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THE LONG saga over the 

unfinished Orihuela Costa 

Emergency Centre at La 

Zenia has reached the start 

of the final phase, with Orihuela 

council on Tuesday 

formally approving the process 

of advertising a tender 

for the project worth 

over two million euros. 

It means that the facility 

is planned to be completed 

by December next year in 

order to take advantage on a 

deadline for key EU funding. 

The drawn-out affair dates 

back to the original contractor 

going bust in 2012, with 

just the very basic shell of the 

building constructed close to 

the Consum supermarket. 

There then followed years 

of inactivity from the Valencian 

regional government 

and Orihuela council, with 

regular protests and complaints 

by Orihuela Costa 

residents that their needs 

were being ignored. 

A change in political control 

in Valencia in 2015 led 

to the start of log-jam being 

broken, and plans for a revised 

centre were submitted 

in 2017 taking into account 

new budgets and new safety 

requirements. 

Promised dates for tenders 

to be advertised came 

and went, as authorities in 

Orihuela and Valencia fell 

out over who should take 

THAN NEVER! 

responsibility for the work, with 

the regional government eventually 

decreeing that Orihuela 

should be in charge. 

Over three months ago, Orihuela 

council said that a tender 

was about to be advertised but 

nothing happened, with European 

Union grant money to help 

fund the two point one million 

euro project ending next year. 

Orihuela government team 

spokesman, Jose Aix, said that 

once the successful bidder for 

the work had been awarded the 

contract, they would have up to 

ten months to finish the centre. 

“It is a priority for the council 

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TOPLESS protesters interrupted 

the annual commemoration 

for dictator General Franco, 

who died 44 years ago. 

The half-dozen women, from 

the feminist group Femen, descended 

on the Plaza de Oriente 

in Madrid on Sunday chanting 

“for fascism no honour and no glory,” 

with the same slogan written 

on their chests. 

They were quickly removed by 

police. 

A few hundred Franco supporters 

turned out for the event, held 

around November 20th each year 

to mark the anniversary of the 

Pedro Sánchez 

by Alex Trelinski 

dictator’s death in 1975. 

Jesus Munoz, the leader of the 

fascist Falange party, said the 

march was against the “desecration” 

of Franco’s remains, which 

were exhumed and moved from 

the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum 

in October, and against Spain´s 

historical-memory law which recognises 

those who suffered during 

Franco’s dictatorship. 

“Now they start desecrating 

tombs, this is not going to be like 

1936 (when the Spanish Civil 

War started) but much worse,” he 

Coalition offer 

THE LARGEST separatist 

party in the Catalunya region 

has voted to support a new 

national government in return 

for talks on independence. 

About 95 per cent of members 

of the Esquerra Republicana de 

Catalunya (ERC), a social democratic-based 

party, backed the 

move in a ballot. 

The ERC could now become 

kingmaker to the PSOE Socialists 

who failed to win a majority 

in this month's election, but 

have decided to form a coalition 

with the far-left Podemos party. 

But their combined tally of 

seats, 155, is still short of the 176 

stated. 

During Franco’s brutal regime, 

tens of thousands of his enemies 

were killed and imprisoned in a 

campaign to wipe out dissent, and 

as many as half a million combatants 

and civilians died in the civil 

war of the late thirties. 


required to form a parliamentary 

majority. 

With the ERC's 13 seats and 

a possible combination of support 

from other leftist or Basque 

parties, Prime Minister Pedro 

Sánchez would find it easier to 

continue in office at the head of 

a coalition. 

However, the PSOE have 

firmly opposed granting Catalans 

a legal independence referendum, 

while recognising that 

both Catalunya and the Basque 

Country are nations within 

Spain, and not just regions.

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Orange banking 

ORANGE has begun a mobile-only 

bank in Spain, 

tempting customers with 

a discount on their mobile 

phone bills. 

Having launched in its 

home market of France two 

years ago, Orange Bank ar- 


rived in Spain this week, 

with customers able to open 

a current account with a 

Spanish Iban without any 

registration fee. 

The bank is also offering a 

one per cent interest rate for 

deposits of up to 20 thousand 

euros and a 30 euro discount 

on the customers' next mobile 

bill. 

The 100 per cent mobilebased 

service, lets users 

perform all their day-today 

banking operations, 

such as checking their expenses, 

paying with Apple 

Pay, moving money between 

accounts, making 

free Sepa transfers, and 

managing their Mastercard 

debit card. 

The app also has chat 

functionality where customers 

can talk to bank agents, 

while a "group management" 

feature allows the 

sharing or transfer of funds 

and expenses among several 

people. 

Narciso Perales, general 

director, Orange Bank in 

Spain, says: "Our hallmark 

as a leading telco enables 

us to be the most suited to 

design a mobile banking service 

for today’s highly mobile 

population." 

I often wonder how people get drawn in 

by scammers, you hear of it all the time 

but how does it happen? How do people 

allow it to happen? 

I was recently approached by a couple 

who were considering investing their 

life savings. They had recently sold 

their house here in Spain and wanted 

a low risk investment which would 

provide them with a steady income. In 

the past this could have been achieved 

by depositing cash with your bank and 

getting a reasonable return on your 

savings, however with interest rates at an 

all-time low, people are being forced to 

shop around. 

So where do you start on your search for 

an investment product? Well my clients 

understandably googled ‘safe’, ‘low risk’ 

investments and were overloaded with 

many different options. Not knowing 

where to start, they postponed their 

research and opted to speak with a 

professional who can at least explain in 

simple terms how investments work and 

what would be most suitable. Days later, 

my client was on his laptop checking 

his emails when he noticed a ‘low risk’, 

‘safe’, ‘capital protected’ advert appear 

on the top of his screen. Inquisitively 

he clicked on the advert and it took him 

through to a professional looking website 

where he discovered they had a fixed 

interest savings plan which was capital 

guaranteed and offered a set 6% return 

for the next 5 years with NO FEES! This 

is exactly what they were looking for so 

they completed the form to receive further 

information. 

Days later they received a phone call 

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from the company who were based in 

Malaga where a seemingly professional 

adviser gave them confirmation that they 

could have guaranteed returns of 33.82% 

over 5 years with no risk to their original 

capital. In fact he went as far as putting it 

in writing to them, illustrating that if they 

were to invest £50,000 in 5 years it would 

be worth £66,910!! Being sensible they 

started to research the company, and this 

fixed interest, risk free savings plan. They 

were re-assured by the professionalism 

of the product, the company boasted that 

they were operating in 189 countries 

including UK, Spain, Hongkong, Thailand 

and many more. Struggling to find 

anything negative the couple agreed to 

meet with their ‘so-called’ professional 

adviser. 

Having already made an appointment 

to see me prior to this they popped into 

the office to see what Chorus could offer 

and it wasn’t long before the clients 

were telling me all about the ‘risk-free’, 

guaranteed returns that they were about 

to sign up to, asking whether we had 

anything similar. 

Straight away I knew this was a scam! As 

an independent adviser constantly looking 

for the best options for my clients, and as 

someone with nearly 10 year’s experience 

advising here in Spain, all the alarm bells 

began to ring. 

As I started to investigate the product 

in more detail, it became very clear, 

very quickly that this was a completely 

unregulated product, the capital guarantee 

was about as useful as a chocolate teapot 

and all over its literature were the words 

‘for professional investors only’ (these 

Dutch delight 


A PASSENGER flying into Alicante- 

Elche airport on Monday morning got 

the surprise of her life when she disembarked 

from her Transavia flight. 

The lady, who flew in from Eindhoven 

in the Netherlands, found herself showered 

with gifts and a special certificate 

which commemorated the fact that she 

was the airport´s 14th million passenger 

this year. 

Her arrival symbolically beat last 

year´s record figure of just under 14 million 

passengers, with the facility set to 

log another 500 thousand passengers by 

the end of the year. 

Passenger numbers for 2019 are up by 

eight per cent on the 2018 figures. 

were the words used on all the ‘Structured 

Notes’ which were miss-sold and left 

devastating damage to the life savings of 

many here on the Costa Blanca as part 

of the Continental Wealth scam). This 

couple narrowly avoided a scam that could 

have swallowed their entire life savings, 

and do you know what………. It could 

have easily happened. On the surface, 

to an untrained eye, this product looked 

legitimate, and it was a mixture of luck 

and fate that walked them into my office 

that day. 

I’m sorry to say, but in a world where 

central bank interest rates are effectively 

0%, it is impossible to guarantee returns. 

The idea of a guaranteed, capital protected 

5, 6 or 7% is preposterous to anyone who 

knows their stuff, and truly understands 

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our current economic environment. 

Yes, there are low risk, highly diversified 

investment funds out there that have 

consistently achieved growth over many 

years, but they are not guaranteed and the 

risks need to be properly discussed with 

an independent professional to assure 

suitability. 

My advice is stay clear of the internet 

when it comes to shopping for 

investments, seek professional advice 

and make sure the company and the 

products you use are fully regulated and 

are appropriate for you. By fully regulated 

this means they will be listed with local 

regulators here in Spain, and preferably 

other trusted regulators like the UK FCA. 

Whether it’s a product provider or a ‘socalled’ 

financial adviser, they are legally 

obliged to clearly display their regulatory 

details, reference numbers etc on everything 

– articles, business cards, emails etc. 

Always get a second opinion before you 

commit to anything and remember, if it 

seems to good to be true, it probably is. If 

you are considering any new investment 

or pension transfer or if you have any 

concerns about anything in this article, 

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Pepper spray attack closes station 

Kidnapped and assaulted 

A WOMAN who was kidnapped 

in the northern 

Spanish town of Pamplona 

and held for 48 hours was 

eventually released by the 

authorities at Vinaros, in 

THE family of a young missing 

woman have admitted 

they fear the worse while police 

are looking for a man she 

had arranged to meet online. 

Marta Calvo Buron, aged 25, 

has been missing since 6 November 

and her last known location 

was the small Valencian 

town of Manuel. 

