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The Costa Concordia's sistership is being towed to themain island in theSeychelles, rather than anearer island, and is notnow due to arrive untilThursday.

In a statement onTuesday, the ship's ownersCosta Cruises said thatmaritime experts hadadvised not to go ahead withthe planned disembarkationon the smaller but nearerDesroches Island becausethe facilities there wereinadequate to cope with thearrival of so many people.

The statement also said itwas not safe enough for theship to dock in the smallport and for guests to getashore. The ship is nowbeing towed around 155

miles further – to the islandof Mahe, which is home tothe capital and largest city,Victoria.

The company saidhelicopters would ensurethe continuous supply offood and "comfort items"including flashlights. TheItalian coast guard said thevessel has no air-conditioning or cookingfacilities and an emergencygenerator powering the

radio "could fail at anyminute". The company saidthe Allegra received itsregularly scheduled

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The Italian cruise ship Costa Allegra, left adrift with more than 1,000people on board after a power failure caused by a fire in thegenerator on Monday, now faces a longer journey than scheduled.

Iñaki Urdangarin, KingJuan Carlos’ son-in-law,arrived for his long-awaitedclosed-door testimony at aPalma de Mallorca court onSaturday to be met byscores of hecklers,including anti-monarchistand pro-Catalanindependence groups,shouting “Chorizo, chorizo(thief),” among other

insults. Visibly nervous, hestopped long enough to tellwaiting journalists that hehad hoped that histestimony would put anend to the ongoing pressspeculation that he stolepublic money from boththe Balearics and Valenciaregional governments. “Ihave come to tell the truthand defend my honour,” he

said. During 22 hours ofinterrogation by presidingjudge José Castro spanningSaturday and Sunday,Urdangarin admitted hehad continued conductinghis private businesses twoyears after being ordered byKing Juan Carlos to resignfrom the Nóos Institute. Healso denied havinganything to do with the

administrative side of theinstitute or the companies,saying they were run by hisformer partner DiegoTorres. He insisted that hiswife, the Infanta Cristina,had had nothing to do withhis business affairs. At onepoint, the judge toldUrdangarin he was beingtoo vague after saying hecouldn’t remember a lot of

the dates and figures thatwere being thrown at him.Urdangarin and the InfantaCristina left Mallorca earlyon Monday morning tospend 24 hours in Madridbefore returning to theirhome in Washington D.C.Judge Castro has now todecide whether to bringcharges, a process whichcould take several months.

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Second Italian cruise ship in troubleOf the 636 passengers and413 crew on board, 135 areItalians and 127 French,along with nearly 100Austrians, 90 Swiss and 31Britons.

The company is liaisingwith passengers' familiesvia their emergencycontact numbers, andcontact has been madewith the relatives of all thecrew.

The ship is at the southernend of the seas that arevulnerable to attacks bySomali pirates but attacks inthe area had decreased inthe past year as securityimproved.

The Costa Allegra sailed withnine armed guards onboard, and more arestationed on a nearbyFrench fishing vessel. Agovernment plane is also

patrolling overhead. Piratesin the area have never seizeda cruise ship.

The ship is from the samefleet as the Costa Concordia,which capsized off the Italiancoast on January 13th, killing32. Its captain, FrancescoSchettino, has been accusedof manslaughter, causing ashipwreck, and abandoningship before all those aboardwere evacuated.

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A Supreme Courtspokeswoman said thejudges voted 6-1 to acquithim on the basis that hisinvestigations intoFranco-era crimes weredefensible in legal terms.

However, because ofhis suspension from thebar in an earlier trial,Garzon will not be able tocontinue with theinvestigation.

His decision in 2008 to

investigate thedisappearance of tens ofthousands of peopleduring the civil war andthe subsequentdictatorship of GeneralFrancisco Franco –including ordering theexcavation of mass graves– provoked fierce criticismand anger from those onthe Right who argued thatthe point of the 1977amnesty was to allowSpain to forget the allegedcrimes of that era, and

move on. Two groups ––Clean Hands and Libertyand Identity – whobrought the case againsthim said they did so

because Garzon had"reopened wounds whichwe Spaniards – whateverour political beliefs – hadtotally recovered from".

Figures presented byFinance MinisterCristóbal Montoro onMonday showed that thedeficit last year was 8.51per cent of GDP, well overthe figure of 6 per centpresented by the outgoingSocialist government, andabove the estimate of 8per cent announced bythe Popular Party (PP)government in December.Montoro said the mainculprit was the regions,whose combined deficitof 2.94 per cent of GDPwas more than double thetarget of 1.3 percent.

Improved imageDespite the bad economicnews, BBVA presidentFrancisco González toldEl Pais newspaper in aninterview that “theperception of Spain haschanged completely;there has been a dramaticturnaround with the newgovernment" – unlike theprevious Socialistgovernment which, hesaid, "took Spain to thebrink of disaster due tothe loss of credibility".


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Two were arrested inMadrid on Tuesday, as wellas one in Malaga andanother in Pontevedra.The police said they hadattacked various websitesbelonging to politicalparties, institutions andcompanies and hadpublished private detailsof police assigned to guard

the Royal family, membersof other security forcesand UD&P party leaderRosa Diez on the internet.Two have been jailed, onewas released with chargeswhile the fourth, a minor,was released into thecustody of his parents. Theperson arrested in Malaga,identified as F.J.B.D., alias

Thunder, was allegedly incharge of the computernetwork used byAnonymous in Spain andLatin America. The arrestsfrom part of a wideroperation called Exposurewhich has already led tothe arrests of ten people inArgentina, six in Chile andfive in Colombia.

Police arrestfour Anonymousmembers The National Police have arrested four people who claimto be working on behalf of Anonymous and havesubsequently charged them with cyber crimes.

However, the documentreleased at the Kursaalconference centre in SanSebastián on Sunday didnot go into further detailsabout the 829 people killedby the Basque terroristgroup during the past 40years, nor did it call on thegroup to disband. All thepolitical parties were quickto say that while the

statement was one morestep towards thedisappearance of ETA, itwas not enough.

ETA announced a“definitive” ceasefire lastyear and has sincedemanded that all ETAprisoners should betransferred to jails in theBasque Country and that

all police action should behalted in France as well asSpain. But in an interviewpublished in El Pais onSunday, Interior MinisterJorge Fernández Díaz saidthe government would notdiscuss the transfer of ETAprisoners or evencontemplate making anyother concessions until theorganisation disbands.

Basque Left'sympathises'with ETA victimsFor the first time ever, the Basque radical left or abertzalehas expressed “profound regret” for ETA victims and “ourpolitical position with respect to them”.

María Dolores Amorós, theformer director of thefailed savings bank BancoCAM, who was fired forawarding herself a hugepension just before herbank was taken over by theBank of Spain last year,went to court last Friday toback her claim for at least€10 million for unfairdismissal.

When she arrived at thecourt in Alicante, she wasmobbed by journalists andmembers of the publicshouting “thief” and“crook.” Amorós wasdismissed shortly afterBanco CAM was taken overin July of last year when thenew administrators foundshe had awarded herself anannual pension for life of€369,497 behind the back

of the top management.She was also alleged tohave cooked the books.Amorós’ lawyers argue thather dismissal violated herfundamental rights topersonal and professionaldignity. She is now seekingto be reinstated or be givenseverance pay of €10million for the loss ofwages up until herretirement, and a furtherundeclared sum incompensation for her longcareer with the bank.

Commenting on thesituation at CAM after itwas taken over, Bank ofSpain governor MiguelÁngel Fernández Ordóñezsaid: “It is easy tounderstand why people areoutraged by what hashappened here.”

Sacked bankdirectorwants €10m

The government approveda scheme last Friday forsettling the huge backlog ofunpaid bills owed byregional government andmunicipal councils tosuppliers.

Companies andindividuals willing toaccept a discount on whatthey are owed will be givenpriority in the peckingorder. The localadministrations have untilMarch 15th to supply listsof how much they owe toindividuals and companiesto the Finance Ministry.They must also say howthey intend to settle theirdebts.

Deputy Prime MinisterSoraya Sáenz deSantamaría told a newsconference that thegovernment would provideguarantees to localadministrations so thatthey can make paymentsfrom May onward.

The scheme applies tobills that are dated beforethe start of this year andwill remain in place onlyuntil the end of December.

Regions andcouncilstold to paytheir billsMaría Dolores Amorós

Last Friday, Spain'sambassador to the USwatched two planes take offat 12:30EST (17:30 GMT)from MacDill Air ForceBase, Florida, bearing goldand silver coins estimatedto be worth $500mrecovered from a sunkenSpanish ship five years ago."This is history. We bearwitness to that fateful day200 years ago," Ambassador

Jorge Dezcallar de Mazar(pictured) said. "This is notmoney. This is historicalheritage." The US firmOdyssey MarineExploration found the 17tons of coins in a wreck offPortugal's Atlantic coast in2007 and had been fightingto keep them ever since.They were taken secretly tothe US “for safekeeping” buta US federal judge recently

ordered Odyssey to giveSpain access to the treasure,the last in a series of legaldefeats for the salvage firm.The coins arrived at theTorrejon airbase north ofMadrid, on Saturdayafternoon and were takenunder heavy guard to theMinistry of Culture whichused to house the Bank ofSpain “so it is as safe ashouses” an official said. The

treasure will stay there whileexperts examine it moreclosely and its final restingplace is decided on. Despitethe economic situation, theministry official said thetreasure would not be soldoff to pay the country'snational debt, as had beenrumoured. Instead thecoins will be exhibited inmuseums around thecountry.

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Prime Minister Julia gillard defeated Kevin rudd in thelabour Party leadership ballot by 71 votes to 31 – a majorboost for a leader who had been facing serious internaldivisions. after the vote, Mr rudd – who was ousted by Msgillard as PM in June 2010 – threw his support behind theprime minister. a cabinet reshuffle is now expected to fill hisposition as foreign minister, from which he resigned lastweek, with Defence Minister stephen smith seen as a front-runner.

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the civil trial over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster,which was due to start in new Orleans on Monday, has beendelayed for a week, to allow for further talks on a settlement.the BP-operated rig exploded in the gulf of Mexico in april2010, killing 11 workers and leaking four million barrels of oilfrom BP's Macondo well. the trial is to resolve claims fordamages and civil penalties. BP has so far paid $7.5bn in clean-up costs and compensation.

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trenes de Buenos aires (tBa)railway company has denieda driver's claims that hewarned of brake problemsprior to a crash that killed 51people last week and injuredmore than 700. Driver MarcosCordoba told a local news

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following his on-screencredo. "The movie wasfiction, but the problem isreal," he said in anannouncement onMonday. "Our economy isincreasingly dependent onthe success and integrity ofthe financial markets. If adeal looks too good to betrue, it probably is."

The move is a part ofFederal Bureau ofInvestigation's (FBI)efforts to tackle insidertrading and fraud.

Last year, RajRajaratnam, a formerhedge-fund manager andfounder of Galleon Group,was sentenced to 11 years

in jail and fined $10m inone of the biggest insidertrading cases in Americanhistory. More than twodozen were jailed, withsentences ranging from afew months to 10 years.

The FBI said that it willcontinue to "pursue thosewho cheat the system".

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As the United NationsHuman Rights Council(UNHCR) held anemergency session inGeneva on Tuesday todiscuss a report by UNhuman rightsinvestigators that namesthe Syrian officials theybelieve are responsible foratrocities, news agenciesreported that injured UKphotographer Paul Conroyhas been evacuated safely

from Homs to Lebanon.

The news came afterthe Syrian Red Crescenthad said it was able toreach the worst-hitsuburb, Baba Amr, onMonday, bringing outthree Syrians but hadfailed to bring out MrConroy and anotherwounded Westernjournalist, FrenchwomanEdith Bouvier. They were

injured in an attack lastWednesday that claimedthe lives of AmericanSunday Times journalistMarie Colvin and Frenchphotographer RemiOchlik.

Diplomats attendingthe UNHCR meeting havewarned that thoseresponsible for theviolence in Syria will bebrought to justice. French

Foreign Minister AlainJuppe has urged the 47nations in the council tobe prepared to submit acomplaint against Syria tothe International CriminalCourt in The Hague butBritish Foreign SecretaryWilliam Hague said Russiaand China were a "majorblockage" to any realprogress, so a referral tothe ICC is unlikely to bemade in the near future.

