We stress that all of these charitiesand endeavours are fully transparent and we know with cer-tainty that any money or goods provided will go straight tothose in need.

These donations are spread across all six of the areas whereEWN is distributed, providing you, the readers, with the onlynational paper with six local editions written by expats for theexpat community.

Christmas is the time of year we can be truly human, it is atonic for the soul, a state of mind. This Christmas we urge youto remember the forgotten, the lonely, the lost, and the hungry.Take round some food for a neighbour you know may be hav-ing an especially tough time of it this year. Wake up early andlend a helping hand at one of the many soup kitchens whichare the anchors keeping many afloat. Be a friend in need, ashoulder to cry on, a consoling voice amid all the fanfare andnoise. Remember that you too have felt the pangs of despair,and that someone close to you will be feeling them now.

Remember that we came to Spain because we wanted to dothings differently, so let’s be different this Christmas and re-new our faith in our community for we are only as strong asthe weakest among us.

Therefore with all this in mind, we wouldhumbly like to offer our sincerest wishes to allof our readers, and our valued clients, with-out you none of this would be possible.

A Christmas messagefrom the EWN directors

Isabel Allende

A Very Merry Christmas from everyone at the

THE delegation of the Juntade Andalucia Regional Gov-ernment has sent a letter to103 town halls in the MalagaProvince, to remind towncouncils of the necessity toexercise planned administra-t ive controls over specialevents that are organisedaround Christmas and NewYear celebrations.

Under new regulations,establishments will have toget the necessary authorisa-tion from the town hall inadvance if they want to hostsocial events, and checkswill be carried out by the re-gional government to ensurethat establishments are com-plying with safety and secu-rity measures.


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Establishments must meet new regulationsTHERE will be more controls over special events organised during the festive period

ALFONSO TOLEDO and Eugenia Galanwere the winners of the 31st Nerja Christ-mas Miguel Prados Ruiz Memorial Mile.The race took place on December 19 inthe Verano Azul Park and many of the bestlong and middle distance runners in An-dalucia participated.

Toledo is the current Andalucian 800metre subchampion. He finished in a time

of four minutes and 22 seconds, seven sec-onds off the race record. The MoroccanAbdelhadi El Mouaziz finished in secondplace and third place went to Pablo Sal-cedo.

In the women’s race, Galan, who is theSports Councillor in the Town Council ofAntequera, won with a time of five min-utes and 19 seconds, beating teammate

Estefania Redondo by five seconds. Thirdplace went to Belen Infante with a time offive minutes and 27 seconds.

The race was organised by Cueva deNerja Athletics Club and relied on the sup-port of the Nerja Town Council, as well asthe sponsorship of the Club de Leones,who gave a ham to the winner of each cat-egory, as is traditional in this competition.

Nerja Christmas Memorial Mile

By Sam Croft

ESTABLISHMENTS: In the Malaga Province could face surprise safety checks.

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ALL foreign residents regis-tered on the padron - popula-tion list - at Nerja Town Hallpadron must renew their reg-istration every two years.

When this time has passed,they will be deregistered, thecouncil has warned. Thepadron is very important asaccording to the number ofpeople registered, the townwill be able to have moredoctors, health centres, po-lice, schools, firefighters, in-frastructure and other ser-vices.

Every year, the town hallreceives approximately €150per person registered on thepadron from the central andlocal governments. The gov-ernment establishes that everytwo years all foreigners mustconfirm that they are still onthe padron. Otherwise, they

will be considered as not liv-ing in the town any more, andthey will not figure on thetown’s population list andwill lose their benefits andrights.

If by March 31, foreignerswho are on the renewal listhave not come to confirmtheir padron, they will bederegistered.

Nerja will lose around1,600 inhabitants as well as agood deal of money that could

go towards town services.People can check to see if

they have to renew theirpadron by sending an email tothe town hall foreigners’department to [email protected] or by going directlyto Nerja Town Hall.

The town hall also says itwould appreciate it if allpresidents of communitiescould inform their residents tocome and check theirpadrons.

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By Sam Croft

Urgent message forNerja foreign residentsPADRON registration is essential every two years


HUNDREDS of children andteachers alike got into theChristmas spirit last week asthe many educational centresin La Herradura and Al-muñecar held their annualChristmas celebrations.

Dozens of youngsterscould be seen all around the

community wearing Christ-mas hats, antlers, Santa suits,or dressed up like tiny littleshepherds or shepherdesses.

First the children and staffdecorated their schools fromtop to bottom to make every-thing more Christmas-friend-ly. Then they participated in

exciting games and activitiesand sang Christmas carols.

The day’s merriment wasall capped off with a hugeparade through the streets ofLa Herradura and Almuñecarwhich ended up in a massmeeting at the Casa de laCultura.

Children get ready for holiday

ON Sunday December 20, thousands of La Herradu-ra residents went to the polls and the results are in.

PP (Partido Popular) was the most-voted-for partyin La Herradura, although the outcome could be seenas a disappointment if compared to the last election.

According to data published on the website of theMinistry of the Interior, in the Almuñecar area ingeneral PP was the party that received the mostvotes, with 4,302 votes (35.83 per cent) cast in itsfavour. However, this cannot be categorised as an un-qualified triumph as the party lost 2,698 votes in thearea in comparison to the General Elections of 2011,in which they obtained 7,000 votes (58.52 per cent).PSOE (Partido Socalista Obrero Español), on theother hand, more or less maintained their foothold,with the loss of only slightly more than 100 votes.

The emerging parties had very satisfactory results,with Ciudadanos getting 2,045 votes and Podemosachieving 1,712.

More than 18,000 people in the Almuñecar and LaHerradura area voted last Sunday, which indicatesthat the overall turnout was fairly similar to that ofthe last municipal elections. Thirty polling stationswere set up in various schools throughout La Her-radura and Almuñecar, with one La Herradura schoolhaving four voting booths.

By Sam Croft

La Herradura showTURNOUT similar to that of the last municipal elections

CASTING A VOTE: More than 18,000 in Almu

AS is traditional, on December 18, El Dia deNuestra Señora de La Esperanza (Day ofOur Lady of Hope), La Herradura and Al-muñecar residents went to La EsperanzaBrotherhood to witness the Solemn Christ-mas Mass and see the handing over ofmedals to brotherhood veterans.

The interior of the brotherhood’s buildingwas decorated in green and the medals werehanded over after the official mass, whichwas presided over by Parish Priest VicenteGuerrero.

Antonio Gonzalez Orce, Head of theBrotherhood, was in charge of reading outthe names of those who received theirmedals of honour as one by one they wentup and were recognised as veterans.

Laura Ledesma Joya, Beatriz PeñalverRodrigo, Lucia Gonzalez Orce, Fco JavierZarcos Cervilla and Antonio Gonzalez Sala-do were celebrating 25 years in the brother-hood.

During the whole ceremony the NuestraSeñora de La Esperanza statue sparkled, asno doubt the statue will feature in theSolemn Procession next week.

By Sam Croft

Brotherhood holds itsChristmas massDAY of Our Lady of Hope celebrated

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AS a result of the recent general election results, Almuñecar willonce again have a PP government and Trinidad Herrera will re-tain her position as Mayor. The latest results mean that the PPhas won in the region of Almuñecar and La Herradura for thefifth consecutive time. After her win, Herrera remarked that Al-muñecar was “a PP fort on the Costa Tropical”.

ALMUÑECAR and La Herradura’sDepartment of the Environment hasannounced that on Christmas Eve(December 24) and New Year’s Eve(December 31), the rubbish collec-tion service will be carried out be-tween 4pm and 7pm.

The council has asked residentsand business-owners to refrain fromtaking out their rubbish outside ofthese hours on the days mentioned,and has thanked everyone in ad-vance for their co-operation in help-ing Almuñecar and La Herradura toshine brightly during the Christmasseason.

uñecar and La Herradura took part in the election.

Almuñecar ‘a PP forton the Costa Tropical’

Rubbish collection changefor the festive season

PICK-UP: Between 4pm and 7pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.


Medical discountsSTUDENTS of the Munic-ipal Sports Schools ofMotril, and users of thepublic sports facilities, willbe able to receive a 50 percent discount on medicalcheck-ups at certain clinics.

Local awardsTHE Motril Town Coun-cil held an awards cere-mony to recognise the im-portant work of theassociations and peoplewho have worked for theintegration of the migrantpopulation into the localcommunity.

Carol winnersA GROUP of childrenfrom the Principe FelipeSchool in Motril won thisyear’s traditional Christ-mas Carol Competition,which took place in Salo-breña.

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THE 96 beneficiaries of theHiring Help Programme of An-dalucia in Velez-Malaga havenow begun their jobs in differ-ent parts of the town.

Each of the beneficiaries hasbeen given a work contract thatwill last for three months, witha 35-hour working week.

Prior to starting they com-pleted a training course overtwo days.

Velez-Malaga Human Re-sources Councillor Ana Cam-pos said the programme willbenefit both the individuals andthe town itself.

The workers will be per-forming important tasks likecleaning streets, controlling in-festations, taking care of parksand gardens, and providing ad-ministrative support in differentmunicipal dependencies.

Beneficiaries of hiringprogramme start workCONTRACTS will last three months with a 35-hour working week

Motril PortAuthority totackle noisepollutionTHE Motril Port Authority is looking toimplement a new project to reduce noisepollution around the port.

The residents of the port neighbour-hood have to put up with a lot of noisefrom the engines of the boats that dockin the port. During the winter the noise isslightly more manageable but in thesummer with more boats and peoplekeeping their windows open due to theheat, many say that it is too much tobear.

The Port Authority has therefore comeup with an ambitious project to deal withthe noise. The plan is to design a directconnection from the boats to the dock sothat they will be supplied with energy.This would eliminate not only the noisepollution, but also the CO2 emissionsthat the diesel engines generate.

The project would require the port toadapt its facilities at an estimated cost of€465,000.

By Sam Croft

WORKERS: Will be performing important tasks including cleaning the streets.

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THE Christmas Season ishere and many of us are al-ready stuffing ourselves fullof turkey, red wine, andQuality Street chocolate.

But it’s important not toforget that there are peopleout there with nothing at allto eat during the holidays.

We have compiled a listof soup kitchens availablein different par ts of thesouth of Spain.

All of these services arefree and open year-round,but keep in mind that someof them have specif ic re-quirements or ask for spe-cific documentation, so it’sbest to have a quick checkbefore you go.

In Malaga and on theCosta del Sol:

Alberque MunicipalGongora, Malaga: Open 24hours a day. Those in needcan go and have an inter-view with a social worker.Located on Calle DonosoCortes 2.

Angeles Malagueños dela noche, Malaga: Open dai-ly and featuring breakfastfrom 8am to 9am, lunchfrom 1:30pm-2:30pm, anddinner from 7pm-8pm. Lo-cated in the Plaza de la Re-ligiosa Felipense DoloresMarquez.

Emaus: Emaus is a chain of soup

ki tchens open from 9pm-3pm Monday to Saturdayand including hol idays.There are four locations in

the Malaga Province: inTorremolinos, on Calle Cruz5, in Estepona on Calle ElNaranjo, in Velez Malagaon Calle Esperanza 15, andin Antequera on Calle Cor-doba 29.

There are also two loca-t ions in the GranadaProvince: in Guadix onCalle Puerta Alta 12, and inBaza on Calle Anta 16.

In Costa Blanca:La Sal de la Tierra, Ali-

cante: Located on Calle Al-cala Gal iano 85. Serveslunch from 1:30pm-2pmfrom Monday to Friday.

In Almeria:La Milagrosa, Almeria:

Located on Calle AlcaldeMuñoz 18. Serves lunchfrom 11:30am-1pm Monday

to Saturday.In Mallorca:Palma de Mallorca: On

Calle Fel ic ia Fuster 3 .Lunch served between 1pmand 2pm.

Remember i f you arefeeling depressed or lonelythis Christmas, if you everfeel that things are gettingout of control or there isjust too much, or i f youhave an emergency youneed to talk with someoneabout , you are not a lone.You can call Samaritans inSpain on a freephone num-ber open 24 hours a day, in-cluding Christmas, with ateam of experts ready andwilling to help you.

The freephone number is900 525 100 and your confi-dence will be kept.

A helping hand for thosein need at ChristmasIMPORTANT to remember there are peoople out there with nothing at all to eat

By Sam Croft

Christmas tastessweet for Frigiliana FRIGILIANA will have a Ferrero Rocher Christmas afterall. Last month, the Italian chocolate company launched acontest to find the ‘best and most beautiful’ village in Spain,with the prize being that the winning town would be featuredin the company’s 25th anniversary spot. Frigiliana finishedsecond, losing to the Valencian community of Morella by4,400 votes. Third was Torrecilla en Cameros in La Rioja.

However, a few days after the winner was announced,Ferrero Rocher organised a party in the Plaza de las TresCulturas in which it was revealed that Frigiliana will be fea-tured in the advert after all.

The chocolate company said it was so impressed with theresults of the campaign they have decided to include all ofthe top three villages in the spot, which will be part of Fer-rero Rocher’s Christmas campaign.

After the announcement, Frigiliana’s Tourism councillorMaria Jose Caravaca and Mayor Jose Antonio Gonzalez ex-pressed their gratitude to FerreroRocher. The townspeople lit a lumi-nous arch with the name of theItalian brand, as well as a treeof lights crowned with agreat golden ball, to rep-resent one of theItalian treats. Theattendees sangcarols while en-joying FerreroRocher chocolates.

FERRARA BEACH in Tor-rox-Costa will finally stopsuffering the battering fromthe rough weather that comesin from the east.

For more than threedecades, storms have oftenleft this strip of the Axarquiabeach practically withoutsand. Now, the Coastal Terri-tory, a branch of the Ministryof Environment, has givenconstruction company Con-strucciones Tejera SA ofAlmeria the go-ahead to con-struct a semi-submerged

breakwater in the eastern zoneof the beach.

The breakwater will be 115metres long and eight metreswide, and will reduce theforce with which the wavesland on the shore. The worksare planned to begin in themiddle of the month of Febru-ary and will conclude at thebeginning of next summer.

Local business-owners havebeen demanding a more per-manent solution to the beachproblems for many years. Inthe past trucks have often beenrelied upon to deposit sand onthe beach, the cost of whichhas added up to €1 millionover the last two decades.


SALOBREÑA TownCouncil is planning to reno-vate the municipal market.The aim is to get the workdone as quickly as possibleso that it does not causeproblems for the local busi-nesses that make up themarket.

The market was con-structed in 1996, and overthe years small problemshave arisen, like high tem-peratures in the summer andslippery floors.

The town council hastherefore decided to fixthese problems while alsoadding a car park with 32parking spaces.

The project first needs toreceive the approval of acouncil plenary session, andit is hoped that work willbegin in January.

Makeoverdue fortownmarket

FORCE OF NATURE: Powerful waves have pounded Ferrara Beach for decades.

Breakwater for Torrox beach WORK due to start in February to put an end to constant sand erosion

115metres is the length of the

planned breakwater

A BRICK factory which wasclosed and effectively aban-doned in 2010 was left to suf-fer from vandalism, fire andeventual collapse which re-vealed that the roof of thebuilding contained large vol-umes of highly toxic asbestoswhich has now been left tothe elements and much of ithas now entered the atmos-phere in the form of toxicdust.

Prompted by local activists,the Velez-Malaga Town Hallissued a clean-up order forthe property over four monthsago in August which requiredthe owners of the land tobuild a protective fencearound the land and removeall of the debris and asbestoswaste at an estimated cost of€107,000.

This is part icularly im-portant as the land is oppo-site the El Ingenio commer-

cial centre in Torre del Marwhich is both popular andbusy, attracting large num-bers of shoppers who areunknowingly being exposedto asbestos dust which cancause lung complaints in-cluding cancer.

In addition it is situatednear to a water park and anelderly person’s home.

Despite being given a twomonth deadline to clear thearea, nothing has happenedand the Axarquia NatureStudies Cabinet (GENA) is

up in arms over the lack ofany action.

Jose Luis Gamez, a mem-ber of GENA has publicly

highlighted the dangerousqualities of asbestos derivedfrom the bad demolition ofthe factory and announced

that he has asked the Vélez-Malaga authorities to take ur-gent action to remedy thishighly dangerous situation.


DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE: Proper removal of asbestos.

Dangerous asbestos in Torre del MarROOF of the old factory building collapsed and revealed that it contained large volumes of the toxic substance

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Good workNINE members of theHealth Department ofMalaga-Axarquia have re-ceived a tribute for theirmany years of hard workand dedication. A small cer-emony was held at theAxarquia Hospital Comar-cal to recognise theirefforts.

