The Courier Week 74

Embassy warns Brits as hospital cases hit new highEdition 74 www.thecourier.es Friday, July 20, 2012

THE POUNDSTRETCHER

THE British Embassy yesterdaywarned UK holidaymakers visitingSpain this summer: “If you have notravel insurance, it’s your own funer-al’’.

The reminder came as new Foreign Office

accidents, balcony incidentsand heart attacks

Meanwhile Malaga hasseen a 45% increase overthe last year alone.

Jeremy Browne, Ministerfor Consular Services, said:“Whilst the prospect of end-ing up in a foreign hospitalmay be the last thing on yourmind as you head overseas

el insurance, and carefullycheck the small print of theirpolicy.”

New research by theForeign Office reveals thatnearly half (48%) of all Britsfail to realise that withouttravel insurance they willhave to pay their own med-ical bills if injured or taken illabroad.

An emergency can beextremely expensive - med-ical treatment can cost thou-sands of pounds, whilst med-ical repatriation to the UKcan cost even more.Consular staff in Spain havewitnessed distressing casesinvolving families having toraise vast sums of money topay hospital and repatriationbills. The research alsoreveals that nearly four out offive (78%) people would lackthe ready cash to pay

If you’ve no travel insurance,welcome to the Costa packet

figures revealed that morethan 1,100 Brits ended up inSpanish hospitals last year.

The number is equivalentto 20 hospitalisations everyweek, and represents nearlyone third of the total numberof cases around the world.

The figures come from theannual British BehaviourAbroad report for the period1 April 2011 - 31 March 2012.

Alicante is one of onlytwo regions that shows aDROP in hospital admis-sions between 2011 and2012, the other beingBarcelona.

But, perhaps predictably,the number of reportedcases has soared in theBalearics and Malaga. Overthe two years since 2009/10,Mallorca has seen a 132%increase in hospitalisations,and Ibiza a 40% rise. Manyof these cases involveteenage holidaymakers.Common causes are road Turn to Page 3

THE future of Guardamar’sMoncayo Market has beenthrown into doubt follow-ing the sudden suspen-sion of its midweek opera-tion.

The three day-a-weekmarket adjacent to theProcomobil furniture storewill be shut today (Friday),apparently on the instruc-tions of the local authority- and is also to halt itsTuesday operation imme-diately.

While trading has beenslow in midweek, theSaturday market continuesto thrive. But traders whopay a monthly fee forthree-days-a-week busi-ness are predictably angryat being deprived of theirmidweek sales.

One English trader toldThe Courier: “I’m con-fused. Here we are, expatsin Spain trying to earn a liv-ing in a time of financialcrisis and they won’t letyou do it. It seems ludi-crous to me. They shouldbe encouraging us, notshutting us down.’’

Regular traders will meetwith the market manage-ment over the weekend todiscuss the situation - andto discuss how they canmake the Saturday opera-tion even more vibrant.

Whilst the reasons forcouncil intervention areshrouded in mystery, it isrumoured the action fol-lows the rejection of arequest by the Lemon TreeSunday Market to trade inmidweek.

not checking their policy cov-ers a particular activity, suchas hiring a moped.

“Unfortunately they arethen surprised that theForeign Office cannot pay fortheir bills and flight home.

“I urge anyone headingoverseas this summer toresearch their destination,take out comprehensive trav-

for a summer break, some-times things do go wrong onholiday and many peopledeeply regret not taking outcomprehensive travel insur-ance.

“We also witness manycases where people haveinvalidated their policy – per-haps by not declaring a pre-existing medical condition or

Moncayomarket in midweek tradingshock

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A 23-YEAR-OLD Spanish student was decapitated in ahorrifying attack in Bournemouth on Tuesday.

Sergio Retamar Marquez, from the southern town ofCoin, was hacked to death at his two-bedroom flat abovea wine bar in the Dorset seaside town.

The youngster moved to Britain less than a year ago tolearn English and work as a waiter.

He is believed to have started in a new job at a hotelshortly before his death after returning briefly to hishome town near Malaga to recover from a road accidentand do a cookery course.

An uncle of the dead man has flown to Britain to seekmore information and begin the process of repatriatingthe body. Another relative said: “We have been told verylittle about what’s happened. It’s destroyed us, especial-ly his mum who he was very close to.’’

Police have arrested a 29-year-old Bournemouth manin connection with the killing. He remains in custody.

Spanish studentdecapitated inBournemouth

Mr Marquez's body wasfound after armed policeswooped on the flat whichis above a wine bar at 5pmon Tuesday. Neighboursreported hearing scream-ing before the grim discovery.

The Orihuela PP-CLARO Agreement is signed by CLARO president BobHouliston, Popular Party provincial president Miguel Ortiz and Mónica

Lorente, president of Orihuela PP

THE agreement between Orihuela’sCLARO and Popular Party (PP) wassigned last week by their respective lead-ers Bob Houliston and Monica Lorente.The two factions hailed the agreement asthe imminent birth of a “new, stable andcoherent government”.

In a statement issued after the signing,CLARO said: “We are able to provide thegovernment which Orihuela needs. Weare able to restore democracy to Orihuelawhere the majority governs and theminority can no longer prevent the major-ity from governing.”

Back to majority rule...

SIGN OF THE TIMES

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A Welsh rarebit of specialCosta music

THE acclaimed OrihuelaCosta Male Voice Choir,under their conductorNigel Hopkins, are playinghost to the visiting Welshladies' choir, Cor MerchedPersain, at La Zenia churchon Sunday July 29.

The 8.30pm concert willinclude a varied mixture ofmusic , and include manyWelsh favourites plus pop-ular songs speciallyarranged by Nigel Hopkins.

Tickets are 5€ each andare available from CALL-NET Internet Cafe, behindConsum next to Paddy'sPoint - Tel: 966 761 171, oron the door.

RUMOURS? AIR WE GO AGAIN!

CONTINUING delays in the opening of Murcia’snew airport at Corvera have sent the rumourmill into orbit.

One of the most bizarre – but eminently feasible - sugges-tions flying around bars and Internet forums is that Ryanairare planning to expand their San Javier base to make it thehub of their operation in this region.

Ongoing problems with AENA regarding the Irish budgetairline’s Alicante operation are always likely to lead to furtherconfrontation. But a source at the Región de MurciaInternational Airport told The Courier this week: “I imagine the‘San Javier as a Ryanair hub’ rumour is not true for a numberof important reasons - the first being operational.

“For an operational base, Ryanair need the first wave ofaircraft to take off from the airport between 6 and 7am. MJVis closed at this time.

“The second wave of flights would be mid-morning, whenMJV still has significant restrictions on commercial aircraftmovements, and the last wave of flights would need to landin MJV between 23 and 24h, when it is also closed due to aban on night-time flights because of its location in a denselypopulated urban area.

“While the opening of the second runway has allowedsome additional commercial activity in the morning, there arestill important restrictions and military activity will alwayshave priority. The second reason is commercial. Ryanairgenerally seeks support from local authorities to open a baseand I am certain that, having promoted and defended thebuilding of the new airport, the regional government ofMurcia would not support the airline to open a base at MJV.

The source also clarified the position in relation to severalother popular rumours related to the new airport.

Is it true that Región de Murcia International Airportdoes not have permission to use the air space above it?

“This is not true,’’ insisted our informant. “There was an ini-tial proposal of flight paths for the new airport, which weretested and found unacceptable from an airline perspective,so a second proposal has been drawn up and is pendingapproval by the Joint Committee of the Ministries of Defenceand Public Works.

An agreement with AENA for the closure of SanJavier?

“Last November a protocol was signed between theregional government of Murcia and the national socialist gov-ernment for the closure of MJV to civilian traffic and the con-centration of commercial activity at the new airport.However, this was subject to AENA, as the operator of MJV,and ourselves, Sociedad Concesionaria Aeropuerto deMurcia, as the operator of this airport, reaching an agree-ment for the transfer of operations and personnel, and com-pensation to AENA for investment made in MJV that has notbeen amortised. To date, no such agreement has beenreached.

Have tickets been sold for planes flying in and out?“As I’m sure you can appreciate, until the two previous

issues mentioned have been resolved, no opening date forthe airport can be set, and until an opening date has been setno tickets can be put on sale to fly to this airport, as thiswould cause serious inconvenience for airlines and their pas-sengers.’’

By SALLY BENGTSSON

£10,000 to cover the hos-pital bills of an uninsuredloved one abroad.

Visitors to Spain, andBritish residents whomay be hosting them,should remember threekey things:

l Buy comprehensivetravel insurance – avoida life-changing bill

l Read the small print– don’t invalidate yourpolicy by mistake

l Get an EHIC card –it’s a ‘holiday essential’for any state medical

The Costa packettreatment you mightneed while visiting, but itdoesn’t cover everything.

A British Embassyspokesperson said: “AnEHIC is free and simpleto obtain. Getting onecould save you a lot ofgrief.

“If you don’t have one,it could make a tricky sit-uation even harder.

“Then buy travel insur-

ance and for the cost of ameal in a restaurant youshould be fully coveredagainst expensivehealth-related bills andother risks. It’s not worthit to be without.”

The total number ofconsular assistancecases in Spain last yearrose more than 8% to5,405 cases.

These included 1,105hospitalisations (up 8%),

1,909 arrests (up 9%) and40 cases of rape or sexu-al assault (down 22%).

Some 13.6 millionBritons visited Spain lastyear and an estimated800,000 Britons are resi-dent here.

For details on how theForeign Office can help ifyou get into troubleabroad, visit www.fco.gov.uk/travel

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Algorfa blaze gutslocal beauty spot

Vanesa — the cancermum with no ovaries

A SPECTACULAR fire devastated one ofthe Vega Baja’s few remaining naturalbeauty spots on Wednesday.

The rapid combustion of lots of farmpruning raised a column of smokearound Algorfa which was visible fromTorrevieja and alarmed residents of near-by housing developments.

Although the police were not immedi-ately aware of the causes of the blaze,there was conjecture that it could havebeen started by the burning of farmwaste.

Amid fears of the fire spreading to thepine forests next to Montemar castle, twoseaplanes collaborated in the fire dous-ing by filling their water tanks in nearbyreservoirs.

.A helicopter strengthened the force anhour after the inferno started.

The fire started mysteriously at12.45pm at Los Garroferos finca andspread to waste land, dry oranges andpines. It seriously damaged the windowsand doors of a house but there was noone inside.

A car was also burned in the fire andthe smoke could be seen from the AP7. Inaddition to the firefighters,Guardia Civiland Local Policia of Rojales and Algorfaparticipated in the extinction of the fire.

This rustic area is located between themunicipalities of Algorfa, Rojales andBenijófar. At about 2pm, local police chiefPedro Bertomeu, considered the fireextinguished.

IN THE first case of its kindin Spain, a woman who hadher ovaries removed due tocancer has given birth to ababy boy.

“It is an exceptionalcase,” said Pedro Barri, thepresident of the non-profitDexeus Foundation inBarcelona, which specialis-es in women’s healthcare.

Vanesa Pastor was diag-nosed with ovarian cancerin 2009 and told that herinfected left ovary wouldhave to be removed — andher right and uterus as aprecautionary measure —which would prevent herever having children.

She sought a secondopinion at the Dexeus Foundation, whichsuggested extracting oocytes and vitrify-ing them without the need to remove theuterus as the neoplasm was at an earlystage.

Once Pastor had recovered from her ill-ness and the right ovary had beenchecked for malignant cells, a year after ithad been removed, the oocytes wereunfrozen and used in a process of assist-ed reproduction.

The result of the process was Mario,who was born on June 11.

“I’m very happy, above all I wanted tobe a mother and I have become one,”Pastor said.

Before this ground breaking procedurea similar case unfolded in 2009, when apatient with breast cancer had an implantof ovarian tissue.

The same process of oocyte freezingwas used, but after the patient had recov-ered from cancer, not before.


[email protected] POSTBAG: YOUR VIEWS ON OUR NEWS

business should be debated in the press I feel obliged to respond to this scurrilous

and inaccurate letter written by this trouble-some and disgruntled resident who bears apersonal grudge against me as President.

This is not the first time Mr. Davis hasresorted to the press to criticise and slanderme, something he does at every opportunityin his ongoing hate campaign. He cam-paigns against every decision I make asPresident as a matter of course.

I am sure many other Presidents will havesimilar people in their urbanisations to dealwith and can identify with this kind of prob-lem. For the sake of accuracy, however, I

would like your readers to know that underValencian Law, only community swimmingpools of 200m2 surface area or over requirea lifeguard in attendance. As our communitypool has a surface area of 164m2 we do notrequire one, like most Urbanisations inOrihuela Costa. This saves €4,000 eachyear from our community funds.

The decision not to employ one for ourUrbanisation this year was taken after con-sultation with our lawyer to establish ourlegal status on the issue and was not donearbitrarily. It is not Urbanisations who havethe responsibility of looking after childrenwho use our pools that is down to the par-

ents and that is where the responsibilityshould always lie. All community pools willstate in their rules that no child under theage of 11 should be left unattended at acommunity pool and that again is theresponsibility of the parents.

Five years ago a lifeguard was employedby our Urb. for July and August workingeight hours per day, even though our pool isopen for 12 hours each day. This decisionwas not taken 12 years ago as Mr. Davisstated for effect.

Vista Azul 2 Urbanisation is solvent, wellrun, well maintained with a beautiful gardenand pool and has a majority of good resi-

dents who pay their fees on time. It is a goodplace to live and invest in. I as Presidentmake sure we work within the laws of Spainpertaining to Urbanisations and this is aparamount concern for me. Nothing is doneillegally.

People like Mr. Davis are just part of a tinyminority whose opinions do not have amajority of support within our Urb. That iswhy he resorts to scurrilous letters to thepress maligning me in the hope that they willbe printed without the newspaper checkingthe facts first.

A N MCPHAILPresident - Vista Azul 2

A FINE MESS!SO Donna Gee has fallen for the Barcelonascam (Issue 73) - join the club!

Last September we, too, received a letter fromour car insurers, Linea Directa, that we had beenthe cause of an accident in the Province ofBarcelona. I think it was the last week in August.

We had just returned a few days earlier from theUK and, like Donna, we had never driven there. Infact, we have never gone beyond Denia and on theday of the claim, we were in Quesada with friends.

We filed a disclamer with Linea Directa andnever heard any more!

The registration number of the car we were sup-posed to have hit indicated it was a very old car!But Linea were great.

Take care. We enjoy your column. TED, Quesada

qThanks for your support, Ted, but the onlysimilarity between the two situations is

that both ‘offences’ allegedly occurred inBarcelona. For the record, I am still waiting fora reply to my email to the Catalan traffic people,whose website has no telephone contact num-ber and is all in the Catalan language. So mySpanish teacher Jose phoned around, got theirnumber and explained that the car caughtspeeding by an automatic camera was notmine. They promptly scrapped the ticket (orsaid they were doing so). But I have every con-fidence they’ll be back - DONNA

Pool lifeguards: The factsI AM the President of the Vista Azul 2Urbanisation mentioned in the letter by G.Davis in last week’s newspaper andalthough I do not think our community’s

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THE LETTERS ONTHIS PAGE ARE ENTIRELY THE OPINIONS OFTHE WRITER

Net your facts right!I HAVE to say that I entirely agree with Donna Gee about themiserable Murrays - but you really must check your info,Donna!

Ivan Lendl never won at Wimbledon but did win many othermajors, also the Countess of Wessex is the wife of PrinceEdward and Kate Middleton, who was with her sister Pippa, isin fact the Duchess of Cambridge, But keep up the good work.

MARTIN BUTLER, La Escura, San Fulgencio.JUST to let Donna know that Pippa is the sister of the Duchessof Cambridge not the Countess of Wessex. JOYCE BOSISTO

qSORRY about the errors folks, but I’m lost when itcomes to Wimbledon. It was much more fun in my

youth when they had players like Tennis Law and TennisCompton. Or were they golfers? DONNA

READING your story headed“Pay Up Again” in your July 13issue, I am dismayed at yourreporting.

These increases, according toRyanair, range from €0.42 to justunder €2.00 for all airports theyfly from in Spain with the excep-tion of Madrid and Barcelona.

I am absolutely certain thatnobody can complain about anadditional £1.50 per person to flyback to the UK from our 'local air-ports' as this will not break any-

one’s bank. What would have been better

reporting would be the previousclaim that Alicante airport wasincreasing its charges by a mas-sive €0.29 per passenger yetRyanair (your editor’s favouriteairline!) have said they areadding €1.92 per person.

What actually is the REALincrease at Alicante and in fact allother airports in Spain? I awaityour report.

SL, Santiago de Ribera

The price ain’t right

I was caught in Barca traffic scam, tooThe way to winter fuelallowanceIN REPLY to the letter fromElaine Saunders in lastFriday´s Courier, for thoseof us who are now able toclaim the winter fuelallowance, there are twoways of applying.

1. Make a phone call tothe International PensionsCentre. They will offer tosend you the claim form -which will be availablefrom August.

2. From August, if youhave access to theInternet, go to www. gov.ukselect Winter FuelAllowance, select WinterFuel Payment, select NotReceived Payment Before.From there you will be ableto download the claimform. I hope this helps.

MARJORY NORRIS, ElRaso

qTHIS is an urgent plea from the HAH team. At the moment,we are helping several families, most of them serious

cases, and our resources are stretched to the limit. So many ofour volunteers are away at the moment, and, until we can getthese clients back on their feet, we will be struggling to take onnew clients.

Can you spare a couple of hours a week? Help is neededurgently to assist clients in their own homeswith a variety of tasks. Could you maybe helpa neighbour who is struggling to cope, justby being a good neighbour?

We, of course, will endeavour to help wher-ever possible, but without the resources, thisis becoming increasingly difficult. In the firstinstance, please ask family or friends to help,in an emergency ring 112, or consult your GP.

If you can offer any care/practical help,please contact Lesley on 968 134 978, [email protected]. You don’tneed any qualifications, although if you dohave care experience this would be an advan-tage.

The most important help to us and ourclients is a genuine desire to spare a littletime helping those who are finding it difficultto cope. Thank you. THE HAH TEAM

HAH needs your help


I’VE become a senti-mental old biddy as Ihead towards mydotage – but my ‘mira-cle’ grandson’s battlefor survival evenreduced grown men totears.

I’ve not written about littleBuddy for some time now butso many people have askedme for an update on the One-Kilo Kid that another bout ofnepotism is well overdue.

It’s now seven monthssince Buddy John HarryHolmes was delivered byemergency Caesarean 12weeks ahead of schedule.

He had no heartbeat, and

weighed just over twopounds. And for the first fewdays, no one knew if hewould survive.

When his mother, mydaughter Hayley found shewas expecting, everyone

assumed allwould go well.OK, she was 41and it was 12years since hersecond daughter,Daisy, was born.

But all pro-gressed normallyright up to the28th week. Then,197 days intoHayley’s thirdpregnancy, camea remarkable –and frightening –development trig-

gered by the smallest hintthat something was wrong.

The embryo child all butstopped booting hell out ofher body from the inside.She sensed that somethingwas amiss, and although hermidwife was not unduly con-cerned, the worried couplewanted to be sure. A surrealscenario followed, withHayley and Steve actingpurely on intuition and book-ing a private consultationwith sonographer RichardWarriner.

Richard sent themimmediately to hospital foran urgent scan, whichrevealed that the watersaround the baby had allbut dried up.

In this sea of nothingness,the tot was in imminent dan-

ger of suffocating – and anurgent Caesarean sectionsaw him plucked, lifeless,from Hayley’s body with theumbilical cord wrapped tight-ly around his neck.

