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

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

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Top of the Pops

A look at this week’s music in Andalucia

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Arterton Bonds with Italian at Andalucia wedding

Bond girl Gemma Arteton ties the knot at sun-soaked Spanish ceremony

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The artists’ way in Andalucia

Fundraising gala organised by expatriates to raise money for disadvantaged youths in Iznajar

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Rain claims lives

Three people killed in storms in Andalucia

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The Best of Andalucia

Two exciting new exhibitions are showing off the glorious history of the region, Moorish porcelain in Cordoba and the priceless Phoenician Treasure of Carambolo in Sevilla


Fears for Andalucia olive trade

Growers are getting 40 cents lower than the break even point


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Gang rape horror

Girl, 12, attacked on beach, while 13-year-old assaulted by ex and five friends in Cordoba


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A green corridor for lynxes

After a sharp revival over recent years, a ‘green corridor’ could now link the lynx populations of the Sierra Morena with Donana in the south


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Energy-conscious Granada and Córdoba launch Christmas illumination crackdown

The battle against light pollution in Andalucía has taken somewhat of a seasonal turn after council authorities in Granada delayed the switching on of the annual Christmas illuminations.


Priceless war photos may come home

The remarkable story of how some of the world’s most famous war photographs have only recently emerged after a tortuous journey from Spain, via France, to Mexico and finally the US. With the Olive Press’s help they could now be coming back to Spain THEY wanted their photographs to record the truth about a vicious [...]


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Sick safari hunters jailed for shooting tigers and lions

Estate owner Manuel Dominguez along with wealthy hunters Davíd Jimenez and José de la Flor were jailed for killing the defenceless tiger that had been bought from a zoo

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So sweet a Spanish Christmas

Forget Lapland… Andalucians all head for Rute, where even the world’s sweetest tooth can be satisfied. Here, the three chocolate kings arrive in time to meet marzipan Jesus

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What lies beneath

Córdoba’s Medina Azahara holds many more secrets of the first Islamic rule of Spain

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Owner of illegal Medina Azahara home acquitted

Judges in Córdoba have acquitted the owner of one of the 240 illegal homes on the protected Medina Azahara site for extending the property even though it faces demolition

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UNESCO affiliate demands disappearance of illegal urbanisations

A damning report from a UNESCO advisory body has demanded that the 240 illegal houses on the protected Medina Azahara site in Córdoba should “be demolished.”

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The princes’ secret Spanish playground

They killed 740 partridges in one day at the Duke of Westminster’s exclusive hunting reserve

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.