Mallorca was in quite a stir recent-ly when it was announced that theregion renowned for its beautifulbeaches had lost 12 Blue Flags, themost of all the regions of Spain.

Blue Flags certify a high stan-dard of water quality, environmen-tal management, safety, servicesand accessibility, as well as educa-tion for both beaches and ports.

Despite the loss, which includesthree in the municipality of Palma,three new beaches in Mallorcahave received Blue Flags this year,making a total of 35 Blue Flagsflying over beaches of the island.

President of the Blue Flag Asso-ciation Jose Ramon Sanchez ex-plained that the beaches have losttheir flags because over the yearsthe criteria has become “more de-manding,” and also pointed out

that the treat-ment of the water

should be “of quality.”Spokesperson for the Balearic

Government Pilar Costa called oncitizens to not get worked up overthe loss, pointing out that 11 ‘can-didates’ in Ibiza were not submit-ted for Blue Flag certification.

She also added that inrecent years, many munic-ipalities have chosen notto submit beaches as can-didates for a Blue Flag.

As a nation, however,Spain continues to lead inthe world rankings with atotal of 686 (586 beaches

and 100ports).

One out of five beachesalong the Spanish coast flies a BlueFlag.

Worldwide, one out of every sixBlue Flags that will be flying thissummer will be over a Spanishbeach.

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Long live the BlueFlag

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THE family of archaeologistWilliam Waldren (1924-2003)has handed his archives overto the municipality ofValldemossa.

The archaeologist devotedhimself to studying Mallorcanprehistory, making a series ofdiscoveries in Son Matge andthe Son Muleta cave.

Archaeologicalworks released

THOSE in the vicinity of theClub de Mar in Palma porton Friday (May 6), had theircuriosity sparked by the signof a sailing ship docked therewhich looks very different

from the usual visitors. The Russian ship, Shtan-

dart, is a replica of a frigatedesigned by Czar Peter theGreat in 1703, and has ap-peared in various films.

A spectacular sight

REPRESENTATIVES of the Cap Blanc-Punta Regana De-fence Association met Llucmajor mayor Jaume Tomas lastweek, to convey concerns about the size and location of alarge solar park planned in the Sa Marina area, weighingterritorial protection against renewable energy.

The group worries about the visual impact of the park ifit is built on the proposed site.

Solar park worries

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HOSPITAL clown Aspirino has mademore than 100 appearances this year, per-forming in the Hospitals of Son Espases,Llatzer, Manacor and Inca, thanks to thesupport of Endesa Electric Company.

The agreement between the SonrisaMedico (Medical Smile) charity and Ende-

sa was made through the Adopt a HospitalClown programme.

According to Endesa, the companysponsored the nurse-clown, played by ac-tor Camil Casasnovas, who has broughtsmiles to more than 25,500 children andfamilies.

Aspirino documents his experiences atthe hospitals in his blog ‘Diario de un

payaso de hospital’ (Diary of a hospitalclown) at the sonrisamedica.org website.

The actor also participates in sessions toraise awareness of the work carried out bythe organisation, and the importance of achild’s emotional state for recovery.

Sonrisa Medico is a non-profit organisa-tion that has brought humour to publichospitals in Mallorca since 1994.

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CLOWNING AROUND: Sonrisa Medica clowns entertain children in hospitals around Mallorca.

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ON May 6, a charming elderly gen-tleman called the EWN offices toask whether we would be preparedto consider publishing a letter thathe had handwritten, as he doesn’thave a computer and i t was on atopic that was very important tohim.

He kindly explained the basis ofthe letter which raised a point thatvery few people have taken noticeof, and whilst some would scoff atthe concept, he does actually have avery important point to make.

This reader, who is now 91, joinedthe RAF as an 18-year-old and was agunner in bombers during the Sec-ond World War. He decided to moveto Spain, not because he wasn’t apatriot or disliked England, but hewas persuaded that it would be inthe best interests of his health to doso and now, having lost a significantamount of money in the Landsbankiaffair, he knows that he will see theend of his days in the Costa del Sol.

What he can’t come to terms withis that although it is thanks to himand the other war veterans that arest i l l al ive (plus of course al l ofthose who died), who sacrif icedtheir teen years to help to create aEuropean peace, that he is disownedby Britain and is not allowed to votein the forthcoming referendum.

Part of the conservative manifestoat the last election was ‘one personone vote’, and they said that it wascompletely wrong that an arbitrarylimit should be set for people whohad moved abroad.

Let i t not be forgotten that thelimit has varied from seven years to20 years and then back to 15 years,and there is no sensible reason forany figure.

Also, the ini t ial conservativepromise was that there would be areferendum on whether Bri tainshould remain in the EuropeanUnion and this was to take place by2017.

There was little indication thatthis would be moved back by nearlya year.

In the event as we all know, thereferendum will take place on June23, 2016 and what a surprise, thegovernment is so busy that it justdoesn’t have time to re-enfranchiseall of those people who have beenout of the UK for more than 15years.

Don’t worry though, assumingyou are still alive there is every pos-sibility that you will be allowed tovote at the next general election,even though that doesn’t affect youas much as a decision to leaveor remain in the European Unionwill.

Poor old nonagenarian MrShindler actually went to the HighCourt in order to try to gain the votebut was rejected, and a DowningStreet petition had its day in parlia-ment but as usual the wil l of thepeople was ignored.

It’s not just the Conservativeswho are to blame as all politiciansof all parties should question theirown values when seeing war veter-ans and many others, who still paytaxes in the UK, being treated withtotal contempt and not being al-lowed to have their say in a so-called democracy.

Those who can register to vote re-al ly need to do so by May 16 ascouncils will be posting ballot pa-pers out on May 23.

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No democracyYES but of course we are notin a ‘true’ democracy and thisis the current direction and itwill continue this way... If welet it continue this way.

The Conservative party un-der David Cameron has be-come a fear machine. Any di-rection ‘Dave’ cannot enforcethrough legitimate means, he,with many of his sidekicks, tryto create fear. They did it in theScottish referendum, they aredoing it for the EU referendumand they did it with the elec-tions for the Mayor of Lon-don... This is not the way a po-litical party should be running acountry. Mike in ESP

What happensTHERE has been much specu-lation on the outcome of aBrexit from the EU and how itmight affect us expats. But Iam curious to know whetherour respective adopted coun-tries have any contingencyplans on what to do with us ifwe are no longer Europeans.Rose Marie

Totally unfairIT really isn’t fair that he andmany other ‘old boys and girls’did so much for the country, yetare now denied what should bean absolute right to vote. Rita

Who cares?BY the time that anything isdecided, there literally won’t beanybody left who fought inWorld War Two, and it’s proba-bly better that those who re-main in the UK are the oneswho will decide its future. Paul

Bad policyTHE government hasn’t cov-ered itself in glory, and in factreports say that older voters aremore likely to vote to remain inthe EU for fear of the unknownso they have shot themselves inthe foot twice. Gerald

Our readers have been ex-pressing their views on a viewfrom a 91-year-old war veter-an on the Brexit which ap-peared on our website

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Double dutyTHE Palma City Council willmore than double the numberof officers for the summer sea-son.

A total of 136 Local Policeofficers will be patrolling areasin the municipality includingthe city centre, Cala Major, thePaseo Maritimo and Playa dePalma from May 23 to October23. An extra 94 police officerscoming from other units or asinterim workers who have hadtheir contracts renewed willjoin the 42 current officers.

Palma Mayor Jose Hila ex-plained that it is a “huge in-crease” compared to last yearwhich was less than half thenumber for this season.

He added that the day shiftshave increased by 50 per centand the night shifts by 100 percent in an effort to “solve prob-lems” that weren’t able to be re-solved last year.

Councillor for Citizen Secu-rity Angelica Pastor said thatthe increased police presenceinitiative is “ambitious” andfeatures two novelties. One is

that the Maravillas station willnow be open 24-hours a day.

The other is that two officerswill be assigned to observe andcollect information to analyse

how the system is working tobe able to make improvementsas well as develop informativecampaigns on issues like alco-hol consumption in the streets.

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AROUND 140 people took part in the openingday of Jane’s Walk, with a route focusing on Ger-mans who work in the city of Palma.

The route was led by Mallorca Zeitung jour-nalists Stephanie Schuster and Patrick SchirmerSastre. One of the Germans spotlighted on theroute was Christoph Hafner of Pep Lemon. An-other was Gerhardt Braun, a gallerist in the Bornarea of Palma.

The third stop on the route was at the Councilof Tourism to talk with journalist Alexandra

Wilms, the head of press for Biel Barcelo.The route also included a stop in Son Gotleu to

analyse living conditions there, and finished upin the historic centre with the ‘Via Corrrupta’guided tour of places symbolising corruption inPalma.

Jane’s Walk is a global festival of citizen-ledwalking tours inspired by North American jour-nalist, writer and activist Jane Jacobs, which aimsto get people to tell stories about their communi-ties, explore their cites and connect with neigh-bours.

Jane’s Walk took place on May 6, 7 and 8.

Jane’s Walk festivalBy Sandra Galo

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ACCORDING to theSpanish CardiologySociety, the lowestobesi ty ra tes inSpain are in theBalearic Islands.

The Balear icshave the lowest ratesof obesity register-ing at 10.5 per cent.

Cataluña is sec-ond-lowest with 15.5per cent. The highestrates , on the otherhand, are in As-tur ias , Gal ic ia andAndalucia.

The Spanish Car-diology Societypoints out that 39.3per cent of Spaniardsbetween the ages of25 and 64 are con-sidered overweight,and more than 21 percent of them are cat-egorised as obese.

The data comesfrom a nutr i t ionalstudy of the Spanishpopulat ion, whichanalysed a total of3,800 men andwomen. Men werefound to be moreprone to being over-weight with a no-table weight gain inthe 25-34 age group.

Women tended toput on weight laterin life.

Professor a t theUniversi ty ofNavarre JavierAranceta-Bar t r inaemphasised the needfor preventive mea-sures to be taken.

He pointed outthat being over-weight suggests apoorer quality of lifeand an increasedburden for the healthservice, and stressedthe importance of ahealthy lifestyle.

Balearicobesityis thelowestin Spain

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THE project to convert Mallorca’s trainsto a railway electrification system hasbeen moved forward a year and is now inplace for early 2018.

Vice president and councillor of Inno-vation, Research and Tourism Biel Barce-lo and councillor of Land, Energy andMobility Marc Pons announced that they

have taken steps to request bids for theelectrification of the trains.

It is expected that the winning bidderwill be announced later this year and workwill begin early in 2017.

With the new time frame, the total elec-trification of the railway should be a reali-ty in early 2018.

The system will save €630,000 eachyear on energy costs and stop the emis-

sion of around 630 tonnes of carbon diox-ide.

The project involves the installation ofall the overhead power cables in the sec-tions not currently using electricity, aswell as the construction of six substationswhich will supply energy to the cables.

The work will be co-financed 50 percent by the European Regional Develop-ment Fund.

Electrifying train lines

By Sandra Galo

TRAINS: Mallorca’s trains should be running on electricity in early 2018.

Clean up DURING the first half ofMay, various clean upevents will take place in themunicipality of Calvia. Theinitiative is part of the Eu-ropean Clean-Up Day cam-paign to raise citizens’awareness of waste.

Driver leftPOLICE are looking forthe driver of a vehiclewho fled the scene of anaccident leaving behindher car and three injuredpassengers. The incidenttook place at 3.45am onSaturday May 7 near IESSon Pacs.

Double talk ACCORDING to a reporton the Catalan language inthe Balearics, almost 60per cent of foreign residentsin the Balearics say thatthey can speak Catalan and37.5 per cent say they canwrite it.

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CONCERN is rising that aninvasive caterpillar that killspalm trees may reach the Lle-vant Park and destroy the pro-tected palms growing there.

The caterpillar of thepaysandisia archon moth eatsthe tender leaves of the palmsand then attacks the trunkcausing the tree’s eventualdeath.

The caterpillar has alreadycaused the death of trees inthe urbanisation of Montfer-rutx in Colonia de Sant Pere.The Council of Environmentis launching immediate ef-forts to stop this possibleplague from reaching themountains of Arta and jeopar-dising the palms there.

The village of Pollensa hasbeen very affected and a newarea has also been discoveredin Andratx. According to Di-rector of Natural Space Cate-rina Amengual, the caterpillarentered Mallorca in 2002through Formentor, but theproblem was not dealt withimmediately.

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PALMA’S Plaza Major waspacked on Saturday (May 7)for the celebration of an In-dian Hindu festival welcom-ing spring, called Holi.

