ISSUE NO. 1555 // 23 - 29 APRIL 2015ISSUE NO. 1579 8 - 14 October 2015 WWW.EUROWEEKLYNEWS.COMCOSTA DE ALMERA YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION

The sword of Damocles nolonger hangs over five villasowned by Britons in Oria.

Changes in national and re-gional legislation are alreadykicking in for homeowners whounwittingly purchased proper-ties on non-development land.

The decision to call off thecriminal court prosecution wasinfluenced by amendments toSpains Penal Code regardingillegal homes purchased ingood faith. No home may nowbe demolished without priorcompensation and the PublicProsecution Department haswithdrawn the demolition orderagainst the five villas built inOria between 2003 and 2004.

The Prosecution Depart-ments decision was describedas important by GerardoVazquez, the lawyer represent-ing the elderly British couplewho own one of the villas.

All the owners had askedhim to convey their gratitudefor the administrations sensi-tivity prompted by the PenalCode changes.

Vazquez is also legal adviserto Asociacion Abusos Ubanisti-cos Almanzora-No - AUAN -(members pictured inset at aprevious meeting) which repre-sents the owners of homesthreatened by zoning irregulari-ties of which they were un-aware when buying.

By Linda HallMOJACAR Diving Centremembers and many other vol-unteers have completelycleaned Mojacar beach and

seabed, finding in the processtons of rubbish including itemssuch as car tyres and beach fur-niture.

MOJACAR and Lucainena de las Torres are two of the 35Loveliest Towns in Spain, according to a list compiled by anassociation of the same name. They saw their beauty celebratedlast weekend.

Beauty celebration

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Two Almeria towns belong to an elite club

Rubbish removed from seabed and sand

PUBLIC Prosecutor calls off court action Squeaky clean beach

HELEN and Len Prior, who had their home in Albox demolishedeight years ago without compensation, have now been burgled andlost many of their precious belongings. See Page 65

Former victims of demolition suffer break-in

British pensioners burgled

THE donkey sculpture locat-ed in Alboxs Plaza Nuevahas suffered an act of vandal-ism as someone has cut i ts

right ear. Mayor of the townsaid the local governmentwill take all measures to findthe culprit. See Page 69

Iconic donkey statue damaged

Sculpture vandalised

Welcome turnaroundfor Oria villa-owners

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ONE HUNDRED pupils in Nijar are to re-ceive study materials during the 2015-2016school year.

This will relieve the pressure on families

experiencing financial problems, thanks tocollaboration between the Caixa banks so-cial programme and Nijar Town Hhall.

The families were located via the townhalls Social Welfare department, explainedMayor Esperanza Perez as she and Jose

Luis Fernandez, manager of Caixa banksNijar branch, announced the initiative.

This years campaign entitled Tu materi-al estrella will provide 150,000 forschoolchildren at risk of exclusion in east-ern Andalucia, the Caixa revealed.

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AN Algeciras-Barcelona Mediterranean corridor rail linkwould save Almeria fruit and vegetable growers seven cents akilo on transport. A daily 16 would be needed for theprovinces annual production.

VEHICLES are barred fromthe Genoveses and Cala Car-bon beaches between Juneand September and car parks

serving them earned289,120 in parking charges.The bus service brought in25,028.

Parking pretty

Gravy train

TWELVE ficus trees havebeen severely pruned in Alme-ria Citys Calle de las Alpujar-ras. The luxuriant foliage pro-

vided shade and the nakedtrunks and branches are nowan eyesore, residents havecomplained.

Barely there

CIVIL PROTECTION in Adra has launched a servicethrough smartphone app Telegram to provide informationfor res idents . Those in teres ted can regis ter a ttelegram.me/AvisosEmergenciasAdra after downloading theapp.

Information app

LOCAL NEWS

By Linda Hall

THIS years campaign will provide 150,000

CAIXA CAMPAIGN: Mayor Esperanza Perez with Nijar Branch Manager Jose Luis Fernandez

Material help forNijar schoolchildren

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Horror shooton locationAlmeria chosen againTHE third series ofBritish-American horrordrama television seriesPenny Dreadful will bepartly filmed in AlmeriaProvince. Until now it hasbeen shot in London andDublin.

Tunnel visionPort undergoing change

ONCE work finishes onthe false tunnel for heavytraffic bound for GarruchaPort, all 585 moorings forprivate craft are expectedto be taken. At present on-ly a quarter are used.

Promise keptTax to be abolished

AFTER January 1 Gadorresidents will no longerpay the Impuesto de Con-strucciones tax when im-proving or modifying theirproperties. He is honour-ing his election pledge, themayor said.

High hopesPensioners epic climb

EIGHTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Francisca Funesfrom Almocita fulfilled alifelong ambition byreaching the top of Mulha-cen, Spains highest main-land mountain in the Sier-ra Nevada. She completedthe final kilometre of the3,478 peak.

Capital failureWrong part of Spain

THE capital city of As-turias? Almeria! an-swered Gran Hermano(Big Brother) contestant,Ivy, during one of theshows weekly tests.Originally from Mexico,she now lives inBarcelona.

Poor pensionLowest in Spain

ALMERIA Provinces av-erage old age pension of719 a month is one ofSpains lowest. Andalu-cia has a monthly averageof 802 while the nation-al average stands at889.

FEATURED NEWS

THE president of the AlmeriaDiputacion Gabriel Amat hassuggested that Almeria couldhave its own film studios.

Amat made the hint as hesigned a collaboration agree-ment with Almeria City Hall on

the Almeria en corto festivalof short films to be held laterthis month. He echoed earlierstatements from city mayorLuis Rogelio Rodriguez-Comendedor who has said pre-viously that Almeria Province,

where so many movies and se-ries are shot, needs film studios.

Discussing the possibilityearlier this year, the mayorstressed that these should be theantithesis of the under-usedmultimillion Ciudad de la Luz

studios in Alicante which fellfoul of Brussels over fundingand are now closed.

The film studio idea is hardlynew as Antonio Rodriguez Se-gura, now the head of theDiputacions Culture Depart-

ment and former Nijar mayor,planned to build studios andpost-production laboratoriesthere.

Investors are now interestedin the project, Amat revealedthis week.

Film studios for Almeria suggested

The Spanish love to seetheir history on parade FIGURES invariably depict characters from Spains past

THERE is no doubt that the Spanishlove parades and often the more unusualthe better.

One theme that is always popular isthat of the gigantes y cabezudos whichtranslates as giants and big headswhich have heads finely made from pa-pier mach and invariably depict charac-ters from Spains past.

The gigantes are hollow figureswhich are several metres high where asingle person controls a harness withinthe body which allows it to shake anddance whilst the cabezudos are humansize but with very large heads. Looking

out through the mouth, this characternormally uses one hand to steady thehead and in the other holds a whip or in-flated pig bladder so that he can fright-en children.

These figures are often accompaniedby a marching band and cause much hi-larity in parades around Spain, particu-larly during the Fiestas del Pilar whichfalls on October 12, a national holiday.

The most famous of the Pilar Fiestasis run in Zaragoza from October 10 to18 and will certainly include thesegrotesque manikins, although on Octo-ber 12, the statue of the Virgin Mary sur-rounded by flowers will take centrestage in the parades.

By John Smith

ON PARADE: The giant hollow figures which are several metres high.