He had no heartbeat andwas not breathing. For fullythree minutes, doctors andnurses united in a battle togive life to the tiny foetus.For Hayley and Steve, thosethree minutes translated intoa lifetime of lifelessness.

As the seconds tickedaway, they named the babyBuddy, desperate that heshould have a proper identi-ty, even if he was never todraw breath.

Then, his tiny body invad-ed by a host of canulas,tubes and ventilators, a

The making ofa buddy for life

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Lifesaver: Richardmeets hisspecial Buddy

Buddy haslots tosmile about




Boozers and losers: Pub outings are such a trial

SO there we were, gathered around the bar as we pre-pared to make plans for our first-ever pub outing.

'I call this meeting of the alehouse discussion group toorder,' I announced, pounding the counter top with the plastichammer I'd pinched from my little grandson's Bob the Builderkit.

The pub populace paid not a blind bit of attention to myutterance and continued to chatter away. Indeed, somebodycalled out: 'Why is that Dave Silver talking like a snooty toast-master?'

Raising my voice above the hubbub, I said: 'I thoughtfor once in our lives we could behave like grown-ups. Butthat's obviously not going to happen. So I'm going home.'

I slid off my stool, stamped my foot in disgruntlementand stormed out of the pub.

'He could at least have left us the plastic hammer,'somebody grumbled.

Dave the barman tapped on the bar with a fingernail.There was instant hush and all eyes looked to him.

'Fellas,' said Dave. 'I think we owe our David an apology.He is the one who came up with the idea of a pub outingand I believe it is only fair that we let him chair this planningmeeting.

'I thus propose that we phone him immediately and invitehim to return. Will somebody please second that?'

There was no response apart from someone calling out:'Do we really have to have him back? He gets on my nerves.'

'I'll second that!' the others chorused.'Sulk over,' I announced, bursting through the door. 'I was

lurking in the shadows waiting for the invitation that I knewwould come . . . er, eventually.'

'Blooming heck, he thinks he's Julius Caesar or General deGaulle,' came another voice.

I banged on the bar top with the plastic hammer. 'We arenow back in session.'

'Point of order!' called out Daft Barry. 'I've heard of JuliusCaesar but I'm not sure about General de Gaulle. Didn't heplay soccer for France and save lots of penalties?'

'I think that topic should come under Any Other Business,'I said. 'Now let us press on with matters relating to the pubouting.

'As well as conducting this momentous meeting,' I contin-ued, 'I shall be recording the minutes in this Thomas the TankEngine notebook I have acquired from my grandson.

'I propose that we set off at 8.30am on the first Saturday inAugust. Which leaves us with only one minor detail to settle.Where are we going to?'

Everyone looked tipsily at everyone else for guidance butsomehow managed to summon up the energy and muscleco-ordination to shrug their own shoulders.

'Let me help you through your alcoholic fug,' I said. 'I

watched that fantastic film 12 Angry Men again last night,about the jury in a murder trial. It stars that excellent actorHenry Fonda and the fabulous Lee J. Cobb's also in it . . .'

'Shurrup!' somebody called out constructively.'I'm just getting to my point now,' I said. 'In that movie the

jury members write down their ‘Guilty’ or ‘Not Guilty’ votes ina secret ballot. I propose you all record your outing destina-tion preference and return your folded pieces of paper to me.'

'Point of order!' cried Daft Barry. 'I've

heard of Henry Fonda but I'm not sure about Lee Jacobs.Didn't he invent cream crackers?'

'Another point of order,' mumbled Ol' Red Eyes, who hadhalf-roused himself from a deep sleep. 'Why is this trivialaffair being made into such a drama? Why a secret ballot?Surely anonymity is not necessary when all that we're plan-ning is a day out together.'

'We're doing it this way because it was MY idea,' I replied.

'It's so gratifying to see democracy in action,' sighed Ol'Red Eyes before he nodded off again.

It was Dave the barman's turn to thrust a spanner into myworks. 'It's all very well writing down our pub outing prefer-ences but I don't keep any paper on the premises. I supposewe can always use beer mats but I don't think there'd bemuch space to write in.'

Ol' Red Eyes came semi-awake and pointed a gnarled fin-ger in my direction. 'You'll just have to tear out some blankpages from your Thomas the Tank Engine notebook.'

'No way!' I retorted. 'I told you I need the notebook torecord the minutes.'

'Oh, for goodness sake,' commented a stranger in ourmidst. 'I've never heard such goings-on. I'm a passing sta-tionery salesman. Here, take this packet of paper and get thisflaming meeting over with, or even started, before I die ofthirst.'

'Point of order before I take that gentleman's order!' inter-rupted Dave the barman. 'We have no pens, pencils orancient quills in this hostelry. It's my rule that no sharp instru-ments be brought into my establishment in case of accidental-- or otherwise -- stabbings.'

'No problem,' I said. I reached into my jacket pocket andproduced a box of SpongeBob SquarePants crayons I hadpilfered from my grandson. 'Right,' I said, handing out thepaper and crayons. 'Let's vote on where we want to go.'

And just to make the proceedings even more interesting Iproduced a Postman Pat roadmap and some Mickey Mousestickers I had appropriated from my grandson in order tochart the destination choices of my fellow pub outing trav-ellers.

Ten minutes later I surveyed the crumpled pile of litterwhich lay before me. I unfolded the first voting slip.

'This has got to be Daft Barry's,' I said (so much for thesecret ballot).

'Well, thank you for your input, my friend, but I don't thinkthe minibus driver will take us all the way to the CostaBlanca for just a couple of hours. And, incidentally, nobodyever spells Alicante that way.'

I opened the second bit of paper. It read: 'I'm not goinganywhere if Daft Barry comes with us.'I perused the third offering. Some joker had simply

scrawled the word 'Guilty.'Having seen the way things were going -- which was liter-

ally nowhere -- I adjourned the meeting, packed away theplastic hammer, notebook, crayons, roadmap and stickersand trudged home.

Mrs S didn't look best pleased. 'You've missed a visit fromyour grandson,' she said.

'But he didn't stay long because you didn't leave him any-thing to play with.'

A BUDDY FOR LIFEFrom Page 7

miracle occurred. The mite’s heartbegan to beat.

Buddy was alive…if not kicking.All 992 grammes of him (that’s a tadunder 2lb 2oz). For 24 hours, his

under-developed lungs were helpedby a ventilator. Then another mira-cle; he started breathing by himself.

Amazingly, doctors told therelieved parents that had Hayley notgone to Richard, the baby wouldhave died inside her within two

hours. Last week, seven monthsafter that fateful day and armed witha bottle of the finest malt whisky anda box of expensive chocolates,Hayley and Steve took Buddy tomeet the man who saved his life.

Richard held the bubbly 18lb bun-dle of happiness in hisarms and Steve told him: ‘Ifyou ever doubt the value ofthe work you do, justremember our Buddy. He’sthe living proof.’’

At that moment, throughthe inevitable flood of tears, a pact was sealed.

Richard became a familyBuddy for life. A Budding artist?


Learn the lingo - with a little help from JEANETTE ERATH

SAY IT IN SPANISHLESSON 29

LAST week we learnt when to use por; this week we arelearning when we use para. I asked last week if you couldthink of any times when para would be used, now is the timeto check your examples.

Para has relatively few uses, these are:To indicate destination – El hombre salió para Madrid

(The man left for Madrid). To show the use or purpose of athing – El vaso es para agua (The glass is for water). Tomean ‘in order to’ or ‘for the purpose of’ - Para hacer unapaella, primero dore las carnes (To make apaella, first sauté the meats). To indicate a recipi-ent – Este regalo es para ti (This present is foryou). To express a deadline or specific time –Necesito el vestido para el lunes (I need thedress by Monday). To express a contrast from whatis expected – Para un niño lee muy bien (For achild he reads very well). Use estar para to expressan action that will soon be completed – El tren estápara salir (The train is about to leave).

It is quite important to learn to use these twoprepositions correctly, because if you inadvertentlysubstitute one for the other, you might end up sayingsomething altogether different from what you hadintended. Study the two examples:

Juan compró el regalo para María. Juan boughtthe gift for Maria - he bought it to give to her.

Juan compró el regalo por María. Juan boughtthe gift for Maria - he bought it on her behalf.

Por and para can also be used in questions. ¿Por qué?means Why? (for what reason), while ¿Para qué? meansWhy? (for what purpose).

¿Por qué estudias español? - for what reason do youstudy Spanish? Possible answer: Porque es un requisito(because it´s required).

¿Para qué estudias español? - for what purpose do youstudy Spanish? Possible answer: Para ser profesor de

español (in order to be a Spanish teacher).I am now going to cover contractions. Not the sort when

one goes into labour but the contractions that are used inSpanish; that is when two words are put together (contract-ed) and made into one.

The only contractions in Spanish are de + el, whichbecomes del, and a + el, which becomes al. These are usedto mean of the / from the - del and to the / at the - al.

These are the only times you will use contractions. Hereare some examples: Voy al supermercado – I am going tothe supermarket; La Casa Blanca es la casa del presi-dente – The White House is the president’s house; Te veréal supermercado – I’ll see you at the supermarket.

Remember the difference between el = the and él (withthe accent) = he.

Note: Es la casa de él = It is his house (literally it is the

house of he). You only contract de + el, do not contract de+ él.

When the noun is feminine we use la, therefore there is nocontraction: Es la casa de la mujer – It’s the woman’shouse (literally, it’s the house of the woman); Voy a la tienda– I am going to the shop.

This is another reason it is important to remember thegender of nouns, and to practise the gender when you prac-

tise the noun. For example, don’t just remember tiendalearn la tienda. Don’t just remember silla, learn la silla.Don’t just remember libro learn el libro.

So to refresh...Es la casa de la mujer – It’s the houseof the woman (It’s the woman’s house). Es la casa delhombre - It’s the house of the man (It’s the man’shouse). Es la casa de Juan - It’s the house of Juan (It’sJuan’s house). Es la casa de él – It’s the house of him(It’s his house).

I hope you are using para and por whenever you getthe chance and remembering when to use which one.Next week, after a request from one of my loyal read-ers, Joyce, I am going to explain where to put the word´it´ in sentences, which will help with your sentencebuilding.

Firstly though, you’ve got away without homeworkfor a few weeks so here is some to keep you thinking.It covers the work from various weeks, just to keepyou on the ball.

Translate the following sentences into Spanish:I am from England. Do you have a car? London is in

England. It’s cold. I have to go to the shop. Are you eating atthe restaurant? There are a lot of books in the library (lot of= muchos/as). I have to go to the supermarket. There are alot of dogs. I am going to the fiesta for the first time. Thankyou for the help. I don’t speak a lot of Spanish. I am learningSpanish. There are a lot of people in my family.

Have a great week, until next time. Tengas una buenasemana, hasta la próxima.


Top dog psychologist PETER SINGH writes exclusively for The Courier. Checkout www.thedogyouneed.com or email Peter at [email protected]

WHY DO THEY DO THAT?

The selfish breed

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either of these dogs call theSAT kennels on 966 710 047or email [email protected] You can also visitthe website www.satanimalrescue.com for more infor-mation about the many otheradult dogs and puppiescurrently in SAT’s care.

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I WROTE last week about Nelly, mynew puppy who died, leavingbehind four sisters and a brotherwho desperately need homes.

I did not receive one reply - not even amere enquiry.

I also sent the request out to 250 contactsand on to my Facebook page. And still noth-ing.

To try to help I have decided to have oneof Nelly’s sisters and a good friend of minehas offered to have another. I personallycannot believe this lack of compassion andempathy in human beings and this is one ofthe reasons why I prefer to be in the compa-ny of dogs, rather than humans.

Dogs think about the pack and not just themselves, butmost humans think about themselves only.

When one of my dogs is sick, or in pain, the rest of thepack will always show their concern by staying close to thesick dog.

Human understanding of dogs is in my opinion at such anall time low.

A friend of a friend asked me last week, what breed thepuppies were. I mentioned that the mother is a very gentleGerman Shepherd. When she heard that, she said her housewas not big enough as she already has a dog.

Her house not big enough? What does she think the puppywill be doing each night - breakdancing?

If you give a dog enough exercise and bring rules into therelationship, along with giving affection at the right times, you

end up with a very calm, laidback dog. I get sick of peoplealways asking me stupid questions when I am out on a walkwith my five dogs like, “Don’t they fight?” Along with, “How doyou have room for them all?”

My dogs go home and eat, then sleep, simply becausetheir needs have been met on a daily basis. It’s that simple,but most humans just don’t understand this.

The question that makes me laugh is the regular one of,“Don’t they fight?”

Fight? Dogs are peaceful animals that will always followcalm. Fighting is something humans do best and alwayshave done, so why people automatically think that five dogswill fight if they live together, shows huge levels of ignorancetowards dogs.

Dogs that do fight when they live together are doing this

because so much negativity has beenpassed on to them from the human owner.Dogs only experience negativity if they livewith a negative person. They would neverexperience this negative emotion if theywere left to their own devices. I alwaysexplain to clients that if they just have onedog, that dog would love nothing morethan to live with another member of hisown species.

People always say to me that their dogwill get jealous if they bring another oneinto the house. Not true!

Jealousy is an emotion that is reservedfor humans only, as it is a negative emo-tion.

How I wish humans would stop thinkingthat their dogs think like them. They don’t,they are dogs and have a completely dif-ferent psychological set up to ours.

Trying to get humans to realise that istotally exhausting. Some will never realiseit, because they simply don’t want to.

So if you have one dog and that dog iswell behaved, it would be a good idea to rescue another.Then at least your current dog has another member of thesame species to live with.

Rescuing dogs is a tough, tough job. Very few people wantto help any more but thankfully there are still a few dedicatedand committed people out there. People like Anne and LesWager, who have done a remarkable job in helping the pup-pies that I wrote about last week.

Anne and Les are full of empathy and compassion and theworld would be a better place if there were more like them,people willing to put themselves out and help abandonedpuppies and dogs.

Someone asked me a few weeks ago, “What is the mostdifficult part of your job?” The answer was simple.

“Humans”. I responded. “Selfish humans.’’

HUMANS CANTAKE LESSONFROM DOGS

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Muckypup:One ofNelly’s sistersbefore beingcleaned up


FRANCISCO VALENCIA, LÍNEA DIRECTA’S CORPORATEGOVERNANCE DIRECTOR

“When a car has been written off youhave the chance to give customers backthe trust that they have placed in you.”

An accident in which a car has been written off is always the worstkind, because it implies the disappearance of the insured car.Francisco Valencia, Línea Directa’s Corporate Governance Director,describes to us the quality measures taken by his company, a leadinginsurance company for foreigners.

Losing your vehicle in a foreign country is undoubtedly a major setbackfor anybody. What makes Línea Directa different from other companies?

First of all, the personalised service. Línea Directa offers customer serv-ice over the telephone entirely in English and German, and also acts as anintermediary and translator with garages and scrap merchants. In additionto this, we also offer different cover options which no other insurer offers,such as our amount of compensation, which is never below €1000, orwhen appropriate, double the price paid by customers for their insurance.

You also have a purchasing centre if customers wish to acquire anew vehicle after theirs has been written off.

At Línea Directa we believe that when a car has been written off, it is anopportunity to give customers back the trust that they have placed in you.As a result, if customers ask us to, we take care of all the processesinvolved in buying a new vehicle in their name, including the paperworkand delivery of the vehicle to their home address.

And finally, how does Línea Directa pay compensation?

Línea Directa is committted to paying compensation within 40 days at thevery most, although the average waiting time is always much less. If thecar is less than 2 years old, either we pay its value when new in compen-sation or we take care of all the processes involved in purchasing anothervehicle. In addition, if the car is between 2 and 3 years old, we offer 15%more than its official value, as a quality measure.


I HAVE always had an open mind,which helps with my writing andmy love of the arts. However, italso means that at times I can be abit gullible.

Still, I have learned to be more scepticalas I get older, though I can still believe thingsa bit too easily.

One thing I have always been interestedin is something that sceptics like to shoutabout. They say it is only believed by thegullible or stupid. Well, this is their opinionand as valuable to them as mine is to me.However, I prefer to say that those whobelieve in what I am about to write about aremore open minded than gullible - and I andmany others like me are certainly not stupid.

For the next two weeks, I will be writingabout somewhere I went a few weeks ago. Iwas to experience something I’ve had aninterest in for many years and never gotaround to trying, so a while ago I decided tosee if there was any way I could achievewhat I had long thought about.

Being in Spain I wasn´t too sure I couldfind someone suitable in this area. However,after a very short search I found a womancalled Laura Boyle. Some of you may beaware of the name and others will know hername very well. Indeed some of you may

in this lifetime. So I began to

wonder wherethey came from.Is it possible thatI have livedbefore and if sowas this past lifethe reason for myfeelings? I hopedLaura would beable to help mefind out theanswers and so Isent her an e-mailas previous liferegression, whichis trying to find out ifyou´ve lived before,is a part of her work..

I didn´t have towait for long for areply stating whenshe would be in

Spain and when I could go and visit her. Iwasn´t able to accept the first dates sheoffered so she wrote straight back with a newdate and time which was perfect for me. Itwas only a month away, so I had enough

even have been to seeher,

Laura is well known onthe Costa Blanca for herPsychic Readings and´shows´ because, forthose who don´t know,she is a spiritual medi-um and Tarot consult-ant. That is, she claimsto be able to relay mes-sages from those whohave passed over tothose still living. Iwould imagine this isthe large bulk of herwork; however this isnot why I wanted tosee her.

There was some-thing else I noticedon her website andthis is what interest-ed me because formany years I have wondered whether I havelived before.

I had no idea who I had been or where I´dlived but certain things had happened to methat weren’t deja vu, but real feelings andworries that seemed to come from nowhere

time to get excited but not so long that I gotbored waiting!

And before I knew it, I was headingtowards her home to have my regression.

I met Laura in a bar. I recognised herimmediately from her photo on her website,so I introduced myself and we went to herproperty where she explained fully theprocess. This was very important as I hadnever been hypnotised before so had noidea what to expect.

I had imagined those under hypnosiswould be completely unaware of where theywere and could hear nothing, so once Laurahad explained that I would be in deep relax-ation but fully conscious I felt informed andhappy to go ahead.

Laura also explained that sometimesthere are no past lives to find, or they cannotbe found. Like the spiritual work she does,sometimes nothing happens.

No one can make their past lives comethrough and it is better to be prepared fornothing than try to force something. This willnot achieve anything and in the end the truthis what the client is paying for, indeed it iswhat I wanted to find out.

Next week I will explain what happenedas I was hypnotised and whether indeed Idid find myself reliving past lives.

JUST WHO AM I?


ANOTHER BUSH FULL OF TAXES IS PURE RAJOY

WAY back in 1988, when George Bush Senior was run-ning to become US President, and made a famouspledge which was to haunt him four years later, when hewas booted out by a young Bill Clinton.

He uttered the words: “Read my lips, no more tax rises.”That promise turned out to be worthless, and the formerArkansas governor made mincemeat of him, despite his per-sonal problems trying to bed any woman who appearedwithin his eyeline.

It’s a lesson, though, that politicians seem totally unable tolearn from. They just can’t stop making eye-grabbing taxpromises in an election campaign, and then have to back-track on them.

Take the example of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano ‘Thisisn’t a bailout’ Rajoy. As opposition leader in last November’scampaign, he was proud to announce that there would be norises in IVA sales tax. Just eight months later, that policy liesin complete tatters.

True, he inherited a far worse situation than the Zapateroadministration had declared publicly, and the tax rises arepart of the price of getting help from Angela Merkel and hermates for the Spanish banks. But come the next election youcan bet your last Euro that the PSOE will fling Rajoy’s IVApledge straight back in his face.