Despi te the rain, morethan 2,000 people attendedthe colourful celebrat ionfeaturing typical Indian mu-sic and dance.

Attendees donned whiteclothes for the celebration,also known as the festivalof colours.

During the fest ivi t ies ,participants threw an arrayof coloured powder in theair, showering the attendeeswith a rainbow of colours.

The multi-coloured Holipowder, made from r iceflour, was dispersed three

times during the colourfulevent, which started at 6pmand finished around 10pm.

These festivities, whichare organised by the HoliMallorca Festival of India,

have been gaining populari-ty on the is land in recentyears.

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THE Balearic AgriculturalProfessional Organisation(Asaja) has requested thatthe draft bill for the declara-tion of Trenc-Salobrar as anatural park include farm-ing initiatives.

In a written documentpresented to the BalearicCouncil, Asaja has askedthat the bill include the con-servation, maintenance andimprovement of the eco-nomic viability of farmswithin the scope of the fu-ture natural park.

Joan Simonet, managerof Asaja in the Balearics,said that the procedure offirst consulting and meetingwith those affected shouldhave been carried out,rather than directly present-

ing the draft bill to declarethe land a natural park.

Simonet pointed out thatthe original proposal con-sidered the presence offarms in the area but makesno mention of the presenceof cattle farms.

He also added that thebill provides for the inclu-sion of representatives fromthe farming and livestocksectors in the Park AdvisoryBoard, although this doesnot appear anywhere in theinitial text.

Asaja considers it “unac-ceptable” that the construc-tion of two car parks in thearea affects lands that areintended for agricultural usewhen there is land not be-ing used for this purpose.

Mooing theTrenc-Salobrarnatural park

PALMANOVA held its annual EuropeDay celebrations on Sunday, May 8, witha variety of activities for the whole family.

The all-day event, which was organisedby the Calvia City Council, included a

market along the seafront, with more than400 metres of stands offering a host of in-ternational food and drink as well as anarray of handicrafts.

Visitors enjoyed a wide selection of live

music throughout the day. The event alsoincluded a ceremony for the ‘EuropeanCitizen of the Year’.

Bouncy castles, a ball park and acrobatsadded to the festivities.

Celebrating Europe Day with bouncy castles

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A new homefor the bandTHE Balearic Symphony Or-chestra will finally have itsown headquarters in theneighbourhood of LaSoledad.

The Palma City Counci lmade the decis ion to handover the land for the con-struction of the cultural cen-tre Casa de Musica (House ofMusic) , which wil l also beused to host performances bybands and artists from aroundthe Balearic Islands.

Spokesperson for the Pal-ma City Council Neus Truyol

reported that the board ap-proved the s tar t of theprocess to transform the landlocated at Calle Brotat intothe cultural centre.

The centre is the result ofan agreement between the re-gional government and theFoundation Fundatur which

will donate €2 million for itsconstruction.

The centre will accommo-date the orchestra and be themain venue for their concerts.It will also promote other cul-tural activities including theparticipation of music groupsin Palma and the rest of Mal-lorca as well as the other is-lands.

Councillor Truyol calledthe plans for the centre goodnews now that Palma cancount on this important musi-cal centre and the symphonyfinally has its own headquar-ters.

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LA SOLEDAD: The Balearic Symphony Orchestra will finally have a home.

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FIVE of the six de-tainees from a drug traf-ficking operation whichtook place in Son Banyahave been sentenced toprison.

About 70 heavily-armed police controlledaccess to the Son Banyaarea of Palma in an anti-drug traffcking opera-tion, that resulted in thearrests on Thursday May5.

The operation dubbedPortazo (Slam) tookplace in the morningshortly after 10am, withpolice searching fivehomes.

Officers discoveredvarious amounts of co-caine, heroin, hashish aswell as money and scalesused for weighing drugs.

Slammingdowndrug trafficking

Resident discount stand COUNCILLOR for Territory, Energy andMobility Marc Pons will meet with provi-sional Minister of Public Works Ana Pastorthis month to request improvements in theregion’s connectivity.

The council has reported that it will reaf-firm its opposition to “any harmful measureaffecting the 50 per cent resident discount.”

Priority issues for the community will alsobe addressed including improvements in airconnectivity and compliance with agree-

ments related to roads and railways.Councillor Pons will put on the table the

necessity of establishing as soon as possiblea flat rate of €30 for inter-island flights. Hewill also remind the minister about the docu-mentation recently submitted regarding themaximum price fare system in effect in otherterritories like Sardinia, as evidence of thelack of impediments in European legislationin using a similar model in the Balearic Is-lands.

THE Palacio de Congresosconvention centre, which isstill lacking management, nowhas new conditions for the ten-der of the complex.

According to mayor of Pal-ma Jose Hila, the convention

centre and hotel will now beleased for an initial period of15 years, renewable for threeyears at an annual price of€1,580,000 plus VAT, with a 5per cent variable based on to-tal revenues.

Hila noted that the new con-ditions “would benefit the ad-ministration,” which is a 50per cent shareholder in thecomplex.

According to Mayor Hila,the centre is expected to helpthe economy of the island dur-ing the winter months, andwill also help in creating jobson the island.

Hila explained that the bidspecifications include numer-ous requirements which areflexible, to encourage morecompanies to tender for thecentre, adding that “the morecompanies the better.”

The Palacio de Congresos isexpected to be in use later inthe year. Representing the re-gional government, whichholds the other 50 per cent ofthe shares, Balearic Vice Pres-ident and councillor forTourism Biel Barcelo high-lighted the economic impor-tance of having the centre run-ning by the end of the year.

Barcelo added that the ad-ministrations would reservethe complex eight days of theyear to organise events.

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IN preparation for the summer season,the City Council of Llucmajor ispreparing a new civic ordinance, in-tended to prevent anti-social behaviourin the coastal town of Arenal.

The new regulation prohibits the con-sumption of alcohol in streets, as wellas street drinking parties and hawking.To achieve control, it also aims to set arestriction on the concentration of peo-ple in beach areas. The practice of bal-coning will also be prohibited.

The text was written with the collab-oration of Local Police, the PalmaTown Hall and the Guardia Civil. Sec-ond Deputy Mayor Gori Estarellas ex-plained that officials took into consider-ation ordinances from other areas thathave similar concerns, including Calviaand Palma.

He added that a balance needs to be

found between what tourists are lookingfor and the tranquillity that year roundresidents desire.

Estarellas points out that the mea-sures focus on prevention rather thanrepression, and added that leaflets will

be given out in hotels for tourists to beinformed of the new regulations.

The initial text has already been pre-sented to the neighbourhood associationand will also be presented to hotels sothat they can make contributions.

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EUR weekly currency updateAmong the major currencies it was the big

beasts that had the better week and the com-modity-oriented ones that came off worst. Ingeneral, investors were concerned that globaleconomic growth was showing signs of frailty.

They expressed that concern by tending tofavour the allegedly safe euro and yen and, onthis occasion, the US dollar. Give or take adozen ticks the trio were unchanged against oneanother on the week. All three strengthened byabout 1.25 per cent against sterling, which washampered by disappointing measures of privatesector business activity in the UK. For sterlingthat meant the loss of one and a half euro cents.

May Day and Ascension Day holidays ateinto the week, leaving less space on the agendafor euro zone economic data. There was stillroom, however, for the monthly round of pur-chasing managers’ index readings. They werefar from sparkling but still better than their UKequivalents.

USD weekly currency updateSo-so economic data, uncertainty about inter-

est rates and softer commodity prices all con-tributed to a vague unease among investors. Theresult was an equally-vague drift towards the‘safe’ euro and yen and away from the suppos-edly ‘risky’ commodity-related currencies. Foronce, the US dollar shared the benefit of thistrend, strengthening by a cent and three quartersagainst sterling, and remaining just about un-changed against the euro and the Japanese yen.

Although the US economic data was nothingto shout about, neither were those from any-where else. The three UK purchasing managers’indices, which measure activity in private sectorfirms, all disappointed, coming in lower on themonth and below forecast.

What helped the dollar most were a couple ofcomments by Federal Reserve worthies, whowarned that investors should not dismiss theidea of a rate increase next month. It still isn’tlikely but it is, apparently, possible.

CAD weekly currency updateIt was a difficult week for the Canadian dollar

which, on Tuesday and Wednesday, suffered itsbiggest two-day drop in more than a year. TheLoonie started Tuesday on the back foot be-cause of a weekend fall in oil prices, and therewas a general drift away from ‘risky’ commodi-ty-oriented currencies towards the ‘safe’ euroand yen (and, on this occasion the US dollartoo). On Tuesday morning the Canadian dollar

crossed below the trend line that had supportedits rally against the Greenback since mid-Janu-ary, triggering further selling. On Wednesday,poorer-than-expected Canadian trade figuresprovided a fresh excuse to offload the Loonie.

In all, the Canadian dollar lost two and aquarter US cents and it was down by three centsagainst sterling. The US dollar succeeded be-cause of a less dismissive attitude to interest rateincreases this year: the pound lost out becauseof disappointing figures for private sector busi-ness activity in the UK.

AUD weekly currency updateFor a second week the Aussie was the weak-

est-performing major currency. Investors werenot overly enchanted by any of the commodity-related currencies, preferring the safe-haven eu-ro, Japanese yen and US dollar.

Their concern stemmed from doubts aboutthe global economy, doubts which were fed bylacklustre economic data from around theworld.

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AUDIENCIA NACIONAL high court JudgeCarmen Lamela confirmed that alleged Jiha-di terrorist Mohammad Harrak will be sent toprison.

Twenty-six-year old Harrack, who was al-legedly in close contact with Daesh leaders,is accused of recruiting fighters to join the Ji-hadists in Syria.

Given the seriousness of the charges,Judge Lamela has rejected an appeal againsthis imprisonment due to the danger of him

leaving the county. According to the Ministry of the Interior,

Harrak represents a “clear threat to nationalsecurity” since he directed his efforts to fa-cilitate the commission of terrorist acts inSpanish terri tory and in other Europeancountries. The Ministry added that this oper-

ation allowed the rapid neutralisation of “adirect threat.”

Harrack posted radical messages to recruitfighters as well as promoting and facilitatingtravel to conflict zones in Syria and Iraq. Healso urged that terrorist acts be committed inSpanish and European territories.

Court orders Jihadist be imprisoned By Sandra Galo

THE Guardia Civil has de-tained four people for the bur-glary of 23 computers fromthe Gaspar Sabater publicschool in Palmanyola.

Three more suspects are al-so under investigation for theburglary of the school duringthe Easter holidays. The per-petrators allegedly entered the

school through a window ofone of the classrooms of theprimary school building tak-ing 23 laptops belonging tothe Council of Education.

Investigations by theGuardia Civil in Pont D’Incaled to the identification of thesuspects. Fourteen computershave since been recovered.

School burglary

Red flags on beachesTWO beaches closed to swimmers due to the presence of contami-nants in the water have now been reopened with a yellow flag.

The beaches at Ciutat Jardi and Can Pere Antoni had red flagsflying following their contamination by a mixture of sewage andrainwater which occurred early on Saturday May 7. New chemicalanalysis will be taken to determine if a green flag can be flown.

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THE small Sa Puntassa lighthouseof Colonia de Sant Jordi has a freshnew look.

After years of apparent neglect,the City Council of Ses Salines pe-titioned Ports of the Balearic Is-lands to restore the little lighthouse,

which received a new coat of paint.With its newly painted black-and-

white stripes, the emblematic light-house has returned to i ts formerglory.

I ts spotless beauty was short-lived, however, due to some graffiti

spray-painted on the structure influorescent pink.

The lighthouse emits bursts oflight in intervals of 10 seconds tohelp vessels to locate the Port ofColonia, as they pass through thestrait of Cabrera.

Lighthouse shines again Buried drug moneyNATIONAL POLICE have found €25,000 in a thermos buriedin land belonging to the infamous Raul drug clan, in the munici-pality of Llucmajor.

The discovery of the money was part of a police drug-traffick-ing operation carried out recently in Son Banya, which resultedin the arrest of seven people.

THE Balearic Government hasset up a surveillance system ofeight cameras at the Son SantJoan Airport’s entry and exitpoints to combat pirate taxis.

Councillor for Land, Energyand Mobility Marc Pons pre-sented this ‘emergency planagainst intrusion in the trans-

port sector,’ during a pressconference.

According to Pons, the planconsists of a series of measuresto deal with the problem of il-legal taxis, which increaseswith the arrival of the touristseason.

The cameras, according tothe Director General of Trans-port Jaume Mateu, are alreadyoperative and will be a ‘helpful

tool’ for the Guardia Civil,which is intensifying controlsduring the first months of thetourist season.

