For the second week runningthere was good news for manyproperty owners, especially inthe Almanzora Valley.

A bill amending AndaluciasLOUA urban development lawsailed through its first reading.This should take the pressureoff the owners of homes builtillegally - but purchased un-knowingly - on subdividedplots of land.

It was an exciting day, saidMaura Hillen, President ofAUAN (pictured fourth fromleft, front row) who attended theparliamentary session, none ofthe political groups submittedobjections at this stage and wethank them for that.

Obviously it does not cureeverything and we must contin-ue to work, remarked GerardoVazquez, spokesman forAUAN and other associations.

He added: But regularising

25,000 of Andalucias illegalhouses would relieve 25,000families who acquired proper-ties in good faith and investedtheir life savings in Spain.

Following the parliamentarysession there was a brief meet-ing with Jose Fiscal, who headsthe regions environment andplanning department as well asPSOE and Ciudadanos MPs.

The bill will now pass to theEnvironment and PlanningCommission and we hope that

the final text will be approvedas soon as possible. It would bea good Christmas present formany people, said Hillen.

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By Linda Hall

THERE has so far been no date or budget announced towiden the stretch of road between Vera and Garrucha. Al-though plans were announced back in 2009 and work start-ed, it later ground to a halt.

KNOWN as a place whereall nationalities and culturesare welcome, Mojacar haspledged to help Syrianrefugees. All political par-

ties agreed at the last ple-nary session to take inrefugees from war-torncountries.

Refugee welcome zone

See Page 64

Mojacar joins Almeria City and Nijar

Infrastructure necessary for the local economy

BILL to amend urban development law passes first reading

Vera-Garrucha road woes

ALBOX is preparing to rock all night long on October 24 to raisefunds for the AECC (Spanish Association Against Cancer). Theevent will be held at the fairground.

Thirty-first edition of musical extravangza

Rock for cancer

THE donkey statue in PlazaNueva, Albox, which lost itsear to vandals, will be re-paired free of charge by the

original sculptor, Isabel Gar-cia Oller. In exchange, she hasasked for better security forher creation. See Page 72

Iconic statue will be repaired by its creator

New ear for donkey

More good news forillegal home-owners See Page 4

See Page 66

TRAFFIC authority DGTadded 11 secondary-road dan-ger spots to the 30 listed last

June for Almeria Province. Thelatest additions will be con-trolled with mobile speed traps.

PRICKLY pears growingbelow the Alcazaba inAlmeria Ci ty are beingcrowded out by non-nativecactus.

The prickly pears - or op-untia - have been attackedby cochineal insects for thelast couple of years. Thishas made them vulnerableto a fungus which is slowlykilling the plants and allow-ing invader species to takeover.

At present there is no asolut ion, any more thanthere is a solution for thered weevils that are attack-ing the palms in the ci typark, said agricul turalengineer Maria del MarVerdejo.

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THE owners of more than 1,000 Almeria City properties,most of them more than 50 years old, had to present City Hallwith reports stating that they complied with safety, stabilityand structural regulations.

THE official mushroom-picking season has com-menced with strict regionalregulations. Amounts are

limited to five kilos per per-son per day, picked only dur-ing daylight hours withoutdisturbing the soil.

Pick-n-mix

City check-up

THE central government will spend 1.5 million on stabilis-ing and protecting the coastline in Adra, El Ejido and Bal-anegra. Work will commence shortly and should finish byDecember.

Coastal plan

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FUNGUS is slowly killing the plants

PRICKLY PEARS: A familiar sight below the Alcazaba.

Spiny problem forprickly pears

Danger roads

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Port plansGenerating trade

A CHIRINGUITO restau-rant is to open at Villaricosport. The Junta also gavethe go-ahead to privatespending of 130,000which will transform themarina while creating em-ployment and generatingtrade.

Star offerFree land for studio

ALMERIA CITY mayorLuis Rogelio Rodriguez-Comendador offered freeland for film studios. Themoment was ideal for con-solidating the province inthe film world at home andabroad, he said.

Home helpBelongs to banks

VERA Town Hall hopes toreopen and run the Vera-paraiso residence for the el-derly. The first step entailsacquiring the buildingwhich practically belongsto the banks, said council-lor Francisco Vazquez.

Prized porkersImportant breederTHERE are now more than500,000 pigs in AlmeriaProvince. It is the regionssecond most importantbreeder after Sevilla andsupplies neighbouringMurcias meat processingindustry.

Bad reception Failure to deliver

T E L E C O M M U N I C A -TIONS companies accountfor 90 per cent of caseshandled by Almeria CitysConsumer Arbitrationboard. Complaints centreon bill queries and failureto deliver on special offers.

Throwawayclothes lineFour tons moreMORE than 22 tons ofused clothes and shoeswere deposited in Vicarsrecycling containers be-tween January and October.This was four tons morethan throughout 2014.

FEATURED NEWS

EL CHORRILLO in Sierra Al-hamilla (Pechina), Tabernas,Sorbas, Carboneras and La Al-cazaba.

The names are familiar butwhen the sixth season of Gameof Thrones is aired, these loca-

tions will be entirely differentplaces in another world.

Back in the real world film-ing the series in Spain is bring-ing material benefits and inPeiscola, where shooting hasnow finished, the town hall cal-

culates Game of Thrones hasearned it an extra 31 million.

Almeria, too, expects to ben-efit. We are delighted to haveanother super-production here.Filming is bringing work to theprovince with an estimated eco-

nomic impact of some 8 mil-lion, said Antonio Jesus Ro-driguez, who heads the Culturedepartment at the AlmeriaProvince Diputacion.

Some benefits are unlooked-for, like the cleanup for the

Mesa de Roldan in Carboneraswhere a crew of workmen willmove in before filming starts toremove defacing graffiti fromthe 1764 lookout tower.

Extras have also had to signconfidentiality agreements.

Game of Thrones in, graffiti out

One of the top three boats showsin Europe sailed into BarcelonaBOATING attracts a huge audience in Spain

THE 54th Barcelona Boat Show run-ning from October 14 to 18 with over300 Spanish and foreign exhibitors,around 700 boats and more than 1,300sailors are all part of the annual CatalanSailing Week.

The entire Barcelona Boat Show islocated in Barcelonas Port Vell marina,which means that visitors with moneyto spend will have more opportunitiesfor test-driving of the boats.

The Barcelona Salon Nautico is re-garded as one of the top three boatshows in Europe in terms of both quali-ty and the number of people attending.

The boat show also featured the Ex-cellence Fair, which is included in theboat show admission price. The Excel-lence Fair celebrates the glamour andluxury sector of cars, jewellery andworks of art.

Even for those with smaller walletsthere was plenty to do and see includingsurfing, sailing for beginners, regattas,fun beach zone, flyboarding, a radiocontrolled yacht regatta and night timeentertainment including concerts andfood tasting.

With so many options and visitorsfrom all over the world, the waters inand around Spain attract a huge boatingpopulation.

By John Smith

PADDLEBOARDERS: Take to the waters outside of the Barcelona Boat Show.

I would say that itsa recovery that is

decelerating a bit.

From strengthto strength

ALTHOUGH the Barcelona BoatShow was in existence for 50 yearsit had to cope with the fact it washeld indoors so in 2012, it moved toPort Vell allowing for an interactiveshow on the water and has sincegone from strength to strength.

