Free for nine days, Roca returns to jail

By on April 24, 2008

Bail of three million euros as former town planning chief is charged with embezzlement JUAN ANTONIO ROCA, the alleged mastermind behind the ring of corruption at Marbella town hall, has been ordered back to prison.

We’re not buried yet

By on April 24, 2008

Villagers to seize town hall for ‘funeral’ protest as promoters both in Spain and the UK begin drive to sell plots on golf course scheme which still doesn’t have water, let alone full planning permission BRAVE villagers opposed to Ronda’s controversial Los Merinos golf course scheme are holding a symbolic funeral. Despite Junta officials admitting […]

The rock goes green

By on April 24, 2008

By Laura Balfour AN Olive Press campaign to bin plastic bags has been backed by a new environmental group in Gibraltar. No to Plastic Bags (No2PB) hopes to make the enclave the first plastic-bag free town in the Iberian Peninsula.

Webber Caines it in Mallorca

By on April 24, 2008

Michael Caine and Andrew Lloyd Webber double up at glittering Spanish birthday bonanza By Laura Balfour THE King of musicals certainly celebrated his 60th birthday in style. Andrew Lloyd Webber – Britain’s most famous musical empresario – invited over 30 close friends to his luxury home in Mallorca for a weekend of festivities.

Sea dogs saved

By on April 24, 2008

Two fishermen lucky to be alive after 23 days afloat without food, engine or radio Exclusive – by Jon Clarke and Laura Balfour FLOATING aimlessly around the Atlantic for nearly a month the pair of old sea dogs were convinced they were about to die. Lost at sea in a ten-metre fishing boat with no […]

Offski?

By on April 24, 2008

Have Russians fallen at the final hurdles of Mijas race course? THE saga of the Mijas racetrack might now be finally put to rest. The town hall has apparently taken over the running of the beleaguered race track, after years of neglect from the company licensed to operate it.

Beach bar ban for El Palmar

By on April 24, 2008

Long evenings spent lounging on the beach, mojito in hand, while watching the sun go down could be a thing of the past after one local council on the Costa de la Luz banned all chiringuitos this summer

Justice fails again

By on April 24, 2008

Miscarriage of justice as innocent man has spent ten years in prison for a series of vicious rapes he did not commit By LAURA BALFOUR IN 1998 the Police arrested the wrong guy, plain and simple. A habitual criminal, with the initials RRR, he was accused of attacking various women in Jerez de la Frontera, […]

Zapa’s Guapas

By on April 24, 2008

There will be more conflict over perfumes than politics in the new Spanish cabinet By JON CLARKE and LAURA BALFOUR THERE will be more conflicting perfumes than views. In the new look Spanish cabinet, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has gone for the feminine touch.

Home knocked down in row with developers

By on April 15, 2008

A British couple have had their home part-demolished in a bitter row with a housing developer.

Roca freed

By on April 15, 2008

Release angers Marbella as friends and family raise one million euro bail

Four lynx “starve to death” in National Park

By on April 15, 2008

EU ignored advice before three cubs and one adult die in Doñana National Park

Meltdown confirmed

By on April 7, 2008

Prices slump across Spain as US economist Greenspan claims Spanish economy in danger. Meanwhile banks stop lending on country properties and golf course schemes! By Jon Clarke and Laura Balfour AMERICA’S leading economist Alan Greenspan has given a gloomy prediction for Spain’s already ailing property market. The former chairman of the US Federal Reserve believes […]