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Officials say an unknownnumber of homes havebeen destroyed and afirefighter has beeninjured in the state ofVictoria.

Some residents havebeen ordered to leave andflames have spread tothe outer suburbs ofAustralia's second biggestcity, Melbourne.

Wildfires havedestroyed at least 20homes in Australia'sVictoria state whereauthorities said conditions

are at their worst since2009. Then an infernokilled 173 people anddestroyed about 2,000homes in a disasterdubbed Black Saturday.

It was Australia'sdeadliest natural disasterof the modern era.

Dennis Napthine,Victoria state premier,said: "At this stage wehave no evidence of loss oflife which is a great effortby the firefighters and allemergency services, and atthis stage we have no

evidence of serious injury.That's first and foremostour priority – protection oflife."

Fire crews said theysaved about 550 propertiesfrom an intense blaze atsuburban Keilor, nearMelbourne's airport.

Rob Purcell from theMetropolitan Fire Brigadesaid: "It was very hardfor us to initially get thatfire to stop due to the factthat the winds wereblowing up towards theairport."

One man told the ABCthat fast-moving flameshad cut off his evacuationroute, forcing him to stayand defend his propertynear Forbes, north ofMelbourne.

Homes have been lost

in the Melbourne suburbsof Warrandyte andMickleham, and inGisborne some 30 milesnorth-west of the city.

Mr Napthine said helpwas available for anyoneimpacted by the wildfires:

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"The Victoriangovernment has anassistance package inplace that will be rolledout immediately for thosepeople who have lost theirhomes."

More than 70 fires areburning across Victoriaand 15 emergencywarnings are in effect.Emergency crews are alsofighting blazes in SouthAustralia and New SouthWales.

Global warming

Vast wildfires arecommon in Australia'sDecember-Februarysummer months, and lastyear's fanned a globalwarming debate.

According to Australia'sBureau of Meteorology,they followed the country'shottest year on record,which gave the firesa political edge.Environmentalists havereferred to Australia asthe Petri dish of climatechange, a place wherethe global warming"experiment" is actualitybeing tested out in reality.

Australia's newconservative PrimeMinister Tony Abbott wasreluctant to accept thatview. A volunteerfirefighter himself whogave up his day job to manthe hoses on occasion, oncedescribed the sciencebehind human-inducedclimate change as"absolute crap".

Bushfires sweep across south-east Australia

The ruling PartidoPopular (PP) standsalone in its attempt toseverely restrict theapplication of universaljustice in Spain. Allother political groups inParliament oppose thisinitiative, and madethat quite clearduring Tuesday’s plenarysession.

The government wantsto curtail this legalprinciple, which allowsSpanish courts to tryforeigners for crimescommitted abroad, inorder to end the diplomaticconflicts it has created.It is especially keento appease Chineseauthorities – Spain's High

Court has beguninvestigating topCommunist Party officials,including former presidentJiang Zemin, for crimesagainst humanity inTibet.

This past Monday, thecourt issued aninternational arrestwarrant against Zemin.The opposition claims thatthe PP’s initiative is sorestrictive that it will alsolimit the ability of lawenforcers to seize drugshipments out at sea,fight female genitalmutilation and pursuepaedophiles.

It will also lead to thedismissal of the

investigation into theApril 2003 death of aSpanish cameraman inIraq, José Couso, afterUS soldiers fired atthe hotel he was stayingin.

The plans have alsobeen criticised by asignificant number ofSpanish judges andinternational organisationssuch as Human RightsWatch and AmnestyInternational which haveissued statementsreminding Spain of theagreements it has signedwith other countries, andlamenting what they seeas political interferencewith the independence ofthe justice system.

Ruling party alonein bid to eliminateuniversal justice

Mr Abbott saidfire had alwaysbeen part of theAustralianexperience andlisted a whole hostof major firesacross the countrystretching backmore than acentury. Hiscomments drewthe ire ofenvironmentalists.

The former US vicepresident and climatechange campaigner, Al

Gore, said denying thelink between the fires andglobal warming was likeclaiming smoking didn'tcause lung cancer.

Mr Abbot has sincerefined his opinions andnow accepts globalwarming is happening.


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1912six year old Hsian-T’Ung,

the last Chinese Emperor, abdicated,ending 267 years of Manchu rule

Prosecutor seeks 19 yearsfor princess’s husbandAfter Princess Cristina’sappearance in court inPalma de Mallorca onSaturday, the anticorruptionprosecutor in the Nóosinvestigation, PedroHorrach, said she shouldnot be implicated in thebusiness dealings of herhusband, former Olympichandball medalist IñakiUrdangarin, and that overhalf of the 40 officialsuspects in the case shouldnot face charges.

But he went on toask for a prison sentenceof 19 years for Urdangarinand 15 years for hisformer business partnerDiego Torres. They areboth charged withembezzlement, falsifyingdocuments, tax fraud andother financial crimes. Asfor Princess Christina,Horrach said he willrecommend she pays€600,000 in civil liabilityfor being co-owner of thereal estate firm Aizoon,one of the companies usedby Urdangarin and intowhich he pumped €1.7million of illicit money.

Horrach said CarlosGarcía Revenga, the royalsecretary to PrincessCristina and her eldersister, Elena, should faceno charges, and neithershould Torres’ wife, AnaMaría Tejeiro.

Trusted her husband

Cristina arrived at thePalma de Mallorcacourthouse just before 10on Saturday, smiling andnodding at a barrageof photographers keptbehind a rail by police asshe got out of the car thatdelivered her to theback entrance of thecourthouse. At the frontentrance to the court,around 200 protestersyelling insults andcarrying Republican flagsand signs calling for theabolition of the monarchy,were held back by police.

During the ensuing sixhours of testimony,

Princess Cristina declinedto answer most of thequestions put to her byJudge José Castro abouther expenses and theincome she received from areal estate business. Hespecifically asked theprincess about herhusband’s financial affairsand her role at the defunctNóos Institute, which isthe subject of an ongoinginquiry into an allegedscheme to divert publicfunds paid out by tworegional governments forsports and tourism events.

Although the sessionwas held behind closeddoors, lawyers who wereinside the courtroom latertold reporters thatCristina had avoided mostof the judge’s questions,saying “I don’t know” and“I have no knowledgeabout that.” She also toldJudge Castro that sheknew nothing about theday-to-day operationsat Urdangarin’s NóosInstitute, even though shewas on the board ofdirectors, or at the Aizoonreal estate firm. “I trustedmy husband,” the princesssaid, referring to decisionsmade in both enterprises,and denied anywrongdoing.

It is the first time amember of the royalfamily has beensubpoenaed by a judge in acriminal inquiry, butsources inside the RoyalHousehold have said they

are confident that afterhearing her testimony,Judge Castro will removethe princess as an officialtarget in the investigation.

Leaked footage“unspeakable”

The princess'stestimony was supposed tohave been held in a closedsession, and all the peopleallowed into the court hadto leave mobile phones,laptops, tablets and otherrecording devices with thepolice at the entrance atthe courthouse.

However, El Mundo onSunday published animage of the king’sdaughter during her six-hour appearance takenfrom a video posted on theinternet. The chief judgein Palma de Mallorca,Francisco González,expressed his “indignation”at the breach of protocoland opened aninvestigation to find thesource of the leakedfootage. “Either they didn’tgo through the metaldetectors or the device wasa ridiculous size,” he said.

On Monday JudgeCastro called the leak“unspeakable” and said hehad “an idea of who mighthave been behind it,” butthat he could not revealanything further at thisstage. The princess'shusband had asked thePalma de Mallorca courtnot to videotape histestimony last Februaryprecisely because hefeared it would be leakedto the media.

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Catholics and Churchdiffer on abortion

the government has announced new measures to speed upthe naturalisation of Jews of Sephardic descent whoseancestors fled the iberian peninsula five centuries ago whenthey were told to convert to Catholicism or leave the country.the cabinet approved a bill last Friday amending previouslegislation that granted nationality by naturalisation toSephardic – Hebrew for "Spanish" – Jews who chose to applyfor it.

the reform will allow dual nationality, enabling people who canprove Sephardic ancestry to also retain their previouscitizenships. Justice minister alberto ruiz-Gallardón, said themeasure smoothes the bureaucracy involved in obtainingSpanish nationality. applicants must be vetted by thegovernment and the Spanish Federation of JewishCommunities. Sephardic Jews emigrated to cities includingistanbul, London and Cairo after the 1492 decree.

many who didn't convert were executed during the inquisition.

the services sector, which accounts for over half of GdP, sawthe fastest growth in activity in the first month of the year sinceJuly 2007, cementing expectations of a recovery in theeconomy this year, according to a survey released by consultantmarkit. the increase in the month was also the strongest sincebefore the current crisis took hold around the start of 2008. italso marked the third successive month in which the indexstood above the 50-point mark that denotes expansion.

Companies in the sector also increased their staffing levelsslightly in January, ending a run of 70 consecutive months ofjob cutting. all six of the market segments surveyed by markitposted increases in activity, led by transport and storage.Companies were upbeat about an improvement in economicconditions this year, in which economy minister Luis deGuindos has predicted that output could rise by 1.0 percent.Business confidence looking a year ahead was also at its highestlevel since July 2007.

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Education and Cultureminister José Ignacio Wertdid not attend the GoyaAwards ceremony onSunday because he had tofly to London early thefollowing morning. Hemade the announcementwhich angered the cinemaworld – just three daysbefore the awardsceremony.

The Goyas are Spain'sOscars Awards and allculture ministers,

including Wert, attend it.

The Spanish cinemaworld is very left-wing anduses the ceremony totake pot shots at thegovernment. Wert had tosit through the dartsthrown at him and hisgovernment at last year'sceremony but had whatone actor called a "patheticexcuse" to opt out thisyear.

A snap poll taken by a

newspaper on Mondayshowed that 60 per cent ofits readers agreed with

him, especially as it's thegovernment which paysfor the ceremony.

Culture minister a no-showat Goya Awards

Immigrant deathtoll reaches 15

At least 15 people drownedin last Thursday’s tragicattempt by a large groupof migrants to reach theSpanish enclave of Ceuta.The search for bodiescontinued on Tuesday asthe Guardia Civil cameunder fire for allegedlyshooting at the dozens ofmigrants trying to swimfrom Morocco.

The victims eitherdrowned or died afterheavy waves slammedthem against the six-metre high wall thatextends some distanceout to the Mediterranean

and acts as a barrierthat divides Ceutaand Morocco. TheGuardia have denied theallegation.

The incident occurredafter Guardia securitycameras along the 8.2kilometre perimetercaptured images of alarge group of migrantsdescending from a fieldnear the Tangier highwayand closing in on theMoroccan security post atBab Septa. Moroccansecurity forces alerted theGuardia that they wereapproaching. The Spanish

government’s delegate inCeuta, Francisco AntonioGonzález, said thatthe migrants were“aggressive” and beganthrowing rocks and otherobjects at authorities.Guardia officials said thatthey used their anti-riotgear “to dissuade” themigrants from rushing theborder, which was closedoff for 30 minutes.

As they reached thehighway, about 200 triedto swim around theseawall as the Moroccanauthorities begancontrolling the situation.

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There is a deep dividebetween what the CatholicChurch says and what itsfollowers believe, a newinternational poll byBendixen & Amandi forthe Spanish-languageUS television networkUnivisión has revealed. Itshowed a huge gapbetween Church doctrineand many Spaniards’views on issues such assame-sex marriage,abortion, divorce andcontraception.

Only eight percent ofthe 1,000 respondents saidthey were against abortionin all cases, compared with88 per cent who support itin all or some situations.The Spanish EpiscopalConference recently saidthat “nobody has the right,in any circumstance, totake away the life of aninnocent human being.Any abortion law, nomatter how restrictive,would still be unfair.”

Evaristo Villar,spokesman for the

association RedesCristianas (ChristianNetworks), said he wasnot surprised: “Thebeginning of life is ascientific matter and therehas been no particularproblem with the currentlaw. We are in favour ofkeeping it, and againstthe proposed reform byJustice Minister Alberto

Ruiz Gallardón. TheChurch should get closerto today’s society and jointhe modern world.”

The survey also showedthat 64 per cent of SpanishCatholics approve of same-sex marriage, whichChurch leaders oppose.

ETA is paving the way fora gradual disarmamentprocess underinternational supervision,according to the Basqueabertzale separatist left,responding to a statementby the Basque terroristgroup which the radicalnewspaper Garapublished last Saturday.

In it, ETA referred to"significant contributionsto feed the peace process,without delay" – astatement which left mostpeople scratching theirheads. Basque regionalpremier Iñigo Urkullu hasasked Prime MinisterRajoy to be receptive tothis new attitude.

On January 11th, forthe first time, Urkullu'smainstream nationalistPNV officially joined pro-ETA radicals in a streetdemonstration, and he hasallegedly also asked Rajoyto accept ETA's demand tohave its prisonerstransferred to Basquejails.

Official policy has beento keep them in jails allover the country to stopthem getting together andconspiring to commit moreviolent acts. However, thegovernment's attitude isno concessions can bemade to ETA prisonersuntil the group disarmsand disbands.

ETA 'planning gradual disarmament'

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In an interview with ElPais newspaper, Statesecretary for energyAlberto Nadal said thatthe auctions which setthe price of electricityfor homeowners willdisappear in April, to giveway to a “simpler” system.

Nadal explained thatthe variable part ofthe utility bill, whichrepresents 45 per cent ofthe total price to be paid

by consumers, with therest being a fixed rate, willbe set in accordance withthe average price on thewholesale market. He saidthis will “allow significantsavings for residentialconsumers”.

Under the previoussystem, the price of energywas established by anauction system that set aconstant price for threemonths. He said it was

"very complex, with lotsof intermediaries, and itgenerated significantsurcharges forconsumers”.

The public reactedangrily last December,when the auction lookedas if it would forceconsumer rates up by atleast 11 per cent forJanuary this year. Inresponse, the governmentopened an investigation

to determine whetherpower companies werecolluding to raise theprice of electricity butfound no evidence ofwrongdoing. However, thegovernment decreed thatthe price hike in Januarycould not exceed 2.3 percent.

The cost of electricityrose an average 4.5 percent last year, and hasgone up by nearly 80 per

cent in the past decade.Electricity bills in Spainare among the highest inEurope, with only the

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Convicted Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby has beenreleased on parole after nine years in prison in Bali, indonesia. Corbywas convicted and jailed for 20 years in 2005 for trying to smugglemarijuana into the tourist island. The 36-year-old has protested herinnocence since she was caught entering Bali in 2004 with marijuanahidden in one of her bags. She was granted parole last Friday in Balibut it was only implemented on Monday.

She is unlikely to be able to return to Australia immediately becauseshe will have to remain in indonesia until 2017 to fulfil the conditionsof her parole. Corby had received several remissions throughout hersentence because of good behaviour. Five years was shaved off it in2012 after an appeal for clemency to the president. Her release waswelcomed in Australia, but drew criticism from some indonesianlawmakers and an anti-drugs group, who said it violated anti-drugslaws that are supposed to be stringently enforced.

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The US is to make changes to the justice system to give greater legalrecognition to same-sex marriages. in a speech on Saturday at aHuman Rights Campaign dinner in new York, Attorney General ericHolder said the Justice Department had a role in "confrontingdiscrimination". Benefits will include couples being exempt fromhaving to testify against each other in court, and having equal rightsto visits in federal prisons. Same-sex marriages are currently legal in17 US states and in Washington DC. Other states grant some maritalbenefits to gay couples, while others have banned gay marriageoutright.

However, the new ruling will apply to federal matters in all states,whether or not they recognise gay unions, as long as the couplemarried legally in a state which does. Chad Griffin, president of theHuman Rights Campaign, said the announcement would "change thelives of countless committed gay and lesbian couples for the better".