Christine Lagardehead of the International Monetary

Fund on Chinas economy

53,000is the number of visitors

to the 53rdAnnual BarcelonaBoat Show 2014

held at thePort Vell Marinafor just the third

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The end of the road is not in sight

A GUARDIA CIVIL cal l-out to at-tend a case of suspec ted domest icabuse also uncovered an arms cache.

Officers were sent to Pechina afterreceiving a phone call, alerting themto possible domestic violence.

When they arrived at the Pechinaaddress, they found a woman with aninjury to her face, presumably inflict-ed by her 65-year-old par tner, andanother coup le t ry ing to media te

in the argument.After managing to pacify all four,

the Guardia Civi l off icers not icedfour r i f l e s and ammuni t ion in theporch. They were thrown there bythe wounded woman during the argu-ment with her partner, she said.

After searching the house the offi-cers found another r i f le and a boxconta in ing severa l handguns andbladed weapons. There were five ri-fles, 14 handguns, eight knives and37 cartr idges, which the presumed

aggressor said belonged to his latefather.

He admitted having no paperworkto prove this or a f irearms permit .Subsequent investigations revealedthat two of the handguns were stolenin Germany.

The man was arrested and chargedwith domestic abuse and illicit pos-session of firearms.

In the meantime, the case remainsopen as Guardia Civil investigatorstrace the origin of the other weapons.

Arms cache found indomestic abuse caseHOUSEHOLDER unable to explain their source

By Linda Hall

THERE is neither date norbudget for widening the Vera-Garrucha road.

After finishing the firstphase, plans were announcedin 2009 for a 11.8 million

second phase whose 4.3 kilo-metres should have been com-pleted within two years.

Work started but ground toa halt to the frustration of Ve-ras Councillor for Public

Works, Francisco Vazquez.Tourism is key to the localeconomy but visitors must en-dure a road that is used by adaily 18,000 drivers, Vazquezpointed out.

We are calling on the Juntade Andalucia to put an end tothis appalling situation and de-velop the infrastructure that isso necessary to our economy,he said.

UNEXPECTED: Weapons haul discovered during domestic abuse investigation.

NATIONAL and Local Policeforces in Almeria City haveagreed to collaborate moreclosely and speed up proce-dures.

The national governmentsAlmeria sub-delegate AndresGarcia Lorca recently presidedover a meeting between Adol-fo Castao, the National Policecommissioner in Almeria City

and Maria Vazquez, PublicSafety Councillor at City Hall.

Public safety is one of soci-etys principal values and inorder to achieve this, thereshould be fluid relations andcommunications between thedifferent forces, Garcia Lorcasaid.

Almeria Citys crime ratewas in any case very encour-aging, the sub-delegate an-nounced. The overall 6.8 percent reduction during the firstsix months of the year revealedthat the citys police forceswere doing a grand job, GarciaLorca commented.

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THE Junta de Andalucia re-gional government haveaverted 610 evictions inAlmeria Province since Oc-tober 2012.

The figures were disclosedby regional delegate for Pub-lic Works and HousingJoaquin Jimenez while sum-ming-up Andalucias Hous-ing Defence Programme.

These offices providinginformation, advice and me-diation demonstrate thathelping families fighting asocial drama is a priority for

the autonomous govern-ment, Jimenez said.

Since the office openedthree years ago, officialshave dealt with 901 cases.Ninety-seven Almeria fami-lies applied to the HousingDefence Programme for ad-vice before they actually de-faulted on their mortgage anda further 610 who were al-ready in debt sought media-tion with the banks. In 194cases families were facingeviction or had already losttheir home.

Theatre dealCIRCULO MERCAN-TIL, owners of AlmeriaCitys Teatro Cervantes,have proposed ceding itfree of charge to the mu-nicipal corporation for atleast 70 years. In ex-change City Hall wouldrenovate the building.

Orange alertCITRUS fruit produc-tion for 2015-2016 is ex-pected to drop by 11 percent in Andalucia butAlmeria Province will beless affected with a pre-dicted 4.7 per cent fall.

NEWS EXTRA

Working tostop evictions

By Linda Hall

Closer collaborationfor police forcesALMERIC CITYS crime rate very encouraging

MEETING: Andres Garcia Lorca, Maria Vazquez andAdolfo Castao flanked by officers.

THE Mediterranean Corri-dor rail l ink is currentlyshunted into a siding but themotorway version is up andrunning.

The Spanish President,Mariano Rajoy, officiallyopened the 10 kilometres be-tween Carchuna and Castellde Ferro (Granada) that cost

135 million - 13.5 mil-lion per kilometre - of the fi-nal section of the A-7.

The 1,440 Autovia delMediterraneo, whose foun-dation stone was laid in2001, is now a non-stop dri-ve from Algeciras in Cadizto the French frontier. Alme-ria is now only a 110-minute

drive away from Malaga.The province will benefit

commercially, particularlywith regards to tourism andagriculture.

A Unicaja and Chamber ofCommerce study predicted a5 per cent increase inAlmerias Gross DomesticProduct.

A-7 completeafter 14 yearsFOUNDATION stone was laid back in 2001

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Your Belgian estate agent at the coast!

NEWS

BRITISH consulates inSpain handled 67 cases in-volving mental health needslast year.

Consular staff in Spainare seeing more cases in-volving mental health, re-vealed Will Middleton, Con-sular Regional Director forSpain.

So if you have a guestwith mental health needs, dotake some simple steps tohelp ensure their visi t istrouble-free and enjoyablefor all concerned.

Ask if your visi tor hastaken out travel insurance,whether the policy coversany pre-exist ing mentalhealth conditions and if theyhave a val id EuropeanHealth Insurance Card (visitwww.ehic.org.uk for moreinformation).

If the visitor is on medica-t ion, check what they aretaking and the normaldosage and advise them tobring enough for their visitplus some extra to cover anyunexpected delays.

Encourage your visitor tocontinue taking their med-ication even if as some-t imes happens they arefeeling better because theyare on holiday.

Be aware that English lan-guage help for people withmental health issues may belimited in your area and thatthe approach of health au-thorities may be different tothe UKs. You may want tofind out what support isavailable locally, in caseyou need it. Consider whoyou would contact if yourguests mental health deteri-orates while in Spain, andensure you can contact themin an emergency

Make sure your own pass-port is val id and in a safeplace, in case you need totravel in an emergency.

Jenny Edwards, chief ex-ecutive of the Mental HealthFoundation, said: Manypeople in the UK with men-tal health conditions managethem well day-to-day.

Changes to an itineraryor a delayed flight could im-pact on mental health needsso it is important to travel

prepared. However, thereare a few extra things toconsider when travell ing

abroad so pack medicationin hand luggage and keep arecord of mental health con-

tacts in the UK in case theyneed to be reached.

For more information vis-

it www.gov.uk/fco/mental-health-abroad or view theFCO Mental Health:

Travelling Abroad leafletand travel checklis t onwww.gov.uk.

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Helping visitors with mental health needsADVICE issued by the Foreign Office and the UKs Mental Health Foundation

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THE regional government admitted that 216,000litres of spillage from the Villaricos treatmentplant reached the sea last June.

This occurred owing to a faulty pipe at theGalasa pumping station, the Junta de Andaluciaregional government said in response tothe Veraplayazul association, quoting fromofficial administration reports on permitteddischarges in rivers and the sea in AlmeriasLevante area.

The spillage on June 13 occurred 10 days

before the Vera and Villaricos beaches wereclosed after several swimmers suffered anallergic reaction to micro-algae in the seawater.