I want a kinderpolitics, a morecaring society

Gigantes andCabezudos

THE title of a zarzuela from 1898 setin Zaragoza about the Spanisharmys return from defeat in theCuban War of Independence. The ac-tion focuses on characteristics ofpeople from Aragon, comparingthem to Gigantes and Cabezudos.

Jeremy Corbyn in his first speech asleader to the Labour party conference

in Brighton

450,000is the record from 2009

for the number of peoplewho placed flowers in a

pyramid structure built inZaragoza for the weekof the Fiestas del Pilar

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Baited meat left out for mans dogs

MOJACAR and Lucainena de las Tor-res enjoyed a celebration in commonlast weekend.

They belong to Spains LoveliestTowns Association, which has 35 priv-ileged members. Both took part in thedifferent events organised in all of themember municipali t ies to mark thefirst edition of Loveliest Towns Day.

This is the first time that this eventhas been held, explained Francisco

Mestre who is the directorof the association. It iscommitted to beauty as a unifying fea-ture for the future of these small butidyllic locations.

Mayors in the associations 35 mem-ber towns hoisted the association flagand read a statement encouraging na-tional organisations like Turespaa tobecome more involved helping theselocalities.

The towns are completely authenticexamples of what it is to be Spanish

from the point of view of heri tage,food and customs, Mestre said.

The majority of the municipalitiesbelonging to the association held opendays with free entrance to museumsand other tourist attractions.

Towns belonging to the network aredrawn from all parts of Spain from As-turias to Aragon, Castilla-Leon, Castil-la-La Mancha, Cantabria, Valencia andthe Canary Islands.

Two Almeria towns tocelebrate their beautyCHOSEN as lovely and authentic examples of what it is to be Spanish

PAIR OF BEAUTIES: Mojacar and Lucainena de las Torres.

By Linda Hall

ADRA resident, Ramon Man-zano, believes someone wantsto harm his dogs.

Returning home after a walkwith Sira, Mini and Rumbo, hesaw around 60 pieces of

sausage on the pavement.The dogs made straight for

them but Ramon suspectedthat something was not rightand inspected the sausages,placed conveniently outside

his door. He found they contained

nails and pieces of glass, guar-anteeing an agonising andslow death for his three dogs.

Two dogs owned by Ramon

have died after eating poisonedmeat in the last 10 years, he re-vealed.

Its obvious that someonewants to get rid of my pets, hesaid.

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IF rumours are correct, La Al-cazaba will be closed to thepublic on October 20 and 21.

This is regarded as unspo-ken confirmation that these arethe days when the Moorishmonument overlooking Alme-ria City will become a Gameof Thrones location.

The production company isgiving nothing away, especial-ly after leaked photographs offilming in Belfast were circu-lated on the internet.

The regional and local gov-ernment are agreed that choos-ing Almeria as one of the loca-tions for the sixth season ofthe HBO fantasy show willbring free international public-ity to the province and moreemployment.

Rosa Aguilar, who heads theJuntas Culture Departmentadmitted that it is impossibleto calculate the direct benefitsto Almeria, especially as film-

ing has yet to start.Lucia Ayala, a Podemos

Party regional MP for Almeriais unconvinced. Speaking inthe Sevilla parliament sheclaimed that the province

would be called on to providenothing more than extras, run-ners, gofers, waiters and dri-vers.

Nothing has changed sincethe 70s spaghetti westerns, Ay-

ala claimed.We need less Welcome

Mr Marshall, she added, re-ferring to a favourite 50s film,and more Fellini Eight-and-a-Half.

Almeria monument maybe in Game of ThronesLA ALCAZABA is rumoured to be a location in next series of fantasy drama

LOCATION: Production company remains tight-lipped regarding castles use.

POLITICAL parties on a town coun-cil seldom agree but a plague of ratshas united Huercal de Almeria.

Rats (and also snakes) are a prob-lem in the La Fuensanta district ad-

joining the overgrown and unusedFinca el Canario, which is the prop-erty of the regional government.

Izquierda Unida called on the re-gional government to fumigate the

area before the problem spreads. The IU-run town hall urged the

Junta not to turn deaf ears to a re-quest that had the unanimous back-ing of all local parties.

Pied Piper needed for rats

WITHOUT a great deal of pub-licity, a number of the largerelectricity companies intro-duced a new method of charg-ing for electricity based onhourly usage with each hourhaving a different tariff, whichcan also change depending up-on the day of usage.

In theory, there could be 168different tariffs each week andeven they could change depend-ing on whether its a windy day,as if it is, more wind powercomes into play and electricitycould get cheaper.

Organisations such as the Cit-izens Advice Bureau seem a lit-tle ambivalent as to whetherthere will be any real saving al-though they think on balancethere may be. They do pointout, however, that a high per-

centage of the bill from the elec-tricity companies is in respect oftaxes and fixed charges ratherthan consumer usage.

They also add that all those

with a tele-operated digital me-ter and on a contract with thePVPC (Precio Voluntario al Pe-queo Consumidor) tariff willbe affected by this change.

Those on a contract that offers afixed price for a whole year arenot.

Practically all electricitycompanies can offer an hour-to-

hour billing system, but the sys-tem as regulated by the state canonly be offered by commercial-izadores de referencia amongstwhich are Endesa, Iberdrola,Gas Natural Fenosa, EDP Es-paa and E.ON Espaa. Withthe new regulation in force,more companies can join if theymeet certain requisites.

There is some confusion as tothe likely cost of changing themeter but according to informa-tion received, one of the mainplayers has indicated a 9charge for changing the meterfollowed by an 81- cent month-ly rental charge.

Beware the unscrupulouswho may try to take advantageof this change and always con-tact your electricity supplier asthey are the ideal company tomake any changes for you.

New electricity tariffsintroduced on October 1DIFFERENT method of charging based on hourly usage

ELECTRICITY COSTS: Consumer bodies ambivalent as to whether there will be savings.

By John Smith

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Less elitismTHE Junta de Andaluciaregional government isstudying hunting regula-tions for 2016-2017. Re-sponding to popular re-quests these should be lessdiscriminatory and makethe sport available to thoseon lower incomes.

Healthy salesFORTY-THREE per centof Andalucias fruit andvegetable exports be-tween January and Au-gust were Almeria-grown.They produced a 1.503million turnover, 12 percent more than in 2014.

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Going westPUEBLO VIEJO is thefirst western ever to beproduced and directed inPeru. It will be shown in theAlmeria Western FilmFestival that starts today,Thursday, in Tabernas.

Teen foundA MISSING 16-year-oldfrom Los Partidores wasfound safe and sound nextday in Almeria City. Heargued with his motherwhile she was driving anddisappeared after gettingout of the car.

NEWS EXTRA Park visit for exchange students

MORE than 200 Erasmus exchange stu-dents recently visited the Cabo de Gata-Nija national park.

They were spending an IntegrationWeekend there, organised by the interna-tional Erasmus Student Network and theAlmeria Erasmus association.

Nijar Mayor Esperanza Perez Felicesand the town halls Youth CouncillorAinhoa Salmeron welcomed them in theRodalquilar amphitheatre.

Right now you are in a national parkand biosphere reserve that you will re-member for years to come, Perez said,adding that she hoped that they would allwant to return one day in the future.

AN Integration Weekend was organised in Cabo de Gata-NijaBy Eleanor Hawkins

MEMORABLE: Mayorhoped visit wouldstay with the students.

November trial for allegedpeople traffickersTWO Cameroonians will betried by jury in November forcausing the deaths of up to 30people including seven babies.

