Archive for 2013

Bayern Munich get the better of Borussia Dortmund

Mario Goetze left his Borussia Dortmund team mates in shock when he decided to leave them for arch-rivals Bayern Munich in April and his goal-scoring return on Saturday can only have added to their sense of bewilderment.

Goetze joined Borussia …

AEL win Limassol derby

AEL’s Monteiro scored in the 89th minute to give his team a valuable victory over cross town rivals and league leaders Apollon on Saturday.
The three points brings AEL to second spot with 21 points, three points away from Apollon.…

Cyprus: Father not son at the wheel of the car

A 60 year-old man was on Friday night expected to be charged and released after allegedly lying to the police about driving the car that hit and injured a nine year-old boy on Monday. The police believe that the man’s …

Two die in Rhodes storm, one believed to be Cypriot

Two women have died and two men are missing after a fierce storm in Rhodes.
On Saturday morning, firemen retrieved the body of a 27 year old woman from the sea in the area of Kremasti. A few hours earlier …

Erdogan says aim must be ‘one Cyprus’

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the involvement of Cyprus’s three guarantor powers – Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom – in negotiations for a peace settlement, adding that the aim of all sides must be to …

‘Slave’ women rescued: London case the ‘tip of the iceberg’

The case of three women allegedly held as slaves for 30 years at a house in south London is just the “tip of a rather large iceberg”, an MP has said.

Frank Field, (Photo) chair of the Modern Slavery Bill

London terraced Homes to be demolished due to cracks

A block of terraced housing in east London is to be demolished after a member of the public noticed cracks.

Seven residential properties in the Gibbons Building on Amhurst Road in Hackney will be pulled down after it was deemed …

Corruption problem among some UK minorities

Attorney General Dominic Grieve has said politicians need to “wake up” to the issue of corruption in some minority communities.

Mr Grieve told the Daily Telegraph it was not restricted to “any one community” but he was referring mainly to …

US welcomes Anastasiades-Eroglu informal meeting

The United States has welcomed the forthcoming informal meeting between Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu “as a step forward by the leaders to energize the Cyprus settlement process”, encouraging both leaders “to take advantage of …

AKEL and “New Cyprus” parties concern on lack of an agreement on a joint communiqué

Left-wing party AKEL and Turkish Cypriot party “New Cyprus” have expressed their concern over the fact that the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot side have not yet agreed on a joint communiqué that will pave the way for the …