Michael Douglas, who played greedy executive GordonGekko in the movie Wall Street, is the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation's new spokesman against insider trading.


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German MPs voted by 496to 90 on Monday to backthe second EU/IMF bailoutfor Greece. ChancellorAngela Merkel had urgedthem to support the deal,while conceding there was"no 100% guarantee" itwould work. Several MPs inher party had opposed thedeal but it is not known if

they were among the nay-sayers. Despite thefive-to-one majority, manypoliticians and the widerpopulation are scepticalabout the bailout'seffectiveness.

Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, from theruling Christian

Democrats' Bavarian sisterparty, the Christian SocialUnion (CSU), had earlierargued that Greece'schances of recovery wouldbe better if it left theeurozone. Germany willhave to pay more than anyother country for the €130billion package, agreed byeurozone states last week.

German MPs back Greece deal

The two ships had arrivedoff Tierra Del Fuego, on thecountry's southern tip, butwere prevented fromdocking. Both vessels arenow heading for PuntaArenas in Chile.

British diplomats inArgentina are trying toclarify what happened.The Foreign Office said it

was very concerned tohear the two ships hadbeen refused access toUshuaia.

A spokesperson saidthere could be nojustification forinterference in free andlegitimate commerce.Tensions have risenrecently, as the 30th

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a woman was spat at, bulliedand even had to move out ofher family home over whatpeople at the time thoughtwere 'false' rape allegations.But finally, justice has beenserved for a 33-year-oldwoman, 20 years after she wasraped by publican Harry Daveyat his home in Bradford, Westyorkshire.Thanks to advances in DNatechnology, the 65-year-oldwas jailed for six years andeight months at leeds CrownCourt following a cold casereview.

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Police have sealed off an areaof woodland at a naturereserve after the discovery ofhuman remains.West Midlands Police said theremains were found inCoventry's Wainbody Woodsby a member of the publicwalking a dog on sunday.although the remains havebeen removed forexamination by forensicexperts and a pathologist, thescene is being preservedwhile further searches arecarried out.Detective Inspector stuartBell said: "The remains havebeen confirmed as humanand the death is beingtreated as unexplained at thisstage."Inquiries are ongoing toestablish the identity of thedeceased."

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Northern Ireland’s former FirstMinister Ian Paisley has beendischarged from hospital inBelfast after spending two ofthe last three weeks inintensive care and beingdescribed at one point as“gravely ill.”His wife, Eileen, BaronessPaisley said: “It is not possibleto put into words the depth ofour gratitude to those whocared for him, sent goodwishes and prayed.”The 85-year-old peer sufferedfrom severe heart problemsand his son andparliamentary successor, Ian,said: “There’s life in the olddog yet.”Perhaps now he can settledown to writing his memoirs.

Virus affectingBritish farms

Ewes have been carryingthe Schmallenberg viruswhich produces deformedlambs.

The new virus was firstidentified in Germany andthe Netherlands last yearcausing mild to moderatesymptoms in adult cattleincluding a reduced milkyield and diarrhoea but isalso in France and Belgiumand appears to have beenbrought into the UK fromEurope.

The virus has now beenfound on 74 farms inEngland. Most cases are inNorfolk and Sussex andSuffolk. At one farm inNorfolk a vet said that 8% ofall lambs affected were bornwith deformities includinglegs being fused togetherand not being able to open

their mouths to suckle.

The mother sheep showno outward signs of thevirus and can, if it is amultiple birth, produceboth affected and healthylambs.

The virus does not affecthumans but can also affectpigs, cattle and goats and isthought to be carried bymidges.

It is hoped that the viruswill burn itself out beforethe midges start circulatingthis year. Five of thediagnosed cases so far havebeen in cattle, 69 in sheepand none to date in otherspecies. The latest positivecases have been identifiedon the Isle of Wight,Wiltshire, West Berkshireand Gloucestershire.

Lloyds Banking Group is toclaw back around 40% offormer CEO Eric Daniels1.45 million pound bonuspayout he was given nearlytwo years ago, due to thebanks involvement in themis-selling of paymentprotection insurance.

The state-backed bankwill be stripping 13 of itsexecutives of part of thebonuses they were awardedfollowing the scandle thathas cost £3.2 billion in

compensation claims.

The bank will beannouncing moreclawbacks for the 2011bonuses on Friday. And onSunday, HSBC announcedthat they will be clawingback parts of bonuses fromtheir executives who hadbeen in charge of mis-selling of complex financialproducts to elderly anddisabled customers forwhich they were fined£10.5 million in December.

George Osborne says thathe is looking for a rise in thetax threshold to £10,000but declared that he willnot be borrowing money topay for it in the Budget nextmonth.

The already proposedincrease means thethreshold would rise from£7,475 to £8,105 so that taxpayers will be £126 per yearbetter off. But increasing itto £10,000 would save theaverage taxpayer £505 intax next year.

Former treasuryminister Lord Oakshot saidthat the money must go tothe people who are theworst off to ensure that themoney is spent in the UK.He said: “That’s why we’rearguing strongly to take itaway from the people at thetop with a wealth tax.”

Labour welcomes theincrease of the personalallowance but argues that acut in VAT would be betterfor the economy.

Murdoch’s new Sunday Sunsold three million copiesafter hitting news standsfor the first time.

The tycoon announcedthe news on Twitter sayingthat sales exceeded hisexpectations. On Friday hehad said that he wouldhave been very happy if ithad sold two millioncopies.

The paper promisedreaders it would be“fearless, outspoken,mischievous and fun.” Itwas further announcedthat the newspaper had

appointed a “readersChampion” to deal withfeedback and to correctsignificant errors from thepublic and also said thatthe closure of The News OfThe World had been a“sobering experience”.

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Better thanhe thought

Just weeks after her son was caught up inthe Costa Concordia incident when theship ran aground just off the Italian Coastwhile 19-year-old dancer James wasworking on it, British mother JayneThomas has revealed that her daughter,Rebecca has been working as a dancersince last May on the Costa Allegra thatwas stranded in pirate infested waters nearthe Seychelles due to a fire in the engineroom. However, there were no reports ofinjuries on the Allegra and the boat isbeing towed to the Seychelles and is due toarrive tomorrow (Thursday). Mrs Thomassays she has not heard from her daughter,whose contract was to be up for renewal inJuly, due to a lack of any power on thevessel but that she is not worried now thatshe knows the vessel is being towed to asafe haven.

Speaking from her home in Sutton

Coldfield, she said: "I didn't think anythinglike this could happen again. I thought itwas a one-off and we wouldn't be goingthrough this experience again. I reallydidn't think disaster could strike twice. Ofall the ships that are sailing in the ocean,the two that have come into difficulties inthe last few weeks have been the two thatmy children were on. We have noinformation at all other than what'scoming through on the television andpress. We can do nothing apart from wait,for information to be relayed to us."

The liner was making its way back toEurope, having spent three months in theIndian Ocean, when the fire broke out.Shesaid James has no wish to work on cruiseships after the Concordia disaster, in which32 people are believed to have died but hasno idea how her daughter will react to tthelatest episode.

Siblings in twodifferent boat dramas

Walliams banned“It was only scaling a rockface, but Lara got reallyupset”, said DavidWalliams as his wife banshim from another SportRelief challenge.Wife, Lara Stone, 28, has

decided to put her footdown this year as he is stillsuffering from injuries andillness he obtained duringthe eight day Thamescharity swim which hecompleted last year.


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POCO A POCOBy Valerie Mitchell

Valerie runs the Centro Idiomas Language School in Coin.Her books, “The First Twelve Shortcuts to Spanish” , “The Second Twelve Shortcuts to Spanish” (€5 each)and “The Verb Book” (€7) are available from The News office in Coin, Woody’s Cards and Books in LosBoliches, David’s Books in Los Boliches or by email from [email protected] . Valerie's books can nowbe bought from her website - www.cslspain.com or call 952 450 747.

Today we're going to try to get idiomatic. By that I mean nothing more or less than learning afew phrases which will make you sound like someone who knows what you're talking about.Of course, when people start rattling back to you at top speed it may be a different kettle offish but instead of getting in a panic, try to relax and see if you can get the gist of what theyare saying. You don't need to understand every word. Just get the idea they are trying toconvey. So, we are looking at the verb "echar". It can mean to pour, to throw, to add. Let's findsome everyday situations where it might be useful for us to know .

Echar agua is to pour water, Voy a echar agua en el vaso - I'm going to pour water intothe glass. ¿Quieres que te echo un poco de agua? - Shall I pour you some water?But, on the other hand, if you say echar agua en el mar (literally pouring water in the sea)it is the equivalent of carrying coals to Newcastle."Martin, llegó en España con sus cinco perros. Es como echar agua en el mar." "Martin arrived in Spain with his five dogs. Talk about carrying coals to Newcastle!"If you are cooking you will often echar sal - add salt (al gusto - to taste)If you are tired it is a good idea to echar una siesta - to have a siestaDespués de tanto trabajo voy a echarme una siesta - After working so much I'm goingto have a siesta

If you want to have a look at something you can echar un vistazoEl coche hace un ruido extraño. ¿Quieres echarlo un vistazo?. - The car is making astrange noise. Can you have a look at it?If someone is furious you can describe this as echando chispas (literally giving forthsparks) Cuando María vio la casa después de la fiesta estaba echando chispas - When Maria saw the house after the party she was hopping mad.

Echar de menos is to miss somebody or somethingEcho de menos a mis nietos - I miss my grandchildren.But not to miss the bus which is perder el autobús (literally to lose the bus).

Remember, learning a language is a gradual thing. Just adding a few expressions can make life easier and more enjoyable.

As I always say Poco a poco - Little by little

Hasta la próxima Until next time Valerie.

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Banks at it again

Barclays has stressed that itdoes not agree with thetreasury’s estimate of £500million, insisting that £200million would be nearer themark! It is the first time thecurrent government hasclawed back revenuesretrospectively ensuringbillions of pounds of taxeswill have to be paid in thefuture.

Barclays said it flaggedup the schemes to HMRC"in a spirit of fulltransparency" and insistedthat it always operateswithin the law. But thegovernment decided theschemes, while legal, werein breach of a code ofpractice that has seen allthe major banks pledge topay their fair share of taxes.A spokeswoman for thebank added: "Barclaysrespects the decision of

HMRC and thegovernment to adjust thetax laws and will, of course,comply with the modifiedlaw once it is in place."

One of the tax schemesinvolved Barclays avoidingpaying corporation tax onprofits it made by buyingback its own IOU-notes.The Treasury said it willmove to block the recentuse of the scheme by thebank and by any othercompany. The otherscheme – believed to bedevised by Barclays – sawinvestment funds trying toreceive tax credits from theTreasury on non-taxableincome. The governmentbrought in legislation onMonday to block future useof the scheme.

Exchequer secretary tothe Treasury David Gauke

said the government wasclear that "businesses mustpay the tax they owe whenthey owe it. We do not taketoday's action lightly, butthe potential tax loss fromthis scheme and the historyof previous abuse in thisarea mean that this is acircumstance where thedecision to change the lawwith full retrospectiveeffect is justified," he said.

Prime Minister DavidCameron's officialspokesman said: "What youhave learned today is thatthe government takes taxavoidance very seriously. Wewill continue to take toughaction on tax avoidancebecause we need to makesure that the tax system isfair for everybody."

A move by the UK’s Treasury to close two loopholes in taxlaws comes as an embarrassment to Barclays Bank after ittried to avoid paying more than £500 million in tax dodgesdespite the bank having signed up to a code of practiceagainst tax avoidance and the fact that it has recentlystressed the importance of “good citizenship”.

Pressure on to scrapNHS reformsLabour have renewedpressure for NHS reformsto be scrapped aftersecuring an urgentCommons grilling of thegovernment over NickClegg's backing for furtherchanges, according to thePress Associationyesterday, Tuesday.

Commons Speaker JohnBercow granted a requestby shadow Health secretaryAndy Burnham (pictured)for an urgent questionabout the latestdevelopment in the drawn-out saga.