They were bringing in illegalimmigrants by sea last Decem-ber and the Almeria Public

Prosecutor must now determinehow many people were killedas a direct result of their ac-tions. Others could have diedbecause of the complicatedmaritime conditions, the exam-ining judge said.

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A MOJACAR beach and theseabed have had a thoroughclean-up.

Mojacar Diving Centre,members of the public, townhall employees and Civil De-fence members cleared awayrubbish which in some casesneeds 450 years to biodegrade.

The event was organised toraise public awareness of seapollution and the 30 volunteerswere given an environmentaltalk on the Rumina beach nearthe mouth of the River Aguas.

The diving team was com-posed of beginners and ad-vanced divers while childrenand adults, who included Coun-cillors Agustin Montoya andEmmanuel Aguera, removedlitter from the beach. Town hallstaff and Civil Defence volun-

teers assisted with logisticalsupport, transporting the diversand also collecting the debrisfound on the seabed and Rumi-na beach. Amongst the itemsfound on the seabed were a tyre

and the frame of a beach um-brella, bringing home the needfor environmental conservationand highlighting the dangers ofallowing rubbish to accumulatein the seas and oceans.

Mojacar beach istopped and tailedRUBBISH removed from seabed and sandBy Linda hall

RUMINA BEACH: River Aguas flows down to the sea.

AIR NOSTRUM is maintain-ing its twice-weekly Almeria-Palma de Mallorca this winter.

They were expected to finishwith the introduction of thewinter schedule at the end ofOctober but the routes excel-lent results encouraged theIberia subsidiary to continuethroughout the off-season.

The Thursday and Sundayflights proved popular with

Almeria residents working inMallorca during the summer aswell as tourists and the servicewill continue until at leastMarch next year, sources said.

Air Nostrum has flown fromAlmerias El Alquian airport toMadrid without interruptionsince 1997 and to Melilla -Spains enclave in North Africa- since 2001. The Sevilla routestarted in 2010 and this summersaw the beginning of the Palmade Mallorca service, filling the

gap left by the discontinued AirBerlin connection.

The Madrid route accountsfor 43 per cent of Air Nos-trums passengers while theSevilla connection increased by52 per cent in the first sixmonths of this year comparedwith the same period in 2014.

In what has been a mediocreyear for El Alquian, the Iberiasubsidiary now accounts for al-most a third of the passengersusing the airport.

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By Linda hall

Mallorca air routewill continueTWICE-WEEKLY flights have been a success

EL ALQUIAN: Passengers at Almeria airport.

Possible solutions for El AlgarrobicoA RULING on the El Algarrobico hotelshould arrive soon from the Supreme Court.

The tribunal will rule whether the landwhere the hotel was constructed on the El Al-garrobico beach near Carboneras was classi-fied for development or if the building is sit-uated too near the shoreline. It must alsodecide whether the land now belongs to theregional government.

In a rare interview Jose Rodriguez Losada,director general of the Algarrobicos ownersAzata del Sol, said the company was pre-pared to relocate the hotel brick by brick toprevent demolition and provide employment.

Losada also suggested using the unoccu-pied building as an environmental centre, ahotel school or for activities linked to thesea.

The ADANA shelter needs 9,000per month to keep it going, and de-pends entirely on funds raised.

Dur ing the course of the years ,Jayne has become a well-known fig-ure in the community, which has as-sisted her in being able to raise thou-sands upon thousands of euros tokeep up the good work.

Jayne also thinks outside the box,as she believes that educating chil-dren on how important it is to avoidunwanted breeding and be responsi-ble for chipping their pets, is vital.She has visited schools in the area,including Calpe School, where she

gives ta lks to the classes . Alwaysthinking, and always giving 100 per

cent is why Jayne really does achieveher goals.

She added: In f ive years f romnow, I would like to see the ADANAshelter with electricity and be up to ahigh standard without having to con-stantly battle on with short-term pro-jects. It is her rewards that drive heron, as she remarked: When you seean animal that has been through therough times and totally unwanted, towitness them in their new home is afeeling that money cannot buy.

Its not just about animals, but itis also how animals can bring joy tochildren or an older person. It worksfor both parties and makes me happyto see comfort in others in that way.

Between organising and overseeingprogrammes including the Sponsor aDog programme, Jayne is also thepresident of her home community.She admits that she has a desire forteam work, moving forward and mak-ing a change.

She is always grateful for supportfrom organisations, including EuroWeekly News, in sponsor ing dogshows and the like.

Her faith in the community andher need for giving things back iswhat is at the heart of her persona.She also finds strength in her localchurch and is always there to supportothers around her.

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A passion for getting things done

JAYNE FISHER has a lwaysused her skills to help otherswho are less for tunate thanmost . She is a woman whosees the bigger picture, and isfocused on how to achieve thedesired results.

She ar r ived in Spain in2005, after working in Edin-burgh as the Chief Executiveof a home for the disabled. Shewas responsible for f indingsuitable homes for those whoneeded specia l physica l re-quirements and she made surethat ongoing support was a thand.

From this background, it isno surprise that Jayne still pos-sessed the passion to get thingsdone when she and her hus-band Bill bought their homehere in Spain.

She had witnessed terribles ights and many abandonedanimals - two being lef t tos tarve in the mounta ins -which rang alarm bells in herconscience that something hadto be done.

Being in a position to volun-teer help , Jane contacted asmall charity that had been op-era t ing, named ADANA,which was in desperate need ofobtaining ongoing funds. Sherecalled: I began to distributetin money boxes all around thearea just to get money comingin for the shelter. The problemwas plain to see that you needongoing funds, and not just theone-off influx from an event.

Jayne began to help organiseevents along with other volun-teers, and being treasurer shehas to make sure that that tapalways flows.

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Our Euro Womenseries is featuringwomen who havemade a success of theirlives in Spain. Theseoutstanding ladieshave been shatteringglass ceilings whetherin business, charitywork or sports.

Past experiences spurJayne Fisher on to helpmistreated and aban-doned animals.

Do you know a Euro Woman? If you do please drop us a line at eurowomen@euroweeklynews.com giving full contact details and why you feel they deserve to be honoured.As well as being featured in the EWN a book is being produced for Christmas with all profits going to charitable organisations.

Fact fileWhen you see an

unwanted ani-mal in a new

home, it is a feel-ing that money

cannot buy

Name: Jayne Fisher

Age: 57

Profession: Treasurer of ADANA

Family: Husband, Bill

Pets: 3 ADANA dogs and 2 cats

Where from: London

Where now: Sabanillas, Estepona, Malaga

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

Book or TV: Book

Favourite title : Salman Rushdie novels

Strengths: Organising, getting things done

What irritates you about some people: Those who are

judgemental

Jayne always gives 100 per cent FORWARD THINKER: Jayne believes in educating the young about being responsible for their animals.

TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2015, NA-TOs biggest exercise in 25 years,is under way.

Manoeuvres began on October 3

and continue until November 6, in-volving 36,000 personnel frommore than 30 nations. Some arestationed at the Viator military baseand Spain is contributing 8,000troops.

These are divided into two phas-es from October 3-16 where theAlboran Sea off Almeria is beingused for training exercises. Thesecond phase from October 24-No-vember 6 takes place in real time

with amphibian landings, parachutejumps, special operations and mili-tary action in an urban scenario.

Trident Juncture 2015 demon-strates a new increased level of am-bition in joint modern warfare,

NATO said. It showcases a capa-ble, forward-leading Allianceequipped with the appropriate ca-pability and capacity to meet pre-sent and future security chal-lenges.

