Euro Weekly News - Axarquia 8 - 14 October 2015 Issue 1579

Nerja’s feria is a special andunique event, eagerly-await-ed by both visitors and resi-dents year after year.

The festivities organisedby the town during fer iaweek - this year from October

8 to 12 - are designed tothrill, with events, music andgreat food at every turn.

Today (Thursday) at 8pm,there will be an inaugurationceremony featur ing thetown’s municipal band at theBalcon de Europa, followedby the t radi t ional opening

speech at 8.30pm. One of the most special

moments will happen at 9pmwith the switching on of thelights at the fairground, andthe opening of the rides.

At 10.30pm, there will be aspecial gala to choose the Fe-ria Queen and King in Plaza

de España, with an entrancefee of €10.

The festivities are held topay t r ibute to the patronsaints of Nerja, the Virgen delas Angustias and San MiguelArcangel. Both effigies aretaken from the El Salvador

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By Maria Jose Fernandez

Nerja’s biggest week of the yearFESTIVITIES in the town aredesigned to thrill with great food,parades and music at every turn

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New hotel for good causeCOMPLEX will be managed by religious association Caritas

A NEW building is to be constructed inTorrox for the best of the causes.

Cordoba Bishop, Demetrio Fernandez,placed the first stone of the new com-plex ‘Cristo Rey’ (King Christ) which isto be constructed in the plot where a for-mer residential complex owned by theCordoba Diocese used to be locatedfrom the 50’s.

This new hotel will be managed bycatholic religious association Caritas,and will have a total budget of €1.8 mil-lion. It will have 146 places earmarkedfor poorer children and youths from Cor-doba, however, Fernandez said that allresidents can access a place when theyare available. It is expected that the con-struction works will be completed in 18months.

“One day we came to visit this build-ing and realised it was a treasure forCaritas and that we could not leave it inthis condition,” said the bishop.

After the experts issued a technical re-port, it was decided to demolish theoriginal building and create a two-floornew building which will also have achapel.

“Our aim is to have those who need itcome to Torrox and enjoy its great cli-

mate as well as assist them with theirspiritual needs,” finished the bishop.

By Maria José Fernandez

THE first prize of the Na-tional Lottery has beenawarded to a lucky resi-dent of Almuñecar andanother one in Ojen(Malaga).

The two lucky winners

will share the staggeringamount of €1 mil l ionthanks to the 55,458 win-ning number.

The Granada ticket wassold at the office number3 of Almuñecar.

THE Music and Dance Schoolof Rincon de la Victoria hasregistered 400 new enrolmentsthis year, which represents anincrease as last year they regis-tered 360.

The centre gives service to

art students from four yearsold and teaches disciplinessuch as musical language,classic ballet, flamenco, choirsinging and instruments in-cluding flute, saxophone,trumpet, violin and guitar.

Musical success

A lucky number

A TOTAL of 28 Sub-Saha-ran migrants were rescuedfrom a dinghy 55 miles offthe coasts of Granada andwere taken to Motr i l ingood health.

The boat was spotted at

around 2pm on Wednesday(September 30) and mi-grants were rescued by theSalvamar Hamal craft ofSalvamento Maritimo andthe patrol boat Rio Miño ofGuardia Civil.

Migrants rescued

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CORDOBA BISHOP: Placed the first stone of the new complex.

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Cleaner areaGraffiti removed

MAINTENANCE workersfrom Nerja Council andCivil Protection have beenable to erase all graffitipainted by vandals on therocks and trees around theChillar River and its sur-roundings.

More flights Ryanair adds routes

RYANAIR has announcedseven new routes fromMalaga to Berlin, Budapest,Copenhagen, Hamburg,Newcastle, Rome and War-saw for next year’s summerseason. Altogether the air-line will be running 275flights per week out of theCosta del Sol airport.

Bike donationFleet increased

TWO motorbikes havebeen given by Nerja Lo-cal Police to the town’sCivil Protection volunteerteam to add to their fleet,and enable them to pro-vide a better service.

Better facilitiesHospital improved

THE mother and newbornbaby ward at MalagaCity’s Materno Infantilchildren’s hospital hasbeen renovated and nowprovides better facilitiesfor new mums and babies.A classroom has also beencreated to house trainingcourses for new parents.

Art on show Exhibition inaugurated

PAINTER and sculptorFrancisco Martin, authorof Nerja’s famous Balconde Europa Alfonso XIIstatue, will inaugurate hisnew exhibition entitled‘Azul’ at the MunicipalRoom in Calle Cristo at8pm.

Car salesMarked improvement

SO far this year 20,238new cars have been sold inMalaga Province, 22.23per cent more than be-tween January and Sep-tember last year. In Sep-tember alone 1,956 newvehicles were registered.

church to the shr ine at theVirgen de las Angust iaschapel, where they will re-main until next September.

On October 9, there will belive music from 12 midday at

the Balcon de Europa and inthe Plaza de España at 1pm.

In the evening, ‘alternative’music will be performed at the‘Alterna de la Feria’ caseta.

October 10 wil l herald aparade of decorated floats at

midday leaving from ParqueVerano Azul, and going allthe way to the Balcon deEuropa.

The popular horse paradethrough the streets will takeplace on October 11, starting

at midday in Parque VeranoAzul, passing through Balconde Europe and ending inCalle Frigiliana.

And, in keeping with tradi-tion, a magnificent fireworks’display will take place at 2am

on October 12 to mark thefinale of a very special weekin Nerja.

The complete programmeof activities can be found athttp://denerja.es/feria-de-nerja/.

Nerja pulls out the stops for the fair

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The Spanish love to seetheir history on parade FIGURES invariably depict characters from Spain’s past

THERE is no doubt that the Spanishlove parades and often the more unusualthe better.

One theme that is always popular isthat of the ‘gigantes y cabezudos’ whichtranslates as ‘giants and big heads’which have heads finely made from pa-pier maché and invariably depict charac-ters from Spain’s past.

The gigantes are hollow figureswhich are several metres high where asingle person controls a harness withinthe body which allows it to shake anddance whilst the cabezudos are humansize but with very large heads. Looking

out through the mouth, this characternormally uses one hand to steady thehead and in the other holds a whip or in-flated pig bladder so that ‘he’ can fright-en children.

These figures are often accompaniedby a marching band and cause much hi-larity in parades around Spain, particu-larly during the Fiestas del Pilar whichfalls on October 12, a national holiday.

The most famous of the Pilar Fiestasis run in Zaragoza from October 10 to18 and will certainly include thesegrotesque manikins, although on Octo-ber 12, the statue of the Virgin Mary sur-rounded by flowers will take centrestage in the parades.

By John Smith

ON PARADE: The giant hollow figures which are several metres high.

‘I want a kinderpolitics, a morecaring society’

Gigantes andCabezudos

THE title of a zarzuela from 1898 setin Zaragoza about the Spanisharmy’s return from defeat in theCuban War of Independence. The ac-tion focuses on characteristics ofpeople from Aragon, comparingthem to ‘Gigantes’ and ‘Cabezudos.’

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450,000is the record from 2009

for the number of peoplewho placed flowers in a

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by way of tribute tothe Virgin Mary.

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VELEZ-MALAGA Mayor AntonioMoreno Ferrer has reiterated the newgovernment’s firm commitment to havethe tram in service again, after a three-year absence.

Moreno told press agency EuropaPress that his team believes transport inthe town is not as efficient as they wouldlike it to be. The 12 outlying districts,according to him, have frequent prob-lems connecting with the town, and themayor believes this is an issue that needsto be tackled.

“From Caleta or Triana there is practi-cally no way to get to the hospital, thetown hall or another outpatients’ clin-ics,” he said, and continued: “Membersof the current government are concernedabout this and for us, the tram would bethe backbone that connects the wholetown.”

The tram service was inaugurated in2006 and was operational for five years

until the service was interrupted in 2012due to the high costs it generated.

The town council has now taken thefirst steps to having it reinstated after as-sessing the condition of the infrastruc-

ture, which has needed cleaning andreparation work.

Moreno Ferrer has clearly expressedhis intention to bring the tram serviceback in the next few months.


Velez mayor commits toreinstating tram service

THREE-YEAR ABSENCE: The tram was withdrawn in 2012.

TRANSPORT inefficiencies in the town ‘need to be tackled’

STRETCH Number Six on Malaga’sgreat trail - ‘Gran Senda’ - which pass-es through Frigiliana has received acomprehensive series of improvements,paid for by Malaga Provincial Council.

Works were aimed at eliminating

dangerous sections of the path, whichhave been reduced by 70 per cent, andinstalling new signs.

Workers have also eliminated plantsand bushes which were obstructing thepath and have made reparations to

the terrain. Sports Councillor for Frigil iana,

Robert Torres, expressed his satisfac-tion at the improvements as he believesthey will help boost visits by naturelovers and sports enthusiasts.

Popular trail repaired

IT seems like the temporarybus s top set to be bui l t a tthe unused playground ofthe IES Mediterraneo in Sa-lobreña is facing obstacles.

As was reported by theEuro Weekly News at theend of September, MayorMaria Eugenia Rufino hadpresented the project to turnthis 1 ,685-square-metrearea into a temporary sta-tion complete with a wait-ing room and toilets, for atotal cost of €122,000.

The project was expectedto create at least 50 employ-ment positions.

In addi t ion, the play-ground was to be adapted sothat it could be turned backinto a school facility and al-low the pupils to also bene-

fit from the renovations. However, the education

board of the Mediterraneosecondary school has com-pletely rejected the project,claiming in a letter that thenew stop will cause noise,from buses and people, aswell as increase pollution,amongst many other disad-vantages.

“A more appropriate loca-

tion would be safer for theSalobreña community,” readthe letter.

The Partido Andalucistahas also presented a motionagainst the project and infavour of searching for adifferent locat ion for thestat ion, condemning theamount of money that is go-ing to be spent on a projectwhich generates conflict.


New Salobreña busstop on shaky groundOBJECTIONS raised about pollution and noise



THE Secondary School Villanueva del Marin La Herradura has launched a pioneeringinitiative.

The ‘School for Parents’ has been de-signed as a way to provide parents with in-formation regarding many different aspectsof their children’s education. The first one,celebrated on October 7, was about relation-ships with teenagers, and was funded by thetown’s Health Ministry, and Social ServicesDepartment.

“The main goal of this School for Parentsis to prevent family conflicts, especiallythose which can arise between parents andtheir children, specifically when enteringpuberty,” said Head of the School, LuisJavier Contreras Rodriguez.

The course was divided into different sec-tions covering education, rules and bound-aries, communication, conflict resolution,behaviour patterns and leisure time,amongst others.

The courses will have a duration of 10hours and will take place on October 14, 21,28 and November 4.


‘School for ParentsDESIGNED to provide information on different asp

PIONEERING: La Herradura launched the progra

ALL sorts of waste was collect-ed from La Herradura’s seabedsby a group of volunteers anddivers who selflessly gave theirfree time to clean up the under-water environment.

Fish hooks, scrap metal andall kinds of rubbish were collect-ed in the Peña Parda–Cerro Gor-do area. The event was organ-ised by the ‘Friends of the Sea ofCosta Tropical’ association with

the collaboration of the Sub-aquatic Activities Association ofthe University of Malaga.

The event was one of manyother similar ones organised onthe occasion of the ‘Sea Festi-val’, under the slogan ‘The Sea:The Jewel of All my Treasures’,which was designed to raiseawareness of the richness andpatrimonial importance of LaHerradura’s seabeds.


La Herradura’s seabedis now squeaky clean

s’ initiative ects of children’s education

amme to help prevent family conflicts.

CLEAN-UP EVENT: Volunteers and divers rid the seabed of all sorts of rubbish.

THE Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation, created by Mi-crosoft co-founder Bill Gates,has taken an interest in a cut-ting-edge research centre inAxarquia.

La Mayora de Algarrobo hasobtained a €300,000 grant toparticipate, along with othercentres and researchers fromall corners of the globe, in aninvestigation into the possiblereasons for the whitefly epi-demic which is affecting cassa-va plants in Africa and to find asustainable solution, if possi-ble.

Specifically, the Axarquia

centre will focus its study onthe biological isolation of thedifferent species of this plantand on the evaluation of theimpact of the insect on theplants.

“Not so long ago, it was be-lieved that the whitefly was aunique species,” said a re-searcher from La Mayora, Je-sus Navas.

He continued: “Today weknow that there are at least 30different species; we will studythe European and Africangroups and confirm whether ornot they mate with each other.”

The aid given to La Mayora

is part of a larger allocation ofmore than €13.8 million givento the University of Greenwich(United Kingdom), the Agri-culture Resources Institute ofTanzania and other institutionsin Australia, China, Colombia,Spain, North America, Israel,Malawi and Uganda.

The results of this investiga-tion are expected to be funda-mental in improving alimenta-

tion in Africa, as well as help-ing to increase the productivityand income of small-farm-workers.

“The whitefly is responsiblefor the transmission of a hugenumber of viruses which attackthe main cultivations of theworld,” said Mr Navas, whocontinued: “If the farm-work-ers lose their cassava, they losetheir food.”

MONEY for whitefly project

BILL AND MELINDA GATES: Foundation has given €300,000 to La Mayora de Algorrobo to investigate epidemic.

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WITHOUT a great deal of publicity, a numberof the larger electricity companies introduced anew method of charging for electricity basedon hourly usage with each hour having a dif-ferent tariff, which can also change dependingupon the day of usage.

In theory, there could be 168 different tariffseach week and even they could change de-pending on whether it’s a windy day, as if it is,more wind power comes into play and electric-ity could get cheaper.