And you just know that in whatever country you might livein, the politicians will continue to make electoral tax promis-es they just can’t keep, which adds to the already low opin-ion most people have of them.

As a side issue to the Spanish IVA rise, which at least hasbeen paused until September for the main tourist season toend, I’ve yet to hear anybody in the Government tell us whatpossible benefit it is going to be for the already strugglingbusinesses in this country.

It’s a complete replay of what the UK government hasdone, and just helps to stoke the fires of the recession. I’m

afraid those dreadful Spanish unemployment figures aregoing to rise dramatically over the next few months, as theMadrid government dance like marionettes to the austeritymadness dictated from Berlin and Brussels. Would it have

been too much to have taken a look at income tax rates, andto take more from the wealthy, rather than hitting millions ofSpanish families that are barely scraping an existence?There was some great news, though, with massive cutsbeing promised in local and regional government, along withthe number of councillors. Now that makes serious sense!

There’s no bigger turn-off in politics than personalisedmud-slinging and smearing, which is always a sign of des-peration.

Most intelligent voters around the world ignore it, but overin America, dirt seems to stick, no matter how unjustified itmight be.

US elections seem to deal in easily-produced sound bites,and I’m sad to report that President Obama has had hisattack dogs snarling away at his Republican rival, MittRomney, over being involved in a company called BainCapital that scythed away at American jobs.

Romney was accused, falsely, of being in charge in 1999as CEO (he’d left by then), when Bain shut down Americanfirms and shipping jobs overseas. Writing as an Obama fan,I’m deeply saddened that somebody who offered so muchhope, has had to play dirty in such a nasty way.

It’s also a backhanded complement to Romney that theaffable ex-Governor of Massachusetts is seen as a very seri-ous threat to Obama, compared to John McCain and themoronic Sarah Palin in 2008.

I still think Obama will win, with some notable achieve-ments in his first term in office, but it’s a bad move by himand his advisers that he’s playing the same dirty games thatmade him angry to be the victim at the hands of theRepublicans four years ago.

What does it mean when Prime Minister David Camerongoes hawking around the newspapers telling everybody thatthe Coalition is in fine shape? Easy. You just know they’re introuble!

DO you have issues about health thatyou would like answered? Well, TheCourier is going to do exactly that in a

fascinating new med-ical column by ourmedical expert DrMachi Mannu.

Are you perhaps hav-ing treatment for an ail-ment and feeling evenworse than before thetreatment started? Or

are you or a loved one are in permanentpain and desperate to find a remedy?

Dr Mannu believes the essence of beat-

ing illness is to eliminate the cause – notjust to treat the symptoms, as most prac-titioners do. He also believes strongly inthe benefits of natural remedies andnutrients, and has controversial views onthe massive use of chemically manufac-tured drugs and the danger many of themrepresent to those who us them.

Machi’s revolutionary methods at hisMedB surgery in Punta Prima include

computerised diagnosis of health con-cerns without any old-fashioned, painful,time-consuming and sometimes toxiclaboratory analysis such as X-rays orblood tests. Perhaps you want to knowmore about his preventative therapy,which is based on the scientific fact thatevery cell, tissue and organ has a strictbioelectrical signal. He explains: ‘’Mypreventative health care considers the

fact that a person is not only a biochemi-cal organism, but also a biophysicalenergetic entity capable of repairingitself when the righ adjustments aremade.’’

Send your questions to Machi [email protected] We’ll keepyour identity secret if you wish – and themore difficult the question, the more DrMannu will enjoy answering it.

A QUESTION OF HEALTH

WE'VE often heard that today's teenagers lack the workethic; can't be bothered to turn up for work tidilydressed (if they actually turn up at all) and wouldprefer to talk to mates on their mobiles or use otherpain-in-the-neck gadgets rather than do some realwork.

Employers have been banging on about it for years -it's part of the reason why they prefer to employ foreignlabour than choose someone from the local school.

A BBC TV programme last week showed so graphicallythat all the complaints about modern youth are really true.The programme plucked a group of pensioners in their70s and got them into work again. For the first week theywere learning the ropes; for the second, they were pittedagainst teenagers, supposedly eager to get a job.

We've heard for years complaints from employers thatyoung job hopefuls just can't hack it in the workplace. Theycite lack of respect, unwillingness to observe dress code,the lack of basic English and maths skills, not committingto work each day (and for a full day) and not accepting thatthey had to start at the bottom rather than have everythingdrop into their laps.

The programme showed how the pensioners quicklyknuckled down, giving their very best to employers -although they tired more easily and were slower thanyounger employees at picking up new skills.

But when it came to the teenagers - oh dear, oh dear! One complained of being bored, one didn't bother to turn

up the next day – and a waitress came to work with metalpiercing her lip (how horrible is this crazy ‘fashion’?), whichthe employer asked her to get rid of. Then she failed to turnup for work the following day - though when she did finallyreturn, she showed some promise in her job.

Another failed to turn up on one day, saying he had familyissues he didn't want to discuss. To be fair, there was onelad - a trainee plumber - who ended up looking after hisslower 70-something mentor.

Employers had mixed feelings. The old 'uns had the peo-ple skills and work ethic needed, but were generally slowerthan staff 20 years or so their junior. The young 'uns lackedthe people skills, were unreliable and wanted to run beforethey could walk – they wanted the pay but didn't want to putin the graft to earn it. Most employers said if they had thechoice, they would employ a pensioner before a teen.

Schools and teachers have been failing to give pupils nec-essary work skills, while parents who give kids everythingwithout expecting them to earn it, have a lot to answer for.

The big problems come when these ‘expect it all for noth-ing’ youngsters have to care for us old 'uns.

Our greatest fear as we grow older –is the prospect ofhaving to go into a home or to rely on carers who are any-thing but caring. And we hear repeatedly of people not beinglooked after properly when they are at their most vulnerable.

Now let's examine another aspect of this youngsters' skillsgap. When I first heard about the problems G4S (the Britishsecurity firm) were having finding staff to properly cover theOlympics, I felt anger towards them. Now, for some extent, Ifeel sympathy.

The government has had to bring in thousands moretroops and police to properly guard the Olympics, becauseof the private security firm’s shortcomings.

On one level I hope the government has learned a lessonand stops trying to do everything with the use of money-ori-entated private firms. Providing adequate security to makethe Olympics safe for everyone and making money do notmix.

The government was totally wrong not to leave the secu-rity of Britain and the Olympics firmly in the hands of the mil-itary and the police.

Britain, like other western nations, has many enemies whowould love to bomb and kill the innocent to further their hate-ful aims. Many, thankfully, are still outside the UK, but thereis also an enemy within.

Should this dreadful threat be left to a private companywho think the answer to the nation's security is to employ A-level students and others on the dole? I really think not.

The company turned to the labour market I havedescribed earlier to employ the thousands of "guards" and,

no doubt, came upon the same problems faced by theemployers in the TV programme. Loads of kids not properlyeducated to cope with today's labour market, computer liter-ate but with few other skills.

And there's another dimension. Many of today's youngpeople seeking jobs are from ethnic backgrounds and toweed out those who may have been radicalised by Islamistsand could be a direct threat to the Olympic athletes and vis-itors would be a nightmare.

No wonder G4S had an insurmountable problem inrecruiting enough suitable candidates. They should neverhave been given the task.

qI HAVE left the most appalling example of people not fitto be employed in responsible jobs to last because

reading about it made me so angry that I have had to calmdown before writing about it.

I refer to the dreadful story of the 22-year-old patient in StGeorge's Hospital, Tooting who was in for a routine hipreplacement operation. He had suffered a brain tumour inthe past which had left him needing hormone medication tocontrol fluid levels.

All this was written in his notes, but hospital staff failed toread them and left him seriously dehydrated. The youngman knew something was seriously wrong and begged nurs-es for some water but was ignored. He telephoned his doc-tor, imploring her to ask staff for water. She told him to askstaff, but he phoned back ten minutes later to say they wouldnot give him one.

In utter desperation, he called 999 and told police whatwas happening, but when they arrived these dreadful stafftold police the patient had a history of erratic behaviour andthere was nothing to worry about.

Not one of them, including the doctor, looked at the notesand realised the cure was just a simple drink of water. Finallythey sedated him, leaving him in a side room all night. Hewas given no IV drip and the following day he died in agony

having lost a third (nine litres) of his body fluid.The sad story was related at an inquest and the coro-

ner launched a scathing attack on "incompetent" staff atthis leading teaching hospital.

A total of 24 people were involved in the young man'streatment yet only one nurse has been demoted. Therest are still in their jobs.

Police are now reviewing the case to see whethercriminal charges can be brought. The family are consid-ering bringing legal action against the hospital.

Can you imagine this happening in FlorenceNightingale's era? Can you imagine any patient inthose days asking a nurse for a glass of water andbeing denied? Can you imagine just a generation agohospital staff failing to read patients' notes for 24hours?

I would round up all these failed hospital staff, espe-cially the consultant in charge, and send them to jailfor a good few years where, under complete supervi-sion, they can look after prisoners. That might sendthe long overdue message to those NHS staff whoput their own well-being first and those of patientssecond.

This sort of incompetence has nothing to do withNHS cash cuts. It has everything to do with peoplebeing employed not for their human, caring qualitiesbut because they have the required academic qual-ifications.

It's about time that Britain's employers realisedthat university degrees are not the it all and end all,and stop putting qualifications top of the ‘must-have’ list.

The vast UK employment "industry" whichmushroomed under Labour, must become fit forpurpose - so that teenagers leave schools andcolleges capable of making a real contribution tothe workforce and not workshy benefit layabouts.Then, perhaps, Britain may regain the competi-tive edge it needs to get out of recession.

Phew! It was good to get that off my chest!

qNEXT time you see people who work in the public sec-tor - whether it be doctors, police, teachers or firemen -

complaining about their pay or pension provisions, just dwellon the following, and offer them no sympathy whatsoever.

The Office for National Statistics has produced proof thatpublic sector workers do so much better than their privatesector counterparts. So all the rhetoric and sob stuff whichflows from trade unions representing the public sector issimply them trying to maintain their members' inflated payand conditions.

The ONC has discovered that state workers enjoy pen-sions twice the size of their private sector counterparts -despite working fewer hours and earning, on average, 30%more.

They show what they describe as a "pensions apartheid"with the public sector gaining at the expense of taxpayers.

A total of 82% of state employees contribute to an occu-pational pension, with a retirement pot amounting to£90,100, while private sector workers have to make do with38% and £40,000.

An independent calculation of the pensions of two work-ers, both now aged 26, earning the same salary, starting on£30,000 and finishing at £60,000, has shown that the publicsector worker would retire on a £40,310 per year pension,while his counterpart in the private sector would get just£11,980.

So the next time teachers, doctors, or other workers strikebecause they think they are hard done by, they should beblown a huge raspberry by the rest of us who have to paythe bills for their far better lifestyle.

qI HEAR from my friends summering in the Costa thatit's getting unbearably hot now. I'm trying to decide

what's better, Costa heat or Brit wet, dull and cold. Every dayfor the month we've been back in England it's rained at sometime or other; daytime temperatures seldom get above 17degrees and at night it's been down to nine degrees. Wesaw the sun for the first time in four days on Sunday! Andthis is mid summer!


Young workers better thanoldies? Don’t pension it!

1. Light the barbecue before guests arrive. It’s the deli-cious smell of outdoor cooking that will get your guests sali-vating when they turn up. Once you’ve lit the barbecue, thecoals should be ready after about 30 minutes.

2. Be ready to go. Having everything prepared in advancewill make it all run more smoothly, leaving time for you tohave a drink and relax.

3. Be organised. Make sure you have all your equipmentto hand. Have ample table space around the barbecue andensure all your food will fit on the grills. If necessary, borrowan extra barbecue from a friend or neighbour.

4. Stay with your barbecue. Success depends on turningand basting the food regularly to prevent burning or flame-ups. You won’t be lonely for long – who can resist the tanta-lising smell of a well-tended grill?

And now for the food…5. Get the best ingredients. Summer brings an abundance

of fresh fruit, veg and meat or fish, so you’ll be spoilt forchoice.

6. Marinating. Unless you have a fantastic piece of tender,aged beef, which requires no more than a mere brush of oiland the quickest cooking, nothing beats a marinade foradding flavour and tenderising meat. Marinate overnight toget the best results.

7. Seasoning. We believe this is where many home barbe-cuers mess up. NEVER add salt to a marinade unless you’remarinating for less than two hours, as salt can toughen themeat. Instead, season well, just before barbecuing.

8. Get the temperature right. Give food enough time out ofthe fridge so it loses its chill and starts to approach roomtemperature. If ingredients are cold, the outside may burnbefore the inside is cooked. A good rule of thumb is toremove raw food from the fridge when you light the barbe-cue.

9. Rest meat once it’s cooked. This is essential. Eat steakdirectly off the grill and it will be tough, but leave it to rest for

a few minutes and the meat will relax and reabsorb thejuices.

10. Presentation. Although the food is the star of the show,it’s good to create atmosphere with fun and funky plates andprops, colourful napkins and bowls. It’s worth going the extradistance.


10 GOLDEN RULESOF A BARBECUE

IngredientsFor the burgers

1kg/2¼lb minced lamb (it's best not to use extra-leanmince as the fat will help bind the burgers and keeps themjuicy when cooked)

2 garlic cloves, crushed1 medium onion, finely chopped1-2 tbsp mango chutney3cm/1¼in piece of fresh ginger, peeled and grated1 red chilli, de-seeded and finely chopped¼ tsp ground turmeric1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed1 tsp cumin seeds, crushedflaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepperoil, for brushingflat bread, pitta bread or burger buns, to serve

For the relish6 ripe tomatoes, quartered, de-seeded and diced200g/7oz tub of Greek yoghurtbunch of fresh coriander, roughly chopped1 small red onion, finely choppedsqueeze of lemon or lime juice

Preparation methodPlace the minced lamb in a

large mixing bowl and add thegarlic, onion, mango chutney,ginger, chopped chilli, turmer-ic, crushed coriander andcumin. Season well with saltand pepper and mix by handuntil combined. The burgers can be briefly mixed in a foodprocessor until just starting to hold together, but be carefulnot to over-work the mixture.

Divide and shape the mixture into 8-10 burgers. If you wantto check the flavour, fry a small burger in a drop of oil beforeshaping the rest and, if necessary, add extra flavourings orseasoning.

Place the burgers on a cling film-covered tray and keepthem in the fridge to relax for at least 30 minutes. They'reideal made the day before cooking.

To prevent the burgers from sticking, brush with a little oilbefore barbecuing over medium-hot coals for about 5-6 min-utes each side.

Mix together the tomatoes, yoghurt, coriander, onion andlemon or lime juice and season to taste with salt and pepper.Serve with the burgers, either inside the bun or as a dippingsauce.

For a change, use diced, seeded cucumber instead oftomatoes, and try mint instead of coriander.

Spicy lamb burgers withcoriander, tomato and

yoghurt relish


Lighting a charcoal barbecue

Remove the lid and cooking grate andopen the air vents. Tip enough charcoal ontothe bottom charcoal grate to make an evenlayer, then add the firelighters.

Using a long match, light the firelighters,then use a long pair of tongs to swiftly pile upthe charcoal in a mound over the burningfirelighters. Leave to burn for 30 minutes.

The coals are ready when they have alight covering of grey ash with a barely visi-ble glow underneath.Rearrange them in aneven layer, replace thegrill and put the lid on.Barbecue tips

and hintsMake sure charcoal

and gas grills are up totemperature beforecooking.

Always cook with thelid down, and only takeoff the lid to add, turn orremove food.

Grilling times incharts and recipes vary depending on theamount, size and shape of food – and eventhe weather. Allow a little more cooking timeon colder days.

Trim excess fat from steaks, chops androasts – this helps avoid flare-ups.

Soak wooden skewers in cold water forat least 30 minutes before using them.

If your cooking grate is crowded withfood, cook for longer than the specified time.

Make sure that individual pieces of fooddo not touch, so the food cooks on all sides.

Because food cooked in a kettle barbe-cue is out of sight, it can be out of mind. Usea kitchen timer to remind you when to turn

the food and when to take it off the heat.Troubleshooting

Be patient with charcoal. It takes 30minutes to reach cooking temperature.

Avoid frequently turning or peeking atthe food, as heat escapes when you openthe lid. For direct cooking, turning the foodhalfway through the cooking time is usuallysufficient.

Keep the air vents at the top and bottomof a charcoal grill open while cooking.

Don’t use a fork to pierce and turn smallcuts of meat or all thejuices will flow out.

Many people thinkthat grilling meat for ashort time at a high tem-perature ‘seals in’ thejuices. However, this justburns the meat on theoutside, leaving it raw inthe centre.

For best results,sear meat for a few min-utes over direct heat,then move it to indirectheat for the rest of thegrilling time.

Safety guidelinesLong-handed tools make the job easier

and, more importantly, safer.Leave perishable foods in the fridge or

a cool box until just before cooking.Use separate utensils such as chopping

boards and plates for raw and cooked foods.Remember, stainless steel skewers will

retain a lot of heat after cooking.Check hot coals are fully extinguished

before leaving the barbecue site.Water and fire do not mix, and steam

can cause burns. If flare-ups do occur, movethe food to one side until the flames diedown, and do not spray with water.

Barbecuing hot tips



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ACID reflux also known as Gastro-oesophagel reflux dis-ease (GORD) occurs when the acid from the stomachmoves up into the oesophagus damaging the mucosal lin-ing of its walls. The oesophagus is the muscular long tubethat joins the throat to the stomach. At the junction wherethey meet lies a powerful valve or sphincter, theoesophageal sphincter, that helps prevent the contents ofthe stomach from entering the oesophagus. This is sobecause the stomach contains strong hydrochloric acidand digestive enzymes that help in food digestion. Whenthis valve becomes weakened, gastric juices seepupwards into the oesophagus causing the common sen-sation known as heart burn. When acid reflux is leftuntreated or becomes persistent, it can lead to the scar-ring of the oesophagus making swallowing difficulty oreven causing cancer.

There are several factors that are now known to con-tribute to the weakening of the valve, causing acid reflux.A number of studies have found that obesity increases therisk of acid reflux. Obese people tend to have weakersphincters, and they more often develop a condition relat-ed to acid reflux called hiatus hernia, in which the upperpart of the stomach protrudes above the diaphragm,resulting in a deformed oesophageal sphincter. Smokingis also known to weaken the sphincter, and is a strong risk

factor for acid reflux. Research has also shown that thesaliva of smokers contain low levels of bicarbonate whichneutralizes acids. Cigarette smoking also reduces the pro-duction of saliva and stimulates the production of stomachacids that weaken the sphincters. Peptic ulcers and notenough digestive enzymes in the stomach may slow downthe digestive process, causing an accumulation of gastricacids that back up into the esophagus causing heartburns. Other causes of heart burns also include pregnan-cy, eating a large meal and alcohol.

The majority of people suffering from acid reflux willbenefit by making changes to their diet and lifestyle. Inone study of overweight people with acid reflux, a low car-bohydrate diet was found to provide significant and lastingimprovement. One of the most effective ways to treat acidreflux disease is to avoid the foods and beverages thattrigger symptoms. These foods vary from person to per-son, and include black pepper, chili powder, citrus fruits,spicy food, garlic and coffee. Others are broccoli, beans,cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. Eating smaller mealsthroughout the day or waiting a few hours before lyingdown and taking afternoon naps sitting on a chair areways of alleviating the symptoms of acid burn. Raising thehead of the bed a few inches higher is another effectiveway of treating heartburn. Natural remedy methodsinclude chewing deglycyrrhizinated (DG) licorice, which isknown to heal the mucous membranes. Aloe is a soothingherb that has a good record for treating acid reflux andheart burns. Bladderwrack and Slippery elm are traditionalherbs also used in the treatment of acid reflux.To find out more about anti-oxidant supplements discussed as well as for questions, please email [email protected]

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SLIMMING UNDER WRAPSWeight Loss by Lipolysis, Part 2

LAST WEEK we talked about Lipo byLaser. Another form of lipolysis used atMedaesthetics is Shrinking Violet BodyWrap.

