CONSIDERING the belliger-ent position that the actingSpanish Foreign Minister JoseManuel Garcia-Margallo hastaken with regards to Gibraltar,his positive comments onBritain and the EU following ameeting with Foreign SecretaryPhilip Hammond on February15 have come as something ofa surprise.

In simple terms, he concedesthat both Spain and the EUwould be worse off with Britain

leaving the Union than if it re-mains following a number ofchanges to its terms of mem-bership.

It is very important to theBritish government that it ob-tains as much support for itsproposals before the EuropeanSummit due to take place onFebruary 18 and 19, when lead-ers of the member states willdebate the reforms demandedby Britain to stay in the Euro-pean Community.

Understandably, there is anelement of self-interest in the

Spanish comments as theireconomy is massively helped

by the influx of British tourists,and there are an estimated

200,000 Spaniards living andworking in Britain.

It seems to some extent arather strange situation when anacting government, which islikely to be either thrown out orwill have to stand in new elec-tions in June, is able to makesuch a far-reaching decision,but as the Spanish acting gov-ernment is making such posi-tive noises there is no doubt theBritish will be happy with theposition they are taking.

Clearly the next few days aregoing to be pivotal in the future

of Britain and its membershipof the EU, as if the Cameronproposals are rejected, there isno guarantee that the conserva-tive party will even recommenda ‘remain’ vote when the refer-endum does takes place.

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TENSIONS are rising between Mallorcanfarmers and the Ministry of Environmentand Agriculture, because of lack of aid tocombat problems associated with thedrought.

Farmers have expressed disappointmentin the government’s handling of the droughtsituation, claiming that the €1.5 million ofgovernment aid is inadequate to cover costsfor alternative solutions to compensate forthe loss of grazing lands.

General Secretary of the Farmer’s UnionBiel Torrens said the amount offered by thegovernment was totally insufficient andwould not even cover a minimum of the ad-ditional costs facing farmers.

The agricultural association Asaja be-lieves the government should take on 50 percent of the cost of feeding the livestock,which would equal between €4 million and€5 million.

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Equally, it is possible thatno final agreement or refusalof the Cameron plan will bethe result of the meetings tak-ing place over the next few

days, but all UK passportholders who are entitled tovote in the referendum when iteventually comes should act asquickly as possible to at leastensure that they are registered.

Cameron plan

THE Palma City Councilhas ordered the directorsof the Club Maritim Moli-nar to do urgent repairwork to the s t ructure oftheir main off ice due to

safety concerns.A report issued by the

building security depart-ment warned that thebuilding is at risk of col-lapsing.

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LOCAL NEWS Inadequate coverfor drought costsTENSIONS rising between Mallorcan farmers and the government

By Sandra Galo

INGENIO73, a company in Mallorca, has developed an innova-tive app for the smartphone which serves as an electronic key.

The I-Key allows owners and administrators of holiday prop-erties to control the access of guests and staff without being pre-sent themselves. I-Key was presented last week at the Real ClubNautico in Palma.

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ON February 11, 2016, the Balearic Is-lands parliament took a step in whatmany expats and animal rights groupsconsidered to be the right direction, byvoting to amend the animal protectionlaw to include a ban on all forms ofbullfighting in the islands.

The news was welcomed onwww.euroweeklynews.com and theEWN Facebook page by hundreds ofreaders, who added their commentsand opinions on both sites.

However we must pose ourselves afundamental question. As expats, weare in essence guests in a foreign coun-try. Although we may consider thekilling of an innocent animal for enter-tainment wrong and wish for it to bebanned, we must ask ourselves who weare to walk into a country not our own,which has welcomed us with openarms, and demand that long-standingcultures and traditions be changed totend to our feelings on the matter.

American writer Ernest Hemingwaywas a diehard fan of bullfighting, de-scribing it as “the only art in which theartist is in danger of death, and inwhich the degree of brilliance in the

performance is left to the fighter’s hon-our,” in his seminal work Death in theAfternoon.

Those Spaniards who support theancient custom fiercely assert that thetradition celebrates the aesthetic of theinteraction between man and bull, op-ponents of equal but different strengthsif ever there were two, and strongly de-fend their right to a culture which waspresent in the country long before ani-mal rights’ activists, both Spanish andfrom overseas, were.

However a recent poll revealed thatjust 29 per cent of Spanish people actu-ally remain in support of bullfighting.

Defendants insist that the bull is nev-er, in the modern bullring, viewed as asacrificial victim but rather as a worthyopponent and sometimes, when feroci-ty trumps skill, the victorious.

While opponents argue that thematador chooses to take on the bull,while the animal is taken there withoutconsultation, this argument is swiftlycountered with a quick comparison tothe loss of life in abattoirs.

Those bulls swallowed by the meattrade far outnumber the relatively tinyamount slain in the course of a fight,fans insist.

While we are firmly against animalcruelty in all shape and form, we mustask our readers this: What right do we,as expats, have to demand Spainchanges its customs to suit us while somany of us take offence when in theUK newcomers ask for us to adapt ourown customs to avoid offending theirs?

If we refuse to allow a mosque to re-place a church in the UK, how can wethen be so hypocritical as to demandSpain changes part of its history andculture to suit us?

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Bullfighting: Is it a tradition or torture?AS expats in a foreign country, who are we to decide?

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BULLFIGHTING: According to a recent poll, only 29 per cent of Spanish people actually support the ancient custom.

40,000is the estimated number of

bulls killed by the bullfighting industry in

Europe each year

Bullfightingrevulsion

THE news concerning the banning ofbullfighting in Mallorca has attracteda very large amount of comment onwww.euroweeklynews.com, and inter-estingly almost every response hasbeen from a woman and without failthey have all been 100 per cent infavour of the ban. We wonder whymen are so reticent on this particulartopic.

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Anything capable ofarousing passion in itsfavour will surely raise

as much passionagainst it.”

Ernest Hemingway.

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A long, hardroad ahead“Not before time. Sadly, I

feel they will have a fight ontheir hands if they try tostop it in the Valencian com-munity.” Pat

Traditioncounts“Why do people think they

have the right to ban some-thing just because they‘don’t like it’. It is part ofSpanish life and provides aliving for many people.How many of the com-plainants have actually beento a bullfight?” Valerie

It’s a cruelgame “Those bulls do not have a

voice to say they don’t want to fight and be tortured.They are sentient creaturesjust like we are. It is a game(I cannot call it a sport) andplain animal cruelty.”

Margaret

Lighten up“I enjoyed watching it in

Mijas. It’s somewhat cruelbut the same could be saidfor foxing or fishing.” Paul

Morals areevolving“Public executions of hu-

mans were accepted as agood day’s viewing and of-ten with a picnic, I wouldlike to think we have pro-gressed with animals also.”

Tim

People power“I truly hope the ban

spreads everywhere. Bullsshould not be tortured forentertainment or for anyother reason. Keep spread-ing the ban and sign peti-tions.” Nina

Our readers discussed theBalearic ban at length on theEWN website and on ourFacebook page. Here aresome of your thoughts.

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JET2 has become the first tour operator to offer weekend breaks

Season starts early with arrival of holidaymakers

THE first British tourists ofthe season arrived in Mallorcalast Thursday (February 11).

The group, flying in fromManchester with Jet2 holi-days, was the first to come fororganised city-break week-ends. This marks the start ofthe season which is more than

two and a half months earlierthan last year due in greatpart to the cancellat ion offlights to Turkey, Egypt, andTunisia, which has resulted ina higher demand in the UKfor holidays in Mallorca.

The Mallorcan Hotelier ’sFederation considered theirarrival significant because itwas the first time British holi-

daymakers have come to Pal-ma on organised city-breakweekends and their arr ivalmarked an early start to the2016 tourist season.

Jet2 has become the firsttour operator in the UK to of-fer city-break weekend holi-days of three or four days.

El Corte Ingles took part inwelcoming the holidaymakers

and said that the short-breaktourist market is good newsfor businesses on the islandand because of the strongpound sterl ing, the Bri t ishhave become important cus-tomers for the retail sector inPalma.

Jet2 will operate more than80 weekly fl ights to Palmathis summer.

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CALVIA has approved a motion to removefloating waterparks from beaches in its ju-risdiction. 

The proposal made by Esquerra Oberta(Open Left) was unanimously agreed uponby all the parties represented at Calvia’sfull council meeting. The beaches in ques-tion are Oratori in Portals, Santa Ponsa,Magalluf, Son Maties, Palmanova, Es Car-regador, Tora and Palmira.

The motion calls for the administrationto review contracts and records pertainingto the installation of the floating waterparksto check their suitability and to removethose failing to meet all requirements.

Rafel Sedano, spokesperson for Esquer-ra Oberta, argued that installations at vari-ous beaches in 2014, although complyingwith the legal requirements, were excessiveand that according to what had been writ-ten, could be in conflict with regulationsgoverning areas included within the Natura2000 network for the conservation of nat-ural heritage.

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FLOATING PARKS: Numbers are to be reduced.

Calvia says goodbye toits floating waterparksMOTION calls for a review of records pertaining to the installation

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THE Balearic Port Authority (APB) regis-tered more than 13 million tons of freightshipping in 2015.

These statistics recently published bythe APB represent a 6 per cent increasecompared to 2014 and show a rebound ofeconomic activity in the Balearic islandsreturning it to pre-recession levels record-ed eight years ago.

The Port of Palma showed an increase of7 per cent and 8.3 tonnes of freight. In Al-cudia, the increase was at 3 per cent withmore than a million and a half tonnes.

Since 99 per cent of goods entering orleaving the islands go through one of thefive ports under the APB, the statistics area good indicator of economic activity inthe islands.

Increased freight shipping inthe Balearic ports means anupturn in economic activity

Palma ranks 4th for touristprofitability and employmentA REPORT released by Excel-tur, the alliance for touristic ex-cellence in Spain, puts Palma infourth position for growth in fi-nancial performance and em-ployment in 2015.

The report identifies holidaydestinations as paving the wayfor increased profitability with11.5 per cent corresponding to

accomodation revenue and a5.4 per cent rise in employmentwith much of the increase ac-credited to tourist-related busi-nesses.

The revenue increase is dueto increased occupancy as wellas higher prices. Barcelona tookfirst place for tourist socioeco-nomic profitability with San

Sebastian in second, Cadiz inthe third spot and Palma infourth position.

Exceltur is a non-profitgroup composed of the chair-men of leading tourist organisa-tions in Spain from sectors in-cluding airlines, cruises, hotels,travel agencies, tour operators,credit cards and rent-a-cars.

THE number of service-re-la ted businesses in theBalearic Islands increased

during the crisis in contrastto a decrease of businessesin the industry and building

sectors.Overal l , the number of

businesses operating in theBalearics has gone down inthe last seven years repre-senting a drop of more than6 per cent.

According to the NationalInstitute of Statistics, morethan 87,000 companies wereregis tered on January 1,2015. This number is downfrom more than 93,000companies which were op-erating in 2008. Last year,the first upturn of Balearicbusinesses was observedsince the crisis began with3.4 per cent more business-es compared to 2014.

Since 2008, more than2,000 shops and around1,000 food and beveragecompanies went under inthe islands. However, lodg-ing, which includes bothhotels and regulated holidayrentals has increased mod-erately.

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Service businessesgrew during the crisis

SON ESPASES hospitalhas put 29 beds in the ad-joining Verge de la Saluthospital for patients ad-mitted to the centre for anaverage stay.

The objective of thismeasure is for patients tobe cared for more effec-tively and at the sametime, to free bed space inSon Espases for more seri-ously ill patients.

The beds will be man-aged by Son Espases butwill also be available forpatients from Son Llatzerhospital. Verge de la Salutwill continue to handleoutpatient surgeries.

Twenty professionalshave been hired to be ableto offer this new serviceincluding eight nurses,eight nursing assistants,two guards and two clean-ers.

CONDITIONS in the area of Sa Comuna in Fe-lanitx are forcing action to be taken against forestfires.

Sa Comuna is one of Felanitx’s most importantgreen zones and now, because of excess wood-land and drought conditions, the area has turnedinto a potential fire hazard for the summer.

The preservation of this area and reducing therisk of fire are issues that concern councillor forthe Environment Colau Barcelo who has takenmeasures to prevent forest fires in the area.

Barcelo plans to take steps along with the de-partment of Natural Spaces and Biodiversityagainst possible destruction of the woodland. Thefirst step to be taken will be to clean up the roads.Firebreaks would then be created in case of a fire.

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Open doors offers freeweekly guided toursLEARN about the history, furniture and its decoration

THE Palma Town Hall haslaunched an ‘Open Doors’ pro-gramme with a free guided tourof the building’s main area.

The weekly tour will contin-ue to be offered free of chargeeach Sunday. Mayor of PalmaJose Hila, who was present forthe first tour, explained that thereason for this initiative is sothat residents as well as touristsget to know the town hall. Hesaid that for him, the buildingnot only represents the institu-tion and democracy, it also hashistorical and cultural value.

‘Open Doors’ was consid-ered by the town council to be asuccess with more than 60 peo-ple in attendance. The tour wasled by Joan Avellaneda whogave information about thebuilding including its history,

the origins of the furniture, thedecoration and the rooms thatform part of the building.

To be able to attend, it is nec-essary to sign up in advance byphoning or sending a message

to visites@palma.cat. Toursare at 11am and 12pm and canbe given in English with notice.

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World Radio Day iscelebrated in PalmaTHE Association of Journalistsof the Balearic Islands (APIB)joined with others around theglobe on Saturday February 13in celebrating World RadioDay.

World Radio Day celebratesradio as a medium, strengthensinternational cooperation be-tween broadcasters and encour-ages networks and the commu-nity radio to promote access toinformation and freedom of ex-pression and equality.

APIB explained that becauseof its immediacy and accessi-bility, radio is an essentialmeans of communication inmodern societies and still re-mains the medium that reachesthe widest audience in theshortest time. The associationapplauded this thriving medi-um in Spain which boasts anaudience of more than 23 mil-lion each day with more than40,000 daily listeners in theBalearics alone.

Since 2000, radio has had asteady audience growth reach-ing up to 60 per cent in 2015.

The theme of this year’sWorld Radio Day was ‘Radioin Times of Emergency andDisaster.’ The intention was tohighlight the role of radio intimes of emergency and disas-ter including freedom of ex-pression and journalists’ safety,its part in educating the com-munity in times of disaster, andhow radio helps to save lives.

NATIONAL POLICE officers are investigatinga brutal attack on a 70-year-old German man inhis home in the vicinity of Manacor.

The attack occurred in the early hours ofMonday morning (February 15) at the man’shouse on the outskirts of Manacor near the mo-torway joining Manacor and Felanitx. Twomen broke into his home with the intention of

robbing him. The man confronted them and, inan attempt to defend his property, grabbed avase and threw it into the face of one of the as-sailants. The robbers responded by attackingthe elderly man and brutally beating him.

