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High-tech, low cunning

BRITISH EXPATS living on the Costa Blanca should guard against being conned by professional criminals targeting people using computers and emails. Given the increase in the use of technology, almost every home has a computer and access to the Internet, while electronic scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
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Barclays battle in court

DETERMINED EXPAT Mike Kemp is ready to expose alleged corruption within Barclays Bank when he launches his court battle on Monday.The retired businessman went to the Spanish arm of the bank for a 100,000€ mortgage in 2005 believing Barclays would never lend on an illegal property.
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Anger at airport chaos

16.02.2012

ANGRY RYANAIR passengers were forced to make their own way home after being diverted from Stansted to Newcastle Airport because of snow.
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Costa Blanca - North

Pensioner in cat fight

16.02.2012

A DEDICATED pensioner risks fines and even jail if she continues to care for stray cats in the Costa Blanca’s most famous resort, claims an animal charity.
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Costa Blanca - South

Town Hall offers to pay rubbish collection workers' wages

16.02.2012

THE ORIHUELA Town Hall agreed this week to intervene and pay the wages of the workers of the municipal rubbish collection company in a move designed to halt the strike which started early last week. Speaking at a press conference in the Orihuela Town Hall, the Councillor for Procurement, Asunción…
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RTN Life

K9 club helps abandoned puppies

16.02.2012

AS THE K9 club committee finished their meeting on Thursday 9th February at the social centre behind the police station on Urbanization La Marina, two ladies walked in, one carrying a small brown puppy found in a cardboard box near the rubbish bins with three puppies inside. They explained that…
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RTN Property

Get the facts about installing a solar energy hot water system and government grants!

16.02.2012

Solar In Spain Open Day February 24th How does a solar hot water system work? Would a solar energy system replace my existing hot water system? What is the life expectancy of a solar hot water system? Does solar energy only work on sunny days? Are solar energy systems expensive? Are government grants available? Where can I find out more information?
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A Tale of Two Heaters

RTN Book Review

A Palace in the Old Village

06.02.2012

TAHAR BEN Jelloun is Moroccan. In fact, he’s recognised as Morocco’s greatest author. His book, The Blinding Absence of Light was hailed as a masterpiece. A Palace in the Old Village is, in my opinion, no less. Ben Jelloun writes of the powerful pull of home suffered by a Moroccan immigrant working in France and his yearning for tradition and family. As ever with Arab storytelling, the plot is bolstered with stories and structural somersaults as the author moves easily through time and hovers between reality and reverie. The result is more dualist-realist than magical realist and forms a text in which world and dream coexist.
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RTN Gardening

Wintery winds

14.02.2012

SEASONAL PROBLEMS FOR MANY readers winter has come with a vengeance this year. Below zero on many nights due to wind chill factor if not on the thermometer - and snow for an hour or two. Ponds have frozen, succulents burnt and leaves frozen on as yet un-pruned perennials and shrubs such as sages and lantanas respectively. Those new to Spain comment that we never realised it can be cold on the Costa even when sunny all day. Seeing photos of Barcelona beaches covered in snow had been unbelievable but then established expats advised them that it has…
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French Farce

TV COMPANIES pay an awful lot of money to cover major sporting events and it’s only right and proper that they have a say on when those events take place, in order to maximise their audience share and in many cases, their advertising revenues.…
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Alicante Golf Tests The Best

THE LLOYDS Bank International League for 2012 continued for RTN Golf Club at Alicante Golf last Tuesday in chilly conditions more like Antarctica than Alicante. Thirty four golfers turned out to test their skills of this testing layout with the best…
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ITV Orihuela RFC back to the league matches

AFTER A weekend off in the league ITV Orihuela RFC are at home against Lorca RFC hoping to extend their winning streak this coming Saturday, 11 February, kicking off at 5pm and continue to march up the league after their last two wins on the trot. With…
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The Secretary: a thing of the past?