The cameras, which recordvehicles’ licence plates, will beused to help gather informa-tion for a database to assist of-ficials in identifying suspiciousvehicles that enter and leavethe airport. Fines for offenderscan reach up to €6,000.

Crackdown onpirate taxis

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PIRATES: The government is taking steps to stop illegal taxis from operatingat the Son Sant Joan Airport.

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THE S’Albufera Natura lPark recently hosted a visitfrom acclaimed tour com-pany Birdquest bringing it astep closer to becoming afirst-class destination forornithological tourism.

The park received thevis i t f rom renowned or-nithologist Marc Beamanand his team of profession-als from the Birdquest bird-ing tour company whichBeaman founded in 1981.

Beaman is a well-respect-ed ornithologist and has au-thored var ious books onbirds including wri t ingsabout species in thePalaear t ic region (com-prised of Eurasia north ofthe Himalayas and NorthAfrica and part of the Ara-

bian peninsula).Maties Rebassa, Director

of the Park, accompaniedthe dis t inguished grouparound the park showingthem some of the facilitiesfor birdwatching and howthe park is managed, aswell as some of the area’smost emblematic species ofbirds.

Birdquest, the only glob-al company that has beenable to observe more than10,000 bird species world-wide, came to Mallorca tocelebrate its 35th anniver-sary. The vis i t to S’Al-bufera Natura l Park wasone of the main events inits programme.

Of the 120,000 annualvisitors to the park, abouthal f come to observe the200 species of b i rds thatlive in the area.

Now forthe birds By Sandra Galo

‘Yob’ seekersCITIZEN’S group ‘Ciutat de s’Arenal’ has submitted anofficial complaint regarding ‘entertainment venues’ in thes’Arenal-Playa de Palma area which are using advertspromoting alcohol consumption, with offers of free beer,happy hours, party boats, or an ‘open bar plus t-shirt’deal for only €23.

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THE online tourist rental company Airbnbexpects more than 160,000 visitors to Mal-lorca this year, staying in the 8,000 holidayhomes being offered through their website.

The rise of the Airbnb company on theisland has been spectacular. From 2013 to2015, the number of travellers using theonline platform has increased sixfold. Ac-cording to the company, Mallorca is ‘thefirst in holiday homes.’ More than 83,000tourists used Airbnb to find lodging inMallorca last year (excluding rentals in thecity centre), and the numbers are expectedto double this year.

During the Easter Holidays, the growthwas evidenced with 3,668 people rentinglodging on the island compared to 2,000 in2015. Last summer, around 45,000 peoplerented housing in Mallorca throughAirbnb.

If the trend continues, numbers couldreach up to 90,000 for this summer season.

Airbnb pointed out that the 83,000 visi-

tors who stayed in homes advertised ontheir website represented only 0.7 per centof the 12 million tourists who came toMallorca last year and are not part of‘mass tourism,’ but rather ‘responsibletourism’ which respects the environment.

The company added that half of themoney spent goes into the local econo-my where the rental is located.

Airbnb has more than 1,500,000 list-ings in 34,000 cities and 190 coun-tries.

Mallorca onlinerentals skyrocketing

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SEVEN years ago, when agroup of mainly British expatri-ates in Palmanova decided totake action against the extremepoverty which exists in Peru,little was it realised just howmuch their fundraising, and thescope of their efforts, wouldgrow.

Since that time, some 300children attending a school in ashanty town near the country’scapital, Lima, have been fedtwice a day, every day, to com-bat the malnutrition and relateddiseases they suffer from.

A paediatric and maternityclinic was also set up, as health-care in Peru is not free, makingit very difficult for poor peopleto obtain the treatment theyneed.

The group have additionallyrefurbished and equipped thekitchen at the school and also

fully equipped a computerroom for the children, as wellas providing general financialsupport for the running of theschool.

One of the organisers, ChrisBarter, explained that the groupdecided to concentrate theirhelp upon children because itwas felt that the future of Perulay very much in the hands ofthose who are now children, soit seemed an obvious place tostart.

Three years ago, Padre Euge-nio, the former curate at SanLorenzo Church, Palmanova,and now a missionary in Peru,found that there was an urgentneed for an orphanage to be setup for young teenagers in avery poor village, QuebradaVerde, south of Lima.

He approached the group forhelp and it immediately re-sponded, becoming the orphan-age’s main financial supporter.

The need is so great for or-phanages in Peru, as familiescompletely disintegrate underthe pressures of extreme pover-ty, that the group is now havingto double the capacity of thishome. This is involving exten-sive construction works, whichare now almost complete, andthen the home will need to be

re-equipped and furnished. Inaddition to these projects, thegroup also provides support fordisabled people from the area.

All this work in Peru is en-tirely funded by donations andsponsorship from the English-speaking community in Mal-lorca, mainly from the south-west of the island.

On Saturday, May 21, theannual Feed a Child coffeemorning will be held in theSan Lorenzo hall and patioin Palmanova (next to thePalmanova Palace Ho-tel) from 10.30am to1pm to raise addi-tional funds.

There will also behandicraft stalls anda raffle at the eventand all are most welcometo attend.

Entrance will cost on-ly €4, and for this price,unlimited tea or coffeewill be provided, to-gether with a slice ofhome-made cake.

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CALVIA has hosted the first Apnea Mallorca Open Cazafoto-subcompetition, which took place at Calo des Monjo near Peguera.

Organised by the Apena sports club, itself based in Calvia, theevent essentially comprises a sub-aquatic photography competi-tion, with participants challenged to capture the lives of sea crea-tures inhabiting the Mallorcan coastline using underwater camerasand scuba gear. Scores obtained in the event are submissable forthe Balearic championship, administrated by the Balearic Federa-tion of Underwater Activities.

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BRITISH expatriates living inSpain have until Monday May16 to register for a postal votein the EU Referendum. That isthe deadline for making sureyou can receive your ballot pa-pers in the post and send themback in time for your vote to becounted. Voting papers will besent out in the week beginningMay 23.

If you do miss the deadlinefor a postal vote, you can stillregister at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote, but you will need tochoose someone in the UK tovote for you, known as a proxyvote.

Alex Robertson, Director ofCommunications at the Elec-toral Commission, says:

“If you register to vote by

May 16 it should be easier tovote by post, as postal votes forthe referendum will be sent outearlier than usual, giving youmore time to receive, complete,and return your ballot pack tothe UK.

“If you wish to vote byproxy, bear in mind that theperson you choose to vote onyour behalf must be registeredand eligible to vote at the refer-endum.

“The EU Referendum isgoing to be a significant eventand we know lots of UKcitizens will want to make theirvoices heard. Please spread theword. You can go towww.aboutmyvote.co.uk formore information.”

British Ambassador Simon

Manley added: “Ultimately, it isfor the British people to decidewhether we should remain in orleave the European Union, but,whatever they think on the is-sue, I would appeal to my fel-low Brits in Spain not to missthe chance to have their say inthis once-in-a-generation refer-endum.”

Worldwide, more than140,000 Brits living overseashave now completed the voterregistration process since thestart of the year. But nearlyhalf of British expatriates inSpain who are eligible to votein the UK still remain unawarethat they can go online to reg-ister to vote, according to asurvey by expatriate websiteAngloInfo, carried out for the

Electoral Commission. In fact, you can apply online

in five minutes with just yourNational Insurance number andpassport to hand. Simply go towww.gov.uk/register-to-vote byMay 16.

Expatriates can use:http://bit.ly/22zluRK as the linkto take other British residents inSpain to the ‘register to vote’webpage.

May 16 deadlineto register forBrexit postal vote

SIMON MANLEY: Urges all expatriates to register before the deadline.

By John SmithAS predicted earlier this year, the Eu-ropean Central Bank (ECB) has an-nounced that it will no longer producethe €500 note because of concerns itcould facilitate illegal activities, whichwere highlighted by a European Com-mission question in February concern-ing the need for that note.

Supposedly introduced at the de-mand of the German government as it

was withdrawing its DM1,000 notewhich equated to €500, it has provento be popular with criminals and forg-ers and because of the way it was re-garded, the UK government askedbanks to stop handling €500 notes in2010, whilst many shops around Eu-rope are wary about accepting them.

The ECB says the €500 banknoteremains legal tender and will alwaysretain its value.

It will stop issuing the note aroundthe end of 2018, when it will bring innew €100 and €200 banknotes whichthemselves are likely to become thebank note of choice for the moneylaunderer.

It has been argued that with thegrowth in debit cards, high value notesof a range of major currencies shouldbe phased out to discourage their use bycriminals, but this is unlikely to occur.

BERSHKA: Is part of the Inditex Group.

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€250,000 is the amount that the EU proposes a country could be fined for each asylum seeker it refusesto take under the quota system.

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IAG which owns Aer Lingus, BA,Iberia and Vueling has seen significantprofit increases in the last year, but iswarning of a slight slowdown due toworries about terrorism and Brexit, aswell as a possibility that a strong dollarwould offset fuel price drops.

The city was not happy with theconservative position the group took,but CEO Willie Walsh was clear thatby reducing growth forecasts from 5.2to 4.9 per cent, he was being prudent.

THE Inditex Group, of whichAmancio Ortega still holdsnearly 60 per cent of theshares, continues to go fromstrength to strength with a netprofit for their last financialyear of €2.8 billion.

With dividends of 60 centsper share, paid half now andhalf in November, he is due topocket €1.11 billion. Hisdaughter, who inherited 7 per

cent of the shares from her de-ceased mother, will receivearound €94 million.

There is an old saying thatmoney attracts money whichto some extent is true, butthere is no doubt that the own-er of Zara and eight otherbrands, has done an incrediblejob in building such an incred-ibly powerful and populargroup.

Still the world’ssecond richest

BancoPopular HELPED in no small part by adrop in bad debts, Banco Pop-ular announced that its netprofit for the first quarter of2016 had increased by 2.6 percent to €98.7 million. Al-though this isn’t a huge returnfor Spain’s sixth largest lender,it is still not only a positive re-sult but is also slightly ahead ofanalyst’s expectations.

Cash issuesAS long ago as 2009, Zim-babwe stopped producing itsown bank notes because itcould not keep up with theincredible rate of inflation,and it instructed its banks,businesses and citizens to usethe US dollar as the officialmedium of exchange.

Now because of a shortageof US dollar bills, it will pro-duce a range of ‘quasi’ USdollars in a range of relative-ly low denominations, whichwill be supported by a €180million package from theAfrica Export-Import Bank.

THE highest court in Europe has rejected aclaim by international tobacco companies ap-pealing against a law being passed by the EUthat will standardise packaging and ban theadvertising of e-cigarettes.

The Court of Justice found that the laws“did not go beyond the limits of what is ap-

propriate and necessary.”Under the new rules health warnings will

have to cover 65 per cent of the front andback of the packet, and although the rules aredue to take effect f rom May 20, the newpackets will not be on sale until stocks of ex-isting cartons have been cleared.

Cigarette advertising rules

is the estimated annual amount ofillegal money in the world financialsystem according to bank reports.

Quote of the WeekThe Rolling Stones have never given permission to the Trumpcampaign to use their songs and have requested they cease all use

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Russians exposed in PortugalBy John Smith

EUROPOL, the EU law enforce-ment agency has announced thatworking with the Portuguese police,a gang of money launderers consist-ing mainly of Russian ‘frontmen’ atvar ious footbal l c lubs has beenclosed down.

The aptly named Operation Ma-trioskas (the Russian dolls which areenclosed inside each other), saw of-ficers spend a year investigating theactivities of various investors in dif-ferent clubs in Portugal, which cul-minated in the arrest of a number ofthose apparent ly involved in themoney laundering scheme.

The main investigation centred onUniao de Leiria, once managed byJose Mourinho but having fallen onhard times, it dropped to the bottomtier of Portuguese football. After go-ing bankrupt the club was takenover by Russian businessmanAlexander Tols t ikov, who alongwith two others is reported to havebeen detained and charged.

Some of the top league clubs suchas Benfica and Sport ing Lisbonwere also visited by the police, notbecause they were suspected of anyirregularities, but because they hadpurchased Russian players for theirteams, and it was thought that docu-mentation concerning the transfersmight be of assistance to the investi-gation.

According to Europol, there is anexus which incorporates crimescarr ied out in Austr ia , Estonia ,Latvia, Germany, Moldova and theUK, so it is possible that this couldbe the first of a number of similarraids across Europe.

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ALTHOUGH one of the leaders inthe world of sporting/trendy apparel,German manufacturer Adidas has ad-mitted that it needs to sell much of itsmarginally profitable golf business.

