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YOUR ENG LISH - S PANISH NEWSPAPER No 225 August 24 - August 30, 2007 www.thinkspain.com/today SPECIAL LOW PRICE €1500 PORKER: SPANISH CUISINE HAMS IT UP CRUZ control FLY TO PAGE 3 SEE PAGE 5 Paint the town red THE SLEEPY community of Buñol relies on one sauce for its annual source of income. And next Wednesday, some 20,000 revellers will strip off to literally paint the town red. For the medieval Valencian settlement, which normally has a population of 10,000, re-enacts an event which first began after World War II. The agricultural town is transformed into a sea of red, the site of the world’s biggest ever tomato-throwing event. The aim of La Tomatina is simple – around 100,000 tonnes of ripe tomatoes are pelted, hurled, catapulted and fired at friends, family, acquaintances, and other people you don’t know. The fun starts at around 11am in the Plaza del Pueblo, but the fiesta has become so big, that it now stretches along the streets leading into the square. To get in the mood, throw yourself onto PAGES 15-18 for more fun and pictures. ● MADDY ‘SEEN AT PETROL STATION’ ■ Two women spot missing toddler in Cartagena ■ Spanish police take sighting as ‘serious lead’ ■ McCanns believe youngster IS now in Spain EXCLUSIVE by José Andúgar MISSING Brit toddler Madeleine McCann has been spotted by two women running from a toilet at the Belmonte petrol station in Tentegorra, near Cartagena, Spanish police confirmed. FULL STORY: PAGE 7 CANCER SHOCKER: Britain lagging behind Spain in survival league table PAGE 2 2 NATIONAL NEWS 26 arrests in drugs swoop SPAIN August 24 - August 30 2007 Shark miracle rescue turns to tragedy Footie star is found dead FINS definitely ain’t what they used to be down Tarragona way. For Spanish scientists were forced to use their bare hands to wrestle with an unusual tourist attraction – a giant shark. The 110-pound sandbar shark – not generally associated with attacks on humans – first showed up early last week at a beach called Miracle in north-eastern part of the province, forcing authorities to close off the water to bathers. The 7ft shark had become a tourist attraction by making daily incursions into knee-high water on the Spanish beach. The fish turned into a novelty by swimming regularly into view in very shallow water. Bathers gathered daily to snap photos. A team of three biologists from the Barcelona Aquarium waded in Monday and, after two failed attempts before a crowd of hundreds, finally managed to capture the flailing shark with their hands. Sadly it died on Wednesday. POLICE swooped on a beach and a brothel in a crackdown on a gang suspected of drug-running across Europe. Spanish national police arrested 26 people and seized three tons of hashish in the orchestrated raids. The gang is thought to have been involved in smuggling the drug over from Morocco and selling it in Spain and elsewhere in Europe, police said. The arrests were made in raids in the south-eastern Spanish region of Murcia and in Cádiz in the south. Ten of the detainees were arrested when police caught them unloading 79 bundles of hashish from a boat docked on a beach in Murcia. An alleged leader of the group was arrested later at a brothel in the Cádiz region, and police said they found him to be carrying more than 5,000 euros in cash. GOTCHA: Wrestling with the shark on Miracle beach Deadly divide of cancer ‘lottery’ I’m still in the running MAYOR ALBERTO: Looking ahead to parliament By John Bennett CANCER patients in Spain are surviving for longer than those in Britain. THE MAN being tipped as a future Prime Minister of Spain has defied his party elders – by promising to run for parliament. Madrid’s conservative mayor, Alberto RuizGallardón, has cocked a snoop at those who want him to sit tight and shut up. The 48-year-old said on Sunday he would like to run for parliament and remain mayor at the same time, a combination he said would give the city a better voice in the Spanish legislature. Sea drama A COUPLE from Cataluña who disappeared last Thursday after they went kayaking in the Honduras are still missing. An official sea rescue search began when Francisco Romaní, 49, and Carmen Arenas, 46, failed to return to the accommodation where they were staying. Survival rates in lung, breast, prostate and colorectal cancer were lower in the UK compared with everywhere except eastern Europe, international studies revealed this week. The proportion of female cancer patients living five years beyond diagnosis in Spain was 64 per cent – nine per cent higher than in the UK. And among men the figure for Spain was 50 per cent compared to 43 per cent in Britain. British cancer patients are said to be substantially more likely to die of the disease than those in other western European countries because of diagnosis delays and poor access to the latest drugs. Cancer patients in France topped the table with a 71 per cent five-year survival rate for women and 53 per cent for men. Sweden and Norway are also among the best performers. The studies of 25 countries in the biggest projects of their kind looked at the Survival rates for Brits lag behind Europeans outcome of 2.7m new cases between 1995 and 1999. While death rates have fallen in the UK, they have also fallen in the rest of Europe. An editorial in the Lancet Oncology questioned whether the NHS Cancer Plan, launched to tackle poor survival rates in the UK, was working. “Our concerns illustrate the considerable challenges that now face the UK government if it is to make the NHS work efficiently and effectively,” it stated. British Government cancer “tsar” Professor Mike Richards conceded that while some of the data from European countries could be flawed, this was unlikely to account for all of the differences between countries. “The findings show that many more lives could be saved if the outcomes in all countries were brought up to the standards of the best countries.” He added: “The poor results from the UK were attributable mainly to patients having more advanced disease at diagnosis than patients in other European countries.” The Cancer Plan was launched in Britain in 2000, promising an increase in specialist staff and equipment to tackle the delays in diagnosing and treating cancer. Strict targets on the waiting times for scans and appointments were set. Professor Richard Sullivan, Cancer Research UK’s director of clinical programmes, said the figures showed the plan was beginning to make a difference. But he added: “Cancer is still not being diagnosed early enough in all cases. And we need to ensure that patients have access to the best surgery, radiotherapy and other treatments. We need a sustained effort to beat the disease.” While more than half of patients in Spain, France, Germany and Italy have access to new treatments provided since 1985, the proportion in the UK is four out of 10. The report found the uptake of newer cancer drugs was “low and slow” in the UK as well as New Zealand, How to contact us Think Press S.L. C.I.F. B/54152202 Editor Nick Hudson Registration T-59-07 ISSN 1887-4223 Printers Indugraf Offset SA Pol. Ind. Constanti. Avda. Europa, s/n 43120 Constanti (Tarragona) Centro Comercial La Teulera 12-14 Avda. Rey Juan Carlos I. 61-63 03727 Xaló (Alicante) Tel. 96 648 08 14 Fax 96 648 01 10 [email protected] Have you got a story? Tel. 96 648 00 52 [email protected] Display adverts [email protected] Classifieds [email protected] Poland, Czech Republic and South Africa. The researchers, whose report is published in the journal Annals of Oncology, found that Austria, France, Switzerland and the US were leaders in using new cancer drugs. The greatest differences in the uptake of drugs were noted for the new colorectal and lung cancer drugs. The proportion of colorectal cancer patients with access to the drug Avastin was 10 times higher in the US than it was in Europe. The researchers said if all countries had the survival rate of the best nations, there would be about 150,000 – or 12 per cent – fewer deaths in the five years after diagnosis. They also mostly found that the more a country spent on health care, the better its survival rates – except for Britain. A spokesman for the Department of Health in London said: “We are making good progress in ensuring cancer patients have access to the drugs they need.” Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, said: “It is outrageous that we are the leading country in Europe for cancer research but the slowest in the uptake of new cancer drugs.” A FORMER top British footballer has been found dead at his home in Spain. Ex-West Ham United and Southend United striker Jeroen Boere was landlord of an Epping pub for five years before moving to Marbella in 2004. The 39-year-old retired from football in 1999 after he lost an eye in a bar brawl in Tokyo and decided to move to Epping and run the Half Moon pub in the High Street. Father-of-three Boere had joined West Ham in 1993 and went on to play 29 times for the Hammers, scoring seven goals. He spent time on loan at Portsmouth and West Bromwich Albion before moving to Crystal Palace in BOERE: ‘Larger than life character’ September 1995. A year later he joined Southend United where he played for two seasons before signing for Japanese second division side Omiya Ardiia at the end of the 1997-98 season. Close friend Annie Evans said: “Jeroen was a fantastic, larger-than-life character. He will be very, very fondly remembered.” Mr Boere ran the Half Moon pub for four years before coming to Spain with his wife in September 2004 to work as a real estate agent. They had a child together two years ago, in addition to Mr Boere’s two sons from a previous marriage. 29 die as boat sinks A BID to make Spain their home has cost 12 Africans their lives. The would-be migrants drowned off the coast of the Canaries in the latest tragedy to strike travellers attempting to reach European shores. A boat with migrants aboard sank off Fuerteventura on Sunday. Where eagles dare, pilots fly PILOTS have been warned to steer clear of big birds when taking off from a Spanish airport. Spanish airline Iberia has told their crews to be extra careful when taking off from Madrid after a number of collisions with eagles or vultures forced them to carry out emergency landings, a report has revealed. Since July 2006 at least four aircraft from the national airline have carried out emergency landings at Madrid-Barajas airport, one of Europe’s busiest, after hitting the creatures. NATIONAL NEWS SPAIN August 24 - August 30 2007 €1500 PORKER Britstick novel is big hit Spanish cuisine hams it up for world beater AN ANGLO-Irish author living in Madrid has bowled the critics over with his first novel – written in Spanish. Stocks of Ian Gibson’s Viento del Sur, published by Almuzara, are flying off the shelves. The novel, which has won favourable reviews, is a thinly-disguised autobiography which tears into British society, examining class, religion, loveless families, vice-ridden public schools, as well as stiff upper lips and even the cricketer’s demon googly delivery. By contrast the 68-year-old author talks in rapturous tones about the unfettered freedoms of Spain. “I couldn’t have published this book in English because of the hurt to my relatives and schools,” Gibson said. He has had Spanish nationality for 20 years. SIZZLING EXCLUSIVE by Duncan Danley Wikid scam, whacky end HARD-CORE foodies are drooling over the prospect of a prime porker with a Spanish streak of magic in it. For a superlative, salt-cured ham is being created costing about 1,500 euros. It makes it the most expensive ham in the world. The 2006 Alba Quercus Reserve (as this pricy pork will be known) won’t be available until late 2008 and you must buy the whole ham or nothing at all. But that hasn’t dissuaded gastronomic websites and blogs from buzzing with talk of the farm where it is being produced, likening it to a Mount Olympus of pork. Its mastermind, Manuel Maldonado, 44, comes from a long line of ham producers in a country that’s nuts about the stuff. PRIME TARGET: The cost of bacon means pigs really might fly In bars and restaurants, legs of ham hanging from the wall are as common as TV sets. With Spanish pigs bound for ham how it is made. Maldonado has yet to But Maldonado is taking the art of because it comes from the best pig the ham to new heights, pampering in the world,” Maldonado says of glory, diet is everything. The least set a price for customers who buy the his pigs with a free-range lifestyle 2006 Alba Quercus Reserve, a re- expensive ham is made from pigs fed 13-pound hams directly from him, and top-quality diet of acorns befo- ference to the year the pigs were on grain, whereas mid-grade hams but the food site Ibergour.com has a come from pigs raised on a combina- dozen for sale at 1,500 euros each, and re slaughtering them, then curing slaughtered. is accepting deposits. “It is the most important ham in tion of wheat and acorns. the meat for two years – twice as Then there are Spain’s poshest For four generations, Maldonado’s Spain,” adds Pedro Soley, a Barcelong as his competitors. It’s that last step that Maldonado lona connoisseur who is among the pigs, which feast exclusively on acor- family has been making ham from ns, producing a rich flavour and oily high-quality hogs in this town of credits with creating a delicacy that lucky few lining up to buy one. Indeed, this is a limited edition texture that make the meat a delica- 5,000 in Spain’s south west Extremajustifies the heavenly price. Maldonado had hoped to roll out piece: Maldonado will produce just cy. Spain’s finest hams are not consi- dura region. dered first-rate without an “acornTheir herds of black Iberian his super-gourmet ham this year, 80 to 100 legs. beauties are kept on a handful of And they are expected to be a world fed” stamp on the label. but felt the first batch fell short of At least some foodies apparently acorn-rich farms in the surrounding his ultra-demanding standards and apart from Spain’s more common meadowlands, walking freely up to 10 did not put it up for sale. He hopes to Iberian ham – named for the breed haven’t been put off by the price of do better this time and have it ready of pig used – which is similar to Ita- Maldonado’s work. One food blog, kilometres daily. “Ham provides us with life,” Maldolian prosciutto, but a darker red and Directo al Paladar, called the cost of around Christmas 2008. the ham “almost a gift,” considering nado said with a smile. “This is the best ham in the world chewier. TELEVISION hacks in Spain have been caught playing with their pens down – fiddling with online encyclopaedia Whackypedia. Two Spanish TV stations, one public and the other private, both had the same idea about writing a “good” silly season story. The journalists both planned to go into the site, vandalise a bit of it, and then write up a story on how unreliable the encyclopaedia was. They described how John Lennon was obsessed with paella and moved the date of Elvis Presley’s “death by sandwich on the toilet” from 1977 to the present day. Both stations said they were performing an “experiment” to check the reaction time of Wikipedia to their bogus changes. Unfortunately for the hacks, Wackypedia was pretty quick in this case and the changes were fairly swift. Fetaccomplis, the spice is right ■ A SPANISH pepper has proved it is the spice of life in 2007. Pimentón de la Vera, along with a Czech bread and an Italian rice, has joined the EU’s list of protected local brand. This week all three joined delicacies such as Greek Feta cheese and Italian Bianco del Cilento figs in this special league table. The Spanish pepper and the Italian rice Riso di Baraggia Biellese e Vercellese were both awarded status as Protected Designations of Origin by the European Commission. The status is used to protect “foodstuffs which are produced, processed and prepared in a given geographical area using recognised know-how,” the Commission said. The Czech bread ‘Karlovarsky suchar,’ meanwhile, was granted Protected Geographical Indication status, meaning that it is linked to a specific geographical region for at least one stage of production. The bread is baked using water and salt from thermal springs in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary. In all three cases, it means that only manufacturers based in the 3 specific area and using the specific techniques will be allowed to give their product the protected title. The EU already lists some 800 products under its PDO and PGI schemes, ranging from the smoked Scottish haddock known as Arbroath Smokies to the Italian fig known as Fico Bianco del Cilento. The country with the most PGI and PDO listings is Italy, with 159 entries. Nine EU states – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania and Slovakia – have not yet registered any entries under either designation. EATING foods prepared with olive oil are not only good for you but may ward off harmful blood clots in people with high cholesterol, Spanish researchers have revealed. The findings on oils rich in phenols, substances thought to have beneficial effects on the heart, provide new evidence of its healthy effects, Dr Francisco Pérez-Jiménez, of Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba, and colleagues conclude. Olive oil contains phenols, which have been shown to fight clotting in lab tests, but few studies of their effects have been performed in humans, the researchers note. 4 NATIONAL NEWS SPAIN August 24 - August 30 2007 Partner-split man kills himself in belief he had murdered daughter A 64-YEAR-OLD man killed himself in Ciudad Real – minutes after shooting his daughter as she was trying to stop an argument between him and his Colombian partner. A violent argument broke out when the woman announced her intention to end their rela- tionship and return to her native Colombia. The man seized a hunting rifle, which he kept at his home. As he pointed the gun at his partner, his 43-year-old daughter stepped in to mediate, but received a shot in her stomach and arm. 5 The woman, meanwhile, fled the house in terror and drove away with her son and best friend, who were waiting for her. The man followed them on foot, firing at the car, although he failed to hit them. Police were on the scene within minutes, but it was too late to stop the man from turning the gun on himself, as he believed he had killed his daughter. The incident has caused shock among residents of the small town of Miguelturra, where in January this year, a 37-year old woman was stabbed to death by her ex-husband. Brits killed in a week of road horror ETA trio to be extradited BRITAIN has ordered the extradition of three ETA members arrested in April in the UK. The three activists were part of a ‘reserve’ commando and were awaiting orders to launch an attack in Santander. Iñigo María Albisu Hernández, 23, Zigor Ruiz Jaso, 29, and Ana Isabel López Monge, 36, appeared before The Old Bailey, where judge Caroline Tubbs gave the order for their extradition. The three argued that they had been subjected to torture by Spanish police before coming to the UK, a claim that Tubbs dismissed. Grim toll of work deaths A TOTAL of 580 workers died in work accidents during the first five months of this year, according to a report published by the ministry of work and social affairs. Of those, 183 workers were working in the service sector, 138 in construction, 73 in industry and 24 in agriculture. More people died from work accidents in Andalucia than in any other region in Spain (68), followed by workers in Madrid (56) and Cataluña (53). Rajoy talks up PP’s links MARIANO Rajoy, leader of Spain’s Partido Popular, is to highlight his “close relationship” between his party and France’s president Sarkozy and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in the coming months. PP’s secretary of international relations, Jorge Moragas, said that Rajoy would be emphasising the party’s foreign policies with their respective conservative parties. ‘Politician’s are corrupt’ THE MAJORITY of Spaniards believe their politicians in Spain are corrupt, according to a new survey. The study showed that 60 per cent of those questioned link politics with corruption and the belief that MPs fail to carry out electoral promises once elected. YET ANOTHER ROAD STATISTIC: Behind the figures for Spain’s highway toll is a mountain of grief suffering and economic loss Young pair die crossing road in Marbella FIVE Brits have been killed in a week on carnage on Spain’s roads. There were two fatalities in Marbella, two in Cartagena and one on Ibiza The two people to die when crossing the A7 road near Puerto Banus in the early hours of Friday By Duncan Danley morning have been named as 29-year-old Stephen Brown from Leeds and Haley Jackson, 21, from Lewisham, London. They are thought to have both been killed instantly and thrown into the air when hit by traffic on the busy road at at 6.30am. They were in the area on holiday and crossed the road by foot rather than go to a subway some 300 metres away. The couple who died in a head-on crash, near Cartagena, have been named as 26-year-old Steven Hudson who was living in Spain and his 21-year-old girlfriend Michelle Bailey. Their car was in collision with a van, the 34-year-old Romanian driver of which also died. A motorbike rider, Mark Barlow, 41, was killed when in collision with a bus on Ibiza. Fishing row A NEAR-TOTAL ban on anchovy fishing in the Bay of Biscay is causing conflict between Spanish and French fleets. A French petition to have the ban lifted has been rejected. The French fishermen say the Spanish want a monopoly of the fishing NATIONAL NEWS SPAIN August 24 - August 30 2007 Sailing close to the wind Crackdown on drunken yachties of Slurp John B DRUNKEN yachties could face being breathalysed if they’re caught three sheets to the wind off the Spanish coast. The crackdown is being considered after police found revellers sailing home from parties to avoid being caught drink-driving. Authorities in the south eastern region of Murcia say the number of alcoholrelated accidents off its beaches has increased this summer. One collision claimed a life. “We are trying to avoid people sailing who have quite a lot of alcohol in their blood after parties and meals,” a government spokeswoman said. “We have reason to believe that some boat owners are not using their car after drinking but are using their yachts,” said Luis Gestoso, the head of Murcia’s civil protection body. The sailors’ drunken exploits conjure up the Beach Boys’ 1966 song Sloop John B: We come on the sloop John B My grandfather and me Drinking all night,Got into a fight I feel so broke up, I wanna go home DRINK: Down the hatch Harvey mission to sign up Cruz for film musical BARCELONA LOCATION: Penélope Cruz Flood halts isle trains TORRENTIAL rain on Tuesday brought flooding to Mallorca and northern Spain. Many streets and underground car parks as well as railway station were underwater on the Balearic holiday island. Mallorca’s capital Palma de Mallorca saw its single underground train line temporarily out of action due to one station being flooded. Authorities issued a weather warning as rainfall of up to 50 litres per square metre was recorded. In neighbourhoods including Capdepera, Alaró, Binissalem, Inca and Manacor firefighters were called to pump floodwater from streets and low-level houses. Heavy rainfall also caused flooding in on the mainland when four yachts were washed onto the beach in the Basque coastal city of San Sebastián. MIRAMAX founder Harvey Weinstein has made a secret trip to Barcelona – leaving him on Cloud Nine. For Weinstein was securing the services of the delectable Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem to star in his mega-hit film version of a Broadway show. Movie musical Nine will be directed by Rob Marshall, who brought Oscars and glory to Weinstein with Chicago. Cruz and Bardem are in Barcelona filming Woody 2007: The year of the tourist TOURIST numbers in Spain are heading for record highs, according to a new report. Between January and July this year, the number of tourists rose to 33.8 million, a two per cent increase on the previous year. Secretary of state for tourism, Pedro Mejia, said: “We expect that by the end of the year, the number of tourists who will have visited Spain will have reached 60 million.” Spain receives most tourists from the UK, France and Germany with 60 per cent of the total, while the number of North American tourists has reached new levels in the past six years due to events such as the America’s Cup. The most visited areas of Spain are Cataluña, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, although the latter suffered a 3.6 per cent drop in tourism this year due to a drop in demand for package holidays and a rise in cheap ‘no-frills’ airlines. Pain of Spain as thieves gain BRITISH holidaymakers “the pain in Spain” when it comes to being the victims of theft. For the Brit tourists are more likely to have their belongings nicked on the Iberian Peninsular than anywhere else in Europe, a survey has revealed. A poll of nearly 2,400 tourists for online insurer Swiftcover.com showed more than a third of holiday thefts taking place in Spain. The UK was third with nine per cent. Allen’s new film alongside Scarlett Johansson. Harvey, 55, is also now in the business of making some Oscar contenders for 2008-2009 — big time. He already has Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes lined up for The Readers. For Nine, Marshall says he would like to also line up Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard. Catherine Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar for Chicago, is a natural for the film, too. Plan means business YOUNG Brits are being offered the chance to apply for a six-month career development programme in Spain. The Eurodyssee scheme enables young European graduates to spend up to half the year in their host’s country, where they benefit from vocational training in a foreign business and an intensive language course. Devon County Council is sponsoring the exchange project, which is run by the Assembly for European Regions. The authority wants up to five young people to take part in the exchange with Valencia between October 1 and March 31. Aged between 18 and 30, they must be unemployed, have a further education or vocational qualification and be resident in Devon. They should also ideally have knowledge of Spanish, but language tuition is given as part of the package. Ian Clack Murcia Region 902 947 637 / 667 306 972 [email protected] 5 6 INTERNATIONAL NEWS August 24 - August 30 2007 Sienna’s law unto herself Copter crash claims 14 lives FOURTEEN US soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash overnight in northern Iraq. The Black Hawk helicopter, carrying 10 soldiers and four crew members, crashed after experiencing a mechanical malfunction. There were reportedly no indications of hostile fire, but the cause of the crash is still under investigation. Later, at least 15 people died when a suicide bomber drove a fuel tanker into a police station in Baiji, police said. The governor of Iraq’s southern Muthana province has been killed by a roadside bomb. Mohammed Ali al-Hasani died when the bomb exploded next to his convoy as it drove through the provincial capital, Samawa. Several bodyguards were also injured in the explosion, which happened at 8am on Monday. Mr Hasani belonged to the largest Shia party in Iraq, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. He is the second Shia governor killed this month. 165 in jet blaze escape PASSENGERS and crewmembers on board a Taiwanese China Airlines had a lucky escape on Monday when their plane burst into flames seconds after landing at Japan’s Naha airport in Okinawa. All the 165 people on board the plane, which had been on a routine flight between the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, and southern Japan, were evacuated before the jet burst into flames. It took fire-fighters one hour to extinguish the flames, after which time the plane broke into two. The incident is a major setback for the airline, which once had one of the strongest safety records in the world. Terror of big quake PERUVIANS are trying to come to terms with the devastating earthquake in southern Peru, which killed at least 500 people and injured thousands more. A further 85,000 people have been left homeless. Thousands are in a “desparate” situation, according to charitable organisation Oxfam. Families and friends of victims began the unenviable task of identifying bodies. MODEL and actress Sienna Miller, was spotted in Ibiza this week sunbathing topless, and showing off her overall body. According to our friends, Sienna was with British actor Rhys Ifans at the time, adding that he probably got a better view of Sienna than we are giving our readers. Sienna was engaged to actor Jude Law, but calling off their engagement, and then apparently trying one more time. Earlier this year, she was spotted a couple of times with Sean “Diddy” Combs. Space Oddity comes to Earth Ursa Minor find of neutron star is exciting link By Charles Barrington ASTRONOMERS have spotted a space oddity in Earth’s neighbourhood – a dead star with some unusual characteristics. The neutron star was studied using space telescopes and ground-based observatories. But this one, located in the constellation Ursa Minor, seems to lack some key characteristics found in other neutron stars. The discovery has been made by a team of American and Canadian researchers. If confirmed, it would be only the eighth known “isolated neutron star” – meaning a neutron star that does not have an associated supernova remnant, binary companion, or radio pulsations. The object has been nicknamed Calvera, after the villain in the 1960s western film The Magnificent Seven. NEUTRON STAR: Star made famous by The Magnificent Seven film “The seven previously known isolated neutron stars are known collectively as The Magnificent Seven within the community,” said co-author Derek Fox, of Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. “So the name Calvera is a bit of an inside joke on our part.” The experts estimate the object is 250 to 1,000 lightyears away. This would make Calvera one of the closest neutron stars to Earth – and possibly the closest. Neutron stars are one of the possible end points for a star. They are created when stars with masses greater than four to eight times those of our Sun exhaust their nuclear fuel, and undergo a supernova explosion. The central region of the star collapses under gravity, causing protons and electrons to combine to form. Spy killer substance found at striptease POLONIUM 210, the deadly radioactive substance that last year killed exRussian spy Alexander Litvinenko, has been found in a London striptease club. Police state that the material was found on seats and cushions of the Hey Jo club in up-market St James’s, Central London – a club often frequented by rich Russian businessmen. Dar Marrakech restaurant in central London, Litvinenko’s car and a London taxi have also been found with traces of the material. The new revelations come at a time when investigators have disclosed that the cost of the Litvinenko case is running at £3m. Litvinenko died in University College London in December 2006, soon after meeting Andrei Lugovoi and Dimitri Kovtun in London’s Millenium Hotel where he drank tea with them. Several people in the hotel also tested positive for radiation. A further 26 sites in and around London also tested positive for Polonium 210. The British government has demanded the extradition of Lugovoi from Russia, but Moscow maintains that their Constitution prohibits the extradition of Russian nationals. Running bull kills onlooker ONE man was gored to death and 24 others injured in a weekend of bull running at a lesser-known cousin of Spain’s famous Pamplona festival. The 60-year-old man was gored in the abdomen by a bull and died on the way to hospital on Saturday in Huamantla, a town 170 kilometres from Mexico City. Among the injured, one woman and two men were in a critical condition. Thousands of people lined the streets of Huamantla as 23 bulls were let loose in five streets in a festival held since 1953 in Tlaxcala state, the cradle of Mexican bull fighting. The festival has yet to achieve the status of Spain’s San Fermín bull running, which was made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, a semi-autobiographical account of an alcohol-fuelled visit to the event by a group of squabbling British and American friends in the 1920s. Hurricane’s trail of terror HURRICANE Dean ripped through the Caribbean as winds of up to 250 kilometres swept through the region, leaving a trail of death and destruction in its path. At least seven people were reported dead and dozens more were injured as the hurricane picked up force. It caused thousands of euros worth damage to properties and agricultural lands in Saint Lucía, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica as well as in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the Quintana Roo district. Thousand of tourists holidaying in the area managed to flee on last-minute flights out of the Caribbean, while those who were not so lucky to escape the area took refuge in special hurricane shelters. Hurricane Dean was the first Atlantic cyclone of the season. Ex-minister in jail let-off A SOUTH African ex-minister of state and head of police who were in charge during the period of apartheid in South Africa, have sentenced to 10 years in prison for intent to kill the then activist Frank Chikane. However, Adrian Vlok and Johan van der Merwe will not go directly to jail as they have received a five-year suspended sentence. Chikane was poisoned in 1989 as he was travelling out of South Africa. The majority of people who committed crimes in South Africa during apartheid were granted amnesty. INTERNATIONAL NEWS August 24 - August 30 2007 ‘Maddy forced down in seat of car that sped off’ Climate activists blockade BAA HQ CLIMATE change protesters blockaded the offices of Heathrow Airport operator BAA. The activists erected tents in the company’s car park as part of 24-hours of “direct action” by members of the anti-aviation Camp for Climate Action. BAA said it had told staff not to come to the offices. Earlier, there were scuffles between campaigners and riot police and eight people were arrested after blockading British Airways’ world cargo centre. The activists say they hope to besiege BAA “for as long as we can”. The blockade – which police said involved about 350 people – ended on Monday as the camp itself draws to a close. On Sunday night, a spokesman for BAA said the protest was having no impact on operations. And the group later stopped vehicles getting into British Airways’ Eastern Perimeter Road depot in a protest they said was to highlight how transporting food by air is contributing to climate change. Sex-crazed camel kills A WOMAN has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her. The Australian was found dead at the family’s sheep and cattle ranch near the town of Mitchell in Queensland. The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets. The camel was just 10 months old but already weighed 152kg and had come close to suffocating the family’s pet goat on a number of occasions. On Saturday, the woman apparently became the object of the male camel’s desire. Her parents say there’s a real possibility she is in Spain By José Andúgar MADELEINE could be alive and well – after reportedly being seen in a petrol station in Murcia. Police are investigating a call from two women who claim to have seen the fouryear-old running from a public toilet at the Belmonte filling station in Tentegorra, near Cartagena. She is said to have been accompanied by a man with dark eyes and brown hair, rugged complexion and around 1.75m (5ft9ins) tall. The two witnesses say the man, who held the young girl by the hand, was wearing cut-off trousers and a shortsleeved shirt. According to officers, when the man realised the women had seen him, he fled with the child in a dark green Citröen ZX. They say he grabbed the girl by the head and forced her down in the seat so that she could not be seen from outside the car before leaving the area at high speed. After receiving the tip-off at around 17.45 hrs on Wednesday, National Police and the Guardia Civil rushed to the scene and questioned staff. Franciso Cervantes, an employee at the service station, said the car was ‘very dirty’ and driven by a ‘person with curly hair’, although he was unable to see whether the driver was a man or a woman. Cervantes says the driver headed for the car wash, but left abruptly before entering. Officers say they are taking all clues seriously and investigating every alleged sighting. Meanwhile, Madeleine’s parents say she may be alive and in Spain. Kate and Gerry McCann gave interviews to Spain’s three top-selling newspapers in which they insisted there was a “very real possibility” their daughter had not been killed. This appears to go against recent Portuguese police statements acknowledging for the first time that Madeleine could be dead. The couple refused to say whether police have told them the young girl could be in Spain, but their interviews will fuel speculation detectives have a new lead. It is now 111 days since Madeleine vanished from her bed in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz while her parents ate with friends in a nearby tapas restaurant. A senior Portuguese police officer said yesterday that detectives had a “positive feeling” about the investigation as they await key DNA test results. The Forensic Science Service in Birmingham is still analysing blood specks found by British sniffer dogs on the wall of Madeleine’s bedroom in the McCanns’ holiday flat. Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa, the spokesman in the case, said the forensic results were needed to test the hypothesis that Madeleine is now dead. In recent weeks the focus of the investigation has moved away from AngloPortuguese expat Robert Murat, 33, still the only official suspect in the case. Unconfirmed reports this week said the inquiry was at a “decisive phase”, with police poised to launch fresh searches in the Algarve. The McCanns have acknowledged there has been a “shift in the investigation”, but say nothing has changed in the past fort- night. Mr McCann told El Mundo: “There is a very real possibility Madeleine is alive and we want the police to look for her.” He went on: “The possibility that Madeleine is alive and in Spain is real. It is something we did not consider at the beginning, but now we are seriously weighing up. “The border between the two countries is very big. If someone had a car, it is clear they could cross into Spain. There is no border guard and no one closed the border the night Madeleine disappeared.” Asked if the couple had received concrete information from Spanish police that Madeleine was alive and in Spain, Mr McCann said: “They are involved in the investigation, but I cannot tell you what they are working on, they will have to tell you officially.” Curse of Adolf hits Cruise control Language of job cuts AN INFLUX of Spanishspeaking students could force English teachers out of a job. The pupils are flooding into an American school district in Illinois so fast that the teachers are being transferred. Waukegan reports a 25 per cent hike in its Spanish-speaking student population since 2000, and other suburbs are close behind. 7 CRUISE: Stars as Valkyrie THE CURSE of the world’s worst dictator – Germany’s Adolf Hitler – has struck again. Eleven extras have been injured after falling off a truck on the set of Tom Cruise’s latest movie, Valkyrie. One man was seriously injured in the accident, which happened when the side of the vehicle burst open as it drove around a corner, Berlin police said. The other 10 were treated in hospital but later released. Police said there were “no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved”. Cruise stars in the real-life story of a plot to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944. The truck, which was made to look like a Wehrmacht military vehicle, is now being inspected for technical defects as part of a police investigation. Valkyrie has faced criticism in Germany, where crew were banned from filming at the former staff quarters where Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who led the plot, was executed. Valkyrie – named after Operation Valkyrie, the codename of the failed 1944 plot to kill Hitler – is being directed by Bryan Singer and will co-star British actor Kenneth Branagh. Filming, which began last month, was called off following the accident on Sunday night. BRANAGH: Co-stars in film 8 BRITAIN THIS WEEK August 24 - August 30 2007 3 held in biker murder inquiry THREE men have been arrested over the murder of a biker who was shot dead on the M40 in Warwickshire. Gerry Tobin, 35, of southeast London, was killed on August 12. The Hell’s Angel had been riding home from the Bulldog Bash biker festival, held at Long Marston Airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon, when he was shot. The men were arrested in raids by armed officers on two addresses in Coventry and one in Nuneaton. Police have taken more than 600 calls about the murder. The men have been taken to a police station in Warwickshire where they will be questioned later. Assistant chief constable Bill Holland said it was possible that further addresses would be searched, adding that it was an active and ongoing inquiry. Police have released CCTV footage showing Hell’s Angel Gerry Tobin just minutes before he was shot and killed on a British motorway. Mr Tobin is seen at a petrol station filling up his motorbike before heading onto the A46 and then the M40 motorway in Warwickshire. It was the biker’s last known stop before his death. Two shots are believed to have been fired from a green Rover 620, with one of the shots killing Mr Tobin and the other hitting his bike. Easy route to island LOW-COST airline easyJet has announced a cheap new route to Mallorca from East Midlands Airport. The airline said yesterday it would start running flights from the Castle Donington airport to Palma in the spring. The new route will operate three times a week, starting on February 7. But it will become daily from the start of the airline’s summer schedule in April. Fares will be £22.99 one way and £35.98 return, including tax. easyJet has also announced that it will increase frequencies on its East Midlands to Geneva service in January. Penny Coates, managing director of East Midlands Airport, said: “We’re delighted that easyJet continues to grow its portfolio of destinations from East Midlands Airport.” Tributes to grand old man of Street HOUSEMATE MATERIAL: Rumours abound on Paris Hilton and Big Brother status Hilton heading for spell of B & B? REALITY TV star Paris Hilton is rumoured to be taking part in next season UK’s Celebrity Big Brother. Channel 4 have allegedly offered the ‘celebrity’ £300,000 to star in the show, scheduled for January 2008. Paris, who starred in her own reality show The Simple Life in the Dis-united kingdom heading for salida door US, is reportedly keen to raise her profile in the UK, and show the public that she is not just a spoilt party girl after her on-off time in jail for a drink offence. No bail for Dando man READY FOR OFF: At airports Last year sees biggest exodus in British history BRITS are heading for the exit door of the United Kingdom in greater numbers than ever before. And Spain, along with Australia, the US and Canada, are the top destinations for expats. More people left the UK last year than in any year By Duncan Danley since 1991, statistics just released suggest. And ONE in TEN UK residents now live abroad. Figures from the Office for National Statistics say that some 385,000 people left Britain for the long term in the year to mid-2006. VOICES from the worlds of politics and journalism have paid tribute to “gentleman journalist” Lord Deedes, who has died aged 94. William “Bill” Deedes was the only man to have edited a newspaper – the Daily Telegraph – and been a Cabinet member. Gordon Brown said Britain owed a “huge debt of gratitude” for Lord Deedes’ public service, including as a Tory MP. His successor at the Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings, said he was a reporter of “utmost integrity and enormous skill”. Lord Deedes spent most of his life writing for national newspapers and became known as the “Grand Old Man of Fleet Street”, completing his final column on August 3 this year. He was also Conservative MP for Ashford in Kent and served as minister without portfolio from 1962 to 1964. The prime minister said: “He started writing as a professional journalist more than 76 years ago and few have served journalism and the British people for so long at such a high level of distinction and with such a popular following.” Tory leader David Cameron said Lord Deedes had done “enough in his time to fill at least three lifetimes”. The young Bill Deedes was the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh’s infamous war reporter William Boot in the novel Scoop. Lord Deedes also achieved fame outside Fleet Street as “Dear Bill”, addressee of the “Denis Thatcher” fortnightly letter in Private Eye. However, long-term migration INTO the UK, was higher at 574,000. The figures show the UK’s population grew to 60,587,000 – an increase of 349,000. They also suggest there were 159,000 more births than deaths. The number of people aged 85 or over grew by six per cent to 1,243,000 while the number of people of retirement age increased by one per cent to 11,344,000. The largest population growth, by district, was 14% in Westminster, followed by Camden and South Northamptonshire – both 12 per cent. The average age of a Briton was 39 compared with just over 34 in 1971. BBC TV presenter Jill Dando’s convicted killer has been refused bail ahead of an appeal hearing. In November, Barry George’s second appeal against his conviction will be made at the Court of Appeal. The Criminal Cases Review Commission has said that at George’s trial too much emphasis was placed on a speck of firearms residue found on his clothing. George was convicted in 2001, two years after the BBC presenter was shot dead on her doorstep in Fulham, west London. George, 47, a convicted sex offender, was jailed for life. He was convicted by a jury on forensic evidence by scientists. BRITAIN THIS WEEK August 24 - August 30 2007 INFERNO 9 Brits and suspicion on threat in world BRITS are more suspicious of Muslims than Americans and other Europeans, according to a poll published this week. Just 59 per cent believe it is possible to be a Muslim and a citizen of their country, a smaller proportion than in France, Germany, Spain, Italy or the US – the other countries surveyed. The poll for The Financial Times findings suggests terrorist plots against the UK, including the deadly July 7 2005 London bombings, have hardened attitudes towards Muslims living in Britain. Compared with citizens of the other five nations, Brits were also the most likely to predict a “major terrorist attack” in their country over the next year (52 per cent) and consider Muslims a national security threat (38 per cent). Two-thirds of French and majorities of Italians, Germans, and Americans believe Muslims are not a threat to national security, according to the poll. In Spain, only 32 per cent predicted a big terrorist attack in the next 12 months, 30 per cent in the US, and between 15-18 per cent in France, Italy and Germany. France emerged as the country most at ease with its Muslim population. Head killer decision challenge FIREBALL: The Penhallow Hotel in Newquay ablaze on Saturday. Main pic: Chrissie Laming, Newquay Voice; inset pic Phil Bunt By John Bennett THREE people are feared dead in a hotel blaze in Cornwall. Teacher Peter Hughes, from Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire, died and two more guests staying at Newquay’s Penhallow Hotel are missing following Saturday’s fire. The 43-year-old fell from the window of the burning building after inhaling smoke and toxic fumes, a coroner heard this week. The interim cause of death, given as smoke inhalation and toxic fumes, was decided at Truro City Hall ahead of a full inquest. The hotel, now reduced to rubble, has been declared a crime scene by police. Cornwall Coroner’s Court heard how holidaymaker James Banks had befriended One dead, two missing as holiday hotel gutted Mr Hughes and witnessed him jump from a third floor window. In a statement, paramedic Mark Bruce said Mr Hughes was alive when he reached him and had said: “I couldn’t breathe up there, I had to jump, mate.” Mr Bruce said he could hear the fire “roaring” above as he administered first aid to Mr Hughes. Cornwall coroner Emma Carolyn delivered the interim cause of death on Wednesday. Human remains were found by teams on Tuesday searching among the hotel rubble for two missing people who are feared dead. The families of both missing people, believed to be in their 70s and 80s, were informed. More than 80 people safely escaped from the building on the night of the fire. Four people taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro are said to be improving. A team of 20 people is continuing to search through the rubble of the hotel. Police said it could take more than two weeks. Fire service cuts hampered efforts to tackle the fatal hotel blaze in Cornwall, the Fire Brigades Union has claimed. The FBU said there were not enough firefighters to operate equipment and low levels of staff cover meant there were not enough firefighters to operate pumps when the fire broke out. General secretary Matt Wrack said: “There were not enough crews in the area to man the second pump. It is dangerous not to have sufficient night time cover.” FBU member Kevin Herniman said he was horrified by what had happened. Firefighters were currently campaigning against the downgrading of two fire stations in Cornwall, he said. “This goes to prove that if you cut the level of service within the fire service people will die,” he added. The FBU also said the service’s aerial platform, needed to fight fires in multi-storey buildings effectively, had to travel 50 miles from Plymouth. THE GOVERNMENT will challenge “robustly” the decision to allow the man who knifed head teacher Philip Lawrence to death to stay in the UK. Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said Learco Chindamo had forfeited his rights because of the seriousness of the crime he committed. The 26-year-old is serving a life sentence for the 1995 killing in London. His lawyers argued that deporting him to Italy, where he was born, would breach his human rights. Chindamo, jailed for life in 1996 with a minimum 12year term, could be released early next year if the Parole Board decides it is “safe.” Mr McNulty said he did not think flaws with the Human Rights Act had resulted in the decision of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. Mr Lawrence’s widow said she was “unutterably depressed” by the ruling. But human rights lawyer David Enright said that under the current rules, it was impossible for people to be deported from one EU country to another. NEWS FEATURE 10 August 24 - August 30 2007 For nights before, streets are roped off to cars while whole families get By Penny Lapenna I t isn’t often that I get to speak to our busy mayor in Parcent, since he only took office this May, and still less often that he has to speak to me to pass on personal congratulations. So, this afternoon has a tinge of unreality about it, when Maximo stops me in the street and warmly clasps both my hands in his. “Your daughter was the most well-behaved festera in church today!” he announces. Although shell-shocked, I manage to mumble a fairly gracious reply, pointing out that she did indeed look extremely angelic today, on the first day of Parcent’s annual fiesta in honour of its patron saint San Lorenzo, although this had been achieved by dint of behaving monstrously for the previous three weeks. Each year, villages in the Vall de Pop ring out the summer with an exhaustive selection of fiestas, fireworks and fabulous parades, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. Swooningly hot days see paella competitions under the trees in Xaló, carnival floats or bull-running through the winding streets of Llíber, and nights are lit by cascades of firework displays, and throb to the sounds of live bands and DJ’s that can be seen, heard and felt throughout the whole valley. Tiny villages that usually house less than a thousand inhabitants suddenly swell with tourists and visitors from neighbouring villages and towns along the coast, in a display of partying that is not for the fainthearted. For visitors from the UK, not used to the sights of young boys running pellmell down the streets chased by swarthy bulls, or startled by grown men throwing fireworks at one another, fiesta time in the valley can be a difficult time, but understanding the heart of fiestas can make all the difference. Each village will have a fiesta committee made up of this year’s eighteen year olds and their parents, friends and families. This group will be responsible for fundraising, choosing entertainment and coordinating the fiesta, and in particular with looking after the festers infantils – the six to seven year olds who also participate in the parades. Fundraising is a whirl of selling lottery tickets, printing and selling T-shirts, holding bingo events, persuading local businesses to advertise in the Fiesta Programme and selling the programme booklet itself, door-to-door, to ensure that every householder in the village contributes. W Forget the sleepless in Seattle condition, this was little Miss Perfects in Parcent ITH the cost of pyrotechnics alone spiralling into the thousands, the festeros mayorales are kept busy, and regularly liaise with the Town Hall to see that the plans are on schedule and in particular, on budget. This is a great experience for the teenagers who sweat through late nights planning activities and glow with pride when this year’s fiesta is complete. Often, the kids involved seem to grow in confidence in the space of a few weeks, first seen shyly on the doorstep holding out the Fiesta Programme and later, on stage, confidently introducing the events, but most parents will also pay immaculately clad in expensive out for a sash and bouquet (70€) tuxedos and ball gowns. ornate candle (20€) and contribAlthough most parents that I ute 20€ per parent towards genapproached did not want to dis- eral fiesta costs, plus purchasing cuss the actual costs of their Fiesta Programmes (from 22€ per daughters’ dresses, shops in parent) and T-Shirts (10€). Dénia display creamy satin festera Moreover, it is commonplace to gowns with starched and hooped see houses in the village being underskirts, bedecked with pearl- spruced up with a new coat of escent beads, with prices starting paint before fiesta week, and the at 400 euros. Some of the parents doorways are decorated with of the festeres infantils admit to palm leaves or potted foliage displays, decked out with ribbons buying one gown to be used as festera dress and communion out- and bow,s and the street above fit, or hand down shared dresses hung with streamers. In Parcent, traditionally each between cousins to keep costs of the festera homes paints a reasonable. mural on the street depicting the Not only do the girls require one child’s name or a family emblem to two of these stunning dresses, or scene. For nights beforehand, streets are roped off to cars while whole families get involved in the painting, parents on hands and knees with paint pots while grandparents hold up portable garage lamps to illuminate the scene. On the days of fiesta the band can navigate around the village by these paintings, having plotted the shortest route from house to house for the collection of the festeros. Once the specific costs of fiesta are covered, there are also numerous other expenses which can send the cost rocketing. For instance, of the 22 festers infantils in Parcent this year, 16 were girls and at least ten of those were booked into the local hairdresser for two sessions a day of the four days of parades. Hair styles ranged from the simple flamenco style-bun, especially dramatic on sleek dark hair, to elaborate coiffed coils, threaded with ribbons and pinned in place with tiny white flowers. Many of the festera mums had also splashed out on new outfits for the rest of the family. After all, would you accompany your daughter on a parade in anything less than a brand new dress, and a different one for each parade, at that? No doubt they had also booked into the hair salon alongside their daughters, had their nails done and an airbrushed tan for those low cut backless numbers. T HE opening night of the fiesta apes Oscar night with its sweeping red carpet to the stage, creamy drapes and backlit flower displays, all in the incongruous setting of Parcent’s plaza mayor, where families vied for the first few rows of seats, so that the digital cameras and camcorders could capture the event at its best. In addition to the costs for dresses and suits, this year’s fiesta committee had arranged for a professional video company to record the event, from first parade to closing fireworks, add- NEWS FEATURE August 24 - August 30 2007 involved in the painting, parents on hands and knees with paint pots. ing another 200 euros to the cost for each set of parents. The night before the fiesta began, the groups of festeros have a run through on the stage, plotting where each child will sit, and whom will accompany whom on to the stage. Last year’s fiesta had a Reina Infantil (like a Carnival Queen) who was asked back this year to present the official sashes (for girls) and ornamental badge (for boys) to each child as he or she ascended the stage. From this point on, they will be expected to behave with decorum, throughout each days’ parade through the streets, through the hour-long mass in church, through solemn processions behind the band in honour of various saints, and repeat this again each evening, for candlelit processions under the colourful street lights. Surprisingly, for six-year-olds more used to being spoilt by doting grandparents, or allowed to play out in the streets without supervision, most of the festeros maintained a regal performance for the full four days, with only one spate of unanimous face-gurning in church, to which the priest turned a benevolent eye. Since my daughter knew all of the other children from around the village or from her school, and had played with most of them throughout summer school in July, I expected to find her playacting or mischievously hatching plots, but the general air of anticipation for fiesta seemed to dispel most thoughts of rebellion. Somehow, the focus of the fiesta inevitably turns to the youngest children participating, and they are feted and appreciated in a way which rarely happens anymore in the UK. The whole village spends time admiring their turn-out and complimenting them as if they are adults, and they seem to rise to the occasion, smiling calmly and taking care to lift their skirts over steps like Disney princesses. B Y the time that the final firework showered over the shadow of the Carrascal mountains, the streets were swept of confetti, sweet wrappers and plastic glasses, and residents came out to inspect the scorch marks and horn scrapes on their recently painted properties, the cost of fiesta may be huge. But somehow the gains to be had were greater. Faces that had grinned out of the crowd in lurid fancy dress turn out to be the mild neighbours you thought you knew, now sharing smiles of recognition of the fiesta experience. The village will never be the same again after a man wearing nothing but underpants, plus a crash helmet with bull’s horns attached, and covered from head to foot in bright blue paint, careened out of a trailer clutching a megaphone, pretending to be a loose bull. He turned out to be the guy we buy wood from each winter. Already, like Mardi Gras, next year’s fiesta is being planned. Each year will be bigger, brighter, noisier and more revolutionary than the last. And the following year, when my youngest daughter (who was born here) turns six we can be festera parents again. I think I’ll be Marge Simpson in the fancy dress parade and borrow the woodman’s blue paint... 11 12 LOCAL NEWS ALICANTE NEWS MARINA BAJA August 24 - August 30 2007 Sunbathers must keep six metres from the waterline The long wide beaches in Benidorm are enough for fans of first line sunbathing By Sergi Castillo A NEW municipal ordnance in Benidorm prohibits any sunbathers on the beaches to put up their parasol less than six metres from the waterline. According to the councillor for beaches, Josefa Pérez, this is a decision of the Costas department, a sub-organisation of the ministry of environment, to guarantee the security of the sunbathers and the pass way for those who go on a stroll along the waterline. However, nobody who does not respect the new rule will be fined. Unlike many other municipalities, Benidorm decided against sanctioning those who reserve a space in the first line of the beach early in the morning, as the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces suggests. The councillor said: “There are more than six kilometres of beach. This is enough space for the fans of first line sunbathing.” The socialist opposition has accused the concessionary of the sun beds on various occasions of not complying with the six-metre-rule. However, Pérez said that she personally has observed that the sunbathers themselves move the sun beds and parasols closer to the waterline. “We have tried for years to keep this distance, but it is impossible. Early in the morning everything is perfect, but as the day advances, more people arrive and move closer to the water.” Many beaches along the coast are cleaned in the early morning hours; therefore, the municipalities need to assure that the waterline is clear to be cleaned. In Benidorm the beaches are cleaned around midnight and everything is finished before the first person arrives in the morning. At about 07.00 hrs any newly accumulated rubbish is collected manually, so parasols, sun beds and towels are not a problem. The ordnance of the Valencian Federation of Munici- First film fest for Benidorm NEXT YEAR, in October, Benidorm will host its first film festival. Unlike most festivals it will not show recent releases, but films that were made in Benidorm in the past. Every year Benidorm will show a few films, and invite their main actors, directors and producers to visit the town and participate in round table discussions and conferences. More than 300 films were produced in Benidorm. Deputy mayor, Ángela Barceló, said: “It will be nice to remember all the celebrities and to recuperate this patrimony for the town.” BEACH RULES: Thousands of people occupy the beaches of Benidorm without respecting the regulations palities and Provinces aims to standardise the regulations nationwide. It also includes limits on the use of the showers and foot showers, prohibits washing with soap or rins- For the first festival she has chosen the first and last film produced in Benidorm: Alba de América and Lolita’s Club. The first one was made in 1951 and directed by Juan de Orduña and with Antonio Vilar as the main actor. Dozens of locals participated in the film. In those times less than 3,000 people lived in Benidorm, and its then deserted beaches were used as the scene for Columbus’s discovery of the virgin beaches of America. The film Songs of Love in Lolita’s Club on the other hand is the latest film by Vicente Aranda with Eduardo Noriega and Flora Sánchez. The list of actors and directors that have come to Benidorm is long; Kirk Douglas produced The Light at the Edge of the World here and Javier Bardem played in Huevos de oro. Now, Maite Iraola, (PSPV-PSOE) has applied to make all filmed material available to the town. ing any objects. Moreover, it also prohibits the use of glasses on the beach, bonfires, barbecues, the use of gas bottles or animals. “Many of these rules have been observed for years in Benidorm”, said Pérez, “but every town decides what specific rules are applicable.” Pérez confirmed that nobody would be fined in Benidorm for swimming in the sea when the red flag has Disgustingly dirty streets Spear fisher Preserving badly injured old La Vila ALTHOUGH the local government in Benidorm started an ad-hoc intensive cleaning programme for the town, the spokesperson of the socialists, Agustín Navarro is still disgusted about the mess in the streets. According to him, the streets are in an “appalling” state. He added that the only thing the campaign has achieved is that the photo of the councillor for cleaning, Francisco Saval, is in the paper. He also thinks that this suggests that the election campaign is still not over. Navarro, who is also an MP in the regional parliament, criticised the “lack of control” and “waste” of the drinking water. LAST Thursday, a twentyyear-old spear-fisher was rescued from the coast off Punta Llisera in a state of shock after sustaining an injury. He had to be rushed to hospital in nearby La Vila Joiosa. It was at 11.15 hours that the lifeguards were first alerted, but because of the difficult access they could only reach the area by boat. When they found the young spear-fisher, he was in a state of shock, had bad neck pains and had nearly lost his consciousness. He was dressed in a wet suit and had his harpoon with him, but it is unclear how he had sustained his injury. been hoisted. “Sanctioning is a last resort. We have not had any bad incidents. Our beaches are quiet, and the red flag has rarely been a synonym for bad luck”, she added. THE NEW four-party group in La Vila Joiosa is putting together a new Special Plan for the Protection and Conservation of the Historic Town of La Vila. In addition it plans a Complementary Catalogue of Protected Elements. The four governing parties, PSPV-PSOE, Iniciativa Independiente, Bloc and Esquerra Unida, dismissed the old plan of the PP that had been subject of many discussions, in favour of a new approach. In the light of recent EU reports condemning over development, plans to preserve heritage areas are likely to be favourably received, and therefore attract funding and support. LOCAL NEWS ALICANTE MARINA BAJA August 24 - August 30 2007 Making the motorway toll-free around Altea Alternative route may mean destruction of the Finca Santa Bárbara building By Sergi Castillo THE NEW government in Altea is opposing the plans of the ministry of public works to lead the desperately needed bypass for Altea through Barranquet, Sogay and Altea La Vella. It suggests opening up the motorway AP-7 around the town to use this as an equivalent to a bypass instead. On July 31 the ministry of public works published an official announcement that it approved of the latest alternative. This will affect 14 kilometres and cost 68.2 million euros. However, this alternative would also mean the destruction of the Finca Santa Bárbara, one of the most New general plan by the end of the year THE SOCIALIST government in L’Alfàs del Pi is going to revise the general plan of the town before the end of the year. The mayor, Vicente Arques, who is also the councillor for urban development, said that he wants to make it transparent and invites all parties in the town hall (PP, AIDDA and Ciudadanos Europeos) to participate in the preparation of the plan. He said: “The first part of the plan is usable. All political parties participated in its preparation. This was work for the future. The second part, however, is strange; only the PP worked on it. We need to redo most of it.” His predecessor, Gabriel Such, suspended the preparation of the plan in November 2006, when it was virtually finished, because famous and well-liked buildings in Altea. The acting mayor, Verónica López, will invite responsible representatives of the ministry of public works to Altea at the beginning of September to make counterproposals. In the meantime, more than 1,500 locals who could be affected have filed their complaints at the town hall. Last April all political parties rejected the planned course of the bypass in a plenary meeting and suggested making the motorway toll free around Altea. Since the early 90s the central government in Madrid has been trying to come to an agreement with the town hall in Altea on the course of the bypass. However, due to the urbanistic pressure and the narrow stretch where the road can be built, they have never found a mutually satisfying conclusion. In 1995, the former conservative mayor, Miguel Ortiz, canned a similar project of the Aznar government. Now the socialists are opposing the project of the central socialist government under Zapatero and may postpone the construction of the bypass by another ten years. They are prepared to take the case to the provincial courts in Alicante. López said: “We want the alternative course, because the one planned by the ministry has too strong an impact on the town. Our proposal is to make the motorway toll free. If we do not succeed then we will work on reducing the impact of the bypass.” Last year on kilometre 152.2 of the N-332 in Altea 36 people died. The General Traffic Board considers it to be one of the black spots of the Comunitat Valenciana. Shiny 30th anniversary for Benidorm Palace the PSPV and L’Entesa complained about massive land purchases by people close to the local government. The plan was one of the main projects of the previous government under Such. In 2005 he had contracted the company UTE Albur for a revision. A year later he suspended it because of alleged transparencies. He did not want “something as important as that to be marred,” although sources close to him said that he was convinced he would win the absolute majority in the last elections. Such’s plan included the re-classification of nearly one million square metres and the construction of 10,000 new homes. This would have quadrupled the size of L’Alfàs with houses for 40,000 people. THE FAMOUS hall that every year attracts millions of tourists to its shows is preparing for its 30th anniversary. The façade and the main hall are being renovated, and areas cleaned and re-decorated to give it a new sheen. The hall has a capacity of 1,600 people and is usually fully booked on Friday and Saturday night. On other nights an average of 1,000 people watch the show. The walls of the venue are decorated with many photos and posters of the famous artists that have performed there over the last 30 years. Benidorm is seeing the beginning of a resurgence in popularity after a slew of new theme hotels and up-market accomodation opened its doors, and even the BBC are interested in developments. They are setting an episode of Wish You Were Here at the venue to alert Brits to its new look. 13 Rise in hotel bookings HOTEL owners can look at very good figures for the month of August already. The hotel association Hosbec has published the booking figures just for the first two weeks in August, which as a traditional holiday month is often good. But even the usual good figures had risen – 94.9 per cent of the rooms were booked compared with 93.2 per cent last year. Three-star hotel showed even better figures with 95.4 per cent, hotels with two stars reached 94.7 per cent. For the second half of August Hosbec is expecting bookings of 94.8 per cent. The majority of tourists (51 per cent) in town were foreign with 36 per cent being English holidaymakers. Thursday night-time processions BUSINESS associations, leisure parks and the main tourist companies in Benidorm now organise processions in the town centre every Thursday to make the nightlife more dynamic and the holidays for the visitors more exciting. More than 100 participants entertain the wandering audience of up to 10,000 people and present to them a range displaying all the available leisure opportunities. 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Police believe he is in southern Spain, possibly the Marina Alta region, although Ibiza, Mallorca or the Canary Islands are also possibilities, as he is said to speak several languages including Spanish. The mother of the victim stated: “It’s a living nightmare. It is constant, every single day it’s there. It’s not finished, he’s been convicted but he’s not been punished.” She pleaded: “Holidaymakers on the coast could quite easily bump into him … if somebody sees him just phone the police.” Kent police’s detective inspector, David Berry appealed for people in Spain to look out for a specific car. He said: “We are particularly interested in a Volkswagen Passat we know Alderman owned and left the country with in August last year. “The registration is GL53 VBU. From the information that we have we do believe he is somewhere in the south of Spain.” Stray dogs turn vicious VILLAGES in the Vall de Pop are being plagued by loose dogs that turn feral after being abandoned. In Parcent, two dogs were seen killing and eating a stray kitten. Two other large dogs were spotted in Parcent, one was captured by the local police woman, and the other strayed on to a road and was run over. The summer heat combined with hunger is sufficient to make dogs dangerous only a few weeks after being abandoned. Local town halls are responsible for removing dogs from the street. MARINA ALTA August 24 - August 30 2007 Train not taking the strain for the Gandia-Denia link Promises for train line come to nothing By Samantha Kett DESPITE promises to push ahead with plans for the long-awaited Gandia-Dénia train line, authorities seem to be sitting on the fence, complains political party, Bloc. Gandia’s nationalist party says nothing has been signed yet, despite elec- OVERDUE: RENFE trains would benefit the regions transport infrastructure and make important city links toral promises by town councillors. According to Oliva’s PP leader David González, the lack of communication is hindering residents in Dé- nia, Gandia, Oliva and all the villages in between. “Ignoring the matter like this cannot be justified, because they are not taking into account the basic needs of the people who live here,” states González. Dénia mayoress Paqui Viciano has also complained about the delay in laying the foundations for the train line which is the final track needed to link the two provincial capitals of Alicante and Valencia. It will also provide a direct line from Alicante to Barcelona. In Dénia, the majority of young people go to university in Valencia as opposed to Alicante, but have to rely on buses to come home at weekends as there is no train. The few who study in Alicante can make the entire journey by rail. Oliva, in the middle, is completely cut off by rail from the rest of the country and its residents have to take a bus to Gandia to travel to Valencia by train – a bus that arrives three minutes after the hourly train has departed. Yet the problem does not look set to improve, as the Comunitat Valenciana only receives 2.8 per cent of the state’s annual budget to invest in rail services. Since Spain has 17 autonomous regions, this is disproportionately small. For the rail-link to become reality, the Generalitat will have to face long negotiations with the national government’s ministry of transport. Towns in La Safor and the Marina Alta that would benefit from the train line have been pushing for plans to be finalised for over 30 years. Bars ignore All change at rastro laws and fines and back to Teulada A WHOPPING 73 bars in Dénia have been fined for shutting too late at night, local authorities reveal. Ignoring laws in place limiting opening hours, many bars and nightclubs in the town continue to trade. Some clubs have licences to open until 3 am, but revellers are still inside at 6 am, complains a Dénia councillor. Pep Marí says some bars, which should not open past midnight, continue to serve drinks at 4 am. Since June, more than 100 establishments have been reported, 73 of which were in July, coinciding with the peak of the tourist season. Taking advantage of the influx of holidaymakers, clubs and bars find they make a fortune during the hours that follow legal closing time. Local authorities reveal that this situation is difficult to police. Most establishments would rather risk paying the fines, which are usually in the region of 300 euros, since they can earn considerably more than that amount by selling drinks after hours. TEULADA’S popular rastro, or flea market, which moved to Pedreguer four years ago, could return to the town – but not until February 2008 at the earliest. Local authorities hoped the rastro would be up and running in the planned new car park of the industrial estate by October, but the council’s department for services and infrastructures has other ideas. The market cannot take place until works on the site are completely finished, works that depend on funding from the provincial council, the Diputación de Alicante. This means the work will probably not be finished for another six or eight months, says head of department José Luis Alaminos. Alaminos stresses that the town’s priority is build- ing the car park before it can even consider the idea of bringing the rastro home to Teulada. Daring spectators gored by bulls SUNDAY night’s bull-running fiestas in El Verger came to an abrupt ending when two spectators were gored. The act, which started at midnight, was called off at 2.30 am when Francisco Rodríguez from Benidoleig was attacked by a bull while climbing into a spectator’s box. He was rushed to La Ribera Hospital in Alzira, where his condition is said to be serious but stable. Earlier that day, another man watching the bulls running through the streets was gored as he climbed over the railings to join the animals in their cordoned-off area, a risky practice common with daring spectators. His injuries were less severe and, after being admitted to the Marina Alta Hospital in Dénia, was discharged the same day. GORED: Fiestas are often abruptly terminated when bulls injure the spectators magazine August 24 - August 30 2007- 225 www. thinkspain.com/today PLUM CRAZY The Valencian town of Buñol is preparing for the sauciest day of its year. Find out when that is. SPLOSH TO PAGES 16-18 SEE INSIDE FOR YOUR 7-DAY 50-CHANNELS TV GUIDE 16 MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 T H E B I G F E AT U R E Attack of killer LA TOMATINA: Where ripe tomatoes are pelted, hurled, catapulted and fired at friends, family, acquaintances, and the 20,000 other people you don’t know It’s the world’s biggest food fight, an unforgettable experience in craziness and mess. Alex Elgar separates the pulp from the fiction Y OU may like your salsa spicy, but would you wear it? The Tomatina is about more than just playing with your food. It has a typical Spanish irreverence, from its history to its rules of topless engagement. The sleepy town of Buñol is your fairly run-of-the-mill Spanish settlement. The town, lying 30km north west of Valencia, has an attractive medieval central area, with a fine castle dominating the skyline. Its population of 10,000 relies mainly on agriculture and industry for its source of income, and daily life passes by slowly and methodically …until the end of August when the town is transformed into a sea of red, the site of the world’s biggest ever tomato throwing event. More than 20,000 people descend upon the town for La Tomatina – one of Spain’s most popular fiestas, drawing tourists from around the globe to witness and partake in the extraordinary spectacle. The aim of the fiesta is simple – around 100,000 tonnes of ripe tomatoes are pelted, hurled, catapulted and fired at friends, family, acquaintances, and the 20,000 other people you don’t know – while they are targeting you. There is only one way to see the festival MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 17 T H E B I G F E AT U R E tomatoes PHOTOS (INCLUDING FRONT COVER): Tania Castro – and that’s to accept the inevitable and put yourself directly in the firing line. La Tomatina traditionally starts at around 11am in the Plaza del Pueblo, but the fiesta has become so big, that it now stretches along the streets leading into the square. A little history There are two versions that describe the origins of this unique and bizarre festival. According to some town records, an old man used to sing and play through the streets of Buñol, but he did so so badly, that one day, as he was walking through the town’s central square, a group of friends ran to a vegetable stall in the square, and started pelting him with tomatoes. It turned into a battle of tomatoes. The more popular version of events states that in 1945, the town was celebrating its traditional Gigantes and Cabezudos festival (Giants with Gross Heads). A group of youths were anxious to participate in the parade, and ran into the giants, knocking one of them over. The giant started hitting the youths, and ran to a fruit and veg stall close by, and started throwing ripe tomato produce at them. The police were called in to disperse “the battle”, and those responsible for the mess had to pay for the damages. The following year, on the same Wednesday in August, the youths, wanting their revenge, returned to the square with their own tomatoes. Another battle commenced, and again, the authorities stepped in to break up the riot. And so it continued, year after year, groups of youths hurling tomatoes at each other in commemoration of that first Wednesday in August 1945. Yet La Tomatina, as it had become known, was banned for years, as the authorities believed it was causing more trouble than it was worth. It wasn’t until 1959 that the fiesta recommenced due to popular demand, but this time, the participants would have to abide by certain rules. The start and end of the fiesta would be announced by a siren, and before and after that siren, not a single tomato could be thrown. In 1980, the town hall began organising the fiesta itself, supplying the tomatoes, and each year increasing the number of tomatoes it TURN TO PAGE 18 18 MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 T H E B I G F E AT U R E MINUS T-SHIRTS: Just don’t wear your best clothes, as you’ll lose them, along with your modesty FROM PAGE 17 supplied with the increase in tourists, until it became the world’s biggest food-fight. Order of the day The tomato-throwing fiesta can only start once a participant has climbed a slippery pole placed in the town’s central square and retrieved the leg of ham that is sitting on top of it. Once he or she is successful in achieving this no-easy feat, hosepipes are turned on and aimed at the crowd, prompting them to rip off their t-shirts. If you don’t do so yourself, your t-shirt will be soon be ripped off. Girls be warned. Wear a bikini or good bra under your t-shirt. The town hall issues certain rules to participants, of which they urge people to abide by to make the festivities more fun and safe: Rules of Engagement 1. Participants T-shirts must not be ripped 2. No bottle or other object must be brought into the area that could disrupt the traditional fun festivities 3. Pay attention to the entering trucks 4. Tomatoes throwing is only between the sounds of the two sirens 5. You must squash the tomato before you throw 6. You can only throw tomatoes Random acts of Tomato Violence At 11am, a siren sounds to mark the start of the fiesta. Trucks enter the town, dumping off loads of tomatoes at various points, and the people nearest these loads will start distributing the tomatoes – by hurling them at the waiting crowds! A scene of pure lunacy ensues – your friends will become your enemies, your partner your target, and strangers your allies. The streets are transformed into a blanket of red, covering everything in the vicinity. One hour later, the second siren sounds to mark the end of the fight, and the die-hards take this opportunity to roll around in the puddles of red tomato juice. As people file back through the streets, the hoses get turned on, to dowse participants in water to help make the journey home a little more bearable. Soon after, the huge clean-up process begins, and unbelievably by mid-afternoon, you would never know that the world’s biggest food fight had just taken place in the streets of Buñol. Tips Avoid becoming a human target by not wearing goggles or masks, hats, holding cameras and camcorders, or elevating yourself above the crowds. There is no standard dress requirements for La Tomatina – just don’t wear your best finery, as what you are wearing will inevitably end up in the bin once you’ve got home When This year, La Tomatina takes place on Wednesday August 29 at 11am in the town of Buñol, not far from Valencia. Accommodation Scarcity of accommodation in Buñol means that most people take the train into the town early in the morning from Valencia. However, if you really do want to stay in Buñol, try the Casa Rural del Castillo de Buñol in the old town. Tel. 96 250 25 33. For accomodation in Valencia, try the ThinkSPAIN website directory on www.thinkspain.com Getting there The easiest way to Buñol is from Valencia by train (C3 local lines). You are not able to purchase your ticket in advance. Get there early in the morning for the one-hour train journey. Alternatively, you may wish to drive by motorway (Madrid-Valencia A3). For more details, contact Buñol’s tourist office on: 96 250 01 51 or visit their web site on: www.lahoya.net RED MIST: Everything in sight becomes coated with pulp in seconds MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 Alfredo Argilés, food critic 19 THE BIG INTERVIEW ‘Spanish cooking has left French cuisine behind’ Famous food critic, Alfredo Argilés, explains to Berta Chulvi some of the keys to the success of Spanish cooking. Furthermore, this Valencian who spends his summers in Dénia, reveals to us which are his favourite restaurants and takes us on a trip to the temple of the best fresh produce: Valencia’s central market. Q A Is cooking fashionable? Yes, but the question should be where. All over the world gastronomy is fashionable because people have realised that visiting different countries and cultures is much more interesting if we understand their cuisine, which is an important part of the culture. When it comes to Spain, there is no doubt that cooking is fashionable. We have never had one of our chefs on the front cover of The New York Times or Le Monde, but we do now thanks to Ferran Adrià and his elBulli restaurant in Girona. Adrià is a real phenomenon. Hard on the heels of Adrià, Spanish cuisine has shortened the gap like Fernando Alonso in a formula one race. His success has seen a giant leap forward for Spanish gastronomy. We are no longer what we were. Q A How would you describe this change? We have gone from being a country with very good restaurants to what we are now: a country whose chefs are renowned internationally and who are interested in doing new things, and the public is beginning to follow. We’ve always known how to eat well, but we are now learning to play the gastronomy game. Q But, Ferran Adrià did not come from nowhere, did he? There was already a generation of chefs... A No. Ferran Adrià did indeed come from a void. I’m going to explain a little bit about the history so the readers of thinkSPAIN/ today understand what I mean. France has always been the cradle of cooking. Gastronomy has been fashionable there for at least a century. Chefs were real personalities who directed the cuisine of the whole of France and the rest of Europe. This is unlike Spain, where what predominated was popular, home cooking. The emergence in France of nouvelle cuisine changed eating habits in France and throughout the world. In Spain, a group of Basque chefs, including Arzak, went to a confer- FOOD EXPERT: He will accept nothing less than the best products from Valencian Central Market ence also attended by Paul Boucuse, the well-known chef and father of French nouvelle cuisine. They were eager to meet him and from that meeting sprang what is known as la nueva cocina Española, which is based on the same principles as the French original: fresh produce, low in fat, etc. From there, chefs started to achieve a higher social profile and Spain became more interested in gastronomy. However, Ferran’s case TURN TO PAGE 20 N WHO IS ALFREDO ARGILÉS? ALFREDO Argilés is one of the Valencian community’s most respected gastronomy experts. Each August, he has a daily column in El Pais newspaper in which he writes about the best Spain’s cuisine has to offer. His suggestions are also published each month in Valencia City, the premier bilingual guide about the regional capital. He works as a financial adviser, but has always had a second job as a journalist because he likes writing about things he enjoys. He started out as a film critic for a sports paper, and, to date, has published two books about gastronomy: ‘Beyond Flavours’, and ‘The Art of Rice’, which is illustrated with silk-screen prints by sculptor, Miguel Navarro. ‘Ferran Adrià is the architect of this worldwide success’ NOT only is he considered to be the top chef in Spain, but his prestige has spread to such an extent that he is now described in the world’s press as the Spanish genius with the most prominent international profile. Although he would point to a generation of nouvelle cuisine maestros (Michel Guirard, Alain Ducasse, Jacques Maximin), and in Spain, to Basque chef, Juan Mari Arzak, the disciple has surpassed his teachers. Some critics, such as Alfredo Argilés, believe his contribution has been a ‘revolution’ more than an ‘evolution’. Adrià is from a family that liked eating well but without any kind of professional link to the gastronomic world. He arrived at elBulli quite by chance. In Spain, it was famously believed that compulsory military service - ‘la mili’ - as it used to be known, was a good way to meet people from other parts of Spain and open up new opportunities. Well, precisely this happened to Adrià. From mid 1982 until the end of 1983, Ferran Adrià, did his military service in Marina (Cartagena), where he worked as a cook for an admiral and his family. During the summer of 1983, following the advice of another Catalan recruit, Fermí Puig, he decided to spend his month’s leave at elBulli, a restaurant he had never heard of before. At the end of the month, Adrià spoke to the restaurant’s owner, Juli Soler, and arranged to join the staff the following year. From there, as joint owners, Soler and Adrià have built an empire that is now famous worldwide. Nowadays, while waiting to reserve one of their highly sought-after tables, the best way to find out more about Adrià’s ‘universe’ is by visiting website: www.elbulli.com elBulli: Cala Montjoi, 6km from Roses (Girona). Tel. 97 215 04 57. 20 MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 THE BIG INTERVIEW pressed you about Ferran Adrià’s cooking? A This year, for example, one dish that impressed me was the stewed eel covered in marrow served with a citrus tablet. The combination of sensations on the palate is indescribable. You eat something extremely greasy inundated with the flavour of the eel and suddenly you eat a small ball that’s like eating a whole lemon which takes away the previous greasy taste. Q A Q How long do you have to wait to eat in Ferran Adrià’s restaurant? A It’s impossible the way things stand at the moment. You can only get N What are you saying? Q How would you explain the Ferran Adrià phenomenon? A I cannot explain it. He’s imaginative, he’s an artist. He’s someone who has added a touch of science to cooking, searching for combinations that nobody’s ever thought of before. He’s a researcher. He’s the first chef to be invited to take part in the Documenta de Kassel, which is one of Worldwide acclaim for Spanish Cuisine HIS appearance on the front cover of New York Magazine and in Le Monde’s Sunday supplement surprised the world of Spanish gastronomy and gave Ferran Adrià his first real taste of international fame. His website has links to over 2,500 articles about his culinary skills and 14,000 other sites that mention him and his restaurant, elBulli. There’s no doubt that it was this international press coverage that made Adrià the huge star he is today. The headlines said it all: the front cover of Le Monde’s Sunday supplement showed Adrià under the heading “Alchemist” and asked “Is he the best in the world?” Many a master chef has been given this title: Boucuse, Hermé, etc. That such an honour should be bestowed COVER: Frontpage of The New York Times and Le Monde upon a Spaniard in the hallowed halls of French gastronomy would have been unheard of just a few years ago. But Ferran Adrià has done it, and the eyes of the world’s great food critics have all turned to look at Spain. He has the power to put Spanish cuisine on top of the world. “Spanish cuisine is moving much faster than the rest of the world”, wrote chef Marc Veyrat.“Spain is taking off while France is having a siesta. . .” said the New York Times. But in Ferran Adrià’s case it’s not just elite cuisine. He’s cocked a snook at the establishment by joining up with El Periódico de Cataluña to produce a series of DVDs entitled “Ferran Adrià makes it easy”. the most prestigious international modern art exhibitions, and rightly so, in my opinion. Adrià is not a chef, but an artist. He creates art in the kitchen. It’s true that he has a team of biologists and chemists, but he is the mastermind. Q It’s difficult to describe flavours, but... could you give us an example of something that has im- A Q A A a table if something magical happens. I normally get in because I know a lot of people and because I know him. But it’s very difficult to get a table: he only opens for six months of the year. If you look at the website, you’ll see that the restaurant is fully booked for 2007. The first day elBulli opens for bookings, they get more than a million requests. Given that it provides evening meals for just 60 guests a day during the six months of the year that it’s open, we can calculate that only around 7,000 customers are catered for. Let’s face it, it’s slightly less than impossible to dine there. How does a restaurant critic survive his own criticisms? The best is Quique Dacosta, from the El Poblet restaurant in Dénia. In my opinion, he’s getting close to matching Ferran Adrià. And, if we can’t go to Ferran Adrià’s restaurant, who are the best Valencian chefs? is completely different because he didn’t study with, or have anything to do with these chefs. He opened a restaurant in Girona managed by a German, and without anybody really understanding how, started evolving to such an extent that he broke with the criteria of old-style cooking and acquired international fame. People go along to eat the inventions of Ferran Adrià. Q I don’t know. I always say what I think. Apart from these two great chefs, there are some excellent others such as Susi Díaz (La Finca in Elche), María Carmen Vélez (La Sirena in Petrer) or Ramiro Redrado, who now works with Quico Moya at La Escaleta in Cocentaina. I also like the look of Ricardo Camarena’s future (L’Arrop in Gandia). Q SPICE WORLD: Argilés with a woman who has had a stall at the Valencian market for 77 years. Below, Argilés examines a dried pepper, a widely-used ingredient in Basque cuisine. to contrasting flavours, and gauging cooking times exactly and it would be impossible to improve on some of his products. I’d say that I eat better with Raúl than with Quique, when it comes to eating, but so far as the gastonomic game is concerned, I’d have to go with Quique. Both are great maestros. Yes. All the other chefs I mention are cooking very well. They are applying new concepts, state-of-theart techniques, but when it comes to combining different flavours... Quique’s got the edge. As he does when it comes to research, or trying out new things. I believe that not just in the Valencian Community, but in the rest of Spain, Quique Dacosta is the only one who comes close to matching Ferran Adrià. Apart from him, there are other excellent chefs such as Raúl Aleixandre (Ca Sento in Valencia), who has been able to evolve his parents’ cuisine by making it modern and imaginative. He’s a master when it comes Has a chef ever made you angry? No, the truth is that I’ve always tried to talk more about gastronomy from a cultural point of view and have not been directly critical of individual restaurants, but the principle is clear: you name the ones you like, and don’t even mention the ones that you don’t. Q And, is Spanish cuisine really that good from that same cultural viewpoint? A Yes. Spain has a very high average, and I’d go so far as to say that it’s because here in the Valencian Community and Cataluña, we have the best produce in the country, the best fish, the best vegetables and excellent seafood. The Basques have poorer vegetables, although there is one great chef, Berasategui, who grows his own peas. But, generally speaking, their produce is not as good as ours. We have better fresh produce in Spain than they do in France. To give you an example, I was in a restaurant in Paris recently that has three stars in the Michelin, and I’m convinced that the sole I was served there came from a fish farm. Such a thing would be unimaginable in Spain. An important part of being a good chef is knowing how to buy. Q So, the best chefs are also experts when it comes to raw materials? A The best one, yes, inevitably. I’ll tell you an anecdote about Alfredo Alonso, a great chef who works at the Rías Gallegas Restaurant in Valencia, and who is a close friend of mine. One day, he said to me: “Those prawns won’t be any good.” “How do you know?” I asked him, to which he replied: “Because they speak gallego.” MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 21 THE BIG INTERVIEW Q A So, you can’t fool a good cook? Of course not. The problem is not just knowing, but being able to pay for it. It is very hard to be very good when you are starting out because you have to spend a lot of money on raw materials. There are lots of good cooks in Valencia who can’t do this because they know their customers won’t pay for it. Catering for the public who can afford to pay for the best a chef can offer, costs a lot of money. Ricardo Camarena, for example, in Gandia is very talented, but has still not fulfilled his potential because creating a market willing to pay for what is really worth eating is going to be difficult where he is based, but step by step... Q As a food critic, what has been your most memorable experience? A What I remember most are the great disappointments. For example visiting some of the most famous restaurants in the world and not finding what I expected. When you travel abroad, you realise just how good Spanish cuisine really is. I remember ordering truffles at Alain Ducasses’s restaurant in Paris. A waiter appeared with an absolutely perfect box of truffles that we could smell before he got halfway across the room, but when he arrived and showed us the ‘black diamonds’, we realised that what he was about to put on our plates was something else entirely. ‘Cheese should always be served with white wine’, say Argilés FOR our interview, Alfredo Argilés chose a mythical place for any gastronomy buff, Valencia’s central market. When Argilés goes to Valencia’s central market, one of his other favourite haunts, in the fish section this time, is the stall belonging to Joaquín Aznar located by the exit to the Iglesia de los Santos Juanes. A stroll through the market stalls is an opportunity to pick up a multitude of tips from his usual suppliers. The first stall Alfredo Argilés visits is that of his friend, José María Manglano, one of Spain’s foremost cheese experts and the owner of several shops in Valencia. Manglano recommends a Valencian cheese, Heretat de Pere (www. heretat.com), which is made by the Quatretonda cheese company. To wash it down, he proposes a white wine, el Impromptu, from the Bodega Hispano-Suiza in Requena-Utiel. The suggestion surprises us as we have always been advised to drink red wine with cheese. “Everybody is wrong,” choruses Manglano and Argilés in unison: “the tannins contained in red wine mask the flavour of the cheese, so they should never be taken at the same time,” they insist. According to Manglano, who is undoubtedly an expert on the subject, the best accompa- It is important to include directions because this market, which is more than a hundred years old, occupies an entire city centre block and it is easy to get lost. THE BEST CHEESES: Argilés chats with José María Manglano, one of Spain’s foremost cheese experts, who has a stall at Valencia’s central market. niment for cheese is a good white wine served not too cold. To support his argument, Argilés explains that countries which manufacture great cheese, such as France or Germany, are also great white wine producers.” The Spanish tradition of serving red wine with cheese came about through inertia because, in Spain, red wine is more plentiful and cheese tends to be served at the end of a meal, but it is not a match made in heaven, according to the experts. When we come across Argilés’s fishmonger, Joaquín Aznar, he is loading his van with deliveries to Valencia’s restaurants. Aznar recommends the Valencian mussels (clochinas), the real thing, caught in the sea and not from a fish farm. During the recent America’s Cup celebrations, divers had problems harvesting them because they were always being interrupted by police patrol boats. Now that the competition is over, normality has returned to the Valencian coast and the mussel divers have resumed their clandestine activity in search of this highlyprized dish. THE KING OF FISH: Joaquín Aznar owns Alfredo Argilés’s favourite fish stall. “I have a pact with Neptune,” claims Aznar. Information: www.mercadocentralvalencia.es Argilés chooses six of the best Valencian restaurants Mª Carmen Vélez LA SIRENA PETRER Quique Dacosta EL POBLET DÉNIA Raúl Aleixandre CA SENTO VALENCIA Susi Díaz LA FINCA ELCHE Ricard Camarena L’ARROP GANDIA El Poblet was a wellknown restaurant in Dénia, until Quique Dacoste gave it international fame. He is an exceptional cook who, according to Argilés, is the only one in Spain following in Ferran Adrià’s tracks. El Poblet specialises in rices and Quique has just published “Contemporary Rices”. Without doubt the most original and highest quality kitchen in the Valencian community. Road Les Marines, Km 3. Tel. 96 578 41 79. The experts insist Ca Sento rates as the best restaurant in Valencia. Argilés suggests that chef, Raúl Aleixandre, together with Quique Dacosta, is the best chef in Valencia. His cooking has always been characterised by its excellent fresh product and its creation of exquisite dishes without being overly sophisticated. Raúl incorporates the intrinsic sophistication of new Spanish cooking. Méndez Núnez, 17. Tel. 96 330 17 75. In the creation of each dish, every small detail is considered, every part of the menu is planned and debated intensely. Study and travel, with special attention to worldwide gastronomy, have been the sources from which the chef of La Finca has cultivated her culinary expertise, complemented in great measure by the exchange of professionals around the world. Partida de Perleta, Polígono 1, no 7, Elche. Tel. 96 545 60 07. Ricard Camarena obtained the prize Restaurante Revelación 2006 in the International Gastronomic Summit of Madrid. He is one of the most interesting chefs in the Valencian Community. He started as a self-taught chef at 25 years old. Later, he studied in the School of Hostelry and Tourism and then in the kitchens of Ca Sento. Today Ricard Camarena cooks in Gandia with great success. San Juan de Rivera, 20. Tel. 96 295 07 68. La Sirena is a perfect example that the sea breeze has no geographical limits, because when you taste the prawns, lobster, langoustines or sea bass, this restaurant offers, it seems you taste the very shores of the Mediterranean. Situated in Petrer, 32 kilometres from the Alicante coast it has become an obligatory stop for the excellent quality of its food. It is an intelligent union between produce of the highest quality and experimentation in a world of flavours, resulting in an extensive menu of fish, seafood and rice, flirting with traditional cooking and the vanguard of new cuisine in the hands of chef, Ma Carmen Vélez. La Sirena, Avda Madrid 14. Tel. 96 537 17 18. Ramiro Redrado y Francisco Moya L’ESCALETA COCENTAINA L’Escaleta is a fantastic place. Located in a luxurious chalet at the foot of Montcabrer between trees with views of the Sierra de Aitana and a beautiful garden. The restaurant is inland between the mountains of Alcoy and the beautiful historic villa of Cocentaina. Ramiro Redrado is originally from Navarra but has been in Valencia for over 20 years. His family, children, nephews and nieces have added to a project that has surpassed all expectations, until it was deservedly recognised in 2000 with a Michelin star. He cooks ‘evolved and elevated traditional food’. L’Escaleta, above the C/Estación Norte. Tel. 96 559 21 00. 