Organisations such as the Citizens AdviceBureau seem a little ambivalent as to whetherthere will be any real saving although theythink on balance there may be. They do pointout, however, that a high percentage of the billfrom the electricity companies is in respect oftaxes and fixed charges rather than consumerusage.

They also point out that all those with a tele-operated digital meter and on a contract withthe PVPC (Precio Voluntario al Pequeño Con-sumidor) tariff will be affected by this change.Those on a contract that offers a fixed price for

a whole year are not.Practically all electricity companies can of-

fer an hour-to-hour billing system, but the sys-tem as regulated by the state can only be of-

fered by ‘commercializadores de referencia’amongst which are Endesa, Iberdrola, GasNatural Fenosa, EDP España and E.ON Es-paña. With the new regulation in force, more

companies can join if they meet certain requi-sites.

There is some confusion as to the likely costof changing the meter (and the governmentaim is for all meters to be replaced by 2018)but according to information received, one ofthe ‘main players’ has indicated a €9 chargefor changing the meter followed by an 81- centmonthly rental charge.

Beware the unscrupulous who may try totake advantage of this change and always con-tact your electricity supplier as they are theideal company to make any changes for you.

It would be almost impossible for any con-sumer to be completely aware of all of thecosts, but it is fairly obvious that peak chargesare likely in the morning and the eveningwhilst low costs are more likely after midnightand at weekends especially Sunday.

This change will affect everyone who useselectricity over the next three years, butwhether the companies have come up with asolution which will benefit the consumer is yetto be seen and the fact that no consumer organ-isation was consulted in the drawing up ofthese plans may be ominous.

New electricity tariffs introduced onOctober 1 by the major suppliersALTERNATIVE method of charging based on hourly usage with each hour having a different tariff

ELECTRICITY COSTS: Consumer bodies ambivalent as to whether there will be savings.

By John Smith


ALMOST 1,500 senior residents are taking part in workshops of-fered by Velez-Malaga Council. The news was announced on Octo-ber 1, coinciding with the International Day of Older Persons.Among the courses offered are memory workshops, painting, danc-ing, theatre and choir singing. “Users can enjoy all sorts of social,self-help, cultural, leisure, musical or craft activities, as well as gethelp with administrative matters,” said Councillor Sergio Hijano.

Seniors’ fun

By Eleanor Hawkins

Unemployment figuresgo up in SeptemberAFTER seven months of falls, last month registered an increase

FOLLOWING a longer thanusual, encouraging summerseason for employment, Mala-ga has broken its seven-monthupward trend and registered thesecond worst increase in joblesspeople in Spain in September.

Beaten only by Cadiz, wherethe dole queue gained 7,550people, Malaga registered a risein unemployment of 4,447 peo-ple, bringing the total for theprovince up to 178,917.

Although the figure is worsethan in September 2014, this ispartly because whereas it tendsto increase in August, this yearunemployment actually fellslightly for the seventh monthin a row.

This was due to the fact thatthe busy season for tourismlasted longer this year, startingearlier and ending later than in

previous years.The greatest September in-

crease in unemployment wasregistered in the services sector,which includes tourism-relatedposts, with an extra 4,988 peo-

ple joining the hunt for work,bringing the total to 118,613.

Meanwhile, the constructionsector registered a slight im-provement with 675 fewer peo-ple registered as unemployed.

In spite of the negative fig-ures, employment in Malaga isstill better than a year ago asSeptember 2014 ended with8,501 more unemployed peopleregistered than there are now.

DOLE QUEUES: More people out of work in September.


Charity market inRincon de la VictoriaOBJECTIVE is to raise money to buy food for the poor

PLAZA de la Constitucion in Rincon de laVictoria will host the third edition of theCharity Market on October 9.

The event, organised in conjunction withthe Rincon Contigo association, will offer allsorts of items including books, CDs, hand-bags, toys and jewellery amongst others, at

very affordable prices, with the aim of raisingmoney which will be used to buy food for thepoorest families in the town.

The event will start at 12 midday and con-tinue throughout the afternoon. Rincon Conti-go currently helps 100 families from acrossthe town and has its headquarters in Calle LosAlmendros.

FOUR people were taken intocustody by the Velez-MalagaLocal Police after having al-

legedly stolen 300 kilos offruit from a cottage in LosToscanos (Almayate district).

The events took place lastSaturday (October 3) ataround 2.15am, when a spe-cial patrol in charge of pre-venting field thefts detected avehicle exiting the LosToscanos road at speed, laterentering the N-340 road head-ing to Malaga.

The driver, after noticingthe authorities, accelerated to140 kilometres per hour butwas caught a short time laterin the area of Benajarafe.

After identifying the pas-sengers in the vehicle, offi-cers found four men fromTorre del Mar and Rincon dela Victoria and discoveredthat the car was not roadwor-thy as it had not passed itsITV (MOT) test.

According to the police, thefour suspects admitted to hav-ing stolen the fruit and one ofthem took officers to the loca-tion. The goods were returnedto their owner.

Agricultural theftleads to 4 arrests


BARGAINS TO BE HAD: Goods on sale at very affordable prices.

The ADANA shelter needs €9,000per month to keep it going, and de-pends entirely on funds raised.

Dur ing the course of the years ,Jayne has become a well-known fig-ure in the community, which has as-sisted her in being able to raise thou-sands upon thousands of euros tokeep up the good work.

Jayne also thinks outside the box,as she believes that educating chil-dren on how important it is to avoidunwanted breeding and be responsi-ble for chipping their pets, is vital.She has visited schools in the area,including Calpe School, where she

gives ta lks to the classes . Alwaysthinking, and always giving 100 per

cent is why Jayne really does achieveher goals.

She added: “In f ive years f romnow, I would like to see the ADANAshelter with electricity and be up to ahigh standard without having to con-stantly battle on with short-term pro-jects.” It is her rewards that drive heron, as she remarked: “When you seean animal that has been through therough times and totally unwanted, towitness them in their new home is afeeling that money cannot buy.

“It’s not just about animals, but itis also how animals can bring joy tochildren or an older person. It worksfor both parties and makes me happyto see comfort in others in that way.”

Between organising and overseeingprogrammes including the ‘Sponsor aDog’ programme, Jayne is also thepresident of her home community.She admits that she has a desire forteam work, moving forward and mak-ing a change.

She is always grateful for supportfrom organisations, including EuroWeekly News, in sponsor ing dogshows and the like.

Her faith in the community andher need for giving things back iswhat is at the heart of her persona.She also finds strength in her localchurch and is always there to supportothers around her.

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A passion for getting things done

JAYNE FISHER has a lwaysused her skills to help otherswho are less for tunate thanmost . She is a woman whosees the bigger picture, and isfocused on how to achieve thedesired results.

She ar r ived in Spain in2005, after working in Edin-burgh as the Chief Executiveof a home for the disabled. Shewas responsible for f indingsuitable homes for those whoneeded specia l physica l re-quirements and she made surethat ongoing support was a thand.

From this background, it isno surprise that Jayne still pos-sessed the passion to get thingsdone when she and her hus-band Bill bought their homehere in Spain.

She had witnessed terribles ights and many abandonedanimals - two being lef t tos tarve in the mounta ins -which rang alarm bells in herconscience that something hadto be done.

Being in a position to volun-teer help , Jane contacted asmall charity that had been op-era t ing, named ADANA,which was in desperate need ofobtaining ongoing funds. Sherecalled: “I began to distributetin money boxes all around thearea just to get money comingin for the shelter. The problemwas plain to see that you needongoing funds, and not just theone-off influx from an event.”

Jayne began to help organiseevents along with other volun-teers, and being treasurer shehas to make sure that that tapalways flows.

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Our Euro Womenseries is featuringwomen who havemade a success of theirlives in Spain. Theseoutstanding ladieshave been shatteringglass ceilings whetherin business, charitywork or sports.

Past experiences spurJayne Fisher on to helpmistreated and aban-doned animals.

Do you know a Euro Woman? If you do please drop us a line at [email protected] giving full contact details and why you feel they deserve to be honoured.As well as being featured in the EWN a book is being produced for Christmas with all profits going to charitable organisations.

Fact fileWhen you see an

unwanted ani-mal in a new

home, it is a feel-ing that money

cannot buy”

Name: Jayne Fisher

Age: 57

Profession: Treasurer of ADANA

Family: Husband, Bill

Pets: 3 ADANA dogs and 2 cats

Where from: London

Where now: Sabanillas, Estepona, Malaga

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

Book or TV: Book

Favourite title : Salman Rushdie novels

Strengths: Organising, getting things done

What irritates you about some people: Those who are

judgemental

Jayne always gives 100 per cent FORWARD THINKER: Jayne believes in educating the young about being responsible for their animals.

A MAN armed with a shot-gun has attempted to steal,or rob, a lorry in Motril, ac-cording to a statement re-leased by National Police.

The events took place onFriday, October 2, at around9.30pm when a luxury vehi-cle forced a lorry comingfrom Motril Port and head-ing to Almeria to stop on aroundabout.

The armed man steppedout of the vehicle andthreatened the lorry driver,who was able to alert Na-tional Police before the al-leged robber was able toreach him, according to hisversion of events.

Police were quickly onthe scene and the robberfired his gun several timesbefore f leeing in the car.The authorities began chas-ing him but were unable tocatch up with the suspect.

Officers are currently in-vestigating the events as thelorry was coming from

Melilla without any goodsinside, so the reasons behind

the attempted robbery arestill unknown.


Robbery attemptstill a mystery

HUNDREDS of signatureshave been collected by thePart ido Popular (PP) inMotril to denounce the lackof cleanliness in the town.

Spokesperson and formerMayor Luisa GarciaChamorro thanked the al-most 2,000 Motril residentswho signed the petition for acleaner town, which is to betaken to the Andalucian Om-budsman to find a solutionfor an issue that has beenthe cause of complaintsfrom many residents and as-sociations, according to thePP.

“It is the residents whowant a solution for the un-sanitary conditions of thetown suffered in the districtof Motri l for the pastweeks,” said the spokesper-son.

Petition fora cleanerMotril

A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl sustained injuriesafter being involved in a car accident inAlmuñecar.

Dozens of calls were registered on Sun-day, October 4, at the emergency office 112,by witnesses who alerted them to theincident which occurred on the A-7 road

in Almuñecar. A vehicle swerved violently off the road

and overturned while falling down a cliff forseveral minutes.

As a result, the nine-year-old girl sustainedconcussion and injuries and was transferredto Santa Ana Hospital in Motril.

Girl, 9, hurt in car crash

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THE project to renovate thepath which surrounds theNerja Caves has beenlaunched this week.

The Nerja Caves Founda-t ion has undertaken thisproject to offer the publican alternative activity whenvisiting this natural monu-ment and they wil l now

have the chance to take astroll along an 800-metrepath on the surface of thecaves and get to know thesurrounding area.

I t i s expected that thisproject will be completedby the end of October, whenan inauguration event willtake place.

“With a special system ofsigns, the path will connect

the inside of the cave withits exterior and pass throughthe most important aspectsof its flora, fauna and geo-logically interesting points,said head of the Foundation,Angel Ruiz.

The path cont inues upand finishes at a viewpoint,which will be the first everplaced in Nerja’s Sierra deAlmijara.

Path surroundingcaves is renovatedINAUGURATION expected to take place by end of October

FIVE family homes belonging to Englishpensioners in Oria, Almeria, which hadbeen threatened with demolition, have nowbeen reprieved as the Public Prosecutor de-cided to waive the demolition order, mind-ful of the recent law regarding buildingsowned by buyers who bought in good faith.

This change to the Public Ministry’s reg-ulations, and the extended delay in reduce-ing the terms of imprisonment and fines onthe promoters and builders for contraveningplanning laws, has made an out of courtsettlement possible. This was ratified inAlmeria’s Criminal Court 2.

Gerardo Vázquez, legal advisor toAUAN (the Almerian equivalent of SO-HA), and the lawyer representing two ofthose threatened with demolition, (an octo-genarian British couple), stressed the im-portance of the decision, and hoped that itwould be followed in similar cases await-ing judgement, so that, step-by-step, theproblem might be resolved to the benefit ofeveryone.

In the same vein, Julián Cazorla, thelawyer for another homeowner, also statedthat the solution found in this case hadopened the door for future cases.

The hard work of associations like SO-HA and AUAN has greatly contributed topositive news such as this. With the help oflawyers like Gerardo Vázquez, they lob-bied and demonstrated to make the changesto Spanish law in both the Criminal Codeand the Civil Code.

In essence, the change to the law gives ajudge the right to insist (when ordering thedemolition of a house which was bought ingood faith) that compensation is paid toowners before the demolition.

The Priors (about whom we have writtenpreviously), whose house was demolishedseven years ago, are still waiting for thecompensation which an EU court ruled thatthey were entitled to. Under the new law, itis hoped that owners who bought in goodfaith will never again suffer the Prior’s ap-palling injustice.


Homes reprievedafter law change

NERJA: Visitors to its famous caves will now be able to explore the area further.

ENGLISH pensioners’ houses had been threatened with demolition

A NEW agreement be-tween Torre del MarCouncil and the compa-ny in charge of the un-derground car park lo-cated in Plaza JuanAguilar has been signedto boost its use.

The faci l i t ies aremade up of four differ-ent floors with almost500 parking spaces andthe measure hopes toencourage more peopleto park in the area.

Council representa-tive David Vilches saidbusiness-owners in thetown will have around

1,000 parking tokenswhich will allow themto park for half-an-hourat no charge. In addi-tion, residents will beoffered a rental fee of€50 per month.