Whilst the bulk of its business con-tinues to grow,g o l f i n gc l o t h e shave takena nose divebeing at theheight of popu-larity in the US in the year 2000 fol-lowing the success of Tiger Woods.

Since that time, sales have basical-ly declined although Adidas, throughits three main brands Adams, Ash-worth and TaylorMade, does hold asignificant part of the market eventhough the sports equipment includ-ing clubs is struggling.

The problem for the company isthat the somewhat untrendy clothing,which so many golfers decide towear, is not versatile and with a de-cl ining market and sales of only€900 million representing just 5 percent of turnover, it is a market that ismore trouble than it’s worth.

Overall , the general business isgrowing, particularly in North Amer-ica where the company has aligneditself with a number of popular fig-

ures such as Kanye West.That aside, the company announced

a 31 per cent rise in quarterly sales of

its core brand in North America,thanks to a rise in marketing, includ-ing a series of partnerships with high-

profile people including Kanye West,as well as top sportsmen such as Li-onel Messi and Gareth Bale.

Double bogey for AdidasIN a public statement, multi-millionaire Sir Philip Greenhas called for Frank Field,Labour MP and chairman ofthe Commons Committee ex-amining the demise of BHS toresign due to comments he hasmade.

Mr Field said in an inter-view he would recommendstripping Sir Philip of hisknighthood if he did not repay£571 million (€742 million)to the BHS pension fund, andSir Philip believes that “he isclearly prejudiced.”

According to the BBC Sir-Philip said: “Clearly he has al-ready made his decision as towhat he feels the punishmentshould be, without even hear-ing any evidence from any-body about BHS or the cir-cumstances of the last 15years.”

The crux of the argument isthat Sir Philip allegedly earnedmillions from the company be-fore selling it on for just £1,and now the taxpayer mayhave to pick up the pensionblack hole.

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ALTHOUGH often touted as a company thatcares about people, Apple does have a bit of areputation for understandably trying to protectits trademark by going to law, but on this oc-casion it has received a verdict which will notbe to its liking.

The Beijing Municipal High People’s Courtruled in favour of Xintong Tiandi Technologywhich uses the name IPHONE on a range ofleather goods including handbags and it regis-tered that trademark in China in 2010.

It must be doubly irritating for Apple as itfirst tried to register the iPhone name in thecountry in 2002, but this was not accepted un-til 2013, three years later than the IPHONEregistration.

A spokesman for the American giant made astatement saying “Apple is disappointed theBeijing High People’s Court chose to allow

Xintong to use the iPhone mark for leathergoods when we have prevailed in several oth-er cases against Xintong.

“We intend to request a retrial with theSupreme People’s Court and will continue tovigorously protect our trademark rights.”

The court ruled that Apple could not proveit was a well-known brand in China beforeXintong Tiandi filed its trademark applicationin 2007 especially as their iPhones only wenton sale in China in 2009.

Sales of the company’s phones have showna surprising drop on a worldwide basis, but inChina which has been a very important markettheir sales have nosedived by more than 25per cent and coupled with this is the fact that alaw passed in March requiring all contentshown in China to be stored on servers basedon the Chinese mainland resulted in the clos-ing down of iTunes, although the companydoes hope to resurrect this business soon.

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APPLE STORE: Situated at Hangzhou West Lake.

INDIA plays a very importantpart in the world steel tradewith plants in India itself andthrough subsidiary companiesaround the world.

Much has been made of theTata group and its decision todivest itself of its Welsh plantin Port Talbot where it is saidto be losing £1 million (€1.3million) per day.

Advertising this loss seemshardly likely to attract poten-tial purchasers and of the near-ly 200 contacts it made in asearch for a buyer, two haveactually presented proposals,one from Excalibur Steel UK

Limited which would be amanagement buyout, hopeful-ly with worker and govern-ment participation and the oth-er from Liberty House, alsoIndian owned, which wouldchange the business from rawproduction to recycling.

Tellingly, Excalibur are stilltrying to find bank fundingand anticipate around 1,000job losses if their bid is suc-cessful, whilst Liberty have atrack record of success in thebusiness and have indicated onmore than one occasion thatthey would expect no job loss-es.

In the meantime, another In-dian steel giant ArcelorMittalhas forecast that global de-mand for steel will stabiliseand possibly increase veryslightly in 2016 with a markedimprovement in the Chinesemarket.

Despite the fact thatArcelorMittal does not operatewithin the Chinese market, be-cause its operation is so large,its comments are normallytreated seriously and hopefullyits view of a slight recoverywill prove to be correct, ifnothing else for the good ofthe British steel industry.

Steel still confuses

CAMERON’s claims that wewould be more at r isk of warshould we leave the EU is ludi-crous.

It is the pathetic rambling of aman, slowly but surely losing the

battle to keep the UK aligned toan organisation that is failing itsmembers on a scale that is becom-ing more dangerous as we speak.Be under no illusions however,there will be war in Europe, irre-spective of whether we opt out ornot.

The adversary is already with-in. Leaving the EU and conse-quently securing our borders willmake us safer, mainly by keepingthe numbers of the militant Is-lamists population down andmore manageable when it al lkicks off. It has, of course, al-ready begun.

Sweden, a country that hasbeen the most welcoming toMuslim/Arab immigrants is al-ready verging on civil war. Re-cent rioting involved untoldnumbers of young Muslim menand lasted more than a week.

Hundreds of cars were set alightand one resident described thearea as looking like a battle scene.

On a recent visit to the countryMr Mudan Zahran, himself aMuslim, stated that Sweden’swelcoming and tolerance havebeen abused by Muslims. Theyhave responded to Sweden’s

kindness, by seeking to

Islamise the country. Another res-ident remarked: “I just feel sadfor the insults we get from manyArabs and Muslims in this town.We look on them as Swedes andthey look on us as the enemy!”

How heart-wrenching and howtelling is that? Germany has alsoreceived a series of riots perpe-trated by Islamist militants. LastRamadan largely unreported inci-dents involving mobs shoutingAllahu Akbar torched cars and at-tacked the police in a series of in-cidents lasting up to four days.

France and Belgium have alsoexperienced Islamic violence intheir towns and cities. And on itgoes. One of the results of the au-thority’s unwillingness to engagethe situation is the emergence ofmany far right organisations.

Support for these parties isgrowing by the day. And they areprepared to meet violence with vi-olence. Result? Civil war. EU orno EU.

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT

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There will be war in Europe

DAVID CAMERON: His claims that we would be more at risk of war should we leave the EU is ludicrous.

Sweden, acountry that

has been the mostwelcoming to Mus-lim/Arab immigrants is already verging oncivil war. Recent rioting lasted morethan a week.

IN the 1970s and later, science fic-t ion wri ters imagined a worldwhich was not dominated by war-ring nations, but by warring multi-nationals which literally employedand deployed armies of human be-ings who were used as pawns bythese gigantic corporations.

Europe has been wooed by theUSA into discussing the possibilityof a new and ‘exci t ing’ t radingpartnership, which is supposed toencourage greater freedom of tradeand supposedly promises huge fi-nancial benefits to member statesof the EU.

Large numbers of people , re-membering the phrase ‘BewareGreeks bearing gifts’, have beensceptical about the benefits andhow US Corporations would bene-fit from this partnership.

The fears are now spilling overinto government circles especial-ly as Greenpeace has leaked anumber of classified documents,which do not show the USA in a

particularly appealing light.A great deal of the negotia-

tion has been confidential, but theFrench t rade minis ter Mat thias

Fekl said a freeze in the negotia-tions was the “most likely op-tion,” without a change from theUSA as Europe was offering a lot

with little in return. “It is an agreement which, as it

would be today, would be a baddeal,” he said in a French radio in-terview.

TTIP could “unravel” the inter-nat ional c l imate change dealagreed in Paris last year, and thereappear to be few safeguards forFrench agriculture (of major im-portance to all French politicians),nor was there sufficient protectionfor its industry.

Despite the fact that this is sup-posed to be a Union negotiation,various member States are consid-ering their personal positions andthere doesn’t seem to be a largeamount of support for this pact.

Although Britain was known asAmerica’s poodle in the days ofBush and Blair, any involvementin the partnership could be moot inthe event that it leaves the EU, andalready President Obama has indi-cated that it can go to the back ofthe trade queue if it does leave.

There have been numerous pub-lic demonstrations against theTTIP and perhaps on this oc-casion, French self-interestcould be in the interest of all ofEurope.

AS a lapsed luvvie who hasnot been involved in ama-teur dramatics for severalyears, I was looking for-ward to attending a play bya new group, ACTS, inBenijofar recently.

It was a fun evening withexcellent performancesfrom each member of thetalented cast. But inevitablyit got me reminiscing aboutpast productions that I havebeen involved in dahling.

A highlight of the yearwas the Drama Fest ivalSeason.

We usually entered sever-al in our corner of East An-glia, and on one particularoccasion we were on a rollwith the play we had cho-sen.

We had already won BestDirector, male actor, junioractor and the coveted Bestof Festival award, so ap-

proaching the final eventwe were confident of givinga good account of our-selves.

Another group was stag-ing ‘Round and Round theGarden’ – the last play in‘The Norman Conquests’trilogy.

But our mouths dropped

open in disbelief as theyproceeded to erect a set thatwas composed of AstroTurf, picket fencing, gardenfurniture and 20 young ley-landii in pots. It was like anepisode of Gardener ’sWorld.

Ours required a simpleset depicting a village hall

that was under refurbish-ment. Two step ladders witha plank, and a few tins ofpaint lying around, whichwere shuffled around be-tween scenes to give theimpression of the passageof time.

A dust sheet was drapedover the plank, al lowing

one of the characters ,dressed in a dark businesssuit , being able to enteragainst a light background.And that was it.

On the final night of thefestival, the awards werebeing handed out, and whenit came to Best Set, the ad-judicator was gushing in hispraise of our minimalist ef-fort.

The faces of the cast re-sponsible for the poorman’s Kew Gardens setsaid it all, but the looks ofshock were soon temperedwith the reality of having toreturn all of the borroweditems to the garden centre.

It was one of those timeswhen less was defini telymore.

When less can be more

AS we move into the cyberrealm, with more and morepeople connecting to othersacross the world, the very factthat many of these contacts areanonymous appears to havegiven certain people of limitedintelligence, or others who aredeliberately malicious, aunique opportunity to insultindividuals and spread liesabout them in a manner neverbefore seen.

For some reason, peoplewho wouldn’t dream of insult-ing someone to their face con-sider that the internet, emailsand Facebook are open forumswhere literally anything can besaid without the possibility ofbeing caught.

The really stupid are easilytracked down through their IPaddresses, but there are moredevious individuals who man-age to route their insults andthreats via a number of IP ad-dresses, or purchase an anony-mous address so that theycan’t be traced.

In most of Europe now,whilst cyberbullying is not initself a crime, there are plentyof laws which can be interpret-ed if prosecutors wish to takeaction against such activity,and the more threatening it isthe easier it is to prosecute.

The EU is looking to intro-duce direct laws to combat thisactivity, especially as there areso many documented cases ofself-harming and even suicideamongst teens who have beenattacked mercilessly by theirpeers.

It is sad that as technologyprogresses, even areas thatbring happiness to so manypeople are hijacked by the ig-norant and despicable in orderto obtain somewhat vicariousentertainment.

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SPAIN operates a network of traffic moni-toring devices, not only looking for driverswho are speeding and for those who skipthrough red lights, but for such bad practicesas using a mobile phone.

Here are the five types of monitoringdevices currently in use:

Fixed cameras: These devices are locatedalong the road network, usually at the side ofthe road, or sometimes on poles or across thecarriageway, and monitor vehicles as theypass, recording those which exceed the limit.

Mobile radars: These operate with an op-erator, or usually a small team, and are oftenin unmarked Guardia Civil vehicles, as wellas those in marked cars belonging to trafficlaw enforcement groups, including the DGT.Depending on the type of equipment, therecording vehicle can be static or moving.

Fixed-section radars: These devices oper-

ate over a fixed distance of road and monitorthe average speed between two points onthat section. These devices are often consid-ered to give a more realistic impression ofrecorded speed as the driver doesn’t usuallyreact instantly when they see one, and so theaverage is more likely speed recorded.

Red-light cameras: This equipment doesnot measure the speed of a vehicle but takesa photograph if the vehicle fails to stop at ared light.

Pegasus-equipped helicopters: Pegasus isthe name of a recording device fitted to mostof the DGT traffic helicopters. Distinctive bytheir yellow and light blue colouring, these‘eyes in the sky’ can catch offending mo-torists from a kilometre away and at a heightof 300 metres, recording the average speedand vehicle characteristics, as well as moni-toring for other traffic violations.