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SPAIN is one of 30 nations taking part in training exercises in the Alboran Sea

NATO flexes its muscles in new manoeuvresBy Linda Hall

VERA Town Hhallvoted to take legal ac-tion against the cen-tral government fordelays over control-ling the River Antas.

The town hall isobliged to defend theinterests of Vera resi-dents and their person-al and material safety,said spokesman Fran-cisco Vazquez.

The Pueblo-Lagunade Vera area at the riv-er mouth, whereflooding occurs whenthe usually-dry water-course overflows dur-ing periods of torren-tial rain, is officiallyrecognised as a blackspot by the regionalgovernment.

The definitive solu-tion for the problem isrechannelling the An-tas which caused cata-strophic floods in Sep-tember 1989 and 2012,the town hall said.

The regional om-budsman suggestedthat as the Junta deAndalucia and thecentral government inMadrid cannot decidewho is responsible forthe river, the problemshould be referred tothe Junta-State Bilat-eral CooperationCommittee.

Once this is settled,the Antas can be chan-nelled and i ts banksreinforced to prevent arepetition of past dis-asters.

RiverAntasneeds asolution

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OCTOBER 2 celebration of Guardian Angels

A special day forSpains police force

POLICE all over Spain re-cently celebrated the feastday of their patrons, theGuardian Angels.

In Adra the occasion wasmarked with a ceremony inPlaza Puerta del Mar presidedby the mayor, Manuel Cortes,

and Maria Trinidad Perez,Chief Inspector of Adras Lo-cal Police force. Also presentwere Lieutenant Isacio Peina-do, who heads the localGuardia Civil post and CesarArroniz, the councillor re-sponsible for Public Safety.

After the flag was hoistedand the national anthem

played, Manuel Cortes drewattention to the day-to-daywork of the Local Police andits importance in guarantee-ing citizen safety and wellbe-ing.

He and the chief inspectoralso thanked the police for thevital part they played in theSeptember 7 floods.

By Linda Hall

GRATITUDE: Police thanked for year-round work.

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VILLARICOS plans for moremoorings for private craft atthe harbour received the go-ahead from the regional gov-ernment.

Authorisation for the450,000 project was an-nounced in the Junta de An-dalucias Official Bulletin(BOJA) although the regionalgovernment indicated that theparticipation by the private

sector would be decisive.Modifications to the exist-

ing facilities are expected tocost 100,000 while newbuildings for complementaryactivities will account for theremaining 350,000.

Ambitious plans forVillaricos marina

By Linda Hall

EXTRA moorings and complementary activities

HARBOUR PLAN: Junta approved 450,000 project.

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CONTINUING on from the last legisla-ture, Mojacar Town Council will contin-ue its policy of helping families in need.

In this regard, the council led by thepopular Rosmari Cano, is aware of thegreat difficulty which many families inthe municipality face at the beginning ofeach year to purchase school supplies.

The adminis t ra t ion has des igned ascheme with the aim of collaboratingwith them and reducing this economicburden they face each year. The benefi-ciaries of these subsidies may be pursu-ing their studies at high school, junior

school, nursery and even in university.Councillor for Social Services, Raquel

Belmonte said, Unfortunately, manyfamilies are so poor and are awardedthese grants to help their children haveequal access to education, thereby con-tributing to a better future.

We wi l l cont inue working for thepoorest families with assistance and sub-sidies for activities such as sports and at-tending the music school. This is in ad-dition to the support for the payment ofelectr ic i ty and water bi l ls and aid tolarger families, amongst many others.

THE Supreme Court ruled thatEl Jueves magazine did notridicule a Spanish Legion cor-poral from the Viator base.

The soldier claimed 30,000damages, alleging that thesatirical magazine breachedhis honour, image and priva-cy by using his photograph inOctober 2008.

Only the corporals torso

was used in a photomontage,his face obscured with clownsmake-up and totally unrecog-nisable, the court decided.

Anything to keep Rajoyamused, a speech balloonsaid.

This referred to MarianoRajoy - then leader of the Op-position - who was overheardcomplaining to party grandeeJavier Arenas: TomorrowIve got the pain in the a**e

of a military parade.He was due to attend the Oc-

tober 12 Dia de la Hispanidadmarch-past and the magazinewas not criticising the corporalor the Legion, but Mariano Ra-joy, the Supreme Court ruled.

The photograph used for themontage was accessible to thepublic and the judges conclud-ed that in this instance free-dom of speech took priority ofthe appellants image rights.

By Linda Hall

CARTOON was not an affront said court

EL JUEVES: Court ruled they did not ridicule a Spanish Legion corporal.

Mojacar TownCouncil offers freeschool materials forlow income familiesAIM is to continue working for those in need with assis-tance and subsidies for activities such as sports and music Not for a laugh

POLICE are investigating the circumstances of astabbing in Almeria Citys La Chanca district.

The victim was taken by ambulance to Tor-recardenas hospital after he was found lying onthe ground in Calle Miras Romera with a neckwound and a blow to the head. His injurieswere sustained during an argument with anoth-er person who led the scene, according to wit-nesses.

Sources close to the case revealed that theinjured man is a habitual delinquent who iswell known to the police and has an extensivecriminal record for drug dealing and robberywith violence.

Police, who scoured the area immediatelyafterwards for the attacker without success, be-lieve that the incident was likely to be a set-tling of accounts, the same sources said.

SPECIALISTS from the La Al-gameca naval base (Cartagena)detonated a bomb discovered offAlmerias El Zapillo beach.

It was located two days previ-ously by amateur divers onekilometre offshore at a depth of15 metres. They immediatelyalerted the Guardia Civil whosent divers from the GEAS unitto photograph and assess the 80-centimetre bomb that is believedto date from the 1936-1939 Civ-il War.

The Maritime Action unitsOperations and Observationcentre was warned of the findand the area within a 500-metreradius of the bomb was cor-doned-off. A navy bomb dispos-al unit arrived the following dayto detonate the bomb in a con-trolled explosion and remove theresulting debris.

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By Linda Hall

Navy called inafter bomb findEXPLOSIVE believed to date from the Civil WAR

BOMB: GEAS divers inspect Civil War relic.

Accounts settled in La Chanca

Hotel chainexpandsALMERIA-BASED PlayaSenator hotels are now pre-sent in Sevilla, renting the80-room Hotel Virgen delos Reyes. The chain nowhas 32 hotels Spain andone in Tunisia.

Flower powerSIX HUNDRED orna-mental plants and trees,supplied by the AlmeriaDiputacion have been dis-tributed in Adra. All arenative to the region andinclude myrtle, oleandersand cypresses.

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AN environment patrol con-fiscated 15 kilos of fishpoached from the Cabo deGata-Nija national parks ma-rine reserve.

The haul of pollock andgrouper, illegally caught bydivers, was later sent to acharity organisation.

Diving for fish is bannedfrom the inner zones of thenature reserve where fishingis restricted to hobby angleror fishing boats using tradi-tional craft methods.

The environment officialstask was simplified at the endof last year when mobileCCTV cameras were installedin the parks coastal areas.The images are sent back to acontrol centre where the oper-ative has a clear view of whatis happening in differentzones and can take preventivemeasures where necessary.

Inspectors from the regionalgovernment carry out random

inspections at markets andfishmongers as well as barsand restaurants specialising in

seafood. The origin of the fishhas to be checked since illegal-ly-acquired fish not only

breaches environmental regu-lations but also has not passedhealth controls.