Festive treats THE commercial centrein Rincon de la Victoria isoffering free Christmascooking classes for chil-dren where they can learnhow to make various fes-tive treats.

Olive businessTHE Malaga family busi-ness Roldan Olives hasopened its first franchiseshop with more than 40types of different olives onsale in the commercial cen-tre El Ingenio in Velez-Malaga.

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NATIONAL Police Officershave arrested four people, threemen and a woman, in Velez-Malaga, for stealing large quan-tities of avocados from localfarms.

In the early morning of De-cember 12, a suspicious vanwas seen at a roundabout nearExit 272 of the A7 motorway inVelez-Malaga. Upon inspectionit was discovered that the vanwas full of bags of avocadoswith a total weight of 1,975 ki-los. The three occupants werearrested along with a fourthmember who was on lookoutduty nearby.

The four suspects are thoughtto be responsible for a spate ofavocado thefts. Overall 17,500kilos of avocados have beentaken, adding up to a total valueof €45,000.

Four people held forspate of avocado theftsA TOTAL of 17,500 kilos worth €45,000 taken

Dronemanagementworkshop inRincon de laVictoriaA FREE workshop on the use of droneshas just finished in Rincon de laVictoria.

Ten people were trained in the work-shop, which was conducted by the An-dalucian Association of Drones, andcarried out with the collaboration ofRincon de la Victoria Town Council.

The drones, which are small un-manned aircrafts used for taking im-ages, are in fashion at the moment. Butin order to manage them it is necessaryto have some technical and legal knowl-edge of how they work.

The 10 participants in the workshopwere familiarised with how to use thedrones and educated about the rules andregulations relating to drone manage-ment. Rincon Mayor EncarnacionAnaya said that the workshop represent-ed a great opportunity because dronesare currently used in many different pro-fessional sectors.

By Sam Croft

Avocado theft is a commonissue in Axarquia.

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Road safety concernsin Velez-Malaga TOWN HALL asks provincial council to take action

By Sam Croft

Police donateto CaritasALMUÑECAR Local Po-lice have given €7,000 tothe town’s Caritas Parish.The officers organised vol-unteer events a few weeksago to raise the money.

Warm winterTHIS December has beenthe warmest in 34 yearson the Costa Tropical. Asa result, the tourism sec-tor has flourished, but theagricultural sector has ex-perienced numerousproblems due to the un-usual temperatures andlack of rainfall.

End of year THE Rhythmic Gymnasticsschool of Salobreña had anexhibition to bid farewell to2015. One hundred girlsperformed various routinesthroughout the course ofthe event.

MALAGA Guardia CivilOfficers and agents from theFishing Inspection Depart-ment have seized 17 red tu-na which were caught ille-gally in Velez Malaga.

The combined weight ofthe fish was approximately800 kilos.

A group of men weredropping anchor 300 metresoff the coast and then mov-ing the fish to the shore atnight in small boats. Offi-cers surprised the men onthe shore and caught them

taking seven tuna from theboats to a van. Upon furtherinspection, the officers dis-covered more of the fishhidden under cloths in boatson the shore.

Red tuna live in the NorthAtlantic and adjacent wa-ters, with the Mediterraneanbeing their main breedingground. There is currently arecovery plan in effect onbehalf of the EuropeanUnion, meaning that fishingfor tuna in the area is strictlyregulated.

Popular route backto looking its bestTHE Environmental Council has cleaned up the CortijoCordobilla road in Motril at the insistence of the towncouncil. The route, which is particularly popular amongsports lovers, looks brand new thanks to the cleaning ofthe streets and the removal of agricultural waste.

VELEZ-MALAGA Town Council has de-manded that Malaga Provincial Council per-forms the necessary works to improve roadsafety in different parts of the town.

One of the council’s main requests is the in-stallation of rumble strips and speed bumps atcertain points on the MA-3113 regional road,

especially in places where children catch theschool bus.

Council members also said that parts of theMA-3112 road needed cleaning and that theditches need to be cleared. The council claimsthat residents and drivers have made numerouscomplaints due to the difficulty and danger thissituation poses for motorists.

NEWS EXTRA Guardia Civil seizehaul of illegallycaught red tuna

LOCAL ROADS: In need of improvement, according to the council.

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THE Nerja Cave Foun-dation has unanimouslyapproved the differentitems that will make upnext year’s budget.

The 2016 budget willinclude €130,000 forresearch, twice as muchas the foundation hadover the current year.Added to this amount isanother €146,000 forconservation and main-tenance.

The Nerja CaveFoundation is currentlyoperating at a surplus,mainly thanks to the in-crease in visitors to thecave and the Nerja Mu-seum.

As of January 2, theNerja Cave and Muse-um will also have anew schedule, and willbe open to the publicfrom 9am to 4pm.

Boost forresearch inNerja Cavebudget

A FINANCIAL survey of the activities, as-sets, and interests of local councillors inVelez-Malaga has been undertaken, and theresults can be found on the council’s website.

The data, provided by the councillors them-

selves, revealed that 21 of the 25 memberswho make up the council have bank loans andthat the mayor is the one with the most debt.

The majority of the councillors’ debts canbe accounted for as mortgage loans and theoverall debt between them adds up to€1,759,247.

FINANCIAL SURVEY: 21 out of 25 Velez-Malaga councillors surveyed havebank loans.

Councillors revealfinancial details

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THE Subdelegate of theGovernment for Malaga,Miguel Briones, saidthat there has beena 37.2 per centdecrease incr iminal of-fences in ruralareas of theprovince in thelast two years.

The drop haslargely been at-tributed to the Rural TheftFight ing Unit (ROCA)teams that the Guardia Civilbegan to deploy in Andalu-cia , s tar t ing in October2013.

ROCA teams are policeuni ts made up of off icerswho are highly specialised

in deal ing with rural of-fences.

There are currently twoteams located in the MalagaProvince, one is based inCoin and the other in Ante-quera.


THIRTY-EIGHT Salobreña secondary school students have re-ceived their B1 (intermediate) and B2 (upper intermediate) EnglishCertificates from Trinity College. Trinity is an official title recog-nised all over the world as a common reference point for languages.

In total 38 students completed the course. They prepared for theexams over the course of the entire year.

The graduation ceremony was presided over by Salobreña MayorMaria Eugenia Rufino, along with the management team of TrinityCollege, headed by the director, Emilia Cobos.

Rufino said that the ability to speak a second language is indis-pensible nowadays not only for many university degrees, but alsofor those who wish to work in the tourism sector, which is the eco-nomic motor of much of Andalucia.

Students getTrinity titles

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TORROX Mayor Oscar Medina has announced that in2016 he will move ahead with the construction of afootball pitch in El Morche.

Medina met with El Morche residents and said thatthe Torrox Town Council is going to allocate €1.8mil-lion to build a football pitch in the industrial area ofSanta Rosa.

Possible footballpitch for Torrox

Politician dies ALMUÑECAR PP Rep-resentative Juan RamonCasero Dominguez hasdied at the age of 71 aftera serious illness. He wasaffiliated with PP formore than 30 years andwas an Almuñecar May-oral candidate in 1991.

Centre closedTHE municipal group ofPP and New Generationsin Nerja, have criticisedthe closing of the YouthInformation Centre locat-ed on Calle Cristo duringthe month of December.The centre was alsoclosed in August and Sep-tember.

Nativity theftTWO people have beenarrested for the theft anddamage of the nativityscene of the Cofradia delos Dolores, that tookplace in Almuñecar lastweek.

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Programme to use waste from beerNEWS FROM OUR FIVE OTHER REGIONS

ALMERIA Universi ty isleading a European Research

programme, Greenbiorefinery, toturn the waste from producing beerinto nutrients for animal food orfertiliser.

Five other research centres fromSpain, Colombia and Argentina arealso taking par t in the projectwhich aims to put an end to the en-vironmental issues which beer pro-duction presents.

The waste would be treated withmicroalgae to produce biomass andother products so that there are noCO2 emissions.

It takes about 20 litres of waterto make just one litre of beer.RESEARCH PROGRAMME: To find more uses for beer.

COSTA DEL SOL

RooftopdramaA MAN was injured on De-cember 19 when he fellthrough the roof of an in-dustrial warehouse in Mar-bella. The man had climbedonto the roof in an Elviriaindustrial estate to retrievea ball, Emergency Servicesreported.

Local shopsBENALMADENA’S Com-merce councillor AnaScherman announced lastweek that the town wouldbe running a campaign toencourage Christmas shop-ping in local commercialareas. “The campaign,which includes posters andradio advertising, will pro-mote the advantage of thewide range of shops in thearea and easy parking,” shesaid.

Estepona fireTWO people needed treat-ment after inhaling smokeat a fire in a home in Es-tepona on December 19.The fire broke out at about5pm in a first floor flat onCalle Terraza.

FuengirolaaccessibilityTHE works of improvingthe accessibility in the Sol ySol Pasaje de Fuengirola, inthe area of the Plaza de laHispanidad, have conclud-ed, according to the localcouncillor of Works and In-frastructures, Jose Sanchez,after carrying out an assess-ment visit.

Rat control BENALMADENA Healthcouncillor Alicia Laddagahas been on an inspectionvisit to the Fidelio animalrefuge, which as reportedby EWN last week had beensuffering from an invasionof rats coming from thebullring, and found that theproblem had indeed beensolved.

COSTA BLANCA SOUTH

Cemetery expansion THE new cemetery in Alicante will in-clude an enclosure for the Muslim andJewish community. The areas are part ofthe expansion plans for the cemetery toensure the needs of burials are met forthe next 75 years.

Christmas cheerTRAMS between Alicante City andBenidorm, San Juan and San Vicente ranuntil 3am last weekend. The service wasextended so employees attending Christ-mas parties did not need to drive home.

Multilingual uniTHE Generalitat intends students toleave university speaking English andanother foreign language as well as co-official Spanish and Valenciano, said thedirector general for Linguistic Policies.

Growing artichokeNEW facilities have been opened for thecollection and distribution of the VegaBaja artichoke, with growers calling fora ‘designation of origin mark for thecrop,’ which is a growing market.

Stolen copperTHIEVES removed copper cabling total-ing 41.9 kilometres from the ValencianCommunity’s railways during 2015, re-vealed Spain’s track operator Adif. OnlyCataluña has lost more.

MALLORCA

Anniversary party THE Es Garrover Foundation in Incacelebrated their 10th anniversary with aparty in the cultural centre, FàbricaRamis of Inca last week. The foundationworks for the social and employment in-tegration of people with mental healthproblems.

Men arrested THE Guardia Civil arrested four mensuspected of robberies in Magaluf andPalma Nova. It is believed they mightalso be the perpetrators of other crimesunder investigation. The same men werearrested for similar offences earlier thisyear.

Santa Claus in Inca ONCE again Inca enjoyed the specialvisit of Papá Noel last weekend withhundreds of children lining the streets inthe centre of the town. The childrenwere then able to deliver their letters toSanta in the main square.

Former prioraccused FORMER prior of Lluc monastery, An-toni Vallespir, has been accused of sexualabuse, supposed to have occurred in2012. His lawyer, Jaime Campaner, re-quested that the accused not be judgedsocially before the investigation is com-pleted.

COSTA BLANCA NORTH

Javea XIC studentsraise fundsLAST Thursday, XIC students joinedother schools from the local area tohelp raise funds for Todos JuntosJavea. Everyone had an enjoyableevening singing carols, drinking hotchocolate and spreading the Christmasspirit through the Old Town.

Charity atChristmasTHE Brotherhood of Christ of the Seaof Alicante has held its annual cam-paign to collect food for charities whowill distribute to those in need locally.Non-perishable food was donated atthe Basilica of Santa Maria.

Bonfire logoTHE Hogueras Bonfire Federation inAlicante has announced a contest tocreate a new look for the fiesta cele-brations which will be used as brandrecognition and to promote theHogueras. Rules can be found atwww.hogueras.org

False infoA PROSTHETIC from privatised De-nia hospital costs 139 per cent morethan one from state-run Gandia hospi-tal and 108 per cent more than Villa-joyosa, revealed Health workers’

COSTA DE ALMERÍA

Swedish soundTHE ‘Abba Show Live, Dancing QueenTour’ was held in El Eijdo. The groupfrom Slovenia which includes live musicand a huge likeness with the originalartists lasted two hours. The group hasperformed more than 2,000 concerts.

Full scheduleEL EJIDO Town Hall has made a pro-gramme of more than 120 leisure, cul-tural, sports and social events which willbe held over the Christmas period. Therewill be more security measures at theThree Wise Men parade.

Nativity sceneTHE Miras family, led by Antonio, 93,once again set up a large Nativity Scenein the Patio de Luces of Almeria Provin-cial Government and is open until Janu-ary 5. The figures are made by hand.

Christmas marketTHERE was a great response to theChristmas Market held in Gador to raisefunds for the Spanish AssociationAgainst Cancer. It has been held in thetown for the past 20 years.

Golf schoolA STATE Golf School is due to open inEl Toyo in February, according to thecouncillor for Tourism and Sport, Fran-cisco Javier Fernandez.

PROJECT aims to put an end to environmental issues which production presents

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US Secretary of State JohnKerry went shopping for sou-venirs on December 15 dur-ing meetings in Moscow tomeet with Russia’s PresidentVladimir Putin and ForeignMinister Sergei Lavrov. Theydiscussed a wide range of im-portant issues, including theSyrian crisis and the currentsituation in Ukraine.

Trump fanRUSSIAN President

Vladimir Putin has commendedDonald Trump for wanting tostrengthen relations withMoscow and described him asthe “absolute front-runner in thepresidential race.” However,with the same breath, Putin saidhe was ready to work withwhoever becomes the next USpresident.

Olympicdope probe

THE World Anti-Dop-ing Agency has arrangedto pay a visit to Russia onJanuary 10 for a meetingwith the RussianOlympic Committee af-ter all top executives ofthe Russian Anti-Dop-

ing Agency resigned in light ofaccusations of covering up dop-ing by Russia’s leading athleteslast week.

Investing in highstreets

RUSSIAN company SistemaCapital Partners, the real estateprivate equity platformlaunched earlier this month, hasled a consortium acquisition ofa portfolio of German highstreet retail properties for a totalof €125 million.

“CancerousNATO”

A SPEAKER of lowerhouse of Russia’s parliament

Sergei Naryshkin wantsthe North AtlanticTreaty Organisation todissolve, calling it “acancerous tumour forthe whole Europeancontinent,” whilemeeting with mem-bers of the Serbianparliament. NATOcould be dissolved inseveral stages,Naryshkin explained.

RUSSIAN PRESS

Tradedeals

CHINA and Russiasigned more than 30 tradedeals - including one re-garding Russian oil giantRosneft and China Petro-chemical Corpthat - cover-ing the financial, energy,high-tech and manufactur-ing sectors, following ameeting between ChinesePremier Li Keqiang andhis Russian counterpartDmitry Medvedev in Bei-

jing on Thurs-day, De-cember17.

Shopping forsouvenirs DURING meetings in Moscow

JOHN KERRY: Met with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.


A WHITE Christmas is highly unlike-ly in the UK this year as weather fore-casters are predicting the warmest De-cember in 70 years caused by bands oftropical air from the Atlantic coming infrom the south west.

Stripping ninjaA MAN claiming disability living al-

lowance saying he struggles to get out ofbed, has been caught out by investigatorswho discovered he was working as adancer called ‘the stripping ninja’ at par-ties across the UK.

Shopping savings A WOMAN from Leicestershire has

got herself £574 (€790) worth ofChristmas goods for less than £5 thanksto saving up coupons, supermarket pointsand money-back promotions throughoutthe year.

Many millionairesTHE UK now has over 600,000 propertymillionaires, with property valued at £1million or more rising by 14 per cent.

EUROPEAN PRESS

Airline profitsSWEDEN: Airline SAS has

reported a return to profitabilitysending its shares flying on theStockholm stock exchange.SAS said net profit was 956million kroner (€102 million)in the 12 months to October.

Top searchesSWEDEN: Google has re-

vealed what Swedish peoplesearched for the most during2015, with everything from‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ to the‘worst pizza in history’ makingthe top 10. Murdered teenagerLisa Holm was the mostsearched-for person.

Crisis stabilisingSWEDEN: The Prime Min-

siter has said he believes therefugee crisis in Sweden is sta-bilising and that he has highhopes that those granted asylumwill have the “best opportunity”to start a new life.

On trackDENMARK is on track to

reduce carbon emissions by 40per cent by 2020 according tonew statistics, putting its newright-wing government on trackto hit the national target it re-cently abandoned.