Spills like these do not pose health risks nordo they affect the environment or sea bathing,said the regional governments Environmentdelegate to Almeria, Antonio Martinez.

The administration carries out frequentenvironmental checks to ensure that industrialinstallations and wastewater treatment plantscomply with the conditions governingdischarges as well as regional, state and EUlegislation, he added.

By Linda Hall

Spill not responsiblefor beach closuresFREQUENT checks are made on installations

EL PLAYAZO: One of the beaches closed in June.

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THE arrival of seven boatloadsof illegal immigrants has pin-pointed a lack of resources, po-lice have complained.

We are faced with specialcircumstances caused by theimmigrant boats, said NationalPolice commissioner AdolfoCastao at a time when 103were being held at the port.

This is particularly notice-able when immigrants aretransferred from Almeria Portto the courts as there is nocoach transport available. In-stead they are taken in smallgroups and officers from thePublic Safety Brigade and theImmigration and Borders unitrecently had to prevent two im-migrants from running away ontheir way to court.

There is also overcrowdingin the port accommodation,

said the SUP police unionwhich invited Andres GarciaLorca, the central governmentssub-delegate in Almeria, to visitthe installation. The true situa-tion is not apparent from inside

an office, the union said.Garcia Lorca denied that the

National Police lacked re-sources at the port, adding thathe frequently visited the immi-grants accommodation.

Illegal immigrantsstretch resourcesOVERCROWDING in port accommodationBy Linda hall

RESCUE: Illegal immigrants intercepted off Almeria.

BOTH Nijar and Huercal-Overa are looking forwardto new wastewater treatmentplants.

Nijars existing plant wasbuilt in 1996 for a popula-t ion of 10,000 and nowserves more than 20,000.The town hall and the Juntade Andalucia regional gov-vernment signed an agree-ment covering building, fi-nancing and starting up theEl Cautivo sewage plant.

Wastewater treated at the

800,000-cubic-metre plantwill be reused for agricultur-al and other non-domesticuses and the 8.255 millioncost will be met entirely bythe Junta.

This is a long-awaited,important and necessaryproject, said Nijars mayorEsperanza Perez.

Huercal-Overa will alsohave a new sewage works tosubstitute the old and muchpatched-up instal lat ionwhich was badly damaged inthe 2012 floods.

The last formalit ies are

being completed with theJunta to build a new 5 mil-l ion plant in Rambla deParia that will allow the cur-rent instal lat ion to closedown.

It will be necessary to signa new agreement with the re-gional government since aplant approved in February2014 was never begun. Wehope that this time the dead-lines will be met and theplant, which is essential forthe town, can become a reali-ty, said Huercals mayorDomingo Fernandez.

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By Linda hall

Wastewater plantsin the pipelineNIJAR and Huercal-Overa flushed with satisfaction

NIJAR: Town hall agreement now signed.

Father loses custody rightsA CUSTODY battle ended with a two-yearprison sentence for an obstinate father.

The 44-year-old Syrian failed to return hisunderage son who was placed by the Alme-ria authorities in the care of his former part-ner. Fearing that he would leave the countrywith the boy, the mother finally went to thechilds school accompanied by National Po-

lice officers to pick him up.An Almeria criminal court rejected the fa-

thers claim that the couple had agreed thechild could remain with him until the end ofthe school year. This was contradicted bythe mothers actions, ruled the judge, whoalso withdrew his custody rights for fouryears.

RESIGNED residents inAlmeria Citys Calle Tijolaclean the streets and waterthe plants themselves.

City hall only cleanswhat the mother-in-lawsees, complained a residentusing the time-honouredSpanish phrase.

She mops the pavement

each morning, while anotherneighbour waters the munici-pal flowerbeds in front of hisapartments.

They have even voicedtheir protests on the mayorsFacebook. Ive told themayor a thousand times thatdespite paying our taxes likeeveryone else, theyve aban-doned us in this neighbour-hood, said another resident.Neither did she like to seeher elderly parents having todo what the city hall shouldbe doing, she said.

But since they dont do itor else they do very little,theres nothing for it but togo down with a mop, bucketof water and bleach, shetold the local Spanish media.

The health and consumersdepartment was surprised bythe Calle Tijola complaints.The cleaning service is verygood there, a department of-ficial insisted. The streetsin that neighbourhood areswept manually each day andwashed down every threedays.

THE Beninar reservoir contains only four cu-bic hectometres of water and is nearly dry.

The 68.2-capacity reservoir is the secondlargest in Almeria Province after Cuevas delAlmanzora. Its present low level puts agricul-ture in Almerias Poniente area in a perilousposition, warned Andrs Gongora, ProvincialSecretary of the COAG growers and farmersassociation.

Thousands of hectares of produce couldbe lost owing to lack of irrigation. In fact,several installations have not been able to wa-

ter their crops for days, Gongora said.The planting and growing season is in full

swing and the situation is now untenable, headded, and the Poniente Management Com-mittee needed to meet immediately.

The situation had been caused by a combi-nation of problems, Gongora said. The Ben-inar reservoir has neither water nor sufficientstorage capacity. There has been no rain, sub-terranean wells are exhausted and, worse still,brackish, while the Dalias desalination plantis still not operational.

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By Linda hall

DIY street-cleanerscomplain to city hall

Water levels dropin local reservoir

MOPS, buckets and bleach at the readyBENINAR running dangerously low

DIY: Residents take matters into own hands

BENINAR RESERVOIR: Low in October 2014 and even lower now.

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ADRA has 75 hectares of wetlands

Near-to-handwildlife lessonTHIRTY pupils from AdrasFuentesantilla school visited theLas Albuferas de Adra nationalpark on World Bird Day.

They were accompanied bylocal mayor Manuel Cortes andthe regional governments envi-ronment delegate to Almeria,Antonio Martinez.

Their circuit through the 75hectares of wetlands included avisit to the Lorenzo Garcia or-nithological station where theparty learnt the identities of thebirds living in the reserve. Theyalso saw how the birds areringed, tagged and measuredand concluded the visit at theLiving history of the Albuferasde Adra exhibition in the mu-seum.

Almeria Province has 3,000

hectares of wetlands which in-clude the Salinas in Cabo deGata and Punta Entinas-Sabinarnear El Ejido as well as Las Al-buferas. They are home to 33species of birds and waterfowlalthough gulls, waders and

herons are the most numerous.Because these are wetlands,they are less dependent on rain-fall than many other reserves insouthern Spain and althoughmany birds are migratory, forothers this is home all year.

By Linda Hall

LAS ALBUFERAS: Gently does it!

THE meningitis B vaccineis on sale in AlmeriaProvince pharmacies for thefirst time.

Local distributor Herman-dad Farmaceut ica Alme-r iense exhausted i ts100-dose supply of the vaccinewithin hours of receiving it,a spokesman said. Somepharmacies must wai t a

week before they receivetheir orders, he added.

There is no shortage ofthe vaccine but unexpecteddemand was prompted bymedia coverage and theHermandad has had to ordermany more doses.

Unti l now the vaccinewas used only in hospitalsand al though i t i s not in-cluded in the official vacci-nat ion programme, most

paediatricians recommendthat children have it.

Each dose vaccine costs106 and is administeredtwice with a two-month in-terval to children over theage of two.

Meningitis B is the mostcommon strain of bacterialmeningitis and is responsi-ble for seven out of every10 meningi t is cases inSpain.

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LOCAL POLICE in Almeria City have located a16-year-old missing since May from a Men-sajeros de la Paz care home.

