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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


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

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Non-Catholic first for Brits

July 14, 2009 | Andalucia

A British couple are the first non-Catholics to have a religious wedding on the Spanish mainland.

Shhhh! Dining Secrets

October 17, 2008 | Food & Drink

Launching Andalucia’s first and most discerning restaurant guide, The Olive Press presents first serialisation of editor Jon Clarke’s new book Dining Secrets of Andalucia

Slow Silent Suffering: So, What’s News?

February 6, 2007 | Uncategorized

Lisa Tilley asks why is news of drug-taking celebrities and Royals on the razz more important than famine, war and disease in the Third World.

SOMEWHERE near a town called Getty, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a woman emerges from the forest; she is far from home in a state of paralysing fear [...]

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Police are helpless as mentally ill girl robs homes

April 2, 2009 | Malaga

Homeowners in the Guadalhorce valley are being terrorised by a mentally ill girl breaking into their properties

Horse in traffic accident

June 25, 2007 | Andalucia

A WOMAN was injured when the car in which she was travelling was involved in a head on collision with a horse.
The woman was travelling along the N340 Mediterranean dual carriageway when her Renault Twingo hit the horse, which police believe had escaped from nearby farm.

According to the Guardia Civil, this was the second car [...]