Bath timeDENMARK: A Danish co-

median who posted a photo ofhimself naked in the bath withhis two year-old daughter, hashit back at criticism saying “afather in the bath with hisdaughter is not paedophilia.”

Fourth bestDENMARK has been named

the world’s fourth best countryto live in after leaping sixplaces in the UN’s annual hu-man development report. Den-mark is only beaten by Norway,Australia and Switzerland.

Best countryNORWAY has been ranked

the world’s best country to livein for the 12th year in a row bythe UN development pro-gramme.

AMSTERDAM is planning to banthe ‘beer bike’ tourist attraction from thecity next year. The beer bikes are mobilebars mainly pedalled by tourists andwidely seen as a nuisance by locals. Apetition against the beer bikes earlierthis year was signed by 6,500 people.

Not DutchALMOST half of the Moroccans and

Turks living in the Netherlands said theydo not feel Dutch and youngsters in par-

ticular feel alienated, according to a newreport.

Caring supermarketSTAFF in two branches of supermar-

ket chain Albert Heijn in The Hague are

taking part in a project to ‘keep an eye’on elderly clients and if they appearlonely will ask them if they would like achat with a care volunteer in the store.

Sports champWORLD champion sprinter Dafne

Schippers, 23, has been named as Dutchsportswoman of the year, the first athleteto take the title since1992. She won the200 metres gold medal in the worldchampionships in Beijing this year.

Birth rateTHE birth rate in Ger-

many has risen to a quarter-century high. It was apparentin August that a mini babyboom was under way, whenthe government releasedfigures showing that

715,000 babies were born in2014, 33,000 more than in2013.

Google searchSONNENFINSTERNIS,

or solar eclipse, was themost searched term onGoogle in Germany thisyear ahead of ‘planecrash’around the t ime ofthe Germanwings tragedyand ‘Paris’ after Novem-ber’s terror attacks.

Military fightTHE German mili taryhas joined attacks on

Daesh for the first time,after the German gov-ernment voted to takepart in the international

military campaign againstthe radical jihadist group.

Rabbitbreeder

A 10-YEAR-OLD Bavari-an boy has been crownedEurope’s Youth RabbitBreeding Champion. Breed-ing rabbits is in the family;his father was youth champi-on and his grandfather haswon a range of titles.

Top teamFIGURES show Borus-

sia Dortmund draw biggercrowds than any other foot-ball team in the world. Inthe 2014/15 season, despitefinishing in seventh in theleague, Dortmund had anaverage of crowd of 80,410at its matches.

Cash grabPOLICE are searching

for a gang who used a rock-et launcher to rob a trucktransporting money inDortmund. They reportedlyblocked the truck on theroad and used an anglegrinder to open the truck’sback door and steal themoney inside.

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AMSTERDAM: Planning to ban from the city next year as they are seen as a nuisance.

WARMEST December in 70 years

No white Christmas

A PETITION was signed by 6,500 people earlier this year

Hover boardconcerns

TRADING Standards said 15,000 of the 17,000hover boards examined since October 15 had beenseized. It comes as leading UK retailers such as Argosand Amazon.co.uk are recalling products followingcases of them catching fire and for having a non-com-pliant UK plug.

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IN figures released by the Officefor National Statistics (ONS) it wasshown that the UK unemploymentrate fell to 5.2 per cent in the threemonths to October. This was thelowest jobless rate since the three-

month period to January 2006, andcompared to 6 per cent unemploy-ment just one year ago.

There were 31.3 million peoplein work, 505,000 more than a yearago, and the number of people outof work fell by 110,000 to 1.71 mil-lion between August and October.

The figures released also detailthe number of foreigners workingin the UK, and the number of EUcitizens working increased by324,000 to 2.02 million, whereasworkers who were neither EU na-tionals or Britons were stable at 1.2million.

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PEPE BALTA, a secondary schoolstudent from Barcelona had to pro-duce an economic project for hisschool in 2014, and chose Abengoaas the company to review.

In his 18-page paper on the com-pany, he apparently pointed out ma-jor problems with the company’s fi-nancial position and wrote “If it doesnot act soon, there is a strong riskAbengoa will go into bankruptcy.”

By John SmithWORKERS in the Coca-Colafactory in FuenlabradaMadrid will work to rule onDecember 21 and 28 in sup-port of their demands.

According to a unionspokesman, Juan CarlosAsenjo, they will work manu-ally as they did 50 years agowith no use of machinery.

As the Coca-Cola compa-

ny targets its Christmas ad-vertising at the ‘good olddays’, this appears to be amost appropriate if somewhatironic action by the workers.

There have been a numberof disputes with workers atthis plant over the years, andalso with the Madrid Councilwhich refused to allow thecompany to film a commer-cial.

Coca-Cola workersturn back clock

Fake toysand gamesWITH the publication of alist by the EU of the mem-ber s ta tes which see thegreatest number of sales ofcounterfei t toys andgames, Spain is near thetop, beaten only by Bul-gar ia , Greece, Hungaryand Romania.

According to the report,the purchase of these fakescosts Spanish industrynearly €170 mil l ion ayear.

App fromLa CaixaLA CAIXA BANK haslaunched a new app al-lowing payment via amobile phone, similar tothose avai lable in theUK.

Apart from makingpayments, it will be pos-s ible for customers tocheck their accounts andto view their balances.

DUE to her illness, Spanish opera singer Montser-rat Caballe was allowed to attend a hearing con-cerning tax evasion via video from her home, andwithout any press attendance at the court.

She accepted that she had avoided paying over

€500,000 of tax in 2010 by registering her domi-cile as Andorra, even though she was living inBarcelona and was fined €240,000.

She was also sentenced to six months in jail,which will effectively act as a suspended sentence.

Opera singer tax evasion charges

is the number of job vacancies in theUK jobs market at the end of October2015, and is the highest level recorded

since in 2001.

Quote of the WeekIt’s a great day for film making in this country and it clearly showsthe force is with us,’ said George Osborne on the day of its premier

about the fact that the latest Star Wars movie was filmed in Britain.

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Domino’saim todominateTHE companies that ownDomino’s Pizza in Australiaand the UK have agreed to setup a joint venture operation tobuy Germany’s biggest pizzachain.

Joey’s Pizza has 212 storesacross Germany with annualsales of €143 million, and thecountry is the world’s fourth-biggest pizza market with thepurchase worth around €78million.

The joint venture will betwo-thirds owned by the Aus-tralian company, with the re-mainder owned by the UKDomino’s Pizza Group, whichalready operates in Germany.

Profit margins on pizzas areknown to be very high as theyare simply cooked dough withrelatively inexpensive toppings,so as long as the market re-mains firm, this should generatesignificant income for the com-panies involved.

THE Catalan Land Institute (Inca-sol) announced that it has allocated a150,808 m2 plot of land known asMas Blau II, to Amazon for which itwill charge €30 million.

“The land is located a few minutesfrom the El Prat airport in one of the

most important economic

and industrial areas of Barcelona,”said a statement.

Amazon will be allowed to buildup to three storeys high. The state-ment continued: “The main permit-ted use is logistics, along with the‘complementary’ offices, shops andrestaurants.”

In response Amazon said in acarefully-worded statement: “We

are pleased that Incasol has award-ed Amazon with a plot in El Prat deLlobregat to keep expanding ourEuropean Fulfilment Network, andacknowledges our long-term com-mitment with the Catalan andSpanish economies through contin-ued investment and job creation.Legal due diligence is currently on-going and thus we cannot commentany further at the moment.”

In the meantime, Amazon UKhas warned all customers aboutpossible exploding hoverboards. Inan email, the firm told buyers ofthese hot Christmas sellers that ifthey have purchased hover boardswith ‘non-compliant UK plugs’,that they should dispose of themsafely and they will receive a re-fund.

This has been prompted afterTrading Standards seized 15,000unsafe boards being brought intothe UK, many of which had faultycables, chargers or plugs that couldcatch fire or explode.

By Steve Walsh

AT the annual EU Fisheries andAgricultural Council meeting inBrussels, which has just finished,British fishermen received somevery good news about quota in-creases according to Fisheries Min-ister George Eustice, who called thelatest agreement a ‘great result’.

The actual quota increases were: The English Channel: Plaice 100

per cent.The North Sea: Cod 15 per cent

and haddock 47 per cent.The Celtic Sea: Hake 20 per cent.The Western Channel: Sole 15

per cent.A number of quotas remained the

same and there were cuts of 55 percent in Irish Sea sole and 9 per centin Bristol Channel plaice, but withthe increases and the number ofdays UK fishermen can be at sea re-maining the same as for 2015, theindustry was generally pleased withthe results.

Mr Eustice said: “I entered thesediscussions with the firm belief that

any decisions need to support aprofitable fishing industry, sustain-able fish stocks and a healthy ma-rine environment, and the signifi-cant quota increases we’veachieved for iconic species likeNorth Sea cod demonstrates thesuccess of this approach.

“We still have more to do toreach maximum sustainable yield(MSY) for all quota species by2020, and to deliver the full discardban by 2019, but already fishermenare benefitting from the actionwe’ve taken in recent years to re-cover stocks.

“By fighting for the fishing in-dustry, and making a clear case forthe need for more sustainable fish-ing, we have got a good deal andshown we can get what we need inEurope.”

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This acknowledgesour commitment

to the Catalan andSpanish economies.

JEFF BEZOS: The founder of Amazon.

BRITISH FISHERMEN:Received some verygood news about quotaincreases at an EUmeeting in Brussels.

By John Smith

THE rush of American companies totake others over or to merge continuesapace. The latest announcement comesfrom the two US chemical behemothsDow Chemical and DuPont, with themerged company expected to be calledDowDuPont worth an estimated $130billion (€119 billion).

It appears that as both companiesare worth roughly the same amount ofmoney and this will be a share deal,there are significant tax advantages foreach company and their investors. Asthis type of deal is almost unheard ofit will attract a great deal of interestfrom fiscal authorities as well as taxadvisers.

Assuming the merger is allowed, itis planned that the new company willbe owned equally by existing share-holders in the two companies. Threenew companies will then be createdwithin two years of the merger, andthese new companies should be con-

sidered as being tax free entities.Shareholders are hoping to save $3billion (€2.75 billion) per annum.

In addition, DuPont has announcedthat it plans to cut about 10 per cent ofits staff. Some cynics have commentedon the fact that as the US tries to climbout of its financial crisis, US conglom-erates appear to be doing all that theycan to avoid paying taxes, which arethe backbone of any economy.

With both companies having rea-sonable sized operations in Spain, itwill also be interesting to see if theirmerger has any knock-on effect on theSpanish economy, especially if jobsare to be lost or head offices merged.

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Both companiesare worth roughlythe same amountand this will be a

share deal.

“WHOLE areas, towns and parts of townsacross England will be occupied by sec-tions of the immigrant and immigrant de-scendant’s population. It is like watching anation busily engaged in heaping up its ownfuneral pyre.

“They will find their wives unable to ob-tain hospital beds in childbirth. Their chil-dren unable to obtain school places. Theirhomes and neighbourhoods changed be-yond recognition. Their plans and prospectsfor the future defeated for reasons they can-not comprehend; and in pursuance of a de-cision by default on which they were neverconsulted, they will find themselves madestrangers in their own country,” - EnochPowell, 1965.

This highly intelligent politician was sub-sequently hounded out of mainstream poli-tics by his peers, who scoffed his vision andwarnings of the future. Under accusations

of racism, he was soon banished to a lonelyposition in Northern Ireland.

There, out of sight and hearing, his bril-liant mind was wasted in the mire of vio-lence and political strife that was engulfing

Ireland at that time. I personally rememberhim utterly destroying David Frost in a TVinterview. At one point Frost asked himwhy he was against black people. Powell’sanswer was that he had never discriminated

against someone because of their colourand challenged Frost to cite one occasionwhen he had actually done so.

A blustering Frost couldn’t come up withone example. The fact of the matter wasthat Powell was never a racist, merely a re-alist. He was of course absolutely correctand we are now experiencing most of thesituations he warned of all those years ago.

The words of a Don McLean song cometo mind. ‘They did not listen, they’re notlistening still, perhaps they never will.’ Infairness, they do finally seem to be listen-ing. Unfortunately they’re about 40 yearstoo late.

I’ve been called a few things in my timebut the missive I received this week justabout took the whole tin. This ‘gentleman’referred to me as follows. Uneducated.Purile. Lickspittle. Forelock tugger. Kneebender. Quisling. Halfwit. Moron. Wow!Sticks and stones Señor. Sticks and stones!

Keep the faithLove Leapy

[email protected]

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Enoch Powell was never a racist

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I REPLY to a recently publishedletter from Ron, ‘Ungodly ways’.

First of all the commandmentis‘Thou shalt do no murder, thoushall not kill in his name,’ is non-sense.

Jesus Christ died rather thancall on ‘Twelve Legions of Angels’or “If my kingdom was of thisworld my disciples would fight,but my kingdom is not of thisworld.”

Pre-Darwin, it was only naturalto try to explain our existence.

Although his theory is seriouslyflawed, he leaves us with life as arandom and temporary burst be-tween aeons of nothingness.

Personal experience leads me toa different conclusion.

D R Griffiths,Orihuela Costa, Alicante

Ban thehawkers!AS a newcomer to Spain, I wouldlike to pass comment on the roam-ing hawkers who enter the restau-rants to try and sell their merchan-dise.

It is frustrating, to say the least,to try and enjoy a meal, whilst thehawkers continually interrupt thetables.

I have seen them work as ateam, warning all the other street-sellers in advance of approachingpolice officers and then giving theall-clear once the threat haspassed. They actually laugh atthem once they have gone!

I have also witnessed some Ger-mans having a meal being calledracists because they bought noth-ing from a hawker.

The goods being sold are of aninferior quality and some of themare plain junk.

If this practice could be halted,on a continuous basis and restau-rant owners prevented their entry,we, as paying guests, would staylonger and enjoy the experience,thus spending more.

By the way, we are enjoyingSpain, immensely!!!

Michael Agliotti,Torrox Costa

Science haslost its wayGOOD article, Nora.

Science today seems to havelost its way because no-one cancome out and say it IS so.

Everything is listed as ‘may’,‘could’, ‘possibly’ and the like.

Scientists today never take thetime to be absolutely sure of theirtest results.

And if it isn’t pure lies, it’s con-jecture.

Roy Peters,Via website

Burningwaste perilRE: Floods and droughts to hi tSpain

The first easy action to be takenin the Comunidad Valenciana, Cos-ta Blanca, is STOP burning wastein the open air!

Why not make compost or recy-cle the green waste instead ofburning it , polluting the atmos-phere with toxic gases and poison-ing all the inhabitants and millionsof tourists?

They even burn next to hospi-

tals, schools, etc... they are, likemany others, not aware of the toxicgases produced by these burnings.

Berger Micheline,Via website

TacticalvotingTHE establishment encouragingtactical voting in order to cling onto power at any cost will not keepthem in their ‘bubble’ forever, ei-ther in France or the UK.

They must start to listen to the

people before formulating policies,not making bad and unpopular deci-sions and later conning the elec-torate into voting for them ‘or else’.

Geoff Brooks,Via website

Good andbad in everynationWITH reference to Leapy Lee’swritings, before we all get carriedaway with Islamophobia, let usconsider the recent comments of aBrit ish soldier who lost his legduring a roadside bomb explosionnear Basra.

He says on FaceBook and re-ported by the BBC…..

“Yes a Muslim blew me up and Ilost a leg.

“A Muslim man lost his arm thatday, wearing a British uniform.

“A Muslim medic was in the he-l icopter that took me from thefield.

“A Muslim surgeon performedthe surgery that saved my life.

“A Muslim nurse was part of theteam that helped me on my returnto UK.

“A Muslim taxi driver gave me afree ride, when I went for my firstbeer with my dad, af ter I camehome.”

Also read Muhammed Ali’scomments condemning so-calledIslamic jihadists.

There are good and bad in everynation and religion.

The bad ones will lose eventual-ly, they always do, history hasproven this.

Leo,Via website

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AS a good, caring, and charitable member of the community here on the Costa del Sol, when Iwas told that the collecting of bottle-tops and ring-pulls from cans would raise money for chari-ty, I started in earnest. Pretty soon all my friends and family (thinking it was a wonderful idea)

began giving me all the ring-pulls and bottle-tops they could find. Well! That was a while ago, and now my house is full to the brim with shiny can rings and multi-coloured

plastic. I have thousands of them and no idea how to give them to charity. The breeding collection is burstingout of the doors. Can somebody please tell me who to call for collection?