“These measureshave the object ive ofreactivating and boost-ing local commerce inTorre del Mar as well asputting an end to park-ing issues,” said Vilch-es, who continued: “Atthe same time, they willprevent the town coun-cil from falling furtherinto debt.”


NERJA BOOK CENTRE isinviting customers to enjoy aglass of bubbly while brows-ing its astonishing collectionof 30,000 books today Octo-ber 8, from 5pm to 8pm at theshop in Calle Granada 32,Nerja.

Derek Hands, founder ofNerja Book Centre, has beenin business for 30 years andhas an outstanding collectionof 30,000 books in all cate-gories in 15 languages, the

main ones being English,Spanish, German, French andSwedish. There is also a largeselection of ‘collectors’ items,including signed first editionsand rare books which Derekhas painstakingly built upover the years.

The cheapest books in theshop sell for €0.90; the mostexpensive is a signed and in-scribed first edition of the14th Dalai Lama’s autobiog-raphy, which is priced at€1,000.

On August 30, 2011, hav-

ing guided the bookshopthrough thick and thin for 30years, Derek decided it wastime for a life of leisure andthe reins were passed on tohis son, 24-year-old Leslie; acase of ‘hands-to-hands’.

Moving forward, the com-pany now offers an ‘onlinebook service’ whereby youcan order your favourite titlesvia the internet and have themdelivered to your home.

The online service beganby offering a number of themore ‘collectable’ items but

has already expanded to in-clude a selection of whatcould be termed more ‘regu-lar’ items, such as novels, au-tobiographies and books onhistory and art. It is a servicewhich is set to expand inscope in the near future.

Leslie welcomes all cus-tomers to enjoy the event to-day. Cupcakes and cava willbe served as well as give-aways of collectables andfirst editions.

And to top it off, there willbe a free raffle!

TWO streets in Rincon de la Victoria,Calles Terra and Jazmin, are current-ly getting a makeover at a total costof €111,500.

“Due to the very bad condition ofthe pavement and the existing facili-ties, which did not ensure road safety,we thought i t was a very necessaryproject,” said Antonio Sanchez, In-frastructure Councillor.

Works include repaving the entirearea as well as installing new waterand sewage sys tems as wel l as re -placing electricity and telephone sys-tems, amongst others. They are ex-pected to be concluded in a period ofthree months.

Encouragingthe use ofundergroundcar park

Much-needed makeover begins


Nerja Book Centremarks 35th anniversary CUSTOMERS are invited to join in the shop’s celebrations

IMPRESSIVE: The store has an astonishing collection of 30,000 books.

UPGRADE: Works are under way in Calles Terra and Jazmin.


ALL dog lovers are welcome to participate in CAS, Costa AnimalSociety’s dog show.

The event, which is scheduled to take place on October 17, wasorganised in collaboration with Nerja Town Hall Foreigners Depart-ment on October 17.

This year, the event is to be held in a different location: at theSquare Plaza de España, behind the town hall, starting at 1pm andfinishing at 5pm.

Inscriptions can be made from 12pm. All dogs are welcome toparticipate, even if they have no pedigree!

Dog showin Nerja

By Eleanor Hawkins

Andalucia hit hard byVolkswagen scandal COMPANY will start to examine affected vehicles in January 2016

MALAGA is one of theworst-hit provinces in Spainby the recent Volkswagendiesel scandal, Facua con-sumers’ association has re-ported.

The association has set upan online platform for affectedcar owners, which has alreadygathered more than 20,000members from across Spain.

So far Andalucia is theworst-affected region, Facuareported, with 4,664 registra-tions, and within the regionMalaga Province came secondon the list with 825 affectedowner registrations beaten on-ly by Sevilla with 1,279.

The next worst hit regionwas reported to be Madridwith 4,337 car owners, fol-lowed by Cataluña with 2,793and Valencia with 1,886.

Volkswagen presidentMatthias Muller announcedthis week that the companywill start to examine affectedvehicles in Europe in January

2016, yet as there are an esti-mated 11 million vehicles af-fected it could take all year tocorrect them all.

Volkswagen, Seat, Audi,

Skoda or Volkswagen dieselvehicle owners who think theymay be affected have been in-vited to contact the helplinefor Spain on 900 180 361.

DIESEL SCANDAL: There are an estimated 11 million vehicles affected.

ALL WELCOME: Even with no pedigree!

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A MAN accused of negligent homicide inTorrox has been acquitted.

Malaga Provincial Court has accepted theappeal of a business-owner in Torrox after theaccidental death of oneof his employees and hasfound him not guilty ofnegligent homicide.

The court’s sentencehas considered as provedthat on March 30, 2011,work to dismantle the asbestos on the roof ofan industrial unit was being carried out, withall necessary permits. At 11.30am, the workbegan and at some point, one of the workersrequested a tool from the victim, who stepped

on a plaque, which then broke. The man fellfrom a 6.4-metre height and died as a result ofhis injuries. The victim was not registeredwith Social Security and had not received anytraining in work accident-prevention.

However, the court hasconfirmed that a secondcompany had employedthe man, and that its own-ers should have compliedwith training and othersafety measures, as therewere no safety nets orscaffolding in place and

the employee was not wearing a harness. The court has found, therefore, that the de-

fendant is not guilty of the charges. The own-ers of the second company will now be triedin connection with the case.

Man accused ofwork-relatedhomicide cleared By Maria Jose Fernandez

COURT accepts business-owner’s appeal

6.4metres was the height from which thevictim fell while working on the roof

of an industrial unit


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Game of Thrones spoileralert for Almeria City

NEWS FROM OUR FIVE OTHER REGIONS

IF rumours are correct, La Alcazaba will be closed to the public on October 20and 21.This is regarded as unspoken confirmation that these are the days when the

Moorish monument overlooking Almeria City will become a Game of Thrones loca-tion. The production company is giving nothing away, especially after leaked pho-tographs of filming in Belfast were circulated on the internet.

The regional and local government are agreed that choosing Almeria as one of thelocations for the sixth season of the HBO fantasy season will bring free internationalpublicity for the province and more employment. Rosa Aguilar, who heads the Junta’sCulture department admitted that at present it not impossible to calculate the directbenefits to Almeria, especially as filming has yet to start.

Lucia Ayala, a Podemos party regional MP for Almeria is unconvinced. Speaking inthe Sevilla parliament she claimed that the province would be called on to providenothing more than extras, runners, gofers, waiters and drivers. LA ALCAZABA: Guest appearance in HBO series.

COSTA DEL SOL

Multiple stingsTORREMOLINOS’ life-guard team reported that themajority of the incidentsdealt with this year involvedjellyfish, with 2,266 peoplesuffering stings in July and1,639 in August.

Rare twinsTERESA and Catalina, rareidentical twins born atMalaga’s El Angel privateclinic after a ‘mo-mo’ preg-nancy, where the babiesshare an amniotic sac andplacenta but have separateumbilical cords, have beensent home after spendingtwo months in incubators.

False surgeonA MAN who masqueradedas a plastic surgeon in Mar-bella and caused seriousharm to a patient in 2006during a botched boob-jobhas been jailed for 19months and ordered to pay€36,200 in damages.

Local cocktailsMARBELLA and San Pe-dro now have their owncocktails, which will bepresented at Madrid’s Fiturtourism fair in January.The recipes were createdby local barmen OliverCintrano and Juan AntonioBernal.

Trail to successTHE Caminito del Reymountain trail near El Chor-ro has attracted more than160,000 visitors since itopened on March 28. As of2016, Malaga ProvincialCouncil has announced thatit will be charging a smallentry fee.

Four yearsA SEVENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD woman fromCoin has been sentenced tospend four years in a prisonpsychiatric facility for stab-bing her daughter-in-law,who she believed was try-ing to poison her and herson.

COSTA BLANCA SOUTH

Decomposed sharkA SPECIES of shark was found washedup on the beach of El Cura in Torrevie-ja. The animal was nearly 3m in lengthand in an advanced state of decomposi-tion.

Eco-park tenderTORREVIEJA Council has initiated theprocedure for bidding out the manage-ment contract of the municipal Ecopar-que.

City accidentA MAN, aged 55, suffered a head in-jury after being hit by the back of abus at the juncture of Calle DiegoRamirez and Calle Apollo in Torre-vieja. He was taken to hospital to bechecked over.

Unemployment fallsA TOTAL of 179 people left the unem-ployment register in Murcia Regionduring September, 0.14 per cent lessthan during the previous month. It putsthe number of unemployed in the Re-gion now at 130,354.

Architecture weekTHE Architects Association marked theWeek of Architecture with a workshopfor children in the Plaza Gabriel Miro inAlicante, inspiring the professionals oftomorrow.

MALLORCA

Councillor diesMATEU VIDAL BALAGUER, coun-cillor for Sports and Culture in Estel-lencs, died last week in a motorbike ac-cident on the Banyalbufar-Estellencsroad. Although ambulance staff tried torevive him their efforts were in vain.

Clubs raidedPOLICE raided four hostess clubs ins’Arenal last week in an operationagainst credit card fraud which led to 30arrests.

Better forceAS OF last week Calvia’s Local Policeforce has a new chief, Justino Trenas,an experienced officer who now facesthe challenge of reorganising the forceand meeting expectations to create abetter force closer to the community.

New connectionsFLIGHT Company Vueling has an-nounced an increase of connections toand from the Islands which are to belaunched from November 2015.

Beach damagedTHE Port de Pollensa suffered damagesdue to the strong waves registered onWednesday night and Thursday morn-ing. Waves flooded on the beach and re-moved a large amount of sand into thewater.

COSTA BLANCA NORTH

Teachers not paidTEACHERS in Valencia are com-plaining they have not been paid forSeptember. The teachers union,STEPV is carrying out a survey toidentify those affected in order to de-nounce the situation. There are so farover 300 teachers who have not beenpaid.

Deer extinctionXIXONA Town Hall has called formeasures to be put in place to preventthe extinction of the native Carrasque-ta Deer, urging the regional govern-ment to increase surveillance in moun-tain areas and increase punishmentsfor illegal hunting and poachers.

Free parking THE Department of Transportation inBenidorm has announced that fromOctober 1 it is no longer necessary topay for parking in the blue zone, offer-ing a total of 1,126 more free parkingspaces in the town.

Promoting sportsJAVEA Town Hall has renewed co-operation agreements with varioussports entities in the municipality asa contribution to the promotion ofsport among young people. Fundingwill be provided to the RhythmicGymnastics Club and others in thetown.

COSTA DE ALMERÍA

Horror treatTHE third series of British-Americanhorror drama television series PennyDreadful will be partly filmed in Alme-ria Province. Until now it has been shotin London and Dublin.

Tunnel visionONCE work finishes on the false tunnelfor heavy traffic bound for Garruchaport, all 585 moorings for private craftare expected to be taken. At present onlya quarter are used.

Promise keptAFTER January 1 Gador residence willno longer pay the Impuesto de Construc-ciones tax when improving or modifyingtheir properties. He is honouring hiselection pledge, the mayor said.

High hopesEIGHTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD FranciscaFunes from Almocita fulfilled a lifelongambition by reaching the top of Mulha-cen, Spain’s highest mainland mountainin the Sierra Nevada. She completed thefinal kilometre of the 3,478 peak.

Epic fail“THE capital city of Asturias? Almeria!”answered Gran Hermano (Big Brother)contestant, Ivy during one of the show’sweekly tests. Originally from Mexico,she now lives in Barcelona.

LA ALCAZABA is closed later this month which may be due to filming taking place


THE Workplace Inspection Committeehas given the Junta de Andalucia region-a l government a deadl ine of threemonths to perform a comprehensive se-ries of reparations at the Palace of Jus-tice in Motril.

The Justice Employees Union (STAJ)presented a formal letter at the Provin-cial Workplace Inspection office back inJuly, denouncing the many deficienciesof the building, including the problemswith the air conditioning.

The inspector then held a meet ingwith experts which confirmed the situa-tion alleged by workers and, accordingto their reports , workers have had tobear temperatures of up to 27.5º Celsiuswhile at work, a s i tuat ion which wasmade even worse due to the heat waves

registered in July and August. In addition, the inspector discovered

that the building had never been evaluat-ed to determine the kinds of risk em-ployees are exposed to, such as the ex-treme heat already mentioned.

“The place does not have measure-ments for optimal work temperatures ateach position,” read the inspector’s re-port, which continued: “A prolonged ex-posure to high temperatures togetherwith dehydration could potentially causeserious health problems.”

Other risks found in the office werethe overloading of shelves with folders,the lack of handrails across stairwaysand the existence of exposed cables onthe floor, which could cause falls.

These and many other deficiencies areto be fixed by the Junta de Andalucia re-gional government.

Ultimatum torepair courtBy Maria Jose Fernandez

EXTENSIVE deficiences revealed in report

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AN art project in Bristol that aimedto capture the sound of beechnutsfalling from a 100-year-old tree isscuppered as the tree chosen had nofruit wasting £37,000 (€50,000).

Airport fineA DRIVER has been fined £150

(€200) after getting lost at the RobinHood Airport in Doncaster and stop-ping ‘for seconds’ to get her bearingsand turn around in a dead-end road.

Mad cowA COW on a Welsh farm has been

confirmed as being infected with madcow disease. The disease has not en-tered the food chain and there is norisk to human health according to theauthorities.

Price hikeUK telecoms regulator Ofcom just

announced an inflation-busting pricehike that will triple the licence fees

paid by UK mobile networkoperating companies. Thelikes of EE, O2, Vodafoneand Three must pay thegovernment to use the900MHz and 1800MHz ra-dio frequency spectrumbands, which from Octoberof next year will cost the in-dustry £199.6 million peryear.

