Fore Seasons!

By on December 16, 2007

Luxury hotel group is slammed for links to controversial golf project as properties are marketed despite Junta stop order

Sun, Sea & Sadness

By on December 16, 2007

The Olive Press launches a Christmas appeal for the forgotten street children of Andalucia

Fired up for the marathon

By on December 16, 2007

FORMER fireman Tony Salter is stoking himself up for the challenge of a lifetime. The Granada-based B&B owner has been spending hours training up for next year’s London marathon. Salter, who moved to the village of Moclin four years ago, is raising money for The Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre (www.msrc.co.uk). He was inspired to undertake […]

Is Murcia the next Marbella?

By on December 16, 2007

Mayors, councillors and property developers held in police investigation Police raids against urban corruption in a small Murcia town have resulted in the arrests of 12 people. Both the current and former mayors of Totana are at the centre of the police investigation, and have been charged with bribery, the falsification of public documents, fraud […]

Almuñecar in the urban spotlight

By on December 16, 2007

Court investigates sports pavilion as judges declare Marina del Este apartments illegal ALMUÑECAR mayor Juan Carlos Benavides faces two years behind bars if found guilty of irregular town planning offences. According to newspaper Ideal, the public prosecutor will seek both a jail term and a suspension from holding public office for Benavides and six others […]

What lies beneath

By on December 16, 2007

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

Owner of illegal Medina Azahara home acquitted

By on December 16, 2007

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

UNESCO affiliate demands disappearance of illegal urbanisations

By on December 16, 2007

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.”

Super Highway or Highway to Hell?

By on December 16, 2007

Junta announces new 350 million motorway to the coast – 1600 metres of tunnels, a huge span bridge and entirely on virgin land – a highway to hell, according to ecologists

Nineteen things you (probably) never knew about navidad

By Web Manager on December 16, 2007

By Theresa O’Shea YES, there are Christmas trees everywhere and the shopping centres are crawling with unconvincing Papa Noels. True, department store El Corte Inglés seems to start the season a week or two earlier every year. And yes, the advertising on television for toys, perfumes, aftershaves and watches that cost more than my car […]

Dogs rescued from rescue centre

By on December 16, 2007

OVER 200 dogs were on the verge of being put down after a police raid on a farm in Sevilla. Describing the scene as an “absolute tragedy”, animal charities battled around the clock to save the dogs from certain death.

Lorca’s Alpujarra

By on December 16, 2007

Carlos Pranger takes a step back in time to walk the hills of La Alpujarra with poet Federico Garcia Lorca and composer Manuel de Falla

007 banged up

By on December 16, 2007

EXCLUSIVE – Seven Britons detained after riot that began after a Spaniard insulted a British woman

Bah, humbug!*

By on December 16, 2007

*Or how to see the night sky and save the planet in the process Could the innocent fairy light be the reason Spain is struggling to keep its CO2 emissions in check? Hardly, argues Mark Roulston. But switching them off could help the Magi follow the Christmas Star

Climate Change will see the “Africanisation” of Spain

By on December 16, 2007

Study warns of environmental catastrophe before the end of the century as Spain struggles to meet Kyoto demands

Gypsy heat

By on December 16, 2007

Spain’s oldest woman – a gypsy – has gone without heating all her life WHO needs central heating? Spain’s oldest woman Maria Diaz Cortes – aged 115 – has lived without it all her life. Living in a shanty town on the outskirts of Seville, she is now refusing to move to an Old People’s […]

Los Merinos given the birdie!

By on December 16, 2007

According to report, up to five per cent of the world’s population of the extremely endangered Bonelli’s Eagle lives in controversial Ronda golf development MORE than 100 rare and endangered birds are under threat from the Los Merinos golf development. At least 17 of these are on the critical list, according to a new in-depth […]

They are out there

By on December 16, 2007

Were large grey cats seen near Monda a pair of lynxes or the La Cala cougar and mate? HORSERIDERS in Monda are convinced they saw a pair of wild cats while out on a ride. The trio of riders from the stable Andalusian Horseriding Adventure saw the large grey cats, while riding on a track […]

Anyone seem my cement lorry?

By on December 16, 2007

IT is one of the heaviest crimes Malaga province has seen for decades. But incredibly over one weekend two concrete lorries weighing 20 tonnes each, were stolen on the same road between Coin and Marbella. Both ten metres in length and of the make Iveco, they were taken at depots on the A-355 while the […]

Cash for permits scandal deepens

By on December 16, 2007

CASH payments in return for favours have come to light during bribary and corruption investigations in Alhaurin el Grande. It is understood that property developers may be behind over 150,000 euros of cash payments made to the former mayor Juan Martin Seron. The PP mayor and his wife are alleged to have taken the money […]

Málaga and Granada faces Christmas postal chaos

By on December 16, 2007

POSTAL workers in Spain are to stage a three-day walkout in protest at low salaries. The strike, which will run from December 23 to the end of Christmas Day, has been organised by trade unions UGT and the postal workers’ representatives SLC. “Postal workers do not believe they are remunerated sufficiently to deal with the […]

Sierra Nevada in bumper holiday weekend

By on December 16, 2007

ALMOST 30,000 visitors flocked to the ski resort of the Sierra Nevada during the recent early December holiday. According to ski management company Cetursa, the December 6 and 8 bank holidays saw 16,000 skiers enjoy the 9.6 kilometres of open piste. Hotels recorded a 65 per cent occupancy rate as warm temperatures and bright sunshine […]

Solidiers arrested in drugs raid

By on December 16, 2007

TWO soldiers have been arrested after police found four kilograms of cannabis in their car. Police in Almuñecar believe the un-named servicemen, who belong to the Regulars Division of Ceuta, were travelling from the North Africa enclave to Motril to sell the drug. The soldiers, aged 19 and 22, were arrested in La Herradura on […]

Top award for UK director

By on December 16, 2007

BRITISH film director Ken Loach has won a key Spanish award for his latest film It’s a Free World. Loach, who won plaudits for his 1995 film Land and Freedom which depicted events in the Spanish Civil War, has now been awarded the prestigious Giraldillo de Or at the Sevilla film festival. It’s a Free […]

Building collapse kills three

By on December 16, 2007

THREE people died after a residential building collapsed in the northern city of Santander. Rescue workers found the body of a 70-year-old woman soon after the four-storey building fell on December 8. Her son, 50, and a third person were found the following day.

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