How the Olive Press has survived 300 issues – and is continuing to grow
Publisher Jon Clarke on the massive range of stories the Olive Press has tackled as it grew from a tiny office in Ronda to covering the length and breadth of Spain FROM
Mass demo backs Andalucia eco-campaigner after ‘mafia’ cocaine stitch-up
Juan Clavero claims he knows who planted drugs in his car
BREAKING: Aircraft and firemen tackle huge Ronda blaze
FIREFIGHTERS are tackling a huge blaze that has erupted in Ronda. The flames on the edge of the Sierra de las Nieves natural park is being fought by two helicopters, two fire
Top 10 Olive Press campaigns
Launched in 2006, the Olive Press is Andalucia’s only campaigning newspaper. Here we look back at some highlights from the first ten years...
The Priors: How tranquility turned to tragedy
The Priors spent their life’s nest egg building their dream home - Tranquility - before it was bulldozed in a cruel error after a swish of a civil servant’s pen, writes their
Ronda Town Hall ordered to repay €650,000 in yet another golf course planning farce
Yet another case of poor management from the town hall’s planning department
2015: A game-changing year
The Olive Press round up of the highlights and low points of another year in southern Spain
The Olive Press celebrates 200th issue
Eight years and 200 issues ago the very first Olive Press hit the streets
A message from the editor: Out of a small acorn grew a very popular paper
Publisher Jon Clarke on the beginnings of the Olive Press as a local Ronda newspaper and its evolution to a newspaper covering the whole of Andalucia
The Olive Press is your REAL community newspaper… and here is why:
The Olive Press counts on eight trained journalists - a number former Fleet Street hands - and does not simply translate stories, kow tow to town halls and offer long boring features
Magnificent Seven
The best investigative and campaigning English language paper in Spain hits its seventh anniversary
Britain’s new Consul to Andalucia… my full circle to Malaga
In her first interview Charmaine Arbouin tells Olive Press editor Jon Clarke, about her fondness for the region and how she wants to best serve its expats
Outrage over ‘safari’ plan to turn one of Spain’s most valuable protected estates into millionaire’s polo and shooting playground
Critics slam government plan to convert valuable hunting estate - one of Spain's largest - inside the Alcornocales Natural Park, near Cadiz
What a year! The best of 2012
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: we look back on the best stories of 2012
Former Ronda mayor destroys documents to save his skin
Ex-Ronda mayor ‘erased documents’ on the holy day to cover fraud
City of Schemes
Over 1000 documents released on alleged corruption in Ronda
2011: A year of changes
The Arab Spring, the death of Osama and new governments for Spain and Gibraltar. 2011 has been an eventful year, writes Wendy Williams
‘They’ve opened a Pandora’s Box’ – Lifting the lid on Ronda corruption
Ronda corruption probe could look into 62 different cases
Former Ronda mayor released on bail
Antonio Marin Lara given 15 days to pay 150,000
Former Ronda mayor could be investigated for up to a dozen cases
Ecologistas en Accion has highlighted a long list of urban projects that have been ‘plagued by irregularities’
Former Ronda mayor arrested in corruption sting
EXCLUSIVE: Antonio Marin Lara is one of seven politicians and businessmen arrested so far as year-long corruption investigation comes to a head
Who just missed out on the Top 10 in the Expat 100?
After three months of opinion and debate, the Olive Press presents the results of the Expat 100 poll (11-20)
Former Ronda mayor’s trail of debt
Ex-mayor faces prosecution over 30m euro shortfall
The peak of outdoor Spain
Ronda is now one of the main outward bound hubs in Andalucia, writes Doug Wills
Green victory in Spain
Company that tried to build a hotel on natural park land now faces 2.4 million euro fine
Top 10 green escapes in Spain
To help launch our new site www.greenguidespain.com, President of Greenpeace Spain, Juan Lopez de Uralde tells the Olive Press about his favourite natural escapes