22 MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 H E A LT H Talktothetherapist Carole Turner therapist expert Do you have a question for Carole? E-mail us: [email protected] Q I am lucky to have healthy children, a good job, a faithful partner and I own my own house. Why then do I feel so miserable? Some days I am snappy and bored, other times I just wish to be on my own. I am too young for the menopause and I don’t think my feelings are medical. I just feel vaguely irritated by other people and fed up with the boring pattern of my life. What should I do? A You write that you don’t think that your feelings are medical. I am not sure what you mean by this but I am assuming that you mean you do not have medical problems to worry about. However, you don’t mention about the quality of your relationships and particularly with your partner. Your partner may be faithful but is he so dependable that he is boring and there is no ‘juice’ in the relationship? You also do not mention what ages your children are either which also may account for your feelings of unfulfilment. It sounds from the short description of your life that you have many of the things that symbolise security and stability, a home, a dependable partner, a good job and healthy children. But what about excitement, fun, adventure, risk-taking and eroticism? Are you living such a safe and secure life that these qualities are non-existent? If this is the case it is interesting to know how and why you have ruled out that these things are not just as important as the things that you mention and even more important that you cannot change your life to make it work for you. When we think about what is missing from our lives we may come to the conclusion that we are the thing that is missing. Yes, of course, we function well. We do the things that need to get done. We are even efficient and imaginative and yet so often we feel like zombies, carrying out an old routine in well-worn shoes. We have lost touch with ourselves, and there is nothing lonelier than not being in touch with ourselves. When we have lost ourselves, no amount of externals will help. Spouses, friends, work – none can supply what is missing when we are cut off from our ‘internal power source.’ We are missing, and the only way to remedy the problem is to find ourselves again. Finding ourselves takes time. It is hard work but it can be very rewarding and enriching. When we are cut off from parts of ourselves it is a form of isolation which is what psychologists call intrapersonal isolation or disassociation. Freud described this isolation as a defence mechanism, whereby the individual detaches from the unpleasant experience, frees himself from the emotion and all connecting thoughts. Disassociation is an attempt by the psyche to cope with traumatic experiences by altering thoughts, feelings, sensation and actions. These defences are erected as a protection against the discomfort of unmet needs and unexpressed emotions, which includes the pain of overwhelming stimuli. It sounds from what you write that you have emotions and feelings that you are trying to suppress. Perhaps these feelings are trying to give you a ‘wake up call’ to say that everything in your life is not okay for you and that you need to find your truth and then to live it. It may be that your relationship with your partner is not satisfying for you and this is the area that you need to address. Equally it may not be the reason for your unhappiness but the sheer routine and boredom in your life. I would suggest that you seek professional psychological support to help you discover your inner truth. Carole Turner can be contacted personally on 96 584 61 91 Why you should avoid crash diets The only sensible way to lose weight is gradually – there really aren’t any quick fixes. If you are overweight and want to get to a healthier weight, you need to set realistic goals for yourself. Weight loss of around a half to 1kg per week (one to two pounds) is about right. Any more than this and you risk getting demotivated through harsh self-deprivation. After all, a successful diet is one that you have to enjoy eating. Any less than half a kilo, and you probably aren’t making enough changes to the habits that have caused you to be overweight in the first place. You don’t get fat from eating the occasional Mars bar or cream cake – not in the context of an otherwise healthy, balanced diet anyway. Both getting fat and slimming down to, and then maintaining, a healthy weight are really about lifestyle habits. Successful dieting is more about shifting these patterns than it is poring over the precise calorie content of individual foods. So, here’s a run-through of sensible and time-related advice about dieting. machismo sit firmly in the second category, at least if you are starting to be more active for the first time or returning to it after a long period of a sedentary lifestyle. Indeed, a relatively unfit person running hard for 10 minutes a couple of times a week is unlikely to be s h i f t i n g much flab. ● A long (at least 30 minute) brisk walk is much more likely to be burning fat than shorter, more explosive exercise. Ideally, building some daily activity into your life – walking some or all of the way to work instead of driving, for example – could be a relatively painless way to help you get to and stay at a healthy weight. ● Most people will find it easier to lose weight with a two-pronged attack of more physical activity and a lower calorie diet. To lose weight, the balance of calories in (eating) and calories out (activity) needs to be tipped towards a calorie deficit. Less in than out, basically. Staying at a healthy weight then means keeping the two in balance across the weeks and months. ● On the eating side of the equation, eating less fat is probably a good place to start – fat has double the calories, weight for weight, as carbohydrates. So ignore the diet rules of the past and satisfy your hunger with bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. Just try to find low-fat alternatives to the creamy sauces and buttery toppings, and chose cooking methods that keep the overall fat content low. Roast potatoes, chips, fried bread and buttery basmati do not count as healthy carbohydrates! And don't forget that a mountainous portion of healthy pasta still stacks up to lots of calories. Serving food on smaller plates can help promote sensible portion sizes. ● There's useful activity and less-useful activity. Feeling the burn and other examples of exercise ● Watch out for low fat foods that are either not low in fat (75 percent fat-free still means 25 percent fat – not much less than cheese) or that use lots of sugar to replace the fat. Equally important is to aim to include a minimum of five pieces of fruit and vegetables in your daily diet. Not only is fruit and veg rich in essential vitamins and fibre, but steamed, boiled or raw, they are both filling and low in calories. It's true that Brits have a growing problem of obesity, and many people would benefit from losing some weight. But having dealt with the futility of crash diets, we shouldn't forget some of the rarer dangers of eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia. The symptoms of someone who is suffering from anorexia nervosa are loss of appetite, intense fear of gaining weight, lower than normal body weight and claiming to feel fat even when they're very thin. The typical behaviour of someone who is bulimic includes eating exceptionally large amounts of food, then starving, vomiting and taking laxatives or diuretics. These problems can be serious and it is important that anyone suffering from anorexia nervosa or bulimia gets help from their doctor. MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 23 Pulse notes First aid advice from PULSE FIRST AID TRAINING Q I have recently had an experience where someone I know suffered a mild stroke during an afternoon party. I noticed that he was sounding quite slurred but put it down to the effect of alcohol consumed. The person concerned is now fine but the incident has made me think about how to recognise the onset of a stroke and what first aid is appropriate. Can you please advise me? ing what others are saying suspect a person is experiencing a stroke. ● sudden problems with vision – dimness or loss of vision, particularly in one eye First aid procedures for strokes ● sudden dizziness ● sudden problems with walking ● sudden confused or emotional mental state that can be mistaken for drunkenness. ● a good test is to ask them to show teeth – they will only be able to move one side of their mouth. ● a stroke victim may suddenly or gradually lose consciousness. A You have highlighted an important issue in relation to first aid, i.e. the recognition of the signs and symptoms of various disorders and I should emphasise that the only way to feel confident about this is to attend a training course. However, for the time being I can supply some information regarding this very serious condition. Firstly, some background information about strokes. A stroke is a condition, which occurs when blood vessels that deliver oxygenrich blood to the brain rupture or are blocked by a clot and part of the brain does not receive the blood flow it requires. A clot can form in an artery in the brain or be carried in the blood stream, or in cases of brain tumours the artery can be compressed causing a severe reduction in blood flow. In any of these situations brain cells can die within minutes causing permanent damage as the cells are not replaced. The after-effects of a stroke depend on which part of the brain is affected and the degree of oxygen starvation. In some cases it can be fatal and in others the patient makes a full recovery. Risk factors for stroke include having high blood pressure, having had a previous stroke, smoking, having diabetes and having heart disease. Your risk of stroke increases as you get older. If you notice any of the following signs or symptoms listed (note emphasis on the term sudden) call 112 immediately ● sudden weakness or numbness of the face, arm, or leg on one side of the body ● sudden problems with speech and understand- It is important to note that another warning sign of stroke is called transient ischaemic attack (TIA), also called a ‘mini-stroke’. A TIA can cause many of the same symptoms as a stroke, but TIA symptoms generally only last for a few minutes. Call for immediate medical assistance if you suspect a person is experiencing a transient ischaemic attack, as TIAs may lead to stroke. Also call for immediate medical assistance if you As stated above the priority is to get the victim to hospital as soon as possible. If the person is conscious, get them to lie down with their head and shoulders supported. You can incline their head to the affected side and place a towel on the shoulder to absorb any dribbling. Reassure the victim that medical help is on the way and encourage them not to move. Monitor pulse, breathing rate and response level. Do not give anything to eat or drink as it may be difficult to swallow. One last tip If you have not completed a first aid training course, be sure to seek immediate medical attention in any type of emergency situation. Improper care can sometimes be more harmful than helpful. A basic course in first aid is recommended for preparation before any emergency happens, so enrol on one as soon as you can. PULSE FIRST AID TRAINING 648 156 087- 96 577 18 58 pulsefi[email protected] Obesity changes foot structure and affects the way children walk AS International concern regarding childhood obesity continues to grow, alarming new evidence shows that childhood obesity changes foot structure and results in instability when walking. A study of 200 children aged nine to 12 years revealed that excessive body mass led to structural foot changes. Obese children had feet that were up to 15mm longer and seven millimetres wider than feet in children of normal weight, rising to 18mm longer and 15mm wider in severely obese children. Another study of nine to 11year-olds found that excessive body mass led to instability when walking, with obese children spending significantly more time balancing on two feet when walking, less time on one foot than normal weight children, and walked at a slower pace. Feet bear the brunt of body weight in every stride. The foot is a highly specialised part of the body, made up of 26 bones, around 19 muscles, a large number of ligaments, tendons, blood vessels and nerves. The normal foot is designed to absorb the shock of walking and running, but under the influence of excess weight and obesity, the delicate, immature nature of children’s feet can make them par ticularly susceptible to deformity and structural abnor malities. The implications of obesity on general health are vast, and this OBESITY: Just one at a time please! new evidence supports the view that excessive body fat has a detrimental impact on children’s feet, changing foot structure. Obese children are less stable when walking and cannot walk efficiently. There are several potential causes of the structural changes in children’s feet. It may be that the extra weight puts greater pressure on the joint interactions in the foot, leading to disruption in the way the foot aligns and functions. From a clinical point of view this research is very important as it flags up to the podiatrist the ‘at risk’ nature of the foot in the child who is overweight or obese. Clinicians have been aware for some time of particular problems associated with these children, but this research provides evidence that obesity and being overweight has an effect, not only on the development of the foot, but also on the way the foot and lower limb function during walking. Should you be concerned about your feet you can contact Rachel Dawes (The Foot Doctor) on 679 274 139 or visit www.thefootdoctor.co.uk 24 MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 LEISURE Three in a row for Scarlett lady SCARLETT Johansson has lined up three new roles in quick succession to fit in before next year’s supposed strike says The Hollywood Reporter. First up is New Line Cinema’s ensemble comedy He’s Just Not That Into You, in which she’ll play a pilates instructor/aspiring singer who has an affair with a married man and hopes that he will leave his wife for her. Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, and Drew Barrymore all star. She’ll follow that up playing a dangerous femme fatale in The Spirit, an adaptation of the comic strip being directed by Frank Miller about a detective who fakes his own death in order to fight crime in Central City. The masked man is known as the Spirit. Johansson plays Silk N. Floss, a sexy and intelligent secretary with a vindictive instinct that makes her the perfect accomplice to the Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson), an evil mastermind. Finally, she will slip on a crown for the title role in Mary Queen of Scots, scheduled to go before cameras in March in the UK. Director John Curran (The Painted Veil) has essentially revived the project which has been in years of development. Johansson will next be seen this December opposite Natalie Portman and Eric Bana in the period piece The Other Boleyn Girl. Star Trek’s Uhuru joining Heroes THE original Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhuru (Nichelle Nichols) will play a hero’s grandmother for a handful of episodes. Details on her role are still being kept quiet, but TVGuide.com quotes sources as saying the 75-year-old actress will play the grandmother of Monica, the new hero from New Orleans, who will be portrayed by Dana Davis (The Nine). Heroes has proven to be both a launching point for the careers of young actors as well as a destination for older actors to rejuvenate their craft and meet a new audience. Hayden Panettiere, Masi Oka, Milo Ventimiglia, and others have gone from familiar faces to full-blown Hollywood stars, and veterans Malcolm McDowell, George Takei, and Eric Roberts now have a new generation of fans. Takei originally made his name in Star Trek as Captain Sulu, but the Trek-Heroes connection goes further than that. Dominic Keating, from the Trek spin-off Enterprise, will appear as an Irish mobster in Heroes’ anticipated second season and Zachary Quinto, who plays supervillain Sylar, will play a young Spock in the forthcoming Star Trek movie from J.J. Abrams. JODIE Foster’s new movie The Brave One is courting controversy already with website debate raging about its theme. The film doesn’t open in America until September 14th, but the film trailers and plot leaks reveal that Foster plays a radio-host-turned-vigilante. When a brutal attack leaves Erica Bain (Foster) wounded and her fiancé dead, she crosses the line between right and wrong and begins to hunt the men she feels are responsible. Her pursuit of justice captures the public’s attention, but is she becoming the very thing she is trying to stop? The movie also stars Lost’s Naveen Andrews and is directed by Neil Jordan, better known for his plot twist Academy Award-winning movie The Crying Game. Brave but controversial? Pregnant pauses An American Idol contestant’s audition was interrupted last week when she went into labour. Antoria Gillon, 20, of Dallas, wasn’t due to give birth for another week, so she thought it was safe to wait in line outside the stadium starting at 2:30 a.m. for her first shot at the singing competition. Just as she finally had her chance after waiting for 16 hours, “I felt something come over my body when I was walking,” she said in a telephone interview from her hospital bed after giving birth to a healthy boy — her second child. Beau for Emma Many Sky channels are available on a 1 metre dish. We can also supply Sky cards without the need for an English address or bank account EMMA Bunton, aka Baby Spice, gave birth to a son, Beau, at London’s Portland Hospital on August 18th. It’s the first child for Emma and will probably be the last for a while since the Spice Girls manager has begged them “Do not become pregnant – please!” since the reunion world tour was announced. Now all but one of the Spice Girls have Spice Babies. Victoria Beckham has three sons; Melanie Brown has two daughters; and Geri Halliwell has one daughter. Only Sporty Spice has avoided motherhood so far. TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 25 television www. thinkspain.com/today Heading for new Depps Saturday August 25 Sky Movies Premier 09.00pm C APTAIN Jack Sparrow is caught up in another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. Although the curse of the Black Pearl has been lifted, an even more terrifying threat looms over its captain and scurvy crew. It turns out that Jack (Johnny Depp) owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, ruler of the ocean depths, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman, which no other ship can match in speed and stealth. Unless the ever-crafty Jack figures a cunning way out of this Faustian pact, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation in the service of Jones. This startling development interrupts the wedding plans of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who once again find themselves thrust into Jack’s misadventures, leading to escalating confrontations Ruthless pirate hunter Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company sets his sights on retrieving the fabled “dead man’s chest.” According to legend, whoever possesses the dead man’s chest gains control of Davy Jones. PICK OF THE WEEK film choice The Benchwarmers Sky Movies HD1 12.00 pm & 05.30pm Wednesday August 29 Gus and his nerdy buddies, Richie and Clark, are scouted by a millionaire nerd, Mel, who wants to form a baseball team and compete with the meanest Little League teams in the state. A stellar ballplayer, Gus becomes a role model for nerds and outcasts everywhere. But when his fans learn that Gus, himself, was once a school bully, they feel outraged and betrayed, until Gus takes extraordinary steps to win back their admiration and trust. digital choice terrestrial choice Little Nicky Something About Mary Channel 4 10.15pm Saturday August 25 Satan, after considering retirement, decides to hang on for another 10,000 years, angering his older sons and heirs Adrian and Cassius. They decamp to New York, sealing Hell shut, but, without a regular supply of souls, Satan could literally evaporate into thin air. ITV 11.45pm Monday August 27 Hilarious slapstick comedy about a man so tormented by memories of a missed high school date with a beautiful girl that he hires a detective to trace her several years later. 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With special features, exclusive footage and interviews. 14:30 Premier League World 15:00 International Cricket: Natwest Series - England V India 2nd Odi 23:30 Big League Weekend 1 00:30 Premier League Preview 01:00 Gillette World Sport 01:30 Sports Adventure 02:00 NFL: Carolina V New England 05:15 Sky Sports Classics: Tottenham V Manchester United 3-5 (29th Sep 2001) 05:30 Premier League Preview 06:00 FIFA Fútbol Mundial 06:30 Gillette World Sport SKY SPORTS 2 07:00 07:30 08:00 09:00 11:00 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 15:00 16:00 18:00 18:30 19:00 20:00 20:30 21:00 23:30 00:00 01:00 03:00 05:00 Aerobics Oz Style Ocean Race World To Be Announced Polo: British Polo Championships Poker Week Sports Adventure World Hockey Monthly Ocean Women’s Pool: Florida Classic Semi-Final Women’s Pool: Florida Classic Semi-Final European Tour Golf: K.L.M Open Gillette World Sport Premier League World Big League Weekend 1 Premier League Preview Rally World Golf Night Moto+ NFL: Total Access World Eightball Pool Championship Cricket Highlights: Natwest Series - England V India 2nd Odi World Eightball Pool Championship SKY SPORTS 3 07:00 International Cricket: England U19 V Pakistan U19 2nd Odi 09:00 Women’s Pool: Florida Classic Semi-Final 10:00 Women’s Pool: Florida Classic Semi-Final 11:00 Sports Adventure 11:30 I.A.A.F Athletix Weekly 12:00 Aerobics Oz Style 12:30 Racing News 13:00 Race World 14:00 NFL: Total Access 15:00 Ocean 15:30 Poker Week 16:00 To Be Announced 18:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Raw 20:00 Women’s Pool: Florida Classic Final 21:00 World Eightball Pool Championship 23:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Smackdown 01:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Bottom Line 02:00 Golf Night 04:30 Moto+ 05:00 International Cricket: Natwest Series - England V India 2nd Odi EUROSPORT 08:30 Volleyball: World Grand Prix In Ningbo, China 09:30 FIA World Touring Car Championship: FIA WTCC Magazine 10:00 Football: FIFA Under-17 World Cup In South Korea 11:45 Football: Friendly Match 12:30 Football: Inside Euro 2008 12:45 Volleyball: World Grand Prix In Ningbo, China 13:30 Volleyball: World Grand Prix In Ningbo, China 15:30 Cycling: Eneco Tour 16:00 Football: UEFA Euro 2008 17:00 Field Hockey: European Championship In Manchester, England 18:30 Tennis: WTA Tournament In New Haven, USA 19:45 Ski Jumping: Fis 4 Nations Grand Prix In Pragelato, Italy 20:15 Ski Jumping: Fis World Cup In Zakopane 22:00 Sumo: Nagoya Basho In Nagoya, Japan 23:00 Strongest Man: World Cup In London, England 23:30 Football: Inside Euro 2008 23:45 Athletics 00:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka ESPN classic 08:00 US Open: Mcenroe V Connors 10:00 US Open: Evert V Eisel 11:00 Man City V Man Utd, 03/04 Having crashed out of Europe midweek to Mourinho’s Porto in the last minute, United looked to bounce back against their fierce rivals. Cue a classic! 11:30 Teleshopping 12:15 Teleshopping 13:00 Strikers: Cyrille Regis 13:30 West Brom V Manchester Utd 14:00 RWC 1991: Australia V New Zealand 15:00 Man City V Man Utd, 03/04 15:30 1-5: As The Germans Saw It 16:00 Cricket: England V Australia 16:30 Cricket: England V Australia 17:00 US Open: Becker V Lendl Big Brother Channel 4 23.00 - 23.30 In a live show, this week’s evicted housemate leaves the Big Brother house. Davina McCall is there to whisk them into the studio for a chat about their time in the Big Brother house. 19:00 Golf: The Open’s Best-Ever Shots 20:00 MLS: Beckham’s Galaxy V Chivas USA 21:00 Shane Warne: Cricket Legend 21:30 Cricket: England V Australia 22:00 RWC ‘91 Final: Australia V England 23:00 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 00:00 MLS: Beckham’s Galaxy V Chivas USA 01:00 Strikers: Gary Lineker 01:30 Football: England V Turkey 02:00 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 03:00 Golf: The Open’s Best-Ever Shots 04:00 Teleshopping 05:30 Strikers: Gary Lineker TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 27 Friday 24th August 2007 FILMS SKY MOVIES Sci-fi/horror 11:00 12:55 14:40 16:25 18:05 20:05 22:00 23:55 01:30 03:15 The Arrival Piranha Space Truckers Marabunta The Arrival Space Truckers House of Wax Saw II The Hills Have Eyes Piranha SKY MOVIES premier 11:00 Premiere Close Up 11:30 Drama Close Up 12:00 Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - Special 12:30 Drama Close Up 13:00 Grand Champion 15:00 Take The Lead 17:00 A Sound of Thunder 19:00 Just My Luck 21:00 The Lake House 23:00 Ultraviolet 00:40 Premiere Close Up 01:10 Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School SKY MOVIES modern greats 08:30 Cotton Comes to Harlem 10:20 Gorky Park 12:40 14:50 16:35 18:55 21:00 23:10 01:20 03:15 05:20 Rocky II Cotton Comes to Harlem Gorky Park Rocky II Batman Wild at Heart The Panic in Needle Park Slap Shot Rocky II SKY MOVIES indie 11:00 12:55 13:15 15:00 16:30 18:15 20:15 22:00 23:30 01:15 03:00 Tsotsi Lai See Stolen Kisses The Sci-Fi Boys Factotum The Beat My Heart Skipped Tsotsi The Sci-Fi Boys Boxcar Bertha Factotum The Beat My Heart Skipped SKY MOVIES family 07:00 08:30 09:00 10:40 12:50 14:35 16:30 Air Bud 5: Spikes Back Family Close Up Kicking and Screaming The Legend of Zorro Dreamer Roll Bounce Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Special Mean Girls Film 4 22.00 - 23.50 Cady Heron is a cultural blank slate when she first sets foot on the grounds of North Shore High School in a small town outside of Chicago, Illinois. After living in Africa, Cady, now a junior, has no idea how “wild” things can be in civilisation until she crosses paths with one of the meanest species of all, the “Queen Bee,” who at this particular high school is the cool and calculating Regina George. But Cady doesn’t just cross paths with this Queen Bee--she really stings her when she falls for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels. Now Regina is set to sting back by pretending to still like Aaron so he won’t go out with Cady, all the while pretending to be her friend. 17:00 18:35 20:50 21:00 23:40 00:10 02:00 03:50 05:20 Kicking and Screaming The Legend of Zorro No Time For Nuts Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire Family Close Up Dreamer The Red Sneakers The Duke The Skateboard Kid II SKY MOVIES drama 07:00 08:35 10:15 11:50 14:00 15:35 17:15 18:50 21:00 23:20 00:55 03:15 04:55 06:35 What Love Sees Marilyn and Me The Winning Season Shadow Makers What Love Sees Marilyn and Me The Winning Season Shadow Makers Coach Carter Mean Creek Coach Carter Our America Piccadilly Jim What Love Sees 13:55 16:05 17:50 19:30 20:00 22:00 00:15 01:55 03:30 05:20 McLintock! The Phantom of the Opera Bus Stop Modern Greats Close Up North to Alaska McLintock! The Phantom of the Opera The Comedy of Terrors A Taste of Honey The Great Dictator SKY MOVIES action/thriller 07:10 08:50 10:30 12:30 14:30 16:10 17:50 18:20 20:00 22:00 23:50 01:35 03:10 04:55 06:40 Dragon Dynasty Paparazzi Four Brothers Revolver Dragon Dynasty Paparazzi Action and Thriller Close Up Highlander II: The Quickening Revolver Four Brothers Turbulence Highlander II: The Quickening Body of Evidence Angel Flight Down Action and Thriller Close Up SKY MOVIES comedy 08:10 Shopgirl 10:00 Sgt. Bilko 11:40 Max Rules: Adventures Of A Superspy 13:10 Keeping Mum 15:10 The 40 Year Old Virgin 17:10 Sgt. Bilko 18:55 Comedy Close Up 19:25 In and Out 21:00 The 40 Year Old Virgin 23:00 Keeping Mum 00:50 Shopgirl 02:40 In and Out 04:15 He Said, She Said 06:15 Max Rules: Adventures Of A Superspy SKY MOVIES classics 07:40 The Great Dictator 09:50 Bus Stop 11:50 North to Alaska SKY MOVIES HD1 12:00 14:00 15:55 17:50 20:00 22:00 23:40 01:45 03:30 Lassie Fun With Dick and Jane A Very Brady Sequel Wedding Crashers Lassie Fun With Dick and Jane Wedding Crashers A Very Brady Sequel Comedy Close Up SKY MOVIES HD2 13:00 15:00 17:00 19:00 21:00 23:15 01:15 03:20 A Walk in the Clouds War of the Worlds The Edge A Walk in the Clouds V For Vendetta War of the Worlds Renegades Basilisk: The Serpent King Kronk’s New Groove Disney cinemagic 10.00 - 11.15 Life for Kronk is going pretty good these days. He was the muscle bound but lovable henchman that did all the dirty work for the evil Yzma in ‘’The Emperor�s New Groove’’. Now Emperor Kuzco has changed his dastardly ways, and Yzma is nowhere to be found. Kronk’s one happy guy! He thinks he has found the woman of his dreams, he is the head chef at Mudka’s Meat Hut and does he have friends—old ones, young ones, new ones and, of course, there’s his good pal Pacha, and his Junior Chipmunk kids who make him the best Camp Chimppamunka Leader around. To top it off, this is his movie! It’s all about him. Great! Right? Wrong! Kronk receives a letter from his Papi telling him he is coming for a visit. Kronk flips out! You see, all Kronk has ever wanted from Papi is a thumbs-up of approval, but he’s never gotten it FILM 4 14:00 15:45 18:00 20:40 22:00 23:50 02:15 The Siege at Red River The One That Got Away Topaz The Mark of Zorro Mean Girls Deep Red The Eye TCM 08:10 08:35 12:00 14:15 16:00 19:00 22:00 23:50 02:20 03:45 04:00 06:00 Teleshopping Grand Prix David Copperfield Blossoms in The Dust The Bridge on The River Kwai Kelly’s Heroes Enter the Dragon The Fugitive Hysteria Teleshopping Mrs. Soffel David Copperfield DISNEY cinemagic 07:00 07:25 07:45 08:10 08:35 09:00 09:25 The Little Mermaid Aladdin House of Mouse Emperor’s New School Recess Lilo and Stitch Lilo and Stitch 09:45 10:00 11:15 11:30 11:55 12:20 12:45 13:10 13:35 14:00 14:25 14:50 15:15 15:35 16:00 16:20 16:45 17:10 17:35 18:00 19:35 20:00 21:40 22:05 22:25 22:50 23:15 23:45 00:10 00:35 Recess Kronk’s New Groove Emperor’s New School Emperor’s New School Emperor’s New School Emperor’s New School Emperor’s New School Emperor’s New School Recess Recess Recess Recess Recess Recess Recess Tarzan Lilo and Stitch Emperor’s New School Recess Heavy Weights Lilo and Stitch 102 Dalmatians Tarzan Lilo and Stitch Emperor’s New School Recess Quack Pack Lilo and Stitch Recess House of Mouse GENERAL INTEREST BBC 3 20:00 Reading and Leeds Festival 21:30 Reading and Leeds Festival 23:00 EastEnders 23:30 Reading and Leeds Festival 01:05 Family Guy 01:25 Family Guy 01:50 Fresh Animation on Three 02:05 The Real Hustle 02:35 Reading and Leeds Festival 04:05 The Real Hustle 04:35 Road Rage Revenge BBC 4 20:00 World News Today 20:30 The Dead Sea Scrolls 22:00 The BBC One Sessions 22:50 Originals 23:40 Secret Life of the Motorway 00:40 Secret Life of the Motorway 01:40 Secret Life of the Motorway 02:40 Mark Lawson Talks to... 03:40 The Dead Sea Scrolls BBC prime 07:00 Little Robots 07:10 William’s Wish Wellingtons 07:15 Tweenies 07:35 Balamory 07:55 Big Cook Little Cook 08:15 The Roly Mo Show 08:30 William’s Wish Wellingtons 08:35 Teletubbies 09:00 Garden Rivals 09:30 Staying Put 10:00 Staying Put 10:30 Cash in the Attic 11:00 Garden Challenge 11:30 Wildlife Specials 12:30 The Good Life 13:00 As Time Goes By 13:30 My Family 14:00 Our Mutual Friend 15:00 Hustle 16:00 Garden Rivals 16:30 Bargain Hunt 17:15 Bargain Hunt 18:00 As Time Goes By 18:30 My Family 19:00 50 Things to Do Before You Die 20:00 Hustle 21:00 New Tricks 22:00 The Rotters’ Club 23:00 Hustle 00:00 The Good Life 00:30 New Tricks 01:30 As Time Goes By 02:00 My Family 02:30 Mastermind 03:00 Hustle 04:00 Our Mutual Friend 05:00 Cash in the Attic 05:30 Balamory 05:50 Tweenies 06:10 Big Cook Little Cook 06:30 Tikkabilla BBC world 07:00 BBC News 07:30 World Business Report 08:00 BBC News 08:30 World Business Report 08:45 Sport Today 09:00 BBC News 09:30 Talking Movies 10:00 BBC News 10:30 Extra Time: Carolina Kluft 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Click 12:00 BBC News 12:30 World Business Report 12:45 Sport Today 13:00 World News Today 14:00 BBC News 14:30 World Business Report 14:45 Sport Today 15:00 BBC News 15:30 Asia Today 15:45 Sport Today 16:00 BBC News 16:30 Extra Time: Carolina Kluft 17:00 BBC News 17:30 Our World 18:00 World News Today 19:00 BBC News 19:30 World Business Report 19:45 Sport Today 20:00 World News Today 21:00 BBC News 21:30 Indian School 22:00 BBC News 22:30 Extra Time: Carolina Kluft 23:00 BBC News 23:15 World Business Report 23:45 Sport Today 00:00 BBC News 00:30 Asia Today 00:45 World Business Report 01:00 BBC News 01:30 Extra Time: Carolina Kluft 02:00 BBC News 02:30 World Business Report 03:00 BBC News 03:30 Our World 04:00 BBC News 04:30 World Business Report 04:45 Sport Today 05:00 BBC News 05:30 Talking Movies 06:00 BBC News 06:30 Middle East Business Report BRAVO 09:00 Alias 10:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 11:00 Street Crime UK 4 12:00 When Sport Goes Bad: Whacked Out Sports 13:00 The Dukes of Hazzard 14:00 Walker, Texas Ranger 15:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 16:00 Street Crime UK 4 17:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 18:00 Street Crime UK 4 19:00 The Dukes of Hazzard 20:00 Walker, Texas Ranger 21:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 22:00 Under Fire: Deadliest Police Shootouts 23:00 The World’s Biggest Ghost Hunt 00:00 The Real Football Factories International 01:00 Saul Of The Mole Men 01:15 Metalocalypse 01:30 The Venture Brothers 02:00 Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! 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21:50 Movies Now 22:00 When Stunts Go Bad 23:00 Europe’s Greatest Stunts 23:30 Fright Night Part 2 01:45 History of the World - Part 1 03:30 The Dirty Dozen 04:35 The Larry Sanders Show 05:00 Teleshopping LIVING 07:00 Home Shopping 08:00 Divorce Court 09:00 Maury 09:55 The Fix 10:00 Extreme Makeover 11:00 The Jerry Springer Show 12:30 Maury 14:20 The Fix 14:30 Will and Grace 15:30 Dharma and Greg 16:00 Missing 17:00 Charmed 19:00 Extreme Makeover 20:00 The X Files 21:00 Criminal Minds 22:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 01:00 The X Files 02:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 03:00 Veronica Mars 04:00 Boston Legal 04:50 Increase Your House Price by Ten Grand 05:40 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry 06:05 The Jerry Springer Show 06:30 Home Shopping PARAMOUNT comedy 07:00 QVC 10:00 Veronica’s Closet 11:00 Two and a Half Men 12:00 King of Queens 13:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 14:00 Veronica’s Closet 15:00 Becker 16:00 Two and a Half Men 17:00 King of Queens 18:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 19:00 Frasier 20:00 Becker 21:00 That ‘70s Show 22:00 South Park 23:00 Last Comic Standing 00:00 South Park 02:30 Trailer Park Boys 03:00 Badly Dubbed Porn 03:30 South Park 04:30 Linc’s 05:00 South Park 06:00 Sir Leslie Quint A Life In Film 06:10 That ‘70s Show SCI FI 07:00 Roswell 08:00 Farscape 09:00 Teleshopping 12:00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World 13:00 Roswell 14:00 Star Trek 15:00 Profiler 16:00 Lightning: Fire from the Sky 18:00 Star Trek 19:00 Profiler 20:00 Mysterious Ways 21:00 Angel 22:00 Waterworld 00:30 Jurassic Park 03:00 Star Trek 04:00 Logan’s Run 05:00 She Spies 06:00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World SKY one 07:00 Sunrise 10:00 Stargate Atlantis 12:00 Brainiac: Science Abuse 13:00 Malcolm in the Middle 14:00 Cold Case 15:00 Angel 16:00 Las Vegas 17:00 Stargate Atlantis 19:00 Malcolm in the Middle 20:00 The Simpsons 21:30 Lovespring International 22:00 A Town Called Eureka 23:00 Eraser 01:10 Ross Kemp on Gangs 02:10 Cold Case 03:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation 04:40 Is Harry on the Boat? 05:30 Dream Team 06:20 America’s Dumbest Criminals 06:45 Futurama UKTV gold 09:00 EastEnders 09:40 Last of the Summer Wine 10:20 Last of the Summer Wine 11:00 Doctor Who 13:00 Alistair Mcgowan’s Big Impression 13:15 My Hero 14:35 Porridge 15:15 The Vicar of Dibley 17:00 Doctor Who 19:00 New Adventures of Old Christine 20:00 Alistair Mcgowan’s Big Impression 20:15 The Vicar of Dibley 22:40 Only Fools and Horses 23:20 Euromillions 23:30 Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit 01:35 The Vicar of Dibley 02:15 Wogan: Now And Then 03:10 Charlie’s Angels UKTV people 11:00 Animal Park 12:00 Airport 13:00 A Life of Grime 14:00 Animal Park 15:00 Airport 16:00 A Life of Grime 17:00 Animal Park 18:00 Airport 19:00 A Life of Grime 20:00 Animal Park 21:00 Airport 22:00 The Children of Helen House 23:20 Bailiffs 00:20 Taxicab Confessions 01:20 Forensic Files UKTV style 10:00 Car Booty 10:30 Car Booty 11:00 What Not to Wear 12:00 I Do, Let’s Eat 12:30 Wedding Diaries 13:00 Beat the Burglar 14:00 Homes under the Hammer 15:00 Escape to the Country 16:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 18:00 Flog It! 19:00 Cash in the Attic 20:00 Homes under the Hammer 21:00 What Not to Wear 22:00 Escape to the Country 23:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 01:00 Wedding Stories UKTV bright ideas 09:00 Antiques Roadshow 10:00 Heaven’s Garden 10:30 Garden Highs 11:00 Ready, Steady, Cook 11:30 Heaven’s Kitchen Cookbook 12:00 Great Food Live 13:00 Food Uncut 13:30 Heaven’s Garden 14:00 Antiques Roadshow 15:00 Gary Rhodes’ Local Food Hero 2006 16:00 Art Deco Designs 16:30 Buying Style 17:00 Ready, Steady, Cook 17:30 Heaven’s Kitchen Cookbook 18:00 Antiques Roadshow UKTV drama 11:00 Bergerac 12:00 Just Good Friends 12:40 As Time Goes By 13:20 Last of the Summer Wine 14:00 Murder, She Wrote 16:00 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 17:25 As Time Goes By 18:00 Just Good Friends 18:40 As Time Goes By 19:20 Last of the Summer Wine 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 22:00 Taggart 00:00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 01:00 Taggart 03:00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 03:50 Howards’ Way 04:40 Secret Army TELEVISION 28 August 24 - August 30 2007 Saturday 25th August 2007 BBC 1 07:00 Breakfast 11:00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:00 World Athletics Championships 13:00 BBC News and Weather 13:10 Football Focus 14:00 World Athletics Championships 15:30 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final: Catalans Dragons v St Helens 18:00 Final Score 18:20 BBC News 18:40 Outtake TV 19:10 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2007 20:10 School’s Out 20:45 The National Lottery: 1 vs 100 21:30 DanceX 22:45 The Vicar of Dibley 23:15 BBC News and Weather 23:30 Match of The Day 00:50 World Athletics Championships 01:20 Assault on Precinct 13 02:50 World Athletics Championships Match Of The Day 23.30 - 00.50 Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights, including Arsenal v Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium. West Ham and Wigan meet at Upton Park, and there’s much interest at the Stadium of Light, where Liverpool - and their host of summer signings worth over £50 million - take on Roy Keane’s resurgent Sunderland. BBC 2 ITV 1 London CHANNEL 4 FIVE E4 07:00 07:30 07:50 08:00 08:25 08:45 09:05 09:15 07:00 10:25 10:40 10:55 11:25 11:55 12:10 07:10 The Hoobs 07:35 The Hoobs 08:00 Goalissimo Goalissimo is the definitive weekly round-up of world football, with great goals, features, highlights and interviews from all the major leagues across the globe, including the best action from Italy, France and Holland. 09:00 The Morning Line 09:55 Big Brother’s Little Brother 10:25 Friends 10:55 Rip Curl Boardmasters 2007 Exclusive coverage of Europe’s biggest surf, skate and music festival in Newquay. Music acts include Ash, Funeral For a Friend and Paolo Nutini. 11:30 Friends 12:00 Big Brother 13:00 Big Brother 13:30 Friends 14:00 Charmed 15:00 Channel 4 Racing From Goodwood, Newmarket and Beverley 17:00 Red Bull Air Race 2007 18:05 The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 19:40 Channel 4 News 20:15 Deadliest Catch 21:15 Terror on Crocodile Island 22:15 Little Nicky 23:50 The Secret Policeman’s Ball 01:30 Big Brother Live 04:45 Carling Festival’s Postcards 05:00 The Bernie Mac Show 05:25 Full Metal Challenge 06:25 Countdown 07:00 08:00 08:35 08:50 09:10 07:00 Big Brother Live 08:55 Big Brother’s Little Brother Join Dermot O’Leary and guests from the Big Brother nerve centre for the ultimate fanzine show. With all the latest breaking news as it happens, exclusive behind-the-scenes access and insider interviews with the housemates’ relatives and friends, this show is an absolute must for all Big Brother fans. Also featuring a host of celebrities, journalists and psychologists, who all share their insights into the latest house events. 09:25 Big Brother 10:25 Big Brother 10:55 Big Brother Live 15:00 The Album Chart Show 15:30 Hollyoaks Omnibus 18:00 Friends 18:30 Friends 19:00 Big Brother’s Little Brother 19:30 Scrubs 20:00 Smallville 20:55 Friends 21:30 Friends 22:00 Big Brother 23:00 Big Brother 23:35 Big Brother’s Diary Room Uncut 00:35 Big Brother Live 01:35 Jackass: The Movie 03:15 Big Brother Live 09:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:25 11:55 12:25 12:45 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:20 17:40 20:10 22:15 23:45 01:10 02:10 03:10 03:30 Teletubbies Balamory Step Inside Dogstar The Batman Dennis the Menace Batfink Chucklevision The comic antics of accident-prone brothers. Paul and Barry attempt to look after a rude parrot. The Story of Tracy Beaker The Sorcerer’s Apprentice The Slammer Beat The Boss The Story of Tracy Beaker Do Something Different Series for children. Sam and Mark hit the road as they try and get UK children to ‘Do Something Different’. What’s New Scooby Doo? Sportsround World Athletics Championships 2007 Animal Park The Quatermass Xperiment Doctor Who and the Daleks International Rugby Union: Scotland v South Africa Proms 2007 British Film Forever Witchfinder General Tribe Reading and Leeds Festival Arrested Development How I Met Your Mother 12:20 12:25 12:30 14:15 15:15 17:40 18:40 18:55 19:10 20:10 20:40 21:40 22:40 23:40 23:55 01:30 05:10 05:30 06:00 06:30 GMTV Horrid Henry Planet Sketch Shuriken School The Giblet Boys SpongeBob Squarepants The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers ITV News; Weather London Today F1: Grand Prix Qualifying The Goodwood Festival of Speed Macarthur Poirot London Tonight ITV News; Sports Results; Weather Animals Do The Funniest Things All New You’ve Been Framed! The X Factor The search for the next pop sensation continues as judges Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh audition hundreds of hopefuls in Birmingham and Cardiff, with the lucky eventual winner receiving a million-pound record contract and a shot at a Christmas number one. Dermot O’Leary presents. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity The Truth About Boy Bands ITV News; Weather Jaws 4: The Revenge ITV Play Antiques Auction Antiques Auction ITV Nightscreen ITV Morning News 09:25 09:55 10:05 10:15 10:30 11:00 12:00 12:50 14:35 16:10 17:40 19:30 21:05 21:20 22:15 23:15 00:15 01:15 06:35 Sunrise Hi-5 Rupert Bear Make Way for Noddy Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs The Book of Pooh Roobarb and Custard Too Peppa Pig Fifi and The Flowertots Jane and the Dragon Monster Moves David Beckham’s Soccer USA Host Tim Lovejoy brings us all the action from the US focusing on David Beckham’s latest matches. With highlights of LA Galaxy’s inter-conference clash with the New York Red Bulls and goals from around the league. Plus, Natalie Pinkham reports from the US. Holiday in Your Heart Columbo: The Greenhouse Jungle Murder at the Gallop Danielle Steel’s Secrets The Duke Five News and Sport Navy NCIS CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Criminal Minds Quiz Call Wildlife SOS DOCUMENTARIES DISCOVERY 07:00 How It’s Made 08:00 How Do They Do It? 09:00 Industrial Revelations 10:00 Time Team 12:00 How It’s Made 13:00 How Do They Do It? 14:30 Mythbusters - Jaws Special 16:30 Deadliest Catch Intro 17:40 Deadliest Catch 18:40 Deadliest Catch Intro 18:45 Deadliest Catch 19:45 Deadliest Catch Intro 19:50 World’s Toughest Tribes 20:55 Deadliest Catch Intro 21:00 Deadliest Catch 22:00 Perfect Predators 00:00 Shark Attack Survivors 01:00 Shark Sex 02:00 Psychic Witness 03:00 Forensic Detectives 04:00 Perfect Predators 05:40 How Do They Do It? 06:30 How It’s Made DISCOVERY real time 07:00 Day Ticket: Claydon 07:30 Ifish 08:00 Ifish 08:30 Screaming Reels 09:00 Screaming Reels 09:30 Total Fishing with Matt Hayes 10:00 Total Fishing with Matt Hayes 10:30 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures 11:00 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures 11:30 Trout ‘n’ About 12:00 Fishing Road Trip USA 12:30 Fishing Road Trip USA 13:00 My Greek Kitchen 13:30 My Greek Kitchen 14:00 Floating Kitchen 14:30 Floating Kitchen 15:00 A Place In The Sun 16:00 A Place In The Sun 17:00 A Place In The Sun 18:00 A Place In The Sun 19:00 A Place In The Sun 20:00 The Compleat Angler 20:30 The Compleat Angler 21:00 Locks and Quays 21:30 Waterworld 22:00 River Cottage Forever 22:30 River Cottage Forever 23:00 River Cottage Forever 23:30 River Cottage Forever 00:00 Miami Ink 01:00 American Hotrod 02:00 Rides 03:00 Chop Cut Rebuild NATIONAL geographic 10:00 Battle of The Hood and The Bismarck 12:00 Gladiator Wars 13:00 Hidden Scrolls of Herculaneum 14:00 Roman Technology Investigated 15:00 Pyramids Investigated 16:00 Egypt: Secret Chambers Revealed 17:00 Secrets of The First Emperor 18:00 Pyramids of Death 19:00 Pompeii Uncove- red 21:00 Mary Celeste - Ghost Ship 22:00 Top 10 Kung Fu Weapons 23:00 Samurai Sword 00:00 Hardest Fighter 01:00 Kung Fu Monk HISTORY channel 09:30 Hidden House History 10:00 Falklands: The Islanders’ War 12:00 Martin Bormann - in the Fuhrer’s Shadow 13:00 Rome: Engineering An Empire 14:00 Secret War - The Odyssey Of The Suffield Volunteers 15:00 Drama of Dresden 17:00 Return to Limbang 18:00 Modern Marvels 19:00 Zulu: The True Story 20:00 Vic Reeves’ Pirates 20:30 Vic Reeves’ Pirates 21:00 Scotland’s Essential History 22:00 An- cient Discoveries 23:00 Cities of the Underworld 00:00 The Three Lives of William Wallace 01:00 Scotland’s Essential History UKTV documentary 10:00 Deep Wreck Mysteries 13:00 Shipwreck Detectives 16:00 Deep Wreck Mysteries 19:00 Shipwreck Detectives 22:00 Deep Wreck Mysteries 01:00 Shipwreck Detectives 03:50 World’s Best Places To See ANIMAL planet 08:00 Wildlife SOS 09:00 Monkey Business 10:00 Animal Cops Houston: Guarding Angel 11:00 Animal Cops Houston: Courtroom Drama 12:00 Wild Rescues 12:30 Wild Rescues 13:00 Going Ape 13:30 Going Ape 14:00 Wildlife SOS 14:30 Wildlife SOS 15:00 Crocodile Hunter 16:00 Wonder Dogs 17:00 Amazing Animal Videos 18:00 Shauna’s Amazing Animal Videos 19:00 Pet Rescue 20:00 Britain’s Worst Pet Special 21:00 Animal Crackers 22:00 Animal Precinct 00:00 Cell Dogs 01:00 E-Vets: The Interns 01:30 Amazing Animal Videos 02:00 Animal Cops Houston: Guarding Angel 03:00 Animal Cops Houston: Courtroom Drama 04:00 Pet Rescue 04:30 Britain’s Worst Pet Special 05:20 Animal Crackers 06:10 Wonder Dogs SPORT SKY SPORTS 1 07:00 07:30 08:00 08:30 09:30 10:00 13:00 13:30 16:00 18:15 20:30 21:25 23:15 00:45 02:15 03:45 05:15 06:10 06:40 06:45 Aerobics Oz Style Premier League Preview FIFA Futbol Mundial Big League Weekend 1 A look ahead to the new Football League season, including all the latest transfer news and player interviews. Premier League Preview Soccer A.M. Gillette Soccer Saturday Ford Football Special: Sunderland V Liverpool Gillette Soccer Saturday Saturday Night Football You’re On Sky Sports! Football First: Game Of The Day Football First: Match Choice Football First: Match Choice Football First: Match Choice Football First: Match Choice You’re On Sky Sports! Foot Brazil U Can Do It: Swimming Sky Sports Classics: Ac Milan V Liverpool 3-3 (Champions League Final 25th May 2005) SKY SPORTS 2 07:00 Moto+ 07:30 Guinness Rugby: N.P.C Cup - Wellington V Tasman 09:30 Guinness Rugby: N.P.C Cup - North Harbour V Waikato 11:30 Max Power 12:30 International Cricket: Natwest Series - England V India 2nd Odi 14:30 Cricket: Natwest Pro40 Worcestershire V Lancashire Natwest Pro40 Worcestershire V Lancashire. Worcestershire take on Lancashire at New Road in a Pro40 encounter. The Lightning have won the title five times. Can the Royals cause an upset following their promotion last season? 20:30 Gillette World Sport 21:00 Golf Night 22:00 Golf Night: U.S Amateur Championship 2007 00:00 Golf Night 01:00 Rugby League: Challenge Cup Final 02:30 Golf Night 03:30 Golf Night 05:30 Golf Night 06:30 British Formula Ford Championship SKY SPORTS 3 07:00 09:30 10:00 11:00 13:00 14:00 18:00 18:30 19:00 22:00 22:30 23:30 00:00 02:00 02:30 03:30 06:30 Golf Night Rally World NFL: America’s Game World Wrestling Entertainment Smackdown World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Bottom Line European Tour Golf: K.L.M Open Day three of the KLM Open at the Kennemer Golf and Country Club. Simon Dyson beat Australian Richard Green at the first extra hole of a sudden-death playoff last year. Rally World Moto+ Live Grand Prix Speedway Summerslam Preview ECW Wrestling Summerslam Preview World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Smackdown Summerslam Preview World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Bottom Line Grand Prix Speedway Moto+ EUROSPORT 09:30 Football: FIFA Under-17 World Cup In South Korea 10:45 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 12:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 15:30 Cycling: Eneco Tour 16:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 17:15 Field Hockey: European Championship In Manchester, England 17:30 Field Hockey: European Championship In Manchester, England 19:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 19:45 Rally 20:15 Ski Jumping: Fis World Cup In Zakopane 22:00 Equestrianism: Global Champions Tour In Valkenswaard, Netherlands 23:00 Tennis: WTA Tournament In New Haven, USA 00:30 International Formula Masters in Oschersleben, Germany 01:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan ESPN classic 07:00 08:45 09:30 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 Teleshopping Teleshopping 1-5: As The Germans Saw It Goals of The Season, 2000/2001 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 MLS: Beckham’s Galaxy V Chivas USA Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand Rugby League: Gb V Australia Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand Golf: The Open’s Best-Ever Shots 16:30 Golf: The Open 17:30 Strikers: Alan Brazil 18:00 Live: Gibson Guitar Champions Cup 23:00 Top Ten: Borg V Mcenroe 00:00 Boxing: The Thriller In Manila 01:00 Goals of The Season, 2000/2001 02:00 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 03:00 Teleshopping 03:45 Teleshopping 04:30 Boxing: The Rumble In The Jungle 06:00 Teleshopping 06:45 Teleshopping Little Nicky Channel 4 22.15 - 23.50 Satan, after considering retirement, decides to hang on for another 10,000 years, angering his older sons and heirs Adrian and Cassius. They decamp to New York, sealing Hell shut, but, without a regular supply of souls, Satan could literally evaporate into thin air. TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 29 Saturday 25th August 2007 FILMS SKY MOVIES sci-fi/horror 11:00 12:50 15:25 17:05 18:30 20:20 22:00 00:30 02:05 Nineteen Eighty-Four Armageddon Wing Commander Phase IV Nineteen Eighty-Four Wing Commander Armageddon Hostel Bad Karma SKY MOVIES premier 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 15:00 16:45 18:45 21:00 23:30 01:10 Comedy Close Up Family Close Up Premiere Close Up Action and Thriller Close Up Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School Just My Luck Last Holiday Tristan and Isolde Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Adrift ATL SKY MOVIES modern greats 07:30 09:30 11:15 13:15 15:15 17:15 19:00 21:00 23:00 00:40 02:20 04:00 Heartburn Rocky III Footloose Grease Heartburn Rocky III Footloose Grease Easy Rider Death Wish 3 Foxy Brown Easy Rider SKY MOVIES indie 11:00 12:50 14:40 16:10 18:20 20:10 22:00 23:35 01:45 03:55 Best The Hudsucker Proxy When We Were Kings Breakfast on Pluto Best The Hudsucker Proxy When We Were Kings Breakfast on Pluto The Sea Inside Galapagos X-Men The Last Stand Sky Movies action/thriller 12.25 - 14.10 & 22.00 - 23.45 A “cure” for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, or give up their powers and become human. The opposing viewpoints of mutant leaders Charles Xavier, who preaches tolerance, and SKY MOVIES family 07:00 Jungle Boy 08:35 Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie 10:15 Aquamarine 12:00 The Witches 13:40 Big Momma’s House 2 15:20 Lost in Space 17:35 Aquamarine 19:20 The Witches 21:00 Big Momma’s House 2 22:40 Lost in Space 01:00 Racing Ace 02:40 Jungle Boy 04:15 Chasing Christmas 05:40 The Adventures of Brer Rabbit SKY MOVIES drama 08:10 09:55 11:40 13:25 15:10 17:05 18:45 20:30 21:00 23:00 01:05 03:30 05:00 06:30 Wilder Days Flight 93 Nurses On The Line Wilder Days Freedomland Flight 93 Nurses On The Line Drama Close Up Freedomland Jarhead The Day of the Locust Lost Behind Bars The Temptations Part I Nurses On The Line SKY MOVIES comedy 07:40 09:40 11:25 13:10 15:10 17:00 17:20 19:15 21:00 23:00 00:45 02:20 Roseanna’s Grave Big Bully Home Team The Sixth Man Monster-in-Law The Top 10 Show Home Team Big Bully Monster-in-Law Must Love Dogs Whiskey Down An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn 03:50 Roseanna’s Grave 05:35 The Sixth Man Magneto, who believes in the survival of the fittest, are put to the ultimate test--triggering the war to end all wars SKY MOVIES classics 07:35 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 09:45 Indiscreet 11:30 The Gunfighter 13:15 Drama Close Up 13:45 My Darling Clementine 15:45 Drama Close Up 16:15 An Affair to Remember 18:15 Indiscreet 20:00 The Gunfighter 21:30 Modern Greats Close Up 22:00 My Darling Clementine 23:40 An Affair to Remember 01:40 The Bishop’s Wife 03:40 The Abominable Dr Phibes SKY MOVIES action/thriller 07:10 09:45 11:55 12:25 14:10 15:40 17:45 20:10 22:00 23:45 01:25 03:10 Kingdom of Heaven The Peacemaker Action and Thriller Close Up X-Men: The Last Stand Red Eye The Peacemaker Kingdom of Heaven Derailed X-Men: The Last Stand The Replacement Killers Highlander III: The Sorcerer Derailed SKY MOVIES HD1 12:00 Herbie: Fully Loaded 13:50 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 16:15 Office Space 17:50 Herbie: Fully Loaded 19:35 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 22:00 Office Space 23:45 American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile 01:35 Rosemary’s Baby SKY MOVIES HD2 13:00 Force of Impact 14:30 Drama Close Up 15:00 Brokeback Mountain Last Holiday Sky Movies premier 16.45 - 18.45 Georgia Byrd lives a small life tucked inside big dreams. A shy cookware salesperson for a New Orleans retail outlet, she handles knives and skillets with the flair of a master chef. But when Georgia learns her days are numbered, she throws caution to the wind and embarks on a dream holiday vacation to a grand resort in Europe. There, thinking she has nothing to lose, Georgia undergoes a metamorphosis-and her transformation affects everyone around her. Georgia’s newly uninhibited personality shakes up staff and guests alike, including a venerate chef as well as a retail magnate who becomes convinced she’s a rival intent on sabotaging his business plans. 