Legal rights for same-sex spouses extended

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Fast-food giant McDonald's has opened its first restaurant incommunist-controlled Vietnam. Hundreds of people queued for theopening in Ho Chi Minh, known as Saigon during the Vietnam War,where the US-backed government was based until it fell tocommunist forces 38 years ago. its owner, Henry nguyen, who ismarried to the daughter of Prime Minister nguyen Tan Dung, flippedburgers at a McDonald's restaurant while a teenager growing up inthe United States, where his family fled at the end of the war. He saidthat it had been his dream to open a McDonald's since returning toVietnam more than a decade ago. The move underlines Vietnam'shunger for Western consumer brands, Despite the Vietnameseeconomy's recent slowdown, foreign brands are popular among theyouthful population whose parents had few of the food and lifestyleoptions now available in the country. Starbucks, Subway, Burger King,and KFC all have a presence there.

China and Taiwan in first government talks

Final results showed50.3% voted in favour.Fiercely independentSwitzerland is not amember of the EU, but hasadopted large sections ofEU policy. The EuropeanCommission said itregretted the outcome ofthe vote and wouldexamine its implications.

Freedom of movementis a key pillar of the EUsingle market – a marketwhich accounts for morethan half of Swiss exports.Switzerland's bilateral

agreements with the EUtook years of negotiation toachieve, and abandoningfree movement could limitSwitzerland's access to thesingle market.

The initiative to holdthe referendum wasspearheaded by the right-wing Swiss People's Party(SVP), amid increasingdebate across Europeabout migration and theimpact of free movementof people. Observers saidthe vote had shown uptraditional divisions, with

French-speaking areasagainst the quotas,German-speaking regionsdivided, and the Italian-speaking canton of Ticinofirmly in favour.

In addition, cities withhigher than averagenumbers of foreigners –Basel, Geneva and Zurich– voted against the quotaproposal, while rural areasmostly voted for it.The initiative meansemployers should in futuregive preference to Swisspassport-holders. But the

Swiss government andbusiness leaders say freemovement is key toSwitzerland's economicsuccess, allowingemployers to chooseskilled staff from acrossEurope.

Last year 80,000 newimmigrants arrived inSwitzerland, andforeigners now make up23% of the population. Ithas the continent'ssecond highest foreignpopulation afterLuxembourg.

France and Germany have voiced concern about Switzerland's vote to bring backstrict quotas for immigration from European Union countries.

China and Taiwan havebegun the highest-leveltalks since the end of theChinese civil war in 1949.Wang Yu-chi and ZhangZhijun, the top cross-straitofficials from each side,are both attending thefour-day talks in Nanjing.Taiwanese officials saidthey would raise the issue

of press freedom afterBeijing denied access tosome media outlets.

Speaking to reportersbefore departing fromTaiwan, Mr Wang, head ofTaiwan's Mainland AffairsCouncil, said he hoped thevisit, which "did not comeeasily", would go smoothly,

adding that the two sideswould not be signing anyagreements during thetalks. Given thesensitivities, the meetingroom had no flags ondisplay, and the officials'nameplates had no titlesor affiliations, AFP newsagency reported. Chinainsists that Taiwan is a

part of its territory andhas a stated aim ofreclaiming the island.

Taiwan still calls itselfthe Republic of China andnominally claims thesame territory as theCommunist governmentin Beijing, although it doesnot press these claims. McDonald's opens first outlet

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Vigilante groups paraded on Sunday through a stronghold of theKnights Templar drug cartel, Apatzingan in Michoacan state, backedby armoured vehicles and troops and shouting slogans beforeconvening at the city's main square. The groups began an offensivelast month aimed at ending the drug gang's activities in Michoacan.The government recently reached a pact with the groups, grantingthem temporary legal status by redefining them as Rural DefenceCorps. The Knights Templar cartel controls much of the drugtrafficking in the area, carrying out killings and kidnappings andextorting money from local people. Members of the patrols metgovernment forces on the outskirts of the city to discuss their nextsteps following Sunday's action. Vigilante leaders, joined by theofficial security forces and the army, have been searching house byhouse for leaders of the Knights Templar. More than 70,000 peoplehave died in drug related violence across Mexico in the past six years.


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During the first three-dayceasefire in Homs,hundreds of civilians wereallowed to leave. Theevacuations took placeamid mortar fire andshooting, which both sidesblamed on each other.Activists say severalpeople were killed. The Syrian government

has acknowledged thatsome of those evacuatedfrom Homs on Sundaywere detained after theyleft. A Syrian informationministry spokesman toldreporters that 103"militants" had beendetained for securitychecks, and had sincebeen released. But otherreports suggest the menhave not been released,and are still beingdetained with theirfamilies. Meanwhile, government

and opposition negotiatorshave resumed peace talks

in Geneva. Analysts saythat little progress isexpected. The first roundof talks ended last monthwith no firm agreementsand both sides tradinginsults. French Foreign

Minister Laurent Fabiussaid France and othercountries would present aresolution at the UNcalling for greater accessfor humanitarian aid. Hetold French radio: "Itis absolutely scandalousthat there have been

discussions for quite awhile and that people arestill being starved everyday, and so along with anumber of other countrieswe will present aresolution at the UN alongthose lines." China andRussia did not turn up topreliminary discussions onthe draft. Syria's civil conflict has

claimed more than100,000 lives since 2011and has driven 9.5million people from theirhomes.

More Syrians fleebesieged city

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European Union tonegotiate with Cuba

The talks, which couldbegin as soon as nextmonth, will try to increasetrade and investment, andinclude a dialogue onhuman rights, officialssaid. EU foreign policychief Catherine Ashtonstressed that humanrights remained "at thecore" of its dealings withCuba.

The announcementcomes with Cuba engagedin an economic and socialreform process launchedby President Raul Castro.

In 1996, the EU agreedon a set of rules governingits relations with Cuba,called the CommonPosition, which states thatthe EU's objective is "toencourage a process oftransition to a pluralistdemocracy and respect forhuman rights and

fundamental freedoms, aswell as sustainablerecovery and improvementin the living standards ofthe Cuban people".

Despite the policy, morethan half of EU memberstates have bilateralagreements with Cuba.Cuba has rejected theCommon Position, arguingthat it constitutes aninterference in its internalaffairs.

The EU ambassadorto Havana, HermanPortocarero, said the talkscame in response to"serious" changes in Cuba,but he added that the EUhad a number of "redlines" in order for therelations to be normalised.These included such issuesas human rights and thepossibility for civil societygroups to have legal status.

The move indicates themost important diplomaticshift since the EU liftedsanctions against Cuba in2008.

The EU is Cuba'ssecond-biggest tradingpartner after Venezuela. Itrepresents a major sourceof investment, andhundreds of thousands ofEuropean tourists visit theisland every year.

Some 300 Syrians have fled Homs after both sides agreed toextend a three-day truce in the Old City, which has been undersiege for 18 months.

The EU has agreed to launch negotiations with Cuba aimed atrestoring full bilateral relations with the Communist-run island.

Cuban President Raul Castro

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According to the bank, thestolen files relate toinformation provided to theBarclays’ financial planningoperation that ceased as aservice to customers in 2011.The story broke in The Mailon Sunday newspaper. Aspokesperson for Barclaysconfirmed that the bank wasinvestigating the matter andwas contacting customerswho might be affected.

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The Beatles are still filling theairwaves some 50 years aftermaking a lot of their hits andthe band is back in the newsagain because jackets worn byGeorge Harrison and RingoStarr in the photographfeatured on the cover of the‘Help’ album are to be sold atauction next month.

The film of the same namewas made in 1965 and thejackets were worn throughoutproduction. The coats are partof 200 Beatles’ lots being soldin Liverpool to coincide withthe 50th anniversary of thenumber one hit ‘Can’t Buy MeLove.’

The UK’s trade deficit was at a17-month low in December,falling from £3.8 billion inNovember to £1 billion. It wasthe lowest monthly figuresince July 2012.

Record exports were boostedby oil, chemicals and aircraftsales, with a fall in importsof aircraft and ships.Manufacturing expanded byonly 0.3 per cent over themonth, but optimism amongfirms is at its highest level fortwo decades.

The number of people in theUK who are insolvent hasfallen to its lowest level ineight years according to thelatest figures.

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The problem of floodingremains and where thewaters had receded theyhave risen yet again andthere remain seriousproblems in many partsof the country withnew flood warnings inplace.

At one stage there wereno railway services toExeter in the South Westof England because of

flooding on thetrack, and alandslip on anothertrack blocked analternative route.

And thereremain no servicesto Plymouth, alarge city which recentlyclosed its airport. It islinked to the rest ofBritain by a dualcarriageway road with aparticularly poor safetyrecord.

The Prince of Wales andPrime Minister DavidCameron have both beenon the Somerset Levels toview the damage anddiscuss the issues. Itappears that there is nowa consensus of opinionthat the levels will infuture have to be managedin the old way, whichinvolves dredging the

rivers, to allow a greatervolume of water to escapeto the sea. Unfortunatelywork cannot begin untilthe waters recede and itwill take some time.

Meanwhile theemergency services aredoing all they can inextremely difficultcircumstances. RoyalMarines from 40Commando are involved inthe operation, but thewater has nowhere to goand there is tangible senseof exasperation at thenews that there is morerain on the way.

Should wesmoke withkids in the car?I suspect many readerswill share my experienceof the prevalence of lungdisease resulting fromsmoking. I have peopleclose to me whose mobilityhas been seriouslycompromised.

And I recently bumpedinto a woman I workedwith in a newspaper officefor several years who toldme her specialist hadexplained to her thatalthough she did notsmoke her health had beenaffected by her husband’ssmoking.

I see Mayor of LondonBoris Johnson has now

teamed up with medicalprofessionals to urgeMembers of Parliament tovote to outlaw smoking incars carrying children.

The MPs are to be givena free vote on the issue.There are those whobelieve it will beunenforceable, and thecontinuing use of mobiletelephones in carssuggests they may have acase, but the ban is backedby cancer charities and itwould send a message toparents who smoke. If agood number of adults fallin line, then campaignerswill feel that a ban is fullyjustified.

Diabetesaffects six percent of adultsThe number of people withdiabetes in the UK nowstands at six per cent ofthe adult population. Alarge increase in type 2diabetes has been linkedto obesity and lack ofexercise.

Some of the increasecould be down to improveddiagnosis. Even so, it isrecognised that many

people still have thedisease without knowingit.

According to CardiffUniversity researchers theuse of insulin to controlthe disease has trebledover the last 20 years.The disease accounts for10p in every pound theNational Health Servicespends.

Britain’s waron wastedtax receiptsOne of Britain’s mostinfluential lobbying groupsin the UK is theTaxPayers’ Alliance,which campaigns for lowertaxes and generally hasthe ear of the coalitiongovernment.

It is interesting to notethat the organisation isnow suggesting that asmuch as one pound inevery six of public moneyspent is unwarranted,enough to wipe out the

country’s deficit withmoney to spare, it says.

In its latest pressrelease the alliance hasproduced a catalogue offailures to controlspending that makesembarrassing reading.

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“Water World”: That’s what they’re callingthe south of England nowCalls were being madeon Tuesday for theGovernment to divertsome of its £11 billionforeign aid budget to thosepeople in the UK hit by therecent floods. Parts of theThames Valley have beendeclared a “major incident”area by police.

Those hit by floods inthe West Country andThames Valley inparticular are saying thatif money was diverted evenfor a couple of months fromthe foreign aid budget,much could be done forthose whose homes havebeen wrecked by flooding.

People are angry thatdredging of rivers hasn’tbeen carried out “for years”and it is barely in livingmemory that people havehad to leave their homes –the last time there wassevere flooding to theregion was in the 1940s.Dredging of rivers andcanals was regularlycarried out in past yearsbut councils have

repeatedly blamed a lackof funds for not carrying onthese very necessaryworks.

Politicians

And the invasion of seniorpoliticians into flood-hitareas has started tobackfire, with localcommunities accusingthem of being little morethan 'flood tourists' insearch of a photoopportunity. Tory Memberof Parliament for ReadingWest, which is on theThames, Alok Sharmaaccused Labour leader EdMiliband of “failing to dohis homework” as he stoodin his wellingtons whileposing for photographs in astreet in Purley,Berkshire. He asked Mr.Miliband: “Why are youactually here? What I amhearing from localresidents is they are notactually interested inpeople just coming for aphoto opportunity talkingabout local issues when

they don't know what isgoing on locally. I wish youhad done a bit ofhomework before youturned up here.”

Residents in all areashave complained thatthere is not enough helpbeing sent to them andDefence Secretary PhilipHammond was beratedlive on TV by angryvolunteers demanding toknow why troops had notbeen sent in to help floodcommunities. The DefenceSecretary’s attempts toreassure people near theThames that he had putthe military on standby didlittle to reassure people inWraysbury.

During uncomfortableexchanges on television,Miss Burrows, a localvolunteer, said just eightpolice officers had been onduty to provide helpovernight.”We had eightpeople last night, eight. Weneed men. We needsandbags, we needsandbags, just let me

finish. We had sandbagsbeing delivered last nightthat were hijacked,” shesaid.

Mr Hammond tried tointerject that he had beentold an hour ago thatcombined police andmilitary team wascollecting sandbags fordistribution.

But she hit back: ‘That’sthe first we’ve heard of it.Who is unloading themwhen they get here? Whois co-ordinating them,there is nobody here co-ordinating those efforts,apart from us and we arenot being communicatedwith,” adding the entireoperation to close roadsand redirect traffic wasbeing run by volunteerswith little or no help fromthe emergency services.

“We are directing peoplewhere they need to go notthe police, we are directingthe police. We are directingthe parking officers of theroyal borough where theyneed to go to managetraffic. We are telling themwhere they need to closethe roads. We have gotrotas at the end of everysingle road managingtraffic telling them wherethey can and cannot go.Why are the military notdoing this, why is the EAnot doing this? These guyshave not slept… we aretired. We need people.”

Soldiers

On Tuesday at just after1pm it was reported thatsoldiers and firefighterswere rescuing people fromflooded homes on the

banks of the River Thamesfollowing the televisedinterview on Monday, andtroops have now beendeployed in Chertsey,Surrey, and in Wraysbury,Berkshire. Emergencyservices are going fromstreet to street, helpingpeople whose homes areunder threat from recordwater levels.

Stacks of sandbags –described as "like golddust" by one shopkeeper –have been brought in toshore up defences, whilepolice in Surrey havereleased £10m to tacklethe crisis.

There are fears up to4,000 more propertiescould be inundated, withfurther severe weatherforecast for the rest of theweek.

Evacuated

Residents have beenevacuated this week fromthe Surrey and Berkshireregions of Egham,Shepperton, Bourne Endand Wraysbury amongothers, including some ofthe Queen’s servants. HerPage, Paul Whybrew, 56,known as “Tall Paul” whowas seen in the spooffootage of Her Majestywalking along a corridorwith “James Bond” for theOlympics, and HeadHousekeeper, RachelGordon, 40, whose house isbuilt on a bridge close tothe Windsor Farm Shop,have both seen theirhistoric turreted grace andfavour houses in WindsorHome Park engulfed bythe rapidly rising watersand have had to de-campinto Windsor Castle until

the waters recede. Otherroyal staff who live on theestate had their road cutoff on Monday by the risingwaters. The castle itself ishighly unlikely to beaffected as it is built on ahill above the water.

People have beenblaming the bursting of thebanks of the Thames insome areas on authoritieswho have diverted waterinto the Jubilee River andthen into the Thames toalleviate rivers in otherareas. The Jubilee riverprotects 3000 propertiesand 500 businesses fromflooding when the riverThames rises by divertingwater along an elevenkilometre channel but it isbeing said that the sluicegates were opened despitethe Thames being in flooditself.

The Thames barrier,erected to stop centralLondon flooding, has beenclosed 29 times since thebeginning of the year.January was the wettestrecorded since 1766.

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A French-Algerian manwas shot dead in Marbellaon Monday morning as hedrove his three sons, aged10, 9 and 3, to school. Ashe was crossing a narrowbridge that crossesthe Autopista del

Mediterraneo in the LasLomas del Marbella Cluburbanisation, a womanstepped out in front of hiscar as if asking for help.He stopped the car and amasked man stepped outfrom behind a bush and

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The police were alertedminutes later by anothermotorist but they wereunable to catch up withthe killers.