The man was taken by ambulance to Mana-cor Hospital with a broken jaw, some bleedingwounds and bruises all over his body.

Elderly German man brutallybeaten in his Manacor home

By Sandra Galo

THE former councillor ofTourism in the Balearic Is-lands has pleaded guilty to

charges against him.Francesc Buils along with

ex-president of the Unio Mal-

lorquina political partyMiquel Angel Flaquer andEugenio Losada, former man-ager of the Consortium of In-formation and Communica-tion Technologies inMallorca, have all pleadedguilty to charges of rigging acompetition for the implanta-tion of a technical system fortourist information whichproved to be useless. Theydiverted €95,000 to theMinser Company and collect-ed €34,000 in commissions.

The three reached an agree-ment with the Anti-Corrup-tion Prosecutor in which theyadmitted to corruption, fraudand bribery charges.

Buils, who is already serv-ing time in prison for corrup-tion, has now been sentencedto 11 months. Flaquer’s ninemonth sentence will be re-placed by a fine of €5,400and Losada will pay €3,000in lieu of five months impris-onment.

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Ex-councillor pleadsguilty to corruption

Long surgery waiting timePATIENTS with the longestwaiting time in the Balearicpublic health system are thoseneeding the services of or-thopaedic surgery, ophthal-mology, dermatology andotolaryngology (ear, nose andthroat specialists).

The conditions treated bythese departments are, ac-cording to Francisco Carce-les, coordinator of waitinglists for public health servicesin the Balearic Islands, con-sidered the most commontypes of diseases.

He added that as the islandhas an aging population,chronic conditions needingtreatment increase.

Carceles said that the ob-

jective of the current adminis-tration is that no patientshould have to wait more thansix months for surgery and nomore than 60 days for a con-sultation with a specialist.

As of December 31 of last

year, more than 2,000 patientswere on the waiting list forcataract surgery, around 440were waiting for knee re-placement surgery with hun-dreds more awaiting othertypes of procedures.

NO patient should have to wait more than six months

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HEALTH SYSTEM: Long waiting times for surgery.

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WORLD KIDNEY DAY takesplace on March 10, which thisyear focuses on the importanttheme of Kidney Disease andChildren - Act Early to PreventIt.

Specsavers Opticas stores inSpain have announced they aregetting behind this event andwill be raising money and dis-tributing information about thecause from February 15 untilMarch 15.

The global optical brandhave been inspired to supportthis important cause, after Mar-

tin Blake, the director of Spec-savers Opticas in Mallorca,came to the rescue of his broth-er-in-law and donated a kidneyin March 2015. His brother-in-law was seriously ill, receivingdialysis at the hospital for sevenhours, five times a week whilsthe waited for a donor and be-came weaker.

The waiting list for kidneysin the UK is over four years andthe doctors didn’t think he hadthat long to live. Martin bravelyput himself forward as a donorand since the transplant his

brother-in-law is respondingvery well.

Throughout 2015 Martin andhis team have been raisingmoney for Kidney Researchand to date have collected€1,300 for this worthy cause.

All the other stores were soimpressed by his sacrifice andcommitment, they have also gotbehind Kidney Research andwill be raising money for theSpanish kidney research charityALCER in the run up to WorldKidney Day.

Martin said, “It was amazingto be able to save a life by be-coming an organ donor andseeing the difference it hasmade to my brother-in-law’slife has been wonderful.

“However, we’re aware thaton average a kidney transplantonly lasts 10-15 years and thenthis cycle could start again ifnew treatments or cures haven’tbeen discovered. This is why Iam now raising money to fundfurther research.”

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Problems gatherin park for dogs

DOG owners have complained about the badcondition of the canine area of Sa RieraPark.

The area where dogs can run free withoutbeing on a lead is covered in debris and bro-ken glass. The dog owners say that the ani-mals can’t run around because they end upwith damaged claws and cuts on their paws.

They are criticising the administration fornot solving the problem saying that morepeople would take their dogs to the park ifthe area was well looked after.

Council lor for Animal Welfare NeusTruyal said that the current administration’sfocus is on quality rather than quantity andshe assured the pet lovers that the CityCouncil is assessing all of the canine areasto see how they can be improved.

ANIMALS end up with cuts on their paws

By Sandra Galo

DOG PARK: Council is assessing all of the areas to see how they can be improved.

Fundraising efforts forWorld Kidney Day

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EUR weekly currency updateSome would call it paranoia, some an overre-

action, but all would agree that financial marketsare in a heightened state of anxiety. Paradoxical-ly, one cause of the nervousness is low and nega-tive interest rates. Until recently they were seenas a positive, stimulating appetite for ‘risky’ as-sets. Now, they are perceived as a sign of centralbanks’ impotence and investors are runningscared. For a second week the Japanese yen wasthe biggest beneficiary of the turbulence and thistime the euro took second place, adding one UScent, strengthening by two cents against sterling.

The euro’s status as a safe haven currency out-weighed some fairly ropey economic data fromGermany. Factory orders were down by amonthly -0.7%, industrial production fell -1.2%and both imports and exports declined by -1.6%in December. The only pan-Euroland ecostatwas for investor confidence which, unsurprising-ly, softened by three and a half points to 6.0.

USD weekly currency updateSome would call it paranoia, some an overre-

action, but all would agree that financial marketsare in a heightened state of anxiety. Paradoxical-ly, one cause of the nervousness is low and nega-tive interest rates. Until recently they were seenas a positive, stimulating appetite for "risky" as-sets. Now, they are perceived as a sign of centralbanks' impotence and investors are runningscared. Federal Reserve chairperson JanetYellen stoked that concern on Wednesday whenshe as good as admitted that US interest ratesmight not, after all, be heading higher this year.

Having strengthened last Friday on news thatUS unemployment had fallen to an eight-yearlow, the dollar retreated following Ms Yellen'stestimony to Congress. On the week it wasdown by a cent against the euro and nearly acent firmer against the benighted pound.

CAD weekly currency updateSome would call it paranoia, some an overre-

action, but all would agree that financial marketsare in a heightened state of anxiety. Paradoxical-ly, one cause of the nervousness is low and nega-tive interest rates. Until recently they were seenas a positive, stimulating appetite for ‘risky’ as-sets. Now, they are perceived as a sign of centralbanks’ impotence and investors are runningscared. Although investors agree that the safe-haven Japanese yen and euro are good places tostash their cash, there is no such agreement

about the supposedly risky commodity curren-cies. The Canadian and Australian dollars lostground over the week.

The Loonie’s case was not helped by last Fri-day’s Canadian employment data, whichshowed an uptick in unemployment to 7.2%, orby an 11-year low for oil. It came away with aweekly loss of one US cent and was down by acent and a half against sterling.

AUD weekly currency updateSome would call it paranoia, some an overre-

action, but all would agree that financial marketsare in a heightened state of anxiety. One causeis low and negative interest rates.

The Australian and Canadian dollars lostground over the week. The Aussie’s sufferingwas exacerbated by weak retail sales in Decem-ber and by the Reserve Bank of Australia gover-nor’s warning that he had the ‘flexibility to ease[monetary policy] further.’ It lost three quartersof a US cent on the week and was down by acent against sterling.

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WINTER has finally arrivedin Mallorca and with it, des-perately-needed rain.

The rain means that Febru-ary has made a turnaroundand has now become wetterthan normal. This is particu-larly good news for the reser-voirs with Gorg Blau havingrecovered 59 centimetres andCuber, 25 centimetres.

Rainfall on Monday Febru-ary 15 was heaviest in themountains with 94 litres persquare metre at Lluc and withEscorca registering 86 litresper square metre.

The amount of rainfall wasconsiderably less, however, inother areas. Son Servera, forexample, only saw 11 litresper square metre.

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BALEARIC President Francina Armengol hasstipulated that for the urgent establishment of aFaculty of Medicine, the creation of a privateuniversity has been proposed.

She further added in response to a questionby Jaume Font from El PI that an extensionfor places in the Department of Medicinewould mean ‘missing this historic train’which they wouldn’t be able to catch again if

they didn’t act quickly.Font responded that without these studies the

Isispa (Health Research Institute of Palma)would not be able to obtain accreditation andwould lose access to investigation projects.

The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB)is expected to give the green light to the creationof the Faculty of Medicine that will be put inmotion for the next school year.

Officers search Little’s flat for clues

By Sandra Galo

RAINFALL was considerably less in some other areas of the island

RAINFALL: Was heaviest in the mountain areas.

WARREN LITTLE, who lastmonth confessed to stranglinghis wife, was released fromprison on Monday February 15to accompany officers search-ing his flat.

The 50-year-old British ex-

patriate was taken to his apart-ment by officers of the CivilGuard so that he could be pre-sent during the search.

Mr Little maintains the deathwas an accident resulting froma sex game gone wrong. Offi-

cers, however, could find nosex toy to confirm his story.

According to legal sources,Little was taken there to try toconfirm whether or not his ver-sion of events had any credibili-ty.

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A BRITISH man was arrestedin Palma by the National Po-lice on February 16 after theyreceived a tip-off that he wasposing as an agent of Interpolfrom the UK and was suppos-edly undertaking investiga-tions within Mallorca.

When officers apprehendedhim and searched his premis-es they discovered that apartfrom a number of pieces of

clothing carrying the Interpolemblem he also had a collec-tion of weapons including abaton, gas spray and handcuffs, but appeared unable tojustify his position or the rea-son for his activities.

The un-named man whoappeared to be in possessionof counterfeit papers has beentaken into custody under sus-picion of assuming a fakeidentity whilst investigationscontinue.

THE bodies of two men in their 40’s were discovered on FridayFebruary 12 in a small house situated in the countryside be-tween Sineu and Maria de la Salut. Preliminary investigationsindicate that the two men had been dead for 12 days.

Investigators had believed the cause of death to be food poi-soning, but after a post mortem examination, they are lookinginto the possibility of a drug overdose.

By John Smith

An Interpol impersonatoris arrested

Bodies found near Sineu

Park plans THE Council of Mallorca’sDepartment of Environmentplans to expand the Drag-onera Nature Park to includea marine reserve to protectspecies and habitats in thewaters surrounding the smallisland.

Eroski helps THE Eroski supermarketchain is donating €45,500to 13 charitable organisa-tions in the Balearics dedi-cated to helping childrenwith problems. MeasuringSmiles (Mide sonrisas) isthe slogan for the cam-paign.

Gas birthINCA hospital will soon of-fer laughing gas to womengiving birth as a method ofreducing labour pain whileallowing them to activelyparticipate in the birthingprocess. This is used in mostEuropean countries already.

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Fire alertTHE second fire in onlyone week in AlbuferaNatural Park has burned1.05 hectares of land.The fire, reported at11.30am on February 13,took about two hours toget under control.

Hiker lostFIREFIGHTERS cameto the rescue of a for-eigner lost while hikingin the Tramuntanamountain range lastSaturday (February13). Despite the fog andwind, emergency crewswere able to rescue himin the area of Penyal delMigdia.

Sent to jailFOUR more of Palma’sLocal Police officershave been sent to prisonfor allegedly extortingmoney and threateningbusinessmen involved inMallorca’s nightlife. Thisbrings the number of offi-cers imprisoned for thecorruption scandal up to11.

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THE parents of two GuardiaCivil officers killed by the ter-rorist group ETA in front of thePalmanova Civil Guard bar-racks in 2009 filed a complaintwith the president of Spain’sHigh Court on February 12.

They are protesting the ap-

parent ‘total impunity’ that ex-ists in the crime since AitorElizaran, who served as head ofETA for four years, was re-leased from prison last monthand allegedly is able to identifythe perpetrators of the bombingwhich killed their sons.

MALLORCAN studentsparticipated in a Forest Dayto celebrate the 10th an-niversary of the ‘Ni unfuego en el bosque’ (Notone fire in the forest) cam-paign.

Around 400 students fromArta , Capdepera, SantLlorenç des Cardassar andSon Servera participated inthe project in the area of SaDuaia-Es Reco.

The event was organisedby the ‘Creciendo juntos’(Growing together) educa-tional programme. Studentsidentified plants in the for-est and participated in refor-estation tasks.

The programme, part ofthe Red Electr ica ForestProject , works to ra iseawareness of the importanceof conservation in forest ar-eas.

MORE than 613,000 passengers came through Palma’s airport inJanuary. According to AENA, this is the highest number of the lastfour years and represents a rise of 8.6 per cent. This figure alsohelps to predicts a good year for tourism.

SA POBLA potatoes will be exported muchearlier this year.

Unlike other crops on the island, potatogrowers are benefiting from the unusuallymild winter in Mallorca. The early crop is at-tributed to higher temperatures this winterand has resulted in an increase in price for the

first weeks of export. Joan Company, manag-er of the Esplet cooperative, called it a specialsituation with harvesting starting three weeksearlier than last year.

Sa Pobla is expected to export up to 22,000tons of potatoes with the UK being the firstmarket to receive them. Other places to beserved by Sa Pobla include Scandinavia, Ger-many and Poland among others.

Studentsparticipate inForest Day

Parents of bombvictims complain

More air passengers

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DUTCH national Romano Liberto VanDer Dussen who spent nearly 13 yearsimprisoned for a crime he didn’t com-mit, was released from a Palma prisonon February 11.

Spain’s Supreme Court acquitted Vander Dussen of one of the three chargesagainst him. He had been accused ofthree counts of sexual aggression inMalaga in 2003. Mr Van Der Dussendenies committing the crimes. He hadbeen moved to a prison in Palma to carryout his sentence because of concerns forhis safety.

Van Der Dussen said that this injusticehad ‘messed up his life’ and he wouldn’twish it on his worst enemy and that itwas ‘hell’ for him causing him to con-template suicide on more than one occa-sion.

The 43-year-old took his first steps offreedom accompanied by his lawyer anda representative from the Dutch Em-bassy stationed in Madrid.

He told the awaiting press at the mo-ment of his release that he remained im-

prisoned even though officials knew fornine years who the actual perpetratorwas.

Mr Van Der Dussen said that he wantsto remain in Palma for now and look fora job in the tourist sector of Mallorca

saying that he doesn’t want to return toHolland until he has completely clearedhis name.

By Sandra Galo

Set free from prison at lastDUTCH national spent nearly 13 years imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit

It’s unfairDOZENS of protestorscalling for dignified hous-ing gathered in front of acentral office of Bankia inPalma on Monday Febru-ary 15 to protest againstevictions and unfair mort-gages.

First snowAFTER months of un-usually high tempera-tures, the first snowfall ofthe year graced the top ofthe Serra de Tramuntanamountain range on Mon-day, February 15.

Taxi park THE Neighbours Associa-tion of the Palma Cathe-dral district has filed acomplaint about taxisparking in areas whereresidents are no longerpermitted to park and areasking to be allowed topark there during nighthours.