17:20 19:15 21:00 23:30 02:05 04:00 Man-Thing Force of Impact Brokeback Mountain Memoirs of a Geisha 2 Days in The Valley China: The Panda Adventure FILM 4 14:00 15:55 17:45 20:00 20:15 22:00 00:00 02:00 Gift Horse Apache The Battle of The River Plate The Story of ‘Hallam Foe’ Bugsy Malone To Die For Jeepers Creepers 2 Night Watch TCM 08:05 08:20 10:05 12:00 14:00 15:25 16:00 17:55 20:00 22:00 00:25 02:20 03:50 Teleshopping Two Loves The Pirate The Swan The Petrified Forest Jerry Schilling on Elvis Stay Away Joe Arsenic and Old Lace There’s a Girl in My Soup Presumed Innocent Lenny Sitting Target Teleshopping 04:05 Operation Crossbow 06:00 The Shoes of the Fisherman DISNEY cinemagic 07:25 101 Dalmatians 07:50 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command 08:15 Aladdin 08:40 Disney’s Hercules 09:05 Emperor’s New School 09:30 Lilo and Stitch 10:00 Flubber 11:35 Lilo and Stitch 12:00 The Princess Diaries 13:50 Classic Toons 14:00 Toy Story 2 15:35 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command 16:00 Flubber 17:35 Lilo and Stitch 18:00 Lilo and Stitch 19:25 Classic Toons 19:35 Lilo and Stitch 20:00 The Princess Diaries 21:50 Classic Toons 22:00 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 23:05 Recess 23:20 Emperor’s New School 23:45 Lilo and Stitch 00:10 Recess GENERAL INTEREST BBC 3 20:00 Reading and Leeds Festival 21:15 Top Gear 22:15 The Real Hustle 22:45 Dance Xtra 23:15 Reading and Leeds Festival 00:30 Reading and Leeds Festival 02:10 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 03:10 Reading and Leeds Festival 04:10 The Real Hustle 04:40 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps BBC 4 20:00 Primate Primers 20:10 100 Years of Wildlife 22:10 Wildlife Special 23:10 Head On 01:05 Gorillas Revisited 02:05 Mark Lawson Talks to... 03:05 100 Years of Wildlife BBC prime 07:00 Little Robots 07:10 William’s Wish Wellingtons 07:15 Tweenies 07:35 Balamory 07:55 Big Cook Little Cook 08:15 The Roly Mo Show 08:30 William’s Wish Wellingtons 08:35 Teletubbies 09:00 Top Gear Xtra 10:00 Ray Mears: Extreme Survival 11:00 EastEnders 11:30 EastEnders 12:00 Mastermind 12:30 The Weakest Link 13:15 The Weakest Link 14:00 What Not to Wear 15:00 Wedding Stories 16:00 Amazon Abyss 16:30 Massive Nature 17:00 Dragons Alive 18:00 EastEnders 18:30 EastEnders 19:00 A Life Coach Less Ordinary 19:30 A Life Coach Less Ordinary 20:00 Cash in the Attic 20:30 Cash in the Attic 21:00 Mr Harvey Lights a Candle 22:30 The Catherine Tate Show 23:00 The Smoking Room 23:30 French and Saunders 00:00 EastEnders 00:30 EastEnders 01:00 Mr Harvey Lights a Candle 02:30 The Catherine Tate Show 03:00 The Smoking Room 03:30 French and Saunders 04:00 Dragons Alive 05:00 Cash in the Attic 05:30 Balamory 05:50 Tweenies 06:10 Big Cook Little Cook 06:30 Tikkabilla BBC world 07:00 BBC News 07:30 HARDtalk Extra 08:00 BBC News 08:30 Click 09:00 BBC News 09:15 Reporters 09:30 The Wedding Business 10:00 BBC News 10:30 Fast Track 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Outsiders 12:00 BBC News 12:30 Middle East Business Report 13:00 BBC News 13:30 This Week 14:00 BBC News 14:10 Another Pakistan 15:00 BBC News 15:15 Sport Today 15:30 Reporters 16:00 BBC News 16:30 Desi DNA 17:00 BBC News 17:30 The Wedding Business 18:00 BBC News 18:30 Final Score 19:00 BBC News 19:30 Outsiders 20:00 BBC News 20:15 Sport Today 20:30 HARDtalk Extra 21:00 BBC News 21:10 Another Pakistan 22:00 BBC News 22:30 Outsiders 23:00 BBC News 23:30 Desi DNA 00:00 BBC News 00:30 Middle East Business Report 01:00 BBC News 01:30 This Week 02:00 BBC News 02:30 The Wedding Business 03:00 BBC News 03:10 Another Pakistan 04:00 BBC News 04:30 Outsiders 05:00 BBC News 05:30 This Week 06:00 BBC News 06:30 Desi DNA BRAVO 09:00 Gamer’s Guide to... 10:00 King of Cars 11:00 World’s Most Amazing Videos 2 12:00 Walker, Texas Ranger 14:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 15:00 When Sport Goes Bad: Whacked Out Sports 16:00 In Your Face 17:00 Walker, Texas Ranger 19:00 When Sport Goes Bad: Whacked Out Sports 20:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 21:00 World’s Most Amazing Videos 2 22:00 Is That a Nail in Your Head? 23:00 World’s Craziest Police Chases 00:00 Dangerous Sex Games 02:00 Aqua Teen Hunger Force 03:00 Under Fire 2: Deadliest Police Shootouts 04:00 Arrested Development DISNEY 07:00 Lilo and Stitch 07:25 The Buzz on Maggie 07:50 Lizzie McGuire 08:15 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 08:40 That’s So Raven 09:05 American Dragon: Jake Long 09:30 Recess 09:55 The Road to High School Musical 10:00 Disney Channel Games Event Six: Hamster Ball Bowling 10:05 The Replacements 10:30 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 11:00 Hannah Mon- tana 11:30 Cory in The House 12:00 Johnny Tsunami 13:30 As The Bell Rings 13:35 Recess 14:00 American Dragon: Jake Long 14:25 The Replacements 14:50 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 15:15 Lizzie McGuire 15:35 Cory in The House 16:00 Hannah Montana 16:25 As The Bell Rings 16:30 As The Bell Rings 16:35 That’s So Raven 17:00 Johnny Kapahala: Back On Board 18:35 Recess 18:50 The Replacements 19:15 Kim Possible 19:40 Fillmore 20:05 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 20:30 Cory in The House 20:55 Lizzie McGuire 21:20 Lizzie McGuire 21:45 Phil of the Future 22:10 That’s So Raven 22:35 That’s So Raven 23:00 Recess 23:25 American Dragon: Jake Long 23:50 Kim Possible 00:15 The Proud Family 00:35 Brandy and Mr. Whiskers ITV 2 07:00 GMTV2 10:25 Emmerdale Omnibus 13:10 Coronation Street Omnibus 15:35 Holiday Showdown 16:40 Holidays Undercover 17:45 Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 18:45 Australian Princess 19:45 Planet’s Funniest Animals 20:10 Kasabian 20:40 Nanny 911 21:40 Xtra Factor 22:40 Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie III 23:40 Back to The Future 01:55 The X Factor 02:55 Xtra Factor 03:50 ITV Play 04:35 Emmerdale Omnibus ITV 3 07:00 Rob Roy 07:45 Savage Planet 08:10 Film File 08:20 McCloud 10:20 Murder Most Foul 10:55 Past Crimes 11:25 There’s Something About... 12:25 Poirot 13:35 Poirot 14:40 Poirot 15:50 Clue 17:45 Supersleuths 18:45 Jack Shepherd: Wycliffe and Me 18:50 Wycliffe 20:00 There’s Something About... 21:00 Supersleuths 22:00 Supersleuths 23:00 John Nettles: Inspector Barnaby and Me 23:05 Midsomer Murders 01:10 Clue 03:00 The Bill 04:00 The Bill 05:00 Teleshopping ITV 4 13:30 3rd Rock From The Sun 14:15 When Stunts Go Bad 15:05 Europe’s Greatest Stunts 15:35 Police, Camera, Action! 16:05 Police Patrol 16:30 Police, Camera, Action! 17:00 Cycling: Tour Of Ireland 18:30 Formula Four Stroke Powerboats 19:00 UFO - Best Evidence Ever Caught on Tape 20:00 Used Car Roadshow 21:00 Martial Law 22:00 The Frank Skinner Show 23:00 Spitting Image 23:30 24 Hours With... 00:00 Steve-O: The Early Years 01:00 History of the World - Part 1 02:50 Night of The Living Dead 04:30 The Larry Sanders Show 04:50 Film File 05:00 Teleshopping LIVING 09:00 Maury 09:55 The Fix 10:00 Melrose Place 11:00 The Golden Girls 12:00 Charmed 13:00 Top Chef 14:00 Girls of The Playboy Mansion 15:00 Will and Grace 16:00 The Jerry Springer Show 20:00 Britain’s Next Top Model 21:00 Nothing to Declare 22:00 Blood Ties 23:00 Criminal Minds 00:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 01:00 The Fabulous Baker Boys 03:10 Veronica Mars 04:00 Boston Legal 04:50 Increase Your House Price by Ten Grand 05:40 The Jerry Springer Show 06:30 Home Shopping PARAMOUNT comedy 07:00 QVC 10:00 Courting Alex 11:00 Two and a Half Men 12:00 Courting Alex 13:00 Two and a Half Men 14:00 Courting Alex 15:00 Two and a Half Men 16:00 Courting Alex 17:00 Two and a Half Men 18:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 19:00 King of Queens 20:00 Everybody Hates Chris 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Park Life 23:00 South Park 01:30 Two and a Half Men 02:30 South Park 04:00 Courting Alex 04:30 Linc’s 05:00 Courting Alex 06:00 Sir Leslie Quint A Life In Film 06:10 King of Queens SCI FI 07:00 Robot Wars 08:00 Robot Wars 09:00 Teleshopping 12:00 Psychic Detectives 12:25 Lightning: Fire from the Sky 14:15 Dark Storm 15:50 Descent 17:40 Solar Strike 19:30 Waterworld 22:00 Jurassic Park 00:30 Meltdown: Days Of Destruction 02:20 Dungeons and Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God 04:30 Psychic Detectives 05:00 The Outer Limits 06:00 The Outer Limits SKY one 07:00 Star Trek 08:00 Mission Implausible 09:00 Buffy The Vampire Slayer 10:00 Crash Test Dummies 11:00 Vroom Vroom 12:00 Brainiac 14:00 Star Trek 16:00 Brainiac 17:00 Relic Hunter 19:00 Futurama 20:00 The Simpsons 21:00 Lost 22:00 Bones 23:00 Cold Case 00:00 Road Wars 01:00 Final Days of Planet Earth 02:50 Star Trek: The Next Generation 04:30 Pop Years 05:20 Vroom Vroom 06:10 Taste UKTV gold 07:00 Baywatch 08:00 My Hero 08:40 My Hero 09:20 My Hero 10:00 Dallas 11:00 Dallas 12:00 Dallas 13:00 Keeping Up Appearances 13:40 Keeping Up Appearances 14:20 Keeping Up Appearances 15:00 Last of the Summer Wine 15:40 Last of the Summer Wine 16:20 Last of the Summer Wine 17:00 Doctor Who 18:00 One Foot in the Grave 18:40 One Foot in the Grave 19:20 One Foot in the Grave 20:00 My Family 20:40 My Family 21:20 My Family 22:00 Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit 00:10 The Long Riders 02:05 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 04:00 Charlie’s Angels 04:50 Charlie’s Angels UKTV people 10:00 Airport 10:30 Airport 11:00 Airport 11:30 Airport 12:00 Airport Miami Special 13:00 Sky Cops 14:00 Sky Cops 15:00 Airport 15:30 Airport 16:00 Airport 16:30 Airport 17:00 Airport Miami Special 18:00 Sky Cops 19:00 Sky Cops 20:00 Airport 20:30 Airport 21:00 Airport 21:30 Airport 22:00 Sky Cops 23:00 Traffic Cops 00:00 Rail Cops 00:30 Rail Cops 01:00 Rail Cops 01:30 Rail Cops 02:00 Traffic Cops 03:00 Rail Cops UKTV style 08:00 Changing Rooms 08:30 Changing Rooms 09:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - How Do They Do That? 10:00 Fantasy Homes By The Sea 11:00 Living in the Sun 12:00 Escape to the Country 13:00 DIY SOS 13:30 DIY SOS 14:00 Homes under the Hammer 15:00 Homes under the Hammer 16:00 Homes under the Hammer 17:00 Homes under the Hammer 18:00 Homes under the Hammer 19:00 Homes under the Hammer 20:00 Who Rules the Roost? 21:00 Bank of Mum and Dad 22:00 What Not to Wear 23:00 DIY SOS 23:30 DIY SOS 00:00 Escape to the Country 01:00 Homes under the Hammer 02:00 Living in the Sun 03:00 Passport to The Sun UKTV bright ideas 07:00 Gary Rhodes’ Local Food Hero 2006 08:00 Tanner Brothers 08:30 Deck Dates 09:00 Property Prophets 10:00 Our House 2 11:00 Antiques Roadshow 12:00 Antiques Roadshow 13:00 Gary Rhodes’ Local Food Hero 2006 14:00 Tanner Brothers 14:30 Deck Dates 15:00 Property Prophets 16:00 Our House 2 17:00 Antiques Roadshow 18:00 Antiques Roadshow UKTV drama 07:00 Howards’ Way 08:00 Secret Army 09:00 All Creatures Great and Small 10:00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 12:20 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 14:30 The Dick Emery Show 14:40 Keeping Up Appearances 15:20 Keeping Up Appearances 16:00 Keeping Up Appearances 16:40 Keeping Up Appearances 17:20 Keeping Up Appearances 18:00 Just Good Friends 18:40 As Time Goes By 19:20 Last of the Summer Wine 20:00 Keeping Up Appearances 20:40 Keeping Up Appearances 21:20 Keeping Up Appearances 22:00 Rebus 00:00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 01:00 Rebus 03:00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 03:50 Howards’ Way 04:40 Secret Army 05:30 All Creatures Great and Small 06:20 The District Nurse 30 TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 Sunday 26th August 2007 BBC 1 07:00 Breakfast 08:40 Match of The Day Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights, including Arsenal v Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium. West Ham and Wigan meet at Upton Park, and there’s much interest at the Stadium of Light, where Liverpool - and their host of summer signings worth over £50 million - take on Roy Keane’s resurgent Sunderland. 10:00 News 24 Sunday 11:00 Heaven and Earth with Gloria Hunniford 12:00 World Athletics Championships 13:30 BBC News and Weather 13:35 EastEnders 15:30 International Rugby Union: Wales v France 17:45 Murder, She Wrote 18:30 Songs of Praise 19:05 BBC News 19:30 Last of the Summer Wine 20:00 Child of Our Time 21:00 The Chase 22:00 Mountain 23:00 BBC News and Weather 23:20 Medium 00:00 The Relic 01:50 Mission Africa 02:20 Holby City 03:20 Child of Our Time 04:20 Vet Safari 04:50 How to Live Longer 05:35 Joins BBC News 24 BBC 2 ITV 1 London CHANNEL 4 FIVE E4 07:00 07:30 07:50 08:00 08:10 08:30 11:00 12:30 13:30 07:00 10:25 10:50 11:00 07:10 The Hoobs 08:00 Transworld Sport 08:50 Freesports on 4: Roxy Chicken Jam 09:20 The Avon Tyres British GT Championship 09:45 The O.C. Sandy and Kirsten legally adopt Ryan. The newest member of the Cohen clan ends up escorting Marissa to Cotillion, where Seth meets up with Anna Stern, a new student from Pittsburgh. At the festivities, Jimmy’s clients discover that he has been stealing their money and a fight breaks out. 10:45 Hollyoaks Omnibus 13:20 Friends 13:50 Big Brother’s Little Brother 14:50 Big Brother’s Diary Room Uncut 15:50 Smallville 16:50 The Simpsons 17:20 The Simpsons 17:50 Wife Swap 18:50 Come Dine with Me 20:00 Channel 4 News 20:15 Deal or No Deal 21:00 Big Brother: On The Couch 22:00 Big Brother 23:00 The Mean Machine 00:55 Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy! 02:00 Big Brother’s Diary Room Uncut 03:00 Big Brother Live 05:00 The Bernie Mac Show 05:25 Scrapheap Challenge 06:25 Countdown 07:00 07:10 07:20 07:25 07:40 07:50 07:00 15:55 17:00 17:35 18:05 19:00 19:55 Juno Beach D-Day Underwater 21:00 Ghost Ship 22:00 Megastructures 23:00 Megastructures 00:00 History’s Conspiracies 01:00 World’s Most Dangerous Drug 02:00 Megastructures s is Missing 15:45 17:15 18:40 19:10 20:00 21:00 22:00 23:30 00:15 01:00 02:30 03:00 Teletubbies Balamory Step Inside Batfink Legend of the Dragon Smile Something for the Weekend Countryfile World Athletics Championships 2007 Things to Come Tuck Everlasting Romantic family fantasy. A teenage girl meets her dream guy in the woods. To her surprise, he reveals that he is immortal - but when he offers her the chance to join him forever, she is not so sure. A Wild Winter’s Day Natural World Ultimate Wild Water Crisis on Jimmy’s Farm The Importance of Being Earnest Screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s comic masterpiece. Set in 1890s England, a comedy of mistaken identity ensues when two gentlemen friends use the same alias to pursue the women they love. Match of the Day 2 Heroes Reading and Leeds Festival World Athletics Championships Highlights World Athletics Championships 2007 12:00 12:30 12:40 12:45 16:05 17:05 18:05 19:05 19:30 19:45 20:00 20:30 21:00 22:00 00:00 00:15 01:20 01:45 02:15 02:40 04:35 05:30 06:30 GMTV Art Attack Pocoyo The Championship Matt Smith reviews yesterday’s action in the Coca-Cola Championship and Leagues One and Two, with extended highlights from St Mary’s stadium of Southampton against Stoke City. Commentary by Jon Champion and John Rawling with reports from Gabriel Clarke, Gary Bloom and Dave Beckett. Vicars’ Wives ITV News; Weather London Today F1: Grand Prix Live The X Factor Supersize Kids: Britain’s Tallest Teens Diana’s Children Call Me a Cabbie! London Tonight ITV News; Weather Emmerdale Coronation Street Britain’s Favourite View The Man Who Lost His Head ITV News; Weather F1: Grand Prix Highlights Vicars’ Wives Essentials of Faith Motorsport UK Up at the Villa The Jeremy Kyle Show ITV Nightscreen ITV Morning News 08:00 08:30 08:40 08:55 09:05 09:10 09:25 10:00 10:05 10:15 10:30 11:00 12:00 13:05 13:40 14:30 17:15 18:05 19:55 20:05 20:30 21:00 23:00 00:00 01:00 02:00 05:15 06:05 Thomas and Friends Make Way for Noddy When I Grow Up Oswald Peppa Pig Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs Hi-5 Little Lodgers Rupert Bear Make Way for Noddy Roobarb and Custard Too Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs The Book of Pooh Funky Town Peppa Pig Fifi and The Flowertots Jane and the Dragon How to be a Property Developer House Doctor: Inside and Out The Great Artists Great Ocean Adventure Football Italiano Megastructures Steel Five News and Sport Joey Joey It Could Happen to You Vanished Killer Instinct Disorderly Conduct Major League Baseball Now is the Time: Night of Combat - Kick Boxing Major League Soccer 20:55 21:30 22:00 23:00 00:05 Big Brother Live Big Brother’s Little Brother Friends Friends Ghost Whisperer What About Brian Big Brother’s Diary Room Uncut Friends Friends Smallville Big Brother’s Diary Room Uncut Big Brother Live Big Brother’s Diary Room 19.55 - 20.55 & 23.00 - 00.05 Viewers get an exclusive insight into exactly what’s been said in the most secret and revealing room in the house. In the infamous Diary Room chair, the housemates can grumble, gossip, cry and connive without anyone else in the house hearing or seeing them. This is where the housemates disclose their true feelings about each other and life in the house. DOCUMENTARIES DISCOVERY 09:00 Industrial Revelations 10:00 Time Team 11:00 Tony Robinson’s Romans 13:00 Custer’s Last Stand 14:00 Weapons of Combat 15:00 Egypt’s New Tomb Revealed 16:00 Greatest Military Clashes 16:30 Deadliest Catch Intro 16:35 Deadliest Catch 17:35 Deadliest Catch Intro 17:40 Deadliest Catch 18:40 Deadliest Catch Intro 18:45 Deadliest Catch 19:45 Deadliest Catch Intro 19:50 Deadliest Catch 20:50 Deadliest Catch Intro 20:55 Deadliest Catch 22:00 Worst Shark Attack Ever: Ocean Of Fear 00:00 Anatomy of a Shark Bite 01:00 Bull Shark: World’s Deadliest Shark With Nigel Marven 02:00 Torso in the Thames DISCOVERY real time 07:00 Day Ticket: Bury Hill 07:30 Ifish 08:00 Ifish 08:30 Screaming Reels 09:00 Screaming Reels 09:30 Total Fishing with Matt Hayes 10:30 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures 11:30 Trout ‘n’ About 12:00 Fly Fishing the World 13:00 Rubble Trouble 14:00 Challenge Tommy Walsh 15:00 Come Dine with Me 15:30 Come Dine with Me 16:00 Come Dine with Me 16:30 Come Dine with Me 17:00 Come Dine with Me 17:30 Come Dine with Me 18:00 Come Dine with Me 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 Come Dine with Me 20:00 B&B - The Best 20:30 B&B - The Best 21:00 World’s Heaviest Man 22:00 Miami Ink 23:00 Little People, Big World 23:30 Little People, Big World 00:00 My Shocking Story 01:00 B&B - The Best 01:30 B&B - The Best 02:00 World’s Heaviest Man 03:00 Miami Ink 04:00 Little People, Big World 04:25 Little People, Big World 04:50 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures 05:15 Trout ‘n’ About 05:40 Fly Fishing the World 06:05 Fly Fishing the World NATIONAL geographic 09:00 Ghost Ship 10:00 Quest for Noah’s Flood 11:00 King Tut’s Curse 12:00 Ultimate Tsunami 13:00 Ghost Ship 14:00 A Treasure Ship’s Tragedy 15:00 Return to Titanic 16:00 The Hunley 18:00 Death in The Dardanelles 19:00 Mary Celeste - Ghost Ship 20:00 HISTORY 10:00 Deep Sea Detectives 11:00 Decoding the Past 12:00 UFO Files 13:00 Brunel - The Little Giant 14:00 Deadliest Weapons 15:00 The Town That Time Forgot 16:00 Zulu: The True Story 17:00 Luftwaffe 46 18:00 Berlin Airlift 19:00 SS Republic: Sunken Gold 20:00 Vic Reeves’ Pirates 21:00 The Crimean War: A Most Desperate Undertaking 22:00 Sahara 00:00 SS Republic: Sunken Gold 01:00 The Crimean War: UK documentary 10:00 Animal Hospital 11:00 Amazon Abyss 13:30 Wildlife on One 14:00 Battle for the Amazon 15:00 Amazon Abyss 17:30 Wildlife on One 18:00 Battle for the Amazon 19:00 Amazon Abyss 21:30 Wildlife on One 22:00 Battle for the Amazon 23:00 Amazon Abyss 01:30 Wildlife on One 02:00 Battle for the Amazon 03:00 Genghis Khan 03:45 Radical Highs ANIMAL planet 08:00 Pet Rescue 08:30 Pet Rescue 09:00 Going Ape 09:30 Going Ape 10:00 Animal Precinct 11:00 Animal Precinct 12:00 Shauna’s Amazing Ani- mal Videos 12:30 Shauna’s Amazing Animal Videos 13:00 Monkey Business 13:30 Monkey Business 14:00 Pet Rescue 14:30 Pet Rescue 15:00 The Snake Buster 15:30 The Snake Buster 16:00 Dog Listener 16:30 Dog Listener 17:00 Animal Crackers 17:30 Animal Crackers 18:00 Wild Rescues 18:30 Wild Rescues 19:00 Top Dog 20:00 Lyndal’s Lifeline: World’s Busiest Wildlife Hospital 21:00 Gorilla, Gorilla 22:00 Rogue Predators 23:00 Big Cat Track 00:00 Animal Cops Houston: Guarding Angel 01:00 Animal Cops Houston: Courtroom Drama 02:00 Lyndal’s Lifeline: World’s Busiest Wildlife Hospital 03:00 Gorilla, Gorilla 04:00 Pet Rescue 04:30 Rogue Predators 05:20 Big Cat Track 06:10 Dog Listener SPORT SKY SPORTS 1 07:00 U Can Do It: Swimming A series aimed specifically at kids and young adults, designed to encourage them and show how to get involved in sporting activities. This week the focus is on swimming. 07:05 You’re On Sky Sports! 08:00 Football First: Match Choice 09:30 Football First: Match Choice 11:00 The Sunday Supplement 12:00 Goals On Sunday 14:00 Football League: Championship - Ipswich Town V Crystal Palace Ipswich Town take on Crystal Palace at Portman Road in the Championship. Three points and three goals separated these sides at the end of last season. 16:30 Ford Super Sunday: Manchester United V Tottenham Hotspur 19:30 Super Sunday - The Last Word 20:00 Spanish Football 23:00 Ford Football Special: Manchester United V Tottenham Hotspur 00:30 Super Sunday - The Last Word 01:00 Spanish Football SKY SPORTS 2 07:00 Rugby League: Challenge Cup Final 08:30 Golf Night 09:30 Golf Night 11:30 Golf Night 12:30 Rugby League: Challenge Cup Final 14:00 Seamaster Sailing 14:30 Cricket: Natwest Pro40 - Nottinghamshire V Gloucestershire Natwest Pro40 Nottinghamshire V Gloucestershire. Nottinghamshire challenge Gloucestershire at Trent Bridge in a Pro40 encounter. The Gladiators finished on top of Division Two last season, winning six of their eight games. 20:30 Wild Spirits 21:00 Golf Night 22:00 Golf Night: U.S Amateur Championship 2007 00:00 Golf Night Di Stewart presents a round-up of all the latest golf highlights, plus the latest news and scores from around the world. 01:00 U.S Superbikes 02:00 U.S Superbikes 03:00 Golf Night SKY SPORTS 3 08:00 Spanish Football A double-header from La Liga, where Barcelona will be determined to win the title back from Real Madrid. The sides finished level on points last year, but Real took the title by one win. 10:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Afterburn 11:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Heat 12:00 Seamaster Sailing 12:30 Racing News 13:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Presents.... 14:00 European Tour Golf: K.L.M Open 18:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Experience 19:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Presents.... 20:00 U.S Superbikes 21:00 U.S Superbikes 22:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Presents.... 23:00 Summerslam Preview 23:30 World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Afterburn 00:30 World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Heat 01:30 Summerslam Preview 02:00 Indy Car Racing EUROSPORT 08:30 FIA World Touring Car Championship 09:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 10:15 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 15:30 FIA World Touring Car Championship 16:45 Field Hockey: European Championship In Manchester, England 18:00 Cycling: Eneco Tour 18:45 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan Eurosport will also broadcast highlights from the competition. These highlights are broadcast around 17:00 and include the review of the day as well as interviews done by Eurosport’s on-site teams. 20:45 Rally 21:00 Motorsports 21:30 Champ Car 23:00 Volleyball: World Grand Prix In Ningbo, China 00:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 03:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan ESPN classic 07:30 US Open: Becker V Lendl 09:30 Man City V Man Utd, 03/04 10:00 FIFA WCQ 2002: Germany V England 11:00 Goals of The Season, 2000/2001 12:00 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 13:00 Challenge Cup 1985: Wigan V Hull 13:30 Challenge Cup 1994: Wigan V Leeds 14:00 Challenge Cup 96: Saints-Bradford 14:30 Challenge Cup 03: Bradford V Leeds 15:00 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand 15:30 Golf: The Open’s Best-Ever Shots 16:30 Golf: The Open 17:30 Strikers: Gary Lineker 18:00 Live: Gibson Guitar Champions Cup 21:00 Wimbledon Tennis Championships 22:00 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 23:00 Sporting Greats: Martin Offiah 23:30 Sporting Greats: Ellery Hanley 00:00 Boxing: The Rumble In The Jungle 01:30 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 02:30 1-5: As The Germans Saw It 03:00 Teleshopping 03:45 Teleshopping 04:30 Boxing: The Thriller In Manila 05:30 Shane Warne: Cricket Legend Ford Super Sunday Sky Sports 1 16.30 - 19.30 Manchester Utd v Tottenham Hotspurs Manchester United take on Tottenham at Old Trafford in a Premier League encounter. Both Teams are still looking for their first wins of the season and this being Man Utd’s worst start to season for 15 years also Spurs failed to score against the Red Devils last season. Can new signing Darren Bent make an impact here? TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 31 Sunday 26th August 2007 FILMS SKY MOVIES sci-fi/horror 07:00 11:00 12:25 15:15 17:00 18:25 20:15 22:00 01:00 03:05 To Be Announced Earth Minus Zero The Abyss The Fog Earth Minus Zero The Ring Two The Fog The Abyss Underworld: Evolution The Ring Two SKY MOVIES premier 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 15:00 16:45 18:45 21:00 23:30 01:10 Premiere Close Up Action and Thriller Close Up Wallace and Gromit Premiere Close Up Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School Just My Luck Last Holiday Tristan and Isolde Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Adrift ATL SKY MOVIES modern greats 07:30 09:30 11:30 13:15 15:15 17:15 19:20 21:00 23:00 00:50 01:20 The Beguiled The Conversation Rocky IV The Beguiled The Terminator Honkytonk Man Rocky IV The Conversation The Terminator Modern Greats Close Up Death Wish 4: The Crackdown 03:10 Year of The Dragon 05:35 Rocky IV SKY MOVIES indie 11:00 13:00 14:45 16:10 18:00 20:00 22:00 23:25 01:10 02:55 Hidden Love on the Run March of The Penguins Transamerica The Last Mitterand Hidden March of The Penguins Transamerica Bang The Last Mitterand The Pacifier Sky Movies Comedy 12.40 - 14.20 & 21.00 - 22.40 Assigned to protect the endangered children of an assassinated scientist working on a secret invention, Shane Wolfe is suddenly faced with juggling two incompatible jobs: fighting evil while keeping house. As he adds to his usual arsenal of wetsuits and weapons the new tools of juice boxes and a minivan, While drop zones, demolitions and destroying enemy targets come naturally to Shane, he has no idea what tough really is until he pits his courage against diapering, denmothering and driver’s education. He’s truly a S.E.A.L. out of water, but this tough-guy loner soon realizes that he’s also facing the most important mission of his life: becoming part of a family and bringing them all closer together. SKY MOVIES family 07:00 Romeo and Juliet Sealed With a Kiss 08:20 Curious George 09:50 Sky High 11:30 Madagascar 13:00 Cheaper By The Dozen 2 14:35 Sky High 16:15 Curious George 17:45 Madagascar 19:15 No Time For Nuts 19:25 Cheaper By The Dozen 2 21:00 Oliver Twist 23:10 The Karate Kid 01:20 MXP: Most Xtreme Primate 02:50 Oliver Twist 05:00 Family Close Up 05:30 The Princess and The Pea SKY MOVIES drama 08:05 09:35 11:15 13:00 15:10 17:10 18:45 19:15 21:00 23:10 01:00 03:10 04:45 06:20 Anna’s Dream Miss Lettie and Me Between Love And Honour Pride and Prejudice The Weather Man Between Love And Honour Drama Close Up The Story of An African Farm Pride and Prejudice The Weather Man Mississippi Burning The Robber Bride The Temptations Part II Anna’s Dream SKY MOVIES comedy 07:30 09:00 10:40 12:40 14:20 15:55 17:35 19:30 21:00 22:40 23:00 00:55 Rebound Best Man in Grass Creek She’s Having a Baby The Pacifier Woo Rebound You, Me And Dupree Best Man in Grass Creek The Pacifier The Top 10 Show You, Me And Dupree Woo 02:25 She’s Having a Baby 04:15 If Only 05:55 Best Man in Grass Creek Forrest Gump Film 4 22.00 - 00.35 The title character leads viewers through an accidental travelogue of American social history from the early 1960s through the present in this revisionist fable. Vietnam, desegregation, Watergate and more are presented from the perspective of Hanks’ lovably slow-witted character as he finds himself embroiled in situations he can’t quite comprehend. Academy Award Nominations: 13, including Best Picture, Best Actor--Tom Hanks, and Best Director. Academy Awards: 6, including Best Picture, Director, Actor and Adapted Screenplay. SKY MOVIES classics 07:40 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 09:20 12 Angry Men 11:20 True Grit 13:30 Rawhide 15:15 Zulu 17:35 Drama Close Up 18:05 12 Angry Men 20:00 Rawhide 21:30 Modern Greats Close Up 22:00 True Grit 00:10 Zulu 02:30 Irma La Douce 05:00 Limelight SKY MOVIES action/thriller 07:00 09:15 11:15 13:25 13:55 16:00 18:10 20:00 22:00 23:30 01:15 02:55 04:25 06:30 Sahara Broken Arrow The Saint Action and Thriller Close Up Sinbad and The Eye of The Tiger Sahara Broken Arrow The Saint Transporter 2 Payback Rapid Fire Transporter 2 Sinbad and The Eye of The Tiger Action and Thriller Close Up SKY MOVIES HD1 12:00 14:00 16:00 18:15 20:15 22:00 23:50 02:00 03:30 Fantastic Four Never Been Kissed In Her Shoes Fantastic Four The Man Never Been Kissed In Her Shoes The Man Comedy Close Up SKY MOVIES HD2 13:00 Just Like Heaven 14:45 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 16:45 Drama Close Up 17:15 See Arnold Run 19:00 Just Like Heaven 21:00 No Way Out 23:00 A History Of Violence 00:40 Commando 02:20 See Arnold Run 04:10 Fires of Kuwait FILM 4 14:00 15:40 17:45 19:40 22:00 00:35 02:55 Belle Starr Sirocco The Lady Vanishes Star Trek: Nemesis Forrest Gump Lady Vengeance The Grudge TCM 09:05 10:35 12:00 14:00 15:30 16:00 17:45 The Cabin in The Cotton Little Caesar Our Man in Havana At the Circus Adrian Wootton on Elvis Elvis On Tour Brando 20:35 22:00 23:55 01:45 03:35 Bad Day at Black Rock Dirty Harry Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Savage Messiah Teleshopping DISNEY cinemagic 07:00 House of Mouse 07:25 101 Dalmatians 07:50 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command 08:15 Aladdin 08:40 Disney’s Hercules 09:05 Emperor’s New School 09:30 Lilo and Stitch 09:50 Classic Toons 10:00 The Wild 11:20 Lilo and Stitch 12:00 101 Dalmatians 14:00 Honey, I Shrunk The Kids 15:35 Recess 16:00 The Wild 17:20 Lilo and Stitch 18:00 Lilo and Stitch 2 19:10 Lilo and Stitch 20:00 101 Dalmatians 22:00 Mulan II 23:20 Emperor’s New School 23:45 Lilo and Stitch 00:10 Recess 00:35 House of Mouse GENERAL INTEREST BBC 3 20:00 Reading and Leeds Festival 22:00 The Visit 22:30 Little Britain 23:00 Grownups 23:30 Reading and Leeds Festival 00:30 My Big Breasts and Me 01:30 The Visit 02:00 Grownups BBC 4 20:00 Once a Soldier 20:30 Proms on Four 2007 22:25 Meetings With Remarkable Trees 22:35 Look: A Hare’s Life 23:00 Wainwright’s Walks 23:30 A Pembrokeshire Farm 00:00 Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Frozen Ocean 00:55 Peter Scott: A Passion for Nature 01:55 The Great British Holiday BBC prime 10:00 Days That Shook the World 11:00 EastEnders 12:00 Amazon Abyss 12:30 Massive Nature 13:00 Dragons Alive 14:00 Cutting It 15:00 Coupling 16:00 A Life Coach Less Ordinary 17:00 Cash in the Attic 18:00 EastEnders 19:00 How to Be a Prince 21:00 Diana: A Tribute To The People’s Princess 22:00 Althorp after Diana 23:00 Boss Women 00:00 EastEnders 01:00 How to Be a Prince BBC world 09:00 BBC News 09:10 Another Pakistan 10:00 BBC News 10:30 Indian School 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Desi DNA 12:00 BBC News 12:30 This Week 13:00 BBC News 13:30 HARDtalk Extra 14:00 BBC News 14:30 The Wedding Business 15:00 BBC News 15:15 Sport Today 15:30 Outsiders 16:00 BBC News 16:05 Have Your Say 17:00 BBC News 17:30 Dateline London 18:00 BBC News 18:30 Reporters 19:00 BBC News 19:10 Another Pakistan 20:00 BBC News 20:15 Sport Today 20:30 Have Your Say 21:00 BBC News 21:30 The Wedding Business 22:00 BBC News 22:30 HARDtalk Extra 23:00 BBC News 23:30 Dateline London 00:00 BBC News 00:30 Reporters 01:00 BBC News 01:30 Have Your Say 02:00 BBC News BRAVO 09:00 Gamer’s Guide to... 10:00 King of Cars 11:00 World’s Most Amazing Videos 2 12:00 Gamer’s Guide to... 12:30 Gamer TV 13:00 World’s Most Powerful Explosions 14:00 Top 25 Outdoor Disasters 15:00 America’s Hardest Bounty Hunters 16:00 NYPD 24/7 17:00 World’s Most Powerful Explosions 18:00 World’s Most Amazing Videos 2 19:00 When Sport Goes Bad: Whacked Out Sports 20:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 21:00 Respect: Countdown to Ufc 74 22:00 UFC 74: Respect 01:00 The Real Football Factories International DISNEY 09:30 Recess 09:55 The Replacements 10:15 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 10:40 Cory in The House 11:00 Hannah Montana 11:25 As The Bell Rings 11:30 As The Bell Rings 11:35 That’s So Raven 12:00 Jump In! 13:20 Recess 13:35 Recess 14:05 The Replacements 14:30 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 15:00 Lizzie McGuire 15:30 Cory in The House 16:00 Hannah Montana 16:25 As The Bell Rings 16:30 As The Bell Rings 16:35 That’s So Raven 17:00 Recess: All Growed Down 18:00 Recess 18:25 Recess 18:50 The Replacements 19:15 Kim Possible 19:40 Fillmore 20:05 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 20:30 Cory in The House 20:55 Lizzie McGuire 21:20 Lizzie McGuire 21:45 Phil of the Future 22:10 That’s So Raven 22:35 That’s So Raven 23:00 Recess 23:25 American Dragon: Jake Long 23:50 Kim Possible ITV 2 10:35 The New Adventures of Superman 12:35 Emmerdale Omnibus 15:25 Back to The Future 17:35 Coronation Street Omnibus 20:00 The X Factor 21:00 Xtra Factor 22:00 Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie III 23:00 The If.Comedy Awards: A Comedy Cuts Special 00:00 American Pie ITV 3 10:00 Supersleuths 11:00 Supersleuths 12:00 Michael Gambon - Maigret And Me 12:05 Maigret 13:50 Agatha Christie’s Marple 15:50 Agatha Christie’s Garden: Murder and Mystery in Devon 16:50 Pam and Felicity: Being Rosemary and Thyme 17:55 Supersleuths 19:00 There’s Something About... 20:00 Death on The Nile 22:40 George Baker - Wexford and Me 22:45 Inspector Wexford 01:00 Supersleuths and a Half Men 18:00 Courting Alex 19:00 Two and a Half Men 20:00 Courting Alex 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 South Park 00:30 Park Life 03:40 ITV 4Emmerdale Omnibus 09:00 Teleshopping 12:00 Descent 13:50 Fire 15:20 Earthstorm 16:55 Magma: Volcanic Disaster 18:30 Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York 20:20 Taken 22:00 Medium 23:00 Threshold 00:00 Cerberus 14:30 Used Car Roadshow 15:30 Police, Camera, Action! 16:00 UFO 17:00 Cycling: Tour Of Ireland 18:30 Police, Camera, Action! 19:00 World Rally Championship 20:00 When Stunts Go Bad 21:00 Quatermass 22:00 The Frank Skinner Show 23:00 Night of The Living Dead 00:50 Fool’s Gold: The Story of the Brink’s-Mat Robbery LIVING 09:00 Maury 09:55 The Fix 10:00 Melrose Place 11:00 The Golden Girls 12:00 Charmed 13:00 Bewitched 14:00 Britain’s Next Top Model 15:00 Will and Grace 16:00 Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle 18:00 Million Dollar Mansions 19:00 Top Chef 20:00 Dirty Cows 21:00 The Real Housewives of Orange County 22:00 Ghost Whisperer 23:00 CSI 01:00 Most Haunted 02:00 The Real Housewives of Orange County PARAMOUNT comedy 07:00 QVC 10:00 Courting Alex 11:00 Two and a Half Men 12:00 Courting Alex 13:00 Two and a Half Men 14:00 Courting Alex 15:00 Two and a Half Men 16:00 Courting Alex 17:00 Two SCI FI SKY ONE 10:00 Futurama 11:00 Vroom Vroom 12:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Experience 13:00 Robot Wars 14:00 Star Trek 16:00 A Town Called Eureka 17:00 Lion Man 18:00 Brainiac: Science Abuse 19:00 The Simpsons 22:00 Diana - Her Last Ten Days In Pictures 23:00 Bones 00:00 Weeds UKTV gold 07:55 Dallas 10:55 Doctor Who 11:55 Only Fools and Horses 18:05 Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out 18:40 Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers 19:20 Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave 20:00 The Vicar of Dibley 22:00 Dalziel and Pascoe 23:55 Only Fools and Horses UKTV people 12:00 Airport Miami Special 13:00 Sky Cops 15:00 Airport 17:00 Airport Miami Special 18:00 Sky Cops 20:00 Airport 22:00 Sky Cops 23:00 Traffic Cops 00:00 Rail Cops 00:30 Rail Cops UKTV style 11:00 Living in the Sun 12:00 Escape to the Country 13:00 DIY SOS 14:00 Flog It! 15:00 Car Booty 16:00 The Reclaimers 17:00 Flog It! 18:00 Cash in the Attic 19:00 Flog It! 20:00 I Do, Let’s Eat 21:00 First Dance 22:00 Wedding Stories 23:00 DIY SOS 00:00 Escape to the Country 01:00 Flog It! 02:00 Living in the Sun UKTV bright ideas 09:00 Property Prophets 10:00 Our House 2 11:00 Antiques Roadshow 13:00 Gary Rhodes’ Local Food Hero 2006 14:00 Tanner Brothers 14:30 Deck Dates 15:00 Property Prophets 16:00 Our House 2 17:00 Antiques Roadshow 18:00 Antiques Roadshow UKTV drama 10:00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 14:25 The Dick Emery Show 14:40 Keeping Up Appearances 16:40 Keeping Up Appearances 17:20 Keeping Up Appearances 18:00 Pride and Prejudice 20:15 Pride and Prejudice 22:25 Pride and Prejudice 00:35 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 01:35 Sea of Souls 04:00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 04:50 Howards’ Way 05:40 Secret Army 06:30 Pickwick Papers We offer all modern Communication, including Broadband English Satellite TV installations. 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Rock singer Meatloaf makes a guest appearance. BBC News and Weather The One Show Test the Nation: The National IQ Test EastEnders Roxy has a shock when a familiar face returns. At the Fun Day there’s a fight, a father and son race and some very suspicious fish. Weekend ‘Nazis’ Test the Nation: The National IQ Test BBC News Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy Raising Arizona The Big Day The Tower How to Live Longer Joins BBC News 24 BBC 2 07:20 07:35 08:00 08:15 08:30 09:00 09:45 09:55 10:20 10:45 11:15 11:35 12:00 12:25 15:45 16:45 17:30 18:15 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 21:30 22:00 23:00 23:30 00:30 02:05 03:05 The Story Makers Balamory Nina and The Neurons Charlie and Lola In The Night Garden Do Something Different Mona The Vampire Bring It On Time Warp Trio Whizz Whizz Bang Bang Krypto the Superdog Even Stevens The Munsters World Athletics Championships 2007 Escape to the Country Flog It! Ready, Steady, Cook Identity Eggheads Kitchen Criminals World Athletics Championships Highlights Mastermind Host John Humphrys invites four contenders to answer questions in the infamous black chair. Tonight’s subjects are the Royle Family, the life and music of Dimitri Tiomkin, the Swann novels of R F Delderfield, and the life and career of Richard Nixon. University Challenge Hairy Bikers Ride Again Boys from the Brown Stuff Buzzcocks... Imagine a Mildly Amusing Panel Show TOTP2 Police Special The Damned European Hockey Championships 2007 World Athletics Championships 2007 ITV 1 CHANNEL 4 07:00 10:25 11:30 13:30 14:15 07:10 08:00 09:00 10:00 10:55 11:30 12:00 13:05 14:25 16:30 17:15 18:00 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:15 14:45 15:15 16:15 16:30 18:00 19:00 19:25 19:40 20:00 20:30 21:00 21:30 22:00 23:00 23:30 23:45 01:50 05:10 06:00 06:30 GMTV The Jeremy Kyle Show Murder on the Orient Express The Unforgettable ITV Lunchtime News and Weather Dale’s Supermarket Sweep 60 Minute Makeover Creature Comforts The Flintstones That Antony Cotton Show You’ve Been Framed! London Tonight ITV Evening News; Weather Emmerdale Coronation Street Grimebusters Coronation Street Little Devil Hollywood Lives ITV News; Weather There’s Something About Mary Hilarious slapstick comedy about a man so tormented by memories of a missed high school date with a beautiful girl that he hires a detective to trace her several years later. He is convinced that he missed out on his only chance for love, but when the detective locates her, he himself is smitten and soon proves to be a ruthless and unscrupulous rival in love. ITV Play Vanessa’s Real Lives ITV Nightscreen ITV Morning News 22:00 23:00 00:05 00:40 02:40 05:00 05:25 05:30 06:00 06:55 The Hoobs Big Brother’s Little Brother Big Brother Beauty and the Geek Friends Friends Popworld The Rugrats Movie Planet of The Apes Countdown Deal or No Deal A Place In The Sun The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Congo Frank Marshall’s all-outaction film stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Tim Curry and Ernie Hudson as a disparate group who set out on safari into the heart of the Congo. Each have their different reasons for setting out into the unknown. But having survived volcanoes and hungry hippo attacks, nothing could have prepared them for the greatest danger: a troop of intelligent killer apes who, as one critic wrote, “...make King Kong look like the Jolly Green Giant”. Time Team Special Big Brother TV Heaven, Telly Hell Festival Big Brother Live The Insider 3 Minute Wonder The Avon Tyres British GT Championship FIVB Beach Volleyball Inuk FIVE 07:00 07:10 07:25 07:35 07:45 07:50 08:05 08:20 08:30 08:45 09:00 09:15 09:25 09:40 09:50 10:00 10:30 11:30 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:30 18:30 18:40 20:10 20:15 21:00 22:00 00:05 02:35 03:25 04:15 05:00 06:10 Thomas and Friends Make Way for Noddy Oswald Peppa Pig Funky Valley Franny’s Feet Little Princess The Beeps The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky Make Way for Noddy Fifi and The Flowertots Peppa Pig Thomas and Friends Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends Ebb and Flo House Doctor Doctor Doctor The Trisha Goddard Show five News HouseBusters Dawson’s Creek American drama series about four teenagers in a Boston suburb. Pacey and Joey enter a beauty pageant. Ben-Hur five News 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up five News Update Cricket on Five Britain’s Strongest Man Anger Management Chinatown NASCAR Nextel Cup US PGA Golf: The Barclays Boxing USA Major League Soccer French Football E4 07:00 Big Brother Live 10:55 Big Brother’s Diary Room Uncut 11:55 Big Brother 12:55 Smallville 13:50 Smallville 14:45 Smallville 15:35 Smallville 16:30 Smallville 17:25 Hollyoaks 17:55 Friends 18:25 Friends 18:55 Big Brother 20:00 Hollyoaks 20:30 Big Brother’s Little Brother 21:00 Friends 21:30 Friends 22:00 Big Brother: On The Couch 23:00 Just Married 00:55 Big Brother Live Just Married 23.00 - 00.55 Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy are Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney, a chalk-and-cheese couple who fall in love and marry. Now, all they need for the union to work is to survive both families who disapprove of the match, deal with the well-meaning friends who meddle too much and, on their honeymoon, suffer a selection of Europe’s worst accommodation. DOCUMENTARIES DISCOVERY 07:00 Time Team 08:00 Mythbusters 09:00 How It’s Made 10:00 How Do They Do It? 10:30 Deadliest Catch Intro 10:35 Deadliest Catch 11:35 Deadliest Catch Intro 11:40 Deadliest Catch 12:40 Deadliest Catch Intro 12:45 Deadliest Catch 13:45 Deadliest Catch Intro 13:50 Deadliest Catch 14:50 Deadliest Catch Intro 14:55 Deadliest Catch 15:55 Deadliest Catch Intro 16:00 Deadliest Catch Intro 16:05 Deadliest Catch 17:05 Deadliest Catch Intro 17:10 Deadliest Catch 18:10 Deadliest Catch Intro 18:15 Deadliest Catch 19:15 Deadliest Catch Intro 19:20 Deadliest Catch 20:20 Deadliest Catch Intro 20:25 Deadliest Catch 21:25 Deadliest Catch Intro 21:30 How It’s Made 22:00 American Chopper 00:00 Crime Scene USA 01:00 The F.B.I. Files 02:00 Behind The Crime 03:00 Forensic Detectives 04:00 American Chopper 05:40 Man Made Marvels: Seoul Searching 06:30 How It’s Made DISCOVERY real time 07:00 Grand Designs 11:00 Property Ladder Revisited 12:00 Property Ladder Revisited 13:00 Property Ladder Revisited 14:00 Property Ladder Revisited 15:00 Relocation, Relocation Updates 16:00 Relocation, Relocation Updates 17:00 Relocation, Relocation Updates 18:00 Escape to River Cottage 21:00 Location, Location, Location 21:30 Build, Buy or Restore Abroad 22:00 B&B The Best 22:30 B&B - The Best 23:00 Little People, Big World 23:30 Little People, Big World 00:00 Wheeler Dealers 00:30 Wheeler Dealers 01:00 American Hotrod 02:00 A Racing Car is Born 02:30 B&B - The Best 03:00 B&B - The Best 03:30 Little People, Big World 04:00 Little People, Big World 04:25 Escape to River Cottage 04:50 Escape to River Cottage 05:15 Joy of Painting 05:40 Joy of Painting 06:05 Barn Free 06:30 Getting Afloat NATIONAL geographic 09:00 Warplanes 10:00 Warplanes 11:00 Warplanes 12:00 Warplanes 13:00 Megastructures 14:00 War Machines 15:00 Ultimate Sub 16:00 Megastructures 17:00 War Machines 18:00 Megafactories 19:00 Supercarrier 20:00 War Machines 21:00 Air Crash Investigation 22:00 Situation Critical 23:00 Situation Critical 00:00 Situation Critical 01:00 Situation Critical 02:00 Situation Critical HISTORY channel 09:00 Landscape Mysteries 09:30 Hidden House History 10:00 The Crimean War: A Most Desperate Undertaking 11:00 Sahara 13:00 Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet 14:00 Dogfights 15:00 The Last Days of World War II 16:00 Artillery Games 17:00 The SS 18:00 The Last Days of World War II 19:00 Dogfights 20:00 Vic Reeves’ Pirates 20:30 Vic Reeves’ Pirates 21:00 The Dead Sea Scrolls 22:00 Giganto: The Real King Kong 23:00 Russia’s Modern Mummies 00:00 Crime Stories 01:00 The SS 02:00 Landscape Mysteries 02:30 Hidden House History UKTV documentary 10:00 Extreme Lives 10:55 World’s Best Places To See 11:00 Planet Earth 12:00 Planet Earth 13:00 Wild Caribbean 14:00 Wild Caribbean 15:00 Wild Caribbean 16:00 Wild Caribbean 17:00 Wild Caribbean 18:00 Wild Caribbean 19:00 Wild Caribbean 20:00 Wild Caribbean 21:00 Planet Earth 22:00 Planet Earth 23:00 Wild Caribbean 00:00 Wild Caribbean 01:00 Wild Caribbean 02:00 Wild Caribbean 03:00 Extreme Lives 03:40 World’s Best Places To See 03:45 Radical Highs ANIMAL planet 07:00 Animal Cops Phoenix 08:00 Crocodile Hunter 09:00 Monkey Business 09:30 Animal Crackers 10:00 Shauna’s Amazing Animal Videos 10:30 Wildlife SOS 18:00 Animal Cops Houston 19:00 Top Dog 20:00 Monkey Business 20:30 Wildlife SOS 21:00 A Stable Life 21:30 Pet Rescue 22:00 Baby Panda’s First Year 23:00 Animal Cops Phoenix 00:00 Wildlife SOS 00:30 Monkey Business 01:00 Wild Rescues 01:30 Pet Rescue 02:00 Animal Cops Houston 03:00 Animal Cops Phoenix 04:00 Wildlife SOS 04:30 Monkey Business 04:55 Pet Rescue 05:20 Top Dog 06:10 Baby Panda’s First Year SPORT SKY SPORTS 1 07:30 Seamaster Sailing 08:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Bottom Line 09:00 Ford Football Special: Manchester United V Tottenham Hotspur 10:30 Super Sunday - The Last Word 11:00 International Cricket: Natwest Series - England V India 3rd Odi England take on India at Edgbaston for the third ODI of the series. The last time the sides met here was during the 1999 World Cup. India won by 63 runs to progress to the Super Six stage. 19:30 Pioneers of Cricket 20:00 Moto+ 20:30 Monday Night Live: Elite League - Coventry V Lakeside 22:30 Big League Weekend 2 00:00 Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 01:00 International Cricket: Natwest Series - England V India 3rd Odi 02:30 Big League Weekend 2 04:00 Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 05:00 International Cricket: Natwest Series - England V India SKY SPORTS 2 07:00 07:30 08:00 08:30 09:30 11:30 12:30 14:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 01:00 Aerobics Oz Style Ocean Aerobics Oz Style Golf Night Golf Night Golf Night Di Stewart presents a round-up of all the latest golf highlights, plus the latest news and scores from around the world. Spanish Football Ford Football Special: Manchester United V Tottenham Hotspur Super Sunday - The Last Word Andy Gray has the final word on the weekend’s Premiership games with the help of his advanced studio technology. This programme will be shown in High Definition on Sky Sports HD1 Seamaster Sailing U.S. Open Tennis U.S. Open Tennis SKY SPORTS 3 09:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 15:00 17:00 18:00 20:00 21:30 00:00 01:00 02:00 03:00 Indy Car Racing Seamaster Sailing Aerobics Oz Style Racing News Ocean Seamaster Sailing Golf Night Golf Night Golf Night World Wrestling Entertainment Raw Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler present another week of hard-hitting wrestling action featuring musclebound stars such as Triple H, John Cena, Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels. Show Jumping: Spruce Meadows - C.N Performance Grand Prix World Motor Sports World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Afterburn ECW Wrestling World Wrestling Entertainment Heat World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Raw EUROSPORT 08:30 Motorsports 09:00 GP2 The GP2 Series’ philosophy is to be the breeding ground of Formula One, preparing its drivers to shine a few years later in the most prestigious racing series. It took over in 2005 from the now defunct Formula 3000 International Championship. 