By Linda Hall

Fish poachers netted Nun sues fordefamationONLY anglers and traditional methods allowed in park

GROUPER: No poaching in Cabo de Gata-Nijar reserve.

COUSINS Ascension Lopez and Dolores Baena Lopez final-ly faced each other in court.

The first is the Almeria president of SOS Bebes Robados,an association whose members were given in adoption asnewborns and who suspect that they were taken without theirbirth mothers consent.

Dolores Baena Lopez is a nun and mediated in Ascen-sions adoption by her aunt and uncle who by then were intheir 60s. Her cousin claims she organised the adoptionwhich cost her adoptive parents 250,000 pesetas (1,500) in1964.

Ascension Lopez, who was born in the Hospital de lasCinco Llagas in Sevilla, filed a formal complaint against Sis-ter of Charity, Sor Dolores. She has not produced documentsor witnesses to back up her suspicions and her cousin is nowsuing her for defamation.

The accusations are damaging her reputation, that of theSisters of Charity and Nuevo Rumbo, the rehabilitation pro-gramme for drug addicts that she founded in Almeria, SorDolores said.

What shes saying is ridiculous, the nun said during herAlmeria high court appearance. Nobody was behind theadoption, everything was legal and nobody was paid any-thing.

The newborn baby was abandoned at birth and no detailsexisted of her biological parents. She asked me who theywere and I have always told her the truth: I dont know, SorDolores told the court.

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THE socialists on Gergal Council areurging the town hall to reopen thetowns iron ore mines.

Over the last decades Gergal has suf-fered an important reduction in thenumber of people on the padron, theparty will say in a motion it plans topresent at the next plenary meeting.

This is due to the lack of employ-ment opportunities which could pro-vide a stable way of life, maintainedparty spokesman Antonio Ruano, butrecovering Gergals mining industrycould provide jobs and prosperity.

At the end of the 19th century andthe beginning of the 20th, Gergal en-

joyed brilliant growth and the evidencecan still be seen, he said.

Reopening the mines would reacti-vate employment although this wouldhave to be achieved with minimum en-vironmental impact while putting thegeneral interest first, Ruano empha-sised.

Mines could bring back prosperity

PUPPIES from dangerousbreeds are routinely putdown at the Almeria Cityanimal shelter.

In accordance with a citybylaw, they must be putdown after 10 days if un-claimed by their owners.

Following a meetingwith the Pacma animal pro-tection association, Ciu-dadanos (Cs) spokesmanMiguel Cazorla asked thecity council to think twiceabout this practice.

The issue arose during amunicipal debate on subsi-dies for local groups and as-sociations. Pacma has ex-plained to him that expertsdo not believe that any pup-

py is potentially dangerous,Cazorla said. Putting itdown to prevent future dan-ger is totally disproportion-ate because it ignores theimportance of training, Pac-ma said.

So long as the initiativereceives favourable techni-cal reports, CiudadanosAlmeria wants the councilto examine the possibilityof modifying the bylawwhich allows the puppiesonly 10 days at the shelterbefore they are put down.

According to the animaldefence platform Libera-cion Animal approximately200 potentially dangerousdogs, crossbreeds and pup-pies are put down at themunicipal shelter each year.

Give pups achance plea

By Linda Hall

CITY HALL asked tomodify bylaw

THE Almeria City Hallwebsite now details thefinancial assets of thecorporations 27 councillors.

Bank balances of 13Partido Popular councillors,nine from the PSOE, threefrom Ciudadanos and twofrom Izquierda Unida-LosVerdes are listed, withproperties owned outright orjointly and their values.

There is also a record ofthe value, make and year ofall cars worth more than6,000 as well as any boatsthey may own.

The information was filedwhen the councillors - somenew and some who werereturning to city hall - weresworn in last June.

All other public poststhey hold are listed, as aresources of income other thantheir councillors salaries,bank loans, pensionschemes, insurance policiesand the size of theirmortgages.

ALBANCHEZ hopes to revertto Gestion de Aguas del Lev-ante Almeriense (Galasa) forits domestic water.

The town hall voted recentlyfor a return to public sectorGalasa two years after the pre-vious council contracted itsdomestic supply elsewhere.

Mayor Anabel Padilla re-cently met Galasa executivesto discuss the changeover andthe 180 homes in Los Llanosand Los Angeles whose waterhas been cut off.

Through no fault of theirown, they were using an unau-thorised supply although, asreported in the Euro WeeklyNews, the town hall announced

that it would find a solution forthe mainly British and Belgianexpatriates who were sold ir-regularly-built homes.

The Galasa meeting was sat-isfactory, Padilla revealed:They explained that their en-gineers need to inspect the wa-ter pipes and send their find-ings to the Diputacin. Afavourable report would be thefirst step towards restoring theservice for these residents.

Javier Aureliano Garcia,Vice-President of the Galasaboard, took the same line.

The water company was notresponsible for the situationbut would do everything legal-ly possible to redress it and en-sure that householders did notsuffer, he said.

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Council votesfor return topublic waterSOLUTION sought for expat residents

By Eleanor Hawkins

CUTS: There are 180 homes currently without water.

Politiciansassets thereto be seen

ADRA Town Hall is stepping up the anti-litter campaign launched this summer.

Adra belongs to us all: look after itposters remind residents, asking them to as-sist in improving the towns image and theirown quality of life.

Francisco Lopez and Cesar Arroniz, re-spective councillors for Services and theEnvironment, recently distributed theposters throughout the town.

The council has spent almost 60,000 onacquiring street-cleaning machines, Fran-cisco Lopez pointed out. Clean streets area priority and the town hall is making agreat effort to make the most of its re-sources. This is a basic service that impactson Adras quality of life, he added.

The town hall has set specific times whenshops should put out cardboard, soft plas-tics and other materials which should beparcelled up before they are left beside

communal rubbish containers. Householdsare requested to respect the rubbish collec-tion timetable so that containers do notoverflow or are a source of bad smells.

Residents and visitors are also asked toco-operate by using litter bins and cleaning

up after their pets. Those using the beachesare asked to collaborate in keeping themclean. This campaign promotes civic prin-ciples that benefit everybody and at thesame time enhance the towns image, Ce-sar Arroniz said.

NEWS8 - 14 October 2015 / Costa de Almera www.euroweeklynews.comEWN30

By Linda Hall

Keep Adra tidydrive stepped upCIVIC principles promoted that benefit all

CAMPAIGN: Francisco Lopez, Adra Services Councillor.

NEWS8 - 14 October 2015 / Costa de Almera www.euroweeklynews.comEWN32

AN art project in Bristol that aimedto capture the sound of beechnutsfalling from a 100-year-old tree isscuppered as the tree chosen had nofruit wasting 37,000 (50,000).

Airport fineA DRIVER has been fined 150

(200) after getting lost at the RobinHood Airport in Doncaster and stop-ping for seconds to get her bearingsand turn around in a dead-end road.

Mad cowA COW on a Welsh farm has been

confirmed as being infected with madcow disease. The disease has not en-tered the food chain and there is norisk to human health according to theauthorities.

Price hikeUK telecoms regulator Ofcom just

announced an inflation-busting pricehike that will triple the licence fees

paid by UK mobile networkoperating companies. Thelikes of EE, O2, Vodafoneand Three must pay thegovernment to use the900MHz and 1800MHz ra-dio frequency spectrumbands, which from Octoberof next year will cost the in-dustry 199.6 million peryear.