Properly, yes, theFirst Occupation

Cert i f icate should beavailable on subsequentsales of the property.

Some municipal i t ieshave a Second Occupa-t ion Cert i f icate to re-place it. However, thou-

sands of long-term An-dalucian property own-ers are in the same situa-tion that you are, withoutthe certificate.

Your solution is to goto your town hall and re-quest a copy of the cer-ti f icate they originallyissued, or a documentwhich can replace it.

Di f ferent town hal lshandle it differently, butthis is the place to start.

TO register your property for short-term holiday lets under the new An-

dalucian law, the form to get the licencerequires a copy of the First Occupation Li-cence. I have owned my home for 20 yearsand I cannot find this licence.

I believe it was issued by the town hall tothe builder or developer so he could sell theproperty. Without it I understand servicescannot be connected. Do subsequent pur-chasers of the property need it?

RP (Costa del Sol)

LEGALLY SPEAKING

Five devices tomonitor traffic

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AS part of the series, we answer some common driving questions and keep youupdated on the latest driving and road news kindly provided by members ofthe Guardia Civil based in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca, who set up the N332 web-site and Facebook page to help break down barriers.

TRAFFIC MONITORING: Devices include Pegasus-equipped helicopters.

WHAT is it with rucksacks? They used to besomething you used to go camping with. Youand your family or friends would go off intothe big wide open spaces with your hikingboots. It carried your tent and supplies ormaybe if you went trekking off round theworld. Or you were in the army and you weregoing off to fight a war somewhere.

Move forward and now everybody is usingthem. Well except me because actually theyhave turned into weapons of mass destructionbut that’s another article!

They were meant to be used in fields, longopen roads, the wilderness. Where they werenot meant to be used was on aircraft with theexception of being a red beret commando ormember of the SAS, and for some reasonthere was a need for you to leave the planewhilst it was at about 20,000 feet, then theyare a handy place to keep your parachute.

They definitely should not be used ontrains and confined spaces. I was on the trainto Madrid and there was a family that got onafter I was already comfy in my seat and the

whole bloody lot of them had a rucksack ontheir back! And I tell you they were enor-mous!! As the dad tried to get one of the chil-dren settled he turned round and nearly tookmy head off. Do they not realise that they arethe human equivalent to an articulated lorry?They need space to manoeuvre!

They should all be fitted with the samewarning beeps. This idiot was swivellingabout nearly taking the heads off all thosenearby. Me, being me, was the only one whogave him the ‘Oi’ treatment. It never fails. Ithas to be more than a tut when facing possi-ble head injury. Then there is the whole per-formance of taking the rucksacks off and get-ting them in the overhead storage which turnsinto an episode of the Krypton Factor havingto move everything around them to get thesehuge accessories to fit.

As luck would have it there is a happy end-ing to this story. Dad had to move one of thechildren to a seat further down the carriageand so he wanted to move his rucksack aswell. In all the confusion he must have givenhis son the wrong one and as he put it on hisback and let go and stood back the child top-pled over with his legs in the air like a flippedover tortoise. Of course I rushed over to see ifI could help... Well, actually, I nearly spat outmy coffee with laughter and thought servesyou right!

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IN response to Philip in San Fulgencio,Missing the UK! (Issue 1607).

This bar in Quesada, which uses op-tics which Mr Philip has never set footin, does have 50ml optics for brandednamed spirits, not your Aldi or Lidlbrands which he is probably used to!

He is probably one of the many ex-pats that each day go from bar to barchasing the happy hours trying to getas much for their euros as possible.This bar doesn’t do any happy hours orcheap branded alcohol. It prides itselfon only selling the best-named brands.

Even the Spanish suppliers of thespirits agree that by using the 50ml op-tic is the correct amount that customersshould be getting, not getting a bar-tender who holds the bottle and tries tocount to 10 then stops, of course every-one counts at the same speed so theyall get the same measure (not!).

By using the optics everyone isguaranteed to receive the exactamount, so there is no arguing!

Mr Philip adds that the spirits arenot anywhere near the gentleman’ssize! Not sure how he can say this ashe has never been in the bar!

He needs to look for himself beforehe comments about something heknows nothing about!

So I suggest if Philip goes to Quesa-da and enters the bar and looks forhimself and takes the little birdie whotold him about the so-called sinisterhappenings in the bar, then he cancomment himself rather than sit andwrite about something he knows noth-ing about!

Albert Henderson, Ciudad Quesada.

Thank you! YES! Yes! Thank you! The return ofthe Nonogram has arrived!

‘Thinking Cap’ on again and it’s atoughie this week too!

It’s nice that you take interest inwhat your readers think!

Happy Lesley from AlcalaliEWN reply: It’s our pleasure Les-ley, EWN gets it!

Soul singingI HAVE never written a letter to anewspaper. I will soon be 89 but I felt Ihad to reply to ‘Earl from Alicante’ inissue 1608. How can anyone say thatsongs like Amazing Grace and HowGreat Thou Art, and so many others,are ‘ridiculous’? I love singing, asmuch as I am able to with a poor voice,at the Calpe Christian Fellowship each

Sunday and ‘worshipping’ Jesus, andremembering through Holy Commu-nion all that he suffered to pay for oursins. Read the bible Earl, and learn.

Ps I do so much enjoy EWN, thankyou.

Irene

Atlantic angleEURO WEEKLY published a letterfrom ‘Dario via email’ in issue 1609that pensioners living here “shouldhave a Spanish social security numberwhich entitles you to healthcare if weare in or out of the EU.”

Those of us who are non-EU Ameri-cans (and I believe Canadians orAussies) living here on retirement resi-dencia visas are required to maintainprivate healthcare insurance. Althoughliving here legally requires payingSpanish income taxes on our world-wide income, we don’t have access to

the Spanish social security system, nordo we get Spanish-paid healthcare. Aswe never paid into their social securitysystem, why would Spain be responsi-ble for our retirement healthcare here?

I have heard British retirees say thatthings wouldn’t change much if theUK withdrew from the EU. Logically,everything in place through the EUwould have to be newly-negotiated bySpain and a non-EU United Kingdom.Retired Americans and most othernon-EU citizens certainly don’t receivethe benefits and privileges of EU citi-zens.

We spent hundreds of dollars fordocuments and fees to get our resi-dence visas. Each time we have to re-new, it involves multiple trips to Mala-ga and Torre Del Mar, withphotocopies and more photocopies!

From healthcare to work permits, toresidence permits and renewals, to dri-veing licence exchanges - all wouldhave to be bilaterally negotiated. Just

imagine a Spanish government insist-ing that Gibraltar also had to be includ-ed in the negotiations!

A British friend told me Spain needsthe UK more than the UK needs Spain.Maybe so, but Spain needs the EUeven more. When the Scots were con-sidering independence, the Spanishmade clear their concerns. Spanishleadership could be expected to take asimilar tough position on relations witha non-EU UK. Assurances by support-ers for leaving the EU that there wouldbe only minor impact for British pen-sioners here should be taken withmuch scepticism!

Ron Adam

Brexit bluesWHAT could not be achieved by forceof arms has now been done by stealth.It is my duty and responsibility to voteOUT, to help free my children grand-

children, and great grandchildren fromthe shackles of a Europe, dominatedby unelected policy and lawmakerswhich are taking over our country.

To me it is as important as those thatgave their lives for me and the freedomof the UK. What happens to me if theUK leaves the union is not important,it is the family that follows that willbenefit and thrive in a free and openUK.

C V Williams, El Cucador

Queer as folkIN response to Fine outlook for LGBT,Costa del Sol issue 1609.

LGBT travellers don’t need ‘LGBTactivities’ or ‘gay/bi services’. We pickour destinations according to, firstly,safety, and secondly, cultural accep-tance. Can we hold hands with ourpartners in public, admit to being gayin conversation if it comes up (or intro-duce our partners as such)?

Will our husbands (for men) andwives (for women) be accepted as suchif necessary (for everything from hos-pital visits to being able to share a ho-tel room)? Single LGBTs might bekeen to see bars, cafés, etc catering tothem exclusively.

This isn’t segregation. We’re a mi-nority and it’s hard to meet each other.After all, the U3A bars under-50s,doesn’t it, and isn’t considered dis-criminatory? No, because it’s a societyfor over-50s no longer in work to meetothers in their situation and of theirage. Ditto LGB bars. Couples aren’tbothered, unless they’re in an areawhere they have to keep their relation-ship very much under wraps for fear ofreprisals or even prison.

Happily, Spain doesn’t need to maketoo much effort there (for tourists. It’scrying out for a ‘scene’ for residents).It’s one of the most accepting, if notTHE most, countries of LGBTs andthose of us living here are actually sur-prised if we encounter homophobiaelsewhere - we’ve forgotten what it’slike! (After all, marriage has been legalfor 11 years, longer than in the UK).

Kally

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A plea for help

I SPENT some time (months) in Spain re-cently where I witnessed the plight of just one

of the ill-treated hunting dogs. This dog needshelp.

He is fed once a week, if he knocks his bucketof stale water over he is left without water. Helives in a shed with a dirt floor 24/7.

The shed is filthy... as for mental stimulation orexercise, those are non-existent.

I have a home waiting for him in the UK (afriend of mine with a large garden will take him

on), but I need a foster carer to keep him for threeweeks so that we can get him ready to travel.

Is there anyway you can help or at least publi-cise his case so that the owner realises the dogneeds help? Even if he is sent to a rescue centre inSpain it would be a better life than he has now.

In desperation,Leigh Walton

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MALLORCA, as beautiful and friendly as it is, isnot perfect. It’s got its fair share of issues, just likeeverywhere has. I mean, we’re not on the Mid-somer Murders scale where every week there’s asuspicious death, but we do have an issue withdrugs.

Let’s get this straight out there from the get go,I’m not anti or pro marihuana, I couldn’t care lessif you grow the stuff then smoke in your back gar-den or your house. But I wonder if you knowabout the potential health risks for yourself oryour children.

Around 20 per cent of all Spanish teenagers bythe age of 15 have smoked cannabis. A news re-port came out this week warning of this rise in theuse of cannabis in Spanish teenagers and youngpeople, and how much damage it can do theirlong-term health. Scientists at the US National In-stitute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) have warned of therisks to mental health and cognitive skills in ado-lescents, which have been outlined in researchthat has been published.

There is a link between neuro-psychologicaldamage from cannabis and starting to smoke thedrug at an early age. Cannabis alters the structure

and connectivity of an underdeveloped centralnervous system, which can lead to loss of memo-ry and concentration. It can also affect the reflex-

es and trigger Amotivational Syndrome whichleads to apathy and lack of interest in the world. Itcan also mean the person smoking it is at risk of

experiencing psychotic episodes. Raise the subject though and you’re immedi-

ately warned to not stick your head above theparapet and make a noise. Challenge someoneand they will claim it’s much better for them thantobacco. But why smoke anything at all would bemy reply. My husband thinks it’s because they’rebored, maybe it’s to do with escaping, or just toget the high. There are much healthier ways toachieve a high, exercise or the feeling of achieve-ment are just two.

The Spanish EDEX Foundation (www.edex.es)has produced a guide called Drugs: Know More /Risk Less, which offers tools to parents to im-prove their communication with their children.(You can also check www.talktofrank.com for anEnglish version).

They recommend you look out for moodswings, short-term memory problems, changes ineating or sleeping habits or a sudden drop in acad-emic performance. I know, it all sounds a bit likeyour everyday teenager, but keep them peeled anddon’t go mad if you find they have been smoking.

Remembering my own adolescence what astroppy madam I was back then, I know that be-ing heavy handed or trying to force a person tochange doesn’t work. What does work is givingthe person the facts and letting them make theirown mind up, and giving them alternatives. mallorcamatters.com.

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Vicki McLeod

Family Matters

Drug use is on the rise

MALLORCA: We do have an issue with drugs.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)Improvising within a new businesssituation may not give you the perfectanswer to a problem. What it will do,however, is give you an insight intothe way others live. Until now, yourapproach to life may have been a littleone-sided.

CANCER(June 22 - July 23)A recent holiday has set your mindracing. This being a romantic timemeans that you can get a little over-excited. Your romance may not be setto last but you should fully enjoy itnonetheless. Relatives issue words ofwarning but they have only your bestinterests at heart.

LEO(July 24 - August 23)Opposing opinions on a matter closeto your heart see you hesitating. Thereis nothing wrong with asking foradvice. The chances are that youknow someone who has already been

through your situation. Don’t let pridemake you miss out on a solution.