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• APPROACHING ROUNDABOUTSIt’s important to remember to give way to traffic already on the roundabout. If the

roundabout is outside urban areas of towns or cities, keep right.If the roundabout is in a built-up area inside a town or city and the lanes are clearly

marked, you should use the lane that best corresponds to the exit you need to take.

• LEAVING ROUNDABOUTSThis causes the most confusion amongst drivers. Which lane to choose? Why do I

get beeped at if I’m in the right lane? Drivers must exit roundabouts from the righthand lane, because the only way to leave the roundabout is by turning right. Thisdoesn’t mean we always have to enter the roundabout from the right hand lane. It de-pends on the exit we need to take.

However this simple rule, in practice, can be more complex. Let us see some exam-ples.

• 1st EXIT RIGHTEnter roundabout keeping to right hand side lane. Stay in lane until exit is reached.

Indicate and exit roundabout.

• CONTINUING STRAIGHT ON (e.g. 2nd EXIT STRAIGHT AHEAD)Enter roundabout keeping to right hand side lane. Stay in lane until exit is reached.

Indicate prior to exit and leave roundabout.

• TURNING LEFT OR CHANGING DIRECTION (e.g. 3rd OR FINAL EXIT)Enter roundabout keeping to left hand side lane.Stay in lane until you have passed the exit before your turn off, then change lane by

indicating right and giving other road users sufficient time to anticipate your manoeu-vre. Don’t forget that drivers circulating in the outside lanes have priority, so use yourmirrors to ensure you are not blocking them as you change lanes.

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BRITISH TV personality Noel Ed-monds has revealed he is being stalkedonline after receiving a series of ‘threat-ening’ emails and messages.

Google payPRESIDENT of Google Europe, Matt

Brittin, told MPs he did not know hisown pay. The Google bosses appearedbefore the Public Accounts Committeefollowing a ‘sweetheart’ deal with HM-RC, which saw Google paying just £130million (€165 million).

Move back MUMS on maternity leave had lunch

at a Brewers Fayre pub in Derbyshire,but were ordered to the back of therestaurant so men could read in peace.

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Happy citySWEDEN: Malmö has been

named Europe’s seventh happi-est city, according to a new sur-vey by the European Commis-sion, with 60 per cent ofrespondents saying they are“very satisfied” with their qual-ity of life.

Interestlowered

SWEDEN: Central bank(the Riksbank) has cut thecountry’s already historicallylow interest rates even furtherwith rates falling another 0.15per cent to -0.50 per cent.

Carlsbergdecline

DENMARK: Danish com-pany Carlsberg said it plungedinto the red in 2015 because ofrestructuring provisions and de-clining sales in Europe and theRussian beer market. They hada net loss of 2.6 billion kroner(€346 million).

Femalemosque

DENMARK: A new all fe-male mosque has opened inCopenhagen as part of a femi-nist project to help Muslimwomen.

Telecomsprofits

NORWAY: Telecoms opera-tor Telenor has announced it isexpecting profits to plunge in2016 after last year’s profits fellby 62 per cent for the full-year,to 3.4 billion kroner (€353 mil-lion).

Opera offerNORWAY: A Chinese con-

sortium had offered 10.5 billionkroner (€1 billion) to take overthe Opera web browser. TheNorwegian company is the fifthmost used in the world, behindMicrosoft’s Internet Explorer,Mozilla Firefox, GoogleChrome and Apple’s Safari.

AMSTERDAM is encouragingtourists to stay in other Dutch cities tohelp ease the situation in Amsterdamand boost other cities. This year, 17million tourists are expected to go toAmsterdam, and the total is forecast torise to 23 million by 2025.

Soaring sales DUTCH shops report they had the

best sales in seven years in 2015 withoverall retail sales rising 1.4 per cent.Supermarket sales rose 2 per cent but

furniture shops saw the highest growthin turnover at 6.7 per cent.

Privacyconcerns

PRIVACY watchdogs are concernedabout new draft Dutch legislation which

they say will give the police ‘unprece-dented’ powers to hack phones and in-ternet.

Crimeinvestigation

AN investigation has launched into theimpact of asylum seekers centres on lo-cal crime rates. The research involveslinking refugees’ BSN registration num-bers with the police data bank to find outhow many have been involved in crime.

River crashA MAN drove into the river

Elbe after blindly following hisSat Nav instructions. The manhad intended to take the ferryacross the river and drovestraight over the end of the ferryterminal and into the water.

Nazi grannyA GRANDMOTHER, aged

87, convicted for Holocaust de-nial and a notorious extremist,was escorted out of a trial of aformer guard in Auschwitz aftershe came under attack.

Kebab arrestPOLICE in Berlin had to re-

move a man from a bus after herefused to stop eating a kebabwhich he had brought on boardafter the driver told him it wasagainst the rules to eat on thebus.

Bankshacked

SEVERAL German bankshave had to exchange thousandsof customers’ credit cards afterdetails were stolen by hackersafter breaking in to a weak spotin the security systems of thebanks.

Gravedigging

A MILITARY historian hassaid he and thousands of Ger-man families were horrified by aBritish TV show promoting thelooting of German war graves.

Wolf peace GERMANY is setting aside

nearly half a million euros tohelp educate people on how tolive with wolves in peace. Thewild animal is back roaming theforests after being wiped outmore than a century ago.

Carnivalcomplaints

ACCORDING to German po-lice, the number of sexual of-fence complaints almostquadrupled at this year’s carni-val celebrations in Cologne, de-spite increased security follow-ing the mass assaults at thecity’s New Year celebrations.

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FORECAST: The total number of visitors is expected to rise to 23 million by 2025.

TV personality has received threatening messages

Noel stalked online

TOURISTS are being encouraged to stay in other cities

Doctors angeredJUNIOR doctors say they will

‘consider all options’ as they in-sist they ‘cannot and will not’accept the decision by HealthSecretary Jeremy Hunt to im-pose a new working contract fordoctors after negotiations endedin deadlock.

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By John SmithHAVING first trialled its internetshopping site in larger cit ies inSpain before Christmas, El CorteIngles has now announced that itwill extend its service to includeAlicante, Marbella, Murcia and

Palma, whose stores will joinMalaga, which was part of the ini-tial launch.

The plan is certainly to take partof the Amazon business, by offer-ing a wide range of products withthe possibility of supply within two

hours. This service will now beavailable to up to 10 million con-sumers in Spain.

To make life even easier they of-fer their own dedicated site in Eng-lish at http://www.elcorteingles.eu/shop/uk/en.

FINANCIAL CRISIS: Germany have been the most critical.

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A FORMER deputy prime ministerduring the Zapatero government years,Elena Salgado, will join the adminis-tration board of Nueva Pescanova, thefishing company which ran into seri-ous financial difficulty.

Following its call for bankruptcyprotection, it reported earnings of €82million in 2015, but is still trading at asignificant loss as it has a large num-ber of creditors.

SINCE the financial crisisin Greece , the Germangovernment has been themost critical as far as theGreek economy i s con-cerned, and has ins is tedtha t s t r ingent f inanc ia lpolicies be followed if a‘bailout’ was to take place.

Now, in a typical exam-ple of what the Germanscall schadenfreude (plea-

sure derived from some-one e l se’s misfor tune) ,Greeks are taking to socialmedia to taunt Germanyover the enormous lossesand low share price of itsmajor bank , DeutscheBank.

The amusement may notlast for long, but at least itlifted the financial glooma little.

Greeks mock Germans

US interestrates stableHAVING introduced a rise in in-terest rates in late 2015, the USFederal Reserve has indicatedthrough its chairperson JanetYellen that as the current eco-nomic situation in the US re-mains unclear, it was unlikelythat rates would be increased inthe foreseeable future.

BBVArelativelyoptimisticECONOMISTS working forBBVA are relatively upbeatabout the Spanish economy forthe next 12 months, despite thepolitical uncertainty.

They believe that the Spanisheconomy should grow by 2.7per cent with the creation of alarge number of new jobs, al-though they warn that the longerthe country exists without stablegovernment, the more chancethere is of the growth target be-ing missed.

AS previously forecast in the Euro WeeklyNews, Chinese company Wanda has put on salethe Madrid landmark Edificio España buildingthat it purchased in 2014. The reason for thesale is that the company is unable to change the

exterior of the building, although it has seensome significant losses in recent weeks due tothe fall of the Chinese stock market.

The company hopes to recover the price itoriginally paid for the building.

Wanda put a landmarkbuilding up for sale

is the number of products whichEl Corte Ingles will offer

through its website.

Quote of the Week“I found the comments deeply upsetting,” Marc Zuckerbergwhen Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said India’s

block of Facebook’s ‘free’ internet scheme was ‘anti-colonialism’.

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MMM 3M 153.96 +3.29 +2.18% 2.3MAXP American Express 52.66 +1.55 +3.03% 6.1MAAPL Apple 93.99 +0.29 +0.31% 40.4MBA Boeing 108.63 +0.19 +0.18% 13.0MCAT Caterpillar 63.15 +1.74 +2.83% 4.3MCVX Chevron 85.43 +2.44 +2.94% 9.8MCSCO Cisco 25.11 +0.43 +1.74% 49.8MKO Coca-Cola 43.11 +0.70 +1.65% 15.2MDIS Disney 91.15 +0.84 +0.93% 10.8MDD E I du Pont de Nemours and Co 58.40 +1.78 +3.14% 5.4MXOM Exxon Mobil 81.03 +1.43 +1.80% 16.7MGE General Electric 28.26 +0.81 +2.95% 57.6MGS Goldman Sachs 146.13 +5.44 +3.87% 9.0MHD Home Depot 116.32 +3.05 +2.69% 5.4MIBM IBM 121.04 +3.19 +2.71% 4.9MINTC Intel 28.64 +0.42 +1.49% 19.7MJNJ Johnson & Johnson 101.82 +0.12 +0.12% 9.0MJPM JPMorgan Chase 57.49 +4.42 +8.33% 37.0MMCD McDonald's 117.93 +1.20 +1.03% 8.6MMRK Merck 49.03 +0.18 +0.37% 13.6MMSFT Microsoft 50.50 +0.81 +1.63% 34.2MNKE Nike 56.42 +0.42 +0.75% 10.2MPFE Pfizer 29.36 +0.23 +0.79% 32.5MPG Procter & Gamble 80.99 +1.09 +1.36% 9.3MTRV Travelers Companies Inc 107.49 +3.72 +3.58% 2.1MUTX United Technologies 85.95 +1.29 +1.52% 5.9MUNH UnitedHealth 111.82 +1.20 +1.08% 2.6MVZ Verizon 50.11 +0.72 +1.46% 21.0MV Visa 70.42 +1.95 +2.85% 8.7MWMT Wal-Mart 66.18 +0.86 +1.32% 9.7M

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CHANCELLOR George Os-borne has decided to postponethe sale of the government’s fi-nal stake in Lloyds BankingGroup, after admitting that theglobal turmoil in stock marketsand slowing growth was thereason for the delay.

With an expected ‘windfall’of £2 billion (€2.6 billion),this was to be a useful addition

to the government’s finances,as well as confirmation that thebanking sector had returned tonormal, and the sale was partof the conservative party mani-festo at the last election.

There was some serious crit-icism of the sale of the firsttranche of Lloyds shares inOctober last year, when thegovernment was accused of

pitching the price to corporateinvestors too low, but sincethat time, the price of its shareshas fallen and banks are notperforming as well as expect-ed.

Prices then were in the re-gion of 78p per share, whichseemed to show a profit for thegovernment which had invest-ed large amounts to support

the bank, but they are currentlytrading around 65p, so therecould be a considerable loss ifthe government allowed thesale to go ahead.

If that wasn’t bad enough,the government’s other bank,the Royal Bank of Scotland,has had to make huge provi-sions to cover fines and ex-pected legal actions.

Government retains Lloyds shares

FINANCIAL STAKE: The government has decided to postpone the sale of its shares in Lloyds Banking Group.

Fears over UK interest ratesBy John Smith

AS the pound declines against the maincurrencies, money flows towards theUSA, employment figures aren’t quiteas healthy and rumours abound of eitherincreased cuts in government spendingor increase in taxation, the former cityregulator Lord Turner has entered thediscussion warning that without radicalpolicies, the UK economy could bestuck with low interest rates “almost in-definitely.”

Low interest rates are clearly good forthose who need to borrow money butbad for those who need to see their in-vestments grow, and as banks seem topay very low rates of interest whilstcharging much higher rates to those bor-rowers who they accept, the overall situ-ation does not, according to Lord Turn-er, assist the economy.

In an interview with the BBC afterobserving “interest rates in the UK maynot go up beyond 2 per cent by 2020,”he also commented on peer-to-peerlending, which is one of the fastest-growing areas of financial services. Itappeals to borrowers who have beenturned down by High Street banks and

savers prepared to take greater risks tomake bigger returns.

“The losses which will emerge frompeer-to-peer lending over the next fiveto 10 years will make the worst bankerslook like lending geniuses,” he predict-ed.

“You cannot lend money to small andmedium sized enterprises without some-one doing good credit underwriting.”

He also indicated that in his opinion,the possibility of the UK leaving the Eu-ropean Union “would be adverse for theUK economy” and was already “causing

major destabilisation at a global level.”“There is a great deal of nervousness

that a UK vote for Brexit (to leave theEU) is another layer of uncertainty in anextremely uncertain world, uncertaineconomically and uncertain politically,”he said.

WITH the continued un-certainty over the priceof o i l and the overa l llosses in the stock mar-kets around the world,gold is beginning to at-t rac t inves tors again ,and 2016 has seen theprice rise quite consis-tently, it has put on over$50 (€44.32) an ounces ince the s tar t of theyear.

There are still plentyof pundits who suggestthat i t wi l l ga in evenmore ground over thecoming months, but in-vestors need to be cau-t ious as not only doesthe spot pr ice changetwice a day, but a move-ment in exchange ratescan also affect costs andprofits.

Price ofgoldlooksstronger

GOOD for those who borrow money, but bad for those who have invested

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LORD TURNER: Indicated that leaving the EU “would be adverse for the UK economy.”

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By John SmithAFTER the EU announced that itwas to review the need for a €500bank note, former chief executiveof Standard Chartered Bank, PeterSands has authored a report, whichsuggests that all high value banknotes should be phased out inorder to make it more difficult forcriminals and terrorists to movefunds around the world.

His main targets are the €500(said to have been introduced atthe behest of Germany whichpreviously had a 500 mark note),British £50 and US $100, althoughhe has suggested that the world’s20 largest economies shouldconsider their own situation andreview the proposal at the nextG20 summit to be held in China inSeptember.

According to the report, eachyear the movement of ‘dirty’money exceeds $2 trillion (€1.77trillion), and rather than spendtime catching the criminals, hisreport argues that governments

should now target the cash itself,and starve those who try to move itillegally.

