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Spain’s unemployment level hits a new high thumbnail

Spain’s unemployment level hits a new high

July 31, 2010 |

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

Spain to allow medicinal cannabis use thumbnail

Spain to allow medicinal cannabis use

July 30, 2010 | Andalucia

Spain is second country to approve the drug containing cannabis

Thunderbirds are Go (ing to Spain) thumbnail

Thunderbirds are Go (ing to Spain)

July 30, 2010 | Andalucia

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

Nuclear water thumbnail

Nuclear water

July 30, 2010 | Almeria Andalucia

Locals in Almerían villages told their water is unfit to drink

On the loose in Spain thumbnail

On the loose in Spain

July 31, 2010 | 0 Comments

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

Irish holidaymaker slain in Costa killing thumbnailIrish holidaymaker slain in Costa killing

July 28, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

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

¡Hola, Obama! thumbnail¡Hola, Obama!

July 27, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Andalucia is gearing up for its most high-profile visitor in years

Road and rail projects cancelled thumbnailRoad and rail projects cancelled

July 26, 2010 | Andalucia

Andalucia’s road improvements are halted as the government claws back cash

Riddle as body of missing five-year-old found in Spain thumbnailRiddle as body of missing five-year-old found in Spain

July 24, 2010 | Cordoba

German boy found after huge police operation scoured the mountainous area of north Cordoba

Border Tax thumbnailBorder Tax

July 21, 2010 | Andalucia Gibraltar

Rocky time for Gibraltar as La Linea plans to tax visitors

Bribery probe in just a year thumbnailBribery probe in just a year

July 21, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Mayor of town only given independence in 2009 is arrested

Burn out in Spain thumbnailBurn out in Spain

July 20, 2010 | Andalucia

Green backlash as government plans to cut four billion euros of subsidies to solar schemes

I’m staying put thumbnail

Sport »

I’m staying put

July 20, 2010

Spurs star David Bentley tells the Olive Press he won’t be leaving Tottenham this summer

Andalucia in Pictures »

As much use as a cardboard boat! thumbnail

As much use as a cardboard boat!

July 29, 2010

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

Regional News »

Wrecking ball swings into Andalucia again

Wrecking ball swings into Andalucia again thumbnail

July 19, 2010 | Almeria Andalucia Property

100 more British homeowners face seeing homes demolished


Not a Gas

Not a Gas thumbnail

July 15, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Costa del Sol tourist industry ‘threatened’ by plans to drill for gas just nine kms offshore


Up for grabs

Up for grabs thumbnail

July 13, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga Property

Forced auction could see Ronda’s evocative Casa del Rey Moro sold for 3.1m euros


Escape to Andalucia’s ‘oil corner’

Escape to Andalucia’s ‘oil corner’ thumbnail

July 8, 2010 | Andalucia

OLIVE PRESS EXCLUSIVE: Under-fire BP boss finds the perfect retreat in Spain from his US nightmare… although his new Mexican-style hacienda could bring back bad memories…


EXCLUSIVE: Fake name fear

EXCLUSIVE: Fake name fear thumbnail

July 6, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

By Andrew Pearce: Wanted sex offender Peter Wheatherley used a false name in Spain court


Save our dunes

Save our dunes thumbnail

July 6, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

Ray of light for Artola dunes tempered by ongoing threat to Barronal de la Morera


Have you seen this man?

Have you seen this man? thumbnail

July 5, 2010 | Andalucia

Dangerous paedophile Daren Michael Elarmo is thought to be hiding among expats in Spain, say authorities


Andalucía to London in ten hours – by train

Andalucía to London in ten hours – by train thumbnail

July 4, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga National News

Taking a fast train from the Costa del Sol to London will cut out the ‘airport hassle factor’, not to mention 90 per cent of your CO2 emissions, writes Sara Wallace


EXCLUSIVE: Spain’s full circle

EXCLUSIVE: Spain’s full circle thumbnail

July 3, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga Property

Diggers at the gates of the country estate of the German aristocrat credited with starting the concrete avalanche on the Costa del Sol


Costa del Dole

Costa del Dole thumbnail

July 2, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Expatriates in Spain panned for scrounging UK sick benefits


EXCLUSIVE: ‘They are animals’

EXCLUSIVE: ‘They are animals’ thumbnail

July 1, 2010 | Andalucia Malaga

By Andrew Pearce: Distraught mother of Dan Smith murdered on the Costa del Sol slams the intimidation of witnesses


Catalonia is a ‘nation,’ at last

Catalonia is a ‘nation,’ at last thumbnail

June 30, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Spain’s top court gives new powers of self-rule to the northeastern region


A breath of death air in Spain

A breath of death air in Spain thumbnail

June 25, 2010 | Andalucia National News

Prehistoric caves reopen despite “immeasurable” risks


National News »

Spain still top place to move thumbnail

Spain still top place to move

July 24, 2010

Searches for property in Spain have more than doubled in one year

Take a bung, m’lud? thumbnail

Take a bung, m’lud?