Mr Clegg, the DeputyPrime Minister, sought tohead off a revolt within hisLiberal Democrat party byendorsing moves to limitcompetition in the healthservice.

He issued a joint letterwith Baroness Williams, themost prominent Lib Demcritic of the shake-up, asactivists prepared to raiseconcerns at the party'sspring conference nextweek.

Downing Streetindicated that PrimeMinister David Cameronhad been consulted on theletter and was happy tosanction further changes tothe flagship Bill. Therewould be no "significant"amendments however,Number 10 insisted, onlymoves to provide"reassurance and clarity"to coalition colleagues.

The Health and SocialCare Bill has already beensubstantially altered amidstrident opposition frommany health professionals– with significant groupsremaining hostile to theproposals.

Sources close to HealthSecretary Andrew Lansleysaid he was "relaxed" aboutthe changes sought by MrClegg, which he did notbelieve would substantiallyalter the impact of thelegislation.

Labour dismissed theletter as a "panic move" byMr Clegg to save him fromconfrontation withactivists, who last year

forced the government to"pause the legislation" andmake changes.

Mr Burnham said the"cosmetic" amendmentsfell well short of LadyWilliams' earlier demandfor the section of the Billwhich deals withcompetition to be droppedin its entirety. It came asReform, a centre-rightthink-tank, called for thecompetition provisions tobe retained to improve"quality and productivity".

Mr Lansley will respondin person to the urgentquestion, his spokesmansaid, cancelling a speech totown hall leaders andpatient groups in order to

Residents of theSantangelo Norte districtin Benalmadena tookadvantage of a councilmeeting last week toprotest against theconstruction of an ITVstation in their area. Theysaid they did not opposethe station per se butwould prefer to have itlocated in a non-residential area.Councillors belonging tothe Partido Popular andBOLI proposed looking foranother site for the station.However, Mayor JavierCarnero said the sitealready chosen was at least2,000 metres away fromany houses, and asked theprotesters to think of thegood of the majority.


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More than half werecaught with the dogs offthe leash while the rest(137) did not clean up theirdogs' poo or did not havemuzzles on dogs classifiedas dangerous breeds.Owners of the latter arealso asked for proof of

insurance against dogbites. Owners of thesedogs face fines of up to€3,000 while the otherfines range from €75 to€500. Councillor AntonioEspada said the streetswere already noticeablycleaner. He said the

measures had beenjustified by the number ofcomplaints made by thegeneral public involvingdog owners. He said hehoped three planned “dogparks” would be ready foruse by the beginning of thesummer.

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Councillor InmaculadaVasca said the 46 articles inthe new regulation areintended to raise people'sawareness to make thebeach a better place for allthe family. One articlestipulates that the

hamaqueros (the men whorent out the hammocks)will be responsible forseeing off people trying topeddle their goods alongthe beach. Another forbidstowels and parasolsbetween the line of

hammocks and the water'sedge, because that area isrented out to thehamaqueros. The beachwill also be off limits until11 am to give the cleanerstime to do their work.Partido Popular councillor

Rafael Obrero has said theregulations are “restrictiveand unfair” and place toomuch responsibility on thehamaqueros who do nothave the authority tointerfere with itinerantvendors.

New regulationsfor beach goersBenalmadena Town Council has approved a regulation aimed at gettingpeople spending the day on the beach to behave in a more civic-minded way.

Residentsdon't wantITV station

More than 400 pet owners have been fined since Marbella'sLocal Police, Green Patrol and Cleanliness inspectors startedpatrolling the streets just over a month ago.

Estepona, Benalmadena,Velez-Malaga, Mijas andRincon de la Victoria owe 80per cent of all the province'sunpaid bills to localsuppliers, according to theMalaga Businessmen's

Association. Of theoutstanding debt of €500million, Estepona towncouncil owes €200 millionto more than 1,000businesses. All councilsthroughout the country

have to forward theiroutstanding bills to theFinance Ministry by March15th, and will have to startpaying them in May oncethe ministry has checkedthem.

Five councils owe the most

It means “español buscatrabajo” (Spaniards seekswork) and tells the story ofa retired Norwegian whonow spends a lot of histime teaching Norwegianto Spaniards desperate forwork and willing to travelthe world over to find it.

It all started when lorrydriver Sergio Sanchez toldLasse Mejlænder, who livesin San Pedro de Alcantara,about being on the dole forseven months.

Saddened by the highrate of unemployment inSpain, Mejlænder askedSanchez if he would like to

work in Norway. Sanchezsaid yes, but pointed outthat he would have to learnNorwegian. Not realisingwhat he was letting himselfin for, Mejlænder offered togive him lessons.

He now teaches 20students from severaltowns in Malaga and Cadizprovinces and has awaiting list of 500. Theyinclude bus drivers, lorrydrivers and constructionworkers, as well as ateacher, all aged between18 and 57.

Three of his formerstudents are already in

Norway, ready to start workthis week driving cementlorries at a tunnel buildingsite. They will earn about€3,000 a month after taxand will be provided withlodging and a car free.

Sanchez, meanwhile, isstill studying and acting asMejlænder’s assistant,helping his fellowSpaniards masterNorwegian pronunciationwhich he describes asbeing “pretty difficult”.Mejlænder is now lookingfor premises for the classesbecause his wife is gettingtired of having her homeused as a school.

The national police have arrested a 30-year-old moroccanwho is wanted in France on charges of homicide, kidnappingand grievous bodily harm. When stopped at a policecheckpoint the man had produced an ID card whichbelonged to his older brother. The police let him go but kepthim under surveillance until they confirmed that he is wantedby the French authorities in connection with the kidnappingof two people, one of whom died later of his injuries, inFebruary 2008.

Suspected murderer detainedTOrremOlInOS

last year, 22 people met a violent end in malaga province,seven more than in 2010. It was the worst figure since 2006,when there were 23 murders, one more than the year before.Those were the years when the Costa del Sol became knownas the Costa del Crime because of the increase in foreign gangwarfare. One of the worst murders then was that of an Italianhairdresser and a seven-year-old child who was gunned downin a marbella hotel.

Murder rate risesmalaGa

The Guardia Civil have arrested six men who work for Infoca(prevention and extinction of Forest Fires) in connection withthe blaze which devastated more than 750 hectares in theSierra Bermeja and the Genal Valley on February 4th. It wasthe second worst fire in the province in a decade. They areaccused of not having followed safety rules when they burneddead undergrowth which was later fanned by wind resultingin the fire the following day.

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‘Spanjol søker jobb’

Coin Council has signedan agreement with theAndalucian Association ofCannine Rescue Groups(UCRA) to teach local CivilProtection workers to traina team of dogs to seek andrescue people in collapsedbuildings or over largeareas of terrain.

An UCRA spokesman saidit takes about 18 months totrain the handlers and thedogs properly, followingguidelines set out by theUnited Nations.

Coin toget rescuedogs

That was the strange title of an article which appeared in ElPais newspaper over the weekend.


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The PP government was less thantwo months old when the Lefttook to the streets looking for

trouble. Two weeks ago, a protest bystudents in Valencia against the local(PP-run) government’s education cutsended with a scuffle between police andstudents in which a couple of the lattergot a bit bruised. But it gave them anexcuse to turn out in force at thebeginning of last week, targeting a lackof heatin g and money at one particularsecondary school. That protest ended in45 “students” being hauled off by baton-wielding riot police.

However, the protesters forget welive in a country which enjoys afair degree of press freedom and

by the end of the week, the truth startedto emerge. First of all, the heating at theLluis Vives Institute had not beenturned off for lack of money at any timethis winter. In fact, there is currently atotal of €82,000 in the school’s bankaccount which allows it to pays its bills,despite the local government’s cuts. Aneducation department spokesman inValencia told the press that the cuts, infact, don’t affect the students at all, onlythe teachers.

It then turned out that of the 45people detained, only one attendsthe Lluis Vives Institute. The rest

were all too old to be attendingsecondary school – 20 were aged from18 to 23 and the rest were 24 or over,including a 71-year-old man. Only 30 ofthe 300 people in the crowd identifiedby the police were of school age. Thesefigures did not surprise the police at all,who know these professional protestersonly too well. The regional president ofthe Professional Police Syndicate, JoséManuel León, told reporters that “thesepea ceful protests turn violent becauseof the anti-system radicals who stir upthe students, then when the policemove in they push the students into thefirst rows while they fade into thebackground”.

He pointed out that what the pressdid not report about the firstpeaceful protest, when the

police did not wear riot gear, was whatthey had to put up with – insults, kicks,spitting and even biting.

And what the press didn’t givemuch coverage to was the factthat the schools in one Valencian

municipality governed by the SocialistParty haven’t had the heating turned onat all this winter.

By the end of the week, we alsoknew that the personable youngman who acted as spokesman for

the students earlier in the week is anardent fan of Fidel Castro andVenezuela’s Hugo Chavez – notsurprising since he was caught by anews camera proclaiming that “thestreets of Valencia are going to burnwith fire and run with blood”. But whenhe was interviewed on Telesur, AlbertoOrdóñez acted as if butter wouldn’t meltin his mouth. He said he didn’t repenthis words, they were a reaction to policebrutality which was what started off theviolence in the first place. He was veryvague about what he studied and wherebecause “I’m being threatened bygroups on the extreme Right”.

The Socialist Party is desperate totake over the student movementbut perhaps it should think twice

before being tarred with the same brushas its main rival, the Communist-dominated Izquierda Unida (UnitedLeft) which is trickier than a bagful ofmonkeys when it comes to trying to pullthe wool over the public’s eyes.

Ididn’t have room for the picture Iwanted to publish last week because– as usual – I ran on too much. So

here it is this week. Candido Mendez,head of the General Workers Union,sported a €10,000 solid gold Rolex at arecent press conference. He has alsobeen snapped in the past year wearingwatches by Raymond Weil and MauriceLacroix, valued at around €7,000 each.

Most unseemly for a unionleader in a country where morethan five million people are out

of work. Somebody should tell him topull his sleeves down at the nextconference!

A right Royal messHanky panky

In some ways you have to feel sorry forIñaki Urdangarin. He has replacedFrancisco Camps as Spain’s poster boy

for bad behaviour without even trying.This greedy son-in-law is dragging theentire royal family down with him as hefaces public corruption charges for hisalleged dealings at the Nóos Institute –the non-profit entity he and partnerDiego Torres set up to organise regionalsports and tourism and collected a lot ofmoney in doing so. Now it appears thatUrdangarin disobeyed his father-in-law,King Juan Carlos, who in 2006 orderedhim to quit all his private businessdealings and find a more transparent jobthat would not fall under so much publicscrutiny. Urdangarin admitted thisweekend that he went against the king’swishes and continued to work behind thescenes, helping to collect the outstandingmoney owed to Nóos by making a seriesof phone calls and sending a few emailmessages. Off with his head, somemonarchists are crying. Tax inspectors saythat Urdangarin diverted to his ownprivate businesses generous portions ofthe estimated €6.5 million Nóos receivedfrom the regional governments ofBalearics and Valencia between 2002-2006.

So where should the sympathy fall? Itis difficult to get a fair trial in thiscountry – or for that matter,

anywhere else – when the media is onyour back. The circus started two weeksbefore the royal bad boy was set to appearin a Palma de Mallorca court to testifyabout his role at Nóos, when a cameracrew from Telecinco tracked him and hiswife, the Infanta Cristina, at their home inChevy Chase, Maryland – a WashingtonDC suburb where many of the country’smovers and shakers live quietly. Since2009, Urdangarin has had a “respectable”job with Telefónica where he serves as arepresentative for the telecom giant’sprofitable Latin American division. It wasthe king’s wishes that he take his familyand get out of town after the monarch gotwind that there was an investigationbrewing. Not a nice move for someonewho is the main target of a judicialinquiry. But Urdangarin didn’t want toupset his father-in-law any further andtook the advice. But once again hedemonstrated that he may be dangerousextra baggage for the Spanish royals.

In a bizarre incident, a Telecincoreporter approached Urdangarin onthe street as he was walking to meet

his family at a local cinema. Naturally, hetold the journalist he had no commentwhile waving her off as she kept pace withhim. Then suddenly when Urdangarinsaw that the camera crew was on his tail,the lanky former Spanish Olympichandball champion made a mad dashdown the street as if he was running forhis life. This strange image has beenbroadcast and rebroadcast over and over.What is Iñaki running from?, Telecincofacetiously asked their viewers during thepromo for the special programme.Another painful image for the Duke ofPalma.