This is a revolutionary method ofremoving fat. It is non-invasive andabsolutely pain free. Lipolysis offers anapproach that breaks down the fat cellswhich are then excreted by the body. Itcan remove fat from virtually anywhereon the body, including thighs, buttocksand abdomen.

The body wrap can reduce weight byat least one size with only one 60-

minute session; this means an inchloss of up to two inches on the waist.The results are immediate but maxi-mum effect is seen after 24 hours.

The wrap feels like you are beingwrapped up and squeezed, notunpleasant at all and often causes aslight increase in urination for 24 hoursas your body gets rid of toxins.

Shrinking Violet is an excellent wayto jump start your weight loss and canbe used every seven days. The num-ber of treatments required variesaccording to the amount of weight loss

needed and how much exercise anddiet management is also used.

This treatment can only be carriedout by trained professionals and cannotbe carried out at home.

Contact us today to book your freeconsultation.

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Contact us today to book your freeconsultation.By Lynda GibsonMedaesthetics

"Raw-foodists" (also called "Rawists") are those whothrive on live food energy by consuming a diet of mostlyuncooked whole plant foods — usually at least 75% thoughsome say 100% is the only true path. A basic raw foods dietincludes fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouted wholegrains, seaweeds and fresh juices.

Raw foods have not been heated above a certain temper-ature. The maximum temperature varies among the differentforms of the diet, from 92ºF to 118ºF (33°C to 48°C).According to raw-foodists,heat changes the makeup offood. Foods that have beenheated have lost all of their lifeforce, and their beneficialenzymes are destroyed. Thedigestive system has to workharder and longer to processcooked foods to get nutritionand energy from it. Oncecooked, a food can lose up to85 percent of its nutritional value. Raw foodists call that"dead food." Since we are essentially what we eat, consum-ing the dead energy of dead foods make our bodies feelheavy and stagnant.

Eating raw foods, on the other hand:Leads to near-automatic weight loss and maintenance

without feelings of hunger and deprivation, because rawfoods are so filling and naturally delicious.

Assists in better digestion.Can reduce total cholesterol as well as LDL cholesterol

(the kind that gums up arteries).May reduce the severity of inflammation in conditions such

as rheumatoid arthritis.Helps normalise blood pressure.Allows for higher intake of vitamins A, C, and E, folate, and

the minerals potassium andcopper, than eating cookedfoods.

Helps improve your skin soyou start to look younger.

Leads to increased energy.

Raw enthusiasts proudlyproclaim their break from anaddiction to cooked andprocessed foods. They tell us

that incorporating a few uncooked meals a week is a goodstart that will bring immediate changes to the body to feelingbetter and having more energy.

Don't waste your food, yourself, and our planet by cookingwhat you eat, they say. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables whichare whole, fresh and raw are brimming with life and have theability to transmit their life force directly to you!

Raw Food Diet: The Benefits


TIP: If you remember previously I have published instructions on how to book a medical appointment online. Welltoday I received a great tip from Jonathon for renewing European Health Cards on-line, it’s another great way touse your computer to help save the time and hassle of queuing at official buildings.


Richard moved to Spain seven years ago hav-ing left his management background behind inthe UK and decided to use his IT skills to helphome users and small businesses with their PCproblems. Now a relaxed 'computer man' he isout and about in the Spanish sun every day,making house and shop calls and using hisvast experience and qualifications to (usually)sort out the problem there and then. Computersare his hobby as well as his work so don’t besurprised to get an answer to your email in theearly hours!

RICHARD CAVENDERBluemoon Solutions www.bluemoonsolutions.es

BlueMoon Solutions is the computer and IT services com-pany on the Costa Blanca, they provide quality computerservices at realistic prices and specialise in working with

home users and small businesses.

[email protected] www.bluemoonsolutions.es

Mobile: 655 044 970 Office: 902 906 200Don’t forget you can follow me on twitter@bluemoonspainAlternatively why don’t you sign up for mynewsletter. You can do this by going to:-www.bluemoonsolutions.es and fill inthe form that is on any page except thefront page.

1.Open up a web browser (this seems to work better with Internet Explorer as otherbrowsers pick up on the security certificate warning) and navigate to www.seg-social.es

2. In the bottom right hand part of the website is a link to “Tarjeta Sanitaria Europea”– click this link and a new page will open (don’t be tempted to click on the British flagon this page as it will take you to a different page)

3. Click on “Acceso al servicio” and then the “Solicitar / Renovar Tarjeta Sanitaria”button at the bottom of the page.

4. Complete the form with your personal details and click on the “Aceptar” button andyour cards should be posted to you within 10 days.


FRIDAY the 13th was certainly not an unlucky dayfor Entre Naranjos, as it marked the end of thefirst two-week summer school ‘Among theOrange Trees’ aimed at improving integration bet-ween Spanish and English communities in theOrihuela area.

For two weeks, 54 Spanish youngsters aged 10 to 14 atten-ded a summer camp at the mainly English-speaking EntreNaranjos urbanisation. They were immersed in the English lan-

A CHARITY fun day is tobe held in Jolly's Bar inQuesada on Sunday inaid of the AECC and inloving memory ofMarcelo.

The event will featurefun and entertainmentall day long, kicking offwith table-top salesfrom 10am, followed byprize and stand upbingo.

The TKO roadshowwill follow from 2pm.And the action goes onwith Zumba dancing,the big picture quiz, ahamper raffle and agigantic tombola ofmore than 40 huge, gen-erously donated prizes.

These include carvaleting, beauty thera-py, mini golf, menus deldia and other meals -and much more!

The evening will endwith entertainment andkaraoke with Peter Hull.

Torry’s golden girlsin splash and grab

guage while they engaged ina wide range of activitiesincluding bowls, golf, arts,craft and drama.

On Friday there was a prizegiving and concert put on bythe children and teachers andattended by parents and localresidents as well as Mayor ofOrihuela, Monserrate Guillénand the education councillor,Rosa Martinez.

“A vital aspect of the coursehas been the relationship builtbetween the Spanish studentsand the 30 local English spea-king volunteers who workedand played with the children,”said course director JaneCronin.

“The children started byinterviewing the volunteers inEnglish to learn about theirlives and most volunteersthen stayed on for the full twoweeks to join in with other acti-vities. It was a novel experien-ce and great fun for everyoneinvolved.”

Orihuela town hall has ren-ted premises long term on theEntre Naranjos urbanisationfor use over the year for simi-lar courses, Spanish lessons,workshops and cultural activi-ties for people of all ages.

The mayor said such activi-ties are ideal for bringing thecommunity together andshould be run in other areas ofOrihuela.

TORREVIEJA Swimming Club’s Beth Altabas and VickiConnolly amassed eight medals in the 23rd Spanish SummerOpen National Masters Championships.

The event, which took place in Valencia last weekend, saw119 swimming clubs from across Spain and 844 master swim-mers compete.

Beth gained her medals in the 65-69 years female categoryand Vicki in the 45–49 years female. Both swimmers swam themaximum number of races allowed over the three day event.

The medals began to flow in when Beth picked up a gold inher first event, the 100m backstroke, then later another gold inthe 200m freestyle.

The following day, Vicki swam her way to a bronze in the400m freestyle, while Beth again claimed the gold in the eventfor her age group. Then in the 100m freestyle, it was bronze forVicki and a fourth gold for Beth.

Back in the same seats on Sunday, now nicknamed “cham-pionship hill”, Beth and Vicki were triumphant in the 50m frees-tyle. For Beth, a fifth medal, and for Vicki, a third bronze.

So in total, Beth and Vicki won eight medals in 10 races, witha fourth and eighth position also notched up by the women.This was enough to put the Torrevieja Swimming club half wayup the rankings for points for females in the overall competition– a massive achievement with only two swimmers.

For details on the club call 637869602 or [email protected]

ORANGE BLOSSOM

Get downto Jolly’sfor a jollygood day!

THE Lions club has launched a new, interactive website.Designed by Richard Cavender of Blue Moon Solutions, the

website will be much more dynamic than the old one. It will beregularly updated with the activities of the club, and users willbe able to make comments or put questions to the Lions’ direc-tors.

Richard donated his time and expertise to build the website.And his generosity doesn’t stop there as he is going to maintainit for free, too.

Richard is also President of The International BusinessAssociation (TIBA). TIBA and many of its members regularlysponsor the Torrevieja Lions. Without this sponsorship theexcellent work carried out locally and nationally by the Lionswould be a great deal more difficult. If your business would liketo become a Lions sponsor, email [email protected] And don’t forget to check out the new website atwww.torreviejacostalions.org

Rob on Road to Heaven

LEADING LIGHTS: Course director JaneCronin with Orihuela Mayor MonserrateGuillén and education councillor Rosa Martinez

Lions widen web

Language andlaughs so fruitfulunder the trees

Volunteers put ona cultural feast

CABO ROIG was in mourning last weekfollowing the death of a favourite son.

Talented musician and singer, RobertArmstrong (pictured) died in his nativeLondonderry following a long illness.Robert, who was 60, played in bands inNorthern Ireland and on the Costa Blanca.

He was instrumental in building up ahuge following in the Trinity Bar in CaboRoig when it opened nine years ago. Itwas standing room only on karaokenights where he was ably assisted by hisbetter half, Maura. People would returnyear after year to listen to Rob’s cultured

voice belting out country classics. He was also known for his Irish wit,

banter and craic, and could be seen everySt Patrick’s Day giving a soloperformance with guitar at the ready.

Rob, who lived in Pilar, will be sadlymissed by everyone, but especially wifeMaura, son Richard, and daughter Anne.

At the service in Claudy's Holy TrinityChurch, Rob's former band memberssang his favourite song, the Willie Nelsonclassic, On The Road Again.

A star has gone out on the Cabo RoigStrip....RIP Rob. PETER WATKINS

SIMPLY THE BETH: Beth Altabas and VivkiConnelly show off their eight-medal haul


SUNSHINE greeted party-goers at the recent barbe-cue held by MABS CancerSupport Group in Mazarrón.

Guests danced the nightaway to Louie’s Disco. John,Michael and Paul did a fan-tastic job on the barbecues,cooking all the food fresh,and Les kept everyoneentertained whilst serving atthe bar.

DJ Louie very generouslydonated his fee back toMABS and nine-year-oldRyan was kept busy allnight, helping wherever hecould.

MABS gave a hugethanks to Cecilia and Johnfor being such excellenthosts and to everyone who

Welcomefundraising

A cause not to forgetTHIS Saturday, get along to the LoungeBar in Torrevieja for a night of greatentertainment and the chance to helpTorrevieja Alzheimer’s Association.

Enjoy Pipes and Drums, music fromthe 70s and be in with the chance of win-ning some spectacular raffle prizes.

Entry is free, and money raised anddonations on the night will go to helpthe Torrevieja Alzheimer’s Associationcontinue its valuable work.

This charity helps those sufferingfrom dementia and their families tocope.

And anyone whose family has beentouched by this cruel disease will knowjust how important such support can be.

As nobody is immune fromAlzheimer’s, you never know when youmight need the services of TorreviejaAlzheimer’s Association. So, help themout by going along to the Lounge Barand joining in the fun this Saturday from8.30pm.

For more information on theTorrevieja Alzheimer’s Association, visithttp://www.afatorrevieja.es To see thewebsite in English, click on the flag.

supported the fundraisingevent. A total of €790 wasraised for MABS Mazarrón.

The day before the barbe-cue, the Welcome Groupdonated €60 to coverexpenses for the MABSMazarrón Helpline for thethree months to June and afurther €315 to insure theMABS car, which takes can-cer patients to hospitalappointments.

MABS Helpline 620 422410, website www.mabsmurcia.com

By KEITH NICOLSOME 15,000 people areexpected in Torreviejaon August 11, asElectroMar Day arrivesin the city.

ElectroMar is a festival ofelectronic music and indieartists featuring the mostimportant and influentialacts of the moment, includ-ing Orbital, Tiga, Love ofLesbian, Iván Ferreiro,Booka Shade, Dj Fresh,Cyberpunkers, Dubsidia,Olivfer Huntemann, TheZombie Kids, Varry Bravaand Christian Smith.

It’s all taking place in thenew concert hall of theParque Antonio Soriabeside the Water Park, andwill be the venue’s inauguralevent.

With less than a month toElectroMar Day, nearly8,000 tickets have alreadybeen sold, and some 15,000people are expected toattend.

Torrevieja’s councillor forculture and tourism LuisMaria Pizana said that theseevents are great forTorrevieja tourism, attract-ing thousands of peopleduring the weekend and

beyond. He added that itwas worth noting the greatimpact that ElectroMar ishaving in social networks asmore than 40,000 peoplehave shown interest in thismusical event.

ElectroMar will become aone-day event that will trav-

el around Spain during 2012and 2013, kicking off withthe August 11 show inTorrevieja.

ElectroMar will rotatethrough different citiesbringing energy, great musicand featuring the best elec-tronic summer dance festi-

Luis Maria Pizana, Torrevieja’s councillor for tourism and culture, withElectroMar’s Sebastian Cazorla and Marc Tapies. Splitting the boys is the

councillor for foreigners, Rosario Martinezval to be found, nation-wide.

The concert will beginat 6pm, with dedicatedelectronic music fansexpected to keep partyinguntil around 7am the fol-lowing morning.

While the festival willprobably not hold muchappeal to those ofadvanced years, it is cer-tain be be immenselypopular with the kids!

More information onElectroMar 2012 can befound at http://www.elec-tromarfestival.com.

Pick up your copy ofthe Courier and tune intoTKO as we will be offer-ing you the chance to winFREE tickets to theevent. And if electronicmusic is not your thing,the tickets could make agreat present for thegrandkids.

That’s my boy:Burger king Paulwith grandson Ryan

Flipping out: PaulChoularton tossesanother burger

Dancing thenight away toLouie’s Disco

A SHOCKINGMUSIC SHOWTorrevieja set for an electronic fiesta


SPANISH PRESS

Night is dayin capital as

meteorite hitson Friday 13

IN the early hours of last Friday a flash lit upthe sky of the peninsula for a split second.

It was 2.05am and most people slept, butthose who saw the flash described it onsocial networks and internet forums as “alight that turned night into day”. It wasaccompanied by a loud rumble.

What was it that appeared in the sky?Scientists have the answer. It was the disin-tegration of a cometary fragment over theprovince of Madrid that caused an enor-mous flash that lit up the centre of the country.

“The brightness was so intense that theevent could be seen across the entireIberian Peninsula. In fact, for a split secondin the downtown area, the night sky lit up asif it were day,” said a statement from themeteor detection team at the ComplutenseUniversity of Madrid (UCM).

The extraordinary magnitude of the eventallowed it to be detected not only by the

cameras located at theobservatory of the Universityof Madrid, but by othersmuch more distant. It wasobserved from several hun-dred miles away.

Preliminary analysis ofdata by Professor of theUniversity of Huelva JoséMaría Madiedo shows thatthe origin of this event was ina meteoroid from a comet.This piece of material havinga diameter of approximatelyone metre, collided with theEarth’s atmosphere at highspeed, which raised its tem-perature above 4,500degrees Celsius.

This led to a phenomenonknown as a fireball or bolide,which began at about 110 kmaltitude and was rapidly pen-etrating the atmosphere.

The meteoroid explodedmore than 30km aboveground level, causing intenselight. The shock wave gener-ated the loud roar.

PUBLIC sector workers stormed Madrid’s streetsito protest over government cutbacks amid as agovernment delegate warned that that violent ele-ments want to turn the capital into Athens.

The swingeing public sector cuts announced lastWednesday by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy precipitated aspontaneous outpouring of rage on the streets of the capitalless than 24 hours later.

Labour unions had called their members to arms for a massprotest on Thursday of last week but many could not wait thatlong to make their displeasure keenly felt. “Cowards, cowards!”“Hands up, this is a robbery!” and “Rajoy, resign!” were someof the slogans chanted by public sector workers who alsostopped traffic on the capital’s main thoroughfares, includingGénova street, where the Popular Party has its headquarters.

The traffic stoppages were brief but protestors promisedmore disruption against what they termed “bullying of employ-ees in public service functions.” Protests are scheduled to takeplace every day at 12pm and 6pm and the main labour unionshave called for protests across Spain in July and August.Neither has a public sector strike been ruled out in September.Cándido Méndez and Ignacio Fernández Toxo, leaders of theUGT and CCOO unions, promised “a hot autumn.”

The central government delegate in Madrid, CristinaCifuentes stressed that the majority of people detained hadbeen “anti-system radicals, some of them with numerous pre-vious arrests for crimes against property.” The police carriedout a “robust action against violent elements that wanted toturn Madrid into Athens,” she said.

Cifuentes asked unions to be “a little more responsible at amoment of extreme delicacy, not only from the point of view ofpublic order but also because of the economic situation we arecurrently going through, a situation that union leaders have con-tributed to by supporting all of the policies of the previousSocialist government that have brought us to this point.”

Dog beats fog as Eddierescues lost British kids

El País abc

MADRID’S STREETSHEAD ATHENS WAY

speed with which Eddie had beenable to find the missing children hadbeen crucial as a rapid rescue wasdemanded by the thickening fog.

After checking the children wereunharmed, GREIM officers returnedthem to their worried teachers andclassmates.

The latest cuts prompted a spontaneous protest in Madrid

The team was called out after anEnglish teacher from a schoolparticipating in the trip reportedthe boys missing in dense fog.

GREIM agents and a GermanShepherd named Eddie launchedan immediate search.

Eddie is trained to pick up thesmell of human scent and is ableto find people buried in the snowin avalanche rescues.

It took him just over 20 min-utes to sniff out the missing chil-

dren. The Guardia Civil later said the

SEVERAL members of the

German Liberal Party (FDP), a

member of the coalition govern-

ment of Angela Merkel, have sug-

gested paying Germans to

encourage them to spend their

holidays in the countries of

southern Europe, reports abc.

The state subsidy “would be a

kind of European programme to

help overcome the crisis,” the

Greco-German FDP MEP Jorgo

Chatzimarkakis told Bild.

The German Travel Federation

(DRV) says reservations for Spain

have started well this year.

Holiday sub for Germans?

THE Mountain Rescue Intervention Group(GREIM) of the Guardia Civil in Potes, includinga dog from the specialist search and rescueteam, saved two 14-year-old British schoolchild-ren lost in the Picos de Europa, northern Spain,while on a school excursion.

20 minutos


NEW BIG CHEESEIS NO DINOSAUR

SEVEN out of every 10Spaniards aged between20 and 29 still live withtheir parents.

The late emancipation isthe main difference bet-ween Spain and otherEuropeans, according to aCaixaForum Madrid study.

It said the economic cri-sis is exacerbating theSpanish model of lateyouth emancipation. Theaverage age of leavinghome is around 29, while inother countries, such asFinland, it is 23.

El País

SPANISH PRESS

THE euro is too expen-sive for Spain, andinstead of trying to adaptthe situation for the eurocountries the “currencyshould be changed,” theformer chairman of IBMEurope and the GermanFederation of Industries,Hans-Olaf Henkel saidthis week.