High-value notes issued by richcountries are the “currency ofcorrupt elites, of crime of all sorts

and of tax evasion,” Mr Sandssaid.

“They play little role in the

functioning of the legitimateeconomy, yet a crucial role in theunderground economy,” he added.“The irony is that they areprovided to criminals by the state.”

He accepts that banning the

notes would not stop crime initself, but it would make it moredifficult and time consuming ifcriminals could only use smalldenominations.

There is a question as to whetherthis is a realistic proposal, as ifBritain was to remove the £50note, then Europe would have toconsider removing the €200,€100 and €50 notes, and Gibraltarof course would have to remove its£100 and £50 notes.

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Rather than catching the

criminals, the governments

should target the money itself.

By John SmithMANY Spanish investors were attract-ed to purchase shares in Brazilian oilgiant Petrobras, when shares werelaunched on the world’s stock ex-changes in 2010 to raise $72.8 billion(€63.5 billion), which was the world’slargest ever share launch and made itthe fourth largest company by capitali-sation in the world.

All appeared to be going well withthe company, reported profits grew andit soon overtook Microsoft in value butby late 2013, Merrill Lynch reportedthat it was now the world’s most in-debted company. By late 2014, itsdebts were estimated by Moodys ashaving reached $170 billion (€150 bil-lion) and that effectively the companycould only go from bad to worse.

In response, an investigation underthe code name Operation Car Washwas initiated, which suggested thatcontracts worth up to $22 billion(€19.4 billion) were issued ‘suspi-ciously’ and the fingers of corruptionwere observed throughout the compa-ny.

Naturally, these problems had an ad-verse effect on share prices and a num-ber of Spanish investors have lost quitelarge amounts of money because of thealleged activities of the company andits management.

The Asociacion de Afectados dePetrobras, a Madrid-based shareholder

association, International SecuritiesAssociations and Foundations Man-agement Company for DamagedPetrobras Investors (Bolsa Madrid)ISAF Petrobras, and a coalition of in-ternational law firms, including Cre-mades Calvo-Sotelo, Motley Rice, and

Lowey Dannenberg Cohen &Hart, announced on

February 10

that they have prepared a substantialcriminal complaint against PetroleoBrasileiro SA, certain Petrobras groupentities and (formerly) high-rankingPetrobras officers (collectively ‘Petro-bras et al’), and intend to file it in theCriminal Court in Madrid in the com-ing weeks.

The complaint will be filed on be-half of all

Petrobras investors who bought sharesthrough Bolsa de Madrid (LATIBEXindex), and all investors who boughtshares through BOVESPA in SaoPaulo, but brought back those shares toSpain clearing through Iberclear andkept and custodied the shares in Spainthereafter, suffered losses as a re-sult of the allegedly long-run-ning fraud perpetrated by

Petrobras et al. Petrobras is majority-owned by the Brazilian government.

The complaint will allege that whenyears of complex fraud and briberyschemes orchestrated by managementand officials of Petrobras were finallyrevealed to the public in 2014, in-vestors lost billions of dollars, eurosand Brazilian reals, resulting from sig-nificant asset write-downs and precipi-tous declines in Petrobras share prices.

Their argument is that when invitinginvestors to purchase their shares, Petro-bras undertook to comply with Euro-pean stock market rules, and thereforeprovided that the shares were either pur-chased in Spain or were transmittedback to Spain then investors are entitledto take action under Spanish law.

The first investor lawsuit was filedas a class action in the United States onbehalf of investors there, but is onlyable to include those who invested inthe USA. In Spain the laws are differ-ent and those who have lost moneymust ‘opt in’ to a joint lawsuit.

It is suggested that investors (a) whopurchased common and preferredshares of Petrobras anytime between2004 and July 28, 2015 and (b) suf-fered and/or are in danger of suffering(further) damages as a consequence ofthe alleged fraud, contact ISAF Petro-bras so that it can determine eligibilityto pursue claims in the Spanish courtsystem.

Massive fraud action in Madrid Courtagainst Brazilian oil companyA COMPLAINT will be filed as investors have lost billions of dollars, euros and Brazilian reals

PETROBRAS: By late 2013 Merrill Lynch reported it was the world’s most indebted company.

TUI, operators of Thomson Airwaysamongst others and now the largesttravel operator in the world, has ex-perienced a massive drop in holi-daymakers travelling to Turkey fol-lowing the attack on tourists inIstanbul earlier this year.

According to chief executiveFriedrich Joussen, almost one inseven of its customers travelled toTurkey in previous years, but rather

than cancel summer holidays, manyof its customers are simply switch-ing destinations, which will replacethe missing income for the compa-ny.

The company is now seeing morebookings for Spain and the CanaryIslands, and despite the fact thatthey have access to more hotels thanany other operator because of theirRiu chain, he has indicated that

Spain and the Canaries are ‘prettymuch sold out’ as far as summerholidays with Tui are concerned.

The company, which is now basedin Germany, was originally formedby an amalgamation of a Germanand British company, and owns andoperates six different airlines.

Its Thomson Airways is thebiggest airline in the group andlargest charter airline in the world.

It’s an ill windfor popular touroperator Tui COMPANY has experienced a massive drop in tourists travelling to Turkey

TUI have indicated

that Spain and the Canariesare ‘pretty much

sold out’ as far assummer holidays

are concerned.

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EWN28 FINANCE, BUSINESS & LEGAL18 - 24 February 2016 / Mallorca www.euroweeklynews.com

I SUPPOSE I should actually find it flattering.Well, be that as it may, I would like to take thisopportunity to inform those people, who lookat me with incredulous disbelief and ask if I ac-tually write this column; I most certainly do.It’s all my fault! Ok? Right, moving on.

What a load of complete and utter, intelli-gence insulting baloney Cameron has been try-ing to foist on us all this past couple of weeks.His so-called ‘deal’ with the EU membersamounts to just about zilch. There are only twothings that truly worry the public at large.

One: Control of our borders and the presentpolicy of virtually unrestricted immigration.Two: The rules and regulations emanatingfrom the power mad, non-elected PC, ‘Umanrights bureaucrats of Brussels. And what has heachieved toward a solution of these two mostcrucial causes of public concern? Nada!

Apart from a four year period of non-benefit

for new immigrants, which he has neverstopped crowing about and is apparently basedon some vague sliding scale, plus the insipidchild benefit ‘charade,’ a highly complicatedand no doubt expensive procedure, which canactually result in some immigrants getting evenhigher benefits than they are receiving now -he may as well concede to the ‘out’ vote with-out even bothering to call a referendum.

It’s the arrogant and brazen way he underes-timates and insults our intelligence that sticksin my craw. No I’m sorry Dave, the credibilityyou have lost over this debacle could not onlylose you the ‘in’ vote and subsequently lead toyour resignation, but may well do the partysuch irreversible damage they could well losethe next election. The spectre of Prime Minis-ter Coburn is hovering nearer Dave, and it’s allyour fault. The same as this column is mine.

I have always supported the Conservatives,but frankly at this moment UKIP is looking afar better alternative. For God’s sake get a gripand show some ‘cojones.’ I hate to add beforeit’s too late, because I fear it already is!

Keep the faith. Love Leapy.Leapylee2002@gmail.com

His credibility has been knocked

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT

ALTHOUGH a Conservative supporter, at present UKIP is looking far better alternative

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BEFORE ebooks, if you didn’t fancy the bookyou were reading, you could quietly bin it and no-body would know. But ebook sellers can tellwhich books you finish and which you give upon.

Surprisingly, Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-Prize-win-ning The Goldfinch was completed by only 44per cent of British readers. The highest-rating cat-egories for completion were romance and crimethrillers - the categories many feel embarrassedabout admitting they prefer. Aren’t we supposedto say we can’t wait to get our hands on the Book-er shortlist and anything else (so-called ‘airportfiction’) is a ‘guilty pleasure’?

Well, it was precisely about my own crimethrillers that I was recently asked to give a talk bythe Benahavis Decorative and Fine Arts Society(BDFAS). The inspiration for them, the writing

process, and how to avoid plotlines more compli-cated than the directions for assembling IKEA’sfinest or dénouements as exciting as filling in in-come tax returns.

Both the event and subsequent book signingbrilliantly organised by BDFAS were hugely en-joyable - lots of friendly people there - and con-

tributed to a good cause since profits from the saleof my novels go to Costa del Sol charity Cudeca.

I’m often asked if much of me and my personalexperience go into my books. To give a brief butbalanced answer: ‘yes and no.’ Well, I did saybrief! Yes, because, inevitably, those you meet doinfluence you. No, because the characters eventu-

ally created are composites.The names for characters have to be handled

with real care. Take names like Trump, Clinton orCameron. Give any one to a quiet, self-effacingcharacter and all the preconceptions predominate.And in your mind’s eye, all you’ll see isTrump/Clinton/Cameron as, in psychologists’ jar-gon, feelings of transference take over.

Which brings me on to that old chestnut:writer’s block. Here I’m reminded of (Raymond)Chandler’s Law: “When in doubt, have a mancome through a door with a gun in his hand.”Good grief!

And, finally, what about the actual writing?Grammar and so on. Which reminds me. Onceone of my readers graciously offered to proofreadmy manuscript and pinpoint any errors in punctu-ation, spelling and style. Of course i spel perffect-tly and theres never no punktuation, erors! so herjob was like, :- easy!

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Landscape of Lies,’‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De ClerambaultCode’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available fromAmazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89;£0.79) andiBookstore. All profits to Cudeca charity.

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

Murder, Mystery & Mayhem: Book signings on the Costa del Sol

BOOK SIGNING: Was brilliantly organised and hugely enjoyable.

THE names for characters have to be handled with real care, but the ones that I eventually create are composites

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DEAR EWN,People really irritate me over

the access and cost of entrance tothe Caminito del Rey.

First they complained that theycouldn’t get tickets even though itwas relatively easy to go onlineand book ahead, then they were upin arms over allocation to hoteland restaurant owners (which wasadmittedly a bi t naughty), whothen only handed them over if youhad a meal.

Now, because the whole thing isbeing handed over to a pr ivatecompany to release council work-ers for hopefully more importantmatters, they are all complainingabout a €10 charge!

It costs more or less the same tosee a film and the walk cost a heckof a lot to get ready and now keepsafe and open for visitors. Let’sput things into perspective andfind real problems to worry about,not the price of a tourist attraction.

Pauline, Malaga City

Caterpillarsare dangerous

DEAR Editor, On the story that appeared about

the processionary caterpi l lars ,three dogs in our area ended up inintensive care and lost part of theirtongues af ter touching one ofthese. Thanks for highlighting thisproblem, it might prevent a fatali-ty.

Lis via the Internet

Angels andAge Care

DEAR EWN,Thank you so much for publish-

ing the ar t ic le on the donat ionfrom the Angels and amalgamat-ing it with the news about the newcoffee morning venue at Fuengiro-la. Age Care appreciates your helpvery much. It is really importantto us that we keep people aware ofwhat Age Care do. There are so

many elder ly people who needsupport and i f we can, we wil lhelp them.

Once again, thank you. Regards,

Bobby, Costa del Sol

Fantasticwork

DEAR Euro Weekly News,I would l ike to a ler t you and

your readers to the fantastic work

that is done by the 4 Paws charitywhich particularly looks after therehoming of older dogs which aremuch more difficult to help thancute little puppies.

They handle a large number ofdogs each year, but costs are veryhigh, especially when many of theanimals are rehoused in other partsof Europe.

For more information or to offerassistance please visithttps://www.facebook.com/4-paws-adoptions-127264347404435

Kind regards,Caroline in the UK via e-mail

Knittedknockers

DEAR EWN,I recently had a lumpectomy fol-

lowed by a mastectomy and havebeen provided with a prosthesis,which weighs 450 grammes, but thethought of wearing that in the sum-mer filled me with horror. I remem-bered hearing about ‘knitted knock-ers’ on a radio programme socontacted knitted knockers in theUK. They put me in touch with

knitted knockers Spain and Maggie,who set up the group, and her friendKaren is making me a ‘knocker.’

They need more knitters in otherparts of Spain and I thought thatmaybe you could mention them in theEWN as you are known for getting in-volved with charitable work and knit-ting ‘knockers’ is such a wonderful,positive thing to do free of charge fora stranger. Thank you for taking thetime to read my message.

Susan, via email.

Taxi strikeDEAR EWN,With regards to the forthcoming

Malaga taxi strike, I really have nosympathy left for local taxi drivers. Iused to get them up to and backfrom Malaga airport before, but nowprefer to use the train and try toavoid them at all costs. I find themexpensive nor do I not think theymerit their charges... but I am sureothers will love them ;-)

Mike via the Internet

What goodnews

DEAR Sir,What good news it was to read

about the action of the National Policein conjunction with the British Na-tional Crime Agency to uncover thehuge drug factory in Costa Blanca.

It is a great shame to think Britishcriminals were heavily involved inthe production of this evil and addic-tive drug but at least the UK was in-volved in helping to catch them.

Let’s hope that there will now be afew less new addicts because of theaction that has been taken.

Edward from Denia

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DEAR All,I am impressed with the trouble that you all take to keep us up to date with all of the developments

along the coast and it was particularly good news to hear about the extra service that BA are going tooffer from Stansted to Malaga.

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EVERY year for the past five yearsI’ve organised an InternationalWomen’s Day celebration to mark theofficial day which is March 8.

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I also would love to see charities, as-sociations and businesses run bywomen or for women. Would your or-ganisation like to participate? We’vehad all sorts of different events, treats,speeches, workshops, lunches, emo-tional moments and flash mobs, whatwill happen this year?

The world has witnessed a signifi-cant change and attitudinal shift inboth women’s and society’s thoughtsabout women’s equality and emancipa-tion. Many from a younger generation,like myself, may feel that ‘all the bat-tles have been won for women’ whilemany feminists from the 1970’s knowonly too well the longevity and in-

grained complexity of patriarchy. With more women in the board-

room, greater equality in legislativerights, and an increased critical mass ofwomen’s visibility as impressive rolemodels in every aspect of life, one

could think that women have gainedtrue equality. The unfortunate fact isthat women are still not paid equally tothat of their male counterparts, womenstill are not present in equal numbers inbusiness or politics, and globally

women’s education, health and the vio-lence against them is worse than thatof men.

However, great improvements havebeen made. We do have female astro-nauts and prime ministers, school girls

are welcomed into university, womencan work and have a family, womenhave real choices. So each year theworld inspires women and celebratestheir achievements.

IWD is an official holiday in manycountries. The tradition sees men hon-ouring their mothers, wives, girl-friends, colleagues, etc with flowersand small gifts.

A global web of rich and diverse lo-cal activity connects women from allaround the world ranging from politi-cal rallies, business conferences, gov-ernment activities and networkingevents through to local women’s craftmarkets, theatrical performances, fash-ion parades and more.