09:30 FIA World Touring Car Championship 10:30 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 12:30 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 15:30 Cycling: Eneco Tour 16:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 17:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 18:00 Football: Eurogoals 18:30 Tennis: Us Open In New York 01:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 03:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 05:15 Tennis: Us Open In New York ESPN classic 07:00 Duels: Thompson V Hingsen 08:00 RWC 2003: England V South Africa 09:00 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand 09:30 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand 10:00 Duels: Thompson V Hingsen 11:00 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 12:00 Sporting Greats: Martin Offiah 12:30 Teleshopping 14:00 RWC 2003: England V South Africa 15:00 Goals of The Season, 2001/2002 16:00 Cricket: England V Australia 16:30 Cricket: England V Australia 17:00 Duels: Thompson V Hingsen 18:00 RWC 2003: England V South Africa 19:00 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand 19:30 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand 20:00 MLS: Beckham’s Galaxy V Colorado 21:00 Cricket: England V India 21:30 Cricket: England V India 22:00 RWC 2003: England V South Africa 23:00 Goals of The Season, 2002/2003 00:00 MLS: Beckham’s Galaxy V Colorado 01:00 Strikers: Cyrille Regis 01:30 Leeds V West Brom 02:00 Goals of The Season Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy BBC 1 23.25 - 01.00 Knockabout comedy set in the sexist world of 1970s newscasting. Ron Burgundy, San Diego’s top-rated anchorman, reigns supreme in the all-male world of television news until the arrival of an ambitious female reporter upsets the status quo. When she steps in to present the programme in Ron’s absence, an uncivil war breaks out in the newsroom. TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 33 Monday 27th August 2007 FILMS SKY MOVIES sci-fi & horror 07:00 To Be Announced 11:00 Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape 12:50 King Kong Escapes 14:35 Slipstream 16:25 Alien: Resurrection 18:25 Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape 20:15 Slipstream 22:00 Alien: Resurrection 23:50 The Hills Have Eyes 01:40 Pet Sematary 03:20 King Kong Escapes SKY MOVIES premier 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 Family Close Up Premiere Close Up Action and Thriller Close Up Comedy Close Up Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School 15:00 Just My Luck 16:45 Last Holiday 18:45 Tristan and Isolde 21:00 Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 23:30 Adrift 01:10 ATL SKY MOVIES modern greats 07:20 09:05 11:30 13:20 15:10 17:00 18:40 20:30 21:00 23:00 02:00 04:00 06:00 Manhattan The Great Gatsby Rocky V Annie Hall Manhattan Tom Horn Rocky V Modern Greats Close Up Annie Hall The Godfather True Romance To Live and Die in L.A. Rocky V SKY MOVIES indie 11:00 12:45 13:45 16:10 Pecker Space Station The Portrait of a Lady The Ice Storm Ice Age: The Meltdown Sky Movies Family 12.15 - 13.50 & 17.25 - 19.00 Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel known as Scrat are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is, until he finds Ellie, Their only problems: They can’t stand each other--and Ellie somehow thinks she’s a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum “brothers”-- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters. Manny, Sid and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So our three heroes, along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most unlikely family-in any “Age”-- as they embark on a mission across an ever-changing, increasingly dangerous landscape towards their salvation. 18:05 Pecker 19:35 The Portrait of a Lady 22:00 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession 00:05 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 01:50 The Libertine 03:55 Space Station SKY MOVIES family 07:00 The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers 08:30 The Perfect Man 10:15 Wallace and Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit 11:45 Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - Special 12:15 Ice Age: The Meltdown 13:50 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 15:45 Wallace and Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit 17:15 No Time For Nuts 17:25 Ice Age: The Meltdown 19:00 The Pink Panther 20:45 Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy - Behind The Scenes 21:00 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 23:00 The Pink Panther 00:35 The Perfect Man 02:20 Stay Tuned 03:55 Frog and Wombat 05:30 The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers SKY MOVIES drama 07:55 09:50 11:35 13:20 15:20 17:20 19:00 21:00 23:00 00:45 02:55 04:50 06:30 Redemption Of The Ghost Role Of A Lifetime A Month of Sundays Washington Square Role Of A Lifetime A Month of Sundays Washington Square Dark Water Proof Nil By Mouth The Boxer Piccadilly Jim Role Of A Lifetime The Pink Panther SKY MOVIES comedy 07:25 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar 09:15 Kinky Boots 11:05 Theodore Rex 12:40 Straight Talk 14:15 Harold and Kumar Get The Munchies 15:45 A Lot like Love 17:35 Theodore Rex 19:10 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar 21:00 Harold and Kumar Get The Munchies 22:30 Comedy Close Up 23:00 This Year’s Love 00:55 A Lot like Love 02:45 Kinky Boots 04:35 We’re No Angels 06:25 Straight Talk SKY MOVIES classics 07:30 09:20 10:50 12:50 14:50 16:40 18:15 20:00 22:00 23:55 02:00 03:55 05:55 Niagara The Men The Italian Job The Poseidon Adventure Billion Dollar Brain Niagara The Italian Job The Poseidon Adventure Bullitt A Foreign Affair Billion Dollar Brain Sunday, Bloody Sunday The Men SKY MOVIES action/thriller 07:00 08:45 10:45 12:30 14:35 16:35 18:20 20:25 22:00 23:45 01:55 03:45 05:25 Down’ n Dirty Red Dawn The Phantom Speed 2: Cruise Control Red Dawn The Phantom Speed 2: Cruise Control Ransom The Dukes of Hazzard Flesh + Blood Down’ n Dirty City Of Industry Ransom Sky Movies family 19.00 - 20.45 & 23.00 - 00.35 A world-famous soccer coach has been murdered and his priceless, legendary ring has been stolen--a ring set with the stunning diamond known as the “Pink Panther.” The French government needs a master detective to solve the crime and recover the gem--but he’s not available, so they recruit none other than Inspector Jacques Clouseau. A stunning pop star, a soccer player, a Chinese assassin circles--but who committed the crime? And can anyone solve the case? SKY MOVIES HD1 12:00 13:40 15:30 18:25 20:10 22:00 01:10 03:30 Doctor Dolittle 3 The Shaggy Dog Saving Private Ryan Doctor Dolittle 3 The Shaggy Dog Saving Private Ryan Goal! 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Teen sensation Vanessa Hudgens discusses starring in the sequel of the hit Disney movie, High School Musical, and Green Goddess Diana Moran talks about her life as a fitness guru. Including 11.10 ITV News Headlines. 11.15 Local News and Weather. 13:30 Dale’s Supermarket Sweep 14:00 Have I Been Here Before 14:30 ITV Lunchtime News 15:00 60 Minute Makeover 16:00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 17:00 HeartBeat 18:00 That Antony Cotton Show 19:00 London Tonight 19:30 ITV Evening News; Weather 20:00 Emmerdale Billy’s arrested when he steals a car to go after Diane. Debbie, Chas and Lexi decide to nick some jewellery from Rodney’s sale. Kelly refuses Jimmy’s offer to join the family business. 20:30 Addicted to the Internet 21:00 UEFA Champions League Live: Liverpool v Toulouse 23:05 Shaun Williamson’s Tough Gig 23:30 ITV News; Weather 00:00 Regional Weather 00:05 Bouncers 00:40 Crimefighters 01:05 ITV Play 05:10 Kaiser Chiefs in Profile 05:35 Rob Thomas in Profile 06:00 ITV Nightscreen 06:30 ITV Morning News 07:10 07:35 08:00 08:25 08:55 09:55 10:55 11:25 12:00 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 16:30 17:15 18:00 19:00 19:30 20:00 07:20 07:25 07:35 07:45 07:50 08:05 08:20 08:30 07:00 Big Brother Live 13:25 Big Brother’s Little Brother Join Dermot O’Leary and guests from the Big Brother nerve centre for the ultimate fanzine show. With all the latest breaking news as it happens, exclusive behind-the-scenes access and insider interviews with the housemates’ relatives and friends, this show is an absolute must for all Big Brother fans. 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Paolo returns from Rome and Ross tells Chandler about the kiss and convinces him to confront his mother about his feelings towards her. 18:55 Big Brother 20:00 Hollyoaks 20:30 Big Brother’s Little Brother 21:00 Friends 22:00 What About Brian 23:00 Big Brother’s Big Mouth 23:30 Fonejacker 00:00 Big Brother Live 16:20 16:25 16:50 17:05 17:30 18:00 18:25 18:35 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 22:00 23:00 23:35 00:05 01:40 02:40 03:40 04:10 04:55 Breakfast To Buy or Not to Buy Countryfile Summer Diaries Escape to the Country Bargain Hunt Cash in the Attic BBC News and Weather Regional News and Weather Neighbours Doctors All Saints Medical drama series set in a busy Australian hospital, following the lives of the nursing staff. A young ballet dancer becomes violent on the ward and Paula wants to use restraints, but is overruled by Nelson. Jared’s behaviour causes concern. Scott’s mother is admitted, but he believes she is faking. 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British aces Scott Nicholls and Chris Harris ride for the Bees, but the Hammers have Swedish sensation Andreas Jonsson. 12:30 International Cricket: Natwest Series - England V India 3rd Odi 14:00 Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 15:00 Big League Weekend 2 16:30 Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 17:30 Cricket: Natwest Pro40 - Somerset V Leicestershire 20:30 Gillette Soccer Special 23:00 Revista de la Liga 00:00 Hyundai A League 00:30 Foot Brazil 01:00 Carling Cup Football: Carling Cup Rnd 2 Match TBA 02:30 Revista de la Liga 03:30 Hyundai A League 04:00 Foot Brazil 04:30 The Dogs SKY SPORTS 2 08:00 Aerobics Oz Style 08:30 Ocean Action, news and features from the beach in an in-depth look at the world of the wave and those who love to ride them. 09:00 International Cricket: Natwest Series - England V India 3rd Odi 10:30 World Motor Sport An essential guide to who is racing where, when and how, taking followers of motor sport to the heart of the race world. 13:00 British Superbikes 16:00 Speedway 18:00 Ladies European Tour Golf: Ladies Norwegian Masters 19:00 Foot Brazil 19:30 Revista de la Liga 20:30 Live Carling Cup Football: Carling Cup Rnd 2 Match TBA 23:00 To Be Announced 00:00 NFL: Total Access 01:00 Challenge Series Golf: Scottish Challenge/Rolex Trophy 01:30 Ladies European Tour Golf: Ladies Norwegian Masters 02:30 European Seniors Tour Golf: European Seniors - English SKY SPORTS 3 10:00 Ocean 10:30 Show Jumping: Spruce Meadows - C.N Performance Grand Prix 12:00 Aerobics Oz Style 12:30 Racing News Take advantage of top tips from the definitive guide to today’s racing programme. 13:00 Ocean 13:30 Wild Spirits 14:00 NFL: Total Access 15:00 Ocean 15:30 Show Jumping: Spruce Meadows - C.N Performance Grand Prix 17:00 NFL: Total Access 18:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Smackdown 20:00 Texaco Havoline Ginetta Championship 20:30 Cricket: Natwest Pro40 - Somerset V Leicestershire 23:00 European Seniors Tour Golf: European Seniors - English Seniors Open 00:00 World Pool Masters 01:00 The Dogs 01:30 Sports Unlimited 02:30 Texaco Havoline Ginetta Championship 03:00 World Pool Masters EUROSPORT 07:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 10:00 Football: Eurogoals The weekly European football magazine including highlights of the best European Leagues: Germany, France, Portugal, The Netherlands, the Scottish derbies etc... 10:30 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 12:30 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 15:30 Cycling: Eneco Tour 16:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 17:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 18:00 Football: Eurogoals Flash 18:15 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 19:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 01:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 03:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 06:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York ESPN classic 07:00 Duels: Carl Lewis V Mike Powell 08:00 RWC 2003: England V Wales 09:00 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand 09:30 Teleshopping 10:15 Teleshopping 11:00 Goals of The Season, 2002/2003 12:00 MLS: Beckham’s Galaxy V Colorado 13:00 Strikers: Cyrille Regis 13:30 Leeds V West Brom 14:00 RWC 2003: England V Wales 15:00 Goals of The Season, 2002/2003 16:00 Cricket: England V Australia 16:30 Cricket: England V Australia 17:00 Duels: Carl Lewis V Mike Powell 18:00 RWC 2003: England V Wales 19:00 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand 19:30 Rugby League: Gb V Australia 20:00 Goals of The Season, 2002/2003 21:00 Cricket: England V India 21:30 Cricket: England V India 22:00 RWC 2003: England V Wales 23:00 Goals of The Season, 2003/2004 00:00 Mike Tyson 01:30 Derby County V Leeds 02:00 Goals of The Season, 2003/2004 03:00 Mike Tyson 04:30 Teleshopping 05:15 Teleshopping 06:00 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand UEFA Champions League ITV 21.00 - 23.05 Liverpool v Toulouse Steve Rider presents live coverage from Anfield of the Champions League third qualifying round, second-leg game between Liverpool and French club Toulouse. The Reds take a 1-0 lead into the tie against Toulouse who have never qualified for the Champions League before. TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 35 Tuesday 28th August 2007 FILMS SKY MOVIES sci fi & horror 11:00 12:45 14:45 16:25 18:15 20:15 22:00 23:45 01:25 03:10 The Cave The Arrival Silent Running The Cave The Arrival Silent Running Event Horizon Man-Thing Altered Event Horizon SKY MOVIES premier 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 15:00 16:45 18:45 21:00 23:30 01:10 Premiere Close Up Wallace and Gromit Action and Thriller Close Up Family Close Up Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School Just My Luck Last Holiday Tristan and Isolde Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Adrift ATL SKY MOVIES modern greats 07:50 Witness 09:50 The Last Temptation of Christ 12:35 14:15 16:20 19:05 21:00 22:40 00:45 02:30 05:30 Pretty in Pink On Golden Pond The Last Temptation of Christ Witness Pretty in Pink Salvador Across 110th Street Casino On Golden Pond SKY MOVIES indie 11:00 12:45 13:15 15:00 16:45 18:30 20:15 22:00 23:40 01:25 03:45 04:30 El Perro Drama Close Up What’s Bugging Seth? The Consequences of Love L’enfant El Perro What’s Bugging Seth? Blood Simple L’enfant Le Bossu Into the Deep Drama Close Up SKY MOVIES family 07:00 08:45 10:30 11:00 12:40 Arizona Summer Herbie: Fully Loaded Family Close Up Nanny Mcphee Corpse Bride Final Destination 3 Sky Movies HD2 14.45 -16.45 & 21.00 - 22.35 When a high school student fails to stop the fated roller coaster ride that she predicted would cause the deaths of several of her friends, she teams with a schoolmate, in a race against time to prevent the Grim Reaper from revisiting the survivors of the first tragedy 14:00 15:40 17:30 19:10 19:40 21:00 22:40 00:25 02:00 02:30 Mousehunt Herbie: Fully Loaded Nanny Mcphee Family Close Up Corpse Bride Mousehunt Rookie of the Year Jett Jackson: The Movie The Making of... Madagascar Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister 04:05 Me and the Kid 05:45 Balto SKY MOVIES drama 08:15 10:05 12:25 14:20 16:20 18:40 19:10 21:00 23:00 01:20 03:20 05:05 The Rosa Parks Story Evita Little Man Tate The Edge Evita Drama Close Up Little Man Tate Ask The Dust Brokeback Mountain The Edge Obsessed Little Man Tate SKY MOVIES comedy 08:00 09:40 11:15 12:55 14:35 16:10 17:45 19:25 21:00 22:40 23:00 00:40 02:20 03:55 05:40 Wag The Dog Teen Wolf Project: Alf Fun With Dick and Jane Home Team Project: Alf Just Friends Home Team Fun With Dick and Jane The Top 10 Show Just Friends Wag The Dog Crazy People Bad Santa Teen Wolf SKY MOVIES classics 07:30 09:20 12:10 13:40 Shadow of a Doubt The Big Country The Disorderly Orderly Rebecca 15:50 17:40 20:30 22:00 00:15 02:15 04:10 05:55 Shadow of a Doubt The Big Country The Disorderly Orderly Rebecca The Desperate Hours Rio Grande The Party Look Back In Anger SKY MOVIES action/thriller 07:15 09:00 10:45 12:40 14:35 16:20 18:15 20:00 22:00 23:35 01:30 03:00 05:35 Volcano: Fire on the Mountain The Haunting of Helen Walker Shadow Conspiracy xXx2: The Next Level Dragon Dynasty Revolver Shadow Conspiracy xXx2: The Next Level Dragon Dynasty Revolver Sexual Indiscretion Sleepers Volcano: Fire on the Mountain SKY MOVIES HD1 12:00 13:55 16:35 18:20 20:15 22:00 00:25 00:55 03:30 Because of Winn-Dixie Amistad Gone Fishin’ Because of Winn-Dixie Bring It on: All Or Nothing Elizabethtown Premiere Close Up Amistad Comedy Close Up SKY MOVIES HD2 13:00 14:45 16:45 18:45 19:15 21:00 22:35 23:00 00:50 02:55 Unstrung Heroes Final Destination 3 Bee Season Action and Thriller Close Up Unstrung Heroes Final Destination 3 The Top 10 Show Lucky Number Slevin Gattaca Bee Season FILM 4 14:00 Three Came Home 16:00 Sea of Sand 17:55 The Way West Lucky Number Slevin Sky Movies HD2 23.00 - 00.50 Set in New York City, a case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) in the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city’s most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). 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BBC News and Weather Regional News Programmes The One Show Super Vets Rogue Traders Silent Witness BBC News The National Lottery Draws Outnumbered My Boss’s Daughter Ganges India with Sanjeev Bhaskar Indian Food Made Easy How to Live Longer BBC 2 07:00 07:20 07:35 08:00 08:15 08:30 09:00 09:45 09:55 10:20 10:45 11:15 11:35 12:00 15:45 16:45 17:30 18:15 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 22:00 22:45 23:00 23:30 00:20 02:35 03:00 03:20 Fimbles The Story Makers Balamory Nina and The Neurons Charlie and Lola In The Night Garden Do Something Different Mona The Vampire Bring It On Time Warp Trio Whizz Whizz Bang Bang Krypto the Superdog Even Stevens World Athletics Championships 2007 Escape to the Country Flog It! Ready, Steady, Cook Identity Eggheads Dermot Murnaghan hosts a general knowledge quiz in which teams from all over the UK battle to beat the formidable Eggheads, who include millionaire winner Judith Keppel, former Brain of Britain Chris Hughes and World Quiz Champion Kevin Ashman. Kitchen Criminals World Athletics Championships Highlights Rick Stein’s French Odyssey The Restaurant Heroes Heroes Unmasked Tittybangbang Newsnight Brazil Arrested Development How I Met Your Mother Joins BBC News 24 ITV 1 07:00 GMTV 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show Jeremy Kyle presents a confrontational talk show in which guests thrash out their conflicts, dilemmas and relationship issues in front of a studio audience. 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Dale’s Supermarket Sweep 14:00 Have I Been Here Before 14:30 ITV Lunchtime News and Weather 15:00 60 Minute Makeover Terri Dwyer and the makeover team head to Tottenham, North London, today, to help a family totally transform their mother’s house, under the watchful eye of designer Kathryn Rayward. 16:00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 17:00 HeartBeat 18:00 That Antony Cotton Show 19:00 London Tonight 19:30 ITV Evening News; Weather 20:00 Emmerdale 20:30 Coronation Street 21:00 The Bill 22:00 Crash Scene Investigators 23:00 Ann Widdecombe Versus 23:30 ITV News; Weather 00:00 Carling Cup Highlights Matt Smith presents the best of the action from the Carling Cup second round. 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Chelsea won the trophy last season, beating Arsenal 2-1 at the Millennium Stadium, with Didier Drogba scoring two goals. 15:30 Revista de la Liga 16:30 Foot Brazil 17:00 Hyundai A League 17:30 Cricket: Natwest Pro40 - Hampshire V Warwickshire 20:30 Gillette Soccer Special 23:00 You’re On Sky Sports! 00:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 01:00 Trans World Sport 02:00 Carling Cup Football: Carling Cup Rnd 2 Match TBA 03:30 To Be Announced 04:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 05:00 You’re On Sky Sports! SKY SPORTS 2 09:00 Sports Unlimited 10:00 Ocean 10:30 Texaco Havoline Ginetta Championship 11:00 Challenge Series Golf: Scottish Challenge Trophy 11:30 Ladies European Tour Golf: Ladies Norwegian Masters 12:30 European Seniors Tour Golf: European Seniors - English 13:30 Challenge Series Golf: Scottish Challenge Trophy 14:00 Powerboating: Zapcats National Championships 14:30 Texaco Havoline Ginetta Championship 15:00 Ladies European Tour Golf: Ladies Norwegian Masters 16:00 European Seniors Tour Golf: European Seniors - English 17:00 Challenge Series Golf: Scottish Challenge Trophy 17:30 NFL: Total Access 18:30 The Dogs 19:00 Hyundai A League 19:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 20:00 Live Carling Cup Football: Carling Cup Rnd 2 Match TBA 23:00 Watersports World 00:00 Ocean 00:30 Wild Spirits 01:00 NFL: Total Access SKY SPORTS 3 10:30 11:00 12:00 12:30 13:00 14:00 15:00 15:30 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 23:00 23:30 00:00 00:30 01:00 02:00 02:30 03:30 The Dogs World Pool Masters Aerobics Oz Style Racing News Sports Unlimited NFL: Total Access Ocean Powerboating: Zapcats National Championships World Pool Masters World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Bottom Line World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Afterburn Irish International Show Jumping Total Rugby European Tour Weekly Cricket: Natwest Pro40 - Hampshire V Warwickshire Total Rugby Irish Greyhound Racing Rallyzone Irish International Show Jumping Watersports World Powerboating: Zapcats National Championships Max Power Rallyzone EUROSPORT 07:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 08:30 Olympic Magazine 26-minute monthly show looking at the Olympic movement through its institutions, athletes, partners and actions. 09:00 Rally 09:30 FIA World Touring Car Championship: FIA WTCC Magazine 10:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 11:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 12:30 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 15:30 Cycling: Eneco Tour 16:30 Tennis: Us Open In New York 17:30 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 18:00 Football: Eurogoals Flash 18:15 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 19:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 01:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 03:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 05:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York ESPN classic 07:00 Duels: Drechsler V Joyner-Kersee 08:00 Teleshopping 08:45 Teleshopping 09:30 Challenge Cup 1985: Wigan V Hull 10:00 Duels: Drechsler V Joyner-Kersee 11:00 Goals of The Season, 2003/2004 12:00 Mike Tyson 13:30 Derby County V Leeds 14:00 RWC 2003: England V France 15:00 Goals of The Season, 2003/2004 16:00 Cricket: England V Australia 16:30 Shane Warne: Cricket Legend 17:00 Duels: Drechsler V Joyner-Kersee 18:00 RWC 2003: England V France 19:00 Rugby League: Gb V N Zealand 19:30 Fei Equestrian World 2007 20:00 Goals of The Season, 2003/2004 21:00 Cricket: England V India 21:30 Cricket: England V India 22:00 RWC 2003: England V France 23:00 Goals of The Season, 2004/2005 00:00 Ali or Tyson: Who Was Greatest? 02:00 Teleshopping 03:30 Ali or Tyson: Who Was Greatest? 05:30 Liverpool V Arsenal 06:00 Challenge Cup 1994: Wigan V Leeds Friends Channel 4 11.25 - 12.00 Ross applies for a palaeontology grant, but discovers that Dr Hobart, who allocates such funding, used to go out with Ross’s girlfriend Charlie. Dr Hobart has a proposal for Ross... Meanwhile, Mike wants Phoebe to get rid of one of her bizarre paintings, but neither Rachel nor Monica is keen to take it. And Chandler lies to Joey about watching his audition tape. TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 37 Wednesday 29th August 2007 FILMS SKY MOVIES sci-fi & horror 07:00 11:00 12:45 14:30 15:00 16:40 18:35 20:20 22:00 23:40 01:25 03:10 To Be Announced The Dark Cry_Wolf Action and Thriller Close Up Phase IV Space Truckers Cry_Wolf Phase IV The Dark Saw II Space Truckers The Serpent And The Rainbow SKY MOVIES premier 11:00 Family Close Up 11:30 Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Special 12:00 Action and Thriller Close Up 12:30 Premiere Close Up 13:00 Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School 15:00 Just My Luck 16:45 Last Holiday 18:45 Tristan and Isolde 21:00 Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 23:30 Adrift 01:10 ATL SKY MOVIES modern greats 07:20 09:20 11:20 13:20 15:00 17:00 19:00 21:00 23:00 00:40 02:25 04:00 05:55 Rocky Rocky II The Exorcist III Sixteen Candles Rocky Rocky II The Exorcist III Sixteen Candles Death Wish RoboCop Coffy The Accused Rocky SKY MOVIES indie 11:00 13:00 13:20 15:20 18:15 20:00 22:00 23:35 01:20 03:10 Rice Rhapsody Lai See The Beat My Heart Skipped La Dolce Vita The Four Hundred Blows Rice Rhapsody Fandango Asylum The Beat My Heart Skipped The Four Hundred Blows SKY MOVIES family 08:40 Ice Age 2: The Meltdown - Special The Benchwarmers 09:10 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D 10:45 George and The Dragon 12:20 Zathura: A Space Adventure 14:05 Valiant 15:25 Lassie 17:10 Family Close Up 17:40 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D 19:15 Zathura: A Space Adventure 21:00 Valiant 22:20 George and The Dragon 23:55 Lassie 01:40 Wallace and Gromit 02:10 My Uncle the Alien 03:55 Rain 05:35 Air Bud 3: World Pup SKY MOVIES drama 07:00 08:45 10:30 12:10 13:55 15:35 17:20 19:20 21:00 22:45 00:45 03:05 04:50 06:30 The Sign of Four The Patron Saint of Liars The Clinic One Special Night The Sign of Four Just Like Heaven United 93 One Special Night Just Like Heaven United 93 Kundun The Tie That Binds Our America The Sign of Four SKY MOVIES comedy Sky Movies HD1 12.00 - 13.45 & 17.30 - 19.15 Gus and his nerdy buddies, Richie and Clark, are scouted by a millionaire nerd, Mel, who wants to form a baseball team and compete with the meanest Little League teams in the state. A stellar ballplayer, Gus becomes a role model for nerds and outcasts everywhere. But when his fans learn that Gus, himself, was once a school bully, they feel outraged and betrayed, until Gus takes extraordinary steps to win back their admiration and trust. 07:20 09:00 10:40 12:50 14:20 16:25 18:40 19:10 21:00 23:00 01:15 02:50 04:25 05:50 Whiskey Down Bad Manners Kiss Me, Stupid The Silence of The Hams Wedding Crashers In Her Shoes Comedy Close Up Princess Caraboo Wedding Crashers In Her Shoes Whiskey Down Bad Manners The Silence of The Hams Princess Caraboo SKY MOVIES classics 07:45 One of Our Aircraft is Missing 09:40 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 11:50 Around The World In 80 Days 14:45 Let’s Make Love 16:45 One of Our Aircraft is Missing 18:35 Around The World In 80 Days 21:30 Drama Close Up 22:00 Let’s Make Love 00:00 Irma La Douce 02:25 The Comedy of Terrors 03:55 A Taste of Honey 05:45 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance SKY MOVIES action/thriller 07:20 09:15 09:45 11:45 14:00 15:50 17:40 19:50 22:00 23:50 01:50 03:15 05:10 Above Suspicion Action and Thriller Close Up Young Guns II Conan the Barbarian Four Brothers Young Guns II Stealth Conan the Barbarian Four Brothers Stealth Bulletproof The Passion of Darkly Noon Angel Flight Down SKY MOVIES HD1 12:00 13:45 15:45 17:30 19:15 22:00 23:40 01:40 The Benchwarmers D.A.R.Y.L. Scary Movie 4 The Benchwarmers Scent of a Woman Scary Movie 4 Casualties of War The Producers SKY MOVIES HD2 13:00 15:00 17:00 19:00 21:00 22:45 01:05 03:10 The Hudsucker Proxy Good Night, and Good Luck Mayday The Hudsucker Proxy Good Night, and Good Luck Walk The Line Stay Mayday Scary Movie 4 Sky Movies HD1 15.45 - 17.30 & 22.00 - 23.40 The ever-naïve Cindy Campbell, seeking a career in home healthcare, finds work with a creepy old lady in an even creepier old house haunted by a ghostly presence. Throw in a good-looking guy next door and the threat of aliens intent on global domination and Cindy’s instantly up to the top of her extremely blond head in danger. Our fearless heroine catapults into action once again struggling to decipher ominous messages from the beyond, looking for love in some very weird places and trying to save the world from mass destruction. As she struggles to discover life-saving answers, Cindy encounters horrific plane crashes, bodacious blind girls, village idiots, disheveled rappers, kinky contraptions, psycho survivalists, alien sphincters and even Oprah! FILM 4 14:00 15:55 17:35 19:40 19:55 22:00 00:15 02:15 02:30 Chance of a Lifetime The Vicious Circle The One That Got Away The Story of ‘Hallam Foe’ Jack and Sarah K-Pax Mona Lisa The Story of ‘Hallam Foe’ Repo Man TCM 07:50 08:15 10:20 12:00 13:35 16:00 18:15 20:05 22:00 00:40 03:50 04:10 06:00 Teleshopping Captains Courageous 42nd Street The Red Badge of Courage Gaslight Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Murder By Death White Heat Absence of Malice Ryan’s Daughter Teleshopping Hot Millions The Red Badge of Courage DISNEY cinemagic 07:00 The Little Mermaid 07:25 Aladdin 07:45 08:10 08:35 09:00 09:25 09:45 10:00 11:15 11:30 11:55 12:20 13:35 14:25 14:50 15:35 16:20 16:45 17:10 17:35 18:00 19:25 19:35 20:00 21:30 21:40 22:05 22:25 22:50 23:15 23:45 00:10 00:35 House of Mouse Emperor’s New School Recess Lilo and Stitch Lilo and Stitch Recess Atlantis: Milo’s Return Recess Disney’s Hercules Disney’s Hercules Disney’s Hercules Recess Recess Recess Recess Tarzan Lilo and Stitch Emperor’s 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the Hammer 15:00 Escape to the Country 16:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 18:00 Flog It! 19:00 Cash in the Attic 20:00 Homes under the Hammer 21:00 What Not to Wear 22:00 Escape to the Country 23:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 00:00 First Dance 01:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - How Do They Do That? 02:00 Car Booty UKTV bright ideas 09:00 Antiques Roadshow 10:00 The Weekend Gardener 10:30 Garden Highs 11:00 Ready, Steady, Cook 11:30 Chefs at Sea with Ed Baines 12:00 Great Food Live 13:00 Food Uncut 13:30 The Weekend Gardener 14:00 Antiques Roadshow 15:00 Gary Rhodes’ Local Food Hero 2006 16:00 Art Deco Designs 16:30 Buying Style 17:00 Ready, Steady, Cook 17:30 Chefs at Sea with Ed Baines 18:00 Antiques Roadshow UKTV drama 09:00 All Creatures Great and Small 10:00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 12:00 Just Good Friends 12:40 As Time Goes By 13:20 Last of the Summer Wine 14:00 Dangerfield 15:00 Murder, She Wrote 16:00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 18:00 Just Good Friends 18:40 As Time Goes By 19:20 Last of the Summer Wine 20:00 Dangerfield 21:00 Murder, She Wrote 22:00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 23:55 Campion 00:55 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 02:50 Campion 03:40 Howards’ Way 04:30 Secret Army 05:20 All Creatures Great and Small 06:10 Down to Earth 38 TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 Thursday 30th August 2007 BBC 1 BBC 2 ITV 1 CHANNEL 4 07:00 10:15 11:00 12:00 12:30 13:15 14:00 14:30 14:40 15:05 15:35 16:20 16:25 16:50 17:05 17:30 18:00 18:25 18:35 19:00 20:00 20:30 21:00 22:00 23:00 23:35 00:05 07:20 07:35 08:00 08:15 08:30 09:00 09:45 09:55 10:20 10:45 11:15 11:35 12:00 12:25 07:00 GMTV GMTV News Hour with John Stapleton and Penny Smith. Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard with the latest news, views and chat. Plus guest James Blunt, and Richard Arnold’s TV highlights. 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Dale’s Supermarket Sweep 14:00 Have I Been Here Before 14:30 ITV Lunchtime News and Weather 15:00 60 Minute Makeover 16:00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 17:00 HeartBeat 18:00 That Antony Cotton Show 19:00 London Tonight 19:30 ITV Evening News; Weather 20:00 Emmerdale 20:30 Luton Airport 21:00 The Bill 22:00 Robbie Coltrane’s B-Road Britain 23:00 Benidorm Madge unwittingly gives Donald and Jacqueline the impression that she’s a swinger. Martin is in an upbeat mood about the sex he and Kate had - but she was too drunk to remember. Troy gets drunk and flirts with Mateo. The Oracle tries to come the bigshot, playing pool with Telle - but she takes the piss out of him. 23:30 ITV News; Weather 00:00 Mika 00:35 Jimmy Carr’s Orange Playlist 01:00 ITV Play 05:05 The Jeremy Kyle Show 06:00 ITV Nightscreen 06:30 ITV Morning News 07:10 07:35 08:00 08:25 08:55 09:55 10:55 11:25 01:45 02:15 03:15 04:15 05:00 Breakfast To Buy or Not to Buy Countryfile Summer Diaries Escape to the Country Bargain Hunt Cash in the Attic BBC News and Weather Regional News and Weather Neighbours Doctors All Saints BBC News and Weather Pitt and Kantrop The Cramp Twins What’s New Scooby Doo? Evacuation Best of Friends Newsround Neighbours BBC News and Weather The One Show EastEnders What Not to Wear Panorama BBC News Outnumbered The Bachelor Romantic comedy about a grandson of an eccentric millionaire who discovers that he stands to inherit 120 million dollars on his 30th birthday, provided he is married. Unfortunately for him he has just proposed to his girlfriend in such a clumsy way that she has refused him and left town on the eve of his birthday. Weekend ‘Nazis’ Saira Khan’s Pakistan Adventure Cooking in the Danger Zone How to Live Longer Joins BBC News 24 15:45 16:45 17:30 18:15 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30 21:00 22:00 22:30 23:00 23:30 00:20 01:05 02:25 02:50 03:10 The Story Makers Balamory Nina and The Neurons Charlie and Lola In The Night Garden Do Something Different Mona The Vampire Bring It On Time Warp Trio Whizz Whizz Bang Bang Krypto the Superdog Even Stevens The Munsters World Athletics Championships 2007 Escape to the Country Flog It! Ready, Steady, Cook Identity Eggheads Kitchen Criminals World Athletics Championships Highlights Rick Stein’s French Odyssey The Restaurant Mock the Week Saxondale That Mitchell and Webb Look Newsnight Heroes Facing a crisis involving her son Micah, a distraught Niki reveals her recent personal struggles to a friend. 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Irish Greyhound Racing Cycling: Tour De Deutschland Powerboating: Zap Cats National Championships Carling Cup Football: Carling Cup Rnd 2 Match TBA European Tour Golf: Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles Premier League World Carling Cup Football: Carling Cup Rnd 2 Speedway Golf Night NFL: Total Access Race World Golf Night SKY SPORTS 3 11:00 Total Rugby 11:30 Irish International Show Jumping 12:00 Aerobics Oz Style 12:30 Racing News 13:00 Watersports World 14:00 NFL: Total Access 15:00 Rallyzone 15:30 Powerboating: Zap Cats National Championships Zap Cats National Championships The courageous captains test their vessels over all conditions, from calm lakes to swelling surf in the Zapcat National Championships. 16:00 Cycling: Tour De Deutschland 17:00 NFL: Total Access 18:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Heat 19:00 Cycling: Tour De Deutschland 20:00 I.A.A.F Athletix Weekly 20:30 Live Rugby League: National League Match TBA 23:00 World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Raw 01:00 ECW Wrestling 02:00 Powerboating: Zap Cats National Championships 02:30 Rugby League: National League Match TBA 05:00 I.A.A.F Athletix Weekly EUROSPORT 07:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 09:30 Rowing: World Championship In Munich, Germany The international rowing season culminates each year with the all-important World Rowing Senior Championships, which determine the world’s best in each existing boat class. Since 1962 FISA (The International Rowing Federation) has held World Rowing Championships at first every four years and since 1974 every year apart from the Olympic year. 12:30 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 15:30 Tennis: Us Open In New York 17:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 18:00 Football: UEFA Champions League 19:00 Tennis: Us Open In New York 01:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan 03:00 Athletics: Iaaf World Championship In Osaka, Japan ESPN classic 07:00 Sporting Greats: Roger Black 07:30 Fei Equestrian World 2007 08:00 RWC ‘03 Final: England V Australia 09:00 Teleshopping 09:45 Teleshopping 10:30 Fei Equestrian World 2007 11:00 Goals of The Season, 2004/2005 12:00 Ali or Tyson: Who Was Greatest? 14:00 RWC ‘03 Final: England V Australia 15:00 Goals of The Season, 2004/2005 16:00 Cricket: England V India 16:30 Cricket: England V India 17:00 Sporting Greats: Roger Black 17:30 Sporting Greats: Sally Gunnell 18:00 RWC ‘03 Final: England V Australia 19:00 Challenge Cup 1994: Wigan V Leeds 19:30 Challenge Cup 96: Saints-Bradford 20:00 Goals of The Season, 2004/2005 21:00 Cricket: England V India 21:30 Cricket: England V India 22:00 RWC ‘03 Final: England V Australia 23:00 Goals of The Season, 2005/2006 00:00 Boxing: The Thriller In Manila 01:00 Liverpool V Arsenal 01:30 Chelsea V Man United 02:00 Goals of The Season, 2005/2006 The Simpsons Channel 4 19.00 - 19.30 Radioactive Man. Series 7, episode 2. When Bart discovers that the new Radioactive Man movie is being filmed in Springfield, he does his best to get the part of Fallout Boy. Unfortunately, that honour is given to the reluctant Milhouse, who finds out that showbusiness isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Guest Starring Mickey Rooney as Himself, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz. TELEVISION August 24 - August 30 2007 39 Thursday 30th August 2007 FILMS SKY MOVIES sci-fi & horror 07:00 11:00 12:40 14:40 16:35 18:10 19:55 22:00 23:45 01:40 To Be Announced Basilisk: The Serpent King War of the Worlds Nineteen Eighty-Four Basilisk: The Serpent King Earth Minus Zero War of the Worlds Ravenous Nineteen Eighty-Four The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 03:25 Earth Minus Zero SKY MOVIES premier 11:00 Action and Thriller Close Up 11:30 Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Special 12:00 Premiere Close Up 12:30 Family Close Up 13:00 Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School 15:00 Just My Luck 16:45 Last Holiday 18:45 Tristan and Isolde 21:00 Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 23:30 Adrift 01:10 ATL SKY MOVIES modern greats 08:00 09:50 11:30 13:30 15:20 17:10 19:10 21:00 22:50 00:40 02:25 04:50 06:30 Rocky III Rocky IV Top Gun Rocky III Rocky IV The Terminator Flashdance Top Gun The Terminator The Crow Born On The Fourth Of July Flashdance Rocky III SKY MOVIES indie 11:00 13:05 15:05 17:05 18:05 19:55 22:00 23:35 01:20 03:20 The Sea Inside Ridicule Après vous... The Secret Life of Earth Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price The Sea Inside Boxcar Bertha Bang Après vous... Stolen Kisses SKY MOVIES family 07:00 Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story Rush Hour Sky Movies action/thriller 12.45 - 14.35 & 22.00 - 23.45 As the FBI scrambles to save the life of the kidnapped daughter of the Chinese Consul, the diplomat hires trusted Hong Kong police detective Lee to find the girl. Unwilling to have their investigation invaded by a meddling outsider, the FBI assigns a rogue LAPD detective to keep Detective Lee away from the case at any cost. Carter, the detective, covertly embarks on a one-man crusade to solve the case, having first distracted Lee. Within hours, Carter realises he has greatly underestimated his Hong Kong counterpart, who has seen through his ruse, given Carter the slip, and landed in the middle of the FBI’s investigation. Both excluded by the FBI, these two cops from very different worlds must join forces to save the young girl. 08:35 Aquamarine 10:20 Ice Age: The Meltdown 11:55 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 14:15 The Librarian: Quest for the Spear 15:55 The Derby Stallion 17:40 Aquamarine 19:25 Ice Age: The Meltdown 21:00 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 23:20 The Librarian: Quest for the Spear 00:55 The Derby Stallion 02:40 Family Close Up 03:10 Blizzard 05:00 The Top 10 Show 05:15 Young Ivanhoe SKY MOVIES drama 08:05 09:40 11:15 13:30 15:05 17:05 18:45 21:00 23:00 01:25 03:50 05:25 Going for Broke Miss Lettie and Me The Merchant of Venice Going for Broke No Way Out Miss Lettie and Me The Merchant of Venice No Way Out Cinderella Man The Day of the Locust The Temptations Part I The Merchant of Venice SKY MOVIES comedy 07:30 09:35 11:35 13:30 15:30 17:15 19:00 21:00 23:00 00:40 02:10 04:00 06:05 The Birdcage That Thing You Do! 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SKY MOVIES classics 08:00 Limelight 10:20 12 Angry Men 12:00 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 14:10 Indiscreet 15:50 Limelight 18:10 12 Angry Men 19:50 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 22:00 Indiscreet 23:45 Soldier Blue 01:45 The Abominable Dr Phibes 03:30 Dr. Phibes Rises Again 05:10 The Devil And Daniel Webster SKY MOVIES action/thriller 07:25 09:15 11:05 12:45 14:35 16:35 18:25 20:05 22:00 23:45 01:40 03:25 05:05 Determination Of Death The Fourth Angel Paparazzi Rush Hour Fearless The Fourth Angel Paparazzi Fearless Rush Hour Kiss Kiss Bang Bang The Substitute 2: School’s Out Hard Men Siege at Marion SKY MOVIES HD1 12:00 13:45 14:15 16:15 18:15 20:15 22:00 23:50 01:40 03:30 The Honeymooners Comedy Close Up Something New The Karate Kid, Part III Five Easy Pieces The Honeymooners Something New Keeping Mum Five Easy Pieces Premiere Close Up SKY MOVIES HD2 13:00 14:00 16:40 18:40 21:00 22:50 Mountain Gorilla Armageddon Chain Reaction The White Countess Firewall Armageddon The Honeymooners Sky Movies HD1 12.00 - 13.45 & 20.15 - 22.00 Meet Ralph Kramden--a man of vision, taste, and refinement. Now, if he can just get the rest of the world to see it. By day, Ralph’s an ordinary New York City bus driver. But in his off-hours, he’s an innovator, an entrepreneur who’s just one great idea away from instant wealth. His best friend is Ed Norton, who’s always up for the latest plan. These two dreamers believe they’re taking their families to the next level, but Ralph’s wife, Alice, has set her sights on a more practical goal: buying a duplex fixer-upper with Ed and his wife, Trixie. When Ralph loses their down payment on yet another of his half-baked projects, Alice is at the end of her rope, giving Ralph just one day to come up with the cash and save their marriage. 01:25 Chain Reaction 03:20 Grendel FILM 4 14:00 15:50 17:40 19:25 19:40 22:00 00:35 00:40 Highly Dangerous Where The Sidewalk Ends The Private Life of Henry VIII The Story of ‘Hallam Foe’ Star Trek: Nemesis Forrest Gump Movie Rush Conquest of The Planet of The Apes 02:20 Second Best TCM 07:35 09:30 12:00 14:30 16:00 17:55 20:00 22:00 01:00 02:30 03:25 03:40 Kismet Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Twelfth Night Lili Moonstruck Without Love Somebody Up There Likes Me Twelfth Night Hit Man All About Bette: The Life And Films Of Bette Davis Teleshopping The Fixer DISNEY cinemagic 07:25 Aladdin 07:45 House of Mouse 08:10 08:35 09:00 09:25 09:45 10:00 11:15 11:30 11:55 12:20 12:45 13:35 14:00 14:25 14:50 15:15 15:35 16:20 16:45 17:10 17:35 18:00 19:00 19:10 19:35 20:00 21:25 21:40 22:05 22:25 22:50 23:15 23:45 00:10 00:35 Emperor’s New School Recess Lilo and Stitch Lilo and Stitch Recess An Extremely Goofy Movie Recess Recess Recess Recess Recess Lilo and Stitch Lilo and Stitch Lilo and Stitch Lilo and Stitch Lilo and Stitch Lilo and Stitch Tarzan Lilo and Stitch Emperor’s New School Recess Recess: All Growed Down Classic Toons Recess Lilo and Stitch Escape to Witch Mountain Recess Tarzan Lilo and Stitch Emperor’s New School Recess Quack Pack Lilo and Stitch Recess House of Mouse GENERAL INTEREST BBC 3 20:00 Doctor Who 21:00 Honey We’re Killing The Kids 22:00 The Restaurant 22:30 The Real Hustle 23:00 EastEnders 23:30 The Visit 00:00 The Great Sperm Crisis 01:00 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 02:00 The Visit 02:30 The Real Hustle 03:00 The Great Sperm Crisis 04:00 Honey We’re Killing The Kids BBC 4 20:00 World News Today 20:30 Natural World 21:30 100 Years of Wildlife 23:30 Natural World 00:20 Leopard: a Wildlife Special 01:10 Darwin’s Nightmare 02:50 The Wild Life of Gerald Durrell 03:55 Natural World Symphony BBC prime 07:00 Little Robots 07:10 Binka 07:15 Tweenies 07:35 Balamory 07:55 Big Cook Little Cook 08:15 The Roly Mo Show 08:30 Binka 08:35 Teletubbies 09:00 Garden Rivals 09:30 The Week The Women Went 10:00 Small Town Gardens 10:30 Cash in the Attic 11:00 Model Gardens 11:30 Earth Ride 12:30 Dad’s Army 13:00 As Time Goes By 13:30 My Family 14:00 Our Mutual Friend 15:00 Hustle 16:00 Garden Rivals 16:30 Bargain Hunt 17:15 Bargain Hunt 18:00 As Time Goes By 18:30 My Family 19:00 Staying Put 19:30 Staying Put 20:00 Hustle 21:00 Spooks 22:00 Swiss Toni 22:30 The League of Gentlemen 23:00 Hustle 00:00 Dad’s Army 00:30 Spooks 01:30 As Time Goes By 02:00 My Family 02:30 EastEnders 03:00 Hustle 04:00 Our Mutual Friend 05:00 Cash in the Attic 05:30 Balamory 05:50 Tweenies 06:10 Big Cook Little Cook 06:30 Tikkabilla BBC world 07:00 BBC News 07:30 World Business Report 08:00 BBC News 08:30 World Business Report 08:45 Sport Today 09:00 BBC News 09:30 Fast Track 10:00 BBC News 10:30 HARDtalk 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Our World 12:00 BBC News 12:30 World Business Report 12:45 Sport Today 13:00 World News Today 14:00 BBC News 14:30 World Business Report 14:45 Sport Today 15:00 BBC News 15:30 Asia Today 15:45 Sport Today 16:00 BBC News 16:30 HARDtalk 17:00 BBC News 17:30 Talking Movies 18:00 World News Today 19:00 BBC News 19:30 World Business Report 19:45 Sport Today 20:00 World News Today 21:00 BBC News 21:30 Click 22:00 BBC News 22:30 HARDtalk 23:00 BBC News 23:15 World Business Report 23:45 Sport Today 00:00 BBC News 00:30 Asia Today 00:45 World Business Report 01:00 BBC News 01:30 HARDtalk 02:00 BBC News 02:30 World Business Report 03:00 BBC News 03:30 Talking Movies 04:00 BBC News 04:30 World Business Report 04:45 Sport Today 05:00 BBC News 05:30 Extra Time 06:00 BBC News 06:30 World Business Report BRAVO 09:00 Alias 10:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 11:00 Street Crime UK 4 12:00 When Sport Goes Bad: Whacked Out Sports 13:00 Buck Rogers in The 25th Century 14:00 Walker, Texas Ranger 15:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 16:00 Street Crime UK 4 17:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 18:00 Street Crime UK 4 19:00 Buck Rogers in The 25th Century 20:00 Walker, Texas Ranger 21:00 Dog the Bounty Hunter 22:00 Under Fire: Deadliest Police Shootouts 23:00 Is That a Nail in Your Head? 00:00 Porn Week 2 00:30 Porn Week 01:05 Under Fire: Deadliest Police Shootouts 02:05 Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! 02:15 Moral Orel 02:30 Metalocalypse 02:45 12 oz. Mouse 03:00 Saul Of The Mole Men 03:15 Harvey Birdman 03:30 Space Ghost Coast to Coast 03:45 Aqua Teen Hunger Force 04:00 Arrested Development DISNEY 07:00 Little Einsteins 07:25 My Friends Tigger and Pooh 07:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 08:00 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 08:25 That’s So Raven 08:50 Recess 09:15 The Replacements 09:40 Cory in The House 10:05 Hannah Mon- tana 10:30 As The Bell Rings 10:35 As The Bell Rings 10:40 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 11:05 Hannah Montana 11:25 Hannah Montana 11:50 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 12:15 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 12:40 Hannah Montana 13:05 Hannah Montana 13:30 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 13:55 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 14:20 Hannah Montana 14:45 Hannah Montana 15:10 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 15:35 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 16:00 Hannah Montana 16:25 Hannah Montana 16:50 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 17:15 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 17:40 Hannah Montana 18:05 Hannah Montana 18:30 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 18:55 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 19:20 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 19:45 Cory in The House 20:10 Hannah Montana 20:35 That’s So Raven 21:00 Get a Clue 22:20 Recess 22:35 Recess 23:00 The Suite Life of Zack and Cody 23:20 Lizzie McGuire 23:45 That’s So Raven 00:10 The Proud Family 00:35 Kim Possible ITV 2 07:00 GMTV2 10:25 Coronation Street 10:55 Emmerdale 11:25 The Montel Williams Show 12:10 Judge Judy 13:30 Coronation Street 14:00 Emmerdale 14:30 The Jeremy Kyle Show 15:35 The Jeremy Kyle Show 16:40 The Ricki Lake Show 17:30 Sally Jessy Raphael 18:15 Airline 18:45 Judge Judy 19:10 Judge Judy 19:35 Judge Judy 20:00 The New Adventures of Superman 21:00 Victoria Beckham: Coming to America 22:00 There’s Something About Mary 00:15 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies 01:15 Keane in Profile 01:45 Franz Ferdinand in Profile 02:15 ITV Play ITV 3 07:00 Cagney and Lacey 07:50 HeartBeat 08:50 The Return of Sherlock Holmes 09:55 Ironside 10:55 The Rockford Files 11:55 Due South 12:55 Cagney and Lacey 13:55 HeartBeat 14:55 Only When I Laugh 15:25 Goodnight Sweetheart 16:00 The Ro- ckford Files 17:00 Due South 18:00 The Return of Sherlock Holmes 19:10 Goodnight Sweetheart 19:45 Movies Now 19:55 Never the Twain 20:30 Only When I Laugh 21:00 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 22:00 Doc Martin 23:05 P. D. James 00:10 P. D. James 01:20 Reilly: Ace of Spies 02:20 Never the Twain 02:45 Only When I Laugh 03:15 HeartBeat 04:10 The Return of Sherlock Holmes 05:00 Teleshopping ITV 4 19:00 The Champions 20:00 UFO - Best Evidence Ever Caught on Tape 21:00 UFO 22:00 Homicide: Life On The Street 23:00 FIFA World Cup: Biggest Nightmares 00:00 The Place of the Dead 02:10 The Larry Sanders Show 02:40 The Larry Sanders Show 03:00 Millennium 04:00 Millennium 04:50 Movies Now 05:00 Teleshopping LIVING 07:00 Home Shopping 08:00 Divorce Court 09:00 Maury 09:55 The Fix 10:00 Extreme Makeover 11:00 The Jerry Springer Show 12:30 Maury 14:20 The Fix 14:30 Will and Grace 15:30 Dharma and Greg 16:00 Missing 17:00 Charmed 19:00 Extreme Makeover 20:00 The X Files 21:00 Blood Ties 22:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 23:00 Grey’s Anatomy 00:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 01:00 The X Files 02:00 Blood Ties 03:00 Veronica Mars 04:00 Boston Legal 04:50 Break With The Boss 05:40 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry 06:05 The Jerry Springer Show 06:30 Home Shopping PARAMOUNT comedy 07:00 QVC 10:00 Veronica’s Closet 11:00 Two and a Half Men 12:00 King of Queens 13:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 14:00 Veronica’s Closet 15:00 Becker 16:00 Two and a Half Men 17:00 King of Queens 18:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 19:00 Frasier 20:00 Becker 21:00 That ‘70s Show 22:00 Everybody Hates Chris 23:00 Sex and The City 00:10 South Park 00:40 World Stands Up 01:10 Ardal O’Hanlan Live 02:30 Trailer Park Boys 03:00 South Park 03:30 Badly Dubbed Porn 04:00 Sexy Cam 04:30 Linc’s 05:00 Ally McBeal 06:00 Sir Leslie Quint A Life In Film 06:10 That ‘70s Show SCI FI 07:00 Roswell 08:00 Farscape 09:00 Teleshopping 12:00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World 13:00 Roswell 14:00 Star Trek 15:00 Profiler 16:00 Solar Strike 18:00 Star Trek 19:00 Profiler 20:00 Mysterious Ways 21:00 Angel 22:00 Threshold 23:00 The Frighteners 01:10 Cerberus 03:00 Psychic Detectives 03:30 Psychic Detectives 04:00 Logan’s Run 05:00 She Spies 06:00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World SKY one 07:00 Sunrise With Eamonn Holmes 10:00 Stargate Atlantis 12:00 Brainiac: Science Abuse 13:00 Malcolm in the Middle 14:00 Cold Case 15:00 Angel 16:00 Las Vegas 17:00 Stargate Atlantis 19:00 Malcolm in the Middle 20:00 The Simpsons 22:00 Las Vegas 23:00 Cold Case 02:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation 03:40 Is Harry on the Boat? 04:30 Miami Uncovered 05:20 Dream Team 06:10 Taste UKTV gold 08:20 2point4 Children 09:00 EastEnders 09:40 One Foot in the Grave 10:20 Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em 11:00 Doctor Who 13:00 The Thin Blue Line 14:20 My Family 15:40 Only Fools and Horses 17:00 Doctor Who 19:00 My Family 19:40 The Thin Blue Line 21:00 New Tricks 22:00 The Vicar of Dibley 22:40 Only Fools and Horses 23:45 Jack Dee’s Happy Hour 00:25 Prison Break 02:25 Jack Dee’s Happy Hour 03:05 As Time Goes By 03:35 2point4 Children 04:05 One Foot in the Grave 04:35 Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em UKTV people 10:00 A Life of Grime New York 11:00 Animal Park 12:00 Airport 13:00 A Life of Grime New York 14:00 Animal Park 15:00 Airport 16:00 A Life of Grime New York 17:00 Animal Park 18:00 Airport 19:00 A Life of Grime New York 20:00 Animal Park 21:00 Airport 22:00 Seaside Rescue 23:00 Traffic Cops 00:00 Bailiffs 01:00 Forensic Files 02:00 Seaside Rescue 03:00 Traffic Cops 03:50 Close Up UKTV style 09:00 Flog It! 10:00 Car Booty 11:00 What Not to Wear 12:00 I Do, Let’s Eat 12:30 Wedding Diaries 13:00 Beat the Burglar 14:00 Homes under the Hammer 15:00 Escape to the Country 16:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 18:00 Flog It! 19:00 Cash in the Attic 20:00 Homes under the Hammer 21:00 What Not to Wear 22:00 Escape to the Country 23:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 00:00 First Dance 00:30 First Dance 02:00 Car Booty 03:00 Diva on a Dime UKTV bright ideas 08:00 Art Deco Designs 08:30 Buying Style 09:00 Antiques Roadshow 10:00 The Weekend Gardener 10:30 Garden Highs 11:00 Ready, Steady, Cook 11:30 Chefs at Sea with Ed Baines 12:00 Great Food Live 13:00 Food Uncut 13:30 The Weekend Gardener 14:00 Antiques Roadshow 15:00 Gary Rhodes’ Local Food Hero 2006 16:00 Art Deco Designs 16:30 Buying Style 17:00 Ready, Steady, Cook 17:30 Chefs at Sea with Ed Baines 18:00 Antiques Roadshow UKTV drama 08:00 Secret Army 09:00 All Creatures Great and Small 10:00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 12:00 Just Good Friends 12:40 As Time Goes By 13:20 Last of the Summer Wine 14:00 Dangerfield 15:00 Murder, She Wrote 16:00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 18:00 Just Good Friends 18:40 As Time Goes By 19:20 Last of the Summer Wine 20:00 Dangerfield 21:00 Murder, She Wrote 22:00 Dalziel and Pascoe 00:20 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 01:20 Dalziel and Pascoe 03:35 Howards’ Way 04:25 Secret Army 05:15 All Creatures Great and Small 06:05 Down to Earth 40 MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 LEISURE PICK OF THE WEEK Cinema review THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM This is a listing of cinemas that show movies in English. Visit their website or call for weekly listings for their current showings. Look out for V.O.S. (versión original subtitulada - original subtitled version). YELMO CINEPLEX ALICANTE Centro Comercial Puerta de Alicante Avda. Alcalde Lorenzo Carbonell s/n, esquina Vía Parque Telephone sales: 902 220 922 www.yelmocineplex.es/puerta_alicante.html CINE ROMA MATT DAMON (Jason Bourne) may have been annoyed about comparisons between Bourne and Bond, but this third instalment is definitely post-Casino Royale territory. The action is constant; we have globe-trotted impressively within the opening ten minutes, but it is delivered in a style so effortless that you bowl along with it. There’s a great early sequence in Ultimatum in which Bourne, fresh from avenging his girlfriend’s death in the previous movie, manipulates a journalist through London’s crowded Waterloo Station via cellphone, dodging hitmen, and taking down opponents in the blink of an eye. These scenes are funny, suspenseful, and exquisitely shot and edited. Bourne’s memory is working again and his quest takes us into territory that queries our current surveillance and espionage quandaries. The violence comes in bursts and the documentary style is characteristic of DVD review ALFAZ DEL PI El Hort s/n Telephone: 96 588 82 66 director Paul Greengrass, who also directed The Bourne Supremacy, as well as the Sept. 11 drama United 93. The film seems absurdly real, despite Bourne’s apparent indestructibility. There’s also a car chase in New York City that is so brutally real it seems to verge on the magical. After three movies’ worth of hand-to-hand combat, Damon seems content with the physical action. When Bourne does a running leap off one of those Tangier rooftops across an alley and into an apartment window, it’s a familiar action-flick move but the movie doesn’t hover over it, you catapult with him into scene after scene. There are some late plot twists worthy of a thriller, and some fine acting here, which means the movie is more reminiscent of the revived Bond genre, than lame old sequel territory. Expect the return of Bourne as there are at least two more novels to cover, albeit not written by the masterful Robert Ludlum. CD review MIKA - LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION CINE COLCI RINCÓN BENIDORM Calle Zamora s/n Telephone: 96 585 38 59 www.cinescolci.com/index2.htm CINE JAYÁN JÁVEA Cristo del Mar s/n. Very close to the port. www.cinesxabia.com/evf.htm 28 WEEKS LATER CINE CLUB 7º ARTE PILAR DE LA HORADADA Pilar’s English cinema. An independent cinema showing films in English. Close to the Calle Mayor in Pilar de la Horadada - directions on their website: www.cinemapilar.com This cinema is now closed for the summer. It will re-open on September 8. 