the olive press
Search:
Andalucia's Number One News Website
Friday, September 3, 2010
Subscribe: RSS or Email

February 2010


Miss World loves Gibraltar thumbnail

Miss World loves Gibraltar

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 28, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: In an exclusive interview Miss World tells the Olive Press why returning to southern Spain under a British flag is so special


Yes, it’s the wettest winter ever – official thumbnail

Yes, it’s the wettest winter ever – official

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 27, 2010

After floods, property damage and transport disruption Andalucia’s devastating wet weather measures as the worst on record


Buried on the beach thumbnail

Buried on the beach

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 26, 2010

EXCLUSIVE BY ANDREW PEARCE IN LA MAMOLA: The funeral of the English couple killed by freak roof collapse attended by hundreds of Spanish and British mourners on the coast


Road safety MP in drunken crash thumbnail

Road safety MP in drunken crash

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 26, 2010

Popular Party spokesman on road safety has been arrested after being twice the legal limit


Worst of the worst thumbnail

Worst of the worst

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 25, 2010

Nominate your most hated business in a new poll


We love you, really thumbnail

We love you, really

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 25, 2010

Jerez tourist boss says Brits aren’t that bad after all


I am the Med thumbnail

I am the Med

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 25, 2010

Writer Bob Maddox imagines what it has been like to be the world’s greatest body of water


Massacre thumbnail

Massacre

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 25, 2010

Horses were killed in floods in Alhaurin de la Torre last week but there was some good news as a daring rescue mission took place


Killed for five euros thumbnail

Killed for five euros

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 24, 2010

Teenager stabbed over the smallest of debts while Morrocan attacker fled and was later arrested


British couple killed watching television in Spain thumbnail

British couple killed watching television in Spain

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 23, 2010

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: Andalucia record rainfall causes catastrophic roof collapse


Noisy neighbour kicked out thumbnail

Noisy neighbour kicked out

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 23, 2010

A man has been ordered to leave his house for being too loud


Purr-fect thumbnail

Purr-fect

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 23, 2010

Woman bequeaths millions to protect endangered cat


All go for Van Gogh thumbnail

All go for Van Gogh

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 23, 2010

World’s most popular artist scheduled for Malaga as plans for new Thyssen museum take shape


Bottom of the league thumbnail

Bottom of the league

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 23, 2010

Andalucia finishes last in a list in Spanish reading rates


Less waiting around thumbnail

Less waiting around

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on February 23, 2010

Healthy news for Spain’s hospitals as waiting lists fall


Next Page »

Andalucia, Gibraltar, National News, Property »

A lot of stress over what exactly? thumbnail

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 »

Tanning:  The bare essentials thumbnail

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 »

Alisha’s guitarist gets career out of attic thumbnail

Alisha’s guitarist gets career out of attic

September 2, 2010

80s guitarist Marcus Myers is back on the Spanish music scene

Andalucia, Lead »

Negative salary thumbnail

Negative salary

September 2, 2010

Police investigate cruel scam where (un)lucky job applicants end up in the red

Property »

Home or away? thumbnail

Home or away?

September 1, 2010

Seven out of ten ex-pat pensioners do not miss home, according to a survey

Andalucia, Lead2 »

The farmers who cried wolf thumbnail

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 »

Under Extremeño Skies thumbnail

Under Extremeño Skies

October 29, 2007 | Travel

The reputations of Pizarro and other conquistadores left a legacy for the mother of an extremeño to worry about

The search for Pat Moore thumbnail

The search for Pat Moore

July 16, 2009 | Malaga

Missing man became mentally ill and moved to Algorrobo

Our bountiful, endangered coast

February 10, 2009 | Andalucia

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

Construction threatens ancient Roman ruins

January 4, 2007 | Uncategorized

Cádiz village also plans to build golf course near natural park land PLANS to build 170 houses and a hotel close to the ruins of a second century Roman settlement have been slammed by environmental groups.

Human activity threatens land in Andalucia

September 17, 2007 | Andalucia

Report claims “85 per cent of region” could be hit by desertification THE arid and semi-arid zones of Andalucia must be protected from human activity if desertification in the region is to be stopped. That is the finding of a report presented to a conference on climate change in Madrid. Natural desertification in Andalucia is [...]