Hostile surgery A LEADING female surgeon

from Burton Hospitals NHS Foun-dation Trust has criticised operat-ing theatres for being an oldboys club and being hostile en-vironments for women.

EUROPEAN PRESS

Survival success SWEDEN has the highest

cancer survival rates in Eu-rope according to a study bythe European Cancer Con-gress in Vienna. Survival ratesin northern Europe averaged59.6 per cent with Swedens at64.7 per cent.

Wealthy SwedesSWEDES are the fourth

wealthiest people in Europeand fifth richest in the worldbehind the Swiss, the Ameri-cans, British and Belgians ac-cording to a wealth study by in-surer Allianz.

Repeat offenderDENMARK: A Palestinian,

aged 25, who stabbed a policeofficer at an asylum centre inDenmark is the same man whois accused of attacking aSwedish minister earlier in theyear.

Wolf attackSWEDEN: Residents in Jar-

bo in central Sweden are con-cerned about increasing wolfattacks after a wolf snatched apuppy from its garden in thetown.

Job shiftDENMARK: Almost 4,000

government jobs in Denmarkwill be moved out of theCopenhagen area to 38 othercities and towns to help createbetter balance.

Pricey deliveryDENMARK. Postage costs

in Denmark will almost doublefrom January 1, 2016. Firstclass letters will increase fromthe current 10 kroner to 19 kro-ner (2.55).

Training help NORWAY: The Norwegian

Armys Combat Training Cen-tre is to receive advanced train-ing and simulation systems andsystem support from Saab. Theorder was issued by the Norwe-gian Defence Logistics Organi-sation and is worth about $16.8million.

THE number of foreign studentsat Dutch universities and collegessoared to 62,000 last academic yearand now accounts for 9 per cent ofthe student body. Cheaper studentfees are a draw, particularly forBritish students.

Police resignationHEAD of the Dutch national po-

lice force has resigned saying he nolonger feels capable of seeing

through the current reor-ganisation of the merger of 26 policeregions into one single national po-lice force.

Early EnglishAN advisory body recommends

that children should learn Englishfrom the age of four, as soon asthey begin at a Dutch primaryschool.

Weaker growthDUTCH industrial growth has

weakened slightly, but companiesreport they are not too worriedabout problems in China and otherdeveloping countries.

Wind powerPOWER generated by

Germanys wind farms bySeptember surpassed lastyears total, thanks tofavourable weather condi-tions and an expansion ofwind farms, producing 59billion kilowatt-hours sofar this year.

Brit moveTHE new British Am-

bassador to Berlin, Sir Se-bastian Wood, has said hehopes relations betweenthe UK and Germany willbecome closer and thatmore young British peoplewill move to Germany.

Top uniTHE number of German

universities among the worldstop 200 has almost doubledsince last year. LMU Munichwas Germanys highest rank-ing at number 29.

Rent-a-bunkerA HIDDEN Stasi bunker

on the outskirts of Berlin isavailable for rent for3,000 a month. The nu-clear bunker was built inthe 1980s.

A giant stepTHREE of the worlds

tallest people have been inGermany to visit the specialistshoemaker who helps maketheir lives bearable. GeorgWessels has produced 500pairs of shoes for the worldstallest people over the last 30years.

Best placeACTRESS Claire Danes

has spoken of her love ofBerlin where she is filming thenew season of Homeland.Speaking on the Ellen De-Generes show she said the no-torious Berghain club was thebest place on Earth.

Dead or aliveA WOMAN who was de-

clared dead over 30 yearsago after a man admitted toher murder, is alive. Thewoman, now 55, staged herown disappearance but re-fuses to tell police why orto contact her family.

GERMANPRESS

SCANDINAVIANPRESS

BRITISHPRESS

More and more people going Dutch

DUTCHPRESS

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS: Number of foreign students at Dutch universities and colleges soared.

BEECH tree had no fruit

Project wastes money

CHEAPER student fees are a draw, particularly for British students

OLD BOYSCLUB:

Theatreshostile

environmentsfor women.

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CONSTRUCTION of theworlds first underwaterRussian Orthodox church hasbegun in Crimea with diversplacing a giant cross at thebottom of the Black Sea. It ishoped the underwater templewill draw tourists to thepeninsula.

No tarmacA 500M stretch of a motor-

way in northern Moscow, thatwas stripped of its tarmacduring a renovation pro-gramme, has still not beencovered with new asphalt,worsening congestion on oneof the citys busiest roads.

Uni risingMOSCOW State Universi-

ty climbed 35 places to 161ston the Times Higher Educa-tion world university rankingslist for 2015-16. It shares itsplace with the University ofMiami in the USA.

Cemeteryauction

AN online auction for 100family burial plots located in13 of Moscows ceme-teries is being held inNovember. The auc-tion is part of a wider

bid to improve the quality ofthe funeral services sector.

History changeTHE Kazakh Education

Ministry will correct geographyand history textbooks to re-move references to Crimea as aRussian region. Moscow an-

nexed Crimea

from Ukraine last year, but fewnations have officially recog-nised the region as part of Rus-sia.

End ofconspiracy

A RUSSIAN space enthusi-ast is asking for 800,000 rubles(10,800) to fund the buildingof a spacecraft to prove that theApollo moon landing reallyhappened and finally endingconspiracy theories.

Baby saleA RUSSIAN woman is on

trial for attempting to sell herfive-month-old son throughWhatsApp for 1.5 millionrubles (20,000).

Deep recessionNOW, for the first time in the

countrys history, millions ofRussians who cannot pay backtheir debts will be able to filefor bankruptcy. The measure ismeant to ease the financial situ-ation of people struggling withrepayments amid a deep reces-sion.

RUSSIAN PRESS

IT has been reported thatRussian hackers tried at leastfive times to hack into HillaryClintons private email ac-count when she was secretaryof state.

Underwater church HOPED to attract tourists to the peninsula

Clinton hackers

BLACK SEA: The worlds first underwater church for divers.

HILLARYCLINTON:Hackingattempt.

By John Smith

MANOS LIMPIAS, a trade unionwhich has a history of taking actionagainst public figures, including thekings sister, has laid a criminal com-plaint against Volkswagen AGs threeSpanish units and their chairmen.

They are accused of defraudingconsumers and the tax authorities aswell as damaging the environmentwhilst the Spanish state could alsoface a civil liability case for failing toadequately supervise the carmaker.

To add to their troubles, SEAT an-nounced that the

Spanish government, which offeredsubsidies of 1,000 for energy effi-cient car purchases, requires the man-ufacturer, rather than the consumer, torepay the money where emissionshave been tampered with and nowawaits details of the number of carsaffected.

MO FARAH: Gold medal winner promotes food company.

FINANCEbusiness & legal

35Costa de Almera EWN8 - 14 October 2015$48.5 million (43.4 million) are the single weekend gross takings in America for the childrens filmHotel Transylvania 2, almost four times as much as the takings for its nearest rival.

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FERNANDO BERNARD and Bel-tran Parages, former executives ofBestinver Asset Management, arestarting a fund focused on underval-ued equities in Spain and abroad.

AzValor Asset Management SGI-IC will be registered with the Span-ish regulator and will include a mu-tual fund focused on Spanish andPortuguese equities with another forinternational equities.

QUORN FOODS, the meatsubst i tute company, hasbeen sold to Monde Nissinin the Philippines for 550million (770 million).