The girl had approached two officers on patrolin Avenida Federico Garcia Lorca, claiming thather sister was being held captive by a man. Theywere in an apartment in the Los Angeles neigh-bourhood, she said, but did not know the exactaddress.

The officers took the girl to the police stationto lodge a formal complaint but she said she didnot have an identity card although she gave hername. This matched that of a girl who wentmissing from the Mensajeros de la Paz home onMay 15. The police contacted the centre and girlhas now returned there. They also located thegirls sister, who said she was perfectly all rightand staying with her boyfriend.

By Linda hall

Meningitis vaccineflies off the shelves THE vaccine is now sold in pharmacies

Missing girl found by chance

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A 1910 DOCUMENT refer-ring to the island of Alboranwas named Octobers Docu-ment of Month.

The yellowing pieces of pa-per set out businessman Fran-cisco Govantes y Marcosplans for the island, situatedhalfway between Almeria andNorth Africa.

The project was an attemptto generate income at a time

of great necessity, said thehead of the regional govern-ments Culture department,Alfredo Valdivia.

Govantes y Marcos dreamincluded a coal store wheresteamships would be able totake on fresh supplies.

There was also a fish-cur-ing factory and employeeshomes that would have fo-mented industrial fishing inthat part of the Mediterranean.The businessman also had

plans for an airborne tram.Alboran comes under the

jurisdiction of Almeria whileits lighthouse, which is stillvital to shipping, is under thecontrol of the citys Port Au-thority.

Apart from the lighthouseand a cemetery, Alboran,which covers an area of71,200 square metres, is emp-ty apart from a Spanish Navybase established by the Min-istry of Defence in the 1960s.

No tram for Alboran

By Linda Hall

CENTURY-OLD plans for the island came to nothing

ALBORAN: The lighthouse remains but the airborne tram never materialised!

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A GALICIAN couple had toovercome paediatricians op-position before their 12-year-old daughters artificialnutrit ion could be with-drawn.

With the courts on theirside as well as the Galicianhospitals Ethical AssistanceCommittee, Andreas feedingtube was removed and shedied four days later.

Andrea had a degenerative

illness, was in a vegetativestate with no hope of recov-ery and the feeding tubecaused her pain and distress,her parents said.

In Almeria, Andreas plightwould have been covered byAndalucias Death With Dig-nity law (passed in 2010), re-vealed Pilar Baraza, Presidentof the Poniente Hospitals Eth-ical Assistance Committee.

The committees are com-posed of primary care healthand hospital health profes-

sionals as well as legal ex-perts, she explained.

Their resolutions are notbinding but they try to en-sure agreement between doc-tors and families during thelast days of a persons life.

Although the Ethical As-sistance Committees ap-proach is different for chil-dren, they would beconsulted to assess theirfeelings and decide whetheror not they were in pain,Baraza said.

By Linda Hall

DEATH With Dignity law was passed in 2010

Galicia casenot possiblein Andalucia

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TONY MATTHEWS, be-lieved to be the worlds mostprolific author/ writer/co-com-piler of football books, hasjust signed a contract to writehis 150th, entitled Sir BobbyRobson: 50 Defining Fix-tures. This will be released byAmberley Publishing, Stroud,Gloucestershire, next year.

Having written similarbooks on Jose Mourinho andSteven Gerrard, Tony hasthree more with the publishers- Ryan Giggs and Alan Shear-er (both due out soon) and alsoPaul Gascoigne. And rightnow he is busily working on asimilar publication appertain-ing to the career of strikerCyrille Regis who, of course,played for West Bromwich Al-bion, Coventry City, AstonVilla and Wolves, winning theFA Cup with the Sky Blues in1987. And two other books re-

cently published under Tonysname are The BournemouthFC Miscellany and BaggiesAbroad (mini match reports ofevery game played by WBAoff the British mainland).

Tony said: An awful lot ofresearch goes into compiling abook of 50 Defining Fix-tures. I enjoy every minute ofit, really, but it can also prove

to be a bit of a nightmare es-pecially when you have tochoose just 50 out of perhaps500, 600 or even more theplayer in question has ap-peared in.

Sorting out 50 for Giggsywas certainly tough as heplayed in over 1,000 gamesfor Manchester United andWales. Selecting Shearers

half century out of more than800 matches he played, alsoproved hard going, so too didGazzas - he had 435 outings.But with the help of severaldiehard and efficient and in-deed, helpful supporters,footage via Youtube, a varietyof matchday programmes andquite a few newspapers, I gotthere eventually.

The photograph showsTony at home in sunnySpain - with a selection of thefootball books he has had pub-lished since 1975. More than30 have featured his hometown club, West BromwichAlbion, in one form oranother.

Forty years on and still go-ing strong, he is hoping thatsoon he will receive confirma-tion that he has been recog-nised in the Guinness Book ofRecords.

Guinness record hopefor expat Tony Matthews

PROLIFIC SCRIBE: Tony enjoys every minute ofresearching and compiling his books.

EWNS sports columnist is about to write his 150th book

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Adra growers lose almost 3million due to storm damage

ADRA : Infrastructure repairs were needed after floods.

THE September 7 storms and floods affected 160growers and 80 hectares of crops in Adra.

According to town hall calculations they havecost local cultivators 2.9 million.

The torrential rain did serious harm to Adragrowers and from the outset it has been a town hallpriority to provide help and advice as soon as possi-ble so that growers can apply for subsidies and as-sistance, said Agriculture councillor FranciscoLopez.

Greenhouses, walls and irrigation equipmentthroughout Adra account for 1.5 million of lastmonths storm damage. Peppers were the worst-af-fected crop, damaged when watercourses, irrigationchannels and storm drains were unable to cope withthe torrential downpour.

to get it. They will compareinformation received to what youinclude on your on tax return sothey can check you have properlydeclared your income and assets.

Common Reporting StandardThe technical standard for the

new automatic exchange ofinformation is the Economic Co-operation and Developments(OECD) Common ReportingStandard. Almost a hundredcountries have so far signed up to it.It provides for the annual automatic

exchange of financial accountinformation between countries.

The financial institutions thatneed to report include banks,custodians, guardians, certaincollective investment vehicles andcertain insurance companies.

There are 58 early adopterswho have committed to startcollecting information in 2016,ready for sharing by the end ofSeptember 2017. These includeSpain, the rest of the EU, the Isle ofMan, Jersey, Guernsey,Liechtenstein, San Marino andSouth Africa.

Australia, Canada, China, HongKong, Monaco, Singapore, UnitedArab Emirates and Switzerland areamong 35 more jurisdictions thathave pledged to start sharing data in2018.

In Europe, the CommonReporting Standard will belaunched through the revisedAdministrative CooperationDirective. It allows authorities toshare information automatically oninterest, dividends and other

investment income, accountbalances, sales proceeds fromfinancial assets, income fromemployment, directors fees, lifeinsurance, pensions and property.

What does this mean for you?If you hold financial assets

outside Spain, every year thefinancial institution will give theSpanish tax authorities informationon:

your name, address and date ofbirth

tax identification number account numbers account balances interest earnings dividends sales proceeds from financial

assets.It is essential you understand

which assets and income need tobe declared in Spain. As a taxresident you are liable to Spanishtax on your worldwide income,gains and wealth. This includesmost income which is also taxedelsewhere, eg UK rental income

and UK private pensions. As a Spanish resident you also

need to declare overseas assets onForm 720. The penalties forundeclared assets can be costly, so itis important that you declareeverything correctly.

