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April 2009


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Digging for Victory

By Dan Myers on April 29, 2009

Businessman plans to sue legal firm after it failed to spot that his builder was bent and had huge mortgage on a property


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Swine flu hits Spain

By Dan Myers on April 29, 2009

Spain has registered Europe’s first confirmed case of swine flu


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Don’t miss your vote

By Dan Myers on April 29, 2009

Make sure you are on the list to vote in the forthcoming European Parliament elections on June 7


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The Eco Garden: Get a Spring in your Step

By Dan Myers on April 27, 2009

Now that Spring is finally here it’s time to get in the garden. Here are our top tips for the month


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A haunted house, visits from Ringo and a trademark Rolls-Royce:

By Dan Myers on April 20, 2009

the mystery of Lennon’s Strawberry Fields Forever trip to southern Spain


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Linekers Bar in arson attack

By Dan Myers on April 20, 2009

Linekers Bar in Fuengirola has become the target of a suspected arson attack


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Don’t take the bait!

By Dan Myers on April 20, 2009

Greenpeace is taking on the Spanish supermarkets over their continuing sale of endangered fish


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Nazi victims get their day in court

By Dan Myers on April 20, 2009

Two Mauthausen survivors are the first Spanish nationals to give evidence in a trial of Nazi SS officers


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The Fourth Reich

By Dan Myers on April 20, 2009

With Hitler’s 120th birthday this week, the Olive Press looks at his legacy in Spain and investigates the comfortable existence his former henchmen enjoyed on the Costa del Sol


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What your abogado may not have told you

By Dan Myers on April 17, 2009

In the first of an occasional series of articles on key issues affecting people in Andalucia, architect Liam Kellahar looks at dodgy lawyers and how to avoid them


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Bartie’s back in town

By Dan Myers on April 17, 2009

After a two month sojourn in Thailand (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) Lord Bart is back with his usual enlightening musings on modern life


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Village of the dead

By Dan Myers on April 17, 2009

Still no sewage works, but mayor of smallest district in Malaga wants to build thousands of houses and a golf course …. over the cemetery


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Emails condemn ‘dodgy’ law firm

By Dan Myers on April 17, 2009

A SERIES of damning emails from a legal firm to its clients prove that its lawyers knew their house was illegal from the beginning


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More legal vultures in for a killing

By Dan Myers on April 17, 2009

ANOTHER ‘tool shed’ owner has come forward to slam lawyers who left him with an illegal house and a 15,000 euro fine


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My mobile home misery

By Dan Myers on April 17, 2009

A British woman who was told by lawyers that she could erect a mobile home on her land has been forced to move back to England


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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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Costa del Dole

July 2, 2010 | Andalucia, National News

Expatriates in Spain panned for scrounging UK sick benefits

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Furious Spanish politician blasts “disgraceful case”

January 19, 2010 | Andalucia, National News

Llamazares rejects US apology after ‘Bin Laden poster’ debacle

Children taken to hospital after “gas poisoning”

November 6, 2006 | Uncategorized

FOURTEEN schoolchildren had to receive medical treatment after suffering the effects of possible gas poisoning while travelling on a school bus. The children, all aged between 14 and 16, were travelling to the Instituto de Educación de Secundaria school in Guadix from their homes in the village of La Peza on October 20 when they [...]

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Police are helpless as mentally ill girl robs homes

April 2, 2009 | Malaga

Homeowners in the Guadalhorce valley are being terrorised by a mentally ill girl breaking into their properties

First domestic violence victim in Spain is English

January 7, 2008 | Andalucia

Daughter, 10 raises alarm as mother stabbed to death by her German lover in Coin A BRITISH woman has become the first victim of domestic violence in Spain. The Coin-based mother-of-three was stabbed to death by her German partner, 59, during an argument on January 3.