Produced in Yorkshireand advertised as a healthyproduct by Olympic goldmedal winner Mo Farah,the food is produced fromfungus and is available ei-

ther on its own or in readymeals including burgersand sausages.

Currently employing 620people in the UK and ex-porting to 15 countries, themanagement expect to notonly increase the numberof staff employed, but toalso expand into the lucra-tive Asian market.

Quorn is gobbledup by Filipino firm

Mint securityGUNNEBO SPAIN, a sub-sidiary of a Swedish group, haswon a 1.8 million contract toincrease security at a banknotefactory belonging to the Span-ish Royal Mint. The factorycontains a paper mill fromwhich banknotes are printedand Gunnebo has been ap-pointed to provide armouredpanels to shield the factory.

Repsol saleREPSOL has announcedthat it has sold part of itspiped gas business to GasNatural Distribution and Re-dexis Gas for 652m. It hasnow surpassed its goal ofraising 900m from the saleof non-strategic assets.

Battle is overEIGHTEEN lawsuits had beenactive between the companies,Microsoft and Google, relatingto the use of technologies inmobile phones, Wifi and otherareas but in a joint statementthey have now said that theywould collaborate on certainpatent matters.

STOCK markets around the world ended thethird quarter of 2015 with a slight flurry ofpositive activity but overall it has been theirworst quarter for four years.

There were falls of between 7 per cent

and 15 per cent with the Shanghai Indexfalling furthest, down 25 per cent.

Confidence in stocks has been hit by thecrisis in Greece, the Chinese slowdown andthe threat of higher interest rates.

Worst quarter for four years

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The amount SEAT will repay tothe Spanish government foreach rogue diesel car sold.

My job is to think always about the future of our companyRalph Lauren on announcing that he was stepping down as

CEO of his company.

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8 - 14 October 2015 / Costa de AlmeraEWN38 www.euroweeklynews.com FINANCE, BUSINESS & LEGAL

SOONER or later, Greece will start todominate Euro-related news again, nowthat Alexis Tsipras and his left-wing partyhave been sworn back into power.

After the latest general elections, MrTsipras breezed back into the poisoned hot-seat with even more power than before.

The anti-austerity leader had managed tostrike a last-minute deal with its creditorsfor a sum of 86bn, preventing Greecefrom defaulting on its debts and beingforced out of the Eurozone.

Investors are still pointing to Greeceslong-term issues as the key indicator forEuro deterioration against most majorcounterparts into the first quarter of 2016.

There is an air of anticipation thatGBPEUR could start to head back towards

1.40 once the US finally starts to move itsown interest rates.

In other news, the EU QuantitativeEasing Programme (QE) may be allowed tocontinue beyond its scheduled expiry dateof September 2016.

After its early success and signs of realeconomic improvement, questions arestarting to surface again as to whether thebond-purchasing programme may need tobe extended, due mainly to slow growthand weak inflation figures.

The latest figures for September actuallyshowed that the Eurozone had deflated asprices fell by 0.1 per cent. This is the firsttime in six months that the numbers havefallen into negative territory.

President of the European Central Bank,Mario Draghi, had warned this couldhappen, so there were no sudden shocks forthe market. There are expectations that MrDraghi wants to keep the Euro relativelyweak, especially against the greenback, asexports have been gaining from a frailcurrency pairing of EURUSD.

Greece to dominate economic newsagain after left-wing election victory

ANTICIPATION: It is believed that the pound to euro rate could head towards 1.40.

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SEPTEMBER saw consumerprices in Spain fall at their fastestrate in seven months, accordingto early estimates from the coun-trys National Statistics Institute(INE), partly due to lower energycosts.

While retail sales continue togrow on the back of increasingdemand, the overall view fromthe EU is that Spain is currentlyenjoying a period of negative in-flation.

There are indications that, forthe first time in eight months,Germany will also record nega-tive inflation during September.

While high inflation is consid-ered to be bad for any economy,less prominence is given to nega-tive inflation but this latest newsmay not be welcomed by the Eu-ropean Central Bank, which has aprogramme of quantitative easingaimed at an overall inflation rateof 2 per cent across Europe,which it considers will help eco-nomic growth within the Euro-zone.

FOR many years, it has always been atradition that in times of financial dis-turbance, precious metals in general,and gold in particular, are an idealhome for investments rather thanstocks and shares.

The metal has been particularlyvolatile since the global market turn-down and both gold and silver have hitrecord prices. Although they have re-trenched to some extent, they still standat much higher levels than before theturn-down; gold more so than silver.

Like so many other areas of finance,however, the question now arises as towhether these prices have been orches-trated over the years as authorities inSwitzerland have announced a probeinto global banks over the suspectedmanipulation of the price of preciousmetals.

The Swiss Competition Commission(Comco) has said it will investigateseven banks saying it had indicationsthat the banks had possibly concludedillegal competition-defying deals.

Comco said its investigation will in-clude Barclays, Deutsche Bank, HS-

BC, Mitsui, Morgan Stanley and Swissbanks Julius Baer and UBS over whatit said were possible price-fixingdeals, especially in connection withspreads.

A spread is defined as the differ-

ence between the bidding price and theactual price of a commodity or otherasset.

HSBC is already involved in a caseof metal price-fixing in New York,where it is among several companies

that were accused of having conspiredsince 2007 to rig the twice-daily plat-inum and palladium fixings. Apartfrom these two metals, gold and silverare also included in the Swiss investi-gation.

Precious metal prices are underscrutiny from Swiss Authorities

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ACCORDING to Forbes Entrepreneurs, 90 percent of business start-ups will fail. I imagine thetroops at Ypres had a better chance of survival.It seems rather disheartening to write out yourcompanys obituary before it is born.

Running a business is akin to running agauntlet. You set your hopes high, you invest,you set out your business plan and you workhard to make your business a success.

Facing hard times, many businesses resort todishonest practices to survive. I believe sloppi-ness at the till to be institutionalised robbery.Overcharging or failure to record a discounthappens far too often for it to be an oversight.

I recall the Benidorm bar owner who adver-tised 1 pints. When the half-pint glasses werequestioned, he replied: These are Benidormpints, seor.

In another Costa resort, a large beer andbaguette was advertised for just 4. It was irre-sistible but fools gold, as the baguette was the

size of a finger. The assumption is that touristsare unlikely to return or remember. However,there is a drip-drip, toxic, effect on a resortsreputation and also on the better-run businesses.

Thanks to the Internet and social media, peo-ple now enjoy a power to influence that a 1960sprovincial newspaper editor could only dreamof. A resorts prosperity can be damaged ir-

reparably by a few letters in a national newspa-per, a poor news report or negative comments insocial media.

Tourism thrives or fails on visitor experi-ences. It is not hard to imagine the negative out-come if tourists, returning to their home coun-tries, slate a country or resort. Yet the solution issimple.

It would take only a couple of tourist officestaff to invite complaints and patrol tourist areaslooking out for evidence of sharp practice.Those businesses resorting to cheating should beshown a red card and their trading licence re-moved if they are repeat offenders.

This simple solution would help to launder aresorts image and all legitimate businesseswould benefit as a result. Who knows, it maywell reduce the number of failed businesses.

Sharp practice is a business killer

HARD TIMES: Many companies resort to dishonest practices to stay afloat.

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

The number of business start-ups that are expected to

eventually fail.

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WATCHING Comrade Corbyn address lastweeks Labour Party Conference, I found my-self experiencing odd twinges of deja vu. Thenit dawned on me; his rhetoric was exactly likethe conversations we had back in the 60s.

