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December 2007


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By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

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By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

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Fore Seasons!

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

Luxury hotel group is slammed for links to controversial golf project as properties are marketed despite Junta stop order


Sun, Sea & Sadness

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

The Olive Press launches a Christmas appeal for the forgotten street children of Andalucia


An ideal con?

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

UK police investigate real estate company, whose directors have apparently ‘fled’ with clients’ money Olive Press Exclusive by Mark Roulston POLICE are investigating a real estate company after its four directors apparently fled owing clients thousands of euros. Ideal Spain marketed off-plan property across Andalucia until the company’s mystery disappearance early this year.


Fired up for the marathon

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

FORMER fireman Tony Salter is stoking himself up for the challenge of a lifetime. The Granada-based B&B owner has been spending hours training up for next year’s London marathon. Salter, who moved to the village of Moclin four years ago, is raising money for The Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre (www.msrc.co.uk). He was inspired to undertake [...]


Is Murcia the next Marbella?

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

Mayors, councillors and property developers held in police investigation Police raids against urban corruption in a small Murcia town have resulted in the arrests of 12 people. Both the current and former mayors of Totana are at the centre of the police investigation, and have been charged with bribery, the falsification of public documents, fraud [...]


Almuñecar in the urban spotlight

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

Court investigates sports pavilion as judges declare Marina del Este apartments illegal ALMUÑECAR mayor Juan Carlos Benavides faces two years behind bars if found guilty of irregular town planning offences. According to newspaper Ideal, the public prosecutor will seek both a jail term and a suspension from holding public office for Benavides and six others [...]


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What lies beneath

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

Córdoba’s Medina Azahara holds many more secrets of the first Islamic rule of Spain


Owner of illegal Medina Azahara home acquitted

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

Judges in Córdoba have acquitted the owner of one of the 240 illegal homes on the protected Medina Azahara site for extending the property even though it faces demolition


UNESCO affiliate demands disappearance of illegal urbanisations

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

A damning report from a UNESCO advisory body has demanded that the 240 illegal houses on the protected Medina Azahara site in Córdoba should “be demolished.”


Super Highway or Highway to Hell?

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

Junta announces new 350 million motorway to the coast – 1600 metres of tunnels, a huge span bridge and entirely on virgin land – a highway to hell, according to ecologists


Nineteen things you (probably) never knew about navidad

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007


Dogs rescued from rescue centre

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

OVER 200 dogs were on the verge of being put down after a police raid on a farm in Sevilla. Describing the scene as an “absolute tragedy”, animal charities battled around the clock to save the dogs from certain death.


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Lorca’s Alpujarra

By Dan Myers on December 16, 2007

Carlos Pranger takes a step back in time to walk the hills of La Alpujarra with poet Federico Garcia Lorca and composer Manuel de Falla


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A lot of stress over what exactly?

September 2, 2010

Olive Press finance writer Ian Le Breton on how the vast majority of Spanish banks have passed the so-called “stress tests”


Features, Health »

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Tanning: The bare essentials

September 2, 2010

Scientists have discovered why your inside arm and bottom just do not tan, while parasols may not be giving you the protection you expect

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga »

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Alisha’s guitarist gets career out of attic

September 2, 2010

80s guitarist Marcus Myers is back on the Spanish music scene

Andalucia, Lead »

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Negative salary

September 2, 2010

Police investigate cruel scam where (un)lucky job applicants end up in the red

Property »

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Home or away?

September 1, 2010

Seven out of ten ex-pat pensioners do not miss home, according to a survey

Andalucia, Lead2 »

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The farmers who cried wolf

September 1, 2010

A new law is being drafted to give cash to farmers whose animals are being killed by the wolves that have returned to Madrid


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. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain - 29,000 copies printed monthly with an estimated readership, including the website, of more than 170,000 people a month.

From The Archives »

“Prostitute killer” held in Germany

November 29, 2006 | Uncategorized

POLICE across Europe are searching through files of unsolved murders after a lorry driver in Germany was arrested in connection with a six-year killing spree across the continent. Volker Eckert, 47, was detained in Cologne last month on suspicion of the murders of five prostitutes in Spain and France.

The bells stopped ringing

November 28, 2008 | Andalucia

One of Spain’s oldest English language newspapers, the Town Crier, folds, as well as radio station OCI ONE of Spain’s longest-running English newspapers is dead.

Two die after car plummets into sea

January 3, 2008 | Andalucia

TWO men died after the car in which they were travelling overturned and fell into the sea. Police believe the car, which was travelling along the N340 at Sorvilán on New Year’s Eve, collided with a crash barrier before plummeting into the sea. The bodies of the men, both Moroccan nationals, were recovered by specialist [...]

Superbug rescues plastic crops

March 17, 2008 | Andalucia

Scientists create predator to destroy plagues as winds destroy greenhouses SCIENTISTS in Almería have created an environmentally-friendly superbug to protect salad crops grown under plastic. In a bid to reduce the use of chemical pesticides, the team from Almería University has made a genetically-modified ladybird specifically designed for invernaderos (plastic greenhouses).

Another nail in cable car coffin

October 26, 2007 | Andalucia

Government believes ecosystem of Sierra Nevada will be “irreversibly transformed” PLANS to build the world’s longest cable car between Granada and the Sierra Nevada National Park have taken a major setback. In a report, central Government claims the project will “irreversibly transform” the sensitive ecosystem of the protected mountain range, which is home to a [...]