She had arranged to meet a 

35-year-old Colombian man in 

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a house there, details the authorities 

gained from an interview 

with her mother who had 

received a text from Marta and 

then no further communication. 

The suspect has a police 

record for drug trafficking 

and his vehicle, a minivan, 

was found abandoned 

in a warehouse and is being 

the Castellon province of 

the Valencian Community. 

The victim’s ordeal began 

last weekend after she was 

bundled into a car by her expartner. 

The woman was reported 

missing the next day 

and the Navarra National 

Police Corps started an 

operation to find her. 

Her ex was suspected and 

later that day his vehicle was 

forensically tested. 

The property where the pair 

met had been “thoroughly 

cleaned” and the Guardia Civil 

believe that this had been done 

to hide forensic evidence. 

The Guardia have been 

searching the mountains near 

Manuel for signs of Marta while 

a major search is also underway 

for the man she was last seen 

with. 

ONE of Valencia’s busiest 

metro stations was forced 

to close on Sunday morning 

after a fight broke out 

where pepper spray was 

used. 

The incident happened 

at the Plaza España stop at 

about 6am when a group of 

youths who had left a nearby 

club started brawling. 

One of them used pepper 

spray which affected innocent 

bystanders, with three 

of them having to be taken 

spotted in Castellon, several 

hundred kilometres away. 

A police cordon was set 

up and the vehicle stopped 

while a 30-year-old man was 

arrested. 

He has been charged with 

sexual assault, illegal detention 

and actual bodily harm. 


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Death sentence Spaniard 

appeal rejected 

A SPANISH man sentenced 

to death in Thailand 

for the brutal murder 

of a friend has had his final 

appeal rejected by a 

Thai court. 

Artur Segarra, from Catalonia, 

kidnapped, tortured 

and murdered David Bernat 

in 2016, chopping up his remains 

and throwing them in 

a river to hide the evidence. 

His motives seem to have 

been purely financial and 

there is CCTV footage of 

the victim and defendant 


extracting money from cashpoints 

after Mr Bernat had 

been reported missing. 

Segarra forced his friend 

to withdraw just over €2,000 

before killing him, something 

backed up by DNA 

evidence. 

Although Thailand still 

has the death penalty on its 

statute books it is very rarely 

used and has been under 

an effective moratorium for 

a decade. 

Legal experts say that the 

Asian country is highly unlikely 

to use it on a foreigner 

and the likely outcome for 

Segarra is that he will serve 

eight years of his life sentence 

in Thailand and then 

be returned to Spain to see 

out the remainder of it. 

At the time of the murder 

the case made huge headlines 

in Spain, casting the 

spotlight on the lifestyle of 

the large expatriate Spanish 

community in Thailand and 

in Bangkok in particular. 

Banged up abroad. 

Segarra seems to smile as 

he is sentenced to death 

in Bangkok 

Talking about cancer 

THE Hospital de Denia was 

the venue last week for a 

major gathering of experts 

in the field of oncology, specifically 

colon, breast and 

gynaecological cancers. 

The day focused on treatment, 

clinical best practice 

and research. 

There was also a round 

table and presentation on 

genetic factors and their importance 

in both early onset 

cancer and that of senior 

citizens. 


Case studies of patients 

treated at Denia Hospital 

were used to illustrate the 

work being carried out. 

Spain is one if the leading 

countries when it comes 

to cancer treatment and clinicians 

in this part of the 

world have a lot of experience 

with it, partly due to 

the disproportionately older 

citizenship that live on the 

Costa Blanca. 

Doing well for democracy 


SPAIN has taken a big leap 

up the league table of the 

globe’s most democratic 

countries, rising seven 

places to 13th, ahead of 

the UK among others. 

The list is compiled annually 

by the Denmark based 

International Institute for 

Democracy with Spain scoring 

0.7705 out of a possible 

1.00. 

All countries were independently 

assessed on four main 

areas, local and national democracy, 

fundamental rights, 

government control and participatory 

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Santa on Sunday 

MARIA and the Pink Ladies 

will be staging their 

annual Santa Fun Walk 

around La Zenia this 

Saturday. 

Money raised will go to the 

Torrevieja homeless charity 


Reach Out, and to the cancer 

charity, the AECC. 

The walk will start at 

noon from the stage area 

in the centre of Zenia Boulevard 

and finish there five 

kilometres later. 

Registration will start at 

11.00am at a cost of five euros 

for each participant. 

The RBL Concert Band 

will provide entertainment, 

so don´t forget to bring your 

Santa suit as well friends 

and pets to take part! 

Items of clothing and food 

to be provided to Reach Out 

will also be collected on the 

day. 

Frightening success 

THE STUDIO 32 Musical 

Theatre company produced 

some hilarious chills 

earlier this month with 

their autumn show, ‘The 

Dracula Spectacula’. at 

San Fulgencio´s Cardenal 

Belluga Theatre. 


From start to finish, the 

audience were treated to a 

heady mix of songs, comedy, 

and dance routines. 

All the proceeds will go to 

local causes, with Studio 32 

chairman Philip Wilson commenting:- 

“I’m very proud of 

everyone involved who all all 

worked very hard to produce 

such an excellent show. This 

time we are specifically donating 

to charities that are 

assisting with people affected 

by the recent floods.” 

Studio 32 thanked the San 

Fulgencio council for their 

support and welcomed Councillor 

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Back in business 

TORREVIEJA´S Municipal 

Theatre reopened last 

weekend, after closing 

its doors over four years 

ago due to safety concerns, 

and then a long 

dispute with the original 

architect who refused to 

sign approval papers for 

changes. 

The previous coalition 

council shut down the theatre 

in 2015 after it took 

power away from the Partido 

Popular in the municipal 

elections, stating 

that the building did not 

pass the appropriate safety 

standards. 

Work was done over a period 

of months, but then the 

closure descended into a farce 

involving a dispute between 

the architect and the previ- 


ous council, as both blamed 

each other for nothing 

happening. 

Eduardo Dolon, who returned 

as Partido Popular 

mayor earlier this year, 

pledged to reopen the theatre, 

and slammed the previous 

council administration 

for failing to provide the right 

documents that the architect 

had asked for. 

Andante concerts 

THE LOCAL Andante International 

Choir featuring 

singers from the UK, Scandinavia, 

and the Netherlands 

are to perform a trio 

of concerts next weekend. 

The choir, under musical 

director Karen Blagbrough, 

will perform next Friday 

night(December 6th) at the 

Orihuela Costa Civic Centre 


at Alameda del Mar starting 

at 8.00pm. 

On Saturday December 

7th there will also be an 

8.00pm start for a performance 

at the Los Montesinos 

church next to the main 

square, and then on Sunday 

December 8th, Andante will 

be at Torrevieja´s San Pedro 

and Pablo church, with the 

concert beginning at 6.00pm. 

The choir, which was 

formed three years ago, will 

be performing a variety of 

Christmas songs and funds 

raised at the Saturday and 

Sunday concerts will go to 

the church venues and to 

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Pilar walkway 

open 

A LONG battle by Pilar 

area residents for a pedestrian 

bridge over the 

N-332 finally came to fruition 

with last Sunday´s official 

opening of a walkway 

linking Torre de la 

Horadada with the urban 

areas of Pilar. 

The new structure for pedestrians 

and cyclists will 

avoid years of people making 

a risky journey over the road 


bridge which had no provision 

for them at all. 

Early users of the walkway 

were a group of women 

protesting against gender 

violence. 

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SCHOOL children in the San Pedro 

del Pinatar area have once been 

given gifts of school materials 

from ADAPT(Association of English 

Speakers of San Pedro), including 

books in English. 

All the cash was raised by ADAPT´s 

“Tonne of Money” campaign in which 

members were asked to save their 

small brown coins throughout the year. 

Pictured are three of the group´s 

members, along with staff from the 

Nuestra Señora del Carmen primary 

school in Lo Pagán, with five other 

schools also set to benefit from the 

fund-raising. 

Come and join us! 


THE Royal British Legion 

Concert Band Spain is 

going from strength to 

strength after being together 

for over a year, and 

it now has 18 members. 

The group is not resting 

on its laurels and is looking 

for more musicians to join it, 

including string instrument 

players so that it can offer a 

full concert experience. 

The band has its local 

roots evolving from the Alpengold 

Oompah Band; the 

Vega Baja Big Band; and the 

Phoenix Concert Band. 

Rehearsals, under musical 

director David Last, 

take place every Tuesday 

afternoon from 4.00pm at 

the Sophia Wellness Centre 

in La Regia, and play wideranging 

repertoire. 

Recent events for the band 

have included last month´s 

Poppy Appeal launch in 

Benidorm, as well special 

remembrance services at Mil 

Palmeras and Torrevieja. 

The next date in the diary 

is the annual open-air Torrevieja 

carol concert, Carols in 

the Square, which will take 

place on Friday December 

13th, when they will be joined 

by singers from various local 

groups. 

The band will be dedicating 

the evening to founder 

member Bill Singleton, who 

died earlier in the year. 

Any age or nationality is 

more than welcome to join 

the RBL Concert Band, and 

for more details, please call 

Graham Robinson on 0044 

772 406 4251. 

There is also a Facebook 

page named “Royal British 

Legion Concert Band 

Spain”. 

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THE WEEKENDER – Alicante Sur– 338mm x 256mm – Colour 

29th November



Plastic 

plague 


THAILAND has a major problem 

with plastic, with the average 

citizen using an incredible 

ten plastic bags a day. 

Combine this with the fact that 

there is no real culture of recycling 

and the environmental issues 

are obvious, something highlighted 

by the death of a wild deer 

in a national park this week. 

The 10-year-old adult had 

7 kilogrammes (about 15lb) of 

garbage in its stomach, mainly 

plastics. 

This was confirmed as the 

cause of death and the one good 

thing to come out of it is that the 

Thai people may be encouraged to 

start looking into their excessive 

use of plastics, which wrap and 

package everything from take 

away food to shopping. 