Anne Lee,Coin, Malaga

Personal experience leads toa different conclusion

Overflowing with bottle-tops

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AS Spain digests its ChristmasEve dinner and politicians digestthe election results, spare athought for December 20, 1973.

That was when the car ofSpain’s Prime Minister AdmiralLuis Carrero Blanco was blownup in Calle Claudio Coello inMadrid.

He was returning home afterMass as he did each morning inhis official car, a black Dodge,and his unvarying routine madehim an easy target.

The attack was carried out byETA’s five-strong Txikia com-mando and took more than a yearto set up.

The choice of Carrero Blanco

was an obvious one, he had beena close adviser to Franco since1941, when he came to the dicta-tor’s notice after writing a reportadvising against entering theSecond World War on the side ofthe fascist Axis.

The admiral was made a min-ister in 1951, became vice-primeminister in 1967. He was namedprime minister six months beforehis assassination.

The aging dictator, who boast-ed that all loose ends were ‘tiedup and well tied up,’ trusted thaton his death Carrero Blancowould ensure that the Movimien-to, Spain’s only political organi-sation, survived after Prince JuanCarlos was proclaimed King.

So what was in Franco’s mindwhen he began his Christmasspeech that year with the phrase:‘No hay mal que por bien novenga?’ Using the equivalent of

‘It’s an ill wind that blows nogood’ generated inevitable con-spiracy theories.

How could the ETA comman-do spend a year in Madrid settingup the plot to kill Carrero Blancowithout detection?

Why did Henry Kissinger, theUS Secretary of State, visi tMadrid two days previously?

Better st i l l , Carlos AriasNavarro, the former Interior min-ister who replaced Carrero Blan-co as prime minister, was nomi-nally in charge of providing himwith protection, and should haveuncovered the plot, it was sug-gested.

Two years later, Franco wasdead and Arias Navarro would bein office for only a few monthsmore. He was replaced by AdolfoSuarez who, together with JuanCarlos I, steered Spain to democ-racy. But that’s another story.

Cassandra NashA weekly look- and not entirely impartial reaction - to the Spanish political scene

Spare a thought for the eventsof December 20, 1973

SANTOÑA (CANTABRIA): The monument to Carrero Blancoin his birthplace.

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“ONCE upon a time in the middle ofwinter, when the flakes of snow werefalling like feathers from the sky, aqueen sat at a window sewing . . .”

Thus begins the tale of Snow Whiteand the Seven Dwarfs. Unless you livein Leicester, where this year the pan-tomime is Snow White. Just SnowWhite. A Christmas panto where she’llhave ‘friends’, possibly seven, but def-initely no dwarfs. ‘Dwarf,’ aspokesman for the venue explained toa local paper, ‘is not a term that peoplefeel comfortable with.’ Hmm.

So, politically-correct panto bosseshave given Snow White’s seven‘dwarfs’ the heigh-ho... by replacingthem with ‘friends’. This is the result

of daft, left-wing political correctness,and the people of Leicester have everyright to feel short changed. Is no onegoing to stand up for all those in soci-ety who are vertically challenged?

And what about the Christmas con-cert, when children were ordered tochange the traditional lyrics of theChristmas song about the little donkeysaid to have carried the pregnant Mary

to Bethlehem because they were ‘tooreligious’. Instead of ‘Little donkey,carry Mary’, the youngsters were toldto sing ‘carry Lucy’ for fear of offend-ing non-Christians.

Next, we’ll have the race for the firstChurch of England vicar to tell sometiny toddlers Santa doesn’t exist, andthe first local council to erect in thetown square an edgy ‘seasonal, inclu-

sive, celebratory installation’ instead ofbaby Jesus in his crib.

All this amid news that an Italianheadmaster has banned Christmas con-certs and carols in his school near Mi-lan in the name of multiculturalism. Hetriggered protests from parents andmedia flak by opting to postpone theannual Christmas concert for primaryschool pupils until January, and re-

brand it a ‘winter concert’,which will not feature any

religious songs. He’s also, report-

edly, not allowing twomothers to teach Christ-mas carols to the chil-

dren during lunchbreaks. This in Italy, aprimarily RomanCatholic country!

Ah, with all thistalk of political cor-

rectness, it’s alreadybeginning to feel like

Christmas. And a sure sign that Santa’salready having his sleigh valeted atKwik Fit. Happy Christmas!

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Landscapeof Lies’, ‘Retribution’, ‘Soul Stealer’,‘The De Clerambault Code’(www.nora-johnson.com) availablefrom Amazon in paperback/eBook(€0.89;£0.79) and iBookstore. Allprofits to Cudeca charity.

Nora JohnsonBreaking ViewsNora is the author of popular psychological suspense andcrime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, goto www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson

Grim reality as Snow White’s seven‘dwarfs’ are given the heigh-ho...PANTO bosses in Leicester are replacing them with ‘friends’

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Service Live FromBath Abbey

12:00pm The Santa Clause3: The Escape Clause

1:25pm Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

2:50pm BBC News at One

3:00pm Top of the Pops4:00pm The Queen's

Christmas Broadcast 2015

4:10pm Brave5:35pm BBC News5:45pm Stick Man6:15pm Doctor Who7:15pm Strictly Come

Dancing8:30pm Call the Midwife9:45pm EastEnders10:45pm Mrs. Brown's

Boys11:25pm Michael

Mcintyre's Big Christmas Show

12:25am BBC News12:40am Love Came

Down at Christmas

9:35am Paw Patrol10:00am Bananas in


Tugboat10:25am The Mr. Men

Show10:35am Toby's

Travelling Circus

10:50am Andre Rieu's Christmas Spectacular

11:50am Scrooge2:05pm Seven Brides

for Seven Brothers

4:10pm The Wizard of Oz

6:10pm Michael Buble'sChristmas 2015

7:05pm Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs

9:50pm Chas and Dave's Xmas Knees-Up

10:40pm Britain's Favourite Abba Songs

12:05am Sinatra at 100 -An All-Star Grammy Concert

2:25am ABBA: Live in Concert

7:00am The Road to El Dorado

8:20am Natural World9:20am Herbie Rides

Again10:45am The Cat in the

Hat12:00pm Carols from

King's1:15pm Climbed Every

Mountain - The Story Behind The Sound of Music

2:15pm The Good Life2:45pm Frankenweenie4:05pm Tim Rice - A Life

in Song5:35pm Romeo and Juliet7:20pm The Queen's

Christmas Broadcast 2015

7:30pm World's Sneakiest Animals

8:30pm Dad's Army9:00pm The Two Ronnies

Christmas Show9:50pm Darcey's Ballet

Heroes10:50pm QI11:20pm We're Doomed!

The Dad's Army Story

12:20am Gambit1:40am The Trouble with

Harry

8:00pm The Gruffalo's Child

8:30pm Toy Story9:45pm How to Train

Your Dragon11:15pm Live at the

Apollo12:00am EastEnders1:00am American Dad!1:25am American Dad!1:45am Family Guy2:10am Family Guy2:30am Family Guy2:55am Family Guy3:15am Uncle3:45am Uncle4:15am Uncle4:45am Sunny D

7:45am Prep and Landing

8:05am Prep and Landing

8:30am The Bear9:00am A Turtle's Tale:

Sammy's Adventures

10:40am The Simpsons11:10am The Simpsons11:40am The Simpsons12:15pm Ice Age: A

Mammoth Christmas

12:40pm Toy Story Toons1:10pm Father Christmas1:40pm The Snowman2:15pm The Snowman

and the Snowdog

2:45pm The Muppet Christmas Carol

4:25pm Channel 4 News4:35pm Alternative

Christmas Message

4:45pm Scrooged6:45pm Home Alone 2:

Lost in New York9:00pm Gogglesprogs10:00pm Alan Carr:

Chatty Man12:00am 8 Out of 10 Cats1:05am Very British

Problems at Christmas

7:25am Sooty7:50am Oddbods8:00am Dino Dan8:15am Horrid Henry8:45am Chowder9:10am Almost Naked

Animals9:25am Weekend at

Christmas10:25am Santa Claus12:30pm Happy Feet2:35pm Text Santa3:45pm ITV Lunchtime

News4:00pm HM the Queen4:10pm Cameraman to

the Queen5:10pm Countrywise

Winter Wonderland

6:00pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs


7:15pm You've Been Framed!

7:45pm Emmerdale8:45pm Coronation S

treet9:45pm Downton Abbey11:45pm Our Cilla12:45am ITV News1:00am Dr. No

1:00pm Best of Gillette Soccer Saturday

2:30pm Ronaldo Special

3:00pm Barcelona's Strikeforce Special

3:30pm La Liga Goles yGoles y Goles

4:30pm Sky Sports Originals - Cantona: Return of the King

5:00pm Soccer AM - Christmas Special

6:00pm Sky Sports Originals - Cantona: Return of the King

7:00pm Ronaldo Special

7:30pm Barcelona's Strikeforce Special

8:00pm La Liga Goles yGoles y Goles

9:00pm Soccer AM - Christmas Special

10:00pm Christmas Cricket Special

11:00pm Cricket

7:25am Emmerdale8:25am Coronation

Street8:55am Elf: Buddy's

Musical Christmas

9:55am You've Been Framed!

11:15am Catchphrase12:15pm Merry Christmas

Mr Bean12:50pm Mr. Bean1:25pm Emmerdale2:25pm Coronation

Street3:00pm The Polar

Express4:55pm E.T. The Extra-

Terrestrial7:15pm The Lost World:

Jurassic Park9:45pm Quantum of

Solace11:55pm The Bourne

Supremacy2:05am Celebrity Juice3:00am Release the

Hounds3:55am Tricked4:45am Educating Joey

Essex5:35am Totally Bonkers

Guinness World Records

7:35am Carry on Don't Lose Your Head

9:30am Carry on Cruising

11:20am Carry on at Your Convenience

1:15pm Carry on Loving3:05pm Carry on

Cowboy5:05pm Carry on Jack7:00pm Carry on

Screaming9:00pm Carry on

Camping10:50pm Carry on Cleo12:45am The Baby and

the Battleship2:40am Rising Damp3:10am George and

Mildred3:40am George and

Mildred4:05am ITV3

NightscreenText-based information service.

4:15am Emmerdale OmnibusAshley tells Laurel everything. David arranges adrop-off for Val's ring.

7:15am The Big Match Revisited

8:05am The Professionals9:10am Minder10:15am Alias Smith and

Jones11:20am Goodwood Cars

of the Future - Road

12:25pm Goodwood Cars of the Future

1:25pm Tim Vine's Punslinger

2:50pm Every Which WayBut Loose

5:10pm Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

6:55pm The Great Outdoors

8:45pm Cannonball Run II

11:00pm National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

1:05am The Big Lebowski

3:20am Goodwood Festival of Speed

4:10am ITV4 Nightscreen4:20am Minder5:10am Minder

FRIDAY - 25 DECEMBER

9:00pm All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride

11:00pm Top of the Pops12:00am Whatever

Happened to theLikely Lads?

12:45am Britain's Most Dangerous Songs:Listen to the Banned

1:45am Top of the Pops2:45am Whatever

Happened to the Likely Lads?

8:00pm The Quizeum Christmas Special

8:30pm Carlos Acosta's Carmen: The Farewell Performance

9:45pm The Titfield Thunderbolt

11:05pm Top of the Pops1:00am Detectorists

Christmas Special

12:30pm Home Comforts at Christmas

1:15pm BBC News1:25pm Football

Focus2:00pm Comic

Relief 2015: Thanks a Billion!

3:00pm Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out

3:25pm A Grand Night in: The Story of Aardman

4:25pm Puss in Boots5:45pm The Croods7:10pm The Farmer's

Llamas7:40pm BBC News7:50pm BBC London

News8:00pm Dickensian8:30pm EastEnders9:00pm Still Open All

Hours9:30pm Dickensian10:00pm And Then There

Were None11:00pm BBC News11:20pm The National

Lottery Live11:30pm Match of the

Day1:05am The Guardian


9:05am Blaze and the Monster Machines

9:25am Ben and Holly'sLittle Kingdom

9:45am Wanda and theAlien

9:55am Toby's Travelling Circus

10:10am The Saturday Show

12:10pm The Dog Rescuers Christmas Special with Alan Davies

1:10pm The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

4:15pm Diana6:05pm One Chance8:05pm Christmas

Makes You Laugh Out Loud

9:05pm Chas and Dave's Xmas Knees-Up

10:00pm Football LeagueTonight

11:30pm Most Shocking Christmas TV Moments

1:30am Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

7:00am Race to Super Bowl 50

7:50am Flog It!8:35am Tom Thumb10:05am Hotel for Dogs11:35am Ten Pieces II12:35pm G-Force2:00pm Natural World3:00pm Attenborough's

Paradise Birds4:00pm Bedtime

Stories5:30pm Final Score6:30pm Don't Panic! The

Dad's Army Story7:20pm We're Doomed!

The Dad's Army Story

8:20pm Dad's Army9:00pm Top Gear10:00pm A Gert Lush

Christmas11:00pm Abz on the

Christmas Farm11:30pm Backchat Looks

Back12:15am Kinky Boots2:00am Marnie4:05am Imagine...5:40am This is BBC Two

Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

8:00pm Doctor Who9:00pm Toy Story 210:30pm Live at the

Apollo11:00pm EastEnders11:30pm Russell Howard's

Good News12:00am Family Guy12:45am Family Guy1:05am Family Guy1:30am Family Guy1:50am Family Guy2:10am Family Guy2:30am Uncle3:00am Uncle3:30am Uncle4:00am Don't Tell the

Bride

7:15am Ramona and Beezus

9:00am The Morning Line10:00am The Big Bang

Theory10:30am The Big Bang


Theory11:25am The Simpsons11:55am The Simpsons12:25pm Fantastic Mr. Fox2:10pm Channel 4 Racing4:30pm Home Alone 36:25pm Channel 4 News6:35pm The Secret Life of

Children at Christmas

7:30pm Britain's Favourite Children's Book

9:00pm Inside Lego at Christmas

10:00pm Big Fat Quiz of the Year

12:05am Rude Tube1:10am Alan Carr: Chatty

Man3:05am Rude Tube4:00am Hollyoaks

OmnibusWhen Reenie receives an unexpected lettershe is forced to face secrets from the past.

8:25am Super 48:40am Mr. Bean8:50am Mr. Bean9:00am The Aquabats!

Super Show!9:30am Thunderbirds

are Go10:00am The Tom and

Jerry Show10:15am The Tom and

Jerry Show10:25am Elf: Buddy's

Musical Christmas

11:25am You've Been Framed!

11:55am Back to the Future Part III

2:05pm ITV News and Weather

2:20pm Jurassic Park4:40pm Midsomer

Murders6:40pm ITV News and

Weather7:00pm The Nation's

Favourite DisneySong

8:00pm Surprise Surprise9:00pm Peter and

Wendy11:05pm The Jonathan

Ross Show12:10am ITV News and

Weather

7:00am Football Gold7:15am Football Gold7:30am Football Gold7:45am Football Gold8:00am Premier League8:30am Barclays

Premier League Review

9:00am Game Changers

9:30am Barclays PremierLeague Review

10:00am The Fantasy Football Club

11:00am Soccer A.M.1:00pm Jamie Vardy-

Record Breaker1:30pm Football4:00pm Fight Night

Review of 20156:00pm Football8:30pm Jamie Vardy-

Record Breaker9:00pm Fight Night

Review of 201511:00pm SNF: Match

Choice12:30am SNF: Match

Choice2:00am SNF: Match

Choice3:30am Sky Sports

Boxing Gold 2013

A7:00am Emmerdale Omnibus

10:00am Coronation Street Omnibus

12:55pm Space Jam2:40pm Happy Feet4:45pm Emmerdale5:50pm Coronation

Street6:55pm You've Been

Framed!7:25pm Minion Madness

Shorts7:40pm Despicable Me9:30pm Skyfall12:20am The Bourne

Ultimatum2:35am Unseen Celebrity

Juice Tit Bits3:15am Release theHounds4:10am Reality Bites4:45am Viral Tap5:20am The Almost

Impossible Gameshow

Action-packedgame show withhilarious commentary from Irish comedy duo The Rubberbandits.

7:00am Movies Now7:10am Rising Damp7:35am Santa Claus9:45am Carry on Jack11:35am Carry onCowboy1:35pm On the Buses3:20pm Mutiny on theBuses5:15pm Holiday on theBuses7:00pm Housewife 499:00pm The Nation's

Favourite ElvisSong10:30pm Agatha Christie's

Marple12:35am Inspector Morse2:50am Inspector Morse

Another investigation for Colin Dexter's laconic

detective. 4:40amWycliffe

Detective drama series.