Hostile surgery A LEADING female surgeon

from Burton Hospitals NHS Foun-dation Trust has criticised operat-ing theatres for being an ‘oldboys club’ and being hostile en-vironments for women.

EUROPEAN PRESS

Survival success SWEDEN has the highest

cancer survival rates in Eu-rope according to a study bythe European Cancer Con-gress in Vienna. Survival ratesin northern Europe averaged59.6 per cent with Sweden’s at64.7 per cent.

Wealthy SwedesSWEDES are the fourth

wealthiest people in Europeand fifth richest in the worldbehind the Swiss, the Ameri-cans, British and Belgians ac-cording to a wealth study by in-surer Allianz.

Repeat offenderDENMARK: A Palestinian,

aged 25, who stabbed a policeofficer at an asylum centre inDenmark is the same man whois accused of attacking aSwedish minister earlier in theyear.

Wolf attackSWEDEN: Residents in Jar-

bo in central Sweden are con-cerned about increasing wolfattacks after a wolf snatched apuppy from its garden in thetown.

Job shiftDENMARK: Almost 4,000

government jobs in Denmarkwill be moved out of theCopenhagen area to 38 othercities and towns to help create‘better balance.’

Pricey deliveryDENMARK. Postage costs

in Denmark will almost doublefrom January 1, 2016. Firstclass letters will increase fromthe current 10 kroner to 19 kro-ner (€2.55).

Training help NORWAY: The Norwegian

Army’s Combat Training Cen-tre is to receive advanced train-ing and simulation systems andsystem support from Saab. Theorder was issued by the Norwe-gian Defence Logistics Organi-sation and is worth about $16.8million.

THE number of foreign studentsat Dutch universities and collegessoared to 62,000 last academic yearand now accounts for 9 per cent ofthe student body. Cheaper studentfees are a draw, particularly forBritish students.

Police resignationHEAD of the Dutch national po-

lice force has resigned saying he nolonger feels capable of seeing

through the current reor-ganisation of the merger of 26 policeregions into one single national po-lice force.

Early EnglishAN advisory body recommends

that children should learn Englishfrom the age of four, as soon asthey begin at a Dutch primaryschool.

Weaker growthDUTCH industrial growth has

weakened slightly, but companiesreport they are not too worriedabout problems in China and otherdeveloping countries.

Wind powerPOWER generated by

Germany’s wind farms bySeptember surpassed lastyear’s total, thanks tofavourable weather condi-tions and an expansion ofwind farms, producing 59billion kilowatt-hours sofar this year.

Brit moveTHE new British Am-

bassador to Berlin, Sir Se-bastian Wood, has said hehopes relations betweenthe UK and Germany willbecome closer and thatmore young British peoplewill move to Germany.

Top uniTHE number of German

universities among the world’stop 200 has almost doubledsince last year. LMU Munichwas Germany’s highest rank-ing at number 29.

Rent-a-bunkerA HIDDEN Stasi bunker

on the outskirts of Berlin isavailable for rent for€3,000 a month. The nu-clear bunker was built inthe 1980’s.

A giant stepTHREE of the world’s

tallest people have been inGermany to visit the specialistshoemaker who helps maketheir lives bearable. GeorgWessels has produced 500pairs of shoes for the world’stallest people over the last 30years.

Best placeACTRESS Claire Danes

has spoken of her love ofBerlin where she is filming thenew season of Homeland.Speaking on the Ellen De-Generes show she said the no-torious Berghain club was the“best place on Earth.”

Dead or aliveA WOMAN who was de-

clared dead over 30 yearsago after a man admitted toher murder, is alive. Thewoman, now 55, staged herown disappearance but re-fuses to tell police why orto contact her family.

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More and more people going Dutch

DUTCHPRESS

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS: Number of foreign students at Dutch universities and colleges soared.

BEECH tree had no fruit

Project wastes money

CHEAPER student fees are a draw, particularly for British students

OLD BOYSCLUB:

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environmentsfor women.

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CONSTRUCTION of theworld’s first underwaterRussian Orthodox church hasbegun in Crimea with diversplacing a giant cross at thebottom of the Black Sea. It ishoped the underwater templewill draw tourists to thepeninsula.

No tarmacA 500M stretch of a motor-

way in northern Moscow, thatwas stripped of its tarmacduring a renovation pro-gramme, has still not beencovered with new asphalt,worsening congestion on oneof the city’s busiest roads.

Uni risingMOSCOW State Universi-

ty climbed 35 places to 161ston the Times Higher Educa-tion world university rankingslist for 2015-16. It shares itsplace with the University ofMiami in the USA.

Cemeteryauction

AN online auction for 100family burial plots located in13 of Moscow’s ceme-teries is being held inNovember. The auc-tion is part of a wider

bid to improve the quality ofthe funeral services sector.

History changeTHE Kazakh Education

Ministry will correct geographyand history textbooks to re-move references to Crimea as aRussian region. Moscow an-

nexed Crimea

from Ukraine last year, but fewnations have officially recog-nised the region as part of Rus-sia.

End ofconspiracy

A RUSSIAN space enthusi-ast is asking for 800,000 rubles(€10,800) to fund the buildingof a spacecraft to prove that theApollo moon landing reallyhappened and finally endingconspiracy theories.

Baby saleA RUSSIAN woman is on

trial for attempting to sell herfive-month-old son throughWhatsApp for 1.5 millionrubles (€20,000).

Deep recessionNOW, for the first time in the

country’s history, millions ofRussians who cannot pay backtheir debts will be able to filefor bankruptcy. The measure ismeant to ease the financial situ-ation of people struggling withrepayments amid a deep reces-sion.

RUSSIAN PRESS

IT has been reported thatRussian hackers tried at leastfive times to hack into HillaryClinton’s private email ac-count when she was secretaryof state.

Underwater church HOPED to attract tourists to the peninsula

Clinton hackers

BLACK SEA: The world’s first underwater church for divers.

HILLARYCLINTON:Hackingattempt.

By John Smith

MANOS LIMPIAS, a trade unionwhich has a history of taking actionagainst public figures, including theking’s sister, has laid a criminal com-plaint against Volkswagen AG’s threeSpanish units and their chairmen.

They are accused of defraudingconsumers and the tax authorities aswell as damaging the environmentwhilst the Spanish state could alsoface a civil liability case for failing toadequately supervise the carmaker.

To add to their troubles, SEAT an-nounced that the

Spanish government, which offeredsubsidies of €1,000 for energy effi-cient car purchases, requires the man-ufacturer, rather than the consumer, torepay the money where emissionshave been tampered with and nowawaits details of the number of carsaffected.

MO FARAH: Gold medal winner promotes food company.

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‘$48.5 million (€43.4 million) are the single weekend gross takings in America for the children’s film‘Hotel Transylvania 2,’ almost four times as much as the takings for its nearest rival.

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FERNANDO BERNARD and Bel-tran Parages, former executives ofBestinver Asset Management, arestarting a fund focused on underval-ued equities in Spain and abroad.

AzValor Asset Management SGI-IC will be registered with the Span-ish regulator and will include a mu-tual fund focused on Spanish andPortuguese equities with another forinternational equities.

QUORN FOODS, the meatsubst i tute company, hasbeen sold to Monde Nissinin the Philippines for £550million (€770 million).

Produced in Yorkshireand advertised as a healthyproduct by Olympic goldmedal winner Mo Farah,the food is produced fromfungus and is available ei-

ther on its own or in readymeals including burgersand sausages.

Currently employing 620people in the UK and ex-porting to 15 countries, themanagement expect to notonly increase the numberof staff employed, but toalso expand into the lucra-tive Asian market.

Quorn is gobbledup by Filipino firm

Mint securityGUNNEBO SPAIN, a sub-sidiary of a Swedish group, haswon a €1.8 million contract toincrease security at a banknotefactory belonging to the Span-ish Royal Mint. The factorycontains a paper mill fromwhich banknotes are printedand Gunnebo has been ap-pointed to provide armouredpanels to shield the factory.

Repsol saleREPSOL has announcedthat it has sold part of itspiped gas business to GasNatural Distribution and Re-dexis Gas for €652m. It hasnow surpassed its goal ofraising €900m from the saleof non-strategic assets.

Battle is overEIGHTEEN lawsuits had beenactive between the companies,Microsoft and Google, relatingto the use of technologies inmobile phones, Wifi and otherareas but in a joint statementthey have now said that theywould ‘collaborate on certainpatent matters.’

STOCK markets around the world ended thethird quarter of 2015 with a slight flurry ofpositive activity but overall it has been theirworst quarter for four years.

There were falls of between 7 per cent

and 15 per cent with the Shanghai Indexfalling furthest, down 25 per cent.

Confidence in stocks has been hit by thecrisis in Greece, the Chinese slowdown andthe threat of higher interest rates.

Worst quarter for four years

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The amount SEAT will repay tothe Spanish government foreach ‘rogue’ diesel car sold.

Quote of the Week‘My job is to think always about the future of our company’Ralph Lauren on announcing that he was stepping down as

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SOONER or later, Greece will start todominate Euro-related news again, nowthat Alexis Tsipras and his left-wing partyhave been sworn back into power.

After the latest general elections, MrTsipras breezed back into the poisoned hot-seat with even more power than before.

The anti-austerity leader had managed tostrike a last-minute deal with its creditorsfor a sum of €86bn, preventing Greecefrom defaulting on its debts and beingforced out of the Eurozone.

Investors are still pointing to Greece’slong-term issues as the key indicator forEuro deterioration against most majorcounterparts into the first quarter of 2016.

There is an air of anticipation thatGBPEUR could start to head back towards

1.40 once the US finally starts to move itsown interest rates.

In other news, the EU QuantitativeEasing Programme (QE) may be allowed tocontinue beyond its scheduled expiry dateof September 2016.

After its early success and signs of realeconomic improvement, questions arestarting to surface again as to whether thebond-purchasing programme may need tobe extended, due mainly to slow growthand weak inflation figures.

The latest figures for September actuallyshowed that the Eurozone had ‘deflated’ asprices fell by 0.1 per cent. This is the firsttime in six months that the numbers havefallen into negative territory.

President of the European Central Bank,Mario Draghi, had warned this couldhappen, so there were no sudden shocks forthe market. There are expectations that MrDraghi wants to keep the Euro relativelyweak, especially against the greenback, asexports have been gaining from a frailcurrency pairing of EURUSD.

Greece to dominate economic newsagain after left-wing election victory

ANTICIPATION: It is believed that the pound to euro rate could head towards 1.40.

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SEPTEMBER saw consumerprices in Spain fall at their fastestrate in seven months, accordingto early estimates from the coun-try’s National Statistics Institute(INE), partly due to lower energycosts.

While retail sales continue togrow on the back of increasingdemand, the overall view fromthe EU is that Spain is currentlyenjoying a period of negative in-flation.

There are indications that, forthe first time in eight months,Germany will also record nega-tive inflation during September.

While high inflation is consid-ered to be bad for any economy,less prominence is given to nega-tive inflation but this latest newsmay not be welcomed by the Eu-ropean Central Bank, which has aprogramme of quantitative easingaimed at an overall inflation rateof 2 per cent across Europe,which it considers will help eco-nomic growth within the Euro-zone.

FOR many years, it has always been atradition that in times of financial dis-turbance, precious metals in general,and gold in particular, are an idealhome for investments rather thanstocks and shares.

The metal has been particularlyvolatile since the global market turn-down and both gold and silver have hitrecord prices. Although they have re-trenched to some extent, they still standat much higher levels than before theturn-down; gold more so than silver.

Like so many other areas of finance,however, the question now arises as towhether these prices have been orches-trated over the years as authorities inSwitzerland have announced a probeinto global banks over the suspectedmanipulation of the price of preciousmetals.

The Swiss Competition Commission(Comco) has said it will investigateseven banks saying it had “indications”that the banks had “possibly concludedillegal competition-defying deals.”

Comco said its investigation will in-clude Barclays, Deutsche Bank, HS-

BC, Mitsui, Morgan Stanley and Swissbanks Julius Baer and UBS over whatit said were “possible price-fixingdeals, especially in connection withspreads.”

A ‘spread’ is defined as the differ-

ence between the bidding price and theactual price of a commodity or otherasset.

HSBC is already involved in a caseof metal price-fixing in New York,where it is among several companies

that were accused of having conspiredsince 2007 to rig the twice-daily plat-inum and palladium fixings. Apartfrom these two metals, gold and silverare also included in the Swiss investi-gation.

Precious metal prices are underscrutiny from Swiss Authorities

Further fallin Spanishinflation rate

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ACCORDING to Forbes Entrepreneurs, 90 percent of business start-ups will fail. I imagine thetroops at Ypres had a better chance of survival.It seems rather disheartening to write out yourcompany’s obituary before it is born.

Running a business is akin to running agauntlet. You set your hopes high, you invest,you set out your business plan and you workhard to make your business a success.

Facing hard times, many businesses resort todishonest practices to survive. I believe ‘sloppi-ness’ at the till to be institutionalised robbery.Overcharging or failure to record a discounthappens far too often for it to be an oversight.

I recall the Benidorm bar owner who adver-tised €1 pints. When the half-pint glasses werequestioned, he replied: “These are Benidormpints, señor.”

In another Costa resort, a large beer andbaguette was advertised for just €4. It was irre-sistible but fool’s gold, as the baguette was the

size of a finger. The assumption is that touristsare unlikely to return or remember. However,there is a drip-drip, toxic, effect on a resort’sreputation and also on the better-run businesses.