Last month a baby dugong (a 

type of manatee) gained media attention 

in the country after it was 

found seriously ill after digesting 

plastic before later dying. 

Many retailers are now starting 

to do their bit by stopping 

handing out single use plastic 

bags. 

However, the government admits 

it needs to run a programme 

educating the public on the dangers 

and also by setting up more 

recycling points. 

Measles killing 

kids in thousands 

HERE in the west we generally 

regard measles as 

an irritant if contracted, 

certainly not something 

that can prove deadly. 

However, an outbreak 

sweeping the Democrat Republic 

of the Congo (DRC) 

shows that is far from the 

case with more than 5,000 

people being killed there this 

year, 90% of those children 

under five. 

Around 250,000 people 

in the poverty stricken central 

African state have contracted 

measles, mainly due 

to the lack of vaccines and 


the trouble distributing it to 

remote and often war torn 

areas. 

Fear of the disease has led 

in turn to attacks on health 

care facilities as people 

search for the vaccine with 

six health care workers having 

been killed just this year 

and dozens hurt. 

The authorities are trying 

to focus on the worst hit 

areas and then work down 

from there but admit to 

fighting a losing battle in a 

country also struggling with 

an Ebola virus outbreak. 

The majority of the 

deaths are from measles 

related side effects such 

as severe diarrhoea and 

encephalitis that would be 

treatable in wealthier countries 

but can often spell 

death to the poor, especially 

the very young. 

Ironically in parts of the 

west there is a growing “anti-vax” 

movement while in 

the DRC children are dying 

as there is not enough vaccinations 

to go around - and 

also showing how rapidly the 

disease can spread. 

The football club helping 

find missing kids 

ITALIAN football team 

AS Roma have long had 

a reputation for social 

awareness with their mixture 

of big business and 

community help. 

One of the team’s approaches 

down the years 

has been a split screen announcement 

of new club 

signings and social messages, 

ensuring the latter get 

huge coverage with an audience 

that may not normally 

see such things. 

Their latest campaign has 

featured missing children, 

not just in Italy but around 

the world. 

So for example the signing 

of Pau Lopez sat alongside a 

video and details of Lee Boxell 

from Sutton in the UK 

who went missing in 1988 

aged 15. 


While sadly the publicity 

failed to bring to light 

any news on Lee, his father 

said that the campaign was 

“like a comfort blanket” 

and the response from football 

fans and the club was 

amazing. 

So far Roma have featured 

109 cases from 12 different 

countries with, incredibly, 

five of the children being 

found due to the publicity, 

two in London, two in Kenya 

and a Belgian boy. 

The club have worked 

with the international Centre 

for Missing and Exploited 

Children and their work 

has gained plaudits from the 

footballing world with many 

players sending the videos 

on to their huge bands of social 

media followers, further 

increasing publicity. 

Ex Manchester United 

player Chris Smalling 

signed for Roma in the summer 

and was delighted when 

the missing Kenyan child 

who was shown alongside 

his joining video was found 

safe and sound. 

“As a father it makes me 

so happy that this young 

girl from my announcement 

video has been reunited with 

her loved one” he posted. 

Overall the videos have 

been viewed around 10 million 

times globally and the 

club plan to continue the 

campaign during the January 

transfer window. 

There is now talk of larger 

clubs such as Barcelona and 

Liverpool starting similar 

projects.


Las Salinas Freemasons present 

San Jose Obrero Orphanage 

with €1250 clothing vouchers 

ERIC Raddings, seen here 

presenting the vouchers 

to Director of the Orphanage 

Vincente, said, “The 

San Jose Obrero Orphanage 

in Orihuela was one of 

the charities I nominated 

last year as Master of Las 

Salinas Lodge, and I had 

the pleasure to visit and 

see Vicente and his team 

at work in October. 

“Vicente and his team directly 

care for and house 80 

orphans of all nationalities 

from all over the Alicante 

region, on behalf of the 

Valencian government. 

“They also provide and 

maintain 4 apartments, 3 

in Orihuela the other in Alicante, 

each housing 4 young 

people making the transition 

from orphanage life to becoming 

self sufficient in the 

outside world. 

“On site they run the local 

school for 400 children 

from the Orihuela district, 

and operate a carpenter's 

shop and auto workshop offering 

4 years training with 

qualified staff so the youngsters 

have a Certificate of 

Competence before hopefully 

finding employment in local 

industry. 

“The orphanage employs 

psychologists to assist the 

teachers, and specialist tutors 

also work there with 

special needs pupils.” 

If any club, association etc 

would like to help the children 

of The San Jose Obrero 

Orphanage to contact Lyn/ 

Ken Adams on kenlyn15 @ 

hotmail.co.uk or 676 650 210. 


Local&WhatsOn 

Book Signing 

L to R: Eric Raddings, Director Vincente, Keith Carter, Psychologist Valle 

THERE will be a Book 

Signing event at the 

Welcome Inn, Benimar 

2, Rojales, from 7pm 

on Wednesday 4th December, 

with Mary- 

Ann Dunning, Dr Lesley 

Hunter and Kennel 

owner, Colleen Jay. 

The book entitled “Paradise 

to the Rescue” is 

about dog rescue in Spain. 

It contains a series of 

real life stories illustrating 

the good, the bad and 

sometimes ugly reality of 

dog rescue in Spain with 

sad beginnings but lots of 

very happy endings. 

It also contains hints 

and tips, Vet advice, export 

information with Pet 

Passports and information 

about Spanish breeds. 

It's all about dogs that 

have been rescued and rehomed 

by Paradise Rescue 

Kennels, with lots of 

doggy photos. 

It has a Foreword by 

Lorraine Kelly OBE, who 

starts by saying, “This is 

a remarkable book and 

shows the compassion, 

love and kindness that 

goes into rescuing these 

wonderful animals.....” 

The book is dedicated to 

all dog rescuers and all proceeds 

will go to Paradise 

Rescue Kennels. 

It's available on Amazon 

and will be in local 

outlets in Benijófar, La 

Murada and Pilar De la 

Horadada. 

It is also for sale through 

the “Paradise Rescue 

Kennels” Facebook Page.” 

Pirate 

Xmas date 

MEMBERS of the Rojales 

Pantomime Group will 

be enjoying a fun- filled 

train ride on the Torrevieja 

wooden train tomorrow 

(Saturday, November 

30th) outside the Christmas 

Shop at San Luis, 

Torrevieja. 

An open invitation for everybody 

of all ages has been 

issued to meet the gang of 

dastardly pirates and other 

members of the January 

production of Treasure Island 

to be staged at San 

Fulgencio. 

Besides having a ride on 

the train, there will of course 

be a chance to meet Father 

Christmas! 

Treasure Island will 

be performed at San 

Fulgencio´s Cardenal Belluga 

Theatre between January 

30th and February 1st, with 


tickets priced at eight euros, 

with five euros charged for 

children. 

You will be able to buy 

tickets at tomorrow´s event, 

with further sales outlets to 

be announced shortly.

Alex Trelinski’s 

Back In Britain 

IN THE 

MILLIONS 

CUTE OTTER 

RESCUE 

I’m sucker for a nice animal tale, so I bring you news 

of a baby otter being rescued after being found wandering 

in a busy Aberdeenshire street. 

The Scottish SPCA said the “tiny” otter was spotted in 

Inverurie by a member of the public on Monday. 

The organisation said the otter and its mother may 

have become separated after flooding. 

Scottish SPCA inspector Amanda Watson said: “A brave 

member of the public picked up a male otter early on Monday 

morning on a busy street, quite near the river. 

“The pup is now in the care of our National Wildlife Rescue 

Centre. He will stay with us until he is a year old as 

that’s how long otters stay with their mothers in the wild.” 

She added: “It was the most adorable encounter I’ve had 

on a Monday morning in a long time.” 

STRANGE PRIORITY 

A builder and a shop worker have been 

named as the winners of a £105m EuroMillions 

jackpot. 

Steve Thomson, 42, and his wife Lenka, 41, 

from West Sussex, were the sixth jackpot prize 

winners in the UK this year, operator Camelot 

said. 

Their ticket won £105,100,701.90 on 19 November, 

the 25th anniversary of the National 

Lottery’s first draw. 

Mr Thomson said when he realised he had won 

that he felt he was “on the verge of having a heart 

attack”. 

I suspect that he will have multiple coronaries 

as many friends will suddenly start crawling out 

of the woodwork. 

I just cannot understand why any lottery jackpot 

winner wants publicity over their success, 

unless they just fancy a moment in the limelight 

and a bit of showing off. 

Essex Police is investigating 

claims that an officer ordered a 

driver to remove a “B******* to 

Brexit” sign from his car. 

Peter Cook says he was a passenger 

in the Mini Cooper – which 

had the anti-Brexit message emblazoned 

across it – when it was pulled 

over on the M25 near Brentwood on 

Sunday afternoon. 

Footage posted on Twitter purportedly 

shows the officer standing 

next to the vehicle as a man – believed 

to be the driver – crouches 

down to remove some of the lettering. 

Mr Cook told Sky News that he 

is pursuing a complaint against the 

police and wants a “full and frank 

unreserved apology” over the incident. 

He is considering requesting a 

donation to a charity which equates 

to the cost of the removed lettering. 

In the video, Mr Cook is heard 

describing the officer as “very aggressive” 

and claims the officer told 

him he could not even say the word 

“b*******” because “ladies may be 

present, even though they’re not”. 

MAKING 

A MINT 

The UK’s largest ever coin has been 

released and it is big enough to serve 

your dinner on. Royal Mint has today 

unveiled its five kilo record-breaking 

coin, worth at least £5,000. 

Made from alloy 999 Au Fine Gold, the 

impressive coin has a diameter of 175mm, 

and one of them has already been bought 

for an undisclosed amount. 

It is part of a new ‘Great Engravers’ 

series, that celebrates artists who have 

worked on British coinage and begins with 

Royal Academician William Wyon’s Una 

And The Lion design. 