IN A past life I had ran two golf societies in the north of our region over a number of years. During this time the society’s memberships grew substantially and we regularly turned out with between forty and forty four players each week.One of…
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England v Scotland (and Collins)

OKAY IT was scrappy and hardly a classic but England’s rugby team emerged from their opening Six Nations encounter against Scotland with a win. Yes, the home team were poor and missed a host of chances but England, with a match day squad which…
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FC Torrevieja news

TORRY TRAVELLED to Alicante on Sunday with good support behind them to take on Alicante CF and returned with all 3 points after a comprehensive 4-1 win which could have been more. All 4 Torry goals were different but each was quality. Matias scored the…
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Maggots End

Rods and ReelsTHE MATCH this week was the 10th round in the Winter League series. The venue was the Eden Canal - this was changed from the original venue of Murcia due to the atrocious conditions of the pathway. Well, from the results it might have been…
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Net payment for Djokovic

I’M ALL for sexual equality in sport but for crying out loud, how easy do female tennis players have it? Take Viktoria Azarenka for instance. She recently won the singles title at the Australian Open and, as a result, pocketed prize money of $2.3…
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Buggies: do they harm the course?

IN THE last few weeks we have received a number of emails concerning the use of buggies. It seems that many of our local golf courses have decided that buggies damage our fairways. This I believe to be total nonsense. It is a way for the golf course…
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FC Torrevieja news

THE INFLUENTIAL Prior and the midfield maestro Carrasco left Torry last week for promotion chasing Murcian Tercera side La Hoya Lorca CF . Fringe players Matias and Manu came in to replace them last Sunday against strugglers Eldense and did a good job.…
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Maggots End

Rods and Reels THIS WEEK’S match was the 5th and final round in the RTN Challenge Cup series. The venue again this week was the Rio Segura Murcia. The bank was still a quagmire and the fishing was not much better. There were 5 dry nets and the…
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ITV Orihuela RFC at the double this weekend

AT THE weekend ITV Orihuela RFC went away to play Novelda in Elche on Saturday wanting a double over their closest rivals and the two wins on the bounce which so far this season has eluded them. In a tight, hard fought game both defences battled for…
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Stamping down on Mario

DID MARIO Balotelli intentionally stamp on Scott Parker? Do you know what, I can’t tell you. I’ve seen the incident many times over, from dozens of angles and I can’t work out if he was being naughty or clumsy. What is even more puzzling…
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Sign up, then use it

MANY GOLFERS who move to Spain go along to a local golf club after they have settled into their new lifestyle here in our area with a view to joining a club and playing their golf just like they would have done back in the UK. Along with signing up at…
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FC Torrevieja news

AFTER THE events of the last week or so when Torry announced they were in financial difficulty due to a big cut in council funding and the townsfolk not giving the anticipated level of support to a successful football team, action has been taken to reduce…
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Great weekend for ITV Orihuela RFC juniors

THIS WEEK all the match details were given to me by the coaches as I was up at La Vila watching the Sale Sharks match.

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To pee or not to pee...

14.02.2012

I WAS at a concert recently and during the interval joined the usual half-time conga for the loo. It wasn’t too long a wait and I knew that chaps…
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Horoscopes

13.02.2012

If It’s Your Birthday This Week: Compromise goes out of the window as you start to work with your many talents and show someone just what you are capable of and where this…
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13.02.2012

The Letter U WE HAVE made it to our fifth vowel in the alphabet and like the other vowels the U has a single clear sound, this time made with the lips…
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RTN Legal

Non Residents income tax

16.02.2012

THE SPANISH TAX OFFICE (AGENCIA TRIBUTARIA) TARGETS NON RESIDENTS.ON PREVIOUS occasions we have informed our readers, clients and friends that if they…
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RTN Technology

Aunty Virus

15.02.2012

Sam via email asks: HI AUNTY. I am using Internet Explorer and have been using the ITV TV guide for a long time but last week I started to have a problem. Once into the TV guide, if you hover over a program…
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RTN Money

Herman Van Rompuy in China

15.02.2012

THE EUROPEAN Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, met with the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao on Tuesday in Beijing in the fourteenth China-EU summit to discuss the crisis in the Eurozone, global economic…
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RTN Health & Beauty

The Fast Track Hypnosis Diaries

15.02.2012

FOLLOWING THE last write up, here is another week of a few interesting cases. People often ask me why I do it in such a fast way and how my techniques…
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Letters to the Editor

16.02.2012

Conman Cameron IN THE days when there was honour even among Conservative politicians, an MP who was found to have lied to Parliament would have had to resign, particularly if he was a minister. Conman…
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Letters to the Editor

RTN Food

When was the last time you smelt a message?

13.02.2012

WE ALL seem to have trouble communicating with each other especially when meeting someone for the first time. At a surprise party recently involving some…
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