28 WEEKS Later is another addition to this summer’s sequels and threequels trend; and although the thought of yet another dragged-out plot arouses a sense of wearisome dread in most of us, 28 Weeks Later is a refreshingly good continuation of the 2002 hit 28 Days Later and was described by The Rolling Stone as “the rarest thing you’re going to see at the movies this summer: a sequel that doesn’t suck.” The zombie horror takes the disaster from the original film and pulls it into futuristic London where, as far as the unsuspecting population is aware, it is safe to return to... Starring Robert Carlyle and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 28 Weeks Later is the must-see sequel of the summer and is now available on DVD. IF you have been for a night on the tiles recently, no doubt you will have heard something from Mika’s debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion. The tunes stick in your head and tracks like Love today and Big girl will have you dancing around the room for ages after you first hear them. It is currently in the UK top ten and recently spent some time at number 1. It didn’t quite make it into the top ten of the Spanish charts, peaking at number 11, but for a début album that is still impressive. This feelgood CD will be playing in your head for days which, for many people, is great but opinions vary greatly. Life in Cartoon Motion is the marmite of music today with listeners either loving its bouncy vibe or hating its poppy feel. Decide for yourself, the brightly coloured album is available from w w w. a m a z o n . co.uk and Mika will be in Barcelona in October. See www. ticktackticket.com for ticket information. Book review A weird and wonderful guide to Barcelona - Le Cool Publishing 2006 IF you are seeking a guided tour of the Sagrada Familia, the Monjuïc or the Museu Picasso, look elsewhere, but if you are seeking to get to know underground Barcelona, then this book is for you. The title, A weird and wonderful guide to Barcelona, sums up the content perfectly – where to get away from the madding crowds, where to go to escape the tourists and great places to eat, drink and put your head down for the night are all covered, but from an angle never explored before in any guidebook. Taking you through the Raval district step by step – ‘smelly, badly-lit, non-stop, alive and lowdown dirty, it hides some of the city’s most carefully-guarded jewels’ – amongst other back-street locations where you will encounter such off-the-wall attractions as the Museum of Funeral Carriages and a clutter-shop run by an aged Tarot-card reader, A weird and wonderful guide to Barcelona provides a warts-and-all account of the city as only those who live there and know it intimately can give. Written by a multi-national team of young people who live in Barcelona, the book tells you where to go clubbing, where to get sex, where to find a cheap meal out, and where to get drunk in peace. Art-house cinema, alternative music festivals, shopping ranging from ‘second-hand tat’ to designer gear, accommodation ranging from five-star hotels to backpackers’ hostels at €20 a night, gayfriendly pubs, clubs, beaches and even clothes shops are featured – plus areas where you can get stoned, admire or contribute to the city’s graffiti and a chapter dedicated to how to understand the catalanes. Jazzily decorated with avant-garde photos and sketches, slogans and of course, more graffiti, the artwork alone makes this a bright, colourful, eye-catching publication that is effortless to read and a perfect complement to a more conventional guidebook. This publication is available at Librería Europa Bookshop, Calle Óscar Esplá 2, Calpe, 03710. Tel. 96 583 58 24 Email enquiries: [email protected] Website: www.libreria-europa-calpe.com Open M-F 10.00-14.00, 17.00-20.00 Sat 10.00-14.00. Free parking available. Cut out this book review to get a 5% discount on this title. CLUBS August 24 - August 30 2007 MAGAZINE clubs &societies What’s going on: Table tennis We propose to start a table tennis league around the Torrevieja and Mazarrón Axis area with fixtures commencing at the beginning of October. Men and women, of any level interested in playing in a local league, please call Jim Brogan 616291-026 or Ian Lloyd 96-895-62-46 or 636-401-134. Asociación Protectora de Animales de El Campello To all those who supported the Rastro on August 11 to raise money for our animals a ‘Big thank you’ for your help 433 euros was raised. The following fundraising events are being organised. Top Table Sale: September 9, Xmas Fayre: November 24, Xmas Lunch: December 14. Please come and give your support, become a member of our Association, or make a donation. To adopt one of our dogs contact Eve on 96-569-90-28. To view our dogs, visit www.myvicinity.co.uk. Last year, many dogs and cats were rescued and treated plus one collared dove. Without support and all the hard working volunteers many animals would suffer. JG Vets give all our animals a clean bill of health be- CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Jim’ll fix it JIM CAMPBELL and his partner, Julie, are very active raising money for charity in the La Manga area. “I’ve spent many years in the entertainment industry and have always made sure that money was raised for good causes, wherever I worked,” says Jim, who has worked in bingo halls and nightclubs in the UK, before deciding to live in the La Manga area. “I’m off to the UK to collect the rest of my belongings because, after 18 months of living here, I have fallen in love with the place and there’s no going back for me.” Jim is a bit of a character; two years ago he had his hair dyed pink to raise money for breast cancer research. “I told them I would do it if they raised £1,000 and they did!” he laughed. Jim is seen here handing over the €370 he raised to HELP Murcia Mar Menor’s President, Tony Horn, at the Autocine market in Los Alcázares, where HELP runs a stall every Saturday. “We’re delighted Jim has chosen HELP, and long may it continue.” says Tony. Since coming to La Manga, he has run several race nights at The Square Bar in Cabo de Palos and at Paddywack’s Restaurant on La Manga. He is very happy to run further race nights and bingo evenings for HELP if a suitable venue can be found, and he is also circulating the area to collect clothes, bric-abrac, books and similar items for donation to the HELP stall. HELP Murcia Mar Menor assists all kinds of people with all kinds of problems and can be reached by telephone on 968 570 059, or on the emergency number 616 546 378. fore adoption. Our charity shop on Avda. Germanies opens Monday to Saturday 10.00-14.00 hrs. Tel. 96-56335-47. 24-hour, mobile: 687-398-507. Help Murcia Mar Menor September 2 – cheese and wine, 8 euros, 14.30-19.00 hrs, Valle del Sol. (Tickets and further details from Pam Clough on 646-786-444 or Janice Clark on 968-134-355). September 11 – HELP General Meeting, 12.00 hrs, Biblioteca/CISSMU Building, Los Narejos, Los Alcázares. September 26 – ABBA Show, 20 euros including meal, 20.00 hrs, Olympia Restaurant, Mil Palmeras (tickets and further details from the HELP office 968-570059). Every Saturday – car boot sale at the Autocine Market, San Javier/ Los Alcázares, 09.00-14.00 hrs Model Railway Enthusiasts Want to continue enjoying your hobby but do not have space to build your own layout? We are based in Catral so why not come and join us. Tel. 662-022-190 for more info. Crossroads club Next meeting Friday September 14 and every Friday at 14.30 hrs at The Olympia Restaurante in Mil Palmeras. Tel. Ina on 96-532-98-64. We have speakers, a regular cooking spot by our chef every 2 weeks and a weekly Spanish lesson from Clara, a native Spaniard. The social side means a monthly outing of some sort and some longer excursions or holidays. Jávea Free Health Visitor’s Clinic for 0 – 5 year olds Wednesdays in Clínica Tarraula La Plaza from 14.00 to 15.30 hrs. Starting September 5 2007. Tel. 96 579 41 79. Jalón Valley Writers’ Group Interested in writing? Our members vary, from published novelists to absolute beginners, sharing experiences and ideas and learning from each other. Meetings at Bar Torre in Alcalalí, first and third Wednesdays of each month at 20.00hrs. Tel.Jill 96597-33-93 or Agnes 96-648-25-49. The Castle Theatre The September Club night will be held at the Bar Trifàssic on the main coast road just past the Port of Dénia. Details will be given out in future notices, so watch this space! Tel. Christine 626-201-636/Eileen 662-267-367 Careline Theatre - Alcalalí The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Town’s Women’s Guild Dramatic Society‘s Production of A Christmas Carol, by David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr on October 18, 19 and 20 at 20.00 hrs. The play is directed by Dennis Arthurs and promises to be very funny. The 10-euro tickets are available on 639 285 464 or at Kelly’s of La Xara. The annual paella at Fontilles is on September 16 with Care- 41 line rounders/cricket. Members and friends call Colin and Hazel to book on 96 573 30 96. Tel. 616 212 121. Oils Club Meetings start in September on Tuesdays in Ràfol d’Almúnia, Wednesdays in Dénia, Thursdays in Jávea. For anyone who wants to learn to paint or already can, please call Hanka (fully qualified) on 669 624 949 or 96 640 80 36. Royal British Legion (Jávea Branch) Tuesday meetings resume on September 11 at 11.00 hrs at Scallops Restaurant, Arenal Beach. Everyone welcome. Anyone with service in the Armed Forces who needs help and/or advice on welfare matters can ring Sheila on 96 579 56 87. Alpengold Showband group Alpengold Showband plays traditional brass band music, and oompah style. It rehearses Tuesdays at 13.00 hrs and 15.30 hrs and Thursdays at 17.30 hrs at the Casa Cultura, San Miguel, near Torrevieja. The Band, with its extensive repertoire, is available to play at most venues, also welcoming new players. Interested then contact Bas Starbuck on 96 677 50 75, or Di Hedley on 96 571 66 01, John Bawden on 96 670 69 59 or Tony Murray on 96 678 99 65 Visit www.TorreviejaInformation.com/alpengold Please note that the deadline for listings or changes is Thursday at 17.00 hrs and news articles is Monday at 17.00 hrs. If you would like us to feature your club telephone: 96 648 08 14 or email: [email protected] MABS finally takes delivery of first car MABS (Cancer Support Group) have branches extending from Valencia to Marbella, but the Mazarrón branch has only been in operation for 18 months. AT LAST!: Paul Garner of Automóviles Crespo in Elche hand over the keys to Ann Warmsley (chief fundraiser), Kay Cooper (Treasurer), Jean Barrie (Publicity) and Jacqui Phillips (president). So when their fundraisers suggested they not only raise money to enable the branch to run on a day-to-day basis, with volunteers taking patients in their own cars to hospital but also raise enough money to buy a car to use for the same purpose, we never thought it would actually happen. Well 10 months later and following a lot of hard work it was announced 14,000 euros had been raised for the car fund. The branch then set about looking for a suitable car and found it in Elche at AUTOMÓVILES CRESPO. S.A. who could not have been more helpful, a very generous discount was given and help with the complicated paper work. The Cancer Support Group exists to help and support all those diagnosed with cancer and their families during what can be a very difficult time. If you find you need our support please contact Jacqui on 96-579-40-83 who will put you in touch with your nearest branch. 42 MAGAZINE CLUBS August 24 - August 30 2007 BENITACHELL ALBIR Aerobics and Pilates A Course in Miracles Wednesday nights. Tel. 639-361-999 - www.innerpeace.es Arts and Crafts Benitachell HELP Volunteers needed. Tel. 667-034-576 - www.helpofDénia. com Ballet/Aerobics school. Tel. 96-686-42-63 Tuesdays/Thursdays. Tel. 96-686-81-82. Card Making Class Thursdays 10.30-12.30hrs. Tel. 96-686-66-80. Dru Yoga Children/adults. Tel. 639-361-999 - www.innerpeace.es Egyptian Bellydance Tel. Shona 659-549-276. Jewellery Classes Monday - Thursday. Tel. Julie 636-373-750. Euroslim Mondays 17.00hrs. Tel. 96-588-11-02/629-656-434. New Hope Christian Fellowship Sunday 11.00hrs. Tel. Pastor Stuart Wilson 635-359-581. Patchwork Quilting Club Fridays 10.30hrs. Tel. Jean 639-566-692. Ladies Lunch Club All ladies welcome. Tel. Betty Inglis 609-477-476. Martial Art Tel. 664-358-961, - [email protected]. ALCALALÍ Jalón Valley Writers Group Meetings: Bar Torre First/3rd Wednesdays 20.00hrs. Tel. Jill 96-597-33-93 or Agnes 96-648-25-49. Needle Craft Group Fridays/Mondays 14.00-17.00hrs. Tel. 96-648-22-68. Reiki Educational 1st Sundays, 11.00hrs. innerpeace.es Tel. 639-361-999 - www. Tai Chi Class Wednesdays 10.30-11.30/11.45-12.45hrs. Tel. 619-613-236. Yoga on the move Walk/talk Yoga! Tel. 639-361-999 - www.innerpeace.es ACEC - Cultural and Ecological Association 1st Saturday. Tel. 639-637-520 - www.acecalpe.org. ALFAZ DEL PI Alfaz Animal Home Monday - Saturday. Tel. 96-588-71-16/96-588-90-71. Alfaz Spiritual Foundation Sunday Service 18.30hrs. Tel. 96-574-56-06/616-319-725. Casa Sjengarden Cultural 16.30-19.00hrs - musical/literary. Tel. 96-686-05-22 Association Foreign Property Owners Information to help ex-pats in Calpe. 10 euros per household. Tel. 96-583-01-06/96-583-59-75. Amigos de los Niños de EMAUS Improve the lives of the underprivileged children. Tel. Carole 639-637-520/Lin 679-813-462. Badminton Club Mondays/Thursdays 09.00hrs. Tel. Diana 96-649-84-82. Emotional Freedom Techniques Day workshop. Tel. Chris Padro 653-468-373. Egyptian belly dance classes Mondays/Thursdays. Tel. 96-588-90-05/659-549-276 British Sub Aqua Club Scuba divers Jávea/Moraira/Calpe. Tel. 96-646-3906/96-583-21-69 - www.bsacmarinaalta.com Reiki Tel. Louise, Usui and Shambala 96-588-95-04. Calpe Christian Fellowship Service 11.00hrs. Tel. Pastor John Adamson 96-583-26-07. Sporting Alfàs Cricket Club Tel. Phillip Pennick 96-686-69-65. Calpe Craft Club Tel. Dilys 96-583-93-60. The Third Age Home Charity Shop [email protected] - Tel. 96-579-44-62 Calpe HELP Be a volunteer. Tel. 616-237-135 - www.helpofDénia.com. Yoga Wednesdays 15.00hrs. Tel. Louise 96-588-95-04. Calpe Tuesday Walkers Tel. Tim 96-579-38-47 - [email protected]. ALICANTE Alicante Writers’ Group 2nd Thursday 20.00hrs. Tel. 636-675-127/639-280-286. English Speaking Club Penny: [email protected]. Cantal Roig Dance Group Learn local folk dances, 19.00hrs. Tel. 666-253-480. Harley Owner’s Group Do you ride a Harley? Tel. Max 625-011-892. Kingpins Skittles Club Monday nights 19.30hrs. Tel. Jan 600-837-054. ALTEA Altea English Library Mondays/Thursdays/Fridays. Tel. 96-584-47-07. Machine Knitting Club Tel. Vilma 96-583-76-31/Jean 96-573-31-47. BENIDOLEIG MOFTAG Ladies Social/Fundraising Club. Tel. 96-587-47-23. Benidoleig Jive Sundays 19.45hrs, El Cid. Tel. 96-557-06-77. Paquita’s Country Club Tel. 96-640-43-06/96-642-52-81 or www.paquitascc.com Valleys International Bridge and Social Club Tuesdays/Thursdays El Cid, 13.30hrs. Tel. 96-640-45-33. BENIDORM Diabetes Support Help and advice. Sylvia Tel. 96-640-08-75. Eckankar Religion of Light and Sound of God. Tel. 686-161-889. Land Problems LRAU-LUV Valencian land grab problems? Tel. 600837-054 - www.abusos-no.org. CALPE The Dutch Belgium Club Fridays, La Luna ‘live music’. Tel. 96-648-30-68. Costa Blanca Yachting Association Mondays 20.00hrs, Mason de Paco bar, Jávea - Benitachell Hope for the family Romania Trust Many Romanian children are abandoned or live in very poor conditions. Charity no. 1089073. Tel/fax: 0044-1622-762-743 - [email protected]. Nola’s Fitness Class Legs, Bums and Tums/pilates. Tel. 669-377-830 Spanish Dance School Flamenco/Rumba/Tango/Salsa. Tel. 627-019-403. Costa Blanca Video and DVD Club Tel. 96-673-02-10/616-651-143/618-414-243. Patchwork in Calpe Face character problems. Thursdays. Tel. 96-583-13-62. Probus Club of Calpe & District Retired business men. 4th Wednesday. Tel. 96-597-34-59. Rodeo Stompers Linedancing Tel. Barbara 630-113-649. Masonry Costa Blanca Tel. 96-671-96-53 - provincialcharitysteward@hotmail. com. NARPO – Costa Blanca North 2nd Wednesday 11.30hrs. Tel. Ian 600-867-398. RAFA North 2nd Monday 12.00-13.00hrs - www.rafancb.org - Tel. 96642-15-93. Re-Upholstery Tel. Pat 96-574-13-39 Rotary International Fellowship CB North Fridays 13.45hrs. Tel. by Wednesday 17.00hrs - 96-57954-21. Royal Society of St George on the CB Tel. 96-579-16-94/96-649-34-38/609-812-285/609-156-759 Waggs Breeders/owners of birds. Tel. Nick 645-503-219. Women in Business Club Free networking/support club. Tel. 96-597-32-34. CATRAL Model Railway Enthusiasts Telephone 662-022-190. DÉNIA Amigos de Dénia Shop in Paseo del Saladar 87, Mondays - Saturdays 10.00-13.00hrs. Tel. 96-642-42-99. A.P.A.D. - Dénia Dog Sanctuary Shop at No 1 Calle San Antonio. Tel. 669-635-438. Asociación Protectora de Animales - Charity Shop C/ San José, 14. Monday - Friday 10.00-13.00hrs. Critical Mass Bike Ride, Dénia First Saturday - Tel. 618-223-927. Dénia - Calpe - Orba Triangle Learn about Spain. Tel. Jazz 652-584-272. Dénia Cat Protection League - Aldea Felina Shelter, feed/re-home cats. Tel. 628-498-813. Charity shop in Els Poblets, Monday-Saturday 10.00-14.00hrs. Dénia Choral Society Mondays/Thursdays. Tel. Chris 96-575-53-49. Dénia Craft Club C/ Loreto, Dénia. Thursdays 14.30hrs. Tel. 96-642-07-23. Dénia International Bridge Club Monday/Wednesday, 16.00hrs. Tel. 96-578-53-87. Dénia Writers’ Circle Alternate Thursdays 15.00hrs. Tel. 96-643-19-14. Benidorm Card Making Class Friends The Royal British Legion Calpe Closed for the summer reopening in September.Chairman: 96-584-24-67, welfare – Ursula: 96-574-78-47. HELP of Dénia Volunteers providing support. Interpreters Monday - Friday 11.00-14.00hrs. Medical equipment. Tel. 96-64270-44/96-578-72-76/96-557-27-54 - www.helpofdenia.com. Social Scene Knitting and crochet workshop. Tel. 96-579-44-62 International Fellowship Dénia 1st/3rd Monday 19.30hrs. Tel. 96-575-53-49/96-578-86-24. U3A CALPE Tel. Pat 96-583-45-86 - www.u3acalpe.com. Irish Setdancing Fridays 20.00hrs. Tel. 96-642-31-58/660-871-023. Meet new friends. Tel. 96-586-47-34/669-988-615. GATAMI – Cat welfare Fostering/rehousing, all cats are spayed, fully vaccinated and treated for fleas. Tel. 96-680-69-76/654-729-977. Help Benidorm International Tel. 679-751-281. Medical aids: 96-687-86-02. Home visits: 96-587-85-41. Interpreters needed: 679-751-281. History Group 1st Thursday 19.30hrs. Tel. Tony 666-097-807. International Singles Club Wednesdays 11.00hrs. Tel. 699-301-494/96-584-59-01. Les Amis de la Francophonie Culture & Loisirs French-speaking association with all nationalities. Tel. 96-586-20-26/616-007-946. Royal British Legion Benidorm 1st/3rd Tuesday 11.00hrs. Tel. 96-585-95-88. Villasol Squares Tuesdays 19.00-22.00hrs. Tel. Peter 686-208-730 Crafty Di’s Tuesday 11.00-13.00hrs. Tel. Di 616-309-341 BENIMAR The Benimar Social Group Wednesdays 19.30hrs. Tel. 96-572-42-73/96-572-41-21. Campoverde Theatre Group Next meeting September 5 14.30hrs at Olympia Annex, Mil Palmeras. Tel. 96-532-14-94. Buddhism Thursdays 20.30hrs. Tel. Diane 96-532-14-94/636-002-034. COSTA BLANCA Aromatherapy Tel. Brenda 96-285-56-24 - [email protected]. Bereavement Group For parents who have lost a child. Tel. 96-692-34-05. BENIMARCO Benimarco Doll Group Interested in Porcelain dolls? Tel. 96-573-11-98. Charity e-cards Send electronic greetings cards while donating 50% to charity - www.charitye-cards.co.uk. BENISSA Costa Barber Singers Thursdays 20.00hrs. Tel. 96-574-46-12/96-649-76-57. Marina Alta & Costa Blanca Floral Club Next meeting September 27 at Centro de Culture in Benissa. Tel. Sue 96-689-63-50. School of Ministry Biblical, theological and Christian courses - www. bensom.org - Tel. 96-573-34-62. 665-278-801 CAMPOVERDE Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than money? Drinking to excess not only affects your health it can spill over into every other aspect of your life, damaging everything that is important to you. AA offers free help to anyone with a drink problem. Call Costa Blanca North: 648 16 90 45, Costa Blanca South: 625-912-078. www.aa-europe.org. BENIJÓFAR Tel. Yoga Tuesdays 10.00-11.30hrs. Tel. 620-147-089. CARTAGENA Totalique Twirlers Children aged 4+ from September 2007 and summer school - www.totalique-twirlers.org The King’s Church Sundays 11.00hrs. thekingschurch.net. Yoga Tel. Pat 96-583-45-86. - www. Costa Blanca Anglican Chaplaincy Church of England. Senior Chaplain - Father Eric Lewis: 96-649-07-37/696-754-439. Chaplain: Father Peter Edwards: 630-103-378. www.costablanca-anglicanchaplaincy.org. Costa Blanca Flyers www.costablancaflyers.net - Tel.629-352-727/679-352-327. Costa Blanca Mountain Walkers Depart 10.00hrs. Boots, water and first aid kit required. Tel. 96-283-99-53/96-647-66-37. Costa Blanca Samaritans Tel. Steve 667-764-412 - [email protected]. ELS POBLETS English Speaking Residents Group Queries/problems: Tel. 96-647-57-62/96-647-45-24. Outings to places of interest. Information pack for new arrivals. Tel. Heather 96-647-54-29 - [email protected] Los Caballos Tennis Club Tuesdays/Sundays. Tel. 96-647-51-77. P.I.R.E.E. Last Thursdays 19.00hrs, Els Poblets Bar. GANDIA Azahar Fun Quiz and Dinner Evening Gandia Wednesday evenings. Tel. Chris 96-280-82-86 Ballroom, Latin and Salsa Dancing Tel. 626-676-024 - [email protected]. Church of England Holy Communion every Sunday at 12 noon in the Ducal Palace in the centre of Gandia. Tel. Stephen Carden 96-280-74-83/Terry Ewers 96-280-50-99 or email [email protected]. Part of the official Costa Blanca Anglican Chaplaincy. Gandia Area Social Club Ten-pin bowling, flamenco classes, walking, petanca, golf, etc. Thursday evenings: dinner at Viva España. Tel. 96-287-82-98 – www.gandiaareasocialclub.com Gandia Help Tel. Tony 96-281-90-04 - www.helpofDénia.com Sociedad Protectora de Animales Viewing days Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays, 12.0014.00hrs. Tel. 96-286-81-58/96-280-70-42. The Gandia Bridge Club Thursdays 16.00hrs. Tel. Fred 96-283-93-70. The Royal British Legion, Gandia Branch First Tuesdays. Tel. Cilla 676-938-739. Western Dancers Alfauir Fridays 19.00hrs - Tel. Patricia 96-285-58-87/629-937-971. GATA DE GORGOS AMADEM Fights for the rights of those with mental disabilities. Tel. 96-646-91-20. Camera Club Tel. 96-576-13-49 - [email protected]. HONDÓN VALLEY The Royal British Legion, Hondón Valley Branch 3rd Tuesday 19.30hrs. Tel. Dennis 600-670-870. Email: [email protected] Dénia Anglican Church Sundays 11.45hrs at church on left on Las Rotas road. Rotary International Fellowship Club Tuesday lunches 13.00hrs. Tel. 96-583-89-41. Tuesday 10.30-12.30hrs. Tel. Anne 96-686-66-80. ELCHE Elche RFC Rugby Club. Tel. 618-048-532/647-618-463. Jewellery Classes Tuesday evenings. Tel. Amy 662-140-040 Mums and Tots Wednesdays 10.00-12.00hrs. Tel. 96-578-21-52. Sewing Group Tel. Christine 96-578-57-10. Solidarity in Dénia Spanish/English together. - [email protected]. Tai Chi Monday mornings 11.00hrs. Tel. 646-821-614. The Castle Theatre Group The Courtyard, 7 Calle San Cristóbal, Dénia. Tel. Christine 626-201-636 or Eileen 662-267-367. The Spiritually Free Society All welcome. Tel. 96-647-11-73/650-334-443 U3A Dénia Tel. 96-597-77-78 - u3adenia.org Worship Service Sunday Service 10.30hrs. Tel. Barbara 96-578-21-52. EL CAMPELLO A.P.A.C. - Asociación Protectora de Animales de El Campello - charity shop Monday - Saturday 10.00-14.00hrs. Tel. 24hr 687-398-507 - www.myvicinity.co.uk to view the dogs - All MOT’d. Callanetics – Exercises Monday/Friday 10.45-12.15hrs. Tel. 96-685-22-93. D.I.N.A Dogs looking for homes. Blood tested, microchipped, inoculated/sterilised. Tel. 96-563-57-83/664-151-677. JÁVEA Acrylics Workshops Wednesday afternoons - Craft Centre. Tel. 96-646-34-30 Animales de San Antonio Help needed - Cat Welfare Programme. Tel. 646-866-432 APASA Tel. 96-579-68-54. Art Centre Association Jávea Tel. 96-647-20-49 Art Clubs in Jávea Tel. 96-579-44-62. Art of Enlightenment Workshops Fridays 14.00-16.30hrs. Tel. 96-646-36-89/670-384-851. Bob Ross Artcasa Art classes. Tel. Gaynor 620-664-988 British Sub Aqua Club Scuba divers Jávea/Moraira/Calpe. Tel. 96-646-3906/96-583-21-69 - www.bsacmarinaalta.com Campo Crafters Alternate Tuesdays 10.00-12.30hrs. Tel. 639-987-301 Cáncer Charity Centre, Jávea Park Monday - Saturday 10.00-13.00hrs. Tel. 96-579-01-29. Classic Choir Friday evenings. Tel. Ann/Colin 96-579-03-71 Jávea Al-Anon Support Group Tel. 96-646-36-89. Jávea Backgammon Club Mondays 20.00-23.00hrs. Tel. Steve 635-377-335. Jávea Book Circle Tel. Anne/Huw Griffith 96-647-21-05. Jávea Bridge Club Avda de Paris, Jávea Park. Tel. Margaret 96-579-34-13. www.javeabridgeclub.com Jávea China and Porcelain Painting Tel. Lavender Studio 96-646-15-37. Jávea Community Group Tel. Jeni 96-579-04-70. Jávea International Baptist Church Sunday 11.00hrs. Tel. 638-205-280. Jávea Ladies Legs bums/tums, Mondays 16.00hrs. Tel. 96-642-34-63. Jávea Lions Club 2nd Tuesdays/4th Thursdays. Restaurant La Sella 20.00hrs. Jávea Netball Club L’Àncora Club Wednesdays 20.00-21.30hrs. Jávea Players Tel. 96-648-20-60 Jávea Speakers & Toastmasters Tel. Sylvia 96-579-23-16. El Campello Craft Club Centre Thursdays 10.00-13.00hrs. Tel. 96-563-03-30. Jazzercise Tel. Lisa 687-275-592/96-577-07-56. Reiki Group Wednesdays/Thursdays. Tel. Yvonne 696-655-028. Labour International CB North www.terra.es/personal4/lsocbn/ The Royal British Legion, Campello Branch Last Tuesdays 11.00hrs. Tel. 96-563-44-76/616-172-209. Martial Art Thursdays 18.30-19.30hrs. Tel. 664-358-961. CLUBS August 24 - August 30 2007 Nueva Jávea Social Club Tel. Angela 96-646-09-78 - [email protected] MAPA Social Club Tel. 96-649-08-40. A.E.C.C Tel. 96-571-66-79/96-679-82-96. La Marina: 96-679-60-04. Mingles - 2 Tel. Amanda 600-612-368/Sally 635-343-867. A Touch of Class Wednesdays 12.00-14.00hrs Tel. Sue 96-679-86-40. Mirador Dance Club Tel. Mike/Jan 96-679-85-88/627-030-404. Age Concern CB Sur Tel. 96-678-68-87. Mondays - Fridays 10.00-13.30hrs. Nirvana Dining Club Tel. Jane 667-836-495. Alpengold Showband Tuesdays 13.00 and 15.30 hrs,Thursdays 17.30 hrs at the Casa Cultura, San Miguel, nr Torrevieja. Tel. Bas 96-67750-75/Di 96-571-66-01. Postnatal Support Group Tel. 96-570-82-27 - [email protected] Association of Retired Police Officers 2nd Wednesdays 10.30hrs. Tel. 96-679-70-15. Reiki Tel. Ann Barber 96-671-73-10. Silk Crafts Tel. Rayne 96-283-99-11 - [email protected] Belly Dancing with Cleo Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays. Tel. 619-512-714. Squash/Raquetball Club Los Amigos Tuesdays/Friday 17.00-19.00hrs. Tel. 606-919-124. Bob Ross Artcasa Art classes. Tel.620-664-988 - gaynorartclass@hotmail. com. Royal Air Forces Association Branch No.1359. 3rd Tuesday. Tel. 96-679-80-71/96-501-3186 - mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/rafacostablanca Costa Blanca Christadelphians www.thisisyourbible.com Egyptian Belly Dance Classes Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays. Tel. 96-285-25-82 Public Library Tuesdays/Saturdays 10.00-12.00hrs. Tel. 636-898-162 Friends in Oliva Tel. Val 96-283-94-06/650-278-592 Reiki Friday mornings. Tel. Richard 96-647-15-62. Martial Art Wednesdays/Fridays 18.30-19.30hrs. Tel. 664-358-961. Rotary International Fellowship CB No meetings until September 14. Tel. 96-579-54-21. Oliva Circle of Friends Tel. 609-477-476/96-505-06-30 - [email protected] Roundabout Charity Shop Jávea Jávea old town. 10.00-13.00hrs Monday - Saturday. Royal British Legion, Jávea Meetings resume on September 11. Tuesdays 11.00hrs. Tel. Hilary 96-577-01-21. Salsa classes Tuesday/Wednesdays. Tel. 96-579-56-56. Tai Chi ‘Yang’ Style 19.00-20.00hrs. Tel. Carlos 667-959-237. Oliva Knitting Group Wednesdays 14.00hrs. [email protected]. Tel. 647-202-940 Tennis Club Los Amigos Sundays/Mondays/Tuesdays/Thursdays Tel. 606-919-124. Tango Argentino Tel. Tamar 96-579-69-83/617-591-145. Taoist Tai Chi Society of Jávea Tel. Jean 649-161-290 - www.taoist.org. - knit- 10.00hrs. The Oliva Craft Club Tel. Val 96-283-94-06 - [email protected] The Costa Blanca Yarn Group Tel. 96-579-44-62 - [email protected] 43 Action 4 Anim Tel. Suzi 659-677-749/Jo 686-887-592. OLIVA Oasis Evangelical Centre Sundays 11.00hrs. Tel. 96-646-28-48. MAGAZINE Western line-dancing Mondays 19.30-22.00hrs. Tel. Carole 96-283-96-60. Bob Ross Painting Tel. Denis 96-679-09-27/Ron 96-679-03-69. Bon Bon Club May 21, 14.00hrs, New York Bar, Washington Square, La Siesta Urbanization Rascals Variety show group for raising money. Tel. 96-672-72-82. San Luis Neighbourhood Watch Tel. Graham/Jean 96-678-47-35. Table Tennis Beginning October. Tel. 616-291-026/96-895-62-46/636401-134. Tennis Monday/Wednesday - Friday 10.00hrs. Tel. 696-199-265. Cabaret Dance Group Tel. 647-082-021. Tennis Club Campoamor Wednesdays 15.00hrs/Sunday 10.30hrs. Tel. 675-395-168 Lions Clubs International Tel. Bob Spokes 675-377-473. CALPE - Aid for the physically & mentally disabled Day care and teaching for disabled. Tel. 626-514123/696-876-688. The Buffs Wednesdays 16.00hrs. Tel. John 96-671-81-22. The Tai Chi Society Costa Blanca Sundays in July, sandy beach (Arenal), Jávea, 08.30hrs. Tel. 610-01-60-80. www.balansvita.com. Orba Slimmers Mondays 11.00hrs. Tel. 96-558-14-18/680-138-931. Celtic Supporters Club Tel. Steve 669-340-528/Maureen 618-180-290. U3A Jávea www.u3ajavea.org - Tel. Rosi 96-599-52-27 Crossroads club Next meeting September 14 and every Friday 14.30 hrs, The Olympia Restaurante, Mil Palmeras. Tel. Ina 96532-98-64. The Material Girls Wednesday 10.00-13.00hrs. Tel. 96-579-00-86/96-646-32-27. ORBA The Original Charity shop and library Monday - Saturday 10.00-13.00hrs. Tel. 96-646-08-03. Wall Hangings and Rug Making Club Alternate Tuesdays 09.30-12.00hrs. Tel. 639-987-301 ORIHUELA PARCENT Yoga Tuesdays. Tel. Maria Palomar 96-646-08-51. International Music Circle 2nd Monday. Tel. 96-640-53-80. LA NUCÍA Mediterranean Garden Society Tel. Jenny Bussey 96-640-53-65. Pilates Mondays/Wednesdays/Thursdays. Tel. 96-588-24-08 PEDREGUER LA XARA The Cancer Support Group Tel. Maureen 690-756-836. Costa Blanca Cross Stitchers Thursdays 14.00-16.00hrs. Tel. Vivian 96-597-95-34 The HELP Charity Shop Tel. Joy 96-578-72-76/Mavis 96-642-14-34. The Enrique Montoliu Foundation Ecological Mediterranean Garden. Tel. 96-352-30-99 PEGO LLÍBER Chapel Santa María del Mar Father Noe Tel. 699-928-377. Parochial Tel. 96-670-39-65. Cherokee Line Dancers Tuesdays/Thursdays. Tel. 96-676-06-63/96-676-01-38. Chris Jarvis Dance Academy Tel. Yvonee 96-679-68-20. Church Services of the Anglican Sunday service 18.00hrs. Tel. 96-833-82-92/96-676-27-15. C & M Crafts Tel. Christine/Margaret 96-670-72-23. Company Women Lunches 1st Thursdays. Tel. Caroline 96-679-53-22. Crescendo International Choir Tel. Sue 96-678-41-08/Phyl 96-678-53-32. Denelle Dance Club Wednesdays/Thursdays 19.00hrs. Tel. 635-584-431. Business 4 Business Networking Club Tel. Garry 619-767-006. Charity Book Stall Pego Thursday Market Profits to animal protection charity. Tel. 96-597-72-28. Dolores - Catral Area Tuesdays 10.00-12.00hrs. Tel. 96-671-16-53/647-356-945. Diners’ Club Tel. Jazz 652-584-272/Jean 96-648-04-61. Pego Aerobics Tuesdays 09.30hrs. Tel. Caroline 96-640-08-78 El Limonar neighbourhood watch Tel. 96-678-58-32/96-678-54-30/96-678-44-12. MARINA ALTA Pego Craft Club Tuesdays 15.00-17.00hrs. Tel. Val 96-283-94 06. 4 Paz Save our sea. Tel. 628-031-758 - www.4paz.org. Exciting Oils Club Start September: Tuesdays – Ràfol d’Almúnia, Wednesdays – Dénia, Thursdays – Jávea. Tel. Hanka 96-640-80-36. Marina Alta Equine Society Tel. 96-558-77-47 - [email protected]. Royal British Legion, Pego 1st/3rd Tuesdays 12.00hrs. Tel. 96-558-43-29/96-558-74-00. Slimming Club Wednesdays 15.30-16.30hrs, Societat de Caçadors The Monte Pego Theatre Company Tel. 96-597-75-34. PILAR DE LA HORADADA The Financial Forum Tel. Phillip Day 618-830-830. Coro Pilar Mixed Choir Friday 18.00hrs. Tel. Christine 96-676-23-08. MARINA BAIXA Jazz Greats Mondays 20.00-23.00hrs. Tel. Roger 96-676-23-08. U3A - Marina Baixa Tel. Chris 96-587-88-79. MAZARRÓN M&M’s Dance Clubs Wednesdays/Fridays 20.00-22.30hrs. Tel. 610-981-795. Cañadas del Romero Mazarrón Yoga/Spanish/flower arranging etc. Tel. 660-384-778. Toastmasters International Increase your self-confidence/communication - www. levantetm.com for information. Mazarrón Bahía Lions Club 2nd/4th Mondays. Tel. 96-815-45-89 P.A.L.S. Fundraising for medical equipment. www.mazarron. com. Tel. 96-813-88-23/626-460-465 Table Tennis Beginning October. Tel. 616-291-026/96-895-62-46/636401-134. MORAIRA Artists Unlimited Thursdays 10.30-12.30hrs. Tel. 96-574-41-94/96-583-60-64. British Sub Aqua Club Scuba divers Jávea/Moraira/Calpe. Tel. 96-646-3906/96-583-21-69 - www.bsacmarinaalta.com Costa Blanca Striders Tel. Phil/Laura 96-649-12-19. QUESADA Church On The Way Sundays 11.00hrs. Tel. Pastors Rod/Janet McCoy 96671-25-84 Gloria’s Crafts and Hobbies Tel. Gloria/Avril 96-572-44-42/690-351-015. Golden Girls Alternate Wednesdays 14.00-16.00hrs. Tel. 96-532-90-92. HELP Association of Torrevieja Tel. 96-672-37-33/24hr help-line 96-570-42-82. Jardín del Mar Urbanisation, Neighbourhood Tel. Anne 96-670-19-21/José 96-570-97-98. International Christian Assembly Ladies meeting - Wednesdays 11.00hrs. Prayer and bible study - Thursdays 18.30hrs. Sunday service 18.30hrs. C/San Miguel de Salinas 2, corner Santomers (nr. Centro de Salud). Rev. Rafael Restrepo: 660-127-276, Rev. Steve Campbell: 662-428-530, contacts: 96-692-82-98. International Ladies Choir Tel. Derek 96-676-06-63. Rehearse Mondays. Just Brass Tuesdays 10.00hrs. Tel. 96-670-69-59/96-678-99-65. Keep Fit Tel. Suzanne 627-371-731. The Spiritual Awareness Society of Spain Next meeting September 9. Tel. 96-570-33-46/96-676-33-54. Labour International CB South 2nd Thursdays 11.00hrs. Tel. Alan 96-692-50-59. SAN JUAN San Juan and District English Speaking Club Tel. 96-565-21-14. Wednesdays/Sundays 12.00-14.30hrs. SANET I NEGRALS SANTA POLA Moraira & District Royal Naval Association Tel. Peter 96-640-40-54/Robert 96-649-51-11. Santa Pola Dollshouse Group 2nd Wednesdays 10.30am. Tel. Janette 96-541-54-10. Moraira HELP Tel. Ian 667-036-188 - www.helpofDénia.com Santa Pola/Gran Alacant Writer’s Circle Tel. 600-277-869. TEULADA Shirley’s Classes Aerobics to pole dancing. Tel. Shirley 96-574-41-17. Gardening Club Vega Baja 1st Monday 14.00hrs. Tel. 96-671-66-76/96-671-65-27. Quesada Art Group Tel. Suzanne 680-961-025. Reiki Tel. Alice 96-640-80-70/Joan 96-576-14-74. Moraira - Centre Vital Pilates Step/Qi - Gong/Capoeira. Tel. 699-456-978. Emerald Isle Mother and Toddler Group Mondays 11.00-13.00hrs. Tel. 675-401-325/617-232-235. L.A Concert Band Tel. Lorraine 96-671-94-84/687-429-144/670-719-911. Ladies Self Improvement Group (LSIG) Tel. Violet 96-670-25-56. La Marina & San Fulgencio Computer Club Wednesdays 11.00-16.00hrs. Tel. Ron 96-679-03-96. La Marina Residents Association 11.00-12.00hrs Monday - Friday, C/Madrid Urbanisation. The Carrot Crunchers Club 1st Sunday 12.30hrs. Tel. Roy 676-919-630. The Friendship Club Last Friday 11.00hrs at the Biblioteca. The Royal Air Forces Association CB Branch 1359 3rd Tuesday, 14.30hrs. Tel. 96-672-34-51/686-859-441 The Royal Naval Association Torrevieja Branch 1st Wednesdays 17.00hrs. Tel. Rod 96-676-42-92 Torrevieja Barbershop Harmonisers Tuesdays 10.00-12.30hrs. Tel. 96-671-72-62/96-677-50-29 Torrevieja Christian Fellowship Sundays 09.30hrs. Comm. 11.30hrs. Tel. 96-670-03-91. Torrevieja Coda Group Relationship problems? Tel. 96-678-42-83. Torrevieja Computer Club Wednesdays 19.30hrs. Tel. Anne 96-678-62-81 Torrevieja Costa Lions Club 2nd/4th Thursdays 19.00hrs. Tel. 96-676-48-82. Torrevieja Digital Camera Club 1st/3rd Tuesday. Tel. 96-679-80-84 - [email protected]. Torrevieja Flower Club Next meeting September 19 at Rocajuna restaurant. Tel. 96-677-51-67/96-670-73-30 Torrevieja Self Awareness and Healing Fellowship Tel. Morag 96-572-02-56 - [email protected]. Torrevieja U3A Tel. Ann Ross 96-677-30-22. Torrevieja Writers’ Circle Wednesdays 11.00-13.00hrs. Tel. Nik 96-679-68-66 Total Crafts Mondays 14.00-17.00hrs. Tel. 96-678-99-77/96-670-62-68 Trailblazers Line Dancers, Torreta 2 Wednesdays. Tel. Gill 96-571-85-80. Trash and Treasure Sundays 15.00hrs. Tel. 96-571-31-17/647-843-387. Vecinos Cooperando Vega Baja Tel. 96-679-88-89/96-678-44-04/96-571-62-58. Velvetones Tel. 96-572-70-34/96-678-41-39 - www.velvetones.net World Ship Society Meetings: 1st Monday 18.00-21.00hrs in Hoggies Bar, Urb. San Luis. Tel. 96-676-51-66 - [email protected]. VALENCIA Valencia Native American Flute Circle Tel. 96-341-76-56 - www.geocities.com/entreflautas VILLAJOYOSA Caring Together www.caringspain.com - [email protected] VILLAMARTÍN Craft Classes Wednesdays/Thursdays. Tel. 96-676-52-00/676-754-489. XALÓ Jalón Mingles 30+Club Sundays 20.30hrs. Tel. 646-274-926/619-933-187. Jalón Valley Dolls House & Miniatures Club 1st Wednesdays. Tel. 96-648-11-17 - club@dollshouse shopspain.com. Jalón Valley Writers’ Group La Marina Tappers Dance Troupe Mondays/Fridays. Tel. 96-679-68-20/660-191-975. Meetings at Bar Torre in Alcalalí, 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month at 20.00hrs. Tel. 96-597-33-93/96-648-25-49. La Siesta Charity Library C/ Weber, 12, La Siesta. 10.30-12.30hrs Tel. 96-678-55-13. Lions Clubs International Twice monthly 19.00hrs. Tel. 675-377-473 The Charity Shop Moraira Tel. 96-579-44-62. Asociación Benéfica de Teulada - charity shop Avenida Mediterráneo 10.00-12.30hrs Monday - Friday. Tel. Pat 606-274-948. La Siesta - Computer Club Wednesday 19.45hrs at PALS social club. The Marina Alta Slimming Club Wednesdays 11.15hrs. Tel. 96-558-14-18/680-138-931. The Spiritually Free Society Tel. Sandra 650-334-443. Gardeners’Circle Tel. Margarete 96-574-06-66. La Siesta Evangelical Church Rev. Daniel Reyes B.D. Tel. 96-850-80-28 - www.TorreviejaInformation.com/lasiestachurch The Money Club - Xaló Tel. 96-573-34-11. MURCIA-MAR MENOR La Fustera Church of England Tel. Edith 96-574-54-30/Josie 96-649-72-03. Duplicate Bridge Thursdays 18.30-22.00hrs. Tel. 96-857-57-60/676-346-118 Help Murcia Mar Menor 10.00-13.30hrs Monday - Friday. Tel. 968-570-059/616546-378 – [email protected] – www.helpmarmenor.org The No-smoking Club Mar Menor Wednesdays Biblioteca [email protected] Centre - The English Choir Thursdays. Tel. June 96-578-67-12/Colin 96-577-12-87. TORREVIEJA La Zenia Toastmasters Increase your confidence/communication. Tel. 678105-008/96-818-32-58 - www.toastmasters.org. Los Balcones Neighbourhood Watch CB 2nd Thursday. Tel. 96-672-28-61. U3A Vall de Pop Tel. Agnes 96-648-25-49 - www.u3avalldelpop.com. XÀTIVA Ballroom, Latin/Salsa Dancing Xàtiva Tel. 626-676-024 - [email protected]. 6-a-Side football in the Torrevieja Area Tel. Dougie 628-789-335. Linedance Unlimited Tel. Sally/Gerry 600-362-044. P.E.P.A - The Helping Hands Charity Dogs: Tel. 678-059-750/650-256-678. Domestic cats: 96-28071-59. Feral cats: 605-460-828. - www.pepaspain.com. A Bible Message Tel. CALPE 96-587-51-28. Lynne’s Lively Ladies Tel. Lynne Adams 96-678-56-61. Xàtiva Fellowship Club 1st Tuesdays 19.30hrs. Tel. Sue 96-228-75-49. MAGAZINE 44 August 24 - August 30 2007 PUZZLES Rules and answers on page 46 CROSSWORD QUICK QUIZ 1. What does a Frenchman mean when he says Quel dommage? 3. At which naval battle in the Napoleonic wars was Nelson killed? 4. What is the large fortified dropping gate of a castle? 5. What birds are Accipitridae? 6. Where were the 1964 olympics? 7. With what sport would you associate Kel Nagle? 8. What are scotophobia, nyctophobia, achluophobia and lygophobia? Where was Martin Luther King assassinated? 10. Which European discovered the Philippines? LANDMARKS wordgames.co.uk ELIMINATIONS What were Genesis selling by the pound in their 6th album title? 2. 9. LOTTERY LOTTO Your six jackpot balls must total 128 ACROSS DOWN 1. Reflecting optimism (of spectacles) (4-8) 1. Regulations (5) CHILDREN’S WORDSEARCH 8. Smallest in amount (5) 2. Plastic used for financial transactions (5,4) 9. Obvious (7) 3. Quote as an example (4) 10. Indulge to excess (4) 11. Delicate in texture, flimsy (4-4) 4. (Of a domestic employee) resident in the employer’s house (4-2) 14. Argue rationally (6) 5. Inappropriate (8) 15. Smoothly, without emotion (6) 6. Receding tide (3) 17. Old-fashioned, primitive (8) 18. Jeers (4) 21. Give the right to (7) 23. Immature but active insect stage (5) 24. Andersen’s potential swan? (4,8) and all odd-numbered 5 balls on its radius and balls a half and a 28 quarter this number and all even-numbered 30 balls with a 3 and all odd-numbered 41 balls with a 4 and balls higher in 23 position in the twenties and all single-digit balls 8 on its circle and the ball which is the 27 sum of its digits and balls with digits total 12 12 and the ball with reverse 24 these digits and next-but-two balls to 2 2 on its circle and all odd-numbered 17 balls on its diameter and balls four, five and 4 ten times 4 THIS WEEK FIND WORDS RELATED TO LOONEY TUNES 7. Avidly 12. Fragrant dried petals (3-6) 13. Truthfully (8) 14. Having an edge (6) 16. Rich cake (6) 19. Colloquial language (5) 20. Anti-aircraft fire (4) 22. Garment label (3) ANAGRAMS In which city would you find this building? Theme: EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS The answer is a Spanish word 1. Nobody likes it, but everyone needs to know their numbers. TE AMC Á M I TA S 2. Learning about the whole world and how it works. F ERG OA Í G A 3. The science that deals with plants and living things. A BOG OL Í I 4. Learning about events and issues in the past. TH IRI S AO 5. This science deals with elements and reactions. CU MÍQIA BUGS ROADRUNNER DAFFY SYLVESTER ELMER TAX PORKY TWEETY SUDOKU We would like your feedback on the puzzles in thinkSPAIN|today. Please email your thoughts and comments to [email protected] MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 45 PUZZLES Rules and answers on page 46 GHOST DETECTIVES Eldritch Castle is notoriously one of the most haunted buildings in Great Britain, and a recent investigation by the Phantasmagorial Society of London showed that its ghosts are as active as ever. From the clues below, can you reconstruct the log of their overnight vigil – the time of each sighting, who made it, where it was made and which of the ghosts of Eldritch Castle was seen. CLUES 1. Nothing was reported until 01.00 hrs, when Miss Bodie and Mr Doyle (the PSL investigators always work in pairs) saw a ghost, which was not that of Lady Mabel, murdered by her husband in the 16th century; exactly an hour later, another team of “ghost detectives” made a sighting in the Minstrel’s Gallery. 2. The White Lady, believed to be a ghost of a 12th century mistress of Eldritch Castle, was seen at 02.30 hrs; the phantom Black Monk, a Benedictine friar who died of poisoning in the 12th century, was reported by Dr. Wolfe and Ms Goodwin. 3. The ghost of Wicked John (he was Lady Mabel’s husband) appeared after 03.00 hrs; the 03.45 hrs sighting of a female ghost was not made in the West Tower 4. The ghost seen in the castle’s dungeons by Mrs Holmes and Miss Watson has a colour in its name. 5. Mr Carella and Miss Meyer did not encounter a ghost on the castle ramparts. 6. The Red Lady was seen in the Gatehouse, where she was stabbed to death by her husband’s gypsy mistress in 1429. YOUR LOGIC Stars Will you meet a dark, handsome stranger? Will your lottery ticket show the winning number? Or is it time you decluttered the cupboard under the stairs and remembered to take the curtains to the dry-cleaners? Find out what our stars have in store for you this week... CAPRICORN CANCER Don’t be too proud to ask a friend or co-worker to help out this week. You are tired of being accused of being materialistic, so show others your softer, deeper side – it will be appreciated. The end of this week sees you full of energy, drive and passion, and you can move mountains if you put your mind to it. Go for it! Do it now and ask questions later – you are a born leader – not afraid to try things out on your own. Your sense of mission makes for impulsive, sometimes rash and brave actions. Your motto may be to not think too long on any one thing. Bosses are impressed with your work. Dec 22 – Jan 19 AQUARIUS Jan 20 – Feb 18 WORD JIG WORD WHEEL FILL THE WORDS BELOW INTO THE GRID. E W P P A L R The clue for the nineletter word this week is: L A A material used to cover walls and ceilings. This week you will either feel full of energy and storm through your workload at double the usual speed, or you will feel apathetic and unable to achieve anything. Try to strike a balance. Your relationship with your colleagues is great at the moment, but look out for obstacles in your personal life at the weekend. PISCES Feb 19 – March 20 Stand your grounds and stick up for your values this week, but remember to give praise where it is due and tread carefully around those in authority. Today and tomorrow you have all the answers and find yourself organising things at work or socially, but take some time out to chill on Sunday. ARIES BATTLESHIPS 3 LETTER WORDS WRY DAY FIG APE ASH 4 LETTER WORDS ALEC EMYD IMPI COACH 8 LETTER WORDS GIDDIEST DISTINCTION 13 LETTER WORDS 5 LETTER WORDS MAFIA 11 LETTER WORDS WIMPISHNESS DISCONCERTING ASSESSOR Please email your thoughts and comments on the puzzle pages to [email protected] Aircraft carrier: Battleship: Cruiser: Destroyer: VIRGO Aug 23 – Sept 22 This is a time when you can expect some extra support or recognition from those around you. You may feel that you are in touch and in harmony with others; the lines of communication are open. The support you need is there for anything you want to accomplish. TAURUS May 21 – June 21 MELODRAMATICS Secrets, conspiracies and the hidden links that unite all things take on greater importance in your life now. Digging into the past for hints about the present and future uncovers a lot of answers to the questions that will not go away. Relationships, whether partnerships, personal or the social scene in general, are very important at this time and can have a very decided influence on your career and workplace. Marriage, children, animals or gardening can be enjoyed this week. As the day progresses, you may find the occult, psychology, initiation and mysticism of great interest and may even find yourself at some sort of a psychic fair today. You are constantly involved in personal change as a lifelong habit. GEMINI THEATRICALISM July 22 – Aug 22 LIBRA You are at the top of your class and if a project is at hand, take your time to complete everything and then look over your work thoroughly, as you will tend to hurry yourself today. Personal achievements are easy today. You are at your most elegant, particularly in social situations. A strong devotional nature becomes apparent to anyone who takes time to know the real you. You love attention and somehow you can manage to gravitate to the centre of almost any group or happening this week. You enjoy expressing yourself and could find yourself entertaining others. STILLNESS LEO March 21 – April 19 April 20 – May 20 9 LETTER WORDS June 22 – July 22 The energies in your chart through the end of this month show that this is a good time to begin a new habit – perhaps a healthy nutritional exercise therapy. Whatever you begin now will have a higher success rate of being completed according to your plans. A possible rise in interest rates will make debts less desirable now. Sept 23 – Oct 23 SCORPIO Oct 24 – Nov 21 You may be especially influential just now. There is a lot of energy and drive available to accomplish just about anything you set out to do now. You may have to realize that some people will not ever match your speed or schedule. Patience may be in order. SAGITTARIUS Nov 22 – Dec 21 You could be most persuasive with others today – perhaps you are a top salesperson. Whatever the circumstances, the situation is a natural for self-expression and lends itself to your particular ideas and thoughts. This time brings a sudden change of fortune for the better and is considered to be a truly lucky time. 46 MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 PUZZLES RULES AND ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK’S PUZZLES RULES CROSSWORD SUDOKU Lottery Lotto Eliminate 43 balls and WIN THE JACKPOT! Link all eliminated balls as you go. Word wheel Find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each word must include the letter in the centre, and at least three other letters. Plurals and proper nouns do not count. See if you can make some Spanish words. Solving Logic Problems Read the information about the problem and then, using the clues, solve the problem using the grid. The grid cross-references all possible solutions and once you know whether a solution is correct or not you can mark a definite “no” with a cross (✗) and a definite “yes” with a tick (✓). Once you have marked off everything you can find out from the clues, use the grid to find out new answers and then check through the clues again – don’t forget to include information in all the relevant places in the grid! Use the reference table below the grid to help you. (Hint: when you know something is right, don’t forget to cross off everything that therefore must be wrong.) LOGIC ANAGRAMS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. QUICK QUIZ MATEMÁTICAS GEOGRAFÍA BIOLOGÍA HISTORIA QUÍMICA 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Lottery LOTTO WORDSEARCH BATTLESHIPS England What a pity’ Trafalgar Portcullis True Eagles Tokyo Golf Fear of Darkness Memphis (Tennessee) Magellan WORD WHEEL WORD JIG Sudoku Complete grid so that each column, row and 3x3 square contains the numbers 1 to 9. English words:- Appeal, apple, earl, lapel, leap, pale, papel, paper, pawl, peal, pear, pearl, real, reap, wall, wrap. Spanish words:- Paella, Palpar, papa, papel, para, pelar, peral, perla, ralea, ralla, rape. real Nine letter word:- WALLPAPER Battleships: Find all the ships in the grid. Some parts of the boats or sea have already been filled in, and the number next to a row or column refers to the total number of squares in that row / column occupied by ships. Boats may be positioned horizontally or vertically but no boats can touch each other so boat parts are never in adjacent squares – horizontally, vertically or diagonally. LANDMARKS Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona SUBSCRIPTION We can deliver to anywhere in the world Subscribe at thinkSPAIN.com/shop or fax this form to (+34) 96 648 01 10 SPAIN (incl. postage) 13 editions 26 editions 52 editions € 20.80 € 41.60 € 83.20 EUROPE (incl. postage) R.O.W. 