Wyon was the chief engraver at the Royal 

Mint from 1828 until his death in 1851 and 

was most famous for his coin and medal 

portraits of Queen Victoria. He is also 

well-known for his design of Una And The 

Lion, considered by collectors as one of the 

world’s most beautiful coins. 

A SIMPLE IDEA 

There have been times down the 

years when you were never quite 

sure whether you should give up 

your seat on a bus for somebody 

who you reckon might need it 

more. 

I was actually told a couple of times 

by elderly travellers that I was insulting 

their capabilities of standing, so 

I started not to bother, and made me 

feel mean. 

So I like the idea from Nottingham 

where bus and tram users will be offered 

“happy to move for you” badges 

to let disabled and elderly people 

know they can request their seat. 

The move has been welcomed by 

disability campaigners who said it 

would help, but added it was “sad” the 

initiative was needed. 

A Nottingham council spokeswoman 

said disabled people, especially 

those with invisible disabilities, had 

reported receiving very negative responses 

when they asked people on 

public transport to give up their seats. 

This nice idea I hope will work and 

spread across Britain.



Business & Money 

Getting your number 

AN NIE number is vital if 

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even to people who 

spend a limited period in 

the country and who own 

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If you want to buy a property 

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world of the NIE:- 

What is an 

NIE? 

Its full name is Número de 

Identidad de Extranjero, 

which translates as ‘Foreigners’ 

Identification Number’. 

All non-Spaniards require an 

NIE in order to have a fiscal 

identity in Spain. 

You will need your unique 

NIE number, which will 

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by seven or eight digits 

and then a final letter, 

to complete any type of financial 

transaction or legal 

documentation, from buying 

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a business, being employed, 

getting connected to utilities 

and filing your Spanish 

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Some banks will ask for 

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Remember that an NIE is 

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There is nothing stopping 

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Applications must be made 

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Business & Money 

Politicians 

savaged 

BORIS Johnson's push to 

"get Brexit done" by December 

2020 raises the 

risk of leaving without a 

deal, the UK's former ambassador 

to the EU has 

warned. 

Mr Johnson has vowed to 

take the UK out of the EU 

on January 31st and strike a 

permanent trade deal within 

a year if he wins the election. 

But Sir Ivan Rogers – 

who quit as the UK´s senior 

Brexit diplomat in 2017 - 

said this was "diplomatic 

amateurism". 

He also said Labour's 

stance would "get the eyerolling 

it deserves" in the EU. 


Labour leader Jeremy 

Corbyn is promising to negotiate 

a new Brexit deal 

within three months, based 

on close alignment with the 

EU. This would then be put 

to the public in a legally 

binding referendum, alongside 

the option of staying in 

the EU. 

Talks breaking down before 

the end of 2020 - when 

the future trading relationship 

is supposed to be settled 

- "is much likelier than 

people realise", Sir Ivan 

said. 

"The further 'out' of the 

European Union we choose 

to go, and therefore the further 

we want to go, the longer 

it will take to negotiate 

the necessary agreements," 

he said. 

By promising to "Get 

Brexit Done", Sir Ivan said 

government ministers were 

either getting the "critical 

point" wrong or choosing to 

"mislead the British public". 

He said the prime minister's 

claims a Brexit deal 

could be concluded swiftly 

were "diplomatic amateurism 

dressed up domestically 

as boldness and decisiveness" 

and were actually 

strengthening the EU's negotiating 

position. 

Sir Ivan said that while 

the government's strategy 

"may indeed work splendidly 

at home" the EU was preparing 

to "fully exploit UK desperation 

to get something 

over the new line". 

"Why not take advantage 

of yet another prime minister 

who has unwisely boxed 

himself in?" 

In his speech, the former 

diplomat also attacked Remainers 

"who think the clock 

can be put back" saying they 

were "in denial about where 

mainstream continental elite 

opinion is". 

On Labour, he said Mr Cor- 

byn's stance on Brexit "frankly 

deserves the Brussels eyerolling 

it duly gets". 

"As does the idea that he 

will not take a public position 

on which way the public 

should vote on the defining 

issue of the day, even after 

he has negotiated the deal 

he professes to want." 

Alonso acquitted 

Happier bankers 

EX-REAL MADRID midfielder 

Xabi Alonso was found 

not guilty of tax fraud, a 

Madrid court announced on 

Tuesday. 

The prosecutors had intially 

demanded for him to 

face five years in jail before 

halving their request. 

Alonso, a World Cup winner 

with Spain in 2010, was 

accused of using a company 

based on the Portuguese 

island of Madeira to avoid 

paying two million euros in 

taxes on his image rights to 

the Spanish authorities. 

Prosecutors said the fraud 

took place between 2010 and 

2012 when he was playing 

for Real Madrid. 

Alonso, who retired from 

Petty theft costing 

hundreds of millions 

AN association that represents 

large Spanish retailers, 

the CEOE, has issued 

a report estimating that 

what is termed as petty 

theft is costing businesses 

about 1.6 billion euros 

a year. 

There are a large number 

of multiple repeat offenders 

accounting for a major chunk 

of these losses, taking advantage 

of laws which mean that 

thefts under €400 are always 

classed as a minor crime, regardless 

of how many times 


playing in 2017 after a stint 

at Bayern Munich, is one of 

a string of high-profile footballers 

to face scrutiny by the 

Spanish tax authorities over 

the declaration of income 

from image rights. 

Some have admitted fraud 

as part of a deal to avoid jail 

time, including Atletico Madrid 

striker Diego Costa and 

Barcelona's Gerard Pique, 

both of whom paid out after 

being convicted over the 

summer. 

And earlier this year, the 

tax authorities caught up 

with ex-Real Madrid forward 

Cristiano Ronaldo and 

his former boss at the capi- 


the offender repeats the act. 

The CEOE used the example 

of a man who regularly 

steals bottles of alcohol by 

hiding it under his coat and 

then paying for two bags of 

cat litter. 

He has been caught in 

the act in one supermarket 

chain 44 times in the past 

four years, stealing €6,000 

worth of goods. 

The man has received 

numerous fines totalling 

tal club, Jose Mourinho, both 

over the management and 

declaration of image rights. 

€18,000 but has never paid 

any of them nor has the 

means to do so. 

There are multiple stories 

involving gangs or individuals 

who know that the law 

is powerless to stop them as 

long as they use no violence 

and steal less then €400. 

Fines are not a deterrent 

said the CEOE, and a system 

needs to be introduced to have 

more stringent penalties for 

repeat offenders, for example 

a short prison sentence or 

restraining order. 

SPAIN´S BBVA bank has 

introduced new work-life 

policies to make sure their 

employees don´t take their 

work home with them. 

The new policy includes 

including telling all of its 

employees in Spain to disconnect 

from work computers 

and to avoid answering 

emails between the hours of 

7.00pm and 8.00am whenever 

possible. 

The Work Better. Enjoy 

Life programme, which 

started last week, is part 


of the bank´s aim to help 

employees achieve a more 

harmonious and productive 

work-life balance. 

As well as encouraging 

Kiwis have world’s 

best airline 

THERE were no Spanish 

companies in the 2020 list 

of the world’s best airlines, 


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although there were plenty 

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Bellissima! 

I BOARDED the MSC 

Bellissima from Barcelona 

on Friday, 8th November. 

Checking in was smooth 

and swift. When check-in 

was finished we got the 

chance to pose for a picture 

with my cabin-mate in 

front of the ship’s wheel! 

This was the first use of 

our cabin card. Soon after 

we were on the ship. Crew 

had taken our luggage before 

we checked in, so we didn’t 

have to worry about wheeling 

cases around. We made 

a beeline for the Edge Bar, 

to get ourselves comfortable 

and raise a glass to the beginning 

of our cruise with a 

cocktail. We were on the Premium 

Drinks Package, which 

meant unlimited drinks up to 

the value of €10. This gave us 

lots of choice, and we had so, 

so much to choose from! 

The drinks menu is vast, 

and everything is clearly labelled 

and priced. Cocktails 

are beautifully made! We enjoyed 

sitting at the Edge bar, 

people-watching. Beside us 

were the famous Swarovski 

stairs, and if you look down 

you can see live music and 

people enjoying themselves. 

Our dining plan meant we 

had dinner at a set time, at 

a set table, at 7.30pm each 

night. Our restaurant was 

called Poseidonia. We got 

ready, enjoyed a drink in the 

champagne bar first, and 

coming 7.30, made our way to 

the restaurant. 

We were presented by a 

line of waiters on each side 

of us welcoming us, which I 

thought was a lovely touch. 

We got shown to our table and 

sat down, waters and wines 

poured for us. Our waiters 

were called Aslim and Pande, 

and they took very good care 

of us. The menu in Poseidonia 

changes every night, with 

some options available all the 

time, such as grilled chicken, 

or house salad. I loved the excitement 

of not knowing what 

would be on offer each night! 

Dinner normally took 1.5 – 

2hrs. I had the cheese board 

for my dessert every night. 

I honestly couldn’t fault a 

single thing! On two of the 

nights, a photographer came 

around to each table, offering 

by Karla McGarvey, 

Worldwide Horizons 

to take photographs, which 

would be available for viewing 

or purchasing the next 

day. Again, a lovely touch and 

nothing to lose! 

After dinner, the ship is 

buzzing with activity. There 

are lots of shops. There’s a 

perfumery, a shop selling top 

jewellery and handbags, a 

chocolate shop, and most of 

these are open late. I got two 

pieces of Swarovski jewellery 

at a 20% discount, which is 

great. 

The gift shop with MSC – 

themed items is also great, 

and very reasonably priced. 

We wanted somewhere we 

could sit (8 of us) and chat 

and have a laugh, and we 

found ourselves at masters of 

The Sea pub, on Deck 7. They 

have a huge selection of beers 

on tap, and something I’ve 

never seen before, ‘Beertails,’ 

which is exactly what you 

think it is – cocktails made 

with beer! I recommend the 

‘Spiced Apple Pie’ – mmmm!! 