Thanks to the Internet and social media, peo-ple now enjoy a power to influence that a 1960sprovincial newspaper editor could only dreamof. A resort’s prosperity can be damaged ir-

reparably by a few letters in a national newspa-per, a poor news report or negative comments insocial media.

Tourism thrives or fails on visitor experi-ences. It is not hard to imagine the negative out-come if tourists, returning to their home coun-tries, slate a country or resort. Yet the solution issimple.

It would take only a couple of tourist officestaff to invite complaints and patrol tourist areaslooking out for evidence of sharp practice.Those businesses resorting to cheating should beshown a ‘red card’ and their trading licence re-moved if they are repeat offenders.

This simple solution would help to launder aresort’s image and all legitimate businesseswould benefit as a result. Who knows, it maywell reduce the number of failed businesses.

Sharp practice is a business killer

HARD TIMES: Many companies resort to dishonest practices to stay afloat.

Talking shop Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh was for 20 years Regional AssessmentManager for the Guild of Master Craftsmen, Britain’sbiggest quality assurance body for businesses. www.michaelwalsh.es • 966 786 932

The number of business start-ups that are expected to

eventually fail.

90%

WATCHING ‘Comrade Corbyn’ address lastweek’s Labour Party Conference, I found my-self experiencing odd twinges of deja vu. Thenit dawned on me; his rhetoric was exactly likethe conversations we had back in the 60’s.

The long ‘flower-power,’ ‘pot-inspired’ ex-changes of young enthusiastic ideas on how wecould change the world. Deep into the night wewould discuss the dreams and ideals thatwould enable us all to live happily ever after ina conflict-free, loving environment; all with noidea at all how to turn our schemes into reality.

Of course, we were hopelessly naive and,most important of all, extremely young andpainfully ignorant of the ways of the world andits workings. However, in the main, we werecompletely harmless. And that’s where thesimilarity between Mr Corbyn and the flower-power idealists of old falls down.

This man is not some starry-eyed, naiveyoungster, hoping to turn the world into a

peace loving Shangri-La. In my opinion he is adeceit riddled, extremely experienced, highlydangerous far-left operator; using these idealsto snare as many (mainly young) people aspossible into embracing him as a kind of 21st-century saviour who will lead his people tosome euphoric utopia.

Of course, nothing could be further from thetruth. I believe this man is fully aware that hispolicies will deliver us into Communism andthe clutches of our enemies. Not his enemies ofcourse; his record of embracing our adversarieshas been well chronicled over the years.

His are the politics of stealth. I shudderwhen I see the faces that gaze up at him. I sawthe same look on the followers of David Kore-sh, Jim Jones and Charles Manson; all danger-ous manipulators who also promised their fol-lowers they could lead them to the ‘PromisedLand’ and who held far less influential posi-tions than Jeremy Cobyn and his TUC cronies.

No, I would be very wary indeed of Mr Cor-byn. The devious leopards of the left seldomchange their spots.

Keep the faith, Love Leapy [email protected]

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Corbyn’s intent is hidden by rhetoric

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT

LABOUR leader promises equality but he intends to deliver us to our enemies

PEACE AND LOVE: Naive beliefs are for the young, not for experienced politicians.

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NEW traffic laws came into force lastweek in Spain with the main objective ofprotecting children in cars.

Now, all children measuring 135cm inheight or less must ride in the rear seats ofa vehicle, irrespective of their age, andthey must be in the correct seat and re-straint according to their age and weight.

There are a number of exceptions to therules, for example, when the vehicle doesnot have rear seats, when all rear seats arealready occupied by others under the samecharacteristics and where it is not possibleto install approved child seat restraints inthose rear seats.

Children can then sit in the front seatbut must still wear the appropriate restraintuntil they are taller than 150cm and thenthey can use the vehicle seat belt.

This amendment of article 117 also stip-ulates that child restraints must be in-stalled in the vehicle in accordance withthe instructions provided by the manufac-turer.

The modification of this law reflects thescientific evidence from numerous studiesthat demonstrate the benefit of childrentravelling in the rear seats of vehicles inorder to strengthen their protection.

A study in the USA looked at 5,751 ve-hicle occupants under the age of 15 whohad suffered a serious car incident. Thestudy showed that sitting in the back seathad a protective effect with respect to seri-ous injury or death. A further study in Aus-

tralia concluded that the risk of death inchildren under the age of four involved inan incident whilst travelling was doubledif they sat in the front.

The risk of death was four times higherif the child was under the age of one.

Not only is the risk of injury higher inthe front seats, but also the severity of in-juries sustained, according to the Crash In-jury Research Engineering Network(CIREN).

Spain’s DGT has also seen growingconcerns for safety of children in vehicles.In 2014, two of the 14 children under 12years of age who were killed whilst travel-ling in vehicles were not wearing any safe-ty device at the time of the accident.

As you describe it,the item was dis-

cussed but never voted.This means the Presidentwas never authorised to putthe measure into effect, es-pecially if it requires thespending of Communitymoney. Yes, the proper pro-cedure now is to call anEGM to discuss the planand to vote on it. In fact, the

proper procedure wouldhave been to vote on the is-sue at the time rather thandropping it. Unless there issome specific informationmissing, it seems the Presi-dent acted improperly. Notealso any member present atthe meeting can call for avote on the issue at handwhen he feels that furtherdiscussion is not helpful.

At our AGM in 2014, an item on theagenda was eventually withdrawn

by the President after a debate inwhich every speaker opposed his plan. Nowin 2015, this item from the 2014 agenda item

has been implemented. Other than a healthor safety issue, is this in order? Should therehave been an Extraordinary General Meet-ing to discuss the merits of the issue again?

RD (Mallorca)

LEGALLY SPEAKING

New traffic laws forchildren in vehiclesAS 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.

Any memberpresent at

the meetingcan call for

a vote on theissue at hand.

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

David SearlYou and the Law in Spain

Can the President act on his own?

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


CHILD SAFETY: Rear seats to be used.

AS I have been retired now for someyears I have a lot of time on my hand.This, of course, is something cold callersdon’t know and although I don’t needsomeone to sort out my PPI I’m quitehappy to wind them up!

“Hi, is this a good time to talk to youabout PPI?” Me: “Sure”. Fifteen minuteslater I say, “Excuse me, can you startagain as I have short term memory lossand I don’t remember why you called meor did I call you? Is that you?Mum/Dad?” Then they hang up and I’vekilled more time.

But my favourite phone call is fromthe bank: “Hello is that Mr Senker? Thisis Mary from HSBC”. “Yes it’s me.”Mary: “OK I just need to ask you some

security questions”. Me: “What? Youcalled me, you know it’s me!” Mary:“Yes but before I can continue I needyou to answer a few questions.” Me:“How do I know you are Mary from HS-BC? I need YOU to answer some ques-tions. So what’s your mother’s maidenname? Your first car? The name of yourfirst pet?” This goes on for a few min-utes and we finally decide that we areboth who we say we are, or in her case Iam the person she phoned. On MY mo-bile phone! So what’s the problem?

Apparently I went on holiday withouttelling them! “Sorry why do I have to tellyou I’m going on holiday?” “Because wenoticed your card was used in a hotel inLas Vegas.” “You mean the hotel Ibooked with this credit card six monthsago and the same card I paid for theflight with?” “Err yes.” So another 20minutes gone. What shall I do now?Maybe Movistar or Orange will phoneme and I can listen to someone rattlingoff to me in Spanish for 10 minutes be-fore I say “Lo siento no hablo Espanol.”

Mike SenkerIn my opinionViews of a Grumpy Old Man

I’M quite happy to wind up cold callers

Apparently I wentaway on holiday!


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I REFER to your article about the Mi-jas donkeys in last week’s paper(1578). Like many other tourists welove the Mijas Pueblo and there isnothing against people trying to makea living with donkey carts. But thereare rules to follow all the way.

These are living creatures withthe same feelings like humans, so ifthey need to work, they need to betaken GOOD care of. Meaning get-ting proper food and being able todrink in the extreme heat of Spain.Also standing and waiting for thenext ride they should have shade.And of course they shouldn’t bebeaten!

If the owners fail on these points,their licence should be taken awayand they shouldn’t be allowed toexecute their profession any more.

The video of the beating anddragging the donkey is not onlyharmful to the animal, but also totourism! Fact is that tourists aregetting fed up with all animal abusein Spain, whether it is concerningthe donkeys, the hunting, the bull-fighting and abandoning domesticanimals. It gives Spain a very badname.

Wietse Haak, Netherlandsby email

Good for her!WHILE reading your newspaper Icame across the article where Ami-na Axelsson jumped the bullringwith a protest sign. All I can say is :GOOD FOR HER! Same as PeterJanssen from Holland and VictoriaRuiz from Spain. We have to getmore attention for these atrocitiesthat are still being done to thesepoor creatures. Let us not forget weare talking about mammals.

They have the same feelings ashuman beings, like pain and fear.What is wrong with people thatthey can enjoy the torture, pain anddeath of an innocent animal? Ontop of that it is subsidised by theEuropean Union. Also a lot of townhalls support the bullfighting.

In the meantime, thousands ofpeople can’t get proper health careor education because of the lack ofmoney. In other words: This crueltyHAS to stop NOW. Don’t EVER

visit bullfighting. Thank you.Mary Bloemendaal,

Mijas, by email

Nothing newWITH reference to Leapy’s col-umn, I have an acquaintance here inHolland whose sole function is toprovide Saudi money to buildmosques.

I guess they finance the buildingof mosques in most countries.Nothing new there.

Perhaps they feel that it putsthem in the good books of theiralmighty. It would appear that theyare not building enough, becausethe loss of devotee’s lives in Meccacontinues to be horrendous. Year in,year out.

As good catholics often say. ‘TheLord works in mysterious ways.’You bet your butt he does.

When an Iraqi journalist friend ofmine in London, chided his Saudibosses for constantly knocking thedecadent west, he politely pointedout, ‘Who Built your Car, your

Boat, your Computer, your Watch,your Radio, your iPhone… etc..’They arrogantly replied that theydid not need to develop any of thesethings because the West providesthem in exchange for OUR oil.

‘Hmmn,’ Roy Leon, via website

Paris puppysnatchSHAME on you madam the puppyneeds to be given back to the home-less man and a full investigation

started. The homeless man was sovery upset and the puppy why thepeople watching did not help is be-yond me. Are we all not willing tohelp a fellow human beings?

Norah Button,via website

ProcessionarycaterpillarsI READ your article about proces-sionary caterpillars in last week’sedition, and would like a lead ifpossible to find out which type ofbird likes to eat them. I have a lotof pine trees in my finca, as well asdogs, and spend a lot of hours cut-ting out the nests, which often in-cludes lopping the trees as they of-ten seek the highest branches tolocate their nests. Perhaps you havea contact at Mijas Council whocould help with some advice.

Thanks in advanceAlan Porter

Editor’s note:Thank you for your letter. You

can obtain the help you need bysending an email with your ques-tions to: [email protected].

Sounding thedeath knell

ANYONE who is **** enough tovote Corbyn in as the new PM atthe next election will sound thedeath knell for this once great coun-try of ours.

Mind you, when more people un-derstand what a buffoon he is hewill disappear.

Roy Peters, via website

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CONCERNING the article, ‘Mijas donkey taxi the next step’: I hope all this works out as itsounds as if this man is very sincere in this situation and it sounds a very good idea! There mustbe quite a few people that live up there who would volunteer a couple of hours a week to thisscheme... wish I lived there, I know I would! Beautiful place and especially only children/light

weight teenagers on the donkeys. I was there in June and they are lovely creatures. I have been and visited on afew occasions over the years and they are one of the attractions, but I always feel sorry for them with heavyadults sitting on them. Keep up the good work.

Tourists are getting fed upwith all animal abuse in Spain

Barbara Russell, via website

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12:00am The Vice1:35am Inspector Morse3:25am ITV3 Nightscreen3:30am Teleshopping

2:15pm Minder3:20pm Pawn Stars3:50pm Gunsmoke4:55pm Rugby World Cup

Highlights6:00pm BT World

Wheelchair RugbyChallenge

10:35pm Storage Wars11:00pm MotoGP12:00am The Last House on

the Left1:00am FYI Daily

MONDAY - 12 OCTOBER

4:45pm Home Away From Home

5:30pm Antiques Road Trip

6:15pm Pointless7:00pm BBC News7:30pm Regional News8:00pm The One Show8:30pm EastEnders9:00pm Holby City10:00pm River11:00pm BBC News11:25pm Regional

News11:30pm Weather11:35pm Brett12:35am Who Do You Think

You Are?

2:15pm Home and Away2:45pm Neighbours3:15pm NCIS4:15pm The Good Witch's

Family6:00pm 5 News6:30pm Neighbours7:00pm Home and Away7:30pm 5 News8:00pm Police Interceptors9:00pm The Yorkshire Vet10:00pm Witch Hunt11:00pm CSI: Cyber11:55pm The Mysteries of

Laura12:55am The Mysteries of

Laura1:40am Super Casino

5:30pm Natural World6:15pm Flog It!7:00pm Eggheads7:30pm Strictly Come


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2:10pm Deal or No Deal3:10pm Countdown4:00pm Fifteen to One5:00pm A Place in the Sun6:00pm Four in a Bed6:30pm Come Dine with

Me7:00pm The Simpsons7:30pm Hollyoaks8:00pm Channel 4 News8:55pm The Political Slot9:00pm Obsessive

Compulsive Cleaners

10:00pm Educating Cardiff

11:00pm Girls to Men12:05am First Dates

5:00pm Tipping Point6:00pm The Chase7:00pm Local News and


Weather8:00pm Emmerdale8:30pm Deals, Wheels and

Steals9:00pm Eternal Glory10:00pm Lewis11:00pm ITV News at Ten

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Wheelchair RugbyChallenge

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9:00pm Harvest 201510:00pm Face of Britain by

Simon Schama11:00pm The Apprentice11:30pm Newsnight12:10am Weather

9:00pm Bangkok Airport10:00pm Don't Tell the

Bride11:00pm Russell Howard's

Good News11:30pm Asian Provocateur12:00am Family Guy12:22am Family Guy

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Men9:30pm Two and a Half

Men10:00pm Through the

Keyhole11:00pm Release the

Hounds12:00am Tricked

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House5:50pm Rising Damp6:20pm In Loving Memory6:55pm Heartbeat8:00pm Murder, She Wrote9:00pm Midsomer

Murders11:00pm Law and Order:

UKCrime drama based on the hit US series Law andOrder.