The cross-border tax landscapehas completely changed. It isessential that you are up to date onthese developments and takespecialist advice.

This is also a good time to reviewyour investment assets to ensurethat you are holding them in themost tax efficient way for Spain,and that you are using Spanishcompliant arrangements. There aretax-compliant opportunitiesavailable in Spain that will lowerliabilities. You still have the right tostructure your wealth and assets in atax-efficient manner, but need totake personalised professionaladvice.

To keep in touch with the latestdevelopments in the offshore world,check out the latest news on ourwebsite www.blevinsfranks.com.

Greater international tax transparencyhas been a major goal for governmentsin recent years. It is now a reality. Aglobal automatic exchange ofinformation regime goes live inJanuary 2016. If you live in onecountry and have assets in another, taxauthorities - including those in Spainand offshore jurisdictions - will collectand share your financial informationunder the new Common ReportingStandard.

What is different now?There has been automatic exchange

of information in Europe for someyears, under the 2005 Savings TaxDirective, but it only applied tosavings income. Globally, manycountries signed bilateral taxinformation exchange agreements, butthis only enables them to requestfinancial information about peoplethey suspect of tax evasion.

The new regime covers much morethan just interest income. And taxauthorities will receive informationautomatically, on everyone - they donot need evidence of non-compliance

By Gerald Turner,Partner,

Blevins Franks

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A New Era For Exchange Of Information

ALMERIA unida contra lapobreza is organising severalevents for World Poverty Dayheld today Saturday, October17.

This is the second year thatthe platform of 26 associa-tions and non-government or-ganisations has observed thisday.

We want politicians to bemade aware of the need toeradicate social exclusionthrough social policies, saidJuan Antonio Plaza, diocesandelegate for the Caritas chari-ty in Almeria.

Some decisions are notmade in an adequate matterand that affects the most vul-nerable, Plaza declared.

Last year Caritas had to in-tervene on more than 70,000occasions and attended to ap-proximately 11,000 peoplethreatened by social exclu-sion.

These are huge figuresbearing in mind Almeriassize, he said.

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THE Opposition party at Al-hama Town Hall opposed themayors 600 a month pay-rise while increasing localtaxes. He should consider thepublics pockets before hisown, a spokesman claimed.

A 100 PER CENT subsidyfor free school meals landeda PSOE councillor andDiputacion member in hotwater.

Angeles Castillo appliedfor free meals at the schoolher daughter attends despitereceiving a salary of45,000 a year from theDiputacion.

She also has an income asa lawyer and although shereceives no salary as a coun-cillor, Castillo is paid for at-tending plenary sessions andcommittee meetings. Herhusband also works.

Only nine families at herdaughters school received a100 per cent subsidy - forwhich it necessary to earnless than 8,000 a year - theLos Pinos parents associa-tion revealed.

Castillo explained that shehad applied for the mealssubsidy in September. Eligi-bility was calculated on herearnings the previous yearbefore she was elected to theDiputacion and Huercal de

Almeria Town Hall. The Huercal de Almeria

mayor Ismael Torres hasnow called for Castillos res-ignation both on the towncouncil and at the Diputa-cion.

Some big figures for social exclusion in a small province

Consider us

By Linda Hall

No such thing as afree (school) lunchONLY nine families received a 100 per cent subsidy

SCHOOL MEALS: Free for low-income families.

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THE owners of 2,322 tor-toises in Almeria Provincehad to hand them over afterthe law changed.

Keeping a tor toise as ahousehold pet is customaryin Almeria but Spains newPenal Code made it a pun-ishable offence to own anendangered Moroccan tor-toise (testudo graeca).

Wanting to avoid a possi-ble two-year pr ison sen-tence, owners took them toSeprona, the pol ice andthe CREA wildlife rehabili-tation centre in Velez Blan-co.

Of these 112 had to be putdown because they were in-firm.

Others were freed in Sier-ra Cabrera where the local

tortoise population has beenwiped out by successiveforest fires.

Vets found that although500 were Moroccan tortois-es they had not been bredhere and were due to bereturned to Morocco. Thisplan was shelved on genet-ic and heal th reasons al-though they are being keptseparate from the Spanishspecies.

Other tortoises remain inVelez Blanca but wil l besent to CREAS in otherprovinces for eventual re-homing where, unt i l theyare ready to leave, malesand females are strictly seg-regated.

Endangered or not, theywould breed too quicklyand saturate the centres, ex-perts explained.

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By Linda Hall

Endangered tortoises areenthusiastic breeders

HAD to be handed in after the law changedTORTOISES: No longer can be ahousehold pet.

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ALMERIA Province drivingexaminers joined others in anationwide strike that start-ed last month.

More than 1,200 tes tshave been suspended sincethen, affecting more than700 L-drivers, said civil ser-vants union CSIF.

Demonstrating Almeriaexaminers pointed out thatthere are now only 12 ex-aminers compared to 17 inthe past and called for safercondi t ions, cal l ing forchanges in the road test.

They should be paid dan-ger money, they argued.They are on the road eighthours a day, exposed to ac-cidents and insults, threatsand even physical violencefrom pupils.

The day before the Alme-

ria demonstration an exam-iner was attacked after fail-ing a pupil who began to in-sul t him and refused toleave the vehicle.

The way that pupils re-ceive resul ts needs to bechanged, examiners main-tained. At present results are

given verbally at the end ofthe test, but the examinerswant them announced thefollowing day as they arewith the theory exam.

Failing that, they shouldbe available in a safe loca-t ion and not face- to-facewith pupils, they said.

By Linda Hall

A testing time fordriving examinersTHE way pupils receive results needs to be changed

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THE Duke and Duchess of Cam-bridge have been given permission toenforce a no-fly zone over their homeAnmer Hall in Norfolk, to prevent pho-tos being taken for security reasons.

Royal snubLABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is

accused of snubbing the Queen after hewas expected to be sworn in to thePrivy Council, which involves kneelingin front of the monarch, but he declinedthe invitation.

Baby battleA COUPLE from Surrey have

launched a legal battle to win backtheir child who was put up for adoption

after they were wrongly ac-cused of abusing their

baby.

Bake off A RECORD-BREAKING 14.5 million people watched

Nadiya Hussain win the 2015 Great British Bake Off; twomillion more than last years final, showing the growing popu-

larity in the baking show.

EUROPEAN PRESS

Injured inshooting

SWEDEN: An investiga-tion has opened in west Swe-den after two men, aged 20and 25, were injured in ashooting near an apartmentblock in Bors. Bors hasaround 66,000 residents andis one of the countrys keystudent cities.

Crisis pointSWEDENS refugee cen-

tres are reaching saturationpoint. The countrys migra-tion agency is calling forgyms and disaster sheltersto be used to accommodatethe overflow with 1,500asylum requests coming ineach day.

Asylum seekersNORWAY has said it ex-

pects to receive 20,000-25,000asylum seekers in 2015, an in-crease of the 11,480 peoplewho sought asylum in thecountry last year.

Nobel prizeSWEDISH cancer re-

searcher Tomas Lindahl wasawarded with the Nobel Prizein Chemistry with Aziz San-car and Paul Modrich. Lin-dahl is only the fourthSwedish Chemistry laureateever.

Lion autopsyDENMARKS Odense Zoo

is preparing to perform a pub-lic autopsy on a lion today(Thursday). It has been sched-uled during the autumn schoolbreak. In 2014 CopenhagenZoo performed an autopsy forschoolchildren.