We were very well looked after 

by Yudhi, Eka and David 

for the 3 nights we visited and 

we were never left thirsty! 

On the ‘MSC For me’ app, 

you can see daily activities, 

special offers and a map of the 

ship, which does come in very 

handy at times! There is also 

a great feature which allows 

you to message friends and 

family. A very handy feature 

for when the boat is at sea, 

meaning data roaming is not 

available. Wifi packages are 

available, but at €39.90 a day, 

I decided to give it a miss! I 

can catch up with everything 

when the boat is docked so I 

didn’t miss it too much. 

The casino is suitable for 

smokers, which is handy as 

the wind is cutting outside 

poolside. However, half is 

non-smoking so there’s something 

for everyone. We saw 

a Cirque de Soleil show in 

the Carousel Lounge, which 

was located at the back of 

the casino. We took the €15 

option of Cocktail and Show. 

The options were two premade 

cocktails, and one nonalcoholic 

one. The show was 

great, something different 

and in my opinion a bit of an 

escape! 

Located on the 15th deck 

is the ‘marketplace,’ the buffet 

restaurant, which is open 

20 hours a day. It starts at 

6.30am, serving breakfast. 

The choice is vast, with both 

continental and English 

breakfasts on offer, and everything 

in between from 

pancakes and omelettes to 

kippers and herrings. You are 

absolutely unlimited in what 

you choose and how much of 

it you have. Tea, coffee, waters 

and juices are available 

at dispensers. 

If you have the premium 

drinks plan, you can use the 

buzzer at the table and have 

a drink brought to you – fruit 

juice and cappucinos or something 

stronger. The place 

is always bustling, and the 

queuing system may not have 

a whole lot of structure, but 

be assured the food will not 

run out! Staff members are 

incredibly attentive, and are 

always serving, clearing, or 

cleaning. 

At lunchtime, the 

buffet changes, and 

there is a cheese 

station, an ethnic 

station, a salad bar, 

and much more. 

One day when we 

were there, there 

was a huge turkey 

being cut, and 

slices being served. 

You’ll never go 

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at each entrance 

and exit for hand 

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appreciated. 

Our cabin was 

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all of the space. The bed was 

the star of the show – so big 

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Mountains 

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Cape Town 

FIRST-TIME visitors to 

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struck by the 

city’s beauty – and indeed, 

the city is often ranked as 

one of the world’s most 

attractive. Along with its 

stunning coastline and 

sandy beaches, relaxed 

cafes and refined architecture, 

a large amount of 

credit for this must go to 

Table Mountain. 

Large, striking but not 

imposing, the mountain provides 

a unique, breathtaking 

backdrop for South Africa’s 

favourite city. However Table 

Mountain also hints at 

Cape Town’s wilder side, one 

that may not be immediately 

obvious. 

The iconic mountain can 

be reached by cable car, 

which has a revolving platform 

so everyone on board 

gets a view during the journey. 

However, the more adventurous 

can experience 

the mountain by foot. The 

keenest hikers can tackle the 

Platteklip Gorge route to the 

top, although easier routes 

are available. Regardless of 

the path taken, keep your 

eyes peeled for wildlife – the 

mountain is home to the dassie, 

the closest living relative 

to the African elephant, as 

well as colourful lizards, native 

birds and more species 

of plant than the entirety of 

the UK. 

Most unusually, Cape 

Town is also home to penguins. 

Yes – you heard right! 

You can drive to Boulders 

Beach, where the penguins 

are found, or take a kayaking 

tour to get up close to the 

rocks on which the penguins 

perch. Extend your kayaking 

trip around Cape Point, 

where whales and dolphins 

can often be spotted. 

Other exciting activities 

include South Africa’s latest 

craze of sandboarding, 

on offer a short drive outside 

Cape Town. Similar to 

snowboarding, sandboarding 

sees thrill-seekers slide 

down sand dunes at speed. If 

that sounds too much, basic 

routes are available for firsttimers 

or the faint of heart. 

Of course, Cape Town offers 

far more than just adventure 

– visitors can have the 

holiday of a lifetime and only 

break a sweat sunbathing. 

Camps Bay provides a long 

sandy beach populated with 

palm trees and is a favourite 

of the locals to enjoy sundowners 

in the long summer 

evenings. 

South Africa offers incredible 

value for money. Prices 

are down by 20% in Cape 

Town compared to last year, 

due to the Sterling’s strength 

against the South African 

Rand, according to the 2016 

Worldwide Holiday Costs 

Barometer from Post Office 

Travel Money. This makes 

Cape Town the lowest-priced 

long haul destination surveyed 

and the third cheapest 

overall. 

A culinary haven, Cape 

Town diners can enjoy a 

three-course meal for two 

– including wine – for the 

equivalent of around £23.00. 

Real foodies should try Pot 

Luck Club; the small plates 

restaurant is a Luke Dale- 

Roberts venture, one of the 

world’s most innovative 

chefs who also runs Test 

Kitchen, a celebrity hangout 

and well worth the threemonth 

waiting list for reservations. 

And don’t forget the wine. 

Cape Town is full of great 

options for budding sommeliers. 

A glass of wine costs 

an average of £1.45 and the 

Cape Winelands, located 

just outside the city, provide 

countless opportunities for 

vineyard tours and tastings. 

Alongside world-class 

wines, Cape Town is in the 

middle of a craft beer revolution. 

The Weinhaus + 

Biergarten bar was arguably 

the birthplace of this 

hop-inspired uprising, led 

by local heroes such as Gary 

Pnematicos, founder of Cape 

Town’s own Citizen Beer. After 

a few tipples, visit one of 

Cape Town’s famed jazz bars. 

A heady mix of saxophone, 

piano and vocals can be found 

at bars such as the Alexander 

Bar Upstairs, Asoka, the 

Crypt Jazz Restaurant and 

the Piano Bar. 

Fun for all the family!

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1 US GAMBLING CITY 

2 SIMILAR TO COPYRIGHT 

3 LOW CLASS PERSON 

4 APPLE DRINK 

5 BODY ART 

6 POD VEGGIE (4,4) 

12 BETTER THAN AVERAGE 

(5,3) 

14 COMPERE 

16 SEA CHANNEL 

18 PUT IN STITCHES 

19 BIBLICAL TOWER 

22 EVOLUTION OF THE UGLY 

DUCKLING 

Aries 

21st Mar – 20th Apr 

Queen of Wands 

This week is all about work and 

taking a look at all your future goals, 

write down all the plus and minus 

and you will be able to sort out what 

you really need. Pets will figure 

highly this week and maybe take up 

up your time. Any tests, paperwork 

or exams will go really well 

Lucky Number 12 

Taurus 

21st Apr – 21st May 

King of Cups 

You will find others are asking for 

your advice and help this week, 

make time for them as they really 

do need help at the moment. An 

invitation to a party or gathering 

will bring you some positive news. 

Relationships will be heightened and 

will help you feel very connected 


Gemini 

22nd May – 21st June 

The Lovers 

A great week to connect with old 

friends and family you haven’t 

seen for a while. News of a birth 

or pregnancy will be around you. 

Looking into an open fire will bring 

comfort but also begin new ideas 

for your future with a loved one. The 

angels are watching you and helping 


Cancer 

22nd June – 22nd July 

Five of Swords 

There may be some disagreements 

around this week, best thing you 

can do is keep your own council and 

ignore these as much as possible, 

you will overcome any problems. 

And justice will be on your side. 

Family will be contacting you and 

this will give you confidence 


Leo 

23rd July – 22nd Aug 

Ace of Swords 

How your mind can play tricks on 

you, make the effort to keep your 

mind positive and think happy 

thoughts to do this. You will be 

keeping money on your mind, just 

know you will be soon entering a 

really positive phase where money is 

concerned so no need to worry at all 


Virgo 

23rd Aug – 22nd Sept 

Two of Wands 

Travel is on your mind either alone 

or with others will be good for you. 

As you watch a sunset you will have 

a bright idea and maybe set you on 

a new path in your life. There may 

be someone around who is being a 

bit judgmental but it is their problem 

not yours 


Libra 

23rd Sept – 22nd Oct 

Page of Cups 

A younger person will be there to 

help you when you are a bit unsure 

of yourself, Their imagination will 

spark some magic memories. There 

may be some delays when you are 

travelling so leave plenty of time for 

yourself. Be positive there are those 

that will notice 


Scorpio 

23rd Oct – 21st Nov 

Six of Coins 

Someone around you will be a bit 

mean where possessions or money 

is concerned be kind they know 

no better. Those of you working for 

yourselves will find new avenues to 

take your skill set to anew level. An 

older Gentleman will be most helpful 

at this time 


Sagittarius 

22nd Nov – 20th Dec 

The Sun 

A lovely card showing sunny and 

happy times to be had this week, a 

new freedom will become evident 

to you and allow you more smiles. 

Opportunities will be there for the 

taking but may show in obscure 

places. You will help others this 

week and will feel good 


Capricorn 

21st Dec – 19th Jan 

Six Ace of of Swords 

Wands 

This There 

is is 

a good 

time of luck 

movement around the 

in work 

more 

ways place this 

than week 

one, and 

moving you will 

house see 

all some 

will 

go improvements 

well, moving in 

jobs that part 

will work of your 

out 

life. 

for Someone 

you. Whatever is arranging 

is moving a party 

is so 

well 

be 

starred ready to 

just celebrate 

now. You with 

need them. 

to Notice 

get 

away your dreams 

from stress there 

and will be 

headaches, 

a message 

wether in there. 

by Your 

meditation luckiest day 

or perhaps 

will be on 

physically Thursday 

walking away 

Lucky Lucky Number 

Number 24 

20 

Aquarius 

20th Jan – 19th Feb 

Eight of Wands 

Things are happening very quickly 

at this time and you will need to 

keep on your toes to keep up with 

things. News will come that will 

bring you and those around you 

much cheer and happiness. As you 

walk through a strange doorway 

you will have a dejavu moment 


Pisces 

20th Feb – 20th Mar 

Ace of Wands 

This card tells you any types of 

communication will go well for you, 

a great time to get any thoughts 

forward or even to write and put 

them into beginning a book. A gift 

of flowers will cheer you and the 

person receiving them. A child will 

reveal some aspirations they have 


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Pets 

Make it 

a happy 

Christmas 

CHRISTMAS is coming hyperactivity and seizures. 

and animal welfare experts 

are calling on pet 

owners to make sure their 

four-legged friends stay 

safe and healthy over the 

festive period. 