Animals in Distress willhold a Valentine DinnerDance on February 15th,with special guest andformer singer fromHeatwave, Frankie B, plusgreat entertainment theD.J. Lee Jay Road Show,starting at 7.30 pm, at theHiedra Restaurant whichis just inside the entranceto the Poligono Rosa onthe A404 Alhaurin elGrande to Coin road. The€15 for the three coursemeal includes a donationto A.I.D.

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It wasn't just any stonethat tumbled down thehillside to land on the roadbetween San Pedro deAlcantara and Ronda on at9 am Sunday.

It was rock the size of abig car that blocked theroad for five hours, until amechanical digger camealong to push it to the sideof the road.

Fortunately no trafficwas passing at the timeand there were nocasualties.

Foreign minister JoséManuel García-Margalloconfirmed last weekchecks at the border willcontinue “for as long asthere is tobaccosmuggling”.

In response to questionsfrom the oppositionSocialists in Parliament,he reminded themof the visit by EC officialsto the border late lastyear.

“They said the controlsdid not breach thelegislation,” he said. Hesaid the controls wouldrespect the Spanishworkers who cross intoGibraltar every day.

A stone in the road

Tobacco checks will continue

The Association ofWestern Costa del SolMunicipalities has begundistributing six tons ofnon-perishable food to theneedy in its 11 members.

The amount of fooddistributed in eachmunicipality will be basedon the number ofresidents. Marbella willget 1,616 kilos, Mijas, 912kilos; Fuengirola, 816;Torremolinos, 768 kilos;Benalmádena andEstepona, 720 kilos each;Manilva, 144 kilos;

Benahavís and Casares,96 kilos each, and Ojénand Istán, 48 kilos each.The councils receivingthe food will be responsiblefor distributing it totheir most needyinhabitants.

The Association'spresident, Margarita delCid, said the initiativeformed part of a campaignto get people to recycle. Allthe food is in recyclablecontainers and is beingdistributed in recyclablebags, she said.

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US Marines learn 'How to live in Andalucia'The first of four US anti-missile destroyers, theDonald Cook, arrived inRota base this week, with330 Marines on board.

To help them adapt totheir new home, they andtheir families will be givena week-long course on"inter-cultural relations"in the base's Fleet andFamily Service Centre.The course was designedby the Pentagon incollaboration with thelocal council and is aimed

at helping the Americansintegrate successfully.

They will learn all

about local and traditionalcustoms, how to negotiatethe rent of an apartment,how to buy a car and even

how to do their shopping.Here they will be advisedto buy fresh products inlocal shops and to become

Henry Moore only visitedSpain once – in 1934 – andhe didn't come toAndalusia. Nevertheless,the director of theHenry Moore Foundation,Richard Calvocoressi, saidhe would have been"enchanted" by the placewhere seven of his bronzesare on display until March12th – the Plaza delTriunfo in Seville:

"They'll be out in theopen air under naturallight, which was whatMoore liked, and it willlook as if his works are

talking to the Cathedral, amountain of stone itself,and the walls of the RealAlcazar, which is like acliff. They all share thesame monumentality".After Seville, the exhibitmoves on to Valencia.

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lanjaron in Granada province has become the new temporaryheadquarters of the university of Arkansas. A delegation ofprofessors and students arrived last week to promote good relationswith universities in the united States. From now on, students at theuniversity of Arkansas will be able to spend the first term ofuniversity life in lanjaron, integrating with the local community andgetting to know their culture. Granada's tourism councillor said hehoped their experience would boost tourism from the uS state.

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A Spanish woman and an Algerian man were arrested after securitycameras showed them stealing a mobile phone from a woman'shandbag in the vestibule of the carlos Haya hospital. The police hadbeen following the well-known pair from the Barbarela clinic.

it was the 98th arrest for the 41-year-old Algerian and the 26th forthe 44-year-old Spanish woman. They had changed their clothesbefore leaving the carlos Haya in an attempt to throw off the police,who were waiting for them as they left the clinic. They said theAlgerian had at least 17 different identities that they knew of.

Thief nabbed for 98th time

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The cost of the iTV vehicle inspection will drop by the end of the firstquarter of this year, giving around two thirds of all owners discountsof between 10 and 45 per cent. A Junta de Andalucia spokesmansaid the objective was to reduce maintenance costs for the region'svehicle owners in these times of crisis. He said Andalucia would bethe region where it was cheapest to pass the iTV inspection.

There are 214 iTV inspection premises in Andalucia. The number willincrease with the planned opening of new ones in Martos (Jaén),níjar (Almería), Priego de córdoba, Mijas (Málaga), Palma del Río(córdoba) and Galaroza (Huelva).

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friends with their owners.They will also visit localmarkets, and be taken onexcursions around thearea.

The course is sodetailed that it will alsoteach them how andwhat to order in localrestaurants.

Three youths have beenfined €1,000 inTorremolinos for notthrowing papers, cigaretteends and other rubbishinto a container.

A council spokesmansaid the three – aged, 21,17 and 19 – had “flagrantlyviolated Article 10 of theMunicipal Ordinance for

the Protection andDefence of Citizen Co-existence and Property inthe Municipal PublicDomain". It is the firsttime anyone has beenfined under this newregulation, whichstipulates fines between€60 and €3,005, dependingon the seriousness of thedamage.

There have been reportsthat unwary touristssitting in their cars in thequeue to cross the borderinto Gibraltar are beingapproached by members ofa gang and told they needto pay a fee to get in.

The practice wascommon in the 1990sbut the authoritiesmanaged to stamp it out.In those days the “entryticket” was usually anONCE lottery ticket tornin half. Now it's a manscribbling something on a

car window with a marker.If the driver doesn'tpay anything, it is thenerased.

The Panorama onlinenewspaper is asking

people who cross by carinto Gibraltar on a regularbasis to help by warningtourists they should notpay if they see a scammerat work. It also suggeststhat signs on La Línea's

lamp-posts along theroute of the queues – inEnglish and Spanish–warning drivers that noticket is required to enterGibraltar would be a greathelp.

Fuengirola council hasbegun a campaign in themost densely populatedareas of the town to getdog owners to microchiptheir pets.

Councillor Rodrigo

Romero said that over thenext few weeks, thecouncil would also focus onthe parks and areas wherepeople exercise their pets.

He said: "We're nottrying to catch anybody

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out, we just want dogowners to become aware ofthe responsibilities theyhave towards their pets."

Under a law passed lastyear by the Junta deAndalucia, all dogs shouldbe chipped.

Memo fromMadridMartin DelfínWrites for the English language version of

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The media was hyping it as themost important event since theexpulsion of Adam and Eve

from Eden but it turned out to be thebiggest non-event of the century. I'mreferring to Princess Cristina's longawaited appearance in court lastSaturday. Since the beginning of theweek, the newspapers and TVstations had it on the top of theirhype list – would she walk down the"alley of shame" – so-called becauseprotesters would be able to vent theirfrustration on her – or would shearrive by car, as the judge said shecould. Millions of Republicans, anti-monarchists, anti-system groups andanarchists were expected to turn upto make it a day the princess wouldnever forget. The media even toldhow all the stepladders in localhardware stores had sold out – tophotographers trying to get a betterview. (As it happened, they wastedtheir money.) The hype reached sucha pitch that I awaited the event withdread. Would she be assassinated,would I end up being ashamed – onceagain – of being a journalist?

Iusually work in the A.I.D. charityshop on Saturday mornings so Iwasn't able to watch it all live on

TV, but I knew I wouldn't be able toescape the riotous scenes completelybecause they would dominate thenews for the rest of the weekend. Ineedn't have worried. Cristinaarrived by car, which left her 11 stepsshort of the courthouse door (onejournalist kept count). Smilingbroadly, she nodded at thejournalists corralled behind barriersby a number of policemen – wholooked as if they were just waiting foran excuse to start wielding theirtruncheons.

However, the protesters – all200 or so of them – were keptwell away from the court on

the main street, although you couldvaguely hear them chanting theirslogans in the background. This wasjust before 10 am, and the day passedvery slowly until the princess madeher exit just after 6 pm, smiling andnodding at the journalists who bynow were almost dropping off tosleep. It had been a long and verybooooring day.

Now they're speculating abouthow many years her husbandwith the unpronounceable

name will get – one paper said theprosecutor was asking for a 40-yearjail sentence. Most of the otherpapers put it at 7 to 17 or 19 years.I'm sure King Juan Carlos hasalready told his daughter herhusband will have to spend time in

jail – throwing the wolf to the wolves– to stop the monarchy frombecoming even more unpopular.Whether Cristina's marriage willsurvive is another matter. However,now that the case is nearing its endthe media are suddenly discoveringaspects of the princess's characterwhich seem to have been kept underwraps. One online newspaper, ElConfidencial Digital, now says it wasCristina who set her cap at he withthe unpronounceable name, not theother way round. And others arehinting that her disarming smilemasks an arrogant, wilful nature.Whatever. The judge is expected towrap up the case by as early as April,so we'll just have to wait and see howthis little drama ends.

‘Democratic freedom'

AMadrid court has ruled that aprotest against home evictionsheld outside the home of

Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenzde Santamaría in April of last yearshould be seen as a “commonmechanism of democraticparticipation of civil society and anexpression of the pluralism of thepublic ." The judges said that whileno warning of the hastily arrangedprotest in the capital – a practiceknown as an escrache, a word coinedin Argentina – had been given, it wasalso true that there were no violentincidents during the 20-minutedemonstration. They said the protestcould not be considered as a threat tothe minister because there were noindications that the protestersintended to harm her or her family,consisting of a mother who looksafter her two year old son while sheand her husband are at work. I can'thelp wondering if the ruling wouldhave been different if the escrachemob had belonged to the PartidoPopular and the victim had belongedto the Socialist Party or the UnitedLeft.

This was what the Mayor ofValladolid, Francisco JavierLeón de la Riva, wanted to ask

Isabel Valledecabres, one of the threejudges who issued the ruling. In thepast, she has been adviser to threeSocialist ministers and she was putforward for a position a substitutejudge on the General JudiciaryCouncil – by the Socialist Party. Shealso helped draw up the Socialist'sabortion law. How can you take anyruling by such an obviously sectarianjudge seriously? Unfortunately thereare too many of them in Spain.

Royal painsBiggest non-show on earth

Not since President RonaldReagan uttered his celebrated“I don’t remember” statement

when he was asked in 1986 about theapproval of an illegal arm sale to Iranhas there been such a famous memorylapse as we saw with Princess Cristinaon Saturday. No one actually believesthat she didn’t know where herhusband, Iñaki Urdangarin, wasgetting all his money – she definitelyhasn’t been sleeping with the enemy.

But then again the outcome of thecourt hearing was no shocker. Itwasn’t really expected that

Princess Cristina would be upfrontabout her personal finances when shetestified before a Palma de Mallorcajudge, who has opened a preliminarytax fraud and money-launderinginvestigation against her. The sixhours she spent in a closed-door sessiondid nothing to clear up the battery ofquestions Judge José Castro fired atKing Juan Carlos’s youngest daughterduring an historic courtroomappearance. (It was the first time thata member of the royal family had goneto court for a criminal inquiry.) Thishearing only served two purposes: ithelped to demonstrate how theprincess insists on keeping up herstubborn arrogance, and it providedfodder for local and internationaljournalists who huddled outsidewaiting for real courtroom drama thatnever unfolded.

After initially fighting thesubpoena to appear before thejudge, who has been honing in

on the business dealings of herhusband, the Infanta decided – withmuch pressure from the royal family –to come forward and answer all thecirculating questions concerningwhether she took advantage of publicmoney that was allegedly diverted toher spouse’s businesses. For nearlythree years, Castro has been lookinginto allegations that Urdangarinembezzled some €6 million he receivedfrom the regional governments ofBalearic Islands and Valencia toorganise a series of tourismconferences and sports events through

a non-profit entity he set up with hispartner, Diego Torres. The NóosInstitute had actually been conceivedby Torres in 1999, but didn’t take offuntil Urdangarin, his former studentat Madrid’s ESADE business school,used his royal connections to attractinterest. The regional governmentsgave Nóos large chunks of moneywithout formalising bids. Prosecutorsbelieve that Urdangarin commingledthe public funds given to his non-profitNGO with his private businessaccounts including Aizoon, the realestate firm he co-owned with his wife.

After subsequent police and taxinspector enquiries, JudgeCastro decided to call in the

princess when he was given evidencethat she had purportedly charged awide-range of personal expenses to theAizoon accounts. These included billsfor communion receptions, birthdayparties and dance classes. Her taxstatements purportedly show that shedidn’t report all the income she mayhave received from Aizoon. Castro’sfirst attempt to call her in to testify lastApril was overruled by a Mallorcaprovincial court panel, which left openthe door for the judge to continue tolook at her tax records. When askedabout her spending, Cristina said shecouldn’t remember submitting any ofthe bills to Aizoon and stated that shetrusted her husband’s handling of allthe accounts.

It took her more than a week toprepare for her testimony withlawyers from a very influential

buffet in Barcelona. Those attorneys nodoubt received a generous windfall fortheir advice in telling her to play dumb.No doubt, however, the preparationwas geared on the psychological factor;the lawyers didn’t want her to breakdown or lose her cool with the toughquestions she faced.

Royal household sources have saidthat it was Cristina who hadbeen adamant throughout all

this time not to take the stand. Thisnever set well with her family andcreated a lot of tension with herbrother Prince Felipe and his wifeLetizia. The king was also convincedthat Judge Castro would remove theprincess from the list of about 40official targets in the Nóos inquiry afterthe royal daughter’s appearance. Butthe judge left the courtroom moreconfused than ever while the princessdid nothing to help clear up the matteror take a load off her family’s backs.

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After a long journey thatbegan in London on 3rdNovember 1819, theantique harp arrived earlythis month at Málaga’sMuseo Interactivo de laMúsica. The magnificentinstrument made bySebastian Erard inOctober 1819, is the latestaddition to the museumthanks to a donation madeby author and harpistMarion Leigh. Prior to thiskind gift, the museum hadthree pianos also from thehouse of Erard in itscollection.

There are many detailsthat make this animportant piece with animpressive provenance: onone side there is theinscription: “TO THEROYAL FAMILY. HisMost Christian Majestythe King of France andH.I.M. the Emperor of allthe Russias”, which leadsexperts to think that theinstrument was dedicatedto royalty. This theory isfurther strengthened bythe fact that SebastiánErard’s relationship withthe royal house before theFrench Revolution was

well known, as well as bythe intricacy of thedetailed engraving of birdson the noble wood.

The harp was given toMarion Leigh as abirthday present in 1995,when she was living inBaltimore. It had beenfound in poor condition ina barn in Pennsylvania,U.S.A., and partiallyrestored by a colleague ofMarion’s husband. It stillhas a lovely sound,although only the topthree octaves can beplayed because tighteningthe bass strings would puttoo much stress on theharp’s very old neck.

Information aboutMarion Leigh

Author Marion Leighwas born in Birmingham,England. After receivingher M.A. in ModernLanguages from theUniversity of Oxford, sheworked for a year as avolunteer in Indonesiathen moved to Canadawhere she had a successfulcareer as a financial andlegal translator.

Marion now spends thewinter in Guadalmina, onthe Costa del Sol. Insummer, she and herhusband can be found inNorth America, cruisingaboard their 20-metrepowerboat. To date, theyhave covered nearly fortythousand kilometresexploring the Great Lakesand the Eastern Seaboardof the United States andCanada.

Marion’s first novel,The Politician’s Daughter,was released in Spain inJune 2011. It is anadventure thrillerfeaturing Marine UnitSergeant Petra Minx ofthe Royal CanadianMounted Police.

Petra is called in toinvestigate when EmilyMortlake, the daughter ofa high-flying Torontopolitician, goes missingafter taking a summer jobaboard megayacht Titaniain the Mediterranean.Despite the misgivings ofher mentor, Tom Gilmore,Petra poses as a studentand joins the crew of theyacht. She is quickly

drawn into the glamorousworld of Titania’s owner,the ruthless andcharismatic Don León. Asshe follows Emily’s trailfrom Monte Carlo toMallorca and on to theCosta del Sol and Morocco,Petra struggles withconflicting emotions in herrelentless quest to uncover

the truth before it is toolate.

