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September 2009


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Sheep ravage vegetable plot

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

In the first of our exclusive excerts from Chris Stewart’s latest book on life in Andalucia, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, he reveals how his organic sheep destroyed his organic vegetable garden


Going for gold

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

A great passport scandal is causing unnecessary suffering for expatriates in Spain… and making the UK government millions each year


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Go Bananas in the Axarquia

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

The land of rebellion, resistance and renaissance – where bananas, mangoes and just about anything else grows


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Opus Dei unleash the dragons

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

As a new film is to be released on shady Catholic organisation Opus Dei, why it is unlikely to be popular in Spain


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I have a dream

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

Village has started workshops to teach locals how to orate like Martin Luther King


Dead healthy!

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

Doctor ordered to a morgue to check whether relative had come back to life


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AVE Maria for Sagrada Familia

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

Engineers check whether new AVE tunnels could endanger cathedral


‘Club Med’ blocks Tuna ban

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

SPAIN has refused to back plans to introduce a worldwide ban on bluefin tuna fishing.


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Sex fiends and criminals loose on the Costa del Sol

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 30, 2009

Just a week and Crimestoppers Most Wanted campaign snares dangerous drug dealer Michael Eddleston


Lars tries to crack Spain

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 27, 2009

Top Danish film director Lars Von Trier launches new Spanish movie company


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Battle Over Blood Wedding

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 27, 2009

As debate rages about the exhumation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s body will the chapel that inspired his most famous work be allowed to sink into the ground?


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Gaucin goes bust

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 18, 2009

Town hall reportedly on the brink of closure


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Gazza’s one day Costa break

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 17, 2009

Former footballer star shows his sensitive side by cutting short Marbella holiday


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Spanish suffer most from back to work blues

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 17, 2009

Millions of Spaniards could be suffering from post-holiday syndrome


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Pensioners’ Lifeline

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on September 16, 2009

Will proposed measures improve pensioners’ plight?


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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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Clock stops for timeshare king Garry Leigh

July 28, 2010 | Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga

OLIVE PRESS EXCLUSIVE: Costa timeshare king Garry Leigh has been killed

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The Artist’s Way

June 16, 2009 | Travel

Robberies, heroin overdoses and Spain’s best beer. John Colley has experienced a lot while sketching his way along the little-known branches of the Camino (or Way) de Santiago

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Horse owner sued

March 10, 2010 | Andalucia, Lead2

Legal action launched against stable owner whose horses died in floods

Lorca remains could be exhumed under new law

October 12, 2007 | National News

Government promises financial aid to unearth mass graves SPAIN’S darkest secrets, which have largely remained untold for 70 years, could soon be uncovered after a controversial draft law was passed in Parliament. Under the Law of Historical Memory, government aid will be earmarked to help unearth Civil War mass graves.

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Rescued donkeys give rides to kids

February 18, 2010 | Andalucia, Photo

A new lease of life for donkeys and the special needs children love the rides