Many global corporations activelysupport IWD by running their ownevents and campaigns. For example,on March 8, Google often changes itsGoogle Doodle on its global searchpages to honour IWD.

So make a difference, think globallyand act locally! Make everyday Inter-national Women’s Day. The theme thisyear is ‘Make It Happen.’ Can youhelp make it happen this year? Contactme at vicki@moodbeach.com if so.

Vicki McLeod

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Invite to International Women’s DayTHE world has witnessed a significant change and attitudinal shift in women’s and society’s thoughts

DIFFERENT EVENTS: Including treats, lunches, workshops and emotional moments.

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IT’S not very often that a group arrives fully-formed,with a sound that belongs completely to them and no-body else, It’s a rare thing indeed. But that’s whatmade KING, the Los Angeles R&B trio, so specialwhen they self-released The Story, their three-songdebut EP, in 2011. Now available on iTunes.

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ARIES(March 21 - April 20)There is something comfortableabout your life at the moment.Even though there seems to bea good reason to change it, youhesitate. A situation seems tohave become outdated and nolonger works well.

TAURUS(April 21 - May 21)Starting on a new hobby or job hasopened your eyes to much that isround you. You ask yourself why itwas not so clear to you before. Thisdoes not matter. This is where youare and where you need to be at themoment.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)The buzz in your head is not amysterious thing. It is the soundof something quite different.Clearly, it is time to act on anidea held for a long time. Thebuzz will not go away until youare satisfied. Get with the yogaand plan your approach. One stepat a time avoids confusion.

CANCER(June 22 - July 23)An emotional journey which youmade last year comes to mindagain. Although there areadjustments to be made, you arenow more at ease. Whicheverway you go now will be a luckyimprovement in your sphere.

LEO(July 24 - August 23)A branch is dangling in the wind.

You feel that, if you grasp it,finances will improve. Yourhesitation is felt as weakness butit is good to check. See thisbranch from all angles. The lastthing that you want is to tug on itand find that it is too much tohold.

VIRGO(August 24 - September 23)Are you hoping that a recentacquaintance will provide theanswer to a question? Yourfriends have given their opinionsbut you are still not convinced.Here is a situation where expertadvice is needed, not a randomopinion.

LIBRA(September 24 - October 23)There is a lot to take on boardthis week. At times, you may feelthat it is too much to cope with.You, however, are made ofstronger stuff. Are you telling methat Fred down the road is betterthan you? No, of course not.Show everyone what you aremade of this week by getting itsorted.

SCORPIO(October 24 - November 22)Yours is a big heart, but be moreselective about what and who youlet in. As you are currently seeingthings so clearly, make somechoices. Your quality of both lifeand work will change for thebetter. You are not being selfish.You know there is such a thing asnecessary self-preservation.

SAGITTARIUS(November 23 - December 21)Sometimes you feel you are on astage. Attention is on you, lightsshining bright, people waiting.There is no problem with doingwhat is expected, but maybe anuneasy feeling about where you are.We can all end up in the wrongplace, so do what is necessary toget back to where you want to be.

CAPRICORN(December 22 - January 20)There is a difficulty with someonenot standing on their own two feet.It's someone close, but it’s certainlynot you. It is not possible to standby and see bad mistakes happen.On the other hand, there needs to bea balance so as not to enforcedependency. A friend may help,but you will manage this.

AQUARIUS(January 21 - February 19)Working in the dark is not yourfavourite thing. Blazing lights oneverything is more your style.Why, then, do you not havecontrol of the facts? Maybehiding in the shadows andavoiding something has put youwhere you are.

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Better known as PacoRabanne, the popu-lar fashion de-signer was bornin the BasqueCountry on Feb-

ruary 18, 1934. He is wellknown for his fashion creationsand the brand of perfumes whichcarries his name.

It’s both a vertical and horizontal week.What goes right somewhere could easilygo wrong elsewhere. Sensitive Venusconspires with touchy Mars to triggertensions and troubles. If you’re aware ofwhere others are coming from, you’ll befine. You’ll have fun, but don’t let yourspending splurges rule your head.

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I decided to change my computerpassword to ‘incorrect’ because if Itype it in wrong, my computer willremind me, ‘Your password isincorrect.’

Unscramble the name of a television series firstbroadcast on BBC Two in January 2005 (twowords): DONNED RAGS

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John Travolta, Actor, February 18, 62Actor who starred in the 1970s hit films SaturdayNight Fever and Grease. He later went on to playVincent Vega in the critically acclaimed 1994 filmPulp Fiction and he also starred in Get Shorty,Ladder 49, Wild Hogs, Hairspray and Swordfish.

Prince Andrew, Royalty, February 19, 56The third child and second son of Queen ElizabethII and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is alsoknown for his success with the Royal Navy,particularly during the Falklands War.

Charlotte Church, Singer, February 21, 30Welsh soprano singer-songwriter who has sungclassical and pop music and has sold more than 10million records internationally. She released the #2hit single ‘Crazy Chick.’

Bruce Forsyth, Game Show Host, February 22,88English comedian, television personality and gameshow host of UK’s The Price is Right and StrictlyCome Dancing. He was named Male TVPersonality of the year from 1975 to 1978, and wasKnighted in 2011.

Peter Fonda, Actor, February 23, 76Best known for starring in the classic film EasyRider, he also received a Screen Actors Guild Awardnomination alongside his co-stars for OutstandingPerformance by a Cast for 2007 film 3:10 to Yuma.

Bill Bailey, Comedian, February 24, 52Zany English comedian who is best known for hisrole in Black Books and for his appearances onNever Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News forYou and QI.

Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo ,February 18, Fashion designer

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1. According to French author Jules Verne, what was the name of theeccentric British adventurer, who, along with his valet Passepartout, at-tempted to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wagerset by his friends at the Reform Club? 2. Named after an Inca sun god, what was the name of the balsa woodraft that Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl rowed acrossthe Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands in1947? 3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was the first in a series of films tostar actor Harrison Ford as which fictional college professor of archae-ology/adventurer? 4. The capital of North Carolina is named after which famous Englishadventurer, a favourite of Elizabeth I? 5. What was the name of the Welsh-born journalist who began his ex-pedition to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone inMarch 1871? 6. Which 19th century English explorer who, with John Speke, wasthe first European to explore Lake Tanganyika, shares his name with afamous Welsh actor? 7. Which British naval officer and explorer who led the ill-fated sec-ond expedition to reach the South Pole, died there on March 29, 1912? 8. Which famous 20th century explorer was the first person to visitboth the North and South Poles by surface means and the first to com-pletely cross Antarctica on foot? 9. Which famous American luxury vehicle manufacturing companyfounded in 1902, is named after a 17th century French explorer whofounded Detroit? 10. Which famous Italian explorer discovered the island of Hispaniola,now Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in December 1492?

Not a lot of people know that… the Portuguese explorer Vasco daGama has a city in India named after him, as well as three Brazilianfootball teams, several ships, a crater on the moon and several placesin Lisbon

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Across1 Former president’s railroad measure (6)4 Drink on the way, I hear, in sultanate (6)9 Health resort in a European country (5)11 Leaf covering (5)13 Deep South coming back fast (5)15 Earth spins after the French hide (7)16 Strangely regal composer (5)17 Someone who gives a fellow gold (5)18 Thanks after Dad’s Italian food (5)20 Europeans found in the Arctic and

Antarctic? (5)21 Fires possibly singe it (7)22 A Scot translating one of Puccini’s

operas (5)24 Minor official concerned with First Lady

(5)26 Dismisses for reordering casks (5)27 Referee seen in photos for a starter (6)28 Revolutionary actors for Cuban leader (6)

Down2 Flat fish only (4)3 Endless oriental holiday in spring (6)5 Scruffy diners are hosed down (6)6 First of November poem, Bud (4)7 A nice temple built on shelf over fireplace (11)

8 Poet’s oath about therapist (9)10 Letter recipient scattered seeds, dear (9)12 Material from the last Ice Age (7)14 Put forward a motion in favour of the position (7)19 Former tennis star is a gas, funnily (6)20 Worshippers, I assume, embracing Iran formerly (6)23 Aphrodite’s child came back hurting (4)25 Rewrite diet (4)

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Across1 Summits (5)4 Vocation (6)9 Understand (7)

10 Requires (5)11 Minuscule (4)12 Departing (7)13 Heavens (3)14 In this place (4)16 Final (4)18 Weep (3)20 Ignorant of (7)21 Quick (4)24 Porcelain (5)25 Seeing (7)26 Cricket team (6)27 Melodies (5)

Down1 Buccaneer (6)2 Once more (5)3 Slender (4)5 Yearly (8)6 Foes (7)7 Quit formally (6)8 React verbally (5)13 Divide (8)15 Analyse (7)17 Brawn (6)18 Prison rooms (5)19 Phases (6)22 Foreign (5)23 Playthings (4)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter ofthe alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 6 represents Z and 24 represents

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Across1 To marry (5)4 Melocotón (5)7 River (3)8 Soldado (7)9 Earthquake (9)13 Campesino (familia,revuelta) (7)15 Pero (uso adversativo) (3)16 Grandson (5)17 Oveja (5)

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1 Ankara, 4 Status, 7 Sartorial, 9 Opts, 10 Rota,11 Front, 13 Staple, 14 Gentle, 15 Abates, 17 Oscars, 19 State, 20 Teem, 22 Asia, 23 Menagerie, 24 Adders, 25 Scamps.

1 Actors, 2 Alas, 3 Attire, 4 Spring, 5 Ajar, 6 Sedate, 7 Stratagem, 8 Lost cause,11 Flees, 12 Tense, 15 Attila, 16 Steals, 17 Otters, 18 Shades, 21 Mere, 22 Aida.

1 Peculiar, 4 Pale, 7 Reads,9 Snail, 11 Meets, 12 Boats,13 Subtle, 15 Chosen,19 Finds, 21 Whale, 23 Stout, 24 Scare, 25 Half,26 Shelters.

1 Perhaps, 2 Charm, 3 Assist,5 Exits, 6 Lamb, 8 Steal, 10 Leaps, 14 Bonus,16 Heals, 17 Nucleus,18 Switch, 19 Fresh, 20 Soon, 22 Erase.

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ON average, a person speaks some-where between 7,000 and 20,000 wordsevery day. Most of these are just fillerslike ‘and,’ ‘so,’ and ‘on.’ But the wordsthat are used to convey a message oftencarry stories of their own. Here we takea look at the origins of the commonword.1. OK. ‘Okay’ has one of the most com-plicated word origins to track down. Al-though there are dozens of theories, no-body’s sure which one is correct. Some ofthe best suggestions are: Omnis Korrectais Latin for ‘all correct.’ Another wouldbe: Och Aye or O Qu’oui, Scottish andFrench, respectively for ‘Ah, yes.’ Alter-natively, ‘Oll Korrect,’ a common mis-spelling in the US of ‘all correct’ back inthe 1800s is attributed to Andrew Jackson,the seventh US president, and John JacobAstor. 2. Spirit. Speaking of spirits, have youever stood close to someone who has badbreath? Believe it or not, these two have aconnection. By that, we mean that thewords ‘spirit’ and ‘breath’ have commonroots. The English ‘spirit’ comes from theLatin ‘spiritus,’ which can mean ‘breath,’‘breathing,’ or ‘soul.’ We can even take itone step further: Spirare has its origins inan Indo-European word that means ‘toblow.’ 3. Influenza. Most of us just call it ‘flu,’but the full-length word ‘influenza’ actual-ly carries some history on its back. It wasoriginally Italian, where it means ‘influ-ence.’ The name refers to the cause of thedisease rather than the illness itself, as theold Italians had the same explanation forillnesses as for disasters. They blamedboth on unfortunate astrological constella-tions. 4. Poison is directly borrowed from theFrench, who rewrote the Latin word po-tionem. The Latin word first and foremostmeant ‘a drink.’ But it gathered more omi-nous meanings such as ‘magical potion’and ‘medicinal potion’ before finally trans-lating into ‘poisoned drink.’5 Pants. The mystery of the plural

‘pants’ has fascinated us all at some point.Why more than one pant? What is a pant?Little did we know that the word actuallyhas a fascinating background. Some peo-ple already know that ‘pants’ is an abbre-viation of ‘pantaloons.’ The type of tighttrousers that used to be called ‘pantaloons’were named after a famous character,much like celebrities get fashion itemsnamed after them today. Pantaleone washis name, and this wasn’t any old trouser-wearing man. He was a well-known char-acter in 16th-century Italian comedies.Due to his thin legs, he wore full-lengthtights instead of the popular knee breech-es.6 Whiskey. Countless are those whohave drowned their sorrows in a bottle ofScotch, but did they know that whiskey iscalled ‘whiskey’ in countries that have an‘e’ in their name, like Ireland, and ‘whisky’in countries without an ‘e,’ such as Scot-land? The Gaelic were well aware of thisand named their favourite beverage uisce-beathadh (‘water of life’). This was short-ened to uisce (‘water’). Try saying uisceout loud, and you’ll find that it sounds quitesimilar to our ‘whiskey.’ 7 Avocado. The word ‘avocado’ originatesfrom the Nahuatlan word ahuacatl, whichwas used for describing the fruit. The wordahuacatl underwent a series of misinterpre-tations. The Spanish changed ahuacatl to

‘aguacate,’ which was then changed by theEnglish to avogato in the 1600s.8. Robot. We use our machines asslaves! and really, why shouldn’t we?They don’t feel fatigue or hunger, andthey can’t complain about bad work con-ditions. Maybe that’s what went throughKarel Capek’s head in 1920 when he gavethe name ‘robots’ to the emotionless,mass-produced workers in his playRossum’s Universal Robots. The Czechword robotnik means ‘slave,’ as does theOld Slavic robu and rabota. 9. Disaster. Today, there are few of uswho blame the stars when something goeswrong. The old Italians probably alsocomplained a lot too, but they had onemajor excuse when things were goingsouth. If you were born under certainstars, you were prone to bad luck and mis-fortune. From that belief came the worddisastrato (‘born under an ill star’). 10. Hazard. Have you ever played agame of dice? Most of us know that littlerush of adrenaline when you let go of thesmall cubes, hoping that they will roll inyour favour. ‘A game of dice’ has longbeen one of the principal meanings of theword ‘hazard.’ It was derived from theOld French word hasard, a word for allsorts of dice games. Hasard came fromthe Spanish azar, ‘an unfortunate throw ofdice.’

SlideSlide lets you create faux-3D GIFs. Every majorsocial network now letsyou post videos, but not everyphotographic situation is improved by video. With thisweek’s App of the Week, you can add a little depth toa still image just by moving your phone a little. Slideis an app by Little Pixels that lets you easily create astereoscopic-like GIF with your iPhone. Just tap yourscreen, slide your phone and then tap your subject.Slide will create a GIF that looks like it’s in 3D.