Marion’s second novelin the Petra Minx series,The Man in a Black Shirt,is set in the Bahamas, LasVegas and the northernGreat Lakes of NorthAmerica.

Marion loves theclimate and culture ofsouthern Spain and isdelighted to be associatedwith the Museo interactivode la música de Málaga. Website:

http://www.marionleigh.comBlogsite:

http://marionleigh.wordpress.com/

A harp made by Sebastian Erard in 1819 has joined the collection of the MIMMAthanks to a donation from author and harpist Marion Leigh.

Community NewsWEDNESDAY, February 12th 2014

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PET OF THE WEEK

WillyThis is Willy. He is 6 years old, a lovelylittle boy, who is veryaffectionate, well trainedand quiet. He loves children and thecompany of other dogs.He came to PAD as hisowner has Alzheimer’sand can no longer lookafter him. The rest of the family donot want him. He is the idealcompanion for any doglover and he misses the

comforts of a home. Call Lisa 658 351 642 forfurther information andto meet Willy.

GOOD NEWS: Boogie who was AnimalRescue Charity FAMA’spet of the week in lastweek’s edition of TheNews has found a lovelynew home. Thank you toeveryone who has given ahome to any of therescued animals in thisfeature.

Kennerleys awardedannual trophyThe Trumps Bridge Groupin Nerja held its annualtournament on Saturday8th February at the Al-Andalus Hotel in Maronear Nerja.

The event was wellattended with a totalof 14 tables (56 players)and the cup, entitledThe David LeakeMemorial Trophy, wasawarded to the winning

pair Tara & StanKennerly.

The trophy was namedafter David Leake, a well-loved and prominentpersonality within thelocal bridge community.The bridge playing in theafternoon was followed bydinner in the eveningwhen the results wereannounced and the trophyand cash prizes awarded

by Marion Talbot, thetournament organiser.

Regular duplicatebridge sessions take placeon Monday and Thursdayafternoons starting at3.00pm at the Al-AndalusHotel. All visitorswelcome. For informationsee www.bridgewebs.com/trumpsnerja for currentsession times etc.

FilmThis coming week, tonight,Wednesday 12th andtomorrow, Thursday 13thFebruary the originalversion of the film “TheBook Thief” will beshowing at La Tocha inCoin at 7.30 pm on bothdays.

The cost of the tickets is€4.00 per person (not€3.50) and there are nodiscounts available. Thefilm lasts 2 hours and 10minutes and is rated as a12A in the UK andsuitable for 7s and over inSpain.

There will only be twoshowings of this film onconsecutive days. The boxoffice will be open fromabout 3.30pm on each day.

The book on which thisfilm is based – about ayoung girl, her relationshipwith the lady her mothercleans for and her love ofbooks during the war –was fabulous so the film isnot to be missed.


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I would like to thankthose who wrotewelcoming me back andam delighted that youlike the new column. Ifany of you cannot get ourshow on TRE send me anemail and I will send youa copy every week. I alsoremind those of you whocan get the show butmaybe go shopping onSaturdays that you canhear a replay on Mondaynights at 8pm.

Nazli says: A walk onthe beach is one of thejoys of having a dog inthe Costa del Sol. But becareful if your dog tendsto eat things he finds.After every storm fishhooks may wash up onthe beach. If they stillcontain bait the dog willpick it up and swallowthe hook. You will seethe fish line hanging outof the mouth. DO NOTpull the line! Attach theline to the dog’s collarand seek veterinaryhelp. Prevent thishappening by putting amuzzle on your dog.

Anna says: Whenchoosing a dog school,choose wisely! Go andvisit the school and talkto the trainer and otherstudents before youdecide. When training adog it is very importantthat you believe in whatyou are doing and feelcomfortable during theclasses. Training issupposed to be fun forboth you and your dog.

Celia says: Is your catgoing bald? It could befleas. Some cats are soallergic to a single fleabite that they pull ornibble their fur in thisarea. Cats also do this ifthey have a painful area,if they are allergic tosome forms of food, or ifthey are ill. Some catseven pull their fur out ofstress. So take your catto the vet and discuss theproblem.

On this week’s show wediscussed stress – ‘Doesyour pet follow youaround the home andeven to the toilet?’ If yesif you’re honest (bigsmile) simply startclosing doors behind you.

Our pets suffer when weleave them andespecially when they gointo kennels. My adviceis to put your puppy intokennels for the day oncea month for the first 6months – this way yourpet will suffer very littlestress. If you can whynot put a video on whenyou go out, that will tellall!

I noticed that Boy Boykept nibbling his rearend near his tail. I brushhim every day using aZoom Groom and keptsearching the area andcould see it was getting alittle red, in fact hestarted to cry whennibbling it but I couldsee nothing. Nazlirecommended a fleatreatment and within 24hours he stopped biting.Now I recommend a fleatreatment even if yourdog does not have fleas,as a preventative. Moreabout fleas on mywebsite.

In my schools I alwaysused the Kumfi range ofhead collars, leads andcollars. This range isnow at Nazli’s clinic, allwashable and adjustableand the famous LiverTreats which every dogloves tel: 952804165Liver treats also inFuengirola at ClinicaVeterinaria Pet VetKamu, Calle MaestraAspiazu, EdificioAzahar, Puebla Lucia952 66 73 33.

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Valentine’sDay thisFriday...Don’tforget yourloved one!

David says..

David King of theMarbella Rugby Clubvisited Cudeca Hospice onFriday afternoon, 24thJanuary, to present adonation of €680 – part ofthe sum raised by childrenfrom the Rugby Clubpacking the bags ofshoppers at the Icelandstore in Puerto Banusduring the run up toChristmas.

Marisa Ballestracci fromthe Cudeca FundraisingDepartment, showedDavid and his wife Saraharound the Hospicefacilities, including theDay Care Unit and thevery important In PatientUnit.

The Marbella RugbyClub are a self-fundedClub and this event has

not only gone towardshelping the Club stayalive, but the 20%donation of their totalcollection will helpCudeca Hospice continuegiving their special care,free of any cost, to theirpatients with non-curableadvanced cancer and othernon-curable illnesses,aswell as giving support totheir family.

Rugby club donatesto charity

Valentine’s coffee morningLux Mundi Torre del Marbranch will be holding aspecial Valentine’s coffeemorning this Friday,February 14th and tellThe News that they’ll behaving a few surprises up

their sleeves! Of coursethere will also be theusual boutique, bric-a-brac, preserves, books andcards for sale plus theirlibrary and touristreference library. Join in

the fun from 11am to 1pmat Avenida Moscatel 1,Iº, (Jardines ViñaMalága/AntiguaCasa de la Viña),Torre del Mar.Tel: 952 543 334


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Charity Walk - Step out for a walk and help SOS

Dinner Theatre - THESPA’s new date for two plays and dinner

Try your hand at Graffiti - One day only art exhibition in Benahavis

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Aloha Gardens, next to El Jardin.Avda Del Prado, Nueva Andalucia

Pizza from 6pmPizza Happy Hour 6-7pmMon - Fri: 2 for 1 with this advert

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ScandinavianDelicatessen

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daily from 9amHave your breakfast here or take-away

Yorkshire Fisheries

Cod & Chips, Haddock & Chips, plus all yourfavourites from

your best local chippy.Open 12.30pm (closed Sunday)

Eat in or Take-AwayPROPER HOME-MADE CHIPS

Calle Juan Sebastian Cano, 10, Fuengirola(Near the Carousel Sq. & Florida Hotel)

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Just for fun and for this month onlyEstepona Floral Art Clubwill be holding itsnext flower arrangingdemonstration on Tuesday18th February from3.15pm to 5pm at adifferent venue for thismonth only.

The Februarydemonstration will takeplace at The Brasserie,Casares Costa Golf Resort,N340 km 146.5, Urb Bahiade Casares, Ctra deCasares Km 0.7 Estepona.The guest demonstrator,

Stephen McDonnell,NAFAS AreaDemonstrator from WestSussex has entitled hisdemonstration “Just ForFun” – promising arefreshing and spectacularafternoon. A flower

arranger for a mere fiveyears, Stephen is a regularexhibitor and winner atall the major flowerarranging shows. He wonhis fourth Gold Medal atRHS Chelsea Flower Show2013 for the Best FloralArrangement (Session 2),and Gold at RHS Wisley.Stephen says, “I enjoylarge designs and at themoment I am working onmy largest design which isfor the north transept ofChichester Cathedral’sflower festival 2014. Thedesign will be floor toceiling one. It is achallenge, as I have over40ft to fill!” Hisdemonstration on Tuesdaypromises to be stunningand at the forefront offloral design. Stephenworks as head gardenerand floral arranger for aprivate 29 acre estatein Sussex. Members ofthe audience will hearabout valuable insideranecdotes, how to createbeautiful floral artdisplays, and have theopportunity to askStephen for tips and hintson gardens, plant andflower care.

This will be anenjoyable, sociable event

for anyone who isinterested in flowers, funand friendship, andvisitors are welcome tojoin the Club members forlunch at The Brasseriebefore the demonstration.Please call The Brasseriedirectly on 607 474 988 tomake your reservation,and state that you areattending the flower clubdemonstration. There isample parking.

Established over 10years ago, Estepona FloralArt Club is a very friendlyclub on the Costa del Sol,Spain, with members andvisitors from Nerja toGibraltar. Once a monththere is a flower arrangingdemonstration, wherespectacular displays arecreated live on stage.There are workshops forthose who want to learnpractical skills, coffeemornings and specialevents. There is no needto book in advance,members and visitors aremost welcome to attendand do not need any priorknowledge of flowers orflower arranging to enjoythe Club’s events.Members are of differentnationalities but allmeetings are in English.

For more informationand photographs, pleasesee their Facebook page atwww.facebook.com/esteponafloralartclub. If you arealready a Facebook user,please click ‘Like’ toreceive regular updates onthe Club’s activities andevents.

Alternatively, pleasecall Jo on 952 89 13 85 orsend an email [email protected] to receiveinformation about theClub or to join the mailinglist for the monthlyNewsletter.

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David, Tina & Family welcome youKitchen Open 9.30am to 6pm Mon - Fri

9.30 am - 5pm Sat & SunEXCITING EVENTS COMING SOON!

Thurs 13th: Adele Tribute 8pmFri 14th: Valentine’s Special. Ribs or rump + bottle of wine €20 for two pluslighthearted game of Mr & Mrs.Friday 21st: Amy Winehouse & Cher tribute with Jordana 9pmFriday 28th: Johnny G - All round entertainerFriday or Saturday night: Karaoke from 8pm, check with venue for which night! Sunday Night: The legendary Frankie B - Motown and soul

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BreakfastBaby Jeeves €3.50

Mrs Jeeves €4Daddy Jeeves €5

Food served all dayMONTEMAR

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plus a bottle of Rioja wine... WOW! only €29.95 for two

12noon until 11pm all day“Don’t miss out - go on, treat your man”

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Wednesday 12th60s night - listen to allyour favourites PLUS

music QuizThursday 13th

Rob and Dave - Comedyvocals

Friday 14thSiobhan - female vocalist

from DublinSaturday 15th 9.30pmLucy Faye - femalevocalist Jazz, pop, soul

Sunday 16thExplosion - vocal duowith the soulful sounds ofMotown and moreMonday 17th &Tuesday 18th

Live Football on 7 bigscreens followed byRobbie’s Roadshow &

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14th, 15th, 16th & 21st, 22nd, 23rd

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Come and enjoy the Caravanning and Leisure Fair 2014 in Alicante

Exhibition Hall of Alicante

For all that is new in

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Sponsoredstepping outfor SOSSOS Animal Refugevolunteers and supporterswill put their best footforward in a 5kmsponsored walk-jog-run toraise much needed funds. The fun event will be

held on Saturday March29th in country lanesoverlooked by the famouswater tower landmark inAlhaurin el Grande and allcomers are welcome totake part. Serious runnerswho want to testthemselves against theclock will set off first andbe timed at the start andfinish of the course andwill receive personalisedcertificates confirmingtheir run time.Others taking part can

enjoy a light jog orleisurely stroll with orwithout a dog, ending upat Finca Juan Berrocal,and everyone who takespart will receive alaminated certificate ofthanks. Anyone whowould like to give an SOSdog a fun morning out willbe able to pick one fromthe ‘rogues gallery’ on thecharity’s website eventpage. The dogs will bewearing jaunty hand-made red jackets sewn byan SOS volunteer. Entry is 5 euros and

sponsor forms areavailable from SOS, eitherto download from the SOSwebsite, from the SOSSunday market stall atLa Trocha, the CHAINcharity shop in La Trocha,Coin, and Victoria Hart’sbeauty salon in Alhaurinel Grande high street. Visit the SOS website

at www.sos-animals.org

and click on the eventbutton to find out theroute –which goes past an8th century Moorishtower, one of just twostill standing in Malagaprovince, and ends up atJuan Berrocal’s – plusregistration times andparking details. All dogswelcome, but must besociable and kept on alead!For more information

visit the website –www.sos-animals.org,Facebook (SOS AnimalsSpain) or call 605 227 155.

Come alongand joinHarmony MagicYou know you can sing.You know you want tosing! But you don’t knowhow to take the first steptowards singing with agroup of like-mindedpeople other than to jointhe local church choir.

Well, now’s your chanceto join a friendly group ofsingers who meetregularly for A-Cappellaand 4-part-Harmonysinging.

Harmony Magic meetevery Thursday from 2

until 4pm at theWellington Centre onAvenida Maria Zambranoin Coin, situated on theraised service roadbetween PoligonoCantarranas where thefruit and veg outlets areand the roundabout withthe tyre shop on. It’s easyto find and there’s plentyof parking.

For more informationcall Beef on 679 185 078and make your first steptowards making new andharmonious friends.

If you would like to tryyour hand at beingcreative, why not makeyour way up to Benahavis’Gran Hotel on SundayFebruary 23rd from mid-day until 6pm where youwill find an exhibitionof sketching, painting,photography, textiles,painting, ceramics andglass, street art andgraffiti. If you fancy having a go

at sketching, get there for2pm and to get your handson a spray can and have ago at graffiti and street artfollowing a demonstration,be there at 4pm.Run by the Benahavis

branch of DFAS, it’s freeentry and parking withfood available in theexhibition hall.

Graffiti?


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Paseo Maritimo in front of Hotel Piramides

RESTAURANT & TAKE-AWAYOPEN EVERY DAY 1PM - 10:30PM

CASA KON-TIKIThe Home of Fish and ChipsOpen 7 days a week, 12 ‘til 11pm

Call Glyn on 634 081 264 or Chris The Fish on 664 028 310

to reserve your table2nd street behind Yaramar Hotel,

Los BolichesVisit us at www.los-boliches.es

(Find “The Fish”, the same as the one on theleft, in The News and get another

10% off your bill!)

Lillie LangtryBar & Restaurant

Sunday Carvery from 1pm until 7pm

Standard €6.95 Upstairs, next to the Nahar Mahal

restaurant, opposite the Hotel Riviera,Benalmadena Costa, on the main road.

951 253 986

La Risa

For details of special events call us on653 010 208 or pop into the bar.

On the road between Alhaurin el Grande & Alhaurin de la Torre at Lauro Golf

Across from the Clubhouse

Advance bookings are advisable

VALENTINE’S SPECIALSaturday 15th Feb. 3 courses €19.90pp

Kitchen opens all day Monday to Saturday 11am -9pm, and Sunday 1pm - 5pm

Also in Nueva Andalucia: MARLOWS, formerlyFishita, behind the H10 Andalucia Plaza Hotel

RestauranteRestaurant

Comida para llevarTake-Away

Centro Eroski, next to Duquesa Golf, N340, ManilvaGreat Food - Great Value

Tel: 952 276 728

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BBQ ribs, Rump steak, Gammon, Spicy chicken wings,Scampi, Sausage, Onions, Tomatoes, Mushrooms.