July 14, 2010

As judge is jailed for bribery, half of Spain believes money buys freedom

Spain Reign Victorious with World Cup Win thumbnail

Spain Reign Victorious with World Cup Win

July 12, 2010

‘La Furia Roja’ defeats the Netherlands 1-0 to lift the cup after almost 80 years of waiting

Andalucía to London in ten hours – by train thumbnail

Andalucía to London in ten hours – by train

July 4, 2010

Taking a fast train from the Costa del Sol to London will cut out the ‘airport hassle factor’, not to mention 90 per cent of your CO2 emissions, writes Sara Wallace

Costa del Dole thumbnail

Costa del Dole

July 2, 2010

Expatriates in Spain panned for scrounging UK sick benefits

Beauty behind ‘the Beast’ thumbnail

Beauty behind ‘the Beast’

July 1, 2010

After winning Wimbledon for the second time, the Olive Press reveals how Nadal’s childhood sweetheart Xisca is still keeping the ‘beast’s’ feet firmly on the ground

Catalonia is a ‘nation,’ at last thumbnail

Catalonia is a ‘nation,’ at last

June 30, 2010

Spain’s top court gives new powers of self-rule to the northeastern region

Features, Nature, Travel »

A to Z: Secret Andalucian Summer thumbnail

A to Z: Secret Andalucian Summer

July 30, 2010

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

Read Our Latest Print Edition »

Andalucia, Lead, Malaga, Property »

Shaken and stirred thumbnail

Shaken and stirred

July 30, 2010

Bond star Connery being investigated over new Costa fraud

Features, Gibraltar, Photo »

As much use as a cardboard boat! thumbnail

As much use as a cardboard boat!

July 29, 2010

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

Olive Press Gibraltar, Opinion »

Crude awakening

June 10, 2010

Gibraltar – and Spain – must more closely regulate the oil tankers bunkering in the Bay of Gibraltar


Features, Nature »

Oh, I do like to be beside the lakeside thumbnail

Oh, I do like to be beside the lakeside

July 29, 2010

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

Features, Travel »

Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona thumbnail

Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona

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

Features »

At the peak of creativity thumbnail

At the peak of creativity

July 27, 2010

Grazalema – a small mountain town in Andalucia – is fast becoming a big name in the art world

Features, Photo »

Incredible relics thumbnail

Incredible relics

July 26, 2010

Unseen Bronze Age artefacts made by the Phoenicians are on display in Cadiz


Latest Reader Comments »

Spain’s unemployment level hits a new high

6 hours 30 minutes ago

Donald Hoffman: Frightening….a liberal govt and is being the format for the Change that Obama wants for the USA…God help us

Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona

6 hours 57 minutes ago

Fred: Bull running, bull fighting, bull tormenting – whatever. If you’re bored, read another thread.

Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona

10 hours 30 minutes ago

Ben: Yeah, we’ve heard your opinion Fred in your first post now you’re just boring. Bull running is not bull fighting.

Riddle as body of missing five-year-old found in Spain

15 hours 32 minutes ago

Fred: Moving from the MM case to Trafigura could be described as slight change of subject lol. I am sure the judge would disagree with you that the law had been...

Bullfighting banned in Catalonia

15 hours 34 minutes ago

George: Its now safe to come to catalyuna !! Nº1 Tourist center with no frights of seeing animals killed for pleasure. well done Catalyuna.

Riddle as body of missing five-year-old found in Spain

1 day 5 hours ago

PeterMac: Carter-Ruck have overridden the law. Look at the Trafigura case for evidence of their probable ‘Contempt of Parliament’, – an attempt by them to prevent...

Nuclear water

1 day 5 hours ago

smogbad: Isn’t this still from that nuclear bomber crash with spilt bombs etc, and poor clean up?

Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona

1 day 6 hours ago

Justin R: It’s funny how this “independist” region comes over all good old fashioned castanet-clacking bull-fighting Francoist Spanish when it comes to Gibraltar...

Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona

1 day 6 hours ago

Fred: Ignorance of the cruelty to a fellow creature is the issue here. People who support these spectacles in the name of “culture” had better get some new things to represent...

Running the gauntlet as a solo blonde in Pamplona

1 day 7 hours ago

Juan: Fred, I’m leaving on holidays this evening and I wanted to forget my computer and rest from it. Thinking twice I’ll take it to answer your posts. Ignorance is no excuse.



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 »

We’re not caving in thumbnail

We’re not caving in

February 10, 2010 | Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga

Billionaire-backed Medgroup make latest appeals to Junta to reconsider the block

Leftists sacked after fascist pact

June 21, 2007 | Andalucia

LEFTIST group Izquierda Union (IU) has expelled four members after they made a pact with Spain’s far right Falange Autentica party. The four councillors from the small mountain town of Ardales in Málaga made the deal with the two councillors that the nationalist group gained in the recent municipal elections to win overall control of [...]

Clowns kicking a pig skin (football)

November 9, 2006 | Uncategorized

by Michael Byass {mosimage} THIS last week has been lit up by an amusing suggestion by Sky Television’s Andy Gray. Or perhaps it was meant seriously as a way to lead to further tabloidisation of football. Anyway, the idea of making goals larger so as to create higher scoring games would allow a football highlights [...]

Marbella goes international thumbnail

Marbella goes international

April 23, 2010 | Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga

New international school will open this September on the Costa del Sol

Freak out! thumbnail

Freak out!

May 10, 2010 | Andalucia, Malaga

Get you dancing shoes on as some of the 80s finest are set to jet in to Marbella this summer