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Good: 29

Very good: 42

Excellent: 52

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A LOVING and hilarious- if occasionally spiky -valentine to Bill Bryson’sadopted country, GreatBritain. Prepare for totaljoy and multiple episodesof unseemly laughter.

Twenty years ago, BillBryson went on a triparound Britain to discoverand celebrate that greenand pleasant land.

The result was Notesfrom a Small Island, a trueclassic and one of thebestselling travel booksever written. Now he hastravelled about Britainagain, by bus and trainand rental car and on foot,to see what has changed -and what hasn’t.

With his matchless in-stinct for the funniest andquirkiest and his unerringeye for the idiotic, the be-wildering, the appealing,and the ridiculous, he of-fers acute and perceptiveinsights into all that is bestand worst about Britaintoday.

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OK: There are dozens of theories.

THIS may sound a little like scare-mongering but one negative benefit ofBritain leaving the Union would bethat it would automatically have toleave a little known organisation calledEuropol.

It is not a large operation, it does nothave the power to initiate investiga-tions, cannot arrest anyone, is not affil-iated to Interpol (which has a com-pletely different role) but is vital to theprotection of member states against or-ganised crime, money laundering andterrorism.

Europol is the European Union’slaw enforcement agency whose maingoal is to help achieve a safer Europefor the benefit of all EU citizens. Theydo this by assisting the EuropeanUnion’s Member States in their fightagainst serious international crime andterrorism.

With almost 800 staff at headquar-

ters in The Hague, it works closelywith law enforcement agencies in the28 EU Member States and has contactswith other non-EU partner states suchas Australia, Canada, the USA andNorway.

Analysis is at the core of their activi-ties and Europol employs around 100

criminal analysts who are among thebest trained in Europe and it is theywho constantly update European policeagency knowledge based on the flowof information that is transferredthrough their offices on a day to daybasis.

It doesn’t always work as is clear

from the terrible events in Paris in late2015, but the blame rests unfortunatelywith intelligence services in Belgiumand France and other countries whichhave closely guarded their informationabout suspects. Much has been learntfrom the breakdown of communica-tions then and action is being taken topersuade intelligence agencies to im-prove their communications.

What is clear, however, is the Eu-ropol is involved in over 10,000 cross-border investigations each year and ba-sically is positioned in many cases totake a piece of information from onecountry and by computer analysismatch it with information from one ormore other countries in order to predictor solve crimes.

The head of Europol, Rob Wain-wright, a former British intelligence of-ficer has confirmed that in the eventthat Britain does decide to leave theUnion, it will have to leave Europoland although it may well be able totake a similar position to other non-EUpartners, at a time when the threatof terrorism is increasing, no-one knows how such a changewill affect the safety of Britain orindeed the whole of the EU.

WE have all experiencedthe power of music and itsabil i ty to take us back tospecial places and key mo-ments in our lives.

I was returning from Ali-cante airport , havingdropped off old friendswho, until my visit to theUK last year, I had notclapped eyes on for 30-oddyears.

Theirs was an obscenelyearly morning flight and Ifound myself on the desert-ed N332 at half past stupidwith just some light mist, achunky Kit Kat and an allnight radio station for com-pany.

1968 was a helter skelteryear, with deep ravines ofdepression that slowlyturned into a new and hap-

pier phase in my life.My marriage that had ter-

minated abruptly and bru-tally in the early summer ofthat year after a whole 18months, had left me badly

mauled, but an introductionby my friend’s wife (the oneI had just delivered to theairport) to her brother,marked the start of my re-turn to normality and a new

circle of close friends. It began with the excel-

lent Jose Feliciano singingLight My Fire - always apassport back in t ime -which was followed by

good old Leapy Lee dodg-ing Little Arrows.

Then Aretha Franklincame on to assure me thatshe would Say A Litt lePrayer on my behalf.

Obviously this was the1968 music hour, becausealong came the sandpapertones of Joe Cocker and thelegend that is Dusty Spring-field, and when Mary Hop-kin reminisced that ThoseWere the Days, I confessthere were goose bumps as Inodded to myself in ferventagreement.

By the t ime I reachedGuardamar via Gary Puck-ett , Marmalade and TheDoors, I was belting out thelyrics like a good ‘un.

And when the intro to Je-samine by The Casualsoozed silkily out of thespeakers, the metamorpho-sis was complete and I wasback in the bar of The BoarsHead or on the dance floorat the Thingumajig Club,reborn and thankful to bealive.

Time travel on the N332BY the time I reached Guardamar, I was belting out the lyrics like a good ‘un

Exit from EU could be damagingEUROPOL is involved in over 10,000 cross-border investigations each year

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: A legend of the 1960s.

SEVENTY-FIVE years ago,parts of the world had been atwar for more than two yearsand the USA was about toalign itself with the Allies fol-lowing the Japanese attack onPearl Harbour.

Britain was still holdingout against the Axis forcesand there was heavy fightingin North Africa with Mont-gomery managing to defeatboth the Italians and Rom-mel’s panzers in Libya beforeBritain moved on to Iraq, Syr-ia and Iran to take possessionof the oil fields there.

During the same period,Greece and Yugoslavia werebeing invaded but at least theAllies had some wind of thisbecause of the code breakersat Bletchley Park.

In the meantime, in whatturned out to be a major error,Hitler invaded Russia whichwas a major reason for his de-feat, but it also led to the armsrace and the Cold War.

Although the timelines areslightly askew, there is cer-tainly a feeling of déjà vu ashere we are now, watching aninvasion of Greece and manyof the former Yugoslavianstates albeit from a differentdirection and there has beencontinued fighting not only inLibya and Iraq but all overthe Middle East.

Relationships betweenRussia and Europe are begin-ning to break down and eco-nomies are suffering albeit forslightly different reasons.

There is an old saying that,the more things change, themore they stay the same andwe have to hope the currentsituation is going to resolve it-self so rather than continue tostagger into one crisis afterthe other, politicians decide totry to work together.

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Can cancer affect the eyes?Yes it can, although it is rare. There are two main types of can-

cer which can be found inside the eye, Primary Intraocular Can-cer which starts inside the eyeball and Metastic Cancer, whichstarts somewhere else in the body and then spreads to the eye.

What are the symptoms of eye cancer?Unfortunately this is a disease which often comes with little or

no symptoms, which makes it difficult to spot. Some of thesymptoms of eye cancer can include; loss of vision, seeing flash-ing lights, a dark spot on the iris which gradually grows, a visiblelump on your eyelid and pain in and around the eye.

How can eye cancer be diagnosed?In many cases eye cancer can be spotted during a routine eye

test. For example Andrew Beckett went to Specsavers in Mallor-ca for an eye test after noticing his vision had become blurred andthought he needed some new glasses. During the sight test theoptician immediately suspected that there was a problem with his

eye and advised him to go straight to casualty to have it checkedout in more detail.

Within 15 minutes of arriving at the hospital, Andrew was seenby the doctor and then referred to an eye specialist for tests. Thetests revealed cancer of the eye and he was quickly admitted tohospital for an operation to remove his eye. Mr Beckett has nowfully recovered from his cancer and has been fitted with a pros-thetic eye and is incredibly grateful the eye test spotted the prob-lem before the cancer spread.

There are many other conditions which can be picked up by asimple visit to the opticians, including diabetes, brain tumoursand glaucoma. If necessary the optician will refer you directly forfurther medical examination to an Ophthalmologist or your GPfor treatment.

Specsavers Opticas are currently offering free sight tests, tofind your nearest store and book an appointment visit www.specsavers.es.

By Andrés Román Romero, Store Director, Specsavers Opticas Santa PonçaWorld Cancer Day is held each year on the 4th February and unites the world’s population in the fight against cancer. Itaims to save millions of lives each year by raising awareness about the disease, so we wanted to share some informationabout cancer and the eyes, what it is, how you can spot it and what can happen.

Ask the Optician - Can Cancer Affect the Eyes?

THE majority of people I meet inmy profession seek my servicesbecause they have bodyweight is-sues or feel that they have lostcontrol of their fitness, and aresubsequently suffering structuralphysical and medical problems.

Our initial conversation isbased on their background andlifestyle and includes aspects oftheir lives they feel they no longerhave control over.

Setting goals for them right atthe beginning of their journeygives them a direction with a def-inite target to reach.

By the time I have persuaded aclient to sit down and chat with

me about how they plan tochange and improve their life,they often already have their aspi-rations and a fairly clear pictureof what they want to look andfeel like in six - 12 months time.

There are other people that re-gardless of how many words ofencouragement you offer them,will simply not buy into them-

selves and accept that they canachieve their goals.

I have weighed clients and giv-en them their medical statisticsthat are realistical targets.

Common responses:• There is no way I could

ever be that weight again.• That’s far too hard for me

I won’t be able to cope.

I have found over time, if I wasunable to help a client to see whatthey could achieve and how theyhad all of the capabilities to reachthe goals they clearly wanted toreach, then we were fighting alosing battle from the beginning.

Instead of looking ahead to thefit attractive person they are slow-ly emerging into, they cling ontotheir picture of an unattractiveoverweight being that is continu-ously falling back and never ableto climb upwards and on to thenext positive level.

There is truly nothing moreself-gratifying than to see a clienttaking ownership of themselves.

Their self-belief that they canachieve their goal and the cherryon the cake is when they turn upto my session in attractive newcolourful gym kit and trainers,their hair is neat, with a confidenttriumphant glow.

You need self-belief to changeyour own body and your lifeFitFoxyLooking Good, Staying Trim

SETTING GOALS: Gives people a definite target to reach.

A MOTHER, who was covered almost head-to-toe in burns after a freak accident, has created asoothing skin cream to help others feel confi-dent despite having scars.

The 56-year-old had 75 per cent burns to herbody after an accident around a campfire whenshe was nine. She lost her ear and breasts, herneck was fused to her chest and she was luckyto have survived the accident.

Now, decades later, the British survivor hasinvented her very own treatment and launched anew business with her 25-year-old daughter.

Their cream ‘Sea Creme’ is a mix of sea salt,carrot seed oil and beeswax, and was created af-ter she realised her scars felt softer following adip in the sea.

Working alongside scientists at Star Labora-tory, she developed ‘Sea Creme’ which went onsale in January.

She has 10,000 pots ready to go and plans topitch to UK high street stores Boots and Super-drug.

Burns victimcreates her owntreatmentcream

NO time to exercise? Don’tworry, just do the housework.

A new study has found thatdoing the household choresburns more than 2,000 caloriesa week with cleaning the bathand doing the washing able toamount to the equivalent of do-ing a gym session.

Scrubbing the bathCleaning the bath with a bit

of added elbow grease for 15minutes can burn up to 100calories, which is roughly thesame as 30 jumping squats.This chore is great for toningarms and shoulder muscles.

LaundryLoading and unloading the

washing machine, hanging upthe clothes and putting themaway, doing the laundry canburn 78 calories which is thesame as doing 100 sit-ups.

Washing upScrubbing away at the dishes

can burn over 500 calories overa week if you spend 15 minutesdoing it every night, around thesame as swimming 2,500m.

HooveringGiving your carpets a good

clean can burn 90 calories inhalf an hour, which is the sameas 15 minutes of kick-boxing.Mopping and sweeping

Cleaning the floors for 30minutes can burn 145 calories.

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My doctor says this isnormal at my age (65) andthat I shouldn’t worry aboutit, however my children tellme I can’t go on like this asit could be dangerous, forexample they say I can’thear properly when I’m dri-ving. Who is right?

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our bodies which aremost affected by the pass-ing of time is our ears,causing loss of hearingwhich is often minor butin some cases can affectnormal daily life.

It can be quite danger-ous under certain circum-stances, such as while dri-ving, as drivers must beable to hear properly toavoid causing harm tothemselves and/or others.

I think you should beevaluated by an ear, noseand throat specialist and

also get yourself checkedout at a drivers’ medicalcentre to see whether youcan continue driving ornot.

Reader continues:I also hear a ringing

sound in my ears whichcomes and goes, why isthis? Am I going to need ahearing aid?

Doctor replies:- Ringing sounds are

usually a consequence ofan abnormal functioningof the inner ear, which isnot always linked to a lossof hearing. There are cer-tain exercises and train-ing which, along withmedication, can help re-duce the intensity of thesesounds.

If your hearing loss isimportant and stops youleading a normal dailylife, you should go to aspecialist doctor who willconsider whether a hear-ing aid would help youhear better. Occasionally,depending on the cause, itis impossible to recoverlost hearing but only aspecialist at a medicalcentre can ascertain this.

SPECIALIST: Doctor Luis Perez Belmonte.

This week one of our readers has asked the doctorabout hearing loss.

HouseworkexerciseDO the household chores toachieve your workout goals

DOING THE WASHING: Equivalent of doing a gym session.

AS the most-voted candidate inthe December gene ra l e l ec -tions, acting president MarianoRajoy was invited by the Kingto form a government as cus-tom demands.

Rajoy decl ined, aware thathe wouldn’t survive an investi-ture debate. Having lost twogene ra l e l ec t ions be fo re h i s2011 t r iumph, he wasn’t pre-pared to set out on a hiding tonothing.

What Rajoy neither wantednor expec ted was the King’sdecision to ask Pedro Sanchez,the PSOE candidate, to give ithis best shot or for Sanchez toaccept. Political sources hintthat discreet pressure was put

on the Zarzuela Palace not todo so.

Until now Rajoy’s ‘wait and

see and do as little as possible’strategy has stood him in goodstead on the home front. This

time he overestimated its valueand he definitely underestimat-ed Felipe VI.

Plus ça change... RICHARD FORD was an Eng-

lish gentleman who lived in Sevillabetween1830 and 1833. Whilst therehe travelled extensively throughoutSpain and wrote in great detail abouthis experiences. Discussing the ban-dits and bandoleers supposedly rifeon Spanish roads he claimed neverto have encountered one. “They aremore easily found in government of-fices and ministries,” he maintained.That’s something that hasn’tchanged, then.

NamesakesIT is agreed that there are only

eight authentically Basque surnamesand a recent study by the ex-rector ofthe Universidad del Pais Vascoclaimed that they were “excessivelyrepresented” in Basque politics.That’s a bit like complaining thatblue sea is product placement for thePartido Popular.

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

Delaying tactics delayedHAVING lost two general elections, Rajoy wasn’t prepared to set out on a hiding to nothing

ROSA DIEZ: Has requested a dignified end for the party.

ROSA DIEZ resigned fromUnion, Progreso y Democracia(UPyD) which she co-founded in2007 after leaving the PSOE indisgust.

The party won five seats in thenational parliament in 2011, butsince then it was downhill all theway until last December when, up-staged by Ciudadanos, UPyD wonno seats at all.

Diez has now requested a “dig-nified end” for the party althoughsadly everyone else assumed thatit had already gone to the greatpolling station in the sky long ago.