In the nineties he wasan ardent advocate of thecreation of the euro, but this week Henkel, a professorat the University of Mannheim and one of the signato-ries of an appeal to Germany against the bailouts,admitted his support for the single currency “was thebiggest mistake of my life”.

He says the euro is good for no one and that he doesnot see a future for the 17. He has called for a ‘northerneuro’ for the rich countries and a devalued euro for therest, leading to accusations that he is anti-European.

In an interview with abc, he denied the charge.Comparing the euro to cooking eggs, he said: “If you

decide to make scrambled eggs with 17 eggs and one isold, you have to throw the whole plate.

“The fault is the euro [not the markets]. We had neverimagined a problem in Portugal affecting the stock mar-ket in Frankfurt. I fought for the creation of the euro. Itwas the biggest mistake of my life.

“I do not think that Spain has a chance of being com-petitive with the current strategy based on the savings.There is nothing in the program of reforms and cuts thatgoes to make Spain more competitive. The euro hasbecome too expensive for Spain.

When asked why not return to the pesata, he said:“No doubt a return to national currencies is a betteralternative than leaving things as they are.”

A CHEESE shop owner and his son have turnedunlikely palaeontologists after stumbling across amajor cache of hadrosaurid (or duck-billed dinosaur)bones in Catalonia.

Pere Galceran got in touch with the Conca Dellà Museumand the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Palaeontologyseveral weeks ago after his son, Lo Pere Xic, found theremains while out tending to the family herd in the town ofBasturs, Lleida province.

The pair recognised the fossils as prehistoric remains assoon as they saw them. Remains of more than a thousanddinosaurs have been found in the area and Basturs residentsare familiar with their appearance.

However, the palaeontologists who confirmed the discov-ery believe this most recent site to be of particularly spectac-ular proportions. The scientists began excavating the area asa matter of urgency as they are worried that the bones, manyof which are poking out of the ground, may be plundered byunscrupulous dinosaur bone hunters.

“They are very big bones, and there are a lot of them,” aConca Dellà Museum spokesman told El País.

The paleontological team’s first assessment of the newlynamed Costa de les Solanes site believes it to be animmense find that will be investigated for many years.

Its studies have already classified the first bones as belong-

Unemployed: Guiltyuntil proven innocent

THE government’s cutbacks in unemploy-ment benefit payments have taken anOrwellian turn with the announcement thateven a suspicion of fraud will be sufficient tosuspend payments, reports El País.

Until now, a person suspected of defraud-ing the system — by working while claimingbenefits — would lose the right to claim onlyif and when fraud was proven. In somecases the loss of benefits is temporary;sometimes it is permanent.

Under the new regulations, these sanc-tions can be imposed whether actual proof ofwrongdoing is obtained or not.

The Labour Ministry justified the decisionby saying that this would increase its

armoury in the fight against fraud. But unionsdecried the announcement as opening thedoor to “arbitrariness and the criminalisationof the unemployed worker.”l SPAIN could receive bank bailout fundsfrom the Eurogroup until the year 2028,according to a report on Saturday in theGerman weekly Der Spiegel, reportsInformacion. The opinion is based on anunpublished report from the EuropeanFinancial Stability Fund (EFSF).

Two thirds of the 100bn euros in aid wouldbe used in the short term to recapitalisebanks. The remainder, maintains the confi-dential document obtained by Der Spiegel,would be a “safety cushion in the long term”.

Limbless man inGibraltar swim

ing to some type of hadrosaurid - large herbivores from theUpper Cretaceous period of around 70 to 65 million years ago.

Many traces of hadrosaurids have previously been found inthe area, but this new discovery promises to be somethingexceptional. The Costa de les Solanes site preserves theremains of some of the last dinosaurs to live in Europe beforea global catastrophe - that many scientists believe may havebeen an enormous meteorite hitting the Earth - wiped them out.

The excavation forms part of the Catalan Pyreneesdinosaur research project.

A QUADRU-PLE amputeehas successful-ly swum acrossthe strait of Gibraltar toMorocco aspart of an effortto swimbetween all theworld’s continents.

Philippe Croizon, who losthis arms and legs in an electri-cal accident, has alreadyswum the Channel as well asbetween Indonesia andPapua New Guinea,

and between Asia and Africain the Gulf of Aqaba.

With the aid of prostheticflippers attached to his legstumps, he made the nine-mile crossing in just over fivehours.

Too costlyfor Spain,euro wasa mistake

Palaeontologists are afraidof dinosaur bone hunters

When willthe kids

move out?


UK HEADLINES

A COUPLE died after being buriedalive in their car for up to 10 days bya landslide.

Women’s Institute fundraiser RosemarySnell, 67, and her new partner, a man in his70s who has not been named, were trappedwhen hundreds of tons of mud and rubblecrashed down an embankment.

But the tragedy, at the entrance to theBeaminster tunnel in flood-ravaged Dorset,remained undiscovered until police alerted fire

crews after managing to plotthe couple’s route by trackingtheir credit card transactions.

It is feared they were eithercrushed to death or suffocatedinside their silver Skoda Fabia.

The entrance to the 345-yardtunnel was blocked by the mud-slide on July 7 – forcing the clo-

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The Sunsure of theA3066 road link-ing the villagewith Crewkerne inSomerset.

Police broke into spinsterRosemary’s home after sheand the man – identified local-ly only as Mike, a retired med-ical consultant from Taunton –were reported missing.

Bank details showed theywere in the Beaminster areaat the time of the landslide.

Detectives alerted firefight-ers, who began to dig onMonday night before making

FELLAS up North use more Viagra than any other part ofBritain, a report shows.

The NHS funded 2.3MILLION prescriptions for the littleblue pills last year to help lads perform in the bedroom.

Of that, £5.1million was spent in the North East and£12.6million in the North West.

That worked out at an aver-age of £1.89 per patient in theNorth East and £1.73 in theNorth West.

By contrast, men downSouth needed the least help.

Health chiefs there spent asimilar amount on Viagra, buthad 1.5million more fellas tocare for — putting the cost atjust £1.24 per patient.

The figures from thePrescription Pricing Authority

show huge variations across the country, with someareas forking out almost 50 per cent more than others.

The outlay in the East was £8.3million, with a total of£7.7million spent in the South West.

The NHS bill for the sex drug was £30million a decadeago, but the cost to taxpayers has nearly TREBLED.

This rise has come despite side-effects including heartattacks, blindness and amnesia being reported bypatients at the rate of one a week.

Experts reckon the rise is due to medics trying to stopmen being poisoned by fake Viagra sold online.

Keeping it up North:Viagra on the map

the grim discovery.Tim Burden, 28, visited the

site the day after the landside.He said: “The mud must

have been 10ft to 15ft high.There was no sign of a carand it is harrowing to think Iwas there when two peoplewere trapped underneathl.”

Villager Douglas Beazeradded: “All week everyonehas been saying how lucky it

was no one was in the tunnelwhen it happened. It’s verysad to think that someonecould have been buried for 10days and we didn’t know.”

Local councillor Ron Bondsaid: “It seems outrageousthat somebody was in therefor so long. I know firefightershave to be careful of their ownsafety but it is just so awfuland such a terrible tragedy.”

Daily Mirror

A VIOLENT burglar who attacked a man wasblinded in one eye when his victim foughtback.

Thug Joey Hoban, 24, forced his way inand laid into Paul Kerr with a knuckleduster.

But he came off worse when Mr Kerr, 29,grabbed a knife to defend himselfand stabbed his assailant severaltimes — once between the eyes.The blade severed an optic nerve,causing Hoban (pictured) to lose thesight in his right eye.

The attack happened in Januaryat Mr Kerr’s home in Blackpool.Local man Hoban admitted burglary andgrievous bodily harm and was jailed for 23months at Preston Crown Court.

His lawyer Virginia Hayton said he now

feared losing the sight in his good eye. Sheadded: “He was stabbed in the bridge of thenose and the blade of the knife entered theback of his eye and severed an optic nerve.

A puncture wound damaged his lung.His lung has now collapsed on twooccasions.

“There are concerns he may losethe sight in his other eye. He is notthe cocksure young man he used tobe.”

Hoban, who has a long criminalhistory, was given an Asbo aged 15 and con-victed of wounding with intent in 2005. JudgeAndrew Menary said: “Only an immediateprison sentence can be imposed”.

Thug given blind justiceThe Sun

ROGUE Traders starDan Penteado (above)was jailed for threemonths on Tuesday forfiddling nearly £25,000of benefits while beingpaid to hunt downcrooks.

Penteado, co-pre-senter with MatthewAllwright on a sectionof the BBC’s Watchdogshow, looked stunnedand tearful as twosecurity guards ledhim to the cells to starthis 12-week sentence.

His Swedish artistwife Malin, 38, alsobroke down as shewatched him beingtaken away.

Magistrates heardPenteado, 40, claimedbenefits over fouryears but failed todeclare he had earnedmore than £56,000 asthe show’s leather-cladbiker.

Penteado was rum-bled when a housingbenefit officer workingfor BournemouthBorough Councilrecognised him on TV.

Penteado admittedeight offences of dis-honestly and knowing-ly claiming benefitslast month.

BURIED ALIVEHORROR OF COUPLE

RosemarySnell: She wastrapped by mudand rubble

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WAYNE Rooney’s brother was banned from theroad on Tuesday after being caught driving threetimes over the limit to buy booze for a party.

The Manchester United striker’s younger sib-ling Graham (pictured left) was found guilty ofdrink driving but blamed his friends.

Dressed in a Team GB hoodie, the 24-year-oldleft Liverpool Magistrates’ Court with friends after

being handed a two-year driving ban, 150hours community service and £650 costs.

He was arrested at his parents’ luxury£450,000 house in Liverpool in April.

Graham - who has a striking resemblanceto his £180,000-a-week superstar brother, 26- was held in custody for more than 14 hours.

The court heard there had been a party atthe house he shares with parents Waynesenior and Jeanette. He was arrested afterofficers spotted a black Audi A3 driving errat-ically into the grounds of the property. Thecourt heard he became ‘'instantly aggres-

sive’, threatening to sue police for trespassing.

Brits let their fingers do the talking

IMMIGRATION FUELSPOPULATION BOOM

THE man with the world’s largest peniswas subjected to a rigorous frisking byairport security staff amid fears he wastrying to smuggle a weapon on board aflight.

Jonah Falcon, 41, aroused suspicionwhen eagle-eyed guards from theTransport Security Administration atSan Francisco International Airportspotted his bulging package.

The well endowed New Yorker wasthoroughly searched and even had pow-der sprinkled on his pants to check forexplosives after his “very noticeable”manhood was mistaken for a biologicalthreat.

Mr Falcon told the Huffington Post: “Ihad my ‘stuff’ strapped to the left. One ofthe guards asked if my pockets wereempty and I said, 'Yes.' I said, ‘It’s myd***.

“He gave me a pat down but madesure to go around [my penis] with hishands.

“They even put some powder on mypants, probably a test for explosives. Ifound it amusing.”

Mr Falcon is considered to have theworld’s largest penis, although theGuinness Book of World Records doesnot record such achievements.

His manhood, which has even fea-tured in a documentary, measures 9inches limp and 13.5 inches when erect.

IMMIGRATION has fuelled a 3.7 MILLION increasein the population of England and Wales in tenyears, new census figures have revealed.

The number of people went up by 7.1 per cent to hit 56.1 mil-lion in 2011.

It is the biggest rise since records began 211 years ago.Fifty-five per cent of the increase, 2.1 million, was a result of

the influx of people from abroad between 2001 and 2011 dueto Labour’s disastrous migration policies.

The remaining 1.6 million was through birth rate rises andfalling deaths, the Office for National Statistics said.

But immigration is a key factor in rising birth rates too. Onein four babies now has a non-UK born mum.

England is the third most densely populated country in theEU after Malta and the Netherlands and has the fifth fastestgrowing population.

When figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland are added,the ONS estimates the UK’s population will be 63.1 million, fourmillion higher than ten years ago.

MigrationWatchUK’s Sir Andrew Green said: “The latest projections show immigration will account for two thirds of ourpopulation increase in the next 15 years. That is five millionpeople.”

But Institute for Public Policy Research director MattCavanagh played down the rise. He said: “The rate of increaseis above the EU average, slightly above France and Italy, buthalf that of Spain.

“Germany has a shrinking population, a cause for concern.”The ONS said a 400,000 rise in children under five was driv-

en by increases in women of child-bearing age as a result ofimmigration.

London was the city with the biggest rise, up 851,000, 12 percent, to 8.2million.

The census also underlines the ageing population. One insix are over 65, 430,000 are 90 plus.

Ban for Rooney’sbooze brother

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Britain‘s population has increased by 7.1 per cent to 56.1 million

TEXT messaging is now the most popular

form of daily communication between

British adults, new figures have shown.

After years of increased use, the amount

of time British adults spend speaking on a

mobile phone has dropped for the first time.

But the average Briton now sends 200 texts

a month, Ofcom’s Communications Market

Report found, more than double the figure of

four years ago.

Text messaging has overtaken speaking

on a mobile phone and face-to-face contact

as the most-used method of daily communi-

cation between friends and family. More than

half (58%) of UK adults use text messages at

least once a day to communicate with family

and friends. This is more than for face-to-face contact

(49%), speaking on a mobile phone (47%)

and social networking (33%).

UK HEADLINES

Airport alert overweapon of mass

conception...

Paige Wheeler isn’t your average 13-year-old girl. Her idea of a summer vaca-tion is going drag racing in the USAagainst 800 of America’s top junior com-petitors.

Paige is about to take part in the NHRAJunior Drag Racing League’s EasternConference Final, which happens in Bristol,Tennessee every summer. Attractingentrants aged 8 to 18 from right across theAmerican continent, the event is a hugechallenge compared to her usual huntinggrounds at the Santa Pod and ShakespeareCounty Raceways in the UK.

Paige races a Half Scale Dragster, capa-ble of 0-60mph in just 3 seconds. Each runlasts for an eight of a mile – instead of the

more familiar quarter – yet speeds still regu-larly top 80mph at the finish.

This despite power being provided by thedescendant of an engine that originated 20years ago in a lawn mower.

In Bristol, Paige will be battling not just theother competitors – many of whom raceevery weekend, compared to her every fewweeks – but also the weather, the racingconditions and her car. She’ll have to adapt,and adapt fast.

Tennessee in summer is fiercely hot, forexample, while even the famous drag racingstart line ‘Christmas Tree’ lighting system isdifferent in America – a significant issue in asport where reaction times are vital.

Making matters worse in this regard,

Paige won’t even be driving her usual car.Instead she’s borrowing a different HalfScale Dragster from the makers in NewJersey – creating yet another obstacle forher to overcome.

But Paige is one of Britain’s top youngdrag racers; having won the Junior Dragstertrophy at Santa Pod’s FIA European Finalsin her first full season, she currently liesfourth in this year’s UK national champi-onship. 2012 represents her second crack atthe Eastern Conference Finals.

Paige says: “I’m excited about going, butnot at all nervous. I did race at Bristol for thefirst time last year, and managed to win afew rounds, so I know what it will be like.”

The challenge is so tough, however, that

she and her support team – consisting ofparents Andy and Dionne, sister Belle andsponsors Alamo Rent A Car with Oakley,Lucas Oil and JEGS – will be treating everyrace where she crosses the line first as “ashining individual triumph in itself.”

Eventually Paige has ambitions tobecome a 250mph Pro Modified drag racer,once she graduates from the Juniors. Herinterest in the sport stems solely from a visitto Santa Pod four years ago, followed by aride in the track’s Junior Dragster shortlyafterwards.

But that’s not to say drag racing doesn’trun in the family – younger sister Belle isonly eight, but she now competes in the UKJuniors as well.

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13-year-old Brit girl takes on US drag racers

Jeremy Clarkson hasreportedly earned morethan £3 million over the pastyear from presenting TopGear – but, due to the waythe series is produced, themajority of his pay doesNOT come from the licencefee.

The Guardian todayreports that Clarkson is“easily the highest-paidBBC star” thanks to rocket-ing dividends from the com-mercial division of Top Gearthat retails DVDs and othermerchandise.

BBC Worldwide owns halfof the commercial divisionand has received a £4.5mdividend for 2011/12, latestfigures reveal.

Clarkson also owns 30%of this company, leading theGuardian to today estimatehe has received a £2.7mdividend (up from £1.8m lastyear).

On top of this, Clarksonreportedly receives around£500,000 from the licencefee which, with other pay-ments, takes his income upto around £3.5 million.

Although the sums arevast, Clarkson reportedlyworks hard for his money –it is his personality that hashelped drive Top Gear tosuch success.Furthermore, although theBBC pays a talent fee toClarkson, he is actuallyhelping return many times

this back to the corporation.This means the public

service broadcaster is profit-ing from Clarkson’s suc-cess. These are sure to bevery welcome returns at atime when cuts to thelicence fee are forcingspending reviews acrossthe board.

Now then, now then – who fancies biddingon a limited edition, low mileage Rolls-Royce previously owned by Sir JimmySavile? Or if that won’t fit in the garage, howabout his bright yellow BMW Isetta bubblecar?

Both are going to auction at the end of themonth as two of the star lots in a sale of noless than 550 items collected by the formerradio and television presenter during his 84-year life.

The Rolls-Royce is a 2002 Corniche,number of 46 of the 56 ‘Last of Line’ editionsthat commemorated the end of 56 years ofRolls-Royce construction at the factory inCrewe.

One of only nine such models built inright-hand drive, the Corniche has apparent-ly covered just 4,420 miles from new. It alsocomes complete with the JS 247 numberplate – 247 being the medium wave frequen-cy used by Radio 1 from 1967 to 1978.

It’s expected to fetch between £60,000and £90,000.

If that’s a little too rich for you, don’tdespair, as Sir Jimmy’s Isetta bubble car isestimated at a much reasonable £5,000-£8,000. But we wouldn’t be at all surprised ifit ends up going for more.

It turns out that someone had fixed it for

him (ahem), as although Sir Jimmy originallypurchased this Isetta 300 Plus back in 1965– when he was resident DJ at the NewElizabethan Ballroom in Manchester – it has“apparently” undergone a full body restora-tion.

What’s more, the Isetta’s passenger seathas played host to the Duke of Edinburgh –as Sir Jimmy is once said to have collected

the Queen’s husbandfrom Aylesbury train sta-tion in his yellow bubble.According to the auction-eers, “the Duke’s reactionwas not recorded.”

And if you’re wonderingabout the orange light onthe top, Sir Jimmy had itfitted to make the Isettamore visible, after thepair were nearly run

over by a truck. More recently the car hasbeen on display at the Bubble Car Museum.

The auction of Sir Jimmy Savile’s collect-ed memorabilia, including both cars, is tak-ing place in accordance with his wishes inorder to raise money for the Sir JimmySavile Charitable Trust.

Arranged by Dreweatts, the sale is set for30 July at Saviles Hall in Leeds. More details

of these and the other 548lots – cigars, male jew-

ellery, a diamondencrusted Rolex,

THAT chair, etc –can be found on

D r e w e a t t s ’website.


Now then, now then

Clarkson - highestpaid BBC star


Code Cracker is a crossword puzzle with no clues;instead, every letter of the alphabet has beenreplaced by a number, the same number representingthe same letter throughout the puzzle. All you have todo is decide which letter is represented by whichnumber. In this week’s puzzle, 18 represents D and 14represents S, when these letters have been enteredthroughout the puzzle, you should have enoughinformation to start guessing words and discoveringother letters.