According to El País’ royal watcherMabel Gález, Urdangarin’shotfooting did not set in well with

Zarzuela royal palace. The Bourbonsperhaps haven’t had so much eye-raisingpublicity since the playboy antics of KingAlfonso XIII’s eldest son, Alfonso deBourbon – the current monarch’s uncle –who was killed in a car crash in the early1940s in Florida. Urdangarin got wordfrom Zarzuela that he must face themusic and quit portraying himself in amanner that is “not befitting of a memberof the royal family”.

Come Saturday, the day of thetestimony, and Urdangarin wasmet by a very unruly crowd. No

doubt the public’s mind is already madeup. Hecklers taunted him with chants of“chorizo, chorizo” (thief, in Spanish),while holding up placards poking fun atthe royals. Some signs showed King JuanCarlos in a Don Corleone gesturesurrounded by the puppet strings of theThe Godfather’s movie poster. As he madethe so-called “walk of shame” – thepassage way leading to the Palma deMallorca courtroom – a nervousUrdangarin was clearly not amused.Facing heat before the judge and back atZarzuela, no one would wish thissituation on their worst enemy.


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Employment law reformsThe new reforms, although largely unpopular with workers, will be welcomed by employers.

The generous paymentscheme on dismissal whichSpain had was often amajor obstacle forbusinesses in the currenteconomic climate as theoption of dismissing anemployee in an attempt toreduce costs could be anexpensive one.

The high severancepayments could also havebeen seen as a deterrent tohiring and the aim of thenew reforms, whichinclude the reduction ofthe severance payment, issaid to be to increaseemployment.

As part of the reforms,which came into effect on

13th February 2012, anemployer will now be ableto dismiss an employee bypaying 33 day’s salary foreach year worked insteadof the current 45 days, orjust 20 days if there areprofit losses over a ninemonth period.

In Spain the TradeUnions have a great deal ofpower and control over thecontracts and pay packagesemployers can offerthrough the use ofcollective bargainingagreements. However,under the new changesbusinesses in Spain, insituations where forexample they are facingeconomic hardship, will be

able to withdraw from suchagreements and haveincreased freedom as aresult in relation to matterssuch as working hours,shift work, remuneration,working systems andperformance. Morespecifically, businesses willalso be permitted in suchcircumstances to suspenda worker’s contract orreduce their hours. Thechanges also provide thatabsences of 20% over twomonths, or 25% over fourmonths, can amount to areason for dismissal. On the hiring side,

organisations areincentivised by the newreforms to hire employeesunder 30 and those

unemployed for a longperiod, by the provision ofquite substantial taxbenefits.

Hiring should now bemore attractive alsobecause employers withless than 50 employees cannow employ workers underan indefinite contractwhich allows for a trialperiod of a year.

Additionally of benefit toemployees, employers areobliged to offer training toemployees with more thanone year’s service.

Although the dismissalof an employee may nowbe considered less

expensive and lessproblematic, employerscan face legal action if theydo not follow the correctprocedures or do not fallwithin the circumstancesprovided by the legislation.

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Holidays: will my pet be OKwith a stranger?Dogs are creatures that

do not live in the past orindeed in the future, they arepresent living creatures.Present living means they

react to what is happeningnow. They do not sit thinking‘I wonder what Mum iscooking for me tonight.’Likewise they do not think inthe past ‘I wonder whenUncle Jack is coming roundlike he did a few monthsback’Obviously they are

creatures of habit withroutine, sound and smell.Simply put on your make upand pick up your bag andleash, wow what a reaction!

If you are going away and

someone moves into yourhome to look after them andfeed them, again they willreact to the present time andbe quite content. Anyonestaying should take themout for walk a few times aday, always with a leash onhowever much he or she willthink that the dogs knowthem well.

Do not worry aboutleaving your pets if a friendstays in your home but dostress that all gates and doorsmust always be closed.

DUMPING YOUR DOG

A number of people aredumping their cat or dogand just driving off andgoing back to the UK.

How cruel this is? A wellknown “dog trainer” on theCosta del Sol dumped hisdogs in kennels promising tocome back in a week – henever came back. I managedto find one of them a goodhome.

If you are going back tothe UK and cannot afford totake your dog, why notdiscuss this with your localanimal shelter. I have heardthat a few of them have infact assisted people who areshort of money to get theirdog/cat back to the UK.

One had a friend whowas in pet transport, a fewwines later he agreed to takethem!

So before dumping yourdog chat with a rescuecentre, or maybe place anadvert in this paper ‘Anyonegoing back to the UK by carthat could take my pet for asmall fee? ‘

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The Iceland store in PuertoBanus recently held anevent in aid of the charityFamilies of the Fallenwhose motto is “One lifelost in action does notmean a whole family falls.”Families of the Fallen is anew charity set up toconcentrate on deliveringmuch needed extrafinancial help to thefamilies of Britishservicemen andservicewomen killed in theAfghanistan and Iraqconflicts. That need hasbeen identified andconfirmed by keysupporters in the military.The event also marked

the first birthday for the

popular store withmanager Rob Harley andhis staff of 26 overseeingthe day with customerssampling a new range ofsandwiches and Eton Mess– which was a firmfavourite for those of uswith a sweet tooth!Other than the yummy

food on offer you couldalso get hair nail andbeauty advice andtreatments.The Iceland store is set

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manner of problems.The News Help Desk is open on Wednesday,Friday and Saturday every week from 1pmuntil 3pm in The News offices at SierraChica, opposite the La Trocha CommercialCentre, Coin and on Sundays at La Trocha

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Burglaries upBurglaries are on the rise inAndalucia and it seems thatthe thieves get in and takeeverything – and thatmeans everythingincluding clothes, food,even the taps from the sinkand bath as in the case of afour-bedroomed house inManilva in the past fewdays.

Coin has also beentargeted with over tenburglaries being carried outin one week at thebeginning of Decemberand more recently. In thatparticular area the GuardiaCivil are keeping a close eyeon things but you still needto make sure that all yourlocks and bolts are good

ones and that windows andall doors, gates etc., areclosed and locked. Also, askyour neighbours to keep agood eye out.

Remember there’snothing wrong with askingsomeone strange to thearea what they are doingand, just to be polite, canyou help them! That waythey’ll know that people inare keeping a sharp lookoutand they’ll probably moveon – preferably to anothercountry!

Women’s World Day of PrayerOn Friday 2nd March overthree million peopleworldwide will be prayingand worshipping togetherduring the annual Women’sWorld Day of Prayer.

The service is written by adifferent country each yearand that country thenbecomes the focus of theworld's prayers on the dayitself. This year’s theme is ‘LetJustice Prevail’ and has beenprepared by the Christianwomen of Malaysia. Locally there will be a

service at St Andrew’sChurch, Los Boliches at4.30pm.

Although organised andled by women, this isessentially a day of prayer foreverybody, demonstratingour solidarity with our sistersand brothers in othercountries and all arewelcome to attend.

Further information canbe found on the WWDPwebsite at www.wwdp-natcomm.org.

The symbol of theWomen's World Day ofPrayer was designed in 1982for the service prepared bywomen of Ireland, bothnorth and south, and wasthen adopted as theInternational Logo.

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The Mijas La Cala Lionsclub recently had thehonour of hosting WayneMadden, First VicePresident of theinternational association ofLions clubs, to a round ofgolf followed by luncheon.Wayne takes over the

association’s presidency inJuly when he will lead theinternational association ofLions clubs, the world’slargest non-governmentorganisation (NGO) with aworldwide membership inexcess of 1.35 millionrepresenting some 45,000clubs in 206 countries and

territories. But that’s not all! The

association’s internationalboard of directors, withrepresentatives from morethan 30 countries, haschosen the Costa del Sol fora series of high-levelmeetings in April 2013when around 100 delegatesfrom around the world willmake their headquarters inMarbella. The finalpreparations are welladvanced to showcasewhat the Coast has to offerand full details will bepublished nearer the time,so watch this space!

Good Companionsto Cudeca

Joan Hunt, President andFounder of CudecaHospice, was privileged toreceive a donation of10,000 euros at the AnnualGeneral Meeting of theGood Companions Club on14th February.

The club was formed in1995 by volunteers workingin the Fuengirola HospiceCharity Shop with theobjective of raising fundstowards the cost of thespecial palliative care forpatients suffering fromadvanced non-curablecancer or other life-threatening illnesses,which is provided by themedical personnel at theHospice Centre inBenalmádena.

This is the 18th annual

donation that has beenmade to Cudeca and bringsthe cumulative total for thepast years to 130,971 euros.This is the 20th anniversaryof Cudeca hospice care,and it is particularlysignificant that theFuengirola shop has movedto premises with muchimproved facilities for thevolunteers.

Everyone in Cudecasend heartfelt thanks to allthe Good Companions fortheir great support andcongratulations on thecontinuing success of theclub.

For more informationabout the club and itsactivities, please contactthe president, Tony Whiteon 952 494 730.

left to right: Tony White, Joan Hunt, Susan Hannem

The newly formed charitySEARCH – Spanish EquineAssociation for Rescue,Care and Homing – held avery successful Open Daylast weekend at Finca elSueño in Coin. A host ofvisitors enjoyed thesummer temperatures andsunshine while meeting thehorses and enjoyingdelicious homemadesnacks and cakes. Pictured– with young Kaiser whowas rescued with hismother as a foal – areorganisers Sue and Alan(centre left) with friendsand supporters fromSEARCH and from TheNatural HorsemanshipAssociation of Coin. Sue,who has been involvedwith horses and charitiesfor many years, has longbelieved in the naturalapproach and is keen toshare her ideas with otherhorse owners. She feelsthat all too often cruelty,which is sadly widespreadhere in Spain is mainly theresult of ignoranceresulting in bad feedingand handling. She recentlyappeared on localtelevision talking about herideas – follow the links tohear what she has to say:open the websitewww.mijascomunicacion.org – select 340tv – go toNews-and-Views – then toArchives 20-febrero-2012-sue-barns.

Sue lost her mobilerecently (stolen while shewas shopping in Coin) andalthough she now has anew one, with the samenumber (699 270 930) hasalso lost all her contactnumbers. She would begrateful if all her contactsand friends could get intouch so she canreassemble her addressbook. The charity's websiteis under construction,meanwhile anyone whowould like to help or is justinterested in learning moreabout SEARCH can contacther on email [email protected]

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Written by Jean Joss

White villages andancient defensivecastles are dotted

all over Andalucia but theMoorish castle of Zahara dela Sierra is impressive, evento the most experiencedtraveller. Situated betweenRonda and Sevilla andoverlooking the long valleybelow, it was the ideal spotfor a fortress built to repelenemy attacks and becauseof its perfect postion had along and often chequeredhistory.

Neolithic man madehis mark here. Thereare caves dotted

around the area as well asartefacts such as axe headsand pottery which werediscovered locally. TheRomans, too, were activeand it is thought that therewas a Roman settlementnearby since roof tiles,ceramics and marble havealso been unearthed – notsurprising considering theonce thriving city ofAcinipo near Ronda was

relatively close by. (You candrive to Ronda these daysin about half and hour.)The Roman culturecontinued under theVisigoths long after the fallof the empire.

The castle itself isthought to date backto the eight century,

around the year 742,though its first definitemention as a frontierfortress was in 1283 whenSultan Yusef Aben of

Morocco and the Castilianking Alfonso X met todiscuss an alliance. Duringthe 13th Century it was oneof the links in the defensivenetwork of towers andwatchtowers marking theborder of the Muslimkingdom.

During the 15thcentury as theChristians and

Moors fought forsupremacy in Al-AndalusZahara was continuallychanging hands and itspopulation subjected toattacks and massacres. Theexisting tower was rebuiltduring this volatile timeand by the latter part of thecentury the village wasconstantly on a war footing.In 1483 Rodrigo Ponce deLeon conquered Zaharaand the Catholic Kingsawarded him the title ofMarquis de Zahara, as wellas property rights. His coatof arms is still that of thetown today.