Swedishsummer

SWEDEN: A record num-ber of foreign tourists visitedSweden this summer. Touriststravelling to the Nordic coun-try from abroad spent a totalof 387,000 more nights inSwedish hotels compared tolast summer.

DESPITE the rise in the numberof wind turbines and solar panels,the Netherlands is not meeting na-tional target quickly enough. Fore-casts say in five years time greenenergy will account for 11.9 percent of the total, not 14 per cent aswanted.

Facebook finesEIGHT people who left discrim-

inatory and inflammatory state-

ments on Facebook tosupport the anti-Islam PVV havebeen fined between 350 and450.

Going ChineseA DUTCH football club could go

Chinese after Beijing InvestmentCompany was found to be consider-ing investing 35m in Heerenveenpremier division football club.

Sales increaseHOUSE prices and sales are ris-

ing. Real estate organisation NVMsaid its member agents sold 37,277houses in the third quarter of thisyear, a rise of 27 per cent on a yearago.

Exports boostGERMANY is on course

for another record year of ex-ports in 2015 despite a drop of5.2 per cent in August com-pared with the previousmonth. Germany sold 6.6 percent more goods abroad in thefirst eight months of 2015 thanin 2014.

Bank lossesDEUTSCHE Bank has

warned that it would post a netloss of 6.2 billion in the thirdquarter and that dividends forthe year may be scrapped.

Frankfurt fossilA FOSSIL in Frankfurt of a

pregnant horse and foetus isbelieved to be 48 million yearsold and is the oldest of its kindknown to science. It wasfound in 2000 but analysis hasonly now been completed onthe fossil.

What a wastePOLICE in Darmstadt

have confirmed that shreddedeuro notes which have beenfound in various spots acrossthe city, are real. Police esti-mate the total value of themoney to be between 15,000and 20,000.

German goldTHE Federal Bank has re-

leased a detailed list of all thegold Germany owns, hopingto settle fears it has been exag-gerating its wealth. The liststretches to 2,300 pages show-ing Germany owns 270,316bars of gold.

Not stayingA SURVEY has shown

than most Syrian refugees inGermany fled their countryout of fear for their lives andwant to return home when itssafe.

No quicksolution

GERMAN Chancellor, An-gela Merkel, has said therewill be no quick-and-easy so-lutions in the refugee crisis butpromised that Germany wouldpush for the EU to share theburden of the refugee crisismore evenly.

GERMANPRESS

SCANDINAVIANPRESS

BRITISHPRESS

Not green enough just yet

DUTCHPRESS

WIND TURBINES: The Netherlands is not meeting its national target quickly enough.

FOR security reasons

No fly zone over home

IN five years time green energy will not be as high as wanted

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THE first charging point forelectric cars has been installedin a Moscow car park to helppromote the eco-friendly meansof transport.

Radioactivewaste

RESIDENTS and environ-mentalists have appealed toPresident Vladimir Putin to stopthe planned construction of aradioactive waste processing fa-cility near Lake Baikal in east-ern Siberia, saying it could en-danger a unique ecosystem.

Alcoholcrackdown

A CRACKDOWN has beenlaunched on counterfeit alcoholproducts and equipment fortheir production, in a bid totackle the rising problem of ille-gal alcohol in Russia. All unli-censed products with over 25per cent alcohol are to be de-stroyed.

Tumbling downBBC worldwide have refused

to license production of a Russ-ian version of the BBCs Tum-ble show in which celebritiestrain and compete in gymnas-

tics. The licence was declinedbecause of Western sanctionsimposed over the Ukrainian cri-sis.

NGObankruptcy

HUMAN rights organisationCommittee Against Torturehas filed for bankruptcy afterbeing given fines totalling900,000 rubles (12,700) afterit refused to register as a for-eign agent; a requirement bylaw for all NGOs that receiveforeign funding.

Wedding rulesGROZNY, capital of Rus-

sias Chechen Republic, has is-sued a new ordinance banningcake-cutting and indecent dancemoves at weddings to safe-

guard the spir-itual and moral development ofthe republics youngsters.

Memorialplaques

PLAQUES have been un-veiled in the West Siberianbranch of Russian Railways tomark visits by late leaders KimII Sung and Kim Jong II in1984 and 2001, in a ceremonyattended by the North Koreanambassador to Russia.

Planning aheadGRAVES have been dug in

the eastern Siberian city of Chi-ta for Second World War veter-ans who are still alive, as thecemetery is running out ofspace and because it will be toocold to dig graves in winter.

RUSSIAN PRESS

RUSSIA is continuing its air campaign in Syria despite westernconcerns saying it would target militant group IslamicState. Planes have also bombed rebel groups op-posed to the Syrian President.

Car chargingFIRST point has been installed in a car park

Russian bombing continues

CAR CHARGING: To help promote the eco-friendly means of transport.

AIR CAMPAIGN:Targeting Syria.

By John Smith

THE quote above is attributed toBenjamin Disraeli from the 19thcentury but is still relevant todayand the National Statistics Insti-tute has just re leased f igures

showing the percentage of peoplewho still held their jobs in 2015compared to 2007.

There are presumably three rea-sons for the changes, being age ofthe person, state of the economy

and simple movement

from one position to another butthe list shows music and languageteachers having the most stablejobs and travel agents and recep-tionists having the least, with civilservants and accountants ranking aclose second.

BANK: Europes most valuable bank was fined in June.

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CUT-PRICE shares in Lloyds BankingGroup are to be sold to the public nextyear in a move that will complete thesale of the taxpayers stake in thebailed-out institution.

About 2 billion (2.8 billion) inshares (half the amount first indicatedby Prime Minister David Cameron inApril) are to be sold directly to con-sumers, who can register their intereston a government website.

THE Spanish banking giantwas recently fined 1m for al-legedly breaking laws againstmoney laundering and terror-ism financing and reportedlytried to delay the announce-ment of this fine.

Ministers approved the finefor Santander, the Eurozonesmost valuable bank, in Junefor a very serious offence,

Spains Supreme Court said ina written ruling on October 7and, whilst not giving specificdetails, revealed that itbreached a law for the pre-vention of money launderingand financing of terrorism.

In the ruling, the court re-jected Santanders request todelay news of the fine beingpublished.

Santander fails tokeep its fine secret

Honda keepson growingHONDA has seen a strength-ening in the value of its brandfor the third year in a row. In-ternational consultancy, Inter-brand, have recently publishedthe 2015 edition of its BestGlobal Brands ranking, placingHonda as the 19th most valu-able global brand.

Hondas brand was valuedin excess of 19 billion, an in-crease of 6 per cent comparedto 2014.

VW changeVOLKSWAGEN has ap-pointed Hans Dieter Poetschas its new chairman, follow-ing a board meeting to dis-cuss the emissions scandal.Mr Poetsch said it would besome time before the car-maker could uncover the de-tails of the test cheating.

Earlier, Volkswagen said itexpected to start a recall ofcars affected by the scandalin January.

All affected cars will befixed by the end of 2016, itsaid.

ALTHOUGH the prosecution has announcedthat Lionel Messi should not be charged withdefrauding the Treasury of 4.1 million inevaded tax and called for the case against thefootballer be dropped, the judge has rejectedtheir advice and has decided that both Messiand his father should be sent to trial.

The trial will take place in Vilanova i la Gel-tru on a date still to be set and despite the factthat Messi paid a deposit covering the amountoutstanding, plus interest, in 2013, there is apossibility that he could be jailed for up to 22months if found guilty and his father for up to18 years.

