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February 2009


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Missing Marta ‘killed’ by ex-lover

By Dan Myers on February 16, 2009

St Valentines day confession by 20-year-old boyfriend. Jealous former lover Miguel Carcaño, 20, admitted he had killed her in a fit of rage.


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Are you shore?

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

• Luxury villas go up just metres from the sea despite coastal law banning building within 100 metres
• Work goes ahead in Mijas while 100-year-old cottages in Galicia face demolition


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Save our wolves!

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

Green groups join forces to demand an end to “Dark Ages” lupine cull


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‘Best bargain hotel in the World’ near Ronda

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

Hotel Molino del Santo, in Benaojan, has also been voted ‘Best Hidden Gem in Europe’ by the millions of customers who use the Trip Advisor website each year.


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Bucardo bites back

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

Rare mountain goat could make a comeback after an extinct animal is cloned for the first time


Our bountiful, endangered coast

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

According to the government report, the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean of Andalucía has the greatest concentration of marine mammals in Europe


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Torre earner

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

British writer makes small fortune listing Torremolinos as one of world’s most authentic places


Julius Caesar marched through my garden

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

An English writer has based a new novel on the discovery that Julius Caesar and 40,000 legionnaires once marched through his garden


Illegal breeding farm busted

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

Guardia Civil impound 5,000 exotic animals, including tortoises and protected parrots


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A green way to go

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

It may not be the final nail in the coffin for greenhouse gas emitting vehicles, but Granada has become the first city in Europe to use eco-friendly hearses.


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Spain wakes up from its archetypal slumber

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

Survey shows that only 40 per cent of Spaniards are still taking a siesta


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Teacher sacked for ‘living in sin’ wins appeal

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a religious studies teacher who was fired from a Church-run school for living with a man to whom she was not married.


Muslim leaders await approval for pioneering school

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

Granada could get first Islamic primary school in the country GRANADA could play home to the first Islamic primary school in Spain if Muslim leaders win approval for the plan.


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Think yourself thin

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

Costa del Sol clinic claims to have found a cheap miracle cure for obesity. It’s all in the mind


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You’ll Novelli guess who’s moving in

By Dan Myers on February 10, 2009

Famed TV chef opens new restaurant on the Costa del Sol and goes house hunting in Ronda


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Andalucia, Gibraltar, National News, Property »

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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 »

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Not a pukka parking space

April 10, 2010 | Andalucia

EXCLUSIVE by Andrew Pearce: How a parked car almost foiled Jamie Oliver’s Spanish TV finale

Alhendín Mayor in Corruption Claims

December 14, 2006 | Uncategorized

Mayor made “2,000 per cent profit” after land sale THE mayor of one Granada town is facing an investigation into claims he pocketed more than 170,000 euros after rural land belonging to his family was reclassified as urban.

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The farmers who cried wolf

September 1, 2010 | Andalucia, Lead2

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

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Abortion reforms gain momentum

November 26, 2009 | National News

Spain’s Abortion law changes are one step closer to reality

An Albatross? An Eagle? No, that’s an Ibis! thumbnail

An Albatross? An Eagle? No, that’s an Ibis!

January 24, 2009 | Cadiz

Golf not so bad for the environment after all, with one of world’s rarest birds colonising its greens