VIRGO(August 24 - September 23)Not everything in the garden is rosybut you are made of strong stuff. Yourconviction that something is righthelps you in discussions. Supportgiven to a loved one may bemisguided, especially if it is a hugefinancial gamble.

LIBRA(September 24 - October 23)This is a time to enjoy the present andlook forward to the future. Don’tforget, along the way, to congratulateyourself for all that you haveachieved in the last year. Sometimesyou do not blow your own trumpetand people appreciate you in a quietway.

SCORPIO(October 24 - November 22)An appetite for something newmeans that you tread unknown

ground. It’s an exciting timewhen you may find it easier to dothings alone.

This does not mean you haveto feel alone as others can be toldof your progress.

SAGITTARIUS(November 23 - December 21)Part of being ‘you’ is yourindependent mind. Some may tryto change that this week.

Why would someone want tomake you more dependent onthem? Could it be that they feelinsecure? Giving reassurancemay be all that is needed. We allfeel the need for appreciation.

CAPRICORN(December 22 - January 20)Trying to be everything to allpeople is tiring. No one knowsthis more than you.

Give yourself a little time andspace this week because it willmake a great difference to yourspirits.

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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21)

IRISH LOTTO EURO MILLIONS LA PRIMITIVA EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA

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for next 7 days

Fill the grid so that every row, every columnand every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9.There’s no maths involved. You solve thepuzzle with reasoning and logic.

Sudoku

BACK

Move from thestart word (BATH)to the end word(SINK) in the samenumber of steps asthere are rungs onthe Word Ladder.You must onlychange one letterat a time.

BATH

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Word Ladder

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Alicante TODAY: CLEAR MAX 24C, MIN 15C

MadridTODAY: CLOUDY MAX 16C, MIN 8C

AlmeriaTODAY: CLEAR MAX 21C, MIN 14C

MalagaTODAY: SHOWERS MAX 20C, MIN 13C

Barcelona TODAY: CLOUDY MAX 21C, MIN 14C

Mallorca TODAY: CLEAR MAX 20C, MIN 13C

BenidormTODAY: CLEAR MAX 24C, MIN 15C

MurciaTODAY: SHOWERS MAX 24C, MIN 14C

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AQUARIUS(January 21 - February 19)Primarily, you are wanting to seesome appreciation. That isunderstandable given the effortsthat you have made. Do not beannoyed, however, if it is a whilecoming yet. Others are notalways as well tuned in as you. Ifnecessary, use a go-betweendiscreetly to make sure ofprogress.

PISCES(February 20 - March 20)Increased activity in your lovelife means less time to reallyconcentrate on business. Makesure that priority financialmatters are dealt with. Not doingso will see you kicking yourselflater on. A close relationship isgoing well. There’s no reason towonder why, the charm offensiveis obviously working.

ARIES(March 21 - April 20)Keeping an eye on your health isparticularly important at themoment. Because you have beenactive, it could be that you needto give yourself a bit of time.Pampering and just plain relaxingare all going to stand you in goodstead during the coming week.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Nonagram

ambo balm barm beam bema berm lamb lame loam male mare marlmeal mere mole more move ream roam amber amble ameer amoleblame bream embar ember lamer merle molar moral morel moverombre realm ambler marble marvel morale ramble remove movableremoval moveable REMOVABLE

How many English wordsof four letters or more canyou make from the nineletters in our Nonagram

puzzle? Each letter may be used onlyonce (unless the letter appears twice).

Each word MUST CONTAIN THECENTRE LETTER (in this case R) andthere must be AT LEAST ONE NINE

LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities orproper nouns are not allowed.

Weather

Cryptic

Code Breaker

English - Spanish

QuickAcross1 Meet the requirements or expectations

of (7)5 Instances (5)8 Enraged, angry (5)9 Pamphlet (7)10 Small lake (4)11 Situation (8)13 Scallywag (6)15 Wreckage (6)18 Ready (8)19 Heroic poem (4)22 Draw back (7)23 Depart (5)24 Be worthy or deserving (5)25 Admit to a wrongdoing (7)

Down1 Ship's captain (7)2 Educate for a future role or function (5)3 Look for (4)4 Lemon or banana coloured (6)5 Single-reed woodwind instrument (8)6 Person engaged in military service (7)

7 Smooth fabric of silk or rayon (5)12 Long-tailed parrot (8)14 Protective covering that provides

protection from the weather (7)16 Triumph (7)

17 Marked by intense agitationor emotion (6)

18 Jewish holiday (5)20 Stage of development (5)21 Blueprint (4)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

1 Trial, 4 Realism, 7 Elation,8 Riser, 9 Scope, 10 Element,11 Nicest, 13 Trader,17 Garbage, 19 Casks,21 Abase, 22 Astride,23 Sleight, 24 Sweet.

1 Treason, 2 Imago, 3 Loiters,4 Rennet, 5 Instead, 6 Merit,8 Roe, 12 Carnage, 14 Recites,15 Respect, 16 Repast,17 Grass, 18 Aye, 20 Spine.

1 Invades, 5 Coats, 8 Sells,9 Pioneer, 10 Special, 11 Share,12 Upset, 14 Asked, 19 Drops,21 Examine, 23 Private,24 Tease, 25 Steal, 26 Largest.

1 Insist, 2 Value, 3 Dislike,4 Supply, 5 Cooks, 6 Average,7 Sorted, 13 Promise, 15 Scatter,16 Adapts, 17 Reveal, 18 Recent,20 Snail, 22 Image.

1 Apio, 3 Naipes, 8 Easiest,9 Rie, 10 Ordenador, 12 Ron,13 Prefijo, 15 Please, 16 Rojo.

1 Age, 2 Insurance, 4 Anteayer,5 Periodico, 6 Seed, 7 Receipts,11 Trap, 14 Oro.

Across:

Down:

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QUICK

ENGLISH-SPANISH

Across1 Gemelos (de camisa) (9)6 Espada (arma) (5)7 Between (5)9 Cucharillas (9)

13 Arriba (indicando situación) (5)14 To swim (5)15 Frambuesa (9)

Down1 Thing (object) (4)2 Vase (7)3 Tapa (de caja) (3)4 Grandson (5)5 Honey (from bees) (4)8 Fork (cutlery) (7)

10 Cobertizos (para animales,herramientas) (5)11 Fácil (sencillo) (4)12 Rezar (4)14 Plumilla (de pluma) (3)

ABLATEABLAZE (10)CATTLECLARETCLOUDYMAGNETMUTTERNEWTONOGRESSPETREL

PLATENREGRETROSTERSURTAXTEAPOTTRACERTREMORVESSELZEROES

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Across1 Furniture material from quite a known

source (4)3 Resident's money in account mix-up

(8)8 Saint has lots of paper for courses (7)9 Sweden and Norway take in country

girl (5)10 South Carolina beer measure (5)11 Warning! Former girlfriend has

sufficient (7)12 Mr Spielberg's seen TV production

(6)13 Mix boron with spice for muscles (6)16 Put off ill feeling after religious

education (7)18 Belgian port without an oaf (5)20 Sent back elegant passenger

vehicles (5)21 Piece of music features feline in

loose coat (7)22 Sample of epic men's design (8)23 Play around with stew (4)

Down1 Team leader inquires about work

assignments (5)

2 A number eager about land area (7)4 Famous general seen in classic US

terminal (6)5 A funny pose for a Greek author (5)6 Small boats feature in an Eastenders’

episode (7)7 Thrill seekers did several spins (10)9 Figures its cat sits awkwardly (10)

12 Small, quiet religious ceremonies forfairies (7)

14 Improve leave, set off with Lawrence (7)15 Annoy the French after final tee (6)17 Criticise leaders of sportsmen leaving

after the exercises (5)19 It’s reported the dogs have reached

the tops of the mountains (5)

1 Inhere 2 Delete 3 Enable 4 Huddle5 Treble 6 Feeble 7 Asleep 8 Double9 Serene 10 Plural 11 Render12 Repeal 13 Neuron 14 Planar15 Trauma 16 Ethane 17 Mallet18 Meager 19 Marvel

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

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

other cells are given as clues.

Crossword Enjoy filling in the following puzzles and check the answersin next week’s edition

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONSpage

Hexagram

CRYPTIC

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle,10 represents Q and 24 represents T, so fill in Q every time the figure 10 appears and T every time thefigure 24 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should goin the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in themain grid and the control grid.

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AS friends and colleaguesstart muttering about biki-ni season and diets, thedoctor answers a fewquestions on obesity, re-ferred to by some as theplague of modern times.

What’s the differencebetween being overweightand being obese?

There are different lev-els of excess fat and obesi-ty. The best indicator isthe body mass (BMI) in-dex, which is calculatedby dividing weight by thesquare of height in metres.If the result is between 25and 29.9 the patient isoverweight, if it is morethan 30 they are consid-ered obese.

Is obesity dangerous?Why?

Obesity is a major car-diovascular risk, meaningobese patients are morelikely to have heart at-tacks, strokes, etc. Todayit is considered as themost common preventablecardiovascular risk and ithas virtually become theepidemic of the 21st cen-tury.

It is not just an aestheticproblem, it is a real health

risk. Also, type two dia-betes is usually associatedto obesity and almost allpatients with this type ofdiabetes are obese.

What can I do to controlobesity then?

Although there are othercauses, the most commonis a simple imbalance be-tween the amount of ener-gy we put into our bodies(what we eat) and theamount we use up.

Therefore the best wayto control obesity and loseweight is to reduce theamount going in by fol-lowing a balanced, lowcalorie diet and increasethe amount used withmoderate, daily exercise.

I have no self-controland find it very hard to ex-ercise, what can I do?

It isn’t easy. Losingweight is a complicatedtask, which needs real in-volvement from the pa-tient with support from amedical professional suchas a Specialist in InternalMedicine. They can helpmotivate the patient andgive advice on the best di-et for them and a moder-ate, daily exercise plan.

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MANY experts now believesugar is just as deadly anaddict ion as dr ink anddrugs, with many peopleconsuming far too much.

Whilst it may be easier tolay off the sweets andchocolate, nutritionists sayi t is the hidden sugar infoods that catch people un-aware, such as in pre-madepasta sauces and bakedbeans.

So what can you do tohelp wean yourself off sug-ar?

Try and keep your bloodsugar balanced and avoidlow blood sugar that wil lmake you want to go andget something sweet. Don’tgo longer than three hourswithout eating, especiallywomen, or your blood sugar

levels will drop andyour body wil lcrave somethingsweet.

Weaning your-self off sugar canbe easier forsome than oth-ers. Some may pre-fer to go coldturkey, othersgradual ly re-duce it. First, after remov-ing the obvious sourcesfrom the house, such aschocolate and cakes, i t isrecommended to take out ofyour diet a l l the savouryfoods that contain addedsugar.

Savoury foods such assauces like Dolmio, whichrecently changed its pack-aging to show the sugar

c o n t e n t ,contain added sugar so lookfor healthier or home-madeversions. Other foodsdeemed heal thier such asyoghurts and cereal bars canalso contain high levels ofsugar so check the labels.

Next, stop adding sugarto your hot drinks and otherfoods such as cereal .Checking the package ofyour cereal will show youthere is already sugar in it.

Detoxing from sugar canbe difficult and it is normalto struggle with headaches,cravings, t iredness, spotsand an upset stomach, butaf ter the ini t ia l f i rs t fewdays your body will start torecalibrate itself.

Cutting out sugar can re-programme your taste budsand can improve your body,mind and mood, helpingyou to s leep bet ter, havebrighter and clearer sightand be less stressed.

Wean yourself off theaddiction

HIDDENSUGAR:Catchespeople

unaware.

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THE Calanova Cancer Care CharityShop in San Augustin, 358 Ave JoanMiro was at the grand reunion of theAECC, the Spanish Association ofCancer Care in the Balearic Islands, andreceived an award for all the constanthelp it has given them.

Jaime Aguilo the director said, as theaward was presented, that it was for theCalanova Cancer Care Charity Shop forall their continuous help to their Associ-ation and help with formation of ser-vices to oncology patients.

They had helped to initiate ColonCancer tests as a normal part of socialservices, with a trial run in the villageof Muro and very soon this will be ex-panded to take in the whole of Mallorcafor those over a certain age.

The award was presented to AngelaMcGrath, on behalf of the shop, by Car-los Simonet, the secretary of the Execu-tive Commission of the Committee ofthe AECC of the Baleares.

Sadly Teresa Martorell the presidentof the AECC for the last 16 years andJaime Aguiló, who has been the direc-tor for the last 40 years are both retiring

and both received a sustained standingovation from the large audience.

