Swine flu hits Spain
Spain has registered Europe’s first confirmed case of swine flu
Don’t miss your vote
Make sure you are on the list to vote in the forthcoming European Parliament elections on June 7
The Eco Garden: Get a Spring in your Step
Now that Spring is finally here it’s time to get in the garden. Here are our top tips for the month
A haunted house, visits from Ringo and a trademark Rolls-Royce:
the mystery of Lennon’s Strawberry Fields Forever trip to southern Spain
Linekers Bar in arson attack
Linekers Bar in Fuengirola has become the target of a suspected arson attack
Don’t take the bait!
Greenpeace is taking on the Spanish supermarkets over their continuing sale of endangered fish
Nazi victims get their day in court
Two Mauthausen survivors are the first Spanish nationals to give evidence in a trial of Nazi SS officers
The Fourth Reich
With Hitler’s 120th birthday this week, the Olive Press looks at his legacy in Spain and investigates the comfortable existence his former henchmen enjoyed on
What your abogado may not have told you
In the first of an occasional series of articles on key issues affecting people in Andalucia, architect Liam Kellahar looks at dodgy lawyers and how
Bartie’s back in town
After a two month sojourn in Thailand (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) Lord Bart is back with his usual enlightening musings on modern life
Village of the dead
Still no sewage works, but mayor of smallest district in Malaga wants to build thousands of houses and a golf course .... over the cemetery
Emails condemn ‘dodgy’ law firm
A SERIES of damning emails from a legal firm to its clients prove that its lawyers knew their house was illegal from the beginning
More legal vultures in for a killing
ANOTHER ‘tool shed’ owner has come forward to slam lawyers who left him with an illegal house and a 15,000 euro fine
My mobile home misery
A British woman who was told by lawyers that she could erect a mobile home on her land has been forced to move back to
Fighting bull or paper tiger
Will the Auken Report lead to better protection of the environment and a solution to illegal builds in Spain? Yes, says Matthew Pritchard
Behind Bars: Clampdown sees dozens imprisoned for drink driving
Since the reform of the penal code in December 2007, 793 drivers in Malaga province alone have been arrested or charged for driving over the
Transsexual man pregnant with twins
The Jaen resident has interrupted hormone treatments and postponed plans for a sex change operation in order to have a baby
500 and out
Traders and hoteliers are up in arms after Andalucia’s oldest agricultural fair has been cancelled
Hunger strike over mortgage
Santiago Cortes, a construction worker by trade, has gone on hunger strike to renegotiate his mortgage
Robotic fish to detect pollution
Robotic fish are to be released into the sea for the first time to detect pollution
Condoms sent to Africa
Spain has pledged 120,000 euros in prophylactics to help fight the continent’s AIDS epidemic
Chaves up, Andalucia goes down
Despite being two decades at the head of the Junta de Andalucia, Manuel Chaves has left the region at the foot of the European league
Spain second for wine
Spain overtook France as the world’s second largest exporter of wine in terms of volume behind Italy last year
Lamborghini death plunge
A British businessman has been killed after his Lamborghini plunged off a cliff in Marbella
I’m sherry inspired
The world’s most influential wine critic is to come to Jerez for his first trip to Europe in over 20 years
Green groups unite against Zapatero
Spain's biggest charities have declared war over the Government’s ‘failing’ environmental policy