Zahara is the lastvillage perched onthe most westerly

massif on the limestonemountains at the foot of theSierra del Jaralin in Cadizprovince. Its nameapparently stems from theArabic, which means a largerock, though popular beliefhas linked it to the orangeblossom (azahar) on thetrees lining its streets. Afterthe Christian conquest itwas called Zahara de losMembrillos after thequinces grown locally.

Today its warlike pasthas been forgottenand it is more

appreciated for the beautyof its setting. The romanticBritish traveller RichardFord, described it as a“Moorish eagle's nest” andyou can walk up to thecastle remains to see foryourself. There are ruins ofthe mediaeval villagearound the Torre delHomenaje and a museumat the base charting itshistory. But to really sharethe flavour of the ancientfortress climb the steps tothe top of the tower andenjoy the spectacular viewsof the surrounding area.

The views todayinclude theimpressive reservoir

filling the valley below thetown. In earlier times ariver flowed through it –once crossed by a Romanbridge – but demand forwater resulted in the riverbeing dammed and aroundten years ago the valley wasflooded to construct a hugelake (it apparently took sixyears to fill completely). Itis a beautiful sightshimmering in thesunshine since the water isso clear – being fed by themountain streams.

The village itself is atypical puebloblanco, with tree-

lined streets, cafes and barsand two churches – SantaMaria de la Meza whichboasts a baroquealtarpiece, and the chapel

of San Juan de Letran.There are also miradors allaround from which to viewthe countryside and takephotographs.

If mountain scenery andviews are your thing(provided you aren't

worried by heights) thenafter visiting Zahara driveback via Grazalema. Thismeans crossing the passcalled Puerto de lasPalomas, an unforgettabledrive up winding hairpinbends which seem to go onforever. I'm not sure wherethe doves were the day wedrove up here but therewere plenty of birds of preycircling the heights. At thetop there is a small car parkand several marked walksso you can breath themountain air beforedescending through morewinding hairpins into therelative peace of Grazalemawhose natural park hassome wonderful walkingand climbing opportunities(one of the gorges ispictured below).

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Buffet on Fridays 6pm - 8pm Price €4.80 - Brunch on Sundays 1pm - 3pm Price €4.80

Heated Terrace 634 144 112 Free WiFi

Salon Varietes Theatre areproud to present, for onenight only, on Sunday 4thMarch at 7pm theinternational andAndalusian basedAbazbache FlamencoDance Company.

This authentic,passionate and energetic

dance performance oftraditional and moderndance is directed andchoreographed by thefamous Juan AntonioPerez. It’s a night that iscertainly not one to bemissed.

Call the box office on 952474 542 to book your seats.

ABOUTThe Friends in Focusphotography club are goingon a coach trip to ParqueNacional de Doñana. Thetrips leaves on WednesdayMay 2nd, and you’ll beaway for four days (threenights) staying in a 4-starhotel.

The price of the tripincludes your buffet

breakfast plus dinner withwine and water. There isalso an optional Jeep safariat an extra cost.

For full details of whatpromises to be a veryinteresting trip contact LynCarter on 605 423 985 orvisit their web site www.friendsinfocuscameraclub.com

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ANREM - The Associationfor New Residents andForeigners in Málaga willhold a Charity Spring Partyin aid of Cudeca onSaturday March 3rd at theAñoreta Golf Club inRincon de la Victoria, from9pm.

The event consists of adelicious dinner buffet, araffle and charity auction,and some great live musicto finish off the evening.

Tickets are on sale fromthe Añoreta Golf Club for25€� per person. Comealong and enjoy a night outand support your localcharity. For moreinformation, contact Aprileon 630 927 226.

Dinner F.A.C.S big quiz& social eveningA big quiz & social eveningis to be held on Wednesday7th March at 7.30pm in TheArk Christian FellowshipBuilding, Centro ComercialLas Rampas, (near Dunnes)Fuengirola.

Included in the ticketprice of just 4€ are "LiteBites", tea, coffee etc. Therewill also be a variety ofstalls including a tombola,cake and chocolate stalls

and there will also be a bestteam prize.

The evening is organisedby F.A.C.S (Friends of theArk Christian School) andall proceeds will go toprovide vitally neededequipment for the school.Tickets are available fromthe Ark Coffee Shop(Tuesdays, Thursdays &Fridays) or contact KenSmyth on 693 042 302.

Specsavers Opticas inFuengirola will be holding afun event in aid of Cudeca intheir Fuengirola store onMonday 5th March. Localhairdressers andbeauticians from Beso Salonwill be on hand to pamperand beautify the gueststotally free of charge. Therewill be frames style advisorsto help match glasses to theguest’s new look. There willalso be a “Bring and Buy”clothing sale so guests canget a completely new lookwith all funds raised tobenefit the Cudeca Hospice.

Judy Borland, SpecsaversOpticas’ store directorexplains “We want people tobe proud of wearing glassesand know that they can be a

fashion accessory whichreally makes a statement.This pampering day at thestore will showcase somestunning high-fashionranges, treat local residentsto a new look and raisemoney for Cudeca. This willbe a fun day which exploresthe more glamorous side ofeye care and raises moneyfor a good cause, so weinvite everyone down toenjoy themselves and get afabulous new look.”

The open day will runfrom 10.00 to 19.30 onMonday 5th March at thestore on Avenida Ramon yCajal 6 (near the busstation). Call 952 467 837 tobook an appointment orfind out more.

Seeing straight for Cudeca

Jack’s TavernAlora

(formerley Harvey’s)Weds: Curry NightFri: Fish and ChipsSUNDAY LUNCH

www.jackstavern.net618 846 629for more info


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Mon to Fri 11.00 ‘til 15.00 & 18.00 ‘til 22:00 -

Sat 18:00 ‘til 22:00 - Sun closed.

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Arroyo de la Miel

HOUSE FISH & CHIPS

FROM

€4,50

Mad Terry

@ Buzby’s“LIVE”

Now Open from8.30pm

Av Antonio MachadoBenalmadena

Tel.: 645404911

LIVE MUSIC

Wednesday 29thK T Peters

Multi-change drag actThursday 1st March

Alexandra Avery -Female vocalist

Friday 2ndMad Terry- Man of

many voicesSaturday 3rd

Mario Ross - Welshwizzard of voice

Sunday 4thLesley Harrison-

Rock ChickMonday 5th

KT PetersMulti-change drag act

Tuesday 6thIan Jacks - DJ by day,superstar by night

Free Entry!

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

Across From the Clubhouse

La Risa @ Lauro Golf

For further details of all these events call us on660 350 896 or pop into the bar.

Diamond Jubilee - 3 Course LunchSunday June 3rd plus entertainment with

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Advance Bookings are advisable

Monday - 2 Course Curry Menu 7.50€ Wednesday & Friday - Fish & Chips Saturday - Special Menu or Event Sunday - Excellent Sunday Lunch

Simply Slimmer - slimming club everyFriday at 9.30am

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rESTauranTE El rio

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

For fantastic tapas, drinks, racionesand typical Spanish specialities.

Live music with Martin every Thursday.

Bar El rio

Has now re-opened !Come and enjoy our great food

and service!Three-course Menu del Dia available

all day plus full à la carte menu.

Open 12.00 noon ‘til 4.30 & 7.00 ‘till late (Closed Sundays and Monday lunchtime)

MON: FUN QUIZ 9.30pmTUES: CRIBBAGE NIGHT 9pm

WEDS: England v Holland8:45pm

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StartersSoup, Fish Fillet, Greek Salad etc.,

Main CoursesStuffed Roast Pork, Marinaded Chicken,

Lasagne and much, much more...

Desserts / Sweets

Self-service buffetAll you can eat

Restaurant Don Q, Paseo Maritimo, 40, Fuengirola

New management - New staff

Open 7 days a week 13:00 - 22:00

La TrocharestaurantBUY 3 TAPAS, GET A 4TH FREE!BUY 3 TAPAS, GET A 4TH FREE!BUY 3 MENU DEL DIAS, GET 4TH FREE!BUY 3 MENU DEL DIAS, GET 4TH FREE!Mon - Fri only throughout FebruaryMon - Fri only throughout FebruaryLocated at the BP BP Station, Coin

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Saturday 3rd MarchRoyal British Legion

Race NightSaturday 31st March

Charity AuctionEvery Friday Free Pool

From 5-8pm R.O.A.R

JK’s

A selection ofmousses

and home-made cakes(Children under

8-years-old half price)

restaurant - hostal

SANTA FENEW À LA CARTE MENU

3 courses €27.50, 2 courses €21.50

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Sierra Gorda Bistro

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Saturday SpecialMeal deal - choicefrom 3 starters, 3

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Lunch Special - 2courses for €5pp

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Restaurant Al DentePIZZERIA - PASTA - MEAT - FISH

SNACK CAFE BARBREAKFAST - LUNCH

DINNER - TAPAS TAKE AWAYCalypso’s New

Italian Restaurant663 922 344

C.C Valdepinos, Calypso, Mijas Costa

Monday, Robbie’s Karaoke Roadshow

Tuesday, Wednesday &Thursday

Music Trivia Quiz, Bingo,Play Your Cards Right plus

Live FootballFriday

Siobhan - female vocalistfrom Dublin - country Irish

60s, 70s & 80sFun for all ages

SaturdayNight Life - Comedy vocalduo - not to be missed -

tributes to Elvis, Tina Turner& Showaddywaddy

Sunday“Mr Blue Eyed Soul”

Danny Stone - tributes toBarry White, Chris Rea, Soul

*FREE ENTRY* Shows start at 9.30pm.

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Food Served all day11am to 9pm

Lux Mundi Torre del Marhas a couple of trips andevents planned for Marchthat you may want to takepart in

On Saturday March 17ththere is a “Songs andSausages” concert at theCentre. You will beentertained by a trio,playing guitars and singingballads and popular musicfrom the ‘60s onwards anda chance to have a sing-along.

There will be an intervalwhen a supper of sausagesand mash and one drinkwill be served. Times forthe event are 6.30pm for7.00pm and the ticketprice is �€7.

Then on Sunday March25th a coach trip to the

Salon Varietes, Fuengirolato see “The Sound ofMusic” is planned. Thecoach departs fromAlgarrobo at 5.15pm,Caleta at 5.20pm and TorreDel Mar at 5.30pm for theshow’s start at 7.00pm,returning from Fuengirolaat approximately 9.30pm.

Ticket price for the tripis €30 which includes thecoach and entrance to theshow.

For further informationand bookings, please callin or contact the Centre on952 543 334 or 952 540 432.

A couple of events

For one night only onFriday 9th March, curtainup 8pm, at The SalonVarietes, Fuengirola. With avocal and visual deliverythat has to be seen andheard to be believed, TheRat Pack Tribute Showeffortlessly recreates thestyle, elegance and"pizzazz" of the Las Vegas"Rat Pack" era. Whateverthe occasion, the Rat Packboys guarantee an electricatmosphere with theirdynamic show whichencompasses thepersonalities andunbeatable music of FrankSinatra, Dean Martin andSammy Davis Jr. For themost authenticreproduction of the threebiggest Las Vegas legends,look no further. This showis not to be missed .

Rat Packis back

RaceNightDon’t miss the ever popularrace night at JK’s on the LaTrocha estate (behind theLa Trocha petrol station onthe Coin to Cartama road)on this Saturday eveningstarting at 7.30pm. This is acharity event in aid of theRBL Poppy Appeal.

Entrance is free but ifyou wish to eat there will bea choice of chilli con carne,a curry or a fab hotpot for€8 per person. Betting onthe gee gees is up to you!Call Tracy on 620 374 191for more information.