CODE CRACKER

CRYTPIC CLUESAcross1 Mix less gas for bifocals(7)5 Linen rope? (5)8 Distinction shoulderedby an officer (7)9 Epic poem included inSwahili address (5)10 Dance with a doctor inSouth Africa (5)11 Help too difficult for anuisance on the road (7)12 Trader gives the price,but with some hesitation(6)14 The rest of shift is lotsof trees (6)17 Give a foolish archer aguinea and you willreceive a horse (7)19 Removes from officeand bags (5)22 Cut back dried fruit (5)23 Jets for little people(7)24 Start Ted Ray’s excit-ing new delivery style (5)25 A hat! Let it stand,boy! (7)

Down1 Imagine guests who’velost their shirt (5)2 Panic from BengalArmy’s ranks (5)3 Sal gave excited res-cue (7)4 Spit us out for a form ofexercise (3-3)5 Pious person isn’t aproblem (5)6 The record electric cur-rent, to me, is a primeexample (7)7 Its diet is erratic whenmost well-ordered (7)12 Driver’s compartmentis the scene of a fight (7)13 Surprisingly tautestact (7)15 So Bruce is, strangely,difficult to find (7)16 Constellation circlingedge of Sun emerges (6)18 Overeating from mea-gre edible bean (5)20 Moans about fishes(5)21 Girl states betweendirections (5)

Last weeks SolutionAcross: 1 Scar, 3 Portrays, 9 Etonian, 10 Barge, 11 Poems,12 Tuscan, 14 Spells, 16 Paella, 19 Curate, 21 Tipsy, 24Wring, 25 Igneous, 26 Sweetpea, 27 Loss. Down: 1 Steepest, 2 Abode, 4 Ornate, 5 Tubas, 6 Air mail,7 Stem, 8 Tinsel, 13 Calypsos, 15 Elusive, 17 Acting, 18Deride, 20 Argot, 22 Photo, 23 Owns.

DOUBLE CROSS-WORDSolve the Double Cross-Word puzzle using either the

standard or cryptic clues, the answers are exactly the same.

2 letter wordsDoTa

3 letter wordsDocEgoHutLieLipOneVatVow

4 letter wordsAditAuldCalkDossElanElbeEnvyHelaIdleIlea

KneeLieuParrPeltPlugPokyRustSackSagaScanSootSpanSparSpivSureTheeTileTrioTsarUlnaUrnsUser

5 letter words

AliasAudioAwareBeeryBogusBonesChapsChildEdictGladeHubbyInaneKopekLadleLeoneNerdsRadonSallySolarSoppySpendStateTepee

TogasValueVanesWagesWaive

6 letter wordsAtonesCaulksCensusGreensRetakeScouseSetteeStakes

8 letter wordsBearskinEntrails

9 letter wordsInsolubleValueless

FILL IT INComplete the crossword grid by using the given words:

Across 1 Parcel (6)4 Shriek (6)9 Arm muscles (7)10 Change (5)11 Shinbone (5)12 Severely simple (7)13 Former home ofBritish journalism (5,6)18 Baseball score (4,3)20 Bit (5)22 Soiled appearance (5)23 Scottish nationalemblem (7)24 Slacken (6)25 Harm (6)

Down 1 Dainty (6)2 Go up (5)3 Raise (7)5 Pandemonium (5)6 Outermost (7)7 Amalgamation (6)8 Murder of socially promi-nent person (11)14 Lower backache (7)15 Carbon copy (7)16 Carving tool (6)17 Remove (6)19 Scope (5)21 Minor actor (5)

QUICKIE

Last weeks SolutionAcross: 1 Mistake, 5 Rapid, 8 Imagine, 9 Girls, 10 Throb,11 Precise, 12 Lessen, 14 Bolted, 17 Breathe, 19 Tramp,22 Taint, 23 Edifice, 24 Relay, 25 Suspend. Down: 1 Moist, 2 Stair, 3 Amiable, 4 Exempt, 5 Rogue, 6Persist, 7 Descend, 12 Lobster, 13 Special, 15 Obtains, 16Recess, 18 Tatty, 20 Abide, 21 Plead.

Across 1 Centuries (6)4 Amarillo (6)9 Norwegian (7)10 Attractive (f) (5)11 Malvado (person,deed) (4)12 Cuero (curtida) (7)15 Lona (tejido) (6)16 To feel (blow, pain,heat) (6)19 Capitán (7)21 Perros (4)24 Monday (5)25 Corner (outer) (7)26 To scratch (makingsound) (6)27 Besos (6)

Down 1 Frase (oración) (8)2 Sparrow (7)3 Obedecer (person) (4)5 Dieciocho (8)6 Key (door, car etc) (5)7 Envolver (con papel oropa) (4)8 Young (not old) (5)13 Ghost (8)14 Cristales (8)17 Theories (7)18 Sidra (5)20 Asses (donkeys) (5)22 Flower (4)23 Here (in this place)(4)

SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORDImprove your Spanish - clues in Spanish, answers inEnglish or vice versa.

STANDARD CLUESAcross1 Drinking vessels (7)5 Bed linen (5)8 Shoulder piece (7)9 Epic poem (5)10 Brazilian dance (5)11 Explore natural caves(7)12 Seller of fruit (6)14 Woody ground (6)17 Warhorse (7)19 Fires (5)22 Dried plum (5)23 Throws out in a jet (7)24 Tendency (5)25 Cowboy hat (7)

Down1 Estimate (5)2 Fright (5)3 Save (7)4 Exercises (3-3)5 Holy man (5)6 Personification (7)7 Most neat (7)12 Pilot’s compartment (7)13 Written law (7)15 Indistinct (7)16 Gets up (6)18 Avarice (5)20 Types of freshwater fish(5)21 Girl’s name (5)

Scribble Pad

33Friday, July 20, 2012Across1 Hello Little Girl and A Little Loving were both British top 10

hit singles for which pop group? (8)7 Which hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and

either hematite or magnetite isused as an abrasive, especial-ly as a coating on paper? (5)8 What was the surname of

the author of the 17th centuryromance Don Quixote? (9)9 What is the SI unit of elec-

trical resistance, transmitting acurrent of one ampere whensubjected to a potential differ-ence of one volt? (3)10 The name of which aromat-ic plant is also used todescribe a profoundly wiseman? (4)11 What name is applied to an alternative route for use by traf-fic when the usual road is temporarily closed? (6)13/16 By what name was the nun and missionary AgnesGonxha Bojaxhiu better known? (6,6)14 What name is given to a short stretch of railway track usedto store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass?(6)17 Irish, red and Gordon are all types of which large, long-haired breed of dog? (6)18 Which 1975 Steven Spielberg film starring Robert Shaw,Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss, was based on a novel byPeter Benchley? (4)20 Coal, blue, great and marsh are all types of which smallsongbird? (3)22 What is the name of the sweet cordial made in France frompomegranates? (9)23 What was the surname of the Norwegian composer, con-

ductor and violinist whose best known works include the PianoConcerto in A minor and the incidental music to Ibsen’s playPeer Gynt? (5)24 Which German artist, a leader of the Dada movement,developed the techniques of collage, photomontage, and frot-

tage? (3,5)

Down1 Hocus Pocus and Sylvia were both British hit singles for

which Dutch instrumental group? (5)2 What type of piano has a

vertical sounding board? (7)3 Which alcoholic drink is

made of fermented honeyand water? (4)

4 Which long upholsteredseat for more than one per-son, typically has a back andarms? (6)

5 Which singing voicebetween baritone and alto isthe highest of the ordinaryadult male range? (5)6 Which state in the west central US was acquired as part of

the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and became the 44th state ofthe US in 1890? (7)7 Tallinn is the capital of which Baltic country on the south

coast of the Gulf of Finland? (7)12 What name is often given to a fund of money put by as areserve? (4,3)13 What is the name of the process or technique of selecting,editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to forma continuous whole? (7)15 Arrivederci means ‘goodbye’ in which language? (7)16 See 13 Across17 Gertrude who was the American author of TheAutobiography of Alice B Toklas, first published in 1933? (5)19 Which 70s glam-rock group consisted of Brian Connolly,Andy Scott, Steve Priest and Mick Tucker? (5)21 A leveret is the name given to the young of which animal?(4)

Quiz Word

Last weeks Quiz WordsolutionAcross: 1/9 Peter Shilton, 4 Sailor, 10 Scald, 11 Lisp, 12Terence, 13 SOS, 14 Ugly, 16 Aida, 18 Ton, 20 Average,21 Spit, 24 Imago, 25 Aquavit, 26 Graces, 27 Attic. Down: 1 Pestle, 2 Twigs, 3 Ruth, 5 Austrian, 6 Learned,7 Red Sea, 8 Knots, 13 Sycamore, 15 Grenada, 17Rating, 18 Texas, 19 Static, 22 Pivot, 23 Cuba.

SUDOKU SALLY’S SIMPLE SPANISH

Last Week’s Solutions

Code Cracker

Soduko Span - Eng Quizword Fill It In

1. Who Did Rafael Nadal Beat In The Final When HeBagged His First Ever Wimbledon Title?2. What Was Won In June 2002 By High Chaparral?3. True Or False Arsenal & England Goal Keeper DavidSeaman Wore The Same Pair Of Gloves For EveryInternational Game He Pl4. What Is The Maximum Score Possible In A Game OfTen Pin Bowling?5. From Which Country Do The Soccer TeamAnderlecht Hail?6. Which Former Heavy Weight Boxing Champion HasAn Identical Twin Brother Called George?7. In Billiards, How Many Points Are Awarded ForPotting The Red?8. Which tycoon failed to buy Manchester United in1998?9. What Title Provides The Nickname Of The BoxerNaseem Hamed?10. Which Spanish Club Has The Last Name OfDragons?11. Which English Rugby League Team Are Known AsThe Chemics?

ANSWERS1. Roger Federer 2. The Epsom Derby 3. False (New Pair

Every Game) 4. 300 Points 5. Belgium 6. Henry Cooper 7.Three 8. Rupert Murdoch 9. Prince 10. The BarcelonaDragons 11. Widnes

sports QUIZ

Match these words with their Spanish translations then find them in the wordsearch. (Answers below)

algo

alguien

algunos

aquel

aquellos

bastante

cada

esto

estos

mucho

nada

nadie

ningunos

otro

poco

todo

Empareja estas palabras – Match these Spanish and English words for word suffixes.You will find the answers at the bottom of the quiz.

1.alguien, 2.nadie, 3.algo,

4.nada, 5.todo, 6.poco,

7.mucho, 8.bastante,

9.otro, 10.cada,

11.algunos,

12.ningunos, 13.esto,

14.estos, 15.aquel,

16.aquellos.

a.nothing, b.those,

c.enough/quite, d.this,

e.something, f.that,

g.other, h.each,

i.everything, j.some,

k.no one, l.these,

m.a Little, n.none,

o.a lot,

p.anyone/someone

Answers:1p, 2k, 3e, 4a, 5i, 6m, 7o, 8c, 9g,10h, 11j, 12n, 13d, 14l, 15f, 16b.

Pronouns - pronombres

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qHoratio Caine and hissunglasses are back on

CSI Miami on Channel Five

can offer you a surprise. Takethe recent Monday nightwhen I landed on a showcalled Food Factory onBBC1. Presented by “foodie”Stefan Gates, we look at howfood is manufactured in abasic form with the help ofsome B-list celebrities in a lit-tle bit of a competition. It’senjoyable and very informa-tive, and in the last twoweeks I’ve learnt a lot aboutwheat biscuits and ice lollies.I know that I’m pretty late tothe party as this is the thirdseries, but better late thannever, and the show is wor-thy of a slot where it doesn‘thave to compete againstCoronation Street.

qSky One have spent lotsof money on their new

adventure series, Sinbad -and it looks great. The loca-tion shots in Malta are per-fect and they’ve cast a like-able new guy, Elliot Knight(fresh from drama school), in

the lead role. The script couldbe better, but it’s good pop-corn entertainment and awelcome change to all thegritty stuff we get with TVdrama these days.

qBig Brother couldn’teven manage one mil-

lion viewers for some of itsshows over the last week forChannel Five. I’m franklystunned beyond belief thatmany people back in Britainare still interested!

qI can’t wait for the finalepisode of Line of Duty

this Tuesday night on BBC2.Besides Lennie James beingfantastic in the lead role ofGates, it’s been fascinatingto see Neil Morrissey in arole light years away fromMen Behaving Badly, Boonand Bob the Builder! Couldn’the have fixed this to go outon BBC1 as opposed toBlackout?


I hold my head in shamefor two weeks on the trot asITV’s Superstar on ITV1 hasagain proved me wrong.

I thought the live showswouldn’t work with AmandaHolden hosting, but she’sbeen good, though I wonderwhat would happen if theautocue failed. Also, DawnFrench has been fun as ajudge with some decent com-ments, though I’d have likeda sharper commentator fromthe old BBC days of the for-mat, like John Barrowman orDenise Van Outen.

But it has been entertain-ing, though to have prime-time live shows running overvirtually nine successivenights has proved to beexcessive with us watchingthe same singers over andover again.

tomorrow night. I love hisone-liners, and especially hisregular closing sanctimo-nious claptrap as we fade toblack and the closing cap-tions. Sadly, it’s the lastseries after ten years, as theCBS Network chose to keepthe New York franchise goingas opposed to the moreexpensive Florida version. Ashame though, as I’ll missthe absolutely ridiculousstory lines with the great sun-shine shots.

The season opener is typi-cal, with a load of emotionalbunkum inspiring a woundedHoratio to help rescue atrapped colleague under thewater. Just enjoy it with asnigger and a glass of wine.

qSome of the loopy CSIMiami plots would pale

into insignificance comparedto the BBC1 mini-series,Blackout, which finished onMonday. It may have onlybeen three episodes long,but it was as if they were try-

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ing to cram a dozen instal-ments into 360 minutes, witha story that went way beyondany credibility.

After a decent openinghour, the rest of it went out ofcontrol, with the usual clichésof a grim northern city; cor-rupt councillors; a drunk guywho’s elected Mayor literallyovernight; suspicious cops,etc, etc.

It was a waste of a goodcast, and a surprisingly mud-dled effort from RedProductions, who normallydeliver excellent television.

qI love a good TV mys-tery, so can anybody

please tell me what’s hap-pened to the primetimerepeats on BBC1 of Call theMidwife, which disappeareda month ago, halfwaythrough the series? Somekind of mention of their fatewould have been nice.

qI don’t do that muchchannel-hopping these

days, but once in a while it

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Horoscopes By Pandora

Aries March 21 - April 19 Geeks and nerds - one big smelly

bunch of cyber-crimes waiting to happen.And you're next on their list. You will feelan overwhelming desire to kiss everyonein sight today. You must decide how tocontinue. Whilst we are not all superhu-man, some of us are at least able to go tosleep without peeing ourselves in thenight.

Taurus April 20 - May 20 Remember, it's unfair to expect your

friends and family to provide you with ali-bis. Many of your emotions have beenplagiarised by others who have no ideahow you feel. NO IDEA I TELLS YA! Ahairy back may trouble you this week,especially if it's not your hairy back that'sin question.

Gemini May 21 - June 20You are not a sham, nor are you a

mockery. You are you. Lots of love. Pah!Happiness? The Gods know not of thisword and you will pay for your insubordi-nation. You're doing really well, keep it up!Your tendancies may land you in troubletoday. Speeling mestakes are'nt god.

Cancer June 21 - July 22You can't go wrong today - everything

is set up for brilliance. If some things startto appear impossible, it may be time toinvent robots. Speaking of which - you dolook amazing today! When faced with alifetime of trauma, please remember whatyour mother always told you. Everythingwill suddenly sound good to you today.

Leo July 23 - August 22The accuracy of any horoscope today

will be directly related to the number ofthings you do today. A skydiving accidentmay befall you if you go skydiving.Alternatively, it may not. The chances arethat staying at home and doing the samethings as every other day will not harmyour chances of having a good day.

The future holds much joy and happi-ness for someone close to you. But notyou. Oh no, you're screwed. A tasty bev-erage will be coming your way today -something to look forward to. In othercountries, how you'll feel about this after-noon could get you arrested and shot... atdawn, without a blindfold, and with astinging sensation in the groin.

Libra September 23 - October 22Everything you've ever felt about any-

thing will be tested today during sometroubling moment in which you'll learnsomething about anything or everything.In all my time I've never had anyone likeyou reading my horoscopes - you arebedevilled, a hustler of reputation. Youare not wanted here.

Scorpio October 23 - November 21Any film you watch over the coming

weekend will stay with you forever. Pleaseensure the film is not Tomb Raider. Thethought of you losing your mind is makingyou lose your mind. If you ever get out ofthat hole, the chances are that you're stillgoing to be a neurotic plague of badness.

Sagittarius November 22 - December 21Today's mishaps will come in the shape

of a toad, whilst salvation will come in theshape of a large truck. There's a future intoad-jam, by the way, if you're at all inter-ested. It tastes lousy but makes a reallygood insect repellent. This horoscopedoes not afftect your statutory rights. Youwill win large compensation in a court casethis month.

Capricorn December 22 - January 19Knowing your hand span may become

useful over the coming days, althoughthe mystics will not give me any informa-tion as to how or why. To avoid embar-rassment, please avoid wearing under-wear on incorrect areas of the body. Walkwithout shoes for a day and you will soonunderstand the nature of the soul.Geddit!

Aquarius January 20 - February 18This week will go well, except for the

bits that don't. And not only will those bitsgo badly, but they'll go BADLY. You haveachieved what most of us only dreamabout - you are a star. As accurate as theweather report might be, you must becareful to avoid the 3011 bus. Good for-tune is raining down on everyone butyourself today.

Pisces February 19 - March 20

People will today start to resent yourannoying habit of repeating the last funnything said and then laughing. Tensionscould rise over coming days when some-one close to you opens your mail and thenputs it in a drawer without telling you. "ForTopical Application Only" - words whichmight cause you grave concern over thecoming days

Virgo August 23 - September 22

Superstar puts me to super shame!

