April 2007

Poetry in Motion

By Dan Myers on April 30, 2007

Granada’s International Poetry festival revs into its fourth year with novel ways of promoting the event VERSE will be reeled on wheels over the coming week as Granada’s fleet of urban buses circulate decorated with poetic sentiments. This innovative move is to promote the city’s Fourth International Poetry festival, which has also been publicised with [...]

Junta to invest in Alhama

By Dan Myers on April 30, 2007

THE Junta de Andalucía has announced plans to invest in the Granada Poniente. Teresa Jiménez, a provincial delegate from the regional government told an audience of mayors, business leaders and private entities in Alhama de Granada town hall about plans to invest in improving the area.

Botellón or Botelloff?

By Dan Myers on April 27, 2007

Granada braces itself for May madness as thousands expected at mass open-air drinking session IN the run up to the Día de la Cruz, drinkers were left wondering whether Granada has the bottle to host the biggest botellón of the year.

Spain mayor in double “illegal” election campaign storm

By Dan Myers on April 27, 2007

ALMUNECAR mayor Juan Carlos Benavides is at the centre of an election controversy after allegations the council leader has been involved in two separate accounts of illegal campaigning. First, Pablo Benavides – the director of local television channel Onda Tropical and son of the current mayor – has appeared before judges in the Costa Tropical [...]

Spurs riot in Spain sparked by attack on female supporter

By Dan Myers on April 19, 2007

The British fan, Chloe Hayes, 22, who had travelled to Seville with her father Paul, was clubbed over the head with a riot baton for arguing with a policeman about her seat

Army deployed to fight pollution in Spain

By Dan Myers on April 19, 2007

In the face of rising air contamination in the Andalucia city of Cordoba, 80,000 troops have been enlisted to collect atmospheric data

Controversial Granada councils in spotlight… again

By Dan Myers on April 19, 2007

URBAN development in Spain is once again in the legal spotlight after further developments in the two high-profile building scandals to hit the Granada province in Andalucia. First, the judge investigating alleged illegalities in the Parque Nevada shopping centre has ordered a check into the personal assets of the three figures at the centre of [...]

Hunger strike in Spain over restaurant refusal

By Dan Myers on April 19, 2007

Protestor claims mayor will not sign works licence A SPANISH woman has started a hunger strike at a local mayor’s refusal to allow her family to open a restaurant. Ana María Loureiro started her protest at midday on April 4. By the time the Olive Press went to print on April 17, she had spent [...]

Spain hunger strike ends as accusations of double standards fly

By Dan Myers on April 11, 2007

Residents claim transfer project is “ridiculous.” SIX opponents to a controversial water transfer project in Spain have ended their six-day hunger strike. The six, all residents of Castril in the north of Granada, were protesting against the proposed trasvase of water from the nearby Portillo reservoir to Baza.

Spain’s Black Gold

By Dan Myers on April 10, 2007

Deep in Andalucian olive country, expert olive oil producers perform their age-old alchemy, turning black fruit into gold. by Arpi ShivelyTHE charmed life of a ripe Nuñez de Prado olive begins on a crisp late November morning above the town of Baena in Cordoba province, in the heart of Andalucian olive country. Over the next [...]

Double Easter tragedy hits ‘hippy’ commune

By Dan Myers on April 10, 2007

Two babies among four dead as Junta launches probe TRAGEDY has hit a traveller’s camp in La Alpujarra, Spain after four people – including two young children – died in two separate incidents.

Alien Nation

By Dan Myers on April 9, 2007

They came by night. They came by day. Silently slipping over borders, stealthily avoiding detection. Some came by boat, others by plane. Only a few people knew about them. Still less cared.

The Amputee – Issue 21

By Dan Myers on April 9, 2007

Raising the steaks A FRIEND of mine was found positive for the performance-inhibiting drug butane. “A load of anabolics,” he claimed in our local bar, “someone must have slipped it into my drink.”

Spain loses more virgen coastline as councils declassify protected land

By Dan Myers on April 9, 2007

THE largest purpose built tourist resort in Europe is to be constructed on unspoilt coastline in Murcia, Spain. Politicians from the region’s ruling Partido Popular party have declassified 11,000 hectares of once protected, virgin coastline to accommodate plans for a huge scale project that will see homes for 60,000 people built.