Swine flu hits Spain

By on April 29, 2009

Spain has registered Europe’s first confirmed case of swine flu

Don’t miss your vote

By on April 29, 2009

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

By Jon Clarke (Publisher) on April 27, 2009

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:

By on April 20, 2009

the mystery of Lennon’s Strawberry Fields Forever trip to southern Spain

Linekers Bar in arson attack

By on April 20, 2009

Linekers Bar in Fuengirola has become the target of a suspected arson attack

Don’t take the bait!

By on April 20, 2009

Greenpeace is taking on the Spanish supermarkets over their continuing sale of endangered fish

Nazi victims get their day in court

By on April 20, 2009

Two Mauthausen survivors are the first Spanish nationals to give evidence in a trial of Nazi SS officers

The Fourth Reich

By on April 20, 2009

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 the Costa del Sol

What your abogado may not have told you

By on April 17, 2009

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 to avoid them

Bartie’s back in town

By on April 17, 2009

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

By on April 17, 2009

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

By on April 17, 2009

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

By on April 17, 2009

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

By on April 17, 2009

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 England

Fighting bull or paper tiger

By on April 16, 2009

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

By on April 16, 2009

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 limit

Transsexual man pregnant with twins

By on April 16, 2009

The Jaen resident has interrupted hormone treatments and postponed plans for a sex change operation in order to have a baby

500 and out

By on April 16, 2009

Traders and hoteliers are up in arms after Andalucia’s oldest agricultural fair has been cancelled

Hunger strike over mortgage

By on April 16, 2009

Santiago Cortes, a construction worker by trade, has gone on hunger strike to renegotiate his mortgage

Robotic fish to detect pollution

By on April 16, 2009

Robotic fish are to be released into the sea for the first time to detect pollution

Condoms sent to Africa

By on April 16, 2009

Spain has pledged 120,000 euros in prophylactics to help fight the continent’s AIDS epidemic

Chaves up, Andalucia goes down

By on April 16, 2009

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 tables

Spain second for wine

By on April 16, 2009

Spain overtook France as the world’s second largest exporter of wine in terms of volume behind Italy last year

Lamborghini death plunge

By on April 16, 2009

A British businessman has been killed after his Lamborghini plunged off a cliff in Marbella

I’m sherry inspired

By on April 16, 2009

The world’s most influential wine critic is to come to Jerez for his first trip to Europe in over 20 years

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