5:35am Where the Heartis

Drama series following the

lives of communitynurses in a small Yorkshire

town.

7:00am Goals of the 70's7:10am Ax Men7:55am Ax Men8:45am Ax Men9:45am The Professionals10:45am Bundesliga11:50am Pawn Stars12:15pm Pawn Stars12:45pm Pawn Stars1:10pm Pawn Stars1:35pm Fifth Gear

Tiff Needell and Vicki B. Henderson present the motor magazine show.

2:40pm Ice Cold in AlexClassic British war movie.

5:20pm The Green BeretsA guts-and-glorysalute to US troops in the Vietnam War.

8:10pm National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

10:00pm Beetlejuice12:00am The Boat That

Rocked2:40am Tin Cup5:00am ITV4 Nightscreen5:20am Goodwood

Revival

SATURDAY - 26 DECEMBER

7:00am Breakfast8:40am Match of the

Day10:15am Flushed Away11:35am Megamind1:00pm Bargain Hunt2:00pm BBC News2:15pm Songs of Praise2:50pm Mary Poppins5:05pm Oz: The Greatand Powerful7:05pm BBC News7:20pm BBC London

News7:30pm Countryfile8:30pm Dickensian9:00pm Still Open All

Hours9:30pm Dickensian10:00pm And Then There

Were None11:00pm BBC News11:15pm BBC London

NewsThe latest news,sport and weather from London.

11:25pm Catherine Tate's Nan

12:00am Miranda Hart - My What I Call Live Show

1:00am Ghost Town2:35am Weather for the

Week Ahead2:40am BBC News

8:40am Little Princess8:55am Pip Ahoy!9:10am Blaze and the

Monster Machines

9:40am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

9:55am Wanda and the Alien

10:10am Toby's Travelling Circus

10:25am Jelly Jamm10:35am LazyTown11:00am The Mr. Men

Show11:15am Football League

Tonight12:45pm Cromwell3:25pm The Searchers5:45pm Escape to

Victory8:00pm World's

Strongest Man 2015

8:55pm 5 News Weekend

9:00pm On Benefits: Cashing in for Christmas

10:00pm Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2015

12:55am Autopsy: The Last Hours of Robin Williams

1:55am Super Casino

7:20am Big Dreams Small Spaces

8:20am Countryfile9:15am A Man for All

Seasons11:15am Saturday Kitchen

Best Bites12:45pm The Hairy Bikers

and Lorraine Pascale

1:45pm A Culture Show Special

2:45pm The Cockleshell Heroes

4:20pm The Heroes of Telemark

6:25pm Porridge7:10pm Deep Impact9:00pm Dragons' Den10:00pm Gorilla Family

and Me11:00pm U2 -

iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE - Live In Paris

1:15am Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

3:10am Countryfile4:05am Holby City5:05am Cue the Queen:

Celebrating the Christmas Speech

8:00pm First Flight8:10pm Wallace and

Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

9:30pm Kung Fu Panda10:50pm Great Movie

Mistakes11:00pm Family Guy11:25pm Family Guy11:45pm American Dad!12:10am American Dad!12:30am Family Guy12:55am Family Guy1:15am Family Guy1:35am Russell Howard's

Good News

7:05am Flicka 28:40am Paws10:20am Sunday Brunch1:20pm The Simpsons1:45pm The Simpsons2:10pm Channel 4

Racing4:35pm Hugo6:55pm Channel 4 News7:00pm Celebrity Fifteen

to One8:00pm Million Pound

Motors9:00pm Walking the

Himalayas10:00pm Homeland11:10pm 8 Out of 10 Cats

Does Countdown

12:10am The Inbetweeners 2

2:05am The Inbetweeners




3:55am That Touch of MinkCary Grant and Doris Day star inDelbert Mann's delightful, frothycomedy-romance.

7:25am Pat and Stan7:35am Dino Dan8:00am Share a Story8:10am Sooty8:25am Super 48:35am Mr. Bean9:00am The Aquabats!

Super Show!9:25am Weekend at

Christmas10:25am Countrywise10:55am Celebrity

Squares11:40am Superman2:30pm ITV News and

Weather2:45pm Mr. Magorium's

Wonder Emporium

4:35pm Midsomer Murders

6:30pm ITV News London

6:45pm ITV News and Weather


7:30pm Jekyll and Hyde8:30pm Jekyll and Hyde9:30pm Harry Price:

Ghost Hunter11:30pm ITV News and

Weather11:45pm Through the

Keyhole12:45am Rugby Highlights

7:00am SNF: Match Choice

8:30am SNF: Match Choice

10:00am The Sunday Supplement

11:30am Goals on Sunday

1:30pm Premier League2:00pm Premier League2:30pm Football5:15pm Football8:00pm World Darts

Championship12:00am Football League

Goals1:00am Goals on

Sunday2:00am The Sunday

Supplement3:30am Football Gold3:45am Football Gold4:00am Football Gold4:15am Football Gold4:30am Football Gold4:45am Football Gold5:00am Premier League5:30am Premier League

Series profiling some of the greatest playersto grace the Barclays Premier League.

7:00am Alesha Dixon: The Hot Desk

7:10am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records

7:30am Emmerdale Omnibus

10:45am Coronation Street Omnibus

1:50pm Catchphrase2:50pm You've Been

Framed!3:50pm Beethoven5:35pm The Lost World:

Jurassic Park8:05pm Uncle Buck10:00pm Bridget Jones's

Diary12:00am Scary Movie 51:45am Release the

Hounds2:45am Pampered

Pooches: Hollywood

3:35am The Almost Impossible Gameshow

4:25am Animal Practice4:50am The Cube5:40am Totally Bonkers

Guinness World Records

7:00am In Loving Memory

7:25am Fresh Fields8:05am Rising Damp8:35am Agatha

Christie's Marple

10:40am On the Buses12:25pm Blue Murder at

St. Trinian's2:15pm The Pure Hell of

St. Trinian's4:10pm Santa Claus6:25pm Rosemary and

Thyme7:25pm Paul O'Grady:

For The Love of Dogs

8:00pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs

8:30pm The One and Only Cilla

9:30pm Cilla's Surprise Surprise Unseen

10:40pm It'll be Alright onthe Night

11:45pm Corrie: The Roadto Coronation Street

1:20am Chaplin4:00am ITV3

Nightscreen4:15am Emmerdale

Omnibus

7:00am Football's Greatest

7:05am Tommy Cooper7:30am Ax Men8:15am Ax Men9:05am Fifth Gear10:05am Shed and Buried11:05am Shed and Buried12:05pm Storage Wars

New York12:35pm Storage Wars

New York1:00pm The 'Burbs3:05pm Every Which Way

But Loose5:25pm The Great

Outdoors7:10pm Police Academy

6: City Under Siege

9:00pm Legacy! The 2015 Rugby World Cup

10:00pm Rugby Highlights11:00pm Dirty Harry1:10am Coogan's Bluff3:00am British Touring

Car Championship 2015 Review

4:45am Tommy CooperComedy and magic from comedian Tommy Coope

5:10am The Professionals

SUNDAY - 27 DECEMBER

10:00pm Natural World10:50pm Dancing Cranes of

Sweden11:00pm Big Hits: TOTP

1964 to 197512:30am A Very British

Map: The Ordnance Survey Story

1:30am John Denver: Country Boy

2:30am Natural World

9:00pm Westminster Abbey

10:00pm Gypsy: Live From the Savoy Theatre

12:20am ABBA at the BBC1:20am Agnetha: Abba

and After2:20am When Albums

Ruled the World3:50am Westminster

Abbey4:50am This is BBC Four


6:45pm Pointless7:30pm BBC News at Six7:45pm BBC London


Mastermind8:30pm Wallace and

Gromit: A Matter of Loafand Death

9:00pm EastEnders9:30pm Miranda10:05pm And Then There

Were None11:05pm BBC News11:20pm BBC London

News11:30pm Match of the Day

11:50am An American in Paris

2:00pm Anchors Aweigh4:55pm High Society7:00pm Loch Lomond: A

Year in the Wild7:55pm World's Strongest

Man 20158:50pm 5 News9:00pm Building the Ice

Hotel10:00pm The Frank Sinatra

Story11:00pm Sinatra Live in

New York12:00am Frank Sinatra and

Gene Kelly: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back

3:00pm Coast4:00pm Atlantic: The

Wildest Ocean on Earth

5:00pm Flog It!5:30pm Final Score6:30pm The Clare Balding

Show7:00pm What Women

Want9:00pm University

Challenge9:30pm Only Connect10:00pm Behind the

Candelabra11:50pm Two Doors Down12:50am Dragons' Den1:50am The Apprentice3:50am Doctor Who

8:00pm The Borrowers9:30pm Kung Fu Panda 210:50pm Great Movie

Mistakes11:00pm EastEnders11:30pm Bad Education12:00am American Dad!

11:05am Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

12:50pm The Simpsons1:15pm The Simpsons1:45pm The Simpsons2:15pm Marmaduke3:55pm Stuart Little 25:25pm Mirror Mirror7:30pm Channel 4 News7:35pm Hollyoaks8:05pm A Frozen

Christmas9:00pm The World's Most

Expensive Food10:00pm Gogglebox11:35pm Tattoo Fixers12:40am David Blaine1:50am The Omen

7:25pm ITV News London



Street9:00pm Countrywise9:30pm Coronation

Street10:00pm John Bishop's

Gorilla Adventure

11:00pm ITV News at Tenand Weather

11:15pm The Holiday1:45am Jackpot247

10:45am Football Gold11:00am Premier League11:30am Premier League12:00pm Premier League12:30pm Goals on

Sunday1:30pm Football4:00pm Gillette Soccer

Special6:00pm FL728:30pm World Darts

Championship12:30am Football Gold12:45am Football Gold1:00am NFL2:00am NFL

11:00am Arthur and the Great Adventure

1:10pm Beethoven's 2nd3:00pm The Flintstones4:45pm The Nation's

Favourite Disney Song

5:45pm Catchphrase6:45pm The Hobbit: An

Unexpected Journey

10:00pm Casino Royale12:55am Celebrity Juice2:00am Release the

Hounds3:00am Release the

Hounds

4:40pm Forever YoungRomantic drama.

6:40pm Inspector Morse9:00pm Foyle's War11:00pm Endeavour1:00am Agatha Christie's

Marple3:05am Inspector Morse4:55am A Touch of Frost

Frost has to try and put an end toa series of brutal attacks on senior citizens on his patch.

12:55pm Storage Wars1:25pm Storage Wars

Texas1:50pm Storage Wars2:20pm Storage Wars

Texas2:50pm Storage Wars3:15pm The Land That

Time Forgot5:10pm Spartacus9:00pm Cannonball Run II11:10pm Death Wish 5: The

Face of Death1:05am Rugby Highlights2:10am Rumble in the

Bronx3:55am Ax Men

MONDAY - 28 DECEMBER

5:25pm Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

6:45pm Pointless7:30pm BBC News at Six7:45pm BBC London


Mastermind8:30pm EastEnders9:00pm Holby City10:00pm David Beckham:

For the Love of the Game

11:15pm BBC News11:30pm BBC London

News11:40pm Peter Kay's Car

Share12:10am Mrs. Brown's

Boys

10:05am World's Strongest Man 2015

11:05am Football League Tonight

12:35pm Ice Road Truckers1:30pm Carry on Nurse3:15pm The Dam Busters5:40pm What the

Dambusters Did Next

7:10pm Loch Lomond: A Year in the Wild

8:00pm World's Strongest Man 2015

9:00pm Snowtrapped10:00pm Flowers in the

Attic11:45pm Erin Brockovich2:15am Super Casino

3:00pm Coast4:00pm Atlantic: The


5:00pm Flog It!5:55pm Natural World6:55pm Finding Neverland8:30pm University

Challenge9:00pm Gareth Malone's

Great Choir Reunion

10:00pm Stephen Fry: A Lifeon Screen

11:00pm QI11:30pm Albert Nobbs1:15am Race to Super

Bowl 502:05am Top Gear

10:00pm Don't Tell theBride11:00pm EastEnders11:30pm Russell Howard's

Good News12:00am Family Guy12:25am Family Guy12:45am American Dad!


10:40am The Simpsons11:10am The Simpsons11:40am Captain Ron1:40pm New in Town3:30pm Coraline5:35pm Gulliver's Travels7:10pm Channel 4 News7:30pm Hollyoaks8:00pm Inside Lego at

Christmas9:00pm The Supervet at

Christmas10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats11:00pm Big Fat Quiz of

the Year1:05am Kingdom of

Heaven

12:30pm Pick Me!1:30pm ITV Lunchtime

News1:45pm Evan Almighty3:30pm Midsomer

Murders5:30pm The Queen7:30pm ITV News

London7:45pm ITV Evening

News8:00pm Emmerdale8:30pm The Amazing

Spider-Man11:10pm ITV News11:25pm American Pie1:05am Jackpot247

1:30pm SPFL Round Up2:00pm World Darts

Championship6:00pm Premier League6:30pm SPFL Round Up7:00pm Fantasy Football

Club Highlights7:30pm Football League

Goals8:30pm Football11:00pm Football League

Goals12:00am Sky Sports

Originals: The Sir Alex Ferguson Interview

11:25am The Little Vampire1:20pm Emmerdale1:55pm Coronation Street2:20pm Coronation Street2:55pm The Jeremy Kyle

Show4:00pm The Jeremy Kyle


Show6:10pm Catchphrase7:10pm You've BeenFramed!8:15pm Liar Liar10:00pm The Shawshank

Redemption12:55am Celebrity Juice

7:00am On the Buses7:25am Judge Judy7:45am Wycliffe8:50am Inspector Morse10:55am Sparkling Cyanide12:55pm Hidden Treasure2:55pm Carry on at Your

Convenience4:50pm Carry on Camping6:40pm Inspector Morse9:00pm Foyle's War11:00pm Endeavour1:00am Lewis4:50am A Touch of Frost

12:30pm Goodwood Revival

1:30pm The Professionals2:35pm Gunsmoke4:15pm Death of a

Gunfighter6:10pm The Rawhide

Years8:00pm Pawn Stars8:30pm Pawn Stars9:00pm The Chase:

Celebrity Special

10:00pm Waterworld12:40am A Dangerous Man2:35am The Fog4:10am Minder

TUESDAY - 29 DECEMBER

5:20pm Monsters, Inc.6:45pm Pointless7:30pm BBC News at Six7:45pm BBC London


Mastermind8:30pm A Question of

Sport9:00pm Antiques

Roadshow10:00pm Great Barrier

Reef with David Attenborough

11:00pm BBC News at Ten

11:15pm BBC London News

11:25pm Catherine Tate's Nan

11:55pm Mrs. Brown's Boys

12:35am Comic Relief 2015: Thanks a Billion!