The new president is Dr JavierCortes and their new director in theBalearic Islands is Ana Belén Velasco.

Those involved with the shop are ex-

tremely proud of the award and have iton show in the shop, as it is an awardnot only for everyone who helps therebut also for all the people who have do-nated items and everyone who hasbought items.

Anyone who would like to help inthe shop for a few hours a week wouldbe most welcome, and everyone shouldstop in and browse through this inter-esting and quite amazing shop in SanAgustin.

Cancer aid recognitionBy John Smith

GRAND REUNION: A group photo of those who attended the event.

EVERY year the village ofCapdepera travels back intime to celebrate its inaugura-tion by King Jaume II in theyear 1300 by hosting a me-dieval market.

This year’s celebrations willbe held from Friday to Sunday(May 13-15) at the CapdeperaCastle starting around 10ameach day.

Visitors will be transportedback in time to the MiddleAges with costume-clad arti-sans and entertainers adding tothe festivities and woodencoats of arms representingtownspeople’s family nameshung from windows and bal-conies around the town.

An array of artisans will bedemonstrating their trades dur-ing the market which can thenbe purchased. The streets willbe filled with smells of localdelicacies to tempt all palates.

The event includes concerts,medieval arms exhibitions,jesters, jugglers, giants, con-ferences, circus shows, clownsand much more.

Medievalmerriment

SPECSAVERS OPTICAS ar-rived in Mallorca in 2011 and iscelebrating its five year an-niversary and Specsavers’ 10years in Spain with a fantasticcharity event in store on Satur-day May 14.

The event will be held from10am to 1.30pm with all pro-ceeds going to Kidney Re-search UK. Everyone is invitedto come and join in the fun.

Throughout the day therewill be food and smoothies inreturn for a charity donation,face painting for the childrenand makeovers from Mary Kaymake-up. Frame stylists will beon hand to offer style adviceand guests will be able to enter

the Spectacle Wearer of theYear Awards and be in with achance to win €500.

The Calvia Lions Club willbe present at the event, con-ducting a free diabetes screen-ing. Results will be given im-mediately and if positive,patients will be referred formedical advice.

Also during the event andfrom May 3 to 14, SpecsaversOpticas is offering glasses forjust €10 to reward customersfor their loyalty and celebratethe 10-year milestone.

Store Director Martin Blakecommented “Please celebratewith us at the store on AvenidaRei Jaume 117, on May 14from 10am and help us to raisemoney for a great cause.”

Visit Specsavers Opticas onFacebook to find out more orfor more information visitwww.specsavers.es. Enter theSpectacle Wearer of the Yearawards via Facebook and aten.specsavers.es/loveglassesuntil May 29.

Specsavers Opticas event

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TALENTED young Mal-lorcan painter Maria Puer-to Fullana has collaboratedwith the global companyVida to create a collectionof clothes based on herwork.

Twelve-year-old Maria’slatest exhibition inBarcelona entitled ‘Explo-sions’ captured the eye ofthe department of art anddesign of the companybased in California (USA)which invited Maria to col-laborate as a design artistin creating a clothing col-lection based on her work.

According to founderand CEO of Vida,Umaimah Mendhro, thecompany brings togetherdesigners and makers fromdifferent parts of the worldthat “produce beautifuloriginal artful productsmade responsibly.”

Maria has had her artexhibited through ICAE(International Children’sArt Exhibition) in 18 dif-ferent countries and fourcontinents and has had fiveof her own expositions.With this new endeavour,her art is now reaching intothe fashion world.

The clothing line can beviewed and purchased athttp://shopvida.com/collections/voices/maria-puerto-fullana. Proceeds willgo into Maria’s education-al fund.

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I’M writing about the psycholo-gy of selling your property andin previous articles I’ve talkedabout the step by step build upto this point in the sellingprocess, the arrival of the po-tential buyer who is now ring-ing your door bell.

So far so good, your neigh-bourhood or community looksgood as does the exterior ofyour property and the buyer ob-viously thinks your sales priceis attractive. But have you doneeverything you can with the in-terior of your home to makesure that you will sell today?

There are at least 10 thingsthat most people have in com-mon when buying a home, sothis week let’s start with thefirst two points, and next weekwe will take a look at other im-portant points until we cover all10.

1. Let’s start with the mostobvious point, which is makingsure that your home is brightand shiny clean with a capitalC. Carpets, curtains, bed cov-ers, sofas all need to be spotlessbefore a potential buyer’s visit,

time to visit the dry cleanersand supermarket for a full rangeof cleaning products.

If you have marble or tiledfloors that look a bit stained ordull you should seriously con-sider hiring a floor cleaningcompany to come in and bringyour floors back to life, you’dbe surprised how good thismakes the rooms look.

Once everything has beencleaned top to bottom, it ismuch easier to keep everythingsufficiently clean for futurebuyer visits.

2. The fact that your propertyis spotless and clean is a goodstart, but there are bad smellsthat you want to get rid of and

good smells you want to intro-duce. Let’s start with the badsmells: no cooking on the dayof the buyer’s visit, even withthe extractor on at full power,the smell of your breakfast orlunch will linger.

If you have pets, includingbirds, they give off a smell asdoes their food and bedding, somake sure all your pets andbedding etc are out of the housewell before the buyer’s visit.

Villas built 25-30 years agohad very basic damp proofingand can now suffer from thesmell of damp especially after aheavy rainfall. My advice is toget your local builder in andsolve the problem before the

buyer’s visit if you can.The same applies to proper-

ties with poor ventilation in thebathrooms and cupboards:mould smells are unpleasantand unsightly so you shouldarrange to have extra ventila-tion fitted.

Next week we will take afurther look at more of my toptips and more dos and don’ts inpreparing your property for thebuyer.

If you are selling yourproperty and would like ad-

vice please contact me byemail at gk.ipad@me.com.John Graham is a Fellow of

The Architecture & SurveyorsInstitute.

Tips on what thebuyer wants to seeJohnGraham The property expert

HOME INTERIOR: Make sure your property is spotless and clean.

IF you’re lucky enough tohave a lemon tree in your gar-den, you may or may notknow that this gives you ac-cess to a lot more than just

something to add a slice of toyour G&T.

Lemons have naturalbleaching, degreasing, an-tibacterial and fresh-scentproperties which make themideal for environmentally-

friendly household tasks.Here are a few tips green

cleaning experts have sharedfor making the most of yourlemons, and remember youcan quarter and freeze them asthey last a long time frozen.

1. Clean the air: Simmer-ing cut-up lemons in a pan ofwater for an hour will get ridof musty smells. Another ideais to sprinkle a few drops oflemon juice inside yourhoover bag before hoovering.

An eco air freshener can al-so be made by mixing lemonjuice and water in a spray bot-tle.

2. Banish ants: Lemonjuice and peels are pet and hu-man friendly, but will discour-age ants from entering. Workout where they are getting inand spray the area with lemonjuice, then pop bits of lemonpeel into holes and cracks.

3. Disinfect: Wiping sur-faces, door handles, phones,remote controls and other of-ten touched areas with a mixof lemon juice and water helpsdisinfect them.

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FOR 25 years, Dogs and Dogshas offered pet owners in Mal-lorca quality products and ser-vices at affordable prices cou-pled with specialised attention.

With locations in Santa Pon-sa and Sa Coma, the pet shopsattract clients from around theisland. Miguel, the owner ofDogs and Dogs, explains thedifference that sets his shopapart from bigger more imper-sonalised pet shops, is that it isrun by people who love animalsand have a genuine interest intheir clients.

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Dogs and Dogs also sellssmall animals including rabbits,hamsters, small birds and fishand offers grooming servicesfor both dogs and cats. TheSanta Ponsa shop also offersclients a delivery service in-cluding pet pick-up and deliv-ery. Consultant services areavailable for pet food and fish-keeping.

A client card can be obtainedfor accumulating points whichcan then be used towards thepurchase of products and ser-vices. The staff speaks a variety

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Sailing insummerKING JUAN CARLOS has

returned to Mallorca after aconsiderable absence so thathe could take par t in theGaastra PalmaVela race as aguest of the crew of Dutchflagged J Class Lionheart,with Bouwe Bekking whohad steered the Bribon tosuccess with the King overmany years.

A number of his formerBribon crew including Pe-dro Campos, Neal McDon-ald, Pablo Arrate and LinoPerez were present and tosome extent, it was a jour-ney down memory lane forthe former monarch whohad not taken par t in anyrace in Mallorca waterssince 2009 when his boatfinished in third place.

On this occasion, a l -though he was not skipper,Lionheart managed two vic-tories.

The whole regatta provedto be a successful outing fora number of different class-es of yacht with participantsincluding former Olympicchampions. KING JUAN CARLOS: Returned to Mallorca after a considerable absence.

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THE Nautical Club of Motril, together with other local enti-ties has organised the first Tropical Coast Regatta ever heldin the region with trophies to be awarded to two classes ofcruise and light sail competitions.

The event will take place on July 16 and 17 and can beseen along the beaches stretching over the Motril regionfrom Salobreña to Calahonda and beyond in GranadaProvince.

It is estimated some 15 enthusiasts from Motril will takepart in the event alongside a further 150 participants fromother locations in the country with some 500 boats.

The regatta date coincides with the celebrations of thesaint ‘Virgin del Carmen,’ patron saint to fishermen and thesea, when many spectators gather to participate in the festivi-ties and as it is peak season, it will also attract many tourists.

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IN a laudable bid to encouragepublic participation and interest inthe production of a new polarsearch ship, a public call for ideasfor its name was introduced by theUK’s Natural Environment Re-search Council (NERC).

The response exceeded all ex-pectations with more than 7,000different names being suggested,but what wasn’t expected was theway in which the public coalescedand the winning name by a longstretch was Boaty McBoatfacewhich caught everyone except124,000 naughty members of theBritish public by surprise.

In the event, the Science Minis-ter Jo Johnson formally announcedthat the £200 million (€260 mil-lion) research vessel would actual-ly be named more appropriatelythe Royal Research Ship Sir DavidAttenborough after the naturalistand broadcaster who has just cele-brated his 90th birthday.

As a sop to all of those who vot-ed for the titular winner and show-ing a little bit of humour, it was al-

so announced that one of the un-derwater vehicles of the researchvessel wil l be given the BoatyMcBoatface soubriquet, althoughperhaps it might have been moreappropriate to call it Suby McSub-face!

In many ways i t is certainlymore dignified to honour the manwho has spent so many years ex-ploring the natural world includingAntarctica and it would no doubtbe easier to explain to fellow polarresearchers and members of the

foreign press who Sir David Atten-borough is.

Whilst announcing the naming,the Minister also confirmed thatthe British government intended toinvest a further £1 million (€1.3million) into a ‘Polar Explorer ’programme intended to appeal toyoung people and hopefully en-courage them to become engineers,explorers and scientists of the fu-ture.

As the vessel is only now beingbuilt on Merseyside, it will takesome considerable time to be com-pleted and undertake trials beforebeing launched, possibly in 2019and i t is to be hoped that SirRichard will still be sufficientlyhale and hearty to at tend i tslaunch.

Britain still continues to be oneof the major forces in Polar re-search although its recently com-pleted and futuristic Halley BaseVI in Antarctica may possibly beendangered as a crack in the snowand ice on which it is sited has re-cently expanded dramatically andmay result in the Base f loat ingaway.

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POLAR SEARCH SHIP: Is now being built on Merseyside andwill be named after Sir David Attenborough.

By John SmithMARITIME Marbella willbe the order of the day onMay 20, 21 and 22, as the‘Week of the Ocean’ is setto unleash a squall of nauti-cally-themed activities onthe town.

Anchors will be droppedat midday on Friday May20, with the opening pre-sentation taking place at theRoyal Mari t ime Club ofMarbella, which celebratesi ts 60th anniversary thisyear.

There will be a series ofawards presented, includingbest sports sai lor, and atrade show featuring manyexhibitors and well-knownbrands.

Other activities are to in-clude displays by the emer-gency services, kayak andbeach fishing, paddle surf,an ‘aquathlon,’ water polo,and a showcase of sub-aquat ic photography andvideo.

The event will culminatein a prize-giving ceremonyat 5pm on May 22.

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THIS forthcoming Saturday May 14 theprestigious biennial RM Sotheby’sMonaco auction will take place and fea-tures an exquisite variety of lots of ex-ceptional value, both monetary and his-torical. It will hopefully carry on theflames of the 2014 auction which raisedan astonishing €41 million in sales.

The hotly anticipated 2016 editionwill emphasise competition greats and isalso beautifully timed to take placealongside the Grand Prix de MonacoHistorique, making this a truly memo-rable weekend.

