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October 2009


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‘Like being accused of Hiroshima bomb’

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 30, 2009

Ronda mayor compares Los Merinos accusations to H-bomb, while calling environment boss ‘incompetent’ and ecologists ‘terrorists’


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Lorca’s exhumation begins

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 30, 2009

After much speculation, excavations are now officially underway


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Dolphin beach tragedy

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 29, 2009

Fishermen blamed for dead dolphin, fish and birds


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Columbus was a Catatan Jew

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 29, 2009

Explorer’s final fascinating discovery


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An abortion protest that shrank in size

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 29, 2009

Organisers claimed millions of protesters, while the media and police insisted there were 250,000. The truth, it emerges, is much less


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Between a rock and a hard place

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 28, 2009

Why everyone should take a butchers inside the privileged world of the Bishop’s Avenue of Andalucia, where the average house price is 1.5m euros, writes Jon Clarke


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Why the witches like to fly high

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 28, 2009

With Halloween looming, Asha Stuttard discovers why Spanish witches rubbed a hallucinogenic mould from rye bread onto their broomsticks


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Not our problem!

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 28, 2009

Expat writes to 70 British MEPs to save his home from demolition – while Junta rules that Priors home was illegal


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Smuggler birds are go!

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 28, 2009

Microlights loaded with drugs increasingly used by smugglers


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Expats Giving English Lessons

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 28, 2009

Expats’ mother tongue being put to good use


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What a quacker

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 28, 2009

Why Katie had to say goodbye to Carmen


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Freak Expat Death

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 20, 2009

British women suffers heart failure after bar accident


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El Ejido Mayor Arrested

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 20, 2009

Juan Enciso Ruiz suspected of money laundering and bribery


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Scalpel tourists

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 20, 2009

Expats accused of abusing Spanish health service


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Tom and Cameron set for Cadiz

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on October 20, 2009

Hollywood duo are dropping in to shoot fast-paced film finale


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Going Gaelic

March 12, 2010

Andalucia is being represented by a new Gaelic football team, Eire Og Seville, in a Costa del Sol tournament this Saturday


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Holy guacamole

March 12, 2010

Police arrest two over record avocado thefts

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Do it for Rocky

March 12, 2010

After Rocky’s mother made a fresh appeal to catch the suspected killer of her son Olive Press readers can help catch Jimbles

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Oscar glory for Spain

March 12, 2010

Spanish success in foreign language film but Penelope Cruz misses out on successive Oscars

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Afflatus: An outsider’s Andalucia

March 12, 2010

Part One: An introduction to Arriate by Olive Press writer A.N. Maier, describing his version of the hillside town

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Crushed

March 12, 2010

EXCLUSIVE By Andrew Pearce: British couple recall the moment the roof caved in on their close friends


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From The Archives »

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Wildfire kills six

July 27, 2009 | National News

Greenpeace warns that fires are ‘habitual’ due to global warming as one fire in Mojacar sees 1,500 evacuated including Coronation Street’s Deidre Barlow

Eating out – Horses for courses

November 3, 2006 | Uncategorized

THREE years ago the Alqueria de Los Lentos
was one of the first restaurants I visited in the Lecrin Valley. The
food that day was OK but nothing special. It was typical of so much of the fare
on offer in the region – the bland leading the bland.
When friends Cliff and Liz wanted to take
me back there [...]

Mayor overthrown for not passing urban projects

September 26, 2008 | Andalucia

A MAYOR who defrauded the town hall of Gaucin and three councillors under investigation for corruption have regained control of Gaucin town hall.
Current socialist mayor Teodoro de Molina has been overthrown by a pact between the PA party and the PP party.

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An electric car deal!

October 13, 2009 | Lead2, Sevilla

Electric car initiative sparked by government subsidies

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Spain’s El Gordo heads north

December 23, 2009 | Lead2, National News

Few winners picked up any of the 2.3 billion euro prize money in the south of Spain