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Town hall on board to protect Sierra

February 5, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Casares council supports campaign for national park status

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Harman calls for women’s agency at EU summit

February 4, 2010 | Andalucia Cadiz

British MP in Cadiz says more work needs to be done to uphold women’s rights

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Royal opening for Malaga airport

February 4, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

King Juan Carlos scheduled to fly in for new terminal opening

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Brits busted in Spain

February 3, 2010 | National News

Spain is top destination for British drug arrests figures reveal

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Key meeting one Israel-light!

February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments

Israeli politician branded “a disgrace” by diplomats after night on the razz in Madrid left Spain tourism meeting one man light

Marmalade heads home thumbnailMarmalade heads home

February 3, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

EXCLUSIVE: Andalucia cat heads 35km home after missing his chicken dinner

Wildcat back on the prowl thumbnailWildcat back on the prowl

February 2, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

EXCLUSIVE by Andrew Pearce: La Cala cougar spotted again

Timeshare lynchpin raided thumbnailTimeshare lynchpin raided

February 1, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Police swoop on four offices for “suspected breach of consumer law”

You’ve been fleeced thumbnailYou’ve been fleeced

January 31, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Ronda farmers had the wool pulled over their eyes by a Granada conman

Where will it end? thumbnailWhere will it end?

January 30, 2010 | Andalucia Huelva

EXCLUSIVE: Olive Press tracks down “deluded” horse cruelty woman. While Seprona claims horses are fine, local charities fear the worst.

Expat exodus thumbnailExpat exodus

January 29, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Hard-hitting survey confirms exit fears

We’ll drink to that! thumbnailWe’ll drink to that!

January 28, 2010 | Andalucia National News

EXCLUSIVE: In-depth Olive Press study proves that Spain floors UK when it comes to basic essentials and our perennial vices

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Sport »

Spain rain frustrates Schumacher

January 14, 2010

Extreme Andalucia weather now thwarts former champion

Andalucia in Pictures »

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Away in a manger, a sheep for a song

December 25, 2009

Couple put the perfect Christmas lawnmower up for sale

Regional News »

Demolition deluge

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January 27, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Now Malaga is showing its muscle in the season of knock downs


Secret is out

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January 27, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Guadiaro expatriates launch website to boost local businesses


Wayne in Spain?

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January 26, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Red-hot Rooney linked with Spain move


Dangerous liaisons

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January 22, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Pay-out for Spanish actress whose dreams of a night of romance with Jeremy Irons came crashing down


Zapatero stung by land-grab criticism

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January 21, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Spanish leader’s trip to Strasbourg mired by Euro MP’s warning


Furious Spanish politician blasts “disgraceful case”

Furious Spanish politician blasts “disgraceful case” thumbnail

January 19, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Llamazares rejects US apology after ‘Bin Laden poster’ debacle


Stand and deliver!

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January 19, 2010 | Andalucia National News

US treasure hunting company Odyssey must return 500m euros of ‘plundered’ spoils to Spain


Bin Laden photo-fit angers Spanish politician

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January 19, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Age-enhanced mug shot of terrorist leader used facial features of former party leader


Let the car take the strain

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January 18, 2010 | Andalucia National News

New ‘road train’ idea soon to be tested in Spain will allow drivers to relax with a movie or a book while on the motorway


Two million payout for noise abuse

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January 18, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Landmark decision on Velez-Malaga noise pollution levels


Spanish wolf photo in fake storm

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January 14, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Award-winning photo shrouded in authenticity doubts


Floody hell

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January 14, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Junta chiefs blasted for lack of action after thousands of homes washed away in heaviest rainfall on record


Crash, bang, wallop

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January 14, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

The Olive Press investigates if the La Cala curve is Spain’s most dangerous bend after at least 15 crashes between Christmas and New Year


National News »

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Expat exodus

January 29, 2010

Hard-hitting survey confirms exit fears

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We’ll drink to that!

January 28, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: In-depth Olive Press study proves that Spain floors UK when it comes to basic essentials and our perennial vices

Wayne in Spain? thumbnail

Wayne in Spain?

January 26, 2010

Red-hot Rooney linked with Spain move

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Dangerous liaisons

January 22, 2010

Pay-out for Spanish actress whose dreams of a night of romance with Jeremy Irons came crashing down

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Zapatero stung by land-grab criticism

January 21, 2010

Spanish leader’s trip to Strasbourg mired by Euro MP’s warning

Furious Spanish politician blasts “disgraceful case” thumbnail

Furious Spanish politician blasts “disgraceful case”

January 19, 2010

Llamazares rejects US apology after ‘Bin Laden poster’ debacle

Stand and deliver! thumbnail

Stand and deliver!