Messi situation all round

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and still employed in 2015

Quote of the WeekMy understanding is that it was a couple of softwareengineers who put these in. Michael Horn, chief executive

of VWs US operation explaining that the board was innocent.

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UP until now, if you wanted to down-load an app for an iPhone or iPad youhad to go via Apple and for an an-droid app, via Google, but now aMalaga based company,Uptodown.com, is offering a third,and possibly better, option.

It was founded by Luis Hernndezand his university friend PepeDominguez, who worked together oncomputers while studying at the Uni-versity of Malaga and, unlike theGoogle Play Store or Apples AppStore, it is available to anyone, any-where in the world, and is free forboth users and app developers.

According to their Facebook page,https://es-es.facebook.com/Uptodownthe company was formed in 2002, butit was only four years ago that theymoved their business into the mobilearena and things have taken off sowell that they are now said to be inthe top 300 most visited websites.

Having expanded to a staff of 45,and with the ability to communicatein 13 different languages, they maketheir money by selling banners ontheir site.

SPAIN isnt exactly a country thatis flush with employment opportu-nities at the moment, so job hunt-ing can take its toll, even on thestrongest and most positive of us.

It eats up all of our time, whilesending out CV after CV and thenrarely even getting a cordial re-sponse from prospective employersis exhausting.

Often, when we s tar t out insearch of a job, were full of beans,only to lose enthusiasm halfwaythrough when the phone fails toring offering us a job or even aninterview.

The search can quickly get dis-heartening, but this is where thedanger lies. It is important, no mat-ter how hard the struggle to findwork is, to keep up motivation.

Keep busy: Dont let yourselfget down in the dumps about nothaving a job and end up watchingcrappy TV on the sofa every day.

Stay focusedand motivated.For example,make sure allyour profes-sional socialmedia profilesare up to dateand opt imised foremployers.

Spend yourfree time develop-ing a personalwebsite to showcaseyour expertise, pastwork and portfolio.

There are numer-ous free websi tetemplates avail-able online and itdoesnt take a tech-genius to figure themout.

Ask for help : Use theexpertise of friends andfamily to help you alongyour way. Have someone youtrust review your CV and other ap-plication materials or even practiseinterviews with you.

Depending on your profession,maybe set up networking meetings,

just to stay in the loop and main-tain contacts.

Stay focused: Everyone likesto see results. When we dont,we tend to get down and demoti-

vated, thinking all our hard workis for nothing. I t s important ,therefore, to keep track of yourprogress. Each evening, write a listof things you have accomplished ina given day or week. Simple thingslike this will allow you to see re-sults and keep your mind driven.

Stay positive: Failing to achievesomething can be a motivat ionkiller, so dont be hard on yourself.Learn from your failures and move

on. A posi t ive mind is ahealthy mind.

By John SmithAMAZON SPAIN has just entered theSpanish grocery market via a new Su-permarket section on the amazon.esportal but at this stage is not offeringfresh produce.

Following its activities in otherworld markets, it is taking on local su-permarket chains such as Carrefour,Mercadona and Hipercor by offering awide range of non-perishable foodsand cleaning products.

It boasts that orders can be deliveredwithin 24 hours and subscribers toAmazon Prime wont have to pay de-livery charges. In addition, the compa-ny is offering same-day delivery ofitems ordered before 2.45pm for

Madrid residents as that is where itsdistribution centre is situated.

In the UK, the group is about to runout its Amazon Fresh line which willinclude fresh food, although industryinsiders have questioned whether the

e-commerce giant will be able to offerthe same wide range of fresh productsas the supermarkets and Ocado.

Time will tell but, in the meantime,there is yet another choice of supplieron the Internet.

Groceries now available from Amazon Spain

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BEBUSY:Dont getyourself down.

Stay positive: Dont be hard on

yourself, learn fromyour failures and

move on. A positivemind is a healthy

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Keep up motivation on the job hunt

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39FINANCE, BUSINESS & LEGAL 15 - 21 October 2015 / Costa de Almerawww.euroweeklynews.com EWN

IT is said that if you want to study human be-haviour, watch your fellow man when using anairport.

It works: To deter terrorist intentions, NewYorks JFK Airport once engaged two psychia-trists to keep an eye open for oddball passen-gers who looked out of place, stressed and jit-tery. As it never occurred to the mensemployers to inform either of the others pres-ence, one psychiatrist arrested the other fordisplaying such bizarre behaviour.

The fact is that we are all different. As wego through life we find we are occasionallysquare pegs in round holes. Does this apply toany of your staff too?

Running a business calls upon delegationskills. Identifying the abilities and personali-ties of staff is the essence of good manage-ment.

This belief came into sharp focus when, as

usual, we stayed at our favourite hotel in Riga;Sergei, bless him, has never been known tosmile let alone say good morning. The em-ployee is, in a four-letter word, sour. Howev-

er, to his eternal credit, Sergei is their master-ful Jack-of-all trades and Mr Fix-It. He is theman with the handyman skills to keep the ho-tel running smoothly.

The truth is that if you were to put Sergei onreception it would be a nightmare. Happily,this role is filled by Alina and Yulia; bothladies are as bright as a soldiers tunic button.

Meeting, greeting and pressing the flesh istheir speciality; they know their job inside out,they remember their clients and when they dis-covered it was my birthday, they arranged forme to receive a gift of chocolates and wine inmy room.

Our hotels owners must take a bow. Eachmember of staff is perfectly suited to theirworking role. It is too often forgotten that em-ployers and employees, yes, family included ifthey are on the payroll, are nature-made to beteam players. If they lack skills essential totheir job then put them in a role more suited tothem; instruct or replace them.

Round pegs for round holes

BRIGHT: Hotel receptions, for example, require happy, smiling employees.

Talking shop Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh was for 20 years Regional AssessmentManager for the Guild of Master Craftsmen, Britainsbiggest quality assurance body for businesses. www.michaelwalsh.es 966 786 932

Running a business calls

upon identifying the abilities of

your staff.

IM a firm believer in the old adage thatsooner or later the truth will out. With thisweeks revelations concerning the attitudeand antics of Sir Tom Jones, my beliefs haveproved to be correct. His disgraceful state-ments about his relationship with his wifeLinda came as no surprise to me whatsoever.

Heaven only knows my infidelities arenothing to be proud of, but I most certainlywould never dream of describing any of myexes as losing their spark or not looking asgood as they used to. This was of coursetypical of this unfeeling, self-serving indi-vidual, who is so far up himself he didnteven see anything wrong in making state-ments of this kind.

I happened to know his wife Linda inthose far off days. I actually knew her quitewell. During one of our many conversationsshe told me that when he first began to hitthe big time he gave her an ultimatum. He

told her that she could either give him a freerein to do exactly as he pleased and live alife of luxury as a pop stars wife, or divorcehim and go back to Pontypridd. Poor Linda,she was so in love with him she chose theformer and subsequently suffered the conse-quences.

Is it any wonder she has become a reclu-sive alcoholic? No, Sir Tom has a record ofdumping people who were no longer any useto him. Soon after hitting the big time hedropped his faithful group The Squires, whohad been with him from day one, without apenny of compensation to soften the blow. Afew years ago he asked one of them to visithis house as he had a large amount of clotheshe wanted to get rid of. After taking up theoffer and choosing a number of items, hisnone too wealthy, ex-group member was to-tally gob-smacked when Tom asked him for60 in payment.

