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A RETIRED couple was recently told that the flat they had bought in 2002 would be put up for auction because the person who had sold it to them had failed to make his mortgage repayments to the bank, which was in possession of the title deed. Having exhausted all means of recovering the loan it had given the seller, the bank was left with no option but to auction off the flat.
PEOPLE often wind up believing their own cover story. Former British prime minister Tony Blair, for example, is trapped forever in the rationalisations he used in 2003 to explain why he was going along with George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. He was at it again last week, telling the BBC that “radical Islam” is the greatest threat facing the world today.
The BBC journalist went to Ireland for the interview, because Blair chose Dublin for the only live signing of his newly published autobiography: a personal appearance in Britain wouldn’t be safe. Even in Ireland, the protesters threw eggs and shoes at the man who was Bush’s faithful sidekick in the struggle to save Western civilisation from radical Islam.
TWO RETIRED charity workers who faced eviction at the weekend have won a reprieve after nobody turned up to the repossession auction of their home on Sunday.
Ken and Mary Hudson, both 72, were on the brink of homelessness because the former owner had sold them the flat in Larnaca while he had an outstanding mortgage, which meant the bank retained the title deeds.
When the former owner, who formerly ran a kiosk in Larnaca, stopped making payments the bank informed the Hudsons their home would be repossessed.
THE GAME Fund said yesterday that poaching of protected moufflon or ‘agrino’ in Greek, was on the increase as authorities on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old man with three freshly-killed animals in his vehicle.
“In recent years there has been an increase in poaching, which is linked to the increase in the population of the specific species,” which makes them more accessible, Game Fund chief Pantelis Hadjiyerou said.
It is believed that the main motive is financial as a kilo of moufflon meat on the black market ranges between €50 and €80.
The Game Fund chief confirmed reports that the poachers in the specific case had been working to order.
“We knew there was an order and that is why the specific group was under surveillance,” Hadjiyerou said.
POLICE yesterday arrested one man and were seeking two more suspected of robbing a Paphos bank of €49,300.
Police said there were customers in the Coral Bay Laiki bank branch at the time but no one was hurt.
The three hooded robbers, armed with guns, entered the bank at 11.30am following other customers through the secure door.
They demanded the cash from the tellers, and then put it in two bags.
Police said their demand was made in Greek but witnesses accounts suggested the man speaking was not a native Cypriot.
But while trying to flee the scene, the robber discovered that the secure door was locked, prompting them to smash the glass to make their escape.
DOZENS OF angry villagers jeered and threatened Interior Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis during a meeting held in Larnaca yesterday to discuss the imminent construction of a solid waste depot close to the village of Ormidhia.
The depot is being built to store the household waste of entire area’s before it is transferred to a plant in Koshi for treatment.
Although the Ormidhia village council has given the green light for the facility, a number of residents are against it, citing fears for their health.
Last week, villagers blocked the path of earth-moving equipment that was to be used to prepare the site ahead of construction.
The reaction led the Interior Minister to call yesterday’s meeting of the mayors and mukhtars of the affected communities.
THE NEW Larnaca airport has an insufficient air supply and fosters bacteria cultures in some of its air ducts, according to a study conducted by Monimax, a private company specialising workspace air quality.
The company was hired to carry out the survey after airport staff complained of respiratory problems and of feeling faint.
According to the Director of the Civil Aviation. Leonidas Leonidou, members of staff exhibited symptoms such as dizziness, nausea and a general discomfort during working hours.
MAIN opposition party DISY traded more barbs with the government camp yesterday, suggesting that Demetris Christofias is living in a bubble and calling the government spokesman a “busybody.”
DISY spokesman Harris Georgiades said the Foreign Ministry and the diplomatic service were kept in the dark about the President’s three-point proposal. He said Christofias did not consult any of the two before his office drafted a letter which was sent to foreign leaders.
Christofias made the proposal in a speech on July 15, including in it an offer for the return of the fenced off suburb of Varosha in exchange for allowing the north direct trade with the EU.
THE A-LEVEL results for 2010 confirm that academic standards are as high as ever, the English School said yesterday as pupils flocked back to classrooms after their summer break.
In a press release, the school said the “phenomenal success of A-level results prove that in spite of criticism that the academic standards in the school were declining, 14 per cent of the total number of entries were A* (which is well above the national picture in the UK which was 8 per cent).
“Moreover, 99 per cent of the students achieved A*-C, which marked a 3 per cent increase on last year’s results, while 66 per cent of these grades were A* or A.
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.