January 19, 2010

US treasure hunting company Odyssey must return 500m euros of ‘plundered’ spoils to Spain

Features »

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The Wild West comes into its own

February 4, 2010

After a decade of downmarket British occupation, now Alhaurin el Grande is slowly returning to the days when it was known as the ‘Garden of Allah’ by the Moors and the ‘Garden of Eden’ by writer Gerald Brenan

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Features »

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My naked angel

February 1, 2010

It is 70 years since seminal novel Darkness at Noon – inspired by the Spanish Civil War – was first published. Matthew Pritchard recounts how erotic photographs of a naked lady may have prevented the execution of its author Arthur Koestler by fascist troops

Features »

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Does it costa bit more in Spain?

January 27, 2010

For most people, living in Spain certainly trumps life back in the UK, but is it still as cheap as we once thought it was? Andrew Pearce and Asha Stuttard whipped out their calculators, pencils and notepads to shed further light on the price-playing field.

Olive Press Opinion »

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The Germans are back!

January 27, 2010

Prudent Germans are buying Spanish homes once again, just as Britons are leaving en masse. The Times’ Mark Stucklin finds out their secret


Features »

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Highway to heaven

January 21, 2010

Editor Jon Clarke takes a culinary tour of Cordoba now the new motorway has finally opened

Features »

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The January hangover

January 19, 2010

As if the rains and floods weren’t enough, now we’ve got to face the ‘Cuesta de Enero’ or ‘January climb’, explains Gaspar Cuesta, of Hispalense language school

Features »

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“My local mountain hotel is to be renamed Harbour Lights and have Jacques Cousteau-themed rooms!”

January 15, 2010

Karl Smallman reveals how good humour and community spirit beat the floods in his town

Features »

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On top of the world

January 13, 2010

One of Europe’s highest resorts, for the first time ever there are more than 100kms of runs in the Sierra Nevada, writes Jon Clarke


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Latest Reader Comments »

We’ll drink to that!

1 day 5 hours ago

gwilym rhys-jones: I worked out years ago that taking a van-load of garlic back to the UK was potentially a very profitable business and I’m surprised the drug smugglers didn’t cotton on. You don’t...

Expat exodus

2 days 3 hours ago

Lenox: The Moneycorp figures – released as news by the Daily Telegraph – are ‘unlikely’ to say the least. In fact, the final paragraph of the original Telegraph story (’By monitoring the currency...

Britons heading for the hills

2 days 4 hours ago

papi: El toro, creo que no has estado en españa, mas bien en un hotel de mallorca borracho durante una semana. En España el turismo es internacional, eso quiere decir que no solo vienen o viven ingleses en...

Harman calls for women’s agency at EU summit

2 days 4 hours ago

Chris: Oh God! Not content with lecturing us here in the UK this awful woman is now telling the EU what to do! Just ignore her people, she’ll be gone come May.

Key meeting one Israel-light!

2 days 4 hours ago

Chris: I think you’re being a bit unfair on Stas Gwilym. I mean it’s a bit more stylish hanging out in bars in Madrid than allegedly visiting a brothel on an industrial estate in Portsmouth!

Marmalade heads home

2 days 20 hours ago

adrian: Why don’t the owners try leaving next time … Ginge clearly appreciates the hotel more than it appreciates him. Poor puddie deserves better! Horrid hoteliers.

What a wash out

2 days 23 hours ago

Lauren: No, I don’t think so. Apparently they are re-openning for Valentine’s Day weekend, but the restaurant will be closed.

The Wild West comes into its own

3 days 1 hour ago

gwilym rhys-jones: In English literature we used to call it local colour, but maybe local off-colour is more appropriate.



The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain

From The Archives »

Land Grab Scuppered

August 31, 2007 | Andalucia

Despite hard-hitting Junta report rejecting “unsustainable” Parchite Golf, Ronda mayor Antonio Marin Lara insists the scheme is legal and still goes ahead
THE Junta has thrown out a plan for another golf course scheme in Ronda.

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Can a man be a dog’s best friend?

August 1, 2009 | Features

As the recession bites, more and more people are abandoning pets, discovers Laura Vladimirova

Eating out – Horses for courses

November 3, 2006 | Uncategorized

THREE years ago the Alqueria de Los Lentos
was one of the first restaurants I visited in the Lecrin Valley. The
food that day was OK but nothing special. It was typical of so much of the fare
on offer in the region – the bland leading the bland.
When friends Cliff and Liz wanted to take
me back there [...]

Anyone for cricket?

November 27, 2006 | Uncategorized

by Michael Byass

THERE are certain times of the year when the make-up of global sporting action dictates that, for some people, football is pushed, if not to the outer limits of the universe, then maybe as far as Mars. This is, of course, a reference to the impending Ashes cricket series, which features England v [...]

Spain slammed by EU for not protecting birds

September 3, 2007 | National News

SPAIN is facing punishment from the EU for ignoring its responsibilities to endangered birdlife.
The European Courts of Justice has found the country guilty of breaching nature conservation law.
According to the ruling there are insufficient Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in seven regions of the country.