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9:00pm The Search for Life: The Drake Equation

10:00pm Planet Oil11:00pm Ultimate Swarms12:00am The Great British

Year1:00am The Magic of

Mushrooms

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12:30am The Horizon Guideto Ageing

1:30am Twin Sisters

WHAT the hell is wrong with people?Last week it was reported that a dog

whose legs had been tied together hadbeen rescued from a canal in Rojales.The week before, a disturbing picture ofa number of dead cats was published inone of the local papers. They were sub-jects of a mass poisoning in Pilar de laHoradada and more are thought to havedied the same way.

In our own Los Dolses neighbour-hood, two cats - both wearing collarsand obviously somebody’s pets - havealso been poisoned.

On Saturday whilst enjoying our reg-ular morning coffee, we observed ayoung girl struggling with a decrepitlooking pet carry basket which she tookinto the nearby Little Pod charity shop.

We could see her in conversationwith one of the volunteers, gesturing to-ward the basket, after several minutes of

which, curiosity got the better of mywife and she went to investigate.

The upshot is, we now have somenew temporary residents in the shape ofthree enchanting kittens.

Little Pod, like all such animal chari-ties are simply overflowing with straysand were unable to take in these three,and although it is out of the questionthat we can accommodate them on apermanent basis, we felt bound to pro-vide temporary protection.

It seems that the young girl had foundthem dumped beside a rubbish bin nearthe market in Playa Flamenca and hadstruggled for over half a mile to thecharity shop only to be told ‘no room atthe inn.’

We already have two rescued cats ofour own, so as much as we would loveto give these guys a permanent address,we now have the problem of findingsafe homes for these lively and thor-oughly engaging characters.All becausesomebody regarded them as trash.

When I think of these extremes of hu-man behaviour - cruelty and com-passion - I have come to theconclusion that there are two or-ders of humans on this planet - onea sub species of the other.

SQUATTING between Poland and Latvia is insu-lar malevolent Lithuania. After 10 blissful days inLatvia and Estonia we were warned against visit-ing this Baltic State but decided to go anyway.

Speak English not Russian was the advice given.Problem; the Lithuanians dislike Russians but fewspeak English. At the border our documents werescrutinised by grim-faced border control officers.The Red Army departed in 1991 but left the Sovietmind-set behind.

The following day our tetchy bus driver took usto Kaunas, parts of which resembles Berlin 1945.There, the clown hit the brakes so savagely an un-fortunate lady passenger was catapulted against thebus windscreen shattering it. The ambulance andpolice arrived 20-minutes later; for all the use theywere why did they bother?

It doesn’t get any better in chip-on-its-shoulder-land. It was now clear why a Lithuanian explainedthat commuters prefer the impersonality of thetrain as a travel alternative.

That afternoon, our bus driver from hell exam-ined our tickets; in large letters KAUNAS toKAUNAS AIRPORT €1.04. Having twice reas-sured my Russian speaking non-Russian wife of

the airport destination we took our seats. We were 30-minutes into the 15km journey

when she again sought reassurance. He brusquelytold her; “We are not going to the airport, we aregoing to Vilnius,” which is in the opposite direc-tion.

Despite her distress and passengers’ alarm thedriver refused to allow us to alight. As a conse-quence we were stranded in Lithuania for a furtherthree days and incurred airline and hotel costs ex-ceeding €750.

Of course we rattle the Lithuanian cage but themonkeys inside offer only a one-fingered salute.The State Department of Tourism and police areindifferent; if a driver of a public service vehicledoesn’t allow a passenger to alight it is false im-prisonment; this is the law. The complicit bus com-panies suggest the labyrinth process of bureaucrat-ic complaint simply to consider the issue.

A Latvian friend tells me Ecolines Bus Service of-fer tickets for the 300km four-hour Riga to Vilnius tripat €4. No thanks, we prefer North Korea.

Colin BirdA weekly look

Mike Walsh

Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is aninternational journalist, author and professional writer.

Be grateful you weren’t here

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

WE were warned against visiting the Baltic State, but decided to go anyway

Two species of humanity!I HAVE come to the conclusion that there are two orders of humans on this planet

THERE has been somethingmore than a little suggestiveof Alice’s Adventures inWonderland about the run upto the Catalan elections.

There were however a fewjokers in the pack as Tweedle-dum was played by ArturMas, president of the pro-se-cession party and Tweedledeewas well portrayed by primeminister Mariano Rajoy.

As the simple election be-came a referendum in theeyes of Mr Mas, so he be-came the Knave of Hearts inthe eyes of Mr Rajoy. Ratherthan shout ‘Off with hishead,’ the prime minister be-came the King of Hearts asfirst Mr Mas and his partywere investigated for allegedfraud and then members werecharged with conducting anillegal referendum in 2014.

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Par-ty saw Jean-Claude Juncker,assisted by March Hare An-gela Merkel and DormouseDavid Cameron all join in onthe side of Spain warning MrMas of the dire consequencesof declaring independence.

The fact that less than 50per cent of those who votedsupported the secessionistparties didn’t really bother MrMas and he indicated thatwithin 18 months the au-tonomous community of Cat-alonia would be ready tolaunch itself as the newestcountry in Europe.

Then - they all woke up.Hopefully after the ritualclashing of horns, there willbe a sensible solution.


YOUR PAPER - YOUR VOICE - YOUR OPINION

Now we want to

hear your views.

Catalonianow dusthas settled

ENCHANTING KITTENS: Our three temporary residents.

OUR VIEW

BUS SERVICE: Lithuanian commuters prefer the impersonality of the train.


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SCORPIO(October 24 - November 22)Your workaday, family and financialtrends offer little respite from ironing outa variety of comings and goings. This ispartly because not everyone is being co-operative, but it would be a big mistaketo rock any boats close to you.

SAGITTARIUS(November 23 - December 21)If you’re single, get out and about, and ifyou’re job hunting or working towards aparticular result, stay on course. This isdefinitely a phase to follow yourinstincts. With the spotlight on yoursocial, home and self-motivatedactivities, you could be in for someunexpected surprises. Nothing is everlost by trying.

CAPRICORN(December 22 - January 20)Your ambitious streak will be in fullflow. Stay glued to what you do best, andit will be much easier to get others onyour side. The new Moon in Capricornwill heighten your chances of makingthe right contacts or receiving some use-

ful advice. If you’re tempted to buy ho-me-related items or useful gadgets, bud-get with care.

AQUARIUS(January 21 - February 19)During at least one part of your weekthe glamorous Sun comes out to shine,and together with the new Moon inrealistic Capricorn, sweeps across yourworking, home and social life. Go-getters will definitely benefit fromwhatever moves are afoot.

PISCES(February 20 - March 20)Trust your instincts about those whochop and change. Chill out on Tuesday,and start planning next year’s ideas -with the Sun making friendly aspectswith determined Saturn, you should beconcentrating on promoting all you haveto offer.

ARIES(March 21 - April 20)Be ready for a refreshing cycle ofpossibilities, as the Sun is in charge of

your short and long-term aspirations.Regardless of what is happening in thebackground, or whatever thankless tasksniggle you on Wednesday and Friday,your efforts will reward you at work, orwherever you need to improve yoursituation. Meanwhile, watch your diet.

TAURUS(April 21 - May 21)You, of all the signs, best know thevalue of taking each day as it happens.It’s the old story of making time to catchup with life’s little routines. Spread yourefforts, and you’ll reach your goals muchfaster. The tempo is picking up, and whatyou encounter will confirm that you’regetting somewhere.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)Both kind-hearted Venus and butterflyMercury flutter with luck. This week’splanetary sound-bites suggest that youwiden your social circle and conquernew horizons. Also, the lively Sun isready to dawn on a positive outlook forany long-term changes. Forget the

1. HESPERIDES, 2. CONTINENTS (Asia, Europe,Australia, Africa, South America, Antarctica, NorthAmerica), 3. STEVE JOBS and STEVE WOZNI-AK, 4. POMME, 5. ADAM’S APPLE, 6. CALVA-DOS, 7. TOMATO, 8. SCOTS DUMPY - which isa breed of chicken, 9. WALDORF SALAD, 10.NEW YORK

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10-Star Quiz THE APPLEOF MY EYE

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mixed blessings, you should try and get off the grindstone. Although theemphasis seems to be on home, family and practical property tasks, you’llbe running true to Libran form, trying to help everyone around you. Don’tforget that the planets are positively geared towards fresh steps and newprojects.

YOURSTARS

LIBRA (Sept 24 - October 23)

IRISH LOTTO EURO MILLIONS LA PRIMITIVA EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA

UK NATIONALLOTTERY

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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.

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hassles, and dig deep. Take Thursdayand the weekend in your stride.

CANCER(June 22 - July 23)If you cannot avoid conflicting opinionsor certain odds and ends, accept themand show just how tactful you can be.You might not hold a winning hand, butat one point you’ll be able to teach aswell as learn. In your head-to-headdiscussions, leave things as they are untilthe signs are right.

LEO(July 24 - August 23)Even if you’ve been feeling out of sortsor confused about a certain person oryour future, it won’t be long before youget a clearer picture. All things changeeventually, so don’t apply anyunnecessary pressure to yourself orothers. You’ll be surprised at how muchbetter you feel, especially if you’reexpecting a gleam of hope.

VIRGO(August 24 - September 23)Considering some of the things that areabout to happen, you’ll be wise tofollow your feelings. Your ability toanalyse and understand other people isone of your supreme assets. The linksbetween your job, personal and familylives suggest that you need to be a jotmore flexible. Remember, you wereborn to succeed.

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How many Englishwords of four

letters or more canyou make from thenine letters in ourNonagram puzzle?Each letter may be

used only once(unless the letterappears twice).

Each word MUSTCONTAIN THE

CENTRE LETTER(in this case R)

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nurse’ is used to remember the seven what? 3. What are the surnames of the two ‘Steves’

who co-founded Apple, along with RonaldWayne, in April 1976? 4. What is the French word for apple? 5. What name is often given to the projection

at the front of the neck formed by the thyroidcartilage of the larynx, often prominent in men? 6. Which French region of Lower Normandy

(Basse-Normandie) gives its name to a dry ap-ple brandy? 7. Which fruit was once known as a ‘love ap-

ple’? 8. Which of the following is not the name of a

variety of apple: Beauty of Bath, Charles Ross,Egremont Russet, Laxton’s Epicure or ScotsDumpy? 9. Which salad, named after a famous US ho-

tel, is typically made from apples, walnuts, cel-ery and mayonnaise? 10. Which US city is often nicknamed the ‘BigApple’?

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LAST WEEK’SSOLUTIONS

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7 Season, 8 Monaco,10 Rollers, 11 Spice,12 Chad, 13 Tiber,17 Salad, 18 Game,22 Aloft, 23 Elation,24 Teaser, 25 Relate.

1 Ostrich, 2 Tableau,3 Cover, 4 Dossier, 5 Basil, 6 Homer, 9 Estimates,14 Wastrel, 15 Capital,16 Meander, 19 Malta,20 Moral, 21 Haven.

7 Repair, 8 Leaves, 9 Fade, 10 Presents, 11 Adapted, 13 Reply, 15 Eager, 17 Leisure, 20 Organise, 21 Half, 22 Severe, 23 Solved.

1 Demand, 2 Wage, 3 Gripped, 4 Sleek, 5 Careless, 6 Dental, 12 Prepares, 14 Reverse, 16 Agreed, 18 Relief, 19 Fires, 21 Hill.

1 Cena, 3 Stamp, 8 Respuesta, 9 Acebo,10 Spade, 12 Ama de casa,

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1 Cucharas, 2 Nurse, 4 Thursday, 5 Más, 6 Espoleta, 7 Cacerola, 11 Araña, 13 Ajo.