One of the world’s most glamorousauctions, the RM Sotheby’s sale willshowcase a pantheon of motoringlegend beginning with what isthought to be the only Ferrari275 GTS/4 NART Spider of itskind to be sold in Europe. The last 275sold by RM Sotheby’s secured an astro-nomical €24 million and the organiserswill be expecting a similar price for the

1968 model up for grabs on Saturday. The other star of the show will be a

Ferrari American Barchetta which actu-ally competed in the 1951 and 1952 LeMans 24-hour race, and could summonan enormous €9 million bid if the sell-er’s estimates are met.

Also on the cards and certain to drawthe attention of the attending superrich

is the world’s only road-legal Porsche911 GT1 Evolution, which also won theCanadian GT Championship threetimes. With its six-cylinder enginesparked up with a pair of KKK tur-bochargers to produce 600hp, the sleekmodel is expected to fetch justunder €3 million.

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Porsches will be in high demand as al-ways and RM Sotheby’s won’t disap-point buyers with a wide variety that alsoincludes a 911 Carrera RS (€400,000); a911 Carrera RS 2.7 Touring (€600,000);a Carrera GT (€800,000); and a 959‘Komfort’ Stage II expected to fetch a

cool €1 million.

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Sotheby’s Monaco auction INSURANCE premiums areset to drop dramatically as themomentum towards driverlesscars gathers steam and furthertechnologies contribute a de-creased likelihood of accidents.

Research by major global in-surer Swiss Re has indicatedthat the enhanced connectivitybetween cars and various driverassist mechanisms will signifi-cantly improve road safety,while Volvo’s chief executivedescribed the rise of au-tonomous vehicles as the “sin-gle most important advance inautomotive safety” in years.

The research also suggeststhat by 2020 the majority ofnew cars sold worldwide willbe connected to the internet andother cars and some have de-scribed the potential advancesas representing the fourth in-dustrial revolution.

Insurers have cautioned dri-vers against developing a falsesense of security.

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FERRARI 275: Onlyone of its kind to besold in Europe.

A BASIC philosophy behindthe luxury vehicle industry, onboth the creation and purchas-ing sides, is that if you are go-ing to have a flash car you may

as well be seen in it.When someone sees fit to

spend hundreds of thousandson a supercar that screams forattention, it is a safe assumption

that they want people to seethem enjoying their moment ofglory.

So it should come as no sur-prise that Ferrari has announced

that it will build a roofless ‘Spi-der’ version of its already huge-ly desirable LaFerrari hypercar,supercars being the top 1 percent of cars and hypercars thetop percentile of supercars.

As matters stand, the cabinand seating in the LaFerrari isso low it’s difficult to catch astarstruck glimpse of the luckydriver but the convertible mod-el will remove all the doubts asto who is behind the wheel.

The news will also excitecollectors who missed out onthe 499 LaFerrari units whichquickly sold out regardless of a€1.27 million asking price.

The Spider model will likelyfeature exactly the samestrengths as the original, with a

V12 hybrid engine that cre-ates 950bhp and 663lb ft oftorque, hitting 97 kph inless than three seconds.

Together with the Porsche918 Spyder and the McLaren

P1, the LaFerrari’s release in2013 saw it join the elite ofhigh-performance sports carsand become the company’smost powerful road car.

LaFerrari Spider

LOTUS has announced that it has managedto shave 207 kilograms from the weight of itscars in the first quarter of 2016, continuing atrend towards the lightweight elixir of a solidmetric tonne. Its heaviest car manufactured atthe Lotus site in Norfolk weighed 1,395 kg,and many of its Elises are much closer toaround 1,000.

Lotus has pioneered a lightweight ap-proach to manufacturing and has now creat-ed its very own Lightweight Labo-ratory where engineers usespecial techniques and mate-rial to strip away excessbaggage.

Carbon fibre, forged al-loy wheels, carbon sportsseats, louvred rear win-dows and thinner body pan-

els are key, as is the philosophy spouted byCEO Jean-Marc Gales who says “to make aperfect sports car, you must consider weightyour enemy.”

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FOOTBALL• If Sunderland (excellent

3-2 winners over Chelsea lastSaturday) beat Everton in lastnight’s game, then Newcastleand Norwich will be relegat-ed from the Premiership withAston Villa.

• Last weekend, championsLeicester beat Everton 3-1;Spurs (second) lost 2-1 athome to Southampton; Liver-pool edged Watford 2-0;Manchester United won 1-0at Norwich and CrystalPalace defeated Stoke 2-1.The games between Villa –Newcastle (0-0),Bournemouth – WBA (1-1)and Manchester City – Arse-nal (2-2) were all drawn.

• On Tuesday Swansea’s 4-1 win at West Ham was theirfirst there for 60 years. Lastnight, the Hammers

(versus Manchester United)said farewell to Upton Park,their home since 1904.

• Burnley and Middles-brough will be in the PL nextseason. The play-offs (com-ing up) will feature SheffieldWednesday v Brighton andDerby v Hull.

• Burton Albion havegained promotion to theChampionship, seven yearsafter playing in the Confer-ence in front of barely 1,000spectators.

• Oxford and BristolRovers have been promotedfrom FL2, Accrington Stanleymiss out, while Hartlepool’s775-mile-round trip to Ply-mouth ended in a 5-0 ham-mering!

• Spurs’ mid-fielder MoussaD e m b e l e

received a six-match ban for‘violent conduct’ towardsChelsea’s Diego Costa at theend of the recent Lon-don derby.

MOTOR SPORT• Jorge Lorenzo domi-

nated last Sunday’sFrench MotoGP at LeMans, winning 10 sec-onds ahead of teammateValentino Rossi, withSuzuki’s MaverickVinales third. Onebizarre incident sawboth Andrea Doviziosoand Marc Marquezslide off the track atalmost exactly thesame time.

• Despite what can on-ly be described as a ‘tryingday’ for the Dynamics Hon-da team, GB driver Matt

Neal left Thruxton Parktied on points with Rob

Collard, with apodium finish inthe final race oflast Sunday’s

BTCC meet-ing.

• Comingup on May 22,

we have the Por-tuguese Rallyand the Mo-toGP WorldC h a m p i -onships fromM u g e l l o ,Italy.

TENNIS• After

beating home favouriteRafael Nadal in the semis, thetop British player, Andy Mur-ray, was then beaten two setsto one by Novak Djokovic inthe final of the Madrid Open.Serbian Djokovic has nowbeen world number one for199 weeks.

BOXING• Last Saturday, Bolton

boxer Amir Khan, moving uptwo weight classes, wasknocked out by Mexican Saul‘Canelo’ Alvarez in a WBCMiddleweight fight. On thesame night, GB’s AnthonyCrolla stopped Venezuelan Is-mael Barroso to retain hisWBA lightweight crown.

ROUND-UP• Who is Michelle Payne

you might ask? Well, she’s ajockey, who, last November,became the first female to

win Aus-tralia’s mostfamous horserace, the MelbourneCup, when she rode 100-1shot Prince of Penzance.

Michelle has certainlypacked in a fair bit into her 30years on earth. Her motherdied when she was just sixmonths old; she’s lost two ofher siblings; another hasDown’s syndrome and shehas overcame a career-threat-ening injury. Now she’s abest-selling autobiographer

and her life story isbeing made

into a movie.Well donelass. Bril-liant.

• The In-v i c t u s

Games,an interna-

tional para-lympic-style mul-

ti-sport event, featuring500 athletes from 15 coun-tries and created by PrinceHarry, are underway in Orlan-do, Florida. And HRH be-lieves that Team GB can winat least 20 medals.

• Coming up, we have theSpanish F1 Grand Prix fromBarcelona on Sunday, theGeneva Tennis Open starts onMonday, this weekend it’s thefinal fixtures in La Liga (withBarcelona at Granada and Re-al Madrid at Deportivo, bothgoing for the title), there arevarious promotion/relegationplay-off matches north andsouth of the border, nextWednesday (May 18) it’s Liv-erpool versus holders Sevillain the Europa League final inBasle, and a week tomorrow

England play Sri Lanka inthis summer’s first cricket

Test.

Tony MatthewsInternational SportsA former player and now the world’s mostprolific author of football books with al-most 150 published since 1975, Tony is al-so the sports correspondent for SpectrumRadio and lives on La Pilica in the SierraCabrera Mountains overlooking Turre.

Costa de Almeria

Thirteen teams have been relegated from the Premier-ship and have not returned, and they are: Barnsley,Blackpool, Bradford City, Cardiff, Coventry, Fulham,Leeds, Oldham, Portsmouth, Sheffield Wednesday, Swin-don, Wigan and Wimbledon. And the three oldest Leagueclubs all come from the Midlands: Notts County (formedin 1862), Stoke City (1863) and Nottingham Forest(1865).

DID YOU KNOW

KHAN:Knockedout by Canelo.

RELEGATION?:Newcastle andNorwich.

LORENZO:Dominated theFrench MotoGP.

Khan knocked out as Norwichand Newcastle may go down

Support future athletesON May 22, 2016 the ninth Liberty Seguros 10km race will takeplace in Madrid. This vastly popular marathon has the objective ofhelping young athletes of the ‘Team Liberty Insurance ParalympicAthletics’ to realise their dreams of becoming professionalparalympians.

These individuals struggle every day to succeed and advance inthe professional paralympian arena, and strive to represent Spaininternationally in future Paralympic Games.

Registration is no more than €10, however, those that do not wishto take part in the race can contribute to the development of theyoung athletes by making a donation.

This can be done by bank transfer with the reference clearlymarked as ‘Dorsal Zero’ to the following account with IBANnumber: ES73 2038 1042 7560 0080 7227.

Along with the traditional 10km run, this year Liberty Seguros isset to launch the ‘Carrera de la Superación,’ a 1,000 metre race thathas been specifically designed for those that have a disability thatimpedes them from taking part in the main 10km race.

More information can be found at: www.carreraliberty.es. Use thehashtag #SeSalen to support the athletes on social media.

Remembering Seve BallesterosAhead of the fifth anniversary of the deathof Seve Ballesteros, Spain’s greatest-evergolfer, here are some fascinating factsabout the former champion, compiled byTony Matthews:

Born Severiano Ballesteros Sota on 9April, 1957, Pedrena, Spain; died also inPedrena, 7 May, 2011.

• From birth, Seve had a physical defectwhereby his right shoulder hung down be-low his left.

• He was just 10 when he played in hisfirst tournament, taking 10 shots at theopening hole, eventually finishing 5th on51 over par for nine holes.

• At the age of 12, he was expelled fromschool for fighting and bad behaviour!

• Seve started cycling when he waseight and later owned 12 bikes, using themto keep fit.

• He enjoyed boxing as a youngster, andit was in the ring that he first injured hisback, which caused him trouble through-out his golfing career.

• He turned professional in April 1974and played in his first ‘big’ tournament thatsame year - the Spanish Open at La Man-ga - carding rounds of 83 and 76, andmissing the cut by six shots. American Jer-ry Heard won the event and collected£4,336. In contrast, Seve’s first profes-

sional wage was just £15.• In 1976, he finished joint second with

Jack Nicklaus at the Open at Royal Birk-dale… soon after bailing hay with his fa-ther and caddying for his brother Manuel.The winner that year was Johnny Miller.

• Dick Draper, a British policeman, cad-died for Seve in the mid 1970’s.

• A Santander doctor, Cesar Cam-puzano, lent Seve $1,000 to help get himthrough his first year as a professional.Seve paid him back by giving him the ballhe won the 1979 Open with.

• Before the 1980 Masters, Seve walkedthe whole course, taking notes of everyfairway and every green.

• His favourite football team was Rac-ing Santander. He was just an ordinary fan,who paid the entry fee and either stood onthe terraces or sat in the stand with hismates. Nothing special.

• During National Service, Seve earned£2-a-week teaching Air Force officers howto play golf!

• In the 1985 Italian Open, Seve hadeight birdies in a row and his third roundscore of 64 contained nine birdies and aneagle… a record at the time. 

• The tattoo on Seve’s left arm showinghim punching the air, was also painted onthe door of his house.

• In 1988, Seve married the daughter ofthe owner of Banco Santander, CarmenBotin, who was at the time, one of therichest women in Spain.

• In May 2007, Seve played on theChampions Tour in Alabama. His first teeshot missed the 75-yard-wide fairway by adistance. He finished with a double bogeyand a round of 78. With two more horriblerounds of 81 and 73, he finished joint lastof 78 participants. He returned to Spain

straight away!

SEVE: Spain’s greatest ever golfer.

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