€29.25 for two (ensure the lady gets the extra rib!)

OR2 Rump steaks with all the trimmings and a bottle of

Rioja wine €25OR

2 Jumbo Cod and a bottle of Rioja wine €25

Trio of Desserts €4.95

SUNDAY CARVERY €7.95 - all you can eat trimmings

DAILY 3 Course Menu €6.95 including a drink

Don’t forget Chris’ famous Fish & Chips

Free Chips Special Offer

One regular sized portionof chips with any standard

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Crispy Cod Fuengirola

Valentine’s Special

RESTAURANTE EL RIO

Open 12.00 noon ‘til late (Closed Sundays and Monday lunchtime)

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BAR EL RIOAntonio and his staff would like to

wish all of our customers a very Happy Valentine’s Day

and welcomeyou

to spend aromantic lunch or evening meal at

Restaurante El Rio & Bar El Rio for all our usual top quality food,

drinks and tapas

Ladies Lunch Thurs 20th Feb 1:30pm

There will be a Speaker on the subject:'Getting into and thriving in the public or

private medical system in Spain'.Menu: Beer battered prawns with SweetChilli dip, followed by Beef Bourguignon,

sauté potatoes & fresh veg. Priceincluding drink is10€ - optional dessert 3€

952 664 311 - 691 406 453Calle Francisco Cano, 60, Los Boliches, Fuengirola

THESPA’s next dinnertheatre evening is to beheld on WednesdayFebruary 26th with twoplays for the evening.The first one is “Say

Something Happened” byAlan Bennett.Eager but green June is

despatched by the Councilto register elderly peoplein the area but meets hermatch with Mam and Dad.This play will be

followed by a three-coursedinner and then thesecond play, “The DearDeparted” by StanleyHoughton, will beperformed.The Dear Departed is a

satire exploring theattitude of the daughterstowards their sick father.Do they care for him or are

they only interested in hisproperty?Doors open at 7pm for

the 7.30pm start at theMasonic Centre, LosBolichesYou can reserve your

tickets by [email protected] by calling 952 451 113.

THESPAdinnertheatre date

Another smart animateddelight from Dreamworks,which offers plenty ofaction for the kids and lotsof gags aimed at keepingthe grown-ups amused, somark this one down asperfect family fun.

Mr Peabody (Burrell) isa talking dog who is thecleverest being on theplanet who happens tohave a human adopted sonSherman (Charles). MrPeabody has used his owninvention, the WABACtime travel machine, totake Sherman on trips tolearn about the past in aWayne’s World/Back toThe Future riff but thingsget out of hand whenSherman, making amendsfor fighting at school withclassmate Penny, showsoff the WABAC and beforeyou can say space-timecontinuum the pair are offon a trip through time.

But of course it’s notthat simple and theuniverse is threatened bytheir actions so MrPeabody and the kids findthemselves in AncientEgypt, the Trojan War,the Renaissance andRevolutionary France, as

they try to put order backinto the world.

It’s all great fun, withthe usual impeccableDreamworks standard ofanimation and a wittyscript, and has wonplaudits from the critics.

Directed by Rob Minkoff

Voices by: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stanley Tucci

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All Is Lost

A man is lost at sea in theIndian Ocean. He is allalone, and his boat hastaken on water as aresult of an accidentthat ripped a hole in theside.

Nowhere near land, hemust find a way to keepthe boat afloat longenough to get it into ashipping lane. That willtake all of the strength

and courage that he has.

Beyond the physicaldemands of keeping hisship together andsurviving on very little toeat or drink, he mustkeep himself fromgoing crazy as solitudeencroaches on him andit becomes more andmore likely that he willnot survive thisexperience.

As the days wear on,his will to live begins toseriously dwindle.

DVD NEW RELEASE Release date: February 11th

Director: J.C. ChandorStarring: Robert Redford

Mr Peabody

& SherMan

The Armstrong Lie

This documentarycompellingly reviews thelife of American athleteLance Armstrong, as toldby intimate friends aswell as journalists whoquestioned his integrityearly on.

Armstrong managedto cycle his way to fameby winning the Tour deFrance competition seventimes after conqueringcancer of the testicles.The absence of

Armstrong's fatherduring hischildhood as wellas the creationof his popularLive Strongphilanthropicorganisationdemonstrate someof the highs andlows of his life,until his reputationcomes crashingdown after he finallyadmits to takingillegal drugs in order to

enhance his cyclingperformance.


Director: Alex GibneyStarring: Lance Armstrong

Ender's Game

In a dystopian future, theEarth is threatened bythe Formics, a high-techalien species that almostdestroyed the humanrace decades earlier.

Terrified by theirreturn, the governmenttries to decide what canbe done about this grimproblem. They end upsettling upon an unlikelysolution: putting theirhopes in a boy namedEnder, whom they intendto train to destroy the

alien invaders. Enderis a kind, empatheticchild who is deeplydevoted to his sisterand frightened of hisbrother.

Neither of them isa chief concern oncehe is whisked away,however. Somehow,this mild-manneredchild must betransformed into a killingmachine.

How much will this

remarkable boy be forcedto give up in order tosave his people?


Director: Gavin HoodStarring: Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford

Sometimes your heart just can’t take it, you are pushed until you reach your limitof what you feel you want to emotionally endure. You are possibly experiencingextreme diversity in your life when the pendulum seems to swing from oneextreme to another, emotionally you can feel as though you are on a roller coasterride. Massive changes usually occur under these conditions but rest assured thata gap is on its way where you will be able to settle and recuperate.

Your head has had to turn and face the things that you do not wish to deal withbut now that your ruler is moving direct again you are some more able to singwith the fairies. A sense of optimism and enthusiasm for the future inspires youto look with joy at the horizon. Take some time to heal the past, with someonewho means a great deal to you, as there is no real moving forward until ithappens.

There is support around you right now not only from those who are physicallythere but from the intangible levels too. You may be able to either seesomething or someone clearly for the first time, in a way that you haveoverlooked, or an aspect of your health may come to your attention. At thispoint you could slip into moments of deep thought as your mind is processingall the information it has been collecting over the past few months.

Let the tears flow Cancer, let it go. You are feeling sensitive on these days, evenmore so than usual and you feel like you could cry at a drop of a hat. What youreally need is some peace and quiet; people may be tugging at you from alldirections and demanding your attention. Take some well needed space, a bitof time out from it all, and this will restore some sense of internal balance andstrengthen your resources.

A wave of intense feeling is running through your veins and this will tell you allyou need to know to proceed in a certain direction. However, if you are lookingexternally for feedback or validation from others it will be a waste of time. All youneed to know is inside of you. You are about to enter a brand new life cycle thatwill prove to be very different from all the others, there will be hesitancy on yourpart as you know there will be no turning back once you begin down this road.

This week ahead can be full of ups and downs, if there has been a repeatingtheme in your life, then this theme is likely to occur again but this time you havea chance to rewrite the outcome if you wish and take control of the cycle. Getsome well needed rest when you can as this can be a strange but amusing time,having its tragic moments and its humorous ones. Once things start moving thenthey are likely to really take off so make the most of any quiet times you get.

Significant personal advancements start to happen and life seems to moveprogressively onwards. Everything seems to fall into place automatically, thebarriers have lifted and it is time to really step things up and get it all moving.Others are likely to sense your energy and look to you for leadership andguidance as you appear to be able to weigh up the odds and make decisionsbased on common sense and a logical approach.

Love is on your mind and is a serious business, perhaps there is someone in your lifethat you can trust for the long haul and somewhere inside you, you know this is true.Perhaps you are thinking of allowing yourself to commit and take this relationshipto another level of trust. You hold the cards at the moment and the timing anddeliverance is all down to you. You have passed through the valley of darkness latelyand now you are emerging stronger and more determined than ever.

This can be an unusually nostalgic time and you will want to dig deep into yourpast and the memories of something significant loom larger than usual in yourmind. Emotionally you could feel all over the place and you will want to indulgeyourself in these feelings for now. Everything seems to have slowed down andprogress can look as though it has groundto a halt, use this time to consideryour options and choices very carefully.

Relationship dynamics are the theme of the week and you wish to clear thedecks in order to eliminate all that does not serve you in your life. Everyonehas their limits and you have nearly reached yours, in one key area, you knowthings have to change. This week prepare yourself for the changes that areabout to begin as they are likely to be beneficial once they kick in. You will bepushing the re-set button and setting the criteria back on track.

Commitments and career are the areas that are highlighted for you this week,there is likely to be some sort of recovery either on the practical level as in debtsdue to you come forth, or on a deeper level where you feel that you get a senseof identity back. There are opportunities to recover a more sustainable basethat reflects a more natural expression of you. Demand what you are worth,be more self reliant and get those personal talents working for you.

With any challenging experience, there is always a way through, this week youmay need to ask yourself why you were put in a certain position in the firstplace. Events are likely to get interesting and you could hear people say thingsthat you did not expect, powerful personal temptations are likely too; however,this is a perfect time for helping and assisting others. Pay close attention to thedetails, then you will not overlook anything important.

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POCO A POCOBy Valerie Mitchell

SPANISH

LESSON

Ingredients: (Serves 4)

Slow cooked shoulder of Lamb

I'm assuming by now you all know your numbers. Or are some of you still craning yournecks to read the till at the check-out? With numbers, like everything else, it is just amatter of practise, practise, practise. Try saying prices to yourself as you go about yourshopping.

So with the cardinal (normal) numbers under our belts it is now time to tackle the ordinals (the ones that tell you the order/sequence of things.) They come in masculineand feminine forms Primero/a - First, Segundo/a - Second, Tercero/a - Third, Cuarto/a- Fourth, Quinto/a - Fifth, Sexto/a - Sixth, Septimo/a - Seventh, Octavo/a - Eighth,Noveno/a - Ninth, Decimo/a - Tenth.

It is worth remembering that speaking about dates, people use the normal, cardinalnumbers. So, the seventh of February is el siete de febrero, 17th March - el diecisiete demarzo, 9th May - el nueve de mayo, 4th December - el cuatro de diciembre and so on.However, there are many times that it is useful to know the ordinals at least up to 10.

Mi oficina está en la quinta planta - My office is on the fifth floorEl coche está en el sexto nivel del parking - My car is on the sixth level of the car parkTerminamos segundo en la carrera - We finished second in the race.Octubre es el decimo mes del año - October is the tenth month of the year.Toma la tercera calle a la derecha - Take the third street on the right. Y después la primera a la izquierda - And then the first on the left.Voy de vacaciones la segunda semana de febrero - I'm going on holidayin the second week of February. Ojalá - If only

Ya está - That's itHasta la próxima - Until next time.Valerie

1. Preheat the oven to 70C/gas 1/8. 2. Seasonthe lamb liberally with salt and pepper. Heatthe olive oil in a roasting tray and brown theshoulder on all sides. Add the onions, garlic andherbs. Lightly brown the vegetables. 3. Removethe meat and vegetables from the tray. Pour inthe white wine and scrape the pan with awooden spoon to dissolve any caramelisedmeat juices. Return the meat and vegetables tothe pan, cover tightly with tin foil and put intothe oven. 4. After 1 hour, remove the foil andadd enough water to have about 1cm of liquidcovering the bottom of the pan. Continue tocook uncovered for 4 hours, adding more liquidas necessary to baste the shoulder. 5. After 4

hours, remove the meat from the pan andstrain any liquid through a sieve - you shouldhave roughly 300-400ml. Discard the herbs andvegetables. 6. Increase the oven temperatureto 80C/gas 1/2. 7. For the boulangere: softenthe onions in a little butter. 8. Spread theonions onto the roasting tray and lay the slicedpotatoes, overlapping on top. Sit the meat ontop of the potatoes, pour the liquid over thelamb and add more water till the potatoes arejust covered. 9. Put the pan back into the ovenfor another 2 hours, basting the meat andpotatoes occasionally. You will have the mosttender piece of meat imaginable, with thetastiest potato garnish.

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HOROSCOPESBy Cathy Stronach

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Kym’s KitchenThis is a great dish to cook when you have guests for Sunday lunch – just stick it in the oven andforget about it. The 6 – 7 hours of slow cooking allows the meat to tenderise slowly and evenly.

• 2 kg lamb shoulder • 2 tbsp olive oil • 2 medium onions, peeled androughly chopped • 1 head garlic, halved horizontally • sprigs rosemary • sprigs thyme • 400 ml white wine

For the boulangere• 2 onions, thinly sliced • knob of butter • 4 large potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced

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Dear Sue,

I have an acne proneskin. Do I need to use atoner?

Victoria, Mijas

Dear Victoria,

An acidic toner, such asthose containing extracts oforange and lemon will bebeneficial for your skin.These take away anyresidue left from cleansingand assist in maintainingthe pH balance of the skin,which in turn reduces therisk of infection. Many also

have anti fungus propertieswhich is extremely helpfulif you have acne.

Dear Calvin,

I have recently been toldI have alopecia will my hairloss ever grow back?

Cathy, Fuengirola

Dear Cathy,

There is every chancethat your hair will growback with or withouttreatment, but it also it mayfall out again. No one canpredict when it might

Ask Calvin and Sue: Hair & Beautyregrow or fall out, as thecondition varies fromperson to person. Somepeople lose just a fewpatches of hair, the hairregrows and the conditionnever comes back, whereasothers continue to lose andregrow hair for many years.

These are just mythoughts on the subject,but for more accurateinformation I would listento your GP.

Dear Sue,

I am very fair and don'twant to use a sunbed but

am going back to Englandfor a big party and want tolook brown. Have you anyideas on how to achievethis?

Emma, Fuengirola

Dear Emma,

The easy answer to this isto fake it! Either with aspray tan or self tanningcream. Both are easy, quickand safe. Make sure youexfoliate well before eitherso you get more even, longlasting results. Self tanningcan also help to disguisestretch marks and the

dimpling caused bycellulite.

Dear Calvin,

I am desperately tryingto grow my hair for myupcoming wedding but Ihave bad split ends and Idon't want to cut my hair,any solutions?

Debbie, Benalmadena

Dear Debbie,

Got to be blunt Debbie ,youhave to cut them off, if youdon't the split ends willcontinue to get worse until

you have to have a lot cutoff.

Having your ends cut ona regular basis will actuallystop the splitting and thehair will grow more quickly.Believe me it does work!

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Nearly a decade ago,researchers in Bostondecided to find out if oldermen who were not in goodshape could benefit fromdaily doses of testosterone.They recruited severalhundred volunteers andgave them the hormone ora placebo.

Those takingtestosterone got stronger,compared with those

taking the placebo, butthey also had nearly fivetimes the number ofcardiovascular problems,including heart attacksand strokes, and safetymonitors ended the trialearly.

Since then studies oftestosterone treatmenthave produced mixedresults. A 2012 study ofveterans aged 40 and over

with low testosteronefound that those treatedwith the hormone wereless likely to die, but morerecent reports havedocumented an increase incardiovascular risk in menover age 65 takingtestosterone, as well as inyounger men with ahistory of heart disease.

Testosterone has beenheavily promoted as a

cure-all for low energy, lowlibido, depression andother ills among middle-aged men. Between 2001and 2011, in the UShormone use by men 40and over nearlyquadrupled.

By the end of thatperiod, nearly one in 25men in their 60s wastaking testosterone.Though the drug is

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High-dose vitamin C canboost the cancer-killingeffect of chemotherapyin the lab and in mice,researchers at theUniversity of Kansas havesuggested, after tests withmice and patients withadvanced ovarian cancer.

They said that given byinjection, it couldpotentially be a safe,effective and low-costtreatment for ovarian andother cancers, and calledfor large-scale governmentclinical trials. Thelarge pharmaceuticalcompanies are unlikely torun trials, as vitaminscannot be patented.Vitamin C has long beenused as an alternativetherapy for cancer.