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ENGLISH-SPANISHAcross1 Pleasant (9)8 Salir (5)9 Usuarios (5)

11 Room (in a house) (4)12 Mass (religious) (4)14 Fecha (día preciso) (4)16 Side (of person) (4)19 Temprano (5)21 Corto (longitud, distancia) (5)22 Direcciones (9)

Down2 Vidrio (material) (5)3 Birds (4)4 Blue (4)5 Mentira (embuste) (3)6 Fontanero (7)7 Seat (place to sit) (7)

10 Triste (persona) (3)13 Todo (en su totalidad) (3)15 Arriba (indicando situación) (5)17 Yesterday (4)18 Bears (animals) (4)20 Rojo (color) (3)

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one letter in four other cells are given as clues.Hexagram


Across1 Mix curds at teatime for this

dessert (7)5 Races around troubles (5)8 Brave group from Mount Ribense

(5)9 Sweet desert traveller buries

Egyptian god (7)10 Sage going out for a long time (4)11 Eight are odd-looking lot (8)13 Current form for master? (6)15 Romeo following beam (6)18 Torn, battered Bible swapped for

summer shirt (8)19 Prohibits saloons (4)22 High ground cleft by rushing

stream? (7)23 An advance, we hear, on its own

(5)24 Breaks useful for snooker players

(5)25 Woman with others on a

mountain (7)

Down1 Sword that might harm a girl (7)2 A bad shot with the wedge (5)3 Space is part of Far East (4)4 Court order last month regarding

energy (6)5 Icon’s car damaged coming from

a Mediterranean island? (8)6 Rent man injured in scrap (7)7 Dorsal vertebra contains soothing

ointment (5)12 Anonymous travelling salesmen

(8)

14 Gives back about turns (7)16 In regard to deference (7)17 Fellow the French say is kind

(6)18 Coach tour diverted going round

square (5)20 Rebuilt abode using clay (5)21 Ignoble foundation (4)

Code BreakerEach number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 22represents B and 26 represents Z, so fill in B every time the figure 22 appears and Z every time the figure 26appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missingsquares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and thecontrol grid.

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WITH the start of the new school termcomes the endless letters and noticesabout the after school sports clubs andwhilst some parents worry about over-loading their children with extra activi-ties on top of school and homework,experts say it should be encouraged assport is crucial to maintaining ahealthy lifestyle.

Professionals say the high rates ofchildhood obesity and the increasingavailability of sedentary leisure ac-tivities, often leads children to forgetabout exercise and staying active andsports are often a good way to

achieve a balance.As a result, the University Chil-

dren’s Hospital of Madrid, have organ-ised their annual ‘Run for Children’race which takes place on November 8with the aim of raising awareness ofthe importance of sports and physicalactivity in children and adolescents.

The hospital said: “There are manyentertainment options that are easy andcomfortable that do not involve anyphysical activity or motivation or stim-ulation for children and by doing theseexclusively it can facilitate the onset ofhealth problems.” The hospital advis-es: “To avoid falling into the tempta-tion of a sedentary lifestyle it is best toplan ahead, organise some time forsports and more active activities.”

There are a number of benefits tosports according to the experts. Thepractice of moderate physical exercisecontributes to maintaining good over-

all health and exercise can be consid-ered a prevention tool against obesityespecially in the case of children andadolescents. Moderate exercise canhelp you unwind and get a better quali-ty of sleep and simply wear childrenout before bedtime. Children throughsport can realise the value and rewardsof continuous effort and training andhelp them achieve goals and see im-provements in their skill levels.

Team sports also encourage sociali-sation and help the child to share tri-umphs and defeats and enjoy beingpart of a team. Playing sports can be achannel for improving the self-esteemof children and adolescents and the im-mediate sense of well-being producedby physical exercise is due to the re-lease of endorphins, commonly knownas the ‘feel good’ hormones as they areresponsible for facilitating and generat-ing a sense of well-being and vitality.

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IF you have taken the decision to change yourlife, lose weight and get into shape, youknow that it isn’t going to happenovernight. Unfortunately these dayswe rely on too many quick fixes thatrequire virtually no effort toacquire. You can buy your hair,nails and enhanced body parts,fairly easily. However it isstill apparent that in orderto own a truly balanced fithealthy body, you have towork for it.

Building cardiovascularfitness can be a relative-ly fast process if you are preparedto put in the effort and consistentlyraise the bar so that you do not re-main in a comfort zone. Sculptingmuscle and shaping your body takes alittle longer.

One of the most important things youshould do before you start your fitnessand weight-loss journey is to weighyourself and take measurements, takinga photograph from all three angles front,side and back is a great idea, I often do thiswith my clients. As the weeks and monthsgo by, you feel your body changing, , your

clothes feel looser, you get compliments fromother people, but you see yourself every dayso it is not so easy to see how many changeshave taken place as a result of your hard work.

The scale alone is not an adequate tool toshow an overall picture when it comes to thechange process of body shape, imbalance

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of their journey and how theylook three months later. I had a client recently that did a

before and after bikini photo, and thechanges in her body after three

months were astounding. This in itselfwas a great motivator to keep her on theright track. Even after many years oftraining, I too am aware that it can behard to maintain your discipline andmotivation unless you can actually see

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Before your weight-loss journey, take aphoto of yourself

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MOST people dismiss theirtiredness and lack of energydue to running around and lead-ing busy lives, but fatigue couldhide a more serious underlyingproblem; iron deficiency.

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To increase your iron intake,lean red meat is a good sourceof nutrients with high iron lev-els with a steak providing threetimes more iron than chickenand 250 per cent more thanbroccoli. To further boost yourintake, try drinking fruit juice.

Millions affected by a lack ofiron causing over tirednessLEAN red meat is a good source of nutrients with a high level

IRON INTAKE: Millions are not getting enough.

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Instinct in dogs can bemade stronger or weaker SELF-PRESERVATION has lessened with breeding but can never be completely removed

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A dog with an obsession for chasingballs can be controlled by training andby providing other outlets for its ener-gy. If a young dog is corrected thefirst time it chases a car it may give upthe idea. But if it is allowed to chasecars the hunting instinct becomesstronger and in no time it will be verydifficult, even impossible, to stop. Thedog has the instinct of the hunt, whichmeans a chase and a kill. Sadly, oftenthe dog is killed by a car.

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CHASING: An obsession with running after balls or cars can be controlled.

Spainto adoptEU petcriteria DOCKED tails andclipped ears are set tobecome a thing of thepast for dogs in Spain asthe Council of Ministershas agreed to adhere toEuropean Union petprotection guidelines.

The guidelines, put inplace by the EU in 1987,forbid all surgical inter-ventions with aestheticintentions including taildocking, ear clipping,cutting of vocal chordsand removal of claws orteeth, the Ministry forAgriculture and the En-vironment explained.

Having received thegovernment’s approval,the Environmental Min-istry said last week thatthe text will now be sentto the General Courts forapproval, which if givenwill make Spain the18th EU member stateto adopt the guidelines.

Use of pets for public-ity and entertainment isalso limited amongst themeasures to ensure theirhealth and wellbeing arenot endangered.

The National Associa-tion for Animal Defence(ANDA) has expressedsatisfaction at the news,explaining it has beenasking the governmentto adopt the guidelinesfor more than 10 years.

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Other measures inthe guidelines includeregulations on giftingpets to under 16swhich will ensureparental approval isobtained beforehand.

IT is estimated that between40 and 50 per cent of dogsand 20 per cent of cats whopay a visit to the vet areoverweight, leading in manycases to obesity problems.

The most common reasonis an excessive consump-tions of calories togetherwith a lack of appropriateexercise (the animal con-sumes more calories than itburns). Another importantfactor is the metabolism ofeach animal, which depend-ing on its age and breed canchange if we decide to ster-ilise our pet.

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AS it starts to cool down at last,autumn is a good time to try totackle niggling jobs about thehouse.

Yet DIY can be full of pit-falls for the inexperienced, and

mistakes can be both expensiveand time consuming to solve.Here are the most commonproblems amateurs stumbleacross and how to avoid them.

1. Make sure you have aspirit level ready

Simple tasks like putting ashelf up seem like a five minutejob, yet time saved by skippingthe levelling could later meanornaments and books fall overor slide straight off. The extraminute it takes to establish alevel edge and pencil a guide-line to work by is definitelyworth it.

2. Use primersWatermarks can be a night-

mare to conceal, and no matterhow many coats you use, paint-ing over stains with water-based emulsions won’t help.First apply an oil-based primerto seal it, and then paint overthe top as normal.

3. Think practicallySudden ideas are wonderful,

but it’s always worth stoppingto consider whether the resultwill be practical in the future.Panelling bathroom walls roundbaths and toilets, for example,gives an attractive, clean finishbut may well cause problems inthe future when inevitable leaksoccur and pipes need to bereached unless removable pan-els or concealed doors were in-

cluded in the planning stage.4. Quick fixes are not the

answerAfter wet weather, wooden

doors tend to swell and getstuck in their frames. The prob-lem can be quickly fixed byplaning the wood, but unless itis then painted over and sealedit will just swell again the nexttime it rains.

5. Don’t scrimp on essen-tials

Buying expensive paint-brushes for just one job ispointless, but stay away frombudget brushes as they havefewer bristles, leading to an un-tidy finish, and moult muchmore than mid-range brushes.6. Protect edges

Masking tape and old sheetsare your friends and the fiveminutes it will take to put themin place will save hours ofcleaning up stains afterwards.

7. Don’t scrimp on materi-als

It’s always better to have alittle paint left over than to endup with patches that later showyou had to stop halfwaythrough and rush to the shop formore. This goes the opposite

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up wasting time and money.8. Prepare properlyAlways vacuum thoroughly

before painting or any dust leftfloating about is bound to stickto the wet paint and ruin yourefforts.

Common DIY pitfalls and how to avoid them

PREPARE PROPERLY: It’s a good time to tackle jobs.

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HAVING been woken byheavy rain in the middle of thenight for the third night in arow, it made me think: ‘Howmany readers have ensuredthat as much of the rain aspossible has been saved for fu-ture use by the plants in theirgardens?’

I suspect not all, so I willcover this topic as, looking outof my window, low mists anddrizzle block out the view ofthe mountains and suggest thatthere will be no gardening to-day.

In looking at the is-sues involved I will behighlighting some top-ics covered in more de-tail in my book ‘Howto use less water inyour garden – A prac-tical guide to water-wise gardening.’

Absorbent soilThis first issue is

obvious but rarelyworked at year-on-year. Thechallenge is to develop soilthat will retain rainwater, andirrigated water, around and un-

der the roots of plants withoutbecoming chronically water-logged.

It is important to ensurethat root balls can spreadsideways and downwardsin loosened soil that cre-ates a growing space so theplant grows to maturitywithout becoming stuntedby physical constraints inhard rock-like soil and lim-ited moisture and nutrients.

The easiest and cheapestsoil additives are your homeproduced composts andwell-rotted animal manures;especially goat, sheep, horseand naturally reared poultry.

Mulching to prevent re-evaporation

Do all you can to preventevaporation from the surfaceof the soil by covering withnon-absorbent materials such

as stone chippings, groundvolcanic ash, almond shellsetc: Some 35 practical formsof mulching are described inthe book.

Ground cover and shadeMulching with materials

can be enhanced by allowingevergreen and deciduousplants to spread and hug theground so as to provide con-tinuous shade.

Storing rain waterInstall guttering and water

barrels or a large storage tanklike many houses had in Spainbefore the expat phenomenonand town water-systems.

Preventing losses to sur-rounding properties

Surround your propertywith at least a single building

block wall to prevent rain wa-ter running into adjacent prop-erties. With well-prepared soil,any floods will drain awayquickly.

Moving it to where neededDesign the network and

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A FRIEND of mine invitedme to join him for a glass ofwine at his place. Nothingunusual about that; it hap-pens every day, but this wasno ordinary wine or place.

My friend is seriouslywealthy and when I arrivedhe had a bottle of Vega Sicil-ia ready to serve in a crystalglass. He’s a true connoisseurof wine and of all high-quali-ty things and he explainedwhy we were having a bottleof Ribera del Duero’s finest;it was a ‘thank you’ for pro-viding him with the luxuryvilla he wanted but didn’tthink he could find.

Well, the villa was de-signed and built by one ofmy top architect friends and Ihad controlled the buildingprocess to ensure qualitythroughout and yes, it was aJaw-Dropping Design in aWow-Factor Location, withstate of the art fittings.

He explained that VegasSicilia, founded in 1864, ri-vals the best wines in theworld such as the great Bor-deaux and Burgundy wines.

However, there’s a catch;due to low production andhigh demand the wine isn’treadily available to buy andthat’s a problem.

But that’s not the point;my friend is one of manywealthy foreign buyers whoare having a property built orare buying existing villas. Infact, I was stunned when Iread an article which con-

firmed that 75 per cent of allluxury property in Spain isbeing bought by foreigners.That’s a massive percentageand great news for owners,developers, architects andeveryone offering high-quali-ty services and products inreal estate, but there’s acatch. Similar to the shortageof Vegas Sicilia wine, there isa small supply of readilyavailable wow-factor loca-tions in Spain and that is aproblem.

With 75 per cent of all lux-ury properties being boughtby foreigners, there is a con-cern that we could run out ofsuitable properties to meetthe growing demand.

The good news is that theconstruction industry can re-spond to the demand bybuilding many more luxuryproperties in top locations .

The best wine is likethe best propertyJohnGraham The property expert

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JEREMY CORBYN (Mr Bean?):The Labour party’s new fairy god-mother? Now, stay with me here;don’t look at me as if I’ve just sug-gested we all go bungee jumpingoff Tower Bridge!

If you’d just landed from planetZog and picked up a pile of Britishpapers, you’d be forgiven forthinking he’s either the party’s sav-iour or the next candidate for ‘I’ma Catastrophe, Get Me Out ofHere!’ or even someone with moreU-turns than Nick Clegg (why arewe still waiting for Nick Clegg’sfavourite recipes? He promises thefood will be good, but doesn’t ex-

plain how to prepare it and the ac-tual results are hard to swallow).

Fairy godmother or wickedwitch, Corbyn’s election as leaderof the Labour party didn’t go with-

out a hitch. He only put himself upas a candidate for the hard left be-cause nobody else wanted thenomination. He only reached thenumber of supporters required 10seconds before nominationsclosed. You couldn’t make it up.An event altogether funnier thanany episode in ‘The Thick Of It!’