MOVIES TO WATCH OUT FOR CROSSWORD SUDOKU CULTURE & LEISURE FOOD & DRINKHOROSCOPES

MagazineMOVIE SPOTLIGHT By Amy Thomas

Director McG, the manbehind Terminator:Salvation and Charlie’sAngels – Full Throttle, is notnoted for his delicate touchand subtlety so this romcom crossed with a spythriller comes out of thetraps like a battering ram, ifyou will excuse the mixedmetaphors. FDR (Pine) andTuck (Hardy) are the world’sdeadliest CIA spies –apparently – as well as beingbosom buddies. And havingsuccessfully workedtogether to bring down badguys all around the worldthey end up back at head

office in LA. There our deskbound heroes find time tomull over the meaning oflife, love and that kind ofstuff, and hunky Tuckdecides that he wantsnothing more than to find awoman to love. Luckily forhim perky Lauren(Witherspoon) is caught upin her career and doesn’thave time to find the manfor her, so her sister takesthe matter in hand andplaces Lauren’s details on adating site. Tuck spots herand makes contact. Cue fora romance – well, yes. Butshe accidentally meets FDR,

does not realise the guys arebest friends and decidesthat it would be fun to dateboth men and comparetheir attributes. Before youcan say boy meets girl thetwo best friends areemploying their CIA skillsand hi-tech gadgetryagainst each other. There’s alot of bickering, and somelively sabotaging in the all’sfair in love and war battle towin the hand of the fairmaiden. It’s an enjoyable ifbrainless romp, whichluckily has the skills of apretty handy cast to call onto keep things moving along

at a cracking pace. So whowins the day? Watch themovie and take a big bag ofpopcorn.

By: McG, Starring: Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon

MOVIES TO WATCH OUT FOR


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Hammer StillHas It

is Means War Ihave to admit that I had my

doubts about the recentrelease of the remake of“The Woman in Black”, notthat the original was thatgood, but my doubts wereregarding Mr. Potter. Havingnot read the book, it is hardfor me to compare versionsand say which is closer to it,however when making acomparison, for story andmost enjoyable movie, I’dhave to say Potter wins ithands down.

Even though the story isthe same, the

productions were quitedifferent – for example, inthe original Arthur’s wife isalive and in the remake hiswife died during childbirth.

Also the town’s peoplewere helpful in the

original, but not in the newone – they couldn’t get rid ofArthur quick enough. I knowthat they seem like smalland petty differences, but Ithink this altered the story ofthe movie.

Another thing thatbugged me about the

original was there wasn’tmuch explanation as to whyand what was happening,and the residual hauntingscene was rather irritating.

The remake wassurprisingly good, the

special effects were neat –not too much, but enough

to give you the willies.Hammer, true to it’s famoushorror genre, managed tokeep the movie spooky witha few jumps thrown in forgood measure, which makesa refreshing change to allthe blood and gore thatmodern horror makers thinkis a prerequisite.

Radcliffe was the biggestsurprise for me. I didn’t

think he’d ever get overbeing Potter, but I waswrong, the boy doesn’t haveto whip out his wand to bememorable. As his charactercarried the film, there wasmuch on Radcliffe’sshoulders, but he handledthe role remarkably well.

For those of you who arenot familiar with the

story, this is what it’s about:Being told by his boss thathe has one last chance toprove that he can be a usefulsolicitor, recently widowedArthur Kipps is ordered topay a visit to a town in thenorth east of England,where the estate of AliceDrablow needs to be sorted.Shortly after arriving to thetown, Kipps starts to hearalmost all residents plead forhim to leave the town atonce, and not to go nearDrablow's old house.

Arthur decides that heshould pay a visit to

Drablow's house, so that hecan at last sort out all of herfinancial details and thenget as far away from thetown as possible!. As Arthurstarts to work through thenight at the isolated house,he takes a look outside awindow, and for a momentsees an image of a ghostly-looking woman dressed inblack.

If you fancy a fright or areinto ghost stories, this film

should be right up youralley.

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A Discovery Worth MakingHazy Malaze formed in 2002and this soul power trio, withsinger guitarist Neal Casal,drummer Dan Fadel andbassist Jeff Hill, released acracking debut album in2003. They have released atotal of three albums – HazyMalaze (2003), BlackoutLove (2005) andConnections (2009) andhave toured throughout theUS and Europe. This groupbrings out something new inNeal's voice, a sour tocounter the sweet, a bit morewolf under the sheepskinthan many might haveexpected.

Hazy Malaze sound likewhat might have happenedif the Meters had passed thepeace pipe with Little Feat'sLowell George. Hazy Malazeprovides a rough edgedcounterpoint to thesensitivity of Casal's solowork, revealing new facets ofan artist always on the road

to something new. The firstalbum Hazy Malaze openswith the very Stones-esque“Satisfy the Jones” – it’s amodern classic with somemean guitar work. A bitfurther in you’ll find“Getaway From You”, whichhas a ‘60s sound to it andDan’s drumming remindsyou of Keith Moon.

The group’s original ideawas to be a instrumentalband, but in the end theydecided against it – however,two instrumental tracksmade it on to the debutalbum. And once you hearthis album, you’ll neverbelieve that it was recordedin only seven days.

The second album,Blackout Love, is mypersonal favourite. Thisalbum is more polished thanthe first. The sound isamazing, the second track“Looking Out for You” has tobe one of my favourite songs

of all time, it’s bluesy with araw edge. Casal’s voice is sointense in this song that ifyou were listening to it on aheadset, you’d think he wasright behind you, his voice isquite sexy in this littlenumber. Another naughtynumber is “Thank You InAdvance”, but not all thesongs on here are sexy andsoulful.

The boys knock it in gearwith some good ol’ rock ‘n’roll, with “Rock ‘N’ RollGone” and “DamageTalking”. There is also a bit offunk in “Bust it Down”, and ifyou like Golden Earring’s“Radar Love”, you’ll love“Dirty Summer”. Afteryou’ve rocked out, there afew slower numbers that’llhelp you get your breathback, “Blackout Love” is analbum that should be ineverybody’s collection.

Hazy’s last album,Connections, seems slightly

darker, it’s a bit heavier, butjust as good nonetheless.The opening track “Get Free”is insane and fast with quirkylyrics, it sets the theme forthe rest of the album. Thetitle track “Connections” hasa taste of country to it, but“Josephine” and “On theTarmac” isn’t countryish atall, it’s more rock. There aresome slower songs, but thefinal song “Scavenger” isgreat, with a good oldfashioned guitar solo.

Hazy Malaze is well worthdiscovering, this band willrestore your faith in modernmusic and remind you whatgood rock ‘ n’ roll reallysounds like.

Written by Abigail Tyler

ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

It is the moment to roll up your sleeves and get right down to it; effort is what isrequired, sheer determination and action to get a job done. It is not aboutbrainstorming or being in touch with the right people anymore it is hard work andmuscle that is going to get you ahead now. Put in the man-hours and you willflourish – you are on a countdown to getting some of your dreams to come true,by 10th March you will see the result of your efforts.

You will be really reaching for the dream this week which is having a way ofexpanding your horizons and your sense of all that is possible. There is seriousfortitude brewing within you and will peak mid March so prepare well to dosomething big with the energy that will be bursting forth within you. You are onthe brink of future success and recognition, this is when you'll start to see the hardwork you've done start to really pay off.

This week you could be feeling all out at sea, worrying over things that normallyjust roll off your back. By the weekend whatever you need to know will becomeapparent and you will then recognise what to do. An emotional week in the areaof your home and you could feel that you are at a crossroads. Later in the weeknew acquaintances enter your life and bring fresh opportunities, this is just whatyou need to take your mind off the domestic and family entanglements.

Just when you thought you were there, another door opens which is loaded withsigns of new adventures and upcoming personal challenges. The big differencethis time is that you will have the wealth and resources needed to make the journey.This is more about testing and refining your inner determination. Your career andsocial standing is on a pathway leading to elevation, run with it for greaterprosperity could be just around the corner.

After a period of rest you will find yourself filling up with zest and enthusiasm,you can feel that what you are doing now is on the right track and this feelingis giving you energy. Seeds are germinating; life is showing signs of promiseonce more. This is a great time to go to new places and learn new things, toexplore more of what life has to offer. If the outer appearance of things haslooked misty, the veil is starting to lift, revealing a new dawn.

Relationships are where all the action is and a lot of your energy is directed at re-addressing the balance. Changes are coming and will have a knock-on effect toloved ones; therefore, a lot of groundwork has to be covered, to make sure thatall concerned are comfortable and willing to assist the journey. By next week youremotions heat up and you become very passionate and sensual towards a specialsomeone. Look after your health this week, be kind to yourself.

Take it one step at a time Libra – you may feel like you have been left in the lurch bysomeone and may be slightly overwhelmed as to what to do. Make sure that youcommunicate clearly and let others know what the situation is – you may besurprised at who comes forward to aid you. Once you clear this hurdle your energywill re-emerge allowing you to battle on making bigger strides than ever. Treatyourself to a bit of pampering – you deserve it.

You are so creative right now on all levels. This can be a time when partnershipsare formed and two individuals learn to function as one. However, you may bemore concerned about your overall health and not want to push yourself beyondyour limits. The best thing you can do is slow down and make sure youunderstand what others are saying before rushing to take action. This energy isgreat when making changes and improvements to your home-life livingconditions.

Others are looking to you for leadership and guidance, you are the one who alwaysseems to be able to identify the goal, see the bigger picture and inject a bit ofenthusiasm into anything. The problem is you don’t want to rush in where angelsfear to tread this week; you want to wait but you can’t explain why, it just doesn’tfeel the right time to take up the reins and ride. Perhaps worry and fear are weighingyou down – or maybe the timing isn’t quite right, only you know.

The pace of your life is so fast it is making you dizzy. Making plans to fit everythingin is almost impossible but vital so that you don’t forget or leave something out. Youmay have to start taking a pen and paper around with you to write things down sothat you can remember them. If not you are going to start to lose things and forgetappointments. You will need a sense of humour and as long as you can laugh yourway through this time then at least the journey will seem lighter.

There are people entering your realm from different walks of life that are spicingthings up for you. You have a lot of attention coming your way and at the same timethere is a strong theme at the moment to rely upon yourself and becomeindependent. The financial side of your life is also feeling a bit shaky and this is nothelping but there are ways to increase wealth at your fingertips. Repairingrelationships and restoring them to their former glory is something that you wish tofocus on.

Doing things one at a time is the key to getting things done, this means stoppingwhat you are doing should you find yourself being distracted by others and beingsure to hear not only what they are saying but also what they mean. This can alsomean standing tall when others come to distract you and ask them to come backlater when you're in the middle of something. A big factor in this appears to be notallowing yourself to be taken for granted.

HOROSCOPES by Cathy Stronach

For your personal birth chart please contact [email protected]

March 21st -April 19th

April 20th -May 20th

May 21st -June 21st

June 22nd -July 22nd

July 23rd -August 22nd

August 23rd -September 22nd

September 23rd -October 22nd

October 23rd - November 21st

November 22nd -December 21st

December 22nd -January 19th

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February 19th -March 20th

Kym’s Kitchen...you don’t have to be a chef!


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Directions

Ingredients: Serves 6 Pollo a la Extremeña

This Spanish chicken dish is typical of Extremadura, a region in southwestern Spain, borderingwith Portugal. It is known for simple, uncomplicated dishes. Chicken is simmered with Serranoham, garlic, onions, brandy and fresh pureed tomatoes, creating a flavourful sauce.

• 1 chicken• 2 medium onions• 4 cloves garlic• 4 oz (125 ml) brandy• 5-7 tbsp olive oil• 4 thin slices Serrano ham• 1 lb (450 gr) tomatoes• salt to taste• flat leaf parsley for garnish(optional)

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 35 minutes

Clean and dry the chicken. Cut into 8 pieces.Salt all pieces on both sides. Cut ham slicesinto small pieces. Peel and finely chop garlic.

Pour a few tablespoons of oil into a largeheavy bottom frying pan or large openstock pot. Heat on stove. When hot, addchicken and ham and brown chicken onboth sides. Reduce heat to medium-low. Add half of the chopped garlic. Cover andcook for about 10 minutes.

While chicken is cooking, Peel and finelychop onions. Cut tomatoes into small piecesand process in food processor or blenderuntil crushed. Add onions, tomatoes andbrandy to chicken, stirring to mix. Cookuncovered on medium- low until onionsbecome transparent.

Add the rest of the chopped garlic. Stir andcover. Simmer for 15-20 minutes.Serve with fried potatoes.

