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Sherlock Holmes as a martial-arts fighter, knocking out opponents not with logic but a kick to the solar plexus? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be rolling in his grave – though in fact Sir Arthur’s rest has seldom been easy since his death in 1930. According to the Guinness Book of Film Facts & Feats, the Baker Street detective is the character most often portrayed on screen, having appeared in 175 films as of 1980 (when the book was published) – and almost all of those have taken liberties with Conan Doyle’s creation. In The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Holmes himself claimed that he and Dr Watson were a gay couple (sacrilege!); Without a Clue (1988) upended the relationship altogether, making Watson the smart one and Holmes just an empty façade.
FOOD poisoning could not stop Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis from defeating eighth seed Gilles Simon 7-6 6-4 in the first round of the Dubai tennis championships.
“I was concentrating on not throwing up on court,” the 24-year-old said. “I was suffering from food poisoning and had cramps in my stomach.”
After the first nine games went with serve, the stricken former Australian Open runner-up left the court at 4-5 down, with the score at 40-15, before returning to serve out the game and then immediately break the Frenchman, who was struggling with a chest injury.
Simon responded, breaking back to force a tie-break, but the world number 18 hit a series of unforced errors and allowed Baghdatis to take it 7-3.
Trade and Industry Ministry list of 46 petrol stations open on Tuesday as of 1pm. The list does not contain any stations for Paphos.
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The weather is getting better but everyone is on strike! Or at least, threatening to strike. Crane drivers at the ports, other port authority workers, petrol company workers at Cyprus airports, Petrol stations in general and British Airways. The good news: Cyprus Airways is confident that not a single flight will be affected even if there is a petrol strike at the airports. That is all very reassuring but what if…
THOUSANDS of panicked motorists caused chaos on the roads last night as they went scrambling for petrol to fill up their cars ahead of today’s threatened closure of all petrol stations.
The mad rush followed the announcement by petrol station owners that they were shutting down all their outlets in retaliation to a government order putting a cap on pump prices.
It is the first time the government has invoked the law allowing it to put a ceiling on fuel prices.
The fuel outlets will be closed as of 6am today “in protest because the stations are not viable with the ceiling imposed by the trade minister”, said the owners’ association spokesman Stefanos Stefanou.
The shutdown includes self-service machines.
THE COMICAL saga over whether DIKO will stay in the government or leave should, in theory, draw to a conclusion today when the members of the party’s central committee vote on the issue. In theory, because if the executive bureau’s proposal to stay in the government is carried by a narrow margin, the supporters of the political divorce will feel strengthened and carry on their attacks on the government.
DEPUTIES were stumped yesterday after hearing a list of perks given to employees of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA).
Among other things, CyTA’s staff get bonuses for “initiative/responsibility”, driving a vehicle and motorcycle, dinners and transfers.
These came to dominate discussion at the House Finance Committee, whose item was CyTA’s budget for 2010 providing for expenditures of €425 million and revenues of €488 million.
Stathis Kittis, CyTA’s chairman of the board of directors, acknowledged that the benefits sounded excessive, but defended the practice saying that employees are not offered stock options as are their counterparts in private telecom companies.
DEPUTIES yesterday proposed a way out in the looming conflict over the building of a giant church that would dwarf the 500-year old Nicosia landmark chapel of Ayia Paraskevi.
They proposed building the new larger church on an adjacent plot right next to the Central Bank, overlooking Kennedy Avenue. The vacant lot used to be offices for Cyprus Airways.
DISY MP Christos Stylianides told the House Interior Committee the idea was presented to Church officials, some of whom had warmed to it – such as the secretariat of the Ayia Paraskevi chapel – while others were not as keen.
“Of course the people deserve and need a place of worship, but not at the expense of ruining a site which is of great symbolic value,” he said.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