1:35am Weather for the Week Ahead

1:40am BBC News

8:45am Noddy in Toyland9:00am Ben and Holly's

Little Kingdom9:15am Peppa Pig9:35am Paw Patrol9:50am Bananas in


Tugboat10:15am Wanda and the

Alien10:25am World's Strongest

Man 201511:25am Carry on

Constable1:10pm Carry on Spying2:55pm Annie Get Your

Gun5:05pm Calamity Jane7:10pm Loch Lomond: A

Year in the Wild8:00pm World's Strongest

Man 20159:00pm Ben Fogle: New

Lives in the Snow10:00pm Big Driver11:50pm Needful Things2:10am Super Casino

8:20am This Wild Life8:50am Terry and Mason's

Great Food Trip9:20am Waterloo11:30am The Hairy Bikers'

Northern Exposure12:30pm The Great Pottery

Throw Down1:30pm The Two Ronnies

Talking Comedy2:00pm The Bear Family

and Me3:00pm Coast4:00pm Atlantic: The


5:00pm Flog It!5:50pm Natural World6:50pm Alice in

Wonderland8:30pm University

Challenge9:00pm Top Gear10:00pm Charlie Brooker's

End of Year Review2015

11:00pm A Gert Lush Christmas

12:00am Mock the Week

10:15pm Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

12:05am Family Guy12:25am Family Guy12:50am American Dad!1:10am American Dad!1:30am Russell Howard's

Good News2:00am Him and Her2:30am Him and Her3:00am Him and Her3:30am Him and Her4:00am Him and Her4:30am Him and Her

7:00am Everybody Loves Raymond

7:25am Small Animal Hospital

8:10am The Love Bug10:15am The Big Bang


Theory11:10am The Simpsons11:40am The Phantom1:40pm Chalet Girl3:35pm Freaky Friday5:35pm Sunshine on Leith7:20pm Channel 4 News7:30pm Hollyoaks8:00pm Gogglesprogs9:00pm What Britain

Bought in 201510:00pm 24 Hours in A and

E11:00pm The Millionaire

Party Planner12:05am Fast Five2:30am Rude Tube3:25am Friday Night

Dinner3:55am Friday Night

Dinner

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10:25am Dickinson's Real Deal

11:30am Judge Rinder12:30pm Who's Doing the

Dishes?1:30pm Willy Wonka and

the Chocolate Factory

3:20pm ITV Lunchtime News

3:35pm Midsomer Murders

5:30pm Dinosaur Britain6:30pm Paul O'Grady: For

The Love of Dogs7:30pm ITV News London7:45pm ITV Evening News8:00pm Emmerdale8:30pm Coronation Street9:00pm Big Star's Little

Star10:00pm It'll be Alright on

the Night11:00pm ITV News at Ten

and Weather11:15pm American Pie 21:10am Jackpot247

7:00am Football League Goals

8:00am Game Changers8:30am Fantasy Football

Club Highlights9:00am Big Bash League12:30pm Pace Like Fire1:00pm Adam Gilchrist

Masterclass1:30pm Fantasy Football

Club Highlights2:00pm Football League

Goals3:00pm Football Gold3:15pm Football Gold3:25pm Fantasy Football

Club Highlights3:55pm Football6:00pm Premier League6:30pm Pl 100: Robbie

Fowler7:00pm Premier League7:30pm Pl 100: Steven

Gerrard8:00pm Football11:15pm Football11:30pm Football Gold11:45pm Premier League12:15am Football Gold

7:00am The Hot Desk7:10am You've Been

Framed!7:35am The Cube8:25am Emmerdale8:50am Britain's Got More

Talent9:50am The Almost

Impossible Gameshow

10:55am Horrid Henry: The Movie


1:50pm Emmerdale2:20pm The Jeremy Kyle



Show5:40pm Catchphrase6:45pm The Hobbit: An

Unexpected Journey

10:00pm Luke Kempner's Impression of 2015

11:00pm Celebrity Juice

7:00am Movies Now7:10am Swallows and

Amazons8:50am Rising Damp9:25am A Christmas Carol10:55am Carry on Loving12:50pm Agatha Christie's

Marple2:55pm Carry on Cleo4:50pm Carry on Cruising6:40pm Inspector Morse9:00pm Doc Martin

The peace of Portwenn is disturbed when a hoard of twitchersdescend on the village.

11:00pm Endeavour1:00am Chaplin3:45am A Christmas Carol

A modern take onCharles Dickens's classic novel.

7:00am The Big Match Revisited

7:50am Tommy Cooper8:15am The Professionals9:15am Minder10:20am Alias Smith and

Jones11:25am Everything or

Nothing: The Untold Stories of 007

1:25pm Destry3:20pm The Far Country5:20pm Nevada Smith8:00pm Pawn Stars8:30pm Pawn Stars9:00pm Fifth Gear10:00pm Magnum Force12:30am Public Enemies3:15am Beetlejuice4:50am ITV4 Nightscreen

Text-based information service.

4:55am Tommy Cooper5:20am Ax Men

9:00pm Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2015: How to Survive in Space

10:00pm Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia

11:00pm Sammy Davis Jr: TheKid in the Middle

12:00am Papillon

9:00pm Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2015: How to Survive in Space

10:00pm The Real Star of Bethlehem: A Sky at Night Christmas Special

10:00pm Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones

11:00pm Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

12:00am The Richest Songsin the World

Arthritis issues

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AS the cold weather is onits way, which often seemsto worsen arthritis issues,we decided to ask the doc-tor about that this week.

What is arthritis andwhen does it usually ap-pear?

Arthritis is the term wegive to inflammation of thejoints. Not all joint pain hasto be arthritis, in fact mostjoint pain is due to othercauses which are not reallyarthritis.

The reasons it can appearare varied and it can becaused by many thingsranging from autoimmuneinflammatory conditions,systemic illnesses to traumaetc, therefore the moment itappears depends on thetype of arthritis.

Joint pain can be influ-enced by weather changes,diet, exercise and other fac-tors meaning it can worsenin the winter.

What are the mostcommon symptoms?

Arthritis causes jointpain along with swelling inthe joints and surroundingareas which can lead to red-ness, increased tempera-ture, stiffness and is alsosometimes related to feversand a general feeling of be-ing unwell. It can affect any

joint in the body.How is it diagnosed?Diagnosis is initially

reached by examining thepatient’s medical historyand listening to a specialist.

This is followed byblood tests, x-rays of the af-fected joint and sometimesanalysis of liquid fromwithin the joint althoughthis depends on the areaand whether it is safe todraw off liquid.

Are there any goodtreatments?

The usual treatment in-volves resting of the jointand use of anti-inflammato-ry medications to reducethe pain. Sometimes thejoint can be injected withmedication and in severecases surgery is an option.

What about diet?Diet is important for al-

most all ailments. In thiscase it is of importance es-pecially for those who suf-fer secondary arthritis dueto gout. These patientsshould avoid products highin uric acid such as redmeat, seafood and alcohol.

Is exercise helpful?Exercise should be

avoided while the pain is atits worst but added gradual-ly to daily life as swellingreduces.

SPECIALIST: Doctor Luis Perez Belmonte.

WHEREVER you may be and whateveryou are planning to do this Christmas,be sure to allow yourself a little indul-gence. If you have been taking care ofyourself throughout 2015 and puttingyour body through its paces whether itbe long-distance running, gym workoutsor high intensity exercise classes, etc,it’s time to

STOP and TAKE A DEEPBREATH…

Now give yourself permission tophysically and mentally unwind, enjoyyour family and friends and take a littletime out without feeling any guilt.

There are a lot more elements to fit-ness than just the physical aesthetic as-pect, and in order to have a healthy bal-ance in our lives, we need to attempt tonurture all of them. In order to build andmaintain a healthy body, you need tomaintain a healthy mindset. If you are acreature of habit as I am, this can some-

times be difficult, as quite often you willhave formulated a rigid routine into yournormal daily life. Generally I train fivedays a week and take weekends off.

My diet is clean during the week andI don’t drink any alcohol unless it is theweekend or a special occasion arises.Alas, this is all going to change in thenext week or so as I am quite partial tothe odd tot of Baileys, box of chocolateliqueurs, mince pies, Christmas puddingand brandy cream... should I go on?

I am also fully aware that I’m likely

to be around two kilos heavier by thetime we hit New Year, but that’s fine byme; otherwise, what would my NewYear challenge be?

Your body will thank you for the restand recuperation and you will becharged up to start 2016 with a full tankof enthusiasm, I assure you.

And if you do not believe me...Well I’ll be here to inspire you back

into shape in 2016, so watch this space!And have a great Christmas FitFoxy XX

It’s Christmas…Timefor you to get off thetreadmill and relax

FitFoxyLooking Good, Staying Trim

CHRISTMAS GOODIES: A little indulgence can do you good.

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V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E W W W . E W N L I F E S T Y L E . C O MTO READ MOREHEALTH B E A U T Y &

ALCOHOL and drugs tests out in forcethis week

Throughout this week in the run up toChristmas, there will be a focus on one ofthe main contributors to road traffic inci-dents, alcohol and drugs.

The Guardia Civil will be out in forcewith plans to conduct at least 25,000 alcoholand drugs tests each day.

The main goal is to detect and deal withhabitual offenders, who get behind the wheelon a regular basis whilst having consumedalcohol or drugs. The latest figures extractedfrom the most recent data available suggeststhat there may be around 12,000 drivers whomeet this continually dangerous criteria.

So far this year, more than 84,000 drivershave tested positive, risking not only their

own but the lives of many innocent victims,who all too often leave the scene of the car-nage facing a life dealing with serious in-juries and, on numerous occasions, leavingthe friends and families of loved ones havingto deal with their death.

According to the annual report of the Na-tional Institute of Toxicology, 39.09 per centof deceased drivers displayed the presence ofalcohol or drugs in their blood. The figurerises to 40 per cent when pedestrians areanalysed.

Even the smallest amount of alcohol ordrugs can affect driving ability and so, de-spite Spain having considerably lower maxi-mum limits than countries such as the UK,the best advice is always zero consumptionbefore getting behind the wheel.

If you want some-thing changed in

your Community, put theissue on the formal Agen-da for the AGM, discussit, and vote on it.

In the case of lockedfire exits, we find a con-

flict between safety andsecurity.

A locked exit is uselessin an emergency but toomany doors can allow ac-cess to unwanted persons.

You may find that localbuilding regulations re-quire the doors to beopen.

I LIVE in an apartment complex ofmore than 200 units on nine floors.

There are eight entrances with elevators andstairwells to the roof and underground park-ing areas.

There are no notices of an evacuation planand by order of the President, all fire doorsto the roof and to parking areas are perma-nently locked.

An exit to the pool area is also locked af-ter 11pm to prevent use of the pool by holi-daymakers. This leaves only one exit doorfor 27 or 36 apartments.

Our Administrators have raised my safetyconcerns with the President but he isadamant the fire exits are locked at all times.Is there an alternative course of action?

L.T. (Costa Blanca)

LEGALLY SPEAKING

Alcohol and drugstests out in force

For more news and articles visit www.n332.es or search N332 on Facebook.

David SearlYou and the Law in Spain

Can they lock fire doors?

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates inFuengirola at [email protected], or call 952 667 090.

I DECIDED to go to Gibraltar to watch thesnooker of which I’m a great fan. I set off onmy journey and as I got on to the road downto the delightful A7, which used to be theN340, I remembered someone once said tome it was the most dangerous road in Europe.

My reply was: “How? It’s a pretty straightroad! The raving lunatics that use it are thedanger.” The lorry drivers that sit up your rearend because you are not going as fast as theywant. Plus the morons that pull out of the sliproads at 20 kilometres an hour.

This is the road which used to have a speedlimit of 120. That got changed to 80, for somereason to do with making people save fueland lives. They did this by putting new stick-ers of the 80 speed limit on the existing roadsigns and then, pretty quickly, changed themback! In some areas they couldn’t peel thenew stickers off so then had to put new ones,all very confusing and a waste of money!

Anyway, I’m going on my merry way andthen in front of me is the sight that is the baneof most driver’s lives here, the four abreastcyclists! They are all lycraed up as if they areon the Tour de France but, seriously, whyfour abreast? I do my normal cursing and sitbehind them for two miles until I can get past.

I finally get on the main road and decide togo on the toll road. I love that road. It’s likehaving your own personal highway and thereason it’s always empty is because most ofthe time the toll charge is ridiculously high,and you never know how much it’s going tobe from one week to the next.

Of course, I make the mistake of goingthrough the wrong bit. The bit that you haveto put the exact coins in and, of course I don’thave the exact amount. So the €3.10 toll nowcosts me €4! For someone like me that is ashopaholic money waster, paying 90 centsmore is like being robbed at gunpoint!!

Why on earth is it an odd amount? Whycan’t it be €3 or €4? If anyone knows, pleaselet me know at [email protected].

Actually, let me know what makes yougrumpy and we can compare notes! In themeantime I’m going to try and have an un-grumpy Christmas and, if I don’t, you’ll behearing all about it!

Mike SenkerIn my opinionViews of a Grumpy Old Man

Why on earth are tollroads odd amounts?

AS part of a new series, we answer some common driving questions, kindly pro-vided by members of the Guardia Civil based in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca, whoset up the N332 website and Facebook page to help break down barriers.

BEST ADVICE: Zero consumption before getting behind the wheel.

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AQUARIUS(January 21 - February 19)Eager Mars meets affluent Jupiterand enriches your financial forecast.It might show a foretaste of moneyto come, or on-stream benefits. Ifyou intend to make alterations toyour personal and home interests,you'll cope with both offbeat andupbeat activities.

PISCES(February 20 - March 20)One thing is certain, when youcome through this week’s restlessplanetary antics, you won’t betotally the same Piscean whowalked in.

ARIES(March 21 - April 20)Education, media, creative andsocial connections are given starmerit. The solar eclipse in your ownsign bursts with vitality and success,more so for an array of bold moves,replacements and makeoverscovering your personal affairs.

TAURUS(April 21 - May 21)Stand by for a week of whooshand whirl. More importantly, tryto avoid getting tongue-tied ordogmatic on Tuesday and Friday.Promising potentials appear,especially if you spruce up yourcompetitive streak.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)Throughout this fortunate week,whatever else you decide, refuseto discard your hopes and wishes.As a Gemini, you like to havetwo strings to your bow of life,which gives you an alternativeoption, especially if the goinggets tough.

CANCER(June 22 - July 23)A vivid star pattern portends afrantic personal and social diary.Ensure that any tight planning iscarefully handled, especially ifyou hope to fit in everything you

would like to say. Don’t allowMonday or Wednesday’s tensionsto spoil opportunities for settlingsomething important.

LEO(July 24 - August 23)Pave the way for any ambitiousschemes you may have, ratherthan actually starting them. Withyour ruler the Sun eclipsing yourkindred fire sign, determinedAries, you are now more likely toget the support and affection youneed from the powers that be orsomeone who thinks the world ofyou. Loosen up on Tuesday andThursday.

VIRGO(August 24 - September 23)Even if the opposite to what youwant happens, it could proveuseful. One clue to this week’splanetary crossword puzzle is‘What word could also meansuccess?’ Check it out, and makeit work for you.

1. DON PARTRIDGE, 2. DOVES, 3. ANIMAL FARM, 4.BIRDS OF A FEATHER, 5. BIRD, 6. THE WILD GEESE,7. AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL, 8. IN THE GAR-DEN HANGING OUT THE CLOTHES, 9. NOLAN SIS-TERS/THE NOLANS, 10. RED, 11. ROSE TYLER, 12.Dame HELEN MIRREN

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Very good: 14Excellent: 18

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Hard-working,enterprising and

self-sacrificing are just some of the words that describe your zodiacsign. It will be these qualities that count. Friday will boost yourpowers of persuasion, but you won’t have too much to complainabout if you follow this lucky trend into next week’s encouraging tide.

YOURSTARS

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20)

IRISH LOTTO EURO MILLIONS LA PRIMITIVA EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA

UK NATIONALLOTTERY

BONUS BALL LUCKY STARS REINTEGRO REINTEGRO

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Sh Showers, Sn Snow, Th Thunder

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Fill the grid so thatevery row, everycolumn and every 3X3box contains the digits1-9. There’s no mathsinvolved. You solvethe puzzle withreasoning and logic.

Sudoku

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Move from thestart word(WARM) to theend word (HOME)in the same num-ber of steps asthere are rungs onthe Word Ladder.You must onlychange one letterat a time.

WARMWORMWOREWOVE(TORE)

HOVE(TOME)HOME

WARM

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Alicante TODAY: CLOUDY MAX 18C, MIN 10C

MadridTODAY: CLOUDY MAX 15C, MIN 2C

AlmeriaTODAY: CLEAR MAX 19C, MIN 11C

MalagaTODAY: CLEAR MAX 18C, MIN 9C

Barcelona TODAY: CLOUDY MAX 17C, MIN 9C

Mallorca TODAY: CLOUDY MAX 19C, MIN 7C

BenidormTODAY: CLOUDY MAX 18C, MIN 11C

MurciaTODAY: CLOUDY MAX 20C, MIN 7C

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LIBRA(September 24 - October 23)The solar eclipse in your oppositesign of Aries intensifies yourwillpower. Before you say ‘go,’find out where you stand. It mightpay you to leave things be for alittle longer to see if things beginto change.

SCORPIO(October 24 - November 22)The planets mobilise your streak ofScorpio daring, but don't stretchyour limits. Your most effectiveweapon against personal and work-related pitfalls is your ability to beobjective. Your desire to makespecific situations andconversations work needs to becombined with your faith that theywill work. Even if a differentapproach is required, try it and see.

SAGITTARIUS(November 23 - December 21)The main gist of the solar eclipsein fiery Aries and the link betweenplucky Mars and your rulerfriendly Jupiter will stir surprises.Whether you create the rightatmosphere all round depends onhow you interpret other people’sviews. Stick to crisp, simple butsensitively tuned answers, then noone can accuse you of not trying.