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Useful telephone numbers Ambulance......................................................................... 061 Coast guard ............................................................900 100 009 Consumer Information.........................................900 775 757 Directory Enquiries.......................................................11818 Directory Enquiries International...............................11825 Domestic abuse .....................................................900 100 009 Emergencies/Urgencias .................................................. 112 Emergencies/Urgencias Médicas ...................... 96 514 40 00 Fire Brigade/Bomberos .......................................... 080 / 085 Forest fires .............................................................900 850 500 Immigration information ....................................900 150 000 Local Police ....................................................................... 092 Police/Guardia Civil ........................................................ 062 National Police/Policía Nacional .................................... 091 Red Cross/Cruz Roja............................................ 96 525 25 25 Traffic.....................................................................900 123 505 24 hr Women’s Centre/Centro de la Mujer 24H..900 580 888 Churches For listings of local church services in your region, go to: www.costablanca.org/eng/servicios/iglesias buscar.asp Consular offices British Consulate General - Madrid For all consular services, the office is open from 09.0015.00hrs. Located at C/ Fernando El Santo, 16, 28010, Madrid ..............................Tel. 917 008 200 - Fax. 917 008 272 United Kingdom Consul - Alicante Open from 08.30-13.30hrs, at Plaza de Calvo Sotelo, 1, 2ºApdo. de Correos 564, 03001 Alicante ................................. ............................................... Tel. 96 521 61 90 or 96 521 60 22 Embassies Australia ............................................................... 91 353 66 00 Canada .................................................................. 91 423 32 50 Ireland ................................................................... 91 436 40 93 New Zealand ......................................................... 91 523 02 26 UK .......................................................................... 91 700 82 00 US .......................................................................... 91 587 22 00 Museums and art galleries BOWLING: A great dry activity for all the family on a very wet day C HILDREN Bear Mill Make your own bear at the Bear Mill in Benissa. Located in the Christmas Store in the industrial estate, children can design and make their own teddy bears. The Bear Mill also does birthday parties. Tel. 96 573 38 27. 65. Aladdin’s Cave in Pedreguer (below Quick Save on the N-332) have card-making classes every day (Tel. 96 645 67 89) and the Jávea Craft Centre do a variety of craft classes, call 646 569 907. FA M I L I E S Cinema Go to page 40 for our list of local cinemas and spend an afternoon (or evening) at the flicks. A family-pack of popcorn is a must! Galactic Parc Play place for children with ball pits, trampolines, slides, water play, internet access and other activities in Alcalà de Xivert in El Baix Maestrat, north of Castellón. Parties, days out, mini-holidays and more. Half an hour from €2.70. Tel. 690 667 425 Craft Clubs Give your creative side some exercise with one of the many craft clubs and classes in the area. Clubs: Calpe Craft Club – Tel. 96 587 47 99 and Torrevieja Craft Club – Tel. 96 678 66 LUCENTUM - Ciudad Íbero-Romana Tossal de Manises ... .............................................................................. 96 526 24 34 MARQ - Museo Arqueológico Provincial ........... 96 514 90 00 MUBAG - Museo de Bellas Artes Gravina .......... 96 514 67 80 TORREVIEJA Museo de Belenes ................................................ 609 459 514 Museo de la Semana Santa Tomás Valcárcel ... 96 670 80 37 Museo del Mar y de la Sal ...................................... 96 670 68 38 VALENCIA Ciudad de Artes y Ciencias ................................. 902 100 031 Museo de Bellas Artes ........................................ 96 360 57 93 Museo de Cerámica............................................. 96 351 63 92 Museo Fallero ...................................................... 96 352 54 78 IVAM ....................................................................... 96 386 30 00 Tourist Information AIRPORTS Alicante..................................................................996 919 000 Barcelona .............................................................. 93 298 38 38 Madrid .................................................................. 902 35 35 70 Málaga................................................................... 95 204 88 04 Murcia ....................................................................968 172 000 Palma .................................................................... 97 178 90 99 Valencia ................................................................ 96 159 85 00 A DULTS Football Now the league has started again, enjoy the games in a sporty atmosphere in one of the many sports bars of the area. Venues showing football matches include Champions in Benidorm (in The Square), Saffy’s Sports Bar in Calpe (Tel. 630 137 942) and New Chester’s Bar in Calpe (C/ La Pinta, next to Boomerang) ALICANTE Caves The original indoor dwellings – caves. For rock formations, stalagmites, stalactites and everything else cave related, stay dry in one of the caves in the region and look back at prehistoric cave paintings: Cova de les Calaveres in Becontinued over the page GENERAL TOURIST INFORMATION Costa Blanca including Alicante ........................................... ..................................................... www.costablanca.org/eng Murcia (Note: much of the Murcia tourist information is only available in Spanish) ............ www.murciaturistica.es Valencia .............................www.comunitatvalenciana.com Trains RENFE .................................................................. 902 240 202 International ........................................................ 902 243 402 MAGAZINE 48 WHERE TO GO August 24 - August 30 2007 WHERE TO GO What’s on & where to go continued from previous page nidolieg, Cuevas Del Canelobre in Alicante, and Cova del Rull in the Vall D’Ebo. Bowling A great dry sport for children and adults alike is bowling. At Eurobowl in Calpe you can enjoy a bowling session and also take advantage of their games area where you can play pool, table football, air hockey and basketball. Eurobowl also serve food and have a large bar. Chocolate Factory In La Vila Joiosa visit the Valor chocolate factory and partake in a guided tour of the museum and the factory and discover how chocolate is made. There is also a gift shop and tasty samples. Call 96 589 09 50. MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ALCALALÍ Medieval Tower Apart from being a history museum where one can learn about Alcalalí’s fiestas and raisin production, the tower also has a high 5th floor with large glass windows where one can experience fantastic views of the whole Jalón Valley. The Medieval tower is also available for weddings and meetings. For more information call the town hall on 96 648 20 24 or visit www.alcalali.es. ALICANTE Museo Casa de la Asegurada This 17th century building has been a prison, an artillery storehouse, a school of commerce, a city hall and now houses a large collection of contemporary art from artists such as Gris, Miró and Picasso. In the Plaza de Santa Maria, call 96 514 09 59 or 96 514 07 68. ALTEA The Fusion Gallery A fantastic international art gallery in the Old Town of Altea. A wide range of styles and mediums are displayed on the 3 floors of the gallery. Please visit their website on www.thefusiongallery.com or call 96 688 04 66 for more information. CALPE Fiesta Museum The Museo Fester on Calle José Antoni explains the local Moors and Christians fiestas as well as Calpe’s other fiestas. Entry is free, visit www.calpe.es for more information. DÉNIA Toy Museum El Museo del Juguete is a museum dedicated to the history of toys since 1904. Situated on the Calle Calderón, the toy museum shows how toys were made up until the 1960s and is a great visit for kids. Call 96 642 02 60 or visit www.denia.es TORREVIEJA Museum of Sea and Salt Dedicated to Torrevieja’s mariners, El Museo Del Mar y De La Sal is s showcase of Torrevieja’s marine history. Open every day, call 96 670 68 38. VALENCIA Municipal History Museum In the Plaza Del Ayuntamiento, Valencia’s history museum exhibits the history and evolution of the city as well as paintings and other works of art. Open Monday - Friday from 9am until 2pm. Price: 2 euros; call 96 352 54 78, ext. 1181. IVAM The Valencian Modern Art Museum houses permanent collections as well as temporary exhibitions and offers talks, courses and workshops. There is also a restaurant, a café and an impressive giftshop. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am - 8pm. Entrance is 2 euros, free on Sunday. Call 96 386 30 00. STOP PRESS !! MUSIC Benidorm On August 24 at 11pm in the Auditorio Julio Iglesias there is a concert by the Electric Light Orchestra. Ring : 96 585 55 00/96 681 54 00 Gig guide DAVE LEWIS Friday August 24 Singer-songwriter Dave Lewis has enchanted audiences all over the globe with his extraordinary vocal, piano, guitar and composing skills. Dave performed to packed audiences for over 14 years in London’s West End at top music bar and restaurant Smollensky’s on The Strand, mastering the full gamut of popular music: R&B, jazz, soul and the standards, but never forgetting his distinctive rock register. Dave then moved onto the international Piano Bar circuit performing regular spots in Tokyo (where there is a long-standing Dave Lewis Fan Club), The Caribbean, Sweden, and Cairo, to name but a few. Dave Lewis does his own arrangements in his digital studio, building on his already imposing list of published and recorded compositions. Among his songwriting credits are Happy to be on an island in the sun, which was a number one hit for the legendary Demis Roussos (the single sold over 500,000 copies and went platinum). More recently Dave had a No 1 US rap hit with a sample of one of his songs being used on the title Feel it in the air by Beanie Siegel (2005 Rocafella Records). Van Morrison is another big Dave Lewis fan and Dave not only opened his last show in his hometown of Belfast but he also played keyboards on his album Magic time. He now brings his own form of magic to the Costa Blanca and can be seen performing on Thursdays and Saturdays at the new Piano Bar nights at The Dénia Marriott – La Sella in the Piano Bar from 10,30pm till 2am and also every Friday night at the Monte Pego Restaurant. LA LUNA Alcalalí AZUL Y TÚ – evening BAR DREAMS Els Poblets THE SPLASHES – 21.00 hrs BUDA BAR Benitachell (96-649-41-79) NIGHT TRAIN Soul, blues – 21.30 hrs MARRIOTT HOTEL Dénia (96-645-40-54) DOUBLE IMPACT Pop – 22.00 hrs EL FARO Jávea, Balcón al Mar (96-577-00-47) THE BRINK Blues, rock, Latin – 21.00 hrs MONTE PEGO RESTAURANT Pego (96-557-19-73) DAVE LEWIS Pop, jazz – evening THE CASINO Villajoyosa JOEY LEGEND WITH BIG BAND – 22.30 hrs Saturday August 25 LA LUNA Alcalalí JUST US Pop, rock, blues – evening BUDA BAR Benitachell (96-649-41-79) ROCK OF AGES – evening EL CHIRINGUITO Cumbre Del Sol, Pueblo de la Paz THE BRINK Blues, rock, latin – 21.00 hrs MARRIOTT HOTEL Dénia (96-645-40-54) DAVE LEWIS Jazz, pop – 22.00 hrs AN SHEBEEN Jávea (96-579-64-75) DARK HORSE Rock, soul, blues – 22.30 hrs TUSK Jávea, Arenal THE SPLASHES – 22.30 hrs DON QUIJOTE BAR Moraira CHILL FACTOR Pop – 21.30 hrs BAR EL CASINO Parcent (692-801-636) STANDARD JAZZ LTD – 22.00-00.30 hrs THE CASINO Villajoyosa JOEY LEGEND WITH BIG BAND – 22.30 hrs Sunday August 26 EL CISNE RASTRO Benidorm THE TAILGATE SWING BAND – 12.00-15.00 hrs EL CHIRINGUITO Cumbre del Sol, Pueblo de la Paz NIGHT TRAIN Soul, blues – 21.30 hrs LATITUDE LOUNGE BAR/REST Dénia, Marina (96-578-32-35) INTI CARDOSO & GUEST Spanish guitar, pop, latin – 21.00-00.00 hrs QUO VADIS Jávea (96-646-37-34) THE BRINK Blues, rock, latin – 21.00 hrs DON QUIJOTE BAR Moraira PAISLEY PARK Blues, rock, pop – evening Monday August 27 ROCK & ROLL HOUSE Benidorm (96-585-60-20) JOEY LEGEND – 22.00 hrs BUDA BAR Benitachell (96-649-41-79) JAM SESSION Various local musicians – 21.30 hrs EL PESCADITO Pilar de la Horadada, Mil Palmeras (96-532-00-71) JAZZ GREATS – 20.00-23.00 hrs by Carlos Rodríguez Tuesday August 28 BUDA BAR Benitachell (96-649-41-79) THE BRINK Blues, rock, latin – 21.00 hrs Wednesday August 29 ROCK & ROLL HOUSE Benidorm (96-585-60-20) JOEY LEGEND – 23.00 hrs LATITUDE LOUNGE BAR/REST Dénia, Marina (96-578-32-35) INTI CARDOSO & TØRSTEN Spanish guitar, pop, Latin – 20.30-23.30 hrs BAR DREAMS Els Poblets THE SPLASHES – 21.00 hrs MONTE PEGO RESTAURANT Pego (96-557-19-73) DAVE LEWIS Pop, jazz – evening Thursday August 30 HOTEL REGENT Benidorm JOEY LEGEND – 22.00 hrs BUDA BAR Benitachell (96-649-41-79) THE SPLASHES – 21.30 hrs MARRIOTT HOTEL Dénia (96-645-40-54) DAVE LEWIS Pop, jazz – 22.00 hrs SABOR DE MAR RESTAURANT Dénia, C/ Las Marinas INTI CARDOSO Spanish guitar solo – 21.00-00.00 hrs AN SHEBEEN Jávea (96-579-64-75) IRISH DES & JOHN RAMON – 22.30 hrs EL PRESIDENTE BAR-RESTAURANT Jávea COLIN FRASER QUINTET Jazz, swing – 20.30-23.30 hrs THE LEES Orba CHILL FACTOR Pop – 21.30 hrs Please email [email protected] should you have any gigs which you would like included in the local gig guide, or call 667 959 237. You can also book an artiste or have your venue included on the new website www.costablancalivemusic.com MAGAZINE August 24 - August 30 2007 49 MUSIC EVERYBODY SINGS: Even the public I F YOU have ever dreamt of taking part in a large-scale musical production, then this is your chance. The Institut Valencià de Música and Fundación la Caixa are, for the fourth year running, organising a production of Händel’s Messiah in which over 150 non-professionals will be able to take part, alongside five of the best choirs in the Comunitat Valenciana. Choirs participating are the Generalitat’s choir, the Fecocova Youth Choir, the Coral Catedralicia de Valencia, the Orfeón Universitario de Valencia and the Orfeó Valencia Navarro Reverter. The production, due to be staged in Barcelona and Granada as well as in Valencia, brings together people of all ages and experience. In total, over 150 people will take part alongside the professionals that make up the top-level choirs starring in the production. Monday Getting a Händel on the Messiah The end result is quite astonishing. Literally, the whole theatre sings because the non-professionals are seated where the audience normally sits. This year, the magnificent Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, designed by Santiago Calatrava, will be providing the stage. Key information This concert, generally known as El Mesías participativo (“Messiah for the people”) will be held on December 21 and 22 at the Palau de Tuesday Wednesday les Arts Reina Sofía, but those nonprofessional singers who would like to take part need to request an audition before September 4 at the Institut Valencià de la Música either by post or via the internet at www.laCaixa.es/obrasocial. The production is open to anyone with choral experience, musical or vocal training. Auditions will be held on September 15 and 16. In order to take part in the auditions, hopefuls need to meticulously prepare two pieces from the work. One has to be The Lord Thursday 8 - Midday The Chris Wood Breakfast Show 12 – 2pm The Nick Hawkins Show 2 – 4pm Kay C In the Afternoon 4 – 7pm 7 – 9pm 9pm – 7am Friday Drive Live with Dan ‘The Man’ Davis Exite FM’s Rock Show with Mike Poole Roger T Bof’s Country Club Chris Heard’s 60s’ Selection All that Jazz with George T Moore 9 – 11 Hold Back the Night with Gerry Shaw Totally 80s’ with Gary King 9pm – 1am Boogie Nights with Chris Wood gave the Word (Ed. Novello, Nº 37) and the other can be chosen by the singer. Selection will be made taking into account numbers needed for each vocal range, results of the auditions and the order in which applications were received. The results of the auditions will be published on September 19. For those lucky enough to be chosen, hard work lies ahead. In order to be prepared those selected will need to take part in rehearsals every Saturday and Sunday throughout October, November and December at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Valencia and in the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. The cost of participating is very reasonable, only 18 euros, which includes rehearsals, the musical score and one ticket per concert. For more information Obra Social Fundación “La Caixa” Tel. 96 350 45 11 www.laCaixa.es/ObraSocial Saturday Sunday 9 – 12 Chris Heard Breakfast Sweet sounds on Sunday with George T Moore 8-9 9 – 1pm 12 – 3 Francis Symons’ Saturday Selection Sunday Morning with Nick Hawkins & Sunday Morning Love Songs 3–7 Sports World from the BBC with Russell Fuller Northern Soul with Stevie B 7 – Midnight DJ Parker’s Dance Night Exite overnight Music Marathon 1–4 4–6 Totally 80’s with Gary King 6–8 Bring Back the 70’s with Gerry Shaw 8 – 10 Chris Heard’s Smooth Classics SIMPLY GREAT 24-HOUR RADIO STUDIO 96 532 62 10 TEXT 662 266 934 OFFICE 96 532 62 09 Email: [email protected] MAGAZINE 50 August 24 - August 30 2007 MUSIC Let me entertain you Saxy, bold and bohemian, The Nomad rocks his way onto the music circuit and into his audience’s hearts. Jade Holden reports. bade me from getting a moped so of course I immediately went out and bought one. I quickly got into Harley-Davidson’s and have owned Harley’s for over 25 years. My current bike is a customised Heritage Softtail, 1450cc. Does Biking ever have to take a back seat to your music career? Nope. Never. My bike gets ridden seriously. Kathy and I travel all over Spain, when we are touring or going to biker rallies. I do my music for fun and because I love it – and I hope that transmits to the audience – but it is not a full-time job. Two or three gigs a week is normally enough for me, so that I can enjoy the rest of what living in Spain has to offer. C OSTA Blanca resident Bruce Dowding has been singing and performing as The Nomad for one and a half years now, playing gigs all over Spain. As anyone who has ever seen Bruce’s show will attest, a concert by The Nomad will surprise and invigorate, as Bruce is not shy of giving his all. His main musical tool is his voice but he also plays the harmonica and tenor saxophone, and using both he gets up close to his audience. Bruce and his wife Kathy have lived in Spain for nearly four years now, with their dog, Mutley. This weird and wonderful character with his trademark top hat and long black drape coat is dynamite on stage. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome The Nomad, pictured right, to the stage. So Bruce, how did you start out as a musician? It was an accident really! When I retired from the business world and came to Spain 4 years ago, I very quickly got bored and needed a new challenge. I’d always liked watching live music, particularly rock and blues, and the harmonica looked to be easy and cheap and I love that bluesy sound. So I decided to try to learn to play harmonica. I’ve never wanted to be at the back of a band, I’d never play drums or bass – I have always known that if I was in a band I would be the front man – I just love the theatre of it all – and the blues harmonica seemed like a great solo instrument. Were you right about the harmonica? Yes, it is a great solo instrument and yes, it was cheap (to start with), but easy? No way. I spent about 2 hours each day for a year learning to play the harmonica. I play blues or diatonic harps. What I hadn’t realised was that I need a different harp for each song key – so I had to buy many more harmonicas. Now I use Lee Oskar Pro diatonic blues harmonicas – damned expensive but they sound great, and I can rebuild them with new reedbeds whenever a reed goes flat. UPCOMING GIGS When did you start performing? I’ve been a performer since I was about 2 years old. I’ve always enjoyed playing up and pushing boundaries. I have always been an extrovert and I know I’m not normal. I have taken character tests that have shown that my tenacity or determination has always been off the scale and my tolerance of the boring and the mundane is zero. I am easily bored and always looking for challenges and new experiences. Moderation is for wimps; never be moderate! To answer your question though, I have been performing music for a living for 2 and a half years, I came to Spain to retire but, returning to what I said earlier, I got bored. days it was all rock music, but now my tastes have widened enormously and I enjoy playing rock, pop, dance, disco, reggae, funk, big band, soul, blues and ballads. Sorry, never country music or opera though – they are about the only styles that do not do anything for me. Mainly ‘70s, ‘80s and early ‘90s, I like all that good cheesy music. What do you do in your spare time? I have always been a biker and I have owned Harley Davidson’s since my late teens. Also Kathy and I spent all of last year planning and organising our wedding, which was a project in itself. But when I am not playing live music, I love watching it. ...And to listen to? When I’m not performing, I’m mostly practicing, playing, learning new songs or amending old ones to make them more fun and personal so I rarely sit down and actually listen to music. Music, to me, is best live – you never say I am going to go, sit down and hear a band; you always go to see one. What got you into music and what made you decide to perform? Wanting to play live with others, learning harmonica and getting into jamming sessions in bars. During those sessions, I had to learn basic rock and blues tunes to be able to keep up with the people I was playing with. I then started singing as well as playing songs; not all musicians are interested in singing but I have always been confident and I saw it as an opportunity to entertain. Why did you choose to move to Spain? I had done well in the corporate business world in the UK and I had enough money to retire. I chose Spain because I had holidayed here and loved the culture, the freedom, the climate, the food and the living costs. Retirement lasted 18 months, during which time Kathy and I were on a sort of extended holiday getting to know each other. Who are your musical influences and what sort of music is your favourite to perform? I’m a child of the ‘70s. Well, I was a teenager in the ‘70s and, like most people, the influences that stay with you through your life are the ones that got you through your teenage years – T-Rex, Thin Lizzy, The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin etc. In those SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 - Bar Pachito, Calle Dr Flemming, Calpe, 10.30pm. SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 - Pedramala Restaurant, Coll De Rates, (the CV715 road between Parcent and Tarbena), 2pm. Ring to book: 671 216676. - Oscar’s Beach Bar, Arenal beach (Paseo Maritimo), Calpe, 8.30pm. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28 - Full Moon BBQ Party at Pedramala Restaurant, Coll de Rates, (CV715 road between Parcent and Tarbena), 7pm start. Play from 8.30pm. Ring for details: 671 216 676. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 - Shores Of London, Albir (opposite the Albir Gardens Hotel), 11pm. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 - La Luna Bar, Alcalalí, 9.30pm. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 - Oscar’s Beach Bar, As a British artist in Spain, do you find it easy to get gigs? Yes, I have taken the trouble to learn Spanish and play some Spanish songs, I do not know many but it is a nod to the Spanish audience. I am also prepared to travel. How did you get to be The Nomad? What bands were you in before? My stage name The Nomad comes from a joke because I hate playing the same place over and over Arenal beach (Paseo Maritimo), Calpe, 8.30pm. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 - Oscar’s Beach Bar, Arenal beach (Paseo Marítimo), Calpe, 8.30pm. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 - Restaurant Variety (road between La Nucía and Polop), 9pm. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 - Bar Pachito, Calle Dr Flemming, Calpe, 10.30pm. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 - Pedramala Restaurant, Coll De Rates, (CV715 road between Parcent and Tárbena), 2pm. Ring them to book: 671 216676. - Oscar’s Beach Bar, Arenal beach (Paseo Marítimo), Calpe, 8.30pm. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 - Shores Of London, Albir (opposite the Albir Gardens Hotel), 11pm. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 - Bar Pachito, Calle Dr Flemming, Calpe, 10.30pm. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 - Bar Quo Vadis, Jávea (behind tennis courts, near the An Shebeen Irish Pub), 9pm. again. I do everything from small bars to very large rock and pop festivals – and I enjoy travelling and playing at a variety of venues. So I guess I am nomadic. I started off with a guitarist in a duo called The Nomads and I did that for about a year but now I play as a solo artist. There are no fixed set list restrictions and I can play a wide range of music and tailor my shows to my audience. In parallel to that, I formed a five-piece band called Cruzados Rock for a while. We played large venues and music festivals, including Castellón Biker Festival, which was attended by 30,000 people. To be honest, the hassle of organising a five-piece band is enormous. I have now bought my own full PA system and I am totally independent. Before becoming well-known, how did get bookings? I produced a demo CD and some publicity material (business cards, flyers etc.) then I door-knocked, travelled and visited bar after bar. I went to restaurants and hotels and offered to do “beer gigs”. That meant I would play for beer and they did not have to pay me on the first night, if I went down well then they would book me again. I do not do that anymore though! I offer something completely different to usual live music acts: I am an energetic, entertaining, oneman music show. You are also very into motorbikes, tell us about that side of your life. I have always been a biker. I think it is to do with the sense of freedom and exhilaration you feel when riding a bike. At 16, my mum for- You recently got married; tell us about your new wife. Out of the blue, 6 months before we moved to Spain I met Kathy on the Internet! No, not on a singles or dating website but on a discussion board. She responded to a post of mine and we got chatting. I had managed to avoid marriage for 47 years but in April this year I was finally trapped. We met face to face a couple of weeks after we started talking and I soon discovered that she was my perfect partner, my soulmate. She left her Financial Adviser’s career, her old life and her friends in England so we could move to Spain. She has become too special to me to ever lose, so I proposed to her (yes, the full one-knee jobbie) in front of all our friends at her birthday party in a bar in Altea just over a year ago. Tell us about the wedding We live in a beautiful little village near Altea called Polop de la Marina, and were married by the mayor. The civil wedding ceremony was in Spanish, with one of our friends translating for our family and friends from England. We then had a huge party with hundreds of friends and relatives at La Plantación Hotel near Finestrat. After that I took four weeks off while we honeymooned in Thailand. Kathy is now my manager, roadie, driver, CD salesman, groupie and wife! What advice would you give to budding musicians? Honestly? Just do it! You only get one life, this is not a rehearsal. If it is in your heart then do it. Practice, practice, practice and then practice some more. Then get out there and perform to your family, to your friends, to anybody who will listen. That will improve your confidence when playing to in public. But always remember the bottom line – if you are really enjoying yourself, your audience will see that and will find your enthusiasm contagious. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 - Full Moon BBQ Party at Pedramala Restaurant, Coll de Rates, (the CV715 road between Parcent & Tárbena). 8.30pm. start. Ring for details: 671 216 676. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 - The Tower Irish bar, Moraira town centre, 11pm. Saturday, September 29 - Pedramala 1 Restaurant/Bar, (on the Benissa to Calpe/Moraira CV745 road just outside Benissa), 8.30pm. For bookings ring: 96 574 8315. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 - Pedramala Restaurant, Coll De Rates, (the CV715 road between Parcent and Tárbena), 2pm. Ring to book: 671 216 676. To find an updated list of gigs check out The Nomad’s website, www.nomadshow.piczo.com. To book The Nomad for your private event or to play in your venue, call (0034) 629 809 638 or email: [email protected]. MARINA ALTA August 24 - August 30 2007 Music and dancing in the streets of La Xara By Samantha Kett LA XARA’S fiestas kick off with live music in the street tonight and continue until tomorrow. The Festa al Carrer starts with the event’s presenta- tion at 10 pm, followed by a concert at the Aljub sports centre half an hour later. On Saturday, a muixeranga (traditional dance and human castles) workshop will take place at 11.00 am, at the same time as a folk dance workshop. Demonstrations of both will be held in the FESTIVAL: Poster for La Xara’s spectacular fiesta Youth dig turns up mausoleum ANCIENT HISTORY: Calpe dig reveals pre-historic building YOUNG voluntary archaeologists have dug up a prehistoric building from a well-known dig in Calpe. A Paleo-Christian mausoleum was discovered last week by 50 youths working on the site as part of an international exchange programme. Traces of Calpe’s ancient history came to light last year when the foundations of a church dating back to the 5th or 6th centuries was found. New tombs have been found whilst excavating more of the church. Restoration works will be carried out on the dig to allow tourists and residents to go underground, explore the finds and learn more about how Romans lived in Calpe, say local authorities. The Baños de la Reina (Queen’s baths) a Roman archaeological site that is being turned into a tourist attraction, is one of the most renowned in the region. Volunteers working on the site are aged between 18 and 24 and are from France, Turkey, Italy and Spain. open air at 5 pm. Throughout the day, the Fira de Luthiers – an instrument-making fair where handicraft experts display their work in progress – will run while concerts involving percussion instruments and the traditional dolçainer will be held at 6 pm and 8 pm in the Plaça del Garrofer and C/ Pintor Segrelles respectively. Participants can enjoy a free meal in the gardens of the Casa Municipal at 9.30 pm and a disco will be held later at 12.30 am at the Romàntica del Saladar sports centre. Finally, the Festa al Carrer ends with live singing in the open air. Hard-working local bands from Ondara, Pego, Teulada, Benissa, Calpe, El Verger, Dénia, Jávea, Pedreguer, Gata, and La Xara itself will take part in the festival. ALICANTE NEWS 51 Hash stash DRUGS in two rucksacks were found dumped in a public garden in Dénia last week. Police reported that the bags, containing 14 kilos of hashish, were abandoned at Calles Fora Mur and Sanchis Guarner. Police chief, José Martínez Espasa said the rucksacks may have been dropped if their carriers had suspected officers were patrolling the area. Espasa says the owners of the illicit haul have not been traced. 52 ALICANTE NEWS Guardamar as role model for town SINCE the beginning of the summer the town hall in Guardamar has been campaigning for the environment with the slogan ‘think globally and act locally in Guardamar’. The goal of the campaign is to raise the awareness of the residents and visitors about keeping the town clean. Two volunteers daily distribute leaflets encouraging people to recycle their rubbish at appropriate points as well as giving them other useful tips. The campaign has been a remarkable success in highlighting public awareness. Melanoma prevention AS IN previous years the Department for Health and the Association for the Prevention of Melanomas have issued a warning about the development of skin cancer due to intense sunbathing. The beach information centre will be at the Náufragos beach today and on Monday between 10.30 and 14 hrs, to assist with concerns over possible skin cancer. VEGA BAJA August 24 - August 30 2007 Residents block roads with dirty protest Demonstrators say Torrevieja has double standards for public street cleaning and rubbish collection By Alicia Negre LAST week several demonstrations blocked the entrance from the N-332 via La Mata into the centre of Torrevieja. One of their main concerns was the lack of professional staff in the local health centres and their inability to cope with the number of casualties needing medical help over the holiday season. Another more important complaint of the hundreds of spontaneous demonstrators was the bad standard of the public cleaning and rubbish collection service. They claimed that the cen- Culture Paul Freeman Hugh Stewart Eric Taylor Charlotte Graham Pauline McGough Beverly Stewart Vince Tracy tre of Torrevieja enjoys a much better service than La Mata. The first demonstration started spontaneously. Hundreds of people gathered in the streets, and soon the traffic had to be diverted. From kilometre 68 cars travelling towards Cartagena were diverted onto the CV-895, whereas those travelling towards Alicante were diverted onto the CV-905 from kilometre 58 of the national road. Traffic into town had to endure long traffic jams. As a quick solution was needed, the councillor for urbanisations, Eduardo Gil, the councillor for health, Pilar González, and the responsible person for parks and gardens, Javier Montoro, went to see the demonstrators to listen to their complaints and to come to an agreement. Unfortunately, they did not achieve much. The following day the local residents were out demonstrating in the streets again. This has caused a political earthquake in Torrevieja. More and more people have joined the demonstrators. The spokesperson of the Green Party, José Manuel Dolón, said that his party supports the decision of the neighbours not to accept the half-hearted offer of the town hall. He pointed out that the town hall promised a year ago to solve the problem, but the locals are still waiting for this solution. ACCESS TO THE N-332: A perfect stage for the demonstrators N BLOCKED ACCESS THE roadblocks of the access into town caused more problems. Volunteers and lifeguards could not access the beaches to do their work. They need to come in on the N-332 from Santa Pola, Alicante and the urbanisations north of Torrevieja to reach La Mata, Torrevieja and Orihuela Costa. Prison looms for secretary at Torrevieja town hall SEVEN years ago a policeman was allowed to pass the entrance exam with forged documents and join the local police force. The secretary of the town hall of Torrevieja, Pilar Vellisca, has been accused of forging public documents, malpractice and neglect of public duties, because she allegedly manipulated the results of entry exams for a local policeman seven years ago. Also involved in the case are Antonio Hódar, a current councillor for the Partido Popular, and formerly councillor for sport, public works and development, Manuel Antonio López Vera, a local policeman, and Santiago Romero, the head of the urbanistic services. The court is demanding six years in prison and an eight-year ban on work as a civil servant for Vellisca, and four years in prison and a twelve-year work ban for the other involved parties. The accusation is based on an incident during entry exams for new policemen. In 2000, Ricardo Morer decided to file a complaint against Vellisca for malpractice and forg- ANTONIO HÓDAR (in the middle): Suspected of forging public documents ing of official documents, relating to a number of applicants who sat their exams for two vacancies for policemen in the local police station. Vellisca, Hódar and another four people marked the exams that took place on March 6. It appeared that Vellisca told her colleagues only minutes before the beginning of the exam that she was otherwise engaged. She also told the applicants that she could not mark the exam personally, but that her five colleagues would do it on her behalf. It is possible that she prepared four exams with the corresponding results so that only one of them had to be filled out during the exam and the others would be destroyed after the exam. Julio Morer, who is Ricardo’s brother, passed the test and was incorporated into the police force. On the other hand, Santiago Cabrera failed. Here the irregularities begin, because two days later Vellisca decided to repeat the exam, and this time Cabrera passed. At a later point a test of Vellisca’s handwriting determined that she might have made changes to Cabrera’s exam to ensure he passed. Two years ago the state prosecutor of the provincial court in Alicante became interested in the case and instructed the local courts in Torrevieja to investigate the details. Now the case is being heard in court. LA SAFOR August 24 - August 30 2007 VALENCIA NEWS Mum, 20, knifed to death by her ex Daughter witnessed stabbing By Samantha Kett GANDIA is in shock after learning that a young mum from the town has been stabbed to death by her former boyfriend in front of her daughter. The victim suffered knife-wounds to her neck, chest, back and buttocks and was taken to casualty at the Francesc de Borja hospital. She was later transferred to Valencia’s Hospital Clínico, where she died in the early hours of Monday morning. Police heard that Sorina Simpoenso, a 20-year-old Romanian national, was working in a shop on the esplanade on Gandia beach on Sunday. Her two-yearold daughter was with her. She was approached by her ex-boyfriend, M.Z.C., 23, also from Romania, who had a court order preventing him from going near the victim due to domestic violence charges she had brought against him. He then pulled a knife on her and stabbed her seven times in front of their daughter. Police heard that Sorina had taken refuge in the house of her work colleague Juan Guillermo Ramos, 17, an Ecuadorian national, with her daugh- ter after leaving the home she shared with M.Z.C. due to his violent behaviour. Juan Guillermo was hiding in the shop at the time of the attack, but the aggressor found him and stabbed him repeatedly. Officers are unsure of the motives for the attack that left the young woman dead, her child orphaned and her friend with knifewounds to the chest and kidneys. Juan Guillermo was treated in casualty in Gandia before being admitted EVENING meals to the tune of birdsong whilst floating down the river are hoped to draw in more visitors to the spectacular Albufera wetland, the region’s largest nature reserve. It may not be a bateau mouche on the Seine, but a set-price night menu featuring traditional local cuisine by the light of the moon on board a boat is expected to appeal to romantics, nature-lovers and those keen to explore more of the Valencian countryside. The Albufera wetland stretches from Xeraco (La Safor) to the city of Valencia along the coast, and is famous for its paddy-fields which lie in the Sueca and Cullera area. This is not a new idea, since smaller-scale family celebrations on boats sailing through the Albufera have been common in the past, but never on this scale, say local authorities in the area. Last year, though, councillors in Valencia quashed proposals to launch ‘floating dinners’ because they said it could be harmful to wildlife and the environment. This claim is now being analysed in more depth to ascertain whether the new tourist attraction is feasible. Up to 15 houses robbed to La Fe Hospital in Valencia, where he remains in a critical condition. Local Police arrested the attacker on the seafront after the incident when pedestrians gave chase and pinned him down. Juan Guillermo’s parents, who are keeping a bedside vigil, say M.Z.C. had threatened to kill him, his ex-girlfriend and their child if the family did not throw Sorina out after she moved in with them to hid from her violent former partner. Floating meals by moonlight 53 A WAVE of burglaries that hit the Gandia area earlier this month have led homeowners fearing for their safety. Some 15 houses and villas were raided whilst their owners were asleep in the last two weeks of July and the first week in August. National Police have recently revealed that on Sunday, August 5, they were called out by the owners of a villa on the outskirts of the town who had caught two burglars in the act. The detainees, a 31-yearold woman and a man of 22, are thought to have been behind the other 14 night robberies. A patrol car rushed to the scene and officers gave chase on foot when the offenders attempted to flee the property, and succeeded in arresting them. Police say the woman stood on guard whilst the man relieved the properties of their valuables. They say the burglars took advantage of windows and patio doors left open due to the heat. Unexplained drowning RETURN TO STYLE: Boat parties in the Albufera wetlands THE Mediterranean has claimed another victim, this time a 51-year-old man swimming off an Oliva beach. Emergency services were called just after 19.30 hrs last Thursday and an ambulance rushed to the scene. However, paramedics were unable to revive the man, who had already drowned by the time he was pulled from the water. The circumstances that led to the victim’s death have not yet been clarified, say rescue workers. Drugs lab raided and arrests made Gandia charities help Perú earthquake victims A COCAINE lab has been busted in Tavernes de la Valldigna and two brothers arrested, Guardia Civil sources say. News has just been released of a laboratory set up in the offenders’ homes that was raided on the weekend of August 11 and 12. One of the men was caught whilst driving round the town. Officers, who caught him with 11 grams of cocaine, say he already has a criminal record for drug-dealing. Some of the drugs were hidden in the loudspeakers of his car radio. He accompanied police to the station without putting up a fight and spent the night in a cell while officers searched his house. They then arrested the first man’s brother. They also found 15 grams of co- EARTHQUAKE victims in Perú are being given a helping hand by Gandia charities, who have received a welcome boost from the town council. Local authorities have donated 7,000 euros to the Red Cross and 5,000 to the charity Cáritas to enable them to provide vital support to those who have lost their homes in the freak tremor last week. Both organisations are arranging for basic materials such as food, clothes, blankets, hygiene and cooking kits to be distributed amongst the victims of the quake, which has destroyed the towns of Ica, Pisco and Chincha to the south-east of Lima. Already 41 tonnes of aid equipment have been flown to Perú by the Red Cross. caine, 20 grams of hashish, 150 grams of marijuana and 10,300 euros in notes of 500, which were hidden between the pages of various magazines. Officers discovered a laboratory in the house where the young men doctored pure cocaine with other ingredients to increase its weight and acquire more money from its sale. These ingredients included ammonia, bleach, methadone and other, similar chemical products. Using a drug-detector, police found cocaine in various parts of the house, including in the hooverbag. Guardia Civil officers also arrested a 25-year-old man in Sueca last week, when he was caught redhanded with 120 grams of hashish, believed to be for resale. The two charities say they will be able to help 20,000 people to get back on their feet over the next five months with the council’s donation. An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale with its epicentre in the sea off the coast of Pisco rocked the country on the evening of Wednesday, August 15. A total of 502 bodies have been found under the wreckage and more than a thousand were injured, with 70 per cent of buildings in Pisco reduced to rubble. Tsunami warnings were issued after tidal waves were seen in Perú, Ecuador, the south of Colombia and Chile. To make a donation, call the Red Cross on 902 22 22 92 or pay into Cáritas’ Bancaixa account, number 2077-2005-44-1100555276. FOOD AID: Red Cross 54 REGIONAL NEWS Quick response unit for La Unión POLICE, fire and ambulance will be able to reach the scene quicker when they receive calls from residents in La Unión. A new headquarters for the emergency services, reached by calling 112, is due to be set up in the area. New rescue boats and a land vehicle will also be given to lifeguards working on Portmán’s beaches, confirms La Unión’s mayor Francisco Bernabé, to enable them to attend to more bathers in trouble. La Unión residents and local authorities have long complained about the scarcity of police officers and availability of emergency services in the area, a need that becomes greater during the holiday season when the population rockets. As yet, however, councillors have not confirmed when the new 112 headquarters and lifeboats will be in place. MURCIA August 24 - August 30 2007 Daytrippers spoilt for choice in Cartagena Roman discovery EXCITING new findings have been uncovered at an archaeological dig in La Unión near Portmán bay. The Roman village known as El Huerto del Paturro is currently being excavated to the tune of 455,000 euros, and is said to be the largest and most complete in the Murcia region. This week, an entire house has been dug up. A banquet hall with a mosaïctiled floor, bearing images of a peacock and a woman’s head, together with a complex of industrial and work rooms thought to be related to the fishing industry, have come to light. Work has been ongoing at the site since December last year. Mary Poppins in Mar Menor YOUNG bookworms are being encouraged to increase their word power reading Mary Poppins and Don Quijote on the beach. To convince kids that reading is fun, a mobile library is travelling along Spain’s 5,000 kilometres of beaches and has reached the Mar Menor. Mary Poppins, Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio and Don Quijote are among the characters children can read about while catching the sun in books and comics. Other Spanish heroes like Captain Trueno, Doña Inés and Captain Alatriste – created by Cartagenaborn author Arturo Pérez Reverte and now a box office hit nationwide – are high on the list of favourites. EXCURSIONS: Travel by boat or catamaran to the Fuerte de Navidad or journey back to the Middle Ages with the Dance of the Crypt By Daniel Vidal HOLIDAYMAKERS in Cartagena will have all they need at their fingertips and a wide range of exciting excursions to choose from thanks to efforts on the part of the local tourist authority, Puerto de Culturas. This August, they can take a trip to the recentlyrestored Cripta de la Muralla Púnica and witness the exciting Dance of the Crypt, where the frescos, the ‘dance of the skeletons’, and the music transport the visitor back to the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. An excursion by boat to the Fuerte de Navidad is not only open at Christmas – the 19th-century building displays artillery and defence systems from the period, scenes from daily life and the town’s strong links with the Mediterranean. The boat trip to El Fuerte de Navidad also gives the tourist a fantastic view of the defence port on the way. Only a few places remain on these and other trips. For further information take a look at the websites w w w. c a r t a g e n a p u e r t o deculturas.es or www.cartagena.es, or call 968 50 00 93. No more queuing at the town hall from October RESIDENTS will no longer have to queue up for hours at the town hall whenever they need to sign on the padrón, request planning permission for their house or make other enquiries thanks to a new helpline due to be installed in October. The town council already offers a similar service online via its website www. cartagena.es, but now those without an internet connection will be able to ask questions and carry out administration by telephone. Contesting a parking ticket or driving fine, finding out about school places or seeking compensation for injury or damage in the street will become easier, since the helpline staff can explain the process step by step. Residents who then have to visit the town hall to finish the process will be given an appointment and told what paperwork to bring with them. Facilities for online and telephone enquiries are designed to cut down on red tape and delays. To make life even easier for residents, the helpline will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Once the service is up and running, residents should call 010 from anywhere in the Cartagena area to speak to a town hall advisor. CHANGES: Fortunate residents are about to see the town hall move into the 21st century MURCIA August 24 - August 30 2007 Brits flock to Totana The UK tourists seek out culture By José Andúgar BRITS make up the highest number of holidaymakers who come to Totana, says the tourist information office. Some 1,480 people visited the centre in the first eight months of 2007 seeking information, most of whom were from the UK. Just over a thousand enquiries were made by Spanish people, both those living locally and those on holiday, whereas a total of 445 were from abroad. Of these, 389 visitors were British, just 10 were French, around 30 were German and Ecuadorian nationals and 16 were Argentinean. They sought information about historical monuments, country walks and other sites of particular interest to tourists. Totana’s rich history is a 55 Lorca has new courts SPORTS fans in Lorca are in luck as the local leisure centre plans to install two new paddle tennis courts. A game played with tennisballs and rackets similar to those used in tennis but with a shorter handle, it is played in a room with walls in the same manner as a squash court. Widely-played in Spain and Latin America, paddle’s popularity on the Costa del Sol means it is beginning to spread throughout the UK thanks to holidaymakers and part-time residents who take the game home with them. Lorca’s La Torrecilla sports’ village will shortly install two new courts in response to the growing number of amateur players in the town. Let’s party! VISITOR INTEREST: Holidaymakers mostly likely to seek tourist information and sites are British constant attraction to visitors, given that the origins of the town date back to prehistoric times. The earliest archaeological remains discovered date back to the Eneolithic era. These were found in digs Britain is too cold for melons FLOODS in the UK have taken their toll on the Costa Cálida as well as in the worst-affected parts of Britain. Watermelon exports to the UK, Murcia’s largest consumer, have ground to a halt as few people eat them when the weather is poor. With summer temperatures of 8ºC, Brits are more inclined to cook themselves a warm winter stew whilst huddling round the fire than tuck into a juicy watermelon. During last year’s hot summer in Britain, the amount received by Murcian watermelon