Time to say goodbye

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THE Teatre Principal of Palma has launched a series of guided tourson Saturdays for the general public.

This behind-the-scenes tour allows visitors to take a close look atdifferent parts of the theatre including the stage, machinery anddressing rooms and also tells them some of the history of the build-ing. The cost of the tour is €5 and will be offered until May 28.

The Teatre Principal is located in Palma at Carrer de la Riera, 2A.

THE Museu d’Historia of Manacor (Manacor Museum of History)will be offering an exhibition on the Mallorcan Joan Binimelis, wholived from 1539 to 1616.

The exhibition entitled ‘Un Manacori del Renaixement’ (a Mana-cor man of the Renaissance) will be on display until April 14. Ad-mission is free. The museum is open Monday to Saturday from10am to 2pm and 5pm to 7.30pm and on Sundays from 10.30am to1pm. It is closed on Tuesdays. For information, call 971 843 065.

A GROUP of 20 students from theMusic Conservatory in Palma will jointhe Balearic Symphony Orchestra thisseason for a total of three concerts.

The students form part of the Or-chestra Academy and will receive agrant from the Symphony Orchestrawhich they can apply to the cost oftheir tuition. According to studentMaria del Mar Rodriguez, the grant isa great incentive for students whowork hard learning to play different in-struments.

The first concert in which the stu-dents collaborated was GustavMahler’s Resurrection performed onJanuary 28. Their next performance isscheduled for March 17 in the PalmaAuditorium followed by the third per-formance on April 14.

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SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA: Students will perform three concertswith the Balearic Symphony Orchestra.

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BH MALLORCA will behosting three big performersfor the 2016 summer sea-son.

American electro housemusician and music produc-er Steve Aoki will be thefirst to perform on June 16.He will return again later inthe summer on August 2.

Aoki’s first performancewill be followed by two per-formances by Englishsinger songwriter JessGlynne on June 21 and July19. Glynne is the secondBritish female solo artist tohave five number-one sin-gles in the UK.

One of the most famousDJs of our day, David Guet-ta, will be performing at BHMallorca on August 7.Guetta, who has sold ninemillion albums and 30 mil-lion singles worldwide, wasvoted #1 DJ in the DJ MagTop DJs fan poll.

More performances willbe announced in the weeksto come. For information onperformances and visitingartists, go to BH Mallorca’swebsite.

PORT ADRIANO is hosting the first ever short film contest in aSpanish port. The competition is a way of promoting the audio-visu-al world and gives both professional and amateur filmmakers theopportunity to show their talents. Finalists will receive €10,000 inprizes making it one of the best contests of its kind on the nationalscene. For more information, go to Port Adriano’s webpage:www.portadriano.com/en/events/concurso-de-cortos

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Short film contestA WAY of promoting audio-visual world

FILM CONTEST ORGANISERS: from left to right: JavierPachon (CineCiutat), Pablo Valera e Isabel Teruel (PortAdriano), Carlos Hellin (RECBLAU), Pere Fullana (ESADIB).

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V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E W W W . E U R O W E E K L Y N E W S . C O M www.euroweeklynews.comPROPERTYTO READ MORE

PROPERTY experts in Spain estimatethat when buying a property it is essen-tial to add an extra rough amount of 8per cent if buying outright, to 15 percent if using a mortgage, to the purchas-ing price in order to fully account for theextra costs associated with closing thedeal. There are a great deal of intangi-bles to consider which depend largely onthe region and the nature of the propertyitself.

Whether the building is new or usedwill determine whether and what level ofVAT you will have to pay and alsowhether stamp duty applies, the amountvarying across provinces. New housingis classed in a complex fashion and willrequire VAT and stamp duty (AJD),while used housing is not taxed with ei-ther, but will incur the transfer tax (ITP).

This also varies according to region,from highs of 10 per cent of the value ofthe sale in Catalonia, to lows of four inthe Basque Country. There are different

schemes for special circumstances likelarge families or those with disabilities.

Land registry and notaries will createextra costs and will be significantly

higher for those with mortgages whowill incur all kinds of agency fees anddemands embedded in the mortgagecontract.

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HOME sales in Spain grew by 11.1 percent in 2015, marking the largest yearly re-bound in the eight years since the begin-ning of the global recession. It was a muchhigher than anticipated performance fol-lowing on from 2014 which had registereda more modest 2 per cent increase.

A grand total of 354,132 homeschanged hands over the course of the year.The figures are being received with mod-erate optimism from economists whopoint out that in 2007 more than 775,000homes were sold, and that the current fig-ures are still much closer to a catastrophic

2013 which saw 312,593 sales. The mar-ket is considered to be in much betterhealth and in more of a standardisationprocess than forming a new bubble.

Used homes represented 78 per cent ofall housing transactions and saw a 37.2 percent increase, while new building sales ac-tually dropped 33.7 per cent to just 77,865purchases. Valencia and the Balearics reg-istered the most sales per 100,000 inhabi-tants. Andalucia saw the most overall withmore than 70,000 sales executed, far ex-ceeding both Catalonia and Madrid whichclocked in just above 50,000 each.

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FALLING in love is a very personalthing, you fall in love with someonebecause you find the person particu-larly attractive for one or several rea-sons and some reasons are more im-portant than others.

The majority of buyers buy a prop-erty because they literally fall in lovewith it! Will buyers fall in love withyour property?

If you’re selling your property youwill want buyers to fall in love withyour property, it’s not easy and forthe buyer it’s the same as falling inlove with a person, it’s very personal.

Every buyer is different and willfall in love with a property if theproperty is attractive to them in oneor several ways.

With many years of experience in

selling and buying properties inSpain, my job is to make sure that Iknow as much as possible aboutwhat the buyer will want to buy andmatch the buyer’s requirements witha selection of properties which areclose to what they want or love.

Buyers could be looking for prop-erty in the city close to schools, a

holiday resort close to the beach, agolf location with a protected envi-ronment, or gated community for ex-tra security, the choice is endless.

Most people in the property indus-try would say people buy because lo-cation, location, location, is every-thing.

Which is true up to a point but it

oversimplifies thinking behind whybuyers fall in love with a property.

In my experience, most buyershave a picture of what they are look-ing for, they normally have precon-ceived ideas of what they want anddon’t want their dream home to belike and when they see somethingthat is close to their mental picture,

it’s love at first sight and they buy it. Of course the buyers’ financial

budget is an important factor and willbe different for every buyer, but witha little compromise, the buyer canstill fall in love with a property, eventhough it’s not 100 per cent perfect.

One recent study asked buyerswhat they looked for when buyingtheir dream home and the resultsshow the location is first, followedby the price, the exterior and interiorappearance, the living area, thekitchen, the master bedroom, naturallight, design features, decoration andsafety.

They say that for every personlooking to fall in love there is a per-fect match somewhere, I think it’s thesame with buying property, there is aproperty waiting, for a buyer to love.

If you are selling your propertycontact me, we have buyers from theUK, looking for their dream home inSpain.

John Graham / gk.ipad@me.com

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Falling in love with your propertyMOST buyers have a picture of what they are looking for and studies show that location is top choice

ROMEO, ROMEO: Falling in love is a very personal thing and that includes property.

DUBAI based real estate developer, Cayan,has announced its intention to enter the Span-ish market onboard a collaborative projectwith Spanish outfit Sarena near Marbella onthe Costa del Sol.

The group are behind the twisted 307 metreCayan tower which dominates the Dubai sky-

line and have highlighted the lucrative Euro-pean market as their new target for expansion.

Sarena has decades of experience workingin the Marbella region and having carved out astrong national reputation is looking to recip-rocally enter the highly profitable Middle-Eastmarket.

Market exchange

BEFORE I start this, I have to say that I likechildren. Well, let me qualify this, I like well-behaved children. The ones I’m not too fondof are the ones that are allowed to do whatthey like, when they like, where they like,with parents that do not give a monkeys whatinconvenience it causes others.

Come to think of it it’s not the children thattick me off; it’s the parents that let two-plus-year-olds run round a restaurant screaming ateach other.

The parents sit there totally oblivious of thenoise. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t behaving fun. They should be, but not at the ex-pense of the other punters. Then all of a sud-den, they decide they have had enough andstart yelling at the child which then starts thepoor little so and so crying and screaming andthen mum or dad start shouting even more.

Then the idle threats start. “If you don’tstop I’m sending you on the next plane backto England!” You can almost see the child

thinking “No you aren’t! I’m five... you haveto come up with something more believablethan that... but in meantime I’ll just carry onscreaming.”

I was in a supermarket recently and therewas a woman with a five or six-year-old childand he was kicking off like a thing possessedand she was totally ignoring him. Obviouslyshe had read somewhere that this is the cor-rect way to deal with this situation, but I haveto tell you, even though I’m no expert it’s not!

At that point a woman walked up to herand said, “Excuse me, can you control yourchild or at least stop and ask him what’swrong.” Well, all of a sudden it became quiteapparent where this small person developedhis temper because his mum went berserk atthis woman telling her, in no uncertain terms,to mind her own business.

But what did happen was the child, all of asudden, stopped screaming to watch his mumtake over the tantrum. I walked off and leftthem all but having a full blown punch up.

My last plea is to the passengers on air-craft. It is not acceptable to let your little pre-cious constantly kick the back of my seat andyes I will turn round and I will ask you to getthem to stop and no it’s not their fault or mineit’s YOURS!

Mike SenkerIn my opinionViews of a Grumpy Old Man

It’s the parents,not the children!

ALL traffic rules and laws are aimed at onething; to make the roads a safer place. Thepenalties associated with infractions aremostly intended to be a deterrent, which iswhy repeat offenders in some cases faceharsher penalties.

Following on from our article last week,here are some more of the most commontraffic offences, and the fines and sanctionsfor committing them:

Offence: Failing to respect the priority ofpedestrians

Pedestrians are the most vulnerable of allroad users and so need the most protection.Failing to respect the priority of pedestriansand the fact they take precedence will resultin a fine and, depending on the potential riskto those pedestrians, the loss of four points.

Fine: €200 Offence: Failing to give way.Junctions are dangerous places. Vehicles

which have priority and are already movingmix with other vehicles which try to join theflow but at generally lower speeds. Forcingany vehicle to deviate from its course, speedor direction creates a hazard which is dan-gerous. Failing to give way to another vehi-cle when that vehicle has priority and forcingthem to brake or manoeuvre sharply will re-sult in a fine and the loss of points.

Fine: €200 and the loss of four pointsOffence: Driving on a motorway in a pro-

hibited vehicle.Vehicles which are unable to reach a mini-

mum threshold of speed are banned becauseif a slower vehicle is in the path of one mov-ing at high speed there is less time to dealwith that hazard. Driving on a motorway in aprohibited vehicle, such as a horse or handdrawn vehicle, a cycle or moped for exam-ple, will result in a fine.

Fine: €200

Your logic is im-peccable. The

‘plus valia’ tax is indeedvery similar to the capitalgains tax. We must dig alittle deeper however. Thenational capital gains taxis charged on the profitmade when a person sellsan asset. If there is no

profit there is no tax. The‘plus valia’ is a municipaltax which is charged everytime a property changeshands. It is based on the

length of time which haspassed between the ex-changes, not on any profit.It is even charged on aninheritance. This tax isusually low, but if a prop-erty has been held by thesame owner for manyyears, it can be substan-tial.

I read your article in a recentedition of the Euro Weekly re-

garding Spanish Capital Gains Tax,with your explanation for exemptionfor the over 65s who sell their principalresidence. Surely the ‘Plus Valia’ Tax is

also a Capital Gains Tax, but this tax istaken by town halls even when a prop-erty seller over 65 qualifies for CapitalGains exemption. Can you explainthis? 

P R (Costa del Sol)

LEGALLY SPEAKING

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What exactly is ‘plus valia’ tax?

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates inFuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

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

BELOW are some other common traffic offences

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PEDESTRIAN SAFETY: Pedestrians are vulnerable and need protection.

ALTHOUGH it is still offi-cially winter, there has beenan almost seamless transi-tion from a mild autumn tothe beginning of spr ing,without a real winter, so thespring explosion of colourfrom trees, shrubs, perenni-als , annuals and bulbs iscoming early.

The ear l ies t f loweringtrees include deciduoustrees such as pears, quince,cherry, apricots and ever-green citruses. Plant orange,mandarin and lemon trees inthe garden and the springair wil l be f i l led with thesweet scent of the profusehatch of white f lowers .Plant a ‘Luna’ lemon andyou can achieve a similareffect every s ix to e ightweeks of the year, but on asmaller scale.

Then there are the morespectacular mid and la tespring flowering trees suchas the call istemon (bottlebrush t ree) , oleander,jacaranda, magnolia, schi-nus (mock pepper tree), the

spring flowering mimosa,phi ladelphus (mock or-ange), viburnum, the minia-ture and full size waxy redflowered pomegranate andshowy tamarisks.

Below and around thetrees one can plant ear lyflowering bushes and climb-ing shrubs, such as camel-l ias , yel low brooms, lowgrowing purple lantanas andplumbago.

These will be closely fol-lowed by bougainvil leas,solanums, wisteria, honey-suckle, hibiscus, the tallerred, orange and yellow lan-tanas , rock roses , and ofcourse roses if you have asuitable soil rich in humusand water retaining.

Moving down to smallerplants, a dedicated bed ofperennials or plants mixedin with shrubs can give a

very colourful display. Tryplanting the elegant bird ofparadise flower (strelitzia),echium with its impressiveleaves and spires of blue orwhite flowers, purple, redand yellow margaritas, bril-l iant coloured rudbeckiasand valerian with continu-ous pink flowerings.

Traditionally spring wasthe time to plant geraniumsalready in f lower, but the

need to spraythem weeklyagainst thedreaded gerani-um moth from theday you purchase them, hasled many gardeners to stopbuying them. Less trouble-some are gazanias andmesembryanthemums.

In the herb garden rose-mary, thyme, sage and ruewill start to flower as will

f lower succulents on arockery or in terrace pots.

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THERE has been an almost seamless transition from a mild autumn to the beginning of spring

LEMONS: Will fill the air with a sweet scent.

Is it time for a springmakeover at home?IF we are to listen to the latest style gurus, they tell us that gold isthe new black when it comes to making our homes ‘Instagram per-fect.’ Whether it’s to help sell the house or just for a springmakeover, apparently, this season we should ‘Go for the Gold.’

Bye-bye brushed nickel and patinated bronze, glittering gold istaking centre stage. From lighting fixtures to gilded furniture, thishot hue has taken the design world by storm. Even a few smalltouches like swapping out kitchen cabinet hardware or working in afew gleaming accessories will give your home an on-trend update.

It would seem that designers have fallen back in love with colour.But, like anything, too much of a good thing can be, well, too much.To create a pleasing palette, limit your main colours to three.