What can’t be denied is that, fol-lowing the Miliband era, a politicalawakening is now taking place formany. The reality is that, confront-ed with five more years under oneof the other three mainstreamLabour leader nominees, support-ers presumably said: ‘Enough’senough: Let’s try something differ-ent, rather than letting others speakfor us, let’s do this for ourselves.’

Corbyn both helped to make andcaught that wave. There’s no futurefor any party if it simply looks atpolls and focus group results, iden-

tifies a group of potential votersand simply tweaks its message in avain attempt to attract them.

Some have compared Corbyn’selection as Labour leader to themad emperor Caligula making hishorse a senator. But there are somehistorians who say he’s more likeCaligula himself who, according toone: “Came to power impatientwith a sclerotic and obstructive es-tablishment and reached out to thepeople over the heads of the sena-torial elite.” Admittedly, Corbyn’syet to turn parliament into a broth-el or ride across the Channel on achariot. But it’s still early days...

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Jeremy Cor-Bean; is he Labour’s fairygodmother or is he the wicked witch?NEW party leader represents a determination amongst supporters to try a different approach to opposition politics

MISTER BEAN: Or is it Jeremy Corbyn (without the beard)?

Corbyn has helped create the wave

of change andhe has caught it, too

ARTUR MAS has a habit of calling early elec-tions and reducing his parliamentary majorityeach time.

When, in 2012, he lost CiU’s overall majority,he negotiated support from the radical nationalistrepublican party, ERC.

True to form, Mas’s 2015 ticket, Junts pel Si,also lacks an overall majority and he needs theanti-system separatist party CUP.

If Mas thought he had problems satisfyingERC’s Oriol Junqueras’s independence demands,his work will be cut out for him with AntonioBaños.

Two bad losersTHERE was no Third Way of dialogue beforethe Cataluña regional elections; that plebiscitethat wasn’t. There was only national presidentMariano Rajoy’s way and regional president Ar-tur Mas’s way.

Neither listened to the other before and neitheris listening now. Both men are bad losers and theonly way either of them can go is along a one-way street leading to absolutely nowhere.

The pro-independence faction, Junts pel Si andCUP, won more seats in the Cataluña parliamentthan the other parties together but only received47.8 per cent of the total number of votes.

Ironically, had the national government atho-rised an independence referendum, the majority

of Catalans would not have voted for it.

Dream on, boyA 13-YEAR-OLD BOY in Madrid is indignant

because the mayor, Manuela Carmena, is going towithdraw the Bullfighting School’s subsidy.

“They can’t play like this with aficionados anda boy’s dreams,” complained Daniel Perez, one ofits pupils.

Let’s hope that they can and they do. If hewants to wear pink stockings and tight satintrousers embroidered with sequins while heslaughters bulls, he should try asking an overpaidcelebrity matador to subsidise his apprenticeshipinstead.

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

New partner hard to please

ARTUR MAS: Cataluña’s Regional President will have his work cut out.

What’s in a(bridge) name?THE Puente de la Constitucion de 1812 -Cadiz’s new bridge uniting the capital andPuerto Real - is already called La Pepa.

Spain’s anachronistically democraticfirst constitution was declared in 1812 onMarch 19 and because this is also thesaint’s day of every Jose and Josefina, LaConstitucion de Cadiz was soon known asLa Pepa.

Some memories appear to be very nearthe surface, even as long as 103 years lat-er.

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They say that the exterior of theBMW X4 M40i shows the high stan-

dards set by BMW M Performance cars.In the interior, the character of the BMWM is also present. The M leather steeringwheel, the M gear shift lever, the sportseats and model-specific door sills.

The new M performance TwinPowerTurbo inline six-cylinder petrol enginegets its world premiere in the BMW X4

M40i. This engine delivers 265 kw/360hp at between 5,800 and 6,000 rpm fromits three-litre capacity, providing a maxi-mum torque of 465 Nm. With this high-performance engine and the advanced MPerformance TwinPower Turbo technol-ogy, the BMW X4 M40i accelerates to100 km/h in less than five seconds and

can reach a top speed of 250 km/h.The specially tuned chassis of the

BMW X4 M40i provides adaptivedampers tuned to M Performance speci-fications and the BMW xDrive fourwheel drive system with its rear wheel-drive ensures a neutral, self-steering re-sponse and reduced roll tendency.

By John Smith

ClarksonQuote of theWeek

“Ferrari is so pleased with it they’ve named it after the founder of the company. They call it the Enzo.That’d be the same as Lotus calling their next car... ‘The Colin.’”

Some might say...

WHAT with the bombshellsstill dropping from VW’semissions scandal, it is per-haps not surprising that the al-ternative fuel lobby has beenquick to promote the advan-tages of less polluting cars,whether electric or not.

While Tesla couldn’t havebeen any more prompt withthe launch of their newcrossover, another campaignproposing the reintroductionof autogas LPG poweredmodels has come to the fore.

Cars running on autogasLPG are significantly cleanerthan their diesel and petrolcounterparts, emitting 80 percent less NO2.

Tesla pounceafter scandal

Motoring shorts

GERMAN manufacturers unveil the X4 M40i, setting new standards for Sports Activity Coupes

BMW announce the newtop model in its X4 series

TAXPAYERS in the UKwere shocked to discover thatMPs’ expense claims for tolls,parking and the London Con-gestion Charge amount toover £4 million (€5.4m).

The Auto Express websitesays UK MPs have claimednearly £4.3m (€5.8m) in mo-toring expenses in three years.

The Independent Parlia-mentary Standards Authority(IPSA), says that £1.4m(€1.9m) is claimed each year.

British MPsclaim €5.8m

PERFORMANCE: New car’s makers believe that their latest X4, with its brand new TwinPower Turbo inline six-cylinder engine, will lead the field.

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CAR giants Honda have an-nounced that they will unveilthe tentatively-named FCV, theworld’s first production modelof a fuel-cell powered saloon tohouse the entire fuel-cell pow-ertrain in the space normallyoccupied by the engine andtransmission, at the Tokyo Mo-tor Show, which opens on Oc-tober 29.

This powertrain layout hasenabled a full cabin packagethat seats five adults. Also, theall-new FCV has a cruisingrange of more than 700 kilome-tres, while exhilarating drivingis made possible by the high-output motors.

The FCV can also act as amobile power plant, due to itsexternal power feeding inverter,meaning that it will generateand provide electricity to com-munities in case of an emer-gency.

A fuel cell vehicle (FCV) is avehicle which uses a fuel

cell to power its electric motorusing Oxygen and Hydrogen.In theory, such a ‘motor’ emitsonly water and heat, so it isconsidered a zero-emis-

sions vehicle. Depending on theprocess, however, producingthe hydrogen used in the vehi-cle can itself create pollutants.

Honda to unveil its new Fuel Cell VehicleTOKYO Motor Show will feature car which also produces electricity

Honda FCV courtesy of Honda Motor Europe Ltd

Swansea-Spurs games allfinished level.

By the way, Villa haveLOST more matches (18)than any other PL club in2015 and German JurgenKlopp is set to replacesacked Brendan Rodgersat Anfield bur who willsucceed Dick Advocaat at

Sunderland?Brighton, Burton Albion,

Plymouth and Ab-erdeen (de-

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Championship, Leagues 1 and2, and the SPL respectively,while in Spain’s La Liga, afterlosing 2-1 at Sevilla, Barcelonahave slipped down to fourth.Villarreal are top after Atleticoand Real drew 1-1 in theMadrid derby.

There are several EuropeanChampionship qualifiers (somevital) over the next five days.Tonight it’s the Republic of Ire-land-Germany, Northern Ire-land-Greece and Scotland-Poland. Tomorrow we haveEngland-Estonia and Spain-Luxembourg.

On Saturday, it’s Bosnia-Herzegovina-Wales (the Welshneed a point); followed on Sun-day by Gibraltar-Scotland,Poland-Republic of Ireland andFinland-Northern Ireland.

Next Monday, England visitLithuania and Ukraine playSpain. There are no Premier-ship or Championship gamesthis weekend.

RUGBY UNION – Disap-pointing, disjointed and dismalEngland became the first hostcountry to be knocked out ofthe World Cup at the groupstage after crashing 33-13 to

Australia, who coasted into thelast eight. Coach Stuart Lan-caster is now under pressure toquit along with several playerswho simply didn’t perform!

The other countries alreadyinto the quarter-finals areFrance, Ireland, New Zealand,South Africa and Wales.

Battered and bruised Scot-land, despite losing 16-34 toSouth Africa, can join them ifthey beat Samoa in their final‘pool’ game on Saturday. Ar-gentina, Japan and Tonga arealso still in the race.

FORMULA ONE - Thisweekend the drivers will racearound the Sochi circuit in theRussian Grand Prix, and it hasbeen confirmed that JensenButton will serve McLarenagain next season.

SPEEDWAY – Scunthorpe-born Tai Woffinden (25) is the2015 World Champion afterwinning in Poland. He last wonthe title in 2013.

CRICKET – England arenow in the UAE to play a seriesof Test Matches and One DayInternationals against Pakistan,with James Taylor set to returnto the batting line-up.

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Los MoriscosFriday, September 25Individual StablefordLadies1st Diana Elliott Hcp24 30pts2nd Neilma Jary Hcp29 29ptsMen1st Peter Pool Hcp11 38pts2nd Roger Davey Hcp12 35pts3rd Derek Lowe Hcp25 34pts4th John Vertanness Hcp18 34pts

The greens had been hollow tined, which made putting ratherdifficult! However, Peter Pool didn’t appear to have that prob-lem, with 38 points. Apart from the greens, the course is in verygood condition. The McCracken Trophy will take place on Fri-day October 9, with a meal and prize-giving at the Peña PardaRestaurant, La Herradura. As usual, all guests welcome.

AnoretaMonday, September 28Stableford Team Game1st Team.Lyn McAllister, Gary Miles and John Conlon 84points2nd Team.Pete Thompson, Carlos Villen, May Liz Santon and Lola Montero 83pointsTwos:Clive Pemberton, 2 and Pete Thompson, 17

Tricky Stableford team game, with 25 players meaning someteams of three playing off full handicaps, and some of four play-ing off 3/4’s. Needless to say, both thought the other was gettingthe better deal but a three came first and a four second, separat-ed by one point, so it can’t have been too unfair!

BavieraTuesday, September 29Individual StablefordLadies1st Gil Boutel Hcp13, 34pts2nd PJ Bentley Ennis Hcp36, 31ptsGents1st Ray Craig Hcp 8, 36pts2nd Derek Sibson Hcp13, 36pts3rd Jeff Puckett Hcp24, 34pts4th Carl Langley Hcp17, 33ptsTwosRay Craig, 10.

Las GabiasWednesday, September 30Gins Anniversary Trophy Day28 Years of GinsAnniversary Champion 2015 Gil Richardson Hcp13, 35ptsMEN1st Robert Durston Hcp27, 34pts2nd Ray Craig Hcp 8, 34pts3rd Bev Legg Hcp11, 32pts4th Sean Daly Hcp18, 32pts5th Maurice Lightfoot Hcp23, 31pts6th John Conlon Hcp22, 29ptsLADIES1st Erica Oxford Hcp29, 33pts2nd Gill Boutel Hcp14, 33pts3rd Marisa Elias Hcp17, 27pts4th Diana Elliott Hcp24, 27ptsTwos Sean Daly, 2Keith Taylor and Terry Conway, 18 Nearest The PinKeith Taylor, 18

Golf InternationalNerja, full results

DID YOU KNOW?• Only six footballers have won the Premiership with two differ-ent clubs: Nicolas Anelka (Arsenal/Chelsea), Henning Berg(Blackburn/Manchester Utd), Gael Clichy (Arsenal/ManchesterCity), Ashley Cole (Arsenal/Chelsea), Carlos Tevez (Manches-ter City & United) and Kolo Touré (Arsenal/Manchester City).• Everton’s Gareth Barry (108) has received more yellow cardsthan any other PL player. Kevin Davies and Lee Bowyer haveboth received 99.• Last Sunday, ex-Sheffield United and now Everton defenderPhil Jagielka became only the 17th player in history to appear in250 League games for two different clubs.• And Arsenal’s Per Merkesacker has already made 50 ‘passbacks’ to his goalkeeper this season; the most in the Premier-ship.

From Back Page

England lose, Unitedsthrashed, Rodgers andAdvocaat both sacked

ELIMINATION:Pressure is nowon coach andseveral players.

FIRST host nation to be knocked out during group stage

FOOTBALL – Last weekend,Sergio Aguero bagged a five-timer in Manchester City’s 6-1demolition of hapless Newcas-tle.

The Argentinian strikertouched the ball only 14 timesduring the match and had justsix attempts on goal. Only four

other players, Dimitar Berba-tov, Jermain Defoe, Andy Coleand Alan Shearer, have nettedfive goals in a PL game.

Elsewhere, Arsenal, with atrio of excellent strikes in thefirst 20 minutes, whipped out-of-sorts Manchester United 3-0.Everton drew 1-1 with Liver-

pool and defending champions,Chelsea, were humbled 3-1 athome by Southampton.

There were also wins forStoke (at Aston Villa), Leicester(at Norwich), Crystal Palace (vWBA), while theBournemouth-Watford, 10-manSunderland-West Ham and

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Two Uniteds are thrashed MANCHESTER and Newcastle are both victims of heavy defeats

Last weekend, Sergio Aguero bagged a five-timer in Manchester City’s 6-1demolition of hapless Newcastle.

SPEEDWAY: 2015 World Championship was wonin Poland by Scunthorpe-born Tai Woffinden.

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