In the 1970s, chemistLinus Pauling reportedthat vitamin C givenintravenously waseffective in treatingcancer. However, clinicaltrials of vitamin C givenby mouth failed to

replicate the effect, andresearch was abandoned.It is now known that thehuman body quicklyexcretes vitamin C when itis taken by mouth.

However, theresearchers said thatwhen given by injectionvitamin C is absorbed intothe body, and can killcancer cells withoutharming normal ones.After injecting vitamin Cinto human ovarian cancercells in the lab and intomice, they found ovariancancer cells were sensitiveto vitamin C treatment,but normal cells wereunharmed.

The treatment workedin tandem with standardchemotherapy drugs toslow tumour growthin mouse studies.Meanwhile, a small groupof patients reported fewerside-effects when givenvitamin C alongsidechemotherapy.

indicated for men withabnormally lowtestosterone levels, acondition calledhypogonadism, doctorshave been prescribing it tomany men with normallevels.

The researchers foundthat for people with trulylow testosterone levels, thebenefits outweigh therisks "but for millions ofothers, it’s in the samecategory as snake oil”.

Vitamin C 'keepscancer at bay'

Shirley Temple Black, diedon Monday night at about11 p.m. at her home nearSan Francisco. She wassurrounded by familymembers and caregivers.She was America’s top boxoffice star throughout theDepression years from1935 to 1938 beating suchbig names as Clark Gable,Bing Crosby, RobertTaylor, Gary Cooper andJoan Crawford. She keptmovie enthusiasts singing“On The Good ShipLollipop” that featured inthe 1934 film “BrightEyes” when she sang it atjust six years old. TheGood Ship Lollipop was infact an aeroplane, not aboat, and the aviators inthe plane during the "Onthe Good Ship Lollipop"

song sequence were allvolunteers from thefootball team at the nearbyUniversity of SouthernCalifornia.Shirley Temple retiredfrom films at age 21 whenaudiences lost interest inher after she lost herchild status. She raisedher family and laterheld several diplomaticposts in Republicanadministrations includingthat of ambassador toCzechoslovakia duringthe collapse of communismin 1989.She won a specialAcademy Award in early1935 for her "outstandingcontribution to screenentertainment" in theprevious year. She washonoured in the 1998

Academy Awards and in2006 she was awardedthe lifetime achievementaward by the ScreenActors Guild. She said inher acceptance speech: "Ihave one piece of advice forthose of you who wantto receive the lifetimeachievement award. Startearly!" She was "just absolutelymarvelous, greatest in theworld," director AllanDwan told filmmaker-author Peter Bogdanovichin his book "Who the DevilMade It: ConversationsWith Legendary FilmDirectors." ''With Shirley,you'd just tell her once andshe'd remember the rest ofher life," said Dwan, whodirected "Heidi" and"Rebecca of Sunnybrook

Farm." ''Whatever it wasshe was supposed to do —she'd do it. ... And if one ofthe actors got stuck, she'dtell him what his line was— she knew it better thanhe did." She often playedan orphan, as in "CurlyTop," where she introducedthe hit "Animal Crackersin My Soup," and"Stowaway," in which shewas befriended by RobertYoung, later of "FatherKnows Best" fame.At one point PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt saidthat "as long as ourcountry has ShirleyTemple, we will be allright.""We salute her for a life ofremarkable achievementsas an actor, as a diplomat,and most importantly as

our beloved mother,grandmother, great-grandmother, and adoredwife for fifty-five years ofthe late and much missedCharles Alden Black," a

family statement said.She was married for morethan 50 years to CharlesBlack of whom she said:"There's nothing like reallove. Nothing."

On Monday, child star Shirley Temple died aged 85 according to her publicist Cheryl Kagan

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Shirley Temple in Bright Eyes the 1934 film that made her a star

John Travolta, best knownfor his starring rôles suchas Danny Zuko in Grease,the hip-gyrating TonyManero in Saturday NightFever, Vincent Vega inPulp Fiction, and for hispart as a really rathernaughty angel in Michael,turns the ripe old age of 60later this month – nextTuesday in fact, althoughhe’d really rather forget it,he says.

Having been away fromthe big screen for a while,he now has a series oftough-guy roles lined up,first in heist movie TheForger, then as John GottiSnr in a 2015 biopic aboutthe mobster. However, hesays he won’t really “closethe chapter on playingvillains”, until he gets castas a baddy in a JamesBond film. “I would lovethat. They’re going adifferent way with theirvillain in this next film butI’ve spoken to BarbaraBroccoli about it and sheloves the idea, so thatwould be great.”

Will Danny Zuko be inthe next007 movie?

From Fleming to Bond?British actor DominicCooper – and if you don’tknow who he is, he’s theboyfriend in Mama Mia –is playing 007 creator IanFleming in a new TVseries, and wouldn't

mind a shot at playinghis famous suave,womanising intelligenceofficer.

Fleming starts on SkyAtlantic tonight,

Wednesday, February12th at 10pm our time(9pm UK time) and forthose who pay for Sky TV,yes, you should still beable to get it!

Two fashiondesigners hitby delaysDesigner and girlfriend ofRolling Stones frontmanMick Jagger, L’Wren Scotthas pulled out of the bi-annual London FashionWeek as delays inproduction mean that keypieces will not be ready intime for the show that wasscheduled for this comingSunday.

The 6’4” former model isknown for designingclothes for her label –founded in 2006 – thatwomen can actually wearand is a firm favouritewith Penelope Cruz, SaraJessica Parker and AmyAdams.

Instead, Scott willunveil her autumn/winter2014 collection via socialmedia and present it topress at her Parisshowroom during ParisFashion Week at thebeginning of March.

She most recentlycollaborated with Banana

Republic to create anaffordable collection ofclothes, shoes andaccessories.

Also dogged by delaysare is Victoria Beckham’spress material forher Victoria Beckhamautumn/winter launch duethis week. However, theclothes still went on salefrom her New Yorkfashion house fromMonday this week and arereportedly proving verypopular.

The sister line to hermain clothing line isresponsible for taking theformer Spice Girl's fashionbusiness into the blackafter 2012's .£15 millionturnover left a tidyprofit of just below £1.5million.

Both designers areknown for their smart,wearable and affordablerange of clothes for themodern woman.

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New series. Dave Myers and Si Kingtravel around Asia exploring the rootsof some of their favourite dishes fromthe continent. They begin in HongKong, where they learn about theversatility of the wok in Cantonesecuisine at a street-food stall, whilebreakfast reveals a surprising legacyof British rule, before the duo aresent on their way with a traditionalChinese good luck ceremony.

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Weather7:00pm Emmerdale7:30pm Can We Trust thePolice?: Tonight8:00pm Emmerdale8:30pm Birds of aFeather9:00pm Benidorm10:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather10:30pm ITV NewsLondon10:35pm The Cube11:35pm The Great TrainRobbery12:30am Jackpot2473:00am Can We Trust thePolice?: Tonight3:25am ITV Nightscreen

7:10am Will & Grace8:00am Everybody LovesRaymond8:30am Everybody LovesRaymond9:00am Frasier9:30am Frasier10:00am UndercoverBoss Canada11:00am Sarah Beeny'sSelling Houses12:00pm 4 News12:05pm Jamie's 15Minute Meals12:35pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland1:35pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland2:35pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland3:10pm Countdown4:00pm Deal or No Deal5:00pm Come Dine

with Me5:30pm Coach Trip6:00pm The Simpsons6:30pm Hollyoaks7:00pm Channel 4 News8:00pm Supersize vsSuperskinny9:00pm Big Ballet10:00pm Bodyshockers:My Tattoo Hell11:05pm Getting Rich inthe Recession: Scrappers12:05am 24 Hours in A&E1:00am Random Acts1:05am First Dates2:00am Payday2:55am Benefits Britain:The Bedroom Tax -Channel 4 Dispatches3:25am Food Unwrapped3:50am Location,Location, Location

7:00pm Total Wipeout8:00pm Motorway Cops9:00pm Tough YoungTeachers10:00pm Ja'mie: PrivateSchool Girl10:30pm EastEnders11:00pm Family Guy11:25pm Family Guy11:45pm American Dad!12:10am American Dad!

12:30am Ja'mie: PrivateSchool Girl12:55am Uncle1:25am Tough YoungTeachers2:25am Live at theElectric2:55am Tough YoungTeachers

6:00am Breakfast9:15am Wanted DownUnder Revisited10:00am Homes Underthe Hammer11:00am Bargain Hunt12:00pm Live WinterOlympics1:00pm BBC News;Weather1:30pm Regional Newsand Weather1:45pm Doctors2:15pm WPC 563:00pm Perfection3:45pm Escape to theCountry4:30pm Put Your MoneyWhere Your Mouth Is5:15pm Pointless6:00pm BBC News6:30pm Regional News

Programmes7:00pm The One Show7:30pm A Question ofSport8:00pm EastEnders8:30pm Room 1019:00pm New Tricks10:00pm BBC News10:25pm Regional Newsand Weather10:35pm The GrahamNorton Show11:25pm Pound ShopWars11:55pm EastEnders1:50am Weatherview1:55am BBC News

6:45am Live WinterOlympics12:00pm Daily Politics1:00pm Live WinterOlympics3:40pm Live WinterOlympics7:10pm WinterOlympics: Today at theGames8:00pm Mastermind8:30pm An Island Parish9:00pm Mock the WeekLooks Back at Health9:30pm QI10:00pm Alan DaviesApres-Ski10:30pm Newsnight11:00pm Weather11:05pm Before Sunrise12:40am Question Time1:40am Inspire: TheOlympic Journey

2:10am SteveMcQueen: Are YouSitting Uncomfortably? -A Culture Show Special3:10am This Is BBC Two5:00am Live WinterOlympics

6:00am Daybreak8:30am Lorraine9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show10:30am This Morning12:30pm Loose Women1:30pm ITV News1:55pm ITV NewsLondon2:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal3:00pm The AlanTitchmarsh Show3:59pm ITV LondonWeather4:00pm Britain's BestBakery5:00pm The Chase6:00pm ITV NewsLondon

6:30pm ITV News7:00pm Emmerdale7:30pm CoronationStreet8:00pm Student Nurses:Bedpans and Bandages8:30pm CoronationStreet9:00pm Piers Morgan'sLife Stories: Ian Botham10:00pm ITV News atTen and Weather10:30pm ITV NewsLondon10:35pm The Americans11:35pm Benidorm12:25am Jackpot2473:00am The Jeremy KyleShow USA4:25am ITV Nightscreen

7:10am Will & Grace8:00am Everybody LovesRaymond9:00am Frasier10:00am UndercoverBoss Canada11:00am Sarah Beeny'sSelling Houses12:00pm 4 News12:05pm Jamie's 15Minute Meals12:35pm Come Dinewith Me: Ireland1:35pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland2:35pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland3:10pm Countdown4:00pm Deal or No Deal5:00pm Come Dine with Me5:30pm Coach Trip6:00pm The Simpsons

6:30pm Hollyoaks7:00pm Channel 4 News8:00pm Jamie andJimmy's Friday NightFeast9:00pm Peter Kay: Live &Back on Nights! Part Two10:00pm The Last Leg10:50pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine11:20pm The NakedGun: From the Files ofPolice Squad!12:55am The Simpsons1:15am Random Acts1:20am According to Jim1:45am Happy Endings2:05am Franklin & Bash2:50am Boss3:45am StonehouseReunion3:50am Location,Location, Location

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Thriller (2001). A petty crook finds himself in atricky situation when he tries to smuggle anantique gun from Mexico into America for hisMob boss. As events begin to spiral out of control,his girlfriend's displeasure and a pursuing hitmanonly add to the would-be bootlegger's woes.Comedy thriller directed by Gore Verbinski, withBrad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, GeneHackman and JK Simmons.

The Mexican

Western (2010). Premiere. A farmer is murderedby a hired hand, who flees into the wilderness.The dead man's strong-willed 14-year-olddaughter is determined to bring the killer tojustice, and recruits the aid of a hard-drinking,one-eyed marshal to help her track him down.The Coen brothers' Western based on CharlesPortis' novel, with Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld,Matt Damon and Josh Brolin.

True Grit

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Espionage (1967). James Bond is sent on amission to uncover the truth behind thedisappearances of Soviet and American spacecapsules before the mutually suspicioussuperpowers go to war. The trail leads to Japan,where Bond finally comes face to face with hisarch-enemy Blofeld. Spy thriller, starring SeanConnery, Donald Pleasence, Akiko Wakabayashiand Bernard Lee.

You Only Live Twice

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Espionage (2010). A retired CIA agent survives anassassination attempt and realises something inhis past has made him a target. He sets out toreunite the members of his old hit squad to findout who is trying to kill them and why, but in theprocess, uncovers dangerous secrets. Actionthriller, with Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, JohnMalkovich and Helen Mirren.

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12:20am American Dad!12:40am American Dad!1:00am Sexy Beasts1:30am Sexy Beasts2:00am Uncle2:30am Sun, Sex andSuspicious Parents:Thailand3:30am Live at theElectric

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The Hairy Bikers'Asian Adventure

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6:00am Breakfast9:15am Wanted DownUnder Revisited10:00am Homes Underthe Hammer11:00am Bargain Hunt11:30am Live WinterOlympics1:00pm BBC News;Weather1:30pm Regional Newsand Weather1:45pm Doctors2:15pm WPC 563:00pm Perfection3:45pm Escape to theCountry4:30pm Put Your MoneyWhere Your Mouth Is5:15pm Pointless6:00pm BBC News6:30pm Regional News

Programmes7:00pm The One Show8:00pm Waterloo Road9:00pm Outnumbered9:30pm Mrs Brown'sBoys10:00pm BBC News10:25pm Regional Newsand Weather10:35pm Match of theDay12:05am Weatherview12:10am BBC News

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5:00am Live WinterOlympics 12:30pm Live WinterOlympics4:30pm Live WinterOlympics7:00pm WinterOlympics: Today at theGames8:00pm Top Gear9:00pm MOVIE: TrueGrit10:45pm QI XL11:30pm The NotoriousBettie Page1:00am Love2:15am This Is BBC Two5:00am Live WinterOlympics

6:50am Canimals7:00am Canimals7:05am Canimals7:10am Om Nom Stories7:15am Sooty7:30am Scrambled!9:25am ITV News9:30am Dinner Date10:30am Murder, SheWrote11:30am ITV News andWeather11:40am The Jeremy KyleShow USA12:35pm The CrocodileHunter Diaries1:05pm TheUnforgettable Ernie Wise2:05pm MOVIE: YouOnly Live Twice

4:20pm ITV NewsLondon4:30pm ITV News andWeather4:45pm Live FA CupFootball7:20pm Splash!8:50pm Take Me Out10:05pm The JonathanRoss Show11:05pm ITV News andWeather11:20pm FA Cup FootballHighlights12:30am Jackpot2473:00am In Plain Sight3:45am ITV Nightscreen

6:10am The Hoobs6:35am The Hoobs7:00am Trans WorldSport8:00am The Morning Line9:00am Everybody LovesRaymond9:30am Frasier10:00am The Big BangTheory10:30am The Big BangTheory11:00am How I Met Your Mother11:25am How I Met Your Mother11:55am The Simpsons12:25pm UndercoverBoss USA1:25pm Channel 4 Racing4:10pm Come Dine with Me4:40pm Come Dine

with Me5:10pm Come Dine with Me5:40pm Come Dine with Me6:15pm Come Dine with Me6:45pm Channel 4 News7:05pm The RestorationMan8:00pm Walking ThroughHistory: Northumbria9:00pm Hostages10:00pm InglouriousBasterds12:55am Before the DevilKnows You're Dead2:45am Hollyoaks4:50am Location,Location, Location

6:00am Breakfast9:00am The AndrewMarr Show10:00am The BigQuestions11:00am Sunday Politics12:15pm Wanted DownUnder Revisited1:00pm BBC News1:15pm Bargain Hunt2:00pm The IndianDoctor2:45pm Escape to theCountry3:30pm HiddenKingdoms4:30pm Lifeline4:40pm Songs of Praise5:15pm PointlessCelebrities6:05pm BBC News;Regional News and

Weather6:30pm Blandings7:00pm Countryfile8:00pm Call the Midwife9:00pm The BritishAcademy Film Awards11:00pm BBC News;Regional News andWeather11:25pm Doubt1:05am Weatherview1:10am BBC News

5:00am Live WinterOlympics12:30pm Live WinterOlympics4:00pm Live WinterOlympics7:00pm WinterOlympics: Today at theGames8:00pm Top Gear9:00pm Dragons' Den10:00pm Alan DaviesApres-Ski10:30pm Line of Duty11:30pm For YourConsideration12:55am Countryfile1:50am Holby City2:50am The Truth AboutImmigration3:50am This Is BBC Two5:00am Live Winter

Olympics

6:50am Canimals7:05am Canimals7:10am Om Nom Stories7:15am Sooty7:30am Scrambled!9:25am ITV News9:30am Murder, SheWrote10:30am Dickinson's Real Deal11:25am ITV News11:35am Inside theNational Trust12:30pm The CrocodileHunter Diaries1:00pm Live FA CupFootball3:50pm Splash!5:20pm You've BeenFramed!

