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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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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 »

Murder hunt as autopsy shows Mariluz did not drown

March 17, 2008 | Andalucia

Police believe five-year-old was asphyxiated before being thrown into river AN autopsy on the body of Mariluz Cortes shows the five-year-old died only hours after she went missing on January 13.

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Spanish police still using torture

November 4, 2009 | Lead2, National News

Amnesty International says not enough is being done to prevent it

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Tweet quiet lads!

June 7, 2010 | Lead2

Spain and England bosses ban their players from logging onto social networking sites during the World Cup

Remembering Franco

November 12, 2007 | Features

Writing exclusively for the Olive Press, Franco biographer Paul Preston claims the legacy of the dictator’s rule has come to nothing as Spain embraces democracy FRANCO spent the first 45 years of his life getting to the top. A ferocious ambition drove him to the top of the military profession by 1934 when he became [...]

Catalan party wants Republican massacres included in historical memory law

September 4, 2007 | National News

THE introduction of a law granting financial compensation to victims of General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship could be delayed following calls for it to cover victims of the Republican forces. Officials from the CiU – the Christian Democratic party that governed Catalunya between 1980 and 2003 – want the Law of Historical Memory to recognise “the [...]