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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 [...]
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.
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
Andalucia, Gibraltar, National News, Property »
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 »
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 »
Alisha’s guitarist gets career out of attic
September 2, 2010
80s guitarist Marcus Myers is back on the Spanish music scene
Andalucia, Lead »
Negative salary
September 2, 2010
Police investigate cruel scam where (un)lucky job applicants end up in the red
Property »
Home or away?
September 1, 2010
Seven out of ten ex-pat pensioners do not miss home, according to a survey
Andalucia, Lead2 »
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