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PUPPIES are adorable withtheir softness, big eyes and lov-able ways! For sure, everyoneloves puppies but these cuddly,furry creatures require so muchcare, especially at home. Hereis some important informationon housetraining your puppy:

Feeding Feed your puppy with a su-

perior brand of dry puppy food.Do not give him table scrapsand as much as possible, do notchange brands. If you need tochange, introduce gradually

over a period of four to sevendays.

Do not feed him with tinnedfood as it loosens stools andmakes housetraining more dif-ficult. An hour after eating,most puppies will defecate soyou can control his eliminationtime based on your feedingschedule.

Close SupervisionIn order to housetrain your

puppy, you have to supervisehim at all times especially whenoutside his crate or newspapercovered area. When he startssniffing the floor, circling orrunning around, he is givingsigns that he needs to eliminateso bring him immediately toyour properly designated area.

If your puppy defecates inthe wrong place, stop him bysaying NO in a loud and as-sertive tone. Apply deodoriseron places where he eliminated.Confinement

When your puppy is leftalone in your home it is recom-

mended that he be placed in acrate or confined area. Confine-ment is a good way to keepyour puppy safe and preventhousetraining accidents.

However, it should not beused as a form of punishment.Isolating pets for a long timecan be detrimental to them.Confinement can be the sourceof behavioural problems likeexcessive barking, self-mutila-tion, digging and hyperactivity.

Puppies also need the essen-tials like exercise, daily com-panionship and playtime.

Safety zone, grey zone anddanger zone

In a puppy’s daily life, thereis a thing called temporary‘safety zone.’ It is the time theowner can trust the puppy tohold his urine after he has defe-cated or was taken for a walk.

Do not let your puppy drinka lot of water during this time.Grey zones and danger zonesare those outside this safetyzone.

THEY need a lot of care, especially at home

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AT the recent Miami Beach su-peryacht exhibition, the Italianshipyard Baglietto unveiled anew Explorer line to comple-ment their existing superyachtmodels. According to the com-pany, the 48 metre Explorerwill offer very high spec capa-bilities and has been designedto be able to cope equally withperiods at anchor or at sea.

With construction due to startsoon, the superyacht promisesplenty of space for the ownerand guests as well as the crewand there are well designed‘nooks’ in which tenders andrecreational craft can be stored.

Assuming it will not spendtoo much time in cold or rainyweather, there is an open sun-deck lounging area, a jacuzziand sophisticated bar and din-ing area.

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A QUARTET of British womenhave been rescued after capsizing inthe middle of the Atlantic Ocean intheir quest to break a rowing speedrecord across the vast expanse ofdangerous waters.

They were 400 nautical milesfrom Cape Verde on the WestAfrican coast when their boat flippedover and they lost some of their oarsas well as their GPS. They activatedan emergency beacon and werestranded for 16 hours before eventu-ally being rescued by a bulk carriership destined for Canada early onSaturday February 13.

Gemma Chalk, Clare Lanyon,Jane McIntosh and Olivia Wilsonhad sought to break the women’sspeed record for rowing the 3,000mile journey from Gran Canaria to

Barbados. With few oars, no naviga-tion system and after capsizing sev-eral times they were forced to aban-don their quest, which was raisingfunds for charity.

UK Coastguard duty controller IanGuy said: “The rowers were an ex-tremely long way from land with noother vessels in the immediate vicini-ty. We received several responses toour mayday request, the nearest ves-sel being 90 nautical miles away.They quickly diverted and set courseto the stricken rowers, taking 11hours to reach them.

“This shows you how important itis to be prepared for your voyage andhave several means of contacting thecoastguard or raising an alarm, evenif you are not in UK waters. Thank-fully the rowers are now on board theship and all are reported to be well.”

TO run alongside the celebrations of the LasPalmas Carnival, the Real Club Nautico deGran Canaria hosted the 4th Carnival Regattawhich ran from February 12 to 14 and attractedLaser standard craft from all over Europe.

This was a perfect test for those intending to

compete in the European Championship whichwill also be held at the club in the last regatta ofthe winter season between February 26 andMarch 4. There were a few upsets with theworld champion from Britain Nick Thompsonfinishing in third place.

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Four women rowers trying to beatcurrent record rescued in Atlantic

SETTING OFF: The four women in their vessel embarking on their voyage.

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THE Renault-Nissan Al-liance sold 8,528,887 vehi-cles in 2015, up almost 1 percent from the previous year,thanks to record sales in theUnited States, China and Eu-rope.

Combined sales for theworld’s fourth largest cargroup, which includes Re-nault Group, Nissan MotorCo Ltd and Russia’s AVTO-VAZ, held steady from thecalendar year 2014, despitesharp declines in the overallRussian and Brazilian mar-kets.

Renault, Nissan and AV-TOVAZ, Russia’s largest au-tomaker, account for aboutone in 10 cars sold world-wide.

Renault-Nissanstaysstrong AFTER the successful 2015 season

when it took overall victory in LeMans and won the constructors’and drivers’ World Championshiptitles, Porsche finds itself in the roleof the title defenders in 2016.

Accordingly, the two Porsche 919Hybrids with around 900 hp will

carry the starting numbers one andtwo. This was confirmed at lastweek’s press conference in Paris bythe Le Mans organisers, the Auto-mobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), andthe FIA World Endurance Champi-onship (WEC).

Team Principal Andreas Seidl

said: “Competing with the startingnumbers one and two is an honourand a challenge at the same time.

“We expect even stronger compe-tition in 2016, but still want to beable to fight for race victories andtry to defend our titles. In Februaryour intensive test and training pro-

gramme kicked off in Abu Dhabi.”However, for Porsche’s third sea-

son since their return to the presti-gious top category of Le Mans pro-totypes, the cutting-edge 919Hybrids will be running with thesame basic chassis structure andpowertrain concept.

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You don’t get paint on a TVR, it’s woad. And instead of being made from steel or aluminium, it’swattle and daub. It’s an Iron Age fort with a Bronze Age engine. It’s Boudica, only with less femi-ninity and more rage in its heart. Some might say...

Porsche on a roll at Le MansTWO 919 Hybrids will carry the starting numbers one and two

TOP CATEGORY: The cutting-edgePorsche 919 Hybrid.

THE countdown to the 86thGeneva International MotorShow has begun, and Mazdawill be there again with twoEuropean premieres for the2016 event, the award-winningMazda RX-VISION conceptand a fun, new low-emissionMazda3 in combination with

the SKYACTIV-D 1.5 cleandiesel.

The RX-VISION conceptputs a stunning new form toMazda’s illustrious heritage of

rotary powered sports cars.Linking with the company’sone-of-a-kind range of RX-badged production models, theRX-VISION is a shining sym-

bol of Mazda’s challenger spir-it as the only carmaker to eversucceed on the market with therotary engine.

The SKYACTIV-D 1.5-

powered Mazda3, meanwhile,adds a new dimension to theaward-winning compact withthe most fuel-efficient versionof Mazda’s all-time bestselling

model ever offered in Europe. The latest edition of the

lightweight powerplant en-hances both fun and comfortcare of a faster, more linear en-gine response to accelerator in-put as well as new dynamicdampers built into each pistonfor a smoother, quieter engine.

Mazda cars on show

THE new BMW M2 Coupe sets the bench-mark in the segment of rich boy racerscompact high-performance sports carswhen it comes to driving dynamics and per-formance, and now you can make it looklike it as well.

Its extrovert design further underscoresthe car’s highly dynamic character and out-standing suitability for the race track. FromMarch 2016, the dynamic qualities and thevisual appearance of the BMW M2 Coupecan be further enhanced with the newly pre-sented range of BMW M PerformanceParts.

They comprise components derivedfrom motor racing for the areas ofaerodynamics, engine, cockpit andsuspension which not only lookgreat, they do the job too.

The very extensive range of aero-dynamic components made of car-bon fibre will include front and side

sill attachments, rear diffuser and mirrorcaps that are perfectly harmonised in theiraerodynamic effect, and beef up the ‘meanlook’ of the compact high-performancesports car.

You can even make it sound more mon-strous with the M Performance flap silencersystem, which makes for more intense en-

gine sound. Its two operating modes Sportand Track can even be set by Bluetooth re-mote control.

The BMW M Performance coil-springsuspension package will optimise roadholding and handling with a fully adjustablefive to 20mm lowering system.

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NEW: BMW M2 Coupe.

FOOTBALL• In the Premiership last

Sunday, Liverpool inflictedupon ‘hopeless’ and seeming-ly doomed Aston Villa theirheaviest home defeat for 81years with a 6-0 victory… Ar-senal scored very late to beatleaders Leicester City 2-1 asdid second-placed TottenhamHotspur who beat fadingManchester City by the samescore at The

Etihad Stadium. • Twenty-four hours earlier,

improving Chelsea whackeddismal Newcastle United 5-1… Sunderland stunned Man-chester United 2-1… WBAwon 1-0 at Goodison Park de-spite having only 25 per centof the play while Everton had34 attempts at goal… thenStoke City (3-1 at AFCBournemouth), Southampton(1-0 at struggling Swansea)and Watford (2-1 at CrystalPalace) also won on the roadand resilient West Ham Unit-ed earned a 2-2 draw at Nor-wich.

• Hull City won 2-0 atBlackburn to go top of theChampionship ahead of Mid-dlesbrough … Nigel Clough’s

Burton Albion andN o r t h a m p t o nTown leadLeagues 1 and2… Celtic head

the SPL… and CF Barcelona,with a new club record of 30matches unbeaten now se-cured, remain in pole positionin La Liga after hammeringCelta Vigo 6-1. Real Madrid,4-1 winners over Athletic Bil-bao, stand second.

• On Tuesday, the first legof the Champions League last16 encounter betweenChelsea and Paris St Germaintook place in France; lastnight AS Roma met RealMadrid in the same compet-tion.

• This evening, it’s Augs-burg v Liverpool, Fiorentinav Spurs, Midtyjlland v Man-chester United and holdersSevilla v Molde in the firstlegs of the round of 32 in thelong-running Europa League.

• There are eight5th round FA

Cup-ties com-ing up: Arsenal

v Hull City, AFCBournemouth v Everton,Reading v WBA and Watfordv Leeds United on Saturday;Blackburn Rovers v WestHam, Chelsea v ManchesterCity and Spurs v CrystalPalace on Sunday, followedby the minnows of Shrews-bury Town against Manches-ter United on Monday.

• Also this weekend,Brighton & Hove Albion,Burnley, out-of-sorts DerbyCounty and Middlesbroughwill be chasing vital ‘promo-tion’ points in the Champi-onship; Southend United vBurton and Walsall v WiganAthletic are the two biggames in FL1, while in FL2it’s Crawley Town v Ply-mouth Argyle and leadersNorthampton Town vWycombe Wanderers.

• Former England interna-tional Adam Johnson hasbeen sacked by Sunderlandafter pleading guilty togrooming and sexual activity

with a child.• And for those interest-ed, on Saturday, New-

castle Unit-ed play Swedish side Lille-stroem in a friendly at the LaManga golf complex (free ad-mission).

RUGBY UNION• The three latest Six Na-

tions matches saw Englandcrush Italy 40-9 in Rome,Wales beat Scotland 27-23 inCardiff (their ninth win in arow over the Scots) andFrance stun reigning champi-ons Ireland 10-9 in a ‘bruis-

ing battle’ inParis.

• It’s still Saracens, ExeterChiefs and Leicester Tigers 1-2-3 in the Aviva Champi-onship and Ulster, Connachtand Leinster likewise in thepro-12 League.

RUGBY LEAGUE• Hull FC ran in seven tries

as they won 38 points to 10 atCatalan Dragons to shoot tothe top of the Super League,ahead of Wigan Warriors.

CRICKET• England won the first two

ODIs in South Africa but thenlost the next three and with itthe five-match series by 3-2.Despite excellent centuries byJoe Root and Alex Hales inmatches four and five, skip-

per Eoin Morgan, Jos But-tler, Jason Roy andMoeen Ali all failed asEngland simply did not

register enough runsin those final twofixtures. There aretwo T20 matchesstill remaining.

CYCLING• The ‘Manx

Machine’ fromthe Isle of Man,

Mark Cavendish, won thefirst ‘big’ race of the year,The Tour of Qatar , and saidafterwards: “I’m back ontrack and ready to collectmore medals. Bring on Rio!”

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

WINS for England, Wales and France

RUGBY: Englandcrushed Italy 40-9in Rome.

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR: Beat a fading Manchester City.

St Valentine’s Day massacres inRome and at Villa Park!

LIVERPOOL: Had a 6-0 victoryover Aston Villa.

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THE El Toro RC U18 team had theopportunity for much-needed matchpractice in a friendly game against RCComplutense Cisneros at the weekend.

After heavy rain in Madrid duringthe week the pitch was very muddywhich made play difficult and bothteams struggled to be accurate. Thematch was dominated by the forwardsand was a win for the visitors by 35points to 15.

Baleares Senior LeagueBahia RC had a surprise win follow-

ing a tough match against last year’sLeague winners, RC Ponent in s’Arra-co, narrowly beating them by 22 pointsto 24. In the game between Corsaris /Dimonis combined team and TRUCMenorca, the locals began asfavourites and were superior through-out the match.

It was too much for an injury hitmenorquin team to keep up the paceand they lost by 55 points to six.

In the other Senior League match atthe weekend Shamrock RC played ex-tremely well against visiting teamIbiza RFC who were disadvantaged byonly being able to field 14 players.This gave Shamrock RC the chance to

show how they are improving and as aresult of some accurate play won by 43points to 15.

Rugby day in Son RocaIn the U14 tournament held in Son

Roca, the El Toro RC team had suffi-

cient players for the second time.Theylost their match against Trepitjadorsfrom Binassalem but continue workingon their game plan.

In the younger categories, El ToroRC present two teams in both the U8

and U10 categories and one for theU12. As always, the youngsters triedtheir best and showed tremendous en-thusiasm.

A day to promote rugby for girlswas held in Manacor with players fromCorsaris RFC, Shamrock RC and Di-monis RC taking part to recruit morefemale players to the sport.

Coming up next weekIn the Senior Men’s League, El Toro

RC will host RC Ponent, whilst Sham-rock RFC travels to play TRUCMenorca. Bahia RC could have atough match against top of the leagueCorsaris / Dimonis combined team,and it is Ibiza RC’s turn to rest and re-cuperate.

The next Flag Rugby tournamenttakes place in San Ferran on Saturdaymorning and the younger players havethe opportunity to play in the next legof the Michel Rodier League for theU16 and U18 teams.

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A muddy match for El ToroRC U18 team in Madrid

EL TORO RC: After heavy rain the pitch was very muddy which made play difficult.

EX-REAL Betis star Trifon Ivanov, who won 77 caps for Bulgaria, has died,aged 50.