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Not funny Cohen ruinsthe night for presenterVictoria Wood once said atan award ceremony thatthe new line of so-calledcomedy was just not funnyanymore and indeed, itseems that “comedians”think that being nasty,spiteful or just downrightuncouth is funny.At the Oscars at the

weekend Sacha BaronCohen (he of the yellowMankini) turned upwearing a military uniformthat he claimed wasdesigned by John Gallianoposing as General Aladeen,the lead character in hisfilm The Dictator. He wasflanked by two female“bodyguards” and wascarrying what appeared tobe an urn that he claimedcontained the ashes of his“friend”, the late North

Korean leader Kim Jong-il.During an interview

with US TV host RyanSeacrest, he told him thathe was pleased to be at theawards ceremony as: "Itgave me the opportunity tobring my dear friend anddoubles tennis partner,Kim Jong-il. It was hisdream to come to theOscars and to be sprinkledover the red carpet andover Halle Berry's chestagain."He then faked falling

over and tipped thecontents of the urn thatindeed looked like ash, allover Seacrest’s immaculateBurberry dinner suit and allover the red carpet. Theshocked presenter toldviewers: “I’m a little dusty.I’m a victim of comedy,”

while the event’s realbodyguards took a ratherdimmer view of the stuntand carted Cohen off.Earlier last week, the

Academy of Motion PictureArts and Sciences warnedthe star of Borat and Brunoagainst staging anypublicity stunts, and it wasinitially reported that hehad been banned.In response, Cohen

posted a spoof video onlineof "General Aladeen"calling the academy'smembers "zionists".Well, Mr Cohen, seems

like it might be time togrow up and become anormal member of society.But I don’t think that’s verylikely – what a patheticidiotic little man he is!

Mr BaggypantsThe comedians seem to bein the news this week andthis time it’s the turn ofRussell Brand whose latestsqueeze appears to beanother brunette in theshape of Mexican artistOriela Medellin aftermeeting her at Yoga classesin LA.

The couple were spottedbuying crystals in a WestHollywood shop that sells arange of precious andsemi-precious stones.

But what on earth arethose trousers he’swearing? Style icon this

man certainly isn’t!

Ex-wife Katy Perry,meanwhile, is on the frontcover of the March issue ofInterview magazinelooking very different withher dramatic smoky eyesand jet-black locks.

On themoveIt’s Milan ‘s turn for theirfashion week and therumours are rife thatBritain’s John Galliano’svacant position at Dior maybe taken by ScotChristopher Kane whorecently commented thatGalliano’s shoes would be achallenge to fill. However,he has grown out of hisassociation with DonatellaVersace so we’ll just have towait and see where he goesnext.

The week has been fullof other surprises though.First came the news thatRaf Simons is leaving hisposition as CreativeDirector at Jil Sander, withan emotional farewellduring his final show lastweekend. Then the YvesSaint Laurent stableconfirmed that StefanoPilati will be ending histenure at the brand, withthe possibility of HediSlimane taking his place.

The never endingfashion merry-go-roundjust keeps on spinning.

As she said in her speech afterwinning the gong for BestPerformance by an Actress in aLeading Role for her part asMargaret Thatcher in The IronLady: “When they called myname I’d had this feeling I couldhear half of America going ‘ohno…oh c’mon…why…her…again?’”

She went on to thank RoyHelland, her make-up artistsince the beginning of time thenadded: “but also I want to thank– because I really understand I’llnever be up here again – I reallywant to thank all my colleagues,all my friends, I look out hereand I see my life before my eyes,my old friends, my new friendsand really this is such a greathonor but the thing that counts

the most with me is thefriendships and the love and thesheer joy we have shared makingmovies together. My friends,thank you, all of you, departedand here for this inexplicablywonderful career. Thank you somuch. Thank you.”

Ms Streep won a supportingactress gong in 1979 and the topaward in 1982 for Kramer VsKramer and Sophie's Choicerespectively, but had lost 12times in a row since then.

The best of the rest went to:Octavia Spencer ("The Help"),Performance by an Actress in aSupporting Role.Jean Dujardin ("The Artist"),Performance by an Actor in aLeading Role.

Christopher Plummer("Beginners"), Performance byan Actor in a Supporting Role.Thomas Langmann and MichelHazanvicius ("The Artist"), BestMotion Picture.Michel Hazanavicius, ("TheArtist"), Achievement inDirecting (he also thanked Uggithe dog that appeared in the filmduring his speech!).Asghar Farhadi ("A Separation"),Best Foreign Language Film.Gore Verbinski ("Rango"), BestAnimated Feature Film.TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and RichMiddlemas ("Undefeated"), BestDocumentary Feature.

So, all in all a pretty predictablenight with everyone turning onthe glitz and looking absolutelyspiffing!

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&Bad breathused to createliver cellsHydrogen sulphide, the gasthat generates the stench instink bombs, flatulence andbad breath, has beenharnessed by researchers inJapan to help convert stemcells from human teeth intoliver cells.

Small amounts ofhydrogen sulphide are madeby the body. It is alsoproduced by bacteria and istoxic in large quantities.Researchers at the NipponDental University wereinvestigating stem cells from

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She said current strategiesto reduce waste were notenough and NHS patientsshould be told how muchtheir medicines cost.

She told reporters how aman entered her pharmacylast month and handed hera black bin-bag ofmedicines worth £2,250.She said they wereunusable because she didnot know how they hadbeen stored in the patient’shome so they were sent forincineration.

According to a recent

poll of members of theRoyal PharmaceuticalSociety, 57% thoughtpatients were to blame formedicines’ waste.

Various strategies havebeen proposed to preventwaste, including limitingprescribing to 28 days, andsince 2006, more than 120campaigns have been run,asking people to "onlyorder what you need".

Ms Wang said thisclearly this is not enoughand “it's time to talk aboutthe money”. Most people

have no idea how muchtheir medicines cost andhuman nature is such, shesaid, that when somethingis free, people behave moreirresponsibly.

She said colleagues incountries where peoplehave to pay for medicinesdon't see this sort of wasteand while the debate onprescription chargescontinues, people need tobe made aware of exactlyhow much their medicinescost.

She thought pharmacies

could print some extrawording on medicineslabels, and suggested: "Thisbox of medicine costs theNHS £XX. Please look afterYOUR NHS: don't keepmore than two months'worth of medicines."

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Many drugsare 'non-vegetarian'

Lin-Nam Wang, community pharmacist and senior contributionseditor at The Pharmaceutical Journal, has said that half of the£300 millions’ worth of medicines wasted each year is avoidable.

People who choose not toeat animal products maybe unaware that commonmedicines could containthem, according toresearchers at theManchester RoyalInfirmary. Many tablets andliquid medicines usegelatin, derived fromanimal bones or skin,which helps to hold pillsand capsules together orthicken liquids. A survey of500 patients has shown thata quarter of patients areunknowingly prescribeddrugs containing gelatin.Drug companies couldadopt an "ingredients" listsimilar to that found onfood packaging, or even userecognised symbols such asthose promoted by theVegetarian Society.

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Across1.Time to get stuck into romance like a JackieCollins novel - a basic skill you'll need (8)5.Shun Dutch artist, having replaced kingwith wife (6)9.Brave leader returns child buried in earth (8)10.Dame Edna Everage's excellent bronzebust (6)12.Old blue bird protects newborn chickperhaps, close to snake (11)15.They can ruin your lawn, the buggers! (5)17. Instrument taking horse round lake todrink (5,4)18.Rational to keep hospital doctor in Jewishcouncil (9)19.To set about wearing half of Gandhi'sclothing (5)20.Nothing dissimilar to ... (3,1,7)24. ... such pants taken down smothered inketchup and mustard? (3,3)25.Area where campaigner against landmines put her foot down (8)26.Time light years away, stars appear so? (6)27.Part-timers kept in check by Queen'sservant (8)

Down1.Allow to make off up M1 with one'ssweetheart (10)2.They cover me in seconds, beneath Jack(10)3. Puzzling when ladder rocks (bottomsawn off) (5)4. Consistent remark about a biscuit almostraised a point (12)6.Hole in Amundsen's equipment getsdug (9)7.Man welcomes in extremists? It's notclear (4)8. Play, for example, or not! (4)11.Get up one's nose? I do, with hair neverold-fashioned (4,3,5)13.Unfair claiming giro, rat on a suspect(10)14.On the other hand, he's just as good(10)16. Rudder support, harsh job (9)21.Widely accepted bunch of racketeersharbouring right extremist (5)22. Biblical son uniting female and male (4)23.Not all came to nursery school (4)

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1. In Greek mythology, who didLeander fall in love with and swimevery night across the Hellespontto be with: Hero; Leda; or Dido?

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The Earth orbits around theSun once every year before

returning to its start position. Wesay that there are 365 days inone year but this isn’t quite true;the Earth actually takes 365 days5 hours 49 minutes and 12seconds to complete one fullorbit, which is very nearly 365 ¼days.

Think of it this way. Imaginethat you are looking down

onto the Solar System fromabove with the Sun in the centreand the Earth travelling aroundit in an anti-clockwise direction.Now lets place the dial of a clockaround the Earth with your part of theEarth pointing at the 12 o’clockposition directly facing the Sun. TheEarth also spins on its axis in an anti-clockwise direction so as the dayprogresses then your point on Earthwill begin to mark out the numbers ofthe clock from 12 through 9 past 6 and3 and back to 12 again making onewhole day.

Each time the Earth completes onrevolution on its axis it moves a

little in its orbit around the Sun. After365 ¼ days it has made one completeorbit of the Sun and returned toexactly the same point in space that itstarted from and now your part onEarth is not pointing at the 12 o’clockposition it is in fact pointing at the 9o’clock position. The following yearyour part of the Earth has progressedanother quarter turn so is nowpointing to the 6 o’clock position. After3 years all these quarter turns arebeginning to add up and now yourpart of the Earth is pointing to the 3o’clock position. After four years havegone by then by the time the Earthreturns to the exact point in spacewhere it begins each year then yourpart of the Earth has taken an extraone whole day or 366 days to return toits starting point.

To compensate for this discrepancyevery four years we add an extra

day in February that makes that year366 days long and not the usual 365days. You may think ‘well what doesone day matter really in four years?’But those days all add up over timeand after 40 years the calendar wouldbe 10 days out of sync with the seasonsand after 80 years there would be adifference of 20 days.

It was Julius Caesar who invented thefirst really ‘proper’ calendar over2000 years ago and he madeprovisions to allow for leap yearsoccurring every four years. But this toowas slightly wrong as the Earth takesalmost 11 minutes less than 365 ¼days to make one orbit of the Sun. Andso by the year 1582 the Julian Calendarwas also out of sync by about 10 days.So Pope Gregory XIII employed amathematician and astronomer toreorganise the calendar to take intoaccount the missing days. And soThursday 4th October 1582 wasfollowed by Friday 15th October 1582and the Gregorian calendar that westill use today was implemented.

The Gregorian calendar states thatevery four years there would be a

leap year but years that are divisible by100 would only be leap years if theywere also divisible by 400 as well. So,in the last millennium, 1600 and 2000were leap years, but 1700, 1800 and1900 were not. In this millennium,2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, 2600, 2700,2900, and 3000, will not be leap years,but 2400, and 2800 will be.

It has been a tradition ever since the13th century that a woman maypropose marriage to a man onlyduring leap years. Refusal by the manto marry the woman required thatfines be levied against the man;compensation ranged from a kiss to asilk gown, in order to soften the blow.Gentlemen, you have been warned!

For all the latest information on anyevents coming up, or want to know

more about astronomy in general, goto www.kencampbell.info

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StargazingBy Ken Campbell

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What’s a Leap Year?

Jayne Gartell Coin


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Ummm..... well I don’t know ifyou realise it or not but, theday your quite brilliantnewspaper next hits thestreets will be February 29th2012. That means that this year is aleap year. One of the four yearcycle. That also means that,according to British tradition,women can propose to theirmen!

My man and I have beentogether for over 25 years andhe has been delaying poppingthe question for just about thesame length of time comingup with all manner of excusesincluding: can’t afford awedding (well, yes we cannow!), we’re OK as we are(errm, well you might be butI’d like just that teensiest bitmore security), the kids wouldthink we’d gone daft (nope,wrong again – I’ve spoken tothem and they’d love to seetheir old mum and dadproperly hitched).All in all, I think it’s about timewe got on with it so, at around2pm on Wednesday I will bepopping the question,formally, in front of a load ofpeople having lunch on the

seafront! I have booked a tableand he thinks it’s just lunchand has no idea that it’s a leapyear so, if all your readers see aweird old bloke (he’s in his 50s)running along the paseoscreaming his head off, you’llbe able to guess that hisanswer was a resounding“NO!”. Please don’t print myname in case he sees TheNews first!!