The long flower-power, pot-inspired ex-changes of young enthusiastic ideas on how wecould change the world. Deep into the night wewould discuss the dreams and ideals thatwould enable us all to live happily ever after ina conflict-free, loving environment; all with noidea at all how to turn our schemes into reality.

Of course, we were hopelessly naive and,most important of all, extremely young andpainfully ignorant of the ways of the world andits workings. However, in the main, we werecompletely harmless. And thats where thesimilarity between Mr Corbyn and the flower-power idealists of old falls down.

This man is not some starry-eyed, naiveyoungster, hoping to turn the world into a

peace loving Shangri-La. In my opinion he is adeceit riddled, extremely experienced, highlydangerous far-left operator, using these idealsto snare as many (mainly young) people aspossible into embracing him as a kind of 21st-century saviour who will lead his people tosome euphoric Utopia.

Of course, nothing could be further from thetruth. I believe this man is fully aware that hispolicies will deliver us into Communism andthe clutches of our enemies. Not his enemies ofcourse; his record of embracing our adversarieshas been well chronicled over the years.

His are the politics of stealth. I shudderwhen I see the faces that gaze up at him. I sawthe same look on the followers of David Kore-sh, Jim Jones and Charles Manson; all danger-ous manipulators who also promised their fol-lowers they could lead them to the PromisedLand and who held far less influential posi-tions than Jeremy Cobyn and his TUC cronies.

No, I would be very wary indeed of Mr Cor-byn. The devious leopards of the left seldomchange their spots.

Keep the faith, Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

Corbyns intent is hidden by rhetoric

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

OTHERS THINK IT

LABOUR leader promises equality but he intends to deliver us to our enemies

PEACE AND LOVE: Naive beliefs are for the young, not for experienced politicians.

WHAT the hell is wrong with people?Last week it was reported that a dog

whose legs had been tied together hadbeen rescued from a canal in Rojales.The week before, a disturbing picture ofa number of dead cats was published inone of the local papers. They were sub-jects of a mass poisoning in Pilar de laHoradada and more are thought to havedied the same way.

In our own Los Dolses neighbour-hood, two cats - both wearing collarsand obviously somebodys pets - havealso been poisoned.

On Saturday whilst enjoying our reg-ular morning coffee, we observed ayoung girl struggling with a decrepitlooking pet carry basket which she tookinto the nearby Little Pod charity shop.

We could see her in conversationwith one of the volunteers, gesturing to-ward the basket, after several minutes of

which, curiosity got the better of mywife and she went to investigate.

The upshot is, we now have somenew temporary residents in the shape ofthree enchanting kittens.

Little Pod, like all such animal chari-ties are simply overflowing with straysand were unable to take in these three,and although it is out of the questionthat we can accommodate them on apermanent basis, we felt bound to pro-vide temporary protection.

It seems that the young girl had foundthem dumped beside a rubbish bin nearthe market in Playa Flamenca and hadstruggled for over half a mile to thecharity shop only to be told no room atthe inn.

We already have two rescued cats ofour own, so as much as we would loveto give these guys a permanent address,we now have the problem of findingsafe homes for these lively and thor-oughly engaging characters.All becausesomebody regarded them as trash.

When I think of these extremes of hu-man behaviour - cruelty and com-passion - I have come to theconclusion that there are two or-ders of humans on this planet - onea sub species of the other.

SQUATTING between Poland and Latvia is insu-lar malevolent Lithuania. After 10 blissful days inLatvia and Estonia we were warned against visit-ing this Baltic State but decided to go anyway.

Speak English not Russian was the advice given.Problem; the Lithuanians dislike Russians but fewspeak English. At the border our documents werescrutinised by grim-faced border control officers.The Red Army departed in 1991 but left the Sovietmind-set behind.

The following day our tetchy bus driver took usto Kaunas, parts of which resembles Berlin 1945.There, the clown hit the brakes so savagely an un-fortunate lady passenger was catapulted against thebus windscreen shattering it. The ambulance andpolice arrived 20-minutes later; for all the use theywere why did they bother?

It doesnt get any better in chip-on-its-shoulder-land. It was now clear why a Lithuanian explainedthat commuters prefer the impersonality of thetrain as a travel alternative.

That afternoon, our bus driver from hell exam-ined our tickets; in large letters KAUNAS toKAUNAS AIRPORT 1.04. Having twice reas-sured my Russian speaking non-Russian wife of

the airport destination we took our seats. We were 30-minutes into the 15km journey

when she again sought reassurance. He brusquelytold her; We are not going to the airport, we aregoing to Vilnius, which is in the opposite direc-tion.

Despite her distress and passengers alarm thedriver refused to allow us to alight. As a conse-quence we were stranded in Lithuania for a furtherthree days and incurred airline and hotel costs ex-ceeding 750.

Of course we rattle the Lithuanian cage but themonkeys inside offer only a one-fingered salute.The State Department of Tourism and police areindifferent; if a driver of a public service vehicledoesnt allow a passenger to alight it is false im-prisonment; this is the law. The complicit bus com-panies suggest the labyrinth process of bureaucrat-ic complaint simply to consider the issue.

A Latvian friend tells me Ecolines Bus Service of-fer tickets for the 300km four-hour Riga to Vilnius tripat 4. No thanks, we prefer North Korea.

Colin BirdA weekly look

Mike Walsh

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

Be grateful you werent here

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

WE were warned against visiting the Baltic State, but decided to go anyway

Two species of humanity!I HAVE come to the conclusion that there are two orders of humans on this planet

THERE has been somethingmore than a little suggestiveof Alices Adventures inWonderland about the run upto the Catalan elections.

There were however a fewjokers in the pack as Tweedle-dum was played by ArturMas, president of the pro-se-cession party and Tweedledeewas well portrayed by primeminister Mariano Rajoy.

As the simple election be-came a referendum in theeyes of Mr Mas, so he be-came the Knave of Hearts inthe eyes of Mr Rajoy. Ratherthan shout Off with hishead, the prime minister be-came the King of Hearts asfirst Mr Mas and his partywere investigated for allegedfraud and then members werecharged with conducting anillegal referendum in 2014.

The Mad Hatters Tea Par-ty saw Jean-Claude Juncker,assisted by March Hare An-gela Merkel and DormouseDavid Cameron all join in onthe side of Spain warning MrMas of the dire consequencesof declaring independence.

The fact that less than 50per cent of those who votedsupported the secessionistparties didnt really bother MrMas and he indicated thatwithin 18 months the au-tonomous community of Cat-alonia would be ready tolaunch itself as the newestcountry in Europe.

Then - they all woke up.Hopefully after the ritualclashing of horns, there willbe a sensible solution.

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WHEN I first arrived to work in Spain, I got thejob of supervising and paying the workers on theestate my brother had bought. This was really acover-up for making sure they showed up forwork and continued there all day.

Worse yet, on payday Friday, if you did paythem all they were owed they wouldnt comeback for 10 days, or until their money ran out. Inthe meantime, you were left pandering to theircomplaining wives who had no money to feed thechildren. When I became depressed enough Iwould drive to other villages and look for the lostboys and threaten to tell their wives where theywere. The most itinerant offenders came from thegypsy village of Turre. My brother returned twoyears ago to continue taking oral histories ofthose characters only to discover that the samefolk he had known 40 years earlier were nolonger proud gypsies but just ordinary Spanishpeasants