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How many Englishwords of four letters

or more can youmake from the nine

letters in ourNonagram puzzle?Each letter may be

used only once(unless the letter

appears twice). Eachword MUST CONTAIN

THE CENTRELETTER (in this caseH) and there must beAT LEAST ONE NINE

LETTER WORD.Plurals, vulgarities orproper nouns are not

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All the questions or answers contain an ‘item’ mentioned in the songThe Twelve Days of Christmas1. Rosie was a 1968 UK top 10 hit single for which English

busker/one-man band? 2. What name is often applied to politicians who advocate peaceful orconciliatory policies, especially in foreign affairs? 3. In which allegorical and dystopian novella, first published in 1945,are the hens among the first to rebel against a large Berkshire boarnamed Napoleon? 4. Which British sitcom, originally broadcast on BBC One from 1989to 1998, then revived on ITV in 2014, starred Pauline Quirke, LindaRobson and Lesley Joseph? 5. Endemic to Colombia, the gold-ringed tanager is a species of what? 6. Which British 1978 adventure film about a group of mercenaries inAfrica, starred Richard Burton as Colonel Allen Faulkner, RogerMoore as Lieutenant Shawn Fynn, Richard Harris as Captain RaferJanders and Hardy Krüger as Lieutenant Pieter Coetzee? 7. With which sport would you principally associate the SydneySwans?8. According to the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence, wherewas the maid and what was she doing? 9. Which group of ladies were ‘in the mood for dancing’ in 1980? 10. What colour are the benches (seats) in the UK House of Lords? 11. What was the name of Doctor Who’s travelling companion playedby actress Billy Piper? 12. Which famous actress used ‘thespian words’ to tell a group ofstreet drummers to be quiet while still dressed in her stage costume asQueen Elizabeth II outside the Gielgud Theatre in London in May2013?

Not a lot of people know that… every year since 1984, a group ofeconomists at PNC Wealth Management have figured out how much itwould cost to actually buy all the things on the ‘Twelve Days of Christ-mas’ list.

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TODAY

TOMORROW

Across7 Ceremonial procession (6)8 Concepts (6)9 In this place (4)

10 Action of bringing something intoexistence (8)

11 Very small distance or space (7)13 Deal with (5)15 Beam (5)17 Arrives at (7)20 Arrange systematically (8)21 Precipitation falling from clouds

in the form of ice crystals (4)23 Coned shaped utensil (6)24 Moves on ice in a gliding fashion

(6)Down1 Cook with dry heat (4)2 Ships of the desert (6)3 Round stone fruits with juicy

yellow flesh (7)4 Acknowledged as a supposition

(5)5 More substantial (6)6 Citrus drink (8)

12 Funny (8)14 Let go free (7)16 Gains knowledge or skills (6)18 Nonchalant (6)

19 Written accounts of moneyowed (5)

22 Domesticated bovine animals asa group (4)

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Cryptic

Quick

The clues are mixed, some cluesare in Spanish and some are inEnglish.

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CRYPTIC

1 Silver, 4 Pagans, 9 Haste, 10 Amnesia, 11 Mischief, 12 Bait, 14 Serene, 16 Deters,19 Rash, 20 Atheists, 23 Grimace, 24 Agree, 25 Yields, 26 Detest.

1 Schemes, 2 Lists, 3 Elephant,5 Arno, 6 Assuage, 7 Scant,8 Hades, 13 Serenade, 15 Respite, 17 Suspect,18 Steel, 19 Rugby,21 Serve, 22 Rand.

1 Hose, 3 Dreadful,9 Shrinks, 10 Heals,11 Improvements,13 Accent, 15 Rescue,17 Nevertheless, 20 Alike, 21 Betting, 22 Entitled,23 Asks.

1 Hospital, 2 Scrap, 4 Rested,5 Achievements, 6 Frantic, 7 Last, 8 Announcement,12 Messages, 14 Chemist, 16 Stable, 18 Exits,19 Make.

1 Shops, 3 Fresa, 7 Rosada, 9 Agua, 10 Calabacin, 13 Aula,14 Anchoa, 16 Abrir, 17 Adios.

1 Sure, 2 Pea, 4 English,5 Abad, 6 Cambiar,8 Smaller, 11 Paja,12 Ears, 15 Cod.

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ENGLISH-SPANISHAcross1 Trineo (4)2 Manger (7)6 Abeto (3)7 Bread (3)8 Vixen (5)9 Flor de pascua (10)

13 Regalo (4)14 Nuevo (3)

Down1 Dormir (5)2 Premios (6)3 Espíritu (6)4 Berry (4)5 Temprano (5)6 Diversión (3)

10 Gold (3)11 Duende (3)12 Hostería (3)

ATTESTBANTERCAMERACHEERYCHEESEDANCER (10)DISTALEARTHYEFFORTELDEST

GAMBOLHEATERPANDERRETINARETURNSCURRYSERENEVORTEXYEARLY

The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letterwords into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells

MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be writtenCLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (DANCER) and one letter in four

other cells are given as clues.Hexagram


Across1 Something chewed, filled with

brilliant yellow sauce (7)5 Brad’s worried about poets (5)8 Euphoria apparent when a family

member loses his head (7)9 Boy gets the French serving spoon

(5)10 Wash thoroughly inside disc rubber

(5)11 A gentle style getting stylish (7)12 Cedar’s nuts are divine (6)14 Get the hang of being a teacher (6)17 A very old bounder, old fruit! (7)19 Saint gets everything to come to a

standstill (5)22 Many young men have nothing

inside them (5)23 Report about art near building (7)24 American money, it’s said, has a

nice smell (5)25 Wine cartels are corrupt (7)

Down1 Mating game? (5)2 There’s a step, but you’ll have to

look hard by the sound of it (5)3 Being friendly, I blame a manager

(7)

4 One may waltz about in Europeanriver (6)

5 Beautiful French girl is involved inlibel legislation (5)

6 Brilliant at drain moving (7)7 Guard rank surrounding lieutenant

(7)12 Small charts for the horses (7)13 Capone is in work producing a

hymn (7)15 European nation curtailing an

American test (7)16 Tooth can return for an alcoholic

drink (6)18 Possession as fixed (5)20 Come to a vigil (5)21 Fifty seek mixed vegetables (5)

Code Breaker

1 Creaky 2 Chalet 3 Strain 4 Shrift 5 Letter 6 Careen 7 Closer 8 Events9 Hollow 10 Centre 11 Quaver 12 Billet 13 Astute 14 Lingua 15 Russet 16 Sulfur 17 Beaten18 Strict 19 Chaste

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. Inthis week’s puzzle, 15 represents R and 16 represents Q, so fill in R every time thefigure 15 appears and Q every time the figure 16 appears. Now, using your knowledgeof the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As youdiscover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and thecontrol grid.

By John Smith

WE have all become used to the iProductsproduced and marketed by Apple and in-deed, they have spread all over the worldso there is probably no country exceptperhaps North Korea where resi-dents can’t buy at least one oftheir ubiquitous products.

What is interesting isthe number of com-panies who areadopting the‘i’ as part oftheir busi-ness name.You cannow find iS-torage, iFurnishingand just the other day, theiFilmmaker festival in Marbella.

What does the ‘i’ stand for? There area number of theories, one of which goesback to the launch of the iMac in 1998,when Steve Jobs explained: “iMac comesfrom the marriage of the excitement of theInternet with the simplicity of Macintosh.Even though this is a full-blooded Macin-tosh, we are targeting this for the numberone use that consumers tell us they want a

computer for, which is to get on the Inter-net, simply and fast. And that is what thisproduct is targeted for.

“The letter ‘i’ also means some otherthings to us. We are a personal computercompany, and although this product is bornto network, it also is a beautiful stand-aloneproduct. We are targeting it also for educa-tion. They want to buy these. And it is per-fect for most of the things they do in in-struction. It is perfect for findingtremendous sources of information over theInternet. And we hope as you see the prod-uct it will inspire us all to make even betterproducts in the future.”

The ‘i’ continued to be used and a free-lance copywriter Vinnie Chieco is creditedwith coming up with the word iPod, basedon his viewing of the film 2001: A SpaceOdyssey which contained a reference to apod. When the lawyers at Apple went toregister the name, they discovered that an-other company, also involved with the in-ternet owned it but was prepared to sell iton.

Now it is clear that the simple additionof an ‘i’ in front of any products seemsto inspire confidence and recogni-tion in a customer’s mind althoughperhaps we will see a time when theletter ‘i’ itself becomes protected.

EVEN under a leaden sky on aDecember day, the vast flat-ness of the Norfolk country-side is inescapable.

Someone once wrote thatthe Norfolk dialect was a lan-guage encapsulated in its land-scape, with long vowels andwide horizons, summing upthe county and its people.

Norfolk is familiar to usduring the summer months,with its endless skies and fan-tastic light so beloved bypainters, who are as numerousas the wild fowl in the coastalwetlands. But what couldpossibly entice someone hereon such a bleak winter’s day?

Seven miles beyond Faken-ham and almost without warn-

ing to the unwary, we turn intoa country lane, indicatingThursford village. With barelyroom for two vehicles to passand with no street lighting,this surely is heading into theback of beyond.

The only clue to the uniniti-

ated that something interestinglies ahead, is the procession ofcar tail lights and a discernibleglow in the sky.

Then after a bare half milewe enter a massive floodlit carpark where fluorescently cladstewards are busily directing

the flow of cars and coaches.Enter the magical world of

the Thursford Christmas Spec-tacular.

To most people, the nameThursford will elicit looks ofincomprehension, and yetduring November and De-

cember almost 130,000 regu-larly attend this event withmany returning year afteryear. It is perhaps Christmas’best kept secret and yet para-doxically, the biggest andmost spectacular of all Christ-mas shows.

It would take more spacethan I have available to ade-quately describe this spectacle.The ambience is pure enchant-ment and it simply has to beexperienced first-hand.

Not all the content is neces-sarily pure Yuletide, but thegenius of John Cushing,Thursford’s producer and di-rector, is to tie the whole pack-age together with a festive rib-bon and deliver a wonderfullybalanced and awesome Christ-mas feast of a show.

Everyone should witnessthis Christmas masterpieceonce before they die.

Do it soon, you are notlooking well!

Colin BirdA weekly look

The magic of the ThursfordChristmas Spectacular

Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-the-wall view of the world to the pages of EWNin his own irreverent style.

THE ambience is pure enchantment and it simply has to be experienced first-hand

The letter ‘i’ inspires confidenceTHERE is a sudden torrent of companies using the letter to name their products

YEARLY EVENT: It is perhaps Christmas’ best kept secret.

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SOMETIMES life can bequite confusing and the ac-tions of politicians and majorcompanies throughout theworld seem to add to that.

No sooner has Britain con-firmed its agreement to theClimate Change Compact inParis, than the governmenthas drastically cut subsidies tohomeowners who wish to in-stall solar panels in an effortto reduce pollution.

The power producers cer-tainly appeared to have plentyof economic strength, whenthey persuaded the SpanishGovernment to introduce newtaxes on those using solarpower, as they were worriedabout reduced profits.

Moving on and despite theglut of crude oil on the mar-ket and its undeniable effecton the climate, the BritishParliament has just voted toallow fracking for shale gas1,200m below national parksand other protected sites.

Fracking is not totally safeas enormous amounts of wa-ter are used, and the water iscontaminated by the layers ofearth it is pumped through aswell as the fracking chemi-cals.

Brazil has banned What-sApp as it allows poorer peo-ple to make free calls withouthaving to sign up for expen-sive contracts. It is surely co-incidental that the currentPresident of the Chamber ofDeputies has been identifiedas a lobbyist for the telecom-munications industry.

In the USA, companies arealmost fighting to merge sothey can avoid tax, or at leastdelay paying it whilst paidlobbyists in Washington ap-pear to be accepted as part ofthe political landscape.


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BEING fortunateenough - and of a cer-tain age - to be in thecinema queues back in1977 when Star Wars ANew Hope first eruptedonto the big screen en-thralling Sci-fi fans allover the world, and being

a ‘First Weekender’ and de-vout fan whose love of the Star

Wars saga has been dwindledover the years with each succes-

sive tepid episode of the ‘prequel’trilogy, I purchased my tickets andwaited in line with an apprehen-sive renewed hope!

I should have had faith in theforce! I wasn’t disappointed. Be-yond all expectation I found myselfriveted to my seat within 15 minutesundergoing emotions lost to me sincethe 1970’s. Has JJ Abrams succeed-ed? You’d better believe it!

But how did he do it? Well, Itwould be virtually impossible take

a look at JJ Abrams’ challenge in

breathing life back into the Star Warsfranchise without comparing it to ei-ther the original trilogy or the prequeltrilogy, since Abrams obviously madeThe Force Awakens with both ofthem blatantly in his face… Andrightly so!

So let’s compare: The ForceAwakens is a stunning, lovinghomage to the original trilogy, anddoes everything correct in the sameways that the original ‘Holy Trini-

ty’ films did things correct. And in doing so, avoids all of the

grind, drudgery, woodenness andstruggle for story in the prequel set offilms.

It clearly and unreservedly sets outto establish itself as a nostalgicthrowback to what made the adven-ture story so great and lovable in thefirst place, and my word does it suc-ceed.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is

set three decades after the fall of theEmpire and the death of Vader, wherethe story of Luke Skywalker contin-ues. Having turned his back on teach-ing the ways of the Force after hisyoung Jedi students were destroyed,Skywalker has vanished, and in doingso has become a mythical figure toothers in the galaxy.

Being sought by members of theResistance, and by a new dark force,The First Order, finding Skywalker isimperative to them both.

So a new adventure featuring theoriginal trilogy’s triad, joined by newheroes and villains, has now been un-leashed. How could it possibly liveup to the original?

The series, that was created in1977 by director George Lucas aboutyoung farm boy Luke Skywalker,Princess Leia and space pirate HanSolo battling the Dark Side of theForce, is considered by a few to bethe greatest piece of cinematic artever created, by many to be the bestSci-fi story ever told, and by most tohave fallen asleep with the prequels,has now awoken, been reborn, and ismost certainly, A New Hope!

The Force Awakens, (a new hope)By Steve Walsh

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CHRISTMAS! It’s time to celebrateand let’s be honest nobody does itbetter than the Spanish.

It’s a Catholic country with manycultural and religious traditions andChristmas in Spain is a wonderful ex-perience of religious tradition andmodern celebrations.

In addition to the religious celebra-tions in Spain, we can also enjoy oth-er traditional celebrations such as theDutch Sinterklaus who arrived onDecember 5, and we all know SantaClaus will arrive on December 25.

You probably have a decoratedChristmas tree in your home inSpain, and we have to thank Ger-many for introducing the ‘Christ-

baun’ in the 16th century. If you arefrom the UK you need to thankQueen Victoria for introducing thecustom of having a Christmas tree inyour home.

As you hang up your Christmasstocking, spare a thought for the pa-

tron saint of children St Nicholas, aGreek, who started the tradition.

Don’t forget Boxing Day, a greatsporting day, you can thank the UKfor this tradition but Spain does notyet have it on the Christmas calendar.

Let’s not forget the Christmas

turkey, made immortal by Scrooge’sgift to the Cratchit family in CharlesDickens ‘A Christmas Carol’.

What’s all this got to do with own-ing a property in Spain, I hear yousay, well if you work in the propertyindustry I think it’s important torecognise that people from all overnorthern Europe, and from aroundthe world have different customs andtraditions, and they are buying theirpermanent home or holiday homehere in Spain.

So although property buyers are alldifferent and originate from differentcountries, they do have one very im-portant point in common, their dreamto own a home in Spain.

The number of non-Spanish buyersis growing, especially over the pasttwo years and official figures showan almost continuous monthly in-crease in property sales on the Costasand Balearics.

I have received many Christmas

cards from my customers who havedecided to buy a property in Spain in2016, and it’s my job is to find exact-ly what they are looking for.

My customers are a mix of nation-alities and they are all looking forcompletely different types of proper-ties in completely different locations.

So 2016 should be another year ofrecord-breaking property sales on theCostas and the Balearics.

Buyers with different customs andtraditions are looking forward to buy-ing their dream home in Spain, andenjoy celebrating Christmas in Spainnext year.

I wish you all a very Merry Christ-mas.

If you want to sell your property orare looking to buy a property in 2016

please contact me.John Graham. Fellow of The Archi-

tecture & Surveyors Institute. International Property Expert

[email protected]

JohnGraham The property expert

We have to recognise traditions

CHRISTMAS: Nobody does it better than the Spanish.

MANY nationalities are buying their homes in Spain, it’s important to acknowledge the different customs

GIVEN that the time is right for investment inSpanish property, the next question would be,what type will be the most profitable?

Real estate investment in Spain at the mo-ment is sweet. Shops, homes, offices andgarages, any of the areas on the market offeryields above the majority of the financialproducts offered by banks.

In fact, the figures can double in compari-son with, in the worst case, government bondsto 10 years, according to the latest report pub-lished by idealista.

The retail unit seems to be sweeter thanmost according to the survey, offering a gross

return of 7.5 per cent. And office blocks orspace provide a yield of 6.8 per cent, whilegarages have been stabilised at 4.6 per cent.

