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September 2009


Sheep ravage vegetable plot

By on September 30, 2009

In the first of our exclusive excerts from Chris Stewart’s latest book on life in Andalucia, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, he reveals how his organic sheep destroyed his organic vegetable garden


Going for gold

By on September 30, 2009

A great passport scandal is causing unnecessary suffering for expatriates in Spain… and making the UK government millions each year


Go Bananas in the Axarquia

By on September 30, 2009

The land of rebellion, resistance and renaissance – where bananas, mangoes and just about anything else grows


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Opus Dei unleash the dragons

By on September 30, 2009

As a new film is to be released on shady Catholic organisation Opus Dei, why it is unlikely to be popular in Spain


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I have a dream

By on September 30, 2009

Village has started workshops to teach locals how to orate like Martin Luther King


Dead healthy!

By on September 30, 2009

Doctor ordered to a morgue to check whether relative had come back to life


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AVE Maria for Sagrada Familia

By on September 30, 2009

Engineers check whether new AVE tunnels could endanger cathedral


‘Club Med’ blocks Tuna ban

By on September 30, 2009

SPAIN has refused to back plans to introduce a worldwide ban on bluefin tuna fishing.


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Sex fiends and criminals loose on the Costa del Sol

By on September 30, 2009

Just a week and Crimestoppers Most Wanted campaign snares dangerous drug dealer Michael Eddleston


Lars tries to crack Spain

By on September 27, 2009

Top Danish film director Lars Von Trier launches new Spanish movie company


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Battle Over Blood Wedding

By on September 27, 2009

As debate rages about the exhumation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s body will the chapel that inspired his most famous work be allowed to sink into the ground?


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Gaucin goes bust

By on September 18, 2009

Town hall reportedly on the brink of closure


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Gazza’s one day Costa break

By on September 17, 2009

Former footballer star shows his sensitive side by cutting short Marbella holiday


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Spanish suffer most from back to work blues

By on September 17, 2009

Millions of Spaniards could be suffering from post-holiday syndrome


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Pensioners’ Lifeline

By on September 16, 2009

Will proposed measures improve pensioners’ plight?


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Cut Off From The World

By on September 10, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Expats without electricity and reduced to drinking from a cattle trough are fighting back


Gypsy boss shot dead in Ronda

By on September 9, 2009

Gypsy slaying shocks Ronda


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More blues for flamenco mayor

By on September 7, 2009

Singing Jose Manuel now charged with creaming off 200,000 euros in new planning scandal


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At the Pitt face

By on September 7, 2009

Brad visits urban scheme


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Scythed by a kite surfer

By on September 2, 2009

AN unsuspecting pensioner diced with death after tangling with a reckless kitesurfer


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Marbella’s secret past

By on September 2, 2009

Archaeologists discover that there’s more to Marbella than meets the eye…


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Fergie escapes with the ex

By on September 2, 2009

Following her TV-battering, Fergie escapes to Spain with a very familiar friend…


Lead2, National News »

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WhatsApp and Facebook’s big night out in Barcelona

March 8, 2014

Jan Koum celebrated his app’s birthday with Mark Zuckerberg and singer Psy


Andalucia, Lead, Malaga »

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Niza Car Hire returns deposits after Olive Press report

March 8, 2014

Deposits are finally being returned to customers following the Olive Press’s exclusive investigation last issue

Property »

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Spanish investors use London’s booming property market to protect savings

March 7, 2014

New research reveals correlation between Spanish and British housing markets

Andalucia, Lead »

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Truth of Spanish gender-violence revealed in ground-breaking survey

March 7, 2014

Disturbing stats and spate of Andalucian domestic murders casts a dark shadow over International Women’s Day

Gibraltar, Lead2 »

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Gibraltar government launches investigation into bullying accusations

March 7, 2014

A civil servant accused of bullying a group of graduates

Lead2, Malaga »

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Estepona grand boulevard project to begin this summer

March 7, 2014

The €30 million project will include a shopping centre, cinema and 4-star hotel


“The best English newspaper in southern Spain,” according to the Rough Guide. The Olive Press is the English language newspaper for Andalucia. Local news from Costa del Sol and inland Andalucia plus national news from around Spain. A campaigning, community newspaper, the Olive Press represents the huge and growing expatriate community in southern Spain – 200,000 copies distributed monthly (120,000 digitally) with an estimated readership, including the website, of more than 500,000 people a month.

From The Archives »

Is land reclamation or dredging damaging La Linea beaches?

July 21, 2011 | Cadiz, Gibraltar, Lead2

Row brewing over controversial land reclamation programme

YouTube to have own TV channel after Google deal

February 17, 2013 | Andalucia, Lead2

Freesat viewers will be able to watch the site’s content on their screens by the end of March

Ten Brits arrested in Spain for €8 million ‘boiler room scam’

November 30, 2012 | Crime & Law, Features, National News

Ten British nationals are among 22 people arrested in a multi-million-euro fraud investigation

David Cameron breaks away from Europe

December 9, 2011 | National News

The other member states move forward without Britain in attempt to save the single currency

Telefonica slapped with half a million euro fine

February 10, 2014 | Business & Finance, Features, National News

Spain’s largest mobile phone operator blocked access to 11 premium text message numbers