So to all your readers, pleasekeep fingers, toes andanything else you can think ofcrossed for me!

Editor says: Crikey! Good luck withthat one! I really hope I won’t beseeing him running past me whileI’m out and about.

You must have noticed today’s date Wednesday February 29th.Most Februarys have only 28 days so why has this one got 29?Of course, it’s a leap year but why do we have leap years?

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I am writing this email inresponse to your article inyour newspaper this week(February 22nd 2012) in theOpinion corner by ValerieCaldwell.I manage the team whocover the Coin area whereMrs Caldwell lives anddecided to change herelectricity supplier to ourcompany(Iberdrola).The whole article is totallyfiction which you can see bythe email I received fromMrs Caldwell.I was notified of her problemand tried to find out whathad gone wrong with herbills not arriving (which Imight add I’m not sureEndesa would have spent somuch time and effort doingas we did,) only to receivethe email below – basicallyadmitting she had receivedher bills as promised buthadn't checked her junkmail, and saying that we hadalso sent a bill on therequired date and it wasn’tour fault as a company thatthe post office took so longto deliver it.

In your article its statesIberdrola employ peoplewho quote “tell porkies” –which translates to yourreaders that my team lie tothe clients, which it totallyuntrue. As far as I’mconcerned, grave damagehas been done to mycompany and my team whoI might add work really hardand are totally honest.I would hope after readingmy email and the email fromMrs Caldwell you will takethe professional action andpublish an apology as thethis article will, I’m sure,provoke an adverse reactionfrom the public which willgreatly effect their earnings.I hope you find this emailserious enough to replyASAP.

The email Jayne Gartell refers toabove from Mrs Caldwell hasbeen sent to us as well and reads:

“Hello Jayne...........I have receivedtwo bills via email – one inEnglish and one in Spanish, bothfrom different people and

apparently companies,unfortunately both went into myJunk mail.Then low and behold yesterday

the original one came in the post– where on earth it’s been to Idont know but the date on it was7th December – heck I get mailfrom the UK in three days!!!! Thiswas obviously not Iberdrola’sfault.Lets hope the next one doesn’t

take so long.Thanks for your efforts.Val xx

Editor says: These letters just goto show how careful one has tobe before complaining aboutcompanies and/or their services.Mrs Caldwell clearly hadn’tchecked her spam box for emailsbefore writing to The News. It isgood that Jayne Gartell and herteam looked into potentialproblems that Mrs Caldwell washaving and that she and herteam took the time and troubleto find out what had actuallyhappened. Well done to themand Iberdrola on this occasion!

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Player of the week is Gus Murray of Dempseys Dynamos for a fantastic finish of 126 by hitting t20, t14, d12. Great Darts!

Gold CupRays Bobbys 4 - 2 Dart VadersJager bombs 4 - 2 Red DevilsGamberros 2 - 4 Tonys TornadosBunkers Rangers 3 - 4 Rays Rascals.

Fine weather, rather than theheavy rain of the previoustwo years, blessed this year’sannual competition. Thosebowlers playing at thebeginning of the week in theearly morning sunshine hadto wrap up against the cold,particularly the chill wind.Without the rain, the resolutebowlers from the Costa delSol bowls clubs wrapped upand concentrated on playingtheir matches to theexpected high standard.

The Mixed Triples “Plate”final, played on a warmerSaturday morning, was anexcellent display of teambowling that needed an extraend for the Lauro team ofTrevor and Pam Burgin withTerry Morgan, to winnineteen-eighteen over theMijas team of Terry andMaureen Barrett with BrianLancaster.The warm Saturday

afternoon finals attracted agood number of spectatorswho enjoyed the display oftop-class bowling. The Pairs“Plate” saw the Mijas team,Terry and Maureen Barretttrail by 19 to 10 shots after 13ends to eventually lose 21-19to the Benalmadena team ofGreg Ellwood and MarionAllen.

The favourites for thePairs Title, Brian Todd andMary Detheridge fell behind

to start with but were 4 infront by the eighth end and it

took Bill Gregory and NormaEwen 3 ends to catch up,only to fall behind again by 5shots on the fourteenth end.On 17 shots, Brian and Maryfailed to score again and 8shots over the last 4 endsgave a surprising victory toBill and Norma by 20-17.

After the twelfth end ofthe Triples Final, thedefending Champions fromSanta Maria Garry Aldridge,Margaret and Gordon Kainhad a ten shot lead. TheLauro team of Claire Dye,Tony Barnes and skipped byNorman Holmes, thenbegan the fight-back but justran out of ends, having wonthe last four of the matchonly to lose by two shots withthe score 19-17.

Report by Charles Ottaway –Captain of Belplaya BowlsClub

No washout for this year’sBelplaya Bowls Tournament!

Bill Gregory & Norma Ewen

Garry Aldridge, with Margaret & Gorden Kain of Santa Maria

Spanish climber,73,has sights set on world's top peaksAge has never been anobstacle for Carlos Soria, aSpanish mountain climber.When he turned 11, he leftschool to become abookbinder, then switched afew years later to tapestry ina workshop owned by hisuncle. Now 73 and retired, heis on course to become theoldest man to ascend the 14mountains in the world ofmore than 8,000 metres(26,250 feet) having alreadyreached the summit of 10.

In early March, he isleaving his village ofMoralzarzal, 50 kilometresoutside Madrid, for Nepal,where he will climb in theAnnapurna section of the

Himalayas. If he can stick tohis schedule, Soria willcomplete the 14-mountaincircuit next spring. He has,however, said his goal hadnever been to set records.Instead, he wants to helprewrite the guidelines forwhat older people shouldaim for.

Five goal Malaga crushZaragoza

After another weekend ofaway day blues in Bilbao lastweekend, Malaga came backto fortress Rosaleda to takeon bottom of La LigaZaragoza.

Malaga were soon on topwith Seba having the bestearly chance with Robertosaving for Zaragoza, andalthough the visitors lookedlively going forward it wasstill a surprise when theywent in front, Lafitta's crosswas swept in by ex- Malagaplayer Aranda on 23minutes. Roberto saved wellagain from Seba but justbefore the half time whistleMalaga made the important

breakthrough, an Isco crosswas met by the everdangerous Seba whoheaded home from closerange.

The second half beganwith Malaga now in fullcontrol of the game andlooking to add to their goaltally. Isco on the rightcrossed hard and low for theunfortunate Da Silva todeflect the ball into his own

net on 67minutes. Tenminutes later a Joaquin crosswas brilliantly headed homeat the far post byDemechelis, Isco then got onthe score sheet two minuteslater slotting home andRondon rounded off the routwith two minutes left on theclock.This result takes Malaga

back into a European spot.

Report by Scott Forbes

Malaga 5 - 1 Real Zaragoza

Malaga’s midfield maestro "Isco" & Real’s Paulo da Silva

Costa del Sol CC vsMijas CC at the Oval

Wales certainly like to leavetheir fans waiting forvictory, three weeks ago alast-gasp Leigh Halfpennypenalty secured victoryover Ireland in Dublin andon Saturday, withTwickenham urgingEngland forward at 12-12with just five minutes to go,replacement centre ScottWilliams ripped the ballfrom Courtney Lawes onthe halfway line, kickedahead and was blessed withthe most favourable ofbounces, and held on to theball to score the only try ofthe match and seal a 19-12win.Wales have Italy at home

next and, if they win thatone, as they should, willface France in a potentialchampionship and possiblygrand slam decider on thefinal day of thechampionship on March17th.Saturday's victory was

only their second in 14attempts at Twickenhamover a period of 22 years –albeit against aninexperienced Englandteam who showedencouraging signs ofprogress – and it was amassively important one.Wales dominated in the

early stages but could notturn it into points andfound themselves trailingmidway through thesecond half. England's

defence, which had alreadyshown itscopingcapabilitiesin the winsoverScotland andItaly, keptthem at bay.Despite thedefeat,England cantake a lot ofpositives fromthe game,whichfeaturedseven

players making their firststart at Twickenham. The

return of Manu Tuilagi forthe first time since theWorld Cup added someattacking force to thebackline, where 20-year-old Owen Farrell, in hisfirst start at flyhalf,

looked veryassured.

Andthat last

gasp try forEngland! The

chances that TobyFlood could have convertedit anyway is open todiscussion, it was on hisleast favoured side. Betternot to dwell on it and lookforward to their next gameaway to France.

England claimed a dramatic five-run win over Pakistan in the third Twenty20international to take the series 2-1.On a slow Abu Dhabi pitch, the tourists wereindebted to Kevin Pietersen, as they struggled with Saeed Ajmal's magical display,which picked up 4-23. Pietersen made an unbeaten 62 in their 129-6 - and wasthen supported by a superb display by England's bowlers.With Pakistan needingsix from the final ball, Jade Dernbach bowled Misbah-ul-Haq to seal the series.win.

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SportingSPOTLIGHT CYCLINGMark Cavendish winshis 1st classic of theseason

Tottenham midfielder ScottParker has been namedEngland Player of the Year,an award voted for by fans.It follows a year whenParker featured in seven ofEngland's nine games,having not been selectedfor most of former managerFabio Capello's tenure. The 31-year-old is

second favourite afterSteven Gerrard to becomecaptain.Parker said: "I don't

think I ever lost hope that Icould make it atinternational level. Icrammed a lot in in oneyear. I realised time wasticking."

FOOTBALLScott Parker, namedEngland player of theyear ahead of tonight’sinternational

Team Sky's MarkCavendish overcameillness to sprint to victory inthe 195km Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne one-dayrace in Belgium on Sunday.Britain's world road racechampion was perfectlydelivered to within 250m ofthe line by team-mateChris Sutton beforesprinting away from thefield."When I got to the final

corner, I knew we'd win,"said Cavendish who alsowon two stages inFebruary's Tour of Qatar."I was ill all day and kept

vomiting," the 26-year-oldadded. "But theycontrolled it at the end todeliver me and with 250mto go I kicked and that wasit."

FOOTBALLAugust friendlies facethe axePremier League bosseswere rejoicing across thecountry on Tuesdaymorning after it emergedthat FIFA are set to axeinternational friendliesplayed in August. Thedetested window has longriled managers who havelost players from their plansjust days before or after thestart of the new season –particularly with the addedanxiety of injuries. ButEurope's major clubs andgoverning body UEFA haveagreed to drop the gamesfrom the internationalcalendar, European ClubsAssociation chairman Karl-Heinz Rummeniggerevealed on Tuesday.

McIlroy runsout of steamAmerican Hunter Mahanused the talk of RoryMcIlroy's assumedascension to world No.1 asthe motivation to proveeveryone wrong in the finalof the WGC Match PlayChampionship in Arizona onSunday. Underdog Mahandid so with a convincing 2and 1 victory over the 22-

year-old Northern Irishphenomenon. Had McIlroyprevailed in the final hewould have overtakenEngland's Luke Donald asthe world's top-rankedgolfer, but while everyoneprepared for the crowning,Mahan instead grabbed afourth career win and movedto a career-high ranking ofNo.9. He had clearly beenthe best over the week,notching up 35 birdies in 96holes.

"I'd be lying to you if therewasn't (motivation from theNo.1 talk)," Mahansaid."There really was. Deepdown you wanted topostpone that crowning ofthe No.1 player in the world ."When I listened to

(commentators) JohnnyMiller and Nick Faldo and allthose guys, they had himpicked to win. There was nodoubt about it. And that's

what everybody was talkingabout."I didn't think about it

when I was on the course butthere was absolutemotivation in that."Mahan also admitted

there was extra incentive towin his second WGC event,having won the 2010Bridgestone Invitational.

McIlroy wasn't looking tomake excuses but theyoungster did admit theemotional toll of his bigsemi-final against LeeWestwood in the morningmay have hit him hard.

"I said the difficult thingwould be to get myself upagain for this afternoon,"

Rory Tweeted later...“Just want to say a BIG

thank you to all my followersand fans! Your supportdoesn't go unnoticed!”

Wales secure Triple Crown

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