With regards and in contrast with housing,buy to rent properties return gross profit fig-ures of 3.6 per cent.

However, although these profits wouldseem to be very attractive, they are gener-alised figures and do not take into account re-gional variations or taxation criteria.

When investing in Spanish property, it isessential to know the ‘in’s and out’s’ of taxa-tion issues so as not to have any surprises at alater date.

Knowing the Spanishproperty sweet spot

ACCORDING to theworld’s largest commercialreal estate services firmCBRE, Spain was the sixthmost attractive destinationin the world for real estate

investors in the first half of2015, securing €8.5 billionof investment.

The news places Spain inexcellent company, behindonly the USA, UK, Aus-

tralia, Germany and Japan.Real estate investment in

Spain was 144 per centmore than that in Italy, anddouble that of The Nether-lands.

Spain an attractive propertyinvestment destination

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AT this time of year many expats arebusy with the preparations and en-joyment of two weeks of Spanish-style festivities stretching fromNochebuena (Christmas Eve), to LosReyes (The Three Kings), with theAño Nuevo (The New Year) in themiddle, but at the same time thereare three sets of plants that needsome care.

Firstly, those plants in windowboxes or pots to cheer up the front ofthe house. Typically these are poin-settias, cyclamens, mini roses, miniChristmas trees, crotons, kalenchoes,azaleas, chrysanthemums, pansiesand violas.

Many of these will have beengrown in hot houses and until a fewdays before delivery to garden cen-tres were used to almost continuoustray or drip feeding. So plant all ofthese in a moisture retaining com-post mix and water them once ortwice a week to keep the compostdamp, especially if they are placedwhere they will receive sun for mostof the day.

If you have a box of the very use-ful TerraCottem water retainingsoil/compost improvement gel makeuse of it.

Secondly, do visit the greenhouseand/or cold frame every few days asthese can get warm on sunny daysand cuttings and seedlings can irre-versibly dry out.

Also sprinkle around a few eco-logical snail pellets because snails dolook for winter shelter, and just onesnail can cause havoc eating the

leaves of favourite cuttings for itsChristmas lunch.

Thirdly, emergent seedlings in thevegetable garden may still have shal-low roots so don’t let these dry out.

Fourthly, newly purchased houseplants, especially flowering ones,will need watching and timely water-ing. These will often have been used

to a hot house with a high humiditybut although living spaces in thehouse will be warm from log stovesor central heating the air will be drywith little humidity.

So check the dampness of com-post every two days and if i t isstarting to dry out give the plant awatering and also spray the leaves

with a fine jet water sprayer.‘Amaryllis enjoy sunny win-

dowsills’‘Hyacinths enjoy cool rather than

hot conditions’Christmas gifts may be any of the

plants listed earlier plus bulbs. Theseare best placed on a regularly usedcovered terrace and if brought inside,restrict the hours in a hot room.

Lastly, if tender potted plants havebeen kept on open or covered ter-races, or around the front porch for aChristmas effect, do now give themprotection from the possibility offreezing winds and heavy frost dur-ing January, February and earlyMarch.

‘My annual temporary winter plas-tic greenhouse’

I line a metal gazebo with a largesheet of plastic hoisted up over anold plastic table top, and tied backwith lengths of wood to create a se-cure temporary green house foraround 50 plants.

In fact the cold house gets quitewarm, so the door is opened up oncea week and if things are drying outthe inside is lightly hosed with a finejet of water.

Happy year end best wishes to allour readers and do keep all those

plants alive.© Dick Handscombe

www.gardenspain.com

Looking after plants over ChristmasMANY people are busy with festive preparations, but don’t forget the plants need care too

Dick Handscombe

Gardening CornerBy Spain’s best known expatriate garden-ing author living in Spain for 25 years.

TIPS: On how to care for your house and garden plants.

NO, not the hallucinogenic variety,but you really can work magic in thekitchen by growing your very ownmushrooms, and adding a nutrientpacked, fat-free addit ion to yourculinary repertoire and gardeningskills.

Distinct from the plant kingdom,mushrooms grow from spores, notseeds, and don’t require sunlight tothrive. In fact it’s quite the opposite,mushrooms grow best in dark, cooland moist condi t ions, with some

species preferring humidity too.The best locations in the home are

in the basement or even underneaththe ki tchen s ink, while for thoseseeking a challenge, many speciescan be grown outside on the under-side of a log.

If you are growing inside, you canbuy pre-packaged mushroom kitsthat come with a growing mediumand spawn, this is a good way tokick out your mushroom adventurebefore moving onto growing withouta kit, and entering the kaleidoscopicworld of substrates and sawdust.

There are many varieties of mush-room you can grow, with eachadding a different international flairto your cuisine.

An added bonus is that , unl ikepicking them wild, you can be sureyou haven’t accidently plucked apoisonous one. Popular and easy togrow mushrooms include Enoki ,Portobel lo , Oyster, Shi i take,Maitake, and steadfast button mush-rooms.

Each will require a different grow-ing process, but the results are cer-tainly worth it.

Growing magic mushroomsEACH variety has its own process but the results are certainly worth it

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GRADUALLY introduce changes inyour dog’s routine as soon as youknow a baby is on the way. If a dogdoes not connect the changes withthe baby’s arrival, it has less reasonto be jealous.

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1. Your dog should not be the cen-tre of attention at all times, andshould not sit on your lap, (if at all)

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She doesn’t look much af-ter nearly a half century inan old barn, but neverthe-less, there are great expecta-t ions for the old girl . Thevaluation price of the car isest imated at between$150,000 and $180,000(more than €150,000).

The reason for the highcost is that there were onlyabout 500 of these monstersproduced, of which only asmall minority have beenkept running.

The car is a DodgeCharger Daytona, the spe-cial version which was pro-duced in 1968-69.

As the name suggests, thecar was designed to have agreat career on Americanracetracks, but despite

the streamlined design andthe huge wing, it failed tobeat Ford in the end, whotook the NASCAR title bothyears.

I t s t i l l has the or iginalDodge 440 Magnum V8 en-gine, and according to theclock, i t had only doneabout 33,000 kilometres be-fore it was stored and for-

got ten about in the mid-1970s.

According to the auctionhouse Mecum, the car wasoriginally bought by a localjudge in Alabama, who gaveit to his wife. One carefullady owner eh! Don’t youjust love those ‘barn find’stories?

RARE 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona found in barn

ClarksonQuote of theWeek

That Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous allat the same time.

Some might say...

ITV have come into the fray ofmotoring shows with the an-nouncement that they are aboutto launch a show to rival TopGear.

The Drive, as it will becalled, will see celebrities linedup against one another on thetrack, where they will competeagainst the clock to become thetop driver. The winners willthen fight it out to be the serieschamp in a grand finale.

One of the stars who hassigned for the new show is for-mer model and TV presenterMelinda Messenger. She toldThe Daily Star she wasn’t al-ways the best driver: “On myfirst driving lesson I almosttook a slip road to the motor-way by mistake, which resultedin lots of shouting. The instruc-tor asked me to swap seats.”

A source said: “Think TopGear’s ‘Star in a reasonablypriced car’, and that’s Drive.But ours is more like stars in avery expensive car.”

Top Gear mayhave new rival

Motoring shorts

A ONE-OF-A-KIND LandRover Defender sold for arecord £400,000 (€549,224) ata prestigious charity auction atBonhams, from which all pro-ceeds are being donated toLand Rover’s humanitarianand conservation partners.This is thought to be the mostvaluable production LandRover ever to be sold at auc-tion.

As the world bids a fondfarewell to the classic LandRover Defender, fans of the

iconic offroader are clickinglike mad to see a new film cel-ebrating one of the world’smost recognisable vehicles.

The film was commissionedto celebrate the global automo-tive icon and to promote thecharity auction of the Defender2,000,000, which took place atBonhams headquarters in Lon-don on December 16, where itsold for £400,000 (€549,224).

The film is called ‘Fromproduction to auction, the De-fender 2,000,000 journey’, andmarks the event as Land Roverambassadors and well-known

fans of De-fender visitedthe Solihullproduction line tohelp build the De-fender 2,000,000.

Funds from the saleof this vehicle will be going toLand Rover supported chari-ties, International Federationof Red Cross and Red Cres-cent Societies (IFRC) and theBorn Free Foundation.

ONE of the most recognised vehicles

By Steve Walsh

Saying goodbyeto a legend

CAR: An iconicoffroader.

FOND FAREWELL: To theLand Rover Defender.

You can see the film by following this link: http://www.landrover.com/above-and-beyond/celebrate-defender/2-million-vehicles.html

AUCTION: Car is expectedto generate a small fortune.

Brighton (whose record 21-match unbeaten run ended lastweekend), Derby-Fulham andHull-Burnley, followed byBrighton-Ipswich, Leeds-Derby, Middlesbrough-Sheffield Wednesday andPNE-Hull. In Leagues 1 and 2,the top matches are BradfordCity-Burton, Coventry-PortVale, Oxford-Exeter andWalsall-Peterborough, while inScotland it’s Hearts-Celtic,Rangers-Hibs and Annan-Clyde.

• Tottenham Hotspur willhave a new ground by August2018. The capacity will be61,080 (bigger than TheEmirates) and will cost £400m,with another £275m beingspent on adjoining facilities,including 600 flats, a museum,medical centre, numerousshops and restaurants.

• Barcelona won their fifthtrophy of 2015 by lifting theWorld Club Cup, defeatingRiver Plate 3-0 in Yokohama.

• Ex-Fulham star, CoventryCity manager, footballinnovator and BBC Match ofthe Day presenter Jimmy Hillhas died aged 87. He gave mea trial with Sky Blues in themid-1960s. RIP.

CRICKET – The first Testbetween South Africa andEngland starts in Durban onBoxing Day… the second Testbetween Australia and theWest Indies will commence inMelbourne… and New

Zealand face Sri Lanka inChristchurch.

RUGBY UNION – DylanHartley will captain Englandin the 2016 Six Nationstournament and over theholiday period, the top AvivaPL games are Exeter-Sale andLeicester-Newcastle, followedby Bath-Worcester, Harle-quins-Gloucester and Wasps-Saracens.

TENNIS - Andy Murray,who is retaining AmelieMauresmo as his coach, maypull out of the Australian Openin Melbourne next month, ifhis wife goes into prematurelabour. Heather Watson hassplit with her coach DiegoVeronelli and Roger Federerwill partner Martina Hingis inthe mixed doubles at the RioOlympics next summer.

HORSE RACING – Mytips for the King George VIChase at Kempton Park onBoxing Day are SilviniacoConti and Cue Card with DonPoli the outsider

CONGRATULATIONS –Last Sunday Andy Murray wascrowned BBC SportsPersonality of the Year; Teamof the Year was GB’s DavisCup tennis squad; gymnastEllie Downie was YoungSports Personality for 2015;Kiwi rugby star Dan Cartertook the ‘Overseas’ top prize;NI’s soccer boss MichaelO’Neill was Coach of the Yearand jockey Tony McCoy waspresented with a LifetimeAchievement Award. Other

awards went to DamienLindsay (unsung hero) andyoung Bailey Matthews(Helen Rollason awardwinner).

CHRISTMASFOOTBALL FACTS

• In 1955, Numancia andLugo drew 6-6 here in Spain.

• Lee Holmes was 15 whenhe made his debut for Derby in2002.

• Newcastle scored 16 goalsagainst Merseyside clubs in1933, beating Everton 7-3 andLiverpool 9-2.

• In 1927, Luton led

Northampton 5-0 at half-timein a League game; final scoreLuton 5 Northampton 6.

• In 1962, Oldham beatSouthport 11-0 - the biggestever Fourth Division win.

• 20,851 fans saw the lastLeague game played onChristmas Day whenBlackpool beat Blackburn 4-2in 1965.

• Leicester were bottom ofthe PL 12 months ago; nowthey’re top!And with that I would like

to wish everyone a veryHappy Christmas

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Los Moriscos Friday December 11 Individual StablefordLadies1st, Linda McKane, Hcp29, 29pts2nd, Gillian Green, Hcp18, 28pts3rd, Bridget Lloyd Edwards, Hcp29, 28pts4th, Marlene Taylor, Hcp34, 28ptsMen1st, Sean Rooney, Hcp11, 38pts2nd, Neil Taylor, Hcp16, 35pts3rd, Peter Oram, Hcp23, 35pts4th, Bev Legg, Hcp11, 35pts5th, Brian Wiggins, Hcp18, 34ptsTwos:Tony Downey and Terry Conway

Unfortunately, the wind picked up and the late starters had atough time on the back nine, but the gent’s scores were pretty con-sistent, 35pts being a popular number, the same for the ladies,28pts, all down to count back! Good to see members from Anoretaand Baviera, they are always made very welcome at Los Moriscos.

AnoretaMonday December 14Pairs Betterball Stableford (3/4 handicaps)1st, Dan McAllister and Peter Hobbs, 40pts 2nd, MayLiz Santon and John Millward, 37pts3rd, Lilo Bliem and Alan Lloyd Edwards, 37ptsTwosEsther McClenaghan went to the unnecessary length of getting

twos on both the 2nd and 9th.

BavieraTuesday December 15Turkey TrotIndividual StablefordOverall Winner Marion Fraser, 38ptsLadies1st, Gill Boutel, 34pts 2nd, Gill Sibson, 33pts3rd, Penny Bentley-Ennis, 31ptsMen1st, Alan Worthington, 37pts2nd, John Bollard, 33pts3rd, Roy Boutel, 32pts4th, Roger Davey, 32pts5th, Bob Blair, 32pts.Ladies Best Fancy Dress Gill BoutelMen Best Fancy Dress Rob Nicholson

A fantastic day’s entertainment was enjoyed at Baviera. Mostplayers made an attempt at fancy dress and some went overboard.

Captain Russell had his first hole-in-one, (aged ??). Javi andAntonio presented him with a certificate, which he will no doubttreasure for many years!

Marion Fraser was the overall winner with 38 points and is nowthe proud owner of a fresh 5kg turkey and a magnum of expensivered wine.

A big thank you was given to Olly, Peggy and Alison for thelovely nibbles and soup on 11th tee, and to those ladies who gener-ously provided all the sausage rolls, sausages, mince pies, biscuitsand sweets, it was much appreciated by all!

The society’s thoughts and prayers are with Cormac and Cather-ine O’Herlihy, as Cormac has had a major operation. A wish for afull and speedy recovery goes out from all your many friends inSpain and elsewhere.

On Tuesday December 15 2015 Russell Dick was welcomed tothe GINS Eagle Club hole-in-one category at Baviera Golf. Thiswas Captain Russell’s first hole-in-one after years of trying.

Close games atLos Moriscos

Murray crowned BBC SportsPersonality of the year

From Back Page

TEAM of the year was Great Britain’s Davis Cup squad

WORLD CLUB CUP CHAMPIONS: Fifth trophy for Barcelona.

TRADITIONALLY over theChristmas period, millions ofsupporters attend varioussporting events – and 2015will be no different to anyother year with football,cricket, rugby and horse racingamong the many pastimeswhich will be well attended

from now until the end of themonth.

FOOTBALL – Over thefestive season, there are fullprogrammes of Premiership,Championship, Leagues 1 and2, Scottish and Conferencefootball matches.

• On Boxing Day, PL leaders

Leicester visit Liverpoolbefore taking on ManchesterCity who start their holidayfixtures with a home gameagainst lowly Sunderland.

• High-placed Arsenal travelto Southampton and then playin-form Bournemouth at TheEmirates; Manchester United

(booed off after losing athome to Norwich lastSaturday) go to Stoke beforewelcoming Chelsea, whosacked José Mourinho lastThursday, seven months afterwinning the title, and placedformer boss Guus Hiddink intemporary charge. Thereigning champions start thefestive season with a homegame against in-form Watfordwho walloped Liverpool 3-0last Sunday.

• Bottom club Aston Villa

play WestHam (H) and Norwich (A),Newcastle entertain Evertonand then visit WBA whileSunderland also have to play atAnfield.

• The top Championshipgames on December 26/28 arefirstly Blackburn v leadersMiddlesbrough, Brentford-

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Dylan Hartley will captain England in the 2016 Six Nations tournament. He wasdropped from the World Cup after being banned for a head-butt.

Tony MatthewsInternational SportsA former player and now the world’s mostprolific author of football books with almost150 published since 1975, Tony is also thesports correspondent for Spectrum Radioand lives on La Pilica in the Sierra CabreraMountains overlooking Turre.

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ACTION-PACKED line-up of sport for the festive period

José departs, Foxes top, Test returns

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