Vets say they always see 

an increase in diet-related 

cases over the holidays – 

with chocolate the biggest 

problem. 

Chocolate is toxic to almost 

all animals as it contains 

Dogs will sniff chocolate 

out so it is important that 

you keep your human treats 

well out of reach. 

Giving your dog or cat 

bones or the turkey carcass 

after your Christmas dinner 

may also seem like a treat. 

However, vets warn that 

pets can easily choke on 

them or sustain internal injuries 

if the bones splinter. 

Cooked bones in particular 

a substance called splinter easily. 

theobromine – the higher 

the cocoa content, the more 

toxic the treat. 

Theobromine affects the 

heart, central nervous system 

and kidneys. A lethal 

dose for a medium sized dog 

is about 10 squares of dark 

chocolate. 

Symptoms may show between 

two and 24 hours after 

the chocolate has been eaten 

and pets can suffer vomiting, 

diarrhoea, restlessness, 

Sharing your Christmas 

dinner with your pets can 

also cause trouble. Pets are 

not use to eating rich, high fat 

foods and as a result can suffer 

from indigestion, vomiting 

and diarrhoea. 

Even if as an owner you 

are aware of the dangers remember 

to tell your visitors 

not to share with your pets. 

And some of our favourite 

festive treats – such as 

Christmas cake and coffee 

coated raisins, can be fatal 

to our pets. 

Grapes and raisins can 

cause kidney failure and 

macadamia nuts are particularly 

toxic causing hyperthermia, 

vomiting, weakness, 

depression and tremors. 

Dogs are more sensitive to 

caffeine than people so keep 

them away from coffee beans 

and tea bags. 

Onions, garlic and chives 

can, if ingested cause irritation 

to the stomach and damage 

the red blood cells. Cats 

are more susceptible but 

dogs can be affected if a large 

enough amount is consumed. 

Avocados contain a substance 

called persin in their 

leaves, bark, fruit and seeds. 

It can lead to stomach upsets 

in dogs and more serious 

problems in birds and 

rodents. 

And it is not just food, there 

are a number of other hazards 

that pet owners need to 

be aware of at Christmas. 

Many people put pot pourri 

out at Christmas time or 

receive it as a gift and leave 

it under the tree. The oils in 

pot pourri can be really toxic 

to pets if ingested and can 

cause neurological problems. 

Some cats are fond of nibbling 

on houseplants but 

several of the most common 

festive plants are poisonous 

to cats - including holly, mistletoe, 

lilies and poinsettia. 

Decorations have also been 

known to result in pet injuries. 

Cats are notorious for 

consuming tinsel and ribbon 

which can become stuck in 

the intestine. So never give 

your pets tinsel to play with. 

Shiny baubles can also 

be seen by pets as toys. Remember 

that some baubles 

are made of glass and can 

shatter and cut your pet. 

And make sure your Christmas 

tree is secure – cats like 

climbing them! 

Adoption Corner 

Laddie is a small Podenco 

and has had all his 

injections, has a passport, a 

microchip and is castrated. 

He has a very sweet 

temperament and is used 

to other dogs, he’s ready 

to go now and can travel 

to the UK or elsewhere. 

We also have lots of other 

dogs, cats and kittens 

all desperate for a loving 

home. Food and donations 

also urgently needed and 

can be left at ARC’s charity 

shop on Carrer Valencia 1, 

Jalon between 10.00am 

and 1.00pm Monday to 

Saturday. Contact Sally by 

email: jalonvalleyarc14@ 

yahoo.co.uk 

Facebook – Jalon Valley 

ARC Charity Reg No CV- 

01-054107-A. 

PETS IN SPAIN 

Amber is around 4 months 

old and was found with her 

mum and siblings hiding 

under a shed which was 

about to be knocked down. 

The mother and kittens were 

placed in a foster home and 

now in need of a forever 

home. Tel: 645 469 253 

www.petsinspain.com 

Email: info@petsinspain.com



Property market contracts 


THE number of non-Spanish 

property buyers fell over by 

just over three per cent in the 

first half of 2019, compared 

to the same period last year, 

according to the latest report 

from the Association of 

Spanish Notaries. 

In total foreign buyers acquired 

51,720 homes in Spain 

in the first six months of the 

year, compared to 53,427 

the same period last year, 

a decline of three point two 

per cent, and the first annual 

decline after seven and 

a half years of uninterrupted 

growth. 

Spanish internal demand 

also fell in the same period, 

by two point eight per cent to 

226,594 home sales in the first 

half of 2019. 

As a result, the overall market 

fell by two point nine per 

cent to 278,314, and foreign 

demand made up 18.6 per cent 

of the property market – a 

share that has hardly changed 

between 2013 and 2018. 

Foreign demand breaks 

down into non-resident buyers 

with 21,210 acquisitions (41 

per cent of foreign demand), 

principally holiday-home buyers 

from northern Europe, and 

full-time residential buyers 

with 30,510 purchases (59 per 

cent), which feature a lot of economic 

migrants from countries 

like Morocco and Romania. 

Non-resident demand was 

down nine point seven per 

cent, the third consecutive 

half-yearly decline, whilst expat 

demand continues to grow 

(up by just under two per cent), 

albeit at a much lower rate 

than before. 

The main destinations 

for foreign buyers were the 

Valencian Region, Andalucia, 

and Catalunya, though 

demand(especially in coastal 

holiday areas) fell in Valencia 

and Andalucia, but actually 

went up in Catalunya. 

The biggest and somewhat 

dramatic falls in foreign demand 

were in the Canaries 

(down by 20 per cent) and the 

Balearics (down by almost 14 

per cent). 

British buyers have continued 

to dominated the foreign 

market, with 6,681 purchases, 

followed by purchasers from 

Morocco and France. 

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Starting from scratch 

SPAIN offers many different 

types of properties 

compared with say the 

UK. Before you start looking, 

you should be very 

clear on the following: 

1. Why are you buying? 

(holiday home, investment, 

somewhere to 

retire…) 

2. How will you spend 

your time there? (relaxing, 

having family come 

to visit, doing sports…) 

3. Are you going to rent 

out the property to cover 

the costs? 

4. New build or a secondhand 

property? Surrounded 

by natives or 

among fellow Brits? 


5. Which is more important 

for you: budget, location, 

property type or 

nearby facilities? 

Types of 

properties 

SEASIDE APARTMENTS 

These tend to be built 

specifically as holiday homes. 

Aside from the obvious 

advantages of sun, sea and 

sand, these properties generally 

come with shared facilities 

like swimming pools and 

tennis courts, all included 

within the community. 

What’s more, thanks to this 

they are quite easy to rent 

out when you’re not there. 

Research carefully because 

prices can vary wildly based 

on location and proximity to 

the beach. 

HOUSES AND VILLAS 

Another option is to buy a 

house in a town or city, or 

the outskirts but of course 

the price can still depend on 

the exact location. 

New builds are attractive 

for their balconies and gardens, 

although older properties 

may cost less. Take 

care, though, as the longer 

ago it was built, the lower 

the construction quality 

and the more renovation is 

needed. 

Houses in residential estates:- 

Also known as ‘residential 

developments’, urbanisations 

offer a mix of 

most things you could want 

– bars, restaurants and 

shops – without ever having 

to go too far. 

There's lots of choice as 

they can contain apartments, 

houses and villas, 

although some are smaller 

and don't contain any extra 

amenities. 

COUNTRY HOMES 

A finca or casa rural may 

be the most romantic of all 

Spanish dream homes, a cot- 

tage with land aplenty in the 

open countryside. 

Often, they will be older 

builds, so be sure that what 

you are buying has all the 

basics – running water, 

sewer pipes, electricity etc. A 

specialist lawyer will be able 

to help you avoid any pitfalls 

like the above. 

Take care when 

heating your home 

As winter draws in and 

people start heating their 

properties, the Valencian 

Fire Consortium have 

given some advice about 

safety at a time of year 

when their call outs always 

increase dramatically. 

Almost half the house fires 

they have attended this year 

were between January and 

April, with the numbers falling 

away dramatically when 

THE average house price 

in Spain increased by 

just over 3% in the third 

quarter of the year compared 

to the same period 

in 2018. 

The average price per 

square meter is now 

€1,638.30, 3.1% more than 

the previous year but still 

22% less than the peak in 


the weather warmed up. 

The biggest cause is electrical 

heating appliances in 

poor condition, causing shirt 

circuits. 

Badly ventilated appliances 

such as stoves, radiators 

and fires also started a number 

of blazes and people need 

to be aware of the dangers of 

carbon monoxide build-up 


2008 when the figure was 

€2.101 per square metre. 

However, it is a healthy 

12.5% more than the low 

point of €1,456 recorded 

in 2014 at the peak of the 

Spanish property crisis. 

Market analyst Ferran 

Font said that the latest 

which can be fatal. 

They advise householders 

to check all devices, place 

smoke alarms around the 

property and never leave 

open flames such as candles 

burning overnight or if you 

are likely to doze off. 

Last year across Spain 123 

people died in house fires, 

16 of them in the Valencian 

Community, a mixture of 

burns and smoke inhalation. 

Property prices in 

steady increase 

figures showed a steady upward 

trend with this being 

the eighteenth consecutive 

month when prices have 

increased. 

The Valencian Community 

performed above the market 

average with rises of 4.6% 

while the Balearics (4.8%) 

had the biggest rise across 

the country. 

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Health&Lifestyle 

Stride out for better health 

GET your trainers on and 

hit the ground running! 

