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July 2010


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Spain’s unemployment level hits a new high

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 31, 2010

With 4.65 million unemployed Spain has double the unemployment of the rest of the Eurozone


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On the loose in Spain

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 31, 2010

Dangerous Scouser O´Flaherty sought after the shooting of an Irish father-of-two in Spanish bar


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Spain to allow medicinal cannabis use

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 30, 2010

Spain is second country to approve the drug containing cannabis


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Thunderbirds are Go (ing to Spain)

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 30, 2010

The historic car — with a makeover — will be rolling into Spain to raise money for a children’s clinic


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A to Z: Secret Andalucian Summer

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 30, 2010

Take your Andalucian summer beyond the crowded Costa beaches with our 26 favourite spots


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Nuclear water

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 30, 2010

Locals in Almerían villages told their water is unfit to drink


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Shaken and stirred

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 30, 2010

Bond star Connery being investigated over new Costa fraud


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Bullfighting banned in Catalonia

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 29, 2010

A parliamentary vote makes Catalonia the first mainland autonomous region in Spain to ban the practice


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As much use as a cardboard boat!

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 29, 2010

BUDDING sailors are hoping to keep their heads above water in the Gibraltar cardboard boat race


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Oh, I do like to be beside the lakeside

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 29, 2010

Jon Clarke explains why the Andalucian lake district is a good alternative to the coast


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Planet of the Apes

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 29, 2010

Gibraltar’s monkeys facing new cull after learning to get room service


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Irish holidaymaker slain in Costa killing

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 28, 2010

The 41-year-old was on holiday with his family


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Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 28, 2010

American journalist Sara Wallace, 20, is not as impressed as fellow writer Ernest Hemingway after spending 24 hours at Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls festival


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Clock stops for timeshare king Garry Leigh

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 28, 2010

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


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British wife stabs husband to death on Costa

By Jon Clarke (Editor) on July 27, 2010

The woman was arrested on the scene in Benalmádena


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Tom Cruise?

September 8, 2010

What was Tom Cruise doing attending Ronda’s famous bullfighting festival?


Andalucia, Gibraltar, Lead »

Gib toll protests thumbnail

Gib toll protests

September 8, 2010

Locals are vowing not to spend money in the neighbouring town

Andalucia, Lead2 »

Fame is the best aphrodisiac thumbnail

Fame is the best aphrodisiac

September 8, 2010

Sexy Spanish pop star reveals why the ladies love him

Andalucia, Lead2 »

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Cowell’s villa trashed by X Factor mob

September 8, 2010

The music mogul has been left furious after wannabes trashed his villa

Andalucia, Lead2 »

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Naked trafficker found gutted like a fish

September 6, 2010

The drug trafficker was found dead in a ravine with a vertical cut down his stomach

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga »

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Egyptian vultures extinct

September 6, 2010

Malaga sees last pair of rare vultures poisoned


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 »

Benidorm – the new city of romance thumbnail

Benidorm – the new city of romance

February 14, 2010 | Lead2, National News

Johnny Vegas effect as tourist town tops Valentine’s poll

Bad luck Tuesday but not for Zapatero thumbnail

Bad luck Tuesday but not for Zapatero

October 13, 2009 | Lead2, National News

Historic Spanish superstition falls today

My prison workouts with fiancée Stacey thumbnail

My prison workouts with fiancée Stacey

November 15, 2009 | Andalucia, Lead2

Boxer Harrison tells the Olive Press how he’s cleaning the cells during his prison spell

Illegal hotel negotiations break down thumbnail

Illegal hotel negotiations break down

March 17, 2008 | Almeria

Government fails to agree multi-million-euro compensation package with developers Azata del Sol

U-turn over anthem lyrics

January 27, 2008 | National News

SPAIN’S Olympic Committee has backed down over proposed lyrics for the country’s wordless national anthem. In a volte face, Olympic officials discarded the winning lyrics after deciding them the most apt from a contest that drew 7,000 entries.