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The Courier Friday TV July 20

00:45 This Week01:30 Holiday Weatherview01:35 Panorama02:05 Countryfile03:05 Antiques Roadshow04:05 Great British Menu05:05 Newsday05:30 HARDtalk06:00 BBC News06:30 World Business Report06:45 BBC News07:00 Breakfast10:15 Heir Hunters11:00 Homes Under the Hammer11:58 BBC News; Weather12:00 Cowboy Trap12:45 You've Been Scammed13:13 BBC News; Weather13:15 Bargain Hunt14:00 BBC News; Weather14:30 Regional News and Weather14:45 Doctors15:15 Escape to the Country16:00 Flog It!16:45 Match of the Day Live19:00 BBC News19:30 Regional News Programmes20:00 The One Show20:30 Match of the Day Live23:00 BBC News23:25 Regional News and Weather23:35 Michael McIntyre's ComedyRoadshow

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00:05 Meridian Tonight andWeather00:10 Piers Morgan's Life Stories01:05 Jackpot24701:05 ITV News Headlines04:00 Golden Balls04:50 ITV Nightscreen05:35 The Jeremy Kyle Show06:30 ITV Morning News07:00 Daybreak09:30 Lorraine10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show11:30 This Morning13:30 Let's Do Lunch with Gino &Mel14:30 ITV News and Weather14:55 Meridian News and Weather15:00 Drive to Buy16:00 Secret Dealers16:59 Meridian Weather17:00 A Touch of Frost18:00 Tipping Point19:00 Meridian Tonight19:30 ITV News and Weather20:00 Emmerdale20:30 Coronation Street21:00 Britain's Secret Treasures21:30 Coronation Street22:00 Superstar23:30 ITV News and Weather

00:05 Gordon Behind Bars01:05 Random Acts01:10 Undercover Boss02:10 Show Me Your Money03:10 Dispatches03:40 Time Team04:35 Ancient Egyptians05:30 Deal or No Deal06:25 Countdown07:10 Sali Mali07:15 The Hoobs07:40 The Hoobs08:05 Freshly Squeezed08:30 According to Jim08:55 Everybody Loves Raymond09:30 Frasier10:00 The Secret Millionaire USA11:00 Relocation, Relocation12:00 You Deserve This House13:00 Channel 4 News MiddaySummary13:05 Channel 4 Presents13:10 Jamie's 30 Minute Meals13:40 Gok Cooks Chinese14:10 Heaven Knows, Mr Allison16:10 Countdown17:00 Deal or No Deal18:00 Four in a Bed18:30 Come Dine with Me19:00 The Simpsons19:30 Hollyoaks20:00 Channel 4 News20:55 4thought.tv21:00 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent22:00 The Million Pound Drop Live23:35 The Angelos EpithemiouShow

00:00 Big Brother's Bit on the Side01:00 SuperCasino04:55 Nick's Quest05:20 Wildlife SOS05:45 Wildlife SOS06:10 House Doctor06:35 House Doctor07:00 Thomas & Friends07:10 The WotWots07:20 City of Friends07:35 Jelly Jamm07:45 Peppa Pig07:50 Castle Farm07:55 Little Princess08:10 Ben and Holly's LittleKingdom08:20 The Mr Men Show08:35 Thomas & Friends08:45 Make Way for Noddy09:00 Fifi and the Flowertots09:15 Peppa Pig09:25 Peppa Pig09:30 Roary the Racing Car09:45 Bananas in Pyjamas10:00 Igam Ogam10:15 The Wright Stuff12:10 Eddie Stobart: Trucks andTrailers13:10 5 News Lunchtime13:15 Big Brother14:15 Home and Away14:45 Neighbours15:15 NCIS16:20 McBride: Anybody HereMurder Marty?18:00 5 News at 518:30 Neighbours19:00 Home and Away19:30 5 News at 6.3020:00 Cricket on 521:00 Ice Road Truckers: DeadliestRoads22:00 Big Brother23:00 The Bachelor

PHIL SPENCER:SECRET AGENT

The expert embarks on another mission to help getBritain's property market moving again. Phil has oneweek to find buyers for a pair of pricey properties inGlasgow's suburbs. In Giffnock, he meets Dougie,whose three-bedroom home has one of Scotland'sbest state schools on its doorstep, while inUddingston, Pamela and Ian's five-bedroom cottage isstruggling to stand out.

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The Courier Saturday TV July 21

00:20 The National Lottery FridayNight Draws00:30 White Van Man01:00 EastEnders02:25 Weatherview02:30 Britain's Lost Routes with GriffRhys Jones03:30 Hairy Bikers' Best of British04:15 Great British Menu05:15 BBC News05:30 On the Road With06:00 BBC News06:30 Our World07:00 Breakfast11:00 Live Golf: The OpenChampionship13:00 BBC News; Regional Newsand Weather13:10 Live Golf: The OpenChampionship19:10 BBC News; Regional Newsand Weather19:30 Indiana Jones and the LastCrusade21:25 The National Lottery: SecretFortune22:20 Casualty23:10 BBC News; Weather23:30 Mrs Brown's Boys

00:00 The Review Show00:45 Weather00:50 Jindabyne02:45 Click03:00 BBC News03:30 The Record Review04:00 BBC News04:30 Click04:45 Newswatch

05:00 BBC News05:15 Close07:00 The Pingu Show07:10 Zigby07:25 Timmy Time07:35 Dirtgirlworld07:45 Rastamouse08:00 Barney's Barrier Reef08:30 Project Parent09:00 The Scooby-Doo Show09:20 Dennis and Gnasher09:30 The Slammer10:00 Blue Peter10:30 Incredible Edibles11:00 My Genius Idea11:30 Splatalot12:00 Copycats12:30 OOglies12:35 Diddy Movies12:45 MOTD Kickabout13:05 Jubal14:45 Show Me the Monet15:30 Racing from Ascot18:00 Formula One19:10 Live Golf: The OpenChampionship21:00 The Hollow Crown23:15 QI23:45 TOTP2

00:00 Big Brother's Bit on the Side01:00 SuperCasino04:55 Motorsport Mundial05:20 Wildlife SOS05:45 Wildlife SOS06:10 House Doctor06:35 House Doctor07:00 Peppa Pig07:05 Roary the Racing Car07:15 Fifi and the Flowertots07:25 City of Friends07:35 Harry and His Bucket Full ofDinosaurs07:50 Abby's Flying Fairy School08:00 Roobarb and Custard Too08:05 Bananas in Pyjamas08:20 Family!08:30 Noddy in Toyland08:45 Bert and Ernie's GreatAdventures08:55 Little Princess09:10 The Adventures of Bottle TopBill and His Best Friend Corky09:30 Angelina Ballerina09:45 Rupert Bear10:00 Ben and Holly's LittleKingdom10:15 The Mr Men Show10:30 Roary the Racing Car10:45 Jelly Jamm11:00 Zoo Days11:05 How Do They Do It?11:35 Big Brother12:35 Police Academy 4: Citizenson Patrol14:20 Adventures in Babysitting16:15 Fly Away Home18:20 Stone Cold20:00 Cricket on 521:00 5 News Weekend21:05 NCIS22:10 Big Brother23:10 CSI: Miami

00:05 Meridian Tonight andWeather00:10 City Slickers02:10 ITV News Headlines03:45 Eyes Wide Shut06:15 ITV Nightscreen06:30 ITV Morning News07:00 Mini CITV08:25 CITV09:25 Saturday Cookbook10:25 ITV News10:30 The Jeremy Kyle ShowUSA11:25 The Jeremy Kyle ShowUSA12:20 The Real Housewives ofNew York City13:15 ITV News and Weather13:24 Meridian Weather13:25 Escape to Victory15:35 The Man with the GoldenGun18:00 Meridian News andWeather18:10 ITV News and Weather18:25 Primeval19:30 You've Been Framed!20:30 The Cube21:35 TV's Biggest Blockbusters23:30 ITV News and Weather23:44 Meridian Weather23:45 Mad Mad World

00:10 A Short History of EverythingElse00:40 New Girl01:10 Random Acts01:15 The Family Stone03:00 Mesh03:05 My Name Is Earl03:30 My Name Is Earl03:50 The Million Pound Drop Live05:15 Love Tube05:20 Deal or No Deal06:15 Countdown07:00 Channel 4 Presents07:05 Sali Mali07:10 The Hoobs07:35 That Paralympic Show08:00 British Formula FordChampionship08:25 The Grid08:55 The Morning Line09:55 Ibiza Rocks10:10 The Dark Knight Rises: T4Movie Special10:40 New Girl11:15 Revenge12:15 Suburgatory12:45 Summer Daze13:20 The Big Bang Theory13:55 The Big Bang Theory14:20 The Simpsons14:55 Channel 4 Racing16:55 Channel 4 Presents17:00 Come Dine with Me19:35 Channel 4 News20:05 4thought.tv20:10 The Million Pound Drop Live22:00 Date Night23:45 Another 48 HRS

DATE NIGHTComedy starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell. Marriedcouple Phil and Claire Foster plan a visit to a swankyManhattan restaurant, but on arrival discover it is fullybooked. In a desperate effort to get a table they claimto be the Tripplehorns, a couple who haven't taken uptheir reservation. But the no-show diners have someshady acquaintances and Phil and Claire's little decep-tion leads to a night of mayhem.

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The Courier Sunday TV July 22

07:00 The Pingu Show07:10 Zigby07:25 Timmy Time07:35 Dirtgirlworld07:45 Rastamouse08:00 Barney's Barrier Reef08:30 Scoop08:55 The Scooby-Doo Show09:15 Dennis and Gnasher09:30 Wingin' It09:50 Shaun the Sheep10:00 Friday Download11:00 Raymond Blanc: The VeryHungry Frenchman12:00 Live Golf: The OpenChampionship13:35 Jack15:25 Show Me the Monet16:10 Escape to the Country16:55 Flog It!17:55 Songs of Praise18:30 Formula One20:00 Secrets of Our Living Planet21:00 Engineering Giants22:00 World's Most Dangerous Roads23:00 Mock the Week - Again23:30 Line of Duty

00:30 Take Me Out01:35 ITV News Headlines03:40 In Plain Sight04:25 ITV Nightscreen06:30 ITV Morning News07:00 Mini CITV08:25 CITV09:25 Dinner Date10:25 ITV News10:30 House Gift11:25 There's No Taste Like Home12:25 The Hungry Sailors13:25 ITV News and Weather13:34 Meridian Weather13:35 Dickinson's Real Deal14:35 Murder, She Wrote15:35 TV's Biggest Blockbusters17:25 Doc Martin18:25 The Chase19:25 Meridian News and Weather19:40 ITV News and Weather20:00 Britain's Secret Treasures21:00 Dancing on Ice Goes Gold23:00 ITV News at Ten and Weather23:19 Meridian Weather23:20 Bomber Command

01:40 The Million Pound Drop Live03:15 Gentlemen Broncos04:45 St Elsewhere05:35 Deal or No Deal06:30 Countdown07:00 The Treacle People07:05 Ironman Triathlon07:15 Ironman Triathlon07:40 Triathlon08:05 The Great Swim Series09:00 Will & Grace09:25 Will & Grace09:55 Frasier10:25 Frasier11:00 Sunday Brunch13:30 Jamie Does14:35 How to Cook Like Heston15:05 The Big Bang Theory15:30 The Big Bang Theory16:00 The Simpsons16:35 The Simpsons17:05 Deal or No Deal18:05 Channel 4 Presents18:10 Channel 4 News18:40 4thought.tv18:45 Percy Jackson & theLightning Thief21:00 Come Dine with Me22:00 Thelma's Gypsy Girls23:00 Role Models

00:05 CSI: Crime SceneInvestigation01:05 SuperCasino05:00 HouseBusters05:25 Great Scientists05:50 County Secrets06:00 Hana's Helpline06:10 The Milkshake! Show06:35 Thomas & Friends06:45 Roary the Racing Car07:00 Peppa Pig07:05 Roary the Racing Car07:15 Fifi and the Flowertots07:25 City of Friends07:35 Harry and His Bucket Full ofDinosaurs07:50 Castle Farm07:55 Abby's Flying Fairy School08:05 Roobarb and Custard Too08:10 Bananas in Pyjamas08:25 Family!08:35 Noddy in Toyland08:50 Bert and Ernie's GreatAdventures08:55 Little Princess09:05 The Adventures of Bottle TopBill and His Best Friend Corky09:20 Angelina Ballerina09:40 Rupert Bear09:55 Ben and Holly's LittleKingdom10:10 The Mr Men Show10:25 Roary the Racing Car10:40 Jelly Jamm11:00 Monkey Life11:25 The Hotel Inspector12:25 Big Brother13:25 Krull15:55 Clash of the Titans18:15 Pocahontas19:55 5 News Weekend20:00 Cricket on 521:00 Once Upon a Time22:00 Big Brother23:00 Blood Work

00:00 Live at the Apollo00:45 Grosse Pointe Blank02:25 Weatherview02:30 Faster, Higher, Stronger03:30 Usain Bolt: The Fastest ManAlive04:30 Our World05:00 BBC News05:30 Click06:00 BBC News06:30 British Olympic Dreams07:00 Breakfast10:00 The Andrew Marr Show11:00 Sunday Morning Live12:00 Country Tracks13:00 BBC News13:05 Bargain Hunt13:35 Live Golf: The OpenChampionship20:00 BBC News; Regional Newsand Weather20:15 Countryfile21:10 Casualty22:00 Wallander23:30 BBC News; Regional Newsand Weather23:55 John Bishop's Britain

00:45 Kicks02:05 BBC News02:30 The Bottom Line03:00 BBC News03:30 Dateline London04:00 BBC News04:30 Our World04:35 Close

DANCING ON ICEGOES GOLD

Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley present a one-off special in which Olympic medallists hope to demon-strate their ice-skating skills and impress the panel ofjudges, as well as viewers at home. Robin Cousins,Katarina Witt and Louie Spence reunite to deliver theirverdicts on the routines as Colin Jackson, Olga Korbut,Tessa Sanderson, Pippa Wilson, Jamie Baulch, SteveWilliams and Gail Emms take to the rink with profes-sional partners, putting weeks of training with JayneTorvill and Christopher Dean into practice.

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The Courier Monday TV July 23

00:40 Formula One02:10 Weatherview02:15 Faster, Higher, Stronger03:15 Holby City04:15 Britain's Lost Routes with GriffRhys Jones05:15 BBC World News05:30 HARDtalk06:00 BBC News06:30 World Business Report06:45 BBC News07:00 Breakfast10:15 Heir Hunters11:00 Homes Under the Hammer11:58 BBC News; Weather12:00 Cowboy Trap12:45 You've Been Scammed13:13 BBC News; Weather13:15 Bargain Hunt14:00 BBC News; Weather14:30 Regional News and Weather14:45 Doctors15:15 Escape to the Country16:00 BBC News; Weather;Regional News16:05 Deadly 6016:35 Prank Patrol Down Under17:00 Copycats17:30 Roy18:00 Newsround18:15 Pointless19:00 BBC News19:30 Weather20:00 The One Show20:30 Food Factory21:00 EastEnders21:30 A Question of Sport22:00 EastEnders22:30 Absolutely Fabulous23:00 BBC News23:25 Regional News and Weather23:35 Tom Daley: Diving for Britain

00:30 Twenty Twelve01:00 Sparkle02:40 British Olympic Dreams03:00 BBC World News03:30 Asia Business Report03:45 Sport Today04:00 BBC World News04:30 Asia Business Report04:45 Sport Today05:00 BBC World News05:15 Close07:00 The Pingu Show

07:10 Zigby07:25 Timmy Time07:35 Dirtgirlworld07:50 Rastamouse08:00 Deadly Top 1008:30 Shaun the SheepChampionsheeps08:55 League of Super Evil09:05 Frankenstein's Cat09:15 Pet Squad09:30 Nina and the Neurons GoInventing09:45 Big & Small10:00 Tinga Tinga Tales10:10 Little Charley Bear10:20 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion10:30 Bob the Builder: Project BuildIt10:45 The Koala Brothers10:55 Lunar Jim11:05 Kerwhizz11:30 Driver Dan's Story Train11:40 Waybuloo12:00 In the Night Garden12:30 Animal Park13:00 The Saint in London14:10 The Saint in Palm Springs15:15 Weakest Link16:00 Show Me the Monet16:45 The Hairy Bikers' Food Tourof Britain17:30 Flog It!18:15 Antiques Road Trip19:00 Eggheads19:30 Great British RailwayJourneys20:00 Coast21:00 University Challenge21:30 The Hairy Bakers22:00 Horizon23:00 QI23:30 Weather

00:15 Premiership Rugby SevensSeries01:15 ITV News Headlines03:15 Golden Balls04:05 Motorsport UK04:55 ITV Nightscreen06:30 ITV Morning News07:00 Daybreak09:30 Lorraine10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show11:30 This Morning13:30 Let's Do Lunch with Gino &Mel14:30 ITV News and Weather14:55 Meridian News and Weather15:00 Drive to Buy16:00 Secret Dealers16:59 Meridian Weather17:00 A Touch of Frost18:00 Tipping Point19:00 Meridian Tonight19:30 ITV News and Weather20:00 Emmerdale20:30 Coronation Street21:00 Countrywise21:30 Coronation Street22:00 Superstar23:15 ITV News and Weather23:45 Meridian Tonight andWeather23:50 Real Crime

01:00 World's Fastest Train02:00 SuperCasino05:05 Sons of Anarchy05:50 County Secrets06:00 Hana's Helpline06:10 The Milkshake! Show06:35 Thomas & Friends06:45 Roary the Racing Car07:00 Thomas & Friends07:10 The WotWots07:20 City of Friends07:35 Jelly Jamm07:45 Peppa Pig07:50 Castle Farm08:00 Little Princess08:10 Ben and Holly's LittleKingdom08:20 The Mr Men Show08:35 Thomas & Friends08:45 Make Way for Noddy09:00 Fifi and the Flowertots09:10 Bert and Ernie's GreatAdventures09:15 Peppa Pig09:20 Peppa Pig09:25 Peppa Pig09:30 Roary the Racing Car09:45 Bananas in Pyjamas09:55 Milkshake! Monkey10:00 Igam Ogam10:15 The Wright Stuff12:10 Eddie Stobart: Trucks andTrailers13:10 5 News Lunchtime13:15 Big Brother14:15 Home and Away14:45 Neighbours15:15 The Mentalist16:15 Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter18:00 5 News at 518:30 Neighbours19:00 Home and Away19:30 5 News at 6.3020:00 Cricket on 521:00 Megastructures22:00 Big Brother23:00 The Walking Dead23:55 The Woods

00:55 Internal Affairs03:00 A Family Portrait03:05 Camelot04:00 Hollyoaks06:10 Channel 4 Presents06:15 Deal or No Deal07:10 Channel 4 Presents07:15 The Hoobs07:40 The Hoobs08:05 Freshly Squeezed08:30 According to Jim08:55 Will & Grace09:30 Everybody Loves Raymond09:55 Frasier10:25 Come Dine with Me13:00 Channel 4 News MiddaySummary13:05 A Place in the Sun14:05 Gok Cooks Chinese14:35 River Cottage Bites14:40 Thunder over Arizona16:10 Countdown17:00 Deal or No Deal18:00 Four in a Bed18:30 Come Dine with Me19:00 The Simpsons19:30 Hollyoaks20:00 Channel 4 News20:25 Can You Trust Your Bank?Jon Snow Presents20:55 4thought.tv21:00 Location, Location, Location22:00 Undercover Boss23:00 Ruby Wax's MadConfessions

UNDERCOVERBOSS

Jacqui McIntosh, a former hairdresser who now man-ages a chain of salons, tries to discover if her businessis ready to expand by secretly visiting some of itsbranches. She is taken aback when staff who don't feeltrained to cut Afro-Caribbean hair turn her away, andencounters worrying attitudes among some workers -but is also inspired by a gifted young stylist and a fran-chise owner who is passionate about creating wigs for

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00:25 Who Do You Think You Are?US01:10 Women of Valor02:50 Weatherview02:55 Faster, Higher, Stronger03:55 Victoria Pendleton: Cycling'sGolden Girl04:55 Britain's Heritage Heroes05:25 BBC World News05:30 HARDtalk06:00 BBC News06:30 World Business Report06:45 BBC News07:00 Breakfast10:15 Heir Hunters11:00 Homes Under the Hammer11:58 BBC News; Weather12:00 Cowboy Trap12:45 You've Been Scammed13:13 BBC News; Weather13:15 Bargain Hunt14:00 BBC News; Weather14:30 Regional News and Weather14:45 Doctors15:15 Escape to the Country16:00 BBC News; Weather;Regional News16:05 Deadly 6016:35 Prank Patrol Down Under17:00 Copycats17:30 Serious Explorers:Livingstone18:00 Newsround18:15 Pointless19:00 BBC News19:30 Regional News Programmes20:00 The One Show20:30 EastEnders21:00 Holby City22:00 Turn Back Time - The Family23:00 BBC News23:25 Regional News and Weather23:35 Imagine

00:20 World's Most DangerousRoads01:20 BBC News01:30 HARDtalk02:00 Newsday02:30 Asia Business Report02:45 Sport Today03:00 BBC World News03:30 Asia Business Report03:45 Sport Today04:00 BBC World News04:30 Asia Business Report04:45 Sport Today

05:00 BBC World News05:25 The Super League Show06:10 Close07:00 The Pingu Show07:10 Zigby07:25 Timmy Time07:35 Dirtgirlworld07:50 Rastamouse08:00 Deadly Top 1008:30 Shaun the SheepChampionsheeps08:55 League of Super Evil09:05 Frankenstein's Cat09:15 Pet Squad09:30 Nina and the Neurons GoInventing09:45 Big & Small10:00 Tinga Tinga Tales10:10 Little Charley Bear10:20 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion10:30 Bob the Builder: Project BuildIt10:45 The Koala Brothers10:55 Lunar Jim11:05 Kerwhizz11:30 Driver Dan's Story Train11:40 Waybuloo12:00 In the Night Garden12:30 Animal Park13:00 The Saint in New York14:05 The Saint Meets the Tiger15:15 Weakest Link16:00 Show Me the Monet16:45 The Hairy Bikers' Food Tourof Britain17:30 Flog It!18:15 Antiques Road Trip19:00 Eggheads19:30 Great British RailwayJourneys20:00 Coast21:00 The Hairy Bikers: MumsKnow Best22:00 Line of Duty

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A LITTLE BIT OCD

For years, comedian Jon Richardson has been drivenby a quest for perfection, which has dictated every-thing from his eating habits to his ability to go ondates. People have said he has OCD, but he is not sosure. Here he gains an insight into the world of obses-sive compulsive disorders, talking to some of the mil-lions of sufferers in the UK and staff who treat patientswith the most extreme form. He also chats about hisown condition and meets one of the country's leadingexperts to find out once and for all whether he is sim-ply a demanding perfectionist or if he has OCD.