5:50pm ITV News London6:00pm ITV News6:15pm Dancing on Ice7:45pm All Star FamilyFortunes8:30pm Dancing on Ice:The Skate Off9:00pm Mr Selfridge10:00pm ITV News at Tenand Weather10:15pm Birds of aFeather10:45pm FA CupHighlights11:45pm PremiershipRugby Union12:45am The Store2:45am The Jeremy KyleShow USA4:10am ITV Nightscreen

6:10am The Hoobs6:35am The Hoobs7:00am Freesports on 47:30am Everybody LovesRaymond7:55am Frasier8:25am The Taste9:30am Sunday Brunch12:30pm The Big BangTheory12:55pm The Big BangTheory1:25pm How I Met Your Mother1:50pm How I Met Your Mother2:20pm The Simpsons2:50pm The Simpsons3:20pm Spy Kids 4: Allthe Time in the World5:00pm Deal or No Deal6:00pm Channel 4 News6:30pm Gulliver's Travels

8:00pm Scandimania9:00pm MOVIE: Red11:15pm Under Siege 2:Dark Territory1:05am Boss2:00am The SecretMillionaire Changed My Life2:55am Secret Removers3:55am Location,Location, Location4:50am Supernanny US

7:00pm Pop's GreatestDance Crazes7:10pm The Voice UK8:30pm The BritishAcademy Film Awards:Red Carpet9:00pm Russell Howard'sGood News10:00pm Family Guy10:45pm Uncle11:15pm American Dad!

12:20am American Dad!12:45am American Dad!1:05am Ja'mie: PrivateSchool Girl1:30am Sun, Sex andSuspicious Parents:Thailand2:30am Russell Howard'sGood News3:00am Russell Howard'sGood News

6:00am Breakfast9:15am Wanted DownUnder Revisited10:00am Homes Underthe Hammer11:00am The Sheriffs Are Coming11:45am Saints andScroungers12:15pm Bargain Hunt1:00pm BBC News;Weather1:30pm Regional News 1:45pm Doctors2:15pm Perfection3:00pm Escape to theCountry3:45pm James Martin:Home Comforts4:30pm Put Your MoneyWhere Your Mouth Is5:15pm Pointless

6:00pm BBC News6:30pm Regional NewsProgrammes7:00pm The One Show7:30pm Inside Out8:00pm EastEnders8:30pm Kidnapped:Betrayed by Britain? -Panorama9:00pm Britain's GreatWar10:00pm BBC News10:25pm Regional Newsand Weather10:35pm Have I Got OldNews for You11:20pm Who Do YouThink You Are? USA12:00am The GrahamNorton Show12:45am Weatherview12:50am BBC News

5:00am Live WinterOlympics1:00pm Live WinterOlympics4:00pm Live WinterOlympics7:00pm WinterOlympics: Today at theGames8:00pm UniversityChallenge8:30pm Food & Drink9:00pm Horizon: ThePower of the Placebo10:00pm The CultureShow: Damon Albarn -Solo10:30pm Newsnight11:20pm Dragons' Den12:20am Film 201412:50am Russia on FourWheels1:50am Animal Odd

Couples2:50am This Is BBC Two3:55am Legal Eagles4:50am Ancient Egypt:Life and Death in theValley of the Kings5:30am Schools: YourPaintings

6:00am Daybreak8:30am Lorraine9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show10:30am This Morning12:30pm Loose Women1:30pm ITV News1:55pm News London2:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal3:00pm The AlanTitchmarsh Show3:59pm ITV LondonWeather4:00pm Tipping Point5:00pm The Chase6:00pm ITV News London6:30pm ITV News7:00pm Emmerdale7:30pm Coronation

Street8:00pm A Great WelshAdventure with Griff Rhys Jones8:30pm CoronationStreet9:00pm DCI Banks10:00pm ITV News at Ten 10:30pm News London10:35pm The Agenda11:10pm The MightyMississippi with TrevorMcDonald12:05am Jackpot2473:00am ChampionsLeague Weekly3:25am The Jeremy KyleShow USA4:10am ITV Nightscreen

7:10am Will & Grace8:00am Everybody LovesRaymond9:00am Everybody LovesRaymond9:30am Frasier10:30am Frasier11:00am The Big BangTheory11:30am The Big BangTheory12:00pm 4 News12:05pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland1:05pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland2:10pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland2:40pm Countdown3:30pm Deal or No Deal4:30pm Come Dine with Me5:00pm Coach Trip

5:30pm Superstar Dogs:Countdown to Crufts6:00pm The Simpsons6:30pm Hollyoaks7:00pm Channel 4 News8:00pm A&E's MissingMillions - Dispatches8:30pm Benefits Street:The Last Word9:00pm Benefits Britain:The Debate10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats10:50pm Troy11:50pm One Born EveryMinute12:45am Random Acts12:50am Scandal1:35am Hostages2:20am World WithoutEnd3:55am Supernanny US4:35am Location,Location, Location

7:00pm Snog, Marry,Avoid?7:30pm Snog, Marry,Avoid?8:00pm Don't Tell theBride9:00pm Is Amanda KnoxGuilty?10:00pm Uncle10:30pm EastEnders11:00pm Family Guy

11:25pm Family Guy11:45pm American Dad!12:10am American Dad!12:30am Uncle1:00am Is Amanda KnoxGuilty?2:00am Live at theElectric2:30am Growing UpDown's3:30am Uncle

6:00am Breakfast9:15am Wanted DownUnder Revisited10:00am Homes Underthe Hammer11:00am The Sheriffs AreComing11:45am Saints andScroungers12:15pm Bargain Hunt1:00pm BBC News;Weather1:30pm Regional Newsand Weather1:45pm Doctors2:15pm Perfection3:00pm Escape to theCountry3:45pm James Martin:Home Comforts4:30pm Put Your MoneyWhere Your Mouth Is

5:15pm Pointless6:00pm BBC News6:30pm Regional NewsProgrammes7:00pm The One Show7:30pm EastEnders8:00pm Holby City9:00pm Death inParadise10:00pm BBC News10:25pm Regional Newsand Weather10:35pm Traffic Cops11:35pm MOVIE: TheMexican1:30am Weatherview1:35am BBC News

6:45am Live WinterOlympics1:00pm Live WinterOlympics4:00pm Live WinterOlympics7:00pm WinterOlympics: Today at theGames8:00pm The Great BritishSewing Bee9:00pm How ChinaFooled the World - WithRobert Peston10:00pm House of Fools10:30pm Newsnight11:20pm Horizon: ThePower of the Placebo12:20am The SuperLeague Show1:00am Britain's GreatWar2:00am Operation Grand

Canyon with Dan Snow3:00am This Is BBC Two3:55am Schools - TheModern Monarchy4:55am Schools - D-Day:The Last Heroes5:30am Schools - RomanVoices

6:00am Daybreak8:30am Lorraine9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show10:30am This Morning12:30pm Loose Women1:30pm ITV News andWeather1:55pm ITV NewsLondon2:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal3:00pm The AlanTitchmarsh Show3:59pm ITV LondonWeather4:00pm Tipping Point5:00pm The Chase6:00pm ITV NewsLondon

6:30pm ITV News andWeather7:00pm Emmerdale7:30pm Live UEFAChampions League10:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather10:30pm ITV NewsLondon10:35pm UEFAChampions League: Extra Time11:35pm Jermain Defoe:Sports Life Stories12:30am Jackpot2473:00am Loose Women3:45am ITV Nightscreen

7:10am Will & Grace8:00am Everybody LovesRaymond9:00am Everybody LovesRaymond9:30am Frasier11:00am The Big BangTheory11:30am The Big BangTheory12:00pm 4 News12:05pm Come Dinewith Me: Ireland1:05pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland2:05pm Come Dine with Me: Ireland2:40pm Countdown3:30pm Deal or No Deal4:30pm Come Dine with Me5:00pm Coach Trip5:30pm Superstar Dogs:

Countdown to Crufts6:00pm The Simpsons6:30pm Hollyoaks7:00pm Channel 4 News8:00pm Location,Location, Location9:00pm The Taste10:00pm Sexting Teacher11:00pm 8 Out of 10Cats11:45pm Paul Chowdhry:What's Happening WhitePeople?12:40am Random Acts12:45am Poker1:45am KOTV BoxingWeekly2:15am Trans WorldSport3:10am Beach Volleyball4:05am Freesports on 44:35am Terror in theSkies

7:00pm Top Gear8:00pm Tough YoungTeachers9:00pm Sun, Sex andSuspicious Parents:Thailand10:00pm Bad Education10:30pm EastEnders11:00pm Family Guy11:25pm Family Guy11:45pm American Dad!

12:10am American Dad!12:30am Sun, Sex andSuspicious Parents:Thailand1:30am Is Amanda KnoxGuilty?2:30am Bad Education3:00am Sun, Sex andSuspicious Parents:Thailand

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Stephen Fry hosts the annual celebration of cinema,live from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden,London. This has been a year that has seen movie-goers get stranded in space with Sandra Bullock inGravity, become engrossed by the excitement ofFormula 1 in Rush and tinkle the ivories withMichael Douglas in Behind the Candelabra - amongmany other big-screen treats. Now the academypays tribute to the very best, with American Hustle,Captain Phillips, Gravity, Philomena and 12 Years aSlave competing for best film.

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6:00am Breakfast10:00am SaturdayKitchen Live11:30am Food & Drink12:00pm Football Focus12:45pm SaturdaySportsday1:00pm BBC News;Regional News andWeather1:15pm Live Athletics:British Grand Prix4:30pm Final Score5:15pm Reflex6:00pm BBC News;Regional News andWeather6:20pm PointlessCelebrities7:10pm The Voice UK8:30pm The NationalLottery: Who Dares Wins

9:20pm Casualty10:10pm Mrs Brown'sBoys10:40pm BBC News;Weather11:00pm Live at theApollo11:45pm The FootballLeague Show1:00am Weatherview1:05am BBC News


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12:45am Family Guy1:05am Family Guy1:25am Family Guy1:50am Sexy Beasts2:50am Uncle3:20am Live at theElectric3:50am Great MovieMistakes: Revenge of the Fifth

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With the loss of satellite UKterrestrial channels inSpain, many people will belooking at the variouspossibilities of getting themback.

The most popular methodwill be IPTV which willenable the various televisionchannels to be downloadedvia the Internet.

If one has a “smart”television, then the Internetcan be either directlyconnected by cable to thetelevision or wirelessly viaWIFI.

However, if a householddoes not have a smart TVbut has a TV that has anHDMI connection, then it ispossible to buy a set-top boxthat will connect to theInternet and output to theTV via the HDMIconnection.

This will probably be themost common method andthere will be manycompanies trying to sellthese set-top boxes.

Whatever method is chosenit will now cost money to

obtain the UKTV channels.It will be necessary to buy aset-top box and pay a“content provider” amonthly or yearlysubscription to provide theUKTV channels. This willbe in addition to paying foran Internet that is ofsufficient speed to ensure agood quality of service andpicture.

However, there is a muchcheaper way of obtaining theUKTV channels and will notnecessitate using a contentprovider and that is by useof a very small computercalled a Raspberry PI whichwas originally developed forschools to allow students tolearn about computers andcomputer programming.

Since its inception, theRaspberry PI has proved sopopular that it is now usedfor a whole multitude of usesand one only has to “Google”Raspberry PI or look onYouTube to discover moreabout this excellentcomputer, which is fullycapable of high qualityvideo.

It is about the size of a credit

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It connects to the Internet,either by cable or wirelesslyand its output is via anHDMI connecter to thehome television. (Like allInternet services the qualityis dependent upon the speedof the Internet and theservice provided by theISP, Telefonica, Telitec,Wifinetspain, Mowitel etc.).

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that we would allappreciate the localentertainers a bit more.There were a few of uswent to see a singer in alocal bar last week and it

was such a shame to seepeople at the bar behavinglike morons.At times we could hardlyhear the singer over themshouting theirconversations to each otherand, why they would thinkthe rest of us would wantto hear what they had tosay is utterly beyond me.Perhaps the people makingall the noise will find overthe coming weeks andmonths a way toappreciate what theseartistes do and learn a fewmanners when it comes toruining other people’snights out.The artiste in questioncarried on through it alllike the true trouper he isbut at the end of theevening, all those that hadtravelled to see his showwere very disappointed.So please, if there’s a showon and people areobviously wanting to enjoyit, shut up and have somemanners in future.

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Orion dominates thewinter sky with his ‘bowtie’ or ‘butterfly’ shape of

stars that are some of thebrightest stars in the sky. Atthis time of year Orion can beseen rising in the east at duskand during the night he standsupright passing right acrossthe southern part of the sky.He is one of the moreinteresting constellations andeach star has its own story totell.

Starting with the brightred coloured star in theupper left-hand corner –

this is Betelgeuse a super-sized red giant. Betelgeuse is sohuge that if it were placedwhere our Sun is then its outer edgewould reach almost to the planet Saturn.Betelgeuse is a ‘live fast die young’ typeof star. It is only about 10 million yearsold compared to the Sun’s six billionyears, but its massive size has caused itto use up much of its fuel and it isexpected to explode as a supernova anytime between now and one million yearshence. It may have already exploded andas it is 640 light years away we aresimply waiting for the image to get here.

Move to the top right-hand starBellatrix; a blue/white colouredstar about 250 light years away

and over eight times bigger than thesun. Continue clockwise to the bottomright hand star, this is Rigel a superbright star almost 900 light years away.Rigel is possibly 100 thousand timesmore luminous than the Sun and about75 times the radius. It is the sixthbrightest star in the night sky. Itsdazzling blue/white colour tellsastronomers that it is a very hot starwith a surface temperature of more than12,0000 C.

The faint star in the bottom lefthand corner is called Saith thatcomes from an Arabic name

meaning sword of the giant. Saith isabout 650 light years away, which isalmost the same distance as Betelgeuse.From Saith Betelgeuse must be anamazing sight at only 10 light yearsaway from it.

Now look at the three stars in aperfect straight line crossing thecentre of Orion. From left to right

they are called Alnitak, Alnilam andMintaka. Although these three starsappear to be equal in brightness anddistance they are massively different insize, brightness and distance from us, itis merely a line of sight effect thatcauses them to appear as Orion’s belt.

If you look very carefully belowOrion’s belt where his sword wouldbe hanging you will notice that the

stars here seem a little fuzzy round the

edges. This is the famous M42 OrionNebula, a huge gas cloud where newstars are being formed. Throughbinoculars the nebula is quite clear butwith a telescope it is a splendid sightwith hundreds of stars shining throughthe cloud. The Orion nebula is 1500 lightyears away and about 24 light yearsacross. It is the closest star formingregion to us and probably one of themost studied and photographed deep skyobjects by amateur and professionalastronomers alike.