Even a little bit of a jog 

can cut your risk of an 

early death, according to 

new research. 

And if more people got up 

and running there would be 

“substantial improvements” 

in the health of the general 

population, its authors say. 

It seems that you don’t 

have to run far or fast to 

‌amount‌ ‌of‌ ‌running‌ ‌is‌ ‌linked‌ 

‌to‌ ‌a‌ ‌“significantly‌ ‌lower‌ ‌risk‌ 

‌of‌ ‌death‌ ‌from‌ ‌any‌ ‌cause”, 

according to the study published 

in the British Journal 

of Sports Medicine. 

The World Health Organisation 

says that about 3.2 

million deaths each year are 

down to people not doing 

enough physical activity. 

However, the researchers 

from Australia, Thailand and 

make a difference. Any‌ Finland found a 27 per cent 

lower risk of death from all 

causes when people went for a 

run, even just for a short jog. 

And running was linked 

to a 30 per cent lower risk 

of death from cardiovascular 

disease, as well as a 23 per 

cent lower risk of dying from 

cancer. 

The researchers said: “Increased 

rates of participation 

in running, regardless 

of its dose would probably 

lead to substantial improvements 

in population health 

and longevity. 

“Any amount of running, 

even just once a week, is better 

than no running, but higher 

doses of running may not 

necessarily be associated with 

greater mortality benefits.” 

Even running once a week 

or less, for less than 50 minutes 

each time, and at a pace 

lower than six miles an hour 

was linked to significant 

health benefits. 

“This makes ‌running‌ ‌a‌ 

‌potentially‌ ‌good‌ ‌option‌ ‌for‌ 

‌those‌ ‌whose‌ ‌main‌ ‌obstacle‌ 

‌to‌ ‌doing‌ ‌enough‌ ‌exercise‌ ‌is‌ 

‌lack‌ ‌of‌ ‌time”, ‌suggest‌ ‌the‌ ‌ 

researchers.‌‌‌ 

And they added that, 

while vigorous exertion has 

been linked to sudden cardiac 

death, the mortality 

benefit of running outweighs 

the risk. 

In reports on the study, 

Zeljko Pedisic, its lead author 

and an associate professor 

of public health at Victoria 

University in Australia, 

was quoted saying: “You 

don’t have to run fast or far 

to reap the benefits.” 

The research team focused 

on 14 previous studies based 

on six different groups of 

participants, totalling more 

than 230,000 people. They 

were followed over periods 

ranging between five and a 

half ‌and‌ ‌35‌ ‌years.‌ 

Eye condition 

that will affect 

millions of us 

THE leading cause of irreversible 

blindness and severely 

impaired eyesight is 

expected to affect 77 million 

people across Europe 

by 2050, health experts 

are warning. 

The rise in cases of the degenerative 

eye condition age 

related macular degeneration, 

or AMD for short, will 

require “considerable extra 

healthcare resource and 

planning”. 

Most of the cases will be in 

people aged over 70, according 

to the latest calculations, 

published online in the British 

Journal of Ophthalmology. 

The researchers predict 

that rates of the condition 

will rise by 15 per cent – 

from 67m in 2015 to 77m in 

the middle of the century. 

AMD occurs when the 

small central portion of the 

retina, the light-sensing tissue 

at the back of the eye 

deteriorates with age. When 

advanced, it can be treated, 

but not cured. 

The damage that the condition 

causes cannot be reversed. 

The exact cause is 

unknown. It has been linked 

to smoking, high blood pressure, 

being overweight and 

having a family history of 

AMD. 

It usually first affects 

people in their 50s and 60s. 

And it can make everyday 

activities like reading and 

recognising faces difficult. 

Researchers from the University 

of Bonn in Germany 

looked at existing rates of 

the disease to try and predict 

how its impact would 

increase in future. 

Their estimated projections 

show that one in four 

older adults in the EU will 

have AMD. 

The researchers, led by Dr 

Jeany Li, warn: “This will 

require considerable additional 

healthcare service and 

resource allocation, which 

should be considered already 

today in all European 

healthcare systems.” 

AMD is a condition in 

which the macula – a part 

of the light-sensing retina at 

the back of the eye – begins 

to wear down and fail. 

Symptoms can begin with 

a blurred or distorted area 

of vision which may then 

progress to a blank spot. 

This can later lead to a 

complete loss of vision in 

the centre of the eyes, but 

it doesn't affect peripheral 

vision and as such does not 

lead to total blindness.



Sports & Local News 

IT’S THAT MAN AGAIN! 

Late, late goal grabs all the points 

Montesinos v CD Benijofar 

Top hit-man Gonzalo was on the 

mark again as Monte edged this top 

of the table clash on Sunday. 

A cold day at the ‘Cauldron’ turned 

much warmer as CD Montesinos came 

from behind, twice, to nick all 3 points 

against their rivals for promotion. 

The game started off badly when 

sleepy defending allowed a sharp Benijofar 

attack to slip the ball home. One 

nil down with a couple of minutes gone, 

Monte had yet again, given their opponents 

a start. 

Unperturbed by the setback, the 

home side set to their task and were 

rewarded when a corner on the right 

picked out a totally unmarked MANU 

(5) to gratefully nod in the easiest goal 

he’ll score this season. From then on, 

it was almost exclusively Monte, but, 

pushing to take the lead gave their opponents 

a chance to use their undeniable 

pace on the break. Moments before 

half time the inevitable happened. 

Breakdown from a corner, quick break, 

failure to clear, some neat passing and 

the ball nestled in the corner of the 

Monte goal. All the previous good work 

undone, Monte needed to regroup after 

the break. 

HT:- CD Montesinos 1 – 2 CD 

Benijofar 

The second stint saw Monte huff and 

puff without creating too many clearcut 

chances with Benijofar employing 

a very efficient off-side trap and Monte 

unable to get the width the game was 

crying out for. All that changed though 

when a whipped cross found GONZA- 

LO (22), who nodded down to an advancing 

MACCAN (23) to slam home 

the equaliser. 

Roared on by a bumper crowd, the 

game suddenly became almost oneway 

traffic, with wave after wave of red 

pouring over the green shirted defenders. 

Just when it looked like a draw 

was the likely result, a smartly taken 

corner on the right caught the Benijofar 

defence off-guard. Three players lined 

up at the far post, but it was crowd 

favourite GONZALO (22) who rose 

highest to score and take his tally into 

double figures for the season. Moments 

later the final whistle concluded a thoroughly 

entertaining game. 

I’ve already had my say on slow 

starts and not giving opponents respect 

in previous articles, so, no need 

for a repeat, but on this occasion Monte 

had a something else to counter these 

nagging failings, a belief that they can 

win, even if they have to make it hard 

for themselves sometimes. There will, 

I’m sure, be other twists and turns 

over this season, but this game gave a 

warning to all their opponents, we are 

Monte and if you give us a chance, we 

will WIN. 

Man of theMatch was 19 LUIS, 

chosen by game sponsor 

TorregolfEU. 

Vamos Monte. 

FT:- CD Montesinos 3 – 2 CD 

Benijofar 

Match report by Official Chief 

Sports Correspondent Steve 

Robinson. 

Photos by Terry Harris 

MATCH 12............ 

CD Montesinos will travel to Santa 

Pola to play C.F. Santa Pola City 

“A”, 

on Saturday 30th November, 

kick-off is 4.00pm. 

Travelling supporters to meet at Bar 

Tambalache at 2.30pm. 

TEAM:-13 Carlos, 2 Pepe, 3 

Fernando,5 Manu, 9 Manuel 

Sanchez, 14 Pamies, 19 Luis, 20 

Morante, 22 Gonzalo, 23 Maccan, 

24 Andres. 

SUBs:- 4 Santos, 8 German, 10 

Alfredo, 12 Diego Barroso, 15 

Diego. 

Premier League Table Championship Table League One Table


ON TV THIS WEEK 

Premier League 

Saturday 30th November 

Newcastle v Man City 

BT Sport1 - 13:30 

Southampton v Watford 

Sky Sports Main Event 

Sky Sports Premier League - 18:30 

Sunday 1st December 

Norwich v Arsenal 



Leicester v Everton 



Tuesday 3rd December 

Crystal Palace v Bournemouth 

Amazon Prime - 20:30 

Burnley v Man City 


Wednesday 4th December 

Wolves v West Ham 

Leicester v Watford 

Southampton v Norwich 

Chelsea v Aston Villa 

Man Utd v Tottenham 


Liverpool v Everton 


English Football 

Friday 29th November 

English Championship 

– Swansea v Fulham 

Sky Sports Football 

Sky Sports Main Event - 20:45 

FA Cup – 

Maldon & Tiptree v Newport County 

BBC2 - 20:55 



– Charlton v Sheff Wed 



FA Cup – Eastleigh v Crewe 

BT Sport1 - 18:30 


FA Cup – Tranmere vs Chichester 

BT Sport1 - 16:00 

Monday 2nd December 


– Preston v West Brom 



FA Cup – Solihull Moors v Rotherham 

BT Sport1 - 20:45 

Cricket 


New Zealand v England (2nd Test) 

Sky Sports Cricket 










Monday 2nd December 




Golf 


Alfred Dunhill Championship 2019 

Sky Sports Golf - 11:30 

Andalucia Open De Espana 2019 

Sky Sports Golf, Sky Sports Mix 

Sky Sports Red Button - 14:30 





Sky Sports Golf 

Sky Sports Mix - 15:30 





Sky Sports Golf 

Sky Sports Mix - 15:30 

Formula One 


Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Practice 1 

Sky Sports F1 - 10:00 






Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Qualifying 



Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Race 


This week’s Premier 

League matches 

Saturday November 30 

Newcastle United v Man City - 13:30 

Burnley v Crystal Palace - 16:00 

Chelsea v West Ham - 16:00 

Liverpool v Brighton - 16:00 

Tottenham v Bournemouth - 16:00 

Southampton v Watford - 18:30 

Sunday December 1 

Norwich City v Arsenal - 15:00 

Wolves v Sheffield United - 15:00 

Leicester City v Everton - 17:30 

Man United v Aston Villa - 17:30 

Tuesday December 3 

Crystal Palace v Bournemouth - 20:30 

Burnley v Man City - 21:15 

Wednesday December 4 

Chelsea v Aston Villa - 20:30 

Leicester City v Watford - 20:30 

Man United v Tottenham - 20:30 

Southampton v Norwich City - 20:30 

Wolves v West Ham - 20:30 

Liverpool v Everton - 21:15 

Thursday December 5 

Sheffield Utd v Newcastle Utd - 20:30 

Arsenal v Brighton - 21:15 


Sports & Local News 

Las Ramblas Golf Society 

Results for w/c 25.11.19 

It was the best two scores from four with 

all to count on the par 5’s that was contested 

on Monday. Our winners, with 94 

points were Trevor Pullyblank, Petina 

Murray, Mike Mahoney and Paul Brown. 