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Maroon 5 - One More NightThis is the secondsingle from theband’s new album“Overexposed”. Thissingle follows the

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00:50 An Unfinished Life02:35 Weatherview02:40 Faster, Higher, Stronger03:40 The Culture Show04:40 The Men Who Made Us Fat05:40 HARDtalk06:00 BBC News06:30 World Business Report06:45 BBC News07:00 Breakfast10:15 Heir Hunters11:00 Homes Under the Hammer11:58 BBC News; Weather12:00 Cowboy Trap12:45 You've Been Scammed13:13 BBC News; Weather13:15 Bargain Hunt14:00 BBC News; Weather14:30 Regional News and Weather14:45 Doctors15:15 Escape to the Country16:00 World Olympic Dreams16:30 Olympics 201219:00 BBC News19:30 Weather19:30 Regional News Programmes20:00 The One Show20:30 Britain's Olympic Torch Story21:00 EastEnders21:30 Bert and Dickie23:00 BBC News23:25 Regional News and Weather23:35 The National LotteryWednesday Night Draws23:45 Have I Got Old News for You

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00:00 Big Brother's Bit on the Side01:00 Banged Up Abroad02:00 SuperCasino04:55 Nick's Quest05:20 Michaela's Wild Challenge05:45 Michaela's Wild Challenge06:10 House Doctor06:35 House Doctor07:00 Thomas & Friends07:10 The WotWots07:20 City of Friends07:35 Jelly Jamm07:45 Peppa Pig07:50 Castle Farm08:00 Little Princess08:10 Ben and Holly's LittleKingdom08:20 The Mr Men Show08:35 Thomas & Friends08:45 Make Way for Noddy09:00 Fifi and the Flowertots09:10 Bert and Ernie's GreatAdventures09:15 Peppa Pig09:20 Peppa Pig09:25 Peppa Pig09:30 Roary the Racing Car09:45 Bananas in Pyjamas09:55 Milkshake! Monkey10:00 Igam Ogam10:15 The Wright Stuff12:10 Ultimate Police Interceptors13:10 5 News Lunchtime13:15 Big Brother14:15 Home and Away14:45 Neighbours15:15 The Mentalist16:15 Ties That Bind18:00 5 News at 518:30 Neighbours19:00 Home and Away19:30 5 News at 6.3020:00 Ice Road Truckers: DeadliestRoads21:00 Britain's Strangest Pets22:00 NCIS23:00 Big Brother

WORLD’S MADDEST JOB

INTERVIEWEight volunteers, some of whom have significant psy-chological disorders, face a series of tests to assesstheir abilities in fields including leadership and team-work. Business experts Claude Littner, Elaine Holtand Austin Gayer monitor their performance to deter-mine how employable they are, but are not aware oftheir personal histories - and must therefore judgethem solely on their results.

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00:00 Big Brother's Bit on the Side01:00 Poker: The Big Game02:00 SuperCasino04:55 Nick's Quest05:20 Michaela's Wild Challenge05:45 Michaela's Wild Challenge06:10 House Doctor06:35 House Doctor07:00 Thomas & Friends07:10 The WotWots07:20 City of Friends07:35 Jelly Jamm07:45 Peppa Pig07:50 Castle Farm08:00 Little Princess08:10 Ben and Holly's LittleKingdom08:20 The Mr Men Show08:35 Thomas & Friends08:45 Make Way for Noddy09:00 Fifi and the Flowertots09:15 Peppa Pig09:20 Peppa Pig09:30 Roary the Racing Car09:45 Bananas in Pyjamas09:55 Milkshake! Monkey10:00 Igam Ogam10:15 The Wright Stuff12:10 Ultimate Police Interceptors13:10 5 News Lunchtime13:15 Big Brother14:15 Home and Away14:45 Neighbours15:15 The Mentalist16:15 Chinese Food in Minutes16:20 A Stranger's Heart18:00 5 News at 518:30 Neighbours19:00 Home and Away19:30 5 News at 6.3020:00 Half Built House21:00 Born to Kill22:00 The Hotel Inspector23:00 Big Brother

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BORN TO KILL

New series. Psychologists and criminology expertsanalyse the personalities of some of the world's mostinfamous murderers, beginning with serial killer FredWest, who was charged with 12 murders in 1994 afterpolice discovered the remains of nine bodies at hishome in Gloucester. Though he committed suicidebefore he could be tried for the crimes, his wifeRosemary was convicted of killing 10 women and girlsin November 1995


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Greenside GossipIVIE DAVIES takes a weekly look at the golf scene - [email protected]

An American making his first visit to Scotland to play StAndrews booked his tee time and a caddie for the follow-ing day.The day came and it was pouring down, windy and therain was like stair rods. His caddie was one of the oldschool, a Scot who had been doing the job for years.Off they went and the American had with him a bottle ofMalt whisky. After every shot he had a swig - not offeringany to his long-serving caddie.The rain lashed and the wind blew and by the time theygot to the 18th they were saturated to the bone.The soaked American muttered: : “For goodness sake, isthere not a dry spot on the goddam course!”The caddie replied in his broad Scots accent: “Aye lad,the back o’ me throat”

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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEKIT is said in parts of Africa that a man does not know hiswife until he marries her. This is also true in Europe, andin Asia, and in America, and in Torrevieja….

He had wit and grit, butFlit’s golf was pure sh**

IT’S the 141st OpenChampionship weekend andalready Tiger is on the moaningprowl. He believes the RoyalLytham rough is the toughest hehas ever faced...

"It's just that you can't get out ofit. That bottom six inches, in someplaces is almost unplayable," hesaid."I've never seen the rough thishigh or thick and dense."

Does he realise that this is aLinks course basically as nature intended and not one of theAmerican tricked-up courses?

But there are golfers who would relish the idea of playingon a Links course and in particular The Open. One suchhopeful was Maurice Flitcroft, who dreamed of playing in thecoveted tournament.

When Flitcroft and his wife Jean acquired their first colourTV in 1974, he was immediately transfixed by the gentleswings of the players and the little white balls that plopped sosoftly onto the green.

It all looked so effortless: a painless route to fame and for-tune. So, buoyed by dreams of becoming the next JackNicklaus, Flitcroft sent off for a mail-order set of clubs andballs. There was no time to waste. When the balls arrived aweek ahead of the clubs, he turned his mother-in-law’s walk-ing stick upside-down to practise putting into coffee cups.

Two years later, in 1976, a brand-new ‘champion’ gatecrashed his way into the annals of British golf. For MauriceGerald Flitcroft - otherwise employed as a crane driver atVickers shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness - became worldrenowned by clocking up the highest ever score in the 116-

year history of the Open. When he strode towards the first tee on an unseasonably

hot English morning to begin his qualifying round for the 1976title, few of the dozen or so spectators politely applauding thestrangely-attired man believed they were about to witnesshistory.

After all, the supposedly professional golfer -- sportingplastic shoes, a fishing hat, false teeth and a set of cheapmail-order clubs -- hardly looked like a world-beater.

Afterwards, upon being informed of this feat, his ageingmother asked: ‘Does that mean he’s won?’ A reporter gentlyexplained that the whole point of the game is to achieve a lowscore. ‘Ah well, they all have to start somewhere,’ said MrsFlitcroft.

In retrospect, Flitcroft’s score of 121, 49 over par - a recordthat still stands - was not surprising. When he entered theOpen, he had never played a full round of golf. Club member-ship in Barrow-in-Furness was too expensive, so he’d prac-tised at Sandy Gap on Walney Island

Flitcroft had a dream. The chain-smoking crane driverwanted to win the Open. And, despite the fact that he wasa terrible golfer, he really believed that if hepractised hard enough, and had a fair windfollowing him (and wheelbarrow loads ofluck), the Claret Jug would one day sit on hisrather dusty and shabby mantelpiece, along-side the empty tins of Golden Virginia tobac-co.

“Little did I dream that such a simple act astaking up a game would have a profoundeffect on my life,’’ he wrote in his memoirs. “Iwould become famous, headline news, hailedas a hero on one hand and ridiculed on theother.’’

His march towards the headlines began inthe mid-70s, after he started learning to playwith the help of books from the local library. Inone of them, he found an address for the organ-isers of the Open - and his pulse quickened.The championship was called the Open,Flitcroft concluded with impeccable logic, because it wasopen to anyone. But the entry form from the Royal & Ancient

Golf Club of St Andrews, which runs the annual tournament,stumped him. To enter as an amateur, he would have to sub-mit a certificate showing he had a handicap of one or less.But, luckily, professional golfers didn’t have to submit any-thing. Nor did they have to be ‘attached’ to a club.

Soon, confirmation arrived by post thatMaurice G Flitcroft, 45-year-old virgin pro-fessional golfer (unattached), had beenchosen to play at Formby Golf Club, nearLiverpool, in one of the five qualifying tour-naments on Friday, July 2, 1976.

Four months later, he arrived with min-utes to spare and had to change fromwellies to his tattered (plastic) golf-shoesin the car park. Red-faced under his bluefisherman’s hat, he scampered to the firsttee just in time to hear his name beingannounced.

It was Flitcroft's fixation with the Open,which turned him into an icon, as well asone of the most eccentric golfers whohas ever lived. He tried to enter the Openon six occasions. Each time, officialdomeventually caught up with him, but notbefore he had exasperated a few, and

entertained a few more. The Royal & Ancient saw him as public enemy number one

(they even employed a hand-writing expert to try to ensureMaurice didn't slip through their nets).

In later years he would re-invent himself, give himself falsenames (and sometimes even a false moustache and a funnyhat). He appeared on Breakfast TV with Nick Owen and AnneDiamond. Indeed, he was so famous, mail posted to"Maurice Flitcroft, Golfer, England" would regularly reach himat home in Barrow.

His disguises had to get evermore sophisticated; in order toescape the searchlights of theR&A.

In 1978 and 1981 he entered asGene Pacecki. (Ian Wooldridge,the famous sports columnist onthe Daily Mail had written a pieceabout Maurice, stating that hewas 'a long way from making hisfirst pay cheque; so Maurice'sirrepressible humour kicked in.)

In 1983, he posed as a Swissprofessional called Gerald Hoppy and in 1990,entered as a French pro who would only speak a littleEnglish, called James Beau Jolley; (after his son James andhis dog called Beau Jolley (he thought his golf was as goodas a fine wine).

Maurice eventually died five years ago, having sufferedfrom emphysema and an aneurism.

WIMBLEDON is to be putback one week from 2015.The decision will mean therewill be a three-week gapbetween the French Openand Wimbledon. Currentlythere is just a two-week peri-od between the two GrandSlam tournaments.

Long discussed but until

now never implemented, themove will create a longergrasscourt season andrequire a revamping of otheraspects of the tennis calen-dar.

Announcing the decision,Philip Brook, chairman of theAll England Club, said: "Thebest interests of tennis willbe served by allowing theplayers more time to recu-perate and to adjust fromthe clay of Roland Garros tothe grass at Wimbledon.

"All our research indi-cates that there is wide-spread support within thegame for extending the gapbetween the French Openand Wimbledon and, impor-tantly, we think most players

will welcome the prospect ofa longer grasscourt seasonand spending more time onthe softer surface of grass.

"In making this changefrom 2015 we recognise thatthere will be some importantconsequences for the over-all tennis calendar andenough time needs to begiven to allow us all to planaccordingly.

"In anticipation of the workrequired, I would like tothank our colleagues fortheir enthusiasm and sup-port for the vision of a tenniscalendar that will better suitthe needs of the modern-daysport."

Wimbledon 2015 will runfrom June 29 to July 12.

SIR Alex Ferguson should be sackedover his handling of DimitarBerbatov.

If it is true that Manchester United,despite being hundreds of millions indebt thanks to the Glazers' auda-cious takeover tactics, are pre-pared to sell for £5m a playerthey paid over £30m for, that'sjust laughing in the faces oftheir already very irate fans.

OK, Berbatov is 31 so hehas limited shelf life as astriker. And even if £5m isdeemed adequate forhim now, it's the wasteof such a huge talentthat brings into ques-tion the man-man-agement skills of theworld's greatest man-ager in terms of tro-phies won.

Granted, Berbatov paidoff a huge chunk of thattransfer fee when he fin-ished joint leadingPremier Leaguegoalscorer alongsidethat other massivemisfit, Carlos Tevez,

the season before last. But United andFergie have consistently failed to getthe best out of Berbatov.

Now it is very difficult for anyoneother than a trained psychologist orpsychiatrist to change an individual's

personality. Fergie gained a rep-utation for the way he handledyoung, burgeoning talent,notably Ryan Giggs and theother members of that awe-some youth team from theearly 90s.

But maybe that is simplybecause he is a bully.Youngsters succumb farmore easily to those tac-tics. Talented, grown menlike Jaap Stam, RoyKeane and now Berbatovdon't.

Granted Berbatovappears to be a verymoody individual, but he

is hugely talented and,played the right way, I am con-vinced would have helpedUnited to even more glory.

I always saw him playingjust behind the front twowhere he could use his cre-

ative, passing skills and huge football brainto its best advantage. He's not an out andout goalscorer like Javier Hernandez,Wayne Rooney, Danny Wellbeck or evenMichael Owen but his vision is awesomeand he would have contributed not a fewgoals as well, as was proven in that 2010-11season.

Now it looks like his time at ManchesterUnited is over and I bitterly regret not havingseen the best of him after being gobs-macked by one performance I wit-nessed live at Wigan just beforeUnited moved in for him.

I wish him well, but it's going totake a stupendous move in thetransfer market and someimprovement in those man-man-agement skills, Fergie, to atone forperhaps the biggest mistake over aplayer in your career.

Liverpool look to be headingfor similar problems with

Andy Carroll. At £35m he was a massivegamble and now they face having to take abig drop as Brendan Rodgers, the newAnfield boss, has made it plain Carroll doesnot fit in with his plans.

It's a big season, too, for Fernando Torresat Chelsea. If he is to stay there he HAS tostart paying off regularly that massive £50mfee Chelsea paid Liverpool and which trig-gered the outlay on Carroll.

Newcastle, the club Carroll was boughtfrom, appear to be the only winners in

all this. If he does go back, it will be ata cut-price fee and there will only beroom for him if the Geordies selleither Demba Ba or Papiss Cisse,raking in yet more millions on top of

that £35m they received for Carroll.His football shirts might be cheap,

but Newcastle owner Mike Ashleycertainly knows how to make

the BIG money moves,too!


BULGAR OFF, FERGIE!United boss deserves

axe for Berbatov waste

Sand and deliverTEAMS from all over the Valencian

region are again expected to take part

in the Alicante beach rugby 7’s at San

Juan on August 4.

It is the 15th annual tournament and

runs from 10am to 9pm – and if the pre-

vious years are anything to go by, it

will be a great day of rugby.

During the summer months Centurion

Rugby Summer School is holding

beach training sessions in front of the restau-

rants in Guardamar on Mondays and

Wednesdays at 7pm.

For further info about local rugby, and

for your club shirts etc, contact Garry

Holland at Moncayo Market on

Saturdays or call him on 692 767 242.

Wimbledon togo back a week

Defending Olympic champion RafaelNadal has pulled out of London 2012,saying he is "not in condition" to com-pete. The 26-year-old is suffering fromtendinitis of the knee and will be unableto defend the singles title he won in

Beijing in 2008. "I do not find myself in acondition to compete," he said. "It is oneof the saddest moments of my career."

The Spanish 11-time Grand Slam win-ner was set to carry his nation's flag dur-ing the opening ceremony in London.

NADAL WITHDRAWSFROM OLYMPICS

DOOMED!48Friday, July 13, 2012

ARE the Olympics going to be thebiggest unmitigated disasterknown to man, woman, beast oralien?

Already security and ticketingproblems are dominating theheadlines and deflecting awayfrom the real issue - the athletes.

There also seems to be a muchbigger focus than necessary onthe paraplegic elements of theGames rather than the mainevents for the able bodied.

Now while I applaud theachievements of the handicapped in reaching suchheights despite their disadvantages, I hope the othercompetitors get the attention they deserve, too.

I am not the biggest fan of the Olympics as its orig-inal standing as the pinnacle of achievement for ama-teur athletes and other sportsmen and women haslong been overshadowed by drug-taking, money andother professional aspects.

The inclusion of highly-paid professional foot-ballers in most countries' squads for the Olympicfootball tournament has incurred the wrath of many -

and quite rightly so. Indeed the focus on the GreatBritain soccer squad has been over whether a multi-millionaire has-been should have been selected.

David Beckham is going to be an ambassador forBritish sport for a long time to come but he and LordCoe have been dominating the headlines prior to theGames and that for me goes totally against that orig-inal ethos - especially in Beckham's case.

The fuss over Dwain Chambers was also ridicu-lous. The man was banned for cheating. He took per-formance enhancing drugs and he received a lifetimeban. He should never have been allowed back andneither should any other person found guilty of simi-lar sporting crimes in the past, now or the future.

While I understand the need for tight security of thehighest order in this age of terrorist attacks andatrocities, our country's capacity for getting it wrongseems to have no bounds.

Not content in employing a private company thathas been proven to be inadequate in their transporta-tion and handling of prisoners, they have compound-ed the issue by giving security jobs to thousands ofuntrained students.

Maybe that's because they reckon a lot of terroristcells exist in and around student, college and univer-

sity life and the new staff will be able to spot a sus-pected terrorist at ten paces. It begs the question,"Who searches the students?" in the first place.

The ticketing has been a fiasco from the outsetwith people being unable to purchase online, ridicu-lous restrictions being imposed, general unavailabil-ity and now, surprise, surprise, as the Games arealmost upon us hundreds of thousands of ticketsbeing suddenly released. The prices though areenough to put anybody off with, I believe, a £40 min-imum tag in existence.

If they halved that, they still wouldn't be able toattract spectators for the football, though - both themen’s and women's events. They face playing in frontof half empty stadiums. That is maybe because thereare a lot more people than they thought who object tothe professionalism of it all and the fact that multi-millionaire players are being selected ahead of themillions of top amateur players around the countryand indeed the world.

I was going to say I hope everything passes offwithout a truly major incident, but quite frankly I don'tcare now. Whenever I think about the forthcomingLondon Olympics I just see DISASTER written allover it!

STEVEBOTT

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