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

Andalucia »

Alisha’s guitarist gets career out of attic thumbnail

Alisha’s guitarist gets career out of attic

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

Negative salary thumbnail

Negative salary

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

The farmers who cried wolf thumbnail

The farmers who cried wolf

A new law is being drafted to give cash to farmers whose animals are being killed by the wolves that have returned to Madrid

Builder crumbles thumbnail

Builder crumbles

Holidays cancelled after 75 per cent of tools are stolen

A lot of stress over what exactly? thumbnail

A lot of stress over what exactly?

Olive Press finance writer Ian Le Breton on how the vast majority of Spanish banks have passed the so-called “stress tests”

Spain arrest human trafficking gang thumbnail

Spain arrest human trafficking gang

For the first time Spanish police have broken up a human-trafficking gang that brought men – and not woman – to the country to work as prostitutes


Britons arrested in Ibiza drugs raid thumbnail

Britons arrested in Ibiza drugs raid

More than 20 people – most of them British – have been arrested following a large scale drugs raid


One man booze cruise thumbnail

One man booze cruise

Drunken tourist nearly dies after stealing a boat to row from Minorca to Mallorca to ‘see a friend’


Married to the job thumbnail

Married to the job

Lovebirds find the dream job testing honeymoon suites around southern Spain


Secret millionaire comes to Granada thumbnail

Secret millionaire comes to Granada

Secret Millionaire Mo Chaudry visits Granada Hotel


U2 are too loud for Spain thumbnail

U2 are too loud for Spain

U2 have been fined for practising too loudly during rehearsals


Our Turkish fright! thumbnail

Andalucia, Malaga »

Our Turkish fright!

Expat couple sought after ‘millions’ disappear in Turkish property riddle

Andalucia, Photo »

Daylight robbery at border crossing thumbnail

Daylight robbery at border crossing

With his controversial plan to charge every car five euros to cross the border of La Linea, Alejandro Sanchez is being seen as a bandit

Andalucia, Lead2, Malaga »

Iglesias marries lover thumbnail

Iglesias marries lover

Legendary crooner weds girlfriend of 20 years

Andalucia »

Leap of madness thumbnail

Leap of madness

Four lives wasted as lethal balcony-jumping craze – known as ‘balconing’ – takes hold

Andalucia, Cadiz, Lead2, Malaga, Sevilla, Sport »

On yer bike thumbnail

On yer bike

The 2010 Vuelta a España will begin on Saturday with a special night time race in Sevilla

Andalucia, National News »

Spanish arrest of Britain’s most wanted thumbnail

Spanish arrest of Britain’s most wanted

One of Britain’s most wanted men has been arrested in Marbella in connection with a fatal drive-by shooting

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.