Just claiming 2nd place on countback, 

with 86 points, were Olga Douglas, Pat Cassidy, 

Hendrick Oldenziel and John Shervell. 

There were no less than seven ‘2’s in 

Wednesday’s Stableford. Too many to mention 

but they know who they were! Graham 

Murray took gold with 38 points (no surprise 

there then) followed by Rachel Lee with 37. 

John Shervell, Ken Robertson, Paul Brown 

and, yes you’ve guessed it, yours truly, made 

into the top six. 

This week’s quote is attributed to Brian 

Wells (who may well have had our good 

friend Heinz Lei in mind at the time) ‘This 

ball retriever is not long enough to get my 

putter out of the tree ‘. 

Pues hasta la semana que viene 

Peter Reffell 

Walking Football 

Thursday 21st saw Esquina Park Rangers, 

up at the crack of dawn to make the 45 min 

trip to Romana. 

Big Paul Norton was running late as he was 

still entertaining his Burd that was on his Tinder 

Date, she still thinks he’s 43 years young..... 

Willie Cockburn who was getting chauffeured 

(As Normal) sitting in the back of Judy’s BMW 

eating his Gummy Bears, was our navigator 

for the day. Thinking hes taking us on the best 

& quickest route took us right past a Speed 

Checkpoint. The Guardia pulled us in right behind 

another team member Big Darren. 

Waiting for our punishment the one and only 

Chester Casual Stuart flew past us grinning 

like a Cheshire Cat !!! 

Twenty minutes later and 150 euros each out 

of pocket we eventually arrived at the ground. 

Thanks to our team members they have all 

agreed to pay our speeding fines out of the club 

funds, Cheers Lads....The pitches were in the 

middle of nowhere and it was Baltic...Four 

teams were in the mini tournament with Esquina 

on first against Montisinos. 

A slow start from both teams due to the cold 

and slippery surface, the game was looking to 

be goalless until Big Tony whipped a cracking 

shot into the top corner, one nil Esquina. 

With Willie Cockburn thinking the Ref was 

all over him like a rash, the ref eventually sent 

him to the sin bin to cool down for two minutes, 

which wasn’t hard to do in these temperatures.... 

Final Score Esquina 1 Montisinos 0.... 

Second game was against the hosts Hondon. 

With Hondons front man running as fast as 

he can we had to try to get Ray Wales to stay 

with him. 

Willie Cockburn opened the scoring then 

Big Tony adding another two before half time, 

three nil to Esquina. 

Second half Esquina kept up the pressure 

with Ray Wales nipping one past their keeper. 

After Big Andrew Webster finally removed 

his motorbike leathers he came on and finished 

the game off with a goal. 

Final score Esquina 5 Hondon 0. 

Last game for us was against our biggest 

rivals and winners of our home tournament 

Portobello. Esquina were out for Revenge..... 

Both teams were up for the fight, some hard 

tackles from both teams with Esquina scoring 

first from Welsh Ray with a cracking goal turning 

their back two, to whip the ball past their 

scrambling keeper... One nil to Esquina, half 

time... 

With the second half underway Portobellos 

striker went down in our box as if hed been hit 

with a shovel. 

Their striker stepped up and nipped it past 

Esquinas sprawling keeper Paul, who was 

busy checking his tinder account. 

One goal each...Ray Wales got his marching 

orders from the ninety five year old ref, for abusive 

language, little did the ref know he chose 

the wrong man nevertheless Ray waddled of in 

disbelief...Esquina kept up the pressure and 

their reward paid off with big Tony scoring his 

fourth of the tournament. 

With Esquina well on top, all they had to do 

was to keep the ball and run down the clock. 

Portobello were raging as they knew time 

was on our side. 

Big Willie Cockburn was running down the 

clock in their half, not happy with this ,one of 

their players smacked big Willie on the coupon. 

It was as if World War Three broke out, all 

these old men looking for a Rumble even Katie 

& Judi ran on with their handbags at the ready. 

Once things had cooled off the ref sent Willie 

off along with the Portobello player. 

Esquina held on with six OAPs on the pitch 

& Portobello with seven. 

Final Score Esquina Park Rangers 2 

Portobello 1. 

Another Entertaining Tournament With Esquina 

Bringing Home Yet Another Trophy. 

“ Well Done Lads”



Sport 

EURO 2020 DRAW WEEKEND 


England, Wales, and 

Spain will find out 

their group opponents 

tomorrow(Saturday) when 

the Euro 2020 finals draw 

is held in Bucharest, Romania 

starting at 6.00pm(live 

on BBC 2). 

England and Spain are 

among the six top seeds along 

with Belgium, Italy, Germany, 

and the Ukraine, but irrespective 

of the seeding, plenty 

of tough matches are likely to 

face all of them next summer. 

The other qualified countries 

besides Wales are 

Austria, Croatia, the Czech 

Republic, Denmark, Finland, 

France, the Netherlands, 

Poland, Portugal, 

Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, 

and Turkey. 

Euro 2020 takes place from 

June 12th to July 12th and 

will be held in 12 host cities 

across the continent. 

The opening match will 

be at the Stadio Olimpico in 

Rome, Italy, and the final will 

be at Wembley Stadium. 

While the main tournament 

draw will be held tomorrow, 

we won’t know the 

confirmed line-up until after 

TOP OF THE WORLD 


Rafael Nadal clinched an 

emotional Davis Cup victory 

for Spain over Canada when 

he beat Denis Shapovalov 

in front of a jubilant home 

crowd in Madrid. 

His 6-3 7-6 (9-7) win sealed 

the title on Sunday, with Roberto 

Bautista Agut returning 

to the team three days after 

his father’s death to put the 

hosts 1-0 up. 

Bautista Agut was in tears 

after beating 19-year-old Felix 

Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (7-3) 

6-3 in the opener. Nadal’s win 

gave Spain an unassailable 

2-0 lead and a sixth Davis 

Cup title. The world number 

one won all eight of his rubbers 

over the tournament 

to help Spain to a first title 

since 2011 and ensure local 

fans were celebrating at the 

end of the inaugural edition 

of the competition’s revamped 

version, which saw the home 

team beat Great Britain in an 

exciting semi-final tussle the 

day before. 

“An amazing week, a lot 

of things we went through – 

the father of Roberto passed 

away... a lot of things happened,” 

Nadal said. “I could 

not be happier. It has been an 

unforgettable moment in this 

amazing stadium; we can’t 

thank the crowd enough. Our 

team spirit prevails.” 

the play-offs in March. Scotland 

and Northern Ireland 

have qualified for the playoffs 

and will need to progress 

through the play-off path 

semi-final and final to reach 

next summer’s tournament. 

Should Scotland beat Israel 

in the play-off semifinals, 

then Norway or Serbia 

in the path C final, they 

Spain’s returning manager 

Luis Enrique says his predecessor 

Robert Moreno 

was “disloyal” and will not 

be part of his coaching 

team. 

Enrique resigned from the 

role in June to spend more 

time with his nine-year-old 

daughter Xana, who died 

from bone cancer in August. 

Moreno succeeded him but 

told Enrique he wanted to be 

in charge at Euro 2020 before 

returning to assistant manager. 

Moreno left the role after 

Spain’s 5-0 win over Romania 

on 18 November. 

“The only person responsible 

for Robert Moreno not 

would join England in group 

D at Euro 2020. 

If Northern Ireland and 

the Republic of Ireland both 

win their path B semi-finals 

– against Bosnia & Herzegovina 

and Slovakia respectively 

– the Irish rivals would face 

each other in Belfast for a 

place at next summer’s championships. 

ENRIQUE SLAMS 

CARETAKER 

being in my coaching staff is 

me,” Enrique said on Wednesday, 

when he was officially 

unveiled as Spain´s boss. 

“He came to see me in my 

house and told me he wanted 

to lead the team at Euro 2020 

and afterwards he would 

be happy to be my assistant 

coach again. 

“I understand that he has 

worked very hard to be the 

coach and that he is ambitious 

– but for me that is disloyal. 

I would never do something 

like that and I don’t 

want someone with those 

characteristics in my staff.” 

“Ambition is to be encouraged 

but excessive ambition 

is a defect, not a virtue.” 

JOAO FELIX 

STRIKES GOLD 

Atletico Madrid forward 

Joao Felix has won the 

Golden Boy award for 

the best under-21 player 

in Europe. 

The 20-year-old Portugal 

international scored 18 goals 

for Benfica last season before 

a 126 million euro move to 

Atletico in the summer. 

He has scored two goals in 

10 La Liga appearances for 

Atletico so far this season. 

“I am very proud,” said 

Felix. “It is the second time 

that a player from Atletico 

Madrid has won this award 

and I am happy.” 

The Golden Boy award 

was created by Italian newspaper 

Tuttosport in 2003 

to recognise the best young 

player in Europe. 

Nominees must be under 

the age of 21 and play in a 

European nation’s top tier, 

with Wayne Rooney and 

Raheem Sterling being previous 

English winners of 

the award.

Weekender Alicante South Issue 119

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