farmers rose to a whopping 20 euros a kilo – it has now fallen to around 10 cents. Most farmers in the Murcia region are unable to afford to harvest the fruit and leave it to rot in the fields. This situation has been made worse by the delay in cultivating the crop. Given that the Spanish sun was nowhere to be seen until around mid-April in the Murcia area, farmers left it much later before planting their fruit. The regional Ministry of Agriculture says the melon crop is the backbone of the REGIONAL NEWS PRODUCE: Watermelons being shunned by the British are causing a market crash and the fruit is then left to rot farming industry in Murcia along with tomatoes, lettuce and broccoli. The region is responsible for a fifth of Spain’s melon produce, and fields dedicated to cultivating the fruit in Murcia make up around a tenth of those seen nationally. It is mainly grown in the Valle del Guadalentín (Lorca area) and the Campo de Cartagena district. Spain is one of the world’s largest melon producers after China and Turkey and the UK is its largest importer, after Germany and the Netherlands. in the Blanquizares, Anchura, Lebros, Antiguarejo and La Bastida areas. English-speaking tourists can find out more in their own language via the town’s website, www.totana.net. CARNIVAL fever has hit Fuente Álamo with the start of the annual patron saint fiestas tomorrow (Saturday). Fancy-dress parades, openair discos, concerts, plays, competitions and other activities will take place over the course of the week. The San Agustín festival and carnival will run until Saturday, September 2. For further information take a look at www.aytofuentealamo.es 56 EDITORIAL & OPINION August 24 - August 30 2007 _ Editorial&Opinion @ Centro Comercial La Teulera 12-14 Avda. Rey Juan Carlos I. 61-63 03727 Xaló (Alicante) Tel. 96 648 08 14 Fax 96 648 02 66 E-mail [email protected] Ignasi Mora [email protected] When our society stops creating T HE OTHER day I discovered one of my own thoughts printed in a newspaper. It would have been much worse to have found a list of my sins instead. But I wasn’t personally credited with this thought – it had been used as the title of an interview with a biologist and Valencia University professor, Juli Peretó: “Knowing too much impedes innovation.” One would suppose, therefore, that this was one of the lines that stood out the most in said interview, which is why they chose it for the title. What they call ideas, or thoughts, are like partridges in the hunting season – they fly in full view of everyone, but they disappear as soon as anyone aims or tries to shoot at them. According to sociologists, scientific inventions are discovered by numerous people at the same time and on more occasions than we realise. That is why they also invented the register of patents and authors’ rights. Every period in history has its own mental prototype, meaning that all would-be inventors were working in similar conditions at the same time and the first one to the post will be the one who takes the podium. Also, before you start you need to travel light, no briefcases or covered wagons, because if you just rely on extensive knowledge you will never reach first base before the rest – that is, you will never be involved in the innovation of anything. I don’t know whether Professor Peretó will have observed this personally, given that he is a ‘science person’ – I’m an ‘arts person’ and have put Peretó’s comment to the test in my sector. The most learned amongst them are those who know the most quotes off by heart and know the most about their field of expertise, but later it turns out they are the least creative and innovative people and are filled with horror when faced with any idea that is not already firmly established. When I discover these types of characters who use knowledge like a set of jewellery or some other decoration, I renounce universities. That is when I understand better than ever that knowledge is a hindrance and puts the brakes on social springs, since it seems that the slightest attempt to stray from the fixed ideas of the university are treated with the maximum contempt. f those who occupy posts in universities – following, without doubt, an obsolete system that guarantees them jobs for life – never let the fresh air of invention pass between them, who will? Those who work for a privately-run company for pure financial gain? Those who ignore any type of ground-breaking thought? “You have to put forward a point of ingenuity, of daring, to be able to progress,” Juli Peretó also said in his interview. He puts this forward himself in his declarations, because he gives the impression – as often commented on, and by many – that, rather than being a temple of invention, universities are a qualification-factory and a means for some to earn a good salary. When society does not create, it loses the rhythm of time, it stagnates in the past and the rot sets in as it forgets the enjoyable sensation of exercising vital creativity – and what doesn’t go up must come down. We don’t realise it, but history is always moving in one direction or another, even if we fail to notice it – just as we never notice the hands of the clock ticking by. I Think Press S.L., C.I.F. B/54152202 - Editor Nick Hudson Registration T-59-07 - ISSN 1887-4223 How to contact us Tel. 96 648 08 14 / Fax 96 648 02 66 [email protected] Have you got a story? Tel. 96 648 00 52 - [email protected] Display adverts [email protected] Classifieds [email protected] Don’t worry José, we’ll get him on the way back Jacqui Cotterill [email protected] Bulls, rules and a bit of responsibility D ESPITE the disturbing headlines reporting rising levels of crime in Britain, the British at heart remain a law abiding people. We stop at zebra crossings and red lights, we buckle up our seat belts and check the regulations for the appropriate child safety seat. We honour our reputation for being patient queuers and face the approbation of the line if anyone dares to push in. New and unpopular laws may be criticised, argued over, tested in court but rarely are they openly flouted. This is evident with the overall acceptance of the ban on smoking in public places. A sizable minority of people still wish to smoke, both in their workplace and in their leisure hours, but few will blatantly light up in their local pub. I have been pleasantly surprised how readily the ban on smoking in Spain has been accepted. Here too, few people smoke in prohibited areas although the get out clause allowing bars under 100 square metres to allow smoking has made this law easier to swallow. In other areas where laws directly challenge people’s traditions and sense of identity there is often a strong rejection of the rules amongst all age groups. However I suspect that this is less to do with an innate anarchism in the Spanish character than the consequence of lack of enforcement of the law. This was made very clear to me this week when in my official capacity of Deputy Mayor I had to enforce the regulations from the Valencian Government concerning public safety during the festival of the bulls in the village square. The Town Hall had to ensure that no one under the age of sixteen or physically incapacitated entered the compound and that no cruel or dangerous behaviour was inflicted on the bulls. The clear instructions were given to the municipal police women, attending councillor and the organisers of the fiesta. What followed was an almost constant battle with the local youths, egged on by the crowd, to be allowed to jump in the ring with the bulls. The explanation that the rules were there to keep them safe and that the Town Hall was responsible if they were gored fell on deaf ears. For the spectators it was unheard of to stop a brave fifteen year old facing the bull; they had always done it, why should we try to stop them now? his tussle between rules, responsibility for safety and traditional behaviour is played out daily. Outside many local schools parents pick up their chil- T dren on ‘motos’ without helmets, often in front of the local police whilst underage teenagers ride motorbikes with the blessing of their parents. Children are surprised to be asked to put on a seat belt in my car and would never expect a car to stop to allow them to cross the road. The Government attempts to improve road safety or to reduce injury in the notoriously dangerous street bull events by introducing new laws to protect the vulnerable. The unfortunate reaction of many is to criticise such legislation as it controls activities long considered normal. The authorities, whether they be schools, police, local councillors or parents will find it a continual struggle to uphold the rules in a society where adults teach the young that laws are only to be respected if you agree with them. EDITORIAL & OPINION August 24 - August 30 2007 Penny Lapenna Berta Chulvi [email protected] A ing.... T the weekend, we participated in a ritual orgy, that got me think- By orgy, I mean a group of around 500 people, of all ages, nationalities and tastes, in the very public plaza, jostling and shrieking in total abandon. It was the annual Chocolatina – like a mini version of the Tomatina, only involving indecent amounts of hot melted dark chocolate. Every child in the village was invited, however, there was surreptitious adult gorging too. Trays of sugar buns began passing overhead at about 18.00 hrs, and the orderly queue showed signs of fraying as the crowd thickened. By 18.30 the noise in the plaza was unbearable, as hundreds of spoons clattered in hundreds of cups, like an anticipatory fanfare. Eager smiling faces were replaced by ones of desperation as the huge vats of swilling chocolate appeared, and the crowd surged inhumanely forward like a many-legged beast. Small children were passed overhead, as families tried to steal a march on their neighbours, and get more of their clan to the front. Eventually the first lucky Wonka winners appeared – struggling free of the seething mass to run towards seats clutching the prized and brimming cup, teeth clenched around the accompanying bun. One girl stumbled, pouring bubbling brown goo over her arm and down her chest. Her wails of pain resulted in an unceremonious dunking in the fountain, which probably prevented third-degree burns. This stuff was HOT. I pushed forward anxiously, trying to tug my daughter’s arm and alert her to the danger. “It’s like lava – careful, don’t panic, there is enough for everyone!” ot one person heeded, as the crowd opened to let a wheelchair user through, only to splash shut in waves as more chocolate lovers took advantage to push to the front. Eventually, I spotted my youngest daughter, bun underarm, elbows moving commando-style as she escaped the masses. Ensconced on a stone wall, she began tearing the bun into sugary pieces, and dipping them in the chocolate, at which point her face changed to one of divine reverence as each morsel went down. She was in seventh heaven. For journalistic purposes, I forced myself to sample some of the concoction, and at a guess I would say it was at least 70 per cent cocoa – and it was being 57 [email protected] Things go better with Speak now or COCOA N THE ORGY OF CHOCOLATE: Some say it’s better than sex given away freely to all. Apparently, in a controlled experiment comparing 20 different people, researchers found that dark chocolate was a significant factor in lowering blood pressure, while white chocolate was not. The key ingredient thought to cause this phenomenon is flavonoids. Dark chocolate can help in prevention of cancer due to a high level of flavonoids / antioxidants – a higher level than wine, berries, and green tea. Dark chocolate is a valid source of iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium; it helps to generate seratonin in the brain, creating a healthy, feel good sensation, and it does not cause acne, as it has less milk content than other chocolates. This stuff is dynamite. There are festivals around the world dedicated to chocolate consumption, and since Montezuma allegedly drank 50 cups a day, and taxed people in cocoa beans, we have been trying to justify our obsession with it. It’s clear to me after participating in this display of orgiastic gluttony, that the cocoa bean tax should be revived. We should be paid in Crunchies or Snickers bars, with a quantity of cocoa beans going straight into a high interest account, to pay for our kids university fees. Forget alcohol and drugs; whoever heard of a chocoholic abusing his kids, or driving erratically! In fact, chocolate actually stimulates concentration and the smell of it aids relaxation. The revolution starts here. hold your peace S INCE the death of my mother-inlaw, I have been spending the last two weeks of August on an orange farm located halfway between Valencia and Sagunto where my son’s father grew up which is, without doubt, an idyllic refuge that my son’s grandfather is reluctant to give up. We come here to look after the boy’s grandfather, but also so that my son can learn to swim and ride a bicycle. The truth is that it is a very cool place and very tranquil, except on windy days, and sometimes at night as well. Everything would be perfect if it were not for the blessed noise pollution. Let me explain. The Masía San Rafael, as the farm is called, is a perfect example of what has happened to many Spanish families with properties in the country. The first blow to the masía came in the 1980s when the government decided to build a ring road - the V30 which passes within a kilometre of the orange farm. This means, for example, that at eight o’clock in the morning, as well as the sound of the hoopoe and myriad other birds that nest among the palm trees and the impressive Jacaranda trees in the nearby pine wood, the continual hum of cars heading towards Sagunto, Castellón, Barcelona or Heavens knows where, can now also be heard in the background. My husband complains that not one single acoustic barrier has been installed along this freeway and always compares the situation on English main roads. Two of his sisters live in England so he often travels to see them and repeatedly brings up this example. I have tried to remember whether or not he is exagerating, and I must say that, from somewhere at the back of my mind, I have managed to dredge up the memory of the car journey from London to Oxford by car, and do recall a road with acoustic barriers. You will be able to confirm whether my husband is guilty of idealising England or whether it is, in fact, more usual for this type of protective equipment to be used. But the disaster does not end there. What happened a couple of years ago was much worse. I shall explain. You will already be aware that there is a renewed trend in this country for weddings to be ostentatious and extravagant. The truth is that this fashion never really disappeared, but nowadays even the most progressive are getting married in style. Personally, I think it is a stupid waste of money and effort to stage a huge wedding for a marriage that nobody ever knows how long it might last. And while I am on the subject, it seems to me to be the most unromantic thing in the world to parade past rows and rows of friends and relatives all dressed in white like some huge merengue about to be eaten. Anyway, let’s assume that people are happy that way, and more and more are organising major events to celebrate their wedding day. As organising large-scale weddings is not a bad business to be in, there has been a proliferation in the number of venues offering to stage this kind of party. As bad luck would have it, two entrepeneurs bought up the two masías adjacent to the one where my husband’s family has always spent its summer holidays, and converted them into wedding reception venues. This means that whenever a pair of young lovers decides to celebrate their nuptials next door, we cannot get to sleep until four or five o’clock in the morning because of the horrendous music that sounds like it is being played much louder than the legal decibel limit. have started thinking about what we can do and have found a website that may be useful if you ever find yourselves in a similar position to ours. The address is www.ruidos.org and you will find abundant documentation, legislation, examples of case like mine (and yours too perhaps) and even contact details for lawyers offering free advice and quotations. My sister-in-law, who is a lawyer, says that we cannot do a thing unless we want to spend a fortune. She is almost certainly right, but I cannot help wondering why the rights of these men to make money should be considered more important than our right to sleep peacefully? For the time being we have bought ourselves some ear plugs, and fortunately there are fewer weddings at the end of August than the rest of the year because nobody wants to mess with their friends’ summer holiday plans. My advice: travel more and get married less as travelling is better for your marriage. I 58 August 24 - August 30 2007 LEGAL AND FINANCE ASKtheexpert... Nothing in this or any previous edition of the publication known as thinkSPAIN/today constitutes financial, investment, legal or other form of advice. All of Think Press SL, that is the company’s owners and employees together with any third parties contracted by Think Press SL assume no responsibility whatsoever for any information contained in this publication and disclaim all liability in respect of such information. Think Press SL is not responsible for the content of any article, text or advertisement published in this edition, or content which a reader may be able to access from reading any such article, text or advertisement. Stephen Ward pensions expert 129 Pine Tree Trail and your pension fund YOU may well think from the above title that three weeks in the Florida sunshine (it was not quite warm enough on the Costa Blanca) has addled my brain. However, follow the story through and you’ll understand better why global stock markets (in which pension funds invest) have suffered significant falls recently and an unusual degree of volatility. On arrival in Pine Tree Trail, the first thing I noticed was that the house next door to the one we were renting appeared to have been abandoned. Next I noticed that in this road of rather nice modern four-bedroom, three-bathroom houses with private pools (and about 30 minutes away from the Disney theme parks) about 40 per cent had ‘for sale’ signs up. I am, however, going to focus on number 129 Pine Tree Trail (the address is real except for the type of tree so as to protect the innocent) because a couple of weekends ago we saw a handwritten sign at the entrance to Pine Tree Trail. It said something along the lines of ‘open house – for sale to highest bidder, must sell within seven days as bank about to foreclose’. The following Thursday a removal van turned up outside number 129. I’ve occasionally wondered to this day whether the bank took possession or whether an unusually quick sale was achieved. How is this relevant to your pension fund? Well, the story may well go something along these lines. A few years ago certain banks (in fact, a lot of them) were willing to grant mortgages to virtually anybody. Those mortgages granted to those with a poor credit record were known as ‘sub prime’ mortgages. Initial interest rates were as low as one per cent per annum – but of course, very soon became much higher. In the then-hot American housing market, financial institutions thought they could take a punt lending to these folks, and of course make a lot of money both from upfront fees and from the higher interest rates the sub-prime folks pay. So, I would bet my bottom dollar (or euro) that the people who until the Thursday before last owned 129 Pine Tree Trail were in this category. They bought the house and managed to pay the loan instalments. Or, at least until the interest rate recently hit 10 per cent. What they did not appreciate was that their mortgage, along with thousands of oth- ers, was being packaged up into some form of security that other people bought on the basis of the high yields they could enjoy. It’s this sub-prime borrowing that has caused the recent stock market gyrations – and the value of your pension fund as a consequence. It’s not so much that the sub-prime borrowers are defaulting on their loans (though that’s part of it). It’s three other things that have spread the pain globally. One, investors worldwide ended up owning those sub-prime mortgages. Two, some aggressive investors borrowed heavily to buy these sub-prime mortgages. Three, when these first two balloons burst, people started to get very nervous, and the nervousness spread across all sorts of kinds of investment. Let’s have a look at each of these. How people ended up with these subprime loans In the States, these subprime mortgages would get bundled up and sold off to investors as a CDO (a collateralised debt obligation). It worked like this. The CDO would hold, say, $100 million of sub-prime mortgages with the borrowers paying (let’s say) 10 per cent. So there’s $10 million a year of interest payments coming in from the borrowers. The CDO would offer investors three flavours of investment. It would offer $50 million of relatively secure investment that paid eight per cent; holders of this safer flavour got paid first, so they got the first $4 million of the borrowers’ payments. The CDO would offer a middle-quality flavour – let’s say $40 million that paid 10 per cent. The holders of this stuff got paid next, so they got the next $4 million. That left $2 million of borrowers’ payments still in the CDO, which got paid to the most junior people, namely the investors holding the bottom-quality $10 million. If everything works out, then the bottom quality investors earn 20 per cent. These three flavours of reparcelled sub-prime loans went all over the world because, chances were, one or other of the flavours appealed to someone. The middle and low quality bits of these CDOs were already reasonably risky. If, for example, 20 per cent of the sub-prime borrowers were to stop making their mortgage payments (not at all impossible, given their poor credit standing) then only $8 million of interest payments comes into the CDO. That’s only enough to pay out the top two tiers of investor: there’s nothing at all left to pay the junior bottom tier. Their investment is now worthless. Despite these risks, however, some investors and fund managers took on another level of risk again: leverage. They thought CDOs were worthwhile, so they borrowed to buy some. Leverage increases returns when things go well, but it amplifies losses when things go pear-shaped. And then things did, indeed, go pear-shaped. The housing market weakened in the States. More people fell behind on payments or lost their home equity as house prices fell. First, the Pla Carretero Law Firm Property Law Conveyancing Commercial Law Crime Personal Injury Family Law Wills, Trust & Probate Debts Recovery C/ Sertorio, 2 - Esc. A - Pta. 3 Edificio Adumar 2 03730 Jávea (Alicante) Litigation Tel. 96 579 68 02 Fax 96 579 67 96 Mobile 620 261 314 www.Jávea-solicitors.com [email protected] leveraged exposures to subprime mortgages imploded, because the leverage magnified their losses. To repay their borrowings, they were forced to sell their CDOs onto an already weak market: prices fell more. The unleveraged bottom quality CDO tiers started falling over, and gradually the losses started extending up into the middle-quality flavours. And, all along the way, worried investors trying to get out before worse befell them caused prices to keep falling, in an everdecreasing spiral. Investors’ nervousness then started spreading. One consequence, for example, was that private equity groups, which had previously easily been able to raise large pots of money, found that they couldn’t persuade investors to take such large punts any more. That led to lower share prices, because some shares had been priced on fancy valuations on the expectation of bids from private equity consortia. The biggest investment implication Nobody really knows what the next turn in the subprime melodrama might bring. It’s possible that people have over-reacted by dumping these CDO investments at any price. It’s encouraging that the world’s major central banks have stepped in to stabilise things somewhat. Equally, though, there might even be more volatility down the track. Whatever happens, it shows once again the vital importance for investors of all risk profiles of diversification. When things like the past month come along, as they always do, it’s vital to have a portfolio that is broadly spread across different asset classes, different fund managers, and different styles of investing. Nothing’s ever foolproof, but diversification remains a great tool, anywhere, anytime. And I can’t help wondering where the people who used to own 129 Pine Tree Trail will be sleeping tonight. Stephen Ward can be contacted by email at s ward@premierfinancialso lutions.co.uk or by telephone to the Moraira office of Premier Financial Solutions (UK) Ltd on 659 579 265. August 24 - August 30 2007 GOOD news for investors, but hardship could be on the cards for mortage-holders as interest rates creep closer to a record high. According to market intelligence gathered by research firm Servimedia, the Euribor – which acts as the base for mortgage interest rates in most EU member states, including Spain – shot to 4.656 per cent last Friday. This is just short of its historic high between May and December 2000, when the rate fluctuated between 4.849 and 5.248 per cent. The latter figure was reached in August 2000 and remained above 5.1 per cent until November of that year, the highest rates seen since the Euribor was created in January 1999. The lowestever was June 2003’s 2.014 per cent. Experts say this month’s increase is the 23rd consecutive rise and the current Euribor rate has only ever been exceeded eight times. BUSINESS AND ECONOMY Ryanair bookings are flying high By Samantha Kett BUDGET flight firm Ryanair says it has seen record numbers of bookings recently for new flight routes starting from Alicante and Valencia airports. In the last week alone, the Ireland-based airline has sold nearly 200,000 seats on soon-to-be-opened flights Record numbers for new routes starting from Alicante and Valencia to Santiago de Compostela, Basel, Bologne, Paris, Oporto, Malta and Billund, leaving from Valencia, and to Doncaster, East Midlands, Bournemouth and Milan from Alicante. Flights to these destinations currently only run from Madrid and Girona. Ryanair’s marketing and sales director Maribel Rodríguez says “The new routes will not open until October because at the moment, many people are on holiday and are not thinking about their winter holidays yet.” Last week Ryanair announced that from the end of October, Valencia would be its 21st largest base and Alicante its 22nd largest. They rank third and fourth in Spain respectively. Flights start at 10 euros one-way, including taxes, and can be booked on www. ryanair.com. MOBILE phone giant Nokia is recalling 46 million batteries that could cause short circuits and lead to a fire. The Finnish firm says batteries for its model BL-5C become dangerously warm when recharging. They say the only ones that are defective are the batteries manufactured by Japanese company, Matsushita Battery Industrial between November 2005 and 2006. Since these hit the shelves, Nokia has detected over a hundred cases of short circuits caused by putting BL5C on charge, although they stressed that no injuries or damage to the phones themselves had been heard of. Nokia says not all the batteries in question will be defective, but it will change those that are, free of charge. Consumer association FACUA has issued a written communication to all mobile telephone operators requesting they contact their customers. Nokia has posted a list of 52 models that may carry the defective battery on its website, www.nokia.com. Some things you want to leave behind…… Some things you don’t. Brooks Macdonald Asset Management’s outstanding investment management service will provide you with peace of mind - leaving you free to enjoy the sunshine. Head quartered in London with a local presence in Spain our investment professionals have the skills to manage your assets and the local knowledge to advise on tax and planning issues. Brooks Macdonald Asset Management is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority & Spain by CNMV & DGS International Pensions Investment Management Contact Mark Davies on: Tel. 96 646 33 95 E-mail: [email protected] www.bm-am.com Trusts 59 Inheritance Tax Planning 60 August 24 - August 30 2007 BUSINESS AND ECONOMY Shot in a spray WHEN a shot is rather a lot, a squirt is probably all you need and certainly will not put you over the limit. Plus you can keep a bottle in your handbag without straining your shoulders. International wine manufacturer Bodegas Torres, originally based in Spain and now with a strong presence in three continents, has invented a brandy in a spray-bottle that is small enough to carry around with you. You can add a shot to your drinks, turning a café solo into a carajillo, or liven up desserts when you are in a restaurant. The bodega’s owners say the carajillo vaporizado, as the brandyspray is known, is the result of two years’ work and is now on sale under the brand names of Torres 5 and Torres 10 in specialist shops and restaurants specialising in haute cuisine. Their other lines of spray-in alcohol include Moscatel. BA to fly across the pond from Spanish capital By Samantha Kett VIVES.PONS&ASOCIADOS ABOGADOS · SOLICITORS ECONOMISTAS · ACCOUNTANTS ARQUITECTOS · ARCHITECTS C/ Pare Pere, 9 - bajo - 03700 Dénia - Alicante Tel.: 96 643 26 24 • Fax: 96 642 71 69 [email protected] www.vivespons.com BRITISH AIRWAYS has announced it will open a new flight path next year between Spain and the USA. A high-flying agreement between the EU and the United States, known as the ‘open skies’ scheme, was recently signed to push for more air connections between the old and new world. As a result, BA will run flights from Madrid, Paris and Frankfurt to a major North American city, probably New York, from May 2008, says British daily The Independent. Deputy chief executive of BA, Willie Walsh, hinted that the company may consider opening other routes between more European and US cities, although did not confirm when or where. FLYING HIGH: Air links to USA SPORT August 24 - August 30 2007 Sport Champions get Atlético for season’s stiff opener CHAMPIONS Real Madrid kick off the 2007-08 season with a home game against Atlético de Madrid on Saturday (kick off 7pm). The only other fixture on the opening day is Sevilla v Getafe (kick off 9pm). Sunday see La Liga get into full swing with 6pm starts for Athletic Bilbao v Osasuna, Deportivo La Coruña v Almería, Mallorca v Levante, Murcia v Real Zaragoza, Racing Santander v Barcelona, Recreativo Huelva v Real Betis and Valencia v Villarreal while Espanyol play Valladolid at 8pm. Liga de Fútbol Profesional, commonly known as La Liga, is the professional football league in Spain. It is considered to be one of the best leagues in the world along with the English Premier League and the Italian Serie A. Nine clubs have been crowned Campeones de Liga. Since the 1950s, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have dominated the competition. The former have been champions 30 times while the latter have won it on 18 occasions. However during the 1930s and 1940s and in more recent seasons, La Liga has been more competitive. Other winners include Valencia CF, Sevilla FC, Atlético de Madrid, Deportivo de La Coruña, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Real Betis. In addition to their success in La Liga, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona are two of the most successful teams in European competition history. In 2005/06 FC Barcelona won the UEFA Champions League and Sevilla FC won the UEFA Cup. La Liga became the first league to do the European “double” since 1997. La Liga is currently first in the UEFA rankings of European leagues based on their performances in European competitions over a five-year period, ahead of Serie A in second and the Premier League. @ FOCUS ON LA LIGA’S NEW SEASON England not the Spur for Ramos 61 Centro Comercial La Teulera 12-14 Avda. Rey Juan Carlos I. 61-63 03727 Xaló (Alicante) Tel. 96 648 08 14 Fax 96 648 02 66 E-mail [email protected] Benfica and the Real deal SEVILLA coach Juande Ramos has said he received a “dizzying” offer to take charge at Tottenham Hotspur but never considered accepting the approach from the English club. “They made an excellent, dizzying offer, but I’m under contract to Sevilla and my decision is to fulfil it,” Ramos told a news conference this week. “There was not the slightest possibility that I would accept it because I’m under contract. It did not interest me or the club. “I wasn’t in a meeting with anyone, what happened was that I met with a person and that person went on to meet other people who were surely Tottenham,” said Ramos, who led Sevilla to UEFA Cup victory last season. Tottenham yesterday issued a statement denying they have offered the position of manager to anyone whilst Martin Jol has been in the job. Ramos has been linked I FEEL DIZZY: Juande Ramos, above, is staying put as is Martin Jol, below with a possible move to the Premier League club ever since media reports suggested that manager Martin Jol no longer enjoyed the confidence of club chairman Daniel Levy. Speculation went into overdrive when the Sevilla sports paper Estadio Deportivo published photographs of an alleged meeting between Ramos and Tottenham club secretary John Alexander at a hotel in the Andalucían city. Ramos has guided Sevilla to five trophies in the last two seasons, including back-to-back UEFA Cups and the King’s Cup. His side crushed Real Madrid 5-3 on Sunday to complete a 6-3 aggregate win in the Spanish Super Cup and play Milan in the European Super Cup next week. La Liga: Beckham not one of US now THE START of the new La Liga term will have one of its star pupils not attending the opening day. Step forward one David Beckham, whose stars are still in the ascendency but now for the Stars ‘n’ Stripes of another footballing nation – across the Atlantic. Beckham has insisted that he can cope with the jet lag from the trans-Atlantic flights to play for England. The 32-year-old Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder played all 90 minutes of England’s 2-1 friendly defeat at the hands of Germany at Wembley. He had jetted into London from New York on Monday. The former Manchester United and Real Madrid star insisted that he had not been affected in the slightest by the flight. He said: “I’ve slept really well since I’ve been here, I’ve slept nine hours every night since I’ve been here. “My body clock has slotted back into the way of life here in England, so far it has not affected me, in the future who knows, I can’t say it’s not going to. “But at the moment it’s not, and I’ll go on playing for my country as long as I’m wanted.” Beckham played his first full 90 minutes for Los BECKHAM: Played for 90 minutes with Galaxy for the first time Angeles Galaxy in their 5-4 reversal against New York Red Bulls on astroturf at Giants Stadium. His injured ankle flared up again but it was not a reason to worry. “My ankle took a pounding. I’m not used to this surface but it wasn’t bad,” said the 32-year-old midfielder. Beckham played a role in three of the Galaxy’s goals but a brace from former Aston Villa striker Juan Pablo Ángel helped the Red Bulls to victory. Afterwards, Beckham said he was surprised to have lasted the whole game. FORMER Spain and Real Madrid coach José Antonio Camacho, above, took over as Benfica manager on Tuesday. He replaced Fernando Santos, who was fired on Monday after only two competitive games this season. It is Camacho’s second spell as Benfica coach. He joined the club midway through the 2002-03 season and left in 2004, leading the Eagles to the runner-up spot in both seasons. Santos was halfway through a two-year contract but the Lisboa club’s jaded performances in recent games brought sharp criticism from fans. The Eagles were held to a 1-1 draw at Leixoes in their first Portuguese league last weekend. They edged FC Copenhagen 2-1 at home in a Champions League thirdround qualifier and play the return leg on Wednesday. “I’m very happy to return to Benfica,” Camacho said, but added that “I can’t change things overnight.” Benfica sold its captain and crowd favourite Simao Sabrosa to Atlético de Madrid in the off-season, while Portugal midfielder Manuel Fernandes is on the verge of moving to Everton. The club has signed Paraguayan striker Óscar Cardozo and American teenage star Freddy Adu. Benfica, who finished third in the league last season, has only won the title once in the last 13 years. It hasn’t held on to a coach for two consecutive seasons since Sven-Göran Eriksson in 1992. Camacho has also coached Rayo Vallecano, Espanyol and Sevilla. www.portzgen-dowen.es 62 SPORT August 24 - August 30 2007 LOCAL SPORT GOLF FOOTBALL Unlucky Torry are Alcoy in their defeat FC Torrevieja Alcoyano 2 3 TORRY suffered what could be best described as an unlucky defeat at the hands of second division Alcoyano, who were mainly ineffectual in the game but counted where it mattered in scoring three goals in as many attempts, The host’s produced a much improved attacking performance with the midfield and forward line gelling superbly and created enough chances to have won the match, but the post and near misses spoilt a wonderful evenings entertainment, which had the crowd applauding until well after the final whistle had gone. A much improved performance all round and much to cheer about for the coming season. Ciudad de Lorquí Torrevieja Stars are primed for Junior Masters 2 2 THIS was a game much dominated by Torry but they again failed to make the most of their chances. Torry went ahead in the 6th minute as Manrique scored, and the visitors continued to dominate. In the second half it was a poor performance on a poor surface and with some seriously dim floodlights, which in the end made it difficult to watch anything. Lorquí scored in the 56th minute and a penalty 10 minutes from time put the hosts ahead, but Larry scored for Torry. BOWLS Christians roar to win THE CHRISTIANS came and conquered Greenlands who did get one more point than last week and were unlucky not to get another. Cas Thomas, Les Barber and Mike Thomas were the only winning rink. Brian Tomlin, Arthur France and Brian Gardiner had a very close game, all square after nine ends, pulled away to 18-11 lead but were pegged back by San Miguel to draw the game. PLEASED AS PUNCH: Some of the triumphant Pego winners after a great day’s golf Relaid greens make golfing easier at Pego SOME 36 Pego golfers turned out to play Alicante Golf Course on Tuesday. The weather was great and the course in wonderful condition, even with three temporary greens remaining. Some of the re-laid greens had been opened since our last visit and were a delight to play on. The results for the day were :Division 1: 1st Ian Robertson with 40 pts off 11.5, 2nd John Guest with 39 pts off 7.1, 3rd Alan Price with 37 pts off 9.4. Division 2: 1st Steve Legg with 41 pts off 27.3, 2nd Dick Whetstone with 39 pts off 25.3, 3rd Hannay Bahouse with 39 pts off 26.7. Our guest prize was won by Michael Creighton with 37 pts off 8. Nearest the pins were won by John Costigen on the 3rd and Ian Robertson on 14th. Five Twos were recorded by John Guest, John Chessher, Ian Robertson, Mike Holloway and John Costigan. Some 98 balls in the water were cor- rectly forecast by Janine Ackerman. On the social scene, our Captain, Dick Whetstone, will soon give details of the dining arrangements for Tuesday September 18. Paul Richardson will also give information on the bowling night planned for the end of September. Next Monday, we are at El Bosque with an early first tee time of 9.30am so please be at the course for 8.30am. Guests welcome subject to certificates. Going gets rough AUGUST is always a slow month with members on holiday or taking a break due to the heat, so 37 players was not a bad turnout at Hacienda last Monday. There was a Stableford competition in our usual three categories plus our nearest the pins on the par threes and a twos competition which was voluntary for one euro. The course was in superb condition again and Billy Sim (Director of Golf) was even on hand to welcome us. Our first tee time was 10am and already it was very warm so the majority of players had a buggy and took plenty of water as it’s a long way round Hacienda, but all players seemed to play better in the sun. In Cat 1 the top score came from Alan Masters (who incidentally doesn’t like the course) with 37 points playing off 4, right behind him was Bob Marksman with 36 pts. Third place went to Ian Earey with 30 pts. Cat. 2 was a bit closer with the top 5 scoring 34 pts and over. The handicap secretary had to count back on the first four players to get the results. In 1st place with 38 pts was David Lundy, 2nd on 38 pts was John Sinclair; 3rd place went to Sean Matthews with 36 pts on countback from Alan Ross. Cat. 3 players didn’t fare so well with our winner Paul Fernández scoring 33 pts, 2nd Brian Goodbourn on 31 pts on count back from Steve Millgate in 3rd. The day was a great success for John Sinclair who had been receiving tuition from Teo, resident teaching professional at the Escuela de Golf. John managed two nearest the pins, on the 5th and 8th holes and was presented with a prize donated by Billy Sim and also was the sole player with a two so collected the whole purse of 35€. With his 2nd place in cat. 2 it made a very rewarding day. Billy Sim also presented a prize to Lyn Watts for her nearest-the-pin shot on the 5th. The other NTP prizes went to Roy Herbert on the 12th and Paul Matthews on the 15th. The next game for San Javier is August 29 at the newly opened El Valle Golf Resort. THE ESCUELA de Golf 2nd Junior Masters Golf Tournament is due to be held again at the end of September at the La Sella Golf Resort. Many thanks go to the Tour nament sponsor Darryl Smith Tennis without whom the Escuela de Golf would not be able to host such a prestigious event. The young golfers at the Golf School have amassed points from competitions played during 2007 and the points will determine who is eligible to take part in the Junior Masters and only the top 28 students will be eligible. The first round is played over nine holes and is medal play. At the end of the first round a cut is made and only the top 16 go through to the final round on the Sunday which is an 18 hole medal round with the winner being crowned Junior Master 2008. Good luck to Alex OakRhind (age 15) who will be defending her hard fought title of 2007 and will have to fend off her rivals, which will include Luke Curtis (age 13) and George Pay (age 14) who took second and third place in last year’s event. Alex’s handicap has been reduced from 13 to seven over the past twelve months and she is well on her way to her target of a scratch handicap by the time she is 18. Alex plans to become a Professional Tour Player and has all the potential of a truly great player. Luke Curtis’s handicap has been reduced from 21 to 12 over the past year and he is hard on the heels of Alex as he also wishes to become a tour player and follow in the footsteps of his cousin Oliver Fisher who already plays on the European Tour. Good luck to all the competitors who play in the Junior Masters and we look forward to publishing the results at the end of the tournament. There are junior and adult golf classes for all abilities from beginners to advanced at the Escuela de Golf. WWW.PERETOESTATES.COM SPORT August 24 - August 30 2007 63 LOCAL SPORT SAND ACTION: Rugby on the beach, including Tag for junior players TOMORROW Dénia Rugby Club are hosting the 15th Annual Dénia Beach Sevens on the Punta del Raset, the main Dénia beach from 11am until 8pm. Ten teams will compete in two groups of five with the top two in each group progressing to the semi-finals. Last beach tournament Teams participating include Dénia, La Vila, Alicante University, Jaca from the Pyrenées, Lobos from France, Alcobendas from Madrid, and La Trila from Mallorca. There will also be a Tag Rugby event specially organised for Junior players from six to 16 years old and a bouncy castle for the even younger ones, making it a real family day. Please come along and watch or join in the fun. It costs nothing to watch or participate and of course the sandy beach and sea are also free. And the beach bar will be open all day. There is plenty of parking near the fair by the small boat harbour and plenty of bars and restaurants within walking distance. This is the last of five tournaments in the Fourth Annual Comunitat Valenciana Beach Sevens Circuit, which has kept Rugby clubs along the coast busy during the summer period. Training will continue on the beach until the end of August before switching to the grass at the Sports Stadium in Dénia. Please see the website for more details.www.deniarugbyclub.com Morer the merrier Stadium at Oliva is like home for Jávea team HOT PERFORMANCE: Dominated by the red and whites UD Oliva CD Jávea 1 3 IT was described by many as one of the most perfect performances by CD Jávea for a long time. For much of the time the rojiblancos dominated this game against a side that had been playing Third Division football last season. Despite cautious words that next season is merely one in which to compromise – the travelling army left the ramshackle Morer Stadium warmed with enthusiasm for the coming campaign. It was from the left flank that Jávea opened the scoring. Ribes floated a superb free-kick into the box and there was a short skirmish before the ball dropped to the feet of striker Juanito who smashed it confidentially past the keeper and into the back of the net to send the sizeable travelling army into celebration. The goal lifted the rojiblancos another notch and wave after wave of attack had the hosts running around without a clue on how to stop the assault. Minutes later Juanito almost doubled the advantage when he swept the ball beyond the reach of the advancing goalkeeper but his effort hit the base of the left-hand post and bounced back out into the area to be cleared in a hurry by the defence. Oliva began to creep back into the game with their small No.7 causing great problems down the right-hand side. A throw-on on the far side almost produced an equaliser when the throw was launched high into the box and keeper Ortolá was on top form to tip over a powerful header from ex-Jávea player Salva Costa. However Jávea hauled themselves up and battled back control of midfield to score once again. Skipper José Luís and Javi combined beautifully in the middle of the park, stroking the ball in a series of 1-2’s before Javi slid the ball into the path of Juanito and the young striker smashed the ball past the keeper from 20 yards to make it 2-0 at half-time. Coach Kenny Brown made inevitable changes for the second-half and the game took on a different tone with Oliva clawing their way back into the competition and it was no surprise that they pulled a goal back after some very slack defending from the rojiblancos allowed the hosts to convert a great cross from the right-hand side at the near post. The rojiblancos were unflustered and contained Oliva´s attacks before extending the lead late in the game when Javi smashed the ball into the roof of the net to make it 3-1, the final score. It had been a great work-out for the team and it was difficult for enthusiasm to remain under wraps, as the performance ranked as one of the best for some time. Long may it remain when the real thing starts in two weeks. SPORT August 24 - August 30 2007 Sport FORMULA One car racing champion Fernando Alonso is considering playing soccer for a club in Prangins, near Nyon, to stay in shape. Alonso is reported to have showed up last week for a practice of Prangins FC, a team in the Swiss third division. The 26-year-old Spanish race driver moved with his wife into a semi-detached villa at Mont-sur-Rolle in the Lake Geneva region in January. Alonso, set to compete in the Turkey Grand Prix this weekend, may be following in the footsteps of former F1 racing champion Michael Schumacher, who also plays soccer locally. “His goal is to be able to play simply, first of all to stay in shape, and to play a sport at the heart of a team,” a friend of Alonso’s said. For the moment it’s not known whether he has finally decided to play with the Prangins club. He first discreetly visited the club’s manicured grounds near Lake Geneva after getting an introduction in June from a Geneva friend, former Servette soccer club goalie Eric Pédat. New star out MANCHESTER City striker Valeri Bojinov will be out for at least five months after suffering a knee ligament injury. The 21-year-old made his first start for City in the Manchester derby on Sunday but had to be replaced after just six minutes. A City statement said Bojinov sustained damage to the lateral and anterior cruciate ligaments of his left knee. Bojinov signed a fouryear contract with City on 3 August after leaving Fiorentina for a reported £6m. He had made two substitute appearances for Sven-Goran Erikkson’s side before he was picked to start against United. 100mph CRASH, BANG, WALLOP Young race ace Zollo in lucky escape after Oulton pile-up THE COSTA teenager who could be the next Lewis Hamilton had lucky brush with death in a 100mph crash at Oulton Park ovber the weekend. British racing driver William Zollo, 16, hit the skids at the Cheshire circuit. The track was damp and greasy following oil spillages in earlier races. William, driving a single-seater Reynard Formula Ford, had a poor practice session and qualified only 12th of 20 starters. He made a brilliant get-away and was up to 6th after the first corner. Then, on the straight at 100 mph or more he had to swerve to avoid another competitor in trouble. He clipped the verge and spun onto wet grass before returning to the track facing the wrong direction. A following racer could not avoid William and struck his car head on causing many thousands of pounds of damage to both machines. The race was immediately red flagged to a stop. Rescue teams were quickly on the scene and were initially fearful of injuries to William’s neck and ankle which was trapped between the brake and clutch pedals. He was taken first to the circuit medical centre and then to a local hospital which cleared him of injuries. A bruised William, who lives in Benedoleig, said, “It was just a racing accident, my first involving another competitor and no one was to blame. “I was most impressed by the marshals and medics of the British Racing and Sports Car Club who attended.” “I will be racing again at Silverstone on Sunday and next Thursday and hope to improve my position in the Midlands and South Championship.” Henman over the Hill TIM Henman will retire from tennis after Great Britain’s Davis Cup tie with Croatia at Wimbledon next month. The 32-year-old former world number four made the announcement at a news conference in New York. It brings to an end a 14-year career that included six Grand Slam semifinals, one Masters Series title, and an Olympic silver medal in doubles. Henman, left, who had Henman Hill named afterf him at Wimbledon, will play his final Grand Slam event at next week’s US Open, where he will open against Dmitry Tursunov. He will then try to help Great Britain beat Croatia in a vital Davis Cup encounter on Wimbledon’s Number One Court on 21-23 September. “From a professional point of view, it’s something I’ve been thinking about for some time,” said Henman. And the former British number one admitted that ongoing back problems and the forthcoming birth of his third child had hastened his decision. “It’s made my life a little bit harder, a little bit less enjoyable,” he said of the back problems. “With our third child on the way, there’s an even bigger incentive to be at home. It certainly gets harder and harder to be away from your family.” He added: “It’s not necessarily the end of things for me. It’s a new beginning and I’d like to feel there’s going to be a lot of new opportunities out there for me and lots of new things to explore. “I’m looking forward to stepping away from things. If it’s next year or the year after, I’ll look at what’s out there. I’m sure that will involve tennis. “It’s been such a good part of my life.” Henman also admitted that he was not tempted by the chance of a final swansong at Wimbledon next year. Issue No: 225 Alsonso up for playing in soccer cup Centro Comercial La Teulera 12-14 Avda. Rey Juan Carlos I. 61-63 03727 Xaló (Alicante) Tel. 96 648 08 14 Fax 96 648 02 66 E-mail [email protected] Valid only with a purchased newspaper SPORTS SHORTS @ Client Token 64