I could go on but have no space. If youwant more you need to order this ole boysautobiography. All info on my email.

Keep the faith, Love Leapyleapylee2002@gmail.com

41OPINION & COMMENT 15 - 21 October 2015 / Costa de Almerawww.euroweeklynews.com EWN

The price of fame and fortune

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT

SIR TOM JONESS wife has paid a heavy cost

SUPER-STAR: But Sir Tom is no super human being.

FEATURE15 - 21 October 2015 / Costa de Almera www.euroweeklynews.comEWN48

THE more I read about the declin-ing state of Britain and the aban-doning of traditional values, themore I am convinced that the onlyway to restore sanity to our coun-try is to rally the troops of the for-gotten generation.

If ever we golden agers wereorganised into a cohesive force,there is no end to what could beachieved; after all, there are some10 million pensioners in the UKalone.

Imagine a mass demonstration ofa million or so curmudgeonly olddodderers in the centre of Londondemanding a reinstatement of com-mon sense, with decisions madebased on what is inherently rightand not politically expedient.

It would be an incredibly noisyaffair with state of the art sound

systems available to the speakersso that the hard of hearing couldcatch every word, a l though thescreech from hearing aid feedbackwould be excruciating.

Then, having whipped the crowdup into a frenzy of flatulence anddenture gnashing, off we wouldtotter towards Downing Street and- unless the stewards were on the

ball - anywhere else in SouthernEngland that the absent-mindedheaded for.

Naturally, all establishments enroute with toilet facilities wouldneed to be put on red alert.

If all went well and we arrived atour destination before winter setin, forget the passive protest. Actu-al ly charging at the police l ineswould be overly ambitious, but wecould limp and shuffle into themwith the intention of forcing ourway into Number 10.

Who would dare wade in to acrowd of old codgers? Any police-man beating up an octogenarianwould be a marked man and havehis face splashed across everyfront page in the land. And water-cannons would be definitely out ofthe question; the risk of pneumoniawould be too strong.

We tend to forget the vot ingpower that we command (we tendto forget a lot , actually) and thepotential power that is at ourdisposal.

Not so much a s leepingtiger, admittedly, more a nap-ping tortoise, but nevertheless...

WHIMSICAL as i t may sound, modern dayRussia could offer a solution to an overpopulat-ed and overrun Western Europe.

According to the Moscow Times, there is adesperate need to populate regions that wouldbenefit from cultivation. As a solution, it servedmankind well for a millennium and more.

Forget the myth that Siberia is relentlessfrozen tundra. Much of south-east Russia enjoysa temperate climate similar to Northern Eu-ropes or that of Canada.

Over-populated England has the oppositeproblem to underpopulated Russia. From the1600s, economic exile, emigration, transporta-tion, assisted passage, coercion, indenturedslavery and wars took pressure off Englandsunsustainable population expansion. Today,contraception, abortion and family planning areequally effective.

Authorities in Russias Far East offer onehectare of land for each relocating family mem-ber. Free of all charges, the lands owners re-ceive the title deeds to the land and buildings.The only condition is that the land is put to use.

Minister for Development of the Far East,

Alexander Galushka, says: The intention is toincrease the population six-fold to 36 millionpeople from the current 6.4 million.

Russia Insider also enters the fray: The hugeinflux of migrants into Europe might one dayforce Europeans to flee their own lands to seekshelter.

Polish media then puts its own oar in,saying: Having found themselvesinthe middle ofthe migrant cri-sis, many Europeans may wish,one day, to simply run awayfromthe problem, suggests thePolish news website, Obserwa-tor Polityczny; Many distressednations could follow Crimea inopting-out.

With the deepening collapse

of the West , Russia wil l become the onlydurable and stable country inan unstable (polit-ical) environment. Even today, many peoplefromcountries ruled bysoft-agenda politicians,unable tocope withthe relatively trivial prob-lem of i l legal immigrat ion, look to Russiawithadmiration and hope.

Russians, i t e laborates , s leeppeacefully intheir beds all the way

from Kaliningrad on the Bal t ictoMagadan, Russias easternmostlarge city onthe Pacific, confi-dent that whoever comes tothemwitha sword, will perish bythesword. Except , one hopes, EUrefugees bearing goodwill.

Colin BirdA weekly look

Mike Walsh

Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is aninternational journalist, author and professional writer.

Russias wild (open) west

Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-the-wall view of the world to the pages of EWNin his own irreverent style.

WITH vast, empty lands available for cultivation, Western Europeans may choose to migrate

Beware the sleeping tortoiseIMAGINE just a small proportion of Britains 10 million pensioners deciding to take action

IN the annual debate at theUnited Nations, Spain onceagain demanded that she andthe United Kingdom shouldreconstitute discussions aboutthe future of Gibraltar withoutallowing any Gibraltarian in-volvement.

With the run up to the nextelections in both Gibraltarand Spain, the sabres are rat-tling as usual and there reallyis little likelihood of anyagreement ever beingreached.

The Spanish position is ab-solutely clear that the 1704Treaty of Utrecht should berepealed and Spain shouldtake control of the tiny littlepiece of land that is Gibraltar.

Quite understandably,Gibraltar which apart from anot very good football team isseeing quite remarkable fi-nancial growth and has takengiant steps to reduce theamount of smuggling whichtakes place particularly withrespect to tobacco, isnt toohappy.

The Chief Minister ofGibraltar Fabian Picardo inNew York on October 10 ac-cused Spain of being the lastcolonists in Europe and inti-mated that without their bel-ligerence, Gibraltar could beready to take its place as acountry in its own right.

At the end of the day, is itreally relevant in todaysworld that a little spot of landwith less than a quarter of theinhabitants of Chichestershould cause so much fuss onthe world stage?

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OPINION & COMMENT15 - 21 October 2015 / Costa de Almera www.euroweeklynews.comEWN52

AS though Spains president, Mariano Rajoy,did not have enough problems, he must con-tend with Jose Maria Aznar.

The former president, the same person whochose Rajoy to follow him as PP leader, glee-fully undermines him at every opportunity.These have increased since the PPs dismal re-sults in the Catalan elections, where the partywas overtaken by Ciudadanos.

Mariano Rajoy has been a disappointment toAznar ever since he lost the 2004 general elec-tions. This was partly Aznars fault by insist-ing that the March 2004 terrorist bombingswere the work of ETA when all the evidencepointed to jihadists. Rajoy missed his chancethen and, when he did reach the Moncloa in2011, he no longer wanted or needed Aznar asthe power behind the throne. That must rankle.

Simple arithmeticIN non-colonial independence votes since1945, the yes vote has racked up at least

92 per cent of the ballot. So found a studyby Stephane Dion, a Canadian MP who -given Quebec - knows a thing or two aboutsecession.

Artur Mas led Catalua into regionalelections on the pro-independence Junts

pel Si ticket to see which way the windblew.

Together with the radical CUP partythey could only notch up 47.8 per cent be-tween them. End of.

All his own wayMARIANO RAJOY constantly warns ofthe dangers of coalitions. He fears thatwhen the December 20 general electionvotes are counted, alliances between cur-rent opposition parties could make him aone-term president.

Paradoxically, his huge parliamentarymajority has done Rajoy little good. Thegovernment pushed through all the legisla-tion it wanted, blithely forgetting that in-transigence breeds resentment and dia-logue wins votes.

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

Powerless behind the throne

MARIANO RAJOY: Has been a disappointment since becoming leader of the PP.

THE Noos case hearing is set