Now that you can recognise Orionyou can use his figure to guideyou to other stars and

constellations. Follow the three stars inhis belt downward to the left and youwill come across the brightest star in thenight sky, Sirius in the constellation ofCanis Major, the great dog of Orion.Sirius is one of the closest stars to us atonly 8.6 light years away it also happensto be twice the size of the Sun and 25times brighter. Sirius was a veryimportant star to the ancient Egyptiansas its first appearance before sunriseheralded the annual flooding of the Nile.The season following the star'sappearance came to be known as theDog Days of summer.

Follow the stars of Orion’s beltupward this time to find Aldebranthe red eye of Taurus the Bull

bearing down on Orion. Use yourbinoculars to scan the area aroundAldebran to see the Hyades cluster ofhundreds of stars an amazingsight!

Can I say a big thank you to thestaff and pupils of Swans Schooland the English International

College for a lovely two days spent lastweek talking to the children. See youagain next year.

Happy Stargazing.

StargazingBy Ken Campbell

Orion, e Hunter Of all the constellations in the night sky the most easilyrecognised must be Orion, The Hunter.

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The 2014 Bathurst 12Hours took place inAustralia last weekend atthe Mount PanoramaCircuit. Ferrari took thewin with a thrilling finishin what was a side-by-siderace to the finish lineagainst a Mercedes-BenzSLS AMG GT3 belongingto HTP Motorsports.

The team of CraigLowndes, Peter Edwards,John Bowe and Mika Saloin the Ferrari 458 GT3were the victors. Theoutcome though was notresolved coming to the lastcorner, but the second-

placed HTP Mercedes-Benz SLS of MaximilianBuhk, Thomas Jaeger andHarold Primat missed outby just 0.4 of a second.

Three seconds coveredthe first four places. Thirdwas another Mercedes, theErebus car of WillDavison, Jack Le Brocqand Greg Crick, which justheld out the surprisepacket McLaren MP4-12Cof pet-food magnate TonyQuinn, his son Klark, ScotAndrew Kirkaldy and thenew Mount Panorama laprecord-holder, Kiwi Shanevan Gisbergen with a time

of 2.03.85 – a touch fasterthan the pole time.

Lowndes has fiveBathurst 1000 trophiesalready on top of the 2014Bathurst 12-Hour trophyhe won on Sunday. Thesecond placed HTPMotorsports team made ita great spectacle with animpressive performance,especially from theiryoung driver Buhk. Thirdin this Class A was alsoanother Mercedes-BenzSLS AMG GT of ErebusMotorsports. They foughtback several laps to thetop after suffering damagedue to a contact. Thedamage resulted in the carbeing faster on thestraights and slower at thetops which was consideredan advantage.

The race continuedfrom dawn to dusk withcrashes and incidents inabundance, and anunwanted appearance by asuicidal kangaroo. The

kangaroo was hit afterjust 15 minutes of the6.15am start time, bythe Erebus Mercedesdriven by Brocq, andthen the followingLamborghini Gallardo,which was damagedbeyond repair and outof the contest.

The young GermanBuhk made a couple ofadventurous lunges atLowndes in the finalminutes, but the wilyAustralian, winner of fiveBathurst 1000s, didn'tfalter.

''I was running theinside lines, and makingthe Merc take the longway around,'' saidLowndes of the tense lastfew minutes. It was hisfourth 12 Hour start, andfirst win.

There was a scarymoment for the winningteam mid-race when vanGisbergen fired the

McLaren under the Salo-driven Ferrari enteringthe sweeper at theMcPhillamy Park bend.The two slapped panels atabout 200km/h. Duringthe third hour of the race,the Clearwater Ferrariof Hiroshi Hamaguchiclipped a wall, broke itsradiator, and then spun onits own fluid at the super-fast McPhillamy Parkbend.

The much fanciedNISMO Nissan GTRdriven by Katsumasa

Chiyo (and earlier putamong the top three by V8Supercars driver RickKelly) hit the same patchof fluid and careeredheavily into the Ferrari. Itwas turned into anunrecognisable pile ofscrap metal. The teamthough made it clear thatthey will be back nextyear. The feeling was, thiswas one of the mostexciting Bathurst's formany years, and nextyear’s dates have alreadybeen fixed 6-8th Feb 2015.One for the diary.


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Aston Martinrecall will cost£1.5 millionAston Martin estimatesthat its expanded recall ofaccelerator pedals in 17,590sports cars will result in amaterial added cost of 1.5million pounds. The firstrecall for the problem wasannounced last May andwas expanded in Octoberand expanded again lastWednesday to include mostof the sports cars built byAston Martin since late2007.

Aston Martin said in astatement last week that itdetermined the cost of therecall in late November2013. The estimate does notinclude the potential cost ofmoving production of thepedal. Their spokeswomanSarah Calam said thecompany plans to shiftproduction of the pedalarms from China to the UK"as soon as possible" in2014.

The cost of the recall is ofgreat interest because AstonMartin has struggled tofund the development of arange of new vehicles whilerivals like Bentley, ownedby Volkswagen Group, and

Rolls-Royce, owned byBMW Group, have theability to draw on theresources of their parentfirms. Of the Aston Martincars affected in the recall,7,271 are in Europe and5,001 in the United States,Calam said. The companysells cars in 41 countries.

The cars are beingrecalled from model years2008 through 2014,according to documentsfrom the U.S. NationalHighway Traffic SafetyAdministration.

Aston Martin found thatShenzhen Kexiang MouldTool Co. Ltd., a Chinesesubcontractor that moldsthe affected acceleratorpedal arms, was usingcounterfeit plastic materialsupplied by SyntheticPlastic Raw Material Co.Ltd. of Dongguan, accordingto documents filed with theNHTSA.

Calam said there hadbeen no reports of accidentsor injuries related to theissue, adding that 22 failedparts had been reported.

SepangMotoGPtest:Crutchlow‘no-one isnearMarquez’

Casting his eye overthe Sepang MotoGPtimesheets, new Ducatisigning Cal Crutchlow wasclear that world championMarc Marquez holds asignificant advantage overthe other riders.

Honda star Marquezleft the test with a best laptime just 0.194s ahead ofYamaha's Valentino Rossi,with the top four riders allbreaking the two-minutebarrier. However it was

Marquez's final day racesimulation that revealedhis true advantage.“Everyone says how closeit is at the top. Vale, Jorge,Dani – everyone is close toMarc as such (over onelap),” said Crutchlow. “Buthis race simulation, theyare 20 seconds off. I cantell you that now.”

Even taking intoaccount factors such as thedifferent time of day wheneach rider completed their

long run: “At the end of therace they would be at leastten seconds off. It putseverything in perspective.Marc is just going so well,”said Crutchlow.

At Ducati, Crutchlow'steam-mate AndreaDovizioso led the way withseventh place courtesy of a2m 0.370s lap time. Thatwas 0.8s slower thanMarquez, but is thought tobe Ducati's best everSepang lap.

Continued from last week

VarianceIf there’s one reason I hearmore than any other for notplaying 6-max holdem, it’sthat the variance is toohigh. Some people simplydon’t want to endure thedownswings associatedwith a higher variancegame of poker.

While it is true that yourstandard deviation per 100hands will be higher in 6-max than full ring, thisshould not be a factor inwhether you play the gameor not. We are supposed tobe playing for the long term!If you are adequatelybankrolled, then you will dobetter playing in the gamewhich earns you the mostmoney per hour, regardlessof the variance. Remember,variance doesn’t alter yourmean winrate, just yourspread of results aroundthat winrate. This meansabove it too! Most playersforget this. When you havea monster session andfinish up 6 – 8 buyins, doyou put it all down toplaying well? Or are youaware enough to be able tosay “In that session I ranway above my averagewinrate due to variance.”

Do not limp preflopThis is the only hard and

fast rule I am going to giveyou in this article. Whileit’s possible to employa profitable strategyinvolving preflop limping,it’s extremely difficult tobalance and relies on expert

post flop play. For the vastmajority of players, it’ssimply better to raise anypot you want to enter first.Three or four times the bigblind will do it. If you limp,not only will you be isolatedout of position a lot, it willbe more difficult to build bigpots with your monsters. Italso makes hand reading anightmare, especially if youlet the blinds in for free.

C – BettingC-betting is the bread

and butter of 6-maxholdem. If you raisedpreflop and get one or twocallers, you will be bettingmost flops whether you hitor miss. These bets shouldbe somewhere between halfand full pot size. How tochoose what size in thisrange depends on a numberof things:Flop textureNumber of opponentsOpponents’ tendenciesBalanceOwn hand strength

C-betting is a topic thatrequires an article in itselfto cover properly, so I won’tattempt to reproduce thathere. Just be aware thatpart of the reason you areraising so much preflop is totake the pot down oftenwith a c-bet on the flop.

PositionMost players know that

position is to youradvantage in NL Holdem,but they simply don’t use itas relentlessly as theyshould. When you haveposition, especially on the

button, you should beraising a lot of pots. Ona tight/weak table, it’sdifficult to go too far withthis. Raise any limped orunopened pot on the buttonwith all but the trashiest ofhands.

Position can be used toexploit different opponenttypes in various ways. Ifyou have a weak TAG onyour left who calls from theblinds too much but givesup too easily post flop, youcan raise all sorts of handsfrom the button and cutoff.You can then applypressure and 2 or 3 barrelhim depending on thesituation, making him laydown the vast majority ofhis range. If you are playingwith a loose passive fish onyour right, you can alsoisolate with a wide range.Unless he picks up a bighand, he’ll mostly becheck/calling to the river,allowing you to choosewhere to value bet, andwhere to check behind.These are the sorts ofsituation where positiongives you a huge advantage,so make sure most of yourhands are played inposition.

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Away-day blues for MalagaAfter the great result lastweekend over Sevilla,Malaga travelled toMadrid in search ofanother vital 3 points.

Malaga had a muchchanged team withAngeleri, Samu, Perezand Morales all in thestarting line-up. Thegame started with Rayodominating play withMalaga showing little upfront, and it was nosurprise to see Malaga fallone behind after 25minutes. A great run byFalque who beat twoMalaga defenders withconsumate ease ended inhim slotting home frominside the box.

Three minutes later itwent from bad to worse asa hopeful shot fromArbilla outside the boxtook a wicked deflection toleave Caballero rooted tothe spot.

The first half ended

with Malagathree downand a mandown, asSanchez washarshlypenalised forpullingLarriveydown in thebox. A secondyellow for theMalaga defender andLarrivey stepped up andscored from the resultingspot kick, (pictured withteam mate Falque right).

Malaga made changesat half time, Casado on forhis debut with Darderand that gave a littleimprovement.

Arambat had a chancefor Malaga but it was wellsaved by Ruben. On 65minutes it was four forRayo as bad defendingled to Falque skippingthrough to slot home.Iakovenko coming on forhis debut at the expense

of Juanmi gave Malaga aconsolation goal with 15minutes to go firing homefrom outside the box. Butit was too little too late asMalaga were thoroughlyhammered by the teamwho sit 2nd bottom in LaLiga. This result leavesMalaga anxiously lookingover their shoulder at therelegation places.

Next game is onMonday at 10pm againstReal Sociedad, anothermust win game.

Report by Scott Forbes

Rayo Vallecano 4 - 1 Malaga

In-House Competitions takeplace at Mijas Bowls ClubThe In-House competitionshave now been completed atMijas and it is thought thattwo “firsts” have beenrecorded as, in the DrawnPairs, a husband and wifewere drawn out to playtogether and, in theHandicap Singles, ahusband and wife playedagainst each other in thefinal.The Drawn Triples was

played to a finish earlier asone of the entrants, who wasan eventual winner, had toreturn home for medicalreasons. The winners werePeter Allard, Geoff Collinsand Charles McIntyre whobeat Hal Briscoe, JimTaylor and June Briscoe inthe final.The Drawn Pairs saw the

aforementioned husbandand wife pairing, Ron andPam Cole, beat Peter Allard

and Geoff Collins in a verygood final match.In the Ladies' Singles

Geraldine Robinson beatBarbara Land to become theChampion who will go on toplay in the Champion ofChampions when she willbe joined by Tony Land, theMijas Men's Champion.After her Singles matchBarbara said that as shehad been playing at IndaloBowls Club, on a muchheavier green, only two daysbefore, it took her a few endsto become accustomed to themuch faster carpet at Mijas.The Men's Singles finalcould not be played as JohnFenton unfortunately had topull out through illness.It is worth mentioning

here that Barbara had beento Indalo playing in theMalaga squad versus theSpanish National squad;

she won three out of herfour matches which weretwo Pairs and two Trips.Last, but not least, the

Handicap Singles in whichTony and Val Thornton meteach other in the final. Thewinner was Tony, who,according to Val, played anexcellent game and she justcould not catch him.However, after the match,they were still talking toeach other!

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Wales scrum-half Mike Phillips has challenged One Direction's Niall Horan to train withthe Welsh squad after the singer criticised him on Twitter. Phillips was in a scuffleduring Saturday's match against Ireland, which Wales lost 26-3, prompting the Irishsinger to tweet that the player looked an "arrogant idiot". The rugby star replied:"Come down to training in the week big boy. And bring the rest of the Beatles withyou." Horan declined the offer.

FOOTBALL

West Ham agreeUpton Park sale

West Ham have agreed tosell Upton Park to Londondeveloper the GalliardGroup once they havecompleted their move tothe Olympic Stadium in2016. The Hammers saidthey chose the group for its"close links to thecommunity". Vice-chairmanKarren Brady said the dealdemonstrated the club hadkept its promise toregenerate two areas ofeast London through itsstadium move. The developer plans to buildnew homes on the site aswell as retail and leisurefacilities by 2018.

World Matchplay

The Volvo World MatchplayChampionship will return toEngland in 2014 for its 50thanniversary – but not atits traditional home ofWentworth. London GolfClub in Kent will host the£1.8m tournament from15th-19th October. "It is fantastic that thechampionship will be playedin England for this specialanniversary," said thedefending champion GraemeMcDowell. The event, which has beenheld in Spain and Bulgaria,returns to England for the firsttime since 2007. A 16-man field, split into fourgroups of four, will battle itout for a first prize of£540,000.

Snowboarding commentarydraws complaints but othersthought it excitingMore than 300 peoplecomplained to the BBCover the quality ofcommentary during thesnowboardingslopestyle finalat the WinterOlympics. Itwas thanks tosome kind localswho had posted onFacebook that you could getBBC channel RB2 showingthe Olympics that I waseven watching it. And Ihave to say I thoroughlyenjoyed the wholeexperience. Slopestyle is anew and relatively youngsport even though GreatBritain's first Olympicmedal on the snow was wonby 33 year old Jenny Jones(pictured) at the event inSochi on Sunday, whereshe took the bronze.

Friend and fellow Britishsnowboarder Aimee Fullerhad joined Ed Leigh andTim Warwood in thecommentary box. Fullerhad takenpart inthe

earlystagesof theeventbutfailedto make the final, afterwhich she was invited intothe presentation booth.Viewers complained that

they cheered when Jones'scompetitors fell, and thatthe commentary was of alow standard. Fuller was

heard cheering when thefinal competitor, Austria'sAnna Gasser, fell, meaningthat Jones would clinch the

bronze medal. (NowI have to admit sodid I! )Fuller then said:

"Are we supposedto do that?Probably not."All three

commentatorsbegan crying whenit became clear thatJones had won amedal.There were many

parts of the commentarythat the wife and I didn'tunderstand, but theenthusiasm was infectiousand the pair of us werewhooping along with them.

By Mike Kerrigan

Cheyenne Woods, niece of14-time major winner TigerWoods, claimed the firstmajor title of her career bywinning the AustralianLadies Masters. The 23-year-old American shot afinal-round four-under-par69 at Royal Pines onSunday to finish on 16under overall and win bytwo shots.

Local amateur MinjeeLee finished second afteralso carding a 69."This is a huge

accomplishment for me,"said Woods, who finished

with five birdies and abogey. "I've been pro for twoyears and, for the majorityof it, people just think of meas Tiger Woods's niece sonow I have a game of myown and I have a title now,a win, which is exciting.

"It's nice now to say topeople that I can play andI'm not just a name."Growing up with the lastname of Woods, there's a lotof expectations and pressureand spotlight on you but Ialways knew that I was ableto win."

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